38 Burst results for "ARI"

Epicenter

05:25 min | 2 d ago

A highlight from Elias Simos: Rated Network - Reputation for Machines = Transparent Blockchain Infrastructure

"Welcome to Epicenter, the show which talks about the technologies, projects, and people driving decentralization and the blockchain revolution. I'm Felix Lötsch, and today I'm speaking with Ilya Simos, who is the co -founder of Rated Network. Rated is providing node operator metrics and ratings for the Ethereum network. Hi Ilyas, and welcome to Epicenter. Thank you Felix, thanks for having me. Huge fan of the show since I joined the industry, so very, very glad to be with you today. Awesome, yeah, I'm also really excited to have you. We have a long history of working together in the staking space, and it's been really interesting to follow your path, and now seeing you build your own project with Rated, which is what we're here to talk about today. But yeah, let's start with the classic basics of, you know, how did you get into crypto and ended up where you are today? Cool. So first touch with crypto started in 2013, I used to live with a really good friend of mine, he found out about Bitcoin and he started talking about it non -stop, started building stuff, talked about it even more. Initially I thought he was kind of nuts and didn't really get it, but then the more we talked about it, the more I got it, but didn't really pay attention too much. When it really clicked for me was in 2015, I'm Greek originally, and so in 2015 was the worst part of the decade -long crisis effectively that Greece was in, and in 2015 we had capital controls come in, huge referendum, should we stay in the European Union, should we break away, that means also like leaving the monetary union, issuing our own currency, and so capital controls was this really gut -wrenching period, if you will, for Greek society at large, it like crippled the economy, all the young people left, but like there are really visceral images that I still have in my mind of very long lines of pensioners around each ATM that you see on the street driving around, talking about 50 people, 100 people, blocks like whole blocks worth of lines, waiting to get their weekly ration of money, and so at that point like I had the sort of the light bulb moment regarding Bitcoin, I was like okay I get it now, non -state money, you're not beholden to this idea of institutions and the way institutions work in the modern financial system, and I really found that appealing, so then started you know researching more, but again not being like very involved, it all sort of came together in 2017 with Ethereum for me, and this whole idea of you know applications that you're able to build on a platform that has like the properties of Bitcoin, but then can extend this logic sort of arbitrarily right, like the vision of the world computer and so on, so spent the whole year just researching stuff, trading, trying to build things with friends, but by the end of it I look back and I was like well you're having like so much fun, and you resonate with like the whole mission of self -sovereignty, and just building something better than kind of the alternatives which is kind of what is the status quo, and I decided to commit myself full -time to the space, so I got a job with a fund called the Central Park Capital, they were just starting out back then, I was the first hire that they made as an analyst, I stayed with them for three years, made a bunch of investments, built a pretty expansive data platform while at the fund when you know Dune didn't exist, token analyst was like one of the earlier data companies that were looking at blockchain analytics specifically, and helped them raise a 75 million dollar fund too, and then I left, and I joined the startup called Bison Trails, which at the time that I joined was, I think it was employee number 20 or so, I was a protocol specialist there, I think it was the second ever person to be called a protocol specialist in the industry, although I know you have been doing like very similar work in your history in the space, so the first was Victor, was my colleague who hired me in basically, and at Bison Trails, as it was validators as a service, that's what we were building, we ended up building a pretty large platform I think at the top of the market, it was north of 30 billion dollars on platform, a year later we were acquired by Coinbase, and then I stayed there for another year before I branched out on my own to Foundrated with my co -founder Aris, but super happy to talk to you about the of internals the story there, but I want to let you ask whatever questions.

News, Traffic and Weather

00:10 min | 31 min ago

Fresh update on "ari" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather

"International 848 here at northwest news radio it it was another disaster for republicans i'm jeff pogelow with the of optics the second republican presidential debate weren't much better than those of the first candidates talking over each other the hosts from fox business news losing control even conservatives like ari hoffman lost i made it 45 minutes and i turned the thing off but there were a few shall we say awkward moments like like this exchange between nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy honestly every time i hear you i feel a little bit dumber for what you say because this attack on the front runner from chris christie you're not here tonight because raid of being on the stage and defending your record you're ducking these things and let me tell you what's going to happen you keep doing that no one up here is going to call you donald trump anymore we're going to call you donald duck that went over about as well as you would expect but by far the most cringe -worthy moment of the night was mike pence trying to be relatable my wife uh isn't a member of the teachers union but i got to admit i've been sleeping with a teacher for 38 years and a full disclosure all of this is to say that according to hoffman no one on that stage wednesday night came out a better candidate the person who won the debate was donald trump donald trump won by not showing up because he seemed like he was above all this and i say this as a guy who likes ron disantus and would like to see him get the nomination maybe for the rest of the field the third time will be charm the i'm jeff pojola and this has been another northwest news radio extra jeff pojola is a good contact to here have northwest news radio listen for his politicast airing this afternoon also tomorrow afternoon and you can find it on our website nwnewsradio .com he just really goes through the weeks stories of the politics scene and all that's going on so you can catch up and know what you need to know here in what is a busy arena as you can tell their politicast listen for this afternoon northwest news radio 850 now here as we have a weekend edition of your stockshars .com money and business update kelly blair looking at numbers the united autoworkers union expanded its continuing strike to two more car assembly plants on friday at a ford plant in chicago and a gm factory in lansing michigan walked off the job ford's chicago plan employs 4600 uaw members

The Breakdown

12:49 min | Last week

A highlight from Is the SEC About to Go Scorched Earth?

"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, September 20th, and today we're asking whether the SEC is about to go scorched earth. Before we do that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, lots to get through today, so let's dive right in. The SEC is not done going after crypto exchanges, according to David Hirsch, the head of the agency's crypto assets and cyber unit. Speaking at the Securities Enforcement Forum Central in Chicago on Tuesday, Hirsch said securities law violations within the industry extend far beyond existing litigation. Now, keep in mind, the crypto division of the SEC is currently bogged down with complex lawsuits against both Coinbase and Binance, two of the largest crypto exchanges. Hirsch said his unit is investigating similar activity across other firms and believes non -compliant business practices, quote, hold true well beyond any two entities. Hirsch warned, Now, the SEC is apparently also turning its gaze towards DeFi platforms in this crusade against crypto intermediaries. Hirsch said, quote, Now, a common theme of recent comments from SEC chair Gary Gensler is to mock, quote, so -called decentralized finance. This perhaps indicates that the SEC believes underlying most DeFi protocols, they will be able to find a company to sue. All that said, despite outlining an ambitious enforcement agenda, Hirsch did concede that the agency's resources are constrained. Over recent decades, the SEC has largely dealt with regulated financial institutions, with The SEC's campaign against crypto firms has largely presented existential threats rather than manageable fines, leading to a significant number of contested lawsuits. Hirsch admitted during the panel that, quote, Reflecting on that point, Hirsch recognized the scale of the task he was proposing, stating that, And similarly, there are a number of centralized platforms out there, some that are acting as unregistered exchanges. So in some ways here, Hirsch is begrudgingly admitting that the SEC is getting close to capacity, at least when it comes to ongoing litigation. They're dealing with Coinbase, Binance and Ripple, all as major cases, LBRY Library seems to be wanting to go to appeal, then there's Grayscale, which continues to be a legal battle, as well as the two recent NFT cases which settled. So the question is, can the SEC handle five lawsuits at once? Can they handle 10? Even if you think the answer is yes, at what point do you think the answer becomes no? Frankly, this is maybe why people like Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong are encouraging the industry to take up arms effectively and actually fight these legal battles out in court. Now, of course, this brings up the other question of whether the SEC can bank on funding for additional resources to expand this endeavor or whether they need to have some alternative approach. This, of course, echoes the talking point from both the GOP as well as from Dems like The SEC's regulation by enforcement approach is reaching the end of its limits to the extent that it ever was successful at all, and that a much smarter pathway at this point might actually be rulemaking and guidance rather than just trying to sue the industry off the face of the planet. Look, crypto companies are fighting back. It's only a matter of time before we see some sort of coordinated defense fund, and it wouldn't be surprising to me if even this beleaguered industry can marshal a heck of a lot more resources than the SEC can on its own. Now, the other side of the coin is how much time the SEC actually has left to bring the industry to heel. Fox Business reporter Eleanor Teret tweeted yesterday, Only 13 days left for the SEC to bring enforcement actions that will count towards fiscal year 2023 enforcement numbers. The agency filed 760 total enforcement actions in FY 2022. I wonder if we'll see a surge of cases in the next two weeks? Now, certainly when it comes to the crypto industry, there is a broad sense of bring it on. Crypto trader Laxman writes, SEC warns of upcoming charges against crypto and DeFi exchanges. Few might think this will kill crypto. I feel like this will kill SEC. Crypto McKenna retweeted the headline, SEC warns more charges against crypto and DeFi exchanges are coming, and added the Latin phrase, if you want peace, prepare for war. Simplest of all, the Gordon Law Group just said, bring it on, Gary. Now, moving to the global sphere, a German regulator has stressed the risks of crypto and called for global regulations to apply consistently without exception. On Monday, Rupert Schaefer, executive director of strategy, policy and control at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Baffin, published a blog post on the importance of united global regulation on crypto. He warned of the dangers of unregulated crypto firms using a fairly labored analogy to airspace regulation. Schaefer likened the crypto regulation to air traffic control regulations, which are relatively uniform throughout the world. In this analogy, some crypto assets and DeFi projects were UFOs. He stated then that it would be negligent to simply ignore them. Schaefer warned that FTX was a major crash and there would be many more like it to come. Now, the regulator praised the recently passed MICA regulations in Europe, but argued that further steps need to be taken. He produced a long list of global proposals from the Financial Stability Board, the International Association of Securities Commissions, the Financial Action Task Force and the Basel Committee, and this he claimed was enough to establish a global consensus, stating that quote, the international regulatory principles have been adopted and the framework has been set. Now, the common principles must be implemented consistently and consistently worldwide. There should be no white spots in the flight radar. The global rules should also apply to niche financial centers. Now, this blog post comes a little over a week since the conclusion of the G20 summit, which was pitched as an opportunity to discuss global synchronization of crypto policy. G20 leaders did manage to produce an endorsement of the latest set of policy recommendations published by the Financial Stability Board. And in her article previewing the meeting, Noelle Acheson highlighted that the adoption of FSB recommendations was quote, very likely since the recommendations don't actually say anything interesting. Noelle noted that the FSB recommendations are more around notational international cooperation and vague platitudes about enforcing risk management rather than firm policy outlines. At the same time, none of the recommendations mentioned by Schaeffer actually achieved consensus approval at the G20, calling into question how the regulator can claim that there are any common principles whatsoever. Moving over to the UK. The UK House of Lords have passed a bill which would grant authorities the power to freeze and seize crypto assets associated with crime. Currently, UK authorities cannot apply for crypto assets to be frozen unless there has been an arrest or conviction. This bill would allow them to more quickly apply for freeze orders. Hundreds of millions worth of crypto linked to crime have been seized by local authorities, but experts say this new bill could help deal with situations that aren't easily dealt with under the current legal framework. Phil Aris, Director of UK Public Sector Relations at TRM Labs said, A government fact sheet suggested even more broad use, stating that quote, The creation of a crypto asset's specific civil forfeiture power will mitigate the risk posed by those that cannot be prosecuted, but use their funds to further criminality or for terrorist purposes. Isabella Chase, Senior Policy Advisor at blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs suggested that the measure could assist with police funding, stating that quote, Corker Bining was less enthusiastic about the fundraising prospects, noting that as the UK cracks down, quite, they might find that the pool of available targets quickly dwindles as suspected criminals move their assets offshore to less enthusiastically policed jurisdictions. The bill has already been passed in the House of Commons once, so will now return for a second vote before it can be given royal assent to become law. Now, I don't know what sort of free society we're dealing with here. With the big caveat that I am not a lawyer, the discourse around this is pretty wild to me. It seems like they're talking effectively about on -chain asset forfeiture without the requirement to charge anyone with a crime. This is the digital equivalent of police being able to take what they find in your trunk if they search your car and not have to give it back to you. That's an insane policy and so is this. And I hope not just for the sake of the crypto industry, but for the sake of the UK itself, some real, real limits are put around this. Staying in the UK, however, for just a moment, on Tuesday, UK lawmakers passed the controversial online safety bill. The bill requires companies to assess the likelihood of customers encountering illegal content and of children encountering harmful content. Proponents of the bill say it will be used to protect younger internet users and make the web a safer place. The government has claimed the bill would make the UK, quote, the safest place in the world to be online. Critics, however, have warned that depending on how the bill is enforced, it could require companies to do away with encrypted messaging and essentially any notion of online privacy. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram have all threatened to exit the UK if the bill was passed. Earlier this month, regulators attempted to appease encrypted messaging apps by promising to only implement text scanning if it was technically feasible, but WhatsApp head Will Cathcart appeared unconvinced, tweeting last week that, quote, the fact remains that scanning everyone's messages would destroy privacy as we know it. That was as true last year as it is today. WhatsApp will never break our encryption and remains vigilant against threats to do so. Signal President Meredith Whitaker was a little bit more hopeful that the implementation would be thoughtful. She said, quote, while it's not everything we wanted, we are more optimistic than we were when we began engaging with the UK government. It matters that the government came out publicly clearly acknowledging that there is no technology that can safely and privately scan everyone's communications. At this point, it is imperative that we press regulators to incorporate the government's safely and privately scan end to end encryption communications and push them to clearly and publicly commit to not using the unchecked and unprecedented power vested in them to undermine private communications infrastructure. Whitaker confirmed that Signal would remain available in the UK for the time being. But for content and messaging platforms, the enforcement of the bill is a high stakes issue, with the maximum penalty being up to 10 percent of global revenue. Lastly, today, an update from a story earlier in the week. We have recently talked about JPX, a crypto exchange that has come under fire from Hong Kong authorities. At the time, withdrawals were effectively halted and one influencer had been arrested for promoting the platform. Reporting on Monday morning stated that authorities had received 83 complaints related to assets worth $4 .3 million. Since then, the case has dramatically escalated. Authorities have now received over 1 ,600 complaints involving over $150 million worth of assets. Eight people have now been arrested with the expectation that more arrests are coming. Police have now stated that the arrests are in relation to conspiracy to commit fraud rather than merely promotion of an unlicensed exchange. Twenty locations have been raided across Hong Kong with police seizing cash, jewelry, computers and phones worth around $1 million. Police have frozen around $2 million held in bank accounts owned by arrested suspects, alongside about $5 .5 million in property. Authorities are currently considering the confiscation of around $8 million in criminal proceeds. On Monday, JPX blamed the Securities and Futures Commission and their counterparties within the industry for causing an illiquidity crisis. They said in a statement, When other cryptocurrency exchanges announced their entry into the Hong Kong market and began extensive promotion, JPX was subjected to continuous unfair treatment. The SFC sent letters to all of our partners requesting the cessation of cooperation with the platform. On Tuesday, however, Elizabeth Wong, director of licensing at the SFC, confirmed that the regulator had asked counterparties to step away from the unlicensed exchange. The regulator had been monitoring the platform for months and issued numerous warnings to users. She said that since those warnings were issued, JPX went from bad to worse. The events surrounding JPX could be seen either as a sign that Hong Kong authorities are serious about enforcement of new crypto regulations or an indication that the city still has a long way to go in cleaning up the industry. As we discussed before, given Hong Kong's role as a bellwether for Chinese authorities' attitudes towards crypto, this is a story that we will continue to watch. However, for now, that is going to do it for today's breakdown. I appreciate you listening, as always. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.

News, Traffic and Weather

00:00 min | 1 hr ago

Fresh update on "ari" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather

"Moments ago she did not hold back she better let him have it I don't see any end in sight at this moment we'll deal with it New York State will have to make adjustments try to help our people as best we can but my final message is it does not have to be this way the government shut down would go into effect a minute after midnight tonight East Coast time of course that would be a minute after 9 p .m. here Seattle time should we talk about gas prices not here but in California did you hear eight dollars a gallon for regular unleaded that's a staggering price all over that state prices up 80 cents across California in just the last month and here's why gas prices are tied to the global oil market where it's all about supply demand and oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia have been cutting back on supply driving up oil prices so what's being done governor Gavin Newsom approving a short -term fix transitioning the state to using a cheaper winter blend of fuel while Republicans want to suspend the state's gas tax we ate our time here you're listening to Northwest News Radio it was another disaster for Republicans I'm Jeff Pojola with another Northwest News Radio extra the optics of the second Republican presidential debate weren't much better than those of the first candidates talking over each other the hosts from Fox Business News losing control even conservatives like Ari Hoffman lost interest I made it 45 minutes 45 minutes I turned the thing off but there were a shall few we say awkward moments like this exchange between Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy honestly every I time hear you I feel a little bit dumber for what you say because this attack on the front -runner from Chris Christie you're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on the stage and defending your record you're ducking these things and let me tell you what's gonna happen you keep doing that no one up here is gonna call you Donald Trump anymore we're gonna call you Donald duck that went over about as well as you would expect but by far the most cringe -worthy the moment of the night was Mike Pence trying to be relatable my wife isn't a member of teachers the union but I got to admit I've I've been sleeping with a teacher for 38 years and a full all disclosure of this is to say that according to Hoffman no one on that stage night Wednesday came out a better candidate the person who won the debate was Donald Trump Donald Trump won by not showing up because he seemed like he was above all this and I say this as a guy who likes Ron DeSantis and would like to see him get the nomination maybe for the rest of the field the third time will be the charm I'm Jeff Potala and this has been another northwest news radio extra and anytime you need to catch up on the political world here Jeff Potala with Politicast airs afternoons Saturday and Sunday also available as one of our podcasts at our website at nwnewsradio .com 7 .50 here at Northwest News Radio Saturday morning it is and we have a weekend edition of our charge .com money in business update here's Kelly Blair the United Auto Workers Union expanded its continuing strike to two car more assembly plants on Friday workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a GM factory in Lansing Michigan walked off the job Ford's Chicago plant employs 4 ,600 UAW members and GM's Lansing plant is 2 ,300 union workers the union did not extend its strike against Atlantis this week because they say negotiations are going better with them the strike started on September 15th with three plants and not week a great on Wall Street more losses on Friday the S &P slipped 11 points 2 .3 % the Dow Jones Industrial average fell 158 points or 0 .5

Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts

14:13 min | 2 weeks ago

A highlight from Episode 10 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast

"Ignatius Press and the Augustine Institute present the Formed Book Club. Catholic book lovers unpacking good books, chapter by chapter. If you like us, please help us by subscribing, and by reviewing us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you might listen. And don't forget to sign up for weekly updates and study questions at formedbookclub .ignatius .com. Welcome again to the Formed Book Club. We continue to discuss Ari de Dubac's extraordinary book here, The Drama of Atheist Humanism. We've done enough now that we can maybe situate where we are as we go forward. You know, the first part, called Atheist Humanism, focused on Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche, with a side note on Kierkegaard, but now part two is Auguste Comte and Christianity. And covered we the first chapter here, the meeting of Comte and Atheism. We're on the second chapter, Christianity and Catholicism. There's four sections, we took antisocial Christianity, where he claims that Christianity is antisocial, because it's basically the soul and God and eternity. Part two is section two is Jesus and St. Paul, where he says St. Paul corrected Jesus and set things straight. Now we're on two interesting parts here, the work of the Catholic priesthood and the Holy Alliance. So we begin again on page 192, section three of chapter two, chapter one of part two. The work of the Catholic priesthood. Joseph, take it away. Well, again, right at the beginning of the first paragraph of this section, towards the top of page 193, it's his weird understanding of history. He seems to believe that Catholicism, strictly speaking, did not come into being until the 11th century, and which by the 13th had already passed into the phase of decadence. So basically the Catholicism didn't even come into being until a thousand years after Christ and only lasted for a couple of hundred years before it basically decayed. So if you're going to begin your understanding of the church with such a warped understanding of history, it's no surprise that all sorts of odd conclusions are going to be the consequence. And the reason why he dates it that way has something to do with what Father said in his introduction. He thought Christianity, in its essence, was something that just had to do with the individual and God. And so if what he wants to worship is the collective, well, that reaches its apex, if you will, in terms of social organization in Christendom, right? So what he thinks is the essence of Christianity are these exterior forms holding together a cohesive society. And that just comes and goes, right? It came and it went, in his view. But if you're looking at worshipping the collective, it makes sense that that's why you would look at it that way. He's mistaking the tree for the fruit, isn't he? I mean, this good thing was a consequence of a thousand years of of inheritance, and it took that long for it to actually mature into the fullness of what you might call the High Middle Ages. But it's obviously a fruit of the thing, which is Catholicism. The thing didn't come into being as some sort of spontaneous combustion, evidently. Yes. I mean, the first quote in that paragraph at the beginning on page 192, where Cope says, since the year 1825, our writings have shown an increasing respect for Catholicism, as he understands it, the immediate and necessary precursor of the religion that has, above all, to consolidate and develop the structure that first took shape in the 12th century. And again, you have this theory of Catholic history that it was just a kind of amorphous movement of Jesus, you know, love and be kind and compassionate. And then after it became a state religion or approved by the state under Constantine in the fourth century, it became hardened in its structure. Oh, but then we have what secular theologians call the Dark Ages. And after the fall of the Roman Empire, there was a lot of confusion, but the church was still present in her God -given form during that period. But he sees, as you said, Vivian, at the end of the Dark Ages, he'll call your Middle Ages, 12th or 15th century, here's where there's a consolidation, and you see the social character of the church in Christendom. By the way, you know, de Lubac writes this during the 40s, his first major work was in the 30s called Catholicism, the social aspects of dogma, in which he made very clear that from the beginning, the Catholic faith has had an intrinsic social connection, which makes sense as a church, after all, we're not an aggregate of individuals who have no relation to each other, except for the fact that we happen to hold the same attitude towards Jesus. Sorry, I'm wandering on there. As Chesterton said in, I think, The Everlasting Man, it could have been orthodoxy, that the church was the only thing that was the bridge that connected the civilization of Rome with the civilization of the High Middle Ages. The church was the connector between the two, the bridge, so it's not as if it just arises out of, as if by magic. And that's what he, he's an everlasting man, where he calls Christ the Pontifex Maximus, the greatest builder of bridges. This Pontifex, pontiff, we have in English, means pawns, bridge, fatre, to make, to build. So it's basically the bridge builder. But he reduces the papacy to being the centralized authority of the church. And, and so he actually wants to replace the pope with himself. But he's actually going to require such total obedience and control, unlike anything the church ever did or ever desired to do. But yes, he talks about on the top of 196, it was by this means, meaning the papacy, that the bonds of society were strengthened. He sees that you can't have the strong bonds of society that he aspires to, you know, a humankind in love with itself without a total authority at the top. Yes, and as we're progressing into the heart of Auguste Pont, you know, Burubak has all these citations that really back up what he's saying about him. I just wonder, he's a brilliant madman. And it kind of like Nietzsche was a brilliant madman, you know. And as we said before, hardly anyone knows that name now. Whereas Nietzsche, Marx, even Feuerbach, those are somewhat household words among the intelligentsia. And we have to ask ourselves a question, we could finish them off. Was he really influential or was it just that he had the thoughts he had ended up being part of the signs of the times and because he, I mean, his life and his writings and his philosophy kind of foreshadow the whole great reset, globalization. Yeah, and some of it sounds very Orwellian in the sense of it also seems to prefigure totalitarianism of the 20th century, you know, where the system, so politics and sociology united in a tyranny. And that seems to be what he's calling for. Obviously, he wanted to be the Fuhrer and that didn't happen. But basically other people became Fuhrers in his wake, so to speak. Well, the reason why his thought is a big part of the air that we breathe is because he wanted to turn all knowledge of everything into a concrete science, including the knowledge of man himself, the knowledge of the universe, everything he wanted to reduce down to a science. We wouldn't have the expression political science if it had not been for Comte. So the whole, in fact, social science, you know, every university has a social science department, as if these things are sciences in the same way that physics and chemistry. Yeah, you hit the nail on the head there, because as we see later on, he actually, he criticizes empirical science. So in other words, he criticizes the hard sciences because the hard sciences should subject themselves to sociology, to society, to an understanding of anthropology. So, you know, so he's actually becomes, he begins by being someone who uses the empirical sciences as a method of beating God. And then when he seeks to establish his own sociological religion, he then attacks the sciences because they are a threat, because they've got to question some of his presumptions and he's not into being questioned. We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Father Joseph Fessio, Vivian Doudreaux, and Joseph Pierce in just a moment. on the Discerning Hearts free app. Did you also know that you can stream Discerning Hearts programming on numerous streaming platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Pandora, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and so many more. And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has the YouTube page? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts. Everything is yours. Do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace. That is enough for me. Amen. Amen. We now return to the Forum Book Club with Father Joseph Fessio, Vivian Doudreaux, and Joseph Pierce. He's not so much attacking the sciences for the inability to get the truth, but rather, he has what I think is a legitimate criticism. That is to say, the hard sciences progress by specializing more and more and losing often the larger picture. And so he's in need for something synthetic because science takes things apart and makes small and smaller areas where people, I mean, I live with a Jesuit in Germany. They call him Blitzlach because he was so slow. I mean, in his thinking and walking and everything. But he did his doctorate on the heat -sensitive organs in cockroach antennae, but a specific species or variety of cockroach. And in Germany, you have to do a second doctoral thesis called a meditation to be a professor. So he did his second thesis on the moisture -sensitive organs in cockroach antennae. Well, I mean, there's no question about it. This was the world expert on the antennae of these cockroaches. But where does that fit? Big picture thing. And so, you know, Kant would say, look, we have to unify this some way. And therefore, he sees sociology and he's the father of sociology. That's right. As the master of science.

Evening News with Art Sanders

00:00 min | 5 hrs ago

Fresh update on "ari" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders

"KVI bullpen not Doug Burgum Doug boredom yeah exactly yeah from one of the Dakotas but with all of this going on does this help the Republican Party when it comes to the general election you hate to say it but you almost think it's a foregone conclusion Donald Trump's gonna be the nominee does this debate the fiasco that it was just as the first debate was does it change anything it does if Democrats are actually watching because if Democrats are actually watching they're gonna look at a field and go anybody here is better qualified to be President of the States United than any Democrat whose name has been mentioned to be president including Joe Biden the problem is are any Democrats actually watching once you hear these guys form a cogent thought when they're not arguing actually Nikki Haley is doing very well among JFK type Democrats among moderate Democrats but the problem is Democrats ain't voting in the Republican primary the other thing to think about is in 2016 everybody thought Jed Bush had this thing locked up and here comes Donald Trump out of nowhere now the polling that's being done there's a lot of this the ones that's showing Trump at the biggest leads are national polling we don't have that kind of election it's state by the state by state contests are smaller the New Hampshire and Iowa polls he still has a not not a 50 point lead but it's still somewhere in the neighborhood of 2025 the last ones I've seen that's still a significantly right but you're guy numbers right yes if these guys start dropping out all the dwarves that but yeah I mean you still I think in my looking at the numbers I think Donald Trump still has a plurality of the vote and with the way that the Democrat or excuse me the Republican primaries work a lot of them are winner takes all type of thing right we don't have super delegates like other parties yeah and while the Democrats started getting away from that as well but with the winner -take -all format even with a plurality Donald Trump would still be winning the states I'm not disagreeing with you on what we're seeing from the polls but I just want remind to everybody about polling in 2022 the polling said there was going to be a red wave when it was Bush versus Kerry Kerry was supposed to beat Bush while all the polling show that Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump polls are often wrong Ron DeSantis had this great line about polls the other day voters decide does it look Donald like Trump is clear in a way the favorite who's going to win this thing absolutely but I don't like counting my chickens before they hatch all right Ari Hoffman talk show host for 570 KVI thank you so much always a pleasure buddy still come to the legacy of the longest -serving female senator when the northwest politicast returns in just a moment for over 100 years the best way to deliver your message to your customers the radio's reach is so much more than

The Bitboy Crypto Podcast

05:39 min | 3 weeks ago

A highlight from This Altcoin Could SKYROCKET Next Bull Market! (XRP Changing Focus?)

"America is not just going to hand over the world reserve to a crypto project. There has to be like some sort of war involved, in my opinion, for America to give the dollar away as a world reserve and then there would have to be another country that is the world that breaks nations or something like that would be the world reserve. Let's talk about Visa. All right, throw your Vs up in the air. Visa expands stablecoin settlement options to Solana. This just sounds a boring way. Stablecoins, Visa, and Solana. This is huge, folks. Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, former partnerships with WorldPay and Nuvei, I think it is. Ari said it's moved millions of USDC over the Solana and ETH blockchains to settle payments through VisaNet. They announced this will include Solana blockchain in addition to existing capabilities on Ethereum, so they partnered with WorldPay. All right, here we go. Q Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, said that the move aims to speed up cross -border settlements and provide a stablecoin payment option for clients. This announcement also marks Visa inclusion of Solana as the supported blockchain for settlements, making it one of the first major payment companies to do so. This is huge, huge news for Solana. It makes that $20 Solana look kind of attractive, though. Now, can it go past $250 since the whole FTX collapsed? There's a won't be manipulated to the upside anymore. Guys, I still feel like Solana could still pull the 10x here. I agree. I ran some numbers on Solana. I am going to do a Solana price prediction this week. I pivoted last week. But with that said, hold on, what's so funny? Crypto Face said, why are you capping? No, Crypto said, no, someone just made that up. OK. With Solana's supply, I looked into that. It has grown a little bit over 35 % since the top of the last bull run. And I still think that as it's kind of adopting, picking up bigger partnerships like this, it's going and we all know how much the VCs love Solana. I feel like Solana is destined to pump. And I don't know, I feel like the supply has gone up, you know, 35%. But that's not that bad compared to the supply situations in other coins. I don't know. I think I think you could put in a new all -time high in the next run. It doesn't file coin supply issues. Yeah, it didn't gala or the graph for optimism. We don't talk about meta money like that. All right, let's talk about Solana, though. Solana emerges as top choice for altcoins. Speaking to AJ's point with record inflows, so the VCs do love some Solana there. Institutional interest in altcoins may have waned, but one coin seems to be weathering the storm, weathering the storm better than the attendees of Burning Man. Solana year -to -date inflows have surged million 26 since the beginning of the year, according to a September 4th Fund Flows Weekly report by CoinShares. Notably, Solana has experienced an inflow worth $700K over the past week, while investors have pulled out $8 million and $3 million from Polygon and Ethereum, respectively, during the same period. Reports indicate that Shopify has integrated Solana Pay with this payment option with the support of Stablecoin USDC. So we got Solana still making headway, still, you know, doing the thing as far as partnerships. It's like they're Polygon, but they're like, hey, we're a little bit faster, maybe a little bit cheaper. Nando said Deezy growing out his hair. He said he's getting braids. All right. I didn't know that's where that was going to end. I don't know if my hairline can support the braids. We'll be starting way back here, folks. No, this is the longest my hair's been since 2020. Jess Jim says, congrats, Deezy and Kat. Yeah. Big news. Yeah. I got, you know, publicly I'm engaged over the weekend. She said yes. She said yes. She said yes. Congratulations, bro. Hey, thank you. Thank you. When are you going to pop the question? You know, you know, kind of answering this on a public, you know, we are on a live stream. But yeah, so Jayden and I have been together for over five years now. And now that we hit the five year mark, we've been having the conversation more and more and more. It feels like more real. Like once you hit five years, like you're in, but it's gonna, it's gonna happen eventually. Well, let's keep it on you, man. So, you know, where did you propose? Like, how did it, how did it go? Like, give me the scenario. It was her birthday. I took her to a nice little restaurant. Then we came home. I had her hang on the driveway for about 30 seconds. And then I had hearts laying out on the floor. Then, you know, we had a ring record everything. So that's, that's how I did it. Well done. You know, I tried to get down to one knee. I fell over. I kind of rolled a little bit, fumbled it out of my pocket. Threw up on my work. It was, it was good though. It was still, she still said yes. Still said yes. Good. Okay. So the 8k sounds like we missed a lot of context. Heard it on a stream earlier today. Tell us who, Kyre, so we can call him out. All right, now let's talk about Vitalik calling out Maker. He sold the tokens. He said it stinks like sulfur, like hell. Maker tokens. He sold them as MakerDao co -founder pushes for a Solana -based new chain. Looks like Vitalik did not like that at all. He was, he was, he was just bothered. He was bothered. I was going to make a pun about, you know what, I decided not to. Vitalik sold around 580k worth of Maker tokens after Rune Christensen advocated launch in the project's new chain on a Solana -based platform. We keep scrolling here. Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana co -founder, clarified that the proposed new Maker chain has nothing to do with Solana's main net or the ongoing Ethereum versus Solana debate. The Ethereum co -founder also paid a visit to the Discord channel of the rival stablecoin platformer, Reflexer Finance, where he encouraged the community to expand their collateral options to liquidity staking derivatives on Ethereum.

CoinDesk Podcast Network

01:59 min | 3 months ago

Louis Vuitton Embraces Web3 With Iconic Virtual Trunk

"I have a very important question for you. Ooh. Will you be buying a Louis Vuitton virtual trunk for $39 ,000? I think it's actually $41 ,000. I think it might have been 39 ,000 euros. I would love to have one of those if the Louis Vuitton team wants to gift me one. Aneesh Nelly would hit me up. I will happily send my ETH address. I really am excited about what Louis Vuitton kind of gave us a sneak peek to this week. Unfortunately, it is a little bit outside of my Avery budget. How about you, Sam? I probably will not be buying one. I wanted to get your thoughts, though, because this is a project that has ultimate status written on it. Not only is it 39 ,000 euro, but you can't trade it. You can't sell it. It's a soul -bound token that is, once you buy it, it is yours. The ownership trunk gives you access to things in the future, including access to buy yet more things, which they're calling keys, which seem to be both digital and physical drops. Those, they have not said whether you can sell them or not. My assumption will be yes. But it really is this like ultimate status club membership. Buy the trunk, get access to more things. What are your thoughts on the overlay of the Louis Vuitton audience that Ari's investing a lot with the idea of spending so much money on an object that you can't sell, you have to keep forever? I actually think that it's an interesting strategy from LVMH. Many of our listeners may or may not know that LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, of course, and Moet Hennessy, also owns Tiffany. And if you recall, Tiffany did a very limited edition NFT drop for $50 ,000 that sold out instantly. Right, the CryptoPunk one. With the CryptoPunks, exactly. That was available for resale, and there was a little bit of trading activity, but due to the nature of how that NFT worked, you could essentially redeem it once for a custom CryptoPunks pendant. That's a very swaggy piece of jewelry. I've seen a few of them in real life, and it's definitely a status symbol, IRL.

The Blockchain Show

02:02 min | 6 months ago

Unearthing Opportunities in Crypto With Ari Navarro of VSA Partners

"The blockchain show with a special guest today. Ari Navarro, the chief strategy officer at VSA partners. Thank you for being here. All right, how are you? I'm good. Thanks for having me. But I'm excited about all this. Yeah, well, I suppose just to give everyone a little bit of a background. Would you mind telling us about yourself, maybe a little bit about VSA or? Yeah, sure. However, everyone. So as Ethan said, I'm the chief strategy officer at BSA, which basically means I help clients really think about their business and brand strategy and how to grow their brands, how to grow markets, how to think of their product portfolio, how to think of their strategy, if they're launching a new product. So we work across multiple categories with all sorts of clients from IBM to Google, from Wayfair to Cole Haan, from Nike to Salesforce. So it's quite a wide range of clients and challenges. And what else can I say? Our company BSA is a brand and design strategy firm. And we have designed as part of our DNA. That's the founders of these. They were designers. So we really look at design of the business assets. So as a way to make or design a better human experience. So we really approach every project with a lot of empathy and go through a lot of effort and work and understanding what those audience needs are customer needs or client needs to really make sure that we are solving for those human problems no matter what it is that we are doing. Yeah, it's excellent. A couple of things, I think we really need your help in this space because I don't know if you want to call it a branding problem, but definitely a user experience issue that I feel like it's just not easy enough for the everyday people to get involved with a lot of this tech. That's

Mike Gallagher Podcast

01:20 min | 6 months ago

Michael Cohen: 'Diaper Donald Will Be Filling up [His] Diaper'

"Here's how serious they are. Check out the serious Michael Cohen, the chief witness for the prosecution of Trump here in New York, running to MSNBC last night and saying this. He could end up in prison. Based on your long years of service with him, how will he process that? Very poorly. As I like to call him sometimes in my tweets, diaper Donald, will be filling up that diaper. Because he, this is not something that Donald is capable of either understanding or contending with. He, as you stated, accurately, he believes he could control every situation. This is not a situation that he has any control over. And that's making him sick to his stomach. And you think he'll feel genuine fear. Yes. I think right now he's beyond petrified. Because of you, right? Michael Cohen, you're the guy, you're the serious guy that's the chief witness for Alvin Bragg. You're the guy that has sparked all of this, the guy who you run on MSNBC and sit down with Ari melber and call him diaper Donnie and say diaper Donnie is filling up his diaper,

Mark Levin

01:57 min | 6 months ago

National Review: Media Struggles to Characterize Trans Shooter’s Sex

"National review here to their credit Ari bluff Mainstream media let's struggle to describe the sex of the mass shooter Who claims 6 lives at a private Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday first describing the female perpetrator a woman in response to reports from the authorities then racing to correct themselves once became clear that the shooter identified as a man And this is what the media are upset about and concerned about If they're initially describing the shooter as female and official depart statements Nashville police chief John Drake said during a Monday afternoon press conference the shooter former student at the covenant school identified as transgender As by reporter whether the shooter identified as a trans woman or trans man Drake responded trans woman which added to the confusion by creating the impression the shooter was a male who identified as a female Isn't this amazing First of all the fact of the debate and secondly the substance of the discussion She was a biological she a female Prior to the confirmation of the Schroeder identified as transgender The New York Times tweeted out an article noting that female assailants and mass shootings in the U.S. like the one that occurred on Monday in Nashville Are extremely rare quote unquote Then the publication felt compelled to flag they had misidentified the mass shooter later that evening They said there was confusion later money about the gender identity of the assailant in the Nashville shooting Officials said you'd she and her to refer to the suspect according to a social media post and Lincoln profile peer to identify as a man in recent months

Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition

04:07 min | 1 year ago

"ari" Discussed on Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition

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Dear Dyslexic Podcast

29:47 min | 1 year ago

A highlight from Episode 54 life as a neurodivergent parent with Autumn OConnor and Tammy McGown

"Hello everyone, and welcome to the Dear Dyslexic podcast series. I'm your host, Shaye Wiesel. Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and to pay my respects to disability clearinghouse on education and training. ADCET is a national resource that aims to promote discussion, dissemination of information and advice that informs educators, disability practitioners and students with disabilities on inclusive education, teaching and support within the Australian higher education and vocational education training sector. Thanks ADCET for your ongoing support. I'm super excited to be bringing to you this special edition that podcast was live from our 2021 living successfully with dyslexia conference. At the conference, I had the privilege of speaking to three wonderful women who are all very neuro diverse about how they manage day to day in the workplace. My guests included Autumn O 'Connor, who's the executive editor of teaching and education at Be Your Best Academy. Tammy McGower, who is a disability consultant in her own business square hole training and consulting. Ari Becka Flower, a lecturer in the department of psychology and counseling at La Trobe University. I really hope you enjoy this conversation about neuro diversity in the workplace and the ups and downs that we manage with day to day. Well, hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Dear Dyslexic podcast series. Today I was thinking I was hoping to have a really interesting discussion around parenting and neuro diversity and not just because I've become a parent or maybe because I've become a parent that I wanted to talk about this topic and to hear other people's perspectives about how they manage day to day when they're a neuro diverse parent. So welcome Autumn and Tammy to the show this afternoon. Hello, thank you for having us. As I mentioned, I was super excited to talk to you both because we've had some really great conversations around neuro diversity in the workplace. And it got me thinking about how we manage as parents and Autumn and I are both new parents to the scene. Autumn's baby is only a few months older than my daughter. And Tammy, you've now got adult children. So we've got both ends of the spectrum here today. That's right. I think I'm representing the crying side of fertility in this conversation. And I was, I myself have had challenges day to day managing around being dyslexic and having a baby, which I didn't really think I would, but I really wanted to get other people's perspectives on how they manage. And what are some of the things that help you day to day. But before we get started, Autumn, would you like to introduce yourself to those who haven't heard from you before? Because you've been on my show a couple of times now. Okay. Well, I always get a bit stuck in these sorts of introductions. I'm not sure exactly how much to share. But I am currently working at Be Your Best Academy as the executive editor. And what we do is we develop professional and personal development courses for neurodivergent adults. And I'm also the founder of Aspie Rebels, which is a psychosocial group for autistics in Melbourne. As Shay said, I am a new mum. My son has just turned one, which was an unexpected event in itself. We weren't expecting or wanting children. And there he appeared. But I love him all the same. So that's my sort of introduction to, well, being me and this. Thank you, Autumn. That's a great introduction. It is. And it's very true and authentic. So thank you. And Tammy, welcome. We haven't had an opportunity to do a podcast before. So I'm really pleased that you could join Autumn and I for this conversation today. Thank you so much for inviting me. I've been looking forward to catching up with you both. Okay. I just spoke right over you. Sorry, Shay. I guess that's probably a fair introduction into who I am. So I'm Tammy. I am a late diagnosed autistic ADHD and dyslexic. And I also have dyscalculia auditory processing disorder and chronic pain conditions. And I interrupt people because I have trouble guessing when they're going to speak or not. I have four adult children, three birth children and one stepchild. And so I've been doing the parenting thing now. My oldest is 28 and I got married this year, which was whoa and wonderful. Very, very excited to be increasing the members of our family. That's one of the cool things about having children is that you get to increase your family every time someone starts dating somebody. So that's pretty cool. No, no, I haven't talked about work. Okay. So I have a 15 year history in the care of foster care and a long time now in disability. And I am a disability advocate and an independent contractor. And I have to say that you look way too young to have a child that's 28. Thank you so much. It's because I've had my hair dyed and I don't mind your listeners knowing that because I was taken into surgery four weeks ago and the nurse asked my husband if he'd be waiting for his mother in the waiting room. So I decided that aging gracefully was not going to be a thing. So I started going great at 21 and I'm now 48 and going backwards in trying to pretend it's not. Well, I just got my head last weekend and the week before Ava and I were both sick in bed and I just had a meltdown. I was under the covers crying because I'd been waiting for so long after lockdown to get my hair dyed and cut. And I was just like, this is the tipping point. Well, you've got a haircut too by the looks of it. So you're looking lovely. Thank you. So hopefully the audience will forgive me today because I'm really tired, even though Ava is sleeping through the night at the moment. I don't know if my body's trying to catch up on eight months of no sleep. So if I'm a little bit jumbled, please forgive me because I feel like I'm on the top of my game today. And I think that's maybe one of the on top of that, having a neuro diversity or divergence or whatever word people would like to use. So Autumn, what have you found as a new mum, juggling work and motherhood and everything else? Well, I actually find like, yes, it's difficult, but for me, I cope because of my partner. And I'm really thankful to my partner. He has the role of stay at home dad while I work. And he also has a tendency to be really nurturing and caring towards me generally, even before I we had children. So when I get overwhelmed, he helps me through that. And I think that's one year old and having even prior to that, a baby that goes through sleep regressions, it's really intense. And he manages my overwhelm and my intensity and also our kids. And I think part of it as well that makes it actually also really cool is that I work from home. So while I have a home office and my son is not really allowed to see me while I'm working, because we close the door, I do take my lunches with the family. And whenever I pop out to make a cup of tea, I sort of sneak a little baby cuddle or I get a little chat when I sort of want to talk a bit about, I guess, how I feel my neurodiversity makes me a better mother. And maybe Tammy has similar thoughts and maybe you as well, Shay. But I feel like because I had a difficult childhood with my neurodiversities, I want to put forth the best possible experience for my son. And I've noticed already that he has some autistic traits. And while I don't really believe in early childhood diagnoses, I have noticed some things that really are quite significant that really couldn't be anything other than autism. But instead of making him feel wrong for having these reactions and interests, I try to remain sort of curious and supportive of him. So, for example, one of the things that does is when he gets really emotional, he bangs his head against the wall. And he does it to self -soothe and he does it quite aggressively. So instead of telling him off or trying to physically stop him, I help put words to the experience. So, for example, I might say things like, honey, I know you want to hit your head. Does that help to get the frustration out? And then I wait for him to respond. So, from a very young age, we've taught my son baby sign language, which to a large degree really is just Australian sign language, and he uses it. And he also has his own little babbly words that he uses. And for those listening who are parents, you get to know the babbles your child makes and what they mean. And so he has a certain intonation, inflection of certain words when he's trying to say them, which, of course, he doesn't say them like English, but he says a baby version. And so then he will respond. And I listen to him. And then I might say something like, you know, it's okay to calm yourself using head banging, but maybe we should try the couch cushion because then it won't hurt you. And I find that every time we do things like that, where he has a sort of reaction, and I listen to him and we talk, we get closer. And one of the things I've noticed with that is that he now only rarely bangs his head on the wall. He comes to me. So, if he's very twice against the wall, and then he'll crawl or walk over to me and he does the sign language for pain and sad, and then he asks for a hug. And then I hug him. And it seems to just shift that reaction or sensory experience that he's been having. And similarly, when he's really overwhelmed with sensory stuff, I can hold him really tightly and that will help calm him down. And I sort of think that even though it's really difficult to, in many ways, to be with him while I have my own neurodiverse issues, I try to find a way to work with what I'm experiencing and with what he's experiencing by putting words to it and making it a learning experience and making it something that can build self -awareness. Thank you for listening to this podcast. The DHUB is our digital learning space where you can access our first Australian e -learning courses for those working and supporting dyslexic employees, as well as webisodes, online courses, communities of practice, and much, much more. So head to the DHUB today and start your learning journey. dhub .dyslexic .com. Because you've been diagnosed with autism, it enables you to mother in a different way compared to dyslexia is generally genetic. So my dad, if he'd known he was dyslexic when I was growing up, I might've been supported in different ways. And because you know that you have autism and dyslexia, that you're already in tune to how you can be helping your son if he does develop either those neurodiversities, which I think is really special. And I think it might help as generations go on that if parents already know that they're neurodiverse, that their way of approaching parenting might be really different to how we were raised because we didn't, our parents didn't know. And so the strategies you're putting in place already that you probably missed out on as a young child growing up, we're extremely beneficial and the impact of the neurodiversity might be a lot different. Does that make sense? It does to me. What do you think Tammy? I absolutely agree. One of the regrets that I have in life is that I wasn't diagnosed until my children were late teenagers or young adults. And so I didn't have that full understanding of myself and my abilities and my growing up. And you know, my father's dyslexic, my brother's dyslexic. They were both athletic and struggled with spelling and reading. Whereas I loved to sit in the corner with a good book and I was the opposite of athletic. So it's one of the many reasons why I got missed out on as a young girl growing up with our diagnostic systems in Australia. I always knew that I had a big issue with numbers. I couldn't learn my timetables. I couldn't remember things other people remembered. But because I could write and I seem to speak well, and I seem to listen well, I think I learned some skills as a young child about passing way before I ever understood what that was. I found out really, we started our journey in my family with my middle child being diagnosed as autistic first. And then as often happens with neurodivergence, everything after that got put back to him being autistic. And so I was fighting the system really from day one, the battle to have the diagnostic process for autism and ADHD, and then going privately to explore vision impairment, hearing impairment, and dyslexia, because I didn't believe that just being autistic was the whole sum of everything that was happening. And I was right. And so he had weekly tutoring that I paid for. I was a single mum. So again, in a different situation, my ex -husband left when my oldest was five and my youngest was still a baby. And he moved six hours away. So I was very much on my own and again, not understanding my own neurodivergence. And so I really relate to what Autumn has been talking about around the connecting and communicating and that unique bonding that we do to try and meet our children where they are. That was certainly how I stumbled through parenting. One of my children is still not formally with diagnosed dyslexia, and I'm confident that they are dyslexic. But now we have to go through the NDIS system because they're already a young adult. I'm not sure if that answers the question. I think it was more a comment. But Autumn did ask you if it was a question. I'm lucky I've already pre -apologized for my brain functioning 100 % today. How do you think that being diagnosed later in life, did that then change the way you parented? Or did that influence how you parented? How you parent? Look, I think it did change in the sense of we're all on the same playing field now. I tried hard to find that balance between being helicopter mum, knowing that my kids and myself were different from other people and allowing them to have freedom. I tried not to push too hard on academic side. I mean, parenting is super hard, isn't it? And I know that while I tried to be supportive and while I tried to make sure that we had all of the supports that we could have in place with the diagnoses that we had with my children at the time, that if we'd had more information and more resources, definitely there might have been better outcomes for the kids as far as their immediate after school opportunities, as far as employment, etc. We really just muddled our way through as a very confused household, I think. They'd asked me for help with homework. I'd have no idea because of my own spiky skill set. Some of the kids were way better at maths than I was. I was better at research than they were. A couple of them love reading. A couple of them found it so hard. I think that they would feel that they missed out on a lot of opportunities. I'm just hoping that when your kids are primary school age, that we will have been able to create enough of a social movement for dyslexia and learning disorders to be properly recognized and actually funded and resourced so that families can get early diagnosis and can have access to services. I was in a position of case managing my own family when I was near a between the kindies and the schools and the high schools and the different support agencies and the tutors and the kids. I'd love for it to be a lot easier for you both as your children grow into young people and then adults. It would be nice. I don't know how much of a change we'll make. The movement is happening, I think, particularly in primary schools at the moment. I do worry that when Ava gets into primary school, I know that probably by grade four, I won't be able to help her with any maths anymore. My partner said, oh, we have to just start learning maths. I was like, oh, God, learning maths. Oh, please. Just one plus two oranges, three oranges. But as soon as there's an orange and an apple and a banana and there's a train going at 500 kilometres an hour and what is X? It's like, I don't know. I'm so glad my partner can do that. You've lost me after you had the apple. That's probably an experience that all three of us have had, even though we don't all have the same neurodivergent diagnoses, is that we have been aware that we're struggling for as long as we can remember. We know that we're really good at some things and really, really not coping with other things. We know that pressure of everybody around us to just try harder. You could do this if you just applied yourself. You're so good at these other things. Why can't you be better at those things? I think that that's something that we don't want to put on our children. I tried not to. I guess we have that understanding that it's not as simple as just we can learn it. I can look at something every single day and I can try the singing it, writing it, et cetera. I'm still only remember two phone numbers and only because they haven't changed for 13 years. I have no idea what my kids' phone numbers are. I forget my ATM code most of the time. I was never going to be able to learn maths to help the kids. But what I could do was pay someone who knew what they were doing and beg people to help. I guess that was my way of managing not being able to support them with those types of things through schooling. Something that I've noticed when you were talking, Tammy, is from the question of getting diagnosed late. I was diagnosed late with my autism. You said you kind of remember the word you used. I'm going to use squished because I can't remember the word you used. But kind of squished through things. Just trying to get things done while not knowing who you really were. Then when you knew who you were, you were able to interconnect situations more and become, I guess, a more organized, more connected parent. I kind of reflect on that. I think, although I don't know if I'm a good enough mother, but I do think that because I'm more confident in myself and my diagnosis, so it's not so fresh that I'm not sure who I am, and it's not to the point that I don't know who I am at all because I know there's something wrong but I don't know what it is, but I'm actually quite confident with my diagnosis that I find it easier to relate to my son. I can see when I do see things that I'm a bit autistic. I can see the amusing side of it and I can see how I might be able to make it a better experience for him because I feel confident in myself from that space. I think that that's sort of an important distinction. Of course, everybody who's becoming a parent isn't necessarily in that perfect sense of being confidently in their diagnosis. Some of them might be undiagnosed. Some of them might get it later. Some of them might still be in that kind of frantic finding out that you are a certain diagnosis and what does that mean and a bit all upheaval. But I do think that I am a better parent now than I would ever have been three years ago or even 10 years ago just because I have a better understanding of who I am with my autistic dyslexic identity. Do you kind of feel like that might be the case for you too? Do you have less expectations? Sorry Tammy. No, no you're good you go Shay. This one says you have less expectations on yourself because I know now like I know I'm really disorganized and I'm probably going to forget something. So part of me now like I have a bag specifically packed for Ava so that I know that I won't forget things. So I'm putting strategies in place like that but I also know that that means that I'm really flexible. So it's okay if Ava doesn't go down at a certain time or if something happens or you know I have to go see my mum because she's had a bad day or something. So I think that being dyslexic has always made me really flexible and adaptable and so I think that's really helped in having a calm home environment where we're not too too stressed or anxious about things which I think like 10 years ago I would have been really different and even though I worry about you know what happens if Ava is dyslexic how do we manage it or she's wriggled so much is she ADHD or you know I'm already trying to label her and I shouldn't be doing that but I think in that sense it has helped to know where I need help and where I know I can manage really well. Yeah I was just reflecting back on what you're both saying and I think that even though I wasn't diagnosed I was of course still neurodivergent and so I did squish my way through things including parenting and I developed my own coping strategies my own way of doing things so that I could manage the household and the children on my own and then I had to adapt again when I fell in love and partnered up with a single dad and he had the opposite way of doing everything that I did and that was a challenge trying to do joint parenting and all of that after I'd been so independent but I think one of the reasons why it was so difficult for one of my children to be diagnosed was because I had unconsciously created a very autistic friendly environment because I was creating a home that was comfortable for me and communication that was comfortable for me and so it was really only the non -autistic and non -neurodivergent family members that were impacted by our family life and our lifestyle not the autistic ones. I kept everything very simple I read every parenting book that I could find for every single stage of development because I had no idea what I was doing and I didn't have any friends with children because I was such a young parent and I was fairly isolated so you know I did things that horrify my friends who are much younger than me with young children now like color coding the children's socks and underwear so and limiting to only having one week's worth of clothes for all the children so that I knew exactly whose clothes were in the wash and whose clothes weren't and whose socks belonged to who.

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

02:00 min | 1 year ago

The Inflation Reduction Plan Only Inflates Taxes

"The president scored a couple of wins, the chips act he's doing a dance, although that was bipartisan. And of course taking out zawahiri is a grand and good thing. And I give him credit for pulling the twigger, I give Nancy Pelosi, try to forgo into Taiwan, but we're still stuck with this reconciliation bill. I've explained it this way. We don't know where senator sinema is if they get her and the vice president and everybody on the floor. They can pass this nightmare, which is it's called the inflation reduction act, not about inflation, doesn't reduce anything, and it raises taxes and spending. And as Joe Manchin not acting, it's collapsing. First, what's the story on senator sinema? What do we know? Yeah, we don't know on that. She's been very quiet on it. As she's going through it and she'll make her decision when she makes her decision, but you are correct. They're calling this the inflation reduction act except the problem is when they actually scored it, it doesn't reduce inflation. They say it reduces deficits as well, except when they scored it, they said it doesn't reduce deficits either. What it does is it increase taxes during a recession in those taxes specifically hardest hit manufacturers in the United States. So while we have a supply chain issue, there are raising taxes on manufacturing and making it harder for them. It does hire thousands and thousands of new IRS agents to do audits. The focus of there's no focus on the audit. So it's small businesses. People in every income bracket that are out there that they're going after with new IRS agents, it does raise the cost of natural gas, which is going to raise the cost of energy. It does make it harder to be able to develop new drugs and my favorite piece of it. It literally takes quote unquote savings on the healthcare side from Medicare and takes it out of Medicare, which is already having problems financially and moves it over to the Affordable Care Act. So it literally takes money from the investment for 76 year olds and moves it over and gives subsidies to 26 year olds instead. So there's a lot of problems in this bill that it creates more issues than solves issues.

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

01:37 min | 1 year ago

The 10 Most Important Races in 2022

"Master dot com, Joe day dot com, team Herschel dot com, Ted bud dot com, Morse the number four Senate dot com, Adam laxalt dot com. JD Vance dot com, Doctor Oz dot com, smiley for Senate dot com, Ron Johnson for Senate dot com. That's not order of importance. That's the order of the states. Blake masters in Arizona, Joe Dan, Colorado, Herschel Walker, and Georgia, Ted bud in North Carolina, I think, oh, got that wrong. It's then C, but NH I was using the abbreviations. Chuck Morris in New Hampshire, Adam laxalt and Nevada, JD vents and Ohio, Doctor Oz and Pennsylvania, Tiffany smiley and Washington state and Ron Johnson in Wisconsin. That's the key. Those ten races. And I hope Peter jail gives them all Peter Thiel gives a $100 million to each of those races. Sets up an independent expenditure committee. If you're listening, Peter, I'm just saying, give a $1 billion away and win the country. It matters. It matters. We got to stop these crazy judges. Yes, we got to fix tax policy. We can fix that. We're going to have the House of Representatives in any event. And great candidates winning all across the United States last night. Republicans low end, they're going to pick up ten high end. They could pick up 40. Depends on how badly Joe Biden screws up and what happens with inflation. And right now, the misery index, I think it's baked in. The house is one. Democrats are giving up the retiring in droves. They're running away. And they should. Because redistricting plus the misery index means a Republican wave in the house.

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

02:03 min | 1 year ago

Eric Schmitt Wins Missouri Republican Senate Primary

"Good Wednesday morning to you. It's the morning after election day. Eric Schmidt is the nominee in Missouri. That's a giant relief he's going to win handily, attorney general Schmidt. And now we have the field all but set. There are ten key races for the United States Senate. And I always focus on the Senate. Anyone who's listening to this show for years now. By the way, Kerry Lake is about 20,000 votes ahead of Karen Robson. I think Carrie Lake is won it, not quite sure yet. No one's called it, tutor Dixon is the nominee for governor in Michigan. And Blake masters, the nominee in Arizona. None of those unexpected, the Taylor, the Kerry Lake Karen Robson race is a dead heat statistically, and the polls have that completely wrong again. Do not read the polls. It's sort of like, I know Herschel's of Raphael Warnock. And I know the polls show that he's not. And I know that Doctor Oz is ahead of John fetterman, the polls show he's way behind. He's not. It's just that they don't know how to pull anymore and they won't admit it and they continue to use it because the media is left wing. And they don't want to make it obvious. Look, here is the rundown. I just tweeted this out. I hope you'll do two things. To begin this morning, might be a little bit. While trying to get my voice because that late night following results last night until I finally couldn't see any way to figure out who was going to win in Arizona's governor race. Eric, Eric Schmidt had won the Missouri race fairly early, as had tutor Dixon the Michigan race. There are four big races last night. Michigan governor, and my guy lost, I wanted Kevin rinky, but I kind of knew that tutor Dickson was going to win when Donald Trump endorsed her. I really mattered the most to me with Eric Schmidt winning an Missouri. I've got to tell you, we have a safe red seat there, a safe, deep red state that could have been thrown away and we didn't throw it away 'cause they nominated the strongest, very competent candidate when the show me state nominated Eric Schmidt.

twitterspaces

19:16 min | 1 year ago

Chat w_ Alberto Daniel Hillmp3 - burst 2

"Of your bio from your LinkedIn page. Oh, why do I can talk about myself without reading? I would be better. That would be better. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? I know. Yeah, that's right. Well, guys, I am a computer engineer. I am my name is Alberto, first of all. I want to kill. I am from Uruguay, of America. And I am a computer engineer. I have been working for 20 years into information security in different fields, such as computer forensics, consulting, I have a BMP certification, which is a pressure management professional from the PMA organization, and that allowed me to lead many projects, implementing information security management systems, based on the norm, so I select 27,000, which I am also satisfied, and I am the first hacker in Uruguay that will seem to be, but that's not the main point, the pain point is that I was sent to research and for trying to help others seem to present without being guilty of any crime. And well, I am here with my friend Tony that I met on the address spaces. And well, she invited me to talk in a space with her and I'm very honored to be here today. Thank you. And I want to welcome everyone to this nice space. I see we have Jason, who I met also on Twitter space bunsen and beaker who hosts an incredible portrait of phrases. Make sure you follow. I guess he does a great work and also my good friend Jason, who is an incredible guitarist. He plays beautiful music for me and hi there. So she's just kind of remark the sky as we follow each other. How are you? And hi Mike, how are you, space Mike, and also let's say hi to mister proctor 31 and also to Samantha. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this space. And again, another disclaimer. We are recording this space. I am running an analytics on this space. So if you could go ahead and share this out and invite all your Friends, even if they're not seen on this base, there are people listening to us right now according to the software. I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the things that you experienced. But what made you decide to reach out? I mean, you know, they say that no good deal unpunished. Alberto, I wonder, can we talk a little bit about that? Well, maybe you decide to reach out and to help your country. Wait, do you mean after or before being arrested? Before being arrested, I mean, did you thought that you would get arrested for doing this? Absolutely not. It was something that never crossed my mind. It was something that for me, it was impossible that would never happen. I mean, if you ask anyone from my school, when I was a child, when I was in university, I was probably the most introverted person in the class, the person that if you have told anyone of my act Friends from college, who will be impression, if you have to do one person in the future, I would probably leave it the last in the list to be considered, no, never across my mind. And as I work in cybersecurity, one of the key things that we do is finding some problems in systems, you may find them in the place where you work and you are paid for finding them. I mean, that's part of your issue. Or actually, when you go to your house and you tell your computer, you can also find security problems in systems that are not under your control. And yeah, I did find a lot of problems in many systems. And all the time, I reported them in order to help those people that both the companies that are involved and the people whose information is started in those systems that are being vulnerable without wanting anything in return. I mean, there are no problems here in Europe. So you do it just to help you then get I mean, you don't get to eat sometimes I think in return, but I consider that that's the thing to do because otherwise somebody with bad intentions will probably find the same problem you found. And they will be affecting the private information of a lot of people, which I really like because privacy for me is something patients and I respect other people's privacy and I want my what I don't want to I don't want to be invaded by policy and my life is quite public right now, but I really think the priorities should be really respected. But I have reported for years not to accompanies to what I find the best, but to assert of my country, the search is agency of the development that handles all the security things that are linked to the government and to critical systems or importance systems such as America providers, for example, or financial financial institutions. And well, I have done it for years. And I never had any problem. Until I found a very important security issue in America provider that was the provider of my ex-girlfriend where she wanted to set an appointment in the system and she gave me a computer to do that. And well, before she gave me her username and password, I was already in the system with the privilege of administrator being able to see absolutely everything everything out there, the provider with the username admin and the password admin, which is something that is hard to relieve, but it was true. So I immediately reported that to the serve. And then I forgot about it because you had to report it and you don't need to get any update or you have to know how the incident is being handled and solved. That's not part of the report. You are just the person who reported it and that's it. And the year after that, I went again to a website and when you add in this field for so many years, you plan its mail when a system has security flows just by taking a look at it and you see certain patterns or certain indicators that the site can be easily captured to put them away. And again, in 5 minutes, I would say it will access to all the medical records of all the uses of the system, just modifying a parameter in the URL, which means, for example, you have a URL that has a number on it at the end and you change that number that you start surfing through all the records without being authenticated in the system, which means you didn't need a username or password, anywhere you could access to that information, just having the URL, and a report that two years after that September 2017 Interpol visit, arrested me, and I was sent to prison accused of having had the medical provider. That's what happened to me. You mean, they actually used the word admin as a password. They believe it or not, it's probably the, it's a problem that goes back to 19 60s that it was first pointed out as a big problem. And it's still 2021, but you still find systems that have the problem. And that works with scenarios that I have found in our abilities in systems, and Scala systems, such as those that controls the pump of the associations where you can access the without using even the username and password. The user is connected via template, and you can execute remotely comment to modify the parameters of the pumps in the gas stations, which is even worse that using admin admin. So I'm going to let anyone up yet to grab them I get me about ten minutes. I want to kind of like do some chat with Alberto. So Mike don't be upset. I got you. So we'll get you up here. 'cause I have a lot of questions to ask because I'm besides I want to kind of touch base on his books because I didn't realize how many books he had going on. There was a lot and it's on his profile, but he might want to take a look at it. But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about, I think all of us in this space, it has social network, right? We're all we have Facebook, Instagram, career, and all this stuff. And I've had friends who have lost their account, so on hacked in, they went in, they pretty much copied their account and create another one, especially Facebook, Facebook was an incredible place that has happened to a lot of my friends actually. So why would you do when you say Facebook is compromised? But what should someone do? Well, that is a question that somebody from Facebook should answer. It's a very frustrating situation. But from my experience, I mean, I have to clarify, I hate Facebook. So that's the point number one. I hate Facebook. So I am not as somebody who knows a lot about it because I don't use it. I have an account in Facebook. But I really refuse to do it. I don't know what they like. But when it comes to losing your account, I strongly relate that Facebook has implemented several processes and mechanisms in order to recover that. Such as having, for example, Friends contact that can allow you to verify that you are the person who is requesting to gain a gain access to certain account if it's been lost. So maybe you also have some kind of security questions such as showing images of friends and having to link them to names in order to prove that you know that people in order to prove that you are the person who is claiming their account back and I think that those countries probably work pretty well so it's not like okay, I got hacked and I have to forget about my account. The few places I know were sold that way, you should always have a backup email and to factor authentication and things like that. But that doesn't mean you are protected. If somebody hacks into your Facebook account, they can change up immediately everything that you have set for recovery, but nowadays all the systems normally requires you certain steps in order to modify that, for example, if somebody gets access to my Twitter account right now because they know my password, they will need my second factor authenticator in order to log in. But in case they get into my system because, for example, they still my application is still in the cookie station, not to be technical, means still in your session of the user. If somebody still starts cooking, then they take the account, it is basically Euclid herself in the pound and they can go to our account settings and care, for example, to change their password immediately, but in order to change that password, you need to enter the previous password. And probably you also need my second factor dictator. So I still in the cookie, which is the most. Easy way to still an account from Twitter or for many service because they're still in if they still cookie, they grab your identity, they don't need your password. So to assume to answer your question, just contact report that to Facebook and try to follow the steps that are part of the process of recovering. And you're going to probably. Unfortunately, I assume that certain amount of people are not lucky enough to remember that I found that I had to start from zero. And that's a big issue because the account that is being stolen can be used for I mean, they can contact your contacts and send them information or your reputation, basically they want there are many things that motivate somebody to have an account, one is rearrange another could be just to prove that they can do it. But the reason behind that is Ari, the fact is that you lost something that belongs to you and have information about you that you should be in control of and once you are being hurt, you lose that control and what they can do with your account is not up to you and that's really that's really something that makes you frustrated and powerless that something terrible. Yeah, I think that's everyone's nightmare. Everyone in this space I think we all are worried about that and thanks for sharing some of your tips or not. And I know you have your next year spaces your own is coming up at 6 o'clock, which you'll go more and more detail and I'll be co hosting with you. So also will be nana will be basically she has a lot of content regarding those topics that will be top in about. So manic with your will be co hosting with you. Samantha will be also telling what it is to what it feels to be had, how the life of a person is being impact when it is hard and her story can open the eyes of the people to know that if you have this really serious do anything you can to prevent that, but because when it happens, it feels out of your control. Your life can really turn into a nightmare. So you can really help a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, I just, you know, social media has been around for a long time and I'm one of those people that literally shared everything every part of my what I ate, you know, what I did, what events I'm at, I didn't even think about it. I don't have any remember four square or not. I remember just, you know, not thinking about it. I'm just always checking in, trying to be the mayor of a space, you know, like a restaurant or something, just to be there. And not once did we ever thought that, wow, someone could come through your house and rob you or, you know, still the identity based on what your profile set yourself up. So can you give us some little tips on what we should do from now on, especially now that we're also transparent and always sharing online? Well, actually, my recommendation is guys do not do what I do. Do not share when you go to Australia, take a picture and put afternoon Montevideo and I also put a time stamp in the pictures showing the data and the hour, don't do that guys, don't do what I do. That's no need to expose so much information allowed you. Everything you share can be used and probably will be used to, I mean, people are, as I said, the motivations for hacking are huge, but one of them is just to put that you can do it. And you see, okay, there's a guy that I follow that if it's a hacker that goes after people that are in the files, she hacks those accounts, for example, that hits motivation to develop those kind of users. Well, just the question is, what are you intuitive or in any social platform? If you want to connect with friends, then just create a private profile and connect with the people you know and you want to be in touch with. And don't allow any stranger in your network. If that's what you want, if you want, for example, like me, to be known and I don't know how to say it, to bring a message to create a world that's about certain topics and basically. Get to be known, I share too much information, probably, that I try to think about it in terms of cost and benefits are risk and benefit and put everything in the scale and well, I post too much information about me that I shouldn't. But I think it's worth what I get back from it. I mean, I get the attention and engagement from

The Dan Bongino Show

01:49 min | 1 year ago

Ari Fleischer: The Media Is Dividing Americans, Unfair to Republicans

"Don't you think Ari this really makes him look not only ridiculous but at a touch I mean you know as well as anyone that politics is obviously a kitchen table issue All politics eventually are local And when you get an issue like inflation where you're going to the gas pump and you actually see the price doesn't it look kind of ridiculous to say well it's really not that bad and things are going to turn around tomorrow and make you look kind of elitist and snobbish Yeah What they're saying is people can only afford to fill half their tank and they're cutting back and they know they're not going to be able to take a vacation this year and the cost of milk the cost of heating your home because of cooling your home All of it is making you a witch end They're saying those people don't matter We don't see those people Everything is fine because we have to get our boss reelected Joe Biden wants to run again That's the common politician Stan They make it all about themselves instead of about the country And Biden's policies have dug the ditch that Biden is now stuck in And part of what the reason I wrote this book is because I'm so sick and tired of a media that gives it to one side the Republican side particularly the Trump side and gives mostly a pass to the democratic side What really got me fired up to write this book was watching three years of coverage about collusion and Steele dossier and any anonymous low level anybody official in the Trump administration if they said anything that was anti Trump the press gave it a bump made a senior White House official and they did everything in their power to take Trump down And as much as you know this about me I will call balls and strikes there are things the president did I agree with things like disagree with I'm blowing the whistle on the media because they are driving this country a part that polarizing us and they are totally unfair to Republicans and especially to Donald Trump

The Dan Bongino Show

01:09 min | 1 year ago

Ari Fleischer: When Has Biden Admin Not Tried to Refine Something?

"No better time for the book The book is about media bias how they lie now Nobody knows better than you how they do it because you were at the press podium as a press secretary for The White House Dealing with this I'm sure the book addresses your experiences there but we're seeing this now and I'm wondering from your professional perspective having done this actual job one of the few people who have I don't get the benefit they get out of going up to the podium and trying to redefine recession I think at this point they're just making people angry Am I reading this wrong I mean you were in the room with some of these conversations Am I seeing this wrong Well let me put this but what has the Biden administration not try to redefine A border that's wide open they say is closed Inflation that's running wild they call transitory A president who won't want to reelection says that he will run for reelection And now they tell us a recession is not a recession They also told us that the Taliban would never overtake the Afghan army Every judgment that man has is a wrong judgment He's just lucky he's got The White House press corps to deal with otherwise he'd be really unpopular

The Dan Bongino Show

01:54 min | 1 year ago

Ari Fleischer: One Memorable Question Asked in WH Press Room After 9/11

"How is it that some of the dumbest people on Planet Earth all managed to find jobs in journalism Come on just lay it out there buddy pretend we're having too Heineken at a bar Let me let us hear it You know what I actually saw that as a secret weapon I love the live coverage of the briefings because the more they ask dumb questions the more the American people reach the conclusions they did And one of my favorite questions they asked me right after September 11th front page USA Today said special forces en route to Afghanistan And I was asked if I could confirm it And I just remember saying to myself when that reporter as in my briefing is covered live on Al Jazeera is asking me to confirm the movement of truth My God I just want to thank you The American people are cheering for me not to answer that dumb question But reporters get control of themselves So actually this is a secret weapon The more the American people saw the press the more it actually helped me Ari do you talk about September 11th at all in the book I'm curious Not in this book I did it in my first book I wrote a book which was my memoir of being at The White House called taking heat This book is really entirely about current press It's the recommended press won't do for itself And it's me blowing the whistle and really naming names about who's biased in the media Here's something I did then that you'll get a kick up I hired an opposition research firm to go in and pull the public registration of voter registration information from the 49 reporters you sit in the 49th seats in the Brady briefing room The ratio of Democrat or Republican is 12 to one The brief room doesn't look like America sink like America act like America or registered to vote like America It's a room overwhelmingly controlled by college educated democratic voters who only know how to tell stories for fellow college educated democratic voters The rest of the country is left out

The Dan Bongino Show

01:18 min | 1 year ago

Ari Fleischer: Dems Redefining Recession Is a Loyalty Play

"Saw a post on social media today I thought it was well stated A guy said listen this ridiculous effort to redefine what a recession is It's embarrassing He said but don't mistake this They know they're on video and audio and digital recordings saying a recession is essentially two quarters of negative growth They're not stupid He said they don't care The effort to redefine it is he called it a loyalty pledge to the Democrat party and I thought that's brilliant It is so right They're not dumb They know they've said the opposite thing but it's fealty to The Crown like look I'm willing to debase my character to show you how loyal I am to the cause here Your thoughts on that having lived through this Great way to put it They need politically speaking to shore up their base Going into a first midterm election for a present as unpopular as Joe Biden they know they're going to lose their house They're struggling to keep the Senate So they have to keep their base energized and they just can't have another chink hit and get wounded again after everything else that they've done has gone wrong with crime with inflation with the southern border with the box withdrawal from Afghanistan with Joe Biden's age So at a recession on top of it it's basically a trumpet call to the base don't deserve us It's not as bad as you think They're reduced to that

The Dan Bongino Show

01:59 min | 1 year ago

Ari Fleischer: If Credibility Was Their Business, the Media Would Be Different

"You know I know we have had you on before and we've kind of touched on this But why do they not care I mean it is still a business You do have to get clicks and some still sell traditional newspapers It's still a business It's not a charity despite the government's efforts to try to make it a government entity Don't they see that people just don't trust them I mean they have to see the polls you and I see where less than 10% of Republicans take these people seriously anymore They've got to understand that credibility is their business and it's just getting flushed down the toilet If credibility was their business the media would be very different The activism unfortunately has become their business Look when I stood at that podium and you were a Secret Service agent it was a different world Back then the media was still liberal We all knew that but they would at least tell you their job was to be objective and be fair Most mainstream media have now thrown that out the window They enjoy being activists They enjoy being retweeted retweeted by a Hollywood star They enjoy the number of followers they have They want to get a contract with MSNBC or CNN Why else would CNN allow its anchors It's reporters to go on the air and just launch opinion after opinion Because journalism is no longer about telling the people what's going on it's become activists for a cause And that cause became figuring out fixing fixing what the American people did in 2016 when they chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton the press said that Trump was a threat to the republic and they needed to save the republic to hell with objective journalism And they became activists and I have so many chapters and some of the examples in my book especially at The New York Times where this younger class younger generation of social warriors have taken over newsrooms older reporters really don't know what to do with this But younger reporters don't even believe in objectivity and talent two sides of a story anymore

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

03:34 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

04:49 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"It happens all the time usually. That's the case with bad people. Their parents yeah. Usually i mean you got your occasional psychopaths. Sociopaths they make the world find. You know they're in there just mixing it up deceiving manipulating making but they play a role too. I mean how boring would it be without psychopaths. Their stories become huge. Box office draws and we're attracted to them like they're so charismatic so full of shit they they plan to your allusions and they mirror you..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

04:31 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"If you're going to murder someone you've got to drive up like up there tarde. It is hard. Water lava stick shift. So it's always like Casseroles on mountains. People get tired walking up dude. Yeah in the fellas in rio are like up on the mountain which i assume you lived in for a year or two. I want you go everywhere dog. You should do a show. Like successful comedian decides to live unsuccessfully. There is some of that. I was talking to my friend. Role travel writer. Why do you stay in hostels. Like because he goes like hotels a lot he hasn't hustling. But i'm like i like pretending on poor playing that role and then if you're if me and let's say you're some hostile guy who's on gap year from college. Probably would be staying there. Yeah they're real. Oh yeah but like but if you want to go you know my. Let's go to this restaurant like that's like twelve bucks to just defer to them and just live that life. It's fun people song. You're a purist in that way. You're your orb thing. I texted it to you. Here's the thing about you. Yeah it's like you. You have like different phones like you have. Irs problems like. I don't know if i techs. Get texts number. Text an old number. Because you didn't respond and i was like i'll use compliments. Well i texted you about that. Orb chunk talk. It was so dope. It was like i was sitting there going like dad is a fuck in digital metaphor. And you didn't even get to tax. Look out prove it to you. Yeah yeah. I'm not just fucking blowing your every once in a while gets on mushrooms or something and then i texted it because i have like a few have like ari at i. Cloud are the great mike. Go to article. I mean in this one. I was like that orb shit was insane. Good and deep and then just nothing new phone number. Where's this sometimes. Your your texts comeback green or purple you got like rotary phones. I get this. I guess you get but delivered so no no for sure. Yeah sometimes you still have that number that if that that's my and then i asked wearing kinda come on the park and i was like i. Just what yeah. That was a while ago but that was like that was in march. You could have been in cambodia. You're gonna have different numbers of ecuador. now you're not around with definitely not that now. Do you ever want to see any first world's places. Yeah where did you go. I don't i don't where'd you go anywhere if they don't speak english well as a second language. I don't want to be there. I'll go to austin to see those animals. Yeah i'll go Took california to greece honest from greece. No no i meant the guy who loves the stop. Yeah stavris all the time. I think he's a better representative greek genetics than yeah with. Oh yeah great people. Yeah by bayer's way in a greek life. Yeah just because you don't know that much about me. It's true we that's the first thing you go to i. Just yeah if you're also if you agree mr panels. Yes that's true. I feel like you must have had a knowledge about them. I wouldn't know how to draw from for sure. I mean i have a knowledge of them. I grew up greek. I am greek. And also i think when you're greek like people don't have a lot of greek friends just go. He's greek. Greek is a big on that for people that hey are apple juice mark. I'll be represented representative lot. I do know i if if it wasn't for you..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

03:56 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"I drive more and also took six years off of driving. When i moved unless i get what you're saying 'cause like now i had to catch point of accidents and all and there was actually like there was no there was still a bunch of accidents in there as well. I won't even drive it. Not even driving. They found me. Yeah bikes shit. The bike shirt came to me anyway. I think there's just no explaining it. I thought i had could able to muster some explanations and now. I'm sitting here at the clarity of coffee and behalf alana. There's no there's no reason. That's just the thing i have just got lucky. We met some people in myanmar and and it was like a weekend and they're like how do you like it here a couple. No listen i know they say everybody's really nice. I get that this is just our experience. Everybody we met has been trying to get over on us or fuck it. Try to like just shake down for shit. And they're like oh. I know ever talked to the opposite experience. It was just. We caught the seven bad people. Here yeah there like we'll just never be back here. Fuck this and we all love it. Just gonna look. You got unlucky with accidents. Yeah that's just my thing. I will tell you. This is a car stores on an accident story. But it's a story of justice in england. Which was i lived up a sort of winding road that people like surface road speed in england fifty miles. An hour ref zoomed. Also if you're a pedestrian on the road euro vehicle. You don't have the right of way if you're jaywalking. It's in like america. The pedestrian still has the right of way even though they're jaywalking in europe. That is not true. You're not exactly if you're in our yard texas rules. Yeah everyone else got lucky. Today's your bad debt Yeah bad news buddy and so you have..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

03:49 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"I hid of that now. It's like no go smoke point. That's a great positive the whole thing because it's now back to cigarettes where it's like you can. If it's like it's go do it. Do no absolutely not. Yeah no one day not today and by the way could smoke this multiple times down to the nub so none of it i even when you said when i was like what's the situation you're like blow it in a cop's face. Yeah wow what a weird description blew it in a cop space like bear in mind and everyone's we're going to ninety s nostalgia if you go back to one thousand nine hundred. It'd be like listen in like six years. Gay marriage in canada america takes forever. Whatever it's very stupid and pot will be legal in twenty two years and they'll be like your shut no shop. Yeah and they'd be like pot. I and putin forty years trust the. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah and never no way will legal and also by the way black guys president and then donald trump and then they'd be like get out of here down we vet. Who was bush before obama. Yes our you from this country and you had to guess. I forget i don't care there was put remember listening once. We're podcast with you. I think it was bert kreischer. And you didn't know if there had been in an election like who's the current vice something like that. I can barely remember. That was one of the local elections. Not the major ones but like the it was. It was like a presidential election. And you guys. Couldn't remember mitt romney or a john mccain or joe biden's like barack obama is the and what was even more maddening as it was something like twenty fifteen. I think we could know that. Even the vice president. Maybe that or i forget i. I would like to hear what that was. I remember it now a little bit and we're both like as we were trying to remember. We should know this. Oh rob is we should know this. It's so weird podcasts. All the time..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

04:17 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"Okay okay yeah and it's one of those things where it worked out really well. It could actually sounds like very cool but it's a very different talking about like. Would you expect that of the social contract where it's like. An album is different than a special It can sound grittier. Yeah imagine yourself in a place. I like glasses clinking. I love way prefer comedy albums because it's also like you can hear the jokes. I don't have to look at us. Like i don't wanna see like sets and all that sort of stuff i just want to like. You gotta use your imagination more to Puts you more like you had a focus on it more. It's a weird one. I wonder if we're going to stick with this specials model or it's gonna check like everyone just puts. It's going to be open. It's going to be opened business. But it's i think it's also going to be like i don't think these are negatives but i think it's like the good ones out but like you know it's like you can put out any music album. You want it for a long time. But it wasn't like how we find the new arcade fire. It's really good. I don't know something. Like even an unsigned band. It'll be harder to get well known but like you can just if it's really good people talk about. Yeah that's the thing and it's also it'll be much narrower lisa lowe who got the big. Everyone loved her but then like they're like oh that was just hit..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

05:20 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"Yeah but this elbow looks worse. Works way better. It's one looks way better does not. And this is far as it's going. Wow what on the american dentistry versus other countries. Dentistry were to focus on the looks of a tooth and not the function of it. That sounds like what do you mean. No don't whiten your teeth. It's still works for food so like don't worry about that shit villa cavity but don't like get a new tooth in there. I don't enjoy having a metaphor on my body. But yeah that's where i've ended up. I guess have you ever hit somebody. Oh when i was in vancouver. I got fucking trainer doctor when i broke an ankle and whistler oh and he was i put a cast on and then i got back here like why they put a hard cast on us in like put you up way harder. Walk around february and new york with a hard cast. And i'm like. I don't know like we put self cast on it. You just strap it on. And i think he wanted to train somebody on me and i can't make sense. Yeah i haven't hit. People hit a person person. That's the worst ultimate worse heating up pedestrian in a car. Yeah i have been a my first accident. Was i saw girl biking home with my guitar from a guitar store at like seventeen. That's a garlic. And i did it like a hard turn like this. Can i get a two meter meter a like a old man driving like a big cadillac boat. Just right he was going slow enough. They didn't hurt very much. And i had a big guitar and my back. Which absorbed would you find the hood a felon the hood and then rolled onto the ground. And they were so freaked. Okay okay find. Your hours could easily get one hundred. I didn't i at least got. Some soft. Candies are used their kleenex box. Explicable keep in the back window. Yes so far to reach to blow your nose doing. Yeah no far back bad drivers vision. Its way from the front seat in the back giant cars. To then i i remember. I biked over to that girl. And i was like i just got hit by a car and she was kind of like. Yeah whatever and i was like bitch which i thought there for me. So heartbroken then biked home and left a voicemail for mode. We're hey i got hit by a car. I'm gonna take a nap. Came home very concerned as well. That didn't hit somebody at a. Oh my god. I just remember now. This is super cool thrift store..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

06:23 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"Mean i was going to deny it but that wasn't a lucky. Guess you know. They must have already known at some point. They're not just going to random. People go anywhere else drugs. So i was like. Yeah i did so. And they're like super illegal here. Yeah obviously i'm really scared. The way mall cops in general you go fuck themselves. They don't have any power whatsoever. I was with dice once and he was smoking in a mall. I think at the beverly center. And i was like what are you doing. Man you get smoking in a mall and he goes really. I'm smoking so and then and then some all cop comes up. Is you gonna put that cigarette out. Okay and he gets dancing and then walked away. I'm like trump no. I smoked a cigarette. Point iceman point so But these mall of america cops top-shelf although shitty mall cops the best of the best. They have their own jail and stuff. So i had to talk out my way out of the mall cop and with the puck and state trooper and so rick brunson on the phone. He lives in edmonton comedy. We got on the phone with me. Because i'm gonna talk to. They're looking at you so what i say. I got yelling. I guess. I don't know because first of all i don't give a shit like i know there's an early booking for you but we'll have you back to worry about it but I can talk you out of trouble with the mall cops. They wanted to banned from the mall forever. But that's not going to happen but what did you hide acid and m. and it was like no is that where people are saying because yeah no that'd be help keep saying that sounds way cooler but no marijuana at j. crew and he goes. What is marijuana breast trips. He goes they make your breath smell good. No they do not smell awful and and he goes well. Listen okay. you're for sure going to jail I get you of trouble. The mall the minneapolis trooper. Like you're going to jail. But i need you to favor men next time you come. You gotta bring me one of those restaurants like all right fine and so i got back. They start calling like a headlight. Anyone else in town that could headline the show. Because i'm not going to be able to you know right then. Some fan by the way came over fans. Give me like weed on the road which is pretty cool and some lady interpersonal arctic. I talked to because the cops behind me by five feet. And i was just like like you know when you open up the door. Cops everything all right. Everything's had to say without saying it. You know and so it was like it was just swedish fish so So anyway so there's minneapolis trooper. Explain to me what happened here. I was like i hide. You know marijuana across the country like different areas to give people experience what it's like to live in california and he was like you sell this stuff mc no i don't sell it. I just give it away johnny. Appleseed johnny appleseed fuck sir. That's what i said i said. How'd you find out that i did that. And he goes. Here's your twitter feed man. It's just a list of clues. It's just you going here the drugs i'm about to hide and then the next one like here's where i'm hiding drugs and fucking seventeen clues on how to find the place where you hear the drug. It's like. I'm not getting my fucking detective badge for this. I guess what happened was the i guy to follow. The clue went in there. Found it right to the underworld and they left and then somebody else was like two minutes behind. And they went in there and they'll go nothing. Say they must be here somewhere. Fucking rolling shit around in the underwear aisle the crew. It's got kicked out and then five minutes later somebody else will come in and talk talking drugs. It happened like eight or nine times too though winner the worst terrorist attack of all time so then somebody called one of the employees. It was like hey. I saw this drugs. Being here thing is super easy to find me and so this cop is like all right so explain to me. It's marijuana inside insider breastroke. He asked me to make your breast mill. Oh and i think he thought i was just like a good person i guess and i was. I didn't have any ill-intention. I wasn't selling trying to make a profit. I was just giving it to people. Johnny appleseed and he goes he goes so explain this to me. Was it a real breast trip or is it a marijuana breast. I know marijuana trip and he goes. Was it a real breast strip. Was it a marijuana restaurant. And i was like you know. No no. you're gonna get what i just said. The bucket answer idiot fucking hard of hearing marijuana breast strip. He goes no idiot. Listen to what. I'm saying out loud where people can hear me was a real restaurant or is it a marijuana restaurant and i was all right. Oh man i misunderstood the question completely. The last time did not get that at all. Now that i hear a completely. I talked to strike from the record. My other. two answers completely rog That was a real restaurant. I hit a real breastroke. Jacaranda where i'll and he goes. Well then that's just mischief. So i don't see a crime hair. Go apologize the manager of the j. crew and he let me off and that is when i figured out what white privileges..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

07:14 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"Fla take a kid. Rock sat on now impossible. Hope you enjoyed it. Let me tell you my story guys going to sit here and everything up can already tell already you about to get a profile shot at now Talking to get up and play with a nice wine runner not not play with your dog up. Get out and play with. Your dog cannot be stealing guy right over shoulder. The bench okay. You're doing it you're doing. You're doing it you ask you to. How do i know his game. Well wearing ladies shoes. What makes a lady shoe the related talking about. Let me tell you first of all. Thank you very much. Kim gucci flip-flop. That's a song. That went out with Sent me down a rabbit hole. Bad baby oh my god. You should hear dr phil. What a fucking toolbox is. She was like i'm a fucking fourteen year old. You sent me to witness a murder and you like like i'm out of control a fucking minor you asshole. I love her. she's great. Oh my god she's wild she's got that fucking crazy. Let let me tell you a fucking cheating story jealousy It's about to start talking pouring rain. Well you do what you can. This park is about to clear out. Fuck you sh. I shouldn't talk stuff. I record in the first one. It was so good. Yeah i'm right about the leave. This in my pocket made sure to put it on. Hold and we're all going to go home What was i going to say my profile now sort of under a tree so there was this chick i was dating. She was twenty. I was twenty eight first date. We both realized how old each other was. I might have been thirty actually because we wanted to go bar towards and she was like And she was like autumn. Ide- what damage what. How old are you twenty. Oh it's like why hold are you. I'm a thirty inches. Like i look for major. I did before this happened. i was like And then we'd just like look each other like we still go on a date. Because yeah i guess so. Yeah let's did. We dated for a while anyway. Well as their relationship music show brazilian band eight piece band. And we're all talking afterwards. She's way more social was way more social than that was and we all went out and we all were talking at the bar. This guy's touring touring Pick from the gig smell in la. We'll talk with the bar and they said We're we're hanging on our hotel later. If you guys want to come we maybe with my thing is actually but you know. I'm not social with new people but was like you know if you want to. Let's try it so we're going home and i was like did you wanna go hang out with them because now no it's okay but she was really talking to them and hit it off. You know so We dropped her off at home and it was like You don't want to stay home in paint. She's an artist. Just stay home and pain okay. And dropped her off places near the comedy store went to comedy or afterwards. Eleanor and dice. Were there and i was talking to them saying. Hi where you come from a date. Oh why why did you come to compensate online. Show over there. You know fucking cracking. I wanna go home and paint really. She wanted invite you in. I was like no what did you do. I told her told them told him. The story told the story about. She's not wanna go. hang out with the brazilians. The band She instead want to go home. Pay a dice like you know. She's getting fucked right now. It's like no dude because guarantee getting fucked right now and it was like no he'd been around longer than i was. I was new to la. Thirty i might have been like twenty seven. Twenty eight was a yeah. I might have been twenty eight. I think it was before dated her. Yeah yeah yeah so Maybe even twenty seven twenty five. Yeah so Twenty seven and twenty eight. And he's he's getting fucked by that guy. I'm like no way. Is i guarantee go find. Where's a car park. go see. your car won't be there. I new cars parked in a garage. Straight ahead down this one way street into their garage and spot was right in front and i could see i was. I could see where a car was. So i drove to her spot. I looked at her car. Was not there and i was like motherfucker and i was just feel jealousy. I'm gonna get so fucking so great now got to put everything away putting this away and And i was like. What was that hotel. I think it was under the sunset boulevard or santa monica boulevard. I didn't know what was the west end or something Fucking shit oh. It's lightning great. Ben doesn't give a shit. So i went up and down santa monica boulevard sunset boulevard until i found that hotel i found which one was driving for about an hour and a half i drove. Hey buddy how you doing yeah. You're feeling what. I'm feeling right despite a mistake because might be a huge mistake until we finally found it. Hey buddy you're scared. And then i drove all the way back and i think it's that one best western and i drove into the parking lot and i drove up and down to the garage until i found it. I found her car. And that's what jealousy will do. It'll keeping your car for fucking hours until you find what you were thinking about. Two fronts are related shows. Oh yeah i got a second wind. And i wanna go over there looking back. There's no way she's okay with them. She had very minimally about buddy you scare. You're scared you're going to be on me. I can tell you about all right. Let's get out of here. Let's get out here. Yeah it's a mistake to be out here dude. You should my first podcast. My i was great. I first podcast recorded. It was so good. Because that's the episode. Don't forget follow. Kim comment broad topics. I one was so good. Follow me on shapiro dot com all my torture up there. Hartford is my this week. Get tickets of his any left and then in july providence. Baltimore long island I nobody i know i know. Okay tacoma all these places go to ship dot com for tickets. Keep sending photoshop's in follow kim jong very much kim. Oh and don't forget. I'm a fucking huge. Luis gomez fan. I'm a huge lewis. Go fan anything we said in this podcast. I rider diaper him. He's always out my back so all allow someone else to talk. But i reviewed to make sure there's nothing too bad in there because there's not he's a fucking great.

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

05:01 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

07:36 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"All before we even start where here this brand new studio too much content studios. Thank you very much for having us. This is big. j's old apartment. It looks so much better now. There's no more dank in the common room like not wait which you get that kodak thing. That wasn't jay. Was it camera that he left it here. He was gonna take it back. Chris and stuff. That's here that that skunk fest. Two thousand sixteen thing is that jays. Yeah okay but it's so much nicer an air. I was always like yeah. You gotta leave this place man. There's no light and now there's plenty of light it was j blocking the light was dark soul sucking the life out of them kind of like the under of nfl player to standing in the window. He just needed the town. Step to the left zooms that it would just be like. Why are you so dim turn on a light because it's off like what it no one else. Everyone else was like okay. Kobe ties we got by some lighting equipment. These guys here too much content made a whole fucking studio with leading equipment. This great every sunday morning and here do you record your pockets here. Me and alex. Ben recording the podcast. Here it's fine because we can smoke. I let us smoke in here. Told you how you can smoke it. Guess digital to now. You told me the secret. And i'm going to go do that next time. I'm going to take another step. I'm going to do it in front of ralph and be like you said i could all those interns there have no idea What ralph says. So they're all sort of scared of him and the comic they're all sorts of new so you could just take advantage. I realize that you know like stuff. We gotta gus digital employer here. Don't tell them the secret. Well get the tank. Everybody might guest today. Is kim conga for. that's professional. never that professional kim. I had this idea to do this. Podcast with you. What's the name of your pockets. Promoter right out the gate My name and my podcast is broad topics. You can find it on anywhere that connects topics of the nets. Minorities are on t. o. P. i. x. Anywhere podcasts are available. I tunes google play. Youtube stitcher gas digital network With my co host alex karl-otto. We have frank here my producer. Who endorse me for legitimate skanks. Parts of it. So listen everybody. Over the summer. I was starting to think like ideas for podcasts. You are one of the wildest people i know. And i heard a stereotype. It's a racial stereotype. And then i'm like. Oh you fit in perfectly with that. Just the wild fucking latino check right chongo. Have you ever heard that term. I've i've been called that at me as i was doing research. That's exactly what i mean. Yeah sometimes not. You're you're as the miami. No i was raised even worse. Like the worst place to put a puerto rican is central florida with the redneck white. He hebrew florida lake. Swampy like no. Yeah no i mean it was just like very where i grew up. I was just very gangster. Black people or Rednecks like that was my town. Mostly i was about three and a half hours away from miami. We're there tons of latinos. They're not really wasn't nope. You don't wanna heard lat next. I thought that was like a Convention for latino people like hip hop artist spanish. He just does the same stuff he just translated. They're all that by the way. That's indian studies. That was From a latino the worst latino really hard to do mail d. Amax i can do women pretty well. Female the amax. They're just gonna do a female indian accent now Was i gonna say fox a heads up in boston. Yeah you're saying. I i'm puerto rican. I'm a chunga. We're known to be crazy. The wild latina. You have always been that thing. Which i had a god-like respect and fear of god like respected fear of me. That's honestly an honor clip. That so i looked it up. Yeah exactly clip rink minute. Making a shirt fear. No fear himself. Was this figure it out. Yeah it's i don't know if it's florida general or but when i looked up like crazy latino check which is a specific type. I wanna get later. Like what the other types of like ethnic crazies are but like i found chunga and it was like you used to be pejorative. Which means derogatory mean stronger. Oh yeah i. I would not have been able to use that word before this morning. Like never heard of it but it's but then they said now it's like all these kind of queer where they're taking it like. no no. we're stronger like it's like a proud thing. Okay okay where does that come from chunga. Sure okay. I think it's it's to me when i hear it's less puerto rican and more like I think it's what they refer to as like mexican women tonga's i think so. It's like big gold earrings with your name across it. That's their version of tola toll. Holo that's what i was thinking. Maybe that is me. So they said in in miami hearings but the m. oh yeah their faces. They said the version of that for florida was like basketball jerseys loose basketball shorts like below the knee. Not the who bearings. It's like every region has their own version of that puckett. I know we used to wear these shoes. That look like metal gated. Do you remember the metal shoes. They had the flowers on the top of them. They came in like eighteen different colors. Oh god they were so puerto rican like i specifically remember seeing a hispanic girls the ones that we did have in my school. Like take them off to fight like it was just an image of them. Those being kicked off really quick to get him off quick traction from like let's leakers. Would afford now. It's kind of like a hood thing to fight barefoot if you got flip flops on remember that girl baby she made that song coochie flops. Fucking hit you bitch and my socks are don't remember. That was a great line. Fuck it. I'll hit you bitch and my socks that is good. It's called gucci flops. By bad baby. Girl from dr phil at the big tits. That just turned eighteen out the best side. She puts out the best. She's the greatest. Rapper alive. And i'm not kidding. She's talented as fuck. I wouldn't call her lady. But i wouldn't go lady. Gucci flipflops writes in this notebook like notes like gucci flipped. Loves like a for real old. Jill texting people song gucci flipflops. Wow that's going out and she's also like a roaster. Did you ever see when Spayed posted a picture with her. He was excited that he met her and he was like. I'm the catch me outside girl and then she re posted the picture. Mp just put.

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

07:41 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

03:26 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

07:32 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"Under field. It's not about religion. It's about your sense of belonging to the earth and to all of existence. And there's maybe we should save this for when we do another time so this was like an introduction to people. There's also the way you would like. I'm putting booze in my body. So i can be more in tune with this whatever. There's also like plenty of other cleansing things you can do for your body to keep you. It's not just about like turning off the cell phone right. Yes there are. There are men. let's see well. I can come up with a quick laundry list of things that lower the frequency In increase the density and This is not to say that slow and dense frequencies are bad. That's like saying you know. Blue is bad whereas green is good in you know everything has its place and as a consciousness which is made of photons and electrons up of light you know so hard to put this initial period of time Learning so it's tough. Yeah as being. We need to be anchored in physical dense form with a slower vibration or else we just be floating up back into spirit. Why have a body. Why even get born into a body unless you're going to be in the body and do body thinks so i'm not saying don't ever have booze and don't ever watch tv show don. I'm just saying that when. I need to teach or when i need to do something. Or if i'm going to work with the baby or from when i have some Energy healing work to be done something like that. I can't drink before it because any alcohol lowers. The snow's. My vibration increases the density. And i can't lift my conscience. They can't activate the higher chaka's as well to be able to have the higher dimensional vision and the higher dimensional hearing the sensitivity. And my hands to be able to sense. What's happening in someone's physical or emotional or mental self timer. Right before i i wouldn't do. I wouldn't eat spaghetti workout or before like much. But then after a long hike it might be really good to crop up. exactly exactly. That's exactly right for instance. Every time i do a class. I have now i have now given in and realize that this is simply the truth for me. I keep chocolate by my chair. And i have chocolate at the end. And it's so funny because two of my teachers mentioned that you know when you're going to do a class you have some chocolate for afterwards. The theobromine does something beneficial to help replenish a person who has been expanding their consciousness. It's like Carbs after a hike or carbs after a workout eighteen here in their chocolate contains. Something that helps replenish when your consciousness is being expanded so beforehand Right kind of keep the cell phones at a distance. Don't play harsh music. My god music music affects us so powerfully annette every single level do not play harsh music. Before if you're trying to achieve something expansive and real and true and beautiful. Don't play music with words that are not life-giving or or music this discordant play music this discordant when you want dance and laugh and have fun. I'm not saying discordant use bad. I'm saying choose the right tool for the job. Yeah i hear you so the right tool for the so before something like this. You play music. You watch a harmonious tv show. You don't watch the documentary about the lions eating zebras. You watch the documentary about bunnies and flowers or whatever you choose the right tool for the job and keep yourself in place of centered. Where you become awareness. Excuse me you become aware of the Patterns of harmony between everything retro foods would hope with a two yet so much so much. So yeah i don't i don't like to do red meat before like a workshop or something because my digestion just goes totally into that and or a g processed food that takes all your digest ending. Got like bloated stomach. And you're burping things that's Just practicality garlic is so strong that all my senses keep going back to garlic. So if i'm trying to sit and meditate and try to achieve something and i'm like oh god. My garlic breath is killing me. So just is really basic is really practical is not like you know a grew sitting here saying oh you must not touch garlic. Newest practicalities burping a garlic. When you're trying to learn how meditate you know you're gonna distract your own self. Yeah so just farting when your conscious of it causes me this deal with that. Yeah what's the name of the church. What's the name of the school. The school of peace called the school of peace Currently is old website. That has a lot of old information on it from just things that i'm not currently practicing Yeah i have a a ministry program. This advertise on it. Which i'm not currently teaching anybody. But it's for people who cannot align with any religion people are unable to find any religion that they align with and but they would still enjoy doing weddings. Doing baby welcoming ceremonies doing funerals and being allowed to go into hospitals to help someone who's dying all that kind of thing. Yeah so i have been ordaining people for ten years to be peace ministers the church of flying spaghetti muster universal peace university to anyone who their theories anyone who wants to deigned. That's conscious god. Whatever telling you you should be ordained so the fact that you're filling out this form in the bag is your qualification. They have a real point there and they have turned themselves into somewhat of a substantial organization and they sell a lot of materials that can be used and they have a really good point. However i after two years of training chains you legalities in your state How do you actually create a ceremony. That's real how do you create a close the kitchen. It's ten minutes okay. Do you create a deep emotional experience during this and that how do you. How do you tend to a person who's grieving anyway. But i'm trying to say i'm not currently offering up after it is there. There were a lot of demand. I probably would offer it again but i'm just. I'm just currently not in the united states. Awful lot more. We can see what heck of a lot more and a lot of. It is on the on the website so thanks everybody for listening so dark. You probably can't see no i think. Look in the video going from light. Yeah let's let's talk more about over dinner. Yeah but.

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

07:25 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"Mostly this is why every continent has pyramids all over it you know every carson that has mexican parents. Wh what what does that has pyramids has pyramids. I mean everyone has pyramids And the the us has pyramids. I'm trying to remember where they are somewhere in the the midwest But they're you know they're mostly covered over by yours of sand drifting or whatever it is so i. Yeah and. I believe that before that there were other civilizations that came and went and we just we just think we're the greatest thing and i don't think we have. I don't think we know what we're talking about. Maybe you're right. I mean my buddy says that I was telling them what i told you about. Those people i met in amazon will try those Dance around a little bit but like But he was like. Oh yeah he has a that. They were way advanced. Amazon and the whole jungle was actually cultivated and then when they were wiped out by disease or whatever the cultivated plants that helped with this or that just growing wild the became the jungle over. Grew everything But it's like. Yeah that was that was like graft and you know an created. All these things very likely to increase they. They have found with flyovers using the current sonar technology and stuff. They've found foundations of buildings and civilizations in cities inside the jungle deep in deepen some of the anchor. Anchor watt like nearby there where they're like. Oh there's more here. Let's do the fiber big big weapon. Delia and those like those The what is the dogon tribe in africa that that talks about their own safety just casually talking about their ancestors gave him all the star maps. And that's why they know we're all stars are all the all those people you know they say. Oh yeah well it came from our ancestors and then we come into no no no. We're just now you know. Yeah our heads are kind of the. We have a severe case of mixed cranial inversion professor in college my first year college and said what separates us from animals completely from the animals and everyone made their guesses like the thumb. Like no. there's some species with with not most. But you know some Some horses rape you know there's like this like traits of ours and everything but what's the only one is that we will learn from our ancestors and now i'm guessing for refused my ssn. We have the option of our ancestors. How 'bout that we can. We can reviews interesting god. There's so much shit here and we have barely begun so like okay. This is a good like jump off or whatever. How do people like learn more about this. In general i would they get well if anyone is seriously interested. I can give my website okay. Does school of peace dot com school apiece dot com school of peace dot com. My school Right now it We are trying desperately without enough adequate help to get the thing finished and to upload all my classes and that kind of thing so that people can do that but they can guide your closely before too long classes in all these types of consciousness. Which will the classes will be clearly labeled if you want to do this if you wanna do that also Most of my classes come because of a request so if somebody says i heard this podcast and now i want to see. Can you teach me this. Specific thing if i can. If it's something that i can do then i would certainly this is. This is what i do. I would form a class based on this one person's request and say anybody else wanna join it and if nobody else does it would be something that i would do. Individually for that person. If you want to join it will become a workshop class or whatever at this point on zoom and if it's an infant somebody said can you help me i. I don't know lifts five hundred pounds you'd be like oh that's not my extra. I don't know i don't want to do that or something mentally. We actually don't know. Let me see that can find someone for you. Or i have no problem saying i don't know something i am. I have no interest in being all things to all people any mechanic who's like I don't need to fix right now. Or like hey. I don't have the know how to fix us. That i'll do whatever you said. You're not just my money. Yeah yeah yeah. No no no no. I'm the opposite of that. People like to have sessions with me. And i go. My goal is to put myself on. A business is to teach you how to do the stuff yourself so that you will then go and teach other people. I don't care. did you teach you one person. Teach your friend. Teach your kids. Somebody teaches already. You know you zoom. That's that's i do stuff on zoom. Would you record them. Put them up. Like i do record them and put them up unless unless their personal personal things for groups but Yeah that's such a market for that. Yeah well this is a time when people i feel like all these years all the holy cow forty five years forty five years. I've been studying and working with us working with beans another dimension. That's a whole other. If you want to have more talks with me. I'm i'm on zoom. You know if you wanna do more podcast but I just work with with a lot of different sources. You know regular teachers here all kinds of different things to do. Whatever i can and offer Things to people. And i've been doing that for for forty five years. Learning more probably forty six years. Maybe forty seven by now i. I haven't counted up lately. But i continually learn because the more i work on myself and practice because i do i do what i talk about the more i do that. The more large and expanded become the more couplet can say i can receive more. I can hold more one of the one of the things that are really work with people on is the ability to hold higher frequency energies within themselves. Because if if you and i were to do advanced meditation right now that you had never done before you would probably be so tired afterwards and you'd want to sleep for two days and i'm not exaggerating. Yes if if i if i guided you through bringing in higher energies into yourself you would feel on top of the world you would feel ecstatic expanded you go. Wow and then you would like sleep for a day this. I mean we've talked about an with my friend but this is exactly what has mushrooms. Yes where you're mentally completely drained on. It is great and the next day. It's like i can't. You can't count to three right because you can't hold. Don't have the container hold it. You can have the memory of what you experienced. Recall it and this brings us to. I'm so glad you said that. This is the point of this conversation and we covered so much ground without the crutch part one of those to another part like another. We can do that. it's important to build your energy system. Which is well okay..

Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

08:55 min | 2 years ago

"ari" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

"There was some beautiful story. He has a book called autobiography of a yogi. Wants to learn about to that at the bottom of the. It's an awesome book. I love it so it's just fascinating it's true and it's fascinating and explains why did this guy come from india to a country. That's the complete opposite of his country to teach people who'd never heard of anything but he was talking about and he had decided beforehand that he would teach all of his yoga teachings in christian language because he felt that the majority of the united states was were practising christians in the nineteen thirties. And i don't know he may have been right. I'm not what do you think it was mounted account. Put your mind in his mind but like was something like oh does this like desire for like none of them have yet so i can go in there. You know celtics not sell it to everybody but give it to everybody. It was very beautiful. I love this book. And i've read about three times but it was a long time ago the last time i don't recall. I think his teacher may be sent him saying You know the word from on high. The got from god and meditation. Something like that is that somebody needs to help these people and and it's time for someone to do it. And so you're the one off and so divert up in that tree sitting on that branch. I can finally see it So uganda came and he started. I think was a theological society. Anyway and he taught taught taught and that was in meditation. I came and he wore clothes from india and people who followed him. if they became advanced practitioners. In yoga and meditation they would wear unusual things and so people that oh they're weirdos they follow this guy who has long hair from another country that sort of thing and then in the nineteen sixties For some reason or another influx of yogis such as maharishi mahesh yogi and just a bunch of other came over I mean there's whole bunches of them that came over in the sixties and seventies and some of them. We're not strong enough to maintain their path and they succumbed to you know people. Wanting to give the money support them you know by them houses and cars and women throwing themselves at them and they and they had been you know in ashrams other life you know and their couldn't resist and so some of them got bad reputations because it was they just couldn't quite hold their center in this alternate buddhist the tree and he's like they gave him like temptation. Fm station and he was like no but like he went one inch away from saying yes right. Yes exactly is tough. And so some didn't some didn't so this is this is what meditation is. And no no. Hokey hokey image. Though they have long hair and the ropes. Sit around and you know. Stick your legs in the air. Do yoga things you know with an easy rider. Remember the other like what. Are you doing long hair. Beat the shit them because like what's your long hair hippies. Imagine a yogi hair white on white and wearing doodo things that are folded around. He's wearing a dress or something Anyway so this was the origin. However i'm not talking about adopting an indian lifestyle or any meditation is at its simplest is where you sit quietly in your comfy chair. You'd be a really normal and just close your eyes and listen to yourself. Breathe really simply. Just your breath goes bernie. Breath goes down and you just feel the breath go up and down and after a while hopefully your normal loops of thoughts and awareness will stop. And if they don't stop you can move beyond a simple breath up and down to using a mantra. You don't have to have a word in sanskrit that a indian guy whispered in ear in secret doesn't have to be anything like that. You can just say. I like the word peace or i like the phrase i am free or i like the phrase anything else every watch seinfeld surrounding hilarious so so you just keep saying that over and over again find that just sitting and listening to breath is impossible and you feel itchy ansi and want wiggle and you want to think about what to make for dinner or something. Then yeah you better call in a mantra. Because you're not getting very far. He just won't go away no matter how hard you work. This support your brain. Your empty fills up in high. Saw like wait a minute. I don't need to be doing this right now. So yeah the main thing is just pick something that is beneficial to you and is different from what you normally do. That will stop the loops. We're still like in a first grade conversation about this. We're still really foundational up. Okay please a little bit But meditation being a way to stop the loops in your mind. There are other forms of meditation. A lot of people particularly in this year at this time Have a lot of anxiety and stress issues and they have a lot of anger towards people whom they dearly loved. What was it ten months ago people. They dearly love now. Are there mortal enemies. Because i'm allow one wears a mask this the other ways a mask that way you know something like that completely i gotta hand it to whoever's out there trying to divide divide people against one another. They've done a good job. I'm just. I'm just i think there's actually a separate they weren't it's like the media and algorithms that go on like have incentive to get you upset because that'll make you log on more. There is an all kinds of stuff like that. It also has to do with buying more things just has to do with craziness that we don't actually care about. And that are not particularly good for us. But that's a different subject. So if that is somebody's issue they could do another form of meditation. Which is here's your heart over here. Okay on your left side of your chest if you just. There's an energy center in line with the spinal column that is on a level with your heart and so you just breathe into that porsche or this is a matter of the actual heart or this energy center. That's related to the heart. Breathe in and breathe out and you might just use the word. Love forgiveness compassion. Joy love forgiveness compassion joy. Dan always think title. And so that will cause the heart center that will cause love to be stimulated. There is another thing that can be done because to me if you get love flowing into you instead of your thoughts if you get the thoughts quiet and you get love flowing. Love is kind of the universal lubricant that allows all good things to start working and flowing when they didn't before so another way to get love. Flowing is to place your hand on your heart and put a smile on your lips when you put a smile on. Your lips stimulates the flow of endorphins. So there's a physical response. You don't have to be happy. You don't have to imagine you're happy. You just have to shape your this after your lists like a smile. You don't even have to place your hand on your heart. just breathe and maybe you're thinking something like love forgiveness compassion joy or whatever words you like breathing in and out that causes the flow of endorphins. Which make you feel fuzzy. Warm and kinda happy may take a few minutes depending on where you're coming from. You may be like a bunch of wild horses that escape their corral and it's going to take a few minutes to get them into the corral you know what i mean to hurt the wild horses into the corral where you're just like this another thing you can do is called the oud breath and yoga I call it the darth vader breath..