The Pour Over Today - Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Episode Date: December 1, 2021

Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter, big moves in sports, a controversial new gas pipeline, and other top news for Wednesday December, 1st. Stay informed, while remaining focused on Christ, with The Pour Over. Learn more about why we recommend CSB: https://link.thepourover.org/csbdec1

Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter, big moves in sports, a controversial new gas pipeline, and other top news for Wednesday, December 1st. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pullover. Thanks for joining us. Here's the quote of the day. In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture, so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer. Richard J. Foster. Let's jump right in with some espresso shots. Jack Dorsey is stepping down into the lowly territory of being CEO of just one publicly traded company. At Jack, founder and CEO of both Twitter and Square

announced his resignation from the social media giant on Monday, via Twitter, and said he'd leave its board in, quote, May-ish, unquote. He served as CEO from 2006 to 2008, and again since 2015. During his second stint, Twitter grew and became more profitable, but has also suffered from more impressive Big Brother syndrome with Meta, Facebook. $3.6 billion in profit is less impressive when it's put next to $86 billion. Pere Agrawal, who started with Twitter 10 years ago as an engineer, has replaced Jack as CEO, and Jack will devote more time to his payment processing company, Square. Our goal is to keep the big things big and the small things small. It's not that who Twitter's CEO is isn't important. It's just not God of the universe important. Stay focused on eternity. It changes everything. Colossians 3, 2-4 says,

We've learned two things so far this week. The college football carousel is a-spinnin', and the MLB is a-spendin'. Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley accepted an offer he couldn't refuse to coach the USC Trojans, and the unraveling Sooners quickly lost recruits, players, and coaches in the wake of the coup. Not to be outdone, LSU announced its first blockbuster hire. Brian Kelly, Notre Dame's winningest coach, is calling Baton Rouge his new home thanks to a new 10-year, $100 million contract. Over in the MLB, the Texas Rangers dropped more than any team in an offseason ever,

in less than 24 hours, to snag some new lone stars. And the NY Mets signed star pitcher Max Scherger to a record-setting contract with an annual salary higher than two franchises' entire payrolls. Nord Stream 2 isn't a new super soaker. It's a controversial natural gas pipeline stretching from Germany to Russia. The 756-mile-long tube will drastically lower shipping costs for Russia and the EU but effectively cut out Ukraine's massive transit network. Supporting Ukraine, the U.S. is considering sanctions against Russia to prevent them from gaining too much control over Europe's energy grid. This potential move is causing tensions to rise, with Germany lobbying against

the potential sanctions and Russia threatening violence against Ukraine, sending roughly 100,000 troops to their border. Elsewhere in the South Pacific, the Pentagon is set to begin building bases in Guam and Australia to prepare the U.S. military to better counter China, who recently tested their first hypersonic missile. Our hope is never contingent on a geopolitical outcome. It's much more secure than that. Regardless of whether things get worse or better, based on the decisions of world powers, everything eventually ends well for followers of Christ. Philippians 4.6 says, Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,

present your requests to God. There are a lot of reasons to read a Bible. Private devotion, accidentally taking a Greek history class, scripture memorization, exercising your page-flipping fingers, and many others. No matter your reason, we recommend the CSB Translation. Their team of translators expertly delivered on the vision for an English translation that placed equal value on fidelity to the original language and readability for a modern audience. Check out the link in the show notes to

learn more about why we recommend CSB. In other brews, here's a rapid round of updates. An expert panel voted 13-10 to recommend the FDA-authorized Merck's COVID pill for high-risk adults, and the agency is expected to make the final decision within days. Meanwhile, the CDC updated their booster guidance to say all adults 18 plus should get the booster. The agency previously said all adults may get it. The stock market had a tough Tuesday. The Dow and S&P 500 were both down almost 2% yesterday, reacting to both Omicron and news that the Federal Reserve is considering rolling back pandemic-era support quicker than before in order to combat inflation.

In his first interview since the car accident in February, Tiger Woods says he aims to play a few tournaments a year, but will never play golf full-time again. He dodged questions about the crash, but said he's lucky to be alive, and it was 50-50 on whether his leg would be amputated. Negotiations over lifting economic sanctions on Iran in return for them limiting nuclear development have re-re-restarted. Iran is still angry about the U.S. withdrawing from the previous deal and is refusing to meet directly, so European diplomats are relaying messages between American and Iranian officials

in separate hotels. Efficient. Actor Jussie Smollett's trial began Monday. Smollett, who is black, is accused of staging a, quote, fake hate crime, unquote, for publicity to further his career. Prosecutors say he paid men to tie a noose around his neck while shouting MAGA. The defense says, quote, Smollett is a real victim, unquote, and that he was hurt during the incident. There's a new queen in Barbados. The island nation officially became a parliamentary republic, separating its ties with the UK and Queen Elizabeth.

In the celebratory event, the country recognized their new president, Mia Motley, and honored its most famous native singer and entrepreneur, Rihanna, as a national hero. And that's all we have for today. Thank you so much for listening. And a special thank you to our TPO baristas who helped make this podcast and our newsletter possible. If you would like to be a barista and support this podcast at a deeper level, go to theporeover.org slash barista. And if you've made it this far into the episode, our guess is that you've enjoyed it at least a little. And we would ask that you please give us a five-star rating.

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