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With Andy making his triumphant return (okay, he's back from a prolonged absence due to behind the scenes business), the continued happenings down in Cuba warrant a frank examination. Why isn't the Biden administration doing more? How can we let the Communists beat and kill Cubans in the streets while they continue to ask for our help? Will we afford them, at least, internet access?...
SERIES: THIS IS US: Forgiveness – Ken Wetmore Fred “Mister” Rogers has been called the champion of radical acceptance. A Presbyterian minister, Mister Rogers took his cues about acceptance from Jesus. Jesus is the original champion of radical acceptance. Acceptance is not the endpoint of a relationship. It is the beginning. It allows transformation to occur in God's time and God's way. This week our #WholeLifeTakeAways were: How do you struggle to accept? Which of the barriers to acceptance Ken spoke about are causing you to struggle? What do you need to do? Think of Jesus' interactions in the Gospels. How did he show acceptance for those he encountered? Reflect on the people who have made you feel completely accepted. Reach out to at least one of them to express how they have made a difference in your life. Which #TakeAway gave you a reason to pause, reflect, or share your thoughts? Let us know by reaching out and sharing with us using one of the following: Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 Email: podcast@wholelife.church SUBSCRIBE NOW to our companion podcast; :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff where we dive deeper into the message and topic at hand with Pastor's Ken and Jeff along with host Randy Magray. It's the perfect midweek commute podcast to stay in touch with what's being talked about at WholeLIfe Church and we encourage your questions, comments, and feedback which we will share on the next episode! Listen anywhere you find podcasts! Thank you for listening! Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media at the following links and while you're there, say ‘hello'! Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando) Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeAways #ThisIsWholeLife #ThisIsUS NEXT WEEK: This is US: Forgiveness. This will be the 4th in our 8 part series that will examine in detail our values as a faith community at WholeLife Church. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Find out more about WholeLife on our website: https://wholelife.church (https://wholelife.church)
With Andy out this week, Michael and JJ talk about current events! Currently that means E3! We recorded before Nintendo so we made some predictions, we were probably wrong! But there is tons of discussion of new games coming out from Microsoft (Halo Infinite, Gamepass everything, Starfield), Square Enix (Guardians of the Galaxy, Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters), Ubisoft and others!
With ProMX releasing the rescheduled date for the postponed Round 3 in Gillman, the AMX MotoOnline ProMX Recap Show is back to discuss the opening to rounds and make some predictions for the remainder of the season. Host Joe Stevens is joined by Co-Host Andy Dinicol who has back in studio for the first time since the 2019 Supercross season wrapped up. With Andy back it means Darnell Official can get back to full producer duty to ensure the show goes out without any issues. The boys are joined in studio by WBR Bulk Nutrients Yamaha's Alex Larwood after exploding onto the Pro scene in the MX2 in 2021. AMX Superstores Business Development Manager, Rob Farrimond joins the show by phone to talk about AMX's involvement in the 2021 ProMX Championship as the presenting sponsor, as well as give the listeners an insight on where AMX came from and where their going. -So with that being said let's get into the show, and as always don't forget to Share, Like, Rate and Subscribe to Inside Dirt.
What up #CrewMembers!!! With Andy on paternity leave and Anthony on drill, we had to bring in some friends. Who better then the guys he plays Co-Op games with. Mike from The Twisted Cape, Javier, and Dan join Wes for a trip down memory lane and the games they have thrown down on together over the years. From Borderlands 2 to Outriders and Destiny 2. It's a fun trip with awesome friends. We hope you enjoy. #GameOnCGC #BossRushNetwork #BeBetter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
With Andy moving to Middle Earth, the brunch boys figure they should travel from one town (the shire) to another town (mordor) and log all their breakfasts, second breakfasts, elevenzies, dinners and suppers along the way. In examining the first in this classic Peter Jackson trilogy, Dave and Andy grapple with who's their perfect huMANoid, how easily canceled Tolkien is, and figure out where it ranks among fantasy epics and brunch movies
About BradAuthor and Senior Executive Editor, Bloomberg TechnologyBrad Stone is the author of four books, including Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire,published by Simon & Schuster in May 2021. It traces the transformation of Amazon into one of the largest and most feared companies of the world and the accompanying emergence of Jeff Bezos as the richest man alive. Brad is also the author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, which chronicled the foundational early years of the company and its founder. The book, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, was translated into more than 35 languages and won the 2013 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. In 2017, he also published The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley.Brad is Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg Newswhere he oversees a team of 65 reporters and editors that covers high-tech companies, startups, cyber security and internet trends around the world. Over the last ten years, as a writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, he’s authored over two dozen cover stories on companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Softbank, Twitter, Facebook and the Chinese internet juggernauts Didi, Tencent and Baidu. He’s a regular contributor to Bloomberg’s technology newsletter Fully Charged, and to the daily Bloomberg TV news program, Bloomberg Technology. He was previously a San Francisco-based correspondent for The New York Times and Newsweek. A graduate of Columbia University, he is originallyfrom Cleveland, Ohio and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wifeand three daughtersLinks: The Everything Store: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon/dp/0316219282/ Amazon Unbound: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Unbound-Invention-Global-Empire/dp/1982132612/ Andy Jassy book review: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1Q4CQQV1ALSN0/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00FJFJOLC TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Thinkst. This is going to take a minute to explain, so bear with me. I linked against an early version of their tool, canarytokens.org in the very early days of my newsletter, and what it does is relatively simple and straightforward. It winds up embedding credentials, files, that sort of thing in various parts of your environment, wherever you want to; it gives you fake AWS API credentials, for example. And the only thing that these things do is alert you whenever someone attempts to use those things. It’s an awesome approach. I’ve used something similar for years. Check them out. But wait, there’s more. They also have an enterprise option that you should be very much aware of canary.tools. You can take a look at this, but what it does is it provides an enterprise approach to drive these things throughout your entire environment. You can get a physical device that hangs out on your network and impersonates whatever you want to. When it gets Nmap scanned, or someone attempts to log into it, or access files on it, you get instant alerts. It’s awesome. If you don’t do something like this, you’re likely to find out that you’ve gotten breached, the hard way. Take a look at this. It’s one of those few things that I look at and say, “Wow, that is an amazing idea. I love it.” That’s canarytokens.org and canary.tools. The first one is free. The second one is enterprise-y. Take a look. I’m a big fan of this. More from them in the coming weeks.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by VMware. Because let’s face it, the past year hasn’t been kind to our AWS bills, or honestly any cloud bills. The pandemic had a bunch of impacts: it forced us to move workloads to the cloud sooner than we would have otherwise, we saw strange patterns such as user traffic drops off but infrastructure spend doesn’t. What do you do about it? Well, the CloudLIVE 2021 virtual conference is your chance to connect with people wrestling with the same type of thing, be they practitioners, vendors in the space, leaders of thought—ahem, ahem—and get some behind the scenes look into various ways different companies are handling this. Hosted by CloudHealth by VMware on May 20, the CloudLIVE 2021 conference will be 100% virtual and 100% free to attend, so you really have no excuses for missing out on this opportunity to deal with people who care about cloud bills. Visit cloudlive.com/coreyto learn more and save your virtual seat today. That’s cloud L-I-V-E slash Corey. C-O-R-E-Y. Drop the E, we’re all in trouble. My thanks to VMware for sponsoring this ridiculous episode.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. Sometimes people tell me that I should write a book about Amazon. And that sounds awful. But to be sure, today, my guest is Brad Stone, someone who has written not one, but two books about Amazon, one of which coming out on May 11th, or as most of you will know while listening to this, today. Brad, thanks for joining me.Brad: Corey, thanks for having me.Corey: So, what on earth would inspire you to not just write a book about one of what is in many ways an incredibly secretive company, but then to go back and do it again?Brad: Yeah. I’m a glutton for punishment. And Corey, my hair right now is completely white way before it should be, and I think that Amazon might be responsible for some of that. So, as you contemplate your own project, consider that this company—will you already know: it can age you. They are sometimes resistant to scrutiny.So, to answer your question, I set out to write The Everything Store back in 2011, and this was a much smaller company. It was a cute little tiny internet company of about $100 billion in market value. And poor, impoverished Jeff Bezos maybe had, I’d be guessing maybe $50 billion.So anyway, it was a much different time. And that was a great experience. The company was kind of flowering as the book came out. And to my surprise, it was embraced not by Bezos or the management team, who maybe we’ll talk about didn’t love it, but by Amazon employees, and customers, and competitors, and prospective employees. And I was really proud of it that this had become a kind of definitive account of the early years of the company.And then a funny thing happened. The little cute little internet company became a juggernaut, a $1.5 trillion market cap. Bezos is the wealthiest guy in the world now with a $200 billion fortune, and Alexa, and the rise of AWS, and the Go store, and incursions into India and Mexico and other countries, I mean, so much had changed, and my definitive history felt a little out of date. And so back in 2017—also a different world, Bezos is a happily married man; he’s the CEO of Amazon, Amazon’s headquarters are in Seattle only—I set out to research and write Amazon Unbound. And as I was writing the story, yeah, just, like, the ground kept shifting under my feet.Corey: Not a lot changes in the big sphere. I mean, one of the things that Bezos said is, “Oh, what’s going to be different in 10 years? I think the better question is, ‘what’s going to not be different in 10 years?’” but watching the company shift, watching it grow, just from the outside has been a real wild ride, I’ve got to say. And I restrict myself primarily to the AWS parts because well, there’s too much to cover if you go far beyond that, and two, it’s a very different place with very different challenges around it.I viewed The Everything Store when it came out and I read that, almost like it was a biography of Jeff Bezos himself. And in some respects, Amazon Unbound feels like it hews in that direction as well, but it also goes beyond that. How do you approach separating out the story of Amazon from the story of Jeff Bezos?Brad: Yeah, you’re putting your finger on almost the core challenge, and the adjoining challenge, which is how do you create a narrative, a linear story? Often readers want a chronological story out of a miasma of overlapping events, and initiatives, and challenges. Amazon’s really decentralized; everything is happening at once. Bezos is close to some things, he was very close to Alexa. He is really distant from other things.Andy Jassy for years had a lot of independence to run AWS. So, how do you tell that story, and then keep Bezos in the center? I mean, Andy Jassy and Jeff Wilke and everyone, I mean, those are great business people. Not necessarily dynamic personalities as, Corey, you know well, but people want to read about Jeff Bezos. He is a larger-than-life figure.He’s a pioneer. He’s an innovator. He’s controversial. And so the challenge all along is to, kind of, keep him in the center. And so that’s just, like, a writing challenge. It’s a narrative challenge.And the lucky thing is that Amazon does tend to orbit around Jeff Bezos’s brain. And so in all the storytelling, even the AWS bits of the book, which we can talk about, as an author, you can always bring Bezos back just by following the facts. You’ll eventually get, in the evolution of any story, to an S Team meeting, or to an acquisition discussion where Jeff had an impact, said something insightful, walked out of a meeting, raise the bar, had impossibly high standards. So, the last thing I’ll say is, because Amazon’s so decentralized, when you write these books you have to talk to a lot of people. And then you get all the pieces of the puzzle, and you start to assemble them, and the challenge as a writer is to, kind of, keep Bezos, your main character in the lens at all times, never let him drift too far out.Corey: One of the things that I learned from it was just the way that Bezos apparently talks to his senior executives, as far as, “I will invest in this project, more than you might think I would.” I guess I’ve never really heard of a budget meeting talking about, “I”—in the first person—“Will invest.” Like, that is what happens, but for some reason the business books never put it quite that starkly or frame it quite that way. But in hindsight, it made a lot of things of my own understanding of Amazon fall into place. That makes sense.Brad: He’s got a lot of levers, ways in which he’ll back a new initiative or express his support. And one of them is simply how he spends his time. So, with Alexa in the early years, he would meet once or twice a week with that team. But another lever is just the amount of investment. And oftentimes teams will come to him—the India team is a great example—they’ll come to the S Team with a budget, and they’ll list out their priorities and their goals for the coming year, and he’ll say, “You know, you’re thinking about this all wrong. Don’t constrain yourself. Tell us what the goals are, tell us what the opportunity is, then we’ll figure out how much it costs.”And his mindset is like you can kind of break up opportunity into two categories: one are the land grabs, the big immediate opportunities where he will go all out, and India was a great example of that, I think the failed fire phone was another example, Prime Video, he doesn’t cap the investment, he wants to win. And then there are the more greenfield opportunities that he thinks he can go slower on and groceries for a long time was in that category. And there the budgets might be more constrained. The other example is the much older businesses, just like the retail business. That’s 20 years old—I have a chapter about that—and the advertising business, and he recognized that the retail business wasn’t profitable and it was depending on advertising as a crutch, and he blew it up because he thinks that those older divisions shouldn’t require investment; they should be able to stand on their own.Corey: One quote you had as well, that just really resonated with me, as far as basically my entire ethos of how I make fun of Amazon is—and I’m going to read the excerpt here. My apologies. You have to listen to your own words being read back toward you—Brad: [laugh].Corey: These were typically Amazonian names: geeky, obscure, and endlessly debated inside AWS since—according to an early AWS exec—Bezos had once mused, “You know, the name is about 3% of what matters, but sometimes 3% is the difference between winning and losing.” And I just want to call that out because I don’t think I’ve ever seen an AWS exec ever admit that names might be even 3% worth of important. Looking at how terrible some of their service names are, I would say that 3% might be an aspirational target for their worldview.Brad: [laugh]. Let me throw this back at you, Corey. Have you ever figured out why certain AWS services are Amazon and why others are AWS?Corey: I did. I got to sit down—in the before times—with then the VP of Global Marketing, Ariel Kelman—who’s now Oracle’s Chief Marketing Officer—and Jeff Barr. And the direction that they took that in was that if you could use an AWS service without getting into the AWS weeds of a bunch of other services, then it was called Amazon whatever. Amazon S3, for example, as a primitive service doesn’t need a bunch of other AWS services hooked into it, so that gets the Amazon moniker. Whereas if you’re dealing with a service that requires the integration of a whole bunch of AWS in the weeds stuff—Brad: Mmm, right.Corey: —then it’s AWS. For example, AWS Systems Manager is useless without a whole bunch of other Amazon services. And they say they don’t get it perfectly right all the time, but that is the direction that it’s gone in. And for better or worse, I still have to look a lot of them up myself because I don’t care nearly as much as their branding people do.Brad: Right. Well, I’ll tell you in the chapter about AWS, that quote comes up when the team is contemplating the names of the databases. And they do go into long debates, and I remember talking to Charlie Bell about the search for Redshift, and they go back and forth on it, and the funny thing about that one was, of course, Oracle interpreted it as a competitive slight. Its corporate color, I guess, being red, which he intended it more as a physics term. But yeah, when they were launching Aurora and Redshift, they contemplated those names quite a bit. And I don’t know if it’s 3%. I don’t know if it does matter, but certainly, those services have become really important to a lot of businesses.Corey: Oh, yeah. And once you name something, it’s really hard to rename it. And AWS does view for—better or worse—APIs as a promise, so when you build something and presented a certain way, they’re never going to turn it off. Our grandkids are going to have to deal with some of these decisions once they get into computers. That’s a problem.And I understand the ethos behind it, but again, it’s easy to make fun of names; it’s an accessible thing because let’s be very real here, a lot of what AWS does is incredibly inaccessible to people who don’t live in this space. But naming is something that everyone can get behind making fun of.Brad: Absolutely. Yep. And [laugh] it’s perhaps why they spend a lot of time on it because they know that this is going to be the shingle that they hang out to the world. I don’t know that they’re anticipating your ridicule, but it’s obviously key to the marketing process for them.Corey: Some of the more aware ones do. But that’s a different topic for a different time. One question I have for you that I wrestle with myself is I’ve been spending the last four years or so basically studying AWS all the time. And there’s a lot of things they get right; there’s a lot of things that they get wrong. But for better or worse, it’s very difficult not to come away from an in-depth study with an appreciation for an awful lot of the things that they do. At least for me.I’m not saying that I fall in love with the company and will excuse them their wrongs; I absolutely do not do that. But it is hard, bordering on impossible for me, to not come away with a deep respect for a lot of the things that they do and clearly believe. How do you feel about that? Looking at Amazon, do you come away with this with, “Ooh. Remind me to never to become a Prime member and get rid of everything with an Amazon logo in my house,” versus the you’re about to wind up wondering if they can hire you for some esoteric role? Where do you fall on that spectrum?Brad: I think I’m probably with you. I come away with an admiration. And look, I mean, let me say upfront, I am a Prime member. I have a Alexas in my home, probably more than my wife and kids are comfortable with. We watch Prime Video, we have Prime Video.We order from Amazon all the time, we ordered from Whole Foods. I’m an Amazon customer, and so part of my appreciation comes from, like all other customers, the fact that Amazon uniquely restores time to our lives rather than extracts it. I wouldn’t say that about the social networks, right? You know, those can be time-wasters. Amazon’s a great efficiency machine.But in terms of my journalism, you know, now two books and this big in-depth study in Amazon Unbound, and you have to admire what they have built. I mean, a historic American institution that has not only changed our economic reality, in ways good and bad but over the last year and a half, in the pandemic was among the few institutions that functioned properly and served as a kind of lifeline. And there is a critique in Amazon Unbound and we can talk about it, but it’s hard to come away—I think you said it well—it’s hard to come away after studying this company and studying the top executives, and how Jeff Bezos, thinks and how he has conceived products without real admiration for what they have built over the last 25 years.Corey: Well, let’s get into your critique of Amazon. What do you think is, from what you’ve seen with all of the years of research you put into this company, what’s the worst thing about them?Brad: Well, that’s a good way to put it, Corey. [laugh]. Let me—Corey: [laugh]. It’s like, talk about a target-rich opportunity. Like, “Oh, wow. It’s like my children. I can’t stand any of them. How in the world could I pick just one?” But give it a shot.Brad: Right. Well, let me start this way, which is I often will listen to their critiques from Amazon critics—and I’m sure you might feel this way as well—and just think, like, “Do they get it?” They’ll argue that Amazon exercised its size and might to buy the companies that led to Alexa. As I write in the Alexa chapter, that’s not true at all. They bought a couple of small companies, and those executives were all horrified at what Amazon was trying to do, and then they made it work.Or the critics will say, “Fifty percent or more of internet users start their product searches on Amazon. Amazon has lock-in.” That’s not true either. Lock-in on the internet is only as strong as a browser window that remains open. And you could always go find a competitor or search on a search engine.So, I find at least some of the public criticism to be a little specious. And often, these are people that complained about Walmart for ten years. And now Amazon’s the big, bad boogeyman.Corey: Oh, I still know people who refuse to do business with Walmart but buy a bunch of stuff from Amazon, and I’m looking at these things going, any complaints you have about Walmart are very difficult to avoid mapping to Amazon.Brad: Here’s maybe the distillation of the critique that’s an Amazon Unbound. We make fun of Facebook for, “Move fast and break things.” And they broke things, including, potentially, our democracy. When you look at the creation of the Amazon Marketplace, Jeff wanted a leader who can answer the question, “How would you bring a million sellers into the Amazon Marketplace?” And what that tells you is he wanted to create a system, a self-service system, where you could funnel sellers the world over into the system and sell immediately.And that happened, and a lot of those sellers, there was no friction, and many of them came from the Wild West of Chinese eCommerce. And you had—inevitably because there were no guardrails—you had fraud and counterfeit, and all sorts of lawsuits and damage. Amazon moved fast and broke things. And then subsequently tried to clean it up. And if you look at the emergence of the Amazon supply chain and the logistics division, the vans that now crawl our streets, or the semi-trailers on our highways, or the planes.Amazon moved fast there, too. And the first innings of that game were all about hiring contractors, not employees, getting them on the road with a minimum of guidance. And people died. There were accidents. You know, there weren’t just drivers flinging packages into our front yards, or going to the bathroom on somebody’s porch.That happened, but there were also accidents and costs. And so I think some of the critique is that Amazon, despite its profession that it focuses only on customers, is also very competitor-aware and competitor-driven, and they move fast, often to kind of get ahead of competitors, and they build the systems and they’re often self-service systems, and they avoid employment where it’s possible, and the result have been costs to society, the cost of moving quickly. And then on the back-end when there are lawsuits, Amazon attempts to either evade responsibility or settle cases, and then hide those from the public. And I think that is at the heart of what I show in a couple of ways in Amazon Unbound. And it’s not just Amazon; it’s very typical right now of corporate America and particularly tech companies.And part of it is the state of the laws and regulations that allow the companies to get away with it, and really restrict the rights of plaintiffs, of people who are wronged from extracting significant penalties from these companies and really changing their behavior.Corey: Which makes perfect sense. I have the luxury of not having to think about that by having a mental division and hopefully one day a real division between AWS and Amazon’s retail arm. For me at least, the thing I always had an issue with was their treatment of staff in many respects. It is well known that in the FAANG constellation of tech companies, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, apparently, it’s an acronym and it’s cutesy. People in tech think they’re funny.But the problem is that Amazon’s compensation is significantly below that. One thing I loved in your book was that you do a breakdown of how those base salaries work, how most of it is stock-based and with a back-loaded vesting and the rest, and looking through the somewhat lengthy excerpt—but I will not read your own words to you this time—it more or less completely confirms what I said in my exposé of this, which means if we’re wrong, we’re both wrong. And we’ve—and people have been very convincing and very unified across the board. We’re clearly not wrong. It’s nice to at least get external confirmation of some of the things that I stumble over.Brad: But I think this is all part of the same thing. What I described as the move fast and break things mentality, often in a race with competition, and your issues about the quality, the tenor of work, and the compensation schemes, I think maybe and this might have been a more elegant answer to your question, we can wrap it all up under the mantle of empathy. And I think it probably starts with the founder and soon-to-be-former CEO. And look, I mean, an epic business figure, a builder, an inventor, but when you lay out the hierarchy of qualities, and attributes, and strengths, maybe empathy with the plight of others wasn’t near the top. And when it comes to the treatment of the workforce, and the white-collar employees, and the compensation schemes, and how they’re very specifically designed to make people uncomfortable, to keep them running fast, to churn them out if they don’t cut it, and the same thing in the workforce, and then the big-scale systems and marketplace and logistics—look, maybe empathy is a drag, and not having it can be a business accelerant, and I think that’s what we’re talking about, right?That some of these systems seem a little inhumane, and maybe to their credit, when Amazon recognizes that—or when Jeff has recognized it00, he’s course-corrected a little bit. But I think it’s all part of that same bundle. And maybe perversely, it’s one of the reasons why Amazon has succeeded so much.Corey: I think that it’s hard to argue against the idea of culture flowing from the top. And every anecdote I’ve ever heard about Jeff Bezos, never having met the man myself, is always filtered through someone else; in many cases, you. But there are a lot of anecdotes from folks inside Amazon, folks outside Amazon, et cetera, and I think that no one could make a serious argument that he is not fearsomely intelligent, penetratingly insightful, and profoundly gifted in a whole bunch of different ways. People like to say, “Well, he started Amazon with several $100,000 and loan from his parents, so he’s not really in any ways a self-made anything.” Well, no one is self-made. Let’s be very clear on that.But getting a few $100,000 to invest in a business, especially these days, is not that high of a stumbling block for an awful lot of folks similarly situated. He has had outsized success based upon where he started and where he wound up ending now. But not a single story that I’ve ever heard about him makes me think, yeah, that’s the kind of guy I want to be friends with. That’s the kind of guy I want to invite to a backyard barbecue and hang out with, and trade stories about our respective kids, and just basically have a social conversation with. Even a business conversation doesn’t feel like it would be particularly warm or compelling.It would be educational, don’t get me wrong, but he doesn’t strike me as someone who really understands empathy in any meaningful sense. I’m sure he has those aspects to him. I’m sure he has a warm, wonderful relationship with his kids, presumably because they still speak to him, but none of that ever leaks through into his public or corporate persona.Brad: Mmm, partially agree, partially disagree. I mean, certainly maybe the warmth you’re right on, but this is someone who’s incredibly charismatic, who is incredibly smart, who thinks really deeply about the future, and has intense personal opinions about current events. And getting a beer with him—which I have not done—with sound fantastic. Kicking back at the fireplace at his ranch in Texas, [laugh] to me, I’m sure it’s tremendously entertaining to talk to him. But when it comes to folks like us, Corey, I have a feeling it’s not going to happen, whether you want to or not.He’s also incredibly guarded around the jackals of the media, so perhaps it doesn’t make a difference one way or another. But, yeah, you’re right. I mean, he’s all business at work. And it is interesting that the turnover in the executive ranks, even among the veterans right now, is pretty high. And I don’t know, I mean, I think Amazon goes through people in a way, maybe a little less on the AWS side. You would know that better than me. But—Corey: Yes and no. There’s been some turnover there that you can also pretty easily write down to internal political drama—for lack of a better term—palace intrigue. For lack of a better term. When, for example, Adam Selipsky is going to be the new CEO of AWS as Andy Jesse ascends to be the CEO of all Amazon—the everything CEO as it were. And that has absolutely got to have rubbed some people in unpleasant ways.Let’s be realistic here about what this shows: he quit AWS to go be the CEO of Tableau, and now he’s coming back to run AWS. Clearly, the way to get ahead there is to quit. And that might not be the message they’re intending to send, but that’s something that people can look at and take away, that leaving a company doesn’t mean you can’t boomerang and go back there at a higher level in the future.Brad: Right.Corey: And that might be what people are waking up to because it used to be a culture of once you’re out, you’re out. Clearly not the case anymore. They were passed over for a promotion they wanted, “Well, okay, I’m going to go talk to another company. Oh, my God, they’re paying people in yachts.” And it becomes, at some level, time for something new.I don’t begrudge people who decide to stay; I don’t begrudge people who decide to leave, but one of my big thrusts for a long time has been understand the trade-offs of either one of those decisions and what the other side looks like so you go into it with your eyes open. And I feel like, on some level, a lot of folks there didn’t necessarily feel that they could have their eyes open in the way that they can now.Brad: Mm-hm. Interesting. Yeah. Selipsky coming back, I never thought about that, sends a strong message. And Amazon wants builders, and operators, and entrepreneurial thinking at the top and in the S Team. And the fact that Andy had a experienced leadership team at AWS and then went outside it for the CEO could be interpreted as pretty demotivating for that team. Now, they’ve all worked with Adam before, and I’ve met him and he seems like a great guy so maybe there are no hard feelings, but—Corey: I never have. He left a few months before I started this place. So, it—I get the sense that he knew I was coming and said, “Well, better get out of here. This isn’t going to go well at all.”Brad: [laugh]. I actually went to interview him for this book, and I sat in his office at Tableau thinking, “Okay, here’s a former AWS guy,” and I got to tell you, he was really on script and didn’t say anything bad, and I thought, “Okay, well, that wasn’t the best use of my time.” He was great to meet, and it was an interesting conversation, but the goss he did not deliver. And so when I saw that he got this job, I thought, well, he’s smart. He smartly didn’t burn any bridges, at least with me.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at ChaosSearch., you could run Elasticsearch or Elastic Cloud—or OpenSearch as they’re calling it now—or a self-hosted ELK stack. But why? ChaosSearch gives you the same API you’ve come to know and tolerate, along with unlimited data retention and no data movement. Just throw your data into S3 and proceed from there as you would expect. This is great for IT operations folks, for app performance monitoring, cybersecurity. If you’re using Elasticsearch, consider not running Elasticsearch. They’re also available now in the AWS marketplace if you’d prefer not to go direct and have half of whatever you pay them count towards your EDB commitment. Discover what companies like HubSpot, Klarna, Equifax, Armor Security, and Blackboard already have. To learn more, visit chaossearch.io and tell them I sent you just so you can see them facepalm, yet again.Corey: No. And it’s pretty clear that you don’t get to rise to those levels without being incredibly disciplined with respect to message. I don’t pity Andy Jesse’s new job wherein a key portion of the job description is going to be testifying before Congress. Without going into details, I’ve been in situations where I’ve gotten to ask him questions before in a real-time Q&A environment, and my real question hidden behind the question was, “How long can I knock him off of his prepared talking points?” Because I—Brad: Good luck. [laugh].Corey: Yeah. I got the answer: about two and a half seconds, which honestly was a little bit longer than I thought I would get. But yeah, incredibly disciplined and incredibly insightful, penetrating answers, but they always go right back to talking points. And that’s what you have to do at that level. I’ve heard stories—it may have been from your book—that Andy and Adam were both still friendly after Adam’s departure, they would still hang out socially and clearly, relationships are still being maintained, if oh, by the way, you’re going to be my successor. It’s kind of neat. I’m curious to see how this plays out once that transition goes into effect.Brad: Yeah, it’ll be interesting. And then also, Andy’s grand homecoming to the other parts of the business. He started in the retail organization. He was Jeff’s shadow. He ran the marketing department at very early Amazon.He’s been in all those meetings over the years, but he’s also been very focused on AWS. So, I would imagine there’s a learning curve as he gets back into the details of the other 75% of Amazon.Corey: It turns out that part of the business has likely changed in the last 15 years, just a smidgen when every person you knew over there is now 10,000 people. There was an anecdote in your book that early on in those days, Andy Jesse was almost let go as part of a layoff or a restructuring, and Jeff Bezos personally saved his job. How solid is that?Brad: Oh, that is solid. An S Team member told me that, who was Andy’s boss at the time. And the story was, in the late 90s—I hope I remember this right—there was a purge of the marketing department. Jeff always thought that marketing—in the early days marketing was purely satisfying customers, so why do we need all these people? And there was a purge of the marketing department back when Amazon was trying to right-size the ship and get profitable and survive the dotcom bust.And Jeff intervened in the layoffs and said, “Not Andy. He’s one of the most—yeah, highest ceiling folks we have.” And he made him his first full-time shadow. Oh, and that comes right from an S Team member. I won’t say the name because I can’t remember if that was on or off the record.But yeah, it was super interesting. You know what? I’ve always wondered how good of a identifier of talent and character is Bezos. And he has some weaknesses there. I mean, obviously, in his personal life, he certainly didn’t identify Lauren Sánchez’s brother as the threat that he became.You know, I tell the story in the book of the horrific story of the CEO of Amazon Mexico, who Jeff interviewed, and they hired and then later ended up what appears to be hiring an assassin to kill his wife. I tell the story in the book. It’s a horrible story. So, not to lay that at the feet of Jeff Bezos, of course, but he often I think, moves quickly. And I actually have a quote from a friend of his in the book saying, “It’s better to not be kind of paranoid, and the”—sort of—I can’t remember what the quote is.It’s to trust people rather than be paranoid about everyone. And if you trust someone wrongly, then you of course-correct. With Andy, though, he somehow had an intuitive sense that this guy was very high potential, and that’s pretty impressive.Corey: You’re never going to bet a thousand. There’s always going to be people that slip through the cracks. But learning who these people are and getting different angles on them is always interesting. Every once in a while—and maybe I’m completely wrong on this, but never having spent time one on one with Andy Jassy, I have to rely on other folks and different anecdotes, most of them, I can’t disclose the source of, but every time that I wind up hearing about these stories, and maybe I’m projecting here, but there are aspects of him where it seems like there is a genuinely nice person in there who is worried, on some level, that people are going to find out that he’s a nice person.Brad: [laugh]. I think he is. He’s extraordinarily nice. He seems like a regular guy, and what’s sort of impressive is that obviously he’s extraordinarily wealthy now, and unlike, let’s say Bezos, who’s obviously much more wealthy, but who, who really has leaned into that lifestyle, my sense is Andy does not. He’s still—I don’t know if he’s on the corporate jet yet, but at least until recently he wasn’t, and he presents humbly. I don’t know if he’s still getting as close from wherever, [unintelligible 00:32:50] or Nordstroms.Corey: He might be, but it is clear that he’s having them tailored because fit is something—I spent a lot of time in better years focusing on sartorial attention, and wherever he’s sourcing them from aside, they fit well.Brad: Okay, well, they didn’t always. Right?Corey: No. He’s, he’s… there’s been a lot of changes over the past decade. He is either discovered a hidden wellspring of being one of the best naturally talented speakers on the planet, or he’s gone through some coaching to improve in those areas. Not that he was bad at the start, but now he’s compelling.Brad: Okay. Well, now we’re talking about his clothes and his speaking style. But—Corey: Let’s be very honest here. If he were a woman, we would have been talking about that as the beginning topic of this. It’s on some level—Brad: Or we wouldn’t have because we’d know it’s improper these days.Corey: We would like to hope. But I am absolutely willing to turn it back around.Brad: [laugh]. Anyway.Corey: So, I’m curious, going back a little bit to criticisms here, Amazon has been criticized roundly by regulators and Congress and the rest—folks on both sides of the aisle—for a variety of things. What do you see is being the fair criticisms versus the unfair criticisms?Brad: Well, I mean, I think we covered some of the unfair ones. But there’s one criticism that Amazon uses AWS to subsidize other parts of the business. I don’t know how you feel about that, but until recently at least, my reading of the balance sheet was that the enormous profits of AWS were primarily going to buy more AWS. They were investing in capital assets and building more data centers.Corey: Via a series of capital leases because cash flow is king in how they drive those things there. Oh, yeah.Brad: Right. Yeah. You know, and I illustrate in the book how when it did become apparent that retail was leaning on advertising, Jeff didn’t accept that. He wanted retail to stand on its own, and it led to some layoffs and fiercer negotiations with brands, higher fees for sellers. Advertising is the free cash flow that goes in Prime movies, and TV shows, and Alexa, and stuff we probably don’t know about.So, this idea that Amazon is sort of improperly funneling money between the divisions to undercut competitors on price, I think we could put that in the unfair bucket. In the fair bucket, those are the things that we can all look at and just go, “Okay, that feels a little wrong.” So, for an example, the private brand strategy. Now, of course, every supermarket and drugstore is going to line their shelves with store brands. But when you go to an Amazon search results page these days, and they are pockmarked with Amazon brands, and Whole Foods brands, and then sponsored listings, the pay-to-play highest bidder wins.And then we now know that, at least for a couple of years, Amazon managers, private label managers were kind of peeking at the third-party data to figure out what was selling and what they should introduce is a private Amazon brand. It just feels a little creepy that Amazon as the everything store is so different than your normal Costco or your drugstore. The shelves are endless; Amazon has the data, access to the data, and the way that they’re parlaying their valuable real estate and the data at their disposal to figure out what to launch, it just feels a little wrong. And it’s a small part of their business, but I think it’s one where they’re vulnerable. The other thing is, in the book, I tried to figure out how can I take the gauge of third-party sellers?There’s so many disgruntled voices, but do they really speak for everyone? And so instead of going to the enemies, I went to every third-party seller that had been mentioned in Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters over the past decade. And these were the allies. These were the success stories that Bezos was touting in his sacrosanct investor letter, and almost to a one, they had all become disgruntled. And so the way in which the rules of the marketplace change, the way that the fees go up, and the difficulty that sellers often have in getting a person or a guiding hand at Amazon to help them with those changes, that kind of feels wrong.And I think that maybe that’s not a source of regulation, but it could be a source of disruptive competition. If somebody can figure out how to create a marketplace that caters to sellers a little better with lower fees, then they could do to Amazon with Amazon years ago did to eBay. And considering that Marketplace is now a preponderance of sales more than even retail on amazon.com, that can end up hurting the company.Corey: Yeah, at some point, you need to continue growing things, and you’ve run out of genuinely helpful ways, and in turn in start to have to modify customer behavior in order to continue doing things, or expand into brand new markets. We saw the AWS bleeding over into Alexa as an example of that. And I think there’s a lot of interesting things still to come in spaces like that. It’s interesting watching how the Alexa ecosystem has evolved. There’s still some very basic usability bugs that drive me nuts, but at the same token, it’s not something that I think we’re going to see radically changing the world the next five years. It feels like a hobby, but also a lucrative one, and keeps people continuing to feed into the Amazon ecosystem. Do you see that playing out differently?Brad: Wait, with Alexa?Brad: Absolutely.Brad: Yeah. I agree with you. I mean, it feels like there was more promise in the early years, and that maybe they’ve hit a little bit of a wall in terms of the AI and the natural language understanding. It feels like the ecosystem that they tried to build, the app store-like ecosystem of third-party skills makers, that hasn’t crystallized in the way we hoped—in the way they hoped. And then some of these new devices like the glasses or the wristband that have Alexa feel, just, strange, right?Like, I’m not putting Alexa on my face. And those haven’t done as well. And so yeah, I think they pioneered a category: Alexa plays music and answers basic queries really well, and yet it hasn’t quite been conversational in the way that I think Jeff Bezos had hoped in the early days. I don’t know if it’s a profitable business now. I mean, they make a lot of money on the hardware, but the team is huge.I think it was, like, 10,000 people the last I checked. And the R&D costs are quite large. And they’re continuing to try to improve the AI, so I think Jeff Bezos talks about the seeds, and then the main businesses, and I don’t think Alexa has graduated yet. I think there’s still a little bit of a question mark.Corey: It’s one of those things that we remain to see. One last thing that I wanted to highlight and thank you for, was that when you wrote the original book, The Everything Store, Andy Jassy wrote a one-star review. It went into some depth about all the things that, from his perspective, you got wrong, were unfair about, et cetera.And that can be played off as a lot of different things, but you can almost set that aside for a minute and look at it as the really only time in recent memory that Andy Jassy has sat down and written something, clearly himself, and then posted it publicly. He writes a lot—Amazon has a writing culture—but they don’t sign their six-pagers. It’s very difficult to figure out where one person starts and one person stops. This shows that he is a gifted writer in many respects, and I don’t think we have another writing sample from him to compare it to.Brad: So, Corey, you’re saying I should be honored by his one-star review of The Everything Store?Corey: Oh, absolutely.Brad: [laugh].Corey: He, he just ignores me. You actually got a response.Brad: I got a response. Well.Corey: And we’ll put a link to that review in the [show notes 00:40:10] because of course we will.Brad: Yes, thank you. Do you—remember, other Amazon executives also left one-star reviews. And Jeff’s wife, and now ex-wife Mackenzie left a one-star review. And it was a part of a, I think a little bit of a reflexive reaction and campaign that Jeff himself orchestrated at my—this was understanding now, in retrospect. After the book came out, he didn’t like it.He didn’t like aspects of his family life that were represented in the book, and he asked members of the S Team to leave bad reviews. And not all of them did, and Andy did. So, you wonder why he’s CEO now. No, I’m kidding about that. But you know what?It ended up, kind of perversely, even though that was uncomfortable in the moment, ended up being good for the first book. And I’ve seen Andy subsequently, and no hard feelings. I don’t quite remember what his review said. Didn’t it, strangely, like, quote a movie or something like that?Corey: I recall that it did. It went in a bunch of different directions, and at the end—it ended with, “Well, maybe someday he’ll write the actual story. And I’m not trying to bait anyone into doing it, but this book isn’t it.” Well, in the absence of factual corrections, that’s what we go with. That is also a very Amazonian thing. They don’t tell their own story, but they’re super quick to correct the record—Brad: Yeah.Corey: —after someone says a thing.Brad: But I don’t recall him making many specific claims of anything I got wrong. But why don’t we hope that there’s a sequel review for Amazon Unbound? I will look forward to that from Andy.Corey: I absolutely hope so. It’s one of those things that we just really, I guess, hope goes in a positive direction. Now, I will say I don’t try to do any reviews that are all positive. And that’s true. There’s one thing that you wrote that I vehemently disagree with.Brad: Okay, let’s hear it.Corey: Former Distinguished Engineer and VP at AWS, Tim Bray, who resigned on conscientious objector grounds, more or less, has been a guest on the show, and I have to say, you did him dirty. You described him—Brad: How did I—what did I do? Mm-hm.Corey: Oh, I quote, “Bray, a fedora-wearing software developer”—which is true, but still is evocative in an unpleasant way—“And one of the creators of the influential web programming language, XML”—which is true, but talk about bringing up someone’s demons to haunt them. Oh, my starts.Brad: [laugh]. But wait. How is the fedora-wearing pejorative?Corey: Oh, it has a whole implication series of, and entire subculture of the gamer types, people who are misogynist, et cetera. It winds up being an unfair characterization—Brad: But he does wear a fedora.Corey: He does. And he can pull it off. He has also mentioned that he is well into retirement age, and it was a different era when he wore one. But that’s not something that people often will associate with him. It’s—Brad: I’m so naive. You’re referring to things that I do not understand what the implication was that I made. But—Corey: Oh, spend more time with the children of Reddit. You’ll catch on quickly.Brad: [laugh]. I try, I try not to do that. But thank you, Corey.Corey: Of course. So, thank you so much for taking the time to go through what you’ve written. I’m looking forward to seeing the reaction once the book is published widely. Where can people buy it? There’s an easy answer, of course, of Amazon itself, but is there somewhere you would prefer them to shop?Brad: Well, everyone can make their own decisions. I flattered if anyone decides to pick up the book. But of course, there is always their independent bookstore. On sale now.Corey: Excellent. And we will, of course, throw a link to the book in the [show notes 00:43:31]. Brad, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I really appreciate it.Brad: Corey, it’s been a pleasure. Thank you.Corey: Brad Stone, author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, on sale now wherever fine books are sold—and crappy ones, too. I’m Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you’ve hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice and then a multi-paragraph, very long screed telling me exactly what I got wrong.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. 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With Andy finally back in London, the 2 Gs are joined in the STUDIO once again by Mukhy for a deep dive into his debut mixtape, Posh Nation! Episode Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7qdQ1waS2jUeQgNi8kQ7WW?si=655cbe4ed52544bf
With Andy away traveling, John is joined by Luke (FatTotti) to discuss yesterday's capitulation at Old Trafford. (41:52) Then Matt Falcona returns for the Falcona Forecast. Thank you to all of our Patrons who make this show possible. You can support RomaPress by going to www.Patreon.com/RomaPress, benefits include: early access to episodes, extras episodes, and plenty more. The Falcona Forecast: https://twitter.com/FalconaForecast Our website: www.romapress.net A Big Heads Media Podcast
Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Amanda & Andy Doak for the story about how they fell in love through a mutual affiliation with the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA). Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s Hunting Heritage Program Manager Colby Kerber also joins the conversation to talk about Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s partnership with NAVHDA. Episode Highlights: • Amanda talks about how welcoming NAVHDA is to women, her affinity for Pudelpointers, and her personal story of falling in love with Andy at first sight as he worked his shorthair during a NAVHDA event. • Colby talks about NAVHDA’s support of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s “Learn to Hunt” events with chapters across the country and the organization’s Bird Dogs for Habitat campaign. • With Andy’s affinity for shorthairs and Amanda’s affection for Pudelpointers, the couple struggle to come to a consensus on a singular bird dog breed they’d embrace if they had to select only one breed to love together. • Learn more about the partnership between Pheasants Forever, Quail Forever, and NAVHDA at https://bit.ly/3xd9Z9T
Self-awareness is the foundation of excellent teamwork, improved communication, enhanced productivity and truly inspirational leadership. Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Andy Lothian, the CEO of Insights Group, to the show this week. Insights Group is a global leader in providing people development programs that help companies get the very best from their people at work. It is a journey that begins with helping people increase their self-understanding. As co-founder of the company, Andy serves as the visionary leader and CEO that has propelled the company to new heights. Starting his career in banking, Andy has a powerful story of following his heart, making choices and finding purpose in his career. More often than not when presenting the Lead With Your Brand!™ system to audiences, someone will ask “Why do I even need a brand? What’s the value in that? Why can’t I let my work speak for itself?” Check out this episode for Jayzen’s answer and tips how you can make decisions that support your career strategy. Guest Bio Andy LothianCEO, INSIGHTS GROUP Almost three decades ago, Andy was working in investment banking in London. He knew that he wanted to come back to his hometown of Dundee, and to make real difference in the world. Just about the same time, his father Andi was considering his next venture, and so together they established Insights. They haven't looked back, and are extremely proud that their now-global business still has its roots in Scotland. Contributing to the local economy means everything to Andy, and he can't wait to see what the next 30 years will bring. Andy is Chief Executive Officer of Insights Group, where he guides us to fulfil Insights purpose - to create a world where people truly understand themselves and others and are inspired to make a positive difference in everything they do. Alongside Insights, The Insights Group also includes Vidatec, the Group’s technology business, with its purpose to improve peoples’ experience of life through technology, and The Insights Foundation. With Andy at the helm, Insights has become a global brand with a presence in over 40 countries around the world, and ambitious growth plans in place. Andy was awarded EY’s Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016. Links To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program, please visit: https://www.leadwithyourbrand.com To book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit: https://www.jayzenpatria.com Please connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayzenpatria Learn more about Insights Group at https://www.insights.com And connect with them on social media at: https://twitter.com/Insights https://www.facebook.com/InsightsConnections https://www.linkedin.com/company/insights https://www.youtube.com/c/insightsdiscovery
Things To Remember – ‘Trust The Gospel' The gospel teaches us that salvation is always the work of the Savior, not the saved. Anything added to the good news of the Gospel of Jesus turns it into bad news. Remember to trust the gospel—it is God's work, work done by the Divine, and it can be trusted. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: How have you practiced “fixing your eyes on Jesus” this week If someone asked you to define the “gospel” what would you say? Since the word “gospel” means good news what is the absolute good news? By placing responsibility for the gospel on us how does that change what should be good news into bad news? What are some ways the church might be guilty of turning good news into bad news? How is believing more of a result of Jesus's work of reconciliation than the cause of that reconciling? What do you think about this statement? “if my doing is how I get the gospel then, even though it is a small performance of mine, my salvation ends up being at least partially my doing not Christ's. This thinking robs Jesus of his glory.” When would the work of saving be the work of the saved instead of the work of the savior? How good is it that God no longer counting our sins against us? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Andy's TakeAway from Titus 3 OUR PART: Once . . . We, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and We became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others and they hated us. GOD'S PART: But then . . . God our Savior showed us his kindness and love. He saved us, not because of the good things we did, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins and He gave us a new life through the Holy Spirit. He generously poured out the Spirit upon us because of what Jesus Christ our Savior did. He declared us not guilty because of his great kindness. RESULTS FOR US: And Now We know that we will inherit eternal life -Paul in Titus 3:3-7 NLT 1996 Listen and subscribe to - :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! JOIN US LIVE FOR ‘THE LOOP'! Every Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. EST our interactive worship service goes live to the internet to engage with you! Ask questions, submit videos or ideas so that we can all grow closer as a community of believers. You can also attend in person or online at http://www.WholeLife.Church/LIVE (www.WholeLife.Church/LIVE). Please login to the ‘chatroll' chat feature so we can meet you personally and take your thoughts and questions! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: WEEK 3 OF ANDY'S FINAL SERIES AT WLC: ‘Things To Remember' – Love Each Other And Everyone Else. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/...
Things To Remember – ‘Fix Your Eyes On Jesus' What is your first line of defense? When you face good times or bad – When your relational world is stable or messed up – When you are the epitome of health or can't get well – When the bills are all paid and there's extra or when none are paid. Do you turn to your own mind for answers? Do you seek diversion? Is there a trusted friend you call? Only one person is worthy of our focus, and when we focus there, all will be well with our souls. There are a million other lines of defense and options of where to look, but especially when times are rough—fix your eyes on Jesus. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What is your biggest temptation to multi-task to try and do two things at once? List the top five things that demand your attention? How hard was it to juggle classes in school? In what ways does aiming for perfection rather than progress hamper your Christian pilgrimage? How can you tell you've bought in to being on a pilgrimage to be transformed into Christ's image &that the journey is important? What do you think about this race being more of a “fun run” than a race because Jesus has already won the race and has enough gold medals for each participant? What would be one of your greatest distractions to pull you away from fixing your eyes on Jesus? What can you do to lodge more of his teaching in your brain? How can you begin to see all people you can serve as a way of focusing on Jesus, fixing your eyes on the “least of these”? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: WEEK 2 OF ANDY'S FINAL SERIES AT WLC: ‘Things To Remember' – Trust The Gospel. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #ThingsToRemember
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Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy – ‘Stored Treasure' We all have treasures we store. Where do you store yours? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What do you think about this series “Jesus Doesn't Make Life Easy”? Of the four-murder, adultery, payback, and treasure which one most easily plagues you? In your life what have, you thought about Jesus' counsel “Do not store up treasure on earth”? How did today's message affect your thinking about storing up some treasure for a rainy day? What is something you rightfully treasure that could compete with treasuring God? How can you practice not treasuring earthly but instead treasuring the heavenly? How easy is it for you to engage with Jesus' re-working what we may think of as a rule to a larger principle to follow? What treasure in your personal life might need to be re-valued to maintain clarity that you have only one master in God? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: NEW SERIES AND ANDY'S FINAL SERIES AT WLC: ‘Things To Remember' - Fix Your Eyes On Jesus. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #JesusDoesntMakeItEasy
Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy – ‘Proper Payback' You punch me, so I punch you back. In the Bible, it's called the lex talionis or the law of retaliation. Of course, one of the problems is that, if you punch me, I don't want to just punch you back; I want to punch you back just a bit harder than you punched me. Rather than revenge, how do we move to reconciliation? Jesus' teaching about proper payback was meant to stretch us. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What do you think about the Lex Talionis – an eye for an eye, etc? How could that law make things better or make things worse? Who have you wanted to “get back” with retaliation or revenge? What kind of insult is the most difficult to let go of for you? How easy is it for you to insult back? How guarded are you about making sure you get your rights? Which of your rights seems to be in the most danger of losing? When has someone gone the extra mile for you? How did that feel? How is being less than generous with the need a way of revenge or retaliation? Which is hardest for you: insults, rights, extra mile, giving? What are steps you plan to take to let Christ take over your life more so yours is a not I but Christ life? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear you feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy – ‘Stored Treasure' with Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #JesusDoesntMakeItEasy
Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy – ‘Easy Adultery' Adultery has become part of our entertainment. Modern media has hardened us to the pain of adultery for all parties involved; however, we've not spent much time on heart adultery. What will it mean to guard our hearts and minds against objectifying and marginalizing others? Jesus' imagery is pretty drastic when he says we'd be better off with our eye gouged out than for our eye to lead us down adulterous paths. How do we guide our thoughts to keep clear of easy adultery? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What do you imagine Jesus might have been teaching that would give the listeners the idea that he was abolishing the law? How convinced do you think the crowd was when Jesus said he didn't come to destroy but to fulfill the law and it wasn't changing? What do you think the people expected to follow when Jesus said, “You have heard…Do not commit adultery…but I say? How have you thought about the “lustful look” as compared to what you heard today regarding “greedy sexual idolatry”? What are some of the ways you see sexual greed being idolatrous today-how is it usurping God's place? What is the relationship of today's topic and husbands and wives who expect their spouse to provide for them what must come from God alone? What do you think about the four ways greedy sexual idolatry evidences itself- pornography, using sex selfishly, unable to be whole without it, expecting a fairytale to make you happy?' What safeguards are you going use to guard your heart? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy – ‘Proper Payback' with Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #JesusDoesntMakeItEasy
Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy – ‘Acceptable Murder' When we think of murder strictly in the realm of physically taking another's life, it's never acceptable! However, Jesus expands the concept to being out of sync with someone—being angry, calling them an idiot, or cursing someone. How can we be reconciled when another doesn't want to be? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What do you think about taking only 87 verses into the Bible to have the first murder? Why do you think Cain might have felt it was justifiable homicide? What do you like and dislike by defining “murder” as the shedding of innocent blood in time of peace? For Jesus' listeners, the law was sort of ultimate, you didn't mess with the law. What for you would be the equivalent of the law? What tradition, what practice, what philosophy, etc.? What do you think about the three things Jesus equates with murder with even greater consequences: anger, speaking with a tone of contempt for others, and disparaging another's reputation to the point of killing their good name? Why do you think Jesus puts the worst punishment on calling a person a fool or killing their reputation? How easy is it to damage another person's reputation today? What would be solved if we were quick to listen, slow to speak (text, tweet, email, or post), and slow to get angry? When you were 10, what did you want to do when you grew up? How did that work out? Any vestiges of that original dream? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy - 'Easy Adultery' with Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #JesusDoesntMakeItEasy
Stewarding the Gospel…of Reconciliation Sin separated us from God. God is the source of all life, so sin separated us from life. God is love, so sin separated us from love. We cannot be the answer to our problem. Quite apart from any action on our part, God's action by Jesus, through Jesus, and because of Jesus brings us back into oneness and invites us to join in helping people see what God has done for them. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What might be some realistic & unrealistic dreams for marriage? Who has what you think of as a great marriage? What do you think about Florida's “no-fault” divorce option? When have you been unreconciled with someone and how did it feel? How, if it worked out, did you reconcile? What do you think about the idea that “Everything God is we naturally aren't? What does it mean to be reconciled to God? Who does the reconciling? How does it change your “witnessing” when you believe that everyone has been reconciled? How fun could it be to let prisoners know the cells are unlocked and the doors gone…to tell tired warriors the war is over? How hard is it for you to believe that God is no longer counting people's sins against them, 2 Corinthians 5:19? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK NEW SERIES: ‘Jesus Doesn't Make It Easy' - and the opening message of 'Acceptable Murder' with Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #StewardingTheGospel
Stewarding the Gospel…of Equality When we steward well the gospel, we recognize that it calls us to a radical oneness, a radical equality. We are called to give up the pride of separation and see that we are all equal in two amazing ways: all distinctions of prideful hierarchy are leveled in both the condition of being lost and being found. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What experience made you feel that you weren't equal? How hard is it for you to align with our Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal? It is hard to believe that it's only been just over 100 years that women have been able to vote. What are some sore spots of inequality still today? How have you engaged with children to help them feel equal? What do you think about Jesus saying to the Canaanite woman, “It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs?” How broad is your concept of equality? Can you freely sing “When we ALL get to heaven,” or is it easier to sing “some of us get to heaven?” How comfortable are you with Paul's declaration that on one is righteous…all have turned away? How will our equality of being sinners with everyone change how we look at others? Which of these take-aways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear you feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Stewarding The Gospel…of ‘Reconciliation' by Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #StewardingTheGospel
Stewarding the Gospel…of Others First God's free amazing grace to each of us calls us to a new way. Solving the sin problem is Jesus leaving the comfort of the adoring angels and the forever unity of the Trinity and putting others first. The gospel is the perfect picture of self-donation, and when Jesus' followers follow best, that picture of self-donation recurs in good stewarding of the gospel. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: If you look back on your life, who was someone you looked up to and sought to be like, or maybe even pretended to be? What was it about that experience that was good for you to go through, but also grow out of? When we listen to others with more than just a quiet ear, when we really pay attention to what is "behind the words" so to speak, what does that not only do for them, but also do for us? Knowing that understanding is critical, at what point, if ever, might it be helpful to share our own journey or opinions about theirs? If discipleship, the way Jesus did it, was all about being a servant, how do you see the disciples replicating that style of leadership in the New Testament that tell about their ministry? If we realize that our lives are a beautiful journey with one definite purpose (to live in God's command to love), how will you seek to find ways to make other people's lives better? It's really an adventure of discovery every single day, so what might be the first step? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear your feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Stewarding The Gospel…of ‘Equality' by Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #StewardingTheGospel
Stewarding the Gospel…of Unfairness If I run a good race, if I keep the faith, if I obey the law, it seems to be fair that there's a crown of righteousness and glorious future awaiting me. But how can it be fair for God to do it all, and I just benefit? How can it be right that everyone gets a gift? Who really wants to be treated fairly? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: When was a time you screamed the loudest, “That's not fair”? Why do you think it is that we are concerned about fairness? When you think about fairness is it about everybody getting the same, or each getting what they deserve, or how is your concept of fairness related to a level playing field? What do you think about Jesus parable of paying all the workers what they agreed to or more? How is that fair? As a spiritual person how do you stay in touch with the reality of not deserving God's grace? If God's grace saves while we are dead in sin how much of our being “saved” is our doing? How do you feel about being God's workmanship so that any resemblance of a masterpiece is the master's work not ours? Who is it “fair” for God to offer his grace to and to whom is it “not fair” to have grace offered to them? Which of these take-aways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear you feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Stewarding The Gospel…of Others First' by Jeff Cinquemani. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #StewardingTheGospel
Stewarding the Gospel...of Worthiness You are worthy of God's love. You cannot hear this clearly enough or often enough, and you will never understand the depth of this great truth. When we look soberly at ourselves, we might be inclined to believe that we are not worthy. However, we are worthy, not because we deserve the love of God, but because he has declared it so. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: If we are worthy by no effort of our own, why are there so many verses telling us how to behave, how to act, how to be righteous? Is God's love really for everyone or just for some? If only for some, what makes them special? As we embrace our own acceptance from God, it helps us to accept others. As we accept others, should we try to teach them about godly living or rely on God to take care of the rest? Which of these takeaways resonated with you this week? We would love to hear you feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: 'Stewarding The Gospel…of Unfairness' by Andy McDonald. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #StewardingTheGospel
Expecting the Unexpected: An Unexpected Life Our world is not as God had intended, and while we're here, we can separate ourselves from our community and live a safe and secluded life – not allowing the “unholiness” of the world to invade. Mary and Joseph made a home in Egypt, which during that time required both giving to and receiving from a community. How can we engage, connect, and bring unexpected kingdom life to our world? There were no #WholeLifeTakeAways for this message. As always, we would still love to hear you feedback and you can reach us at any of the methods below: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: New Series - ‘Stewardship of The Gospel' – Stewardship of Worthiness by John Monday. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #ExpectTheUnExpected
Expecting the Unexpected: An Unexpected Responsibility What if God gives you a purpose for which others have told you that you don't qualify? “Build my kingdom on earth” is a pretty big responsibility. The shepherds were given the task of announcing the beginning of this new kingdom, and now it's up to us to begin establishing it in our world. Will we listen to the voices telling us we don't qualify for that job? Or, like the shepherds, will we believe we are exactly the one God is calling? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: How are you wired-do you love the unexpected or are you a little unnerved by the unexpected? What was one of your best unexpected adventures? When you think of something happening unexpectedly do you have a positive or negative in your mind? What good memories do you have of sitting around a break room or campfire just sharing life How do you think you'd react if a dark night you were visited by a brilliant angel? How does the idea of unexpected responsibility sit with you? What makes it hard to believe this is “good news for all people”? How could the shepherds not tell everyone about the baby and the directions the angels gave all matching up? What do you think about the Bible being God telling us “I'm with you,” and asking, “Will you be with me?” What will it mean for you to be with God this season? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Expecting The Unexpected - ‘An Unexpected Life' with Greg Creek. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #ExpectTheUnExpected
Expecting the Unexpected: An Unexpected Gift There are times when good things come out of unexpected circumstances, things we never could have planned. Change is never easy, rarely anticipated, and often life-altering. A barn was not Joseph's and Mary's first choice of where to meet their son but holding the son of God in their arms made their surroundings insignificant. How can we choose a life of abundance instead of scarcity – trusting God will provide unexpected gifts even in the midst of life's most difficult challenges? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What do you think was your best, or maybe favorite, gift that was completely unexpected? Why was it your favorite, and what made it so unexpected? Read the story of Mary and the angel and then Mary's trip to see Elizabeth. Where do you look for hope, and how do you maintain that search in those rough moments of your life? As we watch little children play, it reminds us of who we were in simpler times of our lives—trusting and finding that same joy seems so much more complicated now. Think of a few changes that you might make in your life that would help you to find joy or contentment in the midst of difficult times. What experience in your life seemed to be a really bad event at the time, but over the years as you were able to look back at it, turned out to be quite different or maybe even a blessing? How has that experience changed the way you look at other rough times or even the future? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Expecting The Unexpected - ‘An Unexpected Responsibility'. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #ExpectTheUnExpected
Expecting the Unexpected: An Unexpected Arrival Elizabeth and Zechariah wanted a child, and when they discovered they would receive just that, Zechariah couldn't speak to share the exciting news, and Elizabeth was going to deal with all the challenges of pregnancy in her 80's! How many times in our life have we been waiting for something and, when things finally fall into place, we're just not ready – or it happens in a way we didn't expect? Is it God's sense of humor at our expense, or God's perfect timing? How do we trust God's wisdom in times when things don't happen like we thought they would? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: When you were 10, what did you want to do when you grew up? How did that work out? Any vestiges of that original dream? What is something you have prayed and prayed for but still it hasn't yet happened? How do you keep hoping? Would you say you were born with or without privilege? What are some of the risks on both sides? What advice would you give Zechariah and Elizabeth about handling the angles of their pain? What dream or expectation have you shelved and what would have to happen to reengage with them? How jaded are you regarding things that need to change in your life? Can you believe “nothing is impossible with God”? In what ways is Advent, the Christmas season, about the unexpected? Creativity is a characteristic of God and matches “Expect the Unexpected.” What do you need to do to expect the unexpected? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK: Expecting The Unexpected - ‘An Unexpected Gift'. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #WhileWeWait
While We Wait: Trust God's Word Jesus' first Advent was prophesied about, but then time marched on. How do we maintain trust that he's coming again? What can we do while we wait to build our faith and be hopeful? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: Whose word do you trust today? How has trusting gotten harder or easier in 2020? Why does it look like almost the whole of the “chosen people” could miss Jesus' first Advent? What do you think got in the way of looking for and preparing for the arrival of messiah? When have you taken on and owned the guilt of “your people”? What is hardest to believe about Jesus saying, “I will come again”? What do you think it means that Jesus is the only way to the Father? When was the last time you sat and thought about the second coming? How does it affect your thinking to know Jesus hasn't come because he wants more people to be with him forever? In what ways can you choose and help others choose abiding in the vine and trusting God's word while we wait? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK – New Series: Expecting The Unexpected - ‘An Unexpected Arrival'. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #WhileWeWait
While We Wait: We Give Thanks When things are going well, we may begin to believe that we are enjoying the life and success we are due for our hard work, wise decision making, focused attention, and careful planning and execution. However, when days of desperation come, we may become depressed and discouraged. If we've given ourselves credit for creating the good life, we may decide to give ourselves credit for the bad. From our helpless place of distress, God delivers. All we can do is give thanks. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: What do you think about giving thanks while you wait? How hard is it to believe that God is 100% good and 0% bad? When God says no, or wait does it make it hard to believe he is 100% good? What is it about “desperate conditions” that pushes us to call on the Lord? When has the Lord gotten you out of desperate situation, “just in the nick of time”? When have you felt “locked up” and what did it mean for Jesus to set you free? How does it feel when God turns raging winds to a whisper and muzzles the high waves of your sea? How do you keep in balance of the reality of bad stuff in our temporal world and the promise of all good in eternity? Jesus has set everything right in the universe and gives us eternity, could it be that our “thank you” is God's best praise? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK - While We Wait - ‘Trust God's Word'. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #WhileWeWait
While We Wait: Isaiah Isaiah says that we can renew our strength as we wait. We can build relationships while we wait—relationships with each other and with God. We can develop patience, and we can follow the wisdom and avoid the pitfalls of the patriarchs of Scripture, learning from them what is wise to do while we wait. This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: · What do you think about the idea that we see ourselves as the “star” in the movie of our life? · When have you been most tempted to sing, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen”? · How can looking at the greater misfortune of others reduce the whining about our situation? · What Covid-19 restriction are you most anxious to have gone? · When have you most felt that God didn't see your trouble or wouldn't seem to hear your case? · What difference does it make in your life that God is the everlasting God, creator of everything? · How do you relate to the reality that God doesn't get faint or weary? So what? · What do you think about “progress of dissents” instead of “progress of assents”? See Philippians 2 · How open are you to follow Jesus incarnational model and be willing to give your life in serving other for their good? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK - While We Wait - ‘Isaiah'. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #WhileWeWait
While We Wait: David This week, many of you were pained by the election. Your candidate didn't prevail. Now you are fearful, concerned where the opposition will lead. Maybe you feel threatened or you feel your nation is threatened. How long can you wait for things to be different? What are you to do while you wait? This week's #WholeLifeTakeAways: How did the bigger, smarter, more outspoken friends or siblings affect you? Who spoke “future” into your life at a critical moment in time? What if any sense of calling or destiny has influenced your life? How do you think being “anointed” 10-15 years before he would actually become king, affected David? His family? Saul? How would you feel about knowing some important position would be yours (president, Olympic gold medal winner, CEO, whatever your dream job might be) but not for say 16 years? Who, if anyone, has really wanted you out of the picture, maybe not killed but fired, relocated, kicked out, etc? How well do you think you could honor your predecessor especially if they were making your life miserable in the waiting? When have you been tempted to dishonor someone that God has placed in authority over you? How can you practice loving and honoring those you oppose or disagree with, who are in positions of God given authority? Which takeaway(s) resonate most with you? Send us your thoughts by using one of the following: ■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607 ■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church ■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links ■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAways Listen and subscribe to :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff by going to our website: https://wholelife.church/podcast (https://wholelife.church/podcast)! You can listen, subscribe, and share the episode, all from our podcast player or wherever you listen to podcasts! Thank you for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode please share it on social media. Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and everywhere you can listen to podcasts! NEXT WEEK - While We Wait - ‘Isaiah'. The theme music for Speaking of Grace was written, produced, and performed by WholeLife Church's own Phillip Burks - https://www.phillipburks.com/ (https://www.phillipburks.com/). Download the WholeLife Church Mobile App! It is available for both Apple and Android. Say hello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl (https://twitter.com/wholelifeorl), Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.facebook.com/wholelifeorlando), and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando (https://www.instagram.com/wholelifeorlando)! Use the #hashtags: #WholeLifePodcast #WholeLifeTakeaways #ThisIsWholeLife #WhileWeWait
The Big O discussion kicks it up in a big, bad way this week as we bring on the invaluable wisdom of Andy (@EnginVIR), the admin and maintainer of thebigoarchive.com, a site which holds a ton of collected Big O knowledge (and which supported Stephen Hero's own efforts in our history podcast). With Andy's assistance, we go the mile on both Ep. 5 "Bring Back My Ghost" and Ep. 6 "A Legacy of Amadeus." Please find Andy at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnginVIR The Big O Archive: http://thebigoarchive.com/ Find Mechinations @MechinationsPod or write to us MechinationsPod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mechinations/support
Kicking off the next hundred episodes as only we know how, The Defenders of the Banc (for however much longer we are called that!) FINALLY sit down with club legend, fan favorite, and one of the nicest, most personable guys in MLS, Steven Beitashour. As a member of the inaugural team in 2018, Steven Beitashour added leadership and incredible skill playing out of the back for LAFC. In 2019, Beita made more history, becoming the first defender in MLS history to record 20,000 minutes played and 35+ assists while earning a third Supporters Shield. In 2020, however, his contract was not renewed, and Beita Time is currently on hold as he looks for a new home in MLS, or abroad. Steven spent over an hour with Filly and the Scarf, and there was nothing they didn’t talk about. Beita dishes on playing with Chris Wondolowski, Jay Demerit, Jordan Harvey and Carlos Vela, taking on the likes of Lionel Messi in the World Cup, and lacing them up in front of the 3252 at the Banc. From the San Jose Frogs to the Black and Gold, we discuss all aspects of his career, including his plans for 2020 and beyond! We had been looking forward to this interview for months, and it’s safe to say Steven did not disappoint. We had an absolute blast talking with Beita and can’t thank him enough for sitting down with us. One small note: This episode was recorded before the signing of Andy Najar on June 17, 2020. With Andy playing the same position as Beita, we know that this may signal the end, or at least temporary hold, of Beita Time at LAFC, but we would still love to see Steven back, as Max Bretos would say… Back in black!
Tying to put out a fire with gasoline. How far do good intentions go? -Subscribe to Bros Bibles & Beer on Apple Podcasts-Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts!-https://www.facebook.com/brosbiblesbeer-https://twitter.com/brosbiblesbeer-https://www.brosbiblesbeer.com-Instagram: @brosbiblesbeer-Email: brosbiblesbeer@gmail.comWith Andy, Jeff, Scott & ZackEdited by: AndyFind us wherever fine podcasts are distributed. Oh, and tell a friend!Grace. Peace. Cheers!
This week’s guests should look familiar! We are revisiting Jeremy Kanne and Andy Hite to get updates of how they are dealing with being quarantined. With Jeremy we spoke about the challenges of being productive while being stuck at home & self-care. With Andy, we spoke how about how entrepreneurs pivot when they need to, and how he’s expanding his practice with new ideas to help people. Come join the conversation!Follow Jeremy:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smart-yeti/Follow Andy:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-hite-098b1618a/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/inconversation)
This week around the NBA, Andy and Liam show love and express condolences to their hometown of Nashville, and the families involved, as an extreme tornado ripped through the downtown area. Transitioning to the NBA, the deadly Coronavirus may limit the number of fans and arena staff from attending games, as executive league officers will have several plans in place by Thursday of this week. Speaking of future planning, James Harden and the Houston Rockets are in serious need of reconstruction before the Playoffs, as Mike D’Antoni’s “small ball” style of play doesn’t seem to be working after all… With the intention of Playoffs on their minds, Andy and Liam predict where each team will land before the first games are played, and which teams have the best shot of making it to the Finals. With Andy’s confidence in Lebron bringing home a championship for Kobe, the “King” and the Lakers display themselves as a strong candidate to do so as the ‘Purple and Gold’ clinch their first playoff berth over Giannis and the Bucks since 2013. Provided that Giannis and Lebron will likely take their squads deep into the Playoffs, Liam’s “My Question to You is”, “Who will win MVP – Lebron or Giannis?” Rounding out the episode, Stephen Curry makes his debut back onto the court earning himself “Player of the Week,” and the Indiana Pacers feel good after returning home from winning 4 of their last 5 games on the road. Don’t forget to catch Man-To-Man live stream all episodes on YouTube every Wednesday and Sunday night at 10 pm est. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Research begins at 21:54Like any good story, this one begins with an unknown skeleton found stuffed inside a hollow wych elm tree. Who was this mysterious victim? How did they end up inside the wych elm? Were they part of a Nazi spy ring in the Midlands of England? Were they the victim of an occult ritual? Well, dear listeners, come into the woods! Into the woods! Into Hagley Woods! With Andy and Art as they explore...who put Bella in the Wych Elm?Andy and Art are captured once again by the titular Mr. Bunker - how did he fool them this time?In the second segment, Andy and Art give you, the listeners, an uninterrupted presentation of their research into who put Bella in the Wych Elm?Finally, Andy and Art discuss who put Bella in the Wych Elm at length. They also talk about porn and prostitution, the Bunny Ranch, James Bond films, and so much more!Send us your thoughts to @MrBunkerPod and mrbunkerpod@gmail.com using the hashtag #WHOPUTANDYANDARTINTHEBUNKERMusic by Michael MartelloArtwork by Hannah RossAudio Editing by Arthur StoneFollow Us:TwitterInstagramWebsiteLinks Mentioned:The Unredacted - The Hagley Woods Mystery: Bella in the Wych Elm reddit r/UnsolvedMysteries - who put bella in the wych elmAtlas Obscura - Who Put Bella In the Witch Elm?Mental Floss - A Digital Reconstruction Reveals the Face of Famed Murder Victim 'Bella in the Wych Elm'Wikipedia - Hand of GloryWikipedia - Who put Bella in the Wych ElmStrange Remains - Who put Bella down the Wych Elm?Casefile Podcast - Case4: Who Put Bella In The 'Witch" Elm
Sorry Spitwads! With Andy extremely sick all week, we were unable to get the team together to record a new episode as planned. We will be back next week! Until then, enjoy another classic episode from the Spitballers vault. Come along as we re-experience a #Spitwad favorite! --- The wheels fall off today as these three idiots truly make some big mental errors for your enjoyment. We even find out some more embarrassing information about some of the musical preferences of Andy, Mike, and Jason. Ultimately, the real show is the FOOD FIGHT TO THE DEATH. They draft food that would be used in a battle. Who's food can kill the other two? You'll love this episode of the Spitballers Comedy Podcast. Connect with the show: Become an Official Spitwad! Visit us on the Web Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Support the show.
With Andy on the road, this early edition coffee-recording starts off with some quick catharsis on the Browns MNF destruction. Then the field strength, or lack thereof, at the Houston Open is put in the crosshairs. Andy runs through some names in the field and quizzes Brendan on the last time they had a top 10 on the PGA Tour, illuminating an ongoing problem and proposing changes. He also explains how the Tour has “defecated” on Houston, a community and extremely large market that came together to save its event. On the Euro Tour, they discuss the Italian Open field as well as the release of some renderings of the Ryder Cup course in Rome for 2022, which now appears to be a go. In news, they hit on the announcement that the PGA Tour and NBC will set up streaming of every single shot at the 2020 Players Championship. They discuss whether there’s demand for this and how it’s a positive development for the core fan.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON BOOM PODCAST: This Saturday morning, Joseph and Chris watched What’s With Andy?, from 2001! This was suggested by Max Nystrom! Thank’s Max…sort of. 1. First Episode: Just Stuffing (S1E01)2. Highest Rated: Bring It Off (S1E22)3. Chris’ Pick: Spanky Pranky Hanky Panky (S2E22) Twelve-year-old Andy Larkin, the greatest prankster on Earth, unleashes a […]
With Andy out of the studio this week, David joins the geeks in the weekly roundtable discussion. This time, it's all about the 'what ifs' of Marvel movies, Sandman, and yet another...KEANU WATCH.
With Andy on death's door, the surprising appearance of an unexpected participant further tips the scales. (Hint: it's a druid)
Jesus spent time with the Holy Spirit and the Father. Scripture documents his time in the spiritual disciplines of fasting and prayer. It was after practicing these disciplines that he faced the temptation. Matthew 4:1-11One of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked: How do you like the analogy of floating for what life in Christ should be?We would love to hear your take on the floating analogy! Please reach out to us directly from the FHC Mobile App. You can share by using the Media tab, and then - Podcast banner - use the text and email share buttons, or use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. Thank you for joining us and we will see you next week for a first time FHC Retreat surprise during Episode 154! NEW!!! Stream :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg)Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that coincides with this episode in the FHC Mobile App by clicking on Media and then Archives or go to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/a-victorious-life-follow-jesus-plan-for-meeting-temptation/ (http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/a-victorious-life-follow-jesus-plan-for-meeting-temptation/)Download our App by going to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp (http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp)Say hello on Twitter; https://twitter.com/floridahc (https://twitter.com/floridahc), Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/ (https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/); Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/ (https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/); and use one or all of the #hashtags - #fhcPODCAST #fhcTAKEAWAYS #fhcINSPIRES #Temptation #Float
It is so easy to point the finger at where we imagine the fault to lie. We often think of temptation as coming to us from “out there” somewhere, like a villain coming and knocking at our door to lure us away. We may be surprised by a couple of realities: We can't be tempted by something we don't want, and the surprising source of our temptations.James 1:13-15One of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS stated: How can you help someone learn to float in God's love and grace?We would love to hear your story! Please reach out to us directly from the FHC Mobile App. You can share by using the Media tab, and then - Podcast banner - use the text and email share buttons, or use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSRECOMMENDED BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:* David Benner - Surrender To Love: https://www.amazon.com/Surrender-Love-Discovering-Christian-Spirituality/dp/0830846115/ref (https://www.amazon.com/Surrender-Love-Discovering-Christian-Spirituality/dp/0830846115/ref)=sr_1_3?crid=3911VRG9M7SMX&keywords=surrender+to+love+by+david+benner&qid=1557282855&s=gateway&sprefix=surrender+to+love%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-3* Mark Buchanan - The Rest of God: https://www.amazon.com/Rest-God-Restoring-Your-Sabbath/dp/0849918480/ref (https://www.amazon.com/Rest-God-Restoring-Your-Sabbath/dp/0849918480/ref)=sr_1_1?keywords=mark+buchanan+the+rest+of+god&qid=1557282938&s=gateway&sr=8-1* Barbara Brown Taylor - An Altar in the World: https://www.amazon.com/Altar-World-Geography-Faith/dp/0061370460/ref (https://www.amazon.com/Altar-World-Geography-Faith/dp/0061370460/ref)=sr_1_4?crid=K41HTP2DLPYW&keywords=barbara+brown+taylor+books&qid=1557283050&s=gateway&sprefix=barbara+brown+t%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-4Tune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. Thank you for joining us and we will see you next week for a first time FHC Retreat surprise during Episode 153! NEW!!! Stream :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg)Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that coincides with this episode in the FHC Mobile App by clicking on Media and then Archives or go to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/a-victorious-life-how-temptation-works-and-how-we-help/ (http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/a-victorious-life-how-temptation-works-and-how-we-help/)Download our App by going to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp (http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp)Say hello on Twitter; https://twitter.com/floridahc (https://twitter.com/floridahc), Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/ (https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/); Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/ (https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/); and use one or all of the #hashtags - #fhcPODCAST #fhcTAKEAWAYS #fhcINSPIRES #Temptation #Surrender
How does a complex and sometimes disturbing natural world shape our understanding of its Creator? Are our ideas about God limited by our discomfort with His creation? Is the nature of the natural world in conflict with the One who made it, or is the very things that surround us and overwhelm us a true reflection of who He is?One of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS stated: What is your spiritual cockroach that you haven't been able to see through the Creator's eyes?We would love to hear your story! Please reach out to us directly from the FHC Mobile App. You can share by using the Media tab, and then - Podcast banner - use the text and email share buttons, or use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. Thank you for joining us and we will see you next week for a first time FHC Retreat surprise during Episode 152! NEW!!! Stream :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg)Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that coincides with this episode in the FHC Mobile App by clicking on Media and then Archives or go to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/ (http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/)Download our App by going to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp (http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp)Say hello on Twitter; https://twitter.com/floridahc (https://twitter.com/floridahc), Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/ (https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/); Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/ (https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/); and use one or all of the #hashtags - #fhcPODCAST #fhcTAKEAWAYS #fhcINSPIRES #Creation #Nature
What is your Easter story – Part 2? Three FHC members (Michael Tran, Heidi Sposato, and Mike Jacob) share how the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus impacted and continues to form who they are.One of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS stated: What is your Easter story?We would love to hear your story! Please reach out to us directly from the FHC Mobile App. You can share by using the Media tab, and then - Podcast banner - use the text and email share buttons, or use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. Thank you for joining us and we will see you next week for a first time FHC Retreat surprise during Episode 151! NEW!!! Stream :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg)Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that coincides with this episode in the FHC Mobile App by clicking on Media and then Archives or go to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/easter-my-story/ (http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/easter-my-story/)Download our App by going to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp (http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp)Say hello on Twitter; https://twitter.com/floridahc (https://twitter.com/floridahc), Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/ (https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/); Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/ (https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/); and use one or all of the #hashtags - #fhcPODCAST #fhcTAKEAWAYS #fhcINSPIRES #Easter
What is your Easter story? How should the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus impact and continue to form the followers of Christ? Join two of our teenage leaders at the Hospital Church, Maurie Andino and Amanda Santos, as they discuss what it means to be followers of Jesus and leading others to be the same.One of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS stated: If you grew up going to church, What was it like growing up in the church of your youth?We would love to hear your story! Please reach out to us directly from the FHC Mobile App. You can share by using the Media tab, and then - Podcast banner - use the text and email share buttons, or use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. Thank you for joining us and we will see you next week for a first time FHC Retreat surprise during Episode 150! NEW!!! Stream :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg)Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that coincides with this episode in the FHC Mobile App by clicking on Media and then Archives or go to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/my-easter-story/ (http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/my-easter-story/)Download our App by going to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp (http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp)Say hello on Twitter; https://twitter.com/floridahc (https://twitter.com/floridahc), Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/ (https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/); Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/ (https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/); and use one or all of the #hashtags - #fhcPODCAST #fhcTAKEAWAYS #fhcINSPIRES #Easter
It may be the boldest of all the bold asks: “We want you (Jesus) to do for us whatever we ask!” It seems without limit—beyond three wishes of a genie. There is no doubt that we often don't realize the long-range implications of that for which we ask. Jesus will teach us that his kingdom isn't about position and power but something far different than what these brothers had in mind.Mark 10:35-45One of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS stated: How do you handle God saying, “you don't know what you're asking”?Please reach out to us directly from the FHC Mobile App. You can share by using the Media tab, and then - Podcast banner - use the text and email share buttons, or use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. Thank you for joining us and we will see you next week for a first time FHC Retreat surprise during Episode 149! NEW!!! Stream :15 With Andy, Randy, & Jeff on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xy1JKKnnWIiZayBfSFdUZ?si=HBn5jlVkQyqmSGJofnuFGg)Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that coincides with this episode in the FHC Mobile App by clicking on Media and then Archives or go to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/the-bold-ask-of-the-brothers/ (http://hospitalchurch.org/sermon/the-bold-ask-of-the-brothers/)Download our App by going to our website: http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp (http://hospitalchurch.org/fhcapp)Say hello on Twitter; https://twitter.com/floridahc (https://twitter.com/floridahc), Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/ (https://www.facebook.com/hospitalchurch/); Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/ (https://www.instagram.com/floridahc/); and use one or all of the #hashtags - #fhcPODCAST #fhcTAKEAWAYS #fhcINSPIRES #TheBoldAsk #Prayer
With Andy sidelined, Jenny Vrentas steps in fresh off the combine to discuss the latest draft and non-draft news from Indianapolis. Jenny and Gary talk the Kyler-to-Cardinals rumors. Is Arizona really in on Kyler Murray, and if so, what's the market for Josh Rosen? Plus, pass rushers and receivers light up the combine—what does it mean for the league and for free agents at those spots?—and more on the D.K. Metcalf show. Also, the return of Jason Witten, the presumed Foles-Jaguars marriage, and Antonio Brown continues to sabotage his trade market. Got a question for the next mailbag? @GGramling_SI, @Andy_Benoit or talkback@themmqb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With Andy on the road doling out life advice, Jesse is without a co-host... but not for long! Impact Wrestling's Allie makes her triumphant return to the podcast to join her husband for an especially rousing round of KICKIN ASS! Thank you as always to our amazing sponsors including BLUE CHEW! Chew it and do it! Also big thanks to our longtime friends over at American Barbell Club, Onnit, Iron Coffee, Green Roads (Promo Code: Braxton), Cured Nutrition (Promo Code: ETID), & Real Good Foods (Promo Code: Tug) for helping to make this show possible every week. Follow this podcast throughout social media on Twitter & Instagram @KickinAssPod... Follow Jesse @BraxtonSutter & Follow Andy @AndyComplains... Rate & Subscribe on iTunes to help get our stars up... and email us at KickinAssPodcast@gmail.com with any questions, concerns or advertising opportunities. Keep Kickin Ass and Remember... HEAT'S IN THE RING!
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