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A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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"Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solutions can provide you with lightning -fast transactions at a fraction of the cost, all while ensuring security rooted on Ethereum. Arbitrum's newest addition, Orbit, enables you to build your own tailor -made Layer 3. Visit arbitrum .io today. Buy, trade, and spend crypto on the crypto .com app. New users can enjoy zero credit card fees on crypto purchases in the first seven days. Download the crypto .com app and get $25 with the code LORA. Link in the description. Today's guests are Danny Yang and Bill Tai, co -founders of Medigood and creators of Onchain Monkey. Welcome, Danny and Bill. Hey, Laura. Great to be here. Thank you, Laura. Honored to be here again. Bill, you were my third guest, if I remember correctly. So… Yeah. Pleasure to have you back. You're the star of the industry, kind of, at the Necker Blockchain Summit. I know. I can't believe that was over seven years ago now. But anyway, so part of the reason that I brought you two here was to discuss some recent issues, you could call them, in the Bitcoin ordinals world. And it affects you as creators. But first, why don't we give everybody the backdrop of what you've been doing. And we'll start with your backgrounds pre -Medigood. So, Danny, would you like to start? Yeah. So, I'm Danny Yang, pre -Medigood. I started a Stanford Bitcoin meetup back in 2013. That's when I met Bill, actually. So that's how he connected. True OG. Yeah. Early days of Bitcoin when we were all very, I guess, excited by what we could do. And I had the sky's the limit. And Bitcoin was the center of attention for everything. It was really the only thing. And I started a cryptocurrency exchange in Taiwan called MyCoin, that's doing well today too. And then a couple of years later, I started a blockchain analytics company called Bloxier that was then sold a few years after that. And Bill also was the first investor in both of my, those two Bitcoin and crypto companies that have been busy in this space. And just excited to see what's happening today too, what we're going to talk about because of the new happenings for Bitcoin in particular. And Bill? Yeah. And Laura, I think obviously you've known me for quite a while, but I somehow was able to see some kind of interesting future for Bitcoin back in 2010. That led me to doing some work on a bunch of different things. Some of the more notable companies that came out of the industry at that time were Bitfury, of course, where I put together the funding for their first major ASIC chip. Still chairman of the board of Hut 8 Mining, which we spun out of Bitfury, it used to be our Canadian operation and had funded a bunch of interesting projects like AirSwap with Joe Lubin and Mike Novogratz and Power Ledger and some other things. But Danny, having been the founder of the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup Group, and Laura, you will remember even back on Necker Island, what I wanted to do was create something like the Homebrew Computer Club for this segment. And Danny had already done that. So as I was attending the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup Groups, young startups like Zappo or BitGo or Coinbase or whoever would come and present at his meetup. And I just identified Danny as a node with a lot of talent given his PhD in computer science at Stanford and every question that I had that was technical, he could answer. And so one day I walk up to him and I said, hey, if you ever start a company, I'm writing a check. And that became the first company he mentioned. And I funded it along with some real OGs like Charlie Lee, Bobby Lee, Jed McCaleb, people like that. And then that turned into another funding for Blockseer. Both of those companies have been successful. And third time around, you know, I was like, Danny, let's do this one together. So I wrote a check and we put together Medigood.
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A highlight from How & When We Do Evangelism
"Well, good afternoon. Thank you for being here. I was thinking this afternoon as I was looking at all the people that are here, how the Lord used obviously it was His Word, but 12 apostles, 12 apostles. There's 12. To flip the world. What a God we serve. I shared this verse with a prayer group on Wednesday. Romans 10 .1. Romans 10 .1. We'll read that verse to you and then we'll pray. Beginning in verse 1 and only verse 1, Romans 10. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Let's pray. Oh God, let it be true by Your mighty hand that our desire, our heart's desire, our prayer, our prayer to You is that our family would be saved. That those within our church wall would be saved. Lord, let it be true that our heart's desire and our prayer to You would be that Manchester would be saved. That Tennessee would be saved. Lord, that America would be saved. Lord, we just openly confess, Lord, just repent in our hearts. God, that we have such a narrow, small view of You. God, You are mighty to save. I mean, God, forgive us, oh God, forgive us how we have tried to limit You, Lord, as if we could. Lord, forgive us if we've thought that great moves of You are impossible. Lord, oftentimes we pray for revival, Lord, and we pray for awakening, but Lord, perhaps if we were pressed on it, we would say we don't truly believe it. Oh, let it not be, Lord. Oh, we need You, God, oh, we need You. Lord, You have storehouses, treasuries in Heaven that we know nothing about. Great is Your faithfulness, Lord. Oh, would You pour out Your Spirit. Oh, Lord, would You bring great revival, great awakening, Lord, in our own hearts, Lord, in our own homes, in our own church houses, Lord, in our world, Lord, make Your glory known. Oh, give us a better understanding of who You are, Lord. Lord, You're faithful time and time again. Thank You for Your Word. Oh, strengthen me, Lord, strengthen us. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen. Well, I've been tasked with speaking on how and when we evangelize. I'm really honored and encouraged that Pastor John and this church have that desire to learn about evangelism, that they take evangelism seriously, and I know Bobby would include himself in this, but just as an evangelist, as a minister, we just want to avail ourselves to you if you have questions or if you need the encouragement, if you need resources, if you need tracts, if you want opportunities to serve alongside us, we just want to avail ourselves to you and afford that to you. I'm encouraged that John and Richard both drove down from Nashville, and that was a good drive. Richard shared with me he just needed the encouragement. There's not a lot of encouragement even in our churches. How sad, but how true, not always a lot of encouragement to evangelize. So Bobby prepared. I think he has a lot of lessons on this, and he shared with me one of his and kind of with the attitude, if my bullet fits your gun, then use it, and so he did a lot of the mining on this. I've definitely added some of my heart's desires to share with you. I trust it will be an encouragement to you. So how and when we evangelize. I'd say the greatest verse, at least for me, is, Bobby shared that with you earlier, Romans 1 .16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel. When I think of that verse, drawn to the words of Christ, that those that are ashamed of Him, He'll be ashamed of us. That's heavy on us, does it not? Are we ashamed of Christ? Are we ashamed of God? Are you? Now you may give lip service and say no, but what does your actions say? Are you ashamed of God? Romans 1 .16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it's the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek quote that was shared with me. Moeller said this, at the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who do not share the gospel. It's not churches that don't support it or antagonistic people on the streets or lack of knowledge, but the biggest obstacle of evangelism is Christians who don't share the gospel. So for professing Christians, you know, why are we not sharing the gospel? What's the reason? So what is evangelism? This is evangelism. Speaking to others the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's evangelism. Speaking the gospel, the good news of Christ Jesus. This should include that God is the holy creator of all things, that man is a sinner deserving of God's eternal wrath, that Jesus lived a perfect life and died a substitutionary death, substitutionary, we get our word substitute, right, in our place, in the place of those that believe, that he rose from the grave and grants eternal life to all who believe. And lastly, the only way to be reconciled to God and saved from his eternal wrath in hell is to repent, to turn from your sin and turn to Christ. And trust him alone. You're turning to him in faith. And so, you know, that's, sometimes that's a hot topic or sometimes that's misunderstood at repent and believe. But brothers and sisters, it's really the same coin. If we're going to turn to Christ, well obviously turning to him, we're turning away from something else. It's that change of mind. If we are now believing in Christ, we're looking to him, then we've changed our mind on the love of our sin. So how do we evangelize? How do we evangelize? So what do you think of when you think, I need to evangelize or I'm going to evangelize or I have the desire to evangelize? How would you evangelize? There's many ways. There's only one message, but there's many ways. So one heading would be personal evangelism, right? So we would take, we would witness, we would proclaim that gospel to those that we already have a relationship with and that personal evangelism. So think of someone like your worker, your neighbor, your friend, your family. It's personal. We know them on a personal level. It's one to one. It's usually in somewhat intimate setting, personal evangelism. So think of it this way. How much, how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? So do we really believe that there's a hell to be shunned? Do we believe that? Do we believe that there's really a hell for all those who do not believe the gospel? Do we just say that or do we really believe it? And if we do believe that there is a hell to shun, that there's a hell to flee from, there's a wrathful God to flee from and come to him on his terms, then how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? And I'll take it a step further, but ultimately by not proclaiming the gospel to someone, that message of reconciliation, in effect we're damning them. We're saying, you're not good enough for me to tell you how to be reconciled with God. We leave them helpless, we leave them hopeless. So we must ask ourselves that. You know, it's awkward. It's inconvenient. Bobby talked about sometimes that fear. Brothers and sisters, I think what it boils down to is that we fear man and we don't fear God. You know, we'll try to water things down like, well, fear in God means honoring him or reverencing him or being in awe of him or respecting him. It's true. It's all those things. But we're to fear him. We don't fear him like the worldly. We don't fear him like those that do not have an advocate with the Father. But we're to fear him. One of the great things of fearing God is if we fear him, we don't have to fear man. So how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? So how we evangelize personal evangelism. Who's heard of friendship evangelism, right? Let's be buddies. Let's hit it off well. Let's build a rapport. Let's build a relationship with them. And then, you know, when I've gained their confidence, I've gained their trust, when they know that I truly care for them, well, then maybe I'll slip the gospel in. Is that how we're to evangelize? So at what point do you share the gospel? Is you've it had your friend -versary on 90 days in or two years in, or when do you transition from I'm only a friend to now I want to share the gospel with you? How about this? If they're your friends and you use the excuse, well, they don't want to hear about Christ, well, what's more important now, your friendship with them or telling them how to be reconciled with the holy God? I'm not saying that we don't share our one true hope with our friends. It's not that we don't build relationships or that we don't care for people, that we don't do life with people. We don't have to become someone's friend. We don't even have to be liked by them to tell them the truth and love. You know, I think it's a wonderful scheme of the devil, right, to delay. Well, I need to really get in and know them before I share the gospel. Or is it really, I don't really want to right now, so this is my excuse. I'll just keep building this relationship and maybe one day I'll build the confidence. Bobby spoke on that as well as you oftentimes hear maybe even on t -shirts, so share the gospel at all times and if necessary use words, foolishness. All the time use words. How else are they here? And then what about strangers on how we evangelize in personal evangelism? Is it okay to impose our views on them? Bobby gave a wonderful example, right? I'm a barber. I talk to people every day, all day. I talk to people till my brain hurts and I just want to be alone in a cabin for months. But I'm not called to do that, though, how badly I want to. But they will tell me everything. Stuff I don't even care to hear. Stuff I don't want to hear. It's because it just overflows, right? They want to talk about their sports car or their hobby or their wife or their kids. It's not all bad things, but it just overflows out of them. And they're going to tell you. They're going to tell you exactly what's on their mind. And so how many times have we heard professing Christians say, well, I don't want to impose my views on others. And we would impose our views if we saw someone fixing to get run over. We would snatch them. We'd help them. We'd grab them. We'd do what it took. I don't think we fully comprehend eternity and the holiness of God. And so, yes, we impose our views. The one true view, the only view. Brother, sister, you must be reconciled to God, for if you are not, you will meet Him in that final day. Jesus and the apostles, they preached primarily to strangers. We see that all throughout the gospels and the book of Acts. They didn't have to become their friends. They didn't even have to know their name to share the gospel with them. And we see specifically the example in John 4, the woman at the well. There was no friendship there. They met there at the well and the gospel was proclaimed. So that's personal evangelism. Secondly, and how we evangelize is oftentimes an open air. I've been with Bobby and been out with John. And I know some, even a guy or two here that's been willing to go with me. And I know Richard goes out on the streets as well. So open air preaching. And that's the public reading of scripture or the proclamation of the law or preaching of the gospel in an outdoor setting. This is Charles Spurgeon who said, Bobby shared this quote with me. I've read it before. I love it. This is what Spurgeon says. He says, no sort of defense is needed for preaching out of doors. But it would need a very potent argument to prove that a man had done his duty who has never preached beyond the walls of a meeting house. So just to explain that a little bit, if you didn't grasp it, saying there's no excuse, you don't have to have a reason to go preach on the street. But you'd have to have a really good argument to say why you always stand here and preach, but you've never went on the street. So we are called beyond the four walls. Love George Whitfield. So much history there. Read an abbreviated biography on him not too long ago. Just so convicting. He said, I believe I was never more acceptable to my master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. You know, I think we have some type of romanticized thought that like a long time ago everyone loved God or a long time ago it was like more peaceful or like a long time ago it wasn't as wicked as it is now. Not true. There's nothing new under the sun. There's always been haters of God. And when you read some of the accounts of George Whitfield, you know, he had dead cats thrown on him, had blood thrown on him, had people stand beside him and just clang drums while he was preaching. We've had things thrown at us and I'm sure put on us and such, but when's the last time you had blood dumped on you or a dead animal put on you? That's not to say that we oftentimes don't go through difficulties or hard things. We do. But don't have that romanticized view that, well, a long time ago it was easier. Brothers and sisters, it was not any easier than it is today. And then a principle manner by which God spread his word throughout the scripture was through the open air. And we see that. Noah, a herald of righteousness. Solomon, Ezra, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, think of all the prophets. John the Baptist coming and preaching his message of repentance. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Jesus, the disciples, Philip, Paul, Paulus, all them outdoor open air proclaimers of the good news of Jesus Christ. And preaching ultimately is a calling from God internally that should be confirmed by and a submission to one's local church. So by no means is this a lone wolf. Is this a, well, you know what I see oftentimes in some street ministers and those that are very evangelistic in their zeal is, well, everyone on the church is not on board. And so, you know, let's just ride off the church. I'm the only holy one. You know, it's just me. No one else wants to go. Maybe everyone's not called to go on the street. I think a lot are that don't. But maybe not everyone's called. Maybe that sister in the church that doesn't go on the street, she's called to just a ministry of prayer. And so we need to be plugged into the local church and be submitted to the local church. The Lord has oversight for us for a reason. So another way, as Bobby said, we, some guys, they're kind of more drawn to apologetics. And apologetics, again, is not the I'm making an apology, but it is a defense of a certain set of beliefs. But apologetics is not evangelism unless it includes the gospel message. And so this refutation of facts or, you know, this just debating for the sake of debating. Brothers and sisters, if it doesn't, if it's not grounded on Christ, the message of Christ is not heralded in it, it's not evangelism. Though it can bolster one's faith, though it can shut up often many that want to come with an argument, but many of those that you'll meet that want to have these arguments, they don't even really know what they're saying, most of them. They just, that's their defense, their defense of the gospel. They're trying to shut you down and turn you off and soothe their conscience. And so just a practical point of advice I can say when sharing the gospel with others is they're going to come at you with all kinds of angles of, well, can we trust the Bible? Or my cousin told me this, or I knew a professor that said this, or whatever it is. And that's fine, we can have those debates, we can bring apologetics into it. What we have to remember is we always have to circle back around to this question, is what are you going to do with your sins on Judgment Day? What are you going to do with your sins on Judgment Day? For the Christian, you'll stand closer than righteousness of Christ.
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Former President Trump Shares His Thoughts on Meghan & Harry
"I'm Hugh Hewitt. Pleased to welcome back to the program former President Donald Trump. Mr. President, welcome, good to have you back. Good morning. I want to begin on a light subject. We're approaching the 50th anniversary of the battle of the sexes where Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King played each other. Remember that, September of 1973, Mr. President? I do, I do. Were you pulling for Bobby or were you pulling for Billie Jean at that time? Well, I just was pulling for good entertainment, and it was, you know, he beat Margaret Court Smith, who may have been the greatest woman player of all time, and he beat her. And I don't know that she knew she was playing in a match of such importance, but it became a very big deal. And then she challenged him and she won, and she won conclusively. I watched that night, she definitely won. The reason I bring up, 90 million people watched that. 90 million people. And the only thing I think that might draw an audience that even approaches that would be if you were to sit down with the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, and Prince Harry, they don't like you much. Would you do that for the ratings? Well, I don't know that they don't like me. I said that I don't think they're very appropriate what they're saying, what they're doing. And I didn't like the way she dealt with the Queen. I became very friendly with the Queen. She was an incredible woman. At 95, she was so sharp, she was 100%. When you watch Biden, you say, this is a different planet. But they treated her with great disrespect, and I didn't like it. And I didn't like the idea that they were getting U .S. security when they came over here. No, I think it's not a good situation going on with the two of them. But I didn't know that they don't like me. Somebody mentioned it might be so possible. They wouldn't be the only ones. But I mean, that would get ratings, wouldn't it? Oh, if you want to set it up, let's set it up. Let's go do something. I'd love to debate her. I would love it. All right, now let's get serious. I disagree so much with what they're doing.
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A highlight from Being Motivated Feels Awesome...(And That Is The Problem!)
"There's nothing quite like that feeling of starting something new with a completely fresh slate. Whether you're starting a new fitness program and you have brand new gym clothes, or you're starting a new health program and you have a brand new blender, or you're working on a new project at work and everything is so excited because the world is in front of you. But that feeling comes from something called motivation. Because at that moment you're motivated to take things forward. And being motivated feels awesome. And that is exactly the problem with motivation. So the giant question is this, how do we as parents, teachers, school administrators, policymakers, coaches, how do we prepare our kids for a future that doesn't yet exist? All while making them healthier, more creative, more innovative, better problem solvers, and overall successful contributors to society? That is the question and this podcast has the answers. My name is Coach Mike and welcome to the My Trick Method podcast. So if you're anything like me, you have days when you are completely motivated to get something done and you have other days when you are not motivated to do anything. And it's not only us as adults, I see it for kids too. I see days when they are motivated to get out, do the things they have to do, they're excited, they want to go out, they want to go someplace, all of those things. And then I see plenty of other days where they seem much more content sitting in a chair or on a couch on some piece of social media or technology and really just don't do anything and they kind of feel like a slug. And both situations have to do with either a feeling of motivation or a lack of feeling of motivation. But I don't think that the word motivation in that sentence is actually the important part. It's the part about the feeling and the feeling that motivation gives you. Because that feeling of motivation comes from, yes you guessed it, that neurotransmitter dopamine. And the problem with dopamine is that there are a lot of different things that you can do in a day that actually will release dopamine. So if you're not able to do a specific thing that you wanted to do, guess what? You can get that same feeling of being motivated to do something else or just a feeling of feeling good from something else. And that's why you can never ever rely on motivation. I mean look, experiencing a surge in motivation, it feels great. But it honestly comes with an expiration date. It just doesn't last very long. And rather than letting this unreliable driving force kind of dictate your actions, it really comes down to being disciplined, being ambitious, and more than anything being habitual is what is going to get you to those long -term results. Habitual obviously meaning having a good foundation of strong habits that are leading you in the right direction. So there's a four -step process that's kind of looked at when it comes to the backbone of how you build a good habit. But before you get to that part, there's an important thing that people need to do. Last episode I talked about finding your sense of self. But it's not just finding your sense of self. It's also what do you identify as? Now I'm not going into the whole gender conversation, but what do you identify as? Meaning who are you and what are the activities that you like to do? So let me give you an example. I talk to a lot of people, especially since I published my first book, I've talked to a lot of people that constantly say to me, oh my gosh, I absolutely need to write a book. And that is great, but there's a difference between being someone who wants to write a book and being an author. And what is the difference? An author does not have to be someone who's published. An author is someone who is physically writing. Do you have a person who wants to write a book or you have an author? The person that is the author who has already taken action and began that process is going to get further than the person who one day wants all the stars to align so they can sit down and write their first book. You have to identify with what that is. If you identify as someone who makes healthy choices or if you identify as someone who is a gym person and a fitness nut and loves the, you know, fitness and loves working out, you are going to make decisions and base your habits based upon who you identify yourself as. But if you have decided, you know, made that decision for who you are, there is that four -step process to kind of building a good habit. And it goes like this. The first is Q, the second is craving, the third is your response to the craving, and the fourth is a reward. So there's your four steps. The Q is essentially related to like the initial stimulatory sensation that initiates a habit. So let's use what our normal sensations are. So smelling, hearing, tasting, feeling, or reading, right? And seeing. Craving is that you have a desire to carry through with responding to this Q and instigating the associated habit. And as you crave the end result, it will deliver. If you crave whatever it is that's in front of you, it will not deliver the same way as craving what you are looking for it to be, looking for that end result is going to be. The response to your craving is the actual act of performing that habit itself. And, you know, after the fact that you've decided that the effort required fulfill to that habit is worthwhile to achieve the end result. That is a big thing. The last one is the reward. And, you know, as the consequence of your habitual action, you achieve the reward and you feel satisfied because you're happy about what you did. So let's kind of put this into an example. Let's say you are at a work function or you're at a party or whatever, and there's a gorgeous spread of fruit and pastries on a table and you are, you know, you're hungry. You want to eat something. So the Q is that you're hungry and the fruit catches your eye, right? So then all of a sudden you get a craving because you have a desire now to pick up an apple or some melon or banana, something instead of that almond croissant that's in the platter right next to the fruit because you identify yourself as someone who makes nutritious choices and you don't want to exceed essentially what your caloric requirements are for the day. So you're going to choose that vitamin -rich piece of fruit instead of the, you know, chocolate croissant, almond croissant, cheese croissant, whatever it may be. So once you've made that decision, then the question comes, do you actually stick with it and what is the actual action that you take after that? So if your response is that you eat the apple instead of the almond croissant, your reward at that point is you feel satisfied, nourished, and accomplished because you made a decision that aligns to that sacrifice croissant in the now for what you believe the results will be later on. So, I mean, obviously this is a hypothetical circumstance, but it's one that we may be faced with on a regular basis. You know, in order to have those positive behavioral changes, you just have to stay consistent, but you quite honestly, the community or the people that you are around will or can influence what some of those responses to that stimuli are. So if you are in a room of people where every single person that is there is going to pick up a croissant or, you know, something not on the fruit side, it also puts your brain in a little bit of a quandary because you want to be part of that community, but you also want to stick to your habits. So surrounding yourself with people who have like -minded ideas about you is absolutely one of the ways that you get a lot further into your goals. I mean, think about this, we see this with kids all the time, right? So if the children that our children hang out with do X or Y, whatever it is, whether it's they play video games all the time, if one every time of our kids goes to a child's house where all they do is play video games all day long, what do you think they are probably going to be doing when they go there? They're going to play video games. If all the kids at school are bringing Twinkies to lunch, this was one thing that used to bother me so much when I had MindFit, you know, I would often run summer camps and I actually remember kids coming because they would brown bag lunch, kids coming to our summer camps at MindFit and when it became lunchtime and everyone would grab their bag and they start pulling things out, I couldn't tell you the number of times that what I saw coming out of the bags was literally like, you know, a Twinkie and a bag of potato chips and you had these other children that had these elaborate, you know, fruit, vegetables, some type of a protein lunch and you had other kids that literally had a Twinkie and a bag of potato chips. And before we go down the route of saying, oh well that could have been a, you know, social demographic, this was an expensive summer camp. I could easily see the cars that everyone drove in on and dropped their kids off in and for the most part it was nothing but Mercedes and BMWs so this was not a situation of, well maybe they didn't have the finances to be able to do a better lunch. No, most times and actually oftentimes I would have parents actually come up and kind of, you know, say hey I'm so sorry about the lunch that's all they'll eat and that's just insane to me. I don't understand that at all. You know, kids will eat what you put in front of them and if they want something else, trust me, when they get hungry enough they will eat whatever you put in front of them because they're starving at that point whether they like it or not. Obviously everyone has food likes and dislikes. You know, growing up as a kid I probably could have been starving and never would have eaten beets. They were totally disgusting to me but at the same time, you know, the rest of the meal that I had outside of the beets I would absolutely eat. So we do need to be aware though that, you know, what's around kids on a regular basis is how they are going to start to assimilate into their habits and into the decisions that they make. And oftentimes when we do fall out of our good habits, the first thing we do is we start looking for that motivation again that to get us back on track. But motivation is what failed us the first time, right? Motivation is like that super friend who's fun to, you know, a lot of fun to be around when they actually show up. But for the most part they usually let you down. They'll say they say they'll be there at a certain time but then they're not. That's kind of motivation where discipline is that dependable friend who often, you know, kind of has some harsh truths for you but can always be relied upon. And, you know, they're the ones that will see you through your bad times and eventually and truly want you to meet your goals. But they're not flamboyant. They're not, if you guys remember, friends. They're not fun Bobby, right? Fun Bobby was like this guy. It was just so much fun but he was certainly not someone that you could depend on. So essentially if I'm telling you you cannot focus on motivation or you cannot rely on motivation because it is going to let you down, what then can you do? What are the things that you should focus on instead and not worried about being motivated? And the first one is honestly don't expect to be motivated. A big mistake that we make when we set our goals is we get caught up in the fantasy of kind of like achieving the goal and we don't think about the effort that's going to be necessary to achieve it. So just expect that it is going to be a lot of effort that goes into it. Expecting ahead of time that we sometimes won't be motivated kind of helps us prepare. Like we're not relying on that sugar high to get us moving. We're just relying on activity, action, and taking steps forward instead of what's going to get us to do that. The other one, as I said before, you got to focus on building habits. Habits, the cool thing about habits is they actually remove your need to make decisions, right? Because if it's truly a habit, they literally take the decision -making process, the decision -making out of the process. Once it's a habit, there's no need for motivation. It's just something you do every day. Brushing your teeth is a habit. You do it every day. There's not really any wonderful thing about brushing your teeth except that your breath doesn't feel bad, smell anymore. But habits make actions persistent. Even if the habit is small, it adds up. It compounds. It's like compounding interest in a savings account. It compounds. And with habits, you're not waiting to be motivated. You're just doing it because it's what you need to do. Another thing that you need to look at is you kind of have to shoot for clarity. Because sometimes what looks like a lack of motivation is sometimes actually confusion because you just don't know what to do, where to start. Make sure that your tasks and your goals are very specific and actionable. I've talked about triple habit stacking before. And the reason I like it is because I do know that life gets in the way. And when life gets in the way, if you have one thing that you know you want to do every day, right? And let's say you are motivated to do it and it is a habit, right? Then you have a great situation, but life gets in the way, something happens, and you can't achieve that one thing. Now you feel like you not only didn't take a step forward, but that you took a step backwards. And I don't want you to think that way. So the reason I like triple habit stacking is that you're doing at least two of the three things. If one of them falls off, it's okay. You still took steps forward. You didn't take as many steps forward as you would have if you had accomplished all three, but you're still taking steps forward. And most importantly, you didn't take a step backwards because that's a big thing. When you're tackling a big goal or a project, you have to look at what is the next thing that I can do to leverage that's going to get me to my goal. Once you have a clear understanding of that, you can move forward. And I'll use writing a book as an example because I'm in the process of writing not just one right now, but two of them right now. That's for another conversation for another day. But when I first wrote The Mind Fit Method, I had the idea for the book, honestly, for a long time. But it's like, oh, how do I start? I don't know what to do. Do I just sit down at a computer? How do I break it up? And then you start thinking about really stupid things that don't even matter. Well, but how am I going to get it published? How do I find an editor? I didn't even have a book written, and I was worried about steps 21 and 22 when I hadn't even taken step one. The thing is that worry about step 21 and 22 when you're on step 20, and then you have to figure out how to cross over that barrier. We get so, and again, this goes back to everything being perfect, right? We want to sit down. I wanted to sit down when I wrote the first book and write the book in 90 minutes. And then, boom, turn on the computer, and an editor was already, you know, tracking me down so I didn't have to find one. And then, boom, a these things, but I hadn't even taken step one. Make sure you're ready for the step that you actually have to take. And sometimes we start focusing on a step that's six or seven processes down the road we're not focusing on, number one. And I'll use a different example. Let's say you want to start working out in the morning, but you can't work out in the morning because your boss expects you to be to work by 7 a .m. And you know you're not going to get up at 3 a .m. to work out. Plus, you feel like you would lose sleep, and it would actually affect you in a negative way, not in the positive way, like you want to work out to be able to affect you. So, when you have a situation like that, you have to change something. And maybe that conversation is, you're gonna go talk to your boss and say, look, boss, I will be much more productive during the day if I actually can come in an hour later, and here's why. And if you'd like, we can even track my productivity so that I can show you it's a reality, and I actually am more productive. If you've ever read Tim Ferriss' book, The 4 -Hour Workweek, he actually talks about that in having those conversations and doing that. It's a great thing to do. But make sure you take step one. If step one is you want to start working out, but you can't do it because you have to be in by 7 a .m. or by 6 a .m. to work, then actually starting to work out is not step one, right? You have to understand what step one is. And I talked just a little bit ago about, you know, your identity. When you think of yourself as a certain type of person, you will act that way. That way, you don't have to worry about motivation. If you're the type of person that takes action, you will take action. If you're the type of person who gets things done, you will get things done. Your brain doesn't really like what's called cognitive dissonance, which can kind of be created by a gap between your beliefs and your actions. You may believe X, but then you don't actually act upon those things. Start being the person that you want to become. Even if you're not there yet, show up as them now. That's really important. Simplify. Okay, this is a big one. So, let's say you want to start eating healthy, right? You've been talking about this for a long time, and you're gonna start this diet, you're gonna start that diet, you're thinking about getting this food prep service like, you know, Eat Clean Bro or Simple Meals Mate, whatever they are, something like that delivered, and you think about all these things that you're going to do, and yet you never take action on any of them because they all require their own individual steps. Break it down to, again, what is step one? Because if you can get through step one, then you can figure out step two. You're not gonna figure out step one through a hundred in one, you know, over one cup of coffee. It's just not gonna happen because you have to That's fine, but once you get started, you also, you know, it's like starting a bike when you're going uphill, right? You put it all the way down in first gear so that it's the easiest way to pedal, but you still have to stand up on that bike, stand up on those pedals, and start pedaling. Once you get that pedal moving a little bit, once those wheels start turning, it gets a little bit easier to then be able to go forward and get the rest of the way up the hill because the And kind of, you know, this is important too, but a thing that is in motion stays in motion, right? Until there is another force that causes that motion to stop, and when that happens, rely back on your habits. Don't rely on motivation to get you unstuck. And probably one of the most important things is you have to do it even when you don't feel like it, okay? Again, don't rely so much on our feelings. Again, feeling and motivation. You feel good, you're motivated, right? But if we're, I already said don't rely on motivation, which also means don't rely on your feelings. Rely on consistency. And I watch this with my boys right now. It is amazing to me, you know, they've gotten to a point where they're starting to take pictures of their physical growth since they're, you know, they're lifting very consistently. And a lot of times I think they get a little obsessed with it. It is amazing to see the difference because, again, when you're around yourself all the time, you don't necessarily see the differences that you made. But when I see my 14 year old, when I see a picture of him six months ago versus today, it's unbelievable how much progress and how much growth and honestly how much muscle he's put on. Not because he necessarily loves it, not because he necessarily, you know, wants to be absolutely working out every day, although he kind of does, but he's so consistent with it. Every day he's down there, he's doing his abs, he's doing his, and he's making huge progress. You've got to be able to do it when you don't feel like it. You kind of have to remind yourself that you don't have to feel like doing something in order to do it, right? You just don't. Don't let your feelings dictate your actions. Let your actions dictate your progress. And be patient, right? This is a big one. We have to be patient in what we want. It's very easy to fall into the trap that when we don't see results right away, we get discouraged, which, what does that do? It lowers our motivation. But we already know we're not gonna rely on motivation. So, but impatience can be a common problem, especially among procrastinators, right? They put off taking action, but then you then expect immediate results. Expect the progress to be gradual and slow, and you have to enjoy the process. I know it's the most cliche thing out there. It's not the destination, it's the journey. But guys, that is the truth, right? Our destination is the same for every single person in the world. Our destination is a grave, right? It's kind of harsh to say, but that is the truth. So, instead of worrying about where we're gonna be six months from now, worry about what are we doing today to get us to where we want to be. That is so, I can't stress it enough, what are we doing today? What can you get done today in regards to taking action? Not thinking it through. Taking action. Do not become an overthinker. Become a person that takes so much that action you can't take any more action in a day. Because even if you're taking incorrect or imperfect action, it's still going to take you further and get you to where you need to get in order to hit your goals. And now you're probably wondering, okay, so where does this tie into the MindFit method and where does it tie in to my kids? Although I talked about the kids a couple times today, where it ties in is set the precedence. When your kids see you doing these things, when they see you not relying on motivation, when they see you being consistent and persistent, that is going to rub off on them, whether they like it or not. You may have to put parameters in place so that they can't sit on devices all day long or things like that, but the question is, if you're not going to have them be on technology all day long, then what are you going to replace that time with? Because otherwise they're just sitting there and then they come out with the horrible, there's nothing to do, I'm bored, it's just, which doesn't make any sense. There's so many things to be able to do today. Kids should not be bored, but you set that precedence for them. Let them see you not only being consistent, causing the habits, and at first they may be like, okay, whatever, mom, dad, whoever it is, they're just on one of their kicks. When they see you stay consistent and month after month goes by and you're making the changes that you want to make in yourself, they then realize that they can make those changes, too. Hey everyone, I hope you guys liked this episode. If you have not gotten your free copy of the book, The MindFit Method, go to themindfitmethod .com. I have already purchased a copy for you, the book is there. All you have to do is cover the cost of the shipping and handling, and I will send the book right out to you. You'll even have an opportunity to get the audio book for a small fee, which is really cool as well. And stay tuned, because there are two new books coming out for me in 2023. Hope you guys are ready. Until next time.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
A highlight from Exploring Cultural Identity and Humor with Japanese-American Stand Up Comedian Michelle MALIZAKI!
"Thank you, Mr. Paul Vato. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Paul Vato, and this is Paul Vato Presents. And today, my very special guest is Michelle Malazaki. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. That's such a traditional Japanese name, isn't it? No, it's not. Oh, my goodness. I thought it was. Well, welcome, Michelle. Thank you so much for spending a little bit of time with us today. Michelle is a brilliant stand -up comedian, a musical artist. She has recorded a few other podcasts. I first found out about her through my friend Christina Blackburn, who has a great podcast called Storyworthy. And I was a guest of Christina's as well. So it's a great podcast. It's a lot of fun, a lot of industry people. So Michelle, thank you so much for taking time to be here. We're live on fireside, so welcome. Thank you for having me on your show. 100%. I'm so glad that you were able to do it. I have so many questions to ask, cultural differences, comedy, and all that incredible background. Would you be kind enough to tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, where you live? Maybe not your address, but where you live, and where you've performed, and things like that. OK, I am originally from Japan. But I just found out I'm not a Japanese person anymore because I become an American. And in Japan, there are only two people, two kind of people, two kinds of people, Japanese and non -Japanese. And I am neither, I'm a former Japanese. Interesting. Are they called, is that Gaijin? Is that the right word or no? I'm not Gaijin. I'm just a former Japanese. Interesting. Is that because you became an American citizen, so you're no longer recognized as Japanese? The second I sworn in as different foreign nationality, then my Japanese citizenship just evaporates. I didn't know that. Wow. And this is because of the Japanese government, not the US government? I see. The American government that you have multiple citizenships. That's what I thought. But I think at that, there used to be a time where you could only have, if you were a US citizen, I thought you could only have a US passport. But I know that that's changed because I know people have multiple passports. So I don't know what changed. Yeah. But with Japan, Japanese government, you can't have dual citizenships. So just one. So as soon as I sworn in as American, then no more Japanese. No more Japanese. All my jokes about being Japanese. Oh, no. Now you can't make any more Japanese jokes. They might get offended. Oh, no. What am I going to do? You've got to rewrite your whole act. I know. Maybe you could divorce your present husband and marry a Japanese guy. And then you could make Japanese jokes. I don't know. Like, I'm still lost since I found about this. Because I don't know. I never belonged to any group. I was an outsider. When did this happen? When did you find out that you were no longer Japanese? I just found out recently. But I did not. Yeah, because I become American citizen a while back. Wow. Wow. Now, you recently went to Japan. Is that right? Yeah, I just did. And I had to get a visa. Oh, yeah, because you're not Japanese. Of course, he has a gift. I'm not a Japanese person. I have to apply for a visa. And then they ask for a picture. So I sent my picture in. And then they called me and said, oh, your picture's too old. You have to send a current picture. How do they know that my face hasn't changed? It's the same person. And you look very young. So it doesn't matter when it was taken. It's the filter, I think. It's like an automatic filter thing. Because my room looks nice. Well, mine's not working, I don't think, because I look old. So I don't know what happened. I've never met you in person, so I don't know. I look even better in person, I think. Oh, a lot of people do. Like, you know, you do Zoom shows. And then you never meet those guys, girls, people in person. And then when you meet them, you're like, oh my gosh, they are really nice -looking. You're like, stay off the Zoom. It makes you look ugly. But I mean, I look the same. I look the same. That's my cat. My cat's kind of famous for barging into international virtual shows. Very interesting, I love that. Yeah, but she never talks to me during the day. No? No, it's just when I'm talking on somebody else other than the cat, then she's just, hey, guys. What's your cat's name? Mochi. Mochi? Yeah, like the food, mochi. I also have a dog named Pinan. Like, all my pets are named after food items. I see that. Do you have any fish? I don't eat them. It's just names. We're not gonna go there, I don't think, right? Maybe. You're like, I'm Japanese, not Korean. Uh -oh, don't tell Bobby Lee. Awesome. These people didn't eat beef nor pork till 170 years ago. Was it strictly pescatarian or vegetarian or what? No, I think, I can't remember because Japanese people believe in many different things, but one of the - When did you decide to come to the US? Because I know that you had an affinity, I think, for maybe American television. Yeah, well, I wanted to, well, I came to America because I wanted to, okay, my mom told me, ever since I was in fifth grade, my mom told me to marry a white guy because half white, half Asian kids are cute. That's true. I actually wanted to marry a British person. I guess you can't marry two, so just one. But then America was closer than England, so I came here. Wonderful. And did your dreams come true? Did you end up marrying a white guy? I ended up marrying a white guy from Ohio. That's as white as you can get. No, I think, I didn't know, but Wisconsin is whiter white people. I didn't know. That is true. I grew up in Chicago, well, in the suburbs, in Illinois, which is right by, well, both Ohio and Wisconsin, and you're right. I think Wisconsin, you could have done a little bit better and found a white guy from Wisconsin. Yeah, oh, well, I didn't know. Next time. Next up, next, yeah. Wisconsin, 10 years younger, that's on my list. Yeah, go to a youth group and maybe you can find a future husband. What does your husband think about you doing standup? Were you doing standup when you guys met or how long have you been doing standup? I actually used to do TV production for Japanese TV and I've done like many different shows, like news about like surrogate mothers, like documentaries to sports news. But like, you know, when I tell people that I was on sports news, you know, you might think, oh my gosh, why are you famous? My hand, like holding a microphone like this was famous right here, just here, yeah, not me. Right, right, right, right. Now, is it true? I used to travel with the Yankees because they had a Japanese player and I get to go inside of the locker room after they take showers after the game. That was my job. What a job. I got paid. What a job. Do you miss it? I don't know, like it was fun. I mean, you go there, we used to rotate like two weeks at a time to follow and that was fun. And some baseball stadiums have better food than the others. Like Arizona Diamondbacks, they have good food, but like Dodgers, eh. Maybe that's a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We should do a show where we go to different parks and try their food. Yeah, the San Diego Patriots have good food at the concession stand. Yeah. Yeah, and also Boston Red Sox, they have good food. They got chowders. Of course, Boston. Yeah, but it's kind of like baseball season is kind of hot and then you eat chowders, but it's so good. Wonderful. Did you have to pay for your own food or was it a budget? Actually, at the press level, they have press food and you eat some of those and then you go downstairs and eat more food. I would love to do that job except for going into the men's showers, but you seem to enjoy that. Yeah, yeah, of course I do. They're like, you can leave now. You're like, I'm not done yet. I gotta interview more players. I'm not done yet. So how long have you been doing standup comedy? I've been doing it for like five years. Before that, I used to do improv. I had a midlife crisis and I took some improv classes at the Park and Rec. And then that led me to the Second City and I was just taking a class at a time and I ended up finishing the conservatory program. But improv you have, and I had so much fun, but you have to have team to perform. You know, it's easy to form a team, but it's hard to maintain a team. Oh, I know. I studied improv. After a while, people are not excited to practice anymore. I go, I have to pay 40 bucks for the session and I don't know. And so I started to perform by myself. I was singing and stuff and I had no idea about standup comedy. I didn't know at all. It's like, I live here forever in America, but I didn't know standup comedy existed till like five years ago. Wow, because it's not that big in Japan. Is that right? It's becoming like very recently, but it's in Japan comedy style is usually two people doing skits. So it's very different. And standup comedy, I don't know, I just love it. And you're very good at it. I've seen some of your sets there. Yeah, they're wonderful. And I'd love to talk to you about Second City. Was that in Los Angeles where you studied or were you in Chicago? Yes, that one in Hollywood. Hollywood, yeah, of course. Of course, did you ever do anything at Upright Citizens Brigade or improv? Yes, I also took classes at UCB and I did shows at iOS. Yeah. And I also took an improv class before, like way before when I was pregnant, like seven months pregnant. And I'm like at the, gosh, where are the groundings? Yeah, but I was too pregnant. So I'm like, oh, I can't do this. How long ago was this? How old are your kids? My kids are 16 and 12. Do you like improv better or stand -up better? I like improv. I love improv. I really love improvised music, like musicals. But that one is really hard to practice because you have to have somebody who could play piano or keyboard. And then you have to get a group of people who's willing to make fun of themselves. I like musical improv. The most. You had a song go viral, didn't you? Did you have a famous song about napping? Yeah, I had a nap time by Napster. It's a song for the, it's an official song for National Napping Day. When is National Napping Day? That's the day after the daylight saving time starts. You lose an hour the day before. So you get to take a nap the next day. I didn't know that, that's great. And your song is the official song for National Napping Day? Yes, actually, you know what happened? So I found out, I wrote a song called Nap Time by Napster. And then I found out there's a National Napping Day and I tracked down the guy who found it that day and I send him email. I'm like, I have a perfect song for National Napping Day. Can it be an official song? And he's like, sure.
Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Melania Luisa Marte Became a Word Weaver
"Milania Luisa Marte is a weaver of worlds and of words. In her new book of poetry, Plantains and Our Becoming, she tackles everything from self -love to colonialism. Milania and I talk about centering blackness in her identity and in her writing, and the very first poem she ever wrote that got her in a lot of trouble. Milania, congratulations on this book being out in the world. Thank you. Since so much of your work deals with diaspora and displacement, I want to begin with your parents' story. Tell me about how it is that your mom and dad met. My parents met through an aunt of mine, my tia Leslie. She lived in Santo Domingo in the Capitol, and my mom ended up moving to the Capitol when she was like 18 or 19, I believe. She was just helping my aunt out by cleaning the house and like running errands and things. And one day my father called his brother, my tio Ramon, who was married to my tia Leslie, and my mom ended up picking up the phone. And he kind of was like, oh, like kind of like falling in love with her boys and like her wit. So he ended up flying to Santo Domingo to meet her and they started dating. I believe six months later, they ended up getting married. My father was already living in the United States. He had an auto shop and he was a mechanic. He also was a teacher and he taught mechanic in English, French and Spanish. And so he kind of already had a career in New York. And so he wanted to bring my mother. This is how, you know, my immigration story comes about. Do you think your mom understood what she was giving up by moving to the United States? Oh, she completely did. I mean, she talks about it all the time. She tells me she's like, you know, because now I'm a mother and I chose to have my child in the Dominican Republic. But that's with the knowledge that he would gain dual citizenship and that he would be both a citizen of the Dominican Republic because by birth, but he would also by my access in my American passport, he would gain his own American birth certificate and passport. Now as a mother, I understand the importance of doing what's best for your children. And my mother definitely made it clear to us that although we love traveling, we would go to the Dominican Republic every summer. She would remind us that I know you love it here, but just remember that you have a better quality of life in the United States. millennia, you were seven years old the last time you saw your dad? Yeah. Did you have time to process that he was dying? Or did it come as a surprise? Yeah, so he passed away in a drunken accident. So we literally spoke to him the day before, I believe. And then my mom got a call. And then we had to go to the Dominican... At this point, he's living in the Dominican Republic and we had to just go to the Dominican Republic for the funeral. It was very like out of nowhere. And I literally, I have this vivid memory as a kid where we're on the plane on the way to the Dominican Republic. And I'm excited because I'm like, we're going to my grandma's house. We're spending the summer. And at one point where I'm like sitting on the plane, I have this vivid memory. My brother's like, what are you stupid? Bobby just died. And then the student hit me and I was just like, oh my God. And I had this moment where I'm like crying. And so for many years, I had a hard time kind of talking about it. And I've kind of gotten to a space where I think, especially through therapy, therapy helps guys go to therapy. I've gotten to a space where I've been able to use language and use poetry to kind of explore that and also heal that. I still feel his presence. I still feel parts of him in me. And so I try to honor that. I love that, especially as I think about you trying to piece together the sense of being and belonging. When did you start writing? So interestingly enough, my first poem, I plagiarized my first poem. My first poem was a copycat poem from my cousin, Maciel. My mom had sent me to the Dominican Republic when I was like five or six. And my cousin Maciel loved writing poetry and she used to write her little lover. She had a little boyfriend. She was like 12 or 13. She had like a little boyfriend and I wanted to be just like her. I was like obsessed with her. I thought she was so beautiful. She is still so beautiful. She has this long wavy hair and her skin just glistens and she always like wore like really clear lip gloss. And I was like, I want to be just like her. And she wrote a poem about wanting to kiss her boyfriend under the mango tree at my grandma's house. And I was like, oh, that's a really great poem. And I tried to like copy her poem. And then when I got back home to New York, my journal was full of like these poems about kissing boys under mango trees. And my mom was like shook. My mom was like, what were you doing all summer? And she was like, I'm calling your grandma. And she was just like, no, that's how I got my first start writing poetry. And then I just kept writing all of high school into college and I ended up dropping out of college to pursue poetry and to just pursue my writing. And now we're here. Wait, that is a big choice. Yeah. I just, well, when I was depressed, I didn't really know. I knew writing was my thing. I knew that's what I wanted to do, but I didn't really know how to navigate academia in a way that would benefit me in terms of poetry. And so I was just like, I'm going to take a break. So I ended up moving here to Dallas where my mom was living at the time and joining the Dallas Poetry Slam. And I didn't really understand slam poetry because it's like the performance side of poetry, but with their help and with the community's help, I was able to really become a contender in the slam poetry community and ended up competing at Women of the World. I also competed at the Individual World Poetry Slam and made final stage on all of them. And I also competed with the team and it really just put some fire under me to understand that this really can be a career. Like you can tour with your poetry, you can write books, you can do amazing things. And so I just kept really at it for like, I would say like five years, really five years of like hustle. Granted, I had been writing my whole life, so I already had kind of like this, this body of work. How are you sustaining yourself while you're on this poetry hustle? Oh, working gigs, I would do performances, I would teach, I was also a teaching artist at the time, maybe getting paid 50 bucks a poetry show, you know. And then when I stepped into kind of doing conferences and I got a booking agent for college shows, that changed the game because then it's like, okay, well, I can budget now because I'm getting maybe, you know, $3 ,000 here, $5 ,000 here. So it's like, okay, now this is more sustainable. And then really my big break came in 2020 when I did, I wrote a commercial for McDonald's and that, that gave me the financial aspect that I needed to really be able to sit down and just write. It gave me the freedom, the financial freedom to be like, you can take yourself seriously now because the money matches. What's up everybody. I'm Steve R. Lewis, a licensed psychotherapist and host of How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything. I'm excited to share big news. How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything is back. This time I'll be joined by a very special person, someone whose name you know very well. Hi everybody. I'm Julayka Lantigua, founder of LWC Studios. Welcome Julayka. I'm so excited. And by the way, I'll be taking notes, so many notes. As always on the show, we get to hear stories from black and brown folks who are out there doing great and amazing things. Then I do my thing of offering some feedback and strategies to help us navigate personal and professional challenges. Together, we'll figure out how to achieve on our own terms. Subscribe to or follow How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything everywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts. On Twitter and Instagram, you can follow the show at Talk to Achievers. I want to give our listeners a sense of your poetry. Would you read Immigrant Math Problem for me? Of course. Immigrant Math Problem. If I give mama 5 ,000 pesos and mama gives 3 ,000 pesos to Tío for groceries and gas and Tío gives 1 ,000 pesos to la comadera for food, 500 pesos to el pompeador for gas and 500 pesos to his son. El la comadera gives 200 pesos to her daughter for motoconcho fair to ride to school. And el pompeador gives 300 pesos to his wife for breakfast and dinner ingredients. And mama leaves 2 ,000 pesos for a small emergency and keeps X amount of pesos in some nook and cranny that she calls a bank. And the bank is her home because she says the real bank that's owned by the government is unsafe. And at least in her home, she keeps the money buried right next to her loaded gun. And how much more money do you think we will collectively need to erase the centuries of disenfranchisement that plagues us? Mommy and mama have always taught me money is like a waterfall for people like us. It must trickle down or else some of us will drown of thirst. I want a math problem that will teach me to make enough to save us all. I once heard it said that there's universality in specifics and that is such a specific poem. And yet it captures the sense of how many of our families came here because they wanted to be able to send something back and they wanted that abundance to be shared. I love that what you're landing on is this question of, does it have to be this way? Do we accept the math as we have been taught it or do we reimagine the calculus? Yeah, you know, that's something that's really beautiful, what you just said. And I'm actually thinking about I'm tearing up thinking about that because so my mother is moving. She she's on a flight right now as we speak. So I think it's just the beauty in timing. My mother is finally retiring from this country and she's moving back, but she's moving back to a whole new world because she came to this country. I mean, she was able to buy land. She was able to rebuild my grandmother's home from a wooden cabin into a really a grand home, you know, and she's so excited now after so many years, 40 plus years, 30 something plus years, she's able to do so much more, you know, and have so much more over there. And so I think when we talk about these things, we also like it's like we have to pat ourselves on the back. The immigrant experience is sometimes filled with so much turmoil and just exhaustion. And sometimes it does feel burdensome, you know, to have the weight of your family, especially if you're one of the only ones who was able to make it out of the country and into, you know, more prosperous country. But I also, what does that look like in 40 years? What does that look like in 50 years? What does that look like in 100 years? And so oftentimes I think about how, you know, as things become more expensive here, that means that folks are sending less money back home. And what does that do for the infrastructure of countries who depend on a dollar being sent over, you know, how that impacts them? And oftentimes it creates more crime. It creates more difficulties. And so it's just really important for us to reimagine, like you said, reimagine what that can be.
The Dan Bongino Show
Garland Appoints Hunter Biden Investigator David Weiss Special Counsel
"Story. I mean really tragically hilarious because the lefties will be like, oh, listen, this is a sign of Merrick Arlen's fierce independence from the White House. Dude, he just appointed the exact same guy accused of political patriotism for his kid to be the special counsel. I didn't tell you there's a studio audience here today. Tony, Bobby, thank you. You gotta keep it down during the show. Keep it down. You don't want anyone to interrupt the audience here. Fact checkers! Fact checkers, we're just kidding. Bill McCarthy. We're just kidding. There's not actually a studio audience here. I can see it already. Fact check. Four Pinocchios. In fact, I have a studio audience. He appointed the same guy. I was glad to I see was watching a little cable news during the break. Andy McCarthy and a couple of other people on Fox were commenting and agreed that this is a big scam. You don't appoint the same guy who just gave your son, Hunter Biden, a sweetheart deal to end all sweetheart deals. What kind of scam is that? What do you think, we're all stupid? think, What do you we're all John Kirby? You heard Ham Sarris before the break, otherwise known as Sam Harris. Dopey Lib. I'm not really sure. Every day, Hunter Biden laptop. You're not sure? There's not enough evidence for you? You mean the laptop being dropped off by Hunter, signed for by Hunter, with Hunter's address and Hunter's phone number, with pictures of Hunter, emails of Hunter, texts of Hunter, with a Biden family sticker, Hunter being ID'd as a guy who dropped off the laptop, with the bank records, the SARS, the FBI confidential human source, the pre -bought bank records, the photos of Biden, the meetings Biden, with the Bob Alinsky testimony and the Archer testimony. Other than that, there's no evidence. You're right,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from No Interruptions Podcast - Which Political Party Wins Over Young Voters?
"Welcome to this week's No Interruptions podcast where, again, the only rule is no interrupting allowed, unlike what we normally do, interrupting, cross -talking, shouting, screaming, pull out our hair, weeping and gnashing of teeth. Both of our guests get a chance to present their side, their perspective, their argument without any interrupting whatsoever. On one side of this conversation today about which political party is doing a better job connecting and wooing and winning over young voters, Terry Schilling is president of the American Principles Project. He's responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing their strategy, messaging and grassroots activity at the state level. He's worked in communications development grassroots for people like Representative Chris Smith from New Jersey, Senator Sam Brownback, and even managed his dad's race for Congress in Illinois. He led the Bobby Schilling for Congress campaign to a 10 -point victory. And Jake Poling is a field rep for Turning Point USA, one of our favorite organizations in America. Turning Point, of course, our friend and colleague, Charlie Kirk, founded. Jake attends all the Turning Point USA events all over America, is heavily involved in getting young voters engaged in politics, and even hosts his own podcast called The New Right Podcast. So gentlemen, let's get started. Terry, I want to start with you. Do you accept sort of the conventional wisdom that of the two political parties, it's the Democrats who do a better job of connecting with young voters? I think that there are, I think that's exactly right. I think that Democrats are doing, having the most success in attracting young voters. And it's because there are three primary factors that have a major impact on your political party preferences. And those three, three, three factors are church attendance. Do you go to church on a semi or somewhat regular basis? Second is marriage. Are you married? Do you plan to get married sooner or later? And then three is children. Do you have children? Do you want children? Do you have children at home right now? How many children? Those three things, if you're more likely to go to church on Sunday on a regular basis, you are going to be much more likely to be a Republican. If you're married, you're much more likely to be a Republican. If you have children, you're much more likely to be a Republican. If you want those three things, you're much more likely to be a Republican. But the trend lines with Gen Z and even millennials before them are not promising. Every in generation America is less religious than the one prior to it. These are what the trends are. Marriage rates have fallen through the floor. We don't have a divorce problem so much as people aren't getting married anymore problem. And then also on top of that, if that all wasn't enough for bad trend lines for the Republican Party, people aren't having children anymore. The birth rate is below replacement levels, which means that Americans aren't even having enough children to replace themselves after they go, which means that we're dying. So I think that how things stand right now, Democrats are the party of destruction. They are destroying things and they take advantage of all of these decaying institutions and things that we're suffering from. So I do think that Democrats are doing a much better job at bringing in Gen Z and younger generations. You know, Jake, I think it's fair to believe that all three of us sort of sing from the same playbook here, the same manual. We're Republicans. We lean right anyway. And clearly there's been deep concern on the part of longtime Republicans like me that we're not doing enough to win over young people. Then, of course, comes a long turning point, USA. I mean, I think the very existence of this organization that you're a part of gives a lot of us hope and inspiration. But react to Terry's very eloquent stating of three big factors which tend to favor Democrats connecting with young voters rather than Republicans. Yeah, no, I definitely do see where he's coming from with that and I'm not necessarily going to say I disagree with those specific points. One thing that I've noticed is that people in working with young people on a daily basis coming out of college and high school, I grew up actually a little more on the left than I came out of high school and college, which is crazy. Usually it's the other way around. I've been given so many great opportunities to to be on the front lines with young people every day, seeing what problems they actually are facing on school campuses and just in the everyday world right now. What he said is not wrong, but I do believe that Gen Z and millennials are trending, especially Gen Z, conservative. They're tired of the progressivism that is being pushed to them in their schools by adults that have no idea the way that they live their lives, what they believe. They're being told what to believe without having any moral, they have morals and they're hearing this from people who don't have a moral backbone. One thing that I do want to reiterate with that before I kind of go on too much of a tangent here, there is the, if you guys saw, I'm sure you did the University of Michigan study that came out, how boys in their junior, senior high school are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservatives compared to those who identify as liberal. That's huge and that comes from organizations like Turning Point that are, you know, on the front lines helping young people get involved in politics and giving them a voice. I feel like a lot of young people are afraid to speak out on their actual opinions due to fear of backlash. And we're finally at a point where the Republican Party is pushing and doing a good job, something they should have been doing a long time ago, pushing optimism and aspiration and the American dream and that's something that we haven't done a very good job of really for a long time, especially when I was in middle school and high school when I grew up under Barack Obama's administration, which was a complete disaster. And then one last thing I'd like to add, local GOP groups working at the city level or at the county level, they're doing a much better job than they used to and trying to bring in young people to the movement. We did not focus enough on young people back in the mid -2010s. Right now, we're a little late to the party, but we are really, really doing a nice job now at working together at Turning Point, local GOPs and other like -minded organizations to get young people excited about being an American citizen. It's okay to love America and I think young people are starting to believe that too. You know, I don't want to turn this whole conversation today on our No Interruptions podcast into a conversation about Turning Point USA, but I must say, Terry, that it's so impressive to see the work that they've done and the real, real powerful movement it has become. And I just wonder, do you know of anything on the left or do the Democrats have anything comparable to Turning Point USA? Certainly, they have college professors and wacky far -left activists and every kooky ideologue under the sun from Hollywood to academia and in between, but I don't know of any group on the left that's comparable to thousands and thousands of high school and college kids that are mobilized the way Turning Point is. Do you know of anybody, any such group? I don't know of any non -governmental organizations that are like that, but I think that if I were to compare what Turning Point has built and actually why Turning Point is so incredibly important is that what has happened in our country is that the progressives have taken over our K through 12 education system. So while Turning Point is doing phenomenal work, and I wish Turning Point was not just a billion -dollar -a -year organization, let's say we're a trillion -dollar -a -year organization so that they could compete with the public education system. It's quite unfair, but what we need to do really is, I'm not a fan of privatizing education as the only solution. I think we need to retake the education system. I think that Charlie Kirk, as head of the Department of Education, would be a phenomenal system and would actually allow us to start fixing the history curriculum, sort of fixing the lack of education, sort of fixing the lack of math and reading programs, but unfortunately, we are fighting from the outside while the progressives own the institutions that we are now trying to take over. To give the progressives credit, they fought this 100 -year, century -long march to take over all of our institutions, and they basically completed it all the way up until the Department of Defense, which we're seeing more and more about their woke programs that they have. That's Terry Shilling, who's the president of the American Principles Project. Jake Poling is a field representative for Turning Point USA. Jake, let's talk about going forward, and I want to be about answers here rather than complaining about the deficiency that Republicans are perceived to have with young people. How does it get better for the Republican Party? How do we win more young people over to our side? Absolutely. Well, for one, we just have to relate better. One thing that the Republican Party, and we all can admit, for a long time, we have not been able to relate to young people as well as the people on the top tab in a long time. One thing that I hate to give credit, but credit where it's due, in 2008, 2012, when Obama won both of those elections, he used grassroots. He used getting young people involved in politics to win his elections. He won his election based on the grassroots and young people. And then when it comes to the more recent elections that just happened with Trump and Biden, those elections, young people came out in numbers, apparently, for Joe Biden that we've never seen before. And we have to create this new wave now of the American youth to really hone in on our pro -American values, where we go from here. So it's really just engaging with these students and with these young people in high schools and in high school and in college, coaching them on speaking up for what they believe in, giving them the chance to, you know, if something goes on in their school or at their college, speak at their local school board meeting or Board of Education meetings, let them know what's going on in schools, give them that platform, you know, encourage them to vote when they can or register to vote when they can and speak about that to their to their peers. Hosting impactful events is another thing that students can do. It does not take money to do anything like that. I mean, it doesn't take much to go to your school and say, hey, what can we do? Maybe we can bring in the local police chief to come in and speak on the good work that they're doing, bring people that are like minded, that they can come in and get people excited to to push the agenda that we want, the the the nuclear family, the pro -American values, the pro -constitution values, capitalist values to more young people. And I think more young people will will fall in line with that when they realize that. I think at the end of the day, one thing that I've heard growing up and I didn't really understand it until now, when you grow up, it's a quote that I love, when you go up, you want to be a Republican. And that has a whole lot of meaning behind such a small statement that I really live by that. And I firmly believe it. It's MyPillow's 20 year anniversary with over 80 million MyPillow's sold, Mike Lindell at MyPillow wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history on their MyPillow's. Check this price out. You'll get a queen size MyPillow for $19 .98. 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The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Grassley Releases FBI Document About Biden Bribery Allegations
"Gosh, can this case get any worse? So just breaking while we're on the air. Chuck Grassley just released the FBI 10 23 where they interviewed this human source who says Biden was bribed with $5 million. I just read it. Have you seen it yet, Jim? It's devastating. Apparently there's 17 recordings of Hunter and Joe Biden. Two of them have Joe on them. The rest are with Hunter. 17 recordings of Biden agreeing to take a multimillion dollar bribe to fire the prosecutor in Ukraine from looking into his son's company. And the details are disturbing. So now we've got bribes. We got sex clubs. We got hookers. We got crack. We got shady business partners. We got communists. We got Chinese intelligence officials. We got assistants, if you know what I mean. We've got the tating of dicks. This is a lot of dictation. Folks, this, what's that? Oh, guns. I totally forgot I'm losing. We got we got guns and a gun felony lying on gun forms. We have marrying your dead brother's wife. I mean, can this case, remember that show Dallas and like Dynasty and sub listen, you maybe they turn in your card. man I didn't watch it. My mom was a kid and my mom would be like, God, I need to remember Dallas, who shot J .R. I was here. This is like something out of a bad Dallas Dynasty episode. Who is the other guy? Who is Bobby? Was it like Bobby and J .R. or something like that, right? Were they brothers or something
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Jack Smith Goes For the Jugular
"Hey, everybody, today's Charlie Kirk show how third party candidates could disrupt 2024. It's the shadow government versus the people. Really important episode here, so email us freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com and subscribe to our podcast, open up your podcast application and type in Charlie Kirk show. Get involved with Turning Point USA at TP USA dot com. That is TP USA dot com. Start a chapter today at TP USA. Dot com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created. Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at Andrew and Todd Dotcom. We have a really important show in store with you today, we're going to go to the breaking news that Donald Trump has announced he's likely going to face more federal charges brought to you by Jack Smith. This is not a surprise. We have been predicting it. This is a 14th Amendment play. But I want to put this in context. We're going to go through the details of it. So it's very important in context. There are several efforts underway, some of which that are obvious. And we talk about some of which that are not so obvious to prevent a populist nationalist conservative from becoming president in 2024. This is a no joke election. You know, they like to lecture us about democracy. We are not a democracy. We are a republic. But let's pretend what they mean is representative government, which we do have representative government, and we should applaud representative government. We're not just plotted, we should support it. None of this is in the tradition of the founding father's vision of representative government. These are extra constitutional. Organizations efforts underway to stop you from having a voice, they detest you, they hate you. If you're a Christian, if you're a plumber, if you work with your hands, if you're an ordinary American, they hate your values. They hate everything you stand for, and they are playing for keeps. The 2024 election, they are playing for keeps. There's a lot of troubling news, and there are some other developments that might really be difficult for Joe Biden and the Democrats. So it's not all bad news. Let's start with the news today. I'm going to allow Joe Scarborough, because I know you guys love Joe Scarborough. I get such a kick out of the audience. Any time I play a Joe Scarborough clip, I get all caps emails. And so I just want to say in advance, please send me those emails. I love receiving them. Stop playing MSNBC. I know I'm not doing it for your reaction. I'm just doing it to make sure this is your shot of expresso. I think it gets the audience on the edge of their seat. Which is MSNBC saying that Donald Trump is going to be indicted. OK, play cut 34. We have some significant breaking news. Jonathan Lemire, it looks like looks like another indictment, perhaps the most significant indictment may be coming. Donald Trump's way. Yeah, we may be on the verge of that in just a couple of days. Just in the last few minutes, Joe, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, his fledgling social media site, to reveal this. I'm paraphrasing. He says he received a target letter from the Department of Justice from Jack Smith's office Sunday night, saying that he is indeed a target. Of the January 6th grand jury investigation, target of the grand jury January 6 investigation. OK, so we've been waiting for months about this. This is the serious one. This is the big one. This is the ballgame. This is the potential disqualifier. I have here a very handy turning point, USA, United States Constitution, which we will reference in just a second, because it all ties together. This is direct election interference. All that should be illegal. It's not. It's the federal government saying to you, the American people, we don't trust you. We cannot allow a mandate from the American people to go after the administrative state, which Donald Trump is pledging. And I think that's a really important connection before we go any further. Donald Trump is pledging to purge the deep state, to purge Leviathan using schedule F. This is one of several reasons why they are not playing around. There's other reasons. There's personal revenge, pent up resentment. I don't like him. He's a threat. He's annoying. We got to get rid of him. Uniparty hates him. The Ukraine thing is part of the southern border is part of it. But make no mistake. The if you want to get Washington, D .C. into an active posture. Say that I am your retribution, I'm going to fire people from the administrative state. The administrative state is now fighting for its life. This has been bubbling up and will result in a volcanic eruption ever since Woodrow Wilson decided to defecate on the United States Constitution. This is 100 years in the making. Woodrow Wilson versus the American people. It comes to fruition in 2024. For decades, Republicans have turned our back on the administrative state. Oh, it's fine. We can make them work for us. Not a big deal. They're like postal workers. And, you know, we don't want to declare war on it. George W. Bush was a fan of the administrative state. Even Ronald Reagan was underwhelming in disassembling it. George H .W. Bush was a creature of the administrative state, former CIA director. They got rid of Richard Nixon, the administrative state took out Richard Nixon, according to Bobby Kennedy Jr., the administrative state murdered his uncle. So this fourth branch of government, J. Edgar Hoover, Department of Homeland Security, brought to you by your Republican president, George W. Bush. All of this was a constant theme of a fourth branch of government, of an unelected bureaucracy that really runs the country. The people are no longer sovereign and it's bubbling up to this massive prize fight.
The Dan Bongino Show
RFK Jr to Doctor: Vaccines Should Be Subject to Placebo Safety Study
"Basically misinformation you're promoting on vaccines ladies and gentlemen I want you to listen to his answer because it's kind of strange that the doctor didn't really have an answer for RFK's answer and the weird thing is I walked away from this more convinced by RFK's position than the doctor listen to this of the 72 vaccine doses now mandated essentially mandated they were recommended but they're really mandated are American children none of them not one has ever been subject to a pre -licensing placebo controlled trial yes they have no yeah they have okay let me just say something dr. Fauci and many other people for many years said this Bobby Kennedy when he says that is wrong so I met with dr. Fauci in 2016 you know and I agreed to go on Trump's vaccine safety Commission and I was with Aaron Siri then and Redwood and a number of other people and we said to him can you show us one test from any vaccine pre -licensing safety tests and he said I'll send it to you I can't find one now he never did so we sued him we sued Aaron's here and I sued HHS and after a year of litigation stonewalling they said that they could not provide a single safety study for any vaccine that is the on childhood schedule pre -licensing safety study oh anybody who wants to read that can go to the Children's Health Defense website and you can read HHS's admission that not a single one has ever been safety tested pre -licensing now what I've said is other medicines are required to do that and we should have to do that for vaccines if I'm wrong
The Dan Bongino Show
RFK Jr. Objects to Vaccines Without Placebo Studies
"Pushing to censor this immediately because communist they're a -holes. And Bill Maher's asking him, hey, you know, Bobby, he calls him Bob. He says, Bob, you know, you've been talking about vaccines for a long time. Maher apparently thinks some of said they're scientifically dubious. But RFK gives a pretty good answer in return. And I want you to listen to this and ask yourself, does this guy sound crazy? He can't sound any crazier than Joe Biden, who told you he beat up Corn Pop with a chain or something like that. Listen this. to Do you believe I don't believe in vaccines? I believe you are more. I just believe in science. I understand. But, you know, any. Show me the science. But let's not talk about, again, the science. That's the thing. That's the mistake they made. I believe in science. Let me just say this. We have different every medicine is required to do placebo controlled trials. That's what science is. You give you give a group of people, a cohort of people the medicine, and then you give a similarly situated cohort of people the placebo. And then you look at health outcomes over a four or five year rises along intubation period so you won't see them immediately you need to do it uh... anti fauci has had eight years for a vaccine you need to watch them for a while those studies have met the only medicine that never gets tested are vaccines and that is what i object to it's not i'm not saying i think you know that not only the only one effective all i'm saying is let's test them the way that we test other
AP News Radio
Hard-throwing Bobby Miller solid in MLB debut, leads Dodgers past Strider, Braves 8-1
"Griffin canning through 7 scoreless innings as the angels blank the Red Sox Ford and nothing center Fielder Mike Trout had the perfect view. Pretty dominant tonight. It was fun to play behind them. Quick, quick and easy and through strikes. Having allowed two hits with 5 strikeouts for his third win this season, Mickey moniak and Matt thiess each smack solo homers and trout hit a two run shot Boston's Brian baio when 7 innings two runs allowed drops to three and two. The angels have now won three straight, the socks have lost three in a row, Mark Myers Anaheim
AP News Radio
Calhoun, Volpe help Yanks rally past Guardians to halt skid
"Last night the New York Yankees blew a two zero lead late to the Cleveland guardians at Yankee Stadium. Tuesday night turnabout was fair play as it was the guardians who scored too early and gave Tanner babies something to work with in his second major league start. He carried the lead into the 6th, but gave up a home run to Anthony volpe, a double glaber Torres, who was then knocked in with an Anthony Rizzo single. For Bobby, another lesson learned. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, having a bunch of firsts, I mean, first road trip first, first weekend, the first game of Yankee Stadium. So, I mean, I think it can be a lot of learning experiences, no matter what happens. Will E Calhoun Homer in the 7th give the Yankees a lead and DJ le mayhew edit insurance in the 8th with an RBI single, which seal the Yankees four to two win. Matt Mike, which New York
The Charlie Kirk Show
We're Living Through Something Significant: The Great Realignment
"A very exciting event and successful event in Idaho Falls. This last weekend, and we had a kind of private meet and greet. And it moved me greatly, and I came to a realization that we're living through something significant. Historic realignment. Started to take questions from the audience and the audience was very upset with the two Republican senators from Idaho. Senator crapo and senator rish, they feel as if they're not fighting hard enough that one of them is one of the big cheerleaders of the Ukrainian conflict. The United States funding of the Ukrainian conflict, hard to disagree with that. And so then I asked a question, I said, who here in this room? Not mind, these are 200. Christian, conservative, maga, voters, very conservative. I said, who here has favorable opinions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? And almost every hand goes up, enthusiasm. They're clapping. Over the top, I said, who here has favorable opinions about Joe Rogan about half the room is excited? And I said, wait a second. So you in this room here today with Christian Christian conservative, you could call them hard right maga types. You're more excited about a Democrat running for the presidency than two Republican senators. I said, this is interesting. Why is this? And I said, what about Elon Musk? And some of them were a little bit mixed on Elon, but they said generally fine. And he said, how about Russell brand or Glenn greenwald, but I was getting at is I saw in real time and I see this in every pocket of the country I traveled to. Saw this, by the way, in Naples, Florida, where I say Bobby Kennedy junior's name and people get excited. Is I believe we're about to see a true and legitimate realignment. Now, look, you guys know we have a two system, two party system of government. And that's not the norm everywhere in Britain. There are three national parties. In Israel, they have coalition government. When a realignment happens in America, it's historically very significant, usually happens for a reason. The last major realignment. That we saw was 1976, 19 80 election with Jimmy Carter.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Dick Morris Comments on RFK Jr.'s Longshot Presidential Bid
"You just mentioned that because we've moved on. I want to get back to Tucker Carlson and Fox. But you just mentioned that The Washington Post reported that tomorrow Tuesday, Biden would make his announcement that he's running for president in 2024. You said today for some reason it looks like, in fact, that is not happening and then you said it may have something to do with the entrance into the race on the democratic side of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. That's something the media has been not covering. And it's very significant. Let's go back to the history of Robert F. Kennedy's senior in 1967 and 68. Johnson was president and his ratings were crashing just like Biden's because of the Vietnam War. And there was tremendous dissent in the Democratic Party against Johnson, led by Robert F. Kennedy senior, the U.S. senator. And everybody pressured Bobby Kennedy to run, run against Johnson and the primaries. And he said, I won't do it. It would split the party and could elect Richard Nixon, the beta of the Democratic Party. So I'm not going to split the party. I'm not going to do that. Now, there's tremendous pressure inside the party on Biden to step aside. And maybe let Michelle Obama run maybe let Hillary run maybe let AOC run you're kidding. But she's literally not old enough to run. No, she is by three months. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren. And just like there was before, for Bobby Kennedy to run. And justice Bobby Kennedy wouldn't do it because he was going to split the party in the face of Nixon. These guys are not doing it because they don't want to split the party in the face of Trump.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Tucker Carlson's Analysis of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"But he had quite the positive and almost fawning lead in to his interview with RFK junior. Robert F. Kennedy junior announced today that he's running for president in the primary against Joe Biden. Here's part of what he said. We were told initially that the objective was humanitarian. Many of the steps that we've taken on the Ukraine have seemed to indicate that our interest is in prolonging the war. Rather than shortening it. So if those are objectives to have regime change and exhaust the Russians, that is completely antithetical to a humanitarian mission. That's supposed to be the face of extremism, but that's not extreme. It's rational and calm and well deliberated. Bobby Kennedy himself is not extreme. He is deeply insightful. And above all, he is honest, no matter what you think of the substance of what he says. Here, for example, is his recent analysis of the Biden administration's foreign policy. Big picture. Quote, the collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the kingdoms do alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the American empire by deftly projecting instead economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China has spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the neocon short lived American century. Now you may agree with that analysis, maybe you don't. Either way, if you're an honest person, you understand this is exactly the moment in our history when we need serious adult conversations about the world around us, a world that is changing to our detriment and how we ought to respond to those changes. And off right off the bat, Kennedy already has a 14% level of support among Biden voters. 14 percent.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"bobby being" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Microsoft's head of gaming Phil Spencer says he is optimistic The company's $70 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard will be approved. If that happens, Spencer will inherit a video game hit maker with a controversial leader. I spoke with Spencer for a wide ranging interview in the latest edition of Bloomberg studio one. Here's some of our conversation. You know, I kind of come at this that big deals should be scrutinized, right? I think that's the role of regulators why they're in place. I feel good about the progress that we've been making asking good, hard questions about, okay, what is our intent? What does this mean? If you play it out over 5 years, is this constricting a market? I feel good about it. So you're confident the deal is going to happen? I've never done a $70 billion deal. So I don't know what my confidence means. I will say the discussions that we've been had with that we've been having seem positive. And we're actively engaged in the conversations, trying to be transparent about what our motivations are. Well, Activision specifically is facing a lot of challenges here. There have been lawsuits. There have been employee walkouts. There have been accusations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, how much did that concern you when you were thinking about this deal? We had access to data from the company before we announced the acquisition to see what the actual numbers were in terms of reports. We definitely as a team signed up to say, just like we're on our own journey with Xbox that we're going to expand that journey if this deal closes. A lot of people and a lot of people that will feel very dedicated to and committed to to building a great workplace environment for them. That's true of any of our studios. But it's obviously a conversation that you're going to have. You think about the board of Microsoft. And when they're thinking about the deal and they're typing into their search engine, Activision, what are the headlines that they're coming back? And there were questions that we had. We've learned from this. We will continue to learn, and we're committed to that journey. Not only for the betterment of our teams, but our customers, the creators on our platform. We think it's critical to our business success that we make progress here. Is Bobby kotick going to stay on? Yeah, I'm not in a position to make comments about their leadership team. We're in the regulatory phase and how that will close. When the deal closes, then we have say and how they're managed and how it goes. But until that point, then I'm not really in a position to say. There have been very specific allegations of Bobby being aware of things. That happened and not reporting it to the board. What has he communicated to you about what he knew what he didn't know? The discussions we've had were about the teams where they're at, can they make the progress they need to make because the closing is a long process. Are they putting in the work that they need to put in to move along their journey? And I believe they're committed to that. When I look at the work that they're doing now, there's always more that can be done. Activision has divisions that are unionizing. I don't know, Microsoft has said they'll recognize those unions. What does that look like? I've never run an organization that has unions in it. So but what I can say in working through this is we recognize workers needs to feel safe and heard and compensated fairly in order to do great work. So we thought it was important to make a public statement on that front for workers that are there that are making decisions about their employment and how they want to what that relationship looks like to understand what it would mean if Microsoft was able to close the deal. You can watch my full interview with the Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer coming up 9 30
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"bobby being" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"All right, what's up guys? Yeah. What the F. KG days ruined. Every time they retire a number, they lose. We can't stop. No more retiring numbers. No, no worries. We could probably get dressed up for this. Yeah. Good game. Good game. Brilliant. We don't have a ton of time. I want to let everybody at home know what's going on. The KG ceremony is going to happen is taking a little time to set up, so we got this little postgame window where we're going to wrap with you guys about the game. It might bleed over. The guys at the garden are going to go take in the ceremony and see what's happening here. Jimmy and I could linger a little bit longer. Bobby's being swarmed by fans and interlopers. Bottle service. Classy. They're going to have the music last thing. I'll do the best I can. The whole thing's going to be rough and we recognize with everybody here. You know, it's going to kind of be a weird show because as we said, we have this small little window here and that's going to happen. So let's get through the game and talk a little about KG and stuff. Just guys, walk through here at the ending just how that all went down and just, you know, your reaction to it. So it's all about hate throws, right? I mean, how did they overturn that call? I have no idea. I thought it would just be kind of, you know, routine, you have the challenge, just throw it out there and pray for the best. And they overturned it. I didn't see anything there that made me think he didn't follow smart, but I don't know, John, Jimmy, you might have had a better view back home. Well, I got a feeling. Yeah, I was just going to say, I have this funny feeling that when they do the two minute report, they're going to call that a file..
Fusion Patrol
"bobby being" Discussed on Fusion Patrol
"To shut up shut up chain got it. I know we're looking for the hardest. I can talk to this person for thirty seconds about other things. You don't need to shout. what about a tartus any more times and the sequence where at the midpoint somewhere like when we're when we're out of this. I'm done doctor your to callous really that. Just i don't know just feel right on his care it doesn't feel it doesn't feel very jamie but again i'm going to pick up on something where i feel like there is quite an influence in evil. I mean it's it's it's the earliest example of this that i can think cough and it becomes a kind of touchstone of the of the the say. The seventh doctor is really opposite. Is kind of going into the the the virgin new adventures. Kind of seven stock. To era of the idea of the doctor being the arch manipulator and in particular manipulating hid his companions in a borderline abusive way. And you see that in the way that he is not honest with jamie. I mean at first he says no. I'm going to be absolutely honest with jamie. But then he isn't and he starts using reverse psychology on him and it does make you think of the doctor being that that kind of moth two planner and the friction that that then creates between jamie and the doctor of duffield to me very kind of doctrine ace because they're innumerable times an ace sort of says you know how could he do they. Send them not traveling with you anymore. And that stat feels much more like they earned because they build up to that kind of showdown that that is that within their relationship whereas there's nothing about the doctor and jamie's relationship that makes you think jamie with do that. Also james never seen before so the first time the doctor mentioned jamie is talking about you always about a dollar something really you think he is really good. Point is also another one. Not not jamie's fall. Victoria's fault at some point before she's ever met the doctor she says something like and that's when jamie and the doctor came to rescue me and and it wasn't or she she mentions jamie and the doctor in the act of rescuing her whether it's they did or they're they tried or i don't remember what it was but she clearly said in the doctrines like you haven't actually met him yet so why i think she meant kimmel and they just flubbed along and it went through because it sounds natural jimmy and the doctor. Yeah but yeah yeah. Yeah yeah jamie bobby being this episode at several times so what while we well wait kind of picking on things. They're not plot holes. I mean it's not just that the whole thing is poppycock. It's the when you get down to the nitty gritty details. There are things that just don't make sense like the. The victorian shop is in london right there fairly explicit about that. Yup howdy jamie and the doctor. Get to london gatwick. Just right there. John wick is like a good thirty miles away. Did they walk in taxi..
Discover Music Channel (Discover Music Channel)
"bobby being" Discussed on Discover Music Channel (Discover Music Channel)
"Never coastal route nine. So jackets so out. Vida immobile okay. That's that's when does is got in the air. Yes that's when it came out too much not notebook so we heard like i didn't hear that i caught. I caught does this. Are you ready to sit at home. You said that was right there. Trying to clean up the lead on. It was a little legend in the game is like leaving my boy that he tried to clean up clean up outside and he should've want them in batch get black of on line behind. They'll listen anyway. I that dish goes. You know what i came to say. That kosovan companies a job. He was dead wrong. Like honestly i got like this okay. Perfect example is so when dips it in. The lock was doing battle right. It was going back and forth trying input upright drills here. Jolt took here is the and dwells radio. I told you. I was like you drowsy to come down and just lattes but fat joe saying he got sue incited. He was on a block. Like was no big deal. And i was like oh no no no way back once again this first half a first round joints is not the same f. b. The next one he played don gene versus digest abroad on january was the next down versus. Doug love love. Bobby brown speaking on question as he should have worn. Bobby bobby by bobby's being by play. Then he played Those wins. I'm sorry rick like he had a nice verse on versus a so. Joe i don't think i don't think. La wait is a lot of wrexham table on here for out if he can went dead. And really if let's go. Let's go play against a sunshine calibrated until eight up on so okay so this is when i saw. This is sort of an okay. So i remember that eight that money smith and joel salkin bhavesh talk about little bitty. Joe's organi joe all his mad old. I got no hits and he was so my sunshine. Sunshine is a hit in the tri area. I've tried that record several times atlanta and it's like it's cold and just is not that but it's not in that on your words but it doesn't. It'll work like you know what i'm saying. Know what. I see what you're trying to do once again. I i do i do. I get that. But whatever it wasn't as he has was played outside. I germ destiny only last endanger novel and we I guess car killed that. He played rainy days. Vegetative another round where he was a nice indies over. Another kind of mood. You come over this talk about what kind of mood you're in why at that was like i didn't even radnor with bill. Having like it was as fun it was marriage record an. You're not giving it the chance now. Like another brown. But i just like. Chris is by cook issues now. Joe swag that out on right you still keep school. No hear a g holiday The way job. I was waiting for platt back okay. Wave waving talk some more shit but he didn't do it. So you're glad that bob on my dresser play on sell them. Furthermore know what i'm saying. Thank thank. I grew like because at this point. I remember this. They all in each other spaces. They ever mike level nine and a half so at this point. How much is their audits. Insects factor in. What you're choosing not. i'm. I'm not evening monday about this. Like madame that wasn't actually didn't affect out about record all right so i'll be the okay. So cropper's gated up. You know what. Why 'cause i cry. Nonsense the job. will you say. I cry this south west. Who said we cry into middle. And you're under twenty five. I was like yo. And then i'm listening gonna the because you know i'm wondering about you know like at work and i was like five people but i think that's a better than about be. I don't discriminate. Do you think i cry is on a and we say right. Only versus level was fucking not jack versus level versus. Is that what we do. We up exactly so judge on sunday.
The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"bobby being" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"From. What the what through what. Hey we here are very. Oh cindy j. And bell dan hager. Hey what's going on. Sue the demo. And you can't deny the show in hanes. Jones is here halo showing them on the shore needs to get angry and they need to have a conversation about getting cursed out every day. That will be very nice. Should be a forum. Yoga is in the building. What's left young. Thanks for your music every day. My friend yeah yes. We have a randy montgomery here. Hey randy good morning to you. Bless shout out to lynette net. Nessa rhino hanger your urity. thank you know in nicole. Harris is here. Hey girl was that. The terrible lease guy is in the building. What's up a lee few Alfonzo tired of the third is here. Thanks for listening. Brother asked the guy. Glad you chat georgia's here was seven net. Uh saving cenis life city. I've got a little taste. Cine on a as pie told you. Oh we didn't even get a chance to talk about that party worse right and for the record and then bobby was in was in near the cine abyss She was fright. They're right there. She had a front row seat to the madness and I walk out of the building. And i sees cine probing and yelling and slogging bobby with a truck in love i be drinking and damaging almost had barbie and ahead ally is trying to get her car and bobby being that's barbie had a fake friend moment. I'm never looked at me in desperation. And you say oh. Shaw got sex city. Knowing take damn well barbie. Cologne never job city. J. anyway i have. I would have in. Hell no saying how because she said you're gonna sit you waiting that you gonna take confinement has story. That was never going to happen. Cine i would say one thing. Bobby would never have you in that car. She's not dropping you off anywhere and that's only the facts so now you know you lie. Then i said to barbie barbie. Don't worry about it. I'm in this abusive relationship with any out. Drop her off. And then bobby chata step out of that. Parking lot and cindy hill. That door would've slobbering face. He he chat chatting with bobby not disregarding all the seventeen cars that was behind. Let me watch the way nick. Wait bobby's by like if you don't get away from our caused argue the hell outta here. He's extra so no for the record and no this listening not brunch sickly. Not one time we'll barbecue ever droplets. She has when i was in the car. There'd be no hayes any i'll drop you off. That ain't happening. Say sean i mean he ever say she's gonna have to look at me. You drop city up. She said no. You ahead and that was not drunk acid bobby line. It's okay so you got a front row seat of sending it all her splendor drinking drink. You re. you wouldn't do that and others in a chat room. We'd be responsible. I know you look up how you get home. Because i wasn't gonna let her get an uber. It like that you dropped. No and she says. Sean you take us in your home hughes there yeah tummies. Cj link nuts about three years and then poconos when she was the only one time. And you you're never as part of your pardon. Play with me showing. How many times have you go biking. How many stormed out of this door after the show had gone to work and not one time Said hey cindy job. I do know that. But i'm just saying that this is not one time before president. There's not one time. I've ever heard you say hey cine you need me to drop you off somewhere. I've never heard that phrase when you put donald thank. You said it twice. I have twice in a thousand days. I have a job when i leave here. I go understand that we all run out of here by keeping discussion question is i'd like you don't want outta off. I think you don't want to sit in your car. You reaching joe mcconnell bobby. It's okay reaching bobby. Has and your lifetime job. You've owned automobile most of your life. You don't want people certain people in your car. Yes i think of a specific. Yeah and so maybe sending might be one of those. You don't want you caught and it's fine. If i was any my trust me. He wouldn't have been mcgarth. Isis your car. When i had my outta yes she has. That was not show facebook more times than you have seen it in your call. Don't even know why i'm entertaining. You're on just bringing it up this. Hey man even trying to keep the team together the way to do that is transparency. I don't even know why. Entertainment your foolishness. right now. A bachelor sean sean. Around all of his not even here. She's not even god right. Manley right next. Eighty who sonia mary. Kay sonya good morning to you Jimmy kid or do to build in jamaica i. I'm sorry for your story really sad when we were talking about the child abuse saying that his aunt raised him and his mom tried to kill him or something right. So yeah we do. Yeah stay with. Thanks for sharing that though anyway. Let me just brings a real real time in real life perspective. Thank you so much for your transparency and being honest with us in the group in it will help you and help others. Thanks for sharing their brother. We here for you to you know we all family this morning. You know what it is absolutely we have Who else we have in about an hour ray here. Hey will you be mine. Dash ow show..
Sitting Ringside
"bobby being" Discussed on Sitting Ringside
"Walk up guy fun for bog. Does she look like black. Michael jackson look at her michael jackson's black. So why are you saying black. The black version of michael jackson the bleach and before he turned white he did the opposite of cooking. He took her mc cola training. Isn't that ironic that he got burned during a pepsi cola commercial. That's reverse racism bulbs. Yeah that's what you're good at moody aga all right next up. Alexander is mondays versus diablo. Moist sess favorite fighter. Alex fernandez fighter. I like him and I did like against the cowboys are only. I think it was a cocky little son of a bitch and he got what he deserved. But doesn't mean he can't redeem himself He's a banger a like a man i really do. I just didn't like them that bro. He bit off more than he could chew on that cerrone fight and then he talked shit on some of it and then he got humbled so i appreciate that He's earned my respect The i think he's gonna win this fight. And plus unlike the last-named It's just too close to moist a hated that ship from the club's remember making me moist hopkins rose he Got by cowboy. That knocked up judo. Ver- who's dude oberstar a top contender by way steadily climbed the rankings man. He's what on the outskirts of the top ten but it is a tough fight against the cowboys is i think if it goes to the ground. Interest baffling exchanges. And it'll be one hell of a fight. But i could see some either fighter getting finisher I do like And i i don't know noises his fights he just finished the or got a bobby being decision whereas hard hard-fought battle stood up with body. Greens i think he could definitely make us a standup fight view. And i don't is really close mad. I if i'm gonna go forty nine fifty one. I'm gonna probably go out tornadoes in a decision. But i totally agree with you dislike with onto the ground. Enough fucking merck alexander just. He's a bad brazilian jujitsu practitioner. So you know. Alexander does like stand bang. So we'll see man. I'm going to pick the. I go along with alexandra on this visit. Got awesome for me too but Way bigger nips bre. Let's be real here. That's the cape. that's what pushed it over for me was one and For me again it was just the the name mois. It's just too close to moist and like that girl. I'll always kinda think. The noise is discussing Took how many shots. Michael johnson nearly got knocked out. Ernie knee mardom. Kurt him bad. Your favorite fighter. Michael johnson guys. That beat up michael johnston. I'll always watching them tune in. It'd be making a sandwich. How moist his crotch gets. David has this is not a sandwich making get him one corner which folks definitely if a good fight man. It's gonna be a definitely good fight. Its main eventing prelims car though. It sits where where it should be just like you'll be saved even at the next ninety by for sure Could produce the fight of the night too. But i'm gonna go with the cowboy and undefeated russian low by your low low key tonight. The right one or the cowboy fight for sure now. All right main card to kick it off rudy's favorite later alex bruce lee favorite. I like them though. Because i'm not released. Bruce leroy rec- right alex bruce st week sites versus cabin crew. All right we were talking about this by before we started a livestream in we had a good conversation on this site so when i want to watch it liberty. This is the fight that i'm looking forward to grow your shirt disappeared. I brought up to you guys at. I'm looking forward to watch kevin croom. Alex cassidy's has been on a tear lately. His end up is really improved. Men needs just overall the fighter. Really tell if you watch last couple of weeks any cut his hair. He did alarm another kid play short but kevin crow that dude. He's been fighting for a while and you made a statement in his last fight. And i don't know many he's taken he's taken on that persona man that he's a bad ass. I like them bro. That dude izzo if he wins this next fight. He's he's going to be interesting to watch be really interesting to watch. Alex is no slouch man. We're on the. We've we've seen him insist. The by put johnny see for twenty five years. Two billion young too. I think he's a victim of he's he's developing in the ufc which is crazy like rudy. Said like you know to to have that kind of skill set where you're young age and is developed winner in europe season saying yeah man. He pulled off a submission win against roberts in his first fight in the ufc I didn't expect them to win. That fight thought he was going to get demolished. And rohe's a that got me to go and look at his other fights and i saw his other fight. Sounds like wow dude. This guy's pretty bad in this crazy broke as he's got like twenty something fights and he's only had one of c- he said no he's had more than twenty something. He's at thirty three fights. That's crazy thirty two years. Little got gotta shot. He's not gonna he's not gonna fuck fucking. He's not gonna squander folks following on instagram preaches. Stop through goals. You know what. I owe cassidy's pizzas walking heading. I'm just kidding richly lee. Roy said he's probably gonna llamas changes galloping. He's five bucket damasio page in the afc. That's how long you've been in the afc right..
Pantheon
"bobby being" Discussed on Pantheon
"Interested in hip hop like we all did starts break. Dancing teaches himself. How to rap and a dj performing in talent shows around detroit. So he's he's dabbling now. Ladies young kid he sees it. He's like ooh. I'm intrigued and start. Dabbling goes around detroit which is a good music city. It's going to be hard for me not to interject on little tidbits here before you sam. I know you got the stuff on the cards. I might as well just have jason here. No no no no no no. But we've he's a local guy. So i heard a lot of this stuff this. I'm gonna sit back and listen. This is great. No you should tell me what you know. Because again i had heard that he tried to get into the biz and he went that route. Yes and he got shot down. So it's about to happen. And then he came back. He's like fuck. I'm doing i won't and that's when he blew up. That's the second time we've talked about this. Maybe it's not just americans. Maybe it is michigan metro area. We're just like you know what. I'm gonna do what i want. You can't tell me what to do. Leave jiancai as we just watched that video before we turn the mike on. Don't tell them funny did late. Nineteen eighty s. He begins his professional music career. As a member of the hip hop group beast crew a beast girl. Did you ever hear the beast crew. Meaning that i've heard of being screwed but not the beast screwed beast crew. Okay some sub-conscious stuff going on bee's crew okay. During this time. He meets rapper. D you ever hear d- nice round close. Denies is an american disc jockey boxer. Rapper producer does little photography on the side. He began his career in the mid eighties with a hip hop group. Boogie down productions. Yeah he basically. He's famous for discovering kid rock. It sounds like that might be as well. He's still might be something big he and he's one of those behind the scene guys. We'll we'll get back to him. Don't worry about it but Anyway he discovers Bob bobby we're going body body. He discovers bobby one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and he gets me deal with jive records. Now see eventually these to sort of collaborate and do some things and now you got bobby being the opening act shows for boogie down productions. Okay and boogie down. Productions probably had other groups bands people things. I think that's actually the name of the group. Oh okay it wasn't like they weren't a manager. They weren't the right. It's like cnc. Music factories not like factory group early really young and yanking on my childhood one hundred year right. Here tell me the burlington coat. Factory doesn't have a bunch of people in the back sewin- coats together. I worked there. I can guarantee you. They don't think we've talked about. I was playing security to watch leather coat department. Cisterna people looks like shit on you. Well they had some of them had like wires all run through them so you could kind of put it on what you had to stand real close to the rack. Same time head to kinda use as like a puzzle to get it off the mannequin. You try it on. This is natural. Come at this time. he's he's opening for boogie down. Productions bob begins professional association with producer. Mike e clark who after some initial skepticism with the idea of a white rapper..