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Cinemavino
A highlight from Legend
"And welcome back to cinema vino. We've got a two man game going. It's me and Sean Jordan. Just one little handshake over here. Coming at you. We're like a garage band, two members just coming at you with some hard rock. Tenacious D. Yeah, exactly. Or the black keys, the white stripes. Yeah. Yeah. Both of those. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Summer Chaos is now, this is the home stretch. Mine Meg. If this is the white stripes. Yeah. I think you're going to have to be. All right. Yeah. You're holding down, you're playing. Lying down the ones and the twos. Yeah. You're playing the quarter notes. That's about it. Yup. No fills. Which is how I like my drums anyway. She made the notes in the vamp up to the chorus. A little bit. That was one of the first songs I learned. There was a little bit of flavor. It was like a rice cake with a little bit of salt on it. Not a lot of salt, but a little bit of salt. Yup. So, this is a penultimate episode of Summer of Chaos. We're going to talk about legend. No, it's not penultimate. We've got this and then we've got Battle Royale. Oh, and then Dread. You're right. Dread. So, this is. And Robocop. This is penultimate to the penultimate. Yeah. Penultimate recording. And then I think Robocop's a gap. It's just kind of in between. Right. We just toss it in just because it sounds. Gap here. Yeah. Just a little bit of something to fill in. It's like a caulk that we used in between some tiles. Don't like that. But that's the metaphor I went for and there you go. It's a grout, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Drinking that imagery, won't you? So, we're going to talk about legend with Tom Cruise and we're drinking some white board dough. For those of you who are coming in late to this series, basically, we do a random wheel. We spin a wheel. We put a bunch of varietals on the wheel and also like beer and cocktails. Whatever the wheel picks, that's what we do for the Summer of Chaos. These movies were all picked out at random. We put random movies in the hat, drew them out. So, pretty much anything goes for this entire summer. And so, same thing with wine. Anything goes. So, for this one, we got white Bordeaux. This is Chateau La Fresnel. This is a 2022 white Bordeaux. Little bit of background for those who may not know. We were actually talking about this before the podcast that Bordeaux is now known as a red wine region. But up until about 50, 60 years ago, it was a white wine region. It was known for its white grapes. Bordeaux are going to be... White Bordeaux are primarily Sauvignon Blanc with some Simeon and some Muscadel. There's a few other grapes they mix in there, but those are the main three that you're going to see. Then they're mainly Sauvignon Blancs. Is this kind of like how like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party kind of switched identities somewhere in the like 40s, 50s? Around the New Deal? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Basically. Now, it's like five, six to one red wines to white. It used to be the opposite. You'll also see a type of wine made from these same grapes called a Sauternes, which is going to be... It's made completely differently. It's going to be a lot sweeter, a lot more sugary. Those are very fancy, high -end, expensive white wines. So, basically, just from the price tag alone, you'll never confuse a Sauternes with a white Bordeaux. These are going to be more affordable, you know, $15, $20 range. Not super sweet. It's a little more tart, a little peachy? Dry. And the first thing I think of is Sauvignon Blanc. And these will have some characteristics of the same characteristics of other Sauvignon Blancs in the world. They're going to be a little bit grassy, a little bit citrusy, grapefruity. They're going to have some of those same kind of flavors to them. The main thing that's going to distinguish these wines is going to be... I've heard it referred to as minerality. I've heard it referred to as wet concrete. I've heard it referred to as chalk. Tasty. Yeah, limestone. But kind of that dry, refreshing edge that you don't necessarily find in other parts of the world. Kind of like what brings the harshness of mineral water versus the softness of tap. Yeah, exactly. That's a good way to put that. Yeah. It's got like a bite to it. It's got kind of like a... Little edge. Yeah. And you don't find that... Like for example, New Zealand's often been known as grapefruit bombs. Big fruit bombs. And you don't see that as much. This is my favorite region for Sauvignon Blanc. They're balanced. That's why I love French wines in general. They don't go out of the way in any one direction. They're nice and balanced. And so it's great for that. This one has that nice... It's got some grassiness to it. It's got some fruit. But it's dry. And so this would be great. I mean, people say seafood. I'm not a big seafood fan, but kind of a lighter seafood meal is perfect for that. You're not a big seafood fan? Not a big seafood fan. Period? Not really. Shrimp? I mean, I don't mind shrimp. It's not my first thing I go to. Lobster. Yeah, same. Bass. Catfish. I don't mind catfish. I've had some catfish. That's garbage. Catfish is garbage. But I remember when we went to Barcelona, we took a cooking class. It was on our honeymoon. My wife and I, we did a... It was all seafood. We had some paella. We made some paella. We did octopus. We did squid. I mean, we tried the gamut of seafood stuff that they had in the Mediterranean. It was like... That was a good indication. It's like, I don't like this. This is not for me. Yeah, not my taste. It's fair. It's fair. But I will say that we did a wine kind of similar to this, a Spanish white. And yeah, this would be perfect with a wide variety of seafood. Some of the stuff that's bigger and more buttery, you might want to go for a white burgundy, like a chard. But this is a good hot weather, outdoor type of wine. It's nice and refreshing. I like it a lot. Yeah, 25 bucks, not a whole lot of money. But yeah, any good wine store, you should be able to find a nice white Bordeaux section. So look for those while the weather's still warm. But now, legend. Talk about this movie a bit. This was released in the United States April 18th, 1986. So... You say in the United States. Where did it come out before? It was released in Europe the year before. This had a very difficult production. This was a difficult movie to realize. It has a lot going on. So this grossed worldwide $23 million against a $25 million budget. In 86? That's a big budget. Huge. And for several reasons. A big reason for that is that when they started filming, a fire broke out and burned down the 007 studios where they were filming at Leaves in England. So pretty much had to build new sets. That's probably all the magic. Exactly. Yeah, some of the Sprite costumes caught fire. Or the unicorn hair. I can imagine, yeah. It's one wrong look, that unicorn horn. Yeah, it's gone. But they had to build new sets. And Ridley Scott's original cut of the movie ran for between two and a half, three hours. So... Jeez. And the final cut was like, what, hour and a half? Yeah. The version that I watched, I don't know if you saw the original 89 -minute version or if you watched the director's cut. I think I watched the 89 version. Okay, I looked around. I had trouble finding it. That's the version I know the best, so I went back to that one. The director's cut? No, the original. Oh, the original. Yeah. There's a director's cut out there. Is it like two to three hours? No. So basically, when the final cut of this print was released, Ridley Scott watched this cut and freaked out and thought that basically American audience couldn't grasp this much plot. And so he cut the film basically in half, down to 89 minutes. And when it came out, it got mediocre reviews. Obviously, he didn't do well at the box office. He just watered it down too much? Yeah. Gene Siskel put this as one of his worst movies of that year. And the international cut that came out the year before was 93 minutes. And it got a little bit better reviews, but still not great. And then in 2002, somebody found a full work print of the movie in a can somewhere. And so they took that out and restored it, remastered it, and really Scott added about 25 minutes to the cut that the director's cut. So it comes in at like 115 minutes, give or take. And he and Tom Cruise have gone on the record saying that's the version to see. I was going to say, I was reading that Tom Cruise saw the movie in theaters and was like, that's not the movie we filmed. Yeah. That's not it. I mean, you could imagine with that much cut out, it's going to be almost incoherent. It's like a whole other act. Yeah. Yeah. And so basically, the director's cut, yeah, it's a whole other fleshed out thing. And I have seen that once. I saw it when it came out. I think I've got that on DVD somewhere. And the one thing I would say is it does, it adds a few scenes. It makes the motivations a little bit deeper, especially for the character of the darkness and his relationship with the princess, Lily, and the stuff there. It's kind of just, not to cut to the chase, but it just kind of comes out of nowhere. He's just like obsessed with her. He's just like, oh, I must have her. It feels very rushed. It feels like a plot of necessity, not like a plot of, you know, any reason. They're just like, we need to stall him. How do we do it? Love interest. Yeah. And it's like, it's like I'm telling a story to my three -year -old and it's like, I got to kind of get something else in here. You got to kind of yada, yada, yada over motivations. We're coming in for a landing too quick. We got to just shoot. Pull up. Yeah. But so basically, this is a fairly straightforward fantasy story. Tom Cruise plays Jack, who is a protector of the forest. I was a little vague on what exactly he is. Is he a bard? Is he a ranger? I mean, he'd be more druid than anything. Is he a druid? Yeah, I couldn't place what he was supposed to be. It's like, this is where we need Travis. Yeah, he would be. And if Travis had an answer to that, I would be impressed. Because to me, they don't spell that out at all. I guess he would be more of a ranger. Yeah. Because he didn't really have any sort of like shape -shifting ability or had any ability to talk with trees. Really, his only thing was he had like one -on -one connection with the sprites, right? That's about it. Yeah, he had good buddies. A working relationship. And he wore a loincloth. Yes. So there was that. Dude, he was showing that thing off. He was. And that's what I, you know, in that situation, it's like, check out my hairless legs. My supine body. Yeah, check out these smooth legs. But, so Mia Sarah plays Lily. Now, this is her starring debut. Next year, she would go on to play in Ferris Bueller, amongst other things. Her hair when she transforms into a dark version. Awesome. Now, this great production value is great. Everything, costumes, hair. For 25 million, it better be. Yeah. Yeah. And those are real unicorns. Yeah, they better be. Yeah, I mean, now it's like, that'd be 100 million plus to make this thing. Easy. Easy. Easy. So yeah, Lord of Darkness, played by Tim Curry, who is unrecognizable in the mountain of makeup. Honestly, but might be one of my favorite representations of the devil. Yeah. Like, this makeup job is incredible. And in theory, we'll get to this later, that should be great casting to have Tim Curry. Yeah. I almost want to see more of Tim Curry in the face. Like, see more of him, you know. Almost, you know, Faustian devil and Daniel Webster kind of thing, where it's like, you can see like him being rascally or whatever. But yeah, so Lord of Darkness seeks to cover the world in darkness. Plot out the sun. Conveniently, yeah. Typical plot device. For that, he needs the horn of a unicorn, which is the most sacred and majestic of all fantastic creatures. Basically, he wants to take the unicorns out of the world, take the horns out of the world, and the world. The representation of purity. The horn of the unicorn. Yes. The world goes dark. Everything turns into kind of a barren, frigid tundra of darkness. He just has goblins that work for him inexplicably? Yeah, incompetent goblins. Yeah. It's nice. But they rhyme. They talk in riddles. They do. They do rhyme. But you know, he kind of has the James Bond villain of incompetent people working under him, you know. If anything, that's the thing that slows him down as much as, you know, these James Bond villains. Like, you hired a bunch of idiots. He also has, like, the Bond villain thing of, like, doing a lot of monologuing? Yes. Let me vamp for five minutes while you prepare your thing to destroy me. Yeah, let's me blather.
Cinemavino
A highlight from Amadeus
"And welcome back to cinema vino. It's good to have you guys here with us. Ahoy, bitches. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Got Travis Budd. One ones and twos. Sean Jordan. Threes and fours. Then Taylor Owens. Yo. And I'm playing nothing but the kick drum the whole night. Seven Nation whole time. Exactly. I'm Meg White the whole night. She rocked that kick drum. She did. She was four on the floor. One of the first songs I ever learned on drums. Yeah. Super easy. It's very straightforward. That and smoke on the water on bass. Just yeah, it's easy. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Exactly. Summer chaos for us continues this week with my pick Amadeus. And I'm not exactly even sure why I picked this. I think it's something I hadn't seen in a while. Yeah, I think we had talked about wanting to do Amadeus. Yeah. And I think a clip of it probably popped up on YouTube because we talked about it. I was like, man, I don't really want to go back and watch that. It's been a long time. Yeah, I think since I was a kid. So it was interesting now. And then now watching the director's cut. So Travis, did you watch the director's cut? Yeah, I yeah, that was the first thing I saw. I got time. I think I watched the director's cut. Yeah. Not positive. And you did not. I did not. Yeah. I'd be curious to see you right here is talking about it. See what the differences are. Yeah. It was a scene. I was like, what the hell? Yeah. I think I watched it like three or four weeks ago at this point. Yeah. It's been a while. Yeah. It's been a minute. Wow. Bring it back up speed. So with this one, it was actually luck. So I did all regions for this wheel that we the random wheel picker and it came up for the Italian one. So that kind of fits the movie a little bit with Salieri. And so for this one, we have a Rosso de Multipulciano, a Prunello, which is fun to say. Yeah. Prunello is just a Sangiovese. It's another fancy way of saying Sangiovese. I think Sangiovese is a fancy way of saying Sangiovese. Exactly. So this comes from Multipulciano, which is a small town in the Tuscany region of central Italy. Sangiovese from this region get age one to two years in oak barrels or three if they are a reservo. Sangiovese is a classic example of what's called old world wine. So as the name implies, these wines exhibit, they're acidic, they're tannic, they're kind of bold, full bodied. This one has a lot of depth and complexity to it. You could do this with big, heavy Italian dishes, pizza, stuff like pot roast, just big meals in general. I mean, I think I get a lot of fruit on this one, kind of dark like current flavors. It's earthy. It's a little bit like oaky flavored. I mean, it's just a big, full bodied red wine. This is a classic, like heavy European wine. But yeah, I think you could do this with pizzas. I'm told you can do this with lamb. I don't eat a lot of lamb. I don't eat any lamb just because I was raised on the farm with lambs, so I can't eat it. But people have said that this is a good lamb pair. You can see that. But yeah, this is about a $25 bottle of wine. This is the Boscarelli Rosso di Multipulciano, just the region. So basically, this is like a red from Multipulciano. Sangiovese is one of the grapes you'll find in Chianti. So it's one of the components of Chianti, which is also in this region of Italy. So there you go. It's good, tasty. Exactly. A little bit about this movie, a little background. So this was released September 19th, 1984, coming up on 39 years ago. Grossing $90 million against an $18 million budget, nominated for 11 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. F. Maria Abraham, who won Best Actor. He was competing against Tom Hulce, who was, it's the last time in recent memory that both two actors from the same movie were nominated for Best Actor together. Last time I heard Tom Hulce's name. Or my favorite, Pinto. Yes. Yeah. Only thing I can think of that he turned up in after this was Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Disney. He was the Hunchback. He's typecast. Exactly. So this was written by Peter Schaffer, who adapts his own stage play. He would also win the Academy Award. Mark Hamill was in the front running to play Mozart in this movie. I actually read that. But was not cast because the director felt he would be too recognizable as Luke Skywalker and he would be a distraction. Kenneth Branagh was also in the running for, but the director preferred American actors for the lead roles. He wanted to keep it for an American cast. They were like, you know what this German really needs? An American. Yes. Good, solid Midwestern accents. Let me do this some good. But yeah, this is a, it's a quasi biopic. It has the feel of a biopic, but it is not historically accurate. This is a fictional fictionalized version of Mozart's life. Okay. Basically Mozart's death was so shrouded in mystery that basically people like don't know what happened to him. And so this is like the, the play kind of imagines what might have happened. So it creates a rivalry between Mozart and Salieri. I mean, this is my head cannon though. Yes. This is what happened. Yes. Well, this is the only reason what people know Salieri's name and they, and when you say Salieri, they're like, oh, it's an archenemy or you're jealous. It's now, yeah, it's a trope of like the jealous, treacherous, mediocre person who's jealous of what he can't have. And so, and so basically, you know, Mozart died at 36. He's very young and no, they didn't have a good understanding of medicine. Obviously nobody really knows what happened to him. It's been everything from like some kind of mystery to poisoning like, you know, some kind of virus that, you know, they didn't ever identify it. It just kind of happened quickly and nobody knows. He just kind of ended up dead. That's what we now know is the day the music died. Yeah. That's before even Ritchie Valens was born. Who? Exactly. So basically this movie imagines that Salieri was the jealous, mediocre, you know, very ambitious, but underachieving composer who was, you know, basically killed Mozart by having him compose the Requiem, which he ended up never finishing. So it's almost like an unrequited love for Salieri. Yeah. You know, because he's so passionate about music and he's like, this gripped me from the day that I heard music. It's all I ever wanted to do, but I'm so bad at it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's almost like an Ed Wood. So mid. Yes. Yeah. He's not terrible, but he's passionate and it's like, he loves Mozart's composing. He's just so insanely jealous of it. He could only become the court composer for a court where the King had terrible taste. Yeah. And it's like, to me, it's that thing about how you can only rise as far your ceiling is how far your talent can take you. It's like, you can work hard, but that will only take you to a certain point. It's like Mozart, which is blessed by almost like supernatural talent that came to music. I mean, he was a prodigy. He had just a natural ear, but that was like one, you know, one of the most talented musicians who ever lived. And it's like, you know, he was given, you know, automatically what Salieri prayed for and would never even got close to it. It's like Good Will Hunting. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, anybody else think that Salieri, like after watching it and I watched the director's cut, I'm like, Salieri should have been like a fucking Baker. Cause he's always like offering people food and they're like, Oh my God, what's this? It's cream cheese, cream cheese with spun sugar. And this, once you have these nipples of Venus, you know how they make it, they do this and this and this fucking cheesecake cheesecake. It was like, dude, just pivot. Just be a fucking Baker. Yeah. The Baker. I mean, you got that. He was definitely in the wrong trade. Yeah. You know? Well, not that he sucked at it. He just wasn't as baller. Nipples of Venus would be a great band. Yes. And it's like, he punished himself with chastity and all these other things. I mean, it's like he put himself through punishment to achieve his goal because he just immediately attributed all his success to God. And he was like, this is what you want. You want me to be celibate? I'll do it for you, buddy. And then renounced God. But once he truly saw like Mozart's was the marriage of Figaro, I think is where he chucked his cross into the fire. Now, see, that was cooler when Gary Oldman did it and then became a vampire. Yeah. Salieri does the same thing. He should get some vampire powers. Yeah. Can you imagine like the devil comes and it's just like Salieri. I will make you a great composer. That would have been a great movie. Yeah. That would be a great alternative fiction for this is like the devil comes along and Charlie Daniels style makes a deal with Salieri and says, you know, you can, you can have it all, but played by Nick Cage. Salieri gets to fuck all he wants, you know, would have been a different film. Yeah. Yeah. Could have all the nipples of Venus. Vamp dick. Yeah.
DerrickTalk
A highlight from "Tory Lanez Gets 10 Years ..Wayne Brady Comes Out As Pansexual..Ciara & Russell Having 3rd Child....
"Welcome to another edition of Convo Over Cigars. This is the weekly recap. Let's talk about what happened this week. The big trending news stories. Rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison. This was on Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court for the shooting of Meg Thee Stallion. This was back in 2020. Last December, Tory Lanez was found guilty of shooting Megan in party at the home of celebrity Kylie Jenner. Lanez spoke for several minutes at Tuesday's sentencing. He described the victim as his friend, someone I still care about dearly to this day regardless of her feelings about him. He talked about bonding with Meg Thee Stallion over the loss of their mothers. Meg Thee Stallion did not appear in court for the sentencing, but she did issue a written statement saying for once the defendant must be forced to face the full consequences of his heinous actions and face justice. When the shooting occurred, Meg and Lanez left the party along with a friend of hers and his bodyguard. The artist got into an argument in the car. Tory began shooting at her feet when she got out of the vehicle. She was hospitalized and Wayne Brady is opening up about his sexuality revealing to people that he is actually pansexual. The Let's Make a Deal host said that he initially couldn't settle on a label for his sexuality. Nothing that bisexuality could truly describe how he felt. Well basically he was saying that being bisexual that term did not truly describe how he felt. The 51 year old says he's bisexual with an open mind. To be clear pansexual is defined as being attracted to a person regardless of their sex or gender. So Wayne Brady to me has come out as gay. He's basically a gay man who says that he's pansexual. If you are attracted to both males and females technically you're bisexual. So just to be clear but good for him living his truth. I don't have anything to say about that. I think Wayne Brady is a talented guy. I like watching his shows that he hosts. I think he's a very gregarious very charismatic host but you know living his truth and that's what we're Superstar vocalist Sierra has announced that her and Denver Broncos hubby Russell Wilson are expecting their third child together and their fourth child all together. So this will be their third child together and their fourth child all together. The couple shared the exciting news via a video announcement on Instagram filmed by the NFL star on the couple's anniversary trip to Japan last month. The baby on the way joins three -year -old son I think his name is Nguyen and the daughter her name is Sienna Princess. She's six. Sierra is also mom to future Zaire. He is nine who she shares with the rapper Future. Now Neo is addressing comments that he made about gender identity and allowing children to interview released on August the 5th 2023. Neo initially raised eyebrows during an interview over the weekend with Gloria Velez on Vlad TV in which he said he was you know he had no issue with the LGBTQ community but he questioned gender identity. I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman and that you know that's just how I rock there were just two genders you know and that's how it was now you can identify as a goldfish this is what he said if you feel like it I don't care that ain't my business it becomes my business when you try to make me play the game with you. Neo who has seven kids also spoke out about what he has seen as a change in regards to how parents raise their kids. I feel like parents have almost forgotten what the role of the parent is it's like okay if your little boy comes to you and says daddy I want to be a girl and you just let him rock with that he's five he said if you let this five -year -old decide to eat candy all day he's gonna do just that when did it become a good idea to let a five -year -old or six -year -old or even a twelve -year -old make a life -changing decision for themselves he cannot drive a car yet but he can decide his sex.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Truth About Sedition Charges for Proud Boys
"So I was asking you, how are these sentences a justified for Proud Boys oath keepers? Sedition, by the way, when was sedition used since the Civil War was it ever used? The last time the government tried to charge Americans with seditious conspiracy was in 2010 in a case the Hu to read tribe in Michigan. And the federal judge up there laughed it out of court, what's interesting in this 183 page sentencing memo Dennis is that there's so little case law. They're so to compare sentences with to make sure that the sentences are comparable. They actually had to mention terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed four people, was tied directly to foreign terrorist cells. That was one of their first comparisons. This is who they're comparing a man like Thomas all while too. Or Kelly megs or they will compare Joe Biggs. And Enrique tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, who is convicted of seditious conspiracy who? Uh oh, we're experiencing technical problems. It's hard to believe I am witnessing what I never entertained as a possibility in the United States.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Face Severe Sentencing for Capitol Attack
"Why don't you tell us who was sentenced and what their sentences are or are likely to be? So in terms of the sentences for seditious conspiracy, four members of the Proud Boys were found guilty of that extremely rare statute that was established during the Civil War to stop the confederacy from overtaking the United States government. It has been weaponized to criminalize political dissent. Or Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy last week. You have numerous oath keepers who have also been convicted and or pleaded guilty to that charge. What happened to date after the verdicts were announced, Dennis is Matthew grace, the D.C. U.S. attorney posted a 183 page sentencing recommendation for the oath keepers, including Stuart Rhodes, its founder and leader. And the prison sentence is that Matthew graves wants the judge to approve. Matthew graves once 25 years in prison for Stuart Rhodes for being convicted of seditious conspiracy in other counts. 20 years in prison for another man, Kelly Meg, who went inside the building. Now keep in mind, short roads never went inside the building, none of them carried or used weapons. None of them assaulted police officers. These are strictly conspiracy and obstruction counts. And Dennis, what really turned my stomach is Matthew graves wanting 14 years in prison for a man named Thomas Caldwell, who is almost 70 years old, who is a decorated disabled navy lieutenant commander who used to have the highest security clearance. He also never went into the building. He was convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding, a post enhanced statute, by the way, and tampering with evidence. And these ghouls in the Department of Justice is particularly Matthew graves, the Biden campaign adviser and Biden appointee wants someone like Thomas Caldwell to die in prison. Because he was convicted by a D.C. jury of obstructing an official proceeding.
Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker
"meg" Discussed on Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker
"As a black woman and she felt there was so much going against her and yet she worked really hard and eventually became an associate Professor of politics and public policy at Princeton. She taught political science and law Vanderbilt. She had a book published by Harvard University. And it's interesting because in her mid life, her early midlife, she was very liberal. And then she became very conservative. So here she went from dire poverty to tremendous notoriety and professional success to being liberal and then switching to conservatism and I thought that is so intriguing. I really wanted to hear about her life and transformation on both those levels. Yeah, really was a powerful interview. So let's go ahead and turn to this interview with Carol swain on our special edition of parenting great kids. The title of this episode is CRT, sex Ed and other school issues. What we've seen alongside of the rise of CRT popularity and teaching is the acceptance of what we have now, which really is a fad is the gender dysphoria, which results in children being transitioned from a girl to a boy, a boy to a girl. You know, and talk about denying science when you deny DNA, I don't know where you go from there. Does that have anything to do? I mean, the parallels are pretty remarkable. Do you think that that trend has anything to do with the trend that you're talking about? Well, it's a it comes out of a critical theory and if you look at postmodernism and this whole movement, it's about destruction of traditional institutions. Such as marriage and the family, the church, schools, the government. And so it's about turn down, yes, they're very much interrelated. And just like you have critical race theory, you know, that's critical feminist theory, critical queer theory, critical colonialism theory. There are many different critical theories and they are rooted in Marxism and the people that say that they want to bring us together. That's a lot because everything they do is meant to divide and what you find will companies, they're being forced all across America corporations. They bring in the DEI train as diversity equity inclusion trainers and critical race theory train us that they call themselves sensitivity trainers. And what they do is disrupt the environment, whether it's the workplace or the school place, they disrupt the environment, they shame and bully white people that don't go along with them and they force people into silence and then migration ethnic minorities with may have been, you know, just well adjusted part of the team, everyone working together towards a common end, they try to create grievances and friction there. And I think that we want to live in a society where the dignity of every individual is respected. And so I believe as a Christian that all men and women are created in God's image and that we are to love one another and I don't care about a person's sexual orientation or what they do in their bedrooms. And it offends me that we had the LGBTQIA, I forget all the alphabets that they want to force us to get into their bedrooms. And to agree with their lifestyle oh, wow, that is good stuff. What a day kind of reflecting back in picking some of your favorite episodes over the years. Meg, what are some of your thoughts as you reflect on the past 7 years and these past 200 episodes? You know, it's been pure joy, and I remember way back when we started the podcast, I had one goal. To really encourage parents and let parents know they've got this. You know, don't let life be so overwhelming with your kids by worrying about so many things. You just don't need to worry about. And we've tried really hard to find experts in the field. And I think we've done a pretty good job of it. So if we want to find an expert in a field, we really dig hard to find the best and the brightest that we can to teach and encourage parents. And it really is the simplest that. That's my heart. And I'm really looking forward to the next 200 episodes where we can focus a little bit more on encouraging dads and giving them some important information that they need to have better relationships with their kids because as I said earlier, dad's a short changed. And that's my heart is to help them. Yeah, well, this has been totally amazing. Jessica hasn't this been fun. It has. It's been so much fun. And there's so many great interviews and so much wisdom that we've been able to glean from our guests over the years. And so it was hard to narrow it down to this list, but I really wish we had more time to play more of these interviews for you, but there was just so many great interviews and we only had so much time today. But Meg looking back, what were some of your favorite interviews that our listeners didn't get to hear today? Laura Ingraham was fun. She's very inspiring to me. She works so hard and I've known her for many, many years. Kevin Lehman, we had Benjamin Watson, who's another football player whose fabulous max lucado, and we had Emma Benoit that young girl, do you remember her and she shot herself trying to commit suicide and fortunately she failed and now she talks to parents about what it feels like to be that desperate. So I really encourage parents to listen to that podcast in particular. So many great memories over the years, Meg, it's been such a joy. Working with you and putting these programs together, it's been really a blessing for me personally. So thank you so much for having me on the team to do this with you and it was really a great time reflecting back today. On all of these episodes over the years. Yeah, and I'd second that and say thank you, Meg for allowing us to be part of this process in this ministry. And also for allowing us to be on the show with you today. Well, it's my pleasure. It's really important for me to have our listeners here from you guys because I'm the one out front and interviewing people and I get the fun stuff and then you guys do the nitty Gritty stuff. Again, as I said to make me look a lot better than I am. So thank
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"You know, I think about this a lot. The key divide is not between left and right Republican Democrat. It's between people who believe the families, the center of everything, and those who don't. Exactly. You know, people who care about children who believe in God and everybody else. And that cuts across religions, by the way. I have a lot more in common with your average faithful Shiite nonviolent Shiite. I'm serious. I agree. Then I do with your average hipster in Brooklyn, who may be an episcopalian or whatever, but I don't have anything to come with that person. Because I've got children and I care about them more than anything. I care about my marriage more than anything. So that's the divide. And the people in charge, unfortunately, are actively opposed to strong families. They really are. They seek to undermine them in every way. I mean, there's a reason you see those ads on TV and there's a reason that deconstructing a 100%. That's not sustainable over time. There's nothing magic about how to run a decent family. It's biological. The only reason we've screwed it up is because we've overthought it. You know exactly how it works. You know exactly what the problem in inner cities is. It's not because the color of the people who live there is because the families are screwed up. But you listen to the news when we talk about it. They're idiots. Whatever I hear the school debate, it's like it just cracks me up. Well, the teachers this should we pay them more or less. Class sizes like no. Schools that are successful are the ones with good parents. Actually. It's not even about the kids. Tucker, you sound like me. It's totally true. And I'm against teachers unions or whatever, but I don't really care. Because the truth is, if the moms are engaged and their husbands are backing them up, they won't put up with the crappy school, period. They won't. They'll burn it down. They won't put up with that. Engage parents will not put up with the bad education. Or they'll leave. And so the problem, it's all about everything is about the family. And you either get that or you don't. And the people in charge, again, for whatever the reason, are on the other side of it. And so I just see at some point a split. You don't want to live around people who are trying to wreck your family, actually. And at some point, you'll see critical mass of people who are like, you know, maybe different views on this or that, but I don't want to live in a place that is a threat to my children. And they're going to kind of go off by themselves. I'm not calling for Civil War or anything, but I'm just saying, whatever's going on right now, not sustainable. And you will see people of like mind again of different religions and races. It's not calling for I hate all that race stuff. And I hate the religious division stuff. I'm talking about first principles, people who believe in those will be like, you know, I want to live near other people who believe in the family. I do. And they will. I mean it. That's going to happen because it's too basic. You can tax me too much or you can do this or that thing that I disagree with or start this or that stupid word. Okay, fine. But if you're actually threatening my kids, I don't want to be around that. Well, it's fundamental. It's fundamental. It's exactly right. I think people will start to congregate geographically with people who share those views and values. And I think they already, to some extent, have you seen massive movement in this country that never gets any coverage from state to state region to region, part of that is economic, part of it is cultural. 50% of Californians surveyed yesterday said they would like to leave the state. Part of that, again, is high housing prices and immigration and all that but part of it is deeper than that. It has to do with the most basic of all questions. Where shall I raise my kids? Not here? These people hate my kids, actually. They hate my kids. And they want to propagandize them and control them and destroy their lives. And I don't want to be around that. So I'm moving to Montana. It's a really anti kid culture. It's a 100%. It's an antigen. And of course, you pointed out earlier that the people who talk about tolerance are the least tolerant. That's one of a thousand ironies because as you get older you realize everything is irony. And whatever someone is fighting in the name of is almost exactly the opposite of what he's really doing, always. Oh, Harvey Weinstein? Harvey wine Steen. The AG of New York. There's nothing worse than hitting women, he says I was way to beat his girlfriend. The state that talks about children the most is the state you wouldn't want your kids to set foot in. And again, that can't last. Oh, that was fantastic. And Meg, I know you had a great time in New York with Tucker Carlson, I just love that title Meg, the importance of fathers. You know, again, we talked a little bit earlier with them, feel of rivers about being a hero dad. But that really is important, isn't it? The importance of fathers. You know, one of the things I love about my job is that every parent, every dad is the same. Every father wants their kids to do well to be happy to thrive. And it doesn't matter if they're wealthy or they're poor or they live in the Philippines or they live in Uganda or Virginia. Every father's heart is very, very similar and that's what that common thread that I see in a lot of these men is just delightful. Yeah, it's really amazing. If you just joining us, you've catching the tail end of parenting great kids and this is our special 200th episode. It's just amazing all the guests and megs had some great solo shows as well. Answering your questions on parenting great kids. So we're winding it down now and we have time for one more clip and I know Meg, this was obviously one of your favorites and it's Carol swain and this title was CRT sex Ed and other school issues. What's something special that you recall with your interview with Carol swain? You know, Carol is a pistol. And she's had an amazing transformation happen in her life on many different levels. You know, she was born into dire poverty in a shack in Virginia with no running water.
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"Welcome back to parenting great kids. Let's get back to the show. Here's producer Mike. If you're just turning in, you're listening to parenting great kids. I'm Mike Segovia. And joining me is Jessica Daly. We are the producers of the show. And of course, doctor Meg meeker is the host of the show. We're so excited that you're joining us and you're listening and you're downloading because over the years we've had over 7 million downloads. So we know we're reaching you guys and we'd love to hear from you and all that good stuff. So keep listening, keep downloading, if you listen on Apple podcasts, you can go on there and you can rate and review the show and it was just really exciting. All the things that have happened over these years, 200 episodes. This is just amazing. And Meg, I know you really excited about this next guest Peter moved to bosie, Meg, why are you so excited about this interview? You know, I'll be honest when we were going to interview Peter, he does foster care and he's a single dad and I thought, oh, you know, we've done a lot on adoption foster care. But when I started interview him and I realized what he did and I realized how unique his parenting style was. I was really taken aback. Peter is a man who has adopted high risk high knee kids by himself and he loves these kids and he parents them beautifully. And there are a lot of lessons I learned in listening to him talk about how he deals with the kids. Who you know give him a hard time. So I was just blown away by his heart and love and success with these kids. Yeah, it really was inspiring for me as well when I listened back to it, Meg, because you learn so much from this man who came from a background of trauma himself, growing up in Uganda with an abusive dad, and all that he had to go through to get to where he is now. And I think that as a parent myself, I see that it's so normal for us to default to how we were raised, what our parents did, even if we grow up saying, I'm never going to be like that. Or I'm not going to do that when I have kids. Until you've healed and learned a better way of doing things, we just automatically kind of default to what we know. And so for Peter to have overcome so much, and now he's doing things different with his kids. It just really speaks to his character and the type of person that he is to overcome so much adversity and be creating a better world through the beautiful story of adoption and foster parenting that he's living out. So let's get to Peter moved to bazzi. This was from episode one 44 and the title is encouragement for children who are adopted and in foster care. Let's get to it now on this special edition of parenting great kids. We're so quickly trying to get on to the next thing. That we literally may say, I don't have time even to sit with this child for an hour when they're crying. What am I going to do? So then they try to curb the behavior. They send the kid to their room or they get angry at the kid. But really helping that child is so much simpler requires so much more from us. And I think maybe that's where we're missing the boat as parents. Do you see this in parents around you? In some way, yes, you know? Time out is time. But to a kid who's been in time for most of their lives. Anything they do, they are locked out in the room. Either mommy's doing drugs somewhere or doing something with someone else, that they are always been locked in the room. So for me, when they do bad and say, hey, go to your room. I mean, am I triggering his past? Yes. You know? But how can I still be a parent and help them? So for me, I time out is time out in my office with me or time out in my kitchen with me. So we are sitting on there. You're not going to play your video games. You're going to sit here with me in the kitchen as I clean or as I do dishes. Because that's kind of what I want to win them over. Sending them to the other it triggers more. So it doesn't, to them, it's not learning because that's kind of how the parents or where they're coming from. They were treated. So your response to bad behavior was not to push him away. It was to draw them closer. Correct. Wow. Because that's what for me, mentally and as a kid, that's what I missed. If I did something that was more of what I was trying to say, but no one understood me, you know? If it was angry and nervous that my father was going to come later, someone else would think, why are you jiggly? Why can't you sit still? Because I'm fearful that the mind who's about to come is about to hurt me in some way. And you're so smart, I think that first of all, young children can't articulate their feelings. And a lot of parents will say, you know, my 9 year old just erupts and screams. How do I get her to articulate her feelings? I said, you know, sometimes they just can't. They just need to vent. But then as kids get older, they have a hard time. But what you're saying is really don't expect that just sort of let them be and over time, they'll sort of, it's almost like they need to purge the pain. Correct. For us, I think sometimes we also I mean, I have kids who are both bow rods go. But the trauma has affected them differently, you know? So I can't somehow assume every child will react the same way. You have to really approach them individually on how they process on how they work. One misses mamba. Hey, it's fun. The other one is why. He's asking why would she do that? And so how you approach them is truly different. In that way. Wow, really touching interview. Remember, if you want to go back and listen to the full episode, it's episode one 44 with Peter, muta bazi. Okay, this next episode was one of my favorites Meg and I'm really excited about it. It's Tucker Carlson. What can you tell us about this interview Meg that was originally done back in June of 2018? Yeah. I was excited to interview Tucker. I actually went to New York into his office and interviewed him for two parts on being a dad. I know that he has a great relationship with his father and his brother and spent a good part of his life without a mom. And I was interested to see what he had to say about his own dad. And how that affected him as a dad of four kids himself. So he was very gracious, funny, and fun to be with. All right, so here is doctor meeker's interview with Tucker Carlson and the title of this interview is called the importance of fathers, and it is a part one in part two episode. So if you want to listen to the whole thing, you can go back and search the archives, and this is episode 57. Where are fathers headed? What is the next ten years look like for their survival of dads? And what can we? And I'm particularly talking about women because I think we have a huge role to play in this in the strengthening and encouragement of our fathers because fatherlessness, I'm convinced if we could get fathers back in the home, committed to their families, so many of our social ills go away. Our cities would be safer, I really think fewer boys would shoot up schools. Of course. I really believe that the inner cities, you know, you move some great fathers into neighborhoods, drugs are going to go away. So where is fatherhood going? And what can we as men and women do to help fathers be restored to what they should be? Or not even restored, but to occupy their rightful place.
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"If you were going to talk to some young men, some 25, 26, 27 year old dads who were first time dads, and after you, of course, have 8 kids, and you've been doing this a while here, being a dad. What are some of the things that you would want to tell them, words of advice? A couple words of advice that you would give younger dads. Let's see. Oh gosh. I think the first thing with your children is to spend time with them. I think that's the biggest thing that we can give them is our time. And I thank you so many. And yes, we have long days and not know dads or work long hours and they're tired at the end of the day. We have those days where we really do need to just take a deep breath, but I think spending time with our children, the best we can and be engaged with them. They want our time. I think I mentioned earlier, but patience, patience with the younger ones. And I've gotten better and better at that. Especially when they have a, let's say you have an 8 year old and you also have a 5 year old where it's natural to think that the 5 year old should be, come on, keep up with the 8 year olds, you know? And so I think being patient realizing, no, maybe he's just 5, maybe she's just three. She's not ready to be like the 6 and 7 year old yet. It really time flies. I think just enjoy them. Enjoy those days that you hear feet running down the hall and you hear those little cries because the gossip seems like yesterday my oldest was born and now she's going to be a freshman in high school. So I know. It goes so fast. The other thing that I think with boys too with my older son is now that he's 9 years old and of course I'm still playing football, which is different. I'm still actually playing. Is that balance of being a friend and a dad? I think that's so critical. And it's hard. It's hard for me to sometimes because I enjoy just being his buddy and playing in the yard, but there has to be that balance and that distinction of that. I think that's very critical not to ever really let it turn into where he just sees you as a buddy. He's always the line drawn and I already said that every child is different. And lastly, I think I would say the date your wife, you have to date you. Yeah, you have to. You know what? You are far too nice to be like. Oh, my heavens. That's your right. You're absolutely right though. I hope okay, man. Do you hear what Philip Rivers is saying, date your wife? Okay, I interrupted you, please continue. How do you date Tiffany? Well, we try our hardest, and we never can possibly do this, but we try once a week. And obviously during the football season, that's almost impossible, but it's really more for us. It's not about going to elaborate dinner or going to, we used to always want to go to the movie and then as we've grown, we're like, we don't want to sit beside them for two hours and not speak. We want to go somewhere where we can talk and conversation. It's usually whatever something is something very simple that we can grab a bite to eat and just enjoy being around one another in conversation and I really do think that's critical because going way back to earlier in the interview when you asked me that of how we support one another. I think that allows us. That time that we are able to spend together allows us to be better parents and certainly by no means I always say this that those men's conversations up by no means want to come across as we have it all figured out and we just have this little perfect old marriage and household because I want to come across as a real person that people can hopefully I can so a few cities that can help, but that we have the daily struggles like any family. I think sometimes you see an NFL players that you think, oh man, it must just be the life. I am very thankful because we are very, very blessed, but we have the same daily challenges that any family does, but I am very thankful to feel like we kind of got everything kind of somewhat under control but always room to grow and always again trying to begin again each and everything and do better. Meg, this was first recorded back in May of 2017. What is something that you really remember about interviewing Phillip? Because he is a great person to interview. You know, I remember his humility. I was struck. You know, I don't know anything about football, but I know that he's a big deal in the NFL, but when I heard him talk about his kids, you know, his voice kind of changed. He's a very tender, loving dad. And you know, he's just such a humble man, and I was really excited to hear that because humility is something that every dad needs and he needs to be able to teach it to his kids
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"That was a powerful interview and I wish you could have heard the whole thing then, but these are abbreviated clips we're playing because this is episode 200 parenting great kids. So right there you just heard a little clip from Steven Curtis Chapman himself and if you want to go back and hear the entire interview, it's episode 41 and the name of it again is the hope of adoption. You can just go to meet your parenting dot com, click on the podcast tab, you can listen to that in all of your other favorites that you may have missed over the years. Now, this next episode I'm really excited about is Philip Rivers and he was a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers back in the day, but a cool story before we kind of get into that. One time Meg and Jess, I was at the airport in Dallas and I was getting ready to go to the men's room and I was at as I was going in this big gentleman with the cowboy hat was coming out and this guy was giant. And I looked at him and said, wait a second, you're full of rivers, right? And he goes, yes, sir. And I said, no way, man. And I could tell that he was in a hurry. He just shook my hand and he goes, have a good day, you know, and he slapped my arm and it hurt. Because he's a big guy. So yeah, I just thought he was really cool and he has a great story and he has a big family and he's gonna talk about being a hero dad and Meg, I know right now that's really dear to your heart, being a hero dad speak to that. Yeah, you know, my heart is for encouraging and teaching fathers. Because moms get a lot of encouragement in teaching, but dads are kind of left out. And what I wanted to do was interview some amazing dads, Philip Rivers has 8 kids in addition to being a football star. He's a great dad, and I wanted to interview him because I thought it would make a lot of men listen. But also to understand, you know, here's a professional hero, but more importantly, you know, he's a hero to his kids. And a lot of dads hear that term and they go, oh, come on, that's cheesy. But here's what they need to know. You dads may not think of yourself as a hero, but your kid does. And it's really important that you learn to see yourself through your kid's eyes. And I hope that you can kind of glean that from my interview with Philip. Yeah, Meg, I agree. It really was a great interview and Philip Rivers had a lot of wisdom for the listeners and especially for men and for dads. So we're going to go ahead and play two clips from this interview because it was just so good. And there's a lot there that we want you, dads, especially, to be able to hear and be encouraged by. So we're going to go ahead and play this episode titled being a hero dad with doctor meeker and Philip Rivers. So do you work with your own kids to teach them the same thing, listen kids? I expect that you do the jobs that you're going to do very well. Do your kids have chores around the house? Yes, they do. And we definitely do. And I think with having 8 children, they've learned at least the older girls have learned and they've had to be very selfless and be very unselfish and pitch in and help their mom and help me and go help your little sister. She needs help. Finding her pull up to help her with her jammies to whatever it may be, but we really do. I mean, a lot of things come to mind when you ask me that. I think ultimately we want to teach them to know love and serve God as a family of faith. That's the ultimate that we want to teach them. But then I think of a lot of things come to my mind when you say that we want them to be humble. I mean, I think the virtue of humility is very important. But at the same time, I want them to be very confident. I can't remember doing math lessons with my girls. We homeschooled for a while, and then learning math facts. And they worked quite sure if they wanted to say it because they might be wrong. And I was like, just say it. If you say 9 and it was supposed to be 8, that's okay, but you thought it was 9, so say it. Go for it. So humble but confident. I mean, I want them to be resilient and they're always persevered and to never give up. We have a little phrase we say around our family and actually a family friend that's a priest gave it to us. It's a Latin phrase. Now, I say it the Alabama way. I don't quite say it the latter way. No chappie. In UNC COE PI and it means now I began, but it's kind of never ending. Again and again and again. That's kind of the thing we've used to teach that perseverance to that resilience. You made a bad grade. Hey, you forgot to make your bad news. You forgot your night prayers will nuke Chevy. Start again tomorrow. Don't give up.
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"And Melanie, isn't it really okay? I mean, moderation in all things, right? Well, the words around that go like this. No, we don't moderate things that are bad for our kids. We balance things that are good for our kids, but we don't moderate everything in our life. Is parents you have values? You have like a a list in the B list. You have your negotiables and you're non negotiables. So in our family video games and social media and all the stuff that goes with that, that's non negotiable. So we let them, of course, get their hair cuts and pick out their clothes and do all the things that teenagers want to do, but they're just certain things that are not negotiable. That really helps parents understand, oh yeah, that's right. I don't really think that smoking and drinking and shoplifting or negotiable at my house. And I'm not going to allow that. Well, if you don't think viewing porn and playing video games for ten hours a day or even scrolling social media and posting naked pictures of yourself is negotiable, then put that on the non negotiable list and say no. But we've got to have a community around it. We do so much better changing when there's community. In fact, I think it's very difficult to change and to do this detoxing kind of thing without a community. It's very, very hard. So we have to be there support each other. Wow, that was such a powerful interview. I remember that. And that was one of our top shows of all time, Meg. Again, Meg, toxic screen time. Just briefly, what does that mean to you and just kind of this generation today? You know, Mike, in my pediatric practice over the last ten years, I've seen a huge swell in social media use in younger and younger girls and at the same time I've seen a huge swell of depression in these kids. And I actually had a couple of kids try to commit suicide and they said that part of it was because they felt on social media. They never matched or they never lived up to the person they wanted to be. And that was very sad. So I really appreciated what Melanie had to say in that interview. Yeah, it was amazing. Jess, we have another clip here and we're excited about it. It's Stephen Curtis Chapman. What do we have next, Jess? So this episode with Steven Curtis Chapman is titled the hope of adoption. And so as you listeners can imagine the show is about adoption and all the beauty and pain that goes into that and it's a beautiful mix of both as you're going to hear from the chapmans. And in this interview, it's not just Steven talking, but it's also his wife, Mary Beth, and their daughter Emily, who was heavily involved in creating and nurturing this desire in her parents to want to adopt a child. And so we brought her in for the interview as well. And I hope that for the listeners out there, this is meaningful and moving to you as it has been to us. You know, and just what I think it's really important for our listening audience to know as a before this interview, Steven and his wife, Mary Beth had lost a beautiful young girl, very tragically in their home through a car accident. And it's important to have that background because as you listen to them, talk about adoption, you'll hear the calm and the peace and their voice because this has been a really rough road for them and for them to come out and talk about adoption. It's just extraordinary. Yeah, Meg, I agree, hearing the journey that the chapmans have been on and where they are today after all the hardship that they've gone through is so powerful. So let's go ahead and play this episode for you. It's called the hope of adoption with Steven Curtis Chapman. I'll chime in just real quickly because I thought about this a lot as I've been singing my songs and telling my story on tour night after night, I'm kind of in an interesting season right now with my music and doing a lot of having written my story recently released my autobiography between heaven and the real world and just telling the story of meeting Mary Beth and then our children and then adoption and all of this kind of remembering it and reliving it and retelling it night after night with music. I've been singing a little bit of this song I wrote for Emily when she was about this age. It was a song called fingerprints of God that I wrote really as she was kind of just going through a lot of trying to figure out if she was beautiful and not feeling that and just wanting to encourage her. But it's interesting as I sing this song now and I look back and see how God's fingerprints were even in ways that we didn't even realize on Emily's life and heart and moving us in a direction that we didn't even know at the time that song is so fun to sing it now because I even realized more as I look at the work of show hope and look at the our own story of adoption and all the ways that God's hands have been on and working through Emily's life and our family in a pretty profound way. That was a powerful interview and I wish you could have heard the whole thing then, but these are abbreviated clips we're playing because this is episode 200 parenting
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"Hundredth episode and it's really hard to believe. I am excited to have my producers here, Jessica Daly, and the brilliant Mike Segovia. Thanks for joining me guys. Thanks for having us. This is incredible, Mick. Two hundred episodes. I know it's amazing. It really is. Where did the time go? It just absolutely flew by and there's just so many great shows and so many great memories make hasn't it been great all these years doing this podcast? Oh, it's wonderful and you and I have worked together so long. It's like we're brother and sister. It's really, really fun. And I just feel so grateful to have had the incredible guests over the years that I've had. And we're going to highlight some of them today. And the people have amazing stories. Honestly, for me, it's just been really humbling to meet and interview such extraordinary people. Yeah, I couldn't agree more Jessica and I were even talking a while back about some of these guests and how amazing it is just for her and I to be able to jump on and produce this with you. But to meet the guest, Jessica, don't you agree there's like so much wisdom that you've gotten by listening to some of these guests that makes had. Yeah, absolutely. It's very humbling and just beautiful to be a part of this process. And seeing kind of what goes into it behind the scenes and make all the hard work that you're pouring out, that I don't think people necessarily get to see when they just hear the polished product at the end that Mike puts together so well. But it's a lot of time spent research done, sometimes we're jumping on late to record things or getting up early and trying to match our schedules, you know, from different time zones and whatnot. And so there's a lot that goes into it. And it's just been so humbling to be able to be a part of the process and learn from the wisdom of all of these guests over the years. You know, it really has an I just can't tell you how much I appreciate you two. You're just fabulous. Easy to work with, professional, you make me look so good. You don't need much help with that. No, but the people who hear the raw episodes, it's pretty amazing. You know, when people listen to a podcast, they think, oh, you just sat down and called somebody up and interviewed it's a lot of work. You know, it's a lot of work to choose the guests and vet the guests and schedule the guests. And then to record and you name it. We've had it go wrong. You know, we've been on with some really great people in all of a sudden our Internet connection goes down. Or my quits or we lose them and one of the worst was when I was we were interviewing Eric metaxas. Yes. And the interview was going along great and then boom. We lost him. We lost so embarrassing. He hasn't come back yet, but I don't know. I do remember that. What can you do? That's right. But what can you do? Yeah. It's like the bloopers. It'd be really fun. You know what? That's a good idea. Yeah, I think we need to do that. And you're right, MiG and just there's so much that goes behind this. And we have such an awesome team and so many people that vet out the guest and book the shows and review the books and then they bring it to us and we're able to record and put it together and do all that stuff. So it's so amazing to be surrounded by such a great team at parenting great kids. It really is, it really is a blessing. It is. Well, and just a guess that we're able to interview, you know, Philip Rivers and Benjamin Watson and David Tyree and Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson. I'm tickled that today we're going to do a reel of some of my favorite shows that we've done over the past few years. Absolutely. Again, there's been 200 episodes and some of those have been part two apart one and two because the interviews are so fantastic. They just have to carry on to two days. So Meg has picked out some of her favorites shows from the past 7, 8 years, something like that that has been. So we're going to be happy to play these clips for you and kind of go down memory lane. So as we get into it now, we want to begin with an interview that doctor Meg did with Melanie hemp. And that was first recorded in released back in May of 2022. And this had to do with toxic screen time. In Meg, I know that's near and dear to your heart. Toxic screen time. It is, and you know what I loved about the show with Melanie, is she had answers. She said, here's what you can do if you're worried about your kids and social media. So, you know, we hear a lot about social media in the bad effects, but Melanie actually has a solution. And that's why I wanted to replay part of that show. All right, well let's go ahead and get into it now with Melanie hemp and doctor Meg meeker's interview titled toxic screen time on today's edition of parenting great kids. You could look at every measurable thing that we can measure in adolescence life. And kids who are not burdened with smartphones in social media score higher in every single area. Everything, everything from their academics to their family attachment to their interest in their hobbies and their exercise in their eating habits and their sleeping habit. Everything that you can possibly measure. They do better. So why not? Why not just give them that gift of 48 months? And that's what our organization is there to do to help and encourage parents to do that. You know, it's interesting because in my experience, 99% of parents don't want their kids on video games and they don't want them on social media and phones. But they feel insecure in making that step and saying, uh uh, not for you. And I always wondered, you know, if you could get two or three or four mothers, fathers in your kid's class to say, we're going to be the parents who aren't going to let our kids have cell phones. And sort of empower each other. That's really what you're talking about, that you do, but it's more on a micro level. Have you ever seen anything like that be done? Yes, actually, when I started making the decision to have a game free home in a smartphone free home. And by the way, we also have a porn free home. When I made that decision when my younger boys were in third grade, we did start a book club and so that group of moms, we all got together, there were about 8 of us and our boys all play together all through middle school. And today that screen strong, we help families start these groups, these screen strong groups in their churches, and their schools, and their neighborhoods. And we give them the tools to do this. You are absolutely right. You're absolutely a 100% right. If you can not get your own little community around it, it's going to be really hard. I'm not saying that you can't do it, but it's so much easier when you get your little group of friends and your like minded friends together and you support each other and it screens around. We try to give you the words. What I have discovered if parents, moms especially when they're out and about talking to their friends and feeling that pain that I don't know, I'm doing something wrong by not giving my child a smartphone. It's because they don't have the language. They don't understand how to explain it. I mean, that's what my mission is in life is to break this down so simple so you can do this little course, you can say, oh, now I know how to explain this to my Friends. And just for example, little things like we have new neighbors move in, could my ten year olds go play with them? Well, I would have to go over and say, you know, Andrew and Evan are allergic to video games and we would laugh. And I would say, you know, they're allergic to porn too. So would it be okay if they could just play outside? I really don't want them playing video games. And that has worked so well for so many parents because you just got to have some words. You got to know how to be different. The other thing that I think really trips up parents, this is a huge, huge myth, is I think they can balance all of this. And just, hey, let's just do this in moderation.
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer of Thanks for God's Goodness This Easter
"A prayer of thanks for God's goodness, this Easter. Written and read by Meg bucher. I will sing to the lord because he is good to me. Psalm 13 6. Life is hard, but life is good. It's both. The words of my late father in law often surface in my thoughts and conversations in my parenting and in my writing. The biblical equivalent to his sentiments spans the pages of scripture. God's goodness and blessings overrun the Bible, but alongside is the painful reality of suffering in pain. This side of heaven. Good and bad collides every day. The two weave together to create a Tapestry of our stories. He is good to me in Hebrew. Means to deal fully with recompense to ween a child to ripen. That is good. It's who he is. When he sent his son Jesus to earth, he did it because it was part of his good plan. It cost Jesus. He left heaven was parted from his father and lived a human life for three decades. He went through what we go through and made a way for us to come to God through him. That's good plan caused even the savior of the world pain. On the way to enduring, his agonizing crucifixion. It was hard. But it was for our good. In our everyday lives, we can thank God for his goodness. If the only good thing about them is Jesus.
Sound Opinions
"meg" Discussed on Sound Opinions
"Record that I think really spelled it out for me that they were great banned. And this song, I think I smell a rat. It's just call and response. Yeah. She's Tapping on that kick drum. And then into those symbols matches the dynamics are there. The space that is created. By them, the way they're interplaying with their instruments, the guitar voice and drums basically, that's all this track is. The interaction of those two herd drums are her voice. She's interacting with Jack's guitar and his voice. It's just marvelous. Here is, I think I smell a red from white stripes with the great Meg white on drones. Are you looking at us as well as I think I smell a rat. Walking on the street carrying baseball oh I think I smell all right. The great Meg white on drums, I think I smell a rat. You know what else I love about Meg is white stripes ended? She's had another life. She's gone on to do other things. I think somebody said she sold her drum kit, like she got rid of I'm done with that part of my life. You know, she's doing art. She's doing another things. Her and Jack were famously married. They were not brother sister. The marriage ended, Jack moved on. But Jack is clearly a guy who needs to be in the spotlight. I mean, that's why he's in 47 bands. I don't mean in a bad way. Much of what he does is great. But Meg was like, I had that adventure, and now on to the next chapter. Well, remember when we talked to him in Nashville, we went down there to interview him a few years ago in front of the giant elephant head. And I think he just put out his date is sulfur. That was the first time, yeah. And you know, you could tell he was just a little sad about white stripes ending, because I think he had, he thought the band was, he loved the band. He loved the way Meg played in that band. And you could just sort of tell. He missed that dynamic. He kind of knew that it was never going to be the same again. And you know, I admire a lot of Jack White's music since then, but I gotta say, you know, he was never better than when he was with Meg white and the white stripes. Meg come back. Even if it's only for one show, even if it's only for one song. Right. I'd love to see you play drums again. That wraps up this bonus episode of sound opinions. If you want to be the first to hear these join us on Patreon, we do appreciate your support. As always, the show is produced by Andrew gill, Alex claiborne and our associate producer sol del gadio are intern as Lauren holt, and our social media consultant is Katie cott. There she is. Hey Kati. Thanks for listening.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast
"meg" Discussed on The Glossy Beauty Podcast
"I think you know a lot of it was or I know a lot of it was all of it was organic as the first thing I want to say. So it was all either that they had received it as a gift or that they had purchased it. And I think there's a lot of things. When we feel and when we talk to consumers and we talk to people in the industry, it's a very strong brand in that, you know, you put them on there, these incredible color translucent masks. They look good on. And so that kind of drives this sociality. And we were seeing emirate do it. And so they were doing it. And it really was a cool thing. And it's still a cool thing to be doing. And so I think, you know, it wasn't something that we went out and we didn't pay and haven't paid celebrities to date to do. It is something that has been done organically through sharing and influencing and gifting and those sorts of things. And so we know that it kind of has that virality and funness and experiential aspect. People like to do it. It is self care, but it's also fun. And you don't have to be lying back and you could be experiential and living your day while wearing the mask. And let's talk about the creative director role. Like you mentioned, it was held by emirate and it's currently held by Camila Mendes. How did Emily first get on board with the brand? And what role did that have in its growth?
AP News Radio
Pence won’t say whether he'd support Trump as 2024 nominee
"Former vice president Mike Pence isn't saying whether he'd bank Donald Trump if his former boss were to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. I'm Ben Thomas, with what he had to say to AP national political reporter Meg canard in an exclusive interview. I've said many times, I think we'll have better choices. Pence tells the AP Trump was the right candidate to take on Hillary Clinton in 2016, but I think we live in a different time. And it calls for different leadership. Widely expected to run himself, Pence offers this assessment of what voters will want in 2024. The American people want us to return to the policies of the Trump Pence administration. But I think they want to see leadership. That reflects more of the character of the American people, namely the commitment to principle and the civility that Americans show each other every day. The former vice president is not ready to declare his candidacy, but if he does run, he says he'll be true to himself. I'll be me. I'll speak plainly about America's leadership in the world. And our obligations to be the arsenal of democracy. I'll speak plainly about my long history of championing, limited government, fiscal discipline. And I'll speak plainly about our commitment to traditional values, including the right to life. And will he support the nominee, whoever that may be? I trust our voters to choose the right standard Barrett, the right time who will lead us to victory. Not just for our party, but for the country in 2024. Ben Thomas, Washington
Focus On the Family Daily Broadcast
Dr. Meg Meeker: How Fathers Can Raise Confident Woman in Christ
"As believers in Christ. How does a father, a strong father, the title of your book, strong father, strong daughters? How does a strong good father begin to lay that groundwork for a strong faith in his daughter? What are some of those fundamentals that that dad needs to project and teach to help his daughter have a clear sense of faith and a rootedness in Christ? Well, one of the most important things is to realize that you really are the doorway to God because you're her first introduction to healthy masculinity or masculinity all mom can't introduce her to manhood, but you do. And so right from the time she's young, you sort of set a template for what she should expect from men, how they listen, how they talk, how they hug. Are they affectionate? Are they trustworthy? So first of all, you have to prove to your daughter that she can trust you and that you're a good guy. And then, if she's willing to accept who you are, she'll open her heart to understanding who God, the father is. And I can't stress how important it is because I've met so many adult women who won't draw close to Christ because he's a man. And they have a bad experience with a man, and they don't want to go anywhere near. What does that excuse sound like in that conversation? Well, I understand it because they've been yelled at. They've been abused. Their father was never around. And so when they're talked about God, the father, they want a feminized him. And we've seen that. We see a lot of women who want to feminize God, the father. They don't want to call him God the father, they'll call him God, or years ago there was that Sofia movement, whatever it is. They want to feminize God. And so there's a real fear and a distrust, even a hatred towards men. There are a lot of women out there who are perpetuating this lie that men should be hated men can't be trusted. Look at the me too movement. It's exploded and it's been hijacked. And some of it is relevant. Some of it's very real and it started out because there are a lot of men who are abusing their power and authority as a man. But most men are not doing that. So the first thing you need to do is to show your daughter what a good man looks like. Then you realize I've opened her heart to the possibility that she would accept a bigger father than I am. And then you introduce her to his goodness and his faithfulness that even when you fail, and even when you yell or even when you're not there whatever, that you're not perfect, but you have a perfect father. There's someone bigger and better than you.
Unchained
'Bitcoin NFTs' Put Blockchain Purists on the Defensive
"One of the pieces of news that's been going on this week is that there's some drama in crypto Twitter about Bitcoin NFTs. So I did not know that Bitcoin NFTs were a thing. Apparently they're not super, they're kind of a thing. So it comes down to this project called ordinals, which was launched by a Casey rod armor. And the TLDR is that there are these NFTs on Bitcoin that basically they are being so you have a satoshi, which is the smallest unit possible on Bitcoin that you can transfer. So you take this one satoshi, and this one satoshi, when you transfer it, it has some metadata that you shove into the witness that is like, okay, here's what the NFT is. Here's what it does. Here's the color, the size or whatever metadata you put with the NFT. And so all this stuff is not sort of depending on how you qualify the witness, which the witnesses can now be larger in Bitcoin thanks to taproot. They don't necessarily have to be persistent on chain, but a lot of people do persist these witnesses. So that's where this NFT metadata is going. And it is making people in Bitcoin land mad. They are mad that there are some people who are shoving this NFT data into Bitcoin witnesses because it's quote unquote clogging up the chain. So now these ordinals in absolute terms are not super popular in a ton of volume right now. I think going through these Bitcoin NFTs, but there's a lot of argument about it. They have a dancing baby one. These are beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Wow. What are you guys thoughts on the ordinals drama and Bitcoin people getting mad about NFTs? I just don't understand why any Bitcoin supporter would be mad that people are using the Bitcoin blockchain. I think one of the most layers thing is actually, so there's a meme about hitting the witness size limit, which is like a round four megs, and we actually just did it an hour ago before this recording. So Wednesday, February 1st, around 5 between 5 and 6 p.m., like in the last hour ish. Was the first block. And it costs one BTC. It was basically nothing for filling the whole block. So don't like big blocks, they're just kind of, they're just kind of mad people about everything. It's like the Luke junior, the Adam bock, et cetera, cabal.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
January 6 Defendant Matthew Martin Found Not Guilty
"A January 6th defendant, Matthew Martin, has been completely exonerated on four separate misdemeanor charges by a judge. This was a so called bench trial. You can have a trial in which the judge decides or a trial in which the jury decides, well, Matthew Martin was smart. He decided to go for a for a bench trial. And I think he did that because the judge in question is, is in fact a Trump appointee, a guy named Meg fadden, and Trevor mcfadden. And mcfadden has although he was very pro prosecution in the beginning, he seems to have be slowly dawning on him what a racket this is and how they're going after people for doing essentially nothing.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Scott MacFarlane Is the Only One Covering Jan. 6 'Not Guilty' Verdict
"Again, in D.C., Scott McFarland, joining Tanya rivero and Meg Oliver with the reporting over this Matthew Martin defendant from New Mexico found not guilty yesterday on all January 6th charges. We have breaking news, Matthew Martin of New Mexico has been acquitted of all charges connected to the January 6th riot. That's right, Martin traveled to Washington, D.C. after reading then president Trump's tweets about the 2020 election being stolen. He came to the protest on January 6th and entered the capitol with a crowd of other people. Martin has stated that he only realized later that the protests were worse than he thought during his trial, he claimed officers waved him into the capitol building, a prosecutor called this quote nonsense. Joining us now is CBS News, congressional correspondent Scott mcfarlane, Scott, welcome. So tell us about the verdict for Matthew Martin and its significance for other cases. Hey Tonya and Meg, this is not the most significant case. It's a lower level case, a misdemeanor case, but this ruling, this verdict could be quite significant. It lays down a marker that not everybody here unlawfully in the capitol was deemed unlawful that day by all judges. The judge has found this defendant Matthew Martin not guilty of four charges, entering a restricted area, two charges of civil disorder and unlawful picketing and parading. The judge says the government didn't make its case sufficiently on any of those charges. What the judge cited is what Matthew Martin didn't do on January 6th. The judge says, according to the evidence shown at trial, Matthew Martin wasn't screaming or shouting, wasn't crowding people. He was here. He was amid the mob, but the judge says he was not an impactful member of the mob.
Out of Bounds Podcast
"meg" Discussed on Out of Bounds Podcast
"I'd like to do a larger pieces, work on just bigger projects in general. And grow my team or group of contractors that I work with. And keep making positive impact. That's obviously very important to me. So yeah, I mean, obviously I have very specific goals that I can pull up on the excel sheet where they're all written down, but yeah. And I'm also working on this project with protect our winters, which I that's why I, when you were like, you said you were putting me on the spot. It's just 'cause I don't want to talk about it yet because we haven't finalized you yet, but I'm working on this project with protector winters that I think will be pretty great if it comes into fruition. It's looking like it will. Knock on wood, but it's on the right track for sure. So that's a big goal of mine, but we'll do a part two once he comes out. Yeah. Or part three. People can go back and find your first episode with Adam and then now we've got big update. And then next next year, would you like update over three? Where is Meg now? We're in the world. Yeah, who knows where you'll be. You could be anywhere. Who knows what mountains? We have big goals. I mean, I've always been very ambitious. I pretty much have no off switch. I'm always aiming to do something better to. Be better at my career to be better at fitness to be a better friend to be better at communication. I'm always aiming to improve. And I really have no off switch. I have limitless amounts of energy. I've never run out of energy. So I can healthcare, please donate. I need people who are energy. Honestly, I wish I could turn it off sometimes. I just, I can't. Yeah, I have so much energy,.
Out of Bounds Podcast
"meg" Discussed on Out of Bounds Podcast
"$8 million a year, then you can start to understand how people got there. But if you don't see it as possible for others, it's hard to see it as possible for yourself. Which is why I think it's important to ask others and learn what other people are doing and how much other people are making and learn what is possible in life. Life is a menu that you can order off of. If you don't know that there's a whole other page that you can open up the menu and order other things that you don't even know exist. If you're not going to work. So you need to know what's available in the world before you place your order. Yeah. For sure. I mean, one, it sounds like you have solid mentorship, but two, I think especially especially true in the creative space, whether you're looking at the ski industry or wherever you are setting your own prices. So you have to know your worth to set your own prices. But you also don't necessarily know what other people are making unless you ask them. And I know on the athlete side of things and helping my friends who do have actual dollar contracts for stuff. We don't know what to ask for because you don't know what everyone else is making. So you need to have some of that mentorship to be able to confidently say, I deserve this much money or I could make this much money. Yeah. And work away if it's not right. Yeah, and it's like you're saying, you just have to know what the menu is because then you can aspire to be the menu. Yeah, and say, oh, wow, that's possible for someone. So it is doable for me. And a good way to start is just from asking, ask people for their time, ask your friends for advice, ask someone that's further ahead of you in their career to chat with you. I mean, obviously, you have to show up prepared and be worth someone worth investing time in. But yeah, learning from others that are further ahead of you is pretty much. The best way to do it. And I think it's interesting because I am not an athlete. I'm not a professional athlete, that is you're a good skier though. Yeah, thanks. I appreciate it. Meg is a solid skier..
Latina to Latina
"meg" Discussed on Latina to Latina
"My living. And then figure out the smaller steps, the conferences you need to go to the people that you need to meet. How many stories are you going to write this year? Who are you going to approach to sell your work? And get serious about the business and learning what you need to learn to move in that sphere. I've heard you say and I just love this that in your process it is always the girl who comes to you first and you sort of work backwards from that girl and you want to know what she's about, what does she want and why can't she have it? And part of the reason the hair on my arms stood up when I read that was that's exactly how I approached these interviews. What is this person about? What does or did she want? Why can't or couldn't she have it? Because that is the core conflict where all up against whether we're a 12 year old or a 45 year old woman. For sure. But you know, I think that a lot of the arts approach things in that way. What's at the heart of everything is people. That's what's interesting, always. The girl, what's in her heart? And what I find really fascinating is what she's willing to tell me in the beginning. And maybe that's the same thing with interviews too. What they're willing to tell you in the beginning. And then as you dig what you find out, that they almost, it's almost unexpected. My character sometimes reveal things to me as I'm writing them that is shocking and that I didn't plan and I'm just so surprised. Well, and I find that fascinating about your process that you often don't know what you're trying to say or what the book is about until the end, at which point you go back and very often rewrite the beginning of your book, which, by the way, make is a luxury I do not have as a podcast. Yeah, that's a thing, because the beginnings and endings are bookends, right? They have to hold everything in the middle of the book together. And so sometimes you get to the end and I start to ask myself so what was I saying about families here? How did she grow here? What was it that she most found out about herself and about other people? And then I go back to the beginning to see, did I promise that at the beginning? Are there echoes of that at the very start of it? And then I shape it somewhat. Like, what do you never get asked? Do you want to be asked? I'm going to talk about you never talk about. I think people don't appreciate it would be surprised to know that fears and insecurities, they follow me certainly even now I am having a beautiful career. I have many professional friends and opportunities I can not possibly complain. And yet, I'm subject to the same sort of insecurities. Am I relevant? Do I still have things to say? When will that change? Do I still understand the heart of kids? Am I enough? The impostor syndrome that so many of us carry around. So yeah, that lingers. I wish it weren't true. But, you know, I was listening to some of your old podcasts with, in fact, I was listening to America Ferrera. Talking about creatives and film and so on. And there was so much wisdom in there. But she was talking about her need to please and be pleasant and be a pleasure to work with. I had to stop. I was on a walk while I was listening to it. And I just had to stop and take all her words and because I said, I am exactly right. That's exactly right. When I was writing my book, the likeability trap about this exact thing, one of the latinas I interviewed such. And she was like, well, as latinas were raised with a PhD in graciousness. And the sort of like, what will people say, you don't just represent yourself, you represent your family represent the neighborhood you represent every cube and it's like, that's true. That's true. That's a lot of pressure. And the fact is, like, families, our families are family. There's mucking every family. There was just so much concern about getting. What are they going to say? And not appearing low. And not appearing that you're sort of a drain of any kind. And so the underlying message, of course, is just that that is the status quo. That is how you're going to be seen. And you have to dig out of that whole constantly. And we see this with kids all the time now still would Latino kids. I mean, the language around Latina and Latino kids and immigration and kids at the board are like all of that has just been so toxically offensive. To their identity to how they think about their families to their sense of pride in themselves. So, I mean, I think we continue to have a lot of work to do in that area. Sure them up. For those of us who are parents, I have two young daughters, educators. Anyone who just has a kid in their life who they love, what do they need right now? I think they need a lot of conversation. I'd like to see parents actually reading a lot of books with their kids, making it sort of a family experience. And, you know, there's lots of ways to achieve that. Even in families where there's multiple languages being spoken. My books, for example, are available in Spanish and English edition. So someone could read everything that they said, mother at the same time that their kid is reading every is moving away. And still have connection around the story. I think what we want to be talking to kids about not only their life and the problems that they're experiencing inside themselves and how they see themselves and so on. But opening the world to them about all the many kids that they're in class with who are in their neighborhoods that populate the world, this country. And really give them some tools to understand each other's experiences, respect them. And embrace that as part of our national identity. As opposed to something to be afraid of or something to have to guard against. Meg, thank you so much..
ESPN FC
Some Players Aren't Convinced by US Soccer's 'Identical' Men's and Women's Contracts
"So. This story arose on tuesday afternoon. That us soccer has offered identical contracts to both the us men and women On the surface you would look at that and say oh well the. Us would have been asking for equal pay and it appears as though they have achieved that they do not see it that way. No they don't they issued a tweet from their. Us national team he eh. So players association us pr stunts and bargaining through. The media will not bring us any closer to a fair agreement. In contrast we're committed to bargaining in good faith to achieve equal pay and the safest working conditions. Possible the proposal. That usf made recently recently to us does neither. Now here's where we have a problem. what i would say is knowledge vacuum. I don't know what was in that proposal. I don't know the ins and outs of the pause. meg From the athletic. Who just great on this she tweets. Us soccer just issued a statement on the us women's national team on us mnt cba's it states that usf has offered identical contract proposals today proposing single cbs structure with revenue sharing usf believes best way to achieve these important goals is by the us women's national team players association on the us ns tpa negotiating together. That's the men's association however this quote marks this is from us soccer if the players association's choose to continue to negotiate separately as they have to date us. Soccer will invite the us women's national team to sit in on the negotiations with the us ns and vice versa in the interest of full transparency
AP News Radio
Statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee Taken Down in Virginia
"One of America's biggest monuments to the confederacy has been taken down for more than a century twenty one foot statue of general Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia's capital city which also served as the confederacy's capital this morning a crowd of hundreds cheered as workers and Richmond removed the statue from its giant pedestal governor Ralph Northam ordered last summer that the statue come down after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis but the removal was tied up in courts until a recent ruling cleared the way for other Confederate statues along what's known as a monument Avenue were removed last year Sager Meg Downie Washington
AP News Radio
Biden Surveys NY and NJ Storm Damage, Talks Climate Change
"As he toured all right as damaging New Jersey president Biden heard a harrowing tale from one couple that escape before the storm's remnants destroyed their home yeah in the lost valley neighborhood of Mansfield the president stopped in front of what used to be a home birth again Domar said her family left before the storm got really bad to protect their four month old daughter Lila her husband briefly returned a few hours later fort Trinity the cat our plan was to come back once the water has gone down and salvage things from the second floor nursery but before they could after Domar told her story the president gave her a hug thank god you said Sonder Meg Downey Washington
People of the Pod
The State of Jewish Life on College Campuses
"Me as guest co host. This week is meg grad friedman. Ajc's director of the alexander young leadership department megi. Welcome to our virtual studio. The mike is all yours. Thanks manja. I'm joined by tilly. Shemer executive director of university of michigan. Hello university of michigan is one of the top five most jewish schools by jewish population in his home to one of the largest allows the nation as student head back to campus. We are fortunate to be joined by someone who has a front row seat to the difficult realities as well as the well of opportunities that are awaiting american jews on campus tilly. Thank you for joining us on the pot. Thanks so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here when we speak about the jewish campus experience. There's what's captured in the headlines. Which more often than not captures the very real rise in antisemitism facing many students and then there's what's not captured in the headlines vibrant jewish life awaiting students on campus during their most formative years for students listening. I want to be sure that we discussed both of these realities so first. Let's address the headlines. Last spring university of michigan received significant coverage for a series of very anti israel statements from the student government and other bodies on the heels of israeli palestinian violence in may as well as physical act of semitism against hillel and as michigan. current sued. ed's at alum no but lovely the rock. This was accompanied by a weaker than hoped for response from the administration which left jewish and pro. israel students feeling unheard invulnerable.
Seattle's Morning News
Doctors Are Relying More on Monoclonal Antibodies to Fight COVID
"For Covid 19 is showing a great deal of progress. David Begnaud reports from hard hit Louisiana monoclonal antibodies, lab grown proteins that help the body target and eliminate covid infection, according to Dr Thomas Galit, chief medical officer at ST Francis Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana. They have become the most effective therapy yet has done a great job of helping high risk patients stay out of the hospital. The therapy is becoming more available at hospitals and clinics around the country. But it is only administered after infection within 10 days of the first symptoms and before those symptoms get to severe what type of sickness do you usually say that's too sick to receive if they are having profound oxygen requirements continued high grade beavers dehydration. Since July. The first we've given about 1700 doses. One of those doses went to 42 year old Scotty Johnson. We were there when he got his infusion three weeks ago in Monroe, as Covid was attacking his body. It feels like somebody's choking you. You start coughing, but nothing comes out this week. We followed up with him and we met his wife, Meg. They both got the antibody treatments right around the same time. I just really start feeling good about Three or four days ago, probably, but I feel like I'm like 90% now, while Scotty did not get the vaccine bag did my wife got anybody treatment? On Thursday. I tested positive on Friday. On Saturday, she was back up cleaning the house and doing dishes and like it never even bothered. While the antibody treatments can be effective, they are not a substitute for vaccines, says CBS News Medical contributor Dr David Agus. There's no question the vaccine is better than an antibody. But in the case where your immune suppressed and you can't make a good response to a vaccine, they're lifesavers. So this is an important part of our arsenal. But it certainly is not the only weapon in our arsenal. Vaccines are Front line. No question about it to fight a virus in today's world, and that
Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker
Talking to Your Teen About Their Sexual Identity
"Dear. dr mc. My sixteen year old daughter is experiencing i issues. She doesn't talk with me about it but she has to her brother and some close friends. I wanna reaffirm to her that it's okay to be a girl and straight and still struggle with your sexuality and identity and that you don't have to be non binary or change your pronouns or be bisexual. She did experience some sexual abuse. So i believe a lot of this stems from how she's dealing with that she's also in theater and has been exposed to a lot of people who've changed their gender identity. I want to get some therapy but worry with a culture today that it would just reinforcer feelings and desires. Please help my little girl. Well first of all thank you so much for writing you know. Our kids are living in a time where life is extremely confusing particularly when it comes to their sexual identity and their sexuality. We're living in a culture. That sexualizing is our daughters and our son's it makes them feel as though their sexuality is the most important part of their identity that they're worth comes from their sexuality that their sexuality trump's their identity as a human being and this is wrong. Here's what i would encourage you to do. This is what i do with kids in my office. First of all. I would address your daughter in a larger context and i would say to her honey. I understand that you're struggling with your sexuality and your sexual identity and you know a lot of kids your age do but here's the thing. Why don't we put your sexual identity on the back burner for awhile and focus on you. Developing bigger parts of who. You are focused on developing your character. Your skills your natural gifts so that you're not thinking about your sexual identity as much because many kids your age become obsessed with
Scranton Talks
Ep2: Chatting It Up With Drought's Hannah Black & Megan Petersen
"So we come back from multiple callbacks, 'cause we were like, there's no way. Things don't work out like this for us. But it just did. And so casting was really, really fun. And everyone ended up just being local to Wellington. Because like you guys are saying there's so much talent outside of Atlanta. And LA and New York. There's so much talent in those places for sure. But the best roles at least for our film were right here. So. Yeah, exactly. And sometimes that works even better because again, like you're saying you got to have sort of a family on set because if you don't have that relationship that you're having fun, you know, because I think it should be about having fun being professional, but if you're not having fun, I mean, then it's not, you know, the production value is not there either. Long amounts of hours with each other. And very hot conditions. So we'll talk about weather, right? So when we were following it, I thought you would talk about hot conditions. There's always something that happens on the set. There's always a setback there's always something, so maybe you can, you know, most people talk about, you know, oh yeah, we had this, we had that, but you girls had something bigger, maybe you can tell us about that. Yes, because what's so funny, I'll tell you is that we had all the typical things like our grip truck got stuck in the sand, our ice cream truck broke down. And we rarely ever talk about those challenges because they are all, you know, I guess overshadowed by the fact that this film is about no rain and on day 12 of production we had to stop everything because a hurricane for hurricane that category four hurricane. It was headed towards Wilmington. And not moving. And he was coming right towards our city. So we had to stop on day 12 with an 18 day shoot and everyone evacuated to places like Charlotte or Atlanta. And we were stuck outside of our town for two weeks. I didn't know what we were going to come to when we came back. Because when Lincoln essentially became an island, it flooded everywhere. We weren't sure if our locations were going to be okay. And not even just for our films, but because those people who came our family do, and we didn't want their businesses to damage. There was a lot and I was also going out of the country during that time. So amazing Hannah, somehow put the Tetris of our crew to schedule back together and everyone was able to come back two months later to film. But then it was 44°. Okay. So one question about that, I mean, so when you have something like that, I said back. It's very hard on your motivation. It's very hard because now you're like, what am I going to do? And it takes a toll, especially if you're an artist, you're trying to create something that's meaningful, and now you have a big setback. How do you bounce back from that emotionally? You know, just say, you know, I just keep doing it. Keep doing it. Besides that you have the responsibility of finishing, but just more in the sense of like a personal, you know, no. The question. Hold on, but you think that's okay. Like, how did we do that? I think part of it is just we have invested so much already. And I think we could say just ourselves invested, but then when we look at our crew and our cast and all the people that contributed to this crowdfunding campaign and shared our film like when we are doing our campaign, it's like it didn't feel like it was our movie and felt like it was our communities movie. And so it had to, we had to finish it. We had to keep on going, even though we were tired, because not only us but so many people aboard their heart and soul into making this happen. And it just, it just wasn't really an option to be like, well, you know, we tried our best. And we had a lot, I mean, a hurricane was big, but we also hit some equally challenging things during that production after production before production. Just a lot of lifestyle, hard stuff in between. And so it's kind of like, I don't know. We just kind of had, I think also 'cause we're a partnership. So when one person is tired, the other person can lift them up and vice versa. Megan, what do you think? Yeah, the thing I was thinking of is a lot of times those setbacks I think we used as motivation to be like, this will not stop us. And it almost made us get more fire. Every once in a while it gets to you. And I think that that's when it's okay to call up your friend or like I got to just call it Hannah. And sometimes we're like, I can't do it today. Like today I take a break from the movie. Because maybe these are a can be at least a nonstop thing you're working on. You can really get burnt out on it. And the thing we didn't want to do is get so tired that we made a wrong decision. Out of just because we felt fired. So the process of making the movie took longer than I think some do, but a lot of that is in part because we allowed ourselves to take a breath if we needed it. Yeah, that's extremely important. I mean, you pretty much said it like you have to step back and do something fun, relax and then come back to it, right? I mean, that was guilty. I feel guilty. Exactly. Well, I mean, I was going to ask you about what your advice for filmmakers was, but I can not set out, but let me make sure that's where it doesn't have another question. And then I'll ask my final question that you girls go with just show the trader one more time do a little plug for Amazon Prime because I know that it's on Amazon Prime and then go from there. I'll check well also if we have any questions on our site. It was exploring your social media. And I was interested because you put it on your Facebook our hopes, raise autism awareness, brand jobs to our community, provide opportunities for women to live if you want it to elaborate on those. Yeah. I think it was really cool. We were able to pay our crew and we were really proud of that. It wasn't a huge amount. But we were also able to give them an interest in the film. So once the film makes money, our hope is that it does because we don't have investors. It is our crew and our cast and we can give that money back to them. In 2018 when we filmed our town was in a really big world for any filmmaking happening in the area. And it kept everyone energized. I think it kept. It gave people opportunities for roles they hadn't begun before. And now they've moved on to studio productions in our doing those roles. So I think got that goal and yes, number one is to raise autism awareness and acceptance in this film to get people talking about it. And to just promote the message that there is no such thing as normal. And we are here to accept each other but also ourselves. And then finally, from when it in film, you know, one of the reasons we set out to even write female characters is because we are actors first. And we auditioned for a lot of roles that were very grateful to audition for their typically very small and they could be like dumb blond or quirky white dress and we're like, ah, women are so much more than that. And so our hope is that people can see two female characters interacting that just have a family relationship and the complexities that come behind that. So those are our hopes. Thanks for reading those. I clearly asked about them. That's awesome with those goals that you have for this film. I was just amazing. Yeah, and I think that's important. That's very important to have goals. I mean, other than that, I think you have given great advice throughout the whole talk right now, which is really what we want to do. And I think you couldn't have said it better that, you know, you're doing this for yourself. Obviously, but also people get opportunities because they do a project. You know, like not a lot of times, you know, people are just doing something in the last 6 because something there's always someone watching, right? I always say that. There's always someone looking at your staff and then seeing what's out there and it's great that you're actors or maybe someone got a production somewhere out of that. And I think that's the most rewarding experience that you can get as a filmmaker to really see somebody in your film, making it as well. So we're going to do a little plug. How do we find your film? So I'll put it on the comments after the link, but yeah, so you can find drought on Amazon Prime. This week actually we're running a special where you can rent for 4.99 and purchase for 9.99. But then at the end of this week, you'll go back up to its normal price. You should just buy it then, right? You know? Yeah. And if you like it, it would mean so much if you guys rated it and murdered you. I'm an honest review. You know, that's really important to us. So yeah, it was on prem. Okay. All right. So this is I promise this is the last question, okay? So this is just if you were to tell yourself before you even started this project. One thing that you would have done differently, maybe just or you would have told yourself before you got this project going like that, maybe yeah, we could have gotten different at different ways. You know, like, oh, sorry, Meg's. You know, you go first. I was thinking you have sex. Okay. I feel like everything was supposed to happen the way it was. So I wouldn't change anything because had learned so much. The learning curve on this project was huge because every single role that Megan and I stepped into was new. But I will say if I could go back and tell myself something that I'll continue to tell myself for the next projects that we do, I really struggled on set and only Megan really knows this. As a director, because I felt like I was completely under qualified, which I was and still am. But I felt like I needed to know everything. Especially technical stuff, which I was not familiar with at all. And so I really got in my head when I was in director mode that I just was so inadequate and it made it was just really unhealthy. Unhealthy thoughts, you know, of like, I'm not good enough or like, no one's gonna listen to me, all that stuff. It's such a waste of time. And so what, maybe I don't know all the answers, but that's why you have a team. So I think I would go back and tell myself just chill. Just trust your gut. You know that other people are working just as hard, you don't have to know the answers, and that's why you have all these great people with you. So yeah, I think that's maybe something that I go back and tell myself. Intel others, you don't have to know everything, just take it one step at a time. That's perfect. Yeah. You know, it's going to sound cheesy. It's mine. It's about the same. I would think in my modes though if I don't know something, I try to learn everything I can about it. And sometimes you just don't have the capacity. I don't need to know everything that the gaffer is doing. As I do more or sound or the first AC or DIT, you know, I wanted to know everyone was doing. I think that comes from a good place. And I think what Hannah's talking about comes from a place of wanting to be a good team, team member. But being a good team member is sometimes releasing responsibility and letting people do what they're there to do. And as we do more projects or as you can do more projects out there, you'll learn more and more each time. And you'll feel, I think more like you have more knowledge of everything going on. It's okay if you don't. That's perfect. I think that's perfect by this way. I mean, pretty much what we've been saying and we're gonna keep saying it and we're gonna try to do this little segment as much as we can find filmmakers that are doing great things in this area and outside this area because I think we're all connected anyway. So maybe one, maybe one day we'll get to work in a project together, and definitely. Ladies, we wish are the best and the best of luck on your future and it looks like it's gonna be a pretty good one. I mean, you have a great movie that I think is going to inspire not only filmmakers, but just anyone looking to just be creative. Thank you so much for listening to our Scranton talks podcasts, and I hope you enjoyed your time with us. Be sure to catch our next episode as we chat with director and filmmaker Tristan Marcellus Winfrey about his film the helium against documentary. He is a huge advocate for mental health awareness, and he uses his platform to make change in the world one step at a time. Be sure to visit our website, WW our creative hub dot com. If you're interested in watching the film drought, be sure to check it out for rent and purchase on Amazon Prime Video. And be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram as well. And be sure to subscribe to the screen toxic podcast, to stay up to date on our latest episodes. And be sure to tell all your Friends about us.
Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker
"meg" Discussed on Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker
"Doctor meg. My wife. And i have four kids recently. We've had a lotta disagreements about how to parent and it's driving us apart. My wife allows our four year old to sleep in our bed. And i moved to another room. It just feels like we're not compatible anymore. What should i do. Well i want to tell you. K b just gonna use your initials instead of your name. Your wife needs to get your four year old out of the bed and you need to be back in your bedroom. This is really inappropriate and very unhealthy for your marriage. Not only that. It's bad for your child sending your child a terrible message. I feel that you guys need to come together on some big parenting issues which you know and tackle these long before you consider separating or getting divorced. I know you're considering divorce. But i think this is at this point. This is much more harmful for your kids. Here's what i would do. I would tell your wife that. There's some parenting things that she's good at and that you want to be sure to support as your kids get older then i would ask you to write down four five parenting issues. That she feels are most important to her to <hes>. Succeed at as your kids grow older. Then tell her you will support these but that you need her to support your four or five most important parenting issues. In other words you have to negotiate with her. And i talk about this a lot. But it's very important for parents to do or not the same page with discipline co-parenting <hes>. And many other issues. I really encourage you to find a marriage. Counselor as well to work through your issues and honestly. I'm not so sure that these much parenting issues as either personality ones or merita ones.
Welcome To The Music
"meg" Discussed on Welcome To The Music
"And some of the other songs really. That's exactly what it was like. There's a couple of songs like bomb and there's another song You don't know who. I am and like my partner. Had he's also a musician and he had this like little beater guitar in our living room and I am still not a great guitar player. I've you know complete basic chords and all that stuff For whatever reason like acoustics. I find the action just way too high. So this beater guitar was like a nylon. String like you know. I don't know hundred and fifty dollar like guitar. And i could play it so i would Just kind of sit in the living room in and just play around with Like right like i was you know kind of Trying to get these emotions out and you don't know why am is a song that that Started that way. But they're all through that time period like they're all from I mean wild woman is the most recent one i think that was since two thousand nineteen that i wrote it. But they're all kind of within the same like life experience. The story i guess of those few years meg when you right are you. Are you at the piano. The of guitar. No you need to isolate yourself in a room. How does how does your identity. So i have like a bit of a bit of experience. Doing like the songwriting session thing. I did fare better that. When i was in repor t And i enjoyed myself. But i feel like right now. I have a really strong desire to Right by myself. I think it probably comes. From the fact that i was co writing with so many people for so long and i am definitely like enjoying writing by myself and it. Sometimes i read at the piano. Sometimes i write with a guitar. Sometimes i write like actually in my music recording software on. Like if i can't do it the way i want another song of the ep that was like me sitting down my recording software. Kind of coming up with the centre part and then having that guitar playing together so like it. Kind of depends..
Welcome To The Music
"meg" Discussed on Welcome To The Music
"Call was gonna. I was going to be entering the sneaker see. She has yeah. Wow that's why she's you remember. Do you guys belting out tunes together. Oh yeah no i remember. Yes like after every Because i can't remember if she was a bartender or server. I had like a couple of different jobs in that restaurant and We got the end of the chefs like the kitchen and everybody while we were all like closing cleaning up they would like blast like yeah eighties. Ninety s jams and stuff. That's awesome. Wow she says oh god love saying hello for me. This is what we do on this. Show meg we bring able people from your past. We sort of bring him on. Oh god don't bring any more people from three teacher that's about to come on next. We have twenty minutes. Left may see a safari. Thank you How hard was it to break up. It was very difficult Yeah it was. It was like i think you know. Obviously twenty twenty was a very difficult year. But i really believe. The twin seventeen was the hardest year of my life. When that break-up happened it was it was devastating because it was not only was. I losing the band and what that meant. But i also was like my livelihood losing my work losing like up until that point. The band was like most of my identity. So if you look at your life as like a a table with four legs like was basically just like one of those nights. Dan's one big giant leg. And then i left. Yeah it was really hard. Was that like. Was that a decision that you know you needed to leave to grow to do your own thing. Was that the band was going nowhere. At the time. I mean the ban was like doing very well own. Dukes had just come out in like a roll of two thousand sixteen and we were still very much riding on that wave I it was. It was a combination of many many things. I think my thought process at the time was. I was struggling with depression and basically kind of hit a point where i was like. I can't really function. And i was the leader of that and and i don't know what i'm not going to ask what. Your personal experiences are with mental illness. But not well. It's very hard to make decisions like big decisions that involve multiple people so I didn't really know. I guess like how else to cope other than leave. That was kind of my top priority. I was like i have to. I can't function this way anymore. And like there was a.
Welcome To The Music
"meg" Discussed on Welcome To The Music
"I didn't even finish the challenge. Like i just kinda started writing. And i was like. Wow this is really cool. Even though it's like completely different than my classical background. I just liked it a lot and i you know i was like okay. Never mind this challenge. But i'll like. I liked the band and that had started and and I think i kinda just liked enjoyed it every step of the way like it wasn't like i'm really mad at this classical thing. It wasn't like a conscious decision to kind of slip and go into a completely different lane but Organically i guess. That's just kinda how it happened. Do you still sing opera like in the shower. Or oh like no no i i completely abandoned it and i think i had like some like baggage about it for a while and and i have an affection for it like i haven't affected for a lot of classical music and stuff now but i don't. I don't know if i could sing anymore. It's a complete. Like i had to learn how to sing differently right. It's like a complete grit approach to singing And talks about that. How is it how is it how is it. I know it sounds different. But how is it like the application of singing. How's it different from pop music and singing opera different from from your perspective. Well i think that. I don't know if this is just like my own personal experience but i certainly remember. Maybe it was just like the specific. Profs that i had or specific teachers that i had that it was like incredibly frowned upon to kind of saying like most other genres. I remember even profit university kind of frowning on musicals and kind of framing in a way framing it in a way that was like this is harmful to your voice. And you're going to lose your voice and your you know like it's not only. Is it like distasteful technique. But it's like going to damage you in some way..
Welcome To The Music
"meg" Discussed on Welcome To The Music
"Off the podcast with you introducing yourself and if you could then say the name of our podcast sure which is welcome to the music right. Sounds good yeah Hi this is meg warren. Welcome to the music. You wanna add a little bit of a week. Maybe what you do sure. Yes person meg. Yes awesome so whenever you are ready great. I'll just say hey. I'm meg warren. I'm a singer songwriter from newfoundland last toronto. And you're listening to welcome to the music. Welcome perfect.