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The Final StrikeOrioles Reset: New Manager, Young Stars, and a Tough 2025Stephen Heckman breaks down the Orioles' 2025 season: a disappointing 75–87 finish marked by injuries, a strained bullpen, and a -111 run differential.
He highlights late-season call-ups who impressed—Samuel Basello, Dylan Beavers, and Jermiah Jackson—and discusses catching depth and defensive concerns.
The episode covers the firing of Brandon Hyde and the surprise hiring of Craig Albernez as manager, why his catching and bullpen experience matters, and what to expect in the upcoming offseason as Baltimore reshapes its roster and strategy.
2025-10-2921 minThe Final StrikeBaltimore Baseball: Small Ball and Big MovesJoin Stephen Heckman on the Final Strike Podcast as he discusses the recent developments in the Baltimore Orioles' season. Despite a shaky start, there's hope as the team experiences a three-game winning streak and adds veteran John Mabry to their coaching lineup. Stephen analyzes the team's struggles with offense, particularly with runners in scoring positions, and emphasizes the need for a greater focus on small ball tactics.
The podcast also covers the impacts of recent roster changes and injuries, with potential trades looming on the horizon as the season progresses. Stephen reflects on the decisions of General...
2025-05-3125 minThe Final StrikeBaltimore Orioles Make Bold Move: Manager Brandon Hyde FiredThe latest episode of the Final Strike podcast brings shocking news from the Baltimore Orioles. In an unexpected move, the team has relieved Manager Brandon Hyde and Major League Field Coordinator Tim Cossins of their duties. Despite leading the Orioles through challenging times, Hyde's tenure ends after a disappointing start to the season.
Stepping in as interim manager is Tony Manzolini, known for his aggressive coaching style. With the Orioles facing mounting challenges and a rigorous schedule, fans are curious to see how these changes will impact the team’s performance. Insights and speculations about the future of...
2025-05-1825 min
The Final StrikeNo Reason to WorryWe discuss some roster moves and explain why Brandon Hyde deserves more credit and why the Orioles are in a good place
2024-05-1928 min
The Final StrikeThe Orioles are Postseason Bound, What happens now and Bradish it an AceThis episode we discuss the Orioles post season birth and what happens going forward. Kyle Bradish has become a true Ace and Brandon Hyde deserves credit for some things and others not so much
2023-09-2227 min
The 9th Grade ExperienceISTE 2023 Insights to Navigate Your 9th Grade Year: S5, E17In this special episode recorded live from the Pennsylvania Convention Center at the end of June 2023, we sat down with 37 attendees of the 2023 ISTE Conference, including educators, industry experts, and students, to gather their best tech tips, time management hacks and other strategies to assist with a successful 9th grade experience.
The guests on today's episode come from diverse perspectives from all over the world offering quick, innovative approaches and personal anecdotes about what they feel it takes to excel during your freshman year.
The final 10 minutes of the episode features a longer conversation with...
2023-07-0336 min
Yass, Jesus!Live at LA Leather Pride 2023Bring your leather, your flogs, and your faith! Yass, Jesus is live at LA Leather Pride talking about how faith and fetish can be aligned, and the true meaning of RELEASE. We’re joined by special guests Mr. Sanctuary 2019 Francesco Perales, THE therapist of the LA leather community Tony Gulla, Brandon Bullet - Mr. Bullet Leather 2000, and everyone’s favorite pup - Pug!
Yass, Jesus! is hosted by Danny Franzese and Azariah Southworth. Our producers are Ross Murray and Meredith Paulley. Sound, music, and post-production by Chris Heckman.
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2023-05-071h 19
2021-10-2100 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateNews from the darkest depths of the Russian PermafrostI think there’s more in our thawing permafrost to be concerned about than the world imperiling methane leaks. When my institute funds, I will dispatch teams to inventory it entirely so we can make a collective decision about its remediation that is best for all living things.
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2021-10-1939 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateQuick UpdateThis podcast series is a curriculum best listened from the first podcast to the most recent.
2021-10-1702 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateRuminations on this project’s past and futureThis is a super long but very interesting and thought provoking look at my thinking behind developing and launching the work.
2021-10-121h 592021-09-1808 minCulture Catalyzes ClimatePast the Point of No ReturnBrandon Heckman looks to recent UN declarations and examines mortal threats mounting in the biome and concludes we are now in climate’s end game.
2021-09-0848 min2021-07-2814 min2021-07-2214 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateRuminations IIIHuman beings are our single greatest obstacle to surviving climate change.
2021-07-2214 min2021-07-2210 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateRuminations IIBrandon explores why his efforts are doomed to fail but he is happy to continue.
2021-07-2227 min2021-07-2016 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateDo you survive the fall?Whatever happened to The Institute for Endogenous Technology?
2021-07-2003 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateDarkness FallsThe podcast makes a tonal shift into confession as Brandon Heckman opens up about his doubts for our prospects.
2021-07-2046 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateOn holons and macro-organismsIn preparation for discussing SPORES we revisit macro-organism theory and examine holons, which are the infinitely nesting chain of all being.
2021-02-2642 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateOn supposition, presumption, should and whyOur suppositions and presumptions too often get in the way of our direct experience and generate a wealth of psychological and sociological maladies that disrupt happiness and civic unity.
2021-02-2135 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateIntroducing the Reward, Global Triage, and the Project EconomyIn this podcast we consider the reality of our planet's finite resources and we look at our solutions to environmental cleanup and the economic tools necessary to stimulate that environmental cleanup activities
2021-02-2151 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateApocalypse NowOur planet is being faced down by multiple converging apocalypses. Where do we find them, what are the dangers, and how do we find a way out?
2021-02-2046 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateRennaissnace is the AnswerThe remedy for our poison culture is to birth its replacement. Nothing generates a new culture like a rennaissnace. Fortunately, evidence in popular culture suggests that a second rennaissnace is already brewing.
2021-02-1419 minCulture Catalyzes ClimatePreviews of upcoming talksCircling the wagons and previewing upcoming CCC talks.
2021-02-1227 min2021-02-0828 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateStretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter 4This is the fourth chapter of my free audiobook.
2020-12-161h 212020-12-051h 20Culture Catalyzes ClimateStretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter 2More of my free audiobook climate change thriller. This chapter covers a brainstorming session about the Titans with Elon Musk. #climatechange #audiobook
2020-11-1554 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateStretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter 1This episode of Culture Catalyzes Climate features the first chapter of our free audiobook, the Climate Change thriller Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse. #freeaudiobook #climate #climatecrisis #climatethriller #stretchaeon
2020-11-141h 04Culture Catalyzes ClimateAfter a long break our host returns with an updateBrandon Heckman explains his absence and promises regular content in the form of a free audiobook of his climate change thriller, STRETCH AEON: INTO APOCALYPSE.
2020-11-1417 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateReturn to normalCovid has grossly disrupted social, cultural, and economic norms. This podcast examines what it means to long to return to the days and norms that defined life before the pandemic.
2020-08-1241 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateCovid and tyrranyShocks to the social fabric create opportunity in ailing democracies for tyrranies to rise. Covid and it's economic aftershocks provide the ideal shocks to threaten global democracy in favor of a new generation of tyrants.
2020-08-1259 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateThe perils of human chowThis podcast looks at the planetarily and personally deforming power of the globalized industrial food chain.
2020-06-1647 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateTricognitive youIn this follow-up to our chat with Mike Bonner, Brandon Heckman expands on his insights into the composition and function of our three brains.
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2020-06-0457 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateThe limits of perceptionWe look at the exclusionary limits of perception in this podcast and explore its expansion.
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2020-06-0351 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateJunk corroded the garden biomeJunk is manufactured human detritus nothing in the garden biome can eat, and it's produced accumulation is fast catching up to the lived foundations of the garden biome.
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2020-05-2037 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateHow to write a novel, part oneWe take a break from climate curriculum and look at creative process as host Brandon Heckman discusses the lessons he's learned writing his novel, Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse.
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2020-05-1655 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateYour species is a planet deforming chemical systemWe look at the human species through geologic time's lens and identify it as a chemical system acting rapidly through geologic time to deliver material change to the garden biome. Is the human species terminally caustic or metamorphically catalytic?
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2020-04-3045 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateIntroduction to three brain theory with Michael BonnerIn this discussion with Michael Bonner we introduce you to your three brains.
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2020-04-281h 00Culture Catalyzes ClimateGeologic chemical systems and frames of timeIn this podcast we scale up our imaginations to experience time subjectively as the planet does, and experience human civilization as an aggressive chemical system that needs to evolve to remedy the threat it has so far delivered to the planet in a fraction of a blink of its eye.
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2020-04-2443 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateWhat is the garden biome?In this freewheeling lecture we examine the nature of interdependent life on this planet and consider the implications of industry as a corrosive force for its fundamentals and foundations.
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2020-04-2354 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateWhat is consciousness part I?An introduction to mind and Interiority through the lens of Culture and language.
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2020-04-2150 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateWhat is the unconscious?The unconscious is differentiated from the conscious by virtue of the fact that it is psychic real estate suppressed from view of the focally aware and awake mind. The path of integration unites the two worlds and expands the horizons of the focal conscious mind.
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2020-04-2050 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateA discussion of liberated consciousness with Mike BonnerIn this lively and spirited discussion host Brandon Heckman explores consciousness journeys with his best friend and consciousness voyager Michael Bonner.
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2020-04-191h 01Culture Catalyzes ClimateIt's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)Dianosis: Apocalypses! What is the course of human being through the unraveling biome and by what means do we steer ourselves to better existential outcomes?
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2020-04-1950 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateWhat does it mean to arrive at liberated thought and perception? What is Awakening?In this podcast, we examine the cultural perception of Awakening as well as Awakening's benefits and complications. We ask challenging questions about Awakening, including, Should all people wake up and should I feel guilty for not waking up?
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2020-04-1855 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateIs the course of civilization unstoppable?If civilization's course cannot be altered annihilation in climate change is assured. What COVID 19 teaches us is that civilization can be steered. What are the implications on our climate long game by our pandemic short game?
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2020-04-1754 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateExiting Plato's CaveExiting consensus reality successfully requires the application of a new reality paradigm that makes us more successful in the world than the old. Failure to offer the alternative guarantees permanent flight to the old paradigm. It's crucial in advancing a new course for human being in an Era of climate disruptions that the general populace is offered a reality paradigm that makes them more effective actors benefitting the garden biome and their children.
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2020-04-1646 minCulture Catalyzes ClimatePlato's Cave and youPlato offers us compelling insight into reality that is consequential to us today as we consider the limits of Culture constraining us from actions that promote better outcomes for the biome and the climate.
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2020-04-1548 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateThe necessity of perspectival paradigm shifts and a call for RenaissanceWhat is reality and how does out shared envelope of knowing and behaving cause climate change? How can initiating a Renaissance move us into a new reality that promotes earth healing behaviors?
2020-04-1450 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateThe Power of YouHere we look at what power is as a world deforming form and what you are as grains of several human systems so we can better understand what we've accomplished with our power and better evolve our power potential.
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2020-03-1759 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateCulture Catalyzes ClimateIn this episode we tackle the show's title and explore an unusual understanding for what's driving climate change
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2020-03-1744 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateWhat to expect from this seriesThis podcast covers topics and format of the series curriculum.
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2020-03-1626 minCulture Catalyzes ClimateAn introduction to Culture Catalyzes ClimateThis podcast provides an overview of what you can expect in terms of perspective and insight from this remarkable climate change podcast curriculum.
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2020-03-1648 min
Sequel DecayEpisode 1: Hellbois and HeckmanChris, Brandon, and Stefan sit down and discuss an incredibly beloved franchise and its latest entry that happens to be the most anticipated movie of the year. It goes without saying that we're talking about Hellboy.
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Throwdown ThursdayTTP #146 - HeckmanPowerful Brandon returns to talk about everyone's favorite cat- loving, cigar- smoking, Baby Ruth- eating demon, Hellboy! Patsy and Ashes discuss the film aesthetic while Brandon gives some background on the comic side of things. They also get some feedback from listeners, and preview next week's show! All this, the announcement of a NEW contest and more!
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