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"He was telling me that the USFL is very popular often when you see a football scene just on someone's TV in another show that's just supposed to be part of the scenery. He's found that it is very often the USFL. It is 98% of the time the USFL. I wrote about that in my book because not news to you, yeah. No, but it's crazy. I remember like maybe three years ago I was watching an episode of Friday night lights. And I'm set to loser. I'm watching it, and they're watching TV, they're watching football. And I'm like, Jacksonville boy, Chicago blitz. 1984. Oh my God. You know, like, my family's like, get a life, man. Just get a like. All right, last question. We ran through some hypotheticals. I didn't even get into the hip because I was imagining that in this baseball only hypothetical, maybe he never hurts the hip, or, you know, maybe if it's a degenerative condition, it could have happened anyway. But maybe he doesn't have the severe hip injury that really derailed his career, but you do address that, you do talk to some people about how that injury would have been treated today and how it would have hampered him. So for anyone who was wondering about that particular hypothetical, could you share what you learned? Yeah, I mean, when he hurt the hip in 91, and then he had the hip replacement in 92. And the hip he received, this isn't like an exaggeration. The hippie received was the same hip, your grandma Norma would be getting at the community center in sunrise lakes. You know, like it was like, it was made of plastic. It had metal bolts. It was meant to sustain an elderly person, you know, walking, playing shuffle board. You could do all that stuff, take a swim in the pool, at the buffet, the early bird buffet, but it wasn't meant for professional athlete. And the metal bolt should rub against the plastic hip, and little plastic shards would fall off into your body. So he played two full major league seasons. On your grandma's artificial hip, which is one of the great under discussed achievements in pro sports history. And Andy Murray, the tennis player, had a very similar injury to Bo Jackson, except this happened in maybe 2018, and he had a modern hip replacement, and I interviewed the Doctor Who did it. He said to completely different operation now, the technology is better, the materials are better. And Bo Jackson never would have been able to play football again because there's someone hits the hip. That's no good. But maybe instead of running a, let's say at that point he was running a four four. Maybe he's running a four 5. But he has the same speed, the same power, the same flexibility. It's just a tiny bit reduced. So if that injury happens today, it's a totally different story. Right. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Yeah. Well, go get the book. It's called the last folk hero, the life and myth of Bo Jackson. I appreciate the economy of the subtitle there compared to the one for the bad guys win. Which I can't it's always a bad sign when you have a book and you don't know your own subtitle, but I do not know a season of brawling boozing bimbo chasing a champions and baseball with Doc Mookie nails the kid and the rest of the something. I don't know anyway. It's been a lot of inflation or expansion in the subtitles of sportsbooks in general. And you're one of the culprits, I think, but not in this case. That was my editor. I was like, what are you doing? And he's like, no, that book's still my bestseller though, so I can't complain too much. All right. Well, go to Jeff Perlman dot com for more information. We will link to everywhere you can get the book. You can find Jeff on Twitter at Jeff Perlman. Again, the last folk hero. Go get it, just do not ask Bo Jackson to autograph it. All right, thanks very much to James Ian and Jeff. I enjoyed all of those conversations. I promised you a baseball news brief to end this episode, so here it is, Williams asked to do reportedly has signed with the SoftBank hawks of NPV. He is going to Japan. I am happy for him in the sense that I assume this was financially rewarding for him and he can expect to get more playing time than he got in the majors, but I remain disappointed that he didn't get more playing time in the majors. I still think he could be a passable, major league player, at least a replacement level, major league player, maybe better. Remember in triple-A in the Marlins organization this year, he hit three O 7 three 71 5 41. That's a one 40 WRC plus and 315 plate appearances. I will note that the steamer projection system does give him a one O 6 WRC plus for 2023. And look, he could be back, perhaps his game will play well in NPP, and he will earn a return trip to the big leagues, or maybe he won't want to. But if this does close the book on William zesty dios major league career, he left us with a lot of memories, a lot of memes, and he did what we hoped he would do. He played in a 190 games 588 plate appearances, so essentially a full season's worth of plate appearances. He walked in 1.9% of his plate appearances, he struck out in 4.8%, and he hit 16 home runs. So, I don't know that we ever promised he'd be good at baseball. We just promised that he would be the anti three true outcomes player that he would not walk and that he would not strike out, and he didn't do those things at a historic rate. So so long Williams, we hope you'll be back, but one way or another. Thank you for the memories. And of course, we will keep tabs on how he plays for SoftBank in possibly bigger news outside of this podcast. There is ASTRO's front office intrigue, which we hinted at the other day and weeks or months ago. There had been reports of friction between Astros owner Jim crane and GM James click and clearly there was some fire beneath the smoke there because after the World Series, crane extended a one year offer to dusty baker to return his manager and dusty accepted, but at his age that wasn't so extraordinary. However, crane also extended a one year offer to James click, whose contract had expired, and that was extraordinary, a World Series winning GM, getting a one year offer that would be unusual for any GM, really, so that was clearly a hey, we'll technically extend an offer here, so you can't say we didn't, but we will make it so insulting that you will
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"I mean, that even more so than what if he hadn't heard his hip, et cetera, it's the early reps that he missed out on that I think might have made the major difference. And that's the thing I guess we can never fully know that athletic greatness is not always correlated perfectly with the finer points of the game, let's say, right? And plate discipline, you know, there are a lot of players who are incredibly athletically gifted, but they just don't have the plate discipline gene, whatever that is, right? And there's no real way to know, I guess, whether he could have had it as it was, he struck out a ton for that era, especially. And didn't walk all that much if he wasn't the biggest hacker or free swinger out there, but compared to the strikeout rate, you know, it was a pretty pronounced mismatch there. So is that because of the lack of experience, that's certainly what you would expect to see given the lack of experience. Does that mean that he would have been a completely different player if he had gotten that early exposure to pitching, I guess we'll never know for sure, you know, there wasn't like that great, I guess there was some progression in his numbers, right? You look at his very early seasons, he was striking out more than in his later years, but it's just, it's tough. There's just no way to know, but I wouldn't bet against someone with his gifts. I think the thing that you said that's really interesting, that I actually really hadn't thought about. In any depth is all right, it's 1982, and the Yankees make him an offer, he can't refuse, all right? Yeah. And instead of and they were prepared to. And instead of dodging the Yankees at all costs, because basically auburn put a cocoon around that guy. And his mom wanted him to go to college and he'd never left the state except for one time to go to 6 flags. He was an Alabama kid. He was afraid in New York. He wasn't interested. Hypothetically, he's drafted by the Yankees in 1982. He plays low level, whatever, rookie ball, he progresses, he's working with coaches. He's learning how to lay down bunts and sacrifice. He's learning how to run the bases. I mean, there's no reason to think he wouldn't be my child. And it's fascinating this idea. There's a good documentary or something to be done on this, right? Bo Jackson, as a Yankee 1980s, makes it up. Let's say he makes it up in 1984, 85. He's in the middle of a lineup with Ricky Henderson, Don Mattingly and Dave Winfield. He's a Yankee center Fielder for a decade and a half. I mean, do they ever draft every Jeter? You know all these things that fall apart then? What happens? But I think he would have been one of the great baseball players of all time. I really do. He was 40 40 in power and speed. He would have learned some semblance of plate discipline. I think it would have been amazing. I do. I really do. In pinstripes in New York. Yeah, could have been teammates with Deion Sanders, potentially. Maybe they wouldn't have needed the end. But yes. What was it about baseball that he loved your understanding just in terms of his respective affections for the two sports? I mean, it seems like baseball was the bigger lover, the first love if he had to choose one. Track, track was his favorite sport. He loved running. He was really good at it. He liked everything about it. Baseball would be a number two. And I feel like football he liked a lot. I don't think he loved it like passion like live and die. He wasn't a lot of the coaches at auburn sort of bemoaned. Like Herschel Walker say what you want about Herschel Walker now, like back then, like, and maybe this is my first walker is now, but like, you gave him the ball, he didn't even think he just ran. And he just ran and ran and ran. He was almost a robot. All right, give me the ball 40 times a game. I will slam my head into opposing defenders. I don't care. And Bo didn't have that. He was hard and he played hard, but he wasn't living and dying. He never lived and died with a win or a loss. He could take it, you know? So I think I just think he was a complicated guy. He really was a different level. Yeah. It's interesting because if track is your first love, if you just really love running, I mean, football, it seems like is the sport more so than baseball that would allow you to exhibit all of your strength in your speed, right? There's a lot of standing around in baseball speed and strength or beneficial, of course, but perhaps a little less so than in a sport where how fast you can run and how hard you can hit is really supremely important. So it sort of surprises me. I suppose that he would prefer baseball to football given his strengths and given his affection for track. Yeah, well, the thing about track is you can't make money in it. So like, when you're one of 11 kids growing up in best Alabama in abject poverty, you're probably not going to pick a track career.
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"After the volley shootings, he gave money to the family pay for funeral expenses, is a charity bike race every year, Beau bikes, Bama. He's a very good husband by all accounts, a really good dad, a grandfather now, very family oriented. He's super guarded. And he's super. I mean, autograph shows there are a lot of highs and lows with Bo Jackson. In fact, someone I did assign in the other day yesterday in LA. And someone told me, you know, you know the famous bow poster, the ball player with the bat, and he's wearing his football pads. You don't talk about. Yep. So this guy brought that poster to have both signed an autograph show, and he said that on both people and then boat. Said boat, either didn't get paid for that or doesn't feel like he got paid fairly for that for the image, and therefore he refuses to sign it. And I always think about like you're some guy, you love Bo Jackson, you pay a hundred bucks to go to this autograph show, then you probably pay an extra 60 for a Bose signature. And he won't sign the poster because he didn't get. You know, he kind of has that. There's a story in the book, Greg Townsend was a defensive end with the Raiders and a teammate of bow, and they did an autograph show together about a decade ago in Anaheim, and Townsend brought a helmet in a Jersey for boat assigned, and he says, hey, Bo, how's it going? Hey, Greg, what's up? He says, hey, can you do you mind signing these and Bo says, well, I'm going to have to charge you. And he's like, what? And he's like, I'm going to have to charge you and townshend's lying to me that he said he said to boas, you are an asshole when we play it and you're an asshole now. People are complicated, man. People are complicated. Yeah, and of course you also wrote a book about the 86 mets called the bad guys one, so are you just drawn to the prickly people? Are they more interesting? I mean, you're not making it easy on yourself here. I mean, you know what, a lot of the people I wrote about, I mean, Walter Payton was lovely and far back considering what a dirtbag he is. I liked guy in the NFL. So it just depends on that. I was writing about Bo because of the mystique more than anything. Right. So this incredible story almost like the hypothetical that you come up with in a what if story and yet he's sort of a what if story it himself, right? Because you marvel at everything he accomplished and then inevitably at some point the conversation turns to what else could he have accomplished right if this hadn't happened or if this had happened differently. So do you see it as more one or the other or both equally essentially this is something that no one else could have done no one else is really done since. And so this is basically the path the of athletic achievement or is it a story of sort of missed opportunity to some extent too? I view it as it's funny I asked a lot of athletes former teammates that question is this a tragedy or is this more tragedy or bolt of lightning joy? Yeah. And I think by far it's more bolt of lightning joy. I really do. And I feel like for sports writers like myself, there's this instinctive need to say what a shame it is. It's such a shame. And it's always like, it's such a shame. He could have been in both Hall of Fame. It's such a shame. He should be in canton right now. And if we get to the nitty Gritty of it, like, okay, so you're bust is on a wall in a building in canton, Ohio. Like, all right, that's cool. And I get you can sign the fame when he's in the hall or not. Right, you can charge more for autographs because you can write on it. I get that's cool. But like, he's the greatest athlete who ever lived. And if he had just said, I'm just going to play baseball or I'm just going to play football. We would never know that. So I think it's amazing. All right, so if you had just played football, he'd be right there with Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen and Walter Payton. If you just played baseball, maybe he'd be there, maybe he'd be there with Mike Trout and Clemente. Maybe those guys. But like, he's there with Jim Thorpe. Like he actually is there with Jim Thorpe and Carl Lewis and guys like that. He's not on the list of the greatest baseball players of all time. He's on a list of the great football players of all time. He's on the list of the greatest athletes to ever walk the planet. That's insane. Yeah. That's quite a legacy. And I wondered the fact that that has held up, whereas, you know, it's been decades since he was an active player, and over that time, in general, athletes to keep getting bigger. They keep getting stronger, they keep getting faster, right? And so in that sense, you would think someone would come along and outstrip Bo Jackson on the other hand because everyone is getting so much better at their respective sports and everything is getting more specialized than the caliber of competition just continues to increase in every field, then it may be more and more difficult for someone to come along and do what he did, even if athletically they are just as gifted or even more gifted, right? So do you think he will be surpassed can be surpassed? I mean, eventually everyone is forgotten on a long enough time scale, but in our lifetimes, let's say, however long that is, can someone come along and wipe the floor with Bo Jackson's memory or is it just a legacy that really can not be topped given the current conditions? That's a great question. So there's a couple of things. Number one, there's so few two sport athletes anymore. Like it's not even allowed anymore. I live in Southern California and I would say as soon as a kid shows he can dribble a basketball. Oh, we got to get him a tutor. And we got to get him. We need to sign him up for AAU ASAP. And like, no, mom, I kind of want to play baseball.
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"Like, I heard the whoosh. Like I heard, as Bo and he's like, that's the only time in my career I heard a whoosh. And then I talked to one of the coaches, and he was standing by the sideline, and he was holding papers loosely in his hand. And he said, Bo runs by and the papers went, and I kind of fell out of his hand. Now, I don't know, it sounds kind of crazy, but both these guys swore on it. And then you dig deeper and deeper and you look at the run and you notice, it's not just a run. 7 different Seattle players had angles on him. And the second to last guy to have an angle on him happened to be Hall of Fame safety Kenny easley. And Bo ran through all those angles. One after another after another. So like, I love that stuff. I love the wall climbing Baltimore when, you know, like, it's insane to watch him climb up that wall. It's ridiculous. But then you start talking to people. And I talked to guys from the Orioles bullpen who were behind the wall. And they said they recoiled because they actually thought he was coming over the wall. Like, that's crazy. But then you watch her evening, and you're like, oh, I actually get it. Because his head is high, you know? And you could see it. So I love taking the myths and then taking him apart piece by piece. Right, that story about him actually making a whoosh reminds me of the buck O'Neill story, right? About how he heard the crack of the bat what three times in his life and ran out to see who hit it and it was Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson and Bo Jackson. I don't buy that, right? Like I've heard that. I just don't buy it. It just doesn't, I don't buy it, because I was going to ask you my next question was going to be what are some boast stories that you don't believe? So this is perfect. I'll give you some. The thing is I covered a ton of Major League Baseball and people would be like, you need to watch McGuire taking BP. It doesn't sound like anyone else. And then they'd be like, you need to watch bonds, take BP. It doesn't send you. You need to watch griffey. And they all kind of sounded the same to me. Maybe I'm untrained. I don't know. I watch a lot of baseball. I don't know. But myth said that number one myth that isn't true, and it's funny because it really was a guiding principle for me early on. And then it turned out not to be true. Is Beau root in his autobiography that he started his auburn baseball career at baseball not football by going zero for 21 with 21 strikeouts. And when I pitched the book to people, I would cite that. I'd be like, this is crazy. He even went over 21 with 21 strikeouts. And I started interviewing guys from auburn's baseball program and they're like, you know what's crazy? He went out for 21 with 21 strikeouts. And like that's how this stuff works sometimes. Like it catches fire. And all right, so I call up auburn and I get all the box scores. Bo Jackson's first college game, southern Illinois two for 5. First, first up at Vita beat a grounder to shortstop or an infield hit. So like, all right, that's not true. I get it to cool story, but it's actually not true. Then there are some where you're like, I don't know how this is. There's a game. My favorite game probably a Bo Jackson's life is one that's not on tape and it's his junior year. He's at auburn and they're playing the first night game at the university of Georgia's baseball stadium, foley field. First Nike member there. And it's a pack crowd. It's kind of a big deal. Lithograph tickets the whole thing. Bows and right field and the fans are just giving him grief the whole time because there's still this bow Herschel thing, even though hers was gone. Most first step bad, he flies out. He returns the right field, the fans just beat the crap out of him. Everything you can call a guy they're calling. It comes up for a second up at. It's the first night game. And he hits a ball that hits the lights, like actually hit the lights. And this is 39 days before the natural came out in movie theaters. His next step at, he hits another home run, his third up at fourth at bat, he hits another home run, so he goes, fly out, Homer, Homer, Homer. His last at bat he doubles and the whole stadium booze him. And that is a true verified documented written about, covered, witnessed by enough people that I believe it. It's amazing that anyone would feel the need to exaggerate anything about Bo Jackson because the reality is larger than life as it is. So it's gilding the lily really to have to say, oh, he went over 21 with 21 strikeouts. It's impressive enough just to quote the actual stats and say what he actually. I don't think he was lying. Like, I don't think he was lying. I really don't. I think he was probably like, I think somewhere it's interesting. The other day, he was on rich eisen's show. This is right before my book came out. So it's about three weeks ago. And he was non rich eisen show. And rich asked him, what's the greatest moment of your professional sports career? And he didn't flinch. He's like, he was July so and so, in 1990, I was on the royals we were hosting the brewers and I struck out and I argued strike three, so I would get called out of the game, thrown out of the game so I could go see in a hospital from the birth of my daughter. And he told this story, and it was, he told it twice I heard him telling another station too. And I'm like, I don't know, that doesn't sound that familiar. And I look it up and on the date he gave, the royals were hosting the Red Sox. Bo Jackson didn't play because he was injured, and then I looked at the whole season, Bo Jackson was never thrown out of a game that year. Like not one time. I don't think he's lying. I think memory is a tricky thing. So that's why when someone like Bo Jackson, you know, tweets out what he did. You can't believe it. It's not for me. You can only believe it if it's from me. I always think journalistically it's such a flawed way of thinking.
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"History. I don't know if you divulge your details of your personal life or professional life outside of this, but is it any in any way connected to this or did it in any way prepare you for this or the people in your day job if this is not your day job? Know that you have this alter ego. Yeah. Doing these deep dives. I mean, people know that I'm a sports dork. I went to school for sports management. I work in that. So it's not a huge secret, but I will say for a year and a half, my wife, my girlfriend at the time, my wife now was the only one in my life that knew I was doing it. Yeah, exactly. So I didn't advertise it to the people around me, but everyone knows I'm a huge nerd for sports. I go to a ton of sports. It wouldn't be out of character. Yeah, exactly. And I guess I don't know whether this is good or bad, but I guess it will get easier to do this over time. What with everything being HD and everything increasingly being four K and actors will talk about like, oh, they can't hide as it anymore. So I guess it will be even easier to identify these things in theory, but again, I don't know if that's good because the difficulty is part of the appeal here, but future generations will have an easier time of doing this in theory than you, I'll be the old man shouting at the clouds. In my day. Standard definition. Yeah, exactly. Well, this has been a ton of fun and the whole account is a ton of fun. How can people add to your very long list of suggestions if they're interested? Best way of doing it is just commenting on my tiktoks, send me DMs if you want, but yeah, that's at no problem gambler on TikTok. Are you able to or are you interested in monetizing this in some way? I mean, you mentioned that you're working on other projects, but just in terms of the tic tac videos, like has this led to more exciting opportunities than getting to talk about it unaffectedly well. Yeah, I mean, these videos themselves I haven't made any money on them. The account, I used to be like a gambling guy, right? That's where the name came from. I made quite a bit of money, but I kind of got bored of the sports gambling hot take kind of minutia of it all. But I will say that more people have more sponsors and stuff like that. And my account has gotten bigger. This is the most relevant I've ever felt. You know what I mean? I wasn't doing interviews when I was doing sports betting because there's a million people doing it, right? Plus the people who actually know what they're doing are probably less likely to give interviews, but yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, I think now that I've kind of separated myself as like this specialty account, more people have sponsors and stuff have reached out to me. I haven't bit on any of them, but I am looking towards that. If I could do these videos and like I said, what I'm doing like solving actual crimes, stuff like that. If I could make videos like that and make money and be happy, I would love that, right? Yeah. But maybe in the future, put your powers to use. And I guess you've branched out into just sort of being a sports media pundit person, right? You'll put out your NFL picks and that sort of thing or you'll make montages, things that are not your trademark kind of video, some sprinkling that in. Do you get people who are like, stick to the video investigations? No. See, I've kind of put that stuff in the past and I have people now being like, why don't you make your old videos anymore? And actually, there's like a thing that people don't realize, the old videos that I was doing, I was doing like a, kind of like the SportsCenter top ten, you know, my impression of that. TikTok doesn't allow that anymore. They were taking down all the audio of my videos. They were taking, they were banning my account because I was using copyrighted videos of the games and stuff. So I had to change my content. And I think I changed it for the better, to be honest. But yeah, I do have people being like, why don't you ever make those videos anymore? It's like, I literally can not. My account will be banned. Have you had issues right to the shoes with the sports ones? I mean, with what you're doing now? No, never. Because I think I'm providing a fair use sort of thing. Exactly. Exactly. Where I'm not showing, I'm not showing the game and using the audio from the game and I'm not showing the movie and using the audio from the movie. You know, I'm talking over it. So I think it's different. Yeah. Well, really enjoy it and have enjoyed talking to you today. And I'm sure there are people kicking themselves like, oh, I could have done this. Why didn't I do this? You know, like other people have done these deep dives before, but you're just the acknowledged expert, you're proficient. You've hit on the right format and the right medium and the right time and it is clicked and now you're just the market leader.
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"You know, like I think that makes for an entertaining video. I just did one with a boxer. I went down the movie rounders with Matt Damon. There's a boxing scene at the end where he goes like, yeah, pig, that man, he's money. There's a boxing match going on in the background and I figured out from the clues who that boxer was and then I reached out to him on Twitter and we went on back and forth because there were no videos. I thought I had the match, but I wasn't a 100% sure. So I just talked to him and he was like, oh yeah, you know, ten to 15 years ago, all my buddies were so excited for me and I didn't know what they were talking about, but I was a movie star, you know? So he had already heard, but yeah, I like confirming with them. I don't love going to experts. I will say, because this is the thing is a lot of the time people will comment on my videos and be like, oh, I knew it from the start. I'm a huge whatever fan. And it's like, well, they probably knew the stadium, right? And maybe they knew the game, I don't know. But that makes sense. If you're a fan of that team, that makes sense that if you look at it and you know whatever, you see this certain guy. So I don't love doing that because that kind of, you know, it's too easy, right? It's like, right, it's almost like you're artificially handicapping yourself in a sense. I mean, you can crowd source it and put it out there to the million people who follow you and probably someone in that is a fan of that team at that certain era and they go, well, I know what that is. Yeah, right, it's like obviously we're all fans of teams and have watched hours and hours of this. Like we were saying at the start, it's like you are an expert on that team. But it's like the fun of these videos is like, how do you expand outside of that team and expand outside of your country and expand out of the sport? That's what I think is interesting. Yeah. Right. I was going to ask whether you have gotten into more journalistic tactics, right? Because you could just limit yourself to nope, I only want to know what is on the screen here and I'm going to be very strict about that or you could start doing reporting and you could start talking to people and that's not cheating or anything. It's a different way of being diligent and going super deep on these things. I think that's still entertaining, but it's just a different process. And I love the research part of it. I really do like I love watching old games and reading newspapers and stuff like that. I find that fun. Whenever I have to like reach out to someone, it is pretty nerve wracking and like what do I say and but I will say doing all of those things like doing all these videos has made me, you know, I've got a big head now and there's a couple of people who have reached out to me who are like you should try and solve crimes and I have I have three or four sports related crimes that I'm actually looking into and reading everything I can about it and have reached out to a couple people about certain things. So that's a little teaser for hopefully. But here's the thing doing these videos there is a conclusion to all of them, right? And the thing I'm learning about actual mysteries is sometimes there's not a clean conclusion, right? Yeah. And so I will say it's difficult for me to make a video with not having the answer. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see where that goes. That's un exciting. Yeah, you can see a narrative podcast in your future. Or whatever. I guess you kind of need the video component. But yeah, I was going to say, I mean, I like that you sort of hold yourself to this strict way of doing it. But if you ever do determine that there are just some that you can't solve, you know, I was thinking of like, there was this mathematician David Hilbert in 1900, and he published what are called the Hilbert problems, it was like a list of 23 unsolved mysteries basically of mathematics and he just put it out there and went to people put those lists of like, well, I throw up my hands like these are the big mysteries and then everyone can pick away at him, right? And you get that sort of crowdsourced element. So if you ever retire or if you just decide I can not solve this, then I hope you'll put out the rug problems or something so that people can collectively come up with answers. Yeah, so if there's any cricket fans watching, I will definitely put out that video. You can go check it out. The reason I want it so bad is this guy on the athletic. I can't even remember his name as he was like no problem gambler can not figure this one out. And I refuse to believe that I can not figure it out, but yeah. Is baseball any easier just because of the amount of data that's out there. I mean, I guess with most major sports, you can at least look up when gamers took place in that sort of thing. And you don't necessarily need to look down to, I don't know, the individual pitch level, or maybe you do, but just because everything in baseball is so quantified and so tracked and there's just such a long history of recording every last detail of everything that happens on the field. I wonder whether that makes things any easier when you do do a baseball investigation. When you get down to trying to find the game, you know, that's when that's important, right? When you're trying to figure out what team this is or any of those things, you know, baseball is, I'll say this. American football is the hardest. It's the hardest to find because a lot of the shots are just the field and the players. So if you don't have the jerseys, it's pretty tough, right? Because you're just looking at a grass field. I would say that baseball because of the uniqueness of the field sometimes is helpful, but when it's just the pitcher and the batter dude, it's very tough to try and decipher what stadium they're in. Right, yeah. Do you have a favorite baseball one that you've done? Well, I'll say the last baseball one I did. It happened close to me. And so I actually had the program from this exact year that the game was happening in. So I thought it was pretty cool that I was like a part of this. I wasn't at the game or anything like that, but it was like not my hometown team, but it's the team that I went to the most as a kid. And so I liked that I was able to kind of relate to it. It did make it somewhat easier. I will say. But yeah, they had actually gone out of their way and stripped the jerseys of their logos and everything. So which show was this or which game? Jane the virgin, it happened. Winnipeg gold eyes and the Fargo moorhead red hawks. Right? Yeah, so I guess the licensing fees for the gold eyes and the red hawks probably pretty affordable. Yeah, right, exactly. Exactly.
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"Now that I'm like 99% sure on that I'm pretty I'm pretty proud of as well, where it is just a blurry mess of a screen, but I kind of deciphered enough. Yeah, and I imagine it's much easier if you know more about the sport. You've done all different sports, but we probably don't even realize just like if we have some history if we grew up watching something, you know so much without even thinking about how much you know just the specialized knowledge you have of that sport like you can just instantly recognize oh this is from that era, probably this we can narrow it down to these teams that have that color uniform. Oh, I can see a little bit of the ballpark or the stadium in the background and I know where that's from. Anyone could in theory research those things, but if you hadn't been actually watching that sport for a large part of your life like you have to do a whole lot of legwork just to get to that point where someone who is a fan and a committed viewer would just be there to start. So I guess the one where you were most out of your depth. I mean, if you're doing cricut or Australian soccer or something, I guess that qualifies, but one where you've actually, I guess the hockey example you just gave, it's not like you had personal right. So that's the problem that I'm kind of running into now, right? It's like a daredevil. It's like your next trick has to be better than the last time. It's like the next one has to be blurry or a sport that I don't know. Otherwise, I feel like my videos aren't interesting. I don't know how many times I've had people request this game from SpongeBob. It's a USFL game. You can see it very clearly on the screen. I don't want to do that. And even I struggle to do ones that are like the major league sports and stuff like that. It's like, to me, I look at that and it takes me ten minutes, maybe, to pin down the game. It's like, I want something that I am slaving over, and I'm in my bed thinking about until midnight, right? And that's what I want. Yeah. What's the longest that you've spent on one that has been published that got distilled down to a two minute video or whatever that just totally undersold how much labor and time went into the research process? I would say actually the one that me and Steven worked on The Office one. That one sticks out. But to me, that one was different because I was doing it alongside him and I don't know if it's the same for you, but you know, working with the media outlets, it's like some things work slowly and some things that, you know, I was waiting for him to do the story and I still wanted it to be entertaining for him as well. That's the one that sticks out that took a long time and I actually, I have a lot of people that ask me how long these things take, right? And there's not a clear answer, right? Because like what I said is like I just think about it at random times or I'm just like looking at articles or whatever and it's like over a three day period or it changes for each video so much, but I mean the cricket one is definitely the one that I've spent the most time on and it's also like we were just talking about it's like the one that I'm least familiar with so that kind of makes sense, right? Right. Do you find that any particular sport is over represented in these things? Because I have found that in actual scenes so not just in the background, but where you're supposed to notice that I think baseball is over represented. I might be biased because I've covered baseball and so I'm more likely to notice baseball, but with these background scenes where it's just it's supposed to be background. I don't know that that's the case. And maybe if it's that football is popular, so you put football on or there's just an over representation of USFL footage. And so it's a football. Do you find that there is a certain sport that is over or underrepresented relative to its popularity, let's say? I would say that given hockey's spot American Mount Rushmore of sports, I think that one's over represented, I would say, like it's everywhere. I almost have to filter out, right? Because I don't want to do the same sport over and over again, right? So it's like, I love doing the hockey ones. That's probably the ones I'm most comfortable with. So I see those the most and I think it's a lot what you said though, the USFL, whatever is cheapest and whatever looks. But I will say USFL ten to 15 years ago. They're not popping up as much because what USO fell look like in the 80s. It's not what football looks like now. So you can't just put it in. So it's less and less of that. But yeah, I would say hockey is the one that I see the most that is probably not the most popular. And do you insist on working alone or do you have people who will help you with things? I mean, I'm sure you get just a ton of requests and tips and things now just because this account has taken off the way that it has, but are there other people you will rely on for second opinions or is it just sort of the private detective just working on their own sort of film noir style? Right, I like to do it myself, you know? I want to be The Batman of these things and the one thing that I will do is if I am stuck, I will reach out to the person like the people that I think are involved in the game.
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"And I think it works really well for the type of video that it is. Are you a puzzle person in general? I mean are you doing crosswords and Sudoku or whatever else like it does your mind just thrive on puzzle solving? Yes. Yes and no, I think the traditional puzzle I don't find myself sitting in front and doing crosswords and stuff. But you know solving problems and trivia and all of those things. That's the stuff that I like is the more applicable to real life things. And do you consider yourself to be an especially perceptive person in terms of just noticing things that are going on around you, find details because I think really the thrill of it when you first start watching your videos, it seems like almost a Sherlock Holmes style deduction where he'll just look at your shoe left this imprint and therefore that's where you were, right? All of these little clues that no one is actually noticing and he's able to extrapolate all of these things about you. And that's fiction, but this is in real life. So are you very observant or is this just a sort of your superpower at this very specific superpower? Right, yeah. I think it's a mix of both. I would say I'm observant, but it's also like, if you stare at something for long enough, you pick up on things. And if you do it often enough, you start being able to deduce things just by looking at them, right? Right. And so it's a mix of doing it often enough and having a base like I don't have it encyclopedic knowledge of every sport. It's impossible, but having the base of knowledge, I think, is the biggest help for myself? Yeah, because that's the thing. I mean, the footage that you're looking at is available to everyone. Everyone can see the same thing that you're seeing. It's not like you're working some secret sources or something. I mean, you know, when you did an interview in a story with Stephen nesbitt for the athletic and you were working on one then Stephen reached out to people and was working sources and trying to get inside info and everything. But generally, you're just looking at what's there and anyone could in theory do that. And yet everyone is completely shocked and bewildered that you're able to mine this information from the same thing that they're seeing. So it's almost like some sort of a sleight of hand or parlor trick or something where it's like it's right out there in the open and yet everyone else seems to be missing these things. Right, and I have people on both sides saying either I'm, you know, I have these deep Hollywood connections and music connections, all these things, or I have people telling me, no, you are wrong. And it's like, how can I be both of these things? And the truth is, I'm neither, right? There's no trick about it. It's just, you know, if you look at something long enough, if you know what to look for, all of those things, you know, I truly believe anyone probably could do it. It's just like, why would you, right? I mean, I think about it all the time. My wife even says, she doesn't get it, you know? She just like, she's like, I don't understand. You know? And it's like, it's fair, like, why do people do it? And why are people interested? I have no idea, but you know, if I'm interested, then other people might be too. And that's how it works. Have you been wrong? Because there's sometimes where it's conclusive, you know, you can match up the exact footage and it's just beyond all doubt. And then there are other times where maybe it's, you know, the preponderance of the evidence or something. Like, you know, you can identify it, but maybe the full footage from that game isn't available, that kind of thing. And so you make a very solid guess, but not completely confirmed. So has there been a time when you've put something out there and you've learned subsequently that you missed something or incorrectly identified something? No, I have some that are not confirmed, right? There are some that I just will probably never know or the one that sticks out to me is the marvel show falcon and the Winter Soldier. And I concluded that it was an Australian soccer game. And I still to this day have no idea. I had one guy reach out to me saying that he thinks I got the stadium right, but he has no idea the game because it is that obscure. And he's like, I don't even know if they record those games, like he doesn't so it's like, those things, I'm not sure, but from all of the research that I've done, that's what makes the most sense to me, right? And there's no one coming up with a better solution. So to me, there are some that I'll say this. I don't usually put out a video if I'm not 90% sure or above. There are some that I've done and I've gone down the rabbit hole, man. I have done everything, I'll tell you this. I currently, I mean, I've been, I shouldn't say currently because it's like literally been months at this point. I'm doing one about a cricket match in miss marvel, the Disney+ show, and I think I have it down to 5 games. And to say that I have explored every option would be an understatement. Yeah? I should say 5 teams, not 5 games. But there's no way, like I've reached out to every player every that I think it could be and there's just no one that could even tell me. So it's like, if people who might have even been there are telling me, I have no idea. It's like, how am I going to do this? But I will say, I'm not giving up on that. It's still in my word document. You know, just sitting there for hopefully one day, someone responds and goes, hey, I remember this or something. Yeah. What's good that you have high standards so people can be confident if you call it. It's not just a theory. It's been backed up. So what is one because you have this format now essentially where people will challenge you and they'll be like, there's no way that you can find this. And of course, they're hoping that you can. Right. But that's the format. Now of the requests for your investigation. So what's one where even you doubted yourself that you didn't think on first viewing or tenth viewing even that there was enough for you to go on that you could actually identify it and then somehow you did. The one that I am most proud of is from the video game Detroit become human. I found a military recreational league game, the specific game. And I don't think I'll ever top that. And I have now convinced myself, there's not a hockey game in the world that I couldn't find. Honestly, like that is, as obscure as it gets, but when I saw it, I had no idea what to even go on. That one sticks out to me, the Australian soccer one also sticks out to me. But that one I didn't have confirmed. I went to the military Hockey League's Facebook page and found the actual pictures from the game. That's as concrete as it gets, right? And I will say, I'm working on one now, not the cricket one. I'm not sure if that one will ever happen.
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"TikTok as at no problem gambler, his real name is Ian arusha, and he joins me now Ian. Welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. So I knew I was going to talk to you today and I went to the baseball subreddit this morning and it just so happened as I was browsing that one of the most popular posts was very much in the genre of what you do. So someone posted on their user SPB 6 one 8. The post was what game is Robert De Niro watching in the Irish man? And then they went through the full investigation. I think this was actually a repost and they concluded that it was the Phillies met game on September 22nd, 1996. I have not verified that myself that is that at no problem gambler certified. But the fact that I just happened to come across that in the wild. Now, for all I know, that was inspired by the kind of content that you have been creating, but as I mentioned to you, I had done something similar almost ten years ago now looking at a background scene in the TV show elementary and just wanted to know, I wonder what game that is. So it seems like this speaks to some sort of strange semi universal human desire, maybe it's just a testament to the curiosity of our species that we just see something and we want to know what it is. How do you explain what motivated you and what motivates everyone who is just riveted by what you do? Why do we care? What do we care? So I was much like you and you open this up by saying this very niche thing, right? And it's like you got a million followers. And that's why I had that account for over a year and a half before I even did this because I've been doing these puzzles. I like to call them for probably a decade now, and it was just a joke between me and a couple Friends, you know? It was like, why would other people care? Because if you just say it to someone, I think it doesn't give the same effect, right? Like if you were just to say like, oh, there's whatever game in the background of a marvel movie, nobody cares. It's showing all the steps I think is the biggest part, right? It's the going down the rabbit hole and going through all of those things. And like you said, I think it's just curiosity, right? Yeah, I guess so. Right, I mean, you could easily see that and just write it off and not even notice. I mean, most people do. Like the reason some of these things are so obscure, right? Like some of the games being played is because the producers or whoever chooses those things goes no one is going to look at this. This is not the purpose of putting in the show. It's just to a decoration, basically. Yeah. Right, and often you'll find out that it's not actually from just one thing, or it says some kind of mashup or it's not period accurate. And again, it's because they figured no one would notice and no one would care. And then you come along and expose it to the world, and it turns out that actually a lot of people care. So when this was just you and your friends, just the group chat or whatever. The origin story, what was your first deep dive or the one that really got you hooked on doing this kind of thing? The first one I remember doing was you know the TV show monk? Yeah. There is a loop. That's right. They go to a football game and I think their tailgating and they flash to a TV at the tailgate. And I wondered, oh, well, what football game is that? Because I didn't recognize any of the logos or anything. And it turns out it's a USFL game and something doing this enough. USFL games must just be like super cheap to use because they're everywhere. I don't even do them on my videos anymore because it's just such a layup for me now because it's like I've seen this game in a hundred different shows. But yeah, that's the origins of it and then the origin for my TikTok doing those is I had just watched Spider-Man no way or yeah no way home and daredevil shows up in that movie. And so I went home and rewatched daredevil. And just out of the left corner of the screen you can see a hockey game going on and I thought, oh well here comes another one and like you said in the group chat I went and I was like I figured this one out and they're like oh you should post that and yeah that's how that started. So is TikTok integral to your taking this public then? I mean, if this had been prior to TikTok, I mean I guess it was when you were just in the group chat, would you have thought I'll put this on Twitter or I'll put the sun wherever else someone might have hosted a video did you need something like tic tac to come along to be the perfect venue for this kind of video? Yeah, I mean I had never done videos prior to like I'm not as you know I love sports media and stuff like that. I just was never in front of the camera or even on the microphone. So TikTok was my first dive into that and all the videos I did prior to these were kind of the warm up I would say to what it would eventually become, but I think the speed of TikTok really works for these videos because it is kind of chaotic and I'm trying to show all the steps in the shortest
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"Like other players have not tried to use designer things that don't get them caught. You've seen those cases. American players have been caught U.S. players have been caught for using steroids players from other countries have been too. I guess in this case, Dominican players using those two readily available steroids to them in their country, those stereos are just easy to find. They're getting caught easier, faster, if that makes sense. Yeah, and with tatis explanation and The New York Times headline about this in a story that was not by you was tatis explanation stretch common sense experts say, which I think was kind of a consensus opinion at that time, just because he was claiming to have used a medication for ringworm initially and a lot of people questioned whether that would have even been an applicable medication to use for ringworm, which does not mean that he couldn't have used it anyway, mistakenly or ill advisedly. And I don't think he was even in the DR at the time as I recall, but maybe he was brought the medication by his parents or something was the explanation. And so I guess that would be a convenient excuse because there is truth to the idea that there can be traces of these substances in over the counter medication that you can get down there and so you could just seize on that as oh, I got cut. I can just say it was accidental and it will be somewhat possible, or it could be somewhat plausible, I guess, but either way, it's like if you're established like tatis, I mean, if you're a minor leaguer, you can't necessarily afford to import some reliable medication or some substance that you know is on the approved list. Maybe you have to cut corners and use what you can. But if you're Fernando Tatís Jr., just the idea of using anything from there, just given this history and track record, that's what you have to kind of question. And the two things I was going to say about that, like you brought up great point, like I think it's part of MLB's programs. It's part of why they claim they've gotten near the percentage of minor league leaders in the Dominican down from like 6% down to under 1% testing positive. Programs to teach the kids and tell them and to really, really drive home the point and I think Nelson Cruz addressed those programs have made a difference telling the kids to be more careful and unfortunately the players in the Dominican Republic have to be more careful if this stuff is more readily available around them, but ultimately what is in their body is their responsibility on purpose or by accident, if you both believe that. And I think that's where you just have to, if you're a team, not to give them advice. But if you're a team and you have your players, if they get sick, like in Henry marias case, if he claims it was because when he was sick or whatever the case may be with tatis, claiming that he had ringworm and needed something to address it, perhaps you should be calling your team, the team's trainers, the team's medical staff, hey, what can you help me with rather than on your own or whatever it is going to someone else to get a B 12 shot maybe that if you have a stomach blog and you've lost weight and you want to recover, perhaps don't go to the pharmacy or use what's in your fridge or ask your buddy or your brother or to help you out with something, go to your trainer. The team's trainer. Even if you're a minor leaguer or a major leaguer, should be people around you if you're in the major leagues, especially the support staff around you, but have someone maybe vouch for, this is the medical way to do this, something that's like the NSF approved medicine or supplement to recover from what you have. Are you optimistic at all that this might change for whatever reason we know that there's not going to be an international draft imminently, but you've brought light to this. It seems like people are picking up on it. It's obviously known in the area. So I wonder whether you have hope here or whether there's anything else that you want to mention that we haven't touched on that is a factor. I think I mentioned the doctor that it talked about the problems down there. Doctor pinato, he wants political willpower to change. He thinks that the government does need to step in and change the restrictions on the substances. I mean, whether you think that will happen, I think remains to be seen because Major League Baseball is just a huge important driver to the economy to the society down there. So that is obviously a huge factor. And I think we'll see whether the Dominican government will step in and maybe perhaps through the commissioner of baseball, junior noboa, former player, hoping and waiting for the resources and power to police the trainers, see if that happens. And then in 5 years to see when the next CBA is up, whether the international draft will come around then, I think what stood out to me, this most recent round of international draft negotiations was that from I heard from more trainers, than I first expected, perhaps, that they were in favor of the draft, whether they saw the writing on the wall, in terms of this coming down, the well of support for the future or seeing MLB really pushing hard to get this done. I was surprised by how many trainers did say they were in favor of it, so we'll see in 5 years if that kind of change continues to happen and whether that international draft will get put in place in 5 years. I mean, some people have some critics have said that players will, like, the temptations to still use steroids will still be there, whether there's a draft or not because you still want to get selected high, you still want to throw hard, you want to hit hard, hit the ball far. The pressures will still be there, whether the draft or not, to use steroids. So I think seeing the rate, the percentage of which stuff has gone down is encouraging, but they still see it concentrated, even now, given all the improvements, it gets alarmed some people, as you've seen. So, I don't know. There's a lot of different things that could change. We'll see how the international draft, what the Dominican government steps in to do something about this, because ultimately just through education, you've seen, has made a difference, but that alone might not solve this. The substance is there just being too readily available. The structure itself of which kid in which kids are developed and acquired through the system and enter the professional system remains like those were made challenges for teams and for them down there. So we started this conversation with a fairly frivolous question I want to end with one also. So you are switching beats starting next year. You're going to become an international sports correspondent still for the times, but based in Mexico City and focused on Latin America.
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"But I guess is there any way to tell there's no conclusive way I'm sure, but how much of the problem is kids actually just being given these things or the accidental dosing, which is either way is not good, obviously, but the solution would be different for each of those problems right in those potential causes. And there's something extra sort of nefarious and unsavory about the idea of kids being dosed with these things at an age where one would imagine there could potentially be some side effects down the road. It's hard to tell without knowing like everyone's individual case, but I think overall, let's go to minor leagues, for example, they have a minor league drug policy and the major leaguers have a major league drug policy that's collectively bargained with the union. They know the rules, whether you took it on purpose or by accident ultimately as your responsibility. And that's the key I think in the tatis case, you know him claiming he did not use it on purpose. He had something else, regardless whether he did it on purpose or not, it's his responsibility the same with Henry mejia in this case. I think scouts might tell you they think that the drug problem is a serious problem, look at the among amateurs before they enter the minor league system. Look at the international draft. Part of the reason why MLB claims they wanted the international draft, they failed, the players did not approve it. But one of the reasons MLB wanted it was they claimed they wanted this was a way they think could help clean up corruption and this drug use. Give a more orderly structure to what's going on. This system that people have called the wild west where 12 year olds are reaching verbal agreements to create a more structured system in MLB has started this thing called the trainers program at 2018 where they go around, you know, I think they have 50 some trainers in this program are trained as voluntarily agree to join their program down there and they get an MLB stamp of approval if MOB is given permission to test their players. So that way I think to kind of give more security and give the MLB stamp. If approval onto their players and the trainer so the trainer can tell if kids like look, we run an MLB approved program and tell the teams that want to sign those kids, hey, look, we're above board, MLB is approved us. But anyone can be a trainer down there and not everyone has to be part of that program. So it just goes to the larger question of how can someone kind of police all of this and you wonder like what role does the making government have in this too? Because these are their own citizens, they are their own children. The trainers are citizens too, like what can they do this? And the commissioner of baseball down there said that she's trying to get government approval down there to get more resources to both monitor and to discipline the trainers down there because you Ben could be a trainer down there if you wanted to. They call a bus gone too and you're like part trainer part agent where you find a kid, a young kid, you start training them, you start paying for their development, you start paying for their food, and then you take a huge cut, maybe up to 40, 50% when they sign with the team. So who will police the system? And just to be clear, like, you know, guys like tatis who already were in the majors already had their $300 million contract. He's not under those same pressures, say, trying to break it out of poverty. You know, his dad was a major leaguer. He already had his contract. You wonder, like, why was he why was the stuff in his system? Whether he used it on purpose or did not use on purpose like he claims, yes. Or someone like, you know, Robinson Cano, right? And already had a huge contract in his on his way to the Hall of Fame. It's like, why? Without having each of those guys tell me why? I mean, Tati's claims, again, that he did not use this on purpose and Cano is not really talked about why. He's just apologized for using it. There is a culture I think some people have said in the story, culture of, that's what you grew up around, maybe it continues, or you know, sort of turns them on a pride that you want to continue performing, or you have an injury that you don't want to talk about or you're trying to recover from, that you think this will help you and be so readily available around you. You turn to that, or yeah, pride that you want to keep performing, or yes, like you see in mejia's case. Henry did not, he already was an established closer, and the major leagues, like why did he need this? And he even referenced things like, yeah, like wanting to get that contract because you see someone else around you get that contract. Even though you are in the majors, you don't have that $20 million contract. You don't have the security, maybe you're trying to hopefully you're trying to go for that stuff. And I think I wanted to make sure it was clear. It's not like, I think some people are wondering, why these guys are caught and I think this is part of the issue is the steroids that are being used. Again, I'm going to butcher the name but ball the known and stanozolol, those two steroids that will show up often in the drug testing results are just older anabolic steroids that Victor Conti junior and other people have told me. He is of balco fame if you remember that those are just easy to find. Those steroids are readily available, obviously, and they're just easy to find in your system when you test.
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"What did he say? He tests them out on his employees, right? And then he preps these for like weeks and weeks. Yeah, he takes suggestions for sure from his staff like he doesn't have dedicated writers as far as we can tell. People who punch this up for him, but because he always does this, he will get at least unsolicited suggestions. He definitely does give it some thought beforehand. You know, when he said this is serious, to him it is. Like, I feel like he loves this. He relishes this. Notice more often than not, he loves food. I've always told him like, Scott, you really like it. 'cause he loves food references. He food. That's an easy one to go to. He brought up meat, different types of meat, the fillet mignon. He brought that up again to brings the food up ones off. Food was awesome. And the nautical analogies we've noticed as well, yeah. But I guess you have a history of having to cover this because he's had these wars with the wilpons in the past right. And I used to cover the nationals too, and there were so many nationals players that I'm used to. There have been times where you had to go to send the alderson for comment on a Boris quote and then support the Cindy elderson retort to the poorest quote. This is journalism. This is the baseball beat. The number of food aisle metaphors that were just being worn into the ground at a certain point, though. I've heard many of them. Yeah, and speaking of service journalism, Alden Gonzalez put together a reference of every Boris pun, which we will link to on our show page here, 'cause he was really rolling. I feel almost responsible, like we may have egged him on just by giving him the recognition for doing this, but really he kind of owns baseball Twitter every day that he does this and you and sandy egmont. Yes. Right. There were a couple that stood out because I was a little disappointed. I think Stephanie Epstein pointed out that he was recycling some material because Carlos rudan is a free agent again as he was last year in Boris went back to the sculpture, the rodan, the thinker, which he used last year. I guess he did allude to last year the thinking team chose red on so maybe it was a conscious callback, but still to the Dior stuff the Christian stuff. That was career's own words that he basically just like expounded upon. So that's the thing. So that was a topic of conversation on this podcast when Korea came out with his analogy. He said, when I go to the mall and I go to the Dior store when I want something I get it, I ask how much it costs and I buy it if you really want something you just go get it. I'm the product here if they want my product they've got to come get it and then yeah Boris said so you're a franchise brand. You're the Dior of defense. You're the Hermes of hitting you're the Louis the 5th of leadership or if no, not Louis the 5th, Louis tone, I guess. Just put on there. Of the postseason. It's a one stop shop for a championship designer because we had a discussion back when Korea debuted that line about whether he was getting fed that by Boris. Or whether that was a creative original, whether they workshop those things together. So the plot thickens, I don't know whether this is confirmation that Boris came up with the Dior line or whether he took it from his client or what? I guess this doesn't confirm things either way, but the next guest on this podcast or not. He's welcome to come back and discuss his process if he wants to. Anyway, you're not ostensibly here to talk about the Scott force court. I just hijacked this discussion. But you did some real and valuable journalism and brought something to light, which I had been wondering about. And this really, I mean, it came to a lot of people's attention. I think a lot of people are aware of this trend, but I noticed back in late August that MLB sometimes they'll periodically sent a press release about the latest PD suspensions and this one just so happened to be about 6 minor leaguers who were suspended and all 6 of them were players in the Dominican summer league and 5 of the suspensions were for the same substance that nozzle hall. If I'm saying that correctly, sort of one of these old school steroids and this is not new, right? And so when I saw that, I thought, I should really look into this or someone should look into this. I hope someone explains what is happening here. And of course, the Fernando Tatís Jr. news was top of mind too. So first of all, I guess can you give me the numbers, the data on this and just how disproportionate the representation of Dominican players in PD positives has been. Yes, and this is something that I think overall I'd had the same kind of hunches you over the years of covering baseballs as year 11 for me. You notice when those weekly or every so often on Friday afternoon when those press releases press release come out, you see where these players from and you notice a lot of them are Latin American and you look closely, they come from the Dominican Republic and they're using steroids like the one you mentioned, which I still butcher the pronunciation or boldenone who are too old steroids that really aren't as popular anymore. And you wonder like what's going on? So I think one Fernando Tatís Jr. was suspended that they could raise a lot of questions as to what is going on here and not just with his case, but another prime example of this time a prominent player as to why this trend keeps happening. And so, you know, I'm a native Spanish speaker and covering Latinos in baseball has been something that's been part of my beat for the last many, many years. And so I went down at Dominic republic. It took the time to try and figure out unfurl this kind of complicated question. Why this is happening. And so since 2005, there have been 1308 positive tests among major and minor leaguers, so it just shows you how many players have been positive cases. Because some guys are repeat offenders. 1300 positive cases basically. According to the league, they do 30,000 tests drug tests around the world each year, .2% are positive. Half of those come from the Dominican Republic.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"boras" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Tracking Scott Boris's puns and wordplay and witticisms if you can call them that for years now and we actually had him on the show to talk about it and kind of grill him about his process. And this was the week where he held court at the GM meetings and just really reached a higher gear, I think, potentially. I mean, he outdid himself here, and I'm just curious as someone who covers baseball news for The New York Times and faces the decision of do I want to quote Scott Boris puns in the paper of records, which you did decide to do. You could notice that, oh man. Yes. So I checked. And you did note I will quote here from The New York Times. Where this is enshrined forever. Boris also the agent for Brandon nimmo and Taiwan walker had colorful ways of describing the demand for both players for nimmo, Boris used movie illusions, including a questionable pun. I appreciate that you questioned the pun. There are a lot of teams in the free agent market that are in the waters for a center Fielder whoever Pixar guy grown will be the lucky one to be finding nimmo grown again. And then for walker, Boris turned to a geographical play on words, he's one of the few players that's under 30 and he's had multiple 150 innings pitch season, so essentially Taiwan is on an island and I think the only question is who is willing Taipei? I thought the second one was a little better. The first one, the first one I missed the Pixar reference. I had to go back and listen to it. In real time, I didn't really hear that one. I just heard that I could tell when he said waters that he was going to start setting up a Finding Nemo. Reference. I did not pick up on the Pixar. I sat down and listened to the audio again. But I mean, I was like, you know, everyone obviously is like laughing. You roll your eyes because you know he's just like gearing up to unload one of these again. And you know, he tries to pass it off as if he's like coming up with it in the spot. But you know, he has like a sheet of paper in front of them. Like I didn't really see the paper, but you know he kind of like stops and funny you ask and then he quickly glances at a sheet of paper and he's like, oh God, here we go. And so you tell he was doing that in this case. I think at one point, after he was rolling through these, he does these to be clear, I think he probably said this. He does get the winner meetings too. So he's got twice a year where he kind of preps for these. As he was rolling through these in Las Vegas and just going one after another and at one point you could tell he was just trying to squeeze them in because he maybe hadn't been asked about ex player or whatever a certain player or why player like he was just going to oh, I got these, I got to throw them in. Yeah, right. Did someone ask me about it? Did someone say tax did? Well, funny you ask. So I finally one point was like, Scott, how do you keep a straight face while you do this? I just interrupted him. And he was like, what are you talking about? This is a very serious moment. Of course. Being sarcastic once again, he just rolled into the other ones that he had. But yeah, I mean, I think that was the first time I'd ever used his puns. I think it was just funny because the mets either so many free agents, the story that they were in was about the Met's off season just a broad look at their off season and how Jacob degrom is kind of their priority, but they have had so many free agents that included Brandon nimmo and Taiwan walker. It was an easy place low in the story to just quickly address those two guys. And so I just thought it was fun to just use them. Use them in that moment. But I think that might have been the first time in 11 years that I'd use one of the puns. So I think my track record is okay. I think it's the first time. Off the top of my head, it's the first time I think. Yeah, at your editor, was it like, do we need this? Or the standards desk? Are we actually not just at the paper? Because the motto is all the news that's fit to print. So you've decided that, in fact, this Pixar brand memo finding is fit to print and that it is preserved for posterity now in the paper of record. Not much pushback from my editor, and as you can see, it's published. So yeah. It worked out okay. Maybe because I am so conservative when it comes to these other times. I think maybe in this case, we thought it was okay. Right. He should hand out that little notepad that he has where he keeps track of this. It should be like a band that gives out the set list after the concert, someone takes it home and puts a picture on Twitter, someone should get the Boris set list for the puns, but you have a history. I was on my professor my ignorance, but I guess I missed his podcast appearance for you guys.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"boras" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Lindbergh of the ringer. Well, it's been a busy week in Lake wobegon. Scott Boris punned Williams as the video departed, crypto crashed, Twitter imploded, democracy survived, and Meg is missing today's episode. As mentioned, she has an off day today, so I'm flying solo, but not for long, I will be joined by three great guests today. I kind of keep a mental list. Hey, if I ever need to fill an episode if I need someone to join me, here's some interesting people I'd really like to talk to, filling in for the really interesting co host. I always get to talk to, so Meg will be back next time. I will at the end of the episode give you a little baseball news brief and also, as always, the past blast. So I will timestamp everything in this episode, all the guest segments, the outro, et cetera you can pick and choose or listen straight through, treat it like and all you can eat buffet or listen selectively choose your own adventure. So prior to that baseball news brief, I will be talking to Jeff perelman, formerly of Sports Illustrated and ESPN in the author of ten books about sports. Some of which you've almost certainly heard of, if not read, the bad guys won, his book about the 86 mets, showtime, that's the basis of the HBO series winning time, and now he has a new book, the last folk hero, the life and myth of Bo Jackson just came out recently, never want to pass up a chance to talk about Bo, so we will discuss his life and career and the process of writing about him and some fun hypotheticals before Jeff, I will be talking to Ian rougeau, whom you may know as at no problem gambler on TikTok. So this is the guy you may have seen who does extremely in depth investigations to identify the clips of sports games that are playing in the background of other shows and movies. Just, hey, I saw a game on the screen for one second in the background there. I wonder what game that was? Was that a real game? When was it from? He has an almost preternatural ability to detect and identify those clips. He does it for all sports, including baseball. He's done some really fun baseball ones, so we will explore his process and why these videos have caught on. He has almost a million followers on TikTok. He's become a big deal, and we'll talk about why. Just to give you a little taste if you haven't seen this, here's the setup from one of his recent videos. In this episode of The Office, Jim is watching a baseball game at the dorm where Pam is going to school and you first would think that this is easy to figure out because we can actually see the scoreboard. But after looking at it quickly, it becomes clear that they have edited the scoreboard onto this because it has the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers being the teams that are playing, but neither of those teams are the team that we see on the screen. And here's the payoff, but eventually I stumbled onto this baseball card for Jeff Ballard who wore number 39 in 1992. And looking at these pictures, you can see that he likes to wear long sleeve turtlenecks just like the guy in the video, which makes me think this is our guy. And if you look at the catcher next to him and pause it at just the right time, you can make out the number 25 on his back, which would make that the red birds Ed Fulton. So then after combing through countless box scores Fulton and Ballard only played one game together in Buffalo and it was this game on June 2nd, 1992 that ended redbirds four bison one. That video has more than 5 million views, so Ian and I will discuss how his viral magic happens, but first, and not least, I will be joined by James Wagner of The New York Times, primarily to talk about a great investigation he just did into why Dominican players seem to be overrepresented in positive PED tests in baseball both in the majors and the miners. It's not just Fernando Tatís Jr. this is a widespread problem. The players who do test positive for steroids are disproportionately from the Dominican Republic in James went down to the DR to figure out why that is and what can be done about it. So that's really interesting, but we will also talk about a great story that he did on why baseball players wear perfume and cologne on the field or in the dugout or during practice. This is apparently a pretty pervasive practice. You would never know from afar. And of course, we will lead with Scott Boris, who had a huge word play week. Everyone sent us the poorest quotes we saw the Boris quotes don't worry. So now I'll bring in James and unbeknownst to him. We will start with Scott. All right, I am joined now by James Wagner, who has been covering baseball and will still cover some baseball, although he's switching beats, we will talk about that a bit. For The New York Times and he just did a great deep dive investigation into PD testing and the disproportionate number of positive tests among Dominican players. James, welcome to the show. Thanks, man. Thanks for having me on. And yeah, thank you for the introduction. Yes, something is changing coming forward. And I'm looking forward to it, but this story I think kind of fits in that vein, things I want to look further and deeper into. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, I didn't prep you for this, but can I ambush you for a second and just ask about Scott Boris quotes because this is a frequent topic of discussion on this podcast.
AP News Radio
MLB owners lock out players, 1st work stoppage since 1995
"It's it's the the management management equivalent equivalent of of a a strike strike and and is is the the first first baseball baseball work work stoppage stoppage in in more more than than twenty twenty five five years years the the collective collective bargaining bargaining agreement agreement has has run run out out New New York York Mets Mets pitcher pitcher Max Max Scherzer Scherzer wants wants to to see see change change there's there's so so many many different different ways ways that that we we as as as as players players as as a a whole whole that that we we believe believe that that we we can can make make the the game game better better commissioner commissioner rob rob Manfred Manfred is is hoping hoping the the lockout lockout will will jumpstart jumpstart negotiations negotiations and and get get an an agreement agreement to to allow allow this this season season to to start start on on time time player player agent agent Scott Scott Boras Boras says says competition competition is is a a big big issue issue our our whole whole integrity integrity and and wholesomeness wholesomeness of of the the game game needs needs to to be be back back to to where where it it was was where where there there is is an an incentive incentive to to go go to to the the ballpark ballpark and and win win every every day day average average salaries salaries in in baseball baseball are are declining declining eleven eleven weeks weeks remaining remaining until until pitchers pitchers and and catchers catchers are are scheduled scheduled to to report report to to spring spring training training I'm I'm a a Donahue Donahue
The Fantasy Web
"boras" Discussed on The Fantasy Web
"Social media in the mathematician. What do we firm? It will be a share of fun meals that we call in equivalent, there is no capability because. We live on any what to win the sun. Instagram in our two engine. Let's talk about it. What's going on? What you ain't going to have been in Avery enough in a sadia son of Hussein. Many give me ten years. I'm an Instagram and a Facebook. Now I do all corner to my turn. I like him more than a grandeur. What you're going to do, one of which is when a person and say, the idea I'm going to come back, is this social media, social media, my Instagram official immunogenicity around what you New England when I tell you the wings, I don't know going away on Panama. So maybe I'm also going to talk about Facebook. And I promote you, Guam and Guinea. She will put her back or singly they will always become to lack in equality as social media Instagram now accepts when I was a configurable. So minimizing social media zuri sana has a 6400 year share of no one's Guido. I saw her for the best show of work with some of you now in Assad and say dear wife to worry aware of his rule in Libya even in a conservative. Thank.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Charles Barkley Calls out Rich Paul and Klutch Sports for Manipulating the NBA
"Clutches able to come up with a solution to this that gets darryl what he needs. That gets them to a place that he'd like to be in an doesn't adversely impact the sixers fortunes in the east. And you know helps other players along the way. I keep hearing like weird names. Cleveland might have an angle minnesota's by favorite getaway any of their assets the minnesota in sacramento ones. Have that kind of logic of of those Folks in those offices have history with daryl. So you know that there they can have conversations and there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for the sixers do a goddamn thing before training camp before the season starts is the best thing about this before the trade deadline. I mean i think that they're well positioned to just chill for a bit. Here's what barkley said on the mike mass analysis show. He's talked about clutch. Was you know how that group works. They try to trade their players to where they want to anthony davis. They had better deals from boston. Maybe even new york. They're like no he's gonna play with. Lebron is not gonna play. They just bullied. The league team. Got to stand up and say i paid your guy. He can't bully me a trade him and meet and have me take some trash back. I'm hoping somebody in the sixers organization got some stones barkley said we have not seen a team degan before and the quick thing you know. There's a persecution complex of them look for so amid this point the most powerful agent is always the least popular agent. David falk in the nineties was basically presented as the anti christ and blame for every bad thing that happened the league in the nineties. Scott boras same thing in baseball. Everybody had scott boras when you're the top agent near attached to the top guy and you're swinging elbows and get clydes what you want and do all that stuff. You're gonna take shit. I don't like some of the stuff they do at the same time. This is a referendum on them right. What how much power do they actually have. Because in this case philly has no trade.
Dan Albano's podcasts on Trinity League football and SoCal water polo
"boras" Discussed on Dan Albano's podcasts on Trinity League football and SoCal water polo
"Are. I can't remember. I just know that was the dow is just hours the one that kinda got me like. He didn't even have them. You just had as you do. You can have your But can't be pulling pushing whatever you know and it's inefficient are gonna say well he can have his head on him past five yards. You know. well. I don't know. I mean it didn't impede is catcher. Did you know you can obviate obviously see it so called for that survey who who got called for announcer. Think it was was it. I d- i. Yeah i mean it was like a good coverage pointed i mean. I don't think he cut the ball was cod saw the it was. It was a interesting thing for debate. I know coach thomas and he was pretty happy with that defensive effort so i hear. You're saying scotty so well it's going to be interesting. We cala a couple of these games. Go to light schedule. But we'll have plenty to talk about plenty to preview coming up next week as well so scotty great job as always tonight gravy back as always dangrek back in Good to be talking football year awesome. What for scott. Boras dan bottle and thanks again for listening to us on the trinity football podcast..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Biden Admin Doesn't Know the Number of Stranded Americans in Afghanistan
"Breaking news the washington post this morning as director william burns met with the The senior leader of the taliban yesterday in kabul william burns went over. There secretly held the meeting face to face with abdul. Ghani bara dr It's the highest face to face encounter between the taliban in the bite administration boras also man who met with Titrate state mike pompeo last year. I'm joined by byron. York of the washington examiner byron does that maybe give us the clues to why the administration is being so secretive as to what is going on and the timeline in kabul hallel byron. You might be on go ahead. you're on now okay. It could but it underscores the perhaps the ugliest fact of this entire affair which is that. The united states is dependent on the good graces of the taliban. It sounds insane to say that but we are dependent on the good graces of the taliban to get americans out american citizens american Not forces and those Afghans who aided the american military effort. So the the fact that you know. We're having meetings with the taliban. In which in this case i think has to be done. Underscores the dependence position that the president has put us in here now bar. Dr of course does not control al qaeda or isis or any of the other splinter groups. That are there. It is unclear to me whether or not we actually have operational security guarantees from the taliban. But the thing that i'm certain about we don't know how many americans are there and i doubt that the united states government does but do you think they have at least a minimum number. They might release to us byron. Well i was relieved to find out yesterday that there are not stranded not stranded because the white house told me that But i think it's an well. Let's say this if the if the us government knows how many americans are there and he's not saying I don't know the explanation for that. But i'm taking them at their word that they literally do not know how many americans are in afghanistan
The Dan Bongino Show
Michael Anton Says U.S. Should Have Made Afghaninstan War 'Short and Big'
"This is a good one. Michael Anton is terrific, right? We've had him as a guest on the show. Now, I think twice spent on my Fox news show as well. The pieces in the American minds called Afghanistan doing from the start now, Michael Anton Calls out the swamp but admits Hey, listen, I was in there he was in the national security infrastructure team. The Bush administration and also the Trump administration. But he's been in my opinion, a truth teller on these issues. And let's bring up the idea of revenge first, and we'll go into another point. He makes about how the left and the the the world utopians always like to celebrate diversity. And yet when you bring up the idea of diversity, and that cultures may view democracy differently. Representative democracy then it's considered racist. You can't say that Well, we'll say what we want, because it's not racist. It's factually accurate, but getting back to the whole idea of revenge is, Congressman Crenshaw said this morning, not being a strategy. It absolutely is. Anton says this These are quoting Machiavelli. He says. The Romans Machiavelli says made their wars short and big. Americans have taken to making our wars small and long. We inflict pinprick strikes over decades rather than getting the whole thing over within a matter of days or weeks. A better strategy right after 9 11 would have been to do what we did, but finish the job at Tora Bora and then leave immediately with a note on the fridge, saying, if you do anything like that again, We'll be back quickly. With overwhelming force. And we'll leave just as quickly. We will do that as many times as you
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
Mets Get Rare Home Win Over Cubs
"Great game and city field between the cubs and the mets taiwan walker was outstanding. The two on the inside corner strike three cl walker claps his hand against his bed as he heads off the mound after his career high. Twelve th strikeout of the game. It's a one two three inning. He's retired twelve in a row from. Wcbs the mets with a three two lead at that point. They had a three two lead in the ninth inning. Seth lugo on the mound. Pinch-runner jake bresnik first base in this happened they would up next mccain has an end of the game with a strike them out throw them out yet to come to sogard line center field. They sent over toward white center. That will enable boras need to go to third is gonna take the tourneys can score on the plane with a tad stickers to challenging the where you live who a one hop bullets to the plate. Maroshek is out running through a stop sign and the cubs are down to their final out of the game actually. He was waived home and there was only one out at the time the cubs lose the game. Three two
Seattle Now
Borracchini’s Bakery in South Seattle Closes After Nearly 100 Years
"If you grew up around here. The past week has been a rough one for lovers of old school seattle. I it was holiday. Candy applets and cutlets. Then the oh burto store on rainier avenue closed its doors and also this weekend. The owner of bora cheney's bakery just a few blocks south on ranier. Said they're closing for good people. Just don't buy sheet cakes like they used to a pandemic and again because of kobe. We can't give a proper
Locatora Radio
Faketinas
"Get started with. I think this person or this story broke during the summer. it's kinda hard to tell now with the pandemic. what time is like but one other prominent ones that i remember seeing that wino- was flooding. Our timeline was the story of jessica. Craig aka or formerly known as jess la. Barletta cringe already awesome early known formerly known best. I'm about that. Let's get started. Let's talk about her. Yes so this woman has allegedly and apparently apparently been taking on different like black and afro sport identities throughout her life. She's an a professor or was a professor and academic where george washington university and university teaching. You know black studies are afrikaner studies and publishing books but at some point she were shifting from being in a north african to being african american and then being afro latin next sand after boaty gua was i think the final landing place for her her official forum her final warm so jessica. Krog just aka justifiable maleta hers combination of black fishing and being a fake tina at the same time and She got called out basically rightfully so rightfully so by a group of professors who are after latina's who had issues with her they were witness to or on the receiving end of like aggression from her and like prejudice and bad behavior while she was masquerading as after let nine different contexts. Apparently being super like belligerent towards black women in my on cool and really I think overcompensating and so trying to be an ex sorted extreme caricature of like this south bronx like her. Allegedly her mother was like a drug addicts prostitutes like this narrative that should created about herself so black women in the academy you know began talking about these different experiences and came forward and said This is not right. Yeah she was definitely performing like whoa kness being extreme radical like it was very performative. She was a published academic author and she also received a ton of accolades rice. She received she was a finalist. For the twenty twenty frederick douglass prize book prize presented by yale's gilder lehrman center the study of slavery resistance and abolition. She also was nominated or a finalist for the twenty thousand nine. Harriet tubman book prize and just received a ton of accolades has really been propelled or was propelled forward and questionably hired because of not solely for her identity. But because of the work she was doing and also the way. She positioned herself as offer latino or body gua and it's very cringe to think about all of the opportunities she stole from actual author. Latinas boras caribbean women. That are doing if not the same work or better work you know. And so it's that was probably one of the first ones that we saw. And then i think it kind of just opened up the floodgates for a lot of others than i don't know about you ma. But in my chicano studies department at uc santa barbara. There were a couple of fake denies that i will not name. They were not. They weren't anyone that i took like. I didn't take any classes with them but they were around. People talked about them. People knew like this person is very white claims this this cheek. Ghana mohican identity. You know is wide. Skin blue is performing she gun. You know some kind of ghana identity wearing that. I had because with the free that carlo ecstatic the whole thing right and it's like you like i they weren't. They were my peers. I was a student right. But i have friends that were graduate students. And they would tell me about these. Things happen. And in their cohort or in their in their seminars. And so you know. I think if if you've been in academia right. I haven't been to grad school. But i was an undergrad but i've i've definitely seen the fake tina's around so they definitely exists and i think this one opened the floodgates for a ton of
KQED Radio
"boras" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Her daughter, Stephanie Boras and her sister who took one for the team. Julie Hankins. The next go around, they hope will not take anywhere near as long. In Florida In late December. Governor Rhonda Santa's broke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At that point in the pandemic, the CDC wanted to target people 75 older and frontline. Essential workers for vaccination dissent is stressed The CDC guidelines were advisory. They do not bind states and they do not find Individual governors and they will not bind the state of Florida. So let me just be very, very clear. Our vaccines are going to be targeted for our elderly population. So he said. 65 or older could get shots and that set off a stampede of sorts. Jeff Johnson is the AARP s state director for Florida and he joins us now. Hey, there. Hey, great to talk to them. Just for reference Right now. In West Virginia, they have gotten at least one shot into 11% of their population, according to The New York Times, Florida is at about 8.4% so middle of the road. What does that look like on the ground there? What's the process in Florida for getting in a vaccination line? I think one of the challenges that we face right now is that there isn't a process per se. There are a lot of different channels a lot of different lines to stand it. Fortunately, and I know of people across the country saw images of people camping out overnight to get into a vaccination clinic early in the process. And fortunately that really isn't the case anymore. Most of the processes are online sign ups, but still it's awfully confusing because there are so many different options to go in. None of them are particularly successful either just because there's not yet Enough vaccinations being offered for people to get the appointments that they want. So tell me what that looks like. I mean, if I am someone who wants to get a vaccine, and I fit into the criteria for the state of Florida, I mean, where do I have to look? So if you're 65 men over, you can go to your local county Health department. You can go Tonto local pharmacy public's pharmacies currently offered, you could go through a local hospital. Most of them offer appointment windows. So, for instance, what has been happening as people find out, perhaps by email, perhaps, frankly, by social media that one of those channels is going toe open for appointments at let's say 6 A.m. on a Tuesday and they'll find out on Monday. They'll have to log into their computer at 6 A.m., and then they'll have to compete as if you were trying to get you know, concert tickets or Hamilton tickets or something like that. Except instead of for something fun. This is for a lifesaving vaccine that they see it as a ticket to be able to resume their normal life. And talk to me a little bit about how challenging this must be. You may not be on Twitter. Let's face it if you are 75 or older, you know, you may have problem with Internet connection specifically if you're in part of the more vulnerable populations. Yeah, One of the things that we had a therapy have been trying to say, is to take Bit of empathy and to think through what this looks like. For somebody who is a person you want to get vaccinated, which is a pretty variable lot When you think about people 65 over. There are plenty of 65 year olds who are far better technology than I am course there are plenty and then there are plenty of 65 year old who have a flip phone and no Internet connectivity. And so It is been maddeningly frustrating for therapy members and others. That's what we continue to hear is anger and frustration that this is so hard and I will say every roll out of a major program has a chaos phase at the beginning where it's very difficult to figure out what's going on. We're beginning to see some of the channels adapt what they're doing. The state has offered a statewide Not only website that you can get registered on but also a phone system. For those who don't have that technology, which is good, and we're also seeing some of the local county health departments begin to shift away from this contest of opening appointment slots, too. More of a line where we will call you when it's your time to go Look for an appointment so that we're not opening the doors for, you know, 10 times as many people as there are appointments. There have also been a lot of stories about vaccine tourism in Florida people coming in from other states, other countries even to get shots there. Authorities tightened residency restrictions late last month. How did that complicate Florida's rollout? In your view? It's a challenging set of issues. That may be unusual. Maybe not unique, but unusual for Florida because we have so many Herschel Year resident Snowbirds is they're commonly called, who spent a fair bit of time here in Florida in the winter months, but lives somewhere else full time as their permanent residents. And so those folks are in our community and Certainly it makes sense if we're trying to make this community safe to include them in the vaccination process. So yes, the late last month governor set parameters Florida residents and those with short term leases. So in other words, snowbirds to try to close off the stories that we've heard of people coming in from outside to get vaccinated here. And that seems to have adapted the way things have rolled out. We should also say the Florida has many undocumented workers as well as others on temporary agricultural visas, who now can't get vaccinated. That might not make great public health sense either. I think you're right. I think at the point at which the initial crush of interest from this group begins to receive that is as people who are, you know, refreshing their browser every five seconds. Begin to actually get appointments and get vaccinated. I think that that is one of the conversations that I would hope the state has is. What point do those restrictions to kind of narrow The field at this point, widen out a little, and that is one of the parts of our population. That policy leaders we're gonna have to go back and reflect on.
Donna and Steve
Sacha Baron Cohen Threatens to Hire Rudy Giuliani If He Loses the Golden Globes
"Um, by the way, Did you see the story about Sasha Baron Cohen? If he loses. Oh, no. What it is. Oh, yes. Okay, so he got to re Golden Globe Nam's And this is for Bora. Subsequent movie film and the trial of the Chicago Seven. Um they both got three. And he thinks that he deserves to win. Over the trial of the Chicago seven, he says. If he doesn't win, he's going toe hired Rudy Giuliani to contest the results. Because if you remember, Yeah, Rudy inadvertently co starred in the bar at sequel with an uncomfortable interview. Yeah, I'm situation where he was laying down on the bad. And then there's a daughter who was playing the character of his daughter was there so that is very funny. I love
John Williams
Chicago Police union boss under fire: ‘I’ll resign under one condition’
"Chicago police Bora considering firing the head of the police union, John Caton, Zara, repeatedly clashed with his bosses when he was street cop. And he continues to clash with City Hall in his role as head of the Fraternal Order of Police on Wednesday in a Facebook live video, he told officers the city doesn't really care about them Can. Zara doesn't apologize for the comments. But Friday He says he's willing to resign is an officer under one condition. I will resign my spot at CPD effective immediately. If they give our officers they're retro pay that they deserve. Hurry. So you want me gone from the police department? There's the government call my bluff. I Daria Police have them of that A contract for three years of police board will decide Captain Zara's fade in the coming weeks.
Break The Rules
Healthy Eating vs. Pseudo Healthy Eating with Shawndi Borup
"Well, I'm hello and welcome to another edition of the brake cables are cast going to plug wiring noise and the outfit and Fitness World and today off and super honor and have Sean D Bora in the house of show me all the living. So if you can't guess what she's all about it is all about healthy living and Tony is a healthy living wage. It's certified fermentationist a woman after my own heart there and a real food chef who is all about just being living proof that implementing a simple healthy. Lifestyle and healthy habits really promotes Optimal Health and well-being and just really making that easy and accessible to many folks who make to even just overwhelmed about getting back to the kitchen. And so don't you think so much for coming onto the show today? If you could give us a little bit of background about who you are and what sort you into doing the work they're doing in the world thinks long and it's a pleasure to be here such an honor to be part of your podcast and I I love you know, what you do what what this podcast is all about about breaking the rules and we'll get in touch with that and and how that applies to what what I can help your audience to really Implement especially in this time, but my back story, you know, it starts about three decades ago, and it was in the I was I had three young children and they all had their own little chronic issues, but my oldest daughter was she was the most ill with severe asthma and and so I thought Sitting in the rocking chair giving her another breathing treatment in the middle of the night and it just the thought came to me. There has to be a better way and thought just kept cycling through my mind, even though I was doing everything that I possibly knew how to do what to do. And so I was determined that night to find a better way. And so I ended up going to Rome a holistic practitioner and he gave me one sheet of paper and on that one sheet of paper was a list of you know, a list of foods that really nourish and feed the body and I I took that home and I you know, I'm a really competitive person and I decided okay, I'm going to I'm going to do this for one year and I'm going to prove that that food couldn't possibly make that much of a difference in the life in the health of my family and not as dealing with my own chronic issues at the time. I had chronic tendonitis and it was really hard to put shoes and socks on my children and I couldn't go bowling birth. You know do cartwheels in the yard with them or anything either because I was in so much pain and I kind of ignored it. You know, I was just in my late twenties at the time and I thought oh this just you know was is not really happening and I remember going to the doctor for my wrists and he handed me a prescription and he said, oh, he said you just got tendonitis and I said great. How long do I have to take this, you know as an anti-inflammatory em said for the rest of your life and that of course didn't sit well with me and I just had a I had a couple of those experiences my daughter would seem to get worse with her asthma and allergies when I gave her cow's milk. And so I asked the pediatrician do you think it would help if I took her off of this and she said it won't make any difference at all. And you know, that's again one of my mother raised tuition that gut feeling said into me like, okay, you need to try this anyways, and so that's what I did is I just started, you know, I took the information from this holistic practitioner that really phone On the whole body and under you know, not just symptoms but really building building a strong immune system really was all what this was all about. And I remember sitting on my couch dog doing my weekly menu. I had my dry erase board on my lap and I looked at the one sheet of paper and everything that he suggested eating and then on the other side of the couch. I had all my recipes the things that I knew how to do home and nothing match up and I and he was a proponent of eating a lot of raw food at least half of your plate because it's the enzymes in raw food that help digest your food and you know Concepts that we're totally foreign to me a hundred and eighty degrees away from the standard American diet, which I had grown up on and and new and so I just started getting back in the office and that's where I started and I started, you know, eliminating refined sugar refined flour, which of course as we you know, it's more talked about today drives blood sugar in the body. Which dog Ives Cravings which drives inflammation which drives chronic illness and so I just started, you know doing one thing at a time and one thing I learned about helping people get back in the kitchen is that if you try to do everything at once you're just going to get overwhelmed and that's when we feel stuck and we stop and so I really emphasize with people that you know, we know that we should be eating, you know, more vegetables. We know that we should be eating less sugar. But how do we make that happen? You know, how do we apply that in in our eating today? So that's where I show me healthy living came about because I wanted to help people to really practice how to feel their best. So that's amazing. I think experience is always off teacher and the mother of all Innovation. And so how long have you been at this and how long did it even take you to kind of get into that seat of showing people healthy eating from like learning wage? Healthy eating right? So I've been teaching people for gosh. I would say fifteen years now probably half of long, you know half of the amount of time that I've been doing it, but you know, I I started this journey, like I said about three decades ago and you know, I I told you that I was going to do that experiment for one year and proved it wrong that food couldn't make sure we make that difference but actually after a year my children's, you know, chronic health issues had completely gone away and there it was so amazing to watch
Radio From Hell
'Very Nice!': Kazakhstan, Outraged No More, Embraces Borat In New Slogan
"When comedians Sasha Baron Cohen released his satirical McHugh mentoring About the fictional Kazakh reporter Bora. In 2006. The movie was immediately banned in Kazakhstan. Kazakh viewers and authorities denounced the film's portrayal of their country, saying it was full of offensive step equipped types and behavior by the instinctually character Borat. Nonetheless, the new movie Borat, Cultural Leanings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan became a smash hit and won numerous Awards. Last week, a sequel came out. But this time Kazakhstan is responding differently. The country's tourism board has launched a new campaign. Adapted Borat's catchphrase very nice as their official new
Jason Rantz
Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' Reviewed
"Maybe it is time for all of us to laugh, but you're gonna have to do it at the expense of mostly conservatives. And Borat subsequent movie film It's released on Amazon Prime. It's out right now. Sasha Baron Cohen returns with Murat, a dumb and bigoted reporter from Kazakhstan. This time he has tasked with delivering his 15 year old daughter as a gift to Mike Pence. And yet again, Bora explores what the film wants you to believe is American culture in particular conservative American culture, which apparently It is comprised of dim witted and backwoods rubes. Now most notable for us in Washington state is that that much talked about And deceptively edited scene at an anti mask rally took place in Olympia, where Bora Cons the crowd into singing a mean spirited song, though even the movie you can kind of tell that the audience was mostly in on the joke America. Jokes, guys level homes. How you gonna do?
Coronacast
Why have three community cases suddenly popped up in NSW?
"So Norman in new, South Wales we had twelve days without any luckily quiet cases and we were feeling really good about it but then yesterday they had three new cases that were from community transmission and at least the reporting. That, we have at the time of recording current cost. We didn't think that they were actually linked to each other. So how did this happen? Well, you can only speculate eventually it will be explained we you would hope that it's not entirely a mystery that with genomic testing, we can find out perhaps what viruses their most closely linked to. So really won't stay a mystery for too long. So on the one hand, it's spread from known sources which are not, which is not readily apparent, but it is a worry because you don't wear they'd been you don't know who they might spread it to the just a lot of unknowns here. Even if you could say, well, originally did from the Crossroads Hotel and Salah or something like that all those weeks ago. The other thing that can happen with this virus is that it goes underground with asymmetric spread in a community. Of people who are younger to know they've got it or might not be coming forward for testing. So remember testing a New South Wales has plummeted and really far far too low when twenty or thirty, thousand people a day should be being tested at least twenty thousand and we're done below ten thousand and happy enough for a few days. So people are being tested and therefore we're going to get more and more surprises like this and in Washington states in the United States. Beginning this pandemic would underground for six weeks before papa game after somebody arrived. From China. So this is what this virus can do, and we've just go to keep alert. So three potentially unrelated cases maybe they are related, we just don't know yet. What does that say about how much more virus that probably is out there under the writer it obviously means there is more virus out there than we thought even if we know where it came from because reach, these three people were got to. Find out who the spread it to the last few days and really get out there and do a lot of contact tracing a lot of testing and hopefully people will come forward. So the Risto virus is there much. We don't know that's why they're doing sewage testing. You might remember that sewage testing did indicate a problem in south West Sydney the other day and Hawkesbury, but we find any cases in the Hawkesbury catchment. But this does mean there's fire is out there and you cannot relax. It also puts paid to this notion that we're going to go twenty eight days without community transmission before Boras Open Up. That ain't going to happen I. Don't think they ever get to that milestone to think so and so the tolerance of states like Queensland to do this is going to have to be a much higher tolerance than it is at the moment possibly even have to wait till the election so that doesn't become a political issue. So you think we need different thresholds for opening up again. Is that what you're saying? Yes, I mean I think that the key is you're going to get cases popping. Up like this, almost certainly, and the question is how much community spread has there been from name to others and do you know where that's come from and if you get the sense that New South Wales and hopefully Victoria quite soon knows where cases of come from who they spread it to and they're on top of it under on top of it quickly. Then the risks while the states really is pretty low, but it's not nothing. Well, there was some good news out of Victoria overnight where. that. Number of new cases has dropped back down again on these six new cases yesterday, and most of them seem to be clustered around these Chad Ston shopping center outbreak, which we know about. But there's a big group of doctors in Victoria who are against lockdown measures and they put out a open letter sort of saying that the lockdown measures are causing more health homs than they are good because people isolated that young people are being sort of stopped from. Going to school and socializing, and they're actually really low risk and that the risk of carbon to the general population is much lower than the risk of health negative health outcomes because of being isolated long these are serious issues and I'm sure these doctors care a lot about it. Some of them a little bit of overlap with a group of doctors who wrote to I think quarter magazine a few weeks ago stating similar things and it so we. Could problem I mean what do you do if in fact you had done what some people were arguing for, which is the end of September that the premier of Victoria should have really let foot off the brake both things go back to normal for all these reasons as well as for covering the economy. Then the predictions from the Burnet Institute's mathematical modeling was the the return hundreds of cases in a very short space of time I think that's been. Borne out when you've seen outbreaks like the chat stone shopping. Center outbreak and so on. So it doesn't take much for this to fuel up and I think that Victorians do not want to have gone through least Melburnians do not want gone through all this to have stop start going on and still having significant virus spreading. So I think that's the problem is that you've got the fuel for the fire there if you don't lockdown than the fuel can actually. Again and you can get significant numbers of people and the people. The people who are exposed are doctors, nurses, h care workers, even receptionists and others in care facilities. We haven't got that much better at controlling. It is just that we've got a bit better and they're still going to be vulnerable as well as the aged and infirm and I think the we said as a society that's not what we want and on the other side, there's no question that there's going to be mental health problems. Economic problems people are turning up late for the cancer diagnosis turning up. Late when they're acutely ill in the emergency department, all these things are happening. No question. The argument is a good one to make is just the answer is not simple, and if you'd let your food off the break earlier, we would have gone back to a major pandemic in Victoria very quickly as it stands, it's just getting under control and a few weeks from now, it should be much more under control a suspect it's not going to get to zero, but much more under control and the contact tracing testing regime should be able to control it with things like sewage. And testing of things. So don't think that we're too far apart on this but say right now we should be letting things off is probably a mistake and a he would be supported by any more balloons and just on that the number of healthcare workers in Victoria that are getting infected. We've got an update on that. Don't wait about numbers come right down. So things are getting under control. They're getting out of control on partly because community spread is under control. So people are not bringing it in, but really the major spread was within hospitals needs care centers themselves, and that is really is coming under control, which is a good thing. So
Monocle 24: The Menu
Marianna Leivaditaki's Chestnut Onion Stew Recipe
"Hello My name is Marina Boulevard key and I am from Crete half creighton and half Scottish Ashley I am a chef and I work here in London. And have been doing. So for many years, I was the head chef Mario and currently the head chef at Maurito at Hackney road. The race appeared like to share with you today is a chestnut and onion stew with the option of adding Pumpkin to it. So dishes really simple. A slow cooked stews. So you just need to create a really small base and sweet base using finely chopped carrots and celery and garlic and kind of cutting them really small and putting them in a pan with a little bit of olive oil and making sure they're nice and sweet. So cooking them for about fifteen to twenty minutes and then adding lots and lots of baby onions. So I like to use the Bora tiny. Tyler onions because they're small the really sweet and they're quite mild. So depending on how many people I want to do this do for I locate about five to seven baby onions, per-portion sa- loads, and loads, and this will make you really really beautiful. So after your base is nice and sweet, you just add the onions and then you add your cooked chestnuts. So of course, you can use chestnuts that you cook and you. Peel, but that will take a very long time. So I like to use good quality vacuum packed chestnuts. So I would say you kind of us about one hundred, one, hundred, twenty grams of chestnuts per portion just to be really nice and generous, and this is kind of what this is about using chestnuts instead of meat. So it's adding this kind of really really nice richness to this to that meat word if you using. That so you get everything in the port you add some really good quality chopped tomatoes a nice amount of red wine you season with salt and pepper, and a little bit of Orange Peel, a cinnamon stick, and you just make sure your port is nice and liquidity and there's enough liquid to kind of let this to cook gently few think the reason you can always add some wine or you can just add some water. Place a lead and just let it simmer for half an hour forty minutes just until it start smelling beautifully, you will be able to smell the orange and the cinnamon. When you take the laid off, you will see actually this source has really thickened and this Jew is just absolutely delicious. I wouldn't say it needs more than forty five minutes send. Another amazing ingredient to add that is very seasonal at the moment is. The pumpkin or the butternut squash or any funny squash that you might come across. You can just peel it Q-bert and added in this do at the same time with your base, your salary and your carrot, your onions. So I think here in London I don't often see chestnuts Jews and it's a true. That's very traditional in Greece in the winter months and it's absolutely amazing like if you go up the mountains, you know you. Might Walk into Taverna. The is run by an old granny and before you even kind of you just open the door and you're like, okay, she's Cook Chestnuts Stu. You know. So it's something that you find, but it's something that is also special. So it's not everywhere. It's not in every TAVERNA eater you go two sets a win today sheets really warming at celebrating chestnut, which you know are just absolutely amazing and I love them. And, it's a dish that I recently I collaborated with this amazing new project called wild radish, and this is my dish for Christmas together with lots of other things. So it's a little bit more elaborate, but the main stew is this chestnut and nonunion stew and it's been fantastic collaborating with world radish because it's just an amazing new project asking US sheriffs and other really really lovely beautiful capable sheriff's. To think of dishes they love Cook them, create them, write them down, and then they make them really easy for everyone to do. So you receive this amazing box with
WNYC Programming
What it's like inside a prisoner transport van
"Know, with like two seats on either side. It's like a Greyhound bus. And I mean, instead of a cushy ceased at the Greyhound bus is happy. They had these little part plastic siya and you have to deal with these CEOs and every guy we talked to about this had something to say about how the CEO's act when they're on those transport buses. And you Talk. I'll pull this bus over and kick you. And if you get up without asking to go to the restroom, you will get DP. So what is dp me? Disciplined, physically physically disciplined, And if they do hear some talking, they're going to stop the bus Pull you off the bus. Give you a little bit of what they call it. They used to call it. What was it wrote there? That's what they do. Religiousness, just a gang a threat to us and what's the longest right that you've been on? It was three days going from prison, a prison of prison prison prison collect and everybody that was going to the shu in other places, and we went all the way up north to Crescent City, which is like Eureka. Oh, you're almost in Oregon and I actually went through organ to get to Pelican Bank Indian stopped at one of the prisons and you'll stay there overnight. And sometimes they put you to say you've been a hallway just sitting on a bench all night waiting on them to come get me, But I say it is nice. Uh, I've had some hippie, right? I believe you, but not like Mambo Alley. My name's Elita Bora. I served 12 little over 12 years in the California Department of Corrections been home about four years now. Back and wanted to say was around 2008. I got transfer away from San Quentin because they needed the cells for hire custody, incarcerated people so They shipped me off to California Men's colony. Okay. But the thing that is really difficult for Ali is that he had been taking college classes at San Quentin, right, And they don't have a program like that at CMC. So when he got transferred All of that stopped. And so I Li started doing everything he could to get back to San Quentin. The executive director of college programs like Live Just Hang tight. We're going to try to get you back so you can finish your college degree. I was like, OK, cool. Pretty soon Ali got called to a classifications here, which is an administrative thing you have to do before your transfer. So they called me two classifications like Yeah, she did it. She's get me back to San Quentin. So I go up in the classifications hearing and they're like, Yeah, we'll put you up for transfer and I'm just sitting there. Got my arms folded a little bit, You know, thinking, Yeah, they did this. This is yeah. You go into an out of state facility. Out of state facility. Yeah, they used to do that do that. It was common when the federal courts told California tto Lord overcrowded and as was like you've got to be kidding me. I'm supposed to be going back to San Quit in the classification hearings. They don't even let you talk man. I tried to talk. They just like well about to bring that up with your counselor and went back to the dorm. I was devastated. So Ali, facing another long ride on the great ghouls. This time he's headed out of state and a world away from San Quentin in the college classes, and it's like when you move anywhere. It's like you're starting a new life on ly In this situation. You have no control over it. You have no idea what that life is going to be. You're taking away from everything that's familiar. And your life is totally in somebody else's hands.
Coronacast
How can we safely reopen international borders?
"So there's been a lot of talk in the last couple of days about the international border and particularly from the Prime Minister says that international rivals from safe corona virus countries could avoid Herta quarantine and instead of going into Mandatory Hotel quarantaine people from those countries could go and do it in their own home. There's been quite a few questions about this coming through it. ABC. Dot Net dot edu slash corona cast including one from Kathy who says, what does Norman think of the PM suggestion about that Safe Countries Avoiding Hotel Quarantine? So this is an a nuanced, not easy problem to deal with. So there are some countries which do have very low prevalence of the virus. There's not many of them by the way, but there are some in which case you have people quarantining at home. You probably have large numbers quarantining. Technology rights even from paces with slightly higher prevalence. You only one person to get out by the way and spread the virus and you've got a major outbreak on your hands. So there is a risk they are, but you could have ankle bracelets which people could pay for, and that would be cheaper than hotel quarantine for two weeks you could have geo location on your phone you could. Have fines for giving you a phone to somebody else. But you've got to be able to know that the police whoever's going to administer canister this at huge scale, but it's possible to do that with modern technology. So it's not a bad idea and it could loosen top and it could listen up for international students particularly if you add rapid testing to the equation, but we don't ask that. Level of imposition from the government on ankle bracelets for people who are infected domestically and I selecting at Harmon we've we've spoken about this on chronic hospital four but also kathy also makes the point that one of the countries named was Japan which had more than four hundred cases on September twenty eighth alone, and she says as a Melbourne Ian in lockdown she's furious because as as you've noted, Norman that it only. Takes one case to to start another wife Yes. So you've just got to be very, very careful and this is not something you could turn on tomorrow. This is something that's got to have an infrastructure in place to make it manageable and to be as fail safe as it possibly can be. The Abbey's reported a couple of experts saying that it actually could work one was Robert and the other was paid calling. So. Do you think it's worthwhile though like if wages taking only a few countries admittedly with low A. numbers that it would help or is it just sort of opening up this slow step towards making it back to trying to get life back to normal? One way that you could do this is open it up to lure countries, get the system, right get a working with ankle bracelets or however you're going to do it get the systems in place and do it with relatively few travelers from Lewis places while Hotel Corentin is going on in parallel you could actually compare the two and see what the rate. Of positivity is you could combine it with rapid testing before you leave when you arrive and the middle of the of the quarantine periods, you could do this at scale with international students from Laura places like China one assumes that China at the moment Israel Risco that you can't be sure. So there are ways of dealing with this, which is not. That all of a sudden on the fifteenth of October hypothetically just starting to do this you might just ease your way into it learn how to do it in a safe way, and then you could scale up quite rapidly. Having said that you got to experts saying this is a good idea not not really a problem and you go professor Rhino, McIntyre Who's been pretty accurate predictions right through this Pandemic University of new, south Wales saying well, numbers would soon overwhelm you and you be able to cope. It does seem a bit strange talking about international arrivals to Australia win still many state borders are getting better but they're still closed. I mean you couldn't come down and visit me in Tasmania at the moment. But I'd have to quarantine. You'd have to come visit me through the window. You're right. But INTERNAL BORAS WE'LL start opening up your already. See a bit of relaxation in. Western. Australia with Corentin. NEW APP which they think is going to work in terms of how are monitoring people. Technology is the answer here, which would include I think rapid testing. So moving to Victoria, the numbers have been falling in recent days the average fourteen day data graph, which we all love looking at every single day continues to fall, but it does seem like healthcare workers are still getting infected. Yes and just today the updated healthcare worker numbers, and so the last week there have been twenty four H. Care Workers Nurses one doctor one, paramedic one allied health professional infected. So they're still comprising a fairly significant percentage of the. Total cases in Victoria and shows that there are still problems there and the thing is that there are catching up with numbers. So the numbers coming through very orgy complex cases you've got healthcare workers suddenly increasing you don't win there were infected the numbers from Victoria I'm sure they are trending down, but they are not as said this again and again they're not as transparent as they luke. Okay.
San Diego's Morning News with Ted and LaDona
Seattle-area Amazon employee charged with insider trading
"Employees facing federal charges for insider trading. The Seattle Times reports The Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit yesterday against former Amazon finance manager Lakisha Bora. Now she's accused of leaking confidential company information to family members who use that info. That's a big no. No earned nearly $1.4 million on the stock market. Boras husband is also charged in the case. I mean, all that insider information and that's all they got. Kind of thought the same thing. Yeah, it's like, Wow, I would have gone for broke. I mean, yeah.
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A global movement to solve global problems
"For years I have been working on a simple idea for humanity to tickets. Next leap ahead, we need to work together across borders to so global issues. In, the modern world new water bora can protect us from crisis. We have no other choice but to unite. And we need to do it fast in two thousand, sixteen I was devastated by the UK's decision to leave the European Union. I'm French for me. The EU is more open and global. Society. But sudden, these be shuttered and I wasn't feeling this way. My partner Andrea who's Italian and Damian a German friend also called the shock of seeing the world turning inward. We realized that despite being from three different countries, we witnessed the same challenges migration fluids being dealt with an inhuman. Mana. Climate Change. Well, how you employment And we also had the same hopes and dreams in everyday lives. We also realized that to SUV European issues the outdated model of always national interests I had to go. So we decided to act for a few months we west on the idea of launching votes, the first pan-european political movements, and then naturally we told facebook friends. And a lot of them responded saying that were up the challenge and wanted to help. People started holding small community meetings in parks, universities, and pubs to discuss common future and shed their solutions to the continent's biggest problems. We mobilized tens of thousands of people across twenty eight European countries, two years in. Damian was elected to the European Parliament on the campaign run by volunteers across borders on the idea that we just from together. We should that by collaborating across borders by nineteen and acting as one, we could start changing how people think. With the first ones to attempt something of this scale and to succeed despite this after the European elections in May two thousand and nineteen on drown I looked into, which is an asked that frank question that you never want to ask. Once you have what two years would something that actually worked out is this enough? No it wasn't. We knew that today's urgent challenges and not just your but global. We also knew that we couldn't even attempt to solve them by only focusing on Europe. A continent that represents less than ten percents of the world's population John Lying issue is that the way we see the world and the way the world works who mentally wrong. In. The span of two generations to what has changed more than in the previous twenty thousand years we can lend on the moon. We can wake up and Shane Guy in Gutu better in New York, we have access to a huge amount of information all the time every way. But we still see the world as I meet Ceti but issues like covid nineteen, climate, change migration, fiscal justice, human rights mean that we need to think and united beyond national borders. A global approach is needed to solve them. Countries need to collaborate share resources, information and solutions. It's not just the right thing to do, but it's also the smart one. So in the weeks following dungeons election on brand I decided that we would create a global movement to unite people beyond borders and so those issues that concern us all. We, call it now because we're not very creative and because it needs to happen now. So I know that going beyond national borders is not the easiest thing too. So here's the framework that has been guiding our work. I could think unites and it forward I. We need to change the way we think about the world whether we like it or not already live in a globalised world we need to stop thinking within national frameworks and start thinking globally take, for example, how we think about taxation. Multinational companies like facebook or Amazon or radio operate across borders but they pay very little taxes in very few countries because we think of them within national frameworks and as a result, we lack a global tax system due to this country's are deprived of at least five, hundred, billion dollars annually. Five hundred billion dollars to put it in perspective half of amount of money we could put an end to global hunger for one year, but we don't. Because of the way, we think about the world. At now, we want to change this. We connect people from all across the world who discuss work together and understand that global is the new normal and that they have more in common than what separates them. We host wiki events in which we discussed topics such as lgbt rights, pandemics, fiscal justice, or mental health. We've breakdown. This book challenges to see how they impact people in various parts of the world and I met this have already shown a global thinking actively rallying governments to solve those issues like ensuring a fetish abuse of vaccines across the. World.