Best Sonny Vibes Podcasts (2025)

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The Baby Elephant Hug That Melted the Internet 0:40

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💙 A viral video out of India shows a baby elephant sneak up behind two people sitting in a field, then gently wrap its trunk around their shoulders and place its front legs over one of them in a warm hug. The clip, shared by the X account Nature is Amazing, has been viewed over 390,000 times. Credits: 🎥 Video Footage: Viral clip via Instagram/X fro…

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Good News. When an Olympian Became a Lifesaver. 0:49

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Brazilian kite-surfer and orthopedic doctor Bruno Lobo spotted a woman drowning off the coast of São Luís and sprang into action. Using his kite-surf gear, he pulled her onto his back and safely returned her to shore. The dramatic rescue was filmed and shared online. Credits: 📰 Story Source: People — “Olympic Kite Surfer Saves Drowning Woman in Dra…

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Soldier and Daughter Reunite 0:49

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After nearly ten months stationed overseas, U.S. Army mechanic Austin Bonstetter returned to surprise his daughter Ava in her first-grade classroom in Coweta, Oklahoma. The moment he walked in uniform, she ran into his arms, captured on video and full of joy. Credits: 📰 Story Source: People Magazine “Army dad surprises his young daughter after bein…

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Different Together 0:48

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This story will warm your heart 💙 When Kate Cortelyou, a 40-year-old mother, learned she was autistic, she knew she needed to share the news with someone very special, her 11-year-old son James, who is also on the autism spectrum. In an emotional video that’s now touched millions, Kate sits beside her son and gently explains, “I’m autistic too.” Fo…

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The Gift Of Life 1:01

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In this episode, we share a story that will melt your heart. 💛 58-year-old Abel Linares had almost lost hope after multiple failed attempts to find a kidney donor. His daughters Christina and Stephanie both tried but neither was a match. That’s when his youngest daughter, Kat, decided she wasn’t giving up. She secretly began the testing process, wi…

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A Mother, a Heartbeat, and a Wedding Day 0:46

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From the cosmic warmth of Sun Sonica, Sonny Vibes brings you a story sung with both sorrow and light. When Heather Clark lost her four-year-old son Lukas in a tragic accident, his heart was donated — a gift of life to a boy named Jordan Drake. Years later, at a wedding filled with love and memory, Heather met Jordan for the very first time. Before …

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Safe roads in Helsinki 0:52

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In this episode of Good News with Sonny Vibes, we dive into some incredible progress out of Helsinki, Finland — the city has officially gone a whole year without a single traffic death. 🚦 What makes this so remarkable isn’t luck: it’s years of deliberate planning, people-first policies, and a commitment to the philosophy known as Vision Zero. We’ll…

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Melodies of the Sea 0:52

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From the glowing skies of Sun Sonica, where sound shapes reality, it’s Sonny Vibes bringing a new kind of good news sung with oceanic echoes. In this episode, Sonny tunes you in to the mystery of leopard seals in Antarctica fierce predators with haunting voices who compose songs unlike anything you’ve heard. Discover how male leopard seals belt out…

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Guardians of the Orangutans 0:42

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From the radiant world of Sun Sonica, where every story is sung before it’s spoken, Sonny Vibes brings you a melody of hope and wild beauty. In this episode, Sonny sings the powerful story of forest-dwelling communities on the island of Borneo, who are protecting millions of acres of orangutan habitat outside national park boundaries not by force, …

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Teddy Bears that Heal 0:42

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From Sun Sonica, where every story resonates in song, it’s Sonny Vibes with a good-news melody just for you. In this episode, Sonny sings the inspiring journey of Campbell Remess, a 14-year-old whose extraordinary act of kindness started with a sewing machine, a dream, and Project 365 a charity that makes teddy bears to comfort children battling il…

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Lego Ramps of Hope 0:51

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From the planet Sun Sonica, where every story is sung before it’s spoken, Sonny Vibes brings you good news wrapped in melody. In this episode, Sonny sings the inspiring tale of “Lego Oma” a grandmother in Germany who transforms sidewalks with colourful Lego wheelchair ramps, making her town brighter and more accessible for everyone. Expect rhythm, …

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Enter the Elixirverse: Season 14 Wrap-Up 33:34

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Today, the Elixir Wizards wrap up Season 14 “Enter the Elixirverse.” Dan, Charles, and Sundi look back at some common themes: Elixir plays well with others, bridges easily to access languages and tools, and remains a powerful technology for data flow, concurrency, and developer experience. We revisit the popular topics of the year, from types and t…

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Elixir DevOps & Interoperability with Dan Ivovich and Charles Suggs 47:12

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In this episode of Elixir Wizards, host Sundi Myint chats with SmartLogic engineers and fellow Wizards Dan Ivovich and Charles Suggs about the practical tooling that surrounds Elixir in a consultancy setting. We dig into how standardized dev environments, sensible scaffolding, and clear observability help teams ship quickly across many client proje…

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Vibe Coding the LoopedIn Crochet App with Kimberly Erni & Pei Pei Wang 39:44

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Today, co-founders Kimberly Erni and Pei Pei Wang join the Elixir Wizards to discuss their crochet app, LoopedIn. Recognizing a gap in the market for a more user-friendly and interactive crochet pattern experience, they're building an app that makes following patterns easier and more enjoyable for crocheters of all skill levels. They're building fe…

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Python in Elixir Apps with Victor Björklund 35:02

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In this episode, Elixir Wizard Charles Suggs sits down with Victor Björklund to map out the landscape of Python integration in Elixir applications. From HTTP APIs and external services to embedded runtimes like ErlPort, PythonX, and the Venomous library, we evaluate each approach’s impact on performance, coupling, and developer experience. Victor d…

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Explorer: Data Frames in Elixir with Chris Grainger 42:55

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In this episode of Elixir Wizards, Charles Suggs sits down with Chris Grainger, co-founder and CTO of Amplified and creator of the Explorer library. Chris explains how Explorer brings the familiar data-frame workflows of R’s dplyr and Python’s pandas into the Elixir world. We explore (pun intended!) how Explorer integrates with Ecto, Nx, and LiveVi…

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Nix for Elixir Apps with Norbert (NobbZ) Melzer 41:15

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In this episode of Elixir Wizards, Dan Ivovich and Charles Suggs sit down with Norbert “NobbZ” Melzer to discuss how Nix enables reproducible builds, consistent development environments, and reliable deployments for Elixir projects. Norbert shares his journey from Ruby to Elixir, contrasts Nix with NixOS, and walks us through flakes, nix-shell work…

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Set Theoretic Types in Elixir with José Valim 45:40

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Elixir creator José Valim returns to the podcast to unpack the latest developments in Elixir’s set-theoretic type system and how it is slotting into existing code without requiring annotations. We discuss familiar compiler warnings, new warnings based on inferred types, a phased rollout in v1.19/v1.20 that preserves backward compatibility, performa…

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SDUI at Scale: GraphQL & Elixir at Cars.com with Zack Kayser 49:18

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Zack Kayser, Staff Software Engineer at cars.com, joins Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs to discuss how Cars.com adopted a server-driven UI (SDUI) architecture powered by Elixir and GraphQL to deliver consistent, updatable interfaces across web, iOS, and Android. We explore why SDUI matters for feature velocity, how a mature design syst…

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Rustler: Bridging Elixir and Rust with Sonny Scroggin 48:58

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Rustler Core Team Member Sonny Scroggin joins Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs. Rustler serves as a bridge to write Native Implemented Functions (NIFs) in Rust that can be called from Elixir code. This combo leverages Rust's performance and memory safety while maintaining Elixir's fault tolerance and concurrency model, creating a powerf…

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Nx and Machine Learning in Elixir with Sean Moriarity 44:21

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Today on Elixir Wizards, hosts Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs catch up with Sean Moriarity, co-creator of the Nx project and author of Machine Learning in Elixir. Sean reflects on his transition from the military to a civilian job building large language models (LLMs) for software. He explains how the Elixir ML landscape has evolved since the rise o…

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LangChain: LLM Integration for Elixir Apps with Mark Ericksen 38:18

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Mark Ericksen, creator of the Elixir LangChain framework, joins the Elixir Wizards to talk about LLM integration in Elixir apps. He explains how LangChain abstracts away the quirks of different AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini) so you can work with any LLM in one more consistent API. We dig into core features like conversat…

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Blue Heron: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for Elixir & Nerves with Connor Rigby 46:16

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Connor Rigby joins the Elixir Wizards to talk about Blue Heron BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) support for Elixir apps. Blue Heron implements the BLE specs in pure Elixir, leveraging binary pattern matching and concurrent message processing to handle Bluetooth protocols. Unlike most solutions that require C ports or NIFs, Blue Heron runs entirely in use…

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Zigler: Zig NIFs for Elixir with Isaac Yonemoto 43:00

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In the Season 14 premiere, hosts Dan Ivovich and Sundi Myint chat with Isaac Yonemoto, creator of the Zigler library, to explore how Zigler brings Zig’s performance and safety to Elixir through Native Implemented Functions (NIFs). Isaac walks through the core design of Zigler and how it auto-generates the Elixir-to-Zig bridge, enforces type safety,…

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Building an Open Vehicle Control System using Elixir and Nerves with Marc, Thibault, and Loïc 54:19

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For the Season 13 finale, Elixir Wizards Dan and Charles are joined by Spin42 Engineers Marc Lainez, Thibault Poncelet, and Loïc Vigneron to discuss their work retrofitting a 2007 VW Polo and creating an Open Vehicle Control System (OVCS). Using Elixir, Nerves, and Raspberry Pis, the team is reimagining vehicle technology to extend the lifespan of …

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Creating Horizon: Deploy Elixir Phoenix Apps on FreeBSD with Jim Freeze 44:48

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The Elixir Wizards welcome Jim Freeze, organizer of ElixirConf and creator of the Horizon library. Jim shares his journey from organizing Ruby conferences to founding and growing ElixirConf into the community cornerstone it is today. He reflects on the challenges of running a major conference, how COVID-19 shaped the event, and why the talks remain…

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Telemetry & Observability for Elixir Apps at Cars.com with Zack Kayser & Ethan Gunderson 42:39

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Zack Kayser and Ethan Gunderson, Software Engineers at Cars Commerce, join the Elixir Wizards to share their expertise on telemetry and observability in large-scale systems. Drawing from their experience at Cars.com—a platform handling high traffic and concurrent users—they discuss the technical and organizational challenges of scaling applications…

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Scaling the Daylite Apple-Native CRM Using Elixir with AJ 52:21

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AJ (Alykhan Jetha), CEO and CTO of Marketcircle, joins the Elixir Wizards to share his experience building and evolving Daylite, their award-winning CRM and business productivity app for Apple users. He details his experiences as a self-taught programmer and how Marketcircle has navigated pivots, challenges, and opportunities since its founding in …

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Creating the Castmagic AI-Powered Content Workflow Platform with Justin Tormey 35:40

12M ago35:40

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Justin Tormey, co-founder of Castmagic, joins the Elixir Wizards to discuss building an AI-powered content creation app. Castmagic repurposes audio and video into social media posts, blog articles, newsletters, and more. The tech stack leverages OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs with Elixir as the coordination layer and Phoenix LiveView powering the front …

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Creating the Standd AI-Native Due Diligence Platform with Stephen Solka 48:44

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Stephen Solka, CTO and co-founder of Standd.io, joins Elixir Wizards Owen and Charles to share the journey of building an AI-native deal intelligence and due diligence platform. Designed to streamline document analysis and text generation for venture capital firms, Standd.io leverages large language models and AI tools to address key customer pain …

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Creating the WebAuthn Components Library for Phoenix LiveView Apps with Owen Bickford 57:32

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Today on Elixir Wizards, Owen Bickford, fellow Wizard and creator of the WebauthnComponents library, joins us to talk about building passwordless authentication for Phoenix LiveView applications. Owen walks us through the evolution of authentication—touching on everything from plain text passwords to multi-factor setups—and explains the security fl…

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Creating a Terrestrial Telescope using Nerves & LiveView with Lucas Sifoni 49:56

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Today on Elixir Wizards, indie developer Lucas Sifoni shares his experience prototyping a remote-controlled terrestrial telescope using Elixir, Nerves, Rust, and various hardware components. Lucas explains the basic components of a telescope, the challenges he faced during the development process, and the benefits of using Elixir and Nerves for har…

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Creating a Local-First Offline-Enabled LiveView PWA with Tony Dang 48:18

1y ago48:18

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Today in the Creator’s Lab, Tony Dang joins Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford to break down his journey of creating a local-first, offline-ready to-do app using Phoenix LiveView, Svelte, and CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types). Tony explains why offline functionality matters and how this feature can transform various apps. He sha…

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Creating VintageCell: Nerves, PCBs, and GenStateMachine with Bryan Green 28:58

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Today on Elixir Wizards, Bryan Green shares how he transformed a vintage 1930s rotary phone into a fully functional cell phone using Elixir, Nerves, and a mix of hardware components. Bryan shares the highs and lows of his project, from decoding rotary dial clicks to troubleshooting hardware issues with LED outputs. He explains why Nerves was the pe…

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Creating the Igniter Code Generation Framework with Zach Daniel 52:55

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To kick off Elixir Wizards Season 13, The Creator's Lab, we're joined by Zach Daniel, the creator of Igniter and the Ash framework. Zach joins hosts Owen Bickford and Charles Suggs to discuss the mechanics and aspirations of his latest brainchild, Igniter—a code generation and project patching framework designed to revolutionize the Elixir developm…

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RFK Jr. endorses Trump, ruins Harris' post-DNC vibe 36:31

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has endorsed President Trump in the 2024 presidential race, slamming the door on any sustained momentum Kamala Harris hoped to gain coming out of her Democratic National Convention. The RFK Jr. endorsement could make the difference in tight battleground states. At the DNC, they created a whole brand new person who didn't exist…

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Tim Walz is an inexplicable VP pick 36:01

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Most candidates for president select a running mate who brings something to the ticket that they lack themselves. That's not the case with Kamala Harris, who just did the opposite. She's been rapidly lying to cover up her career of leftist policy positions, but she just selected a raging leftist -- Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota -- who actually reinfor…

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Harris tries to erase her leftist record & media are helping 47:05

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Democrat Kamala Harris, suddenly the media's favorite presidential candidate of all time, has been hard at work erasing her long-held leftist policy positions as she enters the 2024 race with under 100 days to go. She's not doing it herself, mind you, but anonymous campaign sources are leaking exclusives to reporters to announce each policy reversa…

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Kamala Harris is the Democrats' candidate. Now what? 49:18

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It's like Joe Biden never existed. Fresh from concealing Biden's condition from the entire world, Democrats and the news media have pivoted and are now in love with Kamala Harris, a candidate so bad that she was driven from the 2020 race with no support, two months before primary voting even started! Plus, the head of the Secret Service resigns ove…

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Elixir Wizards X Thinking Elixir ElixirConf 2024 Hype-isode 59:50

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The Elixir Wizards and Thinking Elixir podcasts join forces to bring you a special hype-isode for ElixirConf 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Hosts Owen, Sundi, David, and Mark discuss their favorite moments from past conferences and offer a sneak peek into what this year's event has in store. From insightful training classes to thought-provoking talks on…

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Media covered for Biden because he's not Trump 59:45

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The national news media failed to report on President Joe Biden's noticeable cognitive decline because they didn't want to help former President Trump win re-election, according to the former executive editor of the New York Times. Reporters only stopped protecting Biden when the lie became too difficult to sustain after the first presidential deba…

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Even after debate debacle, Dems say Biden is fine! 48:17

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Joe Biden just had a bad night, or it's the staff's fault, or he had a cold. Those are the excuses the Democrats are using to make themselves feel better after the president revealed to the world that he is in a bad state of mental and physical decline. The worst presidential debate performance in history is in the books, and Tim Murtaugh and Hogan…

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"Cheapfake" videos and previewing the first debate 43:52

1+ y ago43:52

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We lead with the new claim from the White House and its media allies that it's "cheap fake" videos that are making Joe Biden look physically and mentally frail, not the fact that Biden is physically and mentally frail. Plus, the first debate is coming up and, as presidential campaign debate veterans, we dive right in for previews and a discussion o…

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Battleground Michigan: the GOP's Tom Barrett in MI-7 31:25

1+ y ago31:25

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Tom Barrett is the Republican candidate for Congress in Michigan's 7th District. It's a rare open seat, in a swing district, in a battleground state, in a presidential election year, at a time when the GOP majority in the House is historically slim. As far as House races go, it doesn't get any bigger.…

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Biden exposed to world as FEEBLE! 43:21

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A week after 34 guilty verdicts in his political show trial in NYC, Trump is riding high and raising a ton of money while Joe Biden goes to Normandy for D-Day and is exposed to the world as feeble. Meanwhile, the White House is fighting off a detailed report in the Wall Street Journal that seriously questions Biden's fitness for the job. Also, Hunt…

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The railroading of Donald Trump 31:45

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Donald Trump was convicted of 34 counts in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday. The prosecutor campaigned for office saying he’d do exactly that, and now they’ve engineered a guilty verdict out of amorphous charges, the worst key witness of all time, a pro-prosecution judge, and a jury from an 85-percent Democrat city.…

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"The Past is Your Teacher" with Alicia Brindisi and Bri LaVorgna 32:56

1+ y ago32:56

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It’s the season finale of Elixir Wizards Office Hours! SmartLogic’s Project Manager Alicia Brindisi and VP of Delivery Bri LaVorgna join host Dan to delve into the agile ceremony of retrospectives. They explore the vital role of retrospectives in Agile project management and unveil practical strategies for enhancing their effectiveness. Alicia and …

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Joe Biden is a racist demagogue 39:16

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Joe Biden's commencement address to graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta exposed him as a racist demagogue who tries to pit Americans against each other based on race. Plus,. Trump holds a massive rally in the Bronx while the prosecution's case against him in the Manhattan trial falls apart, thanks to Michael Cohen's lies and credibility probl…

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"So You've Been Hired" with Emma Whamond and Micaela Cunha 46:06

1+ y ago46:06

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In Office Hours Episode 10, SmartLogic’s newest developers, Emma Whamond and Micaela Cunha, join Elixir Wizard Owen Bickford to discuss their onboarding experiences, joining a new engineering team, and navigating an unfamiliar codebase. They share tips and challenges on learning new programming languages like Ruby and Elixir while ramping up for ac…

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Harrison Butker is the Left's new Enemy #1 38:52

1+ y ago38:52

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A commencement address at a private Catholic college by an NFL kicker has the Left in an uproar. Why do Harrison Butker's opinions drive leftists so crazy? Meanwhile, the Left was also offended by a different commencement speaker, the always offensive and super controversial Jerry Seinfeld. Plus, the Michael Cohen testimony does not go well for the…