38 Burst results for "ALI"
Mark Levin
Press Photos of Hamas Terror Raise Ethical Questions
"Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services which publish their photos approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media like CNN? CNN's always there on the wrong side. And the New York Times, always there on the wrong side. Did they notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of breaching, kidnapping and storming of Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the has border been breached not only physically but also journalistically. Four names appear on these photo credits from the Israel Gaza border area on October 7th. You ready MSNBC? The Daily Beast? Huffington Post? Mediaite? Hassan Yossef Mossad, Ali Mamand and Hatim Ali. Eslaya, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, then captured infiltrators entering the kibbutz kafar on October 7th. Honest reporting has obtained screenshots of Eslaya's now -removed tweets on X, in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He didn't wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read, Live from inside Gaza Strip settlements. Shortly after the publication of this article, we were alerted to footage of Hassan Elisha next to the Israeli tank. In addition, a photo has surfaced for showing him with Hamas leader and mastermind of October 7 massacre, Yahya Yabba Dabba Doo, Senwar. In this footage, they have it all there, Elisha, after he crossed into Israel and took photos of a burning tank. He then captured infiltrators and in the area. Hassan, also who also works for the New York Times, he was there as well, just in time to set foot in Israeli territory and take more tank pictures. Ali Mahmoud and Hatem Ali were positioned to get photos of the horrific abductions of Israelis in Gaza. Mahmoud captured the pickup truck the carrying body of German -Israeli Shani Lauk and Ali got several shots of abductees being kidnapped into the strip. Interestingly, the names of photographers, the which appear on other sources, have been removed from some of the photos on AP's database. You know the media is so corrupt. Perhaps someone at the agency realized posed it serious questions regarding their journalistic ethics. So the serious question is this. You went in
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
Fresh update on "ali" discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"But again, like Eddie, it was it was a thought, you know, he talked about the fight even about, you know, tank and what could have been done. So we like to say we're on good terms and things are still good with us. What's it like to have so many guys that are high level in that gym? Is that a source of motivation? Is that push you even further than you have pushed before having guys like Errol Spence Jr., Jermell Charlo, Anthony Joshua, Frank Martin in that gym on a regular basis? I think it's just fun seeing that there. To be honest, like it's cool. It's like, oh shit, you're here. But I think all that comes within yourself. You know, you could have a million people there. You can have Canelo there. You could have, you have the world, Cristiano Ronaldo there, don't matter if it's not in you to want to push. You know, if you can't push without them being there, you ain't gonna push them when they're there. So for me, it's just, it's cool. I mean, it's great to see guys that are, you know, dedicated. But for me, it's all within me. If I'm not there, I'm not there. Is this, do you consider this your life now? Because, I mean, you've been doing it for about six months. Derek James ain't moving to LA. Like, could you see yourself doing it for six years? I mean, do you see this as your life? I see myself giving everything I have to boxing for as long as I can, and then, and then hitting them with the deuces. But I'm committed to like taking this as far as I can and becoming the champion of how many times that's going to be and having great fights with great fighters and seeing where that's going to go. But I don't know how long that's going to last, but I'm here to do it and I'm not going to let my life waste by without reaching my full potential. I'm still young and I can do it. do you think about the end though? Sounds like it crosses your mind about how long you want to do it and whether you want to do other things. As of right now, no, I mean, you ought to be like, damn, bro, you want to go through these hard-ass training camps. Sometimes, of course, it's hard. These are not, it's not easy to break up and do the same thing every day and grind hard and avoid burning out and then having to like get back on the horse and go again. Like, the training camps are the hard part. The fights is fun. But, you know, again, I know this is part of the game and I'm committed and, you know, I see myself doing this for as long as I can, as long as I can and and doing great things in the sport and then riding off in the sunset, whatever I'm going to do. I have no clue. You obviously never want to take a loss, but as you look back at it now, do you feel like you're a better fighter because of at least the experience of going through what you went through with Gervonta? Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. Now, no media day is going to be able to compare to how big that was and and electricity. And so now I'm more, I'm used to, I'm going to be more, you know, experienced if I have a huge fight like that again, which I will. And, you know, I gained a lot of experience from it and I don't even care about loss to be honest. I'm like, okay, I'm going to come back. You know what I mean? And I think this is showing a great example to other fighters. Like, I lost but watch what I do now and they're going to see how successful I'm going to be even off a loss and it's going to change the whole dynamic of boxing. I think it did. I think me even getting in there and risking it that early in my career. I think that did inspire other people to finally, you know, buckle up and fight. I think I did a good thing for the sport and I think, you know, if the time goes on, they're going to be like, yeah, that was the moment changed, you know, that was like, I put a stake in what it was before. And I think I'm going to continue to do that. I think I'm going to keep innovating in the sport and they're going to be following my lead, you know, and I can see it, you know, I was doing social media, every boxer wants to do it. And then, you know, now I'm going to show them the blueprint on how to produce big fights. I think I'm going to be leading the way for a while. So Oscar Duarte, I told you this before, I was surprised when you picked him, you know, not to make it out like he's Muhammad Ali, but I see a lot of guys coming off a challenging loss, taking much softer touches. This to me is not a soft touch. You could have taken on anybody you wanted. Why did you pick Oscar Duarte? It was between two guys. I trust my coaches, his, you know, opinion on who I should fight. So I sent him the guys that I could potentially fight and he won the Oscar Duarte. So that was basically what it was. Oscar Duarte, of course, he's a heavy puncher, but if you've been boxing a long time, you should know how to fight your guys that hit hard. There's going to be guys that hit hard, there's going to be guys that are fast, slow, come forward, back up. I can't be, you know, what I'm going to do. I won the world title, but I can't beat, you know, Oscar Duarte, no disrespect. But if I want to do that, like let's run it, you know, I think that the layoff wasn't that long from Tank. So I still feel right there, you know, I'm not discouraged from the loss. So this is not, it's not going to affect me. It's going to be a tough fight. Don't get me wrong. I got to be extra cautious, but I think, watch, I know I'm ready. You know, a lot of people would look at the weight and say, I would 136 last time 140. What's the big deal? What is the big deal? What's the difference with you between 136 and 140? I just think that people that say that it's not educated on the sport, you know, those those last pounds can kill you literally because you're already killing yourself to get there. So those extra pounds are just like it's just a relief for your body. And on top of it, you know, look at, you could have fight with 12 ounce gloves or eight ounce gloves. Oh, it's only four ounces. Now, you tell a fighter, what's the difference? It just if you know, you know, I don't, you know, I don't want to explain it. Like, you know, you know, no, you know, if you're a wrestler and you cut the weight before you overlay and then on top of it, if you're not able to rehydrate the way you want, that's even worse. Like that's like a huge disadvantage. Like, I don't care what nobody says, like, that's crazy. Does the, you're still weeks away from the fight, but does the training feel different not having to have 135 as the target? Yes, it's a relief. Like I could focus on my skills. I'm not even tripping about my weight. Like I'm cool, you know, it's been a huge relief and I felt like I was fighting good at 140. Like Fortuna, like I felt like my mind was there. I was sharp. I could take the punches. I mean, I guess Fortuna was like a true 140, but you know, I felt better regardless of whoever the opponent was. I always felt better like that weight class. I was like sharper and I felt more, you know, conscious. So I think you're going to see a great performance for me. Does this feel like a new chapter for you? Yeah. Yeah, if it was like a book, it was like chapter this. Yeah, you got a few chapters already. it was like a fun chapter in the beginning and then now we're in a new one. Yeah, I think that you're going to see a another rise of mine, you know, just another great trajectory like damn, Ryan's back. It's going to go. It's going to be fire going to be fun ride, you know, spectacular wins is going to have, you know, another hurrah, you know, I mean, oh, we're going to we're going to build it up again. I feel it. I know it. December is the start of a massive month of fights on his own, which includes Bam Rodriguez, Sonny Edwards. Jake Paul is going to be back on his own and your good friend Devin Haney. You've got a lot long history with you want titles. You said the winner of Devin Haney Regis program will have a title. How much how closely are you watching that fight when it comes to a future opponent for yourself? I'm going to be watching that real close. Devin Haney's been on the list of future opponents for a while. He's been doing really good. Regis also a great fighter. So I'll be looking at it. I want the world titles. So, you know, I'll be, you know, I have a little long history with Devin. It's been boiling up for a minute. And I think that people want to see that. So I'll be looking forward to it. How many times in the amateurs? You fought six times. Six times? Three and three. Okay. So in three, but you know, when I fought him, I cracked him. He fought me, you know, points, you know, a little points. I was banging on him, you know, I was hurting him. Now, like I remember when he got in the ring after you beat Fonseca and Anaheim and it was fun. It just didn't feel like the right time for that fight then. No, you know, mid through December now, now starting to feel pretty right. Oh, it is, it is, it is. I think, you know, realistically, I think that I'm going to have some great performances and maybe in two fights, you know, three fights. I think that we're going to run a big one. I think I need to do my part on, on an exploding the 140 division. So I got some work to do, you know, he's been doing his thing, but I'm going to, you know, have those performances again and do what I do. And then we can run it, you know, and for a big one, you know, I got to be smart too. I got to be, you know, realistic, you know, I'm not going to just go to Duarte right to Devin. It doesn't make sense. You know, I think I need to establish myself like, you know, this guy's for real at 140, like be careful, you know, so that's what I'm gonna do. Ryan, welcome back. Thank you. You're the best. Sir.That's it for this week's episode. My thanks to Corey Erdman and Ryan Garcia for joining the show. As always, subscribe, rate, review this podcast on Apple podcast Spotify, wherever you download podcasts, and I'll see you next week. Thank you so much. I go sleep. Have you had it with toxic pet odor products that don't really work? Try the revolutionary new odor eliminator poof poof eliminates odors instantly. No harsh chemicals. No tacky perfumes poof dismantles odors on a molecular level turning any organic odor into clean fresh air instantly. And not just peer poop stink. Use it on stinky pet toys, their beds, even on stinky skin folds, ears and around eyes because it doesn't contain harsh chemicals. Get the amazing new pet odor eliminator. Everybody's talking about go to poof.com today. That's p o o p h.com. If it's not poof, it stinks. 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Mark Levin
Is Mediaite.com Antisemitic?
"They? Were they? Are we going to point fingers or yell at people? Just days after he received backlash over a disgusting and bigoted attack on a Pakistani American journalist. Well, what did he do? What did he say? Look on this program we know who Ali Velshi is and Mehdi Hassan and they're Israel haters. It may well be worse. We do have an audio after all. So why is media coming to their defense? And why are they character hearing John Podhortz who's been the publisher commentary well thinker -known American Jewish can't really say Ali Velshi and Mehdi Hassan are well -known thinkers. They're attack dogs. Podhortz who in recent weeks flashed out blah blah blah. After Velshi reported that the Hamas run Palestinian Ministry of Health says 10 ,022 Palestinians have been killed and 1 .5 million displaced from their home since October 7th Podhortz responded the Hamas one Ali Velshi uses data from us and tries to make himself clean by calling it Hamas run isn't that true why don't you tell us the numbers John shot back Velshi or would you like to just continue to live in your fantasy world where Palestinians get killed and no one counts or cares why does nobody counter care that doesn't mean you take numbers from a genocidal terrorist regime and use their numbers Velshi and that's his point you don't have the numbers nobody has the numbers so the default position isn't to use a terrorist organization now is it is it media I you see folks we are watching MSNBC and CNN we are watching the New York Times in the Washington Post we are watching all of these Israel hating platforms including now he auto repair costs are up nearly twenty percent from last year that's four times the rate of inflation so when you enroll in a car protection plan through car shield you can look forward to the following car shield offers protection plans starting as low as $100 a month with flexible month -to -month coverage no long -term contracts and options to fit everybody's budget they have repair coverage for up to five thousand parts and you have
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "ali" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Come stick with your baby for thousand years. Nothing goes better when Dana's It's he, Dana. Hi Hi, Dana. Good morning, everybody. Dana has the covid again, everybody. Oh, I'm on the tail end of it. But if my voice sounds bad, a little quirky. I apologize. Or sexy for some people, I don't know. Yeah, a little sexy, a little Marlo Thomas scratchy. Listen, people, this virus is still no joke. I performed over all the country in front of thousands of people. I had to know thousands of people. I never got it. You had a close close get together and someone came in. So just protect yourself. Please, please, please, please. Yes. Steam vaccine. We can't have nice things again. If you would get the shot and also mask off, you know, Dana, that's the other thing is it's just so astounding that people are still, you try to mask shame people when, you know, masking works. Obviously, the vaccine, as we know, doesn't stop you from getting it. It stops you from hopefully being hospitalized or dying. But you can still get it. And so I know, I feel like it's insane. It's why, you know, the Asian culture, they always wear masks. It's sign a of respect and for other people. Absolutely. The person that brought it in obviously didn't know they had and it they were asymptomatic until like the end of the night. Yeah. So no one could have known. Dana, you know, we all had it in the very beginning before the vaccine. And, you know, I'm told it's different now. The new variant that's circulating, obviously, does it feel different? Because I know you've had it before. What are your symptoms? The first two three or days were pretty brutal. It felt like the worst sinus infection I'd ever had. There was also, I got, sorry, no one wants to hear this, but also I got sick. But mostly it's the headache, pain, and the sinuses, and then just like a lot of nasal drip. No one wants to hear this, but it affects everyone differently. I know friends that felt like they had a cold. light Some people just get headaches, but I've also had lung stuff for my entire life, so I have to be more careful than some people, so it doesn't go into my lungs. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Well, honey, we're sending all kinds of stuff ahead, love and light and healing, healing. Thank you. Trust me, I really am on the, I feel like I turned a corner, so this is, this is good COVID space. No, I mean, Ali Velshi was just out because he had COVID. I mean, that's the thing. I don't bear again, I think. Yeah, the people just don't get that it is not over. There's a new, you know, variant. And the reason there's this new variant circulating is because so few, you know what I mean? I don't even know what is it now. I thought it was seven, but then I heard 14 % of us only the have new vaccine. And you really need to get it because it's not a booster, as Jodie keeps reminding us, it's a new vaccine because we're so many variants out, you know? Yeah, I did get it, by the way, but I only got a couple of weeks before I got sick. And so doctors can say during that period, because your body is trying to fight the vaccine and build antibodies, sometimes your immune system is lower and that's when stuff sneaks in. So you know, after you get the vaccine, people make sure you mask up and be careful because that's when your body's susceptible to things and perhaps that's what happens. Yeah. I'm unlucky in that no one wants to invite me to anything still has nothing to do with COVID. You're lucky. You just got a girl to make out with. You don't need to go anywhere. You just posted a picture of you at a gigantic giving table. So I don't want to hear that. Oh, it was outside though. Okay. Oh, we all had the COVID test. Okay. Yeah. We all had to have a negative COVID test that day. Good. Yeah. You know, I know it's a little bit of a pain in the butt for people, but I still think if you're having a get it, do a test, even if it's a rapid test. Yeah. No, the hostess asked us, negative COVID test, please. Absolutely. Like, absolutely. That's a courtesy you should do. You know, there's some older people there and you know, yada, yada. So yeah. Yeah. Oh, Gloria Allwood was still masking because she had a girl. Yeah. Yeah. She's got, she's got people to do. Yeah. Okay. I know, by the way, this is, you tweeted people complaining that Dolly did the halftime show at the Cowboys game of lost their ever loving minds. You should all, we should all be lucky. If I showed up to anywhere in Dolly, pardon me, I'd be like knocking people down to get up to the front row. She's just magic, but really? Cause this stupid vaccine thing still, because she promoted, you know, she gave money for Moderna and you know, the vaccine. That's what people were upset about. Yes. That's it. Because she's responsible for the Moderna vaccine. Oh, I thought at 77, they were mad because she looks better in that cheerleader costume than most of the people that are wearing it. Cheerleaders don't look as good. No members. She changed her Jolene song to vaccine to try to promote, you know, I don't know, just, yeah. Right. We're trying to keep people alive, get them healthy and vaccinated. Okay. She's an incredible woman. If you listen to some of the podcasts she's on, she's done more in her life than any of these people ever do. I know. I know. Exactly. By the way, you tweeted, uh, speaking of pharmaceuticals, George Santos was shocked by the allegations, but you can't tell because of all the campaign funds on Botox. See, that's funny. That's a funny joke. He was shocked at the, are you shocked by the expulsion. Oh, by the way, I'm just happy that that person, we don't even know his real name, uh, hasn't been in Congress long enough to get lifetime benefits. That's the joy of this whole story. He hasn't been in Congress long enough to get the health insurance, to get the pension. That's one of the reasons why he went in to do it. Did you hear it's over when I say it's over Chris and I are, are we wrong to hope for a, uh, that he exits Congress as a Katara, what is it? On roller skates with a headdress to Xanadu. I mean, he's got to do something for a finale, doesn't he?
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Monitor Show 15:00 11-04-2023 15:00
"The world is more complex than ever, but that complexity pushes me to look at the bigger picture. I'm Emily Chang, and I cover tech, culture, innovation, and the future of business for Bloomberg. At Bloomberg, reporters like me dig into the context of a story, so you understand how it impacts you. Because context changes how you see things, how you change things. Context changes everything. Start watching my shows and more at Bloomberg .com. Protecting civilians, we're getting aid in, we're getting foreign nationals out, while still enabling Israel to achieve objective to defeat Hamas. Jordan's foreign ministry released a statement saying the leaders stressed the Arab stance calling for an immediate ceasefire, delivering humanitarian aid and finding ways of ending the dangerous deterioration that threatens the security of the region. As many as 30 ,000 people are expected for a pro Palestinian rally in March this afternoon in Washington, D .C. Reporter Ali Rafa says the crowd gathering at Freedom Plaza is the largest yet since the Israel -Hamas war began. Since against occupation, you see some calling for the end of U .S. aid to Israel, some of them calling for a ceasefire. The rally is taking place along Pennsylvania Avenue with a march to the White House and back to Freedom Plaza. Organizers say they expect activists from as far away as Florida and Texas. A Washington, D .C., Jewish Community Center leader is asking that supporters of Israel resist the urge to counter -protest to avoid the potential for violence.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "ali" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
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Mark Levin
An Excerpt From 'Unfreedom of the Press'
"Because Biden's doing about what you're going to hear. The way in which most Americans have heard the story, writes the post writer of the Iran deal presented that the Obama administration began seriously engaging with Iranian officials in 2013 in order to take advantage of a new political reality in Iran, which came about because of elections that brought moderates to power in that country, was largely manufactured for the purpose of selling the deal. Unquote. A main argument for negotiating with the Iran regime was, quote, actively misleading. Unquote. That's me. And regurgitated by journalists who wanted to support Obama's policy. It would be the same journalists who now support Hamas's policies. As Samuels reported, the narrative that Rhodes shaped the story of the Iran deal began in 2013 when a moderate faction inside the Iranian regime led by Hassan Rouhani beat regime hardliners, unquote, in an election and began to pursue a called the policy of openness, which included a newfound willingness to negotiate the dismantling of its illicit nuclear weapons program. This is all from the Post. The president set out the timeline himself in a speech announcing the nuclear deal on January 14, 2015. Today, two years after of negotiations, he said, the United States, together with our international partners, has achieved something decades of animosity is not. While the president's statement was technically accurate, there had in fact been two years of formal negotiations leading up to the signing of his nuclear deal, was also actively misleading, because the most meaningful part of the negotiations with Iran had begun in the mid -2012, before many months Rouhani and the so -called moderate camp were chosen in an election among candidates picked by Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The idea that there was a new reality in Iran was politically
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1429: Bitcoin $220,000 (Short Term) In Play - Max Keiser
"Say goodbye to your credit card rewards. Big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets. Senate Bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it. If you love your credit card rewards, visit HandsOffMyRewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest Bitcoin technical analysis and quoting the high priest of Bitcoin, Max Keiser. For world peace, let's have a day of Bitcoin. All the troubles you see, all the wars and hatred are caused by fiat money and central bankers. Bitcoin fixes this. Martyring yourself for fiat money is foolish. Get right with Satoshi and perfect money. Bitcoin preach. Also in today's show, long -term hodlers buy 1 .35 billion dollars worth BTC as the whales continue stacking. Also breaking news, Japanese yen -backed digital currency DCJPY to go live in July 2024. Also breaking news, Caroline Ellison's testimony shared that SBF bribed Chinese officials for 150 million dollars to unfreeze funds using Thai prostitutes. Not only that, but Caroline and Bankman freed conspired to keep Bitcoin under $20 ,000 by selling customer BTC. We'll also be breaking down USDR stablecoin, dpegs to $0 .53, as well as ARK's amended spot Bitcoin ETF filing is a good sign of future approval. I'm also going to be sharing with you Max Keiser's short -term price prediction for Bitcoin of $220 ,000 and quoting him here from a recent speech he gave at Pacific Bitcoin Conference. If you want to live in America, move to El Salvador. If you want the Constitution, a Bill of Rights, move to El Salvador. If you want to feel freedom of expression, move to El Salvador. That's the America. The Statue of Liberty is now a volcano and it's on the tropics and it's a guy named President Pukele running the joint and I suggest everyone who is feeling downtrodden and persecuted and not able to be who they really want to be to get the heck out of this ish hole and move to El Salvador, that's my recommendation to you. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost a video show, so if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone, this is podcast episode number 1429. I'm your host JV and today is October 12, 2023. Let's kick off today's show as we do each and every day with our market watch. Make sure to say hello in the live chat and at the end of the show I'll give everyone a shout out. How's that sound? As you can see here Bitcoin and all the major cryptos currently correcting and in the red and as you can see on coin market cap, the market cap is barely sitting above that 1 trillion dollar milestone which we have been at for quite some time. It's been pretty stagnant and the 24 hour volume is just above 24 billion with Bitcoin dominance at 49 .9 % and the Ether dominance at 17 .8 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers the past 24 hours. Loom is leading the pack up 13 % trading at 21 cents followed by FXS of 5 % trading at $5 .69 followed by Gala at roughly 4 % trading just under looks like or I'm sorry just above 1 .3 cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week you can see it's a mixture of gainers and losers with some of the top losers being Roon and RLB and the top gainer here FXS up over 5 % on the week and checking out the crypto greed and fear index we're currently rated a 45 in fear yesterday a 47 last week a 48 and last month a 30 in fear so there you have it fam how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto and how many of you been taking advantage of this dip let me know put a BTFD in the comments right down below and where my long -term hodlers that make some noise don't be a stranger yeah I mean and with that being shared now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis and specifically check out the technicals according to trading view so we could switch it up a bit as you can see here we got Bitcoin currently sitting just above twenty six thousand six hundred dollars down point seven eight percent on the day now if we look at some of the technicals on the one day you can currently see there's literally 14 cell signals you got ten neutral signals and only two by signals now as we can see as far as oscillators are concerned there's one by signal one cell signal and nine which are neutral and when it comes to moving averages and those cell signals there's literally 13 of them right now with one neutral and only one by the one by for the moving average is the simple moving average and I mean that's pretty wild to say the least say goodbye to your credit card rewards big box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now I want to discuss really quick a Bitcoin day max Kaiser came up with the idea to celebrate peace around the world especially with all the conflicts and the wars popping out you know left and right and I thought it was a great idea so I proposed this Bitcoin day be celebrated on 11 11 as 11 is a very special omen and a very significant when it comes to numerology 11 11 so here's what I had to share in response to what max shared so max's idea for world peace let's have a day of Bitcoin all the troubles you see all the wars and hatred are caused by fiat money and central bankers Bitcoin fixes this martyring yourself for fiat money is foolish get right with Satoshi and perfect money here was my response I wrote this last night I channeling the spirit of Satoshi declare 11 11 the official Bitcoin day moving forward which shall be celebrated globally Bitcoin equals peace and love Bitcoin the network and Bitcoin perfect money heals the world Bitcoin fixes things major problems such as war inflation poverty corruption famine enslavement and depopulation and that's just the tip of the iceberg or the melting ice cube as a cyber hornet named sailor once described fiat currency and also was the first to put Bitcoin on the balance sheet of a publicly traded company called micro strategy a high priest named max Kaiser along with a fairy godmother named Stacy Herbert introduced Bitcoin to the global stage in 2011 through the first international TV coverage of Bitcoin via the Kaiser report calling Bitcoin the biggest story of this decade as well as coining the phrase Bitcoin is the currency of the resistance and in 2021 president Bukele adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador liberating his people and country from fiat money priests and corruption of IMF and central banking cartels as a direct result of adopting Bitcoin as a legal tender Bukele transformed his country El Salvador from the most dangerous with the highest murder rate to now the safest in the Americas with the lowest murder rate now as Bitcoin game theory continues which countries will be next to liberate themselves from their fiat overlords let me know your thoughts in the comments below Bitcoin and the power of the centralization is changing the world putting the power back in the hands of the people 11 11 Bitcoin day so there you have it fam let me know your thoughts on celebrating peace around the world on Bitcoin day come 11 11 which is November 11th literally about a month out let me know if you want to celebrate with me and let's go change the world shall we and with that being shared fam and I'm anxious to read your comments regarding Bitcoin day now let's dive into our next story of the day and discuss the whales continue to huddle follow the smart money they say 1 .3 billion dollars being huddled by long -term buyers let's break this down a new report from glass note an on -chain analytical firm shared that Bitcoin huddlers are adding to their holdings these long -term Bitcoin investors as we know as huddlers don't appear to be phased by the recent volatility damn right according to on -chain data long -term huddlers have been rapidly amassing BTC adding more than 50 ,000 Bitcoin each month to their holdings and now a Bitcoin currently showing signs of slowing down as we're around that $27 ,000 level it seems that most the blame is for the persistent selling pressure as data shows whale investors seeing this opportunity to buy more BTC at a discount rather than to secure profits and according to glass notes huddle or net position change metric the long -term huddlers are purchasing an average of 50 ,000 BTC worth 1 .3 billion dollars at the current price every single month let that sink in fam another metric which is the long term huddler supply which measures the amount of the Bitcoin market cap and huddlers also reached an all -time high of fourteen point eight nine or five nine million BTC this means that seventy six percent of the total circulating supply has not moved in the past five months so congratulations all you long -term huddlers with the diamond hands consequently a roughly ninety five percent of the total Bitcoin supply has not moved in the past month that's freaking fantastic definitely a bullish indicator and to back up this data of increased accumulation we also have crypto analyst Ali Martinez sharing a chart from sentiment showing the whales purchasing around 20 ,000 Bitcoin since the beginning of October worth currently roughly five hundred and fifty million dollars so at this rate the number of Bitcoin vaulted by huddlers is poised to pass 50 ,000 Bitcoin in October this increased accumulation suggests that the long -term huddlers remain confident and bitcoins long -term potential and see this price correction as temporary so there you have it fam let me know if you agree or disagree and according to glass note only eleven and a half percent of the Bitcoin circulating supply change hands in the last three months indicating a prolonged and active period of on -chain activity that there are fewer transactions suggesting investors aren't willing to sell at the current price as the industry awaits the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs send it and let's go as you all know we've been waiting on this for quite some time in 2024 we're gonna get two of the most bullish catalyst you could anticipate and that's the Bitcoin having scheduled to take place in April 2024 roughly six months out along with the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States ushering trillions of dollars of that total addressable market into Bitcoin which will absolutely send Bitcoin to price discovery mode entering new all -time highs and that's right around the corner hence why the smart money continues to accumulate and with that being shared fam now let's break down our next breaking story of the day the Japanese yen back digital currency DC JP why to go live July 2024 that's right October 12th digital currency and electronic payments firm the current holdings published a white paper on its crypto project the DC JP why the organization intends to launch this coin July of 2024 right after the having and according to the white paper the DC JP why network will consist of the financial zone and the business zone the former will include banks minting deposit as digital currency on the blockchain a sign of the times right fam while the latter will be reserved for transactions the business zone will also provide space for issuing non fungible security and governance token now the leading issuer of DC JP why will be backed by deposits in the Japanese yen and it will be a Zora Bank a commercial entity with 19 domestic branches in Japan now in 2021 the current reported about a consortium of 70 Japanese companies that would participate in the DC JP why network and while the white paper doesn't mention any specific names of the network participants the current itself is backed by 35 shareholding companies with Japan post bank Mitsubishi and Dentsu group amongst them now the current will hold the seminar seminar in the white paper explaining the main points behind the project October 18th which is roughly next week this meeting will take place in Tokyo and won't be screened online now in May of this year the Bank of Japan released the results of the second phase of its central bank digital currency experiment that's right we know CBDCs it'll make a final decision on issuing a digital yen by 2026 so we all know it's coming through the pipeline fam right meanwhile Binance and Mitsubishi and UFJ trusts and banking corporations are exploring the issuance of Japanese yen and other foreign currency denominated stable coins in the country so there you have it pretty interesting to say the least a Japanese yen backed digital currency can you could you fathom a United States backed currency by Bitcoin because that's what RFK jr. is trying to do anyways fam now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the latest of what's happening with Sam Bankman freed and Caroline Ellison and the ongoing saga cuz this you got to see it to believe it check this out fam Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman freed conspire to keep Bitcoin under 20 ,000 by selling customer BTC yeah that's right I mean you can't make this stuff up so did they really do this let's discuss it as you know Bitcoin failed to hit $100 ,000 during the 2021 bull market because defunct exchange FTX kept selling Bitcoin analysis claims and in an ex post Joe Burnett a senior product marketing manager at Bitcoin financial services firm Unchained joined voices arguing that FTX execs suppress the Bitcoin price strength I agree with this theory a hundred percent and I also feel Bitcoin could have likely hit a hundred thousand during that bull run but some shady mofos clearly enemies Bitcoin so as the trial of the former FTX CEO SPF continues new testimony paints the picture of market manipulation that's right Caroline Ellison this week the former CEO of affiliated firm Alameda Research reportedly told the court that SPF asked her to sell Bitcoin should the spot price breach $20 ,000 this was done using FTX customer funds which neither had the right to deploy now this brings in a question in my mind who instructed or ordered Sam Bankman free to dump all the Bitcoin coming in on the exchange once the price surpassed $20 ,000 could it have been collusion with unethical regulators like the chairman of the SEC Gary Gensler isn't that a great question what's your thoughts fam let me know in the comments right down below but wait there's more check it out reacting Burnett suggests that due to the scale of the operations involved the entire Bitcoin bull run could have been adversely affected quitting him here Alameda was insolvent even during the bull market it appears they used or borrowed FTX customer Bitcoin and other customer assets to buy Sam coins better known as FTT Solana and serum he wrote referring to reports that Ellison's firm had a negative value of 2 .7 billion dollars in 2021 quitting him here without this fake cell pressure maybe Bitcoin would have hit a hundred thousand dollars in 2021 what's your thoughts chat let me know and in the event Bitcoin still reached the all -time high of 69 ,000 in November but at the time predictions called for much larger numbers amongst those were the now popular stock the flow Bitcoin price model with Plan B is the anonymous creator of given a price target a Bitcoin hitting up to 288 ,000 during the current halving cycle the worst -case scenario he continued was 135 ,000 by December of 2021 and I'm sure you remember this infamous tweet shared June 20th 2021 he wrote Bitcoin is below 34 ,000 triggered by Elon's energy FUD in China's mining crackdown there's also a more fundamental reason that we see weakness in June and possibly July my worst -case scenario for 2021 according to the price on chain base is August greater than 47 ,000 September 43 ,000 October 63 ,000 November 98 ,000 in December greater than a hundred and thirty five thousand dollars per coin and as doge Cuban shared here I can't stop thinking about an alternate timeline where SPF is president of the United States which Caroline also revealed he had aspirations to become the president Bitcoin hitting a hundred thousand FTX token flipping BTC meat is illegal and the US and Nexus the Bahamas and all women above a three get deported Adam back wrote so that sounds to me more like SPF needs USD liquidity sell BTC but don't sell below 20 ,000 and not try to keep Bitcoin under 20 ,000 an example below 20 ,000 is ridiculously cheap weight or higher so there you have it fam and I mean again he's being she pointed out that he tried to bribe a Chinese official with a hundred and fifty million dollars to unfreeze his billion dollar fund and that he was using Thai prostitutes to do so I mean things just keep getting more and more interesting and the obviously the trial is going to continue but that is the gist of it it's just quite interesting to say the least and with that being shared fam now let's break down our next breaking story of the day and I wanted to throw this in here USD our stable coin has d peg from the dollar currently trading at 53 cents I'm just gonna share a little insights from here the real estate back stable coin USD are how many of you have heard of this let me know lost his peg to the US dollar after Russia redemptions caused the draining of liquid assets such as da I which is the stable coin on the etherium network from its Treasury its project team had revealed us dr backed by a mixture of cryptos and real estate holdings is issued by tangible protocol a decentralized finance project that seeks to tokenize housing and other real -world assets us dr is mostly traded on the pearl decentralized exchange which runs on polygon in the October 11 tweet explained tangible that over a short period of time all the liquid die from their us dr Treasury was redeemed leading to an accelerated drawdown of their market cap as quoting them here combined with the lack of die for redemption's panic selling ensued causing a deep egg so us dr experienced a flood of selling at around 11 30 a .m.
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"The AI revolution is here. But adoption is not always evenly distributed. While we see consumers chomp to try the latest AI apps. We haven't seen anybody with any traction in the enterprise. But awareness is not the issue. In fact, the Financial Times reported that nearly 40 % of S &P companies mentioned AI in their earnings last quarter. So... Why is it so hard for enterprises to adopt generative AI? As companies wake up to the value of their proprietary datasets, a whole new set of questions emerge. Are the enterprises right about not wanting to give their data? Like is that a correct fear? Can they build a better model? Do they really need it to be accurate? Plus, with OpenAI recently dropping ChatGPT Enterprise, will all of this change? Today you'll hear directly from A16Z co -founder Ben Horowitz and Databricks co -founder and CEO Ali Ghazi as they answer these questions and more. Including their perspectives on open source, whether benchmarks are BS, and the scramble of universities to take part in the very wave that they kicked off decades ago. Plus, you'll get to hear firsthand how Databricks' recent acquisition of Mosaic ML fits into all of this. This episode continues our coverage from A16Z's exclusive AI Revolution event from just a few weeks ago, where we house some of the most influential builders across the ecosystem, including the founders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Character AI, Roblox, and much more. Be sure to check out the full package, including all the talks, also in full, at a16z .com -slash -ai -revolution. As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. Please note that A16Z and its affiliates may also maintain investments in the companies discussed in this podcast. For more details, including a link to our investments, please see a16z .com -slash -disclosures. All right, so going to generative AI, one of the things that's been interesting for us as a VC is we see all kinds of companies, some with amazing traction, but every company that has traction is in a category like selling to developers, or selling to consumers, or maybe selling to small kinds of law firms, or these kinds of things, but we haven't seen anybody with any traction in the enterprise. Why is it so hard for enterprises to adopt generative AI? Yeah, so look, enterprises move slow, plus one in general, which is the beauty, which means if you crack the code and you get in, it's harder for them to throw you out, so you're going to have an awesome business. If you do crack the code and you're in, it's more robust. You're not going to lose it overnight, so that's one. They just move slower. Second, they're super freaked out about their data, privacy, security of their data, but then in general also, I just realized, everybody's been talking about data for 10, 15, 20 years. I just realized how valuable my data actually is, so maybe I'm actually, I'm sitting on a treasure trove, and I'm going to be super successful, so I'm going to be very careful with this. Now, I finally realize how valuable this data set I have is, so I definitely don't want to give it to you or you or you, and you should be careful about this. Then there's all these reports about it leaking, data leakage, suddenly the LLM is spitting out your code, so they're freaked out about that as well. All of these things are slowing it down, and they're kind of thinking through it. That's just one set of challenges that enterprises have. Second challenge that enterprises have is that, hey, for a lot of the use cases, we need the data to be accurate, we need to be exact, so there's a lot of use cases where - Do they really need it to be accurate? I think it depends on the use case. They're just being cautious, and they're being slow as they are in the big enterprise, and then there's the last aspect, which people don't talk about, which is there's a food fight internally at the large enterprise, which is, I own generative AI, not Ben. You go around and say, hey, I own generative AI, and it's like, no, no, no, my team is building generative, so there's this food fight internally of who owns it, and then they slow each other down, so it's like, hey, don't trust Ben because he's not handling data the right way, but I'm building my generative AI, and it's unclear. Is it IT that owns generative AI? Is it the product line? Is it the business line? So there's huge politics going on inside the large enterprise. They want to do it, but there's all these hurdles in the way, and the prize is huge. Whoever can crack the code on that is going to create an amazing company. Are the enterprises right about not wanting to give their data to OpenAI or Anthropic or Bart or whoever? Is that a correct fear, or are they being silly and they could get so much value? By putting their data in a big model? They can, but I think also a lot of the leaders, you know, by the way, I get to talk these days to the CEOs of these big companies who previously were not interested in what I'm doing. I would be talking to the CIO, but now suddenly they want to talk, like, hey, I want this generative AI. I want to talk strategy of my company. Let's talk. And we have this data set. It's super valuable, like, you know, we've got to do something with it, and this generative AI seems interesting. What do you want to do with it? And one of the things that's really interesting that's happened in the sort of brains of the CEOs and the boards is that they realize maybe I can beat my competition. Maybe this is the kryptonite that will help me kill my enemy. I have the data, with generative AI, I can actually go ahead and do that. So then they're thinking, well, but then I have to build it myself. I have to own that, right? I have to own the IP of that. I can't just give away that IP to Anthropic, OpenAI, anyone, like it has to be completely proprietary. I want to own that. I want to do that myself. By the way, I have a whole bunch of people here that are lined out outside of my office in different departments that are saying they actually will do it and they can do it. Right. So we're trying to figure out which of them I should give it to. So this is what's happening internally right now. Interesting. And from a strategy standpoint, when you think about it, let's say you had a big data set, be it like a healthcare data set or some kind of security data set or Nielsen's data set. Can they build a better model themselves for that with their data? Or if they took their data and put it in one of the large models, would that always beat what they're doing? Yeah. So this is why we did the acquisition of Mosaic. Yes. You can. It's hard. It requires a lot of GPUs and the Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. You want to build your own LLM from scratch? Come to me. I know all the sort of, you know, landmines and so on. It just will work. Trust me. Yeah. And so they can do it. And yeah, they've done it for large customers. They can do it. Still, it's not for the faint of heart. Still requires a lot of GPUs. It costs a lot of money. And it depends on your data sets and your use cases. But they're having a lot of success doing it for, you know, really large enterprises. They'll train it from scratch for them and it just works. And the result that they get with Mosaic. So I'm doing it. So the good news is it's all mine. Nobody can touch it. It's my data. Screw off, competitor. But is the bigger model such a bigger brain anyway that I could get a better answer if I put that same data in the big model? Or a is kind of Mosaic -tuned enterprise -specific data set -specific model going to perform better? Like how do you think about that? For specific use cases, you don't need the big one. First of all, you can build the big one with Mosaic and with Databricks. It's just how much money do you have? We're happy to train you on a 100 billion parameter model if you want. But hey, it's going to cost more to use it. Even if you have all the money to train it, it'll cost you a lot to use it. So when you're using it and you're doing inference, as it's called, it's going to cost you more. And how do you think about the diminishing returns on kind of like a data set against like how many parameters versus how much data do you have? Does like a bigger model just start to be diminishing returns, both in terms of latency, expense, everything? Yeah, I mean, there's a scaling law. You need to scale. If you're scaling the parameters up, you kind of have to scale the data with it. Right. So you just have to do that. So if you don't have that, then just scaling it, you're not going to get the bang for the buck. You still get improvement if you increase the parameters or if you increase the data in any one of these dimensions. But you're going to pay 10x what you get. Yeah, it's no longer a Perto optimal, so to say. But look, what I'm saying is this. For enterprises that have specific use cases, which they all have, when they come to us, they don't say, hey, I would love to have an LLM that could like kind of answer anything under the sun. You know, they're saying, hey, this is what I want to do. Like I want to classify this particular, you know, defect in the manufacturing process from these pictures really well. And there, the accuracy matters. Like every ounce of accuracy that you can give me matters. And there you're better off if you have a good data set to train. You can train a smaller model. The latency will be faster to use it later and it will be cheaper to use it later. And yes, you can have absolutely accuracy that meets the really large model. But that very model that you built can't also entertain you on the weekend and answer physics questions and help your kids do their homework. Why do you think it's important for you Databricks to build the very large model? So the bigger models, if you follow the scaling laws, are more intelligent, assuming if you're okay with paying the price and you're okay with, you know, you have the GPUs and if you can crack the code on how to fine tune the bigger model, which is kind of the holy grail right now that everybody's looking at in the research community and in the field and the companies and all that. And when you say fine tune, kind of get more specific. Yeah. So take an existing really awesome foundation model that exists and just modify it a little bit to be able to become really good at some other task. And there are many different techniques to use to do that. But right now nobody has really cracked the code on how you can do that without modifying the whole model itself, which is pretty costly, especially when you want to serve it, when you want to use it later. Because you have to go through all that. Yeah, if you made a thousand versions of it, that's good at a thousand different things. If you have to load all of each of those thousand into the GPUs and, you know, serve them, it becomes very expensive. The big, I would say, holy grail right now that everybody's looking for is there are other techniques where you can just do small modifications where you can get really good results and you can just stack on a little bit of additional, you know, just that part of the brain. Exactly. Just add this thing. And there are lots of techniques. There's like prefix tuning, there's LoRa, Cube LoRa, so on and so forth. The result, none of them really are slam dunk. It's like, awesome. We found it. But someone will. Once you have that, then it seems in the future, in a few years, the ideal would be really big foundation model that's pretty smart. And then you can like sort of stack on these kind of additional tuned sort of brains that are really good at this specific classification task for manufacturing errors and this other, you know, translation task. And they'll be compute efficient and energy efficient for just dealing with that task at that point. And then you could also, you can load up your GPUs with that one intelligent brain, that one giant model, and then you could specialize it. But to be clear, no one's really done this yet. That's what I think a lot of people are hoping to do. And it might not be easy to do that. In the meanwhile, we're having lots and lots of customers who want to have specialized models that are cheaper, smaller, and that have really high accuracy and performance on that task. Yes. It's like, I can just say it, like at Databricks. So we bought Mosaic. I did not unleash our sales force and go to market of 3 ,000 people to sell the thing that we bought because we just can't satisfy the demand. Like there's not enough GPUs. So you won't even let all your guys sell it. No, I'm not even letting all the customers buy this thing because we don't have the GPUs and we don't have the, if we unleash them, every company wants to do this. Everyone wants to, okay, okay, I have a thousand things I want to build. Can you help me do that? Since a lot of our listeners are builders, I wanted to tell you about one of our popular accelerator programs from A16Z, especially if you're building in Web3, crypto, or the creator economy and other decentralized applications. The next 12 -week program takes place this spring in London, which by the way is where our newest A16Z office is opening soon and connects early stage companies and founders with the guidance, expertise, and funding that they need to bring their bold new ideas to life. So if you're intent on building the next generation of the internet, you can apply to crypto startup school before the October 20th deadline by going to apply .a16zcrypto .com. All right, back to the show. In this context, sort of how much do you think these use cases will fragment? So you talked about, okay, I want it to be good at doing my kids' homework. I want it to be my girlfriend. So how much do you think the use cases, the very specific use cases will fragment and kind of within that, like one of the things that we're finding is getting the model to do what you want is kind of where the data advantage is from the users in that if I want it to draw me a certain kind of picture, that's a lot of conversations to do that. And so whoever is drawing those kinds of pictures will be good at that. But then there may be another model that wants to draw memes, but that thing that's drawing the pretty pictures can't draw the memes because that involves words and all this other stuff that it hasn't, it just hasn't learned to get that out of the humans and map it into its model. So how much do you think we're going to get tons of specialization versus, no, no, no, once the brain gets big enough and we do these fine tunings, that's going to be it. It'll be like AWS, GCP, you know, Azure. I think the answer is closer to the latter. There's going to have lots of specialization, but having said that, it's not a dichotomy in the sense that maybe they're all using like some base models that are underneath common to many of them. You're not starting from scratch every time. But you're tuning it up a certain way. Look, I think in some sense the industry, like right now there's, people are looking at the wrong thing. Right now it's a little bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything and everybody's super excited. And then there's one company called Cisco, they build these routers. Obviously that's like the biggest thing. And the most important thing is whoever can build the best routers is going to dominate all of internet forever. Right? It's like, that's the thing. The of future mankind is going to be determined by who builds the best routers. And right now this company Cisco is the best one by far. It's obvious what I'm saying. Cisco in 2000, I think was worth, you know, half a trillion dollars at its peak. And people were talking about, it's going to be a trillion dollar company who's worth more than Microsoft. So I think it's a little bit like right now, like that. Who has the largest LLM? Obviously, whoever can build the largest one that can train it the most obviously will own all of AI and all the future of humanity. But just like the internet, someone will show up later and think about Uber rides and cab driving and someone else showed up and thought about, Hey, I want to check out my friends on the Facebook and so on. And those end up being huge businesses. So there's these applications, which many of them are obvious, like, you know, Mark talked about it in his, you know, AI will save the world. You know, the lawyer, the teacher, they're like, there's lots of use cases. Everybody knows probably there's going to be a lot of value in those. And no, it's not just going to be one model that OpenAI or Databricks or Anthropic or someone builds and that model will dominate all these use cases. No, it's the, a lot of things will need to go into building the doctor that you trust that will be able to tell you, you know, how to cure you and your loved ones. So I think that those, those are the companies that we will build in the future. And I think there's going to be a lot of value in those obviously. And yeah, there's a place for the Cisco router still for the LLM and so on. And Cisco still is a pretty valuable company. It's not bad, but that's, I think that's, that's this over -focus right now. Yeah. Interesting. So then how do you think about open source? Because a lot of the large model providers are literally going in and saying, stop open source now, you've got to outlot. So how do you think about that? Why are they saying that? Do they have a legitimate gripe? And then, you know, coming from Databricks perspective, how are you all thinking about open source, both with respect to Mosaic and then with the other things like Llama? If the original Llama was never released, what would the state of the world and our view of AI be right now? We would be way further behind, right? And A, it was a big model, you know, by what existed in open source and it was open sourced. And both of those things completely changed everything that's happening in AI right now. Size kind of mattered. And the fact that it was open source also kind of mattered. It doesn't stop there. It's going to continue. It's also really hard to block any of this because like if you just check out the source code for Llama, it's like a couple of pages. Yeah. But you have to have the weights too. Yeah. But, you know, the weights leaked and people will leak the weights and they will get out and people will keep turning them. And there's ways to also, you know, distillation techniques where you can take the weights from a, you can just take output of a model and train smaller ones and train other ones and so on. So people are going to continue pushing the boundary of this. So I think open source will continue to do better and better and better. And I think more and more techniques, because there's scarcity, they don't have GPUs, they'll come up with techniques in which they can do things more efficiently, like the fast transformer and so on. At the same time, I also think that anyone that trains a really gigantic model that's really, really good, typically will not have the incentive to release it. So it's the usual thing we see, that open source kind of lags the proprietary ones and the proprietary thing is way ahead and it's way better. And in some rare cases like Linux and so on, it bypasses, you know, and in that case that would be game changing. And will that happen? It's hard to predict that. Right now it just seems that you need a lot of GPUs to do this. But how about when GPUs become abundant? That's going to happen, I mean, almost currently. GPUs become abundant, or certain tweaks to the transformer that lets you train at a higher learning rate and, you know, have less issues with it, so like, you know. Right, because they're super inefficient now, like they couldn't be more inefficient. Yes, then they will be released, they will be released and the universities are just chomping at the bit, right? Because what has happened right now is that the universities kind of feel a little bit that they're aced out, they're not really even in the game anymore. Well, look, this was my game, I was playing it, I was in it, and now they threw me out. And I can't even participate because I don't have GPUs, I don't have the funding. The universities are having a huge sort of crisis internally with the research. Plus you hired all my guys. Yeah, so I know them, but their guys are leaving and their gals are leaving because they want to work close where they can train the models and do this kind of stuff and where the data is, and at the universities there is none of this. So then what are the universities doing? They're of course looking at, okay, how could we crack the code on this? How could we make it much easier, cheaper, and how can we release it? So there's going to be innovation there. So I think this sort of race will continue between open source and proprietary and eventually open source kind of catches up. So I think it's going to be diminishing returns. I think we're going to hit walls with scaling laws and you just move down those, you go to the right on the x -axis and you move the Pareto curve to the right and eventually you get AGI. And it's just happening, it's guaranteed it's going to happen. And I think we're going to hit diminishing returns on walls that kind of... So you think we'll get stuck before we get to AGI in a fundamental, we'll need an actual breakthrough as opposed to just more size. That, and I also think that almost in all the use cases where you seriously try to use this, like for medicine or for like anything where you really, for lawyers and so on, it quickly becomes clear that you need a human in the loop, you need to augment it with the human in the loop. There's no way you can just let this thing loose right now. It's stupid. It does mistakes and so on. And maybe that can get better and better and better. But it does better on the medical exams than like doctors do. This is a funny thing. I kind of think all the benchmarks are bullshit. And so all these LLM benchmarks, here's how it works. Imagine in all our universities, we said, we're going to give you the exam the night before. Okay. And you can look at the answers and then the next day we're going to bring you in and you answer them and then we'll score, you know, how you did. Suddenly everybody would like be acing their exams too, right? Like for instance, MMLU is what a lot of people benchmark these models on. MMLU is just a multi -choice question that's on the web. Ask a question, is the answer A, B, C, D, and then it says what the right answer is. And it's on the web. You can deliberately train on it and create an LLM that crushes it on that. Or you can inadvertently, by mistake in the pile or whatever you used to train your model, happen to see some of those questions that happened to be elsewhere. So the benchmarks are a little bit, yes. Well they're benchmarks for taking the test, but presumably the test correlates with being able to make a medical diagnosis, a decision. Yeah, but they memorized all these, you know, they memorized, you know, so I'll have. There's no transfer learning from the memorizing the exam to actually diagnosing. No one really knows the answer to this. Everybody's playing the benchmarking game this way right now. Yeah, I would love it if, you know, a whole bunch of researchers. It's like the old fake database benchmarks when it's like, look how fast their database is, but it's only good at the actual benchmark. Yeah, I would love it if there was like a bunch of doctors that get together and come up with a benchmark that's super secretive and they don't show it to you and you give your model to them and they'll run their questions on that and then they'll come back and tell you how you scored. But that's not how it works right now. So then let me go to the question that you dodged, which is, okay, what are the ethics of the large models versus open source, or just in general, what is the responsibility? How big is the threat? Is open source an ethical threat? Yeah, look, I don't have all the answers. There's like different categories. There's like the jobs are going to go away kind of category. We've been doing that for 300 years and the nations that are doing the best, highest GDP, they're the ones that automated the most and the ones that weren't able to. And they have the most jobs and the highest. So that's happening anyway. There are ways to deal with that problem and the ways to deal with it is not to just stop all progress. That's stupid. You know, the nations that win are the ones that are doing well on automation, not just AI, in general, efficiency improvements, right? It's like economics is about efficiency. So anyway, so that's that category. Then there's like, oh, bad things that humans can do deliberately because they're malicious, which is the one I think Mark was the most worried about. But I would just say, look, ever since like the invention of the hammer, we started misusing technology that, you know, in a bad way, you know, like, so that's good. When you have a hammer, your head looks like a nail, right? So that's happening all the time with every technological improvement, especially the internet. So there's a really big question that I think kind of like Mark a little bit maybe dodged in his essay, which is, are we going to get this super AGI that decides to destroy us? And I don't know. The side part is the part where I get a little lost, right? Because like free will is not something we're on the path for. For machines. Like a machine doing many, many, many computations, which, you know, we never had machines do this many computations in the history of humanity. That is amazing, but it's very different than like, no LLM has ever decided to do anything. Like that's not what they do. And so it does seem like, okay, now they've got free will. Maybe they don't have free will, you know, maybe you're just in my way and I need to kill you all. Right. It's like, and that's just what I'm going to do unemotionally without any, I don't even reason why I don't have consciousness or anything. So I'm just doing the paperclip for you. Kind of. So I do think like those hypothetical, if you had something, this is a big if, if you have that thing that has that level of intelligence and can control things and so on, then I do think that's a big risk. I just don't think that's going to happen very soon. Here's why. There's several things that people are kind of not looking at. So I don't agree with like Mark when he says, oh, it's just like a toaster. It's just like your toaster will not decide to kill you, nor, I don't believe that. That's not true. If this, this thing is pretty smart, it has reasoning capability. If you connect it to robots and give it a bunch of like, it can start doing. And let it run free with no safety. Run free and say, go do it, then it can do a lot of damage. The reason I'm not too worried about the scenario is the following. One is it's very costly and very expensive and hard to get your hands on, you know, GPUs and have the money to train a new model. If that comes down and that takes like 10 minutes to train a new model, that's as good as the largest, best models that we have, then we're kind of fucked because then some asshole will say auto GPT, connect it, write a bunch of versions of yourself. Just try it out in parallel, do a million of these in parallel, and then figure out if it gets smarter and smarter and smarter and just do this, and then before you know it, after maybe let's call it 12 months, we find a slightly better version of the transformer that is a little bit more efficient. And now that 10 minutes goes to like two minutes, and then you're like on this race, and then eventually you'll get into this loop where it can create itself. But right now it's extremely expensive and really hard to train a new large giant model, much harder than actually just asking questions from it, unlike the human brain, where I can memorize new things and update my brain quickly, and I can also just read things from my memory and tell you things. Right now it's huge asymmetry. Secondly, we really haven't cracked the code on machines reproducing themselves biologically kind of like humans. You're like, so reproduction is not in the game yet. So once you have reproduction and the building of new ones automatically, once you crack the code on that loop, yes, then I think we're fucked, but we're very far away from that. Nobody's really doing that. Just moving the scaling laws and getting these things to be better and better at reasoning doesn't solve the problems that I mentioned. So that's, I think, what's kind of saving us right now. That's my belief. All right, well, on that happy note, we'll conclude, I'd like to thank Ali for joining us today. If you liked this episode, if you made it this far, help us grow the show, share with a friend. Or if you're feeling really ambitious, you can leave us a review at ratethispodcast .com slash a16c. You know, candidly, producing a podcast can sometimes feel like you're just talking into a void. And so if you did like this episode, if you like any of our episodes, please let us know. We'll see you next time.
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A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin Addresses Ali Alexander's Anti-Semitic Comments
"Care but I'm Jewish so I'm inherently a foreigner you and that's the argument you and I just wanted to point that out to you again I don't know what stop the steel is a stop the steel organizer a guy that runs stop I the steel do know what he's saying I'm not a fool I know what hang he wants to defend the Democrat Party of slavery slavery was everywhere well you can explain the text for slavery in the United States there's nothing wrong with that in fact it should be done I believe it should be done there's no defending it but it's not if as the United States there it is the one country that was practicing slavery they still practice slavery in the Middle East they still slavery in Africa great but what's the point that I'm Jewish so I don't know what's the most you in the audience are not and I understand that still love each other we still respect each other but I just want people to understand and I think most of you do there's no escaping this for me they're just not I hear it on the left and I don't know what this guy is what persuasion he claims
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Major hotel property takes service to next level with E-Metrotel Galaxy Expand, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very, very pleased to have with us today Yash Gauda, who's the General Manager of Marriott Courtyard in Brampton, Ontario, which is in the Greater Toronto Area. Yash, thank you very much for joining me today. Pleasure, pleasure, Steve. Thank you. Well, you know, this is something I don't get to do that often. Instead of my usual interview of people that are professionals inside the telecommunications market and the IT market, this time we're bringing our listeners and watchers a special podcast of somebody very special who runs an organization, runs a hospitality organization in a major metropolitan area, and basically can give us some insight on the impact of how a change in the use of technology impacted the function of that technology itself and also helped the organization overall. So we're going to be getting into that in just a second. What we will be talking about specifically is how eMetroTel's GalaxyExpand replaced a previous Mitel product. So Yash, you're the General Manager of the Marriott Courtyard, and your hotel basically implemented this new phone system. Can you tell us a little bit about your Marriott facility? Yeah, sure, Steve. Again, my name is Yash, the General Manager at Marriott Courtyard, Brampton Hotel, and we are one of the biggest hotels in Brampton in terms of rooms or inventory. We have 160 rooms with a huge banqueting space. So we are one of the upscale hotels in Brampton. So that's very interesting. You're a very prominent property. It's something that people like to use and so on. So you know, what I want to understand a little bit to begin with is, why did you make this change? Oh, the moving over to eMetroTel? Okay, this is a pretty, like, how do I say it was a coincidence that got through Joseph. So eventually we had Mitel as our telecommunication system, and all of a sudden our voice messaging system went down in the hotel. So all the back office phones or even the guest phones, if someone had to leave a message to them. So yeah, the whole system went down and we had an old partner who used to service Mitel and I was trying to reach that particular gentleman, Myron, like several times a day. And like, I think nonstop, tried reaching him at least every day for a period of 15 to 20 days. And one day, but the irony was, his phone was ringing. And one day the phone was answered and it was answered by Joseph. So then I started talking to Joseph and then I told him that I need to get in touch with Myron and this is our situation. And then I came to know that Myron had passed away and Joseph took over his accounts. So then that is the time that where I established a connection with Joseph and I briefed him on our issues that was happening in the hotel. And he immediately put me on to his other colleague, Rakshith, started to helping me out in rectifying the current issue that we had. And this is how we got into e -metro rel and they tried to resolve it remotely, but it couldn't happen because the server was down and they never knew it. So Rakshith passed by the hotel. He had a look at the entire existing system. And then I think so he did try to reach out to Mitel and see what was happening. And again, the system, since it was outdated, Rakshith and Joseph came up with a new proposal with e -metro tel and that's how it started. So it literally sounds like a very interesting story of literally going from one generation to a new generation of product and thinking and outlook. So now you're talking to basically company representing e -metro tel. So how did you end up migrating to the e -metro tel system that you chose? The first when I started communicating with Joseph and Rakshith, even though they are not one of the key players in our industry, but their integrity, their honesty in helping me out, that is what influenced me to go with them, because that is one thing that I truly believe in, even though they are getting into new without any experience having done any prior work with hotels and so on. But what influenced me was their honesty and integrity to help the clients. So that is where it started. And they gave me a couple of proposals with the e -metro tel itself and then went through the proposals with our corporate office. And the best part was, again, for us, without even redoing a lot of wiring work, just working at the back end with the server room and changing the main equipment itself. That was awesome. The interruption was bare minimal. If you don't mind, take a closer look at that, because I think all those points are very interesting one by one. So to begin with, as a customer and as a non -technical person, did you expect that there was going to be sort of a physical replacement of the same thing, one with another? Was that initially what you thought would happen? I was thinking, yes, it was going to be a swap of the machines, but when they proposed me with the different equipments and so on and what each functionality would be, then I was like, yeah, I was able to understand it much better. So I think initially this is very interesting. There's no rewiring and you were able to keep basically your bell phone lines in place. Everything was intact. Only the thing that was moved was all the Mitel equipments was switched to e -metro tel, keeping all the wiring, everything intact. So that's a lot less disruptive, probably a lot less expensive in terms of actually implementation. And then I understand that the solution that ultimately came in is basically on one rack, just one box. Yes, just one rack. Yes. Okay. And is that actually like literally the footprint smaller than whatever was there before? Oh, yes. Before, like again, this was an old system and these were like a huge system. There were multiple of them, like four or five of them, but now everything is consolerated to one. And one. And then let's talk about what you've got there. So basically it has the PBX functionality that you had before. Correct. So that is, I think we have an Infinity 5010W console and expansion, I guess. And then actually it solves the problem that initially started this whole thing. The voicemail is operating. Correct. And there's a lot less space, probably a lot less heat and energy being used. So let's sort of bump that up to how it impacts your job. Your ultimate job, I take it, is to make the people that are staying at your hotel happy. Has it really impacted that? Has it impacted your ability to do that? Yes. The important thing is like we are a hotel and the phone has to be buzzing all the time. So if the phone doesn't buzz, that means something is wrong. So earlier we had the issues where the phone was not working and so on. And even the functionality of the new console and even the back office phones are all, it's amazing. We should stay on this point because as a hotel manager, you have the burden of being, it's not just like an office, people in a sense are residing there at least for an evening or two. And so there's all sorts of safety and other issues that are involved in making sure that the phone is perfect. Correct. So, you know, e -metro hotel is a network of certified resellers. Was the migration process that you're describing, was that difficult or hard? No, no, very, very easy. To be honest, like once the new system, the back office phones were shipped to the hotel, so it was like I could install it myself with the help of Rakshith and Joseph. Because they had programmed the phones prior, I guess, and when it was shipped to us. So then again, I was with them on the call and he was guiding me how to activate it and so on. It was easy. Like me not being a technical guy, like installing the phones at the back of the offices was easy. You know, yours is a very difficult job because you're literally running a 24 -hour business, 24 hours a day, 24 -hour desk, residents are coming and going and so on. So how fast, you know, how fast did this all happen? Like the downtime, I can say about the, see, I would say the important thing is the main console. So when that was being like 10 minutes, I guess. 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 to 15 minutes. That's it. And you know, you came in to the office one morning or one afternoon. Was it the same shift that you began and then later at the end of that shift, there was a new phone system in place? Yes, it's like it was Rakshith who was there in the property from his solution. So yeah, I was with him. So he came in the morning, started working one thing at a time. And then yeah, it was the same as I came in the morning. No interruption. As I said, when the telephone, the main console was being put in place, so it's about 10 to 15 minutes for it to reboot and restart and so on. So yeah, maximum. And since this has been working, has it actually worked better for you than the old system? Yes, Ali, in terms of options -wise, yes, this has been worked out much better. So, you know, you were mentioning earlier, you gave us a little bit of background how you ended up back with the ACE security services implementing the solution. And I was interested in understanding that, you know, there was a technological and there were product choices and so on. But I was fascinated by the fact that it ultimately came down to people. Correct, yeah. It is like, see, you need to give options to the new people who are getting into entrepreneurship and so on. Because again, they have the zeal, you know, to excel. So when you go with the bigger companies, what happens is then again, the same process. It's just that, okay, the code, the shipment and all that thing and the scheduling of the people and so on. But here is a new company, ACE solution. Again, as I told you, I was fascinated even before we could get into an agreement. As I said, once the voice messages was down, Rachit was already on top to help me out even without knowing. You know, your industry is so important to so many people. It's such a big employer. It's part of everyone's lives. It's a leading organization. You also work for a leading organization in the world. You know, with all that in mind, do you have any recommendations for people in the position that you're in when it becomes time for them to replace an old system? I would strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues within the same industry and who has outdated versions of a telecommunication system and trying to upgrade their systems to the newer versions to definitely reach out to a solutions and look into e -metro tel. Yash, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you and giving us an insight that we normally don't get the perspective of a person not in the telecommunications industry, but a person actually that uses these products and services and what the outcomes were. I really appreciate your time and I hope to encounter you again. I hope to stay over some time when I'm in Brampton. Sure, sure. Anytime, Steve. It will be great to host you. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to that, but for now, thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. You take care.
Telecom Reseller
Major hotel property takes service to next level with E-Metrotel Galaxy Expand, Podcast - burst 1
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very, very pleased to have with us today Yash Gauda, who's the General Manager of Marriott Courtyard in Brampton, Ontario, which is in the Greater Toronto Area. Yash, thank you very much for joining me today. Pleasure, pleasure, Steve. Thank you. Well, you know, this is something I don't get to do that often. Instead of my usual interview of people that are professionals inside the telecommunications market and the IT market, this time we're bringing our listeners and watchers a special podcast of somebody very special who runs an organization, runs a hospitality organization in a major metropolitan area, and basically can give us some insight on the impact of how a change in the use of technology impacted the function of that technology itself and also helped the organization overall. So we're going to be getting into that in just a second. What we will be talking about specifically is how eMetroTel's GalaxyExpand replaced a previous Mitel product. So Yash, you're the General Manager of the Marriott Courtyard, and your hotel basically implemented this new phone system. Can you tell us a little bit about your Marriott facility? Yeah, sure, Steve. Again, my name is Yash, the General Manager at Marriott Courtyard, Brampton Hotel, and we are one of the biggest hotels in Brampton in terms of rooms or inventory. We have 160 rooms with a huge banqueting space. So we are one of the upscale hotels in Brampton. So that's very interesting. You're a very prominent property. It's something that people like to use and so on. So you know, what I want to understand a little bit to begin with is, why did you make this change? Oh, the moving over to eMetroTel? Okay, this is a pretty, like, how do I say it was a coincidence that got through Joseph. So eventually we had Mitel as our telecommunication system, and all of a sudden our voice messaging system went down in the hotel. So all the back office phones or even the guest phones, if someone had to leave a message to them. So yeah, the whole system went down and we had an old partner who used to service Mitel and I was trying to reach that particular gentleman, Myron, like several times a day. And like, I think nonstop, tried reaching him at least every day for a period of 15 to 20 days. And one day, but the irony was, his phone was ringing. And one day the phone was answered and it was answered by Joseph. So then I started talking to Joseph and then I told him that I need to get in touch with Myron and this is our situation. And then I came to know that Myron had passed away and Joseph took over his accounts. So then that is the time that where I established a connection with Joseph and I briefed him on our issues that was happening in the hotel. And he immediately put me on to his other colleague, Rakshith, started to helping me out in rectifying the current issue that we had. And this is how we got into e -metro rel and they tried to resolve it remotely, but it couldn't happen because the server was down and they never knew it. So Rakshith passed by the hotel. He had a look at the entire existing system. And then I think so he did try to reach out to Mitel and see what was happening. And again, the system, since it was outdated, Rakshith and Joseph came up with a new proposal with e -metro tel and that's how it started. So it literally sounds like a very interesting story of literally going from one generation to a new generation of product and thinking and outlook. So now you're talking to basically company representing e -metro tel. So how did you end up migrating to the e -metro tel system that you chose? The first when I started communicating with Joseph and Rakshith, even though they are not one of the key players in our industry, but their integrity, their honesty in helping me out, that is what influenced me to go with them, because that is one thing that I truly believe in, even though they are getting into new without any experience having done any prior work with hotels and so on. But what influenced me was their honesty and integrity to help the clients. So that is where it started. And they gave me a couple of proposals with the e -metro tel itself and then went through the proposals with our corporate office. And the best part was, again, for us, without even redoing a lot of wiring work, just working at the back end with the server room and changing the main equipment itself. That was awesome. The interruption was bare minimal. If you don't mind, take a closer look at that, because I think all those points are very interesting one by one. So to begin with, as a customer and as a non -technical person, did you expect that there was going to be sort of a physical replacement of the same thing, one with another? Was that initially what you thought would happen? I was thinking, yes, it was going to be a swap of the machines, but when they proposed me with the different equipments and so on and what each functionality would be, then I was like, yeah, I was able to understand it much better. So I think initially this is very interesting. There's no rewiring and you were able to keep basically your bell phone lines in place. Everything was intact. Only the thing that was moved was all the Mitel equipments was switched to e -metro tel, keeping all the wiring, everything intact. So that's a lot less disruptive, probably a lot less expensive in terms of actually implementation. And then I understand that the solution that ultimately came in is basically on one rack, just one box. Yes, just one rack. Yes. Okay. And is that actually like literally the footprint smaller than whatever was there before? Oh, yes. Before, like again, this was an old system and these were like a huge system. There were multiple of them, like four or five of them, but now everything is consolerated to one. And one. And then let's talk about what you've got there. So basically it has the PBX functionality that you had before. Correct. So that is, I think we have an Infinity 5010W console and expansion, I guess. And then actually it solves the problem that initially started this whole thing. The voicemail is operating. Correct. And there's a lot less space, probably a lot less heat and energy being used. So let's sort of bump that up to how it impacts your job. Your ultimate job, I take it, is to make the people that are staying at your hotel happy. Has it really impacted that? Has it impacted your ability to do that? Yes. The important thing is like we are a hotel and the phone has to be buzzing all the time. So if the phone doesn't buzz, that means something is wrong. So earlier we had the issues where the phone was not working and so on. And even the functionality of the new console and even the back office phones are all, it's amazing. We should stay on this point because as a hotel manager, you have the burden of being, it's not just like an office, people in a sense are residing there at least for an evening or two. And so there's all sorts of safety and other issues that are involved in making sure that the phone is perfect. Correct. So, you know, e -metro hotel is a network of certified resellers. Was the migration process that you're describing, was that difficult or hard? No, no, very, very easy. To be honest, like once the new system, the back office phones were shipped to the hotel, so it was like I could install it myself with the help of Rakshith and Joseph. Because they had programmed the phones prior, I guess, and when it was shipped to us. So then again, I was with them on the call and he was guiding me how to activate it and so on. It was easy. Like me not being a technical guy, like installing the phones at the back of the offices was easy. You know, yours is a very difficult job because you're literally running a 24 -hour business, 24 hours a day, 24 -hour desk, residents are coming and going and so on. So how fast, you know, how fast did this all happen? Like the downtime, I can say about the, see, I would say the important thing is the main console. So when that was being like 10 minutes, I guess. 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 to 15 minutes. That's it. And you know, you came in to the office one morning or one afternoon. Was it the same shift that you began and then later at the end of that shift, there was a new phone system in place? Yes, it's like it was Rakshith who was there in the property from his solution. So yeah, I was with him. So he came in the morning, started working one thing at a time. And then yeah, it was the same as I came in the morning. No interruption. As I said, when the telephone, the main console was being put in place, so it's about 10 to 15 minutes for it to reboot and restart and so on. So yeah, maximum. And since this has been working, has it actually worked better for you than the old system? Yes, Ali, in terms of options -wise, yes, this has been worked out much better. So, you know, you were mentioning earlier, you gave us a little bit of background how you ended up back with the ACE security services implementing the solution. And I was interested in understanding that, you know, there was a technological and there were product choices and so on. But I was fascinated by the fact that it ultimately came down to people. Correct, yeah. It is like, see, you need to give options to the new people who are getting into entrepreneurship and so on. Because again, they have the zeal, you know, to excel. So when you go with the bigger companies, what happens is then again, the same process. It's just that, okay, the code, the shipment and all that thing and the scheduling of the people and so on. But here is a new company, ACE solution. Again, as I told you, I was fascinated even before we could get into an agreement. As I said, once the voice messages was down, Rachit was already on top to help me out even without knowing. You know, your industry is so important to so many people. It's such a big employer. It's part of everyone's lives. It's a leading organization. You also work for a leading organization in the world. You know, with all that in mind, do you have any recommendations for people in the position that you're in when it becomes time for them to replace an old system? I would strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues within the same industry and who has outdated versions of a telecommunication system and trying to upgrade their systems to the newer versions to definitely reach out to a solutions and look into e -metro tel. Yash, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you and giving us an insight that we normally don't get the perspective of a person not in the telecommunications industry, but a person actually that uses these products and services and what the outcomes were. I really appreciate your time and I hope to encounter you again. I hope to stay over some time when I'm in Brampton. Sure, sure. Anytime, Steve. It will be great to host you. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to that, but for now, thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. You take care.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Gad Saad (Encore)
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Back again, eh? Glutton for punishment, eh? When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It's always a joy to have someone on for the first time. I have heard such good things about today's guest. His name is Gad Saad. At least, I think that's how it's pronounced, or God Saad. G -A -D, first name, second name, S -A -A -D, Ph .D. He's one of the best -known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, so it sounds to me like he's interested in truth. He's professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the research chair in evolutionary behavioral sciences and Darwinian consumption. It goes on and on. It is just a joy to have Gad Saad as my guest. Welcome to the program, and congratulations on the new book. Thank you so much, sir. Such a pleasure to meet you. I've seen you on television before, so I feel as though I know you, but it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Well, that's very generous of you. So for my audience who isn't familiar with you, what is your background? I mean, you've been a voice for truth, which is a very rare thing, especially in a university setting. Where were you raised, and what is your background? How did you get to be who you are today? Sure. So I grew up in Lebanon. I was born in Lebanon. We were part of the last steadfastly refusing to leave Jews in Lebanon. Most of my extended family had left by the late 60s. They had left some to France, some to Canada, many to Israel, but my family had remained in Lebanon. We were well entrenched within Lebanese society. And then when the civil war broke out in 1975, when I was 10 years old, it became very, very difficult to be Jewish in Lebanon. So we experienced the first year of the civil war, and then luckily were able to leave. So that's my background in terms of where I was born. Grew up in Montreal, Canada, and then went to the United States to finish my studies, and then was a visiting professor at several universities in the US. But much of my career has been spent at a Canadian university, Montreal University. My general research area, just again for the folks who don't necessarily know who I am, evolutionary I marry psychology and evolutionary biology to human behavior in general, and consumer behavior in particular. What are the biological underpinnings that make us do the things that we do? So that's been my scientific work. But in the process of establishing my academic career, I started noticing that there was a second war that I was facing. The first war was the Lebanese civil war. The second war was the war on reality, the war on common sense, on reason, on evidence -based thinking. Which then led me to write my previous book, not the book that we'll be talking about today, but my previous book was called The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. And so I've been one of the few voices in academia that holds no sacred cow to be untouchable. I critique any ideology that I feel like critiquing. Of course, it has made my academic career at times difficult, but you have to defend the truth. Well, you say you have to defend the truth, and I say you have to defend the truth. But many in the academy are not willing to defend the truth, nor even to defend the concept of truth. They don't seem to believe in the idea of truth the way Socrates did. They don't even seem to believe in defending reality, that there is a world, a real world, that there are things that are possible that are things that are impossible. I mean, that is kind of where we are today. So to believe in reality or truth in the academy is a rare thing indeed. And what do you suppose it is about you that made you willing to fight the battle for truth to not be silenced? Thank you. That's a great question. So I think it's just my personhood, the combination random of genes that make me who I am. Okay, now hold on. You're making it sound fatalistic. You're making it sound like it's not noble. It's just a fatalistic thing. It's just your genes are making you behave this way, just as Hitler's genes made him do what he did. That's clearly not what you're saying, is it? No, no. I mean, of course, I also have personal agency because I could say, hey, I'm going to succumb to cowardice and not rise up to the call to defend the truth. So you're right. So thank you for that. Maybe I was being falsely modest in my deterministic explanation, but in any case, I'm just, I mean, I'm a very, I think anybody who knows me knows that I'm a very warm, fun, affable guy, but I'm also very combative. Not because I want to be combative just to annoy people, but in a sense, I have this code of personal conduct, Eric, that makes it that when I go to bed at night and put my head on the pillow, for me to be able to not suffer from insomnia, I need to feel that I never modulated my words for pragmatic reasons, for careerist reasons. Then I would feel that I'm a fraud, that I'm a charlatan. And because of that exacting, punishing code of personal conduct, whenever I see nonsense, I attack it. Well, I'm just guessing, but having lived through what you and your family lived through in Lebanon, I mean, my father came to this country from Greece in the 50s. My mother came from East Germany in the 50s. And having stories, whether your own or those of your forebears, of people who saw that there were consequences to how one lived and that the world can be a very evil place, and that if you go along with it, you're complicit in the evil. I think many Americans and many Canadians haven't been forced to face that. They don't understand that there is a real battle for truth and that I have to be careful not to go along with things because then I am complicit. I'm just guessing that growing up in a home, as you did having left Lebanon under those circumstances, that that might be a part of why you're a brave voice in this culture. I think you're spot on. And if you look just anecdotally at some of the most vociferous defenders of Western traditions, they're exactly the type that you've mentioned. It's Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is of Somali background. It's precisely because we have sampled from the large buffet of possible societies, right? We realize that the Western experience is an anomalous one. It's not the standard default society. That's not how humans have organized themselves. And so because we've sampled from that buffet, we come to the West and say, guys, be careful, you're not going down the right track. So I think you're exactly right, Eric. Yeah, I think, you know, anytime I meet somebody who has Cuban background or whatever, they typically, they get it. Somebody who's come from Romania or some Eastern Bloc country, they all get it. They all seem to understand, you know, we have to fight for what is right and true. We have to fight for freedom. These aren't normal. This is not the default situation. But many Americans and many people who've had the privilege of growing up in the West, they don't have a clue that what we have is a glorious, fragile thing. It's worth fighting for. Because you're new to the program, I do want you to talk about your book, The Parasitic Mind, before we talk about the brand new book. Tell us a little bit about that so my audience can understand where you're coming from. Sure. Thanks for that question. So in The Parasitic Mind, what I try to do is find some metaphor for why it is that living agents can engage in such maladaptive behaviors. And so I found it in what's called the neuroparasitological framework. The idea is that if you look at the animal kingdom, there are all sorts of parasitic infestations that happen. A tapeworm can infest your intestinal tract, but a neuroparasite is one that looks to, if you like, alter the neuronal circuitry of its host to suit its own reproductive interest. And so I had my epiphany, so I thought, well, okay, well, human beings can certainly be parasitized by actual physical brainworms, but there's another class of brainworms that they can be parasitized by. And I call those idea pathogens or parasitic ideas. So to your earlier point about, you know, in the academy, we no longer talk about some objective truth. Well, that's the granddaddy of all idea pathogens, postmodernism, social constructivism is another one. Radical feminism is another one. Identity politics is another one. Cultural relativism, biophobia, the fear of using biology to explain human behavior is another one. So what I do in the book is I trace the origin of many of these parasitic ideas and their downstream negative consequences. And then if I've done a good job, I offer a mind vaccine against these parasitic ideas. That's the general idea of the book. Okay, I wanna pick up on that. We are talking to GAD, G -A -D, SAD, S -A -A -D. And we'll be right back. I wear the black for those who've never read. Or listen.
a16z
A highlight from AI x Crypto
"AI is very much a technology that thrives and enables top -down centralized control, whereas crypto is a technology that's all about bottom -up, decentralized cooperation. One of the points of NFTs was to support the artists, but if the artists themselves are now machine learning models, then who exactly are we supporting? One of the things that will become important in a world where anyone can participate online is to be able to prove that you are human for various different purposes. If we're going to incentivize people to contribute data, basically we're going to incentivize people to create fake data so they can get paid. So we have to have some sort of a mechanism to make sure that the data you're contributing is authentic. Hello everyone and welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is your host Steph Smith, but today I'm passing the baton back to longtime host Sonal Choksi. This, of course, is also a crossover episode from our sister podcast Web3 with A16Z, which Sonal now hosts. There are few technologies over the last few years that have quite captured the zeitgeist like crypto and AI. So in today's episode, Sonal sits down with guests Ali Yahya and Dan Bonet to explore the ways in which these two emerging technologies oppose yet also beautifully augment one another. And they attack this from both directions. How crypto can help AI, like how crypto acts as a decentralizing counterweight to the somewhat centralizing force where AI models with more data, more compute, and more complex models do tend to win. But also how AI can help crypto. For example, are we at the point where LLMs should be writing smart contract code? And what about all these deepfakes we keep hearing about? Let's find out. Welcome to Web3 with A16Z, a show about building the next generation of the Internet from the team at A16Z Crypto that includes me, your host, Sonal Choksi. Today's all new episode covers the convergence of two important top of mind trends, AI, artificial intelligence and crypto. This has major implications for how we all live our lives every day. So this episode is for anyone just curious about or already building in the space. Our special guests today are Dan Bonet, Stanford professor and senior research advisor at A16Z Crypto. He's a cryptographer who's been working on blockchains for over a decade. And the topics have a strong intersection between cryptography, computer security and machine learning, all of which are his areas of expertise. And then we also have Ali Yahya, general partner at A16Z Crypto, who also worked at Google previously, where he not only worked on a distributed system for robotics, more specifically as sort of collective reinforcement learning, which involved training a single neural network that contributed to the actions of an entire fleet of robots, but also worked on Google Brain, where he was one of the core contributors to the machine learning library, TensorFlow. And actually, Dan and Ali go back since Ali was an undergrad and master's student at Stanford. So this conversation is really more of a hallway jam between them that I asked to join. And we cover everything from deepfakes and bots to proof of humanity in a world of AI and much, much more. The first half is all about how AI could benefit from crypto and the second half on how crypto could benefit from AI. And the thread throughout is the tension between centralization versus decentralization. As a reminder, none of the following should be taken as investment, legal, business or tax advice. Please see A16Z .com slash disclosures for more important information, including a link to a list of our investments, especially since we are investors and companies mentioned in this episode. But first, we begin with how the two worlds intersect with the quick sharing of areas or visions that they're excited about. The first voice you'll hear is Ali's. There is a really good sci -fi novel called The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson in which there is this device known as the illustrated primer. That is a kind of artificially intelligent device that acts as your mentor and your teacher throughout life. And so when you're born, you're paired to an AI, essentially, that knows you really well, learns your preferences, follows you throughout life and helps you make decisions and steers you in the right direction. So there's like a sci -fi future in which you could build such an AI, but you very much wouldn't want that AI to be controlled by a monopolistic tech giant in the middle because that position would provide that company with a great deal of control and solve these kinds of questions of privacy and sovereignty, and you'd want to have kind of control over it. And then also, what if the company goes away or they change the rules or they change the pricing? It would be great if you could build an AI that could run for a very, very long time and could get to know you over the course of a lifetime, but have that really be yours. And so there is this vision in which you could do that with a blockchain. You could embed an AI within a smart contract and with the power of zero knowledge proofs, you could also keep your data private. And then over the course of decades, this AI can become smarter and can help you. And then you have the option to do whatever you want with it or change it in whichever way you want to shut it down. And so that's kind of an interesting vision for long running AIs that are continually evolving and continually becoming better. It'd be better if it were the case that they weren't just controlled by a single centralized company. Of course, it's a very science fiction idea because there are lots of problems, including the problems of verification and the problems of keeping data private, using cryptography and still being able to compute on top of that data, maybe with fully homomorphic encryption. All of these problems continue to be outstanding, but it's not something that's inconceivable. Wow. I love Ali's vision there. I love it too, especially given that quote, I think it was Asimov that today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. Ali, I know you have a meta framework for thinking about all this stuff that I've heard you share before. Can you share that now too? Yeah, there is this broader narrative that has existed for quite some time now that's only becoming much more accentuated now with the development of things like LLMs. Actually define that really quickly, just for listeners who aren't already familiar, just as context. So an LLM stands for large language model, and it uses some of the technology that was developed at Google back in 2017. There's this famous paper known as Attention is All You Need. That was the title of the paper and it outlined what are now known as transformers. That's the basis basically of some of the new models that people have been training these days, including chat GPT and so on. All of these are large language models or LLMs. There was that famous, I think 2018 line from Peter Thiel that AI is communist and crypto is libertarian. That line is like very on point actually because AI and crypto in many ways are natural counterweights for one another. And maybe we can go deep over the course of the podcast into each one of these as we go through examples, but there are four major ways in which that's true. The first is that AI is very much a technology that thrives and enables top -down centralized control. Whereas crypto is a technology that's all about bottom -up decentralized cooperation. And in many ways, actually you can think of crypto as the study of building systems that are decentralized that enable large -scale cooperation of humans, where there isn't really any central point of control. So that's one natural way in which these two technologies are counterweights for one another. Another one is that AI is a sustaining innovation in that it reinforces the business models of existing technology companies because it helps them make top -down decisions. And the best example of this would be Google being able to decide exactly what ad to display for each of their users across billions of users and billions of page views. Whereas crypto is actually a fundamentally disruptive innovation in that it has a business model fundamentally that's at odds with the business models of big tech companies. And so as a result, it's a movement that is spearheaded by rebels, by the fringes as opposed to being led by the incumbents. So that's the second. A third one is that AI will probably relate and interplay a lot with all of the trends towards privacy because AI as a technology has built in all sorts of incentives that because we will have companies that want access to all of our data and AI models that are trained on more and more data will become more and more effective. And so I think that that leads us down a path of the AI panopticon where there's just collective aggregation of everyone's data into the training of these enormous models in order to make these models as good as possible. Whereas crypto moves us towards the opposite direction, which is a direction of increasing individual privacy. It's a direction of increasing sovereignty where users have control over their own data. And those two trends I think will be very important. And this is just another important way in which crypto is the counterweight for AI. And maybe the final one has to do with this latest trend in AI. The fact that AI is now very clearly a powerful technology for generating new art is now a creative tool that will lead us to infinite abundance of media, infinite creativity in many ways. And crypto is a counterweight to that because it helps us cut through all of the abundance and helping us distinguish what's created by humans versus what's created by AI. And cryptography will be an essential part of maintaining and preserving what actually is human in a world where 1000x more of the content is actually artificially generated. So these are all things that we can talk about, but I think that there is this important meta narrative and these two technologies are very much diametrically opposing in many respects. So to add to that, this is a wonderful summary. And I would say also that there's also a lot of areas where techniques from AI are having an impact in blockchains and vice versa, where techniques from blockchains are having an impact in AI. I'll give a brief answer here because we're going to dive into the details in just a minute, but there are many points of intersection. I guess we'll talk about applications of zero knowledge for machine learning in just a minute, but I also want to touch on all these applications where machine learning itself can be used to write code. So for example, machine learning can be used to write solidity code that goes into contract. It can be used to find maybe errors in codes and so on. There's points of intersection where machine learning can be used to generate deepfakes and blockchains can actually help to protect against deepfakes. And so I guess we're going to touch on all these points, but the interesting thing is that there's really quite a lot of intersection between blockchains and machine learning.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Dr. Gad Saad
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Back again, eh? Glutton for punishment, eh? When will you ever learn? Now here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It's always a joy to have someone on for the first time. I have heard such good things about today's guest. His name is Gad Saad, at least I think that's how it's pronounced, or God Saad, G -A -D, first name, second name, S -A -A -D, Ph .D. He's one of the best -known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, so it sounds to me like he's interested in truth. He's a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the research chair in evolutionary behavioral sciences and Darwinian consumption. It goes on and on. It is just a joy to have Gad Saad as my guest. Welcome to the program, and congratulations on the new book. Thank you so much, sir. It's such a pleasure to meet you. I've seen you on television before, so I feel as though I know you, but it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Well, that's very generous of you. For my audience, who isn't familiar with you, what is your background? You've been a voice for truth, which is a very rare thing, especially in a university setting. Where were you raised, and what is your background? How did you get to be who you are today? Sure. I grew up in Lebanon. I was born in Lebanon. We were part of the last steadfastly refusing to leave Jews in Lebanon. Most of my extended family had left. By the late 60s, they had left some to France, some to Canada, many to Israel. But my family had remained in Lebanon. We were well entrenched within Lebanese society. And then when the civil war broke out in 1975, when I was 10 years old, it became very, very difficult to be Jewish in Lebanon. So we experienced the first year of the civil war, and then luckily were able to leave. So that's my background in terms of where I was born. I grew up in Montreal, Canada, and then went to the United States to finish my studies, and then was a visiting professor at several universities in the U .S. But much of my career has been spent at a Canadian university, Montreal University. My general research area, just again for the folks who don't necessarily know who I am, I marry evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology to human behavior in general and consumer behavior in particular. What are the biological underpinnings that make us do the things that we do? So that's been my scientific work. But in the process of establishing my academic career, I started noticing that there was a second war that I was facing. The first war was the Lebanese civil war. The second war was the war on reality, the war on common sense, on reason, on evidence -based thinking, which then led me to write my previous book, not the book that we'll be talking about today. But my previous book was called The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. And so I've been one of the few voices in academia that holds no sacred cow to be untouchable. I critique any ideology that I feel like critiquing. Of course, it has made my academic career at times difficult, but you have to defend the truth. Well, you say you have to defend the truth, and I say you have to defend the truth. But many in the academy are not willing to defend the truth, nor even to defend the concept of truth. They don't seem to believe in the idea of truth the way Socrates did. They don't even seem to believe in defending reality, that there is a world, a real world, that there are things that are possible that are things that are impossible. I mean, that is kind of where we are today. So to believe in reality or truth in the academy is a rare thing indeed. And what do you suppose it is about you that made you willing to fight the battle for truth, to not be silenced? Thank you. That's a great question. So I think it's just my personhood, the random combination of genes that make me who I am. Okay, now hold on. You're making it sound fatalistic. You're making it sound like it's not noble. It's just a fatalistic thing. It's just your genes are making you behave this way. Just as Hitler's genes made him do what he did. That's clearly not what you're saying, is it? No, no. I mean, of course, I also have personal agency because I could say, hey, I'm going to succumb to cowardice and not rise up to the call to defend the truth. So you're right. So thank you for that. Maybe I was being falsely modest in my deterministic explanation. But in any case, I'm just I mean, I'm a very I think anybody who knows me knows that I'm a very warm, fun, affable guy. But I'm also very combative, not not because I want to be combative just to annoy people. But it's it's in a sense, I have this code of personal conduct, Eric, that makes it that when I go to bed at night and put my head on the pillow for me to be able to not suffer from insomnia, I need to feel that I never modulated my words for pragmatic reasons, for careerist reasons. Then I would feel that I'm a fraud, that I'm a charlatan. And because of that exacting, punishing code of personal conduct, whenever I see nonsense, I attack it. Well, I'm just guessing. But you know, having lived through what you and your family lived through in Lebanon, I mean, my father came to this country from Greece in the 50s. My mother came from East Germany in the 50s. having And then stories, whether your own or those of your forebears, of people who saw that there were consequences to how one lived and that the world can be a very evil place and that if you go along with it, you're complicit in the evil. I think many Americans and many Canadians haven't been forced to face that. They don't understand that there is a real battle for truth and that I have to be careful not to go along with things because then I am complicit. I'm just guessing that growing up in a in a home, as you did, having left Lebanon under those circumstances, that that might be a part of why you're a brave voice in this culture. I think you're spot on. And if you look just anecdotally at some of the most vociferous defenders of Western traditions, they're exactly the type that you've mentioned. It's Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is of Somali background. It's precisely because we have sampled from the large buffet of possible societies, right? We realize that the Western experience is an anomalous one. It's it's it's not the standard default society. That's not how humans have organized themselves. And so because we've sampled from that buffet, we come to the West and say, guys, be careful. You're not going down the right track. So I think you're exactly right there. Yeah, I think, you know, anytime I meet somebody who has Cuban background or whatever, they typically they get it. Somebody who's come from Romania or some Eastern Bloc country, they all get it. They all seem to understand, you know, we have to fight for what is right and true. We have to fight for freedom. These aren't normal. This is not the default situation. But many Americans and many people who've had the privilege of growing up in the West, they don't have a clue that what we have is a glorious, fragile thing. It's worth fighting for because you're new to the program. I do want you to talk about your book, The Parasitic Mind, before we talk about the brand new book. Tell us a little bit about that so my audience can understand where you're coming from. Sure. Thanks for that question. So in The Parasitic Mind, what I try to do is find some metaphor for why it is that living agents can engage in such maladaptive behaviors. And so I found it in what's called the neuro parasitological framework. The idea is that if you look at the animal kingdom, there are all sorts of parasitic infestations that happen. A tapeworm can infest your intestinal tract. But a neuro parasite is one that looks to, if you like, alter the neuronal circuitry of its host to suit its own reproductive interests. And so I had my epiphany. So I thought, well, OK, well, human beings can certainly be parasitized by actual physical brainworms. But there's another class of brainworms that they can be parasitized by. And I call those idea pathogens or parasitic ideas. So to your earlier point about, you know, in the academy, we no longer talk about some objective truth. Well, that's the granddaddy of all idea pathogens, postmodernism, social constructivism is another one. Radical feminism is another one. Identity politics is another one. Cultural relativism, biophobia, the fear of using biology to explain human behavior is another one. So what I do in the book is I trace the origin of many of these parasitic ideas and their downstream negative consequences. And then if I've done a good job, I offer a mind vaccine against these parasitic ideas. That's the general idea of the book. OK, I want to pick up on that. We are talking to GAD, G -A -D, SAD, S -A -A -D. And we'll be right back.
Mark Levin
Who Is Second Place in the Republican Presidential Race?
"And you even see it on TV. The news media in addition to targeting Trump they're not targeting Mike Pence. They're not targeting Nikki Haley. Tim Scott. They're not targeting Vivek Ramaswamy. It's DeSantis. Because they to want take out number one and they want to take out number two. You see what I'm saying Mr. Producer? They want to take out the leader of the pack and they want to take out number two in the pack. Because let's be honest they're the most states running. I mean I'm not talking about Larry Elder and so forth. Great guy. But I'm talking about people who honestly have a shot. If Larry's mad at me about that I can't control it. I've backed him before but this is this is a different league when you're running for president of the United States as opposed And so they found Vivek Ramaswamy. Now why him as opposed to Tim Scott or Nikki Ali or somebody else? Why him? Do you know why America? Do you know why Mr. Producer?
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 115 - Navigate - Optimizing global mapping with blockchain, AI, and crowdsourced data
"What makes me most bullish on Web3 is just having an alternative out there for whoever wants to take it to give them kind of more control over what is theirs and how it is used. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Maps, most of us use them on a daily basis, whether it's to find directions to a friend's house, check a transit schedule, or look up nearby restaurants. Global mapping data is also extremely valuable for governments, corporations, and NGOs who may make use of the data to monitor and analyze environmental changes and to inform decision -making. However, map imagery and data are very inconsistent depending on region, and those who are truly responsible for building up the maps, the community members who provide the data behind them, don't get rewarded. Web3, with its ethos of decentralization, can challenge this by facilitating the creation of community -owned, community -benefiting global maps. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Ali Hussain, advisor at Navigate, a Web3 organization using blockchain AI and crowdsourcing to optimize global mapping. We discuss how they're using next -generation technologies to improve mapping data, the power of decentralized communities to crowdsource data, using Web3 tools to incentivize community participation, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Ali to the Crypto Altruism podcast. All right, Ali, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. So excited to have you today, and thanks for being here. Thank you for having me, Drew. Yeah, my pleasure, my pleasure. Really excited to dive into a really fascinating topic and one that's kind of new to me. I've been covering blockchain and AI for quite a while, and the really amazing opportunities that it brings about with crowdsourcing and a more transparent, open -source internet, but really haven't explored the idea of crowdsourcing map data or anything along that line. So I'm really excited to dive into that. But before we get there, I'd love to hear your story of how you got into this world of Web3 blockchain AI. So to start things off, I was hoping you could tell me what your aha moment was that got you excited about blockchain in the first place. Yeah, absolutely. So it wasn't one particular moment. It was over the course of a few years. Bitcoin came out when I was in college, got done with college, went out to Seattle, was working at Microsoft and enterprise software. And the whole thing was very interesting. The fact there's a real -world use case, you can send money and not have to wait for wire transfers to clear, so on and so forth. But we needed to be a lot more streamlined and this needs to become much easier to use and all of that stuff. That's kind of what's going on in my head. And so I was really into gaming at that time. And that's why I got into computer science. I did my degree in computer science and economics. And I was playing a lot of League of Legends back in the day and captaining the Microsoft team and so on and so forth. So after that, I moved back to Austin and started at this company called Spot Cognition, which was an AI startup then. Now it's a startup no longer. It's a much larger company. And it was during that time that I got into mining, Litecoin and Bitcoin and setting up an Ethereum node and just getting more familiar with the technology. And so I started tracking a lot of different cryptocurrencies. This was back in 2016. And then I think the... And obviously this is during the whole ICO craze. I was there for that. All the depression of 2018. I was there for that as well. And then what really kind of hit home with me was things like Axie, not specifically for the whole play and earn stuff, but the concept around gamification and collectibles and digital assets being your own. I've been a collector ever since I was a kid, whether it's large Lego sets or action figures that you never open up or CDC graded comics. It's just something that is very easy to explain to a collector. And so that really hooked me. And I was like, I definitely see this technology becoming mainstream over the next few years. Gamers, I consider myself one. We're not the most open -minded people. So we have to be led down a path and it takes us time to come to terms with new things. But that was really something that brought me in. This was in late 2020. Before then, I was really focusing on NFTs at all. And that's the same time that the whole Board Ape Yacht Club thing was happening. So I grabbed one, kind of entered that community as a, I'm going to do some research and figure out what's going on. And that was just, I got sucked in and I have been for the last several years. Fair enough. That's the backstory. It's easy to get sucked in, right? You start kind of learning about something, experimenting, and then all of a sudden you're like, a couple of months later you're like, well, I'm fully all in now. What happened? And obviously all this experience led you to where you are now, which is Navigate. I'm so fascinated about this project. So please give listeners a high -level overview of Navigate and your mission, if you don't mind. Absolutely. So the idea behind Navigate is primarily to break it down in a couple of simpler steps. One is satellite imagery doesn't provide a fair coverage of the planet, as you can see. You go to different continents, you go to different cities, and you see very different resolution and update frequencies for satellite imagery. And the other thing is that that to us indicates a very clear lack of data. And having been in the AI space, one of the things that we deal with in the AI space is the cleanliness of data and being able to actually get the right type of data or data in the right format, clean it up in order to be able to apply machine learning on it and get the insights that we want. So this just stuck out as something that was at a lower level, like this data doesn't even exist. It's not like it's being collected poorly. We haven't collected it so far. And so the idea was that in order to do something like this, this is the perfect way to leverage a decentralized community because you can't really say, okay, I'm going to go around the world and the idea has to be that you show people the vision and what you feel is the value of creating something like this and the insights that it will provide. And then say, hey, you know, help me do this. Similar to what Uber did with taxis, right? Like, so, Uber -izing this model of enabling anyone with a phone or a dash cam or a drone to go out, collect imagery that you might be doing anyway, and then say, if you contribute the symmetry and you make a better community -owned, community -built map, you will get rewarded. Because the idea here is not to, and you know, you know about this, all the stigma around Web3 and how cyclical it is, right? Board apes at 500 ,000, oh my God, this is amazing. Now that whatever, 30 ,000, this was all a scam. I knew it from day one. Things are not that simple, right? In new spaces, you see both ends of the spectrum and there's a lot of swinging of the pendulum until things stabilize. So, our objective with something like this was to ground it in reality and to say that, look, the reason we think this is true to the Web3 ethos is because of a lot of stuff that 6529 talks about, for example, decentralization, community ownership, et cetera, not having a single point of failure, so on. But there is incredible need for involvement from folks who are Web2 native. And so, we were thinking about how to do that. And, you know, one of the super simple ways in which you can explain this to people without confusing them with tokens and all of that is that you get these tokens and because the question is, why would I do this? And there are multiple answers to that. One answer is, well, people did it for free for ways that got acquired by Google for a billion. So, I don't know why do people do this, number one. You don't want to go down that route. You can always say, you know, you do it because you get points that you can redeem for gift cards. So, you do this, you go get, you know, Nordstrom Rack gift card. You go get another gift card and you actually are able to get things. I think that messaging doesn't require a leap of faith from a Web2 perspective. So, that's really, you know, kind of the vision and the goal. And as you can imagine, it's a fairly lofty one. And hardest the part of it is two parts. One, obviously building a community that is engaged in it and interested in it. And two, being able to, you know, kind of show the value of something like this when you talk to people initially. Because again, once we have this at scale, you literally will be able to see it. So, there's nothing left to the imagination. But initially, there is something left to the imagination. Yeah, fair enough. Well, that was a great overview. And I, you know, appreciate you sharing that. And I just love this idea of like using Web3 tools like tokens and, you know, building a decentralized community to really kind of like incentivize people to take part in these like public good actions, right? Whether it's creating, you know, gathering map data to improve our mapping or, you know, I've seen examples of there was one project that gave rewarded folks with tokens for picking up plastic from, you know, rivers in the ocean and those sorts of things and returning it to Recycling Center. Like really cool ways to kind of activate the community in a new and different way that, you know, didn't exist before. And, you know, I'm really excited now to kind of hear your thoughts on like, you know, so we have things like Google Maps and Waze, obviously, that have been around for quite some time. I want to hear your thoughts now on, you know, how does this new approach of crowdsourcing map data improve global mapping? You talked a little bit about, you know, some of the quality of the, you know, imagery and the data varies based on, you know, region. I know a lot of it's quite outdated. I also think about things like, you know, you see there's so much extreme weather events that have happened lately. We've seen, you know, whole forests be ravaged by forest fires. We've seen massive flooding create new lakes or droughts, you know, turn lakes into deserts, you know, and this changing topography can be really hard to, I think, stay on top of. So think about that, too. So talk to me about how crowdsourcing map data and putting it, you know, on chain and using Web3 tools to incentivize really will improve global mapping in the coming years. Well, you know, the belief is that with the Navigate Foundation and the platform that's being built to, you know, collect these data sets that we believe, because we haven't seen them before, have never really been collected, is going to enable large enterprises to, you know, get insights that they previously have not been able to. It will enable, you know, infrastructure services for the government to get all of this information. Just to give you, you know, a very recent example, there have been, due to climate change, there are a lot of weather events everywhere now. But recently in Austin, we had, you know, a bunch of storms and lost a ton of trees. And so, you know, like you said, being able to, you know, collect all of that data at more frequent intervals versus when a satellite would do it. Or similarly, when you look at a satellite map, and I'll send you some imagery that we have from Navigate, just so that you can trust. You know, we have some parts in Chicago that you can see on Google Maps. And obviously, it's, you know, green and clear. And you can tell it's during the summer or springtime. But because we are collecting imagery from the same place again and again and again at very short intervals, you can see the same area on Navigate in the so on and so forth. So, you can see different things. You can see things at higher resolutions. You can see stuff like how many cars were parked in a parking lot. With drone imagery, you can, and obviously, drones have become so cheap and the hardware is so good now. You can literally see all of the parking spaces. You can even say, you know, tell whether or not paint is wearing out on the handicap parking spaces, for example. So, little things like that, that when you kind of zoom out a little bit, you'd start looking at satellite imagery that starts to appear after the point more grayscale than color. Those are not even things that we think about, because we haven't gotten them traditionally from the images. What we think about is, I need to go from point A to point B and this map is going to give me, you know, most likely I won't even enable satellite imagery. I'll either have the day view or the night view and it'll just tell me when to turn and I hope I don't miss a turn and I hope, you know, the map is up to date or I've been in the situation multiple times where the turn was so odd on a, you know, small road that I overshoot it and I'm like, where was this? So, think of that example and being able to, you know, you get near that turn and it's like, hey, this is visually what you're looking for. This is where you needed to turn in. So, I'm just kind of giving you a few examples of different, you know, processes that we have in place, like part of our daily lives, things that we all do that could be optimized with something like this. Another example would be, you know, um, depending on dash cam and drone footage, I want to, I'm driving home from work and I want to stop at a grocery store. You know, I might want to stop at the one that's closest to work, but based on imagery that Navigates collected over the last three months, it um, can be used to predict that, oh, the grocery store next to the office, by the way, is usually busier between four to 6 p .m. than the one that's slightly out of the way. So, you can save time if you go there or how long is the line at McDonald's right now getting lunch, all of those things, right? Because they're so consistent. They happen every single day. Um, you can, uh, once you start collecting that data, there are a lot of insights that you can get from it. And the reason that, you know, we believe that it's, it's kind of prime opportunity to do this is because, as I mentioned, you know, uh, my background, Dean's background is an AI. We've been in AI for the last year. I've been in AI for the last eight or 10 years. And now with this whole LLM stuff that's going on with generative, it's come back and do, you know, mainstream discussion. So, there is a lot of AI technology that you can apply on data sets like this to extract information and to provide users with a lot of value add. And so that's why, you know, when we, when we thought of Navigate and when we conceptualized it, it really became this thing of a, not just a web three project that we're doing that has broken, but really a global data platform that can enable all of these different use cases, be it for insurance or construction or city infrastructure, or just, you know, personal, um, errands that you want to run and being able to optimize when you run them. Yeah, definitely. That's fascinating. Right. And I even think about like just monitoring, you know, things like, you know, deforestation or reforestation or, you know, the impacts of, you know, climate change in a community over time, those sorts of things. I think this can really help with that too. So that's absolutely fascinating. And, you know, the idea of like decentralizing it and crowdsourcing it, you know, I think that's one of the greatest, you know, innovation or not innovations, but things that web three enables, right. Is this ability to mobilize communities and on your website, you mentioned how it takes more than a village to create a global map and that each contributor plays a critical role in building a map that benefits everyone. So they deserve to get rewarded for it. And I think this is great because I think for so long, you know, folks have contributed data, they've contributed their time to public goods projects, but haven't gotten any sort of benefit or reward from it. So I understand that what you're doing is we're looking to reward these individuals by providing them with the navigate token, which is a NVG8 token. Tell me more about this process and how it all works. Right. So basically, the way that this works is you can check out the docs on the NVG8 website that highlight the kind of imagery that NVG8 is able to accept. Usually the, you know, kind of the information around it is it has to be a certain resolution minimum. You would want geolocation data on that imagery just so that, you know, we can use it and make it a part of the ever -growing global map, so on and so forth. There is no focus because we're building a software platform. There is no focus on, hey, you have to buy this particular dash cam or you have to get this or you have to get that. There's zero barrier to entry. In fact, one of the things, as I mentioned to you, is that we're, you know, releasing here soon is the ability that if you want to just walk around and capture pictures on your iPhone or Samsung phones, which have stellar cameras now or capture video there, cool, you know, upload those and you can get tokens for it. That's kind of the way that we wanted to approach it because I think that is, you know, we all go places for holidays, we all take pictures of scenery, of, you know, roads, of shops, this, that, and the other. Just being able to, you know, go through your camera roll and say, oh, you know, these are images that I wouldn't mind sharing and selecting that and, you know, uploading would them enable people to like literally monetize something that they already had. So that's a super easy way to get in rather than, you know, jump through these three hoops and wait four weeks for a box to come to you then set that up. And then the other part of it is just kind of making it as, you know, effortless as we can from the dash cam and drone perspective. And obviously those I recognize are higher lifts because obviously with a drone, you need to know how to fly a drone. With the dash cam, it's a lot easier. So those are kind of the three layers in which people can start contributing. Obviously, I think phones are probably the medium that is easiest. And yes, the idea behind that is that you contribute as early contributors. Obviously, they get more tokens. The current reward function, I believe, is up to date. It's on our website. That is something that, you know, to be completely transparent, we will need to tweak as time goes on. But it's a combination of, you know, the area that you capture, what's the population in that area, like how valuable that imagery is. So just, you know, if I go to downtown Austin versus I go, you know, out in the countryside somewhere, the downtown Austin imagery is going to be more valuable and it's going to give you more Navigate tokens. And then, you know, obviously currently this token is just being awarded to contributors and they can hold it. The utility for the token right now is specifically redeeming it in the Navigate marketplace for, you know, real world gift cards that you can redeem the product. Later on, we're looking at, you know, obviously listing the token sometime in the future here. So, you know, people have that choice as well. And like I said, that's something that we felt was very important because we didn't want to, you know, alienate web to audiences into thinking, Oh my God, this is just another crypto thing where, you know, what do I do with this? It's like, yeah, there's a very, very clear like workflow. You upload imagery, you get these tokens, you can either hold them for the future date or you can, you know, use them now to get something that you want. Very common to reward programs out there. So that's kind of the steel thread of the whole thing. Yeah, that's great. I love that. And I love that there's that real world utility of the tokens as well. It's not just something that you kind of sit on for a future maybe time when it might have some value or those sorts of things. It gives them something very valuable. And I like what you mentioned too around like you don't have to have a fancy DSLR camera or drone or, you know, super high quality dash cam. Like you can use things that most people have in their pocket. And, you know, most people will take pictures when they go on, you know, on vacation or a hike or something like that. And just being able to just upload something you're already doing and getting awarded for it is so cool. Very low, you know, barrier to entry, which I think is fascinating. And, you know, I think that so we've talked a little bit about, you know, how decentralization and blockchain plays into this. And, you know, I love to hear about AI as well. But actually, before we get into that, I want to dig into the blockchain piece a bit more. Do you mind sharing a little bit about so what blockchain is actually built on and how does the kind of token where is the token living? Right. So the token was minted on Polygon. And the reason for doing that was, you know, we talked about this, there was no question that we had to be EVM compatible, and we had to be living on Ethereum layer two. The smart contracts that we have are all, you know, functional across, you know, change like Arbitrum, Polygon, any any Ethereum L2, we've kind of been prioritizing Arbitrum and Polygon for now. When you do a redemption on the marketplace, currently the marketplace smart contract executes on on the Polygon side. But again, like I said, that's just a deployment thing. So the tokens were minted on Polygon, you can interact with this either via Arbitrum or Polygon. And those are the two L2s that are currently being used. Very cool. Well, I appreciate you sharing that. It's just so interesting to hear where folks are building. And I think, you know, a lot of folks are building right now on Ethereum layer two is like Polygon and Arbitrum. So that's, that's great. They're doing that. And so blockchain is one component of it. And then of course, is AI, artificial intelligence, there's been so much buzz lately in artificial intelligence around these new language learning models and generative AI, which has just been a fascinating development over the last couple of years. I'd love to hear how AI plays into navigate solution. Absolutely. So you know, the way that and just to back up a little bit, my work at SparkCognition, SparkCognition started back in 2013. It's an industrial AI company. So the solutions that they have, for example, do things like predict failures on oil rigs or generators and wind turbines, you know, very expensive equipment that, obviously, once it fails, costs you a lot of time and money. So being able to take sensor data and derive some insights from that, establish a kind of normal behavior baseline, and then be able to use that to predict whether or not a failure is imminent, and try and predict that failure in advance. This is just one example. And as I mentioned, in order to do that, the last eight years from what I've seen, you need a lot of data. And not only do you need a lot of data, but you also need data that you can consume and process and get certain insights out of. And usually, when you kind of look at the industrial space, you have all of these, you know, massive companies that have had their infrastructure there for such a long time, and you can't be like, hey, let's design a new generator that you use that has all the sensors you have to, you know, you have to do with what you have out there. And you can either add some sensors to it, or it's like, hey, this is the data we have, go and figure it out. With navigate, it kind of turns it turns the thing on its head, right? Because, as I mentioned, we're building a layer of data, or a collection of data sets that have not existed in the past. And so as we build those data sets, for example, you know, I was looking at some imagery from Lahore, which is a city in Pakistan of about 15 million people. And you can go and look at the imagery that you have on like Bing maps. And this is what I was mentioning earlier, I'll send this to you visually, it'll just make a lot more sense. You can look at what you have on Bing maps, versus Google versus, you know, what navigate has captured. And you can literally like the amount of, you know, change from each of those is orders of magnitude. And so in the Bing one, you can barely tell that a few buildings. And in the final one that you look at, you can tell that, you know, three of those buildings have solar panels on them. And each of those solar panels is like a six by six solar panels. And there are six of those can tell how many motorbikes are parked in the roundabout, you can see people who are walking on foot, you can see how many cars are parked, you can even derive, you know, how many of those would be sedans, or SUVs, or vans, or things like that. So that's where the AI component is just like a shoe in, right, you don't, and those are things that, obviously, the industry has been working on for years. And, you know, it used to be very exciting back in 2013, where you're like, Oh, look, I have an object detection, we have object tracking through certain frames, we have, you know, a lot more insights that you can get from visual high definition visual imagery, using artificial intelligence and machine learning models specifically. So combining that and just overlaying something as simple as that just giving you one example on high quality data, which is the thing that we traditionally lack, when we solve AI problems.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Week in Review - Episode 16
"Welcome into the week in review, and what a week it has been. Man, oh man, a roller coaster ride, ups, downs, all kinds of breaking news. As Jesse Watters put it, some good news, finally, for the loyal opposition of the Democrats because maybe the double -tiered justice system is falling apart when it comes to the Biden crime family. But who knows what's going to happen with Trump? The classified documents trial is set for May of 2024, right in the thick of the presidential campaign, and we talked about it a lot. Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary field, and in a head -to -head match -up against Biden, would beat him pretty easily, according to the brand new Harvard -Harris poll that came out Friday. A lot of things happened on Friday. How about the judge issuing a ruling that Trump's trial on — what charges are these? Is this when he ripped the mattress tags off? Are these unpaid parking tickets? I can't remember. There's some — oh, is this the January 6th he led an insurrection when he told people to go peacefully protest? I think it might be on that charge. May of 2024, how's that going to work? When we're in the thick of the presidential campaign and he's got to defend himself in this goofy trial. Trump's attorneys were asking the judge, at least please hold off until after the election. This is all about election interference. We all know it. You know it. I know it. They know it. But that's the gig, right? That's the game. Listen to one of the more radical voices over at MSNBC, Ali Velshi, and what he said about every new indictment that is coming Trump's way. Polling over the last several months indicates that with each new indictment, Trump's popularity grows among his extremist Republican base. Considering all these factors, prosecuting this particular former president becomes an entirely different ball game. However, it is a ball game that it is entirely necessary to play. Excusing the behavior of a defiant and habitual law breaker with fascist ambitions would raise serious questions about the integrity of our democratic system, and it could undermine the very bedrock of our democratic principles. Trump's popularity rises among his extremist Republican base, must be a lot of extremists in America with these numbers. I get, of course, we're all extremists, right? We're deplorables and we're extremists. That's all they got to try to marginalize millions and millions of Americans, arguably most Americans. In MSNBC world, most America is extremist. That's why they're swimming upstream. Back to this judge for a moment, Mark Levin on Fox News over the weekend, the great one, had an impassioned reaction, a very passionate reaction to the judge determining that this trial has to take place months before the election. The whole purpose of what's going on here is to interfere with the election, to protect Biden from scrutiny, criminal investigation, to protect him, to get him reelected. That's what the Democrat Party wants. That's why they trashed Robert Kennedy Jr. That's what they want. And at the same time, on a second path to destroy who they believe would be the nominee, or at least potentially, Donald Trump, they have the D .A. in Manhattan working on it, the D .A. in Atlanta working on it, the attorney general in New York working on it. They had the two grand jury in Washington, D .C. They're looking at January 6th, pile it on, pile it on, pile on. All we need is one out of hundreds of charges. All we need is one. One to stick in front of some Democrat jury and Judge Cannon in Florida. After you let the country down, this trial should have been moved till after the election. You just gave your imprimatory and the imprimatur of the federal judiciary to the interference in this election. He's right. He's completely right. Can anyone challenge what he just said? It's all about going around the American people. The question will linger. The question is, will the enough of the American people recognize? House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talked about a possible impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. It's about time that Republicans start scrutinizing the Biden family behavior. And we talked a little bit about whether it's a good idea to go down that path. Republicans are finally starting to talk about impeachment over the Biden family business. You think you think Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would be impeaching Donald Trump if Donald Trump Jr. was Hunter Biden? I mean, think it. Let that let. Really? I don't even know why I'd ask that question. That's as obvious as the reason that Biden is now taking the short steps up and down Air Force One. Have you seen all of the modifications they're now making to accommodate Biden's condition? He is so old, frankly, and so infirm, they're having to change everything around him to accommodate his deteriorating condition. Now, the reason this is important and the reason his physical deterioration, his aging is crucial, is because that, combined with the alleged corruption, should be enough to disqualify him from 2024. And I think it will. I think it's absolutely going to disqualify him. Here was Kevin McCarthy last night, the House, the speaker of the House, laying out the case for Joe impeaching Biden. He was a guest with Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel. When President Biden was running for office, he told the American public that he's never talked about business. He said his family has never received a dollar from China, which we now prove is not true. We now have some of the most credible whistleblowers, these 10 year IRS agents who have come forward said that the Biden family has been treated differently, that what Weiss has told us is different than what Garland and Weiss has told the public. And you're sitting here today where now you have found millions of foreign money, just what the 1023 alleges they did to Biden's family. Now we found that it has funneled through shell companies. If you're sitting in our position today, we would know none of this. If Republicans have not taken the majority, we've only followed where the information has taken us. Devin Archer, who is one of Hunter Biden's closest partners, according to all the reporting coming out, is expected to testify that Hunter Biden frequently put his father on the phone with foreign business associates. Now, if that's the case, that makes a liar out of Joe Biden. Do you hear what Karine Jean -Pierre said yesterday about it? She was asked about it. She uses a very, this is, boy, I tell you what, if this isn't revealing, I don't know what is.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Effort To Imprison Trump Is Election Interference
"This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is The Mike Gallagher Show. The sanctimonious super PAC always backed out, should focus more on Florida property and auto insurance instead of spending money on a campaign that's going absolutely nowhere. He's crashing. I do think that Donald Trump is stronger than he was politically in 2016. We may have a criminal family sitting in the White House. Now from the relief factor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. Holy cow. What a weekend with breaking news. What would we do without each other? What would I do without you? What would I do without being able to give out a phone number and have a bunch of normal Americans call this show and weigh in on all of the issues that are, are coming our way? And, uh, there's a lot, where, where do you want to begin? Uh, Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary field and in a head to head match up against Biden would beat him pretty easily, according to the brand new Harvard Harris poll that came out Friday. A lot of things happened on Friday. How about the judge issuing a ruling that Trump's trial, um, on, uh, what, what charges are these? Is this when he ripped the mattress tags off or are these unpaid parking tickets or he groped somebody in 1967? I can't remember. There's some chart. Oh, is this the January 6th? He led an insurrection. When he told people to go peacefully protest, I think it might be on that charge, May of 2024, how's that going to be like, how's that going to work when we're in the thick of the presidential campaign and he's got to defend himself in this goofy trial? Trump's attorneys were asking the judge at least please hold off until after the election. Let the American, this is all about election interference. We all know it. You know it. I know it. They know it, but that's the gig, right? That's the game. That's the, uh, that's the scheme. Listen to one of the more radical voices over at MSNBC, Ali Velshi, and what he said about every new indictment that is coming Trump's way. Polling over the last several months indicates that with each new indictment, Trump's popularity grows among his extremist Republican base. Considering all these factors prosecuting this particular former president becomes an entirely different ball game. However, it is a ball game that it is entirely necessary to play. Excusing the behavior of a defiant and habitual law breaker with fascist fascist ambitions would raise serious questions about the integrity of our democratic system, and it could undermine the very bedrock of our democratic principles. Trump's popularity rises among his extremist Republican base. Must be a lot of extremists in America with these numbers. I get, of course, we're all extremists, right? We're deplorables and we're extremists. That's all they got to try to marginalize millions and millions of Americans, arguably most Americans. In MSNBC world, most America is extremist and that's why they're swimming uphill. That's why they're swimming upstream. Back to this judge for a moment, Mark Levin on Fox News over the weekend, the great one, had an impassioned reaction, very passionate reaction to the judge determining that this trial has to take place months before the election. The whole purpose of what's going on here is to interfere with the election, to protect Biden from scrutiny, criminal investigation, to protect him, to get him reelected. That's what the Democrat Party wants. That's why they trashed Robert Kennedy Jr. That's what they want. And at the same time, on the second path, to destroy who they believe would be the nominee, or at least potentially Donald Trump. They have the DA in Manhattan working on it, the DA in Atlanta working on it, the attorney general in New York working on it. They had the two grand juries in Washington, D .C. They're looking at January 6th. Pile it on, pile it on, pile it on. All we need is one out of hundreds of charges. All we need is one, one to stick in front of some Democrat jury. And Judge Cannon, in Florida, you let the country down. This trial should have been moved till after the election. You just gave your imprimatur and the imprimatur of the federal judiciary to the interference in this election. He's right. He's completely right. Can anyone challenge what he just said? If so, call me. I'll put you to the top of the line. 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. It's all about election interference. It's all about going around the American people. The question will linger. The question is, will enough of the American people recognize it? That's all this is. They just got to find one thing to stick. You know, if you can just go to jail for a little bit. This is how goofy. The Washington Examiner has a big front page article today about how this special counsel, this Smith character, is pulling out all these obscure laws to try to stop Trump, to try to crush Trump, to try to convict Trump. He's pulling out all kinds of laws out of obscurity, mundane laws, things that are going to go around the American people. We should get to decide. Listen, Trump could lose. I don't even know that he'll get the nomination. Maybe not. Maybe Ron DeSantis will surpass him or Vivek Ramaswamy will come out of nowhere or Glenn Youngkin will decide to throw his hat in the ring in November. And all of a sudden he resonates with the American people. Or in a head to head matchup, maybe Trump loses to Biden. If Trump is the nominee and Biden decides to run again, and I still I sincerely doubt it, but if he does, maybe Trump loses to Biden. But we should get to decide that. That shouldn't be decided by some federal judge or some deranged prosecutor who is hell bent on interfering with an election. We I mean, it's Biden who's interfering. This is Biden's Justice Department. And the American people should get to make this decision and they're going to try to prevent that from happening. And it's sickening and it's a sorrowful chapter in American history. And again, the question becomes, will enough Americans figure it out? 1 -800 -655 -MIKE, welcome aboard. It's Monday, July the 24th. Wow. The month, the year is just racing past. Hard to believe we're knocking on the door of August, isn't it? We're in the ReliefFactor .com studios.
AP News Radio
Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdom's 1st female astronaut
"SpaceX's latest chartered flight to the International Space Station arrived Monday with two Saudis and two Americans aboard. Dragon SpaceX docking sequence completes crew dragon freedom, Peggy, John, Ali, ray, congrats on this historic achievement. The Saudi government is picking up the multi-million dollar tab for its astronauts. One, the kingdom's first female. Tennessee businessman John schaffner is paying his own way and retired NASA astronaut Peggy whitson, who now works for space company axiom was welcomed back. Thanks for putting your trust in the falcon 9 team. Hope you enjoyed the ride to space have a great trip on dragon. Welcome home to zero G Peggy. The four are expected to return to earth in 8 days they joined 7 others already at the International Space Station. I'm Julie Walker
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ali" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"He did whatever felt like and Ali was for everybody else in had the all the difference in the world and makes him that that profit of love you. I watched How many ali fight you watched in the process of making this but as you as you go through all that film any of those fights stick in your mind. oh yeah. I mean there are tons. They're the ones that little known. That michael bent kept pointing. Secret weapon is we embedded. Michael bent former heavyweight champion every one of our boxing scenes and he not. He's it's for those of us who aren't really into boxing but are interesting he'd give you the strategy and tactics but also psychology and the blow to blow and the round around stuff and what their hearts are like and it's also very very interesting but you know and we tried it we do about twenty twenty five in the fights you know significantly but obviously the i listen is great just because of the drama the ligament that gets on the glove Listen corner so ali's blind against one of the greatest and most formidable sluggers of all time for around and a half. I mean the fact that he's still alive surprises me and the fact that he won is one of the great. You can't make this up in hollywood stories and then of course i think the first frazier is just an amazing which he loses as you know and i think obviously the one of the great masterpieces of all time is is The rumble in the jungle. The the george forman fighting seventy four where people in his corner. Nobody thought he was going to win. No one thought he was going to win. And people in this corner were worried that he was going to be killed and It's the other way around. He just demolished george foreman with with guile and intellect and strategy. And it's just it's a beautiful masterpiece but in some ways..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ali" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"We talk about a very dark weekend ahead. in boxing. Vander holyfield at fifty eight years old being allowed to participate in a sanctioned fight in florida. Get into everything about that. Ostrich val dez hundred thirty pound champion. He recently tested positive for a banned substance but not only was he allowed to keep his title the fight against longtime rival robeson conceicao. That is going to go on as planned on friday so bought to get into with keith. I apologize in advance by the way for the audio with keith academy minor glitch when it came to my audio so you're only getting kind of a natural audio and not the audio that generally comes from this mike later. Ken burns noted documentarian. He has a brand new documentary on muhammad ali. They'll begin airing on pbs. on september. nineteenth. I talked to ken about why he shows a subject. In ali who has been covered pretty thoroughly over the years can take me through his process and what he hopes to convey to the viewers about muhammad ali as always best way to support the podcast subscribe rate review apple podcast spotify. Wherever you download. Podcasts go right onto the show. All right keith sir. Here we go chief. Attic is here. Boxing seem dot com. There are times. Keep them excited to talk to you about big fights and they'll be those times will be ahead of us. I'm sure this is not one of those times. we are entering one of. I think i've been looking for the right adjective to describe this weekend. Depressing immoral Dangerous boxing weekends of recent memory. You've got fifty eight-year-old vander holyfield getting back in the ring in a sanction boxing match in florida. He's gonna fight the doorbell for filling in delaware the day before. You're gonna have ostra bell. Dad's a charismatic talented under thirty pound champion defending his title against ropes. And could say. Sal and you'll do it just a week or so after popping positive for a banned substance and being allowed to fight by the local arizona commission and being allowed to keep his title by wbz. So before we get into specifics. Am i overstating this or is this coming weekend about his battles against chris. I don't know that you could overstate it to be honest with you What we have on our hands here. Friday and saturday are successive. shit shows. That should not be happening. I mean there. There's no other way to put it in the. Does anyone care about fighter safety anymore. Other than media members and i would assume a lot of fans and maybe less fans i suspect but does anyone care about fighter safety. There's a fifty eight year old person who replaced a forty eight year old person who should not have been fighting either any any fighting mean he. He's fifty eight hasn't fought in ten years. He's boxing someone who has boxed one time in his entire life yet is fourteen years older than him in much closer to the back of his physical prime obviously than holyfield. What's going on arizona's disgrace that. Oscar vowed there should not be fighting friday night. There's two ways about it. The fight should have been postponed..
Ali on the Run Show
"ali" Discussed on Ali on the Run Show
"Was at the diner studying. I showed up there and she was. Are you kidding me. You know at least you knew where she was going to be. I'm just thinking like you're there no phone or maybe it was your phone in your checked bag. I'm like concerned about logistics. Even though i know you're fine. I know it's such different times now. I can't imagine running out. My soem where people are tracking me and find my friends and my gps. Watch back then. I just had knipe rodney and that was it. How also that you for your first marathon. That it was on your dad's birthday is why you chose it. There is a one in three hundred sixty five chance of that being the case. So did you. Search like marathons on whatever his birthday is or. Was it a coincidence. How does happen. So my dad's Third it always falls around here city. Marathon I knew for my first marathon bad unless i got lucky with the lotto wasn't going again into new york city. So the manchester new hampshire marathon happened to be on that sunday as well with which was The day my dad's birthday this is sign You know that. I now work for the people who put on that race. I am the recent for them and that race is my marathon pr. I thought it was the go for some reason i didn't boston. Pr mentioned this. New hampshire was my first marathon. Wait what year was this. That was two thousand ten. Okay i did it in two thousand twelve. Because i did it the year. That new york was canceled. I drove up with a bunch of friends and we ran. Oh my gosh you have to come back. It's hard now because it's the same weekend as new york. Oh no and. I remember my friend's parents who had brand up before her thoughts incredibly haley are you. I i trained in ireland. So i didn't know what was hilly and what wasn't really but now i could definitely i'm sure like oh gosh. This is much more heavily. Ben other marathons wow. We were two years in one minute. Apart iran in twenty twelve marina. Three fifty one. So you know you go girl we but that was my pr. That was what i was like. I'm good like i. I don't really marathons or manny more. Gimme a five k. Any day or a half which. I'm sure you would wipe me out. And if is no but we have fun and we can onboard for this. Well i love that you had also now. I'm like wait. What diner was she. She was in new hampshire. Like this is awesome. I i love that story so much. I find so much of it to be relatable and i think one of the biggest things is that running can continually surprise us. We think i could never be a marathoner and then we are. We think this race is gonna kill me and it doesn't rethink i can't and we can. I just think that is something that yes so many of us feel in our first race whether it's a four-mile are or a marathon. But i know that for me running. Keep surprising me. I've been doing this for however many years now and i still have moments like that. Were running surprises. Me and i think I just love you sharing that. Because i think that's such a a great takeaway that so many people can relate to burning like you said it will really show what you're capable love mentally and physically and there's always a different type of challenge to take on when it comes to whether it's distance speed trail runs. I think it's a great way to get to know your cells and just be left alone. Your thoughts feely every other day however often you practice running so i love that practice running. I feel like we don't say that enough that like i'm practicing running because that is what we're doing. Yeah it's not. Like i think you get to the point when bernie becomes such a part of your lie. It's not just a workout. I just think part of my day. It's like eating breakfast. It's practicing something. That's very beloved to me. I love yoga. Why can't you say practice running exactly exactly break time. I just wanna tell you about our sponsor aftershocks. 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"Worry about like you know so when you talk about this i think the more you experience the more you have to offer so you talk about like your resume not talk about all the time and we've been talking about it during this chat. When you put things on your plate you learn you know you just need become more compassionate yet more empathy. You can talk about you know like i feel qualified because of the diversity in my experience is one talk about business. Great i raise money. I've lost money. I've sold companies that we can talk about that. You wants about running. Okay you want to about fruit. let's talk about. He wants about parenting. Well let's talk about parenting. I'm not banging myself on the chest. When i'm when i'm saying is the importance of experiencing so you put yourself in a position where you can you know you have a lot to share and to give into to reflect on and at fifty three at twenty one. I can do that but in fifty three. I feel very comfortable. So if you're -ality you. Allie if you don't mind me asking thirty six imagine this in the next twenty years from thirty two to fifty every other months so what is at thirty to twenty years every other month you put something on your calendar you went to normally dot. Maybe sign up for a race. Maybe jump into cold thing. Maybe you go to a museum. Maybe you like watching Whatever you just say you know what. I'm going to take a couple hours every other month on a saturday and do something. Never get and you do it six times a year not every not every month every other month in the next twenty years. You'll have one hundred twenty experiences that you never had before that you win the ad if you decided to sit on the watched the newlywed game on tv or the prices anyway. So just by being like intentional. I don't like the word but like dedicated consistent around prioritizing yourself you've created a hundred and twenty unbelievable moments memories experiences learnings that you wanted hat but if you wait till you're sixty seventy like now. The average american gains two pounds from thirty. I fifty pounds overweight. You know like tired you like. I won't do that You blew your window so those years thirty five fifty. Five are so critical to let to live. Is everybody's talking about earning you know. No shit you've gotta work hard like da but you gotta live to and those years of are the key years to do it. Oh i love this. I'm already like my head is spinning. I wanna do this as like an alley on the run show community challenge where we hold each other accountable and do new things not all the same thing but i know you have to jump off. But what's next then on your life. Resume what experiences. What haven't you done. Jesse s ler. No alley. I have a lot of stuff i wanna do Allowed the stuff that i wanna to do with my kids I'm doing a thing. Called the ultra man which is a a really fun. Three day event I have a found a loophole in the ncaa rules. And i actually eligibility to row crew. Stop going back to college Rowing crew at harvard. Or something. So i got some stuff i wanna do. Okay so you do all of these things like you know living with a living with the monks which living with amongst my husband and i actually listened to together and enjoyed it so much. We were laughing so much. How often do people say. I wanna do living with jesse's slayer do people pitch you on that a lot. I get that a lot. But i figured tough to clear that with my wife. Yeah which like instagram guy in iowa wants to come live with us for week. What do you think it's tough to pass through. But that also doesn't sound totally out of the realm of possibility just knowing you sound like you're married to sara blakely. Can we just like give it up for sara blakely. Youtube are amazing. Thank you so much for making the time to do this. I have had the best time getting to chat with. You can't wait to see what you do next. Give everyone sign everyone off with a little a little. Jessie pep talk. What do you tell anyone who's either going through a tough time right now or just wants to feel better what can you tell them You know gandhi said it best alley so asking me to do it at a rather just gandhi. He said Learn like you get learn like you'll live forever live like you'll die tomorrow so you wanna keep learning keep growing but you wanna live every day like you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. So and that's sort of how I've been before. I even heard that quote how i've been doing it. I love that so much. Thank you so much for being here. Your energy is the best. Hope to see you back in clearwater next year or you know if not audio.
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"Hi courtney love courtney. i like hang on. Every word courtney's she's amazing Yeah i know. I mean i could just go on and on and like list off eighty people but i certainly not lacking for for role models in people who really inspire me to just keep keep working in keeping positive so what role does running play in your life right now. I mean i can a good place with running. I think even like two or three years ago i still. I really held onto that frustration of not being able to achieve at the level that i want into I really held onto that for decades. And so when. I came back to running In my forties. I was really. I really wanted to run fast. Like in a very aggressive way. And you know once you're once you're near forties now in fifties. Your body doesn't really respond to that. Aggressive push the envelope type of training as well. I mean you can do. You can usually do the workout but then three days later. You're injured so that's not a good longterm ago. But i think it's taken me a while to realize that and i would still like. I would stick to very rigid training plans. Inlet just be like all right. I'm going to increase mileage x y z and then do this workout networking. Now just for the past. Two years have been much more lazy fair about As injured for most of twenty nineteen program like one hundred miles the whole year. In so all right. This is not working for me. I need to do something else. So last year i started doing a lot of walking and it sounds so silly but my running is so much better now. I do about a third of my mileage in walking. So and i counted the same. So that's my little trick for myself. As i don't care if it's running or walking miles and i've been averaging about forty five to fifty miles a week but i don't know how much of that walking probably at least fifteen miles is walking. I love that and my running is is improving. A ton. like temperature's pieces everything like my heart rate better so it's definitely doing something for me and then also if i have something that's bothering me. I'm like whatever. I'll just walk for the next day's instead of running in it. It kind of satisfies my needs to like keep track of stuff but the only downside with arc is it takes a lot longer. But that's what i need. You know good shows to listen to you. So keep doing what i can but i love the idea of counting them the same that it's not. These are my walking miles. These are running miles. It's these are my miles. Because i always say like i want to go for walks but i also wanna run and i don't have time to do both and i love the idea of just swap them out and work amend it all counts the same. Yeah i also just. Sometimes i'll be like you know. I'll go out for exercise in a walk. Sam run some in just like depending on how the terrain feels like for a while. When i was coming back from not running much in twenty nineteen at all i would just run run on the downhills because i felt better Really funny i mean i would go for walk in anytime. There's a downhill run down to like running so fun so it kind of like just kept running fun for me and i only started running up hills probably in the last five months. Because we're running out tells us hard. I would just walk it so hard. Also i feel like this is a this kind of lesko of me so i'll share with you. I have designated days. That i call walk the uphills days. Fridays and sundays. If i am running no matter where. I am no matter how big the incline could be from the road to the sidewalk. I walk it like to go for. That'll be so fun. Yeah fridays and sundays. It's like it feels like such a fun treat. And it's something to look forward to. And i love the walk break so just say and for you and for anyone listening designate. Walk up hills days on your runs. It's like the opposite of hard workout. I loved it. Yeah that's great. Yeah i mean. I definitely have running goes like i still have never done the fifth avenue mile. I think that'd be superfund. Sometimes i wonder like could i do one hundred miler like i don't know i think i could maybe do it. I said i have like some kind of crazy goes like. Maybe i'll try to do them. But nothing that. I'm holding me tightly to law and only one way to find out. Yeah all right with that. It is time for our sprint to the finish round do you have some sprint. You or it could be the walk up hills around you want however you wanna brand. This is good by me. I mean i do love sprinting. So all right fifth avenue mile. Let's do this. What would your last meal on earth. Be oh gosh. I love mediterranean food so probably like a good like baba and hamas and then you know yummy rice and chicken coop. I want lunch favorite movie. Oh gosh Well terms of endearment is kinda like mike classic. You're probably too young to even know that movie. But i know it. I haven't seen it. I will admit. But i know it. I've heard of it. It was it was a classic. I'm debra winger in just a masterclass but also has shirley maclean jack. Nicholson i mean. Incredible bested big tearjerker. If you ever need to cry like just get some songs out to get one. And then i also really really loved block clansmen. I just thought maybe was amazing favourite. Tv show he ha- i. I never had a tv growing up. So i was one of those kids who was like clueless as to cultural references but Just in the last during During the shutdown. I've gotten into streaming stuff in knitting when a huge knitting binge and i've loved A of different shows like insecure. Totally binge dot lovey. Sarah is amazing. Killing eve was really good. I don't know just streaming some stuff. Who was your childhood celebrity crush. I don't know i wasn't really in that. I think i was pretty clueless. But somebody to say something embarrassing Richard shows you how clueless i was. I was pricey. John denver up so cute. Where did you have your first kiss in. I think it was probably On a charter bus. The claw high school marching. Dan was on a charter. Best to march in the disneyland parade. Tell everyone what instrument you played by play. But obviously you can't merch with an oboe so i was on the flag teen the color guard. Oh my mom did that. And i always think that would be very cool. I would like are there adult teams that do that. I would like to do it. Let's fire that up now. It was really fun. I actually really liked it. It was kind of you know like musical. I mean you're obviously timing eighteen in music but it's also like throwing this big flag around so it's very fun now. It looks awesome. I love the movie drumline. And they do that. Yes if you could go for a run with anyone who would you choose. I mean i feel like everyone says michelle obama. Michelle obama listen to this and say oh another michelle obama obsessed with the fact that everyone chooses michelle obama but clearly someone. We need a connection here. If anyone knows her even very tangentially scan someone just help get her on the damn show. How about even better. How about michelle and kamala harris and joe biden also runner. Yes row her in there zoo. Yeah now we've got the real power squad on the run..
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"You so much for calling in for the kind words. Hi allie. this is chrissie from nasa -chusetts I'm a newer runner and I was introduced your show by my sister who has been running for a long time And the other day. I was asking her about running in the change of season so being from massachusetts and actually work in concord. New answer The change in weather happened pretty quickly. And i'm just wondering if you have any tips or advice on you know running in the heat It seems to me. That changes like my pace. And it's more difficult than having a hard time Keeping my list and I'm just wondering if you have any just surveys things so much chrissy wherein concord you work. you know that. I live like four minutes from concord right. That is the town next to my town. So can we coordinate a friendship here. We've got to make this happen. And yes so. I feel you. Everyone welcome to new england where we go from winter to one week of mud. Season to summer We went from forty degrees to a brisk ninety pretty much overnight and that's just how it is. Also my allergies are so bad right. Now that i'm i'm just a mess and i'm sure many of you are right there with me so as for running in the heat of course prefaces as i preface so many questions which is just to say. This is my opinion based on my personal experience. I am not a certified running coach certainly not a doctor so just disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer. I i think when it comes to heat. Don't push yourself He can get dangerous really quickly. And you don't want to deal with heat stroke overheating. Hydration is obviously a big part of it. So as fueling recovery is really gonna come into play here. Make sure that you're hydrating after your run. You're eating something right after your run that you're cooling down I know it sounds silly to say do a warm up But really start that run. Easy like a shuffle or a walk ease into it. Adjust your pace accordingly and just run by feel instead of trying to hit certain cases when it's really hot out. I never trying to hit certain cases these days but run by feel and run by effort. And don't look at your watch or your app or whatever you use just know that being out there is good enough and i just. I don't think there's any benefit to being a hero when it comes to the heat right like no one cares. And there's no prize for being the hottest on the run meaning like temperature-wise. I'm sure there are prizes for being the hottest on the run That would be. That's a fun. Price could nominate some people for that I'm just picturing david beckham in my head but it's fine Exac ephron should i keep going on this tangent because that could be fun. You have to take care of yourself. No one else is going to take care of you. You have to keep yourself cool adjusts accordingly. Maybe you're running earlier in the morning or later in the day if you can't adjust the time that you're running can you pick a route shaded Do you have access to a treadmill. Is there even another type of exercise for that day. And these aren't excuses. And i'm not offering. I'm not saying oh you should cop out bobble by like there's nothing weak about choosing not to run on a ninety degree. Sunny humid day in new hampshire. Those as our gross. They're not fun. So don't try to power through. Take care of yourself. Because i also know that he wipes me out and not just meaning like oh. That run was a little harder than usual. Like i'm knocked out for the day. And i have a hard time recovering from that and so Like i said earlier. Play the long game and think oh. This might be doable now. But how am. I gonna feel leader. Do i have children to take care of. Do i have worked responsibilities. Do i need to. I don't know all the things that we all need to do. Every day So just kind of weigh the pros and cons Slowdown hydrate seek shade. Take care of yourself and go to the grocery store when you're done and just stick your head in the freezer section protests firm alley on the run at your service and with that brilliant advice. I think this is a great place for us to wrap this one of thank you so much to everyone who called in for this edition of ask allie. I really do enjoy these episodes. It seems like you do too because the you know i can see the numbers and i hear the feedback and so it seems like you like them and that makes me really happy because it's a lot of me talking and i know that that's not for everyone. So thank you so much for being here. Thank you to everyone who called to everyone who listened to everyone who has taken the time to leave a rating and review on itunes or apple. Podcast you that those are important for growing the show and they mean a lot to me so if you're a regular listener and you're enjoying this content please do not leaving a rating interview for the show. Make sure that you're subscribed in the podcast. Listening app of your choice doesn't matter which one just make sure you hit that subscribe button so new episodes pop up as soon as they come out. There's a lot coming your way these days and i hope you're enjoying it and if it's not enough i'm on patriot. Patriot is a paid platform. Where you choose how much to contribute every month and in doing. So you get all kinds of extras. So i offer bonus episodes i think in may there were three bonus. Episodes solo episodes that are unedited and very unfiltered as well as episodes with my friends and my family members Khruschev came onto chalk before he raced his mile against malcolm glad well and then came back after to tell us how it went. So they're just casual Yeah unedited unfiltered unscripted and add free so check it out patriae on dot com slash ali on the run. You can learn more about that. Would love to have you as part of that community and of course you can buy me all over social media alley on the run one on instagram twitter and says it came up a couple times in this episode. We have the alley on the run. Show best running friends. Facebook group would love free to come and be a part of that. The only rule is that you need to be kind and respectful of the other people in the group. So i think that's it. Let's give a big big. Thank you to our sponsor for the ask allie series which is good or you can go to gooder dot com slash on the run and use code on the run fifteen to get fifteen percent off your next good or order. Fill up your car. Get all kinds of sunglasses and code on the run fifteen. We'll get your team percent off. Have a great day. You're doing amazing. I love you so much. 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"I have no idea Without podcasting i don't know i mean there's there was a part of me that always so when i went to college i went to quinnipiac university and within the school of communications there. You obviously there all kinds of majors within that but that was print journalism and there was broadcast. And i knew. I would do print because i had these magazine dreams but there was a part of me that always wished that i had taken some classes on the broadcast side of things. I do think that i could have been really happy doing that. I mean who knows. I don't know the that well. But i think i could have been good at it and i think i would have enjoyed it so maybe i would have pursued that route if i hadn't gone for the podcasting faceless behind the screen storytelling maybe i would have done the onscreen storytelling but i do think that i would have ended up in a position where i was telling other people's stories and had the privilege of getting to do that so hard to say for sure but that is where my brain goes when i hear that question. Hi allie. this. Is maria fajardo calling from south florida. North miami I recently started listening to your podcast. Podcast and i absolutely love it. I'm listening to at work on my rod. Just any chance i get. I really love the different kind of variety. Have with your gas. And i wanna know what's the cost of choosing them so you kind of set it out. Pick one of each category. I loved how you included ultra marathoners. I just listened to the long and triple jumper. Heo and i just really loved the variety so i just want to know your thought process on that all right so by maria. This made me so happy. I am so glad that you are enjoying the show and the lineup and the guests and they're amazing stories so my process is i very big spreadsheet and on that spreadsheet. I include everyone that. I'm interested in about who they are. If i've ever reached out how. I reached out what method i used to reach out. Did i get a response It's there's a lot in that spreadsheet. I have it backed up on like six different drives and in my email and on my in the cloud wherever that is Because i'm so afraid of sunday losing this document but really what it comes down to is. Who am i excited about right now. And who am. I curious about so that might be a professional athlete. Who just had a breakthrough race. That might be a professional athlete. Who has something exciting. Coming up. That i wanna hear about. Before the exciting thing happens it might be an everyday runner that i follow on instagram. For whatever reason and who recently shared something really profound or special. And i wanna talk more about that so it can be anyone i would say. There's no as long as a runner. There's no type of person that's off-limits i don't as you've probably seen. I don't have a lot of men on the show. Though obviously this week we have a man on the show. Charlie lawrence And fantastic and i wanted to have him because it tied back into that race with does that we already heard about and you know i love a pacer story. So beyond who am i curious about. Who do i wanna talk to. Its are they a good person. Do i know enough about their values to want to give them a platform. I don't always know i do. My research do my due diligence but I can't know everything about a person. Their beliefs i only know what they share. Usually online or stories have been told about them but I think i've pretty good judgement. When it comes to that and then big picture. I and i know that i talked about this a lot last year and i i really prioritize this to the point that it's now just second nature. Which is i want people to feel seen heard and represented here on the alley on the run show so whether that plays into making sure that we have a diverse lineup of guests and when i say diverse. I'm putting everything under that umbrella whether it is race or pace like i didn't even mean to rhyme look at that So race pace location Experience people in the lgbtq community. I want you to know that you are seen and heard and represented and welcomed here. So i really want this to be a place. Where if you run and if you are a runner or if you run a new need in Someone to remind you that you're a runner. I know we talk a lot about resisting that title. But truly if you run and if you're a runner. I want you to know that this can be a place for you and so. I hope that the lineup of guests is helping me convey that message and i know that obviously this year it's an olympic year and so there there are going to be a lot more episodes with professional athletes. Because that's what. I get excited about when the olympics and the trials are coming up and i wanna share those stories so that when we're all tuning in we know some of these athletes that makes it so much more fun to watch. That's also why. I bring in the special series from time to time so that i can showcase more stories whether it's the everyday runner series. And oh my gosh. The back on that series was amazing. Yes i definitely want to bring it back or the on the job series of similar. Those women are all runners. They're all sort of everyday runners. They are not professional athletes. And we get to hear about what they do at their jobs all day so very excited to have season five back up and running. So yeah it's it's really just my own curiosity and if there's a timeliness to the conversation that helps as well so you know. I've always been curious about showing flanagan right. There's an example and always wanted to have her on the show and then last year when she became a mom. Too sweet little jack. Who's just the cutest thing it was like. This is timely. What's up a conversation about this. And so Or you know like. I said earlier if if someone that. I'm curious about already just ran a great race or a breakthrough race. That's a perfect time to have that person on so that's sort of my My thought process i am. I'm not working on this. I have the idea in the plan to create a bunch of Google forms where people can submit pitches. 'cause i my inbox. My email inbox and my instagram. Dm box whatever that's called They are a chaotic mess. And so i do want to have a more streamlined way. That people can share their pitches whether they want to pitch themselves or someone else. And i have them all categorized by series like is this a pitch for the everyday runners on the job pitch So if someone could create those for me that would be great. Thank you so much. have a nice day. Thank.
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"Temporary but yeah. I guess physically what i love to not have crohn's disease what i love to just wake up in the morning and do whatever i want without having to factor in like an hour in the bathroom and what. I love to go out in public without first googling to see where the public restrooms are and what times they open and wonder if the lines are going to be long and is it a single stall or is it a public restroom with lots of saul's what i love to train for a race. Knowing that the things that could go wrong on race day independent of a chronic illness of course right like of course i guess i am grateful for all of the things that have happened in my life because of crohn's disease in one way or another but yes of course. I would love not to be second. Of course i would love to live even one day as like a healthy and i put that in quotes. You know like normal healthy person which i know. Those words are so subjective. Of course i would love that too carefree. Go for a run and not have to worry about bathroom stops. That sounds amazing and very relaxing. But that's not my life. And i can handle it. It's not easy. But i'm at a point now of knowing i can handle it not always fun but i can handle it and i know that you can too and i'm giving you a really big because i think that you're doing great. Hi this is adrienne from saint petersburg florida. I'm not sure if you remember me but we actually met at the clearwater marathon when you run out saying i was really awkward. Won that game isn't said. Are you allie seller because I love you. Sorry for being super super awkward was just by you so i have two questions for you number one. Why is your favorite race. That you've announced in life and number two. I heard on the measures. I asked allie podcast. That you are announcing the clearwater. Be refunding again. I'm so excited 'cause the marathon this year actually the day before my thirtieth birthday. So if you're still in town that night you wanna come to my birthday party. I promise it'll be a lot about Those are my questions for you. And you're gonna use. Thanks so much e. i okay adrian. Yes i remember you. I always love when people say hi. It's like my favorite thing also. I applaud a bold birthday party. Ask because in fifth grade. I wrote a letter to the cast of saved by the bell inviting all of them to my birthday party and not only did they not show up at the putting party. Indoor mini golf center. They didn't even respond where i mailed the letter. I have no idea. It's probably like sitting in a nightstand around the south somewhere. But i did meet. Mario lopez aka ac slater at the new york city marathon. Expo in twenty eleven. And i'm pretty sure. I went up to him and said i invited you to my birthday party in fifth grade and he was like. Please take three steps back security. I do wonder though to this day. Who would have won in a game of mini golf. Obviously i mean. Let's really think about this zach would cheat to try to win. Slater would win without having to cheat. Because he's a natural athlete. Kelly would just encourage everyone and like trier best and have fun. Jesse would be leading picket line. Because i'm sure that the indoor putting party had all was breaking all kinds of labor laws. So jesse would be very busy with that screech would be dealing with. I don't know he would just be like zacks sidekick and messing things up further. Lisa would refuse to play because she didn't wear a practical outfit. And so i guess slater like every episode slater would deserve to win. Zach would cheat to try to win and by the end it would all be wrapped up in a neat little bow until next time so that being said Yes twenty twenty two. i as of now i will be. There will be announcing. We're planning some fun alley on the run show things. I'm going to be doing a live. Show down there Carey tollackson is going to be there. We are going to have a lot of fun like we're doing a live show on the beach so I'm working on getting a discount. Code for anyone who wants to run the race It is a race festival. There is a five k. There's a half marathon a marathon. There's an ultra marathon. So if you're thinking. Wow a getaway to florida. The last week in january. That sounds really fun. Oh yeah it is. Haven't decided yet if i'm gonna make fun trip out of it or if i want to make a family trip out of it and have brian and anti com. Lots to figure out but Put it on your calendars people last weekend in january. Twenty twenty two clearwater. We're going to be celebrating. Adrian's birthday all kinds of good stuff and my favorite race. I've ever announced his. Gotta be the two thousand eighteen new york city marathon You heard a bit about that last week. Well you hear about it all the time. 'cause i never shut up about it. Such a great day And then yeah it was there in. Beck's gentry finished the first non-pro woman finisher that year She had such a great race so that was the best. And i really wanna be back there. This fall You know it's kind of out of my control at this stage the New york roadrunners of course puts on the event they have a roster of. I think like twelve to fifteen announcers so there is a big pool of us. I've only done it once. So i kind of am the new kid I wanna be back there so badly and so now. I wait and see who they choose to be at the marathon not stressful at all. No i mean. I'm not stressed about it. I just. I really really want to be there. I can't wait to get back to events like mass events It's the fiftieth anniversary of the marathon. There's just so much to celebrate. And i will always consider that my hometown marathon whether or not people want to agree with that. I don't really care so hopefully i'll be back in some capacity at the twenty twenty one new york city marathon and hopefully get to see some of you there. Well my voice gets high in squeaky. When i'm excited hole. Let's let's keep this moving. Hey this is angel anthem matter georgia. And i'm wondering what would your last the if you didn't sur- testing and running. And he i have no idea Both running and podcasting have changed my life and the trajectory of my career and my happiness so profoundly so it's hard to say Kind of like what. I was saying earlier. I'm not good at like what if situations That being said i mean realistically. I probably would have stayed dance. Spirit magazine a lot longer. I was the editor in chief there. When i left and i loved the job but i wasn't happy and i wasn't fulfilled So i think that. If i hadn't started running i would still be a bit more immersed in the dance industry may be and i think i would have probably stayed there longer. Maybe gotten into freelancing.
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If that's good or dot com slash on the run using code on the run fifteen for fifteen percent off. Have fun shopping. Let's get into the next question. Hi elliott my name is melissa. I'm twenty five years old chicago. Brad currently living in atlanta for graduate school. I have nothing evil to run for several years due to injury. And but i am still obsessed with your show and all the positive energy that you constantly i especially love knowing that you do all that while things on this especially because i have chronic myself on the last ask allie. You mentioned i not. Oh for the illness but whether he gets it has given me. And i literally yelled yes. This reminds me of what justin's often guys about everything happening even but for an opportunity you also said that you sometimes have signed so that people in this case i believe it was packages on the subway to know that you are not healthy. Young girl that you appears to be. I find that wrong is i can remember. In fact i wrote a memoir encouraging in my grave. Other begin with discussing my desire for this disclaiming Side know if you know anyone who might be interested in memoir About how trust of shakers development and identity of a young woman who is now in graduate clubs. Economy pediatrics technologist. Please let me okay so my question for you is in addition to that i. Do you ever wish for a new body. My body is not compatible with my high-achieving aspirations like what is so much easier if ivers not been hd and I was just content with watching that person. Not wanting to run marathons so often i find myself wishing that somebody could just screw off my rights or sometimes even from a head down and give me replete thin so i'm wondering alley you ever have thoughts like these. And how do you handle them. Thank you so much while. I'll start this by saying melissa. I just want to give you a really big hog I know that our situations are different as everyone's are but It sounds like we can relate in a lot of ways. And so like i say to everyone all the time Know that you're not alone and you're not alone in your feelings and your thoughts and what you've experienced so have i ever wished for a new body. I'm sure at my low points. I definitely have It's hard for me to answer that. Because it's not. I think that. I don't spend a lot of time wishing for things that aren't realistic right It's kinda like i hate like saifi and I like things that are very real intangible and possible and within the realm of possibility so That's why like i don't know i'm not into like superhero movies. Or yeah sci fi or anything like that very much a realist and a practical person which is so fun. I am such a good time. So no i don't spend energy wishing for a new body. I absolutely get frustrated with it Even now like as everyone's gearing up for their fall marathons. I would love to run a half marathon. Pr i got within ten seconds of my half marathon. Pr last year off. No specific training just a lot of luck and happiness. And there's a part of me that would love to go for that again and it's really rare that i go for a single run without having to make bathroom stops and so yet it's hard for me to dream big running dreams knowing that my body can be really prohibitive but i think i'm just used to it now. I think i've i think i've gone through the phase that it sounds like you're in now whether or it's a face for you I think i've gone through that the and the frustration and the stages of sort of lashing out at my own body in hating it and wishing for a different one now. I don't know that. I'm at peace with it because again i get sick and i do get frustrated and it is hard to do the things that i love to do or that i want to do but i think i just adopt and that's just because again not practical mindset. I know that it's not productive for me to spend time and energy wishing for something different or wishing that something will change. I think i am willing to change whatever's in my control or whatever. I'm up for trying to change. I don't always have the energy to take it all on and what i can't i just wait for that season to pass I know that the for me. The times that i'm sick are temporary. I don't know how.
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"Know. I probably sound like a parrot that just keeps repeating herself but also always think it can be beneficial to talk to a trained expert weather. It is a sports psychologist or a therapist or anyone who might have experience helping people through this. Even a running coach can be really helpful when it comes to this. They're obviously not her most of them. I would assume are not licensed psychologists or licensed therapist but They are experts in their field. Who can advise you on the next step forward and certainly i would assume that any experienced incredible running coach has worked with runners who have injuries and setbacks or perhaps they've had their own so I think that the community aspect of it's really important. I'm so glad that the alley on the run show. Facebook group was there for you and Able to support you at the onset of this and know that we're still there and here to support you So check out the book talk to people who are trained in it and give yourself a lot of grace That comparison trap is Nothing good comes from there and so try really hard not to compare yourself to the athlete. You were before the broken foot before the surgery You know you can chase down new goals now. I know a lot of women do this. After having had a baby is that suddenly they get to have these new personal bests in every sense of the word whether it's the furthest that they've run or the fastest that they've run or the fastest. They've run a specific distance but star. Fresh start chasing new goals. And now you get to have your longest post-surgery run your fastest. Post-surgery ron your happiest post-surgery. Run the time that you ran your favorite route after surgery so celebrate. Those wins in those victories. Instead of comparing them to what you've done in the past a no that's easier said than done again. They address a lot of that in this book. Rebound and just don't compare yourself to others. Don't compare yourself to pre surgery emmy and know that you are doing everything that you can take care of yourself and so that you can return to running as strong as possible. Both physically and emotionally.
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"By us. You made me laugh first. Step wine and i think so much of this boils down to confidence and knowing your self worth i mean. You're so young you're right out of college. You've got so much time to practice this. I am thirty six. And i'm still practicing this but one thing i noticed is even at the end. Like it's okay if you don't answer this just like eliminate that part eliminate that narrative and You know stand firm with your requests and you ask for something and it happens there it comes true or you get what you were hoping for amazing and if not are onto the next so that's just the thought that immediately came to mind when i heard how you ended your question which i am very excited to get to answer here and i appreciate you listening calling so that being said i'm like a horrible person to ask about this because i'm not great at saying no. I'm great at ghosting and ignoring Instead of saying no not my best quality. I know but yeah i'm a people pleaser. I wanna say wanna help people. I want to be there for them. I want them to know they're supported. And i'm running a business here. And i'm a mother and and and and and right. We all have so many ends in our lives. Were all doing so much. We need to protect ourselves. Which i don't do because like you said we are working. Hollick's i don't think that's a bad thing I'm not saying everyone should be that. I'm just saying i know who i am. And i know that. That's a phase of life. I'm in right now is wanting to work a lot and so i think that that's okay. So look it belonging i while. Yeah you know what before. We even get there if someone asks you for something and you immediately know that you want to say no. Say no and don't over explain and don't feel that you have to apologize and practice right practicing. No i know that sounds silly but seriously anything that you can practice any type of public speaking or social interaction that you can practice is going to make you more confident when you're in that situation so someone says to you. Hey can you. I mean it depends if we're talking personal professional whatever it is but if someone's like hey i'm going to be taking a sick day next friday. Can you pick up my workload for me. And you're like not only that like not really fair to me. But no i have my own stuff going on. You simply say i won't be able to do that for you and you can say i mean i don't think saying sorry in that instance isn't necessarily a bad thing. I also like again. I think we're similar in that. I want to be nice and be like so in that terrible example that i just gave. I think i would just say like. I've got a lot on my plate right now. I really can't take on additional. If there's any other way that i can support you let me know and good luck. And i hope that Everything goes well on your day off so there you just got all of it without a thing by being clear and without over explaining. I think that it's tempting to over. Explain the reason that we're saying no and you really don't have to do that So i would just try to keep your nose simple and brief and follow your gut. It sounds like you've been faced with these scenarios in you know when you want to say no you just haven't said no yet and so Practice and see how it feels the first time that you turn something down you might realize like that was so empowering or i'm so happy i don't have to do that thing i never wanted to do anyway and you'll remember that the next time so really i do think a lot of it comes down to practice and then what i started to say earlier is think about the long game. If you're kind of weighing a decision of well should i say yes to this. Maybe it's something that you don't want to do in the moment but that could pay in the long term whether it's a relationship or Meaning like a professional relationship or a request from someone that h- you might in turn want to favor back from. I think that it is worth playing the long game in that regard and looking at a situation through an objective lens of saying is there a benefit to sucking it up and saying ask for now and there might be or there might not only. You can decide that. But i think practicing is going to help. I think the first time you get that no across you'll remember how felt and you'll be able to channel that next time just like a good run. We don't always want to get out the door but we do it afterward. We're like that. Felt amazing and so the next day even if we don't necessarily feel like going for that run again. We remember how we felt the day before. So think about that. You're doing great congratulations on graduating. And you've got this. Just say no to just don't do it. Sorry nike. we're going the opposite. Just say just say no. Wasn't that like a dare slogan. I don't know i have many thoughts on the dare program mostly that i thought peer pressure was going to play much role in my adult life. I don't think that dare the dare made me really afraid of drugs like hard drugs and maybe a little curious about other ones. I'm gonna go. i'm going to go. I think your question go like with everything you're doing. Great hi allie. This is robbie davis. I'm in clive. Iowa and i was just calling. I'm curious as to what strengths training you do. Throughout the week. How many as us at instinct training and if you do a certain program i love listening to this show and love listening every morning when i run. Thanks bye okay. i know what you're thinking. Oh we're gonna get a helpful answer to this one at least going to have a strength routine to share with us. No so i love strength. Training i really do but i also have a very hard time. Motivating myself to do it. I have all the things i need. I have weights. I have peleton membership. Like i have what i need. I have bodyweight like i'm good. I know where to find the stuff. The only thing holding me back is my a own mental brain. My mental brain thriving. Today i do so. I put on my to do list for things at the top of my to do list every day. Run stretch pushups and shower. I run six days a week. I stretch usually five days a week. Monday through friday. I'll do when i get up in the morning once. I'm like up bathroom. Brush my teeth. I'll do a five minute peleton's stretching video. I used to do ten minutes. But then i got even lazier. So i do five minutes now while multitasking and like checking my email and stuff. So it's not like nice candlelit stretching push sometimes. I've not done any push ups. Today they are unchecked on my checklist right now on my to do list and shower which yes. I shower every day. Good for me. So as far as strength training goes push ups are about right now and those aren't even every day. Those are maybe three days a week. I in the winter. I was much better. I would do the boot camp. The tread boot camp classes on the peleton treadmill. And i love those. If you've ever taken like an orange theory class they're very similar in that you're on the treadmill and then you're on the floor doing strength then you're on the treadmill. You're on the floor doing strength. I just haven't been as motivated to do those since it's gotten so nice out. I love running outside. And once i finished my run the chances of me then going and doing.
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"Now that we're almost a month out from this. What parts of the race. Do you remember most vividly. When you look back all men honestly just because it was deaf start is not the word whatsoever but the one moment when we turned back after the marathon does like you. I'm back here. Like i remember that. Dude like basil one thing. Corey said not to do as don't screw up and like just keep rolling so vividly remember that and on the the most memorable part was was when we hit probably three or four hundred go and does on my we got under a minute ago and she was like i like time to close like i knew that was her time to shine and honestly just saying like her run through the finish in me. Check my watkinson. You like two fifty a few seconds. Before she crossed. I was also talked to be back there and just like like the celebration kind of started at that point. I just you know kind of cruise right in. And there's a picture of as finishing i think it was was justin Or maybe as luke webster Will luke webster. And just in britain out there. Both got awesome awesome photos and one of them has fist-bump while desert cross. That was the highlight for me was was dead. Crossing that line breaking the world record by seven plus minutes and then getting under three but throughout his you know people kind of talk about hitting that like that kind of that flow state were just dialed in locked in like you have a mission to do We have yet to job. Unicom shit so really Vividly remember like the majority of the race outages so dialed in on hitting those splits like include them off into staying on pace in kind of doing everything that i could but that was the definite highlight was was officially getting it and then i said when i was the one time i possibly messed up was when i got a little too far in front But dise does lost monthly yell bro. Back here and it worked out fine. It worked out great so it. Did you know like when it comes down to it. Like mission accomplished does does got the job done and i was just having play really just a small small role in it. So so that flow state that you describe and we hear athletes talk about that all the time. Have you felt that for yourself during your racist before. Yeah oh one hundred percent. It's usually the ones that like are going. Well you know where you're just dialed. Click it off. Clean it off like i vividly remember like that. It's yam twenty team where you're just your sole focus is getting to that line hispasat possible end like staying on your feet and taking care of the job. I noticed lake like mental airs races racists. Where like your mind starts adrift too much. And then it's either because you're not running as well or maybe you're you're falling off so you try to think of other things. But yeah def definitely was just dialed to the max just to like. I made sure i was. I was the dial possible in kind of gone that flow state was very very relaxed in in helping dez in. Yeah so does. Crosses the line your fist pumping behind her Luke webster photo. Shout out to him. Amazing photo yet. You crossed the line. Tell us about the what happened next. What was the vibe like. Was there cheering. What was does like. How did you feel paint us a picture. We weren't there. No one got to be there so paint us a picture of the finish line celebration. One hundred percent cheering as it was exciting. I was probably the best word for is i mean. I was elated. I was so stoked so excited. That's the reason why i went out. There was the to do that in help as so right. When i cross the i i gotta go go telecom brats. The death so unfortunately does was. She went over kind of through the finish and she had she had the act so she kind of went dead dinner on for a minute. I'll give her that Or right away man. Like i just saw josh. Like and just gimme a massive massive hog. Now he's like we dumb and we got it done so that was awesome right after death was was yakin you know. We hugged it out. It was it was awesome. Just an exciting very animals like fulfilling is the word but it was like just like we did it. We got the job done. You did it as That was great on the most time. Josh our were fist pump and still and Just at a very very exciting moment in you know i got asked right after you know where. Where's the stack up kind of running highlights for you. Obviously qualifying for the trials. My golden sandwiches qualified. So that was a huge step. Was qualifying for the trials. And obviously your your folks your focus shifts when you when like running becomes your fulltime job. So it's like you're expected to be at the trials into nova contending for an olympic spot. So that was a big highlight Creed at trousers highlight. But this might have been probably this thus far you know one of the one of the definite highlights a move myron career if not be highlight. Just you know helping someone. I respect the time as a runner as a friend as a mentor. You know achieve a goal so there was a super fulfilling super fun and a huge huge highlight. It's so cool to hear. You say that especially as such an accomplished runner yourself. Because i've done a bunch of these pacer interview is right. I had callum neff on after he pays sarah hall at the marathon project. I've had the pacers who pays all those women in the to forty five group to their goals in two thousand nineteen. So i love the pacer conversation and i will tell you that every single one of them answers that question. The same way that you just did that. Like i've done all these amazing things. I have this long list of accomplishments but it was helping someone else achieve their goal that tops the list. And i think that that's so interesting and so cool because it's always from really accomplished runners like yourself and that's a really special thing about running so i just love that answer. Yeah no that was cool to about our sport in a way. It is incredibly selfish. You know with with your own individual goals when you can go beyond that and you know run for y'all venus now tobacco like running in college cross country. You're putting on your for me with my home. State minnesota down your home jersey your flagship school on competing for for the state for your team. Ads for coaches and everything in this was not similar to that. But in that same mentality where you're competing for so much more than than yourself and you're doing it for the to help someone else to you. Know better someone else in help them achieve their goals. You know whether it's your culture. Your teammates ever teammates or someone like that where it's certainly very awesome fulfilling moment that is sometimes sorta rare wall sport. That's i said kind of selfish sometimes. Yeah i mean it's extra cool when that person that you get to pace to a goal is desolate and not a bad day. Backs got so very important question. Did you do ah shui with dozen ryan had to ap okay.
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"Folks on shorter stuff. I was pretty hyped. Running houston in january. Twenty twenty one. But josh is so immersed in the running road heat you know. Even from early in the fall of timber october-november truly. It's probably to get canceled just from from overseen And i was like no. I hope i hope it. Won't you know hopefully stays on a did fall. But by that time he was like well. I'm putting on the marathon project with quality from an easy you know. I can't guarantee that you'll you'll be in the field but it'd be a great opportunity to run fast and four. I one ought at a pace side. Well under pr pace. And i lost my legs in about eighteen and unfortunately didn't run. His bill gazza would've liked But it wasn't a data necessary goal conservatives day to kind of go for big jobs take a swing so with that kind of back of my mind running. Wasn't it was going great. Superfit didn't happen on a day late in two thousand twenty so coming in twenty twenty one it was. I wanna with not necessarily anything huge on the schedule on what you know what i think. Really my wheelhouse is the marathon and up. So i'd love to take a swing at at Champion ultimately the biggest goal is to represent the united states on web to make olympic team in marathon But in interim be great to try to get on a world team in the fifty k. Or the marathon for some of that nature so no problem my best opportunity. Line this year so Disguised kind of a perfect storm. Regina the fifty k coming up in in a-. Yeah so so you get this role like you said to pace dez in this very big very awesome. An ambitious goal dez has said before. I'm not a big fan of pacers. She has been called the human metronome. Have you been called a human metronome. Is that align on your resume not yet but it was funny right read before the night before a couple of days before joshua kelley. he's got a stamp based. click off. gotta make sure you finish your mind. Me probably twenty times over the weekend. You gotta make sure you you're you get through the line finish What am i yet. You got it and it's going to be metronome just roll you'll click off. Whatever does an whatever needs to be too. So that's what i did. We tried our best there. The course was awesome. You know In dobson did a phenomenal job. Setting it up Along with with josh. And the course was perfect Mopping a little on the way out. You know six. And a half miles little downhill on the way back. And it was a breezy in some portions but so that made the pace shift a little bit slower on one side versus other But i think overall we we definitely stuck to that that metronome lake approach were just clicking off is even as we could and trying to stay on world record pace and and sub three hour pace. So did you do anything once. You knew that you were officially going to be taking on this role. Did you do anything different in the training that you were already doing with your own goals or were you just business as usual because you know what you're to sixteen guy you can go out and rip five. Forty sevens for three hours. What changed for you. Did anything change for you. I was forcing. That was honestly just business. As usual it was great You know we my llaneras up until now had only gotten up to two hours and change not much over two hours so just a couple of weeks before My cohen corey lesley as two weeks out or fifteen days out Like let's get two and a half hour time on fite. Ron you feel good on the back half cut it down so feel good. Just get that feel was able to go ver relaxed first avenue of going twenty five and a quarter average five fifty seven. I out sued over rolling hills on just to kind of check. The legs get tom the new. Obviously we wouldn't be running to thirty for the fifty k. But just to be able to have a little more time on feet. So that's that we've kinda built in more now as we were building towards the champs for myself so but really answer question. It was really business as usual. You know generally shift a ton Thing going in we did. We have some pretty big track sessions on on. Fridays on the friday before gorgeous had just do six eight hundred cutting down. Usually it'd be you know. Probably ten or twelve eight hundred with more factor but it was just sixty one hundreds with kind of afloat. Four hundred in the middle and like anything else afterwards like nope. You gotta make sure your fresh on on tuesday because you can't screw this up says so but really it was just as usual. Did you as run together at all before race day. We did so right when we got there. We ran the two days before prior so the two years before we ran the course opposite kind of an easy hour so And then the day before we actually preach trail Which is awesome. Is my first time actually in oregon in eugene seeing pre trail so that was pretty cool on buna with with an ryan was really fond men. I kind of mentioned earlier. I've definitely gotten to know. No desolate through ryan events so It was it was a great weekend is hanging out in the their be that we had with with ryan and dez josh and billion was out there as well had a prefund crew so okay so candesartan run on pretrial or is it like people stopping her every two seconds. That's dez linden. Like did she have to. I feel like she would need to wear a disguise in running town like that to not get stopped or i mean everyone. There is a little bit more used to it. Maybe but what was that like. Which was she getting shots. Along the way so we didn't known were luckily only out there for about six miles a day before so known necessarily we probably iran by. I'd say a handful of people. Lots of walkers takes on a little later in the day. So i'm not sure if we we missed the early crowd but then we actually got. I guess this is the day before we ran. the course. we got brunch in eugene and you know as a pretty low key race nothing was really announced on when exactly it was. It was going to go off for the location. But they're waiting for a table at brunton. Someone we all have masks on colbert and someone just by a good look on tuesday dez or so all right. Well i guess someone knows people so she got that a few times You know subtle good locks on. It is just quick stuff like that. We actually is a very in the running world especially in eugene. You definitely know when when does so. Yeah seriously so tell us about the conversations between you. And as she told us that the only thing that she communicated to you specifically before the race was don't annoy me. What would you say did you and her. Did you talk splits. Does you talk. Strategy did most of that come from josh did. Is that true. That the only advice you're given was not to annoy her and does that come with any guidelines. Did she say this is how you might annoy me and what not to do. Was that.
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"Lawrence. I am so excited to have you here. We have a lot to talk about. You were kind of dez linden's right hand man behind her man in front of her at times man. We're going to talk about all of it. But thank you so much for being here and welcome to the alley on the run show. You bet stuff to be here all right so we start our episodes here on the alley on the run show with a warm up. This is where. I would like you to tell everyone who you are where you live and what you do. Try lawrence live in boulder colorado and marriner and now a freshly minted pacer. So i put that on my resume. Yeah you were dez. London's official fifty k. Pacer when she went for that world record. U2 together ran five forty seven pace per mile to fifty nine fifty four as we know does was just here on the show. We got the full rundown from her. Now we get to get your side of the story. Was this your first time as an official pacer. This is my first official time in college. You know you kinda get roped into your buddies doing a you know a mile so pull them through eight hundred for not necessarily racing of meat on indoors or possibly in an outdoor fifteen or maybe even five but i will fischel official pace job especially at the pro ranks so and it went pretty well. You think you'll do it again. Absolutely do it if the right opportunity comes up so this was just a perfect storm for me. Allie on your chance to help desert and you learn from desert swells awesome. So i definitely hope to do it again. Yes so let's hear about how you got this job. Tell us about the call from josh cox. The chat with dez. How did it come up. And when was this. I put on your radar so it actually started. I don't know the exact date. It was early. Twenty twenty one alley and january early february. And i was i forgot what attacks desert but ended Out to her we kind of got into talking about. What's on our calendar for twenty twenty one with you know with covert. You're not really sure what people are doing and does kind of go as well off the record right now. I think. I wanna go for the world record in the fifty k. And it just so happened that that that current time i instill in one run the fifty gay championships. There were initially scheduled for early march. They got nominated. June and as i mentioned that she's looking to to do this probably before then and i just said kind of the last sexual. Is you know. I would love to help in any way if possible. So that was kinda put on the radar in early. Twenty twenty one and then actually raced down in phoenix scottsdale. Actually mid march and dez. I wasn't looking at places to stay down there does. Hey well if you don't mind crashing on the couch the grass at airbnb. I'm staying at just for you. Know a couple of days so actually crashed down there with her and ryan We kind of talked about it a little more. And we knew that it was going to be on the calendar mid april and then shortly after that like the next week josh reached out and was like. Hey you know we've talked about this and if you can make it work we'd we'd love to have you pace in. How does out so it really. It was kind of a perfect storm where you know. I'm running the fifty a chance on june. We were nine weeks out at the time. Now or within six weeks chances. A perfect opportunity to to one help dez go. After gulliver's of hers break the world record break three and then to be able to for myself. You know selfishly. Learn from dez Pick her brain about the distance. The marathon distance And then absolutely josh being the american fifty k. Pick his brain about you. Know everything in this really be immersed in all that it was. It was awesome state extremely fun time. I guess that's how. I got roped into dancer question so when you i said to her yeah i'll i'll do anything i can to help. Let me know in that very first conversation. Were you offering to pace essentially or were you saying like. Hey if you need someone to like. Manna water stop. I got you in any capacity. If i can help i would have done it so you know i. I woke up dez a tawny as a as a friend as a mentor. And you know it's dead so ruin any way that i could help. If if they needed me at a water station i would have done it but ultimately it was. You know i would love to help. Pace you on in you know does kind of knew that going in so was just kind of timing in an awesome conversation that we had in early twenty twenty one so other than being her pacer crashing on their airbnb couch. Occasionally tell us about your relationship with dez. Take us back in time. When did the two of you first meet. How did you become friends. Tell us the whole story. Yes right after my marathon debut is calendar national twenty eighteen I had the opportunity to join hansons brooks and so i took it. You know is a conference chance to really live jim. Professional running dream and devils in hanson brooks at time. But as you know if she was with them for a long portion of of her career and is probably a couple of months in a got to honesty. No through instagram and twitter. Out kinda sad you know. Welcome to the brooks family. Welcome to the team. You know if there's anything. I can never be nominating questions. Let me know just didn't really know her. You know just newer through kind of social media. I've seen it's dez and from there just kind of get no other through instagram. Couple beers here and there It was great so and it's funny. Actually i talked to ryan her husband almost weekly probably multiple times a week. Rather it's beer. Coffee food units all. I've actually gotten a girl. I've had grown really close to ryan really since two thousand eighteen in times where you'll him and i would meet up at rochester hills brewing company rochester michigan rows with hansen's or you don't several coffee shops or sandwich shops just to to get food. So we're myself ryan dez. Were huge foodies. Love olive craft beer. You know kind of the same thing as as ryan dez in coffee so it's just kind of a good mix in were endurance athlete. So you can't go wrong with with good food and coffee and a cold one every once in a while wall and let's talk a bit more about that racer. Marathon debut in two thousand eighteen. You ran a to sixteen thirteen qualified for the olympic marathon trials with room to spare on your first marathon but bring us from there then too early twenty twenty one like you said you have these fifty k championships in mind. How was running going for you at the start of this year. It was not bad not good. It's probably the best. Were put it. It was just trying to find races. That would stay on the schedule. I guess so one. That was great. When you know right. After i left hanson's who's been about a year now since i moved. Colorado from michigan does actually connected me with with josh. And it's been been grade. He's been kind of an adviser me on my can bounce off josh. And so as early this fall. He mentioned that he was gonna put together a marathon with the marathon project. And i didn't wanna race another another marathon in two thousand twenty especially after the trial's on i'm kinda wanna.
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