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Recipes for Success
Self-Care: Giving the World the Best of You, Not the Rest of You
"Always like to start at the beginning which is to define what actually is self -care and I'm actually just back from a weekend away where I went over to Edinburgh and I think the analogy that they always do in every airplane safety demonstration is really apt when you come to self -care which is oxygen mask analogy. So when they're giving a safety demonstration they always talk about how if it was the case that cabin pressure was to fall that you should put on your oxygen mask first before you attempt to help people around you and it's a very good analogy I suppose for self -care that you want to be looking at like what you need to do to give you oxygen and then you look outwards to see who else can I support now that I've sort of made sure that I'm protected and I can continue and I think it's a really good analogy and it's like this kind of left of you and that's a really important distinction I've learned over the years as well you know when people say a glass is half full or a glass is half empty and often what we do with self -care is you know like maybe we get a facial or we get our nails done and like we're topping up this glass or jug of water right but like if you keep pouring out of the jug without replenishing then all you're really doing yes you might fill it up but all of a sudden a week or two later is back to like dangerously low levels again so often what you actually want to try do is have that jug overflowing right so you're always full but the excess runs off and that's what fills other people's cups and really what that's talking about is sort of making sure that like you yourself feeling are good you're full of energy you're full of the joys of life maybe you're full of gratitude and then you give your excess to other people so it's not like you fill up and then you give that away and you're constantly in this fill it back up phase which sort of has a lot of effort attached to it it's rather like can you get yourself to a good place where you actually nearly have like so much that it's overflowing and you can easily give that excess away because it's not it's not detrimental to you because you have enough to continue to fuel yourself as well i really like that analogy like just as much as the oxygen mask one and i think what that reminds me it's self -care is not like one and done right it's like something that you always are sort of making sure that you have time for yourself to do that because you don't want to be trying to fill other people's gases from an empty jug nor do i want to feel that i'm having to take away from myself to give to other people because that can put you on a path towards resentment as well so what actually is self -care about like bubble baths and facials and you know lighting a candle and i enjoy doing all of those things so there's nothing wrong with those things as well but they're very surface level self -care and there is kind of two layers of self -care one is the surface piece but one is much deeper as well and it gets related into understanding your needs and values and living a life aligned to them it's your time it's your boundaries it's maybe having an understanding of your priorities so it's also when we think about self -care is making sure that we were maybe hitting on items that are from both of those lists so the surface level is the sort of relax rejuvenation the rest pieces could be a nap in the afternoon or it could be like i said going to the spa it could be shopping if that's what you enjoy it could be getting a nice cup of coffee out and just being able to you know sit in the sunshine and drink it or sit by yourself and drink it and have nobody disturb you probably harder self -care pieces are the the deeper ones right so it's the boundaries so saying no to people saying no to maybe even spending time with people who drain your energy like that's self -care in itself or if that's not possible it's maybe distancing yourself a little bit from those people i think that's particularly apt coming up to christmas because we do find ourselves in situations where we're spending time with people that perhaps we don't at other times of the year and it can be a very difficult and draining time of year for people it can be things like hobbies i chatted to shaz about this back in season one it's sort of something that we've lost a little bit as our world has got like so convenient and so automated and we're so busy doing all of these other things but like having time to do something that you're passionate about or you're interested in or that engages your creativity and your curiosity is actually really really important because it's carving out time for yourself and often these hobbies can be incredibly self -soothing because you don't think about other things that are going on in your life you're just thinking about not dropping a stitch or you last week and she was talking about how when she hunt horse riding she was literally you know you have to have full concentration because you didn't want to fall off the horse and hurt yourself so hobbies can actually be a really important part of our self -care routines as well
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Fresh update on "able" discussed on a16z
"Right. Hi, listeners. This is Steph. If you're looking for even more discussions around the future of tech, specifically AI, then I want to let you know about a special AI series from our friends over at the Masters of Scale podcast. Their new series grants you a VIP pass to engaging conversations with some of the brightest minds in the field of AI, including luminaries such as computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, entrepreneur Mustafa Saliman, and adept co-founder David Luan, alongside other trailblazers in the realm of artificial intelligence. And the best part is you'll walk away with game-changing analysis from Masters of Scale host and legendary investor Reid Hoffman, along with brand new insights on how to use AI in your very own work. So be sure to search Masters of Scale wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show to hear each episode in this limited series on AI. And let's double click on that element of self-play and potentially its synthetic data. And to underscore that, right now many of these models do have an element of reinforcement learning, but that comes from human feedback, right? So RLHF is one of the methods that these different labs are using to orient the existing models, but obviously that requires humans in the loop. And so what you're getting at is potentially the ability to obfuscate that and have AIs in the loop. Can you speak a little bit more to that idea of self-play and the ability to create synthetic data? What does that unlock other than just scale and speed, or is that enough for us to get to those next levels? Yeah, scale and speed are pretty valuable. Yes, definitely. I think if you just go back to first principles on how these models are trained and get better, the rate at which they improve is remarkably predictable. They're predicted by a set of AI scaling laws that basically say, hey, you've got three ingredients to producing machine intelligence. You've got compute, you've got data, and you've got sort of algorithmic innovation. And I think what self-play and synthetic data do is they allow the scaling of these models much more rapidly because whereas with reinforcement learning from human feedback, you're kind of constrained by the number of humans you can have provide that feedback, synthetic data, and in particular, the types of AI feedback scoring that we're talking about here is sort of orders of magnitude more scale. It's not 2x or 3x. The sheer constraint is actually really how much compute do you have to run these AI models to do all this scoring. To make this a little bit more concrete, it might be helpful to just talk a little bit about reinforcement learning from human feedback, the 1.0 version of this world. A common example of reinforcement learning from human feedback is a system like ChatGPT or Dolly or MidJourney. When MidJourney generates an image or when ChatGPT generates a message for you, there's a little thumbs up, thumbs down button, and they track when users give you a thumbs up or thumbs down, and they use the number of times people give thumbs up or thumbs down and use that as a signal for reinforcement learning to improve the kinds of messages it gives you next time around. The reinforcement learning from AI feedback in this case replaces that thumbs up or thumbs down from users like you and me and instead substitutes that with increasingly smarter AI models that these labs have built to then provide much more granular scoring than just the thumbs up, thumbs down. You can now start providing a score of 1 to 10 on the intermediary steps. And so you're right, scale is really the biggest unlock here. When you replace humans with models that provide this feedback 24-7 at orders of magnitude larger volume than we could do with just humans, then the speed at which we get to an AGI is dramatically faster. So any breakthrough in those systems represents I think a non-linear increase or acceleration towards this future. Yeah, and I mean on that note, people use the term safety, some people use alignment. If we instead of having humans have AIs grading themselves or each other, then I guess the natural question is how do we ensure that what's happening at the scale that is much greater than what we can currently do with human feedback? What are the mechanisms really to instruct the AI to give feedback effectively? Does that make sense? It does. And I think this is a raging debate right in the industry. The short answer is there are a number of promising techniques. It's not clear anyone is sort of a silver bullet, but you could break down sort of all of AI research into two big categories, capabilities research, and then there's alignment research. The goal of capabilities research is to get the model to be as smart as possible and to either match human intelligence or ultimately exceed it at all kinds of tasks in a general purpose way, planning, reasoning, and so on. The alignment research is sort of the flip side of that and says, well, when you've got a really smart model, how do we make sure that it's aligned or we're able to control the outcomes here and it doesn't do things that we didn't want it to? And I think the kinds of techniques we've been talking about today, you know, reinforcement learning, the Q learning we've talked about, and the chain of thought-based scoring, they all largely are forms of unsupervised deep learning that continue treating these models as black boxes. And my belief is that long as we keep modeling these systems as black boxes, their reliability is somewhat limited because if you don't know how they work and they're not open source, it's kind of hard to steer them. And that's why on the alignment side, my belief continues to be when you've got a black box, step one is x-ray the box or open source the box and figure out what's going on inside, trace the problematic parts of the model, and then you can accelerate about a steer it, edit it out, trim it, control it. And that's where all the interpretability research that's happening in the field is focused on. And so I think that's a related but separate body of work that is trying to keep pace with the capabilities research. One of the sort of meta observations here is that when you have a model that gets capable enough, at some point, if it's capable of complex reasoning, you can just ask it to help you solve the alignment problem. And that is, in fact, a whole set of techniques and experiments that other folks are working on. And it's still open-ended research, but there's reasons to believe that that may end up being the most efficient path that'll probably scale in the most general-purpose way. Could you speak a little bit more to the impact of synthetic data, just because we've discussed scaling laws and as these models get bigger and bigger and bigger, there's constantly this question of like, what will the next waves look like? And do we even have enough data to train the next echelon of LLMs? And one potential answer to that is the use of synthetic data. And so can you speak to what value that has and also what we're seeing in that world? Yeah, so this is a big open-ended question, I think because of the way scaling laws work, right, where you have compute data and sort of algorithmic innovations as the three core ingredients, at least one out of those three are just a direct function of investment, right? Whether you can get compute or not is a function of how quickly we can, as a species, produce enough silicon to power these models. I think the data is an interesting question because we don't actually know how much data is required to get and surpass human-level intelligence. And I'm not sure that it's clear to us as an industry that the current techniques that the frontier models rely on, which are largely transformer-based and sort of next token prediction-based, will continue being able to scale with the current data bottlenecks that we have. And so that's why there's a tremendous sort of amount of investment going into figuring out whether these systems can extract reasoning and learn how to plan and think like humans from very, very small data sets. Because if we can teach these systems to actually reason instead of just parroting, the most critical view of this would be that these systems don't reason at all. They don't generalize at all beyond the training data they've seen. And therefore, for them to be able to surpass human intelligence, you're going to have to keep feeding them bigger and bigger and bigger data sets. The opposing point of view is that no, actually all the data we have at the moment is sufficient. And all we need to figure out is an algorithmic basis by which the model can learn how to reason from existing data. Now, I think where synthetic data comes in handy is where if we need bigger and bigger and bigger data sets, or if we will need to find a way to generate more data than exists today. And there's lots of arguments about why that won't work, probably the leading one being what's called mode collapse, where if you're just going to generate more data of the kinds we already have, you're not teaching these systems anything new. You're just mirroring all the info we already have. There's a fundamental information constraint that may or may not be true. Again, line of research that's sort of unproven. But in a world where actually these systems can reason and we can teach them to think and do sort of complex multi-step reasoning and planning, then actually the value of synthetic data is tremendously clear. It's just to do what we were describing earlier, where what humans would be offering reward-based feedback naturally over time T, you can just collapse that time T to a 10th of it and you can get there much, much, much, much faster. So it's a method of acceleration to get to the intelligence that is very compelling. And what would have otherwise taken a team of 10,000 humans could be done in 10 days with synthetic data pipelines. And so in that world, it becomes very clear what the value of synthetic data is. In a world where these models actually can't reason and aren't understanding the world and reasoning about them, it is unlikely that synthetic data will help with the scaling laws. Yep. And it sounds like based on everything you've shared, that is the key unlock determining whether they can reason. And we've mentioned a few different things like multi-step planning, reinforcement learning, especially model-free reinforcement learning. We talked about self-play. I know those all somewhat fit together, but is there one of those that you're particularly excited about or you think is especially important in this next wave? Yes, I'm most interested in generalizable self-play because I think if we solve that one, there's a very clear path to getting these models to reason more and more like humans do and plan their approach to problem solving the way humans do than they currently are capable of. And I think a lot of the biggest value and impact that we could get from large scaling laws based models is if we can start to rely on them for some of the most challenging problems that we as humans haven't been able to solve yet. And so I think solving self-play gets us to the happy path of solving cancer and discovering novel new cures for diseases that we just have not been able to figure out ourselves. And to do that, I do think we need to unlock really robust generalizable self-play. And that's why these games that at first blush seem almost like toy-like and orthogonal and interesting research experiments, right? What's the relationship between poker and cancer? Well, it turns out if we can find the right prototype for a problem as complex as cancer at a really, really small scale, then self-play might be the path to getting us to those discoveries that we haven't been able to unlock ourselves. Totally. And you use the games analogy, but I mean, for chess, I think a bunch of people were surprised not just when it beat Kasparov, but when all of a sudden we were seeing moves that we didn't understand. And I think that's a relic of that pleasant surprise. We have not thought of this before, even though it could have existed. We are learning from this system. And so, yeah, I do think it's maybe at least an example of where things can be headed. We've got to hope. Yeah, definitely. I mean, just to close out, you touched on a few things like the potential of curing cancer, but any other second, third order effects or implications that come to mind of such an advancement of really having these models be able to reason like that's pretty fundamental. Yeah, I think, you know, the big one, of course, is that these models can start to solve problems where precision is really important and correctness is important. Today, I think we're seeing just tons and tons of value being unlocked in use cases like creativity, right? Where hallucination is really a feature, not a bug where when the model can get creative and tell you things that you didn't expect, that's actually a great outcome for use cases like storytelling or helping you sharpen or rewrite a piece of prose that you're working on. And so that's where we're finding such explosive demand from people using these tools as creative tools. In cases where more formal verification of the answer or the output of the model is really important, and that's why solving math problems is such a great litmus test for intelligences because in a formal domain like math, there are often 10 different ways to get to the right answer, but there really usually is only one verifiable answer. And the frontier models today are remarkably poor and brittle at correctness, right? The most obvious and highest impact value of us cracking sort of general purpose reasoning via self-play or via any of these techniques we've talked about today would be they can start actually solving a whole class of precision problems that they're not capable of today. Every field has a set of these high precision problems in physics, in engineering, in healthcare where a wrong answer is in fact a bug, not a feature. And that's where formal reasoning and multi-step planning and so on are just basics that these models aren't capable of today. That's what I'm most sort of excited for is when we can rely on the models actually to start doing science themselves and start discovering new capabilities because they're able to approach highly ambiguous problems with unclear reward functions that do have correct answers. That's sort of the elusive goal right now. I love that framing. Highly ambiguous problems with unclear reward functions. All right, that's all for now. If you did make it to the end of this episode and enjoyed this kind of coverage, be sure to let us know by leaving a review at ratethispodcast.com or you can also email us at podpitchesata16z.com with timely topics that you'd like to see us cover just like this. All right, we'll see you next time.
The Greg McAfee Show
How Faith Has Helped Chris Hunter in His Business Journey
"You share a specific challenge or a difficult moment in your business journey and how your faith played a role in overcoming it? It's a great question. I mean so for me, I can't tell you how many times I mean Even the smallest challenge. Yeah, I would I would pray daily, you know, it forever little thing So, I mean it wasn't just a matter of the the big ones for me. It was a Matter of just leaning on on a God's wisdom all the time but but I'll tell you what one one significant one for me and this was wasn't necessarily a challenge, but it was an opportunity and So At one point in time I was approached by a franchise group, right? This was early in my business and they were they had this model where they wanted to give you a bunch of money They wanted to write you a big check and then essentially you convert over to the franchise And then and you know operate that way. Well, they flew us down and wind and dined us, you know and all the stuff They're really oh, it just looks like an awesome thing and they were prepared to write us a million dollar check Hey just cash this check it's yours and to me, you know I'm from a small town in Oklahoma and I don't care what you say million dollars my eyes just got huge You know, it was a lot of money. I couldn't even imagine at the time having a million dollars You know like that and and I was gonna take it, you know, I'm like me my wife both were like, yeah Hey a million dollars would be a fool not to do this deal. And then I remember praying about it. I'm like God just don't let me mess this up, please, you know, I mean make it either Yes, or no, just help me Don't let me get in the way of this thing and I sure enough man my gut hit and it twisted I could just feel it and it said no, you know don't and I was and so I'm thinking okay we're really gonna turn down a million dollars because You're prompting me to say no So for me that was like a huge like line in the sand Are we gonna take the money the million or say no because of prompting by my God to tell me hey This ain't the right time. And uh, so me my wife both decided you know what let's let's let's roll with it Let's trust trust what's in store for us and we said no And turn that deal down now fast forward a few years later several years later Our business took off the private equity boom came in and we were able to sell the business later on for for much much more than that, but uh it was it was but that was a pretty key time for me just to say would you turn down a million dollar check if God told you to say no, and I don't know how many people could say that but uh Made for a very real decision to make you know Yeah, and if you were out there on your own and you didn't have the relationship With God with Christ as you do You would have said yes, and then who knows who knows where you'd be a million a million is still a lot of money But boy it spent pretty
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "able" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Of all things super uber cool is actually advanced and he writes all about it in the company and the person some money. I'm David Palmer Luckey, the co -founder of Andoril, who you may remember from a little thing called Oculus a few years ago that sold to Facebook. is book this story. It's online at Bloomberg dot com slash business week and on the Bloomberg terminal with us. We got Mark million Bloomberg News technology editor and also the editor of Bloomberg Business Week, Joel Webber, both here in our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio. This is really cool. A behind the scenes look at Andoril, a closely held venture capital backed company that's competing with the likes of Raytheon, Joel. Yeah, and the company had been you're right into Oculus and developed Oculus, which now meta Facebook acquired. And ever since then, it has been more interested in doing military applications. and this roadrunner, which it announced on on Friday and actually had an exclusive look at it Attempts to solve a big problem for the U .S. military. Mark, what is that problem? The problem is drones. And so in particular, in Iraq and Syria, The militants there have been able to import these consumer drones, like the kinds that you buy for the holidays for your kids, they take them apart, they attach bombs to them, and are they able to assemble so many so cheaply that it's become a huge threat to American forces. I mean, these are the drones that are essentially being used by Ukrainian forces to bomb Russian forces at really a low cost. And right back at Ukraine, too, from Russia. Yeah, they're taping bombs to them. Yeah, So that's an example of an ally using it as a cheap way to kind of protect themselves in war, but it's also a huge threat to American troops. And so they've been working on ways to not just be able to take out individual drones, but when forces create, you what they call these swarm assaults, where there's like a bunch of them all coming at once. You need new technology to take it out. So this is one answer to that. It's, as you said, like almost a miniaturized fighter jet looking thing that just goes in and throws a missile at these like swarms of drones, tries to take them all out, and then it can go back and it can land and they can load their missile onto it and send it back up. So how much do we think this technology is actually going to cost? Because obviously cost the is the thing here. You weaponize a drone, which I can do some holiday shopping and acquire many drones. I'm not going to touch the bomb part, but I can get the drones and I get what we're for going for here because ultimately it's like how can the US military bring the cost down with something that could be feasible. So what kind of budget do I need to acquire many of these roadrunners? So traditionally the US military was using Patriot missiles, just like kind of the default option. can Those run like four million dollars a missile. Anduril says that they can make these things, these roadrunners for in the low six figures. So, you know, 100 ,000, 200 ,000 per unit. So if they can pull it off, and to be clear, it's an unproven company, startups, it's not Raytheon. So there's doubts about whether they can pull it off. But if they can, the US could save a lot of money. And it's all right. So so far, so good in terms of how effective it is in terms of trials and testing. Yeah, it's very early. It's a brand new product, but they say the US has ordered a bunch of them, and they expect them to be in the field next year. So who else is attempting to come up with solutions in this space? Because this is a huge problem. Like, I mean, US forces around the world just basically, you know, you with not that much technology, it becomes a serious problem. And like, you know, Anduril can't be the only one looking for looking at this space provide to potential solutions. And I have to say reading the story, this is what to me I said, okay, this is modern going warfare. forward. This is So war you really need to have something to counter it. Yeah, so the major defense contractors offer options that the US uses. Again, I mentioned the Patriot missile is kind of the default. It's tested and, and they know it works. But Anduril is taking this bet they that can kind of break into this market with a very different option. Ashley makes this point a couple times in the story that even though this thing, the Roadrunner, has been unveiled, it hasn't yet been manufactured at scale. And if there's one thing that we've learned from Tesla's troubles over the last six years or so, manufacturing one or ten of something isn't as difficult as manufacturing a number doing this stuff at scale. What did the experts Ashley spoke to about scaling this in terms of challenges here? Yeah, you're right. It's hard. And it's also not a traditional consumer electronic where you can use factories in China to build it. Yeah, Joel, you can't buy one of these for the holidays for your family. I'll try still and see how far I get. There's always the dark web. That's true. philosophy The inside this company has been to try to do everything themselves. And so they're building their own factory capabilities, their own factory lines to try to be able to build the whole thing and do it in America, which is kind of what the US government would like to see. What's really kind of cool too is they're not, this is one thing and hopefully if they get running, it up and this is one thing, but they plan to take this technology and spread it across other products, right? Yeah. Yeah. So Andoril already has a bunch of different products that they sell to US allies. and They do century towers, sort of like a virtual border wall that the US, their border control has purchased. But yeah, they've said that they've spent these years developing all this new technology and they think that it will, haven't they gone into specifics, but they think some of it will be useful to some of the other products that they're working on. Okay. So something about this name strikes me as being a little cheeky road editor. What is that a reference to? Yeah. So Raytheon has a product called Coyote. it's So Looney Tunes reference. Raytheon being a competitor of... Exactly. So they're trying to stick it to their much bigger rival. What is the, other than, you know, just trying to get the Roadrunner again and again and again and again, and never quite being able to, in the real world, what is the Coyote made by Raytheon do? It's sort another of like autonomous defense system, that the main innovation that Anderal is talking up with this new product is that it's reusable. It can land. like, various companies, including Andoril, have built counter drone products that can go and blow up a single drone that's flying around. So the main targets The main here are swarms of drones and being able to reuse them so that it's, you're not having buy to a new one every single time you take out. My understanding too is it's just one person that's needed to kind of actually run it, right, or operate it rather than multiples. That's part of the pitch. Yeah. Yeah, it remains to be seen. But yeah, they part, you know, Andoril builds this kind of like software system that they call lattice where you can hook in all sorts of different defense products. And they're saying, you know, this will work with that, that you can have them all kind of communicate wirelessly so you can see where all of your different road runners are. It kind of sounds like the Ring camera system from Amazon, but for, you know, you just add, you know, you add the border wall to it. I'll take a couple of these. Drag and drop into your car. Yeah, I'll take a couple, you know, road runners, throw them in. Well, the thing, bigger an opportunity here is obviously the defense budget gigantic and being able to crack it even with something that, you know, may only cost into six figures, but around the world at scale, can if you manufacture it there, that's huge. But, you know, the bigger challenge here does seem like the military US being geared for different wars than we've ever seen and I think, you know, what we witnessed in Iraq earlier in the war was that the US military was basically ill -equipped to fight a certain type of war and, you know, when obviously Ashley has spent a lot of time in this space, but like there seems to be a new kind of war that the US may not be ready for we're and getting glimpses of it. What else is Andorol maybe developing that could help down the line? Do we have any sense of what this could look like?
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Brittney Sampedro on Husband's Line-of-Duty Cancer Diagnosis in Colorado
"So lymphoma is a very common cancer in the fire service, right? I did a little deep dive, maybe not super deep dive, but I definitely looked at some of the statistics for firefighters specifically. It's crazy. If you ever research it, which I'm sure you probably did at this point, the female firefighters, I did not know how like a 600 % increased risk of breast cancer. That's wild. Wow. And then firefighters have obviously a significant increased risk of cancer as they progress throughout their career. So at the 20 year mark, gets a little more at the 30 year mark, it gets a little more. So cancer is not uncommon in the fire service at all. But you said that the department specifically would never say for certain that it was because of his exposures to chemicals on the job or their gear containing the PFOAS. So was he eligible for any kind of benefit or anything from job related cancer? It's not covered under like a workman's comp type of thing. Colorado has something called the Colorado Cancer Trust. So it's departments that elect to put money into an account that say like, there's an eligibility criteria. He had been a firefighter at that point in 2019 for 10 years. So he was eligible to say like, yes, he's had enough exposure to have been at risk to have this type of cancer that is known or more common for firefighters. So lymphoma was on there. I know testicular cancer is a big one too for men. I didn't know breast cancer for women, but there is an eligibility criteria. They don't come out and say that this is work related. And the department and the everybody who works for Greeley Fire was amazing. They all covered his shifts. So he was able to go through treatment. He had to step offline for a while. And then when the pandemic hit, he kind of was forced to sit at a desk for a little bit just because his immunity was still really low. But I don't even think that there was something written out that like, what happens if a firefighter has cancer? It was just kind of like the guys, everybody at the department banding together and being like, I got your shift. I got your next shift. And they got it all figured out for us. But there was never like a, like, this is work related is workman's comp. It's a, it's a work related issue. It was kind of a separate, you know, like having the cancer trust and then having the Terry Farrell fund reach out to, knowing that it could be a job related cancer. So Colorado is not a presumptive cancer state then. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. And it's crazy to me that in 2023, after all of these studies that there are States that don't have that presumptive cancer legislation. It blows my mind.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh "Able" from News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
"Have rain in 51 in the city and very low visibility. Also top northwest stories on the way for as we do from Northwest News Radio, for your home breaking news deliver traffic and weather every 10 minutes on the force. And here's Kimmy Klein from the High Performance Homes Traffic center. Well, right now I'm not seeing any major crashes on our freeways, even though we're dealing with some slick, wet roads today. But there is a medical emergency happening in Seattle North on five on the ship Canal Bridge. And this has the right lane block, so it is causing a backup from Mercer Street. You can easily avoid that if you can hop in those express lanes if you're able to. So there's an option for you. South and I five is also slow approaching that spot from Lake City way to the ship Canal Bridge. A little heavy on either direction of I 90 or of I five around I 90 and both directions of the West Seattle Bridge are kind of busy, too, between Harbor Island and I five, especially heading heading westbound away from I five South and four or five taking drivers 25 minutes to get from Bellevue in a Renton and eastbound state route. 5 18 has been busy this afternoon down the hill from SeaTac right on the I five around South Center. We're just going to see some afternoon slowdowns form South and I five of the South Center Hill and in Everett on the Boeing Freeway as Evergreen you approach Way. Even southbound 1 67 is seeing some scattered delays now south of 1 80th around 84th in Kent and then again from Ellington Road towards 24th in Sumner. The support is sponsored by Beacon Plumbing. If you own a classical home it could have old pipes if they clog up stop freaking and call Beacon 1 800 freaking or go to BeaconPlumbing .net. next Your northwest traffic at 214. All right the wet weather forecast now for you sponsored by Northwest Crawl Space Services and from from Como for Kristen Clark. There is still time to drain the gutters and storm drains in preparation
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
What Are Energetic Activations? Photographer Adjanys Marrero Explains
"Talk about like you do these, what do you call them? Energetic activations is your part of what you do, you like to do. What is that? How do you explain how they work? Yeah, absolutely. So during the photo shoot, just because I have done so many throughout the years and each session is an experience, but as I started to work with more people who are in the law of attraction, manifestation, and energetic, I noticed that while we were in session and the way that I directed them through the direction actually created these crazy breakthroughs. So I started to really get these downloads around how when you not only brand your vision and brand it for the world in a very beautiful way, whatever feels beautiful in a line for you, but you're absolutely almost able to break into that frequency into the future because a photo shoot could be quite a pampered experience. It could be like you're leaning back and you're receiving the spotlight and you're allowing yourself to be seen and there's nothing you can do except pose, you know, no matter how uncomfortable you are, you're still being held. And I realized that a lot of people, it's almost like they grabbed that future self and they just literally brought it to this very present moment. And I was like, it's like you meet your future self because you're dressing how she would dress, you're speaking and you're feeling into that. And I'm bringing that energy because I want you to be at your highest calibration because I know that's what's going to get captured in the image. So the reason I do metaphysical branding is because if you're in a negative mood, okay, for example, I'm sure you have a lot of listeners, but I'm a woman who is speaking to women, being in front of the camera is nerve -wracking. Yes, it is. So many body issues, so many issues, you know, it is nerve -wracking. And so when you are scared of how you look, even if you look beautiful, but your hair and your mind is going, I look crazy, I feel ugly, I'm bad, I'm this, I'm that, I don't care how beautiful your images look, the energy that is being emitted is going to put people off. Yeah, I agree with you on that. So what I need to do is to break people out of thinking about themselves and thinking about their clients. In my sessions, you're always constantly thinking about the work and the love that you're giving your clients. So when I capture you, I literally capture you the love you have for those who are going to see these images. So they can like receive something from that. So that's where we have the 50 milliseconds, you know, because we do energy work and we do it very intentionally. So yes, they look gorgeous. Yes, you're having fun. But at every step of the way, we're thinking about how we're serving the collective in the name of the divine. Always, always, always.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "able" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"It's not going to be all Goldilocks. It's not going to be easy. But we do think that there is a path for inflation to continue to come down for the consumer to soften up a little bit for the Fed to actually stay in quite restrictive territory with real yields and real policy rates being quite positive, but with credit markets being able to perform quite well And in that environment. you can hear more of the conversation on the Surveillance podcast. You can download it wherever you get your podcasts. Spotify technology is cutting 17 % of its workforce, marking at least the third time that the streaming services carried out mass layoffs this year in an effort to shrink costs and drive credibility. Spotify up 7 .5 %. Twilio is announcing job cuts there.
The Mason Minute
Over The River (MM #4628)
"Today recuperating we're from the busiest travel day of the year, although technically it's only the busiest car travel day of the year. I hate driving on Thanksgiving weekend, both coming and going, the Wednesday and the Sunday, because people are a little bit impatient. Maybe it's because it's a short time. Thanksgiving's really one day, then of course there's Black Friday, and it's a busy, hectic weekend, and while it's kind of a long weekend, it's not. It's kind of a weird weekend. We all want to get to where we're going, spend time with the family, and while everybody seems to be anxious and grumpy, and as we head over the river and through the woods to whether it's grandma's house or the sister -in -law's house or the brother -in -law's house or wherever you're going, I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving. I don't know if, again, it's just me that my stamina for the road isn't what it used to be. Yeah, we traveled last weekend to Fort Wayne, Indiana, so that was like a six -hour trip to and from. I got injured on the way, so the trip back was not fun, and now we're doing it again. I used to be able to drive 14 hours in a day. I'd be tired, but no big deal. I don't know if it's me or if it's everybody else.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "able" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"But hey, at least Republicans got a Thanksgiving break, everybody. We have Chinese, Middle Easterners, Africans all just pouring into Mexico and then walking into America. From 1931 to 1946, we had on average 50,000 people come into our country. 50,000 people. There is a lie that is told repeatedly that we are a nation of immigrants. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of settlers that had children. We allowed immigrants into this country at certain periods of time if they spoke the language. You want to know something based? Blake, find this. Find the criteria from Ellis Island. You know, we always have this big Ellis Island thing. Oh, you know, well, this. Oh, yeah. They said that if you are infirmed, diseased, don't love the country, do not come into this country. I'll get the exact criteria. It's so unbelievable that if you would say that today, the ACLU would sue you and some judge in Guam would overturn you. The criteria that even during this time, oh, we're a nation of immigrants. Oh, really? You got to learn the language. You have to love the country. And by the way, I want to be this very clear. I'm not just talking about illegal immigration. We have way too many legal immigrants coming into this country to one point five to one point six million legal legal people coming in. Ilhan Omar came in legally and she hates the country. She's a sleeper cell infiltrator of the United States representing Congress. She hates the country. She hates the West. She should be deported back to where she came from, Somali. Go run for city council in Mogadishu. The country is not enriched by people like Ilhan Omar. The country is not enriched by having millions of illegals coming across the border. But of course, Republicans want it because they want cheap labor. They want to be able to staff their hotels and their golf courses. They want cheap and widespread labor. Many of them say, but you know, the tech companies need to be able to hire more Indians and more Chinese. So let's just, you know, keep the doors wide open. And their argument is, well, they come here to be educated in our schools. Oh, they become indoctrinated at Cal Berkeley. And then you want them to stay at Salesforce. So Mark Benioff worth ten billion dollars can spend more money to destroy the country so we can expand the profits of tech companies that hate us and spy on us and trans our kids. Is that is that the Republican talking point now? We know that the American dream is dying and I have no such.
The Mason Minute
Over The River (MM #4628)
"Today recuperating we're from the busiest travel day of the year, although technically it's only the busiest car travel day of the year. I hate driving on Thanksgiving weekend, both coming and going, the Wednesday and the Sunday, because people are a little bit impatient. Maybe it's because it's a short time. Thanksgiving's really one day, then of course there's Black Friday, and it's a busy, hectic weekend, and while it's kind of a long weekend, it's not. It's kind of a weird weekend. We all want to get to where we're going, spend time with the family, and while everybody seems to be anxious and grumpy, and as we head over the river and through the woods to whether it's grandma's house or the sister -in -law's house or the brother -in -law's house or wherever you're going, I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving. I don't know if, again, it's just me that my stamina for the road isn't what it used to be. Yeah, we traveled last weekend to Fort Wayne, Indiana, so that was like a six -hour trip to and from. I got injured on the way, so the trip back was not fun, and now we're doing it again. I used to be able to drive 14 hours in a day. I'd be tired, but no big deal. I don't know if it's me or if it's everybody else.
The Mason Minute
Over The River (MM #4628)
"Today recuperating we're from the busiest travel day of the year, although technically it's only the busiest car travel day of the year. I hate driving on Thanksgiving weekend, both coming and going, the Wednesday and the Sunday, because people are a little bit impatient. Maybe it's because it's a short time. Thanksgiving's really one day, then of course there's Black Friday, and it's a busy, hectic weekend, and while it's kind of a long weekend, it's not. It's kind of a weird weekend. We all want to get to where we're going, spend time with the family, and while everybody seems to be anxious and grumpy, and as we head over the river and through the woods to whether it's grandma's house or the sister -in -law's house or the brother -in -law's house or wherever you're going, I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving. I don't know if, again, it's just me that my stamina for the road isn't what it used to be. Yeah, we traveled last weekend to Fort Wayne, Indiana, so that was like a six -hour trip to and from. I got injured on the way, so the trip back was not fun, and now we're doing it again. I used to be able to drive 14 hours in a day. I'd be tired, but no big deal. I don't know if it's me or if it's everybody else.
The Mason Minute
Over The River (MM #4628)
"Today recuperating we're from the busiest travel day of the year, although technically it's only the busiest car travel day of the year. I hate driving on Thanksgiving weekend, both coming and going, the Wednesday and the Sunday, because people are a little bit impatient. Maybe it's because it's a short time. Thanksgiving's really one day, then of course there's Black Friday, and it's a busy, hectic weekend, and while it's kind of a long weekend, it's not. It's kind of a weird weekend. We all want to get to where we're going, spend time with the family, and while everybody seems to be anxious and grumpy, and as we head over the river and through the woods to whether it's grandma's house or the sister -in -law's house or the brother -in -law's house or wherever you're going, I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving. I don't know if, again, it's just me that my stamina for the road isn't what it used to be. Yeah, we traveled last weekend to Fort Wayne, Indiana, so that was like a six -hour trip to and from. I got injured on the way, so the trip back was not fun, and now we're doing it again. I used to be able to drive 14 hours in a day. I'd be tired, but no big deal. I don't know if it's me or if it's everybody else.
Mark Levin
China's Naval Dominance Rises as U.S. Focuses on Diversity
"Around the world the upper hand. China wants to set the stage right now to be able to have absolute naval supremacy in the South China Sea. What are we worried about in the United States of America? Back home? We're worried about that? We're looking at the warnings of history to think to ourselves, hey gee, maybe we should try to do something about this? Nope. Instead, what we're worried about is are we spending enough on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility? DOD The has scaled up its spending on DEIA in the past three years, jumping from $68 million in fiscal year 2022 to $86 .5 million in fiscal year 2023. But that figure surged another $28 .2 million to $114 .7 million in the department's initial year 2024. If a DOD's initial request for DEIA funding in the final legislation, the department will have spent $270 million on diversity initiatives across the last three years. $270 million on diversity initiatives. Biden's Pentagon has repeatedly pushed for further adoptions of the DEI agenda in its operations. The department's strategic management plan for fiscal years 2022 to 2026 listed one of its goals as
The Dan Bongino Show
The Left's Sinister Plan: They Need You Stupid and Ignorant!
"In an era of shortened attention spans the left is super tactical politically they need people stupid i mean this they need you dumb and ignorant if you're not dumb and ignorant they can never do what they can do you know what i don't wanna go out of order let's but let's go anywhere jim cut six if you would bill maher uncovered here's what i mean wanted for years to use emergency powers to be able to shut down the economy to show you what they can do when they're in charge fully weaponizing the economy shutting down sectors they don't like they have craved this power forever covid was the perfect vehicle to do it but what's the catch the catch with covid was simple it was never gonna work if you didn't believe covid was the biggest threat to your life ever so they can't have smart people because smart people would like well what's the fatality rate what's the or not how infectious is this that's what conservative ass gas they and were like wait we shouldn't shut the economy down for this thing is bad it's definitely gonna kill some people and that's horrible but this isn't worth shutting down the whole economy cost -benefit dumb liberals were like no way this is the deadliest thing ever it kills a thousand percent of people it's not even possible it doesn't ten thousand percent it's the deadliest virus ever folks it's like hantavirus and Ebola it's like that Dustin Hoffman virus from but outbreak what does that move tapa or whatever the hell it was this is the worst thing ever if you fell for that because you're dumb and because some charismatic lefty told you that you were doing a public good by sitting in your house and while rotting away this virus that had a fatality rate it turns out now which I'll get to later the in show when people under 70 of only 0 .07 they need you to be stupid people like Malay and Trump who cracked through the stupid divide and people start to listen to them they're afraid of that that's why it's not the policies that bother them it's the threat to their power from them play Bill Maher talking about exactly this Bill Maher is a lefty by the way we all know that he's not our friend but once in a while he'll stumble on the truth here's Maher talking about how liberals are just morons that don't know a damn thing about covid check this out but what about liberals you know the high information by the science people? In a recent Gallup survey Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question what are the chances that someone who gets covid will need to be hospitalized the answer is between one and five percent forty one percent of democrats thought it was over fifty percent another twenty eight percent put the chances of twenty to forty nine so almost seventy percent of Democrats are wildly off on this key question and also have a greatly exaggerated view the of danger of covid 2 and the mortality rate among children I'm gonna get back to that point later but I'm serious when I tell you this you you know I know don't like liberals I'm not hiding it liberals listening you don't like me either that's fine we don't have to like each
The Plant Movement Podcast
Nasir Acikgoz's Advice to the Next Generation: "Everything Is Achievable"
"For you being someone that touches so much that is powerful at the end of the day that can make things happen You've overcome so much being a immigrant with a dream and a vision not knowing whether you would be where you are here today You know doing what you're doing today and just going after it becoming fearless conquering so much You know having God guide you and on this path knowing that things happen for a reason Even if it might not be the way you wanted it to be it happened for a reason just like in finance I don't want to take this course But now you do you know what a P &L is and you can look at it and see if you guys are losing or winning What do you see for the future of the green industry and you know the youth when it comes to just you know? Your path and your career and what you've been able to do and how you're still gonna be able to do more What do you see for the green industry and the youth? What would you have to say to them youth like their new? Younger generations or even people that are that are sitting on the sidelines of going after something that they think is unachievable Everything is that you will you put in your mind Watch once you set your mind to it you work again You know, first of all, you got to believe in God God gives you a talent. I give God sees everybody talents You got to find it And you put something in your mind you work you wake up in the morning you dedicate yourself Into it work hard, but well, you gotta work hard because some people say I'm doing this and I'm working but it's not happening Then that means you didn't work, you know, you didn't work or it's not what you're supposed to be. They're supposed to me And it'll happen in in the green industry and the youth what I would say is You have an idea Try it say look. You know what? I want to Do it in your mind, obviously you have to do it and you have to draw, you know draw what how you want to do it get the first prototype or or first production depending on the products and in like I said in you know, you know beginning of the pop kit a podcast that it's The opportunities are limitless. There's no limit. So it's gonna happen. Believe me it If it's a product you put it out there With the right time right person right platform people will see it and they're gonna start buying it Or a service again. It doesn't have to be a product. It could be a service and And they're gonna start using it. So Again, the green industry. I love it You know, like I said, I start as a hobby, you know a side business, you know for one of my tile businesses but it became a an addiction to me and and And it's it's a you know, I'm like, I'm like, you know what? It's a good business. It's a huge business And there's no limit. There's no I would say oh you can't there's no you can't do this in this business. You can do anything you know with plants with rocks with Synthetic turf now, you know everything with everything who would have thought we're gonna have synthetic turf back there Maybe would have left a huge movement I don't I don't know what that that industry is now, but it's gotta be over a billion dollar industry at this point It's billions of dollars right now Yes And in other states actually they're building like coffee shops kind of thing like you go there some brand names that came out you go You know, the products are out there. It's like a boutique you pick the product you have your drink Yeah, the coffee or whatnot. You're like talking to the people and at the same time you're purchasing it. It's So people came out with the idea and they they didn't think it's not gonna work out and it worked out for them Maybe it took a while to adapt to that, you know product into the industry or the service But if you think it's gonna work and you did your research, right? It's gonna work and it's gonna happen So never say never never say I can't do it Never say this is not gonna sell never say people will not call me for this service People will not call me for this product if you believe in yourself believe in the product Obviously first you got to believe in God, you know, it's gonna all all happen even even if you guys are going to school right now and you're like man the Industry that I picked, you know people in my in my niche of what I'm gonna go study They only make sixty thousand dollars a year. That doesn't matter. That means that they make sixty thousand dollars exactly There's you know you can you can Get in that same Ballpark and blow it up and become something so much more do something impactful that can touch the whole industry and this industry Did thirty six point four billion dollars the plant industry for the state of Florida last year alone for 2023 It was the strongest year. Well, no 2022 was the strongest year Out of all the years, but the fact that it was done and that's just in plant sales 6 .4. Yeah billion dollars for Florida imagine only
The Plant Movement Podcast
Nova Hardscapes' Nasir Acikgoz on Thriving in Uncertain Times
"Think right now the way the economy is the way things have let's say slowed down the way interest rates have risen Politics, okay world governments and all this stuff that's going on They they you know, I feel it in the air that people just want to like curl up, you know And and they don't want to continue to push in a certain way It's kind of like let me hold all my money whatever I have left and I'm not gonna let it go, you know But you have to invest to create if you don't invest you can't create don't be scared to do that when it comes to what he's selling but My question for you is all of this stuff that's going on and you are full throttle you have I see you in the venture 36 -foot venture with quad 500 Merc's And you're flooring the throttles Why do you feel that way? When it comes to that, are you scared about anything that's coming up or you just go based off of off of what? Opportunity vision what I I don't stop I go full throttle all the time and What drives me that when I wake up I think I said I mean God has a plan and I believe in God and I I in he says it work be honest work and it's gonna happen and In this country opportunities are limitless. I mean, there's no limit. There's no There's no product you're gonna say all about people are yes, they're they're holding off They're not gonna they're you know, they're not gonna spend I will never think that way I still keep bringing and I'm gonna bring it We're gonna invest as a matter of fact The green industry has an advantage one of the biggest advantages that I've noticed is if the people are stressed They're stressed with things politics and all that how do they relax of course they go they do sports and stuff One of the things they'd relax is they work in the garden. They work in the backyard They work, you know, they do things or just looking at plants to look at plants. What did what does it do to you relaxes you? One of the things that I'm realizing because we do a lot of pool pools and you know Like we sell a lot of natural stone for pool pool decks and pool coping like for pool products That business is still booming because During the pandemic, obviously people were spending time outside and whatnot But also after the pandemic still that kept going it never stopped And the green industry picked up right right during the the pandemic. Yeah, it keeps going crazy boom Yes, it's still going. Yes. It's a little bit see slow down a little bit, but it's not gonna stop Nobody's gonna stop buying things. Well, we saw wasn't normal first of all. Yeah, it was out You know, it wasn't normal normal growth, you know normal growth year over year at least for me was 20 20 percent growth Correct, maybe 25. So I was able to do 20 to 25 percent more than I did the previous year Let's say that's normal. That's normal average, you know, but you have guys that went up a hundred two hundred three hundred percent in two years You know, so it's just a lot like even the the smaller landscapers they were used to doing, you know Three four hundred thousand dollars to say a small landscaper and a lot of them crossed a million in in two years I know, you know the Amelia 1 .5 to 2 .5 and how did that happen because of this crazy boom? So now what they're seeing is the slowdown effect a lot of people weren't prepared for this to slow down They weren't they didn't let's say understand what was going on or see what was going on And they didn't think it was gonna, you know finish so I hope everyone put you know something away for For this if not, you're gonna learn the next one. You need to yeah, you need to save obviously I'm not saying you need to spend everything but you know It's a cycle then the economy is a cycle four years five years up and then four year five years down four years So if you don't invest when it's down Obviously within your you know budget and and and means and means You're not gonna gain when it picks up again So what I'm doing is when it's up you keep investing anyway when it's down you keep going Obviously, I'm not in I'm investing. I'm actually reinvesting per se Not so aggressively as I did it during the pandemic because the demand was huge. Yeah, you saw it's still going I'm still going like I'm like, okay, so I was adding maybe five products back then but now I'm adding one two But I keep adding because I'm trying to prepare myself for the next rush. Yep, you know Hopefully we'll see those numbers again, but you know, it's gonna be tough. You'll see those numbers as more people use
The Plant Movement Podcast
Nasir Acikgoz of Nova Hardscapes Is Making Products That Last Forever
"Lot of let's say garden centers that are Available to buy rock or to sell rock that they can buy from it's the normal, you know Six different rocks and that's what it is. So when you're when you're a landscaper you're thinking about designing something and You're you're limited to that unless you go online and you might see something that inspires you. But where do you find it? Yes, you know, so that's why I'm glad that you're here today because you know There's people like you out there that that feel the need to bring in something for the higher quality You know of higher quality and that product that will last forever Yes, and just the different thing that the sky's the limit when it comes to limit to just everything sky's the limit what I'm you know No, what I love what I love about you is you're not just buying it from a distributor you are the manufacturer You are the importer. Yeah annually the strip. You are the man. I can't thank you You're the guy to if I was in the rock space I would want to have you as my contact because all I got to do is call you That's it. And if let's say let's say with the pandemic, I'm sure you went through this I went through this and I was able to help out a lot of my clients You had clients. Hey, man, are we gonna be okay with this rock? You know the war going on over there and when Ukraine or whatever. Hey, look, we're we only have so much left of this Do you want it? I'm gonna hold it for you. Boom. We'll send it over direct Yeah, you know your good customers those guys have really come through for you Yes, you were able to do so much and foresee the future because you have all these contacts around the world You know how powerful you know, what power moves you sure you guys were able to make some power moves Just with all the product and a I want all this and give me this and give me that I'm sure that that went down You know, the thing is you mentioned it during the pandemic the shipping rates That was the biggest challenge in the way. Oh, they went way up some times for right Time no some yeah sometime for and then and then some of them times eight. Wow. Yes So you're paying twenty thirty grand a container together, you know some countries. Yes Imagine I'm bringing pebbles. Mm -hmm, and I'm selling it as certain amount per bag. Mm -hmm or per ton. Mm -hmm and and And a nursery calls me or the distributor calls us and Says look are you gonna be able to bring it because the pandemic the shipping rates we already know because they already bring other products To they already know the problem I'm like, look, I'm gonna take the risk. I'm gonna bring it. I'm a businessman. I have to have the product Yes, and I remember even one of the nursery owners told me Nasir I think you should wait until it cools down. I said to him you would have still been waiting Yeah, and I told him I can't wait. I have to bring it. I'm a supplier for I'm gonna you know Manufacturer for all these color clients that I had but I'm gonna give him an option. Look I have it available The price is four or five times more You know, it's here, but it's here. Yeah, you wanna make it work. Yes, you know what happened the containers They were not even coming. I mean they weren't they weren't they weren't even here yet. That's here I need ten pallets. That's here. I need five pallets. That's it. I'm like, look, are you sure? This is the price you and even the person who told me that you know and that's you gotta wait Are you sure because this is the price I'm not me, you know, I want you to know Just so you know because sometimes you know, it lands and start on a seat I thought it was the last price, you know, they tried to you know, get a better price from you It's in the nature of the business. Yeah, of course That I couldn't keep anything in stock.
Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
Uncovering Repressed Anger: How Food Became My Only Comfort
"I'm going to give a couple of quotes from your writing that are really pretty profound and then we're going to talk about some of the recovery work you did at Shift. You say, food was my friend, my lover, my companion. I could always rely on food to be there and comfort me when I had no one to turn to. And you said, food helped me to feel calm, normal, accepted, loved and enough. I was raised to not show anger, to be seen and not heard. A woman's place is in the home, raising a family and obeying the husband. I felt my purpose was to take care of others and not consider the cost to myself. There were decades of repressed anger and resentment and I used food to help me cope with all of life's ups and downs. So yeah, food's our friend. It's the thing that doesn't argue back, you know, so we can rely on it, right, and it works. I had no idea how angry I was through all of that and it was only in recovery and working the steps and coming to see what my life was like that I was able to start doing some of that recovery work because that's why I went to the food, all this emotional. So I just thought I was an emotional eater. We'd hear about it so often in magazines and television, you know, you see the girl that had the breakup and you'd see her eating that pint of ice cream and it was normalized that that's what you did when you had extreme emotions that it was okay to go to food. So I didn't realize until I did get into recovery and learn about food addiction that there was something different about me specifically when it came to food, that this was not really normal. I knew that the way I ate was not normal but I didn't know why it wasn't normal. I just kept thinking I had a lack of willpower, that I just could not do what other people could do so I kept beating myself up because I couldn't do it. Yeah, talk about the anger and resentment. So you probably didn't realize you were angry of all the years of things that had occurred with you and I would assume that in shift with some of the emotional work they do there that you found out, yeah, I'm angry, I've got resentment. How did you get in touch with that and how did you work through it? Well the first intensive I went to that was Esther's intensive led by Amanda at shift. On the first day she asked me how I was feeling and I totally blanked out. I had no idea what I was feeling. I had never tapped into emotions at all. So she literally had to list are you happy, are you sad, are you angry and I thought what does that mean and then I thought oh yeah I'm sad and then the anger. Then when I really started tapping into the anger that's what really bubbled up because I never had an opportunity to explore any of that anger. It was always shoved down especially with the food because I wasn't allowed to speak about it. So that was really very instrumental but it still took Amanda repeating over and over again different emotions that it was possible to have before I could relate to actually having those emotions. What did you find that you were angry about? I was angry about a lot. I was angry at myself for putting up with so much. I'm very co -dependent so I put up with a lot of stuff. I always put my family, my friends, my job, everything went first before me but I was also angry with my parents, I was angry with my spouse, I was angry with employers. I was just one really angry person and I never realized it until I got into recovery. I thought I was a martyr. I thought I was self -sacrificing to do for everyone else when in fact it was I just wanted them to do what I wanted them to do. I wanted to control them so I didn't have emotion. If you did what I told you to do I wouldn't get upset. I wouldn't have to eat this food. You're the reason I'm eating all of this stuff because I'm an emotional eater.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Left's Classic Fliparoo: Everything They Do, They Blame on You
"You have to be to say that but as always with the left they do this flipparoo thing where everything they do they turn around and blame on you and they don't even care that it sounds ridiculous this is the New York Times is Marigay one of the dumbest people in the media I'll play the next clip if think you I'm making this up this is real I'll play that after but I want you to listen one of the dumbest people in media actually went on the air and did this segment about implying like MAGA people are like fascists and stuff and then at the end remarkably claiming as the left she supports the leftist take away people's rights put people in jail censor them target Donald Trump and his supporters for non -crimes claiming the left are losing rights to us and you're like it's this woman like with a hundred Biden smoking crack like was out she crazy to back this point about you know the GDP I can't think of an anywhere election in America where somebody goes to the polls because they said you know what I'm gonna vote for this guy because the GDP looks so good Americans understand that Republicans understand that or they wouldn't be throwing red meat to their base right why don't Democrats understand that they're starting to and I think I have to too say that I think in our business by that I mean journalism politics I think that too often gets mistaken for sophistication and there is just this sense of to your point Joe nobody is going to go to the polls for democracy nobody really cares if women don't have the right to decide what happens to their own bodies well it turns out that Americans aren't just cynical as the rest of us at least least a majority of them and that is why they're voting because they do see Donald Trump I believe for who he is they do see fascism they are concerned about it they want to have a better future for their children my goddaughter daughter is six years old and has fewer rights than I had 30 years ago few what is she talking about your goddaughter has fewer right name one women never well I'm a it on it out is that okay can name one by the way it's not a right to be able to kill a woman in the womb that's not a right actually the woman in the womb has rights like to live that's like a right thing you know like kind of the first one you know has Jim said you know life liberty pursuits something it was in like founding documents or something like that you've heard of it yeah life liberty pursuer it was it oh yeah Joe Jim reminded me I didn't get him wrong out of order was actually the life first one liberty and because you see if you're not alive
The Doug Collins Podcast
"When Is Later?" Doug's Lovely Wife Lisa Shares Her Travel Advice
"People today, and you mentioned COVID and I appreciate you doing that. Um, because people, you know, beforehand we're traveling COVID sort of shut a lot of that now, uh, right now, is it safe to say that travel is back to people ready to go and get out again? Uh, definitely people are ready to go out and see the world and realize that, uh, they may not have tomorrow. And so they want to experience all that they can today because we have no problem. Oh, you know, that's an interesting statement. I hadn't thought about that. Lisa is we, as we talk about this, you know, people, we, we sort of wait, we sort of wait, we sort of wait and, you know, we'll do it eventually, do it eventually. And you know, you and I both come from small towns in Georgia and, you know, we have been, you know, able to go a lot of places in the world, but you know, even we've talked about times where we'll, we'll do that later. Um, what would you say to somebody right now? Who's maybe thinking about, you know, traveling and they say, well, we'll do it later. When is later? Later never gets here. Yeah. You think never get, you know, later never gets here. Does it? No, we always fish it off. So never have enough money, never, you know, and the biggest thing I can say for those people is go ahead and plan it, plan it out. You know, you don't have to pay it all at one time. Uh, you can budget it out over a year. I mean, there's, you can make reservations up to, you know, through 20, 25 now in a lot of places. So you, you can do 18 months out without any problems.
Daddy Issues Podcast
Chris Reflects on His Incredible Bond With His Daughter
"Now, how is your daughter handling all this? Three years old, is she doing the sleepovers like great? Because I know you've only had a couple. So I just had my first sleepover, not last Wednesday, but the Wednesday before. So I've never had a time in which I haven't seen my daughter except when they withheld her. So it was like a month or two during that time. But no matter what, I was always, always seeing my daughter every Monday, Wednesday, Friday in the middle of the day, and every other Saturday and Sunday consistently. Never missed any time unless they were the ones withholding. And so, you know, the time difference has been difficult because like you're constantly back and forth dropping off. But for the most part, we have an amazing bond. Like I don't know if it's necessarily really affected her because the first overnight, not a single problem. Like she was like in heaven being here with Daddy. Like she has her own bed and I'm like, are you going to go sleep in your own bed? Are you going to sleep in, where do you want to sleep? And it's like, I'm going to sleep in Daddy's bed. I was like, but don't you want to try your bed out? I'll lay down, but I'm going to sleep in Daddy's bed. And like she just like sprawled out and she was like laying horizontal like my dog on the pillows. And it was like just, it was really adorable. But more importantly, like it was that whole day. I had 24 hours with her where like I wasn't in a rush to do anything. I just, I got to go about my normal day and I had her with me and she was so happy. And just spending the day with Daddy and the doggies and just, it was just so much fun. And then she's now looking forward to it because now she knows Wednesday's on my overnights. But then, you know, October is going to come really quick and now I'm going to have every Wednesday and every Friday. So it's really, it really was something else having her just the entire time without having to negotiate a time back and forth. And part of my negotiating now is like, you know, October is going to be an odd month for the other party because I have her every Friday. Which doesn't give her a weekend. And so I even offered, like, you know, here I am, like, I'm like, listen, you don't have a full weekend. If you want, I'll move the weekends that I don't have her and I'll move that Friday to a different day during the week. I'll have her different, a different day during the week for the overnight and then you'll have a full weekend with her. She still hasn't even responded to that. And that's what's crazy because most men, even me, like I talk about that stuff and I'm like, you're not only compromising for your daughter. But you're also compromising for your, your ex to make her life easier and have her be able to have your daughter on the weekends and things like that. It's like, why would you not try to get along and do that stuff? You know, again, it's, it's, and I, and I've always said this, I said this to everybody, it's not necessarily the ex. Her and I, if you take away the family core thing, her and I have always gotten along really well. It's her mother that's controlling her. She is, she is a pretty amazing person if you take away the grandmother. And so it's the grandmother making these decisions and not her. So like her, her option is either listen to the grandmother and just don't communicate at all, which is what, that's been her strategy this whole time. Is she doesn't have to cooperate because the courts have made the least amount of decisions possible until now. Now she knows that the court is like, you know, it was just a huge bombshell. I did not expect a 50 50 physical custody agreement. Like I did not, I was like mind blown. I just, I was like everyone on my side cause I had people there of course it was like crying. They're like, I'm in tears. Everyone's in tears. They're like, what just happened? It's like, what on earth just happened? Like, you know, I, I just, I just finished a criminal accusation which was indicted and you know, the judge, I actually, there was, there was a pretty big bombshell actually that happened. So part of my PTI is I need to get a psychological evaluation. But part of the transcripts that I showed you before is the judge wanted her to get a psychological evaluation, which basically was us like in 2021. But then the judge backpedaled because my attorney at the time was like, well, the burden of proof is on her. So if you want us to do a psychological evaluation, she should pay for it. And the judge completely backpedaled. She's like, Oh, well she doesn't have support. So how do you expect her to pay for it? Well, you're the one who wanted the evaluation. Okay, we're not going to issue the evaluation. But imagine if an evaluation was issued then how much, how, how nothing else possibly would have happened. I probably never would have been wrongfully accused of a crime. Like she would have been forced to co -parent or I would have had more, more parenting rights or more time with my daughter and she would have had, she would have been forced to co -parent.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Endrow Metelus of Favela Boys Apparel Describes His Journey From Haiti to the US
"Can you share your story, the story behind your journey from Haiti to the United States and how your experience growing up in various communities have influenced your part? Obviously, I see that the focus of your organization is to try to change a conversation from the inner city being as it is portrayed out there in a positive light. Look at the illustration in the back of this shirt, of this t -shirt. This is really amazing. I love what you just said earlier. We're talking about this young man, for example, in the inner city. It's just to portray the environment, the mood in that very environment to tell a story, basically. Correct me if I am wrong, but while you're describing your journey from Haiti to the United States and how your experience in all this community has affected or influenced your view, your perspective to this point, can you please also integrate what I just shared, what you just shared about this young man, please? Correct. Pretty much born and raised in Haiti. I live in Port -au -Prince, the biggest city in Haiti. We live in Port -au -Prince. At some point, there was a coup d 'etat that happened. I ended up living in a farm for a couple of years. I've had that experience, living on a farm, 100 acres of land with mules, taking showers in the lake. Wait a minute. Why did you come to the United States, man? The coup d 'etat, the mules, everything, 100 acres. I live in a farm, doing the farmland, and I live in the city. Eventually, I was one of the lucky ones. Haiti, the life and experience of Haiti, there wasn't a lot of opportunity. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to migrate to the United States. The first place I landed was Brooklyn, Crown Heights back in the 90s, 96 to be exact. If anyone was in Brooklyn, not the Brooklyn of today, Brooklyn back in 96, you understand it wasn't the Brooklyn of today, the Brooklyn of gentrification Brooklyn that we know. I had to go ahead. I didn't speak any English. I had to learn the language. I had to learn the language. At the same time, I was also an outsider because it's so new to me, so I had to be outside trying to understand the culture as well, understand the culture, understand the language. Eventually, I moved to Queens, Hollis, Queens to be exact. Same thing, it's a whole different culture. Even though it's still New York, there's a different culture there. It's more residential, but still the inner city at the same time. Start to learn a little bit more English to communicate with friends, start making more friends because I can speak now instead of being, because when you don't speak English, you just analyze it. You're just observing because you don't speak the language. You can't communicate with other people unless they speak your language. It actually is a gift because you're just analyzing everything. You're just learning everything. You're just trying to understand everything. Then once you're able to communicate, now you start talking about music, films, and so on and so forth. Then eventually, when they hit 1999, I moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia, right outside of Philadelphia, right outside of the city. That was a shock as well because I'm going to school where, when I was in New York, some of the kids had the clothes, the fashion and everything, some of them. Most didn't. When you go to where I went to the suburbs, all the kids, they turned 16, they got brand new cars. It's true. They got Mercedes. Everybody's looking fresh. It was a whole different thing. It was very different. It was more focused on education. You talk about college, university. These are conversations. I didn't even know what college was when I was in New York. I didn't even know what high school was when I was in New York. When you go to the suburbs, that's the conversation you were having. That's the conversation. Is there a difference? There's a huge difference. Oh, really? A huge difference because when you're in the suburbs, the kids are talking about what college we're going to. What did you get in the SATs? That's the focus. The focus is that. Because most of the parents are white collar doctors, lawyers, or pretty much doing well. They wanted to make sure their kids have the skill set to continue that path moving forward. That's also all these things. From Haiti to New York, the inner city, to the suburbs. I had a taste of everything. It's so easy for me to get along with pretty much everyone. I'm able to do that over the world because I travel a lot as well. I love it. I love it being able to have all these different experiences. That's pretty much how I came with this whole clothing brand.
DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
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"Them for anything. Apart from the ship jobs. And typically, the British won't do those anyway. And that's obviously in the decline in the work market as well. But I mean, just in order to protect yourself on any level online, you know, you should you have to basic coding, I think, should be part of that curriculum. I don't even know. But I couldn't write it and I couldn't. No. That's like me that. But you could teach me he's done any level, so he could teach me. 'cause he got media. So if you're doing a social media and you've got like a distinction in that tweet, you go twice. So going to waste and what is he doing? Working in wilco's. I said, what do you think the university? I don't know what he's doing. The other one I mean, my younger one, oh God, just makes me so cross because he is so fucking clever, academically clever, always has been. But he's just wasted, you know, because of COVID and then now just even getting him to school is a fucking murder. It has been, but I suppose he gets bored. I suppose he gets bored. Most of his life and the change going into. Secondary. Any ADHD to the max. I want to know he did go to the doctor. With some forms to do with ADHD and I wasn't even there. So but I've just, you know, I'm reluctant to, I don't want to go down that road with him really. I mean, it's not uncontrollable in the sense that in terms of how he's behavior is, I mean, he is difficult, don't get me wrong. He's been difficult all his life. But not to that point that he's, you know, I handle it as such, but still there are different my understanding of ADHD and what it really means. I mean, I don't know, it's weird because people say that you can fix it with different things that are medication and that, but I'm kind of in a difficult place with that because I've also got ADHD, their dad is also now he's actually medicated for it. And that's a recent thing, but so it's difficult to just say, oh yeah, well I can fix it with other stuff when you don't really, if you can't even experience that yourself, if that makes sense. But it just makes me cross because he's so clever and so capable, but yet I just, you know, getting him to just be self disciplined is just hit my head against a big wall and it's a shame. And he has some classic skill sets. I mean, he's brilliant at language languages. Even throughout COVID, when he didn't even fucking do any online school. He was doing three languages. He just started doing German as well. He's done Spanish French. History is another one of his real strengths. But with COVID, even his report even like his scores and everything he still was the top of the fucking set. I mean, not that he'd ever speak them, but from an understanding and a grammatical point of view, but that just shows how the academic side of his brain, but a mass as well, you know, is a very strong point of his and he loves science. He loves to make the perfect. He's perfect for the cybersecurity industry, but he just has no real interest. So he wants to be a fucking chef. Well, whatever makes you happy. Oh, I know, but we're wrong. We chef and we'll need a good chef. What he's saying is wasted, you know, wasted talent on it. Maybe you might change his mind. And there's pressure because unlike his host having connection issues again. Again. But his brother's always known what he wanted to do. There was never really he either wanted to be a builder or a policeman, and then an experience with a policeman soon knocked the police. And but you know, he's done that. He was happy that he left school. I mean, he's been to college, done the apprenticeship, he's done. But unfortunately, because of his accident, he wasn't able to take the final exam yet, so we still haven't. So he still hasn't passed. But even if I can briefly talk well, I was on a project because I don't community projects and I learned to brick away and I never had any skill. I have to put the pictures up. It's a dying art. In the UK now. And yeah, I mean, he's very adept at all that sort of stuff and he's really good with, you know, like when he's car brakes and that he'll he'll fix it. He doesn't have to do it. So I mean, they're both got. You know, I should be very proud of mine. I'm sure you are of yours. Yeah. But guys life is ruined now already, because I know he's going to get done for this accident thing because, you know, at the end of the day he was driving a dirt bike on a road. No, he's got a license. Just with no helmet.
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"Anyway, so now I've got to call that asshole ex-boyfriend of mine as well. So which is really annoying. And I have to do with the house, they're the police situation. The reason the police pay is because they couldn't get out of him. Which makes sense because obviously he's busted his phone. And he's using a different number and I don't suppose for one minute. He bothered to well, why would you inform the piece? But it's to do with this accident. He's got going for a voluntary interview to do with his accident. So. You know, I don't know. It's just. Rather he Andrew went with him. Because that's what he does for a living. So I know he will, it's fine. I've got to speak to him anyway, but because Henry's still got no fucking phone because where he's got that stupid Android, but it means I can't talk to him. I can't come in because he's on Android now. I can't message him and he can't message me unless he's got credit and I've got no credit and I can't buy any credit. So at the moment so I can't communicate with him because obviously the police when he got stopped with his friends. Just before Christmas, the policemen threw his phone into the van when he searched him, and it broke it. His phone. The police broke the phone. They broke phone? Yeah. Okay. Turn on or anything now. Which is an iPhone. I can't remember which one it was. I mean, they've all got better iPhones than me. So, but we put in the report and everything, but we just heard nothing, and that's always the way, isn't it? There's no fucking accountability for these fucking arts holes. Same here in the states, yeah. Do you have pretty awful extent sometimes, you know? Yeah, but it's just, you know, you can't eat they're so used to dealing with fucking. I suppose I shouldn't say this, but the dregs of society that, you know, you don't stand a chance as being a normal person because they don't treat you any differently. Yeah. Yeah. I've just a 15 year old boy, as far as they're concerned, and so he's bad. You know? The fact that I can't communicate with my son now, they don't care about that. They don't care that I can't afford to put credit on my phone. So that I can physically call him or message him for three weeks or whatever, you know, that doesn't mean shit to them, does it? It could be a lot worse. People living on the street and all the rest of it, but still it's like you were hanging on for a thread as it is and situations like that. It just breaks me so fucking cool. Not cross ups. I don't know what it makes me. Clearly, I'm not cross, I'm just fucking crying. They say that when you are a hammer, all you see is nails or something. Something like that where there's a better analogy there, but basically, yeah, they see everybody as a criminal, right? Every interaction that they have with is that you know you're a criminal or not or in the wrong place or whatever. You want to share the body with the team brush, turn everybody with the same brunch. Yes. Yes, they do. Are you even had some fucking copper? Well, I don't know if it was a copper. I think it was a copper, but he was trying to fucking take me down in a tweet conversation the other day because I commented on an LBC. A post London's biggest conversation in the radio station. About policing. But because somebody had taken it some guy had been messaging the daughter of this man. And he took this man turned up and it turned out his daughter was 12. And this man turned up to, I dunno, see his daughter, whatever, and I think and the man let his dogs on him or something. Sorry. Yeah, and that's please for you. They're all fucking bent. This was the man. There's a father of this daughter that had found out that this man was coming to me is 12 year old daughter, and basically he was taking his own action, you know, against the man because it was what's the point in calling the police. And I was just agreeing with that because I do agree. I think what is the point of calling the police for a lot of things? There is no point in calling police, and they don't do anything. You know, I've experienced that numerous times now. So, you know, even to put my house was broken into, they didn't even come out for that. You know, it's fucking terrible. So anyway, because I made a comment about that and then oh, well, that's our kind of what he said now, but you just started baiting me about how stupid I was to say such a thing and I'm like, well, that's my opinion, isn't it? But it's not stupid at all. People taking the law into their own hands, it seems to be projecting into that future more and more these days, because for those reasons, you know, what's the point they're either shitty full of attitude? And then he made this comment oh, so when were you arrested then? As if to say, you know, so he automatically made this assumption that I was some kind of petty criminal that had been arrested for something that apparently I didn't do sort of thing, you know, I saw a fuck off. Anyway, so I don't even know even relaying the story very well, but it's pathetic, all of it. Well, yeah. Not saying, I don't know, this person, but yeah, it sounds like you probably never had a negative experience with a law enforcement officer, like a lot of them. Or he was, yeah. Okay. 'cause he is handle something like something to do with sadly serving still or something. I don't even know. I mean, I can't imagine why anybody else would make a comment like that. Even if. I don't know, sometimes it's like, you're not even able to see from somebody else's perspective, maybe. You haven't had that experience okay. But you're not able to relate or have empathy. Some people are arc. And I
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"You can see. So again. Look at the knees and let's see what I mean. You'll see those things.
What's the 311
"able" Discussed on What's the 311
"Welcome to this on your podcast. So me and my man had a discussion. He said, it's going to be explicit, yeah. He said, who gives anyone the F and right? To change any goddamn thing in my house. So I'm looking at the house and I'm like, thinking for myself, like, I don't see nothing changed and who changed it. So, so he says, you write people your home and they want to think they can go and change your home. You want to go now and put damn Spanish towels up in my home that I'm going to have to pay to take off from my walls or put down or just redecorate my place that I'm going to have to actually pay for to take things, you know, to have it removed, so I said to him I said, well, I understand what you're saying, but I feel like people, when you move into a place you want to be comfortable, so you want to make it your own. So he's like, I don't give a damn about it. You feeling comfortable. If you want to feel comfortable, then you don't rent a place you go by it, your own place and make it your own. You don't just come in, put in new cabinets, Spanish towel and all this other stuff that I have to pay to take down because now someone is going to move in and they don't have the same taste as you do. And baby, I just wanted to look the way I had it. I didn't need you to go ahead and do all these upgrades. So I'm like, well, I say, well, I get it, but I don't get it. The reason why I don't get it, because a lot of times, I understand what he's saying, like you can do the little cosmetic things when you move into someone home, you can basically just decorate it the way you want to decorate. But the thing with most people when they rent out the homes, they don't want to fix a lot of things in the homes. You know, so if you have a father or a brother or anybody that's into construction, carpenters flooring, you might say at the time, if you've been here for a while, I said, I give it like 5 years. You've been there and you're like, well, I've been telling this landlord to. My God.
The Vergecast
"able" Discussed on The Vergecast
"James vincent senior reporter at the verge whose specialty is ai machine learning. Hello james hello ashley how you do today and create. It's always a treat to see you cute. So obviously you've been reporting on ai and machine learning here the verge for years. I trust you. You're going to give us the real take. You're gonna give us skepticism. That ri- british wit. I'm ready for it. Obviously in this episode. We're timeout voice synthesis. And i wanted to hear from you. There's a lot of hype around this right now. Is specifically because anthony bourdain documentary. We're hearing a lot about it. People are writing about it. Do you think this industry is something that we need to be paying attention to. We've just done a whole podcast episodes. I hope the answer. Yes or do you think. This is kind of over hyped. Maybe something that's not going to play as big an importance in the world going forward. So yeah i mean. I am not as skeptical. You might be expected me to be. I genuinely think the technology is here. I think the technology is impressive and unlike some applications we see in in machine learning. It's much closer to just being out there. You've been speaking to baritone have product. it's being used. It's ready to go and that's quite unusual. Sometimes in what. I think is over. Hyped is we'll be we think about the potential impact. This will have. I think the reason that the for example the anthony bourdain documentary caused such a huge discussion. Obviously it's the novelty of it and it's bringing with it a lot of questions that we've not dealt with. But i think once those have gone past the actual impact on the industry will be smaller than we're currently thinking now. But as i say the technology is here is very exciting. I i'm super into it. Yeah and i mean obviously whenever we talk a lot about new technology again here at the verge we tend to sort of look at the potential future. Misuse of it. So having kind of your ear to the ground on the reporting here do you think there's enough discussion going on around ways. This technology could be misused enough forethought going into how to prevent that. I don't know in terms of forethought that it's difficult to say so one of the big uses for this is going to be fraud. We forty had reported accounts only a couple but they've been trickling out about fraud cases to do with banks to do with financial transfers where someone is created a fake of a ceos voice and said yes. I authorize you to send me. You know three hundred thousand euros over the and they believe that and it just happened. And that's that's wild to me. But i don't think that not necessarily creates a completely new threat model. If you found someone who could do a good impersonation of your ceo or you convince them that you're speaking over a crackly phone line. And that's why they sounded weird. That's just social engineering. That happens a lot anyway. So i don't think this makes a completely new threat out there in the world but it will make the access to that sort of attack much easier. I know for example. It's something that's a huge problem in the us. With spam calls. And if you start getting parents start getting spam calls which sound a little like their daughter or their son. That's going to be super freaky. And that's something. That could really plausibly. Happen so i think it's something that people need to be aware of. That was my parents first reaction when i played them. I- synthetic voices they. They were freaked out because it's taboo to my grandfather where he got like a scary phone call from someone crying claiming to be my brother and he was like what the hell like asking for money. That's crazy imagine if that was actually my brother's voice i mean it already pretty much. My grandpa like he called my mom. But like still if you'd actually put my brother's voice or my voice that's terrifying and it's going to be one of those things where we start to rethink what information about us is available online. So i think it's something over the past couple years now or quite aware of the fact that. Hey if you're on facebook and you've got a lot of public photos of you about then someone could use those for mischief. They could create a fake account that pretends to be you and i think in the future. We're going to now start thinking. How is there a quite a bit of audio of me online that someone could use to create a fake now for most of the listeners. That's probably not going to be a huge problem for you. Athlete common host of popular podcast. On the verge. That's actually a huge problem. Does it worry you yes it does. I had story. I heard him anxiety prone. So it's not exactly ideal. But no i do think about that. Because obviously we have tons of videos of us. At the verge. Yeah like if you wanted to clone me in any way whatsoever but a data is ripe for the taking so enjoy right and i think that creates this new level of threat for people you have. Perhaps let's say a semi public profile. I don't know how you'd categorize yourself in that. But obviously i think as journalists we do have that we're not famous. Obviously but we have information about us. That's out there in in a way that it isn't for everyone does create a new threat for that sort of individual and obviously it's not just journalists. Let's say you're a company ceo. That's the fraud example. I use if you have an earnings call. Then there's lots of all your of you out there every time you've done an earnings call there's going to be recordings of that accessible online transcripts and someone can scrape that data very easily and turn that into a new type of attack. Whether it's something that's being talked about enough. I don't know but i think it's like it's one of those problems that as soon as we start seeing more cases of it that get public discussion. The anthony bourdain thing. Then we're gonna start seeing reactions to this from these companies as why. I think it's great to be talking about this stuff. Now because the more people know about it the less of a threat is. I'm curious also about the economics of this like whether this will be something that will be democratized for everybody. That like anyone in their mom. If they are willing to record ninety minutes of audio could theoretically make a voice clinton themselves or this is going to kind of stay at the higher and of cost where you have to kind of be willing to dedicate the time and money and also maybe just use it for economic gains like for advertisement reading like we've talked about..
The Promised Podcast
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"Song is a liotta by the white trash. That band. I saw last week and talked about on the podcast very much smitten kitten. They have a new record out there. I and will listen to them over the course of the show and now it is time for our first discussion. So alison. i've said it before. And i meant it before. It looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. What the hell just happened. So i was exhausted last night but i refuse to go to sleep because i needed to see how my favorite reality show that one more motley crue of politicians were trying to hammer out an anti bibi. Netanyahu coalition was going to end so mercifully not at five minutes before midnight but a luxurious thirty five minutes before their deadline on wednesday night. You're the peed the leader of the centrist asia. Tea party called up president reuven rivlin to announce using this traditional formulation saying quote. I have been able to form a government so it has to be said the first thing that the government lapierre was able to form is not a done deal. It could still collapse before it's ever sworn in the speaker of the knesset. Your eve levine. Is still a staunch netanyahu man and he could find some parliamentary tricks and sticks as they say to delay a confirmation vote in the knesset for as long as twelve days during that time prime minister netanyahu and his gang could do whatever they can to pressure. One or more of the sixty one ks in the government lapierre negotiated with to bolt before. The government is even installed. He's doing that probably even as we speak. All it takes is one person to pull out of this agreement and the new government could collapse. It very well could happen. In fact it's kind of a miracle at the government took shape at all the challenges that it faces were laid bare during these final ten days and hours as negotiation for example the former minister of justice from the right wing yamuna party. I yell at head insisted that she be given a seat on the judicial selection committee. That seat was promised earlier in the week to labor party. Had mirow michaela now. Shed favors the appointment of conservative judges and molly..
The Promised Podcast
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"Who couldn't escape and whose names we don't know unlike benjamin's he also built the way of human rights and nuremberg thirty pillars and on each of twenty seven of them. There is one article of the universal declaration of human rights in germany and in one of twenty seven other languages in nuernberg caravan was saying two things at once to the people of germany. I you can choke on this demonstration and necks despite what your people did despite what you people did coming to truly care for human rights is not beyond you today. See caravans nonstop heartbroken. Disappointment can't be separated from his faith that people have it in us to be good or at least better. When he spoke political demonstrations is. Matthew was outrage. The memorial he built in nuremberg he said at one protests that i saw he might soon need to make a similar memorial here in israel. Speaking of the relief wally. Sculpted in the knesset plenum. He said another demonstration quote. I'm ashamed of the knesset and of the people who are photographed against the wall that i designed and quote parent was cranky..
Pop Culture Junkie
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"Then you can do a horizontal so basement party by the cool kids spelled b. a. s. s. Nbn tea party is another one. This is a little different from the other ones. That are like more funky. This is more psychic. Traditional eight awaits is like beats bee. Sim bows out. But it's it's bumping and probably dance to it with your feet just as fancy as you would with the other funky tunes that i have here. Yeah we listen to a snippet of it and it was like we were all grew. It's it's pretty fun and it's really just like everybody come on. Let's party men's party. Come on that bari. I like a song that tells me to party like. I wasn't going to do it until you told me to. Now i am like when blackstone structure. He's like let's get it started. I'm like i will. I will because you told me. I had like put your hands in the air. God fine. we're going to be some black eye peas in this now that you say that. Because they'd be doing that. They were bumped into for a couple of albums for then. They went somewhere else but yeah basement. Party reminds me oversight graduate after high school. Me and my friends who would get together and like the cool kids are rapping about decided. How like they're the. They're the life of the parties will come join them. Because everybody's going to have a good time and that's pretty much what we felt like at nineteen me and my friends are anywhere we go. It's a party. And that's how i felt like we believe that in some ways that happened a lot so that kind of still that believe that about my thirty two let's get and then My number one would be. Hey ya by outkast. And that's because that was my graduation song. How am i graduated. Boston's academy in two thousand. So when we all finished getting diplomas we just walked out of this stage in the auditorium. Just bump into that song. Did you do the little finger thing that andre three thousand does point. I don't remember it was all a blur. Hold nineteen twenty twenty one all the way to yesterday. Kinsley you're on. Podcast alex here. Where did he come from was the first. This is going to probably not surprising. Outcasts was the first rap or hip hop album. That i ever bought was the speaker box and the love below. That's where this is from. And i think you know i love rap so much hip hop because it's fairly new in it's gone through so many evolutions like in terms of like how you know. It's gone from like eight as simple beads to bring in my entire like orchestras to like for example Jay z's american gangster Sean diddy combs. He was part of the you know he produced. How produce it just like. Brought all these acorns in just the entire album is just like live instruments and just to see that and have you know. Hey ya outkast be part of just like via the growth in the experimentation of rapid cells in their legends. The i love out. Yeah i just like conic dude. I love outcast. And when he knew we need some new jam and i made a separate playlist. It's called one for the decade on my spotify. And then it's also called decade-long summer on my apple music and i purposely named in two different things because the first song isn't available in either the platforms which is kristin your denim flow and this is a song that By kanye west and it features push tea features. Big sean features can't cutty john legend. Yeah it's it's it's dope and this is what it felt like for me and i call it for the decade because it's like chronologically ordered by year of the release of the song and that was like pretty much started a decade. I was like out here like taking. Because i was taking pictures alive like i was like out here to bridges a models and stuff and i felt like i related to like this christine. Dr song was talking about like live life when my these models or whatever but Yeah that that sounds out. My apple. Music is the same as the other Social media handles so finder so all of the junkies made top ten playlist. We all just cover our top five tonight. But we're going to post all of the songs in one big playlist on our facebook groups. You guys can just listen to the pop culture junkie summer playlist and just jam to gosh be forty songs on there so get you through. Good summer day. It's
Pop Culture Junkie
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"Okay alex last but not least summer. Play your time have one please Something i call summer grooves. And this is kinda just more so dancy. Feely kind of a playlist Like a little bit of funk. These mostly are like hip hop artists. But on my top five year if i were to list them i have american boy by a stellan kanye west and kanye west was going to make it into this somehow even if it were by feature yeah this one was kinda like bumping i felt like. Oh they'd probably talking about me. And this american boy you know what i'm saying like and saw i remember back. Motto is definitely bump into nen. There is financed by bruno mars. Like i love that funky field. You know. i love that. Like james brown just like getting all up in old that you know that that that superstition stevie wonder dude. I love bruno mars. He makes such just danceable. Listen general all the time to a ball script. We came out to bruno. Mars at our wedding came out to. What's the word. Don't believe me just for times and break my voice. Yeah just like the one. That's like the bridegroom here. They believe me juices. Don't believe any getting married. Don't believe just watch. We're getting by bruno. Mars on the top of my list album too. I think and this album as well as that song for all my god. That is such a sexy song was pretty much. Told me somebody to take off their saatchi. So they can make sweet love. Okay i have to say it. Sounds like you have somebody who wants to sing to you in the background. He's like party. He's like hearing all the tunes and he's like. Oh my god. I want to know what that is. He loves music. That's lorenzo boy. Yeah he he starts banging he like he. He's already like sometimes. We suspend him asleep to like some like cello life channel. Sonatas that he's into that you put him to sleep to bruno mars to my nephews. I mean sometimes. I get a little putting logo trapping. The on the on the speakers crump in and stuff he loves. It started doing three. Yeah but vanessa definitely a love that song in like the original because there's also the cardi b. b. you remix came out later after so but no i'm not. I'm not as much of a fan. He's a gap about bye. Bye sleep fit. Because i doubt when i first heard the cardi b. Surprise i thought it was the original version. Then party started rapping. Nothing you know probably be has good times but for finance. I don't know. I rather just stick to the one that was released in the album. I would also say. Am i wrong by anderson. Pack featuring schoolboy q. And anderson is another one of those groovy artists use a lots of different instruments trumpets drum percussion strings even and decide policies. Things just like start singing and rapping over these things. I like overly the he's really. He's really groovy featured very prominently on the trolls to soundtrack. If i can offer the mom personnel on one of the main characters and did like and like several like the lead song. Think he and justin timberlake together. I wouldn't be surprised that he made a town for it. I didn't know it was voicing by doing like character work too. that's cool. He's he's been. I think he is very part of like the production in like the scoring of like the music that he makes than Am i wrong. It's like a song it's like am i wrong. Like if this person can't dance in my wrong for thinking that they also don't know how to dance in the bedroom. I think that is an accurate assessment. So that that's all pretty much of that. You know when you're out in the summer you know you out here dancing a whatnot and sometimes
Pop Culture Junkie
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"That is one of those memories that i have is just like peaks some urges calvin harris. Dj me and my girlfriends in the pool. We have those tacky like plastic cups that you drink your drinks out of end just partying and dancing the whole day away and we kept me like i can say i could see like looking for calvin harris so definitely listened to that song. It's this whole album like on this top ten list. I have two songs from that same album. It's all just summer vibes. The other one that i have good memories of is so happy i could die by lady gaga. So this is from the fame monster so this came out in home. My god. i'm going to be a terrible gaga fan right now. Two thousand ten two thousand nine and it's not one of the singles from the album by just have such vivid memories of like driving to vegas and driving around this or wasn't driving to vegas is driving around the strip once already gotten there and the lyrics of the song just like i'm so happy i could die just like i'm up in the club with my girls have a bottle of red wine. We're dancing our asses off. I could die. And i'd be happy. This describes me like in my bed. Been hunt order. I'm so happy. I could i i i right now so definitely that would i. I swear i do other things besides party in vegas. But that's what i think of what i think of summer long vegas and that's like a weird thing coming from someone who barely gambles and doesn't drink but like i- legit love. I guess my sister lived there for ten years and so i would go there every summer to help her. Take care kids. And when i was out of school and i have always had just like a deep affinity for there. There's a reason like the others are my favorite band. Dude like that that will the glitz and glam and that is steadily. Yeah absolutely like when. I was a kid like we would go on to dance competitions and we would dance in vegas and my aunt took me and my cousin once i mean we were kids so we couldn't do a whole lot but vegas used to have other things that families could do. They had like an amusement park. Mgm grand and there was like roller coasters in like a water rapid ri- we would go down the gondola. Then as you get older your activities chain we'd start going to shows in clubs and they got rid of all that stuff when the new governor came in and was like what how because they realized that when people were bringing their kids they weren't drinking and spending in gambling so they got rid of all that stuff yeah absolutely so they took out the the abuse park and they got rid of like the the pirate ship show at treasure island. And
A Penny For Your Thoughts c/o Beautiful Girls and All We Have Gone Through
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"Just thinking about what was just said a minute. Let me think about what was just say. I know that she didn't try to get the best of me. Like there is no situation to risk. But am i supposed to stop doing what i'm doing to make someone in her life comes and goes when i am not even their compliments and the fact being related related whose relation and trust the people you are around and about which does not dictate what you can say. What will be a pandemic. Which is the situation hand. You'll never be able to heal by going back to what broke. You does not make family. Those relatives family is those with home. You share your good bad and ugly and still love one. Another in the end family are the ones you select justice. Sentence peration okay. Let me see this person. Wants me to go back into someone. I once knew to make the life. Easier could jeopardize what i have been within my life really. I can't even fathom thoughts sitting around with someone who will make me feel ill. It's not all peaches and cream. When the person was in my life the attitude just to wear the shades the fact of lies and disrespect one thinking. It was okay for not looking. Like i was just there to be there but boy do they have another thing coming. You cannot understand a person without understanding what a person has been through in overcome when you can realize for the first time you have no pain of moving on letting the toxicity be removed completely in my life so when i show up i am proud to be. Just how far will you go to make someone feel special instead of making memories. Not say a bucket list. The bucket could not makes a difference in some ways it may be good or just. The course in life makes the pale too small of an ocean with fish swimming of things. I would love without hurting someone. Make sure you have a poll so you can say oh man here. Let me add this to the bucket minute. That was so much fun. I think i could just toss the fish back. So when i am ready to make you feel at ease up i can go back out there again. Not still swimming in the water. It makes the bucket which causes the love of new energy and life away. No one will be able to stand. There is no room in life when it's someone else's fault then it was you who could have done something about who what where or win. That is a real question. You can ask yourself to put it mildly given the opportunity to do again i just could have a because the path he walked. No one is able to pick up those shoes even if they just lifted off the show. So start from. The beginning is putting you and your place in a new era. It cannot be traced back to you. The lie said a coming within a person smile. You know obsolete nothing about you what you will do so let us get the shop. Talk to make the talk real. Sure let them through in through the good pitch. Lynn whack the heck out of the ball for the grand slam play. The denny's could not even recreate knowing how to say. I apologize is so much different in. I am sorry that is just thrown around like passing a term paper or something and the difference with an apologetic state is within sincerity of the mistake or the unwillingness of the situation helping to make the healing process as well as the relationship with understanding. Do not grit your teeth. Do not make fix miles. Do not come around when someone asks about you. Just do not look at the calendar. Just say i thought i would say hey to keep you on. Reserve didn't with such is only a quick fix. When you can say how you feel tell the truth and you can work. The situation and there is how to get things started. I know you don't understand but you have to live with you. And i am responsible for what i do. So if you love me like you say you do not thin you will keep your issues within you. Not price them on people. You had no intentions of trying to see. It will not help you in it. Postpones the inevitable of another day because no one sees you like idea flipping pages like you're in the book. When going through life you have a lot of comings and goings some people maybe in your life or duration and then there are others who just come around to see what you're doing. Do not bat your eyes pull down the shade glasses or even turn your head to the side not understanding the situation. Just hold up your head and take responsibility for what you did or even said and no one is in a Incidence this is even happening. It is just the time to pull out the weeds in your life that causes you to grow in a patch of something. Someone may not even want it around now. I say that to say this. It is not i who must decide about you in life. You must be the one to find out the answer within yourself and put forth the effort to say. I have nothing to lose. But so much to gain when i decide to make that change.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
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"Because of what i was doing. I follow guided an to again find. This is my purpose is what i'm supposed to be doing that. I work seven days a week. If you'd give me an eight. I would have done it too. I went there was one year where we were opening up some programs in hawaii so travelled to hawaii to speak with you do a presentation on base and all the things and i did it over a holiday weekend so that i could actually take a day or two to relax while i was. There didn't do it phone in hand the entire time on the plane. Back to san diego. I thought oh god lee remember much of besides my phone like i didn't disconnect couldn't relax. I couldn't have just focused focused. Must you know more locations. Keep writing grants keep looking. Keep looking for sponsors them this. It had grown into four different locations. Were sponsoring salsa night we We're asked to go to a white house. Summit called the united state of women to talk about our work with female veterans of military sexual trauma and how alternative therapies like dance can can and should be explored rather just traditional math therapy methods. So you know tons all these accolades which were amazing. And i had again the increase incredible team of instructors that had aired to work with me. Who shared that vision that we all know how to teach dance and we all know. That dances not accord. You know the not the that making dancers is not important right. They all know that this is the vehicle we are using to get people. You know out of their houses to reconnect with their spouses reconnect with their level. Can i of course duty joy like we all shared that passionate social responsibility That nonprofits are. I didn't know anything about so. It's just trying to stay one step ahead of where supposed to be. Learning is a learning ago. Struggled with fundraise it. You know i would talk to some outside like look what i'm looking at. Whom going to donate to to charities in front of me. Homes were drew Or i've got year. And i don't know homes for our troops is actually a real organization of trying to make up something. But hondo judah incredible place but something who is constructing adaptive homes for for veterans or a dancing one. You're not getting my money. that is housing is more important. I'm like yes. I agree with you. Housing is more important and gives them a reason to leave the house. Comeback people can't stay in their house being shouldn't be one or the other..
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
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"The moment at the tom just talking about physical therapy combat injuries but as we started to expand as starting to speak with other therapists somebody with traumatic brain. Injury could really benefit from dancing right to be able to learn a series of steps and execute those steps while talking to someone while listening to music takes so many brain functions to do and if that same person comes back next week and repeats and remembers that pattern. Now we're talking about another ausman of the brain is straining strengthening that part of the brain. And if i if. I tweeted just a little. I know last week we went to the wrapped. This we're going to the right whole different brain process now involved. There's so much firing that leg they saw the can. I have my. Tv patients. Come in and then working with patients with some level of post traumatic stress of who were isolated. Who are feeling. They can't make eye contact with someone who You know are just afraid to go into new spaces in new things. Well cut Come here there's a consistency. I have these amazing volunteers who are showing up every single week. You will have a familiar smiley face that will greet you every single week. You will laugh you will. You will accidentally catch yourself making eye contact with somebody and joking around going. Oh and then you know our job my job as a teacher but also as a therapist and reading up our notes of reflecting back to them be like. Hey remember ask you when you came in and asked you know how you felt anxiety level on a scale of one to ten like ten and i just asked you you ready to spend an hour dancing and your anxiety level drops having you know like you realize how impressive that is for you right. The yeah like this is. This is an amazing thing for this hour. Like i can't reach come back next week. And when i hear those words i can't wait to come back next week and having them like..
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
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"And to take it to the next level and help others who were struggling through dark times at a young age. We grow up with dreams and are taught to remain determined and steadfast in achieving those dreams. At all costs right. Then when you reach the point to where you are living the dream. A huge setback event occurs. You know not once but maybe even multiple times. Well you know when that happens what are we. What does that say about our dreams right. What does it say about us and who we are. Well my special guest has some first hand insight on this leaving her secure job insurance. She pursued the dream of dancing her dream of dancing ever since childhood. She also founded an organization that taught veteran amputee how to salsa. Now check this out and calorie multiple setbacks. Hers is a journey of resilience and embracing identity. We're about to hear her incredible story. It gives me great pleasure to introduce jennifer.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
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"Hello my fellow roadies. Starting new year is often associated with two things wind. A fresh start clean slate in two ways to improve myself in the spirit of self development. I am extremely excited to share with you..
What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood
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"The new york times did an article. It was more. What was it. It was like a series of articles. It was yes see peace. I guess they call it. America's mothers are in crisis and it has like sort of six articles underneath one umbrella. I'll put the link in the show notes. Yeah and i thought it was interesting and it captured a lot of the stuff that we're hearing. Oh before we do that though. I want to say one other thing. Someone else talked about. Which i think is another part of this frustration. That like she's living this crazy pandemic life and her neighbors just came back from disneyworld Like there's also that whole aspect where it's like we are in this cocoon of our house traps together for a year and then on facebook. There's like friends of ours bars and we're just like we what is life. It's like all the tent poles of sanity have been pulled up and we're just kind of flailing we'll let me tell you it's really hard about that. Is you know speaking from experience or somebody close to me that the people who are going to disneyworld seemed to be fine and the people who are staying home and doing nothing like you know went to the corner wants and geico vet like covert isn't being fair on who decides to track down if you feel me yes and that is for sure and i know you realize this a completely anecdotal like experience that you're having which is not actually true like yes. People are getting cova at disneyworld and getting it. You know by trying to go to school right. That's right. It happens to all of us but the sensation when you see only the pictures of like people on vacation is like wait. Why am i in hell and these other people are like flittering around you know and it's just mentally really difficult and the new york times article focuses specifically on working moms which is another whole aspect of this. Ps all working moms hashtag. We are all working but this is like with the boss. Yes moms who work outside the home and now inside the home. That's the problem is responsibilities to a third party yet right. You're trying to work from home. And i mean it was illuminating. Hadn't really thought about one of the women is like a counselor and she's trying to have meaningful conversations with people and our kids like running around in the background. Like i mean we have you guys have heard sometimes on this podcast like one of my kids will open the door and the background i mean like what am i need but i run a parenting. Podcast just go. I'm home and my kids are here. You hear them. Yes but there's a lot of jobs really the stress of you can't have your kid in. The background is really profound. There's one picture. And i guess i'll put this in the show notes as well. The linked to the pictures you guys can see it. 'cause i seen it all over facebook. There's one photo split screen of a mom wiping toddlers but while in the next room. The dad is sitting calmly on a conference call and the mom is also on a work. Call right but it's the mom that is wiping the taller spot. While she's like trying to close a deal and the other parent is in the other room getting to act as if the pandemic doesn't exist and what bothered me about this article looking at it with any angry visit. This was very much. Phrased is a mother's problem which it is not a parental problem. Right guys problem that the toddlers at home and needs his butt wipe during a conference call because the mama handle it and this is something we've talked about a lot. And i mean we my husband and i had come to jesus moment about this at some point fairly early on which was i mean. My job is much more flexible than my husband's job. And my husband is also the primary breadwinner household right and also less lucrative right right so there are some natural kind of. What's the word like inertia things that happened. There which is like i am more available and able and his job is not quite so like a kid screaming in the background. Sorry i don't know what he's done but he's on calls with people with money already. He's tried to get it. You know whatever he's doing right. And so i understand this parameters. But i did say early on to him. Your work and his work has been understanding. Thank god some people's aren't but i said you're working needs to understand that it is not my job to create an atmosphere where the pandemic is not happening so you can continue to work as if the pandemic is not happening and i have to like as my mom would say stand on my head spit wooden nickels to make sure that everything stays peaceful in your office environment. It's not realistic. And it's not going to