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Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Talks With Chris Whitmore of the Richmond Promise
"I am joined by Christopher Whitmore of Richmond Promise. And Chris, first, tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to Richmond Promise. And then tell us, what is the Richmond Promise? Absolutely. First off, thank you for inviting me on the podcast. Really great to be here and have this conversation. So I was raised here in the city of Richmond. I still live in Richmond, and growing up here in our community, like so many other young people, I wanted to enter into a career pathway and build an adult life in which I could support the Richmond community and try to make this city, this community, the kind of place that I always envisioned it to be, which is a place where everyone can thrive. Everyone can feel welcome here in Richmond, feel like they have opportunities from the city, from the community to be who they want to be, to contribute to this space and to make this city better for everyone. And so with that really broad, general goal in mind, I decided at a very young age, elementary school age, that I wanted to be a public official when I grew up. I wanted to work specifically in the mayor's office of the city of Richmond when I grew up. And my godmother, Erma Anderson, was mayor when I was in elementary school. She was the first African -American woman elected mayor of the city of Richmond. I grew up with folks like John Gioia, who's our county supervisor and has been our representative for several years on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors and several other folks who really inspired me to want to build out a career in public service. And so with that in mind, I went off to college. I went out of state to Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. I studied political science with an emphasis in public law. After graduating from Webster in 2014, I moved to Washington, D .C., where I was accepted into a congressional fellowship. And through that fellowship, I worked in the office of then U .S. Senator Bill Nelson's office of Florida. I moved back to Richmond in December 2014 and got my first job, first full time job working for Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, who at the time was the representative, newly elected representative for California's 11th congressional district. I had the privilege of working as an outreach coordinator in his Richmond office, which is actually just down the hall from where my current office is today. A year later, 2016, I got to accomplish that childhood goal of mine of working in the mayor's office. I worked for Mayor Tom Butt, starting off initially as his director of community engagement, later promoted to be his director of policy and strategy. After about two years in that office, I went over to the city and county of San Francisco, where I went to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and worked on their policy and government affairs team. And for about a year and a half, I wrote, along with my supervisor, all of the water, power and wastewater legislation for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And I'll speed up the story. So about a year and a half later, I came back here to the city of Richmond and served as Tom Butt's chief of staff for exactly two years. And two years ago, October 4th, 2021, I started as Richmond Promise's second executive director. And it's been a great journey over the last two years, and I was really inspired to make the transition from the mayor's office to Richmond Promise. Just thinking back on my experience growing up in Richmond, having a goal to go to college at a young age for the sake and purpose of really accomplishing my career goals. And just being reminded constantly that there are so many other young people in Richmond who have educational and career goals for themselves. And those young people also deserve to have really strong support systems in our community to help them go off and do the things that they want to do. And I came over to Richmond Promise to strengthen that support system for our entire community.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Fresh update on "louis c" discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"There's no absolute morality. There's no objective moral truths personal personal value system personal take then the next class Just want you to know the war in Vietnam is immoral. Yep So I remember this was in college I remember think wait a minute didn't he just tell me that morality is relative How can he make that declaration? All he could say is in my one person's opinion It's immoral, but it doesn't make the war immoral. Well back to your point about Douglas Murray It's so it really is insulting like one of the things I said in my episode when we were looking at the Beyonce intersectionality chart was is This are you trying to say this is all who Beyonce is When I look at Beyonce and I listen to her, I love her. I've been to her concerts. I don't think of her as a black Heterosexual rich woman. I think of her as a bad woman who makes great music You're reducing her to these labels and you're missing the entire essence of who this person is and you know So a few months ago, I was in New York City and during Pride month the the the month which Douglas Murray so eloquently Disparages and all over Fifth Avenue, I mean really around all around the city, but I was I was on for that I was staying on Fifth Avenue. So I spent a lot of time there every single store was decked out in Pride regalia and interestingly every store hadn't had a pride related advertisement and So the one that really stood out to me was Uggs on 42nd and 5th They had this huge banner with all of these drag queens on it and the advertisement was feel heard feel seen Uggs First of all, I mean there are so many ways we can dissect this first of all How do you feel heard and feel seen wearing Uggs? Maybe I can maybe understand feel how do you even feel heard? Well heard is a tough one but You wear Uggs you will stand out and people will recognize you I mean, it's absurd obviously, but that that's the theme. I but I don't know. What does it have to do with? Pride month so that well, that's the whole point and I took a video of it and I put it on my Instagram And I said what I want people to see when they walk past this and this is the point that I was saying earlier that You know the left and these students on college campuses all they talk about is privilege But they themselves are the most privileged whiny spoiled brat cohort to ever exist I want people to start seeing that inversion Similarly with Uggs. I said when people walk past this I want again people to see this inversion where you look at it and on its face It's pro gay or it's pro trans feel heard feel seen wear Uggs But actually that's really insulting because essentially what Uggs is saying is I think you know you people walking by who may identify as LGBTQ I think that you guys can be so easily bought off I don't have to sell you my product based on the merits of my product I can just put a you know 12 by 15 foot banner of a drag queen and I know that I'll get your business It's like that that to me is very insulting. I can just pander to you I can just you know throw out this This what do they call them virtue signal and I know that you'll come and purchase I don't actually need to woo you. I don't actually need to sell this to you That to me is incredibly insulting Like if I when I see these women things like come and buy my product because you're a woman Screw you you sell me based on the merits of your damn product I'm not just gonna come walking in there well, you know my woman now you have answered Interestingly you've answered to a certain extent a Puzzle why is merit considered a white supremacist value? It's always dismissed as white supremacist value merit The California Department of Education or maybe it was the California Community College Conglomerate they released this framework Recently where they said, you know merit on its face Appears to be egalitarian, but really it's just a kind of code to facilitate the ascension of white people Look which which the Ku Klux Klan would agree with Would they they would say the same exact thing if you use merit whites will succeed That's I don't follow. Why would the Ku Klux Klan say that? Because they think that whites are superior Mm-hmm That's that's the implicit Merit is white supremacist. I see if we go on merit whites will succeed. That's what a white racist would say Yes, and now the progressive that's why My dear wife whom you adore Has come out with the statement so frequently saying Dennis don't say that white that America is not systemically racist. Yes. The left is systemically, right? She's that's that's the Sue Prager Thesis and it's brilliant She's right It's incorrect. Well, this is what you say on your show I was listening to you the other day and you you were talking about the Oregon Department of Education's Code Finding one right answer in math is white supremacy and you're like that is so racist because it Assumes that there's something special about white people that they To know that two and two is four I don't understand how this is not more obvious to people the the constant again is what we've been talking about inversions and how pandering and insulting and you know to use the the terms that they throw out how racist and Campaigns really are They a lot of these they're just they don't realize that they're being manipulated right That's the essence of manipulation. Otherwise, it wouldn't work If you knew you were manipulated, I want to say that to some liberals I know in my life like, you know, do you just really do you realize that? You are a puppet in A puppet show and there are people above you pulling strings and you you may have these good intentions and Be you know, genuinely Committed to fighting the things that you deem worth fighting. But you do you do you understand that you were being used up? I Don't know if that would resonate No, I I have given up I don't think the only thing I think works if you have a woke person in your family is just to ask questions Well, that's you did ask yeah you did yeah, but it's I have by the way just anyone watching or listening a Column I wrote about a year ago Questions to ask to determine if someone is a liberal or a leftist and I've 32 questions. It's a really good one I remember that one Yeah, well Barry Weiss put out this article recently at the Free Press. It's called. Where have all the Democrats gone? and Increasingly, there's there's no longer that distinction between liberal and left and and look I will criticize the Republican Party I always think when I'm criticizing the left Okay, what you know what could be said about the right but there there are gradations still on the right? Actually, we're as you know, I mean, we're pretty divided on the right but on the left I don't I don't can you can you identify a liberal? still I really can't I know people who started off as liberals, but now but now I think that they're leftists or they're they're They've just given so much Extended family members who were liberal and not leftist. Of course, they vote left But if you were to say to them, so wait a minute Do you think that a man who says he's a woman can compete against women in women's sports? Of course not that's ridiculous So I say yeah, but the Democratic Party is on board with that That's it's a fringe it's if Dennis it's crazy everybody has fringes the right has fringes the left has fringes So there's always a way to dismiss what they differ with It's not really that strong or toxic So do you do you agree with all black dormitories on college campuses? Of course not that that's a racial segregation Yeah, but the Democratic Party is in favor of that yeah, that's the fringe Dennis and anyway talk about racism I mean just look at Trump. So there's always an answer There's always an answer so as not to confront So they don't agree with the left on mo on most issues where liberalism and leftism differ But that doesn't change their view of how they will politically act So Even if the even if the difference exists It's it. It's it. It's a difference without significance. That's the problem. Yeah Because there was nothing this I can tell you because I grew up in that world There was I can't think of anything. I'll give you two examples. I can't think of anything that The Palestinians could do call him Hamas called him Hezbollah or theoretically Lebanese, but or or or any group that would cause Palestinians to say we are shamed by that behavior there I literally believe nothing could happen that could be done by let's say Hamas I don't think there is anything the left could do that would move a Democrat to vote Republican My pillow is excited to bring you one of their biggest betting sales just in time for Christmas Get the Giza dream bedsheets for as low as twenty nine dollars and ninety eight cents a set of pillowcases only nine dollars and ninety eight cents rejuvenate your bed with a my pillow mattress topper for as low as $99.99 They also have blankets in a variety of sizes colors and styles They even have blankets for your pets get duvets quilts down comforters body pillows bolster pillows and so much more All with the biggest discounts ever. They are also extending their money-back guarantee for Christmas until March 1st 2024 making them the perfect gifts for your friends your family and everyone, you know So go to my pillow calm and use the promo code Prager or call one eight hundred seven six one six three zero two And you'll get big discounts on all my pillow bedding products Including the Giza dream bedsheets for as low as twenty nine dollars and ninety eight cents and get all your shopping done now while quantities last I don't think there is anything the left could do that would move a Democrat to vote Republican What do you think it's going to take then Well, I am via the answer is it the the answer might be God forbid pogroms against Jews. I mean literal violent outbursts, but we there's already been one and they don't Yeah, well there hasn't been one like like Jews know about pogroms from Eastern Europe. So It That might that might work but it wouldn't matter the Democratic Party would condemn it and so they'd feel perfectly at home So I the answer to your question is nothing I don't believe as I said I gave two examples There is nothing Hamas can do to make Palestinians ashamed of Hamas there is nothing the left can do to move a Democrat to vote Republican On timeless. I recently interviewed a woman named Monica Harris Shameless plug for that episode everyone everyone should watch it or you don't even have to watch my episode Just just get her book. Her book is called the illusion of division. She is a black lesbian atheist Who described herself on my show as quote nothing close to conservative even though we discussed that and by the end of the show She said, you know, maybe I think I am conservative Because we really we really got into the discussion of labels. But anyway She She wrote this book the illusion of division by the way a little quick little background on her. She went to Princeton and Harvard Harvard law She worked as a entertainment lawyer for 20 years and apropos of our the way the way that we started Dennis and Julie She she realized that her life had the appearance of being very successful, but she didn't feel fulfilled And so she quit her job in corporate law and she and her wife moved with their son to Montana and She said that she was told by all of these people you're going to Montana. Well, that's where white supremacists live That's where Republicans are you're gonna you know You're gonna have all these horrible things happen to you and she talks about in her book and on the show with me How it was it was nothing moving to Montana was was was not even close to how the people described It would be she said I just and she said I'm friends with Christians and I don't believe in Their God let alone any God, you know I she talks about meeting with this pastor who was called a white supremacist and she had coffee with him and You know discovered that just like people call you a white supremacist and you're really not this pastor was called a white supremacist and really wasn't anyway her her big crusade is a Telling people through her experience That a lot of the division is an illusion and a lot of it is contrived He's these racial divisions the you know gay versus straight or the Republican versus Democrat A lot of that is being a trough frothed up to divide us and in practice It's really not that bad if you just get to know people but She also really wants to and I admire this combat the division that we're seeing which brings me to this point and That is I said to her on the show and I'd be curious to hear your response Dennis. I like you Completely Despise the division in our country and I agree with you that a lot of it is contrived. However There are people now who I don't just differ with politically I differ with morally and civilizationally and it just made me think of this said this to her I did yes, yeah on the air and It made me think of it as you were just describing the you know The there's there's nothing that that you could tell a Democrat really that would change their minds They would always have a have a comeback and I struggle with this because I have a lot of liberal friends I know a lot of I have a lot of liberal people in my life and I adore them and To their great credit. They're supportive of me. They may not always watch this show or you know consume my content But they're very gracious. They're they're supportive kind of from afar But I know a lot of them are those types of people who would kind of give an excuse For instance about gender affirming care. Oh, well, yes I think it's bad to give you know kids puberty blockers But you know some some kids may need it or some kids may be ready for it or the science is still you know coming out about these things and and what I said to Monica and what I'm now saying to you is I'm really confused how to Approach my relationships with those kinds of people because on the one hand I want to combat this division but on the other hand if you really believe that It's okay to give puberty blockers to a 12 year old Even if your brain why at this at a certain point we have to go. Okay, you can't be that brainwashed. I Don't know if that's someone who I care to know or who I should be continuing a relationship with So it's kind of this question of like how much forgiveness how much credence how much wiggle room do we give people? I Don't give much I be honest with you and my patience for people Who are pro-hamas? or Believe that men give birth Where they have left the world of of reason and and entered the inversion world you described My my I'm not saying this at all as a recommendation to others, I promise Anyway, there'd be no reason why I would lie about that. I don't lie conviction but I I think it's a waste of my time Of my Dennis's precious time To spend with somebody who thinks men give birth or Hamas is the moral equivalent of Israel It There is one of the chances I will turn them around on a one-to-one basis Minuscule and I'm pretty persuasive So minuscule in in that amount of time. I could have written a column. I could have spent more time with friends and family I the number of other options so I Mean I'll ask you in light of this since you're asking this question. First of all, I didn't know you had such people in your life, I Thought they had sort of on Facebook Rejected you by now. Oh many many of them have it and I want to make sure none of my friends are pro-hamas none So what would you do if you had one a sweet kid your age or whatever and you know? Julie you know, I I just I just hate Kids being killed on any side, so I don't see difference between Hamas and Israel. What would you do? Well, I would have a conversation with them and I would call me Give them my are so So good, and I think you should give that a one-time try But what I have done in my life is the reason people say how are you so calm with people? Who who strongly disagree with you on the radio and I say? Because I know that if I show patience My arguments will resonate with the people listening I am never in 40 years. I have never thought I would Persuade The person calling in who differs with me on a fundamental issue The only reason I spend the time I do with them is because I know millions of people will hear this, right? Well, so I'm really glad that we're talking about this because I think people especially my age will relate to this conversation I know because I I have a lot of liberal friends, but I also have Conservative friends and I talk with my conservative friends about this because in our generation the vast majority of people are liberal and so I And my other conservative friends we have liberal friends because of just the sheer the sheer numbers component and it's really hard again because None of my as I said to you none of my friends are pro-hamas I mean I would there are just some things I would just draw an absolute line if you if you are if you're pro-hamas If you think there's a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas I we really have nothing in common and you're a despicable human being and none of my friends are like that but as I said, I have friends who Certainly, I have a lot of friends who vote Democrat and increasingly I'm I'm not I'm not saying you know that I'm not asking people to vote Republican, but I think voting Democrat is A vote to ruin the country. So I have a lot of friends who vote Democrat And I have a lot of friends who we don't always get into political discussions But but and maybe it's unfair for me to make assumptions about what they would say, but I can definitely picture With regard to for instance the trans women in women's sports or the gender affirming care thing people going Like softly condemning it but kind of giving this Well, we may not know the full story or well some you know for some people this kind of treatment or this kind of Recourse could be okay. And so what my conservative friends and I talk a lot about is again like at what point At what point do you draw a line and I keep a lot of these people in my life because I have a history with them Because we're able to have a friendship outside of our political differences I mean clearly I don't talk with a lot of my friends about politics ever and we have great conversations and have a lot of fun with one another but as the as the moral and civilizational divides in our country are deepening as Much as I want to be an example of someone who doesn't you know? Block someone out of their lives because of political differences or who perpetuates division It's hard. It's hard for me to Remember That I'm in a relationship with someone who would kind of give a mealy-mouthed excuse for this kind of degradation But again, I know I'm forgive me. I know I'm kind of talking in circles here, but So many of them are brainwashed and so many of them have just and I remember I was I mean Liberal Julie would have never supported gender affirming care, but I remember at one point in my life I really thought it was bigoted to deny a woman the right to have an abortion. I Remember at one point in my life when Donald Trump was running for president I really thought it was a terrible thing to build a border wall and I look back on myself and I go my god How could you be so stupid? How are you so irrational? But then I came out of it and I want to give that same space for my friends But I don't know if they'll come out of it So it's like do I give credence to their views do I stay in the friendship and let it go I don't know think if you think there's hope then You know more power to you. I don't I don't know what to say. I I just I Have found that on a one-to-one basis Someone who holds certain views You See if you don't come to your views via reason you won't reject your views by a reason So when I'm using reason to tell somebody That it's so utterly obvious that it is immoral. It is wrong To have a man who says he's a woman compete in women's sports. I am using reason Not come to their position via reason, right? Oh, it's perfectly fine for a man who says he's a woman to lift 250 pounds more than the best woman's lifting in the weight competition Lifting competition in Canada, which has happened That they think that's okay Means that my use of reason it is like it would be all give a silly analogy, but an effective one You oh you have You have pneumonia We're we're going to combat it with a a special potion of bananas It doesn't work you didn't get pneumonia because of lack of bananas and you won't solve it because of a Surplus of bananas if you came to your position with no use of reason Then Dennis's or Julie's or anybody else's use of reason is useless and that's the reason I have a more Pessimistic view of dealing with these people than you do Again look I don't subscribe to a kind of moral relativism. I think it's one of the many cancers in our society however, I Must acknowledge that they think that my positions are as bad as Theirs are Or as I think that's true for every bad group, right? You know the Nazis thought that that Churchill was was terrible They I'll give you an and again, I believe in in objective reality and objective distinctions But you know, let's take the immigration issue as an example They really think well again, this is this is my assumption I haven't like talked to someone directly about this and in quite a while, but but I'm I say with 99% certainty that There are people who think That by my supporting Immigration control into border wall. I am causing people to die mothers carrying their children's to children's mothers carrying their children's Back to these countries and Facebook like they they see my policy position on that through that lens and Again, I'm not I'm not trying to give a pass but They they really They are as just Disgusted by some of the positions I take as I am disgusted by the positions that they take and so we sort of agree to Ceasefire, which is like, okay. We love each other. You hate my positions I hate your positions, but let's you know be friends and love each other but again at a certain point The as these moral and civilizational divides are deepening that it's becoming harder and harder for me and Wouldn't hold that position with regard to their home It if if if 25 mothers and children wanted to come into their house. They wouldn't allow it So America is not their house they have different rules for their house than they do for the country And multiply it by obviously millions That was I gave 25 for the house, but but give 5 million For for the country 10 million for the country 20 million It Their their argument is emotional if America was not open they would never have drowned and I don't have any drowned in the Rio Grande But in any event none none would drown they wouldn't try to come here and get raped on that way Which doesn't seem to bother them. Do you realize that by opening our borders a vast numbers of these women will be raped? Because of the of the terrible people on on the way to the United States Whereas if they never made that trip, they wouldn't have been raped Well, I don't know. I think they would probably be I mean, I think they would be raped in their home No, no, they would be still at home Well, I think I think they would be terrorized and raped by gangs and bad actors in the country Listen I agree with your state. I agree with your position. I'm telling you what you would say it That's oh that's what they would say, but I don't believe I do believe that is true. They're their their situation Okay, you're from Guatemala. I've been to Guatemala. I've been to Honduras. I think the killing capital of Latin America and It what the gangs are doing there is horrific But you you and I don't blame them. I've said this from the beginning. I said Probably a hundred times on the radio if I were they I would sneak into America, of course Oh, of course, there was no quite of course Conservative who denies it is not telling the truth, right? Okay, so so that's a given It there is there is a tragic aspect to life in in parts of Central America and the rest of Latin America It is not solved By not having a border for a country. We should allow a lot of these people in legally I have no issue with that but It's look at what is happening in New York City Where after all of their talk about we're a sanctuary city and we have to let as many in now all of a sudden We can't handle it. We can't handle it So it's a theoretical position that the left takes based on emotion But Anyway, I didn't give I think it's a perfectly legitimate example for you to give but I gave Hamas and And with men competing against women Those are not positions in Comfort through reason I Think what's hard in in my own life and my friendships and and on the air I mean I have this debate all the time as I'm Delivering news or talking about a certain development is how much? How do I balance grace with levying consequences harshness and graciousness That's a that's a really hard thing That because we need both You know, you know, I have I I have a I have worked out an answer for me. Okay, it's not the perfect answer so my my way of putting it is compassion in the micro and standards in the macro hmm That is that is why when I announce that my wife and I are godparents to a gay couples children There are conservatives who get angry with me Dennis You take biblical positions you you don't you believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman and you're godparents to a gay Couples kids that they got through a surrogate And the answer is yes because they're a beaut they're two beautiful human beings two beautiful children and and if if they Want my wife and me to be the moral guides of their children if they die, of course, I will say yes You know, what's fascinating to me coming into this conservative world I I often talk about the the differences of leaving the left and coming in and meeting all these conservative people who I once had assumptions about in addition to Many I mean we've I've told you that that All of these prominent conservatives who I've met are exactly the same off the air as they as they are on the air In addition to that it's been very humbling to see how many conservatives are so compassionate and giving to your point in the micro for our conservatism in the macro and I remember being on the left and thinking like conservatives are these stern Unforgiving kind of who cares about X Y Z person suffering and I and by the way, I don't believe that our macro Values Have that at all. I I actually think conservatism on a macro scale is very compassionate to people who are suffering It's one of the misconceptions and the lies about conservatism that it's that it's harsh But nevertheless I had an assumption as many on the left do that that it was harsh But you meet these people including you like in person and they are the ones I mean look at I don't want to say their Names, but at Shabbat dinner Last week, there's there's this Very prominent Christian physician and his wife who came and they just went on a missionary trip to Angola Were they? More charity and volunteer more time. This is a statistic Listen, our time is up believe it or not and it did work. I know I was thinking that I think it I think it did The audience will decide I'll stay in st. Louis Please don't Okay, I'm coming back. Okay for the sake of time.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from HH6 The Light at the End of the Tunnel The Heart of Hope w/ Deacon James Keating Ph.D. Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Deacon Keating is a professor of spiritual theology and serves as a spiritual director at Kenrick Lenon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Deacon Keating has led more than 400 workshops in areas of morality and spirituality and has authored numerous books including The Way of Mystery, Listening for Truth, and Spiritual Fatherhood, The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. I'm your host, Kris McGregor. We've been discussing The Heart of Hope. And again, it's in the context of suffering. And I'll share with you an incident in my own life, a different type of suffering that occurred. And it happens in the hearts of many, many families around the world now. Our only son diagnosed with autism. And in those early years, struggling to first identify how we can help him, struggling with dealing with all the ramifications, not even addressing how can this happen, why would God allow this to occur? He's a complete innocent. We were faithful. Why would he allow this? When he was in kindergarten, I was approached by his principal of the school that he was attending and asked, Mrs. McGregor, do you see a light at the end of this tunnel? Because Michael had been acting out in the classroom. And it so took me aback, this question, do I see a light at the end of this tunnel? What, concerning my son that somehow he'll break through this autism, that someday he will be able to drive a car and have a girlfriend and go to school and college and become a doctor or something like that? No, I'm not even sure how tomorrow is going to be. I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel. I don't even know why I'm in the tunnel. Why he's in the tunnel. And I think at that moment, when I had that question posed to me, I felt there was no hope. Why does this occur? Why does God have us in that tunnel? Well, I think the key areas of pain there are, I was faithful and he is innocent. I was faithful and he was innocent. When suffering befalls us, we so associate suffering with punishment, that we immediately multiply our suffering by becoming conscious of those two realities. I was good, I was a faithful Catholic, I said my prayers, I obeyed the moral law. Why did this happen to me? Why am I being punished when I was good? And secondly, with the innocent, like the children of the world who suffer, it's just a child, baby, a little boy, why? Why do innocent people suffer? Why do faithful people suffer? And this will always be a question, and we should never deny this question from coming to our consciousness in the midst of suffering, because it's the key to the meaning of Christ and our relationship. Because once you say, why am I suffering? I'm a good person. Why is he or she suffering? They are innocent. The moment you say that, behold, the lamb of God, you are brought right to Christ. Behold, the wood of the cross. You immediately, and your situation is immediately ushered into the holy. Now of course, we can take it the other way. And it can be an act which raises in within us, the furor, anger, injustice, the desire to curse God and die. But steady, through all those years of receiving the Eucharist, be steady. You have been receiving this mystery since the second grade. Did you know that? You've been receiving the mystery of I am a good person, and I am innocent, and yet I suffer since the second grade. He has been preparing you that when suffering befalls you, it will not be an occasion for losing communion with him, but it will be the opportunity for deepening it with him. For when we speak the words, I am innocent, and what did I do wrong, we are brought into the closest identification that we can have with the mystery of Jesus' self -offering on the cross. And now he says to us, will you also offer yourself for the love and for the sake of many? And here we are at the very core of redemptive suffering, where we join our suffering to Jesus for the sake of the stranger, and most profoundly, for the sake of the enemy. Cosmically, this is not about your son. In faith, this is Christ, and all of his mysteries being lived over again. In your son. In you. This innocence, this faithfulness, he's not doing it to you, this suffering. He's living it with you, and that's the hope. And deeper and deeper our catechesis must go, deeper and deeper our evangelization must go to this very point of mystery. So that when suffering befalls us, we can know him in the very innocent suffering that we are undergoing. The question then becomes why? Why a God who so loves us that he'll enter into suffering, why does he even allow it? Why does it have to happen? Whether it's a birth of a child in which the world would consider disabled or being relegated to the isolation, loneliness of a nursing home or having to endure a disease or an accident that cripples us. If God so loves us and can do all things, why does it have to happen? Well, that question, of course, is a valid question. No one's really ever been able to answer it, except through what we've mentioned in other conversations, the theological meaning of original sin, the fallenness of the world, limitation, human limitation, human finitude, that this is in fact not heaven. All directions of answers like that. But what's more important when you ask the question, why, why does this innocent suffering have to happen, is not what you would call the philosophical answer to that question. The better answer to that question to meditate on is why, why did this have to happen? So that Jesus could share it with us.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Fresh update on "louis c" discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Looking for a fun way to win up to 25 times your money this football season test your skills on prize picks the most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports Just select two or more players pick more or less on their projection for a wide variety of statistics and place your entry It's as easy as that if you have the skills you can turn $10 into $250 with just a few taps easy gameplay quick withdrawals and an enormous selection of players and stat options are what make prize Picks the number one daily fantasy sports app ready to test your skills Join the prize picks community of more than seven million football fans who have already signed up Right now prize picks will match your first deposit up to $100 just visit prize picks comm slash get 100 and use code get 100 That's code get 100 at prize picks comm slash get 100 for a first deposit match up to $100 prize picks daily fantasy sports made easy Hi everybody Dennis Prager and Julie Hartman Dennis and Julie I don't know if you can you gotta be able to tell if you're watching because we have different backgrounds I am in st. Louis, Missouri and Julie is back home in the founding studio in the central studio in LA But it looks good. Doesn't it? It looks it looks it's not like when you were in your college dorm room. Oh Gosh, I remember throwing all of my items to the side To get them out of the frame of the shot I actually we needed the computer to be lifted so that I wasn't you know, I Wasn't looking down and I would stack like my textbooks. It was the whole point is it was a very shanty Setup. So yes, this is a lot better. You know, I'm curious. I'll be honest with you in the audience I'm curious to see how this episode will go Because we've we've done this I think well, certainly we did it when when I was at Harvard But it's been so long since we've done an episode like this where we're not in person. I Hope it will be good. I think it will be good. I Don't know if it will be as good. Well, so no it you see I admire your openness because most Programs or podcast shows would not acknowledge ambivalence with regards to Any of the quality of the program? So I'm of two minds on this matter. I happen to think we'll pull it off but I Also believe that's why I say two minds that nothing compares to in person In effect, we're sort of doing this by zoom. It's it happened. It's it's a different technology than zoom but there is a difference but there may not be a difference for the On looker for the observer there may be a difference for us Is that am I am I clear course? Yes, and I wonder if they'll there will be a difference for those who listen. I Mean, they wouldn't have any other reason to know besides the fact that we just acknowledged it. But that's right I wonder if they would well, they probably won't so I have a question Which you don't know I'm gonna ask. I know for the record D &J listeners I never know and you never know what I'll ask you none. None of this is Entirely accurate. Yes, correct. It's part of its charm so You are 24 and have achieved a remarkable level of success Truly remarkable. This is not a compliment. It's just a fact No one can deny it So I'll ask you something that I thought about in my own life and I was also successful at your age and Here's the question Why has it not gone through your head Well, I don't know if you saw my reaction there but I don't I don't think I've accomplished anything and I'm I'm I'm laughing because I I actually don't know why I'm laughing. I feel like maybe I sound absurd or I sound like I'm Being humble or something, but I'm not I don't I really don't view myself as having accomplished very much I view myself as having done the bare minimum and I'm chugging along trying to Accomplish a great deal. So maybe maybe that answers your question I'm delighted that you think I've accomplished a lot and I'm not I'm not saying this in a Cute way I'm delighted you think I I know no no no There's a very interesting subject of because I didn't say you accomplished a lot Oh, did he not I said you were successful Isn't that the same thing no At my age isn't that the same thing? No, you see that's a very I chose my words careful, by the way I do think you've accomplished a lot that is not but that is not my point There is no denying you can debate how much you've accomplished that is a fair we could we and it's worthy of discussion But you can't deny That you are successful. I mean you the very fact I mean, I feel funny saying this because it involves My saying something Implicitly positive about me, but you know, I'm I'm sort of a big deal in American Public life and intellectual life media life you you are the only person I've ever co-hosted Anything with let's say it was the only thing you did The most 24 year olds are not having a weekly podcast with a national figure That is successful that's well, that's sick that's six that's a success so Your answer was fascinating because you and and by the way I do believe you answered my question, even though you changed the word success to accomplish. They're not identical You could be a successful I don't know You Let's say you're a successful hockey player Would you say that he has accomplished a lot? Yes, maybe yeah. Well in the in the narrow realm of hockey and I have nothing against that I'm a big hockey fan, but In terms of what you're thinking of life and touching lives Then and he has not accomplished a lot he's just been very successful But anyway, the you did answer the question and I want to explain to people watching listening Why I think you answered it's in large measure my question. Why hasn't it gone to your head? You really don't even accept the premise of the question That's You don't you don't go home thinking wow Amazing how much I've done you know if I may cut in I Said when I answered the question, isn't that the same thing when you said I didn't say accomplishments I said success and then I added at my age. I just want to say I acknowledge that Okay that the term successful or the idea of accomplishments is very subjective and and I look at someone and we've talked about this on Dennis and Julie how You know college colleges and universities will have Someone like Elon Musk or more or Mark Zuckerberg Come and deliver the commencement address and they lionized those individuals as accomplished and successful people I think for many reasons those are the wrong people to speak to us at graduation and I actually think that their accomplishments pale in comparison to someone who maybe doesn't have as much money or as glitzy of a job, but who has built a Magnificent family life religious life has done well at their business. So I just want to make that clear but At my age, you know, I'm not married. I don't have kids. I think I was defining success and accomplishments and I guess what you would call the conventional way professionally and You know, it's something I think about a lot because I'm very ambitious as you know as the audience probably knows. I've always wanted to be a talk show host I've always wanted to do very well in my life. I don't I don't really mean monetarily I just mean like the best it at my field But I think having gone to this the schools that I went to that is a private high school and then Harvard and having kind of grown up in a Milieu of people who are on paper very successful and accomplished I think I've come to see that a lot of that is a farce and that's not to say that those individuals don't deserve Credit for how hard they've worked and what and what they've done. That's not to say that all of them are unhappy but When so much goes into the resume, this is my this is my line I know you've heard it when so much goes into the resume. There's not much left in the person and I think I've really come to see that especially over the last few years And so it's very interesting that you asked this question. I don't I don't mean to make the the answer all about me, but It's the question was all about you, right? Could be all about you, right, but obviously, you know, this is I want to make this applicable to everyone But but it's it's something that I've been going through a lot having just turned 24 and I think a lot of people my age Might be going through or people who are older went through this at my age. What it what is success? What does it mean to be successful and I ask myself because I'm so hard on myself and I never view myself as successful At what point in my life will I be able to say be able to acknowledge? Okay, I've been a success What what has to be fulfilled in order for me to finally see myself that way and I think it's shifting more into marriage children a Great internal and private life than it is a public life Wow, I Haven't heard you say that. Well, that's that's Really in large part your influence on me and and obviously I have to give credit to my parents to my dad has told me From the time that I was little the most important decision you'll ever make in your life is is who you marry but you you really talk about this a lot and You know believe it or not Dennis things that you say and do make a big impact and and again, I think a lot of it too is just Growing up in this world and going to these schools and looking at people and thinking my god You went to this university you went to this graduate school You made this amount of money you started your own firm you you know You've been on the cover of this magazine You're this and then you like you think they're gonna be so interesting and you talk to them and they are really boring Like really really boring and not happy all the time Or even much of the time So this is it's funny I I threw out that question I had no idea how long We would discuss it But this is a very big deal for you to say this So I'm gonna do something that I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't do but I'll do it Anyway, maybe I should do I don't know. I'm gonna answer my question about me So it never went to my head and it doesn't today everyone who knows me knows that's true I have no Resutation in talking about that. I find the idea of being arrogant as somewhat of a joke so When when I think of my life, I don't think what a success I'm to to use the the language that I posed to you. I Think overwhelmingly of what needs to be done.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SAM BANKMAN-FRIED CONVICTED & GOING TO JAIL! DXY CRASHES CRYPTO PUMP INCOMING!
"The Bernie Madoff of crypto, Sam Beckman -Fried, has been found guilty on seven counts in his fraud trial. Also, the DXY, the dollar currency index, is crashing. That means assets are about to pump. Get ready. Let's break it down. Welcome to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify or Apple, please leave a five -star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, Sam Beckman -Fried found guilty by jury in landmark crypto trial. The jury found the former executive guilty after a month -long trial where the prosecution presented nearly 17 witnesses to the defense's three, with Beckman -Fried himself taking the stand. FTX co -founder Gary Wang, former head of engineering Nishad Singh, and former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison testified against their former colleague. Sam Beckman -Fried's sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 28th. A hearing will be held where the judge Louis Kaplan, who oversaw the entirety of Beckman -Fried's trial, will decide his sentence. The former executive faces a maximum sentence of 115 years. Folks, this is great news. This is what we wanted to see. This guy needs to go away for a long time. He is a fraudster and a scammer. And as stated, he is the Bernie Madoff of the crypto industry. What he did was just an old -fashioned crime here. It had nothing specific to do with crypto. Yes, crypto was part of the means or the assets, but this could have been done with cash. A bank could do this. They can co -mingle and steal customer funds. This is what he was essentially doing. So great news. It's something that I think the entire crypto industry and market was waiting for so we can put it behind us and move forward. Now, I want to share a clip of a US attorney of SDNY, Damian Williams, his statements he made, because this is coming from someone who has nothing to do with crypto. He's just part of the law system and he had some really great statements. Let me play it here for you. My name is Damian Williams and I'm the United States attorney here in the Southern District of New York. Sam Bankman -Fried perpetrated one of the biggest financial frauds in American history, a multi -billion dollar scheme designed to make him the king of crypto. Here's the thing. The cryptocurrency industry might be new. The players like Sam Bankman -Fried might be new. But this kind of fraud, this kind of corruption is as old as time and we have no patience for it. So great statements here from Damian Williams. And as stated, this is a fraud as old as time. Sam Bankman -Fried didn't come up with a new scheme. He just did an old fashioned crime. And the problem here was that the regulators, like the SEC, who met with Sam Bankman -Fried multiple times, like Gary Gensler, did not do any investigations. And he was meeting with these folks, making campaign donations while committing big time fraud. And as Damian said here, he perpetrated one of the biggest financial crimes in American history. And now he's going to have to go to jail. So this is a good day, folks. We want to put this behind us and keep moving forward. The market needs us to move forward from this. And from a public perception standpoint, we need to show that, hey, this was a bad actor and there are good actors in the crypto industry. And this technology and asset class will continue to grow. An example of the takeaways that are coming out as a result of the FTX collapse, as well as Celsius and so forth. And that is many folks in Congress and the Senate are pushing for what's called proof of reserves to make sure all these crypto exchanges have their customer reserves. It's 100 % back and there's no commingling and these things happening. In hindsight, it's like, this should have been done a long time ago, but this is the failure of Congress, as well as the regulators to not act sooner. This is a new technology. We're in a global competition and other countries are moving ahead. The UK, the EU have passed crypto regulations. The United States has not. There's still bills stuck in the house and there's infighting, right? It's nonsense. So we need to get these things going. So here, I'll just read a headline from October. US senators set in motion a bipartisan proof of reserves bill. So we need to make sure that these things are in place. Now, a great exchange that I've been using since 2018 and that is a sponsor of this podcast is Uphold and they have proof of reserves. They back their customer funds 100%. So they do audits as well. So you can verify that you have a lot of transparency and I trust this platform. I've interviewed the CEO, the CFO, and I've been using them for a long time. You can also trade precious metals and over 37 Fiat currencies on this platform. So if you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. Now, folks, what's interesting is that Bitcoin right now is still consolidating. So we can see here, not much happening. It kind of pulled back below 35 ,000, but that's fine, right? It's chopping. It's building the support levels, right? There's a move upwards. We break through resistance. We build support. Then we move up and break through another resistance. It's just market cycles playing out. So no need to panic. Bitcoin is back below 35. Some people are going a little nuts. It may drop back down to 34. That's okay. It's all within the range of consolidation and building support levels. But what's interesting, and here the blockchain backer just tweeted out, the DXY, the dollar currency index is crashing, folks. It takes a hard tumble through the 106 Fibonacci level here. Folks, that is bullish because as we've talked about many times, when the DXY is pumping, assets start crashing. When the DXY is crashing, assets start pumping. Now, it's not an immediate thing where it happens in the seconds and the minutes, but watch over the next week or so, we're going to see assets start to move upwards. So very bullish in my opinion. Now, this coupled with the Fed pausing rate hikes is all bullish narratives. Now, when the Fed starts to cut rates, that's usually a sign something is about to break. That's when you put up the red flags a little bit. But right now, I think we're okay. The Fed is pausing. The DXY is crashing and Bitcoin is looking to get ready to move to its next level. And as always, it's going to pull the altcoins with it. So we can expect the altcoins to rise. And this is not a move to new all -time highs. Like I've been saying, this is a move to retracement level. So we're anticipating Bitcoin going to between 40 to 50K. That's not guaranteed. That's just a thesis. And altcoins will follow Bitcoin's move, at which point I think Bitcoin rolls over a little bit. Maybe it goes back down to 30K range. It starts to move slow and steady into 2024. And we possibly may hit some new all -time highs in 2024 for Bitcoin. But I think there's a very high probability we hit new all -time highs in 2025. And that will be the peak of the next bull market. So this is based on how the market has performed historically. Could things be different this time? Absolutely. But there's no facts right now to say that it will be different. So we are forming our thesis based on the facts, the fundamentals, the technical analysis, and much more. So looking really good here, folks. Now we got news here that Coinbase posted its earnings and they beat the expectations, which is really good. Here's the headline. Coinbase post earnings beat with $674 million in Q3 revenue. So you may say, well, who cares, Tony? Well, look, I do own some Coinbase stock, but this is a indication. This is a marker, a metric that we use to show that the market is recovering. And I think that's clear as day. If you look at the Bitcoin chart, we bought them in November of 2022 and we've been on the rise since. Is it a rollercoaster ride on the way up? Of course. But that's the market. And you can use that volatility to make money. You can swing trade. But the fact that Coinbase as the largest crypto exchange in the United States is posting a positive revenue numbers here and earnings numbers is a good sign, right? Multiple indicators showing that we are growing. We are coming out of the bear market. I don't believe we are officially in a bull market yet. I think we're in the transition phase from bear to bull. I believe the official bull market starts next year at the Bitcoin halving. Well, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below. How many years of sentencing do you think Sandbank, graffiti is going to get? Let me know what you think. And I'll talk to you all later.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
Fresh update on "louis c" discussed on The Café Bitcoin Podcast
"And the quickness sometimes we forget how quick things can move in Bitcoin up and down. You know, I do like Mickey's frame though. I like his frame. He's like he goes into work and people are like, oh my gosh Bitcoin passed 41 days like yeah, of course it did. I told you it was going to do that and it's going to continue. To infinity Laura, of course, I scored a touchdown because I'm the fucking man. Okay. I don't know why you're surprised. That doesn't sound very humble. That doesn't sound very humble. I know I'm just kidding. My wife's yelling at me now. Real quick comment on the M2 thing. I just pulled it up on my computer. M2 is actually down a little bit from the November 2021 Bitcoin all-time high. It's down like 3% at least according to the Federal Reserve data, the St. Louis Fed. So by that metric then all-time high would be like 65. Where the macro larps at? George, good morning. Welcome. Sorry, yo, thanks. Hey, I don't know if you guys have exhausted the topic of of Adam backs tweet about, you know, flipping gold. But you know, I was actually looking at this last night. I didn't even see his tweet until I saw in your nest. And so I'm just kind of I'm wrapping my mind around this kind of laying out like is this even possible as far as one cycle? Gold is still bizarrely held in a lot of central banks like reserves internationally. So Bitcoin would have to essentially replace like all the sovereign holdings of of the entire world. And I'm I'm like kind of in doubt that that could happen in one cycle. I mean, I'd love it to don't get me wrong. But I can't see how that is still feasible in four years to to mentally shift the entire world's kind of mental framework. In an entire four year cycle, I don't think that's necessarily what he's saying is going to happen. I think that he's just saying that it will flip it momentarily. I mean, don't get him wrong or don't get us wrong. It's going to collapse like by 90% afterwards. Like momentarily, it could flip it and then, you know, and then and then it would collapse back down to reality. He's also speaking about it in terms of US dollar valuation of the asset, right? I think that's what he's getting at. I don't think anybody is suggesting that within the next two years, all the central banks of the world are going to switch to Bitcoin as the reserve asset. I don't think that's going to happen. No, I didn't interpret it that way either. I'm just I'm just thinking of the gravity, still like the weight gold holds in the world conscience conscious and and the idea that Bitcoin could have a market cap of 14 billion dollars. Like currently it's sorry, 14 trillion. Excuse me. It's not even currently at one trillion. Don't get me wrong. I would love that to happen. I'm just I'm just thinking that is that is such a massive momentum that needs to be created within within one cycle. That that's huge. I mean, if that happened, I'd gladly be wrong. But that's all I'm saying. Let me let me ask you a question. Why do you think it can't happen? What do you think that's unlikely? Well, yeah, why I think it's unlikely is is the amount of of gold, like what gold is used for and in kind of the mindset of, hey, this is is a store of value over a long period of time. It is such a mental stronghold in kind of the psyche of central banks. I mean, I did a study on gold about a month ago. And interestingly, central banks worldwide, not U.S., but worldwide have actually been increasing their gold supply. So it says that they're still seeing in the short term of things, they're still seeing a strong value for gold. Now, if if gold is the predominant, the current predominant idea of the store of value, you know, with a market cap of 13 trillion dollars, Bitcoin would have to have to take that 13 trillion dollar mindset and move it out of the way. I mean, what Adam Back is is also saying, if you like, look in his tweets, he's not necessarily saying that Bitcoin will be 13 trillion dollars, but that if the price of gold goes down and the price of Bitcoin goes up, then that is a you know, that is a case. So that's my response to you. I'm going to I'm going to say I disagree with that, and the reason why is that your framework is that it's operating on the assumption that Bitcoin has to replace gold in I don't think that's true. I think that people holding gold can keep holding gold. I think the central banks holding gold can keep keep holding gold. I think they might even buy more. But that has nothing to do with Bitcoin's valuation in terms of its its market value. OK, because if there are four hundred and forty hour, I mean, it depends on who you where you go to get these numbers, but if there's four hundred and forty trillion US dollars plus of US denominated assets around the world. And some of them are not doing so great. And you continue to see Bitcoin perform. It's the best performing asset in the last 10 years. It's up over one hundred and fifty two percent year to date. It's crushing every other asset class in existence. And people simply choose to reallocate. You could get there like every single gold bug could keep every ounce they've got, maybe even double it. And at some point. The value of Bitcoin in US dollars could be higher. It just depends on who's buying it. Hey Alex, the inflation rate, like monetary inflation rate of gold is around one to two percent. Is that right? It's about one and a half. Depends on the year. Like when gold is ramping, then, you know, within a few years you start to see maybe more coming online. But there's a lag. OK, so one thing to keep in mind, I mean, because we think about this with Bitcoin, right? The miner gravity. We've talked about this before. And that's where if the price runs too quickly, then, you know, miners are still mining Bitcoin. Right. And the cost of mining probably isn't going to ramp up as quickly as the price will. And so people will start investing in mining infrastructure instead of Bitcoin, meaning that there's going to be less capital going into Bitcoin directly. And so it will start to come back to reality as people just flip to going into mining instead. And then, you know, those miners are dumping their Bitcoin more or less on the market. And so you've got this constant flow. Next year, it's going to be 450 Bitcoin a day, right, after the halving. And so Bitcoin's hovering around gold market cap. I mean, that's a pretty significant amount of Bitcoin the market needs to absorb. But if you start thinking about it for gold as well, right, I mean, if the monetary inflation rate is one and a half percent for gold, that's over 500 million dollars of gold mined a day. So if there's not demand for 500 million dollars of gold mined a day, I mean, what happens? Do people stop mining as much gold or what? Because I mean, with Bitcoin, if the demand's not there, the Bitcoin comes regardless. That's why we still have these giant bear markets, because, you know, like when the demand goes away during the bear market, the Bitcoin still comes and we get these retracements that are significant. Whereas with gold, if demand goes away, they probably just shut off the mines. Right. That's exactly what happens. Yeah. What's the current inflation, you know, via new Bitcoin coming online for Bitcoin? It's about 1.7 percent annualized. Currently or is that the one to come? No, that's currently. It drops below 1 percent next year. So it's actually going to be a smaller monetary inflation rate than gold. It's the first time, you know, that's going to happen. So it might be, you know, a big deal. Yeah, that's the interesting thing to me is that every asset, every commodity, every everything that we've known as human beings, when we want more, we make more. So if the price of gold goes up, let's say the price of gold went to 5,000, what's going to happen? Well, the mining companies are going to be like, look at all these projects that we've got that we haven't built out that we're going to build out because the price is higher. We're going to make more money. So they're going to dump capital into all of those things. And within a couple of years, you're going to see more gold come online. Same is true for houses. If we want more houses, we build more houses. Same is true for everything we've ever known in our history as humans. Bitcoin is the first thing ever. It is unique. We have never seen anything like this where the issuance actually goes down programmatically and you can't change it. Yeah, an elastic supply. So regardless of demand, the supply is always the same. So you could have a lot of demand. You could have, you know, no demand. Doesn't matter. The supply is going to stay the same. The issuance is going to stay the same. OK, but I ask you from a human behavioral standpoint, right? Once somebody figures out what Bitcoin is, I mean, really figures it out, goes through that one way door, I call it. Do they ever, are they ever going to be like, well, I'm just going to sell all of mine and give up on it and not buy more? No, but what they might do. So, I mean, you know, people like me probably won't do this because I just I don't feel comfortable timing markets, but I know a lot of OGs tend to, you know, skim a little bit off the top when things get frothy. So they might do like a 10 percent trade in and out. They're not going to sell everything. But like when things start getting toppy, they might be like, OK, sell 10 percent, improve my lifestyle, buy a new house, you know, whatever. So like that type of thing might happen. Has Magoo redeployed his capital yet? I don't think so. Probably not. We're still in a bear market, apparently. He's still waiting for 12. He's down bad on that. Although, you know, I mean, to be fair, as long as he deploys it under the all time high when he apparently sold, then I guess he'll be OK. So if anything, it's a wash trade. Yeah, there's like you say, there's OGs, so to speak, that some of them just it's not uncommon for them to sell a little bit every month. They're just trickling it out there because they're funding their lifestyle. That's a thing. But also, I've got other ones who are telling me, yeah, when we're near the net, you know, when we're near what I think is the next all time high, I'm probably going to sell a chunk and they might do it for funding. Most of them at this point who are like sitting on really big stacks or these, they're not going to sell a chunk to fund lifestyle. They don't have to anymore. But some of them are still like selling a chunk to sit in cash and wait for a 50 percent correction. I've got OGs doing that, too.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from No Cease Fire
"All right, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. I'm your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for Dennis Prager. The number to call in, 1 -8 -Prager, 776. That is 1 -8 -Prager, 776. Sitting in studio with me, Lou's got my back right here at AM 950 The Answer, 94 .9 FM. Go to TheAnswerOrlando .com. You can see all of our great programming here. I would certainly appreciate that. Sean McConnell is in my ear. Alan Estrin, thank you so much for inviting me back. I want to thank, obviously, Dennis Prager and Sue for trusting me behind this microphone. It really means a lot to me. I certainly appreciate that. Mr. McConnell, who do we have on the lines? All right, Suzette is on the lines. I thought I heard Tony earlier as well. Anyway, Suzette, so glad to have you with us. The number to call in, 1 -8 -Prager, 776. 1 -8 -Prager, 776. I have so much that I want to get to that it's absolutely unbelievable. I've got to mute my phone, apparently, and my laptop here. But listen, I wasn't exactly sure how I was going to come at this show, to be frank, with those of you that are in the listening audience. I'm watching my country, and every day I'm looking at my country and I'm watching what's happening. I'm looking at our leadership. I'm looking at what's happening with the Israel -Iran slash Hamas war. And I'm just, it's weird. I go home, even though I'm on this microphone, I go home sometimes and I read these headlines and I'm in disbelief of where we are. You know, I recently, or I've been hearing more and more people, including the White House, call for a ceasefire in Israel. I pray to God that Israel, even if it means forgoing any aid from the U .S., I pray that they would absolutely annihilate Hamas, and I pray that they would ignore Biden and the White House. Obviously, Biden and the Vice President and the Democrat Party are catering to portions of their base, which sadly are, they have partly a Hamas constituency, a pro -Hamas constituency. I think I want to talk to you about this. I think I want to start here. Frankly, I wasn't even sure. I got stuff scattered all around me, but guys, I think we are leading up to another 2020 -type summer, another 2020 -type summer of violence, if you will. But I do want to make mention of this. Before the Democrat Party calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, let me call for a ceasefire. Can I do that? I want to call for a ceasefire in St. Louis, Missouri. This was the first city with the highest murder rate in St. Louis. There were 194 murders. By the way, this is as of January of this year, so the numbers have gone up. So I want to call for a ceasefire in the Democrat -run city of St. Louis. Again, 194 murders in 2021. That was with an average of 64 homicides per 100 ,000 inhabitants. There has been a decrease in the city's population since 1993, which, oddly enough, has resulted in a greater murder rate, despite the fact that they have a dipping population. I would also like to call for a ceasefire in the Democrat -run Baltimore, Maryland. That is the second city with the highest murder rate. That is Baltimore, Maryland. Again, there were 348 murders in the city with an average of 58 .63 deaths per 100 ,000 inhabitants. The majority of murders in Baltimore are centered in a few high -density areas. This, according to the Baltimore Sun research, gun deaths are concentrated in a quarter of the city's communities. I bet you don't have to guess who runs those cities. I'd also like to call for a ceasefire in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That is the third city with the highest murder rate. Right under Baltimore, there were 172 murders in the city of San Juan with an average of 54 .03 deaths per 100 ,000 inhabitants. Since Puerto Rico became a colony of the United States going back to 1898, the island has been plagued with crime. The island has been plagued by violent criminal activity for a long time as well. The island has been plagued by illegal activity for a long time, too. By the way, this is USAbyNumbers .com. Also, I'd like to call for a ceasefire in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit, Michigan has been the fourth city with the highest murder rate. All of these cities, with the exception of one that I'll touch on, are run by Democrats. I want to call for a ceasefire there. It seems to me that the Democrat Party are fixated on making sure that no innocent civilians die, despite the fact that Hamas that runs Gaza, despite the fact that they killed more than 1 ,400 Israelis, including American citizens that happen to be there. We don't even know the name of the hostages that have been taken, frankly. So they're since so fixated on calling for a ceasefire in Hamas, I thought just maybe, maybe that they didn't understand that the cities that they run are under fire every freaking day, and perhaps since they run them, perhaps they could do something about it. That's kind of what I'm thinking here. So Detroit has been the fourth city with the highest murder rate in the United States and 34th in the world with a murder rate of 40 .74 per 100 ,000 inhabitants. There has been an increase in violent attacks in Detroit. Although thefts and other crimes have decreased, the city's overall crime has reduced significantly since the 1980s, yet the results are still pretty horrible. And what about a ceasefire in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? So on the western side of Lake Michigan, the American state of Wisconsin contains the metropolis of Milwaukee. It is well known for its viewers, several of which provide tours that detail its contribution to the brewing industry. The Harley -Davidson Museum is there, so that'd be a nice thing to see. That overlooks the what? The Mino Monte River features vintage motorbikes on exhibit, such as one that was owned by Elvis Presley. I'd love to see that. The Milwaukee Public Museum is close by and features an expansive European village, as well as a replica of early Milwaukee, but the murder rate there is 42 .5 of 100 ,000 inhabitants. So you've got to make sure that you don't get a cap popped in you while you're on your way to the museum. How about a ceasefire in New Orleans? How about a ceasefire there? New Orleans, Louisiana. That has a murder rate of 40 .6 per 100 ,000 inhabitants. I'm sure the Democrats are all over that. Guys, this is a party of chaos. This is a party, the Democrat Party, it is a party of murder. It is a pro -hamas party.
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "louis c" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
"You can show the world what you're made of visit bloomberg .com to learn more my mom has decided to learn to paint and she's good when that's now into creative cuisine and I've already put on six pounds learning new things comes with age my mom she started forgetting my name and what we're talking about forgetting well -known things doesn't memory loss may be a sign of Alzheimer's disease early detection gives you and your loved one time to plan for the future learn the warning signs of Alzheimer's at ten signs dot org brought to you by the number surveillance good morning at John Farrow an assignment waiting for the nine o 'clock hour Lisa Bramwitson time can when you do a market check real quick here and I got one oddity I really want to emphasize you the VIX 13 .28 SPX negative 16 down negative 89 NASDAQ in half a percent down half a percent I should say yields are higher off of the Friday festivities maybe that's a reversal some trend there into the opening to say the lease Lisa Euro Swiss II and this is again like the ten -year real in the United States showing strong strong Swiss Frank off of what we saw Friday and you know I just get back to the idea of some real movements Friday that changed the landscape well and George Ceravellos and Jeff you over at BNY Mellon both think that the ECB is going to cut rates before the Federal Reserve you have to wonder if the Swiss National Bank is looking at this and say come on really because the strong currency has been a problem for a bit so this has been sort of a tension point and keep watching this space these are the little global tension points that are out there including Ceravellos talking about the ECB they should act sooner rather later than again futures negative 17 what do you have well it's an incredible week and I think about the drumbeat to Friday kicking off with factory orders and durable goods today at 10 a .m. tomorrow Stoltz data followed by ADP which no one cares about until they do bank CEOs are going to testify before Senate on Wednesday I hope they ask them about what they're seeing going forward in terms of consumer spending Thursday weekly jobless claims and all of that is kind of the drumbeat the US jobs report on Friday which a lot of people say could really make to it break or it depending on the number and then it'll come out bang on exactly the target and people move on saying it's just all about the Fed meeting Jay and how Powell is going to message that. We're gonna get to Constance Hunter here but first Michael McKee joins us to get us started on a clearly week. eventful Is a jolt survey gonna jolt us tomorrow? You once lectured me, it tore me to shreds Lisa McKee. I was in the McKee timeout chair Tom jolts matters. Why does jolts matter? Well it's starting to matter a little bit less unless it goes up significantly for some reason but right now we're expecting the number of job openings to have fallen a little bit according the consensus by about 253 ,000 which would be good reasonably news for the Fed but as Lisa said it's a week of a lot of numbers that will lead Wall Street to sort of give us the statistical version of dancing angels on the head of a pin because every little number is going to give somebody some reason to think that things are going one way or another. The interesting thing is it's been a week now since Chris Waller came out and said that the US economy is starting to give and that sort of let the floodgates open in bond the market but when you look at the numbers that we're going to get this week we're expecting a higher ISM services number, higher ADP numbers, higher jobs numbers. Now there are caveats to all of those but it's not like the economy is falling off a cliff. So let's look at Governor Waller whose acclaim is research head at the research institution the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. There's a multi heritage -decade there and then let's look at Claudia Sam's essay this week and on the veracity of the data that you live and breathe. Is Professor Sam, is Dr. Sam recession queen? she Is on to something here that we can't trust the data this week because it's not countable? I don't think we can't trust the data. There are a lot of reasons that the data may not be quite as reliable as they were basically having to do with response rates and the way the economy has changed in terms of the technology but data are going to be what the Fed uses so you can use the data. You can say the data may be wrong but then they're wrong for the Fed decision -making too and unless you have the right answer. of This kind goes back to the old Jack Welch thing of we've seen the BLS manipulate the numbers and didn't make a difference that he didn't turn out to be right. I want to go back to where we started which is the Jay Powell tried to send one message and the market heard something else. I do think that there has been a notable shift in terms of Fed officials against the market sentiment and that's what Ian Lingan and Benjamin Jeffrey from BMO Capital Markets said when they wrote Powell was more balanced than hawkish which given the current backdrop might as well have been dovish. Is that essentially where we are with the Federal Reserve that doesn't care if the market rallies because they do see so much weakness in the pipeline? I don't know much because they see so much weakness they do see the economy slowing down and they do know that we have an issue coming up with real rates. We'll see what happens if you look this morning and you can see that financial conditions have tightened a little bit after last week so we'll see that go and up down. But the biggest thing going forward is going to be I think the Fed meeting. Jay Powell is always important but we're going to get the new projections and remember in September they said they were going to cut rates in 2024. So the idea that the market is pricing in rate cuts is not it's wrong just a question of timing and of course magnitude and that'll depend on the data. Michael McKee thank you so much greatly appreciated a busy busy week for Mr. McKee. Joining now us with macro policy perspectives is Constance Hunter she's senior advisor with a terrific decades perspective here on your central bank. Constance to the question I was alluding to with McKee the basic idea is do we trust the data we're out of a pandemic maybe we're beyond a pandemic is the data does all this data have an asterisk next it to or do you actually believe it's countable and legitimate so I mean Claudia Sam brings up a good point and it's it's something that is talked about a great deal at the statistical agencies in fact I'm on the federal economic statistics advisory committee that's a mouthful feesack and we have a meeting this Friday and one of the agenda items is this exact subject of how is the
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from HH5 The Purpose of Life The Heart of Hope w/ Deacon James Keating Ph.D. Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Deacon Keating is a professor of spiritual theology and serves as a spiritual director at Kenrick Lenon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Deacon Keating has led more than 400 workshops in areas of morality and spirituality and has authored numerous books including The Way of Mystery, Listening for Truth, and Spiritual Fatherhood, The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. I'm your host, Kris McGregor. The name of our series is The Heart of Hope and yet we're talking about suffering. We were created to know, love, and serve the Lord and to be happy with Him forever and the next. What then is the purpose of our life here? Some would say maybe we were born to suffer. Well, suffering is part of it, but it's not the purpose of it. It comes accidentally as a result of, you know, the Christian anthropology, which is there was some gash, some wound at the very beginning, which is a great mystery. We can't, you know, some people to simplistically dismiss Garden of Eden, disobedience of Adam and Eve. They dismiss original sin, but they're being very simplistic about that. There is something broken in the human who strives many times to be good and doesn't reach it or plots and plans to be evil as if it's their right or second nature to them. That's out of kilter. Something's broken in the human. Something is not ordered correctly toward our happiness. So as all the writers our church teach us, mystics, doctrine, we live in a fallen world. So suffering is inevitable, but it's not the purpose. The purpose is intimacy with reality, and the highest form of reality is God opening up his perfectly happy communion, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, opening up that perfect communion of happiness and sharing it with us. That's the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to be taken up into that gift of sharing in Trinitarian happiness, which of course no one deserves, we have no right to, and it is the source of our joy to receive such a gift. Simultaneously, as we are receiving this gift through grace, the sacraments, faith, hope and love, simultaneously as we're receiving this, the body, the affections can undergo great suffering through our own foibles, our own choices to sin, morbidity and decrepitude, aging, we're finite. So, simultaneously with our reaching out to respond to the great purpose of life, sharing in Trinitarian love by the grace of Jesus Christ, we suffer our humanity. But that suffering of our humanity must be placed into this grace, the grace of God sharing his life with us. That's what purifies us, that's what elevates us, and ultimately that's what makes us fit to live in heaven. We take all of our suffering and relate it to this gracious love of God. Purification is a term that we hear the mystics, especially the mystical doctors of the church, describe that which occurs in our understanding of purgatory. And so many of them have said, better to experience that now, experience purgation, the purgatory now, than to experience it after death. There's some sense there of the intensity of the suffering perhaps, and this again is a mystery about how does a spirit suffer after death. But the purity of the spirit, perhaps the intensity of the pure spirit, that will always be related or associated with our bodies, but how we're related immediately after death with the whole configuration of the body disintegrating. How the spirit stays connected to matter, very, very fascinating mystery, but our doctrine says that it does, that the spirit somehow always will be related to matter, to our bodies. This sense that it's better to suffer now, the purification, than afterwards is somehow related to the intensity of the suffering. And we know this sounds perhaps cynical to those who are physically suffering now that the suffering they're undergoing now is not as bad as it would be after. And pastorally, of course, we're sensitive, and we're not trying to degrade anyone's suffering. But ultimately, and theologically, the mystics, the saints, Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Genoa, others have said that it is better for us to undergo it now. One of the reasons it's better for us is that when we die, we will immediately participate in the depths of divine happiness. And so who wouldn't want that? And we know that if we order whatever suffering we're undergoing now to our relationship with Christ, nothing is lost in that suffering. Nothing is lost. There's nothing wasted. People will come in and say to someone in the hospital or some psychic suffering that someone's undergoing, what a waste, what a waste this suffering is. Faith tells us that everything related to Jesus and his love for us is always retained by his Sacred Heart. No suffering is lost. And so everything that we are suffering is actually facilitating a deeper intimacy with him. Eye has not seen. Ear has not heard. Nor has it even dawned on man what God has in store for those who love him. So if you are relating all of your pain to his love for you on the cross, your pain is actually deepening your intimacy with Christ. This is the profound mystery that is reflected for us in the Mass because Jesus' own suffering on the cross is both gathering all of us who suffer to his Sacred Heart and simultaneously deepening the Church's intimacy with the Trinity if we relate it to Christ at the Mass, at Calvary, the Resurrection. So just like we pick up all the crumbs of the Eucharist and we have all those 12 baskets left over so that nothing is wasted, everything will be gathered up by the Spirit and related to the love of God. So it is with our suffering. If we will to order that suffering to Jesus' love for us, he will preserve us. We will not be lost. Nothing will be wasted. And our intimacy with him will be deepened. And paradoxically in our suffering, we will know consolation because of the depths of our intimacy with Jesus. And I think that's the purgatory that we want to undergo here so that when death comes, we awaken only to happiness. When we talk about physical suffering and emotional suffering, there is a difference to the extent that for a woman who would give birth, for example, the pains that you suffer, you remember the labor, you remember the birth, but you do not experience the physical suffering again. That cannot be said necessarily for emotional suffering, that emotional suffering in particular that's rooted in the heart because we go back and we will go back in memory and recall, and the pain is as acute as it was when we first experienced it, and it stays with us. That suffering is so different than the physical suffering that we endure. The emotional suffering, though, that retains such power has probably not been fully related to the love of Christ because Christ will diffuse even the emotional pain so that we can carry it, not as a place of reliving suffering, but as a place of deepening communion with Him. So when you were a little child, your father wounded you emotionally, or when you were a little child, your father hurt you emotionally, and in our memory, of course, we can go back to the very first year of marriage and we can say, yep, he or she did this to me, and it had this effect upon my consciousness, upon my emotions, my feelings. If it's unrelated, if it remains unrelated to salvation, then when we go back there in continual pain, but if we take those wounds and we relate them to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, if we relate them to the Mass, the purest access point of the Paschal mystery of Jesus. Jesus, when I was first married, my spouse belittled me and abused me emotionally, and I felt so alone, so isolated, for everything I'd hoped for in marriage was in disarray. I give you that wound now, I give you that pain, I want you to carry it because I can't. And when we do this on a regular basis, when we give in prayer our wounds to Jesus, our intimacy with him deepens. His communion dissipates any of the negative affections, anger, hurt, resentment, and he begins to free us to enter those wounds as a school of compassion for others. It's his power now. We don't do this. He invites us into those wounds with him, not alone, and the wounds become birthplace of compassion. Without Jesus and without that relation of these emotional wounds to the Paschal mystery, they just harbor our acute suffering, anger, regret, resentment. They become places not of the birth of compassion, but places unrelated to love, so that instead to numb the pain we drink or we act out in inappropriate ways, or we try to escape into the of superficialities American culture because I just can't take the emotional pain in the memory anymore. Well that's not what Jesus wants. He wants the full and explicit, detailed sharing of that emotional wound with him so he can enter it, heal you, and reorder that wound from a place of desolation to a place where you give birth to compassion for other people. So yes, emotional pain remains deeply embedded unless it is related to Christ himself and his love for us. We'll return in just a moment to The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Did you know that Discerning Hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite Discerning Hearts programming, Father Timothy Gallagher, Dr. Anthony Lillis, Monsignor John S. of Deacon James Keating, Father Donald Haggerty, Mike Aquilina, Dr. Matthew Bunsen, and so many more? They're all available on the free Discerning Hearts app. Over 3 ,000 spiritual formation programs and prayers, all available to you with no hidden fees or subscriptions. Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcasts, like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms? And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts Catholic podcasts dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. Jesus! From the desire of being extolled. Deliver me, Jesus! From the desire of being honored. Deliver me, Jesus! From the desire of being praised. Deliver me, Jesus! From the desire of being preferred to others. Deliver me, Jesus! From the desire of being consulted. Deliver me, Jesus! From the desire of being approved. Deliver me, Jesus! From the fear of being humiliated, deliver me Jesus. From the fear of being despised, deliver me Jesus. From the fear of suffering rebukes, deliver me Jesus. From the fear of being colluminated, deliver me Jesus. From the fear of being forgotten, deliver me Jesus. From the fear of being ridiculed, deliver me Jesus. from the fear of being wronged, deliver me, Jesus, from the fear of being suspected, deliver me, Jesus, that others may be loved more than I, that others may be esteemed more than I, that in the opinion of the world others may increase and I may decrease, that others may be chosen and I set aside, that others may be praised and I unnoticed, that others may be preferred to me in everything, that others may become holier than I, provided that I become as holy as I should. Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. Amen.
She Podcasts
A highlight from 401 Beach Weather
"Hey everyone, welcome to She Podcast. This is episode 401. I am your co -host Jessica Kupferman and with it, as always, the very scantily clad Elsie Escobar today. Oh my God. It looks like you're wearing a bathing suit, kind of, that's all. I am not. It's the spaghetti straps. It's my spaghetti. It's the spaghetti straps tank. I'm dressed like something I don't think I've ever dressed like before. I look sporty today, which is rare for me, but it's because I'm wearing a muscle shirt that says no filter and I just came back from the beach. So I'm tan and I'm so tan, I'm still almost nowhere near tan as tan as Elsie Escobar, which is what I'm used to because that's impossible at this point. How are you? I'm well, I like how we actually match. So for those of you who are curious, you can definitely watch us stream live on Facebook and on YouTube to see that we're actually wearing the same color. You also look very refreshed, says Patrick Keller, which is nice. Patrick, I wish I could just have you move here and put you in my pocket all day. You're just delightful. I just adore him. Thank you for that. I do look refreshed. I hope so. It was not as refreshing of a vacation as I'd have liked because we drove down there in a potential tornado and drove home in terrible air quality. And so in between there, I got to sit on the beach like for a day and a half. But yeah, it was nice not to think about work for a little while. I'm still not really thinking about it, but I do like recording with Elsie. It's like, I can't say no to that. It's my favorite part of the week. So she's taking a drink of some kind of sludge in a, I know it's my, it's my smoothie that looks kind of, it's not a little bit on the disgusting. I think she goes outside and finds what's in the ground and then just shoves it in with like bananas and milk. And that's what she's got. A smoothie. It's like a smoothie. It's a dirt smoothie. I make my smoothies with water. Truth be told. Hello, Facebook user. Let us know what your name is. Facebook user. Cause we are looking at your notes here on now notes, your comments on StreamYard. And we can't see necessarily who it is on Facebook every time, but it's wonderful to see you guys or for you to see us, I guess. So thank you. Yeah. So yes. So we are back from our hiatus. We've had w like we did episode 400 and then immediately stopped recording as if we had achieved some goal and we no longer needed to. Yeah. Yeah. It's Missy. Hi Missy. How are you? So yeah. So we're back. We didn't go anywhere. We haven't quit. We just, I just needed, I just needed some time to not think about she podcasts for a little bit. I probably still need a little bit of time for that. And actually I found myself this weekend, like, so like the, the vacation was great, but as soon as I got home, I found myself feeling that twang of I should be doing something for the event. You know, like I'm like, it's like if I have a five minute downtime, I immediately have a pang of panic that I'm not doing something. And then I'm like, Oh wait, no, I'm not supposed to be doing anything right now. I don't have to do anything. Oh yeah, that's great. But I've, I've really noticed much how it has affected my process of thinking around here, which is I can't do X, Y, and Z because I should be working. It's really interesting. Oh, Karen says she's been heard a few sessions in real time and she's listening to a few since that's wonderful. I hope you guys are enjoying the, those of you who participated in the virtual event. I hope you're enjoying it. I have not put the recordings on sale yet. I just haven't what we're doing next because it, yeah, but I think I actually, I would love to hear from you as to, I know that you were just sharing, like you're catching up with all that stuff. First of all, where have you been? So after you, after you finished doing the thing, right? What happened? What happened right after you finished She Podcast Live? I think the moment I hit stop, I went upstairs to bed because it was like 8 PM and, uh, or maybe 6 30 PM. And then I, that was a Thursday, Friday. I woke up very late and then Saturday we did some shopping and then Sunday I had to go to my husband's grandmother's 99th birthday party. Oh, if you've never been to a 99th birthday party, I can tell you it's not a surprise. Nobody's partying down, but they did have open bar and, um, you know, for bloody Mary's it was nice. It was a brunch. It was very nice. And, uh, it's amazing that anyone could live to be 99 and be fashionable and drive herself places. And she does all those things, Cynthia. And actually she's an, she was an art teacher. So a lot of her art students were there and they showed some of her artwork and actually one of the, um, party favors were Lenny little mini framed versions of her paintings, which I thought was really cool. So yeah, there's a lot of art to stick a talent in his family. Oh, Catherine says we went to a 99th barbecue yesterday. It's so fun and meaningful. It is, it is. I mean, she stood up to do, I hope nobody tells it. She stood up to do a speech and I thought she started talking about all the stuff she remembered or not. And I think I texted Elsie, like, I think we're going to hear everything that's ever happened in her life. Now. It was nice knowing you. I'll see you in like a year because you can't, it's hard to sum up 99 years, but no, she didn't. She was very humble and modest and lovely. She's a lovely lady. I've always loved his grandmother. So that was good. And then we just went to the beach and I've been at the beach from all last week, Monday through Friday, I got home Friday and then I've just been either hunkered up because of the air quality or at the pool. So you were affected by the air quality as well. Yeah. It was actually really bad right where I live. So I actually, in fact, let me tell you something, a story it's Wednesday. I was at the beach. There was no air quality problem. It was a perfectly blue sky, perfectly white clouds. You can see the great that, you know, the contrast between the colors and the next day, even though it was sunny, no sky, no colors, no blue, no clouds, no nothing. You can't see shit. You can see the sun, but it's like, it's like almost like your glasses are blurry. And that's how I'm like, wow. The air. I mean, you can literally see it. That's the first time I've seen a difference, I think, because up here in Delaware, it's, you know, we go back and forth between having that haze. Like I can see blue over here, but I see a little haze over in that window. So it's getting better. But yeah, we're really affected by it up here in the tri -state area for some reason. And I think because it's near the ocean and the wind blows it right into the ocean. So it's like it passes through me, us. Like I'm, if you were in Pittsburgh, you would be having it too. Cause it passes right through. It's like all through Pennsylvania and then Delaware, Maryland, and then whoosh out to sea. Cheryl said, I was in Denver last week with blue skies and we had those gray skies in Wisconsin. I was happy. I missed it. Yeah. It's like kind of unnerving. And like because I was at the beach and we were lucky enough to be beachfront, like the day we woke up and it was like 150, there's like a level of air quality that's bad. And Scott says, you know, cause he's asthmatic, ideally it should be under 50 for him to go outside. And it was like 150 and there's all these people on the beach and it's so hard to explain to your kid, like, no, they just don't, you know, care about their, like, it's hard to explain why you are taking caution and no one else is, you know, like you could see kids playing and he's like, but everyone's playing on the beach. And I'm like, right. But they're blurry though because of smoke. Like you can, you know, like they, they may not have, yeah, they may not have a problem. Is Karen saying, aren't you at bad risk for weather today? We had a tornado. I, again, I texted, I don't know why I always text Elsie during the terrible things, but like, again, I texted her last night and I was like, there is a confirmed tornado on the ground a mile from me. Yeah. Here's all my passwords. It was nice knowing you like, yeah. Never make this person a speaker. Okay. Goodbye. Oh my God. It was so weird because you literally said that to me and I kind of like, are you alive? Like after I saw, cause it was supposed to be the warning happened after a specific time. I, and then she didn't text me back till I was asleep. I was like, I'm not, I'm not even going to know if she's alive until I wake up in the morning. I was trying to calm down Isaac who was like shaking and like we're going to die. We're going to die. Yeah, I hear wait. So was Isaac hearing the wind outside? Is that why he was shaking or was it because you told him? I was putting him to bed and like an Amber alert. That's how, have you ever had an Amber alert come through on your phone? It is. This was three times as long and three times as loud and it scared the shit out of him. He was like, what's going on? What's wrong? What's wrong? And I was like, Oh, there's a tornado warning. And then Scott texted me, should we go to the basement? And so we all went downstairs to the family room to watch the news to see if we needed to go to the basement. And that's why he was scared because it sort of jolted him out of his like Daisy dreamy have a good night phase. So yeah, Patrick saying it was really bad here in St Louis or my throat was sore just from going in and out. Yeah, I was nauseous the day that we ended up going shopping the day there was bad air quality at the beach and just going in and out of the car was, it was nauseating. So yeah, as far as bad weather today, yeah, there's not a tornado warning anymore. Thank God. But it does say severe weather and flooding. And I guess I just have to get used to it. Like I posted on Facebook, like I go down there with a tornado warning, something that we in Maryland don't experience often, you know, in Delaware. Like, I mean, there was one here in April, but other than that, I don't remember ever having one. This is in Kansas, you know, so we go down there with a tornado warning and we come back with bad air quality. And I mean, like, I guess this is just our life now. I guess my life is just I mean, I already checked the weather because I'm interested in it. But like, I guess now I have to really see like are any outdoor activities possible today, tomorrow, this weekend, like, I've read that all summer, we're going to be going in between tornadoes and haze, tornadoes and haze. That's a shitty summer. I don't want to be like all like catastrophic. But that's like really just what's going to be the life from now on. I know that's what I'm saying. It's like, I don't want to. I mean, yeah, I really don't want it to be this way. And then, yeah, I mean, so, yeah, that's just our lives now. And then it's like, well, where can we move where the weather's not going to affect us? California. Oh, wait, that's where all the smog is. That's where it's all coming from. Oh, shit. That's not it. Yeah, it's just going to hide from it now. No, even like, I mean, here we had we weirdly enough, we went into town on Friday. And while we were in town, we were there the whole day. So while we were in town, I got text messages from my electric company saying that we lost power. Mind you, we were in town, so it didn't really matter. Right. And I was thinking like, what? Why? Right. Because it was actually a pretty decent day where we were. And was it raining up there or why in Asheville? So wait. So we were driving back and it said, oh, you got the power back. I was like, oh, OK, great, great. So we were driving back and then we pull in and we have no power. It was like late. It was like quarter to eight. And then I had just gotten another text message. But for the minute we lost power. But mind you, while we were driving up, trees were down, branches were everywhere, like leaves everywhere. And we were just sitting going, what happened to me? It's like I know it's like you went into another dimension and came back to your home. Like it's weird when there's weather right not far from where you were. Isn't that weird? Yeah, it was crazy. So it was very because trees fell down and they took the lines out from both directions and all over my yard. There were all these random leaves and branches. And so we were like, OK, something did happen up here. And that's why we don't have power. And it did come back like closer to, I think, nine thirty is when we got our power back. So we weren't without power for too long. So Cheryl says, oh, he's saying he loves the June gloom. Cheryl saying her husband's a farmer. So watching weather a few days out is his everyday life for me. I'm like, well, I'll see what's happening. So I'm like weather obsessed regardless of if it's dramatic or not. I've just come to the like acceptance that I just love drama, not all drama in general. I mean, like not toxic drama, but like if someone else's drama is interesting, I'm totally down to hear the whole thing without because I'm not involved and I don't care. And with weather, it's kind of like that. Like I love that there's a thunderstorm or a hurricane somewhere because like I'm in my house, I should I should be fine. It's not going to affect me. So but I do like to watch a couple of days in advance. And when I was a kid, we had a screen in porch with my dad and I would sit out on the screen in porch and watch thunderstorms. And it felt like being in it because it was just screens. You know, we were dry, but we were like in the thunderstorm and that was pretty cool. So I do like a good thunderstorm. I don't like the idea that a tornado is going to blow a tree through my front door, though, or, you know, my windows. But for the most part, I love weather. So I like to see when it's going to rain. I love when it snows, which didn't happen here at all this winter. Did you get snow at all? Me? No, we got nothing again. Like we might have gotten like a little frost a couple of days, but that's about the extent of it. He says, I feel guilty for loving storms and bad weather. Don't feel guilty. It's just the same as if you love drama. Don't you love when your friend is like, let me tell you about what my sister did, you know, or whatever. Like, I love that shit. I don't want to know about like political drama, but I do like knowing about personal drama and, you know, and helping solve personal drama for people. Like, I think I'm pretty good at that. So like, I enjoy hearing about and I feel like weather is like, people get very dramatic about weather. So I love what reading Facebook, when there's weather. I love seeing what people are hoarding from the grocery store when there's weather like the drama then people get all up in a tizzy like it's fascinating to me. I mean, you shouldn't feel guilty, Patrick. I think it just indicates that you're like, you know, you're interested in for me, it's being interested in human behavior and how they react to like, potential disaster. I just think it's interesting anyway. It's funny how like you like, you're saying like you love the drama. And I'm like, why are you not more obsessed with reality TV then? Because it's because that's not real. Oh, yes, it is. No, it's not. Oh, my God. You totally missed out on the entire scandal situation. You literally read like the ones you didn't even. So everybody who is into reality TV, you knows what scandal about scandal is and you missed out on it. And it was probably like it usurped my life from March until a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure. I'm like, I'm serious. You know, it's real, though. I just know it was. It was absolutely 100 percent. That's why everybody was so obsessed with it and why everybody's jaw dropped on the floor is because it was so real. It was spell it scanned of all S C A N D O V A L V A L. It was through Vanderpump Rules. Vanderpump Rules. OK. The thing is, there was a cheating scandal that nobody really knew about. OK. And it came out and like the actual cast members also didn't know about it either. Neither did the production team and everybody was blown away. And then it happened right when the season began.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from HH4 The Suffering of Love The Heart of Hope w/ Deacon James Keating Ph.D. Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Deacon Keating is a professor of spiritual theology and serves as a spiritual director at Kenrick Lenon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Deacon Keating has led more than 400 workshops in areas of morality and spirituality and has authored numerous books including The Way of Mystery, Listening for Truth, and Spiritual Fatherhood, The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. I'm your host, Kris McGregor. We've been discussing a subject that for many people, though they may not want to admit it, but deep down inside seems very repulsive, and that's suffering. And we are in a culture that just does not want to look at the face of suffering. No, and our own church says that unnecessary suffering should be taken away or dealt with. Certainly we're not a church that wills suffering and pain. But there's always this remainder factor because of our humanity and our limit and our finitude and our brokenness that the complete eradication of pain will probably be impossible, whether it's physical pain through medicine, the recovery that happens after some type of medical treatments, emotional pain, despite our pharmacology, probably we'll never be able to escape totally suffering and pain. And even though the church teaches that pain is an evil, you're not morally evil for undergoing pain, but it's a physical evil, what the church traditionally calls a physical evil, like when a hurricane comes and knocks someone's house down. That's a physical evil. That's a suffering that is just not to be tolerated. It is something that should not be, and yet in fact we know we have to endure these things because of the condition of our world. And so that being said, there are these realities in life which will carry suffering and pain, and the church has always struggled with teaching its members how to approach this type of suffering that cannot be eradicated, pain that cannot be stopped. And it has always looked to the Lord to do its teaching, and the Lord has always taught from the cross, and he has always taught from his healing hand. And so there are two places that the church looks. The first is the healing hand of Christ, as he went around through the New Testament and healed the lepers, or healed people who were physically afflicted with medical conditions. We see the will of God very clear there. God's will is our well -being. God's will is our happiness. And yet we also see him mounting the cross, and what does that mean? What is the will of God there? And it appears to be that God's will is that we suffer love. And we have to use the word we suffer love, because as we noted in a previous conversation, love is not natural to us. What's natural to us is to be preoccupied with the self. And so to offer ourselves for another, which is what the cross is symbolizing, to live a self -donative life, like the bridegroom Christ did toward his bride, involves pain and suffering. And so here we have the great mystery of Jesus in a, what the theologians would call, in an eschatological way, in a way that anticipates heaven, in other words. We see Jesus going around healing and eradicating pain, but a very deeply incarnational way. We see him calling out to us from the cross that I am here with you, I am one with you, and I'm trying to teach you and trying to empower you to become fully human in grace and to choose to love even if it kills you, to choose to love even if it is painful. For in this world, love will be painful. In this world, love will kill. First it kills the ego, and in the martyr, it will kill even the body. But in this world, love is not welcomed. And so Jesus is trying to teach us that I have undergone this love first, I have offered myself for the bride, and now through my Holy Spirit, which came at Pentecost, I infuse this spirit of loving you too so that you can choose to love even though it will bring you suffering. First, the death of your own ego, and then second, other types of suffering that will befall you, that I will be there for you. You cannot see them yet, you cannot see them now, but they may come. And when they come as a result of your commitment to love, I will be there for you. And I will empower you to stay faithful to love, even though it involves suffering. And in fact, your commitment to stay faithful to love, even though it involves pain and happiness, which is the great paradox of Christian holiness. Throughout the Gospels, you've pointed out that we have all the images of Jesus healing, of the emotional and also the physical sufferings of those he encounters. But there comes a point in the Gospels, probably one of the most poignant moments, where he is on the cross and encounters two individuals who were in a great deal of suffering next to him on their individual crosses. From the Gospel of Luke, one of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us. But the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God? Since you are under the same sentence of condemnation, and we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. And he said, Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingly power. And he said to him, Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. And we see here the great drama of the human situation. You have God, who is taken on the human situation in love, in the center of the scene. And he is basically saying, This act of my love on the cross demands a response. Okay, so what will be your response? And the first criminal out of his pain speaks a type of blasphemy. The temptation that is so common or so familiar to all of us who are in pain to pass through this blasphemous stage. I hate you, God. Where are you, God? You call yourself God. Seeing Christ absorbs these words. He suffers these words. Where are you, God? And of course, Jesus is saying, You're talking to me. I'm right here with you. And, you know, the pain sometimes is so great that it blinds our mind and turns our will from the very reality of God. God has deigned to share any pain and any suffering that we are in. The criminal on the cross is speaking to a man who is equally crucified. And he's saying to him, Why don't you save yourself? You know, why don't you prove to me your God? Why don't you prove, prove? And Jesus says, I am proving. I'm proving that I am the one you are looking for by staying here with you, by not coming down from the cross. And for some reason, the very presence of Jesus, at least in this scenario, was unable to soften and make vulnerable the heart of this first criminal. And yet on the other side, there was this other human being in pain, suffering. He, too, looking for God. But for whatever reason, he had a clarity of thought about his own human state. I am guilty, he said. I've done something really evil. And he thought to himself, I deserve this pain. He knew that Jesus was innocent. And he adored the Lord in the Lord's innocence. It was a befuddlement to this man, a paradox. Why are you staying a puzzle? You are God, you are innocent, and yet you stay with us in our pain, in our suffering. And he began to sing the praises of Jesus. I am a sinner. You are innocent. You have done nothing wrong. I deserve this. And living in the fullness of this truth, the response of God himself was, You have made yourself so vulnerable to the mystery of my love for you, that I promise you, your suffering, your pain will end in and by the mystery of my eternal love for you. And this day, you will be with me in heaven. And so this second criminal related all of his human truth. He confessed his weakness. He confessed his sins. He related his pain upon the cross to the truth of his own guilt. And further, he related it to the innocence of the one who was suffering lovingly right next to him. And the response of God was that both of us will transcend this suffering in the mystery of time and death. And when this time and death is finished, both of us will know the freedom and the happiness of pain -free love, and we will be together. And the drama here, of course, is, well, what about the other criminal? Did Jesus not take him? And once again, as we look at the other criminal, we do not see the same vulnerability. We do not see the same existence in reality as the second criminal. In order for us to be saved, to have our suffering and our pain taken up into the love of God, we've got to live in reality. And the reality is, we are sinners. We are limited. We are broken. If we relate all of that to the love of God, then we will be living in reality, and then God will be able to reach us. We'll return in just a moment to The Heart of Hope, Suffering and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Did you know that Discerning Hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite Discerning Hearts programming? Father Timothy Gallagher, Dr. Anthony Lillis, Monsignor John S. of Deacon James Keating, Father Donald Haggerty, Mike Aquilina, Dr. Matthew Bunsen, and so many more. 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By subscribing, following, and engaging with Discerning Hearts on these platforms, you're not only enriching your own spiritual journey, but also helping to spread awareness of our mission. Every like, share, and comment helps us reach more people who are seeking meaningful growth and connection. So, please take a moment to follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel as well, and then share with a friend. Join the Discerning Hearts community and embark on a transformative spiritual journey alongside fellow seekers. Your engagement not only benefits you, but also contributes to the growth and impact of Discerning Hearts. We now return to The Heart of Hope, Suffering and the Cross of Christ, with Deacon James Cady. God did not place the criminals on those crosses. And yet, he didn't cause their suffering. But it's as though he entered into it with them. God, in terms of revelation, God does not cause the pain and the suffering that we are in. When we are talking about moral suffering, we cause that pain and that suffering. When we are talking about physical evil, sickness, natural disasters, these are the signs of the truth, that this is not heaven, that we still labor, we still journey to holiness. Earth does not exhaust holiness. Earth still has signs of decrepitude and sin and mortality and death. These are all banished in heaven. But we still journey through time, which itself is a sign of limitation. And so no God does not want us to suffer. And for us to continue in relationship with this God, we have to continue in relationship with him like the second thief, almost in sublime adoration, that innocence itself would choose to suffer what we suffer in time. The beauty and the majesty of the second thief is that he was in a stance of adoration before the innocence of God. Notice how he wasn't consumed by himself. He noted that he was a sinner and then he turned every ounce of his energy toward the one who was suffering next to him. And he began to adore the mystery he could not understand. But you, you are innocent. Who are you? What would lead you to do this, to share my death, to share my hospital room? To share my brokenness in my loneliness? What would lead you to do this, you who are innocence itself? And of course, Jesus' only answer is, I am love. I am love. It's love that leads me to be with you in your pain and suffering. Now, will you let me this close? See, the first criminal, for whatever reason, would not let the mystery of this love close. And so his pain remained. The second criminal, for whatever reason, allowed the deepest of intimacy between his pain and the pain of Jesus. And it was in that vulnerability that Christ could reach in and save him and bring him to the Father. Do not be afraid in your pain and in your suffering to let Jesus closer than you imagine. This is salvation. Let him closer than you can imagine. Invite him into your very wounds. Invite him into your very anger. Invite him into your very disappointment, your sadness, your grief. Do not be afraid to let him close. Then we all then will hear, this day you will be with me in paradise. Isn't that what's at the heart of hope? Exactly. You cannot see. You cannot feel. You cannot touch. And yet you trust the promises of Jesus. To hope is to trust the promises of Jesus in the face of little evidence that these promises will ever come true. It is a supernatural gift that we need to pray for. Very few of us ever pray for the virtue of hope to take up residence in us. More and more we have to say, Jesus, give me hope. Particularly as we grow older or our life progresses, more and more we are going to need the supernatural virtue of hope, the infused gift of hope that even though I cannot see it or feel it, or experience it, I know that God is faithful to his promises. And in some mysterious way, he's working out my salvation through this suffering and pain. And one day I too will be in heaven. He didn't take away the suffering from the thief next to him on the cross. He had to endure it, didn't he? And this is such a scandalous reality to Christianity. It's that this God that's supposed to love us leaves us in pain. And yet analogously, parents can understand this type of limit to love in our own childbearing, where many times we have to stand by and endure the suffering of our own children. For either we cannot step in or we dare not step in. And in a faint way, in a way that bears a deeper mystery than that which I just spoke about parenting, God dares not step in because in some mysterious way, in ways that are known only to him and his sacred heart, he knows that if we find him in this suffering, our happiness will be rich, beyond measure, flowing over. And the great tragedy is that so many of us will not accept his invitation to dwell in our wounds, to dwell in our pain. And so our suffering becomes an occasion of meaninglessness and anger. But notice the second thief, where his suffering and Christ's suffering became linked in an ecstasy of worship and adoration and wonder. Notice that his suffering made him think of God's generosity. Not that I am alone here suffering and in pain, but oh, I remember that you chose to come and suffer with me. And to share my pain, you chose it while it befell me. This is what makes Jesus so fascinating because he beguiles us with this love. And this of course is not simply historical for this man, since the spirit and since God is timeless, he is continually loving us in the pain and calling us to share it with him. Thank you, Deacon Keating. Thank you. You've been listening to The Heart of Hope, Suffering and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. 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DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
A highlight from Operacin Bitcoins: Del Infierno a la Resurreccin
"With the story of Alberto Daniel Gil, the crypto and informatics expert, he was justly invited to speak for a speech that did not come to mind. For Manuel Rangel. In February of 2017, the US government, the press of the secure and medical services that function similar to a cooperative, most important of the Pekingo and Ermoso countries of Uruguay, was vulnerable informatically. The cybercriminals entered the portal's base, dropping thousands of megabytes of confidential information from their patients, In total, the recompensas that were solicited were a total of $60 ,000. Ironically, the worst mistake that all cybercriminals had was the fact that they did not follow a paid direction. This story started. Obviously, in the Catholic circuit of Uruguay, the mutualists were affected by institutions that had more than one side of the foundation, not because of the mass crusades. During the weeks, they worked with the police to restrain the extortionists. Six months later, the second Minister of the Interior came with a direction, and he knew that he was supposedly vulnerable to the mass attacks of the press. As if it were a movie, the policy of Montevideo changed the apartment of Alberto Daniel Gil, an informatic engineer of 40 years ago, among the informatics, computers, and blockchain technology. Alberto had in his house collections of different types of hardware, computers, depositors of his own, sellers of their own, or analysts of crypto -monetas. This was the policy that controlled dollars and euros in effect, a tool to grab and remove magnetic charges, and various signs of these plastic things as a number, and a car of Guy Fawkes, the one that was converted into a symbol of the anarchists in the whole world. Bingo. Excuse the policy. These elements are sufficient evidence to demonstrate that Alberto is the hacker that used it. One of his most basic records, his personal information, included a constant monitoring activity on the web, and he received a judicial process with many inconsistencies. Alberto was in prison, not satisfied with this. His case was found through communication media, as a big part of the technological section of the General General's office to control the criminal crime in Interpol, and from the same presidency of the Republic, publicly, as the terrorized protagonist of Bitcoin's operations, as the first case of information and crypto -monetas extortion and crypto -monetas in this country. The case was made. Para Nada. The last of the eight cases in the case of Durasno in Uruguay. Alberto Daniel Gil is liberated from the appeal. His request for liberty is with only mission, limiting his number and inviting him to justice as to what he is committing against his people. Alberto knows that he is innocent, and continues to not relate. He is well -voluted, as a hacker, and he has brought the support of his peers. And as you know, Alberto is a hacker, and has not only his profession, but his personal identity during the decades. He is a hacker of his own life, but he has been able to use his own in the period of being killed in public opinion. The first hacker, who was in the case of a prison in Uruguay, has found his innocence and has evidence to demonstrate it. Here we have to understand that Alberto was not condemned for the death of someone, and his death in the case of Durasno is not that the people consider but that he had the probability of death, assuming that his information could interfere with the rest of the process, for what was considered a preventive prison between the authorities and the students of the case. To understand everything, we have to remind ourselves of two decades ago. Alberto Daniel Gil has more than twenty years of experience in the area of computers, working for important companies and, for the same reason, working precisely in the environment that we live in, the security of information. In 2004, when PENAS started the massification of the Internet, his name was known as the one that affected the first information in a case related to infant pornography, the one for which he did not cover his ears. He has the experience of collaborating with the Interpol. As an infant of information, his contact with the city of Satousina came to an end, enamoring the fact that blockchain technology is free of humanity. He also dedicated part of his life to share his knowledge and to fund the idea of decentralization through workshops and conferences. In few words, Alberto is an engineer who is convinced that information can improve social processes and, in consequence, generate a better world. Everything is a philosophy of being compatible with the details of what is needed. Here we are a few years old. The truth is, the media of communication and the culture of the scene and the television generate what the word hacker has a very negative connotation in the last years. It is very common to look at a series of Hollywood productions, the typical representation of a hacker, and, in a certain amount of lines, and by offering them money, with the intention of buying dollars, a process that seconds after the second one. A very bad image of the world, if you buy and extortionate with digital information, only the work of a small sector of criminals can go against the word hacker. and the ethics of the hacker community. Alberto is sure that it is normal for hackers to go on the Internet and provide the security of the cities they visit. It is a time when they should better their abilities. If they find a way of security, the hacker has the responsibility to notify the company or institution that their web is vulnerable to any attack. Therefore, Alberto has the sense of the records of his constant reports at the center of reports of security incidents in Uruguay. It is his governmental institution dedicated to protecting the government and enforcing the laws of cybernetics. This was precisely what he saw in 2014. His new job was to check out his medical records in the police department. By the time Alberto entered the office, he had to consult the data that was used to provide the security of the office. In order to find a critical vulnerability, he found that the server and the access club would be able to access the admin and the server would be able to find more generic Internet addresses. In terms of administrator, he found that not only the data of his wife, if not all of his patients were in the office, and not only that, including the financial information of the company, was lost. Therefore, Alberto had invited Envio and Correo to be notified of these fake records against the election and pay and methods that were used to increase it, which were already being contested. In 2015, he found that he had the knowledge of an appropriate control of access to the city, for which he did not report the problem. Satisfied by having completed his work, Alberto was able to continue his life and his projects until three years later, he found a part of the police department of Montevideo, so that he had access to an interpreter for a case of cybernetics. Alberto, without anything else, he had to assist the city. In the end, he expected to function in the Interpol, which was introduced to Alberto and asked him about his connection with the company. Completely sincere, Alberto related how three years later he found a fake critic against the portal web, what was being reported until the city was retweaked. He was the one who was there for a year or so. In continuation, he sent the email to the guy who was not able to confirm the base details of the press, asking him to publicize it if he had received any victims. Alberto did not know who Envio was and who had the portal web. However, he did not know who Envio was. A guy from GuyFolks came to the Interpol profile. As we talked about in the beginning, September 10th of 2017, the police and room in Alberto's apartment were a typical part of an information -informed company with computer computers. The first thing that alarmed the police was a book about Bitcoin, a very new and revolutionary topic that revealed the profound knowledge of the functioning of the crypto -monetization and the relationship of this in his mind by the press with the board of directors, leaving them all speechless and immediate. From there, Alberto is a passionate person of this topic. In 2015, he received a private capital from the second book of his life, which permitted him to write some crypto -like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Eterion, and three others to posteriorly accept transactions from companies with some issues because they have thousands of dollars and euros in effect. Now, all of his life is what Alberto justified in a perfect manner. Don't cry. Don't cry when Alberto justified because he had 50 dicks during his studies, if he had laptops and hardware of all types. As good information, one of the habits of Alberto is to disarm all types of computer computers to their interior and to provide different operating systems and many other activities. This is how he is able to accumulate in his poor habits and to become free of crypto -monetization. What is important to convince the investigators that he had found the criminal that his wife was the target owner and one of the target owners of Credit and Debit. The police assumed that Alberto had the number of TDCs online and the number of his targets before the clear explanation of Alberto, who precisely found a investigation about the security problems related to credit targets. Then, the investigation showed that he had the number of TDCs in where he had them. For the last time, in the experience presented to Alberto, the police indicated that he had found an agent in his apartment. Yes, that is the positive of the discussions in the media. The same with the one recorded on the case of Louis D .C. and Maria Antonietta during the French Revolution. The reality? A simple courtesan of Papel. The final evidence that was used to present as a premise until the communication media was Guy Fawkes, which, as we know, is the symbol of the international hackers. For the Interpol director, this curiosity was an definitive evidence of his own ability. Not only the explanation of Alberto in this and the most important elements in his apartment, the police needed to resolve the case, and even were able to demonstrate that he had captured the first terrorized story of Uruguay. The case of this case that here is the case of the process of Alberto. The experience of this case is not exact and not correct. Furthermore, the police also saw how the evidence performed, and other personal elements. It included the values of his son, of his mother and a great friend, who was killed and killed all of the children, not outside of all the problems for Alberto. If Alberto has knowledge of this case, the police will be provided with his automobile and his car. As we mentioned, the Ministry of Interior indicates that the investigation of the case of his his son and that in the place Alberto and in the second place because of investigation of the case of and his son and his car. The Ministry of indicates that the outside of case of his son and his car is provided with the information to indicate that his son and his with the his son and his car and his car his son and his and are to indicate that his son and his provided with the information that son and his son and son and his son and his son and his son and and his mom and his son and and and and his son and his Vete se incluso antes que el propios a tosy na camo uto, pero no sabía ni síquiras que era una dirección IP.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from HH3 What is Redemptive Suffering The Heart of Hope w/ Deacon James Keating Ph.D. Discerning Hearts podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Deacon Keating is a professor of spiritual theology and serves as a spiritual director at Kenrick Lenon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Deacon Keating has led more than 400 workshops in areas of morality and spirituality and has authored numerous books including The Way of Mystery, Listening for Truth, and Spiritual Fatherhood, The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. I'm your host, Kris McGregor. We've been discussing suffering and the cross, our response to it, and God's loving action within it. Help us to understand what redemptive suffering is. Yes, I think it's mostly referred to in the expression, offer it up, that we might have learned as little children or something. When we are encouraged to offer it up, first of all, what is it? It is the suffering that we're undergoing, whether it's physical, emotional, spiritual, and we're offering it up for the welfare of another. So a friend of yours who is suffering, a friend of yours who is in worse shape than you are, and we usually can imagine someone who's in worse shape than we are. So what we're doing is we are, instead of wallowing in our own pain, which is a pure introspection or subjectivism, it goes nowhere, it just ends in the self. Instead of wallowing in our own pain, what we do is we use love and the energy of love to that redirect pain as an intercessory prayer for another. So I'm not going to wallow in my pain and then perhaps in a case of displaced anger, be disproportionately mad at my children who come in late or my husband or my wife who does something very minor, but there's a big blow up because I'm in such pain and it's a disproportionate mediation of that pain toward my husband or my children. Instead what we want to do is we want to direct this pain and this suffering and we're using our imagination and we are taking this pain and we're suffering and we're imagining, let's And we're saying, I'm going to link this pain to my love for you in my love for Christ. So I'm linking my pain to my love for my aunt in my love for Jesus. So the pain is being diffused as an intercessory prayer rather than wallowing in subjectivism in self -pity or disproportionate response to minor incidences in my family. My pain all of a sudden becomes a conveyance for love. And of course the only reason we can do this is because of God. God approaches all of us with his one single will and his one single will is our well -being. So what we're doing is we're linking up our pain and our suffering out of love for our relative or friend, connecting that in faith to God's one universal will, our well -being. And our pain becomes a prayer to God to ease the pain of the one we love. Therefore our pain is enriched with meaning and it's not meaningless. It's not absurd, it's not irrational. Our own suffering, our own finitude, sickness in elderly people, our decrepitude, our moving toward death, none of this is no longer meaningless because it's no longer isolated. We are moving our human condition as a prayer toward the welfare of another, not from our own power, that would only be wishful thinking, but in the power of Jesus who can will all good for all people. Imagination is very important and we have to distinguish here between imagination and fantasy because some people would say, well that's just stupid, I mean you're sitting around imagining your aunt in the nursing home and that's going to help her. The reason it's not fantasy is because you're linking one reality, your pain, to another reality, the suffering of your aunt in the nursing home, to the greatest of all realities, the love of God and his universal will for our well -being. So it's an act of imagination in faith and the imagination part of course is you're imaging the suffering of your beloved, of your loved ones. You're not there with her, you're imaging it. But you're connecting that imagination to these spheres of reality. I am really in pain, my aunt is really in pain, I really love her, God really loves us both. And so I'm connecting this pain to that great mystery of love which unifies us all. So it's not a fantasy which would mean that it's disconnected from reality, that's all filled imagination. It's the deepest entering into prayer, isn't it? It is because you're really being taken up into Christ's prayer on the cross, where he unified his suffering in love with the Father's love for him and his own Sacred Heart, his own love of all of the people of the world. And so in that power, in that reality, you're uniting, as Paul said, I'm making up in what is lacking in the suffering of Christ. Well in redemptive suffering, in this intercessory prayer, we're beginning to touch upon a little bit what Paul meant, not that Christ's cross was insufficient, but that Christ's cross has yet to embrace everyone's will freely. So until Christ's cross embraces everyone's will freely, in other words, until all of his body, me and you and the whole church, until all of his body says, into your hands I commend my spirit, see the crucifixion is still incomplete, again, not insufficient. His sacrifice is sufficient for salvation. But he's drawing all of his body now up into the cross, and we are joining in that movement through this redemptive suffering, where we can offer our sufferings for other people. For someone who is experiencing physical suffering due to an illness or an injury of some sort, that can help alleviate some of the why -me, it can turn that around, can't it? Yeah, because it takes the focus off of the self. And also it's very important, we're going to the very dramatic here, like maybe a very bad injury to an innocent person. Like every day on the news we hear about car accidents and these types of things, and we're just appalled by innocent suffering. And how are we going to make it through this? So that's sort of the extreme, if you will. We will never be able to enter into this mystery of intercessory prayer and redemptive suffering if we do not practice it in very small ways now, and of course through grace it may happen in the extreme, we cannot discount any of that ever. But for the normal developmental course of faith, it usually means that if I don't start thinking of others, even while I'm in pain, I will always think of myself and my pain. So if I don't start in small ways, pain will come to define me. And this is normal, it's normal by, it's understood that when we are suffering and when we're in pain, we're self -involved. But grace and faith and divine love, the very reason Christ came, is to move us away from that norm so that when you're in pain, you're not self -involved. When you're suffering, you're thinking of others. Of course, we're moving here toward the definition of sanctity. But if we're ever to become saints, then we need to practice this form of selflessness in small ways. And this, of course, was the genius of St. Therese of Lisieux in her little way. And by that, we mean that she practiced offering up her tiniest of sufferings, her tiniest of annoyances, which befell her by simply living with other human beings.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from LST5 The Crucible of Suffering The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary presents The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word television network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. But these letters, they're rich letters. Selene is kind of the moment when she really stands out, and you see her growing through the Crucible. You also see Therese growing through the Crucible. I'm going to read one of these letters now. There's quite a handful of them because the Superior wanted Therese to write regularly to encourage Selene, who very much needed it during this time. And of course, they were so close to two of them. So in this letter, Therese begins, Jesus himself is taking charge of saying happy birthday for his fiancé's 20 years. In Therese's mind, Selene is already a Carmelite, and so therefore espoused to Jesus. What a 20th year fruitful in sufferings, she underlines that, in choice graces. Twenty years, an age filled with illusion. Tell me, what illusion are you leaving in the heart of my Selene? Not much, because she has seen the sufferings of life in such a powerful way. What memories between us? It's a world of memories. Yes, Jesus has his preferences. There are in his garden fruits which the son of his love ripens almost in the twinkling of an eye. Why are we of this number? At this early age, both of us so aware of the Lord. A question filled with mystery. But again, this is always Therese. You can see the entire focus is on Selene. The reason Therese is writing this letter is because she's been asked to keep this correspondence to encourage Selene. So she's not sharing her own news. If she does speak about herself, she does it in order to encourage Selene. Of course, this is true in general. If Therese wrote the story of a soul, it was never her own initiative. She was simply being obedient to what superiors asked her at various times. What reason can Jesus give us? Alas, his reason is that he has no reason. Selene, let us make use of Jesus' preference which has...his reason is that he has no reason. He just loves, that's all. And that's the mystery. Let us make use of Jesus' preference which has taught us so many things in so few years. And let us neglect nothing that can please him. Let us be adorned by the sun of his love. The sun is burning. Let us be consumed by love. Now, that is never flowery language for Therese. When Therese talks about burning with love and being consumed by love, she's not speaking about simply feelings of which she didn't have all that many, actually, in her life in the Carmel. Warm feelings, you know, this sort of thing. What she's speaking of is very concrete, down -to -earth daily choices that we make. To smile at a person we don't feel like smiling at, to go out of our way to help another person, in a very concrete way to make our entire life be a gift of that love lived out in the people and events and relationships and places where God has placed us. That's what she means. And this applies to Celine here, who at this point has left home everything and is entirely dedicated to trying to help their father in any way that she can without much support and in helplessness, not being able to do much and in such sorrow to see the pain and the humiliation of their father. So that's, you know, any sentimental approach to St. Therese fades as soon as you get close to Therese. If we stop at the language itself, that is flowery and can be understood if it's only seen on the level of words. It could be taken at times in a sentimental way, but the, at times, flowery language always conveys and conveys in a way that the rich spiritual substance. You mentioned the crucible of suffering. And you see that in the life of Louis and also in Celine and Therese, that they didn't know at the time, they could not have known. This could have been just the suffering of a little family the in western part of France. And yet, God used that in their lives, that crucible, to burn such a fire of love. They would never know here on earth how it would affect the world, quite literally, and touch others. I guess the reason I bring that up, we don't know the crucible of suffering that we endure every day. This was an everyday type of ache in a very real way for all of them, wasn't it? When we look at suffering with the eyes of faith, and this is so deep in Therese, then our entire understanding of it changes. Suffering is never easy. None of this was easy for Therese and her family. But our understanding of it changes. For Therese, suffering becomes a treasure, and not in any masochistic kind of way, but because she knows that suffering is the road to fruitfulness, to spiritual fruitfulness in herself and so abundantly in her life for others, so much so that she didn't want to stop even at death, you know, but continue doing good on earth, and that suffering is the heart. Of course, look at Jesus' own life, passion, and death. It's very evident there, the infinite fruitfulness of his suffering, and we're called to share that. I speak with a kind of reverence and slowness here because I don't want to sound like I'm saying something that I've mastered myself, and I don't like suffering. I'll be upfront about it. Me neither. Physical suffering, emotional suffering, whatever form it takes, I don't like it. I'm glad when it disappears. I'm afraid to have it come, and so on. However, to the extent that we begin to see suffering the way Therese came to understand it, what she learned from John of the Cross, you see in the various saints, ultimately Jesus himself, that God took this worst of all things that came into the world through sin and its origins, as we see in Genesis Chapter 3, and made it the instrument of the greatest blessings that humanity can ever know, the royal road to growth, to holiness, to fruitfulness. When we begin to see that, so much of what our world looks at today when it says, why should this person suffer, and you get things like euthanasia, and so on, all of that takes on a radically different light, and it takes on its truth. Not only is suffering not useless, but it's a jewel, it's a treasure, it's a prize. Difficult, precisely, because that's the nature of suffering, but when understood with faith and born with courage, we saw that in Zelie, you see it in Therese in a remarkably heroic way, then it begins to be possible to bear it. You know that line of Dr. Victor Frankl, you know his famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, and how in his time in Auschwitz and the various concentration camps during World War II, he learned that those who saw no meaning in their suffering simply succumbed and died. Those who found meaning in it, a person who was determined to be reunited to his wife, or determined to raise his children, or to complete his life's project, these were the ones who survived. We can bear anything when we see meaning in it, and it was that that gave such courage to Therese and the others around her to bear the deep sufferings of her life. We speak of her as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, but that isn't actually her complete name and religion. When she took the veil, she added that additional part, so she was Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face. And actually, as the years of her religious life went by, the Holy Face, more than the Child Jesus, both were always important to her, but the Holy Face became the real center of her spirituality, and that was the face of Jesus as we see it in Isaiah 53. There was no beauty in him. We turn from him as one whom we considered forgotten by God and beaten down, and so on. It's the suffering, bleeding, marred face of Jesus as one from people whom hid their eyes. That's what she means by the hidden face of Jesus, and it's a symbol of suffering, and deeply, deeply what she wants to live because she knows the fruitfulness of it. So, you know, in these letters, these things are said very simply, but there is such a depth behind them. Now, we have Therese here at age 16. She will grow a great deal in all of this in the years to come, but this is already a profound theme throughout her religious life. Let us be consumed by love. St. Francis de Sales says, when the fire of love is in a heart, all the furniture flies out the window. This becomes the center. What she's doing here, and in some of what follows, she's quoting things that she's heard said by preachers in their retreats. Let us allow nothing, nothing in our heart except Jesus. Let us not believe we can love without suffering, without suffering much. Our poor nature is there, and it isn't there for nothing. Our nature is our riches, our means of earning our bread. So, this humanity that God has given us that can rejoice, but that can also feel emotional pain and deep emotional pain, this gift of this body that God has given us, which is such a gift for our lives, but which can also feel pain and grow ill. This, she says, is our richness, because this is where we can suffer. This is where we can live through an experience with the Lord and for the Lord that is fruitful beyond our imagining. As you've just indicated, our nature is our riches, our means of earning our bread. It is so precious that Jesus came on earth purposely to take possession of it. He wanted to share it. Then, a lovely sentence, and it's really for this that I quote this letter. Let us suffer the bitter pain without courage. Now, she's quoting one of their retreat directors. This was Father Pichon, who was a spiritual director for several of the Martins sisters, including Therese. Although, shortly after she entered the convent, he went to Canada and was there for most of her life, and she wrote regularly to him. Unfortunately, he didn't keep her letters appropriately because letters of spiritual direction, but it's estimated that she wrote probably about 50 letters to him, which would have been a wonderful treasure. He was extremely busy there and would write back to her roughly once a year or so. So, it was a pretty thin spiritual direction at that point, but he, at this point, had just given a retreat to the community, and she's quoting some of his thoughts here. Let us suffer the bitter pain without courage. Then, she says in parentheses, Jesus suffered in sadness. Without sadness, would the soul suffer? So, Celine, like us at times, when we're in situations that are painful, we don't feel like we have much courage. We feel like we're bearing it very badly. As I said before, if we're honest, we don't want it. We'd do anything to get out of it. It's there. We go through it almost because we have no choice, and we feel like we bumble, you know, halfway through it. We want to accept it, but we're afraid at times. And all of this, we would feel like, yes, I'm suffering, but not with very much courage. At times, I will say this to people when I really sincerely admire the courage with which they're going through trials and painful things. I'll say something like, it's just beautiful, the courage which you're facing. And invariably, the person will answer, I don't feel very courageous. I don't feel very brave. So, that's what Celine is feeling. And so, Therese is addressing that. Of course, you don't feel like you have much courage. That's the very nature of the suffering itself. And that is how Jesus suffered. And she'll point to Jesus, if not in this letter elsewhere, his prayer in the garden, Father, take this away from me. If it's at all possible, take this away from me. Sweating even unto blood. He suffered with sadness. He didn't suffer apart from his humanity and all that it feels. So, it's a very beautiful thing that she's saying here to Celine. Of course, you don't feel very brave and courageous, and you feel, that's the nature of suffering. That's the way Jesus suffered. It's beautiful. Go forward with it.
Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education
A highlight from Learning is a party; make sure to invite your students!
"This is Vrain Waves. This is Vroom Waves. This is Vrain Waves. My teacher wishes to rain waves. Catch some Vrain Waves. This is a podcast. The podcast is about teaching. I mean the best podcast. This is my favorite podcast. I love Vrain Waves. You're listening to Vrain Waves. Wait, so is it Vrain Waves podcast? The Vrain Waves, wait, no. The Vrain Waves podcast. Vrain Waves? We love Vrain Waves. We love Vrain Waves. Whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is, you are catching some Vrain Waves. The podcast aimed at making us all more informed, inspired, and connected educators coming to you from almost always sunny Longmont, Colorado. We are back. It is the 2023 school year, and I am Suzy Evans with the one and only Shane Syed. Shane, how are you on this beautiful fall morning? Hey, Suzy. I am amazing because it is great to be back and feeling super excited about this school year, and I can't believe how quickly September flew by. Like all of a sudden we are saying hello to spooky season, while also waving goodbye to season five and saying hello to season six of Vrain Waves. It's true, and we wanted to open season six with the person who has inspired us in countless ways and actually is responsible for the two of us meeting, which is so fun, right? The author of the book, Powerful Teaching by Patrice Vane. Patrice was one of our keynote speakers for the St. Vrain Powerful Teaching Summit back in 2019. And as a middle school educator, she invited cognitive psychologists into her classroom to do research on learning practices that supported student memory and retention of information for higher level cognitive practices. Now, as a published author, she travels the world sharing the research and practices from her book, Powerful Teaching, that she co -authored with Dr. Pooja Agrawal. So let's do this. So everyone, we are fangirling so hard over here right now. Patrice, you are one of our favorite educational celebrities. Oh, thank you. It's true. True. But for the listeners that are new to the science of learning, can you ground us, can you give us a quick background story on how powerful teaching came to life and how you invited a cognitive scientist into your classroom in the first place? I would love to answer that. So I had been teaching about 12 or 13 years. And one day I just started thinking, why is it that some of my students learn really well, but some don't? It's like, I'm teaching, why does someone get it and some don't? And I already had my master's degree. And that had never really been discussed. And so I also didn't have anywhere to look. So this was around 2005. And anything about learning up to that time, all research had been done in the United States with college students, in laboratories, at universities. And it was written in jargon. I didn't know how to read. What does N mean? You know, I didn't know anything. But I was so curious and it boiled down to simply asking why and how. And I happened to meet Mark McDaniel, who's a cognitive scientist, one of the authors of Make It Stick. And he had come to Washington University in St. Louis to study memory. And we were having this conversation and he's talking about what he wants to investigate. And I'm talking about the way I teach. And it was a total match. And so then he introduced me to Henry Roediger, also an author of Make It Stick, Roddy. And to me, because I was so green, I just thought they were Mark and Roddy. I didn't know how big they were. I had no idea that these guys were like huge. They came over to my desk and we had a bottle of wine and we're just talking about teaching and clueless, absolutely clueless. And so as we were drinking glasses of wine, they said, you know, it is never in the United States been done where we study how kids learn in an authentic classroom. And I just perked right up and I said, well, let's do it. So they wrote a big grant and got it and the rest is history. So in 2006, I believe is when we actually started the research and then another cognitive scientist from Washington University came to work with me in my classroom and that was Prunja Agarwal. And so for the first year, Dr. Agarwal was in my class every single day. How lucky was I? For the first semester, she simply observed me teaching every class every day and getting an idea of what's working. And so then we started devising, you know, how doctors Roediger and McDaniel, I shouldn't call them Mark and Roddy on this. So no, you can't. You just, well, we're very - 100 % can. We're very comfortable here on Brainwaves and I mean, Make It Stick is one of our other, just listeners, FYI, Make It Stick is one of the best books on retrieval as well as Patrice's book, Powerful Teaching. So - Well, thanks. Yeah, it is. It's true. Thanks. So we kind of between Mark, Roddy, Prunja and I decided that we would start with retrieval. And so, gosh, I worked with them for the next, I don't know, 12 years. It was just absolutely amazing. It was such a game changer for me. I saw firsthand how my students were changing and I saw especially my struggling students absolutely blossom. And, you know, the more they succeeded the more they were invested in outcomes and the more involved they were in my class. And, you know, a story I've told so many times, I'll tell it one more. You know how every year come second quarter when the grades would go out, a student would come with so excited, Mrs. Payne, I have an A or I have a B. And so exciting. And I say, I know, but then, you know, they say, but I never get good grades and they would slump a little farther and say, I get D's and F's and they would slump farther and say, I'm not smart. And every year that would get me and I would just get all my enthusiasm and say, but look at you now, the only difference is now, you know how to learn. And I've said this before, but to me, learning is like this huge party. And so many of our struggling students never got the invitation. And as teachers, what we need to do is we need to know about learning so we can issue that invitation to our students. Yes. Oh my gosh. We just had, no one can see the visual reactions we've had to learning as a party. Oh my goodness, that took my breath away, Patrice. But isn't it true? It is, well, and one of the things that we talk about with the teachers in our collaborative is that, you know, the science of learning isn't, it's things that a lot of teachers are already doing, but it's intentional and it's taking away, it's letting students in on the quote unquote secret of how our brains work and how we learn. And why is it a secret? Why? Why is it a secret? It doesn't have to be a secret. It shouldn't be. We need to be inviting everyone to the party. Stop excluding our students from the party, right? Exactly. Like every, every, every first day, every year after I started this research was, welcome to my class. I'm your teacher and I'm gonna teach you how to learn. Because that to me was more important than my curriculum. It was, which of course is important, but nothing beat teaching them how to learn. Oh my goodness. And then through that, they felt incredibly empowered. Yes. Because they connected to their learning. They understood what was going on. They were, they were the ones driving their own learning rather than you, as we know, encoding, right? Pushing information out. They were the ones that were then driving it. Yes. And I think one of the big secrets, well, here we go with secrets again. It is no secret. Right. Revealing everything. Revealing all the secrets on this episode. Oh shoot, no, I forgot what the secret was. It'll come back to me. Let us move on. You just let us know. Okay, I will. And so we know that you've been working over a decade with these cognitive psychologists and these cognitive scientists, and we know that retrieval practice is so much more than learning and memorizing facts while we're waiting for your secret to come back. Will you explain to our audience about how retrieval practice supports that critical thinking and deeper learning? It's going further than that define and identify stage. Absolutely. Too often retrieval gets a bad rap that it's just memorizing facts. It's just regurgitating facts. And that is not true. What happens is we need to have a base knowledge before we can put the puzzle pieces together. And when so we retrieve it goes our goal is to get it into long -term memory for our students and then build these little roadmaps that the schemata the schema to to have it go to places where they can pull this information and that information and my students who were 11 years old would write the most incredible essays like I taught World History and it was the first time in my district's curriculum. So I had all these beautiful blank slates and they would write things like you know, how did the lives of working people change as a result of revolutions and they would write an essay on that or one of my favorites at the end of the year after we had taught after we had learned all about various histories of countries in the world historical backgrounds religious backgrounds all these things they would answer an essay question. And again, I'm talking every student regardless if they were in a gifted program or in special ed classes. They could all answer this question given the historical and religious background of Country A and B and I would just randomly choose ones we'd studied. What are the ramifications if either one or both had nuclear power capabilities? Eleven -year -olds answered that and why because I had used retrieval where they learned what the history was I used spacing which allowed them to go back and kind of cement that learning and I used interleaving which allowed them to compare and contrast. So okay, here's the lives of the working people in the Russian Revolution and here's in the Industrial Revolution and here's in the American Revolution. So they they had those places in their long -term memory due to retrieval and spacing and then thanks to interleaving they could compare and contrast and bring all of that together. And then of course, my last is metacognition. We owe it to our students to be able to give them opportunities to see if they know or don't know the information way before they ever get to a test and retrieval whether it's little mini quizzes or you know a turn and talk or or whatever, you know, I just remembered my secret. Oh, yeah.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from HH2 The Agony of Emotional Suffering The Heart of Hope w/ Deacon James Keating Ph.D. Discerning Hearts podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. Deacon Keating is a professor of spiritual theology and serves as a spiritual director at Kenrick Lenon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Deacon Keating has led more than 400 workshops in areas of morality and spirituality and has authored numerous books including The Way of Mystery, Listening for Truth, and Spiritual Fatherhood, The Heart of Hope, Suffering, and the Cross of Christ with Deacon James Keating. I'm your host, Kris McGregor. When we talk about deepening our spiritual lives, the mystical doctors of the church have written over and over again and also just the lives of the saints, all saints, indicate that in that spiritual journey we will encounter suffering. And the suffering that enters their life, which is more debilitating than any type of physical suffering they may endure or that we may endure, it is the emotional suffering that truly causes the agony in the soul. The aligning of this emotional suffering with our relationship with Christ, of course, is the important movement of the will there. We all dread physical pain and physical suffering. So many, though, live in this emotional state of suffering, and some of it is brought on by our own actions. Others, it seems like some people are victims of conditions not wrought by their own actions. I'm amazed, there's so many people in life that seem to be victimized into loneliness, isolated by people, rejected, marginalized, and they didn't do anything. They were just themselves. They have a different character or nature or personality, but over and over again these people find themselves alone and without friends or without a spouse. It breaks your heart because there's nothing that they're doing wrong that would chase people away from them, so to speak, nothing morally. It's just that they might be different in their personalities. And they suffer emotionally, very, very deeply. And so it's this continual emotional state of suffering that a lot of times cannot get relief through psychotherapy, and a physical pain might be able to get relief from a physician. But there are people who linger in these emotional states of pain. And here I think where Christ is particularly brokenhearted and calling out to them to relate their fears, their doubts, their lonely state, their sadness, to relate all of this to his great love for them. And his great love for them is situated in his own emotional state of rejection, loneliness, and sadness, which is throughout the New Testament. When you look at Jesus's life, he was misunderstood, he was rejected. So these emotional states, which sometimes can be very prolonged, are also opportunities for deeper intimacy with Jesus. Now, when you talk to these people who are in these emotional states, a lot of times they're tempted to say, you know, thanks, but no thanks. I don't necessarily want this as the great fruit of my sadness, depression, isolation, is Jesus. I want friends, I want flesh and blood, a spouse, or something like that. And this again is incredibly painful to listen to and to be with these people, to see them say, in one way or another, thanks for Jesus. And I know Jesus is giving it his best effort, but I really do want to be married and I really do want to be accepted by a circle of friends. This is a very terrible, dark suffering. And they wouldn't say it this way, but that Jesus is not enough for us, and in a very real way, because we are social beings, and a lot of times we perceive that Jesus is not enough for us. And relating our emotional difficulties, our emotional sufferings to Jesus is nice, but I want more. And this seems paradoxical that one would want more than a deepening relationship with God. But in fact, even Christ understands this. Christ understands that we need friends, we need fellowship. This is why we gather in parishes. It is not good for us to be alone. And so, more and more, the Christian community has got to step up and find those who are in pain, in a state, or in even a life of suffering, and direct our ministry more and more directly to these people who may be hiding right among us, so that Christ can bear his presence to them, not just through an internal affection of love, but through flesh and blood, friendships and fellowship. Relationship is at the heart of all of this, that reflection ultimately of the Trinity, isn't it? That shared love. In giving love to others, there are great risks. And that's where some of those who are not reached out to by the community, that withholding of love, that act of the free will to deny another, that relationship, that can be at the heart of a lot of suffering. Exactly. It is at the heart of Genesis 2, when it says it's not good for man to be alone. This is really the crux of it all, that I can bear many, many forms of suffering, physical and emotional, but I cannot bear them alone. And so, as a result of the community opening its heart to the Holy Spirit, we rush then to our fellow human beings who are in danger of suffering alone. And of course, this is the great reason for pastoral ministry. Pastoral ministry exists because it's dangerous to leave one alone when they are suffering. Dangerous in this way, in the same way it was dangerous for Job, who was tempted to curse God and die. That isolation in our suffering, loneliness in our suffering, can be so crushing that it can threaten to crush even our hope in God. And so, the community must come out of itself, so to speak, and individuals in the community must come out of themselves, so to speak, and attend to those who are being threatened, being crushed by their suffering to the point where this suffering may crush even hope out of them and threaten their trust in God as well. The pain can be so great that many people will move away from the cross at this point rather than to cling to it. And pastoral ministry is there with these people to reassure them of the great truth of Christ. Cling to him, even though it feels like or it seems like he has abandoned you. Cling to him. The ministers are there to bear the truth to those who suffer, so that they will not cling to the cross rather than away from it. It really bespeaks the importance of the pastoral minister having that deep interiority, doesn't it? Exactly. This is such a difficult reality, though, that we all shudder at, is that we must first suffer the coming of Christ ourselves. If we are to endure the sufferings that are at the other end of that next phone call or that next knock on the door, we must have something to bring to the emptiness of suffering. And if we ourselves do not suffer an interior life, a life of relating our own pains and sufferings to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, then all that we usually bring is knowledge that we learn discursively in our class, but not knowledge of the living God. And those who are suffering know what kind of knowledge is useful, if we can put it that way, for them. And what's useful for them is the knowledge that you know and that I know as a result of our own suffering of the coming of Christ. And all the other kind of knowledge is just sort of nodded at or faintly smiled at as thank you for trying. But in this particular case, in this particular location of suffering, your words about God are not healing. Somehow you must bring Him to me as a result of your loving Him. If you bring Him to me as a result of your loving Him, your words and your presence will be useful. There are many in the lay community who desire to be ministers of communion, and it's the distributing of the Blessed Sacrament, whether as an aculate or a Eucharistic minister of Holy Communion, to the congregation of the assembly on Sundays. And yet, to really go deeply into what that role speaks of, it would seem as though distributing to a congregation that comes forward on a Sunday isn't as deep as potentially opening your heart to go into the nursing home, to take it to those who are craving the opportunity to get to church but they can't get there, or the home of an autistic child, the family who feel they can't come to the church because they're fearful that their child will have an outburst so they don't come. Those who want to bring communion are missing that opportunity to assuage that suffering because they don't want to encounter that themselves. Nobody wants to be in the presence of uncomfortability. We don't want to be uncomfortable emotionally. And so, yes, I will avoid the prison, or I will avoid the nursing home, or I will avoid the home visitations where I know there is suffering because I'm afraid. I'm afraid that I have not suffered the love of God enough, and I only bring words about God, and I don't really bring God. And so anyone who aspires to minister in the church must equally, at the same time, aspire to acknowledge, in very ways analogous to married couples who will say, I have a good marriage but it can be better. We have to aspire to acknowledge that I know Christ, but a lot of times I know more about Him than I really know Him. And with that simple turn toward truth, we can enter deeply into spiritual direction, go to confession more, tend the Eucharist more, and just allow Him to be there for us, loving us at a deeper level, asking Him to come at a deeper level, so that any fear of especially to the places we do not want to go. We don't even want to go into our own suffering. Think how difficult it is to go into the presence of the suffering of others. And here is the great need for those who would aspire to be priests, or deacons, or lay ministers, or even just to be neighbors. Here is the great need for all of us to realize that Christ wants to go to those places in your heart that you do not want to go to yourself. This is the deepest and most fruitful form of spiritual formation. If you would just let Him go there to those places of your own sickness, your own disabilities, your own fears, invite Him to the place that you do not want to name. Let Him linger there. Let Him name His love for you in the wound that you are most embarrassed about. He will work at the site of that wound, and then He will raise you, and you will become a type of Christian who will be able to endure the wounds and the sufferings and the darkness of others, and bring light to those people. But all too often we do not give Christ time enough to form us. A lot of times we go out and proclaim ourselves ministers because we are needy. We do not want to go to the suffering because we are needy. We want to go to the suffering because we are sent out of the healing of our own wounds. Then we are most useful to them. To just go to those who suffer because we have needs is a way of using the sick or the tormented, and it usually backfires on us anyway. We are just not effective at it. So withstand Christ coming to those places in your own heart, in your own history, in your own past, that you are most ashamed of, most embarrassed about, most frightened of those places of your heart where you think you are most sick. Let Him in. Let Him linger around those wounds to heal you, and then He will send you to the sick and the suffering. We'll return in just a moment to The Heart of Hope, Suffering and the Cross of Christ, The Deacon James Keating. Did you know that Discerning Hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite Discerning Hearts programming? Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcasts, like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms? Did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? 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A highlight from LST4 The Love for Louis The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary presents The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word television network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you, Chris. We are exploring the beautiful life of Saint Therese through her letters, and where do we find ourselves now? Well, we'll start at the very beginning, the first of Therese letters. This is taken from the first of two volumes in which her complete correspondence is given to us, and we have the letters to Therese, we have Therese's own letters, and we also have other letters from family members or people close to Therese where they write about Therese. So it's a treasure trove, really, of access to Therese in some wonderful ways as her life unfolds through the years of her life. This is extremely well done, as I said earlier. This is an English translation of volumes that were put together as Therese, the centenary of her birth, approached. She was born in 1873. As 1973 approached, the Carmelites, together with various scholars, put together a team to do a complete and critical publication of all of her writings, and absolutely magnificent work was done. And the more the story of a soul and, of course, these letters and others of her writings depend on that exhaustive French edition that was done at the time. So that's the origin of what we have. Just to remind everyone that the letters were placed and brought forward, what, 20 -some years before her being elevated a Doctor of the Church. That's right. As I said earlier in these conversations, I think anyone who has loved the story of a soul, read the other primary sources and wishes there was more, and has a little bit of courage to go through this many pages, that the letters would be the next step if you really want to pursue it. Well, just for kind of fun in a way, we'll start with the very first of Therese's letters. And she is four years old at this time. And her older sister, Pauline, has Therese in her lap. Pauline is writing a letter to a school friend of hers, a young girl named Louise. And Pauline finishes her letter and then holds Therese and guides her as she writes so that Therese can add this little letter to the letter that Pauline has already written to Louise. And so this is the letter. Dear little Louise, I don't know you, but I love you very much just the same. Pauline told me to write you. She is holding me on her knees because I don't know how to hold a pen. She wants me to tell you that I'm a lazy little girl. But this isn't true because I work all day long playing tricks on my poor little sisters. So I'm a little rascal who is always laughing. Adieu, little Louise, I'm sending you a big kiss. Kiss the visitation for me, that is Sister Marie Aloysia, who was the superior, and Sister Louise, the bonzog, so she gets the name wrong, who was the director of the school, for I don't know anyone else signed Therese. So that's just a young girl's letter held by her sister. All right, we're going to cross then a large margin of time for the next letter. We are now 11 years later and an awful lot has happened in Therese's life in the city. On April 9th of 1888, at 15 years, she has entered the Carmel and it is now July 31st when she writes this letter. So she's been in the Carmel about three and a half months. And what she's going to do in this letter, this is a letter to her father, Louis. This will be our first illustration of, again, this remarkable sensitivity in Therese to others and what's in their hearts and what their needs are, and reaching out with such sensitivity and delicacy and tenderness to meet the needs of others. So she is the 16 -year -old writing to her father, but she's really writing for his sake because she knows how painful this separation is for him. We'll read just a little line from a letter that her father wrote. This is one of the few letters of her father that we have. She entered the day later, her father writes to a friend down in Alençon and included in the letter is this. Therese, my little queen, which was his... He had a nickname for each of the girls.
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"Discerninghearts .com in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary presents the letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the eternal word television network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the venerable Bruno Lanteri founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome Father Gallagher. Thank you, Chris. We are exploring the beautiful life of Saint Therese through her letters and where do we find ourselves now? Well, we'll start at the very beginning, the first of Therese letters. This is taken from the first of two volumes in which her complete correspondence is given to us and we have the letters to Therese. We have Therese's own letters and we also have other letters from family members or people close to Therese where they write about Therese. So it's a treasure trove really of access to Therese in some wonderful ways as her life unfolds through the years of her life. This is 65 pages, extremely well done as I said earlier. This is an English translation of volumes that were put together as Therese, the centenary of her birth approached. She was born in 1873. As 1973 approached, the Carmelites together with various scholars put together a team to do a complete and critical publication of all of her writings and absolutely magnificent work was done. And the more recent publications that we have of the story of a soul and of course these letters and others of her writings depend on that exhaustive French edition that was done at the time. So that's the origin of what we have. Just to remind everyone that the letters were placed and brought forward what, 20 some years before her being elevated a Doctor of the Church. That's right. As I said earlier in these conversations, I think anyone who has loved the story of a soul read the other primary sources and wishes there was more and has a little bit of courage to go through this many pages that the letters would be the next step if you really want to pursue it. Well, just for kind of fun in a way, we'll start with the very first of Therese's letters. And she is four years old at this time and her older sister Pauline has Therese in her lap. Pauline is writing a letter to a school friend of hers, a woman, a young girl named Louise. And Pauline finishes her letter and then takes Therese, holds Therese and guides her as she writes so that Therese can add this little letter to the letter that Pauline has already written to Louise. And so this is the letter. Dear little Louise, I don't know you, but I love you very much just the same. Pauline told me to write you. She is holding me on her knees because I don't know how to hold a pen. She wants me to tell you that I'm a lazy little girl, but this isn't true because I work all day long playing tricks on my poor little sisters. So I'm a little rascal who is always laughing. Adieu little Louise, I'm sending you a big kiss. Kiss the visitation for me, that is sister Marie Aloysia, who was the superior, and sister Louise, the bonzag, so she gets the name wrong, who was the director of the school, for I don't know anyone else signed Therese. So that's just a young girl's letter held by her sister. All right, we're going to cross then a large margin of time for the next letter. We are now 11 years later and an awful lot has happened in Therese's life in the April 9th of 1888. At 15 years she has entered the Carmel and it is now July 31st when she writes this letter. So she's been in the Carmel about three and a half months and what she's going to do in this letter, this is a letter to her father, Louis. This will be our first illustration of, again, this remarkable sensitivity in Therese to others and what's in their hearts and what their needs are and reaching out with such sensitivity and delicacy and tenderness to meet the needs of others. So she is the 16 year old writing to her father but she's really writing for his sake because she knows how painful this separation is for him. We'll read just a little line from a letter that her father wrote. This is one of the few letters of her father that we have. She writes, a day later, her father writes to a friend down in Alençon and included in the letter is this. Therese, my little queen, which was his... He had a nickname for each of the girls. Marie, for example, was the diamond because she was strong and Pauline was the pearl because she was such a... He was a jeweler. You know, you get jewelers' names and so on. And Therese, he called his queen. Therese, my god alone could demand such a sacrifice. She's often called the Benjamin in the correspondence, the one that's so dear to her father's heart in a way that everyone knew was special. And already two of his daughters have left. Leonie very much is trying. She fails three times but she's trying to enter religious life. And now the one who is dearest to his heart has just left him, gone to the Carmel. God alone could demand such a sacrifice and we really need to hear those words. But he's helping me so powerfully that through my tears my heart abounds with joy. This gives us just a window into the measure of the man. You have that powerful scene where Therese asks his permission to enter the Carmel. It's the preceding Pentecost and, you know, if you go to visit her home in Lisieux, there in the garden behind the house there's a statue that commemorates this. You see her and her father seated on a bench and she is leaning her head against him and she has just told him about entering the Carmel. Maybe we could read this from the story of a soul, just as a background to this letter. So it's very clear to Therese now that she wants to enter the Carmel. She hopes to enter the Carmel at age 15 and she has to ask her father about this. She needs his permission and it's not going to be easy because she knows the bond of love that's there. I chose the Feast of Pentecost as the day to break the news all day long begging the apostles to pray for me, to inspire me with the right words. Shouldn't they help the timid child who was chosen by God to be the apostle of apostles through her prayers and sacrifices in Carmel? I found the opportunity to speak to my dear little father. Often you'll see this little used in the correspondence. It's an endearing diminutive like Johnny, you know, instead of John and so on. So that's the significance of it. It's an endearment. I found the opportunity to speak to my dear little father only in the afternoon after Vespers. He was seated by the well contemplating marvels of nature with his hands joined. The son whose rays had lost their ardor gilded the high tree tops where little birds were joyfully chanting their evening song. You know, when I read this, I'm a writer. This is pretty good writing just as writing to describe a scene. And Therese wrote this in odd moments, seated, sort of half seated on this little kneeling, half kneeling, half seating bench that she would have in her cell just as she got odd moments to do this. And actually there are no erasures, no corrections. She simply wrote. This just was flowing from her as she wrote. But I was struck just by the caliber of her writing, even as writing, you know. Papa's handsome face had a heavenly expression about it, giving me the feeling that peace flooded his heart. Without saying a word, I sat down by his side, my eyes already wet with tears. He gazed at me tenderly and taking my head, he placed it on his heart saying, what's the matter, my little queen, tell me. Then rising as though to hide his own emotion, he walked while still holding my head on his heart. Through my tears, I confided my desire to enter Carmel and soon his tears mingled with mine. He didn't say one word to turn me from my vocation, simply contenting himself with the statement that I was still very young to make such a serious decision. I defended myself so well that with Papa's simple and direct character, he was soon convinced that my desire was God's will. And in his deep faith, he cried out that God was giving him a great honor and asking his children from him. As I say, you can't go very far in this whole story without touching heroism. We continued our walk for a long time and encouraged by the kindness with which my incomparable father received my confidences, my heart poured itself out to him. Papa seemed to be rejoicing with that joy that comes from a sacrifice already made. He spoke just like a saint and I'd love to recall his words and write them down, but all I preserved of them is a memory too sacred to be expressed. What I do recall, however, is a symbolic action my dear king performed, not realizing its full meaning. Going up to a low wall, he pointed to some little white flowers, like lilies in miniature, and plucking one of them, he gave it to me, explaining the care with which God brought it into being and preserved it just to that very day. While I listened, I believed I was hearing my own story. So the little flower, you can you can see it there. So great was the resemblance between what Jesus had done for the little flower and little Therese. I accepted it as a relic and noticed that in gathering it, Papa had pulled all its roots out without breaking them. It seemed destined to live on in another soil more fertile than the tender moss where it had spent its first days. And in fact she kept that flower for the rest of her life. Now that gives us a background to this letter. Her father, with great faith but with deep deep deep human sorrow, has accepted his daughter's vocation to the Carmel and three and a half months earlier saw her essentially for the last time because from then on they could meet in the speak room of the Carmel, but there was a grill between the sisters and the people in the outer parlor so that they at best would see them very faintly. And of course chances simply to be with her in the way that was so dear to both of them were gone at this point. So Therese, knowing her father's suffering, she writes this letter, My dear king, so these are the names they call each other, she is his queen and he is her king. If you knew the pleasure your carp, your monster, which is underlined, gave us. Now as I mentioned earlier, Louis was a great fisherman. He loved to fish and already he at Alençon and later when they went to Lisieux and the his daughter sent to the Carmel, he would bring his catch to these sisters. Part of their life was that they could not eat meat, so they never eat meat, but they could eat fish. So this was a real treat for the sisters in the various convents when he would bring these fish to them. To us it sounds kind of like a simple thing. He caught some fish, he brought them, but it was really quite a treat and something special for the sisters and he would do this routinely. So what pleasure your fish gave us, the dinner was held back for half an hour. Marie of the Sacred Heart, so that's his oldest daughter, made the sauce and it was delicious. It tasted like, and she quotes the French here, La cuisine du monde. It was even better than the sumptuous cuisine d 'italie. And that is not saying little, for what banquets and what company do you remember, little father? So she's referring to the pilgrimage that they made to Rome where they experienced in the various hotels where they stayed, you know, the marvelous cuisine and, you know, the very well -prepared food. And so she is reminding her father of that trip and saying this tasted even better than all of that. But it isn't always that that gives appetite, at least to me, for I haven't eaten so much since I've been in Carmel. I feel that I am entirely in my element, so three and a half months into the Carmel. If Mademoiselle Pauline, friend of the family from Alençon, were here she would say that, quote, I have found my way. Your diamond can't write you. Diamond is their father's nickname for Marie, the oldest, for she is doing the washing. But this doesn't stop her from thinking of you, dear little father. Now you can already see that this letter isn't, as said before, it's entirely other -centered. Very little said about her and what she says about herself is only to put her father at ease to know that things are well with her. And not everything was easy from her. As she says in the story of a soul, when the doors to Carmel opened to her, she opened her arms to receive suffering. And so things were never easy for her, but her whole focus and intention in this letter is to lift up her father's heart. Now she's obviously saying the truth when she says I'm in my element here, profoundly so, but there's no word of any struggles or sufferings that may have been there. She kisses you with her whole heart, and this is Marie, and you know that the heart of your biggest daughter is not little. I think of all you used to say to us frequently, vanity of vanities, all is vanity, vanity of life which passes, etc., probably quoting from the imitation of Christ, which of course quoting from Koheleth, you know, vanity of vanities. Louis knew the imitation well. Therese actually had it basically memorized. It got to be kind of, even before she entered, when they were in the speak room visiting with her older sisters, the others of the nuns would ask her to quote a given passage, and she could do it by memory. She really, really assimilated that book deeply. The more I live, this is a 16 year old, the more I live, the more I find this is true, that all is vanity on this earth. When I think of you, dear little father, I naturally think of God, for it seems to me that it is impossible to see anyone more holy than you on the earth, and that was very sincere. She and all of her sisters really felt that kind of veneration for both parents, actually. When I think that in a week it will be four months since I am in Carmel, I can't get over it. It seems to me that I have always been here, and on the other hand, it seems that my entrance was yesterday, how everything passes. The more I live, dear little father, the more I love you, and that's what she wants above all to convey to. The heart of this father, who she knows, loves her so deeply, and misses her, willingly gave her to God, but not without great sacrifice. I don't know how this can be, but it is the truth, and I wonder what this will be at the end of my life, if I just keep loving you more and more like this. I am very proud of my title of Queen of France and Navarre. I hope to merit it always. Jesus, the King of Heaven, when taking me for himself, has not taken me away from my holy king on earth. Oh no. Always, if my dear little father wills it, and does not find me too unworthy, I shall remain Papa's queen. The bright pearl, which is Louis' nickname for Pauline, the bright pearl hugs you very tightly, underlined. Adieu, and see you soon, dear king. See you soon, because they were allowed weekly visits for a half hour, and he would come. Those would be the occasions in which her father would also make these various gifts to the Carmel. See you, relatively so, because there was the grill in between. And Therese always effaced herself during these visits, as she spoke little, kind of stood, kept to the back, but there was at least that much contact on a weekly basis.
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"Over the last couple of years, that giant 12 -foot skeleton is being seen in more neighborhoods across America. I didn't realize it was kind of a Home Depot or a Lowe's exclusive. It's not really an exclusive, but they're the only ones selling it. I think I see one every time I walk into Home Depot. It's not that often, but I see them even when it's not Halloween. It's funny. There's one I drive by constantly. It's up all year round, but when I drove by on Saturday, it was missing its head and missing one of its arms. But it's interesting that the 12 -foot skeletons are now kind of passé because Target has something that's going viral. It's an 8 -foot tall talking pumpkin. It goes for $180, lights up, and is sold out online and at most stores because it became TikTok famous because the talking pumpkin says, I'm not a jack -o -lantern. My name is Louis. The skeleton thing is cute for a moment, but at the same time, you have to be a big fan of Halloween decorations. You have to be in competition like I talked about a couple of weeks ago. They're going to find something new next year that will be even more popular and this $180 talking pumpkin? Well, by next year, nobody will care.
The Mason Minute
Skeletons (MM #4580)
"Over the last couple of years, that giant 12 -foot skeleton is being seen in more neighborhoods across America. I didn't realize it was kind of a Home Depot or a Lowe's exclusive. It's not really an exclusive, but they're the only ones selling it. I think I see one every time I walk into Home Depot. It's not that often, but I see them even when it's not Halloween. It's funny. There's one I drive by constantly. It's up all year round, but when I drove by on Saturday, it was missing its head and missing one of its arms. But it's interesting that the 12 -foot skeletons are now kind of passé because Target has something that's going viral. It's an 8 -foot tall talking pumpkin. It goes for $180, lights up, and is sold out online and at most stores because it became TikTok famous because the talking pumpkin says, I'm not a jack -o -lantern. My name is Louis. The skeleton thing is cute for a moment, but at the same time, you have to be a big fan of Halloween decorations. You have to be in competition like I talked about a couple of weeks ago. They're going to find something new next year that will be even more popular and this $180 talking pumpkin? Well, by next year, nobody will care.
The Mason Minute
Skeletons (MM #4580)
"Over the last couple of years, that giant 12 -foot skeleton is being seen in more neighborhoods across America. I didn't realize it was kind of a Home Depot or a Lowe's exclusive. It's not really an exclusive, but they're the only ones selling it. I think I see one every time I walk into Home Depot. It's not that often, but I see them even when it's not Halloween. It's funny. There's one I drive by constantly. It's up all year round, but when I drove by on Saturday, it was missing its head and missing one of its arms. But it's interesting that the 12 -foot skeletons are now kind of passé because Target has something that's going viral. It's an 8 -foot tall talking pumpkin. It goes for $180, lights up, and is sold out online and at most stores because it became TikTok famous because the talking pumpkin says, I'm not a jack -o -lantern. My name is Louis. The skeleton thing is cute for a moment, but at the same time, you have to be a big fan of Halloween decorations. You have to be in competition like I talked about a couple of weeks ago. They're going to find something new next year that will be even more popular and this $180 talking pumpkin? Well, by next year, nobody will care.
Veteran on the Move
"louis c" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"What are some of the other things going on in the industry, veteran hiring and some of the other trends that you're seeing? So this is timely because some of your listeners may have by the time this airs in September, this may be somewhat old news, but I suspect it's going to have a long tail to it. But a couple of weeks back, the Supreme Court issued an opinion about having race profiler identified as a criteria in decisions for academic institutions. Harvard, University of North Carolina were the two that were called out. But now, in essence, any higher level institutions can no longer use race as a defining criteria. And I see that evolving to impact organizational DEI programs. And there's many, you know, large mainstream media publications projecting the same. I think you'll see some call outs in the courts and some activity there along these lines as well. I show up here with some some good news. And if I assume that that reaches its perhaps inevitable conclusion that veterans show up as a means to fill that void, if you will, because when you hire veterans, you're implicitly hiring a diverse workforce. Thirty one percent of veterans come from ethnic and racial minorities. Seventeen percent and growing are women. And based on the stats I quoted earlier, you're not just hiring a diverse workforce, you're hiring a successful workforce that has demonstrated success in all kinds of environments all around the world. Just a quote from one of the case studies in this one from Procter and Gamble, you know, kind of what value they see in veterans. They see Procter and Gamble in the military having very similar cultural components. They think that they're both mission focused. They both value the ability to inspire, motivate teams. They value the ability to overcome obstacles. They involve understanding and implementing a leader's intent. And there they have success in both of them involved. That involves operating well under stress. So, again, all kinds of value that can be gained here if people would just open their minds and make the effort. Wow. Phenomenal. A lot of great things going on. So where can we find your book Hiring Veterans? Hiring Veterans comes out Labor Day. You can find a name where books are sold. I'll foot stomp access to my website, which contains tons of resources that complement and supplement the book. Website is MatthewJLewis.com.Awesome. And Matthew with two T's, right? Matthew with two T's and Lewis is in St. Louis. Exactly. That's awesome. Well, Matt, we are getting close to the end of our time here. I want to give you the last word. Somebody's getting out of the military. Whether they want to go into entrepreneurship, start their own business, or they want to get the cool term I heard from my last interview. They want to get that lifeboat job on their way out. What kind of advice comes to mind as far as things they should be doing in preparing themselves to go into the civilian sector? Yeah, so a couple of things. One, I instantly call out my first book, Mission Transition. We talked about it before. In my view, it's a must read, preferably about a year or more up to two years prior to you considered leaving the service, especially if you're considering the entrepreneurial route. Talk through a number of exercises and self-reflection you're going to want to do before you pull that trigger. In fact, it's a great career field for veterans. They tend to succeed more than the non-veterans. But you need to have that dialed in for your own benefit and your family's benefit. I don't want to see anybody falling flat on their face. So that's point one. Point two would be if entrepreneurship is not your focus area, I'd strongly encourage you to create what we call a passport at PeerPost.co. We talked about my involvement with PeerPost earlier. And that's, just for clarification, p-u-r-e-p-o-s-t dot i-o? Correct, dot c-o. Dot c-o, okay, thanks. All right, great. Yep, yep. PeerPost.co. It's for free for life for everyone. Go out, create a passport. It'll take you 15 minutes. Instantly translate anything that you've done, civilian and military work experience, and match you with any employment opening for which you're a fit based on that translation. Awesome. Great stuff. All right, Matt, well, thanks for sharing your success story and doing all the great things that you're out there doing for the veteran community and look forward to seeing your future success. Glad to do it, Joe, and thanks again for having me on. I appreciate it. You bet. All right, these two veterans are asking Mike. Thank you for listening to Veteran on the Move, your Pathfinder to freedom. If you like the show, leave us a review on iTunes. Reviews are always greatly appreciated. So until next time, this veteran is Oscar Mike.
Veteran on the Move
"louis c" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"What is the motivation behind that? Or is it just omission? Again, I think one, it's in part ignorance. Now there's a couple other things to cite. I mean, veterans are an increasingly shrinking portion of the population. If you look at the U.S. population growth overall and the population growth of veterans, it's trending down and it's going to continue to trend down in the coming decades. So if you look at it from if you're a for-profit company from an ROI standpoint, why would I invest incremental funds for an increasingly shrinking portion of my prospective workforce? That's really the challenge, if you will, that for-profit organizations seek or face, rather. So that's kind of what's driving that. Yeah. And one thing we've always noticed, a recurring theme is in the civilian world, they focus on hiring hard skills. The MBA, the CPA, the Six Sigma, all that kind of stuff, things, all those letters that go after your name. Whereas the true talent of the military individual comes in soft skills, people skills, you know, dealing with people, leadership, motivation. Some of those things are harder to capture on a resume and the civilian world needs somebody with this particular skill they can plug in right here and let them loose and go. They don't see the long-term picture unless they're hiring for specific leadership positions. But we hear that a lot in the military and a lot of military folks, like veterans themselves, tend to focus on their hard skills and don't know how to express their soft skills in interviews and trying to get jobs. Well, there's I'd come back to that from a couple of angles. So there's some truth to that, but I'm going to throw some cold water on it as well. For the one thing, and this is news, I think the most civilian organizational leaders I speak with, one of the stereotypes out there is anyone coming out of the military is a trigger puller, meaning served in a combat arms capacity. I was one of those. I was one of those tankers shooting big bullets downrange. Thankfully, there's not a lot of M1 Abrams tanks rolling down our streets. But the fact of the matter is combat armor specialties make up only about 15 percent of individuals serving in our military today. So flip that around. Eighty five percent serve in a capacity that is directly accretive to an equivalent functional capacity that exists in an organization today. Now, that's not to say that those coming out of the military have to assume that role. In fact, about half end up working in a career field that's different than the one that they were in in the military. But it does portray the opportunity for individuals to find career fields that match what they're bringing with them from their time in the service. Yeah. So what are some of the big ticket items that organizations that are looking to hire veterans? What are some of the things they need to do? What are some of the things they need to address in their hiring process and in their retention process to foster that hiring the veteran concept? Yeah. So I point out to bubble it down to what are the minimum requirements for success from an organization standpoint. And by the way, just to highlight what is in it for them in terms of what the veterans that they would would hire, what they're ultimately going to bring to the table here. If you hire veterans, first of all, you're exposing yourself to the nation's military community, which comprises 37 million folks who wield one point two trillion with a T in annual buying power. So one, if if you endear yourself to them, you are helping your organization and embellish your brand in the eyes of these people. So you stand to reap a financial reward for starters from an organizational top line revenue basis. From a bottom line productivity standpoint, there's an upside to. Again, studies show that organizations with most inclusive and best talent management approaches that include veterans have several advantages. One, they realize a 22 percent increase in productivity. They realize a 13 times higher mean cash flow from their operations. They're four times more able to deal with personal performance problems and three times more likely to identify and build leaders. So it's it's a huge upside. And by the way, there's also work opportunity to tax credits that organizations can take by hiring veterans as well. So there's all kind of benefits to be stood down to enable it is the challenge. And that's why my book exists. And just to foot stomp a couple what I call minimum requirements for success. First is these things. And frankly, probably any and all talent focused initiatives need to be driven top down. And frankly, the larger the organization, the more important it is that it's driven from executive level leadership in the organization, both from a financial and programmatic standpoint. They have to walk the talk. Goodwill only goes so far and it's not going to make these things a success. So one, it needs to be driven substantially from the top. Second, I would say one of the first things they need to do is create what I call an employee resource group. Some may alternately use the term business resource group, but I like the term employee resource group because it's driven and it is composed, it's comprised of the workforce itself. In this case, one focused on veterans. You need to create a tribe, a circle of peers within the organization. One that's going to enable that group to thrive within the organization, but also aid those that are in the position that are doing all the recruiting and onboarding and assimilation of this valuable talent pool. Once you have that group in place, they can help you start to put in place all your onboarding materials, your mentoring programs, which is the other key component of successfully assimilating, acclimating these folks in-house. A couple other points I would make in terms of minimum requirements for success. Any offering like this, any program like this is going to be required to demonstrate a return on investment. This is going to require an investment of some sort. And so because of that, the program needs to link its specific goals with the organization's strategic goals and demonstrate how success with the program is going to move the needle at the organizational level. And then the last point I highlight is because veterans are a protected class and from a hiring standpoint, you need to be compliant with any and all regulatory obligations. And if you're a federal contractor, you know, those become even more substantial. Absolutely. Awesome. Great info. What kind of case studies can you discuss? Yeah, so I mean, case studies, I'll throw out a couple. Again, they run the gamut, but there's a number of big for-profit companies out there. J.P. Morgan Chase is very gracious. If anyone knows Mark Elliott, who leads the Veterans Military Affairs efforts at J.P. Morgan, he wrote the foreword to the book, J.P. Morgan. And by the way, in full transparency, I sit on their external advisory council for that group. J.P. Morgan, as many may know, is the founder of the 100,000 Jobs Mission, which became the Veteran Jobs Mission because they quickly shot past that number. That group of organizations now includes I think it's approaching 400 organizations around the country which work together to share best practices and to bring on more vets and middle spouses. So J.P. Morgan's big. Amazon is a case study. Walmart is a case study. My classmate there, Brent Parmeter, who just left, became the chief human resources officer at the Department of Defense, first one in its history. So that's good. Procter & Gamble, one of my former employers, is a case study. To get away from large corporate organizations, there's also Xavier University Academic Institution right in my backyard here in Cincinnati. One of the leading veteran success centers on a campus in the country. And there are several other examples I call book as well. Governmentally, the State Department is a prime example of a federal agency that's doing it well. They're part of the book. But also, I want to call out a couple smaller organizations that I feature, again, reflecting back on the stats I quoted earlier. There's a greater need in my mind that small businesses adopt the approaches that are going to bring on veterans. And a couple of those that I feature in the book are Cajun Industries and Performance Contractors, both of whom have very robust programs down around the Gulf area and the construction and oil and gas industries.
Veteran on the Move
"louis c" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"Why is it that most employers just don't get it when it comes to hiring veterans? Yeah, it's a critical piece and a premise around the second book that I wrote. I think a large part of it has to do with a dearth of presence of any individuals, especially in leadership positions in organizations that have any military experience whatsoever. And I don't just mean actual service in the military, but any exposure to them in terms of families. There's and this is documented in studies whereby in recent generations, we've kind of created an insular military class, meaning that a much greater percentage of offspring of military people were the ones that end up serving in the military. And so there's there's fewer and fewer families. I'll put it at that level around the country that have anyone that they would know within their family that that has served. I don't want to go down a rat hole there, but in my opinion, that's something that needs to change. What the impact of that is in these organizations is you've got just to quote a few statistics. I mean, there's been a 90 percent drop and there's a generational thing we can talk about in the corporate world that has driven this, but a 90 percent drop between call it 1980, 2006 and the number of large publicly held organizations that had a CEO with any military experience whatsoever. If you broaden that, by the way, that percentage is now two point six percent. But even if you broaden that to include all board members, it's still less than five percent. So flip those numbers around. If you're coming out of the military interviewing for all that particular level, there's ninety five, ninety seven percent chance that person sitting across the desk from you has absolutely no idea who you are, what you've done, what you can do. They're influenced by many of the stereotypes that you see in media and mainstream movies and what have you. What that has led to and why veterans experience what they do coming out is, again, just to quote a few statistics. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce tells us and these are rare, very recent numbers, small businesses, which make up 90 percent. I'm sorry, which make up more than ninety nine percent of businesses in this country. Ninety percent of them intentionally do not hire veterans. And they're responsible for forty two percent of all new jobs in the country, which is bad. And just to back that up, if you expand it to larger organizations, Corn Ferry did a study of seven hundred businesses, most of whom were larger. Eighty percent of them do not hire veterans. Seventy one percent don't provide talent acquisition professionals training, and fifty two percent of them don't provide onboarding or transition support. So while there's good news and lots of good case studies, some of which I highlight in the book, the takeaway here is far and away, majority, you know, most of organizations, large, small, what have you, are not taking advantage of the talent and the value that our veteran talent pool offers them.
Veteran on the Move
"louis c" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
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Veteran on the Move
"louis c" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"Matt Lewis is one of the nation's leading experts in career transition for veterans and public service professionals. He coaches individuals on their transition efforts and advises employers on hiring programs designed to successfully assimilate these valuable talent pools. His new book, Hiring Veterans, is up next on Veteran on the Move. 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. Service isn't just what Navy Federal Credit Union does, it's who they are. That's why Navy Federal created tools to help you earn and save more. Find out more at NavyFederal.org. Army veteran Matt Lewis, author of Hiring Veterans. Matt, welcome back to the show. Had you back in 2019 on the show. Talk about your first book. And your second book, Hiring Veterans, is coming out here real soon. This episode will release in September, so it's almost perfect timing for your book release. And your last time you were on was pre-COVID, now we're post-COVID, so we're both still here. Take us back. Tell us what you did in the Army. Yeah, Joe, first, appreciate it. I really enjoyed coming back on the show. And by the time this airs, the book Hiring Veterans will be published. It's due out on Labor Day of 2023 here. So again, just to kind of refresh people's minds, if they didn't listen to the episode a few years back, quick thumbnail sketch on who I am and my Army involvement there. I'm a West Point grad, class of 91, first Gulf War veteran, was in the Army as a tanker, an officer. Spent five years active duty, another 16 in the Reserves, and ultimately retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Did a number of things in the Reserves, working at the Pentagon for a while, serving as a recruiter more or less for West Point, my alma mater. Really enjoyed the time there. But that made for a couple transitions, one out of active duty and one that was a little less challenging in the Reserves because I'd been in the corporate world for quite a bit of time by then. So that's kind of the short story. And so as you transitioned out of the Army back then into the corporate world, what were some of the highlights of your transition, the good, the bad and the ugly? And you've learned a lot about transition because you're basically in the transition business at this point. So I'd like to hear what your initial transition was like. So I left, and this is ancient history for those coming out of the military today, but I left active duty in the mid 90s. These were the Clinton drawdown years. And because of that, that was part of my motivation for getting out. There wasn't, again, being part of the armored force. That branch was hit a bit disproportionately from some of the others. I didn't see a big future there at the time. So I used graduate school as my transition vehicle. It's still single digits in terms of veterans that choose higher education as their path. It worked for me. It doesn't work for everyone. And then I went from there on onto the corporate world. I was very purposeful about it because I had kind of put a plan in place a couple of years ahead of actually leaving active duty. So I did quite a bit of study, actually took some graduate level courses while I was still on active duty and purposely transitioned. But even so, that still left quite a struggle I faced in leaving. At the time, the support systems that exist today were nonexistent, pretty much. The Army, again, I'm an Army guy, had in place in its infancy a little program called Army Career Alumni Program, nothing like the SFL TAP or its various permutations today. It was administered literally within your last five days on active duty by those that, frankly, had just departed the service themselves, took off the green suit, came back in wearing a civilian suit the next day. So it was kind of an exercise in the blind leading the blind. So I kind of figured out myself. I'd assumed that was going to be the way anyway. And again, I was a little more proactive and purposeful about it. But that still didn't prevent the issues that a lot of us face. Yeah. And so your experience with corporate America and having the J.O.B., where did the interest in transition and hiring veterans and getting involved in the military transition come from? Yeah. So there's a couple of interwoven themes there. One would be just the focus on entrepreneurship. And we covered some of this ground on our last time together, whereby in spite of all the planning that I did, I was ultimately impacted by a couple of rifts over the course of my career. That alerted me to the fact that I need to have a plan B. And that ultimately came what is now Louis Advisors. It's well over a decade old now, but it oversees all of my publishing work, which is a good segue to the second theme around how I've kind of pivoted my personal journey, career journey, over the better part of the past decade, to focus on this core issue of eliminating the civil military divide in the country. And really what spurred my book efforts and what I'm doing now, having left the corporate world entirely as president of a little startup called Purepost. So just to outline how, one, my work is driven today and then maybe get into a bit of the rationale specifically on the book efforts. But I'm tackling this vision of eliminating the civil military divide in the country on three different fronts or in the military. We would call them lines of effort. The first on military side was the first book we talked about on my last appearance here several years back called Mission Transition. It's gone on to be the most awarded book of its kind. I'm proud to say it's a practical guide to help our service members find full employment, optimal career fields when they leave the military. But that's only half of the civil military divide. The other half is the civil side, and that's what hiring veterans is all about, which comes out on Labor Day. This is a practical guide for organizational leaders. I'll use that more agnostic term, whether it's for-profit, nonprofit, academic organizations, governmental organizations, they're all case studies in the book. A practical guide for them on how to put together programs to successfully assimilate members of the military community. Veterans, mill spouses, what have you. Even if you're successful with those two, there still exists in my mind, by my way of thinking, a lack of a warm handoff from an employment standpoint. Again, all of this is focused squarely on employment for reasons we can get into.
The Dan Patrick Show
"louis c" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Learn more at VA lottery dot com slash live and lucky. Trying to cheer up fritzi a little bit. All the notes. I can't go with that. No can do. There's the best. They wrote some hits, man. Great sing along music. Wrote some hints. Get some more phone calls. This day in sports history, basketball coming up today and tonight. Claude Kellogg from CBS will join us on the program tomorrow. Jason joins us from Texas. Good morning, Jason, what's on your mind today? Hey, Dan. 6 foot two 20.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"louis c" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"And whatever, whatever they're doing for you, they need to keep doing it at physical therapy south. Thank you. I'm going to let them know that I told him, but he has no doubt. By the way, I was in the office and I called anybody else and he said, I said I was talking to my family. He said, who was that? I took a great screener. Danny Brown, he's my man, and he gets me a lawyer and I said, okay, he said, fine, great. He listened to we also listened to the show. He's a known some document that I was talking to. He recognized your voice, Jim. The guy. Do you remember a couple of there was a time you told me that everybody had turned on the show? Do you think you think they're coming? If you can just keep it in the road, we're winning about. We're working hard. Jeff and I are really working hard. Okay, well, what should I do? 'cause I hate for this train to end. I mean, it's been a good ride. From Jeff and I and then don't back, you have too bad when he gets beat by Suzy or anybody any other female. You know, of course, you don't crush me. I know I told them. He's going to the last to make minute. And then he's going to let Herman from German where he's from. Crush me in the last round. Of course, you don't get your more legend through that. You know that legion. We'll take care of him. We all know he's been doing that, but we know that. Well, Jim, I'm glad to hear from you. I'll tell you the truth all. I mean, I think it's the best time to show right now. I really believe that. Jim, I would have to say you're getting maybe the effect of the therapy is they don't give you an answer to any. They don't give you anything. You don't take any medicine over there. Well, no painkillers. I have never had physical therapy, but Jim, I count me in for whatever you're getting. You love it, Paul. You really would. You would love it. I'll knock you down. Okay, I'm in. Thank you up against a break after that. Very positive call here. From Norman Vincent Jim. We'll take a short break. More to come right after this. You were listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. This pat is up next. Hello, man. Hi. Hi, Paul. I just have one point today and that is to say, hell must be freezing over and I'm in and Jim love fast. Bye. This packed patted a phone booth where she's about to run out of time. I've never had more than a ten second conversation with her. Not that I'm complaining. Roy is up next in Tennessee. However, right? Yes, is this Paul? It is. Well, first time collar Powell, I just wanted to call and talk a little bit about Tennessee basketball, the men's players. We've got this big thing going on now where they're saying that Tennessee cheats and probably a thousand lots. I think it was the UAB culture whatever can we come in about that? Well, first of all, it's not true. Tennessee is a very physical team defensively. Nobody's better in the country and I think people have complained about that, but I don't think Tennessee has anything to apologize for or to whom. Thank you very much for the call. Appreciate it. Let's continue with Dale in Colorado, a hell of Dale. Hey, Paul, how you doing? We're doing great. Thank you. Yeah, so I just got a quick comment and one quick question if you please indulge me. Of course. So I was walking in from work. So contrary to what AC from Canada thinks, people who listen to yourself do work. But anyway, so I called the trillion of a Mississippi guy thing something about naming their board of call. Let me ask you a question. In your opening of your show, you're laying on the ground kissing a board off. What does that board dog's name? That bulldog is Aga. Team to story. Thank you very much. Thank you. So thank you name it, dak, deuce, gobble gobble, whatever they want to. But y'all go guys in this state love you. Yeah. I have been face to face with both Aga. And the Mississippi stable dog. They're a little different. I'm not a bulldog expert. I mean, they're slightly different. They're both very beautiful dogs. Don't make me cheers. Susie is up next. Hi, Paul. Hello, Susie. Thanks for taking my call. It's a good day. I'm getting all kinds of texts from former students that I taught 50 years ago. It's pretty funny. They're like, Suzy is miss bainbridge. So they watch the show. I hope they're listening to Susie. But I mention it again. You have the upset of the color bracket so far, knocking off the long time and legendary color Jeff from Columbus. That was a stunner. Well, I've got my peeps behind me. I got, you know, my teacher, my kids. But I want to, you know, I want some of whatever Jim is drinking or taking or whatever because he was wonderful. You know, the last couple of days, it's now, is this bracket, Jim's bracken were voting for right now? Yeah, you know, I'm not trying to get in the middle of Jim's personal health, but it seems like maybe Jim had some maybe a pinched nerve. I don't know, something that was pressuring him, and now this lady has figured out a way to relieve that pressure because he seems like a completely different person. Well, and I want to Jim, I know you're listening. Thank you for your money's comments. And how many times you said my name, but that was really, really sweet. Susie, I think you're in his head. Oh, dear. Oh, dear, but I do have to tell you my daughter commented last night she said, mom, someone made a nasty comment about you on the thread. And I said, well, that's all part of the game. You know? And so I went to look at it, and I don't even know who this person is. I never heard of them. I don't want to take a caller. But he called me a flute. And I started laughing because I thought. How old are you? No, Susie. To me, I think that's a compliment. Well, my student from 50 years ago, Paul. I hope you're missing Paul. He got on and he said, you know, something like let it go, man. She's a great teacher. Susie is the new sweetheart of the fine bomb show. Agent. There's a number. I don't know what it means. Thanks, Susie. We're up against the break. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"louis c" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Pro day and Columbus Ohio today. What about tomorrow, Alabama? You think there's a few players that the scouts and GMs and head coaches may want to see, there will be standing room only there tomorrow. And we'll be there covered all afternoon long. And welcome back, great interview with Lou Riddick, former NFL G front office personnel who was at CJ. He flat out said the pantser should take CJ Stroud. Over Bryce young. He made that crystal clear. Let's check in with AC in Canada next. Good afternoon. Thank you very much for taking my call. Thank you. Absolutely. I have done some research and I was thinking how come your regular callers they call in every day. They got so much time. And oh, I got one. Twice a day. I realized they don't work. Why they don't work because they're too busy living in Donald Trump's stipend. Think about it, mister fine, bob. Is that that something mister fine, bob? Out of here in Canada, we don't need stifling. We can use our God giving hands to all the southern morons. You guys make me sick. You all fed Americans. What are your store, don't work and get a job, better affect all the short list once a week, it feeds your family, who in the world for possibly is gonna leave off a statement. You don't leave off life and you leave off ESPN paycheck to paycheck and this is why I love the even more. This is why Jim has all the time. This is why legend has all the time. And I got no time for all this. I am working single day because I don't collect sights and sore losers, just like you, AJ, you would always be my favorite jerk, but mister fine bomb. I love you so much, dude. And I'll pray for you. Please do that thing for me. Thank you, AC. Jack is up next. Hello, Jack. It's my name, mister Paul. I know I will be next. You can't make this stuff up. I don't know how you do it every day. You're not getting enough money for this. By the way, you're probably right about that. I'll take whatever they can throw my way. If you don't get none of pain, what I really call for was to talk about Iron Man, but the crew shot to you, he should exactly what I want to say. This dude don't ever talk about our brand. And I think the eye for Iron Man meet impotent could he don't get up for nobody's beside Nick shaman. I don't understand how to do me looking at TV and would he be talking about. But then by me, mister by me being a hole, I heard Lewis Brennan. And his opinion, I don't, they might have brought us some free drinks and something of the colonial order to say what he said a little while ago because he let me say that she didn't follow him at all. It better in a two minute situation. Have you been watching Brian for two years? I don't think I've ever seen a better college quarterback than bribes young. I do understand some of the concerns, but to me, CJ Stroud had lapses. I mean, he was brilliant against Georgia, but did anyone see him play against Michigan? Evidently, only me and you did, evidently. Because I don't understand and then to be honest now, when black got to start a job, I would like this due to so small he will get killed. He proved me wrong. The young man. And I thought he came back pretty quickly from that too. He did. He did. I'm so, you know, being dressed in warm weather is like buying a lot of chicken. You will never know what happened until the number come out. But I appreciate your show and I pitch it up to me. There's a feeling show with mister Paul. Hey, Jack. Thank you very much. You call back. This was fantastic conversation. Flexes up next in North Carolina. Hello flex. Hey, Paul's flex. How are you doing buddy? We're doing great. I want to talk a little bit about the David tepper thing. The conversation you just had with Louis Ritter. Now, Lewis Riddick's name is always brought up to be the next GM and football. And you being here in Charlotte, you know about the David tepper thing. You know about Rock Hill and I'll temper has just bombed big time in Charlotte. And then how can Lewis Reddick say that tepper is doing such a great job in Charlotte. I don't know. You're right. I mean, this franchise has been a laughingstock. Now what he said for those therapies saying he said that in his entire staff, that's the GM. That's the head coach, flew into Columbus and took CJ Stroud to dinner last night, which pretty obvious. Pretty serious. I mean, you don't do that. But most people believe, when they traded for the number one pick, it really was only going to be two people and there'll be in Alabama tomorrow. And at some point, I'll have to decide, but Louis seemed pretty heavily leaning toward CJ Stroud. A hedge fund operator. Of the 32 NFL owners. How many really know anything about football? And the ones who do know a lot about football have often been the worst owners. Can I point you in the direction of Texas? That guy played football. And he's been a disaster. So I mean, the most important thing in owner can do is hire a great GM and a coach. And advise. But do not get in the way. I mean, he talked about CJ Stroud talked about tepper and his wife were great people. That's fantastic. But don't rely on a hedge fund owner. And his wife, to determine who the quarterback of your future is, and of your franchise. Thank you for the call.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"louis c" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Of course. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I couldn't. I still got back problems, you know what I mean? And his gut is such that like I have a cousin, he could just elbow up under there, give him a lift, but I would be afraid to touch and pain. What's your favorite of Donald Trump's policies? Oh. I suppose you were on live or something, so I can't. I have to watch my racial epithets. Let me just say one word. Slap fence. Slap pants. What's that? Slap fence. Hashtag built the barrier, wall, the wall. Give me it's a slap fence, man. You ain't seen it? No, no. Oh, slot fence. Slap, slash. Let's lad. See, that's a problem with you a task coming over here from overseas of foreign places. Y'all don't know how to speak English. Well, what is your ethnicity? Well, I mean, oak, I think. My dad once was caught with his penis in a tree, that's as much of a genealogy as we've ever done. Well, let's Gallo is asking, how does hell Billy feel about Marjorie trailer green? Oh, she's fine. Man, I've never wanted to take a learning annex class on sex ruinous if my whole life let me tell you what. Could you not only see the good thing about hers, during Zach, she could choke you out, and that would be sweet relief. That's all I'm saying. But I thought you were a married man, how, Billy? I'm not, no, I'm not married. I'm I'm currently a strange. Do you have any children? I have no idea. Probably. Probably. What's the highest level of education did you get? Well, I graduated third, but I'd say I peaked in first. What was your favorite subject? Detention. Louis C, junior, thanks for the 6 66. Don't worry, we have some of those clips from YouTube to Don Junior and everyone else you have clips about them. I'm just commenting your album. Lauren ibsen, thanks for the $2, super sick. And then de world, thanks for the 5 four 50 seconds of song, Al, Billy..
Comedy Bang Bang
"louis c" Discussed on Comedy Bang Bang
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Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
"louis c" Discussed on Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
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The Functional Tennis Podcast
"louis c" Discussed on The Functional Tennis Podcast
"A champion. It's only is before what he does. None of thursday mocked sardar to return at the foreign. So is novak winning in editor. Okay you could say plays so much better. But then there's all these guys you know like a wins because they are fighters as they are winners and the sites we are and i think as a coach to bid the same thing personal leah. I know myself. I don very competitive. If lose almost probable to sleep at night seiichi. What did i miss. What i should have seen their game plan. What the opening the dot com week image. Somebody points on that the act fix that out to work. And it's a nonstop you know it's like a it's it's it's always driving to be the best you can be as as a coach but if you don't have that type of value our mindset that's hard to install it attor players as that's what. I tried to insulted flirt. To never stop improving like a concept of never the improvement of anthony robbins like he always tried to better always always always always and if you don't it's hard to make speech see better everyday the you the job the values of excellence or take flers. Though that thought word. I send them like something video report at three am or like a just now. Newin can lose once in solid denied. Wake up look for account. They're much be over. So i looked right away. Study just less than silence and of flag is given a little oyston so they they know that that you care and the you know if i remember also from the that. The quantum of the basketball coach wooden the forgets his name. Exactly people what you know when they know that you care so if other coach you don't do even your player you don't care about the player and you don't also try to be the best you can be to make them the best they can be. That's all being. I thought what i know. It's what i do. It's ym that the elves to make a difference and i think Nave ware is a type of guy like this. Also that yes come a conference. He can make a difference and really inspire is players who to cheap thinks. But it's always come back to the people you know if the furnishing wants to be successful just just hired to right people since the just knowledge it's about it's about character about believable values. So i think sometimes you may think if the right person you don- you know. Sometimes you have to try stuff and it doesn't work out and everything fails. I think it can be tough to get right but of if you get it right like the lta of got it right. Would you dan the long term effects. Your success breeds success and obviously the next bite. Your kids did on to win one or two slobs they wanna win more. They wanna be battered and murray better than souls. Joe is only twenty eight twenty nine his ears deter thing. He has murdered tan. Strong years minimum ahead of them which is amazing. Like i'm so happy to see but you know. Thank you very much for jumping on. Its if given me confidence now to get there urgency more to get out there and work a bit more my devils game and you know we always. We always wanna learn be learned for work. They today job tennis court. I'm always trying to learn and thank you very much. Just one question. Did you have a mentor at all or was everything from within you. Who did you look up to. At every moment of my development i was always focusing on one aspect of something and suddenly you know like a the work of anthony. Robbins was really clicking with me and i started.
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
"louis c" Discussed on Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
"You decided to approach this stuff in your book yet. So i was fifteen years old ninety sixty seven but i was sorta plugged into that that what was going on just because my parents were very interested in politics they were very liberal so They were all over the cia stuff when it started coming out actually started coming out in nineteen sixty five. That's when the new york times Outed the congress for cultural freedom as a cia creature Interestingly n- nothing really came of that story until the ramparts peace and nineteen sixty seven which was about the national student association. And that's the story that pulled the thread that unraveled the whole tapestry of covered finding was turned out to be as i said incredibly elaborate and global they just funded all kinds of political and cultural organizations that people assumed were independent. And i end the book with that along with the aetna. Because that's really moment when you look back and you think what was really going on here. Yeah after i finished your book. I finally realized what my problem with all the stuff is. It's that the revelations are just too massive. What i mean. They don't just reveal truth they also a truth. Which makes it super frustrating if you wanna pin down what some of these writers and artists and critics were doing when they were working for the cia during the cold war you know. What conclusion can you draw. It was all a sham. That doesn't seem right that they were all puppets. That doesn't quite seem right either. List all people both american and british intellectuals most of whom are liberal or left people who contributed to encounter and they didn't have to be told what to say because they were saying exactly what the government wanted them to say that just exposed sham of american intellectual culture that these people imagined they had some distance from.
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
"louis c" Discussed on Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
"Five it suddenly vanishes that anxiety more or less disappears from non these anxieties disappear because a number of forms of american mass culture. Like rock and roll. Make their way back to the us. After being transformed in.
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
"louis c" Discussed on Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
"Cold war if you follow him and he's a professor at harvard and a staff writer at the new yorker. It's been obvious for some time. Now that he's been working on something big related to the cold war and his new book is very big. We're talking almost a thousand pages. Big it covers a lot of people you think you might know. Well like george orwell. John paul sartre susan santiago allen ginsberg and a number of art and intellectual movements like post structuralism and pop art. That you will know better when you finish the book. I am so thrilled. That louisianan door luke to everyone who knows him had some time to talk with me about art in thought in the free world. Interestingly turns out. Luke also read francis donor. Saunders book back when it came out i was thought it was very impressive and so when i started thinking about writing my own book about it and actually imagine that it would deal with the cia and covert funding in the sort of cultural diplomacy Aspect of the period. Which as you say have been a lot of books about. And and honestly i got into it. I began to think. There's just not much there. I just found that it didn't it. Didn't pan out And so then. I realized that that's actually not the interesting story. The interesting story was just to do a cultural history of the period. Obviously we're not going to have enough time to talk about all the individuals and ideas in your book. So let's just get started with george orwell in nineteen eighty-four nine hundred eighty four is where most of the world got its definition of totalitarianism. And you really make it clear. Just how important. This book was by the late. Nineteen fifties big brother is almost anonymous with soviet communism. But you also note that orwell. Never set out to write an anti-communism book. He believed there were many roads to totalitarianism. So how did this happen. How did this one particular idea. Or interpretation of nineteen eighty-four win out over the others. Well you're right about orwell's intentions. He was semi persuaded by an american writer. James barnum wrote a book called the managerial revolution. That the future of mass societies might be some form of talibanism of the kind that he fictionalized is in nineteen eighty-four. He was warning people in particular leftwing intellectuals not to go down that road that there was danger at the end of it and that was an anxiety that many people had in late nineteen forties. That's what hunter rents or its origins. Talibanism is about. It could happen here so the warning was picked up by people who worry that the future of liberal democracies would some kind of communist states like the soviet union and also by people who worried that the future liberal democracies people on the left. It worth the future. Liberal democracies would be some kind of fascist state like germany so so the general anxiety but attala -tarian is spread across the political spectrum. Everybody was actress about it with a different future in behind and our will therefore spoke to everybody because it's very nonspecific and then the truth is i did not write about this much in the book that the novel also benefited as it. Animal farm from heavy promotion by the american government. Okay i have to interrupt here. Because most of this promotion was convert the cia that sent hundreds of thousands of coppins. Orwell's novel into the world. The cia also secretly funded and nineteen eighty-four movie. That came out in nineteen fifty-six but in the version that screened in the uk. Italy and germany. The cia changed orwell's nba. Yeah this version. Winston smith goes yelling down with big brother the cia turn nineteen eighty-four into a warning of soviet totalitarianism and proposed. That death was better than submission but this was just one interpretation of orwell's book. I'd love to get you to talk about. How orwell in nineteen eighty-four intellectuals and artists of the nineteen fifties who wanted to express they felt about mass culture in you know how they saw it as leading possibly to an orwellian future. Yeah the the people who were worried about a challenge tearing future like hana read were generally highly critical of mass market commercial. Entertainment like hollywood movies and so on and one feature of the period. That's very noticeable. Obviously now is the degree to which intellectuals bought into the avant-garde catch binary this idea that there's avangard art or fine art as critical distance from the state but that commercial culture is basically a former propaganda and obviously it can't be a foreign propaganda. it was in germany. it was to some extent in soviet union. But the idea was that. Hollywood is just duplicating. What the kremlin to soviet cinema and a lot people believe that so there was period that really up until the mid sixties in which that was taken for granted that mass culture popular culture was potentially dangerous and then that all goes away really by ninety sixty.
Harvard Classics
"louis c" Discussed on Harvard Classics
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Harvard Classics
"louis c" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"To a friend which came near involving us in a quarrel what we met and then personal talk. I repeated the worst of what i had written and edited. Worse to that and with a commentary of the body is not unfriendly. Either to hear or say indeed letters are in vain for the purposes of intimacy. An absence is a dead break in the relation. Get to know each other fully and are bent on perpetuating in love may sole preserve the attitude of their affections that they may meet on the same terms as they had parted. Pitiful is the case of the blind who cannot read the face pitiful that of the death who cannot follow the changes of the voice and there are others also be pitied for there are some of an inert on eloquent nature who have been denied all the symbols of communication who have neither lively play of facial expression nor speaking gestures nor a response of voice nor yet the gift of frank explanatory speech people truly made of clay people tied for life into a bag which no one can undo they are poorer than the gypsy for their heart can speak no language under heaven such people we must learn slowly by the tenor of their acts or three yay and nay communications or we can take them on trust on the strength of a general air and now and again when we see the spirit breaking through in the flash correct or change our estimate but these will be pill intimacies without charm or freedom to the end and fray freedom is the chief ingredient in confidence some minds romantically dull despite physical endowment that is a doctrine for misanthrope to those who like their fellow creatures it must always be meaningless and for my part i can see few things more desirable after the possession of such radical qualities as honor and humor and paphos than to have a lively and not a stolid countenance to have looks to correspond with every feeling to be elegant and delightful and person so that we shall please even in the intervals of active pleasing and may never discredit speech with uncouth manners or become unconsciously our own burlesque but of all unfortunate there is one creature or i will not call him men conspicuous in misfortune this is he who has forfeited his birthright of expression who has cultivated artful intonations who has taught his face tricks like a pet monkey and on every side perverted or cut off his means of communication with his fellow men. The body is a house of many windows. There we all sit schilling ourselves in crying on the passersby to come and love us but this fellow has filled his windows with opaque glass elegantly colored. His house may be admired for its design. The crowd may pause before the stained windows but meanwhile the poor proprietor must lie. Languishing within uncomfortable unchangeability alone truth of course is something more difficult than to refrain from open lies. It is possible to avoid falsehood and yet not tell the truth..