Cautionary tale

Welcome back to another episode of the Wedding Planning Collective podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a little bit of a cautionary tale for those of you who are planning on tackling a lot of DIY projects for your wedding.

We're going to go over some of the things that I think are a great way to incorporate DIY projects into your wedding where you can save a little bit of money or if you're just a crafty person you can make things and feel a little bit more connected to some of your wedding details and But more importantly, we're also going to talk about the things that I think are the biggest mistakes that couples make when thinking that they can save a little bit of money by tackling projects themselves.

And of course, just like most things, this episode is inspired by all of the crazy stories that I have over the past 20 years.

I'm good.

So we, I did a cautionary tale about Elizabeth Holmes as a podcast because I have always been fascinated by her story since, God, I don't know, 2017 when all this stuff started to happen.

And I thought it would be great to continue that story, but Now that the documentary is out, we both have seen it and have a lot of comments to make about this.

Anything else that you want to share before we get started?

And if you look at sort of the visionary CEOs that we've had, there are a lot of parallels where if you look at some of the largest companies today, they're changing the nature of the world when it comes to AI, self-driving cars.

The technology space in general is very disruptive and it takes individuals that have really strong conviction in what they're doing to get that across the line, I think, to an extent, and to inspire people to join them and make that vision a reality.

But I think this is a cautionary tale where that's gone too far.

And there's huge negatives if you do take that too far.

21st century witch hunts around the world are a reminder that the lessons of history must continually be learned, or else history will be repeated.

The Salem Witch Trials, the world's most notorious witch hunt, remains a tragic cautionary tale.

I mean, there's no doubt a terrible wrong was done on all of the accused.

They were all innocent of everything other than they deviated slightly from what the Puritans thought at the time.

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Coming up next, is the Dante Moore saga going to be a cautionary tale for other quarterbacks in the future? We'll talk about it next here on 101 ESPN.

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You're now making seven figures to stay in college and to really work on your craft and to get yourself prepared to not just be an NFL player, but to hopefully be a good NFL player by the time that you're drafted into the league.

So I thought it was the right call by him, and I like that more quarterbacks are able to do this and are willing to do this.

Does an injury like this in a season like what he was having even prior to the injury, do you think that provides a cautionary tale for some of these players that might consider coming back for a fourth or a fifth year?

Yeah, I think it should.

And you have a church that's doing the same thing, you know, who's pulling back the rails.

Um, it's just, and so it's a cautionary tale for America.

It's, it's, um, Yeah.

And so a call to action.

And I also wanted to say one more thing.

I love Halloween and I love the cautionary tale falling in Halloween.

So as we have the guests, I thought it would be more fun for us to have this cautionary tale since it is Halloween as it has kind of like a spooky vibe to it.

So with that said, I'm going to start our podcast with you today.

So here's a sentence that I want you to sit with and think about.

The question was, what was it that he did with it? What he did repeatedly was dismiss it, punish the people who delivered it, and then continue the policy.

Which leads us to my favorite segment of the podcast, and that is Kellerman's framework of bad leadership and the types of bad leadership.

So I'm using Barbara Kellerman's framework in these series of cautionary tales and applying three categories to Mao.

The story remains unfinished not because someone closed the case, but because the evidence never quite wrapped itself into one clean narrative.

In that sense, it's both an intriguing mystery and a cautionary tale about how we interpret what we see against a backdrop of fear, imagination, and the human propensity to fill blanks with wonder.

Thanks so much for joining me on this deep dive.

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So that's that.

That's my catasetum cautionary tale, and I promise you, there's a happier chapter in this story, 'cause in a few minutes, I'm gonna talk about the catasetums that are blooming and the surprise that come with them.

So before that, let's talk about late spring, early summer.

Let's go somewhere warm and bright and, and talk about my favorite cattleyas.

What matters for our purposes is not diagnosing Caligula from 2,000 years away, but understanding the script that was handed to him.

He was born into a family that Rome turned into a cautionary tale.

A story that senators told each other about what happens when a prince becomes too popular.

A story emperors told themselves about what threats must be removed before they grow.

they say he did things no sane emperor would do which in their world largely means he did things that flattened hierarchies they needed to preserve the political function of these performances is almost never admitted An emperor, visibly in command of the games, is demonstrating control of violence, of gladiators, of beasts, of life and death.

An emperor who can turn a crowd from sullen to cheering through a single gesture, a gift, a joke, is demonstrating control of public opinion.

an emperor whose voice fills the theatre is auditioning in a sense for the role of living symbol of rome caligula seems to have understood that the imperial job was literally a part to be played Raised in a family that had been turned into living propaganda, Germanicus the hero, Agrippina the virtuous matron, Tiberius the dark cautionary tale, he'd watched how image could make or break a ruler.

So he leans into the performative side of power, maybe harder than any emperor before him.

Tonight we have an independent film that's called Host.

It should also be called Cautionary Tale.

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Yeah, for sure.