35 Burst results for "Laurel"
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Biden's Crimes Are Far Worse Than Trump's
"Biden doesn't want you to think about ESG. He doesn't want you to think about upcoming local elections. I am as outraged as you are about a Trump arrest, and we're going to talk more about that on this show today. And we also talked about that yesterday, but we need to realize that Biden's failures are not just failures. They are deliberate acts of sabotage. This applies to a Trump arrest as well. If Trump is arrested by corrupt leftists in New York, that's not an accident. That's not a blunder. That's an act of sabotage. The same is true of most everything else on Biden's record. Look at the disastrous and bloody Afghanistan pullout. That was a debacle so utterly botched that it will likely negatively impact our diplomatic and war fighting abilities. For generations. Yet no one was held accountable there. And because the incompetence people were not removed, the same Pentagon was caught flat footed, trying to respond to a Chinese spy balloon. Secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, was caught twiddling his thumbs over multiple supply chain crisis affecting food supplies for babies and adults alike, as well as they suspected hack of our air traffic control systems. Not one to rest on his laurels. He can now claim a giant mushroom cloud of toxic and carcinogenic gas as a recent accomplishment. What could better represent his tenure than a literal toxic flaming trainwreck? The talentless political hacks and diversity hires in the DoJ, Homeland Security, intelligence agencies, Department of Education, and State Department have been caught repeatedly engaging in state directed censorship. Political and religious targeting and developing legal theories to establish thought crime. And each time they get caught, the media ignores the disaster, and these same anti American plants go right back to work undermining the essential pillars of American government.
HowSound
"laurel" Discussed on HowSound
"A message from transom. Between public radio and the explosion of podcasts, there are now so many voices out there in the ether producing all manner of great work. But there's also a lot of work that falls between the cracks. It doesn't neatly fit anywhere. The lovely, the odd, the hyperlocal, the non commercial, profoundly personal and poetic stories about how we live our lives. Transom thinks this work, and these kinds of stories are important. Critically important, that's why transom dot org exists. But transom also wants to be a place like an on the ground in person place that nurtures that kind of energy, that kind of creativity. So the team at transom has been looking into buying a building and setting up a permanent location in Woods hole, Massachusetts. Right now, transom has an office at the radio station in Woods hole, W CAI, and the workshops in the past were in the old fire station in town, but an actual transom building, dreamy. And what would happen there? Well, any number of things, a residency program for experienced producers to produce work that doesn't have a home. Maybe workshops for people looking to collaborate with scientists here in Woods hole to communicate their work. Maybe opportunities to experiment with music and sound design. It could be a place to form alliances with artists from other disciplines. Just think of it as a lab. The transom story lab. Interested, I thought so. To help with the planning, transom has a short survey we'd like you to fill out. Find it at transom dot org. We've also put a link in the show notes for this episode.
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer for the One Feeling Overwhelmed
"You see, the world says to have peace, you have to be on a luxurious vacation in Malibu. Or to have peace, you have to have complete financial security, a great job, and a 401k to boot. The world says that you'll finally have peace when your life looks like someone else's Instagram feed. This world offers fake peace that leaves us chasing a moving target. Jesus said, you will have peace when you have my spirit because the fruit of the spirit is peace. Galatians 5 22 through 23. This is a piece that we can get from this world. This kind of piece only comes from a relationship with God. This kind of piece is at rattled one our finances aren't where we want them to be. Or worse when we are in financial despair. Jesus piece is still there as we wait for daily breath. Sometimes moment by moment. The peace that God gives helps us to celebrate others accomplishments. And gives thanks for what God has generously given us. So when my heart is troubled and anxious, I have to ask myself, where are you looking for peace? We signed our peace and God, the Holy Spirit empowers us to live in a way that baffles the world. Onlookers, don't understand how we can be so peaceful. While they frantically search for what can only be found in Christ. So today, when you're overwhelmed instead of looking to the world for a reprieve, ask God for his feast. Let's pray. Dear lord, thank you for giving us the gift of a relationship with you through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Look how you don't stop there. You also ensure that we know you have not abandoned us by giving us the gift of your Holy Spirit. Laurel, we face difficulties, and we get overwhelmed, we have the assurance that you are with us because we have your spirit living inside of us. And God with that you give us the unshakable gift of peace. Lord, I pray you would help us to remember where we find true rest and true peace. Or forgive us for chasing down peace from this world. Lord, as you know, it never lasts. More money does not lead to more peace, it creates no problems. More security just leads to more frenzied attempts at managing our lives. In attending to live someone else's life, robs us of all joy. Jesus I pray you give us the strength to turn away from these false sources of peace. Help us turn to you that. You give us peace that the world can not give. In the world can not take away. Jesus help us believe and trust that every word you say is true, you are with us, you are for us, and you will give us peace, so we don't have to be troubled or afraid. In Jesus name,
The Charlie Kirk Show
The 2024 RNC Tech Manhattan Project With Jason Belich
"I'm really excited for this conversation. I read this article and I agreed with basically every single word and it really animated me for a variety of reasons. The article is Republicans need a tech Manhattan Project to win in 2024 and beyond. And the author and the mind behind that is Jason belic and he joins us right now. Jason, welcome to the program. Explain your article to our audience and then also to our younger listeners remind them what the Manhattan Project was. Thanks for having me on, Charlie. What's really what we need and what we're missing is the Republicans have been posting on laurels for decades. And our technology and the ground game behind the technology is almost 20 years behind the Democrats. And we by and large are totally unaware of it. Particularly the RNC, obviously, but the apparatus itself of the Republican Party is unaware just how far behind we truly are. It's like we're trying to use Napoleonic tactics for modern mechanized warfare. And what we really need to do is we need to educate ourselves just exactly how far behind we really are. And how we got there. The GOP used to have a really good ground game and a good data game. Like everything from the 94 revolution all the way through the bush years. We had the best technology, the best data, the best for the time. The RNC data warehouse or second to none. And it simply doesn't have that anymore. And what happened was big tech happened. A $1 trillion industry sprung up, and they turned around and gave a $1 trillion gift to the Democrats.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
2022's Biggest Loser Awards: Meghan Markle
"Before we begin to look forward to another year of dystopian corruption, let's engage in a little look back on the year that was in the form of an award show. Not just any awards show, we're going to hand out awards to this year's biggest losers. Trash awards for the trashiest people and institutions whose contributions played a big part in the transformation of our country into a hellscape. The awards for the biggest losers this year signify decorations for dereliction, kudos for corruption, accolades for abuse, laurels for laziness and trophies for terribleness. Our first category is the award for most ungrateful scold. Hands down, this award has to go to Meghan Markle. The former member of British royalty and professional crier when she's on camera. Meghan and her former prince of husband Harry, who claims to be a tortured soul himself, have renounced their obligations to the British royalty. But want to keep as much of their royal brand. Money, security, and lifestyle as possible. In order to start a kind of media grift, knocking the British royalty. This was most aptly exemplified in their countless interviews, whether that be with Oprah or in their own multi part documentary on Netflix. The only documentary to show a tortured couple living in a $30 million home in montecito, yet who claimed to be victims. And literally, no one on the entire planet gets why Meghan has chosen this course of action. Harry and Meghan truly hated the media as they claimed throughout their documentary, then they could have chosen to live a quiet life out of the limelight away from the media. But no, they love media attention, and a camera crew is Meghan's best friend. That's why she hired one to photograph her when she went to pay her respects to victims of a school shooting. Very heartfelt Meg, and you can't let that photo op pass you by.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Well, well, in terms of the book itself, I've already gotten a couple of awards for the book. Congratulations. That's fantastic. Yes. And did I say it's written? It was actually professionally leveled. So it is in the fourth to 6th grade. Reading range, but I wrote, I wrote a specifically to so that all the children could read it. I mean, I wrote kind of book I would have loved to read when I was ten. Because I loved all animal stories and I loved everything medieval and wrinkle in time and C. S. Lewis and things like that. That's so wonderful for those are pretty good in to see. But on the program before, so I get $20 for that. But you just said that it's won some awards. Every chapter of court, there's a lot of detail if you want to learn about medieval life and that kind of thing. And that's what I love about some historical novels, especially for kids, and there are woodcuts, medieval woodcuts, beginning. Yes. That's beautiful. An illustrator, an illustrator. I knew from some work I'd done for a science fiction magazine years ago, I was an editor. And I knew Courtney and I looked him up and I knew this was just the type of illustration he would enjoy doing. And he created these kind of medieval woodcut style that was really kind of fun. And I was thrilled by that. So all together, that also helps make it kind of a book that both kids and adults, I think, will really enjoy. Was it challenging for you as a writer? Because I'm a writer who has been thinking for many decades that I will write fiction. But other than stuff for kids, nothing as long as this. I've never really written fiction. But structuring a story, not having done that before, was that particularly challenging or did that just seem to suggest itself to you rather easily? Well, that's the thing. It all kind of came down in about two minutes. And then I hate you, Laurel gillan. I hate you. I would say that. I wrote in a weekend, no problem. That's pretty cool. No, that's wonderful when that happens. That's never happened to me. But so it came to you fairly clear cleanly and quickly that certain things that had to work out because, you know, you can get an overall plot, but you still have to figure out how things come together and so that took some work. But I also knew which parts of history I really wanted to include. And the rest of its fantasy, of course, but that was something that and it was difficult to find the time to do the writing and as busy as I am, but I really felt carried through this whole process. I really did. And I felt a lot of love for all the characters. And I think comes through in the book. Well, I want to be clear if people want to get the book, normally people know how to get books. But you did want to share something specifically because sometimes there are these weird issues. What's the easiest way for folks to find a bellwether Christmas? Well, the I think the easiest way is to go to the publisher's website, which is faithful text dot com. Faithful. Full text. There's a website faithful text dot com. And you can get a 15% off discount and you can certainly get it by Christmas if you go to that website. Well, I love it. It's very, very modestly priced $14 for this beautiful little hard cover. Well, Laurel, give my love to Michael, and it's early, but in the spirit of the season, Merry Christmas. Congratulations, really on this. I think we need more of this kind of thing. So when I discovered that you had written this, I was excited about it, and now having heard about it, I'm even more excited about it. So folks, you can go to faithful text dot com, the book is a bellwether Christmas by Laurel gillan. Laurel, again, thank you and God bless you. Great to see you. Thank you, Eric. Merry Christmas. And a really heavy enjoyed mistake. But a much more moving on. Like a king without a castle like a queen without a throne. I'm an early morning lover. And I'm actually moving on. Hey folks, before we leave you for the day..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Laurel Guillen: Writing a Novel for Both Children and Adults
"A writer who has been thinking for many decades that I will write fiction. But other than stuff for kids, nothing as long as this. I've never really written fiction. But structuring a story, not having done that before, was that particularly challenging or did that just seem to suggest itself to you rather easily? Well, that's the thing. It all kind of came down in about two minutes. And then I hate you, Laurel gillan. I hate you. I would say that. I wrote in a weekend, no problem. That's pretty cool. No, that's wonderful when that happens. That's never happened to me. But so it came to you fairly clear cleanly and quickly that certain things that had to work out because, you know, you can get an overall plot, but you still have to figure out how things come together and so that took some work. But I also knew which parts of history I really wanted to include. And the rest of its fantasy, of course, but that was something that and it was difficult to find the time to do the writing and as busy as I am, but I really felt carried through this whole process. I really did. And I felt a lot of love for all the characters. And I think comes through in the book. Well, I
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Until just now. Laurel gillan, who has written a book called the bellwether Christmas is telling us about one of these legends of Saint Francis, who's featured in the novel of bell with a Christmas. So wait, it's the wolf of what? Gubbio. Gubbio, the wolf of gubbio. So let me guess Francis goes up to him. He makes him an offer he can't refuse. Yes. I agree. And according to what the townspeople say, you know, passed down. The wolf was fine. He would come every few days get fed, never hurt anybody else again. And people thought, okay, well, this is a legend. Well, in the mid 1800s, they were renovating the church or a square in the town of gubbio, and they unearthed a large skeleton of a wolf that dated from the 13th century. So that's actually very interesting. I love this kind of stuff because one thing I don't like is legends, because legends generally, I think, undermine people's faith. People rational people just go, that's just preposterous. Saint Francis didn't chase the snakes out of Ireland, whatever these things become so mythical and so legendary that they really undermine the historical reality, but I love it when we can find proof or at least evidence. And so you're saying that we found some evidence that there may have been more truth to the story than we'd be inclined to believe. Exactly, exactly. So it still doesn't prove it, of course. It's actually became respectable citizen. Yes. And every morning. Yes, live for another two years, they said. You became a daily communicant. And we know that the sheep that he'd eaten before that time. And we do know that Francis would preach to birds at times. He has been known to he loved the larks in particular. And he would sometimes get up and preach to them and basically tell them to just go on being giving praise and honor to God by flying around and being larks. And it's actually kind of a deep thing there when you think about it. It's like going be who God created you to be and you're kind of giving glory to God. And there's something powerful in a lot of the Catholic tradition and in the Eastern Orthodox tradition that those of us like me who are more evangelical. We've lost some of that. We've made it all so rationalistic that there's some mystery and some beauty there. And I don't think we want to throw out the baby with the bath water. So that's why I think stories like this and figures like Francis are actually very important. There was no Protestant church in the day. Francis. He didn't know enough to realize he really should be Dutch reformed and live in Michigan. He didn't know that. At the time. He couldn't have known. God only judges you on the basis of what you know, but it is, there is something beautiful about these stories and I'm just so glad that you went back and you resurrected it for us today. What else should we know about this book, a bellwether Christmas about the story?.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Laurel Guillen: Taming the Wolf of Gubbio by St. Francis
"The wolf of what? Gubbio. Gubbio, the wolf of gubbio. So let me guess Francis goes up to him. He makes him an offer he can't refuse. Yes. I agree. And according to what the townspeople say, you know, passed down. The wolf was fine. He would come every few days get fed, never hurt anybody else again. And people thought, okay, well, this is a legend. Well, in the mid 1800s, they were renovating the church or a square in the town of gubbio, and they unearthed a large skeleton of a wolf that dated from the 13th century. So that's actually very interesting. I love
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Be. When we come back, this is called a cliffhanger folks. This is show business. This is a cliffhanger. We come back Laurel gillen, the author of a bellwether Christmas. We'll tell us the rest of the story. We don't know what. Don't you know this is true with the overturn of roe V wade lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies, you've decided to stop shopping or doing business there, but did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your four-o-one-ks, IRAs, and other investment accounts. Folks, this is a huge problem, and we need to do something about this. The send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric to connect with an inspire adviser's financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel. Today, go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric that's inspire advisers dot com slash Eric. Advisory services are offered through inspire advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser with the SEC. Hey folks, you've all helped build my pillow into the incredible company it is today. Now Mike lindell inventor and CEO of my pillow wants to give back to you. My listeners. So right now my pillow is offering exclusive offers on their bed sheets. They're 6 piece towel set, and even offering an extended 60 day money back guarantee. Orders placed. Now through December 25th, we'll have an extended money back guarantee through March 1st. The bedsheets are marked down as low as 29 98, believe me when I say you'll get a great night's sleep. There's 6 piece towel set is made with USA cotton. It comes with two bath towels, two hand towels, and two washcloths typically retails at 89 98 now just 39 98 with promo code Eric, limited supply, so be sure to order now. Call one 809 7 8 three O 5 7 one 809 7 8 three O 5 7 use promo code Eric or go to my pillow dot com, click on the radio listen to square use promo code Eric. These offers will not last long. They're known to sell quickly. So order now with promo code Eric at my pillow dot com, my pillow dot com promo code Eric. Folks, welcome back. Have you heard of the wolf of giglio?.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Yes, Laurel gillan has written a novel. It's unbelievable. Laurel, I've talked to Michael so many times over the years. I've met you many times, but I was excited by the idea of this. And now that I'm hearing that what it's about, I'm even more excited. The title of this novel. It's really a Christmas tale kind of like a Christmas Carol. Not gigantic. It's not a 300 page novel. It's called a bellwether Christmas. And it seems to me based on what you just said that you do write about what actually happened historically with Saint Francis in 1223 AD. Creating this idea of this Tableau of the animals around the manger and so on and so forth. That is in the book. Yes, and now there are only a few details about that event. We know what happened. They were very few details. So I kind of flesh it out a bit. But we do know that it did happen. And of course, if you go to a Greco Italy, there is a museum of the crib. It's basically because they consider themselves the place where everything started. And after this happened, by the way, everybody wanted to do this. It spread like wildfire. So it became a tradition very quickly across Christendom. So and did Saint Francis also invent the petting zoo? Probably. Pretty close. Pretty close. Yes. So Stu Leonard stole that from him. All right, I want to say the title bellwether Christmas. Explain what is a bellwether because a lot of people aren't familiar with that term. I love that term bellwether. Well, it's kind of a double entendre in this case, because bellwethers are things that lead others there leading indicators, say, if you were in business, you'd say bellwether stocks, which show which way everything is going to go. So that's the traditional definition of bellwether. But a bellwether is actually a weather who is belled and a weather is a male cheap who is the equivalent of a gelding. He's never going to be ram. That's history. He doesn't have the parts anymore. But there are ramps and there are weathers. And but we have to be clear the term bellwether stock, the adjective bellwether, comes from the animal story. It's a bellwether, as you've just said, is a male sheep, which is a ram a gelding, which has the bell on it, and all of the other sheep follow the bell. So the bellwether is the leader, and I didn't know that the term weather referred to the actual animal. But the bell weather is the one. If you've been in four H, you would know that, but that's okay. Right. I grew up in Queens. All right, enough. So, but it's interesting because when we talk about the canary in the coal mine, all of these things, these are real things, the canary in the coal mine comes from the idea that they would go down into the mines, and they would take a canary because canaries are so fragile that if there was poison gas, the miners wouldn't know it, but the canary would keel over. And so they canary in the coal mine is the one that tells us, all these terms that come from rural life or come from more simple life. But bellwether is a classic term. So can you tell us why the title of the book is a bellwether Christmas or would that spoil it for us? I think that would kind of spoil it. All right. So then don't tell us. Don't tell us. Don't tell us. You sure? Don't tell us..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Laurel Guillen: Previewing the Book 'A Bellwether Christmas'
"Title of this novel. It's really a Christmas tale kind of like a Christmas Carol. Not gigantic. It's not a 300 page novel. It's called a bellwether Christmas. And it seems to me based on what you just said that you do write about what actually happened historically with Saint Francis in 1223 AD. Creating this idea of this Tableau of the animals around the manger and so on and so forth. That is in the book. Yes, and now there are only a few details about that event. We know what happened. They were very few details. So I kind of flesh it out a bit. But we do know that it did happen. And of course, if you go to a Greco Italy, there is a museum of the crib. It's basically because they consider themselves the place where everything started. And after this happened, by the way, everybody wanted to do this. It spread like wildfire. So it became a tradition very quickly across Christendom.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Know that. Now where did you find that? That's amazing to me. Well, that's just, as I said, I've read dozens and dozens of books and did a lot of research when I thought I was going to be writing a novel. So I really read the what do you call it? The early Francis contracts, the I've read a lot. And so this was just something I happened to know, but my brain didn't even put to a two together until just one day, it all just came, you know, I was around Christmas time, and I thought, oh my goodness, here's a wonderful Christmas story and that people don't know about it. And oh my goodness. And in a couple of years, it's going to be the 800th anniversary of this tradition. And of course, after he did this, Francis had a real flair for the dramatic. He was really, he was really good. He was a showman, in that sense. He was just so exuberant. It was larger than life character. And he wanted, I think, to point out to people, you know, the great miracle of this humbling of God into a poor, coming down as a poor child, being surrounded by dumb beasts. And, you know, I think that was what he was also trying to get across to people. Theological idea, but to have it brought to life in this way, that takes a medieval saint, usually, or a showman, P. T. Barnum, or some combination. We'll be right back talking to Laurel gillan, the book is a bellwether Christmas. Don't go away. Tell me Eric, why is relief factor so successful at lowering or eliminating pain? I'm often asked that question, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal. And I agree with them. So the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, each helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of before ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway, and that right there approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. So if you've got back pain, shoulder neck hip knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it will work for you. It works for me. It has for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more, go to relief factor dot com or call 800 for relief to find out about this offer, feel the difference. As hard as it may be for us to comprehend here in America, there are people in other parts of the world whose very lives are being threatened simply for believing in Jesus. In fact, people are being enslaved for their faith, some have been in bondage for 25 or 30 years. If you've been listening for any period of time, you know, I'm passionate about the work of Christian solidarity international a ministry that sets these captives free. There are hundreds of thousands of persecuted and enslaved in the Middle East together we can literally buy their freedom and save the lives of some precious brothers and sisters. This Christmas, giving them the joy and hope that we celebrate freely. For only $250, you can provide lifesaving aid this Christmas you can buy a believer's freedom and provide them with much needed food, a goat, and other goods necessary for their very survival. These are brothers and sisters who are enslaved and fearing for their lives, just $250, maybe you can give more and maybe a portion. Every gift helps imagine buying a fellow believers freedom call 8 8 8 two 5 three 35 22 8 8 8 two 5 three 35 22. Christian solidarity providing lifesaving resources for persecuted Christians for almost 40 years, 888-253-3522 or metaxas talk dot com and click on the Christian solidarity banner, give someone the gift of their freedom for Christmas. Thank you. Hey there folks, I'm talking to Laurel gillan..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Laurel Guillen: How My Grandmother Met the Pope
"Somewhere in there, I'm a little Italian. But I always wanted to go to Italy. Yes. She was a devout Catholic and she wanted to see all the sites and it was a wonderful trip. She actually got to meet Pope John Paul the second. By virtue of a surprise that her vision bumped into him at the CVS, how did that work out? No, we were actually, we actually went to Saint Peter's square when he was speaking. And there are thousands and thousands of people and you have to have a ticket. And so we had to take him and kept showing it to the Swiss guard and the Swiss guards kept going, go forward. Go forward. Pretty much. And what we ended up doing is we ended up on the stage on the little stage that they set up sitting among all these Italian brides and grooms. And she's in her wheelchair, and I'm with her. And then what happens at the end of the service, the Pope turns around, and all the little brides and grooms and dignitaries and whatever get in a line and get to meet the Pope. And so we were in that line. And he blessed my grandmother, put his hands on her head. And after that, I used to tease her. I would call her the holy relic.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I just wanted to say that folks. I'm excited because they tell me we are entering the Christmas season. We may be in the Christmas season. And I get to have the fun. Of talking to friends on this program because I've made so many friends over the years. Sometimes these friends do really crazy, fun, interesting stuff, like right novels, for example, some of you know my friend Michael gillan, he's a science genius. He's written many books, but on this program, many times, you may not know his lovely wife Laurel, gillan, who's done many things in her own right, but right now I'm here to talk to Laurel because she's written a novel Laurel gillan. Welcome to the program. And why? Did you write a novel? What's going on? Yeah, this is something I've always wanted to write a novel, but never thought I would. And then this idea came into my brain a few years ago in a I call it a download from God and wrote it down and then a book came out of it. And I looked at it and I said, you know, this book is kind of for children or adults kind of for everybody. I was going to say, I want to be really clear that when we say novel, people are thinking of some 400 page thriller or something. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is a book that you could easily see reading with your kids or your kids reading, or you would read it yourself, but let's start with the title, which I want you to explain Laurel gillen, the title is a bellwether Christmas. I love words. I've always loved the word bellwether. Most people probably don't know what it means. So tell us, first of all, what the title is about, or if you just want to tell us what the book is about first and then work backwards to the title. Well, let me yes. Let me tell you what the book is about first. It's about a an orphaned lamb living in medieval Italy and medieval Italy. An orphan lamb, no parents. Lamb living in medieval Italy. Right. Right. And his name is Bart. He's very headstrong. He's very impetuous. He gets in trouble a lot. He doesn't feel like he fits in. And then he starts to hear about this mysterious stranger from assisi, who seems to be able to talk to animals and tells animals things about love and belonging and praise and honor. And those little land is very curious about this. And he becomes determined to meet this mysterious stranger, and that ends up with a kind of a climax on Christmas Eve when something is unveiled that has never been seen before, and which is going to become part of our holiday traditions until today..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And I believe it speaks to his destiny, God's not done with him. I think that that is right. I've been, you know, a little amazed at the level of attacks that have come against him. And how people really do seem to feel that he's the guy that we have to crush. We have to make it impossible for him to be president because I think that most people know that if anybody is going to deal with the corruption. I mean, he even in his announcement speech and I had the privilege of being there in the room in Mar-a-Lago. But I was kind of amazed when he talked about how his family had been attacked, how they'd been subpoenaed and indicted in whatever verb you want to use. Really, really, really attacked. And his son Eric, who was two rows in front of me because I had the privilege of being in the third row. He turned around to acknowledge the crowd because president Trump singled out his son who had just been so attacked legally for nothing, just and he turned around and he had tears in his eyes. And it was clear that they have really suffered as a family. They've been put through hell. They have stood heroically against it. And I really believe that if God's hand is on somebody, they're not going to get them. They can keep going after him. They can keep trying to impeach him or to do this or to do that. But it is going to continue to backfire. That's my sense of it. But they're desperation in going after him is unquestionably unlike anything I've ever seen. Yeah, well, a lot of people are counting him out. Because of all the stuff. But how many times did people count him out in 2016? And he said something or did something they said, oh, he's done the political laws of science, says this, he's done. But I hope he can hear this message because I would say to him that this woman of color that I've seen that will come alongside him will actually help bring some sense of validation. If he's lost any credibility with some people, the claims about the elections, the claims about the Hunter Biden laptop story and Chinese bribery involved in corruption and involvement will come to light. It will come to light and he will be vindicated. So I hope he stays encouraged because we learned the lesson in 2016. Don't count him out. He's anointed. He has a political annoying. That doesn't mean God approves of everything he says it does. But when people think of the annoying they think of, well, preachers are knowing it's singers or not. That's church and awning. There is a political and political annoying and he has it. Well, and again, I want to remind people that he was at least my interpretation is he was tremendously ignorant of the evil forces arrayed against him, and he allowed a lot of bad people to get in around him, you know, up and down the line from Nikki Haley to Christopher wray to all these kinds of people who really were not on board with him and he rather graciously and to some extent naively allowed them in, I think he has learned that lesson big time and I think that he is the man who is willing to fight for this nation for liberty for all those.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"laurel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show, sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, buckle your seatbelts and keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. Here comes mister thrill ride himself. Texas. Let's welcome back talking to my friend Chris Reed of morning star ministries. So Chris, you're sharing some exciting things. I just read before at the end of hour one that on August 18th. So this is a number of months ago, obviously. You saw a tragedy befalling the Pelosi families. So talk about that. Yeah, so I had another visionary trance like encounter. Where I saw a news headline where it said a tragedy has befallen the Pelosi family. And I didn't remember the exact wording of it when I come out of the trans, but that's what I knew the message was a tragedy would befall the Pelosi family that would catch the world's eye, meaning it would make news. And then it said, and then I remembered the lord said to me, you need to pray for her children or slash, you know, however many that is, because no matter how much you disagree with her, this will affect her family. Well, that was August 18th, and then clearly what happened to her husband. I don't think we know the full story of what happened. But I think this was a limited judgment with mercy, God's judgments often come with mercy on the Pelosi family, the corruption and the Pelosi family. And so I think we've seen this happen. And she is no longer the Speaker of the House. And so we see these kind of things happen together. I forgot about that. The fact that she will soon not be speaker, any longer, but of course, the strange hammer attack on her husband. And again, you know, the lunacy that we don't know what happened. The absolute lunacy, and it's despicable that journalists in America are not demanding the truth are not broadcasting the truth or not investigating what happened. What could be more significant than this kind of an attack on the husband of the Speaker of the House, and we don't know what's going on. We do know something happened. We do know it was horrifying, but we just don't know the details. But in any event, it happened, I guess it was at the beginning of November, and you heard this on October 18th, 18. I'm sorry. August.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kevin McCullough Dissects His New Article at Townhall.com
"Article that you write a town hall dot com, you make it real clear that, you know, we shouldn't rest on our laurels. We need to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, because everything is at stake. And folks, if you didn't know that, you've got problems because everything is at stake. This is a big honking deal, but Kevin, you, whom we have dubbed votes through damas, you are pretty keen eyed when it comes to prognostications, politically. What do you see happening? Well, I got to tell you before I get to that. I was a little bit hesitant to do any prognostications in this cycle because I got beaten down so badly in the 2020 cycle on nothing but the presidential race on the president. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Took it in the tea. Why would you bring that up? The presidential race was stolen. Thank you. No, but I mean, you're not familiar with that. I'm very familiar with it. I just want people to say, well, you know, you got it all wrong in 20. Well, I don't think I did. But those people, a, don't listen to this program, be if they do listen to this program, I want them to go away and no longer listen to the program. Because we've covered this AD nauseum, okay? So no longer. I just want to say, I think my map was pretty close in 2020. People outside of this conversation will disagree with you over that point, but I don't care. I hold to my theory. And there's been wasting our time. That's why I think those people. I went ahead and made a promise. About this coming election. And in 22 days, again, reemphasizing what you just said, that the candidates have to work like they are down by 200 points. They've got to work every day. They've got to give an extra stop somewhere. They've got to make an extra speech. They've got to shake more hands. They've got to work and they've got to get their message out. But if they do that through the Tuesday, November 8th, I think there are at least 5 good reasons as to why the Republicans will not win, but win big on that election night.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Mike Gallagher Reports Live From Venice, FL Following Hurricane Ian
"You're watching us today on the Salem news channel, you can see the devastation of hurricane Ian. Of course, trees uprooted buildings blown down power lines down. Today, of course, it's sunny, blue skies, hardly hardly indicative of the devastation that Ian racked upon this community in Sarasota. You've seen the video images from Fort Myers. You've seen the video images from sanibel. And you've seen unlikely the images undoubtedly the images from Venice. We're at the corner of U.S. 41 and Laurel road in Venice, Florida. This is a community that was overwhelmed by the devastation of
The Charlie Kirk Show
The 'Phallic Phobia' Argument
"Go to cuts. One 29, PhD from UC Berkeley. Laurel Westbrook talking about trans sports. Again, I'm picking on Berkeley just as an example, but I want to be very clear, University of Texas, Austin, university of Florida, university of North Carolina, Indiana University. They all have elements identical to this. It just so happens Berkeley is a little bit more brazen with this. It's an epicenter, but they're a little bit more cavalier. Andrew says a little. Yes, a little. Play cut one 29. This belief in the innate superiority and threat of male bodies account for why cisgender opposition to transgender inclusion, organizes predominantly around the presence of transgender women and not transgender men. This suggests that gender panics around transgender people might more accurately be termed penis panics as they are fueled by the terror of penises, particularly penises where they should not be. Because where they are in women's restrooms or locker rooms or sports teams is then dangerous to cisgender women and girls. I remember the first time I heard this argument, the first time I heard this argument, they said it a little differently. They said you have phallic phobia. I said, what? I mean, look, this last person doctor Laurel Westbrook. She should not be teaching a class. This is a very sick person. I mean that. She's a professor. And she says that this comes from phallic phobia, or it's because there are penises in places that they shouldn't be.
AP News Radio
Four people are found dead in two burning homes in Nebraska
"I'm Mike Gracia reporting the Nebraska state patrol says four people were found dead in two burning homes The Nebraska state patrol says four people were found dead Thursday in two burning homes in Laurel Nebraska At a news conference Nebraska state patrol colonel John boldak said firefighters responding to a call about an explosion and fire at a home found a body inside A short time later firefighters responding to a second burning home found three bodies inside Baldock said witnesses reported seeing a man driving away from Laurel and authorities want to talk to the man Authorities did not release the names of the dead or say how they died Laurel a town of fewer than 1000 people is about 100 miles northwest of Omaha
HowSound
"laurel" Discussed on HowSound
"Iceland. It's called eider island. Here's how the story starts. They know this place. They remember. They return. This is the most isolated place nicely. The west fjords. Winter in the deep yard is a real duke. Winter on the little island of Ida. The island of the either ducks..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Victoria Jackson Always Dreamed of Living on Top of a Mountain
"You bought a house. Where's the house, Vicky? It's nearby on the top of a mountain that I've always dreamed on living on the top of a mountain. And the first time I had to give up my lookout mountain Laurel canyon house to marry my current husband and go always putting him down on the air. And I think that's biblical. I think that's, I think you're right to do that. It's not indicative of some kind of a jezebel spirit as some might say. I think it's perfectly biblical. Please continue to drip like water. Go ahead. I'm not putting down. I'm saying that I gave up my house on the mountaintop for him. And then I had another house on that mountain in actin, California. In 2010, and I had to give that up because my daughter wanted to move back to my home. This is my third attempt of living in the top of a mountain. And I got it. Thank you, lord. I'm so excited. There's only one problem. My husband won't move there. You know, I was going to ask that question as a joke because I thought that's kind of a good joke question to ask Victoria. You're moving to this house. You got this house. Is your husband moving with you? And sure enough, you're telling me he doesn't want to. That's our marriage. But wait a second, Vicky. What right do you have to cavalierly unilaterally make some decision? I'm going to buy a house. And we're going, this is the kind of thing couples typically do together. Well, there's because he said to me, I didn't spend my inheritance on anything I want. So I got his permission. He said, you can buy anything you want. But if you buy that house, I'm not gonna move there. And I said, maybe that's a good idea.
HowSound
"laurel" Discussed on HowSound
"It's hosted by Avery truffle man. I want to start this with the act of entering someone else's home. An act that is at times mundane or exciting or transgressive, especially if one is barging in with a microphone. If you're already recording, I am, you know, it's like, come on. I'll tell you why. I usually don't like season one of nice try was about failed utopian experiments. About the yearning for more beautiful, more equitable, more pleasurable ways of living across centuries and around the world. And even though so many of these utopian efforts fell apart, that hunger remains. This feeling that there has to be a way to a better different lifestyle. So this season is about where all those utopian yearnings got channeled. At least in the United States. When I was a young and a readily admit, I'm a fan of Avery. I liked her stories on 99% invisible and articles of interest, which was a podcast about fashion. She's a rock solid audio storyteller. As for nice try, the second season recently dropped, this time Avery reports stories about lifestyle products, vacuums, crock pots, mattresses. She explores the utopia these products promise, and what they actually deliver. In the case of the first episode, about doorbells, the promise has evolved into a kind of dystopia. Here's a clip, and I'd like you to listen for something that are really enjoy about Avery's stories. Her narration. She's so natural. She doesn't just deliver information. She leans in. I can feel her telling the story, which stems from her writing, so I guess listen to both the writing and her delivery. Once upon a time, I was throwing a party. And I remember I wrote in bold in the email invitation. Please ring the bell to get in. Because I was hosting and I didn't want to have to keep checking my phone all night. But sure enough, everyone just texted when they arrived, and no one rang the bell. But I can't really throw stones because I too am one of these people who would rather text than use the doorbell. I was just like, I don't want to bother people. And I don't really have good associations with that buzz. At best it's a delivery of some kind, but at worst it's someone who's trying to sell you something interrogate you or bother you. It's obviously someone who doesn't have your number. And I'm not alone in my version to the doorbell. I mean, just ask someone who rang doorbells every single day working for the last census. See what I mean? Great narration. There was an old guy. I will say, I don't understand the idea of texting someone to let them know you've arrived. Just ring or knock for crying out loud. I should mention this episode gets dark, the dystopian aspect of doorbells comes later in the story, when Avery reports on the increased use of smart doorbells. These are doorbells with cameras like nest from Google and ring from Amazon. Avery, skillfully leads listeners to questions about surveillance ethics. What expectation of privacy should a person have when they arrive at someone's door? Or even just walking by on the street. I don't even know how to open the gate. My friend Tammy invited me over to check out the ring doorbell, her landlord had recently installed. And even though I was there specifically to check out kami's ring doorbell, I couldn't figure out how to get past the gate. So I ended up having to do the like texting that I'm here a thing. I have to text. How does one get to the doorbell? Ring basically bridges the divide between ringing and texting. It's essentially a doorbell that alerts your phone, and it shows a video of whoever's outside. And you don't need to be home to answer it, and to talk and engage with whoever's outside. And by the way, I'm sorry if I'm mansplaining hovering works if you have one. Because you very well might have one. Ring has sold more than 1.4 million video doorbells in 2020. So this is it. That's it. Is that the sound it makes? That was. That's the sound that there's emotion. Oh, it caught me fucking with the gate. No, it caught you like just now passing the camera. And then can you see a video of me? Sure can. Sure can. Is that the sound it makes? Caught me fucking with the gate. No, it caught you just now passing the camera. This doorbell caught me from pretty far away, like Tammy's gate is probably a solid 7 feet away from her door and Tammy's entryway is obscured by the stairs to the first floor. I just say this because from the street, I could not see the camera. I didn't know I was being recorded. And by the way, I did not look cute in this footage. It is just funny that like everything looks sketchy with a fish eye lens. Yeah. It looks like you're trying to commit a crime. That's Avery truffle. And nice try. A Laurel to her and the crew at nice try for the writing, narration, and storytelling. Now, back to a dart, though I'll be honest. This is very awkward. Truly. I'm about to critique a story by someone who is living through an incredibly difficult period in their life. I was tempted to just not say anything, but I felt the need to point out an aspect of the storytelling that really stuck in my craw. So first, let me start with what I like. Remember that movie, Nebraska. You may not have seen it. It started Bruce Dern as an elderly man who thinks he's won the lottery. So you told the sheriff that you were walking to Nebraska? That's right. To get my $1 million. And his son, played by will forte, has to retrieve him, because he keeps trying to walk to Nebraska. From Montana. This is woody grant. We are now authorized to pay $1 million. You can tell pretty soon. His mind isn't all there. But he's determined to make this trip. It's a complete scam. So you got to stop this, okay? I'm running out of time. I actually saw this movie with my dad, maybe ten years ago? I could not imagine at that time that I would ever be the will forte character. But eventually, I too had to figure out how to take care of my dad as he got older. This is demented, a podcast about what happens when you become your parent's parent. I'm kidding isley. Okay, I'll stop here for a second. I am so pleased that Texas public radio produced a podcast about dementia. And I'm grateful that kitty isolate the reporter was brave. Brave enough to talk honestly about a life altering event, taking care of her father with dementia for several years right up to his death a few months ago. I don't know how many podcasts there are about dementia, but probably not enough. Caretakers need all the advice they can get. And beyond advice, they need to know they're not alone. This podcast accomplishes that. And based on the handful of reviews at Apple, the listeners to the podcast agree. Let's listen to a little more. I started taking notes and keeping a diary of my experience taking care of my dad, as he got older and sicker. The idea came after dad took a really misguided road trip through the Midwest, like Bruce turns character. It had been just a couple of years since my mom died, and my dad's health had declined dramatically. Dad developed congestive heart failure, which led to a lot of problems. Lack of oxygen to his brain for one. And that's brought on a great deal of confusion and memory loss. He was constantly losing things. His glasses, his cell phone, his wallet, and then calling to see if I could help locate them. One time he even lost his car, he forgot which garage he.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The Strange Death of Silent Film Star Thelma Todd
"Then we came across thelma Todd. Boy, this was a good show. I never heard of thelma Todd. Back in 1997, when I made the mysteries and scandals episode on her. She was a silent film star. That's why they called it a hot toddy. You know, a toddy is a drink. They called to the ice cream blond. She was in a 123 films and shorts throughout a 9 year career. That's it, 9 years, 9 years in a mount. And if you saw the house she bought on the Pacific Coast highway, which I did, I filmed right in front of it. Oh, it was beautiful. This long staircase off the PCH up this hill. Thelma Todd was great at slapstick comedy. She started along Wheeler and woolsey, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx brothers. She even formed the comedy duo alongside the greatest name ever. Zazu Pitts. Alongside Pitts and Kelly, she was often cast as the level headed protagonist who had to deal with an embarrassingly did see sidekick. So in addition to her being an actress, thelma Todd was a good businesswoman. And she had a lover, that lover was the film director Roland west. They opened the restaurant called sidewalk cafe in Los Angeles, California. And they shared ownership with west white jewel Carmen. A lot of these triangles situations back then. And the three of them also lived in the same duplex above the restaurant. Get this. Sources say that Carmen didn't object to west affair with thelma Todd, even though west displayed jealousy over Todd's affairs with other men. Let's go to the morning of December 16th, 1935. 29 years old, she's found dead in her car, parked in west garage. The garage was closed, the car was running. She had a broken nose. She had two cracked ribs and bruises around her throat. And police officers said she'd been dead at least 12 hours.
AP News Radio
TikTok rescue: Girl got help using silent distress signal
"Distress signals made popular on tick tock help save a girl who is being held captive in Kentucky the sixteen year old was reported missing in Asheville North Carolina two days later deputy Gilbert asegurado with the laurel county sheriff's office in Kentucky told WHAS an alert driver call nine one one from a local interstate to say he saw a girl with her hands straight up then you Tucker the man and all four fingers over that time and back and forth the driver recognized it from tick tock as a plea for help from domestic violence the caller followed the car and stayed with it until police could get there the victim vehicle got off at exit forty one our guys were like not the top of the ramp a sixty one year old was arrested police say a cell phone found in the man's possession had images that allegedly portrayed a juvenile female in a sexual manner I'm a Donahue
Tough Love: Artist Management
"laurel" Discussed on Tough Love: Artist Management
"Not the ad world a little bit different but Music is always the budget. That's like the smallest. And i'm just like you know artists at score things whether it's like indie film on netflix eggs. Who or cw show like all the things that i've been involved in a mike harris this appointment. Small part of it you know and it is no matter. How big of a production it is. The music is always like the smallest cart of the money in the budget of anything You know it's such a vital part of everything and i don't know how we diminished it. Why do but again keep it on the positive totally. Yeah yeah yeah. Music is interesting art form in a sense that it does. The perceived value of it is warped depending on how it's us how has consumed you know. That is the weird kind of element that i think. Yeah i mean as evolving. But it's something i think. We're still as an industry from a management artists perspective. That relationship is is fractured. A little bit in a way. I mean i remember buying certain records whereas like okay. I'll listen to it once. i'm like. Oh no but i spent twelve fifteen dollars on it. I should listen to it a few more times. And then eventually click. Yeah and now. It's like i'll skim through record maybe stream at once and if i don't have an emotional connection to it nobody else is talking about it when i experienced it but whatever you know i mean it just. It's hard to. You know kind of equate those two things in the same of manner but as just part of the evolution of at all. So we are. We are definitely evolving. Into what i don't know i'm not sure that remains to be seen but i you know i will I will wave my flag for the the art that you know it again. It's all a matter of opinion but artists are in that i. I'm excited about you. Know i will do my best to Megaphone and yet. it's it's been. It's been a fun journey. So far i mean to think about what brought me here in. What's you know paved this road that i've been on i mean it's it's it's all music it's how i literally how i've met every single human. I like it's..
Tough Love: Artist Management
"laurel" Discussed on Tough Love: Artist Management
"As a use. I was twelve years old black flag. Who went to every city on the earth played in palm springs them. Destroy the venue and everybody in it and i was like wherever that is. I need to go there all the time. And i started hitchhiking to la with my friends. Like on the frigging ten out of palm springs and basically i Those memories and those things that i experienced as a us. They informed me of every moment of today. Like i've constantly thought about like i refer back to that connection. I had like seeing you know black flag and the the riot that happened at the palladium like the ramones did not get to play. But there are like famous pictures by the riot gear cops marching in front of the palladium in those. Are you know or the exploited riot or you know a lot of riots as agai- or you know but that was like that was the the energy was so intense was so overwhelmingly powerful that i was like. How do i put this bottle and like have it with me every day. Because i'm high off of this this and it came through music cancer. The culture it came to the community and that as we're talking about a lot of that is really hard to access and it still exists. I went to a diy punk show or hardcore show in may that was all word of mouth. The address was not disclosed until the day of the show. It was a diy like situation underneath a bridge here in There were two thousand kids. They're going off. And i was like this is cool like this is this is this is my use. This is what feeds me. I still loved it. There were people all shapes and sizes there and these communities still exists. I wouldn't say they're well like back in the day when i was hitchhiking and having generator parties in the middle of the desert with sons of chaos..
Tough Love: Artist Management
"laurel" Discussed on Tough Love: Artist Management
"They typically don't i mean. We don't allow us to do that nowadays. You know there isn't you like springsteen route where you get to make two or three records or i mean even aretha franklin like seven records right. I mean there's so many artists that you know needed you to whatever i mean you know a lotta. These are from the seventies and eighties or sixties. Even you know. But i mean nowadays like that kind of stopped at the end of the century. Like most people you know your your example of You know father. John misty's like yeah. You almost have to switch switch it up switch. The name starts over in order to to kind of take that experience and it's almost like you're viewed If you don't reach a certain level of success you're almost viewed as being not irrelevant. That's hard too harsh of a word but just not as exciting when you're so much more going on holy holy. It's yeah it is hard. I mean to be a group like wilco or something like look at wilco and they're constantly jeff and they're constantly putting out music. Doing you know doing something. And they are a critical people. Do pay attention to what they do. They've had a really long career. And i look at the end. I mean yes. They do well on all levels. There are a big touring bands. And but they're you know they're they're they're a group that like they've kept this level of integrity. There's always like a great message coming through them. you know. They're they're not hyper anything like they're not like hyper political band. Or hyper ban. They just keep a level of like Integrity and musicality and heart and creative contribution to the community in honestly. What when you get into light because our our music world right now is so You know of course. We still have pitchfork as an anchor for new music but it's our music spaces when it comes to those types of outlets where used to discover leg what's new what's coming out. It's it's pretty fractured. And you know it's it's something where you don't just like pick up like back in the day you would you. Would you know. Pick up a magazine and nowadays like you would hit your favorite blog or whatever it may be but things are sort of their their splintered off in these communities like i. I've i've been to hang attention to like. Let's say like caitlin is really deep and deeply loved inside of the electronic and neoclassical community. That's a real community like people are very connected.
Tough Love: Artist Management
"laurel" Discussed on Tough Love: Artist Management
"The fanning out. Like if i'm if. I don't feel connected to something like really passionate. I've never been driven by commerce. You know. I don't like look at abandoned dollar signs like i've i look at a band on my god like just think of the different areas that we could travel with this like on a level of marketing. Or you know just like infiltrating different areas. You know were like jimmy. The album he does all the sound design for beats like. He's the one who you here in my headphones. Like to their speaker connection like alongside you know scoring films and tv shows and it's like you enter through the back door. Sometimes like i've never really been someone who's been a radio driven person so when i look at like you know the aspects of picking up artist. It's it's it's always based on you know something that is like this. Contribution they're making artistically. It usually moves around and realms that are not just at the lowest common denominator. I guess but if we are going to be the lowest common denominator. Which i'm not mad at. It's not bad thing to be in every single household across the world. I think about like these different things. You know having caitlyn doing com app. You know sleep songs you know or having jimmy doing these towns or having you know. Us girls like her one of her greatest joys was like oh my god. They use the song of on democracy. Now you know. This is better than a grammy. You know she's like yeah and it. Just it's really sweet to to see you know what drives the artist and wet as managers. We can yeah. They're the slides. We need to find ways to projects. So you know it is. It's an endless journey in today's world the the world of how we are combining outlets and just sort of hybrid. Everything were doing. You know it's it's it's really it's a trip because it really especially now is not based on just going to saw tickets and t shirts. It's like what else are we doing. How else are we making an imprint. You know because there's so much to cut through. There's so many Songs coming out every single week. So how do you. How do you stand out how you know. Part of ms is being very identifiable being your own brand in some respects. I mean it's yeah seems like up until say five or ten years ago you could kinda get by with. Maybe you know some success at some level at radio or tv ad or something like that but to your point there's a so much music and it's all your fingertips at the end of the day. There has to be some connection. Something unique about an artist enough that a fan. Can somebody can become a fan enough to connect with them enough to want to stick around long enough. You know go to show and hopefully follow.
Tough Love: Artist Management
"laurel" Discussed on Tough Love: Artist Management
"Be your guide through tough love ensures this management in this episode we chat with laurel stearns i. I met laurel when she was doing in our capitol records having signs such an interesting and eclectic artist like december. I fisher spooner. She pivoted into artists management over the years working with a bunch of different artists including guar and father. John misty eventually landing primary wave where she currently manages. Us girls red fang the album leaf and handful of others. Which out about the importance of staying true to your instincts supporting music. You're passionate about and being patient with the process of marketing music. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Let's get started. My name's laurel. Stearns i am a manager over at primary wave and I work with a handful of wonderful artists to name. Caitlyn smith on closely. I work with meg. Remmy otherwise known as us girls on for a d. beggars. Ands i also handle the album leaf on network and a fine rock band called red fang on relapse and a young ban called mony who are los based at you know. I have a couple other creative projects that i work inside of the primary wave world on Because they've got so many different areas in the music space that they cover I've been doing a lot of creative work on some of the publishing catalog as well so been busy. Even though we've been locked inside for a while that's great. We thanks for taking the time to chat It's always good to kind of start at the beginning of debt. So i think you and i met when you were at capital watt preceded that like. How did you get your feet wet in the music industry as a good question. Well you know. I wasn't always in the corporate world. When i first started. I was so young. I dropped out of school Around my first year of parsons art school fine arts. I was like yeah coming in from the show in the after party in the after after party. Class the outfit. I wore the night before. So figured i should probably pick a lane was music so i started working at a magazine and i was editor and i was running around doing interviews with people like the ramones producers like shell me. Oh yeah like it. Was you know it was a i was a teenager. Still and i was living in la. I did not know one person when i moved here from the desert from palm and You know just stove right in. The music community was such an incredible vibrant place to explore. Here back it was. I literally i mean. It was like the nineties. So i went from music magazine editor to Recording studios and worked on tons of different records in the assistant management studio world so literally working alongside artists from ozzy to kick sees to got to be a part of the tin machine. David bowie project them Fire and so many rod stewart actually just saw ruby stuart this morning and in watts and san. Yeah it was great. And then from there i went into management. I realized Pretty early on that. I really liked communicating with artists directly. Helping just see what they needed. What was you know what what what it was to You know really help facilitate An artist.
The Ultimate Health Podcast
"laurel" Discussed on The Ultimate Health Podcast
"Show continue to grow. Share it with somebody in your life. Thank you so much without further ado. Here we go with. Laurel gallucci laurel. Welcome to the podcast. How you doing. I'm doing great. Thank you for having me today. It's my pleasure and we got a lot to get into. And i wanna start out with your story going all the way back to the beginning of that story and that takes us all the way back to you being four or five years old you develop this interest in baking. How did that start. So i have always been a hobby baker for as long as i know like since i was a little girl i h with my mom throughout school and college always baking for friends and family and so it really is like a lifelong passion. Mind that's been turned into a career but through a very interesting way through a health journey really so it's a really advanced grade. I love sharing and it really revolves around how my human journey must furby gang collided. Or we're going to get into that but first let's let's build up to that a little bit and talk about growing up. I know you're one of seven kids and were you the only baker all the kids or did you have any other siblings set. Got into it with you. Yeah i pretty much was the only baker. i think. I got into it because my mom didn't make too much. She by was very with other things. Obviously and so you know. I come home from school and feel like it resigned my duty to make chocolate cookies for everyone. That's kinda how i newly dovan had i is just. I would learn recipes. I read cookbooks. Baking magazines and really treated my siblings as like my little test kitchen. When i was younger so i have a lot of fun. Baking memories from when i was a kid. I'm sure they appreciate that and they still. I'm always the one that brings the bait. Good sabri party and i. I'm like tired of it at this point. But i don't think they are. And where do you fit into that seven kids. Are you one of the younger ones older. So i am the third oldest and this girl. And so i. I kind of feel like i had this To some younger siblings. I had this kind of like motherly duty with them. They were were worn. When i was you know in third and fourth grade my youngest siblings and i treated them like my real life be dolls and i can remember when i would take care of them. I bring him milk and cookies. All these fun things with them and that really count and some of my Leader passions speaking as well. And now that you're all grown up and so are the other kids. Are you guys still close absolutely. Yes so we all live in the los angeles area which is very cool. And i see them all the time and i feel really blessed to be close with them geographically but also emotionally to. We talk all the time and you know. I'm really blessed to have. Siblings are made best friends really much spouses now. Married one big happy family. I love it exactly and laurel growing up as a kid. How is your health sue. I was relatively healthy as chedda. I do remember having some antibiotic treatments as a younger kid. Especially when i got into college. That's when i remembered for the first time noticing also digestive issues. And i really feel that. That 'juanele started i. I remember Coming back from a trip as travelling during spring break college in coming back and literally. I had a kid. Remix of extreme summit has it's because i eat something. I'm not quite sure. But i realized that it was because lavish traveling. I was eating certain foods. Every single day and those refrige- again normally e and. I noticed that there were certain foods that i couldn't digest like a normal person and so i kind of started removing those foods for my diet because i just felt terrible after and so that's what i noticed digestive issues and it makes sense now looking back because about were your slater's when i was diagnosed with my autoimmune condition i feel probably originated in my guy. I'm not exactly sure by definitely could have and. When i started to address my autoimmune issues i definitely started with debt yelling and once i was feeling better in that department i started feeling better elsewhere so i really do feel like. That's kind of like the first symptom. I notice that was also addressed. I and let the only better afterwards. Okay so to make sure. I have the story right. You get back from spring break your energies dipping yet. And you notice that. There's some certain foods that when you remove them you start to feel a little bit better at that time right. And what were those foods at that time so it was anything starchy really rice. Potatoes oats like just noticing. I couldn't i know this sounds weird but things that were white starchy pasta. Things like that did not set well with me. And naturally i felt like i digested things like specials. So much better. I remember feeling like if i had bread or pasta. Like it's just going to sit in my belly. That's literally high fell and is really interesting. Matt flash word. I don't know about five years later. When i was seeing functional medical doctor the first thing she told me to remove were grindings. Those were things that i didn't feel good. I knew that they were culprits. Wheatley removed some for my diet. Then when i was told by my doctor to remove them. I did it cold turkey and really starting to feel better so leading up to your symptoms beginning in college. Were you a relatively healthy person. Like did you make choices towards eating whole foods and exercising and doing..
Conspiracy Theories
Cicero and the Catiline Conspiracy
"On january first sixty three bc e. marcus tully. Cicero was elected as one of two consoles. Rome's two most powerful leaders. They presided over. The roman senate approved laws and commanded the army during national crises. It was a huge accomplishment for anyone but especially cicero. He didn't come from established society family his city was conquered by the romans hundreds of years before as a result he was considered an outsider. But over the years. Cicero established himself as roma's best lawyer. This gave him the support to enter politics where he earned a reputation as a fair and efficient leader from there. He achieved the console ship. There was hardly time to rest on his laurels. Though being console in sixty three bc meant dealing with rome's intense superficial unrest. The lower class believed the wealthy were taking advantage of them. Cicero suspected that they along with a handful of double-crossing senators. Were plotting something devious. But he had no idea what this was probably on his mind when he went to bed one night in october sixty three bc just a few hours later a servant cicero. It was a matter of life and death. Cicero got out of bed in greeted. His guests led by crassus rome's richest man. They told cicero he was right about the plot and should call an emergency session of the senate they needed to discuss what to do with the traders. Cicero was grateful. They believed him but they needed more evidence to which crassus handed him a pile of letters. Cicero read one then another and another. They all said the same thing. Some of the senators were planning an uprising but it was far more brutal than cicero had imagined. The letters revealed their plan to gruesomely butcher. Their political opponents before taking control of the government in cicero was their number one target.
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Washington, DC-Area Nursing School Operators Charged With Selling Bogus Diplomas
"D. C area nursing school operators are facing charges. The FBI says they were selling bogus transcripts, certifications and diplomas to people wanting to become nurses. Investigators say 50 year old Patrick Nuwakot of Laurel, Maryland, and 62 Year old Mosab Bangor of Manassas, We're selling the bogus documents for anywhere from 6 to $18,000. The FBI says the document were created through a nursing school in Woodbridge and the tour accused of continuing to sell those documents even after the state shut down. The school of Florida nursing school operator was also charged for working with them on the alleged scheme, which also included helping unqualified candidates past nursing board exams. The three are facing a long list of charges, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
Here & Now
What to Know About the First Ever Olympics With Transgender Athletes
"On a story. We brought you last month about LGBTQ athletes from around the world vying to make history by qualifying for the Olympics. Was a week to go before the Games opening ceremony in Tokyo. The list is expansive, a record number of out athletes are set to compete, said Ziegler is sports writer and co founder of Outsports. It's a news outlet that focuses on LGBTQ issues in sports. He's been keeping score. Said. Welcome back. Thank you so much. Alright. Well, first of all up until these games no openly transgender athlete had ever competed at the Olympics. So how much will the landscape change when those games open next week in Tokyo? Well, there are three athletes going to Tokyo that we know of Chelsea Wolfe as part of Team USA. She's a BMX freestyler. She's a reserve athlete, so Chelsea is only going to compete if one of the two Americans can't compete. Quinn is a transgender, non binary soccer player who is going to compete on the women's Canadian soccer team, but the one that's really going to get the headlines. Laurel Hubbard, a transgender power weightlifter for was competing for New Zealand. The past. Laurel has won a couple of medals at World Championships, Never a gold, but she's the one people are really talking about. And what's the conversation Ben about how or if transgender athletes should be competing in the Olympics? Well, of course, you have a lot of people who see this large woman and say that it's unfair that she's competing, but a couple things that I want to point to number one. Weightlifting is by weight class. So Laurel is competing against the largest size women. It's not as though she's competing against women to £100 trying to lift weight. The other part is that Laurel has far and away exceeded the regulations that the international in Pick committee has put in for transgender