Arroe Collins Like It's Live

RULE OF LIES: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin's Russia by Jamison Firestone (Harper; June 23, 2026) is a true story that reads like a spy thriller-darkly comic, violent, and unnervingly real. Rather than explaining Russia's destruction of rule of law and democracy through politicians or oligarchs, the book tells it from the inside out: how an American lawyer walked straight into chaos and managed to live long enough to expose it.Raised by a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who hung out with mobsters and owned Manhattan's most expensive brothel, Firestone learned early on how to deal with criminals. At twenty-four, fresh out of law school and desperate to escape that world, he struck out for the Wild East, the disintegrating Soviet Union. In 1991, as Russia slid into lawlessness, he founded the country's first independent foreign-owned law firm-an act his law school equated with insanity.What followed was out of the frying pan and into the fire. For nearly two decades, Firestone lived in the maelstrom of post-Soviet Russia, defending himself and his clients against mafia attacks, corrupt police, and armed commandos who raided his office. He was threatened, surveilled, extorted-and at one point forced to raid his own offices with a SWAT team and bug the offices of the Russian police just to stay alive. In a system where the law was a weapon, survival meant learning how to fight back.Firestone soon found himself at the center of Russia's most explosive scandals. He employed Sergei Magnitsky, whose exposure of the largest tax theft in Russian history led to his imprisonment, torture, and murder. Refusing silence, Firestone joined Bill Browder and teamed up with Alexei Navalny to expose Magnitsky's killers and take their blood money.Along the way, he inadvertently inspired Navalny to develop the corruption-exposing videos that would later threaten the Kremlin-and helped trigger an open war with the Russian state over the Magnitsky Acts, legislation threatening sanctions against Russia's most powerful figures.RULE OF LIES is both an adventure and an indictment: how a fragile democracy was hijacked by criminals and KGB spooks and transformed into a true mafia state. And how a small group of people decided to hit back. Darkly funny, often horrifying, and deeply personal, it is a warning about what happens when corruption hardens into governance-and what it costs to resist.

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Tell Me Something Messy is your unfiltered companion for relationships, adulting, and defeating shame! Each week, writer and comedian Brandon Kyle Goodman invites listeners (aka Messy Patrons) to leave perfectionism at the door and wadeinto the wonderfully unhinged world of dating, personal growth, and getting comfortable with disappointing your mom! (Seriously, it's okay!) With candid guests and plenty of messy giggles, BKG spills the kind of piping hot tea that compassionately emboldens listeners to say the quiet things out loud and embrace their messiest truths! Don't be shy baby, tell us something messy! SomethingMessy.com or email [email protected] available here:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-tell-me-something-messy-w-212748346 

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August 22, 2025 Iryna Zarutska was brutally murdered in Charlotte, NC.  Nobody is talking about it.  Plus, what are the rumors that a German tank is buried beneath the soil at Camp North End?  

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   How are all of these old tv shows making it back to American television?  Laff TV is getting the last laugh!  Plus…are humans the cause of tomorrows dried up desert floors?   I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…    

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Colin Woodard, Director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center and a New York Times best-selling author, will discuss how, surprisingly, where people settled during colonial times may still help explain some of America's deepest divides today. Using original research and polling data, he'll show how differences in trust, community engagement, health outcomes, and attitudes on major issues continue to vary across regions in remarkably consistent ways. At a more local level, the research also examined why some communities feel more connected, engaged, and trusting than others? The Social Capital Index looks at factors tied to strong communities, including volunteering, voter participation, involvement in local organizations, and overall community trust. Researchers say areas with higher social capital often experience stronger civic engagement, healthier communities, and a greater sense of connection. Even with regional differences, Woodard’s research shows that a common belief in the principles of the Declaration of Independence still holds us together. Recent polling from Nationhood Lab found Americans agreed by a 97-2 margin that citizens are duty-bound to protect one another’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. More than 80 percent of Americans said the country is defined by those shared principles, even during today’s polarized political climate.

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From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes THE GOD TEST: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning (June 23rd, 2026/$30.00 hardcover), a sweeping new view of AI as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political, moral, and even spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.THE GOD TEST is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution-to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked the current wave of advance and compellingly show why this wave will grow in magnitude and meaning. Written by one of our foremost public intellectuals and informed by his decades of chronicling the digital age, the book argues that we are about to witness the most radical transformation of politics and psychology in the history of our species.To realize this revolution's promise and avoid its potentially catastrophic perils, we'll have to navigate it as a cohesive global community. Pulling this off will require radically innovative governance and progress along another dimension as well: Humankind will have to get better at transcending the cognitive biases that constitute the "psychology of tribalism." We'll have to take a big step toward true enlightenment.Wright says that to truly understand this moment in technological history, we need to expand our perspective beyond the last century or even the whole history of technology and look back across billions of years of life on Earth. The advance of AI, he argues, is driven by evolutionary dynamics like those that led to intelligent life in the first place. And understanding those dynamics can empower us to confront our climactic challenge: Can we muster the intellectual and moral resources needed to guide this technology wisely?If we fail, the consequences for the whole planet could be grave. But if we meet the challenge-if we pass "the God test"-we can live in a world where humanity thrives, finding not just happiness but deeper meaning and purpose. The very machines that might otherwise imperil or oppress us can enrich us, helping us transcend the psychological impediments to human concord and fulfillment.

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"Instant Italian" Season 2 Premieres Monday, June 29 at 10pm ET/PT on FYI with Back-to-Back Episodes!Season 2 of "Instant Italian" joins chef, cookbook author, recipe developer, and culinary influencer Anna Francese Gass back in the kitchen as she shares fresh takes on beloved Italian dishes. Drawing inspiration from her childhood visits to Calabria, Anna puts a creative spin on classic recipes while keeping them approachable for home cooks. Each half-hour episode features vibrant dishes and practical tips, with this season showcasing recipes like tiramisu brownies, shrimp scampi meatballs, arancini casserole, and limoncello olive oil cake.

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TikTok says one thing. AI says another. So, who should you trust when it comes to treating a headache, fever, or other everyday health concerns? With health misinformation spreading faster than ever across social media, podcasts, and AI tools, millions of Americans are making decisions about everyday issues like fever and pain management based on inaccurate or misleading information. Experts from the American Pharmacists Association will help listeners cut through the noise with clear, evidence-based guidance on safely using over-the-counter medications, recognizing when self-care isn't enough, and knowing where to find trustworthy health information.

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   When company managers hop between jobs, is it completely natural when employees find no reason to trust them?  Plus…a tv show quote about space and how its really not any of our business.   I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…

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Mandy Gonzalez Sings Lin-Manuel Miranda.A Broadway powerhouse known for her starring roles in Sunset Blvd, Wicked, Hamilton, and In the Heights, Mandy debuted this show at Carnegie Hall to a standing ovation and rave feedback from both audiences and Lin-Manuel Miranda himself (see attached). She’s bringing the production to select cities nationwide this year, and I’d love to set up an interview for Mandy to speak about the show and collaboration with Lin! Everything I Know is a symphonic concert experience celebrating Miranda’s iconic music—from Hamilton, In the Heights, Moana, Encanto, and The Little Mermaid to rarely performed gems like 21 Chump Street and “Delivery.” As one of Miranda’s earliest collaborators, Mandy brings a uniquely personal perspective and emotional depth to the material. It won’t take long to understand exactly why Lin-Manuel Miranda praises Mandy Gonzalez as “...one of the greatest singers on earth.”Mandy and Lin first met in 2004 and have collaborated for over 20 years. After years of concert performances, Mandy saw growing audience demand for a full symphonic experience of his work and partnered with Lin to create this show.

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