40 Burst results for "25 Year"
DerrickTalk
A highlight from "Remy Ma Is A Fool If She Cheated On Papoose"
"Welcome to the Monday edition of Convo Over Cigars. I'm your host Derek Andre Flemming. Let's talk about Remy Ma and Papoose. I'm not mistaken a couple. I read that I think they have been married for 11 years. I think that's correct. Here's what I do know. I do know that Papoose held Remy down when she was in prison. She was incarcerated and here's a man who basically stood by his wife. I don't think that a lot of men would have had the fortitude, the honor, the characteristics to say, you know what, that's my wife. I'm gonna hold her down. I don't care about her bed. She can be gone forever. I'm still gonna be here, not gonna entertain any foolishness, any other females. So I take my hat off to Papoose. My biggest question to women, realistically, is how do you explain a woman who cheats on a man who held her down when she was in prison? He was basically the perfect husband. I think Papoose was the epitome. Well, him and Remy Ma were the epitome of black love. This is what a black couple in love looks like. This is the illustration. So when we're hearing, you know, the recent rumors that she cheated with, you know, the battle rapper, the 25 -year -old, I think a lot of people are surprised. And if I'm being honest, I think it set women back some. I'm not gonna say how many years, but it definitely set women back, because women say, I want a great guy that doesn't cheat, that only has eyes for me, that's not entertaining other women. He's not in other women's DMs. Remy, it seems as though, and again, we're on the outside looking in. My name is Derrick Andre Flemming. I'm your host of Convo Over Cigars, where we give you the latest in news and entertainment. It seemed as if Papoose was invested in his marriage. He was a faithful man. He was loyal. It seems that way. A lot of people say, well, they're celebrities. You don't know what goes on behind closed doors, high -profile people, obviously famous, obviously, you know, they have money, things like that. So you have to factor that in. Obviously, there's a lot of temptation. I just think she dropped the ball. I think Remy fumbled, if this is true, if these latest allegations are true, I think she fumbled the ball and the bag, because I just think women don't really value a man as they used to. A man, a good man, doesn't seem to have the significance that he once did. She's piling around with Fat Joe on a consistent basis when, you know, her husband is Papoose. He's a rapper. Joe's a rapper. Why would you always be with Fat Joe when you're a married woman? See, certain things to me are just out of bounds. Now, we can call a spade a spade or we could turn a blind eye, but the reality is I would have to say that Papoose is going to rebound from this if the allegations are true. Again, you know, Remy, I don't know if she's denied it. I haven't seen anything tangible where she came out and said, I did not cheat on my husband. I haven't seen that. So if anyone has seen that, then I would like you to forward it to me. I haven't seen it. So I'm assuming, since the allegations are true, the same, since the allegations are presumed true, if this is true, she dropped the ball. I mean, I can't explain why you would risk a marriage of 11 years, you know, a good man, a provider. I think they have kids and I haven't, I don't know too much about Remy and Papoose, but I can't help but see the latest topics trending and this is, this is unfortunate that, you know, a man who personifies a great husband, checked in on every level, a great provider, would be cheated on by his spouse after he seemed to be very loyal when she was incarcerated. This was a time of vulnerability for her. She was behind bars Papoose and just kind of played his position. He's still stuck by his wife, so why cheat? I want to hear your thoughts. Email me DerekTalk007 at gmail .com. You guys have been tuned in to another edition of Convo Over Cigars on a Monday. My name is Derek Andre Flemming. Take care, guys.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh update on "25 year" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"The last two So months. it just seems that we're just having this total conflicts of issues hitting Evergrande all at once while we were seemingly talking about other builders in recent weeks such as Country Garden. Well is that something that we need to worry about perhaps the sentiment while Evergrande doesn't seem to be making much progress on its restructuring deal. Do we worry need to about greater contagion and other downturn in this sector? Sure we do absolutely need to see well what might this mean for other developers that restructuring plans because obviously there have been dozens of them who have defaulted over last the two years Evergrande's obviously was going to be one of the biggest one of the most complex and so it could be an outlier that because of the trouble it's having it might not mean everything to the rest of the sector for example Sunac About a top 15 or so developer in China its debt plan has come contrastly of kind gone through relatively smoothly it's actually going to have a Hong Kong hearing next week to Analyze the creditor approval of the plan last week so that we have an example here where Sunac has been able to kind of pretty easily get through its debt restructuring process while Evergrande here it seems to be in a total state of flux. And we heard reports on Monday that the former CEO and CFO of Evergrande are being detained. How does this add to this complication? It adds a possible criminal element. These two executives, they left the company in the middle of 2022. They were part of the regime where a roughly $2 billion worth of security deposits were used to help guarantee other loans. It helped or really hurt, excuse me, the China property management unit. So that really kind of cast a shadow over them. And they've been out of work now obviously for more than a year. And then we had these staff at Evergrande's wealth unit be detained in recent weeks. So it seems as though we potentially have multiple criminal tracks investigative going on here at the same time that we have this public battle over the debt going on. Yeah, certainly a fascinating one to watch as we are seeing this having an effect on markets again today. Seng The Hang down 1 .7 % on that index of Chinese property shares compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence also on the down again after the slump that we saw yesterday. For now, Kevin Kingsbury, our China Credit Editor. Thank you very much. It's up to date. Well, let's turn next to a story coming out of the United States, believe it or not, 63 years ago today was the first televised U .S. presidential debate. The famous head head to between Kennedy and Nixon. Today, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be hoping that time in front of the cameras will boost their hopes of winning the next presidential election. President Joe Biden will join the United Auto Workers Union on the picket line today in Michigan, while former President Donald Trump will also be teeing up to to make his case to auto workers in the state to Bloomberg's Oliver Crook has been following this story for us. And he joins us now. Let's start then with this angle in the United States. How much or how significant is it that President Biden is going to be joining that picket line to the UAW? Yeah, when you go into looking looking at historic landmarks? This is a fairly unprecedented event in US history. You know, it's been over 100 years since president the has been involved in anything like this and kind of going straight to the picket line. He was called over by the president of the union saying, hey, you want to show your support show up and he is showing up and he's showing up today and in Wayne County, Michigan. And it's at a time in the United States where actually the opinion on unions has changed fairly radically into the highest support of unions in about 25 years. The risk of course to both Biden and to the union is that if this drags on for a very long time and the economy starts to suffer, prices of cars go up and it sort of creates more of a mess and pain for voters, the opinion on that may change a little bit. The UAW backed Biden 2020, back in but Sean Fain has withheld his endorsement so far saying that you really need to earn this endorsement, though he is joining Biden on the picket line, so we'll take that as a message. He's also been very critical of people like Donald Trump and the economy that structured enriches people like Donald Trump. He said this himself at the expense of workers, and as you say, Biden administration. Thanks for watching. Thanks with for EV watching. saying that, you know, it's a hoax and it's going to destroy the American car industry. And of course Michigan, but also Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, these are Absolutely key states for this election. And Ali, you bring up electric vehicles, they seem to be coming more of a political issue elsewhere too. We had the EU trade chief in China defending the EU's investigation that could lead to tariffs on EVs. How at risk are German automakers and how worried are they Yeah, if this is an issue that's fragmenting the US population, it's fragmenting the EU itself. mean, You know, I there's a lot of debate within the EU and France has really pushed hard on getting these these rules through in this investigation through. And you can understand why. France only did about 90 billion euros worth of trade with China last year. Germany did 300 billion. And when you look at the car companies, it's even starker. Renault does about 6 % of its business in China or or in Asia Pacific, and about 77 % in Europe. For Germany, all the main carmakers, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen, they're selling more than a third of their volume over in China. So they have some capacity to manufacture the stuff there, but for the really high -end stuff, the fat margin cars, the Maybachs, the Porsches, the S -Classes, the 7 series, those are made in Germany and are sent over. So if you get a retaliatory tariff, that's going to hit all those companies. Of course, tariffs are not just a concern when it comes to China, it's also an issue that's going to be discussed this week between the UK and the EU as well. Completely. And actually, if nothing happens, you're going to get a 10 % tariff at the end of the year for EVs that are crossing the channel in either direction. And that is because there are rules of origin that are going to kick in, that are going to come into effect at the end of the year. This has to do with Brexit, if where more than 45 % of your car has not been sourced from within the UK and the EU, you automatically get this tariff in place. This is to encourage battery production and getting the supply lines together. However, makes no one their own batteries at this point because they have not developed to this point. And so the EU is pushing this to try to get those supply chains in order. However, the UK and the auto industry are saying, listen, this is already a very painful transition for us The all. last thing we need is some self -inflicted hurdle to make it even harder. And so the EU and the UK officials are meeting today. And again, they're pushing the UK and the auto companies to delay this by three years. If nothing happens,
The Breakdown
A highlight from How the Crypto Investing Landscape Has Changed
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, September 24. And that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Welcome back to Long Read Sunday. Today we are getting into a topic that relates to maybe one of the biggest themes that we're watching right now, which is capital fun flows and the institutional engagement with the cryptosphere. Now, our piece today comes from Jeff Dorman, the CIO of ARCA, who has some really interesting insights to share about the time that he has been running his fund. The piece is called What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years. And because I am recording my sixth podcast of the day, I am going to enlist a little help from AI me, but I will be back as regular old NLW with some wrap up thoughts at the end. I've been running a crypto fund for one thousand eight hundred and twenty five days. ARCA just achieved a major milestone, reaching a five year track record of managing outside capital in our liquid hedge fund. Five years in any other industry may not seem like a long time frame, but in crypto, we often joke that one crypto year is equivalent to five normal years. And with twenty four seven trading hours, it's not untrue. During these past five years, I have seen many of our peers come and go, leaving a bit of survivorship bias as it pertains to crypto asset management. As chief investment officer overseeing this fund, as well as three others under the ARCA umbrellas, I experienced firsthand the evolution of this industry through good times, bad times and constant innovation. The five year anniversary provided a natural timestamp to reflect upon what I learned about managing money and about the industry. Here are five of the most important takeaways from managing a crypto portfolio for the last five years. In short, investing in these markets is very challenging. One tweak assumptions and risk models. This perhaps goes without saying to any person who has invested in this market, but this is not an easy asset class to invest in. For starters, the frequent booms and busts creates a false sense of liquidity and an often accurate depiction of expected beta and returns. All risk models, expected loss provisions and sizing parameters are based on historical data and correlations, which change incredibly quickly. There is a reason why most funds in this space are early stage venture funds, where many of these real time market related issues are not relevant. For those like ourselves who manage liquid funds, it is a constant game of tweaking assumptions and risk models to interpretation over speed. Contrary to popular belief, just because crypto markets trade 24 seven globally does not necessitate 24 seven trading coverage. Overtrading every tick is costly in any asset class, and the additional hours of crypto trading often try to lure you into more activity. But the reality is that the fragmented global investing landscape actually gives you more time to react to news and information. While there will always be bots and algorithms that react immediately to news, much like after hours equities trading post earnings, these initial knee jerk reactions are often wrong. And since one third of the world is sleeping at any given time, it often takes days for the true market reaction to play out. A correct interpretation of information is much more important than the speed with which you react. Three, careful documentation is crucial. On the flip side, the 24 seven workday does lead to difficulties not seen in traditional markets. In TradFi, even your worst day week eventually comes to an end, giving you ample time to reset and think through decisions while markets are closed without price gyrations clouding or influencing your thought process. In crypto, these natural resets often don't exist. Take the events of Terra Luna, for example. The entire unwind of a 30 billion dollar ecosystem happened within three days, with continuous trading and new information flow over the 72 hour period. We made decisions during this stretch that in retrospect would not have been made with more of a grace period. And we have since learned how to better implement risk management during a future period like this. In hospitals, mistakes don't often occur because doctors are overworked or tired, but rather because of improper handoffs to the next doctor who lacks that full set of information because the previous doctor failed to document fully. Crypto asset management requires similar knowledge, handoffs and documentation for balance between short and long. In debt and equity markets, quiet periods of time, summer holidays often lead to slow grinds higher in price. It is expensive to stay short and dividends and coupons continue to accumulate, adding more buy interest to the market. The opposite is true in digital assets, since the majority of crypto projects accrue value through network activity, slower periods of time tend to slow momentum of an asset. And since most assets have no distribution of cash flows, the cost to short is minimal. As such, negative price action tends to be more prevalent when markets are slow, leading to difficult decisions with regard to hedging and long exposure. As a result, active management continues to trump passive indexes. Rules based passive index strategies simply cannot keep pace with the innovation and changes to these markets. Similarly, these indexes can't take advantage of the volatility, which creates quite a bit of alpha. Over time, this will likely change as the market matures, but we're not there yet. Building a good team is fundamental for success and incredibly challenging. I've worked for seven different financial firms over the past 25 years. I've seen thousands of resumes and have interviewed hundreds of people. I've worked personally in just about every financial department, banking, trading, research, sales, business development. If a TradFi Wall Street firm asked me for a candidate, I could find them one pretty easily that best fits their needs. Five, hire people passionate about the industry. But what are the best attributes and qualifications for a research analyst in crypto? What makes the best trade ops person? Who is best suited to handle investor relations? These are still not easy questions to answer in crypto. During the first few years of our fund, we took what we could get, which is to say, whoever wanted a job. The pay sucked, the hours were long, and the future was very uncertain. Anyone who wanted a job in this industry in 2018 shared a true passion for blockchain success and was willing to learn any part of the job necessary to succeed. Most people who joined this industry pre -2020 are still working in this industry, and their job responsibilities evolve in real time. But in 2021, I could have handpicked any person I wanted from every major bank, brokerage, and hedge fund, who all had zero crypto experience but saw big money ahead. The resumes were pouring in. Many of these employees didn't work out. In 2023, we're back to the passionate souls who will do anything to work in this industry. Six, everyone wears multiple hats. This is a very hands -on business where research analysts have to test functionality of applications, challenge status quo financial modeling, and network live with other industry veterans at conferences. Traders have to navigate back and forth from US macro to Asian currency markets to crypto -specific on -chain wallet movements depending on the current correlation du jour. Back office employees have to test new service providers every three weeks to keep up with changing regulation, best practices, and LP demands while navigating constant bankruptcies, closures, and hack attempts. The common denominator seems to be a real willingness to test new theses. If you give 10 equity analysts the same inputs, they will give you largely the same answer and will present the same homogenous modeling techniques to arrive at this answer. If you give 10 crypto analysts and traders the same inputs, they will most likely give you 10 different answers using entirely different analyses. That's refreshing and often leads to outsized alpha, but also creates challenges when it comes to creating a repeatable formula for success. Seven, trade ops is the most important department. When I worked at credit and equity funds, the back office was overlooked. They were usually young kids eager to move into a real trading role as soon as they could. The job was basic blocking and tackling. Make sure trades settled, make sure your brokerage statement was accurate, and make sure the fund admins did their job. Compliance teams were there simply because they had to be. We all knew the rules, we obeyed them, and if there was any doubt, we checked with compliance but knew the answer would be, don't do it. We should be so lucky in crypto. Trade operations is the single most important job in crypto. You have to touch the assets every single day and a single mistake could cost the firm millions of dollars. As a result, not only do these need to be the most trustworthy people in the firm, but they need to build redundancies that can still operate even if they themselves vanish. Getting into a trade ops role is more glamorous than getting out of trade ops, and those who build their careers in this subset of the fund business end up learning the most about blockchain. Similarly, compliance is not an afterthought in crypto. Unlike in TradFi, it cannot be assumed that your employees know the rules, as most come from completely different backgrounds than Wall Street. Constant education and monitoring is a must. Further, a compliance officer can't just read the rules and assume compliance since there are few clear rules to follow, despite Gary Gensler telling us otherwise. To do your best as both a fiduciary and a law -abiding company is a Herculean effort. 8. The sell side is getting better. In traditional finance, the sell side offers a pretty valuable role. They underwrite new transactions, create novel financing ideas, advise companies on how best to participate in the capital markets, facilitate trading in existing securities, write research on new and existing securities, and pass along market color between participants. Both full -service investment banks and niche broker -dealers exist, but regardless of whether you use a one -stop shop or piecemeal the services with multiple firms, the services themselves are all covered. While the sell side is getting better in crypto, it is still incredibly fragmented and many of these services still do not exist. As a result, fund managers are often on an island, forced to manufacture its own deals, structure its own financings, and do its own research from scratch. Written research from OTC trading shops has greatly increased in volume and improved in quality, providing a necessary channel check on the state of the markets. But the trading itself continues to be very exchange -based, black box, and therefore lacks natural axes between investors. Trading color about flows and activity has improved, but there are fewer market participants to glean information from. There is still no full -service investment bank, and in fact, true investment banking services for underwriting and advisory of token launches is probably the biggest white space going forward. I'm constantly shocked at how few well -known Wall Street capital markets tools are utilized within crypto. Most token launches are doomed from the start. From low float, high fully diluted valuation, FDV token launches, to direct listings at insane prices, to poorly written tokenomics, token issuers, who are often developers and lack financial knowledge, continue to have to come to market without the assistance of those who know how to do this best, which subsequently leads to worse investment opportunities for asset managers. Some service providers are getting a lot better, like Custody Solutions, OTC Trading, and Options Liquidity. Still, others are getting worse, like fund admins and auditors, who in the wake of FTX are pulling back from these offerings. On the tech and research side, it's amazing that Bloomberg's crypto services continue to be irrelevant. The coverage list, their index, and all functionality is still from 2017 and does not take into account how much this industry has grown and evolved. Fortunately, newcomers like Nansen, Masari, Glassnode, Dune Analytics, Telegram, and others have innovated fast enough to take this corner, and we are grateful for these companies. It is entirely possible to run a crypto fund in 2023 without ever logging into a Bloomberg terminal. Overall, fund management is still challenged by the lack of sell -side tools. As the sell -side improves, so will the number and breadth of funds. 9. The investor base is getting smarter. When we began our fund five years ago, we knew the educational journey for prospective LPs would be slow. We were learning constantly as we invested and doing our best to educate interested investors in real time, but it was not practical to expect anyone who wasn't focused full -time on this industry to keep pace. Questions from prospective LPs tended to focus more on how we invest versus what we invest in, and there was definitely a bit of a leap of faith by investors. Fast forward to today and the script has completely flipped. LPs are getting much smarter about the asset class and the investment universe, thereby asking better questions. In some cases, the LPs now know more than we do as they are exposed to different areas of the industry that may not be in our everyday focus. That said, the amount of bad information that continues to flow effortlessly through the media and influencer accounts continues to reach LPs as well, often surprising us in regard to certain topics of interest that we deem irrelevant, but our investors believe are topical. As investors start to become more digital asset savvy, they want far more control over investments and specificity has increased. Asset managers in this space have launched highly specialized funds based on investor demand, including DeFi focused funds, NFT funds, etc. Many asset managers, including ARCA, have started creating funds of one inch that allow for more specificity, but provide the professional team to manage the investments. In 2018, if you asked us, we would recommend going with a professional investor, but as information is more readily available and UI UX of projects get better, we encourage retail investors to research and invest. However, to generate alpha where information asymmetry exists, it's still valuable to have professional fund managers who can take advantage of the 24 -7 news cycle, market volatility, and a murky regulatory environment. Overall, running a fund in this new and innovative space has been incredibly rewarding and we look forward to the next five years. Fund managers will continue to straddle the line between becoming more TradFi -like and adopting best practices of Wall Street, versus finding ways to take advantage of crypto -only opportunities, yield farming, airdrops, testing new applications. The most important factor for success in the digital asset space is faith in the future. We have to believe we are at the frontier of building a new financial system that has the capacity to transform society. While we fully expect bumps in the road and pushback from incumbents benefiting from the status quo, we know that as long as we continue to move forward, fight for the necessary changes, and adapt as needed, this industry will succeed. Okay guys, back to regular old non -AI NLW. The thing that stands out to me after reading that article, as trite and as cliche as it sounds, is just the how early we are theme once again. Every cycle it feels like we see it as the mass flow of new institutions into the space and to some extent it's true. We obviously got a lot more market participants from the traditional sector last time around than we had before. It feels, however, now that we're inching ever closer to a period in which those traditional actors aren't just tourists, but are long -term participants in the space. Certainly right now you have an interesting jockeying for position where the Blackrocks and Fidelities and Franklin Templeton's of the world are laying the foundation for what seems like a much more proactive end -to -end from the beginning of the cycle on through whatever happens after kind of approach. I've said before and I'll say it again that I think Blackrock's ETF application will mark a significant pivot inflection point of this cycle when we look back at it historically. I think we will see it as a firewall that stopped whatever further slide might have happened and reinforced for market participants that crypto, despite being as down as it was in every sense of the word, was going to come back. And so I think about Jeff's next five years running a fund and how different they'll look. The different participants that will make up the market. The different ways in which people will engage. It's pretty hard to imagine from where we are, but it's certainly interesting to think about. Anyways friends, that is going to do it for today's Long Read. I hope you are having a wonderful fall weekend wherever you are. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "25 Year" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Mukilteo, leading to downed down trees and, of course, the old power outages again in the couple for Weather Center. I'm meteorologist Shannon O 'Donnell Rainy right now in downtown Seattle, currently 58 news radio 1000 FM 97 7. Stay connected. Stay informed. I'm Kelly Blier. And here's what's A happening. bold step from Amazon is Northwest News Radio's John Lobertini reports the tech giant buying into of one the top AI startups in the world. Amazon has been playing catch up since late last year when Microsoft debuted chat GPT. So they're scrambling to up their game. The success of Amazon Web Services arguably depends on the company's ability to become a major provider of artificial intelligence. Tech expert Rob Enderle. This investment allows Amazon to say, hey, we're a player here. San Francisco -based startup Anthropic is is considered one of the top AI labs in the world and Amazon is pledging as much as $4 billion to the partnership. And in exchange, Anthropic is going to use AWS as its predominant platform. AI is already a player in the fast food industry where worker shortages have reached a crisis stage. It's a critical resource and need you it to operate. You're going to spend the money it takes to keep on operating and if you can't get people, you're going to get AI. But all it's still a work in progress. Efforts to use AI or more of it to eliminate jobs has auto workers on strike as well as actors and script writers for television and movies. John Lobertini, Northwest News Close to $777 million in federal infrastructure money is coming to Washington to improve rail safety and efficiency. The biggest piece almost $73 million will go to the Palouse River and Cooley City Railroad for track upgrades so the line can use modern freight cars that can safely travel twice fast. as Paul Katovich, CEO of High Line Grain Growers in Waterville calls it a generational investment that will maintain a balance that will help prevent future farmers from being pushed out of by business transportation costs. Not thinking five years out thinking 25 years out what are we going to need to support the economy that is here in 2050. These are the types of components that we will need to be there. Emissions reduction is also the goal for the four million dollars going to Tacoma Rail to replace a pair of diesel engines with battery electric locomotives. A federal judge in Yakima turns aside a challenge against Washington's ban on the sale of high capacity magazines. Washington is among 13 states and the District Columbia of with restrictions on high capacity magazines. The law was drafted following a 2016 school shooting in Mukilteo. A second challenge against the law remains pending in federal court. King County is on pace to surpass the number of murders committed last year. Already there have been 114 homicides in 2023 when there were 119 for all of 2022. Seattle is accounting for half of the numbers according to the Seattle Times. The rise in the murder rate began in 2020 continued and to has go up nearly every year since. The federal government is once again giving away free COVID tests just as there's an uptick in cases here in the Northwest. More from Northwest News Radio's Jeff Gillette. While not a significant increase, there has been a jump in reported COVID cases. According to the most recent data, King County is experiencing 43 cases per 100 ,000 people. Stohomish County is at 47. Pierce is County at 57. Statewide, that number is 52. But to put those numbers in context, statewide the average was 275 for this time in 2021. The increase is not altogether unexpected as more and more people head indoors with the changing weather. And again, the federal government is offering free COVID tests newly designed to better track the latest variants. Those are available at COVIDtests dot gov. Jeff Pojola, Northwest News Radio. Your smartphone camera could soon become a potentially lifesaving device because of some of University of Washington's research. Details from Northwest News is Ryan Harris. A picture from your smartphone tells a big story, says UW Medicine researcher, Dr. Cang, Rui Ricky Wang, which he says could spot things like skin cancer beginning to form or bacteria on your teeth using light ultraviolet to highlight it. Dr. Wang says in that case, you could look at an image before you brush your teeth. If you find that the spot of the bacteria brush harder so that it removes the bacteria. Wang created a machine now found in eye clinics everywhere that can image the eye's blood vessels without injecting contrast dye, also known as optical coherence tomography and geography. He says the idea of a similar technique with smartphones is new to his lab. Our goal is really to improve the health care system, particularly low resource settings. Wang says he and his colleagues are just scratching the surface of what could be done a with powerful tool we all carry in our pockets. Ryan Harris, Northwest News Radio. Time to visit the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk at Seattle's T -Mobile Park tonight. Final homestand of the Mariners regular begins season against Houston. Right now we're at the top of the seventh inning. Houston is up five to nothing. The storms stay the course with their basketball coach Bill Swartz's details. While the Seattle Storm Storm had a disappointing season, finishing near last in the WNBA
Wealthy Behavior
A highlight from A Primer on Mortgage-Backed Securities
"Welcome to Wealthy Behavior, talking money and wealth with Heritage Financial, the podcast that digs into the topics, strategies and behaviors that help busy and successful people build and protect their personal wealth. I'm your host, Sammy Azuz, the president and CEO of Heritage Financial, a Boston based wealth management firm working with high net worth families across the country for longer than 25 years. Now let's talk about the wealthy behaviors that are key to a rich life. On this episode of the Wealthy Behavior podcast, we have a special guest, Ken Shinoda, portfolio manager at Double Line Capital, where he manages and co -manages several fixed income strategies, as well as overseeing the team investing in non -agency backed mortgage securities. I can think of a few people who would be better to speak with at a moment in time like this for the market, just given the sharp moves we've had in interest rates, which have impacted bonds and stocks and mortgage rates being higher than we've seen in a long time. And be sure to stick to the end as I digest this conversation with our chief investment officer, Bob Weiss, and share his key takeaways as well. I'm excited for this conversation, so welcome to Wealthy Behavior, Ken. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Could you provide our listeners maybe with a brief overview of Double Line and your role with the firm? Absolutely. Double Line is a Los Angeles based asset manager. We predominantly manage fixed income, but we also have some passive smart beta equity strategies that have done quite well. We have a commodity strategy, but I would say about 90 % of our assets are fixed income based with a heavy tilt towards securitized products, which are things like mortgage backed securities, asset backed securities, collateralized loan obligations. We have about 95 billion under management. And what is your role specifically with the firm? I know I mentioned the bio, but how would you explain that to listeners? Yeah, I am a portfolio manager across a variety of our products, especially those that are more focused on mortgage backed securities. I also have the structured products committee, which oversees the asset allocation process on our securitized focused strategies. How did you get started on this career path? How did you get to this point? I wanted to get into something real estate related coming out of school. I had a couple of interviews. I actually was interning at Trust Company West TCW, which where many of the Double Line employees came from and just happened to stumble onto this role. I never didn't come out of school thinking, hey, I want to trade mortgage backed securities. It wasn't really something that was pushed on the West Coast. I think East Coast schools are more investment banking trading focused. So, luck happens. Pretty big asset management community out in the West Coast with a pretty big presence, especially in Southern California with PIMCO, WAMCO, Capital Group out here. So there's actually a pretty big fixed income focus, at least in the Southern California area. Great. And we've talked a couple of times already about mortgage backed securities. How would you explain those to listeners or maybe people who've read the big short and have some misconceptions about what they are and how risky they could be? If you go back a long, long, long time ago before we created the government sponsored entities, Fannie, Freddie and Jeannie Mae mortgages, if you went to a bank to get a mortgage, it was always going to be floating rate, a digestible rate mortgage because the banks didn't want to take on such a long duration risk. And what happened was Fannie and Freddie and Jeannie Mae were put into place to try to get the cost of debt down for Americans to buy homes and a goal to increase home ownership or help more people get into homes. And they introduced the 30 year fixed rate mortgage and then they would package up those mortgages eventually and create bonds backed by these mortgages. So you can basically buy a bond that's government guaranteed, that's whose cash flows come from these mortgage backed securities. And so instead of taking on credit risk, what you're really taking on is prepayment risk. If rates go down, borrowers have the ability to refinance without any cost really. And if rates go higher, then the refinancing activity slows down. So you have this kind of like uncertainty of how long your investment is. Is it a one year bond or is it a 10 year bond? It all depends on the prepayments through time. So instead of sitting around and worrying about credit risk and default risk, you're really sitting around and worrying about the direction of rates and what that means for refinancing activity. And so the direction of rates is a great place to go. You've been doing this for a while. How would you characterize the investment environment, the interest rate environment that we're in right now? Well, it's been the worst interest rate environment that I've seen from a sharp movement and rates higher. I mean, we've been in a bond bear market now for three years, the 10 year yield on a closing basis. The low was in August of 2020. Intraday, we were a little bit lower in March during kind of the fiasco when the shutdown started. And we've reached new highs in August across the curve really. So it's been a really tough market. Part of it's been driven by the Fed with their reaction to high inflation. And we've seen a pretty dramatic increase in short term rates and the long end has fallen. And we have a little rally as there was hopes and glimmers of a soft landing and data rolling over. But what we have now is the soft landing narrative is still there, but the data's coming in better than expected. So I think a couple of prints, the GDP print came in strong, you had services coming strong, you had some jobs that are still coming in strong. And so the whole curve has kind of shifted back up with the market now thinking the Fed may still have more to do. And if they don't have more than one hike, they're at least going to keep rates higher for longer. And if the economy is strong, then why should long term rates be so low? Maybe they should normalize up towards, let's say, four and a half, five percent on the 10 year. So that's kind of what's happened, I think over the last 30 days is the narrative has shifted from kind of this expectations of growth rolling over to, you know, perhaps growth is better than expected. And now the market's just waiting and watching for more data to come in to guide them. So you're not to put words in your mouth, but maybe you're more in the camp then that the higher rates that we've been seeing is a good sign for the economy versus a bad sign for the economy? I think in the near term, it's a good sign. It means that the data is coming in positively. The data is backwards looking, though. So I think inevitably the lags will kick in and higher rates will start hurting certain pockets of the market. You know, the what's happened is so many high quality companies locked in such low cost of debt and so many Americans locked in such low cost of mortgage rates. Right. Three, three and a half percent, you know, maybe a year or two years ago that it's just taking long for the transmission mechanism of higher rates to come to the economy. We just have way more fixed debt than than we used to. Europe is a place where the transmission mechanism is perhaps working faster because more of their lending to companies is floating rate at banks. So the places where we're going to see the pain and we're already seeing pain now are pockets that are more floating rate. So commercial real estate is a good example. A lot of floating rate debt there. You're talking about people that borrowed it like, two percent, three years ago, and now they got to roll their debt at like seven percent. Right. It's going to create issues. Bank loans, bank loans float and the cost of debt is effectively double. The average spread on the bank loan index going back 10 years is about 500. And short term rates are now 500 basis points. So these companies went from borrowing at five percent to now having to pay 10 percent. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time. Those are those lags that everyone talks about. And I think that they'll still come through eventually. And it's probably going to happen sometime in the fourth quarter or first quarter next year. So right now, the move higher in rates, I think it's in reaction to the positive economic data that we're seeing. But I still think it's an attractive entry point. If you haven't owned long treasuries or assets that have interest rate risk, it's been a good thing for you. So congratulations. But now it's probably one of the cheapest parts of the market. I mean, you want to buy assets when people are pricing in all the bad things. There's not much downside left. When I think about treasuries, that's kind of how it feels right now. Like everything bad that could happen is happening or has happened. Right. The Fed is hiking. Inflation was high. Foreign buying is very low. Economic data surprisingly upside. So it's kind of like all the bad news seems to be in. Last week was interesting because you had that services PMI come in stronger than expected. It will jump up. I think it went from like 52 to 54 or something. If it's north of 50, it's expansionary. And the economy in the US is very service oriented. And off that news, the bond market didn't really move much. It's already kind of at these high levels. I think you would have expected another move higher in rates on that news, but it kind of just settled in. So the big headwind right now is the supply. There's just a ton of treasury supply coming. But if you get any data surprise to the downside come kind of Q4 or maybe Q1 of 2024, I think that could ignite a pretty strong rally in rates. So the thing to worry about is really, does growth stay stronger than expected? We grow our way out of this, right? Yeah, absolutely. So would you agree that the Fed is much more influential in determining short term rates and the market is much more influential in determining like 10 year yields? Yeah, I agree with that. I think that's accurate. So maybe back it up and help our listeners understand what makes the 10 year yield move in either direction? What does it mean when it's moving up or when it's moving down? Yeah, I mean, there's different ways to models that have come out from different participants to like estimate what the fair value for the 10 year should be. One of them is what is the neutral rate of interest that's neither accommodative or restrictive? The R star. And that's, I think, the first layer. So let's just throw a number out and say that's like 2%, right? Then sometimes people say, well, then you need to layer in what long run inflation will be over that 10 year horizon. So let's call that, that's another 2 % or so core CPI gets back down to that level. And then some term premium, maybe that's 50 basis points. So that would get you to like a 4 .5 % 10 year treasury yield. You're getting the neutral rate plus some premium for inflation over 10 years plus some term premium. And you could argue over the term premium, maybe it's supposed to be 50, maybe it's supposed to be a hundred. If you think it's going to be a hundred, then you should think 10 years going to 5%. Now on the flip side, there's buying from pensions and there's buying from money managers and other institutions that kind of can drive the fair value below that four and a half number we just came up with, things like QE, right? That's why we got to such low levels is that the buying outside of those that are just looking at that fair value coming in, maybe it's lack of supply, maybe it's foreign buying and so on and so forth. So part of it's driven by kind of expectations of inflation through time. And then part of it's just driven by the supply and demand of bonds that are out there. And that can be, things like QE can affect that, right? So that first 2 % that you called, I was picturing in my head is almost like the neutral rate. What determines that? What would cause that to be higher or lower? Or is that just fairly static across time in that assumption or that model? That's the big debate upon the context right now is, are we in a new world of higher inflation where the neutral rate would need to be higher? Whereas if you go back to like the last 20 years pre -COVID, let's call it when we were in this like world of secular stagnation, where there was arguments that maybe that neutral rates is much lower since we're living in a world of lower growth, lower inflation, so on and so forth. So depending on how things shake out and what the future looks like, maybe that neutral rates higher. What are some things that could make inflation and growth stay higher? There's like the three D's I call it. It's like demographics, right? We've had a smaller workforce every year going back the last 10 years because the baby boomers are retiring. We also stopped immigration pretty aggressively too. So demographics are part of it. You got defense spending, right? Governments are definitely spending more on defense and that could be inflationary, expansionary. We've got spending on decarbonization, right? There's going to be trillions of dollars spent on decarbonization. There's infrastructure spending that needs to happen in the US. There's all these sources of potential growth that are coming that in theory could keep growth higher, inflation higher. And this is not a bad thing for the economy, but it just means that rates will probably have to be higher. And so I guess the real truth will be shown is after we kind of get through the next 12 to 24 months, soft landing, no landing, hard landing, whatever, what comes next? And are these long -term forces that are potentially pushing through into the economy going to keep growth and inflation higher in the future? Got it. So pivoting to mortgage backed securities, what are you seeing in the mortgage backed securities market now? Yeah, mortgages look the most interesting they have in almost 10 years. If you look at the spread on current coupon mortgage backed securities, which are the bonds that are being manufactured today by the loans being made today. So these are like seven and a half coupon loans get packaged into six and a half coupon bonds. The spread on them somewhere call between it like 165 to 175 and relative to corporate spreads, which are almost a hundred or a hundred ish, maybe a little bit wide of that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "25 year" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"For a number of different reasons that are not in your best interest and like it's a bad thing oh look at this terrible poll oh my gosh winky winky no I'm not that's how little I trust these people I I don't Jim's nodding his head because I think you sense what I'm sensing like they are desperately they understand how much anger is being directed at the Democrat Party out there right now they get it I've gone on any yes just name the issue the borders sex books in school fentanyl drugs public safe doesn't matter let's goes on and on they sense the anger is across the board real and that people are aging right now and they're trying to do anything to pacify so I'll look Donald jumps up by night yeah no need to vote folks don't send your donations don't knock on doors gonna be a landslide don't worry what happens we're sitting here holding our you -know -what after Election Day like what the hell just happened but there is something there and I want you to know you never ever wasting your time here there's an outlet out there called bull hit it go with an S in there otherwise known as I political mean if they're to the left of Lenin so when they write something like this in their playbook which is like the morning Bible for lefties which the email goes out every morning when they write something like this it says to me though good news bad news that there's probably something there something about what there is probably something there in this Donald Trump widening lead over Joe Biden because I'm seeing a lot of never Trump people too early well this is total crap where I agree he's probably not even close to up by nine nationally and I have no reason I have no reason to believe that's true I agree there with you there are others out there just kind of downplaying the boy go and then Donald Trump's gonna lose we gotta like this guy or that guy's better candidate they're all great candidates I'm not knocking them but don't act like there's not something there either there has definitely been some momentum on the Trump side and a decrease in momentum on the Biden side and of the big reasons Jim as we says has been what the black vote will get a thousand emails out I'm talking about the box now we're not gonna get 90 percent of the I don't take instructions from anyone got it we don't need 90 percent black vote folks we don't Senate a black vote if we can get thirteen to fifteen percent of the black vote and maybe say twenty percent the blackmail vote maybe 10 percent the female vote folks the Democrats have no math for victory at all listen to what I just said there's no math it's not in a matter of opinion winning election an is cobbling together a group of constituents into a number that wins you an election a key component in their quadratic equation to win is ninety percent of the black vote if they don't get it and they pull 80 or 85 there is no math for them to win they have been losing Hispanic voters in droves don't take my word for it listen a bull play to hit call playbook they're talking about the ABC poll they know of course it's an outlier compared to other polling organizations it isn't an outlier however compared see his own polling of the race which in May showed Trump up by seven over by the ABC poll has now consistently shown that Biden is struggling with young voters black voters black voters black voters black for Dan you're hiccuping no I'm not because I just get tired of people sending me messages you're making it up and Hispanic voters notable trends backed up by other research I'm not telling you he's gonna get 20 % of the vote black he doesn't need it be awesome but you don't need it folks I'm gonna ask you a question hit me up on Facebook or social or true through I have and I'm not suggesting it's a scientific sample at all so liberals don't you know I'm not even remotely implying this is a scientific poll I don't get out a lot but when I get out a lot of people come up and talk to me folks I have not seen it's not just struggling that he's with black voters he's struggling with young voters as even Politico had a note I have not young man women I happen young man 18 to 22 I have not met one of them that supports Trump oh well Dan they're coming up to you of course they're gonna be Trump's numbers no no no I'm talking about like HVAC people who've come to my house they see me and they're like hey you you're that guy in a picture over there yeah I am oh you know Trump happened folks this has happened at least 10 15 times 18 22 year old young man HVAC guy or plumbers apprentice or whatever oh man I love that I have not heard a single person a single person young male black black white or Hispanic and believe me I see everyone of every race all the time when I go out I've not seen a single one tell me they support by they may support someone else in the Democrats not a single one however I've run into probably a thousand that have told me oh yeah man I love Trump struggling with young voters black voters Hispanic voters so let me leave you with this tell you what I'm gonna tell you tell you what I told you it's important and so you remember all this don't get too crazy about the poll a lot of it may be an operation just to this get you know designed to get you to get one Biden out of the race and to get you yes see Jim's here now you see you should have told me if you had something to say yeah I think it's twofold and Jim's Jim's kind of thinks we nailed it but to get Biden out of the race and get you apathetic about Trump but part two of it is although Trump's probably not up by nine it's probably closer to two to three there is something there and it's growing and it's young voters and black and Hispanic voters I see it and I hear it all the time ignore it it's your own peril alright folks give us a call 844 -484 -3872 we'll be right folks you ever get the feeling the unthinkable is gonna happen soon I do but between the distractions and smokescreens in the media we probably won't see it coming that's why it's smart to invest in emergency food right away better to have it not need it than to need it and not have MyPatriotSupply is a nation's leader in high quality emergency food head on over to MyPatriotSupply .com and prepared today with emergency food that will stay fresh for up to 25 years enjoy a wide variety of delicious food kits offering over 2000 calories every day for optimum strength under stress and don't forget about water filtration and purification products these are perfect for bug out bags survival supplies or a camping pack all necessities one thing is for sure in this world stock up before the panic sets in not after and use MyPatriotSupply order by 3 p .m. in your item ship the same day that's fast go to MyPatriotSupply com it's time to prepare for what's coming that's Dan Bongino on the big 89 WLS strap in for the high -energy action -packed thrill ride of the Ben Shapiro 2 p .m. till 3 Joe Biden who basically forced the automakers into this position and because again he is such a bought and paid for Union show the unions feel like they can force these sorts of insane concessions down on the car companies Hakeem Jeffries again another democrat -based union show he says the UAW is fighting for basic freedom which is weird I didn't think basic freedom was a 32 -hour work week and to find benefit pension plans the Ben Shapiro show from 2 p .m. till 3 on checky 890 WLS
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Solutions to Student Loan Debt: Bridging the Partisan Divide with Alan Collinge
"Before the pandemic, 58 .9 % of all borrowers were not paying on their loans. That's nearly three in five of all borrowers were not making payments on their loans. That's going up. All right, thanks for tuning in, tuning in to the podcast. I got you downloading the podcast, listen to the podcast, whatever you do. We've done radio, by the way, for 25 years, if you haven't listened before. And so it's hard to shake that habit. But today, of course, it's a podcast. And we have a special guest today, which is not often that we have a special guest on our podcast. So I'm kind of looking forward to this. We have Alan College, right? He is a member of the studentloanjustice .org group. And we're going to talk a little bit about student loans and waiving them and the whole business of college, which really has turned into more of a government business, -funded which, as a result, if you see that as the wild inflation there. But we're going to talk about that and the cost and just kind of go back and forth on some of the things that you believe in, some things we believe in. So we'll kind of go from there. So Alan, let me ask you this. So we'll start off and just jump right in.
DerrickTalk
Fresh update on "25 year" discussed on DerrickTalk
"Welcome to the Monday edition of Convo Over Cigars. I'm your host Derek Andre Flemming. Let's talk about Remy Ma and Papoose. I'm not mistaken a couple. I read that I think they have been married for 11 years. I think that's correct. Here's what I do know. I do know that Papoose held Remy down when she was in prison. She was incarcerated and here's a man who basically stood by his wife. I don't think that a lot of men would have had the fortitude, the honor, the characteristics to say, you know what, that's my wife. I'm gonna hold her down. I don't care about her bed. She can be gone forever. I'm still gonna be here, not gonna entertain any foolishness, any other females. So I take my hat off to Papoose. My biggest question to women, realistically, is how do you explain a woman who cheats on a man who held her down when she was in prison? He was basically the perfect husband. I think Papoose was the epitome. Well, him and Remy Ma were the epitome of black love. This is what a black couple in love looks like. This is the illustration. So when we're hearing, you know, the recent rumors that she cheated with, you know, the battle rapper, the 25-year-old, I think a lot of people are surprised. And if I'm being honest, I think it set women back some. I'm not gonna say how many years, but it definitely set women back, because women say, I want a great guy that doesn't cheat, that only has eyes for me, that's not entertaining other women. He's not in other women's DMs. Remy, it seems as though, and again, we're on the outside looking in. My name is Derrick Andre Flemming. I'm your host of Convo Over Cigars, where we give you the latest in news and entertainment. It seemed as if Papoose was invested in his marriage. He was a faithful man. He was loyal. It seems that way. A lot of people say, well, they're celebrities. You don't know what goes on behind closed doors, high-profile people, obviously famous, obviously, you know, they have money, things like that. So you have to factor that in. Obviously, there's a lot of temptation. I just think she dropped the ball. I think Remy fumbled, if this is true, if these latest allegations are true, I think she fumbled the ball and the bag, because I just think women don't really value a man as they used to. A man, a good man, doesn't seem to have the significance that he once did. She's piling around with Fat Joe on a consistent basis when, you know, her husband is Papoose. He's a rapper. Joe's a rapper. Why would you always be with Fat Joe when you're a married woman? See, certain things to me are just out of bounds. Now, we can call a spade a spade or we could turn a blind eye, but the reality is I would have to say that Papoose is going to rebound from this if the allegations are true. Again, you know, Remy, I don't know if she's denied it. I haven't seen anything tangible where she came out and said, I did not cheat on my husband. I haven't seen that. So if anyone has seen that, then I would like you to forward it to me. I haven't seen it. So I'm assuming, since the allegations are true, the same, since the allegations are presumed true, if this is true, she dropped the ball. I mean, I can't explain why you would risk a marriage of 11 years, you know, a good man, a provider. I think they have kids and I haven't, I don't know too much about Remy and Papoose, but I can't help but see the latest trending topics and this is, this is unfortunate that, you know, a man who personifies a great husband, checked in on every level, a great provider, would be cheated on by his spouse after he seemed to be very loyal when she was incarcerated. This was a time of vulnerability for her. She was behind bars and Papoose just kind of played his position. He's still stuck by his wife, so why cheat? I want to hear your thoughts. Email me DerekTalk007 at gmail.com. You guys have been tuned in to another edition of Convo Over Cigars on a Monday. My name is Derek Andre Flemming. Take care, guys.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Firefighter Cancer: Diane Cotter Describes Her Husband's Harrowing Diagnosis
"Diane Carter is a self -taught citizen activist who's upright focused and determined efforts in support of her husband fire lieutenant Paul Carter during and after their battle against Paul's occupational cancer served as the inspiration for the documentary Burned protecting the protectors by filmmaker Elijah Yetter Bowman and award -winning actor Mark Ruffalo executive producer. Diane is the ultimate standard bearer a smart outspoken and fearless woman who continues to march at the head of her six -year campaign to remove PFAS forever chemicals from the gear worn by today's firefighters. No less an authority that Ed Kelly general president of the IAFF has properly called Diane Carter the firefighter's hero. The firefighters hero that's uh some big big shoes to fill so Diane tell us your story first of all welcome thanks for being with us I actually watched a movie yesterday that you sent us and I had to pause several times because I was so overwhelmed and so pissed off a couple times good um yeah so we'll talk about the movie but first tell us your story can you give us your background a little bit sure thank you I'm glad to meet you ladies finally in person big follower of the show I love it I love what you do I love that spouses and significant others are involved because um that's what I am that's all that I am it's a it's a fire wife I have no formal education I did get my hairdressers license some years ago and I was the worst hairdresser in the world so I didn't go far but I stayed at home and raised our children until they were about 10 and 11. Paul got on the fire department in 1988 when our son was two months old and our daughter was 18 months old our son is now a firefighter in the same department my husband served at now works in the same station in Worcester they had a beautiful beautiful life we embraced everything that we loved about the fire service his friends became my friends their wives became my my best friends we vacation with them etc. Paul had spent 25 years on the rescue in Worcester he had a 28 -year career at age 55 he decided it was time to climb the ladder so he took the lieutenant's exam and he made lieutenant and he was pretty disappointed because that meant that he'd leave his crew and he had worked with this crew you know on the same shift for 25 years they'd gone through a lot together the Worcester warehouse fire they've gone through so much together at any event we went on vacation with our firefighter families to moosehead lake up in maine and we came back to a beautiful ceremony in Worcester city hall when my husband was promoted to lieutenant along with one of his best buddies and the rescue saw him off and it was wonderful Paul was getting ready getting prepared to go back on to a new rig and he had an appointment to see a doctor because he was going in for cataract surgery his pre -exam showed that he had just a very slightly elevated number in his psa for prostate he had that check regularly as he did a lot of checks for his health because he was a very fitness aware person at any event he did get the call to come in they wanted a biopsy and i thought nothing about a biopsy because to look at him he literally looked like a 45 -year -old at 55 he was very fit very very strong and the picture of health we went to the doctor's office and i can remember that day because i was just so adamant to get this over with this appointment because i had things to do and we were making small talk with the doctor and we were in the tiny doctor's office room the exam room and out of nowhere the doctor said yep it's cancer and in that moment that moment i can remember because i remember i screamed and i fell into the chair and Paul who's almost six feet tall he broke out in this sweat all over his body i could just see the beads of sweat come out from everywhere on him and he sunk into a chair he tore his shirt off and he sunk into a chair and i can remember the doctor talking for 45 minutes and i'm crying and Paul's looking at me looking at the doctor looking at me looking at the doctor and we didn't hear a word he said
Evangelism on SermonAudio
Fresh update on "25 year" discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"I bring you good tidings of great joy Which shall be for all people what is that news for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord That message is good tidings It's the good news of the gospel Implied in what the angels said is a lot of gospel truth the need for a Savior the incarnation of God himself and many many things But again good tidings, that's what an evangelist does they bring the good news of the gospel Of course you're thinking about I'm sure the Great Commission Matthew 28 verse 19 go you therefore into all and teach all nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and of the Holy Ghost That was not In the first case that was speaking to the Apostles but of course the Apostles could not go into all the world and so by way of extension the good that the Great Commission is Under the authority of the Son of God was that we are to go and bring this good news teaching baptizing etc You are again under this broad thinking of evangelism you are an ambassador for Christ Now then we as ambassadors for Christ it was as though God did beseech you by us We pray you in Christ's dead be ye reconciled to God Paul here says a tremendous truth and Really? We are all ambassadors For Christ we're ambassadors because the love of Christ has constrained us he says We're ambassadors because he said that he has committed to us the word of reconciliation If you think about an earthly ambassador They don't wake up in the morning and put a suit on and go to go to the office and now they were in an ambassador they are an ambassador 24-7 and their task is to represent with dignity with honesty Without their own agenda a very proactively they are to represent their country And this is what a Christian where their lifestyle the printed page that we might hand out the word This this idea of you as an ambassador as an evangelist Involved and worried about evangelism this very broad way Touches us all but having said that There isn't a scripture a very I will say a special spiritual gift certainly a burden a calling It might not be an office. There's debate from the commentators Is it an office is it but the Bible talks about someone who has spiritually been gifted as an evangelist who goes? over and above the normal sphere of Spiritual gift I do believe it is a special calling and I believe Consequent with that calling it is the burden that moves that evangelist to do what he does The first scripture I have Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11 and 12 After God after Christ ascended on high it says he gave gifts unto men He gave some apostles some prophets some evangelists and some pastors and teachers For the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ He gave some evangelists This this gift seems to to be talking about this particular man who has a gospel laborer Will go into the fields of the world With a very specific task of bringing the good news the glad tidings of the gospel He's uniquely qualified to evangelize We're gonna look at some of the characteristics of an evangelist But but there's one that really kind of jumps out I believe and in my mind immediately sets this man apart as Evangelist and that is he is he is an extension of The church he is called by God. He often is called by the church to go into areas outside of the church to places where the word is not known to places where the word is needed and In this sense, they're distinguished from pastors and teachers the evangelist itinerates from place to place outside the church to bring the Word of God to either where he is directed by his home church or where God has directed him to go and where he has firsthand knowledge That the Word of God needs to be brought We think of individuals like George Whitfield who as An evangelist would bring God's Word to places where they needed to hear the Word of God Sometimes he was shut out from churches because they did not like His gospel preaching that did not stop him. He would preach in open fields. He would go to the marketplace he would bring God's Word and history has Shown us his great success Sometimes we think of missionaries as Evangelist but it's a spiritual gift to undertake a spiritual labor by the power of God Today often there is a different connotation of what an evangelist does There is perhaps a revival meeting set and a special speaker who's called an evangelist will come in they'll typically have a person who does special music with him and and they arrange these meetings because either The pastor is hoping that this evangelist will say the things that he's afraid to say Or he wants this evangelist who has this charisma or this personality To to get the people charged up and ignited and and wants something to happen That's not the biblical definition of who an evangelist is an evangelist itinerates he goes out here and there to Preach the gospel what separates him from the pastor teacher is God has said the pastor teachers duty station is the church It's a stationary location the pastor teacher is to to be here with the flock to teach to exhort to admonish and To grow under the power of the Holy Spirit to grow the church. It's in spiritual growth Whereas the evangelist goes out? Hither tither and yawn that's that's just one aspect of an evangelist that in my mind sets him apart We as laymen at laypeople. We have these concentric circles of family friends and and neighbors or co-workers that we try to evangelize But the evangelist goes outside of those concentric circles God has gifted him to do that In the broader context of the world the evangelist goes out When pastor Joe and myself ministered at the prisons We were not there as a pastor we were there as an evangelist We were going outside of our normal sphere of influence. We didn't live in prison Although we might have belonged there Those Individuals were not someone we saw on a normal basis Although we did get to know some of them on a first-name basis who were faithful to come to that church But we were not there as a pastor. We were trying to do the work of an evangelist going outside of our sphere of influence Our brother Gerard when he goes to Cal Berkeley He goes there to to witness as an evangelist. He does not live there He lives down in in Fremont Newark. He doesn't go to school at Berkeley He goes outside of his normal sphere of influence to to witness to the truth There this is what a Holy Spirit called evangelist does he goes into the broader context of the world to bring? The good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ Ephesians 4 verse 11. It's a stated spiritual gift So Secondly the need is there a need for evangelists Biblical evangelists in today's world. Let me give you two thoughts. And of course you would say well, of course, there's a need First thing I'd like to say is if you look at Matthew chapter 9 verses 37 and 38, you know this verse you don't need to turn there, but Jesus had told his disciples. He said the harvest truly is plenteous But the laborers are few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest You could not mistake the imagery here that our Lord is using he he first was talking about sheep without a shepherd and Then he switches the imagery to talk about fields that are ready for the harvest In John 4 he says the fields are white into the harvest Which is really interesting because it's the context of the Samaritan woman He's saying there's Gentiles that need to be reaped and harvested in But think about this word that a Lord told the disciples He said to them directly pray That the Lord of the harvest that he would send laborers into his harvest He did not tell the Apostles and the Seventy. Hey, you're not doing enough work for as an evangelist He did not tell them you need to get a better method He said pray that God would raise up others Because the work is too big Other dedicated laborers as harvesters need to be put and thrust into the field It's really interesting. It's the Lord of the harvest. God should be sought for laborers because the harvest Is too big it's his harvest. There's a need For gospel laborers really in the broad sense deacons pastors elders teachers and evangelists And if you survey churches out there today, you'll see the significant numbers of pastor teachers elders deacons People who's serving with their gifts of hospitality and mercy But are there evangelists We have some huckster evangelists We have some gimmicky evangelists But we have some biblical evangelists Jesus said pray that God would send out laborers into that field that's ready to be harvested outside of their sphere of influence into my vineyard But second thing I want to say about the need if you think back about our Ephesians passage He gave some apostles some prophets some evangelists some pastors teachers For the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ We ask the question why why all of this gospel machinery Is it efficient Is there another way? Another business model that we can we can come up with to get this work done But the very next verse tells us what God's end game is what the long-term goal is he says all of this people need to be the gifted and and thrust into the ministry because We have to all Come in the unity of the faith And of the knowledge of the son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ In other words the end goal Is so spiritually tremendous It's such of a high calling There has to be there by necessity much labor To to even begin to get this work done these five callings Or gifts are absolutely essential And all five of these working together support each other feed off of each other so that the Christian Can Come to the knowledge of the son of God And to a perfect man And unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ You think about our lord's image imagery of the harvest we we we know that that imagery is used often throughout the bible And the connotation is is planting Maybe plowing first then planting and then watering and pruning and and fruit bearing and harvesting eventually A lot of aspects of the same work to get the final fruit Again I believe the scripture isolates an evangelist as one who different from the rest of us Has this the singular spiritual gift to to go outside of those normal concentric circles of of witnessing to bring the good news And the need for evangelism an evangelist obviously Evangelism in general, but this evangelist the need is great. He is an answer to the prayer That God would grant laborers into his vineyard So thirdly I want to talk about the example of Philip the evangelist and if you If we think about Philip the evangelist and we trace his life through in the book of acts We'll find these other characteristics of what an evangelist does how he thinks how he acts what what his makeup Is besides just going outside? of the normal sphere of influence In acts chapter 21 and verse 8 It designates Philip as an evangelist we read and the next day We that were of Paul's company departed and came unto Caesarea And we entered it into the house of Philip the evangelist Which was one of the seven? And we abode with him Philip the evangelist The bible highlights a few things about him And we need to think about these relative to Philip as an evangelist Philip is first mentioned in the book of acts Chapter chapter 6 where he was actually one of the first deacons The deacons were chosen to attend the the temporal affairs of the church in jerusalem So that the murmurings would stop And also so that the elders could give themselves to prayer and the word of god And so the deacons were called to wait tables to take care of Logistical administrative functional type things And for someone to do that they need to be spiritually minded They're willing to wait tables if it means the word of god will progress and and make an info They'll sweep the floor They'll they'll do whatever it takes So that somebody else had been the word of god so We deduced that stephen was a very spiritual man He was concerned about the glory of god in the church And the bible tells us that these deacons the elders gave this responsibility to the church And they said you look out among yourself And they gave two qualifications this person has to be filled with the holy ghost And they have to have wisdom So And I think There's a third one, of course, they had to have a reputation among the brethren Because the brethren were the one that said hey this individual Can do this specific work But these two traits I think or three traits Characterize an evangelist they characterized philip the evangelist full of the holy ghost Wisdom And they had a reputation among the brethren to be this very kind of an individual You know an evangelist needs wisdom An evangelist is not a street preacher whose persona is to take no hostages And be like a bull in a china shop and we've all probably seen the youtube videos of of several street preachers and I think G if I was asking questions about why am I here and who is god and How can I be right with god and is there a heaven? I would want to ask that person to buy my head off I want to have someone who and the person who evangelized me He had wisdom And he was patient with me He didn't want to see immediate results He would give me some scriptures to think about that and i'll come back tomorrow. We'll talk some more They have to have wisdom Next we meet We meet philip the evangelist After the martyrdom of stephen, it says philip the evangelist went to the city of samaria where he preached quote with much success simon magus Being one of his converts. Okay, so now Philip the evangelist goes into the city of samaria to preach the gospel And if you know the story about simon magus he used sorcery He was somebody in the city And he had a large following And under the the power and work of god the preaching of this evangelist philip the people Were brought into the kingdom of god before simon magus But then simon magus this this great individual he thought Who had many followers scripture says he was held in high regard he became a believer And what's implied about philip the evangelist was that he was bold to go into this type of place to preach And he had this winsome personality and he was equipped To be used by the holy spirit to share the word So Think about an individual who goes into this type of a scenario Where there's already an individual who's the king as it were and followers And philip is able to go and convince of the kingdom of god To such a degree that even simon magus who later had a few problems, but he was a believer Was joined into the household of faith afterwards The scripture says that the angel of the lord Directed philip the evangelist to go to that road between jerusalem and gaza And there he met the ethiopian eunuch that tremendous story where This individual is reading isaiah 53 And philip the evangelist Sees this open door Here's a person who's reading maybe out loud even isaiah 53 At the very least it's a believer and he can have some fellowship with him At the very worst he's not a believer and he runs up to him and said you understand what you're reading And as you know that story he he directed him into the kingdom of god and then he baptized him Here we see philip Abel knowledgeable in the word of god In the old testament he was encouraging He he was positive again philip was not intimidated to say Here he is reading the bible and he has to say I I don't know what i'm reading But he was not afraid to to say that to philip philip must have had this this demeanor a spirit-led demeanor to be approachable Scripture goes on to say as we talk about philip the evangelist that the spirit caught him away To ashdod And it says passing through there He preached in all of the cities Until he came to sassaria So here we see that it was his manner of life There was this constancy. It was normal For philip to preach the gospel This is just what he did. This is who he was. This was in his spiritual dna As he passed through these cities to preach the gospel And then later the verse that I started off with in acts 21 where he is called philip the evangelist and paul Has heard of his reputation and wants to go in And abide with him I believe when you you do just a cursory Study of philip the evangelist you see these characteristics That that god has gifted this individual to do a very specific task He's working outside of his normal sphere of influence very naturally gifted to do so servant-minded Led by the spirit of god Knowledgeable of the word of god philip could probably preach the gospel from any chapter of any book in the bible He was seeking to build up the church He was able to disciple others He had discernment. He had wisdom He was bold This is the role of the evangelist Philip is a great example fourthly under our main point some principles and precepts of evangelist evangelism what an evangelist does just by way of of precept And here i'd like you to turn if you would to ecclesiastes chapter 11 And in a way by way of application make a few Uh points here, but obviously as you're turning there an evangelist Is not trying to make a calvinist An evangelist is not trying to force his personal pet peeves or his doctrinal soap boxes upon this individual he wants to preach the word and leave room for the holy spirit to work in an individual individual's life Leave room for the holy spirit not not force the issue Like beating a piece of metal with a hammer trying to get it into a form Scatter the seed stand back and see what the holy spirit does This this evangelist is not trying to make a name for himself He's not trying to get a following for himself he he doesn't want to create this street preacher persona But just a couple of precepts for evangelism that the evangelist uses I believe Ecclesiastes chapter 11 verse 1 cast thy bread upon the waters For thou shalt find it after many days Give a portion to seven and also to eight For thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth If the clouds are full of rain They empty themselves upon the earth If the tree falls towards the south or toward the north in the place where the tree falls There it shall be He that observes the wind Will not sow And he that regards the clouds will not reap As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit Nor how the bones do grow in the womb a fur that is with child Even so thou knowest not the works of god who maketh all In the morning Sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand For thou knowest not which shall prosper either this or that Or whether they both alike shall be good I believe that we can draw by at least by way of application Um, some think this is talking about charity. You should be charitable charitable to others. So you get charity back I don't think that's what it's talking about. I think we can at the very least by way of application Draw some thoughts here about evangelism sharing the word Just three very briefly we evangelize with a promise Cast your bread upon the waters and after many days You will find it In other words your labor is not in vain in the lord If we sow the spiritual seed If we sow the seed of the word of god and not our pet peeves or not a systematic theology Not our opinions or our topics If we sow the word of god it cannot return to him void If we sow the true bread Not the fluffy white wonder bread of modern evangelism if we sow the true bread After many days I have to wait I have to be patient. I have to depend upon god. It's come to that Yes after many days Thou shall find it. There's not a lot of ethiopian eunuchs Who you're just going to happen to bump into that are reading isaiah 53 that you can? Jump all over, right? True conversion is a very hard thing, right? It's it's really difficult when you have to count the cost You have to reject previously held religious ideas and concepts There's personal soul searching my friend who evangelized me He knew that I was going through a lot of soul searching and asking questions because I had been brought up in another religion And I had to reject certain stuff and try to see where this this gospel fit into my life There was the seed planted and the germinating And the watering and the fertilizing and and then the growth We evangelize an evangelist goes out there with this promise I think he's able to grasp this promise Maybe better than others you will find it after many days Psalm 126 verse 5 they that sow in tears shall reap in joy He that goeth forth weeping and bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again. There it is with rejoicing Bringing his note to change sheaves with him. He sows the seed He comes back with the sheaves the harvest We evangelize with the promise Cast thy bread upon the water for thou shall find it after many days Second precept we witness with liberality With liberality give a portion to seven give a portion to eight If the clouds are full of rain, here's this a natural Phenomena that has a spiritual parallel if the clouds are full of rain They empty themselves. They have to An evangelist and all of us should to some degree if we are full of the word of god and the holy spirit and god's burden We just have to let it go. Amen and that's what the evangelist does He sows in the morning verse six. He sows in the evening With liberality He does not bury his talent He does not bury the word of god But by the way Remember when our lord is talking in matthew 25 About the talents he gives someone 10 then he gives someone five and he gives someone one And then he comes to see later. What what has been accrued? What was the sin of the guy who buried the one talent? I've two glaring sins Are on the surface. Yeah, he buried the talent. He should not have done that but the first sin is He calls the lord wicked He said you're a harsh taskmaster You're rough. You're austere You're rigid you're stern you're harsh Really He the the the the master just given out all these talents And when he gave the one the one He was probably expecting just to be Doubled from one to two. He wasn't expecting some hard thing for the one who had the one talent Likewise when we witness not only are we not burying our talents But we have to have in our mind's eye the benevolence of god The goodness of god that leads to repentance the love of god I mean And again, I don't want to pick on street preachers But very often they come across as though god is an austere man He's he's stern. He's rigid. He's rough. That's a translation of all this this word But but they go out with this promise and with liberality because they know god is a good god God sent me into the field because in this field there are some that are ready to be harvested And he wants them into his garner We witness with liberality Thirdly we we witness with a trust In god because we've been trusted with the seed of the word God has give made us stewards of the mysteries of christ the christian the evangelist is someone who has been put in trust He's been given seed he cannot Store the seed up just for himself He cannot delay In sowing the seed he has to work while it's day because night's coming when nobody can work He has to sew it all into to the soil. He cannot discriminate Looking for good soil Right. Oh the parable of the seed on on the ground. There's four grounds and only one produces Maybe two But i'm going to just look for the good ground to sow the seed. He can't do that. He has to sow indiscriminately Three times in these six verses god said you do not know Thou knowest not which shall be good thou knowest not how god works thou knowest not And so he with entrusted he trusts god for the disposing of the seed So The role of the evangelist in the in the life of the church it's a stated role spiritual gift or calling there is a need Fill up the evangelist I think is a tremendous pattern And some of the precepts that this evangelist uses he understands that he does he goes forth with the promise He goes to to spread the word liberally And he knows that he's been entrusted With this gift and with the word to share Well now and more briefly the role of the church in the life of the evangelist and so if the evangelist works out of a church if he is Part of a body we can assume that there is there is some relationship between The role of the church in the life of the evangelist and I have two there in the outline going and holding so let me use an example from church history as far as going I I hope you've heard the name of william carrey Who's been called the father of modern? Missions william carrey was was in england. He was a a cobbler He was a teacher at a school. He was also a pastor of a small Church there in england in 1785 He was appointed as as the headmaster of the church of the school while he was a baptist preacher and pastor And william carrey on one hand was reading books like jonathan edwards um Account of the life of david brainard who was a missionary to the indians And at the same time as he was teaching the kids geography He was considering countries like like india and and africa And parts of south america where the word of god Had never gone And he started asking himself the question how How can god's word? Go there What could god do by way of evangelism? Well william carrey was a particular baptist he was in somewhat of a hyper calvinistic group of baptists And this group believed that Because of the doctrines of grace the doctrines of calvinism Men were not to use means To to spread the word because god had already predestinated those unto eternal life and if we were to use means Then we are undermining god And and so and it's a waste of time because god is already doing the whole thing and all of this of course is not true God does use means and So anyway, there was a particular gathering of these baptist ministers at north hampton And they were talking about several things and the whole idea of missions came up and this famous encounter Where william carrey stood up and he wanted to talk about the duty of christians to attempt to spread the gospel among the heathen nations And It was like a bombshell This young man was shouted down The scheme was impractical No one knew these foreign languages And someone I think it was john rylan Said sit down young man When god wants to convert the heathen, he'll do it without your help or mine And and it was Totally all of character another puritan divine was there andrew fuller Andrew fuller did not publicly chastise william carrey, but he later said that he was thinking of that verse that says if god would open up the windows of heaven How can this thing be? It was it was impossible As a human would think he was saying but but william carrey's zeal Could not be quenched and he continued to bring forward this idea That we should go Is it difficult? Yeah, is it impossible? Yeah william carrey had a lot more questions than answers But he was trying to begin to understand. How can we go? And then william carrey preached that famous sermon from isaiah 54 verse 2 and 3 enlarge the place of thy tent Let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations. Do not spare lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left And thy seed shall inherit the gentiles And make the desolate cities to be inhabited Amen and he had two points from that sermon expect great things from god attempt great things for god That same year he published a little pamphlet entitled an inquiry into the obligations of christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen Again most of carrey's Contemporaries believed that the great commission only belonged to the apostles But William carrey kept urging and asking and trying to get people to think about Using human means under the providence of god under the power of god to spread the gospel So If you think about it, it's So spiritually perfect that god uses imperfect means To share his word word because man gets no glory at all All the glory goes to god For after that in the wisdom of god the world by wisdom did not know god It pleased god by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise And god has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty And the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen Yea, and the things which are not to bring to not The things that are That no flesh Should glory in his presence God uses the imperfects yous and me's to accomplish Something that is so otherworldly That there is no way any of us could take any credit Or any glory for doing gospel work God does use means When god called abram out of ur the kaldis abram had to walk out of ur the kaldis If you want to be obedient to that scripture admonition to let the word of christ dwell in you richly When you wake up in the morning, you have to open the book and read the book And memorize meditate study The book god uses means Eventually william carrey overcame the resistance of the Of the missionary effort to accomplish they they founded a society which this Missionary society is still in existence today And william carrey did go to india In 1834 he went there and died there in 1834 having never left Going the evangelist has in his spiritual DNA That he wants to go despite obstacles despite fears and doubts Despite disagreeing brethren They want to go At our subsequent business meeting we're going to tell you there's an individual in this church who wants to go And to that we say amen somebody wants to go Going What about holding so so andrew fuller was the guy who said He didn't know how this could could work out. He didn't publicly chastise william carrey But he said in his mind if the windows of heaven are open. How can we how can we do this thing? Andrew fuller who was a puritan divine tremendous preacher godly man He eventually saw what william carrey saw and he had this conversation with William carrey, he said this there's a gold mine a gospel gold mine in india But it goes as deep as the center of the earth Who will venture to go and explore it and william carrey said this I will go down If you will hold the rope They needed somebody holding the rope so he could go down This is what the church is called to do in the life of the evangelists hold the ropes help Be there to support Andrew fuller Held the ropes by becoming the president of this baptist missionary society He traveled around raising people's awareness. He raised some money. He got people focused on on missionary endeavor Holding the church holds the rope by sending by praying By giving first of all sending How shall they call upon him whom they've not heard or believed How should Allah should they believe on him whom they've not heard And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach? Except they are sent As it is written And I think this is a quote from isaiah 32 as it is written How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace? And bring glad tidings of good things Sending the church is to recognize the spiritual gift in this calling and the church is to set apart And the church is to send Praying The church needs to very consistently pray For the evangelist who is doing that work out there We normally think of second thessalonians 3 1 paul saying finally my brethren Pray for us that the word of the lord may have free course and run and be glorified That's a very easy pray prayer to pray Yeah, that the word preached would be owned of god and it would run and be glorified and we forget the next verse The next verse says and that we can be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men Because all men have not faith The evangelist is going out there and there's some wicked people out there I know there's wicked people imprisoned And there's wicked people at cal berkeley And evil morally wrong and and people on the street. They're unreasonable Paul said pray for us that both the word would go forth And that we can be delivered from unreasonable when wicked men so that we can continue the work of an evangelist Lastly giving We don't like to talk about money Because there's so much Shameless begging for money in pulpits today. We never Preached that I recall I remember once or twice in 25 years where a sermon has been shared on On money, we don't pass the plate. We don't know who gives what? but paul Quite often talked about raising money To support because the evangelist has has paul said living expenses. He has sending expenses He has all these expenses And we don't want him To have to have to work necessarily so that he can give himself to the ministry now paul Said I don't always exercise that That that that opportunity that gift I'm going to make tense Because that's how god has wired me And the money that you're going to give me let's give it to an evangelist so they can do the work of the gospel But but paul in several places I have the verses if you want to get them later paul said we should support financially the evangelist The evangelist is not going to be on on some gravy train Driving a bmw and making a lot of money The evangelist needs a subsistence So that he can he can go and give himself to the labor So so I tried to very compactly talk about The role of the evangelist in the life of the church and the role of the church in the life of the evangelist I think behind all of this we see The tremendous love and goodness of god when you were evangelized by whoever evangelized you Who ultimately? Was the evangelist? It was god the holy spirit Who used an individual? Maybe attract Maybe the internet as as much good as the internet does God uses people one on one encounters one with a small group The fields are white into the harvest I have to confess sometime. I I look at the fields and I say I don't see any whiteness out there Everyone is going their own way. Everyone Is is saying they don't need god Those are the ones that do need god the ones who are ignorant foolish Let's Continue to pray that god would raise up laborers for his harvest and that we as a church can have some small part in that let's pray father, thank you for Your love to us and you used individuals in our life to to witness to the truth the glad tidings of great joy And and it is a great joy. They were glad tidings Even though for some of us it took a while to see it Father as we now are at a crossroads now of understanding The work of an evangelist and an individual in our midst who wants to go In our role. Oh, we pray lord that you would guide us That you would equip us and help us to to do your work the way you want it done And that you would get all the glory forward we ask this in jesus name.
No Disputing That
The Origins of Mediation With Professor Noam Ebner
"We're honest mediation and mediation training in the uk came from america right but it's now 20 25 years on so has developed its own uniqueness um you know in our typical way that we're not really europe but we are europe and we're close to america but we're not america so we've got this sort of our own version of things and so it'd be interesting to see from my perspective how much it now differs from how people train in america absolutely i mean um mediation some people don't like it when i say this but mediation is an american export right america has exported mediation it's not i'm not saying that it's in american creation okay mediation existed long before america existed and long before you know any of the it's one of the earliest things in human society uh almost certainly english what it's almost certainly english it's almost certainly okay you can have it but but did you export it as uh intentionally and successfully as americans first you exported it to the colonies right and then it made its way uh from indeed and right from those from new england and and the colonies on the coast um you know since the 19 certainly since the 1970s uh but maybe earlier you know we've seen many universities institutions private uh uh private people set sail from the united states headed out into the world and bringing the light of mediation quote unquote there and starting training programs and starting you know to to generate interest and uh and this has happened all over the world that just as you happened in uk i went through it in israel um you know and and it happened in in any number of locales all across the world and of course when you think of it that is both wonderful and it's also horribly problematic uh in that but you know the the dispute resolution mechanism process that was devised to resolve conflict in right in massachusetts is not necessarily the same as is is required or suitable whether to whether whatever you want the legal atmosphere but more important just the culture of uk of the middle east of africa of asia and so 10 years on 20 years on as you say um of course natural variants have emerged natural i i really mean local variants have emerged it's interesting you know to identify can you can you identify something that's uniquely british right something uniquely israeli something uniquely ugandan in mediation um some countries have this you know you can you can see it more easily than others and then as you say it's really interesting to speak with with people you know back in the let's call it the mother country of mediation and have those conversations like what what do you seem to take for granted that we don't seem to take for granted what can you get away with in a room that we wouldn't get away with in the room what do you consider getting away with in a room that we consider that's just the way people talk
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/15/23
"I thought I was having a stroke. I think, is that me talking again? That was the previously on the Mike and Mark segment, because we got through all the important stuff, because there have been some things going on. But then I didn't really get to the part where our plane got hit by something during our sojourn in New York. What did your plane get hit by? What kind of thing hits planes these days? A bird? Bingo! Bird strike. Now, here's the good news. We were not on the plane. So what do you mean, our plane? So we're at DFW, getting ready to board for New York on Thursday afternoon last week. And then the word comes from the gate. It's never a good thing like, flight, we got a special announcement, draw near, light a fire, here we go, we got info. And it was, there would be a delay because on the way in the flight, which usually would turn around in about 45 minutes, yeah, that wasn't going to happen because there was a bird strike on the way in. And it was American. And listen, you've done a lot of travel and I have too, somewhat less, when they tell you the delay is going to be an hour and a half, you know it's going to be five. You know, you may not get out that day. Actually, the delay really wound up being about close to an hour and a half and American actually handled it very, very nicely. I'll tell you what they did, they put us on another plane, which I'm thankful for because I believe that the technicians and the workers would all get in there and make sure there's not, you know, a nest of birds in the turbine engines or so. I mean, but I was glad to be on another plane. But that gets me to question number two for my travel oracle, Mike Gallagher. You're both a travel oracle and a dog lover, right? We all love travel and dogs, correct? At the same time on the list of things we love travel. So it's a fixture now. Everybody's got, and I'm not talking about a support peacock or any of this idiocy, but actual service dogs are a common thing. And I love that when I see somebody, I know they got something going on and it just makes me feel, you know, empathy and love toward one. I sat in front of one yesterday, beautiful dog, well behaved, and a lady with special needs. You could tell she, I think she was with her daughter and that, and it was a big dog, but they were at her feet and just sleeping all through the flight and just as docile and peaceful and beautiful as can be. So here's the question I have, where do they poop? If you've got a service dog and it's like, well, it's going to be four hours. Now, some airports, DFW among them have places, I think, where you can go take the puppy when puppy has to pop a squirt. I mean, I totally get it. Lord knows if I do, it's right there. But what if a Rover has one in the chamber and I mean, we're sorry, your flight is going to be four hours. How in the world? And I've never, now that you mentioned with all the travel I do, I've never, ever heard of any kind of an accident on the plane with a service dog. Well, maybe, maybe they just have doggy bags. Would people have carry doggy bags with them? And they're able to scoop stuff up. You know, I mean, you talk about travel challenges though. My friends, Joey and Peg took three days to get back from New York to South Carolina. This is what they do. Walk. No, it was the flights were canceled because of weather on Sunday. Then they were all sold out on Monday. Then they got back on a plane Tuesday, and then it stormed again on Tuesday. They finally got in a car, tried to drive from New York to South Carolina, made it to Philly, and then were able to get on a flight from Philly into South Carolina. And that's a normal thing, though. When you say an hour and a half, believe me, tell that to Joey Hudson. It took three days. He would have killed to take an hour and a half. One of the last thing, truly last thing, because this ties into technology you talked about yesterday. We were talking about the wonderful story of the electric vehicle caravan that just was destroyed by the facts of life and Jennifer Granholm because they couldn't find a charging station, blah, blah, blah. And you talked about the Tesla experience where the, where your car knows where the charging stations are, knows how many people are at the charging station. And so that put very front of mind the notion of modern technology and how it knows where people are. Surely you've done this. That was my first experience. Again, at DFW, one of these stores, it's run by Amazon. It's called Grab and Fly, which is a very uncomfortable title where you walk, you go bloop, you scan your credit card. Then you go through a turnstile, walk in, buy, pick stuff up and walk out. And it knows what you have and hits your card. And I asked the woman, I said, how does it know that I have a magazine and a bottle of water? It just knows. And it knows where you are. It senses what you have. It senses where you are. It follows, it tells you, it tells you how long you were in the store to the second. I mean, cause, cause I just experienced my first Amazon pop -up store last week in New York. They have one right across from the hotel. You feel like you're shoplifting because you don't even walk out. You don't even have to put it. You don't even have to, or you could just carry it all out under your arms like a shoplifter. Like you're in San Francisco. It's another day in New York city. I mean, you'd walk out and then about five or 10 minutes after you leave the Amazon store, you'll get a note on your, you'll get an email and you'll get a notification on your Amazon app. Okay. You had a 33 ounce bottle of water. You had a bottle of two bag of chips. You have it. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. I totally love it. I love it until this technology is suddenly turned against us, which could happen at any moment. I'm thinking so. Now, speaking of technology, how much have you done with AI? How much have you done on air about artificial intelligence? Have you talked about it? Okay. In terms of talking about whether the answer is a little in, I can give you a 30 second summation. I'm fascinated by perfect framework because I'm fascinated by it. There are parts of it that are really cool. I think it's making students lazy cause they're getting it to write compositions for them, but you can always tell when AI has done it because it's kind of passionless and unartful. I farted around with a stupid chat GPT thing. I remember I had it write a promo for your show, which was actually pretty good and et cetera, et cetera. But the whole notion of surrendering to artificial brains, all manner of things is a little daunting to me. Now, when you asked me about it as a topic - Well, let me tell you what I'm getting to. When I bring it up - Instead of your dissertation, let me tell you why I'm asking you about it because we got a big problem on our hands. I'm going to tell you right now, and your indifference to it has been my indifference to - I'm not indifferent. No, no, no. I don't mean indifference, but I'm with you. I'm exactly the way you've been. It's like, oh, okay. It's kind of cool. Let me tell you something. It's bad, and they're holding hearings on Capitol Hill, Mark, and let me tell you how it hit us yesterday, a dose of reality that applies to what we do for a living because this is not chat GPT. This is real potential for some serious mayhem and Armageddon. Let me tell you what happened. I'm on the show yesterday, and I can see, I don't know how your setup is in your studio in Dallas, but I can see the incoming calls that Tracy is getting when they call the show. Line four lights up. It's Los Angeles. I see Tracy because we're all on camera in this setup we have, and I can see her eyes get real big. She puts the guy on hold. She says, oh my gosh, it's Bill Maher on line four. I said, Bill Maher? She goes, yeah, and I look up, and she's got Bill Maher on the screen, line four, Los Angeles. I said, it's not Bill Maher. She goes, I'm telling you, I'm talking to him. I know what he sounds like. It's Bill Maher. I say, Eric, talk to the guy. See if it's Bill Maher. And supposedly, he's calling a few select talk shows that he respects to explain why he's bringing his show back to HBO despite the writer's strike. And he is bringing his show back despite the writer's strike. That's a story. Good for him. It's a cool story because he's telling them, you know what? I got people that got to pay the bills. And here we go with 46 % pay raise, and they want to work one less day a week and 90 weeks of vacation. Oh, yeah. Other than that, they're fine. I'm going to take the labor side in a minute, but finish. Oh, please. Well, let's not get distracted with that crap. A little bit. Go ahead. A labor side. Yeah, you take the labor side. I'm going to have some love for the law workers. You go demand, Jeff Mitchell, you want a 46 % pay raise tomorrow. Give me a break. Give me a break. It's not the same thing. Don't be a pro -union. Come on, give me a break. I'm the last person to do that, but those workers were told certain things and had certain things happen and they've been screwed to a degree. But they want a 46 % pay raise. They want a 32 hour work week. They want 40 hour pay for 32 weeks of work, 32 hours of work. They want, give me a break. They're greedy. They might be entitled to something, but they ain't entitled to what they're demanding. Don't take the side. Okay, Richard, Jimmy Hoffa, knock it off. Don't squirrelly on me. Oh, golly. Focus, focus. So Bill Maher. Well, yeah, you tell him good. Be pro labor. Yeah, you'd be pro labor. So anyway, Bill Maher. So I say, Eric, get on the phone. Talk to the guy. Eric has been at this for 25 years. Yes. He is a veteran. He comes back to me, eyes bugged open. He said, Mike, I'm 95 % sure that's Bill Maher. I said the final. It was responsive. He asked it. He asked it questions and he asked the question and the guy answered. Now I say, finally, we see the number on the screen. We have caller ID. I said, what's the, what's the number? We ran it. We run a check on the number. Oh, it's, it's Bill Maher. So the guy, so I'm thinking, I think it's him. So I went on the air with him. Listen to what it sounded like. No. Okay. Listen to what? Well, listen, why not? Bill Maher's calling the show. Because you know, it's fake because I don't know it's fake. Bill flipping Maher is not going to cold call radio stations. He's going to have three, three production assistants call your people and that's how it's going to go. Okay. So listen to the exchange. Listen, listen to the exchange. We're all mystified by this. I'm going to, we're going to probably get burned on this. Uh, I got, and the problem is I got 30 seconds left in this segment. So we're all, we're all taking bets as to whether or not you are really Bill Maher. Is this Bill Maher? Yes, it is Bill Maher. Thanks for letting me come on.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 6 Evangelism
"Come to Lecture 4, now your notes for this I do not think are too valuable. You just got blanks there to fill out. Unless you've got a magnifying glass, you're not going to be able to read them. You probably can read it, all right. One of my ladies who was helping me do this came up with the idea, why don't we do it this way? We did that one and never got back to changing it. So I didn't like it, so I don't think they're any more like that, I hope not. All right, evangelism in the New Testament church, what do we find about that? And I mentioned that we had noted briefly some truths about the book of Acts and the growth of the New Testament church. And so here we're going to go into this matter of the growth in the New Testament church. The period covered by the Acts, about 30 years. Usher's Chronology mentions that it's AD 33 to AD 63. With this in mind, we see how intense was the activity of the early church. have I do a note by Dr. Stewart. The church in its first 25 years of existence accomplished more than at any other time in the history of Christianity. The startling fact is this, that if the apostolic church had continued as she began, she would have evangelized the world in the first few centuries. The church began on fire for God. Now the church had a very small beginning, the challenging test for the New Testament church. There are various tests that we have, the church had a small beginning. 120 members starting out, met in the upper room. From a human standpoint, that little group was doomed to failure. They could have said, will anyone believe our message? We are presenting Jesus of Nazareth, a man who died an ignominious death on a criminal's cross. Will anybody listen to us? We are preaching that just Jesus arose literally from the dead. We believe He's the Son of God. Will they hear that? They could have done that. They didn't do it, but they could have. Not only did they have a small beginning, the church lived in a hostile atmosphere. Everywhere they turned, a dreadful atmosphere. Acts chapter 4, in Acts 4 you find the priests and the captains of the temple and the Sadducees were grieved that they taught the people in the name and preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead. Acts chapter 4, what is it, verse 2 I guess. They put them in jail, questioned them the next day. They heard Peter's clear message that Jesus Christ is the stone which the builders rejected. He's the only savior, verse 12, for there is none of the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. A hostile atmosphere. Everything about it was opposed to them. The priests commanded them not to preach their message any longer. The message of Christ and they threatened them if they did. Thank God they said, well, regardless of what you say, we're going to go right on. We're going to preach the Word of God and take our stand for Christ. It's interesting how the church grows when persecution comes. It may be that the best thing that can happen to the church in America is persecution.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from New NFT Strategy EXPOSED Last Night!?
"As a contractor, I choose Hardee fiber cement because I've seen it outperform wood -based siding and other hard siding materials. The high -quality craftsmanship translates into beautiful and durable results that leave our customers at G -Fidel extremely satisfied. Using Hardee siding has significantly reduced my callbacks and warranty claims too. At James Hardee, we're here to support you. From training materials to resources that can help you generate a greater profit. Learn more about growing your business with us at jameshardee .com slash build. Hey, guys. I got some breaking news for the NFL and crypto fans out there. There's some ways to make more money with crypto if you're a fan of fantasy football in the NFL like a lot of you probably are. Now, guys, unless you're under a rock, you've heard of fantasy football. Well, there's a crypto aspect to fantasy football, and that's draft kings. Draft kings have NFTs of every single player that you could draft. So if you play fantasy football and you see that random wide receiver, that random running back, you can draft that as an NFT. Well, there's a big, big injury that happened on Sunday. You maybe saw Aaron Rodgers. He got a career -ending injury, potentially career -ending. It's definitely season -ending. It's a bad Achilles heel injury, and he is out. Well, where's the crypto opportunity in that? Well, NFTs of Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson was the backup player for the Green Bay Packers. NFTs of Zach Wilson shot up from $69 all the way up to $555. Okay, that is an 8x. That's almost a 900 % gain right there. Sorry. No, it's 700%. That's almost a 700 % gain right there, folks. All right. Thank you, editor, for bearing with me here. Now, that NFT was for the elite version, and there's only 30 copies of those. So the less supply there is, the more value that these NFTs are going to have. So you don't want to go for the common or the uncommon if you're trying to flip NFTs. A lot of times, you just want to go for the rare for that hot, for that holy grail of the NFTs there. Now, what is the next opportunity, guys? Now, this was a huge, huge gain, okay? Going from $69, which is a pretty nice price, all the way up to $550, that's people would go crazy. A Wall Street guru, the world's best Wall Street trader, would go nuts for those types of returns. Well, guys, I think these returns can be had regularly, okay? Now, it might not always be a marquee player like, you know, Aaron Rodgers is in the backup, but sometimes, you know, running backs get injured all the time. Wide receivers get injured all the time. Other quarterbacks, there's, you know, almost 30 other quarterbacks that are, you know, worth their salt there. There's going to be tons of opportunities. Say your fantasy football team is doing terrible. You're horrible. You're in last place. You know you're not going to get in the playoffs. It's three weeks in, and you basically want to throw in the towel. Well, don't give up because there's a lot of opportunity with this DraftKings angle. All you have to do is just watch Sunday. Be the first one or two people to buy the NFT of that soon -to -be upgraded bench warmer, okay? Maybe it's a running back. Maybe it's a quarterback. Maybe it's a wide receiver. You don't know who's it going to be because we don't know who's going to get injured. There's going to be a lot of people maybe watching behind. There's going to be people FOMOing in later. There's going to be people maybe buying it an hour later. I want you to be watching the game, and I want you buying that NFT within seconds. Now, if you have a knowledge about football and you have a knowledge about crypto, this is a unique opportunity for you because not everyone is going to have your knowledge. Not everyone has your years of training being that armchair quarterback. You know, watching this channel, discovering crypto, figuring out how to get this wallet, figuring out what do you mean NFT marketplace, knowing what that means, knowing what your seed phrase is, having it written down, having all these things safe and having a roster of NFL NFTs that you can capitalize off of as there's going to be a lot of opportunity here. Sixteen weeks left, right? Seventeen weeks in the season. We got a lot of weeks left in the season. That's a lot of weeks of injuries. That's a lot of weeks of buying NFTs. And, guys, it's not just Sunday. We got Monday. We got Thursday. I think even Saturday night sometimes, so there's going to be opportunity. So if you're a football fan, turn it into an opportunity, a money -making opportunity. I'm not saying, you know, you're going to get paid 100 bucks an hour to watch football, but some people literally were paid hundreds of dollars an hour to watch football. Those that bought that Zach Wilson NFT and those that sold into the profit because that's going to be the key as well is spiked all the way up to 550 bucks. Guess what? Zach Wilson's NFT is now down. It's, I think, under 300. So you sell into the hype. You get in. You get out. There's a lot of opportunity to be made here, folks. I'm trying to give you financial freedom. So if you watch some football, you like NFTs, this is a great opportunity for you. That's all I got. DZ out. Let's discover crypto together, baby. You've been dreaming about the dress. Come find the one at David's Bridal. The most glamorous designer wedding gowns are now 15 % off. Bridesmaid dresses that fit beautifully start around $99. Whether you need a veil, jewelry, shoes, or even lingerie and shapewear, it's all at David's Bridal. Take 20 % off outfit making accessories for a limited time. Stop by your local David's Bridal store or shop David's Bridal .com today. Terms and conditions apply. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Andrew Klavan (Encore Continued)
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show with your host, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. Today, we are actually doing something a little different. We've done it before. We are airing my conversation from Socrates in the City with the extraordinary Eric Metaxas Show. Andrew Klavan. One of the best ever. If you want more information, go to socratesinthecity .com. And now, here is that event. But in Paradise Lost, Milton is trying to show that there's a difference between rebelling against a king, which he had done. He had endorsed the beheading of Charles I and had to run for his life after Charles II came in. And he was trying to show that Paradise Lost is his attempt to show the difference between that and rebelling against God, which is rebelling against goodness and creation. And so that idea, well, how do we now rebel against kings and rebel against the church and yet not rebel against God, was where Wordsworth and Coleridge kind of started without even knowing it. They didn't know they were doing this. I mean, Coleridge might have. He was so brilliant. But they wrote this book called Lyrical Ballads, which transformed English poetry. And it's a book in which they sort of say, we're going to show how the imagination in collaboration with reality transforms and enchants reality and how it brings even the smallest of people nobility. And they basically reinvented this Christian ethos through nature, through looking at nature, which they didn't, like I said, Coleridge knew he was doing it, but Wordsworth, I'm not sure, actually understood. Wordsworth ended his life as a Christian, but it took him a long time to come there. And they sort of passed this journey on to John Keats, who was the greatest English poet since Shakespeare. He lived 25 years. He had about one month, about six weeks of writing some of the greatest poetry that has ever been written and then got tuberculosis and died. And this period of great creativity, I just want to say this one thing because it's so fascinating to me. His brother had died of tuberculosis. His was poetry getting terrible reviews. He was poor. He had a cough. He's probably starting to think, oh my God, I'm getting tuberculosis. He's absolutely depressed. He can't write. He's taking a walk in Hampstead Heath, and he looks up, and who's coming toward him? Coleridge. And Coleridge takes him on a 40 -minute walk during which Coleridge never shuts up. He just talks ceaselessly, and suddenly this poetry comes pouring out of Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And then he dies. And the poetry is about, almost all of it is about, okay, there is this beautiful eternal thing out there, and here am I in this world of death and pain. How do I cross the barrier? And he tries to do it through art, through the Grecian Urn. He tries to do it through the imagination, and he can't quite do it. And one day it just happens to him in his Ode to Autumn. He just writes this perfect poem where the observer and the scene meld into one. And he doesn't know it's Christianity, but that's what it is. I wonder, I constantly wonder, what if he had lived another 25 years? What would he have seen? He understood that the soul was immortal. He understood he's the one who said beauty is truth and truth is beauty, which can only make sense if that beauty is connecting us to something beyond ourselves. That's the only way that makes sense. And I just don't know what would have happened to him, but he didn't live, and basically the romantics fail. They kind of fade away, and this materialism that rules our lives now, where we think like, oh, you feel like a man? Well, we'll cut your body into a man costume and you'll be a man. And at the same time, you say, well, I feel this is immoral. You'll say, no, you're wrong. Follow the signs. Well, actually, that's the link, right? In other words, maybe I'm oversimplifying the romantics and the whole period, but what happened is feelings became paramount so that reality becomes subjective and whatever I feel is it. Well, it's a weird binary because the idea is the basic, if you boil theism down to its most basic idea, it's that matter has meaning. If I torture a child, that's bad. It's not bad because we all agree it's bad. If everybody in the world said it was great, it would still be bad. That's the idea that there is a supernatural, something above the nature. If that's gone, then not only do your feelings mean everything, your feelings also mean nothing, and that's where you get this kind of confusion from the left. Yes, if you feel like a woman, I can cut up your body and you'll be a woman, but if you say cutting up someone's body to make them a woman is wrong, so it's just your subjective feeling. That doesn't mean anything. So it's this kind of double paradox where your feelings become everything, but they are nothing. Well, that's the problem with that thing we call reality, right? I mean, it's kind of like it's a stacked deck. God created reality, and if you can convert people to reality, they will be led to him if they're gonna be intellectually consistent. Okay, so one of the things that I just loved about this book, and there's so many things, but you bring these figures to life. When you describe Coleridge and Keats and all of them, and I realize that's something that also had fallen out of fashion by the time that I was in college in the 80s, where we didn't seem to care about these figures as figures, and you sort of, you bring them to life, so in some ways, it's not a novel, but there are a lot of fun stories in this book about amazing, crazy, brilliant people trying to work these things out in their lives and in their art. Well, if you think about it, Britain is an island the size of Oregon, and on it in this one generation, or it's two generations, but it's the same time, is Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, the six greatest poets in the English language besides Shakespeare and Milton, are all living together on this island, and so they're all nuts, because they're poets, right? They're wild men, they're falling apart half the time. Coleridge is an absolute ruin of a human being. Byron is screwing everybody, male or female, he can get his hands on. Shelley wants to be doing that, but isn't quite, and then, and one of the people that I deal with is Mary Shelley. One of my favorite chapters in the book is on Frankenstein, because here's Mary Shelley who adores Shelley. She adores this man she's run off with. He's left his wife, and she's run off with him, and she adored and worshiped her father, and now she adores and worships Shelley, and he's basically treating her, as Byron and Shelley treated all the women they came in contact with, he's basically treating her like crap, and he believes in free love, and he doesn't know why she's so depressed when her children die. He's depressed that she's not paying attention to him, and she writes this book, Frankenstein, where she says it's about a man who tries to steal God's thunder by creating life, but I point out that we all create, people create life. We create life of the things that we have. What Frankenstein, what Dr. Frankenstein does is he creates life without a woman, and her nightmare is essentially the nightmare of femininity, the female aspect of life, and femininity and womanhood becoming obsolete, and if you follow, she invents, in that moment, she invents science fiction. She really invents the modern genre of science fiction, and if you follow science fiction, so much of it is about that.
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from The Debut of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube
"Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. I am your host, Jimmy Traina. Thank you so much for listening. Bonus episode, bonus podcast on this Monday after the first Sunday of the NFL season. We had the debut of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. It was on DirecTV for like 25 years. Now it's on YouTube. And Sal Licata, who joins me every week for Train of Thoughts from WFAN in New York and SNY TV in New York, joins me where we share our experiences with Sunday Ticket on YouTube, getting it set up, what we thought of it, full review, full breakdown of everything, what you need to know about it, what their differences are if you have YouTube TV, if you have cable, full breakdown of everything all related to NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. That's what this pod is with Sal. It's like a full -blown Train of Thoughts. So listen to Sal and I discuss it, come back later in the week for a regular episode. If you missed any recent episodes, check them out. Last week, Julian Edelman was on. He was great. Just joining Fox had some great Brady and Belichick stories. Charles Barkley was on recently, Peter Schrager, Chris Russo. Check all those pods out. Subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. And this is one of two episodes this week. All right, let's get to it now with Sal. Full episode here on NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. All right here right now on SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Thanks for listening. Bonus episode this week. This will be one of two. We're taping this on Monday after the first week of the NFL season, the debut of the new Sunday Ticket on Yahoo, on Yahoo. What a dope. On YouTube, on YouTube, I had to get on with Sal and we're just gonna riff about our Sunday Ticket experiences in week one. Sal, how are you? I'm great and I'm excited to have this conversation with you because we've had this many times over the years at dinner, at our houses, whatever, discussing this exact thing. And we both, I know, had great experiences yesterday. So I'm looking forward to talking about it with you. Well, let's start with this. There are many, many train of thought segments on this podcast over the last three months where you said you were not going to get Sunday Ticket. You were not going to get it. You're just focusing on the New York teams. And then I got the text message. Let's see here if I can find the text message. Even, even early, I noticed you were starting to cave a little bit earlier this week. Actually, 9 .34 a .m. on Sunday, I'm still on the fence. And then at 10 .45 a .m., the text came in from Sal. I'm in. It's like Michael Jordan returning to the NBA. I know. I thought about writing to you. I'm back. I was thinking about it as the week went on. I told you, like, because of the lineup with the playing Giants Sunday and the Jets playing Monday, that to me made it worse. Or you were saying, oh, well, you're going to have the national games. Yeah. But knowing that I didn't have to watch those games at that time made it more appealing for me to get the get the Sunday ticket. So I kind of thought I'd be going that way. And then Sunday morning I was like, fuck it. Let me just get this thing in. It's worth the money. Let me see what it's all about. And is it great. So so let me do a little preamble here before we get into it, because I want to say this and let me know if you agree, disagree. But before we even discuss this, I think what we need to establish is this. How you feel about Sunday ticket, whether it's direct TV, YouTube, the changes or it's it's going to depend on how you watch football, number one, and it's going to depend on what services you have. Now, for instance, Sal has direct TV. I have I don't have direct TV. Oh, oh, you have optimum cable. Correct. OK. Optimum cable. You were scamming the direct TV Sunday ticket all these years. That's right. All right. I did have direct TV. Right. And this is an important part of it. I don't want to gloss over it. And then I moved into the city and I was not allowed to get direct TV. So what they did was allow me to stream Sunday tickets. So I have been able to stream Sunday ticket for several years. So whether you have optimum like Sal, I have Verizon, Fios. Some people have direct TV. Some people don't have any cable. They have streaming services. That's a factor in all this. And then the other thing that I think added so much confusion over the last couple of weeks and is early yesterday there's also this huge Sunday ticket is different based on whether you have YouTube TV or you're just using YouTube. Now, Sal and I both have cable, so we're just using YouTube. If you have YouTube TV, the experience is different. So there's a lot of layers to this. It's very convoluted. I'm going to do my best to try to break it down for you now. So the biggest thing is this. If you have YouTube TV, you're good to go with Sunday ticket with your in -market and out -of -market games. You have nothing to worry about. If you don't have YouTube TV, like Sal and I, you're not getting the local market game. So on Sunday here in New York, Steelers, Niners was on Fox at one o 'clock. Browns, Bengals was on CBS at one o 'clock. Those games are not part of our Sunday ticket packages on YouTube. If you have YouTube TV, they were. So if you don't have YouTube TV and you just have YouTube, you have to have more than one television. I think if you want to watch all the games, if you care about one team, you're fine. You really do need to have two TVs because what I did was I had on my big TV, the multi -view with the four games. And on the second TV, I had one of the local games because that's how you have to do it. So, so far I weigh in on what I've said so far. Yes. Okay. Question here. Number one, if I had YouTube TV, do I then get the local games as part of the game mix? Yes. Oh, shit. See, so I may consider then, I don't know if I'm realistically going to do it, but that to me is like the number one thing that's been missing forever on the prior service. And now that I cannot have, because like you, I like to have the game mix and the four box grid, but it automatically takes out whatever local game is on. And I hate that. So here in New York, we could not get a four game multi -view that had either Steelers Niners or Browns Bengals in it on Sunday. Cause those are in market games. So there was no multi -view whether it was four games, three games that had those games in it. If you had YouTube TV, those games were part of the multi -view. So you, so you, so you would consider getting rid of optimum and getting YouTube TV. Well, I didn't know that that was the case. I mean, I probably, truth be told, I'll never be a cord cutter, but if I were to get it in addition, it might be worth it at least just for the season. Now I screwed up because I bought the ticket. Although I guess you have this period now where it's kind of, um, you know, the tree trial period and I can make a decision at the end of the week, but, uh, I'd rather than go back and get the ticket much cheaper if you buy YouTube TV, I think. Right. You know, YouTube TV is like $80 a month. It's like a cable service.
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"Marine veteran Murph McCarthy is the creator of the cover bag the best protection for your dress hat or dress uniform cover Coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe Crain As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org All right today we're talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy owner of the cover bag calm and The women's rugby coach at the Naval Academy, that's pretty cool So Murph welcome to the show before we get to talking about business and entrepreneurship As a marine fellow aviator having had one of those on this show for a long time. Tell us what you did in the Marine Corps yes, so I Actually, I enlisted right out of high school and things went really well I was a tower air traffic controller and I ended up at the prep school for the Naval Academy and then graduated from the Naval Academy in 2000 then TBS and then went to down to Pensacola and When so helos went out to the FRS out there in Camp Pendleton quickly fell in love with it learned how to fly frogs Then I went to East Coast and I did two deployments on the East Coast And when I came back from that second one, there was a bunch of ospreys on the tarmac you know, I wasn't sure I wanted to get into that so I solicited my services back out to Camp Pendleton and then I ended up with the Purple Did foxes a couple deployments with them and then along the road. I got I got the the drone stink on me Stick with VMU doing drones and when it came time for me to get out of the cockpit I actually my services were sought by people other than myself To go do that again. So I went To VMU three and did a couple deployments With those guys then I came back to the Naval Academy where I was working in the Stockdale Center for ethical leadership and I was teaching leadership and that's when I started coaching rugby at the Academy in 2011 and then I had one last gig down at DITRA defense threat reduction agency where I was doing I was working on the open skies treaty which is a fascinating gig if you can get it, and I don't think you can get it anymore, but and then I retired in 2017 and You know, that was my Marine Corps story from the end of high school 92 to 2017 interesting so You know, sometimes transition is different. You're retiring because at least you got that paycheck of the month club membership, but Sometimes retirement isn't any easier than you know being in being in the military for four years and then getting out also So what was your transition like? Well, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I grew up You know, I was still like volunteering coaching rugby and that I Didn't see myself ever getting out of that because that was just a really fun thing for me to do It filled a lot of the you know, what you miss about the Marine Corps stuff for me But I started looking into a couple different business opportunities. I Started a business before I retired probably almost ten years before I retired and that was the cover bag and what ended up being the cover bag calm and that just grew and grew and grew to where You know, I could definitely take up a lot of time just working that when I retired But I'm I knew that was I wanted one more thing at least And that's when I started looking into other business opportunities and I got into fitness I a started franchise in Annapolis and did that I looked at a Number of other franchise opportunities, but I knew fitness was probably going to be what I wanted to do, right? So Was there an entrepreneurial bug inside of you the whole time? You're in the Marine Corps to just come about at a later time Totally. Yeah, like I've been into that kind of thing when I was since I was a kid So I remember getting in trouble for selling fireworks in the bathroom at my junior high school You know, I came up with ideas for stuff to put on ball caps Slinging t -shirts like that was always a thing but the cover bag was an idea I had when I went to the Naval Academy and You know, you're always wearing that combination cover like in the Marine Corps You're lucky especially if you're in aviation like you already ever even see that thing Yeah, buddy with the chicken you're trucking that thing all around all the time and it's white And you know, all you got to do is sit on it once or you know Be holding an ink pen that you probably should have retired a week before next to it And you gotta take the whole thing apart or buy new parts or buy a new one And I'm like man if I just had a bag for this thing, so it was like a couple years of me sketching out what it probably should look like and then designing it and then You know once you make the first couple and then you kind of go from there, but no I've always had that Hey, wouldn't this be a good idea Like I probably I probably do that like three times a week. Yeah, I've always been the same way but I think like especially when I was when you're a kid or when you're really young you have no idea how to Capitalize on your idea like yeah idea how to implement it or execute. I mean, you just don't have those capabilities and then especially nowadays with the internet and all the technology and everything and in Alibaba and China and all these resources that are available You can you could come up with a harebrained idea in just a few months be taking it to market Whereas like 20 30 years ago. It was like almost impossible to do to do. Yeah. No, and that's something you People should keep in mind. Like if you've got what you think is a crazy idea Just keep kind of fleshing it out and then you know for me it was a buddy of mine He's like, hey, I got a buddy who's got a hat and bag factory in Newark, New Jersey And why don't you send me that sketch you talked about? 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So When I saw your interview come through Murph I gotta admit I'm like the cover bag and I went to your website and I saw it and I'm like ding I get it instant instant like yep thumbs up and Cuz my wife and I were Amazon sellers for many years. We're totally out of the business now. Amazon just got to be Amazon was like walking through a minefield you like you thinking you're fine all sudden kaboom your right leg's missing You're like what the fuck? anyways So we're out of Amazon now, but I loved Amazon cuz like we talked about earlier when you're when you're young You come all these hair brained ideas. That's a great idea for product That's a great idea and I could I could run them to ground and be and be putting it on Amma be putting a great product on Amazon, you know within a few months sometimes Sometimes that's not a good thing because if it turned out not to be a good idea you lose a lot of money At least I could exercise these ideas for the first time in my life. And so I have a true appreciation for a great product and I Remember, you know getting my uniforms at the Marine Corps shop or the marine the marine shop in there in Quantico And I think I still have that white shredded cardboard box with my white cover in it somewhere back in storage and and I The whole time I'm like, how am I supposed to carry this thing around? I mean for 20 plus years in the Marine Corps I carded that thing around in a cardboard box and somehow it managed to work out for him when I saw the cover bag I'm like, oh, yeah, like I get it that that's it. Like like how did how'd you just come up with that idea? It was just I mean I get it It's like it's like a problem every one of us dealt with but nobody ever thought of the idea or at least executed on the idea Yeah, well, I always thought we you know, they're expensive So all you gotta do is have to replace one and you're like man, how do I not do that again? Yeah, and that's where it started but when I had You know that run -in with my buddy's friend who said he could make me a demo I was like a demo sounds like it sounds like I'm in it But he he produced, you know The first cover bag from my sketch and I and all I had was like a little couple tweaks And he sent I ordered about 15 of them and I opened up the box of these 15 cover bags And I handed him out to the guys that were doing the color guard For the ball when we had the ball the next night and when the Marines were like, holy shit, sir This is awesome. Where'd you get these? I was like funny story like I invented that and they're like what and then I knew that I had something and that's Really? Yeah pulling my money together and like spending quality time thinking about how I was gonna do it Wow Yeah, I got like a thousand questions cuz and like I said, I'm a product guy Like I love cool products and the idea behind it. So interviewing somebody that created a product it became successful Because it was just the right idea and Let me tell you man. I don't know if you realize this bit. It is hard to find to Manufacture something in the US and it's great that this is a military product Which by the way, I want to point out like I know in the Navy Marine Corps. We call it a cover your uniform hat The other services. I'm sure the Air Force didn't call it a cover. They probably caught a hat I'm not I'm not sure about the army But you know, I want to point out a cut the cover is your official military head piece or your you know It's your military hat but in the Marine Corps Navy, we call it the cover So your product is called the cover bag But I suppose you you wouldn't have wanted to call it the hat bag because then it would have just been like anything No, and I you know how you always wondered like you watch a commercial Or hear like a radio ad you're like I'm confused but like three minutes later you're still talking about it I think some of that. Yes, I think some of that has happened with calling it the cover back You know because I thought that I was gonna be selling to guys like you and me Like I thought this was gonna be you know by the troops for the troops type thing Yeah, but I have a ton of customers that are moms and Grandmas wives like they don't know what a cover is So they're like I pick up the phone and somebody says cat bag 95 % of the time really and I just I just kind of roll with it because it's one of those You got all these old ladies buying it to you're talking about it. So let's keep that up It's like the the the Red Hat Ladies Club is buying your bag for their hats and stuff or fancy hat No, they're buying it for their husband's boyfriend's grandchildren The cover bag is a huge gift idea like I'll send I'll sell like six figures worth of these things through the Marine Corps exchanges in a year I sell a lot more than that to friends and families of people graduating Parris Island and MCRD San Diego. It's it's absolutely fascinating and Much in the same way as cover bags hat bags hat covers all that stuff My favorite is that you know, I don't pay anything for advertising like I tried it a couple times It was to me It was like wasting money because I couldn't figure out if it was doing anything at all But people will get on Facebook and argue about what should be Embroidered on the cover bag. No, it should be last name first name. No, it should just be the initials No It should be first name and then the middle name and then the last name and I'm like this is amazing because it'll go on And then the website goes ding ding ding Yeah, well I suppose you know first initial middle initial last name, you know, maybe rank before that might you know if you're selling them to all the eighth and I Marines if it becomes that if he becomes a Regular issue piece of gear. Well, then you gotta you gotta do by right? I think that's probably eventually gonna happen. Yeah Yeah, the Marines like solve a lot of your problems. They just make you do stuff The Marine Corps ever figures out. Hey, we don't want anybody walking around with a bad -looking cover again We're gonna put one of them cover bags in their c -bag issue. Yeah, that's it. That'll solve that. Yeah Yeah, well then they won't have to walk around with it in you in there with their bent arm and hand, you know So So what are some of your numbers that you can share with us or just to give us a perspective on? How successful the cover bags? Well, to be honest The company's not openly for sale, so I'm not really in tune exactly with the numbers But I've been trying to get in with the Navy exchange So the last gentleman that worked there He didn't really understand and like how the cover bag was an amazing piece of gear But they're starting to get the memo now and the main number I've been talking with them is like hey Do you know I I do over six figures worth of business with the MCX at the Navy exchanges of which there is many Many more. Can you imagine how good this would do if it was available? Yeah to the Navy first hand and then retail, you know I do I do a lot more business retail than I do goals for sale. So well, dude, that's awesome. This is good you're always gonna need to protect that cover and like I said the the parents and Girlfriends wives and grandparents are on Facebook talking about what needs to be on a cover bag and they're like, what's a cover bag? Cover and then there I am my website just gets the pinks. Yeah You know, it's like that the old the old Henry Ford story where he says Well, if I had asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse, you know, or right There's a quote similar from Steve Jobs Like sometimes the customer doesn't really know what they're looking forward what they need until they see it You can have any color car you want as long as it's black the other Henry Ford one yeah, and The cover bags kind of like that because if you said what's one of the biggest, you know You know pain in the ass things you do you deal with with your uniform? Nobody would have said I wish I had something to carry my cover in but I mean hardly anybody would have said that but When they see when they see the cover bag, they're like, oh, yeah I want one of them because I that is a pain point for me I just never realized that there would be as ever solution for it yeah, no, it's it's a no -brainer and eat and like People that aren't, you know actively using the cover like the parents can figure out that a cover bags a great idea And the other thing is, you know, mom's don't want to be buying their kids, you know, whiskey flasks and knives Something Practical they're not gonna put alcohol in or possibly shank somebody with It works out pretty good to get him a cover back and embroidery everybody loves embroidery that Yeah Now it's got your name on it, oh, yeah The embroidery thing for the cover bag is when it really exploded Yeah, and there's a nice big surface area on the thing for plenty of embroidery you can Yeah It takes a while if you come up with a design and you want me to put it on there that takes a little more time a little more involved, but I got plenty of patch choices and You can put whatever name you want on there nicknames Like if people get too wrapped up in what name they want in there or what order I'll be like Does your does your son have a pretty cool nickname? They're like, oh, yeah, we call him Sparky.
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"Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you. The Discernment of Spirits. Could you tell us just a little bit about its formation? Well, it really began when I was ordained as an Oblate of the Virgin Mary and my religious community is dedicated above all to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises to making this retreat experience available to people in all different kinds of settings. Formal retreats in a retreat house of a few days or many days or as an experience in parishes for larger groups, weekend retreats, retreat settings, and so on. And I quickly realized that I really couldn't do this responsibly. Lead Ignatian retreats, retreats based on the teaching of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Unless I knew more about this particular piece of his teaching, the Discernment of Spirits, and specifically his, what he calls his rules or guidelines for Discernment of Spirits, which really has to do, that title, the Sermon of Spirits, generally is kind of appealing to people, but at the same time they're not quite sure exactly what it means. And very simply what it deals with is the ups and downs in the spiritual life. We all know how at times we feel a desire to pray and when we do pray God feels close and our hearts are warm and there's energy and we get up from the prayer with a renewed sense of God's closeness. And we have, the scriptures are alive, we willingly go to church, we creativity have in the Lord, we want to take new steps, and then other times, for reasons that escape us often, we're not quite sure why, the bottom seems to drop out of that energy. And it's hard if we're honest, it's hard to even want to pray. We may get ourselves to pray, but it's a very different experience now and we don't feel God's closeness and God's warmth. And the new steps that we've been taking in the spiritual life now don't seem quite so inviting. It's hard to get myself down to church for the Bible study or the the activity. And to reach out in a love based on Christ in a new way, let's say in my marriage or toward my children or in my workplace. These ups and downs are going on all the time in the spiritual life. And Saint Ignatius of Loyola, certainly not the only one who spoke about this in our Catholic spiritual tradition, but clearly is the one who spoke about this with the greatest clarity, practicality, and usability. And this teaching is formulated in 14, I'm about to say, simple guidelines. They're not simplistic, they're very deep. They touch very profound things in the spiritual life. But the simple does fit in the sense that they're very clear. They're very usable. I've been teaching this around the country now for probably about 20 years to groups of all different kinds of backgrounds, to lay people in parishes, to priests and seminarians and religious people with very developed educational backgrounds and professional people and people who may have only high school backgrounds and all the rest. I have never yet found one person when we have gone through this teaching who has said to me, I don't know what you're talking about. Everyone does. Everyone that is who has at all in some personal way tried to love the Lord Jesus, sincerely tried to live his teaching, tried to pray. This teaching will be simple, clear and usable in a way that transforms really. When I began giving these retreats, shortly after ordination, people began asking for them. And quickly, as I say, I realized that I really couldn't do these retreats responsibly without knowing a lot more than I then knew about these 14 guidelines or Ignatius' teaching on discernment. I was teaching in a seminary at the time and a point came when I had a month free and I can still see it. I went to the upper floor of our residence so I wouldn't be disturbed, brought my books up there, commentary on these rules and began pretty seriously studying them, pacing up and text. And after that, began somewhat hesitantly to give very simple half -hour teachings on these rules in retreat settings. And it was the response that began everything that led to the book eventually, maybe about 25 years later. It was electric. I'll never forget one particular retreat. The first time I did this, it was a retreat over a number of days and each day I would give a simple half -hour presentation and we went through the 14 rules. The retreatants knew and I knew that in the transmitting of that teaching and in the receiving of it, something electric had happened. And out of that retreat came a good many more requests for that teaching and it got so I was doing that teaching repeatedly in the course of a year in retreat settings. Then people were asking for it as a separate teaching just in a parish or in a seminar setting in a retreat center or wherever. And then finally people began saying you should write this up as a book. And when my religious superior said it once and then said it a second time and then said it a third time, sort of in casual conversation, finally dawned on me that maybe the Lord was saying something to me. You think so? And so I asked to speak with him and we sat down and I said, do you really mean it? He said yes. We looked at a calendar, set aside time and that's how the book came to be written. Just to help us who may not appreciate the vocabulary, because it is foreign, the actual going deeply into a spirituality based on the great teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, that a term like discernment, it's not just simple decision -making is it? No, in these 14 rules what we're really talking about is spiritual experience, the ups and downs, the things that are going on in our hearts and in our minds, the way we're thinking, the stirrings of our hearts, this kind of interior stuff, if I could say that reverently, of spiritual experience that's going on every day, most of which we don't even notice, although it affects us very much. But we'd be hard put, for example, I wonder how many of us could remember what was stirring in our hearts and thoughts this morning when we rose to say nothing of yesterday or a week ago? How much of that did we notice? How much of that, if we use Ignatius' word, could we discern? So eventually it will lead to decision -making, but it begins as an awareness of interior spiritual experience in our hearts, the stirrings, the feelings, the movements of our hearts, what we call affective experience and also the thoughts, what runs through our minds. This is the more conceptual side of things, thoughts and stirrings of the heart. What is of God in that? What is not of God in that? If I feel great energy toward this particular activity and feel a certain resistance to that other, if I really would want to do this spiritually speaking and don't really want to do that, how can I know what within that interior experience, which is changing and shifting all the time, ups and downs, how can I know what is of God and should be accepted? What is not of God or Ignatius would say is of the enemy, the tempter, the one the scripture calls the liar, and therefore is a lie, is not true, is not leading me where God wants me to go and therefore should be rejected. A teaching which allows us to understand, to notice and understand this experience and then know what should be accepted and followed and rejected, that's the teaching which we call the Sermon of Spirits. That's what Ignatius is doing in these 14 guidelines or 14 rules. It is so much more than an intellectual exercise, isn't it? I mean when you talk about listening to our hearts, again that is something that, isn't it, they're a trend to try to separate the head and the heart, that somehow the emotions that we're feeling shouldn't be integrated into the thought process that we have? I mean this combination is really quite foreign, isn't it? There's only one human being and there are different faculties, different capabilities, different aspects of our humanity, but there's only one human being and what we'll find when we grow in the ability is, please God, as we go through these rules, this will become clear how we do this. What we'll find is that when our hearts are feeling certain things, we tend to think in certain ways. When my heart is happy and alive and feels God's closeness, the thoughts are probably going to be thoughts of new initiatives that I could take spiritually speaking, new understanding of what I'm doing, thoughts that open up new ways and point out a kind of chart or pathway toward growth. When my heart is feeling heavy, doesn't feel God's closeness, is feeling a kind of, well, it can get to a kind of hopelessness at times or a sadness or just a lack of any kind of energy in the spiritual life. The thoughts now are going to be probably the contrary. Why am I doing this? Do I even want to do this? Does it make sense to pray this way? Why should I continue this? Maybe I should let that go. I was thinking of taking this new initiative in the parish or in living Christ's love in the family. All of these kinds of thoughts. So what's important is, and that's why it's important to be aware of the movements of the heart and their related thoughts because they're going to go together. We'll see Ignatius say this very clearly in the rules. So these are different aspects of our humanity but they work very much, very much in tandem if I can use and say that word. You use the term rule, a rule. Help us to understand that in relation to the exercises. If we look at, let's say the writings of Saint Francis de Sales, for example, something like the introduction to the devout life. Now depending on how it's published, let's say, what will it be? 300 pages. It's an organized, developed treatise on the spiritual life which goes kind of systematically through various things. Or Saint John of the Cross with his systematic treatises on the life of prayer and many other saints like that. Saint Ignatius is writing spiritual exercises. He's not giving a theology or a theory to help us understand a set of truths, although obviously there are theological truths which underlie what he's doing. These are, this is a very practical book. It's the spiritual equivalent of a manual of physical exercises. They're things to be done that are outlined and that is what is behind this word rule. What that means is these are short, concrete, practical guidelines which in a few words give a very rich understanding of this kind of up and down spiritual experience and related thoughts and then give us a set of tools for actually responding in real life to these experiences. When you are feeling the warmth of God's closeness, this is what you do. When you are feeling the heaviness, God seems far away and there's no energy in the spiritual life, these are things you should do and things you shouldn't do in that time. So that it's in that sense that Ignatius calls these rules. They're very practical guidelines for life. Those of us who are out here listening to the teachings of this, assuming that we're total neophytes, we're beginners in this quest, we just want to get started. What's the first thing we should do? What's the first disposition or position we should take in this exercise? Well I think for most of us and I'll certainly speak of myself because until someone taught me Ignatius text and helped me to understand it, I wouldn't have known where to begin. If someone were to say to me, well you need to be aware of and notice your interior spiritual experience, my response would be help me to do that because I wouldn't know what I was looking for. The first need that we have is to be instructed. So that's where I would say that's where we begin. That's what led to the writing of the book. That's what now about 20 years of traveling around the country teaching this has been about. Once we begin to get our feet wet in this, we begin to get an understanding of this spiritual experience, then everything can begin. Then we can begin to notice it in daily living. We can begin to name what it is. This is of God, this is not of God and then we respond with spiritual wisdom to that, accepting what is of God, rejecting what is of the enemy, as Ignatius will say. So I'd say the place to begin is to learn. What a wonderful thing that in our Catholic spiritual tradition we have masters like this with a proven teaching, proven not only by the sanctity of the author, in this case Saint Ignatius, in other cases Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint John of the Cross and the rest, but proven also because in Ignatius case this teaching has been used for 500 years now and has blessed countless generations of Christians before us. It is approved by the Magisterium of the Church, so we have a very solid source to which to turn in order to learn, but that's the first step. It's just formation in the spiritual life. When I think of physical exercise, sometimes we're about to begin the process of physical exercise. We jump in and we try to do too much or we try to go too far in the beginning and then we get discouraged and we drop away. What would your advice be to that person who's beginning to enter into these exercises? Wonderful point, it's a wonderful point. I think the parallel holds absolutely with the spiritual life. Start slowly, go through a gradual process of learning more and more about this and then everything else will follow and ideally with some kind of guidance. I would hope that something like the book that I've written could provide a kind of guidance even at home or for friends who want to go through this together. If there is in one's area someone who is knowledgeable in this and could actually lead the teaching, that would be a wonderful thing, whether a priest in a parish or someone in a retreat house or just somebody who has a background in this kind of teaching and with the help of maybe a book like that I've written or other instruments would be able to guide us. So I would say take it slowly, grow gradually in it, begin to apply what is clear, don't overreach in doing this. If something is not clear in the teaching, if I don't understand the experience, I can very simply acknowledge that and accept that. We in walk the proportion to the clarity that we have without overreaching that and then we just trust that as we continue to grow in this with the various helps that we've mentioned, we'll increasingly find our way. If a person could ever make an Ignatian retreat, obviously that would be almost the best way to learn this. It is such a fundamental building block of the spiritual life now in the life of the church today for that body of Christ, that it is not something that is limited to say a particular order within the church and I'm thinking of course it is not just the Jesuit exercise, it is available for everyone, it's a gift to everyone. For example, even your order, but your particular order, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, it is, this is an essential part of your careism. Yes, I suppose I'm a kind of living witness to the fact that you don't have to be a Jesuit to benefit from this kind of teaching. Our founder, who is the Venerable Bruno Lanteri, an Italian priest who died in 1830, fell in love with the Ignatian spiritual exercises. His spiritual director was a real man of God, a Jesuit who was a man of wisdom and holiness whom he met as a seminarian. And through this Jesuit, Father Diesbach, a Swiss Jesuit, he came to know the Ignatian spiritual exercises and Ignatian spirituality and fell in love with it and became convinced that there is, this was the gift God gave him as a founder, that there is no instrument equal to the Ignatian to spiritual means lead people to the dispositions which create a saint. It has to be lived out, but to take a person from where he or she is in the spiritual life to the point where this person now really longs for holiness and then wants to become active in the service of Christ in the person's vocation, marriage or priesthood, religious life, single life. There's nothing like the exercises of Saint Ignatius to do this. And at the same time it was evident to him that although the Jesuits have this, these spiritual exercises, they are so involved in other work, especially education, which is obviously of great importance for the church too, that in practice the spiritual exercises are not at all as available as the church needs. I think we could, a very simple test of that is if any of us listening now were to feel moved to make the Ignatian spiritual exercises, probably we wouldn't know exactly where to turn. Who can guide these? Where does one go? And so he said the church needs a group of men, religious priests and brothers who will be trained in these spiritual exercises and will not do other things so that they can make them available to the church. And he said even if you add this to all the Jesuits in the world will still never meet the need in the church. And I'll say from my own experience that I think he's absolutely right. I just constantly witnessed the power of the exercises and the fact that as soon as people know that they're available and that they can be given well, you cannot possibly meet the demand. People want them. Their heart cries out for it I think. Oh when people learn this teaching they can't get enough of it. I always remember one time I was doing this teaching for a group at a retreat house and toward the end of the teaching one woman who was on the retreat told me that she'd been looking out her window on the retreat grounds one day and she'd seen the head grounds person over toward a kind of tool shed go in and come out with several tools that he needed for the work that he was doing and she said that's what Ignatius has done for me in the spiritual life. He's given me the tools that I need to live my daily experience in the spiritual life. Now I'll say too that I think the reason why this teaching is so powerful is because it is about the ordinary spiritual experience of every Christian of everyone who loves the Lord Jesus. You have people like Saint John of the Cross who write about advanced higher states of mystical prayer which is beautiful. Most of us probably when we read that teaching or hear of it say that is beautiful but it's different than my experience. I'm not there but as I've said I have never met anyone yet who has learned Ignatius teaching and said anything other than this is it this is what happens this is my daily experience this gives me the tools that I need to live at home in the parish in the workplace in my family in my case in my religious life and priesthood in my ordinary daily experience now I know what's going on now I know how to understand it I know how to respond to it. Oh that in itself is a great gift and as you said it's one for not everyone just Catholics.
Wealthy Behavior
A highlight from September Market Update: A Look Back & A Look Ahead
"Welcome to Wealthy Behavior, talking money and wealth with Heritage Financial, the podcast that digs into the topics, strategies and behaviors that help busy and successful people build and protect their personal wealth. I'm your host, Sammy Azuz, the president and CEO of Heritage Financial, a Boston based wealth management firm working with high net worth families across the country for longer than 25 years. Now let's talk about the wealthy behaviors that are key to a rich life. Welcome to the September edition of the Wealthy Behavior podcast, where I talk to our chief investment officer, Bob Weiss, about what's going on in the markets right now and things that you should know going forward as investors. Bob, how was your summer? It was great. You know, hearing summer in the past tense is a little sad. It was nice, but, you know, fall is going to be busy and it was a nice summer. What are you going to be busy with this fall? Just back to school stuff with the kids in school and all their activities, which they basically head off in the summer. How about from an investment standpoint, what are you guys looking at and what do you want to accomplish before your end? Yeah, a lot of projects going on, probably the biggest is looking into 2024. So capital market assumptions and thinking about any portfolio changes as we restructure portfolios based on our outlook. And then there's some travel to some conferences. Fall is a popular time of year for investment conferences. So I'll be traveling a little bit, have a conference in September, two in September and then one in October. So that'll be keeping me busy as well. What do you get out of those conferences, Bob? A combination of the content, what you're really supposed to go there for, where you see quality people up there presenting good ideas and you get some nuggets. But there's also value, in my opinion, in the networking where you're sitting with industry peers, like -minded individuals and talking in between sessions. What do you think about that? And what are you guys doing? What are other people around the country who are in a similar seat? And typically you add all that up and in a conference you'll get a few good takeaways. Awesome. So you talked a little bit about capital market assumptions for 2024. That's a topic we've covered on the podcast. But maybe as a quick reminder, what are capital market assumptions? What do they do for you and how do they lead to portfolio implications for investors? And maybe just a little bit of a preview of if you think things have changed this year from your expectations going forward. Yeah. So capital market assumptions or the acronym commonly used to CMAs. But those are the assumptions that you are applying to asset classes, specifically risk and return. So for example, what are you expecting for return from US stocks and what's the level of risk in US stocks? And then you go through every asset class. So US stocks, international stocks, emerging market stocks, different types of bonds, alternatives, et cetera.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: Grayscale Victory, ETF Delays, Binance Troubles, Cost to Own Home Skyrockets
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know, in one place, in one block. Let's go. The biggest news of the last week came out of Washington, D .C., when the U .S. Court of Appeals sided with Grayscale in its battle against the SEC. This case is all about potentially converting the Grayscale Bitcoin trust into a Bitcoin spot ETF. Better known for its ticker GBTC, the Grayscale Bitcoin trust is the world's largest Bitcoin investment fund. Today, it holds more than 600 ,000 Bitcoin, around 3 % of Bitcoin's circulating supply. Last Tuesday, the court ruled that the SEC was wrong in its decision to deny Grayscale's ETF application. An ETF, or Exchange Traded Fund, is similar to a stock. It trades on a stock exchange, but it tracks an asset or collection of assets like stocks, bonds or commodities. A spot Bitcoin ETF would make buying Bitcoin as easy as buying shares of a company. If you recall, the SEC approved multiple Bitcoin futures ETFs back in 2021, so the regulators' denial of Grayscale's spot ETF conversion confused a lot of people. Bitcoin futures ETFs allow investors to invest in paper Bitcoin contracts that settle in dollars. No actual Bitcoin is bought in the process. In the case of a spot Bitcoin ETF, a fund would have to buy and hold actual Bitcoin, and the performance of the ETF would be directly tied to the underlying asset. When the SEC denied Grayscale's spot Bitcoin ETF application, regulators argued it didn't meet investor protection standards and was prone to market manipulation. Grayscale sued, essentially saying, hey, if you're worried about market manipulation with a spot ETF, shouldn't you also be worried about manipulation with a futures ETF that tracks the same underlying Bitcoin? If so, then why did you approve one and not the other? Well, the court agreed with Grayscale. The judges called out the SEC, stating that the agency's denial was arbitrary and capricious and fell short of the standard for reasoned decision making. So where does that leave things? Well, the SEC has 45 days to decide whether or not to challenge this ruling. If regulators choose not to appeal, then we could see a spot Bitcoin ETF hit the market sooner than we thought. But the ball is in the SEC's court. The SEC can come up with a different argument for denying Grayscale's conversion, or they can agree with the court's ruling but instead choose to remove the futures ETFs. This seems unlikely given their size and popularity. So although this ruling doesn't necessarily mean that GBTC will be converted into a spot Bitcoin ETF, it certainly does increase the odds. Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Belkounis and James Saifert have increased their odds of a spot Bitcoin ETF approval this year to 75 % in the wake of the Grayscale victory. On CNBC, former SEC chair Jay Clayton said that an approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF is inevitable. As you may know, Grayscale isn't the only player in town vying for a spot Bitcoin ETF. Large institutions like BlackRock, Fidelity, ARK Invest and Invesco are all waiting for their spot Bitcoin ETF applications to get approved by the SEC as well. We got an update last Friday when the SEC announced that it will delay making any decision on all of these ETF applications until at least mid -October. A spot Bitcoin ETF approval would mark a milestone for the industry. Not only would it be a signal of approval from regulators, but it would also make it easier than ever before for investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin, potentially bringing in a flood of new demand. Michael Saylor tweeted the approval of a spot BTC ETF will mark a crucial inflection point in the history of Bitcoin adoption. Whereas some investors appear optimistic about a potential ETF approval, others are taking a different stance. Investors podcast host Preston Pish tweeted, What Preston may be alluding to here is that Binance is still very much a looming shadow over the industry. If the SEC's main concern revolves around market manipulation, then perhaps it won't be approving any ETFs until Binance's market share of trading volume takes a serious dip. For perspective, Binance isn't just big, it's massive. Recent data shows that as of the end of July, Binance accounted for nearly half of all Bitcoin trading volume. Half. This doesn't bode well for the ETF chances given that Binance was recently accused of market manipulation and fraud in a recent SEC lawsuit. On top of that, Binance is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice in connection with potential money laundering and sanctions violations. Now here's where things got super interesting last week. The SEC took the uncommon step of filing sealed documents in its lawsuit against Binance. Filing a court document under seal means the SEC wants to keep sensitive information from going public. Former SEC chair John Reed Stark tweeted that the SEC would only take this action for two reasons. One, it doesn't want to interfere with an ongoing DOJ investigation. And two, it wants to protect companies or individuals involved with the investigation. This sealed motion raised eyebrows given that it hints that the SEC has submitted potentially incriminating evidence against Binance related to the DOJ's investigation. The developments surrounding Binance will continue to unfold. Whether or not the SEC will wait until there's some resolution there before approving a spot Bitcoin ETF is purely speculation right now. But given the serious charges of market manipulation against Binance, if more trading volume flowed away from Binance and into more regulated exchanges, it would likely help ease some of the SEC's concerns and potentially lead to a spot ETF approval. All of this uncertainty with Binance only reinforces how important it is to learn how to take self -custody of your Bitcoin. The whole point of Bitcoin is that you don't have to trust any exchange or third party to own it. The best time to take self -custody of your Bitcoin was yesterday. The second best time is today. As regulators and investors remain focused on Bitcoin ETFs and the activities of crypto exchanges, more and more Bitcoin miners are coming online, causing Bitcoin's hash rate to grow relentlessly in 2023. The hash rate refers to the amount of computational power being used to process Bitcoin transactions. And recently it surpassed 400 exahash per second for the first time in history, up over 50 % just this year. If you took all the computational power of Amazon, Google and Meta combined, you still wouldn't come close to this figure. It means that more energy is being used to secure the Bitcoin network than ever before. So where is the hash rate coming from? A recent mining report from Galaxy Research suggests a majority is coming from miners outside the United States. This theory is supported by recent news that the oil -producing country of Oman is investing more than a billion dollars in Bitcoin mining facilities. Oman government officials stated that these mining facilities will be used to make its stranded gas flares profitable to help develop new hydropower projects and to stabilize its electrical grid. Oman joins other nation states like Bhutan and El Salvador, which have also publicly announced their investment in Bitcoin mining. Finally this week, as Bitcoin's hash rate is going up, U .S. home affordability is in a freefall. The U .S. average 30 -year mortgage rate recently touched 7 .5%, the highest in 25 years. That rapid climb, a direct result of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates at one of the fastest paces in history. According to the Cabeza letter, the monthly cost to own a home is up 90 % since 2020, and the median income earner is now spending 40 % of their monthly take -home pay on mortgage payments. That's the highest in history. This is a topic I discussed more in depth on my latest Coin Stories episode with Danielle DiMartino Booth. And to take it one step further, property taxes, homeowners insurance, and the cost of materials for maintenance have all increased as well due to inflation. This nasty combination has moved U .S. housing affordability to the lowest level in nearly four decades. And to make matters worse, according to recent data from the U .S. Census Bureau, more than 40 % of U .S. homes are owned by someone who does not live there. This means wealthy individuals that bought second homes or turned their property into Airbnbs, and large institutions like BlackRock that have been buying up whole neighborhoods for investment purposes. Real estate has now become the primary way investors save because the dollar doesn't hold its value over time. This drives up real estate prices, making the dream of owning a home more and more unattainable for families. What was once a staple of the American dream has grown almost completely out of reach, especially for younger generations. This is why so many are turning to investing in Bitcoin as a form of digital property, one with no maintenance or upkeep costs that you can carry with you wherever you go. And unlike a home, you can buy just a fraction of a Bitcoin to start saving for your future today. That's it for the News Block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Natalie Brunell. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. Until next time, keep stacking.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Real Estate Agents: Top 7 Reasons To BE THE LISTING AGENT!
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. We have a wonderful show for you today. We're going to focus on the top seven reasons to be a listing agent. Why are we presenting this to you today? Because a lot of you, frankly, don't realize that your goal in real estate should absolutely positively be to become a listing agent. Why? Because of the seven reasons we're about to give you, but I'll foreshadow all the reasons now. When you are the listing agent, you have control, you have leverage. When you are a listing agent, the listing becomes your leverage and if you're working with buyers, you are the leverage for the buyer. You will understand more of that when we get to the first point. So Julie. Yes, that's right. Remember in your notes, the listing agent always wins, always, and your job is to be on the listing side of the business as often as possible. Now let's clarify before we do our first point. We are not suggesting that you stop working with buyers, simply that you focus mainly on being a listing agent. Why? Because all good things come from listings. We're going to tell you that right now, starting with reason number one. Listings generate more business. We should tell them and be very clear about this, that a lot of you, especially those of you who've been so focused on working with buyers for a long period of time, you've got to have a little coming to Jesus session with yourself about two thoughts. Number one, why are you choosing to work with buyers over listings? It's not like I know there is a perception of a lack of listing, but for every buyer that buys a house, they're buying somebody's listing. So there are plenty of listings to be had, at least what, four, four and a half million this year, not including new construction. So that was a lot of listings out there that went to somebody. So if your perception is that working with listings is something you have to wait and you have to earn your right to be a listing agent, and all my listings will be when my buyers end up listing their homes. All this type of crap that has been told to mostly new agents over the generations has essentially put you guys in this long -term state of essentially never actually having experienced the best part of being in real estate, which is being a listing agent. So don't think for a second that you can't become a listing agent the second you get your real estate license. Julie and I did. We listed and sold over 100 homes our first year in the business when we were in our 20s. And we did that by doing all the things we teach you guys how to do and all the things we've taught literally hundreds of thousands of other agents to do over the last 25 years. So do not believe for a second that you have to wait around for somebody to tap you on your shoulder and somehow say, now you can actually become a listing agent. Now I'm going to give you the other reason why a lot of you focus working on buyers. It's because working with buyers is mostly a social skill, mostly physical labor as Julie says in our best -selling book, Harris Rules. Because you're giving away all of your time and you're showing homes. That's a lot of physical labor. Does not require a lot of skill. That's just a fact. Working listings, with working with sellers does require skill. So it's more of a mental aspect. So working with buyers is physical labor. Working with sellers is mental labor. You can learn the mental aspect of it. You can learn the scripts. You can learn the systems. And then if you give yourself permission not to wait around for somebody to tap you on your shoulder, you can become a listing agent urgently, which all of you should be doing. And not just learn it, but you become really, really great at it. And because, you know, the thing that I personally always loved about, you know, being a listing agent, coaching agents who have their heads screwed on straight about this, is it is an absolute process. It's like working at the post office. Well, it's a system. It can be systematized. It's the same thing. It's the same conversation. If anything, when you become really efficient at being a listing agent, your greatest bugaboo is going to be that it's boring because it is boring because it's essentially the same conversation.
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from ESPN's Greg McElroy and Comedian Jared Freid
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We have a great show this week We have two guests Greg McElroy, who was just promoted to ESPN's number two booth for college football We'll be working with Sean McDonough calling a national championship playoff game This season comes on to talk about the upcoming college football season get into his broadcasting career stuff with Alabama Sleeper team, sleeper quarterback, new rule changes So we do all that with Greg and then comedian Jared Freed who has a Netflix special out called 37 and single joins the pod to discuss life as a comedian Shaping his act. He's a big sports fan talk about if Bill Belichick is funny and The business of being a stand -up comedian working with Netflix and stuff like that. No Sal this week He's off for the Labor Day holiday weekend. He'll be back next week as we kick off the NFL season and Obviously last week Charles Barkley was on the podcast the feedback on that was tremendous. You guys couldn't have been nicer really appreciate it I will get in depth on the Charles Barkley podcast next week when Sal is back because there's a lot to discuss there But really appreciate all you guys listening in the nice feedback. Also Peter Schrager and Chris Russo won in recent weeks So if you missed any of those episodes go into the archives check them out Subscribe to SI media with Jimmy Traina and leave a review on Apple. We're gonna read them next week Alright Greg McElroy from ESPN on college football followed by comedian Jared Freed all right here right now on SI media with Jimmy Traina All right joining me now. He is the new number two analyst for ABC's PN's college football coverage this year I'll be working with Sean McDonough placing Todd Blackledge is off the NBC Former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy Greg. How's it going? Congrats on the new gig? Thank you guys so much Glad to be with you guys I've listened for a while you guys between all the media podcast always enjoy how you guys cover Cover the world before I even got into it. I was into it. So it's like this it's addictive, right? It's addictive the sports media world, but you guys do an amazing job. So happy to be joined with y 'all Thank you very much. Appreciate it. And I mentioned you're gonna be working with Sean McDonough this year Sean I'm a big fan of Sean. I've had him on this podcast. We we had some fun with his famous voice cracks Tell me about working with you know, Sean who's done this for so long has done every sport He's done World Series. He's done the NFL obviously Icon on college football tell me about the season going into it with Sean McDonough on ESPN. Well, I'm really excited I think Sean is just phenomenal. I mean, it's just a complete legend and in some ways, you know, I When you're playing or when you're watching as a fan at least for me, I was almost oblivious to the To the names and the and the faces that were on television Of course, I grew up with you know, watching NFL football as a diehard cowboy fan So I was you know Pat summer all and and listen al Michaels and and all the others that have kind of graced the television screen but I I recognized voices before I recognized names and as soon as I became more aware of this side of The game broadcast as soon as I heard Sean McDonough's like, oh my gosh, I've been listening in my whole life To be able to I've only done one game with him and it was the national championship game and we did the radio call 2021 would have been the year and it was Alabama against Ohio State and I was nervous wreck I mean, I'm going and working with a guy that I've been listening to for 20 years 25 years knowingly And I'm like this guy's a legend I just want to get out of his way like I just don't want to mess this up because I've aspirations maybe one day down the road working with him and He couldn't have been more gracious. He couldn't have been more understanding. I was a little anxious I'd never been on a call for a game of that magnitude Either as far as the radio is concerned, but he was amazing and I'm just so grateful to to him and him Welcoming on to the team and they've been together for a long time and look Todd Blackledge. I've said this For a long time. I think he's the best the best guy doing what we do. I think he's just amazing and I've always looked up to him. I've always really admired how he calls the game and I've always appreciated very much all the things that that he kind of Interjects into the game and and just the perspective that he brings so replacing him is as an impossible feat But I'm gonna do the very best that I possibly can It's a big promotion because the number two team which is which is you and Sean gets to call one of the playoff games Around New Year's when that takes place On TV, so it's a big assignment you guys I should have mentioned at the top You have North Carolina South Carolina for week one and your first game together for the season We talked about Sean you're coming off a season where you work with Joe Tess who also in college football circles is one of those guys that viewers and fans Are big big fans of because of his exciting ways Tell me, you know now that you're moving on here. What was like working with Joe Tessitore in the past Well, I've been really lucky The Joe and and Dave Pash who I was with prior to that are two of my best friends Dave Pash is like my older brother. Like I didn't know anything about anything As it comes to calling a game if not for Dave Pash and Brian Ryder I would not at all ever be in a position to have found any level of success in this profession But they really showed me the ropes and took me under their wing and then three years ago I was fortunate to to be aligned with Joe and What I love so much about Joe is the passion and energy that he calls the game with he lives that Way all the time and the guys bouncing off the walls in the booth in the pregame Hitting me talking to three times a day on Monday Tuesday Wednesday and our week leading up as far as prep is concerned like he consumes college football 24 -7 365 I mean every podcast I do he's listening has comments has critiques has Has his own opinions that he wants to weigh in him. He is just an all -knowing consumer So it was a blast to work with him and we've developed such a close relationship I Joe love and I love Dave and and I love Scotty Matthews our producer last year who is just an amazing amazing person and Kim Belton who worked with us a few years back as Well, so I've been really really lucky to be around people that taught me to do it the way I think is the right way Everyone's got their own way of preparing for a game Everyone has their own way of calling a game and when to when to speak when to lay out But I've been very fortunate to been surrounded by very talented people that have helped me understand the dynamic of How to present a game and I've had Drake great truck support as well to kind of help me Figure out the best way to plan a review or a replay sequence or maybe do some art or some Telestrations things of that nature. So whether it's Joe or the or the truck the last few years with Scotty and Jeff for Dave and Ryder and Ryder's of course can be doing some Monday Night Football games now. It's a super pump for him I've just been very very lucky and and very very fortunate. I think Dave Pash is the most underrated play -by -play guy in He's phenomenal. He's And I love hearing that Joe Tess is Wacky, even when the mics are off before a game. I love hearing that that you know, it's the same energy Let me get I just want to be clear about something because I've messed up with math before on this podcast I I once called Roman Reigns 43 when he was 33, which I still saw what you're 35 I am yes, and you've been doing games for nine years This is year eight. Yes, you're gonna see I told you I would mess it up Okay, I was pretty close to be on I've said seven. So I've messed it up. You're not wrong It's my own once you get going. Yeah, my ultimate point is you started doing TV at 27, which is pretty young I think well, what do you remember back when I mean when you started out? How raw were you? How green were you? Did it take you a long time to get I mean because I think 27 is pretty Young to be doing TV. Well, it's it's really young when your NFL career is a dud But I feel like I didn't play as long in the league as I would have liked if I could have started at 33 after 10 years in the show, I would have been perfectly okay with that as well But I knew very quickly when I was wrapping things up in the league I probably could have grinded out a couple more perhaps But I was kind of looking at through the prism of I can start my next life now With the launch of the SEC Network and be aligned With a company at ESPN that I knew would cultivate and help us figure out how to do television It was the right time to go. I was still under contract with the Bengals when I agreed in principle with ESPN and Inevitably was in studio at first which I thought was a really good way to kind of get my feet wet and Understand just kind of the nuance of television lingo how to read a rundown how to Do the telestrator in the studio and more of a controlled setting? So if we busted something, it's like well, let's re rack it Let's go. Yeah, that was Comforting and and figuring out your cadence and your tone the following year Called a game that year but it was Lamar against Texas A &M a very forgettable game Jimmy if you didn't watch that one I'm not sure how you missed it. Well, I'm a better so I'm sure the line was about 50 So that'll that's all I need to know if it was that match I think you could have laid the points comfortably and come away a winner in that one. It got a little sideways Then the following year kind of had the perfect blend of studio and game by doing the SEC nation show With Joe Tess I might add so already developed a bit of a rapport with him and Kind of got to feel the energy of the crowd and the fact that yes, it's structured to an extent But you also kind of have to play to the audience some a little bit like doing a game It was almost the perfect blend and then in 2016 after a couple of games that I did in 2015 That's when I was given my first booth Alongside Dave Pash and I remember right out of the gate. Our first game was Houston and Oklahoma It was like number 11 against number four and I was a nervous wreck I mean just to complete I'm like, I'm gonna if I screw this up It's the last year my deal like I'll just be out and you know, go do whatever it is I need to do so I was a wreck and was very nervous. How long did it take you to get comfortable? Last year, maybe yeah, really For real I have I have butterflies before the game that are very comparable to when I played Still get them will always get them probably and I hope I do because that's part of what I love so much about doing this Job is that it is as close to being in the action as close to being a coach as close to being a player is any other professions In the industry, so I really enjoy it, but it probably took me. I was remarkably over prepared as Far as my week of prep is concerned all -consuming Totally dialed in I knew everything you need to know about the backup snapper you know to the point where it's like this is just I'm getting 2 % of my pregame prep into the show and it was almost it weighed me down some and I was trying to force things in so I Scaled back a lot over the course of a couple years to the point where I could be more efficient with my preparation Understand the things that I write down and notes that I take what's going to make air what might not what will benefit and allow? Me to have strong opinions on the air, even though it it might not necessarily come out exactly as I write it down I'll have a better fundamental understanding of what this team does and why they do it so I would say as far as my week of prep is concerned took me three years probably and then to get Really really comfortable and just having my voice and knowing when to go when to lay out when to allow the crowd to speak on Your behalf when to allow the players to speak on your behalf and to let my play -by -play guy really run with it I would say probably the last three years when I really started to hit a groove.
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"So that is my view again. That's speaking for Steve Cortez. What control does a president have over state voting? Yeah, no, you're correct that it's a state issue, but there's a lot more control than you would think. If the Department of Justice was getting involved, for instance, because it's a Fourteenth Amendment violation, right? Then it is a federal issue. And by the way, the federal government interferes in state voting procedures all the time, almost always from the left, right, from a leftist perspective, but it certainly could be done from the right as well. But it's not even just that in terms of the actual tactics, it's also the bully pulpit that is the presidency. And Trump was caught and I know this as part of the Trump campaign and somebody who dealt with him. He was caught in a very tough spot why, because he had allowed Fauci to effectively take the keys to the kingdom. In many ways, Fauci was turned into a dictator over large parts of the United States, not Florida, thankfully. But the reality is, because he had given such deference to Fauci, it was almost impossible then for Trump to turn around and say, well, wait a second. These new voting procedures are not valid, and they're not appropriate. And they're not legal. So he was in a very difficult position, but because he had already surrendered so much authority to Fauci. And what are the left then do with that authority? They get a lot to America and abuse us in so many ways. But one of the ways was the effectively took control of the elections in a lot of states just made it up as they went along and said, we're going to have the kinds of procedures we want regarding mail in voting drop boxes. Et cetera. So listen, I think there's a lot Trump could have done and I know for a fact it was being talked about at the time in the summer of 2020, none of it was done. And the reality then was we had a highly, highly suspect and corrupted election. And why would it be different in 2024? Yeah, well, listen, a couple of reasons. Number one is thankfully, they at least don't have the beard, the cover of COVID, right? So they can't do some of the extrajudicial extralegal things that they were doing that. But number two, thankfully, I do think that we are awakened to that reality. And eyes on the process, even though it's a very imperfect process. Dramatically. But I'm not going to say that it's going to be by any sense perfect. I think it will be much, much better than 2020. But I think this is a years long campaign that we need to engage in and making our election procedures a lot more sound. But again, Florida is an exemplar in that in that sphere as well as it certainly is. That's true. Back with Steve Cortez in a moment, Dennis prager here, thanks for listening to the daily Dennis prager podcast to hear the entire three hours of my radio show, commercial free every single day, become a member of prager topia. You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives, as well as The Daily Show prep, subscribe, at prager topia, dot com..
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"I think it is now time for a very new chapter. Now, to the point of your poll, though, that you cited, I do believe Biden is incredibly vulnerable, right? Because of those stats, I named previously about how anxious the country is, how depressed the country is, frankly, the created crises of Biden and open border. I mean economy that's incredibly difficult for working class people. Yes, Biden is absolutely very, very vulnerable. And I think that he can and will lose to a Republican. But what I'm saying is, let's take our very best shot. Let's not nominate the least popular most polarizing Republican in America. Instead, let's make the face and messenger of the party and the movement. This young rising star who has a record very recent record of winning and winning big because of really competent conservative governance. You know, he just signed around to Santa's tape. He signed 5 education bills yesterday to conclude one of the busiest legislative sessions in the history, not just a Florida, but of any state in America. That's the kind of methodical, almost maniacal process and dedication. He brings to governing. That's what we need. We need to win, and then we need to implement the agenda. And I agree with Donald Trump, we won't get either, or maybe we get the win, but then we don't get the agenda. We don't get the implementation part because he doesn't have the discipline and focus. But listen, I'm primarily though trying to persuade people, not as an anti Donald Trump candidacy, but as a pro Ron DeSantis. I really believe that we have in the governor desantis, an incredible opportunity to knock off a clearly vulnerable increasingly unpopular Joe Biden, and that's why I wrote this article again. I don't come to this. I don't know. I know you don't. That's why, as I said, I'm having you on. We're going to continue, I'd like to take some calls, and I'd also like to have you respond. I don't know what it will be. I'm dying to know how honest you think the last election was. I have no agenda other than truth seeking back in a moment. With Steve Cortez. Longtime supporter and even senior adviser to Donald Trump made the big video that went viral, so I'm PragerU. Number of years ago about the lie about Donald Trump calling Nazis fine people. So he has a very pristine record in support of Donald Trump and he is now just now. Come out for Ron DeSantis for president. And I'm going to take some of the calls and I'm very curious to hear how the callers will react and how you will react to them. I just want to win. I'm not sure America can survive for more years of left wing rule. Right. We have political prisoners for the first time in American history. We have judges who would do well under Stalin. And I say these things literally, not as means of hyperbolic attack. So I don't know if I've discussed this with you and I'm just curious. There are people I respect who say it's almost doesn't matter what Republican will win because they'll figure out a way to cheat. Do you believe that the 2020 presidential election was honest? I do not. I have and I've been long on the record on this point. I have enormous problems with the conduct of the 2020 election and just so that I'm clear, most of my problems center around two areas, the interference of big tech, and what it did to suppress and censor information, effectively hiding the truth from the American people. So that's the one facet. And for me, the other, it's not the machines, it's not a server somewhere in Germany, for me the other is simple, violation, simple but profound violations of the equal protection clause of the constitution. Meaning that Trump voters who were overwhelmingly game day voters were subjected to an entirely different and more stringent level of scrutiny and filtering than were mail in ballots. That is patently illegal by long-standing precedent of the United States, most recently and most maybe famously Bush V gore. So I think the 2020 election under the guise of COVID and supposed concern for public health was really Bush V gore on steroids. But I would also point this out regarding this election because this is inescapable. Donald Trump was the president of the United States with the most powerful man in the country while that election was so corrupted. Conversely, I think very clean elections had been run in Florida while Ron DeSantis was governor of that state, and they do mail in ballot in there, which to be honest, if it were up to Steve Cortez, there wouldn't be mail in balloting, but regardless they do it there, but at least they do it in a way that is far, far more secure and safe than was done all over the country in 2020..
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"Then back to Steve Cortez's article of newsweek and his first announcement on air is here is endorsing Ron DeSantis. Let me go over that last poll figure you gave which you trust. 39% of Americans who do not want a Trump Biden campaign would favor Trump if the two were in fact nominated. Is that correct? No, no, no. No. The other way is a 39% advantage for Biden. The actual number. Oh, I thought, yeah, it's funny. My wife also thought you said the other. That doesn't matter. I was, it didn't make sense to me. So now that does. The actual numbers. Let me give you. Okay. Of those who of those who disapprove of both who do not want the rematch, which again is a majority of Americans, according to fabrizio, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, and I give the citations in my article. 54% say, if forced to choose 54%, go for Biden, only 15% go for Trump and then roughly a third undecided or just saying I'm not voting. But the point is, 54 to 15, 39% spread among the disaffected masses who don't want this matchup at all. And that is largely independent in America. And by the way, even though, again, admittedly, right now, you know, I'm joining an underdog team with Ron DeSantis, okay? We are clearly in second place, somewhat distantly so right now, I believe that gap will close, but nonetheless, I'm honest enough to admit that we're far back in polls. One place where we're not back at all is if you look at polling among independents right now, we are beating in a general election. We are beating Joe Biden by twice the margin that Trump is. Why? Because Trump still remains very toxic to independent voters. And independents have risen dramatically in their prominence in America, according to the latest poll out from Gallup, half of all Americans now identify as independent, so it is literally as large, literally as large as the two other parties put together. And has continued to grow for years and years. In recent elections, and I think this is so crucial Dennis 2018, 2020, 2022, we have not won. We have lost him in some cases lost miserably because of an inability to convince and persuade and motivate those very independents. I think we as conservatives have to be honest about this. I don't believe our agenda is wrong. America is a center right country, but we are being governed as if the whole country is Berkeley, California. Or Cambridge, Massachusetts. Why? Because we keep losing winnable elections. So I think if we do a real reflection in a self assessment, let's look at the outlier, for example, on November 2022, who won and who won running away. It was Ron DeSantis in Florida where he took what was a swing state that he barely won in 2018. He took that and it went all the way to a nearly 20% landslide victory and not only that, but he had magnificent coattails, meaning he lifted the entire slate, all Republican statewide office holders in Florida for the first time since reconstruction. So that is the exact opposite of what we have seen with Donald Trump. He has the opposite of a net effect of a tailwind effectively, right? For the slate. In other words, he's very problematic for other folks on the ballot. So to me, when we look at Ron DeSantis with much of the Trump agenda without the Trump chaos without the polarization and the negatives. And somebody who brings discipline and focus to governing, something we just didn't get out of Donald Trump. He did a lot for this country, but he did not bring discipline and focus. Ron DeSantis brings that in spades. He brings it away. I just want to say on your behalf that you, of course, worked for Donald Trump supported Donald Trump if you're the opposite of a never trumper you were a big trucker. I just want people to understand this. So how do you react to this today, I think this was put out ironic that it is today and it was put up by RealClearPolitics, but it comes from the American mind. Trump can win. Dan McCarthy, and this is what he, what he writes. The final RealClearPolitics polling average for the 2016 race showed Hillary Clinton beating Donald Trump by 3.2 points. As of May 1st, 2023, the same polling average shows Trump ahead of Joe Biden by one point. How do you react to that? A couple of things. First of all, look, I'm thrilled that Joe Biden is losing to any Republican, including, of course, Donald Trump. And your journey right by the way, I have spent my professional life for the last 7 years advocating for and defending Donald Trump. So I don't come to this decision flippantly at all. That's why I'm having you on. But I'm a patriot first. Am I loyalty is always to this country to this country and this movement far beyond any politician. I have been a loyal worker for Donald Trump proud of what I did in that regard..
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"I believe the best option by far is to nominate Ron DeSantis. So this is really important of important discussion. I'd just like to add an you're free to comment or not because I have obviously so many more questions, but I'd just like to add, I think that everyone who has thus far announced that I am aware of at any rate is a terrific person, and terrific candidate. Vivek Rao Swami, Larry elder, and Ron DeSantis is not announced. I think he's terrific. I even think Mickey Haley is terrific. I get I get a lot of negative feedback on her. I think she did a great job at the United Nations. I think she's powerful. I think she could win. Are you on board that there are a number of wonderful candidates? I am not. I believe that it is Ron DeSantis. Because I say for this reason, he's the only candidate who espouses and not just a spouse, but has in fact implemented an agenda of what I call patriotic populism, sort of the new right of conservatism as it is really defined now in 2020s America. He's the only one other than Donald Trump, but unlike Donald Trump, he does not carry with him the baggage and the chaos of Donald Trump. He is not the polarizing figure that Trump is. And I think what America is facing right now. I think it's one of the reasons that our country is miserable. And we are miserable, and that's not my opinion. Again, by credible polling, that is the clear preponderance of the evidence right now. For example, Wall Street Journal poll that goes back decades, 78% of the American people right now do not believe their children will have a better life than they have lived. That is by far the worst mark in the history of that poll, which goes all the way back to the 1980s. So the national mood national confidence has tanked anxiety, particularly economic anxiety, has soared and it's mostly because of the mismanagement and the disaster that created crises of Joe Biden. But I think it is also because of a despondency over the political outlook of thinking that we have to have a choice between these two relics, both of whom are incredibly unliked and polarizing candidates in Joe Biden and in Trump. So I think only in Ron DeSantis among the candidates out there either announced or potential, only in Ron DeSantis, I think. Do we find somebody who has but the trend of election losses? And bucked it with Gusto, right? In what he pulled off in 2022. And has shown us an ability to build a team, a unified coherent team, and to methodically engage in the policy and governing blocking and attacking that is necessary to build a successful state, a state that has become a Beacon for the entire country, where people have fled for economic opportunity for sanity on COVID for cultural protection. He's shown an ability to take on big business like no one else in the Republican Party, most especially Disney, but other big businesses as well, but an ability to take on willingness to take on the most powerful corporation in his state when they tried to insist on sexualized toxic indoctrination for young children. So I think a combination of his incredible biography and he's really just an inspiring story with a Sterling resume, academically, military service. When we look at all of that, when we combine it with his record of winning and winning big and his record of governing effectively, to me, there's no other candidate that is even close. And even though admittedly, right now, he's not close to Donald Trump in the polling. He is clearly alone in second place. There's nobody else near him regarding the field. I expect that to remain the case as far as the people book beneath him. And of course, I project he's going to start closing that poll once he announces those polling gaps versus Donald Trump. So I would support any of the people mentioned, including Donald Trump because any Republican is better than Biden or any of those with the exception perhaps of Robert Kennedy, junior, which is a very interesting development. I don't know where it will go. So here is my biggest question to you because I am a desantis fan. The argument is given to me and to everybody that there is a significant segment of Trump supporters who and I think it's a big error. I think only Trump is as wrong as never Trump. Right. But I do believe that there are only trumpers who, if they sat home, would mean a democratic victory. Sure. That is a legitimate concern. Let me just say that out of the gate. Now, I think we can persuade and convince a lot of those people because I totally concur with you that only Trump is just as illogical as never Trump. But just as harmful to the country. But certainly there is a segment that exists who will be on persuadable. My argument would be this. And I think the data supports this. That there are far more people, though, who are so turned off by Trump that they simply will not vote for him, but they would vote for another credible persuasive Republican nominee that they will more than compensate and I'm mostly talking about suburbanites here, largely women that they will more than compensate for that. Stubborn portion. And by the way, let me give you some evidence of that because it's not just my suspicion. I've looked very deeply into this and I give the citation for this in my article. Tony fabrizio, who was Trump's pollster, so I'm not trying to cherry pick here somebody who would be anti Trump. I think he's an excellent pollster, by the way. But he happens to have done a lot of work for Donald Trump. And this was published in The Wall Street Journal. Of the super majority that once neither candidates, which is really telling in my view, again, I think it's such an important point. We have seen this movie and we don't like it. So the super majority of Americans who do not want this rematch. If you force them to make the choice, say, well, too bad, this is your choice, okay? It's binary. These two. Joe Biden, according to fabrizio, Joe Biden beats Trump by 39% within that disaffected cohort. All right, we'll be back. Back with Steve Cortez in a moment..
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Dennis prager show. Man, I have great respect for and I might add if that's allowed affection for Steve Cortes, who I've had on a number of occasions he did one of the most important of the 550 PragerU videos on the lie about president Trump having said that there were fine Nazis, it's an exceedingly significant video as important today as it was when it came out. Steve Cortez was a senior adviser to a president Trump. And now is to be found at substack. He's moved to Tennessee, which he adores. Which is ironic Sean, given that I told people I was known as Tennessee Dennis prager as a kid. Steve, I made that up. It was just nonsense, but it was a lot of fun to say it. Anyway, Steve Cortez is written quite a piece this major major pro Trump individual has now endorsed Ron DeSantis in an article in newsweek. For president of the United States and desantis is not even announced that he's running. Is that right, Steve? That is correct, although I believe that is very much forthcoming, but yes, correct. Okay, excellent. By the way, guys, it's a little outcoming in from Steve's Steve's a Skype connection. This is a very interesting development because you were such a protector and defender of Donald Trump. What happened? Sure. And by the way, I make it this announcement for the first time on radio on your program. Oh, because I have great admiration and affection for you as well. It is very much required. Let me say this. I am very, I was very honored to work for president Trump, and I'm proud of the work I did on his behalf. I think he was exactly the disruptor we needed back in 2016. But when I look at the current political landscape, when I assess the losses of recent election cycles, and when I look into the future of what can be done and who should be the leader, a patriotic populism of right wing, the right wing movement in America. I firmly believe that governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has the record the agenda and the temperament to both win the election crucially and then also just as crucially to implement a conservative agenda once in office. And I firmly believe that he is the better option than Donald Trump at this stage. And I'm not repudiating at all. The Trump movement or the massive good that I believe that Donald Trump did for this country, but I also believe that every candidate, every man, every person has seasons in life where they are most valuable. And at this stage, I think Donald Trump has actually become harmful to the movement and conversely in Ron DeSantis. I think we have a rising political star who has really pulled off a miraculous rally politically and otherwise in the state of Florida and has and deserves the shot to take on Joe Biden in the general election, which I would also say this, Dennis. One of the reasons I've come to this conclusion is a rematch of Biden versus Trump. Is statistically a rematch that almost nobody wants. I say statistically because if we look at polling, according to NBC polling, 70% of the American people do not want Biden to run again. According to AP polling, that same number, 70% of the American people do not want Trump to run again. So this is a movie we have seen before, it is a sequel that no one essentially wants to see, how do we prevent that?.
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"All right, everybody, the male female hour every Wednesday second era of the show. What is masculinity have offered quite a number of traits here? Not a fearful man. I can't think of a. Less masculine trait than a frightened man. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a big one. Is responsible exercises self control, not intimidated by women, is not a sheep. And as a protector, a lot of good stuff, we should do a show what's feminine. Oh. You think this is controversial? It won't compare. To what is feminine? Feminism, which is merely a leftist movement in the name of women, just like communism was the leftist movement in the name of men, environmentalism, movement is a left wing movement in the name of the environment. That's all they all are. The proof on the left on the environmentalist is that they're opposed to nuclear power. Which would solve the entire issue of fossil fuels in a safe and dependable unlike idiotic dependent upon some and win. But that's not their interest is not the environment they have. It's a left wing movement. And so is feminism, feminism hates femininity and hates masculinity. Wants to make us all bland. The more men are like women and women are like men, the better the left likes it. Indeed, there are an even men or women. That's a subjective thing in their view. Oh, all right, let's see. Let's go to gia in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Thank you. Thank you. Sarah, for taking my call. I'm a first time caller. I agree with your list. I would add the word respect. A man is always respectful, not just towards others, but a man is always respectful to a woman. Regardless of the situation, because he has control over his emotions. And I agree with you, it's very, it's very non masculine to be ruled by your emotions. That's entirely accurate. I would only add that it's true for both sexes. Correct. It is. It is for both. But I think in particular, for men, because women can, at times, have a tendency to get very emotional and so forth. No, get out. Wait, wait. What did you come up with that one? Because I'm a woman. Oh, that's right. Yes. And I made it one, and I basically saw, but I would also, I would also tell you I raised my sons as a man, you're to protect and provide. That's right. That I have on here. I have protected in say provide, but that's right. I like that. Well, that's been denied. I mean, it is an issue that overwhelmed not overwhelmingly, but I think the average couple now, he is not the primary provider. And I think that that has, that has been challenging, I think, to masculinity. Men love to feel that they are the provider, the key provider. And it may be in any given area. It may not even be just monetarily, but the provider of something. That is that renders him indispensable to the family. It's traditionally it was income, but it could be other thing. He could be the guiding light of the family. He even theoretically, I don't think that it's definitionally non masculine for the man to take on the parental role. I know masculine men who actually have taken on that role..
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"I am reading to you Alan Dershowitz's analysis of this trial of president Trump. 25 years after the alleged act, he raped me at bergdorf Goodman. Dershowitz is no Trump fan, he voted for Joe Biden among other things, which is quite something he's one of the last remaining liberals. He's naive in my opinion about the Democratic Party, but I'm actually happy he's Democrat because it gives credibility to what he says. But Democrats don't listen to him in any event. He told me and others he has lost all his friends. For defending Trump, not defending Trump the man, defending Trump against charges that are wrong. Like the impeachment. There's no group hated more by the left than liberals. And yet liberals vote for them. Liberals are the American problem because the left is incorrigible. It's very rare that a leftist awakens to decency. But liberals, many are decent and that they vote for the indecent. That's the tragedy..
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Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"25 year" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"There wasn't much good in the news. And we were a very news obsessed household, my dad was very and they're watching the news and reading the newspaper, so we were kept quite aware even when we were quite young. So yeah, that's my main memory of it was a feeling that something had changed. Because if it to follow that up, as you have written about, and though it was obviously a wall before you were born, you did lose a family member on bloody Sunday in Derry. So thinking back to that, did your family regard good Friday as an unalloyed cause for celebration or were they feelings a bit more mixed? I think everyone would say I mean, I think for our family and Republican, loyalist communities, there was mixed feelings. The bike thing in our family was that what happened to us, we did not want it to happen to anyone else ever again. We were not a family who was always for revenge, but more for justice. There was very little and the good Friday agreement with dedicated sales to victims. It was something that was very much left out of the agreement and was kind of sad aside to come back to it at a different date. But the overwhelming feeling in our family was positive that no one else would have to go through what we had went through and there might be a future beyond violence and it's not just what is on data or our family apart but our community then was torn apart by the hundreds if not so reasons of young men and women who they haven't done. To join ARA because of the actions and direct retaliation to the actions of the British Army. So there was max villains definitely in Craig and the ball side and all those, you know, nationalist Republican communities and dairy, but for most of it, it was
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"25 year" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"There is no one generally accepted date of the start of the conflict in Northern Ireland, which became known as the troubles. Most observers would suggest some time in the late 1960s. Some participants would point indignantly to the battle of the boyne in 1690. Others to the early plantations of Ulster several decades before that. There is, however, consensus on when the troubles ended. 25 years ago this week on April 10th, 1998, the good Friday agreement brought an end to the troubles as they had become generally understood. A horrible squalid and debilitating war involving Republican and loyalist paramilitaries Northern Irish police, British intelligence services and the British Army. At least three and a half thousand people were killed by the troubles and nearly 50,000 injured, mostly in Northern Ireland, but not exclusively. The troubles appeared the very definition of intractable, and then remarkably almost miraculously the troubles didn't. The peace created by the good Friday agreement has not been perfect. In parts of Northern Ireland, sectarian segregation remains a depressing fact of life. Organized violence is still a threat. Northern Ireland's devolved government is not currently governing. Good Friday nevertheless endures as an astonishing diplomatic accomplishment. Why was good Friday possible when it hadn't been before? What hasn't worked and why? And what might Northern Ireland be another 25 years on? This is the foreign desk.
The Bible Recap
"25 year" Discussed on The Bible Recap
"Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Kabul and I'm your host for the Bible recap. Yesterday, Bela and his donkey arrived on their journey to meet with Bullock, king of Moab. It was an ancient belief in the canaanite culture that you could speak things into existence. So baloch hired balaam to curse the Israelites because he was afraid they would defeat him and take the land of Moab. But at their first stop, God gives Baylor a word to speak about Israel and much to baloch's dismay, it's a blessing. In 23 9, balam references Israel set a partner, calling them a people dwelling alone and not counting itself among the nations. The Locke doesn't like the sound of this, so he says, let's take a look at them from a different angle. Maybe you'll see something worth cursing then. But the same thing happens, balaam can only pronounce blessing. In 23 20, he says his words don't have power to undo what God has done. Our words may have an impact, but they can't overrule the plan of God. Nothing is weightier than his will. And not only does balaam know that now, but in 24 one we also see that through this experience, he abandons the sorcery he has relied on and learns to seek God's face instead. But it's only temporary. But for now, the spirit of God was empowering his words, not evil spirits. But Bullock is still not satisfied, of course, and he's like, third time's a charm, let's go do this again, but how about this time you don't say anything good or bad? He's really grasping at straws here. But again, balam has nothing but good words, and in fact, words that are terrifying to Bullock, because they go against everything he was hoping to hear. He says, he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and break their bones in pieces. Yikes. But baelor reminds him that he can only say what God tells him to say. And in fact, his third blessing closes with the word spoken to Abraham by God, roughly 700 years earlier. Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.
The Secret History of the Future
"25 year" Discussed on The Secret History of the Future
"With young people. Which leaves neuroscience in a somewhat strange place. Rapidly evolving, but also working within the sticky confines of law and policy. And there are huge consequences for how we interpret the nuanced corners of neuroscience in the courtroom. I find that actually a lot of working psychologists and neuroscientists who are familiar with developmental work are being asked to participate in some way in these cases because they have the latest science and able to explain it. So I think there was some disagreement though among neuroscientists and exactly where that cutoff is and how strong the evidence is for these various cutoffs. So universally, everyone I talked to agreed that the current law often draws a line at 18. You're not able to give anyone younger than 18 the death penalty or life without parole. But almost all neuroscientists there agreed that 18 did not feel right. The brain is definitely still developing at 18. It seems like right now the one major kind of debate is between the ages of 21 and 25. Tell me about that. Some of the neuroscientists I was talking to advocated for drawing that new line at roughly 21. They felt like the evidence was robust that the brain is definitely still developing up until 21, but after that, it's not clear that there's enough evidence to raise that higher. Others argue that there is enough evidence to raise that to 25. And I think that's a conversation that we're going to keep having for many years. And what I found really interesting about that conversation that's happening in that space is it's not only about science. It's clearly very much about science, but in talking to these neuroscientists a lot of them cited public opinion and judges opinions and whether we as a society were ready to accept a new cutoff as high as 25. Some have said, you know, 21 is just going to be a tactical decision because we're not ready for 25 yet. So we're just going to argue for 21 until people get on board with that and then maybe we'll argue for it moving higher again once people actually understand more of this brain science and are more open to seeing its applications in that way. But also who gets to be a kid in the wider eyes of society, right? Can often read accounts of, oh, this person screwed up. So and so he's just a kid. He's 27, whereas, you know, someone else, well, he's an adult. He's 18. There are a lot of racial and gender lines that get drawn here. And it doesn't seem like the idea of sort of a who is mature is applied equally. No, absolutely. And I was thinking about say I'm bacon for you. I have seen folks referring to him as he just didn't know what he was doing. He just a kid. Yeah, just a kid. That's something that feels like a separate issue that legal system will need to work on. And I'm not quite sure how. But yeah, I feel like we see that over and over again. And hopefully, you know, by raising this cutoff, will automatically just give some more people a little bit more of the benefit of the doubt. The law has shifted the roper case before the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for people under 18. And actually in one of your pieces, you quoted the attorney Seth waxman kind of talking about brain science, it seems like we are moving listening to you toward different goalposts. How quickly do you see that potentially happening? That's a great question. And I think it is starting to move more quickly. It seems like in the last few years, many state supreme courts have taken notice of this brain science and have really made an effort to try and understand it and try and apply it in their work. And we've seen a lot of movement over the last few years in this park's case. Where judges are actually taking into account young people's ages and the growing brain science around decision making at those ages. And trying to apply that more broadly by either changing those cutoffs or at least just weighing that brain science in a decision. Yeah, the Michigan Supreme Court outlawed life in prison without parole for 18 year olds. Do you think that sends a message to other States Supreme courts, you should be looking at the science? Yeah, and from talking to some of the folks who worked on that case, it seems like, I don't know if it's directly because of that case or just happened around the same time because people are thinking about it, but it seems like there are many other states where folks in the legal system are really thinking about this and considering it. And actively asking neuroscientists for their input so that they understand it better. Do you think we'll ever have a consensus on what brain maturation is? I doubt it, but part of that is because I almost hope we don't. It feels like such an individual thing, right? I think about this, I know that this is a very crude comparison, but I mean, think about what maturation looks like for someone physically. Like what does that even mean? Your body changes throughout your life. You might hit a certain point where you're not going to grow taller, but everything else about you physically can change. I mean, in the brain is part of your physical body, of course. And that is also going to continue to change. So I think it's a healthy thing, I think, for us as a society to realize that there's not going to be a single point at which the brain is quote fully mature. And I think it's really just up to us to define maturity rather than relying on neuroscience to try and do that for us. Jane see who, thank you so much for talking with me and for writing these articles. Thanks so much for having me. Jane see who is a freelance science journalist. And that is it for our show today. What next TBD is produced by Evan Campbell, our show is edited by Jonathan Fisher and Mia Armstrong Lopez. Alicia Montgomery is vice president of audio for slate. TBD is part of the larger what next family, and we're also part of future tense. A partnership of slate, Arizona state university, and new America. And if you are a fan of the show, I have a request for you. Join slate plus just head on over to slate dot com slash what next plus to sign up. You'll get this show and all your slate podcasts add free. All right, we'll be back next week with more episodes. I'm Lizzie O'Leary, thanks for listening.
Reel Chronicles
"25 year" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"Michael jordan had a harder job as an actor then lebron because michael interacted with less humans. Then lebron because lebron had don cheadle and then in the old one. Danny devito was an animated villainous. Well so he had. He had a harder job. I personally think. I love lebron in trainwreck. I don't know if you guys have ever seen trainwreck. Amy schumer film that movies excellent and he is excellent and he's really really funny. I don't know where his acting went. 'cause he is pre awful in this movie not say michael jordan is any better but he is pretty damn terrible. It is so stiff The beginning of this movie is the same opening as the original sham. He is a little kid. Then we get to a highly real for the credit which is the same. As the michael jordan won the own. I will say like the beginning of this. Movie is very very boring. I don't like the fact. I mean they take around the same time it gets to the looney tune world but i guess i was more entertaining michael jordan sucking at basketball. I mean baseball then. Lebron is kids. So i didn't work for me there once we get the looney tunes. Oh the movie. Changes dramatically for me in terms of entertainment value like looney tunes are fantastic. A daffy star of the show by the way writer. I don't agree with that. Your favorite But the ip usage here. Leo is worth a watch..
Reel Chronicles
"25 year" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"Michael jordan had a harder job as an actor then lebron because michael interacted with less humans. Then lebron because lebron had don cheadle and then in the old one. Danny devito was an animated villainous. Well so he had. He had a harder job. I personally think. I love lebron in trainwreck. I don't know if you guys have ever seen trainwreck. Amy schumer film that movies excellent and he is excellent and he's really really funny. I don't know where his acting went. 'cause he is pre awful in this movie not say michael jordan is any better but he is pretty damn terrible. It is so stiff The beginning of this movie is the same opening as the original sham. He is a little kid. Then we get to a highly real for the credit which is the same. As the michael jordan won the own. I will say like the beginning of this. Movie is very very boring. I don't like the fact. I mean they take around the same time it gets to the looney tune world but i guess i was more entertaining michael jordan sucking at basketball. I mean baseball then. Lebron is kids. So i didn't work for me there once we get the looney tunes. Oh the movie. Changes dramatically for me in terms of entertainment value like looney tunes are fantastic. A daffy star of the show by the way writer. I don't agree with that. Your favorite But the ip usage here. Leo is worth a watch..
Reel Chronicles
"25 year" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"So we're seeing night wing but we're forgetting away whole. Yeah we're still. We're still with this main girl and her little brother. The only thing. I will say a teen book. The villain is very very predictable icon. We we both talked about kind of knew who was going to be very very early on. But yeah i dug it as well. Anything else lou. Enough your street was the last thing and then last night Prior to this episode. I ended up watching the greatest. Nba player of all time in one of the most fondly remembered but not that good movies of all time ryan go for before and i know what's going to talk about the new space. Jim quick leo. I have a question for the tv. Got heavy ever watched the miracle workers on. Pbs erica workers on tv. No i have not is that like I'm guessing about like this. Would daniel radcliffe with radcliffe is with a. What's his name was in sopranos. He played Tony's cousin and he was the guy in the coma at michael imperial. How now never watched it. But that's a solid pitch right there a week. Steve blue chevy is in this s. Why menacing the his cousin. Tony beat yay. That's w percents. Oh yes a solid cast on this. It looks miniature announced when you watched it so i would know better list. It's headed for me. I really just been low-key and loki especia- awesome guy. I know you guys talked about last episode last week so i just want to highlight one thing from last week before we get into this week's episode when the one looking raised as guard i almost cried. Classic loki. yeah. Richard e. grandbaby the best loki of the mall. I want to say in like in like an episode and a half..
Reel Chronicles
"25 year" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"So we're seeing night wing but we're forgetting away whole. Yeah we're still. We're still with this main girl and her little brother. The only thing. I will say a teen book. The villain is very very predictable icon. We we both talked about kind of knew who was going to be very very early on. But yeah i dug it as well. Anything else lou. Enough your street was the last thing and then last night Prior to this episode. I ended up watching the greatest. Nba player of all time in one of the most fondly remembered but not that good movies of all time ryan go for before and i know what's going to talk about the new space. Jim quick leo. I have a question for the tv. Got heavy ever watched the miracle workers on. Pbs erica workers on tv. No i have not is that like I'm guessing about like this. Would daniel radcliffe with radcliffe is with a. What's his name was in sopranos. He played Tony's cousin and he was the guy in the coma at michael imperial. How now never watched it. But that's a solid pitch right there a week. Steve blue chevy is in this s. Why menacing the his cousin. Tony beat yay. That's w percents. Oh yes a solid cast on this. It looks miniature announced when you watched it so i would know better list. It's headed for me. I really just been low-key and loki especia- awesome guy. I know you guys talked about last episode last week so i just want to highlight one thing from last week before we get into this week's episode when the one looking raised as guard i almost cried. Classic loki. yeah. Richard e. grandbaby the best loki of the mall. I want to say in like in like an episode and a half..
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"25 year" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
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Welcome back to the guy's radio show remember. All episodes are available on demand. So if you missed the broadcast get the podcast. Guy's radio is available in all popular and unpopular podcasting apps. Now let's get back to iron hill. Brewery will mark. We're going to ask a question. We ask everybody but it's just kind of fun to hear how than iron hill brewery get start. Had we get start so I have two partners. Kevin finnan kevin davies. Kevin finn and i were friends for many years. We've played soccer together right. And we became. Home brewers together his wife bottom hamburg kit to keep us from going out drinking all the time and so she brought him a homebrew kit. And that's what we did. We started humbling. And you know and this was in the late eighties raid back when people were starting pass. Homebrew loss states. Were passing humber. Lausane home brewing really started to take off and we love what we were doing. Home brewers like many. I mean it starts if you've heard the story a lot i'm sure and so. We won awards at the homebrew competitions of time and we both hated our jobs and said we give this a run and and we decided that we wanted to get into the brew pub side of it and realized that we needed to get somebody who knew something about restaurants and a mutual friend introduced us to our third partner kevin davies. Who was trying to do the same thing. He was arrested on tour in the in the delaware area of many years and pushed together and within two years. We open the first iron hill in in newark delaware. So did you have any plans at the time to be what iron hillary is today. You know we get asked that question a lot and you know. I think that first we realized that one restaurant wasn't gonna supported us three knuckleheads right and We needed to do something right. And so i mean. We opened the second location within two years of the first one. So you know i. It's such a whirlwind. When you do these things it's hard to remember everything you thought about but we certainly must have been thinking about it a little bit because we opened so quickly and then within another two years we opened our third one and then we just kept going on with the growth. That way do you get much of a chance to brew anymore or are you pretty much just managing everything people make fun of me right there like one of the last time you ever brew right now. You know what i do. I do these collaborations. Right and these days and we do a big collaboration up in philadelphia for philly beer week right but it's all of us that started around the same time round nineteen ninety six and we did not do it last year but it's called brotherly suds right and so we get together all of us that have been in the business for so long and and at this point. You know there's guys in the brewery that are the formulation weeks before then we sit there and we enjoy each other's company and drink beer fill kovalevsky from victory. Says he goes you now. This is the one day year. We actually do what everybody thinks we do. All year long which is euro day right and so everyone assumes that's bruised right and so but that's what we get to this. So i would say that i was the first brewer in the first iron hill and you know brutal lot you brew and then we go worked to shift manager shifts in the restaurant right right. I'll switch it did at the time and And so yeah. But it's been a while since i've by myself but i did something last year right before the pandemic at we did this thing or marketing people called a brew the legend right. So i guess. I'm the legend and so we ran a homebrew competition. Remember that and we picked five from five different regions of where we have restaurants. We did the judging of all the homebrew submitted. And then the five got the system. And then i would go in and brew with them and we have the local brewer there as well so i did put on some cover off straight Longtime that yeah and get a new size of them right not fit any now. Do you miss you miss the days where you were just bruin or i do in that when i smell the word boylan right and you know that distinctive smelling. I'm like for A little simpler times right. But you know what. Why partners than i do now or part of building an organization and at some point you get a lot of enjoyment out of brewing organization. Where you get to let people help grow your business. So that's that's kind of what we do right. I had someone asked me just a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about the radio show and they said why didn't you just start a brewery. Why go this route. And i'm like man. There's a lot of work and is a lot of ruined a lot of work. So brian i work. Young athletic man's game sure because a lot of people that the people that want to start the juries. Don't that that saturday you're spending in your garage with your buddies. Making five gallons of beer is nothing like that. Forty barrel batch. You know that you make there so and brandon. I found out that. The hard way people ask me distill homebrew. And i'm like are you a star professionally brewing in your wife will be like you're not doing that at home and we'll talk to some people that are not even interested in like i do this all day. Why would i go home to do this. I need. I need some time to decompress. You know. I think some of the younger guys at a breaking away from like i have a friend. That's worked his way up into a brew master position and he enjoys bruin. He mentioned he was like yeah. You know i miss it. Needs trying to get on their pilot brewery to go out and do some of the experimental stuff in that her to get some brewing in there. He what he really wants to do is play at work that's it he's like. This work is too much work stuff. I really enjoyed that part of their. Yeah yeah i used to always be even outside of the brewery it was always heavily involved in every formulation and so and now i i have trouble letting go of that stuff but not in the last ten years i have a lot of faith in our crew and the stuff they do but i love getting involved. We have our twenty fifth anniversary. Is this year and coming up late. And so the anniversary beers i get to be heavily involved with some getting excited about this one. That'd be fun mark. You mentioned that You're on the board of the brewers association for about ten years correct. Yes that's correct. When were you on the board there in two thousand six. My first meeting they said. Hey we're going to work on something right now. It's.