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Lilles Life T 1
"Welcome, Anthony. Hello, Chris. It's so good to be with you. I am so excited to be with you. I'm always excited to be with you, but right now I'm really excited because we're going to be talking about the Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. Is the official title The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus? Yes, it is. In Spanish, la vita, and it was her first spiritual work that she wrote and she had to basically invent terms that influence both Spanish but also mystical theology for centuries to come because some terms didn't yet exist in Spanish for experiences that she had and her explanations and so forth. So she had to come up with a whole bunch of metaphors to kind of illustrate what she was kind of a very important issues for the growth and development of the life of prayer and we're talking about contemplative prayer or mental prayer not has an escape from reality which today people hear contemplation and they think that you kind of disengage and hide in a cave somewhere. For her, mental prayer was the pathway into the mission of the church.
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Fresh update on "chris it" discussed on Audio
"Welcome, Anthony. Hello, Chris. It's so good to be with you. I am so excited to be with you. I'm always excited to be with you, but right now I'm really excited because we're going to be talking about the Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. Is the official title The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus? Yes, it is. In Spanish, la vita, and it was her first spiritual work that she wrote and she had to basically invent terms that influence both Spanish but also mystical theology for centuries to come because some terms didn't yet exist in Spanish for experiences that she had and her explanations and so forth. So she had to come up with a whole bunch of metaphors to kind of illustrate what she was kind of a very important issues for the growth and development of the life of prayer and we're talking about contemplative prayer or mental prayer not has an escape from reality which today people hear contemplation and they think that you kind of disengage and hide in a cave somewhere. For her, mental prayer was the pathway into the mission of the church.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Roger Stone
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we. But until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Mataxas. Well, ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your TV sets. I'm wearing a different kind of wig today, and I know it's jarring, but let's just go with it. The wig master. Yeah, he's outdone himself today. I was going to say he was taken ill. He was taken ill. But in any event, enough about my wig. Chris, what about your wig? is My wig an original. Listen, today is, I believe, Tuesday, right? So we should probably tell people who's on the show, and then we're going to joke around more. Who's on the show? In a couple of minutes, probably not wearing any kind of wig at all, will be my guest, Roger Stone. Roger Stone will be talking about the Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz battle. McCarthy and Gaetz. If you're wondering what to make of that, and you don't have time to listen to the show, Gaetz is right. McCarthy needs to be kicked out. But that's just my opinion. We'll see what Roger Stone has to say. He is a genius, political genius, and I'm excited to hear what he has to say. It kind of reminds me of the old Star Trek episode where Kirk and Spock have to fight each other to the death. It reminds everyone of that, but please continue. Spock was kind of under a spell. He wasn't himself, and they had to fight each other. Right. Kirk didn't want to hurt Spock because he knew that, you know. But maybe it's a bad analogy. It's just like that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's just like that. If you don't have any more time, just take that home. It's on In hour two, we're talking to Doug Grothheis. That's a Dutch name. I want to say up front, I hate the Dutch. I despise you people. And I'm going to bring it to Doug Grothheis. Enough with the Dutch stuff. But we're going to talk to him about theological stuff. We're going to talk to Roger Stone about political stuff in a couple of seconds. Before that, we should mention several things. Number one, I've been working on a sequel to Letter to the American Church. It's called Religionless Christianity, God's Answer to Evil. Working on a book is very stressful on me. That's why I'm wearing this wig because the eczema and psoriasis really flare up, and you've got to cover that up just from stress. So I'm working on that book. I'm doing a lot of travel. The Letter to the American Church book, some of you know, there's a study guide that goes with it. And we've mentioned that the documentary film, there's a documentary film. And I think we're pushing back the release date. The film is just about ready to go. But I think we're trying to set it up as a fathom event. I will be screening it in churches around the country. But we don't book. It's not about a movie. It's about saving America from sliding into the abyss. It's very, very bleak. If you pay attention to what's going on in the news, most of it seems unbelievable, the evil that we're facing and the silence of the church in the face of evil. So stay tuned on that. The way they attack President Trump, the way they attack Mike Lindell, what's really gross to me is there are people out there who don't care. And I think to myself, who are you? Do you understand what kind of a country this is? In this country, we don't play those political games. We actually have justice under the law. We're supposed to have those things. And you're supposed to care about those things. I don't care where you are politically or who you like or don't like. So it really is amazing to me where we are. So we're going to be talking obviously to Roger Stone about that in a few minutes. But let me ask you again to support Mike Lindell, please, by going to mystore .com or mypillow .com and using the code Eric. But what he's going through, even yesterday, I read a whole new thing that they're attacking him. It's just despicable that we're at that point in the country where that kind of stuff is happening. I mentioned I was traveling. I was. You remind me of that. I forget the name of the song. It's a classic rock song about the guy who's on the road every night. He's going to town to town. You're kind of like a 70s rocker.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "chris it" discussed on Mark Levin
"And in too many cases acquiesces and contributes to them, the Republican party fails in its most important mission, to defend the American people from a Democrat party that literally hates the country and is destroying it from within. And unlike the Democrat party, the Republican establishment would rather betray its own base, conservatives, and try to marginalize it than battle the Democrat party, preferring to make appeals to the Democrat party media and demonstrate their bipartisan common sense in pursuit of temporary political power and positive media coverage. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the likes of Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Chris Sununu, Asa Hutchinson, and Chris Christie are but a few temporary examples of this defeatist mindset. It is also one reason why they and Republicans like them constantly target Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and others who understand the nature of the threat and are willing to confront it. It takes Uncommon 42 principles and foresight to recognize and engage the Democrat party, its surrogates, and American Marxist movements, and it goes on. But Mark, these eight, they had Uncommon Fortitude, no they didn't, they're saboteurs. The House Republicans, with the tiniest of majorities, have been making very good progress, very good progress. Those eight teamed up with the Democrat party and destroyed it. And I've got more to say about it in a moment. Mark Levin on 77WABC. Folks, you've heard me talk about Hillsdale College, giving away free copies of the Constitution and Declaration to my listeners for Constitution Day. They've set an immediate goal to give copies to one million Americans who don't have one. And if not you, then maybe a young person you know. Well, the response has been tremendous. However, this free offer for my listeners ends soon. So if you haven't already, order your free copy right now at for .com, Hillsdale L -E -V -I -N for Hillsdale .com. Every American should have a copy of the Constitution and Declaration. And these days when most schools neglect to teach our kids about our nation's great heritage of liberty, copy from Hillsdale College. Go to levinforhillsdale .com right now. Complete a simple form and receive a booklet through the Hillsdale Hillsdale .com, that's L -E -V -I -N for Hillsdale .com. Coming up at 5 a .m. On on the 77WABC NewsHour with no one laden. Two big koi fish statues have gone missing on Long Island and everybody's looking for them. I miss seeing them every morning. Our goal was to Take make something epic. We wanted to have something that like people stop to look at. That story and more at five. the NewsHour 77WABC weekday mornings at five before sitting and friends in the morning. 77WABC coming up every weekday a nine a .m. hour. Listen for the Fearless Boilers Sid's Take. Sponsored by Fearless Boilers and Pavilion Tankless water heaters. Go to FearlessBoilers .com or PavilionTankless .com for a dealer near you. Fearless Boilers the world's best built boiler on life's full of changes and at Hackensack Meridian Medical Group. We're ready for them. Our five star doctors can treat everything from the common cold to chronic illness. Our pediatric and adult specialists are prepared for wherever you're at in life. And if you're new to the area, we're right around the corner with a health team thousand strong. So no matter what we're ready. Schedule an appointment at hmhdoc .org. We all hear the radio ads about the IRS. They tell you to be afraid, to be scared, and they try to frighten you into calling. I'm not here to do that. Tax Relief Advocates is different. TRA is here to tell you that if you owe money to the IRS, whether it's five thousand, fifty thousand, or five hundred thousand, we have a solution. It doesn't matter if you're sitting in your car, at work, or with your kids, no matter where you are, call now. Eight hundred five seven nine ninety sixty eight. Don't lose hope. TRA can eliminate or reduce what you owe to the IRS. There is zero risk you. to If we can't reduce your tax debt, then you pay nothing. Our passion is taxes and
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Ken Fish
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Metaxas. Hey folks, I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Sean Foyt in hour one. In hour two, which is to say in a few minutes, we're going to re -air my conversation from a few weeks ago with Ken Fish. I love Ken Fish. You need to know what's going on with him. He's amazing. He's doing a conference, a big deal conference coming up that he's going to talk about. But before that, Chris Himes, I thought, you know what? We haven't done Ask Metaxas in a while. Ever since Albin went into rehab, we kind of let that slide. And I thought, you know what? His getting sober has nothing to do with Ask Metaxas. I just have to factually counterpoint here that Albin has not been in rehab. That's actually not true. So he's still on a bender? Is that what you're saying? Well, apparently he's been traveling in Egypt and has written a book. I heard a memo. I heard that. I mean, I heard a rumor that he was in Egypt, but I didn't want to believe it. OK, so we'll talk about this another time. The bottom line is, we have some Ask Metaxas questions and I want to get to them because it's fun to do that before we go to Ken Fish. But before that, got to mention, very important, we are launching a campaign this month with the Alliance Defending Freedom. They are heroes in the battle for religious liberty. There aren't many of these guys out there, folks. The Alliance Defending Freedom is at the head of the pack. They go to the Supreme Court. They fight. If it weren't for them, we'd be living in a different world. So I always say people need to put their money where their mouth is. People need to, many people need to put their mouth where their mouth should be because you're not even talking about this stuff. But the Alliance Defending Freedom are heroes. So I want to exhort you to go to MetaxasTalk .com and give as generously as possible to the Alliance Defending Freedom. When you know what they do, you understand they're in the battle for us, for religious liberty, for liberty in America. And we have to get serious about this. I say everywhere I go, whatever money you have, whatever voice you have, whatever freedom you have, you need to be using it now for these things. Otherwise you will not, in five minutes, you won't have an opportunity. That's what happened in Germany. They waited until it was too late. So please, please, please go to MetaxasTalk .com and do what you can there, please. Okay. Ask Metaxas. Chris, you get to ask. It's time. I have questions for you. All right. Here's the first one. This is from Derek in Stitzer, Wisconsin. He says, hi, I assume you've heard some of what's going on within the United Methodist Church and Disaviliation, et cetera. I'm wondering if you have any insights or opinions on the situation. Thanks so much. Oh, that's easy. The answer is no.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Stanley Druckenmiller: Bitcoin is BETTER than Gold | EP 838
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, streaming from Los Angeles. California because we're getting ready from Pacific Bitcoin. If all goes well, in today's setup we'll be live streaming from the floor of Pacific Bitcoin Thursday and Friday, which should be a whole lot of fun. Some special episodes. Dell and Opti are gonna be holding it down. I think our boy Chris Alamo from from from Bitcoin magazine should join us as well. There should be some interesting shows and then Opti is gonna be doing some some interviews with some high -profile Bitcoiners, so that should be a lot of fun. Really, really excited for the Pacific Bitcoin Festival. It's one of my favorite conferences honestly that I've been to. I know Opti had a lot of fun to say the least last year. Sophie. It was an amazing time. I'm gonna be honest, it's gonna be hard to beat this year, but knowing the Swan team, they're gonna kill it. A hundred percent, yeah. So they've been prepping for this for a long for for for a long time, so should be should be a lot of fun. Anyways, today guys we're gonna talk about the infamous debate, Bitcoin versus gold. And you know this this famous billionaire, apparently he is one of the most famous and most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street. 6 .2 billion dollar net worth. He said the quiet part out loud. He said, you know, he believes that if the gold bet is right, the Bitcoin bet is right. But I would I think that there's more to that, right? Because the physical characteristics of gold, like I think gold bugs were were right in their arguments. I just think that they had the wrong tool, right? And I think Bitcoin solves this because of its ability to, its ability for a human being to take self -custody of large quantities of Bitcoin by just writing down, you know, 12 to 24 words. And not only taking self -custody of it, but being able to send it across the world, you know, instantaneously for pennies on the dollar, right? So that completely changes, you know, the whole dynamics of this. And I think because of its ease of, its ability for people to take self -custody because it's an open ledger, I think it's going to be a lot harder for them to rehypothecate it the way they did with gold. And then a lot of people say because they did that with gold, they were able to control the gold markets. They were able to put downward pressure on the price of gold.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "chris it" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Boxing with Chris Mannix - Canelo is back
"The volume. Just a reminder that you can catch me recording this podcast live on AMP. AMP is the new live radio app that lets you call in and chat with me in person while I'm recording. Get the app on Apple's App Store and make sure you follow me at Chris Mannix to get notified when I go live. This is Boxing with Chris Mannix. I heard somebody punch him in the face. Anthony Joshua is a composed and ferocious finisher. Watch this. Andy Ruiz is the heavyweight champion. Hosted by S .I.'s Chris Mannix. That was my moment. Now with interviews, analysis and everything going on in the world of boxing. When you have talent, you are given another chance. Here's Chris Mannix. This is Boxing with Chris Mannix, part of the Volume Sports Podcast. Now we're going to welcome in everybody listening live on AMP. You can always get the first listen of this show and all the volume shows on AMP. Make sure you subscribe to the volume feed on AMP. Subscribe to my feed on AMP at Chris Mannix as well. Got a great show lined up for you this week. Eddie Hearn, the promoter of record for this weekend's Lee Wood fight against Josh Warrington over in the UK joins me to talk about that fight. Plus, Eddie always has a few opinions on everything else that's going on in the world of boxing. We'll get to that a little bit later. But it was a busy weekend in boxing. Canelo Alvarez successfully defended his 168 -pound titles. What's the future for him? What's the future for Jermell Charlo, who quite frankly didn't show up in this fight? I thought it was an embarrassing performance by Jermell Charlo who talked a good game, made us believe or made some people believe he was going to win or at least compete, and then just moved around the ring for 12 rounds to survive a decision. We'll talk about that and much more with Keith Idec, senior writer with BoxingScene .com. He was out in Las Vegas. Keith, let's just start there. Compare your expectations for Canelo Charlo with how the fight played out. Chris, what did you think of the way that fight played out in the ring? Chris, I'm not in any way surprised that Canelo Alvarez won. Of course, Charlo was moving up two weight classes. Canelo, although he hadn't looked all that great in his previous three fights, said repeatedly that he would look better because his surgically repaired left wrist was now 100 percent. He could train with it, et cetera. So I felt like Canelo would win the fight. But I did think honestly it was going to be a competitive fight. And the thing that really surprised me more than anything, Chris, which I think you just alluded to, is Jermell Charlo simply did not come to win this fight. He seemed to come to go 12 rounds with Canelo to avoid getting knocked out. And the reason that surprised me more than anything, Chris, is because that's not who Jermell Charlo is. That's not who he has been throughout his career. He has fought and promoted his fights and done interviews with a chip on his shoulder that never goes away. And it has served him very well because he's always been defiant and disproving sometimes imaginary enemies. But, you know, he has always used that to motivate him. And in this case, he really didn't. I thought that he would be able to flip that switch on fight night, although throughout the promotion he sort of behaved the way that he behaved once the bell rang. Like he didn't really believe that he could win the fight and that, you know, this might have been too much for him in the sense that he was moving up two weight classes and fighting a big puncher and a dangerous guy. And that's the way he approached the entire fight. You know, Derek James was on him between rounds. Hey, you're losing this fight. You need to do more. You need to pick it up. And he just never really responded to that. And again, I can't really emphasize enough, Chris, how surprised I am that he didn't try to win. Because, you know, this is a very prideful guy. This is a guy, again, who has repeatedly proved people wrong or tried to prove people wrong and used that as a way to drive him to great heights. Because, Chris, he's the undisputed 154 pound champion, the first one of the four belt era. He has avenged the two blemishes or the two previous blemishes on his record. He's avenged both of those. He knocked out Tony Harrison in their rematch. And although in his first fight against Tony Harrison, I didn't really think that he lost. It was a very close competitive fight. Didn't necessarily think that he lost. But he came back and avenged it with an 11th round knockout. You could certainly argue that he'd lost his first fight to Brian Costanio. But then came back and knocked Costanio out as well in his rematch. So he had taken care of the two blemishes on his record. This is just something that's just going to, you know, it's a blemish on his record that is never going to go away. And it might, unfortunately, be for him, the fight that people remember him for most. Because he just did not come to make this a competitive fight. And there's really no excuse for that. Unless he was hurt and he's not using that as an excuse. Unless his left hand really wasn't 100%. Because it was his first fight since he broke two bones in his left hand last December. Unless that was a factor and he's just not using that as an excuse, which would be commendable to hide that if that is the case. Just didn't look like he came to win the fight. And there's really no two ways about that. I don't really see how you could have seen that any other way. I spoke to Tim Zu yesterday. Did an interview with him for his upcoming fight with Brian Mendoza. And he echoed, we basically agreed on everything that Tim Zu said. And he felt, he was less harsh on Charlo than I thought he was going to be, honestly, because they have this rivalry. But he said the same thing. He was just surprised that we didn't get the A -level Charlo that we've gotten in most of his fights. And the kind of, you know, tenacious, ferocious guy that we usually see. Yeah, Charlo wants credit for going the distance. He doesn't get it in my book. He wants credit for not getting knocked out. He doesn't get it in my book. If you take on a challenge like this, I don't care if you move up one -way class, two -way classes, three -way classes. You have an obligation to try to win. Like, people are paying money to see you try to win. People are buying, spending 85 bucks on pay -per -view to see you try to win. He didn't do that. And I agree with you. When his career's over, you know, if it's corrected tomorrow, this would be the fight he's remembered for. For going up two -way classes and, quote, challenging Canelo Alvarez, but not really challenging him. I'm not surprised that Canelo dominated. I'll say that, Keith, because I've been saying that since that fight was made. I never believed Jermell Charlo could compete with Canelo because, and I say this about every Canelo opponent. To be competitive or to beat Canelo Alvarez, you have to throw with him. You have to be willing to let the right hand go. And since like 2018, when Canelo became this sort of middleweight and above destroyer, only two fighters have done that. Gennady has Golovkin done it, and Dmitry Bivol has done it. Both those guys have been willing to throw punches with Canelo. They have not been fearful of the artillery that was coming back. But every opponent other than that, that I've seen Canelo go up against, whether it's Callum Smith. Billy Joe Saunders had a different game plan, but eventually Billy Joe kind of succumbed to it. And now Jermell Charlo, they just, you know, they were trying to, Caleb Plant, I put on that list as well. They were just trying to jab and, you know, move and try to outbox him from the outside. You can't do that. You can't beat Canelo Alvarez unless you're willing to throw something big back against him. And, you know, Jermell Charlo was kind of an oversized example of that. You know, just the way he fought was just, I thought, just awful. Just a really weak performance from Jermell. But a kind of a continuation of guys that, you know, show up believing they have a game plan to face and beat Canelo Alvarez. But they just don't. And that kind of brings me to my next question, Keith, of who does at this point? You know, I think we'd all agree David Benavidez, at least on paper, is the most competitive option for Canelo Alvarez. I don't know if he's a realistic option for May of 2024. Terrence Crawford's out there saying he wants a piece of Canelo. I love Terrence Crawford. I think it's a marketable fight. But you're not going to convince me Terrence Crawford's going to stand in the pocket and trade with Canelo Alvarez. I just don't believe it. Jermell Charlo, don't get me started. There's no market for a Jermell Charlo -Canelo Alvarez fight. Less so after watching Jermell, the smaller brother and the more active brother, lose to Canelo. What is realistic right now for Canelo Alvarez as we look to the second fight of this PBC deal? Chris, the last time we spoke about this on the podcast, I remember telling you that the people who wanted to see him fight Terrence Crawford next, better hope that the Jermell Charlo fight is at least competitive, because then how do you sell a fight against an even smaller opponent in his next fight? And here we are. I'm not saying Terrence Crawford won't go in there to win. He certainly, based on everything that I know about Terrence Crawford, yet I also thought similar things about Jermell Charlo. I would think Terrence Crawford would go in there with a real attempt to win the fight. He's got a lot of pride. He's a very talented guy. He's one of the best pound -for -pound fighters in the world, coming off an incredibly dominant, career -defining win. But like you said earlier, Chris, when you get in there and you fight Canelo and he starts touching you in the beginning of the fight, people tend to realize, well, this is going to be harder than I thought. Canelo said that throughout Fight Week last week. He said watch when the fight starts and then you'll see Jermell Charlo realize that he's in there with a guy that he hasn't, the type of guy that he hasn't been in the ring with before, and that obviously played out. The same thing could be true of Crawford. Now, it is a marketable fight, Chris, and I think the public reaction to it, to me, has been somewhat surprising because it's been relatively positive. People want to see this fight. I can't stress enough. This guy would have to move up 21 pounds to fight Canelo because Canelo has repeatedly said, I am not doing this in a catchweight. It's not going to be at 164, 162, something where you might then think that Terrence Crawford has more of a chance to win. I really don't see as great as Terrence Crawford is, and as much as I commend him for wanting this challenge, I don't see this as a fight that he can win.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh "Chris It" from The Dan Bongino Show
"Is leading to stores closing and so Chicago's leading the way towards progress by proposing government grocery stores that's true it's another talking about the city opening a grocery store that would be run by the city which Rick sounds to me like the Soviet Union Chris Plant mornings 9 to 11 on the big 89 WLS checking traffic at 1223 Kennedy inbound for hair to the burn is 35 minutes 33 on the return trip to the airport from downtown Eden's delay -free in either direction Ike in from Thorndale to the old post office 29 minutes outbound 27 eggs are in to Costner still closed due a fatal crash investigation Stevenson 24 minutes in or out i -355 to stop at Lakeshore Drive and Van Ryan 18 minutes inbound 95th Street to downtown 17 on the reverse next traffic update I'm
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: SBF Trial | How Sam Bankman-Frieds Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case
"Thanks for listening to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto, on the CoinDesk Podcast Network. You can also listen to the episodes on the Unchained feed earlier if you subscribe there. Plus check out all our content on our website, unchainedcrypto .com. Very dangerous to call the defendant. However, you may be in a situation where the government puts their case on and you are going to lose. There is no way you're winning. You're only shot as a Hail Mary. Okay, let's put them on. The other side of the coin is it's very powerful when a defendant testifies. It makes it much harder for the jury to convict. They're not dealing with characterizations of a person anymore. They're dealing with that person. They have heard the person speak intimately in a courtroom. And even in cases I've had where a defendant testified, even when the jury ends up convicting, it often takes them longer to get there because it's a harder decision when a human being testifies to them. Starting on Tuesday, October 3rd, the day this episode airs, the world will be watching the criminal trial of the United States versus Sam Bankman -Fried. In this episode, my guests Kayvon Sadeghi and Samson Ensor unpack what it is we're likely to see in the trial, starting with what kinds of potential jurors it is that both the prosecution and the defense will want to deselect from the jury poll this week. Why it's even gotten to the point of a criminal trial given that three co -conspirators have already pleaded guilty, what the core of the trial centers around, and why it is they think the fact that it involves crypto won't matter. Plus, they explore the effectiveness of one potential defense from Bankman -Fried's side, the so -called advice of counsel defense that says that FTX's own lawyers approved of the company's actions. And finally, they raise the question that everyone will be looking for. Will Sam testify? Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Plorbs, was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the October 3rd, 2023 episode of Unchained. Buy, trade, and spend crypto on the Crypto .com app. New users can enjoy zero credit card fees on crypto purchases in the first seven days. Download the Crypto .com app and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Vaultcraft by Popcorn is your no -code DeFi toolkit for building automated, non -custodial yield strategies. Learn more on vaultcraft .io about how you can supercharge your crypto portfolio. The game has changed. The Google Cloud Oracle, built for Layer 0, is now securing every Layer 0 message by default. Their custom end -to -end solution sets itself up to bring its world -class security to Web3 and establish itself as the HTTPS within Layer 0 messaging. Visit layer0 .network to learn more. Today's topic is the trial for Sam Vangman -Fried. Here to discuss are Kay von Sodegi, Partner and Co -Chair of Fintech and Crypto Assets at Jenner & Block, and Samson Enser, Partner at Cahill, Gordon & Rydell. Welcome, Kay von and Sam. Great to be back with you, Laura. Likewise. Thanks for having us on. So, the day this episode airs is the first day of the criminal trial for the United States against Sam Vangman -Fried, the former CEO of FTX. Before we dive into the details of this trial, why don't we just have you each briefly describe how your background is relevant to this case. Kay von, would you like to start? Sure. Sure. So, I've been a litigator in New York for the last little over 20 years now, I guess, and in the blockchain space since late 2016, so I've been following all sorts of litigation enforcement actions in the space, including things related to the FTX situation, of course. I also know when things go criminal to open people like my friend Sam here, who have more direct experience, so I'll turn it over to him to discuss his background. Sure. Thank you, Kay von. I used to be a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York in the securities and commodities fraud unit, which is the unit that is prosecuting Sam Vangman -Fried. When I was there, I did their first crypto securities fraud cases. So what you're seeing in this case is sort of an evolution of some of the cases that I worked on. The prosecutors in this case are folks that used to be my colleagues. I know them well, both from when I was a prosecutor and now as a defense lawyer at Cahill. I tried a case in front of Judge Kaplan, who is the judge in the case. I know him well, and I've had a case in front of him as a defense lawyer. And the defense lawyers are folks that I'm friends with from both sides. I worked with them with Chris Everdale when we were prosecutors together. And now on the defense side, he and I have worked together on this side as well. All right. So to begin our discussion, why don't we first explain how this trial is different from, say, the SEC's case against Ripple, which secures to even get a judgment that is now being appealed. So how is this trial against SPF even able to start less than a year after FTX collapsed? Sure. I can jump in. For what a lot of people in the industry have been looking at are things like the SEC enforcement action against Ripple, Coinbase, other things like that, which are civil proceedings. And those tend to be preceded by years of investigation followed by, once a case starts, months if not years of discovery where parties are exchanging all sorts of documents, taking depositions, there's multiple rounds of briefing. And we end up with something like a decision on summary judgment, as we saw in Ripple, before you ever get to a trial to decide what's tried. That is a very different process than the criminal process, which involves a lot less discovery up front. You end up exchanging a lot less information before trial, and it's a much more accelerated time frame. And I think for talking about exactly how those mechanics work, maybe we can kick to Sam to discuss a little bit about that criminal process. Yeah, for sure. I think in a criminal case, it is very common to get from indictment to trial within roughly a year, even in a complicated case. This case is unusual in that the prosecutors investigated the crime very, very quickly. It was November of 2022 that I think the market and the public started to see signs that FTX was cracking. It was not long after that that there was an indictment. So they were speedy in the investigation. Judge Kaplan is a no -nonsense judge who does not like to move a trial date. So he is somebody who pushes a case to trial if that's where it's headed. And so that's why we are here. In the criminal context, as Kayvon mentioned, you know, in a civil case, you will get to question under oath that is depose the other side's witnesses. So there are no surprises at a trial. Not so in a criminal trial. The does defense not have the opportunity to... If the witnesses for the government don't want to be interviewed by them, they won't be. They don't have the right to question them. If those witnesses don't want to be questioned, they may not even know who the witnesses are. They may learn that for the first time very shortly before the trial. If you've seen the movie My Cousin Vinny, it's actually a pretty good summary of how the criminal process goes. You're there and you're hearing the testimony for the first time. You have to really be live on your feet to be able to deal with it. And that's something that I think surprises a lot of people who aren't familiar with the system because I think the natural instinct is, you know, civil cases are about money. Criminal cases are about your freedom. And you would think as the defendant, when your freedom's on the line, you'd have more rights to information that you would have more ability to mount your defense and have everything that you would need to do so. But in fact, it sort of works the opposite way that you have less information going into the trial. You have less rights to understand what the prosecutors are going to do than you would to understand what the SEC is going to do when they're bringing a case just for money damages. I think another thing to think about, and this has played out in some of the briefing ahead of trial, in the Ripple case, the defendants, the company and the executives who were named in the suit are not in jail. So they can run their business, they can live their lives, they can meet with their lawyers in a conference room to prepare. Sam Bankman -Fried has been repeatedly asking the judge to release him on bail because he is literally in jail right now awaiting trial. He was out on bail originally. He did things that caused the judge to detain him. And now he's sitting in a jail. What that means is his lawyers do not have 24 -7 access to him. He may not have full access to computers or things to do the stuff he needs to do to prepare. I can tell you on the defense side, I've had clients in jail when I've had to defend them. It is extremely difficult to confer with a client and prepare for court when you have limited access to them because they're in jail. Yeah, one other thing that I wanted to ask is why this even went to trial at all, considering that three of S .B .F.'s own colleagues will be testifying against him and have already pleaded guilty. So I don't really know. I'm not a lawyer. But in my head, it's like when you have that kind of testimony against you, you know, from witnesses that were directly there, does that mean that a plea deal wasn't even on the table? Or do you think Sam declined such an offer or, you know, what happened there? I am sure that if he had wanted to plead guilty, I doubt very much that the government would have been interested in letting him cooperate because he is, so to speak, the kingpin. When the government lets somebody cooperate, that is, plead guilty and testify against others to get a reduction or leniency at sentencing, typically the government wants to get somebody in the middle or the bottom and cooperate them up against somebody higher up in the food chain of a crime. I don't think there's anybody above S .B .F. We could have a discussion about whether he maybe knows things about others who would be peers of his in the industry, but I doubt the government was interested in his cooperation. Would they have let him plead guilty just to have some reduction in sentence exposure for the certainty of a conviction? They probably would have, but I expect they would have wanted a very stiff plea. And I think S .B .F., as some defendants do, they take the position, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't act with intent to the fraud. And when intent is the key issue, what was in somebody's, between somebody's ears when they were doing something, it's very often that that gets tried. White collar criminal cases get tried a lot. And I think people, it is important in a white collar criminal case, when you're talking about fraud, very often, 97 percent of the facts are not going to be in dispute. In other words, the facts of did people deposit money or funds or digital assets on FDX not in dispute? What did the terms of use say, not in dispute? A lot of the activity is not in dispute. The question is, what was Sam thinking when he did certain things? Was he acting with the intent to deceive people and take their money or were other people doing that and he was just blissfully unaware? And so what you're saying is it really could be either that the government didn't offer the plea deal because they wanted to use the other witnesses to get him or that Sam wanted to take that gamble since, you know, it would be harder to prove what his intent was. So you're saying it really could be either? It could be either, but I would expect knowing the, I think if Sam wanted to plead and was willing to take stiff terms, he probably could have. I think that he drives the buck. The government decides whether you get charged, it's really up to the defendant to decide whether they go to trial. I don't expect they were going to be, as you say, it's a stiff plea that would have been available if anything. I mean, there was going to be no light sentence on the back of a plea here. So I think Sam was looking at any plea would have probably been a long time behind bars. And so at that point, maybe you decide to take your chances in his shoes. Because of the sheer amount of money and the number of charges. Yeah. Okay. So the main task at the start of the trial will be to choose the jurors. What do you think each side will be looking for when it comes to prospective jurors? So we've got a, you know, a little bit of a, of a hint from the voir dire questions that each side has put forward. You know, I think - That's the name for the process for vetting the jurors. Exactly. Maybe, maybe it makes sense to start with sort of how that process will unfold. So the trial will start with the selection of jurors and it's very different in a civil case as we're dealing with here or than in the criminal case. So civil case, the lawyers get to ask questions directly of the jurors, particularly in state court and it's a very freewheeling process. In a federal criminal case like this, the questions are handled by the judge and both the prosecution and the defense have submitted proposed questions to the court that will help guide what the court asks of the jurors. And a lot of it is pretty typical stuff that both sides somewhat agree on. And you want to know if people have any connection to any of the parties in the case, any of the lawyers in the case, if they have certain direct background and exposure to FDX or things like that. I think where some of the differences lie is whether people have broader exposure to crypto or the crypto industry generally, if they have views on any of that, or even the financial markets is one of the areas that parties may be touching. And then once we move past that, the defense was trying to, you're asking the judge to get into areas that I don't expect he will, but looking for any exposure to or experience with people with ADHD, any things along those lines that you can tell are sort of teeing up some of their defenses. So I think the defense will be looking for people who will be more sympathetic to some of those additional factors where, as I imagine the prosecution will be looking for people who are probably generally skeptical of crypto overall and avoiding any of those sort of sideshows. I would put it in three buckets. I think the government and the defense will think about the types of jurors into three buckets. One bucket are people who are sort of the quintessential citizen, common sense oriented. They work a job they can convict. Those are the people the government likes. So somebody who holds a job, somebody who is a boss, somebody who's a mid -level manager. So they are committed to society. They have to make decisions. They sometimes have to make decisions on incomplete information. That's the type of person the government would want. Then you've got people who are extremely technical, who want proof in mathematical certainty. Those are folks that the defense would like and that the government might not like. And then in the third category is another group that the defense would like. And those are folks who are more emotional and not necessarily going to be driven by the sort of inferences the government will put before them. So for example, the government likes to strike social workers, very afraid of having a social worker on there who might sympathize with a young defendant and say, you know, maybe a mistake was made here. I'm not sure beyond a reasonable doubt that this person should go to jail. No, wait. Just to go back to people who are either familiar with crypto or financial services, it wasn't clear to me. So it seemed like you were saying that, you know, the government would seek people who were skeptical of crypto. But if you're, if you just are knowledgeable, then is that, it seems like that would be better than for the prosecution rather than for the defense. Am I right in thinking that or? It's hard to read the tea leaves of exactly how that one will cut. You know, one of the defenses that, that we can see Sam Bankenfried would like to put forward and that the prosecution is opposing is an idea of sort of blame the regulators, blame the uncertainty in the industry, all of those sort of things to suggest that this was wild west, it wasn't clear what the rules of the road were, and therefore that should absolve him of some responsibility. And I think that's something the prosecution understandably doesn't want to get into and the judge has indicated, you know, there's going to be a pretty tight leash on anything like that, I think. But people who are very steeped in the crypto industry may have more of those views. They may be, you know, they may think that the uncertainty in the government's approach is partially to blame for what's happened, things like that. And so anybody who's so close that they may have some of those views may not be an ideal juror for the prosecution, but somebody, you know, somebody who's lost money, lost money or knows people who've lost money in some of these scams may be, you know, may be more likely to be a good juror for the prosecution. So it's hard to see exactly how those things will cut. I think it's important to note also, we call it jury selection, but it's actually a misnomer. The right name for it should be jury deselection. You don't pick your jurors. You get a pool of people and you have a certain number of strikes. And so really what you're doing is picking the worst apples and deselecting them and you're stuck with what you're left with. And so it's really, I think when trial lawyers do jury selection in a criminal case, they think about who are the people I have to get rid of? Who can I just, who can I not have on the jury? Government does not want the social worker on the jury. The government does not want, they don't like lawyers on the jury because they fear that a lawyer might just take over, creates unpredictability. Another sort of advantage for the defense is that the government has to get 12 jurors unanimous to prevail. If the jury is not unanimous, that's a hung jury and it's a mistrial, which basically is a victory for the defense. And if the jury unanimously wants to acquit, that's a victory for the defense. So it's the, the, the, the government needs to be able to get a group of people who can agree. Maybe somebody leads them and the rest of the people can go along with it, but they have to be able to reach consensus. That's important as well. Yeah. This is definitely a pretty complicated chess game. It sounds like, so one other thing that will happen or might happen after the jury deselection is that Judge Kaplan, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is the judge in this case, might give a pre -opening jury charge. Explain what that is and why it is that he might give this or why he might not. Sure. So it is common practice before the commencement of the, the body of the trial, which is the opening statements of the lawyers, the presentation of evidence, and then closing arguments. Before the sort of body of the trial, the judge will typically give preliminary instructions to help the jury understand what they're going to hear. So the judge will say, you know, you're going to hear opening statements. These are the lawyer's attempt to give you a preview of what to expect, what the lawyers say is not evidence. And some rules of the road, some general rules of the road, and that's common. What Judge Kaplan does that's unique, he doesn't do it in every case, but he has done it in some, some criminal cases where it's complicated, is he will hone in on what he thinks is a key issue in the case and flagged for the jury. One of the key issues in this case is going to be a dispute about X. Here are the key rules you need to know about the law on how to decide X. Why is that important? It focuses the jury. It gives you a sense of what the judge thinks is the real battleground.
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Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from Are NFTs securities?
"Welcome back everyone, I am Cas Pianci. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime. We've already recorded one today. I'm not going to play pretend and say, I haven't asked you how you're doing. You're doing good. I'm doing good. We're going to be talking about NFTs and whether or not they're securities, or at least whether or not the SEC thinks they're securities, when they think they're securities and why they think they might be securities, right? And the reason this got brought into everyone's sort of line of sight is because an NFT collection called Stoner Cats that had been started, or at least co -founded by Mila Kunis, and I think Ashton Kutcher was in on that as well. I'm not, I don't remember. I think Mila Kunis was the face of it, but I think they were both involved. And some other co -creators created this thing called Stoner Cats. And now Stoner Cats was this collection of images of what it sounds like. Stoned cats. I am cool. Haha. Super, super awesome. Weed and cats, very funny. And they decided they were going to do a show, a web series based on this. And they, I went through the documents, actually, they'd, they'd promised some pretty specific things, including that they were going to do at least one episode for three seasons, something like that. Obviously they, they didn't do that. And part of the issue appears to be that the way these NFTs work, and many NFTs for that matter, is that they offered royalties to the initial founders and creators of these NFTs. What that entails is that every time someone buys one of these NFTs, they get like a 2 .5 % kickback on that sale, which doesn't sound like much right out the gate, but considering volume and all of this other stuff, you end up going like, oh, they made like a half a million dollars in royalty like that, which it's a lot of money. They also sold out of all of their NFTs when they put them on the market, whether or not they bought a bunch of those, I think is up for debate, but basically the SEC said, Hey, you guys are doing these royalties on these NFTs. This is a security. And to be clear, the people who did this said, Oh no. Okay, well we're done. You win. We're not going to admit fault. We're not going to admit guilt here. You guys can just take some money. We'll pay the fine and we'll stop doing the sonar cap. For what it's worth, I don't think you can actually buy them anywhere right now. Maybe it's just because there's none up for sale. After the SEC took this action, the floor price increased 250%. It's still up 175 % since before the SEC action. And the volume went up, I think almost 3000%. So everyone started buying it and trading it and moving them around. As soon as this SEC action was, was pushed out. I think this kind of SEC action is similar in my mind to the EOS action that took place in case anyone is unfamiliar with EOS. This was a Brock Pierce and Daniel Larimer project from years ago that was going to change the financial system and raised $4 billion from their ICO and then got fined by the SEC, I believe it was $24 million. Who gives a shit? No one cares about that $24 million fine when you've raised billions of dollars. And I think everybody understood that when it happened. And to me, this feels kind of similar, right? So these guys raised, I believe it's something like eight to $9 million, including these royalties that they got. And they were fined, I don't know, a few million. They made a profit for sure. They profited on this 100 % sure. And what they're getting out of it ultimately is that they don't have to fight the SEC now. They don't have to pay legal fees. And the SEC gets, oh, look, see, they're not willing to fight us on this. So this means NFTs are security. That's not the full story, Bennets. Why don't you jump in here now? What's interesting, so Stoner Cats is the second NFT case that the SEC pursued. Like a week or two weeks before they pursued Stoner Cats, they went after Impact Theory, which was a smaller NFT project, less illustrious names involved. And the creators of that NFT project kept telling their investors that they could get tremendous value and that they were going to make sure that we do something that by any reasonable standard, people get a crushing, hilarious amount of value. And they even told these people buying their NFTs that these NFTs were the mechanism by which communities will be able to capture economic value from the growth of the company they support. This one, again, settled with the SEC and may more clearly be a security than Stoner Cats. And I think this is what kind of gets interesting here is even in the Impact Theory case I just discussed, there were two SEC commissioners who disagreed. Commissioners Peirce and Ulleda did not support this and wrote their own digression. And they highlighted that the SEC does not routinely bring enforcement actions against people that sell watches, paintings or collectibles, along with vague promises to build the brand and increase the resale value. And what I thought was interesting and what you and I had a brief conversation about is Preston Byrne, who we've had on the podcast before, wrote a blog post taking a look at these two cases. And his stance was basically that the Impact Theory I, when I just discussed, did seem more clearly like a security in the way it was marketed, in the way it was sold, and in the expectations investors reasonably had. But he thought that the Stoner Cats one was less clearly a violation of securities law. Peirce and Ulleda again highlighted that this was an example of fan crowdfunding. And Preston pointed towards how this was not presented in that same way to purchasers. And so I think Stoner Cats is one where they kind of wanted to go after it because there were so many celebrities involved. Mila Kunis was involved, as you mentioned. Ashton Kutcher was an actor. Chris Rock was an actor. There were names involved here. And you want to discourage that caliber of name from doing this type of projects. You go for a ticky tacky settlement. But more broadly, what we're looking at in both these two cases is that making your badly formed project in which you hope to return value to people who give you money, an NFT instead of some other form of token, does not mean you'll avoid the SEC's attention. And so I think a big part of this has been the royalty aspect the SEC has been honing in on. And I want to be clear here for everyone, because I think it's a pretty important distinction in my mind. And we'll see, I don't know if this will actually play out in court. It might be that what I'm saying is totally off key and wrong. Again, we are not lawyers. Two industries that instantly come to mind when I think of royalty, and that is TV and movies and music, right? In those two industries, royalties play a pretty big role. We're watching a WGA strike, a Writers Guild of America strike go on right now, particularly because of royalties. The writers can't get royalties on streaming anymore, because these streaming services don't offer the market data to even give them any of these royalties, right? But this has been livelihoods for decades for actors, writers, producers, whatever. They all have been able to make money on these royalties forever. There's a fair argument to be had that if your NFT is a TV -like thing, which I guess you could argue Stoner Cats was, that the royalties, in a sense, make sense. I think that you need to do more probably than seven episodes. I don't know. It would be up for debate. I don't know where that would come in. But the second one that I want to talk about is musicians, where like, again, record sales indeed do give you royalties for the rest of your career if you have the rights to the songs and all of that. And I know someone on that I follow on Twitter, who actually I like a lot of the songs that he puts out there, Jonathan Mann. I follow him. I find a lot of his music entertaining. It's silly. And he turns a lot of it into NFTs. He does royalties as well for that. And I get it. I actually get that. I'm like, oh, well, that makes sense. Counter to this is the sale of art pieces, is the sale of painting. If I buy a painting from a painter, you know what happens when I resell that painting? Whether I resell it for a profit or a loss, do you do you want to guess how much of the money I make on that resale the painter gets? Zero. Zero. They do not receive anything for it. Collectibles, you want to talk about Pokemon cards? How much does Namco get when I resell a Pokemon card? Zero. Sure. They don't get anything. So the royalties in that aspect, I do understand why they're trying to say they're a security. It's a dividend. And Preston highlights part of this in the blog post. And like, imagine I paint a picture and there's someone who wants to buy it for $10 ,000. And I say, what if instead I sell it for you for $1 ,000 and 10 percent of any of whatever you end up selling it for in the future? Right. That doesn't make the painting itself a security. Right. And I think... How many of those agreements exist? I would love to know, because that is not a common agreement. The answer is probably non -zero. Right. And often that's not how artist kickbacks work, right? The way it generally works is an artist sells some pieces to a collector at a lower price and then one like Halo piece at a higher price, which then re -values the entire collection. So then the collector is able to make the money on that. And the artist is then able to sell future pieces at a higher price. Not that that's a good... Changing the terms of that arrangement in the way I describe make it necessarily a security. The art market is bred for money laundering and tax evasion. Like that's that's what the art market is for. I mean, we literally just described market manipulation. Yes. That's what I just said. It's just not illegal because it's a collectibles market. And the tax, the tax shit, donating it to museums, doing all the all sorts of weird scammy shit in the art market. I'm not trying to deny that at all. But if we're going to try to make kind of strict lines in the sand about what a security is, I do want to say that when you're getting kickbacks on every sale of a painting, that sounds so much more like a dividend to me and a securities offering than it does the way a normal art market works. And royalties don't sound that way to me. They really don't. Right. It's a dividend, but it's not. It's not. It's basically saying like, OK, you did this work in this thing years ago. And if you have to repay a whole team because it's not it's not an individual taking full credit for it. It's writers, actors, producers, directors. It's the grip. It's the lighting guy. It's everybody. And the same for a musician as well, usually. I think that's democratized a bit. But for a musician as well, you're going into a studio, you're working with a producer, you're working with a whole band, you're working with all of these different people who hopefully are going to be receiving some sort of monetary compensation forever for the work that they've done for this thing. And again, the art market is not the same as that. Maybe we see some changes in this. Maybe it becomes less regulated. Maybe they or they regulate the royalties aspects of these industries further. I don't know, but I'm trying to explain there is there is a difference between these industries in the real world. Sure. I think kind of just to put a cap on this, there's two things I want to kind of accentuate. Stoner Cats to me seems like the SEC trying to make a case, like we said, because there's these names involved and they want to discourage that kind of thing. I think the art market gets away with a lot because everyone involved is probably like an accredited investor. The SEC's rules, they're already kind of loose, so they're not they don't really care. This is open to retail, you know, so they care a little bit more. The other thing I want to emphasize is there's some amount of ambiguity here in terms of whether or not this type of structure is or is not a security. But broadly, many NFT projects now need to deal with the reality that they may be considered a security by the securities regulator and need to deal with either litigating that or otherwise dealing with the consequences. Well, that's going to do it for this episode, everybody. If you want to support us, obviously there's doing the normal thing of like liking the video, rating it and reviewing it. But alternatively, we're putting out a new Castcoin Cats collection. It's going to be an NFT thing. It's really cool. Cost 10 Castcoin each for every Castcoin Cat. And what you get is unlimited access to the new Castcoin Cat TV show. Anyway, there's a 10 percent royalty that gets kicked back to CCC. So we're going to be seeing a ton of money from that. And we're kind of banking on that for the future of the show. Remember, look it up on on Blur and on OpenSea. OK, guys.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from LST3 Zlie Martin and the Gift of Self The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Podcast
"Of the Virgin Mary presents The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word Television Network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. All right, let's move to another letter. So this is a year later, Sayli is 44 now, and Pauline is 15. And she has started a letter, and this often would happen to her. She'd start writing a letter and then her children or her workers or something would interrupt and then she would return to it later on. So she said, it's been a long time earlier in the day or the preceding day since my letter was interrupted. Since then I've been to high mass and we went on a long walk in the fields, which they would do as a family. Louis loved to fish. He was a great fisherman and that was part, Therese would accompany him on some of those fishing trips when she was a young girl. But they loved the outdoors, which was not too far from them because these cities were so small at the time. And we were very happy with this outing. On our way back, we met a poor old man who had a good face. I sent Therese to bring him a few alms. Therese is three years old at this time. He seemed so touched by this and thanked us so much that I saw he was very unfortunate. I told him to follow us. All right, so she's now getting involved. And that I was going to give him some shoes. He came and we served him a good dinner. He was dying of hunger. I couldn't tell you how many troubles he was suffering from in his old age. This winter he had frostbitten feet. He sleeps in an abandoned hovel and has nothing. He's going to huddle outside the barracks. There were army barracks in Alençon to be given a little soup. Finally, I told him to come whenever he wants and I'll give him bread. I would like your father to arrange for him to enter the hospice, so a refuge for the elderly and ill. He wants to go there so much. We're going to negotiate the matter. So they're going to look into it. So to get him, in our terms, the social help that's available for him. I'm very sad over this encounter and I do nothing but think about this fellow who nevertheless was delighted by the few pennies I gave him. With this he said, I'll eat soup tomorrow. I'll go to the soup kitchen and then I'll have some tobacco and get a shave. In a word, he was as cheerful as a child. While he was eating, he would pick up his shoes, look at them happily and smile at them. Then he recited a beautiful prayer for us that he always says at pass. And then later in what is a very lengthy letter, I have to tell you about two events that happened this week. I already spoke to you about a poor man whom we've known since spring. He was in the most extreme poverty since he didn't have any shelter and slept in a barn with an open work door, which caused him to get frostbite in his fingers. No one took care of him and he asked for nothing and only went to the door of the barracks to have a little soup. He was starving. Your father had noticed him in the doorway of the Hotel de France in such a miserable state and with such a gentle expression that he took an interest in him. So it's months later after what we read just a minute ago and Louis sees him now, obviously in great need, standing at the door of a hotel and approaches him. As for me, I wanted to know more about him and while on a walk, I approached the fellow. I brought him home and questioned him. I then discovered that he was childlike, so mentally probably some kind of disability and languishing without any help, so he's a straight person unable to take care of himself.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Prioritizing American Families: A Disconnect with Career Politicians with Stefan Mychajliw
"American families are struggling to put gas in their car to pay six dollars a gallon. They're struggling to buy milk and eggs and groceries. People are really hurting in Joe Biden's America. The difference was crystal clear on that debate stage. The vague ramasami talked about his positive America First vision of how he's going to improve the American economy, put money in the pockets of people. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now. We are live with Vivek Ramaswamy, deputy communications director and friend of the financial guys, Stefan Mihailu. Stefan, how are you? That's right. I'm a financial guys client and deputy comms director for Vivek Ramaswamy. I say that's a great one -two punch. That is. It's a great thing. So tell us a little bit about the overall feeling from Team Vivek or the Vivek camp, I should say, about the debate this past week. Well, I actually drove over with Vivek Ramaswamy here to the Reagan Library and there was a mission to do two things. One, let Vivek be Vivek, be presidential, be above the fray. We knew the attacks were coming. We knew the career politicians on that stage were going to attack Vivek Ramaswamy. And why? Because if you're, you know, getting kicked in the rear, that means you're out in front. So we're wholeheartedly expecting attacks from career politicians is exactly what happened. And so I'd be very concerned if a lot of the career politicians on the stage did not attack Vivek Ramaswamy. They did, and we are more than pleased with his sharing of the American people, what his America First vision is to build on the success of Donald Trump, to build on what Donald Trump laid down that foundation with Vivek Ramaswamy as a candidate for president now in 2024. So you mentioned being the hunted, and I talked to you at a different interview about this, but in debate number one, Stefan, people were trying to just learn who Vivek was at that point, right? He had a couple of zingers. He had a pretty good performance in debate one, but as debate one ended, he was getting attacked and mauled by everybody on the debate stage that night. And then debate two, they started right after him right from the get go. And I do agree with you. I think that was a very interesting thing to see. Hey, you know, and I'll tell you, Ron DeSantis didn't take that right. That beating that, or that, that try to take a beating like that. Nikki Haley didn't, Tim Scott didn't, they were going after one, well, two people, Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy on that debate stage. I was really shocked at the fact that now Chris Christie has a potential running mate in his campaign of vengeance and anger and grievance against Donald Trump. And it's Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis attacked not only Vivek Ramaswamy, but Ron DeSantis attacked Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy appeared presidential. He's staying above the fray and he's letting the American people know he's not running against Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or any politician on that stage. Vivek Ramaswamy is running for the American people. So while we were in the green room, basically watching the debate unfold, we were very thrilled that all the queer politicians went after Vivek Ramaswamy and look, it's no different than what the queer politicians did in 2016 against Donald Trump. History repeated itself. The fact that they were going after Donald Trump in 2016 and they're doing the same thing with Vivek Ramaswamy. So let's look at a couple of those attacks that he received, Stefan. Number one was the TikTok, the TikTok attack with him doing a video. Was it Jake Paul or one of the Paul brothers? Many of the candidates on the debate stage had an issue with him doing any type of TikTok due to the China influence with TikTok. Your thoughts on that or Vivek's thoughts on that? Well, look, Vivek Ramaswamy did business in China. He saw how basically dirty and crooked the process was. So what did he do? As he said on the debate stage, he got the hell out. Now compare that with Apple and Nike and LeBron James who stayed in China, who's profiting from China. So Vivek Ramaswamy says all the time he is going to declare independence from America's greatest enemy and that is communist China. And who better to take out an enemy than someone who knows the enemy. And so as far as TikTok is concerned as well, look, Republicans, shockingly, are in the business of basically not playing within the rules and parameters of a campaign and letting Democrats run all over us for the past few decades. The Democrats are on TikTok. That's how you reach young voters. And that's exactly what Vivek Ramaswamy is going to do. Play by the rules and reach young voters. So I want to ask that question because Jake Paul actually tweeted about Vivek this week about this exact issue and I agreed with what Jake Paul said. The majority of young people between the ages of let's call it 12 and 30, their primary platform is TikTok, right? I mean, that's where they are. And was this totally calculated by Vivek Ramaswamy to get into that voting base because everybody's on Twitter, everybody's on Instagram, but TikTok and everyone can have their feelings on TikTok, Stefan. I don't personally love it either, but was this a calculated move? Vivek has feelings on TikTok. He is crystal clear about empowering parents to make sure that kids 16 and under are not on any social media platform, because as he says all the time, we don't like kids engage in highly addictive drugs like alcohol or tobacco at a very young age. And so Vivek Ramaswamy, his president, says he'll do the same with social media, empower parents and make sure they know that their kids are not on any of these platforms when it comes to running for president of the United States, you have to talk to voters in every means necessary. The Democrats are taking advantage of this medium and so too is Vivek Ramaswamy. We're here to win an election and talk to young voters. That's the way he's doing it. Before we get into the specific issues of the debate last night, I do want to talk about two quick things. Number one, what was Team Vivek's thought about the way that that was moderated, the way that the debate went? It looked very sloppy from afar. I was not in the room. I was not there like you were, but it looked very sloppy. It looked very messy with people talking over each other, people going over on their time, the moderators not asking pointed questions, getting lost in the shuffle. What were the thoughts from Team Vivek? Well, look, as a former news anchor, I know how hard it is to basically try and round up feral cats and get them to play by the rules. For the most part, Vivek Ramaswamy did. The most important rule that he honored was Reagan's 11th commandment, speak no ill will of a fellow Republican. That was the most important rule when it comes to either the moderators or the debate platform or being here in Reagan's presidential library. Don't speak ill will of a fellow Republican. Vivek honored that commandment. He talked about his positive America First vision, how he's basically going to increase and strengthen GDP growth, strengthen and protect the border using the US military to bomb cartels, keep us out of World War III, all the other career politicians on that stage just in the same way they treated Donald Trump in 2016. They wanted to attack and attack and attack not only a fellow Republican, but a business owner and political outsider. It happened eight years ago in 2016. It happened again in the second GOP debate here at the Reagan Library.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#502 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 2 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church to create expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brainwave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press we now continue with part two of our conversation a lot of times we look at those things that the action of the enemy that is what 90 % is temptation the our father lead us not into temptation but also as we just said the oppression and obsession those are things that can be dealt with especially in the sacramental life that we have within the mass within confession isn't it been said Adam that one good confession could be worth of a hundred exorcisms these are all just kind of turns a phrase but essentially yes for the average person the average Catholic who has access to the sacraments deliverance comes primarily through the sacramental graces and that means baptism confirmation confession and the mass those are the the mechanisms that sanctifying grace comes into your life for the average person and then of course matrimony for some people people underestimate the importance and power of the sacramental graces and they want the drama of the exciting prayer thinking you know you'll do this kind of magical incantation and make these problems go away versus the person doing the the work of conversion in themselves of making it to mass of having a good confession of doing the work of building a daily prayer life all of those things are actually what lead to deliverance primarily it's not just the exciting prayers if a person is unwilling to make any changes in their life is an unwilling to walk away from sin is essentially unwilling to have conversion in their life usually the prayers don't work because Jesus is looking for conversion and change so if somebody has done something to get into trouble spiritually they can't just come to the church and say well wave the magic wand and make the suffering go away I don't like it but I'm not gonna change my life because Jesus knows our hearts and so I've seen this over the years that even in the case is a full -blown possession he wants to see spiritual growth in the person he wants to see a movement towards him and trust and love and a turning away from sin in addition to coming to the church for prayers and so the sacramental grace is for the person that isn't possessed actually that is the engine that drives deliverance it's so important that in your book you have a section called Jesus as exorcist and that ultimately that's the lesson is the turning towards him right summately and that's what the team in their particular response to the individual is helping that individual to turn towards them it's not so much it is the actions of what they're doing during the liturgy that's what it is exorcism is a liturgy but it's that reception of that person to a life of faith is that a fair way of saying it yes that's that's a big part of it they also are repenting of their sins through sacramental confession if they're Catholic and then another important piece that most people don't think about is they're forgiving the sins of others and so a demon can hold on to or it gets traction from our sins that we're unwilling to let go of or keep trying to let go of and get away from but they can also hold on to when we are unforgiving of the sins of others that have hurt us and so as we know from the our father forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us we know that God wants us to forgive as he forgives us you know the parable of the king who forgives the debt of the one slave and then that slave goes and beats up another slave and says give me you know the little bit you owe me and then when the the king finds out about this he throws the first guy who he had forgiven who's now being mean in turn in jail so we see this played out time and time again God expects us to be merciful and that that is part of it and then you know in an interesting twist sometimes the unforgiveness towards yourself becomes a stumbling block to total freedom because if a person feels they deserve to be punished and suffer and they're not forgiving themselves even though they know they've been sacramentally forgiven they even understand and believe Jesus has forgiven them but if they feel that they can't forgive themselves and that they deserve this that also gives the demon traction to hold on so there's kind of a pastoral process that is woven through exorcism over time working with the person outside of the sessions before and after and chatting with them and you know basically spiritual direction and that's the part that's missing in the movies oh yeah that's an incredible part of it because as I alluded to earlier you know it's the opening of doors I mean we can for example I have priests come through our house and bless our homes place Benedictine metals at windows go through the whole ritual as family but then we go downstairs and put on a television screen or open up online and allow something that's evil in character into our house or to do actions what was the point of the of the prior blessing I don't think we appreciate the fact that there is a need for repentance and a conversion of action not just of words and correct yeah and again Jesus knows our hearts so we can't just give lip service to these ideas because he knows what's going on with us for real and he's looking for real conversion and so you know it's just so important because ultimately he doesn't allow this stuff just because he wants to allow it you know he doesn't enjoy the fact that we're suffering but he allows it as a corrective experience so we realize the thing that we're embracing and we turn and run back to it so ultimately he's looking for closeness with us and possession is something that happens to people that generally are running away from Jesus and are far from him and specifically are embracing demonic spirits in some way and so he's not allowing this to be mean he's saying I'm gonna let you see the monster that you've chosen hoping that the person will then turn away and come back to him no I thought it was really important in that particular section in closing from the exorcisms by Jesus that you point out that he does Commission the 12 but in the 72 as well to go out but it's important that it's not only the priests and the bishops who have the authority to cast out demons and that would be revealed over time but it took centuries in a way for the church to find the need to limit the exercise of the use of exorcism and you really broke that open I thought that was so fascinating the research you did on that well it was a journey the church went through and you know one thing we have to remember in the very early church it was just apostles and followers you would have the equivalent of a bishop in your city or your region who would be you know the current apostle but there wasn't this whole hierarchy of you know deacons and priests and formal offices within the church because we're you know for the first 300 years the church was under terrible persecution it wasn't this big wealthy institution with buildings and schools and everything else it was it was a struggling little movement and so we have to remember in those very early centuries there weren't priest exorcists because there weren't priests in the very beginning it quickly came about but again with the persecution in the early church things just weren't that organized and then as the church spread around the world communication wasn't there we didn't have an internet letters could take weeks months or never arrive you know sending information around the world at that time and so it was a very different world it took centuries for the church to figure out this ministry and then through hard experience and seeing how difficult the ministry is and how it can chew people up and how it can lead to pride which leads to destroying people and causing heresies to develop and all kinds of other problems the church wisely said we need to regulate this so that qualified people are doing it it's not just you know somebody deciding they're gonna pick it up because they'd like to the church wanted to make sure people were qualified and then had kind of a proper context to keep them safe and effective essentially yeah it isn't a game and there isn't something that you oh I'm fascinated I'm curious about this I want to explore more yes reading your book is the great way to do that if you have that inkling but the actual ministry of it there is so much involved and you go into the different types of exorcism and how they developed for anybody who wants to understand more about the free masonry dynamics that are addressed by exorcism that's fascinating but also it's a very real issue isn't it yeah so the minor exorcism what's sometimes called the Leonine exorcism because Pope Leo the 13th wrote it in 1890 was originally explicitly directed against Freemasonry it wasn't a general exorcism against the devil it was it was against Freemasonry and Freemasonry since it's you know within 20 years of it coming into existence in the world in the early 1700s the church was identifying it as the church's greatest enemy in the world and there's been you know papal statements I think there's at least seven different popes have made formal bulls and statements about Freemasonry condemning it reminding Catholics that their ex communicated if they become Freemasons which is still the case by the way and so yeah the the minor exorcism actually was all about Freemasonry and that's why I took that kind of a side in the book to explain the history of Freemasonry and where it came from so that we could see it kind of from the church's perspective and imagine you know how they were seeing Freemasonry and why that may have led to this prayer being written we'll return to inside the pages in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr. 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The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from The Guardian Angels Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr John Esseff
"Discerning hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey to continue production of these podcasts prayers and more go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there or inside the free discerning hearts app to make your donation thanks and God bless discerninghearts .com presents building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef Monsignor Assef is a priest of the diocese of Scranton Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the sisters of the missionaries of charity. Monsignor Assef encountered St. Padre Pio who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical missions a Catholic organization established by Pope St. John Paul II to bring the good news to the world especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops priests and sisters seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef I'm your host Chris McGregor. Angels are so much on my mind today to talk to you about and I would like to begin with the guardian angel. I was very much enamored of my angel as a child. Ever since I can remember my brother and I were roommates and we had in our room you know that picture of guardian angel guiding this child across a bridge and we certainly he and I had so many scrapes as children we have some of them in our book but as two boys growing up and we were so companions because I can't remember being my memories go way back but they they don't go back before my brother because I was only a year and a half old when he came along so I always had this companion and so it's kind of easy for me to believe that I have a companion the angel the guardian angel is given to us from the first moment of our conception the guardian angel is interuterine he is given to you from your mother's womb and from the first moment that that egg fertilizes that is for that seed fertilizes that egg that soul that's blown into that person who now is going to be that's the beginning that's the moment your guardian angel begins to protect you and watch over you so he's with you and assists you in your life in the womb because how many more things are being told to us these days about what happens to the child in the womb it's a whole life in there if you're a single birth if you're you know are you my mother tells the story about that what do they talk about when a child is turned around and I was a breach breath I was going to be a breach birth and what happened to me is I got turned around and there's like all kinds of assistance that goes on within the womb guardian angel is right there assisting you in the birthing you know I think so many times we've it's good for a mother to know that that baby is being watched over and protected how that life is there and how the mother loves that baby from the moment that she knows she's pregnant and so the the baby is being watched over and cared for within the womb and then in the birthing your guardian angel comes with you that that angel stays with you from that moment of conception not only until you die but if you fail to go to paradise that angel reminds people on earth to pray for you so often you know some people who are not yet and may be in purgatory and not yet settled in their in their home forever in heaven that angels work is to go to the people on earth or to others to pray for that soul and I really believe that many of us are reminded oh my grandmother or my uncle so -and -so or having a mass offered for so is really inspired by the angel who comes and asks why don't you have a mass said for your dad why don't you have a mass said for your aunt Tilly so that there's there's that reminder to pray for the dead so until that's also because even in the liturgy itself it says at the death of a person may the angel lead you into paradise may the martyrs receive you on your way so as we go into the eternal city the angels are individually created angels do not multiply like humans so therefore if there are six billion people in this universe and each one of us has a specific guardian angel then there must at least be six billion angels God in making angels we always hear scripturally that there are myriads you know what myriads is millions and billions he just makes them and he creates them individually the least angelic creature is greater than any human creation you know after all man is only half spiritual half of him is material or physical he's half animal half spirit so that our bodily part it's no less beautiful it's a creation that we have feet and arms and legs and and we have a sex to us know that individual creation of my body is a very beautiful creation God has made the the marvel of a human body you know when I go to doctors and see especially if a person becomes ill the functioning of a healthy organ and a body is such a magnificent the eye the complexity of what an ear is or what a face is so what a brain is this is a magnificent each one of us who are human have been given this body creation and we have be given a spirit which is that part of us we are a body soul composite so that when we do die it's not only that the soul goes on to live because that's the part of us that will live eternally that's the part of us that's immortal but so is our body going to be so when the body and we believe that it's going to be raised from the dead we believe in the resurrection of the body so that it will participate in the glory of God in heaven forever or in the damnation in the fires of hell or whatever there is for eternal damnation and torture so we do know that we have any we are not made to die we are made to live eternally and because of Jesus who gives us a new life we are called now to live eternally in heaven he has given us the opportunity of salvation when he died on the cross Jesus saved everyone from the time of the cross back to Adam and Eve but they were not able to enter into glory because of Adam and Eve sin so he by his death on the cross brought salvation to every human being from Adam and Eve down to the year 33 and from the third year 33 to the end of time so that the cross is the salvation of all of mankind the desire of God was to save all of the human family each member of that family has a guardian now I'd love to go over that prayer angel of God my guardian dear to whom God's love commits me here so that God has sent an angel to be with me to watch over me to guard and to assist me to enlighten me to inspire me to guide me so this and we usually like to use the word guard because I think each of us is dealing with a lot of hostility in the world in which we live so there's a protective nature to this friend of ours and be careful watch for yourself and these inspirations that we receive daily and how many times you know driving along there's like an inspiration of why don't you take this street instead of that or that some different you slow down here this is like our guardian protecting us and I I often think how important it is to develop that relationship with our guardian angel to become more familiar I developed a very strong relationship with my guardian angel I think I had it as a child I kind of lost it and then it came back to me very early in my priesthood and I remember meeting a long tradition with Carmelite nuns who said to me why don't you ask your guardian angel its name because your guardian angel has a name it's a particular spirit and if you ask your guardian angel what your name is you would be able to become more familiar because you could call him by name and you could become more dependent on him and ask him and and then develop a closer relationship with him because every guardian angel has a nature it's an angelic nature it is hugely powerful and not incidentally every guardian angel is not the lowest rank of angel you could have a guardian angel from the archangel class you can have an archang you can have an angel that's your guardian from the seraphim or cherubim or Thrones I'll talk about those choirs of angels because they have enormous power each one in gradation and they they come according to the power that was given to them in their nature which is vastly different from each other they are all invisible creatures but they are all creatures made by God who have this nature and it's a particular nature I'm starting off with guardian angels because they're the ones I think that we're most familiar with we'll return to building the kingdom of love with Monsignor John Essip in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from BKL496 St. Therese, the Little Flower Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered St. Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope St. John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What's on my mind is such a, such a humble and beautiful saint, the little flower of Jesus, St. Teresa. The story of the little flower is so powerful in itself. It's so contra what our modern day sees as successful. First, like she goes to a Carmelite convent and, you know, people of our day say, well, she buried her talents, she buried her life, and even the idea of prayer being contributory to the world and its happiness. The little flower spent eight years in a Carmelite convent, a very short life. She died at 24. Even when she was in the convent, the sisters hardly knew anything about her life of holiness. She had kept a journal, her autobiography. She was asked and in fact ordered to write it by her superior. The wisdom of that book, I know, and I was in the seminary in the 40s and the 50s. Her story of a soul is one of the most popular spiritual books and it's so simple. She is the saint of the ordinary. She transforms every act of her life into an act of love and also a desire to unite her prayer with the sacrifice of her love. She became a victim of love for souls. Her whole desire during those eight years was to save souls for God through prayer, through sacrifice, through love. The hiddenness of her life, in fact, when she died, her sisters, who didn't know the depth of her love and her sanctity, said, what are we going to say about her? She has done nothing extraordinary, nothing that would catch the attention of anyone. She takes something like the rattling of the beads, which drove her crazy. She was so highly sensitive and some nun would rub the beads up against the bench in back of her and it would cause her like chalk on a blackboard and that's what would do with her system. She used that as an act of sacrificial love and transformed it and took it as an occasion and an opportunity to offer a sacrifice to God. The crankiest and the most rejecting of all the sisters, she would see them and embrace their rejections. I was just recently with a priest. His face would crack if he would smile. He was so unhappy. It's amazing and just to be around him, it was like pus oozed from his system of unhappiness. He wanted to know everybody to know just how unhappy he was and he would want to make everybody as unhappy as he was. And even to stand next to him, you know, what an opportunity that would be that St. Therese would say, why don't you just give him love and offer him the love so that he could have an opportunity to love. You know, just being around a person who's angry, upset all the time. So all of us have these opportunities in our day and the scripture in the mass that Jesus taught us, the church is teaching us on her feast, the disciples came to Jesus with the question, who is the greatest, most important in the kingdom of God? He called over a little child and stood him in their midst and said, I assure you, unless you change and become like a little child, you will not enter the lowly. Becoming like this child is the greatest and most important in the kingdom of God and the heavenly reign, the simplicity and the humility of a child. Now I believe in order for us to see a child who just simply looks at you with simple love. And so therefore, I really believe what Jesus is looking at is a little, little child in our society. Take today and see where in your neighborhood, in your family, look at a child. My cousin, Christine, of baby, she was so sweet, Olivia, just her eyes, her every smile, everything that would come into that child's face would be some of the most beautiful things that I could remember. I think that's the kind of child this was that our Lord meant in the gospel. There's a prayer. I was with my cousin and he had been making an avina to know what job he should take. And his favorite saint, and she is a favorite saint of so many, was the little flower. He would say this prayer to God through the intercession of St. Teresa. And she claimed, those who are devotees of St. Teresa claim, that they receive a rose or would have a rose as a sign that their prayer would be answered. And he made an avina and he got not only a rose, but his wife had given him this 30 roses. She didn't know that he was doing this, saying these prayers. He got an offer for a job that was absolutely unable to refuse. It was so powerful a sign right after he had received this bouquet of roses. And it was a sign to him that he should change his job. So many that I've talked to, the beautiful example of the little flower of humility, simplicity, childlikeness, and the prayer. My mother's middle name was Cecilia Teresa Esef. It's on her tombstone. She had this tremendous devotion. In fact, she gave a middle name to my sister Marlene. Marlene is Marlene Therese and also Mayanne Therese. And she had great devotion to the little flower. And she herself was a third -order Carmelite. And she had a way about her. My mother's prayer was very powerful for all of us. All of us, my cousins and so many people in our family. She never was out there. She wasn't someone who got into the mother's in school or in the altar and rosary in the parish or outside the family. She had five children. When I was a little boy, I would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and I would see my mother on her knees. I thought every mother did this. When she would take us for a walk, she would stop in the church and she would make the Stations of the Cross. And we would kind of be there with her. But we just took for granted. That's what mom did. All her life, her entire life, her rosary, her prayers. And she had this power about her. Not really being noticed. But in our family, I would say, everyone who would refer to my mother would say she was like the holiest person they had ever met at her death. That's what she was known for. Prayer, humility, and childlikeness. She had a simplicity about her. And I saw this characteristic in some. When a person has this hiddenness, this characteristic of trusting in the power of prayer. Although the little flower never left her caramel and died at the age of 24, she has been known all over the Catholic world as the patroness of the missions. She is the saint of Vietnam.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Pastor Greg Locke
"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 Friday, which means I'm in California. I've never traveled this much. Chris, I don't know who I am anymore. I don't know where I am. It's unbelievable. I find it best to get a Sharpie with someone as busy as you are to kind of write it down on your arm so when you wake up in the morning, you know. You can just look over. Oh, Iowa. Thank you. Before I forget, in this hour, we're talking to our friend Pastor Greg Locke from the Nashville area in Tennessee. He has a book out. Very exciting. Yesterday, I was on the phone with my friend Ken Fish. And, you know, these are the two people, Ken Fish and Greg Locke, that are talking about deliverance and are involved in the ministry of casting out demons. Now, if you don't believe in that, you might as well say you don't believe in the periodic table or science. This is reality. If you've ever been around it, I defy you to tell me what you think is going on. But anyway, we're talking to Greg Locke and that'll be our one today. I'm not sure who we have an hour or two yet. It'll be somebody great. But it will be somebody great. That's the only thing I can say. And my hair looks like it was styled by Vivek Ramaswamy's people today. I don't know what's going on with my hair, so please try not to look at it. Yeah, Eric, it's very important. You don't want to go full Bollywood with your hair. It just will look too fantastic and terrific. That's what Vivek is doing. He's going full Bollywood. It's kind of like Elvis on steroids. Elvis, Prince, Jerry Lee Lewis is kind of a pompadour kind of thing happening. OK, but listen, we don't want to talk about that. We want to talk about the fact that I'm traveling so much. Why? I don't know why, but I will tell you next week I'll be in Grand Rapids doing an event at Cornerstone University. After that, I go back to Dallas, where I'm doing something Christ for the Nations. 7th. That's October Then I go to San Antonio. I'm speaking in San Antonio October 11th. Sorry, October 10th. Then I go back to Dallas. We're doing a number of Socrates in the City events, which are totally sold out. I'm sorry about that. But if you go to Socrates in the City dot com, you can watch it live. It's going to be October 12th live and you can watch it. I hope you will. I want people to understand that, you know, it can be fun to watch it live because it's not edited. So all the flubs and fluffs and a lot of cursing. I'm just being honest with you. A lot of cursing. We have some guests. It gets very wrong. It's very salty. But we edit that out eventually. But if you want to see it, if you want to hear it, if you've never heard. I was just going to say I now can just you tell it what you want to leave in. And, you know, if you want to keep in the word, you know, honky tonk, it will leave that in. But it'll it'll delete other words you don't want in there. So that's Socrates in the city dot com. You can sign up for that's that's the event we're doing on October 12th on October 13th. I'm going to stay there in Dallas, Fort Worth, and we're doing some Socrates in the studio sessions, one of which will be with the great John's Mirack. He has a book coming out called No First Amendment. No First Amendment. Sorry. No Second Amendment. No first. It is a book worthy of John's Mirack writing. So I'm glad he wrote it. So we're going to be doing a Socrates in the studio session with him on October 13th. It just gets crazy. After that, I go to Augusta, Georgia. I'm I'm reading this Augusta, Georgia, Houston. I'll be in Houston on October 19th. Johnson City, Tennessee. That's right. I'm going to Johnson City, Tennessee. From there, I'm doing a number of appearances where we're promoting the letter to the American Church documentary film. So I'm going to Albuquerque, going to San Diego. I'm going to the L .A. area again to promote that. Then I'm going to be in Omaha, Nebraska. Am I making this up? I'm going to be in Omaha, Nebraska. I'm going to be in Colorado Springs. I'm going to be in Rocky Mountain Cavalry Church in Colorado Springs. I'm going to be in Chino Hills with Jack Hibbs. It's crazy. And I actually ask you to pray for me because this is a very solid, crazy schedule that I will need. I need prayer support. And I believe in that. I know there are people who pray because it gets tough.
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A highlight from DC11 St. Jerome The Doctors of the Church: The Charism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunson Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including The Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor.
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A highlight from IP#501 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 1 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church decreed expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brain wave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press Adam thank you so much for joining me sure Chris it's great to be back with you I'm very grateful for the history of exorcism I think it's an important work I think it's one of those things that needs to be brought out in the light because people have a lot of different ideas about what exorcism is but also maybe not an appreciation of its role in the life not only of the church but even before that and you bring that forward so clearly so thank you so much the history is all there so I really didn't do a whole lot except try to put it together and maybe synthesize it a little bit but I found it to be a really interesting story which is why I wanted to to get it out to people in the form of a book because yeah as you said most people really have no idea where this came from they've just kind of seen the movies you know they have their ideas from there which which is really distorted obviously Hollywood doesn't know much about this so yeah I'm hoping it'll kind of demystify it a little bit and and also it had some interesting twists in the road through the history of this so it's kind of a neat story I thought and I'm not saying that about like my own book I'm saying that the history of it is just it's a neat history well I'll say it for your book it is a neat book I found it fascinating and I think context is everything isn't it so to understand something more fully you need to be able to put things into context don't you mm -hmm yeah I think you do and hopefully it'll help not only with the idea of solemn exorcism but the whole deliverance world it kind of puts the whole range of prayers in a context because it shows back when it was more of a gray area and prayer was just prayer and you know deliverance and exorcism weren't well defined in the early church in terms of where the lines were between them so I hope it'll lead people to understand why exorcism is is really a qualitatively different thing than just deliverance prayers how did you become involved in the ministry that that helps to free people from a captivity that the church wants to be able to offer them well it's a long story but it's about 15 or 16 or 17 years ago I was doing graduate work in adult clinical psychology and mainly brainwave research and I was curious whether any of these strange experiences were real or if they were an artifact of the brain or mental illness and so I started looking into it stumbled across a possessed person early on it wasn't like anything I had seen clinically or been trained for clinically the interventions that you would do in psychology for psychosis had no impact and that led to you know obviously questions and then as I got to meet specialist clergy and got drawn into this and saw full -blown cases of solemn exorcisms I started seeing things that you can't explain and so once I realized it's a real phenomenon it's a real spiritual reality I then decided to basically as long as God was willing dedicate my life to it because there was so few exorcists around at that time you know 27 well about 17 years ago the ministry really you know it had faded out it was almost gone and so we've been working you know as a community for a lot of years and now there's a lot of exorcists trained up in the United States you know a few hundred at least and there's more every year so things are really kind of rolling at this point well the really good news about that is it as you said in the past maybe 15 years or so institutes have developed the one that I'm more familiar with is the Pope Leo XIII Institute that is established by priests and also their particular teams which include practitioners as you are someone who is not only devout in his faith but somebody who has an understanding of the human person which can help them to provide their ministry and then that's an important thing isn't it yeah and it's good to mention of course I'm a lay person I'm not a priest I don't actually do exorcisms only a priest with permission from their bishop can do that but God seems to have called me into a kind of unique role of training and teaching and essentially coaching priests and particularly new exorcists so the best way to learn is kind of in the situation so I do teach at the Leo Institute and I've taught at other national conferences for years and things like that but really the at the end of the day you have to do it and kind of be mentored by other exorcists and people with experience basically and just wanted to be clear so people don't make the mistake of assuming I'm an exorcist I know from the founders of the Pope Leo XIII Institute I know Monsignor John S.
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"chris it" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And we're back. So, Chris, I'm telling the audience about my Suzanne's and my journey on the Queen Mary, too. It's just incredible. One day they have these outdoor decks that you can like sunbathe on. But the weather was not such that you wanted to sunbathe. It was kind of cloudy, foggy, a little cool, unfortunately. But the last two days, we did a little of that. And it was beautiful. At one point, we're on this upper deck. And I look up and I recognize the captain. He was kind of like making these rounds or whatever. And we have mutton chops. That's when I'm a man. Someone was insubordinate to him and he pulled out his sword. And with the side of the sword beat the man. Well, it was really brutal. British seamanship is something that just makes me uncomfortable. But no, I may be kidding about that. But I'll tell you the truth. We did see the captain. And you realize, like he's the celebrity of the ship. Like everybody's like, that's the captain. That's the captain. He's he's like driving this monster thing. And it's cranking along. I mean, it's like, you know, it weighs like a billion pounds, literally. And it's cranking along at over 20 miles an hour. Like, how do you move this thing through the water at, you know, 22 miles? It was incredible. But anyway, I'm trying to think there's anything else that I need to cover. But it just was absolutely delightful. I'll think of other stuff and I'll throw it in later. But we end up in Southampton, England. And I think I shared it on the program. There's a British actor named James Fox. His brother is Edward Fox. They're both in their 80s. If you've ever watched British films from the 1960s to the present, they are in those films, many of them. James Fox is a delightful Christian, and he wrote me an email a couple of years ago that he enjoyed some of my books. He read my books and. We were emailing back and forth, and I said, I'm coming to London now. His son, I think I share this on the program. His son is Lawrence Fox, who starred as Hunter in My Son Hunter, which was a film that we've talked about on this program, Hunter. I'm sorry, Hunter. Lawrence James's son was also a big deal actor. But he said some stuff that the woke people totally canceled him like like three and a half years ago, completely canceled his career and everything. And he is such a hero. Lawrence Fox that he decides, like, I'm not going to apologize. I'm not I'm doubling down. So he's become more and more outspoken. And we had dinner with them in London. And Lawrence Fox is a stinking hero. The man is an absolute hero. He ran for parliament recently. He didn't win. But it was he he ran for for for the mayor of London about two years ago, whatever. So he's gotten very involved politically. But the thing is, in our dinner, he was just sharing about how the conservatives. This is kind of like in America, right? Like you've got the MAGA folks that are really fighting. And then you've got these like people that you once thought were conservatives who are now, you know, Mitch McConnell and, you know, Kevin McCarthy and whoever else that you don't really feel like they're willing to fight. And I think that that's the case in spades in England. So there are two members in all of parliament. Parliament's like 600 members, right? There are only two people or I'm sorry, probably one person. I can't think of his name who is utterly heroic. Everybody else is kind of like, you know, what do we need to do to get reelected? So it was utterly fascinating meeting Lawrence Fox. I follow him on Twitter and I retweet his stuff on Twitter. But total, total hero. And his father, of course, I don't think I mentioned this, said that he would pick us up from Southampton. This is like two and a half hours from London. He insisted. And I had one of the most delightful conversations of my life being driven to London with Suzanne by Lawrence Fox's father, James Fox, this amazing actor. Anybody who's seen a passage to India, have you ever seen that film? Chris, oh, I haven't seen that film. No, it's a shame on you who is in that. Maybe I saw it a long time ago. Was that it was it was it's about 1983, but it's it stars James Fox. You know, this is 40 years ago. He's been in a million films. He was in a big film in 1970 with Mick Jagger. It was some big film, but he's been in film since the 60s. The loneliness of the long distance runner was like 1962. But he's been in films all these years. So he insisted on picking us up. I thought, you can't do that. You're like this big deal actor. One of the most gracious, delightful Christian gentlemen I have ever met in my life. But anyway, so we had dinner with him our time in London, by the way. I got to say it's been a while since I've been in London. I forgot how much I loved England. Suzanne has relatives there. We actually did our honeymoon in London. No kidding. Twenty seven years ago. Yeah. And Suzanne has relatives, you know, English relatives. And we had the most delightful time. And I we stayed at the East India Club. And Douglas Murray, who when I had dinner with Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray said, Where are you staying in London? Because he's from there. And we said the East India Club. And he said, Oh, I think it's a bit ropey now. And I thought a bit ropey. What do you mean by that? And I think he meant, you know, kind of like down at the heels or whatever. And it is a little bit. But it's so it was so delightful to stay in this old English club. They had a stuffed hippopotamus right outside our bedroom. That's amazing. Oh, just the head, just the head. But it's like it's an old club. You know, you've got to get dressed for breakfast. There's tippers at I mean, it was it was absolutely fantastic in London. I have to say I had forgotten. It's kind of an amazing city. I just thought New York has nothing on this place. Like, I don't know, maybe it was just where we were because we're hanging out near the Mayfair district. But it was so I don't know, just just it was delightful. And it made me realize that I need to get back to England. We'll probably do Socrates in the city there or do some Socrates events there. But it was absolutely delightful. I ran in in Hyde Park. I did my running thing there. But and then something crazy happened at the British Museum. I'm not making this up when I come back. I will tell you what happened at the British Museum unexpectedly.
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"chris it" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"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. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever? Wise beyond your years and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms. Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking Eric Metaxas. Hey, Chris. Hello. I'm back. Welcome back. How was your trip? You went around the world in 80 days, I believe. Not exactly. But I am tan, and I wanted that to be the most important thing that I covered. I've been away for about three weeks. And the main thing that I did was work on my tan. And obviously I went to a clinic in Mexico and got hair plugs. And I wanted that to be all healed by now, but it got infected. And so that's why I'm wearing this wig. Yeah, the wig looks great. Whoever. Well, it's the same old wig that I've always worn on this program. But I wanted the I wanted the hair plugs to be ready now, but it just got it was not a good clinic. It was a hair plugs in Mexican. I don't know. I don't know. OK, so I hope I'm joking. I really am tan because I was in Greece. And today today is going to be a tough day. Today is like reentry, you know, like into the Earth's atmosphere because I've been away for quite a while. I needed this vacation. Now, if anybody who gets my email, if you subscribe to my email from Eric Metaxas dot com, I have shared a lot and a lot of photos, a lot of crazy stuff that's happened in the last three weeks, which I want to share on this program. But if you've gotten the emails, you've seen the photos. And that's you know, I think the cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words is kind of true. Like there's there's some fun pictures, but most people who listen to this program don't follow me on Instagram and probably don't get the email. Now, of course, you can get that. It's free. It's no commercials. Just go to Eric Metaxas dot com and we'll send you these emails once or twice a week with these most of the interviews and stuff. But I, I shared a lot of this stuff, but I wanted to share on this program today kind of where I've been for people who don't get my emails or who haven't been following me on Instagram, which, again, I think most people who listen to this as a radio program or podcast follow me in those ways. So the first thing I would add, I would add that this is kind of like, you know, you have a friend, the neighbors who go away on a trip and the cliche is they come back with it used to be on the slides and you would come over and they would show you their vacation photos and you'd be polite, but you really didn't want to sit through so many. But your trip was really actually very interesting. And I think your listeners actually do want to hear what you did. So this is the audio version of that. Oh, you're you're you're exactly. Well, listen, anybody who's read my book, Fish Out of Water. I don't think I say it in the book, but we had neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Right. They passed away many years ago. But I remember they came back from a vacation and they invited the neighborhood kids over. This was like 1973, I think, maybe even 72. But they wanted a vacation. They invited us over to see the slide. So that's what this is going to be like. Now, let me start. Instead of starting at the beginning, I'll start at the end. We flew in from Athens yesterday. And I don't know about you, but like overseas travel, when you get back, it's an 11 hour flight from Athens. We got back, we were totally fried. We were so fried last night that normally you'd want to stay up to a certain hour, but we couldn't do it. So we went to sleep way too early. Like I think I was in REM sleep by six thirty last night. Which means what? Which means I woke up at about two fifteen a.m. today. That's right in time for an early morning breakfast. What do you do at two fifteen a.m.? Well, you try to pretend it's not two fifteen and you try to sleep a little longer, but your body won't go to sleep because you've had your sleep. So what I did is I turned on the TV and Turner Classic Movies is featuring in the middle of the night Czech cinema from the 1960s. So I saw a 1963 film called Something Different, and it actually was amazing. I never thought I'd be talking about Czech cinema. New Wave Cinema from 1963 on this program. But it was actually bizarrely good. And what's the tone of these films? Are they comedies? Are they romances? Action? What is it? This was a film by a woman director. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to talk about my vacation in Greece and London and on the Queen Mary to with Suzanne. I'm going to talk about that in a minute. But I'm just telling you, so last night we went to bed so early that I woke up so early that I know to do with myself, turn on the TV. And I'm watching Czech cinema, 1963. And it was it was really like, you know, when you recognize a film, when you basically say like, I know this is good. Like there were things about the direction of it that I thought this is next level. It was in some ways so bizarre. It was two stories. They kept cutting back and forth between them. And they were not linked. But one was about a gymnast. Am I really talking about this on the program? It was it was I'm all in. I'm intrigued. One was about a real gymnast. I can't think of her name right now, but she was a big deal gymnast. She competed in the Olympics in 56 and 60. And her father was a gymnast. Again, Czechoslovakian. And I got to tell you, they they made an actual film with her. It was a film, wasn't a documentary. So she's playing the role of a gymnast in the film. But it's like very intense and stuff. And then they had this other story of a woman and her husband and their young kid. It was just just bizarrely compelling. And it wasn't meant to be funny, but it was just good. I think my problem is that when you come from Europe to America, you just my body's not here yet. So I think this was the name of the film is called Something Different, which this segment is. And the gymnast was Ava Bosakova. That's correct. He was a gold medalist. Go to the head of the class. So, yeah, but but it's that's half of the story. But it was filmed very interestingly. I mean, filming her routines and stuff, as though it's part of like an actual movie versus a documentary film. Anyway, that's what I did in the middle of the night, because you wake up in the middle of the night. What do you do? I turn on turn to classic movies. And so I've been up for hours. I ran four miles in Central Park. Like basically, I'm ready to go to bed now. And and the show is just starting. So, OK, I want to tell the story of my vacation. We were we spent the last day, 10 or 11 days in Greece.
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"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"About a book project. And so that's, that's on the horizon. And then the next couple of years, just more books, more books, man, more books. Well, just to wrap things up here, Chris, where can our audience find out more information about you, about your work, about the books? Where can they find that information online? Oh, my website is chrisdudleyart .com. And that's where you can see, you know, my, my portfolio, my body of work, and you can reach out and contact me directly through that. But my books are available through Hudson dawn publishing .com that I'm connected with the Hudson dawn publishing .com. And that's where all of the books that I've illustrated are available. And that's been, been awesome being connected with them. I actually designed the logo and my oldest daughter, she launched a publishing company. She put a team together. I was joking around about it, designed a logo. She launched it during the pandemic, got with an artist and made a book and got it out. And I was like, wow. So since then she has worked with, wow, probably 10 authors. And then, you know, I've illustrated a lot of the books, but she's working with, I think five new authors right now. And that'll be on that site. So, yeah, it's been awesome. She has printeries. It's established printeries locally in Michigan, actually in the, the West and East side of the state, you know, got warehousing. So she's, she's taken that to the next level beyond what I can, I ever thought that could be. That's amazing. It's a, it's a whole family operation. It's a family affair. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Yeah. Hudson .com publishing .com. Awesome. The recent book, you can, that can be, you can read the intro of the book right there online. Yeah. We'll definitely put a link to that in the show notes. Chris Dudley, I want to thank you so, so much for taking time out and coming on the show. I mean,
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"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"But if someone says, okay, I need you to learn how to draw by next year, decently. And I'm going to give you $10 million. What happens? You start practicing every single day. And guess what? At the end of the year, you're going to be pretty decent at drawing and get that $10 million, which means you could do it and all, all along, but you didn't have the incentive. Yeah. So when we, as artists, we learn, we love it, you know, so you learn how to do it. And then later you make a few dollars from it. And it seems amazing because most people, like you said, they veer off that creative path. You know, and then you get older where you need money. And then I haven't learned how to draw. So no one's going to pay me with the skill set I have now. So I got to go work over here, you know, and make some money. So, but, uh, yeah, it's, it's an awesome thing. Everybody can learn how to draw, but it's cool being one of the few in the world that can, I can, you know, Do you have a dream project or something that you'd love to do one day? Dream project? Well, actually one of my, my dream projects is a book that I wrote the book that just finished up. I'm the author and illustrator and collaborator with Michael Chambers. He's featured in the book, but I'm actually the author and the illustrator of the book. So it's my book per se, but my dream book, actually, I wrote a couple of years ago and I have just got around to illustrating my own work. And this one is called that was in a big dilemma. And it is a book about that very thing we just discussed about learning to draw and how everybody thinks it's, it's magical, but it's more work than just talent. And it's amazing to me is that in the book and kind of explains it, no one says, you're just an amazing gifted plumber or an amazing gifted carpenter, or, you know, you just naturally know how to whatever, right.
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"chris it" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Back. Talking to Chris Reed of Morningstar Ministries. His new book is The Seven Spirits of God. Chris, what what is God saying to you about the Trump indictments, about boxes? I mean, we are living through such a loony time right now. I have confidence that God's hand is on this nation and that he is with us in the middle of this madness, that he wants us to get through this madness and that we will. But what is God saying to you prophetically about what is happening along those lines? And we talk about all kinds of other stuff that you've been hearing as well. Yeah, well, this is something that I think what we're seeing is the pot calling the kettle black. Everything that Trump is being indicted for is actually a way for the I believe there's, without a doubt, a deep state. I believe that there are government agencies that are so much in the pocket of the Democratic Party or an extension of the Democratic Party that it's like they're indicting Trump for the very things that Biden is doing. And it's coming out at the same time. For instance, November the 1st, I had I wrote down a prophecy. I shared this, you know, it's on MorningStarTV .com. It's on my YouTube channel, Chris Reed Ministries about the Biden boxes. This is before the midterms. This is before the Biden boxes hit the news on January the 9th. That's when we first found about about the boxes in multiple locations that Biden had. But this was the prediction that I had Biden boxes and billionaires. I said Chinese bribery will be exposed and their influence in American politics and even the swinging of the 2020 election will come to light. This will tie in with the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which will go in full exposure. I see inquiries and boxes being opened, which will reveal smoking gun secrets that will prove Chinese involvement, Chinese money involved with Biden's elections, secrets being exposed even through the courts and House inquiries that will shock the world. Boxes, boxes, boxes full of horrible stuff. That was November one. OK, so that's documented. And again, you know, I know there are people listening to this program who are thinking, what what is this guy, a psychic? No. Close, but no. God speaks to people. And if you don't believe it, you can go to Chris Reed's own channel. You can go to MorningStarTV .com. You can look you can look into this and see what Chris said when he said it. And then you can see, well, did it did it happen? I'm I'm confident that this stuff is going to come out. But the the the the process is painful to have to go through this process. And it does seem clear that, you know, whenever they get close to doing anything with Biden, immediately they go after Trump more because they want to distract. But said you in what you just read, Chris, you have confidence that these things will be exposed. God said that to you. Yeah, I have total confidence..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"chris it" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Ladies and gentlemen, we ask you now to count down from 10. Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks, it's my joy to have a friend on the program. He's been on the program before. His name is Chris Reed. He's the head of Morningstar Ministries. Chris has what we call an extraordinary prophetic gift from God. Now, if you don't believe in that, I can't help you. But I want to tell you more good news. Chris has written a book called The Seven Spirits of God. And I want to talk about the book and about everything else. Chris Reed, welcome to the program. Glad to be with you, Eric. Always good to be with you. Are you still six foot seven? I am. That that's just going to be my initial question. But I remember you told me when I first asked you that, I said, how tall are you? And you said six foot seven. But that's only when I stand all the way up. And and I didn't know you well enough at the time to to know whether you were joking. And it turns out you were joking. So anyway, so you're six foot seven, but only when you stand all the way up. Chris, you have been on this program before. You have what we call a prophetic gift. God speaks to you. It's it's it's a it's a great gift. Is that what you write about in the new book, The Seven Spirits of God? Because I want to talk to you about a lot, but I want to make sure that people are aware that you have a new book out. What's what is the book Seven Spirits of God about? Why is it called The Seven Spirits of God? Yeah, it's called The Seven Spirits of God because in Isaiah chapter 11 verses one and two, it talks about how that when Messiah would come, that the seven spirits of God would rest on him and it names them in Isaiah 11 and two. It's the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the spirit of the fear of the Lord. And what I talk about in this book is how that Jesus's baptism, you know, prior to his baptism, he hadn't done any miracles, even though he was born filled with the spirit. Something happened at his baptism when the Bible says that the heavens open at his baptism, the spirit of God descended and rested on him. So in other words, the Holy Spirit fills a lot of people, but it rests on fewer. And so I talk about how that the fullness, the number seven, is always the number of completion. And Revelation chapter one and chapter four and chapter five mention these seven spirits of God, which are before God's throne sent forth into all the earth. And even in the New Testament, the apostle Paul prays in Ephesians for the church, he says that he prayed that the spirit of wisdom and understanding would come upon them and the knowledge of him. The spirit of counsel and might is when the Lord would give direct counsel, for instance, tell the blind man to go watch in the pool of Siloam. He didn't just make that up. That was supernatural divine counsel for that man in that moment. And if he washed, the spirit of might would show up. And that's where the healing and the miracle came and he restored his sight and then the knowledge and the fear of the Lord. So many people have been reading this book and telling me I've read it two or three times like they started having real encounters with God. I know this sounds strange, but I feel like there's an impartation and I say that humbly. I feel like this. I didn't come up with this stuff. This is Revelation from on high. And a lot of people have experienced prophetic words, supernatural encounters with God after reading this, because it's about the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And what one of the things I say in the book is I said that the seven spirits of God resting on a person is when they come in the full supernatural ministry of Jesus Christ. The Luke four eighteen anointing. And I say the seven spirits of God are the nine gifts of the spirit in full maturity. And so I just really draw a distinction about the next level of supernatural that we've all been believing for, praying for, that the world needs. And I talk about it in this book..
The Lowe Post
"chris it" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Legitimate. He's a knockdown shooter. He's gotten better on defense as the season has gone. He's going to be a really, really good player. And you haven't even really seen all of it unlocked because he's playing in an offensive so equal opportunity, really. So it was clear a week into the season, and I wrote about him I think in the very first ten things of the year, this dude is a basketball player. He understands, he sees the game well, he feels the game well, he cuts, he rebounds, he makes the right reads on defense. And I just booked it in my brain last week in Brooklyn. He had Seth curry on him on a switch and they gave him the ball and he destroyed Seth curry and I know that, you know, well, of course he's got a big size advantage Seth curry's not a great defender. I'm talking like destroyed him, drove right through him, dunked, and not everybody can do that when they get a seismic mismatch. Like not every rookie can do that when they get a size mismatch. And I think he's gonna and you can even see it when he cuts. If he's cutting against the smaller guy and he catches it, he kind of just finishes over and through that guy. I think he's gonna be really good. He's just a good he's just a good basketball player and sabonis loves him. So bonus absolutely loves him and is pushed him really hard to mix up the way he uses the handoffs to cut back door sometimes and really sort of takes joy in that one of the coaches told me last week. I think it was one of the games against the clippers. All the coaches kind of smiled because Keegan Murray got a defensive rebound and sabonis called for the ball because sabonis sabonis, that's one of his great skills as bringing it up. Right. And Keegan and Murray looked off of him. Dropped the ball up himself and went coast to coast. I think for a basket and the coach was like, oh. Okay. He's growing up. Looked off dolmas and was like, I'll take up myself big fella. Chris herring, what do we got this week here? Newsletter comes out tomorrow, right? What else? What's the newsletter? I think at this point we're mostly cooking up stuff for the playoffs. So like a longer features for that. So I'll probably start making some more trips to lock in some of that. I got some ideas cooking, but nothing nothing massive, just the newsletter, like you said, and I'll probably have one other piece later this week. Well, in the kings, the king's piece you mentioned came out what a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. It might have been last week. I'm getting, it's all running together for me, but it was really recent. It was earlier this month, for sure. The pandemic has definitely destroyed everybody's sense of when things happened and why and how. And I see you in a hotel room, so I know it's probably blending together for you too, brother. You know, it's all good. I like Los Angeles. I love Los Angeles. I've grown as a New Yorker as a proper New Yorker, which I will still claim, even though I'm now a suburban loser. A suburban loser, yeah, no, I'll just leave it at that. I was properly not pro Los Angeles for a long time. Like, oh, it's the other coastal city. It's too glitzy. It's two. People care too much about how they look and their cars and their traffic and blow. By trip number 7 out here, I was like, oh, I get it. It's always warm. Yep. People are whining here that it's been raining lately. I'm like, look, there are a lot of problems and what that portends to the summer and the wildfires and all that. Those are real things, but man, it's nice here all the time. There's tons of smart creative people here. The beach is not far away. You learn how to game. You learn how to game traffic as best you can. I'm a huge, huge fan. I tried to relocate our family to Los Angeles and I was oh boy. I had a lunch with I had a lunch with mirin fader, the great, great feature writer over at the ringer. And we were out in LA one day. And it was like an awakening for me because it was 80 and it was at a time where it was really cold in Chicago. And I was like, it was the first time I really hit me. I did not have a proper appreciation for Miami even because we were there so many summers in a row for those LeBron finals. And it's like, to me, I'm like, oh, what's the difference? 90 here, sure. But it's 90 everywhere in June. You have to go to LA and Miami when it's like January, December. And then you have a full appreciation for it. So I understand. If the heat have a home standard early January, I try to take my family from Toronto where we go for Christmas to Miami for new year's and again, like a proper New Yorker, I assumed all the worst things about Miami before I started spending time there. I am now like a Miami evangelist. Miami is two. Amazing. And there was one year we went from Toronto to Miami, where in the span of that three year and whatever our flight, we gained 100°F. 100. It was like -20 in Toronto and 80 in Miami. And I was like, this is my fiance's favorite place. So if I end up living there in the next food is amazing. Why it happened? Art is amazing. Diversity. You hear different languages, different cuisines, Miami is wildly, not it's not underrated. It's properly rated. There's a reason why everybody loves go to Miami because it turns out it's freaking awesome. Okay, that's the end of our NBA series. Love fest. Chris herring at SI dot com. Read him, listen to him, subscribe to his newsletter.
The Lowe Post
"chris it" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"And even if he's at full throttle, even if Desmond bane continues to play like he was before he got injured and he's been sensational. And Jaron Jackson the last few games without morant is putting up 25 30 a game look sensational. So they'll have their big three. And that's a real big three. I just think if Adams is a shell of himself and Clark is gone, I just don't think they have enough to now the west is so chaotic, because they went around, yeah, could they be in the dogfight for the second round, sure. I think this now becomes a season where they could have made a run to the finals and I think it's now without those two guys that's been totally overshadowed by Moran. I think it's unlikely. Just to say the least. And I'm just, you know, we'll see these other teams every year will change, but every day they'll change our sort of perception of them, but you mentioned, you know, we talk about LeBron as kind of an aside, you know, if he can come back, they're gonna be in the plan. I would be shocked at this point if they're not in the play and they're 35 and 37, they're tied with the Minnesota who's quietly on a three game losing streak and Anthony Edwards got hurt last week. That's not great. I just think the Lakers should be able to hold off Utah, New Orleans. I know that's not a high bar to clear, but I think they should be able to do that. I think they're dangerous with LeBron and in plotting out what would be the most fun first round series. The grizzlies are usually involved because the grizzlies are just, they talk to everybody. Everybody hates them. The Dylan Brooks Klay Thompson feud is like the most fun thing going on in the NBA right now. Godzilla Brooks just stopped doing things, by the way. Did you see that pushing of the cameraman? Like, dude, what are you doing? It's a cameraman. I know. I know. He's not on the other team. Just leave him alone. He's trying to do his job. Why do you have to do like, it's fine to be an irritant to the other team? All this extra stuff is like, we get it, man. This is who you are. You've become casual sports fans know who Dylan Brooks averaging ten points a game is because of all this stuff, just like maybe dial it back 15%. I don't even know what the hell. Oh, the Lakers. Can you imagine based on everything we just talked about? If the Sacramento Kings after 16 years out of the playoffs, somehow draw the Lakers in the first round and it's kings Lakers with all that history and all the California geography and everything, oh my God. Like part of me and I love this part of not being a fan of any team. At least anymore, you know, from basically when I was a kid, maybe a young teenager, you just get to root for what would be the most fun to watch. And without caring about who's going to win or who's going to lose. That would be incredible. I mean, for a few days there, we had the sons and the warriors. And position the place. We would get the thing whereas kings fans figure out where the Lakers are staying and like we would get these things like they're going to call, they're going to set the fire alarm off at three in the morning. They're going to try and tamper with the food. It's like all that stuff would happen again. I wouldn't put anything past these. These kings fans are hilarious also, by the way. I had wanted my story. What I'm always really curious about are the people that just barely miss out on being able to experience this night in night out. So I talked to some season ticket holders. Former season ticket holders and some that are still current season ticket holders. But I wanted to talk to someone and I think I put out a question on Twitter of like, are there any kings fans that follow me that had season tickets last year and in light of breaking the record for the longest playoff drought in history and the Halliburton sabonis trade that people felt a certain way about at the time? Is there anybody that essentially abandoned their season tickets and just let them lapse? And I got someone who did that and he was able to talk his wife into getting them last year after years of trying. It's not an overly wealthy person. He's a baggage handler at the airport there in Sacramento. And now kind of side eyes his wife like Nancy, I told you like we would want to stick with this, but last year when they were terrible and he couldn't make it to all the games because he had the job, he couldn't sell the tickets for anything. So it was just you had to just take a loss on every night because you could not give those tickets away. Now they're great, but I talked to another season to get there. Caesar took it holder. And he was like, Chris, let me just walk you through it. Like I've had these tickets since 2017. It's wonderful now, but in the years where they're terrible, it's like, it's like paying child support for 15 children that just constantly disappoint you. Having seized the tickets. And it was one of the funniest quotes that I forgotten, but again, I'm just really happy that I'm in at the end of that tunnel. You get to see some light. Part of me, I've said this. I really want to be at that first game. That first playoff game just experienced that. I got a chance to cover the Knicks. In 2012, they had been to the playoffs a few years before that with Carmelo NMR and everything, but I really want to be there for that first game because you know it will be electric. If it's the Lakers, it'll be insane. It would just be incredible, the atmosphere there. And watching the betting od be really interesting, quite frankly, too, for a series like that just because I want to say when the Lakers played this song. I bet the Lakers walk in his favorites. I mean, that wasn't that the case essentially a couple of years ago when the suns were the two in the Lakers were the 7. I want to say, obviously, 80 got hurt right at the beginning of that series, but you have to you are contractually obligated to mention that Chris Paul also got hurt or everyone in Phoenix will scream at you on social media. So please. Hey there low post listeners. You. Let's talk about Etsy. If you haven't yet, you'll love shopping on Etsy for
Revision Path
"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
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Revision Path
"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"That term too. And like, go for it. And so I think where we're at now is, and it's not me. It's a lot of folks, right? We got to slow down. We got to think deeper about the systemic social impacts of what we make. Because they absolutely have those outcomes. Is there something that you want to accomplish that you haven't had the chance to do yet? Actually, I've been thinking about it a lot. I think I might go back to school to learn industrial design. I just want to get better at making tangible things beyond like I love thinking about the systems and the larger complex problems and solutions, but I do want to get better at making things. I think that's a good natural extension though of like what you're doing is to extend into things. I'm curious, have you heard of the black in design conference? Yes. Have you been? I have not. I think, well, let's see, they have it every other year, so I know they're having it next year because they started in 2015 and so they do it. It takes place at Harvard, their graduate school of design. And I feel like the work that you were doing would be such a perfect fit for what that conference is about. So that conference kind of tends to deal with design in terms of like the lived space, like they usually it's been like architecture, landscape planning, stuff like that, but they've started over the years to extend it into areas of black futurism. I think they had one year they were talking about biomimicry and stuff like that. But I think what it is is showing the application of design in people's lives like to change outcomes and stuff. I feel like the work that you're doing would be a really natural fits for that. They have the 2021 conference virtual. I feel like they're going to have the 2023 conference in person again. But it's at Harvard. It's a good conference. I think you should check it out. Oh, definitely. We definitely, I've seen it, and I think I didn't go in 21 because it was virtual I think I was just kind of like virtual out. Yeah. Like the move. And it's interesting that we've been doing a lot of work recently with organizations to help them figure out the future of their built environment. So, you know, there's a lot of a lot of desire for new community spaces and activating, especially in Chicago. We got a lot of vacant lots and stuff like that. And so we've been getting a lot of inquiries from organizations around that. And so, which I think is great because architecture is just so focused on the built environment. They don't necessarily have that perspective on what the lived environment is looking like. And so I finished a project for a nonprofit here in Chicago that they're trying to do, they're trying to build like a WeWork for education focused nonprofits so that they can really bring the ecosystem together physically so that they would by extension work better and collaborate more on their programming. And so we work with them to figure out what that really what the principles of the space should look like. And so we did these co design workshops with their staff, leadership, the students that they serve and help them think through like what is the ultimate vision for this place and what are the principles you need to design around as architects that we're not going to build it. I'm not going to tell you which materials and lighting and all that. Expertise. But if they have this road map, how might that change their architectural desire? Because, you know, I'm sure for most architects, they're dealing with the client. So if you just deal with leadership of the organization, they can only tell you their vision, but that has nothing to do with or not nothing. That has little to do with the folks that they are serving. And so it was really interesting. It's been interesting to do this alongside architects and hearing them say how valuable it's been for them to be a part of those workshops and see those perspectives and see how they should create differently. So yeah, are you going to be in black and design next year? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm definitely going to be there. I remember the first year I went in 2015 and I was trying to get other black designers to go and I couldn't a lot of people were like, I don't know if I want to go. I mean, are they talking about Photoshop or are they talking about sketch? Because these were like, you know, like product designers, UX designers, et cetera. And I'm like, first of all, it's 2015. There were no black design events going on back then. I'm like, this is the first time something like this is happening. It's cheap. I think the tickets were less than a $100. I was like, let's just go. And just see what it's like, and a lot of people I know didn't go that first year, but they have it every other year, so like if you don't go the first year, you can check it out the next year. They record all the sessions, they live streaming. So if you happen to not be there, you can go back and watch previous year sessions to kind of get a sense of what it's like, but it's such, I mean, when I last when it was in 2019 before the pandemic and I did do the virtual conference, of course, just wasn't the same. But it's such a collegial black family reunion esque type experience. I mean, I would say as much as you could get on Harvard's campus. I'll put it that way. Did I bring it out the grill or anything like that? But I mean, it's as much of a collegial space for black design as you're going to find. And it's students, it's longtime designers, it's educators, and like every year or every other year when they have it, it just brings something different to the space itself, like they have it at Harvard graduate school at Harvard's campus. And it's great. It's great. The thing about it is though that because they do it every other year, they have a different staff every other year. So it's always like
Revision Path
"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"About shy by design. Sure. That piece is huge for us. When I started the firm in 2018, I started out of anger, to be honest. I was back home in Chicago, and the philanthropic social sector was really starting to embrace design thinking at that time. And at that time, I was like, oh, just like thinking is the bee's knees. Here we go. We can use this methodology to change the world. And so I would see these projects popping up around issues and health and safety. And they're always in Chicago is very, very segregated. If people don't know, it is probably we battle Milwaukee for the top spot of most segregated cities in America every year. And it's really hard for people who are not from here to understand what that physically looks like. And so for example, you can cross a street and the color of the people will immediately change. So you'll be on one intersection and on one side, it will be almost strictly black folks, and then on the other side, it will be strictly Brown folks. The contrast is so stark here in many, many communities. And because of that, issues are very contained in acute and particular areas. So health disparities that affect black folks more heart disease, hypertension, blah, blah, blah, right? Those are very concentrated in Chicago. And so there was these design projects, you know, how might we improve heart health for black males? And I was like, oh, that's great. I'm glad you all are thinking about that. And then I would look at the design firms that were that were the lead on the projects, and it would be 6 white dudes and one Asian woman. And I just knew I was like, there's no way they're going to get this right. And so, you know, at that time that I was also this like, where are the designers of color that we can't find black people? We're trying and they're just not there. And so I just said, all right, cool. I'll start something and we'll do that. We'll bring them here. And to do that means you can't create the cultures that many design firms have because they are, you know, monochromatic. And so one in shot by design to really be a place for black and brown designers to come, be excellent, be great. As we are and not try to fit into some mold that is not natural to us, and still be excellent. The notion that if we're going to be us, that somehow it's less than the notion of excellence that that's been perpetuated in our society. And so shy by design is all about having a home for designers of color specifically, but for everyone generally. So one of the founding principles was that 75% of the people I work with at all times would be folks of color. And 50% would be women based on the notion that you can't design the future if you don't have all those inputs. You know, I'm looking at the website and everything right now. I like that you have antiracist design as sort of a core principle of everything that you're doing because I know just from like doing revision path, what will happen is sometimes people will look at what you're doing and instead of seeing the positive way you've designed it, they look at, or they sort of perceive it as exclusion. I could see someone looking at shy by design and thinking, well, isn't that discriminatory that you're only going to have black and brown people that talk to women as opposed to you sort of doing that by design and very much the same way that maybe some other firms may have only white people by design. There is not a thing where we're saying there won't be white designer. So we hired a white designer last year and so we're totally open and willing to do that. I don't believe that white people don't have a place in the antiracist fire. They absolutely do. And to your point, yeah, it's not about exclusion it's saying that we have to center the most harmed in the process, whether that's the design team and or the folks that we're designing with. So we also practice co design only. We are not a human centered design traditional human centered design firm. We do not design for anyone. Every project we do, the folks most impacted by that system by that organization have to be a part of the process. You know, that's based on understanding they know their challenges, their strengths, better than any of us, right? This idea that designers can develop empathy through one hour conversations and therefore create the optimal experience or system or service for someone. In my opinion is a bit ludicrous. What does your creative process look like when it comes to starting on a new project? Sure. So lots of prep work with the clients of what is the issue who's most affected by that. Who do they really trying to figure out who they have relationships with on the ground and the community? And that can be for profit client or a social service client, right? We need to understand what is your relationship to those most affected by the thing you do. And then we set out to hire co designers to join our team. So once we know and understand who are the people most affected, we do intense outreach to hire those folks to join our team for the duration of the project. And that's a huge thing for us because again, this notion of how do we create a space for black and brown designers, it's also creating a space for this pipeline. I come to design very late in life. I was in my 30s when I really first understood what it was. And so I think folks of color are some of the most creative people on the planet. Based on our conditions, right? We have to be. And again, I don't say that as thinking that we're a monolith, but proportionately to our socioeconomic status, we have learned and have had to be very, very creative for survival. Yet we have been excluded from the professional practice of creativity in terms of design. And so we use every project as an opportunity to introduce more and more black and brown folks to the field to the practice and have them lead us in our design process, right? We have a methodology, but they have the expertise. And so the more we can give what we have to them, the better equipped they will be to lead us. Why do you think more firms don't do that?
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"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"Check out our post that we put on social media. We have one on Twitter, one on Instagram. There's also a link to it in the show notes. We have a lot of fun putting it together. For those of you who may not know, we've put together a holiday gift guide, I think every year we've done her vision path, except for 2019 that was a bit of an outlier, but if you want to check out what we've got on the list this year, go check the link. I hope you'll enjoy it. Secondly, we released a bonus episode last week on the design of Black Panther Wakanda forever. It's a really great conversation with me, Jordan green, reginae Gilbert, and Paul Webb. Talking about not just the plot of the movie, but also the music, the symbolism, the art, and the overall design of the movie. If you haven't seen the movie, it's got a lot of spoilers, so maybe don't listen to the episode, but if you have seen the movie already, definitely go check out that bonus episode. We really had a lot of fun putting it together and we hope that you enjoyed that as well. Now if you've listened to revision path for any amount of time, you know we've got a job board, of course we just listed some job listings at the top of this episode. And of course you've heard me talk about the tenth collective, which is this new talent collective initiative from revision path and state of black design. Now, unless you've been under a rock for the past few weeks, there have been tens of thousands of people displaced and put out of work because of layoffs. We're talking Amazon. We're talking Twitter. We're talking meta. Lots of people right now are looking for work. Present company included, by the way. So we put out this talent collective called the tenth collective as a way to really help you in your job search because we know that there are companies that are out there looking to hire black designers. And if you're a black designer looking for work, then you should join the tenth collector so you can be matched up with these companies. If you're not a member, it's free to join, you just have to fill out a short profile and you're all set. We'll put a link to it down in the show notes, and it's really super, super easy. You'll only get contacted by companies when they're ready to talk to you. You can hide your profile from companies or you can remain completely anonymous. The tenth collective is really meant to be a resource for you, whether you're looking for your next opportunity or not. Just great to have in your back pocket because you're going to be sending out resumes, you're going to be talking to people left and right. Let us help you out in your job search as well. Head over to the tenth collective dot com to join or check out the link in the show notes like I mentioned before. This episode of revision path is brought to you by hover. 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After the racial awakening of 2020, lots of organizations and institutions are trying to figure out a, how are they perpetuating systemic racism and then B figuring out pathways to stop and from our perspective, hopefully, to heal the communities and folks that they've harmed over the past. So yeah, it's been a lot. Great work, but also heavy work. Yeah, I can imagine. So I would guess you probably got like an influx of work during that summer of 2020. I think there's a lot of people I spoke to on the show where during that summer are like right after that summer, they just kept getting hit up with requests to speak or to consult or to work or anything like that. Did you kind of have that same swell of interest during that time? Yeah, a lot of speaking, I think during that time, particularly people were really trying to wrap their heads around what it was. And so there was a lot of, can we just talk to you? We want to hear what you're thinking about this. Then the work started to pick up, but we actually developed a rubric for our firm on what we would do and what we wouldn't do. So we really started to vet the organizations that wanted to work with us to see if they were actually about the change that they say they were or if it was just we want to put a black face to the work to somehow validate the efforts, even if they knew it was going to fall short. And even if they didn't know, we would work with them to say, hey, here's where we see your shortcomings. And if they were willing to understand and accept that, then we could move forward. If they weren't, then we were happy to walk away. That's good. 'cause I can imagine people probably came all out of the woodwork that found your firm and was like, wait a minute, that's a black guy. Let's talk to them. Let's see if we can help it. Yeah. And then really, you know, they thought they knew. That was a lot of them. All we gotta do is just, it would come out in this way. All we have to do is just make this one simple change. And boom, racism is gone or, you know, we will function differently. And the hard part for us is helping them understand that changing an organization changing a system, an institution is a huge shift or requires large scale shifts from top to bottom, not just in terms of personnel, but also in terms of philosophy, practices, policy, right? All these organizational structure. And so that was a hard thing for folks to deal with, right? It's been doing this thing for so long and from your perspective, you've been doing a great job, right? Profit margins may be through the roof or you've put out a couple of surveys of rate us and for the most part you send them to people that like you and you're like, yep, that was a great and then the negative ones that come back. You're like, oh, they don't really get it. And so, yeah, it's been interesting journey. Well, let's kind of dive in more and talk about your firm's shy by design. What you describe as a collaborative and cultivating space for designers of color, like that already just that hit me like a ton of bricks there. Tell me more
Revision Path
"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"Yeah, so Dwayne Edwards doctor Dwayne networks by the way, by now, but runs that school and he did this reality show on YouTube where he was bringing in designers to design shoes and stuff that I remember, I would watch that, and I would watch nuts and bolts and be like, why is nobody talking about these like design shows, you know? But I mean, their style is so it's hard for me to kind of pinpoint. I think most people know future because of the donut logo, but what sort of stuff are you doing? Like how did that creative process look like? Yeah. It was definitely wild for sure. I mean, by the time I started helping with a lot of the merchandise and the clothing, there was definitely a visual aesthetic that was already established. And that was primarily Tyler's ideas and the group's ideas. When I hopped on board, there was definitely a lane to work within. There was definitely visuals that I could reference, things that I knew they liked, things that I knew they didn't like to stay away from. And so a lot of the times, what would happen is I'd be in the office with there was me. There was another designer named Erin Martinez shout out to Aaron. There's another designer named Phil who handled mostly the golf Lang stuff, which was separate from the odd future stuff at the time. And so they were kind of the two creative directors for me at least, and they would kind of pinpoint where I should take things and what directions I should go in. But a lot of the time, the guys the group of artists and the music makers and the whole click would just show up at the office and we would have these meetings where they would just pitch ideas to us of I remember Jasper one time saying, yo, I want a dolphin on the Empire State Building, smoking a blunt. And I just graduated with a design degree..
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"chris it" Discussed on Revision Path
"Had, we had Gabe galt who I mentioned before on the show and he's mentioned that his work has been in a television show. We had Donald koro who's an artist in Austin. Her work has been on a BET show, I'm wondering because we hear so much about this kind of like black creative renaissance, and you hear about it through these visual artists. Does that exposure help you in any sort of way? Like, I don't know, like, as your work been out there in that way where you feel like you've got an exposure because it's been amplified through, say, a musical artist or something like that. Not necessarily. I guess this is a little hard to explain. And this is the whole point of the studio, which is funny is that because I think the hummingbird is such a kind of secretive animal and it's very hidden because it's so small and it moves really fast. I've settled into the idea that my work doesn't necessarily exist in a public space as much as it could. And I'm okay with that. I think when the time comes, some more visibility might help. But in the meantime, I still get to work with the people I love working with and whether I'm publicly associated with them or not is not really what I'm focusing on. It's just how do we make the best possible thing for this person or if it's for me, how do I make the best possible thing for myself? And share it. I mean, that doesn't mean that I haven't had moments where my work was kind of recognized, and especially recognized for the culture. There was an article in The New York Times Magazine. I think this was last year. I'm not too sure. But by Isabel wilkerson, and she just wrote a book called cast that explores the idea of racism but not through a racist ideology it's through a caste system which is a whole other way of looking at it and I did these two collage pieces for the article in the times. And it was heavily centered around black imagery and police brutality and that was the first time that I actually incorporated imagery into my work. And it was a very enlightening moment because I did the collages by hand. I was cutting out images of MLK hanging out with like Muhammad Gandhi. I was cutting out images of African American men on the floor with police pointing guns at their heads. And it was the first time that I started to have my work speak in a way that was relevant to what was actually happening. And that was really eye opening for me. And that kind of led me down a whole new trajectory with my art, but in those instances, I really enjoy when I can kind of speak to what's happening in the now and speak to the culture. I've just always been really curious about that because I want to make sure you know I mean I'm saying this like I'm the singular person that can make this happen, but I want to see that black artist visual artist graphic artist that work, particularly with their work be a feature that entertainment gets, you know, like just as much shine as like the show that the artist featured on or the actor that might be in front of the art in the piece. I don't know. Something like that..
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"chris it" Discussed on The Insider
"Hello welcome to this week's episode of the insider brought to you as ever by vanishing inc my guest today. We've just been discussing. This could be closed as underground legend. But if you say underground then you're not really underground ladies and gentlemen chris power chris. How are you this morning. I'm fine. Thank you damian just Starting slow start today for me..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"chris it" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"I got hooked on prove it. That's my saw. There's lot in there. That says how to live makes a statement. The nice thing about it is seated in step gators. We got to see that version of it which never been done live except for a few times a few years ago base. That song very special needs but darkness. Though fit the time. When i was growing up with what was happening. I was leaving my hometown. Iowa in iowa to go. I was sitting. My folks got it was like branching out on my own and a lot of that music related to on through. Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of settling bruce. Your podcast all. About bruce springsteen has music is mostly as fans. I am your host jesse jackson and joining me. Tonight is a new friend. He reached out to chris near kneeling. emailed me and said. Hey i want to be on the podcast. I've got some stories to tell so. That's all it takes to be on the show. Chris welcome you. I am great So tussle about yourself I live in ocala florida bellevue. Florida did here for forty years. I grew up in iowa I started with. Bruce and seventy eight been hooked ever since well that that sounds. That's i like that. I like a lot no see normally I grew up in. Jersey is where i get a lot of people that you know so i love that. It's iowa well before we get to the regular show. Chris i gotta ask you. How have you been doing during the pandemic everything. Okay yeah i run a carpet cleaning business myself and my daughter and it didn't bother submit. Oh that's good up within slow down. We just cut right under well. Everyone's at home so they they're looking at the dirty carpet going. Need this clean. Yeah i'm in florida so we're not locked down in raleigh other stuff. That other states are okay. Very good will cool well Tell me growing up. You said you grew up in iowa. what kind of with your family were. Where's your family until a lot of music where your parents did your parents love. music My dad not really. It was more like neil diamond. My mom was moody.