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In episode 1993, Jack and Miles are joined by English professor, author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, and host of Nerd from the Future, Ramzi Fawaz, to discuss… Trump Continues To Prove The Haters Right, Minneapolis PD Says Off Duty Officers (Of Color) Being Targeted by ICE, The Right Is Trying To Claim Star Trek and more! Trump: We've done more than any other administration has done by far—in terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars, nobody's really seen very much like it. Trump: These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our country do badly. But that's not happening because we have the hottest country. Trump: I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could have done some damage. But you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain. Trump: "Your lover isn't going to be killed anymore, so you can act like a real lover. You can walk right through the middle of the town. And DC is beautiful again too." Minneapolis PD Says Off Duty Officers (Of Color) Being Targeted by ICE William Shatner eats a bowl of cereal while driving and more star snaps William Shatner boldly devours cereal while driving his SUV in Studio City Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion William Shatner Pokes Fun at Stephen Miller for Calling on Him to Control ‘Star Trek’ Franchise How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke’s Campus to Trump’s West Wing ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Debuts With Positive Reviews And Political Nonsense Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons "Star Trek is inherently right wing and Christian and no amount of modern rewriting or changing of canon can remove that." Elon Musk and Stephen Miller’s culture war against Star Trek is built on ignorance Hollywood Flashback: ‘Star Trek’ Showed TV’s First Interracial Kiss in 1968 How ‘Star Trek’ Survived the Vietnam Era and Took Over the World Star Trek's Prime Directive Had A Grim Real-Life Inspiration William Shatner responds after Ted Cruz says Captain Kirk was likely a Republican LISTEN: PARTO NATURALE by MarteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 1992, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian and producer of the monthly Facial Recognition Comedy show, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss… President Pump Fake? One of Our Sh*ttiest Senators Is Being Sued Under A HOMEWRECKER LAW? Analyst Warns: The Bank Of England Should Prep For Aliens, Brooklyn Beckham Calls Out His Famous Parents and more! “Let Me Speak Your Language, Trump—F* Off”: EU Lawmaker Explodes in Parliament Over Greenland | AC1G BESSENT: I'd tell everyone sit back. Take a deep breath. Do not retaliate. Do not retaliate. Kilmeade: Greenland Will Cost GOP The Midterms Kyrsten Sinema Faces ‘Homewrecker’ Lawsuit for Alleged Affair With Former Bodyguard Bank of England must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens, says former policy expert The Disclosure of Aliens Could Cause a Bitcoin Rush, Former Bank of England Analyst Says Brooklyn Beckham Calls Out His Famous Parents Brooklyn Beckham: ‘I do not want to reconcile with my family’ David Beckham breaks silence after son Brooklyn Beckham post LISTEN: Chill Me Out by Masayoshi TakanakaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The U-S evacuate personnel from a mideast base as Trump mulls over military strikes on Iran. A Jewish group urges changes and a delay to the government's hate speech reform. - トランプ大統領がイランへの軍事攻撃を検討する中、アメリカは中東の基地から職員を退避させています。連邦政府が起草した　ヘイトスピーチ規制法をめぐり、国内のユダヤ人団体は法案の練り直しを求めています。また、オーストラリア・イマーム評議会からも批判の声が出ています。

The U-S evacuate personnel from a mideast base as Trump mulls over military strikes on Iran. A Jewish group urges changes and a delay to the government's hate speech reform. Recorded 16 January. - トランプ大統領がイランへの軍事攻撃を検討する中、アメリカは中東の基地から職員を退避させています。連邦政府が起草した　ヘイトスピーチ規制法をめぐり、国内のユダヤ人団体は法案の練り直しを求めています。また、オーストラリア・イマーム評議会からも批判の声が出ています。 2026年1月16日収録。

The U-S evacuated personnel from a mideast base as Trump mulls over military strikes on Iran; calls for Tasmania to support tougher gun laws at the federal level ; and in sport, * Australia's Daniel Sanders ignores broken bones to battle on in the Dakar Rally.

The U-S evacuate personnel from a mideast base as Trump mulls over military strikes on Iran ; Calls for Tasmania to support tougher gun laws at the federal level ; and in sport, Australia's Daniel Sanders ignores broken bones to battle on in the Dakar Rally.

In episode 1989, Jack and guest co-host Mort Burke are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss… At Least Zohran Is Getting Busy, The Trump Administration Wants Us To Believe That They Havana Syndrome-d Venezuela, Finally An App To Ensure You’re Not Dead, Now Stranger Things Fans Are Convinced That ChatGPT Wrote The Finale and more! US used powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees during Maduro raid: witness account This Pain-Inducing Acoustic Device Used to Control Crowds in Azerbaijan Might Be U.S.-Made How to Dodge the Sonic Weapon Used by Police Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone An App Called ‘Are You Dead?’ Is Climbing the Apple Charts A record share of Americans is living alone Why humans are increasingly choosing to live alone Rising numbers of people found long after death in England and Wales – study The Backlash Against Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things 5’ Documentary, Explained Stranger Things Fan Tweet: "is that a f**kin chatgpt tab i see" LISTEN: Victory Lap by Fred again.., Skepta, PlaqueboymaxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast: Retired, Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer is a Newsmax Contributor. And he's the President of Project Sentinel.

The number of candidates vying to replace Kentucky's retiring U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell grows to 19, Louisville Public Media journalist Joe Sonka talks about why so many Republicans will be unchallenged this election year and how a new state law that went into effect January 1st aims to lower the number of colorectal cancer deaths in Kentucky.

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:Chris talks about the great skill and power of the U.S. military. He also dives into to the Democrat domestic terrorists targeting ICE.

Protests over Iran spread to cities around the world. Meanwhile, President Trump has been warning the U-S would get involved if protesters are shot. Greg and Holly discuss the latest and whether military action from the US could backfire.

Discover the Financial Ripple Effects of Geopolitical Turmoil and 2026's Major Tax Reforms In this episode of Dollars & Sense with Joel Garris, hosts Joel and Kristin tackle two high-stakes financial stories shaping headlines and household budgets. First, dive into the dramatic capture of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces—unraveling the international backlash, the future of Venezuela's oil sector, and what it means for energy prices, market volatility, and your personal finances. Then, the duo breaks down the top 10 tax changes coming in 2026, from permanent lower tax brackets and bigger deductions, to new benefits for tip earners, car buyers, and charitable donors. Find out how shifting global power plays could influence your investment strategy, and get actionable tips to make the most of new tax rules—whether you're saving for retirement, buying a car, or planning for your children's future. Will these changes bring more opportunities or new risks to your wallet? Tune in to get informed, stay ahead, and learn what you can do to safeguard your financial future. Click to listen and get the insights you need to navigate both international headlines and tax law twists! 

The year 2026 begins with the end of pretense.In this kickoff episode of Boiler Room, host Bryan “Hesher” McClain is joined by Adam “Ruckus” Clark, Bazed-Lit Analyzer, Mystical Pharaoh, and Mark Anderson to examine what can no longer be denied: the transition from covert influence to open empire.As Venezuela becomes the focal point of overt regime-change language—justified openly by energy control and corporate interests—the illusion of “rules-based order” collapses in real time. From U.S. officials admitting the real motives at the UN, to media outlets reframing intervention as necessity, the show traces how empire now speaks plainly.But this isn't just a foreign policy story.The same logic driving intervention abroad is returning home: militarized enforcement, narrative warfare, AI-driven propaganda, and government behavior increasingly treated as spectacle—甚至 wagered on in real-time prediction markets.From the symbolic death of MTV to deepfake politics, from Greenland to Cuba, from ICE violence to betting on press briefings, this episode sets the tone for the year ahead.No illusions.No euphemisms.No disguises.Welcome to open empire.Support:Support BOILER ROOM & ACRPatreon (Join and become a member)Shop BOILER ROOM Merch Store

After weeks of pressure, a federal royal commission announced into the Bondi attack. Elevated fire danger around the country, with a scorching day predicted. The U-S says it's actively discussing buying Greenland. Recorded 9 January. - ボンダイで起きたテロ事件を受け、連邦政府は王立調査委員会の設置を発表しました。 記録的な猛暑によりオーストラリア全土では火災の危険性が高まっていて、各地で厳重な警戒が続いています。 アメリカ政府は、デンマーク領グリーンランドの買収に向けて積極的な議論が行われていることを明らかにしました。2026年1月9日収録。

An Iranian-Canadian tells us she's ready to accept all the risks associated with a U-S military intervention, if it means ousting the regime threatening her loved ones' lives.We reach a Minneapolis council member -- who tells us why she's urging her constituents to keep the pressure on the federal government as ICE agents remain in the city.Yesterday on this show, the chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation had some tough questions for Manitoba Hydro about the outage that has displaced his community. Today, Manitoba Hydro responds.Earlier this week, Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro seemed to be mending things, but we'll play you part of a recent BBC interview with the Colmbian president in which he's pulling no punches when it comes to his view of the United States.The costume designer for "Heated Rivalry" says she had no inkling show would take off like it has -- let alone spark an obsession with one piece of clothing in particular.A canine Houdini cracks two locks to make his get-away from a shelter -- and back into the arms of his owner. As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that admires his escape claws.

In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal. First, the aftermath of the U-S military operation in Venezuela that toppled President Nicolas Maduro dominated Washington this week. We speak with Republican Randy Fine of Florida – a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee – about the future of U-S involvement in that country. The U-S military strikes and the capture of Maduro has raised all kinds of legal and constitutional questions. We break it all down with Creighton University Professor and international law expert Michael Kelly Finally, this week also saw the 5th anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. We chat with Associated Press Congressional Reporter Mary Clare Jalonick about the legacy of that day which she examines in her book "Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress is pushing for a Senate Banking Committee markup of the bill as early as next Thursday, Jan. 15. While the debate over DeFi is largely ideological and technical, the fight over stablecoin yield has turned into a raw battle over banking revenue.Guest: Amanda Tuminelli | Executive Director of DeFi Education FundDeFi Education Fund website➜ https://www.defieducationfund.org/00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor BTCC00:40 What we expect from Market Structure bill?01:30 CLARITY Act status: What's taking so long?02:15 What compromises are being made? (KYC or Self-Custody?)03:40 Can it pass Q1 this year?04:40 Are Banks going to ban stablecoin yields?06:30 Lobbyists are representing the people vs corporations and VC's?07:45 What did Citadel get wrong?09:50 Who else is representing the crypto consumer?11:10 Mass burn event of tokens and XRP?12:30 Will Trump be forced to burn $TRUMP as a concession?13:10 Would Trump even sign the bill?14:10 Will “accredited investor” rules be next?14:50 Could we see Tax Relief? deminimis tax exemption?15:50 Could Gary Gensler return?16:45 Foreign crypto regulation vs U.S.17:40 Social media the next regulatory frontier?18:45 DeFi red line in the sand?20:00 Outro#Crypto #XRP #ethereum ~CLARITY Act vs DeFi

After weeks of pressure, a federal royal commission announced into the Bondi attack. Elevated fire danger around the country, with a scorching day predicted. The U-S says it's actively discussing buying Greenland. - ボンダイで起きたテロ事件を受け、連邦政府は王立調査委員会の設置を発表しました。 記録的な猛暑によりオーストラリア全土では火災の危険性が高まっていて、各地で厳重な警戒が続いています。 アメリカ政府は、デンマーク領グリーンランドの買収に向けて積極的な議論が行われていることを明らかにしました。

Think about the histories of your family or memories from your past. What if you recounted them with a dash of magic? What happens when we infuse our stories on film with some magical realism? Tonight's edition of APEX Express features three filmmakers who created magical realism short films centering AAPI women. Listen to directors Cami Kwan, Dorothy Xiao, and Rachel Leyco discuss their films and experiences behind the scenes with host Isabel Li. Cami Kwan: Website | Instagram | Seed & Spark Dorothy Xiao: Website | Instagram  Rachel Leyco: Website | Instagram   Transcript 00:01 [INTRO] Isabel: You're tuned into Apex Express on KPFA. Tonight's edition is all about stories. Think about the histories of your family or memories from your past. Now, what if you recounted them with a dash of magic? What happens when we infuse our stories on film with some magical realism? I'm your host, Isabel Li, and today we have three very special guests, Cami Kwan, Dorothy Chow, and Rachel Leyco. All of them are AAPI filmmakers who received the Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge grant from the Coalition of Asian Pacifics and Entertainment and have created short films featuring AAPI stories with magical realism. My first guest of the night is Cami Kwan, a Chinese-American director specializing in stop-motion animation who directed the short film Paper Daughter.  Hi Cami, welcome to APEX Express!  Cami: Hello, thank you so much for having me. Isabel: How do you identify and what communities do you consider yourself a part of?  Cami: So I identify as a queer Asian American woman um and I am a descendant of immigrants, of Chinese immigrants. um Then the communities that I am part of, part of the queer community, part of the Los Angeles community, part of the Chinese American and Asian American community, part of the mixed race community and part of the stop-motion animation and independent artist community.  Isabel: I'm so excited to talk to you about your upcoming short film, Paper Daughter, a gothic stop-motion animated Chinese-American fairy tale about a young woman grappling with the guilt of using the identity of a deceased girl to immigrate to the US via Angel Island in 1926, which is such a fascinating concept. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about how you came up with this story and the historical specificity behind it?  Cami: Absolutely, yeah. So like I mentioned, I'm the child of immigrants, descendants of immigrants rather. So my great grandparents immigrated to the US from China. My great grandfather came over in 1916 and my great grandma came over in 1926. And so I've always grown up knowing the story of Angel Island and knowing the story about the paper sons and paper daughters who had to find any way into the United States that they could. And so they were forced to, you know, take on the identities of other people. And those stories have always stuck with me, you know, like it's very personal. Angel Island means a lot to me and my family. And just the extreme measures that people have always had to take just for the chance at a better life have always been really meaningful to learn about. just the like, I'll use romances in like the art movement, like romantic. It's very romantic and kind of fairy tale-ish, the idea of having to take on a new identity and pretend to be somebody that you're not. And often those identities would be people who had passed away, and then those families had then sold those identities or given those identities to new people. And so it's so interesting the idea of being like the last person to know somebody so deeply, but you'll never get to meet them and you'll never be able to thank them or repay what they sacrificed for your future. And that's kind of how I feel as a descendant of immigrants. The sacrifice that my family made for me was made so long ago that there's no way for me to ever pay it back. And I didn't really get a say in whether I received that sacrifice or not. And I think a lot of descendants of immigrants kind of have to struggle with this. What does it mean for us to be given this new chance at the cost of somebody who came before us? And so that's all of that kind of rolled up into this 14-minute film. Isabel: You describe your film as being in a gothic style? Can you describe what this looks like and why gothic?  Cami: The subject matter is just so naturally gothic. It's dealing a lot with death and a lot with guilt and those big capital R romantic subjects and stuff. My day job, my day-to-day job is working in stop-motion animation directing mostly like children's series and mostly toy related stuff. And so I spent so much of my time in the happy brighter like birthday party storyline kind of like space. But what really made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place were all these like heavier themes, these bigger themes, films by Guillermo del Toro and like Tim Burton and Henry Selig and Hayao Miyazaki and all of those kind of have this like gothic edge to them. And so that's like a story that I've been a type of story I've been wanting to tell for about a decade now.  Isabel: Stylistically, how does this show up in your film? So I imagine darker colors or do you have a visual like preview for us?  Cami: it is a little bit in the darker color space, but it's still very colorful despite all that. It's moody more so than dark, I would say. um We have a lot of like light and dark themes, a lot of like shadow. stuff and um a lot of magical realism, which is where that fairy tale aspect kind of comes in, because you're dealing with things that are so abstract, like guilt and sacrifice and wearing the identity of somebody else, that there's no literal way to convey that. Well, there are literal ways to convey that, but none of those literal ways I feel fully convey the emotional weight of everything. And so we've gone in this very magical realism space where people are tearing information out of these booklets that contain information about the person they're supposed to be and creating these paper masks out of them. And so yeah, there's this whole like magical aspect that tends to be kind of darker. There's imagery of just like being consumed by the identity that you're just supposed to temporarily wear. And there's a lot of like, yeah, there's a lot of darkness in those themes, I think.  Isabel: Wow, that's so interesting. I'd love to learn more about stop motion. What does stop motion make possible that isn't as easily accomplished through other forms of filmmaking? Cami: Yeah, I think the reason why I'm drawn to stop motion, what I stop motion makes possible is like a universality of just like a human experience because with other kinds of animation and other kinds of filmmaking, like there is kind of like an opacity to like how it's made. There's this this veneer, this magic to it, and there's that magic to stop motion too. But the difference between all of those and stop motion is made out of like everyday materials. It's made out of fabric. using paper. We're using clay. We're using materials that people have encountered in their day-to-day lives. And like, that's the one thing that we are all guaranteed to have in common is that we live in a material world and we encounter these textures and materials around us. so by like taking such a specific story and trying to convey such universal themes, it really like behooves us to be using like um a medium that is as universal as stop motion is. So I think that's like the big thing that stop motion unlocks for us. Plus also story-wise, like it's very paper centered, paper daughter, they're tearing paper strips, they're making paper masks. So like physically using these paper textures adds a lot to our world. um And I think working in stop motion gives you a degree of control that live action doesn't give you because we're creating. all of our characters, all of our sets by hand, which gives us so much of a say over what they look like and what they convey based on how they're constructed and stuff. And that's just a degree of communication that nothing else brings.  Isabel: I love that this is a magical realism film and you mentioned Guillermo del Toro. I know that in your campaign trailer, you featured Pan's Labyrinth, which is my all-time favorite movie.  Cami: Me too! Isabel: Yeah! How exactly did you come up with this specific blend of history and fantasy for your film?  Cami: I think that it's almost a natural human instinct to kind of have history and fantasy. Like, that's all that histories are, just stories told to us. And it's just being less literal about it and really leaning into the metaphors that we might use to convey the emotional realities of those histories, right? And so I feel like Del Toro does that a lot with his work. And Miyazaki as well does a lot of that with his work. So much of it deals with unpacking like World War II and things like that. And that's something that I've always just personally been drawn to. Even as a kid, my dream jobs were archaeologist or animator. And so here I kind of get to like do a little bit of both of those, know, like using the magic of animation to make history feel a lot more present and tangible and like emotionally relevant, which is It's really quite poetic to be able to be telling this story right now because it's going to mark the 100 year anniversary of my great grandmother's immigration to the US. I think we are due for an examination of immigration in our country. And I'm very interested to see how people respond to the questions that this raises of how different is the immigrant experience 100 years later. Have we gotten better? Have we gotten worse? Like I would posit it's perhaps worse now than it was then, but I'm really hoping to like, yeah, bring that reality into a more approachable space. And I feel like having that blend of magic and history just makes it a little bit more approachable than telling it in a literal way, you know? Isabel: Those are some great questions to ask. And on that same note, I'm interested in the specificity of Angel Island as well. What types of research did you do to produce your film?  Cami: Oh, gosh, I read every book I could find about it. have… How many books were those? Oh, my gosh, I want to say, like, not as many as I want there to be, you know? Like, Angel Island is not as well covered in history as places like Ellis Island, and there's a lot. to unpack as to why that may be, especially like the racial aspect of it. But I probably read about a dozen different books to prepare for this film. One of the most concrete and useful books that I read is a book called Island, and it's a collection of the poems that are carved into the walls of the men's barracks that remain on Angel Island. And those poems are a huge part, perhaps, the reason why Angel Island has even been preserved as a historical landmark. And so um the three authors went to great pains to replicate these poems, translate them into English, and provide a lot of historical context for the different topics of the poems. And there's a lot of like first-hand testimony from people who immigrated through Angel Island that they interviewed and included in this book. And so I do think that that book, Island, is like the primary source of most of my research for it. Everything else is more like quantitative history and quantitative data. Oh, also The Chinese in America by, I believe it's Iris Chang, that it's not just about Angel Island, but I read that and that gave me a much better understanding about like the place that Chinese immigrants have in American history. Because when I was a kid, like I really only ever learned about great grandma came over through Angel Island and now we're American and we live in America. But our history, as far as I was ever taught, begins and ends with us entering the United States. And so reading um the Chinese in America gave me a much broader understanding about, like, why did we leave China in the first place? And like, what has it meant for us to be in America as Chinese people since then? Yeah, all that came out of like in 2020 and 2021 when the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes were kind of coming about. I personally had to have a huge reckoning with like my racial identity and like how that has impacted like my experience growing up as a mixed-race person who's pretty perceivably Asian and all that stuff. So it was a really whole circle broad situation. Oh, I want to do a quick shout out to the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. They were very generous with their time and they answered a lot of my questions and sent me a lot of archival images from Angel Island. So I want to thank them so much for their help in the research process of this.  Isabel: Oh, wow. How fascinating. Did you have any expectations on how the production process was going to go? And now that you're on the other side of it, what are your reflections?  Cami: I had no expectations as to whether we were going to get outside funding or not. Like I, I'm not an experienced or adept grant applicant. Like, it was really just because this was the right kind of project to fit with those kinds of grants. So I had no expectations there. So I am beyond thrilled to have received the support from Cape and Janet Yang and Julia S. Gouw and Shorescripts that we've received, like beyond thrilled for that. So that exceeded all of my expectations. um But as far as how the actual production has gone, the fabrication and the animation and the post-production, that's all stuff that I'm extremely familiar with. Again, that is my day-to-day life, that is my job, that is like what I have done for the last eight years at my studio, Apartment D.  So that all went pretty much as I hoped and expected that it would, but here on the other side, the one thing that has surprised me about it was how much love all of the artists put in this project because like we've said so much in this conversation, there's so much specificity to this. This is about my great grandma. This is about my family and my feelings about being a descendant of immigrants. It's so specific that I wasn't sure how emotionally it would resonate with anybody else that wasn't me or wasn't part of the AAPI community, you know?  But every single person — doesn't really even matter if they were Asian, doesn't really even matter if they have a specific connection to immigration — every artist that I asked to join me on this project, I immediately understood what it meant and understood what we were trying to say. And they put so much love into it. And like, we all put a lot of love into everything we do. It's stop motion. It's like, you don't do this unless you love it, you know, because you certainly are not doing it for the money or anything. um everyone was just so…I'm gonna say careful, but I don't mean careful like cautious. I mean careful like full of care. And I did not expect that and I am so grateful for it. Yeah, looking back, it's just so precious and so tender and like I'm so fortunate to have had the crew with me that I had to make this film.  Isabel: That's so lovely. What are you most excited about upon completing your film?  Cami: I'm just excited to share it with the world. I'm so proud of it. It is truly, and I'm not just saying this because it's my baby, but it is very beautiful and it is very special. For a lot of us, one of the first times that we've been able to be in charge of our own departments or to make the decisions that we wanna make and tell things, do things, show things the way that we think they should be done. And so it's kind of significant for many of us to have this film come out and to be received. What I want people to take away from it is an appreciation and a gratitude for everything that has had to happen for us to be where we are now. And I also really want people to take away the unconditional love that has occurred for us to be in the country that we have and to be the people that we are. Every single person is where they are. doesn't matter if you're in America or anywhere else, like we are all here because of the sacrifices that were made by the people who came before us. And those were all made out of unconditional love. And that's like, I want people to come away from this film remembering that our country is built on the unconditional love and sacrifice from people who came before us. And then wanting to give that unconditional love and sacrifice to everybody who's gonna come after us. Isabel: Such an amazing message. And I know that there's still lots to do and you still have a lot to celebrate with your upcoming film and with the festival circuit with Paper Daughter. But looking ahead, do you have any plans of what you want to do after the short film?  Cami: Yeah, I would love to bring it into a feature. There was so much that we had to cut out to make this film. On one hand, I'm glad that we cut out what we did because I think the film as it is, is like so tight and so like airtight and good and perfect and sparse in a really nice way, but we don't even get to delve into life before Angel Island. It begins and ends on the island, and I would love to explore the stories that brought this all about and the stories that come after. So bringing this up into a feature version and getting that in front of people would be amazing. And I have a couple other short film and feature film and script ideas that I would like to start working on as well. I've kind of really, I'm really grooving on the like Asian early Chinese American history. um So most of them are going to be set in California and focus on like Chinese immigrants and their role in the founding of America. um I'm really excited for the like, after all the film festivals, I really want this film to end up in classrooms. And I even just the other day like I have a friend who's a third and fourth grade teacher and she showed it to her class and then the students asked me questions about Angel Island and about animation. if this can play any part in helping to spread the story of Angel Island and the people that immigrated through there, like that's all that I could ever want from this. So I'm really excited for that.  Isabel: That's wonderful. I'll put your website, social media and seed and spark page for Paper Daughter up on kpfa.org so our listeners can learn more about this stop motion film and get updates for how they can watch it. I can't wait to see it when it comes out. And Cami, thank you so much for joining me on Apex Express today.  Cami: Of course, thank you so much for having me. It was a great, great time talking with you.  Isabel: You just heard Cami Kwan talk about her film Paper Daughter. On Apex Express tonight, we have two more special guests who made magical realism short films. Next up is Dorothy Xiao, who made the film Only in This World. She's a Los Angeles-based award-winning filmmaker who likes to create grounded family dramas with a hint of fantasy.  Hi, Dorothy. Welcome to APEX Express.  Dorothy: Hi. Thanks for having me!  Isabel: Of course! Thank you for coming here. My first question for you is actually quite broad. How do you identify and what communities are you a part of?  Dorothy: Oh, that is a good question. I think in a broader sense. I would say, obviously, I identify as an Asian American. um But I think, like, for me, because I grew up in the 626 or the San Gabriel Valley, I grew up with a lot of people who looked like me. So I think I didn't truly identify as being Asian or had awareness of my identity until later on when I went to college. And then I took Asian American Studies classes and I was like, oh, wow, I'm Asian. Or like, what does it mean to be Asian? You know, like, I think I, at that time, prior to recognizing and understanding what it meant, and also even to be a minority, because at that, like I said, growing up in 626, even going to UCLA, where I'm surrounded by a lot of Asians, I never really felt like a minority. But I think it was really after graduating where I, depending on the spaces that I would enter into, especially in the film industry, I was learning like, oh, yeah, I am a minority and this is what it feels like. And prior to that, I think I just identified as being a daughter of immigrants. And that still is very strongly the case just because I grew up listening to so many stories that my parents would tell me, like coming from China, growing up like they grew up in China during a completely different time. I can't even imagine what it would be like living in the way that they did, you know, during the Cultural Revolution, under communism, in an intense way where they were starving, all this political stuff. But yeah, a second gen or for a lot of people, first generation, daughter of immigrants, of parents who decided that they wanted to make a better life for their kids out here in the States. I think that I want to stand by me saying that I don't feel like I am, I don't really want to identify as only just single categories all the time, just because within each community, could be, you could have nuances, right? Because I am a woman, but I'm also like a woman who doesn't want children, you know, and there was just so many different things of how I identify. So hard for me to categorize myself like that. But they are, there are tidbits of different communities. Like I still identify, identify as Asian American. I identify as a daughter of immigrants. I identify as a female filmmaker and yeah. And a business owner, I guess. Yeah.  Isabel: Right. Yes. Thank you for that nuanced answer. You know, it's so fascinating because I was reading about your work and you have worked in animal research administration and an afterschool program and even web development for nonprofits. How did you get into writing and directing?  Dorothy: Yeah. So after graduating college, I was definitely in a place where many, I'm sure, fresh grads understand what we call the quarter life crisis, where we don't know what we wanna do with our lives. And I was working at UCLA because that was the only job that I could get out of college for an animal research administration office. And really, I worked for them as a student. So I was like, well, it makes sense to have that be my full-time job, because you're in a place where you don't have skills. So how do you get a job if you don't have skills? That weird silly catch-22 situation. So I studied psychology in undergrad because my goal was to become a therapist. I wanted to work with Asian and Asian immigrant communities to help them with mental health because there's such a stigma attached to it. And being somebody who found mental health really important and also found that it was a really great way to understand myself. I wanted to work with, I guess, the people of my community. But at that time, I realized that there's still a stigma attached to mental health and it's really hard to get people to even go to therapy. Like living with my parents, it's really difficult. I cannot ever convince them to go. um And so I had pivoted into, or at least I discovered this filmmaking competition and ended up just like making a film for fun with a couple of friends, random people that um were not in film at all. And I had a lot of fun and I realized that we could actually create stories talking about things that are very similar to mental health or could provide that catharsis and validation that you could probably get in a session, in a therapy session. And it's not clinical at all. It's not as clinical. So, you know, on all those different jobs that you mentioned, they're all day jobs, know, animal research administration and then working for an after school program. That was me still trying to figure out how to be a filmmaker on my weekends. I still needed a day job. I didn't have the luxury of going to film school. So I would work at different places that gave me the flexibility of having a day job. But then also I had free time during the weekend to just make films with my friends, make friends films with people like my mom, who was one of my first actors earlier on. Love my mom. She did not do the greatest in my film, but I love her for being there for me. But yeah, like the different organizations or just jobs that I worked for were all really good in terms of providing me management skills and also communication skills because I worked in different industries, you know, and so at the end of the day, it all culminated in me at my current place. Like I am a freelance filmmaker and I also run my own video production company. So um becoming a writer, I mean, being a writer director is my main identity as a filmmaker. However, I don't think you could be a good writer-director if you don't have life experience. And having all those different jobs that I've had provided me with a lot of varied life experience and I interacted with a lot of different people, many different personalities.  Isabel: Yeah, no, I love that. So you grew up in Alhambra, which I'm familiar with because I too grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. How would you say that growing up in Alhambra has shaped you as an artist?  Dorothy: Alhambra is really special, I feel like, because in the San Gabriel Valley, there are many cities like this. You have Chinese people who can actually get by without ever having to learn English. And the same goes for Latin communities as well. And, you know, I have aunts and uncles who lived in Alhambra for years and never learned how to speak English. So I think it's like, what's so special about it, it feels like a safe space for a lot of immigrant communities. And then my parents being immigrants from China. living in Alhambra was a place where they could feel safe and feel connected to the people that they left behind in another country. And so being a child of immigrants, a daughter of like an Asian American, like a Chinese American growing up in Alhambra, I definitely felt like I grew up with a lot of people who were similar to me. know, we were like a lot of times the first American born children of our families even, and it was, we had to essentially understand what it meant to be Asian versus American and all of that.  But I think like being in Alhambra, I never felt like I wasn't seen, or at least I never felt like I was a minority. I think I mentioned this earlier, in that growing up in Alhambra, you do see a lot of people who look like you. And I have a lot of friends in the film industry who have moved out to California because they grew up in towns where they were like one, the only person, the only Asian person in their school or whatever. And I didn't have that experience. So for me, it was really special just being able to have a whole group of friends where there's a bunch of Asians. And we all spoke different languages. Like I had a lot of friends who were Cantonese speakers, but I'm a Mandarin speaker, but it was just really cool. It was like going to your friends' places and then you have aunties. So it's almost like having more family. You could feel like you have more aunts and uncles that will feed you all the time because that is the way they show love, right?  Isabel: Oh, certainly. I think there's so many stories in multicultural places like Alhambra. And speaking of which, you did in your film Only in This World. It's about an empty nester who has to face her ex-husband's mistress in order to summon her daughter back from the afterlife, which is featured in the 2025 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival in Sunnyvale. Congratulations on such a beautiful film. I will say that I am a huge fan of magical realism, and Only in This World has some magical elements to it. So I'd love to get to know, how did you come up with this specific plot and characters that make up this film? Dorothy: Yeah, and thank you for wanting to talk about this one. It's a special story to me just because it is, I think it's the first film that I've made where I just decided to incorporate elements of where I grew up. And so Only in This World is inspired by my mom and her Tai Chi group at our local park, so Alhambra Park. My mom would go to do Tai Chi every morning for years. And in Alhambra, actually, as I mentioned, because there are so many immigrant communities, many of the immigrant communities tend to stay together with the people who speak their language. So Chinese people usually stick together with the Chinese speakers, Spanish speakers stick together with the Spanish speakers. You don't see a lot of mingling or intersectionality. But one of the special things that I saw with my mom's Tai Chi group was that they were not just Chinese people or Asian people, but there were Latino people in their group as well. And so even though they couldn't speak the same language, they would show up and still do Tai Chi every morning because it was a matter of doing something together. And so I love that a lot. And I wanted to tell a story about just older women who are finding friendship because I think that's really important in older age and in these groups because you see that a lot of the people in these Tai Chi groups are even the ones, not just Tai Chi groups, but there are dancers in the park, you know, like you'll see them in the mornings, not just in Alhambra, but in Monterey Park, all the different parks, open spaces, they'll have little dance groups.  A lot of the people who are part of those groups happen to be seniors, and I think it's just because they don't have work, they don't have children, they're lonely. And so…I think it's really important to be aware that where friendship or loneliness is actually an epidemic in the senior community. And it's really important to providing good quality of life is to just have them have that connection with other people. And seeing that in my mom, because my mom is getting older, having her be part of that community was what kept her happier. And so, yeah, and also my mother-in-law is Colombian. And she's done Tai Chi before as well with her group in Rosemead. And so I just was like, well, I'm part of a multicultural family. I want to tell a multicultural family story. Yeah, in terms of the magical realism element, I thought a lot about just how my family, if our house has ever burned down, the things that they would take out are our photos, the print four by six, like, you know, just the print photos because they're just so precious to them. There's something about hard copy pictures that is so special that digital photos just can't take over. Like there is an actual energy to how a photo is made or even like back then when we used to use film, there's energy that's required to actually create photos. And so, you know, I wanted that to be the power that powers this magical scanner where energy is taken from the picture and then you have the ability to bring someone you love back from the afterlife. And I really love grounded magical realism because I think it just makes difficult things a lot easier to understand when you add a little bit of magic to it, a little bit of fantasy.  Isabel: Yeah, magical realism is such a special genre. What part of the production process that you find the most profound?  Dorothy: I think it was just really my gratitude in how much my family came together for me and also just like the people of this team, know, like there were, I think one major situation that I can think of that I always think is really funny was, um so we filmed at my mother-in-law's house and my husband, Diego, was also working on set with me. He is not in the film industry. He's a software engineer manager. He's like in tech, but he is one of my biggest supporters. And so…when we were like, yeah, can we film at your mom's house? He was like, okay. But he had to end up being the, quote unquote, location manager, right? Because the house was his responsibility. And then, and he was also my PA and he was also DIT. Like he would be the one dumping footage. He did everything. He was amazing. And then ah one day we found out that his neighbor was actually doing construction and they were hammering. It was like drilling stuff and making new windows. They were doing new windows. And we were just like, oh, like, how do we get them to, like, not make noise? And so, and they don't speak English. And so we were like, oh crap, you know. So like, unfortunately, my producers and I don't speak Spanish, like we're all just English speaking. And then I did have Latinos working on my set, but they, you know, they had other jobs. I wasn't going to make them translate and do all that other stuff. So then Diego so kindly went over and talked to them and was like, essentially we set up. They were totally cool about it. They were like, yeah, okay, you're making a film. then whenever you're rolling sound, we'll just like prevent, like not hammer. And then so Diego is sitting outside with a walkie and talking to the first AD and other people inside the house, because we're all filming inside. don't know what's going outside. And then so like, we would be rolling, rolling. And then um the workers, I think his name was Armando, are like…whenever we cut, Diego would hear it through the walkie and he'd be like, Armando, okay, you're good to go. You can drill. Armando would drill. And then when we're going, and we'd be like, I'm going for another take. And then Diego would be like, Armando, please stop. So it was so nice of them to be willing to accommodate to us. Because you hear a lot of horror stories of LA productions where neighbors see you're filming something and they'll purposely turn on the radio to make it really loud and you have to pay them off and whatever. And in this case, it wasn't it was more like, hey, like, you know, we're making a movie and they were so supportive and they're like, yeah, totally. This is so cool. We will definitely pause our work, our actual work and let you roll down during the brief period. So we're really grateful. We definitely brought them donuts the next day to thank them. But that was just something that I was like, oh yeah, like I don't think I could have pulled that off if I didn't have Diego or if the fact, if it wasn't for the fact that these were the neighbors, know, that we were filming at someone's house and the neighbors already had a relationship with the people who lived here.  Isabel: Wow, that's really adaptable. And I'm so glad that went well for you. Dorothy, you've directed 13 films by now. Have you ever seen one of your films resonate with an audience member that you've interacted with in the past?  Dorothy: So there was this one short I had done a couple years ago called Tarot and it came at a time when I was struggling with the idea of whether or not I wanted to have kids and many of my friends are off having their first or second kids, you know, and so I never really wanted to be a mom, but then I have a partner who I can see being a great father, so I'm more open to the idea of being a mother, but it was still something I was conflicted about. And so I put this all into a short film, just my feelings of how my identity would change if I were to become a mom, because I've read so much about that. I found a Reddit thread one day where people were just talking about how being a mother is hard. And they openly stated how much they hated it. And it's okay to feel that way. And I wanted to put those feelings into this film to just put it out there like, hey, like if you don't like being a mom, even though you love your kid, you could still hate having that identity and be lost about, and it's okay to be lost or not sure about who you are. And so it was a really short film and it ended kind of open ended. It was like five minute film, so it didn't have like a full ending, but it was an open ended ending. And then afterwards I had a bunch of people come up. I had people who were parents, not just mothers, like even, or like fathers who had just had their first kid who were coming up and telling me like, oh, I totally identify. I understand that struggle of learning about who your new identity is after you've had a kid. And then I had people who were child free who were coming to me and saying like, yeah, this is a similar feeling that I've had about whether or not I should have any kids. Because, you know, as women, we have a biological clock that ticks. And that's something I feel frustrated about sometimes where it's really because of my body that I feel pressured to have a kid versus wanting to have one because I want one. And so that was a story I wanted to, or just something I wanted to put into a film. Yeah, and I also had another person come up and tell me that they were like, this was something I felt, but I never really openly talked about. And so I resonated a lot with this and it just helped basically articulate or helped me identify like, oh, I totally feel this way. And so that was really validating to me as a filmmaker because my goal is to reach others who don't feel comfortable talking about certain things that they tend to hide because I have a lot of those types of thoughts that I might feel ashamed or embarrassed to share. But then I put it into a story and then it makes it more digestible and it's like, or it's more, it's entertaining. But then like the core message is still there. And so people watch it and if they feel that they can connect to it, then I've done my job because I have resonated with somebody and I've made them feel seen. And that's ultimately what I wanted to do when I wanted to be a therapist was I just wanted to make people feel seen. I wanted to make them feel connected to other people and less lonely because that's something that I also have struggled with. Yeah, so filmmaking is my way of putting something small out there that I feel and then finding other people who feel the same way as me. And then we can feel validated together. Isabel: Ah yes, that is the power of film, and Dorothy's work can be viewed on her website, which I'll be linking on kpfa.org, as well as her social media, so you can get new updates on what she is working on. Dorothy, thank you so much for joining me on APEX Express today!  Dorothy: Thank you! Thank you for having me, it was so great to meet you!  Isabel: That was Dorothy Xiao, our second guest for tonight's edition of Apex Express, featuring magical realism AAPI filmmakers. Now time for our final guest of the night, Rachel Leyco, who is a queer, award-winning Filipina-American filmmaker, writer, actress, and activist. We'll be talking about her upcoming short film, Milk & Honey.  Hi Rachel, it's such an honor to have you here on APEX Express. Rachel: Hi, thank you so much for having me.  Isabel: How do you identify and what communities do you consider yourself a part of?  Rachel: Yeah, I identify as a queer Filipina-American. Isabel: So we're here to talk about your short film, Milk & Honey, which is about an ambitious Filipina nurse who leaves her family behind in the Philippines to chase the American dream in the 1990s and facing conflicts and hardships along the way. How did you come up with this specific 90s immigration story?  Rachel: Yeah. So Milk and Honey is inspired by my mom's immigrant story. you know, that's really her true story of coming to America in the early 1990s as a very young Filipina nurse while, and also a young mother and leaving behind her daughter, which was me at the time. um you know, following her journey in the film though fictionalized, a lot of the moments are true and there's a lot of exploration of assimilation, cultural barriers, loneliness and the emotional cost of pursuing the American dream.  Isabel: Yeah, when I read that synopsis, I immediately thought of this short film could totally be something that's feature length. How did you sort of this story to something that is like under 15 minutes long?  Rachel: Yeah, so I wrote the short film script first. And actually, you know, this is a proof of concept short film for the feature film. I actually wrote the feature film script after I wrote the short because there was just so much more I wanted to explore with the characters and the story. It definitely couldn't fit into a short film, though I have that short film version. But there was just so much richness to my mom's story that I wanted to explore, so I expanded into a feature. So I do have that feature film version, which I hope to make one day. Isabel: And you mentioned that this film is inspired by your mom's story. Is there any other sort of research that you did into this story that really helped you write? Rachel: Yeah, one of the main reasons I wanted to write the story, I mean, there's many reasons, but one is because there, if you ask the average American or the general public, they won't really know why there are so many Filipino nurses in the healthcare system. Because if you walk into any hospital, you'll see a Filipino nurse, more than one for sure. ah so I was really curious about the history. ah Having my mom as a nurse, my sister's also a nurse, I have a lot of healthcare workers around me. I grew up with that. I, you know, growing up, I also didn't really know or learn Filipino American history because it's not taught in schools. And I, you know, I took AP US history and didn't learn anything about, you know, my culture and our history. It's, not in the books at all. And it wasn't until like my early twenties that I was really curious about my roots and my upbringing and what it means to be Filipino-American specifically. And so um I really went into like a deep dive of just researching Filipino-American history. And specifically last year, I had been wanting to tell a story about a Filipino nurse because of my proximity to it with my mother. And you know, myself being an artist, being a filmmaker in the industry, there's so many medical shows out there, like, know, Grey's Anatomy, that's been long running, but very, very few, and rarely do we see Filipino nurses at the forefront and at the center of those stories. um You know, rarely are they series regulars. You know, sometimes they'll feature a Filipino nurse for like one episode or two and, you know, a recurring or a side character, but Filipino nurses are never the main character, never the series regular. And so that was another big driving force for why I wanted to make this story. And, you know, really making my mom's character the center of it. And so as far as like research, too, I definitely interviewed my mom and I asked her to just tell me her her entire story and specifically why she even wanted to move to the United States because she could have stayed in the Philippines or she could have moved somewhere else. um she saw a newspaper or her friend actually at the time when she was in a nursing school, a friend of hers saw an ad in the newspaper that America was sponsoring nurses. And so she had it in her mind already like, oh, yeah, I've heard of America. I've heard of the United States that it's, you know, there's better opportunities for me there. And at the time she had just had me. And so she had, you she's a young mother. She's trying to take care of her baby, her newborn. And so, you know, she had her eyes set on moving to the United States and that's kind of how her journey happened. And on top of that, I also did my own research on you know, our history, I watched this really amazing documentary um by Vox. It's on YouTube. It's all about why there are so many Filipino nurses in America. And it really just ties back to U.S. colonization. And after World War II, was so many, there was big nursing shortage in the United States. you know, white Americans did not want to, you know, fill that role. So they turn to Filipino women to fill the gap.  Isabel: Yeah, was there something special about the production process that looking back, you would want to replicate in the future or that really speaks to you?  Rachel: Absolutely. um Yeah, mean, definitely this experience and a lot of the people that I brought on to this project, I want to continue to make films with them and continue to make art with them because um I'm just so proud of the team that we put together. Everyone was so passionate and they knew how important the story was. They also had their own special connection to the material that they brought so much heart and passion into the film. that really comes through in the project. so like a lot of the people I brought onto this film, I want to continue to make art with them forever. That's one thing that I'm really, really grateful for, because I got to work with some really awesome people that I had never worked before or I had been wanting to work with. And so it was such a great opportunity that was given to me to be able to connect with such amazing and talented AAPI creatives in my circle.  Isabel: Yeah, I saw on your Instagram page for the film that you shot this film in both Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Have you ever done a production where you had to sort juggle two different sets in two very different locations? And how was that entire process?  Rachel: Yeah, that was really, it was really fun. It was my first time being able to film in two different cities, let alone like two different states, really. A lot of my past projects have just been, you know, shooting it with the resources that I had that were available to me. You know, usually like my past short film, Thank You for Breaking My Heart, that I did last year, we shot all of it in one location, which was of course like, know, that is something that's really impressive in and of itself, of course. But, you know, because of the bigger budget that we had for Milk and Honey, I really wanted to challenge myself with this. And I really advocated for filming a part of the film in Texas because it is set in Texas. I was raised there. That's where my mom was placed when she, because how the process goes is, you know, she applied for the nursing sponsorship and then they placed them in certain areas. And so she was placed in El Paso, Texas at the time. And so that's where I also grew up. So I set the film there and I really advocated for filming in Texas because I wanted the film to have that feeling of the environment and atmosphere of Texas. um And so we shot some exteriors there for like this really fun Texas montage where you can really like feel that the character is there in, you know, in that heat, the Texas heat. So that was really, that was really fun. And I, you know, we shot, we shot two days in LA and we shot half a day in Austin, Texas. And we hired a second unit in Texas, because, you know, again, like, even though we had a really good budget, was still, you know, it was still pretty small. So I wasn't able to, you know, fly my LA crew over there. um So what we did was we just hired a second unit crew in Austin, Texas, and they were amazing. And most of them were queer, non-binary filmmakers. And it was just such a fun, intimate crew that you know, we just breezed by and had such a great time shooting that.  Isabel: That's wonderful. As a director, what inspires you and what are some of your filmmaking influences?  Rachel: Yeah, I mean, I'm constantly inspired by, you know, new films, filmmakers that I've seen, em particularly for Milk and Honey. I um so the film is, you know, this grounded drama, but there are a lot of moments of magical realism that I mix into it. love magical realism. love one of my favorite movies is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's such a beautiful film, also very grounded, but it's filled with all of this, you know, magical realism, surrealism. And so I infused that into, you know, Milk and Honey, which was really fun and a challenge to execute. But yeah, and some other filmmakers and creatives that I'm inspired by are Ava Duvernay. think her work is just incredible and also just an incredible artist overall. I love the kind of work that she does because it comes from such a deep place. And I love that she can combine art with politics and social justice as well. Isabel: I also love that you said in your one of your project funding descriptions that you use your art as your act of revolution, which is so relevant given that, you know, in our current state of, you know, our administration is silencing and suppressing voices of our immigrant communities. And how do we as filmmakers, as artists, what does that revolution and representation mean to you as a filmmaker and artist?  Rachel: I truly believe that that art is our act of revolution and just merely creating the art is that act in and of itself. We don't have to do more than that as from, in my opinion, as an artist, because the mere fact of us existing as artists, existing, myself existing and creating the work and having the work exists out there and putting it out. The most powerful thing that an artist can do is to make their art and share it with the world. And after that, just let it go, you know, forget about how it's going to be received. Forget about like, you know, the critics and, and, and the, you know, self doubt you may have and all of those things, because yeah, it's going to come. I think especially in the landscape of, like you said, of where we're at right now with our current administration and you know, just who knows what's going to happen in the next few years, but also in the face of like AI and technology and all of that, I think all we can really do as artists is to, in order for us to change the system is we have to be the change, right? And in order for us to be that change is just to continue to tell our stories and stay authentic to ourselves. Because I think that's also what a lot of people out there are really craving right now. People are craving authentic, real stories by people that we really don't get to see or hear their stories very often. And so um that for me is something that fuels me and my artistry every day.  Isabel: Very well said and a great reminder to all of us artists out there to keep making our art. What do you hope for audiences to take away when they watch your film?  Rachel: What I hope for audiences to get out of watching the film, well, one, at the core of it is a mother-daughter story. And I also did it to honor my mother and her sacrifices and her story. So I hope that, one, audiences will, you know, maybe reflect on their relationship with their mother and… um think of ways to honor their mother and their family and their ancestry as well. And another thing is to really think about what the American dream means to you, because that was another driving force for me with the film is it's called Milk & Honey because a lot of immigrants coined Milk & Honey as America's milk and honey as this like land of abundance, land of opportunity and you know, this is a, this is a place for creating a better life for ourselves. But I, for me, as I've grown up and as an adult now, really looking at like, well, what does the American dream mean to me? Is that still true to me? Do I still think the U S is a place where I can, where I can build a better life? Is it a place of abundance and something in the film, a big theme in the film is where Cherry's character scrutinizes that dream and thinks for herself, like, is the American dream worth it? And what does the American dream actually mean to me? What is the definition of that? So I think that's a big thing I would love audiences to also take away from it, you know, asking themselves that question. Isabel: That's a great thought to end on. I'll be including Rachel's social media and website on kpfa.org as usual so you can see if Milk and Honey will be screening in a film festival near your city during its festival run. Well, Rachel, thank you so much for joining me on APEX Express today. Thanks so much for having me. I really enjoyed it. Please check our website kpfa.org to find out more about magical realism in AAPI stories and the guests we spoke to. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting. Keep organizing. Keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. APEX Express is produced by Miko Lee, Jalena Keane-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar, Anuj Vaidya, Swati Rayasam, Cheryl Truong, and Isabel Li. Tonight's show was produced by me, Isabel Li. Thanks to the team at KPFA for their support. Have a great night. 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Fire warnings issued as heatwave set to bring Black Summer–level conditions; Venezuela says death toll from U-S operation has risen to at least 56... and in motorsports, Australian Daniel Sanders retains overall lead in Dakar Rally motorcycle category.

In episode 1984, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of Rebrand, Mort Burke, to discuss… Trump: People Say I’m Jealous But My Kink Is Just Karma, Benny Johnson: Venezuela Rigged The 2020 Election! So Yeah! Trump Health? John Krasinski Laid The Groundwork For Venezuela Attack and more! U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion Benny Johnson: Venezuela Rigged The 2020 Election! So Yeah! Trump Health? John Krasinski Laid The Groundwork For Venezuela Attack Jack Ryan clip about Venezuela gets viral amid capture of Nicolàs Maduro. Did ‘Jack Ryan’ Predict U.S.’ Venezuela Intervention? Co-Creator Carlton Cuse Reacts To Season 2 Clip Going Viral, Shares Hopes For “Stability And Peace” Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' TV series lambasted for promoting Venezuela 'invasion' Jack Ryan is the Latest TV Show to Film at CIA Headquarters How Does Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' Compare to Real Life at the CIA? LISTEN: 4 Raws by EsDeeKidSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pick the headline that best describes the story:VenezuelaTrump's Hint to Oil Executives Weeks Before Maduro Ouster: ‘Get Ready'Maduro overthrow could help these U.S. oil companies recover assets seized by VenezuelaTrump makes it clear shocking Venezuelan regime change is largely about oil: ‘They stole our oil … We're going to make a lot of money'US oil giants mum after Trump says they'll spend billions in VenezuelaUS oil companies gain after capture of Venezuela's MaduroA group of about 20 US investors is already planning a trip to Venezuela in MarchMaduro falls, Bitcoin rises: The 1,671% surge that hit before Wall Street woke upAI-generated content spreads after Maduro's removal — blurring fact and fictionElonElon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and childrenElon Musk's X faces regulatory probes in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot began generating deepfake explicit images, some depicting child sex abuse.Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier” Elon Musk's Grok AI faces government backlash after it was used to create sexualized images of women and minorsMusk's xAI faces backlash after Grok generates sexualized images of children on XWoman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothesElon Musk plans 'high-volume production' of Neuralink brain chips and says he wants to automate the surgical procedureTesla Loses EV Crown to BYD After Second Annual Sales DropAIChildrenTech Giants Pushing AI Into Schools Is a Huge, Ethically Bankrupt Experiment on Innocent Children That Will Likely End in DisasterChildren Falling Apart as They Become Addicted to AIOpenAI's child exploitation reports increased sharply this yearPsychosisDoctors Say AI Use Is Almost Certainly Linked to Developing PsychosisWoman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of HerselfMan Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into PsychosisAI Godfather Warns That It's Starting to Show Signs of Self-PreservationDisturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit AllegesOpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in ConversationBillionairesThe world's richest people just had their best year yetAI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025There are more self-made billionaires under 30 than ever before—11 of them have made the ultra-wealthy club in the last 3 months thanks to AIJamie Dimon made $770 million last year. 2026 could be even better for banksEasing rules and a rebound in dealmaking are reshaping the landscape for U.S. banks, with bigger profits likely aheadThreat of California Billionaire Tax Draws Criticism From UltrawealthyBill Ackman slams California wealth tax as ‘expropriation' of private propertyBill Ackman Blasts Ro Khanna For Defending Billionaire Tax: 'Lost His Way'Peter Thiel and Larry Page are preparing to flee California in case the state passes a billionaire wealth tax, report saysTech billionaires threaten to flee California over proposed 5% wealth taxBari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy Speed Round Dumb or Good Rating (1-10)Dumb2 former Hinge execs are building an app to make it easier to plan hangouts with your friends 10Boeing (BA) CEO “is a Nonsense Guy,” Says Jim Cramer 2Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine 0New research provides evidence that men who are concerned about maintaining a traditional masculine image may be less likely to express concern about climate change. The findings suggest that acknowledging environmental problems is psychologically linked to traits such as warmth and compassion. These traits are stereotypically associated with femininity in many cultures. Consequently, men who feel pressure to prove their manhood may avoid environmentalist attitudes to protect their gender identity. The study was published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.CEO of local public company to step down after nearly 10 years 9Malcolm Gladwell tells young people if they want a STEM degree, ‘don't go to Harvard.' You may end up at the bottom of your class and drop out 6OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is ‘envious' of Gen Z college dropouts who have the ‘mental space' and time to build new startups 9This 22-year-old college dropout with an AI powered YouTube empire makes $700,000 a year and works just 2 hours a day 1Trump Mobile says its first-ever smartphone is delayed, and the government shutdown is to blame 3The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world's biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade jobs with no degree required 4ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety' from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe' it 7Good?Minimum wage just went up in 19 states—workers in one state are getting a $2 an hour raise 8Judge says Trump administration must continue funding consumer watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 5Angry town halls nationwide find a new villain: the data center driving up your electricity bill while fueling job-killing AI 8Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis speak out against data center boom. It's a bad sign for AI industry 9Mitt Romney says the U.S. is on a cliff—and taxing the rich is now necessary ‘given the magnitude of our national debt' 7Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop” 10Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack 9MATT1WE MISSED THE PREDICTIONS:Crypto: Tom Lee Predicts $250K Ethereum Price as BitMine Adds to $13 Billion Stash, Grayscale Predicts Bitcoin Will Reach New All-Time High by March 2026Stocks: Every Wall Street Analyst Now Predicts a Stock Rally in 2026 - EVERY!AI: ‘Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton predicts 2026 will see the technology get even better and gain the ability to ‘replace many other jobs', Amazon's Alexa chief predicts an end to doom scrolling: the next generation is ‘going to just think differently', In 2026 CFOs predict AI transformation, not just efficiency gainsAs millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald's say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset - I PREDICT NOT HAVING A JOB IS YOUR OWN FAULTOily oil: Oil experts predict slight rise in gas prices as global tensions mountBlowhards: Elon Musk predicts double-digit US growth by 2026, Treasury Secretary predicts historic merger could make 2026 a ‘very good year' Trump advisor predicts Miami will dethrone NYC as financial capital under new progressive mayorOpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years' time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space

Confusion persists today over who's in charge in Venezuela... now that Nicolas Maduro is in U-S custody.  Let's bring in ABC News Deputy Political Director Ben Siegel.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has pleaded not guilty to so-called narco-terrorism charges in New York's federal court. As criticism builds over the U-S assault in Venezuela, so too do fears over similar military operations elsewhere. - Vor dem US-Bundesgericht in Manhattan haben sich der venezolanische Präsident Nicolás Maduro und seine Frau Cilia für nicht schuldig zu den vier gegen sie erhobenen Anklagepunkte erklärt. Unterdessen spaltet sich die internationale Gemeinschaft in Befürworter, Kritiker und diejenigen, die sich nicht festlegen wollen.

SummaryIn this episode, Clayton Cuteri delves into significant current events, focusing on the U.S. military operation in Venezuela and the Minnesota fraud case. He explores the underlying economic motivations, the role of Israel, and the distractions posed by ongoing allegations against political figures. The conversation also touches on the importance of empowerment and spiritual wealth, encouraging listeners to seek personal growth and understanding in a complex world.Clayton's Social Media LinkTree | TikTok | Instagram | X (Twitter) | YouTube | RumbleTimecodes 00:00 - Intro00:30 - Major Stories of the Week: Venezuela and Minnesota Fraud01:23 - U.S. Military Operation in Venezuela: The Facts03:11 - Understanding the Layers of Venezuela's Situation06:27 - The Economic Motivations Behind Venezuela's Takeover15:22 - The Role of Israel in Venezuela's Political Landscape18:08 - Distractions and Allegations: The Epstein Files21:05 - America's Military Role in Global Politics24:48 - Minnesota Fraud: A Local Perspective33:40 - Empowerment and Spiritual WealthIntro/Outro Music Producer: Don Kin IG: https://www.instagram.com/donkinmusic/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/44QKqKsd81oJEBKffwdFfPSuper grateful for this guy ^NEWSLETTER - SIGN UP HEREBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/traveling-to-consciousness-with-clayton-cuteri--6765271/support.Official Traveling to Consciousness Website HEREALL Indigo Education Podcasts HEREMy Book: The Secret Teachings of Jesus HERE

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:Chris & Sean discuss the new year and Trump's goft to freedom, toppling a dictator in our own hemisphere. 

** Venezuelan exiles hopeful after President Maduro's removal by the U-S ... ** Leaders of Denmark and Greenland tell President Trump to stop the annexation threats ... - 1月3日、アメリカはベネズエラを攻撃し、ニコラス・マドゥロ大統領を拘束しました。デンマークとグリーンランドの指導者たちは、ドナルド・トランプ大統領に対し、グリーンランドを占領するという脅迫表明を辞めるよう強く求めています。

On CNN's State of the Union, Dana Bash presses Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton about President Trump saying the U-S is now “running” Venezuela. Next, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy tells Dana that the Trump administration “lied to our face” about pursuing regime change in Venezuela. Then, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan tells Dana that he “trust[s] the president to make decisions that are in the best interest of Americans” in Venezuela. After, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Jim Himes tells Dana that Jordan “gave the game away” and that “America can see the fact that they no longer have a Congress.” Finally, Dana talks with former NATO Supreme Commander Adm. James Stavridis and former Deputy DNI Beth Sanner about what comes next after Maduro's ouster in Venezuela.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife will appear before a U.S. judge on Monday - their first court appearance in what will be a long legal battle. Meanwhile, Maduro's allies, now in control of Venezuela, say they will not bend to U-S pressure. Now, the Trump administration is making new, direct threats -- warning the regime to cooperate with American demands. Also: With the removal of Maduro, what happens now to Venezuela's oil reserves? Donald Trump says he wants U.S. oil companies to play a big role in their future. You'll hear what that could mean for Venezuela... and for Canada.And: A recent report by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship found that one in five immigrants leave Canada within 25 years of landing. It also found the ones that are most likely to leave are highly skilled people. We look at the causes, and what can be done to keep them here.Plus: Homes in Pimicikamak Cree Nation unsafe to live in, Responsibly disposing of holiday waste, The state of the film industry, and more.

President Trump and an Iranian security official traded threats over Iranian protesters...with President Trump saying if Iran kills peaceful protesters, the U-S will come to their rescue. Venezuelan president Maduro has signaled he's willing to talk to the U-S about drug trafficking. Swiss investigators are working to identify victims of a New Year's Day ski resort fire. CBS's Peter King has these stories and much more in today's World News Roundup. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Goodbye 2025... Hello 2026. The other side of the world has already rung in the New Year... And soon the U-S will bring in the new year. Security is being beefed up at celebrations coast to coast as law enforcement sends out the alert that a lone wolf attacker is the biggest threat we face tonight.  And a lot of people were spotted in Times Square sporting surgical masks... A throwback to the covid pandemic. But the fear now is catching the super flu that health experts say is hitting earlier and harder than the traditional flu. Plus, where is the so-called doomsday mom? She was last seen at an airport with four children boarding a plane to Europe. Her husband says she became obsessed with the world coming to an end and took her kids and fled the country.  And a sad ending to the search for the missing 19-year-old high schooler who walked out of her home on Christmas Eve in her pajamas. Cops say her body was found in a field not far from her home. Police says she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound... The gun found at the scene.    To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lately, it appears Congress has been recognizing the many challenges farmers and ranchers are facing these days, and U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse says that isn't happening by chance.

Plus a winter storm threatens to bring blizzards and ice to a large part of the U-S from North Dakota to New England, a North Texas family is in deep sorrow over the murder of a McKinney couple and the arrest of their adult son, one of the iconic Campisi's restaurants in Dallas will be closed for awhile because of a weekend fire, and more!

The story of a formerly enslaved woman in Virginia who escaped to freedom is finally being told... A candidate drops his bid for the Republican nomination for the U-S senate race in 2026... and a bill aimed at helping renters is being prepared for when the General Assembly convenes next month...

War Room Transmission: North Korea Unveils Nuclear-Powered Submarine, U.S. Strikes ISIS in Nigeria with 15 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles & Gold Surges  Sky Pilot Radio Classic Hits from the 60's thru the 80's 

Mark Wentling is an international development and humanitarian assistance specialist with over 40 years of relevant experience. He attended the U.S. National War College; international strategic studies program for selected senior members of U.S. armed forces and civilian Foreign Service agencies. US foreign assistance to poor people across the globe was a cost-effective and relatively efficient program. The Trump Administration weakened America's soft power reducing influence over the policies of other countries favorable to the US, alienated many of our allies, cut off business, defense, trade and cultural opportunities, destroyed markets for many American farm products and killed thousands of our poorest and sickest allies. By surrendering America's leadership, China, and other frenemies of the US and democracies, will be delighted to fill the leadership vacuum. No low-income country can trust the US again to be a dependable partner. Future assistance programs should focus on 42 of the poorest countries.

Severe weather from the Pacific Ocean is causing havoc in California. An atmospheric river is bringing more downpours throughout the state this week. Evacuation warnings are in effect Tuesdays for area with burn scars from recent wildfires. State and local officials are reminding residents to be extra cautious behind the wheel, with the National Weather Service expecting up to five inches of rain across the northern Sierra by mid-week.The Department of Education says it's reviewing safety at Brown University following the shooting on campus that killed two students. The department says officials are investigating whether school officials violated federal campus safety and security requirements. In addition, Brown University's president placed the campus police chief on leave. A former chief of the Providence Police Department will replace him. Brown's president said the University is “deeply committed” to campus safety and security.President Trump unveiled plans on Monday to build a new class of battleships as part of his vision to strengthen the military. The so-called 'Trump-class' ships will be part of the administration's vision for a 'golden fleet,' aimed at deterring U-S adversaries like communist China. He says the new warships will be the largest, with one hundred times the force. President Trump made the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The U.S. hasn't built any battleships since World War II, with the last American battleship retiring in 1992.

SummaryIn this episode, Clayton Cuteri delves into various pressing issues, including the FBI's recent arrests of alleged pro-Palestinian extremists, U.S. military actions in Venezuela, and the Pentagon's refusal to release critical video footage. He discusses the implications of Trump's foreign policy decisions, particularly regarding Venezuela, and the recent Protecting Children's Innocence Act.The conversation also touches on economic policies, including Trump's warrior dividends for military members, and the broader societal responsibilities in addressing these complex issues.Clayton's Social Media LinkTree | TikTok | Instagram | Twitter (X) | YouTube | RumbleTimecodes 00:00 - Intro02:26 - FBI Arrests and Terrorism Concerns05:17 - U.S. Military Actions and Venezuela09:39 - Pentagon's Secrecy and Accountability Issues13:19 - Trump's Foreign Policy and Venezuela17:08 - Protecting Children's Innocence Act23:00 - Warrior Dividends and Economic ImplicationsIntro/Outro Music Producer: Don Kin IG: https://www.instagram.com/donkinmusic/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/44QKqKsd81oJEBKffwdFfPSuper grateful for this guy ^NEWSLETTER - SIGN UP HEREBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/traveling-to-consciousness-with-clayton-cuteri--6765271/support.Official Traveling to Consciousness Website HEREALL Indigo Education Podcasts HEREMy Book: The Secret Teachings of Jesus HERE

Yee haw! Welcome to another rootin' tootin' ready-fer-shootin' episode of “I Vant to Vatch Your Feelm!” Dang, will y'all listen to them children of the night? They make some right purty music don't they? We got us some good ol' ‘MURICAN vampires this week, ‘cept'n they don't rightly call themselves vampires, do they. Nope, these here are Freedompires! Well, that's what they should be called on account they're all bit-in-the-U-S-of-A, homegrown bloodsuckers. We got us some favorites of that there James Cameron fella, like Lance “Born to Play a Vampire” Henricksen, Jeannette Goldstein, and F'in' Bill Paxton hisself! So set a spell, have a shot of moonshine, and listen on up. Good eeeeeevening and yee-haw!! Poll question: What setting/culture/genre would you most like to see vampires plunked down into?

Talk about a backseat driver! An elderly woman unlocks her car door one morning only to find an escaped inmate hiding inside! A husband caught on cam dragging his wife's dead body from their apartment complex...is finally back on U-S soil. He fled to Peru with their kids after the crime. Plus, owners of a tree lot left tree-mendously upset after their giant Santa is snatched! Jennifer Gould reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 5514 of The Morning Show with Preston Scott covers a wide range of headline-making issues, including government spending without oversight, cultural flashpoints dominating Capitol Hill, de-banking by major financial institutions, executive orders versus lasting law, and the growing affordability crisis hitting American families. Preston also weighs broader political strategy, election-year priorities, and why many Americans feel Washington is failing to address kitchen-table concerns.In the third hour, Preston sits down with U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack of Florida's 3rd District for her final visit of the year. They dive deep into her USA Act to force accountability in federal spending, bipartisan resistance to reform, runaway debt, protecting women's spaces, codifying executive actions, and what Republicans must do now to keep their majority and restore fiscal discipline.Topics DiscussedThe USA Act and accountability in federal spendingCongressional resistance, earmarks, and the national debtCultural and legislative debates in CongressExecutive orders, de-banking, and codifying policyAffordability, infrastructure, and election-year prioritiesToday's guests include:Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-3)Follow the show on Twitter @TMSPrestonScott.Check out Preston's latest blog at wflafm.com/preston.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has appeared in public for the first time in almost a year after a daring escape from her homeland that was assisted by U-S forces. Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace prize which was accepted in Oslo by her daughter. Meanwhile, the pressure campaign against President Maduro continues as U-S Forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker of the coast of Venezuela FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Dan Hoffman, Former CIA Chief of Station in Moscow and FOX News Contributor, who says the time approaches t where the end game of these actions in Venezuelan need to be revealed. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump has announced the U-S has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, a move that comes amid rising escalations with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government. United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has praised the AUKUS defence pact in a ministerial meeting at the Pentagon with Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles and his British counterpart John Healey. Anti-nuclear campaigners are raising significant concerns that Australia could soon play host to nuclear weapons carried on military assets from the United States as part of the AUKUS agreement. - アメリカのドナルド・トランプ大統領は10日、ベネズエラ沖で石油タンカーを拿捕したことを発表しました。ピート・ヘグセス米国防長官は、アメリカの国防総省で、オーストラリアのリチャード・マールズ国防相、と英国のジョン・ヒーリー国防相と閣僚協議を行い、AUKUS防衛協定を高く評価しました。AUKUS協定の一環として、今後オーストラリアの基地を利用するアメリカ軍の装備に、核兵器が搭載されている可能性があるとして、反核団体の活動家達が深刻な懸念を示しています。

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:Chris and Sean reminisce about the good ol' days of TV. The boys get into a robust discussion over the U.S. targeting drug boats in the Caribbean. 

On today's program, The Skit Guys is calling it a wrap after nearly 3 decades of ministry because one of the co-founders admitted to ‘moral failure.' We'll have details. And, an Arizona church got the green light to resume its food distribution ministry after the city of San Luis had attempted to shut it down, citing zoning violations. We'll take a look. Plus, the results from our fall survey of top ministry executives from some of the largest ministries in the U-S. Many ministry executives fear a recession is on the way. But first, a well-known reformed Baptist pastor resigned from his post. Samuel Renihan has confessed to adultery and resigned from his position at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church in La Mirada, California. He was ordained by the church in 2012. The producer for today's program is Jeff McIntosh. We get database and other technical support from Stephen DuBarry, Rod Pitzer, and Casey Sudduth. Writers who contributed to today's program include Isaac Wood, Stacey Horton, Kim Roberts, Christina Darnell and Warren Smith. You've been listening to the MinistryWatch podcast. Until next time, may God bless you.

Severe storms are causing travel chaos nationwide as Americans head home after the Thanksgiving holiday. Also, U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators are discussing peace deals as Trump seeks to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Plus, Luigi Mangione is back in court today for a key hearing in the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthCare CEO. And, tips on how to make the most of those Cyber Monday deals. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

With the unemployment rate at 4.4% and labor force participation at the lowest level in the past couple of years, finding the right job could be tougher than ever. And it is not just salary or finding something exactly in your wheelhouse, it is also about cost of living and receiving solid health benefits. A new report by WalletHub compared the 50 states across 34 key indicators of job-market strength and economic vitality to share tips on where to look for employment. FOX's Tonya J. Powers speaks with Chip Lupo, WalletHub analyst, who breaks down the best regions of the U-S to find stable employment with a wide range of benefits. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Santa, baby! We're here to deliver the #damngood gifts of the season that the beauty lover on your list will *actually* want - no snoozefest presents in sight. Watch, and subscribe to this episode on YouTube! You'll hear about:The makeup musts we're swooning over (a luxury blush trio, lip gloss “stacks,” and a palette fit for Celine Dion)A makeup-meets-indie jewellery collab that's sure to spark conversation at any holiday party A chic AF bar soap gift set that's giving us major flashbacks to a coveted childhood stocking stufferThe high quality hair clips that not only hold up the thickest hair, but that are also the hottest style accessory of the season A French-girl approved advent calendar that doesn't skimp out on beauty goodiesA limited edition version of a 100-year old fragrance that's been updated for the vanilla lover on your list! (And the insider tip for how you can personalize it.) One of the most-searched for beauty gifts of the season, revealed (this one might surprise you!) Get social with us and let us know what you think of the episode! Find us on Instagram, Tiktok,X, Threads. Join our private Facebook group. Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 1-844-227-0302. Sign up for our Substack here For any products or links mentioned in this episode, check out our website: https://breakingbeautypodcast.com/episode-recaps/ Related episodes like this: Shop Smarter, Not Harder – How-to Get Real Value from Your Beauty Buys