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Mutually CoDopendent
A highlight from Renee and Their Labels
"Hey guys, welcome to Mutually Codependent, I'm Jen. And I'm Adam. And today we have a very special guest. Welcome Renee to the show. Hello. Hello. Hello. Should we get a little button so we could have like applause? Yeah, a little soundboard. Yeah, yeah. It's lonely in my head without that stuff. It's much quieter with meds. So Renee is the store manager for our Round Rock store. They are affiliated with our store. So it's not just a random person, but that's cool. It would be weird. Store manager Round Rock, how long? It's been over a year, April. April is a year late manager being here. Oh, being manager. No, I made manager in December last year. Yeah. So when I started working from home. Yeah. It was around that time. But you've been with us a year and a half. Yeah. Yeah. It's goes by so fast these days. I really felt like the other day was just like, oh, it's Renee's one year anniversary. No, it's that's a while away now. I think you started the end of March. So there's the strain of the show so that we have the the justification for the smoking, which I already started. Hold on. Hold on. I got. Oh, that was the box of matches falling. Renee's too Renee's good for the lighters. I taste the butane. I don't know how to also describe it. I had a friend who turned me on to using matches. You wait for the little little bulb to burn. You wait till it gets to the wood and it's virtually tasteless. So I started using matches a lot more since you came over the first time. But I did think that it was funny because we had this like disco. Oh, yeah, you can taste the butane. I'm like, oh, I know what I'd like to do to avoid the taste of butane in my mouth. I'd like to make sure there's at least four or five seconds of very sharp sulfur in my nose before. Because because that's better. I mean, what is these days? What is what is? I just always I make the mistake of lighting the match when it's right under my nose. So if I were to just fix that, it's it's the sort of you try. You strike it away from yourself. I had to learn the hard way to where I was just like, whoo. Shit. Well, we aren't supposed to like the smell of matches lighting. Well, not right under your nose and not as a replacement for the subtle taste of butane. I mean, but I think it's like cilantro. If you taste it, you taste it. If you don't, you don't. So I'm not judging. I'm just being a shit. I mean, when you're not. So what we're what we're smoking straight to the show, the strain of the show today is jelly rancher. Um, jelly rancher. This is brought to you by actually, I think this is hemp living. Hemp living. There we go. It's one of the brands that we sell in the store and it is available online, I believe, as well. Jelly rancher is known as a sativa. That is 26 percent THC, a considered a sativa dominant hybrid. It's been described as happy, giggly, focused feeling with notes of berries and citrus. Beta -cariophalina is the main terpene, which is the same terpene that's in black pepper and cinnamon. It's it's a little peppery. Did you just fucking? I just dropped my cherry on the. You just dumped your cherry into the ashtray. I didn't mean to. Incense, incense. So scoop it up. Scoop it up. I don't know if that's possible. So don't don't use your finger. We have tools. We're humans. We have a lot of lead. If you know that one dies, you can just like your pre -roll. We'll probably do that. Stoners. Hey, one problem at a time. Yeah, if anything, we're we're true engineers. True engineers. Well, you said did I show you the pictures of those like super old like methods of smoking? No, that I found when I was doing the research for the Bastrop thing. No, it's pretty fucking cool. Yeah, it's basically they they carved out a hole in a. Like a like a log, I guess. And they would heat up rocks and put the rocks on the cannabis, so they'd stuff the hole full of cannabis. Like imagine it was like, I don't know, a couple inches in diameter. Like golf ball would fit in it. Right. And it was like a segment of a branch with the golf ball size hole pulled out of it. Shove a bunch of weed in there and then take stones that were heated from the fire and drop them on top. Yeah. So they were literally vaping it. Yeah. It was like old old school vaping technique. Does remind me of the time when I was actually first introduced to weed. It was at a party. And they smoked through an apple. I've done that. Yeah, they cut a hole top and bottom, put some foil on it and and went to town. I mean, I didn't smoke because I was a goody two shoes back then. But, you know, we change. We evolve. Yeah. You know, the thing about people is we can change our beliefs based on our experiences. Yeah. Truly pattern seeking if we choose to. I saw a guy in TikTok the other day smoke weed out of a headrest from a car and a car like still. Yes. And so, yeah, like he took it off. He opened he put he put his weed like down the hole of the metal on one side. Like it was his joint. So he put his joint down one side, like down. And then he just I don't something how he like breathed in through the other side and he was able to smoke. How carcinogens many do you think it was so stupid? So the headrest, oh, the head rest of your car, pulling off the headdress the two holes are and using the actual chair itself, because that sounds like a great idea to be a car made in the 70s full of asbestos. His friend was like, if you were a loved one who suffers from mesothelioma, I miss my popcorn ceilings, OK? Oh, we have popcorn ceiling looked up, actually. So we have modern popcorn ceiling. So it's not as best as terrible. I just think it's fine. I just see you look up as soon as I say that. Oh, somebody was talking about it before and she was like, was it Jackie telling us to get rid of it? I don't know. You got to get rid of your popcorn. I was like, no, then it echoes. And they're like, yeah, but it's OK. No, it's not. No, we're good. We don't own this house. So we put together a list of things to talk about. Yeah, I guess we could read it. Well, we could just kind of go through it. Yeah, we could keep the audience on edge. Keep them on edge. Hey, are you on edge? Stormy. Stormy. Lily Reagan.
Bloomberg Law
Fresh update on "berry" discussed on Bloomberg Law
"Emerging legal battle over pronoun protocol in public schools has nothing do to with grammar and everything to do with gender identity some parents are suing schools that keep their children's use of new pronouns secret claiming it's a violation of their constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children the ledlow massachusetts school committee is being sued over a teacher's failure to notify parents that their eleven -year -old began using different preferred pronouns a federal judge dismissed the parents complaint but the first circuit court of appeals could vive it and in oral arguments the judges seem to be wrestling with the issues here are judges iraqi min and carmen like this in gender identity is clearly very important to everyone and are there many things that happen in school every day that would qualify as less important than that so do you really see no limiting principle between something like the gender identity of your child and you know who your child may have played with during recess that day are you really saying there's no difference there you seem to be asserting bottom line that the rights of the student to preclude of disclosure this request to use pronouns trumps the right right of the parents to know what's going on with respect to the child's gender identity that online you are asserting that aren't you joining me is audrey anderson head of the higher education practice at asparian sims audrey explain why the parents are suing here the school aware their children middle schoolers attended have a policy that's not an usual that policy says if the students come to personnel in the school and say that they want to change their name change their pronoun to the opposite that gender that they were born into the school work with them to do that and also will we'll keep that information from the students parents if the students ask for it to be kept from their parents so the parents here were aware that one of their children was some experiencing questions about their gender and actually reached out to the school proactively to say we don't want you to talk to our child about this and the school nevertheless behind the parents backs talk to the child started calling the child by a different name use different pronouns and the parents understandably were very upset about this what surprises me about this is that at that age if your kid seems aggressive gets into a fight with someone the teachers are on the phone are calling you in and yet they don't want to tell them this very important aspect of their kids life the countervailing policy decision here and i think one reason why the parents are going to have a particularly hard time winning this case is that there's a massachusetts law that requires schools cannot discriminate against students because of their gender identity and so this all has decided that in order to carry out that duty they need to keep that information about the student private if the student asks for it to be private so so the school district here says well we have this state law that says we are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and there are some students for which it won't be safe for them at home if their parents know that they are going by a different gender identity it may become psychologically unsafe for them at home so that's the countervailing thing and why this is different in the school's mind from your child got in a fight or your child threw up at school or all the other things that happen to kids at school that the school does tell parents about to the school just call the child by preferred pronouns or did the school do more than that they they also had somebody at the school meet with the child regularly to talk to them about how they were feeling and be a resource person for them and the parents here allege that in that way they were actually giving mental health treatment to their child without the parents consent now the district court found that they hadn't adequately alleged facts to support a conclusion that the child was receiving mental health treatment so the district court kind of threw that out based on the factual allegations the district court used a standard a very tough standard shocking the conscience tell us what that standard is and is it appropriate in this case is it the correct standard in this case? well yes the parents here are alleging that their substantive due process rights were violated and the court I think used the right standard to figure that out you know the parents in the court of appeals have said that the district court kind of made that standard extra tough but the cases I've looked at seem to require that the facts alleged really have to shock the conscience and they're usually looking for something where the state actor has intentionally inflicted harm on the person who is suing so you know one of the cases I saw where there actually was substantive due process adequately alleged was where a school coach had intentionally used a hard object to hit a student in the face that shocked the the but conscience there's lots of things where students are hurt where it might be upsetting but it doesn't reach that shock the conscience standard and substantive due process is a very tricky legal standard that lots of judges think should be transcribed that there should be very few things that we find are protected by substantive due process so what's established is the right to marry the right to have children so they want to keep the range of things that are within substantive due process really small now the parents say that what was within substantive due process is the right to raise your children as you see fit the thing they run into there is that there are supreme court cases that support that but what they support is the right to raise your children as you see fit in a private school setting so to me those cases only say that these parents have a right to send their children to a school that would not have a policy like that I think it's much harder to say that within the public schools they get to have a right to say what the is policy on something like this here's my caveat I'm surprised that they haven't raised a religious argument I think that they'd have a stronger argument if they were also raising some kind of a free exercise argument that our religion also supports the idea that you are the gender that you're born into and so for you to be teaching our child something other than that and supporting them transitioning when we've told you not to violate our religious rights but they haven't argued that in this case so this First Circuit decision will be the highest court ruling on the merits of this argument there's a case before the 11th Circuit which is very conservative so there might end up being some kind of split in the circuits. Yeah I definitely agree with that I think that this is an issue that some conservative court will that find at least a complaint can go forward and then the question will be whether the Supreme Court gets interested enough at that point or whether they want a case with a little bit more factual development something that goes to a summary judgment motion at least or maybe even a trial before they decide to weigh in on this you know when the Supreme Court if when the Supreme Court weighs into this I think that some of the justices will have a hard time because the conservative side of the Supreme Court wants very much to have a very very narrow set of where circumstances substantive due process protects right and Justice Thomas doesn't think that there is such a thing as substantive due process on the other hand I would believe them to be very about concerned these kind of school policies so how they will thread that needle I will think be very interesting well certainly this case is being watched nationally there were more than a hundred amicus briefs filed including from 19 states that supported the parents position and 15 states that supported the school's position so we'll see other first circuit rules thanks so much audrey that's audrey anderson head of the higher education practice at ask fast berry and sims coming up next the lawsuit start over ineffective this is bloomberg zoe hoker is a welder who practices his craft in the universe with forge fx's virtual training platform he says virtual welding lets me much train as as i want increasing my skills and access to opportunity through tulsa welding school zoe and other welders can use forge fx's platform to up level their expertise and answer the need for more skilled workers in today's economy these are the ways skilled professionals are using the
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-22-2023 23:00
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News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "berry" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Why You Should Mine KASPA And Stake ADA!
"Why does he look like Tom from Myspace? Go back one more time. That is Tom from Myspace. Tom from Myspace is just missing the whiteboard, I think. This picture's gonna give me nightmares. This is the worst. Here it is. That's our Casper minor down in the basement. What we have is basically a picture of Tim. Look at, or a picture of me. Don't say that's a picture of Tim. Okay, this is the chaos that's going on in our basement. Just one more time. Yeah. You know? Just absolutely. There's no hot way to frame that picture. Why does he look like Tom from Myspace? Go back one more time. That is Tom from Myspace. Tom from Myspace is just missing the whiteboard, I think. This picture's gonna give me nightmares. This is the worst. Here it is. That's our Casper minor down in the basement. Let us know in the chat, what are we gonna name this minor? That's what my sleep demon looks like at the foot of my bed when I'm in paralyzed mode. I've never had sleep paralysis. It probably sounds, it sounds scary. I hate, would anyone here experienced sleep paralysis? No. Yeah? Scary? Scary? Very, very scary. Can you describe in one sentence what, was there a demon? And if so, what did the demon look like? Scary. Scary, scary. They say it's common. And my fiance, she sleep walks a little, but sleep talks, she has a slept with, like she's real, real tired. Yeah, she'll get up, she sleep talks. Oh yeah, my wife, my wife sleep talks to me all the time. Shout out to my friend, Wesley Miller. He would sleep sing church songs back when we were in middle school. What a good guy. I don't know what he's, he went to Baylor. I hope he's doing well. All right, it was me that threw an egg at your dad's truck and I still feel bad about it. All right, this is a mining dashboard here. It says Ice River. Is the mining settings, IP settings. Okay, so a hash rate. Okay, 30 minute hash rate. There's no way I'm ever gonna get this. Okay, I could see the next tab says KAS. Is this a CASPA mining portal? It's a CASPA miner and a CASPA mining situation we got going on. Wait, wait, this whole segment was guessing what it was mining? No, well, no, we're naming the miner. Oh, I was gonna say, yeah, I don't think this was a guess that because Nick is like, he talks nonstop about his CASPA mining. Yeah, we're getting CASPA in the basement. I liked, let me see here, going up to. Thank you, The Damned, thank you. The Mine Tater, Silver Surfer, Yukon Cornelius. We've got some ideas coming out of this. Okay, what are these? Are these comic book characters that mine crypto? Say one of those again. Yukon Cornelius. Okay, that is The Simpsons character, right? That sounds like a Simpsons character, does it not? All right, it looks like, so that was for CASPA. CASPA is still under a nickel, everybody. If we look at all time high, got as high as peaking at a nickel. Now we're peaking back at a nickel. I'm really not a fan of buying wicks of coins. So, you know, I'm not gonna buy any CASPA right here, even though I probably should. And you're probably gonna laugh at me when it goes to 50 cents, goes to a dollar. I just can't do it. I just can't do it, folks. I see this and I'd rather just buy Chainlink. Ah, that being said, I definitely should have bought that dip into the threes. I feel like a dum -dum. I guarantee if we touch 3 .99999, I will buy some. If we get anywhere below four cents, I'm gonna get in on some CASPA. Is that too soon? Is that too late? Should I just buy it now? Anyone hold some CASPA, let me know. You know, what do you think of my CASPA strategy? It's more at this point, I don't even care if I have great X return. I'm just mad at myself not having any. And so I'd rather have peace of mind. Peace of mind, just being able to lay your head on the pillow at night, just going to sleep easy. I highly, highly value that. And so I think holding a little bit of CASPA will also make me feel good there. It might not be the best time to be filling your bag with it right now, though. We're currently working on a double top at a level that, back a long time ago on a DA, this was the prediction I called, I hear, right under five cents. We went slightly above it. But right now, when you're looking at oscillators, four hour chart, daily chart two, we're getting overbought flashes at that double top. So I'm not saying it has to fall back down here towards this golden pocket, but more than likely there's a decent chance you could potentially scoop some more up around three cents. All right, so Brian is just too much for him. You know, he said, I give up Deezy, it's too late now. You know, should I buy like, if I buy 20 of them at a nickel for a dollar, like will y 'all not hate me anymore? I just gotta, I'll just get 20 of them. Oh, you can mine it. I do, all right, so I have a 1070 that's like four or five years old in the office. I wonder if it will work with that. I think you need one like Nick got. I think it's a very specific miner. Is it GPU? Yeah. Okay. Just take a better picture with it. All right. One more time. Just for good measure. That's perfect. All right, let's talk a little Cardano here. ADA upgrade, Cardano staking game changer, multi -pool delegation with LACE. The LACE wallet takes a huge developmental leap forward by allowing users to diversify their stake. Joining the ever expanding ecosystem is LACE wallet's latest feature, multi -pool delegation. Employing a unique strategy, they generate several stake keys from the same account, creating a new address for each pool with the set portion of the ADA the user wants to stake with the mechanism. They can now simultaneously stake their tokens in up to five unique pools, diversifying their stake. So yeah, it just makes Cardano more decentralized here. I stake mine with the default NAMI stake pool, Berry, made by Berry Alessandro. Great, great phenomenal builder on Cardano. I have a pinned tweet that'll show you how to download the NAMI wallet. If you wanna, you got some Cardano on an exchange and you're like, hey, I can get three, four, 5 % if I get lucky for free. Meaning if I got 100 and I wait a year, I'll have 104. I don't have to do anything. Okay, yeah, that sounds pretty cool. What if I have 10K? You might get 400 ADA for free. Let's say it does hit $5. That's gonna be $2 ,000 that you can earn by actually just clicking right, clicking, dragging, and then just hitting delegate. Like two mouse clicks can make you 2K if you had 10K Cardano that is. Other new multi -pool delegation feature is vital to the commitment to decentralization, allowing holders to stake across multiple SBOs, centralization, prevents overall promotes a more distributed network that aligns with Cardano's core vision. A shout out to BJ's NES pool, right? He has the NES pool. Pretty good builders on that as well. All right, it looks like we have a updated FTX asset report on Wednesday. We're falling into the X minute. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah. I thought the ADA would have more than one story. Yeah, just one story there. All right, now we're into the X minute, the Xs. Shout out to X -Pac. All right, on Wednesday, they likely get approval to liquidate their 3 .4 billion worth of crypto. Remember, there is false information in this. They can't sell all the Solana until 2028. And, you know, maybe there's going to be a similar situation with something like, I don't know if NIR's on here, but Aptos, I could see a similar situation happening with Aptos. Now their Bitcoin, yeah, they could, I think they'll actually hold it in Bitcoin. The Bitcoin, yeah, they could probably dump all the Bitcoin, but I think there's going to be some tokens with vesting schedules. I think a lot of that information is hidden in secret. And so it's like, we're relying on the whistleblowers here. So just be careful with what you see regarding FTX liquidations. There's a little bit of a false news out there.
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Celebrity Stylist Kim Berry Tells Us About Her Memoir "Diamonds and Curlz"
"This is a very, very special interview this morning with none other than the, I'm calling you the superstar celebrity hairstylist, Ms. Kim Berry. Again, we're welcoming you to the show. She's also the author of Diamonds and Curls. And that's Curls with a Z. So when you guys are out there Googling it, or going on to Amazon, or picking up the book, definitely you want to search it correctly. So tell us about this amazing book. Now I've seen some of the things online. Tell us about Diamonds and Curls. Diamonds and Curls is my memoir's 29 years rolling with rock royalty. That's my book. Working for one of the most iconic stars in the world. Like, you know, I tell everybody this little girl from the hood did good, you know? It was just amazing of how basically our lives were so intertwined, he and I together. We literally grew up together. And because most marriages, like I said, I outdid both of his marriages. He was only married for four years apiece. And outlived I his lawyers, his doctors, his wives. You know, I was there when his mother died, when his father died, when his baby died. I was there for some of the most intricate highs and some of the worst lows of his life. And God chose me to walk alongside this man, you know? So I'm telling intimate stories of literally how I was there. Some of the stories were just, it was just he and I, and how we laughed together, how we prayed together, how we bagged on each other's mamas together. It was just the most incredible journey. So I'm not telling the stories about book sales and concerts and all that. There's enough of those books out there. I'm telling the more intimate side. Nothing scandalous, nothing salacious. Just literally our everyday life of how I walked alongside one the of most, like I said, biggest names of our time, that he literally created the soundtrack to our lives. You know? And I'm telling the intimate stories, the part that people would never get a glimpse of unless I pulled the curtain back. One of my hashtags was behind the purple curtain and showing people what life was like on an everyday journey with this man.
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Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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"Was reading something the other day And I was very happy to read About all these women Celebrity women that are now Having to pay child support And or alimony To their significant others Also, I want to give a shout out To my favorite soccer player He caught that hole He caught that hole Cash rules He caught that hole He caught his slippers I believe the soccer player forgot his name I think it's Steve Harvey No, Steve Harvey Well, no Steve Hardy is going to have to pay Yeah, he made too much But she got caught cheating Ain't she rich though? No, she's not on the grand scale She had money But she was dealing with drug dealers before Oh wow, okay, okay I thought she was somebody She's somebody to somebody So what I'm talking about There's this soccer player Who dated an older Supermodel or ex -supermodel Whoever the case may be, I forgot The whole situation But she basically tried to divorce him And asked for Half of his money basically Because he's like A multi -trillion -million dollar So Guess what His mama being smart And he being smart He put all his money in his mama's name So when it was time For them to go to the court And they asking for like Oh, I want this much and this much He like, I'm broke I don't got no money And she ended up having to pay Everything she had So half of everything she got Went to him and he's sitting pretty So That's what I'm talking about right there Nice move, nice Amen That's a nice move We're just gonna run off a couple of names Just a couple that's in that situation First off, we got Sherri Shepherd Give it up Let me show you Black female Celebrity, she's an actress She gotta pay her husband? Let's see We got Britney Spears Mary J. Blige She gotta pay her I love her I kind of love Mary I love Mary too Listen, Mary J. Blige is my wife right there I love Mary That's my celebrity cheat right there I can't clap for Mary I love Mary Listen, if I can get Mary pregnant And she gotta pay me child support Clap it up If I can get Mary pregnant If I can just get Mary pregnant That's what I want We got to basket The WNBA star Candace Parker She love her man for a woman Is that true? Oh good How you gonna leave a brother like that? She gotta pay him 400 grand That's all? WNBA Even though she's like the number one She's like the gear As far as like outside the NBA WNBA making money, she up there She's like There's still a little slap of 400 grand That's a good slap on the wrist 400 grand? Not if you don't got it like that She got it We got Halle Berry on the list No, I can't clap for her No, no Not Halle Berry Halle Berry She gonna pass? She gonna pass She too fine Why she gonna pass? Cause she's too fine How do you elaborate what he just said 10 times? She's just too fine There's nothing in the world that she can ask me to do that I wouldn't do to her She's just too fine She's just too fine Hey TJ, you can't be taller like that She is too fine Alright, Madonna Hell yeah, hell yeah I owe all that money Indeed I beg and care, Madonna One of the Spice Girls Mel B Whoever she is That's a 90's baby thing That's a 90's baby thing Eddie Murphy baby? I think so I think so I think she's gonna pay her ex Steven Belafonte Eddie Yo, cash out to me $5 ,000 a month in child support and $350 ,000 legal fees Damn She gotta pay a lot Million dollars in taxes and shit Your girl Janet Jackson has made the list I got him I got him Y 'all don't know what that means No, I know what that means You know what that means? Nope, but my time How old are you? I'm only 27 15 million 15 million A month or cash out? Cash out That works, I'll take the cash out Together 9 years, she gotta pay 15 million I love Janet, I can't clap for Janet Just a couple more Jennifer Lopez is on the list I guess she's paying I'll give her a pass So you guys are solely giving these women passes and not celebrating because they look good? There's certain things you just gotta be like it's understandable No, there's certain things you could just live with Alright, so If I keep on right now and holla be resilient All my anger, whatever I was bad about It's gone Open the door Jesus, you have given me a gift Thank you I don't even need to smash How you doing, thank you I'm about to eat I can't go McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell I'll take the pork out of the freezer right now I don't cook, but I'll cook that day What's wrong with you? That's different Ladies, we clapping I'm sorry, but this segment and this podcast today we're talking about women that gotta pay the terms have switched I mean, we're happy because, well, you know we've been getting it men been getting it for years getting fucked in the court system especially about the guy who went to jail for five years and found out the kid wasn't even his that got me tight and then she, what did she get? what kind of terms she get? smack on the wrist the judge yelled at
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Caller: The Debate Format Is Performative
"Instead of these little snippets of sound bites. But you do get a sense of the candidate when you they're see how fighting or they're talking or they're speaking and the cream rises to the top as they say. So You know I've seen this a long time. You probably have. I remember one of Reagan's made of them and you've got to muscle through. I think that's part of the challenge. I don't have a problem with it unless they have like 16 people on the stage. Remember what was it 2016 they'd have two different debates because there were so many candidates which was ridiculous. Maybe they can narrow it a little bit more but going you're to never stop candidates from yelling at each other. It's all sound bites. Again I'm going to disagree with you. I took a whole hour to unravel what was I thought some of this stuff and if they're yelling at each other. If there's a guy like Mike Pence decided who's that's the road he wants to take. That's something to take note of. I'm not interested in this coming in a pasteurized form where they're all using markets of the marks of queen berry rules. It's just not normal. That's not what happens whether people are running for governor or anything else. Now, they have to live with how they present themselves. They have to live with how they look or they don't look. They got a little rowdy on that stage. You had to expect that we get a little rowdy on that stage. And so you look at it, use your brain,
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
A highlight from The poison salon with Rose Biggin
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so, we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Lucy Hounsom. And I'm Megan Lee. In the preface to Les Fleurs du Mal, The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire indicated that boredom is the truest suffering, and this idea later became central to the fin de siècle movement of the 1890s, an era of decadence in which artifice masqueraded as, or was even elevated to the status of, art. The Belladonna Invitation by Rose Biggin is a gothic exploration of the cult and cost of celebrity. It looks at the consequences of wealth, the ethical complexity of aestheticism, and ultimately asks the question, is celebrity or the mask of it worth dying for? We are extremely fortunate to have Rose with us on the show today. I loved this book, I devoured it in a couple of days. So I'm really keen to chat to Rose all about it. Would you like to introduce yourself to our listeners? Hi, I'm Rose Biggin. I'm a writer and a theatre maker based in London. I work between performance and I do a bit of dance and I do a bit of writing, short fiction and novels, often exploring things like art and artifice. So thank you for having me. As I said, I absolutely adored The Belladonna Invitation, which is out now from Ghost Orchid Press. It's a small press that's putting out some really exciting books at the moment. So I do urge everybody to just go and have a look at their titles. We're hoping to talk to some of their authors, other authors later in the year as well. Since you mentioned art and artifice, and I've mentioned also one of my favourite literary periods, the 1890s for the Fada Siekla, which is, yeah, it produced some really remarkable novels. But what I really liked in your book is this idea of death salons, this exclusive and expensive gathering where guests deliberately poison themselves. And I felt like that suggests that wealth directly enables the taking of absurd risks in pursuit of sensation. And this is horribly topical. I'm sure you know what I'm referring to at the moment, this having money and that leads directly to your doom. I wanted to dig into this idea of extreme wealth leading to a possible disregard for life itself. Yes. Well, the poison salons were something that came right at the start of the conceptualisation of the novel, before the idea was even novel sized. Maybe I could get to that later. But I immediately knew from the beginning about the dark, fin de siekla world that I wanted to set the story in, the main character, Bella Donna, her name, what she would do, the work she would do. This was all part of the texture of that world. I think the poison salon is the exclusive secret thing that she runs at the end of the official salons that just felt like a very interesting way to make those themes a bit tangible and a little bit tasty, I suppose, a sort of texture to the world. But I think something that interests me is that the character Bella Donna works in this world. She runs these salons and she takes on a very ambitious devotee apprentice and that's the perspective character. That's who we see the story, who we see the novel through in her eyes. Quite quickly, they get a little bit used to it. We have this glamorous showpiece thing she does, but what I was quite interested was showing the work that goes on beneath creating that kind of glamorous or that dangerous or that show -stopping event. They actually get a little bit used to it. It's central to what they do, but it's also part of the job. They run these things and the business and the practicalities of running these things, what it takes to uphold that glamorous edifice. We sort of see underneath that. There's a moment when the perspective character first learns about the poison salon because she doesn't walk in on day one. She's led up to experiencing it. She asks Bella Donna, I can't remember the exact quote, but why people come to this, why people do this. Bella Donna says, she words it a lot better than I would say it, but she says something like, she doesn't know why. It's either obvious or she's sure she doesn't want to know. We're at a little bit of distance from why people come to this. It's sort of a texture of that kind of world where we then see the relationship between the Bella Donna, who's this socialite, this mysterious character and her apprentices. They're working it through. I suppose equally, it's interesting to think that people do get blind drunk at parties and die from that. They take drugs. This perspective isn't one I don't have a particularly strong position about people doing high risk things to get a high. I'm quite liberal about that. It's just that I think the extremeness of the sort of poison berries and the way that is a combination of beauty and danger and the temptation of it feels like something. The Bella Donna is selling you that as an idea as well. The novel is kind of selling it to you as a reader. This is something someone's doing, but also her job is to sort of sell that it is particularly dangerous, particularly cool. That's part of her Fin de Sica celebrity and her glamour. Of course, after the apprentice character has done it once, she never wants to do it again. I think there's a relationship between this thing, this glamorous, decadent, dangerous thing, the poison salon, but part of the mystique of that and the upholding and the creation of the mystique of that is sort of where the book's territory really is. I love this exploration of the fact that they're very expensive. They're exclusive. Not anybody can just get into one of these poison salons. It just raises the idea of what I mentioned in the intro, this Baudelaire's saying that it's like the worst thing, the worst misery is boredom. Is that what happens when you have this extreme wealth and privilege that it's kind of horrible because the welfare state wasn't established in that period. There were tons of people who were living in abject poverty, scrabbling at life to try and keep on living. Then you've got this aristocratic class who was so wealthy that they are eating poison to try and get some kind of kick out of them. I think that that juxtaposition is that the whole moral question surrounding those ideas is so fascinating. But also, everyone knows not many people can get in. The exclusivity of it is, they talk about that. They know that's part of, you have to uphold. You have to uphold that. That's part of the fun. There is a huge consequence to, well, not just the poison salons themselves, but to the way that Belladonna behaves towards men who fall in love with her. It does force us to question the moral integrity of the world that she's constructed around herself. Was that something that was central also to you that you wanted to explore? It's a glamorous, beautiful world, but it comes at a huge cost to some people. Yeah, well, it's worth saying that the big, dramatic, jealous lover moment, I don't think it's a spoiler really because he comes in quite early. A guy appears, there's a sort of dramatic, jealous lover moment. The reason that happens, the reason we have that character, his name is Lucien, that is a trope that we have in culture and in these sorts of stories. The novel that is in the DNA of the Belladonna invitation is The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas -Phew, the son of Alexandre Dumas -Phew, who wrote The Three Musketeers and so on. His son wrote a novel, The Lady of the Camellias, which was a big hit at the time. It was adapted for stage and it later turned into the opera. Verdi adapted the story for his opera, La Traviata, and that's where Moulin Rouge gets its plot from. Although The Lady of the Camellias isn't so well known now, it has quite an interesting cultural footprint. Some of the initial skeleton of this Belladonna character and the lover who comes in and how she deals with that is a trope that I was looking to try to rework in a new way. He has his big, dramatic, jealous moment and she deals with that in a way that she doesn't deal with it in the text that I was just referring to. What I wanted was to have the man arise, but the emphasis isn't really on how she navigates that romantic or that pseudo -romantic world, but how she navigates the pressures that she's under and how that impacts on her relationship with Flora, or F, the name of the apprentice that she takes on who's watching all this happen. The relationship with the lover and how that sort of goes and how that ends up is interesting for me because of how it impacts on the central relationship between the two women. I do want to talk about Belladonna a little bit more in a bit because I do feel like there's a Rebecca vibe to her. She's on every page, but I don't feel like we ever really can say that we know who she really is. However, you mentioned F or Flora and I was so intrigued by these two names that she's sometimes Flora and she's sometimes F. There's a mask in there too. Do you have to have a mask to enter this constructed world? Who is Flora? Yeah, it's very interesting. In a way, I tried to make it quite an intimate novel. In a way, although she's F or Flora and there are things we don't know about this mysterious figure, she's also the perspective character of the book and we're sort of under her skin quite literally at times. I tried to really bring bodily sensation and feel and intensity of mental into construction her how she's seeing the world. At the same time, she's sometimes F, sometimes Flora. That's not necessarily an explicit puzzle that can be solved. It's more done through feel. There isn't a secret why she's one or the other. It's more how I felt in the writing, which name it felt like she was the best living up to in the time and in the moment. It does change. I suppose it's how she feels, who she feels she is in that moment. If she's expanded to take that kind of Flora name, which Belladonna gives her as well, or is just a letter, just a kind of ghost making things happen. I think in art, particularly in some forms, songwriting for example, or certain types of writing, certain genres, there's quite a lot of value placed on perceived sincerity or honesty, authenticity we might say. I'd argue it's maybe not necessarily about the world of art or celebrity itself that's all about masks, but particularly it's about a psychological perspective on the layers that we tell ourselves. The narratives we tell ourselves and what we tell other people, multiple selves that exist inside of us. I suppose the point is you don't need to be the top of society, La Dame, Belladonna, to have secrets and to have a sense that there are multiple selves within you and who will you show yourself to be at any one moment to other people depending on. F is a thinker, she's a planner. She's kind of a bit of a schemer, although that sounds a little bit Del Boyish. It's much more like, how can I get what I want? What do I need to do? Who do I need to be to these people in order to get from A to B? I suppose that's sort of the psychological territory that we're in, really. I think it's also, F is on the surface, we think they're going to be an entry character for the reader, I suppose. Of course, they're the perspective character, they're the one we identify with, but she's also hiding from the reader a little bit as well. It's an invite, it's to have fun to enter this world where there is mystery, there are characters who know more than what they tell you. I suppose I've just tried to embody that quality as well as depicting it. I wanted that to be something that hopefully is tantalising to the reader in form as well as in content. It is very tantalising and I was intrigued by both characters, but I'm glad that now you've kind of introduced both of these principal women. I wanted to talk a little bit about the power dynamic between them because they come from different classes. Flora is basically a servant and Belladonna is dripping with diamonds. Why set up this particular power dynamic? Class is a particular issue here and the fact that Flora is a servant to someone who stands at the very top of the social ladder. The power dynamic and the basic power struggle between them was the whole reason to write the novel, to be honest. As I mentioned earlier, I alluded to Lady of the Camellias and I had an idea to do a kind of goth, poison -y version of that. We'll call her Belladonna, she'll wear the blackberries in her hair and that all came quite fully formed. It felt like an idea that could potentially make quite a creepy short story. Fine. The jealous lover arrives, she deals with him, the end. I didn't quite write it because somehow there was something missing. There wasn't quite a reason to write it. It didn't feel like I had everything that I needed. There was a point where I was just puzzling over one of those scenes, maybe her and Lucienne or something. I suddenly thought, wait, who's watching this? Who's seeing this happen? Suddenly, it was one of those rare thunderbolt moments. Well, you know how it is artistically. You have a bolt from the blue that's actually a decade in the making. I'm sure I'd already had this idea, probably. The perspective is that Belladonna has a close assistant. She has a close person or someone, a devotee, who idolises her and she watches this. Suddenly, the muscle of the story is the power dynamic, the power struggle between those two. Then the guy coming in is like, you know, that's just part of the job. What does our shift bring us today? Ah, it's a guy. Then the romantic story isn't the focus, but it's the friendship or the test, the tempestuous combination of dependence and subversion between those two women. In a way, making her a servant or a lower class just makes Belladonna's world even more unobtainable because then that's further that you also do it. Whenever you don't, you do. That's also a handy driver to talk about wanting and desire. The notoriety that Belladonna has and the fame she has makes her far more distant. When we first see her, she's literally on the top of the private box in the balcony and F is staring up at her from below. That's one of the first dynamics between them that we see. I don't think it's a spoiler to say F is looking at Belladonna throughout the entire book. I wanted F to set out to achieve something unobtainable. Having her background be from the printing press in that kind of world was a deliberate decision as well because I wanted the Belladonna. She's got a very famous signature. She signs her name with black purple ink. She's associated with fine art, with calligraphy, with, as you say, dripping with diamonds. There's a liquidity to her as well as beauty and jewelry and so on. Whereas F has come from working in a printing press is all about industrial technologies. It's about replication. It's about mechanical reproduction. We're deliberately putting letters to create a specific thing that you need, which is how F goes about navigating the world. In comparison, what she sees Belladonna doing, and of course this is F's perspective, what she sees Belladonna doing is all about glamour and relationship building and beauty and rehearsal and performance and liveness. F is much more thinking in terms of these little metal blocks.
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A highlight from How to Connect with the Reality of Love, Wisdom, Liberation, Joy, Harmony and Kindness with Swami Nityananda
"I'll see you next time. Hey! Wanna feel young again? Are you tired, run down, have aches and pains? Brain fog? This is science -based, not hype or fancy marketing. It really works. Carbon 60 helps detoxify your body on the cellular level. It stabilizes free radicals, just like the antioxidants found in red wine and berries do, but on a far smaller, more bioavailable nanoscale. It's like a bottle of electrons, helping your body to function better. You can also apply it on your skin, topically, over muscles, joints or organs. Most people feel results within minutes. This is not a drug. It's organic carbon. Feel better today. About 95 % of our users report more energy and clarity of mind within 10 days. Give us a call at Gruskas Carbon 60 at 720 -600 -6040 or visit our site at c -60 .com. Call 720 -600 -6040 and feel young again. Welcome back to the iHealth channel, iHealth Radio. We're your host, Hurricane H. New day, new show, awesome topic. Topic of really a need for all of us because my guest today is going to help us kind of work a little bit of joy and just be harmonious with life and things like that. So it's going to be helping us just sometimes realign with a better and happier life, and that's important. So my guest is actually an author, a speaker, a professor, a spiritual teacher, a spiritual leader as well at Awake Yoga Meditation. She's going to have some fun with her today because she's going to guide us through her work and how she helps a lot of people around the world through her traditions and teachings and really get them in a better place, I guess. So what I refer do I have with me? Swami Nityananda. I got it right, did I? You're perfect. Good morning, Hurricane. It's awesome to talk with you. Good morning, good morning, and welcome to the show. Thank you. And I really, it's an interesting show and it's an important show because, again, as you and I were talking, we live in a world that is very confusing, I would say. At least a lot of stuff going on and sometimes we get caught in a lot of things and we move one way or the other. Sometimes we are living in a stressful world and things like that. Now you practice, I believe, yoga and I think that's your core. Am I getting that right? Yes, and so actually the form of yoga at Awake Yoga Meditation that we share is meditation and yoga philosophy and so that's actually really interesting. I think for many American listeners and maybe for many listeners around the world, when a person says yoga, the first thing that you might think is like, oh, go to a yoga studio, do yoga postures, do yoga asanas. And in the yogic tradition, that's actually preparatory. That's like the beginning and then after you've entered that beginning point, then you're ready for meditation. So we actually dive straight into meditation. So we focus on meditating and I would also just mention for anyone if you are a beginner or you've tried meditation and it hasn't seemed like your thing, the kind of meditation we teach is joy and it's just falling in love with the energy of pure light within yourself. And so it's not complicated, it's not hard, it's amazing and it's accessible for meditators of all backgrounds. All right. Well, so thank you for clarifying because again, when I mentioned yoga, to your point, the first thing that comes to mind is a mat and some stretching and getting, you know, really just, you know, feeling good about your body, but really there was some Zen moment there, but really that's not what everybody thinks of yoga, right? And this is the real makoa, this is the real thing. I mean, this is where yoga really traditionally is and it's beyond that. And you were talking about the, we use the word meditation, which is really like, you know, a different state of mind, you know, and get into that level where you're really in coherent, you know, status, I would say with yourself. So it's pretty deep stuff, you know, and I mean, some people can call it prayer. I'm not sure if even that applies in the same concept here because, you know, sometimes prayer can be to a degree, depends how you look at it, but meditation is actually, I think it's a common practice in a lot of beliefs and in certain ways, they're very similar and it's really the isolation, the concentration, the closing, the Zen, you know, and just being in the moment and getting in touch with yourself. So that we said, now you do this, you've been doing this for many years and you are around the world that, by the way, this show is worldwide, so actually perfectly, you know, stated there, you know, for everyone. And yes, we do have listeners from all different walks of lives and beliefs, you know, systems and things like that, but I think this is not, this is a common denominator that everybody can relate to it to a degree and I think it's needed across all. Whatever you do in life, sometimes you do need that moment. So, Swami, let's talk about your, I guess, training and how you got into this position today. Absolutely. And so first, let me just chime in with such joy and respect. What you said is absolutely true that people from all backgrounds, so all faiths, traditions, all backgrounds, all walks of life, all ages meditate with us. And so, this is something that in daily life, it just helps you be that energy of clarity, that energy of calm, that energy of peace, being able to connect instantly with what is highest and best in yourself. So, just to respectfully chime in and say, full on I met my teacher in 2010. My teacher was named Swami Shankarananda and in this tradition, one becomes a Swami if another Swami consecrates you as a Swami. And so, I met my teacher in 2010 and he recognized me as his successor and trained me as his successor. And then when he left the body, as Yogi say, which happened in 2014, when he passed, as we say, then he appointed me as his successor. So, since 2014, I've been serving as the spiritual teacher, as a meditation teacher, as the spiritual leader at Awake Yoga Meditation and it's just absolute joy. So, we have people who meditate with us who are 10 years old, people who meditate with us who are in their 90s, high -powered people, so doctors and surgeons and lawyers and dentists and CEOs, also highly creative people. So, people who work in a lot of healing modalities, teachers, songwriters. So, it's just anyone from any background, the invitation when we meditate is to connect with, there's a current of inspiration, there's a current of kindness, there's a current of clarity. And you mentioned when we look out upon the world or sometimes if we even are encountering our own emotions, it can seem chaotic, it can seem turbulent. And so, what meditation does is it helps you find, it's almost like there are so many pathways that are filled with peace, that are filled with connection, that are filled with wholeness, that are filled with brightness, that are filled with what is noble and honorable and generous and wise. And as you meditate, you let go of anything that is blocking your connectedness with that field of possibility. And so, then in your daily life, and this is just very practical, it's you right where you are with your relationships, right where you live with your body, with your emotions, with your thinking, with your amazing clients or your colleagues or whoever it is that you're interacting with, it's you simply moving in that current of inspiration and just doing it from moment to moment. And if you step out of that current of inspiration for one second, you just notice and then come back in. And so, when we live in this way, we are continually infusing ourselves with this dynamic energy and the energy of dedication, the energy of hopefulness, the energy of being of service, being helpful. And as we move in that current, we might not even say a single word of this out loud, but simply our being in that awareness, that energy, makes that available to everyone else. And so, silently, like the people that you encounter at the grocery store or on the train or on the bus, they are given a silent invitation to self -remember within themselves and to reconnect with that energy of wholeness, that energy of brightness within themselves. Oh, that's quite a bit. So, first things first. So, you used that you are the, I guess, successor of Swami. And so, does Swami mean, like in, let's say, in the martial arts, we call Sanse or Sifu, is that actually a similar, like a teacher, you know, title? Yes. Very, very good analogy. Yeah. So, in the yogic tradition, Swami does mean teacher, and it means one who has dedicated themselves to being of service. And it also means one who has made visible that it's possible for every human to walk through transformation and then to be the light that is on the other side of that transformation. And so, that's the invitation for all of us, for all humans, just to kind of keep walking forward and to whatever that arises in our experience in time and space, to let it be fuel so that you don't look upon any experience as like your enemy, and you allow it to be the energy of transformation so that what emerges from you as you walk forward. And I want to acknowledge some human experiences are filled with joy and peace, and we welcome them from a human perspective. Some human experiences are deeply painful and challenging, and we would not choose them from a human perspective. But what the yogis say is all of it is fuel. Like, all of it is sort of like an invitation to catalyze ourselves, to be stronger, to be even wiser, to be even steadier. And so, that sounds like there are analogies with the traditions that you know from the martial arts as well. Yeah. Well, thank you. And I'm listening to you, and you've thrown so many powerful words there, having clarity, joy, and all these things, right, our energy. As a matter of fact, we just had a show last night, and we talked about energy and how the energy projects, and it's really contagious sometimes, good and bad, and the vibes. But I have to say, I'm listening to you, I'm watching you. You just have this positive smile, and just your energy is just filling right now the space. And even though we're not in the same room, I can feel that. I can hear it. It's projecting. And it's important. And one thing you said that a lot of your clients or your students, I would say, are from very intense modalities of life. And it seems that they find themselves in a better place by practicing the meditation process through your system. Because what these people have in common, it's all stress, I think, or high -intensity and intense positions or roles and functions that really take a toll on not only their body, but also their mind and spirit. And I think that's really the problem that we have today. We live in a society that's run, run, run, run, run. It's crazy, chaos. We mentioned the word chaotic. It's chaos, big time. And unless you have somewhere to anchor yourself to and assist them to kind of bring you back and kind of reset, you're going to continue that. And ultimately, you're going to get those experiences that may be bad. Now, ultimately, some people will take that and reuse them as fuel, as you stated. And others may just use them, and then sometimes it can be destructive for them. And so, it's amazing I'm hearing you saying these things, but that's really the reality of the world we have. But I wish, and I'm glad that we have you today, because this show potentially can be a catalyst to change in some people's minds and maybe get them into this tradition of resetting and potentially finding the clarity that they need and getting the positive energy that's required to continue whatever they're doing. And I think, I mean, talking about artists, you talked about doctors, CEOs and stuff, and that's all heavy duty stuff. And by the way, everybody I think in life today, it doesn't matter what status you have in a corporation or in the business world, whether you have entry level or you're a top, you still have responsibilities and accountability and workloads and stressful stuff. And you have family matters, and you're struggling between expenses and everything. And the world is just just a very, very difficult place to be. Unless we can navigate it, it's very difficult. So I appreciate your words and the way your teaching practice and tradition is really valuable for people to actually get a change, at least for a change. It's fantastic, right? So, I mean, as you were talking, I was reflecting, because I think the yogic teachings have been around for millennia, which is so amazing, to be able to practice these teachings that have been time tested by people who have been very brave and practice self -inquiry and said, well, what happens if I turn within and I examine my own emotional patterns? Or what happens if I turn within and I face my own patterns of thinking? And what the yogis have always taught is that it's possible for humans to self -transform, that when we do this, we cultivate a self -awareness, that then we can create new pathways, we can create new energy patterns in our body and our emotions and our thinking. And as you said, what happens then is our experiences transform. So the world is still engaged in its process, and we are moving in a field from within ourselves of peace. We are moving in a field from within ourselves of calm, and we're connected to the energy of cooperation. And so then we're bringing that energy of cooperation and that ability to form connection and community and inspiration. We're bringing that into our offices or the boardrooms or the dining room where we're having our conversation with our family. And we're also bringing that energy of harmony and cooperation into ourselves. So we're able to truly make peace with ourselves, and we're able to truly bring the energy of kindness and caring with ourselves. And there's also an interesting corollary to that. You will notice as you make peace with yourself that you're able to be the energy of peace no matter what another is doing or saying in the world. And so like, say that your kids are melting down or your partner might be melting down, or you might be looking at the news and seeing, oh my gosh, it feels like so many humans are melting down. But if you are in the energy of peace within yourself, then you know that no matter what you have in the past moved through, the light is still there within you. And so you're able to palpably directly connect with the light within your child even in the midst of the tantrum or the light within your colleague or the light within your partner or your friend or the light within, say that you walk into a really tense meeting at work, you can be the calmest person in the room and your tuning into that energy of calm makes the energy in the whole room shift. And it can actually shift the energy of the whole organization as well. So little by little, step by step, as each of us is present in that energy of calm and that energy of harmony, the energy of optimism, we end up continually sort of creating a pathway for ourselves and also making it clear that others can create a pathway for themselves where each of us continues choosing the high road. And as we choose the high road, higher and higher possibilities and opportunities branch out before us. And I will also just circle back around too. I mentioned that the yogis say this transforms us. And so what the yogis have said for millennia, we're now able to observe using contemporary testing, like functional magnetic resonance imaging. And so we can see that in the meditators brains, new pathways are being created. And it's almost like the pathways of pain and the pathways of anger, the pathways of fear, the pathways of reactivity, the pathways of judgment, those end up healing. And then we end up creating a new normal, a new sort of like default position for our brain so that we are steady and established in that energy of, okay, so this arose in time and space and inner peace is still here. So there's absolutely nothing that can shake that inner peace that is right here. And so we can move forward. The earth is beneath our feet wherever we are standing and there's steadiness in that. And the sky is above us. And so there's like this expansiveness and this openness that is always available for all of us wherever we are. And so life does become filled with joy and freedom always. And to be able to live that realization is, I mean, so different traditions call this differently, but it could be referred to as the kingdom of heaven. It could be referred to in the yogic tradition as living in the city of Brahman, living in the supreme. In the Buddhist traditions, this is referred to as living in just that community, living in that awakeness, living in the refuge of the present moment. And when you have that awareness, then you really are just filled with exuberance and also just filled with, I think some traditions would call it faith, some other traditions would probably call it confidence, but there's just an ease and a sense of fullness, a sense of completeness. And so then what arises is naturally, of course, generosity is going to be here. Of course, we're going to share kindness and light and inspiration and resources and opportunities and possibilities. It's just effortless and it's right where we are. And it's all of us just being our highest best selves and sharing our skillsets. So each of us have these unprecedented talents and skills. And so gratitude and joy for all of the listeners and for each of us to just claim that light, that steadiness, that peace, that kindness within ourselves, and then right where we are to share that using our own voices, our own accents, our own bodies, just right where we are. We're already perfectly positioned to share this light.
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A highlight from Michael Medved (Continued)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments .com. That's LegacyPMInvestments .com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah, but anyway, no, but we thought we would pre record a segment, which that's this segment right now, because people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw in the past few years. I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church. That's the new book in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. It's 2008. I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right. Right. So I kind of felt like I could sort of see this happening in America, and I felt it a little bit when I was writing the book. But in recent years, it's become really clear to me that, oh, yeah, that's exactly what is happening now. People want to know how evil took over in Germany was because of the silence of the German church. And often it was the German church, good people who felt like the smart thing to do is to be silent. And they were wrong, but that doesn't mean that they were evil, but they were complicit with evil. At the end of the day, they were very, very wrong. At the end of the day, they were complicit if they didn't repent. And so I wrote a letter to the American church, kind of like what this woman, Tori, is saying, that it's a you could you could feel that the Bonhoeffer story was becoming our story in America. And so I just felt I talked about on the Jordan Peterson podcast and in many other places I've never, ever, ever, ever felt God calling me to write a book. Now, to some people, that sounds loony. I you know, I don't know what to tell you, but it does feel to me like. I I had never felt I had never felt that feeling before that I've got to write this in obedience to God because this is happening now and I need to write this and I need to reach the Christians and the Christian leaders that are capable of being reached. Some are not. Some have just somehow tuned this out permanently. They're doing their own thing. Yeah. We also get a letter which is asking a question. So I'm going to read this if we have the time. This is about the concept of women pastors. It says, Eric, recently, the Southern Baptist Convention removed Saddleback Church from fellowship because Rick Warren ordained a woman pastor. Next year, the SBC convention will move to exclude from fellowship all Southern Baptist churches that have women pastors. They're using the scripture First Timothy, chapter three to say that being a pastor is limited to men. It seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. Paul wrote Timothy within the context of a patriarchal society. What's your position on this issue? Thank you. And I think the name of the person who wrote this is Ivan. Well, this is a complicated one for me. I don't know what I think about this. I don't have a really, really firm views on this subject. When somebody says it seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. That's really vague. I don't know what that means. You know, God cannot call a man to give birth. There are certain fixities in what we call reality. So to say that God can call someone to do anything it's just too vague for for me. I don't know what that means, whether women can be ordained as pastors. I speak at churches where they have the husband and his wife or pastors, so and so and so and so. And I don't have a particular problem with that. But what I find interesting is the idea where people get upset when somebody does have a view on it and they just say, well, that's not right. Like you should you should. In other words, if the Southern Baptist Convention has a fixed view on this, you don't need to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. But if you want to be a member of Southern Baptist Convention, you have to go along with with their rules. And don't be shocked if they say if you break our rules, you can no longer be a part of the club because those are the rules of the club. And it's the same thing with the Catholic Church. You know, you've got people angry about Catholic. It's like, look, the doctrine is the doctrine. And if you don't like it, you don't have to be a member of that that denomination. So I'm always but because I don't I don't know what I what I think about this. I mean, I feel like I can see both sides of it. And I and so I've I've never really been been clear on it. It's not it's not a deal breaker for me. And I think it all depends on what one means by being a pastor, because obviously women can do ministry. And so what are the limits of that and how does that work? I don't know. I don't know. But it's interesting because there was another church that's I think it's called Elevate.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Yeonmi Park - Part 3 (Encore Continued)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com. That's Legacy PM Investments dot com. Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. Now, here's your line jumping host, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah. But anyway, no, but we thought we would prerecord a segment, which that's this segment right now, because we people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw. In the past few years, I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church, that's the new book, in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always, Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. It's 2008. I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right. Right.
The Officer Tatum Show
"berry" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"What do we keep my mind on
The Officer Tatum Show
"berry" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"Biden White House. Absolutely. This is absolutely it's just unbelievable. This stuff is so unbelievable. You know, while I have you here, I'd love to get your, I love to get your take on some of the headlines if you don't mind. This from breitbart, Mike, IRS, whistleblower, Merrick Garland refused to name special counter counsel in the hunter hunter tax probe. I don't know if you've been following this news and you get these guys. You get blinken that literally had 51 former Intel agents or leaders, if you will, sign on to this notion that the Hunter Biden laptop was just Russian disinformation. You've been able to get your hands on the information within the Hunter Biden laptop. How much Russian disinformation have you seen there? Nothing. It's legit. I mean, the thing is, so I was a stenographer for Joe during a lot of the time that the laptop covers. I'm all in that thing. You know, my transcripts are in it. And there's one I've seen one email where one of Joe Stafford's emails, hunter and his group and saying, hey, vice president started his speech really well, but he went off the rails because he just talked too much. And it shows my name is it's sort of the top of the email list. That's exactly the center list that I used to use. That's my name at the top. And the staffer's name is Greg Schultz. And this is an indication what Joe Biden used to be like, he used to go out to a speech of me 25 minutes long, and he turned into an hour and a half, you know, complete rant. And he doesn't do that anymore. So all through the laptop, the transcripts that I produce are in there. And sort of things that were done right in front of me that I know happened that are in the laptop. Unbelievable. Again, Mike, tell people where they can go to find you. I want them to follow you on want them to read your stuff. Tell us about your book as well, as well as your substack. So midnight in a laptop of good and evil is the substack. It's free or you can sign up for a paid option. If you sign up for paid option, you get the book. I sent it to you. And then inscribe it. And there it is. So you get both of you pay. And the thing about being a paid subscriber is you get to read what's in my archives. And there's a lot of information in the archives. There's stuff in there about Joe Biden and his making the bed daughter, Joe Biden, I haven't wrote a substack about a time I was in Joe Biden's naval observatory for Christmas reception. We invited a bunch of kids, he invited a bunch of kids up to his bedroom. What? Yeah. It's okay. Okay. Good lord. Mike McCormick. Midnight in the laptop of good and evil and substack. I gotta email you, Mike. I gotta get my hands on that stuff. That is insane. Thank you, Mike McCormick. I appreciate you, man. Great girl, thank you. All right, welcome back to the office potato I'm sure I'm your guest host Carl Jackson sitting in for the officer Tatum. Guys, let me talk to you about the Salem news channel. If you like listening to the officer Tatum show, you're gonna love watching it as well. You can watch it on Salem news channel dot com or the app with the same name loaded on the Apple or Android store or you can watch us on Roku. Just type Salem news channel into the search bar. Come check us out. We are the antidote to the mainstream media. All the best in conservative media are on the Salem news channel with Dennis prager, doctor Sebastian gorka, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, dinesh d'souza will Cal, Larry O'Connor, Eric metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and your main man Brandon Tatum, bookmark us now. Just go to Salem, news channel dot com and watch today's show or get caught up on past shows that are on video. And by the way, if you would like to follow me and I wish you would. You can subscribe to my podcast wherever you go to get your podcasts. We're also on YouTube and rumble, the Carl Jackson show, wherever I am on social media, Twitter, getter, true social, Instagram, you name it, the Carl Jackson show is where you can find where you can find me. All right, so Biden has some poll numbers here. Man, that was crazy. I'm sorry. That was crazy. Mike McCormick at the end just dropped that bombshell that Joe Biden was imitating Michael Jackson. That was insane. All right, so but anyway, so make sure you check out his his substack. I'm gonna have to get a hold of that Joker. Again, midnight in the laptop of good and evil. This was the stenographer. To The White House. For over a decade guys, it wasn't just Barack Obama. He was under George W. Bush for a period. I believe perhaps under Trump for a short period of time. So this guy was in the plane in air force two in Air Force One I presume, taking note, taking notes, recording everything, writing transcripts. This guy is in line, and then he goes to the FBI, fills out a form because he wants the truth to get out there. This is absolutely unbelievable. Unbelievable to me, but this is where this is where we are. All right, actually, let me touch on this story first because we talked about obviously we talked with Larry elder in the first hour and his run for the presidency. He said that he's in it to win it. We went over all of his policy initiatives. One thing that I love about Larry elder, like I said, I know that he's a fighter. You know that's why I love Trump. It's why I love desantis as why love Larry elder, Vivek ramaswami seems very promising to me. Just based on some of the things that he's come out and said, he's come out swinging. I heard Larry elder, Larry elder mentioned the EVs and the hoax of the EVs, if you will, he didn't say that those are my words. I don't want to put words into words into his mouth, but he was concerned about the EVs and how they're causing some damage to the environment. We're going to talk about that later because Republicans aren't talking about this stuff. They don't talk about it. We just go along to get along, gone are the days politically speaking, a politically speaking, that we can just acquiesce to the left where we can get along with the left. It isn't going to happen. By the way, if you want to call in to the program 8 four four 9 zero zero 72 43 8 four four 9 zero zero 72 43, I'll give you my take on Tucker Carlson and Don lemon is out at CNN. That isn't news. That is a news to me. But we can talk about that as well. But just real quickly here, Gavin Newsom is finally taking action against the state's deadly fentanyl crisis, how to forgot man. This from town hall. So you got governor Gavin Newsom, all of a sudden he's announced that he's finally gonna take action against the fentanyl crisis in California by deploying the National Guard to assist in the police and then clean up of San Francisco. I should say, the governor's collaborating with the CHP, California highway patrol, California National Guard, San Francisco police department, and the San Francisco district attorney's office to put a stop to the crisis that is plaguing the city, which has been overrun by homelessness. Why is he just now concerned? These people are such fakes. They're such frauds. If this is a good idea, think about this. Think about this. If it's a good idea now, for governor Gavin Newsom, to tackle the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, why wasn't it a good idea a year ago, two years ago? Two months ago. It's amazing to me. These people are absolutely despicable. And I don't think they're anything less than evil. I don't say that to be a provocateur. I don't see that, say that to be hyperbolic. How can you let people die on your street? How can you say or believe that you're doing a great thing for people by giving them or kits or safe ways to do drugs when you know they're gonna die? These people don't care about them, but Newsom said his administration will focus on, quote, dismantling fentanyl trafficking and disrupting the supply of the deadly drug in the city by holding the operators of a large scale drug trafficking operations accountable. I'm not sure how he's going to do it. I think if he really wants to hold them accountable, the best thing he should do is call The White House and tell them to sell the freaking border. But I don't think he's going to do that. This guy is an absolute joke. We'll be back
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"berry" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Never you never signed anybody as head coach that became a first team all American at Oklahoma. So that needs to start happening. If I used to win the big 12 in 2023, much less. Compete with the best of the SEC here after this city. Barry, looking ahead a little bit, as everyone knows, we're what 5, 6 weeks away from the SEC spring meetings where OU and Texas will be there and the decisions are finally going to be hammered out and I assume announced. What is the feeling about from Oklahoma people about what the schedule is going to look like? Well, they sort of, you know, they sort of think it'll be the 9 gamer, but they're not convinced. And I, you know, I think there's still some failure that it could end up being the 8. And for all I know, they're back, Oklahoma football is in such it's not disarray, but it's been staggered to some degree. And I think I'd probably be good either way going the 8 or the 9. They were pretty heavy on the 9 when they first signed up. But the 8 doesn't sound so bad. Now I don't think. So I think that'd be good with either one. Yeah, Barry, I mean, I don't know, but it's hard to believe it won't be 9, but again, since it's not a fish or what about what about the opponents, assuming it is 9, everyone seems to think they know who there are three regulars are going to be the three permanent. There's been some speculation that OU is going to play Florida. Have you heard anything about that? Oh, yeah. I mean, Florida makes the most sense. I mean, it's going to be oh, you're in Texas. And it's going to be Missouri as well because somebody's got a pregnancy. And Oklahoma makes more sense than everybody else. And then if you put the piece, the puzzle piece together, the sooner is sort of needed an opponent and so does Florida. And it doesn't really have any historic or geographic or any other kind of connection, but, you know, that's no reason why it couldn't be. So I tend to think it will be Florida, it just makes sense from a balanced schedule and all those kinds of things. So I think if they do go with the three permanence, I think that's what it will be. It's Texas, Missouri and Florida. Barry, you've said some things that are really interesting and I'm not watching this in real time, but yeah, I understand Lincoln Raleigh's gone and everything that supposedly was, even though it seemed like he's fallen just as short out in LA as he did in Lincoln, but you used the word disarray. Is that just a temporary thing? Do you believe? Or what is that? What does that mean? Yeah. It's just that the program is not in disarray, but talent level and the expectations and everything is just sort of overnight it seemed it seemed to collapse. The idea that, you know, Oklahoma could go three and 6 in the big 12, which is what they went last year. They were three and 6. I mean, that was until you got in the middle of the season. That was been like saying, as soon as would drop football and turn the stadium over to the Ukrainian mission relief for something. I mean, we're not going to do that. Well, they're not going to go three and 6. And yet they did. Just out of the blue seemingly. So everybody's sort of trying to figure out what happened. Why it happened? How do you get it back? And the answer is it was slow moving over a long period of time. Phil 5 years slightly slightly slightly slide and now they've got to get it back, but the talent, the talent is not what it was. And not a very good time to be doing that going into the SEC. So plus, you have a new coach. Everybody loves venables. And then they played some football and wasn't an extremely well drilled team. All kinds of snafus and mistakes and, you know, people still believe that they've got the right coach, but they're not a 100% sure that are eager to find out one way or the other. I realized Barry, a lot of the naturally it always happens a lot of angst about Lincoln Riley, but that's a long time ago now. We've seen Brent venables. So not to make something a terrible situation out of a just a mediocre year or a terrible mediocre year, but is there much pressure on him to quickly turn this thing around or do you think he has a pretty long leash? I don't think he has a long leash. I don't think the pressure is imminent, I don't think. I don't think he'd get fired after this season if they haven't earned 6 and 7 years. But I don't know that they'll go very far with me. The stakes have changed. It's too much money involved, which money's always been big, but, you know, it's just massive amounts of money and going into the SEC. They got to get it right. So I think I think there's pressure on Brent to get it all turned around not to keep his job, but just to get everybody settled down and say, hey, this is Oklahoma. We know how to play football. Things are going to be fine. And, you know, doubts down as a major thing in doubt, doubt just exploded in Norman this past season when they realized the talent level wasn't much and when they realized that the things they could count on, which is automatic double digit victories, automatic championships automatic superstars, particularly on the offensive side of the ball when they realized it's not automatic and that it can be taken from you and it was taken from them and now they've got to get it back and they've got to get it back quick or they're going to have to try to get it back in the SEC, which is a more difficult assignment. So it's sort of a trepidation, I would say. Worried that things are going to be a lot rocky than they thought. And Barry, before you go, and I realized that the rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma is legendary, but maybe I'm maybe I'm buying maybe I'm the biggest sucker in the world for believing that sarkeesian has everything turned around. And they're on the brink of something big, but how is that story from a recruiting standpoint and everything else getting bushwhacked in the game playing in Norman right now? Well, nobody in Norman believes in Texas, I can tell you that. I don't even know if the longhorns believe it much because we've seen it so often. You know, they're always in the ESPN FTI's during the top ten every year. But even last year, the horns, right? And 5, which is pretty good year for Texas compared to what they've been doing, but, you know, 8 and 5. In a really parity driven big 12 was not anything to get too excited about. So I do think Texas has some pieces that they haven't had before. I do think sarc did a really good job last year. I think he's got it going in the right direction. So I would probably pick him to win the big 12. But, you know, this is a program that we've that people have been saying. They're back. They're back to back. Well, and been back in 12 years. 13 years. So I'm going to have to I'm going to have to see it to believe it. But, you know, on the other hand, they were 40 9 points better than Oklahoma. So I think there's a lot of reasons to think they're going to take care of the sooners, but can they take care of TCU and Baylor and Oklahoma state and Kansas state? Can't wait for that rivalry very tremel getting it started for us early. Barry hopes he is soon thanks as always for coming on. Thanks, Paul. You bet. One of my favorites very travel. He does not mince words. And we have a lot to look forward to with Oklahoma and Texas and back and forth. We will take a break more to come right after this. You were listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. From the executive producers of Little Fires Everywhere. The morning show, and big little lies. What would I tell my 22 year old self? Starring Emmy Award
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"But yeah, mark for the director and Lee Daniels was the producer thought again like spike. I didn't look like this letitia musgrove. This woman down on her luck living in the south. And I once again said, well, what does that person look like? You know, in your mind and I just was persistent and relentless in my pursuit to get an audition and get to meet with them. And I finally got that. And then the director Mark Forrester became my champion. Lee was still not so convinced, but then Mark became my champion. So just to remind folks, this was this woman, her life's falling apart, her husband is a death row, inmate, and then she becomes involved with his executioner. And these are two broken people who kind of find solace in each other, not least in a scene that had a lot of people talking. And I just want to set it up this way because a year before that, you had done a movie called swordfish, which you said you openly acknowledge. You said, if you've ever done gratuitous nudity in a movie, that was it. But now in this case, it's like the polar opposite. This is so integral to it tells us so much about these characters. She literally is saying things that are telling you about her character in the middle of this. So I guess I just wonder, this is you, Billy Bob Thornton, who also was instrumental, I guess, in helping to get the movie financed. Again, not a long shoot, not a lot of money. And you are thrown right into the deep, maybe not right in because I think it was later in the shoot, but this is a big deal. You know, yeah. But let me speak to that. You're right. That swordfish was gratuitous nudity. And this whole story reminded me that sometimes how important it is to listen to our gut. And my gut told me when that role that gratuitous nudity of swordfish came my way, I said yes to it because I felt like I needed to get over this fear of being nude on camera. As an actor, our bodies are our instruments. And at some point, we have to get over that..
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"This by a coin toss. Because he said, or you can be co queens, and I said, I'm not being a coin. No co nothing. Yeah, right. I didn't do this, and let's toss the coin. Right. And I won. That's great. Now, beauty pageants became a thing around that time. You were in and doing very well in miss Ohio, miss tin America, and miss USA, miss world, all I believe you've said in the same prom dress that it's not people shouldn't get the idea that it was like wealthy background where you're going around getting a new gown for every contest. And I wonder if you can talk about when you did go off to college at the briefly there at the beginning, what did you imagine you were going to do with your life? I imagined I would be a journalist, and you know, I've realized since then, you know, in all of you have probably suffered from this, and I say suffer because it's a suffering. You get asked when you're maybe ten years old. What do you want to be when you grow up? You know, we're asked to answer this huge question before our frontal cortex is fully developed yet. You know, and we're expected to figure out and know what we'll do with our life before we've lived enough life to even know what we're good at or what makes us happy. It becomes a cerebral decision not an emotional one, right? And often not a right one, or it's what our parents want us to do. So I was asked that question very, very early. And so I had to come up with an answer, and it felt like journalist. That sounds like a good thing to do because I was being asked and asked and asked and I felt like a failure if I didn't have an answer. And because I put that answer into the world because so many people asked me the question, well, then I had to live up to that because I had said it for all these years. I didn't want to be a failure again. That was sort of my ticker tape of my life. Don't be a failure, don't be a failure, prove prove prove. So I thought I would be a journalist. And I thought that that would make me happy. Enter Vincent Chiron Cheney. Is that a close? Okay, so who is he? He was my longtime manager of about 25 years. My one and my first manager. And how did you hear from this? Me too. Yeah. Well, I was living in Chicago. And I was modeling there because one of my beauty pageant judges owned a modeling agency. And when the pageants were over, she said, come to Chicago. I said, I'm going to take a gap year. I'm going to go to college, but I want a break again before I go back to overachieving. And she said, okay, come model for you, make some money. So I did that. And while I was there, I was studying at second city, just as a way to make friends and fill up my nighttime hours. I was in Chicago all by myself. So while I was studying there, one day out of the blue, I get a phone call from this guy, fast talking guy saying hey. Is this Halle Berry? I said, yeah. This has been. I'm a manager in New York. I managed to Ferguson. She was miss Pennsylvania and you're miss teen America pageant. Do you know what do you know? Yeah. Why manager? She's on a soap opera. And they're looking for a black girl just like her. You know, bubbly, cute. Are you interested? And I said,.
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"Was on this day. Can you guess what year it was the tv series. Welcome back kotter. Debuted on abc. What's funny is i can tell you for. Most of the shows that aaron what network they were today. I have no clue the theme song written by john. Sebastian of the loving spoonful goes to number one in america. In early seventy six. I guess it gave away the show debuted on day in seven. Five qatar also gives john travolta who plays a high school delinquent on the show his big break he goes on to star in. Well you know what he darden. Saturday night fever. Get shorty when he can get shorty. I haven't seen now john. Travolta was offered the role that richard gere took in austria gentleman. He was yeah and he turned it down. Richard gere's i two roles were first offered to john travolta. Travolta was at it was at the peak of his career except taking gear was was. There's another one route at that time. That gear is in american gigolo. Yeah so he's offered american gigolo and that yep that's exactly that is absolutely right a very happy birthday to a dear dear friend and a wonderful minister you know. There are some people who have minister on their business card but you wonder if they ever actually minister. David malls be ministers every single day to the souls of veterans. He is our executive director camp. Hope and he is wonderful and he turned what does he. price seventy. seventy four seventy four by the way. He just sent me last night. Our new newsletter for camp hope for september and. It is a good newsletter. I mean there's a lot going on there all the updates. You see the guys you see what they're up what they're up to a big thanks to some donors some events going on Klay shoot a family run gray star which is a wonderful company. That probably does more. Gray starring russell. Ibarra did more than anybody for camp hope the tenth annual barbecue. Cook off coming up so for all you. Guys that have made that a success over the years november twelfth and thirteenth at the waller county fairgrounds. I think morals plan At least that's what we were working on There is a reference to the guy's helping out with mattress mac at gallery furniture to get supplies to louisiana. There is a big note others our friend. Tom was on bringing bringing all sorts of good stuff over. There is a big spread on cats coffee and the new camp. Hope coffee by the way somebody out there has a connection to joe kelley at kroger. Mac is going to be with him today or tomorrow. Can't remember he's gonna talk to him but we would like to get the camp. Hope coffee by cats. Coffee in the In the The kroger stores. It's already in all the central markets and in some of the heb's there are some the heb store. Managers are dying for it. Because you folks have been going in there and asking but we're still having to We're still waiting on the buyer to approve an order. Oh by the way if you get a chance take one take one for the team here and oh you think it's because i'm calling at kroger when it should be kroger's my grandmother was the kroger's if she bothered to say the krogers and she would say The kroger's when i say nanny it hasn't been hanky lots for twenty five years. Well you know what. I mean michael. The kroger's yes the croakers because the krogers hadn't been the krogers had been the kroger's for a long long time. Anyway that would be a great distribution outlet for our. Can't pope coffee by cats coffee and a big. Thanks to steve moore. John redman lisa reedmen and all the folks at specs. They are now they have. I think it's probably in all the stores by now. It's almost two hundred stores. They have put camp hope coffee and they have just put camp coffee In the specs they have given it. Pride of place in in cap. I mean you you can't you can't help but see it. It is a beautiful display. My goal was to raise one hundred thousand dollars for camp. Hope just through the coffee because that offsets some of the events that we don't get to have but i'll bet you at this pace if we it up because you folks are awesome. We're going to end up as more than that for them. That is my hope A big big thanks to specs so take one on the to. I know you didn't wanna go in and buy some beer and wine and whiskey and bourbon spirits and cocktail mix and charcuterie and all the delicious. I know you didn't want to but just as a favor. If you'd go into the specs ask for the camp. Hope coffee and then buy it. I would sure appreciate it and our guys are guys absolutely. Thank you for doing that. And and by the way if you're a restaurant out there or an organization that wants it Send me an email. I will get you hooked up with avi cats. And we'll get your your. He'll do whatever blended coffee want. But if you pick one of the four camp hope coffees than ten percent goes to camp hope and it adds up faster than you think. Houston press food and drink readers choice winners. Twenty twenty just came out best. African restaurant zoa moroccan restaurant. Never been there. Have you like moroccan. I just haven't been their best bakery elbow. That's our suffering kurt. Michaela best bar. Anvil barn refuge as bob hugo. That's the one that Morgan weber the four of them. That started they all went on to be incredibly successful. Best bar patio axelrod beer garden. Don't know it best barbecue overall our friend. Michael sam brooks the pit room best barbecue brisket pinkerton 's barbecue. He went to memphis in whoop their ass the second time in a row remember. He was all cocky. Walking loved it. He called us from the parking lot. I just wanna walk them again. Best barbecue ribs truth. Barbecue never been their best barbecue. Sausage good company barbecue are friendly. Good best beer list heights beer garden. Best bobo bubble tea. The tea house. That's what crockett likes. Best breakfast breakfast club. That's in midtown. It's our buddy. Marcus bessbrook breasts breakfast taco tacos go us good to.
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"Skin are an absolute and when i say obsession i used the word carefully and there is a. There's an actual legitimate reason behind this after during jim crow and n. As we began integrating as a society. There really was that. There were such barriers for blacks. And this is true and blacks didn't go into the professional workplace as professionals for a long time the only opportunity was you might shine the shoes at the front of the door. You might get to work in the mailroom. Eventually you might get to be the receptionist but you were not the professional but as generations of blacks struggled to enter into higher ranks of society. The only things that were open or the military and that to not in not in the most prestigious roles that certainly not as officers. And then when you served your military time you got out and you went into a government job or Like the post office or any sort of governmental position or education. Which is why you see. So many of that generation. I'm talking fifties sixties even to early seventies but it was. It was believed that you had to present yourself. Why well in front of white people and you had to take care of your hair and you were never to have ashi skin. Your skin could not be they see they say ashi or chalky. It's just a look. We have physical differences in in our in our bodies and so it is. Blacks are very hard on other blacks. If your elbows are dry or your skin is dry and chalky and in fact it's one of the things that david chapelle addressed with humor with the character. Ashy larry if you remember the character. Ashy larry when they'd be throwing bones downstairs When he's supposed to be taking out the trash and ashy larry would have ash all over. I mean i think white people got a little humor out of that but blacks really thought that was funny because he was bringing something from the community out into the open. That's never talked about right so fast forward. It has been a running theme that with with crockett's hair since he was five years old. If i take him to a black barber people don't have. I don't know how to cut black hair. And if i take him to a black barber they will proceed to lecture me and him that he's not doing this and he's not doing this and he's not using oils. You have to do a lot more with black hair than your average white person. Just come up. it's like women you gotta do a lot more with your hair if it's long then guys when ours is short so going to the barber is always this big. To-do and crockett dreads it. Because we're going to have to hear from black barber that you know you're not doing it and what they're really doing is judging me as the white dad. I'm not raising my kid right and sufficiently black or whatever and then they'll give me skin lotion and suggested like look. I'm no different with him than i would be a white kid. I'm gonna let him do his hair the way he wants to do it and i don't. It's not that big a deal. I know it's a big deal to you. But it's not to him as my son not your so anyway. So he decides he wants to get his haircut because this big thick fro and He was tired of messing with it so he gets his hair. We've found a great lady by the way if if you have a young black man who needs to get their hair done Email me michael. Berry show dot com and i will send you to the best of the best of the best. She's the niece of a of a real good friend of mine. What's kenny smith. Kenny smith at low t. center. His niece cuts hair. And she's she's amazing what best experience we ever had. So i sell that say this. Crockett says i want waves in my hair. I don't know how you get waves into just not counting. We deal with this. You know this is actually technically black. People problems not white people problems right. So that's a crock. You gotta ask her so she says well you have to put up. You have to put a wave cap on. And she said dad you'll have to get him a wave cat. I said a wave cap man. I've been around for a long wave. Cafes crock goes a do rag. Dad oh okay so she you you put the you put degrees. You put the do rag acid. That's why people wear director and she's busted out laughing she goes. Why did you think they were because they look good. I realize right you see tv. Show lara bar people wearing to do. They got their greece on there in his putting ways. But i say all that to say this. My wife sends me an update every day on how the morning went. And that's like our diary so we've got the record of this. It's like we have a diary of every morning. You know who who who did. It goes back to win their little bitty right so what what. They're strong so she says. Crockett decided he was going to wear his do rag to the school today. Well there's almost no black kids at this school. I'm sure there's never been a kid. Where do rags school. So she.
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"Thank you for hanging out and spending some time with me today as usual. I have a fantastic guest for you. You're gonna love this guy. I was just on his podcast not too long ago. And you know i will link that in the show notes We let's take a minute and welcome dennis berry to the show. Hi dennis how are you. Oh so awesome. Everything's really great. I'm happy beer and talk with you again. 'cause you're a bundle of energy funny because i'm such an introvert. I do like connecting with people. Though i do enjoy like having some people time i just appreciate that. It's in my house in our houses. All houses right so take a minute and tell everybody a little bit about you in what you do. I am a life. Nasseri coast mostly addiction recovery but work with couples of loving relationship stuff just high performance health and wellness. All around stuff. And i've been since a sobriety thing had been sober for eighteen years until i in the beginning they said you know what you need to be of service and i was like. I don't have time to be of service but now i've set my life up to help people not have to suffer the same way i did or for his long amen to that so talk to me. Eighteen years sober. What was your path to sobriety. I think when we say eighteen years sober. It's kind of obvious. But what did you do to get sober and.
The Michael Berry Show
"berry" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
"You'll get number one song for nine months in paraguay. I had the number one song park. Nine months you'll learn on the radio technical. It's all to what at bar here. So so my first question for this coach when we get him on you lift strong texas population six seventy six to take the head. Coaching job in kwa texas population. A little over one hundred one hundred nine people at the two two thousand ten census now they might have increased their population by two percent and they might be up to a hundred and eleven or they might have an old couple died and they two percent of their population. There settlers attracted to the site. Because it was the nearest point to hillsborough where timber could be found began moving into the area in the eighteen forties. The original settlement near the site of present aquila was called mud town. Yeah it's probably better. You change mud town. That doesn't sound very. We'd like to invite you on a fabulous vacation. All expenses paid to madeira aquilla texas. I've heard of in two thousand seventeen. There were one hundred nine residents and two churches. I li- i bet they're both baptist. That means there's probably not any muslims or jews or catholics or hindus there might be a hindu because there's probably a little motel or a little convenience store that could be hindu or that could be of muslim as of the census of two thousand akilah had hundred and thirty six people and forty three households. So they've lost thirty seven people. They're not doing well. They're density is four hundred. Eighty eight people per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was eighty three point. Eighty two percent eighty. Let's say eighty four percent white seven percent native american eight percent from other races and set point seventy four less than one percent from two or more races hispanic or latino of any race were twelve percent of the population. But that's also factoring into the white so the way they're counting that from the census data eight percent from other races so they don't have anybody in black they just have eight percent in other races. Thirty four percent of the city is under the age of eighteen. Ten percent eighteen to twenty four thirty percent twenty five to forty four sixteen percent forty five to sixty four and ten percent sixty five percent or sixty five years or older for every one hundred females over one hundred nine males. The median income is thirty. Nine thousand five hundred for a family is forty. Three thousand five hundred. The per capita income for the city was thirteen thousand. Now that doesn't that means a lot of people are the that includes the children and everything else. So don't don't get nervous about that. Let's see what county they're they're they're in hill county so if you're if you're kind of coming off a houston you're gonna go north west and head toward the panhandle in john just a little bit to the east. I'll bet you without looking. What's fella's name that called up ramonic- knows all the back highways like my grandfather did not anthony. I can't remember his name. Ted government but you know there's about five percent of our audience. Maybe twenty percent of our audience truck drivers who could tell you. Oh you trying to get through a quionoa. Oh michael here's what you wanna do. You can take forty five and cut over at three seventy seven and then go about four miles. And there's a little bitty cutoff but now that way easier. Whatever they got everybody's on it may not have been taking that that drive since seventy four and you could cut off. There wasn't even a sign there. There was just a wind sock out front and at winstar was torn. Touted never replaced it but he stayed. It was american flag sought. And i'd turn on that red dirt road and you'd be on there for about ten minutes nephew. If you broke down out there was nothing but when you cut through it about thirty minutes drive and then also i started noticing that was more and more people more more people more and more people on it so at the end of as a little bitty. Ah gas station you remember. The gas station seen in No country for old men. Ramon air barnum goes in there and that poro man and he he. He says pick heads or tails and he said. I need to know what it's for and his forever. Oh that's a scene that there anyway. I pulled in there at the end of it when it turns back on a paved road asphalt and i said come all these people here and he said oh man they got one in things on on the phone now the app or whatever they call it in a way easier ways ways or something. I can't some and mandate now. They all figured out the back roads. So it ain't even worth going anymore. Just stay on the payroll. 'cause there's so many people in these people from houston these big city people. They don't know how to drive for nothing out there. They do not know so. I don't even i don't even cut that. Also it takes me another thirty minutes to get there now but you know at this point. Ain't much her as it used to be. But anyway so you get up there about four eighty one. You take that. You're going to take that to the fort worth. Stockyards could off because acquitted little town. He will take that to the fort worth stockyard. Cutoff and you know. Take that for about about an hour and keep keep your eyes open because there's an old billips station route their next to a terrorist remember. Terry's head had Had a frame roof little that had fuel had bear in. When you pass at terry's about amount half later there's a study now in ena stuck. He's anymore because wanna may ramp families bought our for more somewheres in the pralines. Ain't right in in but you can get a burger. It's not a bad burger and then they got one in deals back there in the back where you know that you get. They keep it all the time. I don't know how long it's been. Since then. you get fried chicken. You can get a burrito and i think they just bring all that stuff in his frozen and they but anyway. If you're hungry at that point you can stop in there and get it. You think aquilla has a small town radio station like ko raise you where they had the cafeteria. They read the cafeteria school menu on local radio. I loved that. I absolutely loved the reading of the catholic. We gotta shirley culet. We should play that in the next segment. I loved the cafeteria school menu in the morning when we were getting ready for school. Mama turn on the radio. We listen to kgps and read what was going to be on the cafeteria. Schooling at the at the local school in west orange stark. Today's going to have hamburgers. Pinto beans chop kate chocolate or vanilla male orange..
The Michael Berry Show
"berry" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
"You know you just listed a lot of what we know and yet the most disturbing part is what we still don't know the late. Donald rumsfeld had his known knowns unknown unknowns unknown knowns an unknown unknowns. there are so many things that are still within the realm of possibility that cannot be ruled out that are so disturbing Including was this intentional Of course none of us wants to believe it was but if we get to that point this becomes very disturbing because then we're getting into. What did you know and and win. Did you know it. And how many people had to work hard to prevent information from coming out and can this happen again under these circumstances and is everything being done to ensure that it doesn't i'll tell you what it's very frustrating to me. How many businesses including one. That i owned had to close due to covid how many how many people took their own lives due to depression. How many people didn't get to be at a funeral or wedding or graduation. All these efforts were made to lock us down and yet i don't see any effort being made to ensure that this doesn't happen again because it could well. Luckily the tide is turning on that. And we're starting to see some action from congress Back our earlier this month. congressman guy rational. All our friend of our organization Was successful in getting amendment. Passed that would prohibit state department funding for the one lab. A lot of the money that they were spending in this lab was not only from the nih but it was also from the state department So the house. The house appropriations committee approved that amendment. We'll see what happens in the senate but that would cut off state department funding back in. May we work with. Senator joni ernst. Who was able to pass an amendment To this A big nsf authorization. Bill that would permanently de-fund make sure no money ever again goes to the one institute of allergy and in the same bill rand paul had A measure that would prohibit any funding from going to gain of function research in china Ever again And we're finally seeing some bipartisan cooperation. It's taken over year but In response to those Deleted samples that it looks like the. Nih deleted these samples at the request of the chinese. Researchers congressman raja krishnamoorthi from illinois and mark and republican mark green from tennessee. Just let her the nih asking basically why the hell did. They delete the samples at the request of china's researchers And how dangerous that is. In terms of obscuring our ability to get to the bottom of what how cove it started And even just looking at public opinion that change over the last year is remarkable And that's allowing. I think members of congress more comfortable you know taking some action Politico harvard poll. So just again. So you understand. Who did this pulp a harvard. Political poll released last week. Found them in a jar. Majority of americans believe the pandemic started with elaborate. That's fifty two percent of democrats and fifty nine percent of republicans. Only twenty eight percent believe it was a natural. It was from natural spillover. So this is you know almost twice the amount of people who believed in the last week a year ago So this is certainly gone mainstream. It's got momentum. We are seeing some action from congress But you know who's been eerily quiet and not asking reforms people like anthony. She people like francis collins. The biggest cheerleaders regain function research and people have said all along michael that gain of function. Maybe it could be used for good but could also be used for evil. And i think that's where we you know would that's where we are right now is trying to decipher. If or the worst case scenario came true. We're getting a lot of move along. There's nothing to see here justin goodman. I wish we had more time with you. White.
Z104
"berry" Discussed on Z104
"Berries on a summer evening on it Sounds suck song. I want more Berries in the summer Feel live so wonderful involved. Breathe me. Breathe me. Oh, don't know. Fuck it. Jesse can I don't know what another ship One. What a man what a new mission High Why you should have been on a summer evening. Did you? And some of the live didn't watch doing you. Leave me Breathe me What a man should What What She is sex on Berries on a summer evening. And it sounds like song. Oh, really? And that some of the live I don't know if I could ever go down. What I miss you. 11. What another sugar? It's that keep going till you asked for it. On the number one hit music station. The one oak or this one is for the boys with the booming system tapped al. A. C with the coolness is when you come up in a class B B blaze enough. That's that's on deck like you saved enough and keep my goddamn right. He calls he does. He might sell her. He always everybody. Another blackout. The ship ship when he make a drink. Get them on a little, If that's the kind of grew up with looking for, and yes, you'll get slapped. If you're looking at home, I said, Excuse me. You're a hell of a guy. I mean, my my, my, my, like Pelican fly. I mean, it's so shy and I'm loving your car. You're like slicker than the guy with the thing on his arm. Oh, yes, I guess I did Somebody please tell me who the f I am. Nicki Minaj. I met some dudes up that cooks up Chuck the deuce up. I think one is for the poison to Powell loud entrepreneur and begins in the mouth. Go Think about what the corps we could sound loud, but I think I like about $20. When I think about that for the cap. Put them back out. He just got to give me that. Look when you give me that look in a penny something out. Excuse me. A hell of a god. You know, I got a thing for American guys. I mean, sorry. Chicken and eyes. I could tell that you're in touch with your feminine side. Yes, I did. Yes, I did Somebody please tell them whoever it is. I am Nicki Minaj, Madame du dub that cooks up and Chuck the deuce up. They need you in my life of Miss Day. No, no, no, no, no, no, you stay number.
Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"berry" Discussed on Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
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Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"berry" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"There's people that have seen him. You know in the triple digits but for the you know for the record. How do you do you count. How many times you've them. Oh i wish. I would have seen many more times. At least i got to see him so far one time and that was in milwaukee okay in march third twenty. Sixteen the river tour. Okay all my gosh. It was not disappointing. It was fantastic. I mean it was just. I mean i was dancing. I was rocked. I was you know clapping. I was i was crying. I was so happy it was a wonderful wonderful concert. amazing. You know right. It's that if you have been a fan for a long time and so about. When did you buy born to run. About what year year came out. Okay so yeah. So you're talking at the seventy s. Yeah okay and you know. So he'd been so it's you know it's been twenty five thirty years in and you know this phantom and you finally get the chance to go see him where you a little nervous that he wouldn't live up to the hype no no i know. I didn't even think about that at all. I i knew it was going to be a fun. Exciting interesting fantastic time and i was so excited to go and i was so glad i got to go and and i haven't made a video you know after i saw the concert and you know i was just so elated in. I just couldn't get over it. It was what made it. So you're finally ready to go see him live. I had the opportunity. I mean i was always working and i couldn't get off a work and just happened that he was going to be there on a night that i could go and i've gotta go. I gotta go you know Living in texas right is the same thing that Some of our brothers and sisters that live in the east coast can get a little spoiled..
MYfm 104.3
"berry" Discussed on MYfm 104.3
"With the crunch. Berry and I ate all the Berries out of her s o. Did you pour them out like into a big ball? Take the Berries out like that and put it back in the box. I mean, at first, I just kind of open the box and started taking about it wasn't intentional, but I was kind of just thinking about the argument we had and how irritated I was, And as I went along, it became progressively more intentional. So when he tried having that serial the next, there's somebody that did you go where the crunch Berries? Yeah, pretty much. She came downstairs portable, and he was pretty confused. Actually, it's become a few minutes. At first. He thought it was like a defective box of cereal and he looked at me and I looked pretty guilty so You only red dust Other on your lips. Yeah. Chrissy. Thanks for coming. Appreciate you take care of 866544. My fan Texan 3143. Brian thinks that should mention the copy thing. But I don't think I was getting back to somebody passive aggressively was right. Maybe it was just aggressively. There's been this bowl that's been sitting in our kitchen sink here. At work on and off throughout the entire pandemic, and somebody has oatmeal. And then they put the ball in there, and the bowl will stay sitting in the sink, soaking for 2 to 3 days. I'm not kidding you. They never washed. It sits there for 2 to 3 days until somebody else washes it. Or maybe they do Washington. Reuse it, But you can't leave your bowl for 72 hours sitting in the sink, just marinating what other people have to wash your coffee mugs? Everything else Here is gross. So there's an allegation. That the other day somebody when they were emptying out the coffee pot from our studio might have poured the old coffee right into that bowl. So then it was just a bowl of blackness didn't see that bowl there today, though. They get message. You know it's worth. So there are people that are worse than that. Because guy who works here. He goes throwing out, throw it in the trash. That'll teach him just take their ball and throw it in the trash boy. That's all that's more than passive aggressive. That's belong, destroying somebody's property, and they're just going to get another bowl and do the same thing with a different bowl. Throw that one out, too. You throw.
KTRH
"berry" Discussed on KTRH
"It's Charlie from BlackBerry smoke. I can feel a good one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show 26 packs. Not an ass. If you take a ladder, I'm not gonna run it hide and tell you that those were terrorists that were at the Donald Trump's speech. In Washington D. C Because they're not. They're patriots. I'm not going to run and hide and tell you that the Democrats could raise our taxes and murder more babies and involve us and more forever Wars. Because I'm too afraid of them, calling me a racist or domestic terrorists or whatever else I know a They're patriots their business owners. It's served this country that love this country that protect this country that care deeply about this country. And I'm not gonna have the media calling the monsters. Some people do some things they should have done. Yes, they did. Yes, they did. I've been told for quite some time. What heroes that BLM and and anti far I'm gonna tell you. Some of the real heroes in this country are the tax paying God fearing child rearing veterans, small business owners and good people, most of whom voted for Donald Trump. Yes, I said it. How about how about this crap that we heard from liberals for for far too long. Listen to this If somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a 19, because that makes sure that that person eats that make sure that that person has closed. That's reparations that is reparation. Anything.