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"So essentially that kind of confirmed what I was thinking that in general, the more accurate the empire, the more their calls conform to the rule book strike zone, the better offense is when those empires are behind the plate. So that might suggest that if we go full on toward accuracy and we have robot ups, then there would indeed be a boost to offense. So that supports what I was thinking and I guess if you want more contact and more scoring, et cetera, I guess that's another argument in favor of robot ups. I have expressed some reservations about the fact that, you know, if you have robot arms, then you get rid of the tendency for the zone to expand and contract, depending on the count, which a lot of people I think look at as a benefit that it's unfair that it's inconsistent, but as I've noted, it does give a leg up to the disadvantaged party. So if the pitchers behind in the count, they get a leg up, if the hitter is behind an account, they get a leg up. And so you would have more non competitive plate appearances essentially where you would not kind of give a boost to the party that is currently in the hole. So I think that might be bad, but on the whole, I think, offense would increase slightly if they were to just implement the robot zone immediately like right now. Now all of this, the big caveat is that when and if they do, impose some sort of automatic strike zone, they may very well change the contours of it, right? Because you wouldn't want some pitches that are technically strikes, like maybe some curve that just dips down and catches the very bottom of the strike zone, but basically no one thinks it's a strike and no one would call it a strike. So they will probably make some tweaks and they have made some tweaks in the miners to change the dimension. So if they change the dimension significantly, then really all bets are off because they could decide to make it more offense friendly or less Athens friendly. But all else being equal, I think the predictability of it would help hitters and I think these results are some evidence to kind of corroborate that as best we can without actually seeing it in action. Yeah. Is that a benefit for you, I guess, I guess many people would consider it to be, but I don't know. I guess I like the idea of just having more contact, however, that is, I don't think this is like the most efficient way to do it that would not be the reason to do it. It might just be a nice little perk on top if you already want that system just for consistency's sake. I guess I really do wonder, this is sort of related to my question about how much do we notice strikeouts? How much do we notice the missing balls in play? How much do we notice the home runs? I wonder how good a sense the average fan has of like what the zone really does, right? Like how people calling the zone impacts the game in particular counts in particular circumstances. I think they think they want one thing. They definitely want something, but I don't know if they're going to get what they want. Like what they actually think they're going to get, you know? Oh yeah, there could be all kinds of consequences. You just might not like in practice what you think you'd like in theory. Yeah, 'cause they were like gonna get so mad at those curve balls that clip the zone. You can guess so I'm mad about it. Yeah. Yeah. And I will say that the connection between how accurate the umps are and how pitcher or hit her friendly they are. It's not so strong that being very accurate means you're definitely hit her friendly and vice versa. In fact, it varies quite a bit. So in this two season regular season sample, there was a three way tie for most accurate ump between our boy John lipka, our other boy pat hoberg, and also Jeremy re hack, who I mentioned the other day too. The official of the effectively wild podcast. Our boys, that's how I always refer to them, you know? Like, that's my, that's my boy Patrick. A lot of abuse. There should be four vampires. I'm not look, Ben. You know me, I feel bad that they get Buddha as much as they do. I don't know that I am as close to like getting a Jersey. You know, Ben, Ben. You know what this means? What? Okay, so next year you will be, you'll be in this magic zone of Halloween, right? You will want to do Halloween because of Sloan, but Sloan will still be too little to express a preference for a costume. Yeah. And so like, you could be an umpire, you could be pat hoberg, and she could be the strike zone, then you could just hold her. It would be adorable, or you could get if she's not into costumes, you could get a onesie with a picture frame on it and draw a baseball in the middle. She could be pitch framing. We're gonna work on it. We have a whole year to workshop us, but this idea is awake. Yeah, we're gonna get there though. Anyway, those three were tied with a 95.2% accuracy rate. And in terms of whether they were offense friendly or not, all over the map, basically. Just lipka, very accurate umpire and was the 9th most hitter friendly of the 76 who at least 40 games re hack also same accuracy rate. He was the 48th most hitter friendly of the 76. And then pat hoberg, same accuracy rate, he was 70th. Out of 76. So Ho Berg, at least in this sample, was pretty picture friendly, lipka pretty hindered friendly, even with the same overall accuracy rate. So there's going to be some variation obviously because it depends on who's pitching when those empires happen to be played and who's catching and all of that. And hopefully that all kind of comes out in the wash when you look at the full sample, but it might not for an individual umpire even over multiple seasons. Anyway, there's not that big a gap in the accuracy rates in general. It goes from 95 something to like 92 or something. So that's probably why even bigger gap doesn't appear in the offensive statistics is that there's not that huge a gap in the accuracy rates. That's improved over time. If you did this on a game level, if you looked at the umpire accuracy on a game level and then matched that up with the offense on a game level, maybe you'd get an even stronger single there. So if anyone wants to do that, or perhaps I will do it in a future step less, but that might be even more telling. Anyway, thought that was interesting. And lastly, I will give you the past blast. This is, of course, episode 1924, and thus this past blast comes from 1924, and from Jacob renke, Sabres director of editorial content and chair of the black Sox scandal research committee, and he headlines this 1924, the razzing fan. This is very topical. Philly's third baseman Alec bohm came under fire earlier this season when he grumbled about the hometown fans booing him at Citizens Bank park. He interrupts you. Sure. I'm gonna interrupt you and by extension Joe Davis, who gave what I imagine was also a sanitized version of this story. And I think that there should be a special exemption from potential fines for swearing on the air to tell the story. Because he didn't express what I was supposed to say. I hate this place. Yes, he did. And it was great. It was great. And Philly's fins for David. Yes. She was like, that was too much. Yeah, right. He was like, you know, it was a tough moment, and I didn't mean it and emotions got the best of me, and it was frustrating time. And they gave him an ovation and all seems to be forgiven. So that's great. He apologized, and that's that. Anyway, continuing, but Philadelphia fans earn their reputation for blunt honesty a long time ago, back in 1924, they were called out publicly for their rowdy behavior, according to this article that appeared in Collier's eye on June 7th. The razzing fan must go. Banned Johnson, president of the American League thinks the leader of ill natured booing in the stands should be ejected. This enthusiast not only begins to swing others to his way of thinking, but is annoying to the fans who wish to sit peaceably and enjoy the game. Philadelphia is the worst city in the league in this practice, mister Johnson says, and he believes the continual criticism of the players is largely responsible for the poor showing of the team. He holds the fans are justified in a certain amount of criticism, but he deplores the noisy, ill bred type who hurls insults from the stands, believing he is immune from responsibility, and Jacob concludes Philadelphia, of course, had not one, but two terrible teams to boo in 1924, the Phillies last 96 games with the lowest scoring offense
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"1924" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"So how dare Larry Anderson disparage the perfect pat hoberg the day after his perfection or the game after his perfection and question whether he was in fact perfect and who could possibly come up with such stats now. It's fair to question. We questioned it when we talked about it. But still, give the guy some credit, so come on, Larry, how dare you. But also the topic of umpire perfect games in pat hog's perfection. Maybe wonder something about umpire accuracy, which is how does umpire accuracy affect offense and scoring? Because you could say that a more perfect that a more accurate umpire is almost a preview of what we might get in a robot ump swirled where everything is accurate or at least conforms to some preset strike zone. And my prior has been that robo umps that having a strictly defined and strictly observed strike zone would benefit hitters, I think, just because more predictability, I think, and maybe you could look at whether it would increase or decrease the size of the zone and that kind of depends on how exactly they set the specifications. But I think just having the predictability of knowing exactly what is a strike and being able to anticipate that and have confidence in that. I think on the whole that would probably benefit hitters, so that was my expectation and I thought that maybe by examining the most accurate umpires in the least accurate umpires and seeing what offense was like in the games that they have umpired, maybe that could give us a little sneak preview and an indication of whether that is in fact the case so that if we now impose robot ups and we have perfect accuracy at every game unless the system malfunctions, then maybe this would be a sign of what the offensive effects would be. So I got from baseball prospectus and Lucas pastillas, data on offense when each umpire was behind the plate and then I linked that up with data from umpire scorecards in our friend Ethan singer and then I looked to see if there was some kind of correlation between umpire accuracy and offense when those umpires were behind the plate. So I looked for the regular season, combining 2021 and 2022, and there were 105 home plate umpires during that span. I limited it to umpires who had home plate umped at least 40 games so that took me down to a sample of 76 umpires and first I just ran a correlation between umpire accuracy and various offensive stats. And it worked out the way that I expected that it would. So my hypothesis was kind of supported here. These are fairly weak, correlations. They're like in the .2 wish range mostly, but everything moves in the direction that you would expect it to, or at least there's a correlation there. So for example, there's a positive correlation between umpire accuracy and runs allowed per 9. So the higher the accuracy, the higher the runs allowed per 9 tends to be when that umpire is behind the plate. Same for ERA, same for batting average and on base percentage and slugging percentage and home run rate and whip and walk rate strikeout rate is the opposite, so the higher the umpire accuracy tends to be the lower the strikeout rate tends to be. It seems like maybe the only exception is ground ball rate, which goes in the other direction where the higher the umpire accuracy, the higher the ground ball rate, which would work against offense on the whole. So I'll put this spreadsheet online and link to it if you're interested in the specific correlations. But basically like weak correlations in the direction that I would have expected in just about every case, strike rate also, so the higher the umpire accuracy, the lower the strike percentage. So that checks out. And then as another check, I just divided the sample into two. So I had 38 umpires in each sample and then I also divided it into quartiles and I took the top quartile in the bottom quartile samples of 19 empires a piece or the 38 in the top half and the 38 in the bottom half, and then I just compared the weighted offensive stats of each of those groups. And again, there is some signal there as well. It's not huge, but there is some difference. So for example, the top half of umpires, this is the top half in terms of accuracy had a 4.56 runs allowed per 9 and then the bottom half in terms of accuracy 4.45. So a little more than a tenth of a run per 9 scored more when the more accurate umpires are behind the plate, or if we look at that in terms of ERA, it's 4.19 ERA allowed when the more accurate umpires are behind the plate four 7 when the less accurate umpires are behind the plate and it kind of follows from there it's a difference of a couple points of batting average and a few points of OPP and maybe 5 or 6 points of slugging and on and on. And then I looked at the top quartile and the bottom quartile. Also, so taking more extreme groups of the more accurate and the less accurate. And again, it's very similar in some cases a more pronounced difference than with the top half and bottom half. So the ERA gap is like 4.2 for the top quartile accurate umpires and then 4.06 for the bottom quartile and again, I will link to this if you want to see the specific numbers it's not all that interesting to read along list of numbers. But small differences in the direction that we would expect in all of these categories.
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"They are trying to model that in a way that is rigorous and scientifically based and often involves people with degrees in kinds of science that I don't understand, right? And so I think that observation is correct. And I do think that the relentless pursuit of optimization can lead to a lack of biodiversity for lack of a better word in the game. But I think that it's more, I think it's more unsettled than this necessarily allows for. But to bring it all the way back to what I said in the beginning, of course I think that I'm in the weeds with all of this. Right, yeah. So that might be a limitation to my own analysis of how this stuff looks because, you know, of course I'm going to notice the difference between baseball a couple of years ago when only Houston not only has mostly Houston was like looking at guys with fastballs up in the zone that had a particular fastball profile and now everybody's looking for those guys so we got to look for something else in the draft. Of course I'm going to know that but why would Derek know that? That's fine that he doesn't know that or care about that because that's not his beat. So yeah, I don't know. I do think that the broader observation that a relentless push toward optimization leads to sameness is like a good insight to have and it certainly affects baseball as much as it affects other things. I think the manifestation of it in baseball versus forms of understood infinite culture like say music or movies is different because you know if you're a studio you care about your movie winning from a box office perspective, but if you're a critic or just a movie goer, you don't care about that. And some people, including me can be a little exhausted by all the comic book stuff, but some of that stuff is fun. So I don't know, I don't think that it's not that that isn't a force in other forms of pop culture, but I think the manifestation of it is different in a game versus art. So there's that. I think so. And Derek does acknowledge it's not necessarily a problem that people watch a lot of marvel movies. It's just a fact people like marvel movies, that's why they watch them, and that's why they make them a lot. I think that is one difference because yes, he does extend this to movies and to music and he notes that there's more homogeneity there and the charts are more static and it's harder to break in and popular songs, stay popular, longer, and you have the same sort of blockbusters repeatedly. I think that in that sphere in that arena, it's different from baseball well, in many ways, but for one thing, teams are trying to win games primarily. Of course, they're trying to make money, which would mean trying to be entertaining. But as we've talked about many times, I think how entertaining the team is is somewhat divorced from the money making potential of the organization. Now, which is perhaps one thing that is contributing cause here, but also if the team is primarily trying to win, that's a very different goal from trying to maximize the popularity of the sport, whereas if a studio is trying to make money, well, they're trying to maximize the popularity of the movies that they make, which is somewhat better aligned now that might mean that you please critics a little less or you make fewer of a certain type of movie. Let's say, and personally, a lot of that is true. I mean, there's certainly more sequels and reboots and a lot of IP that is recycled over and over. And look, there's an appetite for that clearly, and a lot of that is about minimizing risk in the absence of a monoculture, et cetera but I think there's still a lot of variety, I think, like there's more of everything than I have time to consume and try to keep my finger on the pulse as much as I can, but I can't keep up. So even if you say, oh, they don't make that many whatever mid budget movies anymore or rom coms anymore or whatever it is that is a little less common. It's still too common for me to actually watch all of it, so it's like, I don't consider it to be that huge a problem personally. But I think in baseball specifically, you know, people talk about how the NBA, the NFL, have, if anything, gotten more entertaining, more popular as they have gotten quote unquote solved as people have passed more as people have gone for it on fourth down more have shot three pointers more. It is maybe more homogeneous, but not necessarily worse. Some people do believe that it's less entertaining other people. There are people really hate three point shots, man. They're really out on the three pointer. Yeah. And you know, I think rainy just early made a point that maybe the difference between those sports and baseball is something very fundamental, which is that in baseball, the defense starts with the ball and rainy noted that the more analytics advance, the more of an advantage there is and being the first mover because the
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"So unless he picked up on something while he's like in the hole or on the tech circle, I guess it's possible one of the other hitters who made it out before him, perhaps I guess what three hitters because there was a runner on base could have flagged something potentially. I think what if 5 homers I think they were on like four different pitch types or something too, which again, you know, it wasn't like they were hitting only the same pitch type over or two or something and I think there's a lot to be said for just the Phillies being smart and anticipating what he was going to throw just because of his patterns more so than seeing something and Ken Rosenthal had a good article about that in the athletic and I'll just read a little bit there. Poor execution, yes, but strong anticipation by the Phillies two before the game several Phillies recalled schwarber's lead off Homer off a first pitch fastball from a colors on October 3rd, joking the left Fielder wouldn't see a fast ball all night. He wasn't going to throw me one schwarber said and mccullers didn't. Afterward, the Phillies talked about how bohm knew to expect a fastball in his first at bat remembering that in game two, Maldonado expressed visible frustration after boom hit a 9th inning double off a Ryan Presley curve. Sure enough, mccullers threw bohm at first pitch sinker. Sure enough, boom hit it out. That's intelligent baseball from an intelligent team for all the intrigue about what Harper said to poem in the on deck circle such conversations are not unusual, maybe Harper was reminding them to hunt the fastball. Maybe he was simply offering encouragement. Right. It wasn't necessarily an aha moment. So that's good to point out. And in this article, again, quoting Nick Castellanos praised the Phillies analytics team saying the group excels at picking up the tendencies of opposing pitchers, Castellanos though probably was referring more to pitch selection and sequencing than tipping. The Phillies knew mccullers wanted to throw his slider early on, they detected weaknesses in his body language and then in their lions den of a ballpark they pounced. So again, like maybe it's just looking at when the colors tends to throw things using the information they had from previous matchups and applying it and then having good swings it could be as simple as that or some pitches missing their location. So it's, you know, it's fun to talk about, but I think, yeah, I never have any great degree of certainty when it comes to this. Now, if it comes out, later in some post World Series piece, you know, like 2015 royals style. Story where we find out that such and such advanced scout picked up on this thing and the Philly's new thing, well, great, and that would be good to know at that point. And I guess we will stand corrected for our skepticism, but I think it's always smart to be somewhat skeptical about that. Not saying, don't talk about it, don't speculate it. The certainty, I just, I don't have it. Apply the appropriate caveats so that everyone doesn't come away being like, this is definitely what happened. I think Ben that I misspoke and said that, boom, it is home run off a slider and I was wrong. It was a sinker. It was marsh who hit one office later. But then again, started Reese Hoskins. So, you know, some stuff to know about them in their home runs. Yep. All right. Well, again, there has been another game as you listen to this since we are speaking. So I guess we can move on from the World Series. We can catch up on that next time and again, we will be live streaming during game 5 so just a couple more things to mention here. I wanted to just bring up this article that's been going around this week by Dirk Thompson in the athletic Derek Thompson writer for the athletic also. I should acknowledge me Atlantic. Oh, sorry. Okay. I do that. Yeah, though I do that too. Yeah. Let's leave it in because I always say athletic what I mean. Or the other way around. He is a writer for the Atlantic. He writes places with words. He also does it podcast for the ringer. I should acknowledge kind of a colleague. Anyway, he wrote this piece for the Atlantic called what Moneyball for everything has done to American culture, sub head you can make a thing so perfect that it's ruined. And this was Derek basically examining his own lack of enthusiasm for baseball, used to be a baseball fan, doesn't care about baseball anymore. And he is pinning the blame on baseball being solved, essentially, by analytics and that those solves have pushed the game in a spectator unfriendly direction and then he is broadening this point out to apply it to many things in culture and society as a whole as things get just increasingly quantified. You identify the most effective thing and then things get more homogeneous and samey. And I don't know that this is a new idea, it's something that we've certainly talked about as sit pertains to baseball many times on this podcast and analytical sabermetric circles. This has been kind of a common talking point, just the effect that analytics and that sabermetrics and that identifying the optimal ways to win at the sport have had some unintended consequences. Now, I suppose I don't dispute any of the observations about baseball being less entertaining in certain ways because of strikeouts because of a parade of pictures because of velocity, all of that. I guess I wonder to what extent that is responsible, solely responsible for the place of baseball in the cultural landscape or for many devoted former fans. Slackening of appreciation or enthusiasm for the sport, you know, like if we could do an alternate history where we didn't change anything except for the fact that the MLB strikeout rate and velocity and pitchers per game or whatever else were the same as they were in pick your previous era. If we kept everything else constant and just changed the game aesthetically and stylistically in certain ways to make it maybe more entertaining or more like it was before. Would that account for most of the quote unquote decline in baseball or the decline in market share or mindshare or however you want to express that? I mean, I think a lot of it is just that almost everything except the NFL, I guess. Is less popular than it used to be. Just because everything is fractured and it's post monoculture and they're just so, so many entertainment options that I don't think there was any way that MLB could retain the same share of the spotlight that it once had because almost nothing has been able to do that. Yep. The most popular events again, maybe other than football like award shows and whatever else has kind of been a unifying force in the culture. Everything just has fewer eyeballs on it than it used to be. The most popular TV shows are less watched than TV shows used to be, et cetera, et cetera.
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"Yeah, I wonder, and players who poop themselves? Do you just throw that in the laundry? Or do you say, let's just dispose of this and start over. Yeah. Well, okay, so bad. Important here to note that I don't think they're actually bare assing it under there. And so you don't think it penetrates hopefully you got a line of defense between you and the pants, you know? And again, we don't know of anyone who has pooped themselves such that it was obvious on their pants, right? Archie Riley famously couldn't really tell except for him telling us. So I don't think we're having blowouts every night. Even when guys were like, I gotta get out of here 'cause otherwise I'm gonna boot myself up in front of us. It was a blowout on Tuesday, but not that fun. But yeah, I do wonder because I assume in the miners, you probably patch those things pretty often. Yeah. But in the big leagues, hey, you're in the shelves, like let's get a good clean pair of pants here. So I wonder we should, in the depths of winter, we should have like a Clubhouse attendant on to ask these important questions because I can't recall ever noticing or often noticing a repaired pant like where you see like, oh, there's a patch over something where you can tell that this was obviously so stitched or something. I've never noticed that. Like you see the hole in one game and then the next game there's no hole when it starts and it doesn't work. Right, so I don't know. I would imagine that probably go through at least a handful of tears a half dozen pairs of pants. And you know, I don't know how selling works, but maybe they're more vulnerable to ripping after they've been repaired, right? Because there's already been true. You're in the fabric. Anyway. I think what they should do with nicaea is maybe they should just give away free tickets, just out in the outfield corner there and down the line to anyone who will promise to bring a playoff atmosphere and just like dress up and they can just, even if the rest of the ballpark is not sold out, they could just kind of stack that part of the stands so that it seems like a sellout and everyone is yelling like you get free tickets and in exchange you have to do your best to convince Nick Castellanos that it's a playoff atmosphere, whatever that entails so maybe that would work. You really saying to Philly fans come interact with players in the outfield more than you already do. You think that's safe? I think that's a good idea. What he says his mind is really fast and wonders. I mean, obviously there are players who have ADHD and have medication for that. I don't know if the castiel is one of them or should be one of them or whether there are things that a team psychologist could help him with in order to focus and keep his mind from straying from pitch to pitch. I mean, if that is actually a persistent problem, I don't necessarily believe that that's the only thing holding the test handles back up. I think there might be some physical limitations there in addition to maybe mental ones, but interesting, anyway, it's not something I expected from the Phillies like we expected them to bash. So if the bashers and the mashers also make great sliding catches, then it is tough to beat them as it has been all month. So I think there were a couple things that you could question dusty baker about in this game, right? And again, ultimately may not matter all that much. So I can believe that maybe keeping it close matters to an offense or would have changed the way that ranger Suarez pitched, let's say, and so if there had not been as big a deficit, then maybe the Astros would have hit the fallacy of the predetermined outcome as Michael K puts it often. But if everything on the Astros offensive side had played out the way that it had played out, then it really didn't matter what dusty bigger it did. But there were, I guess, a couple of first guests or second guessable decisions. One was starting the colors in the first place, which some people did question when that happened. And the idea was that maybe they should have just skipped my colors or started Javier and then just gone to Verlander. Now I'm sympathetic in that while you propose the theory last time that maybe Justin Verlander's World Series struggles have something to do with fatigue and did say that he wanted to get through Andrew more rest. See, I'm a genius. You are, so maybe you had to start the colors. I think if it did come down to mccullers versus Javier, there is certainly an argument for Javier in that Javier has been better this season, at least. And you could argue that Javier is maybe a better matchup for the Phillies than mccullers is stuff wise. The Phillies, they are good against breaking balls in particular and just like off speed stuff. So I was just looking on baseball savant. They have the 7th highest weighted on basin third highest expected weighted on base, this regular season against off speed and breaking pulse. They had the tenth highest wo be and expected woma against fastballs of all kinds. And if you break it down into types of fastballs,
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"When it's time for the tie fighter pilots to scramble. It's a very haunting alarm sound. Either that or something silly, like maybe a. Not so much in a war as a horn, I suppose. And I wonder. Yeah. So I never know whether to lead with the World Series or lead with other stuff I assume that many of our listeners are watching and paying attention to the World Series. I don't know. What percentage? Well, look, it's a regional sport, right? And 28 fan bases eliminated, right? So who knows? How many people are like, oh, we got to talk about the Phillies and the Astros again. Who cares? Talk about my team. Okay, so today are episode will be about the Pittsburgh pirate snow. Well, Ben, I think you've made a couple of mistakes here. Here's the first one. Okay. There is, I think, for many, there's one fan base, right? There is one fan base that is encompassing the 28 other teams that were eliminated and that is the Phillies. And then there are people who are the Astros. And this is a little simplistic, because I think there are neutral observers who are like some of these extras are pretty fun. And there are plenty of people who have continued frustration from 2017, but dusty baker. You know, like there's at least fans who have a grudge against the Phillies or sure, yeah, like maybe you're just like, look, I don't like the Astros, but I hate the Philly's more because I like the mets. Like maybe that's your Santa clause and you got booed in Philly, although now you got cheered in Philly. So we did that wrong is undone. Yeah, I mean, why would we try to contain the feral? Weird horny energy of the Phillies fan base. It's perfect. I have much like, much like the LDH roster. I don't know how many notes. You're all delightful. Yeah. Well, I think that at this time of year, people expect to hear about the World Series on their baseball podcast, so we will play into their expectations. I do think that probably some people have mentally moved on and are looking ahead to next season, but perhaps those people are not going to be listening to a national baseball podcast anyway. Maybe they're only listening to local based pop podcasts that cover their teams, so I would imagine that people who listen regularly to effectively wowed are interested in the sport as a whole and the league wide landscape and there's nothing more prominent on that landscape right now than the World Series. Not telling anyone anything that they don't know. Just the only non World Series news really of note as we speak here is that the final managerial vacancy was filled. So the White Sox have a manager, they're going with a youth movement at manager. They have hired 53 year olds. Pedro grafa fall. And he is former minor league player, longtime future manager, right? One, ten manager candidate has interviewed many teams. Many times, they have decided he's there in and he has decided that Charlie montoyo is his man as bench coach. It seems like reportedly, so Montoya former bougie's manager and Reyes bench coach will be backing up, so that seems like a strong tandem at the top there. And I guess the only kind of wrinkle here is that had been with the royals for years and also been with other organizations with the Mariners, but he's been with the royals since 2013. He was their quality control coach, he was their catching coach. He was most recently their bench coach and he has interviewed for their managerial job twice. Now once it seemed like they were pretty set on Mike matheny to begin with. But he just recently during this recent round of interviews interviewed with the royals and they opted not to hire him and to hire Matt quatraro as we discussed recently. So I guess you might think that that sounds odd read it if he's this respected future manager candidate and he's been with the royals for years and he's been up for their job. Why wouldn't they just hire him? Does that ill or something should White Sox fans be worried that the royals did not hire the in-house candidate? I don't think so. I think that there could be any number of explanations for that really. Who knows? Maybe he had better interviews with one team than another or something, but I doubt it's even that. It's probably, well, it could be a combination of things, I guess. One thing maybe is that when you take a certain job with a team or an organization or any company, probably many of us have been in this position where you start in one capacity and then maybe your employer sees you as that person as that position and sometimes you have to go elsewhere to get a step up because you got hired to do one thing and maybe you're allowed to grow in that job and keep moving up the ladder, but maybe not maybe they see you as this and not that and you just have to go elsewhere for someone who will give you another bump up. It could also just be that they wanted to make a change, right? They wanted to bring in someone from outside the organization. The royals have not been super successful of late, which is almost certainly not Pedro grifa falls fault, but he was there. So if you want to send the signal that, oh, this is a new day for the Kansas City Royals organization and we're going to do things differently and it's going to be a bit of a break from the past. Then, I guess you would not be inclined to hire the bench coach who's there, right? And it could also be, I don't know, a perception that maybe you want a certain person to tackle a rebuilding team and another person to tackle a team that is expected to win now that is more veteran. Maybe the strengths are different. It's not so much developing players as winning with players who are already good. Who knows? But there are any number of reasonable explanations that I don't think cash that he kind of aspersions on him. It's just kind of one of those strange things, I guess, that he had to go elsewhere to get that gig, but good for him. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot that goes into these hiring processes and it could be any of the things you mentioned. It could just be like they've got blown away when they were interviewing external candidates. There's a lot that can go on there and we don't have, again, like I don't think we have terrific insight into the particular qualifications or how one substantiates those in a managerial interview as outside analysts because we don't, you know, we can't observe that stuff and we can't observe the process once the hire has been made. So I think we are a little bit on the outside looking in on these things and I don't know. I think it'll be I'm going to be fine. The resume here is very impressive. So that's the reason to be like, oh gosh, this is going to go terribly, which isn't something you can always say for White Sox. That's right. And you're striking out in the right direction. Yeah, there's not only did you get someone who seemingly has all the credentials and checks all the boxes, but also it doesn't seem like it was a case of Jerry reinsdorf saying. This is going to be our manager. I don't care what anyone else says. So that's a good thing. This is the normal managerial hiring process as far as we can tell from afar. And sometimes you click with one person and you click more with another person, who knows. Anyway, glad he's getting that chance. And that all of these vacancies are filled or at least all the vacancies that are existing right now. So we don't have to revisit our discussion, I guess, from last time about the rates of the demographics of managers, not that anyone hiring changes things, all that appreciably, but last time we talked about this, which was very recently every vacancy, this winter had gone to a white candidate, and this one did not. So that's a slight change.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Meghan Markle Is Out for Asian Justice on Her Podcast
"May again Markle hopped on her podcast today and decided to call some people out. So in a return to her Spotify podcast, archetypes, worst title ever, she takes on one of the most prominent stereotypes of Asian women on screen, the dragon lady. She said, movies like Austin Powers and kill Bill. They presented these caricatures of women of Asian descent as over centralized or aggressive. She's talking about fuku and fuk me in Austin Powers goldmember and Lucy Liu's hyper violent already she until Bill. She said that such characterizations go at least as far back as 1924 when Anna May Wong played a scheming Mongol slave opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the thief of Baghdad, okay? I wonder how she felt about Mickey Rooney playing mister yunioshi in breakfast at Tiffany's. Or even David Carradine playing Mark kwai Chang Caine in Kung fu. But Meghan Markle maintained that this toxic stereotyping of women of Asian descent. This doesn't just end once the credits roll. Oh, she feels everybody's pain. As a case in point, she introduces sociologist Nancy Wang yoon, who wrote about the dragon lady stereotype in her book real inequality, real with two E's. Everything is equality, equity, inclusion, you and told the story of being catcalled by a man using a line out of full metal jacket while she was traveling to an academic conference. She said, I myself have been proposition in an airport in Atlanta of all places by a stranger who said me so horny. He just yelled it out to me. Now at this point, this podcast should be a fun podcast. Who doesn't laugh at me so horny? She said, I knew why because I looked around and I thought, and I saw that I was the only Asian woman in that area. I knew he was talking to me, even though I don't even know if he ever saw full metal jacket. Okay, listen to me, honey. So because one idiot quoted a line from a film by maybe the greatest director of all time. Therefore, that makes full metal jacket a bad movie.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"It. That should fix it. Leo Laporte tech guy. I couldn't remember the name of it. Oh, I'm so glad you called. I was not aware of this, but you are not alone. This is very widespread. So you had the right instinct, which is, oh, is this something we need to worry about? I'm glad you searched for it. Bleeping computer is a totally reliable site. Bleeping computer dot com. Microsoft has since released two new defenders security intelligence updates, the most recent should fix this. Although you may still get false positives. So you don't need to do the thorough check. I was wrong. It would come up with the same result because it's got bad definitions. Sometimes this happens where a definition goes out that collides with the legit program. In this case, chrome and anything that uses chrome, which is an electron app. So there's a lot of apps. This is if this is affected. So look for an update. Just open windows security. And under virus and threat protection, you already have that open check for updates and get that update. And that should fix it. If it doesn't, you might want to reboot because sometimes it stays in memory, rebooting will force it. Okay. Hey, a pleasure talking to you both. Thank you. Thanks for listening. I'm glad you called. That's really a good thing. Now the world knows it's really important to everybody here this. Thank you. Yeah, well, my wife said, that's kind of, let's call Leo. Finally, something a reason to call. Nice to meet you both. Thanks. Nice to meet you too, bye Leo. Take care of it. All right, let me see if I can get mister pyle on the line here. Pile on the hotline hotline. Hello, rod. Hello. How are you? Well, I'm okay. I'm reaching from our COVID madness. I hear that sherry got it too. Yeah, I took a couple of days and we are going to try and do two separate quarantine and we just finally said, oh, the hell with it. So that's what I said. That's what I did with Lisa. Yeah, I just said, look, I'm not going to. Yeah, I'm going to get it. That's fine. And you're seeing your partner, there are suffering, and you're feeling better, and it's like, okay, I feel better, so I'm going to abandon you for the next 5. And you guys are still okay, right? Absolutely no problem. So I hadn't mentioned your names, but you've just outed yourself to these podcast audience. All right. Okay. No, I'm sorry. It sounds like you were all right, though, you didn't get too sick and neither did cherry. Yeah, it wasn't bad. And God bless modern medical science. I mean, this is my second brush with this. I know you've had it too. I'm so grateful this isn't two years ago. Oh my God, yeah. Who knows what the potential? Yeah. And you got pax lovid, right? Yeah. Did that help? Well, who knows? Who knows? You know what I've been with? So I actually am grateful to you because I got it at months ago. On the cruise. And so I'm almost certain what I got was be a 5. That's probably what you had. And I just feel like you gave me a booster shot. That's all, 'cause I did on. Yeah, thank you. On Wednesday, my throat was scratchy, it's starting to get a headache. I thought, I'm getting it. And then I fought it off and Thursday morning Wednesday night. I kind of middle of the night woke up.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"I hadn't stopped because of the thing. You don't have to go away. Hold on. One other question. The thing makes me stop, you know? One other question if I can then? Sure. My camera that I have won't function with it. I'm just. Well, that's a disadvantage for sure. Yeah. I've got a Sony system set up. But unfortunately, if I upgrade my body, my lens is all about they don't matter. Oh, yeah, then don't. It's not worth it for that. It's not where I have it because it works with my Sony alpha a 7 R but if you have a camera, it doesn't work with, especially if you not only have to upgrade the body, but you'd have to get all new lenses. You're talking thousands of dollars to use this $200 device. I know, but just think. You have guessed. I'm not criticizing. I'm exactly the same. I know exactly what you mean. But take a page for my book. I bought that arsenal too. Same. I bought the pro, same excitement over the idea, the problem is also we're not traveling as much these days. So there wasn't an occasion to use it. What I was thinking is if I ever go back to Egypt and I'm at the temple of Thebes or something. And I want to take a picture of it that's HDR with no people in it. That's the way I would do it. And it's small enough that you can carry it with you. But yeah, you have to look at the supported cameras. Make sure it's with them. If it doesn't work with your current camera, I think a lot of this stuff you can do, okay, get ready for this in your smartphone. The thing you maybe should buy instead is a smartphone compatible tripod, if you have a late model smartphone, a pixel 6, and an iPhone 13, something like that. Yeah, you can do all of this stuff, not maybe with the Apple camera app, but there are third party apps I would look at halide to HAI DE. Halide also makes a photography app for time lapse. A lot of the things that the arsenal does, what the arsenal essentially does is the computational photography that any smart, any good late model smartphone does. Right, right. So honestly, if you've got a good or maybe take the same investment that you would put in all of this stuff and get the latest pixel 7 or the iPhone 14 and then get some of these some of these apps because they're Specter is a time app that for taking a dark pictures it does multiple images. Everybody should have halide. On an iPhone halide to HAL ID, there are a lot of amazing apps. And that's basically what the arsenal is doing is bringing that capability to essentially a dumb camera. The computational capability of a modern smartphone. Okay, that's something for me to look at.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Are you going to put this store? Are you going to use a storefront BigCommerce or somewhere like that? Well, I don't know a whole lot about it. I was just thinking. I would suggest doing that. Well, okay, you can do it on eBay. That's true. It depends. So if you're doing it on eBay, you're using the eBay site. And there's a lot of reasons to do that. People search eBay for stuff all the time. So if you're selling on eBay, that's different. If you want to know your own website where you're selling your own stuff, then you would go to somebody like Shopify to any number of other places to create a site. But let's say you're going to do eBay. eBay also has, I bet you, shipping partners, that you should check and see which shipping partner they use. And then that will determine the hardware that you need. So you see it's a kind of you'd have to know where to start. So let's say assume you're starting at eBay, then they use a variety of people like, I think they use ship rush. So that's going to be software. What's nice is that integrates into your site on eBay. So you don't have to fill in anything by hand. It's just kind of sucks it right up. They negotiate with the shippers. So you'll get a deal with the shippers. They also may integrate into your CRM software or bookkeeping software, things like that. So I'm looking at ship rush, for instance. Once you figure out who that partner is, then you say, okay, now what do I need to do to print? And it depends what you're going to be shipping. Are they going to be packages or envelopes, for instance, some printers will print right on envelopes.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Yeah, I like mid journey. I've been using mid journey. You could do that in a Discord server. It's pretty cool. What's going on here? I have to say. Yeah, there's even a Discord bot for stable diffusion. There's a hundred different projects out there being active right now. They have just been ported to the Apple M1 chip and it really is. I think Cambrian explosion is a very good description. They reduce the amount of Giga of vram gigabytes to 2.2 .8 now. One of the latest forks. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. Wow. Fascinating. And whatever we said right now will be obsolete in a week from now because the development is so fast right now. Yeah, and I noticed the really good prompts have a lot of additional adjectives about this stuff. If you go to prom to mania, you can it'll take a while, it'll take a while to suss out the interface, but you can build really complex, really long prompts with 50 different modifiers and things. So there is. A bit of a learning curve for sure. I'll use mid journey, so photographer. Add prompt part. You are amazing. Go ahead. Just put the cheese camera photographer using a camera made of cheese as a prompt and then down there you can click on add some details and then you can choose what art media and what camera would color what this play with geometry. And so on. It gets really deep in there, but you end up. And then mimic the style of an artist, it has a whole list of different artist styles and things to choose from. You can combine everything. And details. So the base image is just for you to visualize the different things. That is not going to be used. Okay. Advanced compound details, image improvement tools, market. It gets quite involved. Wow. Oh, now here's where you do the artist. Okay. Let's do Andy Warhol. Okay. Wow. All right, quite a few of those. So let me take and then on the top you'll find the prompt at the top you can just copy paste the copy the prompt from the line at the time. And here it is. And then how do I submit it? Oh, do you throw it into major and so you need a mid journey. Open somewhere. You need access to the journey. Yeah. This is just for building the problems. It's just a helper. Very interesting. I wonder if I could put this into this. Yeah. No, not really. This may not like it, huh? You'll get something. You get something, it'll pick out some keyboards, but those are the different prompting styles are not necessarily the same for the different I chose mid journey for this one, yeah. Yeah, so interesting. Might be fun. Chris, fun is right. All right. Thank you. See you in a week. See you in a week. Take care. All right, take care. 19 24. What a great year. So there you go. We're in the recorded music era, aren't we? Episode 1924. We're also, I believe, in prohibition. So put that drink down. 88, 88, ask Leo the phone number Tim's on the line from Escondido, California. Hello, Tim. Hey, Leo. Hey. Thanks for coming.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"There are certainly give you a new phone. Well, that's my other question. I need a new phone. I have a ten pro max. That's fine. It's not out of date yet. So just keep using this one so that I would. I know how to do it. You have a few more years. The only reason you might want to upgrade to the new one is going to be the 14 pro max, is it'll have a better camera. But if that doesn't mean the ten X is ten pro is very nice. So I wouldn't worry about it. Okay. Well, good. Well, I'm going to have to call you back next week because then we have to discuss my Mac computer. Okay, deal. I'll make you a deal. I'll talk to you next week, Nancy. Hey, thank you for the call. And thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it. Take care, bye bye. How cute. Hello, Chris barkworth. Hello, hello. Oh, that's interesting user 57 42, so it's still happening. Yeah, they didn't like it that we made a big deal about it. They said, it was just an accident. I'm going to send this to Lisa. Wow. Yeah, I think there's a bug. I think there's something wrong with QuickBooks. Let me send this to Lisa. She'll be very interested to see this. I'm just reading that. What happened to us a bunch of people all ten 99 employees were given access to our QuickBooks. Yeah. Here we go, Chris. All right, you camera bugs. It's time for Chris marquard our photo guy. Chris, of course, is my personal photo sensei at sensei dot photo. Where he does coaching and workshops and all sorts of stuff he's published a number of books on digital photography, hosts the number one camera podcast in the world tips from the top floor and joins us every week. Hi, Chris. Hi, Leo. From the finder villa. That's where I am, yes. So do you have some news for us today? Well, you know, you know, I do a bunch of other podcasts and some of them are more on the photography news side. So I thought I'd bring a couple of those news items. I picked three to talk about here. News from the photography world. So we're not really going to learn a lot about how to shoot pictures, now to compose pictures, but there's a few things that I find pretty interesting. The first one is, the answer to the question has smartphones really taken over. We always have this discussion that smartphones are getting better and better. And the camera manufacturers are seeing that in the sales numbers of their entry level compact digital cameras. And so Panasonic has just announced that they will stop developing entry level point and shoot cameras. Why use their lumix? Nikon as well. My excellent excellent point and shoot. But yeah, you're right. I don't think I don't think they will. I think there will still be available just won't develop any new models. So they want to refocus more on price here, price your mirrorless camera. I think they're in trouble there, too. Honestly, as smartphones get better and better, and computational photography takes over. I don't know. What I heard is what I heard is that they want to do cameras that they don't want to invest in cameras that could be replaced by a smartphone, which I find an interesting move because the sales are down quite a bit in that segment but by saying that they'll stop development on cameras that could be replaced by smartphones.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Window stat is the one I was trying to remember. That's a beautiful graphical program. We'll put that in the show notes. When dir stat. That's really a good thing to have around. Because it gives you blobs, color blobs. I'll put a link in the show notes to that. That's a good one. I've done that many times. It's the beauty of a BTR FS. Just to add the just say, oh yeah, expand my drive. I just put it in a new drive. I think my synology uses BTR FS as well. As I remember hi, how are you doing, Chris marcourt? How you be? I'm doing just fine. Thank you. Good. I know how are you? I am well. And you can hear me, which is good. We were we had a little trouble earlier, but you have an email and I want to talk about three news items today. Got it. I will have you ready if you want me to run the slideshow. Do you, I have links, you can show some of the websites, but it's mostly talking. Okay. Good. Yeah, it's nice to pull these up. Good. All right, yeah. Yes, stable diffusion is wild. There is a wonderful, stable diffusion search engine. Do you know about that? There is, there's also a prompt generator. Right. To help you. We have a Cambrian explosion of things. It's amazing. That's a good way to describe it. Yeah. I use lexicon art and it's nothing you can't find. It's amazing. All right, well talking a bit. Leo Laporte, the tech guy. 88 88 ask Leo. This episode 1924. So maybe you could find a song from we're starting to get into the recorded music era. Professor Laura, musical director. It's going to sound a little tinny. 1924, I mentioned that because if you go to tech guy labs dot com, you can go buy episode if you go to 1924. That's this episode. That's today. And there will be at the
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"So you said that's from cis internals live. If you Google Microsoft cis internals, get it from Microsoft, do not get it from anywhere else. That's very common that bad guys will use the name of something Microsoft offers, but it'll come from bad guy dot com. You want to make sure it comes from Microsoft dot com. And there are quite a few actually very useful little tools. They're not big, they're very fast. Mark keeps them up to date, which is nice. Yeah, it's 25 years old. I'm looking at the website now. Holy cow. And the one you want is auto runs, which will tell you. Everybody should have this auto runs version 14. We'll tell you everything that's going on. I'm going to cross my fingers, but one thing you could do is run Windows Defender. Do a thorough scan, you know, maybe if it turns up nothing, you can go to antivirus dot com and run an online scan. You want to scan and make sure there's no bad scripts running. You don't need to install another virus effect. I don't recommend that. But you can run an online scanner just to see if you don't get anything from Microsoft's own defender. You already have an antivirus running, and it's a good one. But it didn't catch this. So maybe it's something else. Who knows? I've never heard of this auto runs that looks pretty cool. Like something on two I never thought of before, agreed. Yeah, it's a great thing to have. Yeah. Everybody should have, frankly, I put all the system internals on there. Process explorer, you can run that. You can see all the things running in the background. Hundreds of things running in the background. It's kind of task manager on steroids. There's a lot of useful tools in there. But yeah, auto runs is very useful. Great. Thank you so much for your help. That's going to keep me busy. Looking around. You got a good Sunday ahead. Yeah, the weekend is a good time to do these little honey dews on the computer. Nice to meet you. Thank you for listening to all these years, Scott. I appreciate it. Additional ideas from the chat room, boot into safe mode. See what's running in safe mode versus what's running in normal mode. The difference will be the things that are like whatever is starting a PowerShell. I bet you PowerShell does not start in safe mode. It might though. It might. Retcon 5 who apparently is a auto runs user. He knows all about it. It says, uncheck the Microsoft entries because there's a lot of them. So you only see the oddball auto runs, the ones that aren't started by Microsoft. Because Microsoft, of course, starts a lot of stuff in the background. A lot of services. And so forth. 88, 88,
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"In a way, you were kind of the shade tree mechanic for your neighbors this week, weren't you? Well, that was the plan. So we had a major storm that came through our area on Monday night. Michigan. Yeah. Is it most of southeast Michigan? 70 mile an hour wind gusts and brought down a lot of branches and trees or several trees down in my neighborhood. It was over 300,000 people in southeast Michigan without power for, in some cases, several days. And ours went out. Fortunately, I have a generator that I bought back in 2003 when we had that big, massive blackout that hit most of the eastern half of the country. And fired that thing up. And hooked up, got the refrigerators running and some lights and other things. But the next morning I got a call from one of my friends at Ford. They just had a batch of F one 50 lightnings that had been part of the employee lease program. Some of the early build lightnings. That had just been turned in and they were about to go to get cleaned up and refurbished and then go off to be sold as used. And they said, hey, would you like us to send over a lightning? We know your power is up. Would you like us to send one overseeing power stuff? At first, I was going to decline because I had regenerator. But then I thought a lot of my neighbors don't have generators. So yeah, go ahead and bring it over and we'll hook it up and we'll get a generator to one of the neighbors. So they brought it over. Got everything switched over rent was running so the lightning has what they call pro power on board. You can get up to 9.6 kW out from 11 outlets. So there's ten one 20 Volt outlets. There's four in the front trunk. Four in the back, two in the cab. And then a two 40 Volt outlet, in case you also need to power your cement mixer or your welding rig or something like that. And ransom extension cords for the truck are into the house to power the things, the emergency things we needed. And then, of course, 20 minutes later, the power came back on.
The Tech Guy
"1924" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"And if the power is going to be out for a while. Go ahead and send it over and I'll loan my generator to somebody else. That's nice. But then the truck got there. I got everything switched over and plugged in. And then 20 minutes later, the power came back on. But if you have an EV, if you have a lot of EVs, you can do this. Yeah, I could do it with me. I just need an inverter, I think, right? Yeah. And the thing is, a lot of newer EVs have that inverter capability already built in, which is what's in the lightning. Hyundai and Kia have it on their vehicles or vehicle to load capability. Rivian's got it. That's nice. Of course, I have the power wall, which is kind of the same thing. Where is the technology to make the car self charging without any need for a charging station? That's what's known as a hybrid. Well, you have an engine that propels you. In some areas, they've tested out road beds that can charge vehicles, right? Yeah. That's going to have limited utility. It's going to be more for buses and things like that. Hold on a sec. This would be a good time to tell everybody about our fine sponsor for the tech guys show this week. Melissa, but listen, well, you know, for years, we said they're the address experts, right? Because they fix your address lists your customer list your supplier list. Your contact list. They clean them up. But really, I think it's more than that. It's about data quality. Bad data quality a lot of money on average of 15 million a year. And of course, the longer your address lists are unmanaged, the worse it gets.
The Officer Tatum Show
Brandon Provides Some Stats From the K-12 School Shooting Database
"One of my friends sent me this campus safety guideline that speaks about shootings, the last 51 years of data. So the naval postgraduate school and the center for homeland defense and security and also the fema is the federal emergency management agency. They maintain a database of K through 12 school shooting, let me say it again. The K through 12 school shooting database. They maintain a database with all the statistical data that you guys want to know. So I just want to give you a couple of talking points from that so you can have something to digest and think about when it comes to shootings in the United States of America. There's been 1900, I'll read it out properly. There have been 1924 school shooting incidents since 1970. 2021 had the greatest number of incidents with 246. The next highest year was 2019 at 119 since 1970 637 people have died in a shootings at schools. Additionally, one 1734 were injured and 73 suffered minor injuries. 2018 was the year with the highest number of people killed, including the shooter, with 51 people killed in one year from a school shootings. Also, and that was the year of obviously Stoneman Douglas shooting California, Texas, Florida, are the states with the most incidents. 1000 and 86 incidents occurred outside of school property and 67 occurred solely inside a
Pray the Word with David Platt
"1924" Discussed on Pray the Word with David Platt
"Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. Job chapter 37 versus 19 through 24, teach us what we shall say to him, we can not draw up our case because of darkness. Shall it be told him that I would speak to the man ever wish that he would be swallowed up, and now no one looks on the light. When it is bright in the sky, when the wind has passed and cleared them out of the north comes golden splendor, God is clothed with awesome majesty. The almighty, we can not find him. He is great in power, justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate. Therefore men fear him, he does not regard any who are wise, in their own conceit. These are the last words of elihu as we prepare to hear from God and job chapter 38 in the next chapter. But in these closing words from a lie who, he basically refuses to confront God as if he knows better than God, what God is doing. Instead, these verses illustrate a picture of God so brilliant splendid awesome and exalted that the only response before him is fear reverent awe and trust in him and his wisdom and not our own. You know, we prayed even specifically through a liar's words and job 32 to 37 about different purposes that God has in our suffering God uses suffering sometimes to refine our faith, teach us to rely on him, we were praying in the previous episode about how God uses suffering to teach us to hate sand to repent of any and all sin in our lives, even if we're suffering, not because of some specific sin in our lives to still hate sin all the more in run to righteousness. Here in job 37, though, I think we see ultimate purpose of God in suffering how a God uses suffering to lead us to see him, our God uses suffering in this world to lead us to see the reward we have in God that transcends anything and everything, even the best things this world has to offer. Basically, in these words, in Joe 37, a lot of you are saying very clearly that in the end, God will show himself worthy for all who trust in him God will show himself good and awesome and majestic and great and power and just an abundant in righteousness and wise, like all these attributes of God are here. And so I want to encourage you, especially if you're walking through difficult days right now. To seek God as your reward trust God as your reward as the one who is worthy of your trust and worthy of your worship worthy of the kind of faith we've seen in job at so many points and especially in job one and two. He's worthy of worship even when things are falling apart. He's good. He's great. He's just he's righteous. He's wise. He loves you. He's working for your good. And there is reward that's found in him. And even when everything in this world is gone from us, we will realize he is worthy to live his Christ to die his gain, Paul says, even when I don't have breath anymore, I'll have Jesus and he will be worth it. The God we pray for this perspective, and each of our lives, to see you as better than all the best things of this world put together to see you as better than health. Better than wealth, better than comfort, better than things better than even the people who we love most. You are infinitely better. God give us this perspective. Help us to see the reward that's found in you alone. That even when all the best things of this world are gone from us, when we lose our last breath, we will have you.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How Greta Garbo Got Her Hollywood Start
"And here I am doing this show about garbo who got her start in 1924 because one day the studio had Louis B Mayer, saw her in the movie joyless street, and he said, you know what? I'm taking a chance on garbo. He signed an MGM, moved at a Hollywood, and for the next 15 years, she ruled the film world. I don't know if you've seen classics like mana Hari or grand hotel or Anna karenina. Good stuff. And while she was making movies in Hollywood, she met the actor Melvin Douglas, never slept with garbo, but he did costar in three movies with her. And he just said that garbo oozed sex.
Marketing School
"1924" Discussed on Marketing School
"It, find it, check it out, and it's a great way to improve your low time. Today we are going to talk about if you should aim for an exit. So in this context, an exit means a business exit means selling your business, right? So Neil and I want to talk about different ways to think about this because a lot of people that we end up talking to, they keep focusing on that exit, right? So the question is, if that's even a worthy goal of aiming for. So Neil, what do you think? I look at exits as it's too hard to plan a sale if your business is doing really, really well and you're growing fast and your economics are there. Sure, you can do it, but that's not most of us just being quite Frank. And when you're starting a business to starting from scratch, it's tough to plan for exit. But you know it's not tough to plan for creating amazing product or amazing service, building amazing business, Harry and great people. You know, focusing on marketing and sales. I believe if you focus on the business fundamentals, you'll eventually be led down a pathway you can get an exit. But on the flip side, if you focus your energy on the exit instead of building a business, a lot of times, things just don't happen. You end up taking your eye off the ball and things don't work out the way you want. Yeah, I think it was Mark Cuban that said something about planning for an exit is basically a pair of phrasing here. It's kind of planning to fail because you're not really thinking about the long-term. And there's constantly that exit goal in mind. And if you give that goal to everyone on your team, it's also not very motivating because also what's in it for them. And we're building for an exit. What are we building for at the end of the day, right? So you should definitely structure and build your company for an exit because what that means is building a great company culture, having a strong management team, planning out quarterly or annual goals. That type of stuff matters. So building that type of foundation matters. But if you're able to do that someone might come hit you up and they'll give you some crazy number and maybe you take it at the end of the day. But I think look if your eyes on the price for the long game, it's a much better thing. It's much more inspiring for people to play for. And if you look at the Warren Buffett's or the Charlie Munger's of the world, largely, if it's a good business, they're buying and holding, right? And so they've held these candies for the longest time. They've held Geico for the longest time. They'll cook for the longest time. They're not necessarily trying to exit these companies unless it's an industry that's falling down like newspapers. They sold out of newspapers, right? So it's a good thing to look at the top entrepreneurs out there to top investors that are out there and look at how they're thinking about things. But overall what ends up working, what I believe is you're going to get the best outcomes at the tail end, which is way out there. And so it's better off, you're better off building for the long term. Yeah, and as long as you follow that, you'll be fine. Don't worry about it exit. Again, as Eric and I mentioned, it's too hard to plan for, but don't take our word, take Mark Cuban's word. And generally speaking, just go out there and build amazing business. Most people who have sold their company for millions of dollars, like hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars, they didn't plan for exit, they just solved the problem and tried to build a really amazing company. That's the key. Solve people's problem as efficiently as possible. And ideally as cheap as possible as well. All right,.
Today in True Crime
July 20, 1924: Tehran Declares Martial Law
"On july twentieth. Nineteen twenty four. Tehran authorities declared martial law after a mob killed an american consul. Major robert embry. The decision was designed to give the city a chance to regain order before an international crisis tore the nation. Apart leading up to the death. Iran had been a hotbed of foreign interest. The british had tried and failed to establish a protectorate over the nation. Meanwhile russia had recently vacated its stakes after their defeat in world war one. The newest foreign party to take an interest was the united states and they mainly wanted one thing oil. They pressured the iranian government into allowing oil tycoons to start drilling into the land when robert embryo was killed at the hands of an angry mob. All the foreign actors in the country started pointing fingers at each other. Tehran newspapers and russian authorities blamed the british for inciting muslims into a frenzy. Others blamed the russians who had expelled embry from moscow after he defended his anticommunist beliefs fellow american spy marguerite harrison who recently departed the near east while posing as a filmmaker claimed international intrigue was to blame but above all according to margarite. Embree was to blame for his own death. He had knowingly entered a dangerous situation marguerite also claimed embry made a serious error by fleeing the initial attack at the shrine. According to iranian custom running away proved he was guilty of sabotaging the site. If he had stayed the people would have merely punished him but not killed him. Br guardless of who may have deserved the blame. There was one person who gained from robert. Inbreeds death raza khan commander of the cossack forces on july twentieth con gain control over the massive city declaring he would arrest those responsible for killing embry. While one part of the cossacks investigated another arm reached in a more opportunistic direction. They shut down the presses instituting a news blackout con then arrested his political rivals throwing the muslim leaders who had defined him in
Pray the Word with David Platt
Passing the Gospel to the Next Generation
"Joshua chapter four versus nineteen through twenty four. The people came out of the jordan on the tenth day of the first month and then encamped gilgal on the east border of jericho and those twelve stones which they took out of the jordan. Joshua's set up at gilgal and he said to the people of israel when your children ask their fathers times to come. What did these stones mean. Then you shall let your children know. Israel passed over this jordan on dry ground for the larger. God dried up the waters of the jordan for you until you passed over as the lord. Your god did to the red sea which he dried up for us until we passed over so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the lord is mighty the you may fear the larger god forever so much in this passage so much in this passage to reflect on to pray according to but the picture that i want to focus on. Is this question when your children ask you. What did these stones means. They're setting up these stones as a remembrance of a win. God stop the waters of the jordan river just like he had stopped the waters of the red sea and he made away for his people to cross through and these stones will be a remembrance a marker of the day when god did that so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the lord is mighty and that you may fear the lord. Your god forever. I tell your children what god has done so they might fear the lord and so that all the peoples of the earth may know that god is mighty
Philadelphia's Morning Answer
New York City's Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to march on despite pandemic
"It is a tradition that dates back to 1924. There will be a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, but this one will be a made for TV event. The parade will cover a single block outside Macy's flagship New York City store, and there will be no Spectators on hand because of the Corona virus pandemic.
Spies of London
Gordon Lonsdale - Burst 1
"Welcome to Spies of London. This episode is a book review of the illegal by Gordon Carrera from the BBC the hunt for a Russian spy on a post-war London and it's about the Spy Gordon Lonsdale Gordon. Lonsdale was a Canadian man who came to Britain by ship. He told everyone had been born on the 27th of August 1924 in Ontario Canada in reality. He was Conan meladi born in Moscow. Now, I've come across God in Lonsdale many times. He was easily one of the best and most Professional Russian spies operating in Britain at any time. He was known to me because he was involved in a prisoner swap without wanting to give you too many spoilers as he was highly valued by the KGB and he met George Blake in Moscow and George Blake & Garden Lonsdale were betrayed by the song. So some people suggest that if they hadn't been portrayed particular Lonsdale might never have been discovered by the time he was discovered clearly his super deep secret undercover of work which involved him taking on this Canadian identity living in Britain away from his young family was taking its toll and more than that as with so many of the best writers when Lonsdale go back to Moscow. He started to compare it to what he'd seen in the west and realized that the West Was better. I was richer more exciting more interesting more. Make more fun and he had serious alcohol problems, but there were a few details about Lonsdale which intrigued me and I have to say I thought God unless there was a man name
This Day in History Class
On This Day in History: Bud Powell Was Born
"The Day was September twenty seventh nineteen twenty four URL Rudolph it off. Powell better known as Powell was born in New York City Powell was instrumental in the development of modern jazz music though he died when he was just forty one years old his accomplishments as a jazz soloist greatly contributed to the growth of bebop musical talent ran in Powell's family. His grandfather father and siblings were all musicians. His father was a stride pianist. Stride was a jazz piano style that developed developed as the popularity of ragtime was dying down stride pianist play the melody with the right hand while the left hand alternates between a single. I note and a quarter played an active or more higher. The left hand had to go greater distances on the keyboard often very quickly and improvisation. It was more important than it had previously been when Powell was a child. His father began teaching him classical music at age fifteen he dropped out of Dewitt wit Clinton High School to pursue his passion playing the piano he began playing at clubs in Coney Island and Harlem in the Mid Nineteen Forties Powell met the loneliest monk jazz pianist and composer at Minton's playhouse in Harlem and monk became a mentor to him. Powell became a regular feature at Minton's playhouse known for its role in the development of modern jazz and jam sessions with people like Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke how also toward and record it with trumpeter Kuni Williams's orchestra he recorded with Tenor Saxophonist Dexter Gordon and he played on Charlie Parker's Savoy sessions he recorded the five volume the amazing Bud Powell in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties influenced by art tatum Charlie Parker Billie Kyle and thelonious monk how emerged as a leading figure and bebop he found a lot of success as a pianist though black audiences were not initially completely receptive to modern jazz in the nineteen forties still how how faced physical and mental struggles he spent time in a psychiatric hospital from nineteen forty seven to nineteen forty eight after getting in a fight at a Bar at a state hospital. He received electroconvulsive therapy after he was released from the hospital. He was placed in convalescent care. which was it's basically parole how return to music but he spent a lot of time from nineteen fifty one to nineteen fifty-three institutionalized after he was arrested stood on a drug charge in February of Nineteen fifty three the state of New York declared him incompetent and incapable of handling his own money Oscar Goodstein Powell's manager and owner of Berlin nightclub became his committee and began managing money? Good esteem got POW steady steady work but how was still struggling with his mental health. His relationships with his colleagues were deteriorating in the late nineteen fifties after spending more time in the hospital how moved to Paris with al-tv Edwards and he soon began playing in France and touring throughout Europe Edwards and a Fran Dan Frantz these padre looked out for POW while in Europe but he was deeply affected by his alcoholism mental illness and medication in nineteen in sixty three he contracted Berko says back in New York musicians put together a benefit concert to help him with medical expenses in nineteen sixty four or he moved back to the US he continued to play the piano and his return was celebrated though his performances did not get rave reviews so his music suffered as his health declined and he missed some of his performances on July thirty first nineteen sixty six he died died of health complications his pioneering work in bebop continued to influence later musicians like Bill Evans see so Taylor and Horace Silver Silver.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Thai election 'not free and fair' says monitor group
"Go first to Thailand where election monitors claim the country's general election was quote heavily tilted to benefit a party close to the ruling military junta. Let's get more on this with Tony Chang. A journalist in Bangkok. Tony welcome to the program. We've seen reports questioning the election process since Sunday. But what's the very latest on this? Well, we as you mentioned we had today from end frill who with the only election observers allowed in to to monitor this election. They were allowed in very late that they issued their report saying that the tabulation and consolidation of the balance was deeply flawed. They said that some of the preliminary results were wildly inaccurate. And they said that these inaccuracies have damaged the seved integrity of the general election. But frankly, those a pretty widely felt sentiments here in Thailand is being a lot of confusion of speculation after the vote, which should have been very simple Tynan has a very strong record on a well established routine for general elections of politics have been pretty monkey business for the last couple of decades, but the elections themselves follow very well. Established puff that done very efficiently. They're also done very transparent. They think it was a failing here that. Although. The the build up to the election. The constitution on the which it was conducted was pretty. Tilted Plainfield as were the the election self would be okay. But, but even that doesn't appear to be the case the election commission, which we will waiting to to give us preliminary results. Yes, they have done. So, but they haven't elaborated on the very strange figures we saw coming out on Sunday night, in some cases, showing fifty percent more votes recorded in some provinces than there than they were actually boats as registered so it is it is a there's a very big question. Mark hanging over the selection. Texans. Chinua the formative prime minister who's outsted by military coup. In two thousand six still remains very influential in the political sphere Rosen an op-ed piece in the New York Times, basically accusing the hunter of rigging the elections. And while I think he's still a very polarized figure in Thailand at this stage. Many people probably privately would agree with that. You mentioned the the. Military Q of some five years ago. This is the first vote since then, but was there always concerned about the process or have people been optimistic? I'm thinking of Mr. Shinwatra was was he hopeful that there could be a legitimate vote. I think he's always been very aware that there was this. This was going to be an election, which took place on the very difficult conditions. You said that hasn't been vote since since two thousand fourteen there actually was that. It was a vote in two thousand seventeen on a constitution, which the military really wanted to shove through that deal with the time public was basically if you don't pass this this constitution, we weren't granted general election. The constitution makes this election process. Very complicated. It it directly targets policies those parties affiliated with Mr. Texan, namely per tires, various incarnations, the thank tiddly one election since two thousand a month. So it breaks them up at favors the smaller. Parties of which the hunter had created several to sort of promote echoes the knowledge of which prolonged pressure has done surprisingly well in this election.