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Beekeeping Today PodcastRegional Beekeepers Fall Roundtable 2025In this special Beekeeping Today Podcast roundtable, Jeff Ott and Dr. Becky Masterman gather an inspiring group of regional beekeepers from across the U.S. to share how their colonies fared through the 2025 season and what they're doing to prepare for winter. Joining the table are Ang Roell (They Keep Bees, Massachusetts), Bonnie Morse (Bonnie Bee & Company, California), Duane Combs (Arizona Beekeepers LLC), Jay Williams (Williams Honey Farm, Tennessee), and Paul Longwell (Washington). Each regional voice brings a unique perspective on this year's challenges—heat and drought in the Southwest, unpredictable blooms in the Pacific Northwest, and ex...
2025-10-1343 min
Matters of Democracy podcast2025 7-24 Matters of Democracy Epstein Firestorm keeps burning, shutdown?, Judges, VAThe primary and most pressing issue for the Trump administration is the escalating crisis surrounding the "Epstein files" and his past association with Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump is reportedly "furious" about being constantly "dogged by questions about Epstein" and the inability of his staff to "tamp this down." Trump's fundamental problem stems from his campaign promise to "release all the 'Epstein files'" while now actively trying "to block their release." This has led to deep anger and distrust among his base, who expected the files to implicate "many top Democrats." Sarah Longwell, who conducts focus groups with Trump voters...
2025-07-2417 min
Deadline: White House“Naked callousness and public indifference”Nicolle Wallace on the GOP’s continued disregard for the impact of Medicaid cuts, the stunning result of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, and the Trump administration’s plan to limit Congress’s access to classified information.Joined by: Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Basil Smikle, Sen. Chris Murphy, Tom Nichols, Paul Rieckhoff, Marc Elias, and Kristy Greenberg.
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The Illegal News with Sarah LongwellConway’s FURY: “How Can You Look Yourself in the Mirror?”Sarah Longwell and George Conway discuss a powerful letter by lawyer Paul Weiss’s granddaughters on the importance of the rule of law, the legality of recent deportations and their implications for American citizens, market reactions to “Liberation Day,” and whether Trump could legally pursue a third presidential term.
2025-04-0449 min
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest: Will Trump’s Conviction Help Biden?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s felony conviction; the spin-up for Hunter Biden’s trial; and the upshot for college speech from campus protests with Charles Homans. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Nathaniel Rakich for 538: Trump’s conviction may be hurting him – but it’s earlySarah Longwell in The Atlantic: The Two-Time Trump Voters Who Have Had EnoughDafydd Townley for The Conversation: Trump guilty verdict: the fallout for US democracyPolitico Magaz...
2024-06-0857 min
Slate Crime and JusticePolitical Gabfest: Will Trump’s Conviction Help Biden?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s felony conviction; the spin-up for Hunter Biden’s trial; and the upshot for college speech from campus protests with Charles Homans. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Nathaniel Rakich for 538: Trump’s conviction may be hurting him – but it’s earlySarah Longwell in The Atlantic: The Two-Time Trump Voters Who Have Had EnoughDafydd Townley for The Conversation: Trump guilty verdict: the fallout for US democracyPolitico Magaz...
2024-06-0657 min
Political GabfestWill Trump’s Conviction Help Biden?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s felony conviction; the spin-up for Hunter Biden’s trial; and the upshot for college speech from campus protests with Charles Homans. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Nathaniel Rakich for 538: Trump’s conviction may be hurting him – but it’s earlySarah Longwell in The Atlantic: The Two-Time Trump Voters Who Have Had EnoughDafydd Townley for The Conversation: Trump guilty verdict: the fallout for US democracyPolitico Magaz...
2024-06-0657 minBeekeeping Today PodcastRegional Beekeepers: Spring 2024In this latest episode, we dive deep into our seasonal segment, "Regional Beekeeper Updates." This episode offers a rich compilation of insights as beekeepers from various U.S. regions share the unique challenges and triumphs of their beekeeping experiences. Our hosts, Jeff and Becky, guide listeners through a series of engaging discussions with beekeepers from contrasting environments, highlighting the diverse conditions that influence beekeeping practices. For example, Paul Longwell from Olympia, Washington, enjoys the benefits of a temperate climate which offers a variety of pollen and nectar sources, contrasting sharply with Duane Combs in Phoenix, Arizona, who...
2024-04-2948 minBeekeeping Today PodcastHow To Get Started With Bees in 2024, Part 3 of 4(#267) In "How To Get Started With Bees," part three of our four-part series, we delve deeper into the essential steps for budding beekeepers. This episode focuses on equipment selection, emphasizing the critical decision between new and used gear, and the potential risks associated with each. Our experts, including Honey Bee Obscura's Jim Tew and master beekeeper, Paul Longwell, provide invaluable advice on navigating the overwhelming array of beekeeping tools and accessories. We discuss the importance of understanding bee space, the pros and cons of building your own equipment versus purchasing pre-assembled kits, and strategies for effective colony...
2024-03-0444 minBeekeeping Today PodcastLate Spring Regional Beekeepers Update"All beekeeping is local" so the saying goes. On today's episode, we welcome back our Regional Beekeepers, all from different parts of the country, to see just how localized beekeeping can be. And how much it can be the same, too. Today we've asked Rainier Eich (Maine), Mark Smith (North Carolina), Tracy Alarcon (Ohio), Jay Williams(Tennessee), Ed Colby (Colorado), Duane Combs (Arizona) and Paul Longwell (Washington) to talk about their past winter season, the challenges they faced in their area and how they are addressing them. The "Regionals" range from backyard hobbyist to sideline beekeepers. Chemical...
2023-06-0555 minBeekeeping Today PodcastRegional Beekeepers: Fall 2022 This week, guest co-host Jim Tew is sitting in for Kim and we have invited four beekeepers to the podcast to talk about their season just past. We call it our Regional Beekeepers show. If you have been a long time listener, you may be familiar with one or more of these beekeepers. Joining us this fall are Tracy Alarcon from Ohio, Ed Colby from Colorado, Duane Combs from Arizona and Paul Longwell from Washington State. As beekeepers, we run the danger of living in a world limited by the confines of our...
2022-10-3150 min
The Jesus SocietyWhat Happens When We Die — Part 1: The Problem With Purgatoryhttps://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pr5twc/RL_TheJesusSociety_Ep0089_07-16_24b_48k.mp3
This is Episode 89 of the Jesus Society Podcast. And today I’m going to start a brief series talking about what happens when we die. Because I find that life after death tends to occupy an inordinately large place in our thinking. In fact, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most Christian mission tends to be largely focused on making sure someone goes to heaven when they die.
Frankly, I think a Christianity focused on what h...
2022-07-1800 min
The Jesus SocietyWhat Happens When We Die -- Part 1: The Problem With PurgatoryThis is Episode 89 of the Jesus Society Podcast. And today I’m going to start a brief series talking about what happens when we die. Because I find that life after death tends to occupy an inordinately large place in our thinking. In fact, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most Christian mission tends to be largely focused on making sure someone goes to heaven when they die.
Frankly, I think a Christianity focused on what happens after death is a misguided focus. But nonetheless, there are things we can say (and should...
2022-07-1825 minThe Jesus SocietyFollowing Jesus in the 21st Century — Part 9: Self-Giving Lovehttps://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4qib5f/RL_TheJesusSociety_Ep0088_07-11_24b_48k.mp3
This is Episode 88 of the Jesus Society Podcast. Today, we’re going to conclude our series on Following Jesus in the 21st century, and in particular, looking at the importance and practice of love, particularly as we think about extending that love outward to the watching world.
I hope you’ll join me today as we discuss:
1. Following Jesus in Love
2. Does love compel or invite?
3. Chasing a rabbit — repentance
4. How love advanc...
2022-07-1100 minThe Jesus SocietyFollowing Jesus in the 21st Century -- Part 9: Self-Giving LoveThis is Episode 88 of the Jesus Society Podcast. Today, we’re going to conclude our series on Following Jesus in the 21st century, and in particular, looking at the importance and practice of love, particularly as we think about extending that love outward to the watching world.
I hope you'll join me today as we discuss:
1. Following Jesus in Love
2. Does love compel or invite?
3. Chasing a rabbit -- repentance
4. How love advances the kingdom
5. How the early church lived out Jesus' victory of love, and how th...
2022-07-1144 minBeekeeping Today PodcastRegional Beekeepers: Spring 2022 UpdateWe first met the Regional Beekeepers back in May of 2020. Then twice a year since, we've made a point to catch a chat with them to talk about their bees, their challenges, their successes and plans for the next six months. This time, we move from west to east. First we meet Paul Longwell from Olympia, WA. A master beekeeper. He maintains AŽ Hives, Long Langstroth hives, and standard Langstroths. Next stop is along the western slope of Colorado where we meet up with commercial beekeeper, Ed Colby. Ed is a regular here on the p...
2022-04-2554 minThe Jesus SocietyFollowing Jesus in the 21st Century — Part 4: New Creation & the Resurrection of Jesushttps://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zzunji/RL_TheJesusSociety_Ep0083_04-04_24b_48k.mp3
This is Episode 83 of the Jesus Society Podcast. And today we come now to the most important event in Christianity — the resurrection of Jesus.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead stands as the central, defining feature of the Christian hope. Paul says that very clearly in 1 Corinthians 15, which is the most thorough explanation of the resurrection in the Bible. He says:
1. If Christ has not been raised, then our message is in vain, and so is our fa...
2022-04-0400 minThe Jesus SocietyFollowing Jesus in the 21st Century -- Part 4: New Creation & the Resurrection of JesusThis is Episode 83 of the Jesus Society Podcast. And today we come now to the most important event in Christianity — the resurrection of Jesus.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead stands as the central, defining feature of the Christian hope. Paul says that very clearly in 1 Corinthians 15, which is the most thorough explanation of the resurrection in the Bible. He says:
1. If Christ has not been raised, then our message is in vain, and so is our faith (v. 14).
2. If Christ has not been raised, we are found to be false wi...
2022-04-0441 minThe Jesus SocietyWhat the Church is Supposed to BeThis is Episode 78 of The Jesus Society Podcast, and today’s podcast is something I’ve been thinking about and working on for a very long time.
Now, before you listen to today’s episode, I highly encourage you to go back and listen to last week’s episode, which is an episode I did early in 2020, but which I re-released last week because it provides some important background for what I’m going to be talking about today. I think this episode will have more impact if you listen to last week’s episode first.
So with th...
2021-11-0846 minBeekeeping Today PodcastAŽ Hives with Jonna SandersIn this episode, we talk with Jonna Sanders about AŽ hives (NA Beekeepers say "AZ". We learn today that it correctly pronounced "AH-shah". Jonna is a lifelong AŽ Hive beekeeper and sells AŽ hives in the US. Today we talk with her in depth on how beekeepers manage these hives. We talked with Regional Beekeeper, Paul Longwell back in May as part of our Five-Part Series on Different Hive Types, where he introduced us to the AŽ Hive. Slovenian in origin, these hives are inside a building or wagon and the bees exit their hives from...
2021-10-2549 minThe Jesus SocietyWhat It Means To Reign in Life (Rom. 5:17)Today I want to try, in as succinct a way as I can, to explain a phrase Paul uses in Romans 5:17 that I think has caused a lot of confusion for folks.
Paul talks there about how Christians will “reign in life.” Now, if we just pull that phrase up off the page, and out of the context of Romans, not to mention out of the context of the whole rest of the Bible, and start thinking about what that phrase might mean (which is the way I think most of us usually try to understand unusual phra...
2021-05-2426 minThe Jesus SocietyHow to Live Like Jesus in 2021Today, we're gonna talk about what it means to live like Jesus in 2021. Because remember — we are his body. He lives in us, and so we are his hands, his feet, his lips in this world. That’s what Paul says in 1 Cor. 12:12-27 - "you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
That means that the way the Lord wants to bless and redeem and heal the world will largely be through us.
So, since that’s true, what sort of people ought we to be in the...
2021-05-1732 minBeekeeping Today PodcastHive Types - Part 4: AZ Hives with Paul LongwellIn Part 4 of our 5-part series on hive types other than the standard Langstroth, we talk with Paul Longwell about the AZ Hive. Paul has been keeping bees for quite a few years. He's a Master Beekeeper and has bees in Langstroth hives, top bar hives and has a shed with his AZ Hives. AZ hives, if you're not familiar with them were developed in Slovenia, which has a long history with bees and beekeeping. Basically, AZ hives are in a small shed that the beekeeper goes into to work the bees. To work these hives, they...
2021-05-1749 minThe Jesus SocietyA Royal PriesthoodThis is Episode 54 of The Jesus Society Podcast, and today I want to delve into Israel’s identity and assigned vocation in the world — who they were and who they were to be.
This is important. Most of us Christians have been led to believe that Israel is a people group the Lord has washed his hands of. And that belief has allowed us to kind of wash our hands of Israel’s Scriptures, what we call the Old Testament. And that is terribly unfortunate, because Israel’s story is our story, because Israel’s God is our God....
2021-03-0837 minBeekeeping Today PodcastReturn of the Regional Beekeepers - Winter Perspectives (S3, E34) In this episode of Beekeeping Today Podcast, we reconnect with our beekeeping friends from Season 2, Episode 29. They come from across the country including Central North Carolina, North East Ohio, the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and the West Coast of Washington. We talk with them about last season, this winter and what they expect for next season. We start out in North Carolina with Mark Smith, who has had bees since 2014 and is running 20 – 30 treatment free colonies. His season last year had some real surprises and he was playing catch up most of the su...
2021-01-1857 minThe Jesus SocietySpiritual Habits for a New YearWe’re a nation of goal setters, and at this time of year, just about everyone starts thinking about setting goals or making resolutions for the new year. So in today's episode, the last episode of 2020, I want to talk about getting the most out of 2021 spiritually. In particular, I want to talk about how we can improve our relationship with God in 2021. Because really, the relationship you have with God fuels every other part of your life.
But before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend you head on over to our Patreon site and re...
2020-12-2830 minThe Jesus SocietyReading the Bible Like Jesus and PaulIf you read the Bible the way Jesus read the Bible, or you read the Bible the way Paul read the Bible, or if you read the Bible the way the writer of Hebrews or Peter or any of the apostles read the Bible, you will fail seminary classes.
That’s your Paul Harvey teaser. Join me today to get the rest of the story.
I want to talk briefly today about how we read the Bible and how we should read the Bible.
Join me today as we discuss:
1. The di...
2020-09-1430 minThe Jesus SocietyGoing to Church in the First CenturyToday, I want to try and give you a picture of what going to church in the first century was like — what it looked and felt like, and how it embodied everything we’ve been talking about. But we have to start with a word or two about the phrase “going to church” and a few of the other phrases we use to talk about gathering together with other Christians — like “attending church” or referring to our gatherings as “services.” I find those terms inadequate and unhelpful, BECAUSE those terms fail to capture the intent of Christian assemblies AND what I think the ear...
2020-07-1349 minThe Jesus SocietyJesus-Style RelationshipsWhat is the church? Have you ever thought about that? Really thought about it?
Maybe you'd say it's the collection of saved people? And you'd be right.
Maybe you'd say it's the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:25-27)? Right again.
Or maybe you'd use Paul's language in 1 Tim. 3:15 and say the church is the pillar and support of the truth. Well who's gonna argue with Paul. Of course.
All those things are true, but I’d like to suggest there’s something even more basic. AND, I’m gonna suggest that if we don’...
2020-06-0146 minThe Jesus SocietyGrowing in Intimacy with God - Where Is God When I Hurt?We’ve been talking for the last few weeks about learning to live in intimacy with the Father and learning to live in the reality of his love. I think it's the most important part of our transformation. And our transformation is essential if we’re to be salt and light to the world around us, and bear the image of God to the world. But the thing that will derail all that quicker than anything, in my opinion and experience, is pain and suffering.
In Psalms 10:1, the Palmist asks a familiar question: “Why, O Lord, do you sta...
2020-05-2540 minThe Jesus SocietyGrowing in Intimacy with God - Learning to Live LovedWe live at the mercy of our ideas. And that is never more true than when it comes to our ideas about God. If we think of him one way, it will color all of our expectations of him, and taint all of our reactions to what we perceive him to be doing — or not doing — in our world.
The thing that has changed the trajectory of my life the most — moving me from trying to appease God by my efforts and by trying to have everything figured out and being “right,” to learning how I could live inside th...
2020-05-1841 minThe Jesus SocietyGrowing in Intimacy with God - Prayer as DialogueToday we're going to talk about reimagining prayer as dialogue as opposed to monologue. Prayer is communion with God, which is relationship-building. Prayer is where intimacy with God is forged. And as such, prayer is meant to be a two way communication with God. And that’s really different from what I had always thought and from what I’d always been taught. And what I’m gonna describe here is what’s called contemplative prayer. And Christians have been practicing contemplative prayer for well over a thousand years. But you hardly ever hear about it in evangelical circles.
The...
2020-05-1148 minThe Jesus SocietyGrowing in Intimacy with God - Does God Talk To Us?How do we learn to lean into God, to experience him more fully, and to come to rest in his love for us? To relate to God not just as a distant King who we’ve read a book about, but as a real, present, loving Father who “walks with us and talks with us and tells us we are his own.” Because for me, everything God wants to do in us and through us hinges on an unfolding relationship and growing intimacy with God. That's the subject of today's show, and in particular, we're going to talk about what com...
2020-05-0447 minThe Jesus SocietyThe Story of the Bible - Part 8: Letting God Have His Way With UsWe;'ve been talking about how in the Kingdom of God that Jesus inaugurates in the New Testament, God is restoring Israel (and that includes all those who align themselves with and follow Israel’s new King Jesus). And she is now to be God’s representatives on earth, mediating God’s love and peace to the world around us, being a light to the nations and inviting people to taste and see that the Lord is good, and to live in fellowship with God and his people.
So this week, we start with a question, and that is...
2020-04-2742 minThe Jesus SocietyThe Story of the Bible - Part 7: What REALLY Happened on the Cross?So we’ve been talking about the story of the Bible, and we started with the premise that God’s goal in creation and everything that follows is to draw people into fellowship with himself so that they could experience his love in the fullest possible way. And we traced the contours of the Old Testament to see how the big pieces of the story fit within that overarching goal.
We’ve now arrived in the New Testament where Jesus announces that the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand. We talked last week ab...
2020-04-2034 minThe Jesus SocietyThe Story of the Bible - Part 6: The Kingdom Society of JesusLast week we talked about the restoration of Israel. And that's a concept that we find in a lot of Old Testament passages. For instance, Amos 9:11-15, where God talks about a day when he “will restore the fallen tent of David.” He says, “I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old.” And again, language like this is all through the prophets. And I want to suggest that the restoration of Israel is linked to Jesus’ announcement that the Kingdom of God has come.
On today's episode, we're going to lo...
2020-04-1342 minThe Jesus SocietyThe Story of the Bible - Part 5: Did God Give Up on Israel?Today, we’re back looking at the Story of the Bible and the Kingdom of God. And the piece we need to give some attention to next is the idea known as the Restoration of Israel. We’ve seen what Israel was supposed to be in the world — a people that would function in the world as a kingdom of priests, mediating God’s blessings to the world and showing them what life as a community of people under the reign of God looked like. Sadly, Israel didn’t always do that as well as they could have. They repeatedly...
2020-04-0626 min
The MEAT Improv with Jake Jabbour and Josh Simpson144 - Best of 2018 Slabtacular Part 22018 was our best year yet! We toured Europe, we hit 100 episodes, we had some great guests with incredible stories and some really fun scenes. These are some of our most favorite and requested scenes of the year featuring the talents of Paul Rust, Michael Cassady, Kimia Behpoornia, Talia Tabin, Mikey Stephens, Hannah Garces, John McInnes, Monty Sheikh, Joe Hartzler, Jack Allison, Don Fanelli, Laura Wilcox, Hillary Anne Matthews, Greg Giebel, James Mannion, Victoria Longwell, Mike Leffingwell, Ben Siemon, Heather Alcaron Higginbotham and Anna Salinas! We'll be back next week with a brand new episode to kick of 2019. For...
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The Crappy Quiz on Off The BallCrappy Quiz 21/11: Gary Longwell or Paul O'ConnellIn which APM recites the entire Ireland starting team from RWC2003 and Wooly reveals his admirati...
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