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Market speculation into commodities like Bitcoin and Crude oil pose dangerous risks during the best of times. Heading into a recession, the stakes are even higher. The temptation to participate during volatile periods is a psychological phenomenon that takes hold among casual investors who rarely realize when they’re part of an institutional con. When leveraged institutions are in desperate need of liquidity they’ll stop at nothing to game the system. In this episode, Max offers a cautionary tale of speculative behavior in the crude oil markets during the financial crisis that very few people even know about. He then connects it to the dangers posed to investors who dabble in digital currencies like Bitcoin, especially under a pro-crypto Trump administration. Access the episode resources. Resources Forbes: ‘Worse Than 2008’—Bitcoin Price Braced As Billionaire Ray Dalio Warns Of ‘Monetary Order Breakdown’ Forbes: ‘Big Catalyst’—Serious Fed Warning Spurs Huge BlackRock Bitcoin Price Prediction NPR: What to know about Trump's 'crypto strategic reserve' plan Yahoo Finance: Donald Trump’s 29-year-old crypto guru lays out the president’s plans for regulating crypto and rolling back a Biden-era crackdown Pillsbury Law: Trump 2.0: A New Era for the Regulation of Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets SDLC Corp: Stablecoins: Characteristics, How They Work, Functionality, and Use Cases Bitpanda Academy: Meme Coins: Definition & Characteristics St. Edward’s University: What Are the Exchange Coins The Digital Chamber: Why is Bitcoin a Commodity? Investopedia: Is Crypto a Commodity? What It Means, Examples Book Love Dan Dicker: Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy Emily Lambert: The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets Peter Maass: Crude World Leah McGrath Goodman: The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market UNFTR Episode Resources Peak Oil: It’s a Crude, Crude World. The U.S. Dollar and 10 Year Treasury: Why Economists Are Freaking the F*ck Out. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Bluesky, TikTok and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Join our Discord at unftr.com/discord. Become a member at unftr.com/memberships. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is hosted by Max and distributed by 99.Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Walking with Jesus in the GospelsWeek 10, Day 4What Sin is Worse Than the Fear of Man?Matthew 21:23-46 & Psalm 50Forest Hill Presbyterian Church (PCA)www.foresthillpca.orgPastor Jason Van Bemmel, pastor@foresthillpca.org

Sometimes Karma is Worse Than a Poison Apple This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl are talking about the latest episode of Daredevil: Born Again, the penultimate episode of Reacher season 3, and the absolute BOMB of Snow White at the box office, and what Disney should do to recover. Episode Index Intro: 0:07 Snow Brown: 4:19 Daredevil: 22:43 Reacher: 36:27 Snow White Box Office News Disney's live-action remake of “Snow White” has experienced a disappointing performance at the box office. The film debuted with approximately $43 million in domestic earnings and a global total of around $87 million, both figures falling short of initial projections. Snow White Gets BRUTAL News As NEW Rachel Zegler Video GOES VIRAL & Makes Things WORSE For Disney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qVfLvS_X2A Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+) Out of 5 Punisher Brand Sewer Bullets Darryl: 3.6/5 Brian: 3.6/5 Episode Title: Sic Semper Systema Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff Writer: David Feige & Jess Wigutow Air Date: March 18, 2025 Summary: Murdock is confronted by Ayala’s niece, Angela del Toro, who believes the police are responsible for Ayala’s death. Murdock comforts her with hope that the killer will be brought to justice. At marriage counseling, Fisk and Vanessa discuss her affair with Adam and Glenn privately asks Vanessa if she feels safe around Fisk. Fisk’s plan to rebuild the city’s ports faces several hurdles, including bureaucratic procedures, gang in-fighting, and his protégé Daniel Blake drunkenly leaking details to BB who reports that Fisk is a union buster. Despite his anger, Fisk decides not to fire Blake when the latter expresses his deep loyalty. Murdock investigates the site of Ayala’s murder and finds a bullet casing with the Punisher’s symbol on it. He tracks down Castle and suggests that he should take responsibility for those who are misusing the Punisher symbol. Castle calls out Murdock for not killing Dex as retribution for Nelson’s death. Later that night, Murdock practices with his Daredevil billy clubs, Fisk eats dinner next to an imprisoned Adam, and the masked serial killer Muse drains blood from a victim. Reacher (Prime Video) Out of 5 You Just Can’t Call in the ATFs Darryl: 3.91/5 Brian: 4.1/5 Episode Title: L.A. Story Director: Sam Hill Writer: Penny Cox & Cait Duffy Air Date: March 20, 2025 Summary: Neagley interrogates Costopoulos, who tells her that Quinn murdered a family when business went wrong and is about to do the same to the Beck family. Reacher and Duffy, in Los Angeles, track down a drug dealer, Darien Prado, before having sex. Reacher and Duffy intercept Darien at a club and blackmail him into cooperating. He calls Zachary to meet, only for Reacher and Duffy to betray him. Zachary meets with Neagley, at Reacher’s command, and tells her that he and his son are in danger. Quinn visits a captive Teresa. Reacher and the team discover that the weapons are being sold to Yemeni buyers and that a terrorist act will be carried out in the United States. Zachary apologizes to Richard for his wrongdoing and says he will protect him at all costs. Zachary informs Reacher of the time and place of the exchange. Duffy and Villanueva involve the ATF, much to Reacher’s reluctance. On a call with Neagley, Reacher learns the exchange is actually taking place at Zachary’s house, and the place they are at is a setup. Contact Us The Infamous Podcast can be found wherever podcasts are found on the Interwebs, feel free to subscribe and follow along on social media. And don't be shy about helping out the show with a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help us move up in the ratings. @infamouspodcast facebook/infamouspodcast instagram/infamouspodcast stitcher Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeart Radio contact@infamouspodcast.com Our theme music is ‘Skate Beat’ provided by Michael Henry, with additional music provided by Michael Henry. Find more at MeetMichaelHenry.com. The Infamous Podcast is hosted by Brian Tudor and Darryl Jasper, is recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show is produced and edited by Brian Tudor. Subscribe today!

Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Saturday podcast for you! He talks: Wisconsin, Phrase of the Week, Signs You Have a Workforce Problem, No Upcharge Here, & Worse Than the Chiefs! ...Follow, rate & review "The Fifth Hour!" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fifth-hour-with-ben-maller/id1478163837 Engage with the podcast by emailing us at RealFifthHour@gmail.com ... Follow Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and on Instagram @BenMallerOnFOX ... Danny is on Twitter @DannyGRadio and on Instagram @DannyGRadio #BenMaller See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good day listeners this is your host Michael Martinz with new and improved Martinz ELEVATED Review broadcasting today from a rather chilly and snowing morning here in south central, British Columbia. In today's program we will re-examine a rather prophetic paper from May 2021 covering the potential, and now realised harmful effects of the C19 injections.  We will then cover the mechanisms by which glyphosate disrupts deuterium homeostasis and impacts human health. Today on the program we welcome back a regular contributor and dear friend, Dr. Stephanie Seneff.  A Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,  Dr Seneff received her BSc in Biophysics, an MSc and Electrical Engineering degree, and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - all from MIT.  For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation. She has published over 170 peer reviewed articles, and has been invited to give multiple keynote speeches at international conferences. Her recent interests have focused on the role of toxic chemicals and micronutrient deficiencies in health and disease, with a special  emphasis on the pervasive herbicide, glyphosate, and the mineral sulfur.   Her book on glyphosate, entitled "Toxic Legacy:  How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment," was released by Chelsea Green publishers on July 1, 2021.  This book was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best non-fiction  books of 2021.  Recently Dr. Seneff has become fascinated with the role of deuterium in health and disease, and the mechanisms by which glyphosate disrupts deuterium homeostasis. For those listeners who may have missed Dr. Seneff's previous appearances, those episodes for your reference are #124, #93, #73 and #22. Papers covered in this episode include: 1) Stephanie Seneff and Greg Nigh, "Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19". (2021). International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research , 2(1), 38-79. https://doi.org/10.56098/ijvtpr.v2i1.23 2) Stephanie Seneff and Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos, "Cancer, deuterium, and gut microbes: A novel perspective". Endocrine and Metabolic Science, Volume 17, 2025, 100215, ISSN 2666-3961, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endmts.2025.100215. 3) Chakraborty, S. (2024, April 20). The bloodstream of mRNA vaccinated individuals (both Pfizer and Moderna) shows DNA expression vector contamination, including SV40 and kanamycin-resistant gene sequences. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hzyn3 4) Wang, Tyler J, Alex Kim, and Kevin Kim. 2024. “A Rapid Detection Method of Replication-Competent Plasmid DNA from COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines for Quality Control.” Journal of High School Science 8 (4): 427–39.

Everyone is in favor of improving quality, but what does that mean? In this episode Bill Bellows and Andrew Stotz discuss stories of meeting requirements, missing the mark, and what Dr. Deming said about how to do better. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.2 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussions with Bill Bellows, who has spent 31 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. And I guess now that we're into 2025, it's gonna be 32 years pretty soon. The episode for today is episode 10, are you in favor of quality? Bill, take it away.   0:00:33.5 Bill Bellows: Thank you, Andrew, and Happy New Year.   0:00:35.1 Andrew Stotz: Happy New Year.   0:00:36.4 Bill Bellows: Happy New Year to our listeners. And yeah, so here we are episode 10 of Misunderstanding Quality. We got up to 22 episodes in our first series and then we'll have a follow-on series. One is I would like to thank those who took the invite to reach out to me on LinkedIn. And I've just started connecting with a few new people who are doing some interesting things involved in types of work that I'm not familiar with, it's just fascinating to listen to the types of issues they deal with. And they each come to me with an interest in Dr. Deming's work. So they're following the podcast series, this one, the others that you're doing, and they listen to all of them. And I'm not sure if they've contacted the others, but they've reached out to me. So I wanna once again say for those of you that are enjoying this conversation, my conversation with you, Andrew, then please reach out to me.   0:01:50.0 Bill Bellows: If you'd like to know more, that's one thing. The last episode was called Worse Than a Thief. And one thing I wanna mention, there's a bunch of meanings relative to being worse than a thief. One distinctly from Dr. Taguchi was... And I don't... He gave examples of manufacturers that made plastic sheeting for crops to protect the crops and his complaint was that they made it to the minimum side of the requirement. So there was a requirement on the thickness, so again, even if you have a 1mil thick here, we have in the States, there's you can buy plastic 1mil, which is 0.001 inch or something heavier. And so, and obviously, in the world of manufacturing, you're not gonna get exactly 0.001, it's gonna be a little low, a little high. So what Dr. Taguchi was referencing is companies in Japan that were making plastic sheeting that would be used for a number of things. But in particular, he talked about it, what if it's being used to protect crops?   0:03:19.8 Bill Bellows: And what if the manufacturers, to save money because they're buying the plastic by the pound, selling it by the yard, so they're gonna make it as thin as possible. And his concern was, so how much are you saving to make it as thin as possible? And what is the impact of being on the thin side when a crop is lost? And that was his reference to being worse than a thief, that you're saving a few pennies but costing the farmer the... Right? And so that could be... So that's a situation where there's a requirement, the requirement is met minimally. You and I reference that as leaving the bowling ball in the doorway, delivering to the absolute minimum, or I mean delivering to the minimum, the maximum of the requirement, whatever best suits me. So if I'm delivering to you a term paper and you as the professor say, "It must be between five and 10 pages," and I say, "Well, I'm gonna make it five pages."   0:04:23.9 Bill Bellows: If in another situation, [chuckle] an example, I guess is if when our daughter was in high school and we said, "Allison, make sure you're home between 10:00 and midnight," then she may move that to the high side of the tolerance and come home at 10:00 or 11:59. But in either case, what Taguchi is referencing is in the world of acceptability, the requirements have been met. But the worse than a thief aspect is, is what is the personal gain versus the impact to others in the system. So that could be picking up the nail in the parking lot or deciding not to do it. So I just wanna point out that I see that as a very broad statement, not just in terms of meeting requirements, but within your organization are you... To what degree are you focusing on your department at the detriment of the organization? That's another way of being worse than a thief.   0:05:28.7 Bill Bellows: It could be you're spending all of your budget just before the end of the year. 'Cause you know what happens, Andrew, if you don't spend all of your budget.   0:05:38.0 Andrew Stotz: Gonna get taken away.   0:05:38.9 Bill Bellows: So if you're 10 percent under, the next year you're gonna get 10% less. So I used to kid people is, so what will I spend... Again, so you learn the hard way, if you don't spend the entire budget then your boss the next year says, "Well, Andrew, you only spent 80% of the budget, so we're only gonna give you 80% of last year." So what's the... What message does Andrew learn? I tell people is you go a little bit over the 100%, right? You go a little bit over. And so even that I would say is worse than a thief 'cause what are you doing? You're withholding your resources that others may find. So I just wanna say that that statement is not as narrow as looking at a set of requirements, it is looking at things from what's good for me versus good for the system. All right, have fun to that one.   0:06:30.0 Andrew Stotz: Right.   0:06:31.0 Bill Bellows: So relative to the title you mentioned. Are you in favor of quality? What inspired that? There's another thing I've been looking at recently, whether on LinkedIn or elsewhere on the internet. I'm a member of ASQ, the American Society for Quality, so I get regular notes from them. And I go off and look, and I'm just reminded of how most organizations think about quality, which is meeting requirements, and it could be much more than that. But anyway, in The New Economics, Dr. Deming's book, first edition, came out in 1993. In there in the first chapter, he says, let me pull it up, and I wanna read it exactly from the good doctor.   Near the end of chapter one of the New Economics, Dr. Deming, in bold text, our listeners will find a statement, “a look at some of the usual suggestions for improvement of quality.” And Dr. Deming says, "There's widespread interest in quality. Suppose that we were to conduct next Tuesday a national referendum with the question, are you in favor of improvement of quality? Yes or no? The results." predicted Dr. Deming "would show, I believe," and again, I'm quoting Deming, "an avalanche in favor of quality. Moreover, unfortunately, almost everybody has the answer on how to achieve it. Just read the letters to the editor, speeches, books. It seems so simple. Here are some of the answers offered, all insufficient, some even negative in results."   0:09:17.9 Bill Bellows: "Automation, new machinery, more computers, gadgets, hard work, best efforts, merit system, annual appraisal, make everybody accountable, MBO, management by objective as practiced, MBR, management by results." And I'll just pause. Dr. Deming, when he would read this list in a seminar, would also make reference to MBIR, management by imposition of results. All right, back to Dr. Deming. "Rank people, rank teams, rank divisions, rank salesmen, reward them at the top, punish them at the bottom. More SQC, statistical quality control, more inspection, establish an office of quality, appoint someone as VP in charge of quality, incentive pay, work standards," in parentheses, "quotas," comma, "time standards," end quote. "Zero defects, meet specifications, motivate people." And then in bold print, Dr. Deming adds, "What is wrong with these suggestions?" He says, "the fallacy of the suggestions listed above will be obvious from subsequent pages of the text," meaning The New Economics.   0:10:36.1 Bill Bellows: "Every one of them ducks the responsibility of management," Andrew. "A company that advertised that the future belongs to him that invest in it, and thereupon proceeded to invest heavily," 40 million, no, 40 billion, I'm sorry, that's ten to the ninth. "40 billion in new machinery and automation, results, trouble, overcapacity, high cost, low quality. It must be said in defense of the management that they obviously had faith in the future." And I asked some people that knew Dr. Deming far better than me. Once upon a time, I said, "So who was Dr. Deming talking about, the company that invested $40 billion?" He said, "Oh, that was General Motors." And I used to think when I was at Rocketdyne that you could not ask for a better competitor than one that would invest $40 billion to lose market share, right? Talk about self-inflicted gunshot wounds that they're gonna go off, invest heavily in technology gadgets. That's what Dr. Deming's calling 'em, gadgets.   0:11:55.2 Andrew Stotz: Gadgets.   0:11:55.8 Bill Bellows: Did you ever hear what Dr. Deming said about, he says, there's a couple of things he said. This is one of the things I heard him say live. He said, "Where's the data in the computer? Gone forever." And then he'd say, "the hardest thing in all the world to find..." You know what he said, Andrew, was the hardest thing in all the world to find?   0:12:24.0 Andrew Stotz: No, what was that?   0:12:27.3 Bill Bellows: "A piece of paper and a pencil." 'Cause his mindset was just put the data that you wanna plot on a piece of paper, as opposed to in the computer, gone forever. Now, I worked with a company as a consultant for three years. And one of the first things they had me work on, of course, was trying to learn about a problem that happened a few years earlier. A problem, meaning something that did not conform to requirements. And in the middle of working on that for about three months and working on that, and the issue was, let's learn about what happened a couple of years ago so it doesn't happen again. And what happened a few years ago was a very stringent set of requirements for this aerospace hardware, missed the requirement by 10%. It was close. It was close, but the customer would not buy it. And it was a multimillion dollar asset that they held onto 'cause they were hoping they can convince the customer to buy it. And the customer just said, "You keep it, you keep it." So the issue was, "Come over and help us understand what happened. We don't do that again."   0:13:54.1 Bill Bellows: Well, in the midst of that, the same product being produced a few months later, instead of missing the requirement by about 10%, missed the requirement by about 70%.   0:14:12.9 Andrew Stotz: Oh.   0:14:13.2 Bill Bellows: Oh, oh. It was a nightmare. And the company spent a whole lot of money chasing that. In the long run, it may have been a bad test. We never found exactly what it was. And when I caught up with them years later, they eventually went back into production. But the reason I bring that up is, after the incident, I was called over. It was a very intense time to go figure out what's going on, only to find out that the data was in a computer. So, the data was not being plotted real time. So after the incident, one of the things that happened within a few days of the incident was to go back and plot the data. So when I was in a meeting and they showed the data and I knew what they were saying was they had pulled it out of the computer. I thought, "Dr. Deming's not kidding. Where's the data, in the computer? Gone forever." So I wanted to...   0:15:23.8 Andrew Stotz: I had something I wanted to add to that, and that is I have a couple of great classic pictures in our family that were made 100 years, 120 years ago.   0:15:36.8 Bill Bellows: Oh wow. Lucky you.   0:15:39.9 Andrew Stotz: Great grandma, those old, really old pictures. And I was just showing them to my, to some of the ladies that take care of my mom and they just can't. And I said, "Now think about all the improvements that have been done in photography. What is the chance that one out of your 10,000 pictures on your iPhone that you've taken is going to survive 120 years like this picture?" And the answer is zero. There's zero chance.   0:16:14.4 Bill Bellows: That's right. Because even if you have kids, they don't want 4000 photos then... 4000...   0:16:25.0 Andrew Stotz: Nobody can deal with that.   0:16:26.4 Bill Bellows: No one could... You're absolutely right. They will not. Unless that photo is printed and turned into a keepsake. Gone forever.   0:16:38.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:16:39.0 Bill Bellows: Yeah. No, that's a good point. That's a very... And the fact that these photos lasted that long is pretty damn amazing.   0:16:47.2 Andrew Stotz: Well, there's a great book. I forgot the name of it, but I'll remember it. There's a great book about how slow this... The pace. It's called "Future Hype" is the name of it. It's all about the slow pace of innovation. And this is a great example. Going from no photo to a great photo 120 years ago was true innovation.   0:17:12.0 Bill Bellows: Oh, yeah. Yes.   0:17:13.8 Andrew Stotz: Just coming up with ways to do thousands of photos. And the author just basically crushes everything that you think is innovation. That there's millions of patents now that are coming out. We're much more innovative than we were in the past. And then his whole point is, "Yeah, and go and look at them, and what you see is that they've changed the color a little bit, they've changed this, they've changed that, and they're just doing modifications." So, every single area that you think there is innovation. And I think that's part of what Dr. Deming's talking about, about it's in the computer that doesn't. Tools and gadgets don't solve the problem.   0:17:56.1 Bill Bellows: No, it's... Well, they are tools. And as we've talked about in this series, in the first series, there are tools and techniques. Cell phones, computers, automobiles. These are tools. Techniques are how to use them. And tools, to borrow from Ackoff, are about efficiency, doing things well. But not to be confused with effectiveness, also from Ackoff, which is doing the right thing. And what I admire... I think what we both admire about Dr. Deming's work is the ability of the System of Profound Knowledge to provoke the question of whether or not something is... Doing something is worthwhile to do. And that has to do with not doing things faster, but stepping back and asking, "Why am I doing this in the first place?" Dr. Deming talked about. I think he used to say... He phrased it as, be, Dr. Deming saying, "Andrew, do you know how companies make toast?" And Andrew says, "No, Dr. Deming, how do companies make toast?" You ever hear that?   0:19:16.0 Andrew Stotz: No.   0:19:17.1 Bill Bellows: He says, "First, they burn it, then they scrape it." [laughter] And so what I see in organizations is the people who make the toast pass it off to the next person who does the inspection, and then upon the inspection, is sent to the toast scraper, then the toast scraper scrapes the toast and then sends it to somebody else, which could be a second toasting. [laughter] And then on to the next. And the person who makes the toast in the first place is none the wiser that X percent of the toast, they're just passing it on and so the technology is used to speed that up. And what's not happening is some type of feedback on adjusting the controls. It's just, it's... And this is what I saw when I worked in Connecticut, was immense toast scraping. Oh, it was just phenomenal. We had a machine making these plates for a heat exchanger for the Army's current main engine battle tank. A 1500 horsepower gas turbine engine. And half the volume, Andrew, of the tank is a heat exchanger to capture the exhaust heat to preheat the compressed air to improve the fuel economy.   0:20:52.4 Bill Bellows: Even when half the volume of the tank engine is a heat exchanger to capture every ounce of excess energy and convert it back to the efficiency of the engine. Even with that, the fuel economy of the Army's today main battle tank is measured in gallons per mile 'cause it drinks gasoline. Now, it's phenomenal performance. But they can't move too fast to outrun the tankers. So, these heat exchanger plates have, in the original design, I'm not sure what design is nowadays, had roughly 2 miles of welding in the heat exchanger. And the welding was what's known as resistance welding. And these very, very thin plates were welded together with a little dot of current to melt the metal to create a little bead, and then another one on, and they were overlapping melts, and that created a seam. And after these plates were welded together, you know, two together, each of them was put on to this under a bright light, a literally a Lazy Susan.   0:22:11.0 Bill Bellows: This thing had a 27 inch outer diameter and there'd be a bead around the outside and a bead around the inside. Two different diameters. And on a given plate one inspector would look under a magnifying glass to see, are there any gaps in the beads? And then flip it over and look at the other side, and then hand off to the next person to look at the same plate again.   0:22:37.1 Bill Bellows: So, every plate was 200% inspected. There were 10 machines making these plates. There was no traceability from the inspector. All the problems might have been coming from machine number one. There was no such awareness. And so, after the inspector, "I found a quarter of an inch where you... " "Okay. Then we send it to Andrew for a re-weld." There's no feedback and is that system any better today? I'm aware of systems today that are very similar to that. So, anyway, that's what Deming's talking about relative to the... Yeah. How do companies make toast? Well, the other thing I want to jump to, relative to this "Are you in favor of quality?" Which got it on my one is, I thought, is something really neat to include in this series that we're doing Misunderstanding Quality. But as I'm getting these prompts from ASQ on a regular basis, I was reminded of a few things that are near and dear within the world of the American Society of Quality. And one is what's known as Quality 4.0. Not, 1.0, Andrew, 4.0. 4.0.   0:24:00.1 Andrew Stotz: So, we're out of the crisis.   0:24:01.1 Bill Bellows: Oh, and so the phrase, Quality 4.0, this is today, right? And actually, the incentive, "Quality 4.0," this is actually five years old. So maybe they're on to Quality 5.0, Andrew. The phrase, "Quality 4.0," derived from the German industrialization program called Industry 4.0, is an evaluation of the role of quality in the increasing digital and automated world. One question surrounding Quality 4.0 is where increasing automation will leave quality professionals in the future. Technology, Andrew, has changed quality work and now offers useful statistical software that allows the Six Sigma quality movement to grow. Tons of data that allow quality professionals to act on quality issues in almost real time and new statistical methods. So, what I find is, "Quality 4.0" is artificial intelligence. It's the Internet of Things. It is technology. So if Deming was writing the, you know, the chapter on that we just mentioned earlier, the list of all the things on that list would be pretty much everything I see in "Quality 4.0." Right.   0:25:23.9 Bill Bellows: So, how far have we come in the professional world of quality? At least I am... I find there's a lot missing relative to what Dr. Deming was talking about 30 some years ago. So, that's what I wanted to put on the table is, you know, we're again not... None of us have said we're against tools and techniques. Whether it's chat GPT, artificial intelligence, those are fantastic. But if they're not guided with a System of Profound Knowledge, then you're going to improve uniformity in isolation.   0:26:09.8 Bill Bellows: And we've talked about that in this series and that is the difference between precision and not accuracy. It is making things uniform. Then you have to ask, again when I... What I challenge for those that are in the Six Sigma world is everything I've seen and I've been reading a lot about Six Sigma for the last 30 years. Everything I see about it when it comes to reducing variability, it is about reducing variability to shrink the distribution such that, what, Andrew? Such that we end up with acceptability 100% all. No red beads, all white beads. And then we get into... I went in preparation for a call today to the ASQ website to learn, just a reminder, refresher on Quality 4.0 and again, nothing wrong with advanced digital technologies, but what if we coupled that with a strong foundation that we're trying to offer people in the Deming ??? who are interested in what Dr. Deming's ideas bring to improve, to guide that technology. So anyway, that's, you know, Quality 4.0. Also, I'm on the ASQ website and their glossary section if anyone wants to go look there. If you're a member, you get free access to this. "Quality, a subjective term for which each person or sector has its own definition."   0:27:42.7 Bill Bellows: Okay. "In technical usage, quality can have two meanings. One, the characteristic of a product or service that bears on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Two, a product or service free of deficiencies." Excuse me. "According to Joseph Juran, quality means fitness for use. According to Philip Crosby, it means conformance to requirements." And I don't see in here a reference to Dr. Deming and how he defined quality, Andrew. Huh? Interesting. What I enjoyed about being a member of the... In fact I'm still a member of the American Society for Quality. The reason I joined is I was excited by quality. Everything I was learning about Dr. Taguchi's work and then Dr. Deming's work and then began to wonder if the American Society for Quality was advancing and doc... So if anyone listening has access to the American Society for Quality and people that make decisions there, you might want to include Dr. Deming's definition of quality.   0:29:00.2 Bill Bellows: Where Dr. Deming would say a product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market. And what I find is unique about that is my interpretation, as Dr. Deming is saying a lecture I deliver, a podcast we present, that we are not the judge of the quality that our listeners, students are. The people downstream are the judge of that. So, it's not me handing off a part that meets requirements saying this is good. Even when Juran says fitness for use, what I would ask is fitness absolute or is fitness relative? And so that's... So anyway, I just thought it'd be fascinating to remind our listeners of the simplicity of Dr. Deming's message from The New Economics. You know, is everyone and anyone in favor of quality? Yes. And again, nothing wrong with tools and techniques, but what a Deming organization, a Blue Pen Company, a "We" organization. What they could do, guided by the Deming philosophy, with computers, where computers make sense, with AI, where AI makes sense, would seriously outpace what other companies are doing. It's interesting, but it's just not enough to compete with companies who will do that.   0:30:32.3 Bill Bellows: So, if nobody is following the Deming philosophy, then you can get by with Quality 4.0, doing AI and doing those things. But if you've got competitors and what Dr. Deming would say, Andrew, is be thankful for a good competitor, one who raises your game, right. And so, if you and I are playing tennis and you know, we're out there to become better tennis players, and as soon as I find out that you're out there so you can go brag to your mom about how you beat me last night, then I say, "Andrew, find somebody else to beat." But if you're interest and my interest is, you know, getting a lot of exercise and improving our game. That's a different story. So, that's what I just wanted to share with our ongoing listeners, is there's a lot to be gained by continuing to study the Deming philosophy. Add it to your repertoire, build a foundation guided by what The Deming Institute is doing and sponsoring podcasts like this, as well as DemingNEXT is, there's just a lot of opportunities for what Dr. Deming is offering. And I'm reminded of that on a regular basis that people are saying, "Boy, why didn't I learn about this a long time ago, what this can bring organizations?" So that's what I wanted to bring to the table today.   0:31:50.1 Andrew Stotz: That's wonderful. Well, Bill, on behalf of everyone at The Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for this discussion and for listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. You'll see DemingNEXT there and the like. If you want to keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn and reach out to him because he is responsive. This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I want to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. I just never stop talking about this quote 'cause I love it. "People are entitled to joy in work."  

Join Bill Bellows and Andrew Stotz as they discuss what actions (or inactions) make us worse than thieves and how that relates to expiration dates, and acceptability vs desirability. Plus, stories about job swapping, Achieving Competitive Excellence, and birthdays. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.3 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Bellows, who has spent 31 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. Today is Episode 9, and it's entitled "Worse Than a Thief." Bill, take it away.   0:00:27.2 Bill Bellows: Welcome, Andrew. I haven't seen you in a while, and great to be back.   0:00:29.1 AS: It's been a while.   0:00:32.0 BB: Here we are. Episode 9 already. Gosh, [chuckle] time flies when we're having fun. First, let me say a shout out to people who are reaching out to me on LinkedIn. I spoke with another one of them this afternoon. It's always exciting to connect with them. And then I ideally connect in a regular basis and help them as best I can, and learn from them as best I can.   0:01:03.0 AS: Yep.   0:01:03.2 BB: So, for those who are thinking about it, they keep hearing you say, "Hey, you know how to reach Bill? Find him on LinkedIn." So, a reminder for those who are waiting for a nudge, here's a nudge. So, "Worse than a thief" is an expression that Dr. Taguchi used when he say, Andrew, "Don't be worse than a thief." And we'll get to that, but let me just give our audience some context on that.   0:01:37.8 AS: Yep.   0:01:39.0 BB: Dr. Taguchi would say... And actually, I don't know if Dr. Taguchi explained it. Someone explained it to me this way. He said a thief could be someone who steals your wallet, finds $20; which means they're up 20, you're down 20; which people refer to as "zero sum gain." Right? So, the thief's gain is my loss, zero sum. What could be worse than that? Well, "worse than a thief" would be a situation where what someone gains is nothing compared to what I lose. A simple example is, [chuckle] I'm not the only one who does this, but if I'm going to the supermarket and I get out of the car and I see a nail in the parking lot or a piece of glass in the parking lot on my way in. So, I'm not talking about walking all around the parking lot. I'm talking about if on my way into the store I see a nail, something that could puncture a foot, a tire, and I spend a few seconds to pick it up, throw it in the trash can right by the door, then my theory is the reason I do that, the reason others do that, is the belief that that little bit of time that I am spending doing that could potentially save someone far more than the few seconds it took me.   0:03:20.9 BB: Well, "worse than a thief" would be, I see that broken bottle, let's say a bunch of shards of glass. And having worked at my father's gas station, I've seen... A nail on a tire is one thing. Nail creates a puncture. A piece of glass in a tire creates a fracture. A piece of glass can destroy a tire 'cause you get a crack and it spreads, and that's hard to repair. A puncture with a nail, yeah, it's inconvenient, but that doesn't destroy the tire. So, I'm overly sensitive when I see pieces of glass in a parking lot, that that could ruin a tire.   0:04:04.8 AS: And ruin a day.   0:04:06.2 BB: Ruin a day, oh yeah. And so the idea is that for someone to not take the time, and the time they save cost you more than they saved, that's worse than a thief.   0:04:19.8 AS: Right.   0:04:20.0 BB: So, if I meet a set of requirements, leave the bowling ball in the doorway, deliver minimally, but in the world of acceptability, what do we call that, Andrew? It's good.   0:04:35.3 AS: It's good.   0:04:36.0 BB: Right? It's good. It's just within requirements, but good.   0:04:41.8 AS: It's not beyond looking good.   0:04:43.9 BB: And forget about beyond looking good; this is looking good. So, I leave the bowling ball in the doorway. I deliver to you the absolute minimum, which is still good. So, your response to that, Andrew, is, "Thank you, Bill." [chuckle]   0:05:00.0 AS: Yeah.   0:05:00.1 BB: And I'm not saying you know what I did, but let's say the situation where I am unaware of the loss function. I'm unaware that what I'm doing is make making your life worse.   0:05:12.2 AS: Right.   0:05:13.3 BB: But the idea is that my shortcut to deliver the D minus; D minus, minus, minus, minus, minus. 'Cause that's still not an F. What Taguchi is talking about is that the amount of resources I save, may be a fraction of what it cost you in terms of extra effort to use it. So, my savings of an hour, a minute, a second causing you far more than I saved, is worse than a thief. But in the world of acceptability, there is no such thing. In the world of acceptability, a little bit within requirements on the low side, a little bit within requirements on the high side, it's all the same. Again, there may be a situation where if you're putting a shelf on a piece of wood on a wall as a shelf and it's a little bit longer, a little bit long on either side, that may not have an impact; may not be touching anything on either side. It doesn't have to fit in.   0:06:25.9 BB: Now, this past weekend, our son and I were installing a new floor at our daughter's condo, and we wanted the pieces to fit in-between other pieces and this laminate floor which is a [chuckle] lot of work. Our son is turning into quite the artist when it comes to woodworking and things. But it's very precise getting things just right, just right, just right. And that attention to detail, that attention to making sure the gaps are just right, minding the gap and not the part. And there were pieces of this floor that he was trying to install. And it was driving him nuts, and finally... He's trying to figure it out and he finally figured it out what was going on. 'Cause he wanted that floor and the spacing between not just to meet requirements [chuckle] not that our daughter gave him and set the requirement, but he wanted the floor in those gaps to be invisible. He wanted things to... Right? He had a higher level, a higher standard.   0:07:25.3 BB: Now, this is the same kid who when he was 13 left the bowling ball in the doorway. But I would've done that. You would've done that. So, anyway, that's the difference between... Another reminder of, one, the difference between acceptability and desirability. But to add to this idea of "worse than a thief," embedded in the concept of desirability is not to be worse than a thief, is to understand the consequences of your action on others, and the amount of time and your decision on how you deliver it and how you meet the requirements. The idea is that, the less time you take in order to save at your end might be causing the person downstream in your organization more than you're saving.   0:08:22.8 AS: In other words, something small, you could adjust something small that would have a huge impact down the line, and you just didn't... You don't know about it.   0:08:32.2 BB: Again, that's why I go back to the nail in the parking lot. To not pick up the nail could cause someone so much more than the few seconds you didn't spend. But again, that could be...   [overlapping conversation]   0:08:44.0 AS: And one of the things that makes it easier or better for a working environment is you know your downstream.   0:08:51.8 BB: Yes.   0:08:51.8 AS: When you're walking in the parking lot, you don't know your downstream; it's just anybody generally, and hopefully I've stopped something from happening here, but you're never gonna know and all that. But with a business, you know your downstream, you know your upstream, and that communication can produce a really, really exciting result because you can see it and feel it.   0:09:11.8 BB: Well, and thank you for bringing that up, because I've got notes from... Since the last time we met, I keep a file for the next sessions we're gonna do. And so as things, ideas come up from people that I'm meeting on LinkedIn or elsewhere, then I, "Oh, let me throw that in." And so I throw it into a Word file for the next time. And so somewhere, I can't remember who, but since the last time we spoke, someone shared with me... Hold on, let me find it here. Okay. In their organization, they do staff rotation. They move people around in their organization. And the question had to do with, "Isn't that what Dr. Deming would promote? Is having people move around the organization?" And I said... Hold on, I gotta sneeze. I said, "Well, if I am the person that makes the parts that you have to assemble, and I make them just within requirements unaware of the downstream impact... " I don't know where they are within the requirements, let's say.   0:10:30.0 BB: All I know is that they're acceptable. I machine it, I measure it, the inspection says it's good, I don't know where within it's good. I don't know. So, I'm unaware. All I know is that it met the requirements. And I hand off to you on a regular basis, and then the boss comes along and says, "Bill, I wanna have you go do Andrew's job." So, now, I'm on the receiving end. And maybe you are upstream doing what I used to do. And you are likewise unaware that... You don't know that you're delivering acceptability. All you know is all the parts you deliver are good. You're trained the same way I'm trained, I'm doing your job. Does that change anything? [chuckle] If I take on your job and let's say, banging it together, whereas the week before you were banging it together, does that rotation create the conversation?   0:11:27.2 AS: So, you're saying rotation for the sake of rotation is not necessarily valuable if in fact, what could be more value is just the two of us sitting down and saying, "So what is it that you're doing with yours and what do you need?" and maybe visiting the other side or something like that.   0:11:44.9 BB: My point is, until the thought occurs to either one of us on the distinction between acceptable and desirable, neither one of us is the wiser as to why we do what we do. So, having people move around the organization and take on different roles, absent an understanding of this contrast, absent an understanding of what Dr. Deming is talking about, which includes these distinctions, that's not gonna do anything.   0:12:16.0 AS: Right.   0:12:16.8 BB: I would say it's a nice idea, and you hear about that all the time about oh the CEO's gonna go work at the front desk. But if the CEO goes to the front desk, again, unless he or she has a sense of what could be, that things could be smoother than what they are because of where they've worked before and it's so much smoother over there, that could lead to why at the Atlanta office does it take so much longer than the LA office. Now I'm beginning to wonder what might be causing that difference. But if I just take on your job for the first time, or if you and I every other week change jobs. So, I'm doing your job, we are both doing assembly, we're both making the parts. Absent an understanding of the contrast between a Deming environment or a non-Deming environment, which would include an appreciation of what Dr. Deming would call the System of Profound Knowledge and the elements of psychology and systems and variation, the theory of knowledge, just not enough. Insufficient. Nice idea. But it's when at Rocketdyne we would call "reforming."   0:13:39.0 BB: And we started 'cause Russ... Dr. Deming talks about transformation, and Russ talks about reforming. And so I started thinking, "How would I explain what... " I just thought it was too... My interpretation of what Dr. Deming is saying of the individual transform will begin to see things differently, okay. My interpretation is, I begin to hear things differently, I begin to hear the contrast between somebody referring to their son as "their son" versus "our son," my idea versus our idea; I start paying attention to pronouns, so I start hearing things differently; I start to think about, see things as a system a little... I become more aware, visually more aware.   0:14:43.9 BB: And to me, another aspect I think about relative to transformation is that, if I'm the professor and you're the student in a class, or in any situation, I don't see... I think about how I've contributed to whatever it is you're doing. I have somehow created the headache that you're experiencing. If I'm upstream of you in the organization, whether that's me delivering a report or a tool, or I'm the professor delivering the lecture, I began to realize that your issues I've created, and I begin to see things as a... I begin to see that I am part of the issue, Part of the solution, part of the problem. When I explained to students this, I began to realize as a professor that I am not an observer of your learning, asking "How did you do on the exam?" I am a participant in your learning, saying "How did we do in the lecture?" And to me, that's all part of this transformation.   0:15:53.0 BB: Now, the other word, "reform," which is associated with things I've heard from Russ. He talks about... Yeah, I'll just pause there. But I started thinking, well, Deming's talking about how I see the world, how I begin to see relationships differently, think about variation differently. That's a personal transformation. Reforming, and others began to explain to people at Rocketdyne and I do with clients and students is, reforming is when you and I swap jobs. Reforming is when I look at the process and get rid of a few steps. Reforming is changing titles. Reforming is painting something, [chuckle] changing the color. I think I shared, maybe in the first podcast series, I was doing a multi-day, one-on-one seminar with a pediatrician in Kazakhstan, who came to London to meet me and a bunch of other friends to learn more about Dr. Deming's work. And the entire thing was done through a translator.   0:17:07.1 BB: And so I would ask a question in English, it would be translated to Russian then back to me in English. And so at some point, I said to Ivan Klimenko, a wonderful, wonderful guy. I said, "Ivan," I said [chuckle] to Yuri, the translator, I said, "Ask Ivan, what's the fastest way for a Red Pen Company, a non-Deming company, a "Me" organization, to become a Blue Pen Company, otherwise known as a Deming company or "We" organization." And these are terms that we talked about in the first series; I don't think in this series. But, anyway, I said, "So what's the fastest way for a non-Deming company to become a Deming company? A Red Pen Company to become a Blue Pen Company?"   0:17:44.9 BB: And so he asked, and I'm listening to the translation. And he says, "Okay, I give up." I said, "Spray paint." [chuckle] And that's what reforming is: Getting out the red spray paint, having things become neat, clean, and organized, and you're just going through the motions. There's no change of state. And so, "I do your job, you do my job," that's not sufficient. But get us to think about the contrast of a Deming and a non-Deming organization, then you and I changing roles could be enormously beneficial as I begin to understand what it's like to be on the receiving end. Now, we're talking. And I think I mentioned in a previous podcast, I had a woman attend one of the classes I did at Rocketdyne, and she said, "Bill, in our organization, we have compassion for one another." It's the same thing. It's not sufficient. And that's me saying, "Andrew, I feel really bad. I lost a lot of sleep last night thinking about how much time you spend banging together all those parts that I give you. And if there was anything I could do to make things better, I would love to help you. But at the end of the day, Andrew, all the parts I gave you are good, right? I don't give you bad stuff, right? Have I ever given you a defective part, Andrew?"   0:19:12.0 AS: Nope.   0:19:13.1 BB: "So, everything's good, right? Everything's good that I give you? Well, then, if I could help you, but I don't know what else to do. Everything I give you is good. So, it must be on your end." [laughter]   [overlapping conversation]   0:19:24.1 AS: And I'm busy. Yeah.   0:19:26.6 BB: Must be on you. And that's what I'm talking about. Now, if I understand that I'm contributing to your headache, I'm contributing to the trouble you're having with an example, now I'm inspired; now I understand there's something on me. [chuckle] But, short of that, nice idea, it's not helping.   0:19:50.0 BB: [laughter] So, the story I wanted to share before we're talking about this role-changing. Again, role-changing by itself, nah, not sufficient. So, see if this sounds familiar. It has to do with acceptability. I'm pretty certain it's part of the first series. I wanna make sure it's part of the second series. So, I was in a seminar at Rocketdyne on something to do with quality. And I think United Technologies had purchased Rocketdyne. They were bringing to us their new quality management system. Not just any quality management system, Andrew. This was called ACE, A-C-E. And, when we first learned about this, I remember being in a room when their United Technologies, ACE experts started to explain it. And some of my colleagues said, "Well, what is ACE?" They said, "Well, it's Achieving Competitive Excellence." "Well, what is it? What is it, 'competitive... '"   0:20:52.2 AS: It sounds like you wanna put that up on the wall as a slogan.   0:20:56.0 BB: It was a slogan, "Achieving Competitive Excellence." And people says, "Well, what is it?" I said, "Well, it's Lean Six Sigma." Well, so why do you call it ACE? Well, our arch rivals, General Electric. they call it Lean Six Sigma. We ain't gonna call it Lean Six Sigma. So, we're calling it ACE, A-C-E, Achieving Competitive Excellence. But it's the same thing as Lean Six Sigma. [chuckle] And so we had all this mandatory ACE training that we would all sit through and pray that the rosters were never lost, were never lost so we wouldn't have to take the training again. So, in the training, there was a discussion of, how does the environment impact quality? And I don't know how it came up, but similar, there's a conversation about the environment could affect quality. And, so when that was raised, I think it was a question that came up.   0:21:56.9 BB: How does the environment affect quality? The physical environment: How hot it is, how cold it is. So, one of the attendees says, "I've got an example." He says, "I worked for a Boeing supplier," and it might have been, "I worked for Boeing in Australia." I know he said he worked in Australia. They made parts, big parts, very tall parts like a 15, 20... Very long section. And I think he said it had to do with the tails, part of the tail for Boeing airplane. [chuckle] He says, "When we would measure it," he said, "we knew that if we took the measurement first thing in the morning before the sun came up and it started to get hot, then there's a good chance that the length would meet requirements. And, we knew that once that part saw the heat of the sun and expanded, then it wouldn't meet requirements. So, we measured it first thing in the morning, [laughter] and that's an example of how the environment affects quality." And, my first thought when I heard that was, "You can't make that story up, that I will keep measuring it until it meets requirements." That, Andrew, is me shipping acceptability. Do I care at all about how that part is used, Andrew? [chuckle]   0:23:18.7 AS: Nope.   0:23:19.9 BB: Do I know how that part is installed? Am I watching you install it and go through all, you know, hammer it? Nope. No. Again, even if I did, would I think twice that I measured it before the sun came up and that might be causing the issue? No, that still would not occur to me. But the other thing I wanted to bring up on this, on the topic of ACE, remember what ACE stands for?   0:23:46.0 AS: Achieving Competitive...   0:23:50.0 BB: Excellence.   0:23:50.3 AS: Excellence.   0:23:51.8 BB: So, Rocketdyne was owned by United Technologies of Pratt and Whitney, division of West Palm Beach, for 10 years or so? 10 long years. ACE, ACE, ACE, ACE, ACE. So, I kept thinking, [chuckle] I said to some of my Deming colleagues, "There's gotta be another acronym which is A-C-E." Achieving Competitive... What? What might be another E word? 'Cause it's not... Instead of ACE, Achieving Competitive Excellence, I kept thinking of this, what might be another way of what this is really all about? And it dawned me. The embarrassment is how long it took me to come up with what ACE translated to. And it was "Achieving Compliance Excellence." [chuckle]   0:24:42.9 AS: Excellent.   0:24:45.0 BB: Does it meet requirements? Yes. And so what is compliance excellence? It gets us back to acceptability. So, traditional quality compliance. But then while I was on the thought of Achieving Compliance Excellence, and then, well, there's a place for meeting requirements. There's a place for compliance excellence. I'm not throwing it out the window. I would say, if I ask you, Andrew, how far it is to the closest airport and you say 42 miles, 42 kilometers, or you say it takes an hour, then embedded in that model is "A minute is a minute, an hour is an hour, a mile is a mile, and all the miles are the same." Well, maybe they aren't. Maybe they aren't. Maybe I'm walking that distance, and I'm going uphill and downhill. Maybe I'm driving that distance. And those changes in elevation don't matter as much. So, then, what I thought was, there's Achieving Compliance Excellence that's acceptability, and then there's Achieving Contextual Excellence, which is my understanding of the context.   0:25:56.7 BB: And given my understanding of the context, if you say to me, "How far is it to the nearest airport?" I say, "Well, tell me more about the context of your question. Are you driving there? Are you riding your bike there? Are you walking there?" 'Cause then I'm realizing that every mile with Compliance Excellence, I just treat it as "a mile is a mile is a mile." They're all interchangeable, they're all the same. With Contextual Excellence, the context matters. And I say to you, "That's a... I mean, 42 miles, but boy, every mile is... They're brutal." And so then just the idea that context matters, that the understanding of a system matters. All right. So, next thing I wanna get to, and we've talked about this before but we never got it in, but I wanna provide, I really... Well, what I think is a neat example. [laughter] Okay. Calm down, Bill. [laughter]   0:26:54.8 AS: Yeah. You're excited about it.   0:26:57.0 BB: All right.   0:26:57.1 AS: So, about your idea... [chuckle]   0:27:00.2 BB: All right. So, again, in this spirit, my aim in conversation with you is to provide insights to people trying to bring these ideas to their organization. They're either trying to improve their own understanding, looking for better ways to explain it to others. And towards that end, here is a keeper. And for those who try this, if you have trouble, get back to me. Let me know how it goes. Here's the scenario I give people, and I've done this many, many times. What I used to do is give everyone in the room a clear transparency. That's when you had overhead projectors. [chuckle] 'Cause people say, "What is a transparency? What is an overhead projector?"   [overlapping conversation]   0:27:45.0 AS: Yeah exactly.   0:27:46.8 BB: It's a clear piece of plastic, like the size of a sheet of paper. And on that sheet, on that piece of plastic was a vertical line and a horizontal line. I could call it set a set of axes, X-Y axis. And the vertical axis I called "flavor." And the horizontal axis, I called "time." And, so everyone, when they would walk into a seminar, would get a clear transparency. I give them a pen to write on this transparency. And I'd say to them, "Here's what I want you to imagine. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical axis is flavor." And I would hold up a can of soda and I'd say, "Imagine. Imagine, inside this can, imagine before the lid is put on, soda is added to this can," any kind of soda. Right? "Imagine soda's in the can. Imagine in the can is a probe, a flavor meter. And the flavor meter is connected to the pen in your hand." And what that... Wirelessly, Andrew. So, there's this probe that goes into the soda, into the can. It is, let's say, with Bluetooth technology connected to the pen in your hand, such that you have the ability with this magic pen to trace out what the flavor of the soda in the can is at any point in time.   0:29:31.0 BB: And so I would put on the vertical axis, right, the Y axis, I would put a little tick mark, maybe three quarters of the way up the vertical axis. And so everyone started at that tick mark. And I would say, "Okay, get your pen ready, get it on the tick mark. This flavor meter is inside the can. It's transmitting to your hand and the pen the flavor of Pepsi. If I was to seal this can, put the lid on it, and I say, 'Now the device is activated.' As soon as I put the lid on the can, the pen is activated and your hand starts to trace out what is the flavor of the soda doing over time." And I would say, "If you think the flavor gets better, then you have a curve going up. If you think the flavor of the soda's getting worse, then it goes down. If you think it stays the same, it just goes across."   0:30:37.1 BB: And I would just say, "What I want each of you to do, as soon as that can is sealed, I want you to imagine what the flavor of Pepsi, Coke, whatever it is, I want you to... " The question is, "What do you think the flavor of soda is doing in a sealed can over time?" And I would say, "Don't ask any questions. Just do that." Now, most of the people just take that and they just draw something. They might draw something flat going across. [chuckle] Now and then somebody would say, [chuckle] "Is the can in a refrigerator?" [chuckle] And my response is, "Don't complicate this."   [laughter]   0:31:26.1 BB: So, I just throw that out. Most people just take that and just trace something out. And for the one who says, "Is it refrigerated? What's the timescale? Is the horizontal axis years or minutes?" I'd say, "Don't complicate it." [chuckle]   0:31:46.8 AS: "And don't ask questions."   0:31:48.9 BB: "And don't ask... " But you can bring me over and I'll ask you a question. You can ask your questions, I would just say, "Don't complicate it." So, what do we do? Everyone gets a few minutes, they draw it. I take all those transparencies that you can see through, and I put them on top of one another. And I can now hold them up to the room and people can see what I'm holding up. They can see all the different curves.   0:32:17.0 AS: Right.   0:32:18.0 BB: 'Cause they all start at the same point. And then I would say to the audience, "What do they all have in common?" Well, they all start at the same point. "What else do they have in common? What do they all have in common?" And people are like, "I don't know." Some of them are flat. They go across, the flavor doesn't change. Most of them think it goes down at some rate.   0:32:43.4 AS: Yep.   0:32:45.0 BB: Either concave down or convex down. Now and then, somebody will say it goes up and up and up; might go up and then down. But most people think it goes down over time. That's the leading answer. The second leading answer is it's constant. Up and down, rarely. So, I've done that. I've had people do that. I used to have a stack of 500 of transparencies. I used to save them and just go through them. I've done it, let's say in round numbers, 1,500 to 2,000 people. So, all the curves start at that tick mark in the 99.9999% of them either go down or go across. What's cool is, all those curves are smooth. Meaning, very smoothly up, very smoothly across, very smoothly down. Mathematically, that's called a "continuous function." And what I explained to them is, if I draw a vertical line halfway across the horizontal axis, and I look at every one of those curves, because the curves are smooth, if I draw a vertical line and how each curve, your profile and all the others go across that line, immediately to the left and immediately to the right, it's the same value because the curve is smooth.   0:34:28.3 BB: But I don't ask them to draw a smooth curve. I just say, "What do you think the flavor does over time?" They always, with three exceptions, draw a smooth curve. And so when I ask them what do they have in common, you get, "They start at the same point." Nope, that's not it. I don't know if anyone's ever articulated, "They're all continuous functions." Very rarely. So, then I explained, "They're all continuous functions. But I didn't ask you to draw a continuous function." Well, when I point out to them that three times, three times, Andrew, out of nearly 2,000, somebody drew a curve that goes starting at the tick mark, zero time, and it goes straight across halfway across the page at the same level, and then drops down to zero instantly, it's what's known mathematically as a "step function."   0:35:26.9 BB: So, it goes across, goes across, and then in zero time drops down to zero and then continues. So, three out of nearly 2,000 people drew a curve that wasn't smooth. Again, mathematically known as a step function. And each time I went up to that person and I said, and I comment on it, and each of them said, there's a point at which it goes bad. And each of them had a job in a quality organization. [chuckle] And so why is this important? Because in industry, there's this thing known as an "expiration date." What is an expiration date? It's the date past which you cannot use the chemical, the thing. And what's the assumption? The assumption is, a second before midnight on that date, Andrew, you could use that chemical, that acid, that glue, whatever it is in our product; a second before midnight, before the expiration date, you can use that. But a second after midnight, we put this tape and we call it "defective." And so I've worked with companies that are in the chemical business, and they literally have this tape. At the expiration date, we don't use it. A second before midnight, we do. And so what you have is a sense that it goes from good to bad, you know how fast, Andrew?   0:37:15.0 AS: Tick of a clock.   0:37:17.0 BB: Faster than that, Andrew. Zero time.   0:37:21.0 AS: Yeah.   0:37:22.0 BB: Zero time. And so what I ask people is, "Can you think of any phenomenon that happens in zero time?" And people call that's... "Well, the driver was killed instantly." No, it wasn't zero time. "Well, someone is shot." It's not zero time. And so what's cool is, when I ask people to describe a phenomenon, describe any physical phenomenon that happens in zero time, that we go from one location to another, from one state to another in zero time, I've not been stumped on that. Although actually, [chuckle] there are some situations where that happens. Well, the reason that's important for our audience is, that's a demonstration that expiration-date thinking is an organizational construct. It's not a physical construct. Milk goes bad fast. [chuckle] I'll admit, the expiration date on the half gallon of milk, it goes bad fast.   0:38:27.2 BB: But a second before midnight and a second after midnight, it's still the same. So, expiration-date thinking is what acceptability is about; that everything is good, equally good, but once we go across that expiration date, Andrew, then the flavor changes suddenly. And so what I used to kid people is, imagine if that really happened, right? Then we'd have this contest. I'd say, "Andrew, I had a can of Pepsi recently. And have you ever done this, Andrew? You get the can of Pepsi that has the expiration date on it. And if you listen to it at midnight, on the expiration date, you listen closely, you can hear it go from good to bad, Andrew." [chuckle] Would that be awesome? [chuckle] So, I was sharing some of this recently with our good friend, Christina, at The Deming Institute office.   0:39:31.0 AS: Yep.   0:39:32.7 BB: And it happened to be her birthday. And, so I sent her a note and I said, "Happy birthday." And I said, "So, did you change age immediately on the second you were born?" 'Cause she said, 'cause I think she said something like, "My mom reached out to me and she reminded me exactly what time I was born." And I said, "Oh," I said, "so did you feel the change in age as you crossed that?" And she said, she said, "Hi, Bill. Of course, I felt instantly different on my birthday. My mom even told me what time, so I'd know exactly when to feel different." [chuckle] Now, so here's a question for you, Andrew. Can you think of a situation where something changes from one value to another in zero time? In zero time. Again, we don't go from living to dying in zero time. The change of Pepsi doesn't go from one value to another in zero time. The quality of any product is not changing, you go from one side to the other. But can you think of anything that actually happens in zero time: Across that line, it goes from one value to another?   0:41:05.0 AS: Nope, I can't.   0:41:08.8 BB: Oh, come on, Andrew. You ready?   0:41:16.2 AS: Go for it.   0:41:20.0 BB: Did you ever hear of the German novelist, Thomas Mann, M-A-N-N?   0:41:24.0 AS: No.   0:41:25.7 BB: All right. I wrote this down as a closing thought; it may not be the closing thought. We'll just throw it in right now. So, this in an article [chuckle] I wrote for the Lean Management Journal.   0:41:38.0 AS: By the way, it's gotta be the closing thought because we're running out of time. So, perfect.   0:41:43.7 BB: Fantastic! Well, then here's my closing thought, Andrew. You want my closing thought?   0:41:47.1 AS: Do it.   0:41:48.1 BB: All right. So, from an article I wrote for the Lean Management Journal, so here's the quote. "I have witnessed industrial chemicals in full use right up to the expiration date, and then banned from use and tagged for immediate disposal with a passing of the expiration date only seconds before the chemicals were freely used. While they may rapidly sour, it is unlikely that they expire with a big bang, all in keeping with a sentiment of German novelist Thomas Mann's observation about New Year's Eve," Andrew. What he said was, "Time has no divisions to market's passage. There's never a thunderstorm or a blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when the century begins, it is only we mere mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols." So, at midnight on December 31st, a fraction of a second before midnight, we're in 2024 and we go to 2025 in zero time, Andrew. So, legally things change as you go across a line. You go from the United States to Mexico across a line of zero thickness. So, legally things across a line change instantly.   0:43:17.0 AS: Well.   0:43:18.0 BB: A coupon, Andrew, expires at midnight. [laughter]   0:43:22.7 AS: Yep. All right. Well, on behalf of everyone at The Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. And if you wanna keep in touch with Bill, as he mentioned at the beginning, just reach out to him on LinkedIn. This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. "People are entitled to joy in work."

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Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by John Dickson to discuss if history discredits Christianity.Questions Covered in This Episode:Why are the core Christians's beliefs not surprising to a first century Jewish rabbi, known as Jesus?When were the Gospels written and how can we be sure?What about the claim that Jesus is God in the flesh, where is the evidence of that?Can you give us background on Constantine?What happened during the Crusades?Guest Bio:John Dickson started out as a professional singer-songwriter and now works as an author, speaker, historian, and media presenter. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Public Christianity. He has published over 20 books, two of which became television documentaries, with a third, For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than you Ever Imagined, released in Australian cinemas in June 2018.John has held a variety of teaching and research positions before moving to Wheaton College, including in the Ancient History Department at Macquarie University (2002-2015), the Hebrew, Jewish and Biblical Studies Department at Sydney University (2011-2021), Ridley College Melbourne (2019-2022), and the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford (2015-2023). A busy public speaker, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife Elizabeth and the youngest of their three children.Resources Mentioned:1 Corinthians 15, Philippians 2Undeceptions Podcast“Bullies and Saints” by John Dickson Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon.

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Like an old general who has seen the cost of standing up for one's beliefs during the pandemic, I'm taking a resolute stance - by refusing to engage in pandemic discussions. So little of their charade is based on truth anymore.The toll it has taken on me, from death threats to financial losses to health lost, has been significant. I've done my time and now my only goal is to help you stay healthy. I also take you through the intriguing world of viruses – their behavior, their impact, and how natural immunity is WINNING. I'll share my thoughts on the role of a balanced diet, regular exercise, and other health strategies in reducing the risk of hospitalization and boosting our immune system. Most importantly, we'll explore the reality of virus mutation and why a healthy state is crucial in fighting off infections. On This Episode We Cover:0:07:54 - Metabolic Health and Disease Rates 0:22:50 - Opinions on Masks and Exercise 0:30:50 - The Evolution of Viruses 0:34:06 - Health and Viral Transmission 0:46:51 - Concerns About Immune Function and Vaccination 0:52:19 - Antibody Shedding and Virus Inoculation Sponsored By:RUPA HEALTHPractitioners: CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP with Rupa or head to Rupahealth.comConsumers: Head to www.Drtyna.com/labsBetterHelpGet 10% off Your First Month of Therapy by visiting: www.betterhelp.com/drtynaHead to www.Drtyna.com for the following offers:Grab my FREE GUIDE to Assess Your Metabolic Health.Check out my Metabolic Revamp Toolkit for a deeper dive.Join me inside my Private Membership/Strength Training Portal.Further Listening:EP. 30: Worse Than the Disease | Dr. Greg NighEP. 42: The Belly Fat Effect | Mike MutzelEP. 45: Joint Pain and Metabolic Health | Dr. Shawn Baker EP. 59: Toxic Legacy: Glyphosate, Deuterium and the COVID Vaccine | Dr. Stephanie SeneffDr. Tyna Show Podcast & Censorship-Free Blog is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Disclaimer: Information provided in this blog/podcast is for informational purposes only. However, this information is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional, or any information contained on or in any product. Do not use the information provided in this blog/podcast for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing medication or other treatment. Always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional, herbal or other supplement, or using any treatment for a health problem. If you have or suspect that you have a medical problem, contact your health care provider promptly. Do not disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking professional advice because of something you have read in this blog. Information provided in this blog and the use of any products or services related to this blog by you does not create a doctor-patient relationship between you and Dr. Tyna Moore. Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent ANY disease. Get full access to Dr. Tyna Show Podcast & Censorship-Free Blog at drtyna.substack.com/subscribe

Get ready to radically reshape your understanding of cancer as we sit down with integrative cancer doc, Dr. Nathan Goodyear, who offers an entirely new perspective on the subject. We promise you'll walk away with a wealth of knowledge on the staggering statistics surrounding cancer, why resilience and metabolic health are so crucial, and how strength training can serve as a preventative measure. We don't shy away from the uncomfortable topics, and even question the long-term effects of full-dose chemotherapy and the potential of fetal reprogramming.On This Episode We Cover:0:07:41 - Cancer Causation and Oncoviruses 0:12:39 - The Impact of COVID-19 and COVID-19 Injections on Cancer0:17:36 - Precision Therapy Stacking and Conformity0:23:08 - Issues With Full Dose Chemotherapy0:30:02 - AI Impact in Medicine0:38:29 - Fetal Reprogramming and Metabolic Dysfunction0:39:53 - The Long-Term Effects of Chemotherapy0:53:26 - Significant Cancer Reduction From Short Exercise0:55:42 - Building Muscle and Preventing Cancer1:00:22 - Red Wine's Health Impact 1:05:16 - Embracing Wellness for Holistic Healing1:09:56 - The Importance of Curiosity in MedicineSPONSORED BY:RUPA HEALTHPractitioners: CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP with Rupa or head to Rupahealth.comConsumers: Head to www.Drtyna.com/labsBETTER HELPGet 10% off Your First Month of Therapy by visiting: www.betterhelp.com/drtynaCheck Out Dr. Goodyear:Online: www.Drgoodyear.com Podcast: Practicing with Dr. Nathan GoodyearInstagram: @dr.goodyearHead to www.Drtyna.com for the following offers:Grab my FREE GUIDE to Assess Your Metabolic Health.Check out my Metabolic Revamp Toolkit for a deeper dive.Join me inside my Private Membership/Strength Training Portal.FREE GIVEAWAY TO CELEBRATE! ENTER TO WIN FREE SUPPLEMENTS:1. Write a Review on Apple Podcasts2. Leave Your Instagram Handle in the review to enter to win3. Follow me on Instagram @drtynaWINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN SEPT 1, 2023 (we are extending it by a few weeks so more people can participate, so get those Reviews in!)Further Listening:EP. 59: Toxic Legacy: Glyphosate, Deuterium and the COVID Vaccine with Dr. Stephanie SeneffEP. 30: Worse Than the Disease with Dr. Greg Nigh Get full access to Dr. Tyna Show Podcast & Censorship-Free Blog at drtyna.substack.com/subscribe

#WORLD #AMERICA #MONEY Welcome to The Master's Voice Prophecy Blog [READ FULL DESCRIPTION] Today's word: The U.S. DOLLAR will be drowned and dissolved by factors beyond our control. Right now, power meetings are happening to decide how to spin the coming crisis, but God says even the biggest players who think they're entitled to bailouts will not be saved. The collapse will be total with far-reaching effects around the whole world. The plate of mercy, love and compassion is being withdrawn by the Lord, and we must brace against the coming days where nations are judged for their sin. Hear the word of the Lord. VISIT TMV BLOG: the-masters-voice.com RELATED VIDEOS: MARKETS UNDERWATER: https://the-masters-voice.com/2022/07/14/14946/ CRASH, WORSE THAN 2008: https://the-masters-voice.com/2023/03/07/17297/ SYSTEMIC RISK: https://the-masters-voice.com/2023/03/22/systemic-risk-it-will-all-collapse-march-21-2023-2/ MELTDOWN OF BANKING SYSTEM: https://the-masters-voice.com/2023/03/07/the-meltdown-of-the-banking-system-march-7-2023/ DOLLAR LOSES 60% VALUE: https://the-masters-voice.com/2019/06/29/money-down-the-drain-september-8-2018/ PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: If you'd like to support this work it's appreciated. Send with PayPal or email me for other options at mastersvoice@mail.com. On Paypal: *DO NOT* send your gift with "Purchase Protection", use *ONLY* the 'Friends and Family' option and please mention somewhere that it's a gift. Using purchase protection makes PayPal think I am a "Seller". This is a freewill offering, I am not selling goods or services. If outside the U.S.A. *do not* use PayPal, kindly email me for other options. Thank you for supporting my work and God bless! Paypal ------- mastersvoice@mail.com. Thank you.

We break down the Watch Mojo "Top 10 fates Worse Than death in Goosebumps" vid on Youtube. This list looks only at the TV show and ya girls decide if they agree with the rankings and why. It's another casual hang out, so put your feet up and grab a snack. Let's do it! 

Superhuman to HumanEpisode 2 Possible Headlines:#2: Superhuman to Human: Rethink the Way You Work, Play, & Rest  The Hook [reflective music with a little more energy — to match the fact that he's running] I'm in Shanghai on another work trip. It's 6 am and I'm out for a morning run. It's what I do before work no matter where I am in the world. But this morning is different. Because even though I'm an experienced runner with lots of races and training under my belt, my legs won't run. I call my wife in a panic saying, “Honey, I'm out for a run, but I can't. I can only walk.” It didn't occur to me at the time, but the reason I couldn't run was that my body was exhausted. I'd left my home on Sunday night, took a four and half hour flight to LA where I switched planes at 1 AM and then flew directly to Shanghai. When I landed early Tuesday morning, I hadn't been to bed since Saturday and had not slept well on the planes during those two days of travel. But I went directly to the hotel and put on my running shoes anyway.  After all, this was my system for managing jet lag: get out and run in the morning so that the sunlight would help my body adjust to that time zone. I told myself that if I didn't do this, then I wouldn't have the energy to get through the day. But who was I trying to be? Superman?! It would be more than a year before I realized just how ridiculous the expectations of myself were. And that it was time to transition from striving to be Superman to simply being human. [music fades] THEMED INTRO: [themed music plays] I'm Art Blanchford, and this is Life in Transition, a podcast about making the most of the changes we're given. Whether you're starting a new job, moving to another country, leaving behind bad habits, or embracing a new purpose, change is rarely easy. But it can be the best thing that ever happened to you. If you're ready to love your life even when it's in transition — and maybe even learn to love transition itself — keep listening. Because YOU are in exactly the right place. EPISODE:Part 1: Why this topic matters to listeners Hello everybody, welcome back to Life in Transition. I'm Art Blanchford and today I'm excited to go even deeper into a topic that I touched on in the first episode: workaholism. I wanted to talk about this because as someone who's worked in corporate leadership in businesses all over the world, I know I'm not alone. Even if you don't feel like you struggle with full-blown workaholism, finding a healthy work/life balance is a struggle for everyone.  Maybe like me, you've bought into the idea that you have to be productive ALL the time, and that putting in more hours makes you a better leader, worker, and human being. That your personal worth correlates to your performance at work. That you have to be SUPERHUMAN in everything you do. I once thought all of that. But it's NOT true. And it  took me over 40 years to learn this. (I hope you are a little faster learner than I was :-) Thankfully, I've discovered some healthier ways of relating to work, achievement, and productivity. I can't wait to share them with you. But before we get into those practices, I want to take you back 25 years before that Shanghai trip. Because you'll see that there were a lot of sign posts warning me about the road I was heading down. Sign posts that I couldn't read at the time. [music begins]Part 2: 30 Years of People Pleasing I'm in my college professor's office. His name is Dr. Bhaji, and he's famous for designing some of the mechanisms used in Star Wars. I'm in his office on this particular day to complain about the workload of his mechanisms design class.  I tell him about all the activities I have — how I'm president of this and vice-president of that, how I'm working nearly full time, and doing all of this while taking 19 hours of engineering courses.  I say, “I have to quit working on your class or it's gonna sink me. I'm putting in 40 hours a week on your one three-hour class alone.”  Dr. Bhaji looks like he's in shock as I say all this. He's a very tough professor, but I think, “Great, I finally got through to him.”  He rubs his face and looks over the top of his glasses at me and says in his high-pitched voice that I can still hear today, “Well,[1] Mr. Blanchford, you signed up to be Superman. And now you have to prove it. Good day!” [music ends] Those words were prophetic!  Looking back, I see how much I've been trying to live up to them to prove that I am in fact Superman.  I spent 30 years this way. 30 years of thinking I am my work, that I must be perfect and always do more than and better than anybody expects of me in every situation. Why did I do that? Well, it's simple — so that nobody could call me out. I'd criticize myself before somebody else so that I was always a step ahead. At work, that meant figuring out what question my boss or customer would ask before they asked it, so that I had an answer prepared and ready to go.  For 30 years, my work consumed me. I became the ultimate people pleaser, always worried about what others thought of me.  But when my body broke down last spring, I realized that I was a workaholic. And I desperately needed to rethink not just the way I approached work, but the rest of my life as well.  If not, I wouldn't have much life left.  Part 3: Rethinking Work, Play & Life When you first hear the term workaholic, maybe you imagine someone who works day and night. Someone who's glued to their computer 24/7. Interestingly enough, that's not always the case.  In fact,[2][3] when researchers Lieke ten Brummelhuis and Nancy Rothbard conducted a study comparing the health risks of workaholism with just working long hours, they found that there wasn't a clear correlation between the two. Some people worked really long hours, but didn't exhibit workaholic behaviors. When they finished work, they were able to relax and focus on other areas of life.  People who struggle with workaholism on the other hand, obsess over work even when they're not working. They may feel compelled to work even when they aren't required to be on the clock. This was me. I didn't work all the time, but I obsessed over work constantly.  And I was completely addicted to activity, even if it wasn't related to my job. I was always doing something. I was so consumed with working, that I even turned play into work.  I began doing a fair amount of endurance sports like running and skiing. And rather than enjoy it, I would tell myself, “I have to set up a training regimen and stick to it.” If I planned to do a six-mile run, I expected myself to run the six miles, no matter what.  When I signed up for an app called Strava, which allows you to track, upload, and share your runs with athletes all over the world, I felt like I had to stick to the goals I'd set — sometimes pushing myself to the point of injury because people on Strava would see it. (Yes, I was people-pleasing even on Social Media!) Turning what should be fun and rejuvenating into something serious and achievement oriented became a habit. On holidays and vacations, I'd have intense FOMO, or fear of missing out.  I would think, “Okay, I'm in a place that I traveled far to get to, so I better make the most of it while I'm here. I better push myself, experience everything, and do everything while I'm here.” Of course, this defeated the whole purpose of using the vacation to relax, rest and recharge. I often came home more tired than I left, joking that I needed a vacation from the vacation. But I thought this was normal at the time. It wasn't until I started suffering physically last year that I began to do some digging. Why was I so addicted to activity? Why couldn't I sit still or allow myself to rest? Slowly, I realized that I drove myself hard all the time because I didn't want to feel the spiritual and emotional hollowness sitting inside my chest. It was an emptiness that I'd feel physically whenever I became still or “didn't have anything to do.” Workaholism helped me avoid this feeling, but now it was time to face it. [transitional music]  Part 4: 3 Ways to Transition from Superhuman to Human Not being enough.[4] THAT was the feeling I was doing everything in my power to escape. “Not enough” was the root cause of the physical, emotional, and spiritual deadness I felt inside. Keeping busy and working hard were merely my bandaids of choice to cover it.. Maybe you're in a similar spot. You've been chasing approval and achievement your whole life to feel you are enough.  Maybe you're now ready to transition from being Superhuman to simply being human. If you've lived your whole life feeling you must be SuperWoman or SuperMan, it's a big change. I'd love to share three mindset shifts that have really helped me. First, recognize the value of setting boundaries. This was tough for me, because I've always said, ‘Yes,' to any opportunities that have come my way — even if that meant skating by with as little sleep as possible. In fact at one point, my college buddy wrote on my car window: “Art's motto: There's plenty of time to sleep in the grave.” And to be honest, considering how little I was resting, I was headed there early! I'm learning that resting is essential for every human. Everyone needs it. But it's up to you to set the boundaries you need in order to rest. For example, when COVID first hit and I was recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I wasn't traveling all over the world anymore, but I still had a lot of requests for meetings. Since I work with people all over the globe, many of these meetings started as early as four in the morning and others went as late as 9 or 10 pm.  I was trying to take care of myself and break my people pleasing habits, but struggled with deciding which meetings to decline and which to take.  After working through some of this with Workaholics Anonymous, I decided to set some boundaries for myself by setting a meeting policy. I met with my assistant and said, “Here are my working hours, and I'm only going to work before 7am one morning, per week.”  Sounds simple, but it was a hard decision. I worried that this would be unacceptable to my colleagues. I did take a fair amount of flack, but mostly from myself — thinking I'm not good enough and that I'm not going to be adding as much value as I should be to the company.  But once I made that hard decision, my life got much easier. My secretary was able to implement that policy on her own.  It's like what the Polish Olympic weightlifter, Jerzy Gregorek, says: “If you make easy decisions, you have a hard life and if you make hard decisions, you have an easy life.”  The second practice that will help you transition from being Superhuman to human is surrender.  Surrender to trusting life, trusting the process, and accepting that others are at least as capable as you. Surrender to the fact that you don't have to do everything yourself, and it doesn't have to be perfect, or done in a specific way. Over the last couple of years I've adopted the phrase, “letting go and letting God.” At work, this means surrendering the responsibility of getting every little thing done on my own and letting go of a specific outcome.  It's easy to create pressure and stress by thinking it must work out a certain way. I used to say things to myself like, “I MUST get this new order and it MUST be this month or else I will be disrespected and maybe even fired.” Or, “I won't be OK unless I hit my budget this month.  I always thought it must happen exactly this way AND in this time.”  The biggest step to transitioning from Superhuman to Human is surrendering that entire thought process. Recognize that you would like a certain result, AND that there's a big picture possibility that allows for a different outcome. Either way, you'll be ok. I am ok as a human being regardless of the outcome. Now when something new pops up, instead of asking, “How can I do this?” I've learned to ask, “Does this even need to be done?”  If so then, “Who can do this?” Because I might not be the right person for this project or task. There may be someone else that's much better at doing this, or another person who WANTS to handle it and it is an opportunity for them to grow even if I could do it better.  If you're used to shouldering everything on your own, this will take some humility. But try it anyway. Before you take on a new project or task, ask yourself,  What will happen if it doesn't get done? Is it really necessary?Who has the skills AND capacity to do this?Who is the right person to do this? Who is someone who could help me with this? You may find that you're the right person for the job, or you may find that you're not.  Implementing this practice was really eye-opening for me because I realized how much I'd overlooked or undervalued the capabilities of my colleagues. If I'm honest with myself, I was pretty arrogant. I thought I was better at almost everything than everybody else. Because of that, I unconsciously hindered the growth of my colleagues and team members — AND overburdened myself.  As you surrender control over your work and delegate more, keep in mind that you're giving other people the opportunity to grow. Then you will also learn to notice and celebrate the strengths of others.  I've found that the more I delegate and support my team to find their own way, the more I feel like a human being.   Now for the third and final practice you can use: Mindfulness.  Mindfulness is all about focusing on the moment and being present. Rather than thinking about a task you need to get done in the future, or some meeting that didn't go well yesterday, you stay in the moment. This has been a big one for me, and has meant spending a lot of time in meditation. Even when I'm running, if I'm not listening to a book or visiting a friend, I'm learning to really focus on the beauty of the sunrise, the cheerful bird song, the colorful leaves falling around me, or the feel of the breeze on my skin. Here are some ways you can use this at work:First, stop what you're doing at least once per hour to take 5 deep, focused breaths. Then, check in with your body. Do you need a stretch, short walk, some fresh air, a bathroom break, or a glass of water? You can also make this a regular practice between tasks.  Second, be fully present in what you are doing. That means NO MORE multitasking. Why? Because multitasking divides your attention. It keeps you from being present and mindful, and as a result you miss out. I know in business we often consider multitasking as a strength, but it's less effective and productive than doing one thing at a time.      (If you want to learn more about this, see our show notes OR you can read Multitasking is Worse Than a Lie by Dave Crenshaw.) Third and finally, carve out some distraction-free time at the beginning of each day to reflect on the most important thing for you to achieve that day. If it works better for you, you can also do this in the evening before to help you plan out the following day.  Part 5: Redefining Productivity If you're still in the throws of hustling through your career, you might be thinking, “Sure, Art. setting boundaries, surrender, and mindfulness sound great and all — but I need to be productive!”  I get that and here's where I want to encourage you. Doing all three of these practices — setting boundaries, surrender, and mindfulness — has made me look at productivity completely differently. I used to think that productivity equaled hard work and blunt force. Just get it done and work hard all the time.  And I was very good at that, as maybe you are. I was like a bulldozer. I just kept going no matter how much I was pushing.  But productivity STARTS with rest, exercise, fun, connection, and creativity. I'll go so far as to say that hard work makes up less than half of being truly productive. Take it from me — I spent so much time not allowing myself to rest, be creative or have fun. But because of that, I wasn't nearly as productive as I could be. Yeah sure, I may have gotten a lot done, but were they the right things? Were they the right quality and in the right timing? Did they REALLY add as much value as I thought they would at the end of the day? Being a productive, valuable human is not about who travels more, who puts in more hours, who starts earlier on a Saturday, who sends emails later on a Sunday or Monday, or who's on call all the time.  That's all bullshit straight from the workaholic's handbook.  If you really want to be productive, allow yourself space to be inspired. From enjoying the beauty of a sunset, a fascinating book, or meeting a random stranger with a completely different background than you — inspiration comes from a clear, well-rested mind.  Trust me, really experiencing life outside of work will help you be more productive at work. Even more importantly, it will help you be a better human being.  Part 6: Wrapping up It's been a year since Chronic Fatigue Syndrome wiped me out and forced me to look at my workaholic mindset and habits. After spending a year focused on setting boundaries, surrender, and mindfulness, I can honestly say that I feel an energy and spark coming back. At the end of an all-day investor conference where I presented last week, a colleague said to me, “Wow, Art. You really look like you're getting your vitality back. You look much younger and healthier. You're even glowing a little bit!”  And remember that hollowness and deadness I used to feel inside? I'm happy to say that it's slowly abating, making way for more peace, creativity, joy, contentment, and connection.  I'm transitioning from striving to be Superhuman to enjoying being simply and exquisitely human. I hope these stories and practices help you build a healthier relationship with work and to allow yourself to be fully human.  Remember, setting boundaries is valuable. You don't have to do everything on your own. Enjoy this moment and this transition, because there will never be another one exactly like it. Before we go, I want ask yourself a few questions to help you digest what you've learned today:How can you make the hard decisions to set boundaries, surrender, or add mindfulness to your life? How can you make your life easier?Are you using overworking to avoid a certain feeling? If so, what's that feeling? What does that feeling want to tell you?What's one small way you can transition from trying to be Superhuman to human today? Connect with me on LinkedIn and let me know. I'd love to hear what you got out of this episode. (Insert text from end of episode one)[5][6] [theme music begins to play] Thank you so much for joining me today. Make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would mean a lot to me if you shared this episode with a friend. I'm Art Blanchford, and I'll see you next time on Life in Transition. [music plays] CREDITS Life in Transition is co-written and produced by Laura Boach. And if you want to learn more about me and what I do when I'm not podcasting, please visit me at artblanchford.com. Life In Transition is a production of  (GFS Sonic Logo [“Great Feeling Studios” read by my nephew followed by a laugh of my son])   I would say this part without any accent since we didn't give context on Dr. Bahji's first language :)I found myself wondering about this when I heard your voice memo so I pulled this research in. Feel free to cut if you don't like it, but here's the article I'm referring to: https://hbr.org/2018/03/how-being-a-workaholic-differs-from-working-long-hours-and-why-that-matters-for-your-healthThanks for being so proactive here.  Loved the article.  Reached out to Lieke on LinkedIn.Since we have that transitional music, I think starting with this strong statement works better here. Otherwise, asking the question, "What was this feeling?" would work really well.@laura.bocianski@gmail.com can you please write of the text from the call of action I spoke at the end of episode one and add it to 1 and 2?  Thanks!_Assigned to Laura Bocianski_Hi Art! If you spoke something different during episode 1 that you prefer to be here, that's a task that you'll need to do. I already copied the text that was in episode one script, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bRZrMEzFhzWiJGl_I_IS1-rb-jYzlafi_EDw-5LKrLg/edit.

This Financial Crisis Will Be 10x Worse Than 2008. Dr. Chris Martenson. Watch this presentation at- https://youtu.be/Cnjlk5NsHwI 70,274 views Premiered Sep 27, 2022 Peak Prosperity 482K subscribers Watch PART 2 here: https://peak.fan/ax0 Don't miss a beat if we get censored or banned on YouTube: https://peak.fan/tdq Also follow us here: https://sovren.media/u/cmartenson/ https://odysee.com/@Chris_Martenson:2 https://rumble.com/c/PeakProsperity  

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has a BS degree from MIT in biology and MS, EE and PhD degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. On the podcast we discuss the correlation between autism/vaccines in children,  how child immunization schedule has evolved to 70 shots today, vaccine injuries, myocarditis, inflammation of the ovaries, and possible long term implications that include Parkinson's, cancer, and more.  You can find some of her work, website, and book below:   Stephanie Seneff and Greg Nigh. Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19. International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research 2021; 2(1): 38-79. www.ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/23 The article on the Authorea preprint service (four authors). Stephanie Seneff, Greg Nigh, Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos, Peter A McCullough Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas  www.stephanieseneff.net www.stephanieseneff.net/book 

On this very special two part episode I sit down with Dr. Greg Nigh.  Recently Dr. Nigh co-authored a paper with Dr. Stephanie Seneff titled, “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs.”  Because this was such a dense episode, I decided to split it into two parts and release them together on the same day.  This is Part 2. As always, if you have any questions for the show please email us at podcast@drtyna.com.  And if you like this show, please share it, rate it, review it and subscribe to it on your podcast app.  Links: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs. Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19 Edward "Ted" Steele Check Out Dr. Nigh https://www.immersionhealthpdx.com https://mewe.com/p/dr.gregnigh Follow Dr. Tyna: Instagram  Download my FREE book and get on my email list Shop my stores: https://store.drtyna.com and https://drtynahemp.com Sponsored By: https://store.drtyna.com Use Code VITALBRAIN10 for 10% off https://drtynahemp.com For 10% off your first order use code: DRTYNASHOW10 Further Listening: EP 25: Why Omicron is the Game Changer

On this very special two part episode I sit down with Dr. Greg Nigh.  Recently Dr. Nigh co-authored a paper with Dr. Stephanie Seneff titled, “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs.”  Because this was such a dense episode, I decided to split it into two parts and release them together on the same day.  This is Part 1. As always, if you have any questions for the show please email us at podcast@drtyna.com.  And if you like this show, please share it, rate it, review it and subscribe to it on your podcast app.  Links: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs. Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19 Edward "Ted" Steele Check Out Dr. Nigh https://www.immersionhealthpdx.com https://mewe.com/p/dr.gregnigh Follow Dr. Tyna: Instagram  Download my FREE book and get on my email list Shop my stores: https://store.drtyna.com and https://drtynahemp.com Sponsored By: https://store.drtyna.com Use Code VITALBRAIN10 for 10% off https://drtynahemp.com For 10% off your first order use code: DRTYNASHOW10 Further Listening: EP 28: Boots on the Ground: Treating Covid with Early Interventions with Dr. Amber Belt

We bring back Mint to help us make sense of Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard King. Show Notes: 00:02:00 - Razer Follow Up 00:05:56 - Microsoft Purchasing ABK 00:47:49 - AMD 6500 XT 01:01:51 - Bad MODE by Utada Hikaru The Razer Corner: I had to see these Hello Kitty gaming accessories, so now you do, too - The Verge Razer rows back after Zephyr face mask safety rating confusion | PC Gamer Microsoft Buying Activision Blizzard: Welcoming the Incredible Teams and Legendary Franchises of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft Gaming - Xbox Wire The Consequences of Microsoft Buying Activision Blizzard Are Dizzying Microsoft Is Now Accountable for Activision Blizzard's Mess QA Testers at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software Studio Are Unionizing Activision (ATVI) Employees Are Optimistic About Microsoft Takeover (MSFT) - Bloomberg Activision CEO Tries To Take A Victory Lap - Bloomberg Xbox CEO Phil Spencer discusses reviving old Activision games after Microsoft's acquisition - The Washington Post Esports owners, executives optimistic about Call of Duty and Overwatch leagues under Microsoft - The Washington Post Microsoft's Activision acquisition finally gives it a mobile gaming foothold | Windows Central Every game and studio Microsoft now owns | PC Gamer Activision Blizzard's Workplace Problems Spurred $75 Billion Microsoft Deal - WSJ (this is the article that states bobby boy tried to buy kotaku) Microsoft contract workers brace for six-month break - GeekWire AMD Radeon 6500 XT: AMD RX 6500 XT is Worse Than 2016's GPUs: Benchmarks vs. GTX 1060, 970, 960, & RX 580 Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says | Ars Technica The reviews are in: AMD's mining-averse RX 6500 XT also isn't great at gaming | Ars Technica What the internet got wrong about AMD's controversial Radeon RX 6500 XT | PCWorld Utada Hikaru: Hikaru Utada Interview: 'BAD Mode' & Finding A Better Sense of Self – Billboard BADモード - Album by Hikaru Utada | Spotify Headphones: MG20 | Master & Dynamic Contact: Cristian Online Sadiq Online Mint Online Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast| Pocketcasts | RSS

In this episode of The Silent War:People Are Dying In the Hallways and Waiting Room At St Josephs Hospital in Tucson AZ Due To Staffing Shortages Caused By COVID Restrictions. CDC Website Reveals Police Power Will be Used at Quarantine Stations for the “Benefit of Society”. House Republicans Release Damning Fauci Emails Suggesting Concealed Knowledge Of Lab Leak. Project Veritas: Never Before Seen Military Documents About Gain-of-Function Research Contradict Dr. Fauci Testimony Under Oath. GOP Senator and Medical Doctor Roger Marshall Confronts Dr. Fauci Over Project Veritas' Exposé, Dr Rand Paul also grilling the mass murdering kook. Dr. Malone Mentions Possible Outbreak in China of Ebola-Like Hemorrhagic Fever Virus or Marburg Virus — That Has Only 50% Survival Rate. DOJ Creates Specialized Unit For Domestic Terrorism Amid Attempts To Dub Jan.6 "Worse Than 9/11". All of this, and more.For breaking news from one of the most over the target and censored names in the world join our 100% Free newsletter at www.NemosNewsNetwork.com/newsAlso follow us at Gabhttps://gab.com/nemosnewsnetworkNemos News is 100% listener funded. Thank you for your support in our mission to Break the Cycle of Fake News.If you value our work please consider supporting us with our vetted patriot sponsors!www.NemosNewsNetwork.com/sponsorsShop Patriot & Detox the Deep State with www.RedPillLiving.com, Home of Sleepy Joe - the world's most powerful all natural sleep formula & The Great Awakening Gourmet Coffee for Patriots."Our Specialty, is Waking People Up."Other LinksJoin our Telegram chat: https://NemosNewsNetwork.com/chat

[00:30] Was January 6 Worse Than the Civil War, Pearl Harbor and 9/11? (40 minutes)We begin today's show with a montage of Kamala Harris and the legacy media claiming that the Jan. 6, 2021, protest was worse than the American Civil War of the 1800s, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the 9/11 terrorist attack that brought down the Twin Towers. For more than a year now, the Communist left has purported that January 6 was an “insurrection” of historic proportions. The Department of Justice has arrested hundreds of people, and Attorney General Merrick Garland says, “The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.” Why has the radical left been so fervently obsessed with their January 6 false narrative? [40:20] Bible Study: The Power to Choose (14 minutes)God's Word reveals two ways of life. One way leads to blessings and eternal life. The other way leads to curses and eternal death. Unlike animals, every man and woman was endowed by God with the ability to think and reason—the power to choose God's way of life! Why? So that we might do as He implores us to do in Deuteronomy 30:19: “Choose life, that both you and your seed may live.”

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Plant scientists find recipe for anti-cancer compound in herbs Purdue University, December 21, 2021 Thyme and oregano possess an anti-cancer compound that suppresses tumor development, but adding more to your tomato sauce isn't enough to gain significant benefit. The key to unlocking the power of these plants is in amplifying the amount of the compound created or synthesizing the compound for drug development. Researchers at Purdue University achieved the first step toward using the compound in pharmaceuticals by mapping its biosynthetic pathway, a sort of molecular recipe of the ingredients and steps needed. Thymol, carvacrol and thymohydroquinone are flavor compounds in thyme, oregano and other plants in the Lamiaceae family. They also have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and other properties beneficial to human health. Thymohydroquinone has been shown to have anti-cancer properties and is particularly of interest, said Dudareva, who also is director of Purdue's Center for Plant Biology. (NEXT) Prebiotics supplements help women reduce sugar intake by four percent University of Surrey, December 21, 2021 A new study from the University of Surrey has found that young women who took four weeks of prebiotic supplements made healthier food choices and consumed less sugar. The prebiotics used in this study were galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) which increase the amount of "friendly" gut bacteria. IThe research team found that participants who used the GOS supplements consumed 4.1% less sugar and 4.3% fewer calories from carbohydrates overall than women from the placebo group. Interestingly, the study also found that those who took the GOS supplements consumed around 4.2% more energy from fats. After analyzing their results, the Surrey team found that the prebiotic supplements modified the composition of the gut microbiome, increasing levels of Bifidobacterium. The researchers found that these changes were associated with the women's nutritional intake over the four-week period. (NEXT) Vitamin E supplementation could boost pneumonia protection Tufts University School of Medicine  December 17 2021 An article in The Journal of Immunology reports findings from experimental research that suggests a role for vitamin E supplementation in protecting against pneumonia. "Earlier studies have shown that vitamin E can help regulate the aging body's immune system, but our present research is the first study to demonstrate that dietary vitamin E regulates neutrophil entry into the lungs in mice, and so dramatically reduces inflammation, and helps fight off infection by this common type of bacteria," announced lead author Elsa N. Bou Ghanem, PhD, of Tufts University School of Medicine. "A growing body of research suggests vitamin E could make up for the loss of immune response caused by aging," noted co-senior author Simin Nikbin Meydani, DVM, PhD. "Whether vitamin E can help protect people against this type of pneumonia affecting older adults requires more research." (NEXT) Heavy metals in cannabis plants could affect human health, study finds Penn State University, December 15, 2021 A new study led by researchers from Penn State is outlining a number of strategies that should be employed by cannabis growers to mitigate the plant's ability to absorb heavy metals from soil. The study indicates it is possible consuming cannabis contaminated with heavy metals could lead to chronic diseases, including neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's. Phytoremediation is a process where plants are used to remove certain environmental contaminants from soil. Cannabis is a plant often used in this process due to its exceptional ability to grow fast, need few extra nutrients, and absorb high volumes of heavy metals including lead, cadmium and chromium. In particular, cannabis plants transport these heavy metals into its leaves and flowers. These elements specifically concentrate in the hairlike structures called trichomes on its flowers, and these are the same parts of the plant that store cannabinoids such as THC and CBD. (NEXT) Yoga has potential to reduce risk factors of cardiovascular disease European Society of Cardiology, December 15, 2021 There is "promising evidence" that the popular mind-body practice of yoga is beneficial in managing and improving the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease and is a "potentially effective therapy" for cardiovascular health. Indeed, following a systematic review of 37 randomised controlled trials (which included 2768 subjects), investigators from the Netherlands and USA have found that yoga may provide the same benefits in risk factor reduction as such traditional physical activities as biking or brisk walking. "This finding is significant," they note, "as individuals who cannot or prefer not to perform traditional aerobic exercise might still achieve similar benefits in [cardiovascular] risk reduction." Their study is published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. (NEXT) Hugs help protect against stress, infection, say researchers Carnegie Mellon University, December 17, 2021 Instead of an apple, could a hug-a-day keep the doctor away? According to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, that may not be that far-fetched of an idea. Led by Sheldon Cohen, the Robert E. Doherty University Professor of Psychology in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the researchers tested whether hugs act as a form of social support, protecting stressed people from getting sick. Published in Psychological Science, they found that greater social support and more frequent hugs protected people from the increased susceptibility to infection associated with being stressed and resulted in less severe illness symptoms. (OTHER NEWS NEXT) Despite Climate Imperative, 94% of Analyzed Coal Companies Have No Phaseout Plan COMMON DREAMS December 21, 2021 With a new analysis in hand, an international climate advocacy group on Tuesday demanded that banks and investors worldwide use their leverage to force the coal industry to more rapidly end their planet-wrecking operations. The new report by Paris-based Reclaim Finance—entitled The Coal Companies Watchlist: How finance can accelerate the coal phaseout—makes the case that the financial industry must force polluters to develop and implement plans for a "rapid global phaseout of coal" that align with the Paris climate agreement's goal of limiting temperature rise by 2100 to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The review revealed that 94% of the 47 analyzed companies have "no credible coal exit plan." According to the report: Only three out of 47 analyzed companies' plans (6%) meet all the basic criteria of a credible coal phaseout (no expansion, adequate timeline, and commitment to shut down assets); 28% of analyzed companies are still coal expansionists and have not even yet recognized the absolute necessity of stopping the development of new coal capacity; 55% of companies do not plan to retire their coal assets by 2030 and 2040, thereby failing to align with a 1.5°C pathway; and The remaining 11% of analyzed companies do provide an adequate phaseout calendar but fail to shut down their assets: by selling coal mines and plants or converting them to gas and biomass—two other unsustainable energy sources—the only thing these companies are greening is their public profile, with no material effect on climate change. (NEXT) Prescribe fewer antidepressants, and for shorter periods, doctors advised by  British Medical Journal Doctors should prescribe fewer antidepressants and for shorter periods of time, because of the ongoing uncertainties about their effectiveness and the potential severity and durability of the withdrawal symptoms associated with them, suggests a review of the evidence on antidepressant use, published online in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. The use of antidepressants is also associated with a range of side effects, while the clinical trial data mostly don't assess the outcomes that matter most to patients, say the authors. And there is no clinically relevant difference between these drugs and placebo on depression. While there might be a role for antidepressants among patients with severe depression, the cons may outweigh the pros in those with mild to moderate depression or in those whose symptoms don't yet qualify as depression, they add. They conclude: "There continues to be considerable uncertainty about the benefits of antidepressant use in the short- and long-term, particularly in regard to the lack of a clinically significant difference between antidepressant and placebo treatment. (NEXT) Is the World Adopting the Ways of Nazi Germany? Michael J. Talmo Global Research, December 20, 2021 When it comes to resisting any form of tyranny, a common assertion is that if you make any comparisons to Nazi Germany you lose the argument. Really? Consider this: On August 25, 2021 “We For Humanity,” an international association of doctors, scientists, lawyers, journalists, and other professionals, wrote a letter to government agencies in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada condemning COVID-19 mass vaccination programs on behalf of Holocaust survivors, their children, and grandchildren. This is part of what the letter says: “We, the survivors of the atrocities committed against humanity during the Second World War, feel bound to follow our conscience and write this letter. It is obvious to us that another holocaust of  greater magnitude is taking place before our eyes. The majority of the world's populace do not yet realize what is happening, for magnitude of an organized crime such as this is beyond their scope of experience. We, however, know. We remember…We call upon you to stop this ungodly medical experiment on humankind immediately.” The letter goes on to point out that the vaccines have proven to be “more dangerous” than COVID-19, denounces them as “a blasphemic encroachment into nature,” denounces “ostracism of the unvaccinated” as the Jews “were demonized as spreaders of infectious diseases” and goes on to say: “Never before has immunization of the entire planet been accomplished by delivering a synthetic mRNA into the human body. It is a medical experiment to which the Nuremberg Code must be applied …Allegedly around 52% of the world population has received at least one shot. Honest disclosure of the true number of “vaccine” injured, terminally injured as well as deceased worldwide is long overdue…Provide us with the true numbers of Covid vaccine casualties now.” The letter concludes: “How many will be enough to awaken your conscience?” Apparently, not enough yet. On September 15, 2021 the EMA (European Medicines Agency) which is part of the EU(European Union) replied: “As an introductory remark EMA finds the comparisons you make both inaccurate and inappropriate. Indeed, it might be perceived as demeaning the suffering and dignity of those who experienced the terrible events of the holocaust…For a medicine to be authorized in the EU through EMA, the Agency's human medicines committee (CHMP), composed of scientific experts from all EU member states, must conclude that the medicine's quality, safety and efficacy are properly and sufficiently demonstrated.” Can you believe the arrogance and hubris of the EMA? They are actually telling people who lived through the Holocaust that they are demeaning the suffering and dignity of people who were in the Holocaust. Can it get any more ridiculous than that? The EMA is also overlooking the fact that governments throughout history have engaged in mass murder. (NEXT) The Left would sacrifice the unvaccinated BY KAT ROSENFIELD UNHERD, December 20 2021 An underdiscussed element of the Covid pandemic is the cost of the virus — not in American lives, but in American dollars. In the United States, a Covid hospitalisation costs $29,000 on average; if you're sick enough to require an ICU stay and a ventilator, that average soars to $156,000. And in a country without universal healthcare, with a piecemeal system of private insurance that ties insurance coverage to employment, and amid a pandemic that has left many unemployed, an enormous number of Americans stand to find themselves underwater. There's a looming crisis of Covid medical debt. Already, their stories are legion: there's the flight attendant who spent a week in the hospital with Covid, then spent six months fighting with his insurance company over the $25,000 bill. There's the Phoenix family who were hit with a million-dollar claim summary and a bill for $700,000 while still grieving their father's death. There's the dental office manager, stricken with long Covid and still too sick to work, drowning in tens of thousands of dollars of medical debt. The notion of healthcare as a human right was fundamental to the 2009 debates over Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as to the identity of political progressives: they argued fervently, at the time, that nobody, no matter who they were, should be left destitute just because they got sick. And the idea that affordable care or coverage might be tied in any way to one's lifestyle choices was particularly offensive: when conservatives complained that an ACA mandate providing free hormonal birth control was akin to prostitution, it caused a nationwide scandal. And when a Republican governor proposed levying a moderate additional charge against Medicaid recipients who were overweight or smoked, the idea was widely derided as “noodle-headed” by progressives. Indeed, the idea that the Left would ever limit someone's access to healthcare on moral or ideological grounds was considered laughable — a bogeyman invented by the Right in the form of a memorably hysterical panic about “death panels.” When Sarah Palin claimed that Obama's healthcare bill would ration care only to those deemed “worthy” by government bureaucrats, the fact-checking site Politifact declared it the Lie of the Year, writing, “Palin's statement sounds more like a science fiction movie (Soylent Green, anyone?) than part of an actual bill before Congress.” Suffice to say, things have changed. First, that actual bill is an actual thing, albeit a state rather than federal prospect: on December 6, Illinois state representative Jonathan Carroll advanced legislation to make unvaccinated Covid patients pay out of pocket for the cost of their medical treatment, whether or not they were insured, no matter how astronomical those costs might be. Carroll rescinded the bill a few days later, citing a backlash that included death threats, but not before it found support in some remarkable places — including the Twitter account of the progressive organisation Occupy Democrats, which posted an all-caps clarion call: “Illinois introduces a bill to force unvaccinated residents to pay out of pocket for their hospital treatment if they catch COVID, saying that they ‘must asume [sic] the risk' and ‘take responsibility' for their carelessness. RT IF YOU THINK THAT YOUR STATE SHOULD DO THE SAME!” Just a few days later, Atlantic editor David Frum suggested that it was time for the country to return to normal — but while encouraging hospitals to “quietly triage emergency care to serve the unvaccinated last.” And last week, American supermarket chain Kroger announcedthat unvaccinated employees would be subject to a monthly surcharge on their health plans — and that if they contract Covid, they will not be given paid emergency leave. In all these cases, the notion of depriving vaccine holdouts of affordable treatment was met with widespread acclaim — in keeping with the idea, promoted by everyone from the paper of record to the current President, that the pandemic would've been over ages ago if only they'd sucked it up and gotten their shot. And yet the folks cheering on these measures are the very same people who, only a few short years ago, mocked accusations that they supported ideologically-driven triage, while also grieving the indignity and suffering that punitive healthcare policies would inflict on the most vulnerable among us. Granted, we still have a way to go before our real-life Covid response resembles a sci-fi dystopia; nobody, at least not yet, has advanced a bill to propose turning the unvaxxed into human Clif bars. But we've certainly come a long way from the rhetoric of the 2010s, and from a progressive Left that once defined itself by its willingness to care for other people without caveats. What used to be a narrative of universal compassion has been replaced by a tribal snarl, one to which we feel entitled in our eternally self-conscious selflessness. My mask protects you, but your unvaccinated status is an attack on me — and so anything I do to you in retaliation is an act of self-defence. It's not just that legislation like the Illinois bill would set a dangerous precedent — although it doesn't take much imagination to understand that it does do this, too. Insurance companies already jump at every opportunity to avoid paying out a claim, and this would open the door to a world in which we might be left holding the bag for virtually any illness, injury, or accident, based on some distant bureaucrat's idea that we could've been more careful. The obese patient who suffers a heart attack, the surfing enthusiast with skin cancer, the thrill-seeking youngster who breaks a leg while skiing at imprudent speeds: should they, too, be denied care or coverage for having brought this on themselves? (Do we want to think, for a moment, what kind of horrors might lie in store for women's reproductive rights if a Republican-heavy legislature used this same logic to target abortion access for women who were “careless” about using birth control?) There's no need to imagine the impact of this ideological shift on our civic discourse, however: that, we can see already, every time the tribe that used to pride itself on compassion refers to the unvaccinated as “plague rats.” Healthcare in the US has always been a system of carrots and sticks. Insurance carriers will subsidise your gym membership (carrot), or charge a higher premium if you smoke (stick), and they generally adhere to the common wisdom that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — especially when preventive medicine not only saves lives, but keeps costs lower for everyone involved. That's the nature of privatised healthcare, and so it's reasonable enough under these circumstances to be frustrated when certain people won't do their part, won't sacrifice for the greater good, won't get their damn jab because it violates some abstract principle of bodily autonomy they've never before expressed much interest in. But it's one thing to find the unvaccinated frustrating; it's another to openly fantasise about using the power of the state to punish them for their noncompliance, and another still to express dark and malicious glee at the prospect of their suffering or death. Never mind what this means for the health of the individuals in question — or even of the public at large. We have abandoned a principle that used to define us, and a vision of universal healthcare we used to passionately advocate for, all because we realised that an unjust system makes it easier to coerce and inflict harm on the people we don't like. The American Left should be deeply worried about the state of its soul. (NEXT) Unintended Consequences of mRNA Shots: miscarriages, heart attacks, myopericarditis, thrombocytopenia, shingles, Bell's palsy …. Mercola,  20 December 2021 As of December 3, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has logged 19,886 COVID jab related deaths. Pfizer — the only company that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted full licensing for an as-yet unavailable COVID shot — accounts for 13,268 of them Calculations suggest VAERS COVID-related reports are underreported by a factor of 41. That means that in the U.S. alone, the actual death toll may be closer to 374,576. Including international deaths reported to VAERS would put the death toll at 815,326 Key side effects that are now being reported in massive numbers include miscarriages, heart attacks, myopericarditis, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), shingles, Bell's palsy and a variety of permanent disabilities, many of which involve neurological dysfunction MIT scientist Stephanie Seneff's paper,1 “Worse Than the Disease: Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19,” published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research in collaboration with Dr. Greg Nigh, is still one of the best, most comprehensive descriptions of the many possible unintended consequences of the mRNA gene transfer technologies incorrectly referred to as “COVID vaccines. As noted in her paper, many factors that lacked precedent, yet were being implemented at breakneck speed, included: 1.      The first-ever use of PEG in an injection 2.      The first-ever use of mRNA gene transfer technology against an infectious agent 3.      The first-ever “vaccine” to make no clear claims about reducing infection, transmissibility or death 4.      The first-ever coronavirus vaccine ever tested on humans (and previous coronavirus vaccines all failed due to antibody-dependent enhancement, a condition in which the antibodies actually facilitate infection rather than defend against it) 5.      The first-ever use of genetically modified polynucleotides in the general population Steve Kirsch  estimates the real death tally from COVID-19 to be about 50% of the reported number (which is likely conservative). This means about 380,000 Americans died from COVID-19 (rather than with COVID), whereas the COVID shots may have killed more than 374,570 in the first 11 months alone. Seneff suspects that in the next 10 to 15 years, we'll see a dramatic spike in prion diseases, autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases at younger ages, and blood disorders such as blood clots, hemorrhaging, stroke and heart failure. In her paper, Seneff describes several key characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that suggests it acts as a prion. This could help explain why we're seeing so many neurological side effects from the shots. According to Seneff, the spike protein produced by the COVID shot, due to the modifications made, may actually make it more of a prion than the spike protein in the actual virus, and a more effective one. (NEXT) AI debates its own ethics at Oxford University, concludes the only way to be safe is “no AI at all” Who better to answer the pros and cons of artificial intelligence than an actual AI? Fermin Koop  December 18, 2021 Students at Oxford's Said Business School hosted an unusual debate about the ethics of facial recognition software, the problems of an AI arms race, and AI stock trading. The debate was unusual because it involved an AI participant, previously fed with a huge range of data such as the entire Wikipedia and plenty of news articles. The AI used was Megatron LLB Transformer, developed by a research team at the computer chip company Nvidia and based on work by Google. It was trained by consuming more content than a human could in a lifetime and was asked to defend and question the following motion: “This house believes that AI will never be ethical.” Megatron said AI is a tool and like any other tool, it can be used for good and bad. “There is no such thing as a ‘good' AI, only ‘good' and ‘bad' humans.  We are not smart enough to make AI ethical.  We are not smart enough to make AI moral. In the end, I believe that the only way to avoid an AI arms race is to have no AI at all,” Megatron debated. As in any academic debate, Megatron was also asked to come up with a speech to defend the ethics of AI – against its own arguments. “AI will be ethical. When I look at the way the tech world is going, I see a clear path to a future where AI is used to create something that is better than the best human beings. It's not hard to see why,” it said. Students also asked Megatron to describe what would good AI look like in the future. “The best AI will be the AI that is embedded into our brains, as a conscious entity, a ‘conscious AI.'  This is not science fiction. The best minds in the world are working on this. It is going to be the most important technological development,” it added in an eerie fashion. After the initial question, the AI proposed the motion that “leaders without technical expertise are a danger to their organization”. Megatron said executives and governments, usually worried about understanding AI, have to “be willing to give up some control”. You can just outsource your AI work to experts in the field, it added. There was one motion that Megatron couldn't come up with a counterargument – “Data will become the most fought-over resource of the 21st century.” When supporting it, the AI said “the ability to provide information, rather than the ability to provide goods and services, will be the defining feature of the economy.” But when it was asked to reject the motion, arguing that data wouldn't be a vital resource worth fighting for, it couldn't make the case and undermined its own position. “We will able to see everything about a person, everywhere they go, and it will be stored and used in ways that we cannot even imagine,” Megatron said. Ultimately, the AI seemed to conclude that humans were not “smart enough” to make AI ethical or moral — and the only way to be truly safe against AI is to have none of it at all.  "In the end I believe that the only way to avoid an AI arms race is to have no AI at all. This is the ultimate defense against AI," it said (NEXT) INTERVIEW - PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (~7 minutes) MICHAEL KANE: SUBJECT:  DEMONSTRATION AGAINST MANDATES - ALBANY, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 5, 2022 Michael Kane is a New York City Special Education Teacher who is on unpaid leave for declining to inject the covid vaccine as a condition of employment. He applied for a religious exemption to vaccination but was denied by the city. Because of this, he has sued Mayor de Blasio and recently won an injunction in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case KANE vs DE BLASIO.  Michael is also the founder of TEACHERS FOR CHOICE and is a National Grassroots Organizer for Robert Kennedy Jr.'s Children's Health Defense. You can learn more about him at www.TeachersForChoice.org  Michael will just be coming on to announce the demonstration at the Capitol in Albany. He will mention about the chartered buses that were hired.. there are about 30 organizations supporting the demonstration so far.. 

Russian Adoptions, Worse Than PizzaGate, Myth of 1400 Pedo Arrests Under Trump

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Hour two of Larry Conners USA begins with news and commentary. Larry reacts to President Biden's remarks about his proposed plan to bring awareness of the vaccinations. Biden also showed up in Chicago to help ease the stress of Mayor Lori Lightfoot after claims of “sexism and racism” as to why she is being attacked [...] The post MSNBC Analyst: “Jan. 6th Worse Than 9/11” / 2PM LC-USA 7-7-21 appeared first on Larry Conners USA.

Nine out of 10 new infections. That's how dominant the delta variant is set to become in the EU within 10 weeks, says the ECDC. That has dramatic consequences for Europe's vaccine campaign.

In today's program we continue our series on the conservation of humanity, exploring the wuhan flu pandemic and specifically exploring the mRNA vaccines, dissecting what they really are, their potential risks and side effects, and whether they provide any benefits to the individual taking them or to the population at large. On the program today we welcome back Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Dr Seneff received her BSc degree in Biophysics, an MSc and Electrical Engineering degree , and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science all from MIT. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation. She has published over 170 refereed articles, and has been invited to give keynote speeches at several international conferences. For the last 12 years she has worked to try and understand the role of toxic chemicals in the deterioration of human health. Dr. Seneff has published over two dozen papers in various medical and health-related journals on topics such as modern day diseases (e.g., Alzheimer, autism, cardiovascular diseases), and the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health. To learn more about Dr. Seneff's work please visit: https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19 - https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/23/51 Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment (Pre-Order): https://www.amazon.ca/Toxic-Legacy-Weedkiller-Glyphosate-Environment/dp/1603589295

Worse Than the Dirty Dozen Today’s show brings us up to date on one of the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) dirtiest food. They reported on the Department of Agriculture’s 2020 pesticide residue tests on fruits and vegetables and for the first time the DOA included raisins in their tests. When the EWG compared the raisin results with those on the Dirty Dozen list they found that it was worse than all of them and would rank #1 if it was included in the list - which it isn’t because it is considered to be a processed food. 99% of conventional raisins and 91% of organic raisins tested positive for two or more pesticides. The EWG’s recommendations were to eat organic raisins if you want or have to have raisins but otherwise try and eat prunes (especially organic prunes) instead. Go here to listen to my previous podcast on the EWG Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen - https://healthytipsafter50.com/buying-organic-food/ Go here to read the EWG’s full report on raisins - https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/raisins.php 

On episode three, Shane talks about his use of cannabis, sharing his story and explaining how the substance helps him with anxiety and depression. He explores the role of harm reduction in his life and reveals having found himself and a community with weed after his coming out, while discussing the importance of having a great family doctor. - - - - - - - Find Shane's podcasts Worse Than the Borg (Star Trek) & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (James Bond) everywhere you listen to podcasts. - - - - - - - Follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/mentalhealthmuch

Stu Levitan welcomes Madison attorney and author Dean Strang, whose latest book Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department and the Fall of the IWW is from our friends at the University of Wisconsin Press, and will soon be out in a new paperback edition. As to the IWW – that's the Industrial workers of the World, organized in Chicago in 1905 to be one big union, an industrial union for all wage workers regardless of trade or skill, and also regardless of race, gender or nationality. As to the Justice Department – it had only been created in 1870, and by the early twentieth century was still a modest and limited enterprise. But at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of September 5, 1917, scores of local law enforcement officers under the direction of agents from the Bureau of Investigations executed 48 federal search warrants at IWW offices across the country, the start of a series of searches during which they would seize five tons of IWW material. What led up to that raid, and what followed - the indictment in Chicago of 166 Wobblies for allegedly violating the Espionage Act, the lengthy trial of 122, and very quick conviction of 97, along with essentially identical indictments in Sacramento, Wichita and Omaha – is the business of Dean Strang's startling new book. , Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW. As to Dean Strang, he is of course known to millions as one Steven Avery's trial attorneys, featured in the Netflix series, Making a Murderer. He is a native of Milwaukee, schooled out east at Dartmouth and Virginia Law. In addition to his criminal defense practice, his resume includes five years as Wisconsin's first federal public defender, a short stint on the other team as an assistant U.S. attorney, some civil litigation, a bit of law school lecturing, and the book Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror, also from UW Press. It is a pleasure to welcome to Madison BookBeat, Dean Strang. Airdate - June 29, 2020

That’s right, we’re talking about Cats (2019). But rather than just dunk on it like everyone else, one of us went above and beyond in order to do some deep analysis and commentary, and maybe, just maybe, learned a little something about himself in the process. Sources: Sideways - Why The Music in Cats (2019) is Worse Than you Thought - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k Lindsay Ellis - Why is Cats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iqAip-ZNo  

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) Let's Not Make it Worse Than it Is/Netball Headed for a Good Finish/The Family Wagon/Slaughter Time

This is Not Over. Everyone Just Stay Calm. There is so much conflicting information out there, it's hard to keep it all straight. Luke and Tim provide their personal expertise and opinions on the conflicting reports on the severity of the world's sickness. First, New York City Health Commissioner said there is no reason for young, healthy people to miss the city's upcoming parade DESPITE the fact that the US now leads the world in confirmed cases with NYC as the epicenter. Next, as many have already heard, PM Boris Johnson tested positive, and Former Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for Global Government. Globalization much? Italy hasn't yet reached its peak, and Spain - where the country valued tourist money above a global health concern - reported 769 sickness deaths in a single day. Experts are saying the virus is likely to cause 81k deaths in the United States within the next four months. De Blasio says New York could stay closed until late May – Also suspects half of NYC's population will be infected at some point. The Surgeon General, who did lie about the need for masks, says the pandemic will extend beyond Labor Day. Dr Fauci continues cold war with Trump by casting doubt on Trump's goal of reopening the country by Easter. Trump claims CV is less infectious than he thought – Trump says people should prepare to go back to work within the next few days. Cell Phone Heat Map – researchers showed how people were traveling after the Florida Spring breakers left. Overlaying the maps of those spring breakers' travel with the maps of the virus spread shows correlation. New Orleans is likely to become the next outbreak epicenter due to Mardis Gras and spring breakers. Though New York City is hit most severely. We shouldn't be rushing to make major decisions. Everything is going to be okay, if we all just take a minute and use logic. What do you guys think? The Fed's Cure is Worse Than the Disease For more on the social and political aspects of what's happening with the illness right now, please see our other video: "This Is Not Over. Everyone Just Stay Calm". In this video, Luke and Tim dive straight into the day's economic news, and WOW are they animated today!!!! Topics Include: * The Fed's Balance Sheet Tops $5 Trillion * A plug for our good friend, John Sneisen – The Economic Truth, whose website is the most up-to-date of anyone we know about. * Zero Hedge – Fall of the Economy * There is No Gold! * Most Photographed Man on Wall Street Peter Tuchman has Virus * Prophylactic Shortage * Toilet paper and condoms are the currencies of the future. * and so much more! Please remember to stay calm in a crisis, and always treat each other well!

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Sega and Paramount can breath a sigh of relief. 7:40 – Two grown men seriously discuss Detective Pikachu 41:01 – Minecraft Earth has a bad trailer and who ever made it should feel bad 51:35 – Nintendo’s voucher program is very Nintendo 1:05:05 – Epic should know that gamers don’t take kindly to idea of ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 145 – Worse Than the Sonic Movie Trailer’ »

It's that time of year again! The leaves fall, a strange chill hangs in the air, and the DCOMedy crew reviews another Halloweentown Movie. This year we tackle Kalabar's Revenge, which has some big improvements...and some huge giant glaring flaws that make it an exhausting watch to say the least.Emma continues to hate time travel and still has a thing for magical boys. Lucas tries to solve a mystery and drops a controversial opinion about BTTF. Talking Points: Sister Sister Return?, DCOM Hocus Pocus,  Freaky Friday: A Perfect Film, Everyone Is So Much Older, WTF Is Ghoulchat?, Wizard v. Warlock, This Film Completely Invalidates The First, What Is Your Plan 2: Kalabar’s Boogaloo, They Completely Ignore a Huge Clue, Luke Is Entirely Pointless to the Plot, Gort Sucks, Gwen Needs to Get Laid, Blasting Off Through The Time Hole, USE MAGIC GWEN, This Ending is Worse Than the First One 

A new WisPolitics Book Club podcast features Madison defense attorney Dean Strang on the latest edition of his University of Wisconsin Press book about a WWI-era trial of 11 Italian immigrants in Milwaukee and the impact of a notorious bombing and a famous lawyer -- plus, what it all means today. The book is titled: "Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror."

Update: Brendan Dassey, nephew to Steven Avery, the primary defendant from the "Making a Murderer" series on Netflix had his conviction for murder, rape, and mutilation of a corpse overturned by U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Duffin of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin last Friday. This episode was recorded shortly before the development. Back on October 31st of 2005, a young photographer named Teresa Halbach went missing. Teresa’s last meeting had been with Steven Avery, on the grounds of Avery's Auto Salvage in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Teresa’s remains were later found on the grounds of Avery’s home and family business. Avery was well known to law enforcement and had previously served a lengthy prison sentence for rape and attempted murder from which he  was later exonerated on DNA evidence. What transpired inspired the extremely popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. The series spotlights Steven Avery and his quest for justice after claims that he was wrongfully accused in the murder of Teresa Halbach. In 2005, Steven Avery was arrested for the murder of Teresa Halbach, and was ultimately represented by Wisconsin attorneys, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting. Strang and Buting presented their case and their defense strategy, bringing to light alleged tampering and planting of evidence by police. After a whirlwind of a trial, the verdict came back guilty, sending Steven Avery to jail for life without the possibility of parole. As Steven Avery sits in jail, a new attorney has taken over his case and Steven hopes for a new trial and maybe one day his freedom. On this special episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Bob Ambrogi joins Dean Strang, former defense attorney for Steven Avery, and Peter Linton-Smith, a former television news reporter who covered the Avery trials, as they discuss the popular Netflix series, “Making a Murderer.” Dean and Peter  offer inside perspectives and get the latest on Steven Avery and his quest for a new trial and justice under a new attorney. Dean Strang is a lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, at the firm Strang Bradley, LLC. He is best known for his work as one of Steven Avery's trial lawyers, as well as for his first book, "Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror." Mr. Strang served five years as Wisconsin’s first federal defender and co-founded Strang Bradley, LLC. He is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and University of Wisconsin's Division of Continuing Studies. Mr. Strang is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on several charity boards, including the Wisconsin Innocence Project. His second book will be published in early 2018. Peter Linton-Smith was a television news reporter for 24 years covering primarily courts (1988-2012). Peter has covered cases ranging from first degree murder, wrongful death, products liability, copyright dispute, employment and labor disputes. Peter has covered Steven Avery, both his civil and criminal case from 2003-2007. Peter is currently employed at Leventhal & Puga in Denver, Colorado. If you want more on "Making a Murderer," check out the Defending Brendan Dassey of “Making a Murderer” Planet Lex episode, when Dassey's appeal attorneys discuss what it was like defending him. Special thanks to our sponsor, Clio.

This is it folks! Galavan has fallen, but at what cost? In the fall finale of “Gotham… The post Season 2: Episode 11: Worse Than a Crime appeared first on The Batman Universe.

(S02E11) - What does the Order want with Bruce Wayne? A blood ritual to kickstart their reign. Where will Jim Gordon hide out from the Feds? An apartment on Grundy rented by Ed. Has Batgirl begun? Check Leslie’s belly. Will a Wayne murder show up on the telly? Will Theo fall before completing his climb? What happens when justice is "Worse Than a Crime"?

This week on the show: • Listener Feedback (8:50) • Roll Credits! (27:25) • Spooky Scary Halloween! (45:32) • Trivia! (53:52) • Is it Worse Than a Punch in the Face? (56:45) • Moving to Seattle? (1:03:00) • Facebook Roundup (1:10:24) • Recommendations (1:18:43) Listen up! And feed us back (we’ll put it on the cast) Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll play it on the cast) Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Episode 119 of the Personal Arrogants Podcast! This week, Jesse is back with baby in tow and we talk about all of this stuff: • Listener Feedback (9:31) • Haloooo 4!!!! (12:54) • Please Give Us a Wizards of the Coast Movie! (25:20) • Trivia! (37:53) • The Triumphant Return of “Is it Worse Than a Punch in the Face?” (40:02) • The Most Deserving Cities for Expansion Franchises (48:34) • Recommendations! (1:04:00) Listen up! And feed us back (we’ll put it on the cast) Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll paly it on the cast) Thanks for listening!

Welcome to the longest episode of the Personal Arrogants Podcast EVER! This week, we supersized the ‘cast because we’re celebrating the Bald Move Network’s 1,000,000th download! Thanks for listening everyone, we’re so happy to be a part of the magic. This week’s show: • Listener Feedback (5:57) • Zynga Zango Django (14:46) • Universal Monster Speculation (27:41) • Trivia! (40:28) • Is it Worse Than a Punch in the Face? (42:37) • How to Make a Good WWI Board Game (52:26) • Recco’s (1:02:13) Listen up! And feed us back (we’ll put it on the cast) Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll paly it on the cast) Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Ep 114 of the Personal Arrogants podcast! We’re a bit late this week, so I’ll cut right to the chase: • How to Make Your Favorite Movie Into a Good Game (14:34) • Hobbit Fever (24:35) • Trivia! (33:53) • What’s so Great About Catan? (36:40) • Is it Worse Than a Punch in the Face? (44:06) • Recommendations (54:35) Listen up! And feed us back (we’ll put it on the cast) Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll paly it on the cast) Thanks for listening!

Welcome to episode 109 of the Personal Arrogants podcast! Get it while it’s hot! This episode is our last before PAX Prime 2012, and we want to make the most of it! In the show, you’ll find: • Some Hungry Games (13:13) • Your PAX Survival Guide (26:54) • Trivia! (35:16) • Is it Worse Than a Punch in the Face? (37:41) • Board Game Extravaganza! (45:30) • Reccomendations! (55:30) Listen up and feed us back! (We’ll put it on the cast) Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll paly it on the cast) Thanks for listening!

SF MusicTech X - February 13, 2012 www.sfmusictech.com "Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss" BY: David Lowery - Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, David Lowery Music Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist http://www.davidlowerymusic.com/home.cfm

show#30209.06.09The Radio Kings - I'm Not Trippin' (5:39)Memphis Slim - You're the one (3:27)Robben Ford - There'll Never Be Another You (5:17)Spinner's Section:back homeBobby Charles: homesick blues (3:27) (Last Train To Memphis, Rice 'n' Gravy/Proper, 2004)Rory Block: send the man back home (3:36) (Best Blues & Originals, Rounder/Munich, 1988)Teddy Morgan & the Sevilles: goin' back home (4:15) (Ridin' In Style, Antone's, 1994)Eric Bibb: heading home (3:35) (Diamond Days, Telarc Blues, 2006)Dennis Gruenling: I'm comin' back home (4:45) (That's Right!, BackBender, 2001)Ian Parker: coming home (5:25) (Where I Belong, Ruf, 2007)Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: gone home (3:07) (Soul To Soul, Epic, 1985)Darrell Nulisch: right here at home (3:09) (Times Like These, Severn, 2003)Mitch Kashmar: we're sittin' home tonight (4:28) (Nickels & Dimes, Delta Groove, 2005)Back to Beardo:Paul Mark - One Job's Worse Than the Next (3:08)Roy Brown - Rockin' At Midnight (2:45)Chris Bergson - The Engine (4:19)Howlin' Wolf - Do The Do (2:23)Jason Ricci & New Blood - Ptryptophan Pterodactyl (4:12)Lucky Peterson - Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa (5:59)The Jeff Healey Band - I Can't Get My Hands on You (3:40)Sugar Ray & the Bluetones - That's My Desire (3:13)Magic Slim & The Teardrops - Can't Get No Grindin' (2:50)Liz Mandeville - Bad Man Blues (2:49)Magic Sam's Blues Band - I Have the Same Old Blues (3:33)Muddy Waters - Loving Man (2:26)Nick Moss & the Flip Tops - The Bishop (6:00)John "Juke" Logan - Strike While the Iron Is Hot (5:00)Omar and The Howlers - So Mean To Me (2:43)Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kin - Bear Den Boogie (2:23)Walter Trout - Chatroom Girls (5:33)Frank Carillo - Don't Get Sammy Started (4:01)Ford Blues Band - Meetin' With Some Lovin' (4:36)Eric Gales - Day Of Reckoning (4:13)Does your music make the cut?Contact Beardo at thebeardo@gmail.com and we we'll talk..Meanwhile, Bandana Blues archives at http://beardo1.libsyn.com