39 Burst results for "1983"
Over the Next Hill Fitness
Hear 75-Year-old Jeannie Rice's Inspiring Journey to Marathon Success
"To the show Jeannie. It's so nice to have you here. Well thank you for having me. Jeannie I read your story in runner's world so I really was excited to have you agreed to come on the show. So how did you get started in running? It's a long story but I'm gonna make it short. Like 41 years ago, it's going on 41 years already I've been running, I made a trip to my hometown Seoul, Korea and I came home a few extra pounds. I would say five six pounds because I was just traveling and visiting family and you know even every day it's like a feast right? So I am a short person I'm only 5 '1 and the five six pounds was a little I felt like I was a little chubby so I started jogging around the blocks and then I got hooked and I decided that I am pretty good at it running before you know it and I was in a five mile race in local race and then I did very well at the time I was 35 years old and I was a brand new runner I just starting to jog a couple three months and I came in fourth in my age division it was a big race actually so I thought oh if I train I guess I can run faster so that's how I got hooked so a year later I did math on 1984 1983 I start running 1984 I did my first marathon and six months later first marathon was 345 and then six months later I did 316 which qualified for Boston at the time I was only 36 years old so I did go to Boston 1985 that was my first marathon and I got hooked so I've been running since then and my children were already older a lot of people a lot of girls I would say when they start younger age we know they get married they get you know have a children's they take some time off between their pregnancy or whatever but I was already I had two boys already they were already older so I just never stopped as I've been running 41 years straight Wow and your time hasn't really changed now has it because I looked at some of your times yes you know it's interesting um a lot of people my competitor now and they used to be some of them I mean one you know particular lady and from London she was Olympian years ago she was her best time is like a 240 something but now she's running my pace 330 ish but I never was there faster so I haven't slow down much let's I'll put it that way my first marathon was a 345 and then I got better to 310 but I never went under three hour so now I slow down a little bit 1015 minutes 40 years later I'm still running 330 math that's so incredible
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "1983" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Evils. He is a completely unfit man for office. He's already shown us he what would do and he can never be near the Oval Office again. Oh, now we agree again. You are pure magic. Kent, in Wisconsin, has found the hole in my car story and that, that is Kent, I was entirely too young to drive in 1983, correct? How could you drive then? You wouldn't have even been over 40 hardly. Well, I was very mature for my age. My mom got a booster seat for me. Oh. Yeah. Phone books. So I was the only two -year -old then driving in Buffalo. I love you all. Alright, love you too. the U .S. What's that? You can ask Francis. Wait a minute, you wedged a Francis Callier short joke in there? So I get those little sticks. I had those little sticks Francis uses. Okay. Yeah, and a bunch of phone books and a booster seat. Okay. Fortunately, the driving conditions in the winter in Buffalo are fine for novice drivers, novice two -year -olds. It was the booster seat you stole from Denny's. Little legs. Yeah, exactly. Ron in Sacramento. Hello, Ron. Is this me? Yeah. Oh, Rick. I'm sorry. Rick. Rick. Rick. This is Rick. Okay. I have one question for any Trump supporter or anyone who wants to diminish our concern about the end of democracy. If Trump wins election next year, do you think he will voluntarily leave office in 2029? No. No. No. Everyone including Liz Cheney says the answer says no. Compute says no. Okay. And scene for democracy. Yeah. Okay. 44 minutes after the hour, this portion of the show brought to you by Simply Safe. It's the holidays, right? Are you traveling? Are you getting a lot of packages? Mm hmm. Yeah. Right. Simply Safe is the best home security out there. So says US News and World Report. Right now, my listeners can get a holiday deal up to 50 % off any new system. Holy moly. Now is the time to do it and keep all of your loved ones safe, including your furries. Yeah. Yeah. Weird cat dad. Chris LeMoy likes to talk to Boots several times a show just to confirm who has a little pink nose. Who has a little pink nose? You can use Simply Safe for whatever you want. Nobody... Who has a little pink nose? Who has a little pink paws? Nobody's judging. Wouldn't that be funny if one time you looked the at cameras and it wasn't pink anymore and he was just like with you? That'd be funny. Like Rudolph? Yeah, like he put a Rudolph nose in just because he knew you were going to be looking at the cameras then. That'd be funny. Covered his nose with...her nose with mud like Rudolph did. No, boots. You can't play in any of our reindeer games now. Simply Safe. Comprehensive protection for the whole home with advanced sensors that not only detect break -ins with fires, floods, and other threats to your home. Simply Safe's Video Doorbell Pro Wireless Outdoor Security Camera. Powerful way to deter package thieves. And you get 24 -7 professional monitoring for less than a buck a day. That is half the cost of traditional home security. The 24 -7 live guard protection smart alarm wireless indoor camera. Monitoring agents can see and speak to intruders helping stop a crime in real time. Or you can speak to your cat. Yes, you kitty. It's holiday season. I highly recommend protecting your home and family with Simply Safe for a limited time. Get up to 50 % off any new system with a fast protect plan. SimpliSafe .com slash Stephanie. That's SimpliSafe .com slash Stephanie. There's a safe like Simply Safe. We have to keep our country gay. Music. Music.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from New opportunities in the federal space for voice communication modernization, Ribbon Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of TR Publications, and I'm very pleased to have with us today Dave Hogan, who's the Vice President for Enterprise and Government at Ribbon Communications. Dave, thank you for joining me today. Doug, thanks for having me, as usual. Great to be here. Well, I'm very pleased to have you, and I also thank you for being a reader and a long -time reader at that, so a double thank you for your presence and taking time out to talk to us. So, you know, Dave, we're going to be talking about some really important issues today, but before we dive into our topics today, can you just tell us a little bit of an update on Ribbon? Yeah, you know, Ribbon Communications Company has been around for many, many years. Most people know us by a lot of different brands that we've either acquired or merged with over several years, so Nortel Networks, General Bandwidth, which became Genband, Sonus Networks, Edgewater Networks, ANOVA Data, and then most recently, three years ago, we acquired an IP and optical company by the name of ECI out of Tel Aviv, Israel. So our business really is focused on, you know, communications infrastructure across voice data and wireless networks, so we work with service providers, wireless providers, large enterprises, government sectors across the globe in order to provide communications infrastructure solutions. So you know, we're looking at 2024, we're already starting to look about future and modernization, so let's start off with, can you tell me a little bit more about the opportunity you see in the federal space for voice communication modernization? Sure, you know, the US government as well as many governments globally, right, you know, they operate in a, you know, a very functional environment in terms of technology, right? I like to think of the lead model, right, how enterprises operate, you know, you have a strategy, you design it, you build it, you run it, you operate it, and then you get to the next technology. Most companies, you know, at an enterprise level, they operate in a period of five to ten years in terms of the lifespan of that technology. Federal governments can be very different in terms of, you know, the lifespan of that technology, so we're currently working with many, many organizations within the federal government as they're looking to upgrade their voice networks, they're having to upgrade the which applications could be unified communications, contact centers, auto attendants, ACDs across, you know, across many, many sectors of the federal government. So as you see Microsoft Teams, you know, at the forefront of user adoption, there's still continued requirement for connectivity between internal users within an organization as well as external citizens, users, third party organizations that are still connected in a TDM infrastructure environment that need to connect, whether it's, you know, voice at a local level or long distance level, could be a variety of applications for communications engagement there. What we see is the ability to uplift and modernize that technology by integrating ribbon applications and solutions, whether it's a gateway for, you know, IP to TDM technology, it could be an SBC for session border controller functionality, or our application server, which is aligned or interconnected with Microsoft Teams to ensure communication still happens, you know, in a real time basis across an agency's network. So as we know, the White House has been heavily funding federal IT modernization via the Technology Modernization Fund, in which investments are dedicated to building and improving digital services at federal agencies. So what are some of the driving forces behind the push to modernize the federal network infrastructure? I think a lot of it, Doug, just has to do with the end user experience. You know, as humans, we've all become more adaptive to the use of applications, to the use of mobile devices, to handsets, to iPads. And as we continue to adopt and use more and more of that technology, agencies within the federal government to meet the needs of their customer, which essentially is citizens and businesses of the United States. So if you have an organization like the Internal Revenue Service, they need to have a modern solution for communications between the businesses and the citizens of the United States who are asking questions about tax returns, filing tax returns, looking to get a specific code in order to file that return. They have a fraudulent event. They need assistance there. Having real time communications becomes very valuable to the experience of someone working with the IRS, as an example. I think the VA and the hospitals are another great example where you have veterans that are in need of modern critical patient care, whether that's a Vietnam veteran who needs a hip replacement to an Iraqi veteran who may be going through PTSD and has some particular crises that they need to deal with. The VA needs to be accessible to a patient regardless of their physical, mental, and technology becomes valuable there. So as we can assist the White House and the federal government in order to make investments into technology that improves real time communications, that becomes significant for a veteran of the United States that needs that help and assistance. So we feel very strongly and passionate that while we provide technology, at the end of the day, we're providing a service and the services to improve the experience of the end user for our customers, whether it's the Veterans Affairs Hospitals or the IRS or the U .S. and their families, regardless of that environment. Right. It's our job to help provide a great service and experience for how they communicate. So what kind of benefits can agencies expect to see from upgrading their network infrastructure? Gosh, you know, Doug, it's very similar to a for -profit company. I think about the goals and the initiatives of a for -profit company. They're looking to improve their productivity. They're looking to reduce the cost of doing business and they're looking to improve the customer experience in a for -profit environment. Obviously, it's important that they grow top line revenue and they drive margins and profit for their business. But those three key pillars that I mentioned regarding the experience of the end user, productivity of the workforce and then reduce costs, those are highly valuable to an organization or an entity, whether you're a school system, whether you're the Health and Human Services or even the national parks, which I'm very fond of, you need to continue to provide that experience and leveraging that technology becomes very valuable over time for them. So, you know, as an agency that serves, you know, the United States, we, you know, we get the best we get the best experience possible with those agencies. And you see these benefits trickling down, having a trickle down effect on the contractors and vendors that work for the government? I do. You know, it definitely provides a lot of opportunities for vendors and contractors. We're fortunate to work with several. Dell is a great example where we have a very strong partnership with Dell. We've been fortunate to be very active with Dell in the Department of Defense and engagement of some voice modernization opportunities. CACI is another very strong partner that we work with. VAE, Lidos, Verizon, AT &T, I could name many, many more, but these are partners of ours that are also contractors of the United States government that are working to do site surveys. They're installing new local area networks, Wi -Fi networks, you know, wide area networks across the board. They're upgrading that technology. They're upgrading headsets, handsets, video conferencing equipment. You know, there's a variety of applications, software and hardware that contractors are benefiting from and providing a valuable service to the federal government. So, you know, have you over the past year witnessed an increase in demand for modern voice communication? So DISA, which is essentially the IT department for the Department of Defense, they've put a mandate in place, right, that they are completely eliminating the TDM network and sunsetting that by March twenty twenty four. And so it's a excuse me, March twenty twenty five, the requirement for the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, you know, they have to up the communications infrastructure in order to meet the needs that are necessary to migrate to an IP based network. So we have definitely seen an increase in activity, volume and engagement with many with many, many agencies there on the public sector side. We continue to see more and more user adoption of Microsoft Teams as well as Zoom. And that's driving increased demand for voice modernization as well as those agencies look to incorporate a external voice communications environment with the needs of their internal communications as well. So what are some of the needs the federal agencies are trying to fill better with telecom technology in the public sector? I think the need is really accessibility. You know, you have individuals within the federal government that are similar to private, private, private corporations where someone may not be working in an office five days a week. They could be in a hybrid environment working in an office two days a week, three days a week. They could be working remotely the rest of the time. They still need to have the same experience, whether they're working from home or they're working in a in a federal facility. If you're a if you're an administrator for the U .S. Army Hospital organization, you could be at Fort Campbell, Kentucky one day and Fort Knox, Kentucky the next day. Well, you still need to have the same connectivity and communications regardless of which hospital that you're at. So those are the needs that I see that continue to be applicable and beneficial because that that just improves the productivity of the person. It improves their job satisfaction and improves the quality of the experience that the people they work with on a daily basis are able to have. So are there or what are the risks for agencies if they don't do their updates? Yeah, I think the biggest one is security, obviously, first and foremost. You see the number of TDoS attacks, DDoS attacks, robocalling, spam calls that happen on a, you know, on an almost hour by hour, minute by minute basis. If you don't upgrade the technology, you put yourself at risk. And protection for of your internal infrastructure environment there, you know, as we've seen on the private sector side with, you know, casinos, with retail chains, with financial institutions, right, no one wants to have their personal data exposed and at risk. So it's, you know, it's highly important that federal agencies make those investments and those upgrades as well in order to protect our information, as well as the information of the federal government. The other one I would just say is obsolescence. You know, technology that's been in place for 20, 25, 30 years, parts just aren't available anymore, Doug. You know, I hate to say that as a 51 year old guy, right? I don't, I don't, I don't run or I don't run swim or bike like I used to. And so it's the same with technology. You know, that, that obsolescence is, is ultimately going to happen. And those parts just can't, can't be replaced. So there's a, you know, there's an impact of not being able to maintain a current environment state of communications without continuing to make those investments. So, uh, you know, where do you start? How do you start this process? Oh, um, and it's a, you know, it's a great question, right? I always look at not the technology element, but I look at the, the organizational element, you know, what is the, what is the, what is the purpose and the mission of an organization, you know, what are they ultimately trying to accomplish and achieve who is the, the person that they're serving, you know, at the very end of the engagement model, how are they trying to communicate effectively with those individuals, how are they trying to communicate internally against, uh, their own department or other departments within the agency? It, I believe it's valuable to have a clear understanding of the mission, the purpose for the communications environment of an organization in order to successfully create a technology infrastructure that's the most meaningful for that agency. Once you have that, that, that strategy in that direction, then you, then you build consensus right within an organization, you, you align your partnerships, you align your contractors, you align thought leaders to come up with a constructive strategy and execution plan in order to, you know, upgrade modernize, you know, every facet of the, you know, of your infrastructure necessary to be successful. And does Ribbon come in the door with some, some tools to help with that process? We do, you know, we have, uh, we have a variety of products. We have, you know, our, our, I would say at the heart of it for what we call our cloud and edge products are our session border controllers, right? Those are secure communication devices, right? That ensure that that information is being passed back and forth in a packet environment. That information goes from an IT environment over to TDM. We have gateway technology, you know, that connects those two networks together. We have, uh, uh, a great product called application server that's used by many, many agencies of the federal government. That's a next generation PBX for most of the listeners who are familiar with that. Um, and it provides great feature functionality, parity to their existing environment and integrates well with Microsoft teams in order to, you know, deliver a rich feature solution. On the IP and optical side, we have, you know, IP switches and routers. We have optical routers that are connecting, you know, met, um, metropolitan networks, campus -wide networks. Um, we just, uh, finished a partnership with Texas A &M university where they put our IP and optical products into their network to create a private 5g environment for their campus. So for readers who don't, for listeners who don't know Texas A &M is the in largest university the United with over 83 ,000 students. So think about the number of buildings on that campus and the number of wifi networks required to, you know, run that environment, creating a private 5g network becomes very valuable for the university's campus -wide system there. And our technology was able to help, you know, put that in, put that model in place for. The other thing I was just going to mention is, you know, how active we've been with the FCC in terms of robocalling and some of the challenges that, you know, many of us have consumers have been facing, you know, we run things like identity theft, we run scorecards with, you know, with hundreds of service providers, the country of France just certified on our solution for robocalling to prevent some of the issues that are happening within that country. That's something that I'm very proud of that we worked with the FTC, the FCC several years ago in order to, you know, put stir shaken solutions in place in order to improve our, our own livelihood as citizens of the United States. I think we've all gotten phone calls about selling our house or being eligible for insurance or helping with a bank loan or, you know, what, whatever is, you know, top of mind to, you know, to somebody that's robocalling us, you know, with that, we would all love to see those calls go down, but, you know, the important thing is there are times when, you know, there's a legitimate, there's a legitimate color that someone that's reaching out, you know, a hospital as an example, or a bank that needs to get in touch with you, you know, putting, putting things like identity hub in place where, you know, that's a certified, um, honest call and lack of a better term, I think is something that we're really proud of the work that we've done with, uh, within our own company, as well as the U S government and hundreds of service providers in the United States. What does this all look like 20 years from now? If, if, if I had the answer to that, I'd be investing in the right companies at the moment. I think it's a very fascinating time for us. You see rapid advancements in technology today. We talked about it before the call, the telephone was originally invented right by an Italian in 1849. The first U S patent was in 1875 from Alexander Graham bell. The first satellite voice communications was in 1958. Um, the first, the first transmission across the worldwide web was in 1983. So 40 years ago, um, you know, think about how rapidly technology has advanced since 1849, when Meucci in first invented the telephone to where we are in 2023, you know, we're now looking at, you know, technology like private five G we're looking at, you know, chat, GPT and AI. Um, you know, we're looking at cloud environments, you know, with Amazon and Azure and Google, um, and Dell and Rackspace and many, many other companies out there. So I think what happens in 20 years really is up to us, right? It's up to us as individuals to determine what we believe is the most beneficial for mankind and how we use that technology to be better citizens of the world. You know, the old adage of, you know, is very true. And as stewards of communications technology, it isn't more applicable than our industry today. You know, we have a responsibility to educate and teach people about the use of technology and communications technology in productive and meaningful ways. If we can continue to do that as stewards of the earth of mankind, then I believe whatever happens 20 years from now, from a technology standpoint will be advantageous to every human being on this earth. But if we're, if we're greedy and you know, we're bullish on a particular technology without thinking about the long term impacts of the world, then that's irresponsible of us as individuals. Well, Dave, on that note, and on that very visionary note, I really want to thank you for joining me today. This has really been instructive and, you know, topic that we don't get to talk about often on our podcasts about, you know, where we're taking the huge federal organizations that help us and are part of everyday life. And of course, the defense posture of the United States. Where can we learn more about RIBN? Really easy, right? RIBNcommunications .com, rbbn .com. You can find more information about there. We're, you know, we're on Instagram, we're on Facebook. I'm not on TikTok very often, but we're there as well. So find your favorite social media channel and we're available to you. So Doug, I just want to say thanks for having me on. It's always great to have these conversations with you. As you said early, I'm a long time reader and advocate for telecom reseller. And I appreciate all the work you do for our industry. Well, Dave, ditto, ditto. And it's always a pleasure to see you personally. And it's always great to hear an update on RIBN. You guys, the DNA, you mentioned many historic features of our community. RIBN is part of that, that history and also the future. So I want to thank you again for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh "1983" from Stephanie Miller
"To wonder if we were going to have a peaceful transfer of power in the United States. And all of a sudden it occurred to me, my God, Now, geez, are they hatched like most reptiles or are they born? Does anyone know the exact? I'm just, I'm just asking when they spawn. I think they're hatched. All right. Pete and his yappy dogs. Yeah, I personally, I personally think the Chinese are just spawned from infinite darkness. That's just me. Yeah. So take two. Did you guys hear about the Texas GOP and their failure to pass a resolution to condemn feminism and actual Nazism? Yes, I did see that. Yeah. Okay. So surprising. If I, if I could, I would like to do a dramatic reading from the, from the and debate particularly I'd like to read from Jim Pickle. I swear to you, that's name. his Is that a pickle you're reading or are you just happy to see me? Oh, I am very happy to see you. Go ahead. Uh, it's the exact, he's the executive committee member that moved to strike the reading anti -Nazi language altogether. And I'm just going to begin now. Quote, who decides what anti -Semitism is? Who decides what association is? Who decides that it crosses the lines that we have to give up our association with those people? This resolution is just creating a mass for the party. Oh God. Okay. And that is a Texas, Texas accent you're doing. Texas now brought to you by German. Yeah. All Thank right. you. Texas now brought to you by Hitlerburger. Okay. Oh boy. What What the actual, uh, Oh no. She twint on Twitter. She twint. Thank you. Just tweeted FYI protesting quote unquote outside of Israeli or Palestinian owned restaurants in the United States is not going to fix anything. Let these people live their lives and do their jobs. What the is wrong with you? Right. That's where I am on this entire Middle East thing. What the is wrong with everybody? Oh my God. Stop. The people that who own restaurant have nothing to do with the leadership of the country of Israel. They have nothing to do with the policies of it. This is why, thank you UN, you're a little late condemning the systemic rape and torture and beheading of Israeli women. It's like that is not to undermine that what the Palestinians are going through is horrible. But you can't say, root pundit, among others. Root pundit said, I can care about children dying in Gaza because of Israel's bombardment and about the women who suffered horrific rape and murder in Israel at the hands of Hamas. Compassion doesn't and shouldn't go just one way. There should be no but, right? Like, oh, well, yes, but this when you're talking about either side of this, it's all horrific. But oh my God, the stories of the systemic rape and torture and beheadings of I mean, how can you not just unequivocally like Hillary Clinton just did? Right? Just wrong. Stop and then stop talking. Don't. Aye yai yai. Ah, where is it? Hang on. Hold, please. Yes. Dean Obadallah, our friend who is Palestinian, said protesting private businesses in response to Netanyahu's brutal military action in Gaza, simply because by they're Jewish owned Americans is 100 percent wrong. Period. Absolutely. Thank you, Dean. And stop talking. Right. There's no other like, you know, trying to justify it. I'm just I am so heartbroken by the whole thing. I was listening to one expert talk about, you know, that they haven't had an election in 17 years. sorry. But they're saying that whatever polling they can do there, part of the reason they're not is because Hamas would win. And I'm like, can you imagine? Right now they would, absolutely. Because they don't, I mean, can you imagine that your life, you're living in an open air prison, you know, at prison, basically, your life is a living hell and you feel like your options are Hamas or nothing. And you're told to evacuate to the safer part of the Gaza Strip. And it's not safe. Right. And then, you know, the place you evacuated to starts getting bombed. They have nowhere to go with it. Imagine how hopeless your life is if you think you have no choice. Hamas is your only choice. There no is other alternative than this pack of terrorists that just keep more death and destruction. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that exact same thing the other day. He said this lopsided bombardment of all of the Gaza Strip is driving people more Hamas towards because they see Hamas as some kind of safety. Yeah, which is completely incorrect because they're the ones that want Palestinian deaths and use them as shields for exactly this purpose. He said Israel may be getting a tactical win with all of this, but they're not getting a psychological win. That's part of the Hamas plan and that's why you can't like dispute atrocities. Hamas wants you to know there's video. This is part of their plan is the systemic rape and torture and all of it. It's complicated. Which Okay, which is perfect for talk radio. It's built for nuance. Yeah. Okay. All right. This part of the interview, the Liz Cheney interview with Maddow yesterday, Today she said she ran to the Capitol after an alarming Trump White House phone call plotting to overturn the election, which she secretly listened in on. Don't you love that they didn't know she was listening? Mm hmm. Oh, lizard, lizard, lizard, lizard. Um, on that call, uh, Madison's Trump lawyer, Jenna Ellis describes what they're envisioning for January 6th. Uh, in this scenario, Ellis described Pence when was presiding, he could either refuse to open or refuse to count the electoral votes. They don't necessarily know you're on this call. You're listening in just two days before January 6th. Um, Cheney says, yeah, I dialed into that phone and call listening to them describe how these fake electors were going to be used and the fact they anticipated Vice President Pence was going to use them to refuse to count the legitimate electors was certainly a moment of intense concern. As I got off that call, I ran into the Capitol into the office of the parliamentarian to say, you know, wait a minute, this is what I'm hearing is going to happen. What do we do about it in joint session? How do we stop this? Um, anyway, she said, I later learned through investigation, the Vice President Pence and his counsel were having discussions with the Senate parliamentarian and the Vice President, you know, ultimately did his duty bravely. Okay. That's where we part ways again. No, stop with this home. Mike Pence is a brave patriot and a hero. we As know from John Charles reporting, he wasn't going to go. He said, Oh, it'll be too hurtful to my friend. Meaning the friend that wants to hang him. And I, you know, there's too much, uh, whatever. And he's desperately calling Dan Quayle, can I get out of this? And how do I, I mean, come on. He's literally, that's a profile of cowardice as he only did it when he absolutely was told there just is no other way legally around this, but he tried everything he could. So please lizard, please lizard. That was a guard rail that was damaged, but held as you said yesterday, Chris, they're rickety damaged. Yes, exactly. They can't hold again. Exactly. Uh, one last one, uh, Liz Cheney. That is why it's so fundamentally important that we, we ensure Democrats, independence, Republicans, that we, we work together, we vote together. We make clear that Donald Trump is not an acceptable alternative. He is not the lesser of two evils. He is a completely unfit man for office. He's already shown us he what would do and he can never be near the Oval Office again. Oh, now we agree again. You are pure magic. Kent, in Wisconsin, has found the hole in my car story and that, that is Kent, I was entirely too young to drive in 1983,
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Can Bitcoin Save Argentina? (Javier Milei & Tucker Carlson on Socialist Oppression)
"Let's say, if we consider that stealing is wrong, one of the greatest thieves in the history of mankind is the central bank. Bitcoin is disrupting the world, and that is especially evident in what's going down in the South American nation of Argentina. The Paris of the South is now a country that has been ravaged by corruption and socialism for a century, and the economic turmoil is spilling over into widespread unrest. The people know that something has to change, and soon. But your country is beautiful, abundant natural resources, intelligent, well -educated population, and yet its economy is in shambles. How could any, so clearly the system isn't working, how could anyone support that? We have to talk about the idea of socialism, and with a phrase that is very attractive, but that is terrorizing in terms of economic functioning, is the idea that there is a nation under a threat. And that is a problem because the nations are infinite, and the threat is in the people who pay. And the problem is that the resources are infinite. So the situation of the nation is infinite, and the resources are part of a conflict. As we move closer to mass adoption, more and more world leaders and political candidates have come out in support of Bitcoin and crypto, but perhaps none of them has been as vocal or colorful as Bitcoin -friendly candidate Javier Millet of Argentina. Recently, he shocked the world with a huge win in Argentina's presidential primary, and Bitcoin recently put in a new all -time high against the Argentinian peso. So it's time to take a little trip south of the border as we continue our quest to discover crypto. But first, go ahead and smash the like button, subscribe to the channel, and turn on notifications so you can be along for the ride as we continue our adventure to discover crypto. While Bitcoin has been bouncing around the $25 ,000 range on the USD charts, it clocked in a new all -time high against the Argentinian peso. On August 15, 2023, one Bitcoin traded over 10 million Argentinian pesos. What's wrong with that math? Well, a lot. But before we get into the hot mess courtesy of the IMF, we need to set the stage for how the Paris of the South got into such a bad place. The Argentine peso was created in 1881 from the Spanish peso under the name Peso Nacional and has been devaluing ever since. In 1970, the peso lei was introduced, then in 1983, the Argentine peso was introduced, and in 1992, the current new peso, which at the time was meant to be convertible into dollars was introduced. At that time, one ARS was equal to one USD. Confused? That's okay. It's hard to keep track of all the lies the big banks are telling you, but all you really need to know is that fiat has failed over and over again in Argentina. Today, it's happening again. One ARS has fallen to a third of one penny, a 99 % loss in dollar value in just 30 years. Given this troubled history of economic crises and mismanagement of the currency by the central bank, it is not surprising that Argentina had to take out loans from the IMF, and it's also not surprising that since their currency is dying, they've struggled to pay it back. The struggle is real. The inflation rate in Argentina just hit 124%. Monthly inflation is pushing past a staggering 10%. That means the ARS is losing 3 % of its value a day. What does this look like day to day? That means one liter of milk costs 377 pesos. Monthly rent for a 900 square foot apartment is 221 ,438 pesos, and buying a cheap car like a VW Golf costs 8 million pesos. If you paid in cash, that would mean you have to carry 20 pounds of paper, 1 ,000 peso bills to make the purchase. The International Monetary Fund is one head of a dirty money hydra that has been plaguing the earth ever since the Great Depression. The World Bank and BIS are the other two predatory central banks that have gone out of their way to impoverished countries and subjugate millions, all to line their own pockets. The IMF executive board approved a 30 -month extended arrangement for Argentina under the extended fund facility and an amount of US $44 billion. I think it's a little sketchy that the IMF refers to their loan agreements with entire nations as arrangements, gives off mafia vibes. But whatever you call it, that's a lot of debt to have to pay back in your national currency, especially when inflation is bleeding you dry. As the fiscal situation in Argentina has declined, the relationship with the IMF has gotten pretty tense this year as well. On July 5, 2023, it was announced that Argentina would push loan repayments due to the International Monetary Fund in July to the end of the month. The payments owed totaled US $2 .6 billion. The cash -strapped country bundled its June payments in a similar way, as it is permitted to do, and paid partly in Chinese yuan as it suffered a shortage of dollar reserves. Then at the end of July, Argentina and the IMF agreed to a last -minute deal to prevent the troubled South American economy entering into arrears with the fun and offering some stability ahead of its October crucial presidential elections. Arrears is a fancy way of saying you're late on your debt payments, which isn't a good look if you're running a re -election campaign, so the IMF decided to help them out a little bit more. Then finally, last month on August 4, it was announced that Argentina's government had reached an agreement with Qatar for a $775 million loan of oil money, a loan Argentina planned to use to make an International Monetary Fund repayment due on Friday. It's sad to see a whole country desperately trying to get loans like someone who's broke trying to come up with rent money, but that's what central banking does to people. They bought themselves enough time to make it to the elections in October, but Argentina is still grappling with severe economic crisis, sky -high inflation, falling central bank reserves, and is still going to be facing further IMF repayments after their election. And since their credit is basura with the IMF, Argentina, like many other countries, has turned to China to bail them out. The country's economy minister, Sergio Masa, is running for the president of the ruling political party, the Peronist Coalition. He has blamed Argentina's struggles to pay back its debt on a severe drought, which wiped out more than $18 billion of expected export earnings this year. Masa also said Argentina would not use a single dollar of its own reserves to make the IMF repayment, so instead it's going to go into more debt. So the situation in Argentina is dire, but there is a revolution coming, and part of that change is coming in the form of former soccer player, rock and roll singer, and economist Javier Millet. Millet is the current front -runner to be the next president, and he sees a lot of potential for Bitcoin being the next catalyst to fix all the problems socialism has caused in his beloved country.
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Fresh update on "1983" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"I think it was a perfectly charming and delightful story about me paying my mom back for my Chevy Sprinter 1983. I think so. Yeah. All right. You'll never be No, I will not. Okay. 18. Hey, we have Charlie Pierce and we have Alpha liberal Cliff Schecter coming up on the big shoe. Charlie has a little bit of news to tell. Yes, I know indeed. All right. 18 after the hour. This portion of the show brought to you by people Jodie Hamilton's pet. Should we change the name of the show since people don't like it when I talk to Jodie Hamilton's petting zoo? Sure. Welcome to Jodie Hamilton's petting zoo. Bonnie and Clyde love their Dr. Marty's nature's blend at spoiled supermarket meets sawdust like fillers, artificial preservatives. Those are just a few of the ingredients and I have found in many popular dog foods. I thought I was feeding a premium dog food and then looked meal. meat That's not meat. If you look on your bag of Dr. Marty's, here it is. Look, I cut it out and saved it. Turkey, beef, salmon, duck, beef liver, turkey liver, turkey heart, flax seeds, sweet potato, pea egg, protein, apple, blueberry, carrot, cranberry, pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, spinach, dried kelp, ginger, sunflower salt, seed, broccoli, kale. I mean, that is like a rock star lineup of ingredients. Sounds healthy. Raw, freeze -dried and they absolutely go crazy for the flavor. For the holidays, save up to 54 percent off Nature's Blend and get a free festive holiday dog sweater and it is festive with select orders. Go to drmartypets dot com slash Miller or text Miller to 511 511. They offer 100 percent 90 -day return of your purchase price. Text fees may apply or go right to drmartypets .com slash Miller. We're colossal! We're tremendous. We're terrific. We're even supportive. It's The Stephanie Miller Show. Thanks Music
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A highlight from Your-Weekly-Tech-Update-EP-132
"Hello everyone! Welcome to your weekly tech update, the show that explores the newest, coolest, and sometimes mind -boggling side of tech available on the interwebs. I am your tech therapist, Ray McNeil. I'm here to take your mind off of the current state of the world and my prescription? Technology. Coming up on the program today, Google's Tilt Brush virtual painting app is coming to the PlayStation VR. This has me so excited. Valve's first entry into the Half -Life world in 13 years is now available and it's in VR. And happening in this week's What The... We're actually going to rename the segment this week to give you just a moment of joy. That and a whole lot more coming up on today's edition of your weekly tech update, next. Hi everyone. Google's Tilt Brush painting app is conquering one of its few remaining frontiers. We're talking about consoles. The search giant has teamed up with Outerloop Games to release the 3D creative tool for the PlayStation VR. To no one's surprise, it's the same experience just in your living room. It turned your PlayStation Move controllers into virtual brushes that you can use to create pretty much any immersive masterpiece that you can dream up. And yes, Sony is aware that Move controllers aren't always easy to find. It's actually selling a $100 Tilt Brush bundle that includes two wands plus a code for Tilt Brush. That kit doesn't include the PlayStation VR headset itself, but it beats having to scrounge for controllers at other stores or even shops like Goodwill. However you complete your setup, it could be worth the expense if you need another creative tool to help you relax during a particularly stressful time. Dragon's Lair was a technological marvel when it was released way back in 1983. Instead of using conventional graphics of the day, which were not great at all, it featured real animation by ex -Disney animator Don Bluth enabled by beefy laser disc storage. It wasn't a particularly good game. Alright, it was horrible, but those stunning visuals turned it into a five -star quarter eater and inspired home versions on a variety of platforms. The original is on Steam right now if you wanted to play it, and GOG picked up the Dragon's Lair trilogy back in 2018. In 2015, Bluth and Gary Goldman launched a $550 ,000 Kickstarter project to help fund the creation of Dragon's Lair the movie. It tanked, so they cancelled and went to Indiegogo looking for $250 ,000 slightly over what was pledged on Kickstarter. At this time, they were actually successful, achieving their goal in just a couple of weeks and ultimately pulling in more than $350 ,000. And now, according to The Hollywood Reporter anyway, the project has been picked up by Netflix, with none other than Ryan Reynolds in talks to star as Dragon's Lair hero, Dirk the Daring. Bluth, Goldman, and John Pomeroy, another animator who left Disney to work with Bluth, are producing this. Netflix confirmed the report on Twitter. Dragon's Lair isn't very big on plot. Princess Daphne has been kidnapped by the Dragon Singe and is being held in the fortress of the evil wizard Marduk. And Dirk the Daring, a bold, vaguely dumbwitted knight, crashes the castle to rescue her. The game itself doesn't provide any greater depth because it's basically a series of rapid -fire quick -time events. That means the writers have the freedom to run with pretty much whatever they want. But whether that's actually a good thing, we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully it will be better than Reynolds' last collaboration with Netflix, the Michael Bay -directed cinematic fiasco Six Underground. Honestly, I can't imagine it being any worse. However, I am an action fan and I did find some mild entertainment out of that movie. Tesla is preparing to release an update to its Autopilot system that will enable it to finally automatically stop at traffic lights. And a video of the system at work has already been released. The automaker is supposed to induce more advanced driver assist features meant to help city driving, the same way Autopilot has been helping Tesla drivers for highway driving. It's part of what CEO Elon Musk calls the feature -complete version of its full self -driving capability, which Tesla was supposed to push at least to its early access owners by the end of last year. Instead, Tesla pushed what Musk called a full self -driving preview, which was the integration of stop signs and traffic lights in Tesla's Autopilot visualization. When the automaker pushed the update in December, Tesla's Autopilot system didn't act on those traffic lights. Now, it looks like Tesla has started to push an Autopilot update with the actual ability to handle intersections to its early access fleet, a group of owners who beta test new software updates from Tesla. Out of Spec Motoring on Twitter, who apparently has access to a Model 3 with early access software, released a video of the new Autopilot software in action. It shows the Model 3 detecting the red light and stopping the car on its own with some new driving visualizations. The driver assist feature for city driving is part of a promise that Tesla has made since starting to sell its full self -driving package many years ago now. It's going to be available to owners of Tesla vehicles with the latest Autopilot hardware and who paid the $7 ,000 full self -driving capable package price, which has been listing these two upcoming features, recognize and respond to traffic lights and stop, and automatic driving on city streets. The fact that the feature is in early access right now means that Tesla is closer than ever to releasing it to its broader fleet, but the timeline is not exactly clear. Sometimes Tesla only takes days between pushing a feature to its early access owners and the larger customer fleet, while at other times it can take weeks. While Tesla Autopilot will be able to automatically operate at intersections like with Autopilot on the highway, Tesla still says that drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel at all times and, of course, be ready to take control. The driver is still always responsible for driving a Tesla vehicle.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "1983" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"I don't really care if nobody Help me please Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me Cheney, Liz Liz Cheney, wow. Thanks for being here. Thank you. It's nice to meet you. Really nice to meet you. Is this as weird for you as it is for me? It's pretty weird, yeah. It certainly is. Your A lot of memories. But I think that it just is a real symbol of how grave this danger is. But I also was thinking as I was watching it, the power of the fact that somebody who is where you are on the political spectrum and somebody who's where I am on the spectrum political are able to say, this is a five alarm fire. And we have to put that aside and be able to say, what are we going to do to come together to save the republic? Yes. You have always been there. That was fantastic. I watched the whole. Did you know what she said? Yeah, laser, laser, laser. Rachel spent the whole first half hour going, I hate everything about you. I want to debate her about everything she is wrong about. She's wrong about everything. Her whole family, her whole life. Hi, Liz. Welcome. Thanks for coming. Let's save the republic. Let's get on with it. And Liz was right. I mean, it's a symbol of how dire things are in America right now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Rachel Maddow and Liz Cheney are working together. I know. I know. Is it? What is it? Like Mothra Godzilla. and Dogs and cats playing together. Dogs and cats living together. The state pop marshmallow man is walking through the streets New of York. It is like Mothra and Godzilla. Yeah. Because they fought each other. Yeah. It was just seeing them together. you're like, wow, this is bad. The Atlantic did a whole issue about Yeah. About the threat to America. I don't know whether, I assume people are starting to get it. Michael in Oakland, our Michael, tweeted take heart. Amy Amy Walter of Cook Political Report said Trump is getting no more support than at his peak at the time of the 2020 election. think he'll Does anyone get more support after being convicted? Oh, and Biden hasn't even started campaigning yet. So I know we go Even on our show, right? We go back and forth between extreme gastrointestinal distress and sheer terror and feeling like, you know, but I really do think it is 2016 PTSD that we just think, oh, the minute we start thinking, oh, you know, we've got this blah, blah, blah. Look at that. That's like they're reenacting the Rachel and Liz interview. Bonnie and Clyde. What are you doing? Yeah, that's Clyde just going. You were wrong about the Iraq war. You're wrong. Wrong. Okay. By the way, people on Twitter seem to think I have a lot more power than I do. They want me to urge Bob Matto, who listens to the show every day, to get Rachel come to back to five nights a week. I wish I had that power, but I think Rachel likes to put in a word for it. I would, too. I would, too. I would like eleventy billion dollars for one day a week. Well, I mean, she works more than one. Yes. Yes. Isn't she producing two films right now? Yeah, and a podcast or two. I want her five nights a week, too, Daddy. I want it now. Can we just get her on this show, Bob? Come on, Bob. Bob. Come on. Yeah, we've never asked you, Bob. Hi, Bob. Keep that to a minimum. Rachel blurb by my book. I try to keep my favors. She runs the Millennium. Yeah. She blurb my book. And she, do you she, she's so amazing. She, her assistant called and said, because normally you just send them a chapter and say, you know, would you blurb? She's like, oh, no, no. Rachel wants the whole book. Rachel needs, she reads the whole book before she, she's a reader. Yes. Apparently they don't give those Rhodes scholars out by skittles. She's a doctor anyway. And she wrote the nicest blurb ever, but yeah. But that was your one favor for a Millennium. Yes. I'm done now. I apologize. Well, he hasn't done that favor for me yet. Come on, Bob. You owe Jody a favor. Why do you hate Carol Burnett so much? Does that help? Oh, by the way, I took the giant creepy photo of Jody and her mom and her sister that I had on my wall long before I met Jody to be, to get glass put back in because it fell at some point moving earthquake or something. I don't remember. And so it's the hardware store getting glass, but I'll never forget the first time Jody walked in my house. She just looks at the picture and she's like, Oh, that's really big. It is a very large photo. Lots of force. I told the story. On my Oxygen show, it was a photographer that took pictures of famous mothers and daughters and they knew how much I love Carol Burnett. So they blew it up. It was on set and they gave it to me. And so then when I met Jody, I was like, okay, you're going to think this is really weird. Okay. It's not creepy. And Jody was It's creepy. It is creepy. But I photoshopped you in a smaller version of that same photograph. Yeah, she gave me the same photograph with me just photoshopped in. Yeah. All right. She's the only Listen. Congratulations to Comer Simpson. Go! I got you near your bombshell. Oh, he's Come on, Jody. Give it up for James Comer. He has a real bombshell. Don't block my drama sting story. Joe Biden is being funneled money by Hunter Biden to repay a car loan. Three payments $1 ,300 to repay because Joe Biden lent money him when he was having trouble with his addiction and he couldn't credit. Right. Oh, my God. They're just so pathetic. That's it. That's the bombshell. He actually went on several times. I don't know what to say about this entire disgrace of a party. Oh, could I have some nostalgia movie? Music movie? What? Music. Of course, it's that time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is. We keep saying that every morning. We're going to tell old stories because just I'm going to say this right now because I clearly will be urged to run for Adam Schiff's seat or something. I will obviously. Oh, yes. Yeah, I'll be running at some point for something. Let me just just divulge right now that I have these same payments to my mom in 1980. Something when you were a toddler. Right. It was nice of my mom to buy me a car when I was two. It was a big wheel. It was in 1983. It
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1261. Fed Meeting vs. Crypto LIVE | Jerome Powell + Inflation Sentiment Analysis
"All right, so welcome in everybody to the live stream today. We'll be breaking down the FOMC meeting and also talk a little bit about what Chair Powell has decided to do along with the Board of Governors and break down all that, what kind of implications this might have on the market for you. It's going to be a good one. My name is Paul Beyer and welcome back in the Tech Path. All right, so joining, of course, today we will be doing our normal live stream where we air the Fed meeting. And it's not necessarily the meeting, but it's the remarks. It's the press conference after the meeting, which obviously we've got news in now that there is no rate hike. So whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, I think the key here is that the Fed has continued to hold this position of softening now is and can they navigate a soft landing is the real question. I think this is going to be the one that we'll have going into this. We're probably going to take, I think we may take some questions. It depends on how long Chair Powell talks. So make sure and drop some of those over on the side. And if this is your first time here on the channel, all I would ask is that you subscribe. We do a lot of hard work and research to hopefully bring the best news content out there in the crypto and blockchain space to you. So just hit that little subscribe button. And if you can hit the little bell, it's going to give of you notifications when we go live, just like this one right here. So we'll break in and all that. Just to let you guys know, so when the Fed meets every month to every two months, depending on the on the period of time, basically you have a board of governors that comes together. They start working through all of the data that comes in from the market. And then at that point, they start to make the final decision of how they're going to go interest about rate hikes or potentially interest rate declines. So we'll be airing Chair Powell's speech when he addresses the press corps here in a bit. So just be on the lookout for that. They are probably about 10 to 15 minutes away. We'll go through some things here today I want to talk about today. First of all, how would Bitcoin react to the Fed's interest rate decision? Obviously, right now we're starting to see Bitcoin do a little bit of slight move down. But that's my question is, do we continue to see Bitcoin in more of a holding pattern right now with where it has been? Or if you look at the chart, let me kind of bring up the Bitcoin chart real quick and I'll just jump over to my chart. And I'm on the five minute chart right now. But as you can kind of see, let me go to the one hour so we can kind of push that out for the last couple of days. You can kind of see a little bit of that incline that we've had over the past few days where Bitcoin slipped right into that $27 .4K range at its high and it started to adjust off of that. And I think this is the scenario that I think a lot of people are looking at. And that is when you consider the current status of the macro pressure that the markets are getting. Remember the S &P and I'm going to show you guys some cool things. Let me jump over to the S &P real quick because this is something that we've been doing here on our power index or our market sentiment index and that is starting to measure a little bit more of the S &P compared to what's happening in crypto. Right now I'm looking just at the one hour but this was the decline that we've seen in the S &P 500 which of course has started to adjust a little bit. Now some of that may be coming from the softening in the market itself. Let me jump over to this article here because I want to go back to this point on Bitcoin. Fed's interest rate decision everybody's expected today did come in at what was expected being no interest rate hike. However some experts also said that low volatility may continue after Fed's decision and investors expecting high volatility in the Bitcoin price may be disappointed. I am in somewhat agreement with that. Now there are two I guess two camps thinking of where this direction may go and what it really boils down to is two things. One of course is going to be the situation of when the Fed does pivot and the other is going to be how much lagging data is coming in in the last quarter because here we are going into Q4 October 1st. Once we start to move into Q4 we're going to start to see one the Q3 earnings that will give us some indicators of how most of these companies are doing which will cause some action on the S &P 500. And then with that you are also going to get lagging data on jobs. You're going to be lagging data on general scenarios that are market pressures coming things like the oil market. And then what we'll see is I still believe is the CRE market the commercial real estate market. That's going to be the one to watch for. And that is my concern if we continue to see a little bit of a decline there. Now the other question that plays into this is how sticky will inflation be during this last quarter because all of what we could see and including possibly another quarter point and we'll probably hear this from Chair Powell here in a few minutes when he comes on to address the press is whether or not we will see another quarter basis points rise in the fourth quarter of this year and how that sets up Q1 and Q2 for 2024. Now you have to be thinking about what is this going to do around an election year. You've got a lot happening with the UAW. That's the United Auto Workers strike potentially looming. Biden administration is pushing hard to try to position against that along with what's happening on the labor market tightening somewhat. And then of course what we've seen with sticky inflation. So all of this was really playing into when is that bottom really in. Now that's the question mark for Bitcoin, Ethereum and some of the blue chip assets. Have we started to see maybe a little bit of that swoop off of the bottom and started that into that stabilization. And I'll show you guys some examples of that. But here's the U .S. Federal Reserve keeping rates elevated through 2024. This is the concern that I think slows things down a little bit in the general market. And that is that if BlackRock is right and that if we continue to see higher rates interest rates through 2024. Now when I say higher he could still pivot and start that quarter point softening of a market. That in itself would most likely send the markets into a tizzy. But I think the other issue is whether or not we actually reach the scenario of an inflation cap that actually gets hit by consumer price index which obviously will affect consumer spending all those kind of things. And that starts to roll into the potential of a recession. And that is the real question mark looming here right now. A couple of points I want to hit out on this article on BlackRock. BlackRock's head of global fundamental income strategy agreed that the Fed is unlikely to change rates. Everybody's right on that. But the big deal is since March 2022 the Fed has increased rates 11 times to fight soaring inflation. And we've got a few charts I'll show you here in a minute of the history of inflation and the reaction of markets and how they've been able to respond. What you see there right there in 2023 is where we are now. But obviously this back in the 1980s when we were at pretty much all time inflation hits. Additionally if you guys did not follow this Citigroup announced the Fed interest rate forecast for September and November. This is another one that I think is important. From now on markets will price and how long interest rates will remain high and rather than whether there'll be an increase in interest rates. And that's my point is if we're talking about all of 2024 seeing a five plus interest rate Fed fund rate that's going to continue to pour money into the money market overall. And I think that's the other scenario especially when you look at the amount of liquidity that's going to be setting in on the sideline. So that's another factor into 2024 because you've got the halving coming with Bitcoin. You have a new election year coming in and then you have these crazy scenarios playing in on all these market pressures coming in from the macro side of things and that's providing that we don't end up with a united autowork because I think if we get a strike in the car market that could have some pretty big effects possibly even actually be one of the things that pushes us into recession because of how the auto mobile industry is so connected to so many different job industries so many sectors and obviously part of what we'll see in terms of just consumer pricing. Other parts on this I wanted to show this is kind of the the nominal Fed funds target rate increase during the FOMC tightening episodes. This goes all the way back to 1983. And this is good because it shows you how quickly this is us right now in the green the twenty two twenty three range. Look how quickly we've accelerated up that chart versus if you look at the 2004 to 06 tightening all the way back to the 2015 to 18 very slow and steady until we had the you know what. And then back here in the 80s which was really kind of that flat line and then boom that heavy acceleration that we had in the early 80s when we really started to see kind of a redefinition of what high inflation truly was. And I don't know how many of you guys are around. I was still in high school at the time but but it this kind of shows where we could be. Now that's the question mark right now because if we stay at this rate right here if we start flat lining right here what maybe we'll have a little bit of this kind of effect back in the 80s where before we saw that last two to three point raise. And that's the concern I have is if we do see any kind of somewhat tentative recovery here in the Q1 possibly even in Q2 does the Fed look at 2024 data and start to reposition. I still believe that we are at the end of this cycle.
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"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Border Patrol agents enjoy great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. If you are looking for a way to serve something greater than yourself, consider the U .S. Border Patrol. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. That's cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Q for hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. I'm Hugh Hewitt in Studio North. There's a lot to cover today, a lot to talk about. I'm going to begin, though, by telling you about my friend Terry Eastland, who died yesterday. And I want to read Roger Clegg's short obituary in the National Review, which posted yesterday at 1133. Roger writes, I met Terry Eastland after we had both joined the Justice Department during the Reagan administration in the early 1980s. So we were friends for approximately four decades. He and I were fellow Texans and appreciated not only Ronald Reagan, but Southern cuisine together. To be sure, Terry's expertise on barbecue in particular was deeper than mine, no doubt helped by the fact that his wife Jill was from North Carolina. Terry's Southern roots were manifest in other ways. He was devoted to the Atlanta Braves and sold encyclopedias and or Bibles door to door. I forget which and maybe it was both. He went to Vanderbilt and Oxford, studied the classics, eventually became a journalist. Readers of National Review knew Terry as a distinguished and stalwart conservative intellectual. He's the author of numerous books and innumerable articles and high on the masthead of the American Spectator and Weekly Standard, among other publications. He was not a lawyer, but wrote beautifully and wisely about a range of legal issues, including separation of powers, religious freedom and equal protection. We work together, writes Roger Clegg, most recently at the Center for Equal Opportunity, where Terry continued his lifelong fight for colorblind equal opportunity. Terry was one of the most pleasant and thoughtful people I ever met, a learned and genuine Christian in every sense of the word. No surprise then that he was devoted to his family, helping to care for his mother and mother -in -law and mentally challenged sister, as well as being a devoted husband, father and grandfather. Jill sent me a text this morning. Terry passed away gently this morning. He is with his savior. That's a beautiful and short farewell to Terry Eastland. Everyone who is in the conservative legal movement, I mean, really, everyone who's in the conservative legal movement, who's 40 and older, has worked with Terry. And I don't think anyone can say this, I don't think Terry had any enemies. I really don't. I met Terry at a Bethel Bible study in 1983 when I was clerking on the D .C. Circuit and the Fetching Mrs. Hewitt persuaded me to go over to a national Presbyterian church. You know, I'm a Catholic, but this is my first dipping the toe into the Presbyterian world. And there are about 14 people from Jack and Edna who were in their 70s, right down to young married couples like the Fetching Mrs. Hewitt and myself in the Eastlands and a number of other people led by Anne Dennison. And we met together once a week for two years to go through the Bible, especially useful to people like me who have no idea what's the organization thereof. But Terry was there and first time you go around the room, what are you doing? And I said, well, I'm clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit. Terry lit up and said, that's interesting that I'm over at the Department of Justice. We should have lunch. And we did. And Terry and I and Jill and the Fetching Mrs. Hewitt became fast, fast friends over two years in Bible study. And then Terry recruited me to DOJ off the court. He went in and said, do you want to work over here? Bill Smith, because I was going to Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a big law firm. I'd accepted their offer. I was doing a clerkship and was going to go to GDC downtown D .C. Said, you want to come on to work over here? You know, Bill Smith, he's a Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher partner. He'd probably like you. And so I took my resume into Tex Lazar, who was the new chief of staff after Judge Ken Starr had left. And I interviewed with Tex and I interviewed with General Smith and I went over to work there. And Terry and I worked together for the time I was at Justice. And after I went over to the White House, he stayed with Ed Meese when Ed Meese arrived and became the head of public affairs for Ed Meese. And the four horsemen would run in those years somewhat fast. That's Brad Reynolds, Chuck Cooper, Terry Eastland and Hugh Hewitt would run down the mall every day back in the 80s and back up solving the problems of the world. The conservative legal movement is broad and it's older than the Federalist Society actually begins in 1981 at the Reagan Department of Justice and with Ed Meese at the White House. And it flowered. And in the middle of it was a non -lawyer, Terry Eastland. I'm not saying he's central to everything, he just knew everyone. He wrote carefully, constructively, amusingly, and he was never angry. He was indeed the nicest man in Washington, D .C. And part of that is Texas and part of that is Christianity and part of it is his humility. And he really brought home this to me, the most important non -life lesson but intellectual lesson I learned from Terry. The Constitution was written to be understood by ordinary people. It was written by landed people for people who were not landed and not often literate so that they could adopt it in state conventions and that you ought to be able to read it and understand it and reason it. Terry wrote great books about the Supreme Court. He wrote great books about the law. He wrote great books about affirmative action, especially which offended him deeply because he came from very, very little. And he ended up going to Vanderbilt and Oxford and becoming an intellectual. He's a newspaper editor at the Virginia pilot, Norfolk pilot, I believe, and before that at the Observer. And he was recruited originally by Bill Smith, General Smith, to be a speechwriter and then he took over all of comms for General Meese.
Mark Levin
We're Still Here After Many 'Government Shutdowns'
"On a plan budget that would start from zero zero -based budgeting he called he had problems from Democrats and he shut down the government a lot total of 60 days out of four years that then the great Ronald Reagan comes in Congress wants to spend money everything on but defense 1981 he shuts down the government for two days in November 1982 he shut down the government for one day September 30 to October 2 again 1982 December he shuts it down three more days 1983 shuts it down three days 1984 shuts it down two days 1984 again later shuts it down one day 1986 he shuts it down one day 1987 he shuts it down one day Here we are America. The federal government's been shut down about 80 days until that point can you imagine? Clinton George H .W. Bush shuts it down for three days 1990 in Bill Clinton shuts it down for five days in 1995 95 facing 1996 Clinton off with Newt Gingrich they shut it down for three weeks Guardians George H .W. Bush advised by Karl Rove the other lightweights never vetoed a spending bill never shut down the government and spending went through the roof you
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The problems of evil
"In today's episode I'll be speaking to Raphael Cohen -Algamal about the problems of evil. How can you reconcile individualism and collectivism? Has multiculturalism failed? And what happens when the rights of the state are in conflict with the rights of culture? Raphael discusses his book and provides an academic viewpoint on these tricky dilemmas. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Raphael Cohen -Almagor. How are you doing? Good, how are you Judith? I am doing great, thank you. Tell me what sort of things make you giggle or laugh out loud? What makes me giggle? Good, cynical, sharp, statement jokes. Things that make me think and then see the irony behind them. And yeah, make me giggle. Tell us a little bit about you. I'm an academic, I've been in academia all my life. I did my bachelor degree at Tel Aviv University in political science, sociology and anthropology and then continued to do my masters in political science at Tel Aviv University. I pursued a doctorate at Oxford University at St. Catherine's College. I'm very patriotic about my Oxford College and then started to research and teach at the Hebrew University, went to the and Institute then I moved to University of Haifa. I spent a year at UCLA, I spent a year at Charles Hopkins University. I spent some time at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Studies, then moved to the UK, been to of course Oxford and then University of Hull and then University College London and presently I'm the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University in Sweden. Besides academia, I am sort of a public person. I established some organization in my life. So back in 1983 I established a second -generation Holocaust Remembrance Organization in Israel and later I established a Centre for Democratic Studies and then I established the Palme Jews Institute and I established the Middle Eastern Studies Centre at the University of Hull. So I like to do practical things. I'm not the usual academic because I have many many interests. You told me that today we're going to speak about the contrast between group rights and individual rights which is subject of my two last books. One of them is Just Visible Multiculturalism, maybe you can see that, published in 2021 and I consider this as one of my major works. Took me 10 years to write this book and then the other one is my most recent book which is called the Republic Security and Secularism which is on the fight of France against how women dress, especially Muslim women dress. In France I was fascinated by the fact that in France people are so preoccupied by the fact that women dress. I mean why should you be? There are people that can think that the government should be preoccupied by rather than how a woman dresses. She does it every day. So I went to France to study that and that's a subject of my most recent book but other than that I'm interested in problems of evil.
The Mason Minute
Leprosy (MM #4516)
"The other day I read a news story online about leprosy surging in central Florida and it kind of made me pause. What? Two, three weeks ago I was talking about malaria, now we're talking about leprosy and civilized areas in our country. What I didn't realize, leprosy was around and peaked in 1983. Sure, we heard about leper colonies and we think biblical times, we think ancient times, we think of leper colonies like Australia. We don't think about this disease still happening. 150 people a year in America contract leprosy. I guess you contract it, but it's making a comeback and it's getting worse. You would think with our advanced medicine, you would think with our somewhat advanced civilization, these things would be gone. Once they're gone, they're gone. But that's not the case. People aren't being safe. People are being exposed to things. They don't know what they're doing and that's kind of scary. Leprosy in Florida. I'm not thinking I'm going to get leprosy, but still you got to worry about those things because what's next? We never thought we'd have something like COVID. We never thought we'd see malaria again. Leprosy, it's getting very strange and I don't know what to do.
The Mason Minute
Leprosy (MM #4516)
"The other day I read a news story online about leprosy surging in central Florida and it kind of made me pause. What? Two, three weeks ago I was talking about malaria, now we're talking about leprosy and civilized areas in our country. What I didn't realize, leprosy was around and peaked in 1983. Sure, we heard about leper colonies and we think biblical times, we think ancient times, we think of leper colonies like Australia. We don't think about this disease still happening. 150 people a year in America contract leprosy. I guess you contract it, but it's making a comeback and it's getting worse. You would think with our advanced medicine, you would think with our somewhat advanced civilization, these things would be gone. Once they're gone, they're gone. But that's not the case. People aren't being safe. People are being exposed to things. They don't know what they're doing and that's kind of scary. Leprosy in Florida. I'm not thinking I'm going to get leprosy, but still you got to worry about those things because what's next? We never thought we'd have something like COVID. We never thought we'd see malaria again. Leprosy, it's getting very strange and I don't know what to do.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Todd Chatman of CSI Discusses Freeing Slaves in South Sudan
"How is it possible, first of all, that in this day and age, people are literally enslaved. We're not talking sort of people. We're not talking sort of. We're talking literally enslaved 2023 right now while we are free, there are people enslaved. It's too horrible to contemplate, but we need to. Yeah. You know, as I, as I read about the stories and we can imagine we freed over a 100,000 Sudanese slaves since 1995. And you read their stories because every human being that we free has a story to tell about how they became a slave in the first place. And they're horrific. And there's a lot of common elements, but it's staggering to think that there are still even though we've freed over a 100,000 of these slaves. There are still we're guessing 35 to 40,000 more Sudanese slaves. Most of them women, but sometimes men that have lived their entire life. In captivity. And yeah, you think, boy, how can that be, you know, here in 2023, but it is. And so we are relentless in our pursuit to free more people. We can't do it without generous donors like yours who make it possible. But just as a little primer on history, how this happened. So it goes all the way back to 1983. Civil War, religious persecution in Sudan and Christians were basically told you can't be a Christian in Sudan. And so they revolted against that and they ended up the government got in cahoots with some Arab forces and raiders and they were allowed to go in and destroy farms and take people captive, take them to north Sudan. And those are the people that remain enslaved today. Now, this is not an ongoing issue. This is one of the most common questions we get. Hey, if we help CSI secure freedom for a slave, aren't we, in essence, create a creating a market for that. And the short answer is, no, you're not, because it's an honor and ongoing problem, the slaves taking was abolished back in late 90s. And so no more slaves are being taken captive. But what they've failed to deal with in that legislation to stop the taking of slaves was that further act to go ahead and free the ones that had been taken.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
How Chevron Doctrine Erodes Separation of Powers in Government
"Let's go to cut number 20. More Paul Clement. But I was going to say, in 1983 to 84, when I clerked on the D.C. circuit, it's before Chevron. And we had different tests. I mean, it was a mass, and no one quite knew what to do with it, but the Chevron deference came in after I stopped actually practicing other than as an administrative lawyer looking for permits. It's completely changed the way that the government operates. And I don't know that do you think the justices understand how absolutely indifferent agencies are to the average person approaching them for help? I think some of the justices do, I think that is really one of the things that the change in personnel on the court over the last couple of years has really made a big difference because I do think that justice Kavanaugh saw this firsthand on the D.C. circuit, even though justice Gorsuch was out in Denver, administrative law was a particular focus of his so he understands these issues. He understands the stakes and I think they have an appreciation that Chevron doctrines problematic, both from the standpoint of the citizen facing the government in a particular case, but I think they also appreciate that it really kind of erodes the way the separation of powers is supposed to work in our system of government.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Millions Will Gather for a 21-Day Prayer & Fasting for Israel
"Today's kind of a special edition of the program where I'm having a conversation with my friends Ken fish and Mike bickle about something really, really extraordinary that Mike bickle is involved in. He has, he's never done this before. He's calling the whole world. Christian organizations around the world literally millions of people to participate in a 21 day prayer and fasting for Israel. It's a very big deal. And I thought I want my audience to hear this conversation. So even though I did it on Ken fish's podcast, we're airing it today for you. 40 years ago, 1983, I was 27 years old. I'm 67 now. I had a young adult church, 500 of us in May of 1983 in a very dramatic way. I won't tell the story. He called us to a 21 day fast. We spent many hours a day in a prayer room, our young adult congregation. It was pretty rough, pretty boring, pretty hard, but about 5 or 6 Supernatural things happened in May 1983. I'm not going to go into it. But the point is for 40 years, the my ministry here in Kansas City with the IHOP, the international prayer for the last 24, I pastored 16 and IHOP for 24. That's the 40 years. All 40 years I've said may 83 was the most significant three weeks in my ministry by far because of these 5 or 6 Supernatural things. So that's .1. So now it's January this year three months ago. My leadership team said, hey Mike, we're coming up to the 40 year anniversary of that 21 day fast and may 83. Let's do it again. And I said, actually, honestly, I said, no. They said, no, it's amazing. Let's do it again. I go, well, not let's. Most of you, we're not born 40 years ago. So it was rough. But you said these 5 or 6 Supernatural things happen. They did. But that doesn't mean we can pass together.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Operation Rescue's Randall Terry Describes His Vivid 1983 Vision
"You, in 1983, have this experience in a church. Talk about that. So we break up into little groups, there's maybe 7 of us in my group, we're in a little Sunday schoolroom. And, you know, we had our list of what to pray for, and abortion was on the list. So I started praying. Lord, you know, please, save babies. I mean, I didn't even know what to pray. And I had a vision. So this was not normal for me. But I saw a scroll coming down in front of my face with words written on it, telling me what I was supposed to do. And that I was to recruit people to go by the hundreds and thousands in front of abortion clinics. That we were to re-educate the public to the value of human life from a Bible based perspective. And I saw myself on Donahue, the Phil Donahue show. In the vision, in the vision, I saw myself on Donahue. And so I went to my, I went to no one. I didn't know what to do. I was so startled, I didn't tell a single stole and I thought, okay, am I going crazy? 'cause this doesn't fit my theology. I don't know what to do. And then I had this idea. If this is from God, I'll find something in the scriptures to confirm it. So I started digging through the Bible, not even knowing what I was looking for. And I found this phrase, the shedding of innocent blood. And I thought, oh my goodness. And so as I studied it from genesis to revelation, most of the time in the scriptures when the phrase is used, the shedding of innocent blood. Most of the time it's talking about child sacrifice.
AP News Radio
Top UN court rejects Iranian bid to free assets frozen by US
"The top United Nations court has rejected Iran's effort to free assets frozen by the United States. I Norman hall. The International Court of Justice has rejected Iran's legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian Central Bank assets frozen by U.S. authorities. The money is being held for compensation to victims of the 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran. In a ten 5 majority ruling the court said it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the Iranian claim. In a complex 67 page judgment, the world court also found that some other U.S. moves to seize assets of Iran and Iranians in the United States breached to 1955 treaty between the two card race and said they should negotiate compensation. By Norman hall
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 12:53 a.m. EDT
"BP sports. Coaches on the move in college basketball. Rick Pitino is headed back to the Big Apple. Patina will leave his coaching job at iona to take over at St. John's getting a 6 year deal, bettina was guided 5 different schools to the NCAA tournament. And former Notre-Dame coach Mike bray, who recently stepped down, takes over at South Florida. And the NBA, Philadelphia, honored its 1983 NBA championship sixers team. It was the Chicago Bulls doing the celebrating one O 9 one O 5 over the sixers in double overtime and New York got 57 points from Julius Randle, not enough though, has been a soda topped the Knicks one 40 to one 34. In the NHL, Dylan Ferguson, 48 saves for Ottawa and the Sens defeat Pittsburgh two to one. Women's NCAA tournament, another number one drops as top seed Indiana got beat by 9th seed Miami. Japan over Mexico 6 to 5 of the world baseball classic that sends them at the tonight's championship game against defending champ the United States. AP sports
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:21 a.m. EDT
"Leapy sports. I'm sure freedom coaches on the move in college basketball, Rick Pitino has headed back to the Big Apple, patina will leave his coaching job at iona to take over at St. John's getting his 6 year deal. Former Notre-Dame coach Mike bray, who recently resigned, takes over at South Florida. In the NBA, Philadelphia celebrated its 40th anniversary of the 1983 NBA title, but it was all Chicago Bulls in the second overtime. The bulls went at one O 9 one O 5 or the sixers. Bull centered Nikola vucevic says the team showed a lot of fight for a big win. This year, no matter what was going on, we always kept coming back and fighting back. We had light up and downs, let it tough bosses, a lot of things were we could have just kind of quit and gave up. But we keep battling, obviously, there's still a lot to play. Memphis rallied late to beat Dallas one 12 to one O 8. It was the New York Knicks getting 57 points from Julius Randle, not enough, though, has Minnesota topped the Knicks one 40 to one 34. We gave him confidence in a team like that that can really score the ball. He gave them confidence early. They're going to stick around. Utah beats Sacramento, Memphis over Dallas as the gris rallied late. Charlotte over Indiana and Golden State snapped an 11 game road losing streak in downing Houston. NHL, Florida defeated Detroit 5 to two Alexander barkov set the Florida franchise record for most career points. Dylan Ferguson had himself a game in the nets for the sins as Ottawa defeated Pittsburgh two to one Ferguson had 48 saves. It's still sinking in to be honest. My big focus tonight was just go out there and be me. Don't try to be anyone I'm not. And just stay in the moment. Colorado shout out to Chicago 5 nothing. It was Los Angeles blowing out Calgary and it was Edmonton defeating San Jose in overtime. Women's NCAA tournament another number one drops as Indiana got beat by 19 Miami. World baseball classic Japan over Mexico 6 to 5, Japan faces defending champion United States in tonight's championship round. Shek Freeman, AP sports
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How Can We Stop Government Censorship? Will Chamberlain Explains
"Two things I'm concerned with. One is it is obviously at some level unconstitutional for the government to outsource censorship. What is the course of action though? You being one of the lawyers I want to unleash on the world. What is the course of action we can take to stop that? Is it just defunding them? I mean, well, first off, you know, under current law, you could file a civil rights 1983 suit. And sue the government. And the private actor that's working with them for a violation of your civil rights because basically if a government is violating First Amendment rights, that would be the avenue to go ahead and sue them. And I mean, they are under current law. You actually can get a remedy. So that's why there have been, I think, some somewhat promising lawsuits where people have identified, hey, here's an instance of the government actually trying to censor me. And I'm going to sue the government for that. That said, I think there may be needs to be a little more punishment here. I think we need to make this a little more stringent. Public basically, I think there needs to be laws that specifically deter government officials from suggesting accounts to be censored. Making that a criminal offense, making an automatic firing defense, for example. That could probably be done at a level of regulations when a future Republican president gets in in terms of instructing his civil servants that this is completely impermissible, any hint of anybody doing it will be in immediate termination events.
THE EMBC NETWORK
"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"So then people were now realizing, oh, they don't know anything. They can sign off their publishing. They could sign off everything, and they just, we just give them money for their shows. So here's, you know, and if you're 20 years old and somebody hands you a $100,000, you're rich? Right. But they're realizing that you just made $10 million. Right. Everyone else took it. So that's part of what was going on back then. So yeah, and Michael, I think, had his father who was kind of had his issues are from what I've read. I don't know because I wasn't there, so I don't like to judge in that way, but from what I've read, I know that there was some stuff, even from Michael's own accounts, there were some moments that were rough on, you know, so I think a lot of the money was really held pretty tight. We're going to get every dime, you know, we got. So just to backtrack, that's what Friends are for. It was DM Warwick, Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder. Oh, okay. All right, so I missed it. And weirdly Gallagher. He was singing thus. I thought it was Carrot Top. I love Carrot Top actually. I like Gallagher too, actually. He's hilarious too. Particularly in there. I don't know if you can sing though. All right, so my number, where am I out to? Four? I did my number four. Okay, so I'm doing my number four. So now my number four is. And this, again, same reasons my 5 and four are basically the same is because Michael Jackson, to me, during that era, that jacket right there that he's wearing, I would never wear it because I'd be embarrassed to wear it. And I would look ridiculous if you can imagine a short little Puerto Rican walking down The Bronx wearing wearing that. But yeah, but yeah, not like that break dancing. I kind of look bad when you were 1981. Come on. That's true. That's where I had my windbreakers with the white stripes and stuff. Exactly. But yeah, I would not be able to pull that off. But anyway, Michael Jackson was just a huge influence on me and my whole family and pretty much everybody. So that was my number four. Okay. My number three is, again, kind of going back to more of a melodic thing. And again, I'm a sucker for ballads for really a really, really good ballot. So I'm kind of going back to the ballot piece. Now again, this is something that was in that year, but it wasn't on this list as party down on the list, but it's baby come to me by Patti Austin and James Ingram. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a lot. I love that song. One of my favorite ballads. And it was, again, written by rod temperton. And that dude, yeah, and it's just, yeah, it's one of my favorite ballads just of all time. So every time it comes on, I listen to it, and you know, I love James Ingram. I've always loved James. We're actually, he has significance to me because he did a song with John Tesh that was my wedding song.
THE EMBC NETWORK
"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"In real time, you can see them on talk shows, you can see them on a whole bunch of, you can just, they're very accessible to at least view, you know, whereas back in 1983, you only got to see them on MTV. Yes. And if you were lucky enough to be able to buy a ticket to go see Michael Jackson. And the award shows. Right. So the award shows were massive when Michael Jackson would come out on the Grammys or whatever and perform the world stopped. I was just like, I am going to be out tonight. Everybody's running home to go watch Michael Jackson, you know? Because it was the only time that we got to see. The guys that we want to see, you know. So that was my number, my number 5. Cool, cool, absolutely. All right, so my number four my number four is actually one that we went over this list is the Michael Jackson Paul McCartney say, say say. Ah. Again, that's funny how I heard that today. And I was thinking about it and I was like, oh, look at that, it's on my list. But again, the video was very entertaining. It's a lot of fun to watch them interact. And just all the things that they do, like dress like clowns and they're doing all these things. But you know, it's a beautiful collaboration between them too. Again, you don't see these. You don't see a lot of that stuff like that. The way the way they did it, at least today, you know what I mean? Yeah, it was funny because you hear stories about Michael Jackson and later on they had a little bit of they had I know they had a Brian. Thank you very much. Mine is welcome. Thank you, sir. Loads of new background. Thank you. Appreciate it. But they had a little bit of something because Michael Jackson went to Paul and he was like, he goes, I'm going to own your music. What are you talking about? And he ended up doing that, you know, but he did get his stuff back. And stuff. But, you know, people don't realize that Michael Jackson was also a very, very shrewd businessman as well. Yes. Very knew what he wanted and just got it, you know? And Paul admitted that The Beatles were very naive about their music. Well, yeah. Well, you know, we're looking at the 60s where, remember, money did not come into music till the 50s when Elvis Presley Presley showed you can make a $1 million with music and people are like, oh wait a minute, I always did that and there were other artists at that during that time as well. But Elvis was the one that really just blew it out of the water. And in The Beatles, of course, took it to another level.
THE EMBC NETWORK
"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"It could just be 1983, I guess. Because some of mine are on the list. And it's famous on the 1983. Yeah. I use the list because that's what I had in front of me. Right. If I probably would have Googled something, I would have probably found something something else, but for me, this list is pretty accurate. No, I agree. Okay. So all right, so again, I'm a guy who loves melody. I'm a guy who loves a good, like the songs that really just capture me. It could be a ballad. It could be a fast one. It doesn't matter to me. So anyway, my number 5 song is not on this list. But it was actually,
THE EMBC NETWORK
"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"But first, a note from the show. The show rates. Okay. I've been not like lasagna. So the number one song is Irene Cara, who recently passed away. Recently passed away flashdance water feelings. So I meant she was amazing. What a voice and what incredible hits and you know she did the flash dance records and stuff like that, but she had hits before and after that. It really, really great, great songs. This year was that year of that film. So these songs were really, really hot for her. And I think what was the other one that she had in there. I think there was one earlier on that I mentioned, maybe not. Hold on. Did you? Maybe not. I guess not, no. I was thinking of another song, or maybe it was like later on the list, 'cause I was literally, I've been looking at the whole list and there's a lot of mentions there of people Billy Joel again and David Bowie with China girl and Michael Jackson is there again with want to be starting something. You know, I mean, I mean, this is a top 100. Michael Jackson is in it a bunch of times. So I was the number one song of 1983. Irene Cara. From flashdance, what a feeling. Interesting. Yeah. And definitely condolences to hiring carrots and family friends and everything because she was really an amazing artist. And so that's our list. We're going to take a moment because we want to actually acknowledge a songwriter that maybe a lot of people really don't know did the work that he did in movies. Yes. Probably thrown away that this one dude wrote the songs that some of them that we talked about today. I have a little list of just a little snippet of things. So. There was a gorgeous go ahead whenever you're ready. Sorry. John, you always know how to take my spotlight. It's all about you. Anyway, so there was a gentleman in this era who was writing a major amazing material and his name and some of you may or may have not heard of him. His name was rod temperton. And the reason why you guys should know about him is because I'll give you an example of the songs that he wrote not only wrote, but he arranged them. So here's just a few examples of the songs that he wrote.
THE EMBC NETWORK
"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"It's such an epic song such a moment in history where music really elevated to something that was new. And that's kind of like what we talk about now. What's the next thing that's going to blow us away? You know what I mean? We're waiting, you know? Maybe, and I'm just kidding. But for me, it was like, you know, I just think that also Michael Jackson's genius was not only Michael Jackson. You mentioned musicians that were there that were like, it was Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones, Eddie Van Halen, porcaro, on Trump, you know what I mean? The best of the best. Yes. Making this track happen.
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"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"Not this song in particular. But he's got some other songs like time. Again, I mentioned. Your time is a good song. Yes, I agree. I agree. Yeah, it's a very, it's a very driving song. It's a very beautiful group talent. It's really great in it. Yes. Boycott is really a great singer. You know what I mean? He kind of came in and shocked everybody because the look and stuff. But, you know, he was one of those guys that delivered, you know what I mean? It wasn't like he came out for just to show that he was just a guy and then didn't have the goods. He had the goods, you know? Yes. But definitely, so that was number 7. Number 6, David Bowie. Let's dance. What a unbelievable song. That song is one song that I will never shut off. No, that sounds and funny thing is if that song comes on and it's halfway through, I'll go find it and play it all the way through. Yes. Yes. And it drives and Bowie was one of the most exciting and unique, uniquely creative individuals to ever walk the earth. He was such a true artist, you know what I mean? I mean, who artists? Like, he did not really bow to anyone. He did exactly what he wanted to do. He wore what he wanted to wear. He wrote what he wanted to write, and this is the proof of that. This song is a song that you would not think that he would come out with. And he just, it was such a perfect song for him, you know? Exactly. But it's also, he put Bowie to it. And it's amazing. And of course, Steve Ray Vaughan. Well, yeah, and that you were the one that let me know that he was on that track. But what I didn't know on that track was Niall Rogers played mostly most of the guitar on that. As well as doing a lot of the mixing on that. And Omar hakim played the drummer. At all monoclonal, yeah. Yeah, actually, Stevie was asked by Bowie to go on tour with him. And Bowie, Stevie said he didn't want to go because he wanted to record his own album and stuff. He wanted to do his thing. So he actually turned down David Bowie to go do it to go do his thing. So but yeah, that was the first time that I heard that guitar from Stevie Ray Vaughan. Now I didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan until probably about a few years later. When Texas flood came out, right around that time, but I didn't hear about Texas flood till years later. It wasn't until like 80 8, you know, like 88, 89 that I started hearing Stevie on and I was like, oh my God, is there any blew my mind, you know? So Stevie and Bowie on that track was just incredible. And took a great driving song too. Yeah, and I mean, it's funny. It's a long song. And they cut it for radio, but it has a lot of really cool parts in it. And more guitar too, which is correct. Probably one of the reasons why he did that. Yeah. You know, because it's such a good groove. You're like, man, let's not cut this up. Let this flow. All right.
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"Remember people. We had only radios. That's right. There was no Internet, there was no, I didn't have a Spotify playlist. It was like, if you play it on the radio, that's what you were hearing. And you had your record so you can just play your records, but the radio was where you found the music. Exactly. You found new stuff that was coming on, you know? And you were always anticipating for something new. So it came on and you had to listen to 99 red balloons, you know? You're right. You're right. Never got that 100. UB 40. Well, 1983 is 40. If you were born in 1983, you before you right now. UB 40, red red wine. A song that Neil diamonds or a song, when he's saying it, I love it. Not a huge fan of the UB 40 version of it. Now, you'll be 40 themselves, they're great. They have some really, really great songs, and just a great band altogether. But the song, I don't know what your thoughts on it. No, it's not. I mean, it's okay. But the funny thing is that it was many, many years that I did not know that that was a remake. Oh, really? Yeah, you know what? I probably, yeah, probably the same thing with me. Till I was well older than I actually did not know that. It's interesting when you find those songs that you don't and then you hear an old version of them. You're like, holy cow. I didn't know that that song was actually. Neil Diamond remade this song, but you be forging. And he's so silly. He made it like 30 years ago. He remade it 30 years ago. No, I think I love new diamond, right? My mom again was a huge, huge Neil Diamond fan. So I got to hear all that stuff. Not one of my favorite Neil Diamond songs. I mean, he's got a ridiculous incredible songs. Yeah, just so, so good. But yeah, that's UB 40.
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"Are you serious? Yes, I was driving. And I have satellite radio in my car. That was just like a random thing. No, it was just, it was today. It was just, I hadn't heard it in a while. My daughter, my daughter, actually likes that song. And I played the video for her because the video is pretty cool with both of them. But today I just happen to be driving. I heard and every time that song comes, I'm singing. Because I love that, so I think it's a great melody. It's the beautiful dynamic between Michael and Paul. They did another one. They did another girl's girl's mind. Well, Michael, I think my girl. Let me see number 12, oh, Lionel Richie all night long. I mean, with that song, that song was like the song. I mean, we used to crank that up in the car. I mean, that was like, it's still a great song. It's still a great song. One of the memories for him performing that song back then was on the American musical board. 'cause he won all those awards. Did you see that? Remember that? He performed that song. I remember that. That was the best performance, man. And he was the king of that award. Yes. Every year he was out there and he was just like tearing it up with new hits and everything. I mean, Lionel Richie man, the 80s, man. I mean, that was like, you know, him and Michael Jackson and people like that. Those guys, man, they just were right in pop songs. But that song was so catchy. And it had the video, the music video was really entertaining as well. Just remember, this is the beginning of MTV. So a lot of these a lot of these songs now for George and myself have images attached to them, whereas if we go to songs to the 70s and the 80s, we might have concerts attached to them, concert images of immuno or even just photos, really. But with these songs, immediately the music video comes to mind from the MTV era when MTV used to play music. So that was Lionel Richie on that long. Number 11, the eurythmics sweet dreams are made of this. Yep. I love the eurythmics, not my favorite song. They have a body of work. Like time? Yeah, yes, yes. Ridiculous. So many great sounds. This was a great song because it was it was their breakout song. The exposure, and then they can go out and write the stuff that they wrote. So it was really great. And it was everywhere. I don't know if you remember, but this song was the radio would just. And again, the music video, I see the music video very, very much. Part of it. And she was so unique looking. She's beautiful, beautiful. White hair, very striking. You're like, wow, what is this going on? And so she was dynamic. I loved the arithmetic she was great. Nina, 99 red balloons. Number ten. Yeah, no. Yeah. You know, it was a German song. Yeah. Popular. I think it was a popular German. So I think my wife told me that she was like, you know, the Germans were gone. It was like, I could go. 99, you know, something like that she mentioned it to me and I was like, I could see why the American version was such a hit. But it was not something that I would, it was on all the time, so it would play. And you know,
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"When he was taken from us with sexual healing in 83. When did he die? Was that 84 85 or the leader? Was it later? I thought it was very, to be honest. But I'm not really sure. I mean, I can understand because you think about Marvin in the late 60s with trouble man and 1984. Look at that. A year later, he or that year, later year, he, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that too. I remember when I was like, you know, at the time, I was still young, so I didn't understand how big he was. Yeah, I didn't probably even I didn't get that either. I just knew that. It was all over the news. It was a major, major thing. I mean, it was his dad and all that stuff. So the tragedy of how he went out. But the song, very, very, very good song. Good lord. I mean, you talk about a song that the title and the energy completely compliment themselves so well. He created a beautiful picture. Yeah. And it wasn't like, you know, we're going to do a show in the future about music and about love. In music and stuff for our Valentine's show, and he didn't, he wasn't dirty. Right. Yeah, I mean, he was just oozing of sexuality and he was that you can feel it in the music and same thing with Barry White. It wasn't, you know, it was like very sensual and it was just like almost like a romantic thing, you know? Even though it had that tension in it, you know? Yes. Compared to what the stuff that's right now. You know, you girl like your booty? Girl I like to build it. So I just wrote that. That will be out. Remind me to click that one out too. By the way, that's on the Spotify playlist, if anyone would understand. I don't like to do this. But no, he did it in a very tasteful way. And that's where Marvin Gaye was just incredible. Billy Joel, uptown girls coming in at number 14. Number 14. Uptown girl, very good song. At the time, it seemed like a song that should have been out in the 60s. Yeah. Had that. But Billy Joel was a guy was a monster. He could do anything. Uptown girl and then for the longest time with the song that probably should have been not in the 60s. Correct. But the guy was just an incredible songwriter and is still performing and still selling out places and stuff. Billy Joel. At number 13, we have Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson with, say, say, say. You want to hear something funny? Do you know that today I actually heard that song?
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"On replay and it would play, I would wake up. It's playing. I'd have breakfast, it's playing. I go outside of play. I come back, it's playing. It would be like all day long island and the streets. And she just loved that song. So that was number 20. Do you have any thoughts on that tone? Do you remember? No, it's a great song. I've always loved that too. And it's funny because I hadn't, I hadn't heard it in so long. I heard him recently, but I mean, literally it's one of those songs. And again, a lot of these songs I identify with because that time my mother used to drive me to school in the morning. St. John's, actually. And I used to hear these songs in the morning. Yeah. So every time I would walk in and because my brain sticks with a song, it would stay with me the whole day. So this is one of those songs that would stick with me and I'd be in school and they'd be like, yeah. It was just such an obsessive, let me see if I hit this. A good thing you don't need to get. Yeah, it was such a great time. I actually did recently just put it on my playlist, as a matter of fact. And if you go to Spotify, if anybody's interested in a playlist, I created this playlist and it's called a great melodic songs.
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"So make sure you check them out. Cool. Excellent. By the way, a lot of people might not know that. So if you don't know that, you got to follow George because George does the counterparts wellness talk show and he has incredible information on there and you can follow him on Instagram also. So it's just little plug for your thank you, sir. For the side thing that you do because it's great. I'll be watching it in public, and I'm like, oh, really? So it's really great information. But yes, thank you to our sponsors. We appreciate you very much for our sponsor. Eventually sponsors. And we appreciate it. So, okay, 1983. I was in my early 40s and. I was going to make that joke. I know you were. Somebody was. Always the joke. But no, I was. Let me see 78. Oh my God. So I was like 15. That was 11. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense, yeah. Yeah, because I have 15 yeah, we have about four years apart. So yeah, I was 15 years old. And it was a great age. Think about some of the people that were out in 1983. You know what I mean? I feel like we're going to talk about a lot of these artists. So what we're going to do so we're not here for four hours, which George and I do. We feel like we could do a four hour show on if it's about music. We're going to go and we're going to go through the list. Top 20 of 1983 and if you guys have any thoughts on it, please let us know in the chat there. Let me just let us know your thoughts on it. This was taken just so we know this is from playback FM was the chart from the top 100 songs of 1983. We're only going to do the top 20. I might do 21 because 21 was a really great song that I really liked. Do it. So we're going to start on 21, why not? Go for it. Spandau ballet. True. That song, by the way, every time it comes on, I listen to it. It's a great song. It is a great song. It's a beautiful, it's a beautiful melody. I like it. And the guy said, by the way, it was very hard for him to sing. Oh, okay. I could imagine, yeah, that's a really hard. I mean, how do you even do that live consistently on a tour? I mean, that's really difficult. It reminds me of Randy from the eagles. Where he had that song. I can't tell you why. Yeah. You know, at the end, he has that really, I think.
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"So that's what this list is. And what are your thoughts on that? Well, I'm an 80s, sometimes I have free to admit it. But I'm kind of an 80s guy, as far as music goes. Yeah, I don't know if it's because I grew up in that era, but I love the 80s music. I think there was some great melodies there. I think a lot of there was great songwriting there. And also musicians. And there was some unbelievable musicians that played during that era. That were just, you know, and I loved the whole concept of the studio musician and these guys that were playing. And I fascinated by them and I watched their biographies and stuff. So I don't know. I love that stuff. Yeah, the 80s were one of those interesting because there was also a lot of new stuff coming in with the whole keyboard sounds and a lot of techno sounds and. The 70s, late 70s was that what do you call that pop rock laptop rock what was it thing and how the police and the police and the Ramones and what do you call that? I forgot what they got to tell them. Now I'm blanking out. Yeah, that see how much we're into music. You see how obsessed we are that we can think of punk punk punk music. But funny you called me a punk, because that's exactly what it is. So punk music, you know, and then that kind of led into a lot of a keyboard and harmony, the whole, the casio decade. Yes. But within that decade was incredible music. I mean, oh yeah. Stars and amazing bands and it was just really great. So we picked one year from the 80s, which is 1983, which was a really an amazing year. And we're going to go down the line.
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"1983" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"Hey, good evening everyone. Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and happy new year. We've been gone for a while. We are so excited to be back with you all, and we have a great show today. We're going to be talking about songs from 1983 and I was doing the math. Yes, it's 40 years. And it was kind of shocking to me. But we looked at the list and we thought, wow, these are some really great songs that came out in 1983. So stick around, we're going to have a great great show. And we want to hear what you have to say and what are your favorite songs of 1983?
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"Horror and holds book relates the real life murders that occurred in nineteen. Seventy four involed. Ronald butch defeo he and murdered his parents and his four siblings in their respective beds within the family home and his defense claim was that he was under demonic influence. That caused him to do these. Things as the book relates events. That were a matter of public record prior to the. Let's family experienced that. We came to know in the amityville horror film ways. They determined that. Need not worry about securing any kind of deal with the losses or anyone else in one thousand nine hundred one film producer dino dila renta's he also made it deal with film ways he wanted to do a sequel story. That would contain completely fictional characters who move into the amityville home. Dino commission british novelist and playwright. David ambrose descript this new story then entitled death in amityville dino's tentative choice for the director was the legend of hell house. Director john huff. He was going to take charge. Then he changed his mind to hungarian-born canadian director. George calendar with production start date at least at the time slot for september of nineteen eighty one but production paused the started working with film ways to produce their prequel concept that they were having a hard time getting off the ground. He was gonna do that one. I and that resulted in the one thousand nine hundred eighty two released. I talked about on the previous episode. Amityville to the possession after amityville. Two's release death in. Amityville was quickly announced as the third amityville film with a new release date of august. Nineteen eighty-three but it wasn't going to be called death in amityville because with the new wave of three d genre films filling the theaters in the prior two years dino wanted to ride this wave into his own three d movie and this would allow him to cleverly sidestep this sequel legalities of title while still keeping it a presumptive. Follow up in the mind of the public by calling it amityville. Three d amityville. Three d was fast tracked. Dna was hoping the ride the coattails not only of the three d. craze at the time but also of poltergeist that came out in nineteen eighty. Two this was a film. Dino really wanted to capitalize on. He thought that he had a similar property so he ordered revisions sill plate. You ristic of the pull. The guy's property. David ambrose the screenwriter death amityville. He opted to use a pseudonym for the subsequent script. Revisions william wales. Maybe it was commemorating the birth in one thousand nine hundred eighty two of william the son of the prince and princess of wales charles and diana the poltergeist elements that were introduced into death in amityville. Those included a psychic research. Team was a daughter that was going to need rescuing those nasty looking demon on the other side of this portal to contend with as a peachy rating. Very much like poltergeist. Even though the previous amityville films were r. rated entries this film would mentioned the defeo murders by name although many people who are watching. This don't know that this was not going to be sequel. Presuming his two sequel. We learned in amityville to that. The name of the family that was slaughtered by the eldest boy with a shotgun that was the mentalities in the film. It was changed from the details. The let's family. They're not even referred to at all in this fill except a blanket statement about crazy things that happened to the houses. Prior residents for legal reasons though the film does have the disclaimer. This picture is not a sequel on it script. Changes did delay the beginning of filming for several weeks. Release date eventually moved up from august of nineteen eighty three to four teeth. They were hoping to capitalize at that time on the horror movie interest. Naturally that comes about prior to halloween in the completed script for amityville. Three john baxter. He's recently divorced journalist. Who's working for this. Investigative magazine called. Reveal if you read the novelization or if you read any of the scripts that magazine is called witness but for some reason. Change to reveal for the movie. John baxter's lead. This assignment is to expose this sands scam. That's operating within that infamous abandoned amityville home on long island. New york afterward baxter finds at the house is immensely affordable. It has assorted history of terrible things happening to those who've been inside so we can get it for a song and baxter apparently need to find a new place because he just divorced his wife. This one has fourteen rooms covering three floors pay. Perfect for any newly divorced bachelor to take residence in he into the house. He certain all of these higher calamities where is they were delusions or just straight up hoaxes. The bottomless pit in the basement. Others claim that's a portal to hell. Well that's just an abandoned. Well it has plenty of space for himself as well as his teenage daughter when she comes to visit as well as solitude for writing the great american novel that he's been talking about doing for years others around him soon began to experience strange events and the employer john to leave but he won't. He's convinced the house's reputation is causing mass hysteria among all of his associates unfortunately with his daughter staying with him on occasion john is going to soon discover. That being wrong might just be dead wrong more to the story than that. Not a lot more but you get the drift of what this film is going to be about. I'm sure now. Dino de larent- is selected. Richard fleischer to direct amityville. Three d fleischer had worked with before for barabbas and nineteen sixty one. Mending go and nineteen seventy-five amityville three d. This would be the first of four consecutive films that fleischer directed for dino de la renta's conan the destroyer red sonja and million dollar mystery followed this. Those four that he did for dido they would be the final four films that he did in his career. Fleischer came in with experience. Directing three films already helmed. A movie called arena. They came out. In one thousand nine hundred eighty three back then to three d technology was a little different arena required to cameras to film it re also required to projectors to display in the theaters whereas the air flex technology of amityville. Three d only required one camera to film and one projector to show it. Fleischer harkened back to those days of nineteen fifties chillers. He was going to try here or more classical approach to his haunted house flick in its look and it sounded. It's feel really counter programming to the slasher movie vibe that dominated so much horror in the early nineteen eighties as dino wanted this to go very quickly from production screen. Many of the main actors were signed on without having to do any auditions at all woody allen film regular tony roberts. He got the lead role of john. B-actor some viewers today. You know if you're watching this humane roberts. Uncannily resembles the offspring of w bush. And maybe get smart don adams if they were doing an impression of humphrey bogart or something. Baxter is said to be very loosely. Based though even kaplan who is a parapsychologist who came out against george lutz. He claimed that his amityville horror story was complete fraud. The difference though is that kaplan actually believe in the supernatural whereas baxter in this film absolutely does not robert joy who plays elliot west. He's the head of the psychic research team brought in to investigate. He also skipped auditioning for the film. He had recently appeared in another production. Called ragtime joy took the job because well he needed the money but he also felt that the screenplay did have some clever twists and he looked forward to participating in the end though felt that a lot of that didn't really translate to the screen as he saw it with the results of amityville. Three d especially the last half themed. This really was a rip off of poltergeist. In many ways christine ebersol she was initially cast in the role of john. Baxter's nancy she had already been fitted for wardrobe. They make ups on her all of that in pre production but then during that time she was offered a more role she was going to play. Katharina cavalieri in amadeus now as amadeus was immediately about to shoot ever saw was faced with a very difficult decision because she was broke and amityville paid significantly more than what they were offering for amadeus ultimately she opted for amadeus because she thought it had many more artistic qualities and she believed in never doing anything. Strictly for the money ever saw was immediately replaced by tess. harper harper. Also took the money because she was broke. We're getting a common theme here with a lot of people that appear these guys movies. She needed to pay the rent pretty badly. Now harper had already shot ten mercies which would become a breakthrough performance. But not yet because it hadn't paid her more than scale and it also took fourteen months from the time they finished shooting before it came out. That's two months after getting hired to do amityville viewers today enjoy seeing some of the early work done by those later famous actresses. I mentioned earlier. Laurie laughlin who would be one of the main stars of the very popular late. Nineteen eighty s early nineteen ninety s sitcom on television full house and also soon to be the romcom queen for several years meg ryan for laughlin. She was a regular on the tv. So called the edge of night amityville. Three d represented her first feature film. He or she would be playing john. Baxter's dan susan meg ryan. She was appearing on a different soap opera. As the world turns playing susan's best friend. Lisa fleischer lady claimed in interviews. When meg ryan really took off that he cast ryan the moment. He saw her because she had undeniable star presence. Study saw within her ryan says amityville. Three d really didn't do much for her career but it did do a lot for the entertainment value of her friends. Exteriors were filmed for ten days at the same house as the first feature in tom's river. New jersey other locations. We're not too far off in the town. Although it was not the original long island home purportedly on demonic possessed land. The toms river home used for the three amityville movies was scheduled to be relocated. Shortly after the shoe the infamous quarter moon windows in the front at least they were already replaced because there were too many intruders and really annoying people coming to take pictures and ask questions. Most shots use the rear windows where the river entrance and the back deck were located and those windows had not yet been replaced as the location of the house was going to be going away. They determined that this entry in the amityville series will be the last one using this house which is why at the end of this film. It has basically destroyed now for makeup duties dino courted jeff goodwin here performing makeup for this other three d film at the time called. Rottweiler dogs of hell. That was being filmed in north carolina which was where the dolores was building his new studios at least soon to build them. Goodwin did turn down amityville three d. Because he felt he wasn't yet quite skilled enough to handle the kind of full body creature effects that were called for in this film. He did accept working with dino though the next year when he was asked to cattai and that began an impressive run of work for goodwin doing makeup for deliverance. His films in one thousand nine hundred five nine thousand nine hundred eighty six now in goodwin instead dino did bring back dick smith. Protege john caglayan leon. If that sounds familiar he did the make up for amityville to kagley own crafted Very articulated demon for the finale. More elaborate full bodysuit version of the one that he designed for the main nemesis in amityville to this was designed to display a number facial expressions. Catalin volunteered actually to be the actor inside the suit for the movie because he wanted to know what it was like for the actors that he did make up on what they had to go through ultimately though he was disappointed. A lot of the demon screen time that was shot was greatly reduced in the final cut. You really don't see it on a screen for visual effects. Were done by gary platek. Who used the gig as an excuse to leave industrial light magic and he was going to form a new company in san rafael california called jacks effects. Jd x. known later for their work on the look who's talking movies platek and his team the floating spirit visuals. They did some of the housefly appearances in the film and also some the goings on that we see within the deep well in the basement kind of comes to life ended starts bubbling over and all kinds of crazy things. Start coming out of it. Play tic regionally had been scheduled for just ten effects shots at a modest budget of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars but by the end of the production. They had really upped that to thirty two shots and around. Five hundred. Thousand dollars to simulate severe cold within the house candy clark. Who plays melanie. The photographer and the assistant of john baxter. In this film she had to keep a very small box that had holes in it and it was full of dry is she had to keep it in her mouth so that it looked like condensation. It was emanating for her breath in the cold. A simulated cold blast hitter right square in the face and upper torso that was done with hot wax and glitter. It was very uncomfortable for clark because the wax was starting to harden through successive takes and the glitter felt like sand as it pelted her in the face after the day's shoot clark struggled to get the wax out of her hair. She had to wash it over twenty times for like two and a half hours with all kinds of different cleaning products that she could find around the house hoping that at least one of them was going to get some of this wax out. She says that a tide laundry detergent seem to work. The best for seen where melanie's car erupts into flames. Clark wanted to perform the stunt herself but fleischer insisted on a stunt double because of the risks involved. Clark found watching the stunt double. Do this stunt. It was to see the stunt woman's petroleum jelly coated arm on fire for what seemed to be a very long time. That clark was relieved. She didn't go through with it. Fleischer did want footage of clark though inside the flaming car although she was not as close to the flames as it would appear. When you're watching. This film clark's body was covered with flame retarded except for her hair which you had to be careful of when she started screaming in terror. Her acting was so convincing that the cameraman shooting this he started to grow panicked that she was really in pain. And he wandered. Why fleischer was not yelling. Cut and was so relieved when he found out after it finally cut that she was doing some pretty impressive acting for that sequence a swarm one point six million sterile male flies. They were ordered from the us department of agriculture. Used for the scene where john hopkins. Who is playing the amityville homes real estate agent. He's going to be covered with them. Least covered to death essentially. Initially they hoped that the this volume of flies would result in. Incidentally some landing on the actor by happenstance hearkens wore a second skin like mask it was going to have some dead flies already glued to it while everybody else in. The room was covered with gauze netting or respirator masks to make sure that the flies didn't get in their nostrils or their mouths. It didn't work though the way that they thought they'd hear living flies along with the dead ones to the mask. It's still looked unconvincing. So they dense mirrored hearkens face and body with this pewter smelling female flies sex hormone to try to track these male flies. The flies steel did not do everything that the expected so they crafted now. A dummy head of hearkens the holland it out from the back and they attached a vacuum tube so that they could blow the flies out of his mouth and they play the footage in reverse to make it appear as if the flies were going into his mouth and his nose down his throat. Now one of the animal wrangler film. Man miguel grisha. He had gotten a bit too confident in his ability to handle the venomous cobras. They were gonna use for one particular scene. One of them struck him in the hand. That scene involved the sand scam artists from the beginning. The film harold and emma caswell. They were going to return to the basement to pick up their audio equipment. And that's when one of the microphones was going to be shown is turning into a snake cobra coiling around herald castles leg and it would trip him into the pit of hell the whole in the basement. The cobra though remained clamped on miguel's hand as his partner his brother humberto. He implored him to remove that cobra. Very carefully without breaking either one of its fangs. Probably be fatal. Wouldn't be able to get the medical systems. They need to get both the venom and the thing out. Miguel painfully extricated that cobra and he returned the snake back into its sack while he started sucking out the venom from the wound. He immediately received treatment from the doctor that was on hand and was out for about two days very ill to add. Insult to injury. This scene was not used in the final cut. Unlike some of the crew and their calamities here the cast did reportedly find the production to be quite enjoyable like a working vacation of story. The more adult members of the cast of quickly bonded. They frequently enjoyed going out. They started partying. They started socializing in mexico city together. They became pretty good friends. During this shoot many of the cast retain fond memories of mexico city and of enjoying each other's company. They were fond of the memory but fewer of having this film in their photography though very few of them choose to discuss the film when it comes up in interviews today some remarked film that a lot of the script cleverness the emotion that the song in it did not really translate to the screen. It's much more gimmicky. And derivative poltergeist in the end. Not everything was fun and games. Though for the mexico shoot just before the production began some of the cast and crew. They visited the tail. T khaqan pyramids outside of mexico city. They climbed up the multitudinous steep steps to get to the top of those pyramids. Candy clark as fit as she thought she was. She started experiencing severe cramps in her eyes and her leg started up and she needed assistance in returning back down. She was so sore on the first day of the shoot. He was relieved to find out that they were gonna start to shoot with the sand sequence. Because that's where she was going to be. Seated for nearly the entire sequence dysentery was also common among cast and crew. Some of them would get at several times through the shoot enough to have a doctor always on call. That doctor was very very busy with the people getting sick here. They also experienced a couple of unnerving earthquakes during their time. There howard blakey composed the score. He had worked with dino. Before and flash gordon that gets overlooked because of the queen song flash gordon but he did the more traditional scoring within that film. He works here again. With de la renta with this composition. That is actually really good. It's maybe too good for this kind of vapid film. I really wish it was chosen for much more suspenseful. An interesting film blake does take a very classical approach here. This could have been a score from any number of horror films from the nineteen fifties or sixties. It really is kinda hitchcock in a little bit. Like bernard hermann ask in. Its way when fleischer took a look at the first cut of his film. He was unhappy with it. He felt it was too slack so he started doing some trimming he wanted to tighten is fill up as much as he could chop out actually about twenty five minutes of that i cut however he was told that what he did produce was too short for tv screening so he needed to hold on to that cut because they were gonna show that on tv screenings there was an emotional scene of susan baxter's funeral. She was a main victim in the film. She was also a victim of the editing process. Employed here she was cut out at least toward the end of this film as well as more time with the central demon that was chopped out. He now just pops up for a jump scare and then takes elliott west down with him to the pit of hell before the house seemingly randomly explodes. The post production delays pushed the theatrical release date to november eighteenth nineteen eighty so that took it out of that all important halloween period. A novelization of the film. That actually was done. You would think that a three d. movie wouldn't have a novelization necessarily but it was done and it was called amityville. Three d it was written by gordon. Mcgill and but mystifyingly hit bookstores. Six months after the film was already gone completely from theaters and from the minds of most people the three d. effects here well they were considered pretty shoddy even for its era by movie goers. It was very dark. A lot of people complain about the darkness of the film when it was displayed in theaters. There were plenty of objects that do come at the camera. You see a frisbee see all of these flies. That was a giant lead. Pipe through window. There was a stuffed swordfish. That's one of the more famous kind of absurd things that jump out at you on the screen. Unfortunately the process of the three did degrade the quality of the overall film and it made it a lot blurrier around the edges. Lighting is too distracting. Especially when you watch this in a to d format. There's only so much they can do to make it. look good. Despite the three gimmick the rush to capitalize on the franchise name amityville. Three d fell out of theaters very quickly within three weeks. It only earned about half of the take of its predecessor which was disappointing in and of itself. It only earned six point three million dollars in. Us theaters audiences really. They had grown tired of the three d. process. This point especially since a lot of those three d films were among the worst films of the prior two years this would also be the final wide release three d feature in theaters in early nineteen eighty s and unfortunately unlike the first two films amityville three d is completely divorced from any pretense that what we're witnessing is something that actually happened. At least anecdotally. They're really just is not anything in of itself that's terrifying about housefly attack. Sir elevators runamuck blast of cold air fleischer though blamed the marketing itself for the failure of amityville. Three thought. This should be a bigger hit. He said that it was barely advertised. And what advertisements. They did do made the film look like it was embarrassingly cheap. He felt it was a much better production than that. As far as what. I think well amityville three d. I will say it's not as bad as many other. Nineteen eighty s three films. In fact it's probably of the ones that i've seen at least one of the better efforts to try to do something but it also doesn't really strive to be a truly good film independent of that three the spite e-class your approach here. I think the biggest knock on amityville. Three d is that it is pretty dull comparatively to other horror movies of its era and it's very derivative in comparison. Like i said to poltergeist. It's three the effects were deemed a bust lot of complaints to darcy. Still dark to see when you watch it in two d although it is better but what could be seeing still looks sub-standard at least compared to other films of its era. That didn't have three kind of ruining the filming the staging of the three shots. They really look awkward when you view it in a to format which most people who are watching this today as well as the years. Most people watched it on tv. We're on home video. Very few people see it in the theaters. So it does have an alternate title. As i mentioned of amityville the demon so further causing a lot of confusion among the public as to what the actual name is of this film and how it ties in now. All of these technical problems aside. I think the dialog is also to elementary the motivations of the characters too implausible to make any what we're seeing compelling many aspects of the scares seem totally contrived or outright nonsensical again as with the other films. The house for some reason is not the only thing that is cursed whatever spirits lie within the house also decided along for the ride usually in the form of a fly that appear out in public places to one of the characters buzzing around their face away from the home i think one of the silliest scenes i can think of in this film we see john baxter. He's either soaring. To the top or plummeting to the bottom floor of a building in a wild elevator ride after visiting his literary agents office building and despite nearly dying in that sequence from the elevator runamuck when baxter's photographer colleague from reveal melania's spooked by a blast of cold that she felt within the house. He asks her why this event happened to her but not the him completely forgetting that he nearly was killed in this freak accident just the day before had no discernible explanation could not have been imagined. There were other people that knew. He was trapped in this elevator. That was soaring or plummeting almost to his doom. There's been no shortage of amityville films after this over the years. They're still making them today. In fact amityville three happened to be the last theatrically released effort among all of those like almost two dozen of them. Except for the two thousand five remake of the nineteen seventy nine film. That came out with ryan reynolds which was not worth really going out to sea either so for all intents and purposes amityville 's cachet as a property kind of ended here as far as the releases even though the name amityville still denotes a haunted house for many people that are looking for such fair. And that's why it continues to be used to this day and it's free to use. There is a town called amityville. They don't tie it to the original films. If they don't have rights they can continue calling it that so two stars out of four is what i give amityville three d two stars out of four means that it's lacking something vital that would keep it from being something that i can recommend to most people and that which is lacking here is any kind of effort to make it unique or interesting beyond three gimmick. Watch it in three d format. Maybe you'll get more mileage out of it because it was kind of a novelty film. It was intended to be viewed in such a fashion on. Its own it's stuff you've seen before and seen done better especially if you've watched poltergeist and that's why i can only give amityville three d two stars out of four well unfortunately or maybe fortunately depending on how you feel about this and the amityville horror is not going to die here because coming up next. I'm going to be reviewing amityville horror. The evil escapes sometimes called amityville. Four depending on video released but amityville horror has the novelty eventually tying in somewhat with the original nineteen seventy nine film senator stern who did original screenplay also does the screenplay for this one as well as dante jones who worked with the lutzes to write the amityville horror part to the book that he did that was released in nineteen eighty-two that covers a lot of the material that you're going to see in this film as well as the next film that follows this so returning the film franchise as it were back to that first film somewhat. Anyway this was a made for tv movie that was released in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine so if you have the chance to check out amityville horror the evil escapes. Patty duke and jane wyatt are in that film so some interesting things. Here willoughby better than the diller renta's productions that awaits to be seen this will be. I watch for me so check it out if you can't amityville horror evil escapes for the next episode of around the world eighties movies. If you have your own thoughts on the amityville series or amityville three d specifically right to me. Find my contact information at my website. Webster dot net w. s. t. e. r. dot net leased. My twitter feed my facebook page by instagram. Are all there too if you want to get in touch any of his adequate. But i do think email is the best if you wanna shoot a word to me of how you feel about the show but otherwise until next time. Thank you so much for listening and joining me on.
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"1983" Discussed on Horror Soup
"Because like i said there is a fucking tornado inside of the house and the swordfish wiggles and it flies off in it nearly stabs john in the face who comes up with this. I see. this is why you don't enjoy the movies because you don't see any of the goods. Should that happens. Because i'm convinced now convinced that when kim watching movies. She's laying in her throne with her fucking like on. There's a fucking servant next to her with a giant like ostrich feather just like you know giving her all of her two servants next to me and so she gets her. Ac and there is a third jester coming up to her. And he's feeding her. Caviar by the spoonful while she's i don't know like texting someone about like fucking eggs or something i don't know but whatever she's doing. She's not paying attention to these movies. Yeah because i'm checked out it's just it's just forget you know what you're fucked because if i can if i can watch your stupid cry wolf bullshit completely. Cry wolf is incredible. The answer to be so now you can watch any time you want. I already have the. Dvd's i'm good. But figured i'd let you know there's like fifteen amityville onto i will save you guys wanna watch amityville going to be to be everything if you wanna watch thing. Just go on to be kim. You thought this is going to be a short episode. And it's insane fucking long. This is going Our and forty two. What happens next is the house explodes dude not once not twice not not so you times not thirteen time time. It's not i think it was probably eighteen. i'm going to say like eighteen. I'm going to give it triple digits. Say at least you shouldn't have done a kill count. You should have done a house. Explosion cow dude. You know what's crazy. not only. Does the house explode like they do the thing where the house explodes in like thirteen different angles. But i will say that not even does. The house exploded different angles. They get thirteen different angles of the house. Exploding seven different times so they. They blew up at least nine houses for this movie and like the houses combusted. Like there's nothing left like there's not just like the house. Lit inflames and like there was a small explosion like every every angle of this house was blown up to smithereens like do pieces except for the door for the front door. I want to know how that door survive those thirty explosions. I really do really sturdy. Doors does the sturdier doors in the world or what explodes literally eighteen times. That's the craziest thing i've ever seen in my life. And then we get the zoom into the front door at a really weird angle will not even know that. Can you talk about how they cut off the top and the bottom of the screen so they make it like really like really dramatic movie So all you see is like half of the main door and you're like wait. How are we going back into the house at the whole thing. Just it makes no sense. But anyway we're going back into house and then you end up in the basement and it just zooms into that little huddle on the floor. And then that's it. We kim how come the first few times we see the well..
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"1983" Discussed on Horror Soup
"Wearing was like like fuck am i want she. Can i get a side of panty raid with that squire only piss. Oh sorry we pass my favorite line fist. We pass my favorite line. Which is meg. Ryan is introduced all all already at this time as well and she's loyal oftens best friend so before the show for the wage board. Meg ryan's giving her like the walk of the house. Telling her like oh. This house is haunted. Yada yada and then she goes. I don't know where she goes. Have your fucked a ghost. We what now. I'm in your boat because you know fuck you. I didn't hear one line and you didn't. You didn't see giant lizard piece of work portland long completely. Different wavelengths ever fucked goes. I didn i hear that. Holy maybe i need a bump up my rating. Here's the best part about this. I had a friend in middle school whose mob used to like convinced you guys. She's convinced that when the husband jeff was out of town for work she would get fucked by a ghost at night out of control and do and she's like it would pin me down. I had no control throw my legs over mad in fuck me. He was getting lay. My dream is just to be like best friends with someone who gets consistently fucked by go. So i get like document all of it. We've i've never heard this got until meg ryan audibly laughed out loud because there is no build up. It was literally just like. Have you ever fucked to ghost. Laurel offense like no sixteen. I talk about booking ghosts and aliens all the time. But i would love to just have that as a more general conversation in my life. I'll introduce you to my friends mom. She's a fucking holler. She would tell us this in like seventh grade mind you. We'd be at like sleepover and she'd be like girls. I'm nervous because jeffs out of town. And i'm really scared about what's not bad. Room fucking go look. Let's go good for her good for her. I don't know how you miss this..
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"1983" Discussed on Horror Soup
"And then dot dot dot three messages later. Something whatever else you said. Those statements worked together. Those statements were not together. There were separate. It was like all right this movies. Also it wasn't like. I love this movie. It's fucking awesome. It's like all right. Well it's awesome because insane things happen So bad we could both agree. This movie has more explosions than any action movie. In the past five years in the explosions all happen within thirty seconds more explosions than caleb hasn't his pants every year. Oh okay that was oddly specific you fucking creep anyway. There's one point where a house a dry a dry component with nothing. Nothing a nothing no way around it would cause an explosion it explodes in the millions of peace but there is a car just fully on fire at one point this just sitting there casually like the rules have no bounds. Amityville hold on we got. We got a back it up. We gotta start with this intro. We need right bill the beginning to set the tone for what they're expecting. It's just it's it's a lot is a lot. I was so confused when they when i first watched us intro. I was like. I'm not understanding what's going on. The intro is like a fever dream because when it starts just here. And i'm not i'm not kidding like i almost wish that we could just started this podcast with this but the fact that anyone starts any piece of entertainment with those noises and gets away with it is baffling to me. Because i don't get how you can't start something with those noises and every person in the world is it like no fuck you. I'm going to set your studio on fire. what are you doing. Awful noise awesome. So yeah you're taking a back you're like what the fuck is happening. Do like it scared me. Because like i buy tv. Yeah dude. Because i turn it on and then turned around to like grab something or plug something or something i just here. I was like dude. Are you kidding me. Like there's no way that this is on purpose or it was probably director throwing up on set. It was totally director throwing up on set with. How does he was like. I give them bugging direct this bullshit or was no. It was to kaplan dirtied his grave. Like good do kim. That and that is why. I texted you like i immediately texted you. And that's when i was like dude. Let's just do this in a couple of weeks. Because i started at was so pissed off within two seconds so bad i knew within. I knew within the first three minutes like this. I checked out. I was like this movie is just no no see kim. My problem is. I wish i texted you like ten minutes after because i might have been a little more in it because after the first few minutes..