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"Well, you see how easy this is now. Now you look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks, this is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporations, but guess who's getting the guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton Foundation gets paid the rebuild Welcome right. to the podcast. We are in the same studio today, which is kind of nice. So thanks again for downloading. If you're just listening, if you're watching or watching the clips, uh, thanks for watching as well. And just for a quick mention, so I don't forget, if you haven't downloaded our app yet, I'm noticing we're getting a lot of downloads and the cool thing is when the morning Mike's program is going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm the, seeing the view count go up and up and up, which is awesome. So I know we're only, you know, we're still in the dozens. I'd like to get into the hundreds and eventually thousands, um, but it's a cool program. If you haven't listened to it, it's a quick 15 minutes to quick by morning, run down three days a week of the top five topics, three minutes each. Do a great job. They do an awesome job when we're, when we fill in the stuff. We screw the whole thing up. Yes. Yeah. We, we blow the whole, the whole, uh, the schedule, but, um, but they do awesome and they're funny. I love it. It's a quick, you know, down and dirty 15 minutes, top five items of the day. And now you get your day started off on the, uh, they, you know, I think on the right foot, they were saying this week, like, Oh, it's so negative all the time, but I think they're hilarious. They take the negative stuff that's going on, but of course the negative stuff isn't the news. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're seeing. I mean, carjackings again, Rochester had another, you know, record night. I mean, it's incredible how that was going on. And so it's amazing is, is like the Democrats just sit around and watch this happen in every city and every city. It's insane. Yeah. I sent you an article earlier this morning about Philadelphia. Let's see. I can find it. It's, uh, not that it's anything out of, you know, anything that we don't know about, but let's see here. Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile. Come on, come on. Juvenile looters targeting the Apple store, Lulu lemon and footlocker. Yeah. So, cause they're starving. They're starving. They just, just need a little piece of ham and some Turkey. They need clothes and food. That's, that's only fair. I mean, they, you know, and once again, I know we've all heard this joke, but footlocker is not missing one pair of working boots. No, no, all the Nike's, all the Nike. Yeah. Well, some of those Nike's, I mean, Oh my God. Crazy. You know, talking about like, you know, thousands of dollars for a pair of, thousands, thousands of dollars. I was talking to my daughter and she said to one, one of her friends has a, as a pair of shoes were $1 ,200. I'll never forget the most expensive pair of shoes I ever bought. We were just starting a business. This was like 30 years ago now. Right. Crazy to think. And I remember somebody told me that maybe my dad was like, you got to have a decent pair of shoes. Right. And so I went up and I bought a pair of Justin and Murphy's. They're like 120 bucks at the time. Yeah. The most money I have ever spent on a pair of shoes. Now boots, I've spent more money on since because boots are more expensive, you know, hunting boots. Well, there's a purpose to them. I still don't spend more money on shoes. Like I'm wearing like Skechers or like $40. Like some of these Nike's $500. You can't tell me you're running faster. It's different when you're going to go out and buy a pair of like waders or something. You're going to use them. First of all, you're going to use them for the next 30 years. Right. And there's a purpose to them, right? Like, okay, they're more expensive, but I can walk through the water with them. Right. But if I bought like, if I had five, 600 hour pairs of shoes, I'd be afraid to leave the house. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get off the carpeting. Well, they're targeting the Apple store here, Glenn, because they'll buy jobs. And that's the only way to get a job is to make sure you've got an Apple iPhone. So it'll be like Chicago. We talked about this the other week with, with, uh, with Mike Speraza, Chicago is now forced to open or, or just talking about opening, you know, a, a government run grocery store in the inner city because they've all that. Well, they're going to, so they're going to, they're going to, the plan is to fight the communism with more kind of communism, right? That's going to work really well. But could you imagine how inefficient, first of all, Walmart's pulled out, Costco's pulled out, all the stores have pulled out because now target, have you heard targets now closing stores across the country? So target is now going through and discussing all the stores across the country, liberal target, liberal target. They put a black lives matter that they ripped down the smash of the window. I thought that'd be some sort of a shield or that we're just going to put up this, uh, this plywood and we're going to spray black lives matter on it. Hashtag hashtag BLM. And we'll be safe as they rip it out and use that same plywood to smash the window with. It's pathetic. There'll be nothing left in these inner cities. The problem is when it starts to spill over into the, into the, Oh yeah. This is, this is where it gets ugly. Well, they want it. That's what they want. That's, that's why people like, uh, the governor of New York, uh, you know, Kathy, the ice queen, Kathy Hochul is, is, you know, they first tried the push for section eight housing in the suburbs because that was only fair. Yeah. Now they couldn't get that through because the people in the suburbs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they're busing in illegal immigrants in the middle of the night. And I tell you something, if these Democrats like Mark Poland cars were proud of what they were doing, they would have a welcoming party at noon at noon, high noon. They'd have a press conference welcoming our newest community members off the bus so that the whole community could see these family units that are getting off. You got the husband, the wives, the two kids, you know, the things that we see in our country, right? No, it's not happening. They're bringing them in at two o 'clock in the morning. So nobody sees, they're all, they're all 23 year old males, right? Or 18 to 25 year old males. Some of which are from the Congo. I don't know about the, uh, you know, the, some of the social norms in the Congo, but I'm just thinking that maybe they're a little bit different than the Western world. I don't know. I'm just thinking maybe not. Maybe they're exactly like us. I don't know. But they're exactly like us. Why would they want to come here? Why are they aspiring to come here? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fentanyl fentanyl up again, by the way, there was another report. I think it was on a Fox news. Well, good for the Republicans. I mean, at least part of them, I should say good for the five or six Republicans that are the extreme right wing, according to the media, that's holding this garbage up. No, shut the government down, shut it down, shut it down until there's no more money. Take the money, go into Ukraine and send it to Texas, which they did right to the border, which they didn't do last time. Right. Kept it open. That's what do you need? What do you need? We're out of control. The founding fathers gave the power of the purse to Congress and the, and the Pentagon, the Pentagon goes, yeah, you know what? We're just going to exempt Ukraine funding from the budget. So ha ha. We just went over 33 trillion. If you go online and look at the clock, it's moving fast, right? So we're on our way to 34 or 35. Can you even see the numbers anymore? They just blur blur now. So, so fast. Oh no. And, and good news, by the way, we're refinancing this debt at 5 % now, not at 1 % or zero like we were doing. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The fence talk about keeping rates higher for longer. I don't know. They're not going to be able to do that. They'll be cutting interest rates by next year. Mark by where? And the number one reason I say that is because when you talk to every economist, I say, that's not going to happen. And they are typically wrong. So if you take the, it's like saying betting against the casino, it's like saying, you know what? I don't think MGM is going to make money in the sporting books next year. Ma, they're going to figure out a way to make money. They'll rechange the lines, right? Well, you, all you need to do is look at it and get a bunch of economists in a room and ask them where they think the market's going to be and then do just the opposite and you would be way better. Yeah. Pretty much that's usually the way to go. No doubt about it. So the, the, the, the Pelosi, we were talking earlier about the Pelosi stock trader. Yeah. You can follow online. Now, some of these folks, we did the game show game last week. We talked about the, uh, the net worth. I picked the poor ones too. They were like 23, 21, you know, $20 million. Some of these folks are amazing. I mean, really just, you know, the wizards of smart on some of these are just really, timing is impeccable up here. This is somebody who is selling some software that I'll track it, which you can, you, you've pointed out, you can get it for free online, but, but the, the numbers are really astonishing. This Democrat Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million. That was just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Well, by the way, why, why do they own these big $25, $36 million homes? Well, a big, big part of it is because the taxation of it, right? So a Feinstein who's telling you your ordinary income tax rates are too low. She's shifting that to a capital asset, which is going to create a capital gain in the future or no gain. Or no gain. I mean, they're 10, 10 31. This is why when Donald Trump looked at Hillary Clinton right in the eye and said, you will not get rid of the carry interest deduction and you know it because all of your, I use it, of course, all of her bigger donors donate money to Hillary Clinton. And this is exactly the truth, right? They will never get rid of some of these things. Like they talked about, we're going to get rid of the 10 31 exchanges. Yaha. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. So the big developer strokes a giant check to the, to the Democrats off the table. Let's listen to her success though. Amazing. A Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Only two years earlier, Diane Feinstein has been a member of the political scene for 32 years and her salary is only $130 ,000 per 130 grand a year. Now it's more now. That's a little bit dated, but it's up, it's up to probably 180 now. But, but listen to this. First of all, if it was up to 580, you're not buying $23 million homes, $36 million homes. No, no, we're going to put in multiple homes. We're going to, we're going to put the Paul Pelosi onto our research committee. You make a million dollars a year. First of all, most of, most business owners that make that kind of money, they didn't make it throughout their whole life, right? They didn't start making a million dollars at 20 years old. They started making a million dollars at 50 years old and it took 30 years to get to that point. Right? So my point is, you're not at a million dollars a year at age 50. If you did it the right way, the hard way, and you did it yourself, you're still not affording a $23 million home, right? Multiple ones. Yeah. Multiple, multiple. Right. Those aren't even her primary residence. Those are her vacation homes. She lives in, she lives in California. Listen to this though. And it's, it's all of them. It's all of them now. This is a, this is from Nancy Pelosi, stock trader. Uh, this is a tweet, uh, a Twitter feed. You can follow Pelosi tracker is what it's supposed to track or underline or something like that. You'll find it. Anyway, uh, three weeks ago, sitting politician bet against the U S economy so far. He's been right. Tom Carper bought $45 ,000 of PSQ and inverse ETF on the tech sector on eight 23, August 23rd. Since then he's plus 3 % while the market is negative 4%. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Man, these guys are so good. Yeah. And they're not by, they're, I mean, these are, that's some pretty technical strategy. You started getting into options strategies and stuff. I mean, yeah. Yeah. These guys have become very, very slick. It's not just about buying a, you see, it used to be, okay, I'm going to buy X, Y, Z. Then I'm going to vote for or against something. You know, I'm going to short the stock and then I'm going to vote against them for both that, that, that. So the stock goes down or I'm going to vote for something, knowing that it will benefit the company. The stock will go up and in a sense front running. No, they're, they're in the options strategies now. They're in the market. Yeah. They're doing butterfly spreads. Yeah. Crazy stuff going. They're very sophisticated. They shouldn't be allowed to two things. When you go into Congress, I, you know, I would love to have a Congress person run on or present around the following platform, right? Number one, term limits, term limits, top of the list. Number two, though, while you're in Congress for the eight years, or wherever we allow you to serve 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, you could not invest in a stock market at all. All your investments are frozen or your choices, a model, some kind of a model liquidated go to cash, or you could buy the fidelity balance to counter. You could buy the, you could buy the T -rope price, you know, target retire, whatever, you know, or you go to goes into a blind something or other where you have no idea. Right. It just goes into what you picked a one through five tolerance for risk and somebody else invest. Maybe it's just broad indexing. Maybe that's it. Right. Something that doesn't allow this kind of garbage to go on where, you know, they buy, you know, Tesla stock and then approve a huge, you know, oh, we're going to, guess what? We're going to build a, you know, for government funded battery stations all the country. Of course, Elon comes out and goes, we already got those, you idiots. I did that like four years ago, you morons. Amazing what Elon can do and what the, what the government can. Going back to target for just a second, not to digress, but I found WGRZ, thankfully came up with a list of the, uh, the target stores that will be closing, Mike, the full list of locations all in, all in Republican run. You'll be shocked. Yeah. Yeah. Right in the, uh, the thriving, the, uh, you know, thriving, the Minneapolis, uh, location, the retailer said the decision, the close was really difficult. I wonder if that was after half. That was the one they put the BLM on. Yeah. Oh, that was the one they put the sign on that said, please don't burn our store down. We love you. I hashtag BLM lit it on fire. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Uh, let's see. I'm shocked though. I wouldn't, I'm surprised you wouldn't stay. I mean, you know, like just collecting, you love them. You love, you support them. This is what you supported. Remember you, you, you raised money, you gave money. Yeah. And guess what they did with that money. They agitators hired to whip up people in the community to smash and burn down your store. You idiots. So there you go. There you go. Nice, nice work. What else do you think, Mike? Uh, New York city's East Harlem neighborhood. That's going to be one that's goes down. I wonder why. Chicago, San Francisco for sure. San Fran. Yeah. San Fran. Uh, by the way, before I forget San Fran, Democrat San Francisco mayor, announces plan to require drug testing, which is good in an effort to, if you're going to receive homeless benefits. Right. But the funny thing was in this same passage, they're going to Texas to try to recruit police officers. The funny thing is is that the people they sent from San Francisco to try to recruit people. They didn't come back. They defected like North Koreans. Some of them got jobs. They get over the wall. They come out, they get over the wall. It was hilarious. No, they didn't go back. Well, the other five stores, Mike, three in Portland, Oregon and two in Seattle, five, three in Portland. They're pulling out of Portland together. All of these inner cities folks will be food deserts. You're going to hear that term. It'll be business deserts. It'll be nothing. Well, business deserts, nothing left, but there'll be, but target, don't forget target. Does target sell food? Yeah. Well, yeah. They sell food. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Well, I don't go on target. So Walmart I know does Costco for sure. Costco is a food store. I don't think target is as big as Walmart as far as like fresh fruit, but definitely frozen food, all that kind of stuff. You know, aisles of pop and water and chips and right, right, right. And all that kind of stuff. But you can definitely frozen food. You can buy bulk frozen food there. So, so there's going to be food deserts, all over the place, business deserts, whatever you want to call them. You know, it's amazing because you know, the, there's no policing. And the sad thing is that is the problem. It's not, there's no policing. I shouldn't say that. Excuse me. No, you're policing your asses off. I get it. There's no ability. There's no prosecution. There's no bill. You guys are arresting people, putting them in and they go right back on the street. They're getting, they're getting appearance tickets. It's a joke. Your point is no, there is no policing anymore because of the system, the Democrats put together where the police officers aren't going to bother. If you're a police officer and you know that somebody is going to be this, this carjacking or whatever is robbery. And you know that there's a potential, you're going to get an altercation where you're in New York state. There's two police officers that have been brought up on charges recently with almost a hundred percent chance that if you do catch that person, that person will be right back. Yeah. A hundred percent. Why would you bother? Why would you bother? You're not going to put your life in line. No way. You want to go home to see your wife and kids too, and your mother or your husband or whatever. You want to be able to spend your Christmas with your family. Why would you do that? And they know that, right? The Democrats know that. This is, you can't be this stupid. I mean, who allows these people to go right back on the streets and say, this is a good idea without correcting this right away. You can say, okay, bail reform. Our intentions were one thing, but when you look at the fact that in New York state, we are now breaking records in towns like Rochester and Buffalo for the most amount of vehicles being stolen. We can say, okay, look at bail reform, put it in place. It clearly did not work. It's been a total disaster. These towns have turned to shit. We absolutely need to go back in the other direction. They're not doing that. They don't care. They want to, and they're doubling down, tripling down on it, tripling down. We invited this liberal on, you actually were on the show with him and he said, things are actually safer since bail reform. That's what his argument was. His argument was, and by the way, his argument was if we have even less police officers, cities like Buffalo will get safer. Well the thought was less police officers, less arrests. Less arrests means less crime. Dude, you got the whole thing backwards, bro. And not only that, but now we know that, right? Now we know, now you can, I mean, literally auto thefts are up 360 % in Rochester. They're not up 3%. You can say, well, you know, in Buffalo and we're in second place. And they can't play, they can't play in COVID. They're trying to like, well, it was a lockdown. People were at pent up, whatever. Remember that was the, that was the reason for the rioting and the ballooning and burning like, well, people had a lot of pent up. We probably should have locked them down. That was a little bit of the reason for the increase in suicides. You guys, you guys increased suicides because you locked kids in their homes, but it wasn't the reason that they went and decided to steal Nike sneakers from a footlocker. So check this out. Speaking of COVID, this is huge. This is, I don't know if you saw this or not, but this is absolutely ginormously huge. Dr. Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters without a record of entry where he participated in the analysis to influence the agency's COVID -19 investigation according to the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Did he need to do much with these left -wing CIA agents? Probably not. No, no, no. That's what they're smuggling him in for. Well they smuggled him in because they didn't want anybody to know that he was part of the PSYOP operation, which was hydroxychloric. By the way, the I think it was a Mayo clinic and some other hospitals now have come out as well as the CDC and said hydroxychloroquine, yes, indeed is an effective treatment for COVID. Oh, by the way, ivermectin also an effective treatment. The CDC now approving that. Now mind you, we're going to keep in mind that if there was any other treatments that couldn't get the emergency use authorization for these vaccines that clearly don't work. Amazingly, I'm still seeing people online go signing off my sixth booster on our way for the sixth shot, proud to get our sixth shot. How about how about one the other day, local left -wing nut job got her sixth booster shot, six shot and she still got COVID and then she said, well, I was so good hiding and it got all my shots and then I went to a concert and I got it at this concert. Well, first of all, you don't know that, but second of all, if you have six shots and you six shots and you still got COVID and you actually think that was a good idea, you don't need a vaccination. You need a mental, you need a mental check. I tell you, I know people during the during the COVID, the height of the COVID that were older, some of our clients actually that were prescribed by a doctor a hydroxy quirk when they were taking it once a week as a as a preventative measure. Yeah. And they, to this day have never had COVID. Yeah. And it's, it's, I mean, so it, but the sad thing is again, you know, we couldn't, it's all about the money now. And that's, you know, when people talk about the evils of capitalism, you're seeing some of that. Now, capitalism is the best thing on the planet, right? As far as, you know, lifting the masses out of poverty and creating amazing amounts of wealth. But the problem is this isn't, this isn't capitalism. What's going on. This is cronyism is what's going on. It is, Hey, look at, I will give you these government dollars. You're going to get this patent. You're going to get this. Unholy marriage between business and government. Mark my word. We were talking about Feinstein selling 25, $30 million homes. This Fauci will be on the board of Pfizer. He'll be on the board of Moderna. He's going to get shares of those companies. He will be blessed with with with millions and millions of dollars. His family watch and see, we'll be talking if we're, if you and I are fortunate enough to be around 20, 30 years from now, we'll be talking about the Fauci trust and watch and monitor that trust and see how big that family trust. Well, you see how easy this is now. You look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks. This is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporation, but guess who's getting the, guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton foundation gets paid to rebuild it. Right. And guess who's going to get the contracts to rebuild. Oh, that'll be probably one of the Biden family members or somebody else's politically connected. Right. Remember it was, it was a Joe Biden's brother who got the contract, the multi -billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. No building experience, never been a contractor, right? No idea. Right. This is why these projects cost 500 times what they're supposed to cost. This is why when money comes into Buffalo, for example, $25 million to build homes, five get built. And you were, wait a minute, five, are these $5 million homes in the East side? Each of those homes would have been built for a quarter million dollars or less. And yet where did the rest of the money go? And the, the answer is never, we don't know. We don't know. We can't account for it. Or we'd have no idea. Or I mean, how many times have we've seen that in so many places that whether right down the local level or God forbid at the federal level between, you know, Iraq and others. I was telling you last week on the radio, I was reading an article about the grants that were coming into the city of Buffalo to plant trees. And I thought, okay, wow, like this could be sweet. Okay. You know, like I'm a big tree guy. I love trees. I plant trees every year. I do think, okay, that's one way to, first of all, I think it's one way to make a community look great. When you, when you drive around, let's say North Buffalo, all the streets are all tree. They look beautiful. You drive around the East side, it looks like shit, right? So, okay. You're going to take some of my tax money and you're going to directly plant trees. Okay. It's a win for the environment. It looks nice. It's going to bring things together. I'm like, well, where's the catch? This is a government agency. Where are they going to screw it up? You read through and you find out that they're paying $1 ,000 a tree. Now you and I both know that if they're saying it's $1 ,000 a tree, by the time it's done, it'll be two to $3 ,000 a tree. Now you, you're talking about $13 million worth of trees. You and I just planted trees. Every year we plant a few trees around our office, you know, three, four in the spring, three, four in the fall, just so they can start to grow and work their way in. And then, you know, plant more. We pay $250 a tree, plant it. Right.
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A highlight from S13 E14: Sean: Multi-Role Expertise & Career Insights
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John May Loney. In this episode, we don't have Regulus because, well, raisins, as always. As for our guest, he's from Ontario, Canada. He's an electrician, volunteer firefighter, and a project manager. Hmm, intriguing. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll give you Sean Robinson. Hi there. How are you? I'm excited to be here. Yes, me too. So, how is life? Life is going great. I've got three young kids who keep me busy and I've learnt through this journey that it's better to look more positively than to complain about things. Exactly. Couldn't agree more. And have you been up too much recently? Yeah, recently. Other than my kids keeping me busy. Just trying to stay true to this new path that I found for myself and to just challenge myself to try things that I haven't tried before or wouldn't have tried before. Okay, that's cool. That's cool. So, for all that being the electrician, volunteer firefighter, and project manager, what was the journey between the three? So, the journey that brought me here, basically, working construction, working as a volunteer firefighter. I've done each for about 20 years total. And very, very masculine, very toxic masculine environment. And with that and my dad's mechanic, just a very masculine upbringing, I felt like I couldn't talk about issues. I couldn't bring things forward that were bothering me that I had to just toughen up and fix it. And my drinking alcohol kind of rhyme routine and habit circulated those things. And it was kind of separate, but also related. And it just got to a point where I was 320 pounds, feeling both mentally and physically miserable and needed to make a change. I thought I knew what I needed to do, but regardless, it just wasn't happening. So, I reached a bit of a rock bottom for myself and needed something to change. Decided that removing alcohol was a good first step to healthier living and a better attitude.
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A highlight from Crypto Kingpins: The War Between SBF and CZ
"It's been almost one year since FTX collapsed and created a horrific ripple effect in the crypto industry. Sam Bankman -Fried and Chengpeng Zhao have become key players in this incident, and a new podcast goes behind the scenes to tell about exactly what took place. With SBF's trial ramping up as we speak, we're pleased to welcome Tom Wright, one of the creators of the new Crypto Kingpins podcast to the show, to share some insights. So let's go ahead and get into it today on our episode number 697 of the Bad Crypto Podcast. Five, four, three, two, one, go. Who's bad? Well, what do you know? Once again, it's the Bad Crypto Podcast, the show for the crypto curious and crypto serious. We had a week off because I was traveling en France, and was Travis keynoting at a crypto event in Manila. He was the thriller in Manila. And how was it, Trev? I tell you what, you know, I think I maybe made a quote of this before. Somebody said, go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. And I do think in Puerto Rico sometimes it's like, you know, the natives tolerate, they don't really like the gringos, but they tolerate them. And then there's some people that'll throw hate. So, but in the Philippines, oh my God, they are so open and welcome and kind. And like, hello, sir, how can I help you, sir? Like just most lovable people, probably that I've ever encountered in the world. Thailand, the same, very nice people. Not a lot of crime in these places. I think maybe the Buddhist nature of that. And they're like, oh, you know, and it was so nice, very nice. And the keynote was great. They had me kick off the whole conference. So the founder came up, Dr. Donald Lin, he came up, did a little thing. And boom, then they had me kick off the keynote. And I think it was one of the better ones that I've done. I think it'll be up on YouTube here shortly and we'll share the link when that comes available. I had a few people come up and tell me it was one of the best keynotes they've ever seen. So I was like, ah, you've not seen very many keynotes. Perfect answer. Well, I'm sure you did a fantastic job and represented the Republic of Bad Cryptopia. So, you know, it's hard to believe that it's been a year since the dominoes started falling. You know, Luna was first, then FTX and Three Arrows, and then Celsius. And it's just been, it's gonna be a bear market anyway, but boy, the downward pressure exerted by these, you know, horrible black swan incidents have made it a really, really bad bear market. And of course, we've been here with you guys throughout it all. We've not abandoned you. We've not turned into bears. It was like a kick to the ass, a nudge, an elbow to your face, and then a kick to the crotch. And here we are. And the bear markets can be - Here we are. Here we go, sweetie. It was fun, fun times. Crypto goes up, crypto goes down. Or as our next guest would say, number go up. You mentioned that book right there. So we're gonna have a great conversation here with maybe my long lost relative, Tom Wright, who's been doing, who's an investigative journalist, gonna talk about what happened with FTX and SBF and CZ. And he's got his own podcast around that, multiple topics or multiple episodes. So you're gonna want to tune in. This is a pretty good interview, Mr. Joel Kopp. I think so. Let's let the people decide as they listen now. Unless you're living under a rock, you have heard the names Sam Bankman -Fried and Chengpeng Zhao, or CZ, of Binance. And you've heard about the fall of FTX. Well, Sam Bankman -Fried's big trial for basically making off with countless billions of dollars is coming up shortly. Scam bank man fraud, right? That's the guy. We have a guy with us today who is the co -founder of Project Brazen, a journalism -focused content studio. He's a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer finalist. And his name is quite similar to Travis Wright's. His name is Tom Wright. We're talking, it's two T Wright's here today. There's two TWs here today. And Tom, welcome to the Bad Crypto Podcast. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, tell us, just kind of give us a little more meat on the bones of your background and how that led you to this new podcast called Crypto Kingpins. Well, I was at the Wall Street Journal for about 20 years, Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal in 2019 after writing a book called Billion Dollar Whale, which is about the one MDB scandal. That's the scandal where a bunch of money was taken out of a sovereign wealth fund in Asia and used to make films like The Wolf of Wall Street and for all these guys to party on this fraudster Joe Lowe's tab. Clearly people like Paris Hilton and big actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and others. And then the guy who I wrote the book with, Bradley Hope and I quit the journal and set up this company Project Brazen. And what we do is we make podcasts and we also write magazine articles and other things, books as well, that we use as the basis for adaptation into TV and film. So that's Project Brazen, that's a business. And our latest podcast is Crypto Kingpins, which we've done in conjunction with USG Audio, which is Universal's audio. And that just started rolling out last week and the episodes are running weekly on Tuesdays. And it's about the huge rivalry between Changpeng Zhao, who you mentioned of Binance, and Sam Bankman -Fried of FTX and how that rivalry played out and how it led to the downfall of SPF. And we went based on exclusive access to CZ himself. There was some interesting stuff that was going down with that. A lot of personality clashes and then just like, oh, CZ is gonna come in and save the day. Oh no, he's not. Because it looked like he got some, he was feeling the heebie jeebies. He was looking at some stuff and going, whoa, we better get rid of all of my FTT because this ain't working. And so this is great. We're talking about some of the big crypto frauds, right? That's what you've done. You know, actually, since Joel and I have not done this show as regularly here in the last couple of weeks because of travel, a documentary just came out about Ruja Igniktova called The Crypto Queen on 2BTV and I was in there talking about that. So I'm featured on that. So it's like, it seems like there's a lot of stuff going on right now and I'll put that in the show notes if you guys wanna watch The Crypto Queen documentary. But this is fascinating. There's so many bad actors in crypto. Hopefully we can get past this and only the good people remain in crypto. The fraudsters are kicked out. Hopefully all the good people haven't left and are chasing dreams in AI now. So hopefully there's still some good foundations here in the crypto space. Well, we got into this podcast because I'm based here in Singapore and for a long time, CZ was based here. And what he was hoping to do was get a license from the Singapore government. I mean, a lot of people were here. Do Kwan of Terra Luna was here. Carl Davis was here. The Three Arrows guys were here. Their yacht Much Wow that they bought, I think was supposed to be in the marina here but never made it, as you said. A lot of people getting washed out of the system. But anyway, I got to know CZ because he was living down in this area called Sentosa Cove which is a lot like Miami. You know, it's big mansions with a marina. And at that time, now what a lot of people do know about is what happened last November, which you just alluded to, which is when CZ decided to sell his tokens and that caused a world of pain for Sam Bagman Frieden FTX, right? But what people don't really understand is the degree to which CZ and SPF had interacted over time. People know that the Binance was one of the big first investors in FTX back in the early days. They took a 25 million stake for 20 % of FTX. But Sam really looked up to CZ. Obviously CZ and Binance go back to 2017 and Sam didn't set up FTX until a couple years later. And we show in the podcast how CZ first met Sam when Sam invited him to this party in an aquarium in Singapore in 2019. And he was just a trader, one of many traders. I don't think he was a VIP trader, but just a trader nonetheless on Binance. And so that's really when the story begins and that's how we start the podcast by showing that relationship and how it evolves and then all of the stuff in between that initial meeting and then what happened last November, which was what we call the kill shot. So he kind of went from being a trader to becoming a traitor. We're gonna talk about some of that political stuff that he did down the road, which was really crazy. It's like you look at some of this stuff, Joel, and I go, man, anybody else was doing some of this stuff where they hadn't have donated so much money to the political parties? There's no way that you get taken out of a Bahamas prison and then immediately brought to America and then released on a first class flight to fly back home to go be with your mommy and daddy if you've done this amount of fraud. So there's so many different nuances to this story. I can't wait to get into this with you. Well, the most amazing thing about that is he was released on a $250 million bail, which was I think the biggest ever bail in American pretrial history. But was it really? It wasn't really like they didn't actually pay that. No, their house is not worth $250 million. I didn't quite understand that it was backed by their house, but that was the, I think they judged him a very low flight risk based on how recognizable he is. Yeah, did they think that house would be a collector's item someday or something? With a future value of this home, yeah, that's crazy. So do this for us. When everything went down, kind of set the stage for what happened that day when this story broke. How much money were we actually talking about? How many people were impacted? And just how far did the ripples extend? Well, I think it's November the 2nd is when this CoinDesk article comes out, which basically says, look, the Alameda, which was Sam's hedge fund, FTX's hedge fund, its financial situation isn't all that it looks like because somebody inside the company leaked these documents to CoinDesk. And they showed that they were heavily reliant on FTT tokens, which were basically a cryptocurrency that Sam had made up and bought himself to prop up the value. And then if you took those out, they were about almost a half of the total assets of the hedge fund. And so at that point, CZ is pacing in his penthouse in Dubai where he left Singapore where I got to know him and he moved to Dubai.
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Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sweat Economy - Building The Economy of Movement with Web3
"Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that is considered standard. In our world, the trade -off is if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy a kit, you got to get your membership, you got to do all of these things. How can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that's considered standard. I think that bears repeating and I can't think of a better example of this than Move to Earn. For too long, exercise has seemed like more of a chore for many and a very expensive chore at that, with the pricey gym memberships, expensive equipment, you name it. With the advent of blockchain, however, there is a unique opportunity to disrupt this and transform exercise from a chore into a rewarding and income -generating activity. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Oleg Fomenko, co -founder of Sweat Economy, an OG in the Move to Earn space with a mission to reward movement to inspire a healthier and wealthier planet. We discuss how Web3 tools can incentivize healthy actions, the evolution of Move to Earn, onboarding hundreds of millions of users to Web3, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Oleg to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, Oleg, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. Such a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. Very nice to meet you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. So excited to have you. I had mentioned this before we got on the call that I've been following it for quite a while, and I'm really fascinated by this whole Move to Earn movement that's going on and how Web3 tools can really change how we get people to be excited about wellness and making healthy life choices. So before we get there, I want to learn about your aha moment that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning. I learned about Bitcoin in 2011 from a childhood friend who described what it was, and that definitely perked my interest. Stupid as I was, well, stupid as I am, I got really, really hooked on technology. And I read an awful lot about how it works, the white paper, the Byzantine generals problem, and just basically as much background as I could. In 2011, there wasn't an awful lot. Then I have installed BT Guild. That was the first sort of pool mining software on my old laptop and put it in the corner, and it was sort of chugging along there for about a month, and they mined a few satoshis. Well, actually quite a few satoshis, but because the price was like 20 cents, it wasn't even covering the electricity that I burned on it. And I just threw away a laptop's hard drive for quite a bit right now these days. So I got hooked on tech, and despite the low prices, I actually didn't buy an awful lot of Bitcoin back then. And I had a very interesting sort of music streaming startup back then, and I was trying to figure out how we can do something in crypto, but at best we could just accept Bitcoin payment, which was cumbersome, slow and not terribly interesting, and just handful of people even knew what it was. So opportunity represented itself in 2014 when I started talking to my co -founders about the problem of why are people not as active as they want to be? How come that I used to run some crazy distances and climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, and all of a sudden I couldn't even complete 5k. And, you know, kind of one conversation after another, we very quickly realized that the reason why 100 % of people want to be more active, but they can't, is because nature didn't build us to be active. Nature built us to survive, which means preserving calories rather than spending them. And nature was so serious about it that it gave us this behavioral feature that helped us surviving back then, but right now it's probably a behavioral bug that prevents us from being able to burn those calories called present bias that stops us from, you know, kind of moving and forces us to sit, unless there is a mammoth on the horizon that, you know, that we need to run and kill, or there is something about to make us into food and then we need to run away. And we realized that there is only one solution to present bias, instant gratification. So we kind of went, ooh, so can we actually create instant gratification for every step you take? And that's the story of Sweatcoin. As the name would suggest, we were thinking about building it on blockchain back then, but forking Bitcoin was slow, cumbersome and expensive. Building on Ethereum, we discussed with Vitalik in 2015. We met with him in London. That wasn't really an option because it was just too early. It was a research grade code back then. And we launched in 2016 centralized. And we thought, you know what, give us six months, maybe 12 months, there will be some wonderful blockchain that, you know, we're going to migrate onto. Little did we know that it would take until 2021 for blockchain to get fast enough and robust enough to be able to hold our scale. So, you know, we looked every year and we analyzed everything that was sort of popping up. And until 2021, the answer was consistently, no, we were processing more transactions per second than theoretical throughput of any chain. And in 2021, all of a sudden there was this explosion, there was Algorand, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB, well, BC back then, and Flow and Celo and, you know, kind of all of a sudden it just sort of, there was a rush of these new technologies. And we got really excited and put a team on this and analyzed more than a dozen different chains. And sort on of after spending, I think, four or five months, we made a decision that we want to build on near. And yeah, the rest is history. We launched last September and it's going incredibly well, incredibly well. I'm sure that we're going to have an opportunity to talk about some of the numbers and metrics and, you know, sort of, yeah, totally. Definitely. I mean, you've had quite many, many, many achievements and it's really grown at an incredible pace and the amount of people that you have engaging with this platform now every day. And, you know, it's good that you really took that time to kind of like, you know, think and make sure that you had the right blockchain, the right timing. And it sounds like you made a good choice there with Near. And sustainable business model as well and token economics. Yeah, for sure, for sure, which is great. And so you talked a little bit at a higher level about sweat economy, but do you mind giving an overview to our listeners of, you know, what it is, what the mission is of your organization? Sure. The mission of the regional sweat coin and that's what economy is to make the world more physically active. And, you know, it seems like it's sort of a tree -hogging mission. And the reality is it couldn't be further away from truth because we actually realized that physical activity has tangible financial value. When I say that your physical duty has value, everyone nods, like you just did right now. But if I ask how valuable it is, people kind of go, could you reframe the question? Could you use different words? I'm like, no, I don't have to. Typically, if something is valuable, it has value attached to it. And here we have something valuable, but we cannot attach any number to it. Maybe there is an opportunity there. And then we started thinking there is an interesting economy that draws parallel with physical activity. It's attention economy by some estimates attention economy now is about $7 trillion business, all the Googles, Facebooks, everything advertising related sits in there and actually quite a lot more. And the interesting parallel between physical activity and attention is that like attention, physical activity is valuable to you. You know, when you pay attention, something starts, you know, you can engage with something, you can get new idea, you can meet somebody, you can, you know, potentially entering some sort of a conversation transaction and purchase something. Very similarly, physical activity is a better physical state, it puts you into a better mental state, it extends your life. And like attention, physical activity is beneficial for a lot of other parties, a lot of other participants on the market, starting from your family that is, of course, would prefer to have you physically active rather than not because they want to enjoy your company for longer, they want you to be in a better mood. Your healthcare provider, your insurer, your employer are all interested in you being physically active and actually prepared to pay for it. Especially insurers, they know very well that your health insurance and your life insurance, if you're physically active, should be a lot cheaper because you're a lot better risk and you genuinely a lot better business for them. Now, attention economy exists and it's $7 trillion, movement economy or physical activity economy doesn't. There is absolutely nothing there. We can talk about it, we can discuss these use cases, but it doesn't exist. And then we thought, hang on a second, in order for humanity not to spend 200 years building this economy, why don't we actually think of creating a token that is tokenizing your physical activity and makes it into a liquid asset that you can exchange with other parties? That's how the concept of Sweatcoin and now Sweat was born. So coming back to your original question, Sweatcoin is our health and fitness app. Despite the name, it's actually not crypto because for eight years we couldn't operate in crypto. We got 240 million users using this application. And when we could move to Web3, to blockchain, it was too late to tell everybody, like, look, from tomorrow, it's going to be completely different game. tokenomics is going to be different. You can't do that. So we had to put out a new token that's called Sweat and it is a crypto token built on NIR. And effectively the way the two businesses work together is you choose, you either play Web3 game and you just create your crypto account and then your steps are converted into Sweat. Or as a lot of people, you know, kind of choose to, they don't opt in and then they get Sweatcoins, which is a centralized points, think of it like air miles that you can gather and you can use inside Sweatcoin, but they cannot be traded on exchanges. They are not real crypto and not as liquid as Sweat, the token. And of course, these two tokens have very, very different token economics. Sweatcoin, for every 1000 steps, you earn one Sweatcoin and Sweat is constantly demanding an increase in number of steps in order to meet next Sweat. This way, supply dynamics are a lot healthier and we have become deflationary already from the month of July. So July and August circulating supply has been slowly shrinking. Wow. Interesting. So much going on there and like incredible. First of all, with the amount of folks that you've been able to onboard the love, the idea of like offering, you know, Web3 and Web2 version, because it might just be those people that maybe aren't quite ready yet, but want to experiment a bit, want to learn about the technology first, then it gives them an easy kind of entry, you know, accessible entryway, which is great. And so you talked about the Sweat token, which is the built on the near blockchain. And that's kind of the for the Web3 version, the currency that kind of behind this whole movement economy. So you talked about that users will get this, they'll earn this from from walking, engaging in that physical activity. What can they do with these with these tokens once they actually receive them? What's the like utility of them? Yeah, no, there is there is plenty. But actually, if we take a step back, because I think in the crypto world, a lot of people are sort of obsessed with the word utility. I actually think that the more important question is, if you ask somebody, why is this token valuable? Yeah, what is the answer to that question? And I have answered to both of these questions. But I would like to start with the one that I think is more relevant in long term, why is Sweat valuable? And the reason why Sweat is valuable is because it is produced by your verified physical activity. So when you move, and if you try to cheat, it doesn't work. In fact, if somebody is trying repeatedly to kind of break into the system and you know, sort of game it, then we just disable accounts and they can never return. But if you put in genuine physical activity, so you sweat it, then we verify it. And we issue with this token that is tokenized physical activity of yours. And because of that, there is no single question in people's mind that it is valuable. It's a very, very different relationship to a string of numbers that sort of miraculously appeared out of, I don't know, nothing, airdrop, I don't know, whatever activity. And then people, majority of people, not crypto natives, but crypto curious are wondering, why does it have any value at all? Why is it not zero? And that is an extremely difficult question to answer. Now we don't have this problem. However, crypto educated or crypto informed you are, that's my physical activity. That's my sweat. That's not zero because, you know, it cannot be, you know, can I sweat it over it? Right. And this is an answer to the longterm question. So in five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years time, when people are going to be talking about why is sweat valuable, they're going to say, are you kidding me? It's a tokenized physical activity. How can it be zero? However, it doesn't stop there. You know, in order for us to build movement economy, in order for us to feel sweat with this meaning that it is tokenized physical activity, in order for us to establish financial, you know, kind of number or just a value to it, we need to play a game in the interim that is effectively creating utility and demand drivers for sweat. For a lot of projects, that's all they do. We do have a longterm vision that I've just described to you. The short term vision is extremely simple. You need sweat in order to participate in our kind of network in our platform, you stake sweat, and you earn interest by taking sweat, you also have access to a lot of rewards that are linked to health and fitness, well being fashion, etc. So this is an extremely engaging thing for our users, you are also earning sweat from our learn and earn. And because 90 % of our users are brand new to crypto and web3, they are seeking and are very interested in information. So what is taking? How does it work? You know, how do you transfer? How do you receive crypto? So we are building this whole ecosystem of effectively onboarding products and information, how do you become a proper crypto native? Last but not least, are a lot of functionalities that are being rolled out right now as we're ramping up for our US launch. The most exciting one is Sweat Hero. It's a free NFT game that effectively, if you engage, come in, we give you an NFT of legs. Because, you know, we're about walking and running. Yeah. And, you know, you get the NFT and you can play with other people, literally walking, I'm not going to go into mechanics, if you're interested, you can sort of go and look at it yourself in Sweat Wallet app. Or if you are in the US and you can't still use all the functionality, then you can just go on YouTube and put Sweat Hero and there are plenty of screenshots and screencasts from users that have been participating in beta testing. So you basically go into battle and the game and I battle you and I put 10 Sweat, you put 10 Sweat, the winner takes 80 % and the 20 % goes into what we call a battle fee, which is effectively a token sync that community votes on later on. And that brings me to your one of the first and earlier questions, you know, about move to earn and sustainability of the business, because we're frequently asked, you know, how are you different from, you know, kind of other projects out there? And we say, well, tens of millions of users is one thing, nine years of history and therefore ability to spend time thinking about building sustainable business and sustainable token economics. And what we are doing right now by scaling and not going into that spiral is evidence that we know how to build sustainable businesses that really function. More than that, as I already mentioned, in July and in August this year, Sweat has already become deflationary. So the sources of demand on a monthly basis are higher than emissions of token by you walking, plus all unlocks, users, team investors, and everything. So the number of tokens that hit the market is lower than the number of tokens that are extracted from the market, which in web two world would basically be definition of profitability. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Very interesting. Yeah. So much on the go. And, you know, I love this idea as well of the Sweat Hero NFT game. I think that's a really fun way to engage people in a different way and to bring NFTs in the mix as well. You mentioned move to earn in there too. And so I know that obviously Sweat Economy kind of is a great example of that, you know, move to earn ecosystem fits within there. You know, there's, it's a pretty early stage space for sure. You know, fairly nascent, a couple projects for sure, like yours that are really growing at a rapid pace, but still very early. Where do you see things when it comes to move to earn in the future, let's say five to 10 years from now? What do you think? How do you think it'll shape, you know, the overall wellness sector in the coming years? I mean, there are several very interesting things here. One is, whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that, you know, is considered standard. You know, for example, internet broke this trade -off where you could deliver rich message, but very few people, or you could deliver extremely poor message and extremely narrow message to a lot of people. Reach and richness was a trade -off. Internet broke that and the rest is history. You know, you can talk to individual with extremely rich message and sometimes screw with their heads as well as Cambridge Analytica has proven, right? So it's a double -edged sword, unfortunately. So in our world, the trade -off is, or if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy kit, you got to get job membership, you got to dress, you got to do all of these things. You know, how can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of other people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Like in attention economy, you are given free products in exchange for your attention. Why wouldn't we be doing exactly the same thing in exchange for my physical activity? So move to earn is breaking this trade -off and I believe that it is going to become a more or less standard approach because if physical activity was only valuable to me and me alone, I would need to pay. But given that it drives an incredible amount of value for everybody, including countries, I mean, if you're physically active, you're going to be more economically active for longer. The tax revenues from you are going to be higher. It's good business. You know, even if you're looking at it in the dry light of day, obstructing yourself from taking care of people, making sure that, you know, this country is a good place for them to live. But even just in financial terms, it's good business. So this is the first thing that all the businesses in move to earn are doing, regardless if they're Ponzi or non -Ponzi actually think that it's great because businesses are reminding people that their physical activity has value. Bingo. That moves this whole idea of movement economy forward. The other trend that I see is that we need to get fewer people who are focusing on crypto natives, which is the case with a lot of other products and are focusing on mass market, because the value is not in making very, very narrow field of already reasonably rich and wealthy people more physically active. The real value to humanity is going into the lower social stratas, because that typically is where behavior change is most needed. If you look at dominant in A and B social groups, but it's starting to ramp up as you go lower down the income tail. So we need to start focusing on these people. We need to start developing propositions that are absolutely free, that are extremely simple to engage with, like what's what economy is doing. Because a lot of people are asking me, crypto, web3, what's your advice? And my simple advice is, look, we're so early, I can't even point a finger where to go. But if any of you remember internet of 96 and 97, you would remember that, I mean, there was Yahoo, right? There were very, very early businesses. None of them are really sort of dominating. And the opportunity is still there. And the opportunity number one is we still don't have an email for internet. We don't have an ubiquitous use case for web3. That email became for internet. That's what we're focusing on. Can we develop something that every single person on planet earth would be interested and benefit from if they engage with? And if you have legs, and if you can take steps, you know, you can engage with sweat economy. And I think we're on the right path there. The other thing that I would say is that if you actually look at the overall web3, and all the different tokens that exist, I see right now only three use cases or three classes of tokens that can be explained in a very simple fashion. Why on earth do they have value? Case one, Bitcoin digital gold, inflationary protection. It's capped supply. Everyone is paying attention to it. Everyone is in because of the first mover advantage. Therefore, it is playing the role of digital gold and probably is replacing gold as that inflationary protection asset. Case two, layer ones, computers securing asset ownership on the internet. Like electricity powers computers, like tokens, like ETH, like NEAR, like Avax, like MATIC. You need to have them in order for these computers to work for you and secure ownership of assets. And case three is tokenization. And here there is kind of wide range. The most simple one is tokenizing fiat currency, USDT, USDC. Basically, you are turning an asset that already exists into a token to make it more liquid, easier to transfer, easier to exchange with a lot more censorship resistance and with fewer parties being able to tell you can you or cannot you conduct this particular transaction. And there is a lot of experimentation with other assets like TDELs, for example, kind of tokenizing them. And we are pushing absolutely boundaries of that because we're not tokenizing an asset that already exists, that already has markets that can be exchanged. We're creating new asset class because as I said, everyone agrees that physical activity has value. It should have been an asset, but actually without blockchain, it cannot be turned into an asset. And we are creating new asset, new asset class, and the whole new industry that cannot be created without blockchain participating in this.
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The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "20 year" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"The sky clears from north to south over western Washington revealing the full harvest moon setting in the western horizon tomorrow morning. We'll get a chance to dry out this weekend but foggy mornings will be just fitting for the start of October. Coma In 4 the Weather Center, meteorologist Kristen Clark. Right now it's 53 degrees in Olympia, 53 in Tacoma, 55 in downtown Seattle. It's 5 36. A new study says the Seattle area is at risk of a double earthquake. We get details from northwest news radio's Jeff Pojala. It's not just the fault lines run throughout the region, many of them under the area's biggest cities. New research from the University of Washington suggests that if the big one were to hit it would likely trigger a secondary quake by putting too much stress on another one of the faults. According to the Seattle Times, this is what happened 1100 years ago when two major quakes struck the region. Researchers say if it happens again, the devastation could far be worse than what happened in the 2001 Nisqually earthquake. The study appears in the journal Science Advances. Jeff Pojala, Northwest News Radio. Prosecutors want some specific internet records about the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students last November. Newly unsealed court documents show there were search warrants for Brian Koburger's Amazon account, including his click activity on knives and accessories. Court documents said Koburger's DNA was found on a knife sheath at the murder scene, but a weapon has not been found. There are also warrants for his Apple and PayPal accounts. Koburger is accused of murdering Madison Mogan, Zanna Kernodle, Kaylee Thomas and Ethan Chapin from Skagit County. Here's County Sheriff's deputies claim a man shot was by a car prowler Wednesday morning in Midland. They say the victim called 911 claiming it had happened after he approached the prowler along 104th Street East. The man is expected to survive. The suspect is still on the loose. Deputies ask if you have any surveillance video of the incident to please contact them immediately. Some newly released video from Algona Police shows first responders rescuing an unconscious driver from and passenger from the wreckage of a fiery crash. It happened Saturday along the West Valley Highway in southeast King County. You see officers rushing to break the car's window. A firefighter was able to pull them both out to safety. They are hurt but expected to be okay. workforce FOMO Holly Menino reports the driver is suspected of being under the influence. And a Seattle artist will serve probation and community service after selling fake Native American art. Anthony Rath of Maple Falls pleaded guilty last March to selling totem poles, masks and pendants while pretending to be a member of the San Carlos Apache tribe. The U .S. Justice Department says Rath violated the Federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act. He'll serve two years of probation and 200 hours of community service. It's 5 39 we'll get to a sports update in just one minute. awnings Seattle helps homeowners and business owners with customized and motorized outdoor shading systems, including motorized retractable awnings, outdoor solar screens and motorized outdoor patio enclosures. Seattle awnings is the Puget Sound's number one option for customized and motorized exterior shading systems with motorized retractable awnings, exterior solar shades and fully motorized patio enclosures. Schedule your free in home or in business Seattle awnings consultation at 206 -207 -7777 or seattleawnings .com I taught for 20 years until I started forgetting my lectures. Eventually he had to quit. Getting his early Alzheimer's diagnosis was hard, but it
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Navigating Change: Chelsi Shares Her Family's Courageous Journey
"We always keep it real about fire family life and sometimes our firefighters need to change the scenery and need to make the difficult decision to transition out of departments that they've been with for many years. So on that note, Chelsea and I have been keeping a little secret from you. Mostly Chelsea has been keeping the secret for months. You want to spill the tea, Chelsea? Oh man, it has been months, hasn't it? I was thinking it's only been like a month, but it's been months. You're right. Sure. I guess. Way to put me on the spot. No, but seriously, yes, I should say I have been eagerly awaiting the time when I can share some very exciting news. My husband has left Cal Fire. He decided it was not time to make a change and he's transitioned into a municipal department as a ECC assistant director. And we're so excited and it's a fantastic change. It's all good things. That's a huge move from Cal Fire to municipal. And we know how hard it is making these kinds of decisions, especially for firefighters and their families. Transitioning careers in the fire service is no small feat, but the decision to leave a department you've been at for a really long time is definitely a lot of excitement mixed with some serious anxiety and uncertainty, I'm guessing, right? Obviously there were struggles in family planning and time management and work -life balance and all of those things. And that finally came to a pretty ugly head recently over the course of the last six months. It really started to take a toll on his mental health and our family life. And so it wasn't so much a difficult decision to think about transitioning out, but then when he finally decided to pull the trigger, it was like, am I actually going to do this? Am I actually applying somewhere? Am I actually taking an interview? Are these things actually happening? And are they what's best for our family? And am I going to take a pay cut? What's going to happen with my pension? How, you know, am I going to lose all my sick leave? There's definitely a lot of anxiety that comes with it, but I would say it was more anticipation than anxiety because it was excited anxiety more than it was like, Oh crap, what have I just done to myself? And it didn't come without a lot of discussion. There was many nights of hardcore discussion about what's this going to look like and you know, things. So I think a lot of firefighters and their families can kind of relate to this too, because it's not really just about their career. It's about how it impacts the whole family. I mean, we hear about this a lot, firefighters changing departments. Give us advice on, you know, what would you say to spouses who might be going through a similar situation? Because it's kind of weird and uncomfortable for some, and there's a lot of pushback from, you know, the current department and a lot of gossip and a lot of just unnecessary crap that goes on behind the scenes. So yeah, and I think we've experienced, like we've experienced a little bit of that. I can't say that I really care. Like, you know me, like I don't, what you say behind my back is none of my business and I could really care less about your opinion because it's not your life. So go ahead and say what you want. So my best advice for that particular situation is just don't care. You have to do what's good for you and your family. And if that means leaving the department after 20 years, then that's what it means. And that's not to say that there wasn't good things about the department. For us, it just wasn't working and it was impacting us on a much bigger scale than we ever have been impacted. And so, you know, you just have to do what's good for you. And if there's people within the department that want to push back against that, then they're not looking out for your best interest. They're thinking about themselves. And while I understand that when someone leaves a position, it does leave holes and overtime for other people, you know, those people also have the choice. There's always a choice. And if you're so impacted by overtime that it's causing you to be mad at somebody else who made a good decision for themselves, then maybe it's time to take a little look in the mirror and find out if you also need to make the same decision. That's just the way it
VUX World
A highlight from The uniphore approach to conversational automation with Kim West
"All right. We are live and kicking, I believe. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Should have sorted my windows out before I started this broadcast, but there we go. Hello. My name is Caine Sims, as always. And as always, this is VUX World. I'm delighted for you to join me. Thank you for joining me. And today we are joined by Kim West, who is a director of product marketing at Unifor. A lot of you probably know Unifor. Unifor has been around for a long time, actually, and has been through various guises and is now definitely one of the leaders in the conversational AI space. And so we're going to be picking Kim's brains around some of the successes that Unifor have had, some of the tips and tricks that she might be able to share with businesses that want to try and capitalize on what is now probably the biggest growth industry going. Since last November, conversational AI is looking good. And so, yeah, excited for this conversation with Kim West. And so without further ado, let's bring Kim on, shall we, Kim? Welcome to VUX World. Great to be here, Caine. Thank you for joining me. All the way from Canada. All the way from Canada, Toronto. Nice, nice. Representing. Lots going on in Toronto. Like, it seems to be that, you know, I say this every time someone from Toronto is on, which seems to be fairly frequent enough, but yeah, Toronto is a happening place in the AI space right now. It is. We like to say in Canada that we are part of the sort of creators, the place to be. Yeah, yeah. A lot of exciting companies in Canada as well. Cohea is based in Toronto, I believe, actually. They're doing very well. Yeah. So yeah, there you go. Thank you for joining me. So tell us about yourself then, Kim. How did you get into conversational AI generally? Yeah, no, great question. I always like to say that I am a former agent, actually. So Unifor itself started in the contact center space thinking through how do we actually improve communication. I was an agent 20 years ago, came across these companies that were actually doing cool things in the contact center space, and so found Unifor about two and a half years ago, and loved that they were looking at the full experience. So not only the back end in terms of tools for agents and then not just QM, QA for quality management, but they're looking at analytics in a unique way, and then really looking at the front end. I was like, wait a minute, if we can improve what's happening on the call or in the chat, we have some analytics, how do we then improve that front end self -service experience that a lot of customers are looking for? When we think conversational AI, we think of that front end, but it really blows throughout every part of the interaction a customer has with any brand that they're talking to. Interesting. Definitely get into analytics shortly, because it's definitely a topic well worth exploring and underexplored, actually, in lots of cases, I think. So you were a customer service agent, so you're answering phones at one point 20 years ago, you said? Yes, so I know the pain. I did it for three years, and I understand the sort of strain that happens with that in terms of you have to be efficient, you have to hit certain metrics, you get rated on how you're doing on a daily basis, sometimes weekly, in terms of did you do the opening welcome call, did you do all of the authentication, and then on top of that, did you upsell, cross -sell. So there's a lot that a customer service agent actually has to know and manage in one time, and the idea that for so long they were just doing it on their own is fascinating, and I think it's a great training ground for anybody that then later on wants to go out professionally into any role. I speak to myself like the reason why I have comfort speaking at all times in any medium is partially because of that experience. Yeah, and that's evident because I sprung on you that this was actually going to be a live broadcast about 10 minutes ago, and so adaptivity is also something that you learned there. It's interesting because we had the conversation with Sham Aziz from Selfridges last week on the podcast, and it touched on these exact issues, not issues, but these exact points, which is that having that foundation in customer service, answering calls, speaking to customers, teaches you so much about business in general and gives you a load of foundational skills that you can use for everything else beyond that. And in fact, Sham was saying that he thinks that spending time in customer service should basically be either an apprentice or a mandatory requirement of entering the workplace in general because of how much value there is to be learned there. Completely agree. There's actually a company I know based here in Canada, regardless what level you are, when you join the company, two weeks of the sort of onboarding is that you actually need to either take calls or need to do side -by -side shadowing of the customer success team, so you have a strong understanding of the customer base, their pain points, what the company actually does, regardless if you work in finance or if you work on the tech team. Yeah, exactly. I agree with that. And the other thing we were talking about is how customer service as a job isn't what it was kind of assumed to be before, which is like, so growing up and going to college, going to uni or whatever, at that kind of age between 16 to 20, early 20s, lots of friends had jobs in call centers and stuff like that. And it was always seen as a similar kind of job to working in a corner shop, which I used to do, or working in a bar, which I also used to do. It's almost like that entry level kind of job for lots of people. But the conversation I was having with Sham last week was that actually you've just named a load of stuff that customer service agent needs to do. Multiple systems, you need understanding of technology, you need to understand people, you need to have relatively not just thick skin as in not to take offense when you're being shouted at, but also the skills to be able to navigate that negative conversation into a positive conversation, which is a tremendous social skill to be able to have. And so it's kind of like, yeah, although there is these entry level jobs, customer service shouldn't really be one of them because it is quite a complex area. Especially not anymore. I think what's so fascinating is that now they're actually looking for people. So if I look and I think about our client base, our customers are looking for people who actually have post -secondary education and have some sense of being able to absorb a lot of new information because that adaptability and being able to understand what the company does really appeal to that customer, navigate the different issues that they have, maybe transition them into something else that they weren't even calling about. So yes, you resolve their base issues, but can you now maybe upsell, cross -sell them into something? Can you inform them on something new that's coming in the next six months? You're kind of getting that sort of seed planted. There's a number of things now that I look at it as becoming more and more of this professional training ground more so than just entry level. And you could have tiers now within the contact center of like, yes, come in entry level, great way to sort of just get started. But then there's growth potential even before you get to the next levels of supervisor management. And then it helps you if you want to continue throughout that company. Because most companies, if you think of the ones that have contact centers, are large global brands that we're all familiar with. We've all at one point had to call into a contact center because of some issue. And so those companies have fast departments and other areas that that person could work in as well. Mmm. Olya is shouting Shopify on the chat on LinkedIn. I don't know. That's because is Shopify one of the companies that mandates people spend time in customer services when people begin? I don't know. That'd be interesting. I wouldn't be surprised, actually. I know that they do encourage their employees to actually build their own retail store. So I could imagine they might be something similar like that. Just it's the empathy piece at the end of the day. I think the biggest thing, what I find funny actually with all things AI coming into our space is the emphasis on being human. And it's almost like we had to get the reminder that we shouldn't just be going through the motions for the longest time. When it came to customer service contact center, it was like the necessary evil. Like, let's have this thing. Let's make sure people are getting their answers. But now we're stepping back and rethinking it and saying, wait, how can we be more human if all of the other stuff that was like drudgery and time is being handled by the tech? How do we show up to be empathetic, personal, connect, actually build a relationship? And we know that gives you a lot more in terms of what everybody wants. Long -term customer value and pieces like that. Definitely.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 09-26-2023 07:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. U .S. growth both accelerating and surprising to the upside. That's something that's going to change. The U .S. economy in the near term will probably be slowing down. When I look at the bond market, it's pricing in a slowdown. When I look at the equity market, it's not. What people have been doing all year, which has confused me, is sold bonds, but said that they like them. Right now, we're still in the annoyance phase of inflation. That's why we think it will persist. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow, and Lisa Abramowitz. Good morning, everyone. Bloomberg Surveillance, Jonathan Farrow, Lisa Abramowitz, and Tom Kean thrilled you with us on radio, on television. Right there is what we're about. Katie Kaminsky and Eric Davis yesterday each separately, equities and bonds, looking for price down, yield up. Bramo loved Monday, not so much in love with Tuesday. But Lisa, I mean, the toxic stew or brew of the last 48 hours is something. Yesterday was a tipping point moment where we saw yields climb to levels that people didn't think possible. And they basically were all saying that this, we had seen the peak about six months ago, and here we were reaching new post -2007 peaks in the 10 -year yield. And today we're seeing a little bit of a bounce back, but not with conviction. And that raises a question, can we live with these rates? Why are risk assets holding in as much as they are? Yes, you're seeing a bit of softness today. And are we entering a new regime that looks unfamiliar to anything that we have seen over the past 20 years? And I would stagger the data dependency. Yesterday, the 30...
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Recipes for Success
Meet Nichola O'Hara, Digital Business Mentor and Strategist
"Nicola O 'Hara, a digital business mentor and strategist. Nicola knows firsthand that just because you end up on one path in life doesn't mean you have to stay there. After almost 20 years in the corporate world, she liberated herself from a successful career as a leader in learning and talent in banking to become her own boss and hasn't looked back. Now as a digital business mentor and strategist, Nicola helps creative and driven professionals who feel stifled and frustrated by the corporate world to launch a digital business so they can achieve the success and freedom they desire while living their ideal lifestyle. Nicola now spends her time as a digital nomad working between France, the UK or basically any country that has great broadband with plenty to see and experience. If you have a feeling that you want to do something else with your life, then this episode is a must listen. In this conversation Nicola and I exchange our experiences of taking the leap out of corporate into entrepreneurship, living by our values and the limitless potential of being your own boss. We consider the practical tools and mindset shifts needed to make big changes, the power of choice, risk -taking and we also talk about how women can embrace entrepreneurship, how money is not the tool and why it's totally fine to learn and teach at the same time. Let's get started with hearing another uplifting recipe for success thanks to Nicola. Welcome back to another episode of Recipes for Success with me your host Heather Thompson. Today I'm joined by the fantastic Nicola O 'Hara who is a business mentor and strategist helping aspiring entrepreneurs to ditch the nine to five and set up their own digital businesses. Nicola you're very welcome to Recipes for Success. Oh thank you for having me, this is very exciting to be on this podcast. Yeah I'm so delighted and I know we were chatting before we hit record but like we've an international flavour because as a digital nomad you're recording this from France so that's brilliant to have that. That's right sunny France. Yeah we were obviously when this recording comes out the rugby world cup will be in full flow so we were just chatting about that as well but it's fantastic to have you here. Nicola obviously you and I had kind of crossed paths when I was kind of in process I suppose of exactly what you help people with which was to try to leave my corporate career to set up my own business and at the time I so appreciated your guidance and really there was so much that you stood for and your values and your energy that really just aligned so I'm honestly so honoured that you kind of are on the podcast here today and that we can have this chat. Oh no that's so lovely to hear it's so nice I'm always so delighted when I have kind of people I've helped you know who who kind of then go on and start podcasts, start businesses and I sort of see them flourish so and I really enjoyed our conversation back earlier this year and I'm just yeah just pleased to be here. Yeah and it's such a huge leap so I'm kind of curious you know like in terms of the like the leaps that you've made to be this digital nomad you know having this call from France like tell us about your own life path day Nicola. Yeah so I spent you know a 20 year career in corporate so you know like everyone you know I knew sort of growing up went to school university went on then onto a graduate role and then into the the business world and didn't really sort of see any other path than that that was laid out for me I was going to be that was going to be the path and I kind of climbed the ladder did all the things I started off in recruitment then moved up to go into learning and development which I really enjoyed and then I ended up sort of merging the two near the kind of top end of my career where I headed up learning and talent for an investment bank in London so that's kind of a very quick sort of a tour through my 20 -year career in corporate but I got to a point I'm during throughout this episode that I realized that I just didn't want to be it anymore it was frustrating me I felt like I wasn't in the right place I felt like I just had more to give in the world and I thought is this it is this really it now that this is my career even if I get to the you know very pinnacle and keep on going will I be able to you know how will I feel fulfilled and happy and joyful and I just wasn't feeling it there and I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to have my own business one day you know it's one of those things you always say one day I will have that digital business or I will have that business and it was always like oh just one more job just one few more years in corporate and I'll go and do it and yeah and then I you know went went through a few few things happened and then I realized actually you know I am going to go and do
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Amanchukwu (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now, here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. We have a guest on who, man, I don't even know how to start. First of all, I'll try to pronounce his name correctly. John Amanchukwu. I got John correct. I think I got Amanchukwu correct. John Amanchukwu is someone I've come to admire tremendously. He's in North Carolina. He is he's been a pastor for years. He is a brave voice in the midst of the madness, one of the bravest voices. And it's my privilege to have him as my guest for this hour. John, welcome. Hey, thank you so much, Dr. Eric, for having me on your show. You can't call me Dr. Eric because I'm not a doctor, but you can call me whatever you want. Could you call me the Commodore or Admiral? I'd prefer I really prefer that. But no, seriously, you you have been such a brave voice and people have seen you, you know, probably on Instagram reels or whatever. Tell my audience, because this is it's always better when my guest tells the story. But you've been a brave voice speaking out against the. What would be a nice term for it, satanic lunacy of. Profoundly sexual material being given to children in our schools, very tough for most of us to believe that this is happening, but it has been happening. You've been exposing it and you've been bravely speaking against it. So let's just start, John, with how did you get involved in this? At what point did you say I'm going to step up and start confronting these crazy abusers? Because that's what they are, abusers of our children. How did that start for you? Well, I've been involved in this kind of work for the past 20 years. I joined a church in college called Upper Room Church for God in Christ. I joined at the age of 19. And the senior pastor is Bishop Patrick Langwood and senior. And he says that our church is a cause driven church. You know, we believe that there is a cause in Christ. There's a cause in the marketplace for us to bring our biblical world view to it, to engage the culture and to fight against evil and wickedness. Isaiah 520 says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. And so we've just been on the front lines on the abortion clinic issue, fighting against fatherlessness and the black community. And now even with this indoctrination in the public school system, now, some people call it indoctrination and some people call it grooming. But I like to call it mental rape. That's the best way for me to define what has taken place in the public school system. I call it mental rape because it assaults the soul. It stains the brain and it robs children of their innocence. When you put pornographic material in a library and make it accessible for kids, K through 12, a child is going to pick that book up. And I went out to Asheville and spoke about a book entitled It's Perfectly Normal. That book is for kids 10 and up. It's hardcore porn. It's not soft porn. It's hardcore porn. That book gives Hugh Hefner a run for his money. When you open the book, it depicts images of heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. Why do 10 year olds need to see and learn how you should have lesbian sex at the age of 10? That's disgusting. That's evil. It's mental rape. There's an assault taking place upon children, and there's a critical point that's being left out of the equation. And that's the church. The church is not engaging. We need some modern day Karl Barth. We need some modern day Martin Niemol. We need some people who are willing to engage the culture and tell the church, listen, we are not supposed to be co -opted by the state. The state is not supposed to run the church. And when we go into a public school, we have this thing called parental choice. Some call it rights, but I call it parental choice. I call it parental choice because our rights come from God as parents. But choice parents have had the choice and the knowledge of being able to assess and know what's going on in the public school system and to have the freedom and the liberty to push back when there is an assault upon their children. Well, listen, everything you say, I mean, I agree with it violently. I am in churches effectively preaching what you just said in a little different way. But what basically this is called, what you are advocating for is called the technical term is Christianity. This is called Christian faith. If you do not do what what you're describing, if you're not pushing back, if you're not being salt and light in the culture, if you're not being a warrior for truth and speaking against evil, then you are not living out your Christian faith. But there are many, many churches and you and I know about that that do not do this. They don't get involved in this. They say we don't want to be divisive. These are the same people that would say, you know, we don't care if there's slavery happening, as long as it's not happening in my church. That's right. It's complete hypocrisy. And as Christians, we are called to step up. And I keep saying that the Lord has allowed it to get this bad to wake up those who are still sleeping, because what you just described is very tough for me and most people, even to hear that children would be exposed to this absolutely evil stuff. What do you call it if you don't call it evil? This is evil for children to be exposed to these kinds of things. And it's shameful that they're just a handful of brave souls like you speaking against it.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP140 System Hardening at Google Scale: New Challenges, New Solutions
"Hi there, welcome to Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anton Chevakin, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website cloud .google .com slash podcasts. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button. You can follow the show, argue with us and the rest of the Cloud Security Podcast listeners on LinkedIn. Anton, we are talking about what I think is one of the greatest investments teams can make today, which is preventing issues in the first place. Talk about hardening, which is great. Yes, but it's also, some people would say that this is a take from 2002 and now everybody needs a system that has AI and like big data and scale and good UX and not hardening. And to me, this is a fight that would go on because I feel like you're right, yet this take has become unpopular over the years. And this is, I'm not, what do we do with it? Well, I mean, I've never been afraid of being unpopular. If I was afraid of that, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. I think what's interesting here maybe about our guest is he's been doing it for a very long time at Google scale and his metric, his first metric he cited for whether he knows his team is doing a good job or not, I bet our listeners will not guess what it is. And so with that tease of something that doesn't come until 15 minutes into the episode, let's turn things over to today's guest. I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we are joined by Andrew Huang, senior security engineering manager at Google. Andrew, I'm really excited about talking about hardening today because I spend so much time doing threat detection. It's like I'm where hardening has fallen short and I really think most orgs are probably better served by hardening than trying to catch the bad guys after they're already in. So maybe I want to start with a bit of a step backwards in time and ask, you know, when we think about hardening systems at scale today, hardening cloud systems at scale, what's different and what should people who are leading programs hardening clouds keep in mind that's different today than what they know for say the past 20 years? Yeah, great. Thank you. So if we go back 20 years ago, the early 2000s, that was really the rise of the computer worms. You know, we saw first email worms. We had I love you, Melissa virus. Then we saw sort of direct machine to machine worms, Code Red, Nimda, and then we were really hit by SQL slammer and blaster and so on. But these worms had in common is that they were definitely operationally disruptive. They were occasionally mildly destructive, but they were not anywhere near sort of the capacity or the abilities of the viruses we see today. But what they really did was raise the awareness that, hey, we need to invest in basic hardening or our systems are going to get taken down time and again. We have to have good perimeter controls and protection. We have to invest in vulnerability management and patching. We have to do isolation between different workloads so that we don't see lateral movements. So this was really the starting point of sort of hardening industry. We invested in firewalls. We invested in intrusion detection systems, patch management, as I said, and that was really good groundwork. It was effective against these types of sort of broad worms and the things that we were seeing at the time. But year over year, there's been a steady increase in the sophistication of the attacks we have to defend against. And there's been an increase in the impact of those attacks as the attackers have gotten deeper access to our systems and the data that is really important to our businesses and all of the people who depend on us. And so we have to take that into account and continue to modernize our approach to security. Today the threat landscape is complex and the role of the security defender is critical for businesses of all sizes. At the same time, the amount of technology choice we have is ever expanding, and this is creating a number of new attack surfaces that we all have to understand and stay on top of. Cloud, of course, has brought a whole new dimension to this in terms of our understanding of identity and perimeter and the key areas that those are integrated into our business. So one of the ways that I think we all need to stay ahead is we really need to hold to our software vendors, our platform providers, and others, and across our technology supply chain to take a shared fate model with us, where we're really working together to build systems that are securable, but also secure, secure by default, secure in operation. And so that's sort of one of the key takeaways that I'd have is as a community of defenders, we need to work together to make our systems secure. What you just said, shared fate. That's clearly super different, right? There wasn't even cloud 20 years ago, really. So how does maybe, aside from the shared fate and the fact that there's this different relationship between say a cloud vendor versus a I sold you some servers and now you put them in your own rack, how does that change the picture for hardening as well? It starts from let's make sure that we're not having products that come out of the box and have default ways that an attacker could get into them, like having hardened systems that we rely on, whether that is from a software vendor or from a cloud provider is really key. The next is making sure that we are training our people on how to use the systems in a way that is secure. So when we have examples from vendors or examples from partners, that those examples take the security best practices into account and aren't asking people to do things that are short, that are a little easier, but take shortcuts that leave them vulnerable. And then last is where we have a shared platform investing in the security of that platform so it keeps all customers safe. And we don't have to, like there's never going to be as many security engineers as the industry needs that we need to really scale out our approach to security. I think the scale out part is I wanted to kind of drill into a little bit because I vaguely recall the time when kind of the previous era of people being obsessed about hardening of course, when there was a question about sure, you can give me a bunch of config advice and a bunch of things and I can apply it to a server. But once I have to apply them to 5000 servers, suddenly a lot of things change. Nowadays we're not talking about 5000 servers, we may be talking about the millions or if you talk about cloud instances, probably even larger numbers. So what is the magic in scaling the hardening? Because ultimately I still have this possibly misguided view that hardening is easy, scaling it is hard.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: SBF TRIAL 09/25 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. If convicted of wire fraud and or conspiracy charges, FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried will probably spend quite a bit of time behind bars. But there's a good chance the 31 -year -old won't spend the rest of his life in prison. Bankman -Fried's trial tied to the operation and collapse of FTX and its affiliated hedge fund, Alameda Research, kicks off next week. Prosecutors will have to prove that he knowingly lied to his customers or lenders, knew it was wrong, was trying to defraud them, or knowingly worked with at least one other person to try and defraud lenders, customers, or investors. The burden of proof rests on the prosecution's shoulders. The defense team, in contrast, only has to convince a jury that the U .S. Department of Justice didn't successfully make its case that Bankman -Fried violated the law. The charges themselves are committing wire fraud on FTX customers, conspiring to commit wire fraud on FTX customers, committing wire fraud on Alameda Research lenders, conspiring to commit wire fraud on Alameda Research lenders, conspiring to commit securities fraud against FTX investors, conspiring to commit commodities fraud against FTX customers, and conspiring to commit money laundering to hide the proceeds of wire fraud on FTX customers. Of these, only charges one and three, wire fraud on FTX customers and Alameda Research lenders, are substantive charges, meaning the Department of Justice is alleging that Bankman -Fried himself actively committed the crimes. The DOJ in its proposed jury instructions asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to clarify that there is no need to prove that the crime or crimes actually were committed with conspiracy charges unlike the substantive charges. The fraud -related charges are relatively similar, Jordan Estes, a partner at Kramer Levin, told Coindesk. They all involve Bankman -Fried allegedly lying to customers or lenders. The DOJ will focus on the lies and deceit they're claiming he engaged in. Part of this is intent, Estes said. If Bankman -Fried's defense team can prove he didn't intend to try and commit fraud, he may be found not guilty of the charges arrayed against him. The defense's job is to argue that the DOJ did not make its case. With an advice of counsel defense, which Bankman -Fried's attorneys have said they'll make, the argument may be that the FTX founder ran his actions by his lawyers while at the exchange, and they okayed them. The DOJ noted that under federal sentencing guidelines, convictions under the wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy charges each carry a 20 -year maximum prison sentence, while the commodities fraud, securities fraud, and campaign finance conspiracy charges each carry a maximum five -year sentence. Totaled, the original eight charges Bankman -Fried faced—one was later dropped—carried a total sentence of 115 years. Though there's headlines suggesting Bankman -Fried could spend over 100 or 150 years in prison, in reality, he will likely spend nowhere near that much time behind bars should he be convicted. For one thing, even if there's multiple convictions, the sentences are more likely to be concurrent than consecutive. Several lawyers Coindesk spoke to said that Bankman -Fried, if convicted, could spend 10 to 20 years or so in prison, given the severity of the crimes and the estimated losses. Of course, Judge Kaplan has broad discretion, and he will ultimately set the final sentence. Even 20 years is a pretty long time. That's an entire human growing up to adulthood, or greater than the amount of time it's been since the first iPhone was released to its transforming much of society. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Evangelist and the Church
"At the In your outline at the top of the outline that I will read when we get there I'm going to intersperse those throughout the message those verses and in a couple other ones Christ Bible Church has been involved with over these many years that we've been in existence quite a few evangelistic opportunities in In the corporate life of the church Very early on we were involved with the Bay Area Rescue Mission going there. We still are We have had individuals who have gone street preaching Prior to the pandemic for almost 20 years we were involved with two prisons State prisons San Quentin and Jamestown prison where a couple times a month Several of us would go later once a month, but but always there for almost 20 years I see several people who helped at the Chinese New Year's Parade where we went there to hand out tracks had quite a big turnout to hand out tracks there the gospel fest of course our brother Gerard who in addition to street preaching goes over to Cal Berkeley on a regular basis of several times a week and Today we have it turns out we have another evangelistic opportunity that we're going to talk about in the subsequent business meeting and The message is really tailored to that Issue and so the message is going to kind of be narrowly focused on the idea of evangelism Obviously, there's much to say about evangelism, but I'm going to be very Narrowly focused and you can see from your outline in the bulletin That we have two points. We're going to talk about the role of the evangelist in the life of the church and then we're going to talk about the church or the role of the church in the life of the evangelist and Though the message is quite maybe narrowly focused it it has Application I believe to all of us not just to what we want to talk about at the meeting So in the first place this morning We're going to look at these four a sub points as we think about the role of the evangelist in the life of the church We're going to talk about the existence of this role or the stated role secondly the need Thirdly the example of Philip the evangelist and as we trace through the life of Philip the evangelist, we're going to see several characteristics or traits about this evangelist What makes an evangelist what do they do? How do they act? What do they think and Then fourthly under this point. We're going to look at some precepts For evangelism that we're gonna gonna kind of broaden our thinking a little bit about this and then secondly and more briefly We'll talk about the role of the church in the life of the evangelist first of all the role of the evangelist in the life of the church Before we talk about a very specific Spiritual gift or calling or role We acknowledge that the whole idea of evangelism is really broadly stated especially in the New Testament actually Throughout the Bible but but especially in the New Testament If we were to try to come up with a very simple definition of what an evangelist is We would say it is simply someone who brings the good tidings of the gospel The good news of the gospel glad tidings of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ They're a messenger with the good news of the gospel One of my favorite verses That illustrates this definition is in Luke chapter 2 where those angels appeared to the shepherds by night Remember those shepherds were very fearful and the angel said simply this fear not Behold I bring you good tidings That word in the original is almost identical to the word evangelist.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from BITCOIN REVOLUTION | TUCKER CARLSON & JAVIER MILEI MAKE HISTORY
"We don't see lugar a ludas, esta nueces una taria para tibios, esta nueces una taria para córdes, esta nueces una taria para los politicamente correntos. Xo no me me ti yaca para estar y ando córderos. Xo me me ti yaca para despastar de odres. ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! When you think of Argentina you might envision tango, soccer, or maybe a juicy steak, but today it's all about a wild surge in bitcoin advocacy and a man whose opposition to statism might be louder than a wake -up call from Frankie. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM That's right, baby. Wake the f 'up and get on the Freedom Train. We get a lot of s*** to cover. Let's get it! I think that it can be my moment. Because as we have seen, we are in all of them. And we are not one of them. This is what we are in all of them. Because we are going to do everything, and we are going to take care of everything in the world. Yes, to be able to build Argentina properly. A liberal Argentina. An Argentinian people. An Argentinian that is going to build the borders of the world. And yes, in 35 years, we will be able to build the first global potential. So yes, effectively, I am going to be in politics. be Will it Teresa? Míle he is right. Míle? Míle, he is right. farm. go I'm gonna ahead and start with this go ahead and take a look down there 339 .8 million views and I want you to put that in perspective so when I said that you know these bit corners just made history well they're both advocates and it just became the most watched interview in history now Tucker's last interview with that orange guy yeah Trump that set the record and beat Oprah's former record with her interview with Michael Jackson and it appears Tucker Carlson is going full Eminem breaking a record every time he drops a record right now what this really had me thinking is the fact that well you know Joe Rogan gets like 11 million views he's the number one podcaster in the world Tucker was the number one show on Fox News and all mainstream media and he was getting about three four million views I'm putting that in perspective he's gone independent and he's got 340 million views blowing everyone out of the water talking about well look at this Argentina's next president and this guy is winning big -time you saw those crowds who is he well Tucker traveled to Buenos Aires to speak to him and find out and we of course hear it simply Bitcoin have covered Malay quite a bit but very exciting stuff an amazing conversation very base and before we get into that now Malay you got to understand they kind of do language a little different right so when he uses the the terms liberal he's referring to classical liberal like Bastia which is closer to libertarianism or anarcho capitalism if you'd like to say and when he refers to anything like socialism or communism of course they're all the same thing all statism and that's really the point that he's driving home is the fact that it's freedom versus the state and I love it until you fix the money for example a lot of Western democracies went full tyrannical regimes over the past few years and they're supposed to be democracies with representative government that is supposed to work in your best interest but I think we know the truth well let's get to it we're in downtown Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina this was once about a hundred years ago one of the richest cities in the world and you could tell as you walk around the fated grandeur of a once great city but this is now a desperate country its economy is in shambles has been for a long time Argentina famously defaulted on his debt more than 20 years ago but now hyperinflation has made this country genuinely desperate you see when you have dinner here in restaurants and people pull out bricks of local currency the peso to pay it feels like Weimar or Zimbabwe but it's not this is a developed country that's moving backwards at high speed and because of the frustration that has built up among the population particularly among poor people a man called Javier Miele is poised to become its next president he's a former soccer star goalie a performer in a Rolling Stones cover band and a libertarian economist he's not a libertarian in the traditional American sense he wouldn't fit into the Cato Institute he's libertarian in the traditional sense he believes people should have the maximum amount of freedom they can be given which is a lot much more than they now get in Argentina he has moved from basically nowhere in the last several years to become maybe the most famous person in this country the election is next month in October and once again it seems like he's likely to win he himself is a Bitcoin enthusiast right he jetted off to Argentina not for steak not for soccer but to meet the rock star economist and fellow Bitcoin advocate Javier Miele why do you think from your perspective you've become a man with no political background so popular so quickly in this country that in a cable con el hecho de que ese de huador de football a mismo tiempo ese do cantante rock -and -roll y ademas a soy economista y creo que esa combinación es una combinación attractive en terminos de producto televisivo pero por otra parte lo que también es importante el tema de las cídeas y argentina a pasicamente es un país que se va cien años abraçando las cídeas socialistas y entonces la revelión natural del sistema era ser libérales y es por eso que la revelión natural la parece siempre los jovenes y los jovenes encontraron alguien que man Miele from an 18 % poll prediction grabbing a 29 % victory in the primaries Miele maybe is unpredictable as a Bitcoin price chart and with hair that's probably more talked about than the latest thing what is that now like men in black aliens in Mexico or something and the guy is very based he's just gonna say what he thinks what he feels but Miele's boldness isn't limited to just critiquing the state but he also questioned the Pope talked about advising the orange guy and has many times advocated for Bitcoin is the future of financial freedom in short Javier Miele is making waves the Pope the current Pope is from Argentina I would think he would support you he has instead criticized you and you've called him a communist why the disconnect bueno primero porque el papa juega politica vente a si luma some papa donde tiene forte Ingenencia política ademostrado además una granda finidad con dictadores como Castro o como comaduro si restar el lado de de dictadores wait I'm sorry Raul Castro's a murderer si if you got to the minute at Rocesino but the Pope you believe the Pope has an affinity for Raul Castro si exacto si decho no los condena si repatante condescending de conesos y esta mien condescending de con la dictadora venesolana a si el condescending de con todos los discuiras a un cuando se verdaderos criminals toco el esos un problema prudemas es a lien que consider a que la justicia social un elemento central de desu vision y eso es muy complicado porque la justicia social case robar el fruit su trabajo una persona y dar ciudad otra en dos es implicado dos cosas una es un robo y el problema es que el robo esta encontra de lo que seniela los días mandamientos si ha valar la justicia sociales ha valar el robo por otando son problema de que está violando los días mandamientos el otro problema es que es un trato decíbal friende a la ley now me and myself I'm kind of against protectionist policies but Malay on the global stage he has a clear stance no deals with status so china lula unless it's about decentralized money of the future bitcoin probably don't bother knocking you've said that as president of argentina you will not do business with china de cho no solo no via certain negocios con china no via certain negocios con nimún comunista esir habar yo soy un defensor de la libertad de la paz y la demogracía lo comunista no entranay but also incredible beyond the politics and probably his bitcoin price checks who is this Javier Malay at heart well one thing he's a man whose phone screensaver is joy has no end and is as passionate about freedom the austrian economic community as he is about bitcoin and decentralization no no no no no no when you talk about and live according to your conscience you don't have me because you know what is the definition of this personal me you know that when you are in the last moment or when you are in the constant pressure of being big you know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? This will pass all over your life.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Swan Private Macro Friday with Steven Lubka, Sam Callahan, John Haar, and Terrence Yang - September 22nd, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. This is like a rabbit hole, but, you know, posture is a very interesting topic because there's lots of studies out there that show that actually fixing posture doesn't do absolutely anything to preventing pain. So you could say posture is a shitcoin. The best way to fix your posture, I think, is just sell your chair. So, Sam, I've been doing a muscle activation technique, which is basically a realignment of your nervous system, I guess, so you have a bunch of different muscles that help your joints to mobilize your joints, and oftentimes we get micro injuries and some of these slow twitch deep muscles stop working and then your body compensates, of course, by utilizing other muscles around that muscle group or within that muscle group to compensate, and sometimes those muscles start refiring again and sometimes they don't. And so I've been doing this thing called muscle activation technique, and my posture has actually improved because this technician has gone through and ensured that all of these muscles that are around these joints for mobility and range of motion are activated. And I feel I actually it's almost like magic. It's just really weird thing because you don't really you can't really tell what's going on because you don't really feel a lot of these muscles individually. But after doing this for about 10 sessions now, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. My posture is better. It feels like my body is working in much better than it has in the past. And it's really been it's really and he and he actually and people have noticed my posture getting better. And it's just a really it's it's probably the best health care money because he doesn't take insurance or anything. It's probably the best health care money I have spent in the last 20 years. Wow, that's quite an endorsement. Well, that's great. Happy it's up for you. Muscle activation techniques. What's up, Terrence, Dom, good morning. Yeah, I've been working on my posture, too. I look back at like old bull market charts, Bitcoin, and then in my posture, I like puff up and my everything kind of comes much better. I just have to go on internal team videos, watch my great colleagues, Steven Lubka and put them. Sometimes they look the same to me because they have the exact same posture and they're the same height. But yes, that's always a good reminder to improve my posture. That is true, as you learn about Bitcoin and you stop watching every single five minute candle staring at the chart and just stop worrying and go outside and start learning about other things, start learning about the network, reading books, the posture improves. So there's a little benefit there. Dom, yeah, I saw you make an announcement about the proof of workforce. Congratulations. Pretty cool. You want to tell us a little bit about it? Yeah, thanks, Sam. I got a little background noise because I'm on the big red. But yeah, really awesome to get that thing up and going. We put it, we tweeted out our board, which is, in my opinion, an unbelievable board of directors, including, I see in the audience, the one, the only Joe Carlasari. So I got mad BJ Dictor sound effects. I got my BJ Dictor sound effects loaded up right now. So, yeah, no, just doing great stuff, doing some great work, really excited for it and excited to talk more about it at Pacific and connect with anyone who's looking to bring Bitcoin to workers and unions and other membership based organizations. So really cool stuff. And yeah, man, super pumped. Yeah, I think it's a super cool nonprofit just working for, to educate people about Bitcoin, these unions, these pensions. Congrats on getting that off the ground. I think it's a really important effort for the next bull market to kind of start protecting workers and their future retirement. So with Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a tough group to crack sometimes. And it really helps, you know, was thinking about like, what's the best model and the nonprofit model being able to come in with no product? No, like, hey, sign up here. Like, hey, here's the cards on the table. We want to help you figure out how this works with your organization, whether that's just education, whether it's adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, you know, enabling lightning payments for your members, you know, whatever that is, we just want to provide the tools and then let them kind of find their way on their own. Yeah, probably use the Nakamoto portfolio. That's a great tool right there. It's going to help a lot. Check it out. Nakamoto portfolio dot com. Play around with those tools. Extremely powerful. Yeah, that's a great tool for sure. Kind of pivoting a little bit, but like. Did you guys see that video of the guy getting his engagement ring back on like a reality TV show and then saying, you know, oh, that's a Bitcoin. That was hilarious. I could play it for you if you want. Yeah, why don't you play it? Vanderpump rules, right? You're still wearing your engagement ring, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm going to give it back to him. Do you want to know? I mean. Don't give it back. No, I'm not going to keep it right here. Thank you. That's a Bitcoin. I love that so much. It's like every Bitcoiner thinks that you start like pricing in everything in Bitcoin. It really does become your unit of count in your head. Once you give the girl the ring, don't take it back. Yeah, you're going to want to make sure you're. You're positive on that one. Another reason not to put data on the base layer, right, like marriage certificates. I kind of think the days of expensive engagement rings and expensive weddings are going to end fairly soon with housing affordability at all time lows and so forth or in all time lows for at least for decades. You mean because diamonds are a shit coin and they dump them in the in the ocean off of the coast of South Africa? Yeah, basically, I think it's already the demand is already down, but it needs to kind of die a permanent death. I think the greatest marketing campaign ever. Yeah, diamonds are a rabbit hole. Like I'm going down that rabbit hole, the De Beers company and how they control a monopoly on the entire supply. And it was a huge marketing campaign. And there's no scarcity there. Girls aren't going to want to hear that, but only it's only for certain only for certain sizing and color. But yeah, then there's like these lab diamonds, right, that you can't even tell the difference now that are better. Yeah, I'm not going to get one of those, but they're shit coins. There's no scarcity to them. And they're wow. Really, Sam? It's progressed that far. You're already thinking about a ring. Congratulations. You heard it here first on Cafe People. I wouldn't go that far, Peter, right? But if I was, there's no way I'm going to get her a lab diamond. I saw this video of somebody like in the front row of an NBA game. And I guess there's like a gun that you could check rings to see if they're lab grown or they're regular. And they were going down looking at the big rocks of these celebrities. And this guy, his wife's ring, and then it shines red that it's a lab diamond. And she just gets so pissed off and throws it at him and runs out of the game. Whoops. Rug pull. Rug pull. Or that gun was inaccurate. Because again, you're like trusting the third party source. That's the whole point of bringing it back to Bitcoin. But that's the whole point of Bitcoin is you can self verify that you got real Bitcoin from whoever sent you Bitcoin because you're running your own node. Whereas with whether it's gold or diamond, like the Chinese got swindled for billions of dollars. I think of fake gold bars that were actually tung sun and just gold plated. I like how quickly you think on your feet, Terence, but I don't think she's going to buy it. Yeah. Terence is like, oh, did you think about the gun? It was the gun, bitch. It was the gun. Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So a friend of mine, actually, this is timely. A friend of mine just bought a lab grown diamond and he paid 1500 euros for it. It was 3 .07 carats. And a traditional diamond would have cost about 50 grand. So it's completely destroyed the price of diamonds, man. That's insane. Yeah. Over three carats. And it's chemically, he showed me the certificate is chemically identical. It's still got slight flaws in it, but they literally just they're basically just printing diamonds now. Right. So they've become dollars. I thought it was funny. That's hilarious. The stock to flow is going down for diamonds. Anyway, his wife, she's delighted. She's got a $50 ,000 diamond around her neck. Does she? Got to get one of those guns around here. So check out, check them all. Yeah, I'm intrigued about that gun because what he was saying to me was that he said chemically, they're identical. So I'm not sure what the gun's doing to identify it being a... They find the flaw, right? Because natural diamonds have flaws. So if it's natural, there's going to be a flaw. It's inevitable. You can't see it, but you can see it under like a magnifying glass or whatever. Well, I saw the certificate of this lab grown diamond and it had flaws in it as well. Oh, wow. Yeah, they artificially create the... Yeah, Chris, did you verify that there was a flaw? That's a valid point. I mean, I did trust. I didn't verify. So I stand called out. Yeah, a lot of Bitcoiners are pretty hesitant to separate with their sats. But I think a white is a good investment. That's when you know you got a keeper. Like I was going to buy you a diamond ring, babe, but instead I stacked into cold storage for us. For us. Sam, you might have something there. A ring that's a self -custody hard wallet. You might be something there, dude. I'm actually seeing... I remember in 2017, I saw rings and watches with like little tiny QR codes in them. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a lot of your Bitcoin on a ring or I saw another person with one in a necklace. So there are like things like that. It's not great security. It reminds me of how like in India and stuff, they wear their gold. You know, they keep it around their neck and wrists just because it's the safest place to be. I mean, I guess if it's just a receiving address, you know, I mean, somebody could hold me down and track it down and figure out and whatever. But I mean, you know, that could be your diamond ring. You know, instead of the diamond up there at the crown, throw a QR code up there. Just be like, babe, you're going to be stacking. We're going to stack for the rest of our lives together now. We're going on a stacking journey together. How do you carry across the border more than $10 ,000 in value without having to report it? You wear it. Or Bitcoin. I have friends who move tens of millions of dollars or millions of dollars of their net worth, like 90, I don't know, 98 % plus of their total net worth to leave China, leave South Africa, come to the U .S. and never go back. And at the time, at least, they were too dumb to stop them or even question them. We just left, one -way ticket. Yeah, the fact that Bitcoin is digital and that anybody can escape like an authoritarian regime or war with some of their wealth, you know, that's when you think about like the ESG narrative and even like KPMG report talked about the S and how that characteristic of Bitcoin really helped people in really tough situations and think about how else they would do that and kind of realize that like Bitcoin is a solution there to a problem. And BlackRock and State Street are closing up ESG funds as we speak, which is, I think, a positive development. Yeah, I kind of reject that entire framing. I think it's led to a lot of misallocation of capital and kind of influencing boardrooms about how they invest their capital kind of impeding free markets. Yeah, ESG is a control scheme. I mean, we've seen that, but what are you talking about about BlackRock shutting down ESG funds? I don't know about that. Yeah, BlackRock and State Street have just been closing ESG funds in 2023, kind of shutting them up. And that's a reversal of the trend over the last couple of years. And BlackRock, Larry Fink, I mean, in the early 2010s kind of spearheaded a lot of these efforts, really gung ho about ESG. The last couple of years, they've seen a ton of pushback. And now we're kind of seeing them close up ESG funds. And I feel like we're seeing a shift in sentiment around the entire movement because I think people are realizing that like, A, some of these goals are completely untenable. And then secondly, you're hurting the poorest countries amongst us, like the developing nations, by preventing them from accessing cheap energy sources. And you're really making us weaker and less resilient by shutting down oil, gas, and fossil fuels. And so you're seeing a ton of pushback on it. And so BlackRock and State Street are starting to shut down ESG funds. It's just kind of like a flag post in my mind of this ESG narrative that was so, so strong the last decade. I don't know if anyone else has opinions there, but... Yeah, the only thing I have to say is I feel like Larry Fink kind of jumped on the bandwagon somewhat later after the ESG narrative got a lot of traction. Then he kind of added fuel to the fire, which is a huge name and was very outspoken. My point is he's added fuel to the fire. He didn't start the fire, but he kind of... So he's a politician ultimately, right? Like he's very political, even though he knows finance. To a manage massive fund that manages, I don't know, $9 .6 trillion or whatever, you have to be political and you have to read the tea leaf, so to speak. And yeah, react to the times. I think the exception would be somebody like Vanguard that might do a lot less in terms of ESG or jumping on the latest trendy whatever, because they're so focused on index funds and they're member -owned. This was not an ad for Vanguard, but... I just remember Larry Fink writing... And I just remember it made a lot of waves and kind of definitely added fuel to the fire, like I said, Terrence. So they shut down two dozen ESG funds this year, just to give some stats there. Yeah, I wish I could say like, you know, oh, maybe they really are being orange -filled and whatever, whatever. But it's probably like you said before, I mean, like ESG stuff, it's untenable over time and you get to a point, it probably just isn't profitable. I don't know than any of this, any of what I'm talking about, but just I'm just going off a gut, like the ESG stuff is unprofitable because the economics don't work. We've talked about that. You can look at the windmills and the solar panels as perfect examples of that. But I mean, just the overall thing, there's a good book, I've talked about it before, called The Prize. And it talks about the control of energy on the planet and how there are groups that seek to control other groups through the narrative of controlling what type of energy you're using, what is acceptable energy use, all of this stuff. But in the end, if you're going to try to make like, you know, bets and gambles off of this stuff, like you're going to have to pull your rug early because it's not, at some point, the economics don't work. Well, not to mention too, you know, it's the trend of like having an ESG report for a company. I want to see some of these companies that are like, you know, Nike's ESG report, which I don't know the details, you know, but you know, there's some low wage labor being done. And then, you know, you got this shiny ESG report that's like, you know, sustainability, we've done this and ethically, we've done this. And also, you know, behind the curtain, we've got this going on too. Yeah, I mean, it trickles all the way down, even now, like in web design, web development, like if you want your website to rank well on Google and whatever, then, you know, you have to build your site, you have to have that in your mind while you're building your site. You have to make sure that it's going to be well received by Googlebot and, you know, all these other stuff. And one of the things that they've been pushing is how ESG friendly is your website? Like your, the processes that it runs and, you know, are you doing it correctly and coding it correct? There's more than one way to code. And, you know, it's like, man, okay, I understand the idea, like, make your website work more efficiently. Like, of course, duh, like, that's what we're doing. But Google of all people to tell me about energy use of a web platform? Come on. Yeah, Chrome is pretty bad. Yeah, go ahead. I was orange peeling and no, I was I was just like at insurance, kind of talking to them about Bitcoin. And it was a bunch of claims professionals and lawyers. They were very like, you know, obviously, these are like super risk adverse cohort of investors. And so we were there just like talking Bitcoin as like the weird Bitcoiners at this conference. But I found out that 90 % of them take into account ESG when they're thinking about investments today. And that's in the most recent Goldman survey. So 90 % of insurers consider ESG when making capital allocations today. And at the same time, their number one worry in that survey was inflation. And so it's one of those things where I don't want to give credence to the framework. But it's so ingrained in some of these like traditional capital allocators minds that maybe just by playing into it and saying like, well, here's how Bitcoin is actually, you know, quote unquote, ESG and just kind of like Trojan horse in it through their their silly framework is the strategy that I took. And it kind of kind of went well. I kind of like said, like, although I reject this entire framing, here's why Bitcoin actually kind of achieves your goals. That's kind of the tactic that I took.
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A highlight from Cybersecurity attack on MGM may have begun with a ten-minute phone call: How it happened, Special Mutare Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well -prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30 -year -old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're agile a company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long -form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non -integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So are there things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
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"People. Don't freak out about this language it's relates to the incident and there's broad authority related the incident it does not relate to all terrorism every place. 'cause we're just talking about al qaeda who did this and the taliban who have harbored them right. Nope not necessarily gregory johnson again over time. What's happened is there's been this other sort of catchall category that has been read into these sixty words even though it appears nowhere in these sixty words and that catch all category is associated forces associated forces. Yeah what we've been calling these sixty first and sixty second words. Russell don't it. Is we define the enemy as kaieda taliban and associated forces. It's a whole different ballgame. Yeah so when you read those those all those words it did not include the phrase associated forces is nowhere in the text. So where does why could people site. Something that isn't in your. This is one of the enduring mysteries of this so the earliest example that we can find of those. Two words is in two thousand and four memo from deputy secretary of defense paul wolfowitz. He finds the enemy as al-qaeda taliban and associated forces. But the truth is it may have just been there from the beginning. Because according to ben witness from the brookings institution there is a concept in the laws of war. Called co belligerency. It's the idea that if you're at war with person a and person b. is on personnel is side in the war you're also legally at war with person. B makes perfect sense if think in traditional war terms because like we're at war with germany. Italy joins their side so by default were at war with italy. too right. so just transpose. That here if we're at war with this group called al-qaeda and a certain set of groups that aren't them join the war on al-qaeda side then you are legally at war with them. If you don't think about that too hard is crystal-clear but then the question that has arisen over time is how broad do you make that that circle because the problem obviously is. We're not talking about nation states anymore. We're talking about groups show okay. How close does the link to al-qaeda and the people who carried out september eleventh have to be so if you have someone who's connected to someone who's connected to someone who's connected to someone who is connected to september eleven is that enough or is it only three leagues or can you be an associated associate. Now we can't exactly know how. Broadly the obama and administrations have defined those words. We'll talk about why in a second but you just have to look at the news and you could see that we started with a war that was in afghanistan and then spread to a lot of different places pakistan. Libya somalia yemen. Yeah and in yemen. There's a lot of debate in a lot of discussion about like. Is this legal. Does this have anything to do with september eleventh anymore. Because now the group in yemen al- qaeda in the arabian peninsula which is a group that that was first formed in two thousand nine. They have their own hierarchy in their own structure in. It's not clear how in what fashion they take orders from either osama bin laden while he was still alive for now i am another one. Hurry so does this make them an associated for so does it make them part of al qaeda the answer at least on good morning everyone. It is friday. September thirtieth two thousand eleven mark down on your calendars denver. Thirty twenty seven seemed to be. Yes when the us assassinated two members of the group this was not confirmed yet but it could very well have been a us predator drone strike. That is a us. Government attack presented put all this in context between two thousand and two and two thousand fourteen. According to some estimates there have been about sixty five drone strikes in yemen killing about four hundred people so much hinges on how you define those words so much is in the definition. I asked the pentagon said who. What are the list of associated forces so al qaeda yes the. Us war that's clear. What about the other groups l. Shebab al-qaeda and iraq al Grab armed islamic group. Abu say of jimmy as amelia brotherhood of this brotherhood of that. Who are these groups who is the us at warwick and the pentagon emailed me back and they said that list is classified an offer public release so we who we are at war with. He don't know i great. So you're saying when you approach the pentagon they say that they they will not tell you. The names of the people were at war against. We'll maybe they shouldn't. It'd be that valuable well. They don't you know as a citizen of america who were fighting on the other hindu. I want to know as the as if the united states has determined that. I am dangerous to it if it announces then that would give me a certain amount of Notice which may perhaps would be disadvantageous. To the united states. it could also though act as a disincentive for you to take action baby but maybe not maybe they will just get quieter more dangerous. I mean it's true. There might be reasons for. They have not wanted to provide a public list because they this is john bellinger one. The group's move all the time. And so if you say well. These are associated groups while then certain people just moved from group to group b and they also want to leave these different groups guessing but it still raises democratic concerns. If the american people don't really know who the executive branch believes is covered by the a. f. in democracy and in a representative democracy that has to be weighed out. Should the citizens of the united states know who it is that the united states is targeting for death around the world who it is that the united states is technically at war with should war be decision that the citizens of a democracy of a representative democracy have a say. We're a representative democracy as you just said so. I'm assuming that the chairman of the house intelligence committee knows every item on that list. Sure warning everybody. That committee meet today to receive testimony on the law of armed conflict. One of the more interesting senate hearings took place in early two thousand thirteen putting the status of the two thousand and one authorization for the use of military force the a. m. f. It was the senate armed services committee. Senator karl levin of michigan chairman of the committee senator mccain is on the committee like to welcome our witnesses and greg says the senators called the couple of defense department officials to answer questions members. Committee thank the opportunity to testify about the legal framework for the us military operations to defend nation. Because they wanted to know like now that we're twelve years into this war. How are you using. This document does need to be changed so the department of defense officials and there were four of us came and said look. I believe that existing authorities are adequate for this armed conflict. Don't revisit this sentence. don't repeal it. This sentence is sufficient. It gives us all the power that we need against al qaeda and associated forces as they're laying out their case they say those two words associated forces associated forces associated forces over associated forces and over and associated force and associated forces in associated force and their associated forces associated for associated forces instead of just nodding along a lot of the senators are like what gentleman i've only been here five months but this is the most astounding and most astoundingly disturbing hearing that i've been to since i've been here. You guys have essentially rewritten the constitution here. Today that's angus king independent senator from maine and you keep using the term associated forces. You use it thirteen times in your statement that is not in the m. f. and you said at one point it suits us very well. I assume it does suit you very well. Because you're reading it to cover everything and anything. But one of the most striking moments of this hearing when the head of the committee senator carl levin.
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"And then as soon as president bush steps down everyone in the congregation stands up and they they sing the battle hymn of the republic which is a very powerful. Very moving Piece of music. But it's not the sort of thing that is typically sung at a memorial service. It's a. it's a very forward and almost aggressive sounding as the phrase terrible swift sword. Yeah.
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"The wall street journal and the new york times this week noticed and commented on a really remarkable trend in american higher education colleges which have been increasingly dominated by women are increasingly. Women are are are prevalent in on college campuses. This is become extreme in the past. five years. women are now sixty percent of college students. They earn well more than sixty percent of degrees because men drop out at higher rates and most alarmingly men are vanishing from campuses at a stunning rate. So they're one point. five million. Few were college students overall. There were five years ago and of that one point. Five million who've who vanished almost three quarters more than a million of them are men by almost any measure who was graduating with honors. Who is enrolling. Who's getting the merit scholarships who is leading student governments. Who is doing. Who's who's leading student body. Women are far ahead on college campuses now. The times had an interesting piece this morning pointing out that even with this drop in male enrollment however many still go to college at a much higher rate than they did a generation ago so there's been overall trend up of college enrollment for everybody so even though there's a drop a drop on a higher base. Emily what are the reasons that women are doing so well in college and men appear to be doing so much worse man. This is such a tricky topic because it plays right into gender stereotypes rate. I mean i'm wanna trot so first of all. I feel like we don't really know the answer but i want to try out some explanations about how you know. School in some ways plays to some of the average girl strengths. You have to sit down. You have to pay attention. You have to behave yourself especially for younger kids that those can be things that for. Some boys are more difficult. And i also wonder. If in this call statistic we're seeing some different gender-based signals about delayed gratification. Right i mean if you go to college you are putting off making money. You're putting off kind of starting yourself off as a full adult in the world and maybe there is a way in which that is something that girls still have an easier time doing boys when i was reading about this one of the explanations was that boys felt a responsibility to help take care of their families during covert and so they wanted to go and work at the age of eighteen. But i don't see why that would apply any less two girls that seemed really odd as like a set of assumptions goes especially when you consider all the evidence suggests the opposite. Which is that the people who are taking care of their families co the women so expected the eighteen year old boys to be the ones stepping up. The one thing i wanted to add. This point comes from your levinson. Who's an education professor at harvard. But she's been looking at the status since covert and she says that it's really entry into community colleges and other to your college programs that are down. While entry to four year colleges especially at selective schools has not dropped very much. So that's another indication that what we're seeing here is class and there's a way in which it somehow affecting working class boys in a way that's different from affecting working class girls and again like i. Just find a mystifying. Maybe because it plays into gender stereotypes. And i'm always trying to fight gender stereotypes. We also have a racial if you look at the numbers the asian there is no gap between asian men and women whereas there is this gap between other races so the you can throw that into the mix of complexity here. The ladder to the middle class is comes out of to your community. Colleges and state colleges the places where this is more. this difference is more acute just to underscore your point. Emily about class. Right i mean. Do you think it's possible that boy. You still see a path to blue-collar decently paying jobs that girls don't see that doesn't require college though even yes you're going to say totally yes and secondarily. There's also a reasonable case to be made that for many people it's worth more and makes more sense to go into vocational career based on the way they wanna live their lives and their ambitions for themselves than to go then to go to college. Well that's true about like some four year liberal arts degrees right but a lot of okc. Ed is really well served by a two year degree. And actually you get seriously marketable skills and i actually wonder if boys who are choosing to go straight to work as opposed to doing those programs are really disturbing themselves in kind of diluted about the economy that they're going to again. I just want to emphasize. I'm i'm praising voca ed in this right not arguing that everybody should just like get lots of education for its own sake. There's a few remarkable stats. I wanted to fly. One is white working and poor working. Class and poor men are now enrolled at lower rates and college than black hispanic and asian men at similar economic background which is a real shift. So that's that does suggest there's also maybe trump effect happening here which urban perhaps and it's important to remember the cost to this. I was just doing a little back of the envelope. Calculation so college degrees worth about a million dollars in extra lifetime earnings and if we have lost one point five million people one point. Five million people are not in college who were in college five years ago. Numbers are the decline. Is that stark. Not every one of those people would have graduated. That's true but that's roughly one point five trillion dollars in lost earning in society just from that tiny little shift just from that drop and that's a huge amount of money do right. I'm just gonna play like Devil's advocate bryan. Caplan land here. Who's written a book kind of against education or against higher. Ed for its own sake to just oversimplify his argument. I mean i think one of the things. Critics like him argue. Is that what you're seeing in those statistics credentialing effect. And if you're people have those degrees well then. Employers are going to put more resources into giving them the training in the skills based development they need on the job and we've sort of we keep adding to education without really thinking through its value. I do sometimes wonder about and just attaching to that. Is that what you hear from. A lot of companies corporations is that they have a huge skills gap which means that they are whatever i mean. They're not enough people but also the people coming out of college. Don't have the skills that they need for their workers. But i think that's true. Sorry go ahead. Venture i did. I mean emily. That's then you don't think there's an issue at all if that's the case then like let everyone drop out of college. It's not serving people at all. Like why bother but dropping but if they're dropping out of the community colleges and vocational. Ed which is like you're saying that to where the decline in the enrollment is and that's also the point you're saying oh that's where actually get skills that boost you economically than it does. Yeah right. I'm saying to sort of contradictory things. I think fairly. You caught me on that but i guess what if you play out. The critic argument that employers will fill in this gap. If there's less of the valuable community college to your program development..
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"But this isn't like that as economists explain it then. The question is okay. Yeah but jeez do we. Does america really want to go into greater debt. Well debt ain't what it used to be. The republican party said almost zero and based on where they had been they said negative amounts about the debt when donald trump was ballooning the debt. So it's obviously not something there that worried about so when they suddenly become worried about it again when it becomes a democratic president. Then it's obviously not something they really care about. They're using it just as a tool and we'll be effective. It would be really nice to have that debate out loud and the final point is the one bernie. Sanders has made for a long time. And we'll it gain new currency which is when the banks wanted to get bailed out. Nobody said oh the deficit. That's not exactly true. Some people in fact in the house. Republicans voted against tarp but by and large waco. Yeah by and large did fail in the house. I so to be fair. There are some people but by and large when when moneyed interests are on the chopping block. They find the money and so the argument is when caregivers and those who need help with two years of college are asking for some help and this is this is help interior to sustain the economy and built growth in that kind of thing. They somehow get get the short end and does that has. That argument changed post pandemic. When so many of the cracks in the american social structure were illuminated by the pandemic right. We've exacerbated inequality so vastly that you would think that the sanders argument would resonate. But maybe it won't. I mean listening to you. Makes me think john that one obvious target for mansion would be renewable energy funding. Because that would play well at home And i i can. I ask like a very mean spirited question which has been nagging at me even though like it is very scrooge like so one of the provisions potentially is to expand medicaid coverage in the states. That have refused to do so right. I mean this goes back to the affordable care act in this very generous offer. Congress made of paying something like ninety percent of the cost for medicaid expansion over a period of years. There were states conservative states. That denied this benefit to their folks. So is this like bad politically because it takes those conservative politicians off the hook. I mean the obvious responses like we'll know because years gone by and people are being denied medicaid benefits and those are poor people and they don't have the majority of votes in the state and like they should get their benefits and you know at this point. These state legislatures and republican governors have failed to provide them and it's time for washington step in but there is this part of me. That just feels like there's a way. In which our federalist system the state politics are let off the hook by washington stepping in here. But it's not as though in those states a- are now possible democratic majorities. Because because of what's happened it hasn't it hasn't been political particular political gain for democrats to to have the republican governors be scrooge lake right. I mean i think the answer is the political power and so they should have their benefits. But like it's a the incentives are misaligned well or it's a admitting defeat in the incentives. Not working so if two million or so. It's got to be more than that. I saw a figure that said to main people would have been a would be affected by having medicated. Need twelve states. That feels feels low to me. Anyway if the millions of people who were denied coverage because of the choices of these governors puts no pressure on those governors. That would seem to be problem in the system and this is just basically accepting that as a problem in the system is sounds like what you're saying hump. I've been spending a bunch of time on home healthcare issues with my parents and it is. It is to me stunning. And they're fortunate. They are in a position where they have money and they have the right kind of insurance and so forth. But it's just it's just such a terrible system if you do not have money or you don't have insurance or both. It's it's almost impossible to get decent home healthcare because the wages are too low and even the wages are not that people working but even if the otherwise. It's just there are very few people who can afford to hire somebody to care for someone who is sick. It's prohibitive totally. And also by the way if you as as we had to if you if you look into medicaid coverage in nursing homes and i mean that is its own disasters and thicket of And the quality of care that you know your beloved parent has to engage in is quite shocking in in what your basic care that they can get in certain institutions having gone through and looked at a lot of this. It's really hard. And the fact that there's not a greater outcry of about that and the low wages and part of this is linked to the low wages for those who work in home health care with these angels. Who with wages are quite low than your times had an amazing piece following along one of the home healthcare workers or maybe she was in a nursing home at now. Can't remember but the jobs are incredibly low paying and the fact that with aging baby boomer parents. There isn't more push for this surprises me. Have you ever wondered how to bargain like an fbi hostage negotiator. What about how to trick your brain into running longer or.
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"And there's paid family leave. There's dental benefits in medicare there's immigration reform. It's got everything in there in the most sweeping sense and the greatest tension here comes we in two places one in the house where moderates wanna pass this infrastructure bill before the big sweeping budget. Bill about nancy pelosi has would like it to go the other way around because she knows that only if you use the leverage of the popular thing popular among members of congress you have to use that as leverage to get the budget through but in the senate. You've got to democrats cinema and mansion. Who don't want to spend three point five trillion dollars on this budget. Maybe they don't even want to spend a trillion and if they don't vote you can't pass it even though you might have forty eight other senate democratic votes for something that just takes fifty votes to get through. The senate to mansion seem to stick a knife in the bill this week. You wrote a wall street journal. Piece saying he wouldn't go for three point five trillion dollars. He called for pause pause while we assess the impact of delta variant and the impact of inflation is it. Is it wise to spend all this extra money. If the economy is overheated is that overheat the economy too much. Do you think emily. This is this is pose that he really is wants it to be a one trillion dollar package. You think this is just him setting up for him to be get five hundred billion cut out of it and then and then claiming victory but still go along with the overarching democratic goal. Here i mean. I guess the ladder but who knows it sort of seems obligatory like his job is to nakal along with what i ask is to set himself up in opposition to progressives. And that's how he both sees his role. I think genuinely and also appeals to his constituents in west. Virginia and then he. He likes spending money right. I mean he believes. I think in a lot of these actual platforms of what they're actually going to do with the money. What i find kind of frustrating about this especially after jamal's points last week about when you spread this money out for ten years it's not actually such a gigantic amount of money. And when you look at what they're actually spending it on. What are the specific objections right. Is this just kind of like you have to knock some of the money out. Because three and a half trillion dollars sounds like a ton of money or is mentioned. Really going in very carefully an editing out the inefficiencies waist which shirley are there somewhere. Because that's how the government operates it's definitely the latter. Emily doubts it like what he wants to take away dental coverage for like some particular person who already has it in some state. Anyway i just write. It just has the sense of like okay. This is what. Joe mansion and christian. Cinema do the senator from arizona and like it feels almost like a scripted. Move your john. John just want to push on that is is mentioned cinemas job to make it as hard as possible to pass the bill but to also ensure that the bill get passed gets passed at a reasonable level or they not really in this as a if feels mansion. Always feels to me like you can analyze him by thinking about like. What would a politician from the nineteen seventies doing right and so he's acting like a regular old politician which is like i'm. I'm just making things difficult. But i'm going to go along with it but i gotta make it really difficult and get as such as possible and then pass it. Is that uh risky a game to play. Well i think just to to so up what. I was rambling on about before. The reason is if something if the only thing that can. The senate is some anemic version of the three point five trillion dollar spending. Let's say it's less than trillion. Then what happens. Is you lose a lot of your liberals people who save doesn't provisions. I want it's not going to pass. And so then you have a situation where schumer and schumer needs a bunch of republican votes. So is he going to get republican votes to pass something with only fifty votes doubtful given the way the republican party works right now so the more republican votes you need and nancy. Pelosi faces a similar challenge. They're more public votes. You need the more you have to give away because the more republicans are going to say. Hey if you want my vote. I want this in the bill and john. Bainer used to complain about this too so it happens in in both parties. I have no idea what senators cinemas motivations are. They're they're pretty amorphous and abstract on mansion. I think you're generally right. I would turn it in this fashion. Which is he has a set of impulses that are driven by his views and also by his voters. He does believe in a lot of these things he he did. During the trump administration push back on all the president trump's efforts to undermining affordable care act. Because he believed in healthcare. I his constituents on the other hand it comes from the second largest coal producing state in the country. The invited environmental provisions are an issue on the question namely raised about specificity versus general. Obviously it's always eat better for for candidates for politicians to raise generalize boogeyman because then they don't get trapped. You know not giving elder care or not giving childcare for families and so forth so this question of the of inflation and the budget will be interesting if it can be argued in public in a way. That isn't deeply stupid is. It's a really interesting debate. This question of inflation is at broad and widespread or is it as a result of pockets relating to the pandemic that has nothing to do with the availability of money. And it'd be interesting to talk out because a lot of people remember inflation in the seventies..
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"Very possible at this is preventing deaths. Come out matters of life or death. We need to be precise. And once again. I wanna say that i. There is a valid critique of people who take this and don't get vaccinated but i would just focus on the not getting vaccinated part of that like forget about this yes the people who are running out to livestock shops and taking the horse version of this. That's tough like that's bad. We said it's like it's tough to steph to keep a straight face when you hear but that is their problem. That is not like you'd need to ask yourself wire upset about that. Are you really worried about that. Person's how do you know that person going at horse place. You know. I was reading about this. Las vegas feed shop. That actually is requiring people to show a picture of their horse but like really. If you're getting worked up over that you need to ask yourself. Are you worried about that person's health or you just looking to have fun. And i'm seeing people like and this is a very common thing among people we really like including some guests to this podcast. Who only talk about this. As a or st warmer and that to me is not honest because that doesn't get at the vast majority of people taking us which be honest. The problem is when we talk about this instead of just talking about the need for people to get the vaccine. It's not because we're having fun. It's because we're feeling superior and that's the problem that is that's where we heard credibility and making the argument. Well there are other issues here that are percolating throughout society. one. I'm the i hear everywhere. I see it on my instagram. I see it on my facebook. Actually hear it in real life. Is this idea that people who are vaccinated are getting coded at the same rate as everybody else. L. teams most successful wide receivers tweets this on a daily basis. And i just wanna go through the data here in this surgical so The case rate for full fully vaccinated people at sixty six her one hundred thousand people case rate for unvaccinated people's two hundred forty three hundred thousand people. So that's four times. Plus amount of people getting cova were unvaccinated and people were vaccinated or fourteen not four but fourteen times less likely to be hospitalized way less likely to die and there was a study published in lancet which is one of the most respected medical journals in the world. That just came out a couple of days ago. I think it was september. First that said that not only is there. A decreased risk of infection and severe symptoms if you get vaccinated but there is a forty nine percent lower risk of what they call long cove. Which is the months or longer version of kobe. Where you get brain fog. Her taste of smell hair loss numbness for many months. I know some people who've gotten covert at the beginning of covert and you're still experiencing symptoms so basically across the board getting vaccinated is an unambiguous. The now to me is like when somebody says this to you. People with you know people still get cova when the vaccinated. It's like well. Yes you can still get in a car accident if you are completely sober and have your seatbelt on but the result is way different. And it's far less likely to happen so maybe just drive sober and wear your seatbelt amen. To that we haven't done this in a while. L. let's do a little quarantine slash..
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"Not too long ago to spend a whole podcast with two of friends to talk about this but this wall to give you some background pass and may but it went into effect last week when the supreme court declined to stop the law. Which i'll get you in a second on. The law essentially says at any pregnancy in which heartbeat is detected cannot be boarded Effectively means that nobody can happen. Past six weeks The really strange and and and terrible thing about this law Is that it incentivizes. The public sue police abortions and allows anyone living in the state of texas who is not a government official to sue an abortion provider. Or anyone else they suspect at aiding and abetting abortions and gives a ten thousand dollar word for that that is really important for a few reasons. Most important be it was crafted to prevent this live from being reviewable by the courts and this is not obvious. Let me explain this or folks. You didn't go to law school or for those who did and might have forgotten a few things that could have been me. I can't figure out why they can't start your to tell me well. Here's what happens when a state passes a law. There's this issue that you you're probably familiar with called standing right like if you want to challenge that allow you have to have standing. And in order to have standing child's estate wa usually you. You can't sue the state itself because there's this concept called sovereign immunity where the state is immune to suit spot. You can sue There's this case from nineteen o eight. That says you can sue an officer of the state who's carrying out the law. So they crafted this law and actually explicitly carve-out. It says any person other than an officer of the state blah sets can enforces law. Very specific language. Essentially saying ordinary citizens can carry out this law but not state officials which means you don't know who suit And that's when the supreme court five four said they're gonna let the law stand. They did say that there had serious questions about the constitutionality of this but were unsure of how to stop it. so essentially. what's happening is. There's nobody is sue right now. Maybe would there. It's actually more complicated an but there's nobody to sue depending on how you look at the law now my sense. Is there too big orcs in the road here. Number one is if this law is actually implemented by any citizen suing another citizen that will trigger litigation and matt's where the constitutional challenges will come from obviously this law being an effect already deterring people from seeking the care that they need which is a huge problem. But it won't be until this law laws actually enforce that people can challenge this particular law. There is an exception to that. We'll talk about that later. The second thing is that there's there is another case in the supreme court about mississippi law. That says you can't get an abortion after fifteen weeks at actually is on the docket or a this fall. Which will at least give us a sense of where the supreme court is heading all is to say. This is a particularly sinister law. There are other states. That are gonna try to copy this. My sense is that this is absurd. And that if if the supreme court allows this particular mechanisms stan than liberals should mimic it on issues that we care about so for example near surpass law. Says there's ten thousand dollar bounty on anyone. And i mean bounty not like in the way that most people interpreted but i mean in this sense for anybody who owns a gun. Why don't we do that. Then start carving out constitutional laws. At know we think will withstand judicial scrutiny. Needs for being really similar right because just like you have sovereign immunity as As a government we have through our stupid legislation. Basically given the equivalent of sovereign immunity just immunity to the gun manufacturers. So it's very similar now. Well it's just another case of republicans playing chess while we play checkers and this comes as brier has declined seems to retire. I mean we've gotta get our should together here. It always seemed. I don't wanna be negative. This is not awful but it always seems like the republicans are the ones coming up with these insane crazy mechanisms to push their world view on the majority of people who disagree with them whereas we have the majority with us and we seem to be honoring like all these things like the filibuster and etc that a no in like this sense that there's a de politicized supreme court so briar doesn't wanna step down during a democratic administration molly southie and it just seems like we're playing one game. They're playing yellow two bullets. Let's when we say we let's be fair. We are not frankly like even in washington. I think this is true. Our generation of democrats are not. It's you know. It is generally cast as like progressives and moderates but let's be real like it's like generational even know biden is largely. Come around but he was a perfect example of somebody who had been in these institutions for so long and it was really hard for him to come around to the idea that no that ain't gonna work anymore but like you know brier mansion the folks who are approaching things this way are just people who not unlike the conversation. We had a few minutes ago about how we thought nine. Eleven was going to change everything. It's taken us time to adjust to the idea of how polarized everything is after nine eleven. It's taken them way more. Because they had all these years of republicans and democrats clocking out and then go in and get drinks together. At hawkins there was a dance in the in the federal court which. That's one of the most conservative. I think the most conservative circuit in the country. I'm not gonna bore our listeners with the procedure around this but if you go down the rabbit hole. I went down looking at the way. This case has made its way through the system. I've never been a believer. That courts.
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"With like world war. Two korean vietnam veterans as this guy was the nursing home area that i that i volunteered in. I'm sitting with them when this unfolded and the room was just completely completely silent and yeah took the bus and i kinda don't remember the rest of the day. I think i still have field hockey practice. I remember it felt. Surreal to be going to feel hockey practice like knowing in the back of your mind like what is the point of what i'm doing right now. Oh my god that's this. Is you know something. Profound has happened and it wasn't the same thing as it is. Now where like you had social media. Everybody was to tv's and that's with like the twenty four hour news cycle really really kicked in. It happens some with desert storm but really this was the turning point for the twenty four hour news cycle. That's what i remember sitting in the cafeteria at the college that i was at and watching it on the tv and just being like oh my god man and i remember because i was a religious institution a lot of the professors came out and they just started like praying with the students for the country and the people that were in there and the people that were scared and it was a really comforting thing at that time to have religion. And i don't know what i would have done without it like like having that little bit of peace in that to me. That's the reason why religion existed. Calm you and those kind of when you realize things are out of control at least you have something to put that burden on. And then i remember i was like a week after it happened and you kind of are still in the haze of going to happen. Are we going to go to war president bush's making all these statements all these proclamation on national tv sitting behind the resolute desk and looking stoic is fuck and then i remember going to dothan alabama because my my stepdad was in the navy so i had to go to the doctor there.
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"You're on the air force base like you expect it still find a way but then there's so there's a fine line between banning it and knowing like keeping morale up to it's like. That's why i was listening to knock mitt. You guys sorted out. There counts. yeah. I don't know what they're gonna do. Hopefully that gets cleared up and they don't have to stay down there much longer. I know the border situation is bad. Like there's a lot of things that are going on at the border with a lots of people trying to come over and do all being in the military and not having the federal authorization of any type of law enforcement. It's an impossible situation that these that these troops are put into impossible. The and they possibly do. The only thing you can do is stuff. That's going to cause you to get negative bad news. Anything that you do. Positives is not gonna come out right. That's rough feeling to be very lose lose situation. Let's move onto round number three and this is. We're going to talk a lot about september eleventh in some of the actions. But i i wanted to before we go. This september eleventh is obviously turning point in america. And i was reading an article today that there was no bigger call to arms for the military then september eleventh since pearl harbor. There was eight percent increase of people who are trying to get into the military right after september eleventh because people wanted to defend the homeland we've done countless interviews in. I would say of people that are around our age. Ninety percent say september eleventh was the reason why they joined and they've reason why they felt called some type of duty whether it be no matter. What branch of service. They felt that called because of september eleventh. We've talked about this. Because i wanted to ask you when september eleventh happened. Where where were you. Because it's definitely one of those moments and just kind of want wanna go back in person away. where were you in..
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"National mobilization flash. Speak enforcement slash kit. Yeah i live across from a train station. And then yeah. It's a major railroad crossing. And i watched a mom with two kids who could barely walk. Go she like went underneath the thing as it went down and her kids were taking their sweet time and she's trying to drag them across four railway tracks and the train was coming. It's like lady what the fought like. And you could see in her face like the trans coming faster than an all. The time i translate because people's cars they they do that fucks up my community. Yeah listen to the listen to them because fucks up my commute anyway right all right on to run home that end. Kate what are we got. Okay sort of how pretty sad story here from the border. A georgia national guard soldier assigned to the guard mission at the southwest border was arrested and charged with manslaughter on sunday morning. With an hours a ban on alcohol consumption and new curfew for guardsmen on the title. Ten border mission wasn't stated specialists bianca. Farmer was driving. Gsa rental vehicle with two other soldiers when she lost control and struck a pair of light. Poles first responders arrived on the scene and pronounce specialist nashiri whitaker deceased according to jail. Records available online mcgowan. Police department arrested the driver farmer and charged her with intoxicated manslaughter with vehicle driving while intoxicated and intoxicated assault with a vehicle. The soldiers were all assigned to joint task force north which is more than three thousand troops from the guard protecting or providing detection and monitoring logistics and transportation support to customs and border protection along the us mexico border. The crash was only the most recent in a string of servicemember deaths among the guard troops assigned jt if north last month alabama national guard soldier died of covert while isolating in his. Tell room two weeks after a positive test in july a louisiana national guard soldier assignment the same company as whitaker. died when multiple civilian vehicles struck him crossing mccown street at three thirty in the morning. Sources say he. The the soldiers intoxicated within hours of the accident. This most recent accident. The commander of the guard issued a new policy banning possession and consumption of alcohol all guard troops on the title. Ten border mission also ten. Pm to five am. you'd better. Be in your fucking barracks. There's a curfew now Unless you're working the night shift so by ten. Pm that's it ten pm to five am. He also ordered that all service members will not consumer possess any alcohol along with stricter vehicle accountability measures. There have been other alcohol related incidents including ones involving sexual assault and harassment And marine national guard our main national guard soldier who is charged with kidnapping and a bunch of other horrible stuff in december so it sounds like shit showdown their name..
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"Navy subpar football team on this one. I kind of agree with it but they sort of do it already everyone. There hasn't passed the pt test in the last three years. Get retired automatically do this. Yeah they do They'll they'll they'll push out. Your body can't be fat so someone said the ba- disgruntled boats disgruntled. Boats said the band. Now i like the ban. I kind of agree with them on this one like. Why is the band that what he had that. Many bands like every base needs a band. Who cares like if you're if you're at a marine corps ball and there. Do you really care if somebody's there on the trumpet. Playing the marine corps him as opposed to just a tape. It's like when you see live music versus listening ear car. It definitely just slaps different okay to old people right exactly two old right. They've did a lot for this country. I keep the bans brett brett tavern papa anyway said four and basis that are overstaffed close unnecessary basis. The us has over eight hundred military bases in seventy countries. I'm not fact checking that. But i wouldn't be shocked. It's true why i'll be strategic. I love the thought of some. Like low-lying caribbean base. Where everybody straight chilling shut the brett pretty good time down here pro. Shut the fuck up talent movie with tom. Arnold mikhail's navy. Yeah that's basically the same thing. He's he's got a great setup. Wretched shut up man and finally..
Zero Blog Thirty
"20 year" Discussed on Zero Blog Thirty
"Except for the military schools. I wouldn't mind seeing them. Get rid of rotc officer training program completely and pull pull nco's pull corporals are above. You have to be a corporal you have to be in for two years. Pull your officers from the enlisted ranks and then let them go so yes we don't have to college be a requirement or anything like do you perform. Do you have the ability to lead. I can go be enough sir. I don't hate that eliminating. Rotc because the other problem with rotc program is really is very varied school the school so if you get squared away rotc commander euro to see programs going to be really good versus. If you're at some other university and your commander kinda stinks so the the level of off you have to be in. Rtc to go be an officer somewhere else just kind of better though having some of them run through the old college mill and every officer just rolling up from depends what you're gonna do that. I think it should be. It should be attached to your job. Like what is having a degree in art history. Really do if you're in artillery. Not a home loan you can get through artillery officer school that that really is the stuff you need to know this. One super simple from from sucker for parlay so he must be on the barcelo sportsbook. He says paper just in general. Just get rid of paper actually. That's a great idea. The amount of money that we spend on paper has to be astronomical and with that printers ink for printers and antiquated. Let let official paper work. Go through the doesn't have to be absolutely perfect like you know. I can't tell you how many times where you would have letters tent or training manuals that you had to print over and over and over again because somebody wanted to correct it corrected on microsoft word. Send it back and make your corrections there. The amount of money that we waste on printers which first of all hardly ever work is crazy. I love this.
Zero Blog Thirty
"20 year" Discussed on Zero Blog Thirty
"You only get one to work on at a time and you all have to pull from one budget. So there's like a hundred million you gotta divvy it up and fight over. Who gets that hundred million and why y you got to present to aboard. I'm why your idea is needed our military. But that's it. I don't need four different planes in development by the navy okay. We've already seen what's been going on with the f. Thirty five from the air force. That's clearly a mistake. And the contrast with the lemon law like why should we have to pay this much money for an f. thirty five that doesn't work bingo. Like what if it doesn't work. Sixty percent seventy percent of the time. Then you have to. You have to return the money back to us mega better and one of my big one. We have way too many nuclear weapons we have over six hundred eighty six thousand eight hundred nuclear warheads. The amount of people that is required to protect those in the infrastructure to protect those insane. How many do you need. You could blow up the entire universe several times of sixty eight hundred nuclear warheads. That's the military enforce. Pick one really big honcker. Pick a real tiny cute. Lynn will suitcase nugget and then pick a good rocket. it really should be like the food pyramid. We got a nuclear bombs up here. You go down the food pyramid. You've got some mo- apps and then you got some others shit tomahawks whatever and then you just get smaller. It's not have much of the big boys. When are you going to drop that thing. Exactly you know estimated about nuclear weapons if we ever get to the point where we're using nuclear weapons. You're going get us like one. Maybe two you're not gonna get to sixty eight hundred because we're all going to be toast by that time. So matt another idea. We strap a nuclear weapon to a space shuttle and we charge people and you can only do it in theaters. You charge people a hundred and fifty hundred and fifty bucks. They have to go to a theater is going to be live streamed of a nuclear weapon trying to blow up on jupiter's moons. I'm in. I would genuinely wash shit on the incredible. I don't think anything would happen here. I don't know what the nuclear blow-black would be. But you gotta think it'd be worth it gets bad enough. Just start blowing stuff up just west creative. Yeah a good something that bring the whole world together because everybody loves the moon moons beautiful a good old nobody would know was the us but an evil plan to blow up the moon and then people have to pay unless i go fund me reaches this amount. We're gonna fucking blow it smithereens motherfuckers. Guess what it's us. We're trying to raise our debt. Or if elon. Musk jeff as got together and they did one of those holiday light. Show where you would do like the ellen..
Zero Blog Thirty
"20 year" Discussed on Zero Blog Thirty
"Don't there there. I mean we see it. In our government things operate by. We just see it constantly but not on like a serious note because obviously you can do taking away different bases. You have too many bases. You have too many things that are going on overseas but real legit. I oftentimes wondered. Why is the administrative staff the way that it is military not civilian where you can have legit people who are in place permanently. That have fulltime jobs. That can get pensions and things like that. That it's their sole responsibility. Is this job to do admin in this place instead of bringing in eighteen nineteen year olds. Fresh outta mos cool. That are having to do this. And then they grow up and they make a lot more money like in the benefits package that you have to pay a military member comparatively to other folks is so much smaller you know we need to do in the military budget who all the moms from. Tlc's coupon wars. or whatever. I say mary condo her to clean can organize what she she. We should have just brought. Afghantistan abi layer can use sparked your way sparked joy in afghanistan. Help us all this equipment home in an orderly fashion. Yeah anyways so yeah so we. We took our social media accounts bit well first before that kate you have any ideas have had a fix the budget. What would you do if you could take away. One of the first things i thought of was uniforms. We've every we report on this few times a year the army's changing their their camouflage the so and so's changing this changing met. The marines are adding this to address him for all. That shit is so expensive. It is so wildly expensive and the research and development that goes into it as expensive as to too expensive as fuck you. I mean obviously if you can find a better fireproofing whatever up. They've uniform but if it's just for aesthetics like those crazy navy blue wackadoo whatever became. Is those navy. Cameras were atrocious. Ability blue digital versus the rumor was turned like a hunter neon orange if he fell into the ocean or something. I believed it. I was like question and this is going to be a hard one for any rumor about the navy period. I think this will be a hard one for you to answer because the the marine corps does have some very sharp uniforms. What if across all of our military. Everybody wore the same uniforms. And you have maybe like a little patra pin or a ribbon or something to designate which branch but we all had the same uniforms across the entire military. We should have a draft. I think like you bring the joint chiefs together and say look. We got five different uniforms right now. The will include the coastguard space for however many branches got six like we have all those the top six folks that are in there and be like look. We're to draw sticks. I the short stick you get to pick the dress uniforms and then whatever it is. That's the one that we go with. Hopefully it'll be dress blues. Secondly i don't think air force navy are gonna get a single uniform in there now. we're gonna want. It will be a combination of army and marines uniform. Yes i would take our lose your pink and greens. I wouldn't mind that at your service. Uniform is better than ours. Yeah definitely cammo pattern. There's also no need like in the marine corps. There's like eight different uniforms Pick three fucking pick three. Pick the on. You're wearing out every day or sleep service camby's that's it..
Pod Save the World
"20 year" Discussed on Pod Save the World
"That's like the real lesson here. But then on the politics. I look i think. Part of the challenge is that the biden team thus far has been you know very good at implementing their agenda. But you never gonna have to manage crises those crises. Sometimes they're beyond your control. This one day offset some say in because they chose to withdraw with the republicans do is they packaged together. very effectively. Any bad thing that happens overseas with these kind of this new brand of identity politics where it's like immigration the board for us like it was twenty fourteen and it was like if you ask americans do you care about like the annexation of crimea and the civil war in syria. They would say that they didn't but the republicans package together. Well there's kind of chaos in syria and it looks like we're feckless and dealing with that and putin his you know Done something in crimea. Place that most americans haven't heard of but that is an embarrassment for us that they're they're unaccompanied children coming to the border. There's a bowl. And that comes from africa so that kind of became part of this big other the republicans roll all this stuff up into a ball. Fear and sense of american decline and his ram down democrats throats and so to me. It's not a question of whether afghanistan will be on the brain of every midterm election. Voter the question is whether you know it becomes a part of a broader narrative they build of of abiding team that is lacking incompetence and there's chaos in their stere- stuff happening and we can't control it and you know and look. There's some foreign policy storm clouds on the on the horizon like these iran talks collapsing. What happens if iran starts advancing. Its nuclear program. They'll surely be another crisis and the irony is when international crisis happened under trump. Like nobody expected him to solve them so he like weirdly. Didn't get blamed right. Like for example like this evacuation or special immigrant visa issue wouldn't have been an issue under trump because he just doesn't care. Yeah you'll be expects him to. Nobody likes him to care but biden gets extra scrutiny for trying as he should democrats all. I mean i used to this bottom. Obama like the people knew obama care about like like drone strikes. Right which again. We talked a lot about on the show. But did anybody ever ask. Donald trump what he was doing to prevent civilian casualties and drums strikes. No they knew that obama was probably plagued by it because he was and again. that's fair. i'm glad. I'm not mean. I'm i'm not complaining about the summa. I'm complaining about the lack of strategy of of bad faith critics. You know but to to me. I i know what you think like to me. The political fahd seems like it's more about. How does this connect to other things that are happening around the world or other impressions at the republicans trying to make of biden. Yeah i i think that the brass taxes who knows what people will be thinking about carrying about six months. I do think my concern for the biden team was the last days have looked looked bad but depending on how things go in the next week or two or three could end up looking even worse into they got to get a handle on it really vast and get people out really fast to me. This is the number one thing is like if they can get tens of thousands of afghans out and salvage something there and look like they did something that was morally correct and effectively managed. That can change a lot of this impression so the next few weeks. They should stay. They should do. They should get it done because if they can't if they don't get those people out and if they're still talking about a few thousand people out an afghan start to get killed I in those. We will learn about that right that that's a different order magnitude. And you're gonna hear the veterans community. They're already unbelievably upset about seeing people that worked with them interpreters etcetera but if if if things get even worse for those interpreters you're gonna see them speaking up incredibly vocal. I mean there's something i like. Look i appreciate. The biden was very clear. Like i don't regret this decision. Because i think it's right for america and here's why i think the two things missing again to end where we started was the lack of empathy for the afghans in the lack of kind of acknowledgement. That things were watching the should be done better from a guy who known for his empathy. I mean yeah. We watched human beings fall from the wheel. Well of fucking see seven pm. I will never forget the image for as long as i live. Obviously like i'm not saying that was joe biden's fault but like part of your job as president is to speak to how people felt seeing that or or the the humanity individual who fell off that plane and and to have empathy for for other people around the world. I mean i end this thing been thinking tomorrow but too because i remember you know like we you can be guilty in the white house and sometimes when you're so bombarded with criticism you you weirdly. Take that as like validation that you've done something braven right you know. Sometimes you have to listen to the criticism you know And it doesn't mean you have to question your core decision right And and this is kind of part of what we went through. Say in your gone by some with the red line thing where but like the. They need to show that they learned something from this. I think And i say that with humility and sympathy. I see that as someone who made that mistake myself. So i'm just trying to learn from my own experience at that i think people will respect and appreciate it if number one they really you know. Move heaven and earth and take on some risk to get afghans out next week's and number two that there's kind of a bit of a demonstration that like okay. We we hundred percent standby this withdrawal decision. But we've we've we understood we did. Something's wrong and we're going to evolve to do better yet. And they're gonna keep making that point. That jake made that the west staying in afghanistan or sending more troops and continuing to fight in the middle of a civil war has a cost for the united states but as as even greater costs for the afghan people especially civilians who were caught up in that fighting and killed. But they're so they're going to make that case but also just have to recognize the recency bias of the images. Were seeing one. In the fact that a lot of members of the media worked with afghans interpreters drivers fixers whatever who they know personally and are trying to help get out and like that that humanity that personal connection is going to drive some of the coverage and drive some of the the moral outrage that you're hearing on tv fair or or not right in like yeah. They're not to speak the both of these challenges like there's no good option. There was no good option here. For joe biden. Afghanistan table was set for him yet. He could've executed withdraw better. And that's just effect when in one thing we can talk future episode like this. I think around the world people like for money here in europe. it's like uniformly. Like biden is no different than trump look. He doesn't care about people outside of america. It's america first. There's a way to talk about that. To be specific about what i mean about evolving anza messaging point. But that's like a lot of what i focused on. He also said something towards the end of his speech abella. How human rights is the cornerstone of our foreign policy. And i think that clanged with a lot of people. Because it's like you just kind of didn't empathize these afghans. You can't just assert them but if he'd said like i want human rights to be the center of our policy and i understand that people might be questioning that now watching what happened in afghanistan. But i believe that ultimately the way to put human rights back at the center of our foreign policy is not by continuing to fight wars. But we want to be part of our commitment. Human rights is getting as many people out and learning from this experience to get better. You know like yes. There's a way to talk about these things so that you don't sound like you haven't absorbed that we've taken a hit here. You know In which you want suggest is no we. We understand that. We're going to try to get better. Yeah and then just we need to end forever. The suggestion argument op. Ed that says that the us can advance the human rights agenda with the military fighting a war. I mean like it hasn't riding can get the high ground on this in some ways. You know like you know. Yeah one hundred percent. That's just. I just can't believe that lessons to be learned. I can't believe it is astonishing. You did the some of the people i've heard for it. Like paul wolfowitz is coming onto the fucking woodwork. Right these people who because again honestly like you're going to be fair to the trump people right. This was basically all set in motion. Afghanistan iraq post nine eleven torture guantanamo. All this stuff. In like a few months i mean ice was created in the post. Nine eleven reforms. Like all these excesses. The we've lived through were shaped by a pretty small number of people in the george w bush administration and they're still like held up as these authorities on foreign policy. I mean what the fuck you know like like i like i probably would have rejected the pablo. This is insane that these people are still like just walking.
Pod Save the World
"20 year" Discussed on Pod Save the World
"Mike pompeo and trauma guy in others try to take a victory lap on this given their role so just some context ben that we should talk about like you just said they. They cut this deal with the afghan government trump and mateo and invited the taliban to camp david and then they attacked biden when he took the withdrawal deadline from may first to august thirty. First they said. Oh biden's gonna stick around forever now. Trump forced the afghan government to release five thousand taliban prisoners Many of whom went right back to fighting and then in two eighteen they pushed pakistan to release malabar one of the founders of taliban who is now basically defacto leader the trump administration did everything possible to prevent refugees from coming to the us including these special immigrant visas for people who helped us to the point where there was a lawsuit against trump administration in a judge rule that they'd violated the law because they slow down the process and so we have to. You know this context is relevant. I think we need to watch his refugee issue really closely. Stephen miller is already out there trying to demagogue afghan refugees last night. Tucker carlson on his show said if history is any guide in it's always a guide we'll see many refugees from afghanistan resettle in our country and over the next decade that number may swell to the millions so i we invade and then we are invaded. That is some chilling. Chilling shit from a bow tied fascist. Fuck So i i don't know like that. I just think that context is important. No i mean this much like there. I mean the the deal cut without ghani to Totally undercut him in the country. Right the us government that has been the principal force in the country for twenty years cuts a deal with the taliban totally excludes the afghan government. That was part of what. Cut the the legs out from underneath ghani because then the taliban starts cutting deals with these other officials the destroying of an already bureaucratic program in terms of a refugee admissions or You know like just stops already. Slow moving gears here. I mean into fucking tucker carlson's point. The best thing that could happen to this country is to have hundred fifty thousand afghan refugees. Come in and you what they're gonna do. You know what's going to happen. They're going to start businesses. They're going to run for elected office. They're gonna make enormous contributions to this country like we will be better for having them. It's not like charity. Like we will be enriched by them and the same way we're sitting here in california like look at what the vietnamese american communities done in this state. You know these people. And the i mean the lack of any sense of internal accountability on their behalf is so astonishing ab. I'm sure we'll get to your second to but like they need literally. Cut the deal with these people. You have mike pompeo. They pressured pakistan to release the guy. Who's now like basically the president of afghanistan. you know. i'm not formally recognizing another. Anyone cares what i think about that. But the guy that they've declared to be. The president and mike pompeo met with the guy i mean he goes into the photo near released a guy and if oh my god if brcko bomb had done that you know i. I don't even know what the consequences would have been in but but there's this kind of because there was such a farcical nature to trump. People didn't take seriously like agreements that were agreements that will reach. Like for instance. Also the the the withdraw. Us contractors was part of the deal. Yeah it wasn't just about the withdrawal. The us military they literally the taliban new bargain. They were driving the league not down. Don't just get out the military. You gotta get out this contractors to right so like the. This is all was set in motion in a way and then biden comes in and yeah biden has had a long held view that you wanted out of afghanistan and so he he took it right and so i mean fairness. He didn't have to accept that he'll they could've renegotiated it. But i couldn't decided on balance that the risk that it was the right thing to do they could have torn it up because said we don't abide by this deal. It's piece of garbage in by the way they would have been right in saying that. The taliban hasn't really abided by the spurred this deal either because we're supposed to be a ceasefire and that was the point you were making at the time just ended. The deadlock could have said we are extending this because the taliban on so again this doesn't mean the biden didn't make the decision he did. It doesn't mean that biden hasn't mismanaged aspects of decision. He has it. Does mean that trump set in motion withdraw that had a lot of momentum and had created a lot of ripple effects in afghanistan by the time by came in and it does mean that the argument that jake laid out is true that the current course was not like some sustainable status quo was either ramp back up and get back into the civil war Or or get out and people can argue. You know that that you know ramping up a little bit and keeping album that there was a limited option you've done but this is where things were. Yeah and look i. i don't think either. As opposed having peace talks with the taliban they should have included the afghan government. The original said this too. I mean in throughout the years people often said how come you guys aren't doing more to have these discussions taliban and it's because our principal was always that has to involve the afghan government. We weren't willing to cut out the elected government and keep in mind they were democratically elected. You can call them corrupt. You can call all these things. They were democratically elected by a lot of afghans internet. Vote in difficult circumstances and to cut them out of a de of a deal like that was pretty extraordinary. I will say another thing. That hasn't got attention. I am not sure why the biden people kept on zell khalilzad the envoy who cut the deal with palmdale leyla. He's not exactly covered in glory. Here either you know yeah. It's probably continuities knowing the writing was wall. I mean but it's a fair point so look let's talk about the the history of the us involvement in afghanistan last two decades in that that mission creep overtime casino. This is not just trump and biden story. So we the. Us went to war in afghanistan in early october. Two thousand one right after the nine eleven attacks in by early december the military effort had been so successful that the taliban offered to surrender hand over their weapons and join the political process as long as mullah omar who's the taliban leader at the time could live in kandahar under house arrest bush don rumsfeld. They rejected that deal. Greenvale would've been. It was the deal that was on the table in twenty nineteen In that mission quickly shifted from counter-terrorism to this broader nation building exercise you had bush who ran against nation-building talking but a marshall plan for afghanistan. This is what he wrote about. Afghanistan in.
Reel Chronicles
"20 year" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"Better. Yeah that's a good point. Thank thanks for your guest budge any. You're welcome anytime. She was marilyn monroe. So did you. Did you wanna do you wanna give your thoughts on. Who do you wanna play share. We just finished. That conversation was the only person i initially thought was lady gaga. But yeah me too. So far so i don't know but and the voice is a little deeper so i guess you could do it but it's hard it's hard i feel like share would play share. Yes that's what i was saying. The old share should be current real share. And she'd win the oscar for. I always find funny. Where we're we're moving on now. But i always found it funny. That judy garland that renee zellweger when the oscar for playing judy garland judy garland could never win the oscar. Which she should she should've went for a star is born back in mouth. She did not. That is crazy. isn't it so crazy. That's why my opinion awards ultimately don't mean anything in the long run things in the moment. Look at this year. I love nomad land. But frances mcdormand should not have been carey mulligan. No way that should have happened. But you know the oscars they will definitely was all right. let's move on a little segment. I call what we watch this week. ryan i'm gonna kick it off with you. Do you have any highlights. That you saw this week mitchell's versus machines. How awesome how fucking awesome is. That was good. I enjoyed the hell out of it. and the any biography peck on shawn michaels which was also very good nice. Tom highlight this week. Yeah so of course we are on. We've just got one episode. Left jeff and i have one left of halston so yes so i finished it last week. What are your thoughts. It's okay. I i really like it but i don't think that they it's it's a little too surface level for me. They did not go real in depth on what made him tick as a person What haunted him. What didn't why he was the way he was it kind of it captured his professional life very well but i wanted to know a little bit more on the personal side. Yeah i'm i'm on the same bill. You went was great though fantastic. Perform the woman that plays liza. I wouldn't be gets an emmy nam spotting. She's from she's from that show smash remember smash jaja. Yeah eddie rodriguez highlights tom. No that's it are mark What about you highlights you want. What have i been watching. Yes some good some bad. So i watched army of the dead. But i'm not gonna lie. Everybody i fell asleep because it's just way too slow and way too. Long and zack. Snyder needs someone to say a zombie. Movie should only be an hour and forty minutes. It's two and a half two hours. So i would. I fell asleep but luckily because it was so loud. We just kept playing. I would wake up and you know. I saw zombie tiger. I saw some big moments over although you know. Netflix needs to get their act together. Because they're just pumping out of content But some good stuff I am liking girls five. Ever a sitcom peacock really funny really cute a little cheesy like you're kind of typical. Nbc show could be but good casting The new tina fey is sarah burrell's. She's actually really great and then actually just watched old movie That i missed an old movie from two thousand..