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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Secretary Pompeo on President Biden and the Dangers His Infirmity Invites
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Border Patrol agents enjoy great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. If you are looking for a way to serve something greater than yourself, consider the U .S. Border Patrol. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. That's cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Q for hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. I'm Hugh Hewitt in Studio North. There's a lot to cover today, a lot to talk about. I'm going to begin, though, by telling you about my friend Terry Eastland, who died yesterday. And I want to read Roger Clegg's short obituary in the National Review, which posted yesterday at 1133. Roger writes, I met Terry Eastland after we had both joined the Justice Department during the Reagan administration in the early 1980s. So we were friends for approximately four decades. He and I were fellow Texans and appreciated not only Ronald Reagan, but Southern cuisine together. To be sure, Terry's expertise on barbecue in particular was deeper than mine, no doubt helped by the fact that his wife Jill was from North Carolina. Terry's Southern roots were manifest in other ways. He was devoted to the Atlanta Braves and sold encyclopedias and or Bibles door to door. I forget which and maybe it was both. He went to Vanderbilt and Oxford, studied the classics, eventually became a journalist. Readers of National Review knew Terry as a distinguished and stalwart conservative intellectual. He's the author of numerous books and innumerable articles and high on the masthead of the American Spectator and Weekly Standard, among other publications. He was not a lawyer, but wrote beautifully and wisely about a range of legal issues, including separation of powers, religious freedom and equal protection. We work together, writes Roger Clegg, most recently at the Center for Equal Opportunity, where Terry continued his lifelong fight for colorblind equal opportunity. Terry was one of the most pleasant and thoughtful people I ever met, a learned and genuine Christian in every sense of the word. No surprise then that he was devoted to his family, helping to care for his mother and mother -in -law and mentally challenged sister, as well as being a devoted husband, father and grandfather. Jill sent me a text this morning. Terry passed away gently this morning. He is with his savior. That's a beautiful and short farewell to Terry Eastland. Everyone who is in the conservative legal movement, I mean, really, everyone who's in the conservative legal movement, who's 40 and older, has worked with Terry. And I don't think anyone can say this, I don't think Terry had any enemies. I really don't. I met Terry at a Bethel Bible study in 1983 when I was clerking on the D .C. Circuit and the Fetching Mrs. Hewitt persuaded me to go over to a national Presbyterian church. You know, I'm a Catholic, but this is my first dipping the toe into the Presbyterian world. And there are about 14 people from Jack and Edna who were in their 70s, right down to young married couples like the Fetching Mrs. Hewitt and myself in the Eastlands and a number of other people led by Anne Dennison. And we met together once a week for two years to go through the Bible, especially useful to people like me who have no idea what's the organization thereof. But Terry was there and first time you go around the room, what are you doing? And I said, well, I'm clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit. Terry lit up and said, that's interesting that I'm over at the Department of Justice. We should have lunch. And we did. And Terry and I and Jill and the Fetching Mrs. Hewitt became fast, fast friends over two years in Bible study. And then Terry recruited me to DOJ off the court. He went in and said, do you want to work over here? Bill Smith, because I was going to Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a big law firm. I'd accepted their offer. I was doing a clerkship and was going to go to GDC downtown D .C. Said, you want to come on to work over here? You know, Bill Smith, he's a Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher partner. He'd probably like you. And so I took my resume into Tex Lazar, who was the new chief of staff after Judge Ken Starr had left. And I interviewed with Tex and I interviewed with General Smith and I went over to work there. And Terry and I worked together for the time I was at Justice. And after I went over to the White House, he stayed with Ed Meese when Ed Meese arrived and became the head of public affairs for Ed Meese. And the four horsemen would run in those years somewhat fast. That's Brad Reynolds, Chuck Cooper, Terry Eastland and Hugh Hewitt would run down the mall every day back in the 80s and back up solving the problems of the world. The conservative legal movement is broad and it's older than the Federalist Society actually begins in 1981 at the Reagan Department of Justice and with Ed Meese at the White House. And it flowered. And in the middle of it was a non -lawyer, Terry Eastland. I'm not saying he's central to everything, he just knew everyone. He wrote carefully, constructively, amusingly, and he was never angry. He was indeed the nicest man in Washington, D .C. And part of that is Texas and part of that is Christianity and part of it is his humility. And he really brought home this to me, the most important non -life lesson but intellectual lesson I learned from Terry. The Constitution was written to be understood by ordinary people. It was written by landed people for people who were not landed and not often literate so that they could adopt it in state conventions and that you ought to be able to read it and understand it and reason it. Terry wrote great books about the Supreme Court. He wrote great books about the law. He wrote great books about affirmative action, especially which offended him deeply because he came from very, very little. And he ended up going to Vanderbilt and Oxford and becoming an intellectual. He's a newspaper editor at the Virginia pilot, Norfolk pilot, I believe, and before that at the Observer. And he was recruited originally by Bill Smith, General Smith, to be a speechwriter and then he took over all of comms for General Meese.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh "Oxford" from Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"Left uh... which is sick uh... predecessor uh... has gone on and they have a vision for the future that it's not just some endless process of all of cleaning up and and and and cutting people's living standards what he she has to do what soon it has to do is to introduce himself to the party this is his first party speech uh... and people don't have a very clear idea of who he is uh... they know a few cliches about him but they don't have a sense of him as a person and he needs to introduce himself to the party but also to the country uh... both as a person but also somebody who has a vision of where we need to go in the future not just five things to be ticked off but an actual vision of the country yeah of course it's five pledges from the start of this year but what it's going to do with the economy okay so look it's not just the Conservatives the Lib Dems have already had their party conference in Bournemouth the SNP are also a significant force in UK politics overall and then there's Keir Starmer the Labour Party very hotly tipped in the polls at least for now what is he going to be focused on at conference? I think Keir Starmer's job is not to make big mistakes we have a sense of who he is because he's been for around some time we know his sort of conventional staid fairly boring but a decent sort of guy and he's more avoiding mistakes than doing anything else so he has to create confidence that he's capable of delivering change that he won't give in to the to of the left the party that he's a safe pair of hands and that he knows how to translate his general vision of things into a set of policies that might work his great mistake or his great weakness I think is taught for too long I mean the last conference speech that I ever that I saw of his in you know live live speech it was a good speech it's a well written speech but it just went on and on and on on and on you just waiting for it to end and then he'd start again well that's a danger for the whole of the party conferences is it it is and I think Sunak's speech is is being trailed as being a very long speech I think that's a mistake you know this is not North career you know we're supposed to have some sort of democratic to a short attention span I'm sure that somewhere in an unwritten constitution absolutely is and let me ask you about comparisons with Blair as we're talking about labor we did a big piece just this week on yeah the big take piece on comparisons with Blair there are some but then there's also a very different fiscal situation that he'll be inheriting I mean how far do those comparisons go? Not very far really partly because they're very different people I mean they're both lawyers and they're both middle of the road turning Blair's more to the right but both sensible politicians but they're really quite different people Blair was a showman you know he played in a rock band at Oxford he liked to he was an actor he liked to perform. Keir Starmer isn't like that he's somebody who you know is more of a sort of backroom man in some ways he doesn't like the stage naturally. For a backroom man he's picked supreme a jobs. lot of He has indeed but I don't think it's you know he wants power but I think and you know to get power you have to do this sort of thing but I think that actually appearing before large groups of people is not is not natural measure in the way that it obviously is with with Blair. I think the other big difference is that the circumstances in 1997 were right for Blair. They're right for a progressive realignment both in terms of you know you had a young president in the United States with a new set of ideas you had the talk of the third way you had a lot of economic room for an expansionist policy all of those things don't exist. We have Joe Biden who's not exactly young in the United States and we have a real shortage of money not very much room to do things so they keep talking about progressive moment or spending 40 billion a year on a green revolution things like that or you know getting rid of not getting but rid of but but shoving taxes on public schools and then they they come back retreat they retreat they keep retreating and basically it's not time for a progressive realignment it's time for a set of pragmatic policies to deal with with particular problems. Well no doubt we'll hear this phrase working people many many times. Hard working people. Indeed and who doesn't want to be that but I've heard it we hear a lot from the the Labour but Party actually increasingly I've heard that phrase now from the Prime Minister himself so this seems to be taking on. What are working people and voters in the UK do you think you know in as far as we can take a reading what do you think they're thinking about now they will pay any attention to party conference? Well one of Tony Blair's great statements was that people spend about 30 seconds a year thinking about politics people don't think about politics as much as politicians think that they do and also we're getting a general turn -off from politics at the moment. I saw just the host of the today program you know complaining that people were just turning off politics because it's too awful so I think that people are basically worried about their living standards and they want somebody to address those living standards and don't they inflation to be water under control they want the price of food to be more reasonable might than it see them at the moment and I think more broadly they want a sense of order in the sense if you look at politics it's chaotic you know things are falling apart we go through prime ministers like some people go through wives four it's and four years it's an incredibly unstable environment so I think people do want stability in a sense of practical policy. Right and one thing we'll be watching for I suppose as the conferences get underway is some of the wedge issues that will likely feature in the campaigns towards the next election we've heard a bit about net zero from the Conservatives and different a take shall we say on net zero around certainly on EVs is this going to be an effective wedge issue do you think for dividing the population Adrian is this going to be the one for the Tories yes I don't think it'll work in the sense that they'll win the next election that seems very unlikely to make but it's already eating into Labour's poll lead I mean it was I was quite surprised by how rapidly the the poll numbers you know went up for the Tories and down for Labour it's something that people outside the met the famous metropolitan bubble elite are really worried about because the number of people who have access to you know decent public transport in this country is very very small most people rely on cars and so people are very nervous about you know the the green transitions it it affects their transport and also nervous about heating costs so yes I think it'll so work the Uxbridge by -election was where you know the Tories had been expected to lose and didn't lose because of you know the US coming was a real political message and one that Labour is very nervous about and the Tories you know they haven't got many cars to play but this is definitely one of them. Yeah the 12 -arm 50 charge to drive a more policing car into London yeah I think that's that's very interesting that that also plays very
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The problems of evil
"In today's episode I'll be speaking to Raphael Cohen -Algamal about the problems of evil. How can you reconcile individualism and collectivism? Has multiculturalism failed? And what happens when the rights of the state are in conflict with the rights of culture? Raphael discusses his book and provides an academic viewpoint on these tricky dilemmas. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Raphael Cohen -Almagor. How are you doing? Good, how are you Judith? I am doing great, thank you. Tell me what sort of things make you giggle or laugh out loud? What makes me giggle? Good, cynical, sharp, statement jokes. Things that make me think and then see the irony behind them. And yeah, make me giggle. Tell us a little bit about you. I'm an academic, I've been in academia all my life. I did my bachelor degree at Tel Aviv University in political science, sociology and anthropology and then continued to do my masters in political science at Tel Aviv University. I pursued a doctorate at Oxford University at St. Catherine's College. I'm very patriotic about my Oxford College and then started to research and teach at the Hebrew University, went to the and Institute then I moved to University of Haifa. I spent a year at UCLA, I spent a year at Charles Hopkins University. I spent some time at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Studies, then moved to the UK, been to of course Oxford and then University of Hull and then University College London and presently I'm the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University in Sweden. Besides academia, I am sort of a public person. I established some organization in my life. So back in 1983 I established a second -generation Holocaust Remembrance Organization in Israel and later I established a Centre for Democratic Studies and then I established the Palme Jews Institute and I established the Middle Eastern Studies Centre at the University of Hull. So I like to do practical things. I'm not the usual academic because I have many many interests. You told me that today we're going to speak about the contrast between group rights and individual rights which is subject of my two last books. One of them is Just Visible Multiculturalism, maybe you can see that, published in 2021 and I consider this as one of my major works. Took me 10 years to write this book and then the other one is my most recent book which is called the Republic Security and Secularism which is on the fight of France against how women dress, especially Muslim women dress. In France I was fascinated by the fact that in France people are so preoccupied by the fact that women dress. I mean why should you be? There are people that can think that the government should be preoccupied by rather than how a woman dresses. She does it every day. So I went to France to study that and that's a subject of my most recent book but other than that I'm interested in problems of evil.
The Financial Guys
Fresh update on "oxford" discussed on The Financial Guys
"Masks have controlled the pandemic. No. Where did that happen? There is not one shred of evidence that the masks have done anything except for make it worse. That's it. Quite the contrary. This is actually a New York times. This is back in February 21st of 2023, earlier this year in 2023, they did a study of studies. Okay. They did the end all be all study of studies. They reviewed all the studies and all the random control, everything they could possibly do. And they came up with the bottom line that the mask mandates did nothing, nothing. There's not a shred of evidence that the mask did anything. The most rigorous and comprehensive New York times, the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19 was published late last month. It's conclusion said Tom Jefferson and Oxford epidemiologist and its lead author were unambiguous. There is just no evidence that they masks make any difference. He told the journalist, Marilyn Damisi full stop, but wait, hold on. What about N95 masks as opposed to lower quality and surgical mask makes no difference. None of it said Jefferson. What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates? They were convinced by non randomized studies, flawed observational studies, and that's what they did. I can go on and read the article, but that's what they did. This is what, see, look, that school there didn't have as much of it because they were wearing masks. It was, it was this, this is what they called science. Everything that they said, well, trust the giants. We got to six feet follow the science. There was no science regarding any of this stuff. Everything made it all up. Anything the Democrats say, assume the opposite is true. If they say we're following the facts, assuming that the facts are false. If they say follow the science, assuming they're following fiction. Okay. All this stuff is fiction. Six feet fiction mask work fiction. I'm telling you, they're going to go back at some point. I loved it. Channel four. Oh, that's the the the the could these conspiracy theories are swirling again. I'm like, no, I'm going to bookmark this channel for the conspiracy theory of the mass. Come back on plays next month. Article that just referenced channel two four seven. That would be a good story. That would be the one to print. That'd be a good story. That'd be the one to put out there. That would be the one that, Hey, sorry. You know, remember all those fights you got into at the grocery store? Yeah. It was all for bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, speaking of bullshit, James Comer, I just subpoenaed and obtained two bank wires revealing hunter Biden received payments originating from Beijing in 2019 when Joe Biden was running for president to the house. Yeah. Joe Biden's Delaware home is listed as the beneficiary address for both wires from China, from China. Now they're going money wires from China, which is why that, which is why Trump got the, uh, they're going after Trump, by the way, for apparently inflating his real estate, which if you look at the real estate that they said he inflated, I actually think he didn't put it down as being worth enough. Well, they're saying that the Mar-a-Lago place is only worth $18 million. Are you out of your mind? There are 6,000 square foot homes. I'll tell you what, hold on the street for 60 if that, if that, if Mar-a-Lago tomorrow, I'm in, if that's where, if you can sell me Mar-a-Lago $18 million, I put together an investment group tomorrow deal. Yeah. You get, I don't even need to just boom. I'll sign the papers. I'll I'll find a couple other folks. I'll tell you what, boom. I'll double that. I'll double that. I'll pay, I'll pay 36. I'll pay 40 million all day long for that property. Considering the freaking house down the street at 6,000 square foot sold for $60 million. I'll buy that all day for $40 million. This is an absolute disgusting joke. And it's the judiciary. That's the scary part. So now the, so now the judges can shut down businesses in New York state. That's what you're saying. There'll be nothing left. That's what you're saying. So now if the judge doesn't like what the financial guys are saying or doing, you're telling me a judge can, can, can, can issue an order that says, I don't like the financial guys where we're going to dissolve their businesses in this state. This is nuts. It's there. There will be nothing. By the way, speaking of nothing left, Florida just passed New York state as the second highest wealthy real estate market in the country. California is still number one, but New York, New York is now three. Let me tell you, Florida real estate is not worth more. Yeah. But let me tell you the big difference by the way, the big difference. No, but yeah, freedom, the big, the, no, no, but the real estate market is more handsomely divided in Florida. What happens in the state of New York is you are paying for your safety and you're fleeing these places. And the same is true in California, by the way. So you've got shitholes like Compton now where, where you're, you can literally have San Francisco. Well, yeah, but here's what's happening. You want to be in a nice place. Downtown San Francisco is a perfect example of that. Do you want a commercial real estate there? 93% vacant right now. They cannot freaking give you, they cannot give you. So what you're happening is you're looking at averages, right? So you're saying, okay, well, these homes in this really safe neighborhood are $3 million here, but these homes over here on the East side of Buffalo, you can have for $5,000. Right. And that's what's happening. When you look at the state of Florida, the shitholes and there was crap holes there and there still is. But I'll tell you what, we do a lot of business down in Jupiter, Florida, Palm beach area. Look at Riviera beach. You know what's happening now? It's starting to clean itself up. There was some, there was some bad places in Palm beach, actually. The city itself was really good, but right outside of that. But it's funny now you drive through those communities and they're all these homes are being redeveloped. You know why? Because the people couldn't afford to be in Jupiter. So they said, I still want to be down there. And these neighborhoods are cleansing themselves up. That's how you clean up neighborhoods, by the way, through free market capitalism through freedom, as you pointed out. What's going to happen is mark my words. You know what the slum will be? Freaking New York state. That's what it'll be. It won't be Florida. You'll drive through Florida and be like, wow, that's a beautiful neighborhood. Mom, remember that was a shit neighborhood. That's a good neighborhood. Where did the slum move? Oh, it moved to Florida. It moved to Philadelphia. So moved to New York and moved to Philadelphia. I tell you what really, what were the people that get hurt the most. I'll never forget this. We were earlier in our career. We had a client and she's long passed away. I think her name was Natalie actually. Um, you might remember her. She was, she lived on the East side of Buffalo and she beautiful house, beautiful, you know, old brick stone, cut the real nice, nice street, but it was on the East side. It was dangerous. No, no question. But she grew up there. She had been there for 80 years. She had been there for a whole life basically. And you know, the sad thing is when you have people like that in a city of Buffalo, she watched a home that, you know, she probably paid, you know, back in the 1940s for 30 grand. And today instead of being worth 300 grand, it's worth five grand or 10 grand. Now you contrast that with, to your point, like Riviera beach and that same person who's been living there a long time now gets to actually experience some wealth. You know, they're there now. They have value in their home. You know, they have been able to participate in the growth of the economy, right? When you talk about including, you know, they, Oh, it's all, you know, everything is racism and equality and people being left behind. That's why they're being left behind because the Democrat policies oftentimes destroy the value of those communities. How about this, Glenn? You take that $5,000 house that you paid for and now it's worth $300,000. You go to the bank and you say, I want an equity line of credit for a hundred grand so I can start my own pizzeria, right? You can't do that. If you live on the East side of Buffalo, cause the bank's saying, I'm sorry, there's no equity in this house. The things that you can do. I mean, I was talking to my daughter actually about this and you know, the people talk about, well, the rich get rich, you know, the wealthy, you know, the rich get richer and the poor, it's tough. You can't get ahead. And there's some truth to that. You know, when it comes to things like, you know, bank fees, ATM fees, like if you don't have money, if you don't have some level of wealth, you got to be able to break through that. So you've got to, you're paying higher rates for cars cause you don't have the credit score. You're paying, you know, ATM fees, wherever you go. I don't pay any ATM fees. All my ATM fees are reimbursed because I have a high enough balance with your car. Right. And so the, you know, the more money you were able to gain and the wealth you're able to get, the easier kind of things become from a financial standpoint because of those benefits. And again, I go back to Natalie on east side of Buffalo, there's no equity in your home and you go to buy a car. You don't have that credit. You don't have that net worth. You know, you don't have that score that you need. You're paying more in interest now. You've got to pay a higher loan rate. You know, that hurts all the way around. Again, contrast that to with Natalie in Revere beach who now has $300,000 in equity. Maybe she does take a home equity line of credit mic and uses her line of credit to buy that car. Cause now as that's deductible, it might be a lower rate. How about Natalie just needs more income and she can now afford a reverse mortgage. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, look at how would you like $2,000 a month for the next 30 something years or as long as you live. That's wonderful. Okay. All kinds of options there for people, right? Cause when, when the tide rises, all boats rise with it. And that's what Republicans used to say. That's what could, that's what the conservative message used to be. I don't even know what the message Republicans is today. I don't know what it is. We're not, we're not Democrats. We're not, we're not as, we're not as crooked. We don't steal as much. What is it? I don't even know. We talked about that for awhile. I want to get back to, let's get back to Reaganism and conservatism and you know, the benefits of a, of a rising economy, the benefits of a growing pie that everybody could experience that growth so that everybody has an opportunity to get ahead. Whether you're, you know, black or Hispanic or wherever you're, wherever you're starting in life, whatever your position is, you know, when the economy improves and values rise and whether the home values or whatever, everybody wins in that case. But man, if you are stuck in a Philadelphia, a New York city, a Rochester, I mean Rochester, I mean, I'm talking about Rochester like it's Compton now for God's sakes. I mean it's Rochester. Rochester used to be a sleepy little city in upstate New York, right? It was a nice, you know, Iran, the koi bay and a beautiful, it's a beautiful area used to be. Now it's like, you know, I locked my doors. If I'm going to the office of Rochester, it's a shame. It's a shame. It's a shame. It's just tragic opportunities everywhere to your point. The answer is always with these communities, more government intervention. And uh, and the, and the fact of the matter is, uh, it's the opposite, right? Look at the state of Florida, look at what they're doing and look at the opportunities limiting, by the way, things like welfare. Uh, you know, San Francisco is just talking about drug testing. Guess who's been doing that for a long time. The state of Florida. Guess what happened when they did that? 30% of the people dropped out. Well, why did they do that? Well, look at, if my brother-in-law who works at a car parts store needs to get drug tested, I would think as a taxpayer, we should be demanding that if we're going to hand these people free handouts, they should get drug tested too. Right. I don't think the most of the homeless people, are they getting any handouts? Are they getting anything? Oh yeah. Are they, in the state of, well, first of all, I don't even get it. I mean, they're not even, they don't have a home. I mean, what are they, what are they going to go to? They pick up at the office. The state of New York, 30 something percent of the welfare checks are actually cashed out of the state. So they're borrowing mailboxes. I was talking to a buddy of mine, who's a mailman, and he heard us talking about it. He goes, Mike, I've got one better for you. If you go on the East side, go to the vacant lots, they will put a mailbox up on that vacant lot for the first week of the month, just to get their check. They'll grab the check out of the mailbox, take the mailbox with them.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Growing Culture War with Konstantin Kisin
"Yes, freedom has trade -offs. Freedom will mean you're less safe, and freedom will mean that some people say things you don't like. I'm okay with that, because I don't want to live in totalitarian China, and I don't want to live in Soviet Russia. If you do, that's fine. Go there and live there. Hello there. How are you all? I am on my final day of my holiday in Ibiza. It's been nice to have a break. It's been very sunny, but it's been eventful. I've lost my passport and it's stolen from my car, which has been an absolute nightmare. I've had to go to the consulate to get a temporary one. Now I've got to head up to Peterborough tomorrow to get an emergency passport ready for me to head out to Australia in a week. Speaking of which, are you coming? Are you in Australia? We've got our event on September the 9th. We've got Nick Bartier, Willy Woo, Checkmate, Russell Russell, and Dan Roberts all on stage. If you want to get a ticket to come to that, please head over to WhatBitcoinDid .com and click on WBD Live. Anyway, welcome to the WhatBitcoinDid podcast, which is brought to you by the legends of Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack, and today I've got a show I've been trying to make for a long time. Konstantin Kissin is a British Russian satirist and one of the best commentators we have over here in England. You may have seen him online. He did a very, very cool speech. I think it was at the Oxford Union. I may have that wrong, but definitely worth checking out. Now, Konstantin likes to challenge narratives and talks a lot about wokeism, climate change, politics, and any kind of societal issue, really, and I've wanted to talk to him. Although this isn't strictly a Bitcoin show, it does cover a number of the topics which I feel are kind of siddle alongside the things that Bitcoins worry or think about. So, yeah, we had this chance to sit down for an hour and shoot the shit, and we got into all kinds of things this interview, and honestly, I feel like we only just scratched the surface, so I will definitely try and sit down with Konstantin again in the future. Now, if you've got any questions about this or anything else, please do drop me an email. It's hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Good to see you, Konstantin. Good to be with you. Yeah, thanks for letting us use your studio for this. Oh, it's a pleasure, man. Thanks for coming over. No, beautiful drive. I've been really keen to talk to you for a while, firstly because I mainly talk to Americans. But I'm Russian, so it's a bit different. You've gone to the other end. Yeah, I know you're Russian, but you're basically in the UK. You understand? Yeah, I'm British as well, yeah. But I'm going to praise you a little bit here. You've become kind of one of my favorite commentators in the UK, because I think, one, you recognize the issues. Two, you're not a crazy right wing. Three, I don't feel like you are trying to stoke a culture war to grift people, and I think your observations are excellent. I thought you were great on Rogan. I really enjoyed your interview there at Weinstein recently. And so I've just been keen to talk to you for a while. If we don't bring up Bitcoin, that doesn't matter. OK, well, that's a relief, because I know very little about Bitcoin. I always tell the story whenever people ask me about Bitcoin that I bought, you know, everyone's banging on about Bitcoin. This would have been probably 15 years ago or something. And I was like, you know what, let's put some money into it, see what happens. So I think I bought about $400 worth of Bitcoin. And when the value doubled, you know, with any investment, if like the value doubles on something as volatile as a cryptocurrency, you're going, well, you know, I've done well here. So I sold it 400. I had half a Bitcoin, half a Bitcoin for $400, and I sold it for $800. Well, so the point of that story is I know fuck all about Bitcoin. Well, I sold a lot of Bitcoin for a lot less than that at different times. Yeah, it's everyone's got a Bitcoin storyline. Yeah, we might get into it. But you know, it's interesting you mentioned that I'm not crazy right wing. I actually don't think of myself as right wing at all. And I'll tell you why. Because all of the things that people might now say make you right wing. I don't know how old you are. I suspect we're probably similar age. I think a bit older. I'm 44. I'm 40. So when I was growing up, and in fact, when I was a young man and a young adult, you know, thinking that there's a difference between men and words, or that countries, of course, should welcome immigrants like me, but we should have borders that are enforced. Right? These were all things that Barack Obama and I agreed on, you know what I mean? And so unless Barack Obama has become right wing, I don't really think of myself right wing as right wing. And of course, the issue that I principally started talking about when I used to be a stand up comedian was freedom of expression. And I always thought of that as an extremely liberal value that is what we protect in the West. And that's kind of one of the things that makes the West unique and special. So I don't think of myself as right wing because none of my views are right wing. It's just what's happened is a bunch of crazy people have taken the left off the deep end. Whereas I've stayed exactly where I've been. Do you know what I mean? So I'm very relieved because to hear you say you don't think of me that way, because quite a lot of people would like to think of me as on that side of the political spectrum. And many of them are on that side. Conservatives want, they keep thinking that I am one of them. And look, I've got wonderful conservative friends, but I always kind of have to put that disclaimer in because I really believe in creative destruction quite a lot. Conservatives often want to keep things exactly as they are. I think creative destruction is important. Coming from a comedy background, I think having a sense of humor is important and conservatives can do, but not always. So I'm relieved about that because that's a big frustration of mine, the way that the political climate's changed, where like having some very normal common sense opinions has become controversial. So in many ways, it's not that I'm grifting, it's that the world around me has put me in a position where it's like saying some really obvious and normal things makes you controversial. Well, if that's the situation we're in, fine, I'll say those controversial things. Yeah, but I also think you're framing things in a rational and reasonable way. And I don't think you're trying to inflame situations where some people are discussing the same issues that you're discussing. I think they are trying to inflame the issues and they're being provocative. And I don't think you are being provocative. And I think that's why I've enjoyed following you and regularly just having to look through your feed on Twitter, see what you're, I mean, I look today, I forgot the comedian, the Scottish comedian's name, but in relation to Rosanna? Yeah, Graham Linham, he's Irish, but he's one of the best comedy writers we've had. He wrote The IT Crowd, Father Ted, all sorts of things. And yeah, the show that he was part of has been canceled in Edinburgh, that's what we've been. But you wrote a long and very kind and well -structured response to her. And that's what I think has been missing in the discourse is that I don't think anyone who's done that has actually managed to break through. All that's managed to break through is people who maybe are inflammatory, who are overly provocative, who are trying to stoke a culture war. And you may say it exists, but it's, you go to America law, I go to America law. It's certainly not like it is in America. I would hate that to come here. Well, I think it has come here, unfortunately. I think that we are in a place, I always say this when I'm in America, whatever you guys flush down the toilet in the UK, we get served for breakfast the next day. And I do feel that that's happened. I mean, obviously you mentioned Graham Linham is controversial because of his views about transgender ideology and various things to do with that. And we've had that issue. Now I actually think on that particular issue, we're doing much better now because the Tavistock clinic where a lot of these surgeries were happening has been shut down as a result of various investigations into it. We have an interview with Hannah Barnes coming out, who's a Newsnight journalist who wrote a book about what was happening there. Um, so in, in many ways, I don't think we can avoid the reality that we now live in a kind of almost shared media space with the U S and we inevitably get caught up in many of the conversations. I don't know if you've noticed, but abortion, for example, I think when you and I would have been growing up here, it wasn't really an issue that anyone debated or talked about. It was kind of a settled issue. Um, it's increasingly not. And I think that's partly because we're downloading a lot of our sort of memes from America. Yeah. I don't think people fully understood though that we, we have pretty established abortion laws here in the UK. And so I'm, I've not seen that becoming a, an issue of debate. Am I missing something? Yeah, it will definitely, you will see that coming through increasingly. Yeah, for sure. Interesting. Well, um, well let's like say, I mean, it is great to talk to you. Um, I know you focus a lot on the issues of woke ism, um, and the kind of pervasive effect it has been having on society. Um, but my hope is here in the UK, we can be a bit more civilized, rational, reasonable about dealing with these issues because my, my thoughts on when I see everything in America is everything seems to be a binary argument and that nuance middle ground where issues are discussed tend to be missed. And I think I found that that's where even if you hold a firm position, you are also diving into the nuance a bit and having a rational argument. Yeah. Well, look, I believe in persuading people. I think that's how you change the culture. Um, you, you have to meet people where they are and persuade them. And one of the great things about trigonometry over the last five and a half years, we've had people on the show who've persuaded us and have changed our minds about issues. So I know from personal experience that people when exposed to rational argument that's made without cruelty or without malice, uh, many people, if they give it the time to actually think it through will change their perspective if they're presented with a coherent argument. Um, you know, and so I've always tried to combine that with a bit of humor and a bit of levity, um, and some facts, you know, which I think is important. And that to me is the way that if there is such a thing as a culture war, which in my opinion we are in, uh, then the way that gets one is by persuading most people who've got, you know, people have got families and jobs and sick parents and kids that need to be taken to football or whatever. Most people don't have time to delve deeply into obscure some issue that affects, you know, 1 % of the public. However, I think there are some issues on which it becomes important to win the debate, to win, to win the argument. And in my opinion, the way to do that is by coming across as reasonable and rational. But look, I understand as well, you know, on some of the stuff that we talk about, you know, for me, for example, uh, my family, uh, fled the Soviet Union because they were punished for speaking their mind. I have a bit of a sensitivity when it comes to seeing people shut down for expressing opinions that some people don't like. To me that I, do you see what I mean? That's like a bit of a trauma spot almost for me. Well, I'm in a five year lawsuit for a number of tweets. Oh yeah. Yeah. So, uh, you know, I, I, that's my biggest envy of America is their first amendment protection. I'm the same. So when I see stuff like that, it sends me up the wall. And so I do understand people who are outraged about things. My feeling though, is that that is an unproductive way of being for you as an individual, first and foremost, it doesn't make you feel good. It doesn't make you a constructive person in the world. It doesn't make you a good parent or a good husband or a good anything. And so more than anything, my journey personally has been to kind of, uh, be more, more relaxed and more understanding of different perspectives and whatever. And then I think you're much more able to persuade people who don't already agree with you. So for example, after my, uh, speech at the Oxford union, which did very well, I had, you know, Hollywood love is reaching out to me going, you know what? I really liked what you said about this people that you, you know, no one listening or watching to this, uh, listen to this or watching this would have thought would have anything to do with me or what I'm saying. Um, and that to me is really gratifying because look, sometimes you have to rile up your base and there are people who will do that very well. For me, I think we have to win the argument. We have to remind people how valuable it is that we have what we have in the West and that in our desire to perfect our society, we don't throw the baby away with the bathwater. So when you mentioned early, you've had some people on who've changed your mind on things like what stands out for you? So we had a very controversial, um, women's rights campaigner called Posey Parker, uh, early on in the history of show, this is 2018. Uh, I know it feels like we're banging on about trans all episodes, but since you asked me, I'm just telling you one of the most, it's also one, it's probably the most of one of the most watched into, I think it is the most watched interview on our channel as well, because what you see is Francis and I, my cohost, two comedians wading into an issue, which at the time nobody was really talking about. And we are coming at it with a set of, you know, ideas about being compassionate and not offending people and whatever. And you see this woman come on and be very clear and basically win the argument against us on our own show and change our minds. And what was her argument? What was the competing argument? Well, I think people should go and watch the interview. Uh, but her argument, the title of the episode is trans women aren't women. Okay. Which for us two comedians at the time operating on an extremely progressive comedy circuit was like, I remember we were like strategizing is like, what happens? I mean, I'm guessing that we were thinking, well, you know, this video will probably get taken down. Our channel might get taken down. What are we going to do? And we were thinking about that ahead of time. Cause we knew it was controversial, but we also felt a duty to the truth. And the truth was that she made sense. And most of the arguments that we put forward to her as devil's advocate or counterarguments didn't stack up to the reality of what she was saying. Right. Uh, and I think that is it. And that is probably why it's one of our most, most watched of episodes because you're seeing good faith engagement between people trying to get to the truth in which they actually get closer to the truth, you know, and you don't see a lot of that happening because in most of our public discourse, public conversations, it's like, you've got two people with rigid positions coming together to have a bitch fight. And it wasn't that at all. And, and, you know, for that reason, I think it was very transformative, but then, you know, you, you talked to all sorts of people, um, uh, many of our guests have really opened our eyes to different things. So, uh, that's really one example that I would give. Yeah. And it's interesting because you say there, you were worried about, uh, on the comedy circuit, the, uh, reactions to people you're worried about your channel. And so there's almost that, that, that fear that puts you in a position to, we need to self -censor. Yes. Which itself is a horrible form of censorship, uh, censorship. I self -censor, uh, self -censor all the time on Twitter. I always think I, you know, I think I'll probably just discuss that in private with my friends. There's certain discussions, debates that you want to have that you just aren't willing to have in public because it's not that I don't believe my points of view. It's almost like I don't, I haven't fully formed them. You have to almost debate them to get to the point where you formed them, but if you can't debate them in public, you have to debate them privately. And this is why I think free speech is so important. And I think it's, it's such a, it's so sad that we don't have it here because we're not allowing people to, to find that truth. That is such a profound point. And I'm really glad you made it. I actually have a whole chapter in my, in my book about language. And this is one of the things that people are not willing to recognize quite often, particularly the people who are more on the side of preventing certain conversations from being had, which is you have to speak to think, and therefore not everything you're going to say is going to come out as a fully formed, perfectly phrased, exactly carefully calibrated thing, particularly in text where you miss most of the communication that's happening between human beings, which is visual and your tone of voice and the way your face looks when you say it and all of that. And it's condensed into a very short message for which for any nuanced issue is not enough characters. Um, but I agree with you, man. We have to be able to have conversations, particularly about contentious issues because they're contentious for a reason, which is that people do not agree, right? And so how do you get to a position where everyone's views are properly formed and taken into account when it comes to making government policy or public opinion about things and whatever. The only way that happens really is if you have honest discussion and conversation. Now, social media is not the best platform for it necessarily in the sense that it's conducted in public and that creates a set of perverse incentives for people to look good at the expense of others. Uh, but I, I think we're in the early stages of social media. We as human beings haven't really, it's kind of like cars, but without seat belts yet, you know, uh, I think over time we will hopefully work out ways of communicating online that are more conducive to healthy conversation. And part of that comes from, uh, you know, all of us working out, well, what is it that I really want to say? You know, mentioned it was kind of you to say that reply I had to Rosanna this morning. I have to be honest and say that three years ago, I would have phrased that very differently. I would have just been like, look, how do I make her look stupid? Blah, blah, blah. Cause that's how, that's how you get attention online. And then it's the perverse incentives that it creates. But I think as you will know, as your audience grows and your platform grows, you do feel a sense of, you know, it's important to say the truth, but it's also important to be responsible with what you're saying, which makes it easier for people to hear. Well, I sometimes feel like that, um, making someone look stupid on online, it's a bit like smoking. Yeah. It might feel good instantly, but after you feel that kind of dirtiness afterwards and you know, I'm a hypocrite. I do it sometimes. Yeah. Other times I, you know, try and do a, uh, uh, you know, more like you try and have a constructive discussion with somebody, but just back to that point of fully forming your arguments is it makes me think to my children, right? I mean, mine have been older than yours. I've got a 19 year old and 13 year old, but I still consider the 19 year old a child. And even though he's an adult legally, you know, we don't cancel our children from a very young age. I mean, the first time your child swears is hilarious. And then you teach them not to swear and, you know, they start to form ideas about the world and you help shape them. If you think they're going in the wrong direction, I don't think that should stop when we become an adult. I think that should carry through the entirety of your life is trying to figure these things out. And I think one of my biggest problems we have in the UK is we don't have enough high quality public debate. This can happen. It can happen on your show, but it's still kind of in the shadows. I, you know, I could watch something like question time on newsnight and I still feel like people are holding back. Yeah. Well, they are holding back as someone who's done those shows. I can tell you. Well, look, I also think, you know, um, I'm increasingly moving away from the perspective on this that I had probably for the first three to four years of us doing trigonometry, which was about, look, all the mainstream institutions are corrupt and captured by this worldview, whether you want to call it radical progressivism or whatever. And I'm not saying that as someone as an outsider, I used to go into the BBC and still do. I used to do, and this was before I had any profile, which made it easier. So, you know, I've got dark skin, first -generation immigrant, foreign name, blah, blah, blah. And they would automatically assume that I was one of them. I thought like them, you know, diversity, inclusion, and equity. Right. And when they speak openly behind the scenes about how they see the world, you're going, this institution is completely captured, right? It is riddled with a particular mindset.
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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know, the We're All Melting Edition. Yeah, I'm just a, just a migrating fern. Oh, that's a good one to be. Blowing through the forest, looking for a new home. Sure. I'm a spore. What happens when you get there, spore? Well, I'll probably grow into a beautiful new fern, because ferns are pretty hardy. That's awesome, and I'll bet you'll contribute to society in all sorts of beneficial ways that ferns that were already there couldn't necessarily do. I hope so. There is fern stuff in here, and I have a wonderful fern scene at my camp. On the other side of the feeder creek that goes into the main creek, I call it, I even have a sign that says Fern Forest, and it's a forest of ferns. It's quite lovely. God knows where they're from, because those things can travel quite a bit, as we'll see. Yeah, they could be from, from, from Alabama. Easily. I'm not kidding. Easily, man. I've got a stat that's gonna blow your mind in a second. Oh, boy. Actually, I'll just bust it out now. You ready? Yeah, yeah. How far can a fern travel? A fern can travel, the Tasmanian tree fern in particular, can send its spores 500 to 800 kilometers. That's 300 to 500 miles from the mother plant. And, get this, a single frond, a frond, produces more than 750 million of those spores. So you can understand that ferns, I mean, you find ferns everywhere. They're really hardy. They can actually survive cold, colder temperatures than you would think. They also thrive in the tropics. They're like a really great pioneer plant. They usually are among the first large plants that show up in a, like, a newly cleared part of Earth, right? This all makes sense then. Okay, so what we're talking about then is that those ferns that showed up in this new place and said, hey, let's get this, let's get this biosphere going again. Let's get this biome back into shape after this wildfire or something like that. Or there was like a stampede because there was a really great ice cream truck that drove through one of those two. Those ferns have migrated. They came from Tasmania, apparently, all the way to wherever the ice cream truck was, and now they're there. And so they actually moved in that sense, which is really surprising because plants are what are known as sessile organisms. They don't move from place to place individually as organisms, but as a species, they can actually move around like inchworms. Pretty, pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I didn't really know much about this. We're talking about plant migration and the idea, well, not idea, the very real fact that just like humans and animals will go to more hospitable climbs as the climate may change or just, I don't know, just to seek a better place to be. Plants and trees and things on mass do the same thing. Yeah, and there's all sorts of ways that they do that, too. So they do it by dispersing their seeds or their spores in that case, fern spores or single -celled organisms. They're not like a seed technically, but they do the same thing, right? They show up in a place and set up shop and they start rocking out. Yeah, that's right. And ferns, you know, it depends and we'll get all into this stuff, but how fast this happens depends on different factors. How far these plants can migrate depends on different factors. Why this is happening is generally climate change and plants and trees and things are generally moving north or up in elevation if they hit mountains. Or south in the southern hemisphere. Exactly. So this is sort of the general pattern. And we mentioned ferns because, like you said, those spores can really haul. Ferns also mature very quickly and, you know, the wind can just, that's why I got a fern forest at my camp, probably. Yeah, so they check both of the boxes that you need to be a fast migrating plant species. They produce seeds or spores at a very young age and their seed or spore can travel very far distances, right? Right. So they can move around. And also it doesn't hurt that, like I said, ferns are adaptable. The trees and other plants don't move quite so fast, but they move, especially if you look at the fossil record, a lot faster than they actually should. So if you pay attention to a single organism, say an oak, those acorns don't travel terribly far. They may get a little further away from the drip line if a squirrel happens to bury it somewhere and a new oak tree grows. I think it was Anders Sandberg who described acorns as solar powered factories for producing more oak trees. Whoa, whoa, Andy Sandberg said that? No, Anders Sandberg. Oh, OK. He's a philosopher at Oxford. That makes a lot more sense. Yeah, yeah. Andy Sandberg, he ate his lime accidentally in his Corona bottle. That's what he's got. You know who he's married to? Uh, Patricia Arquette. No, it's not a bad guess. You've been guessing Patricia Arquette for a lot of things lately, I feel like. Have I? He's married to, yeah, I feel like that's come up before recently, maybe, I don't know. Her name just rolls off the tongue. I know, a big fan of hers. He is married to, what's her name, Joanna Newsome, the singer and harpist. Oh, neat. And if you like, if you're into architecture and homes, you should seek out, I don't know if it was Architectural Digest or something, but someone did a spread on their home and it is really something else. OK, so that's Andy Sandberg hour that we just checked out. A quick detour. Wait, wait, I wasn't done. Oh, no, go ahead. So if you look at an individual tree, an oak tree, those acorns don't go particularly far away from the tree, as the old saying goes. But the fact that they do fall away from the tree means that very slowly, some of those seedlings are going to grow up a little more northward or a little more southward than its mother plant. And very, very slowly, the whole group of oaks can move southward or northward, right? Over hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of years. So long. The thing is, if you look at the fossil record, they move way faster than that, than they should. And there is actually a paradox that was named by a guy named Clement Reed, right? Reed's paradox. Yeah, he's got a great, great title for it. Of Rapid Plant Migration. That's the full title. It sounds almost like snake oil from the 19th century. Yeah, it kind of does. So what is it? Oh, OK, I didn't ever set me up. We're still tight after all these years. For sure. So what he found from the fossil record, like you were talking about, and as we'll see, that's one pretty good way to study this stuff, especially pollen fossils, right? Yeah, because they're so hardy. Yeah, so he saw that trees were migrating a lot faster than the rate that you would think. And so those oaks, I think, was one example you gave on the British Isles after the last glacial period over a span of like 10 ,000 years or so. They traveled about 600 miles and it would normally take about a million years. If the seeds were just dispersed in a typical way. But what he figured was that what may be happening here is like some weird weather event happens that sent things much farther than usual or like some deer or something eats something and then poops out something really far away from where it started. And so all of a sudden this animal has spread it via their poo poo. Right, and this is how like large scale migration happens or I should say rapid migration over long distances, right? Right, yeah. It's the unusual, not just the acorn falling and hitting the ground, it's not just gravity assisted, it's animal assisted, which is called zucory or it's wind assisted, which is called anemocory or water assisted, which is called hydrocory. And that's just the way that some plants disperse their seeds. That's kind of on top of the normal way they disperse it, which is just dropping it from their leaves or the spores blowing on the wind, which I guess is one type of cori. So like if a squirrel loaded up its mouth full of things and somehow found its way into your camper as you set off for Arizona. That would be a freak event, sure. It probably wouldn't be en masse, but you know, that's a way a tree could move. All it takes is that one oak to make it, to just survive, and then it starts its own new part of the range. Yeah, absolutely. And we all should point out, when was Reid doing this? This is a while ago, like 100 plus years ago, right? Yeah, he was a geologist, I don't know if we said, but Reid's paradox of rapid plant migration came out in 1899 and it was a smash hit. Yeah, so people, I mean, for at least that long, science has been sort of curious about this migration happening at a rate that they would not expect. Right. The thing is, is it's really hard when you throw in the X factor to calculate how fast an actual species can migrate. And there's a few ways that you can study that kind of thing. One, as you said, is studying the fossil record, which is super helpful. But it's not showing you what's going on contemporaneously or within the last couple decades. This is 10 ,000, a million years ago, something like that, right? Yeah. So if you wanted to study something a little closer to home timeline, timeline wise, you would maybe set up what's called a permanent vegetation plot. You would just, you would mark off an area and you would go back there, you know, every so often, like every six months or every year or so, and just sort of chart what's I think they've been doing this for about 100 years since the 1920s. So we've got a pretty good data set there. Something else you could do is go somewhere like let's say you dug up some cool scientific journal from a scientist from, you know, 200 years ago that went and explored some island. And while they may not have like charted everything out exactly like you would in today's science, they may have a really nice diary about all the plant life there and things that they saw there and where it might be. And you could go back to that place. And it's not quite as tight of a record, but you could still get a pretty good idea of what's happening. Yeah, depending on whose journal you're working from. And back in 2012, a Danish team of scientists followed the record left by a 19th century geologist named Alexander von Humboldt from Germany, who was just an interesting dude in and of himself. He called coffee concentrated sunbeams. So he's my kind of guy. Oh, man, that's great. They went back to Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, which Humboldt studied in detail. And not only did he study the vegetation there, and he classified all sorts of new plants that Europeans didn't know about at that point. He also noted exactly where they were on the mountain as far as the elevation went. Super helpful. Super helpful. So based on this information, the 2012 Danes were able to go back and recreate his trip. And then they were able to note what plants were where. And they found that everything, all species on average, had moved up the mountain by about an average of about 500 meters, which is significant. It's like almost a mile. It's like eight tenths of a mile. Yeah. Yeah, that's the average. Yeah. There was a lot of variation within that, but that's that's a long way for sure. And what we found out and I guess this comes up a little later, but a plant can find more climbs hospitable going up 500 meters than they might by going, let's just say north, like 90 to 100 miles. Yes. So like a much quicker road to better climbs if you just go up that mountain. For sure. Yeah, that's kind of two ways they move is longitudinally or altitudinally. You got to be in shape, though. Oh, for sure. You're going to climb that mountain.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from YSAs and Church History Questions
"Hey everyone, this is Kurt Frank. I'm the host of the leading Saints podcast and I'm excited to help premiere a new podcast That is actually produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints This podcast is called at the table creating space for single members of the church I actually had the pleasure of partnering with the church to help produce this podcast And so I wanted to make sure the leading Saints audience is aware of it This is the final episode that we are publishing on the leading Saints podcast feed We encourage you to listen to the other episodes by subscribing to the at the table podcast on whatever platform You are listening to leading Saints to help the church improve the podcast content There is a link in the show notes for this specific episode after listening We encourage you to take the time to fill out that short feedback survey now Let's jump into this week's episode where we'll hear young single adults and church history topics Welcome to the at the table podcast a production of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints on this podcast We aim to explore how church leaders can more effectively understand and utilize the voices of young single adults In their words and stakes you'll hear from experienced church leaders and young single adults about best practices Inspiring stories and encouraging methods to help us all follow Jesus Christ together. My name is Kami Castrijon I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there and I moved to the United States when I was 16 I moved to the big city of New York and that's where I joined the church and then soon after I served my mission in Riverside California then after my mission I moved to Utah and I've been here ever since I love dancing Especially salsa hiking baking and I am thrilled to be part of this Amazing podcast at the table. I'm Jared Pearson. I have the pleasure to be a co -host on the at table podcast I am currently in Provo Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California right outside San Francisco, California I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire the New Hampshire Manchester mission and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball Tennis or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well, and I'm just really excited to be part of this Welcome back to the at the table podcast. I'm here with Jared. Hey, how's it going? Great, and we're here with Claire and Matt. Welcome Claire and Matt. Hi happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you we're gonna start with just getting to know you if you can tell us about who you are and What you do we're talking to church historians here and we're excited to learn more about what you do Well, I'm Claire Haney, I'm an associate historian with the church history department I've been there for a little over four years My background is in history from BYU and a master's degree in history from Oxford University I've been with the church history department ever since I graduated Cool. What about you Matt? My Matt McBride and I'm the director of publications for church history. I'm a historian I was trying I went to graduate school up at the University of Utah and I've worked at the church history department for about 12 years and love it. We work on the Joseph Smith papers. We work on Saints, which is the church's official history the four volume history and It's just a really great place to be So we're here today and we're talking in the context of YSAs and YSA leaders and we kind of just wanted to outline What are you hoping to accomplish here today and talking about churches for your other topics as well? Well as a As a member of this demographic as a YSA myself I would say I have a lot of close friends and family members who have struggled with church history questions and have not always known how to find the right resources and have not always been met with with empathy and with understanding as they've brought those questions to leaders in the church So what we're hoping to do today is is provide some some helpful tips and guidance of how to help leaders and and Those they lead to feel like they have access to the resources that they need to find answers to their questions maybe add that All of us may be in one way or another experience that something traumatic in our in our lives And it certainly can be traumatic sometimes to discover something about church history that that maybe troubles you or something You didn't know about and it's new but one of the most important Things that somebody who's had that kind of an experience needs is a nurturing relationship to help them through it and so so I think that's maybe the most important thing we could focus on is how We can as people in a position to counsel and help and support those who have questions about church history How can we how can we provide that kind of a nurturing relationship that will help them land in a in a good place? Thank you for that Being a YSA too.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from O. W. Root
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Mataxas. Ladies and gentlemen, if you've listened to me over the years, or if you've followed me on any level over the years, you know that I believe that everything means something. Everything is connected. And that includes how we dress. If you dress like a slob, no offense to the slobs who are listening. But if you dress like a slob, it says something. It's not just that that's how you dress. Everything matters. And I came to understand this through my friend Tim Raglin. I've talked about him on this program before. He is one of my dearest, oldest friends. Well, he and I did many books together. He's an illustrator, genius illustrator. And Tim Raglin, if you're familiar with my Uncle Muggsy books, Muggsy and the Terrible Twins of Christmas, Uncle Muggsy, Yankee Doodle Muggsy, The Birthday ABC. These are three children's books that I have written, which you can find at where you can find them at my store dot com. If you go to my store dot com. But Tim Raglin's illustrations are brilliant and gorgeous and amazing. But it was Tim who really helped me. This is like probably in the late 80s, begin to understand why what you wear matters, why men's fashion matters, why getting dressed up in this way or that way matters. And it's something that I've been interested in over the years. And so I'm really thrilled today to have someone as my guest to discuss this. He goes by O .W. Those are two initials. O .W. Root. I follow him on Twitter at necktie salvage, necktie salvage. But I'm just excited to talk to him about things that matter to me and I hope will matter to you. O .W. Root, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me. You are wearing a seersucker jacket and a white shirt necktie looking snappy. I feel every time I'm talking to you or to Roger Stone on the program, I suddenly feel ashamed because I'm not wearing a tie. I think a tie can look a little ridiculous when I'm in this kind of informal setting behind me. But we'll put that to the side. You're looking great. So as far as my audience goes, who are you and how did you come to be interested in men's fashion as something more than simply what we wear? What I focus on is the idea of civilization and aesthetics. What do aesthetics mean? What do they reveal about our culture, our values? And we obviously think about aesthetics when it comes to architecture, decor, everything, but also our clothing, our clothing, our aesthetics as well. Our clothing reveals our values, what we believe, who we are, both personally and as a group as well. And when we look around, what does the clothing of man today reveal about the state of civilization and his civilization? What is it that he believes? It's nothing good. And what I focus on is an ascendant approach to aesthetics, trying to explore idea this of man, higher man, man in ascent rather than man degraded, and how clothes can build man up and reveal something deep and meaningful about his culture, his values, his beliefs, and who he is. And I do all of that within an Ivy style prep style, Ivy prep framework, classic American style. Well, it's interesting. I think about these issues all the time. The other day, I went for a run, so I'm dressed the way you would be dressed to go for a run. And I ended up in Central Park. I sat on a bench in Central Park and was making a phone call or something. And I saw two young women walk past me dressed beautifully, really beautifully. And this is in the middle of a summer day. And one of them was wearing like an empire dress, empire waist dress or something. But the point is that they were dressed like you just looked up and you thought, wow, how beautiful, how elegant. It wasn't overly elegant. And then it dawned on me that the way they were addressed was actually only appropriately. In other words, it's not like they had to be going to a wedding or something like that. They may have been going to a wedding. But the point is they looked like two young women dressed elegantly walking through the park. But it was startling to me because it everyone used to sort of dress up. You wouldn't go out in public. You wouldn't go into the park. You wouldn't go anywhere, really, unless you were sort of wearing the uniform of what young men and young women or men and women would wear. A man would wear a jacket. It had nothing to do with how much money you had. So I was really struck in a way by that, that I thought to myself. And yet they're only dressed appropriately, but appropriately means beautifully, elegantly. They didn't need to go to some dramatic effort, but they just looked like they had made some effort. They just looked decent. They looked appropriate. They looked like they had a sense of dignity about them, tremendous dignity. And it was it's just but it was so beautiful to see that and so startling. I'm sorry to say it was startling, but we do live in an era where this stuff has gone downhill. Somebody said, I think it was Alan Flusser wrote that in the 60s, this is where this all began. And we can talk about the larger issue. But in the 60s was the first time where kind of adolescent culture took over. And it used to be that boys would look to their dads in terms of how to dress or girls would look to their mothers, how to dress. Something happened in the 60s. It was all turned around where older people look to kids in terms of how do I want to dress. So something really fundamentally upside down was what came into the culture. And it's this false egalitarian view. But anyway, this is something that you're clearly up on. But what was it that brought you into this? What was it that got you interested in this? When did this happen for you, so to speak? You know, I was always more into style than lots of other American men, not necessarily this style. When I was really young, I got into neoprep, you know, really bold preppy style in the early 2000s. Then you weave here and there. But then it was when I got older and I started to, it wasn't until I had kids, actually, that my idea about this really clicked fully. And you spoke about kids. This is a perfect example. We teach our children, our sons in aesthetic language, what we wear, they learn, this is how a man looks. This is how my dad looks. I have a memory. I've talked about this multiple times. I remember seeing my dad. My dad would always wear Navy Blazer, Chinos, OCBD, Oxford cloth button down. He would always wear it. This is what he wore. I remember seeing my dad as a kid and thinking, oh, this is how a dad looks. This is how I look when I'm a dad. And that's a learning. That's a learning. This is how you learn. That's what you said. Boys learn from their fathers how to dress. Girls learn from their mothers how to dress. And that sixties was an inversion. And so I remember when I was as a child learning that, internalizing that. And I started to think more about this as I got older and older. As I said, I was always into style, but more just, this is enjoyable. I didn't start to get into the deeper ideas of what it means culturally, civilizationally for the form of man versus the form of woman until I was older. And I didn't start to really take that seriously until I had children. Well, it's interesting, you know, that what we're talking, I was saying before that one of my favorite books in the world is called Chancellor of the Dance by Thomas Toward. And he talks about how everything means everything, the secular view that there's no meaning in the universe, that nothing means anything. The opposite view is that everything means everything. Everything points to something else. Everything points to truth and points to other things. And so how we does something, say whether we want it to or don't, how a building looks, a building can make you feel small or it can make you it can ennoble you. It can make you feel wonderful. And there's the great line from the Yale architecture professor. Now, I can't remember his name. Now it'll come to me. But but talking about the old Penn Station, which was this glorious building, and he says one strode into the old Penn Station like a god, one scuttles into the new Penn Station like a rat. And you think, what is it about aesthetics, about a building that can make you feel beautiful and dignified and noble or can make you feel small and crushed? What is it about brutalist architecture? All of these things matter. We're talking to O .W. Root about these things as pertains to particularly what men wear. And we'll be right back.
AP News Radio
Ed Ames, '50s pop singer with Ames Brothers and '60s TV star in 'Daniel Boone,' dies at 95
"Singer turned to actor Ed Ames has died of Alzheimer's disease, according to his wife, Ames was 95. I'm Archie's are a letter with a look at his career. Ed Ames was the youngest of the Ames brothers. They had a string of hits in the 1950s with the naughty lady of shady lane, sentimental me and rag mop. You don't have to worry. Do you think I'd endanger the lives of those two children? Ames turned to acting and is best known for playing mingo, the Oxford educated Native American on the TV series Daniel Boone. He was also known for one of the most popular bits ever on The Tonight Show. In 1965, he was asked to throw hatchets at a cowboy target painted on wood. His hatchet hit the target squarely between the legs.
AP News Radio
On this week's AP Religion Roundup, King Charles recognizes a spectrum of faiths in today's United Kingdom.
"On this week's AP religion roundup at his coronation, King Charles recognizes a spectrum of faith in today's United Kingdom. At a time when religion is entwined and tensions around the world, King Charles is trying to bridge the differences between the faith groups that make up Britain's increasingly diverse society. This is on display at his coronation when religious leaders representing Buddhist Hindu Jewish and other traditions will play an active role in the ceremonies for the first time. For decades, Charles has suggested that he would like to be known as the defender of faith, a small but hugely symbolic change from the monarch's traditional title of defender of the faith, meaning Christianity. When he says he wants to be defender of faiths, that means the world. Nikki Liz is a rabbi in North London. Our history hasn't always been so simple, and we haven't always lived freely. We haven't been able to practice our religion, but knowing that King Charles acts this way and speaks this way, is tremendously comforting. King Charles has expressed an appreciation for Hindu practices, including the healing power of yoga. At once called Islam, one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity. The director of the Oxford center for Islamic studies says he appreciates the king's recognition of the UK's array of religious groups. To have all citizens feel that they have their valued in their own countries. There is that respect and protection that the desire from the government. So that there is the same sense of belonging in these places. And I think there is no one better. Who could express this than the monarch. 70 years ago, more than 80% of people in England were Christian. That figure has now dropped below half with 37%, saying they have no religion, 6.5% calling themselves Muslim and 1.7% Hindu. The change is even more pronounced in London, where more than a quarter of the population have a non Christian faith. I'm Walter ratliff.
AP News Radio
US wholesale inflation pressures eased sharply last month
"Wholesale prices fell last month in encouraging sign of easing inflation. The Labor Department's producer price index, which reflects prices charged by manufacturers, farmers, and wholesalers, was down half a percent from February to March. That was led by a big drop in the price of gasoline, year over year, wholesale prices were up 2.7%, the mildest 12 month increase since January of 2021, and way down from 11.7 this time last year. Excluding volatile food and energy, the core rate considered a better gauge of underlying inflation was down 0.1%, putting it at 3.4% annually, economists with Oxford economics say we expect the bite from the fed's previous rate hikes will further reduce business and consumer demand, pushing producer price inflation lower throughout the rest of the year. The report follows news Wednesday, the consumer inflation eased slightly, and that fed economists are forecasting a pullback in bank lending will cause a mild recession. Jennifer King, Washington
The Charlie Kirk Show
Joe Allen Describes Why Elon Musk Thinks A.I. Is So Risky
"So Joe, we see, let me read a quote here from Elon Musk. He says AI is one of the biggest risks to civilization. Why does he believe that? Primarily, Charlie, he believes that because of the work of Nick bostrom who is an Oxford philosopher transhumanist cofounder of the world transhumanist association and Nick bostrom published a book in 2014 called super intelligence. And super intelligence basically lays out all of the different paths that an artificial intelligence system or series of systems could make to superhuman intelligence and then how those systems could destroy all of humanity or at least some significant portion of it. So Musk has been has taken this up really since 2014 is when you really start hearing him speak out about this, mainly because of that book. And Nick bostrom incidentally is also it was also very much influenced by Elise. It was at the machine intelligence research institute and is the one who really has stirred up all of this controversy about whether or not artificial intelligence poses an existential threat because of an especially because of a Time Magazine op-ed that he published around the same time that Elon Musk and company signed their open letter for an AI moratorium. Argued not that AI is a danger or some distant existential risk, maybe in the future he just flat out says if these systems are allowed to get above where they're at now and maybe if they're allowed to remain where they're at now, they will inevitably kill us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did C.S. Lewis Struggle With His Faith? Dr. Jerry Root Weighs In
"So C. S. Lewis kind of up there in the Pantheon of great Christian apologists. Can you just share briefly, did he ever struggle with his faith? And if so, how did he get to a place to be such a clear author and defender of Christianity? Well, when you say struggle, I don't know exactly what you mean. When his wife died, certainly there was a grief, but I don't think that the grief that he experienced in any way put his faith in jeopardy as some people want to suggest. Instead, I would say the struggles that he had are the struggles anybody should have when they realize that what they know is not complete. We can have a sure word about things. We'll never get a last word about anything. Any truth you know could still be Paul more deeply. It could be applied more widely and so on. So Lewis wrote this two different quotes. One is a statement he made in a ceremony preached at Oxford University called the weight of glory. And he said, if our religion is objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it, which seem puzzling or repellent for its precisely the puzzling or repellent, where we begin to discover we do not yet know and need to know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Immortal C.S. Lewis With Dr. Jerry Root
"This hour is going to really be focused on things that are eternal. In nature, and they're much more important than politics, politics is critical, obviously. We talk about it all the time. The politics is only part of a broader picture, we're going to talk about morality and religion, and eternity. Joining us now is doctor Jerry root. He's professor emeritus from Wheaton university. We could talk about that, but definitely want to talk about more importantly. His book, the neglected C. S. Lewis, and doctor root is with us. Now, doctor, welcome to the program. Thank you, Charlie. I'm grateful. Wonderful. So doctor root, I have personally been blessed by reading and studying C. S. Lewis. I've only really touched on 6 or 7 of his books, but I've enjoyed them thoroughly. I mean, he was prolific. But let me just start with a rather general question who was C. S. Lewis and why does he matter? C. S. Lewis taught at Oxford university for 20 9 years. He also taught at Cambridge University for 9. He grew up in Northern Ireland, and he was a guy who lost his mother when he was 9 years old and became an atheist as a result of that. And slowly he worked his way back to faith. And there was largely due to a conversation that he had with J.R.R. Tolkien is very close friend. But he had these longings that drove him and prompted him. He also had not only the longings of the heart, he also had a very sharp mind, and he needed to get over these intellectual barriers in order to come to fully embrace his faith. He was a prolific author. There are actually 73 titles under his name right now. He wrote 56 of them while he was living and the others he wrote after he died. No, they're actually collections of essays, letters that he wrote and so on that flush out the 73 volumes.
AP News Radio
Prostate cancer treatment can wait for most men, study finds
"A new study finds long-term evidence that actively monitoring localized prostate cancer, rather than taking action can be a safe option. British researchers studied 1600 patients with prostate cancer in the UK, who were randomly assigned surgery, radiation, or active monitoring. In all three groups, after 15 years, this survival rate was very high. 97%, regardless of the treatment option. Lead study author, doctor Freddie hamdi at the University of Oxford, says this is great news for men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer, and they shouldn't panic or rush a treatment decision. Others note those who can hold off on treatment can avoid the possible side effects of sexual difficulties or incontinence. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Trader Cobb Crypto Podcast
New Month, New Crypto Market Moves?
"Really nice to see that kind of January run I suppose. Sort of over two weeks really, the majority of that move, 54% from the low to the high. Other than to be sneezed at still looking a little bit shaky up there at the moment. I'd like to see it's either continue on from here or have a decent pullback on the weekly and then obviously I want to see it step up to a new high, high on the weekly. But I don't know. The question I've got for myself when I look at the market at the moment is, you know, those people that do dollar cost average or that they did buy when Bitcoin and the Oxford, down around that $16,000 Mark, the now sitting in some pretty solid profits. I wonder if the hangover of basically all of 2022 because there wasn't too much good news or goodness in 2022. Not too many opportunities for profit taking on the way up. I wonder if it's a number of people and we'll probably see this on the chart in the coming days and weeks. With a sort of going, oh, well, I bought a bunch back down there. Might take some of that profit and then whether or not they put it back in or not. So it's depending on who's going to have learned their lessons, potentially. It depends on the plans, they plan to take profits quick or do they plan to get a position for a long-term hold. Time will tell, but I'd like it if they held on to it, so that the supplied in all of a sudden, you know, outweigh the demand and we go back down.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kevin Sorbo Talks Scenes From 'Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist'
"Kevin, what are some of the films, some of the scenes in the film, you mentioned a scene at the UN that we could talk about that you thought were interesting? Well, it's sort of reveals who really Antichrist is. And I think there's a couple of characters in the movie that I'm not going to give it away that you have a good idea, but you don't have a positive idea. And that's sort of the reveal scene. And there's a scene in there with my wife actually, Sam sorbo is in it, and my son brayden sorbo is in the movie as well. And there's a scene that Sam and I do in the church, where she's not a believer, and I've come to become a believer doing my own due diligence and meeting with different people and going to the back to the church, my wife used to go to which is pretty much deserted now just homeless people living in there now, but there's a scene in there where she shows up and we have a really wonderful conversation. I always like the scene. I didn't know it was going to turn out the way it did. But it's kind of hits home for me because it deals with a photo of a picture that I had as a kid in my bedroom. It's a very famous artist that drew this. It's Jesus knocking on the door. But there's no door handle. Jeez. Thank you very much. Holman hunt, Jesus knocking at the door. I've seen the original of that painting. Oxford, England, it is in a chapel in Oxford England. Yeah. And it's beautiful. And I've been Oxford twice. I can't believe it. Next time I go. It's paint. I hope it's not, I hope it's not in Cambridge. I'm pretty sure it's Oxford, England. But anyway, it's in a chapel, and it's so beautiful.
The Mason Minute
No Link (MM #4033)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. I think I first began using a cellular phone back in like 1987 or 88. When one of my radio stations switched from two way radios to a phone installed in our station vehicle. By the early 1990s, we were all using some sort of handheld phone first N log now digital. And the one thing we've been hearing now for what 30 years is that cell phones could cause brain tumors. Well, according to researchers in England, there is no link between using a cell phone and developing a brain tumor. Researchers from Oxford have tracked more than 750,000 women in the UK for 20 years, now I realize it's just women they're tracking here, but they found that there is no link for people to use their phones every day or have used them for more than ten years. Any more, I don't have the phone up to my head anyway. I use headphones connected into it. So I don't have the phone sitting next to me all the time. But it's still something I worry about. Of course, there are people who are going to say this isn't true. It's all false information. But I'll tell you what, 750,000 people watched for 20 years. I feel a little bit more comfortable.
The Mason Minute
No Link (MM #4033)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. I think I first began using a cellular phone back in like 1987 or 88. When one of my radio stations switched from two way radios to a phone installed in our station vehicle. By the early 1990s, we were all using some sort of handheld phone first N log now digital. And the one thing we've been hearing now for what 30 years is that cell phones could cause brain tumors. Well, according to researchers in England, there is no link between using a cell phone and developing a brain tumor. Researchers from Oxford have tracked more than 750,000 women in the UK for 20 years, now I realize it's just women they're tracking here, but they found that there is no link for people to use their phones every day or have used them for more than ten years. Any more, I don't have the phone up to my head anyway. I use headphones connected into it. So I don't have the phone sitting next to me all the time. But it's still something I worry about. Of course, there are people who are going to say this isn't true. It's all false information. But I'll tell you what, 750,000 people watched for 20 years. I feel a little bit more comfortable.
The Mason Minute
No Link (MM #4033)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. I think I first began using a cellular phone back in like 1987 or 88. When one of my radio stations switched from two way radios to a phone installed in our station vehicle. By the early 1990s, we were all using some sort of handheld phone first N log now digital. And the one thing we've been hearing now for what 30 years is that cell phones could cause brain tumors. Well, according to researchers in England, there is no link between using a cell phone and developing a brain tumor. Researchers from Oxford have tracked more than 750,000 women in the UK for 20 years, now I realize it's just women they're tracking here, but they found that there is no link for people to use their phones every day or have used them for more than ten years. Any more, I don't have the phone up to my head anyway. I use headphones connected into it. So I don't have the phone sitting next to me all the time. But it's still something I worry about. Of course, there are people who are going to say this isn't true. It's all false information. But I'll tell you what, 750,000 people watched for 20 years. I feel a little bit more comfortable.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"oxford" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"London physiological logical. Society is the oldest organisation in great britain dedicated to the study of language formed in eighteen. Forty two one of their first objectives was to create a list of the deficiencies of the english language by eighteen. Eighty four they had hatched the idea of creating a new dictionary. That would solve the problems. They saw in current dictionaries. The process of whoever was incredibly slow. It took until eighteen fifty seven to establish a committee to create a list of unregistered words. These are words that weren't in current dictionaries or were poorly defined. If this had been the extent of what the illogical society had done. I wouldn't be doing an episode about this. The man who headed up. The committee was richard chenevix-trench. Trench was an interested in just coming up with a list of unregistered words. His ambition was much greater the report he produced with something else entirely. His report was titled on some deficiencies in our english dictionaries. It detailed all of the problems with current english language dictionaries in the nineteenth century. He noted problems. With the lack of coverage of obsolete words histories of words synonyms of words in poor examples and illustrations of words. What trench propose wasn't just a dictionary like the society had considered in the past. Trench was proposing writing the dictionary the most comprehensive dictionary of the english language. It wouldn't just be a list of words but of all of the words no longer in use and the history of all the words and where they came from. This would be a massive massive undertaking in eighteen fifty-eight the illogical society formerly called for the creation of a new dictionary which they called a new english dictionary on historical principles. First order of business was hiring someone to be the editor. Trench wasn't able to take on the assignment. As he was appointed the dean of westminster abbey. The job fell to herbert coleridge. Coleridge was only twenty nine. When he was appointed in eighteen sixty he created the outline in strategy for the entire project. He began the system to categorize the hundreds of thousands of quotes which would be required.
Oxford Education Podcast
"oxford" Discussed on Oxford Education Podcast
"This morning. I am really excited to welcome to the podcast. Sophie bartlett sofi is a year five six primary teacher. She's the english and curriculum needs for school. She's over the twenty seven thousand followers on twitter which gives a quite a lot of clout in the world of social media. And how does this. She came up with the hashtag. Teach like a champion champion bit of a play on a championship. We love that. We're gonna have to hear about that safety. Welcome to the podcast. Hello hi night. Thank you for having me. We so you can be with this. 'cause you're busy busy planning a wedding. Yeah we're trying to the bed time especially at my last year. That third time lucky last time lucky not going to be sunny and birds are going to say absolutely on our wedding day last year. It cold with rains that maybe it was a good thing. Get married las really. The gods shining dance to we just talked about teach champion. Just tell us a bit about that to kick yourself. I think from being on on twitter so long you so i found that it was really helpful but it also made me really anxious about teaching because i felt like everyone was always touching the best stuff in it. Made me feel like. I didn't teach not do that. And it just made me panicked. So i risk thought tweeting. Some of silly things happen only embarrassing. Things will the things a role and that she bit more traction easy for me that the united really good lessons what my friends suggested. Why don't we give it the hash. I teach trump Trying to find one and then people just started joining in is a really good way. Also just a bit of a dose of reality. Everyone has rubbish rubbish days. And it's nice to know that other people are doing the same things as you and it just feels like a big old saw from twitter. Sometimes you know what if you had a rubbish you go to each other and it was just a little bit of light relief. Basically
Oxford Education Podcast
"oxford" Discussed on Oxford Education Podcast
"That we want kids to be building and larry in them in their minds around language to unlock the world learning when they get to us. I'm sure that actually academic vocabulary in particular is going to be a really crucial element of that unpicking. Some of those words. What does it mean to review or analyze. What is a conclusion because unless these words really thought about the positive learning incorrectly questrom yelm. I think with nothing was was reading getting You'll read for pleasure making them understand extending the Making them understand what you're teaching them needs to give them the confidence to make it mean something today because it's that connection that it works isn't Thank all too too often. We feel as teachers. Cain of leading. Aren't me like while i'm trying to legislate a solve this thing on twitter Brought during the war. Didn't like mike heads can't do that. I should be did not not just for your children. Need not thank that relationship that we have with their classes. We knew what the that such an important point. Because i think teachers you right and twitter is a fabulous tool can be quite a an oppressive cloud of information. That can panic. But actually you're absolutely right. You are the expert in the room because they are your glasses and your contacts and you know what they need best to have that strength of knowledge and professionalism that you are making those right choices as really really crucial for us to remember and hang onto his name l. digitally. I think we can try and do too much daisley being guilty of arguing that we should do more than i think is probably right for children. Nas not arguing that some deserve some doing The goals the same but how we gave them their states have to be definitely can't be the opposite the connection with all even for that point we are painting tops for child and the gate language and the love language in the sierra links. Together if we do that too soon and try and start breaking things in hammond Prefixes and suffixes which i see as an angel the importance bibles see when you try and stay in teaching not instead of just getting them to lay on the wards On you're trying to push the race to You just lose them. Yeah we've all done it with when you're tiger movement so i try to nascar unborn me. Yeah it's true. I'm might have been given oliver twist a bit too young to me off. Yeah definitely you're right. it's about that. Lifelong learning and teaching for ten years doesn't mean teaching the same year ten times absolutely. Actually that's that's a really good point for me because you know i'm talk for twenty years and only now really talking to you. Does it make me think. Why are we not joining up our english and history departments a whole lot more because we need victoria. London kenzi smoke filled learning. We need to know about a whole plethora of historical context in in english. And you guys are busy doing. We're not joining up. King think fit. Everyone's sweethearts to their curriculum again. Maybe we've given the gift of kubat that we're all right. Well you've always taught this takes in the shia You've covered the On yes history. You've always liked to do this. The industrial revolution indeed there so much historical scholarship the antique Hair salon de and of skills department sat cpt titan to really build up update knowledge. Then you know they could change. You could find a way to teach the industrial revolution high school and still make it challenging. I with my husband's in english teacher regularly. We will be sent tv news..
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"Up into your seven in the impact to pool Davis it with language. But i think the coal is really important just that exposure to written historians I think again. It just depends on where you're you're challenge. Denied the students in front of the that are going to be. Some students have watched me to be. Are they watched the rebound civilizations. They might watch the original. You know they're really comfortable with that. Or the watched a few lacey in tight with their mom and dad to be some student super name. Maybe beard is been fantastically leader. Doesn't she won't be vape. She looks like her long haired like the way she talks excited. She gets to begin homepage. dress up to talk on and henry agree like we with language when as adults with perspective with a confidentially to be able to enjoy that and see if it is that these days. You'd want to have a glass of wine 'cause you knew she Dr dre overwhelming for young. People's i think understanding the you are for some teachers in schools that's is exposure for rush titan. You'd exposing children to this day. May they're gonna catch street a week. It might really turn them off To know the children from abbas. Nor thank i need exposed to this old italian Kind of planned and you need to alighted them to kind of feel a little bit in baddest. When they're watching these things 'cause in overtime that will change so you talking not i'm now thinking about horrible histories and how much my own children just to do the vile vikings and the rotten romans and all of that year. Do you think that that kind of a massive story led world of history is a valuable part of you. Talk it yet and i think that i really do actually and i think that i'll be guilty in the past of doom a long history teachers in history graduates which is a little bit snowmobile Affection for example. You know there'll be a bit well. That's not really what happened in. Actually you know who cares who cares if madden tailgate. Like the base shirt of mail. All i knew is that after reason. All of the.
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"What your take on. That might be it. Really old as -partment. I think we should have a real kind of falun between saying what we kind of have they already and autonomy as an individual teacher. I believe that as a head pot. I should be the thing what we want students than i. That teacher should decide how the pedagogy up to them as long as the children are learning. We've agreed so. We have what i schemes of knowledge so people kind of cool things aims of were planning is could. It's gain knowledge because it literally a list of our schemes of what we want students than i am not include key with definition of what we want to learn so that that kind of centralize saw this is the word. This is the main And obviously it helped. Acs because we have these key keyword shape than old colleague. Which is that is the same set. He was nine matter who's clause urine because we do. The same has thing on them. 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Yeah as long as students are achieving the things that we kind of agree a great way of teaching. But i this is why we we don't have be right. Otherwise why would become into teaching without. There's some people that are happy with that in some schools and i think is having a bit of individuality intake important. So in your dream your dream ari country. What would we see. What's going on on a traditional tate of that. they know. unfortunately i think that my my teaching sansei boring. My teacher sounds really boring because actually it a lot of quizzing testing what you want to call it. This is how to rico then input and that input is usually may talking or at different source of information usually such like but the thing that makes it kind of good ari is the fact that we then talk about it so i presented them with every information as whatever content concept that and brian start wearing and they start thinking and then the questions thought coming and the questions that's not generating out of additional knowledge. That might link the cross. That kind of gives opinions and thoughts. Unpicking was actually said. And that's what makes it. That's the bit that i comp plan account plan for the questions that students are going to ask and how they're going to kind of see the information that is given to them but that's what might different thing and dealing with those questions in in a way that move their thinking on and allows them all to contribute if they want to say yeah. I think that's the difference between them just watching video and me being there. If the article expertise hype play my to up to respond to be able to correct any misunderstanding and to kind of move their thinking on earth. Think where. I think taylor should be. Yeah and isn't that great. I mean i just think that's that is one of the best pictures that tennis game of conversation in a classroom where you can see pennies dropping and light switching on as young people. Really get the concept you were exploring kroft. Those talk situations do start small with just past. You'd start with to the whole class again. A cart traditional tends to be kind of whole cloth and individuals. Want to ask questions Day i need to kind of work on. I guess my friend is a great appetite of pasha and then then discussed cloth of really that property that but At the my. I can't believe i think it's all about relationships. And the students feel comfortable to ask me any question about anything of relevance the topic. I think there are some students wine. Etta bake or ask anything. I have a problem with that. Because if they don't want to talk to him talking. I think yeah. Do they have an opportunity to contribute in written way. Some lessons often have like you know that sort of secret postbox of questions or things they might want to have hinted that when they do they work. we say. I could say any misconceptions and it generally doesn't tend to happen even haven't off more questions. So i'm quite traditional in that kind of how cost on the whole. He's got something to say. It's going to be interesting to kind of when i was here and they arrive with it that i it the bat relationships i think they feel comfortable that they can ask the question about the topic. Without the faint relational other african question that everybody else understands the thing once you to stop that. And they're comfortable. I think my student and you listen to you. Know good orators. Giving tools thinking about me for an watson somebody who might be talking about a particular topic. 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"He became a great supporter of our charity films. really helped us on. Who's loaded lovely man and talking to one day about his findings physically finding writing Hard time is doing it. A long set at huntsville. Radio very sympathetic man. Sometimes here's a day of red. When in fact you being of its city tender is you will sit hunched up Bent over all the time. What do you expect stuff's to go wrong. So as you do it. They said oh electa. I stand electrode and rightly so stood. If you like balance properly turned so funds are gonna lectern if ted used social benadryl. That's why i'm telling us so. Student from his lectern and it was fine for about half now under my feet started. And so whatever i did it seemed to me. It was triggering. Some other folding distraction pain or whatever and then it is interesting. I read a lovely bulger favor. Mango stevenson migrate mental. Whose work on dole mischief. Because he could turn his anything. Doc adult novels he can write yawns for. Children can read poetry. Write travel books is just amazing. There and i was reading. Biography knows a picture of him photograph lying of big in samoa not long before his death they may be. I don't know but he was lying on the bed with his knees up in front of pilot up with penance behind scrubbing away. Those good enough treasure island. Don't try that the odroid nine done that episodes And any bed anyway. It's fine but it's good just to be stretched out a bit. Droid these and then you can adjust ever the you just your knees you gesture and also big plus you can go to sleep and if you look at stick well i think it needs in these days overall feeling quite snugly at them in outweigh you home with that. Look me surrounded by blankets record it. That's that's really really interesting. Thank you so. Apparently there's a new book coming out this east of the.
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"Loved it and we put it on a cd with the wonderful county mason family musicians and they've done this number. Made cd coleman myself reading these little poems. That i wrote which. I really love doing new approach offered by someone who thought i could write. Poetry doesn't why he sold that. Oh i think. I know i think i know why he thought. Do you think that there is a difference for you when you writing purchased as opposed to writing stories or is there a similar process that you go through in my poems. I was loved growing up with anything else in perjure. Not narrative very important applied has a story. And so in this case i did i think about seventeen. Eighteen poems about animals which sounds sorta sorta music around. And i mean the most famous one is swap The wonderful music. Music play by a stunning stunning. So there. i am on the beach in the go onto your right put well. And so it's a soldier's story. I decided would become the animal in deploy not stand back and look at it as swamp. But i'd be the so in this case i'm talking about swan. I am serene. I am signed am swung. I do not swim. Glide i do not fly i float. Aaron water are the same to me. You are all the same to me. And i am the swan you want to be. I will be swan on the lake. For all of you. I will read. The downside will raise the up. Beat my wings. I would sing with my wings. The sweetest song i will land impossibly gracefully. I would opt. i will be beautiful for you. i am beautiful for. I am swung but beware and take care. Come too close with my family following on and i can be swift anger than i am swift to be wild wild self again with the now. I am the swan. You won't be to be.
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"Amounts of world to boost language when children first anticipating some really lovely programs that professionals use in the early. And what do we do. What is available particularly as did the layering gone of language comes. It doesn't matter what setting you're in. Children are faced with the lot of language out both both written outspoken. In terms of you know we have language rich environment sultan at schools. Strive to have and then you know. How do we ensure access to that. So i think see pg and particularly in second drafting. It is a good portion. Where do where do professionals turn for. Support arm to toubro speech languishing. Half as part of our podcast off. There's going to be a little box of delights is now the. I know that they're putting a whole load of content in which is fab so try as much as we can in their to transport colleagues. Well what they can have. They'll definitely be some links to some websites. I mean there is quite lot stopped to look however teachers often have time to start searching. They walked to now. Where can i go to to find out some more information so there are some enchanted the lost some big voices around speech and language you prefer to some previously in some of your weapon sort tweet nasa night and it was a colleague he said it's half past eleven and i've still got another lesson plan and you just sing our call. Our colleagues are working so hard right now. Such incredibly trying time the moment and i think this perhaps what we're talking about now will will become something that teaches focus on again because i think we know that the word issues stunts at home whether whether we liked is no one 'cause now but they do have a huge relation to the language the experiences that children have homes. Yeah absolutely thank you what. Let's have a look at those two common barriers so in terms of accessing the curriculum an intractable appears. Would you say that. A common various for some of our young people with speech and language difficulties with special education need. Oh yeah okay with already have with is the most prevalent need as actionaid's the over twenty percent.
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"Tastes and and children are the same and so i tried the same books on my youngest. And he's just not having any he was. This is crazy. Twitter sense fake. This is wrong. I really like science fiction and my husband can't stand there and we've just read done each champion of the world which is just yes very sweet. I mean it's just something very very sweet to dial two and it is a lovely safe story that you know everything's gonna be alright not for. My youngest is quite necessary at the moment to present him with some world whereas i the parameters of the well but in here we will be safe like. Nothing's no way to come and get you. And i think that's what he didn't like vile unite sci-fi in that world is a on itchy. About on that you know the sort of ood what's going to happen there and it feels safer in that role dull world this and in that child need is a spark power and it you committee see him like wake up when you use inflection words in you can see him get infested in the store a because of the invoked. Some of the words used so sad story with amazing language in for children. I think you're amazing. App just bringing all of that to life when you read. Well i let things. We could see more addition that see. Well actually interesting. I look costs for stories. And i didn't identify you could recommend any any listeners. Recommend any but the some interesting people reading children's stories left tonight. I would be like as any good good question the question. I don't know an answer to a but maybe you should do it nor yes. Maybe i should chairing. That's why i just did it. Yeah let's have an finally which is that. We're all quite fixed on the tv right now. I think because there's not much else happening so wanted if you have any netflix's recommendations or could tv out there. What would you recommend for us in the next few weeks months any particular lines or just then watch. I need to finish the queen's gambit which was ups acquaint scam but yes loves. The gray began now. I am loving only obsessed with high kings. You've probably everyone seems like viking our happens. I'm racing here. it's really.
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"Take. It is not that fifth year saw was the fifth year but now she will eleven okay. Well it's the six then now. Don't complicate it took is still saying yes. He's twenty four months old. It's like you know what that means stick with the years. So you've got three lovely boys at home. What's it been like. What twenty twenty and now now lockdown to have lost count. yes yes lockdown. Three is is down. Three isn't it. Yeah well twenty. Twenty was sort of a mixed bag because we spent half in new zealand. Which was really nice the because it was lovely summery and nankai today and then we came back for the summer so we had another lovely summer and then it was a hot heim trip that and then at that point people were all. Don't worry about homeschooling. So nobody knows it's going to be calm and jenkin rapex and just have a nice time and it was but this time is definitely been a bit more like rugen is now seem code at nine. Am and then. There's another one nine forty then another one this on another one and then there's this so it's been you know the teachers have been really on my my boys living their best life because their own screen for seven said there on screen until three a day and then they on screen to play games took to that funds. So you're just like oh my god. My eggs are hunting. Parolees sarah okay. My eleven year olds very k. My six year old is different matter because he is. He's young he's year anyway and i think it's why denying that even children aged they learn interactivity massive land so it's really hard for him. He doesn't want people saying him on zane. He doesn't want to eat doesn't get excited by that. He's not my friends. Because that if anything. I wonder if it hurts him..
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"The white hold out we still going to that story bad weird obscure planet and and i did you see joma and really upset and i got the highest grade. Anyone had ethical in my school for jason. And when i took my a-levels a did really well in again. And that was you know. Maybe i could go on and do this and i mean it was. All i cared about was really was that i wasn't thinking of it as a career plan. It's really interesting. I was thinking of. I loved it. And i read plays reformed you perform monologues about the sap. It was really difficult to make some dyslexic. So that was like a minefield and are getting proven. When i'm seeing my levels that strodes college them and they were like. Yeah how you here. 'cause i mean you've got a great company that you can't spell or write essays and have no understanding of how you put something out there like i was just chaos so you knew you vote. Carry was really strong. And do you think that that's from learning lines. Is that from learning. Scripts resigned from the civil most of drama and being. Yeah i always loved reading Enough i always really love reading learning. And i think when you when you start learning about drama realize that everything is political and a things that have shaped the world have come through the stories that we've told and how important is it felt like really serious And in college. But it wasn't in my head. I was going to go off from be an actress that thought that was lee. Chris but wants to work in my world yet. I just wanted to keep reading caves and during the plays and stuff which is which is nice looking back and i think that's why you know i've read law an go inspired by wings because drama. Yeah fav- favorite role that you've played so far. It's hot same because jobs to say different enrolls to different. I'd be tempted to say. I love being often. I just love being and not being a part of it. you know. It's a smooth role that the wouldn't quite tonight. That my favorite person. Although i love pop shot but the role that i play in mystic which went out las jason film it we went to new zealand say week so i took my family and we're going back out in a few months to film the second and third series and that's really wonderful character because she is not like a so. Cbc mom she's a bit of a hot massey. She's had lost..
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"To tackle with. Your boss will be ready. Yeah awesome okay. Let's let's think about the link between the covering reading and sort of wants to think about in terms of not just the text which we know is too but the story behind the text i know certainly is a mum semi none left primary school. Not berry signed. My youngest is seven but sent in primary days. You know the days when they came home and said spaceship landed on the top failed. That's the catalyst for the piece of what they're doing about kits all or science picker whatever. It was an the primary school. My kids went to a brilliant at doing narrative based teaching and breathe to livestream that really events and dramas that would take place on the playground. She saying that. That's important to engage. Focus build the company franchi often. I mean as i said before. I absolutely loved the trauma in the classroom acting out characters. Really get into it. And i think that helps george mike capillary but will say to visualize the by capillary. Mike influences in terms of everything. I've been into schools where they thought the five brigades come comment because during the great fire of london the to read out to the children experienced. It not helps children. Who don't have that background. They might not necessarily have experienced hind. Bought the guessing not when they come to school and one of the things i say is that sometimes yes. The children have experienced that high But when they're in your skull that being supported by and you're going to help them enrich than with range of experiences drama activities going on trips when we can or even just watch the thing with like capital as it kind of fits nicely with reading because you want to sound the word defeat you to read and comprehend But i think sometimes we can't we to save much my capillary but we have to be mindful in terms of reading but it's just one of teaching ratings regarding around moment scalper model thousand one. We got a language structure. John that children need any to make inferences and they have much of the tax that mccaffery fit said within that wide bit of raising. I think why Important now as the aspect that we on excol teach children reading what we call a cowboy hat and the drama. And all of this. And so i think it just suppose saas with kind of focusing itchy like icon by capillary and making explicit joe adjusting if children are able to read the words to understand the not really reading Yet because of course where that leads you not forgotten but if a capital which i think you're right i mean i've been teaching. What twenty something years and really. We want focused on vocabulary explicitly. I think office implicit. And that's why we love teaching english in particular. Because you know you get to unpick like we were saying what what makes people take these gorgeous kids sitting in front of us and we get to know about them because we're talking about the country yet..
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"I just remember tweeting Train displaying release engaged with over a very young age that passionate about it take children who don't get our it's in that spot kind of walk in that field yeah fascinating. Poetry boy is not a huge huge benefit to us in everything that we want today oscillating. My mom loves writing. Poetry is always writing poems within sharing them. If as an bench she was so rotten. If that's a funeral she would rise on lockdown. she's reading poetry. He grew up yet genus. Yeah she lost On credit from fascinating. Thank you. that's really. That's really brilliant. So you telling us about your passions which is really inspiring tinky. What about your best lesson. So i know that you do lots of observations. It might be when you've you've seen or when you've taught yourself what's your best lesson. Our hands on approach. So whenever i work in schools i always do a co. Just really simple car teaching batting working alongside the tape. Just i'm teaching while but the best way i find is to do the lesson Model fast last then. Five to say watching washington school in london in in brixton gifts boss than quiet off struggling that rating i did a session of the capillary halt owns with them and basically songs that they knew and it was interesting because the children looked at me as if to say who is this teacher. Common and famous upstart basic showed them some songs different. Now i need nia with you songs. We let you remember. You probably know this already. How is a marriage lyrics on the.
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"That's another anthony. Brilliant and just generally a so so engaging for kids aren't naturally facilitate lots of talk which she can then level is the teacher in plaque book. The best bits and catch the best bits for keeping on the walls or wherever. I'm we've had a question in from twitter which is very cool from a lady called rebecca. And she's asking us. Where should people go to get. Hold of the right kind of mask vocabulary. Excellent questions all right. So fiction is out there. Those people with oxford al subscription. Of course. there's an online version available. Here's a plug for something. That is entirely free for anyone to load off my website. A vocabulary list. I've only done it for the primary curriculum if anyone's interested. Let me know what i can do. A second one at some point but a basically went through the national curriculum the two thousand fourteen version with the current version and and picked out all the new vocabulary vocabulary that that is introduced in each year group. One to six. At the time. I wrote the early years. Fallacious age was still being finalized. It was still in consultation so i haven't done anything around that yet. Incidentally early as teachers all know the importance of language describing languages everything because it allows them to have a hook to make sense of things is the primary vocabulary book is a pdf can be instantly downloaded and it's thinner so you just literally go to go to my website andris dot dot uk and at your search around. You'll find a primary vocabulary book. So that's one thing it doesn't know rebecca definitions. I'm so for definitions. You need to go to those online extremism things textbooks. They usually not infallible but textbooks are usually very good for explaining the names of op terms. Which just allow you to think things through really because the problem with masses. It's such an abstract idea. If i think cats cats you can can hold it you can but if i say double that's a really difficult thing to either draw or sale fake so so we have to kind of if you're in a pop or a little bit early. Yeah a little bit early for a double double pechiney double. So that's all the way awesome so final question relates to the most recent word report which came out in october and the focus of that report was looking at bridging the gap at transition and thinking about what it looks like to move from key to key stage. Three in terms of capital is something that i think is going to become more and more prevalent in our schools and something that we should be. Arming our kids with equipping them with the right. Toolkit to move from primary.
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"Of podcast hosted by oxford university press with helen princeton guests. We thought that these podcasts be really interesting to have a think about some of the etymology behind a few of the key words our guest talk about so. Let me share with you. The word divide so divide is from latin dividends which means to force apart cleave distribute to separate or distinguish that was the original meaning from the latin in the sixteen forty s. We got the phrase act of dividing and then in eighteen o seven in american english. We've got the meaning of divide coming across in the separation between river. Valleys nice image. I was thinking if we got a little story behind. The word helps us understand. Hang onto it. And then in the late eighteenth century the meaning came across his. To sever the union or connection with was the first time that meaning came across. Meaning disunite or cost disagreed in opinion the mathematical sense. The word came around in the early fifteenth century. Meaning the operation of division and then the phrase divide and rule. I seen around the sixteen hundreds and was one of the sayings machiavelli. I am.