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"We're going to see overnight low temperatures drop into the 20s and 30s have pretty chilly overnight. Traffic and weather together on the 8th on K CBS, ques news time at 7 20 is our news watch continues. While people are combating the midlife crisis by becoming what is being called modern elders, it's a growing movement for personal growth. For more now we're joined down the case CBS RingCentral news line by chip Conley hostility entrepreneur and a New York Times bestselling author. Thanks so much for joining us this morning, chip. Oh, it's great to be with you. Thank you. Sure. So explain to our listeners what a modern elder is. What does that person look like? Yeah, well together, the first time I was called a modern elder, I was like, wow, that sounds like AARP's magazine. I don't want to be that. But I was at Airbnb. I was a longtime boutique hotel here. I started a company called joie de vivre that grew up to 52 boutique hotels around California. Oh, I've stayed there a lot. Yes, many of those hotels, and then I sold the company. And in the Great Recession, and then the founders of Airbnb ten years ago approached me and said, we want you to come in and be our in-house mentor and when it was a small little company. And I joined, but quickly I realized, wow, I am twice the age of the average person here. And they started calling me the modern elder and I said, what is that? And they said, someone who's as curious as they are wise. And that's when I said, okay, if modern elder is someone who's as curious as they are wise, I will be that. I really love that. That's amazing. I'd like to refer to myself as a modern elder. So would you say that it's more of a philosophy, a lifestyle, a movement? Well, it's sort of grown into a movement with tens of thousands of people around the world talking about being a modern elder now. But it's really a personal philosophy of how can I stay relevant? I don't think the elder of today is about reverence. It's about relevance. And how do we stay relevant in a world that's changing as much as it is. And for many of us by choice from necessity, we're going to continue working into our 60s, 70s and 80s. And not retire in our 50s or early 60s as our parents might have. Sure. So explain to us what the modern elder academy is and what inspired you to create it. Well, when I went after I finished my full-time work at Airbnb, I went down to southern Baja about an hour north of Cabo San Lucas. At a beach home, I was writing my 5th book called wisdom at work, the making of a modern elder. While I was there, I went to run on the beach one day, and I had a Baja aha. I had an epiphany. And the epiphany was, why do we not have any schools to help people in midlife reimagine and repurpose themselves? And so the modern elder academy sprouted out of that 5 years ago as the world's first midlife wisdom school dedicated to helping people reframe their relationship with aging and reimagine and repurpose themselves. So that's how it started and we've now have over 3000 alumni from 42 countries. And 26 regional chapters around the world. So what's it look like? I mean, do people show up for a week? Did they show up for a weekend, like weekend seminars? I mean, what's it really look like? Great question. I was lucky enough to be on the SLE institute board of directors and teach their in Big Sur for many, many years. And there's some similarities and some differences. We are a weeklong program in Baja. There's a set curriculum, but certain themes where we have people like everybody from Dan buettner, who created the blue zones theory to Esther perel famous psychotherapist coming and actually offering some additional content beyond our curriculum. Most people come to Baja and do those programs. But we also have online programs. Especially online programs focused on transitions. Because we go through so many transitions in midlife, and yet we don't have a lot of much of a road map to understand how do you go through the divorce or changing your career or being in this sandwich generations with your parents, needing care, but also your kids still needing some help. So our programs are meant to be a lot of fun and transformative, whether they're online or in person. I mean, obviously, you look at it. I'm of the age that probably exactly what you're talking about. So I can relate. How old are you? I'm almost 60. So our average age is 54, so yes, you're in the range for sure. Actually, I'm somewhat exaggerating him almost 58, so I got a couple of couple of years, but so tell me, tell me this chip. Obviously, I can see, as I'm listening to you, talk, I can see the benefits for myself and kind of self improvement, that sort of thing. But what do you think are some of the benefits of adopting this outlook for an individual? And then once that person does, I mean, what kind of impact that has that can have on society as a whole? Well, first of all, the Yale's Becca levy, doctor Becca Levi has shown that when a person shifts their mindset from a negative perspective on aging to a positive, they gain 7 and a half years of additional life. Which is more life gained than if you actually stop smoking age 50 or started exercising in age 50. So this is an incredibly, it has a huge impact, not just on how long you're going to live, but how happy you will be. And the U curve of happiness, social science research has shown that generally speaking, people bottom out and their happiness around 45 to 50, and with each decade after that, they get happier and happier. So we bring a lot of social science research from Dakar counters that UC Berkeley is teaching it right now this week on the campus in Baja. He started the greater good science center. So I think what we help people to do is see that if you're 54 years old and you're going to live till I was 90, you have half of your adulthood still ahead of you. So long story short is impact for the person. And for society, it helps people to combat ageism and realize that older people in midlife are beyond have a lot still to offer. I love that. So chip, I have the same 7 best Friends, so I've had since junior high and I'm seeing them all tonight for a gift exchange. I'm gonna tell them that I want to go to the modern elder academy. I love the idea. But love to see your chip, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Great to be here with you. Thank you. Thank you. And that was chip Conley, is a hospitality entrepreneur in New York Times bestselling author and also the founder of the modern elder academy I love it. In just two minutes, we're going to get an update on Bay Area traffic. If dog people made dog food, it definitely wouldn't look like dusty burnt Brown pebbles. 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Past Gas
"baja" Discussed on Past Gas
"Wow. Wow. Now I've seen everything. The Baja 1000 is truly an endurance race and nobody endured it better or more than rod hall. Hell yeah, right. And that's why he belongs to the broad Hall of Fame. That's a different Hall of Fame. Yeah. Although the race track changes every year, the current fastest time is held by Jim Smith in his four trophy truck. He broke the record in 1990 four, the first year the trophy truck class competed in the Baja 1000. Smith completed the 633 mile mexicali loop in ten hours and 28 minutes. Jeez. Yeah, but this one is like three over 300 miles short of this one. A full third shorter, fair. That's still a good time. Over the entire history of the Baja 1000, four wheeled vehicles have finished fastest overall 16 times, but two wheeled vehicles have done it a whopping 38 times. By the way, since 1997, Honda has won 24 out of the last 25 races in the two. And 16 overall. In what a ridgeline? The motorcycles. Oh yeah. But why are people still drawn to the Baja 1000 after all these years? It isn't really about the prize money. The overall winner takes home $40,000 in a race where some of the vehicles themselves cost upwards of half a million. No, the Baja 1000 is about history, tradition, and securing one's place amongst the legends that came before them. In many ways, the Baja 1000 has changed a lot over the years, but it has also stayed true to its origins. It's the ultimate off road high-speed endurance race that is equal parts beautiful and dangerous. But it goes deeper than that. From rod hall to Ivan Stewart, Ed Perlman to south fish, the Atkins brothers to Bill Robertson junior, what started as an advertisement for Honda motorcycles, changed the world of off road racing as we know it. And I want to do the Baja 500 sometime. Yeah, it'd be so sick. I don't need to go a thousand miles, but it takes a tasty taste. I think it's so cool that Honda had their hands in so many fun things and 60s and 70s. That's what you got to do when you're a little fledgling business trying to take over a new market. You got to take some risks. Maybe that's called business. That's the most obvious thing I've ever said on the show. Anyway, that was a great story. We got some fan mail this week. This one is from Cody. Love the show, been listening for a while of the cars, and I love history in the shows a great combination of both. I think my favorite episode so far aside from the most recent about the automakers in World War II would probably be the hot wheels for its matchbox episode. One thing that's kind of bothered me is James has mentioned of who's on the dime, which has been said a couple of times in past episodes. Since 1946, FDR has been on the U.S. dime, Eisenhower was on a $1 coin from 1971 to 78. I have one in my collection, the collection of money. Eisenhower also appeared as part of the presidential gold dollar series starting in 2007, his was minted in 2015. Keep up the great work and mo power baby, Cody. Thank you. Thank you, Cody. For the correction. I'm going to Google the mic to my computer right now. Who is on the dime Dwight Eisenhower? All right, well, thank you for your fan mail Cody. Thank you for the correction and the clarification. Keep collecting those coins made for kids. You know what I mean? Get that. Isn't it funny? That collecting money costs money when you could collect money for yourself. You're spending money on coins. The real collection of money is the money in your bank Friends. You that's right. Okay, if you'd like to hit us up. Hit us up. Real shit real spit. Follow Joe at Joji Weber follow James at James pumphrey, but soon. I will be at James batshit reptile and follow me at Nolan J Sykes. Big thank you to our producers this week. Christina felski and Gavin kinsel and our writer this week Jeffrey Murdoch Jeff Murdock.
Past Gas
"baja" Discussed on Past Gas
"PlayStation podcast. Although the race became safer with Sal's innovations, the Baja 1000 is still known as the most dangerous race in North America for a few reasons, okay? To keep this course both challenging and safe, the course itself changes every year. And because of that, racers are encouraged to pre run the route to get acclimated to the land and choose the best path. That's where the term pre runner comes from. If a driver isn't comfortable with the terrain, it could spell disaster for even the best racer. So pre running is like, you don't take your race truck, you take like a truck that's modified Tacoma. Tacoma, Ford Ranger, Ford F one 50, what have you? Pre orders are cool. Pre runner, take your time with it. Mark points along the course that might break your shit. Like maybe there's a silt pit that you're unfamiliar with. Do you like check it out, maybe there's a big old rock in there that you put like an axle flag there. Yeah, you put something there. Mark it on your map, don't go in that. So that's it, guys. So why does Toyota sell a Tacoma pre runner? That's the name. But it's not four wheel drive. No, yeah, exactly. Well, this trophy trucks aren't full wheel drive. Some of them are some remark. Oh God, with this semantics, who are you selfish? Pre runner is just a TRD has all the parts from a TRD four by four, but it's just two wheel drive. So you have the suspension upgrades. You have the skid plate. You have other bits off roading bits, but it's just two wheel drive. That's what the pre runner is. Should be four wheel. That's all I'm saying. Well, then get the TRD four by four. This episode of past gas is sponsored by Toyota's December to remember. Hey. K jewelers. Toyota. Hey, Kay jewelry. The Baja Peninsula is largely encompassed by the Baja California desert. A desolate, rocky wasteland with some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth, including the dreaded in aforementioned, silt. Silt is extremely fine grained sand with almost no real traction that can trap racers if they don't have enough momentum or blind those following behind in its wake. It's kind of like an onomatopoeia. Makes the sound like salt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The name works. Yeah. Not to be outdone. Humans offered obstacles too. There are parts of the course where racers need to drive on public roads currently in use by the public. Something eraser can never really prepare for. Besides the other drivers, eraser needs to keep their eyes peeled for animals on the road as well as the speed limits on public roads. You don't want to get pulled over. By the cops, because that can happen. Yeah, then you got to pay them off. One of the most unique hazards in the Baja 1000 are the man-made booby traps. What? Yep, these booby traps are set up by locals in their attempts to make the race even more exciting. It's funny. They can be made of rocks, pits, holes, or ramps with the purpose to create a crash or just make a cool ramp. Oh my gosh, so tight. I love that. Racers were often tried. The ramp in front of our House. Racers will often try to warn other competitors about possible booby traps because in the remote areas of the Baja Peninsula, medical help is often too far away. You might be wondering how this is at all legal, but because the Baja 1000 is so long, it's pretty much impossible for officials and local authorities to control the entirety of it. Yeah, and if you live on a ranch somewhere in the middle of it, you have no say, you know, they're driving past for you for two days straight. So what do you do? You build a ramp. That ramp, baby, have a little fun with that. Set up a little photo op. The danger of running the Baja 1000 can not be overstated. As recently as two 1013, off road, motorcycle champion, Kurt casselli died after hitting a small animal at high speed. 2016, only 6 years ago, saw the single deadliest year of the Baja one thousand with three deaths, including an 8 year old spectator who was struck by a racer's vehicle when it last controlled. I don't agree that that is cool. None of us do. There is also an extremely bizarre case in 2007 when a chase helicopter crashed onto the course killing those aboard. It turns out that one of those bodies removed from the wreckage was that of Francisco murato Leon, hinojosa or el Alan. The abalone. He crashed. How did I not hear about this? El abalone was a lieutenant for Tijuana's Ariana Felix drug cartel and when his body was taken to ensenada, 50 men armed with assault rifles stormed the morgue and escaped with the body. Oh my God. It was never seen again. It's not really pertinent to the race at all, but that's crazy. I bet he comes back with a terminator body. Dangers aside the Baja 1000 has attracted competitors from all walks of life in all types of vehicles. With over 25 categories of cars, trucks and buggies, as well as 13 classes of motorcycles and ATVs, you can race in vehicles ranging from half a $1 million trophy trucks that are too powerful to be street legal to unmodified pre 19 82 Volkswagen beetles. Since there is no qualification required to enter the race, all you really need is a valid driver's license and the $3000 entry free. That's it. It's only three grand. Yeah, you know like a support team. I mean, it's a lot more. However, if you happen to be under 18 years of age, you do need your parents or guardian to sign a waiver. Okay. It's just like getting your ears pierced. Yeah. Celebrities are one unqualified group of participants who love to run the Baja 1000. The race has been run by celebrities like, Chuck Norris. Okay, yeah. James Gardner. Sure. Pat McDreamy Dempsey. And even Michael Nesmith of the monkey. Yes, even even Michael Nesmith from The Monkees. The coolest man ever, Paul Newman, the dressing guy. Competed twice once in 19 69 and then again in 2004 when he was 79 years old. The oldest competitor to ever compete in the Baja 1000. Grandpa, man. Dude. On his buggy? Yeah, it was all made of sound. He ran salad dressing and said oil. Broke down. Another noteworthy Baja legend is racer, rod, hall. The only person to compete in 50 consecutive Baja 1000s from 1967 to 2017. He ended his career with 25 class wins and is the only racer to win the Baja 1000 overall in a four wheel drive vehicle. What? Wow. Wow. Wow.
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"baja" Discussed on Past Gas
"Came in and just took a chunk of Elk off of our plane without insane anything. Yeah. They let anybody in here, huh? Yeah. He pees on the floor. He goes to the bathroom stands next to the urinal. The power move. It's cool. Doge. Now besides being an off road race promoter with his organization score, Southern California off road enterprises, Mickey was also known for being the first American to go faster than 400 mph on land when his four engine Pontiac streamliner named the challenger one reached 406.7 mph at the Bonneville salt flats. So safe to say Mickey had some street Cred. He had so much salt. Nice same page. With the Baja government given the score organization exclusive rights to run races on the Baja Peninsula, it came time for Mickey to make some decisions. First, he decided to cancel the 1974 race due to the fuel crisis. Despite all the backflips they had done to keep it going for that year, the Baja government reluctantly agreed. And then Mickey recruited Sal fish. Hell. Yeah, dude. To run score international and organize the 19 75 Baja 1000 race. Sal fish had kicked off his automotive career as a mechanic in his father's garage. And according to his father, he was not a very good one. I would imagine selfish talks like watto from Star Wars. He's just selling junk parts to people in the desert. God, that really hurts my throat whenever you go. All right, he wasn't a good mechanic, but he was, however, a good journalist. South fish began traveling the country as publisher of hot rod magazine, and first arrived in Baja for the 1968 race. Sal began traveling the country as publisher of hot rod magazine and first arrived in Baja for the 1968 race. At the time, hot rod was one of the most influential publications of its kind, and so coverage of the Baja race was a big deal for everyone involved. At first, salad just attended the race in an official capacity, but in 1969 he arrived for the maximum 1000, with co-pilot bob wiggle land. It's not a cool name. Sorry, bob. We can't win them all. The wig. No, it sucks. Worse than my name. Bobby wags. Robert wiggle and Robbie wigg. You sound like a listeners with a last name wigglin, but not me, horrible. I feel for you. My last name is silly. Pumphrey. Sounds like a, I don't know, it sounds like a bullet. A balloon operator? My name sounds like a balloon. They arrived in an MP sponsored stock Volkswagen beetle. MP makes voltage parts. They didn't finish. Probably because England's name is dorky. Because they had no experience and no true knowledge of the course. Though they didn't make it far south fish kept going back to the Baja Peninsula to race year after year. As president of score international, south fish worked to innovate and grow the organization. He got the Baja 1000 covered by national and international television. He organized the class rules by developing the concept of heavy metal and mini metal divisions, very cute. And he created the trophy truck class in 1994 for production vehicles with over 800 horsepower. Thank you, Sal. Thank you. Thanks selfish. I think selfish. He even helped make the race safer, but pioneering a system of emergency medical response, which is a good idea. Basically, selfish, worked his little fins off to make the score to make the score, Baja 1000, the premier desert race it is today. In 2006, Sal was inducted into the off road motor sports Hall of Fame. The sanctioning group started by Mexico 1000 creator Ed Perlman back in 1967. Dude, this guy ran the Baja 1000 for like 20 years over 20 years. And in 2006, they were like, yeah, I guess you could be in the Hall of Fame. Like a south fish in in the Hall of Fame. Who is? Mickey Thompson, probably Mickey Thompson. Also, this dude, Ed Perlman started the Hall of Fame, literally the year they started. The year that they made up off roading. Yeah, he's like, this is going to be big. Yeah, we're going to need a Hall of Fame. And you know what? He was right. Yeah. Play your cards, right? You guys could end up in the donut media Hall of Fame. Oh, nice. Started in 2015. I started 15. I'm in it. Oh, yeah. Anybody else? You win it every year. Yeah, I induct myself. I do it at my house with a bottle of forests. Just want to thank everybody. That's just your dog looking at me. We'll get back to more past gas, but right now, a word from our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by philo. You know, there's nothing better than unwinding and watching a little TV. I do it all the time. But you know what I hate is a hassle of finding what to watch and the cost of paying a crazy cable Bill. That's why I cut the cord. If you love TV, philo is your solution. Philo is live and on demand TV for just 25 bucks a month. Philo has VH1, BET, a and E, AMC. Plus, more than 60 other channels like Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, paramount and discovery. Never miss a minute of shows you love. 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Past Gas
"baja" Discussed on Past Gas
"He did it in his personal aircraft. Of course, of course. With the course set, the first Mexican 1000 was ready to begin. On October 31st, Halloween, all hallows eve, 19 67, 68 vehicles from four different vehicle classes, stock cars, dune buggies, four wheel drive vehicles, and of course motorcycles. They did stock cars? Not like oval track cars, but like a stock car. But like a stock car. Yeah, I know. That's still crazy to me. Yeah. People run like Volkswagen beetles now. Yeah, I think they check it out. I talk about it in Baja horizons. I saw a lot of them when I was down there checking out. These were even before Baja bugs. They ran stock, Volkswagen beetles. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. You should play Forza horizons 5. I talk about it. Oh, nice. In the donut game. The DLC? Yeah, the donut media DLC pack. It's free, free update. Yeah. So these 68 vehicles raced out of Tijuana and down the Baja Peninsula, 849 miles all the way to La Paz. After 27 hours and 38 minutes, Vic Wilson and Ted mangels crossed the finish line in their Meyers manx buggy, setting a new world record and winning the first ever. Mexican 1000. Hell yeah. I mean, like records don't really make sense if it changes every year, right? Well, I mean, eventually it's going to probably plateaus eventually. Well, nobody's saying, this was like a hundred miles less than the previous one. The previous one. That doesn't matter. It's all about the fact that they did it. And they set the record for having most fun. That's right. That's right. They were ripping. The Mexican, the Mexican 1000 returned to the Baja Peninsula annually for the next couple of years, with competitors racing from ensenada to La Paz, except for the race in 1972 when they twist race from mexicali to La Paz. And as time went on, the popularity of the race grew. The 1968 event was televised nationally on ABC's wide world of sports, which brought recognition of the race to a wider audience. The coverage ended up attracting a wider range of professional amateur and even celebrity drivers. I mean, wide world of sports was responsible for legitimizing so many forms of motor sport. I feel like it would have been my favorite show if I was alive during that time. Oh, for sure. Daytona 500 was televised on that. That's not NASCAR. Like most of it's stunts? 1960 cross racing. Short course trucks, I think. I think they had that golf golf. Nobody knew the Volkswagen beetle. I think short course trucks, they did that at the LA coliseum. That's why it was a short course truck. And I think they had that on wide world of sports, drag racing, wide world of sports, like so many forms of motor sport. Oh, it to ABC. Yeah. So thank ABC, write them a letter, say, listen, thank you. Wide world of sports also had the dude do the dive from a 172 feet. Have you ever seen that video? It's insane. That sounds incredible. And he does like three flips. I couldn't do that. I'm not built for that. No. I'm too big. Yeah, you're built for pain. I started shaking when I was climbing down from the roof the other day. I was like, oh, it's a treacherous. It's scary. Anyway. Hollywood. Hollywood tough guy and friend of bud ekins. Steve McQueen attempted to race in 1969 with a custom off road vehicle called the Baja boot designed by the legendary vehicle designer Vic Hickey. What impressed take you most about McQueen was not as driving, but is stoic, handsome demeanor. Yeah, and it's beautiful, beautiful art. And his willingness to learn from his mistakes. He had eyes like a job sadly. Sadly, the Baja boot only made it 237 miles where it was knocked out with a broken transmission. This thing looks really cool though. Indy 500 winner, parnelli Jones, also found himself called the Baja Peninsula. After Jones turned down an invitation from fellow racer Bill strop to run in the Mexican 1000, strop allegedly told friends that, quote, Jones wasn't man enough for off road race. Oh, wow. Taking the bait, Jones entered the Mexican 1019 68, where he pushed his vehicle at a top speed until it broke at the 150 mile marker. In 1970, Jones had a special car made that look like a Bronco, but was made up of specialized racing parts that can handle the rigors and stress he plan on putting it through. He named the vehicle, big Ollie. I have seen this card in reference to his Olympia beer sponsorship. It's in the Petersen automotive in Los Angeles. With his co driver straw, Jones won the Mexican 1000 race with a new record time of 14 hours and 59 minutes. It's got a big old funny wing on top. It does. They then return the following year in 1972 and won again with a less impressive but still impressive time of 16 hours and 42 minutes. I think I've said this on the show before, but I used to crew on a nostalgia funny car team and the crew chief smokey. Built half of this big Ole. Wow. That's a good little chunk of history out there. And when they went down in 1970 to the race or 71, sorry, smokey said the most scared time or the time he's been the most scared in his life was when he went on a test drive with parnelli Jones. For the event, they were going along this cliff along the coast and parnelli Jones did not use the break at all. It was just flying down this at like 80 miles an hour going around turns. Mammoth 1000 with max Maddox. In going through east LA baby. I just want to take a second to appreciate the livery on this. It's sponsored by Olympia beer. Slogan is it's the water. I think that's so tight. It's the water where they make it with. It's so cool that a beer company just like yeah it's like you don't have to drink water just drink this. It is the water now. Our beers, the water now. The Mexican 1000 was so popular that Nora created a new race in 1969, the Baja 5 hundred, a 500 mile loop race that started and ended in ensenada. The inaugural race was won by Baja pioneer, but ekins, but surprisingly not on a motorcycle. He won in a four wheel Baja boot. All in all, things were looking good for Ed Perlman and his Nora organization. Until the oil crisis of 1979. We hate that thing. Beginning in October 1973, members of the organization of petroleum exporting countries OPEC launched an oil embargo raising the price of crude oil nearly 70% overnight, we've talked about this a lot. We made a T-shirt based on it. You can get it at donut media dot com. Out of fear that competitors wouldn't show up for the race, nor decided to cancel the 1974 Baja and move it to Arizona instead. Baja governor Milton Castellanos didn't want to give up the popular and lucrative race. So he tried to convince Nora that fuel prices would not go up at the pen mix stations. That didn't work. He revoked nor's role as the sole sanctioning body for all races in the Baja Peninsula. Then he tasked the newly formed Baja sports committee the BSC with organizing that year's race, renaming it the Baja 1000. However, the BSC quickly realized that putting on a race of this size was a lot harder and more expensive than they thought. That's when the Baja government sought the help of Mickey Thompson. Coming together now. These guys all used to run into each other at bars and restaurants. When we were eating Elk at that restaurant last night, like Mickey Thompson
AP News Radio
Mexico wants American extradited on charges in tourist death
"Prosecutors in Mexico are pushing for the extradition of an American woman suspected in the death of one of her traveling companions. Mexican prosecutors have not named the woman they filed charges against, but a video that has been widely circulating on social media shows Robinson of Charlotte, North Carolina, being beaten by another woman, a man with an American accent can be heard asking Robinson, can you at least fight back Robinson says no. The group Robinson was traveling with left Mexico after she was found dead October 29th in a villa they had been renting, and autopsy revealed that Robinson died of a severe spinal cord or neck injury. Prosecutors in the state of Baja, California Sur, say they've approached Mexican federal prosecutors and diplomats to try to get the woman extradited to face charges in Mexico and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. I'm Donna water
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"baja" Discussed on Poetry Unbound
"Learning about constellations by said they took. Today Baja is not dead. She is 12 years old, sits beside a flower vase, presses her thumb to the clay. Her heart buds into a magnificent son, waterfalls, it's warmth all over her satin face. Taller than all her classmates in the corner she leans her head to white paper, carves moons out of her notebook while other children sit and listen to the teacher. The class is learning about constellations. She takes colors off of flower, folds it to her skin. A chameleon gathering quotes from leaves, she questions daisies reveals all suggestions when he stares into her eyes. Baja grabs a speck of darkness, moles it into a moth and places it in the darkest point in his eyes. He sits close to his daughter in the yard, joins her and the moths. Baja is now dead. She is walking her way into myth. A world of new constellations were buried milk, nourishes the placenta to heal his broken bones, broken eggshell of his heart, mend each back together with the energy of a clock that narrower stops moving
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California faces weather threats from fires to floods
"Natural forces are beginning to collide in California threatening human communities and infrastructure I'm Ben Thomas with the latest Dangerous heat explosive wildfires and now the possibility of floods California is getting it all Firefighters have been struggling to control major blazes in Southern California and the Sierra Nevada They've forced extensive evacuations while the oppressive heat wave has made it tougher on those firefighters and also stressed the electrical grid As Californians crank their air conditioning The fires are also producing smoke that threatens to interfere with solar power production Another hit on the grid Now add to the mix tropical storm K off Mexico's Baja California Peninsula While that's taken an edge off SoCal temps at times the clouds add to the problem for solar generation and the state's grid operators have again called for energy conservation Forecasters warn the surge of moisture from K could produce heavy rain and flash floods along with strong winds Till Orange County contractor Sean Clifton is philosophical We seem to always just make it through We have very little tricks to keep cool His bottom line All in all we're pretty lucky here A couple Weeks or even a month of bad weather then we got the best weather in the world I think I'm Ben Thomas
The Eric Metaxas Show
O.S. Hawkins on the Astonishing Innovations Coming Out of Israel
"Were a preacher at first baptist in Dallas, for how many years? I was there four or 5 years, and I was at first Babbage Fort Lauderdale, 15 years before that. Well, you've preached a little bit in your lifetime. And you still do a lot of preaching. Because, I mean, I would say anybody who is very serious about their faith is not surprised. I mean, I'm speaking as Christian that crazy technologies are coming out of Israel. In other words, we kind of see it as a prophetic fulfillment. Absolutely. That, because right now, we're talking about one product. But every time I turn around, I'm hearing about crazy innovation, things that are, you know, they feel like I don't want to say miraculous, but I'm saying they definitely feel like astonishing. You say this is not just an incremental. This is a big deal thing. And so that's why, in a way, when I hear this, I'm sort of not surprised. I kind of feel like it's a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. There's a man sitting to your left, right, named Elon sobel, right? And he's involved in this, is he not? He's become a dear friend of mine. Elon is the CEO of vinia. He's used to had a great career with Coca-Cola all over the world. And I've gotten to know and grow to know and to love him. Do you think you think we could possibly lure him into the conversation? I think he knows a lot more about it. I'm listening to you. I'm serious when I say that people are always looking for solutions to any kind of a problem. But I'm always curious, how did it happen in your life? Who were you that brought you to this discovery to do the, you know, because not all patents are equal. This is kind of a big deal. So how did it how was your life structured that you found this answer? That's a great question, Eric. And in Hebrew, we say that when things are meant to be, we say it's min Hashemi. This means mean from the sky from God. And I really feel that the privilege that I have to be the CEO of Baja sciences, who are the makers and hold all the technology for this veneer product. This really was from the skies,
CarCast
"baja" Discussed on CarCast
"No room. Gotta carry two tires and a 120 liter fuel tank. Oh, so the pumper is sort of like. It's a machine. Yeah, it's like a cool suit thing. Just drag it behind you. Just tell me if the wheel. I just have it flop around. Can you tell us just a little bit more about before we wrap up about the film, what we can expect to see in the film. So when people want to go out and catch it. Yep, great. As I mentioned, it is about rod hall, who is a legendary figure known around the world and off road racing. He not only had been around for 50 years, but he has won probably over 200 races in his career and the 80s while he was racing for dodgy, had a 36 race win streak back to back. People know when people love him and I had originally planned on, as I mentioned doing a bit of a biography sort of wrapped into this racing that was, he was going to be doing leading up to the 50th Baja 1000 and shortly after we were filming where I got some health news that really changed those plans and it turned into a very different story at the end of the race. It was a man struggling to achieve one last thing racing against the course and the progression of a disease. And just getting him to Baja for the start line of that last race became probably the biggest challenge he'd ever faced. Well, it's compelling stuff and again, the website one more win film dot com is where you go. Let me take care of my life. Or Amazon or iTunes. Or Amazon or iTunes, sorry. Yep. No, it's okay. It's on my list. I should have said that. JB weld world's strongest bond, the brand DIYs and pros have trusted for over 50 years use their epoxies, super glues, putty sticks on projects, big and small, practically any surface metal wood, plastics, glass, ceramics, and keeping your kitchen drawer out in the toolbox or down in the garage. I have them everywhere. Also, they're the proud owner of hercule, the original DIY truck bed liner. If you're looking for the world's strongest truck bed liner, herculine.
AP News Radio
Keith Urban's Tour Production Manager, 72, Dies From Fall
"Country star Keith urban is mourning the death of his longtime tour manager who fell from a stage in Ohio Keith urban's tour manager Randy Baja Fletcher joined him a decade ago after working with groups like ZZ Top Randy Travis and Brooks and Dunn the seventy two year old Fletcher fell off the stage last week while preparing for the lake your read bash on the bay concert he died a day later urban told Billboard Fletcher had an orbit of light they all loved him and he was grateful Fletcher chose to be part of urban's road family Fletcher was an army veteran who had served in Vietnam he received the country music association's first ever touring lifetime achievement award in twenty seventeen I'm Jackie Quinn
Short Wave
The Fight to Save Sunflower Sea Stars
"Going to be talking about a veracious sea creature that can have up to twenty four arms and the person will be talking to is. Npr science correspondent. Now greenfieldboyce hainault. Hey there emily. I have only two arms. But i am nonetheless here to tell you about these things. I want all your arms around this story. Tell us about this. Many armed briny beast. Well it's a sea star it. It's one of the biggest in the world. It can be the size of a trash can lid or a manhole cover or something like that. It's called the sunflower see star. Yeah so these things used to be common all along the west coast from alaska. All the way down to baja california in northern mexico. Yeah i've heard of these. I've seen pictures. They're beautiful though used to be. I mean those are some ominous words. It is a grim grim situation. This species is critically endangered. It seems to be dying off. it's just disappearing from lots of places. Some people think it's completely extinct in california and this is a big deal because the sunflower see star is a top predator. It eats animals like muscles and sea urchins and keeps their numbers in check. I didn't realize that the sunflower see stars. A top predator. I know that sea stars though have for years been plagued by disease off. The west coast is that. What's killing sunflower stars to. Yes so this is a wasting syndrome. And scientists can't agree on what's causing it it's hitting more than twenty sea star species since the big die off in two thousand thirteen on both the east and the west coast but a researcher named jason hodan told me that sunflowers he stars seem to be particularly susceptible. Really do kind of like dissolve into a pile of goo. It's why he agreed to try raising them in
Trozos de mi vida: con el Genio Lucas
Tu Dignidad Y Conciencia Importan Más Que Cualquier Cheque
"Adentrando a Álex, pues a a tus fibras más sensibles, a tu intimidad, a todo lo que has pasado, lo que ha sufrido y que muchos nos identificamos contigo, porque no eres el único que ha pasado por el cerro, no eres el único que tal vez en un momento en su trabajo no la han no lo han valorado en este caso, Alex. Fíjate que uno debe de tener la dignidad y la conciencia cuando ya no es valorado, por eso me he ido de muchos lugares, y yo sigo manteniendo el récord de que de ningún lugar me han corrido. Mira, yo no, yo siempre me he salido porque cuando siento que ya no es justa la persona, es es hora de irte. Y eso es más que más que un cheque debe de valer tu dignidad y y y les voy a hablar de una situación muy clara que vive en una compañía grande de Estados Unidos que creía que porque me daban un buen cheque, yo tenía que quedarme a lo que ellos dijeran y dije no, mi dignidad vale mucho más que cualquier cheque. Y eso mucha gente no lo no lo no lo valora, no lo entiende, ¿eh? Bueno, lo que pasa es que también ahí hay baja autoestima, Álex también ahí Nadie le dice, ¿sabes qué? Tú vales mucho y te puedes ir también a otro lugar donde te paguen mejor y te valore. Trabajas como máquina pero sin ningún objetivo. Pensamos que siempre tendremos juventud y fortaleza. Pero no miramos hacia el futuro.
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"baja" Discussed on Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"And hey well. That's another book. I'd recommend i'm ready for it. I'm almost done reading Charles's other book surfing and cocaine. I've got a good for you. Yeah that's another good one think paradise is best one though still reports from hell or letters from hell little meandering toward the end. I lost the thread and the direction just a wee bit whereas i thought paradise was more cohesive and maybe it's the context which read something to write like. It took me way too long to get through reports from how it takes me a long time to get any book these days but i don't know paired paradise in one way all time favorite books i want to say to which i don't know what that says about my literary intellect but i sure enjoyed -joyed everett it twice. He's just a great writer. Yeah he breaks things down from an honest perspective. Even if you don't agree with you know maybe what he's saying. Or how because maybe you come from that environment as well but you could still appreciate what his approach is. and it's it's very personal tax. It interesting i. I like Reports from how that that that was really cool because he was discussing area that I'm not familiar with. I'd just couldn't imagine going to the middle east and going to yemen and going on a surf trip. And i mean it just gave me a lot of respect. So gnarly cool. Well i hope we can go to baja again together sometime. I took the healthy shoulder own surf with you. Yeah likewise i promise. Next time won't charge so hard on my first day. The injuries always happen on small days. Don't they they do man why i don't know i don't know i did something stupid. And south africa one time and and like hurt my neck and it was small i in chile even on the smallest day like pulled into a little wave and just got spanked indo. The smallest day would get spanked. So it's always on the the micro days and this was like three inch fish school spots. And i wanna do. I mentioned this before. I had a A listener asked me to interview again and talk more bodyboarding. So i wanna talk about all those spots with the maybe in another episode down the line. I would love to love hanging out talking story. Yeah bless you cool. They galaxy okay. That's pa hopefully. We can do it again next year. And hopefully you're still out there surfing and hopefully next year. I can make section or to right. Let's go long morning together. What do you say. Thank you for listening to the midlife surfer. Podcast follow at surf. Care and also leave me a review and then shoot me an email. Midlife surfer g mail. Let me know you did. Both you are entered into a trying to win free. Ding covers for all right. That's the midlife surfer. Podcast midlife circle. Podcasts ended up city bench..
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"baja" Discussed on Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"You do with your time. I'll just chilled out. Join time with you guys. You know my my main thing was. I didn't want to be a bummer to anybody right. You know like here. Everybody's on vacation. And i think you know if you've ever travel with some money and they get hurt and then they're complaining the whole time. I mean yeah you feel bad for him but at the same time like you don't wanna hear completing on a trainings. The worse you know. And i just i just kind of put that aside and got over you know not being able to surf and You know you guys are like my friends and my neighbors. I just was like well. Let's just take the time opportunity to hang out with you guys and just enjoy myself. And that's what i did. And i honestly like i truly had a blast i even though i was just chilling on the beach. I was still just showing on the beach right. That's awesome complain about that. Yeah the weather was killer great waves. I just enjoyed watching you. I still went out and kind of like floating in the water a little bit. Yeah it was. It was awesome. Good food good people like absolutely you have a great attitude. And before we turn the mic on. You're talking about how important a good attitude is it. Does it starts with your head your disposition in life and generally what kind of i don't know what's your philosophy there. Well it's it's I think your life is what you make of it If if you just feel like everything's off all the time and life is rough. I mean we all have to work our tail off. We all we all have. We all take beatings right But i really like your mental disposition that you bring to the table and if if you are bombed all the time then that's just how you're gonna carry yourself and you're always going to be bombed you know you're always gonna have bad things happen to and and or you have the choice. You could just be positive the stoked and and i just truly believe that your mindset really affects your health and i just want to be a healthy person no matter what happier when a positive and when you smile even if being sock a smile makes things better you gotta take things pretty lightly effort that biologically if you smile. It actually kicks off some chemicals in your head that make you feel better. I truly believe that. Do you think you can go from being a negative person to a positive person in life. I think if you surround yourself with the right people think that's that can truly happened. I mean i think mindset. I mean as a teacher we talk a lot about mindset back and there's you know this why the growth mindset and i think you can definitely train your mind to look at things in a different perspective and and really just fill better as a result. What's growth mindset so growth mindset is let me give you an example okay Oftentimes like with students for example. They're they're they're looking at this whole idea of trying to achieve a certain grade right like they're just studying to the test. Regurgitate the information You know they're writing a paper for the sake of a great right and and that's kind of like a fixed mindset like they just want to create a growth mindset would be more of the idea where you're you're you're doing something because you want to learn about all the different elements or the process along the way so you might. You're not going after the grave if you will the andrew. It's it's the it's it's yeah the end result you're looking at the whole idea of being able to just like it's what you pick up along the way it developing new skills winning at the bigger picture of the whole process As opposed to just like. I'm doing this. For the result and the people that have a growth mindset they actually learn more and are more successful in the long term nodar. Then that kid. That's just like powering through getting in grade and moving on you know so. They're really trying to grow their mind and develop some part of the growth mindset being more forgiving to yourself to fail at things or you're not as good absolutely absolutely because as you know as you learn you're constantly you're gonna make mistakes you're gonna fail and you have to embrace that and learn from it and if you can. You're just going to be better at what you do right right. I mean we all are constantly flailing rocker and if you could embrace that part of the process right and where did i go wrong. Not beat yourself up for and then you know kind of enjoy it then. It makes it more fun to you know. Oh man i didn't. I didn't score a goal. I suck. I can never score goals. you know. it's like well what what can what are you doing wrong. How can you make better. Can you laugh at yourself with the process and then move on and develop. I talk about that with my seven year old. He played flag football this year and he was mad. He didn't score a touchdown right. But you know on one play. One of the kids did score tashaun. He broke free for big long. Run and scored a touchdown. Joe is not even touch the ball. Or whatever i said. Yeah but think about you. Know when so-and-so's scored that touchdown you contributed because you lined up as a wide receiver and one guy had to guard you and another guy to come shade towards you ran your out and so you drew some defensor way. You could argue without you doing that. That kid would have been down. Never scored that touchdown. That's so true. That's a team effort right. You probably might not have scored a touchdown not blog and you'd never know that's true. I like that mindset and you mentioned your students you mentioned are on summer break in case listeners have heard What am probably favorite podcast. Do you and michelle's you know where my two favorites We've we spent about an hour and a half talking. Alex check is a is a graphic design. Teach graphic design printing technology screen printing signed making. And and and you're an artist and your art. Your art is featured on your roco product. The hats and shirts roco dot com roku dot com roku dot com. Not that you're here to sell your stuff but i am Of it's a beautiful line of clothing. You are okay. Oh dot com autocell. You are okay dot that keeps you busy during the summer. Oh man we're cranking right now. I feel very blessed. It's it's been the support is just been wonderful. I like how your brand aligns with cool surf shops to. This isn't some shit. You're going to see a pacific somewhere or something like that. Your local surf shop is really your target market absolutely. Yeah we've we've been so lucky to be picked up by so many like coarser shots It's it's very humbling after that growth mindset really is relevant to surfing to because my end result is like i wanna be going six to twelve bottom turn thrown spray on a shore board or pull off some bad ass knows ride and five foot wave just peeling fast. And i've done neither of those things and you take a couple of steps forward and you take a couple steps back like after. I got back from mexico. I've gone long boarding twice a capitola. Fuck trying to bomb at twenty six and this like see if you could trim and not do anything on the way. How mellow you could stay with their body language not hunched over stay loose and get like optimal trim in the pocket on my nose writer and you know i kept talking about like go back to basics and i've done that last two sessions the first session and lease lists. It's kind of fun. Gold leaf list. Makes you really surf conservatively. i have. I didn't lose my board bow times. Granted the waves were double underfoot which is good which is fine with me. Which is another big advantage along boarding. So i'm gonna long boarding state of mind all of a sudden yeah. You saw me surf. And i had to forgive myself. That's the best. I've served on a surf trip but came disappointed. Which is what which is what surfing is right. It's kinda like golf that way. You come back discouraged idea at least because you have your own you grow and.
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"baja" Discussed on Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"I'll talk to him about his injury but immediately fucked to shoulder right up to the vet and in his words in double under head double underfoot negative one foot real rig double underfoot beach break. Competent body surfer to up the group years decades of experience Went to go play in the water. It was sad here still sad about it. I've served my rocket wide Solely serpent rocket wide. And it's a good shape for me. It feels like a nice enough volume For me and it's all short boarding enough and After rifling through about a couple of hundred boards through the last seven years eight years. My experience I've i've really connected with. And i've i've cooked many waves but i also had a couple where it took off and i was able to turn and it went all the way down the line. I felt good about how about you. How how's your circuit. Been so far as I was surfing very small waves with the seven foot. Sheva which has been treating me. Well that's a marine corps ravel of at seven. Oh yeah to a little bit three and an eighth. Ads doesn't say the leaders on it. But some around fifty. I would guess and just very forgiving shape but it is long and for a short little tiny wave like shipwrecks like when it was really small. It's shallow like. I couldn't get much done so i was just of goofing around last year. We were waiting on these grip and traction things from hans blah blah blah blah. and they. They boneheads so. I put those on and i was like i'm just gonna fuck around and see if i can surf aboard with no axe. Says you know. Maybe you don't know wax is a problem anyway. Not a fan of wax especially in heat like it just gets everyone like. We're picking up our cold wax and it was like drooping visibly. I've never experienced It's hard to wax little in the cold weather. It's fine like up in santa cruz like the little bumps forum great. I'm just not great at warm water. Lacks wax challenged. Anyway you went out there with a nice lake board and you play so little traction. I was trying to make serving as hard as possible required. Everyone else is like on a long board. Or i don't even know what we were doing but it was very small waves. I had no traction. And i put it twin us. Nothing in and then went in and the next day i didn't i was like a small t. One twin thin. Anyway we're all just fucking around and You know the problem was the ways. We're just not working so we were making the of a flat day. And i didn't wanna work 'cause fuck long boarding right and that and then the next day i got a little better and i put a rear trailer in. It's kind of cool. Company makes these little screw into the single inbox a little tiny trailer. That was working really well when it finally got to two feet mike. I felt like. I had a pretty fun gravel sash and then today got a little better and but the problem was there are so few waves we were all kind of all started drinking too much. Seems to be the primary challenge. I have on the surface a lot better. This trip actually did in the first thirty minutes. We touch the water to people. Come out looking into really messed up. One of them can't serve then. How about today. We went surfing this morning. I i really enjoyed it. Was it was wobbly wobbly. But there are some good waves. That came through. I liked about the shady conditions. Was that warded off other servers. So you know three or four people. And i'm not picky about waves so it's nice not to have to. I'd rather jockey with people that i know as opposed people that i don't know because then i get all up in my head about and you know i have enough limited margin for error for me to to get get often going. You know what. I mean so to people that you don't know a whole 'nother dynamic that i'm not that comfortable in and then we served and then we got burritos and then do you care to describe what you experienced today on the way home from getting readers. We took two cars. What'd you see on the side of the road jason. This poor guy and girl were Next to a tv that was upside down in like really thorny chaparrals in a like pretty nasty dickey ravine right off the highway and they just wrecked and there was blood coming off his face. We didn't know how bad it was just pulled over like we're first on the scene and The two boys with me. Got out. Alex and kevin and i just held my steering wheel like all right if we have to go to the hospital as sort of running through the checklist like airway breathing circulation. They're walking. they're breathing circulation. Is he bleeding from the neck. And now they're like all those chick checked off as like he's probably drug nope not drunk turn out to be like just some accident horrible accident he was we put him in. The car. took a wild is just like they weren't shocked at one of the girl wouldn't talk. She didn't want anyone's toucher. she was fine. You can tell. There's no blood like i don't know how they felt ten feet down a ravine off atv with no protection other than helmets right. Thank god we're wearing helmets. They walked away from it and you took them to their house. Yeah he was turned out. He's retired stunt driver. The irony of that is just gnarly like he's done stunts his whole life and he said he was. He had a loose they were. They were like playing around in a royal and one tire got a little loan. Use gonna head back to town you. I guess you drive. Atv's on the roads around here okay and He's on the highway back to towns. Undivided you know right elaine. Each side right just after getting off the arroyo and head back home he was like kinda reaching down. He said like you know where you take one hand off the handlebars trying to tweak something. And he said. I should have known better because my my tire was soft and so it was kind of lucent. Squirrelly yeah and as i reached an correct know he did some correct action and he hit this little curb. You know probably three inches. That was the only protection from this pretty good sized fall. They felt ten foot guide. There's like a drainage culvert that fell into the us bramley. Yeah and then Kevin who's been traveling with us is the best surfer of the group. The aforementioned kevin ended up knowing the guy that was what was really weird. Stop man asks featured The mexican featuring brad pitt and julia roberts kevin had flown him. Thousand one had flown him around and had spent eight hours with them in Movie shoot where like this guy had done to allies all these stunt shows and stuff like. He's a nice guy and just something terrible had happened. He got to walk away from it. Yeah but yeah the like. That was very weird too. Close a certain like that. Twenty years ago. Yeah he kevin remembered him. It was like were you on this plane on that right and they were dropping. Cars out of the sky played a military jets..
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"baja" Discussed on Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"Like temperature regulated tonia. They serve it to you out of thirty seven degrees celsius just surfing and hold ice cold beer. Ninety degree weather offshore breeze all day so in the shade in a hammock. Your perfect and you recover from the sessions sandy. Bottom it colorado's he can't get hurt. Wasn't big waves that they had to push that you got excited. Every time you got a little barrel. We're missed a section and it was a short paddle outside. And i killed it on the sheva there Costa rica was even bigger much bigger. Really well there. And then i've had one running kabul with it. It's just been very forgiving for my big. But i like that you just you spent eighty percent of that description focusing on beer shows where your head's at. I thought you served really well there. I didn't serve that well Now i know. I wanted to point out. Should i brought my six four. how Which i purchased back specifically for this trip and I think the best way i saw surf was you at. What was that spot. call Where you're from the beach punk drops on the drops you've got a good one drops and it was just the size of the way. It was more like in control the whole time. I think he did a couple of bottom and top turns. He wrote a tooth for wish him and above all else. Anyone who's to surfer knows to do that while people are watching and it was specifically. I heard a cheer from the beach and was all of our wives. They had walked like a mile south down the beach and and they cheered you and you ripped it up on that house on that on that way your thoughts yeah enough to she. That does not allow me to rip it just when my arms retired we were two weeks in and we are getting into high tide. Kind of deeper water break culpan. Drops were colorado's real. Shallow has a lot of push manga build slowly and then jumps kind of differently and there was a bigger wave when we were over there. From colorado's and yeah. I barely got in with your house which you bought bring to that trip. And it gave me the best wave of nicaragua school board. And i didn't really like that much. A little narrow and squarely for me. It was really hard to get in and get up on it without wiping out. But when i did I got the best turns the whole trip and somebody sought cheered. Yeah which was absolutely wild and somebody your wives. And that's a good thing i'd love you know darcy's never seen me do get like a really good way and it probably because i haven't really gotten any good waves ever but you know you have those rights where you're like you know. I look back up on the camera. I'm one of those guys. i'll go back and check it out. If i know there's a camera on me some curious. It felt good. Look felt great philip. Doing some right. What did it look like to see. Have your spouse among other spouses for you to a win win win all the way. I don't know how the audio is going to sound on this. But even if it's real shitty we're going to publish this Opening interview en route to baja and more has more to follow. Do you have any parting thoughts. Yeah there's something special about a girl going. You know like you know like i remember like going off a serpent snowboard. Jump once girlfriend at the time and she didn't see it coming and i popped into the air did something. She's just all of a sudden made this noise you river rafting and girls get a little scared and you get through the river like there's nothing quite as exciting as a girl caught off guard and streams a little bit and surfing so difficult. I always like an. It's a golf because golf too. But the add those rewarding shots were sown goes nice drive a nice pot or whatever and the more fewer and farther in between the more rewarding. They are at least the my when you do it. You're like yeah we didn't bring any. I love my backpack. I was gonna say that one time. I capital On a really small day. And i just melt away all the way through to the end so years ago i was much worse surfer but i do remember a lady on the beach. Just randomly just cheered and clapped from me at the end of it and the felt great. So i'll take a little pat on the back even another surfer in the lineup and that. That's what i would advise you as a listener surfer. I'd say give someone this of next time you'll get a good wave coming at ya and also compliment them. My how they write it. I think it's good vibes all around and You know never to be complimented on away. It feels good especially if you're cheered from the beach in a foreign land such as nicaragua one other really looking forward to seeing my lady blue. I gave jason. What's the lady blue. Oh six eight loss stretch. Rv the greatest of all time. And you brought that. No it lifts in kabo ryan jason's house jason's girlfriend now. I'm looking forward to seeing her. All right more to come anything else shook said no. I'm here with alex. Checkup a roko. We're heading to beha- on the same flight from which i spoke to drew minutes ago. Alex how're doing today. Super side just talk to be hanging out with. Everybody ambushed alex with an interview like a tmz photographer. Does when someone gets out of a southwest flight at elliot but real quick They're going to we're gonna ship surf. Shipwrecks what did you bring to serve. Okay what does that operate. Broad a Boogie of course can't leave home without one of those nice little warm water. Bogey with the stringer In case there's a slab there are. There are a couple slabs around there that i've served did I have my fence. I could also body serve brought a seven to Stretch pig is actually. My wife's board can really decide. What type of surfboard brings it's kind of compromised for this. All around kind of nice shape that she has brought a surf matt. My buddy steiner is Aficionado and he has like ten or fifteen through does but he's able to describe enough for me and let me borrow that. Some supersized dry that now and then. I brought one on these little mini books. It's like a foot long boogie board. So you know. I think you just never know how the waves are. It's always good to be prepared. And and just you got to be prepared to help find. Yeah then you brought a fishing pole. Youngest abroad a. rod. So i brought some different All different kinds of surface lures couple. Different you know things that'll shakedown that. I can skim across do some slow trolls offshore. Actually i didn't realize there is such a. I didn't realize that. There's subtlety and surf matt so much like surfboards. Boogie boards as a whole. You can have a quiver of surf mats. According to your friend steiner apparently saw. I mean. I'm not a mastered surf matt dude. I just i see steiner's serving the lane all the time i know he's Kind of like the man in the wrong he says like once you started writing serve matters like you stopped. Surfing surfboards altogether You just start collecting them. And there's like different shapes different constructions. Different like duck styles and just like surfboards. there's guys serve. That's all the world that you gotta get one from elaine. Of course is a notable breaking santa cruz Does.
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"baja" Discussed on Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"Make it about eight to ten feet before the whole ocean was coming down in my ears very compressed feeling that's a challenging sport spearfishing. Jason got something. We got a little next rock fish. I did not even shoot the darn thing in the water. But i had fun doing that. So that was a cool experience like i said paddled into some larger waves could make some sections. I'm just looking at my my brainstorming list. Extra paddling is what. I need. Extra two paddles. That's what Alex told me so. I'm going to try to do that. Oh you know what else to reading the damn waves finding the corner right like finding where the power is where it's going to break you know like my ego in my lack of experience tells me i need to be the most inside of the break and i'll be the first one to catch it and i'm gonna come down the line and everyone's going to have to bow in reverence to this beautiful wave. I caught but instead as previously mentioned i would take a big drop. Take my bottom. Turn in the way of outrun me brad. Gerlach would have been so disappointed in some of my pop ups two packs. This damn thing for. I don't know two or three months down the not pop up so takeoffs as you know my take off. It's indeed improved. It is not foolproof. So keep practicing. Those take-offs had a great group that we traveled with. Go six guys. Total guy named kevin. Who's the best surfer of them. All of our group really fun to watch knew how to read a wave knows where to take off after a while. I was just kind of following his lead. Because this guy knows what. It's what's up great. Cook dinner for us. Most of the time breakfast as well. Clean the kitchen really. Well alex you know him from marocco. Just a veteran surfer waterman got a good vibe very relaxing presence. Very smart guy. Great conversationalist jason from the pods stoked on surfing love to geek out on everything from traction pads to fin configurations. Gentleman named leeann aka. Leave on. i called them. Had elton john's leave on stuck in my head the entire time because of that funny guy laid back. Great conversationalist just had a nice group. It was a good trip. And i don't have anything else for you other than i'm going to take you to some Like i said kind of running diary of this trip. I certainly hope you enjoy. And let's do it. Dub city beds almost drove through the gate to get to the airplane. We're heading to baja wants more. I feel very blessed to be able to go to baja again. How do you feel about it. equally blessed. And all right. Yeah thirty seven thousand feet. Three hundred fifty. Nine and i can see everyone. They're all happy. It's a low fidelity podcasts. And that's why you listen. We don't have microphones. You could hear the airplanes in the back. You could hear people talking passengers or pilots here. I think third of the passengers or pilots here. All right What boards are you bring in. What board are you bringing. What do you think. And we're gonna go serve shipwreck once more. What's your mindset as you packed for this trip. This is a year later clashed year. We were on different boards now. Two of us around cheetahs. There's a fish maurice called cba. Yeah mary's close you this and that grip and traction stuff finally showed up. Nobody used it. My wax melted gonna try it. brought extra Gmt hendrick bones grip and traction product for you to use as well. I have not put it on the decca. My board i still like wax route. So much gear. There's like fifty finns. There's a boogie board. There's a surf. Matt ryan several options. i'm here with alex to a roko. We've had him on the pod before. I'll talk to him sooner than later he's here. He's a world-class boogie border. We don't know what's this well reading. What kind of waves are we going to see. Well shitty in the afternoons every day because of the wind but swells increasing through the week. It's going to start out flats we'll go grocery shop today and then it just builds and builds would probably be three four five foot six hundred by the end of the trip which shipwreck with the rocks starts getting really fun and none of us are going to be ripping too hard so i think it's i won't be ribbing too hard and that's for sure never is the case i was going to bring to boards. I was going to bring my six two rocket wide as well as my six. Oh timber surco. Many simmons however once got here i realized there wasn't enough space to bring that many simmons. We all had to pick one board. I just picked a more personal shape. And i wish i had it but i'm also going to be stoked staub rockaway. You have a seven sheva shaped by maurice. Call out of australia. Would you give a brief synopsis on the board how you procured it and how it did for you. There's a few big guys on craigslist. To let go and this guy was kind enough to give this one away and Came with a broken thin box. Yeah and i didn't realize it till i purchased it. But i didn't trip like somehow i just had a good feeling about. It has a hard edge up the side. It's different down rail from the nose to the tail. You have that hard edge. Would you typically see in the tail. And i think talking straight out of ignorance but i think that's an australian thing and that's called a down rail and i was kind of revolutionary. I wanna say during the revolution and but tell me more. What's the configuration. What are the dimensions. I know you served it nikola. And how'd that go great. So the ports been very forgiving him and big waves of his particularly helpful when us tired It actually probables in terms of catching early well to kind of makes me surf a little smoother like less jerky than my typical style exist till i get up pump and wiggle a lot so i like i like the edge grab immediately and be able to engage in i like the tail the slide a little bit now and i've never served a short board singleton before and this one has a single fin box and then for others so you can actually set it up. They call a four bus. When you can set it up a zillion ways and i literally brought everything figure expected thing cups up a small single big single. I have a twin trailer. I have lots thruster. Like i could do anything and then my buddy tried it. Jason's june the other j. southern towns to fifty and he liked it so much and ordered one and he's got a equal quiver fins and then he brought his fish over all excited to get on because she's so pretty ask you fin configuration. Re do you like the best on this shiva. So it's a seven foot the single thin for big waves High tide waves and then fought for hollower. Waves have not written in his address for a to post one. we never summarized nicaragua. We don't have to go too deep before i Conclude this interview. Do you have any thoughts and nicaragua. Quick summary how the tripoint you were there i was. There are kids. Were there the other jason. Was there what comes to my. What's the first senate comes to your mind when you think of nick. Nick are experienced in april Well the first thing that comes to mind there's a lot of beer drinking and a very pleasant way like you didn't feel terrible the next day so you could wake up in surf capo. Drink maddelo Interestingly they don't drink margaritas down there. It's rum which does give you. Hangovers caribbean flair as opposed to mexican. Yeah they have world class world class from florida. Konya not was tasty but yet anyway but you had this..
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"baja" Discussed on Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
"Pod. You can give me a one star. I don't care and then follow at surf. Care you one sixteenth shot. I don't know what the percentage is on that. Let's see what would the percents beyond that one sixteenth. Well one and a quarter between five percent and then you'd have a six point. Two five percent chance of winning died. Government ain't bad. It's better than the lottery. I went to baja went to baja. Once more few loyal listeners would would know that. I went to baja last year around this time as well and we spoke to my good friend jason on that trip this time i spoke to both jason and alex of oracle would oracle clothing cool hats. Shirts will get him on the pot. The forthcoming audio is basically a running diary of the trip. A very sloppily produced diary trip all optimistic. I'm very ambitious. I'm gonna talk to everybody at this. I'm gonna talk to everybody on this trip. And i'm gonna talk to him for fifteen twenty minutes at a time going to end up with a hour and a half worth of content. We're gonna talk about boards and experiences and blah blah blah. So you could hear my enthusiasm out. The gate talked to a couple of gentlemen on the airplane. Flight on the flight over to baja talk to jason. I dunno midway through the trip. Talk to nobody after that. That's right you know you get you get surfing you get tired. You get lazy and vacationing and then you feel like the angst of checking emails at work at home by day three. I'm starting to get itchy. I don't like being away from home from too long especially leaving your mom with the leaving my mom. Why did leave my mom. But she's always at home with my dad. I left my wife the beautiful mom of my house with my two boys for four days. I think maybe five days four nights they leave my family for four nights to go from mexico. Hell yeah anyway. So that's cool. Oh and then. I caught up with alex at the end of this interview. My friend alex we reconvened in the states a week after our trip and kind of tied tied up in a nice bow. Did you have a good father's day. I certainly did. I didn't do much. Which is what i wanted to do. The day prior my wife was working. I took the kids to the santa cruz. Beach boardwalk joe is seven and now he's tall enough to go on all the rides and thus the chaperone he's now the chaperone for dano who's four and he can't isn't crested forty eight inches yet but he's getting there quickly but It's pretty cute watching your kids. Do i don't know the cave train. Some of these. There's one called ghost blasters. Something shoot ghosts. We had a great time very crowded. Shit dude covid. they're relaxing. We're relaxing all the guidances here in california. No more mask. Mandate theme parks are opening up. Bla-bla-bla giant san francisco giants going to be full capacity. I think starting this weekend which is great. Covid numbers are trending downward people are vaccinated. Masks are off. Shirts are off. pants are off. Restrictions are off. So it's game on. I tell you what look no further than the boardwalk. The saturday before father's day. It was the busiest i'd ever seen it in. I pride myself on not being. I'm i am bothered by crowded surfing lineups but i'm not bothered by crowded theme parks. In fact i kind of like it. I like all that action. All that people watching but when you have to wait twenty minutes to get on the damn cave train then. The crowd becomes a problem. But i was happy to see the boardwalk making money again. I'm sure they're in the red unless they got a ppp. I'm talking about so anyway. I had a great father's day. My son dropped my left. Airpod down our heating vent and shoot. I've done everything to running a shop. Vac down that thing to today. I put a magnet on a string kind of fish. It down there but no luck. So i'm listening to all my podcasts content through my right ear and in fact i'm recording this through my right ear of airpods pro. Hope it sounds okay. I got to tell you. Surfing is hard. I've no encouraging words for you as a surfer. I love to tell you it gets better. I'm not sure it does. You know. I've been surfing's. My math always varies as to how long have been surfing. But really when you do the math on it. It's going on eight years and i have gotten better and when you're an adult learner as as as you have nowhere to go but up right but boy just when you think you've got figured out you know mexico. The waves were flat for like two days. And then it picked up. I mean not like pumping on scared pumping in fact. There was never a moment where i felt out of my league in terms of wave height and power but there were these beautiful waves on the final day before we went home that were just reeling and had six two rocket wide which served me quite well and i'd get up and get going but i just could not get down the line to make that damn section. I was watching other people just pop up and skip down the line. It's like what the hell am. I doing wrong. Alex gave me some advice. He said to give it to extra paddles. You gotta give it to extra paddles before you pop up. So i don't know and my lame brain. I'm thinking like maybe i'm palling up too soon. And stepping on the tail and it slows the board down. And then i take my drop and by that time. It's too late. Maybe those extra two paddles would give me. I'd be popping up in the middle of the way face and then is that made me go faster or something. I don't know. I can't pump to well i'll tell you what i served my best of any of my surf trips and i went home disappointed in myself. So that's all there is also you know what more can you say about the struggle of surfing and i feel your struggle. I got home. I've long boarded twice since i got home. And you know people think long boardings easy and it is easy to pop up on a board right and it's easy to catch waves but to trim that baby to get it in perfect trim my nine ten juno knows right there to get it in that nice perfect trump to step to really keep that board in the pocket. That's a whole nother challenge in and of itself in the last two times i've served geeked out on on that challenge gone leashless little bit of element of danger there. Although i have not lost my board once knock on wood longboard at this morning didn't do as well as i did sunday morning when a long board. I don't know father's day so there you go right like you think you got something figured out you know. I had nice session. Sunday morning where i was stepping back for. Finding the pocket stepping on the tail pivot turning going fast speed runs. Got a cheater five or two in there. Like where you crouch down you have your foot. Your foot's like sticking out to the nose and you're all crouch down kind of keeping your balance back and forward at the same time while you're racing down a little too foot way and and solves amp to go out this morning and i forgot how to fricking surf like i literally paroled. The board twice. Transitioning from board to along board for me is a challenge. I get way too far forward on that long board and in fact i cooked a good day where A nice lady who serves there regularly like looked at me. Like this one's all you and i was like all mine and then i pulled it. I didn't eat it. I just like my nose started thinking in the water and it's a lot easier to scoot up on your board when you're trying to catch a wave then the scoop back. Try to scoop back too late i cooked. I turned to her. And i said don't ever gimme a wave again. Anything you want to take it. I blew that so along. Morning is a challenge in and had a great long boarding session with the great eric and he has that beautiful. Purple knows writer. And i'm ready to do some the long boarding this summer. All right you with me on that or what. Let's do some low boarding together when spearfishing pretty bad ass. I didn't catch anything. Jason caught something though. Never done that before. That was really fun. You get this pretty bad. S spear gun took me a couple of reps to learn how to cockpit load. It government flippers gummy snorkel. I'm not adapt to snorkeling nor flynn. My mask. kept fogging up. I think the current took us a little bit further than we wanted. But never panicked. Thought i could swim deep..
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Mexico Is Holding Its Largest Elections Ever
"Mexicans will go to the polls in an election that's been one of the bloodiest the country has ever seen. More than 80 candidates have been murdered since last September. In the capital, there's a local race that will elect someone to a brand new office to represent migrant interests in Mexico City's Congress. Tens of thousands of migrants living abroad will cast votes from KJ diseases. Mexico City Bureau Rodrigo Cervantes reports. This year's midterm elections in Mexico are played with interesting characters in the state of Sonora and Social Media. Influencer runs for Congress while in neighbouring Baja California. Mexico's first Miss Universe wants to be governor. First runner up is this Netherlands Miss Universe Is Mexico In Mexico City, a legendary mask wrestler wants to become district mayor. He got the Savio He have love and the former singer of the acclaimed cumbia band Los Angeles Azules also runs for District Mayor. Splendid. There's also a first of a kind position on the ballot this year, and the office is expected to give voice to millions of Mexico City natives living outside of Mexico. A migrant Congress, person disposal reform electoral those milk and Jose Antonio Correia is a former adviser for Mexico City's Electoral Institute, an expert in migrant political and voting rates. He says. The Post is a local congressional seat that Mexico City's government and electoral authorities promoted along with immigrant lobby groups after the 2014 electoral
The Budget Minded Traveler
"baja" Discussed on The Budget Minded Traveler
"It's been arose just. Because i couldn't have any of them for so long. You also gave me roasts that. I want to speak out loud. You guys if you've looked at or if you've been on some of my group trips or if you've looked at any of the photos you know that i usually bring photographers on my trips. And one of those photographers. His name is hassan and he lives here. In kabo he lives here in baja he lives in kabul and he came and joined us Because he was photographer on the jordan trip and carly was on jordan trip and so he came and joined us dinner. Here santos the other night and we did this. We did rosebud thorne with the three of us and carly's rose was getting to reconnect with people that she's met traveling and have a complete experience of getting to do an adventure trip also do like a remote work trip and also do a totally relaxing trip. Like you've had like this complete trip you shared and you were so grateful to have gotten to have this wonderful experience and i had a moment then as well. This is like a rose for me too. Because what i do like my job now to create experiences for people. I have not been able to do that for one time. And when you said that. I'm gonna tear up again i cried. I actually cried at dinner the other night. Because i realized that without even trying like i had done a and brought people together and here we were three of us. I mean a smaller group than normal but three people that we only know because of travel together at a table sharing moments and that is what i now create any. You let me do that without even realizing that we were doing that. And it was so incredibly fulfilling for me in that moment to be like like this is the magic like oh man so i would like to say as we close out this podcast..
The Budget Minded Traveler
"baja" Discussed on The Budget Minded Traveler
"That's not fair. I was a special version of when i got here. That's we call that montano early. I do but when. I got back here after a couple of weeks. Sergio was like you've done a good job at staying white. Well we stephen burns. I'm pretty proud of myself. Actually so Yeah after that afternoon was the when we took our paddleboard so after lunch that day we loaded paddleboard onto the boat and went a few days over to extensively a very small mangrove forest. We have no idea where like. Where are we going to return. There's a channel behind that goes in. Have to know where you're going from out there and so we could only go in with paddleboarding basically single or like kayaks tax or something but we had. It's so kayak so narrow it. We had to be single file. You're still like you could have easily you couldn't. I don't think at some point you could have fully reached your arms out. Yeah for sure you had to like pull in the huddle onto an a great blue. Heron took flight right in front of me and flew right down that narrow little town that was really cool or fish everywhere trumpet. Fish like skinny. ones Yeah we had that lagoon to ourselves because it's not on a map. Yeah actually it's you know it's there yeah can't find. It was super special peaceful. Yeah it was really really just lovely and that was that was. That was the next day we also did paddleboarding in the morning owner. Hey which was talk. There was a coral reef. Sal rays stingrays I saw a snake. A water snia starfish. A king angel fish. Those the black line. What's the spiky bar fish. I didn't see when they but no the like an urgent merchant urging growing this show many beautiful and it right there in front of camps and birds. Right any like there's melons and Herons it harvey bay. That was forget. Yeah forget. I mean it was it was it was a it was a wildlife safari and we were twenty feet from where we slept that night. You know and if you guys want to do this then you definitely need to pay attention to the end. 'cause i have a little surprise for you The that was that whole island trip was so it's called campsie so that was absolutely the highlight of trump. And i knew it was gonna be too like my expectations. Were already higher because people just like in my industry. People talk about this as like something i need to do. You know. finally it gets to go do this. If blew my expectations out of the water. So i had no expectations and wild me. Lord me yup very very very cool experience and definitely. My highlight has your. It's delicious so as mine..
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"baja" Discussed on The Budget Minded Traveler
"San jose del kabul area. It would be probably two hours from kabo be love time. We spent the first four days. That was when i was my friend. Jolie had great. Wifi was a great place to just kind of remote work. Because we didn't care about kiting during the day we were working and then we had like yummy food to eat at night. There's a place there called rod Roma rather roma had an amazing chili relleno. Like with stuffed with pescarolo like fish so delicious. One of my favorite chilly that i've had so far so besides hiding there's really not a whole lot draw i think donna going on outside of that and after we were there we went up to loretto. And you guys might know that. I spent a season there The in december january february of two thousand sixteen seventeen and so that plays definitely a special me I haven't been back since i lived there. And jolyon i went there for a week and The place that we stayed there was not the place that i used to live. Because i lived in a little studio so i couldn't do that again but it was called pasta a speedy through the mar and i can link to that as well. This is all we've found everything on airbnb This was another two bedroom apartment and it was one block from the beach and it came with bikes which was great because we got to ride around town Had good internet because again we needed it And loretto. I will actually link in the show. Notes to my. I have a couple of blogs about that and city guides. And it's my favorite place in baja. The problem is at six hours from kabul so when we had a car we drove actually drove up from love and thunder took us five hours from there but it is on the inside the sea of cortez side..
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Bahamas Resort Offers Free Stay for Guests Who Test Positive
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"baja" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Defending me against my tormentors. So I started Mike. My dad had been in the army and he'd introduced me to Cryptogram. So I just loved the idea of these secret messages. So I wrote these secret messages as cryptogram to how ng on these paper towels. He kept on for 62 years. Well, I have a group of young women in my Wednesday writer's group, and I said to them What do you think of all this? And they said they're all young women. They all said. You've got to get in touch with this guy. You just have to. This is wonderful. And so I thought about it, and I thought well, Huh? How am I going to get in touch with him? This was latitude and longitude. So I Googled it. I found there was sort of a circle right around the Right around Baja California, the coast. No. I knew that how he had a dental degree, so that was kind of a clue. I figured, OK. There was a Off resort somewhere within that latitude and longitude. So I called this golf resort and their toll free number. And I said Was there a doctor a registered there? No, there wasn't And I figured, okay, that circle could include the coast of Hot California. So I figured how he's on a cruise ship. So I found a cruise ship tracking site on Google..
Pop Culture Happy Hour
A big year for Bad Bunny
"Welcome back here with me from her home in washington. Dc is npr. Music and latino contributor. Stephanie fernandez hi stephanie. Hey steven great to have you so as we mentioned in. The bad bunny has released three albums in two thousand twenty the first y h l q. Md l. g. That's yoga lo que. Mais della ghana. Or i do whatever i want came out in february not long after bad bunny performed with jennifer lopez shaquille and j galvin at the super bowl halftime show. You'll find your haga made lagana at number seven on. Npr music's list of the fifty best of twenty twenty then in may bad bunny put out an odds and ends compilation called los que. No iban asa lear or the ones that were not going to come out. And now he's released ultimo tour del mundo which translates as the last tour of the world. The new album was written and recorded in quarantine and bad bunny had said it would be his last album not surprisingly he has already walked. That back a stephanie. Near the beginning of this year you interview. Bad bunny for a pitchfork profile called day in the life of bad bunny introverted superstar. Let's start with your thoughts on the new record which feels more restrained and reflective than the album. He put out earlier this year. Absolutely well let me start by saying that. It's been a crazy year for bad bunny. Output has been insane and prolific. and he's proven more than once that he can put out a great record. I really liked this album But i'll confess that i i i. I felt some fatigue at the fact that this is the third bad album coming out. And i'm a big fan of bad bunnies. I've been following him for a long time now. But i also believe that there's time for an artist to slow down into you don't need to put out so much music that being said. I really liked this album. It's really grown on me. Since i first heard it definitely appeals to the mo and may clearly bad bunny has also been listening to a lot of new metal and pop punk in quarantine. Well let's talk about the differences between this record and the one that he put out at the beginning of this year. That was kind of a more hard charging album in this one. As you said is is a little bit more mo absolutely. I think you know there has been this temptation to compare the two albums because they've been his two biggest releases. This year i think at the end of the day. they're such different projects. He was really trying such different things with them. That album iago looking at it. I was really focused on going back to the heart of puerto rican thrown from the early two thousands in the late nineties. The kind of music that bad listen to growing up the latin pop landscape now sounds a lot different than the music. Bad bunny loved growing up. And you know john that has historically not been widely accepted in latin pop and latin mainstream until the last decade. And one thing that he acknowledged to me when i interviewed him as well as you know something that was really the main focus of this record. Was you know undeniably making this sound of the music that influenced him growing up the artists that really deserve the shine when it comes to the strides made in this genre and this album is more about honoring a different kind of music that he loved growing up which is rock and rock and program spaniel and pop punk and i think what you really can see across. His body of work is just the deep respect that he has different kinds of music that he loves as well as this nostalgia. I think both records really have a lot to do with nostalgia in this way. That's really interesting to me especially in a year. That's been so difficult for so many people. Some many of us are finding comfort in music. That's not new music. That reminds us of more comfortable more simple times as it were. Even though these two albums are really different they both have really special offerings. Well one thing. I wanted to talk about it about this new record wanting that immediately jumped out to me as somebody who did a certain amount of coming of age in the nineties there a couple of songs on his record like to deseo loma harder. And you'll vito c. That are very tinged with all rock. Sounds like really kind of nineties. Rock sounds taught me talk. Yeah you know. This album has a lot of guitars. Sad guitars brad guitar. He's kind of teasing out this kind of pop punk and nu metal side that he has actually alluded to in previous work on his debut album sandra he had a song called dynamo moscow allowed which was really a pop punk song and people were so surprised to hear that from bad bunny and on your looking like he had llamas mignano which is like one of my favorite songs this year and a that just absolutely bursts into this new metal rage moment that is just so so registered so good and i think you know i i. I didn't think anything could match with those two songs. Made me feel. But i couldn't stop listening to to the settled on my heart. I really think it's like that. Riff is just so heart. Sick and tortured and cathartic. It's a little bit of that success. Mada below gun mental burden sep putra dot com the company. I think you can kind of get a sense of the exact angst. That's at work here but can you walk us through what that's about. Yeah you know. That song is kind of a classic reflecting on a break-up ballot and it's kind of a self torturing acknowledges wasn't great to you and i hope that one day you can forget about me but it's also just really indulging in that feeling and i think that's something that somebody people can relate to maybe a lot of people who've spent a lot of time alone in this year of in thinking about so. It's got a lot of sad. Bob's for reflecting on on these sad moments but also got a lot of really happy moments. I wanted be just kind of give people a sense of place about where he kind of fits into the latin music world like he is a boundary pushing artist. He's pushed a lot of these of gender presentation He sings about gender relations in ways. That feel really fresh absolutely. I think you know for several years now. Bad bunnies kind of establish this reputation for himself as a political or outspoken artist. And it's a label that he wrestles with. I think he is breaking a lot of barriers in terms of challenging masculine in latin pop. And he's really kind of an outlier. In terms of how vocal he is about these issues in two thousand nine hundred and he was really involved in the protests import. The frigo demanding the resignation of prepared for ceo in the past. He's also really challenge these ideas of gender presentation as you mentioned. You know he'd paint his nails and he'd wear skirts and bad. Bunny received a lot of praise for that and it was a big statement to a lot of his fans as much as he's gaining so much praise especially this year he's also had a lot of moments of public learning you know he's resisted this idea of becoming like a spokesperson for any group of people or report the frigo and earlier this year. You know a lot of fans were disappointed that he took several weeks to respond in support to the black lives matter movement and eventually he released a letter expressing his feelings and kind of saying himself. The thing that so many of us had already come to the conclusion to which is that. You know you can't rely on celebrities at the end of the day to lead us forward and social movements to be the voice of progress. I think bad bunny has made a lot of big statements that challenge how latin pop's most visible stars approach politics but then again on and trap have always been political and bad bunny is not the first and i know he won't be the last. Yeah you mentioned. His relationship with puerto rico. I think that's one thing that really jumps out about him. Could you talk a little bit more about that. Absolutely i think what definitely sets bad bunny. Apart from all of his peers in the industry is just how committed he is doing right by his community and worked to recall. Specifically i think in all of his music you can tell that. He's striving to remain authentic. And there's so many little love letters to community on this album samples the legendary astrologer welton on the penultimate track. His famous sendoff muccio more. He shouts out puerto rican and latino legends in general like leveaux the ruben blah the song and then latinos like real manna. You can tell that. He's he's aware that he's operating within a lineage. He never leaves any doubt about who he's trying to uplift and who is trying to represent here and he closes the album on a classic puerto rican christmas song comparison performed by today obama hegna which is a group from his hometown of vega baja. Your old it's kind of odd. Because it's like he's not on the song. Obviously it's recording from the fifties. But it's a song about how some people have jubilant joyful christmases and others spend it in sadness or in poverty. It is a farewell to a year. That i think all of us are happy to see go and i think you know though. He sits at this place of enormous wealth and privilege and fame. I think he's really at the end of the day driven by this desire to remain
Cultivating Place
Seedbanking a Floristic Province with Cheryl Birker, California Botanic Garden
"So tell listeners. What your job title is in in what you do share is it you do. Yes so i am. The seed conservation program manager here at california botanic garden is actually the largest seed bank dedicated to conserving california's native flora. so my job. I get to go out in the wild and make seed collections of the rarest plants in california. Bring those leads back to the garden process and store them in our c. bank because if you process in store seeds correctly they can potentially live for hundreds of years in storage you making those collections essentially an insurance policy against species extinction in the wild. You know so when. I'm not in the field collecting seeds. I'm back at the garden working with those seeds. Curing the collection managing the data and conducting these experiments trying to determine the best way to grow these plants from see. It's it's it's a very fulfilling job to have. I bet i bet. The current holdings of the seed bank there are how many we currently have over. Fifty four hundred collections representing over twenty two hundred taxes on plant tax a native to california so we focus on california and the california listrik province which also goes down into baja and a little bit up into And our our overall goal is to seed bank every single species native to california which is a a huge gold. Have i mean. California is about diversity hotspot. there's over sixty five hundred. Native plant species are tax up more accurately and many of those. You know all all the pao diversity is so threatened by human activity so we have our job cut out for us definitely and so when you use the word tax you are referring to a single species so with with the word species right. There can be multiple subspecies or varieties. And those are those are distinguishable dis- different plants so there are sixty five hundred different kinds of plants in california. We would call those tax that includes all of the different subspecies and varieties. But probably there's only three thousand species if you're not counting those varieties so usually try to use the word tax. Okay so for Let safer example and we're talking occurring tax not human cultivated cultivars. Is that correct. So it was a so that the given example. I'm thinking of my beautiful woman. Hetero files that's in bloom right now and there are several cultivars on the market. That people would have run into like margarita. Bob yes so in the bank we actually do. Have accessions of those cultivated varieties but our our main focus is trying to Conserve the genetic diversity. That is naturally present in california. So those those true species and not the cultivars
AP 24 Hour News
Hurricane warning issued for Baja California as Genevieve aims for a close pass
"In their thousands of people are under evacuation orders or warnings. There is also a chance of rolling Black House today in California, further south people along the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula seeking shelter as a Category three Pacific Hurricane Genevieve threatens to bring hurricane force winds To the tourist region, even if the centre isn't likely to hit Land. National Hurricane Center says the storm should pass near the southern portion of the peninsula tonight through tomorrow. Two people died when caught in the high surf yesterday in Cabo San
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Hurricane Genevieve to brush Baja California peninsula late Wednesday
"Residents of ATLEAST eight states in Mexico are being urged to take extreme measures as Hurricane Genevieve strengthens along the country specific coast. NPR's carry Khan has that story. Genevieve is strengthened to a level for hurricane heading north toward the Baja California Sur peninsula will expected the skirt most of the Pacific coast. Forecasters have issued a tropical storm warning for most of the southern tip of the peninsula. Mexican officials say Genevieve is not expected to hit land, but the region will see several inches of rain, wind gusts and high waves. Electricity officials have staged equipment and personnel preparing for adages. In the resort region of Kabul. Son Lucas already hit hard by the loss of tourism because of the Corona virus. Pandemic streets are empty, and officials are considering opening shelters several low lying areas prone to flooding or preparing for high water.
KOGO's Evening News
Who would replace Kamala Harris as California Senator?
"We still have 12 weeks before the November election, Voters will decide between President Trump on my vice President Mike Pence against former Vice President Joe Biden and current Democratic vice presidential nominee California Senator Kamala Harris. But in Harris are victorious. Governor Newsome will have to appoint a new senator to serve the next two years here in California, and well, there's been early speculation on names like State Attorney General Javier Becerra and San Diego State Senator Toni Atkins. Another elected officials told the governor he's interested. Mayor of Imperial Beach Search, the DEA sent a note to the governor with a picture of him in a business suit with a surfboard and water, nothing his intention to seek the appointments If the Democrats win because Pamela Harris may become our next vice president, I notified Governor Newsome like everyone does not is via Twitter that I'd like to be on the collection left to be the next U. S. Senator put out Open seat. And I think it's important to have someone who's not from the insider circle in Sacramento on someone that's ready to help clean up California and fight for our planet and our ocean from day one. Well and yes, I think it was the announcement that color base attention picture of you in a business suit with your surfboard. Right. The water's edge. Kind of embodying what it means to be from Imperial Beach. Yeah, you know, and you're a bitch, maybe small. What? We're mighty, You know, I've seen the names of some of the more high profile candidates and you know the reality of California's in trouble countries in trouble, And so we need someone who's used to doing things without a lot of resource is gonna support. You could get things done quickly, and that's experience. I've had thereby be in that experience that we need for the next senator from California and as the native Senate, California someone who rested 500 California the lifeguard for the state and for the city of Baby, I'm ready for the job and just look forward to being considered by Governor Newsome. Well, obviously you've worked with the governor, and in fact, you've worked as high as going to the White House when it comes to the sewage issue along the border, with the issues coming out of Mexico to impact San Diego County Imperial Beach, the city of San Diego. Everywhere else here with its impact that profile of yours with that fight has gone to the highest level. Yeah, so you know, unfortunately, because sewage issue is continuing to happen. I ve had to reach out from everybody from the president of Mexico, too. You know, President Trump We've met Got Governor knew someone. The governor of Baja California. So yeah, felt the times were like more like an international diplomat rather than a mare. But that is good practice good experience for what it takes to be an effective senator. To give you credit. Since the minute she was in office, she has support our first queen of the border. She's put a lot of attention on period Beach. In fact, her California director came to Imperial Beach to visit her stop is in very involved in this issue, so she's been great on the tissue as well as Senator Feinstein, but it's time for a new direction and and that's what I'm putting My My name in the hat or handed the ring And you know there is a perception out there at some points where you know, San Diego geographically being where it is. So we feel that the state of times may forget about us or things like that. You know, putting San Diego right back up there and kind of raising our hand and saying, Hey, what about us? Yeah, you know, Right now we have two senators from Northern California from the Bay area, So obviously we need a lot more Southern California repetition and the fact that Southern California needs a lot of help. We've seen that during this covert Christ of some of the highest rates, obviously in the country in Southern California, especially here in South San Diego and along the border, So we're in trouble have the highest rate of unemployment in the state along the borderlands question. Imperial County so We're in trouble. We need to get someone to replace Senator Harris. She gets elected vice president who's fighting for California and every California and not just the ones who can write campaign checks, right? I think that's important to make sure that someone who works for every California In every corner of state and every family and put families and kids first for California
On The Ledge
All About Alocasia 'Polly'
"Plant is allocated Paulie applaud. That certainly poses some challenges for most of us. Mere Mortal House plant growers and Today. I'm joined by Mireya of instagram account. Born gardening to help you pick your way through the minefield that is allocated Eur polly care. Maria is a gardener. In the wonderful city of Baja. Lana did I say that. Well probably not in Spain. And she is a DAB hand at growing this plant. A member of the asteroid Klein with those vein leaves the look so stunning when you buy them and look some terrible as they start to die. So where have we all been going broke? Will his my chat with Mariah so we will find out Mireya. We are here to talk about. Alec as your Paulie which I think might be up there as the number one plant that people find a bit tricky to grow. It's a beautiful beautiful plant though and I can understand why everyone is so captivated by it isn't one of your favorites. Yes is eased one of my favorites for me. It's a plan. I associate with the tropics and just takes me straight to the tropics and with this deep green Arrow shaped way. Wavy edged leaves mesmerizing. I mean I can spend hours looking at A. It's unbelievable really nice and I think that's why a lot of people would have in. The House is Yeah. It does seem very widely available now. I think it must've been being being mass produced and so everyone can get their hands on this blog now but not everyone can keep it happy and the number of times. I see a post from somebody saying my Poli is dead. Wayne Coors is a day polly. How do people kill this particular law? I think the number one issue with this plan is maintaining the high levels of humidity and warmth as well in in the House. You know to recreate this kind of ganguly environment in a house is quite is quite hard. It really likes sort of temperature from sixteen to two seven degrees so that could be a tricky especially in the UK in the winter when the Heaton is on the air. It's way dry. I mean I live in the Mediterranean. So that helps quite a bit because he is quite warm Resolution is very humid. So it's sort of like lifestyle. I know by St Louis talking about high levels of humidity which are to trades in a house about fifteen percent of up. So I think what he what is good. Is to have a humidifier few hours a day if you can if you can have one. I mean I don't have one so what I use is pebble trade. We've so when J.j This humidity around it. And what I really like doing as well. Which mind is in this environment is grouping grouping the plans which claimed his micro and you really works. My one is surrounded by Begonias Theis fans which is they will require high levels of humidity on. I think he's really nice as well. Because you create a little landscape like literally to your landscape of having them scattered around the house so I think this this this works. That's a good point because people often want to display this plot as a specimen plan on its own because it is so gorgeous but as you say it's probably going to be much happier in agree with all the plots where it's it's possibly going to get a bit of a boost not just looking at my little Thermometer slash humidity monitor in here and it's only thirty two percent humidity in here right now which is terrible. I think you know the winter. Obviously I didn't know how you'll heating works here in the UK mainly have radiators. Which are you know hopefuls being piped through and it's makes yes so dry states they have avenue which is even worse so there is a real issue. That as you said humidifier can breed really help. I think it would be excellent. It's it's it's it's the it's the trick the humidifier if you have the heat on he. I live in various choir choir. Small you know by a flag and you really need the heating on winter so we quite lucky without the you polly was getting too little humidity. How would she know? What size does it? Give off that. It's really unhappy is it so the crispy edges to the lease is that it produces this brown tapes and sometimes we see Yellow Halos as well on the leaves then when we when we started saying that it. That's that's what it needs really and sometimes what happens as well then using all my God. You know it's so we can. We get that confusion between humidity on wartime with sometimes is really difficult to handle and restart over watering and then what happens is a leads to grow pot and then with a prominent as well does it. It can it di- back can go into dormancy and winter and lose leaves and then come back in the spring yet. That's what he does actually below twelve degrees. It goes into dormancy. Need to keep in place. But don't worry if you see that growing leaves coming out image just is having FBI arrest during the period and then in the spring will come back. Come back to live so the bright again and you can you can start again with the winter and you have to look at match less obviously and defined with this plot the oftentimes. It needs reporting when you buy it because it's been posited into something that's possibly not suitable in terms of potting mix. Then I think What I do with mine I? I like to try to regularly regret as I can. This sort of Equi jungle me soil which I try to create my own with the potting soil. Potting ORCHID BAR. It is possible the one and then alight and then. I think we're really works as well as could innovate finally In in the mix and because he keeps it gives the soil them. Which is what this plan likes as well. It doesn't like soggy soil like Saddam so spag. Moore's is great doing that so I think he's good if you can get hold of some spinal Moscow. Someone can mixing it with the soil and mix it. Yeah because sometimes comes in when you buy is not is it just you water him water and all the nutrients and unique to to change it a bit and we'd like to this. Hugh applaud. What's the regime there? We don't want it alongside the CACTI and succulents possibly now now. We don't want with in full Sun. Full side is not advisable egg because they will just banned leaves and and the economy comes from San alikes. Brian direct sand. Actually so a really likes my. My one is in east facing window a few a couple of away from the window and get the morning sun. Which is the best son because sign is strong so it's going really well there. Nfc South facing window is especially in the main Rainey's it's you can have it in the UK. Maybe the winter months. It'd be alright but I will keep a few a few feet away. Not South is this applaud the Subject to draw like if he did keep near near window a cold drafts. Presumably won't be good for it either now doesn't like graphs suffer now. So that's why is bad to say a few away from the window because if you if you have a draft in will kill it definitely doesn't at all and if you have a shady area a one maybe one grow so well I would advise as well. It's too late at least once a month so it will improve with capture in lines for the leaves. Because sometimes you get you get the state the best on the leaves in that. What do you use the ducks? Just damp cloth. Yes a damn close and I think is really is really good for the land and every like is like a set of penalty from his long relaxing and connects you with a plan even more so. I think he's a good thing to do. I do with my ray. I tried to do it
AP News Radio
Henri Richard, winner of 11 Cups with Canadiens, dies at 84
"The Montreal Canadians mourn the death of legend and former captain our review shard who died following a long illness Friday morning the younger brother of superstar Maurice rocket Richard Reid was eighty four years old nicknamed the pocket rocket during his junior years the youngest Ryszard went on to hoist eleven Stanley cups during his twenty year career with the Canadians and NHL record is line our playing styles a fan favorite and his tremendous playmaking skills would see him elected the Baja caliphate in nineteen seventy nine L. A. lariviere Montreal
Hungry In Nashville
The Big Food Trends for 2020
"So take your seat with the rest of the class and let's get right to today's topic. Yeah it's a New Year and now since I'm endowed with twenty twenty vision. I'm here to tell you what the experts say will be the big trends ends in food this year after lettuce scare in two thousand eighteen the crystal ball said there would be more accountability food safety and Quality Ghost restaurants supposed to be a big thing and not surprisingly. I didn't see any here in Nashville. Then there is the prediction for motherless. Meat's meat that is not meet. It's made from vegetables. That trend came through then. There is the possibility of new food. Sources like crickets. Guess what we heard after that. There were other predictions some panned out some regional and others just seem silly. In retrospect undaunted your predictions for twenty twenty. Let's start macro then go micro. Moneywise has a list of restaurant chains that might not survive the year topping the list to steak and shake incite site. Apparently doesn't mean it's right. It's followed by Perkins Re Calendars Jojo Howard. Johnson's Hula Hans Baja. Fresh Mexican grill ground. Tim hortons hometown buffet. Pink Berry Ruby Tuesday friendly's ice cream in restaurant checkers and rally's Nashville's Charlie's Red Robin Ted Stakes del friscos grill and Golden Corral. Now it'd be a great time to check your stock portfolio. The experts say firma drinks like Buca will grow in popularity kid's been used will be upgraded with more whole grains and global global cuisines. Many other prognosticators say that will happen for adult meals to home. Meal kits will also become an increasingly popular restaurant. Alternative initiative industry sources say some restaurants may undergo redesigns to maximize this trend. And also expect to see more computers on your table as menu's go. Even more electronic restaurants will be aware of life changes facing their customers boomers are retiring. Blend heels have their own tastes children and grandchildren grandchildren. Enter the picture on the bar scene. Many are looking for growth in non alcoholic beverages again. This is an age driven change. One Chef believes believes it also comes as diners. OPT for quality over quantity plant based diets are expected to grow. And that's not surprising with the growth of vote. Meet Jack. Fruit roots seems to be a favourite for these foods. Speaking of whole grains oat milk is being mentioned possibly as a companion cheerios. Healthy snacks were on the menu with Beats Chick Peas Keen Wa and Kale is candidates. What do I have to do to make Kale? Just go away. Sustainability will be big big as food producers. Take Action on climate change or colorful food is expected. Don't look for dies or other artificial colorings but expect blue would purple green tomatoes and potatoes.
Talking Points
Where to Redeem Your Travel Points in the Bahamas
"All right next question from Scott from New Jersey Chrissy and he's trying to go. Stay in the Bahamas around Christmas. Let's hear what his question is. Hi My name is Scott. I'm in new. Jersey does and I was trying to book a trip to the Bahamas at the new Baja Mar and it showed me. The trip was ninety two hundred dollars or dog. One point three million miles on Amex which isn't a good return. So I was thinking the booking Amex getting five times the points and then in using current points at a one one which would cost me nine hundred thousand points for so for that The paid wondering if there's certainly better alternative so like Lowe's from New York City area to NASA it was blending nine nights at the rose in December two Christmas Day. Thank you. That's a great question you know. I really wish there. There was an APP that would tell you. You know you should pay for something versus US points and also whether you should transfer points or use points to a travel agency sense a little foreshadowing coming here because that's exactly what the gap is going to do. Which is launching an early Twenty Twenty Enough Self Promotion Zach? Can you help our friend. Scott out should he redeem points. Where should he stay? In the Bahamas I sure Baja Mar is supposedly an awesome destination in the Bahamas. We have full reviews of all the hotels in Bahama are on the point sky in my personal favourite. For redeeming points is the Grand Hyatt Baja Mar I. The Grand Hyatt has great reward availability. You have two choices for using chase points at the granted and Bahama. The first is that you could transfer them directly to high it in the since the Grand Hyatt Bahamas a category five hotel. Free Nights cost twenty thousand points for regular room or thirty two thousand points for a sweet the other alternative. If if you have chases Sapphire Reserve Card you can redeem your points directly through the chase travel portal at a rate of one and a half cents per point point in book the hotel directly through chases travel portal. The one thing to note is in that case you'll be on the hook for taxes and fees in your chase points will need to be used to cover those whereas if you were to send your points too high it and redeem for a free night award you won't be on the hook for taxes and fees always. He's double check. Whether it makes sense to book directly through chase or send your points to High Jack. Have you actually been to the Bahamas. Yeah I grew up in south Florida so getting to the Bahamas Imus was really easy for us and we could easily do it on a weekend. I've stayed at the Atlantis. I've also taken cruises stopped in the Bahamas and now that the ocean club club has been renovated as a four seasons. I'm really looking forward to trying out that new four
Morning Edition
Israel targets Islamic Jihad leader, sending message to Iran
"Israel says it assassinated a senior Palestinian leader of the group Islamic Jihad overnight Baja Abu a Lotta was in Gaza that strip of land that Israel is surrounded by fences and walls reporter Naomi several off is covering the story from Tel Aviv walking the program thank you who is or I guess I should say who was this leader Bob allowed to so he was a leader in Palestinian Islamic Jihad a which is a smaller group then Hamas in the Gaza Strip but still a powerful group and Israel says that he was responsible for many recent attacks on the country Israel says it killed him with the precision missile from a jet fighter and that he was killed in bed overnight and the ministry of health says another person was killed with him the mystery both in Gaza and there are reports out there that it was