It's Friday. We're getting PFF up with Sam Munson of PFF. That'll be very exciting. Brandon Marshall kicks off the show. We're gonna talk a little Chicago Bears, a little Thursday night football recap and get you set for everything going on on Sunday in week 10. Welcome to Up In Atoms and Happy Friday. Let's drink. Welcome to Up In Atoms at Up In Atom Show on Twitter. Let's talk a little Thursday night football. Not the most exciting game. Panthers got a win though, 25, 15 over the Falcons.   He has hit the century mark three times in the last four games. So to me, this is a reminder of what this Panthers team can be capable of as they build towards next season. So that's about as good as I can do as far as takeaways from this game. The bigger picture here, of course, is the Buccaneers who play in Munich this weekend against the Red Hot Seahawks. And the Bucs just got a gift even more, even more time, even more leeway in the NFC South as they try to get things figured out. And they might have as we learned from future Hall of Famer, Levante David just yesterday. So Atlanta falls to four and six, right? So that means the Bucs stay in first place this week, even with a loss to Seattle in Germany, they stay at the top. Can they turn it around? I know one person who believes in Tom Brady and one person who also believes in Aaron Rodgers as I saw him on the inside the NFL riling up his co-host and we bring him in now. So let's bring in our good friend, all pro wide receiver and I am asking media mogul, you love Aaron Rodgers. Well, I don't want to say I love Aaron Rodgers but we gotta be real, right?  Come on, man. If the game is on the line, if your life is on the line and you had to pick one quarterback in that division, who would you pick?  So stop this nonsense. Yeah, Julian was like, yeah, Aaron Rodgers at the end, it was great. I loved it. And I love that Sims is like, I'm hosting this. I always do that. I'm hosting. Don't ask me a question. That's what my job is. Brandon, I want to talk to you. The last night just this thing happened. PJ Walker is leading the Panthers to a win, of course, but it's Baker Mayfield. I don't know if you saw this. We'll show you at the end of the game, this had everybody talking. No helmet, headbutting, what did Al Michael said? He's trying to maybe get into concussion protocol, certainly trying to avoid it. What is he doing? Well, he's showing that he's not a quarterback. He's not very smart, right?  You know, you have to be able to process. You have to be able to see the big picture. And right now, he's clearly showing us that he doesn't see the big picture. How do you do that? Like, come on, man. Like you think this is cool? Like Baker Mayfield, wake up. But again, Baker Mayfield has had some questionable decisions over the last couple years on the field. And this may be the reason why. Yeah, you don't see Aaron Rodgers out there doing that. That's for sure. You can't do that.  He's too busy throwing three interceptions to the Lions pitiful defense. Oh, oh, hold on. Before we get into the show, listen, before we get into Aaron Rodgers and all this other Baker Mayfield stuff. He's someone to talk about. Oh, my goodness.  And I pulled out the old paper, The New York Times.  And I go through the crossword puzzle. And it was line 57. And there you were. K. Adams in The New York Times. And while you really take those producer cues well, Richard Issacow back there, you're your best friend telling you what to say. Yeah, I will say, you're a good friend. I made the crossword, listen, I will tell you this. I'm not like as much of a Jeopardy person. So if I was in a clue in Jeopardy, it wouldn't be as cool. I do the crossword puzzle religiously every day. So for my little, for me to be a clue, and it says, I don't even know what it says. Oh, Line 57. Sportscaster Adams, who hosted Good Morning Football. I was like, wait, what? They could have picked, they could have picked like a K. Jeweler thing. They could have picked K. Adams from The Godfather. They picked me, V-Marsh. They picked you. Look at this, this is amazing. How does it feel? Like be honest, how does it feel?  I finally made it. I really, that's, it's all I've ever wanted. I don't need money or happiness or Super Bowl rings. I just needed to be in the New York Times Friday crossword. That's a big deal. Yeah, maybe I would have made it if I was chosen to be the Colts head interim coach for the rest of the season, because that was the big news this week. Frank Reich out, they replaced him with former center turn ESPN analyst, Jeff Saturday. No previous coaching experience as you know, you are a vet in that locker room.  How are you feeling about the move? Well, you're dealing with reality right now. So you're looking at this situation, you're looking at your record, and you're saying we're not going to contend, right? And changing the NFL is inevitable, right? So these guys are prepared for that. They know that. Now, when you make a move like that, you may have a couple guys in a locker room scratching their head. But the reality is this is not a good football team. You can look at the quarterback position, you can look at the offensive line, you're looking at some of the injuries. There's so many people that's contribute to where they're sitting right now, three, five, and one. But Jeff Saturday, in this position, Kate, have you heard all of the chatter and all the noise? It seems like everybody's against Jeff. Not me, not me, I love Jeff. Jeff has all the experience in the world to get it done. Jeff is one of the greatest centers to ever play the game. If you play center, okay?  That means you have to understand defense. You know why you have to understand defense at the center position? Because you got to protect the quarterback. You got to be able to sit there and say, that nickel's coming, so let's slide protect, let's go scat protection right here. I need my runner back there. A lot of times these centers are more savvier and have higher football IQ than quarterbacks. Why is it that the quarterbacks always get the offensive coordinator jobs or the head coaching jobs? Oh yeah, Brandon, the last time he coached, he was in high school when he went three, eight or one. I don't care. That doesn't matter. Jeff Saturday is more than ready. When you coach men, okay, in a national football league, the number one attribute you have to have is leadership. You could, the alternative is who, okay? It's Josh McDaniels. It's Josh McDaniels. Josh McDaniels have all the experience in the world and he's sitting on the 13 and 100 record as a head coach, whatever it is. He's not good at all. Why? Because he can't lead men. People don't want to play for him. He got hell. He got people retiring mid season, right? Josh McDaniels, he can't figure out a way to hold a lead. So I would rather go with a guy like Jeff Saturday, who can probably lead men and build teams around him. He can probably, you don't know that he can lead men. He has experience on the team, but I think that there's a lot of criticisms about this. One, including maybe, though we don't, I don't know this for sure, that they didn't check with some of the guys in the locker room that have been there with the team, like a Reggie Wayne, or guys who might have been able to take over in an interim fashion and lead the team successfully because they've been there, gaming game out. And then there's, of course, just the fact that it takes a lot of yourself to be a head coach, to try to be any coach, any defensive career.   Skip the line. I disagree, right? To the problem is in sports, we usually lean on the side of tradition, right? Yes. In every other industry, we celebrate the disruptors, right? And some of the most successful people in this world, that's done amazing things in different spaces, whether it's film, whether it's in banking or whatever else, they're disruptors. They thought a little differently, okay? So yes, is it disruptive 100%? Is it uncomfortable for a lot of people 100%? But please don't tell me a guy like Jeff Saturday, who's been in a locker room in the trenches with some of the greatest football players to ever live and also head coaches to ever do it, that he's not equipped to come in and build a team around himself. When I say team, I'm not talking about players, I'm talking about who's gonna call the plays on offense, who's gonna call the plays on defense, someone who can sit in a booth just the same way that Bill Belichick has someone sitting in a booth to help with game day management. Like, can he do that? If he does that and that handles the X's and O's, which he can definitely contribute to the X's and O's and he focused on leading the team, he can definitely be successful. But what does that mean? I think of these next eight games go okay. And he is the head coach moving forward. There go my digital board that we talked about. And if he is the head coach next year, we could be telling one of the greatest, one of the greatest success stories ever. This guy was on ESPN, he has no experience. The world city has no experience. And now look at the coach and look what they've done. Jim Ursee, wow, he was disruptive. Maybe more coaches, more owners should do this. I'm a little sad. We'll keep hearing about how competitive they want to be. And Jeff Saturday seeing it as an audition for next year. No part of you thinks that they don't want to be competitive potentially to improve their draft stock. Is there no thought on your head that this team is tanking? Oh, 100%, I don't think it's tanking. I think they're looking at what's next, right? That's why they made the move they did at the head coaching position. That's why they made the move at the quarterback position. That you'll see more moves like this. This isn't just the coach. This is in any losing organization on any losing team, right? We're talking about that with Aaron Rodgers. Remember that was the talk last week. Should they go to love, right? Like, should we bench Aaron Rodgers and see what we have here? We owe that to the, they owe that to the organization as far as the coaches. So this is a part of being a professional athlete, being a part of this whole world is when your team sucks, which they do. They're not really good. They don't have a chance. You start looking at the future. You need to start playing some of these younger guys and seeing what you have. But you think that Jeff Saturday will be successful despite all of these things and somehow potentially like this team is going to be competitive? No, I wouldn't say, I'm not saying that. You know, my biggest thing is, and I pushed back with a lot of people that saying that he doesn't have the experience. Well, what do you mean experience, right? Like we're talking about one of the greatest centers that ever play. We're talking about his football IQ is through the roof. He's one, he's beloved in a lot of locker rooms. There's no one that can speak bad about Jeff Saturday. Even the guys that he pancake Sunday after Sunday after Sunday. Everybody loves Jeff Saturday. Okay, so I'm not saying that, you know, he's going to go out there and crush it. What I'm saying is he's more than capable of getting a job done. Even on the show that you talked about earlier, I'm talking to Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis pushed back a little bit. And I asked Ray Lewis, I said, let's look at some of the worst teams and defenses out there right now. Let's look at the Carolina Panthers. Let's look at the Atlanta Falcons. If you took over that team, would you make them better or worse? He said, I'll make them better, right? And I asked Julian Ellerman the same way. The same question. I asked other athletes the same thing. Jay Duzable last night on I Am Athlete Tonight. And he said the same thing. Now, not all athletes or players can go out there and do a phenomenal job of coaching or managing. We've seen that in the past before with Michael Jordan, great player, but potentially not a great general manager, not a great coach. And we've seen that. But there are some guys that can break through, absolutely. Is there a guy you played with who you think could step in, and I'm going to take Fitzpatrick off the board, that you could step in. Why, why? Because I knew that I know you too well. Who could step in that you played with that would be a successful head coach right now without any coaching experience? Well, another one, right? Like I'll start at the, this is easy. I'm going to start with the quarterback position. That's always the easy one. I'll go with Josh McCown. Josh McCown will be a head coach in the National Football League. Josh McCown was supposed to get the Texans job two years ago, but the backlash was so crazy that they said we can't do that, right? But Josh McCown is a guy. Also, I will have to lean on a guy like, you know, let's see, great leadership skills. I'm going to take the X's and O's out of it, Matt Forte. Yeah. People love following Matt Forte. I'll throw him out there. So those are two guys that I'll throw out there, but you know the number one guy you took away from me and that's Ryan Fitzpatrick. Do you think he wants to do it? I could see Fitz he wanting to do it. No, Fitz, no, Fitz, Fitz would want to do that. It takes everything from you. All right, we talked about Aaron Rodgers to start. Before we hit the break, I want to get this in here. He's very publicly putting accountability on his teammates, saying that they should think about benching guys who aren't performing and then he has this performance himself against the Lions. And his message was that he's thrown so many touchdowns in this league, he doesn't give a bleep what any of the experts on TV have to say. How are you feeling if you're one of his teammates right now? I'm listening to him because I'm a Google his name, Aaron Rodgers, that's all time statistics and you're going to see that he's won the MVP four times. He's won the Super Bowl once, you okay? He is probably the best thrower of the football that the National Football League has ever seen. He's next level, okay? So yes, I am listening to him and that's the problem in the NFL and some of our professional sports leagues now. You have these younger guys coming in and not understanding, you know, deference, not understanding alignment, right? So Aaron Rodgers, is he a great leader? I would say no. Is he a good leader? I would probably say no, but is he that guy at quarterback? Absolutely. So when it comes down to production, you can never question Aaron Rodgers production. He has a game like this once every three years. You know, I played against him in Chicago. This is the worst game I've ever seen out of him. This is the worst? I can't think of a worst game against a not scary opponent that quarterbacks and offenses have been lighting up all year. I can't think of a worse performance from him. I think this was his worst. But what does that mean though? Okay, so it's just, I'll say it again. He's gonna warp up on the Cowboys, like he always does in weekends. He always has, I mean, this weekend, he's had a lot of success against Dallas. And I think there is a chance to get it turned out, turned around to pull up. I don't blame Aaron. I blame Aaron on the front office. How can you not support him? Yeah, go ahead. We got to take a break before. There's no chance. You just said, I think there's a chance for them to get back on track. There's no chance. No, no, no, no. Stop, Kay, what are we doing here? You were just in the New York Times and you're talking about the factors have a chance to beat the Cowboys. Like what are we doing here? You'll never make the New York Times again. Cause aren't there some teams, wasn't there a team that you just got? Like you just got them no matter what.  I'm sure you had that. That's Aaron with like Aaron has a lot. It doesn't have great games against the Cowboys. Am I crazy? Next up for you is the Sun Sentinel. The Miami Sun Sentinel. You'll never be in the Times again. The Sun Sentinel. Your boy Omar came from the Sun Sentinel at IMAX. You just threw some major shade of your boy Omar. All right, we're going to take a break here. Brandon's going to be with us and we're going to talk a little DeAndre and Kyler. I don't know if you heard the sound of this. It was on hard knocks. I heard it, but I know Brandon, you've got an opinion on DHOP being back in Kyler Murray, it's all next. A huge game for the Buffalo Bills this week. McDermott's ruled Poyer and Rousseau out yikes. And of course we're taking it one day at a time with Josh Allen and that ulnar collateral ligament thing going on and pushing him all the best, of course, as we keep hanging out with our all pro receiver, the genius behind the IM Athlete Podcast. Brandon Marshall is here and I want to look at some of the other big matchups around the league this weekend with you and we do start in Buffalo and it's amazing. Got the Vikings. What a role, they're seven in one. You know them in and out. You were Chicago for so long. They're taking on the Bills who are six and two. Obviously we have an elbow situation. Allen hasn't practiced yet this week. Are you worried?  Yeah, I mean you're definitely worried because this is the year that you think that you can make it to the Super Bowl. You can get past KC. You also got to think about Baltimore. I think Baltimore is going to be the team the second half of the year. But you're worried, right? But you don't panic because you have case, right? Case is one of those guys that can come in. He can hold things down. He can stabilize things until your guy gets back.   And we're so employer being out, that's no good. Kirk Cousins is like on one right now and he's got plenty of options to throw to. You mentioned Case Keenum. Do we have this footage of Case Keenum? Listen, Case, Case is doing pretty good Josh Allen Impression. Talk to me about these spindles. See, that's the coolest thing, right? When you have a guy come out here like this and he acts like this, it settles everyone down. Because I said, don't, you don't panic. But when your quarterback, your star player goes down for about 10 minutes, everyone in the organization is like, what do we do? What do we do? And then you have a guy like this or a guy like Ryan Fitzpatrick or guy like Josh McCown, it comes in. He tells a joke. He tells everybody it's going to be okay. And guess what? Everyone believes them, right? So yes, Case is out there trying to be Josh. We don't need you to be Josh. We just need you to be the case that was actually Lee in a way when you were in Minnesota. Yes, when he, I mean, remember those years? He took them so far, Case Keenum did. And I'm always rooting for him. And we want to see those bills fans succeed. All right, let's talk Coles Raiders. You mentioned Josh McDaniels. So I want to get into it with you. It's not a huge match up on paper. There is interesting stuff going on. And it's a bit puzzling because we talked about the Colt side of things, but McDaniels is your former head coach. The Raiders, they're at two and six and it's almost inexplicable because they have so much talent. And there's a lot of rumblings, especially over the past week, that McDaniels is not suited to be a head coach. Is that fair? Wow, he's not? Why isn't he? Look at all of his experience. Look how many Super Bowls he won as an offensive coordinator. Being in New England, okay? Having Tom Brady helping Tom Brady out. Then getting a job in Denver in 2010, in losing and sometimes, right? The second time around, you're better when you go through what you went through the first time, right? So he has all the experience in the world, the good, the bad and the ugly. Maybe, just maybe Kay, they should have went and got Jeff Saturday. But now he's gone. Oh boy. Now he's gone, he's not coming back. Josh McDaniels is definitely not suited to be a head coach. Absolutely not because of what I talked about when we were talking about Jeff Saturday. Because he doesn't know how to lead people. You can have all the X's and O's in the world, Kay. But when you go into a losing locker room, the first thing you have to do is be able to get to the player's mind and their hearts. And he's not capable of doing that. He's not capable of doing that with his players. He's not capable of doing that with his coaches. And when things hit the fan, it gets worse with guys like that. You have guys retiring mid-season. Think about that. That's horrible leadership. You want guys to rally around. You want guys to say, this is his first year back.  They're doing the opposite. They're saying, I'm shutting it down, right? You got guys... So, oh, sorry, no, I want you to finish, I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no, no, because I'm glad you cut me off because you know I was going to rant for the next 10 minutes. I think, but I want to know the most important qualities in a head coach. According to all pro-brand and Marshall, I'd like to know the top three in order. Leadership? Okay, let me slow down. Yep, and let me take a deep breath using my skills, okay? Because I'm hot right now. Y'all talking about Jeff Saturday. Y'all talking about Josh McCannell. I mean, Josh McDaniels. Let me calm down and answer your question. Number one is leadership. And that doesn't matter what you're doing. You could be a head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders, or you could be running ESPN Network or Fandle Network. It doesn't matter. If you can't lead people, you'll never be successful, okay? So that's number one, no matter what industry you're in. Okay? Yeah. Number two, you have to understand offense and defense and special teams. So the X's and O's is definitely important. What type of brand of football do you want to present? Okay, so X's and O's is critical. And then the third is management. You got to understand how the game works. So you talk clock management, game day management. I would say those three things, but the most important one is leadership. And that's number two and number three aren't even close. Okay, so I know I've heard you, you have a lot. When I started thinking about this, and the best coach, the greatest coach currently, even though, you know, and his team is turning it around, they're still alive in the AFCs. You have a lot of reverence for Belichick. And Belichick, of course, you know, what is his approach?  Does he get in the heads and hearts of players? And why does the approach work well with Bill and none of his assistants? Because he's successful. That's the problem. Don't come to the Denver Broncos in 2010 telling us that our offense stinks. And we're sorry when we're the number two offense that year and we're the number one offense. Look, Jay Cutler never recovered from that. Right? Like I'm glad I recovered from that. Like it's traumatic. We had him cursing out coaches. We had Pete, the bus was scheduled to leave at 12 o'clock. And we're, all the players support staff, everybody's on the bus. And then you have Josh McDaniels in his office coming down at 12.45. You have guys making 10, $15 million a year sitting on the bus waiting for a head coach. When the standard is at 12 o'clock, the bus leave and no matter who it is, you're left.  Right? So the problem with some of these coaches that come from a successful head coach or successful organization, they come in trying to be the other guy without having a success. That's a huge problem. And also you've got to be yourself. Bill Belichick, that's only, only Bill Belichick can be Bill Belichick. There's other ways to win a national football league. Pete Carroll's Pete Carroll. Yeah, and it's working. Okay. So I'm Peyton and so I'm Peyton. Just find who you are and make that work. I agree with that. And the more you and I talk, and I love talking to you because it makes me think of things a different way. And that's why I asked for those qualities. The more I talk to you, the more it's less of a list, like a linear. This is the most important. This, it's literally a balance of the three. And if you have any, any one of those three things in a good, healthy portion, you'll likely to have success in the NFL. Cause you can have all the X's and O's, which of course you can't say that Josh McDonald's isn't a great mind, football mind, a savant or whatever. Like we've seen that play out. I mean, you might disagree with that, but he doesn't have the leadership quality. So it's almost a balance of all three. And the next team I want to talk about. No, he's a genius. He's a genius. For sure. He's a football genius. So then you look at a team. I look at a team like Arizona. And I see a coach who I think players like. I mean, I know that they're screaming and scuffling, but that's like, well, a player's coach. We're going to give you phone breaks. I'm going to get into your head. I'm going to be there. That's Cliff Kingsbury. And then you have all the talent in the world on the field. And again, it's not working. So something there is missing. And before we even talk about the coach, cause the coach is like the thing people don't like to talk about there, but it's a thing. But they, they got the Rams this week. Both of these teams have their season sort of hanging in the balance. So let's talk about Arizona. Cause hard knocks this week. I don't know if you saw it. It was really revealing. We saw and we got to hear Deandre Hopkins and Kyler Murray and we saw this on the broadcast. But then we got, of course, what happened. And this was a stalled drive. It happened right after and DHOP asks Kyler on hard knocks. He says, what are you looking at? He said he was wide open and then he's trying to win. And Kyler told him to calm down, that he'll get him the ball, but only targeted and then of course twice over the final three quarters of this game against the Seahawks. So what is your takeaway? What did you make of this? First off, Richard and team, keep this video rolling, please. Okay. Is this not the best wide receiver group with the best here? Look at DHOP's here. Look at Robbie Anderson right there. And then look at Hollywood. He's not even playing. Look at his hair. This is unbelievable. So I wanted to highlight that first. Here's the situation. We're talking about coaches. We're talking about the quarterback. Bill Belichick, Tom Brady had an amazing relationship or working relationship, I would say, because they had things going on, but they kept it in house. And they always found a way to keep the culture and the production right where it needed to be, right? For 19 years. All right, Sean Payton, Drew Brees. Okay. There's Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll for 10 years. They had a phenomenal relationship. The problem is there seems to be a disconnect between Cliff and Kyler, all right? Because when you have a talented team like this, you have a talented quarterback like that, right? There's some type of power struggle happening right now because this team shouldn't be this bad. When there's a disconnect at the top, it's a trickle down effect to the locker room and to the support staff and the men and women that's helping in administration and management and other areas. So that's what you're seeing is a toxic situation starting to spill over to the game day and to the playing field. D-hop is frustrated. He just got back, right? You got Kyler, he's frustrated, but the problem isn't right there the problem is at the top. I don't know what's going on in that organization, but this might be a massive blow up here in the next couple of weeks or by the end of this year. How do you fix it?   Listen, and I'm not a fan of that, right? Like I've been in a couple of blow up situations. And a lot of owners, a lot of managers, general managers are quick to blow it up. A lot of times we don't sit down and try to conversate and try to figure out how do we get aligning on the same page, but this is too far gone, right? You know, Kyler, I don't know if it's Kyler maybe need a new situation or if it's Cliff, but the general manager and the owner has to make a decision who do they want to invest in and they have to blow it up, right? They have to. Brandon Marshall bringing all the takes international game this weekend very quickly. I think Brady's turning it around. Do you, and I will never forget your international, you love an international game. You and Fitzy taking down the Dolphins. You're 128 yards. I will never forget that. Oh, look at that. This is the first game. It was the first play of the game, Kay. I went to coach and I promised I went to Fitz. I went to Chang Galey. I went to Todd Bowles. I said the first play of the game I want to go ball. And they listened to me and that's what happened, right? How fun was that internationally? It was good. It was fun. I mean, the crowd was awesome. I didn't expect that they were into it. You know, there was some times where they didn't know when it's here, when to be quiet, but it was electric from start to finish. Who wins? Seahawks or Buccaneers? My hit says Seahawks, but my gut says Bucs because of what you said about Tom Brady. So I'm gonna go with the Bucs. I think they're turning it around. I know, but I like the Gino. The whole Gino Carol thing I'm super into. So, okay, we love you, Brandon. You took again half of our show, which we love. Next time we're just gonna not plan anything for the whole hour. You are amazing. Have a good weekend. All right, love you guys. Keeping it real, as always. Thanks for my New York time shout out. We'll be back. The only quarterback I think in the national football league we did not get to with Brandon Marshall is Matthew Stafford. Rough go this season. Is there something in the numbers that shows he could turn it around? We're drinking beers and getting PFF'd up next. Tom Brady, the goat. How do you say goat in German? I don't know, but here he is. Mr. Tom Brady on the turnaround for the Bucs. Of course, what happened yesterday. They could lose to the Seahawks and still be in the lead of that division and that's where we are. And that is just his luck. It's Friday. I'm looking forward to the weekend.  Do any of me now? He's back. We've missed you PFF NFL podcast host, the lead NFL analyst, Sam Munson. How are you? I'm good. Don't be blind though. You haven't missed me. You've missed the opportunity to drink. Are we drinking? I thought we were drinking the same thing. That would be on that day. We'll have to take shots. What do you got? I have, it's German. We've got to, you know, respect the international game. So, Wursteiner. Wursteiner. We're China, German, Pilsner. Okay. I mean, I thought you were in Ireland this whole time. So there's that. So out of European connections, I'm drinking, what is this? A Hoffbrug? Hoffbrug? Hoffbrug? Bra? Like bra? Okay, well, this is delicious. So cheers to you. Oh, I've got a nice, what is this called? A Stein? There you go. I had too much wine last night. This is not going down as easy. Can I get a cold beer? This is a lukewarm, a lukewarm beer. Vanessa, they said that's how they serve it in London, at least. All right, my friend. It has been a while. We've got the PFF Power Hour here. So Seahawks buck, that's why we're drinking the German beer. Let's go through some members that make NFL fans say, wait, what? The first number is one. I'm gonna say that is the number of car leases I will ever do, cause I did one and I hate it. I've scratched up my rims. I think I'm already in the hole from leasing this car. So I will never do it again. What do you got? Never leased a car. I've always bought a rented, but number one is not just the ranking that Tyree Kale has in targets, yards, catches. It's also the ranking of his PFF grade overall and against man coverage or zone coverage. So right now, Tyree Kale is just always open. There is no solution to covering Tyree Kale. So a team like Cleveland this week has its work cut out for them to figure out how on earth they're gonna try and slow him down. We have an extra game. He's a, you know, we're heading into week 10. He already has over 1,100 yards receiving and to put that into perspective and this yards, no one else has even cracked 900. No one else. He is, you know, people are making the MVP case room, of course. All right, next, the number zero. Zero is the number of men I will date that are cyclists on roads in LA. I will say that.  So zero of those guys don't even come calling. What is it? Wow. I'm not touching that one. Look, I'm a cyclist. Everybody loves cyclists. That's fine, go on a trail. Knock yourself out. Stop like with your death wishes on major roadways. Zero is the number of sacks given up by left tackle for the Minnesota Vikings, Christian Darrison, he gave up five last season. And a similar number of sacks because he didn't play until midway through the year. His improvement this year has been absolutely incredible. His PFF grade has jumped around 20 grading points. He's now one of the best left tackles in the NFL going up against a very stiff test this week. Okay, I love this and I hope I'm not wrong, but I feel like doing this, and he's about to play Vaughn Miller just sort of setting up some sort of PFF slash broadcaster jinx here, am I wrong? It's, yeah, it's certainly risky. Ikea Kwanu was on a great run and then he goes in place Thursday night and gets penalized every three seconds. So close the risk. And the number 20, I'm gonna guess the number of tweets when I refresh my Twitter feed from Bears fans still hating me for no reason. What do you got? Could be the number of times that verified or non-verified has been turned on or off since we started this whole segment. I'm gonna start really drinking. 20 is the longest catch given up by Patrick Sartan the second this season. His longest of his career is only 30-something yards. He's one of the best corners in the league already, so smooth, so in control, just never out of phase and never in trouble during the route going up against Tennessee this week. Hopefully they'll have Ryan Tannehill back and actually have some kind of strength. I love that 20. The Broncos have the NFL's number one ranked past D this year and the number two total defense overall. All right, last one, the number is 6.7 and I'm sorry to, I'm like crying from trucking this beer, go, just talk. 6.7 is Matthew Stafford's average depth of target this season, which isn't just two yards or something lower than it was last year.  It is a train wreck of an offensive line and they're just trying to get the ball out of Stafford's hands as quickly as possible because anything else is a nightmare. It is a nightmare. And the offense ranks 31st in the NFL this season. The defending Super Bowl champion, Sean McVeigh at the helm. I imagine Andrew Whitworth is all but signing up to come back and try to fix things over there. Sam Munson, we have a tweet, I believe. Let me just say 6.7 was, 6.7 is the rating of this warm beer that I'm drinking. Stephen says goat in German is Siga. No, Siga. Siga. I mean, pronounce- So Christian Siga was actually, his name was Christian goat. That's, that feels like something that could have been used more during his soccer playing career. I don't know what you're saying. Sam, I don't know what, I literally don't know what you're saying, but we love having you on the show. We appreciate it. You can catch all of Sam's work over at pff.com and the new PFF app. We appreciate you and how do you say cheers? And I don't know. What does Heidi Klum say at the end of project from all the way? What does she say? Happy, happy, happy, bye Sam, we'll talk to you later. Right? Yeah. No one knows what I'm saying? Yeah. Sam's so cool. All right. I'm drunk. All right, last week. Most of them, right? We did pretty well on our K-makers. I'm pretty good at this. Just, why, who gives me beer on this show?  Okay. If you need someone to find the end zone in week 10, I'm not kidding. I'm pretty good at this. The Parle is trash, but this is great. I got you covered. Here's what I got for this week. Hey Chicago fans, take this. I'm gonna tell them what you're team. I'm gonna call it week because I'm from Chicago. You can do anything about it. David Montgomery is my guy. He's averaged just under a touchdown per game in his career against the Lions. Now I know that, you know, Aaron Jones couldn't get a touchdown against the Lions. That's neither here nor there. We will give it to David Montgomery.  So let's see if that can happen. How about Saquon Barkley? The Texans are on the docket. They have given up the most touchdowns to running backs this season. So Saquon, it's got fresh legs coming off a bye week. I think it makes sense for him to get into the end zone. And last but not least, Christian McCaffrey. I'm aiming, come on. That was touchdown Palooza from McCaffrey. Last time we saw him on the field and he's facing the Chargers defense. And I know I said earlier this week, nobody's talking about the Chargers but nobody's also talking about their defense. Like it gets lit up and they've allowed the second most touchdowns to running backs this year. So my, pow, pow, pow, pow! K-makers, David Montgomery, Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, Lil Mac from Punch Out. Now, what did I call him? Lil something. I don't know what's going on. Richard's telling me that we're gonna pull up a tweet. Great. The fact that people are tweeting my show is making me so happy today. Mike D says, oh gosh, please stop saying, oh, why are we putting this up here? Richard, why are you giving a platform to the hatred of this fan base? Do I wanna fix, this is where I'm at. Do I wanna fix it or do I wanna double down and just be an enemy of the fan base? That's where I'm, I don't know. We didn't get to ask Brandon Marshall about it but I think Brandon's on my side. But I also like that Chicago's so passionate and angry right now because they deserve to be. I don't know what to do with that fan base.   That's how I feel. Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, the Bears fans. All right, we'll talk about Lamar Jackson after this. He's on a bi-week but I will tell you a sleep recorder. I mean, if you've been riding Lamar Jackson in those fantasy points, you need some help. Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, got you covered. Here we go! Hey! I'm see the mic, man. What's going on?  It doesn't matter how we get it done. You talk about hitting some hard times. You guys just keep coming back, man. Everything we wanted to accomplish this off season, we do it. Look at how you do it! Matthew Jude on in that highlight reel. I mean, is he the defensive player of the year? He might be. How about you up? These are some guys you need to pick up and put in your daily lineup. Some sleepers, Jimmy Garoppolo. He's up in the greatest fantasy option in the past but I think it's changing this year.  And guess who's practicing? Guess who's due back? Debo! I expect a huge day against the Chargers defense. All right, Jeff Wilson. Wilson has 12 touches for 72 yards and a touchdown in his Dolphins debut last week. And he's familiar with McDaniel's system and you know, played for him with the Niners. There's like synergy there. I like it. I think he has another big day against the Browns defense that's been the third most generous to the running back spot. How about Josh Palmer? He's been Herbert's only healthy option. Woof! They did have 10 for 105 on 12 targets last week. I think he's featured heavily again this week against said Niners. Little stack action going on there between Jimmy Garoppolo and Josh Palmer. How about George Pickens? The Chase Claypools trade should only create a bigger target share. I think for Pickens up against a banged up St. Secondary exciting young player to watch. And let's go back. Let's do it. Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee. You and I, the Bears fans get cold commit here. We broke out with a really nice two touchdown performance last week. I think he keeps it rolling against Lions defense. It's been the top five most generous to the tight end spot. So of course we include a Chicago Bear. We love this. Brian, are you done? What's going on? Brian's coughing up along over here. Oh boy. Oh boy. Jimmy Garoppolo, Jeff Pelosi and Josh Palmer, George Pickens and cold commit are here. Let's bring in Matt Hamilton for a little take. That, what does that mean? Are we hot taking? Going towards a week 10? Oh, why not? We have some final thoughts. Hamilton, is there Hamilton the winner of a very important football game that Austin Luzzie set a record yesterday? He did. My quarterback at Neershaw High School, where I coach, he broke the school record for passing yards in a single season. Corey Dawson broke the record for receiving yards in a single season over a thousand. If I could pick up that Dawson and get him in my fantasy lineups, I would.  Congratulations to New Rochelle. Now, let's do this. We're gonna do some takes here. I don't know if it was sitting down and talking to Levante David that did it or maybe it was seeing Tom Brady dropping that F-bomb at the podium. I am getting fired up about the Bucks. If you're watching the show all week, you kind of see that happening. And I do believe that we will see them have their most complete performance of this season. Internationally, Zige. Was that wrong? Zige? Zige! The goat in Munich. And I do think that the, unfortunately, and I'm always, my heart's rooting for the Seahawks. My mind is telling me though that the Bucks pull out a win. What do you think, Kami? I like it. I think we're gonna see that Ram's comeback spark this Bucks team a little bit. We saw, you know, that press conference as funny as it was with Brady. That was a return to Brady kind of being himself. It seemed like it was an exhale moment for him. And I think we're gonna see them gain some momentum from here. I don't know. And talking to Levante, they gotta stop, they gotta stop that Kenneth Walker character. They gotta stop Gino and all the menace. Can they do it? I think that they can in this game and the experience and the less travel hours, all of that. So, okay, there's also, here's, take that. What should be like my thing for that? I don't know. Okay, I believe that there, we talked about this with Brandon Marshall. There's a feeling that as Case Keenum gets to start for the bills on Sunday, that the wheels might start to fall off. It doesn't help that Russo and Poyer are ruled out, of course. And there's this idea, I think, that this bills team is in trouble and they can all fall apart, not so fast. I think what Buffalo has built defensively and the way this Ken Dorsey offense is looking up against a 27th ranked Vikings pass defense. I mean, this guy is more than capable of keeping the wagons on track. That's what I think. Or at least keeping them circles or on the Oregon Trail avoiding typhoid and snake bites and all of that. My point is be very careful handing the Vikings the win because number eight was announced as the starter. So as great as Allen has been in his shoes, of course, you cannot fill. Do you agree, Hammer, this team is more than just about him? I do. And I mean, if we look at the practice video from Keenum yesterday, I mean, he's getting ready to do his best Josh Allen impersonation, but yeah, I agree with you. But the way that this defense is built and the offensive system, the way that they give you all these different looks, the way they use motion, the way they give you all these different personal groupings formations, keep a defense off balance and all the weapons that they have, I think they can keep the ship afloat until Josh Allen gets back. If he does have to miss some time, I don't think you just start chalking up wins for the opponents if case Keenum's out there. You've seen him win a lot of games in his league. The Vikings are formidable and the bills are down to really important defensive pieces. Like this could go either way, right? Oh, for sure. And you can't take the Vikings lightly by any stretch. They're seven and one, they played really well this year. You know, but we've also, as you talked about the other day, we've seen some issues with them where they haven't really put together the most complete start to finish performances. So, you know, I think it's gonna be a hard thought battle either way. I'm not a German beer girl. I just take that, take that German beer. I'm just not, I'm just not. Maybe it needs to be colder. I don't know. Okay. Hey, Hamilton, tell me this. And we can do this on a split screen. Yes. Thank you, Sirushi. Sirushi who's going to Qatar and leaving us. Can we get here for Sirushi's last show for a month?  Our brilliant director who does so much with so little. Thank you so much Sirushi and for hitting splits like that. Tell me this, is Debo playing this week? It looks like it. He's been practicing in full. So, it looks like he's gonna be out there. Here's my last take that. I don't know that I've been as excited to see anything on a football field as I am for this unveiling in the Niners offense. Christian McCaffrey, touchdown Palooza, as I said.  And I think we're about to witness something truly special, honestly. And imagine the sort of plays that the flat brim hat one will call up for this team. And it's the Chargers, the Chargers defense which isn't doing super well. And my eyes like glazed, like is this what's happening? Do you see what I look like Hamilton? Love ya. Well, thanks for having me. I hope I can get to the point one day where I get drunk off two sips of beer on national television. Won't be great.


A public lecture in Asaba has advocated the address of internal challenges facing power supply, quality health care, effective transportation system, and all the utilities that improve business competitiveness, as this is key to cabin the brain drain in the country. The annual lecture, themed Flight of Talent, Navigating Nigeria's Brain Drain Predicament, was held at the Unity Hall Government House, Asaba. Our correspondent at Pomergera Friday reports that the resource persons from different sectors of the economy said that one of the consequences of the brain drain in the country is the depletion of human capital, which is essential to the nation's development. In summary, the consequences are it's depleting the human manpower. So we need to really go through the root of it and see what we can do to curb it. Really, a lot of our skilled manpower, they are really playing and the way at which they are moving to other countries is really alarming. And it's worrisome because it's affecting our own economy. So we need to look at what can we do to ensure that even when they go out, they will come back and also contribute to the growth of the nation's development. So it's about leadership. It's about leadership. We've had good leadership that meant to us. The leadership will be struggling every day to ensure that our currency, our manpower, remains valuable, remains in the committee of currencies. Once there's power, you can see people do some minor industries can come up, people can end livings from there and then this issue of running away will reduce, if you reduce, and then if the environment is okay again, their job people will be working. Nobody wants to live abroad, I must tell you that.  The sign here is that our best brains are living the shores of the country and it's affecting productivity.   So it is a situation where values are not appreciated and you cannot cage a value. So people are going out to where the values can be appreciated. So the government, especially the government, these are the people who have the opportunity, the privileges, the money, the resources to put this in place. So they should develop structures that can make people learn here in Nigeria, stay here in Nigeria and their learning or their years in education or whatever talent they have is appreciated and will grow our economy.


We will have testimony now and Frank will introduce our next speaker. All right, thanks Rachel. Thank you, Carly. Bruce Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He's been working on space issues since 1982. He's the Vietnam War era veteran and he's a member of Veteran for Peace and he's a great guy. Bruce Gagnon. Thank you, Frank. Great to be with everyone. I want to thank Chris for his words about Ronald Reagan. It reminds me of a story that in the early 80s I was living in Orlando, Florida and Reagan came to make his famous Russia evil people speech at a big hotel and I organized a protest outside of that speech. In that particular speech, Reagan said that Russia was the epitome of evil in the world and it reminds me of what Biden said just in the last few days that Vladimir Putin had no soul. And so it really I think underscores dramatically how things haven't changed that much if any at all in regard to the U.S. demonization of Russia. I want to start talking about space, taking us back to World War II at the time of the end of the war when the U.S. military created a secret program called Operation Paperclip and smuggled 1500 top Nazi operatives, Hitler's generals and scientists and all different kinds of people, intelligence people to the U.S. and then throughout the military industrial complex these Nazis were ceded and a hundred of these people were Burner von Braun and the rocket team that created the B-1 and B-2 rockets that Hitler used to terrorize the cities of London and Paris and Brussels near the end of World War II. One of these people that came along with von Braun was Major General Walter Dornberger who was Hitler's liaison to the rocket team so his job was to make sure that von Braun had everything he needed and he reported back to Hitler on the progress of this rocket operation. And so when they came to the U.S. they brought 100 copies of the B-2 rocket to Huntsville, Alabama to the Army's Redstone Arsenal to begin working on creating the U.S. space program and Major General Walter Dornberger Hitler's liaison became vice president of Bell Aerospace in New York. In the 1950s Dornberger testified before the Congress of the United States where he said gentlemen I didn't come to this country to lose the Third World War I lost two already and he went on to lay out his vision for the future with orbiting battle stations in space that would be used to determine who could get on and off the planet earth.  Well in the late 1990s the U.S. space command created this document called Vision for 2020 and in here they talked about how the United States would control space dominate space and deny other nations access to space when necessary. And in fact at the space command headquarters in Colorado Springs Peterson Air Force base above their doorway the logo master of space is emblazoned there something that they were as a patch on their uniform as well. So this is the I would say Nazi prophecy that's come to fruition in the current moment. Earlier Alice Slater mentioned the ABM treaty the anti ballistic missile treaty that George W. Bush pulled out of in 2002. This kept the mutually assured destruction mad sort of in a kind of weird way it mad created some stability because neither side had a real advantage over the other. There was this rough equivalency between nuclear forces. The ABM treaty blocked this idea of having a shield to be used after you launched a first strike attack on another country. But after the U.S. withdrawal of the ABM treaty during the Bush administration and then following during the Obama administration the missile defense systems went on steroids being tested and deployed and circling both Russia and China. And it was during that period during especially during the Obama administration where Russia and China kept repeatedly saying very publicly that we really rid of our nuclear retaliatory capability because of the withdrawal from the ABM treaty. And now the deployments of these missile defense forces which are the shield to be used after a U.S. first strike attack. It's important to remember that Russia and China have a long ago renounced first strike while the U.S. refuses to do so saying that we have to keep all options on the table. Today the United States has created a missile defense launch facility in Romania and they're building one in Poland right now. They will be able to launch these interceptors the shield after U.S. first strike attack. And at the same time these launch platforms have the capability to fire first strike attack Tomahawk cruise missiles which are nuclear capable and they would be able to reach Moscow in 10 minutes time from Romania and Poland. You've read nothing about this in American media I wonder why. But if Russia was to try to do something like this or China was to try to do something like this by putting similar capabilities in Mexico or Canada the United States would go ballistic. At the end of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse in 1991 George Herbert Walker Bush, Daddy Bush was president and his secretary of state Jim Baker promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch towards the Russian borders and this was the agreement that was necessary to get Russia to agree to a unified Germany both east and west Germany coming back together again. But then when Clinton became president he violated that promise and began a major NATO expansion program that today is on steroids and the U.S. and NATO are pressing right up against literally the Russian border now trying to get into Belarus trying to get into Ukraine trying to get into Georgia as well. In fact NATO is going global as an alliance they're now setting up partnerships with countries particularly in the Asia Pacific and in Latin America and the idea is that NATO wants to replace the United Nations as the foremost international organization. Why? It's because at the at the UN Security Council both Russia and China have the ability to veto resolutions brought by the U.S. and NATO to declare war on particular countries and so by creating an alternative alliance which would be this expanded international NATO the United States would then be able to say we have the backing of the world to go in and do these particular invasions in XYZ country. Recently you all know that during the Trump administration Space Force was created. It's important to remember that at the time of this vote in the Congress to authorize to create the law to create Space Force the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives and could have blocked could have killed Space Force right then and there but the only thing the Democrats asked for was to instead call it the Space Corps rather than Space Force making the name just a little more benign a little nicer sounding but that wasn't even passed and so today we've got to ask what is the mission what is the job of the Space Force and I would say it's two fundamental things one is to give corporate capitalism control of the planet earth we know that with all space technology that exists today and the ground stations around the world that enable and beam on the satellites from orbiting the military satellites they beam the messages the signals in real times what second time the Pentagon is able to see everything on the earth they're able to hear everything on the earth by intercepting all phone facts and email communications and ultimately target everything on the earth so this document vision for 2020 talks about if we have control and domination of space we will be able to win all the wars on planet earth so that's one job of the Space Force is to put that in motion is to create the technologies to make it possible but secondly there's another job and that is to control what's called the earth moon gravity well think of a wishing well imagine someone is down inside the bottom of a well and you're at the top you have the advantage because of gravity you can determine really whether they get out of that well or not well it's the same way getting off the planet earth there is an earth moon gravity well and one of the things that Major General Walter Dornberger was talking about that former Nazi when he talked to the congress in the 1950s when he said we need to have orbiting battle stations he was talking about placing them at the top of the earth moon gravity well so that the united states would be able to control which countries could go on and off the planet earth so today as the united states during the obama administration passed a new law saying that american individuals american corporations can make land claims can claim ownership of various planetary bodies which would violate the un's outer space treaty and the and the moon treaty that say the the planetary bodies are the province of all humankind so that now it's getting possible with technology development to be able to go out and mine the sky and so we're seeing this privatization now of launch elan musk jeff bezos all kinds of other private launch companies now getting contracts from the us to launch military satellites and and this whole 5g explosion they want to put tens of thousands of satellites into space orbiting the planet so every single human being on the planet 24 7 would have a 5g satellite over their head enabling them to use these 5g systems that the pentagon is saying are going to be instrumental in in helping them develop major new weapons systems because of the speed of 5g so 5g is really a military operation but anyway this idea of mining the sky now is becoming quite popular and so i think this is one of the drivers then of this goal to control the pathway on and off the planet to determine which country which corporation which individuals can go out and mine the heavens and at the same time the nuclear industry views space as a new market they want to have nuclear powered mining colonies on the moon and mars and other planetary bodies and they want to have nuclear reactors on board rockets cutting in half the amount of time it takes to get to mars recently i found out about a rand corporation study you remember the rand corporation that where our friend daniel elsberg was working during the vietnam war helping to write the government's secret history of the vietnam war he bravely smuggled out the the this pentagon papers to the new york times and other newspapers around the country broke the story open well that was the rand corporation but today they have a new study calling for the breakup or the balkanization of russia into smaller constituent countries so that the oil corporations the fossil fuel resource extraction corporations would have a better job of controlling the arctic region because of climate crisis and the melting of the arctic ice it's now going to be possible to drill baby drill in the arctic and these western corporations look at a map and they see that russia has the largest land border of any country on the planet with the arctic and so this must be changed thus this rand corporation study and thus these current moves by us and nato to have war games up in the nordic region right along the russian border and finland and norway sweden and danmark all these particular parts of the world now are having these war games and the us is storing equipment in norway military hardware after these war games are over they're stored at a weapons hub in norway and also one in poland as the war games are held in in that part of eastern europe near the russian border they're storing these weapons systems in poland for eventual use so it's very clear to me that one of the major reasons for this constant demonization of russia is to prepare the american people and the people throughout the west for this breakup this balkanization of russia so that the weapons corporations can take control so that the oil corporations resource extraction corporations can take control of the planet so that wall street will benefit from this unipolar control of the planet right now with russia and china and iran and venezuela and brazil and many other countries around the world rising becoming competitors to the us global unipolar empire the united states is desperate and freaking out and desperate people do desperate things and so i think the us is as much a danger to the world as it's ever been as it tries now to hang on to its place as this unipolar power this unipolar empire of the world and so i uh want to really underscore and really thank norman solomon for his words speaking directly to the peace movement here today saying stop buying this russia demonization this china demonization can't you see what the real agenda is don't believe it don't follow it and speak out against it uh and uh thank you all very much for listening good luck to everybody thank you


Our approach involves thinking about the system as a whole and thinking about the ways in which things can fail. And this is different from what people typically do when developing a system. Their focus, quite understandably, is on trying to make the system work. So they're focused on how do you get it to do the right thing and not worrying about all the circumstances in which things or something might go wrong. Whereas what actually happens is, for many systems, the ways in which it goes wrong and it probably only goes wrong fairly infrequently, but every time that happens the effect is quite large. And so when you're looking at the performance of the system as a whole, those occasional failures, they can just be exceptions, they can be unusual circumstances, they can be things that the programmer didn't think were very important, didn't spend any time optimising. Those can be the things that end up dominating the performance of the system as a whole. Our sort of raison d'etre is actually making things that work so well that they become effectively boring and you don't have to sleep at night, you don't have to worry about them. So for us, infrastructure is something you should just ignore, it should be there. It's something you can trust to build other parts of your daily life or your business life on top of. One of our earliest projects where we developed a lot of the tools and techniques that we used today was working on the US Department of Defense Future Combat Systems Program, which was about creating a new battlefield communication system for the US Army. And it was a $300 billion program and they had 6,000 engineers working on it. But across the whole of the US, they were unable to find anyone who could reason about the performance of the system in advance of it being built. We were able in the end to show that it was impossible for the system to meet the goals that were being put on it. So in the end, because of that and a number of other reasons, the whole program was cancelled after they'd spent only $25 billion. Cardanas, like many systems we're building today, are not ones that you can afford to make mistakes about. You're going to build complex distributed systems that are going to make settlements, that are going to engage in protocols and engage in smart contracts and things like that. Once you've set those pieces of software going, they're going to execute exactly what you told them. You've got to think about the ethics, about the emerging properties that are going to happen, how people are going to interact with it, how it's going to change, how you're going to correct issues, etc. So it's very interesting that we're not just doing performance engineering here, we're sort of beginning to do ethical engineering. So in the Cardano project, we're very excited to be able to apply our techniques for reasoning about performance in advance of something being built and deployed. We're not just engaging here in software engineering or performance engineering, or even fiscal engineering or whatever that is, but we're also engaging in ethical engineering. We're trying to make the systems that we trust ones that work for us and for our fellow citizens of the world.


I'd like to read today from a paper, a letter really, published in 1972 in the Brookhaven Symposia on Biology. The author is Dr. Susumu Ono, one of the great molecular geneticists of the modern era. Susumu was born to Japanese parents in Korea, but spent most of his life in the US. He had a lifelong love of horses, leading him to get a DVM, that's a doctor of veterinary medicine, and then an additional PhD and doctor of science a few years later. He is what I call a triple doctor. His work concerned the role of chromosomal exchange, and particularly on these sex chromosomes. He spent 40 years in research at City of Hope, a very important research hospital in Los Angeles. He is famous for uncovering the nature of the bar body, the ex-chromosome that is inactivated in females, indicated in the graph as Big X Little I. The inactivation is random in each cell during development, leading to unusual mosaicism like the female calico cat. His work led to what is known as Ono's law, which states that a gene X-linked in one mammal species will be X-linked in all mammal species. This has been an important discovery in modern genetic disease studies. We sometimes find exceptions to the law, such as monotremes, but it has held up remarkably well. He also explored the role of gene duplication and drift in creating new genetic information and evolution. His most controversial work, and it says something that we are still debating it, is called the 2R Hypothesis, or Ono's Hypothesis. It states that at some point in the distant lineage of modern organisms, duplications of entire genomes called polyploidizations occurred and resulted in large jumps in genetic information. These duplicated chromosomes contain thousands of genes, and once duplicated, they became less constrained by natural selection. This allowed for a phenomenon called neo-functionalization, which just means that they were allowed to mutate a bit more and result in new phenotypes. We can see the evidence for these paleopolyploidies by looking at very closely related genes within a single genome. By back-calculating drift rates, we see that many gene families emerged all at once, suggesting that some single event produced copies of whole chromosomes or whole genomes. This also helps to explain why some organisms, like the pufferfish and salamander, have so much DNA but so few genes. This idea is called the C-value paradox. The C-value was the number of DNA bases an organism has. It turns out not to correlate with how many genes are in that genome. So Sumo in the paper I'm about to read excerpts from framed this paradox as the question of the non-coding DNA, which he playfully calls junk DNA. Listen carefully and see if you think he dismisses that as unimportant or uninteresting, as the Discovery Institute would have you think. The mammalian genome, haploid chromosome complement, contains roughly 3 times 10 to the minus 9th milligrams of DNA, which represents 3 times 10 to the 9th base pairs. This is at least 750 times the genome size of E. coli. If we take the simplistic assumption that the number of genes contained is proportional to the genome size, we would have to conclude that 3 million or so genes are contained in our genome. The falseness of such an assumption becomes clear when we realize that the genome of lowly lung fish and salamanders can be 36 times greater than our own. In fact, there seems to be a strict upper limit for the number of gene loci which we can afford to keep in our genome. Consequently, only a fraction of our DNA appears to function as genes. The observations on a number of structural gene loci of man, mice, and other organisms revealed that each locus has a 10 to the minus 5th per generation probability of sustaining a dilaterious mutation. It then follows that the moment we acquire 10 to the 5th gene loci, the overall dilaterious mutation rate per generation becomes 1, which appears to represent an unbearably heavy genetic load. Taking into consideration the fact that dilaterious mutations can be dominant or recessive, the total number of gene loci of man has been estimated to be about 3 times 10 to the 4th. More than 90% degeneracy contained within our genome should be kept in mind when we consider evolution changes in genome sizes. What is the reason behind this degeneracy? Certain untranscribable and or untranslatable DNA-based sequences appear to be useful in a negative way, the importance of doing nothing. It may be of selective advantage to space adjacent genes far enough apart by inserting a stretch of untranscribable and or untranslatable DNA-based sequence as a partition. In this way the dilaterious effects of nonsense or frameshift mutations can be confined to a single locus, instead of allowing it to spread to other genes. Our view is that these partitioning sequences are the remains of nature's experiments which failed. The Earth is strewn with fossil remains of extinct species. Is it a wonder that our genome too is filled with the remains of extinct genes? It then follows that the creation of a new gene with hitherto non-existent function is possible only if a gene becomes sheltered from relentless pressure of natural selection. This shelter has apparently been provided either by polyplotization or by tandem duplication. Redundant copies of genes thus produced are now free to accumulate formerly forbidden mutations and thereby to acquire new functions. The chance of acquiring a new function by unrestricted accumulation of mutations, however, should be as small as that of an isolated population emerging triumphant as a new species. Degeneracy is the more likely fate. The creation of every new gene must have been accompanied by many other redundant copies joining the ranks of silent DNA-based sequences. And these silent DNA-based sequences may now be serving the useful but negative function of spacing those who have succeeded. Triumphs as well as failures of nature's past experiments appear to be contained in our genome.


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A common question among all humans is what happens after death? And this is something that we don't know, or we don't know yet. And we see this in ancient Egypt. A desire to enable a more effective communication between the humans and the gods. Throughout history, throughout different cultures, we see a common concern for the afterlife. And the ancient Egyptians concerned themselves with life after death. They wanted to travel to the hereafter. But in order to do so, you need to pass a judgment before Osiris. There, their heart would be weighed against the feather of Ma'at. And so she represents the way things ought to be. But the heart needs to be in line and balanced with the feather of Ma'at, with order, with justice. You could then transcend and continue on into the afterlife. If your heart was too heavy or too light when weighed against the feather of Ma'at, you could be devoured by the devourer. And this was a creature that would sit right next to the balance. This was part hippo, part lion, part crocodile that would devour your soul, that would cause eternal death.  Your life on Earth was short, but your life in the afterlife was forever, was eternal. So not making that was really disastrous. True damnation was being erased from memory. Whether you believe in reincarnation or you believe in going to heaven or hell, whatever the belief system manifests as, just about every culture is incredibly concerned with how to survive into the afterlife and how our memories continue in that space. Get the ultimate experience on Xbox One.


My name is Rachel Senesha and I'm the Program and Development Coordinator here at the libraries and also the organizer of Holm City and I just saw on Facebook yesterday that Holms.org just recognized Holm City again. They did a few years ago and they recognize us again in our 10th year. That's what happens because we have a lot of great sponsors, National Life Group Foundation, Vermont Communities Council, under my own co-op, college of fine arts, and the Poetry Society of Vermont. And the President of the Society, George Lomenecker, is here with us and he's a great supporter. He's a great supporter as a sponsor. He is one of the volunteers that makes Holm City happen. Without him, we'd be stuck. So I'm really glad that George is part of Holm City. Tonight's program on Earth Day is a celebration of the Poetry of Mary Oliver. And we have Dee Dee Jackson, who's a poet, a published poet, and also teaches creative writing at UPM. She'll be reading Mary's poems. And Chris Krugman, who is a poet and also musician and also the manager of WGDR Community Radio at Goddard College. So we have a really nice harry tonight of music and poetry. And I also need to say it's Dee Dee's birthday today. It's your birthday with us. So please help you all home, Dee Dee and Chris. Thanks for bringing us out. And thank you all for coming out.  And yes, I was born, I was saying earlier, on the very first birthday ever. And so I was wondering if we all knows that year. It's about my revealing age. But yeah, 1970. And I always tell my students, I always thought that I might do something like be an environmental scientist or some kind. But I write poems about a nature and a natural world. And so that is why Mary Oliver's work speaks to me also so much. So tonight, what I'm going to do, I'll let you know. I'm going to read my poems as well. And I'm not going to talk a whole bunch. I don't really want to over-explain anything. And I'll let you know when many of you are probably Mary Oliver fans. And we'll probably recognize her work when I read it. But I'll kind of clue that in. But yeah, so I'm going to go ahead and get started. And I'll occasionally maybe, I thought it'd be nice to just share with you where and when I have some influence by her. Like where I have some similarities in my own work and what she did for me as a young poet when I was discovering her in my 20s. But I'm going to go ahead and just start off right off the bat with a poem that I think is a really perfect poem for today. And it's titled North Country by Mary Oliver. In the North Country now it is spring. And there is a certain celebration. The brush has come home. He is shy and lights the evening best. And also the hour just before morning. In that blue and greeny light he climbs to his branch or smoothly sails there. It is okay to know only one song if it is this one. Hear it rise and fall. The very elements of your soul shiver nicely. What would spring be without it? See frogs. But don't worry. He arrives year after year. Huffle and obedient and gorgeous.  Be softer, kinder. And maybe this year you won't be able to do it. Here have his voice rises and falls. There is no way to be sufficiently grateful for the gifts we are given. No way to see the Lord's name often enough. Though we do try and especially now. As the dappled breast breathes in the pines and heavens. Windows in the North Country now spring has come are open wide. Winter's sleep moved behind us. The flower has came a month and she hoped for some help. Another said I put myself through here. All this growth and his own home to evolve. Things we never wish for come to be. Things we miss more than anything else. The time will find its fruit. Heart will find its fruit.  We'll start to learn the true sign. That we've had a thing for. From year after year no matter what changed our mind. And this morning the sun makes us the girls that you've got. I need it loving you. I need it leak. Things we never wish for. The time will find its fruit. Heart will find its fruit. And many are looking for anything else. The time will find its fruit. Heart will find its fruit. Are very important to my work like hers. The next three poems will take you from spring to fall. Back to spring again. On the stone patio searches for the spring sun. As the magnolia buds swell. Firm line and silver slick. A pair of rabbits hunt clover. Frightened, jet across the lawn. Tails flashing like two whips of meringue. There are no bells to peal for this day. It passes, nods. Its small sorrows receding toward the moment at dusk when the robins return. On days like this, death is so far. A barely audible hum. A slight glint of thaw. The earth a censor for mist and fog. That was so influential to me was this poem, Egress by Mary. And I wanted to mention this one moment when I was my 20s and she writes about walking down to this pond and seeing these reeds and suddenly the reeds unfold into birds and the birds trust the air and take flight. And it was that moment that I wanted to reveal the world like she does. I wanted to reveal the world in this metaphor and explain it like that. And so these poems are my best attempt. Fall, do you know what I was? How I lived? Louise Lick. It is a goldfinch. One of the two small girls, both daughters of a friend, sees hit the window and fall into the fern. No one hears the small thump, but she, the youngest, sees the flash of gold against the mica sky as the limp feathered envelope crumples into the green. How many times in a life will we witness the very moment of death?  Her sister, now at her side, wears a dress too thin for the season, white as the liquor only weeks away. She wants me to help, wants a miracle. Whatever I say now, I know ways more than the late falls, the layered sky, the jeweled leaves of a maple and elk. I know too, it is the darkest days I've learned to praise, the calendar packages up time, the days shrink and fold away until the new season. We clothe, burn, then bury our dead. Know this, they do not. So we cover the bird, story its flight, imagine his beak singing, they pick the song and sing it over and over again. Listen. Like a hundred gray ears, the river stones are layered in a pile near the shed, where mourning does slow their peck and bobble to listen to a chorus of listening. Small buds on the lilac perk up. A cardinal's torpedoed call comes in slow waves of form, round after round. It's a love call, a call to make himself known to himself. The stones listen harder, decipher the song, attempt to offer back its echo, but fail. This is not a poem of spring. This is a poem well aware that grain flesh is dead flesh. All of the right listening comes at a cost. The first sky is in all skies. The first song is in all songs. The first of all, the sky, the afternoon and dawn. Just before the end of the day, it's just a single bubble. Now it's passing by a crystal candlelight.  Now it's changing your solution. Let's make your shoes shine, your shoes shine too. Coast ties and oceans, long tears and light too. Shelters and oceans. Associated. That's a little cleaner. Excited to be here. Happy birthday, Dee Dee. This is a really cool way to celebrate your birthday. I want this too for my birthday. So y'all have to come back. I, like many people, was a huge fan of Mary Oliver. And I started before being a singer-songwriter, I started with poetry as an amateur poet at Goddard late in, what, like 1997, I think was, right, I think. That's when I graduated. And before that, like 95, 96, I was fortunate enough to take a trip around the world, take some time off of school and travel. And before that, I had fallen in love with Mary Oliver. Her books started to accompany me everywhere. And when I traveled, I brought her books with me. And I noticed that no matter which group of poets I was flirting with, whether it was late 19th century French poets like Verlaine, or even really not Verlaine, or Rambo, early 20th century, Mary Oliver would be there too in that library.  But, you know, Neruda and Mary Oliver would always be there. Or later, the Beats, Mary Oliver was always keeping company. And I started to realize that her work really had the spirit of traveling for me, of going out, being in love with the natural world, being in love with the world in general. But what was remarkable was that her poems were really about delivering you to the nature of yourself, the wilderness of yourself. And wherever I would go, whether it was New Zealand, or Nepal, or wherever it was, her poem would put me in the same place. Wherever I was sitting, whichever riverside, whichever churchyard I was sitting in, it would, her poems would return me back to home to myself. I started to realize the study of the wilderness was really, ultimately, a study of going in, not going out. And I think Mary's poems do that. I'll talk a little bit more about that later. It is worth saying that I was also lucky enough to come out of Goddard and start a job as an educator in the area, as a teacher of young people, teaching poetry and music. And that group was called the Second Sunset Poets. We started in Worcester, then we ended up in Middlesex. We made our way around. We performed on this stage in 2002. I think it was for the first night. And that was a wonderful thing. They always featured their work on WGDR, which was this anchor, this campfire that still is for this community. And then later on, that group evolved into the Hungry Rabbit View, which really was Karen McCadden who was sitting here in the front. It was really her brainchild and her creative leadership that brought that group together. And we started working at Montpelier High School. And we started doing the same thing, performing original music and original poems for folks around here. So, in honor of Mary, it's nice to be here with all of you. So, Mike, this poem is called A Dream of Trees. It's a Mary Oliver poem. There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees. A quiet house, some green and modest acres. A little way from every troubling town. A little way from factories, schools, laments. I would have time, my thought, and time to spare with only streams and birds for company to build out of my life a few wild stanzas. And then it came to me. So was death. A little way away from everywhere. Being still dreams of trees, but let it go, homesick for moderation, half the world's artists shrink or fall away. Find solution, let him tell it, my heart toward lamentation. Where as the times implore our true involvement, the blades of every crisis points the way. Where as the times implore our true involvement, the blades of every crisis points the way. But it were not so. But so it is. If you tell me to throw from spot forward my cravings too weak for you. Very tales living on your sleeve, I'm gone. One said that because of a really difficult childhood, she turned to the natural world. It was her escape. And I relate 100% to that. I found solace in my backyard. I lived in Florida, which some of my poems reveal my move and my fascination with the natural world in the north. How different it is, how I didn't know the trees necessarily and the birds. We don't have chickadees in Florida, sadly, because I think they're amazing. But I too found the natural world and the smallest things in the natural world comfort during difficult times. And it's interesting that Mary Oliver, we switched. She moved to Florida. In her later years, as you may or may not know. And talks about having to really work at learning to love the mangroves. Which were so very familiar to me. So one of the things I feel really in so much ways, I mean connected to her and her adoration of the natural world and the smallest things, I wanted to share an essay that I'm not going to read in five pages. I'll say to you guys today. About her, and you may or may not know this, it's in the Truro Bear, the book. Where she's watching a spider build a web and she comes down these steps in this rented house every day and watches the web being built and what happens on the web. The male spider is off to this side. He doesn't quite get on the web. The spider, I love this phrase. She uses the archipelago of sacks around her as she places herself in the center. And to pay attention to that. And then to worry about what's going to come of that spider when she and Molly would have to leave. Because they were renting the house and they would have to have a housekeeper come. And it's just so beautiful. And she has, I wanted to just share one sentence from this where she was just curious on the type of spider. It wasn't an orb spider and what kind of web and all kinds of things. She admits that she could probably find all this information in some biology book or I don't know that she would have gone to Google. Because she didn't talk about how she was really adamant about not composing on a computer. Composing with pencil and paper and out in the world. But she said the palace of knowledge is different from the palace of discovery. And so it's being open to that discovery that step looking and that close looking. And it's true because then we can learn all the things we need to learn but to discover them for ourselves and maybe not even know all the things. Let the mystery remain. This is a big advocate of mystery and allowing for the mystery. So this poem is a Mary Oliver poem and I want to, I'm sorry, I was hoping I'm clear enough on which ones are which but is it if I could, you know, anyway. I shouldn't. But this is the hermit crab and growing up in Florida again catching hermit crabs. I had a pet hermit crab. Got ahold of them.  But this smallness and the other thing is the bravery to leave the familiar for the unfamiliar. Always embracing the unfamiliar because that's part of the discovery and the mystery. The hermit crab. Once I looked inside the darkness of a shell folded like a pastry and there was a fancy face or almost a face. It turned away and frisked up its brawny forearms so quickly against the light and my looking in I scarcely had time to see it gleaming under the pure white roof of old calcium. When I set it down it hurried along the tide line of the sea was slashing along as usual shouting and hissing toward the future turning its back with every tide on the past leaving the shore littered every morning with more ornaments of death. What a pearly rubble from which to choose a house like a white flower and what a rebellion to leap into it and hold on connecting everything the past to the future which is of course the miracle which is the only argument there is against the sea. Without much more talk these are poems again inspired by the natural world and Mary. Two mule deer walking past my window this morning female I think no antlers as the day moon pressed like a faded thumbprint into the bareback of the Santa Cruz mountains and the meadow of wild rye and wand buckwheat rocked in the new light all hide and eyes and hunger moving with caution and blaze is there a coming of good as if their path was already decided I watched them step into the day black tail tipped and wide eared so much of what I want isn't even about me yesterday a friend said the sight of deer means danger is clear no coyote or mountain lions nearby still I remember what it feels like to be a sidewalk a sudden girl at an all night party fingered then dropped by a boy who will be dishonorably discharged from the army two years later you know how it feels wanting to walk into the rain and disappear while hiking a photographer found two deer legs about 100 feet apart cloven hooves and dew claws intact adapted for fleeing predators left by a hunter we are only what we are don't pity me a slight steam rises from the backs of the deer as they move past the black-oaked edge into the white light lifting their eyes to the tree line then to my window then to the sky hooves striking the ground over and over like the syllables of a low staccato voice also when Mary would go into well she said this this is interesting she believed a spiritual life although she couldn't quite connect with organized religion and in school was difficult for her in some ways because she just didn't like walls and she just even in her last interview I think a few years before she died she just is not like being enclosed in a room she wanted to be outside so she said the only really broken school was truancy she just wanted to be out in the woods and so she would take with her her heroes, her poetry heroes she bring Whitman and a Blake she said and have conversations with them and I I love that interesting self-education in a lot of ways so a nation after William Stafford Alondo passes the border of the dirt road heaving herself over the plowed snow becoming a new silence one of the many that like standing shadows beat themselves weary between the wind and ground round of belly she walks with a nation inside of her and I look and look for the grief past the long wall of almond ash on either side of me past the car lights that listen ashamed past the tiny specks of luminous snow that spin and lift like mealy volks I think hard for her baby of St. Margaret ripping herself from the belly of a dragon her crucifix slicing an incision patron saint of childbirth I whisper a small prayer for the two that already tastes extinguished all the while knowing Stafford couldn't know every time I read his poem I want him to save the fawn he didn't know he didn't know she is us all pushed over the edge in my last poem mine couple more Mary Oliver poems this title signs for the living sometimes after the last snow in May I've lived here a couple years now sorry I'll start again I love the saying that sometimes after the last snow in May after the red wing blackbird clutches the spine of the cat-tail after he leans forward droops his wings and flashes his epaulets I imagine shouldering the yellow center lines of the road near the recently thawed pond within a long channel of construction a man holding a sign one side says slow the other stop time and sorrow always run like parallel lines inside the house when I leave the lights on small white moths come like a collection of worship pulsing their wings up and up the window as if in a frenzied trance-like dance some dervishes others dependent on shaky knees the first few years after my husband's suicide I wanted to be the penitent I thought I deserved all the pain I could feel the drill of road work in late summer was a welcome grinding music now the yellow center lines are flung like braids behind me this is a Mary Oliver poem titled When Death Comes When Death Comes a hungry bear in autumn when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me and snaps the purse shut when death comes like the measlespox when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades I want to step through the door full of curiosity wondering do you like that cottage of darkness? and therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood and I look upon the time as no more than an idea and I consider eternity as another possibility and I think of each life as a flower as common as a field daisy and as singular and each name a comfortable music in the mouth tending as all music does towards silence and each body a line of courage in something precious to this earth when it's over I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms when it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular and real I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument I don't want to end up simply having visited this world I don't want to feel so like a storm snow around 2000 like 99, 2000 I started thinking about master's programs and I've been studying Mary Oliver and I thought well Mary is in Bennington I probably couldn't get in she's highly sought after she's a superstar I'm going to check it out and it should be said that I grew up in rock and roll and I've been exposed to huge celebrities all my life and I've met the biggest but I was really star struck when it came to Mary Oliver I could meet Bruce Springsteen that would be fine but if Mary was going to be there that would be the pinnacle for me and so it didn't seem possible to me I went to Bennington and asked for an interview to talk about the program but sure enough I called and they were eager to set me up with Mary for an afternoon I couldn't believe that I thought am I the only one thinking about this I went there I went to Bennington and I waited there at the desk at the emissions building down from her well from that place that high exalted place where she spent her time Bennington turned out to be a room upstairs at their main building and led me upstairs and I'm following Mary up the stairs and I'm just blown away it was a transcendent experience I remember the walking up the stairs getting a little woozly and just not knowing what to do I hadn't prepared anything to say really I didn't realize it was just the two of us but it was and she sat down with me and she started to ask some questions she was a little flustered she was busy and she was trying to ground herself and get her papers organized and I'm just trying to catch my breath and come up with something smart to say and she asked me to talk about myself that was drawing me to the program and there I am trying to expound about the importance of how I spend my time and why I want to do this but I can't help watching her at every single thing she was doing she spent a lot of time scratching her head I remember that she had scalp and beautiful silver hair it's funny how those things are what end up standing out I don't remember one word I said there but I remember what she did with her fingernails and her shoes finally she led me off the hook and cut me off and said listen it sounds like you'd fit the program sounds like you'd be great here there's six or seven students right now that I'm working with that you would join and it sounds like you'd be fine but I want you to know something I'm just going to tell you to go home and read and write eight hours a day that's what I'm going to say so if you're doing that now which I happen to be doing at the time very fortunate keep doing it that was it she kind of intimated that she didn't have a ton of reverence for her own schooling that her schooling was the practice this deep religion for practice and she talked about and this kind of confirmed what I was saying earlier she talked about place and how she had found her walk around a lake nearby that she would do it every single morning and by being in the same place and doing the same thing every day she would see what was changing she would see how the world shifted and be able to write about all the deep wilderness of places because she was practicing so deeply I took that to heart I didn't spend the money on school I had a lot of books including hers she also said something else I have a couple of things that really stand out for me that people I really admire said and this I read like Dee Dee's referencing I don't know was that Rules for the Dance where you referenced that line of hers but that was called Rules for the Dance she had a book about writing poetry it was a technical and one of the things that stood out for me she said it takes 72 hours to pull a poem into the light which pointed so directly at the editing process that so much of her magic had to do with sitting with what first came out and what first came out for amateurs is the only thing that matters but once you become a stronger writer you start to realize that the real writing happens in the revisions and the movement and the sculpting of the poem later takes 72 hours so that's it no more no less I'm going to read one more of hers I'm too close with Dee Dee At Grey Pond the sun rising scrapes his orange breast on the thick pines and down tumble a few orange feathers into the dark water on the far shore standing like a white candle or a man in the distance in the clasp of some meditation while all around me the lilies are breaking open again breaking open again from the black cave of night later I will consider what I have seen what it could signify what words of adoration I might make and to do this I will go to the desk I will sit in my chair I will look back into this lost morning in which I am moving now like a swimmer so smoothly so peacefully I am almost the lily almost the bird vanishing over the water on its sleeves at night so smoothly so peacefully the lost morning in which I am moving now I am almost the lily almost the bird vanishing over the water on its sleeves at night spread some mellows spread some mellows draws its yellow coat tail over the hollow rose hips and raspberry leaf tips and grasses love's roll of the night's shadow born as a passing fresh blush blue in the back just like you fingers learn to say goodbye it's the end be the tree your sales brand new I'm gone by Mary so I want to thank you all for coming out having this little big love fest of Mary Oliver it's just it was just beautiful and it was just a very special I think this was very special with her passing so recently this was just a really beautiful evening with beautiful music and poems so I'm just going to close with one poem I shared it with my students when I learned that Mary had died one of my students actually had this he actually did this and so you'll see I think it's really cool the summer day the world the swan and the black bear who made the grasshopper this grasshopper I mean the one who has flunked herself out of the grass the one who is eating sugar out of my hand the one who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face now she snaps her wings open and floats away I don't know exactly what the prayer is I do know how to pay attention how to fall down into the grass how to kneel down in the grass how to be idle and blessed how to stroll through the fields which is what I have been doing all day tell me what else should I have done doesn't everything die last and too soon tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life


Hey gail good quick question for you. What was your best job? My best job was working at a nonprofit organization before I came here to do What did you do there? I? Worked as a campaign strategist helping grassroots organizations across the country fight for paid leave and paid sick days What made it a good job? The people that I was working with and that there was so much support for making sure that we were able to take care of Ourselves and our loved ones when we needed to and generally what makes a good job good job has paid sick days It has paid leave of all different types and it gives people the opportunity to be who they are when they Want any when they need to take care of themselves and their family and then also make sure that their voices are heard and the work that they're doing