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Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB127_AMERICAN HODL: Wisdom For Surviving The Bear
"All of your well -laid plans are going to be put to rest by the Bitcoin market. You know, I was very confident we were going to over 100k, I think a lot of people were. Then we didn't. And then I was equally confident, I was like, well, if the top wasn't as high, then maybe the bottom won't be as low. And then I was like, probably 30k, the bottom would be like 30k. And then it was, it was faster to 16. And that really shook a lot of people out, man. I mean, it was brutal. I knew people personally who were getting faken. Most people were just totally inconsolable. They're addicted to their fear. Fear like gets real close to you and it talks in your ear and it convinces you that it's correct. You've got to just push past that and you just you can't give in to fear. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where Average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Ladies and gentlemen, this is it. This is what you have been patiently waiting for. The inevitable, our run in with the legendary American Hodl. We hate to tug him off so obviously, but he was built to hang out on our show. Hodl would be equally comfortable for an 8 a .m. coffee hour at the firehouse as he would be philosophizing with the likes of Breedlove. We hope we evoked both of those extremes. Hodl has been in this game for a long time. He is a proper Bitcoin OG. This gives him the rare perspective of having been in the midst of his third bear market. Even when you have three under your belt, they are not easy. We talk about everything from raising kids to overcoming your fear of being penniless and destitute because you put all your money in Bitcoin. Fear and greed run markets, and if you aren't careful, they can run your life. Understand your psychology. As Socrates said, to know thyself is the beginning of wisdom. 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This is only like a few weeks ago, right? It's it's good, man. I love having kids. Kids are the best. I I think parents like to complain about having kids, but like I do with the you know, it's like there's this George Peterson quote, which is like if you weren't going to have kids, like what the fuck would you be doing? That's so special. Like most of us are. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like I'm going to be inventing, you know, a new a new like equation for quantum field theory or something like I'm not doing any of that. So like, yeah, string theory is just a bit above our heads as well, you know? Right, exactly. So hanging out with the kids and, you know, playing Uno or goofing around is like, that's where I'm at. That's my song, right? The other thing you are, but I think of my kids just went back to school. So now I have like full days with nothing to do, but what I want to do. And you start to realize, like, what do people without kids in their thirties and forties do? There's just, oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah. You basically just get drunk in different locations. You're like, yeah, I went to Dublin and I got drunk and then I went to Istanbul and I got drunk and then I went to Rio de Ignar and I got drunk and you're like, okay, that's I didn't get drunk here. I got beer here, you know? Uh, yeah, people, people end up and I don't want to shit in the mouth of, of non parents here right off the bat, but fuck it. Let's do it. Everybody should have kids. It's well worth it. And I think at least based on my circle, most people I see that don't end up having children really, really wish they did. They get into their late thirties, forties and fifties and they realize, oh, I see what this whole thing's about. Um, highly recommend it. Get out there. Fuck everybody. Start fucking, start reproducing. Let's expand the species. Let's get more Bitcoiners. Yeah. Listen, if you don't have a, if you don't have kids, I consider you weak hands, you know, cause there's no one to get a huddle after your debt. So what you only got like max, you know, 40, 50 years of huddling there. All right. Like we need to extend that out. Seven generation thinking like my boy, Marty bent says, you know, I listened to you with, uh, the, your most recent chat with Peter and Peter was spending some time saying like, I love smart huddle. I like the glasses. I like the refined civilized huddle and Josh were like, Josh and I were like, fuck that shit. We want total huddle. If you don't deliver that today, you fucked up. Cause we need you fully unleashed my friend. All right. I mean, I'll do my best. Let's see what I got. Firehouse humor. Yeah. Oh yeah. I think you'd fit right into the firehouse based on some of the stuff I've heard you, uh, spew over the, over the years, I think you'd fit right in, especially coffee hour, eight o 'clock in the morning, just a bunch of degenerates. I don't know if you guys have seen the new Shane Gillis stand up on Netflix, but that's like my barometer for humor. Just like extremely immature playground humor, the way we used to talk to each other, you know, third grade. Yeah, exactly. Those are sort of litmus tests for like how far you can go culturally. You're like, Oh, we weren't allowed to say that 10 years ago. He just went that far in that, in that Netflix special. I guess that's the, that's the tip of the spear for how far we can go. Chappelle broke some boundary. A lot of people have broken boundaries on Netflix in the last, comedy in general has been regressive over the last 10 or 15 years. Like every, so many things have been taboo to say, especially for comedians, which really ruins comedians and only like Dave Chappelle can get away with it and a few others, but comedy has really been shit on in the last 10 years. I think the left went too far and they canceled basically too many people and you can't cancel everybody because then now you just have like half the country that's canceled. Right. And so, you know, all the canceled people, it's not like you killed them. Like they're still alive and they're just like, you know what? I don't give a shit about being canceled. And that's like where everybody's at nowadays. And so I am starting to see, like, I think the, you know, canceled culture has peaked and now we're on the other side of canceled culture. And there's a bunch, bunch of people who basically realize like, if you don't cancel yourself, nobody can really cancel you. You just, you just choose not to give a shit about it. I think it was actually Trump that taught everybody that maneuver. Right. Which is like, you know, whatever, I don't care, whatever you say about me, I don't give a fuck, you know, whatever. Uh, and you know, he's just going to, he's just going to keep going out there and calling you stormy horse face Daniels or whatever. He doesn't keep a shit. And you can be like, you know, you were the worst president ever. He'd be like, that's false. That was the best, best president. So you just don't let any of it get in there. You just go, no, he broke a ton of clown barriers. Trump did. He was masterful with the way he could do that. And if that guy had one characteristic that I admire, it's his ability to spin move out of any accusation by calling the other person, an ingenious nickname that stuck, like just nailed it every single time nickname ever. I think it was low energy Jeb. Who comes up with low energy Jeb. And then you would look at him and you'd be like, man, he is really low energy. Yeah, these things work a cup of coffee, you know, shortcut narratives are really effective. Speaking of presidents, you guys see Biden the other day and it was a yesterday in Vietnam. He literally got hooked off the stage because he started mumbling nonsense about something that was far off of what they were talking about. They turned his mic off while he was talking and he kept talking. And then they had an announcer get on and basically say, oh, you're done here, Mr. President, get, they got the hook out and they pulled him off stage. It was like, watch, watch this clip. Yeah, it was, it was insane. Shepherd came out. It was full blown, like, all right, get this fucking guy out of here before he makes us look even dumber. Unbelievable. You know, in a nation of 360 some odd million Americans, I think many of us are very intelligent. Uh, the last two presidents have been kind of, you know, not up to snuff, right? Like where are our good people, you know, like, yeah, we're not sending our best anymore, unfortunately. It is comical, but it's also downright embarrassing because, and I've heard enough out of you to know that you'll agree with this, I'm still very proud to be an American, I think there's a lot of wonderful things that this, this country stands for and imbues and, and it's done and it's, it's a downhill slope right now on both sides. And I just laugh at, I mean, obviously like most Bitcoiners and Josh and I are aligned on this, I just, both sides are in full blown, full frontal clown mode and, and anybody that's latching onto either candidate at this point, I almost lose respect for it. It's like, how can you take either of these guys seriously? But we need to dig out of that. Like that, that needs to be fixed to your point. That's not something that that's healthy for the average American citizen to just be resigned to the fact that the leader of the entire nation is a complete idiot, we need to dig out of that and hopefully reverse that trend. Well, you know, in general, I lean conservative usually, but I actually have been, uh, you know, found myself very intrigued by Robert F Kennedy Jr. And it's not just because he's a Bitcoiner, but I think he really has the discourse into the Overton window, right? Like by basically being like, why am I not, I'm a Democrat my whole life. My father was, you know, a president, a Senator, a presidential candidate. My uncle was killed. He was one of the most popular democratic presidents of all time. Why am I not allowed to say this? Why am I not allowed to have opinions or questions? And yet in America, I feel like anytime we lose our foundational principle, which is, you know, free speech, anytime we're losing that we're losing our soul as a almost anything you want without significant repercussions, that's, that's just how things are. Like, obviously if you say something that's very racist or hateful or homicidal or genocidal or something, then people are going to be, they're gonna have a lot of feelings about it, but there's very little speech. That's actually illegal speech, right? And we should be able to, yeah, just get together in a room and discuss things as Americans. That's a very rare thing. Like that's, that's not something that you find in almost any other culture on earth. You know, I was talking to Peter McCormick McCormick about this, but like the British sarcastic, dry humor that they're all known for that is because they don't have free speech. So they have to be sarcastic. That's never occurred to me before that either. Right. They have a shield to hide behind and they can be like, Oh, come on, mate. I was just taking the piss. Whereas we as Americans can just say what the fuck we actually think, which is a more effective system. They, they have to, I mean, I'm glad it happened because I love British humor. Yeah. They have to show a side boob. They can't go full frontal. You know what I mean? Exactly. Gentlemen. I'm sure you guys will both agree with this point as well. So we've got these clown puppet leaders that we're, we're just accosted with every four years and have to deal with the shit sandwich or the giant douche. And we've got to pick between the two of them. But then there's also like every time there's like, I mean, I'd say most times there's a new law, some new bullshit with COVID that happened in the last couple of years, I'm stunned by the stupidity and heavy handedness, which a lot of this stuff comes down. And it's like, it's like, I'm disappointed by how bad these takes can be and how bad these real changes are and how overbearing a lot of this has been, especially in the last few years. But it seems like every time a new law is, is instantiated, it's just feels wrong on its face. And I feel like people are so numbed to it at this point that they just say, they just expect it to be the wrong thing instead of what we would prefer to have. Or I think people from our circles would prefer to have at least. What are your thoughts on that? About how there's just like this numbness about how these people operate. Well, there's, you know, we're recording this on nine 11 and one of the reasons I wanted to record with you guys, cause you're both firefighters and I think not, you know, we're all around the same age. Nine 11 was the seminal moment of our young lives. And obviously like certainly had an effect on both of you, I'm sure. And I'd love to hear your stories about that. Um, but you know, to me, I'm, I'm, I have a good, I have a great memory. That's it's a gift and a curse. And one of the things that, uh, I remember is the world pre nine 11. I remember what it was like, and we're now living in an entirely different world. That's not better. It's a worst world. You know, we have an, a heightened security state, a heightened surveillance state. I mean, you used to be able to just, you know, what is TSA really accomplished? Like, did they prevent any new, uh, atrocities? I don't think they did because one guy tried to bomb a shoe bomber shoes, and now we are going to take off my, I got to take off my fucking band, slip -ons every time, you know what I mean? And your belt crying shame. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking shoe bomber. I mean, it is, it is like, we appreciate you bringing that up. It is, uh, in the fire service, it's, it's the day of the year. Um, and it, it's been said for a couple of decades now, never forget. But I feel like the fire service, Josh has done a pretty good job of not forgetting. Like you still see it on a lot of fire trucks. Every single firehouse around the country is honoring it today. There's a moment of silence that comes over dispatch. There's events that happen every year and yeah, I don't know. This is just a complete sidebar on nine 11, but it was fucking insane. Fucking insane. I was in sixth grade. I remember where I was as everyone does. Um, and wasn't fully able to appreciate the magnitude, but as the years have gone watching back in the documentaries and thinking through just like from our vantage point, um, I, Josh, we've talked about this before with our career. Like there is a degree of submission to risk. It doesn't happen very often. We don't want to overplay the hero card here. And the vast majority of our job where paramedics, we rotate ambulance to fire truck, but when this shit happens, it's real. And you've kind of sworn an oath to not have a choice, but to go into that, if that happens in your career, that second story bedroom to risk your life for a kid or whatever, all those men and women that went into that building, obviously hindsight's 2020, but if we worked in New York at that time and, and had the badge on, we would have had, we would have done the exact same thing. So, um, yeah, the heroism that existed by I agree, like to, to get, to get back off the nine 11 is just like, what, how has the world improved in any way, shape or form since then? And it has not in many ways, it's devolved in the opposite direction and we need new currents that flow the opposite way that, that get us back to a lot of American ideals, which is part of what we've latched onto the most about what you've said. And spoken into this community. Totally. We see, uh, so the Patriot act was instantiated right afterwards, which took away a whole, it added surveillance, took away a whole bunch of fundamental rights. And it was supposed to be sunsetted. I don't remember if it was five or 10 years after nine 11, but they extended it and they've continued to extend it since then. It's again, back to what we were just talking about. Like these, it's almost like a peg in, they get a foothold in and the politicians never relinquish any power whatsoever. It's always another step up. Another squeezing of, of the populace. They peg a shit coin into, into American ideals, kind of like potentially pegging shit coins into Bitcoin with drive chains. I don't know. Maybe we ended up today. Smooth transition there. I can't think of a worse way to honor all of the brave guys, you know, who ran into the towers when they were on fire. Then what we've done in the aftermath of nine 11, you know, I just can't think of a worse world. I saw it. I saw an Instagram post that actually made me pretty emotional. It was a, you know, young, pretty girl. She's probably in her like late twenties now. And she went to visit the Memorial cause her father was FDNY and he ran into the building. He ran into tower two and he collapsed on him and she grew up her whole life without her father. Right. And he made the ultimate sacrifice. And that's something that you guys have to, you know, that's an interesting conversation actually like around risk.
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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Why Tucker Carlson is a Bitcoiner | EP 825
"Yeah, welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin and religion of carbon making news called Traumatic Warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state before anyone makes fun of me in the chat. My mother -in -law got me these like blue light blocker glasses and I put them on last night and I felt like immediate relief and there's like different shades for it. So like these are like nighttime when the TV is there and then these are like right before you're gonna go to sleep but apparently these are for daytime. Anyways, they're badass, your eyes literally feel like they're relaxing and Opti of course is already trolling me and as well, I'm sure the chat is as well. So that's why I'm wearing these, maybe I'll continue wearing, they feel good, I'm on my computer all day, you know what, I don't care at this point. Anyways guys, today's gonna be a great, great show, orange tinted glasses, I didn't think about that. Today's gonna be a great show, we're gonna talk about the man, the myth, the legend, Tucker Carlson himself. His show last night that he released on Twitter, which I highly, highly recommend, actually has last time I checked, 320 million views, it beat the interview that he did with Donald Trump by like 100 million views. And once again, you have a politician, right, so Justin Trudeau is basically gaslighting saying like, you know, we have to put price controls on the grocery stores for raising the prices and all that stuff. But you have a politician who is literally identifying the problem, he's literally saying the government is the problem, the money printing is the problem, the government is the sole cause of these things. You have an Austrian economist who has a really good opportunity, really good shot at winning the presidency. And why I believe this video was so popular was the same reason as to why I believe that video Richmond, North of Richmond, went viral the way it did. People are feeling the pain, people are questioning the current system, and people are desperately seeking an alternative, which is why I believe this this hardcore libertarian Austrian economist has a really good shot at winning the presidency in Argentina, and the country is currently dealing with 100 % inflation, like, like, obviously, people are questioning it. And when you have a politician who's actually identifying the real cause of inflation, like people put two and two together, right? Javier Meli wouldn't be popular if he didn't strike a nerve. Richmond North of Richmond wouldn't have gone viral, right? Without any of the marketing and any of the push by the big studios, it was just basically a very small studio, it's a guy in his backyard with his dog, literally singing into a microphone. That would not have gone viral if it did not resonate with people, if people weren't feeling the pain that he was feeling, right? So this is, we are living through, in my opinion, the separation of money and state. All these roads, like even if Oliver Anthony, and even if, you know, Javier Meli, you know, and we know he likes Bitcoin, but you know, he wants to dollarize the country, all roads eventually lead to Bitcoin. Some people take the longer road, some people take the shorter road, but eventually it all leads to the inevitable conclusion that we have to separate money from state, because as long as the state has the privilege of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for, they will abuse that privilege to benefit themselves and benefit their friends at the expense of everyone else. And this is exactly what Bitcoin fixes. So this is really, really exciting times. Tucker, I don't think he would be at this point if it wasn't with the conversations that he had with Naeem Bukhale. Tucker would not be at this point if it wasn't, if he didn't have the conversations with Michael Saylor. Tucker would not be at this point if he didn't have the conversations with Max Keiser. And even though he was the most popular broadcaster on the legacy corporate media, his words were so dangerous that they had to fire the guy. And that makes sense. Look at all the other articles that are that's coming out of the legacy corporate media attacking Naeem Bukhale, attacking Javier Milli. Because I think they're exposing the fraud that is fiat money and the fraud that is the current established system anyways, it's going to be a great show before we get to it. I want to bring up my legendary co -hosts. We're both wearing glasses now, Opti. Opti was making, I was telling you hard, it's so much fun of me in the beginning, but I'm going to buy you a pair. You're going to be you're never going to take off anymore because I need the colorblind one. Your eyes are literally going to relax, bro. Like your eyes are literally like look at my eyes are like relaxing right now. They're like they're like, oh, like I don't even know what that means that your eyes feel relief. Like you don't even know what that means, bro. I have no idea. I've never looked as cool as you do right now with those glasses on. So I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. But anything anyways to the opening monologue, which was great, very, very eloquent. And you had that politician rhetoric going right there. I really liked it. I really enjoyed it. One of the things that's pretty crazy is the fact that Tucker got so many views on this. What what I don't know what it is now, but last time I checked, it was like three twenty two, three hundred twenty two million. Like that's damn near the whole U .S. population. And we all know that Fox wasn't getting to every single person in the U .S. Obviously, it's global. But that reach that Tucker has on Twitter or X is just it's absolutely crazy. And this goes back to what we keep saying all the time of breaking the echo chamber and planting these ideas. And of course, Tucker doesn't have to go full Bitcoin maxi like we do on our show. But the fact he's having these conversations, I think does feel like a shift in the zeitgeist and people are waking up. And we've been kind of covering pinpoints and receipts about this constantly, whether it's the song, whether it's a post that I did yesterday in the culture, whether it's the tick tock videos, like people are feeling the pain and they're asking the questions. And so, you know, the soil is right for people to understand Bitcoin and for everyone to get on the Bitcoin standard. So it's just, wow, three hundred and thirty five million views now. OK, the Overton window is crazy, man, is shifting, man. People are sick and tired. People are sick and tired of the gaslighting. You had Opti's ex -girlfriend literally telling people that the cause of inflation is because workers are asking for more salary. Like it's absurd. Anyways, we do have a very special guest today. We have James from Stamp Seed and we're going to talk about the stamp seed before. Look, I got to show off my stamp seed hammer. Look at this thing. Nice. There you go. We got we got to we got to stamp seed hammers. So I'm very excited for the culture. We're going to talk about the stamp seed, why you should back up your Bitcoin wallet seed words on titanium, one of the strongest metals on planet Earth. Is that is that correct, James? That's correct. One hundred percent. Yeah, man. So we're going to we're going to we're going to. We're going to dive deep into all that. And I know a lot of you guys I know that you did you guys did a lot of the stress testing. I think it was Lop that did some of the stress testing comments. Migo, you remind me of Bono from YouTube. It's true, but I don't think Bono was wearing these. I think Bono was wearing these for stylistic reasons. I'm wearing these so that my eyes could relax from the from the evil blue light that's coming out of my screen anyways. So, yeah, you guys did a lot of stress testing on the stamp seed. That's correct, right? Yeah. We haven't had Lop stress tested yet. I think that's in the works right now. But we tested ourselves in house, various different sources of heat. One of them was a blowtorch, which is similar to Elon Musk, not a flamethrower, which is reaching temperatures triple the average house fire. This is one of the plates that we had stress tested. You can see it's been burnt to a crisp. That's why there's all that discoloration. We marred it up. So where you can see those hammer marks are hit. You can still see your letters. It might not come out too clear in the camera. Bent it, crushed it, you know, being that it's one solid piece and your letters are stamped deep into the metal when you bend it. Things aren't going to. There you go. Look at that. Look at that. Yeah. Things aren't going to fall apart. You know, there's no loose pieces, no loose tiles, you know, Scrabble pieces, I like to call them. Everything's in there. Yeah. Like this is like as if your house caught on fire that elephants stamped on the ruins afterwards. Yeah, right. This is what this looks like. Yeah. Or if you know your house, you know, you have two floors, maybe the first floor collapses during that fire. And, you know, you have some crushing issues on top of it. But chances are things like that hopefully aren't happening to most people. But if they do, you're secure. If they do, your money, your generational wealth is protected. Anyways, guys, let's jump into the numbers. I want to talk about Tucker. I want to talk about with about everything that's been happening. 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A highlight from AMAZING Ethereum Opportunity! (Watch For These Levels)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! Today is September 14th. It's 11 .34am. We got Tim and Drew on the ones and twos today. How are we all doing today? We're doing fantastic. Alright, you ready to talk some crypto? We're going to talk about, we got some glass node charts that we're going to pull up. We're going to pull up old stock to flow model for Bitcoin. We got some top analysts issuing warnings about Ethereum, also Coinbase coming after SEC, and Bitcoin died again. I don't know if you guys have heard. It has died every now and then, Bitcoin has died again. And then we're going to talk trash about Zuckerberg, maybe. It was a good run though. The life of Bitcoin was a good run. It was good. It was good. You know, Satoshi's vision, it lasted a while. Yeah, it did. We got 15 years or so, you know, it's a good run. Yeah. Alright, well, let's get right into the markets. How are we all doing today? Alright, first off, we got the markets are moving on up, moving on up till we refresh. Alright, we went from 1 .6 to 1 .3. Still looking pretty positive here. We're almost, we could round up to say we're at $1 .1 trillion for the entire crypto market cap here. 24 -hour volume coming in at $38 billion. Dominance coming in at $47 .4 and gas, just not available. Or no, it's North American gas. So what does that mean? $3 .14? I don't know. This is like $3 .60 here in like Georgia. Okay. If gas is high in Georgia, you know, it's high everywhere else. I remember like as a family outing, whenever we like went on family trips, we always got gas in Georgia because it was the cheapest place to get it. So when we're high here, it's… I went to the state line. I went to the state line, checked out the wedding venue. I'm not going to share the name, but I think we're going to go with it. Okay. Some of that good state line barbecue. What is up with state lines? They always have good fire, fireworks? Yeah. Good barbecue. They usually have good carnivals too. Good carnivals too. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Alright, let's see here. We have $1 ,632. It is at 1 .3 % as well. Keep scrolling. Then we have XRP. It is at 1%. Dogecoin only up half a percent. Solana up 2 .7%. Cardano also only up 0 .4%. Looks like it barely wants to leave that 25 cent range. Just likes being right out of quarter for some reason here. We do have a couple losers here. We have Polkadot down slightly, barely really. We have Toncoin down slightly, down 1 .1%. Really, really nothing is exciting as far as the losers and the gainers. So let's see something. Let's sort by most exciting, but you know what excites me more than anything, Tim, is when people hit the like button. It's a good one. It's a good feeling when people smash like. Yeah, I heard it boosts your happiness 8 ,000%, but there's only one way to figure it out and that's to hit the like button. And then you got to commit. You got to commit. You can't just like hit it and then wait, wait for something to happen. And then unlike it, no, you have to leave it there. I think you have to sleep on it. All right, guys, we do have some movers. We have some gaming, gaming token to the upside. I know KG Jan is quite excited. KG is celebrating because Axie Infinity Coin Axis is up 8 .8%. We have Rollbit just still ripping faces. I actually haven't sold any lately. It was depressed. I didn't really want to sell into the red candles. I might have to try to sell some Rollbit into the red candle or into the green candles. Maybe I sell this as it's overheating and then buy this, but I just feel like it's overheated. I know I saw people in the chat, Caspa. Bye, Caspa. Too late. Yeah, yeah, I'm still too late. It is up 6 % today. We have HBAR. All right, I think I need to add some HBAR. I'm making a post here. If I had 100K, how would I allocate my crypto? Shout out to JChains. JChains had a really, really good viral post where he did it. And me and him, we have somewhat similar portfolio, so I think I'm going to put HBAR. I only have 8 coins that I'm going to choose. I think HBAR should be one of them. Maybe type in a coin. I think I have Cardano and I have Chainlink. I have HBAR. I'm not going to reveal the other 5. Bitcoin and ETH's on there, so I'm not going to reveal the other 3. We have 4 Chain up 4 .4 % to Central Land. Mana is up 4 .1%. I'm still pretty bullish on Mana. Mana was a floater. Almost made it on there. Probably be number 9 or 10. I think what Apple is doing could spell out to be a very bullish scenario for Central Land. VCs love Metaverse. VCs love video games. VCs love whatever the next AI could be. When I say the next AI, I mean just the big VC money suck wives. So then they can have a nice exit strategy. I think video games is going to be one of those strong, strong narratives for VCs. I've been looking at it. I've been doing a lot of research. Coinbase Ventures, A16Z, Paradigm, L1s, and gaming seems to be some of their big, big investments lately. Now let's look at the top losers, the big, fat, juicy losers.
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 6 Evangelism
"Come to Lecture 4, now your notes for this I do not think are too valuable. You just got blanks there to fill out. Unless you've got a magnifying glass, you're not going to be able to read them. You probably can read it, all right. One of my ladies who was helping me do this came up with the idea, why don't we do it this way? We did that one and never got back to changing it. So I didn't like it, so I don't think they're any more like that, I hope not. All right, evangelism in the New Testament church, what do we find about that? And I mentioned that we had noted briefly some truths about the book of Acts and the growth of the New Testament church. And so here we're going to go into this matter of the growth in the New Testament church. The period covered by the Acts, about 30 years. Usher's Chronology mentions that it's AD 33 to AD 63. With this in mind, we see how intense was the activity of the early church. have I do a note by Dr. Stewart. The church in its first 25 years of existence accomplished more than at any other time in the history of Christianity. The startling fact is this, that if the apostolic church had continued as she began, she would have evangelized the world in the first few centuries. The church began on fire for God. Now the church had a very small beginning, the challenging test for the New Testament church. There are various tests that we have, the church had a small beginning. 120 members starting out, met in the upper room. From a human standpoint, that little group was doomed to failure. They could have said, will anyone believe our message? We are presenting Jesus of Nazareth, a man who died an ignominious death on a criminal's cross. Will anybody listen to us? We are preaching that just Jesus arose literally from the dead. We believe He's the Son of God. Will they hear that? They could have done that. They didn't do it, but they could have. Not only did they have a small beginning, the church lived in a hostile atmosphere. Everywhere they turned, a dreadful atmosphere. Acts chapter 4, in Acts 4 you find the priests and the captains of the temple and the Sadducees were grieved that they taught the people in the name and preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead. Acts chapter 4, what is it, verse 2 I guess. They put them in jail, questioned them the next day. They heard Peter's clear message that Jesus Christ is the stone which the builders rejected. He's the only savior, verse 12, for there is none of the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. A hostile atmosphere. Everything about it was opposed to them. The priests commanded them not to preach their message any longer. The message of Christ and they threatened them if they did. Thank God they said, well, regardless of what you say, we're going to go right on. We're going to preach the Word of God and take our stand for Christ. It's interesting how the church grows when persecution comes. It may be that the best thing that can happen to the church in America is persecution.
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A highlight from S13 E07: Sardor's Journey and Jafton.com Excellence
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars because reasons as always, sadly. As for our guest, he's from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, currently in Miami, Florida. He's a serial tech entrepreneur and a public speaker, currently holding a position as a CRO and managing partner at Jaffton .com. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Sodor Akhmedov. Hey Peter, thanks for having me on. Anytime. So, how's life? It's great, yeah. Super, super good. Very grateful to be where I'm at right now with everything both professional and personal life, so can't be happier. Alright, fabulous. And have you been up too much recently? Up too much? Yeah, I mean, meaning like what I'm up to these days? Yes, what are you doing right now? What am I doing right now? Yeah, a lot of things. So mainly work -wise, busy with currently scaling our sales, hiring more people for our agency and making sure that every lead that we get is being serviced properly. That's my main thing right now outside of that, running a weekly AI event, networking, helping others find a community, building a community, all the AI enthusiasts and professionals here in South Florida. And yeah, that's mainly what I'm doing right now. Alright, fabulous. And what was life like growing up? What was life like growing up? So I grew up in Uzbekistan. I came here to the US when I was 16, nine years ago, and I've been a student here in a couple of years and then I dropped out. I went into work here, but I grew up in Uzbekistan and it was a good life. I mean, I've been fortunate to have great parents that gave me good education, gave me a set up for life type of thing. And yeah, it was a good childhood. Well, that's nice. And in terms of your journey, what inspired you to take the path that you're currently on right now? So yeah, to me, I'm in business, I'm in technology, both of these things. I think, first of all, the entrepreneurship, the business route, to me, that was more inspired by my father who is also in business. He's a businessman himself and I think his journey inspired me to do the same because I always wanted to be like my dad. I really wanted his attention and I looked up at him and I think I chose entrepreneurship as my path because for as long as I remember myself, I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur. And as far as technology, I think it was more of a thing that when I was growing up, it was the time of the rise of personal computers and internet in our country. So it was a very limited throughout access the country to internet and technology. So I really liked spending time on a computer playing video games, but I had a very limited access because my parents never got me a computer thinking it's not good for your health. So I think that kind of kicked me and pushed me to be passionate about technology. So those are the two, I think, reasons that inspired me to find my passion and stick to it unconsciously at that time. And now I think it's actually been a gift to me. Fantastic. And have you ever thought about going back to Uzbekistan and do business there at some point? In a way, yes. I mean, not necessarily doing business there. I mean, currently my business is also involved with Uzbekistan in a way that our current employees and developers are mainly in Uzbekistan. So even though we don't sell to Uzbekistan, we source talent from there. So definitely, I would say, legally also, we have a company there registered. So yeah, I definitely have like a business there, but it's not necessarily selling to Uzbekistan, but it's more like exporting Uzbekistan's talent. Oh, okay. I can see that. So if you could live like anywhere in the world, where would it be? At the current moment, it'd probably be the same place where I'm at right now. If we're not talking any fiction, if we're talking fictional places included, then I'd probably say New York City, but with a combination of Miami weather. Alright then. If you were to start another business, what kind of business would that be? It'd probably be, at first, also an agency, similar to the business I have right now, but maybe more specialized in a different type of development. Or it would probably be like a marketing agency. That's second option. But honestly, it's hard for me to imagine like what I would start right now, because I'm so deeply ingrained within this current business. There are certain areas that I'm passionate about that I would want to go long term in, which is like the part, consumer social like building my own social media app. But that's more longer term down the road. But yeah, if we're talking again, ideally, that'd probably be like the end goal is to build my own social media app. Oh, that's pretty cool. Where do you see yourself 20 years from now? 20 years from now, I actually do see myself, yep, have successfully built a social media application that is globally renowned and big, bigger than Facebook and Instagram and all these. That's where I see myself career wise, family wise, I see, you know, having kids and having a pretty big family, and being able to spend as much time as I want with my family, probably be on a personal level, goal wise, and being able to start more of social projects, in terms of live social projects, you know, bringing people together creating communities, I love doing that. So doing what I'm kind of doing now, but more on a bigger scale of like, you know, hundreds of millions, if not billions of people impacted by that. Ah, very good. If, if you could ask one question, and you want to know the unfiltered truth to it, what question would you ask? From anyone? Yes, from anyone. unfiltered truth to any question. Interesting. I probably want to know who runs the world. Hmm, I would want to know that question, too. Yeah, it's definitely an intriguing one. Yes, it sure is. What should they teach in high school, but they don't? Many things, including personal finances, how to do proper budgeting, and how to understand certain financial structures, and things like that. I wish they taught that at school, doing your taxes properly and everything. And that would probably be the biggest thing. And then I would say also maybe starting an actual business, not like working for a business, necessarily, but actually starting as an entrepreneur, starting your own business, and understanding capitalism properly, through that. Okay, so those things, I would say, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. What has taken you the longest to get good or decent at? Can you repeat that question? What has taken you the longest to get good or decent at? Hmm, the longest to get good and decent at? Hmm, that's a good question. Probably being disciplined. You know, it was a hard take for me. When I moved to the US, it was like difficult to stay disciplined and living on my own. So that's probably been a long shot for me. Yeah, I absolutely agree. Discipline is always the key. Yep. If you could, sorry, go on. No, she said, yep, I agree with that. Okay, yeah, indeed. If you could see one movie again, for the first time, what movie would that be? If I could see one movie again, what movie that would be? It's only one that would probably be Mr. Nobody. All right, then. If you had a song every time you entered the room, what song would that be? Probably All The Way Up. Nothing Can Stop Me. I'm All The Way Up. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, sweet. What improved your life quality so much you wish you did it sooner? Very question. Give me a second to really think of this one. Probably. Yeah, moving to Miami. Actually, I wish I did that sooner. Not too soon, because living in New York also helped me. But living in Miami has been one of the top choices that I made that has been definitely a really good improvement. Yeah, it's great to live in warm climates. 100%. Yeah. Oh, yes. If someone wrote a book about you, what do you think its title would be? I'd want it to be titled with my name, which literally means leader. So I want to stand for leadership and title would be something along the lines of leadership. And how, you know, to actually be a good leader. Fabulous. What's your favorite season? Summer. Oh, yes. It all makes sense. You're in Miami. You love it there. Exactly. Why wouldn't it be summer? Yeah, that's why I moved here. Yeah, I definitely understand that. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? Doing your workout in the morning. It's something that I barely do myself, to be honest. But I think it's like, by far, usually the most amount of energy in the morning. Oh, yes. It's always good to stay fit. Yeah. Every day, any day. 100%. Yeah. If you could get an exotic pet, what kind of companion would you like to have? Exotic pet. Yeah, I'm not too much into pets, but if I were to get an exotic one, especially, it'd probably be maybe a lizard. Plenty of those here, but it'd be interesting to have one. The tab that actually, I don't know if that's called a lizard, but the tab that actually changes colors depending on the environment. Ah, okay. That'd be pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. I was always fascinated as a kid by those when I saw them on TV. All right, then. If you could get rid of one holiday, which one would you get rid of? I'd probably get rid of, in my culture, we celebrate, we call it properly now, the May 9th as like the Memorial Day. But in a lot of Russian -speaking countries and Russia itself, they call it the Victory Day, which they mean that the Second World War, victory of Soviet Union. Which I actually disagree with because it is almost like celebrating war. So I'd probably get rid of that one. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's understandable. Yeah. And I would rename it to Memorial Day everywhere because it's good to memorialize the people who have gone through the war, but not necessarily celebrate. There's no winners in the war. That's what I think. Only losers. Exactly. Yeah. What is one app that you hate so much, but you still use it anyway? Plenty. Probably the top ones would be something that has to do with the government services. That really sucks, but we have to use it. So utilities app, any government utility apps are pretty bad. They're outdated and I wish they were remade. I would probably, you know, I have to use it because I have to pay my bills, but they completely are not good. Yep, absolutely. You've got to get somewhere in life. What's your favorite quote? Oh, there's many. If I were to name one, it would probably be around systems that you don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. So that's a quote by James Clear who wrote Atomic Habits. And it's a fascinating quote because it makes you realize that, you know, you may have big goals all day, but if you don't have proper systems in place, that ain't going to happen and you're not going to achieve anything. Ah, very inspiring. Thank you. You're welcome. If life is a game, like some people say, what are some of the rules? What are some of the rules? I think all the rules are pretty much, I mean, they're all made up by us, by humans. But obviously there are some common sense things that I think everybody has to follow, such as being respectful. I think that is a rule to play long term in this life and being respectful to others. And thinking of them when doing certain actions, anything you do toward, that involves other parties, to consider their feelings, to consider their interests. I think that has to be a rule and it will always be a rule in life. But if it were truly a game, the rules, I mean, that's the beauty of life, unlike a game, right? I mean, every part of life you go to, you get to experience different rules. I think for me, for my game though, the rule number one would be actually that you can create your own rules. And you can have your own quote unquote game that you can create in this world and have your people play by those rules. Like we create companies, you know, we create cities, countries, regimes. So that would be my number one rule for this game that I learned, I think, is that you get to create your own rules. Nice. Would you rather not be able to open closed doors or not be able to close open doors? I would rather not be able to open closed doors or close opened doors. I hate open doors. I mean, when they're left open when I'm inside, at the same time, if I'm not able to open closed doors, that's also problematic. So that would probably be worse. So I would actually choose rather being able to open closed doors and not being able to close opened doors. And so that would make me very thoughtful of what I choose and what doors I open. Ah, all right, then. Brilliant. You're welcome. What is your usual from your favorite fast food place or a place where you eat normally? Yeah, I don't really prefer fast food, but if I were to name my go to place for something that I want a quick bite of. I'll name two because I live in two countries almost. So in Uzbekistan, I would do plov, which is the traditional Uzbek food. And in the US, I would probably, in Miami, I would choose kausa, which is this Cuban dish with potato. Ah, sweet. What's your favorite kind of dessert? Oh, probably ice cream. And to be more specific, rocky road ice cream. Oh, nice. That's pretty cool. You're welcome. What fictional item do you wish you owned in real life? Harry magic Potter's wand. Probably would be one or actually, no, no, I take that back. I would want to own Iron Man's flying suit. Okay, that's pretty cool. Decent. Thanks. You're welcome. What has been the longest trip you have taken? Longest trip I've taken? Probably the trips I make quite often actually. I don't think I've done anything longer than that yet. Is when I go from or to Uzbekistan from the US. I mean, it's very long flights of like total travel time of over 30 hours. Wow. That is madness. Yes. That's very long. That's like over the double the time duration it takes for me from where I am from to visit my family in Brazil. That's like... Yeah. But it's with the stops, I'm saying. You'd be stopping and you'd be flying for like 12 hours, stay in Turkey, and then after a day fly again for another six hours to Uzbekistan from there. Total flight time is 18, but I'm saying like if you stay in Turkey for like 12 hours, which I usually do... Oh, layovers. Yeah, that's why I'm counting too. So yeah, 30 hours of flight would be madness. Yes, I would not stand up for something like that. That is crazy. That's like a whole day. Yeah, you could probably make a whole round trip around the globe in that time. Yeah. If you had to bury a treasure chest, where would you hide it? On the second page of Google. I love it. That's a good answer. No one would know who goes that far in Google. So that's a good place. If you see a puddle on the ground, do you walk around it, over it, or through it? Is it a puddle? Yes, a puddle on the ground. Puddle on the ground. Is that like you're saying like a hole? Not a native speaker, sorry. That's alright. I'm talking about like, you know when it's raining and there's like, there's a bunch of wet puddles that like minute, very small ponds. Oh, I see. Yeah, those kind of puddles. Okay, okay. Puddles. Now walk over it, through it, or what's the third option? So around it, over it, or through it. I jump would over it. Okay, that's cool. Yeah. What is something popular now, but in five years, everyone will look back on it and be embarrassed they even liked it in the first place? 99 % of AI tools that are popping up, maybe. No, I'm kidding, but probably, hmm, I hope smartphones, because there's going to be better alternatives with the glasses and augmented reality. Oh yeah, of course. Technology is a good thing, but it does have its downsides and concerns. Yeah. What app can you not believe someone hasn't made yet? Oh, there's many have a ton of ideas for those, but if I were to name the latest I've been thinking of, that would be a marketplace app where you can hire offshore professionals on demand. And on a monthly basis, so I think there's a huge opportunity in offshore arbitrage that is still not being utilized. Many people that live in the first world countries like US, Canada, UK, Australia, they have very expensive labor and a lot of people are either overpaying or they're not able to afford a virtual assistant. And somewhere in Uzbekistan or Philippines, you can hire a virtual assistant for $400 a month and get a really good quality virtual assistant. So on demand, any kind of offshore work outsourcing app. Quality? That would benefit so many people in many ways in one. Yeah. We create opportunities for people that want to work online and for those who want to hire people online, but pay less than they would pay in their own country. That makes a lot of sense. If your mind was an island, what would it look like? It would probably be a very unique island of a lot of trees, dragons, water, sand, a lot of parties, a lot of science labs on that island too. And a mix of a ton of different things that you wouldn't be able to put in one island. Okay, cool. If you could travel back in time, what decade would you want to live in? I think we live in the best decade now and I'm very happy with how we ended. So if anything, I'd want to travel more further in time. But if I had to go back, you said decade, right? Not a century. I would probably want to see the time when the Scientific Revolution started, that decade of the 16th century around that time. So anywhere in the 16th century when the Scientific Revolution was at its peak. Okay, I could agree to that. Would you consider yourself to be an extrovert or an introvert? Extrovert. Sweet. Would you rather be able to breathe underwater or have the agility of a cat? I'll breathe underwater by all means. Okay, yes, I would choose that too. Yeah, so much more to explore. 70 % of the earth is water. Yeah, there's so much you can explore, especially the Mariana Trench. Yep, exactly. Yeah, sweet. What is something you can never seem to finish? Something I never seem to finish? I would probably say, up until recently maybe, setting up my new office, but I'm almost done with that, so I'm proud of that. Ah, alright then. Would you rather be transported 500 years into the future or 500 years into the past? I thought I was in the future for sure. Me too. The technologies that could have been invented by that time. Exactly, yeah. Oh, we would benefit so much from that. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on, Sodor. Talking about your journey, where you're from, Uzbekistan to Miami, you worked as a serial tech entrepreneur and a lot of other things. It's been fabulous. Thank you so much for having me on, Peter, and I really enjoyed it. It's definitely not a conventional podcast that I've been on before, so this was a very interesting experience for me. Thank you for having me on. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Jesus, John, & the Kingdom of Heaven
"Summer's pretty much over, but at some point in the summer, I bet you boys and girls were playing outside and you began to feel that familiar dryness in your throat, that parched feeling in your mouth, you know, maybe you get a little bit of white foam at the corners of your mouth. And what do you need? You need some water. You get thirsty. Have you ever been really, really thirsty in the heat, maybe while playing a soccer game or playing out on a playground, there's not a water fountain nearby, or you're just outside in your backyard or in the woods behind your house and you think, man, I really need some nice, ice cold water, three, maybe four big ice cubes in a glass, that filtered water from the fridge, which is already cold and then gets really chilled. You know what I'm talking about? You begin feeling that desire in you, you begin feeling that thirst. Well, I want you to consider you're in the middle of a desert and you've experienced a thirst that you've never experienced before, where you know that you're going to die if you don't get a glass of water. What would you do for a glass of water in that situation? Would you do whatever it takes to get relief? Yes. You would do whatever it takes to make it to the oasis or to find some kind of bottle or canteen full of something to bring relief to your thirst. Oh, what you wouldn't give for a glass of ice cold, refreshing and satisfying water in that sense. What if you had to fight for it? Do you think you'd get a bit forceful, perhaps even a bit violent, get your hands on that water to get it to relieve your throat? That's what we're talking about today. A desire, a thirst, a need, which Christ alone can address. And he's coming to a crowd of people who have this thirst, not for physical water, no, but for salvation, for revival, for the reconstitution of the kingdom of God in Israel, for the overthrow of oppressors, for great spiritual good, which they don't even realize yet that they need, but they feel something. They're feeling the urgency, urgency which to those who have ears to hear will give birth to earnestness in pursuing the kingdom of heaven. Having just proven to John's disciples, having proven himself and his own identity, I should say, to John's disciples in the first six verses of Matthew chapter 11, Christ now proceeds to elaborate on the identity of this John the Baptist, the one who sent his disciples to pose a question to Jesus at this incident in his ministry. And as he does so, he also clarifies some things about the nature of the kingdom of heaven and most profoundly, he clarifies things about his own identity as Messiah Lord, as wisdom incarnate, as the heaven -born King of Israel. And as he does so in this passage, what he presses upon his hearers is a profound truth, namely that spiritual wisdom, if you are going to be spiritually wise, spiritual wisdom demands an earnest pursuit of the prophesied Christ and his kingdom now without delay or hesitation. Again, Christ teaches his hearers that spiritual wisdom demands an earnest pursuit of the prophesied Christ and his kingdom right now without delay or hesitation. It's as if you're dying of thirst and someone tells you how to get water. Would you wait? No. You would earnestly and urgently pursue that course of action. So, we'll consider this truth under three headings as we work through the text tonight and there's a lot here and we're not going to be able to get into everything, mind you. But what I want to show you is what Christ focuses on here, namely the quality of the prophet, the kingdom of heaven, and the Christ of wisdom. The quality of the prophet in verses seven through the first half of 11, the kingdom of heaven in the second half of verse 11 through 15, and then finally the Christ of wisdom in verses 16 to 19. You've got three words, quality, kingdom, Christ. Let's get into it. Starting at verses seven through the first half of verse 11, the quality of the prophet Jesus talks a bit about his cousin, John the baptizing prophet, and he does so in two different aspects or he really tackles two different features of John. He speaks first about his character as a man in verses seven and eight, and then he talks about his calling as a prophet in verses nine through the first half of verse 11. Look at verse seven with me, as these men were going away, that is John's disciples were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Marriage as Commitment and Priority
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. When it comes to marriage, we often use words like soulmate or the one. These words can reveal an underlying belief that to have a good marriage, you just have to find the perfect person. But the biblical vision for marriage is starkly different. It's a way for two imperfect people to help each other become who God intended them to be. Listen as Tim Keller explores the meaning of marriage. The title of the sermon tonight is Marriage 3. I figured this is the summertime. At the end of the summer, you see a lot of sequels. There's Child's Play 3, there's Terminator 2, there's Rocky 85, and there's Marriage 3. I figured you'd be in the swing of it. Please turn with me to Ephesians 5. Those of you who have come to the evening service know that this is part of a series that we started 18 years ago or so on the book of Ephesians. And we're moving through the book of Ephesians at the pace of a geriatric slug pretty much. It's very, very, very slowly through the book of Ephesians. And we've come to maybe the classic text, the longest, the most famous text in the entire Bible on the subject of marriage. So let me read to you again from Ephesians 5 verses 21 to 32, and then we will take it from there. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Why submit to your husbands as to the Lord? For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now, as the church submits to Christ, so wives should submit to their husbands in all things. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it just as Christ does the church, for we are members of his body. And for this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you must also love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. This is God's Word. There's a lot of stuff to say about this passage, but here's how we've been dividing it. Let me remind you of where we've been. Let me give you a quick recap of the headings. We're looking at marriage in this passage under five headings. We're looking at the power of marriage, the definition of marriage. You know what? It's six, isn't it? The power of marriage, the definition of marriage, the priority of marriage and the purpose of marriage, the structure of marriage and the mystery of marriage. We mentioned that last week. I won't tell you what all those are, but that's what we're doing. We're moving it through it. So far, we've only looked at the first two, and tonight I want to get to the third. And the first two are the power of marriage and the definition of marriage. Quick recap. Remember what the power of marriage was? The power of marriage is in verse 21. 21 is actually a bridge. For those of you who are here in May and June, when we were looking at the verses of chapter 5, verses 18 and following, or what it meant to be filled with the Spirit, verse 21 is a direct link from the passage being filled with the Spirit to the passage on what it means to be married. What is a good marriage? There's a link. The one assumes the other. You know what the link is? The link is cause and effect. The cause of a good marriage is being Spirit -filled. So verse 21, which is the end of the passage that we looked at, verse 21 is talking about the fact that when you're filled with the Spirit, there's a Spirit -created unselfishness, a willingness to submit to other people, a willingness to serve other people, not to be defensive, to have a servant heart. And that is the basis for any kind of healthy marriage. Now, we talked about that, but let me just, let me make a couple observations to make sure those of you who weren't here know where we're going, where we've been, and those who were here have it clearly in mind. There is a spirit of servanthood. There's a servant heart, which is the foundation for any kind of decent marriage. That's why verse 21 comes before everything else. Well, some people have asked me, what do you mean? What is the servant heart? What is that? It's kind of vague. All right, let me give you at least three critical aspects without which a marriage will not run. These three things, which are really just constituent parts of a servant heart, are like the oil in a car engine. Try to run an engine without oil. Just try it. Don't put any oil in there. No lubrication. What basically happens, of course, is that the friction, the tension will destroy the engine so quickly. It'll get so hot, it'll overheat so quickly. There's got to be something in there that in a sense acts as a buffer, because obviously friction is what an engine is all about, motion and movement. Something has got to absorb that. What absorbs it? What absorbs it is the servant heart. And let me give you three constituent parts to it. The ability to hear criticism without being crushed. That's a lack of self -defensiveness, see. Secondly, the ability to give criticism without being, without crushing, without crushing. Thirdly, the ability to forgive people without residual anger. In other words, to forgive people and really let it go. That's what I mean by a servant heart. The ability to take your mind off yourself when you're giving criticism, when you're receiving criticism, when you're forgiving. Where does that come from? As we said last week, well, we can't go back into all the spirit -filledness, but what it means to be spirit -filled means that the Spirit of God is illuminating your heart and making very real to you the work of Jesus Christ. And if you remember that from June and May, when Jesus' work for you becomes very real. The example that always comes to my mind is when I talked to that 16 -year -old girl years ago in my church and she didn't have any dates. Nobody was asking her out. And she says, yeah, I'm a Christian. I know I'm going to live forever in heaven. I know Jesus loves me and cares for me. I know he died for me. I know he gave himself for me. I know he lives in me. I know that I'm his child. I know that I have his ear. I know that he comforts me and will take care of me, but what good is all that if you don't have any dates? Now, she wasn't quite that eloquent, but you see, at that moment she was saying intellectually, yeah, I know what Jesus has done for me, but right now my heart is overwhelmed with the beauty of, with the beauty of the prospect of being a desirable woman. That's what she was saying. Whereas when I think about the fact that Jesus loves me, cares for me, that doesn't thrill me. Being spirit -filled means you're in touch with reality. Reality is who cares what a drippy 16 -year -old boy thinks about you when the king of the universe says, you are mine and I will stand with you and for you for all eternity. What kind of absolutely insane person could possibly put those two things up against one another and have the pimply faced 16 -year -old win? And yet, I mean, there's nobody in this room that hasn't been through that. What does it mean to be spirit -filled? It means that your head is on straight, you're thinking, you're in touch with reality and you realize what Jesus Christ has done for me is everything. The Bible says that there's actually two, that every human being is religious. It says this in Romans 1, that there's actually a system, there's a systemic structure, there's a systemic religious structure to everybody's life. Every one of us down deep inside has a way in which we think that if we behave, things that if we get to them, then we'll be fulfilled, then we'll have nirvana, then we'll be saved. Every one of us says that I will be able to accept myself if I get this. We've talked about this before. Every human being, Romans 1 says, has got something, some form of religion, something they worship, something they say if I get that, then I'll be all right. The gospel says not your performance, not success, not relationship, not love, none of those things will ever satisfy you. You can know who you are, you can be secure when you realize that Jesus Christ has died for you and you're resting in what he's done for you. When that happens, and when you see the work of Jesus Christ for you, when you're spirit -filled, that gives you the ability to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. You see, when it says in verse 21, out of reverence for Christ, literally out of the fear of Christ, you can submit, you get this unselfishness because Christ is so real to you, you're continually in awe before the reality of him. So how can you receive criticism without being crushed in your marriage or anywhere? The way is because in your heart you're thinking this, well, Jesus is my priest, Jesus is my friend, Jesus is my king, Jesus is my brother, I can handle this. He loves me, he cares for me, he'll show me. And so you can take criticism without being destroyed. You've got a cradle of security for your moment of great vulnerability. Or how can you give criticism without crushing? Well, you think like this, you say, I was a sinner, I am a sinner, I should be cast off. So you're using the gospel on yourself. You say, I should be cast off, but Jesus, gentle, gentle Jesus has put up with me for so long and he continually shows me the truth and I continually turn my back on him, but bit by bit he's coaxed me and he's been patient with me and he's brought me along. How then could I be any harsher with this person than he has been with me? Now, somebody's out there saying, sure, sure. Yet your wife yells at you and you're sitting there thinking about Jesus Christ as your brother and your friend and your cradle of security is one of the greatest of vulnerability. Well, look, in the beginning, when you're trying to reorient your life, when you're seeking to live your life and have your relationships, living it out of the matrix of servanthood, out of the matrix of the gospel, you do have to talk to yourself like that. But I want you to realize that this is not a mindset that you can turn on this week right away. You better get started now because it takes time. I tried to refer to this in the sermon earlier, one of the earlier services. It goes like this, most of you realize, I guess, when I'm prepared, I quote from all sorts of people. When I'm prepared, I quote. Why? Because C .S. Lewis is somebody that I've read, I've read everything that he's ever written, over and over and over and over again, ever since I became a Christian. Now, some of you are like that. There's a couple of books that you just, you master an author. You know what it's like to do that. Another guy is George Whitfield, that I've just read his sermons and read his sermons and read his sermons. Now, what happens after a period of time is that you not only get to master the person's works, but you actually begin to understand how that guy's mind works. You know what he thinks, even though you've never read anything he said about the subject, you know what he would say, right? I mean, you meet a character and you say, I know what he would say about that. I know what George Whitfield would say about that in a sermon. Why? Because I've read thousands of his sermons, not thousands, but I've read his sermons thousands of times. What happens is you can get an author that really speaks to you and you just read the stuff and you read the stuff and after a while you've gone beyond just the words of the book or the sermons and you've come to penetrate to the way the guy's mind works. That's what happened in my case with a couple of these authors. And that's the reason why when I'm just speaking extemporaneously, when I'm just speaking out of my heart, he comes out. Why? He's in there. Now, that's an image. Most of you know how that works. A lot of you may have people like that in your life, authors, people that have just sunk down so deep that you know how they think, you know how to look at life through them and their ideas and thoughts are in there so deep they just come out spontaneously. Do you realize what would happen to you and what would happen to me if we started to relate to Jesus like that? If we were so saturated in his promises to us and his summonses to us and his encouragements to us and what he says about us in his word. If that had sunk down as deep as what I'm talking about to the place where not just the words but the very way his mind works and the very way he thinks about you becomes intrinsic, inherent, spontaneous, reflexive, instinctive to you. That's when you develop the servant heart. When somebody gives you criticism, of course you're not consciously thinking, Jesus is my brother, Jesus is my friend, he loves me. His opinion matters more than anything else. I don't have to be scared to receive this kind of criticism. This is not the end of my life. This isn't the end of the world. I know who I am in Christ. You don't think that consciously and yet you're thinking that because what it's doing is it's giving its cast to everything you do, everything. There's a stability I keep talking about. There's a poise there, a deep kind of cosmic spiritual poise, a sense like I don't have to be afraid of anything anymore emotionally. It's sunk down in there. It's part of you. You're thinking like he thinks. You look at yourself through his eyes. You look at the world through his eyes. It's only when you've taken the time through prayer, through Bible study, through coming to worship, through reflection, through meditation, through fellowship of other Christians and continually talking about these things together. As time goes on, it sinks and it sinks and it sinks until the gospel dwells in you richly and eventually, eventually that will become the power in all your relationships and the power for marriage. The ability to submit to one another, to really forgive, to give criticism without crushing, to take criticism without being crushed. Only possible if you believe in Jesus. But I don't just mean believe in Jesus, but that you're thinking about him and you're thinking through him and you're thinking of him continually, almost unconsciously. Otherwise, otherwise, otherwise, your heart, my heart is so hard and we are so prone to disbelieve anything Jesus says. Even though intellectually you do, you reject it at a deeper level. Then I'm afraid 16 year old pimply faced kids are continually beating Jesus out in our hearts. You understand what I mean. The power of marriage is an unselfishness which is created by the spirit. Secondly, we talked about the definition of marriage. The definition of marriage, and you know, since I spoke on that last week, I can give you a little concise thing. The essence of marriage is a covenant, a legal, legal commitment. Somebody afterwards said to me, but that still doesn't tell me, what is a legal, what makes a marriage a marriage? Is it a minister? Now, there's a difference of opinion on, between Catholics and Protestants on this and I'm absolutely, absolutely believing, believe that the Protestant approach is right. Catholic Church will say, only a priest can marry somebody. Isn't that right? Protestants will say, a priest can marry, a minister can marry, justice of the peace, marriage is marriage. It doesn't matter whether it's a captain on a ship, it doesn't matter whether it's a justice of the peace, marriage is marriage. Why? Because look in the Bible where marriage comes up. Marriage pops up. Originally it was given to Adam and Eve. It wasn't given to only Christians, it was given to human beings as human beings. And therefore, it's not a church ceremony that makes you married, though it can. It's not jumping over a broom that makes you married. It's not stamping on a glass that makes you married. It's not the rings that make you married. What is it that makes you married? What makes you married is this, a permanent and exclusive public legal commitment to share your lives together, all aspects of it. It's got to be permanent and it's got to be exclusive. Some people say, it's time to have renewable contract marriages. You get married for three years and you have an option for three more. You've heard that. Now, that might be interesting, but that's not a marriage. By the Christian definition, even a prenuptial agreement, to be honest with you, radically cuts at the root of the Christian definition of marriage. The Christian definition of marriage is a permanent and exclusive promise to share every part of your life with somebody else. It's got to be a public legal commitment, a permanent exclusive public legal commitment to share your life with somebody else, every part of your life. If you say, no, it's not permanent, it's for three years, that's not marriage. If you say, it's not every part of your life, just here and here and here, because prenuptial agreement, you don't get this or that. All those things get at the root of marriage. The Christian definition of marriage is permanent, it's exclusive, it's a legal public binding, permanent exclusive commitment to share every part of your life with somebody else. Now, how you do that, whether it's with a minister, whether it's with a captain, a justice of the peace, whether you jump over a broomstick, whether you exchange rings, it makes no difference. Therefore, even in this culture, which is deathly afraid of obligation and commitment and responsibility and discipline, it all likes to talk about self -realization and self -actualization and growth and potential, but it hates to talk about discipline and submission and obligation. Therefore, this is the place at which the Christian understanding of marriage has a head -on collision with the society. You should not give yourself to somebody unless you've got that kind of promise and unless you're willing to give them that kind of promise. See, if you're not willing to make a permanent and exclusive public legal commitment to share your entire life with somebody, then you don't really love them enough to really be married. And the Bible says you should not give yourself to that person until that person is willing to make that promise to you and you are willing to make that promise to that person. That's why I must tell you that a number of people question me about it because, see, the implications of what we said last week, the implications of this idea that marriage is a cleaving, that's in verse 32, it's that public commitment, and that essentially love is a commitment therefore. Well, somebody says, you've de -romanticized marriage in my eyes. So what does that mean? Well, what did I say last week? I said that therefore the essence of love is a commitment. Love is an action first. It's a commitment to invest yourself in another person and meet their needs. And it's a feeling second. One of the weird things about becoming a pastor is that when you become a pastor, for the first time in your life, you are bound and obligated to be friends with all sorts of people that you really wouldn't choose to be friends with. I don't know of anybody else who's obligated, you know, doctors, for example, have to treat people they wouldn't ordinarily like, but they don't have to like them. They don't have to be friends with them. I don't know of anybody else who basically suddenly gets a body of people and the job description is you have to be friends with a lot of people that you would not ordinarily choose to be friends with. Therefore, in a sense, pastors have a kind of unique experience to talk about. You would be surprised at how you don't spend time with. You don't invest yourself in them. You don't give yourself to them. You don't listen to their problems. You don't go to see them at 3 a .m. in the morning. Now, one of the things that I found interesting in my earliest days, you know, Kathy and I moved into a new situation. I got a job as a pastor. I had basically 100 to 150 people and I started to pastor them. And there's a good number of them or people that if I was just living as a private individual in that town, I would have chosen as friends. And there were a lot of people that would never have chosen as friends. Not so much I didn't like them because you don't have that much in common. You're not quite the same. You don't have the same interests. You don't have, there's no spark, you know. It doesn't matter if there's no spark. This person is a member of your church. You're the pastor in a small town. This person's got a problem, you're there. This person's in the hospital, you're there. This person's got to talk to you at 2 a .m. in the morning, you're there. This person's son runs away, you get in the car and go chase him. This man's this man wife has run out on him, you get in the car and go find her. And that's the way it is to be a pastor, especially in a small town, in a small church. You invest yourself. You give. You do the actions of love for people that you really have no particular affinity with. And then after a couple of years, a big surprise comes to Kathy. You know, our day off, which I took every couple of months, I take a day off. And on a day off she would say, what do you want to do? What do you just want to do socially? What do you just want to do for fun? And I would say, well, let's have, let's have John and Mary Doe over. And she would say, why? Why in the world would you want to have John and Mary Doe over? I mean, that's work, isn't it? The reason you see John and Mary Doe, I mean, everybody knows all the problems they have and how obnoxious they are and the difficulties they have and why when you don't have to be with John and Mary Doe, why in the world would you choose to be with John and Mary Doe? And I realized I'd come to like them. I was the only person in town that liked them. But I really did like them. Why? Is it just because, oh, obviously as a pastor, of course, you just have this natural ability to like people and love people because you're more holy, you're more godly. That's why you're a pastor. It's your job to be more spiritual. That's not true at all. It really happened. You know why? Because I'd been loving them, even when I didn't like them. And you see, you don't have to bother, whether you like somebody, that's not what a Christian worries about. What a Christian does, if you love people, eventually you come to like them. It works in reverse, too. Remember I told you the one thing I once read where it said at first the Nazis killed the Jews because they hated them, but then after a while they hated the Jews because they killed them. It works the other way around, you see. What happens is, in the beginning, you love somebody just because you have to. The more you love them, the more you love them. The more you give yourself, the more you make a decision to invest in them, the more you find your heart tied up to them. You know why? Because the Bible says where your treasure is, there will your heart be. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be. When you invest in somebody, you're putting your treasure, you're putting time, which is tremendously valuable. You're putting emotion, which is tremendously valuable. You invest and you invest in that person, and of course, you may still feel a hostility if that person absolutely tramples you and is very cruel and harsh. That's not usually what happens. Usually you find that people that aren't terribly lovely, if you love them, you will come to love them. Now, I'm using the word love in an equivocal way. The way the modern society thinks of love, you're thinking of a feeling, but that's not the way the Bible ever uses the word love. You love them and you come to like them. You invest in them and you find that they get more and more lovely to you. I'm trying to tell you this. You don't go ahead and get married to somebody who you don't like, but I can guarantee you this. Whoever you marry, you will fall out of like with. It is an absolute necessity. Not only that, you will start to fall out of like with that person in most cases before you marry them, in the courtship or in the engagement, and that's where most people say, I guess I shouldn't marry this person. I've fallen out of like with them. Well, friends, your emotions come and go, and if the essence of marriage is a covenant, a commitment, then you will find that in spite of the fact that you kind of love this person, you feel a lot for them, you might be attracted to them, you're great friends, the fact is your emotions will come and go, and at a certain point, a marriage will not work, or even a potential marriage will not work unless you make a decision to invest in that person, and when you find that your heart gets dry and you look at the person and you don't feel any particular like, you invest in them, you give to them, you love them, you are tender, you are cherishing, you listen, you serve, and what it does is it gets you through those dry times. Not only that, it begins over the years to eliminate the dry times. That's not the way most of us do it. When the dry times, when we fall out of like, when that happens, we start to say, I guess this isn't the one for me.
The Dan Bongino Show
Where Are the Arrests of the Portland Rioters Who Burned Courthouses?
"Giving up any of the cookies in the cookie jar. You may think, oh, I get out of the car with a hat, glasses, a mask and a hood on. No one's ever going to recognize me. Well, notice what you just said. Well, I got out of the car. You think a license plate camera didn't pick you up getting out of the car. Well, how would I know where I got out of the car? Because, folks, there's basically ring cameras and doorbells everywhere. One of my best friends, this is what he did for a living with the NYPD. There's not a section of New York City Manhattan in and probably Queens and Brooklyn, too. Probably not so much so in Staten Island. there's But not a section of that city where between ring doorbells, NYPD cameras and business security cameras, you're not covered, basically 100 % of the time. And even if you're not, it doesn't matter. Let's say you show up at a left -wing riot up on Capitol Hill to protest Kavanaugh. How'd you get there? Oh, I parked my car six miles away. They can backtrack and find you from the building. Capitol They can find cameras, even if there's a couple blocks missing. There's only a few blocks you could have come from into the feeder block. Is this making sense? I don't mean to talk over anyone's head. You're all smart. You probably figured it out. There is no way they won't find you. Oh, no, no, he didn't know. No, I got out of an Uber. Yeah, they'll see you get out of an Uber, and then they'll trace the Uber at a time and see who had the Uber account. Just they like traced the January 6th bomber back to the train station in Virginia. Yet it's strange, right? Anyone who was anywhere near January 6th, or even not, Enrique Terrio wasn't even in D .C. What do you mean? No, he wasn't even in D .C. They all find themselves in a prison. You don't find any of this strange. They find themselves in a prison. Yet the people who tried to burn down the courthouse in Portland, and the people who stormed Capitol Hill in protest of Kavanaugh slamming on the doors like violent lunatics, that none of them have been arrested and appeared on an FBI wanted sheet. Why
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
A highlight from Something a little monstrous with Isabel Caas
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Charlotte Bond. I'm Megan Lee. And I'm Lucy Hounsom. From the very first tales of the supernatural, vampires have held a special place in the hearts of storytellers. Over the years they've been reinvented again and again. In movie terms we've had The Elegant and the Elfin in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, while Gary Oldman gave us a seductive but sinister version of Dracula himself in Coppola's film. With regards to books we've had endearing but vicious vampire children in Let the Right One In, and Stephen King himself claims that his vampire novel Salem's Lot is one of his favourites, linking the dying of small towns with the curse of the vampire. With the exception of the Swedish Let the Right One In, most of our well -known vampires are decidedly Western. But in The Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Canas has created her own brand of very savage vampires that face off against Vaqueros. Isabel is joining us in this episode to talk about what inspired her Mexican vampires and what her novel says about being a woman in 1840s Mexico fighting not just against supernatural beings but against the expectations of society. Isabel, thank you so much for joining us. Please tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and your books. Thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this. I love, love, love this podcast. So getting the email from my publicist saying that this was in the books, I was like, yes, I'm so excited. Oh, it's lovely to have you. I am a Mexican -American speculative fiction author. I live in the Pacific Northwest. I'm a recovering academic, so we might get a little nitty and gritty when it comes to my research and talking about folklore and the kinds of things that informed Vampires of El Norte, which is, I guess you could bill it, and it has been billed as a supernatural Western set in what is now South Texas in 1846 at the beginning of the Mexican -American war. And it's about two childhood sweethearts named Nena and Nestor who are separated at the age of 13 because of a tragedy and are thrown together again nine years later on the road to war. And they have to defend their home Rancho from threats, both human and supernatural. And the supernatural, like spoiler alert, is the vampires. I have to admit, I've read lots of vampire novels, but none quite like yours. So how are vampires traditionally represented in Mexican literature? Are they like you present them in your books, which is kind of not quite human, but humanoid and sort of vicious and savage and unnatural? Is that what they are in Mexican literature or is there a branch of them in there? Do you tell us? Well, yeah, when it comes to Mexican, when it comes to literature, I would draw a line between literature and folklore. This is my academic coming out. But also there are, I guess, many kinds of vampires when we talk about literature and folklore in Mexico. I think Mexican literature in particular, in terms of genre literature, we have Silvia Moreno -Garcia's Certain Dark Things, which features a vampire in modern Mexico City. It is fantastic. But when it comes to modern literature, there's a lot of influence from the West. The Anglo American tradition of the vampire is, of course, something that occurs in pop culture. When it comes to folklore, however, when I was researching this book, I came across some interesting stuff. The original idea that was like the seed of this novel took place in a different part of Mexico, which is where the book ended up being set, which is now South Texas, which is where my family has hailed from for generations. Originally, I was looking at more central Mexico, maybe like in the environs of Mexico City. In the state of Tlaxcala, there are legends of what are called bloodsucking witches or Tlahualpuches and these entities, I guess, could fall under the heading of vampire, given their predilection for blood. They're very different from the Western European vampire that most people are familiar with from pop culture. So I was fascinated by these creatures who are, I believe exclusively women, and their affliction is something that they are born with and that manifests with puberty. There's so much to pick apart there. When I was putting the book together, I realized that they deserve their own novel. I was kind of back to square one.
Mark Levin
Supermarket Removes Name Brands From D.C. Stores Amid Rising Crime
"After it lost 20 % of its revenue. Isn't this sickening? Large companies, businesses that are institutions, Nordstrom's and Seattle and so forth, Gump in San Francisco, the giant food market that to really defend themselves against these criminals. These craven crooks, they are not allowed to use weapons or security guards, so they have to leave, or they have to lock stuff behind, glass. We want to continue to be able to serve the community, but we can't do so at the level of significant loss or risk. To our associates that we have today, said Ira Kress, President of Giants Food. Giant Giant Food operates 165 grocery store locations throughout Washington, Maryland, Virginia, implemented has changes in some of the stores including hiring additional security guards, locking up more high value items, limiting the amount of items in the self checkout area. The chain has also not had to close down any locations yet, but it looks like it's going to. I can tell you the giant that I go to, no more than 20 items in the self serve, in self checkout. Why? Because people are pocketing stuff. Despite taking additional measures to try to deter people from shoplifting, Kress noted a that Ward 8 giant located on Alabama Avenue, that's a tough neighborhood. Things are actually worse not better. Now you would think the community wants these stores, and I'll bet you rest of the the community does want these stores. But
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Ask Charlie Anything 158: The Mass Graves Hoax in Canada? DOJ v. Tesla? #BantheADL is Trending?
"The U .S. dollar has lost 85 % of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24 -carat, one -fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com. That's noblegoldinvestments .com, the only gold company I trust. Hey, everybody. Andrew Kolvedt, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, filling in one last time for Charlie Kirk. This is an Ask Me Anything with producer Blake Neff joining me. We take your questions, including the DOJ's investigation over Tesla and the secret glass house project. We talk about the trending hashtag, ban the ADL. Is it a good idea? Is it a bad idea? What's behind it? And what the heck is the ADL even doing these days? We break it all down. We bring receipts. We talk about Oliver Anthony. Is he a traitor to conservatives or is he just a Rogan bro? And then we break down the intriguing race hoax out of Canada. Mass graves? I think not. We have the details and a really tragic story for Canada, which is just, you know, what can I say about Canada? That and so much more. Buckle up. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created. Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. I'm going to welcome back Blake Neff, our resident foil contrarian, editorial producer, The Charlie Kirk Show. Blake, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. You're trapped with me for the next 60 minutes, Andrew. I know it's that's what our audience is saying in the chat right now, too, by the way, Blake. Blake is fantastic. One of the smartest guys that we have around. One of the smartest political minds, too. The way this works, you guys send questions into freedom at charliekirk .com. We take your questions, we answer them. Normally it's Charlie, but now you got Blake and Andrew. Our first question, Blake, and I know this is near and dear to your heart because we're tweeting and texting about it. Andrew, I just saw a news story in the Daily Mail about a fake mass grave at a Christian school in Canada. I vaguely recall a lot of news coverage of these mass graves two years ago. I think the Pope even traveled to Canada to apologize. What's the deal? And that is Clive from New London, Connecticut. Clive, great question. This was a story breaking this morning. Very interesting stuff. Blake, why don't you fill the audience in on the backstory and then we'll riff. Yeah, Andrew. It's a great story and maybe the audience will like me more because we get to talk about an important topic in American life, which is that Canada sucks. One of the problems with Canada is they really have this national identity that they've embraced over the last few decades. What does it mean to be Canadian? It means to be America, but more liberal. More liberal in every way. They've been really out of sorts, especially since this George Floyd thing blew up. They're like, we didn't really have slavery. We didn't have this great historic crime. They kind of have this Me Too idea that they need to have a reason that they are also Hitler, that they need to be really ashamed of their history. And what they really fixated on was they fixated on these residential schools, which is America had these two. Obviously, they have American Indians in Canada or as First Nations as they call them. And to sort of try to Westernize them, Christianize them, make them sort of more culturally European, they ran these boarding schools or residential schools as they called them and educated First Nations children there for like about a century. And these schools had issues with them as you'd expect. They're often in the middle of nowhere. They were often on sanitary. Physical and sexual abuse would occur at them as has occurred in every and society in schools all around the world. But Canada really fixated on this. And then about two years ago, there was this explosion, this bizarre story where they started these kind of amateur investigators were finding, they claimed to be finding a mysterious possible mass graves at these various residential schools throughout Canada. And this fueled this insane conspiracy theory that children had been murdered in mass at these schools and then buried in mass graves and it was all covered up. And instead of debunking this, the government leaned in on it. And there were dozens of churches in Canada in response to this were attacked with arson attacks, vandalism, some were burned to the ground completely. Like, like I have the numbers 83 that were burned or vandalized. And if you could throw out that other graphic from UnHerd, 83 churches were burned or vandalized in the aftermath of this fabricated hoax. And this this I mean, this is an interesting graphic when they put it up. It says why the Canadian left is burning down churches while progressives tweeted churches serving indigenous communities burned 83. I mean, that's a shockingly high number. It's a huge number. And it really was it's like there are yes, there are anti Christian people in the First Nations community. But a lot of this is really similar to how you'd see it in the US where you have these very radical activists, often just like white activists in big cities. And then like, what are the actual beliefs of the First Nations themselves? Well, a lot of them actually just are Christians. Because, you know, the residential school succeeded in a lot of their mission. And then they get these their churches, which, you know, they might only have one church for 10s of miles. Canada is not a very densely populated place. And these places are getting torched and attacked. And Justin Trudeau's government sort of said like, Oh, well, we oppose we oppose these attacks. But it's very understandable that people are angry. They got the Pope to show up and apologize. The the question was correct about that. But now two years later, they're following up and they're actually okay, well, you claim the remasked graves. Let's dig them up. Let's go find it. And they're either discovering one, often they're just not they're they're just normal cemeteries. And maybe like the headstones, you know, the headstones were made of wood, and they decayed. Or there's just nothing there at all is this story that there was no bodies in this alleged mass grave, they literally had a massive meltdown, which resulted in an anti Christian spasm of, you know, arson and violence that the government enabled. And it was all based on a lie. And it was a lie to fulfill this, like, BDSM type motive that the left has where they like they crave this, a basement, they crave the ability to be like to wail wildly about how evil their ancestors were. And so like, again, it was like it was like me to George Floyd is like, we want to also be evil. We want to also be really racist in our history. We want to say Canada is evil. And so they just inserted this really grave crime into their history that did not happen. Yeah, I mean, I think I think it's it's pretty tragic, because we we've seen this too. And we have a video of this, I believe. Let's let's go ahead and play some of the fallout. As a result of this, not only were they burning down churches, they were tearing down statues, a movement that we saw happen in the United States as well. Let's go ahead and play cut 199. No Pride and Genocide. So here you have a bunch of petulant little children, also known as leftist, dancing on the the the the foundation of a toppled statue saying no pride and genocide. And meanwhile, they are. Yeah, go ahead. It's a statue of Queen Victoria, which the Queen Victoria did not really personally preside. I mean, she was a constitutional monarch. She's really just a symbol of the British Empire at its apex, but she was not running the genocide. She was just the queen of Britain. And but they again, they're like, well, America, they and their entire identity is so bound up with America. They're like, well, America's toppling Confederate statues. We don't have any Confederates because we weren't in the American Civil War. So who do we get? Get rid of the queen. Well, in this, this self hatred that the left has for their own history, you know, colonialism, patriarchy, whatever. It's really this insidious virus that has crept into the the West. We call it a collective psychosis in the Western world. It's, it hates anything strong, it hates anything exceptional, it hates anything that can dominate something else. So if you have enough power to dominate, whether it be indigenous populations in this instance, or become a global hegemon, because, you know, this is why you don't see the left, you know, especially our leaders in Washington fight back with any gusto against the de -dollarization movement that's happening. It's almost like they, they want to self flagellate to the point of parity with the rest of the world, if not us getting dominated by them. And it's a, it's a very distinct characteristic of the left, I believe the Unabomber actually had some interesting quotes about this, but like, maybe we can bust those out for next segment. But what do you think, and we've only got a minute in this segment, what do you think drives this passionate response on the left? You know, if I had a full easy answer to that question, I think it'd be easier to defeat this, because it really is. It is a profound force. You know, the Unabomber thing, he points out that they do, they hate the West, but not because of any of the bad things they've done. They specifically it is because they've been so successful. And in a weird way, we're victims of our own success, which is, you know, the West kind of flagellates itself over slavery, because we had the innovation of deciding that slavery was morally wrong, and abolishing it purely on moral humanitarian grounds. That was an innovation of the West that we have exported to the rest of the world. And our reward for ourselves is to destroy ourselves over this, or in Canada's case, to go the extra mile and invent crimes that did not happen, because we are so desperate.
The Spice OH! Life (Chris & Angela)
A highlight from E45 - Story Telling Time
"Hey guys, what's going on? What's up? You are here. Yes. You are in the place to be. Yeah. You're just having the experience of the spice. Give me some more. Yeah. Give me some more. Life. Life. Very good. So how are you doing today, Angela? I'm doing well. Doing well. And yourself? Very well, I think you run away. Run away. Remember that song? I still don't know what it means. I'm sure, just me saying, oh, let me explain what it means. It's an English song from back. Yeah, so you guys can tell that we have a young woman in the house. French song. Yes. These little nursery rhymes. So we got all in our head. Yeah. And it could be something to somebody saying, you know what that really means. You might want to be careful. So it may be something to it. I don't know. I guess I'll be careful with it. But some certain verbiage, certain things, certain words, certain stories can actually be of benefit. Yes. Have analogies, be inspirational, have what you call the moral of the story is. Moral of the story is. Right? I like when there's a moral to the story. Why do you like that? Because it sinks in when there's a moral to the story. You're able to remember. You're able to relate. And it's all good for you. All good for me. You know, so it's more of a self thing. You know, I'm like, oh, yeah, I can take away something from that. You know, I could I could learn from that. That's something that I could relate to, you know, or I can, you know, I can. I can actually, you know, look at this and I can take from it and I can use this in my life. The moral of the story is. You can use it in her life. Very good. I you know what? Let's get right into it. So give me an example of something that you think, man, this is I like this. Let me let me present this to my peoples. What you got? It's storytelling time. Storytelling time. Let me do it. All right. Storytelling time with Chris and Angela. All right. So this is how to hunt. This is this story is about how to hunt a monkey. So the story is about letting go. OK, so let's get to it. I was going to say, no, I was wondering, like, if you told the story first before it was you presented, but it don't matter. All right. See what little pet peeve stuff I got. It does not mean a hill of beans, brother. Whether that happens or not. So hopefully she forgives me and be right. I can't help her. I forgive you. The moral story. Yeah. All right. So here we go. It says, do you know how hunters of old used to trap a monkey? A man asked his child, rather than chasing them up a tree or shooting arrows from below, they put a heavy glass jar with a narrow neck on the floor, which had the monkey's favorite food inside. They then step back and hide, waiting for the unsuspecting animal to approach. When it did, the monkey would reach inside, clench a fist around the food and try to pull it out. However, the narrow neck of the jar would stop the poor monkey from getting its hand out. I'd pull and pull, but to no avail. There was simply no way to get his hand out of the jar without releasing the food. Rather than letting go though, the monkey would persevere, refusing to drop his dinner. The hunters would then approach, catch it to enjoy a meal of their own. Monkey tonight. Eating a monkey. So don't be like that monkey, warned the man, in life to fight another day and grow as a person. You must know when to quit, when to move on, when to let go of whatever's holding you back. So the moral of the story is sometimes you have to let go to give up what you have now in order to receive something better in the future. Don't let stubbornness be your downfall. That can creep up on you too. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. You got that. It could be. It could look in the case of the monkey that not letting go could cost you your very life. That's true because it can be life changing if anything. Yeah, it could be life changing. But in some instances, when you think about it, when you're holding on to something that could affect your stress, that could that could affect. Let's say your emotions could get to you and other things could happen that could cause your life. So time and time again, you see stories in news with people like you can know they didn't let go of certain situations and it caused the life of themselves or somebody else. But let's let's that's that's very out there. So let's let's get it on to a normal level for normal people. So let's say that you are going to say I can do that. Yeah. Let's let's say that there is something holding you back. That could be it could be a way that you feel about yourself. Let's take it to a self thing. Let's say that you're not happy with how you look or you're not happy with how things are going.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from George Gilder (Encore)
"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. Very special program today. I have the joy of having Eric Metaxas here. In the studio, I don't know really where to begin on this one. Let me just say that I have the joy of having in the studio George Gilder. Now, some of you will be familiar with George Gilder, but the problem with a figure like George Gilder is you could be familiar with him in any kind of way. He's written a host of important books. We're gonna be talking about the newest one. It's called Life After Capitalism, another very important book, but he's written many books. He is also the founder or a founding fellow of the Discovery Institute. You've heard me talk many times about the Discovery Institute. Co -founder. Hey, you're right here. When did you sneak in, George? George, seriously, it is so good to have you. Welcome to the program. The one thing that I was gonna say at some point, I might as well get it out of the way now, is that, well, two things. For many years, just because I've known you here and there, I thought you're the ideal Socrates in the City guest. And to this day, I still haven't had you as my guest at Socrates in the City, but we've had many Discovery Institute folks as my guest at Socrates in the City. I know you've attended some of them. So I wanted to say that. I also wanted to say, and this, I can never say this with any guest but you. If we look up in the studio here, this is our studio in New York City. There is a Tiffany, a Louis Comfort Tiffany ceiling, a glass skylight above us, a beautiful skylight. And I rarely draw attention to it, but I just learned, if you weren't fascinating enough already, I just learned that your great -grandfather was Louis Comfort Tiffany. Absolutely, yeah. Now, a lot of people could claim that. Do you have some identification, some way of proving this? Well, my sister's name is Comfort Gilder, Comfort Tiffany Gilder. But I mean, honestly, it's fascinating enough to me that I get to be in a studio with a Louis Comfort Tiffany skylight above me, which most people don't ever get to see. But then to find out that, so you have not just a storied life and career, but a storied ancestry. Do you mind, before we get into your very important book and your career, talking about that? When did your family come to the United States and how did your great -grandfather get to be the maker of Tiffany's? Well, this building, my wife Nene just told me, was the Century building.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 125 - Cultivating History: Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden - Dean Norton
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Dean Norton fell in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left. After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University, he began his career as the estate's boxwood gardener. The historical gardens of the first president of the United States, George Washington, became his responsibility in 1980. His promotion to horticulturalists allowed him to apply the latest plant science and horticultural management techniques for historical gardens. Dean has devoted considerable time to researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America, as well as the Garden Club of America's Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College, serves on several historic property boards, and lectures nationally and internationally. This is Episode 125, Cultivating History, Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden, with Dean Norton, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 64. Dean, why did General George Washington, the first president of the United States, garden? Well, he really gardened for necessity. The earliest gardens were called gardens of necessity for health and survival. Of course, the most important plant to be planted within a garden were vegetables, something that you were going to have at the dinner table to eat. Vegetables were huge to him. Even during the Revolutionary War, he wanted to make sure that his troops were getting as many vegetables as they could whenever possible. I would not actually call him a gardener per se, but for a year and a half, he became a designer. He totally redid his country seat from a very simplistic design to one following naturalistic design principles. Then that landscape were four very fine gardens that he oversaw. What story does the Mount Vernon Garden tell? Tell us the story of a man that wanted his gardening world to be complete, I would say. He had a very small botanic garden, which he fondly called his little garden. When he was here on site, he was typically doing that work himself on his knees, planting seed and seedling saplings. He kept such good records in that little tiny garden that we were able to recreate that quite nicely. His earliest gardens were a fruit and nut garden and a kitchen garden, but when he changed his design, the kitchen garden remained as it is. The fruit and nut garden became a pleasure garden with vegetables in there as well, which is kind of an interesting combination. He had a vineyard for a while, but the grapes failed, and that became a fruit garden and nursery. The nursery was for plants that he could grow to plant on other areas of the estate and also to grow things just for collection of seed. What is today's mission for the garden? Today's mission for the garden is interpretation. We are trying to share with our visitors what life was like in the 18th century, why these gardens were important. Certainly after 1785, the gardens took on a new role, which was for people to come when he had created here at Mount Vernon. The story of gardeners themselves, the gardeners that Washington hired through the Articles of Indenture, also the enslaved gardeners that worked with the professional gardener to cultivate till to harvest. It's a great story. It's one that we thoroughly enjoy telling. Gardening really hasn't changed much from the 18th century, so the more we're out there digging in the earth, we think of those gardeners from the past. Today's visitors, how do they respond? I'll tell you what, when they come through the gates and they get to the Bowling Green Gate and see the house for the first time, that's exactly what they were expecting to see, this beautiful house that Washington lived in. But then the further they go into the landscape, they're really totally blown away by the amount of landscape and gardens that Washington had. They weren't expecting that at all. I think the gardens are well received, and I think that the stories we tell throughout the estate in so many different areas are certainly appreciated by our visitors. The garden's been there for about two and a half centuries. You've told us that there's four gardens that make up the Mount Vernon Garden. Could we walk through each one of those and you tell us about them? Sure. The panic garden is a simple garden, very small. It was intended to plant things that Washington was not familiar with, although sometimes other things that he knew quite well ended up in there as well. He received 500 Chinese seed, which he planted in one of the beds. None of them came up. So actually, we could show one of the beds with nothing but bare dirt and we would be exactly correct. That was his playground, and he truly loved getting plants he wasn't familiar with and planting them in there, and he did most of the work in there himself. There was an area that he started a vineyard, hoping to get some grapes for making wine, but that failed. That four -acre area became a fruit garden and nursery. Washington kept such good records that the fruit trees are planted exactly as he describes in that particular enclosure. Part of it is a nursery as well, where he grew trees and shrubs, also some other grasses and things just for the collection of seed. The kitchen garden was the first garden laid out in 1760, and that has been cultivated as a kitchen garden since 1760. It's never changed in its purpose, which is the only garden like that on the estate. Both the kitchen garden and fruit nut garden were an acre in size, so that's a significant garden. The nut garden changed from a garden of necessity to a pleasure garden, and that was meant to be the aha moment. When people were strolling around the Bowling Green, they could look through that gate, they saw a beautiful conservatory. The idea was to walk in there and just enjoy the beauty of the flowers, and those flowers were there for their enjoyment and not for their use. I think his gardening world was quite complete. You said the conservatory, would that be the greenhouse? That's correct. It had a greenhouse that he copied from a lovely property called Mount Clare, just to the north of Baltimore. The owner was Margaret Carroll. He asked for permission for some information, and she was thrilled and gave him all that he needed, even his first plants for his collection, to get his greenhouse started. I started studying that greenhouse in pictures. When I think greenhouse, I think a glass top or a plastic top or something like that, and this was constructed quite different. Could you tell us about how it was constructed and it was heated? The greenhouses in the 18th century typically just had glass panes on the south side, this was southern exposure. Also typically they were triple home windows, so you could open top and bottom to allow for good air circulation. This was quite modern, very good. It had a vaulted ceiling, so hot air didn't get trapped up at the corners. It had a wood door on the west side of the structure to keep afternoon sun from coming in. It was too hot. A glass door on the east side to allow morning sun in. It had shutters that closed very tight, so in the wintertime when you got whatever heat you could get from the solar energy, you could close those shutters and retain the heat overnight. It was heated by a stove room on the opposite side of the structure. The fire pit was quite low, and that hot air and smoke would go underneath the slate floor in the greenhouse and then rise up along the back wall and out the chimney. It was very efficient. It housed the semi -tropical plants and citrus trees in the winter. Not for them to continue to fruit, so he had lemons and limes and all that. Just to keep them alive in the wintertime. In all these gardens, he's combining beauty with necessity. How did he accomplish that? The one garden that really does that beautifully is the upper garden, or pleasure garden. He wanted a pleasure garden. He wanted the aha moment when someone walked into there. It's a 10 -foot -wide path, edged in boxwood with this greenhouse at the end. He was concerned, though, in that he didn't want to lose a lot of space to the growth of vegetables, which were still the most important plant that he grew on the property. 18th century horticulture said, look, George, you can do both. Plant your vegetables and then surround them with a border of flowers. The border could be three feet, five feet, whatever you so decide. It's the border that's actually the pleasure garden. So you're really not losing that much space to growing vegetables. How did Washington change his gardens to enhance Mount Vernon's natural beauty? He adopted the naturalistic style. There are four key elements of that. The curve line is nature's gift, management of surprises, random planting, and hidden barriers. If you can do those four things, you're well on your way to a wonderful naturalistic design. The management of surprises, the curve line helps you with that. Around each bend, you can do something different. The book that he's learning all these techniques from was written by a gentleman named Batty Langley. He wrote the book in 1728 called New Principles of Gardening. Washington purchased it in 1759. Langley goes in, he says, once you've seen one quarter of your garden, you should not have seen it all. There's nothing more shocking and stiff than a regular garden. He said every garden must have good shade. If you have to walk more than 20 paces in full sun, your walk is not worth it. Washington really took all these thoughts and comments to heart and made sure he put trees on either side of his serpentine avenues. Around each bend, he added shrubberies in wilderness areas and groves. It really was a complete landscape, and it was all just trying to stay within the qualifications or the requirements of a naturalistic garden. There are many historical events that took place away from Mount Vernon. For long periods of time, Washington was gone. How did he stay in touch with his garden and its growing? Much to his demise, much to our benefit, Washington, during the 45 years he lived here at Mount Vernon, he was away for 16 years, only visiting his house a couple times during all that time. When he is away, he's communicating with the land manager with lengthy letters, three, four, five pages long, giving him instructions to do this, make sure that is done, have you planted this, I want to try to do this next. We have that exchange of letters. Gives us a tremendous advantage in being able to represent Mount Vernon as accurately as we do in today's world. You should be considered the current garden overseer, but there's been many that have come before you. Have you got any good overseer stories about your predecessors? Yeah, there's some. I'm number 37. I don't know if that number is exactly correct, but I'm honored to be the current gardener, whatever number I am. They were all pretty competent in their practices. Washington called one clever because he was so good at grafting trees. Probably one of the cutest ones is when Washington's trying to hire a gardener. He's writing to his land manager saying that the gardener should not have any children, but if he does, only one, but certainly no more than two. He just keeps going on and on, giving almost any option possible for the gardener. He was always looking for the Scottish gardener because they were some of the best. I'm thrilled to be following in the footsteps of so many great gardeners. I hope that I'm continuing their tradition of maintaining a beautiful Mount Vernon. Tell us about the people that worked in the gardens during Washington's time. He hired gardeners under the Articles of Indenture, so they would come over, he would pay their way, and they would have to work that to pay Washington back. Some of them stayed for many years. There was a German gardener named John Christian Eller who was here for a number of years. They had a bit of a falling out, but apparently after Washington passed away, he actually returned because there is something in the notes about a German gardener saying that he used to work here. There is one from Holland, England, and then of course you had your Scottish gardener at the very end of his life, which Washington said that he was dedicated, sober, passionate about his work, and that in short, he's the best hired servant I've ever had. What makes it even better is that he says he has never been happier. I think that's really wonderful, and it certainly rings true for me. For being here at Mount Vernon as long as I have, my life here as a gardener has been a very happy experience. What did the garden go through between Washington's death and until the time it was bought by its current owners? It started to fall and disappear rapidly. Visitors' accounts have been occurring since Washington lived here. People visiting, and they write in their diaries or letters to friends, which is tremendously valuable to us, for that is our Polaroid to the past. Washington died in 1799, and visitors in 1801, 1802 are saying that it's deteriorating, it doesn't look anything like it did during Washington's time, so things just started to fall apart a little bit. You didn't have the money, you didn't have the dedication maybe to do as well. Not to say that work wasn't being done and things weren't being cleaned up as best as possible, but definitely it was noticeable to visitors that it was in a bit of disarray. When the Ladies Association purchased the property in 1858, things started to change, of course, quickly. And of course, Mount Vernon is in their hands today, it's a beautiful, beautiful site. Did they buy it from the family? They bought it from John Augustine Washington, the fourth Washington that owned the property before it was sold to the ladies. It cost them $200 ,000, and with that they received 200 acres, where others said you should take everything down but the mansion, because that's all that's important. They made the decision that they wanted to keep everything that was there during Washington's time, which was absolutely the right thing to do. We have all the outbuildings. It's an amazing opportunity for visitors to come to see an estate, a plantation, as it was during the time of the owner. Are there new discoveries being made through modern archaeology and research, or do you feel like you've re -established everything there? No, there are new discoveries all the time. It's amazing. Archaeology, the science, is becoming more and more exact all the time, with radar and LiDAR flyovers and just all these wonderful techniques that they now have. We're still finding letters that we didn't have before. Eventually we may find the plan that Washington did for the Bowling Green. We have the plan's key that is in his hand, but we don't have the actual plan itself. You can never write the final chapter in this adventure that we're in here from Washington's time till now. We try to represent things as accurately as we can, but we may find a new letter or something that will totally alter our interpretation of what we were using or going on to create an area that we thought was accurate, but new information may change that, and we will go back and make those changes so that it's historically accurate. Where did Washington acquire his plants? Initially, the landscape was completed by nothing but trees and shrubs that he found in his wildernesses surrounding Mount Vernon. So it's certainly a native landscape, and he identified these plants in the wintertime by structure and bud and had them dug and brought back. He did say that he was looking for exotics. He loved plants of all sorts. Now, we don't know if an exotic to him was Mexico or South Carolina, but what we do know is he said he wanted plants outside of his geographic area. People sent him gifts of plants often. Also he ordered from three of the principal nurseries of the time, John Bartram in Philadelphia, William Hamilton in New York, and Prince on Long Island. He ordered a lot of these plants and that he was experimenting with and putting within his landscape. I heard a story about a Franklin tree. Was that ever a part of the estate? The Franklinia, I think it was actually ordered from Philadelphia, and we've tried to grow them any number of times. We can't get them to survive. They're very finicky. They need to be in a spot they're really happy with, and so far we haven't found that spot on the estate, unfortunately. What's the significance of the Bond Plan? A gentleman named Samuel Vaughan visited Mount Vernon in 1784, I think it was, or 83. He was a landscape designer. He did a good bit of work up in the Philadelphia area, actually did some work around Independence Hall. He came and visited Mount Vernon, and in his sketchbook drew the plan of the estate, and then went back to Philadelphia. We drew a beautiful big plan that was very, very accurate. Washington said that you've drawn my estate accurately except that you've enclosed the view with trees, and so the only problem that Washington states is when looking from the house down the Bowling Green, down a vista to the forest beyond, there were two willow mounds that were planted on the Bowling Green. They weren't meant to act as punctuation points. No planting would occur within that, so you had a wide open view to the west. Whatever reason, Vaughan decided to draw trees all in there. In Washington's eye, it was all correct except for that. So it's a beautiful plan, archaeologists have used it, and all the buildings that he shows on that plan are where they find them when they dig in the soil. So he was recording the existence and not proposing new things. There's been some debate about that because Vaughan was a designer, and some say, well, how do we know that this is something Washington had, or was Vaughan drawing what he thought it should be? The written account seemed to support what Vaughan was drawing was accurate. So it's all about interpretation. We could look at two passages somewhere and interpret it both totally differently. I think the Vaughan plan is amazing. I think it's as accurate as we can possibly get. You've mentioned the Bowling Green a couple of times. What grass did they use in the Bowling Green? Their grass was called goosegrass or speargrass. They also had rye, and it's even bluegrass. It was a very coarse grass. Coarse grass was kind of important, actually, because they mowed it with the English sigh, and a very fine -bladed grass would be very difficult to cut with that implement, whereas the wider -bladed grass, they could cut quite nicely if they had a good sharp edge on their sigh, and the sickle, of course, would have been the weed eater. The Bowling Green was meant for games and entertaining and would have been mowed on a regular basis, rigged, rolled, and mowed right up until you may have a drought or something where the grass would stop growing, just like we have in an experience today. What variety do you grow there now? Weeds. It's just, I'm serious. It looks great from a distance, but if you walk up on it, it's just clover and creeping Charlie, and if it's green, I'm fine. We don't want to use chemicals on the lawn. We have a lot of visitors, a lot of children running around, so it's just as natural as possible. We overseed and everything, but no, just don't look too closely. Well, that'd be more accurate to the period, I guess. You know, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see the grass back then. It was maintained in a way that it was intended for them to bowl. They had lots of games with the hoops and other things, so it was used a great deal as a green for entertaining. How do you cut it now? Oh, we have John Deere's to go 13 miles an hour. It's pretty nice. You know, front deck mowers, it's great. Is that a reel? No, my goodness, no. Years ago when I started, our only riding mower was a Toro reel. Now, nothing against Toro, okay, but that thing never worked. Poor man that was operating, he was a World War II vet, and he was always in the shop just standing here waiting for his mower to work. So no, it's not a reel. My dad had a reel mower, and he was always working on it too. My dad's way to fix anything was with a screwdriver, not to actually tighten any screws. He would just beat on it. He was so upset. You've got the serpentine pass. What materials did they use? It was a combination of gravel and clay, pea gravel, smaller grade gravel, and it was cobblestone up around the circle in front of the mansion. Washington said if he could find any alternative form of paving, he would certainly use it because gravel roads were constant maintenance of raking, rolling, adding new gravel to keep them from being muddy all the time. That's exactly what was used in the gardens as well, was a gravel type path. Is that gravel mine from the Potomac? Washington talks about a gravel pit. It would seem as if they got a lot of it from the Potomac, and they would have sifted it to get the right size stone that they wanted. I think there were a couple sources, but not real clear on it. What kind of staff does it take to maintain all this? In horticulture, my responsibility has to do with anything that deals with chlorophyll and manure. The gardeners, just like in the 18th century, they said a garden an acre in size will require one full -time gardener, and so every principal garden we have is one full -time gardener working in that spot. Then we have a swing gardener that does all the smaller gardens and helps in the other gardens as well. We have a landscape gardener that takes care of all the non -exhibition areas. It's truly bare bones. We have some summertime help, college students, some high school. College students love it. We give them as much opportunity to learn whatever they want if they want to work in the greenhouse or use equipment. It's a really great program that we have for that. Then we have our livestock crew. We have five full -time livestock employees that maintain the genetic line of three very rare breeds, and those animals are here for interpretation as well. One thing I just want to share is that Mount Vernon is a very special place. People come and they don't leave real quickly. I've got almost 53 years. Our five livestock staff combined have 92 years of service here at Mount Vernon. It's just truly amazing. Wow. What type of livestock? We have a milking red devon, beautiful reddish -brown cow, aussebal island hogs, hog island sheep, and a Narragansett turkey. So all these are on exhibition at our Pioneer Farmers site, which is a site that we created in the 1990s down near the river. That's a site where we interpret Washington the farmer. That's the livestock's playground. They get to take the animals down there, the oxen, the horses, and work the fields. So it's really very exciting. It helps bring the estate to life. Are you taking the manures and the straw and things like that and using it in compost, or how does that all work? 100 percent. That's all we use. We have huge piles that we are able to windrow with using a manure spreader. We always have these windrows, just these lines of the material that is whipped around by the manure spreader. The row is about maybe eight feet wide, ten feet wide, and it's about six feet high. The oldest windrow is used as the fertilizer used in the gardens. And once that's gone, we windrow the next row over to aerate it again. We just always have a source of compost that we can use in the gardens, and it just works out beautifully for us. How long does it typically age? It doesn't take long, really. We have a pile that's been here for so long that even stuff that is not that old, maybe three months or so, when you mix it up with the other, it turns out very, very well. In the 18th century, Washington would take manure from the stables and just put them in a dung repository for a fortnight or two. You're only talking two or four weeks, and then they thought it was readily available for the gardens. So it was much more rapid for them than it is for us. Are there any special approaches that you take to maintaining a historical garden? The approach to maintaining a historic garden really is visual. We want them to see a garden that is planted in the manner that would have been in the 18th century. We want them to see what an 18th century garden looked like. As far as our actual practices, it is really no different than what would have been going on in the 18th century. Our tools may be a little sturdier, a little nicer, rakes, shovels, soil life, and everyone has one of those on their bill. You can do anything with those. As far as planting, we're definitely concerned about height derangement more than color coordination. We want to make sure the plants we plant are appropriate to the 18th century. Paths, the box which should be trimmed, are very short. They were never intended to be a backdrop for perennials, just as a border. That's the main thing. We want it to look right. The way we take care of it, that hasn't changed for 250 years. What are your biggest challenges with the garden? People, compaction, really the damage that comes from, especially kids, I used to share that the worst pest we can have is a child that's been on a bus for five hours from somewhere, gets here and the chaperones go, go, go, and they just start running. Back when we had big boxwood, they would just go and run and jump in and break a branch of a 150 year old boxwood within 10 seconds and that's hard to control with any kind of spray or whatever. But I developed to have a hard trap that was a bit larger. I found out I put an iPad or something in there, I could catch five or six at a time and I would let them off at the West Gate. The chaperones would eventually find them, but at least we got them out of the garden.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E02: Writer's Path: New Book Release Discussion
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Lee Loney. In this episode, don't have regulars because reasons, as always. As for our guest, she's from Houston, Texas, and she does Houston, Texas, I guess. Well, she's also an author, just to make it clear. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Saborna Roy Chowdhury. Hi, thank you so much for inviting me. This is an honor. And I, as you said, I do live in Houston, Texas, but I'm also an author. And I wrote two books. My first book was called The Distance, which came out in 2013. And more recently, my second book was published by a good, you know, small publisher, Houston based publisher, and called Black Rose Writing. And the name of my second novel is Everything Here Belongs to You. Oh, nice, nice. Thank you. Welcome. And how long have you been an author for? So actually, by profession, I'm a chemist, and I teach chemistry in community college. But around 2004, you know, I was in between jobs and looking for something to do. And I decided, I decided to take a workshop, you know, I used to live in Boston at that time. And there's a very great writing workshop in Boston called The Grub Street. And I took a workshop, you know, short story writing workshop from one of the teachers there. And the beautiful thing about this teacher was he gave us a great writing prompt, he said, you know, I'm going to switch off the light and step outside. And you guys go into deep meditation for at least five minutes. And then when I come back, and I switch on the light, you will pick up the pen, and you will start writing whatever comes to your mind. And you're not going to stop yourself, you're not going to edit yourself. If you see any images, you're going to write about that character. So when he did that, you know, when he switched the light back on, I saw the image of a girl. And I instantly recognize that girl, she was kind of very, very thin emaciated, you know, she had a lot of beads and strings on her body. She was, she had this deep, you know, sad eyes. And I recognize that girl. And I remembered that girl from years ago, you know, when I was child, she used to work at my aunt's place in in in India. And so that character came to me, and I did not stop myself, I picked up my pen, and I just started to write about her. And then it grew into a short story. My very first short story called Bengal Bansun. And when it came to sharing it with the rest of the class, you know, at Grub Street, I was really terrified because here I was, you know, a chemistry teacher. And all of a sudden, I write a short story, and I have to share it in front of my whole class. So I did read it very hesitantly. But you know, most of the class was very appreciative, they really liked it. They gave me great feedback. And most importantly, the teacher said, you need to send this out, you need to send out your work. So I sent it off to a publication, you know, the only one I sent it out to it was called New York stories. I sent them my very first short story. And I heard back from them right away. They said they want to publish my short story. So this was really surprising to me. And this is how my journey started. And later on this, the short story was nominated for a push cut price. So that's when I knew, you know, that I like writing. Wow. Very good. Nice. Thank you. Welcome. And are there any more books that you're in the process of writing? Yes. Well, the one I just finished, and the one that just came out, I'm trying to promote that. And it's called Everything Here Belongs to You. And strangely enough, you know, in between, I wrote another book called The Distance. But this the short story that I was just talking to you about the Bengal Mansoon one, never really left me. So that girl, you know, the girl with the big eyes, she had a problem. She had her father come in every single month from the village and take away all her money. And, you know, she used to come and complain to my aunt. And she used to say, my father is using me like a bank. He's taking away all my money. I don't know what to do. And my aunt was, you know, my aunt is a good person. She really wanted to help this girl. But there was nothing she could do. She, other than consoling her, there was nothing she could do to help out this girl. And then something really terrible happened. One morning at six o 'clock, my aunt was calling her name. She was asking her to come down. She used to live in the girl used to sleep in the terrace room. And the girl was not coming down. So my aunt went upstairs to look for her and found the girl hanging. And she was she was hanging from the ceiling. She had used her sari as like a noose. And my aunt tried to revive her. You know, her body was still warm. My aunt tried her best to bring her back, but she couldn't. And then the father came back from the village and blamed my aunt for for killing this girl. And, you know, the whole the slum came down to our house and started to break everything. So, you know, this this story, even though I captured most of it in Bengal monsoon, I felt like I had not done justice to the whole story. And the girl and her father were not leaving me. And they were still hunting me. So there was something incomplete there. And so even after I finished my first novel, those images did not go away. And I thought that I should expand the story and I should complete the story and I should bring those characters back. So I just I just made the girl a Muslim in my second book. And I continue with the story. You know, the this helpless girl whose father comes every single month and takes away all her salary and she's hopeless. She has no future. Everything is dark around her. She doesn't know where to go. She feels trapped. And that's how I came to write my second novel, Everything Here Belongs to You, which is right now available in the bookstores and on Amazon. All right, then. Very good. So where do you see yourself 20 years from now? 20 years from now. I would like to say I wrote 20 books, but that's not going to happen because each book for me, you know, takes a very, very long time. The distance did not take that much time distance. I think I took only three to four years to write. But my second book, Everything Here Belongs to You, I wrote it for five years. And then I met my agent, Julie Stevenson, you know, from M .M. Q .L .T., M .M. Q. Lit. And asked she me to edit my book. And this editing process went on for three years. So she asked me to make, you know, major changes like change the POV. OK, from omniscient narrator to close third person, then write it chronologically. Make sure you have a very close connection between the sisters from the beginning. You know, major changes change the tense of the novel. So this went on and on. And so that took three years. So that was a total of eight years to write my second novel. So if this is the way I write, I don't think in 20 years I'll accomplish much. It could be worse, to be honest. It could be worse, to be honest. Yeah, I have friends who wrote. Sorry, I think my phone is talking. So, yeah, I have friends who wrote a novel for 20 years. So, yeah, if you if you want to do something perfectly, I guess you have to put in the time. Yeah, absolutely. How did you spend? Sorry, go on. No, so that's that's my 20 year plan to write. Very good. How did you spend your last birthday? My last birthday? Eating cake? Yeah. No. Yeah, I don't focus much on birthdays. My family does. My family definitely made sure that I cut my cake. Yeah. But if I'm writing a book, I'm usually so immersed in the fictional world that I don't pay much attention to what is going on in my real life. All right, then. What is your favorite quote? Oh, my goodness. I don't have one on the top of my head. Do I have to answer this? I mean, you don't have to. Yeah. So go on with the flow. Okay. Okay, I'll take that. Yes, then. If you could create your own job title, what would it be? I would be a full time author. I don't want to do anything else. I think the most meaningful thing we do in life is right. Because I'm able to give voice to, you know, the most voiceless people, the most neglected people, people who cannot defend themselves, who don't get justice, if I'm able to bring them to the forefront, and I'm able to make them make other people visualize them and understand their pain and understand their sorrow, and I'm able to give them justice. That is the most important thing I can do. That's very good. What is the best way to start the morning? I would say, well, there's a real answer, and then there is a hopeful answer. The real answer is I get my girls ready for school, and that's not a peaceful process. So I'm rushing them, I'm pushing them, I'm trying to get them on the school bus, and my mornings are not peaceful or restful enough. However, if I were living, I were, you know, living my ideal life, I would love to wake up and do a long meditation. And I would like to connect to my subconscious and see who is plaguing me, who is bothering me, who is sitting in there, and I would draw out those characters and I would talk to them and I would put them down on the page. And that would be the peaceful start of a morning, to be able to write, you know, at least two to three pages without interruption, without the phone ringing, without the internet, without having to communicate with the outside world, just to be able to write and meditate. That's my ideal life. Very good. Would you rather sleep on the wall or sleep on the ceiling? Sleep on the wall or sleep on the ceiling? I've never heard a question like that before. I would sleep on the ceiling, yeah. Yes, that's a good option. Yeah, because I can see the world from the top, right? I have a larger and bigger and wider perspective of things. And I basically, you know, when I wrote my first novel, I mean, the second novel, sorry, I used omniscient narrator, and that's kind of your place on the ceiling, because you get to see everyone, what they're doing. If they're doing mean things, bad things, you know, hiding things from you, have secrets, you basically have a view of every single character in that room or in that house, right, if you're on the ceiling. So I would definitely want the ceiling position. But my agent says I should write in close third person. Intriguing. Yes. Oh, yes. Very good. Would you ever try space tourism? Actually not. Especially today, you know, today in the news, did you see how this vessel tried to go in the depths of the ocean and never came back? It was blown away. So I'm very, very nervous about getting into claustrophobic places and where I have no control, and other people taking me, you know, promising me things, making me sign papers and taking me places. And then I do not know if I'll make it back. And there's a lot to do on Earth. Itself, right? There's a lot to improve right here. I don't need to go to space. Yes, that's a very good point. You'll never know what life hits at you. Yes. What fictional item do you wish you owned in real life? What fictional item? Do you wish you owned in real life? Let me think about this. And it's a fictional item. It's not a real one. My daughters will tell you a lot about Harry Potter things that they want to own. Fictional item. Can you give me an example of fictional items? Well, you said your daughters like Harry Potter, so possibly a magic wand, then there's lightsabers from Star Wars, a couple of video game items like the mega mushroom from Super The magic wand sounds very attractive because when I cannot wake them up in the morning to go to school, I can always be the magic wand and make them do things for me, right? I mean, every mother wishes she had a magic wand and she could control her children. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Where do you spend most of your free time? First of all, being a teacher, a mother and a writer, I have no free time. But I to write, I do go to a coffee shop and I can only write in a coffee shop because it kind of takes away the pressure of writing. It kind of takes away, you know, the fear of writing because I have so many people surrounding me and there is this chatter, this laughter, this camarade, you know, the smell of coffee. Everything takes away that extreme pressure of having to accomplish something or to finish something or to get something done. And I'm able to relax in a coffee shop and actually do some writing. And then, of course, when you come back home, that reality strikes and that you'd have so many chores to do and so many other things you have to get done, right? And so the coffee shop is my escape. OK, I can see that. This is a question from the very top of my head. Have you heard of a drink called banana friche? Banana friche? Banana friche? Friche? Yeah. Have you heard of it? I have never heard of a drink banana friche, no. I get that a lot from a lot of people. It's understandable. So do you want me to try it out or? Sorry, what is the question? So I asked you, have you heard of a drink called banana friche? No. Oh, that's all right, because I get that every time. Yeah, something from that came from the top of my head. Sure. Yeah. Would you rather? If you recommend it to me, if you recommend me the drink, I'll definitely try it. I do not know where to get it from. Well, well, it's a concept at first, but maybe a few years down the line, it can become a thing. So, yes. So definitely, when it becomes a thing, I'll give it a try. All right, very good. Would you rather not be able to open any closed doors or not be able to close any open doors? Both. I don't want to close any open doors for anyone who is a minority and needs those open doors. And so what was the first part again? So I asked you, would you rather not to open closed doors or not be able to close open doors? Yeah, so second part, I don't want to close any open doors for people who need it. Yes, very good, because there's opportunities in front of you. You must seize it. That's true. Yes. But, you know, be inclusive as well. I mean, you don't want to seize it just for yourself, but you seize it for everyone else. Yes, everyone is free to open and enter the door. Yes, the door should not be closed for anyone. Exactly. What's your favorite season? Spring, because I cannot tolerate the heat. I live in a place called Houston, Texas, and it does get extremely hot. And when it gets hot like that, you know, it's hard to function. So spring here is beautiful. You know, the flowers bloom and the birds come out the usual spring thing. And so and we can all go for long walks. So spring definitely is beautiful in Texas. All right, then. Nice. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? So I would go back to India. Right now, I live in Houston, Texas. So let me tell you this in a more poetic manner. Give me one second. So basically, I grew up in Kolkata, India. Can you still hear me? Yeah, I can still hear you. Okay, so I grew up in Kolkata, India, and I grew up in a middle class Hindu family. And, you know, I mean, if you read my second novel, I featured the house I grew up in in this in this novel. And, and like, like the characters in my novel, you know, I used to live in this hundred year old house with my extended family, with my aunts, uncles and cousins. So because it was a hundred year old house, and it was it was like a crumbling mansion, and it had two wings and two floors, but there was no one to take care of this house. So years of neglect, you know, had left this house in very poor condition. My house had, you know, cracked tiles on the floor and yellowing walls and broken windows, everything needed repair. And during the monsoon season, you know, water dripped from the roof and and we had, you to collect the water, and everything had to be covered, you know, our antique furniture, our paintings, our encyclopedias, our photographs, everything had to be covered with plastic sheets. And so it was really hard for us to maintain this house, you know, there was like spiders behind the clothes horse and termite mud piles that went up the walls. And, you know, all the grandfather clocks that just kept on chiming at wrong hours. And if you looked at the skylight holes, you would see pigeons nesting there. Then when I turned 19, I left Kolkata and I came to America and I settled down here. Right. I came as a student. I finished my chemistry degrees. And finally, you know, I got my job in Houston. I settled down here. But I left behind this house, this house, which is full of history and, you know, my childhood tales. And I and somehow this house still remains alive inside me and it shows up in my book, especially in my second book, I would say this house is my main main backdrop of my second book. And now, you know, I have a relatively comfortable life. I live in the suburbs of Houston now. Here, you know, I have a wooden house which has central air conditioning and it has modern appliances. I have, you know, carpet that covers all the floors and I have, you know, all my walls are really well painted. I have modern furniture. I have a spacious living room. Every every week we have lawnmowers who come to trim our lawns and prune the bushes and, you know, our driveway and sidewalk looks so clean. They almost like they glisten like glass. And my existence right now in Houston is very neat, tidy, comfortable, hygienic, whatever you want to look at it. But unfortunately, whenever I pick up my pen to write either a short story or a novel or a poem, I I don't write about the suburbs of Houston. I still find myself, you know, going back to that old mansion that I left behind in Kolkata and I'm still pining away for for what I left behind. So I don't think, you know, as I age, this nostalgia will go away and somehow I will I will end up living living in that old house again years later. OK, I can see that. Sorry for the very long answer. That's all right. I enjoy it. It's fabulous. Thank you. You're welcome. What kind of music do you often listen to? I don't know if I am a Bengali and we have a Nobel laureate, author, songwriter. His name is Rabindranath Tagore. And I used to learn his songs. I used to learn his music and I still listen to that. I just I listen to Tagore songs all the time. It calms me down. And once once again, it connects me back home. It's part of my nostalgia. Very good. When things break, do you prefer to fix them or replace them? I always try to fix them. I hold on to old things. You must have guessed that by now. And I have a very hard time throwing away things because all your old things have a memory. And as writers, when we when we when we touch things, old photos, old albums, even, you know, somebody's glasses or somebody's shawl, we feel things in our fingers and then something can become can become a spark for a new project. So, yes, I repair things and I keep things and I grab onto things and I hold onto things and I don't want to let them go. My husband is opposite. He's a neat, tidy person. And he would rather get rid of things and clean up the house. And he's an engineer by profession. So you can see that we have completely different personalities.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from WIN Home Inspection with Jeff Starr
"Episode number 500 is up next on the veteran on the move podcast Ten years of podcasting 500 interviews with the veteran community great military veteran military spouse entrepreneurs out there Holy cow, I can't believe it's ten years in 500 episodes. Thank you for listening. Thank you for all your support Looking forward to another 500 episodes another 10 years Jeff star with win home inspection is up next on veteran on the move Welcome Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe crane Whether you're taking a trip to relax or see somewhere new You deserve a travel card that does the work for you for more on Navy Federal's flagship rewards visit Navy federal org Coastguard veteran Jeff star from win home inspection Jeff 30 -plus years in the Coast Guard. That's awesome Looking forward to talking about business and entrepreneurship what you're doing these days. So take us back Tell us what you did in the Coast Guard Hey Joe, thanks for having me on your show. Well, it actually started in high school I joined the Missouri National Guard when I was 17 went to boot camp in Portland win, Missouri Graduated from that went back to high school and did my senior year and then moved on to AIT which is the training for the army and I was a tactical radio communicator So basically I carried a backpack radio and worked on their radios got a chance to go to Germany For a large NATO US exercise and kind of opened up my world view and my eyes a little bit You know as an 18 year old coming out of Missouri central, Missouri There's a you know, I lived in farmland. So I got to see what was going on there now I'm in another country traveling around with people that are a lot older than me that been around so Got a got a good view into a little bit about what the world was going what was going on in the world So fast forward I decided to go to college I'm in college pursuing a degree in aviation and Too much college activities and not enough good enough grades and they they gave me the invitation not to return You gotta see MSU Yes, yeah, right there in Lawrenceburg. Yep Yep, so great program great school Just it wasn't a good time for me at that time too. I wasn't ready So now I'm deciding what am I gonna do am I gonna join the army and Start seeing some commercials about the Coast Guard on TV. I'm like in Missouri You don't see a lot of Coast Guard, you know, because we're in the center of the country. We're landlocked There's there is a Coast Guard there. I found out later on but not to my knowledge at the time So I get in my car. I live in Colombia and I drive to st. Louis to see a recruiter I get the recruiters office goes. Hey, thank you for your interest But I can't recruit you you live on the wrong side of the Missouri River you need to go to Kansas City So now back in the car driving to Kansas City and Get all the stuff done and there's an eight -month wait list to get in so I go ahead and sign the paperwork and delay entry finally getting the Coast Guard and After graduating boot camp, I end up going to Tillamook Bay, Oregon So basically they've got a motor lifeboats that are like the tanks in the water They're meant to take 30 40 foot waves you get there the windows are made of bulletproof glass 300 bulletproof glass you get into the boat and You strap in with a helmet your dry suit and the seat belts and buckle in And you go out there and take waves and try not to take waves But sometimes you have to for the fishing boat to fleet that's coming in So what an exciting job, you know at 21 years old you're out there charging these giant waves Get in beat up by the waves and pulling people out of water and rescuing them It could have ended right there. I could have stayed in that job forever. It was it was amazing. It was an adrenaline rush But I wanted to do aviation still So I put my name on the school list to go to aviation the Coast Guard and I went to Elizabeth City, North Carolina for and Electronics avionics Had to wait a year for that school, so I got to play around in Oregon for a while the school 38 weeks Learn how to do all the component repair of all the electronics on the plane Graduated from there and get my first units in Traverse City, Michigan like where's Traverse City, Michigan and it's all the way up north and As far it's in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan So and at the time they were flying Of course each series or what the army would have or other services BC Kings or or Jolly Green Giants So I get there and I learned that after going to school all this time. I really don't know anything So it's time. It's time to start learning. You're an apprentice. So, you know, you start learning everything about the plane and the organization And Soon as I learned everything about the HCI thought I needed to know we transitioned to 60s So then we get the Seahawks the Coast Guard version of the Seahawk so got to do that and so spend eight to ten years Learning, you know my craft and trade and and just enjoying the Coast Guard You know the camaraderie the people in the organization the mission And then took a took my next tour to Alaska So I got to go to Kodiak, Alaska and help them transition because nobody was qualified to fly the 60s yet only the first units so I got to go up there and help stand up the program and Start, you know training everybody and flying that mission with the 60 But they didn't have the 60s yet. So I had to go back to the X trees and fly that again So it's kind of flying in both at the same time. So it was nice I mean I was getting you know, three and four hundred hours a year flight time and You know, it was Alaska some of the most beautiful flying you can imagine we do stuff that you know, I couldn't pay for So got to do that And then after leaving Traverse City or after leaving Kodiak my transition again to another helicopter I moved in Detroit and we moved to the Eurocopter 65 Which is a smaller business corporate helicopter that the Coast Guard uses for its ship based operations so I got to do that and then I'm starting to roll up on my my my 20 20 years it's gonna be coming up here pretty soon. I'm at 15. I'm starting to think what am I gonna do? So I started doing, you know different college programs. So they give my associate degree Well, I got my associate degree knocked out while I still in Detroit and then we go back to Alaska where? I'm within a two -year window now so planning on Transitioning out at 20. I go ahead and get my my Microsoft engineering degree And then that takes a year to do that so the tour in Alaska is only three years so back to Traverse City and I'm looking at getting out at that point in time and that's where I start my first business up there I started business in 2002 building computer repair computers and servicing Computers for large corporations. Yeah, where did the where the desire to where the desire to search your own business come from? Um, well, I knew I needed to get out and I didn't really want to it was gonna be hard to replace an organization I'm already in I didn't necessarily want to work for a company Yeah, and so doing my own thing in my own, you know not have to rely on somebody else To get the job done because I know I can do the job and I wanted to do it myself So there was a desire. I did that job for about four years and then Lo and behold I promoted myself out of my position. I was in in Traverse City So it was either I was in you seven at the time and I was gonna make a yay So like okay, where can I go and you know make that kind of money? I'm not I'm not generating that kind of income at this point in time So kind of put that in the back burner and shelved it for a while also, I was seeing I'd get my Microsoft degree and I saw that everything was getting outsourced and Working on hands -on technology You're always chasing the certification because everything's changing so quickly within the computer industry I wasn't sure how how much I wanted to stay continually chasing that certification So decide to go back to school we transfer to Miami at that point and That was a Big culture shift going from Alaska to Traverse City down to Miami because the missions are different. Yeah cold to hot Right. So I went more from more of a search and rescue law enforcement to more of a law enforcement search and rescue So the emphasis was more on law enforcement down in Florida with the international treaties and border protection type mission So I started going back to school again get my bachelor's degree and Finished up that and then again, so I wasn't looking at getting out at that point. We're at year 24 at that point Promoted again made Master Chief for E9 and was waiting and Wanted to go back to Detroit fortunately, nobody else wanted to go back to Detroit and I was able to pick up that job as The command enlisted advisor working for the CEO in Detroit What great job great experience wonderful people I worked with and then at that point I started working on my master's degree and business with Masters in health care administration some kind of shotgunning, you know the different things I'm planning on doing when I get out I want to make sure I could cover all the bases. I had done troop the teacher signed up for it Got a degree in history got a degree and business and then what got an MBA and then an MHA and Didn't do any of that when I got out So, what was your transition like you end up getting the JOB and was it smooth on the way out because I mean you're you're prepared educational wise but What was the twist in turn? Yeah, it's interesting because you know and it's not from the organization you don't hear but I think ourselves we underestimate our Capabilities when we're in we're thinking hey, we're in this job We've been doing the same job on the military side But when I get out I'm gonna I don't I can't how do I deal with and how do I work in that? Organization, you know, how do I fit in and how do I provide value? Yeah, and hey Jeff before before we get too far? let's take a quick break and Re -attack this on the way back Getting a new car is exciting and you deserve a hassle -free buying experience You can get a decision in seconds and enjoy great rates with everything You need in one place Navy Federalist Car Buying Center is your one -stop shop for researching Financing buying protecting and enjoying your next car you can search for new and used cars access vehicle history reports enjoy discounts on auto insurance and more and you can make the most of your time on the road wherever you go with our flagship credit card whether you're taking a trip to relax or see somewhere new You deserve a travel card does the work for you in my 33 years as a Navy Federal member I've had the flagship credit card since it first came out and we use our travel points all the time flagship credit card will earn you three times points on travel plus up to $100 in statement credits towards TSA pre -check or global entry and a free year of Amazon Prime With two times the points on all purchases outside of travel the rewards don't have to end where your vacation does For more on Navy Federalist Car Buying experience and flagship rewards visit navyfederal .org Open armed forces DoD veterans and their families credit and collateral subject to approval Navy Federalist insured by NCUA Visa is a registered service mark of Visa used by Navy Federal under license All right back talking with Coast Guard veteran Jeff Starr from Wynn Home Inspection so Jeff anyways failed to mention We talked about this for you at the record button your episode number 500 Which is a major milestone for any podcast or any podcaster So I wish I had a door prize for you or something, but I just didn't acknowledge Yeah, you're one of the few coasties I've had on the show.
Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Basics_09: Bitcoin Misconceptions & FUD Busting
"These government officials who are touting this and the news articles that are touting these narratives, they're coming from a place that has sound financial rails and a relatively stable currency. You take that same scenario and you go to developing world in Africa in a place where that's experiencing multiples, high inflationary numbers that their currency is losing purchasing power every single minute that you hold it, then all of a sudden your value, the value proposition for Bitcoin becomes a lot higher and yes, I think the energy is worth it. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance, and we talk shit. Yo, yo, yo, welcome back into Blue Collar Bitcoin, ladies and gentlemen. This week, Daz, Seb, Josh and myself, Dan, are back for installment number nine of our Bitcoin basic series. If you missed any of our previous chats in the series, the entire thing can be found linked in one place on our website, bluecollarbitcoin .io under the Bitcoin resources tab. This discussion was titillating. The focus was on common Bitcoin misconceptions. The four of us explored and busted through numerous common pieces of Bitcoin FUD, including Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, Bitcoin wastes energy, governments will ban Bitcoin, Bitcoin is a bubble, Bitcoin is too volatile, Bitcoin can be copied, Bitcoin is used by criminals and more. And per usual, this episode is sprinkled with strong sexual innuendo. So with school back in session, play this episode at your own risk during a carpool. Throughout this series, we have frequently talked about Bitcoin self -custody. Although this is doable for all, we understand the trepidation and apprehension that comes with taking control of your Bitcoin. If you do need help with this process, Daz and Seb have just stood up a new service at Looking Glass Education called CODL. If you're looking for personal support on your self -custody journey, visit lookingglasseducation .com and click on the CODL tab, C -O -D -L. Speaking of self -custody, the hardware wallet or signing device we utilize here at BCB is none other than the cold card made by CoinKite. It's Bitcoin only. It's ultra secure. It's easy to use. It has the option to be truly air -gapped. It's got specialized chips specifically designed to store secrets. This beautiful little fucker does it all. If you've been delaying this self -custody process, just stop. Get off your ass and at least start exploring. You can use code BCB, that's code B -C -B, for an arousing discount on one of these calculators. And lastly here before we get into it, a reminder that Bitcoin is more than a protocol. It's more than an asset. It's a freaking movement. Get out there and go meet some plebs. Go to a conference. Bitcoin Amsterdam is coming up October 12th through the 13th, and Bitcoin 2024 is next July in Nashville. You can get 10 % off tickets for either of these conferences with code, you guessed it, BCB. Daz, Seb, Josh. Welcome back. Greetings. Four cooks back in the kitchen to dish up hopefully a delightful Bitcoin basics cuisine. This is episode numero nueve, number nine. Can't believe we did nine of these already. It's crazy. Yeah. Today's goal is FUD, misconceptions of Bitcoin. We were all for stressing before we started because we're like, holy shit, this could go for six hours. We're going to try to set these cans up on the log and knock them off. There's just so many ways this thing can fail that it could take forever.
Slate's If Then
"l. glass" Discussed on Slate's If Then
"Fill that role. To be clear Vitoria says it's not that the women or people of color stepping up aren't qualified more that it can take a crisis for a corporate board to even consider them. I think the other thing is you know we have a lot of really successful examples like Mary Barra obviously at GM is historically held up as this incredible leader who took the company out of the financial crash where it was teetering on the edge and made it profitable again and so while these jobs leading companies in crisis are often way more difficult that doesn't mean that these people can't be successful and it doesn't mean that the people who are being chosen for them are not up to the task. A lot of the times they really are it's just the challenges they face are much higher than the male CEOs who came before them. Your story had a headline saying Linda Iaccarino was teetering on the edge of a glass cliff and she responded with it with a tweet she quote tweeted it and said as someone used to wearing foreign heels let's be crystal clear I don't teeter. Twitter 2 .0 hashtag together we rise. What what do you what do you think of that like what does that kind of response tell you? Well it tells me that that headline was very good clickbait. I think it would be it would be foolish for someone in her position to do anything but express confidence in in the things she's doing and if anything the fact that they're both willing to do this and you know and if she can turn Twitter around it shows nothing but her her excellence and her capacity and her bravery to do a very difficult thing. When we come back a not quite glorious history of Silicon Valley sending a woman to the plate to bat clean up. It's time to reboot your credit card with Apple Card. 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And you'll hear from women who knew Thomas long before he was on the Supreme Court. He would say, I'm their guy. I don't think he ever realized that he was being manipulated. I don't think he realizes it now. We'll look at where Thomas came from, his rise to power, and how he's brought the rest of us along with him, whether we like it or not. So look, when I talk about Clarence Thomas, there are going to be two groups of listeners and neither one are going to like what I say. So my question to you is, why am I doing this interview? Slow Burn Season 8, Becoming Justice Thomas, is out Wednesday, May 31st, wherever you listen. Did you ever forgive Joe Biden for that? Yeah, I had to forgive him. I never forget, no. The term glass cliff was first coined by Michelle Ryan and Alexander Haslam at the University of Exeter in the UK in 2005. Subsequent research looking at Fortune 500 companies found that over a 15 -year period, women and people of color were much more likely to be appointed CEO when a company is in crisis. Two notable Silicon Valley examples are Ellen Pao, who was tapped to run Reddit, and Marissa Mayer at Yahoo. Marissa Mayer was, she was quite young when she was appointed as CEO of Yahoo. She was 37. She was sort of a Google wonder kind, and she was incredibly talented. But she was appointed in 2012, and that was sort of like peak Facebook and Google dominance. You had two companies that were just eating, eating, eating for Google, the search and email and sort of everything market, and Google and Facebook were eating the ad market. It was a very tough position for her to come into, and there are definitely mistakes that she's been criticized for in her leadership, and no one's going to be perfect. But the reality is that she came into the company at quite a tough time when the market forces were not really in the company's favor, and she brokered a deal to sell Yahoo to Verizon. And again, you could be critical of that, but the reality is she managed to at least land the plane. She found an exit. Similarly, Ellen Pao was CEO at Reddit. She tried very hard to deal with the company's hate speech and harassment in some of its more aggressive subreddits, and ultimately people, users didn't like that, and she faced a lot of harassment, and she exited pretty quickly. And for her, that issue of hateful content being sort of rampant on the platform, that predated her, but she was the one who was choosing to deal with it. No leader is perfect. Everyone's going to fuck up. Nobody's going to make all the right calls. It's just not possible. But research shows that women leaders are going to be under more scrutiny for making wrong calls, and they're do you think that is particularly stark in Silicon Valley, where you have a bro -y culture, a lot of venture capital firms led by men, and I think, frankly, an environment that can be hostile to women? Obviously, Silicon Valley does have its bro -culture, but I think when you're talking about executive leadership generally, that's a very male -dominated space. I think there was a Bloomberg piece recently that said that for the first time, the number of women CEOs has outstripped the number of CEOs named John. It's not like every other industry is some paragon of gender equity, and it's not like the space of executive leadership is particularly well -balanced gender -wise. So obviously, Silicon Valley has its reputation, and there is a reason for that, but I think when we're talking about the upper echelons of any company, this is a pattern we see across the board. Linda Iaccarino was also in this very specific position where she is coming in, taking control of Twitter, but at the same time, what Elon Musk has been doing over the last six months or so has created a very staunch group of supporters who were very happy with what he was doing, this particular kind of army of his and her embrace of standard corporate DEI initiatives at NBC or, frankly, somewhat banal, like yay, women's empowerment tweeting have meant that he's been received by his guys, by his very online group of people, with a big thud. It seems like a particular issue with this job, because it's not just Elon. It's not just Twitter's employees. There's also the online world and how they receive her coming in. I wonder if you think about how that complicates her job. I think users of any social platform are often really critical of that platform if they feel like it's not doing exactly what they want it to do at all times, and that would be true for anyone taking over this role. Musk has obviously cultivated a really big cult of personality, particularly on the platform, but there are many people who see this as like, okay, good. He's bringing in this person who seems very qualified, and because they have loyalty to Musk, and this is a decision that he and his team have made, and it's ultimately still his platform he owns, they support it. So the fact that Cat Turd 2 is tweeting Twitter 2 .0 is fun while it lasted, get ready for it to suck again. We just figure Cat Turd's followers are actually going to be more loyal to Elon. I don't think there's a way that anybody in this role could keep everyone happy, because the reality is for the small faction of Twitter that really liked this version of the platform, there are large sections of users who do not and who have either left or reduced the level to which they use the platform. I think we're also seeing this moment where part of the reason that people haven't necessarily felt like they could leave is because there's not really anywhere else to go. Twitter is such a public -facing platform, it felt very much like the place to go for the news and for the voices of important people, sort of in reaction to real -time events in many ways, and there hasn't really been something like that that felt like it could replace it. But now we're seeing Blue Sky, we're seeing T2, Macedon obviously had its moment, so you know, we're maybe also entering a world where there might eventually be some form of competition for this particular type of platform. You know, I think the other thing to really think about is the people right now who are paying for blue checks, they're not accounting for very much money, and part of what made Twitter popular in the first place was the fact that they sort of traditional system of verification, that they would verify celebrities and artists and stuff like that. And so that meant that you couldn't necessarily have these accounts pretending to be someone that they weren't if they were a famous person. And that meant that you had celebrities like Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber, whoever, using the platform and bringing their followers there. And stripping so away that sort of thing really gives another platform the possible opportunity to fill that void. And so I think, you know, as much as maybe people might gripe with decisions either which way, whoever is CEO of Twitter was going to have to make some calls that are ultimately best for the survival of the platform. And I think many of these people would probably prefer to continue to have Twitter to complain about Twitter on than to not have it at all. How much runway does she have? Because, you know, Twitter is not a public company, she doesn't have to immediately assuage shareholder concerns. How long do you think she's got to show that she can take this company on to more solid financial footing? Um, you know, we don't know. What I can say is that some of the professors that I spoke to sort of ballparked when a woman takes over in leadership, like, roles like this one that, you know, maybe you get two, three years, but we don't know. And the reality is that whatever the amount of time is often for women, it's shorter than what men would get in that same situation. But again, hopefully, she and Musk are aligned with what they perceive as the priorities. And I think, you know, we really can't say, but you know, it doesn't happen overnight. And I think as sometimes as impulsive as Musk can sometimes appear in his decision making, he is probably a wise enough businessman to know that that will take time. Victoria Elliott, thank you very much for talking with me. Thank you so much. Victoria Elliott is a reporter for Wired covering platforms and power. And that is it for our show today. What Next TBD is produced by Patrick Fort. Our show is edited by Jonathan Fisher. Alicia Montgomery is vice president of audio for Slate. TBD is part of the larger What Next family. And we're also part of FutureTense, a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. And if you are a fan of the show, I have a request for you. Join Slate Plus. Just head on over to slate .com slash What Next Plus to sign up. You will get all your Slate podcasts ad free. All right, we'll be back on Sunday with another episode. I'm Lizzie O 'Leary. Thanks for listening.
Slate's If Then
"l. glass" Discussed on Slate's If Then
"Good All right afternoon good evening or good morning everyone depending on wherever in the world you're joining us from I'm broadcasting live from David from Twitter headquarters Even before the halting glitchy and frankly weird launch of Ron DeSantis presidential campaign on Twitter it was clear that Linda Iaccarino was taking a tough job. Twitter CEO is not a normal CEO gig especially when you're Elon Musk's pick to run the company. The consensus was that whoever took that role was going to have quite an uphill climb. That's Victoria Elliott who covers platforms and power for Wired. Both because of the position that Twitter is in right now and also because of the visibility that Elon has and the fact that even for companies where he's not necessarily running day -to -day operations like SpaceX he's still kind of considered the face of brand. Iaccarino has to thread a delicate needle keeping Musk happy while winning back skeptical advertisers. She has a deep background in ads and partnerships. That's what she was in charge of at NBC Universal. They need someone with that expertise especially because they have lost so much advertising revenue in the six months ish that Musk has been in charge. So I think qualification wise she's a very smart and natural pick of course. But there's something else something Victoria wrote a story about. Something that fits a pattern in corporate America. It is I think not lost on people specifically like academics and experts who study these patterns that in this moment where the company is doing much worse than it's done historically that it is a woman who's being tapped to lead and that doesn't again mean anything about her not being qualified. If anything oftentimes the women who take these roles are eminently qualified. More than anything it reflects on the idea that it is not until a moment of great crisis and therefore a need for great change that companies will often choose that moment to appoint someone who is a person of color or a woman or or Today on the show how Linda Iaccarino is standing on the edge of what's known as the glass cliff. I'm Lizzy O 'Leary and you're listening to What Next TBD a show about technology power and how the future will be determined. Stick around. At the end of your first year Discover credit cards automatically double all the cash back you've earned. That's right everything you earned doubled. All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant doubled. All the cash back from that trip where you sort of learned to snowboard also doubled. And the best part you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it. Nope Discover does it automatically. Seriously though see terms and check it out for you. Quinton here runs a sustainable clothing brand. Hi there. He's excited that his shipping company FedEx has set a goal of having carbon neutral operations by 2040. Impressive. When an influencer tweeted about his recycled bamboo t -shirts Quinton unexpectedly became quite popular. I'll take it. He uses FedEx to reach new customers around the globe while making Earth a priority. FedEx where now meets next. It's important to understand that Twitter at least back when Twitter was a public company and we could look at its financial statements made almost all of its money from advertising. And Elon Musk's terminally online antics have really threatened that. Right now Twitter's primary crisis is that it lost a lot of advertisers when Musk took over partly he because was very clear about wanting to offer amnesty to users who had been banned in the past some of them with neo -Nazi politics or incredibly hateful histories of speech. He wanted to offer amnesty. He you know has made himself a very much a free speech absolutist although that is sort of mostly in the American context because Twitter has been taking down more content abroad than it has in the past by the request of governments. I think it really spooked a lot of advertisers and there was actually a study that came out just recently that I reported on from some researchers at the University of Southern California I believe who basically showed that Twitter did get worse when Musk took over. There was more hate speech, there wasn't a decrease in bots, there was all these problems that everyone sort of said were going to occur and that spooks advertisers and that also spooks users and so it becomes a sort of death spiral. Advertising at least before Twitter became a private company generated 90 % of the company's revenue. Linda Iaccarino is you know an advertising powerhouse that is her background. I guess I wonder how she threads this needle right? How do you manage to either win back advertisers or court ones who are nervous while also not alienating Elon Musk? I think her biggest challenge and one of the biggest determinants of her success at least according to the people that I spoke with is really going to be how much time, money and breadth she's really given to make decisions about these things because Musk is going to be staying on as CTO which means he's going to go ostensibly through him. He's also going to be staying as part of the board. So we don't know yet how much breadth she's going to have to roll back some of these decisions or change certain things but I mean I will say that like if you look at SpaceX which is another one of Musk's companies where he is CEO but the COO which is Gwen Shotwell runs day -to -day operations I think it's pretty evident that she has a lot of breadth to make decisions for SpaceX. So I mean it's not just because he's staying in an executive leadership position doesn't mean that she's not going to have the time or support she needs but you know we really don't know right now. You know he's still in a prominent position where he can tweet something publicly and that can maybe make her job a little bit harder as I think people at Tesla have figured out and some of his other companies so I think there's always that risk but in terms of the day to day operations of the company I think you know at least with SpaceX we see that he has a lot of trust in the other executives and you know she may have the breadth she needs to make some substantive choices. Do you think her hiring says that he has figured out that maybe his past conduct and the of advertisers was an oopsie? Like is it an acknowledgement that he needed someone to come in and do that side of the business? You know I don't know that we can say for sure. I definitely think if nothing else it acknowledges a need for that particular form of expertise for the company to be successful and I think a lot of times companies the background of the people that they choose as CEO sort of reflects the future that they're possibly envisioning for the company or the areas of the company that are going to be most vital to it and so I think the again the fact that she has this background if nothing else reflects his understanding that advertising is going to continue to be an incredibly important source of revenue that plays like Twitter Blue and sort of some of the other revenue generating ideas that he's had probably can't be the substantial foundation for the economic survival of this company. Tell
MedFamily
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"Conduct disorder. And then I think obstinate defiant disorder and a few other ones. Now, of course, ADHD and then you have a few other ones that are pretty red and butter for pediatrics..
MedFamily
"l. glass" Discussed on MedFamily
"Week of med family. I'm Eric acker. I'm Karen. I'm a hosting this week. Last week, we had a special episode with myself, Brandon west and south. So I just wanted to quit to get quickly take a moment and just think that again for taking the time out of their schedules to help us out to do that episode. And I just really appreciated it. It took a little bit of effort and I think she kind of jumped into the last minute and I think he did really well. But kind of always goodness to have good quality content and sometimes hearing other voices besides my own is nice. And then carrying up to your night off and enjoy some of her cooking shows. It was well timed because I had a baby shower that Friday, so it was I was able to get some stuff done. Yeah, and then so I also wanted to bring up the special episode because we had tried a new audio setup with the special episode that ended up causing some issues with the sound quality. So hopefully this one is okay tonight's episode anyway. And I think I figured out what I did wrong on the last episode and some of it was user air, some of it was equipment. So anyone who might have downloaded that first episode or when it first appeared, I really do apologize. It was not good quality and you can definitely tell that you can hear an echo and at least one of the microphones and I just didn't do a very good job. And so I did try to correct it and I did try to make it a little bit better. And by doing that, I also created other issues where you couldn't download the episode for a little bit and then it was available, but certain apps weren't allowing it to be downloaded. So I apologize. It was a great episode. I really enjoyed having Seth and Brandon there..
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
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"Most life who was who was the one who went on and on and on in the security council meetings where you could never get home for dinner on time. That was mr charlie box i ash and so we would take the globe out and i would show him on the globe where the country was of it. Yeah and it was all great until they would actually come to the ambassador's residence hall. My god exactly so out my best it again but giving voice in public remarks in interviews with journalists abou this experimentation almost or exploration of how to do both knowing. You're not going to be at full cylinder on both at once at any one time but instead of internalizing all of that to kind of externalize it we do beat ourselves up and so if you show that you yourself are carrying that same sense of never be enough to be in two places at once or even use your platform to urge self forgiveness and and that others kind of forgive themselves making all of that. More open in education idealist. I wrote about the fertility stuff and miscarriages and ivf which women i think are starting to do much more and that's another example. Where if you looked at our literature or memoirs you would think this really was a very rare phenomenon. The fertility challenge or the miscarriage challenge designed to related. It's so prevalent and he had any writing the book. i thought. Oh a surface this and describe my own journey and knowing how many women are going through in just so they know that so many of us have gone through something. Similar the number of people at book events who come up and the conversation that want to about that experience and about that commonality that solidarity someone will identify with you. If you're saying something honest. And i think part of the something we get into this rut as humans to find one identity. That is doing it right. And i do that as well like i'm looking for like though way to do it. And this is one thing..
Culinary School Stories
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"But we're going to star Ties right now. Just kinda having. I didn't i didn't to bring him in. The you know he was his responsibility. Says the kids were virtual shared where he was working cooking. Todd loves to cook nells. Well so i've got to give him some breathing. Those rules here with me. Monday through wednesday working here in store also shocks. You create a flavor that we released today. She was excited about. What was the flavor so her name is mom meal in her at her flavors called mount magno. She wanted to look like a volcano law. So it is Orange critical and cherry canaccord and in has like a light dusting off. Oriole trump's on. Wow the creamsicle ruled comes through and the crumbs then enough to give you. The kind of your tongue is far too chocolate. But it's just enough to kind of add a little bit more of a chocolate profile to the to the product so published a youtube video for that. This morning edited netted to the website. So she was excited about that so absorbed. 'cause she actually walks for she's here. She's pod popcorns filling orders or. She's just ten. She wants everything so right and then my son he's also popular sweets doesn't like he doesn't register. He likes to make the pop so enabling he quality control on. Every you'll stand there and look at a team member like that's non muscle to pizza. That's great well we'll have. I'll have to go check out her youtube channel today and maybe some of the other listeners. Can't we can give her thumbs up. So then she'll get a lot of likes on zigzagging zigzagging siri zigzagging zuri. Well that's great will wish you the best lock you know the rest of this year with your business and the growth. And hopefully we'll have you on the show again Giving us updates. And i'm gonna put all of your links in the show notes so the people that are listening. Please go out and check out his company there. And you know the website vice some of that popcorn and we'll get a contest going soon so every listeners. There i'll send that information out and you can possibly even win some of that yourself right well will. It was great catching up again. I wanna thank you for coming on the show. And and you know. She's given us an update and sharing more information about your story and giving some advice. The listeners on entrepreneurship really appreciate it. And i'm showed listeners. Do as well. Yeah you know. Always before to opportunity to the guests feedback and chairman experiences in helping next one coming up. So what was great talking. Enjoyed our chat. Now you take care bye and a big thanks and appreciation also goes out to all of you the listeners. We hope you enjoy the show and this episode. You all are a big part of this show so please let us know what you think. Your comments are always welcome and they help us in making the best show possible. You could email them to culinary school stories at g. Mail dot com. That's culinary school stories at g mail dot com or even leave us a voicemail and area code two zero seven eight three five one two seven five. That's area code. Two zero seven eight three five one seven and if you like the show we have a big ask of all of that is to share the podcast with everyone you know and to give us a positive rating and review on apple podcasts. Okay until our next culinary school story take care and be well bye bye. Culinary school stories is a proud member of the food media network..
Culinary School Stories
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"Like nine that went through the craziest stories of counter school. Were were happy to hop on with you at a share of the experiences and where we are now on how we can help your your followers senate future. Thank you so much i mean. There's so many great listeners. Out there that we've had six seven thousand downloads. We've got a lot of follow as a lot of people right in emails and they just love hearing from you know people like yourself that have already you know. Walked in that yeah. Those shoes walk that journey and can share it with those that may be coming minus or just people have already done it themselves and can kind of reconnect and walk down that memory lane. So that's great -actly so just like i did at episode twenty five which ended our first season. This is episode fifty ending our seconds. I brought out all the swags. You can see my shirt here somewhat made. I've got my coffee mug okay. We've got the picture behind us. I brought it all out because you know we have a storefront. I always promote that. And that's at chef roach dot com slash storefront and. We have a lot of stuff. And i was thinking maybe i could even do a give away. One time with their cena comes in different colors a little bit bigger. Oh and this is that. This is the gator. I love this one. This was actually helpful during the pandemic. Okay but i usually wear it. When i'm out fishing and stuff you know kinda protects the next orion a lot of good swag out there. Maybe i'll even do a contest. Give away some of that if the listeners want and and we can have a. I'll definitely gonna get a bug. The marks are great. They're really cool and stuff like that. So perfect so again. Thanks for being on here. So maybe discuss the listeners new listeners. All the time tuning in. Maybe we could just start with a quick refresher. Maybe let them know. How did you get your. I love of food. Remind us on that again. And you know how that got you to culinary. School and high school went to peabody high school and pittsburgh pennsylvania and it had a food service program there and the the instructor's name was miss hazel jackson. She owns a local barbecue. Restaurant In the area chip a few locations of her husband called king james mortgage and when i You know certain people audience admitted her. You know kinda you know created a you know a vons at a took food service elective to route highschool and actually by the time. I was a senior at an Need all the christian graduate study. I didn't go to school for full day. In actually torri who service electives in the same day jim english and then and then that was it so it was while in high school that i you know began received some some little attention as compliments on what i was going. A an inner class at that time because by the hours pretty much running cloths by time by tunnels a senior so by guidance. Counselor said hey. Every dolphin wells and at that time hadn't decided executive wanted to do like food with enroll enough. I want to be a chef but she recommended johnson and wells in high school. I applied to got accepted in you. Know went on a fly in emissions head fly in program so flew in and salt upon trees and stainless steel and the kit today. I want to give this a try your head. So that's what. I did so ended up johnson and wells so run You know best decisions are made. You got a four year degree. They're correct associate's and bachelor's. I did so the kohner students for like the rock stars there so you know you're just waiting for the white necktie talk you know whenever you earn. Earn that white necktie. So i i did. A four year program considered door nutrition on at first but in our really enjoyed the miami campus Allow law at a think. They started nutrition. The software year that i was there as a no i had the option And when i graduated in two thousand bassett shit so but yeah. I went to forty. Years did see four and dissed explained listens might not know there is different. Color isn't like a lot of schools to designate. The freshman sophomore. The scene years in the majors right because the baking and pastry at green culinary was blu-ray. Right right so so you will work your way up to the white right. I know they changed uniforms around since since then. But your your first year but was dark blue necktie. Your sophomore year was light blue and the junior senior it was. It was white and baking impatient with dr green Software your light green in a saint for them so we re aspire to although so that was a culture. Where at the time yeah. So it's you went into this popcorn business. Which is what we talked about last time. You know you're in that hot sugar pop and tell. The listeners regained refresh your memory. How that started and that had a little bit to do with your son had signed up to do with the military which you know. Thank you for your service for that. I think you're still in the reserves. Still active duty. Tell us a little bit about how that materialized. Because you know for those that are listening they can hear that background will is actually live. He's in his store right now. And that's why you'll hear voices. He has a lot of customers in a little bit. We're going to get a tore. He's gonna taurus around so if you're listening to the podcast verbally but also recording. This will have the video of it. So tell us about the military your son and how it materialized into a popcorn business so immature sophomore junior year. I joined the army and as a nutrition care specialists which is basically when the works in hospitals at that time conspiracy considering conan nutrition Being in florida and around the athletes and and the wealthy population novels speaking probably comrade personal chef. So join the military and right. now. I'm a Food service officer and just hit twenty. One years of service in will be retiring this year. Wow congratulations thank you. And my wife was stationed at the fort bragg and we already making popcorn for our our oldest son who has multiple food allergies and eczema Bad basically through process of elimination. We realized pop from something that he could eat. So we're always making it all and they want related to here in carolina for brag and you began his trip with our friends around here. It just quickly took off around today in around navy on to the point where we were recruited by the local mall and said hey you know what come to though we'll try to bring more local businesses into the mall and so we opened in the cross creek mall in two thousand and nineteen thankfully. We're.
Bertcast's Podcast
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"Roy isn't low so he i'd worked with him in australia and then he hit me up. Like hey man. I'm in the states. Is that what he said like. I'm in the states. And and he's like you know. I always said he's a really sweet guy he's like i said If if that. If i was here you take me on. I'd love to see american tours. At the time i was doing clubs i thought that would be easily take when i was like man. I'm gonna theater tour. Let me let me see. And where to god i swear to god i swear to god so i go. Hey we can add one more to our tour is at this is when you could still do in indoor theatres. I'm getting ready to shoot my special in like two weeks in a week. Hop on the tour bus with us a fly out. He was already in the states. I'll fly to where we are how to over those with us and see what it's like and it was and it just happened to be the end of the tour and i was leeann was hopping out on the bus. They had to empty the bus. And we ended up in reno. And i bought everyone tracksuits and roy was there but it was because because he had never done anything in america desk. I really was enjoying watching him thompson. I give each other a birthday presents every year. Starting this your birthday present. That's better than anyone giving me. And he said in the great to take a to give a present is better than receiving. It is and tom said you know what i do. Sometimes is i-. I hit my friends from high school or college and i go. Hey do you wanna come out in the road with me. No responsibility come on the road and then you can see what it's like. It's really fun then goes on. I i ended up. Blake going a little harder than i would like. We go out to a nice steak dinner. But my my i can watch my friends appreciate it. Because they don't normally do stuff where they stare blake's have kids or go out to clubs. They don't go app. Nice steak dinner at eleven o'clock at night. you know. they don't sleep in. They don't get massages and he goes. It's just really fun. You should do that. And so i went. Oh i'll do that. Because we this kid rory.
Bertcast's Podcast
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"It's a lot but Yesterday we do. I started doing. these family. workouts are so why don't you don't you my whole family come with me. I train on saturdays. We all do saturday at two o'clock and then we'll train and then we'll recover together. Did these put these recovery boots on. Girls started loving it loving it yesterday. Lacey my trainer brings georgia. And she's like. Let's see what you can max out dead lifting george. My oldest is what she's like. I don't know let's just see and she was like i mean. I bet you could do your own weight and georgia's like for real. She was like gallo c. So today so yesterday georgia throws up like one forty in a dead lift which is a lot. Yeah fucking little girl. Will you know today. I'm in my. I'm in the closet. My bedroom and i walk out in georgia. Stand on the scale. And what are you see. Guess what she goes. I dead lifted way over my body weight. And i'm like we. You're you're like you're still thinking about it today. That kind of positive energy carrying you into the next day made me so fucking happy that i was like to even if it bankrupt me. Not that it's going to. Even if i lost all my money i sell these memories of having these weights watching my daughter. Dead lift and lifting weights is fun as fuck. It's such a meathead fucking brings me back to being a kid again. All of a sudden you put on shirts in your arms feel tight. I know dammit man. I feel good feel stage. You don't know my friend levi macdougal. Hope i said his name right. He just isn't it nice to perform. When you don't i suck my gut it on stage. I think we all do i. Don't you know what that's just what you are confident we. I always say his body. You're better off if you don't because you're at least taking you might. Let's say you're forty fifty pounds overweight or thirty. My sister-in-law explained this to me. You're still if you're taking normal breathing cycles. But if you're holding your. She goes todd. Because i used to say stage. Well i gotta get going. I'm not tired of doing comedy. But i'm tired of suck on my gut it because i would feel and i used to say that exercise talking you're in And and she you're not taking breathing cycle so you're getting exhausted because not only thirty pounds overweight which isn't the end of the world. We are not taking breathing cycles. Because you're holding your gut in you're talking so that went away and now i'm ready to go back out on the road bird. I i'm i can't wait to go back out on the road. I'm so excited. I'm watching you. You know it's funny. I get when like you did like these shows. And i'm thinking and then when i saw your house today as they i'm so jealous berg you know because like the This again the style of your house have your has your your people. Your audience seen this house. I was even bears to say. Actually i'm saying it's it's funny i i never been embarrassed about anything Ever i've always put everything out there and two things happened. One is No no no. I'm one is. I'm an open book. And that's a flaw is that i've shared. I've shared where. I currently live so much that we get packages sent to the house. Fan show up to the doors. And like i remember guy showed the door and he's like hey you're iowa and like a dad and like it's been creepy so my daughter's asked that i don't instagram are anything that would give away where we live..
Cowboys Beat
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"I just think you know, especially if they miss out or take somebody else at 10, I think that would be a great fit in a cover-3 scheme. I mean big he's athletic he is not his brother OB he understands that his brother had flaws I've talked to him was that he was probably over drafted because of his athletic profile and he knows that he was kind of soft and he is he very much doesn't he didn't say Thursday? But that's what like he intimated that a little bit and so I think that he really tries to be go that extra mile to be physical as a corner. Especially it comes to you know, defending the run and going up and attacking screens and then man like the draft really sets up pretty good for them to you know, maybe get a linebacker or a defensive tackle with that third round pick linebacker and d-tackle in this draft class. That's kind of where the strength is. There's not a bunch of high-end Talent at D tackle, you know, the one technique but there's a bunch of guys in that kind of range that I think would be good value there. It also linebacker depending on which guys fall Dylan Moses is probably going to be round and round 3 months bill Cox might be probably not especially after he test but he might be he's really really good in coverage and then there's just so many guys that you think one of them is probably going to be there at 75 wage. And then in the fourth round if they want to get a developmental free safety, you know, I don't I don't think they'll have a chance to get Trayvon more rig or Richie Grant with their second round pick. So I'm getting in developmental guy. Maybe it came Stearns who I'm showing your yeah aware of, you know covering the Big Twelve. He's somebody who I really like the upside of God, you know, maybe ardarius Washington and if the team is comfortable with his height, I really like the player and you know, there's there's other guys as well Divine Diablo timer last be from Missouri, you know, and then after that, you know, there's guys that I like at the one technique defensive tackle Cyrus Tonga from BYU on Dale Mabry somebody like to Darrell Slayton on day three from Florida 6 with four three hundred thirty pounds. He's got absolute levers as arms and he uses them really. Well. He's just he's dead. A great athlete and there's one techniques, you know, that's really where you can find Value in the draft on day three those guys cuz the NFL doesn't value. Who do you thinks the best defensive player in this draft man? That's a tough question. The highest grade that I have is a tie between J. Okay, Jeremih woosah, Carmella the linebacker safety hybrid and Micah Parsons dead. Those are the two highest grades that I have. Given their positional value. Those are not the guys that I would draft first. I would draft I actually have the highest film grade on Caleb Farley, but with the back injury and there's just no way that you can feel comfortable taking him that high and so he would kind of be my guy but I would take the two corners JC horn and Patrick Stewart an over the linebackers because of positional value package. Then I really really like. Jaelan Phillips the Miami Edge rusher as well, but he also has injury concerns. And so that pushes him down the board a little bit as well. He's the name that might be there at 44th because of all the the health issues and I mean, he would be a perfect type of blue star special for Jerry Parsons is so interesting because he seems to be such a polarizing Prospect so much talent..
TED Radio Hour
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TED Radio Hour
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"On a dealing with this part of your day day job. That's emily hlavac. she's an astrophysicist. And her book is called the last stargazers. You can see her. Full talk at ted dot com on the show today through the looking glass. I'm newsom roti. And you're listening to the ted radio hour from npr. Hey everyone just a quick. Thanks to our sponsor fundraise with a track record. Earning consistent income and long-term appreciation successful investors have powered their portfolios with private real estate for decades. Now you can to fundraise. Fundraise provides access to diversified portfolios of private real estate with their easy to use platform. Go to fundraise dot com slash radio hour to see how one hundred and thirty thousand investors have built a better portfolio with private real estate. This message comes from. Npr's sponsor hub spot. Are you spending more time. Managing your crm than connecting with your customers hub. Spot wants to change that it's powerful. 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We are venturing through the looking glass extending our perception and exploring strange new worlds including here on earth so when you leaned on the packed snow runway in mcmurdo You don't see anything. It's just no so. There's no trees bushes or grasses. None of that. Most people think of antarctica 's is really desolate gets covered with over a mile of ice in many locations. It's the coldest continent it's also extremely dry. It's a polar desert. But the thing that i feel like a lot of people don't know about antarctica is that it's really brimming with life and a lot of locations. It's just that most of it is invisible to us. You would need to have a microscope in order to see them. This is ariel waldman. She's a wildlife filmmaker at the microbial scale. And i'm an adviser to nasa and i'm also in antarctic explorer aerial. I became interested in ant arctic microbes. Back in two thousand thirteen. She was working with nasa and she met astro biologists who study and arcos extreme conditions and the life forms actually thrived there. I had learned that a lot of biologists goto antarctica but they very rarely ever take any photos or videos of the creatures that they study there. And so i kind of saw an opportunity to really help both scientists and help people around the world actually get to see all this amazing stuff so that realization. That is what inspired you to basically become the first filmmaker to document these hidden ecosystems. But how did you go from that inspiration to making it happen. Couldn't could not have been easy going to antarctica just required a lot of preparation. I prepared for me and this was after. It took me five years of applying to go to antarctica and working towards becoming a wildlife filmmaker at the microbial scale. And so i was self taught microscopy. And then i ended up joining the san francisco microscopically society which i am now the president of super geeky so you become an microscopy and my saying that right. Yes exactly exactly and and so. Do you remember like you remember what it was like. When you first got to put a sample under the microscope in antarctica and peer into this tiny alien world for the first time just about fainted the very first sample i got to look at Was from divers who had gone under the sea ice. And i had an idea of like a few of the different critters that i was going to see but when i put the first sample under the microscope i saw these beautiful diatoms which are micro algae with glass shells which are just beautiful. Their geometric gems of the sea of different areas of water earth. But but i found diatoms that had triangular shapes and they just looked like they had been manufactured by humans. There so gorgeous. And i i. It's hard to put it into words. Just how excited. I was okay so talk through it. Like what was the plan for you and your trustee microscopes so the plan in antarctica was to take my microscopes around to different locations and really be able to find life that was under the ice so i was looking for a life on the sea ice i was looking for life embedded inside glacier ice life that was near frozen lakes and i would go around and i would take samples from different locations and some of the areas where i sampled that. We're more hardcore to get to. I would join up with another team. And and one of those hardcore places was beneath the ice like into the water. Can absolutely this right absolutely freezing water. I believe the water is negative to celsius so because it saltwater it can go a little bit beyond the normal freezing point of water and they're divers in an article that regularly go down Under nine feet thick of cis and explore the ocean down there. It's really amazing. I was watching these divers going like. Why would anyone want to do that. Is freezing hall like nothing that can be that worth it But thankfully there's this this metal tube that Mcmurdo station put into the ice. And you can crawl down to do.
TED Radio Hour
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"If all you're doing is looking up and enjoying how beautiful it is so i have to ask emily. I mean in the vocal fashion here. I i get kinda freaked out. When i spend any time doing astronomy..
TED Radio Hour
"l. glass" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"The this guy and that woman excitement start to say well with oscar became the living person on the planet to discover a supernova with the naked eye our oldest tool for peering into the universe for millennia. People have been studying the stars with the naked eye. And it's really astonishing to look at what people were able to discover in what people were able to learn just through stargazing. This is emily leveque. She's an astrophysicist and she writes about the history of astronomy. Ironically the first instances of sort of using telescopes astronomy began just a few years after the last naked eye supernova there was a naked eye supernova in sixteen. Oh four and just a few years after that we started using telescopes to study the universe and then it was three hundred odd years later in one thousand nine hundred seven when oscar de holiday saw another naked eye supernova and now we had these beautiful modern telescopes at our disposal to try and study it. You can see why that would have been such an exciting discovery. When it happens our senses can only take us so far in understanding the world around us but with the right tools we can look further deeper and push past those limits. We can venture into uncharted territory. Are we alone in the universe and ask questions. We didn't even know we had heard we come. I the universe going. What is our place it because sometimes big discoveries only happen if we're willing to fall down the rabbit hole just about fainted. Hyphen gives us to reach for. I think we could talk about the human mind. The unconscious as the final frontier insulated to dream of so today on the show were traveling through the looking glass to explore. Strange new worlds using telescopes microscopes. And even our unconscious minds but first back to emily leveque. She says that long before oscar duhalde as spotted the supernova with his naked eye. Astronomers were using something almost as primitive to make sense of the sky. Small plates of glass astronomers were using these very delicate glass plates to capture images from telescopes The plates were chemically treated so they would respond to light. And then when you loaded one of these plates into telescopes camera and opened the shutter you would get this exquisite little black and white image of whatever. The telescope was pointed at needless to say these fragile pieces of glass were pretty hard to work with. Astronomers would mess with the chemical treatment that dictated. How the plates responded. Today they would slice them down to size to fit into the cameras. That would do all this work in the dark because once you suppose plate to light it starts to darken but scientists made huge discoveries with these glass plates including one in nineteen twenty three by someone you may have heard of before edwin hubble you know the name hobble because of our wonderful space telescope that we have right now but edwin. Hubble wasn't astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century and one of his biggest discoveries was that there are other galaxies beyond our own early in his career. Sort of early. In hubble's time. We thought that our galaxy the milky way was possibly the whole universe and hobble got observations of one of our neighboring galaxies. The andromeda galaxy with glass plates at the time and drama were referred to as the great andromeda nebula and people weren't quite sure what it was and hubble's observations with glass plates meant that he was able to estimate the distance to andromeda and demonstrate that it must be incredibly far away. It had to be another galaxy. So how made this discovery almost a hundred years ago but the images that we have of andromeda today they are so different. They are so detailed compared to when we had to use those glass plates right. Yeah so if you google it you can actually probably find a picture of the glass plate. That hubble used to make his discovery. And if you look at that plate you can see these sort of wisps of spiral arms in this hint of what we know today. Looks like a galaxy. But if you just look up a big modern photograph of andromeda you'll probably see observations with the hubble space telescope so a very different type of humble observation and nowadays we can pinpoint and study individual stars in andromeda down to really exquisite detail. We can study very dim stars in the galaxy. We can watch how the stars move. It's really just amazing. How much detail we can now achieve with the observing tools that we have available to us today Years emily leveque on the ted stage. Schilling a photo of the vera rubin observatory in chile. This telescope will photograph entire southern sky every few days over and over following a preset pattern for ten years. Computers and algorithms with the observatory will then compare every pair of images taken of the same patch of sky looking for anything that's gotten brighter. Or dimmer variable star or looking for anything that's appeared like a supernova. Right now we discover about thousand supernovae every year. The rueben observatory will be capable of discovering thousand supernovae. Every night it's going to dramatically change the face of astronomy and of how we study things change in the sky and it will do all of this largely without much human intervention at all. It will follow that pattern and computational find anything that's changed or appeared so it sounds like telescopes today almost remove all of the human aspects of stargazing but oscar do holiday us the most basic tool available. His is is there still room for spontaneous observation in astronomy. Yeah so we think of the story of oskar discovering a supernova with the naked eye as the spirit unusual one off and it was he was the only living person on the planet to discover a supernova with the naked eye in hundreds of years but naked eye. Astronomy can still sometimes be kind of and the best recent example of this is actually something that happened about a year and a half ago to the star beetlejuice. So a lot of people know beetlejuice. It's the bright red star in one of the shoulders of the constellation. Orion and in the fall of two thousand nineteen beta do started to get dramatically dimmer to the point where you could notice it with your naked eye and amateurs obstr- honors and a telescope users. Were the ones who started spotting this so my colleagues and i were able to really on short notice snatched these brief moments of time on telescopes to try and point debatable juice while it was this dim to try and figure out what was going on so i have a lot of people. How do i get into stargazing. How do i get into astronomy. And there's sometimes in assumption that you have to run out and buy expensive telescope but you can enjoy astronomy with just your eyes and just enjoy. How beautiful the sky looks and try to look for patterns and look for unusual things. If you have a pair of binoculars you can get just amazing views of things like the moon. So it's a really wonderful pursuit even.
Golden Edge - Vegas Golden Knights Hockey
"l. glass" Discussed on Golden Edge - Vegas Golden Knights Hockey
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Antonio B Jackson Presents Sweetluck's "Bar Fights"
"l. glass" Discussed on Antonio B Jackson Presents Sweetluck's "Bar Fights"
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Antonio B Jackson Presents Sweetluck's "Bar Fights"
"l. glass" Discussed on Antonio B Jackson Presents Sweetluck's "Bar Fights"
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