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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Lord of the Wine
"Jesus was the most influential man to ever walk the earth. Is it possible to really know him? And how does he change our relationship with our Heavenly Father, our relationships with family and friends, and our approach to our work and service to others? Find out today on Gospel and Life as Tim Keller looks at the life of Jesus. The passage of scripture on which the teaching is based is printed in your bullet in there. It's John chapter 2. We're going to look at verses 1 through 11. John chapter 2, verses 1 to 11. On the third day, a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. And Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, They have no more wine. Dear woman, why do you involve me? Jesus replied, My time has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, Do whatever he tells you. Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from 20 to 30 gallons. Jesus said to the servants, Fill the jars with water. So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet. They did so. And the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, Everyone brings out the choice wine first, then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink. But you have saved the best till now. This, the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed in Cana in Galilee, he thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. This is God's word. We're looking at the life of Jesus, and what we're really doing is we're building a biography. We're looking not so much at his teachings, which is often what we do here, but we're looking at the events of his life, the main events of his life. And we're developing, therefore, a biography of the single most influential person that ever walked the face of the earth. I think that's an uncontroversial statement. And anyone who wants to live intelligently in this world would want to know something about something, a person like that, and so we're doing that. Now, why do we talk about this one? We have to be selective in a biography, so why do we come after this one? Why do we bring this particular one up? And the answer is, this is not just a miracle, but as you see down in verse 11, look. If you see down in verse 11, it's not just a miracle, but a miraculous sign. It is a picture, and it was chosen by Jesus to be the first sign, and because it was the first miracle, it's a picture, almost a parable, an acted -out picture of all that he is and all that Christianity is. Now, if you want the evidence for that, recently I was reading a very interesting book by Reynolds Price. He's a Duke University English professor, very prominent. put He recently out a book in which he translated the Gospels, some of the Gospels, and it was very well -reviewed here in the New York Times. It's quite an interesting book, but he writes fairly lengthy introductions, and in the introduction to the Gospel of John, which he translated, he looks at this and he says, if you just read this, and if you're a writer yourself, you know this must have happened, and the way he puts it is this. He says, if you were inventing a biography of Jesus Christ, you would never invent for your inaugural sign a miraculous solution to a mere social embarrassment. Now, here's what he says, the only logical explanation for this particular sign being the first one is that it must have happened, because he said, I as a writer, I know this, if I was inventing a life of Jesus, I would want to make sure that the first miracle was extremely quintessential. Any leader of a great new movement, when they make their first public presentation, they take tremendous care to give a balanced exact picture of what the movement's all about. And therefore, since Jesus was clearly the greatest movement leader in the history of the world, obviously the very first sign, the very first thing he did, not walking on water, not raising somebody from the dead, not all the other possibilities, far more dramatic, but instead, what you have here is a not very big deal. A party looks like it's going to go two days instead of three days, wow, what a shame. If you were going to develop your own, if you were going to fabricate your own first miracle for Jesus, he says, you would never in a million years do this, but Jesus did. Why? Why did Jesus do this miracle? Why did he do it this way? Why was this the first one? How does this reveal his glory? If you ask that question, oh, there's so much in it, you have the whole nine yards here, who he came to be, what he came to do, what he has to offer, how we can receive it, it's all here. Look, first of all, first this passage shows us who he was. Well, who was he? Take a look here at verse 8 and 9. There's a very interesting term here that you don't find anywhere else in the New Testament. At the very, it says after he told them, draw some of it out here in verse 8, and he says, now, take it to the master of the banquet, and we're told they did so. In verse 9 it says, the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine and so on. Now, what's the master of the banquet? This is a term, it's one word in Greek and it's translated this way. Essentially, this is close to what we might call a master of ceremonies, it's close to what we would call the toast master. It was the person to preside, but this is, in a sense, this is a hired life of the party. You know, if you're having a really good party, and it's a big party, you want someone to preside, and a presider has to be someone who's a very hail, fellow, well -met kind of person, you know. The master of ceremonies is someone who says, now let's do this, and let's do this, and here we go, and you know, you have to be the person who gets things stirred up and makes it a great party. Now, this party is about to fall absolutely flat, and Jesus saves this guy's hide. And because he provides what is necessary for the party, he reveals himself to be the true master of the banquet, the real Lord of the feast. Now, let's ask the question point blank. Why would Jesus Christ, in his first miracle, his calling card, as it were, why would he do this to show the world who he was and to show us who he was, to create 150 gallons or so of the most delicious, headiest wine in order to make a dying party into an incredible party, lifting it to new heights? Why is that his very first miracle? Because what he's saying is, I come as Lord of the feast. He says, yes, I come to do self -denial, I come to suffer, and I come to be humbled, and if you follow me, you will, too. There'll be plenty of self -denial and suffering and humbling, too, but these are just means to an end. Here's the end. As master of the banquet, as Lord of the feast, I'm come. Jesus, in a sense, says this in this miracle, which is a parable. He says, you know all those old stories, all those old Dionysian tales that you find in all the old ancient traditions of days in which the forest would run with wine and there would be feasting and dancing and revelry? He says, kid stuff compared to what I have come to do. He says, haven't you read what the prophets said about my day? Isaiah 25, in that day, the Lord of hosts will make for his people a feast of the finest meats and wine well -refined. And on this mountain, he will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and your reproach and shame will be taken away forever, for the Lord God has spoken.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh "U. S Forest" from Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
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Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 419// Telling The Difference Between Weeds and Wheat: A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 13:24-30
"Do you sometimes doubt if you're truly hearing God's voice or if it's really your own? Or have you been in a season where it feels like He's completely silent? Have you been praying for a way to learn how to hear His voice more clearly? Hey friends, I'm Rachel, host of the Hearing Jesus Podcast. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to confidently step into your identity in Christ, then join me as we dig deep into God's Word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life. You may be familiar with The Salvation Army by the Bells We Ring at Christmas, but did you know that we also produce a network of Christian shows you can listen to on your favorite podcast store? One of those shows, Words of Life, is currently in a series on parenting. We'll be joined by families at all stages of parenting to hear their testimony and what they've learned along the way. We've realized that we are her first experience with faith, you know, and what she sees in us, and we're really mindful of how we react to things and how we speak. I've always thought, like, I'm not raising this kid to just grow up, right? I'm raising them to be a fully grown adult who is functional in society. As a father, as a parent, I feel my goal in life is to share the very best parts of me. Those values that you guys instilled in us certainly is something that we give to ours. Find Words of Life wherever you get your podcasts, or visit WordsOfLifePodcast .org to start listening. This holiday, the Home Depot is helping you get gifts that keep on giving by making sure they keep on going. Right now, when you buy a select battery kit from Ryobi, Milwaukee, RIDGID, DeWalt, or Makita, you get an eligible tool for free. Just pick a brand, pick a battery kit, and get a tool free. Give the gift of more doing this holiday with the Home Depot. How doers get more done. Valued at participating stores and online, one per transaction. Discount taken at checkout. Full, eligible tool list in store and online. Valued October 23rd, 2023 through January 28th, 2024. Hey friends, welcome back to the Hearing Jesus Podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Grohl. Today we are continuing our discussion of Matthew Chapter 13. So if you're just joining us and this is your first time listening to the podcast, welcome. We're glad you're here. What we're doing is we're in a series of an introduction to the Gospels where I'm walking through the Gospel of Matthew and chapter by chapter, verse by verse, we're talking about some of the things that we easily overlook because we are in a different time and space than the original audience was. And the reason why we do that is because there are things that the original audience, Jewish living people in a farming community would have understood that is sometimes lost on us. And so I want to point some of those things out to help you understand how this message of the Gospel is relevant to you in your life today. If you would like to dive a little bit deeper, we have resources available for you every day. There are journal prompts that go along with each episode as well as a family discussion guide, and you can get the links for that in the show notes. And then we also offer spiritual direction and one on one life coaching to help you dive That's what you're interested in. You can go to shears .org for that as well. So we are in Matthew chapter 13, and we're picking back up at verse 24. It says, Jesus told them another parable. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed seeds among the wheat and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner servants came to him and said, Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did the weeds come from? An enemy did this, he replied. The servants asked him, Do you want us to go and pull them up? No, he said, because while you were pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, then gather wheat and bring it to my barn. So at first glance, this may feel very similar to what we studied yesterday, which was the parable of the soils. And I would encourage you to go back and listen to yesterday's episode if you haven't done that so far. But it's the same theme, but it means something a little bit different. And you have to remember who this audience was that Jesus was speaking to. This original audience was a group of people that likely were farmers. And in that time frame, there was a lot of wealthy landowners that controlled most of that rural land throughout the I mean, that was throughout the Roman Empire, not just in this location. But their estates were worked either by free peasants or by slaves. And honestly, essentially, most of their situations were very, very similar. The only difference would be the fact that the slaves could be beaten or sold. But as far as their stature and their status in life, they live very similar lives. And so many of the hearers of Jesus that were in this crowd would have been rural farmers on these larger estates. And they would have really identified with this situation that he's describing. So they would have identified with the soil story from yesterday. And then this story about the weeds, they would have understood what the struggle was about. And before we get into that, I just want to make note about a couple things. First, the crop that's going to be produced in the life of the person who is good soil. So this is going back to what we talked about yesterday, this idea of good soil. The crop is for the kingdom of heaven to operate. And many think that that crop is referring to converts, people that are one to Christ through the believer. And yes, that is partially true. But in this context, it goes a little bit deeper to this more fundamental idea of transformation of the person who has encountered this kingdom of heaven experience. And so in the forest soil yesterday, we were talking about the four kinds of soil in the forest soil. That crop represents the working of the Holy Spirit inside the life of that seed or you and I, that person, that seed falls on good soil. And so there's a reference there to this production of good fruit. And later in Galatians, we'll study this. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can go there and read in Galatians chapter five about the fruit of the Spirit and what that is. It is the gifts of the Spirit within the believer's life. And that results in these characteristics that are produced by the Spirit of God working through the life of the believer. And so this external creation of this kind of Spirit produced righteousness and these good works that are done, they're now coming up through these new converts where it's not just about them praying a prayer or them making the decision to follow Jesus, but it's about them producing good fruit, a good crop, a good harvest, the fruit of their lives. And so that's what we want to look for when we're talking about good soil is not just the fact that somebody receives that word, but that they internalize it and they develop this relationship with Christ. So as we're going through a couple of things in verse 25, it says about while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed seeds among the wheat and went away. Now, in that culture, they often would sleep after lunch, but most of the time, the greatest length of time that they would be sleeping would be at night. And either way, it could have happened at either time at lunchtime or even at nighttime. But this was something that was very common in that timeframe. Ancient farmers sometimes fought. Sometimes it would be over land. Sometimes it would be over relationships. Lots of different things, money. And a Roman law had to actually forbid this practice of sowing poisonous seeds into a neighbor's field. And so do you have to think about what was their diet? The most basic staple of their diet in the entire ancient world was what? So wheat was critical. And most of the time we're talking about seed, we're talking about wheat. And so what the enemy or the neighbor that wanted to get back at his neighbor would do is he would also plant a poisonous weed, which is a kind of a rye grass known as Darnell. And it looks like wheat, especially in the early stages. And you can really only tell the difference once the ear appears, once the fruit appears. See, Satan operates in this world, both as the swooping bird that we saw yesterday that swooped down and stole the seed and also as that enemy farmer. And so what this parable is doing is emphasizing the fact that the enemy will plant things just alongside of where God is planting. And what does that look like? Well, it's evil intentions. It's lies. His influence is right alongside those who are spreading God's word. And the interesting thing about this, and you will hear a lot about this if you are operating within the church, within the body of Christ or serving God, is there's a lot of times a demonic oppression or attack against God's people, especially when they are called to share God's word. It's predictable. We call it predictable resistance. And quite often what will happen is the moment that you are getting ready to stand out and stand up in obedience to what God has called you to do, the enemy will attack.
Sound ON
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The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from Mavericks introduce chaos as empowerment
"In today's conversation I speak to John Mark Williams about how mavericks introduce chaos as empowerment. We also look at why the Institute of Leadership and Management changed to the Institute of Leadership and what that did to the culture. John and I also look at the importance of leadership in embracing change and inspiring others and in this conversation we discuss the importance of being mindful of the impact of your words, setting clear expectations and promote effective collaboration. We also look at the value of playing games and taking on different perspectives to encourage critical thinking and non -threatening discussions. 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 John Mark Williams. How are you doing John? I'm doing very well thank you very much indeed Judith, I'm delighted to be here, absolutely delighted. I am so delighted to have you as well but before we even kick off I am interested, is there any sports that you particularly enjoy doing? Two I suppose really, one is running at which I am nowhere near as good as I used to be, time moves on and stuff like that and the other one actually is riding around the forest on my bike, my mountain bike. I really enjoy that quite a lot as well so those are the two things that I do most of. That's interesting, do you like that because you're out in nature and you like it? Partly yes, absolutely yeah and especially because I go into Thetford Forest which is a very large sort of man -made forest in eastern England and there are so many trails to follow and so many paths to follow and it's reasonably flat and at my stage of life it's actually quite nice not to have to go up on a mountain on a mountain bike. I get you, I get you. All right then, so John tell us a little bit more about you outside your running. Yeah I suppose I'm one of these people who sort of fell into the things that I do now. I spent quite a lot of my early career doing a variety of things, things like stockbroking and being an electrician's mate and being a glazier and working on a building site and then I did a stint as a civil servant and all sorts of things. However there are probably two themes that have run since I stopped working on building sites, probably two themes that have run through my career. One of them is international business and I've been very privileged to do quite a lot of business internationally including living overseas and having my own company overseas in Hong Kong and because I've discovered that I suppose that an awful lot of us and myself, I'm no exception to this, actually don't get much leadership development before we end up getting the burden of leadership to carry and it was one of the things that I noticed was that actually you know it's not that difficult to help people to become better leaders if we can give them opportunities, help them make contacts, help them discover role models, stuff like that. So as my career developed from looking for stuff to do internationally I began to do more and more around supporting people into leadership roles and in the end of course that's where I am now running the Institute of Leadership which is sort of a job that's been waiting for me for 25, 30 years or something like that I think. That's such a lovely thing to say, do you see it as kind of the pinnacle of your career like everything you did led up to this point? Yeah absolutely and there comes a time I think in everybody's career I suspect when there's not much point in trying either to get further up the ladder or to do more of something. Actually we just discovered that I think that I'm in a position where I can probably add optimum value for the people that I engage with, you know connecting them with all sorts of information opportunities, content, stuff like that and actually if I'm adding optimum value I probably ought to just carry on adding optimum value. So I'm sort of yeah I think this is probably the best role I've had in my career both in terms of how much I enjoy it and how much value I'm able to add for other people. Wow you know what one of my aims is to have more people actually say that, more people that go to work out and say I love my job, I love what I do. Yeah absolutely and in actual fact it's funny isn't it because we get so many messages through life that say you need to do more, you need to do better, you need to earn more, you need to live in a big house, you need to somehow need always to do more and more and more instead of actually let's just do enough, enough to make us reasonably happy, enough to make other people reasonably happy with what we do and actually I suppose for me the outcome of our efforts during life ought to be, I don't know whether we call it fulfilment or happiness or whatever it is but that point we reach where actually I don't really need to do different stuff, I just want to get better at doing what I'm doing now. Oh now you're talking about mastery, now you're talking about comfort, isn't that? Absolutely and it's a very zen concept in a lot of people's minds I think really because it sort of precludes this need to acquire more to you know to get more money, get a bigger house, get a fancier job and stuff like this, it actually is all about as you quite rightly, I mean it's the perfect word isn't it mastery, it's about how well we do the things that we do and getting contentment from that mastery. Yeah I totally find that when I'm working with people I hope to instil that pursuit of mastery, knowing that you can never master it and being able to hold that dichotomy isn't it, I'm always wanting to become a master in this whilst recognising I never will be. Absolutely and that's back to that sort of zen thing isn't it really because almost the essence of mastery is the understanding that it's a never -ending journey and actually there's a contentment in that. Yeah I was about to say that, I quite like the fact that I'll never, I would hate it if I knew absolutely everything about leadership and there was nothing more to learn, I mean I'd be so upset. Absolutely, imagine getting to the point in your life you say well I've done it all now, well there's nothing else for me, there's no worse, it's like what was it Alexander who was 33 or something like that, I would hate to get to the stage where I thought well there's nothing else we're doing now.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh "U. S Forest" from Stephanie Miller
"A show. For the first time since the ceasefire began, Israel and Hamas traded accusations of annihilation. a serious Today in Atlanta, 99 -year -old Jimmy Carter will lead presidents and first ladies in mourning and celebrating his wife, Rosalynn Carter, at a memorial service. The former first lady died ago. a week She was 96. In India rescuers reached 41 construction workers who were trapped in a mountain collapsed tunnel for over two weeks. They're being pulled out and so far reports are they're all safe and sound. Finland is closing its border with Russia. Finland's prime minister Pateri Orpul has said that Finland will close its last remaining road border with Russia, accusing Moscow of undermining Finland's national security. Finland already closed seven of its eight checkpoints along its border with Russia this month, following a surge in arrival of migrants from the Middle East and Africa. The government says Moscow is ushering the migrants towards the Finnish border. It has accused Russia of trying to create a migration crisis in Finland following the Nordic nation's entry into NATO this year. President Biden's son Hunter says he wants to testify publicly before Congress in response to a subpoena from Republicans investigating nearly every aspect of his business dealings. It's part of an impeachment inquiry into Hunter Biden's father. The conference board says consumer confidence is ticking up leading up to the holiday shopping season. This is AP News. I'm Seth Sutil and this is Markets In A Minute. Stocks are listless in early trading on Wall Street as the market's big November rally continues to stall. The S &P 500 was down 0 .1 % in morning trading Tuesday. Dow was little changed. The Nasdaq composite was down two -tenths of a percent. Treasury yields were holding relatively steady. Crude Prices oil were slightly higher. Several companies are set to report their latest quarterly results after the closing bell, including turbo -tax parent company Intuit, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and the tech company NetApp. The big focus for Wall Street will remain the Federal Reserve, which will meet again in December to update its interest rate policy. Investors are betting that the will Fed hold its benchmark rate steady. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he is increasingly confident that the Fed's interest rate policies will succeed in bringing inflation back to the central bank's 2 % target level. France will ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and other public areas. I'm Ed Donohue, AP News. This is 820 a .m. WCPT, Willow Springs and streaming worldwide at wcpt820 .com. We are Chicago's Park, where facts matter. Now your weather update. From
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
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History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
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Overthrowing Education
A highlight from Encore of Episode 40: Impact Learning with Jared Magee
"Hey, it's Batsheva. I've pulled this episode out of the archive vault for you, in case you hadn't heard it before. But if you have already heard it, well, you might want to listen again because this time you'll know all the answers to the 5 -Minute Game Show. And also because there's always something to learn from my wonderful guests. With the exception of adding this intro, I'm bringing you the original episode in its original form, which is also kind of a time capsule. So enjoy. I'm Matt Miller of the Google Teacher Tribe podcast, a proud member of the Education Podcast Network, just like the show you're listening to right now. The opinions expressed are those of the individual hosts. Make sure you check out all the other great podcasts at edupodcastnetwork .com. The Areté Institute, in conjunction with Areté Preparatory Academy, presents Overthrowing Education, with your host, Batsheva Frankel. Today's episode is sponsored by... Are you feeling down about how much your students are really taking in during this bigger impact? Well, look no longer. K -12 presents the Impact 3000. Why settle for the usual lesson when you can make an even stronger impact? Whether your school is fully remote, distance and masked face to face, or some crazy hybrid of the two, Impact 3000 is for you. It's easy and fun to use. The Impact 3000 draws on the successful experiences of over 3000 dynamic teachers who facilitate their students learning with rich, student -centered activities, experiences and explorations. Simply put your usual lesson plan into the Impact 3000 and watch it transform your whole class. And that's not all. Order now and receive a bonus. 30 hours of relaxation tapes featuring forest noises, ocean sounds, and the smooth voice of... Now relax and imagine you are walking slowly on a mountain path. You hear a bubbling brook beside you. Order your Impact 3000 today and see a difference in your class tomorrow. Welcome to the 40th episode of Overthrowing Education. Yay! I'm Bud Sheva and I'm so glad you joined me today because I have a really cool guest. He may not be known to you yet, but educator Jared McGee has some really helpful things to share about impact learning as he tells us all about the Winchington School. It's a really cool school that I was so excited to hear about. Jared and I discuss ways to take what he has learned from his experiences there and mine working for another cool school that you hear me talk about all the time, Arete Preparatory Academy, and apply them to other more traditional schools. There are two things, well there's probably more, but let's focus on two things that make Winchington, Arete, and all the other forward thinking schools out there so successful at getting students to love learning, think deeply, and develop curiosity. And those are, one, daring to dream big about what education can be without the limits of what already is. And this part is so important. Always moving forward, reflecting, refining, and asking how can we be even better? What more can we be doing? It's one of my favorite things about Arete, no matter how great something is, there's always room for growth and improvement. And those are two things we can take into our classrooms and practices as well. Maybe in the confines of a traditional system with all of its challenges, the dreams might be smaller, but dream them anyway and make them happen however you can. And the idea of always growing and improving, well this might seem obvious to you. I suspect that if you're listening to this podcast, you are already on that bus. But even when a lesson or unit is successful, we can reflect on it and say, how can I make this even better? Okay, let's hear what Jared has to say.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 15 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome to the Forum Book Club. We continue to discuss Henri de Dubois's The Drama of Atheismism. We finished up with chapter one of the section dossiers here. We're going to begin with chapter two, The Bankruptcy of Atheism. Was there any concluding remarks that we didn't get in on the chapter one there that you wanted to? Well, I thought the very end of 308, where we talked about this term humanist and how unhelpful that is, the Lubach continues and says, whatever may be thought of his orthodoxy, meaning Dostoevsky's, which is doubly in question, the thing can hardly be denied. His Christianity is genuine. Okay, so yeah, we get into these labels, East, West, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, you know, all these things, and we can lose the forest through the trees. The point is, how the word humanist can be confusing and ambiguous to use the word that the Lubach uses, but orthodoxy here, right? First of all, it's in inverted commas. So, you know, what sort of and lowercase it's O, not uppercase O. So, you know, again, as with the word humanist, the word orthodox, we have to be careful when we're using it as to what we actually talking about here. And so I think it's important. Again, same thing with Christianity, but yes. But the Lubach's point that he tried to make with this previous chapter is to show the profound depth of Dostoevsky's faith in Christ, and that you can't really understand his work if you don't understand that. And I want to refer back to something Joseph said last session too, that because we are Orthodox Christians, we are Catholic, Orthodox and small, we're Catholic, that East and West has some meaning for us, but the real patriotism, the real Fatherland is christened on the Catholic Church, the communion of saints, you know, in heaven and on earth, so that does unite East, West, North and South. All right, Bankruptcy of Atheism, 309, and Joseph, you're taking away here, but the first sentence, Dostoevsky's books abound in atheists. Well, I'll continue because the bottom of the page there, what's the reason that the Lubach gives three lines up? We're limiting that review that he makes to the analysis of the most striking cases. It's in order to throw into relief the principal types of atheism whose bankruptcy he successfully demonstrates, does it? This kind of gives us a prelude to what he's going to do. Here's the three kites. The ideal of the man -god, the ideal of the Tower of Babel, the ideal of the Palace of Glass. These three images are ready to hand. Respect, what do they denote? The man -god ideal is the spiritual ideal of the individual who is alone to himself. Okay, that's individualism. Two, the social ideal of the revolutionary who proposes to ensure without god the happiness of mankind. And three, the Tower of Glass, Palace of Glass, the rational ideal of the philosopher who rejects every kind of measure. So he's going to take these three types of atheism and through his character show what they lead to on the level of human existence. And that these intuitions are what made Dostoevsky a prophet. That's the conclusion of that section. And one might add, a judge of our age. Joseph? Yeah, I'm glad you did that, Father, because you say it sets the scene, it sets the structure for this chapter. He's going to now have the three parts of this chapter, the man -god, the Tower of Glass, the Palace of Glass. The first thing I have highlighted, though, is not just 3 .14, so if anybody wants to jump in prior to that, Bill 3. That's my first one, too. Vivian? Well, only that if there are readers of Dostoevsky out there who are wondering a good example of the first one, the man -god, that's Raskolnikov. I love this expression, the Nietzschean. unsuccessful He's an example of that kind of atheist, trying out the individual who is a law unto himself. But he says that's the weakest of these, of our man -gods. Yeah. The only thing I would say is, is there such a thing as a successful Nietzschean? Good question. I doubt it. So, 3 .14? Shall I take up the cudgels there? Yeah. So, in the middle of the page, am I capable of rising above myself or not, he asks himself one day in one of his merciless self -examinations. That is another of his Nietzschean expressions, but in the sense in which he uses it, which is Nietzsche's sense, no man is capable of rising above himself. It's not because he is weak, it is because he is a man that Raskolnikov is finally obliged to recognize the truth about man and that in order to find the divine life, he has to give up trying to be a god, which I think is why I sort of said, is there such a thing as a successful Nietzschean? Because of course, if you're going to be a Nietzschean and see what you believe through to its logical conclusion, you end up by accepting that you're not a Nietzschean. In other words, that I'm not god, right? I can talk about myself being god, but the more I ask for to be god, the more it becomes evident that I'm not. Well, don't you love this paradox? To find the divine life, you have to give up trying to be god? I want to see if I can summarize this Raskolnikov here and tell me if I'm correct. It's a long time since I've read it and I'm kind of basing myself on what he says about it, but basically Raskolnikov wants to show that he's above all the laws. He's along to himself by killing someone for no reason at all except that he wants to kill her, you know, but he does it and he can't, he has regret or remorse or something, he can't get it out of his mind and he thinks it's because he's too weak to really carry it through. Yes. Not because you're weak, it's because you're a man. That's right. Okay. You have a conscience because you're a man, not because you're weak. And the thing that throws Raskolnikov off, you see, is that the person that he has in his mind to justify his murder really is a wretched person, but her daughter walks in and now he has to kill her too, he has to kill her too, and now he's wracked with guilt that he killed an innocent person along with a supposedly guilty person. Of course, he was never justified in killing the guilty person either, but nevertheless, this made it really complicated for poor Raskolnikov and he was plagued with his conscience from the start. Yeah, and again, just immediately below that, staying with the recurring motif we have going at the moment of the unsuccessful Nietzschean, the bottom of page 314, Stavrogin's pride, the pride of a Lucifer, leads to suicide and that tragic end reflects the spiritual suicide of the being who has refused himself to being and who has arrogantly willed his own emptiness. So again, the ultimate victory of Nietzschean, Luciferian pride is suicide, the killing of oneself. Is that a victory? I mean, yeah, I'm sure there'll be Nietzscheans to say it is. This is my final victory. I'm going to take my own life as an act of spite or anger against reality or God or Christ or whatever, but if the ultimate victory of the one who refuses himself to being, who has refused himself to being, which is a wonderful turn of phrase, if I do do back there, if the consequence of the being who refuses himself to being to God is that he has no choice ultimately but to commit suicide, then how on earth can that be called a victory? Mm -hmm, so that's what he's saying here. People stronger than Raskolnikov are equally defeated, right? Like, yes, but this, yes, refused himself to being is a wonderful phrase because it demands that you think about, so what am I supposed to be doing if refusing myself to being is the thing leads to my self -destruction, annihilation? It's a capital B. Being, capital B, refusing self to being is a capital B. If refusing myself to being is self -annihilation, what's the thing I'm supposed to be doing? Surrendering myself to being, and I'll only surrender myself if I've been humbled enough to realize that my self -will is not the answer to the question of my being.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from CRAZY XRP Price Pump Incoming! (Here's Why)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto, I'm Drew here to bring you the truth. An XRP is setting up for an explosive move right now after breaching 60 cents and setting up an overall higher low pattern over the past year and a half. You have to realize that the most exciting thing about this consistent growth is the fact that this project has been fighting the SEC for the last three years. The SEC, one of the largest regulators in the financial markets across the world. Last week, it was made very clear that NASDAQ is beginning to decouple from the crypto markets in the wrong way. Crypto is booming while the traditional stock market is failing. This is causing pain for banks that are invested in underwater securities. This is causing pain across the traditional finance markets and with that pain comes the sourcing of new opportunity. And as we sit right now, Ripple Labs and XRP are now the most regulated cryptocurrencies on the face of the earth. What do you think large institutions are going to choose a crypto project that's not been run through the legal ringer and knows all the clarity and has all that compliance figured out or are they going to dive into the unknown? You make that decision for yourself, but where it sits right now, there is no arguing that Ripple is one of the most compliant cryptos for all of these overreaching laws on the face of the planet. And the final showdown between the SEC and Ripple is right around the corner. On April 16th of 2024, they're going to have their final meeting between the two parties to come up with a final settlement. Now you've got to think about the timing of April 16th, 2024, right around the Bitcoin having absolutely incredible timing. But Ripple is no stranger when it comes to incredible timing of wins against the SEC or the rollouts of the different programs within the government that it's involved with. For instance, the SEC's first loss within this larger lawsuit against XRP came the same month that FedNow went live in the United States. That is quite a coincidence. One other coincidence that's important to note is that FedNow is only bank to bank payments in digital cash, but what's coming mid 2025, right around the peak of the next bull market if we do follow the four -year halving cycle, will be the rollout of what's called FedNow. This is a worldwide payment system for the Federal Reserve to go from person to bank, person to person, or international remittance payments. That is the moment where the true full potential of XRP will be realized. And really the plan comes as no surprise. You have people on the board of Ripple like Rosie Rios, whose name is on a hundred dollar bill in the United States. You have overlapping connections to central banks across the world, working with XRP and the ledger to roll out their version of digital payments. And it is moving at bright next speed outside the United States. Really the only reason that we've seen this slow roll in the US for the digital payment services and primarily working with Ripple in front of the public is because they don't want to be, is because they don't want the mainstream public in the know. You can't make too many major winners out of a transformation of one of the largest financial systems on the planet. There is so much going for us in the crypto market right now. You have to step back and look at the forest through the trees. The US is on a debt death spiral that major lawmakers are absolutely making note of, and they are looking for options. It's coming at them quick. The US government has no intention of slowing down spending over the next few years. So these major markets are going to be looking for new places to park their gains. This is the perfect storm for us in the XRP community because it's finally time over the next few years to flip the switch.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from A Rich Mans Poverty
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. This month we're looking at directional signposts through history that point us to Christ. All through the Old Testament from Genesis to Jonah, you see signs that point us to Jesus. Listen now to today's teaching from Tim Keller on pointers to Christ. Job chapter 1, verses 18 to 22. Then the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth. He is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. Does Job fear God for nothing, Satan replied? Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face. The Lord said to Satan, Very well, then everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger. Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you. And while he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you. And while he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them, and they are dead, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you. At this Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head, and then he fell to the ground in worship and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. May the name of the Lord be praised. And in all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. This is God's word. Now there is absolutely no more important issue spiritually for people than the question of innocent suffering. We don't struggle that much with suffering that comes to people who have brought it on themselves. If you cheat, if you embezzle, if you put together some kind of scheme of fraud, and it all comes down on you, and your whole life falls apart because it's revealed, and you go to jail, no one worries that much about that. There's all sorts of ways in which you can sin, and then you suffer. The real problem is innocent suffering. And so there's many people here, there always are many people here, who are thinking about Christianity and wondering whether they should strengthen or develop or have a relationship with God. And one of the big questions that always comes up is, why do the innocent suffer? Why do the good people suffer? Why do people suffer who seem to be trying very hard to live a good life, while other people who don't seem to be trying nearly as hard seem to have a better life? But it's also true for people inside the faith. Not just people thinking about entering the faith, but people on the inside. There is no more important question. Now I said in the very beginning of the fall, the reason we're looking at these Old Testament narratives, and this is the last one in the series, is because our modern mind is not so much a rational expository mind, but it's a mind of images and sights and sounds. We don't like to think things out rationally as much as we tend to be more intuitive. And there is no better place then to go to understand God than the Old Testament, because in the Old Testament, you very often have depicted, depicted concretely, very profound truths that are expounded in the New Testament by authors who explain them in very rational propositions and very profound ways. But in the Old Testament, they're depicted. And there's probably no place anywhere beyond the book of Job where you have the problem of innocent suffering depicted this way. It's a story, and we learn a lot about it. We learn three things from the story of Job about suffering. From interpretation of suffering we get an understanding of suffering. From Satan we get an understanding of suffering. And from the early Job, we learn how to face suffering. And from the later Job, we learn how to overcome suffering. From Satan we learn how to understand. From the early Job, we learn how to face. From the later Job, we learn how to actually overcome. What do I mean? First of all, Satan, actually, this dialogue with Satan that we read here is actually a very interesting and fascinating and unique way that the Bible uses to teach us a biblical understanding of suffering. You see, when you take a look at this dialogue, we almost always get hung up on the trees rather than standing back to look at the forest. And if somebody has real questions about some things that I just skip over here, we have a question and answer time afterwards during the class time. And you could ask then. But because there's a lot of questions that rise up, what in the world is Satan talking to God for in heaven? Does Satan go to heaven? What is this? Let's stand back and see the point. Here's the point. It's telling us the relationship of God to evil. Now you see, the question that immediately arises in people's minds is, why does God allow evil? And there are three basic answers apart from the biblical one. Three alternate understandings of why God allows evil. There's the fatalistic, the humanistic, the moralistic. The fatalistic says that basically God is the author of evil. God is the life force in everything, and evil is just part of God. And therefore, evil is absolutely inevitable. There's no solution for it. And so the fatalistic approach says, be stoic. That's the stoic approach. Resign yourself to it. Just accept it. Don't cry over it. Keep the stiff upper lip. The fatalistic approach. God is the author of evil. Now the second approach is the humanistic. And the humanistic says that God has nothing to do with it. Now there's, you know, there are people who say there is no God, and therefore evil is completely random. And then there's other people like Rabbi Kushner who wrote that very best -selling book, who says God can't help it. God is a loving God. He's a good God, but he can't stop it. He can't help it. And so the humanistic approach is the opposite. Instead of saying God is the author of evil, the humanistic approach says no, God has nothing to do with evil. It happens without him. It happens apart from his control. And so as opposed to the stoic that says resign, this approach says panic. This isn't the stoic approach to suffering. This is the panic approach to suffering that says avoid it at all costs. Stay away from it. It makes your life meaningless. It has to make your life meaningless because it's at random. There's no plan. There's no meaning to it. Get away from it. And if it happens, kill yourself. Because you see, suffering is meaningless and life with suffering is meaningless. So that's the panic approach, the humanistic approach, which is the most popular approach in the West. But you have the fatalistic and you have the humanistic, but you also have the moralistic. And the moralistic approach is very prominent as well. And the moralistic approach says that this is why God allows evil. He lets bad people suffer, but good people he doesn't. And therefore, if you are suffering, you're not living right. You're doing something wrong. You may not think so, but look at yourself. So you see, whereas the fatalistic approach says be stoic, you know, the stoic approach. And then the humanistic approach gives you the panic attitude. The moralistic approach gives you the groveling attitude. In other words, when things go wrong, beat yourself up. There must be, it must be your fault. There's something wrong with you. Now, most of us, by the way, are not nearly consistent enough. We have done them all. Most of us really, you know, systems, you know, the system that says God is the author of evil, or God has nothing to do with evil, or God punishes people who are bad with evil. They provide will those different responses. The stoic approach, or the panic approach, or the groveling approach, and the beating yourself up approach. Most of us have had more than one. Most of us have gone back and forth. But the Book of Job blows them all apart, and it doesn't blow them apart with three or four interesting propositions. It blows them apart with a story. It blows them apart with this dialogue. Take a look. First of all, who comes up with the idea to really screw Job to the wall? Does God say, hey, I got an idea? No. The cause is the ill will of Satan in the story. And what's so interesting about this, see in verse 11, it's the ill will of Satan is the cause. And there we learn an important point that the Bible says, and that is that God did not make the world to be filled with death and destruction. He didn't create a world with death and destruction. He created a perfect world. But that when we decided to be our own masters, it unleashed the forces of death and disintegration in the world, because the world isn't built to run that way, you see. I mean, if a car is built to run with oil, and you put oil in it, it's fine. But if you refuse to put oil in it, or if you put milk in it instead of oil, everything will fall apart. It's not built to run that way. And when we decided to run our own lives and the world that God gave us, death and destruction, the forces of darkness were released. And God hates those forces of destruction. You know, and one of my favorite passages is a terrible place, actually, but it's in Ezekiel 18, verse 32, where God cries out and says, why will you die? Turn to me and live, for, get this, I take no pleasure in the death of anyone. I take no pleasure in the death of anyone. So first of all, we see God's not the author of evil. But secondly, we are absolutely told here that God is in complete control of it. All right, you see the tension here? Because you see, Satan says, I'm going off to do this to Job. And what does God say in verse 12? In verse 11, it's Satan's idea, but in verse 12, see, this is so perfect. It's depicted narratively. These incredible philosophical theological balances are depicted narratively, so vividly. In verse 12, what does God say? Essentially, he says this, this far, but no further. And this tells us that evil is not out of God's control at all. Oh, not at all. It tells us that God is absolutely in control of evil, and he is, A, overruling it, and B, overcoming it. A, overruling it, B, overcoming it. And you can see that in the story, too. First of all, what do I mean by overruling it? He says this far, no further. He puts a limit to evil. The Bible everywhere says that God is continually keeping the world from being and us from being as miserable and as bad as we otherwise would be, as we could be, as we should be, as we would be. The Bible says continually that nations would be far more violent, that hearts would be far more hard, that families would be far more broken, that civilization would be far more disordered, that if God was not continually saying over and over and over again every day, this far, but no further. He's constantly doing that. See, he's in control of it. He's overruling evil. He's always putting a limit to it. And then secondly, he's overcoming evil. He's always putting a purpose to it. What is Satan's reason? Why does Satan want to let suffering come into Job's life? And you see, it's so interesting because Satan and God have an absolute unity of opinion. There's consensus. Isn't this wonderful? I mean, if Satan and God agree on something, it must be true. And the consensus is what a servant is. God says, have you seen my servant Job? There is none like him in all the earth. And what does Satan say? He contradicts. He says he's not a servant. But the way in which he contradicts, he says, does Job fear God for nothing? Now, they agree on this. If you serve God for the life comforts that you get, you're not serving God at all. Unless you're serving God for nothing, you're not a servant. And unless you're serving God for him, and not just for the life comforts, and not just for the wealth, and not just for the ease, and not just for the health, and not just for the friends, and not... There's a bubble. You're a bubble boy. You are building your life on things that inevitably will burst. And you are fragile, and you are vulnerable, and you are, you know, it's a castle built in the air. It's a house built on the sand. And therefore, here's the question, is Job a servant or not? Is he a fragile, vulnerable person that can be overwhelmed, or is he a strong person with roots? And the answer is, actually, as it turns out, he's partly there, but he's partly not. And therefore, Satan releases the suffering into Job's life to eradicate the servant -ness of his heart, and God allows just a certain amount in order to do the opposite. God only lets Satan do what he does in order to thwart his deepest desires. God only lets Satan do as much and a kind of damage to Job that in the end does no damage to Job. Satan wants to destroy him as a servant. God wants to make him as a servant. Satan wants to take what servant -ness is there and go down to zero. God wants to take what servant -ness is there and put it up to 100%. And therefore, God only, only allows the evil, puts a limit to it, and puts a purpose to it. So you see, God is absolutely in control. So first of all, we see God is not the author of evil, and then secondly, we see God is absolutely in control of evil, absolutely in control of evil, and thirdly, evil does not go out into people's lives on the basis of goodness or badness. In fact, oh, gee, you know, actually, I took this in. This sentence came into my sermon, then I took it out of the sermon, then I put it back in, then I took it out. And actually, I took it out right before I came up here, and now I'm putting it in. If anything, evil is attracted into Job's life, not because he's a bad person, but because he's a better person than others. It's almost like here's a man who says, I most want to be a servant, and if anything, the suffering and the trouble comes into his life because he wants to be a servant and because he is, to a great degree, a servant, and because that's the thing he most wants in life. Now, what do we have here? This absolutely demolishes every single alternative view of evil and suffering and God. Against the fatalistic view, it says he's not the author of evil. Against the humanistic view, he says he's in total control of evil, and against the moralistic view, he says it does not come into people's life on the basis of some nice, neat distribution between good and bad people. And here's what's so interesting, here's what I would like to challenge you with. Every view but the biblical view is a pat answer. People are, I was really looking forward to saying this because everybody says, ah, Christians, you've got pat answers. Pat answers when it comes to these things, fine. In some cases, they seem simpler, but in this case, every alternative view of suffering in the biblical view is a pat answer. What if you have the humanistic view and you say, I can't believe in a God who would allow evil and suffering. He's not good and powerful if there's evil and suffering. So what are you doing? It's a neat answer. You are asked, what you're doing is you're solving it, you're fitting it in. You're saying, well, God can't be this and this happened, and therefore, I won't live with that tension. I'll destroy that mystery. You see? Or the moralist, here's what's so interesting is the secularist says, I can't believe in a God who would allow evil and suffering. In other words, you have to rationally put it all together. And then over on the other hand, you have the moralist that says, well, I absolutely believe that if you're suffering, there's something wrong with you. You're not living right. And you're doing the same thing. Job allows the mystery to stand and Job allows God to be God. Because every alternative view insists on God being the answerer. Every other view puts God in the dock. Every other view says, well, if you give me a rational explanation for what's going on here, I might believe in you. Every other view. But this is the one view that will not. This is the one view that lets God be God. This is the one view that lets suffering remain a mystery. And this is the one view that doesn't go for a pat answer. Nicholas Woldersdorf, a philosopher, lost his son in a mountain climbing accident. I think he was in his 20s. I mean, the son was in his 20s. And afterwards, Woldersdorf wrote a book. And in the book, he says this, he says, I cannot fit it all together by saying he did it. God did it. But neither can I fit it all together by saying there was nothing God could do about it. And then he goes on at one other point and says, neither can I fit it all together by saying, well, there can't be a God if this happens. See, he says, I can't fit it together that way. Every view but the biblical view tries to put God in the dock and say, if I don't have a rational explanation, and you sort of put it together, you neatly put it together. He says, no, no, I can't fit it all together. Seeing God as the agent of death is one way of fitting it together in a rational pattern. But the Bible speaks of God overcoming death, not as an agent of death, not as helpless before death. And if God overcomes it, and if God hates it, and if God is overruling it, then God is God.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series Black Box, Explainable AI (XAI), Interpretable AI
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hey, AI Today listeners. Want to dive deeper and get resources to drive your AI efforts further? We've put together a carefully curated collection of resources and tools handcrafted for you, our listeners, to expand your knowledge, dive deeper into the world of AI, and provide you with the essential resources you need. From books and materials, ranging from fundamentals of AI to deep dives on implementing AI projects, to AI ethics, tools, software, checklists, and more, our resources page will help you on your AI journey, whether you're just starting out or you're well on your way. Check it out at aitoday .live slash list. That's aitoday .live slash l -i -s -t. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Walsh. And I'm your host, Walsh Melzer. And we really are enjoying this AI Today glossary series that we've been on for the past, oh, many months, maybe even more than months. It feels like we've been doing it for quite a while. And I think the reason why we're so excited about it, well, I know the reason why we're so excited about it is because you guys really like it. We could tell just by looking at the downloads, we could tell by the feedback that we're getting that you're all enjoying this glossary series because we're defining terms, even terms that may seem that people already understand very well, which is great. I think the point is, one, not everybody does understand it as well as you might think they understand it. And two, you need to have a vocabulary sometimes to communicate with others, whether you're sort of in management communicating to data science or machine learning engineers or the other direction or even inside your team. Sometimes there isn't a good common understanding. So this has been the reason why we've done that. And of course, we've spent so many of our other podcasts talking to practitioners who are doing AI, doing AI right using CPMAI methodology, which we talk about, as well as the common reasons for failure, our automation to intelligence series. So we have been going over this since we started back in 2017. So going on six years now for the AI Today podcast. So hopefully you've been enjoying it. And we encourage you to continue to reach out to us and tell us maybe about some other terms that you think people continue to use, abuse, misuse, and we will dive deeper into it and we'll continue to have this glossary series as long as there are terms that need to be explained. Yes, we will. And also we have enjoyed hearing from our listeners, especially as it relates to this glossary series. So make sure to subscribe to AI Today if you haven't done so already so you can get notified of all of our upcoming episodes. As Ron mentioned, we do have more in the glossary series, but we also have some really great interviews as well as additional topics. If you've listened to our podcast now for any number of years, you know that maybe some of these terms we've brought up before. Or if you've taken CPM AI training and certification, then some of these concepts and terms have come up as well. But we wanted to spend time on today's podcast presenting a few terms. Maybe you've never heard of them, or you weren't quite sure how they fit together. So we're going to be going over black box, explainable AI, and interpretable AI. So at a high level, black box, in case you've never heard of it, is just a system that doesn't to understand how specific inputs result in specific outputs. Because we really don't have an understanding of how this works, this is especially true with deep learning. A lot of people talk about black box with deep learning. Relying on black box technology can be dangerous. We talked about how we, in previous podcasts, these idea of algorithmic discrimination, you know, and just maybe trustworthy AI, how are we really just relying on this technology that we have no idea what's going on, that can be dangerous. So without understandability, we might not have trust. So we've talked about how we can, you know, erode trust. We don't want to be doing these things with our system. So to trust these systems, humans want accountability, and they also want explanation. But we understand that maybe we won't always get explanation at the level we're looking for. But we do want to make sure that there is some accountability, and we're not just going to put these systems out in the wild and go, well, whatever decision it comes up with, that's what we get. There's no human oversight. There's no human in the loop. We want to make sure that we're being smart about this. So getting verifiable explanations of how machine learning systems make decisions and let the humans be in the loop is really key to all of this. Now, not all machine learning approaches are inherently explainable, as I talked about with deep learning, but some are. You know, some are more explainable than others, and we'll get to that in a moment. But before we do that, why don't we talk about what explainable AI is? Yes. So there's a term on the market in the industry called explainable AI. It even has its own acronym, XAI. And the idea of explainable AI is that we want AI systems that not only provide their predictions or things that they do when they're doing inference and generalization, whatever they want them to do, classification, regression, clustering, used a bunch of terms that you should know now if you've been paying attention to our Glossary podcast. These are the things that machine learning models provide after we use these algorithms to train on data. But the problem is that the algorithms that we use to create these models don't provide the explanations. And so, well, in general, right, they don't provide the explanation. So we want to build these AI systems that provide explanations at the same time that they're building the model. So this is, again, we need to understand how algorithms and data and models work, right? Because usually when we're building a machine learning model, we take training data, we feed it into some algorithm that tells the computer how to learn with some settings, and then the output is some model. But the theory of XAI is we want to get two things when we output from this process, the learning process. Not just the model as the output, but we also want this explainable explanation model. Needless to say, this is still research. People have not figured out how to build clearly explainable systems, especially for these much more black box algorithms like deep learning. There are some algorithms that when you use them to build the models, they end up in more nature understandable and explainable. But then there are other algorithms that when you use, you train them with data, they result in models that are really not. And there's a reason why you might need explainability. You may be like, well, why do I need a system to tell me why I came up with something? Well, there may be a legal reason. Car ran into someone. Loan was denied. Someone's fighting you on that. Something happened where the system made a recommendation. You lost a lot of money. So having some explanation would be kind of handy, wouldn't it? So our parole decisions where your life might be dependent on a machine learning algorithm. So let's first find out, like, you know, try to understand what does it mean that some algorithms are more explainable than others and kind of get an idea of how that what that means. Exactly. So we had said, you know, OK, deep learning can be this black box technology. It's not really explainable. But that does that's not all the algorithms that are out there. Right. We've had podcasts on many others. So decision trees, for example, they are more explainable because you can actually go back and see, you know, all of the leaves and branches and how it came to the decision that it did. So this idea of random forests with that, that's more explainable. We had also talked about ensemble methods. So we're taking different things, putting it together. Well, OK, maybe depending on how many how many models we have, it can get a little bit trickier, but it still can be explainable. We have Markov models, Bayesian, Naive Bayes. So we had talked about how some of them just are more inherently explainable, but some are not. So when we're debating on which algorithm we want to use, there's this idea of explainability and accuracy. And it's often a tradeoff, but it also depends on the application. So if we want to do facial recognition, for example, we know that we're going to have to do deep learning. So then we're going to have that tradeoff, right? It's going to be less explainable, but we know it's going to be more accurate. This is something that you need to continue to decide. So what's your use case? Do you absolutely need explainability or not? What's the end result? What is this being used for? So, you know, again, there is no one algorithm that rules them all. There is no one algorithm that's better than another. It's just you're going to have this tradeoff and you need to understand that when you go to pick the algorithm. And there's sort of a related idea, sort of an acknowledgment that machine learning algorithms, especially the more sophisticated ones that have proven to provide some fantastic results, are not going to be explainable. And so there's this sort of softer idea called interpretable AI, which is that, OK, well, if we can't get an explanation, can we at least understand what were the main factors that contributed to the decision? I mean, I know exactly, but I could say, well, you know, with some percentage of likelihood, you know, these were the factors that led to this particular outcome. And that's the idea of interpretable AI, which is the ability to provide a reasonable understanding of how an algorithm, which is actually really the model that was generated by that algorithm, arrived at its result, even if the machine learning algorithm itself doesn't have any explainability to it. So so they provide some cause and effect relationships. So you can think, you know, if there is some loan decision system who is a decision tree, that would be really easy because you can look at the model and you can say, oh, well, is this age, this income, this demographic, this zip code, whatever. That's the reason. But if I use some neural net and it just goes seventy five percent chance, deny, I can't like look at the nodes, but it could tell me if there are these new approaches, these additional algorithmic approaches that we can use that say this input was weighted 80 percent, this input was weighted 10 percent. This input was weighted five percent. And I could say here are the contributing factors. So you could think of it like a root cause analysis, some failure analysis. And, you know, this all relates to these ideas of algorithmic transparency, which we talk about in our Ethical and Responsible AI podcast series. You can learn about that. And actually, this is something that we do in training. We have a whole course and curriculum just focused on building ethical and responsible AI systems. There's a framework that involves a lot of questions that you can address and answer. And as you develop your ability to answer these questions, you can start tackling some of these harder problems. So this is something we encourage you to take a look at. We will link to our CPMI Plus E, which is the ethics add on to the CPMI certification, as well as our Ethical and Responsible AI podcast series. So you can dig a little bit deeper into not just understanding what these terms mean, black box, explainable AI and interpretable AI. But what do you need to do to actually put these things into practice? Exactly, because, as I mentioned, knowing them at a high level, that's great. So that if they come up in conversation, you've at least heard of them before. But being able to put it into practice is something totally different. And that is where CPMI comes into play. So for our AI Today podcast listeners, if you haven't taken the course already, we've put together a free intro to CPMI course, and I encourage you to check it out so that you can learn more about CPMI and how it can benefit your AI projects. It's free. So, you know, just click on the link, register, and then you'll be good to go. If you'd like to dig deeper into the methodology and really get a more comprehensive understanding of how you can apply this for your projects for project success and also become CPMI certified to enhance your career and understanding of how to run AI projects, then go to cognolytica .com slash CPMI, where you can sign up for the training and upon completion of all of the training modules and exercises, you will become CPMI certified. We'll link to both of them in the show notes as well, including the CPMI plus E plus ethics as well. So if you'd like to dig deeper into that area, you absolutely can. 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RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from Wives Takeover Special: Crystal & Krista in the Drivers Seat
"Fish on! Hey, Radcast is on! And welcome to the show, Mr. Jim Zumbo. Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here and I use that term loosely when I say gentlemen. Al Winder. Just want to welcome you to the show. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. Nothing makes me happier than to be clocking the box. Hailing from Wisconsin, Janna Waller. Thanks so much for having me. It's Radcast. Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. Powered by Bowspider. Brought to you by PK Lures and High Mountain Seasonings. And now here's your hosts, Patrick Edwards and David Merrill. Today is a very special episode of Radcast Outdoors because we've kicked the guys out of the studio. We are the wives of the Radcast Outdoors hosts. I am Crystal Merrill. And I'm Krista Edwards. And we are here because we're going to talk about what it's like to be married to someone who is quite literally obsessed with the great outdoors. So the guys are definitely in trouble. Yeah, that's right. We are going to have a good time. We're good. We kicked them out. No boys allowed. And just dive into what it's like to be married and have kids with an outdoors enthusiast. That's obsessed. Yeah. As we know, our husbands love hunting and fishing. David is a hunter and Patrick is a little bit more of a fisherman. So tell me about your experience in the outdoors, Krista. So I was raised down in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I was my dad's fishing buddy as a kid. We would go fishing just at the lakes that are close by. So the Curt Gowdy State Park lakes, he would take us trout fishing. And then as I got a little older, we would go camping with my grandparents on their pop -up camper trailer. I love doing that. My grandpa, I remember, took us to Hog Park and the Miracle Mile and we got to do some fishing there. I've always liked being outside. I've never been an enthusiast of any sorts or anything, but I've always enjoyed being outside hunting, just outdoor recreational activities as well. How about you? I have the same experience as a kid. I was immersed in the outdoors. My dad was a trapper and a hunter and a little bit of a fish or two. There's a picture that exists of me in a diaper standing in front of a bunch of skinned raccoons in Oregon. That does exist. But when I was a teenager, shot my first black tail deer in Oregon, which is where I grew up. And then in 2009, my dad invited me over here to Wyoming, which is now where I live and love, to an antelope hunt out here in the middle of near Riverton, Wyoming. We got a nice antelope. My husband and I, David, we both shot antelope that time. And then we decided to go explore our lives and travel around a little bit. But eventually we did end up back here in Wyoming. Awesome. What do you love about Wyoming? Except for last year? I love the climate. Yeah, that was brutal. The negative 50s was a little bit much last winter. But I love the open wide open spaces. I love the people how friendly they are and just kind and wholesome and morals. I just love the people here. Yeah, I agree. I have really just grown to love Wyoming. I love the mountains. I love all the outdoor recreational opportunities. I love that you can make close relationships because our biggest towns are still small ones. So it's a small world. I don't ever imagine living anywhere else. We love Wyoming. How about you tell me how you met David and how your relationship came to be? We both grew up in Oregon. We actually met in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. I was a Forest Protection Officer working for the Forest Service. And there's this little mountain house store in the middle of nowhere. And so I would stop in there and I'd get like candy or soda or something on my way. And David was actually a cook there and friends with the owners. He didn't have enough gump to introduce himself to me. So the owner of the store, because David and I were like 17 and 19. When we met, the owner of the store forcibly introduced us and basically told us we were going on a date. And so I think the next day I drove up to the mountain house after work and we watched a movie and talked all night. And that's the history of David and Crystal. The rest is history as they say, right? How about you guys? How did you and Patrick meet? I think we met a couple of times before we actually I don't know. Patrick says that we've met we had met previously, but we actually graduated high school together. We're in the same graduating class. I have vague memories of him there. But we officially started we're introduced by a mutual friend when we were in college down in Cheyenne at the community college down there. One of the new weeks of school, he was standing in line waiting for food. And we because we had been introduced, we started a conversation. He let me cut in line with him for food. We had lunch that day and just started talking and getting to know each other. And like he said, rest is history. We were also young. We were both 19 when we started dating when we first met. We've been married 17 years now. And we have four children, which Patrick has mentioned on the podcast before. Leah, our faith, who is 10. And Benjamin, who is nine, I have to think about that sometimes because they're, they stair step down. How about you? How long have you and David been married? So we've been married 17 years as well. We both I think we both got married in 2006. Didn't we? Yep. Okay. So yeah, we got married in 2006 in Oregon. And yeah, that's the rest of history. So when you first met Patrick, did you really know how obsessed he was with fishing? Because we lived in Cheyenne, I don't know what his passion was when it came to fishing. The opportunities in the Cheyenne area are much less than it is up here in Riverton. And his grandma lived in Riverton. And so when we were first dating, he would come up and visit her, but I didn't always come. So he would fish when he came up here. And then when I would come and visit, we would go fishing. But because it was so sporadic, I didn't realize just what the full depth of the obsession of the hobby, the passion was at that time. So no, I didn't realize when we were married for a few years in 2008, we moved up to Riverton for the first time to help with with his grandma and to help care for her. And it was then a couple years into our marriage that I fully got a full view of how much he really loved it because he had the proximity of Boysen and the ability to go more often. So those I would consider some of our harder years of marriage as we were figuring this out being newlyweds, and also him having these opportunities to go and fish and want to do both be a good husband and stay home but also pursue his hobbies and his passion. So it was then that I really got a full grasp on that. What have you done throughout the years as you've adjusted to being married and realizing how much he loves fishing? What do you guys do together? Do you guys go fishing together a lot now? Is it a family thing? What's the favorite part of being a wife of a husband who just loves the outdoors and has a passion for it? In the beginning, before we had kids, I would go fishing with him sometimes. I will say when we first were married, and I realized that it was difficult, it did create some fights. And we have some fights early on that are in the history books that we can laugh about now today. But as our family has grown when we had kids, it was a great way for us to get outside as a family. And he loves sharing his passion of fishing with children, whether it's our own or anybody else's, he loves teaching people how to fish. So it's been really awesome to see him share that with our family. So we do go as a family and sometimes I don't even fish. I'm just there as referee, making sure that kids aren't dangling up their lines, or I'm helping them pull them out of the water. So bait the hook. Yeah. So he's able to go on a date nights where I just go with him. It's not my passion. I don't mind doing it. I like doing it. But I mainly like spending the time with him. It's really fun to be able to go do something with him that he enjoys so much. And I know that it fills his bucket fills his love tank, whatever you want to call it to be able to do something he enjoys, and to be able to share that with me and with our children. So we do as a family, sometimes it actually has worked out now that our kids are older, that he'll take a couple and leave a couple home with me and he'll take a couple and so that's actually been a really special thing. It gives him the opportunity to spend one on one time or two on one time with with our kids when you have a big family. Sometimes that gets hard with busy schedules and stuff. I don't always go but I've got to a point now in our marriage where I am supportive of him going. I'm to the point now where I recognize the need for him to go when life has been really crazy and he's been really busy or things that work have been really stressful. I can see it and I will encourage him to go where in our early years of marriage when it was just the two of us and we didn't have kids that would not have been the case. I did not want him to go and leave me home alone. But now I say, I see that there's, you're stressed, you should go for half a day or whatever. Because I know that it just helps to renew him and refresh him. And then when he comes home, he's just able to be more present and attentive to our family. And he's just more at peace. So gotta be the support system for the family. And that doesn't mean you always go on these trips. But it looks different. Maybe it means that you cook the fish that he brings home for all the things for the with fish. I cook don't get me wrong. I do cook but he cooks and cleans. There is a learning curve when it comes to cooking fish. We like to cook together. And but he just is really good at fish specifically. I've done a few things and we usually do it together. But yeah, no, when it comes to fishing, he likes doing it all. He loves the catching. He I don't know if he loves the cleaning, but he does the cleaning and then he helps the cooking as well. It's, it's been great. It's been a great way to enjoy it as a family. How about you do fish or hunt with David? Do you guys so we do as a family? Yeah, we do a little bit of everything. Since I've had kids, I have three kids, the youngest is nine months. And so I don't get out as much as I would like. A couple of years ago, we ended up going over by Cody and I got an elk tag and actually harvested a very nice bowl, my first bull elk ever. We dropped the kids off with grandma and we went over there in the winter and harvested a nice bowl. It was awesome. It was nice to get away and do the things as a couple. Now that we have a bigger family, and it's a little bit harder to get out, get everybody ready. Because as a mom, we know that we get everybody ready, we get all the snacks, we get all the clothes, warm and hot and clothes and everything you need to get ready for a trip. It's a lot. It takes a lot more time to prep and prepare. And it's just a lot of effort when you have the kids. But as far as hunting and fishing, I really do enjoy the time. It brings me closer to God. Honestly, the silence, getting away from all the electronics, just the peace of being out in nature is awesome. And I would love to do it more. But I just have to wait till my kids get a little bit older to make it a little easier on everybody. Right. Absolutely. I feel that connection with the Lord as well being out in nature. And then also, just with my husband, the connection there. I don't know how David is. But I can tell you, like when when I went fishing with Patrick, just the two of us, we went a couple of years ago to Keyhole for an anniversary trip. And he was more excited to see me catch fish than than him catching fish. He was going for a trophy. And sometimes I would just read a book while he was trying. But when we started catching crappie and stuff, he would get so excited. And I imagine David's reaction to you getting a big elk was probably the same. And it's just a really special connection that you can have when they they share their love for that. And then it makes when they see somebody that they love, yes, pursuing what they let's just it. It's a cool way to bond. Yes, it is. I will agree. He was actually there with me when I shot my first black tail deer to we were tree stand hunting behind my house and I was climbing up in the tree and he was going to climb up behind me but the deer is already there. Oh, I know eating some apples from the orchard. And so he's standing down there at the bottom of the tree. And of course, I was waiting to get a good rest. I wasn't going to make a poor shot on my first year. I was very patient. The deal wasn't going anywhere. I had plenty of apples. So I was taking my time to get a good shot made a great shot. It was awesome experience for us to just instill that as a new couple and I wish that more couples would get out and do these things together even if you don't necessarily enjoy the sport. Just supporting your spouse. It's a great way to support your spouse just going, doing whatever you can to support them in their passions. Absolutely. When we were dating, it used to be the joke that I would always outfish Patrick whenever we would go fishing when we were dating and first married and I would tease that's why he didn't take me because I would always outfish him. But the real reason why I'd outfish him is because he would set me up in order to catch catch fish. I know this now. Yeah, back then I would tease that I had better skill. I meant that I was doing a better job. But really, he lovingly set me up in a way that I would I'm gonna give you a better lure or a better bait. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. In order for me to have success because then you have fun doing it together like that. Do you have any specific outdoor memories of your family from your childhood or any memories that are your favorite from being in the outdoors with your family? From my growing up years, one of my favorite outdoor memories was a camping trip that I went on with my grandparents and my uncle. My mom is 17 years older than her youngest brother. So my uncle is only like eight years older than I am. We got to do things with him similar to what you would with like a cousin because of the age difference there. We went and I believe it was down by Miracle Mile in a hog park and camped outside. I'd never slept outside open air, no tent, no camper. And he rolled out the sleeping bag like he was going to sleep outside. And I thought that was the coolest thing. So I slept outside open air next to the lake that we were at with my uncle. And so that was really special. I probably was 11 or 12. I don't even remember how old I was. But it's still a memory that sticks with me. And you didn't get carried away by the mosquitoes. Not that I remember. And I remember that was my first wallet I had ever caught. It was on that trip. I had never caught a wallet before. So that was really cool. And then my family. Oh, so many memories as a family with kids now with Patrick and our family, our younger kids. But one of them that I really love was our first camping trip after Katie was born. So Katie's my second. And Leah would have been a year and a half, two years old. Katie was five weeks old, sitting in a tent, nursing my five week old baby while camping. And this trip was so hectic. We got lost on our way. When we got to the lake, Patrick started catching fish immediately. It was like some of the best fishing he'd ever been to. We went to, I can't remember what it's called, a lake in Nebraska. And when we woke up the next day, we camped one whole night, the whole tent set up, the stress of we had to go home. So it was like less than a 24 hour trip. It was so stressful. And looking on it now, it's not a favorite. If you think, that was a wreck. We were a mess. But at the same time, it was just the beginning of we're just going to go no matter how hard this is, we're going to try anyways. And so that was a jumping off point for us on just family camping trips. And we've done many more, always having good parts and always having stressful parts like using the set up, the extra packing with kids and whatnot. So sleeping out under the stars really reminds me of a funny story from David and I when we were first dating, I was, you know, working for the Forest Service. So I was supposed to know all these different trails and everything and be able to read a map. Well, Crystal forgot the map, we were going to go to Danica Lake in Oregon. It's beautiful. I've been there. I hiked in there for my work. And I was going to take David in there, we're going to go fishing. It took a wrong turn on the trail. And we ended up not going into the wilderness, but staying near like a logging trail. And we came out to a place where I knew I was familiar with it was, we had hiked probably 10 miles that day, Danica Lake was not a 10 mile hike. And we get to a place and we just go to a lake that's right off of the road. It's a gravel road, but it's right off the road. And we were just gonna sleep out underneath the stars, we put a tarp down, had our sleeping bags, and we went to sleep woke up the next morning. And David says, I hear something scratching. Oh my goodness. So we look around us. And because we laid out our stuff almost in dark, we laid our tarp down on top of an ants nests or high ant flow area. And they weren't the small ants. These are the big ants. So he now has an ant in his ear. And we are probably two hours from any hospital or anything. Oh my goodness is before I'm a nurse. So I didn't know what to do. I've never had this encounter before. So we were, he was freaking out because something was in his head, scratching. And he's not a calm person around this kind of things. Anyways, I come up with this idea to drop some water into his ear to flood the ant out. And luckily it worked. But to this day, I will never live down the fact that we never made it to Danica Lake. Oh, you never went back? Never made it. Oh, bummer. So it's always this story of if Crystal plans a trip, are we really gonna make it to Danica Lake? Or are we gonna make it somewhere else? You just never know. And then as far as outdoor stories with my family, one of my favorite memories is when I harvested a moose here in Wyoming in 2017. We didn't know the area. So we were just hiking around and we came across a bull moose that was shootable. And the awesome thing was, my oldest son Hunter was probably three or four at the time. And he was on the shoulders of David. David was carrying him when I shot my moose. Oh, cool. So we had this experience together. My father in law was there too. We shot this moose and my son was able to be a part of that experience. And not that he is super enthusiastic about hunting yet. He's 10. And so he's interested in video games and other things like that. But it's a great family memory for us to remember. And then with my middle child, Drake, my dad took me out around Riverton to get an antelope and antelope buck because I for some reason when we first moved here, I drew antelope buck tags almost every year. Nice. Nobody else did. I don't know. So I got to spend that time with the Drake as well when I was harvesting that antelope buck and there's pictures of him sitting on my lap with the antelope and we harvested it together. We butchered it together at home. We do actually most of our own butchering and processing of our meats. That's great. And I think Patrick does the same, doesn't he? With his fish and whatever. Absolutely. Yeah. And the kids, it's a great way to teach them. It's one of those things that kind of get lost in our culture. I feel like today where a lot of kids and I'm not saying necessarily Wyoming kids because we live in a state where it's a little unique, but a lot of times kids don't know where their food comes from. And so whether it is game, wild game and fish, or it's things like poultry and pork and beef, we both have chickens on our properties and we raise pigs. And I know that you guys have done so in the past before. It's just such a good experience for kids to see the whole process. It's not just I went to the store and bought the ass. We went, when you hunt, you harvest it as well as bring it home, clean it, cook it, and then eat it. Same when you raise your own animals or eggs or whatever. It's just good for kids to know that it's not just go to the grocery store, that there is work involved, that it's not actually that easy. And it just brings a greater appreciation for your food as well as for the people who do, our farmers and our ranchers, who raise the food that we eat. And the quality of your food. Absolutely. That's what I love about processing my own game is you can be super fine with how you butcher it. You can be selective with the meats and you can, we do a lot of hamburger. It's not hamburger, it's elk burger, venison burger. Right. We treat it like hamburger and it tastes delicious and we love it and my kids love it and all of these different recipes that we have that we use with wild game because it cooks differently. Absolutely. You can't just cook elk like you can a normal beef steak. It takes a little more love and tenderness for sure. So talking about our kids and getting them involved. So you have three boys, 10, four and nine months, right? Yes. So with your kids, what have you found to be ways to get them outdoors? Because it is extra work, you do have to prepare. You're not just thinking about going to and hunting or going to the lake and fishing. You have to think about all their needs and all the things that you might need for the day to keep them occupied or whatever. So what kinds of tips and things have you found that help? And then also, how have you been motivated to make sure you get your kids outdoors because it is extra work? So how have you motivated yourself to continue doing the work to get them there? So some of the things that I have found that works for my kids to keep them, for lack of a better word, entertained during hunting because it's not always entertaining. They can play with sticks and rocks but they do eventually get bored and then they do eventually get hungry and or cold or hot. So you have to plan for those things because you want for kids the experience to be a positive one. You don't want them to look back and say, oh, I was so cold or I was so hungry and mom and dad didn't have any snacks for me. So you got to plan for those things. Sometimes you do better than others. As far as what I do to the effort, it is important to put that effort out. Yes, it is time consuming but I know it's good for their soul. It's good for my soul to get out even if we just go to Ocean Lake or Morton Lake for the evening and go fishing. It's beautiful to get sit on the beach, listen to the waves come in. It's therapeutic for everybody and it helps everybody's mental health. We just love taking those opportunities to do those small things and I know you do the same thing with your family as well. We do and I always tease that I could be talked out of it every single time. Easily. Yes, especially like the first camping trip of the year when you have to get the camper cleaned and prepped and make sure your supplies are there. Every time we're getting ready to go camping for the first time, I always think we don't have to do this. We can stay home of effort. So much work and so I say that about every trip. You could tell me and say, would you rather stay home? I'd probably say yes to you on a heartbeat. So don't offer that as an option because otherwise I'll probably take you up on it. It's worth it once you get there. You take all the time to prepare the food and to pack all the clothes and to clean up and get the dogs ready and whatever else it is that you need to do in order to get yourselves there. But once you're there and you're set up and you're in nature and you're able to not worry about all the at -home chores and busyness and schedule and you're just able to soak in whatever it might be, it's so worth it. So it's worth the time. It's worth the effort and start. My tip would be to start young. Don't wait till your kids are old enough to hold the fishing pole or do whatever because if you just make it part of your lifestyle to just go and do and be together as a family, then it will get to a point where your kids will look forward to those times. One of the things I also tease about like where people say camping is relaxing and I'm like you have never gone camping with kids. However, we, my family doesn't have little kids anymore. You guys still have a few, a toddler and a baby. But when we got went camping a couple years ago and our kids range from ages 11 to seven and we were able to go and Pat would go fishing and I got to sit in my chair and talk to my friends or read a book and my kids were running around and playing with their friends and and they were all over the place night. I looked at it and I go, oh we've arrived.
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A highlight from EP141 Cloud Security Coast to Coast: From 2015 to 2023, What's Changed and What's the Same?
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anne Hunchuvakian, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show, argue with your hosts and the rest of our Cloud Security Podcast listeners on our LinkedIn page. Anton, this is a fun CISO episode that's full of growth lessons, leadership lessons, interesting stories of migrating to cloud and one of the strongest endorsements of cloud as both risk reduction and business velocity improvement I think we've gotten on the show to date. What did you think today? I think so too. I think that we should not lament that the episode did not cover how to improve configurations of your cloud armor or how to run SIEM or any of this. It's a really good episode with a guest who experienced some of the lessons that clients are learning today, but eight years ago. So it's really fascinating that it's like for many companies, his past is the future and that makes his lessons hugely valuable. Hugely valuable and his advice is applicable to both CISOs all the way down to people who want to get started and get promoted in our field. And so maybe with that, let's turn things over to today's guest. With that listeners, I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we're joined by Jeremiah Kung at AppLovin. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm excited to have you here because we have something in common. We've both had the East Coast to West Coast experience. I started my career in Washington, DC, and I swear to God, the people I worked with at the startup I worked at First Shape, to this day, if I get drinks with them, they rip on me for wearing a suit to my interview with them. So the East Coast to West Coast interview, the whole thing is very real. So what's your take on that distinction aside from costumes for interviews? Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not a big fan of wearing ties either. It feels like a weak pair of hands slowly strangling me all day long. Yeah, for me, it's more of a metaphorical one. I was born a West Coast surfer kind of guy for the longest time, but career wise, especially making the moves, working for bigger banks, which I saw them as East Coast, let's face it, the bigger banks are New York, North Carolina. It's very suit and tie, very more button down, very much more about the controls, the frameworks, the committees, and infosec has to give the go ahead further than it goes to production. West Coast being out here with places like Palo Alto, where innovation is rampant and it's wonderful, you got to move fast. So you live by the speed and the velocity of your releases. And if someone's slowing you down, they're going to keep you from getting to market faster than your competitors. So it's a very different approach to information security. I remember earlier when I started speaking about this about a year ago, you can tell all sorts of funny stories about being at an East Coast company. And you know, all the red tape you have to go through and everyone kind of sighs and kind of agrees with that. But you know, at the end of the day, the West Coast, you have other risks you need to be aware of too, as well. And it's about trying to find that balance and attending to what the risks are. So the fundamentals don't really change, but out here, you have to innovate faster? Innovate faster. And I think really what you need to understand to have is a clarity of the risk, right, to really understand what the risk is. Coming from a big bank, of course, losing data is a huge thing, operational risk, regulatory risk, and there's all of that layers that you need to go through. With the West Coast, you really need to kind of understand, okay, how's this company making money? Where's all our data sitting? And you know, what are all our attack surfaces? So I think this is a basic step for anybody information security is to really understand what the asset inventory is, including intellectual and data assets. But it's not just small company, large company, though, because it sounds like if you're in the West Coast startup, your risk of just dying, the risk of startup going kaput, deep in my heart, I think it's more important than cybersecurity risk. I'm joking about it. But ultimately, I understand if I am a startup guy, the startup going out of business is a higher risk than security issue. Of course, security issues can also drive you out of business. Yeah, I get that. But that's not just what you're talking about, right? There are other issues. Yeah, absolutely. Other issues on that, because operational risk is again, if your competitors beat you, and you lose market share, okay, yeah, regulators are going to come after me or something like that. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of business. What's the big deal there. But at the same time, if you do get breached, that's going to make you lose market share as well. So you need to kind of figure out what that balance is. Okay, that makes sense. So let's shift gears. This was actually kind of a cool intro. And it introduced the whole concept in my mind. Now I kind of think, hi, are you East Coast CISO or West Coast CISO? Maybe my greeting for the foreseeable. One other thing we wanted to explore, and this may have something to do with this cost dimension is, initially, when cloud computing public cloud showed up, the default stance from any CISOs was kind of slightly negative and, or maybe strongly negative or get this cloud out. I'm not allowing it in my company. So this was probably like a good number of years ago. Now, certainly this changed, and we see a lot of CISOs embracing cloud. But here's the thing. We hypothesize that there are CISOs who are active cloud fans who kind of want cloud because it's better. And admittedly, we have a CISO here, Phil Danables, who is of that type, but he joins Google Cloud because of the belief, presumably. Now, are there other CISOs who think cloud is just superior for security and they're driving cloud adoption as opposed to resisting it? What is your take on this? Yeah, that's a great point. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've talked to people on both sides of the coin on this one, and I'm kind of obviously in the more cloud -centric side, but I'm a little bit more in the middle to the left of that, if that makes any sense. I'm very pro -cloud. I think it deals with, very efficiently, a lot of the old concerns that you would have about security, patching updates and Vone scans and Vone updates and all that other type of stuff, because you can spin these things up so quickly, the fixes and release it out there. It's not, back in the old days, some guy with a CD running around from every server trying to load and update patches and stuff like that. You know, that's such a funny thing to pause on, because maybe this is my youth speaking. I sometimes forget that people had to do that. And I think for a lot of our listeners, it's hard to appreciate that, yeah, really, that's how it used to work. If you had to patch something, it wasn't Terraform Apply, my new version. It was a dude with a CD in a server room somewhere. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if you were in a freeze period to try to do patches, you had to go through all sorts of updates and things like that to try to get in, and it gets all sorts of approvals. I think the dude with a CD is the least of your problems, is the talking to all the layers for making a change, submitting requests in paper forms, you know, ideal bureaucrats. I think the dude with a CD would be like, dude comes in, sticks a CD, and does the patching. That's fast. No, no, no. But some of that still exists, right? You still need change windows, you still need approval. So maybe here's the question is, how does Cloud, for you as a CISO, change that part of the equation? What's the non -technical changes? Improved. Not changed. Take the pessimistic stuff out. How did Cloud improve this for you? Anton, I think that's known as leading the witness. Okay, fine. Yeah. I feel like you're trying to give me what the answer is there. But I mean, I'm already on that side. It's really the visibility. Because, you know, being at Apple, we're strong partners with Google Cloud and being all in Google Cloud, I can really see where our assets are, I could see trends over time, I could see the logging and the monitoring and all the alerts and the phones all in one spot, which is very nice. But I get it, not every company can be 100 % in the cloud. I would imagine that a bank, you're going to at best be some kind of hybrid approach to that, depending on the size of the bank. And I could see and outsource a lot of the running around changing. I just had this question the other day dealing with some audits. Hey, show me when's the last time you changed and rotated your keys and how often that is? Well, being in Google Cloud, they do that for you. And you guys do a random rotation of that. Whereas AWS does it to make sure the keys are rotated every 365 days, according to NIST and TIP standards. You guys do a random rotation, which it could be two weeks, it could be 365 days, but at some point, those keys will be rotated. So that's kind of the intelligence behind to keep it random, to keep it fresh, to keep it on top. I appreciate that from a security perspective. And I don't have to rely on a team to constantly run, again, running it out and changing keys and this and that, even at a cloud level where you have to, you know, you can just terminal in and do that. This is just handled for you. And as we moved more and more to Kubernetes, more and more to serverless environments, these ways old of needing to do security become less and less impactful. But then again, there's always a new attack surface that has yet to be discovered. New problems are going to come and show and raise their heads from a security perspective. We're just on the way of discovering what those are. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So I want to go back in time a little bit to maybe when cloud was newer for you. I understand you were part of some big migrations back in the day. What did you learn about doing those, quote unquote, right? It was really lucky to be with Capital One 2015, 2016, sometime when they were deciding to be the first big bank to move everything 100 % into the cloud. So famously cloud forward. Yeah, very cloud forward. Yeah. So how did that go? It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work, but it was really interesting. It was great to be part of that team to really learn how cloud can mitigate, how to move quickly, how to combine the teams. I think one of the things that I found to be the right way of doing things was they took a very strong two in the box approach, really kind of a three in the box approach. And what they mean by that is for those teams to move forward, the development team would have one lead that was the business lead and say, hey, this is what the customers want. This is what the industry and market trends are looking at. And then there would be a tech lead say, okay, this is what the teams can develop and how long it's going to take. And then I kind of squeezed my way in there to become that three in the box, the security perspective to listen, okay, this is what the business wants. This is what tech can provide. And here's the risk and the risk we need to mitigate. And to have that conversation was invaluable because you got it from every angle. You didn't just hear what IT said that I can only do so much and why is the business wanting that? You got to hear it from the business exactly what they wanted, how they wanted to do things and why too, and why this was important for the business. That makes a ton of sense. So what were maybe some, for people in a similar boat in the future, how did you get effective at communicating the risk to people? How did you help business understand that? How did you help IT understand that? What was it? The saying that they say, fools talk, cowards stay silent, wise people listen. And that was really kind of key for me on that one was at first listening to the business, understanding their pains, understanding what they were challenged with. This really helped me to assess my risk and also come up with mitigation plans that would work for the business. Again, same approach with IT is understanding, okay, what are their pains? Where are they coming from? And this way I can come up with what the plans should look like with considerations for everybody across the board. Okay, so... Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Tim. I am kind of curious about it, but I'm nervous that we are kind of reducing all this to effective communication only. Is this... Sorry, this doesn't sound very right. But the point is that effective communication clearly had a huge role, but there are other pillars for success because a huge migration of the first half of bank to the cloud had other tricky elements, right? Yes. So that was another one. What we had was a very strong partnership with our cloud partners at the time. They had been sitting and working with, especially since there were no frameworks, there was no really references. I remember even the regulators at the time were sitting, okay, that's great. You guys are doing that. Can we just sit and listen to see what you guys are doing so we can kind of spread this out with the rest of the banks and standards out there? I think the key partnerships with your vendor, your cloud vendor specifically, was invaluable, providing advice and having that back and forth feeds. I remember working with one particular tool. We said, hey, this encryption standard is not really up to snuff. Could you guys work on that and develop something? And sure enough, I think within two or three dev cycles, they had something that was what we needed. To this day, I find that to be an ideal approach, working with my cloud vendors or just any vendors that I have. I appreciate those who will sit down, listen to me and hear my complaints and do the whole listening and coming up with an approach. I think almost all my security vendors I'm using, as well as the cloud vendors with you guys, have that type of approach. Okay. That does sound like real magic for a lot of more technically minded leaders I've met. So this is solid. This advice is worth the price of podcast alone in my mind. So to sort of progress further, like you mentioned that you learned those lessons quite some time ago and many companies are still learning them even now. And for some of them, cloud is with the future, funny enough. So now that you've went through all this and other lessons, how are you approaching securing cloud given differently the lessons? Like what are you doing better in 2023 regarding securing cloud compared to the original lessons? For me personally, it's a little bit different. Talking to some of my peers who still haven't made that jump, they seem to have that lack of trust of having their data set somewhere not on a server that they're under control over at some point and at their own personalized data center that they have, their own physical security, own the HVAC systems and all other type of stuff. They want to have that data. Okay. That's an approach. It's going to be tough to scale over time. I think one of the things that I found to be very successful here that's helped is reading a lot, a lot of reading, a lot of talking to other peers in the industries and a lot of vendors going to these discussions to stay on top of what the recent threat is and what the other trends are and what the solutions are out there. I think that's key. We're a community and that has to be pushed forward if that makes any sense to continue to talk to folks. I think sitting in your own little silo is not going to work very well. Well, I don't think I know. Yeah. I forget who it was on the show, but they said that security is a team sport. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess on that thread, actually, I want to pull on this a little more. I often joke with CISOs on the show that what they need is not another piece of technology, but rather a family therapist to help their relationships with other teams. What advice would you give to other CISOs, security leaders on first building better relationships with other teams, and two, how to get out of the saying no mentality and into that real collaborative listening mode? Yeah, that saying no mentality. I've talked to some CISOs like that who said, yeah, I'm looking to hire and I need people to join my team because I need them to get out there and say no as much as humanly possible. No, people don't actually say that? Explicitly said that? Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember I stopped and I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, man? Are you doing okay? Wow. I can imagine his life was pretty miserable. Maybe if you're working on a highly top secret government project where you got to hide the alien bodies, maybe. That's a good example. Yikes. Yeah. I think a family therapist is a great way to do that, to work with their teams, but I think really at the end of the day, it's not that hard. Everyone wants to do a good job when they come to work, hopefully, and everyone wants to get along with their work base. I think the thing is just the key is to be available for them if they have questions. Try to initiate those conversations and also learn when to back off. Everyone's busy. They have a lot of their own success metrics they have to shoot for, so if you can be part of that formula, great on a day -to -day basis, but if they're a little too busy for you to come back at a better time, pizza and beer is always a good way to go as well, but I think it's just trying to be as value -add as possible at all times and be understanding that everyone's trying to get their jobs done as well. I think that's key. That's good advice not just for security leaders, but for PMs as well. One of my favorite pieces of advice for PMs I ever heard was framed as bring the donuts, and I think security is kind of this way too. With PMs, nobody invited you, and they can get along just fine without you for the most part, so you've got to really understand where they're coming from and what value you're bringing to the equation if you want people to work with you constructively. Yeah, it's knowing your role. Security can be a value -add and can be positive for the business, but a majority of the time we're kind of a cost to that business, a necessary cost and maybe, hopefully, a helpful business benefiting cost, but at a cost, nonetheless, people aren't usually going to go to the company for how secure it is, especially on the West Coast. It's about how much money or how handy their product is first. Security is kind of a second thought, but we can definitely work together on that. I have heard some pretty inspiring stories on this show and in my professional life of how security helps teams move faster by taking, say, risk out of the equation or automating away some risk, and so I think maybe in cloud, due to its nature, there's unique opportunities for security teams to be helpful there. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Usually, if you're already moving into the cloud, you're kind of taking a fresh start, and that's where you can really do the security by design. I get it. If you're on mainframes and you've been around for 30 years and now you're the new security person, it's really to go back and difficult to do security by design from the start, right? You're kind of retroactively trying to find fits here or there. But starting fresh into the cloud, it's like, okay, we could do this by design. AppLovin's been great about kind of doing that with protecting their data by saying, hey, I don't need a lot of sensitive data. We're going to try to use our own attribution formats and other types of formulas to grow our customers' business without taking on a lot of that sensitive information. So that helps reduce the risk, again, secure by design. So this is good, especially excellent. Okay, Tim, you can make fun of me for saying excellent, but this is excellent. However, excellence hasn't spread uniformly, right? And you do see people who are still in the saying no mentality. And regarding architecture, we do see a lot of people still stuck essentially in the 90s regarding architecture. They want to lift and shift, or they're even debating whether this new cloud thing is for them. So given your experience, what's your best advice for the leaders of these organizations where either the CISO is blocking cloud or maybe even CIO doesn't want it? So basically, they are not getting any of the benefits. And when they start doing cloud, they do it in a very on -premise way, the lift and shift way. Yeah, that's a tough one, because you're really trying to tell somebody to change their entire point of view. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, you need to have that aha moment, travel to Damascus moment for them. And I don't think I could give them individual advice to have that aha moment other than travel the world, talk to folks and, you know, experience and see what else is out there. I know for AppLovin, when we jumped over 100 % into the cloud, our business just naturally spiked because of the efficiencies, how quickly automating compute usage was with that intelligence to go up and down for what our demands were. That's amazing. And, you know, again, that's a strong partnership with Google on that, having just an incredible team that really kind of jumped to everything that we needed, which was fantastic. Not easy to find in the industries all over the world. So that was really helpful. But I think they need to talk to people who have those success stories and just to see what it is. I think at the end of the day, if those folks would talk to the business more and to see what the business needs, they'll kind of start to see, yeah, that it makes sense. That's where we need to kind of move towards. But that has to be that personality of I got to get out of my silo. I got to talk to people out of my comfort zone, because you may not be a business person. You could be a genius infosec person. But if you don't get the business and have that background, it's going to be difficult to travel far. Yeah, that's for sure, Drew. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. You really can't go far in security unless you can bring other people on board. And that's one of the things we've talked about on another show, I think, a CISO episode, talking about the challenge of developing people who've excelled for their technical skills as they rise in their career to then excel on non -technical skills. What advice do you have for those people to make that leap from I'm great because I can understand X .509 to I'm great because I can convince the person down the hall that our interests actually are aligned? Yeah, that's a great point. So even on my own team right now, I have people who are very smart, very technically have done some great things, and they want to get to that next level. So for me, to that level, to try to help coach them along those lines, I recommend understanding all the different domains and then having a very strong relationship with the business and spend time with them. I think peer mentorships and things like that to do exchange programs within the company are also very important to understand how the business works and just spending time with them. I think that's, I guess, it's almost like what a social CISO type of thing. It's just very social, and it's really about getting outside of your shell and understanding everyone else's pains and what their goals are to win for their game. That's really kind of at the end of the day, yes, technical, that's good. You need that, absolutely. But it's all about people, processes, and tools. It's a three -legged chair, right? So people are so key, and I think I find a lot of the really, really smart infosec folks tend to focus on the tools, and everyone ignores processes, right? No one wants to document anything, but that's also very important too. So those are the kind of key aspects. But this sounds like hard work. It can be, but it's really depending on your personality types. But it's really not too hard. There's a lot of great classes out there to kind of coach yourself through, and just the ways of thinking about stuff, which is good. I read this great book called Superforecasting, which was, Phil Tetlock wrote this, and it was really about a way of how to think of things differently. You don't have to be highly educated. There's these experiments that are to use folks to become, quote, unquote, superforecasters. Some of the best performers, one of them was a housewife who just had a high school education, but because once she learned how to use the little levers and stuff to do the math on this, it became about how did she see things and how she thought about things. And it was about, okay, most people would see an event and automatically change their opinion about something broadly. For her, it was about, okay, that changes my opinion a little bit towards this direction. And then she would gather more and more data, and each time it would move the dial to the left or to the right. And eventually, she was able to call out, yeah, in six months, this is going to happen. And she was right. I think it was close to 87 % of the time. People like that had that kind of approach is really helpful. And I think, again, that kind of breaks down from what we were talking about today is about seeing the trends and kind of seeing the forest of the trees and then looking at every piece of information. And they'll just stick to one piece of information, which might be legitimate, but have that kind of shade your whole approach. You got to see all sorts of factors to kind of come in and see at the end of the day. And I think if you do that, you're going to see that cloud's going to be, for most cases, not all. Again, if you're hiding UFO bodies, okay, maybe not. We'll see that it's an advantage. Well, Jeremiah, I hate to do this on such a note, but I have to ask you our traditional closing questions. Sure. First, do you have a tip to help people improve their security when migrating to cloud? And two, aside from super forecasting, which sounds great, do you have recommended reading for our listeners? Yes. Super forecasting was a great one. I read another great one recently called American generalship. I'm just about finishing it up right now. It's pretty good. It's ideal of how to become a stronger leader and a stronger follower at the same time too. This kind of helps you coach of, okay, this is how I can mentor somebody. And this is also how to be a good mentee at the end of the day. It also has a lot of really great military stories in the background on that too. So fun stuff there if you're a fan of the military. And I'm sorry, what was the other question? One tip, one easy to follow tip for people. Yeah. I'd say try to make a new friend inside the business. At least once a month, have these one -on -ones and have a cup of coffee. I think it goes a long way. I remember getting on an airplane ride home from one of these other team events, talking to sat down two folks that I don't normally work with and got to spend five hours instead of watching a stupid movie, sitting there and talking about their business and what they're seeing, talks of AI and how they're using co -pilot and chat GPT and all that other type of stuff. It was really fascinating to hear their point of view of what they saw from a line of business that I didn't normally do a lot of work in. That's a fascinating answer and fits with the theme of the episode, which I think might be listeners, go make some new friends. So with that, Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, you can find us at our website cloud .withgoogle .com slash cloud security slash podcast. Please subscribe so that you don't miss episodes. You can follow us on Twitter, twitter .com slash cloud sec podcast. Your hosts are also on Twitter at Anton underscore Jovian and underscore Tim Pico. Tweet at us, email us, argue with us. And if you like or hate what we hear, we can invite you to the next episode. See you on the next cloud security podcast episode. Bye.
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from MAKE IT HAPPEN - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"You can't pour from an empty cup and before you give love to anybody else you have to truly love yourself And I think the easiest way to love yourself as a man is to be proud of yourself and to be proud of yourself You have to decide who you want to be inside of the metaverse inside of the matrix You decide the character you want to be and try your best to achieve it Why do you think people struggle with being proud of themselves? I think because they know they're failing I think that most people failing in life know very well they're failing and it doesn't matter what avatar you decide to absorb or Who you decide to be? You can decide to be it and you know true in your heart if you're giving a hundred percent of your energy towards becoming or Doesn't matter if you want to become a famous musician does not gonna come ball a bodybuilder doesn't make them come become a pro fighter It doesn't matter what you want to be You know in your heart if you're actually trying you have to decide what you want to be and try and become it and a lot Of the people who are genuinely unhappy or miserable in their hearts know they're not trying well And they also I think they also focus on what everyone else is doing right or wrong and then judging outward and everyone's like focus on this our reflection of like what that person has and versus what they don't have and it's all just like Cycle of negativity completely and it's just if we found ourselves especially with social media nowadays We found ourselves like most people because maybe they're not mentally strong enough to understand like wait I need to create my own value instead of looking outwards How do you think we fix it successful is all about self -definition which is what I was saying at the beginning We have to defy decide who you want to be and if you're if you wanted to be Joe Schmoe and you pull it off And you'll be a pretty happy content person to decide who you want to be I think the people who are miserable is the dip it's the gap between their expectations and their reality That's what the misery lies. My expectations were always enormously high even when I was a nobody I knew I had to be filthy rich and a kickboxer at the age of 15 I knew that if I'm the kind of guy that if I raise my voice people are gonna care I'm not gonna be the guy who starts shouting and everything's just funny I know I'm gonna be the kind of guy who's genuinely a formidable opponent all around the human endeavor I know I'm gonna have money People who are miserable are the people who don't try hard enough to obtain it because I actually believe and it's another thing I believe the universe is very giving I think the universe and God himself is very giving I've yet to meet someone years All my who is genuinely giving 100 % of themselves day after day doesn't snake anyone firm handshake Look you in the eye doesn't lie to nobody and tries 100 % doesn't get what they want I've never seen it every single person who doesn't have what they want There's something in their story that doesn't quite add up I've yet to see some guy who have you ever seen a guy who eats right trains his ass off and never misses gym session Ever not grow. It's just that's the way the universe works, right? So if you're truly about it, you're truly trying your absolute best You're gonna do it and I that's what I believe. I believe the universe is extremely giving So when I meet somebody and they go I really wanted this and I don't have that so you didn't really want all like the successful People most successful people in the world Would you say that all of them have have like something in common in the sense of like some sort of hardship in their life? It's not I mean trauma is extremely important and this actually goes back into answering the first part of your question, which is interesting There's a study I read about stress and it was saying that stress they Stress has a placebo effect attached to it because the placebo effect is extremely powerful So they found some of the most stressed people in the world and they split them into two groups and they're all equally stressed They all have a bunch of cortisol People who believed they were that stress was bad for you and that stress can hurt you and they believe those media articles We're dying earlier. They're having heart attacks and having stress related illnesses The people who believe the opposite who just said stress is part being successful I like stress when I feel stressed I do my best makes me anxious. It turns my brain I like being stressed lived longer than average point is the same drug how you look at it and how your body Anticipates it how you feel about it affects the real -world results, which goes back into what you were saying earlier about the jealousy You're saying people look on social media and they get jealous and it demotivates things That's because they decide to be demotivated by it Do you know what happens when I get jealous of somebody I fucking beat them If I look at somebody has something I got I will take it from them by hook or by crook. Well, then I love I wish someone could make me jealous. It's hard. Now. I got everything I wish I could look at somebody and go fucker would you say would you say jealous? He's the number one part for motivation? Well, I don't think motivation is a real thing, I don't believe in motivation it's a concept I think discipline is real and I also think discontentment is real and I don't think it's possible for anybody to stay in a scenario Where they're truly uncomfortable if you fall asleep on your arm and your arm really starts to hurt even in the deepest sleep You're gonna wake up and move your arm if you sit there and your life has been in a rut for seven years You are semi comfortable in that rut. Sure. There's days. You're pissed off sure You're semi annoyed by it, but there's also days when you just play video games eat pizza and you're kind of cool with it It's no big deal if you were truly Unhappy and uncomfortable and discontent with your scenario. You wouldn't be in it. So I think I don't believe there's anybody who's truly When I was broke, I couldn't sleep Sam. Please understand me when I was broke. I couldn't sleep I'd be trying to go to bed thinking How the fuck these people have Ferraris. I want a fucking Ferrari I couldn't sleep people aren't taught to be self -aware anymore People are taught to just like like I said look at that guy what he has and be mad that she don't have it Or like if something's going on with me I don't want to look inside and say what's actually happening with me. Why am I this way? Why am I the person that I am today everyone, but I want to figure out deeply How do you think a man specifically in this case is able to look at themselves more comfortably without? Holding the judgment the fact that they don't have the stuff over themselves because completely you're totally right I think there's two answers to the question one I think a lot that came from chess because chess is the most ruthless game on the planet and what chess will teach you Chess teaches you that if you lose at some point you made a mistake It doesn't matter if it's the smallest mistake It doesn't matter if you just took too long too long to think to make the right move and run out of time on the clock At some point you fucked up for you to lose that game. It's 100 % accountability with no luck That's what's so important about learning chess That's the first thing and the second thing is you need to as a man adopt the mindset that absolutely everything that happens to you It's completely an earlier fault whether it's good or bad Most men don't have that when the matrix was attacking me and they were destroying me and they're calling up My ex is trying to get fake fucking charges on me and put me in jail when they closed my bank accounts I use ten eleven million dollars when they banned me on all across all social medias and lie about me when they harassed my Family when did I'm sitting there going? This is my fault. All of this is me. I got here. It's my fault I'm not going that was unfair. It was orchestrated NGOs worked against me because that is not helpful. It's accountability It's a hundred percent accountability in all things, but also when I go out there and I start to Bugatti It's like that's me. It's Mike. This is my fault The car is my fault and the big house is my fault and everything that ever goes wrong Yeah, absolutely. You have to take complete in our accountability for everything. You can't make excuses ever There's never an excuse and you're right people try and put things on the outwork outwards on the outside. It's interesting I remember watching Forrest Gump about five years ago I was on a plane and coming where I was flying and the beginning of Forrest Gump has a scene in it when he's sitting On the bench at the beginning think about a Forrest Gump He's sitting on the bench at the beginning and there's a feather and on him and the movie begins what they're saying with that is Forest is the feather and life has just pushed him all over and put him in all these unusual scenarios Life has directed him everywhere That's what that's what it's saying And if you're gonna be the guy and you're gonna allow life to happen to you and you're not gonna happen to life Then you're at mercy of the wind. Perhaps it might work out. Okay, but it might not right So you have to be the guy who goes? Okay, the winds blowing in this direction. Fuck them. I'm doing this You have to come to life You can't let life come to you because if you let life come to you Then you're gonna be living inside of a matrix and a system which is designed not for you to live your best life It's designed for you to comply How do you think men can build more confidence in like deciding their life instead of just letting be decided for that? Yeah, so they have to take absolute responsibility, which is the first thing the second thing they have to get competence and competence It's gonna allow you to have confidence. You're not gonna be good at shit. You're bad at shit You have to be good at things. You're only gonna be confident things if you're good at things I know what I'm good at and what I'm bad at So you have to go out there and take risks you have to make mistakes and you have to risk it all and and once Again, this comes down to competition. I think competition is such an important thing in the masculine world I grew up in the chess world, but I went fighting world was all extremely competitive. It's competition driven You can't make excuses if I sit here and say I lost a fight cool You lost a fight, but I lost a fight but my gloves when they were wrapped up my gloves My hand was hurting and then excuses like you have to understand that excuses don't matter Nobody cares life's binary winners or losers and you just have to take absolute responsibility for people are so caught up when things happen This is why this happened to me because of this because my childhood cuz my past trauma cuz my life whatever But people are so not taught to like look inwards and go towards those things Well, I think I think victim playing victim is a it's an easy way out. Yeah, it's it's a lazy This is an easy way out It's a good excuse and it also makes you feel better about yourself me and my brother have another thing We do we do this all the time if either of us are ever complaining about anything We say we have this we shut each other up and saying what do you want therapy? If you don't want therapy what you're talking the main reason people complain about things is to get a dopamine rush, right? I'm unhappy but if I sit there and I complain about it and you give me a little bit sympathy I feel better dopamine That's why they're complaining for dopamine if someone comes to me and complains about something It's the best thing I can do for them because I'm a philanthropic nice man. I'm mr. Nice. It's time to get fucked I don't care shut up But a lot of this comes down to your social circle because there's a whole bunch of guys out there whose friends accept excuses If your friends will allow you to make excuses, you're gonna make excuses if you're a family and let you make excuses You're gonna make excuses. You're gonna complain and feel better You gotta be around killers who don't accept that shit if I have a good me and my let's say me and three friends There's four of us and we all decide to do 10 ,000 push -ups a day and all of us do them except one There's no words inside the human language There's no sentence He could possibly construct my how compenduous or concise or how intelligent the man is that will allow us to forgive him failing Don't accept excuses.
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
How First-Time Mom Katie Prepared Her Body & Mind for Childbirth
"There anything that you did leading up to labor other than taking the course to prepare your body and prepare your mind? Yes for sure. I spent a lot of time with God. A lot of time in prayer. Honestly having to block out a lot of what culture says about birth and having to reframe my whole mindset. It is very easy to let fear creep in. Fear is what causes pain. The pain free birth course talks about the fear pain tension cycle. That is so real. The moment you feel fear creeping in I started to have pregnancy symptoms that most people think are unpleasant and things like that. As soon as I relight my heart and my mind I was like we are good. We got this. There is nothing to worry about. I was created for this. Drinking raspberry leaf tea every day has eating dates. Those are all fun things. Walking stairs a lot sideways making sure I get a lot of hip movement in. I went on multiple walks every day. Me and my husband would go out to the forest and just walk for as long as we could. Even the day before I gave birth we just went on a huge forest walk. We were out there for so long. Who knows? Maybe that helped us out a little bit. Walking is one of the best things you can do actually to align to help get your baby in the right position and get your body ready for birth. Strenuous exercise In fact it's interesting because a lot of women who are super super fit going into birth actually have a really hard time when it comes to the whole labor process because their pelvic floor is so tight. But it's still really important to remain active. I feel like walking is one of the best things that you can do to continue helping your baby and your pelvis work together. Preparing your body. That's so good. Plus I feel like it's very mentally helpful. It is. It clears the mind. That reminds me too, talking about pelvic floor squats and then the mile circuit is something I also did a lot. Just to help relax everything. Did you see a chiropractor at all? I did. I went to the fountain and saw Dr. Kayla and I saw them probably 25 weeks on and that was super awesome. They were just so
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Rep. French Hill and Sen. Tom Cotton on opposing the shutdown
"Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, another gold bump in honor of Senator Goldbars Menendez. I'm joined by Representative French Hill from Arkansas. Representative Hill is one of the smart guys because he's on the Intel Committee. That's handpicked and the Republicans are always serious about that. He's also on foreign affairs and financial services. Our old friend John Campbell used to serve on financial services. That's one of the smart committees. So Representative Hill, welcome back. Good to have you. But you are a Vanderbilt grad, so we're not going to talk about football. Seriously, you lost to Wake Forest and the University of Las Vegas. Does that, how does that go down with the Commodore Nation? Well, it's we're always waiting for golf season. Congressman, the House is going to come up with a solution or the government's going to shut down. What's it going to be? Look, Hugh, if we want to be strong, if we want to lock in the wins that we got in the debt ceiling negotiation, when we put forward a plan that actually cut spending year over year, change the regulatory focus, encourage more people back into the workforce, we need to pass these 11 remaining appropriations bills. And that was not gotten to over the summer, even though now think about this, Hugh, even though each of those bills is written at a spending level below the debt ceiling deal and each one locks in conservative policies. It's really so frustrating to me that those have been delayed from coming to the House floor, including twice over the last week by a handful of members when they're missing this big picture. Lock in the wins, cut spending, reduce regulations, get more people back in the workforce, get the spotlight back on Joe Biden's failures and off of the House. Congressman Hill, I don't expect you to speak ill of a colleague, but I can. Congressman Gates wants to be governor of Florida. Congressman Maryland native Matt Rosendale wants to be senator from Montana. Ralph Norman, Congressman Ralph Norman wants to be senator from South Carolina. Going to run against Lindsey Graham. And Congressman Dan Bishop wants to be the attorney general of North Carolina. So I understand self -interest. Those guys have no interest in governing. But do they really want to bring down the Republican majority? Because they're going to get crushed if they do this. Right. But by this kind of of tactic, you're going to end up with a Biden Schumer clean debt ceiling deal and with spending levels, certainly at the Biden McCarthy level, but weaker policy, weaker policies. Because in order to be the strongest negotiator, get the most conservative win, we need to pass the appropriations bills. That's why McCarthy's plan this week of trying to get the rest of the bills across the floor, at least 70 percent of discretionary spending, plus plus a four week short term stopgap spending measure measure that cut spending, repeat cut spending for that one month and put border in the spotlight by putting H .R. two on. There is no conservative that should vote no on that. And this is just arguing against ourselves. It's a huge mistake. Now, Congressman Hill, I call him now St. Kevin. I've known the speaker for a long time, and now I'm going to have him nominated to be considered for sainthood because that is a difficult caucus to deal with. When you've got four members who are leading the Nuckelhead caucus and my buddy Ken Buck wants a CNN contract, there really isn't any appeal to their self -interest. How do you move them? I mean, are you going to have to use Democrat votes? And can and can Speaker McCarthy remain speaker if he uses Democrat votes? Well, I think that's what we have to try every single day to put a bill on the floor and find out that, as you say, this small group is the tyranny of the tiny, as I describe it, is violating the majority of the majority because they're going to hurt the conservative cause. They'll cause us to lose the House. And that's certainly not in the interest of the conservative cause when we're on the cusp, potentially of beating Biden in the presidential election and winning the Senate back. It's ridiculous. You know, if former President Trump gets reelected and the House switches to Democrats, they will impeach him in the first week. Do these allegedly Trump supporting congressmen. And it's Norman. It's Maryland native Matt Rosendale is running for Senate in Montana. It's Ralph Norman and it's Matt. Have they heard from the former president that he wants to be impeached again because they sure are acting like they want him impeached again? Well, look, they don't even they spend what he says now. President Trump last week said use the power of the purse to get control of Joe Biden's two trillion dollars of extra spending. I agree. That's what the debt ceiling does. And that's what these spending bills do. And that's why we have to get them across the House floor. He did not say he Trump did not say shut the government down and act like knuckleheads. He said, use the power of the purse to get the most conservative deal. Get this country back on track. I agree. That's what we could do if we had those four people assist us get these bills across the floor this week. Well, I just their their incentives are to get ink. And I mean, their incentives are not the incentives to govern. And I don't know how hot it gets in the caucus. Can you tell us that our members of the caucus about had it with these guys? There's nothing you can do because they're running for statewide office. But if they had it and expressed it. Well, I think they have had it and expressed it in blunt terms, including calling them out that if you vote against the rule on the House floor, you're working with the minority party. You're working with Democrats when you do that. That is not acting as a member of the majority. And I think you're seeing the country respond to look at Moody's comments yesterday, look at the VIX up to day three percent. Look at the 10 year Treasury rate up over four point five percent. This is going in the wrong direction when we should be taking a win right now of cutting spending 24 over 23, getting better rules and regulations in place, countering Joe Biden's bad policies. And as I say, encouraging more people back to work through our welfare reforms. These are classic conservative Republican wins. And we're squandering the opportunity. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is kind of a Republican specialty in the House. So let's let's focus on that for a moment. When do you get a test vote today or tomorrow on whether or not the four will move or they will stay for? They've got more than four right now, but you've got serious people like Chip Roy are not playing these games. Will the Freedom Caucus bring whatever persuasive influence they have to bear on them? Well, we're going to bring a rule. The rules committee met Friday and all day Saturday, so we'll be bringing a rule up either tonight or early in the morning. That will be the first test case to see if we can move these spending bills, which includes state and foreign operations spending, which is at one point seven billion below twenty nineteen levels.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
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A highlight from Phone Booth (2002) (Thriller/Psychological Thriller) Movie Review
"What's everyone? happening It's Kira and Ben back again. Today, we're doing a user suggestion phone booth from 2003 starring Colin Farrell. So I saw this movie when it first came out and then I had not seen it again, and re -watching it for this podcast was an absolute wild ride. Ben, let's talk a little bit about your history with the film before we get in it. So I never watched it. Naziru Wanda from Ghana suggested it, and this is my first time actually watching it too. This is your first? Okay. So I knew going in, I had remembered the main plot points of this movie. I had forgotten a lot of the other plot points of this movie, and I forgot what big of a cast this has. So our main man, Stu, is played by Colin Farrell. Our main police detective is played by Forest Whitaker. Colin Farrell's wife is played by Rahata Mitchell, and then his wannabe mistress is played by Katie Holmes, and then the voice over the phone is Keither Sutherland. So a wildly large cast for this film. Obviously, this movie has come out post 9 -11, which I think you can see a lot in the blue tint of the film. If you guys look at color theory, and we're not going to talk about color theory too much about this because the movie is so wild, but if you look at movies that come out directly after 9 -11, there is this very odd bluish tint to a lot of them. I think in my heart, like when I've done research about this and what I've viewed from it as well, is when you're watching films like this, I think it's because it kind of portrays this surreal sadness that everyone was feeling. Kind of like when you look at films made in that time that are set in the Middle East, they film everything with this yellowish tint to make it seem more like third world. So I thought the bluish tint of this movie was so insane, especially having it be set in New York. Then when I was doing some research about the film, this movie was actually supposed to be released in 2002, but it didn't get released until 2003 because there were actual sniper attacks in DC that delayed the release of this film because this movie is about a sniper terrorizing a man in a phone booth. Like I said, first time seeing it and the character of Colin Farrell reminded me of the character from Fast Timer at Ridgemont High that was selling the tickets. They mimicked each other. I was sitting there going, wait, I'm expecting Spicoli to walk out any second. I mean, they were just to the T, the exact same character. I was like, whoa, what's going on here? Yeah. I think that character is such a classic archetype of asshole. I think that was the point. Colin Farrell is this publicist. He's a liar, he's a slick talker, he's a fast talker, he dresses well, he uses people, he manipulates people, he doesn't care, he's all about himself. We see this in the way that he treats his assistant. We see this in the way that he treats one of his clients, which was an uncredited Ben Foster. I was losing my mind when I saw that. I was like, Ben Foster, what are you doing here? Then he manipulates the owner of a restaurant. He smooth talks this client that he has that wants to be an actress. It's Katie Holmes, she's a waitress. Then he even smooth talks his wife into being like in the beginning when he's not confessing his crimes. So this movie is so insane and I do not want to rag too hard on this movie because it was a user suggestion. But the plot points made to me legitimately no sense. So the pacing of this movie is incredibly fast. It's only an hour 20 and I swear to God, if this movie was longer, I would be like, Keith or Sutherland, shoot me because I can't handle it. So obviously, Stu goes into the phone booth to call his mistress because his wife tracks the phone calls that he makes on his cell phone. Which I was like, first of all, if you're keeping tabs on like your, you don't do that unless you don't trust your husband automatically. Then it comes out later in the film that they've only been together for three years married for one. So they're very new in their relationship. So Colin Farrell goes in to make a phone call to Katie Holmes. You can see he's trying to be slimy and she's rebuffing him. She's like, no, I have work, I have this. He's like, well, let's do this. He takes his wedding ring off. Very just much not a nice guy. Then that phone call ends and the phone starts ringing so he picks it up and on the phone, dun, dun, dun, is Keith or Sutherland's voice. He starts terrorizing him and being like, you can't leave this phone booth. If you leave this phone booth, you're going to die. A pizza man comes up to him and tries to deliver a pizza to him and he's like, you're a dick, I didn't order a pizza. Who orders a pizza to a phone booth? We have this other sub -storyline of sex workers, which to me was the most pointless storyline. I get the point of the storyline. So we have to have him have this interaction with these sex workers to then get their bouncer involved, to then have Keith or Sutherland kill the bouncer and frame Colin Farrell for it. Which first of all, makes no sense because you can see the bullet marks on the outside of the phone booth. So how is he shooting? How is he shooting? How could he shoot? That makes no sense. Then everyone's like, he killed him. It's like, no, he didn't. So this sub -storyline is so insane because first of all, it's like 2003, so you either have a beeper or a cell phone or you're using this phone booth. If all these girls work in this club, that's right across the street where this bouncer is, that Leon, that they get involved, why can't they just use the phone in the club? Why are they terrorizing Colin Farrell? He's just like, let me use the phone and then they're all screaming. I thought it was such a weak portrayal too, such a cop -out portrayal of sex workers. Like very, I don't know, just like what you would think of when you think of a man -written sex worker. Just loud, brash, unkempt, very, do you know what I'm trying to say? Yes, I'm a street kid. So yeah, I hung around with the prostitutes and drug addicts and drug dealers. So I totally got it. I mean, I saw people that did act like that, but those are the ones that were really hooked on drugs and were just like, half the time when they were acting like that, they were on something. It wasn't like a normal way for them to behave. Most people don't want to draw attention to themselves because they don't want the cops on their ass. Exactly. So this dude dies and Kether Sutherland is like, look what you made me do. Actually, he's like, you had me kill him. The guy was like, no, I just want this to end. So Kether Sutherland is, in his own mind, a pioneer of justice. Entrapping these men that he watches somehow, he watches and listens and convinces them that they're either going to die or confess to their crimes. So the two examples of the people that he has done this to before, I view are actual bad people. We have a director of adult films who actually directs child pornography and is a pedophile. So I'm like, okay, deserves to die. Then we have another man who's an insider trader on Wall Street. I mean, you don't have to die for that, but it is like a real crime. Then we get to Colin Farrell, whose crime is wanting to cheat on his wife and being an asshole. So to me, none of these make sense. The first two, kind of get. The third, Colin Farrell, not at all. I get it because they're trying to make him more likable. We have to be on Colin Farrell's side, right? So if he's a real criminal, we're not going to be on his side. I wasn't on his side. But you know what I'm saying? He's our protagonist. So we can't have our protagonist be as awful. But at the same point, it's like, well, then maybe you should have just had him kill adulterers because this makes no sense. So he, in his mind, Keither Sutherland, is this vigilante that is cleaning up the streets in New York because he wants people to atone and commit their crimes. So he's holding Colin Farrell hostage. Forest Whitaker comes in. He's trying to negotiate with Colin Farrell. He thinks he killed this guy. He's like, let me help you, let me help you. Up until this point, they think he's armed and dangerous. It is not until Colin Farrell's wife, Kelly Rahada Mitchell, comes in, which for some reason in 2003, you can just run through police barricades and just be like, I'm his wife, run through police barricades, and then be on the front line with the cops. I'm sorry, that never happened. No, not at all. No, they would have her pushed to the side. She would not be in a hostage negotiation. It wouldn't happen. She would not be front and center to the point where he can put a mark on her. So then we see that Forest Whitaker kind of actually comes around to see that Colin Farrell is being terrorized. He is not doing this of his own free volition. He sees the little target on Rahada Mitchell and he's like, oh, OK, maybe this guy is like real. So then they start looking for him. They're like, OK, we're going to find him. We're going to find him. Colin Farrell's delaying him. And the guys and then obviously Colin Farrell comes clean. He's like, OK, I'll come clean. Like, I don't want to die. I don't want my wife to die. I don't want this girl who I want to be my mistress to die. So he confesses all his sins of being an asshole, which everyone's like, OK, you're a dick, whatever you're holding up the street. We got half the police force here. What? And then obviously when they think that they kill the killer, when they think that they kill Keither Sutherland because they go up to the apartment where they trace the call from, it is actually, plot twist, the pizza boy. And it's like, OK, so he's killed Keither Sutherland for this one person. Two people just sacrifice them for no reason to get this guy to confess that he's a slimeball. Feel like we could have done this a different way. And then so then another so we're going to get to all the insane points. But this is the end of the story. And this is the last insane point. Or one of them is that Colin Farrell is now alone in the ambulance. They put something in to make him fall asleep. So he's all loopy. He's all daisy. And then active crime scene in an ambulance. Keither Sutherland walks up and just starts talking to him just like, oh, like you passed the test. You did it right. Like what happens? Like and OK, so he's like talking to him like, oh, you did the right thing. You did the right thing. And Colin Farrell is like, what the fuck? I thought we killed you. And then he walks away. And the last thing he says, which I think is legitimately the stupidest thing. And if this is the point of the movie, it is the dumbest point when he goes, well, if a phone rings, do you have to answer it? I would say no. I would say no. And that is the last line of the film. And then it goes into this like ringing sound, goes all the way out into the satellite shot, goes to black, and then you hear another person pick up and say hello. So it's like obviously this is like a cycle for him. But the way that he picks his victims is makes no sense to me. Yeah, no. And if a phone rings, you don't have to answer. You don't have to answer it. Look at all the things like when a stranger calls bad. They picked up the phone, bad tidings, scream, scream, picked up the phone. Bad tidings. No, you don't have to pick up the phone, especially like if you don't know who the person is. Hang up, hang up. And I did think at some points the voice that Keith or Sutherland used did sound like the ghost face voice, like to the point where I was like, do they have the same voice actor? Is this even even Kiefer Sutherland? Like I was like, this movie is so bad. So I thought a lot. So let's talk about Keith or Sutherland's character. And I obviously am not a fan of this movie, but I thought the way that he was poorly written was like they were trying to make him like John Doe from seven, kind of this vigilante who lives by his own rules, has his own code of justice and kind of is enacting on that code of justice and terrorizing these people. I think in seven it is done much better with an actual point, with an. We have fully fledged characters. We have reasons that make sense in this. We have no back story. We don't know what he why or why he's doing this now. And you think you think they're given a back story when he when he's talking to about Nam and stuff and he's like, are you stupid? I'd be 70. Like and like I'm like, so who are you? Why are you doing this? Well, what is your point? I mean, did you just one day wake up and say, hey, you know what? I'm just going to execute people I feel are bad. I mean, and that's your concept of bad. And your concept of bad is another person's concept of good. I mean, it's like when people go to war. Yeah. The countries fight, but each country thinks they're right. Of course, there's a right and a wrong. But both countries think that they are the right ones. Of course. And the only one that actually like comes out to be the right one is the one that wins, is the one that wins. And I would say in this movie, no one wins now because everyone's motivations make absolutely no sense. I would say the only motivations that make sense is Forest Whitaker's, because he's literally just trying to do his job. Yeah. And then like I was watching when he's his his rapper talent comes on and I was like, what the hell is this, Malibu's Most Wanted? Oh, my God, I thought the same thing. I was like, why are we watching Malibu's Most Wanted? I was like, this is this is this. And then it looked really bad because they get these two big black guys and this little tiny white guy. And he looked terrified to be around the black. And I was like, this is so stereotyping. This is awful right here. It is awful. It was so stereotypical. It was like someone just kind of grabbed at archetypes that they see in pop culture and was like, yeah, we'll throw this in the film. So I also thought the film was shot horrendously. There is it felt like it wanted to be a Tony Scott film, which RIP Tony Scott, I love your films. But it had this kind of like shaky camera. We're switching in and out of views of like like digital versus like these split screens versus like this like granule kind of like VHS effect. And I was like we're like fast paced moving through the city. And I was like, this movie makes no sense at any point. Did this movie make any sense? It does not. No. Like I said, I thought the character was the guy from a fast time at Ridgemont High.
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"Take over. The forest is clean and crisp tendrils of steam. Reach your known reminiscent of taking a hot shower. The papua's massage your skin. While the streams of warm water do the same to your muscles and you can hear distant baths so which mixes the regular channing and foaming sounds emanating from the top..
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"All kinds of things have the best. You know, nectar for them that are native here. Missed flowers, fall asters, You know all kinds of stuff like that. But this is an argument for Definitely getting rid of the tropical milkweed before the main migration, and there's a lot of good resources about this. The U. S. Forest Service was also weighed in on this on Monarch Butterfly migrating and overwintering. Um There is an article referenced here. Zer sees dot org x E. R. C e s dot org By Justin Wheeler called tropical milkweed to know grow. And then so I just wanted to give you that perspective because I found this very, very interesting. I've always I knew that there was a controversy between using the tropical versus the native milkweed. But I never really understood why, Because you know, a lot of people have come out recently and said it's perfectly fine to use tropical milkweed. They love it. Well, they do unless it stays around too long and gets this e problem. And stops them from their migration, right? Okay, That was interesting. There's another really good article in this newsletter about the Army worms, which we can talk about. After the news. But if you guys want to get in line, joined the show 51283605 19 call or text that number and we'll be back right after the news. No.
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"The basin. And with weather conditions improving in the West, more fresh firefighters becoming available. Tony's Gardena is with the U. S. Forest Service. We're seeing relief in some of those other geographic areas in that surge of resources, some of it in route already others is being coordinated. The Cal door fires burned 107,000 acres at 162 Square Miles that's bigger than the cities of Philadelphia and Detroit. 400 homes destroyed more than 17,000 structures threatened 25,000 people in El Dorado County alone are evacuated or news. Now with KPK is Joe Michaels coronavirus. Very latest news 93.1 KFBK a data breach at California State University, Chico shared more than 100 students personal information on an online anonymous message board. Said the reporting Chico State students seeking religious exemption from the Covid 19 vaccine had their data leaked after someone posted a spreadsheet with personal information for those approved and denied the exemptions, including several N C double a athletes. The dump affecting students requests between June 7th in August. 10th 23 campus CSU system requires all students to be vaccinated against Covid 19 by the end of September. A California lawmaker has tested positive for the coronavirus KFBK political reporter Mike Laurie has more on what's a breakthrough case for a Sacramento representative Kevin McCarthy, The Sacramento assemblyman, says he's tested positive for the Covid 19 virus. Despite being fully vaccinated and wearing a mask in the capital, McCarty told the Sacramento Bee he's notified people who came in close contact with him, including a dozen other lawmakers who attended the same conference. McCarty says he tested negative twice last week. But after feeling.
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"That management That stopped the fire as it came up out of the canyon, leaving it just to smolder here in the vegetation that's left on the ground. So, um, that is what people want to see when they're calling for forest management. As we've had some major incidents here in California. Good for Brian Hickey at K C, R A. That's a good piece of reporting right there. Well, he showed he showed it. I mean, he just and he explained it to us. You know an audio there what was happening and the proof right there that if you clean up the forest floor You'll have less issue and too often for for too many years. Quite frankly, too many reporters have stuck a microphone in the face of you know, then Governor Brown and now governor Newsom, and they talk about always climate change its climate change. The fact of the matter is we also have another sound clip that we've been rolling out this morning from a top person from the U. S. Forest Service. Who said the people who have been in the U. S Forest Service for decades have never seen the amount of fuel In these forests right now exist with these huge fires. Yeah, you have, like, sometimes in some instances, feet. Fuel that has fallen from the forest. That's what's fueling these fires. That's what's causing to burn. And here's Brian Hickey walking around showing people he's walking through this area where there are trees still standing the fire. Cain was sweeping through there, and the only thing that burned was the floor of the forest, which had barely just a little bit of few long because they managed it. They went in and pulled out the brush. By the way. If you want to see a link to that video, we have it at our website. It's at kfbk dot com. Okay, coming up, We're going to talk about these natural gas plant. That are going to be opening in California temporarily to try to help us with our energy grid. Will they remain permanent? That's a great story. You've got that and more straight ahead. The information you need when you need it. So many devices so much information. Tell your smart device to play news 93.1 kfbk on I Heart radio. Thanks for listening..
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"I just had a major breakthrough moment the other day about this rough patch that i've been going through and i shared with you guys a few weeks ago that i've been going through a rough spot and at the time i couldn't pinpoint what was happening Because i was too close to it. But i knew like my energy was down. I wasn't following through on things. But you know when you're in it you're in it and you can't always see the pieces clearly because you're just in it and you know that saying you can't see the forest for the trees. I didn't understand what that meant for a long time. And it's only been in the last few years that i've come to understand what it really means and it makes sense to me and this is exactly what i just went through so when you're in the middle of your life in the minutia the day-to-day stuff you're in survival mode. Like jumping from one minute to the next trying to keep it all together. The kids in schools in pick ups and drop offs and working spouses and houses. And i mean it's a lot right. You're just trying to keep it all together. That's the trees you're in the trees and when you take a breath and look up all you can see. Are the trees all you can see over the next five things you have to do. And the last five things. You didn't get done right like that's the trees but if you could jump in a helicopter and fly up above the trees and look down you see the whole forest when you have that thirty thousand foot view the past becomes more and yes. I know helicopters. Don't go thirty thousand feet airplanes thirty thousand feet. But you know what i'm saying. You can look down on the whole forest in easily. See the path. You can see where to go where to turn left go straight turn right because you're looking down on the whole picture. That whole picture is your life but when you're in the trees yet can't see the path because you look up and see nothing but trees you can't see the forest for the trees. That's how i describe the value coaching too. By the way you hire a coach or mentor because they have the thirty thousand foot view and then they can see all the moves where all you can see are the trees. You need the person that isn't so close to it to see accurately what moves need to be made.
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"Us for a long time and isn't going to go away anytime soon. He also says there's been no evidence of antifa or fake Trump supporters in the capital riot and that the FBI won't tolerate violent extremists of any stripe. The FBI is committed to seeing this through, no matter how many people it takes, or how long or the resource is, we need to get it done. Because as citizens in the sense we're all victims of the January 6th assault, and American people deserve nothing less. They have made hundreds of arrests. Already right also tells a Senate panel that a memo warning of potential violence was given to law enforcement partners, including the Capitol police, though the former capital police chief has said it never reached him. The White House says. We're still at war with Cove. It spokeswoman Jen Psaki urging Americans to remain vigilant and to get vaccinated. Whatever vaccine you have access to, you should take that vaccine. And of course, all of these vaccines are being distributed and communities across the country that supply now reaching over 15 million doses per week, though three leading health organizations, including the American Medical Association of written an open letter saying race and ethnicity data have been missing in nearly half of the vaccination records reported to the city. See, making it more difficult to know whether vulnerable populations have enough access to the vaccines. Just getting word that Texas is ending its mask mandate after eight months, becoming the largest state to lift the order, despite the CDC, urging states not to ease restrictions yet is coded variances spread and cases and deaths rise again in the latest seven week averages. America is listening to Fox News. Arizonans. 55 older are now eligible for a cove in 19 vaccination shot under a new hybrid model. I'm Greg, Paul K and S T News. The Arizona Department of Health Services has opened around 50,000 vaccination appointments at State Farm Stadium Phoenix Municipal Stadium in multiple other vaccination sites. Two essential workers and those 55 older 90% of Arizona's deaths from Cove in 19 have been among those 55 older, Nearly 65% of pandemic related hospitalizations also fall into the age group. Biden administration is putting the brakes on the land exchange needed for the resolution. Copper Mine Project near Superior, The U. S Forest Service was directed to rescind its plan to publish a final environmental impact statement and draft record of decision that cleared the way for a land swap needed for the mining project. I'm Greg. Paul Cain is t a m 7 92 sons most stimulating talk. Are you taking solace or Viagra?.
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"Us surround ourselves with only ideas and opinions. We agree with social media even has algorithms. Designed to inundate us with the content and people we want to see and blocking out those that could make us uncomfortable or angry. Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Warden and a best selling author who has dedicated his career to inspire people to rethink fundamental assumptions about what they know and how they should live their lives. In his new book, Think Again, the power of knowing what you don't know Grand challenges his readers to stop focusing on defending and reinforcing their beliefs but instead to question them and spend more time seeking the truth. He believes the inability to unthinking ideas holds people back in both their careers and personal lives to help get his inspirational message across. Adam Grant begins his book with the fascinating True story of Robert Wagner Dodge a smoke jumper from the U. S. Forest Service, who on August 15th 1949 found himself in a major predicament as he fought a wildfire in Montana. He's the foreman of this while then smoke jumping and firefighting crew and they suddenly discover that the fire is out of control that they've gone into fight and they're running for their lives, and they're being chased by this fire. And he does something that sounds crazy, which is he takes a matchbook out of his pocket and starts lighting a fire. As a wild fires about to overtake them, and his crew looks them like he is insane. They thought they really thought that he lost his mind. It turned out, though, that by sheer intuition and instinct He figured out that he could build an escape fire. That if he burned the grass below him, there would be nothing for the fire to burn and he could lay down in it and breathe in the ashes, and the fire would go right over him. And he survived That way, when, sadly, most of his crew lost their lives and data. What I took away from Wagner dodges story is, you know A lot of people think that the key Togut ng Well, I guess I would say A lot of people think that making smart decisions is about thinking slower. I think it's just a much about rethinking faster. So one of the things I liked in the book is you have this eye Tallis sized line in which you said These type of people annoy me so much that I wrote a whole book about it. What kind of people are they, Uh, people who are overconfident in things they don't actually know. I guess the technical term for it is fame knowledge. When you claim to have expertise that you don't actually have that drives me insane. And you also write about this concept that I loved and underlined in the book, and then it comes up throughout the book, and that is the concept of confident humility. So can you describe what that means? And how does one find that zone? I think a lot of people misunderstand humility as having low self esteem or thinking little of yourself. It's not. Actually if you go back to the Latin root of humility, it's got it comes from Phrase that means from the earth. It's about being grounded. Recognizing that you're human, you're flawed. You can make mistakes, and that means you can see her limitations but still have confidence in your ability to overcome those limitations. Confident humility is basically saying I'm capable of learning. I might not have all the skills or knowledge that I need today, but I believe that tomorrow I might be able to figure it out. I love the story. You told the Nobel Prize winner that enjoyed being wrong. And he took such delight. True joy from it. That's not usually how people feel when they're told they were wrong or find out they were wrong. It's not most of us have an inner dictator that lives in our heads and controls the flow of information to our brains, much like Kim Jeong Eun might control the press in North Korea. And the idea is to keep out threatening information. Danny Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work and decision here, here six and Biases. I's the exact opposite. When he finds out he's wrong, his eyes light up. He breaks out into a big grin, and he's a pretty pessimistic guy, so it's unusual to see him smile. Finally I saw him do this a bunch of times and I had to ask him. Why in the world are you so delighted and even thrilled by being wrong? And he said, Well, it's simple. It means I've learned that I'm now less wrong than I was before. And finding out that I was wrong is the only way that I'm sure I've learned anything. It's so interesting to me because I have Always had a little bit of a weakness that I love to be proven right? That I welcome to wait a minute data. Welcome to the human race. Okay. Thank you. I love be proven, right. In fact, when I worked at the White House every once in a while, my young staffers in just outside of my office would yell by the way you were right. Oh, thanks, guys. Don't even matter what it was about, Um But this idea of being an imposter. Imposter syndrome. If you could explain that, because I feel I also have a lot of that. I think when people talk about feeling like an imposter, they often call it a Centrum. And they say, all right, you know, I feel like I'm a fraud. Everyone's going to find out. I haven't really earned my accomplishments. I'm not as smart as they think. I'm not as talented as they believe. And if you have imposter syndrome like that, that chronic sense that you're unworthy that can be debilitating. It's interesting, though, is a former student of our space. Seema Toufic discovered that a lot of people have imposter thoughts from time to time. Forget the syndrome. It's just Thies moments of self doubt where you wonder, Am I good enough? Have I lost it on door? My best days behind me, and it turns out, she studied investment professionals and medical professionals. It turns out that the more often people have those imposter thoughts that more they learned and sometimes the better they get their jobs. Because they don't stand on a pedestal. They don't believe they already know the answer. They're excited to find out something new, and that keeps them open to improving. Which is something last time I checked, that we all should do. I think I have a little bit of that. And as you explain that Every day. When I get ready for a show. I want to be the most prepared person in the room, so I always feel like I have more to read and I almost always feel underprepared. There's always more to read and more to learn. The other thing is, and we've seen this a lot, not just in politics, but I even just online or within your family that changing your mind. Changing your opinion, in some cases is used against people as an insult. Um, like you're a flip flopper, or you're not as conservative or liberal as you used to be..
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"An avid fisherman, and he probably went onto the lake. To do some fishing. Meanwhile, the U. S. Forest Service looking for information, get this on the theft of over $45,000 worth of firefighting equipment. Officials say the wild land firefighting equipment was stolen from a guard station your concrete sometime. They figured between December 20 make that December 18th through the 21st. Multiple suspects apparently broke into the station, which is the home base for the Baker River hotshot crew. They stole an estimated 45 grand of the vital firefighting equipment they use each and every year. Anyone with information is asked to contact the U. S Forest service at the Mount Baker Ranger district or call your local law enforcement. Woman who was dubbed a Miracle mom after giving birth to twins while in a coma, then waking up from that coma has now died. We hear a battle with covert 19 the reason some may remember the story of her daughter's birth, which made headlines more than 20 years ago. Maria Hernandez Lopez celebrating her 47th birthday in November too much later, just after ringing in the new year, she was diagnosed with covert 19. Her family says her health declined quickly. Her absence is definitely being built. So I have my moments, but I know she's in a better place. And I know we'll see her again. Speaking. Here is Maria's sister, Sylvia Maria leaves behind five daughters, four grandsons as well as siblings and friends, her family's message, protect yourself and others and don't underestimate the virus. 6 37. Our current temperature crews have raised the first ferry off the Alaska Marine Highway system after the retired vessel sank and Buenas Channel there and Anna quarters. Schedule Valley Herald reporting that she'll cat was lifted by a crane and placed on a barge this past week Wednesday to be exact the ferry sink on January 12th after broke free from its mooring there and crashed into the agreements. Island ferry Terminal officials say had to be removed because it was near the terminal opposing a hazard. The ship was launched in 1957 Andy Commissions in 1988. It was in Repurposed for other jobs before recently being taken out of service as the Corona virus pandemic takes a mental toll on young people right now, more states are considering expanding opportunity for students to take mental health days to try to lessen stigma and reduce youth suicide. Lawmakers, in fact, in Utah and Arizona have proposed bills that would add mental or behavioral health. Through the list of reasons students could be absent from class. Similar laws were finding out already passed in Oregon, Maine, Colorado and Virginia. In fact, in the past two years, the pandemic by the way, has increased pressure on kids who've been isolated from their friends and classmates for almost a year. All because the remote learning going on the portion of Children's emergency room visits related to mental health have ballooned as of 2026 38, now here at come on news city officials in Alaska, saying multiple crew members on a seafood factory trawler in the illusion islands now testing positive for the virus. Anchorage Daily News reported that the city of Unalaska, saying Friday that factory trawler Rural opened our own buy seafood company, O'Hara Corporation reported 20 of its 40 crew members testing positive city manager Aaron writers, saying a couple of crew members reported symptoms after the vessel arrived in Alaska from Seattle Wednesday. The reindeers, saying the city is developing a plan to coordinate care for infected crew members and determine what to do. With the others, covert activity and King County still very high, even after a three week decline, a new cases, hospitalizations and deaths and that has a county health officer worried about how quickly the UK variant could spread now that it has been detected now, here in King County for the first time, Dr Jeff Duchin says he believes the very it will spread widely. But doesn't believe moving into phase two re opening is necessarily a mistake. We're skating forward on a late not knowing how thick the Isis so we really need to be able to very nimbly pivot back if we see things heading in the wrong direction again do, Jin says. You also need to be especially careful to make sure you don't contribute to the virus spread. 6 40 Here it come on news, okay? Get it up there right now In sports, and Joel Stern kind enough to beat up early here on Sundays and college hoops among headlines for sports and shuffles in the NFL quarterbacks coming to mind eyes gonna explain what's going on Joel Stern right now from the Beacon Plumbing sports desk. Huskies host the Cougars this afternoon and Alaska Airlines Arena. Thus, keys have won their last two while the Cougars have lost six trade, a road win for top Rankin's Aga as the wall of pepper dine 97 75 True to me with 1916 for Cory Kiss Spurt of Big NFL trade. The RAM son, quarterback Jared Goff to Detroit for veteran Matthew Stafford Alliance also get to future first round picks and a third rounder. Stafford was the 2009 top overall pick. He's thrown for 45,000 yards in his career got the 2006. Steam number one pick Love the Rams of the Super Bowl in 2019. Both players are equal salary cap. It's next season. 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"So add this to the long list of ways artificial intelligence is transforming the world. A new high tech program used in firefighting can catalog 20 data points from individual trees. Including color tree hide and species have been predicts forced dryness, and it turns into models to help them determine how fast a fire will spread. Well, that'll help in the fire fight. Yeah, the U. S. Forest Service is working on that new program to get it into its system. Okay, I think that'll be highly useful as we fight fires going forward, All right Vaccine. We're fighting the virus, and corporate executives have a new role vaccine cheerleader around the country. Employers are sending out memos and information aimed at addressing Vaccine hesitancy chip cutters with the Wall Street Journal, he says many leaders feel a responsibility to address the doubts and skepticism of their own employees. Companies are going out all sorts of different efforts to try to speak to them. So it's everything from Miss Mythbuster emails, emails addressing submits around the vaccine to, uh, forums where companies are bringing in doctors to answer questions. It's just again this interesting role where companies Losses. CEOs are increasingly disseminating health information to employees we've seen throughout the pandemic, and companies are taking it to another step. A Zoe is more people came to get vaccinated. They want the workers to get the shot they do, and they realize there's some hesitancy out there, so they're trying to educate their employees and their workforce. It's a bottom line issue. Of course, employers need to get employees vaccinated if they want to get them back in the office and altogether. Companies also do see a bit of a social responsibility here. You know, it's There's been surveys released recently that showed that people trust their information from their employer, more so than even the government Social media news outlets on so I think some companies are trying to kind of also kind of fill that role. They trust their boss more than they trust news media Social media. Have you seen the trust surveys on the media and news outlets? Of course they do. I mean, The media has like the lowest trust level in America. Well, that so the boss, I guess it's filling in write memos, lectures with doctors, town halls with the CEO also social media campaigns. Anheuser Busch, for example, is taking dollars that were meant to buy Super Bowl commercials and redirecting it to vaccine awareness companies wanting to make sure they kind of get this message across. Using it in the form where lots of people will be watching and paying attention and you've seen other companies take different approaches. United Airlines CEO said last week in an employee town hall that he would like the airline to be able to mandate that its employees get vaccinated that they're looking into that. And he said he'd like other companies to consider doing the same. And so you know, you again see kind of corporate America plane and interesting role here. So you might be seeing memos and your email box very soon from your boss about the vaccination. Hence, the chip says most employers will not mandate it, understanding that the resistance may be strong, but they will continually roll out education to try to change minds. I think there's a new poll out this morning. We had a little bit earlier seven out of 10. Californians say that they think that they will get the vaccination, so that's pretty high number six twenties the time let's get onto the roads right now and check in with Brian Northern's as.
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"Around the work that we can do together and, uh, it's just in time. I mean, I think and I know we are on borrowed time as it relates to climate change. Michael, you mentioned the impact of wildfire. Consider this fact. Last summer, five of the six largest wildfires in the state's history we're burning at the same time. Exploding summer temperatures, including over 120 degrees in greater Los Angeles. The worst drought in modern history in the last decade and of course this week facing these intensifying atmospheric rivers. So this leadership can't come soon enough, And it will involve both working with the feds on reducing global or carbon pollution, but also strengthening our resilience of protecting people in nature from the impacts of climate change. Move by the excitement and really the positive nature of what you injured or laying out here before us. I mean, go to something so that have been of concern. I mentioned, for example, cleaning up the forests, and I don't know that we have Forest management policy from President Biden and also what's happening from your perspective. Waited with respect to fracking. I mean, it was supposed to be re election on fracking, but they've been sort of contradictory notions that we've been hearing from this administration. Where where do we stand on that? Gotta let me take Let me take wildfires and forests. First. I think we all recognize the heroic work that Cal fire does every fire season and really there, the one of the largest and most sophisticated firefighting forces on the planet. But what we know is we're not going to respond are way out of this crisis on so we have to do a lot more to restore the health of our fourth than our landscapes and protect communities. You're right. Michael. The Bite administration has not yet identified how it's going to double down on federal leadership building wildfire resilience here in California we have good partners in the U. S. Forest Service. Federal agencies actually control about 57% of our state's forests, but they're vastly underfunded. We in state government actually spend state dollars working within those federal forests to reduce right wildfire risk. One important action that the new administration can take is simply to provide more resource is to the federal agencies in the hall across the West. Actually get in there and do this ecologically based forest health work, but that's going to do is reduce the risk of these catastrophic wildfires. Wildfire is part of our natural ecology, and we need to introduce more prescribed fire, like tribal communities have been doing some time immemorial. But these huge catastrophic wildfires that are burning hotter and larger than ever before are not natural, and they're creating not only carbon emissions but huge air quality issues and parts of the state that already suffered from poor air quality. There's a lot to get done in the federal agencies on this front and then on the topic of fracking and fossil fuels. I think we can want applaud the president for this moratorium on new these thing of fossil fuels on federal lands. Almost a quarter of the oil that's extracted in our country is extracted on federal.
860AM The Answer
"u. s forest" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Navalny's return comes after spending five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. According to Russia's prison service. Putin's foe was detained for violating parole terms from a suspended sentence on a 2014 embezzlement conviction. The prison service said he would be held in custody until the court rules on his case. The service earlier said that it would seek to have no Bonnie said his 3.5 year sentence behind bars She want me to buy. You know. Bonnie brushed off concerns about the arrest as he boarded the plane in Berlin, saying he was an innocent man. I'm Karen Shamus. North Korea's rubber stamp parliament's past decisions made by a major ruling party meeting, where leader Kim Jong Eun vowed to bolster his nuclear to turn and established plans the salvage of dismal economy. Maura Town hall dot com. It would be one of the largest copper mines in the United States, The U. S Forest Service has said to release on environmental impact statement that would pave the way for the mine. Environmentalists accuse the service of trying to push it through before President Trump Leaves office resolution cover plans to mine land east of Phoenix that some Apaches consider sacred and have been working for years to protect. Federal judge denied the request to halt the publication of the Environmental Review. Once it's out, the Forest Service has 60 days to transfer land known as oak flat in Arizona to international mining company Rio Tinto, John Scott reporting. The research suggests some beetles are adept at hiding their food from competitors. The Beetle being called the burying beetle because it digs Ah hold very dead birds and mice in And covers the remains in coupe that allows it down, slows down to K. More on.
MyTalk 107.1
"u. s forest" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Jill. Well, I raised my older sister to a big oak tree. It was at least 100 years old. My mom said I must have set a record or something. And then we went down by a stream and pushed up on this huge rock. And so all of these little minnow swimming around way below us, and then it rescued my little brother from an evil slug King who was guarding him in the Bush fortress and my sister. I brought him back to our super twit for for safety, and then we all laid out. No worries until it got dark and the Big Dipper let us all the way home. Where were you, Jill? Yeah, we went to the forest. It's not that far away. Anyone want to come this weekend? Ask your parents take you and your friends to the force this week and find the fun adventurous. You It's closer than you think. Checkout discover the forest or g'kar brought to you by the U. S. Forest Service and the ad counts to buy your home. You became a house hunting ace learned about loans, scoured neighborhoods and ask the right questions. If you manage that you can get your retirement plan on track visiting Ace your retirement dot or can help brought to you by AARP. This is the best of Jason and Alexis. This is the best on my talk one of 71. The baby thing. Your father, Jason and Alexis in the morning. You've got mail. Let's open up the mailbox. A lot of people relating to Alexis trying to find The source of the beeping The Phantom beeping in her house. Meg writes to us we had the phantom new detector in the box going off to we found it buried in a utility room in the basement. Our dog was acting crazy for three days before we heard it..
KTAR 92.3FM
"u. s forest" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"That they'll be adding a surcharge for prop to await, then that would be legal. But the key is that there must be disclosure to the consumer. The consumer has to have a choice. Whether or not they want to pay this, And this is something that wasn't disclosed to the patrons of the restaurant. It may well constitute consumer fraud. So there is the caveat of you've got to tell somebody before they sit down. Or put it in your menu. Hey, there is going to be a surcharge on your bill of this percent to cover propped to await. I have no problem with them sending this message. The people of Arizona need to know the costs they've created for people. You know the contractors. The small business owners are not going to eat this themselves. You will end up paying I'm glad the small businesses air fighting back. I'm glad these small businesses are starting to show and you weaken debate all day long, whether there's enough money in education or not. And if there isn't how we can get more money and education. This was a punitive bill that ran or a proposition that ran that one. And there's going to be a backlash because people are very, very upset. And you can hear more. If you just download the Katie our app and then subscribe to the mic broom Head podcast at 6 24. We turn to the Katya, our business center. The U. S. Forest Service released an environmental impact statement today that paves the way for the creation of one of the largest copper mines in the U. S resolution. Copper plans to mind land east of Phoenix.
550 KFYI
"u. s forest" Discussed on 550 KFYI
"Makers to fund distance learning at the same rate is in person classes. School district's collect 5% less for students who attend school remotely. Chris Cotter, men of the Arizona School Board Association tells Fox 10. The formula assumes online learning is cheaper than having students in the classroom. So the expenses don't really go down at all. When you're doing distance learning in a pandemic because he still had to maintain all of your infrastructure in his state of the state address, Governor Ducey said the state will not be funding empty seats or allow schools to remain in a perpetual state of clothes. You're a spokesman later said the governor did not mean to imply that funding would be pulled from schools that teach online because of covert 19 metrics. Ah group called Apache Stronghold, a slap the U. S. Forest Service with lawsuit to try to stop a big compromising project in the Tanto National Forest. A suit filed in federal court in Tucson alleges the feds have no authority to do a land slop with resolution Copper because the parcel in question belongs to the San Carlos Apache tribe under on 18 52 treaty. Some opponents also fear the project could contaminate groundwater in Panella and Hilla counties. Ah, look at your money. The Dow up eight points to 31,077 5, 50 K F Y I News time. Eight o'clock, and now let's go to Steve Trela forward. The traffic found their 35th Avenue. We have an accident blocking the H O V lane. We've got an E M s unit on the scene. I 10 He's found 51st Avenue in the seventh Street is running slow and we have an accident. 83rd Avenue and lower Buckeye Road. You 75th Avenue is your alternate Steve fella. 5 50 k f Y I This report is sponsored by the ex surgeon Temporal scanner. Don't take chances with covert 19 and your family's health used the extra Jin temporal scanner to check temperatures before dinner. And before you leave home. It takes an accurate reading in seconds and is the number one thermometer recommended by hospitals, Doctors and nurses.
Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"u. s forest" Discussed on Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"Around. 5 A.m., Shannon Sampson, NewsRadio 1200 Wook. You can't really handy tonight We'll see the potential for a few scattered thunderstorms across the region. Brief heavy rain The biggest concern alot, 59 thunderstorms and showers around to begin Wednesday, then clearing out for the afternoon high near 70. Maybe the religious sparked a video from the Weather Channel on San Antonio's official weather Station News radio 1200 W away, I All right class. Let's hear what everyone did this weekend jail. Well, I raised my older sister to a big oak tree. It was at least 100 years old. My mom said, I must have set a record or something. And then we went down by a stream and pushed upon this huge rock. And so all these little minnow swimming around wave a loss, and then it rescued my little brother from an evil slug King who was guarding him in the Bush fortress and my sister. I brought him back to our super 24 for safety, and then we The whole way down and told stories until it got dark and the big different. Let us all the way home. Where were you, Jill? Yeah, we went to the forest. It's not that far away. Anyone want to come this weekend? Ask your parents take you and your friends to the force this week and find the fun adventurous. You It's closer than you think. Checkout discover the forest or g'kar brought to you by the U. S Forest Service and the ad council. Why should you pay attention to the news Because I should be informed. We don't know what's going on around you staying informed. I like to stay in for what's happening in our world is important because it affects everything around me. Staying connected otherwise have Nation of idiots staying in touch with the world around you. That's everything with the economy and life just to keep informed on. What's going on. Staying informed gives me the power of knowledge. Stay with use radio 1200.