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Real Without ReligionGratitude — The Vibe Shift We All Need🎧 Bonus Episode: Gratitude — The Vibe Shift We All NeedPodcast: Real Without Religion Image Title: Gratitude: The Vibe Shift We All Need Audio Length: ~20 minutesEpisode SummaryWe’ve all heard it: “God is good all the time!” or “I’m too blessed to be stressed!”—until someone cuts us off in traffic. This bonus episode is about getting real with gratitude—not the performative kind we recite at church or over Thanksgiving dinner, but the kind that actually shifts your energy and changes your life.James opens up about how hard it can be to sta...2025-08-1012 min
Real Without ReligionThe Vibration You Live On – Why It Shapes Everything🎙 Bonus Episode: The Vibration You Live On – Why It Shapes EverythingHost: James Podcast: Real Without Religion Tags: Energy, Vibration, Frequency, Spiritual Awareness, Emotional Intelligence, Bob Proctor, Healing, Consciousness, Bible Reframed🌀 Episode Summary:You’ve probably heard someone say, “You need to raise your vibration.” But what does that actually mean? And more importantly—why does it matter?In this bonus episode, James explores the real meaning of vibration—not as a trend or a buzzword, but as a core spiritual and energetic truth that impacts your mindset, your mood, your relationships, and...2025-08-0313 min
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War088 - Death In The Trenches: The Siege Of Petersburg
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From June 18, 1864 until April 2, 1865, the Union Armies of the James and Potomac laid siege to Peterburg, Virginia - the all-important supply and communication center for Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond itself. After 45 days of constant bloodletting in the Overland Campaign, the contesting forces began what would mirror warfare five decades later - miles and miles of trenches, denuded landmarks and death not so much by rifled muskets and artillery but disease. This is the story of the Confederacy’s long, slow descent into darkness...2025-07-311h 11
Real Without ReligionSpecial Announcement – What’s New, What’s Free, and What’s Coming to RWR🎙️ Episode Title: Special Announcement – What’s New, What’s Free, and What’s Coming to RWR📝 Episode Description: In this special announcement, James shares an important update about Real Without Religion, including:A heartfelt thank-you for your supportDetails on the brand-new Deconstruction 101 video seriesWhat’s ahead: Voices from the Past and The Bible WithinWhy episodes drop at 8am on Sundays (wink)A strong recommendation to watch Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War (Season 2)And how to watch or listen on YouTubeThis isn’t a full episode—but it might be one of the most important ones.2025-07-3010 min
Real Without ReligionA Message from the Universe (The Real Talk Edition)🎙️ Episode Title: A Message from the Universe (The Real Talk Edition)🗓️ Release Date: [Insert release date here]🎧 Episode Summary: In this special bonus episode, James steps aside and hands the mic to… the Universe. Not in theory. Not in metaphor. But in real talk.This isn’t floaty or mystical. It’s grounded, practical, and personal. With a rotating cast of voices—male, female, various accents—this message reminds us that no culture, religion, or language owns the truth. The Universe speaks to all of us, in many forms.You’ll hear a clear, down-to-ear...2025-07-2706 min
Real Without ReligionJaws in My Mind – How a Shark That Wasn’t There Still Shaped Me🎧 Episode Title:Jaws in My Mind – How a Shark That Wasn’t There Still Shaped Me📝 Episode Summary:Fifty years ago, I saw Jaws for the first time. I was 13. I lived in a small town in western Pennsylvania—nowhere near an ocean. And I had no idea what I was walking into.My youth pastor took me to see it (yes, just me and him), and even though the shark was mechanical and malfunctioned half the time, it scared the life out of me. And apparently… it stuck.In this episod...2025-07-2308 min
Real Without ReligionWhat is Amenaste? A Short Reflection on a Word That Didn’t Exist—Until It Needed To🎙️ Bonus Episode: What is Amenaste? A Short Reflection on a Word That Didn’t Exist—Until It Needed To🌀 Episode Summary: In this bonus episode of Real Without Religion, James shares the personal story behind a word you’ve probably heard him say at the end of every show: Amenaste.It’s not from the Bible. It’s not from Sanskrit. It’s not even in the dictionary. It’s a word James created—born from the desire to speak something sacred that wasn’t tied to shame, dogma, or religious baggage.By blending amen (“so be it”...2025-07-2005 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 12: Embodiment: Becoming the Version of Us Who Already Has it🎙️ Episode 12: Embodiment – Becoming the Version of Us Who Already Has It Subtitle: Stop Waiting, Start LivingEpisode SummaryIn this episode, James Kiger breaks down the idea of embodiment—how to actually live as the version of you who already has the peace, abundance, and freedom you’re craving.We’ve talked about thoughts, flow, and spiritual law. But how do you move from knowing to becoming? How do you stop hoping life will catch up to your dreams—and start living as if it already has?James explores how real change isn’t ab...2025-07-1311 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 11: Abundance and Money 🎙️ Episode 11: Abundance and Money Subtitle: Letting Go of Scarcity and Living in FlowEpisode SummaryIn this episode, James Kiger digs into the spiritual side of money—no prosperity gospel hype, no guilt trips, just the truth about abundance.Growing up, many of us were taught that money was either a sign of sin or a sign of favor, depending on which sermon you caught that week. But what if money isn’t good or bad—just a mirror of what we believe?James unpacks how scarcity sneaks in: the guilt that says y...2025-07-0614 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 10: The Law Behind the Thought🎙️ Episode 10: The Law Behind the Thought Subtitle: Universal Principles at WorkEpisode SummaryIn this episode, James Kiger explores the universal spiritual laws that shape your life—laws that respond to your beliefs, thoughts, and clarity, no matter who you are. Growing up, many of us were taught to fear our thoughts, seeing them as traps or temptations. But now? James sees them as tools—tools that work with these laws to shape everything around us.James breaks down what these laws really are—like cause and effect, attraction, and belief—and why they’re not a...2025-06-2914 min
Real Without ReligionThe Midweek Pulse- June 25, 2025Episode 1 – The Midweek Pulse (Because You Refused to Sign Up for the Newsletter)Welcome to the very first Midweek Pulse—your five-minute check-in from James at Real Without Religion. In this quick update, James shares:Why the newsletter dream is officially dead (thanks, lurkers 😉)A sneak peek at the upcoming podcast series, Voices from the PastWhere to find spiritual tools, affirmations, and merchWhy you’re hearing short ads for his FastStart2College coachingAnd a personal, encouraging message from the Universe to carry you through the weekWant to say hi or share how this landed for you...2025-06-2507 min
Real Without Religion“I’m Not Hurt—I’m Just Honest”🎙 Episode Title:“I’m Not Hurt—I’m Just Honest”SIGN UP FOR MY MAILING LIST HERE📌 Episode Summary:In this honest solo episode, James addresses a recurring question he’s heard from listeners and former church friends: “Are you only saying this because you were hurt?” The answer is no. This episode isn’t about bitterness or blame—it’s about clarity. James reflects on his church upbringing, the pastors and teachers he’s grateful for, and the real reasons his beliefs began to shift: study, common sense, and a refusal to ignore what no long...2025-06-2209 min
Real Without ReligionVoices From The Past PromoHey, it’s James — and I want to invite you into something special.We’re starting a new series on Real Without Religion called Voices from the Past. But don’t worry — this isn’t boring history class.This is about remembering who we are by remembering who they were. I’m talking about the bold, brilliant, often-forgotten voices that were saying wild, freeing, deeply spiritual things… long before it was trending on TikTok.Names like Florence Scovel Shinn, Neville Goddard, Wallace Wattles — people who saw the Bible, the Universe, and even God in ways that broke...2025-06-1801 min
Real Without ReligionHow to Stay Human When the World Is on Fire 🎙 Episode TitleHow to Stay Human When the World Is on Fire Bonus Episode – Engaged but Not Exhausted📝 Show NotesWhat do you do when the world feels like it’s on fire—and the people you thought would recognize it are the ones feeding the flames?In this raw and honest bonus episode, I talk about the emotional and spiritual toll of watching democracy unravel, especially when it’s been justified in the name of religion. From ICE raids and lies to Christians calling Trump “King Cyrus,” this isn’t about politics—it’s...2025-06-1816 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Lesson 9: Think Again🎙️ Episode 9: Think Again Subtitle: Reclaiming the Power of Thought and Inner CreationEpisode SummaryIn this episode, James Kiger dives into something that used to freak him out a bit—and honestly, still messes with him some days: the power of your thoughts.Growing up, many of us were told that our minds were dangerous, our imaginations suspect. We were warned not to trust our own understanding, not to follow our feelings, and to be wary of anything that felt too good to be true.But what if that’s all wrong?2025-06-1510 min
Real Without ReligionThe Voice Beside Me: My Interview with Anita Kiger (my wife)💬 Episode Summary: In this special episode, James sits down with someone who’s been there through it all—his wife, Anita. From church life to deconstruction, from raising kids to rediscovering spirituality, Anita has witnessed—and lived—this journey firsthand.In their honest and moving conversation, Anita opens up about growing up without religion, getting "saved" out of fear, and eventually stepping into her own spiritual power through energy work, reiki, and connection to the divine feminine. She shares how she’s dealt with criticism, what she believes now, and what it means to live without a rigid belief...2025-06-1120 min
Real Without ReligionThe Voice Beside Me: A Conversation with My Wife Anita💬 Episode Summary: In this special episode, James sits down with someone who’s been there through it all—his wife, Anita. From church life to deconstruction, from raising kids to rediscovering spirituality, Anita has witnessed—and lived—this journey firsthand.In their honest and moving conversation, Anita opens up about growing up without religion, getting "saved" out of fear, and eventually stepping into her own spiritual power through energy work, reiki, and connection to the divine feminine. She shares how she’s dealt with criticism, what she believes now, and what it means to live without a rigid belief...2025-06-1120 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations : Episode 8: The Great Christian Worm Ballads🎙️ Episode 8: The Great Christian Worm Ballads Subtitle: From Misery to EmpowermentEpisode SummaryEver catch yourself humming those old hymns that called you a “wretch” or a “worm” and wonder how that shaped your life? In this episode, James Kiger unpacks the soundtrack of shame that we grew up with in church—those songs that taught us that spiritual growth meant staying small and quiet. From the Gaither Homecoming specials to the hymnals that doubled as group therapy for low self-worth, we’re calling it out for what it is: spiritual self-hatred.James explores how thes...2025-06-0809 min
Real Without ReligionA Word for My LGBTQ Friends—And My Own Spiritual Coming Out 🎙️ A Word for My LGBTQ Friends—And My Own Spiritual Coming OutSubtitle: Honest Reflections and an ApologyEpisode SummaryIn this bonus episode, James Kiger shares a deeply personal reflection: his own spiritual coming out and the ways it’s helped him understand, in a small but real way, the journey of his LGBTQ friends.As we honor Pride Month, James opens up about the homophobia he grew up with—how it shaped his early beliefs and even how he once caused harm to others. He doesn’t shy away from...2025-06-0408 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 7: Walking in the Spirit 🎙️ Episode 7: Walking in the Spirit Subtitle: Flow, Anointing, and the Power of Being RealEpisode SummaryIn this episode, James Kiger shares a fresh, practical look at what it really means to “walk in the Spirit.” Growing up, he heard it was about goosebumps, oil, and special people. But now? He sees it as something simple and real: flow.James unpacks how “walking in the Spirit” isn’t about chasing signs—it’s about showing up as your truest self. It’s those moments when you feel clear, connected, and fully alive. That’s Spirit...2025-06-0110 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War086 - Sowers Of Dissent: Fire-Eaters Louis T. Wigfall And Edmund Ruffin
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Revolution and civil war require explosive issues and impassioned men more than willing to make change and, if necessary, to do so violently. This is the story of two such Southern men. This is the story of fire eaters Louis T. Wigfall and Edmund Ruffin.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Nathaniel Macon
Roger A. Pryor
John Brown
Sam Houston
P. G. T. Beauregard
James H. Hammond
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Real Without ReligionWalking in the Spirit🎙️ Episode 7: Walking in the Spirit Subtitle: Flow, Anointing, and the Power of Being RealIn this episode, James Kiger shares a fresh take on what it really means to “walk in the Spirit.” Growing up, he heard it was about goosebumps, oil, and special people. But now? He sees it as something simple and real: flow.James unpacks how “walking in the Spirit” isn’t about chasing signs—it’s about showing up as your truest self. It’s those moments when you feel clear, connected, and fully alive. That’s Spirit. That’s anointing. And you’ve already lived...2025-05-2610 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 6: How To Make Sense of Scripture After Religion🎙️ Episode 6: How To Make Sense of Scripture After ReligionEpisode SummaryWhat do you do with the Bible after you leave the faith you were raised in?In this honest and wide-ranging episode, James Kiger explores six ways people relate to scripture after religion—whether they still read it, reject it, reinterpret it, or wrestle with all of the above.If the Bible shaped your beliefs, your identity, and your worldview, it can be hard to know how (or if) it still fits. This episode doesn’t...2025-05-2513 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 5: What Comes After—and Why Joy Can’t Wait 🎙️ Episode 5: What Comes After—and Why Joy Can’t WaitEpisode SummaryWhat happens when we stop treating this life like a waiting room?In this episode, James Kiger takes on one of the biggest, most tiptoed-around topics: the afterlife. But instead of getting lost in speculation, we explore how our beliefs about what comes after quietly shape how we live right now.Growing up, many of us were taught that life was a test—a trial run for what might come next. We learned to fear hel...2025-05-1810 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 4: What Do You Really Want?🎙️ Episode 4 – What Do You Really Want?with James Kiger | Real Without ReligionEpisode SummaryWhat if your deepest desires aren’t selfish—but sacred?In this episode, James Kiger unpacks the question that religion rarely let us ask: What do you really want? Not what sounds holy or humble. Not what your parents hoped for. But the real, soul-level longing inside you.James explores how so many of us were taught that wanting more was da...2025-05-1108 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations Series: Episode 1: Introduction To Real Without Religion🎙️ Episode Title: Before We Begin: Why This Podcast ExistsPodcast: Real Without Religion with James Kiger👣 Episode Summary:In this opening episode, James Kiger — a former pastor turned spiritual teacher — shares the raw, personal story behind Real Without Religion. From questioning hell and the rapture to rediscovering his own divine spark, James invites listeners into a conversation that’s honest, unpolished, and real. No sermons. No scripts. Just the stuff we’ve all been thinking but were afraid to say out loud.If you’ve ever asked:“Is this really what Jesus meant?”“D...2025-05-0307 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War085 - And The War Began...: Fort Sumter Revisited
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It takes a cast to put on a play and our story this day is filled with characters that emoted passions raging from reasoned deliberation to knee-jerk and violent. And not only for the chain of events that led to the first confrontation of the American Civil War but throughout and even beyond the four-year long conflict. Men and women caught in the cross-hairs of history or those that created them. This is the story of the characters and events that led to momentous drama in Charleston Harbor. This is the cast an...2025-04-301h 31
Real Without ReligionWhat Do You Really Want? Reclaiming Desire as a Spiritual CompassSummary: In today’s episode of Real Without Religion, James Kiger asks a deceptively simple question: What do you really want? After years of being taught to distrust our desires in the name of humility or sacrifice, many of us lost touch with our truest dreams. James shares why desire isn’t dangerous—it’s divine—and how reclaiming it can become one of the most spiritual things you’ll ever do.In this episode:How religion taught us to fear and bury our desiresWhy desire is actually a spiritual compass, not a temptationThe hidden fear that keeps u...2025-04-2708 min
Real Without ReligionHow Does the Universe Speak to Us Now? Letting Go of Fear-Based Faith and Rediscovering Real ConnectionEpisode 3: How Does the Universe Speak to Us Now?Letting Go of Fear-Based Faith and Rediscovering Real ConnectionSummary: How do we hear from the Divine now—without guilt, fear, or pressure? In today’s episode of Real Without Religion, James Kiger shares how many of us were taught that spiritual connection was a test we could fail… and how to rediscover a deeper, freer way of hearing from the Universe. From childhood fears of missing the rapture to the political takeover of Christianity, James unpacks the ways religion taught us to distrust ourselves—and how to r...2025-04-2711 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 3: Who Told You You Were Broken?🎙️ Episode 3 — Who Told You You Were Broken?Subtitle: Unlearning the Shame-Based Faith We InheritedEpisode SummaryWhat if the most damaging thing you ever believed… wasn’t about God, but about yourself?In this episode of Real Without Religion, James Kiger takes a raw and liberating look at the shame-based programming so many of us grew up with. From the tearful altar calls to the idea that we’re all “wretches” who need saving, we explore how modern religion o...2025-04-2514 min
Real Without ReligionFoundations: Episode 2: Letting Go of Religion—Not of God🎙️ Episode 2 — Letting Go of Religion, Not of GodSubtitle: How to Heal Your Faith and Manifest a New WorldEpisode SummaryIn this foundational episode of Real Without Religion, James Kiger opens up about what it’s like to leave behind the religious system—without losing your connection to something deeper.Growing up, many of us learned to fear our own thoughts, to distrust our inner voice, and to see faith as something that demanded obedience, not curiosity...2025-04-2514 min
Decades of Horror | Horror News RadioTHE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) – Episode 282 – Decades of Horror 1980s“One hundred years before this story begins, it was a time of darkness in Transylvania, a time when Dr. Abraham Van Helsing and a small band of freedom fighters conspired to rid the world of vampires and monsters and to save mankind from the forces of eternal evil. … They blew it.” Will the Monster Squad blow it, too? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they follow the battle between the young monster fighters and the pseudo-Universal Monsters in The Monster Squad (1987). Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 282 – The Monster Squad (1987)2025-04-181h 25
Chains of DivinityKISS | First Kiss | Communion 5 & 6Tony and Noah talk about episode 5 and 6, pacing arcs based on a set episode length, and the magic that is Godkiller as a game.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-10-0329 minChains of DivinityKISS 6 | First Kiss | ChorusMaxine learns the truth of her world and comes face to face with The Chorus.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-09-2646 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War078 - Drive on the Heart of the Confederacy: The Atlanta Campaign
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Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant understood numbers. And, in the spring of 1864, he intended to use the North’s advantage in men and materiel to pressure, stretch and snap the Confederacy at multiple points. And so, he ordered simultaneous campaigns. As Abraham Lincoln put it, “those not skinning can hold a leg.” Three were to begin in Virginia: at Bermuda Hundred, into the Shenandoah Valley and across the Rapidan into the Wilderness. One was to be launched on the Red River in Louisiana and, finally, a campaign from Chattanooga, Tennessee. One that...2024-09-261h 10Chains of DivinityKISS 5 | First Kiss | WarehouseOn the verge of discovering who her parents are, Maxine faces the secrets that are hidden within the abandoned warehouse.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-09-1945 minChains of DivinityKISS | First Kiss | Communion 3 & 4Tony and Noah talk about episodes 3 and 4, Godkiller as an exploration of gender identity, Patti LuPone's beef with Andrew Lloyd Webber, board games, and getting Tony back for all of their GM shenanigans.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-09-1233 minChains of DivinityKISS 4 | First Kiss | FollowerMaxine begins to receive a number of strange messages following the news of Freyja's death.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-08-2255 minChains of DivinityKISS 3 | First Kiss | BeautyMaxine and Freyja's night continues as they head to The Viper's Nest.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
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Sights N Sounds with Allen KigerJesse James Dupree of JackylInterview with Jesse James Dupree of Jackyl2024-08-1315 minChains of DivinityKISS | First Kiss | Communion 1 & 2Join Tony and Noah as they talk about the first two episodes, wrestling, their praise of Connie Chang, and what is to come for our Godkiller.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-08-0222 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War076 - Prelude To 1860: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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As we’ve seen in the one presidential debate this election year, a performance has consequences. Although it was not for the office of chief executive, we turn over time’s shoulder to speak of another storied debate - in 1858 and for the office of U.S. senator. This is the story of a series of face-to-face confrontations that may not have had immediate ramifications but most certainly resonated two years later when, on the eve of civil war, the two both pursued the office of President of The United States. This is the s...2024-07-3155 minChains of DivinityKISS 2 | First Kiss | CallbackA callback, dinner, and a show. Calliope and Freyja compete for Maxine's attention as the audition process for Cecil Hightower and the Temple of the Old Ones continues.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekigerSounds Used In This Episode!https://freesound.org/people/KeeKee/sounds/389604/https://freesound.org/people/GaryRea/sounds/730752/https://freesound.org/people/SanChago/sounds/546265/https://freesound.org/people/ukjoncollins/sounds/653820/2024-07-2556 minChains of DivinityKISS 1 | First Kiss | AuditionWe enter The City and meet Maxine, a casting director's assistant whose life is about to get weird.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekigerMusic for this EpisodeLava Lamp Lounge by Albert Behar: https://uppbeat.io/t/albert-behar/lava-lamp-lounge - License code: FS3OTSRYUW3U5AONNoir as the Night by Albert Behar: https://uppbeat.io/t/albert-behar/noir-as-the-night - License code: GLKA5...2024-07-1848 minChains of DivinityKISS | Creating the CradlePantheon and Godkiller go through the "Birth of a Godkiller" and "Creating the Cradle" steps in this character creation session.Follow the Show!Twitter: @codivinitypodInstagram: @chainsofdivinityFollow the Cast!Pantheon: Noah James (they/she/he)Instagram: @noah.james95Twitter: @noahjames95Maxine, the Godkiller: Tony Kiger (they/he/she)Instagram & TikTok: @tonythekiger
2024-06-2741 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War074 - Confederate Cavalier: J.E.B. Stuart
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With gray cape lined with red satin and ostrich plume in hat, he was the beau ideal of the cavalier South. He rode and campaigned with Sam Sweeney on banjo and Mulatto Bob on the bones. At times, one wondered was it war or just a lark. Despite all the showy display, he was Robert E. Lee’s “eyes and ears” and his reconnaissance set the table for battles and campaigns. And, in doing so, he came across as a knight in shining armor on a holy quest - a happy warrior in the...2024-05-311h 03Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War072 - The Dawning Of A New Age: The Fight Between The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia
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For those aboard the fifty-gun USS Congress, it had been a quiet morning. Its crew, as usual, prepared the twenty-year-old vessel for inspection which would be held the next day. Meanwhile, the ship’s quartermaster gazed out over Hampton Roads which glistened under a late winter sun. All seemed normal. And then, at 12:45 p.m., a column of heavy black smoke. Curiosity aroused, the quartermaster turned to a fellow officer, handed him his glass and asked for him to take a look. Their gaze created concern. Indeed, as the quartermaster put it, at...2024-03-281h 09Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War068 - The Confederacy’s Last Salvo - The Career of the CSS Shenandoah
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By 1864, a desperate Confederacy realized it must resort to desperate measures. Measures not only confined to land battles and trying to break the Union blockade, but the procuring and use of commerce raiders which would scour the oceans to wreak havoc on the North’s vast merchant marine. Anything to create economic hardship. Anything to doom Abraham Lincoln’s chances for reelection. This is the story of one such raider. This is the story of the CSS Shenandoah.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
James Dunwoody Bulloch
Th...2023-11-301h 08Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War063 - Then And Now: The Lost Cause
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It was January 1872. In Lexington, Virginia and on the campus of recently re-named Washington and Lee College, former Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early was on a mission: a mission to venerate Robert E. Lee, and to give Southerners a positive spin on their defeat - not only to address the recent past, but to arm them and their descendants with, as he and his disciples put it, a “correct” narrative of the war. This is the story of an ideology that simmers even to this day. This is the story of the c...2023-06-301h 01Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War058 - Breaking The Chains: The Passage Of The 13th Amendment
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Shockingly brief given the lives lost, cost, and national trauma, but the American Civil War’s two greatest significances are that the nation was preserved and that slavery was ended. This is the story of a major step in ridding this country's association with “the peculiar institution.” This is the story of the labored steps for the passage of the 13th Amendment.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Horace Greeley
Lyman Trumbull
Edward Bates
Thomas Corwin
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The Soul Powered Podcast: Money Energetics, Nervous System Healing & Subconscious Wealth ExpansionHow to hold onto faith when it looks like nothing is working...Hey Soul Sis, I am so excited to dive into today's episode with you! If you are struggling to see the progress you desire in a specific area of life and as a result, are having a hard time holding onto faith - then this episode is for you. In this episode, we discuss: When doing "all of the things" isn't enough and you're getting frustrated What to do when you start questioning whether your goals are even possible for you How to tell yourself a different story when your current one isn't serving you What faith ACTUALLY is...2022-12-061h 05
Off My ShelfEpisode 97 - Monster Squad and Monsters, Inc
In this episode Adam upper joins me in talking about monsters and ghouls with Monster Squad and Monsters inc.
The Monster SquadRelease: 1987Director: Fred DekkerStars: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Tom Noonan
Monsters, IncRelease: 2001Director: Pete Docter, David Silverman(co-director), Lee Unkrich(co-director)Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Tilly
The Yearbook Quote
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Arnold Schwarzenegger in To...2022-10-182h 19Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War054 - ”The River of Death”: The Battle Of Chickamauga
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Just some fifteen miles south of Chattanooga - there in the northwest corner of Georgia - there runs a creek with a harsh name. Indeed, its Cherokee or Creek origin means “River of Death.” That name was never more appropriate than in mid-September 1863 when Union and Confederate armies fought as if the entire war hinged on its outcome. In the end, it may well have, for all the circumstances that flowed from it. This is the story of the second bloodiest day of the American Civil War. This is the story of the Battle...2022-09-301h 09Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War051 - ”Beat To Quarters!”: The C.S.S Alabama
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It was a Sunday, January 11, 1863 when the incredible tedium of blockade duty suddenly lurched into frenzied electricity. Five Federal Navy blockaders off Galveston, Texas had sighted a three-masted ship and, although it was some twenty miles from the fleet, the five-gun USS Hatteras moved to investigate. At about 100 yards, Lt. Commander Homer C. Blake demanded the mystery ship’s identity. In response, someone answered, “This is Her Britannic Majesty’s steamer Petrel.” Unimpressed and suspicious, Blake wanted to board and inspect the vessel which was his right under international law. To his request, th...2022-06-2454 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War050 - Lee’s Finest Hour: Chancellorsville
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In mid-April of 1863, Major General Joseph Hooker oozed with confidence. So assured was he about his offensive preparations to defeat and, in his mind, destroy the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, he remarked to a group of his officers, "My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." This is not the story of Joseph Hooker's greatest success, but that of the man he faced. For our 50th podcast, this is the story of Robert E. Lee's gr...2022-05-271h 06
Blood TiedEpisode 5: (BIZARRE) Larry Ray/ Sarah Lawrence Cult - Part 1Hey BT BUDDIES!
This episode is hosted by Amy.
**Warning for this episode** it contains graphic siuations, drug use, violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse & suicide.
In this episode, we learn how a one man tortured and controlled a group of students at Sarah Lawrence College. Hear about Larry Ray’s unbelievable past and his journey from NATO volunteer to sex cult leader. Larry manages to con everyone in this story including the FBI. This episode is part 1 of a two part story. Part 2 - will be out June 9th.
Links metioned in...2022-05-2642 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War048 - The Trent Affair
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James Murray Mason was a Virginian. As a former member of the U.S. Senate, he once served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. His credentials made him a natural selection for a diplomatic mission to London as a representative for the Confederate States of America. Then there was John Slidell, a native New Yorker, who moved to Louisiana where, as a young man, he embraced the French language and culture. He, too, was perfect for his assignment to Paris - to the court of Napoleon III. In November o...2022-03-2556 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War045 - Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman‘s March to the Sea - Part 1
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In the same month that Abraham Lincoln was re-elected, Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman began a campaign that cut a swath through the very heart of Dixie. Severing his supply line and committed to living off the country, he hoped to break the will of Southern resistance and knock Georgia out of the war. This episode, Part I, details the military chessboard that was late summer and fall of 1864 - the moves and calculations that had to occur in order to breathe life into Sherman’s plans. This is the story of the pri...2021-12-2933 min
Did That Really Happen?America: The Motion PictureThis week we're traveling back to the Revolutionary Era. . . but also kinda the 19th century. . . and also the reign of James I (?) with America: The Motion Picture! Join us to learn more about Samuel Adams, motivational posters, John 3:16, Benedict Arnold, and more! Sources: Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty: Philip G. Davidson, "Sons of Liberty and Stamp Men," The North Carolina Historical Review 9:1 (January 1932): 38-56, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23514881 Benjamin H. Irvin, "Tar, Fearthers, and the Enemies of American Liberties, 1768-1776," The New England Quarterly 76:2 (June 2003): 197-238. https://www.jstor.org...2021-08-3054 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War040 - July 3, 1863 - Climax - The Third Day at Gettysburg
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In 1948, the Southern novelist, William Faulkner, wrote in Intruder in the Dust, ”For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other l...2021-07-3058 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War035 - Nathan Bedford Forrest - Part 2
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Thus far, we have offered anecdotal insight as to Bedford Forrest’s humble origins: his makeup and antebellum experiences. We’ve detailed his entrance into the great conflict and his meteoric rise to command - his fights at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Fallen Timbers, and his dogged, relentless pursuit of Colonel Abel Streight’s Union command. Now, we’ll delve into the remainder of his Civil War career as well as his post-war life. Both periods, perhaps unsurprisingly, are laced with controversy. And so, we pick up the fiery story that is Nathan Bedford F...2021-02-2643 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil WarMay We Suggest - Bullets And Bandages: The Aid Stations and Field Hospitals at Gettysburg
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Through our continuing research on The Civil War, we here at Threads From The National Tapestry will come across some truly remarkable works that deserve to be shared with you, our loyal listeners. Our first such sharing sets a high bar for all future recommendations to match: the book Bullets And Bandages: The Aid Stations and Field Hospitals at Gettysburg by James Gindlesperger is an impressive and enlightening look at the Battle of Gettysburg from a unique perspective. Here, Fred Kiger will share his thoughts and reflections on this new book from Blair Publishing.2021-01-2909 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War33 - "The Union Is Dissolved!" - South Carolina Secedes
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For those in power in the state of South Carolina, the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln was the final straw. Convinced that he and the Republican party were certain to forever change their economic, political, and cultural world, it was time to act. And so, even before the election year was out, the Palmetto State initiated the process to do what today, few Americans - if any - would even begin to consider. For this episode, the story of South Carolina’s momentous (and as consequences would demonstrate, calamitous) December decision: secession.
...2020-12-1841 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War30 - "No Quarter!" - The Border War Between Kansas and Missouri
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In a conflict that staged over ten thousand fights, Virginia led as a theater of war. The Volunteer State of Tennessee, second. What surprises many is that the third most active theater in the American Civil War was the border state of Missouri, a slave-holding state that remained within the Union. There, the curtain for violence rose long before Confederate forces open-fired on Fort Sumter. Indeed, on any night from 1855 until the summer of 1865, an attack on any town or settlement in Missouri or across the border in Kansas could strike like a...2020-09-2551 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War29 - The New York City Draft Riots
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Far too many see the Union war effort in the American Civil War as a monolith - patriotic men across the north from Maine to Minnesota, flocking en masse together under national colors - to fight to preserve the Union, and to rid the nation of the hateful institution of slavery. As will be evidenced in this episode, nothing could be farther from the truth. Within the federal union in the summer of 1863, there was war-weariness. Men of influence like New York politician Samuel J. Tilden, and artist/inventor Samuel F.B. M...2020-08-2853 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War22 - Chattanooga - Part 1
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It was fall in the year 1863. Much had changed since the summer. Back in July, a doomed assault on Cemetery Ridge meant Confederate defeat at Gettysburg - and now, back in central Virginia, Lee and Meade’s armies sparred. That same July, Vicksburg fell, and the Mississippi River became a federal highway. Yet the Confederacy’s heartland was still a beating bastion of defiance.
That’s why Abraham Lincoln wanted to drive into eastern Tennessee. That’s why he wanted a major railroad hub in the southeastern corner of The Volunteer...2019-11-2542 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War21 - "I Wish I Could Forget Myself" - Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
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Three of her four children did not live to adulthood, and her husband was assassinated while he held her hand. If anyone ever deserved to be troubled, it was the wife of the sixteenth president. James Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois said simply: “She had the most tragic public life in American history.”
This is the story of the woman who once said, “I wish I could forget myself.”
This is the story of Mary Ann Todd Lincoln.
2019-10-2543 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War20 - In The Shadows: Spies, Raiders, and Intelligence Gathering
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During the American Civil War, great drama was not exclusive to just the battlefield. There were many instances when what took place behind the lines, or behind enemy lines, was just as engaging and significant. Those instances bring life to the men and women who operated in the shadows, who dared to infiltrate and risk all in the process. These are the stories of selected spies, raiders, and military analysts.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Allan Pinkerton
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Belle Boyd
William Norris
Bennett Young
G...2019-09-2045 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War19 - "Mighty Events Are On The Wing" - Second Manassas
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In the light of Union frustration after the unsuccessful Peninsula Campaign failed to take Richmond, and the Confederacy’s Seven Days Campaign which repelled the Union Army of the Potomac, the North’s military powers-that-be surrendered something they would regret: the strategic initiative. This is the story of what Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia did with it. In a dramatic turnaround in the Eastern Theater, we return to ground through which ran a stream that locals called Bull Run. This is the story of the Battle of Second Manas...2019-08-3043 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War18 - "Hell Has Busted" - The Battle Of The Crater
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It was the fourth summer of the war, and Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign had sledgehammered its way down to Petersburg, Virginia. It had been a campaign that had bled both blue and grey armies white. There, east of town, under oppressive heat and humidity that walks hand-in-hand with the month of July, a daring plan unfolded - which, if successful, might end the war. Instead, it added to the slaughter. This is the story of an engineering marvel - a tunnel. This is the story of The Battle Of The Cra...2019-07-2642 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War17 - "His Name Might Be Audacity" - The Seven Days Campaign
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In March of 1862, Major General George B. McClellan began to land his massive army on the Virginia peninsula, created by the York and James Rivers. Its objective: Richmond. That army got as close as 4-5 miles, close enough to set their time pieces to the ringing church bells of the Confederate capital. Then, on the 31st of May and the 1st of June, there were two messy, inconclusive days of battle. One of the casualties was a significant one: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. Knocked from command of the army defending Richmond, P...2019-06-2846 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War16 - Hell On Earth: The Battle Of The Wilderness
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Since the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863, the two, George Gordon Meade and Robert E. Lee, and their respective armies had shadowboxed down in Central Virginia. The sparring continued throughout the fall and winter, but in spring, there was a new federal presence, and he meant business. General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant now wore a third star; the first true lieutenant general since George Washington, and rather than be mired in political intrigue in the capital, he chose to travel with Meade's Army of the Potomac. Before, Union generals ordered the Army of...2019-05-2843 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War13 - Thunder On The Rivers Tennessee And Cumberland: Forts Henry And Donelson
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At 750,000 square miles, the Confederacy was huge, and to put down the rebellion, Mr. Lincoln's armies had to go on the offensive. They would have to be the aggressor. It was a daunting task; even more so in the Confederate West where there existed poor transportation and communication networks. Known early on as The Western Department or Department Number Two, three major rivers offered invasion avenues into the heartland of the south: The Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland. This is the story of a federal campaign led by an officer who was a m...2019-02-2245 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War11 - Fredericksburg And The Winter Of 1862-'63
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Fredericksburg, Virginia was a little town with a long history. It was here that a young George Washington roamed. And, there were others of national fame who once made this locale home; John Paul Jones and James Monroe. But during civil war, its location made it, some 51 miles north of Richmond and 52 miles south of Washington City, a military target. On November 7, 1862, some forty miles or so to the northwest, there was an event that, when played out, would put Fredericksburg squarely in the cross-hairs of civil war. This is the story o...2018-12-1743 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War9 - The Ram Of The Roanoke - The CSS Albemarle
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This is the story of the Ram Of Roanoke - The CSS Albemarle, an ironclad constructed not in a shipyard, but incredibly, in a Halifax County, North Carolina corn field. It would completely reshape Federal strategic plans in North Carolina, Virginia, and the entire Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Stephen Russell Mallory
John L. Porter
John M. Brooke
Ambrose E. Burnside
Gilbert Elliott
James W. Cooke
Peter Evans Smith
Charles W. Flusser
Robert F. Hoke
Other References From This Episod...2018-10-1546 min
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War8 - Sheer Unadulterated Violence: The Battle Of Antietam
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This is the story of the Battle of Sharpsburg, of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in the history of this nation. It was an engagment that moved popular historian Bruce Catton to write that September 17, 1862 was a day of sheer, unadulterated violence.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Bruce Catton
George B. McClellan
General Edmund Kirby-Smith
Braxton Bragg
Charles Francis Adams
Jefferson Davis
James Longstreet
D.H. Hill
Joseph Hooker
Other References From This Episode
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Harper's Ferry
Antietam Battle...2018-09-1450 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War5 - "Stonewall" - Part 02
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His journey had been nothing short of remarkable. From an orphan from western Virginia to matriculation to West Point where, there, along the banks of the Hudson, he had been an Immortal - placed in the weakest academic section. And yet, he willed himself to graduate 17th out of 59 in the talented Class of 1846 - a class that produced twenty generals. From there, he found confidence and promotion in Mexico, but thanks to a contentious relationship with a post commander in Tampa, he resigned his military commission as an officer and accepted an...2018-06-1244 min
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War4 - ”Stonewall” - Part 01
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“Stonewall” Jackson would’ve been the perfect protagonist for Greek or Shakespearean tragedy; a commanding officer struck down only hours after his greatest tactical success. An officer and man who saw life in the most simplistic terms, he was modest and impeccably honest. Interestingly, he was a study in contrasts: complex yet predictable, ambitious yet humble, wrathful then righteous.
Yet, for all his quirks and eccentric habits, he was, as Douglas MacArthur noted, “…one of the most remarkable soldiers we have ever known. His mastery of two of the greatest elements of...2018-05-1248 minThreads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War1 - Flashpoint 1861 Fort Sumter
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For the United States and North Korea, with each verbal jab between respective leaders, with each thrust and parry by diplomats, with reports of more joint military exercises and hundreds of thousands of troops eyeballing one another along the world's most fortified border, I have recently pondered if the DMZ's Panmunjom is the 21st-century's version of Charleston in 1861. Perhaps, a stretch. Perhaps not. But with that reflection, we now look back over time's shoulder. This is "Flashpoint-1861."
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Major Robert Anderson
John...2018-04-0327 min