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A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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"Interesting. What's your favorite quote? That's a that's a really hard one. I mean, the one that the one that's always stuck with me, I'll give you two. The Wayne Gretzky quote, you miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. I think it's always really stuck with me because first off, you know, greatest of all time, but more important. It really is the kind of thing that whenever I have a moment of self-doubt about, you know, is this really going to work? I really do this thinking, thinking in that mindset really helps me get past that and helps me understand like, yeah, you know what? It doesn't matter if it fails because I always get another bite the apple. It's not going to be my last time. And so there's been times where I've looked at ads and I'm like, I don't know if this is really going to work. I still push it out there, I still put the money behind it, I still try it, because the reality is, is the ad that, you know, helped me scale my business last year and has continued to perform and has brought me, you know, hundreds, if not over well over a thousand discovery calls in the last year that I had the same feeling about that one. I had the same feeling like, I don't really know if this is good enough. The other one that has always stuck with me is from a headmaster I had in high school. He's now retired. He just retired this year. His name's Bradley Rogers. He was the headmaster of the Gao School. Now he is enjoying retirement, but he's honestly one of the most he's one of the people I credit with the most in life in terms of life lessons. And he had this saying that if you're on time, you're earlier, if you're earlier or if you're earlier on time, if you're on time, you're late. And if you're late, you're lost. And the first time he said that, I said, what a stupid saying. That makes no sense whatsoever. And then as I came into the professional world and I had people that would show up on time and then I'd have to wait for them to open their laptop and get all set up before we could start the meeting. I started realizing this is what he was talking about. If you show up early, you have time. Just like today, like when we got on the call, we had some like little technical issues at the beginning, right? If I showed up right at nine, then we would have started five minutes late because I would have been dealing with the technical issues then. But I showed up five minutes early. We dealt with the issues and we started right around the top of the hour. So it's that it's that thing that when I was a kid, I didn't understand it because I didn't understand how the real world worked. And then once I got in the real world, that just that really resonates with me. And so now I try to be early to everything where I can. And whenever I'm even a couple of minutes late, I feel awful because I feel like, boy, I really am lost in this world if I can't keep a keep a tighter calendar. Oh, yes, absolutely. Is it is there an app you hate? We still use it anyway. Mm hmm. I mean, the obvious one is Facebook, Instagram like Facebook is arguably the worst social platform in the world. Mark Zuckerberg is just a I don't I don't know him personally, but if the way he runs his company is any reflection on him as a person, he's not a good dude. The customer support for an agency like mine who is trying to solve problems for people is abysmal. It is absolutely garbage to your customer support. And the thing is, is that we're not just takers. We're not just free users of the platform. We're paying to advertise. So if I'm paying for something, I expect a level of customer support so that I can keep paying. And we just had a client today that we're pulling off a Facebook platform entirely because there's a bug in their account that won't let them pay. Like their cards won't go through. We already were on the phone with one of their people. They said, oh, yeah, it's a bug in the system. We'll fix it. And then we got sent back to the beginning of triage. And now we're having to argue our way back up to the top about fixing an issue that we shouldn't have to fix anyway. Right. It's their problem. And so I think I still have clients on that app. I'm still on that app. We still post content on that app. But the reality is, is that if I had my choice, I would I would cease my relationship with Facebook today. I think there's just far better platforms out there. Yeah, and who knows, maybe the next year or two, there may be a new platform that may be rising the ranks in terms of switch engine optimization, randomization of advertisements and also the efficiency of advertising promotion, too. There's potential for that for more competition. Oh, yeah, there's I mean, there's always a new platform, right? Just this year, there was Lemonade that came out that focused more on it. They're kind of like a Instagram. I don't know how to even describe them. I mean, their their target is kind of the Pinterest target where it's like mostly women. But there's also Clapper, which is a U.S. based TikTok alternative. TikTok has been crushing it with ads. We've made most of our money this year from TikTok ads. And we've been we've been helping clients run ads successfully in that space. So, I mean, there's there's just tons and tons of opportunity now out there. And Facebook has gotten so bad and the results from Facebook have gotten so bad that now when people ask us, the only people we put on Facebook are people that can't afford to play in some of the other ball fields. And it's like it's sad that, yeah, you can't afford to play in this. But if you need to do something, you know, something's better than nothing. But certainly if you have the money, I would not I would not give Facebook a dollar. I don't think they've earned I don't think they've earned anything in the last three to five years in terms of they have not released anything. That's really impressive. I'm sorry, but the Oculus meta world is not that impressive. Like and if it was, we'd all we'd be doing this podcast interview. They're not not on Spotify. Right. Like that's just the reality of it. So I just don't I don't think they've earned it. I think they're kind of in the same situation Apple is, is after Tim Cook left. Like Apple has not really innovated much at all. Like their stuff looks almost identical as it did a couple of years ago. I have a three year old phone that can still outshoot most of the new iPhones in terms of quality as an Android. So I just think that those are Facebook's in the same bucket is like they had all their innovation front loaded where they did all this cool stuff early on. You know, their first real social platform to have ads. They started that trend. They had Instagram, you know, they did all this stuff. And now the only real value they have is just copying off of other people. Like, you know, what they did with Snapchat, with stories, what they did with Twitter, with threads, what they did with reels, with TikTok. Like they're just they're just thieves now. They're not really creating anything new. Yeah, there's a platform you can guarantee Metta will create its own alternative to it. Oh, yeah, 100, 100 percent. Like because I think they see the writing on the wall like Metta is not long for this world. Like you were asking, what's what's something that might not be here in five years? There's a good chance Metta is not going to be here in five years. Like the only reason that I have more faith in them than pickleball is the fact that they're sitting on a lot of money, but that could dry up. Like if they don't start innovating and coming to the market with something new, something exciting, something that people can actually like get behind. I don't I don't think they're going to be, you know, pickleball might be gone in five years and Metta might be gone in six. Yeah, I think I think Metta might have my last little bit longer, because again, the money and also they have like all they have at least one alternative to every major platform there is. The thing is, if there's more competition and Metta's alternative starts to fade away, then you know, it's over guaranteed, period. Oh, yeah, well, I think the other thing is you have to keep in mind that the the Metta demo gets older and older and older every day, every week, every year. They're not attracting young people at all. Like young people are going more. And this is the funny thing. More young people are joining Twitter, which is just as old as Facebook, practically. But they're more attracted to Twitter than they are to Facebook, because Facebook's Facebook's where your dad's at. It's where it's where your grandma posts pictures. You know, it's where your uncle posts conspiracy theories like that's what Metta is. Metta is not like not the hip, cool platform anymore at all. Yeah, so, so sad. Yeah, fall from grace. But, you know, that's if there's a great chart out there that shows the cyclical patterns of social media and, you know, once they peak, they never regain. There's never been a company in the social sphere that has ever regained their peak. Once they peak, it's over and like people start looking for the next thing. And I don't know if TikTok peaked yet. I'm guessing they're probably edging pretty close to it. But there's still a lot of growth on that platform. So I'm still bullish on on TikTok. But like, think about Snapchat. Snapchat was five, 10 years ago. That was that was a hot ticket. Now, like, I don't know anyone that uses Snapchat. Yeah, and that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on, Drew, talking about Growhouse and everything, marketing and advertising based stuff, everything else has been great. Yeah, thank you so much for having me on it. It was a very interesting interview. I can't say I think you have asked at least 10 questions that I've never been asked before. So it was very fun doing this. Yeah, it sure was. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Crypto Kingpins: The War Between SBF and CZ
"It's been almost one year since FTX collapsed and created a horrific ripple effect in the crypto industry. Sam Bankman -Fried and Chengpeng Zhao have become key players in this incident, and a new podcast goes behind the scenes to tell about exactly what took place. With SBF's trial ramping up as we speak, we're pleased to welcome Tom Wright, one of the creators of the new Crypto Kingpins podcast to the show, to share some insights. So let's go ahead and get into it today on our episode number 697 of the Bad Crypto Podcast. Five, four, three, two, one, go. Who's bad? Well, what do you know? Once again, it's the Bad Crypto Podcast, the show for the crypto curious and crypto serious. We had a week off because I was traveling en France, and was Travis keynoting at a crypto event in Manila. He was the thriller in Manila. And how was it, Trev? I tell you what, you know, I think I maybe made a quote of this before. Somebody said, go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. And I do think in Puerto Rico sometimes it's like, you know, the natives tolerate, they don't really like the gringos, but they tolerate them. And then there's some people that'll throw hate. So, but in the Philippines, oh my God, they are so open and welcome and kind. And like, hello, sir, how can I help you, sir? Like just most lovable people, probably that I've ever encountered in the world. Thailand, the same, very nice people. Not a lot of crime in these places. I think maybe the Buddhist nature of that. And they're like, oh, you know, and it was so nice, very nice. And the keynote was great. They had me kick off the whole conference. So the founder came up, Dr. Donald Lin, he came up, did a little thing. And boom, then they had me kick off the keynote. And I think it was one of the better ones that I've done. I think it'll be up on YouTube here shortly and we'll share the link when that comes available. I had a few people come up and tell me it was one of the best keynotes they've ever seen. So I was like, ah, you've not seen very many keynotes. Perfect answer. Well, I'm sure you did a fantastic job and represented the Republic of Bad Cryptopia. So, you know, it's hard to believe that it's been a year since the dominoes started falling. You know, Luna was first, then FTX and Three Arrows, and then Celsius. And it's just been, it's gonna be a bear market anyway, but boy, the downward pressure exerted by these, you know, horrible black swan incidents have made it a really, really bad bear market. And of course, we've been here with you guys throughout it all. We've not abandoned you. We've not turned into bears. It was like a kick to the ass, a nudge, an elbow to your face, and then a kick to the crotch. And here we are. And the bear markets can be - Here we are. Here we go, sweetie. It was fun, fun times. Crypto goes up, crypto goes down. Or as our next guest would say, number go up. You mentioned that book right there. So we're gonna have a great conversation here with maybe my long lost relative, Tom Wright, who's been doing, who's an investigative journalist, gonna talk about what happened with FTX and SBF and CZ. And he's got his own podcast around that, multiple topics or multiple episodes. So you're gonna want to tune in. This is a pretty good interview, Mr. Joel Kopp. I think so. Let's let the people decide as they listen now. Unless you're living under a rock, you have heard the names Sam Bankman -Fried and Chengpeng Zhao, or CZ, of Binance. And you've heard about the fall of FTX. Well, Sam Bankman -Fried's big trial for basically making off with countless billions of dollars is coming up shortly. Scam bank man fraud, right? That's the guy. We have a guy with us today who is the co -founder of Project Brazen, a journalism -focused content studio. He's a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer finalist. And his name is quite similar to Travis Wright's. His name is Tom Wright. We're talking, it's two T Wright's here today. There's two TWs here today. And Tom, welcome to the Bad Crypto Podcast. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, tell us, just kind of give us a little more meat on the bones of your background and how that led you to this new podcast called Crypto Kingpins. Well, I was at the Wall Street Journal for about 20 years, Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal in 2019 after writing a book called Billion Dollar Whale, which is about the one MDB scandal. That's the scandal where a bunch of money was taken out of a sovereign wealth fund in Asia and used to make films like The Wolf of Wall Street and for all these guys to party on this fraudster Joe Lowe's tab. Clearly people like Paris Hilton and big actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and others. And then the guy who I wrote the book with, Bradley Hope and I quit the journal and set up this company Project Brazen. And what we do is we make podcasts and we also write magazine articles and other things, books as well, that we use as the basis for adaptation into TV and film. So that's Project Brazen, that's a business. And our latest podcast is Crypto Kingpins, which we've done in conjunction with USG Audio, which is Universal's audio. And that just started rolling out last week and the episodes are running weekly on Tuesdays. And it's about the huge rivalry between Changpeng Zhao, who you mentioned of Binance, and Sam Bankman -Fried of FTX and how that rivalry played out and how it led to the downfall of SPF. And we went based on exclusive access to CZ himself. There was some interesting stuff that was going down with that. A lot of personality clashes and then just like, oh, CZ is gonna come in and save the day. Oh no, he's not. Because it looked like he got some, he was feeling the heebie jeebies. He was looking at some stuff and going, whoa, we better get rid of all of my FTT because this ain't working. And so this is great. We're talking about some of the big crypto frauds, right? That's what you've done. You know, actually, since Joel and I have not done this show as regularly here in the last couple of weeks because of travel, a documentary just came out about Ruja Igniktova called The Crypto Queen on 2BTV and I was in there talking about that. So I'm featured on that. So it's like, it seems like there's a lot of stuff going on right now and I'll put that in the show notes if you guys wanna watch The Crypto Queen documentary. But this is fascinating. There's so many bad actors in crypto. Hopefully we can get past this and only the good people remain in crypto. The fraudsters are kicked out. Hopefully all the good people haven't left and are chasing dreams in AI now. So hopefully there's still some good foundations here in the crypto space. Well, we got into this podcast because I'm based here in Singapore and for a long time, CZ was based here. And what he was hoping to do was get a license from the Singapore government. I mean, a lot of people were here. Do Kwan of Terra Luna was here. Carl Davis was here. The Three Arrows guys were here. Their yacht Much Wow that they bought, I think was supposed to be in the marina here but never made it, as you said. A lot of people getting washed out of the system. But anyway, I got to know CZ because he was living down in this area called Sentosa Cove which is a lot like Miami. You know, it's big mansions with a marina. And at that time, now what a lot of people do know about is what happened last November, which you just alluded to, which is when CZ decided to sell his tokens and that caused a world of pain for Sam Bagman Frieden FTX, right? But what people don't really understand is the degree to which CZ and SPF had interacted over time. People know that the Binance was one of the big first investors in FTX back in the early days. They took a 25 million stake for 20 % of FTX. But Sam really looked up to CZ. Obviously CZ and Binance go back to 2017 and Sam didn't set up FTX until a couple years later. And we show in the podcast how CZ first met Sam when Sam invited him to this party in an aquarium in Singapore in 2019. And he was just a trader, one of many traders. I don't think he was a VIP trader, but just a trader nonetheless on Binance. And so that's really when the story begins and that's how we start the podcast by showing that relationship and how it evolves and then all of the stuff in between that initial meeting and then what happened last November, which was what we call the kill shot. So he kind of went from being a trader to becoming a traitor. We're gonna talk about some of that political stuff that he did down the road, which was really crazy. It's like you look at some of this stuff, Joel, and I go, man, anybody else was doing some of this stuff where they hadn't have donated so much money to the political parties? There's no way that you get taken out of a Bahamas prison and then immediately brought to America and then released on a first class flight to fly back home to go be with your mommy and daddy if you've done this amount of fraud. So there's so many different nuances to this story. I can't wait to get into this with you. Well, the most amazing thing about that is he was released on a $250 million bail, which was I think the biggest ever bail in American pretrial history. But was it really? It wasn't really like they didn't actually pay that. No, their house is not worth $250 million. I didn't quite understand that it was backed by their house, but that was the, I think they judged him a very low flight risk based on how recognizable he is. Yeah, did they think that house would be a collector's item someday or something? With a future value of this home, yeah, that's crazy. So do this for us. When everything went down, kind of set the stage for what happened that day when this story broke. How much money were we actually talking about? How many people were impacted? And just how far did the ripples extend? Well, I think it's November the 2nd is when this CoinDesk article comes out, which basically says, look, the Alameda, which was Sam's hedge fund, FTX's hedge fund, its financial situation isn't all that it looks like because somebody inside the company leaked these documents to CoinDesk. And they showed that they were heavily reliant on FTT tokens, which were basically a cryptocurrency that Sam had made up and bought himself to prop up the value. And then if you took those out, they were about almost a half of the total assets of the hedge fund. And so at that point, CZ is pacing in his penthouse in Dubai where he left Singapore where I got to know him and he moved to Dubai.
Level After Next With Katie Barnett
Fresh update on "bradley" discussed on Level After Next With Katie Barnett
"I love that, I love it. And so other than true fans, what else do you have going on? Like what can I send people to? I know you're on Clubhouse. What are you doing on your YouTube channel? Can you help me? Oh geez, just learning. Just kind of learning like about my content style. I have a lot to give. I feel like I know that, that I've got a lot to share, but I don't know. I'm learning, we'll put it this way. I'm learning how to package it all up and use all this camera equipment and script, right? And get it out of my head into a more presentable fashion. So I'm learning kind of my voice as a creator myself. I'm in this year-long experiment or I'm not even really looking at numbers or anything. I'm just giving it a shot and sort of learning as I go. So my hope for that is just to give a ton of value away and make a lot of new friends and connection opportunities. I'm right there with you. What I have to say and give about stuff, truly. So that's been fun. And it's been a lot of learning, like both hardware and software and just the mental and physical obstacles of being consistent with that. But I'm having fun in the process. And then, yeah, I own, I'm a partner in a company called ercapprove.com, which is more so in the financial realm where we, have you ever heard of ERC before I even dive into it? So the ERC is called the Employee Retention Credit. It is a tax credit, not a loan, that was created due to the pandemic, essentially. So all these businesses got wrecked because of various things, supply chain issues, government ordinances and rules and such. They lost employees, right? They showed revenue declines. There's all these qualifying things that if a business owner with W2, excuse me, employees faced, they can be awarded up to $26,000 per W2 employee. So because that's complicated for people to do while they're running a business, we built a service that helps them do that and maxes out what they're qualified for. And if they do qualify, they don't pay us anything upfront. We give them, or we take a 20% fee in lieu of helping them submit their package to the IRS on behalf of their business. And we take a service fee for doing that. So that's one business, that's ERC approved. Yeah, and then I own a couple of software platforms where I more so kind of sit on the board on some that we've built and we own equity in, but I don't have to go into all that stuff. No, I just love it. I think it's incredible. And it's been what, like 10, 12 years and you've just kind of built this huge new world for yourself as far as a career goes and it's continuing to grow. I just find that so, I don't know, inspiring and impressive. And it's exactly what I love to share with my audience is like, is just that. So, I mean, I would just love, a lot of times what I ask my guests is like, we talk so much about these big things that people do. And it seems that every guest has had this huge shift, right? And we decide like, hey, I'm not actually just gonna sit here, do the thing five to nine, not be with my family. I'm gonna try and create something bigger. And I know a lot of people listen and they're hearing it. They're just not hearing it for themselves. And so what would you say for those people? It's your responsibility. It's not up to how you feel about your response to your ability. You know, if you have a song to sing, a dance to dance, a gift to give, and you're not doing it, you're going to regret that when you're older and becoming older is a lot closer than you think. It's the reality. Like your time is ticking. You don't know how many years you're given and it's a gift. And there's this story about this guy's doing an interview. I think it was Bradley. He's doing like the Zoom interview with a guy and he's like, okay, you know, I'm gonna put, how would you feel if I put $10 million in your bank account right now? And the kid's like, oh man, that'd be great. You know, I'd love that. Yeah, put that in my account, 10 million. So imagine there's 10 million in your bank account. You're gonna be pretty happy. But the caveat was that Brad told this kid was, okay, but the only stipulation is you only get to live one more day. You're gonna take that 10 million? And the kid's like, no, keep it. And I think we would all agree with that. So the reality that all of us are putting life one more day beyond 10 million, we should live that way. So when you remember that story, it's like, okay, you have this day that's worth more than 10 million to you, but what are you actually doing and investing in yourself right, to procure your potential or to build on that potential and your gifts? No one has it all figured out. No one knows the way fully, but the people that are consistently putting a foot in front of the other and failing forward or figuring it out or have this like refined mentality on getting to success requires the pain of progress, they get there and they almost start to enjoy the process more than just the victory or the check or whatever it is. I love that. That perspective is I haven't heard that before and I think it's great and I can't wait to share it and have others hear it as well. I mean, that's exactly it and it's true. We all do value every day more than we realize, right? So I just love that. Well, okay, so we've got, I'm gonna put every different way to reach you. What are you up to on Clubhouse? I haven't been on Clubhouse in a while. How's it going over there? I was on there more to like explore initially and it had this big hype wave and then it just like crashed. It felt like people ran out of things to talk about. I don't know, or maybe like Twitter space has wrecked it. So I'm on there, pretty much everywhere on social media, it's at Tim Brannion. My website is timbrannion.com. If you're in the state of Indiana and you want some free state or federal help, you can hit me up on LinkedIn is probably the best place, Tim Brannion on LinkedIn. Going back to Clubhouse, you know what I think happened is like people just no longer could be live anymore. It got huge during the pandemic and we were all sitting around and could be live. It was such a cool idea at the time, the same way that all of these network marketing companies exploded because people were just sitting home and they're like, sure, I'll attend your online party. And then nobody really wants to do that. At the time, the idea of taking podcasts live was exciting and cool, but now it's like people would rather listen on their own time. I kind of hope that that's the case to some degree that we all unplug somewhat. And this is coming from a guy that owns software companies and social media. Like I think I'm curious and I'm always like watching consumer behavior people to try to figure out where to solve problems or serve or what's needed or wanted, where areas need improved. And I'm curious, I'm really deeply curious what the next even five, 10 years looks like with the dawn of some of this AI technology and how that's gonna impact social media. Yeah. And everything.
Dateable Podcast
A highlight from S17E5: Should you stay or should you go?
"Hi, I'm Yui Xu and I'm Julie Krafcik. We're active daters turned dating sociologists here to dive into everything modern dating and relationships. Welcome to the dateable podcast. Welcome back, friends. We are you and Julie back for more of love radio on a one point five FM. People are like, am I in the right place right now? That was a good sexy radio voice there. Here to answer all of your love questions. Is this what you do at night at practice? How do you know? Have a side gig? You know, that's what I did. I used to listen to a lot of late night radio in high school because that was kind of our podcast back in the day. Yeah, I was like, does this actually exist? OK, so this is a story I won't like out our friend. This is a mutual friend of ours. I don't think you know the story. She wrote it to Dr. Drew. This is what she was dating her husband at the beginning. And she was unsure about was he ambitious enough? Was he a career driven enough? And she called in the late night radio. They put her on air and heard it. And they were just like, shut the fuck up. Like this guy treats you great. Just get over it. And it helped her move forward. Look, I know she's married to him, so it worked out good for Dr. Drew. I used to give shout outs to boys. I had crushes on on the radio. Did you ever do that? No. I'd be like, is there someone you want to give a shout out to? Dial 1 -800 -da -da -da -da -da -da. So I did that. I remember doing that. There was a guy named Bradley. I was so madly in love with him. And I used to give him shout outs all the time. He didn't even go to my school. I don't even know if he knew my name. I'd be like, this message is for Bradley. This is UA. I just want to say I really love you from afar. And if you get this message on air, give me a call. And I would give my phone number and the radio station would be like, beep, beep, beep, beep. Like, little girl, please do not give out your number in public. That's amazing. Did I tell you I used to work at a radio station back in the day? What? Look at that foreshadowing. I was at the promotions department. I wasn't actually on the on air team at all. But yeah, I guess there was something there. All that to set you up to talk about this very deep topic today. Oh, yes, it's a good one. We're just doing another one of those episodes where it's just Julie and I to discuss a topic that we have such a strong interest in. So you'll hear our voices on this episode. Yes. You know, this is a topic that we feel very, very strongly about. But we did a call out in our Facebook group of what type of topics are you interested in for this upcoming season? And someone put this down and we're like, this is a good topic. Like, what is the line of when you should stay and try to, like, make something work versus leave and go? This topic is such a popular one because we are told such contradictory messages about relationships. On one hand, you're told relationships are hard. You got to work at them. And on the other hand, we're told when you're with the right person, things should be easy and you shouldn't have to work too hard in the relationship. But once you're in a relationship and you feel like you're really trying hard to make it work, what is that point of saying I've tried hard enough? I've tried my very best. I've tried everything and it hasn't worked. Yeah. So it's time to get out. Or is it the point of like, we could try harder? This applies to when you're in like the committed, full on relationship. And I think it even extends earlier. We hear of people all the time being like, oh, I went on one or two dates, should I go out with them again? You never know. Like, when is that inflection point that you should give something more of a chance versus cut your loss and try to meet other people? And I think the other piece of this is so often there's a camp that doesn't try hard enough, right, when things get tough in a relationship or when, you know, maybe it's not fireworks or the spark at first sight, but then on the flip side, I've been here before. I don't know about you, UA, but like when you overstay and you know, something's not working yet, you just continue to try to make it work. And we see this all the time, especially like when people are in situationships, it's like, oh, if they only see how good of a partner I can be, I'm going to just keep trying to like make them see what they could be missing out on instead of just being like, this person doesn't want the same thing as me. I'm going to move on. How many times have you talked to someone who've been in a long term relationship and you ask them how long it was, and they always say two years too long or one year too long or should have ended at the second year. And I would argue that there is no overstaying in a relationship. I feel like the overstaying years are the trying years. You're just trying, right? We only think we overstayed in hindsight, but when you're in the relationship, I get it, like you really just want to try your very best. So as we go into this conversation, maybe we can just get that out of our heads. It's like, you're not overstaying. You're just trying to work through the entire process. I agree with you in most scenarios, but I do think there are some when like you're clearly not on the same page and some of it's in fantasy worlds. And I've been there before and I'm saying this from someone that's been there. Like when someone's clearly not telling you, like they don't want a serious relationship, I've stayed to try to make something work where it's just an uphill battle. And I think we also need to recognize those situations, too, because, yes, if two people are fully in it trying to make it work, I agree with you. But a lot of times that's not the case. And it's like we have selective vision of what we want to see is happening. I wonder about that sometimes, right? Because our conversation today will be about your voluntary decision to leave a relationship. When should you leave and when should you stay? But in some situations, like in your previous relationship, you almost need something to happen or realize something for you to want to make that change. Yeah. And I have a friend currently in this situation. She just cannot see, although everybody around her sees that this relationship cannot last. I almost feel like she needs something externally to happen for her to like really see this clearly. Well, we're going to go through it today. We're excited to dig in very deep, because as you could already see, there's a lot of different scenarios. This is a very wide topic, but we're going to go there. But before we do, let's hear a message from our sponsors. 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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-15-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. All right, Joe Matthews is going to say goodbye to the panel now. Rick Davis and Jeannie Shanzano, love you guys, happy Friday, thanks for another great week of analysis. You will only hear them here on Bloomberg. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. The auto strike is on. Welcome to hour two of Sound On. As the United Auto Workers walk out on the big three, President Biden dispatches officials to Detroit. And we are joined this hour by Neil Bradley at the U .S. Chamber of Commerce, which is calling out the Biden administration for making this happen. Later countdown to the shutdown, we'll spend some time with Bloomberg politics reporter Mike Doerning, who will help to bring us inside the budget standoff on Capitol Hill. And we'll be joined later on by Bloomberg's David Webber.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/25/23
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. I need to know from my Broadway Maven friend Mike Gallagher how many productions of West Side Story have you seen? I think I've seen three and I'm just a pretender in terms of consumers of the compliment. That sounds like an absolute slur. No, no, no. Is that a slur? No, a maven is somebody who is immersed in something, an expert in something, somebody who is well versed in something. Broadway aficionado or as they say in Maryland affectionado. Great, great. Well, last night was a big night. Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight. I do everything for a reason. First answer the question. It's Leonard Bernstein's 120th birthday. I don't know. Close, close. How many times have you seen West Side Story? A few, a lot. It's probably either that or Man of La Mancha or I don't know what is my favorite but it is indeed Leonard Bernstein's birthday born this date 1918. There's a movie about him coming up in November with Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein. A lot of drama about that controversy. Tell us why. Do you know why? Yeah, well he has a prosthetic nose apparently to try to recreate what Leonard Bernstein looked like. He had a big schnoz. He had a honker on him and Bradley Cooper doesn't so they did that but now all of a sudden it's Jew face which is just uncomfortable to say. It's like blackface where somebody white plays somebody black. It's like Broadway maven. No, it's not like that at all. So that's a stupid controversy. Bernstein's own family said we love Bradley Cooper. We love the movie. It'll come out. Now let's talk about the real life drama. The floor is yours, political maven Mike Gallagher. Let's talk drama. You know I love talking about swapping stories. So let me tell you a story. Let me first stipulate. I've got such a splendid team. I've got a team. I was thinking last night, Derek, Eric, Tracy, Adam, these are can -do people. They spring into action. You've got them there in Dallas. You've got Rhonda and of course all your great people around you, Gordon and Matt and everybody. We love to be surrounded by positive can -do people. So last night I get off the plane from Tampa. I'm in Atlanta. It's about 190 degrees here and I say to Derek, Derek, I gotta really hustle. I gotta drop my bags off. Give me the address of where the action is. Tell me where to go because I'm not sure, you know, the Fulton County system where he goes, got it, got it. And Derek goes fast. Sometimes when you go fast, you miss some key details. So he gives me the street address. Now I show up at the courthouse. It's a row of TV trucks. I'm thinking good. I'm in the right place. Look at all these TV trucks. But there are no people. So I'm now walking. Now bear in mind, I'm not kidding you. It is 100 degrees. I'm not exaggerating. It's literally 100 here and the humidity is about 200%. I'm schlepping around, schlepping around the courthouse and I can't find anybody. Finally I see a TV reporter and cameraman. I say, can you tell me where the protesters are? Oh yeah. Yeah. They're two blocks over. Cause I want to interview some people. I want to enter. I'm there to get the action, right? Of course. Of course. And I see a hundred TV trucks. It's gotta be, so I go to us two blocks over. So I go over and there's like a handful of like young people and they're like black and white kids. And I go into the crowd and I said, do you mind, Hey, I'm Mike from Salem radio network. You mind doing some interviews? Oh sure. Sure. I'm glad you're here. We'll talk. And they say, Hey, how are, why are you? They start talking about the police state and the, the, the, the, the authoritarians of the police department. I'm thinking, Oh gosh, I got a bunch of young pro Trumpers talking about the weapons, the weaponization of law enforcement. So then I bring it back to Trump and they look at me and they cock their heads and they say, Trump, I'm like, I said, finally the third kid I interview. And I started to notice there's a, I started to see, well, there's a rainbow flag over in the and background there's a black lives matter flag. This is a strange, this is a pro strange pro Trump group. I said, you're here for Trump. He said, Trump, we're here for Johnny. I said, who the heck is Johnny? Johnny is apparently somebody who was killed by the police. It's one of those police shooting protests. I get on the phone to Derek. I said, Derek, where are the peers? He goes, Oh, are you at the jail? I said, no, I'm at the courthouse. He said, Oh, you're in the wrong place. So now I said, please tell me the jail is a block away from here. It's just cause you're schvitzing like nobody's business. Try 25 minutes away. Try 20. Now, meanwhile, Trattup is, Tom Trattup is texting me saying, you better get there. He's landing. He's at the airport. Trump's on his way. I'm like, now I'm, now I'm running now. By now they've closed the highways because you see for a motorcade, that's one of the dog on his motorcades I've ever seen him. Well, but I want to talk about that with you in just a moment. Because he's just an ordinary prisoner, right? Exactly. Yeah. Just another prisoner. But now I can't get there because the roads are all closed for the motorcade. Cause I've been, you know, hanging out with black lives matter protesters, you know, giving them business cards and show materials. Let's go Donald Trump. And they're looking at me like I'm out of my mind. And then they're nice kids. I mean, they're just upset about a police shooting. Listen, let's put it this way. Let's stipulate Edward R. Murrow in the trenches covering the battle of the bulge. I ain't, I mean me walking around in a hundred degree weather trying to, so finally I get to within about two miles of the jail, the Uber driver Mustafa, who's already annoyed about the traffic. He drops me off two miles from the jail. And as CJ, the great engineer here in Atlanta put it, the jail is in the hood. The jail is in, I'm now walking, well, I'm in the hood walking the whitest guy in America and people are offering me drugs. I've got it. I had a discount on some crack. They're friendly people in Georgia. They're trying to do business with this, you know, white guy walking through the hood, clearly trying to find protesters. So it was unbelievable. And I'm not kidding you. It was, I will put it this way. Let me put this in a very dangerous neighborhood. Okay. And I am walking and I'm walking and I'm cursing and I'm saying I'm going to do things to Derek that third world countries do. I could not believe the position I was in. Anyway, long story short, I finally get there. As it turns out, when I got there, what comes pulling out of the Fulton County jail? The Trump motorcade. So I got video of the motorcade. I saw, you know, the whole procedure. I interviewed a bunch of people, white, black, pro -Trump, anti -Trump, and it all turned out, you know, fine. But it was interesting to talk to all the angry Atlantans who came out to witness this spectacle and they can't believe that their city is front and center in this disgraceful act of the prosecution of Donald Trump. You know, Biden yesterday celebrating the arrest as a great day to donate to his campaign. Did you see that vicious Nicole Wallace at MSNBC? Did you see what she did? Stifling a laugh. She's laughing about the fact that Trump was booked in a jail where two people had died. She thought that was funny. I mean, you know, the great Jesse Waters dressing down Jessica Tarloff calling her out for being giddy about the arrest. It's Christmas in August. It's Christmas in August for them. And as Jesse put it to the liberal on that, this is no time to celebrate. This is beneath you to celebrate, but they do celebrate this because it isn't serious. It isn't legitimate. I mean, this is brutal, just brutal. And, you know, I'm just trying to make sense of it all, Mark, with you and me, and we're trying to understand the enormity of it all. We're trying to survive this. And I will tell you that for people who live in Atlanta, who came in the brave, the heat to stand out there and wave a Trump flag or wave an American flag. I met a guy from South Dakota, incidentally, who came here in a truck convoy from South Dakota and a great. And incidentally, the guy was like, I can't believe I'm talking to you about two years ago. I was yelling at you on the radio when you was out driving and he was the nicest guy. We had such a great visit and we just commiserated about how low we've sunk. Historians are going to look back at this day and say, what were they doing? What did they do? Do you think they will? Well, I won't give you my speech on historians again. Historian is like a constitutional scholar. It's a law. I'm pretty serious, too. It is a lost profession. Historians are political hacks. If Trump does prevail in this, and especially if he is elected and wins, the historians who seem to be working today and dominating today will say that America missed an opportunity to heap accountability onto an evil leader who is elected by the enthralled cult worshiping masses. That's what today's brand of historian will say. I pray to God historians pull their heads out and realize what is happening. Well, I saw Jonathan Turley when I got back to the hotel and I put the cold compresses on my forehead and I got the smelling salts and I sat in the cold tub for two hours to try to recover. Again, a war correspondent I ain't. Jonathan Turley said something last night to Sean Hannity. It's a quick paragraph. I want to read this to you. He says, this is a law professor. And oh, and by the way, speaking of social media, Trump's back on Twitter. Back on Twitter. Eighty six million followers. How many likes? I wonder how many? How many views? I'll look while you share the quote. Go ahead. The quote is this is Jonathan Turley's exact words. This is criminalizing the challenge of elections. You have a Democrat prosecutor saying, how dare you challenge a Democrat victory? That's it. And it's been done before by Democrats, including this one. Red State found all these instances of Fannie Willis questioning the outcome of elections. She's done it before. You have a Democrat prosecutor saying, how dare you challenge a Democrat victory? The case is based on the theory that Trump was it was challenging this election illegally was pointed out. This is the eleven thousand. I need to find eleven thousand votes. The way the way she portrayed that phone call. These are Jonathan Turley's words, Mark. The way she portrayed that phone call is evidence of the bias and unfairness of aspects of this indictment. And to the left and to the Trump haters, this is the whole indictment. I need how many? Eleven thousand. Eleven thousand. Jonathan Turley said it makes perfect sense when you're challenging an election to say, I only need eleven thousand photos or votes. That's not a lot in Georgia. That's not criminal. That's making a case for a recount. Especially when the number is especially when everybody woke up and found that things had changed crazily overnight in a number of states. And there were votes that were being counted that maybe shouldn't have something were being not counted that maybe should have. So, OK, in that fog of uncertainty, find me eleven thousand legal actual real votes. And let's see what we can do here. There's nothing illegal about that. There's nothing criminal about that. And that's their whole case.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 1: USAs World Cup Collapse, Basebrawls, Jets Optimism, Life in The G-League and The OC 20 Years Later | with Gabe York and Zoe Simmons
"Coming up, an unexpected two -part podcast cameo from me. It's next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where we turned over Sean Fennesey and Amanda Dobbins' big picture feed to Brian Raftery. It's a narrative podcast called, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. You can find it on the big picture starting on Tuesday. And it is an idea I'm really excited about because it came from a class that I did as a senior in college in 1992. Me and my friend Horgs talked a movies professor into doing a special Vietnam War movies class where we watched basically every Vietnam War movie that had been made up to 1992 and then tried to write a big picture term paper about it. And the thing that was really fascinating about that class and something that stuck with me was just that whole concept of Hollywood reinventing the entire Vietnam experience under the premise of, Did We Get to Win This Time? So we got Brian involved and he turned the idea into an awesome, awesome podcast. I even went and dug up the term paper that I wrote 31 years ago. I thought it was gonna be horrendous. It wasn't bad. I was kind of proud of myself, retroactively 31 years later. Anyway, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. It is gonna be in the big picture podcast starting on Tuesday. So that's one piece of business. Second, new rewatchables on Monday night. It is the 300th movie that we've done. It's a special one. We're doing National Lampoon's Vacation. It was time. Meet Chris Ryan, Van Lathan. Yeah, and Van was pushing for it because we wanted to do Christmas Vacation during the holidays and you can't do Christmas Vacation. If we do National Lampoon's Vacation, super fun. Can't wait for you to listen to it. And we'll be running the video at some point on the YouTube channel, youtube .com slash Bill Simmons, where we put up a whole bunch of rewatchables podcasts in case you missed it. Boogie Nights is up there now. Goodfellas, Independence Day, just a slew of them. So if you're bored and you wanna throw on some rewatchables and watch us make fun of each other, there you go. Last but not least, I don't wanna say this is the most important, but it's certainly the thing I spent the most time on. Our documentary that we did about the G League with Religion of Sports and Ringer Films, we combined, and it is premiering on Tuesday, August 8th. It is called Destination NBA, A G League Odyssey. It's really good. We immersed ourselves into the G League season. We followed Scoot Henderson, Gabe York, Ryan Terrell, Mason Jones, and Denzel Valentine. And the big question was, what is this world like? What's it like to be in the G League? And I am really proud of where we landed with it. And we even have, much later in this podcast, Gabe York is gonna come on. He's one of the five that we followed, and he's gonna tell us what it's like as you're holding on to your dream in your late 20s. We try not to spoil the doc too much with Gabe, but I really liked him. He's probably the guy that jumps out of the doc in the most sympathetic way. So look forward for you to watch it. It is prime video, Tuesday, August 8th, Destination NBA. A G League Odyssey. You love basketball, just watch it, it's good. So there you go. This is gonna be part one of a two -part podcast. Gabe is coming up later. My daughter Zoe Simmons is coming up later because we did a whole bunch of OC stuff on the Prestige TV podcast. I was even on two of the episodes. But I ended up watching season one of the OC. And my daughter was watching with us and loved the show. And she was born a year and a half after it premiered. So me and her broke down season one from the perspective of what is it like when somebody 18 watches the OC, a show that is now two decades old. The anniversary was actually August 6th. And what she liked, what she didn't like, what people aren't doing anymore for her kind of audience. And we just dove into it. So that is much later. First, coming out of the gate, I'm gonna open a six -pack because we have a lot to discuss over the past three weeks, all the stuff I missed. So that's gonna be part one. And then part two, which is gonna go up later on Sunday night, me and Rossello doing this evergreen idea that we've always wanted to do. And this seemed like the perfect time because nothing's happening in basketball. So that's gonna be part two later tonight. Part one coming up. First, our friends from ProJax. What's up? All right, I'm taping this. It is Sunday afternoon Pacific time. And I'm gonna open a six -pack. There's a bunch of stories in sports and culture that happened over the last three weeks. I was just writing stuff down, things that would have been fun for podcast segments. I was just like, man, I wish I could have given my thoughts on that. Just gonna rip through them. So I have six and then maybe a couple bonus ones at the end. The first one, the biggest one, was the US women's soccer team, which lost today in penalty kicks to Sweden, scored zero goals in the last two games, scored one goal in the last three games, and that was off a corner kick. You could feel from the beginning that something was off with this team. It was all the ways. You knew in a checklist of what are the red flags? There were just red flags galore. And the only person who was really calling it out in time over and over again was Carli Lloyd, who was doing the Fox studio show. And she was the one person in the horror movie who knows the house is haunted. And everyone's like, shut up. You're not being patriotic. You just wish you were still on the team. She was right. She was right from the get -go. This team, you could see it before the Vietnam game when it was like, look at the new Nike suits. Look at these new suits. And they're all like styling as they head into the locker room. And they're running commercials. And every player has a commercial. There's players who've never done anything of that commercials. And the vibe was just off. They only beat Vietnam three -nothing in a bracket where goal differential was gonna be super -duper important. And that was a huge red flag. And we did the usual thing that we've been doing since 2019, 2015 of, oh, well, they almost scored a bunch of times. Oh, well, if that had gone in or some bad luck. There was just an arrogance to this team. Like they were carrying themselves like the defending champs, the same way like the Denver Nuggets would go into next NBA season. Like we're the champs. I was like, yeah, you are the champs because the season just happened. The World Cup happened four years ago. Everyone's four years older or wasn't on the team. And you could see they wanted to build the team instead of around the identity of, here are these new up and coming awesome stars that are gonna be in your life. They were really latching on to Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. Alex Morgan's 34, Megan Rapinoe's 37. I think one of the differences between the discourse with women's sports and men's sports is that in men's sports, we grasp for angles. And if somebody is disappointing in some way, we really go nuts. Like think of how James Harden's been treated over the last 12 years. So he's one of the 35 best players ever and has taken just an incredible amount of shit. Oh my God, the playoffs, look at his game log. Oh, he choked again. Alex Morgan, who scored twice in her first two games in the World Cup in 2011, she scored once in 2015 in seven games. She scored six times in 2019, five against Thailand in a game that was 13 to nothing, one in the other six, and then scored nothing in the four games this time around. If you take away that Thailand game, she has scored two goals in the last 17 World Cup games. This is the striker. This is the one who's supposed to be the most dangerous player in the field, who's supposed to produce goals. And she hasn't produced goals since the mid 2010s on the national level. And yet it's Alex Morgan. She was supposed to be the next one. We got to keep propping her up and pretending she's a superstar. She's not a superstar. She's really honestly never been a superstar. She certainly hasn't been as impactful as somebody like Abby Wambach was. So you have the team built around her. She's got to play. They play her the entire game, game two, the entire game, game three. She plays like 95 minutes in this game today, and they don't score goals. And the announcers just won't talk about it. It's like being on an AYSO team that your kid's on, and the coach is playing somebody at striker, and everyone's like, why don't they play Sally at striker instead of the coach's daughter? It's like, oh, you know, the coach's daughter. She's got to play there. So you have that, and then you have Rapinoe, who's 37 years old, who's just, unfortunately, great career, legendary, true legend, huge big time player. And when you hit your late 30s in soccer, it's a wrap. She looked like Yudana Rapinoe, not big Rapinoe, and comes out for the last 25 minutes of this game and can't do anything, and then misses the penalty kick. That's the thing. If you're beholden to past performance, you can't expect to succeed in the moment. And I did feel like, what were this team's strengths? Speed. They had Sophia Smith, who really was bad the last three games on the left wing. Like, she just, she couldn't even connect passes. Trinity Rodman, who's a beast. Lynn Williams, who's super fast and athletic and had some really nice moments the last two games. And then Alyssa Thompson, who's the prodigy, who's the, you know, potential tiger or LeBron of this team. 18 years old, best high school player I've ever had. They won't even throw her out there. But this was not a team that could connect passes. They weren't, like, especially creative. The coaching was just bizarre, and we'll never see that guy again. But it was like, the one thing they did have was speed, especially the forwards, and they just threw that away. And Alex, you know, couldn't do anything. So now they're out. It's the most disappointing finish of the last 25 years for the women's team. And it reminds me in a lot of ways that 2004 Olympic basketball team that we had, the USA team. And I tweeted this, I think after the second game, because that was a team that was between eras, like this one was, where all the best players on that 2014, the ones in their primes, weren't that good, except for Duncan. And Duncan was completely banged up. He'd played so many NBA games the last couple of years. I think his knee was hurt. But, you know, it was Iverson and Marbury. The talent, it just was a between eras. And you had guys on the bench, like LeBron and Carmelo and Wade, who were four years away. Kobe wasn't on the team. And it just felt generationally, like we caught that team in the wrong time. The style was wrong. And we learned all these lessons and we moved on. 2008, we win. There's a documentary about it. But this team felt like it was between eras. The Alex Morgan, Rapinoe era, which was basically done. And then you have this era coming up with Rodman and Sophia Smith and Alyssa. And, you know, it's just four years from now, we'll probably be fine. But they need to re -imagine this. And I think if you're gonna learn any lesson from this, it doesn't matter what happened four years ago. It's the World Cup. It matters what's happening now. So that's one thing. Second thing. So Jaylen Brown gets this huge contract, $304 million. Some people seem surprised that it was that much money. Chris Ryan even took a shot at it when we did our library watchables. Hurt my feelings a tiny bit. Mainly because I didn't really have a comeback. Rosella did something on his podcast about how this actually makes sense. This amount of money, when you think of how the salary cap has climbed just since 2015, and it's gonna keep climbing. And there's this world you can go into where you think about just how much everything is gonna cost in the NBA four or five years from now, that Jaylen Brown at $70 million isn't actually gonna be that intimidating. The same way we feel about Tobias Harris for $40 million now, or Klay Thompson, $40 million now. Yeah, you don't really wanna pay $40 million for Klay Thompson, but you can survive it. And I think that's gonna be where the Celtics land with Jaylen. Here's why they had to do it. They're the favorites on FanDuel right now. They're plus 470. The thing that made them the most special and has made them the most special for the last five, six years is the Jaylen Brown -Jason Tatum combo. They've been incredibly successful. The team itself has made five conference finals in the last seven years. They came super close to making the finals last year. I have now gone into the what if zone with that Celtics team where what if Tatum doesn't hurt his ankle on the first play? Do we beat Miami? They were close is the point. And when you're that close, you can't fuck around. This is not Bradley Beal resigning with Washington for 50 million a year when everybody knows you can't get past the eight seed with Bradley Beal. This is different. You're trying to win a title. You're trying to keep all your optionality open. The thing that's a little scary about it, nobody seems to totally know if he wants to be in Boston. This is something we've discussed on this pod. It's been floating out there. The fact that he wasn't happy about landing in the Kevin Durant trade rumors a couple years ago. And just in general, where the league is now, where as Woj called it, the transfer portal, where people get their contract first and then they decide what they want to do. And I think for the Celtics, they know they bought themselves a year with Jalen and they are still one of the favorites to win the title. And a lot of it's going to depend on health and Porzingis. You could also, I don't want to make the case, but you might be able to make the case that Brown had a fucked up hand last year. Cause he did. Cause he sliced his hand open. It was bleeding even during the Philly series. And maybe that was why his ball handling went sideways. Listen, you got to do the contract. It just breaks your brain. I remember a million years ago, Sports Illustrated and Inside Sports say every year they would have like a salary issue. And they would talk about these guys are making $1 million a year. And it seemed like so much money. And now where we're heading with the money, plus the NBA is the meteorites deal. The moment any of these guys becomes unhappy, what do you do? Because you're paying Jalen, let's say you're paying him 55 million a year. Plus he is the trade kicker, which the team has to pay. Right? So if he decides after a year, you know what? I'm tired of being the scapegoat. Everybody loves Jason. I'm like the middle brother of this team. I want my own team. I want to go to Houston or Atlanta. You got to trade me. What are the Celtics going to do? On top of who would want out, you don't have a lot of options and you turn into what the situation Portland's in with Deem. And then on top of it, it's so much money. It's impossible to get any sort of a fair trade for the guy. So they had to do it. And optionality the that comes out of it is frightening. I remember in the early 2000s, when the first time the contracts kind of went nuts and you would see that people get signing like six -year, $100 million deals, seven -year, $110 million deals. And the Celtics really, really stupidly traded for Vin Baker. One of the worst trades of the last 30 years for Boston Sports. A trade so bad, you knew it instantaneously. And I wrote a piece that you can probably find somewhere in the ESPN archives about it, where I compared it to the end of Thelma Louise when Harvey Keitel is running toward the cliff trying to stop the car from going off the cliff. That's how I thought about the Vin Baker trade when it happened. Then it happens and you just had this salary albatross. It's a salary cap league. And you're like, wow, we just threw away 20 % of our salary cap on this trade. There's going to be a couple of those that are just franchise killers. And whether that leads to them bringing back the amnesty clause, who knows? I wish, I've made this, I've had this idea before. I wish that they had a rule in there that if you drafted a guy, every year that he stays in the team, you get rewarded in some way from a salary cap luxury tax type thing, right? So Jaylen was 2016 draft, this would be his eighth year. Maybe like after the seventh year, because that's usually like the third contract. The guy stays in the team, maybe each year after that, he doesn't count for 2 % of the luxury tax, up to like 30%, something like that. The point is the Warriors should be rewarded for keeping Draymond and Klay and Curry from a tax standpoint, that they were that smart to draft those guys, keep those guys together. They should be incentivized, the players, to want to stay with them because there's some luxury tax stuff that the team gets. And the team should want to be incentivized to take care of those guys because it's also beneficial to them. I just wish they figured out some version of that rule. Anyway, Jaylen was always signing for $304 million. Talk to me in a year, I'll keep my fingers crossed. Next thing, I missed the running back pity party. This was crazy. The running backs all got together and they were really upset about how much money they made. And I don't know what to tell you. There's too many running backs and not enough running back spots. And I don't know if you're trying to build a responsible salary cap team in a collectively bargained era, why would you spend $30 million over two years on a running back unless the running back was awesome? Nobody even wants to spend more than $11 million on running back. So I knew that this was crazy when Damien Harris, who was on the Patriots, who I thought was really good. He's maybe not an elite running back, but a good running back, right? Somebody that if he had been on the Chiefs, he easily could have started for the Chiefs. And he signed with the Bills for like one year, 2 million. And when that happened, combined with Pacheco on the Chiefs' seventh round pick, they won the Super Bowl with him. It's just, this position's devalued. I work on this player, I've been actually working on it the last couple of weeks where I try to rank the players for blue chippers, red chippers, pink chippers, honorable mention, and have this whole point system. And so quarterbacks, Mahomes, who's the alpha of that position, he's worth 10 points. And you could even see this in the point spread. If Mahomes gets hurt, the Chiefs are 10 points, nine points, whatever, less than what they would be as a favorite. They'd switch to an underdog. And you go on down the line. Jalen Hurts, I had him as an eight. I had Joe Burrow as a nine. And you go on, you keep going down, and it's like, Geno Smith's probably a two. But then you look at some of the other positions and you have to value them the same way the salary cap values them and teams value them. Guards, they aren't worth that much. Running backs, sorry, they're not worth that much. My top running back was three points because ultimately running backs don't really matter that much. In the last like five, six years, I would say Derrick Henry was the only running back that you could definitively say, this guy almost won the Super Bowl. Like he was that good. Other than that, you know, it's plug and play, quarterbacks, it's receivers. It's much harder to find the number one receiver. Every team needs one. It's much more tangible if you don't have the number one receiver. And it's much easier to just kind of scrap together the running back position. And yet people went nuts about this. We ironically had this in the NBA with centers. You know, Vucevic, who's a really good offensive player, he signed for 60 million for three years, 20 million a year. And Jaylen Brown's going to make $52 million a year. Is Jaylen Brown two and a half times better than Vucevic? No, it's just, he plays a way more important position. You can only play one center at a time. You can patch together the center position. You could have like Isaiah Hartenstein for $8 million. You could, you know, get Robert Williams for 16. You don't need to spend what Phoenix did on Eaton where they're paying $8 and $30 million a year at center. And you don't really need to do that. You kind of feel obligated if you don't want to lose the asset. But I think the NBA is going to go this way eventually where unless it is Jokic or Embiid, the center or Bam Adebayo, it's a bonus. You could argue that was already an overpay. They gave him a huge extension. The Lakers just gave Anthony Davis $60 million a year as an extension. I would argue that's a little frightening. I feel like you could patch together the center position. What really matters in basketball is having the creator. And this was the argument five years ago with Luka versus Eaton for the number one pick. And I made this argument. It was like, go look at who wins the NBA title every year. It's always the people who have the creator. There's somebody who's on the perimeter of the ball in their hands. Even Jokic, who wins the title this year, he was a creator. He's not a typical center, right? He's basically their point guard on offense who could post up. So this happened in the NBA. Nobody went nuts. And this is happening in football. And is this where football is. If you want to make the most amount of money playing in the NFL, I don't know why you would be a running back. I would be a cornerback. I would be a wide receiver. I'd be an edge rusher. But if you're a running back, you know your shelf life's probably like five, six years. You know the money is not totally gonna be there. Now they're in this, like you have people like JK Dobbins, like, I might hold out. It's like, really? You didn't barely even play in the field. Barkley said he was gonna hold out. And then, you know, probably looked at it. And the money for Barkley is like 10, 11 million. That's unfortunately the market. So you can't fix this. They collectively bargained it. And until we get to the next CBA, I don't know how you fix it. I thought it was really weird. It felt like people had nothing to talk about. And it was like, ah, let's feel bad for running backs. All right, let's take a break. And then I'm gonna finish the rest of the six pack. All right, picking up on the six pack. We're gonna talk a little more football. I talked about the running back pity party. This is a different kind of party. The Jets optimism, which has just been stunning to me over the course of July. I have Jets fans in my life. These are people that usually have no hope and are very reminiscent of the pre -2004 Red Sox fans, just assuming the worst at all times. Why does God hate us? All that stuff. And now they have this crazy optimism based on the fact that they brought in Aaron Rodgers, who I did not think was very good last year, just throwing that out there. I wouldn't say he was bad, but for Rodgers, he was bad. I mean, we thought Rodgers was, he was the reigning MVP and we thought he was still one of the five or six most impactful players in the league. And I don't wanna read stats to you for the next six minutes, but deep balls, he was bad. Turnovers, he was bad. Leadership, he was bad. And the case for Rodgers coming back would be, well, he's gonna be rejuvenated. The Jets, New York City. This is his team. He got away from Green Bay. He's got Hackett back. I get it, but he's also at an age where we've really only seen Tom Brady succeed at a high, high level at the age that Rodgers is at. I was trying to figure it out. I have my QB ratings and I had, you know, the top tier is Mahomes and Burrow and Allen and Herbert and Hertz. Those have to be the top five. Then it drops off and it's Lamar Jackson and Lawrence. And then Rodgers, probably a hair underneath him with a chance to play himself up with those guys. But from what we saw last year, I'm not ready to put him there. So he's the 10th best quarterback in the league, probably. 10th or ninth best quarterback in the league, probably. Well, they have no offensive line. And I don't understand why people keep glossing over this where it's like, hey, Rodgers and Garrett Wilson, he's one of the best receivers in the league and Breece Hall's going to come back and the defense is really good. And it's like, yeah, the offensive line is terrible. Beckton and Dwayne Brown, sure tackles again. And then you have Robert Salah as the coach, who I cannot say I thought that Jets were crisply coached last year. Whatever he was doing with Zach Wilson was insane. No idea if that guy's even a decent coach. So I'm already worried about your offensive line, the age of your quarterback, and the competency of your coach. And that's before we get into the hard knocks curse, because for some reason they're doing hard knocks, the incredible Super Bowl hype already. And then we have the schedule, which is the AFC East has just got screwed by the schedules this year. The Jets, just for quarterbacks in 17 games, they got to play Josh Allen twice, they got to play Mahomes, Herbert, Hertz, Dak Prescott, and Deshaun Watson. And then they also have to play Miami twice. We'll see what we get out of two this year. And then a really good Pats defense. And then Denver, who knows, they might be rejuvenated. So Danny Dimes, they have to play him. It is a brutal schedule, so you have that. And then on top of everything else, you're the Jets. I was there with the Red Sox before 2004, and this is probably just as bad, where you just think the worst possible things can happen is all the time. You're not allowed to have optimism when you're Jets fans. You can be cautiously optimistic. There was an entire Curb Your Enthusiasm episode once, season 10, episode seven, about being a Jets fan. And it was called, I think, the ugly section. Nick Kroll was the maitre d'. And part of the episode was about, he would put these people in different sections of the restaurant, depending on how attractive they were. But there was this other plot, Larry's buddy who loved the Jets, kills himself. And Larry becomes convinced it was because of the Jets, that the Jets killed his friend. This was only a couple of years ago. So now they get Aaron Rodgers, and everything's good. And they're gonna win the Super Bowl. I don't see it, guys. I don't wanna step on my football stuff too much, but I'd be shocked. And Lombardi points out the defense that everybody's ready to compare to the 85 Bears. Lombardi said they had two turnovers over the last eight games last season. So that means something too. I am dubious, to say the least. If you're gonna tell me a tortured franchise actually turns it around this year, I want a tortured franchise that doesn't have expectations. Because the Lions are another one. Everybody's ready to put them in the Super Bowl or close. And the only case for them is just pretty explosive offense. They couldn't stop anybody last year. And the NFC is terrible. But that's another one where is that a fan base that should be super excited and have a ton of hype? The one that's kind of lurking that fits in this group is the Browns. Because the Browns are actually super talented. They're in a winnable division. Burroughs already hurt. And I think they're four to one to win the AFC North on FanDuel, something like that. Their over -under is, I think it climbed up.
One Over
Introducing Bantee Bets: The New Way to Bet on Professional Golf
"We're talking about a new, I guess you could call it a new segment. Really it's a new idea we're testing out here, which we're calling Dancy Bets. The idea is really kind of like the same thing you might hear on No Laying Up where they do their Nuggets Challenge. But basically it will open it up to the Dancy community where you can participate in the same style of betting that we're doing. So what we're calling this is the Open Championship Bancy Bets Edition. And the way that it works is it's kind of like drafting a fantasy team, sort of like daily fantasy. And what you're going to do is select four players to make up your complete Open Championship team. And the way it works is you're going to pick one player to finish in the top 20, one player to finish in the top 10, one in the top five, and then one winner. So you can't use the same player twice. Obviously each player is going to have different odds, sort of for each place where you take them. Shout out to DataGolf for providing us with those odds. And then what we've created is a system where, depending on those probabilities, you'll get X number of points for any of those bets that hit. The player with the most points at the end of the tournament on Sunday is going to win a whopping $250 to the all -new Bancy Pro Shop, and there is some absolutely incredible merch in there for you to go get. So pretty excited about testing this out. Tom, anything I missed there? Any comments you would add on the way that we're going to do this? I just dropped my two bills in the Bancy Pro Shop, and you absolutely get some very good value with the prize we're giving away here. I can't recommend the lightweight hoodie high enough. I've worn that to the bar, to work, to the golf course. I have not met a person who hasn't complimented it yet. And then the vest as well, the quilted Charles River vest. Love that as well. So if you win this week, you're going to have a great week. Yeah, seriously, you'll be the talk of town 100%. And I think at the end of it, maybe you and I can go back and forth on a couple side picks. I know this is, we've been looking at the board, and there are some things that have popped out to us outside of these kind of top finishes, so we can talk about that as well. But I will start us off here. So I'm doing this in real time right now. We're going to send out the link, but it's basically a survey where you can go out and enter one pick per placement. And for my top 20, we'll go sort of 20 to winner. We'll go back and forth here. I think I'm saving some of the big names for the end here, obviously. I think just from a value perspective. But top 20, I did this last week, and I think I might do it for the rest of my life. I'm picking Com Kim. He's going to get me 50 points here, and I think he's about as steady as they come right now, and that's where I'm going with my first pick here. I like that play. He is as steady as they come. He just always finds a way to be around. I don't think he has bad weeks. I think it's honestly something you see from a lot of the Korean players, men and women. Consistency is the name of the game, and he can make a million birdies, so I think that's a good one. Obviously, he had a great week last week, too, so I love that play. I'm going completely off the board with mine. One my of favorite DP World Tour guys. It's not completely off the board. He's the 42nd -rate player in the world, but a lot of haters will say that. That's because he's just owning up the DP points. Ryan Fox has had a pretty good year so far. I could absolutely see him sneaking a backdoor top 20. Data Golf kind of has him right in that. Keegan Bradley, JT, Max Homer range, and really good value just because I don't think people are aware of how good he's been playing in the U .S.
One Over
Introducing Bantee Bets: The New Way to Bet on Professional Golf
"We're talking about a new, I guess you could call it a new segment. Really it's a new idea we're testing out here, which we're calling Dancy Bets. The idea is really kind of like the same thing you might hear on No Laying Up where they do their Nuggets Challenge. But basically it will open it up to the Dancy community where you can participate in the same style of betting that we're doing. So what we're calling this is the Open Championship Bancy Bets Edition. And the way that it works is it's kind of like drafting a fantasy team, sort of like daily fantasy. And what you're going to do is select four players to make up your complete Open Championship team. And the way it works is you're going to pick one player to finish in the top 20, one player to finish in the top 10, one in the top five, and then one winner. So you can't use the same player twice. Obviously each player is going to have different odds, sort of for each place where you take them. Shout out to DataGolf for providing us with those odds. And then what we've created is a system where, depending on those probabilities, you'll get X number of points for any of those bets that hit. The player with the most points at the end of the tournament on Sunday is going to win a whopping $250 to the all -new Bancy Pro Shop, and there is some absolutely incredible merch in there for you to go get. So pretty excited about testing this out. Tom, anything I missed there? Any comments you would add on the way that we're going to do this? I just dropped my two bills in the Bancy Pro Shop, and you absolutely get some very good value with the prize we're giving away here. I can't recommend the lightweight hoodie high enough. I've worn that to the bar, to work, to the golf course. I have not met a person who hasn't complimented it yet. And then the vest as well, the quilted Charles River vest. Love that as well. So if you win this week, you're going to have a great week. Yeah, seriously, you'll be the talk of town 100%. And I think at the end of it, maybe you and I can go back and forth on a couple side picks. I know this is, we've been looking at the board, and there are some things that have popped out to us outside of these kind of top finishes, so we can talk about that as well. But I will start us off here. So I'm doing this in real time right now. We're going to send out the link, but it's basically a survey where you can go out and enter one pick per placement. And for my top 20, we'll go sort of 20 to winner. We'll go back and forth here. I think I'm saving some of the big names for the end here, obviously. I think just from a value perspective. But top 20, I did this last week, and I think I might do it for the rest of my life. I'm picking Com Kim. He's going to get me 50 points here, and I think he's about as steady as they come right now, and that's where I'm going with my first pick here. I like that play. He is as steady as they come. He just always finds a way to be around. I don't think he has bad weeks. I think it's honestly something you see from a lot of the Korean players, men and women. Consistency is the name of the game, and he can make a million birdies, so I think that's a good one. Obviously, he had a great week last week, too, so I love that play. I'm going completely off the board with mine. One my of favorite DP World Tour guys. It's not completely off the board. He's the 42nd -rate player in the world, but a lot of haters will say that. That's because he's just owning up the DP points. Ryan Fox has had a pretty good year so far. I could absolutely see him sneaking a backdoor top 20. Data Golf kind of has him right in that. Keegan Bradley, JT, Max Homer range, and really good value just because I don't think people are aware of how good he's been playing in the U .S.
Revision Path
"bradley" Discussed on Revision Path
"You so much for your time and this opportunity. I'm really grateful, Maurice. Thank you so much. Big, big thanks to Isaiah Xavier Bradley. And of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Isaiah and his work through the links in the show notes at RevisionPath .com. Revision Path is supported by Brevity & Witt. Brevity & Witt is a strategy and design firm committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world. They are always looking to expand their roster of freelance design consultants in the U .S., particularly brand strategists, copywriters, graphic designers and web developers. If you know how to deliver excellent creative work reliably and enjoy the autonomy of a virtual -based freelance life with no non -competes, check them out at brevityandwitt .com. Brevity & Witt. Creative excellence without the grind. Revision Path is brought to you by LUNCH, a multidisciplinary creative studio located in Atlanta, Georgia.
AP News Radio
Pentagon says allies will unite to train Ukrainians on F-16s, but warns jets aren't 'magic weapons'
"The Pentagon says European allies are developing a program to train Ukrainian forces on flying F-16 fighters, but it's also issuing a warning about expecting too much from the jets. There's no magic weapons in war. Joint chiefs chairman Mark milley says for one thing, F-16s are expensive. The jets themselves. And the pilots to go with them and the system costs and the missiles and the maintenance do the math. $2 billion for ten aircraft. The Russians have a thousand fourth and 5th generation fighters. And Ukraine will need a substantial amount if it wants to contest Moscow in the air. The smartest thing to have done is exactly what we did do. Which was spend money first on getting Ukraine air defenses and ground capabilities that have allowed them to hang in the fight. Millie says had the F-16s come first. You wouldn't have tanks you wouldn't have Bradley's. You wouldn't have anti army weapons. You wouldn't have anything else. You'd spend all your money on just that. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Sheriff: Girl, 16, fights off mom to save a sister from being drowned after 2nd sister killed
"A 16 year old South Carolina girl fought off her mom to save her sister. I'm Lisa dwyer. Authorities say a 37 year old mother drowned one of her daughters and their South Carolina home and was trying to kill another child when the oldest daughter was awakened by screams and managed to save her sister, investigators say Jamie Bradley Braun is charged with murder and attempted murder after the early Friday attack in their home on Saint Helena island, the sheriff says bruns 16 year old was awakened by her sister's screams and managed to fight her mother off and save one child, a 6 year old girl, had already been drowned. The teen then ran to a nearby family member's house to call 9-1-1, run as being held without bond. I only said
The Eric Metaxas Show
Discover the Untold Influence of Lincoln on Natural Law
"Delights of your book mere natural law is that you referred to Lincoln and quote Lincoln a lot. And what an extraordinary mind he had. There's just no question about it. Tremendous clarity in how he put forth these ideas you were just referencing one of them. But Lincoln seems to have understood all of this. And it's part of why he didn't appeal to religious arguments against slavery. He thought maybe we can reach more people just from the common sense argument. But you referred to the James Wilson institute. Where is that and how can people find out about that? Well, it's named after one of the premier minds among the American founders. James Wilson said, if we have natural rights, when do they begin? And his answer was as soon as we begin to be, which is why the common law cassius protection and the human being from the first stirrings in the womb. So we named it after James Wilson. We're in Washington, D.C.. We do seminars out there, but we have the James Wilson institute. We have a website, we have a journal called anchoring truths, but we put up the articles I do, but also the articles done by my dear colleague and friend Gerald Bradley Notre-Dame. And many of our former students who are formed now with us, younger lawyers who form with us now the college you might say of this James Lewis and institute, people who want to make this argument and bring it on now into the next generation. They'll be there after I'm gone. And they're my hope for what for this project.
The Officer Tatum Show
Biden's Plan for Global Chaos
"Guys we're in a world of hurt and I don't think we would be in this world of hurt were it not for Joe Biden and that's not to excuse the alleged Intel leaker. I know that we've had, I know that we've had leakers. I know there's Bradley Manning. I'm not gonna call that food Chelsea. I know there's Bradley Manning. I realize we had Bo Bergdahl, remember that big debacle with that trader. If you will, this was a kid. I think based on reports that did something really stupid with, without nefarious purposes, at least for now, that's what it looks like. And he should be punished accordingly if he is found guilty of the charges that are being brought against him. So, you know, so that's that. But I do believe there's a bigger issue at play and I just think that this guy Joe Biden gets a pass and this guy is extremely dangerous.
Mark Levin
Newt Gingrich, Bradley Smith Scheduled for 'Life, Liberty & Levin'
"This Sunday is Easter And if you happen to be settling down around 8 p.m. Eastern Time 5 p.m. Pacific time Or if you're obviously going to be busy you can always set your DVR to record the show We're going to have Newt Gingrich and we're going to have Bradley Smith Bradley Smith is the former chairman of the federal election commission And I already spoke to him he is absolutely fantastic You're not going to want to miss him And nude as his usual fantastic self as we take a broader look at what's taking place in this country and he's always remarkable And they are exclusive to life liberty and Levin on Sunday so you won't see them everywhere But I hope you'll take a peek 8 p.m. Eastern Time 5 p.m. Pacific Again if you're if you're going to be otherwise busy please set your DVR now so you don't forget I know you're going to like the program And I am going to obviously do my open statement And what I'm going to do is pull together all these other Campaign massive campaign violations by the clintons By Obama yes By Hillary Clinton in the last campaign and others And just to lay out how outrageous this entire attack on Trump is and
Mark Levin
International Court Issues War Crimes Warrant for Putin
"Over at mediocre I just in the ICC International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin Over alleged war crimes including unlawful deportation of children There's been nobody in broadcasting certainly nobody Whose conservative who's been condemning Putin for his War crimes as thoroughly as I have You know maybe it's because as somebody who used to watch a lot of these shows and films about World War II the world at war as a young man I would watch these shows and as part of those shows you would see the devastation I would take place I remember watching one of these black and white films Where Eisenhower was walking through one of the death camps I think he had Omar Bradley and Patton with him if memory serves I could be wrong And It was either patner Bradley got sick to their stomach They couldn't believe what they saw the stench was unbelievable even Ike said That he's never seen evil like this before There's a man that let our forces during World War II And I'm sensitive to this And I think about what happened in Rwanda During the Clinton administration when everybody turned their back and 800,000 people Were slaughtered in three months And mostly with knives and machetes and swords I remember those pictures too
AP News Radio
Jet 'trim issues' may have led to deadly turbulence: NTSB
"The NTSB says investigators are now looking at a reported trim issue prior to what the board calls an in flight upset that caused the death of a passenger on a private plane. The NTSB initially reported the business jet experienced severe turbulence Friday now the agency says it's looking into a reported trim issue trimming refers to adjustments made to an airplane's control surfaces to ensure the aircraft is stable and level in flight. The board says a preliminary report will be available in two to three weeks, the bombardier challenger 300 is owned by connects on a fiber Internet company and was traveling from New Hampshire to Virginia before diverting to Bradley airport in Connecticut. State police identified the passenger that died as 55 year old Dana Hyde from Maryland. I'm Julie Walker
Dose of Leadership
"bradley" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"Change, but together we can change the world. Welcome to the bright vibe podcast. Bradley hammer, hammer. See, I screwed that up. Bradley hammer, welcome to the show today. Matt, it's great to be with you. Yeah, great to be with you. We talk pre show. We have a lot of stuff we could talk about. We can talk about business, entrepreneurship, leadership, personal development. You have a website and a business that's called business growth curator and business growth curator dot com. But the one thing that I had the biggest question about is you have something on there called the rainmakers dilemma. Can you talk about this rainmaker's dilemma? If you don't mind, we'll start there and then we'll back up and find out who you really are. But let's start with let's start with what is brain makers dilemma? Yeah, good question. All right, so really what we mean by that is how your greatest strength as an entrepreneur. Can become a debilitating weakness in your business. So I think that there's I see some books behind you. Pervasive reader, I've got a lot of books in my library. I love to read. I've learned so much. And there's a kind of a prevailing ethos out there that you should focus on your strengths. And then delegate all of your weaknesses, okay? Well, here's what I think for founders, business owners, entrepreneurs specifically if they're less than a $1 million in top line revenue. Maybe maybe less than 2 million for sure too. Is that they hear that and they go, okay, that sounds good. I'll do that. Well, what are they good at? A lot of them are naturally gifted at sales, business development, being with the customer, customer service, those type of things. Yeah, of course. And so what ends up happening because that was the thing that they did to get the business off the ground. You had the energy to start it. Well, the thing that actually helped you to start that business and get it off the ground and get it to where it is today. $500,000 in top line revenue, 750 is exactly the thing that ends up standing in the way for you to be able to really grow and scale that company. Right. So win ends up happening is you end up running out of time. As the business owner, our founder. And a lot of them hit this, in some cases, metaphorical, and then in other cases, literal brick wall, okay? Completely. And so, I mean, I'm not the first person to talk about burnout and business, et cetera. But I think it happened to me. So for everything that we do and everything we create, I'm patient zero, right? I was the person. So really, I think about me in the spreader. Exactly. And so, but yeah, I mean, that's what we mean by the rainmaker dilemma. And we think that, you know, how do you go from being the ren mecher to the architect of your business? And certainly, yes, the thing that, you know, I went through some I've begun through a lot of executive coaching and executive training as a participant and they say they say over and over the thing that got you there is also the thing that won't take you forward. I know. And the first time I started hearing about this, the thesis life cycle of a business, right? So you get to a certain point where those very things that you're super good at that made your business start to your exact point are also the things that don't allow you to, I would say, scale, right? Because and then through the leadership training in the books and everything I'm read, the philosophy adopted later in my business career was how can you replicate yourself or how can you replace yourself? If I'm not constantly figuring out who can do my job, then guess what my company can't grow because I'm always the bottleneck, right? I'm always the one keeping us from growing because I think I have to do this thing. And I think that's I think it's a misnomer. And I've heard it so often from small business owners and entrepreneurs. Well, I'm the only one that can do that. Well, I'm the only one that really knows her. Well, if it's going to get done right, I have to do it. And it's like, get over it. I mean, in my own opinion, I'm like, get over yourself, right? Because you're just being arrogant. And you're being stupid. And you don't even know it. But it's like, you can find somebody to do it better than you. I don't care what it is. There's somebody on the face of the earth. They can do that one function specifically you're talking about better than you can. Because they're a specialist in it, right? And what are you running into? Because you're actually coaching idiots like me. So what do you have? What do you actually run into? I think everybody really gets the idea of being able to level themselves up, delegate task off of them. The problem is, as they won't slow down long enough to be able to actually figure out how to do that, and then how to train someone else. A lot of the founders entrepreneurs are terrible trainers. I just don't know how to train people, you know? They're like, oh my gosh, I got to put together, again, system. They're like, yes, I need to have systems. But I don't have time to do that.
AP News Radio
Giannis triple-double helps Bucks outlast Wizards 117-111
"Giannis intend to kupo notched his fourth triple double of the season and leading the bucks past the wizards. One 17 110 to kupo delivered 23 points, a season high 13 assists, and ten rebounds as Milwaukee played a night after seeing a 16 game winning streak come to an end. Javon Carter was 6 of ten from three point ranges scoring 20 points and drew holiday added 19 points. Milwaukee was 22 of 49 from beyond the ark. Bradley Beal had a game high 33 points for Washington, which clings to the final play in birth in the east. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Randle scores 46 as Knicks rally past Wizards 115-109
"Julius Randle tied a career high with 46 points as the Knicks rallied from a 19 point first half deficit to beat the wizards one 15 to one O 9. Jalen Brunson hit a shot with 42 seconds to go to give the Knicks the lead for good, Randall was happy with the way the Knicks handled adversity. It was a big one for us. We needed this, especially coming off the break. We know there are a team that gets all the fast start. So they did that. And we responded. The Knicks out rebounded the wizards 43 to 34 in a game that saw 19 lead changes Bradley Beal and Kyle Kuzma each scored 23 for the wizards. Craig heist, Washington.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Secretary Robert Wilkie Describes How We Can "Clean the Stables"
"Look at what happened in Georgia in Crimea under Obama, what happened in Ukraine under Biden in Afghanistan. And then we have the interstitial of the four years of president Trump, that's because of an election secretary wilkie, and we need that election sooner than we know. Let's talk about your observation about how you clean the statements. It's been done twice dramatically in our history. The first time was in the 1930s with the accession of George Marshall. Yes. And he kept a sheet. And he cleaned out the old tired risk averse generals who had grown up in peace. And he plucked people like Dwight Eisenhower, who was a lieutenant colonel. And made him a Brigadier. He took George Patton from the command at fort Meyer and handed him the second armored division. He was commanding a regiment at fort Meyer. And all of a sudden he's commanding the second armored division. And Bradley, who had been an instructor at fort benning. These people were moved to the top of the food chain. Ronald Reagan sent shockwaves. Through the department, he put in charge Casper weinberger. A veteran of World War II who had seen combat at its rawest. He was given a check, but more importantly he was given the authority to clean house. And the appeasers and the dead Enders were moved out. Programs were put in train. To overwhelm the Soviet Union. So you have a combination of those two. You have the dynamic leadership of someone like a weinberger and then the military foresight of a general Marshall.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"bradley" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"This is like a franchise guy who will dominate and come in and put you over the top to win his championship. I don't know for a while. I just kind of haven't felt like he's asserted that guy. I think he's very, very good. I think you're right to assume that he's not a one a dominant superstar. That's not what he is. And that's not a knocker. I mean, that's very, very, very incredibly rare. Right to be that. But he's absolutely fantastic. But I think it's a combination of things. I think you've got he plays for a team that not a lot of people go out of their way to watch. So there's a little bit of that mystery there to him, right? Where you've heard the name a lot. And you haven't necessarily seen a lot of what he's done. So you assume he's just absolutely fantastic and this guard that is just taking over games left and right. Again, he's very good, but I don't think he's that guy. Then I think you've got the availability piece. His name has been in rumors for so long. It's the availability that makes it exciting. You know, it makes people really pump them. Oh, imagine what this team could be with Bradley Beal. I think that because we've been hearing his name in rumors, I mean, it's been, it feels like forever at this point. So I think that adds to fans of other teams looking at Bradley Beal and saying, this guy is fantastic. If we get him, we're great, you know, that type of thing. I think that element gets mixed into the analysis of Bradley Beal. Yeah, I think there's also a, you know, I teasingly call them points, Twitter, where it's like you see guy scores 30 points. He must be great. I also think there's this assumption of, well, we score a 115 points as a team. We get 30 point score. Now we score a 145. It's like that's not how it works. You don't just throw that on top. Hashtag math. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of the wizards,.
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"bradley" Discussed on Station 17541
"Everyone welcome back to huddle up with gus. We're back in the sixteen thirty one digital new studio one fm for hosting us Are great podcast on their platform and we wanna thank manscaping go to manscaping dot com put into code gusts for all caps and get twenty percent off and free shipping We were talking jesse about You know his his Trying to think about what had happened is like almost like a near death experience. Because you're taking a drug that is ruining like your dreams that you started from when you were three yet. Put you in this place. And i can't imagine the thoughts that the the motions that were going through and then tell me about the moment that if you can remember what really brought you out of all this. Yeah you know. I think in life. Sometimes it's getting blindsided. I mean gus when you're in the pocket the guys you could see coming you kind of brace yourself and you get ready to take the blow but when they bled sentence on the outside and they hit you from behind and that's what this did to me. I mean it shook me to the core and it meant a lot of changes in my life and that ten years. That's a long haul and long though it's a long haul in part charting that progress was just to note because when it's that long you don't always feel like you're taking steps forward but i could go back to the charts and say okay. Look what's happened and starts remembering honestly. I would try jobs in just physically couldn't do it. I mean it was lawn where i took it for the summer three times. I got stepped. Strep throat my body. Just couldn't handle it. And it's like i can't do this yet so i would try to take a step forward wouldn't happen. I ended up going to school. And i realized that will be the least physically demanding years and never read the bible going outside new and i started volunteering in churches and in for anyone thinking about a different career or second career. You know maybe after your first career is over When i'd say shadow somebody. Galileo experience is hard to steer parked car so get involved. I volunteer with kids in. I didn't do much. I didn't know much of the time. Either in that context but i started to get involved. Just serve in something inside. Started to wake up where it's like. This has got some potential night. The it's gonna look like but through internships and again not physically demanding but you know volunteering. Part time i was able then to go to school and take those four years dive in dallas and then ended up going up to you. Receive iowa and i served up there. I was serving his college faster. Hawkeye's so still in the big ten. But now i'm going against the rival except there but i loved it because i knew what it was like to show up on a college campus. At that time my life was good on the outside and in sports grades parties. You know everything was good. And i couldn't figure out what was missing in new to sony. People showing up on campus. I grew up in religious homes and You know in the mid west lutheran catholic relationship with god and so to be able to enter in. I worked with guys like aaron kampman in dallas clark. And you guys that went onto the nfl. We're in our group but used a great time with college. Students and i just noticed Even when i accepted the position so you have to go for a weekend to try to get the position kinda day weekend. And i got into. I just didn't going to be able to handle that weekend. I was still at that point. You know so. Many years later. Where i don't know if i get through the weekend so it was. I was out on a limb trying to come come back and come forward. And i didn't know what my body could handle and in i made it through that weekend. It was like in invited me up in the first year but the end of the first year all of a sudden i just had my strength back and that is such a good feeling. I mean if you've been sick for a while it's like a week or a year your knee surgery when you start to get your strength back. It's one of the best feelings. I felt like that as a gift to be able to. Just try to keep up. The costumes fielded do what i really enjoy. And health is something that can be fragile. Don't take it for granted. Know i had to face it in my twenties. Most people are twenty. You know of limitations. Aren't there and i. I think it it forced me to in some ways Just go face to face with some of the most intense realities. And i don't think i would have grown if i didn't go through this. You know if i posted at great career in england and you know we want some different titles like out. Just become back feeling good but when you go through the valley i mean. There's just things you learn there. You can't learn in the classroom. You can't learn in success and that thing just tested me the core and so. I'm grateful in that sense but it was brutal like i say so who. Who was so when you play sports like we were talking about earlier that you have these mentors. You have coaches. There's people that you can relate to. Was there somebody when you were going through all this that you would call. Yeah and you could just sit and talk to you. Did you have a coach or somebody like that. Yup there was a guy. Jeff jeff johnson graduated from stanford. And i'll tell you I just didn't feel comfortable. Latin guys in and it's like i just can't think of a guy just felt safe enough to even cry in jeff. I just felt like you know. There's a great relationship you can describe it but there's just something about it will you just know and you can be yourself safe. You can just put it out there in in it solid. You know you're going to be loved. Saint page and i just started to shadow. Ask them questions nonstop. But he's patient with me. He had such an impact on my life and my family wasn't too excited. I was going this direction. Just because it's not their belief system. And i i understand that respect that but jeff was someone who is you. Need someone in your corner yell you can go back to rocky and mickey no view on movies but you need someone in your corner that you know has your back that has been Interest in mind in knows how to help you. Take that next force. You can spread your wings and indus discover you know new experiences new gifts and that was jeff johnson He sounds like when we played. When i was with the vikings when we played the packers minnesota i turned around. Adrian peterson. We had scored a touchdown at the end of the game. And i said. I'm giving throw the ball every place like all right. Let's do it. So i literally threw the ball for a touchdown. Yeah jeff johnson. And it's my adrian peterson for you so That's right. that's when you pretend like you can't hear the office coordinator the singles killing feed off each be. Throw it down the field note. We're all day baby. Yeah that's awesome so that is great so tell me about your. I mean it sounds like obviously your professional career was cut short The tell me about your most in your greatest moment that you have that you can remember. I mean you've played overseas. The been everywhere was it at dartmouth. Was it over your professional career. Let's talk about right so tell me about like that because you had to have that moment where you run out right to playing some incredible athletes. Yup yup win when i was in africa. The athleticism's incredible. They're the stadium there. Barbara field. lynn. You step out and play in that stadium. I mean i know there's probably fire codes the it's like everybody comes in there. It is so packed in then to be an environment. Where when i was in zimbabwe in a kind way.
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"bradley" Discussed on Station 17541
"At this level. Some of us are going to continue to play in my junior year. We made it to the final eight in the nc double a. We lost to alexi lalas at rutgers. United talk to him on his radio show. I think i got him to admit that he was fortunate to win that game. He doesn't want to admit that. But you know that taste of success on a high level here the collegiate level going overseas and then that was. The dream is to play in through my coach. I mean there were opportunities different clubs yet aberdeen in scotland. And then there were highlanders blow in that sense imbaba way in that in england there are queen park rangers. And then man you. I mean our coach was good friends with alex ferguson. Who is alleged in the uk so trying to sort through that and make a decision and you know which spot a wide range. But i felt like okay. Have gone to scotland i went back to aberdeen and and was there for three months as well and in training there and i felt like okay. I understood that context. I understood that club in. I wanted to go something very different and so the uk it felt kind of similar at the. Let's go to africa now and There was later an opportunity to new zealand as well but was the choice and it was also experienced life there. I mean you know this was sport. You can travel experience. Different cities or countries coulter's relationships. And you see so much. And i've i've never been in a country. Does poverty drought aides to that level. It's one thing to read about it. But nothing to go there. And i wanted to experience that i wanted to make a difference to help out one tutors students if i could on the side and so that's how we ended up going to zimbabwe but Yeah that was a. That was a big decision looking back. I mean it was one of those. We have different points in our life. There's crossroads and you gotta decide. And there's times where i think we'll what if i would have gone to man you and try to make it there. What what would my life look like. But i don't look back with regrets. I mean i. I look back. And sometimes the best experiences come out of the worst circumstances and tragedy. I hadn't africa That redefined my life and redirected my life in so many ways it was brutal but there are also some amazing things that came out of it. Yeah i was reading a little bit about that. So tell her fans about What happened to you over there While you were in africa yeah. I took a prescribed medication from a physician here to prevent malaria and is called barium. Mathematically inclined based drug. And i took it every week as prescribed and after many months you put the toxic levels of my system in a flood of symptoms came on in. I noticed that i had migraine headaches. I couldn't handle any later noise. And i someone who never has had so that was strange will be double. Vision sweats chills. And then the crazy stuff that happened. Those my heart would start racing in. Here's a few conditions that the drug produced one was tactic. Cardio racing heart. I'd be sitting still like we are now in one hundred sixty minutes like my heart's beat out of my chest and couldn't stop it. And then also atrial flutter and other abnormality skipping beats heart murmur indicating the left side of my chest and it was like am. I gonna make gonna live. I mean this was life threatening for a year. And i flew back because the doctors bob way saw the decline in they said you've gotta fly back what you still got some health and so i came back but the other symptoms as well are crazy. Dreams just weird kinda semi hallucination stuff and then also i because of the lights were off in a room. What my mind we do would just be a bad trip or something and you turn the lights back out and of come back into focus. But i had panic. Attacks zayed had never had before like uh trash. And i never felt before meeting a couple of suicidal thoughts would come in and my emotional was shot in. It was like this drug was just taken over my system. So i flew back the us we paid out of pocket with stanford he listed ten things that could be one of them was the drug and when i heard it i just knew any inside. This has got to be a- and the physicians at that time all said. I need to keep taking the drug because after returned to the states. You take it for a month in that protects you from malaria because you could linger now. I win against their advice instead. I won't take the drug anymore. And we had my blood sent to cdc if toxic levels with drug in my system. And it's a clear conclusion. That if i didn't decide that again that was a decision. I'm not gonna take the drug another month. That drug would have probably killed me and so that months right there. I didn't take the drug i. Of course. I didn't have malaria. It was all side of expert. Medication is probably be who can relate that they've heard stories or maybe they've gone through side effects before and this was like to the extreme and no one really sought comment and didn't identify and so finding out what it was. It was eye opening for me and then of course later on i learned about many other cases with drug controversy on many people want it banned and i just didn't know that go into it. Yeah that had to be hard to. How long were you taking it before you knew for you found out right. It was about four months that i took the drug and then like i say the symptoms all came on at once and when they came on it was a flood and i was flying back within about a week. I was flying back to the states because the decline was pretty rapid. So once you got off at. How long did it take to for you to recover from my life for a year and with those heart abnormalities. I mean it was scary stuff Every night i made move back in with my parents. Never thought it'd be in that spot you know but They would with a baby monitor. They will be listening at night. Like what's going on down there you know and it was. It was out of control and you know making it through. The physicians didn't know what ever recover. Which symptoms would go away in. There was nothing they could give me. Because they didn't want to put like a block or in there because they didn't know how they would interact with the overdose of the drug. And so that could shut everything. Down but the drug inhibits inhibitors. My heart the heart can't regulate itself in. He just didn't know how long it's gonna last how much my heart could endure. I mean i'm great. I was a professional athlete at the time. Because i had to make a chart. That now i can walk ten minutes without my heart. You know over amping. I couldn't even drive because my heart was so sensitive any stimulation would just send it racing. So i was not driving for your. I was just charting. That i could walk up twenty minutes with that heart monitor on. I'm trying to watch it and in so to make it through that year it was here. Here's some of the things that happened for me. Though one is my identity shifted it without realizing it. I had my identity and my performance and that was even on school grade sports the crowds my career in when all that stuff's gone and you've got your identity and that the question. I wrestled with was a who. Am i m i in i had shifted instead of what i do to who i am in for me and i. I realized it was a wide range of listeners. Right now viewers but for me. I actually came to jesus in college. I didn't grow up with the bible religion my family's like thirty one flavors spiritual everything. We got rabbi ex. Catholics atheist so that relationship has started in college but it wasn't deep in during this trial. That's where i realized. okay. I'm gonna find my security in a love that will go away in a presence. They won't leave me. Forsake me and that was an intentional shift. I started some new habits. I let people into the pain. My motors an athlete. As your best foot forward you perform notch. You don't show weakness in so for me to admit like instead of denial. Like i'm scared. I'm worried sad. I'm down. you know in. Let people into that pain. That was new new coping mechanism. 'cause my whole life and i always thrived on you. Just do better you learn and you perform better and that wasn't gonna work here as an athlete to as a professional athlete. Soon as you show things wrong or weakness. Or i need help. Yes oh okay. We're going to get this guy that right buddy l. Coming along right. Yes and that's what happens to so many athletes is at the. Don't want to talk about the they don't want to say. Hey look if. I can just get this help mentally rate right or if i if you could understand me in a different way. It's so hard for us because we can't say that stuff so what happens to a lot of nfl players. They don't put down what has happened. Or what's wrong with them. Like after the season Right give the cool. Yep and then all of a sudden you don't tell them everything that's wrong and then when you go to get your disability afterwards you're like well you didn't have this might yes. I did while not down. So i can't imagine what. How was your team with that. Like when you like reser going through all this you've been a professional athlete transition. Yup as you said had to be crazy because it was hard enough for me yesterday after trying to transition from the nfl. I can't imagine like was like you had the just stop. Yes is no choice in sometimes lights. Go in one way is not going that way anymore in. I saw it with some teammates because in zimbabwe aids was so rampant at the time they were guys on the national team that were like twenty years old twenty one and they were just dead couple months later so they had seen that. Of course i left but you know that transition. I didn't know how to grieve. I'm not someone who likes grieving. Grieving doesn't go natural anyways. Like i don't want a pity party. And i didn't know to enter into some of that grieving and so much loss when your childhood dream when the job you love and i had no position i was gonna step into. I didn't know what career i did have a plan to life. After soccer goalkeepers complaints sometimes to their forty so. I just figured i'd be doing this for like a good fifteen years at love doing it too. I love doing it so i missed it so much and you know trying to discover okay. Well in what are my guests. And what are some of the options. What health and a half. It's so humbling. Because athletes know their bodies and when you lose control of your body especially like an oregon like your heart you know. And then also i felt like i was on the break like trying to keep my sanity and am i going to be in my right mind am i gonna have a body can actually do any work you know and in what options are there. Doctors couldn't say you'll be better at three years. You'll be better at four years. I mean it took me ten to fully recover. I would say that it was very gradual and just little by little if find that say about nine years. It was a turning point where it's like. Okay i really. I feel comfortable in my own skin. Got my stuff back. The symptoms aren't so obvious. Like i'm moving forward now but i mean that's a long haul in no guarantees now as athletes. We train our tails off the training that you had to go through to be a professional athlete. All the lifting running the you know there's always something you're going through. Yes then all of a sudden you're you're put through this other test. Yup did you draw back on all that training like the times that you running in couldn't breathe in highschool right remember. It's great when you thought that you couldn't get it through then all of a sudden you're you know what i mean like. I know i know all those fitness tests that you dread you know they're coming for months. You just work so hard and then you still take the fitness test new. Throw up. I mean that's i don't forget those but i would say is that discipline i see with athletes. People are in the military. Is you develop this discipline and sometimes you learn how to do things. Maybe you don't want to do but they're good for you in. There's tenacity with it as well for me. It shifted instead of the physical endurance and seeing how far it became between my ears. And that was the fiercest battle in. I'll tell you what started to changes. I realized my. I thought i can't control. I mean if it's a negative thought if it's a it's a suicidal to. I can't control that. I thought it comes in but i do get to decide. Am i gonna gonna harbor believe it. Entertain it rejected. And then i'm going to choose my second thought you know what's true what's good in. I can't tell you with the drug. And i don't know exactly how it works but it felt like against storm of negative thoughts all day long in. I want to keep my mind out of the ditch in. So i mean one thing i started doing. I never done. Spores really memorize the bible. Just find some verses that are good something solid in start to merge so whenever those negative thoughts commit. I'm gonna go back to what solid but it could just be also just gratitude astor direct down literally ten things day that became my new habit. Habits are powerful. They're small intentional steps. Big reside really. I had to choose ten day. I'm gonna write down out otherwise over-focus on what i lost now. There was sadness there. But i needed to remember what i do have and i need to stay grateful so i would write down those ten out intensely. Think about those things in. If i could win that battle in my mind than that healthy thinking you know lice gonna come back. Life's gonna move forward is going to be healing but had to guard that in leg. I was guarding the net from the opponents in the soccer balls. I was guarding my mind from the negativity destructive thoughts. The lies discouragement. And it was fierce i was goalkeeper mode. I think yeah. Yeah you were definitely protecting everything about your soul and your heart and everything else. So hey everyone. We're talking with Jesse bradley he he Obviously has told us an amazing story about how he overcame a drug that he was taken for malaria We're gonna come back. We're going to talk a little bit more about us professional career and we're gonna get into what he's doing now and how that hard transition eddie went through has led him to where he's doing today so Don't go away..
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"bradley" Discussed on Station 17541
"To this week's potluck with gusts fifteen year. Nfl quarterback. gus. Ron passion. For sports has taken him on the field and behind the benches play for seven. Nfl franchises with one hundred fourteen. Td's under his belt gust who the players are and how the games are won it every day. You get to hang out with an nfl quarterback case sports fans from the dell and plush six hundred forty one digital studios. It's so snap your chinstraps off kicked to. Hey everyone welcome to another episode of up with gus. I'm your host gusts viraat fifteen year. Nfl quarterback. and i want to welcome you to the sixteen thirty one digital news podcast studio so today. We're sitting here and thank you to sixteen thirty one digital news for for hosting us. I also wanna thank sounder. Fm that's our podcast platform man without them. We haven't been getting the audience you know before we got onto sound or now with sounder. Our audiences increased a new listeners. Have come on in droves. So thank you to sounder and all their new transcription and everything that they're doing and you know we wanna thank In the last month we did a big promotion with man's gaped and so We wanna think manscaping for for letting us work with them and hopefully becoming a partner so thank you to scape And you can still go to man. Scape dot putting my code gusts virata all caps at g. f. r. e. r. o. T. t. e. And you can get twenty percent off and free shipping on any products that they have and they have the new lawnmower four point. Oh now it's not the lawnmower that you'd think but if your guy you probably need it so today joining us as professional soccer player and somebody that i think his story just relate so well to really why i started this podcast and because we all find our path in life so jesse. Bradley has found his path in life and i think he doesn't amazing job of it. He's a speaker. He goes around and tell us his story He s faith is amazing. he's been through many trials. He's been tested. His faith has been tested. And i think he just has an amazing story. He was a goalkeeper in the us and scotland in zimbabwe and joining us. Now is jesse bradley. Jesse how you doing buddy gus. Thanks so much for having me on the podcast. I appreciate you know. I watched you as a player. I always enjoyed watching. You play the podcast. I love that you go beyond the field. You really capture the stories in the journeys of different athlete. So thanks for inviting me on the show today. Yeah yeah thanks for joining me. you know. it's it's a lot of fun to be able to get to talk to people especially from different backgrounds and and we all come from a different place on a lot of times we end up in the same area so tell me a little bit about your story in that moment where you fell in love with sports because i read a little bit about you where it said that you when you were three you are going to be a professional athlete. It has been early for me. You know. I grew up on the campus. He mercy of minnesota the golden gophers probably the toughest mascot but big ten. I mean we had the barn back then with both hockey basketball williams arena was shaking so there was so much passion minnesota winters. You gotta find something real hockey player. So i watched it started to play it but then basketball caught my heart and make the choice. Went with basketball and you know. I told my parents first. Apartment was in the parking lot of the football stadium for the gophers. And so you couldn't miss it. There's maroon and gold everywhere. And i started going to the games with my parents told them. This is what. I wanna do girl up and that never changed. I mean i sports for me I started playing football. I just grab a. Footballs will kid. And that was the quarterback and wide receiver. And catch it the snow or i would put up a nerf hoop and i would be both teams. I was on a kid so you know it wasn't something anyone had to say. You need to get in falls around our neighborhood. We just played all the time to vanclief park and does all the kids were playing out the streets and then of course we found games too but When my parents got divorced at eight seven. I would say that i even put myself more into sports if that was possible because of that pain right there and that loss that void. It's like well. What do i really enjoy life. And i didn't have anything. I enjoyed more than sports. And and so. I played three sports in high school. It was basketball soccer. And i also baseball. But i just couldn't get enough sports. I loved it. Minnesota is a great town. Lit plane for the vikings and living there. I lived in rochester. Then i live uptown. And i've been all over and i you know in the wintertime. Obviously but when we're there for the football season and everything starts reason over one of my favorite things just riding around seeing the pond start freezing overseeing everyone start to get them ready and they were they would clean the snow off the rinks. All sudden. there'd be a bench that there'd be a goal then it'd be lights and it was a minnesota was amazing in. It's it's a great place to play sports some of sports Athletes that come out of their incredible. You're right you're right and you gotta be resourceful so it's ice fishing making a pond. I mean those wintertime's but minnesotans are pretty rugged is well and you know. We had kevin mchale that i watched growing up dave winfield. We were hoping you were going to bring us that long awaited super bowl gusts. You know. I hey i wanted i wanted to. I mean i would love that. you know. But we've minnesota has been so close so many times you know they're they went from me and mild behind and then in two thousand eight and they bring brett farve in two thousand nine and i told coach. Jody it's like just have both of us. We're gonna have eighty years between us like what kind of what team has experience like. How which i get. I know that they really wanted brett. But that which which is fine but man they have. Minnesota has been so close from gary anderson You missed field goal. That has brutal. Yeah oh man. I grew up. You know we would go to the old stadium before the metrodome. The old met stadium. My grandpa is a famous surgeon at mercy of minnesota renown just a lot of pioneering work but he gets season tickets so we would go. Do remember the cigars. I was there in the game where they threw the bottle and hit the wrath. My seat from meddled stadium still. Yeah but tell me like. It's it's like it's colder than green bay. Wanna say because. I've played out green bay. It's been cold. I played outdoors in new york. It's been really cold but cold for some reason.
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"bradley" Discussed on Huddle Up with Gus
"Feel like i get to do that now. Yeah that's great. So tell over fans how they can find you and how they can maybe find where they can come in and follow you or be a part of what you're doing. Yeah that'd be great my website jesse. Bradley dot org. We launched that in the last year in for opportunities like this just to connect love connecting with people. All my social media stuff is there and our churches grace community church in auburn washington. Grace auburn dot com. You can get there from jesse. Bradley nine oregon. Anybody that's just dumb subjects leadership citywide unity Faced off sports soccer Let's do it. I love to connect. Yeah no that. That's that's great. You know. Because i think one of the things that you talked about that you know. I've been married going on twenty six years. We've been together over thirty years my wife and i it's it's not you know when you live with someone and you share with someone. It's not always easy. So you have to like mayo. We've had to do therapy. My wife as a social worker and a therapist in psychiatric nurse. Now you know so. We've been through a lot and there's a lot of love in light of give and take and you have to learn how to do it and you don't really know what i mean like. You said that because you know there was no shame and going to a counselor. Get some help with doctor. And so in every mirror to me got to wills to personalities. I mean even this week. Like i'm trying to put into practice but i'm teaching you know and communication or confidence loser kindness or sacrifice and i mean you've got to make that sacrifice 'cause love includes sacrifices and you know that commitment to each other. It's not just in the easy seasons. It's you don't feel like doing something but you know it's right so you apologize or you know whatever that is to strengthen the relationship and and that's you know but it's even more important off the fields that old saying You know Are they working allen. Nobody's watching. It's the same thing are you working on yourself. And nobody's watching for me. I always wanted to be who i try. It should be who who they need me to be right. Not who i want to be. So that's of why you know i've always tried to do with my family and my kids and and not always great at it. I'm not perfect but you know you just keep trying and it works out. That's right. i've always wanted authentic. Like if i'm going to be one way of public. I should be the same way in private. You know there shouldn't be this big easy to do. It's it's very easy to pressure is tough. sometimes you know and it's it's tough to get over that but it goes back to what you said. You got choices and then you gotta make decisions and then the consequences come from that and You talked heavily about all those things that that projected you down this path. You're on today and sharing your life with your kids in your community. Which i think is awesome. Jesse so i'm enjoying it. I'm grateful for it for sure. Yeah so hey. I appreciate you being a hope. You're still vikings fan and not one of the twelve man over there question you know. No we don't want we don't want to hurt what your community feel bad there but with them like they do call. You know i still. You never leave the team. You grew up with this child. And i'm always pulling for the vice but don't they play the seahawks. It's like who. Am i gonna go for. And then minnesota fan start trash talking. So i'm like all right russell. Wilson's pretty good. Use pretty good so we but it's kind of both hand man. What a sports town seattle is. Yeah in weser is in some of the best food. You can have mazing. I love seattle to incredible city. Great town coming from the mid west midwest winters here are so mild. I mean thirty degrees is about as tough as it gets snow as optional. We go up to the mountains. You know that's cold up there but we could use your help to get us a basketball team. We we need the sonics comebacks man man shawn camp. He was the man back in the day. I live in pittsburgh. We haven't had a basketball team since pittsburgh fish. So it's been you got a lot of super bowl rings over there. He got a few. We had a few. But i don't have any. But i know the steelers do so The jesse man it was it was a great talk. I appreciate you. I appreciate your story. And i thank you for sharing it with us on huddle up with gus today. Gusty new awesome job podcast meager real comfortable. It's a good time so thank you so much for inviting me. Yeah appreciate you I want everybody to go see jesse bradley dot org right at. You can find all his social media. Check them out at his church Follow him as see his past Your speaker you're a great speaker If you need someone to come to your organization You know call up. Jesse's gonna come and he's going to Just give you a great. I don't know how long you speak for maybe an hour. Probably i didn't get there you go. 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Huddle Up with Gus
"bradley" Discussed on Huddle Up with Gus
"Just like none other. It's no joke. We had to plug in our car. And i didn't come from a wealthy family but we've plugged in our car at night in. It still took allowed to get started in the morning. The car doors would freeze. And let's say one of my parents drove us to school. They brought a bungee cord. We'd leave a passenger side up front and you're gonna bungee cord. Hold the car until it warmed up enough and you could actually close it so yes. It lives up when i lived in iowa. I thought this is balmy. Compared to minnesota i played lots of pranks on people in minnesota with a nice frozen tundra up there the cold you know just from freezing dot guys close and putting them back in the lockers the anderson and it was a lot of fun but not so you say that you said that your parents were divorced when you were seven In sports is a big passion and one of the things for me is that i hear from a lot of people that sometimes that when you play sports you you you you kind of get a mentor from coach somebody that that you connect with jeff. Somebody like that you know. Obviously you dad. Your mom and i did too but there were still coaches. That i had that were a big part of my life. I played a huge role in who i am absolutely in especially in. My dad moved away out of state. And i didn't see him much growing up. Those coaches the impact in my life was huge. Every coach anyone involved in youth sports. Those kids look up to you so much. They remember their coaches. And you can influence those kids in such a positive direction you know in high school. We won the state championship twice in soccer. My coach was buzz lagos and his son manny now leads. Minnesota united. The mls team. I grew up with those guys. Tony sauna mates the world cup. But buzz developed talent and buzz asami playing basketball and that was my first sport. That was my first love. But he saw the potential for me to be a goalkeeper and sometimes in sports you go further in one position and you anticipate the different sport than you. Start out with and that happened to me. Soccer was going so well. And so i had buzz in high school and then in college i went to dartmouth on the east coast at bobby. Clark is a legend from scotland. He's a great goalkeeper. But beyond that i mean he just helped us go from boys to men really during those years and it was like a professional environment and everything was. It was world-class meals is top notch and The relationship with him. It's hard to put into words. How much the things that he would say and do. Every day he would walk out the field and say it's a great daylights day and night just carries over and you kind of get some of that Attitude that overcoming that perspective in pretty soon. You're like it doesn't matter if it's cold. It doesn't matter who the other team is like. We're going for this thing. Where united and when the cultures that healthy sports is a lot of fun. The coach sets the environment. I mean for any when listening. You got kids involved in sports like checkout coaches because if you get a good coach so many other things fall into place and they're not just the coach either right. They're they're they're they're to me. They're a human right. They understand who you are. They try to figure out what's going on in your life because they know that if you're having a bad day at home yeah probably not gonna play very well. They want they. Good coaches to me are not just about the xs and os their avowed the whole person and especially in youth sports. Yeah because kids are quiet. Meaning they don't talk much and if you could get to the root of what's going on and get them to kind let all that go and play hard yum. Usually going to have some success but the success comes in creating a good athlete but also a good person. That's right because good coaches know how to motivate. They knew they know who they should. You know maybe push a little harder. Who needs some encouragement. In when i went to dartmouth. I just felt like. I already had a friend. In coach. other calls coming from coaches and recruiting. They might ask create. What your sat's again through the list standard questions. It's like he wanted to get to know me. And that bond that we formed even before. I arrived on campus. I mean that relationship. Life's about relationships called you relationships the cauda your life coaching. It's one of those special bonds where they're mentor on the field. But then so much more in life as well so you really didn't want to go anywhere warm. because i know dartmouth. I applied to so many schools in california. I was setting to go that direction. It's okay. I'm gonna play soccer. Some just gotta go where it's cold. We have to play with the ball. That's frozen. I wanna be a goalie now. Them kicked that thing like a hundred miles an hour. We played in the snow. Ncwa game it was my junior yard shoot up in the snow and when when you're a goalie and your landing on that frozen tundra as you said earlier i mean that's a pounding feel your backfield's that the next day so what is the speed like have you ever have you ever made like the speed gun Kind of seen what somebody can kick like. What is the speed of a soccer ball. That is a great question. I would say over sixty five miles. An hour would be my initial guess. But that's a great question. There's certainly arranged in a goalkeeper. I always knew the two guys that the hardest. It's like i got my w goalkeepers catch it was a w. so i got my w ready in on the balls of my feet and i ready wherever it's coming but Yeah i would say that overalls a goalkeeper. I i would pray for game for quick reflexes because the shots come so fast. And then can't you if you're not in balance if you're just on the wrong foot. Lean in the wrong way like you're done. That goal is pretty big and for goalkeeper. If you make one mistake that's often the game you know. Midfielder can make ten mistakes. No big deal you throw that one. Pick six game over. I'm that key. Drives two minute drill was a goalkeeper violent one bag goal. You know that can be the difference and so goalkeeper. It's a psychological position as well. So do you play armchair goalie a lot. Like i played order. Always i'm always contracting these guys. That are playing like you say that about you. Be talking about that. Oh it's so true. Every time i watch a goalkeeper. I'm always like in the right position in the second is would i have made that safe and the ones that are harder like i know i would say that you know that free kick right there. I would have been at that upper corner. It would have been saved. So i yeah goalkeeper You can't help but just show up analyzing you played up position. Yes or until you're in college or dartmouth you know you get there from minnesota. That's a long way from home. Yeah trade so Like for me. I went from pittsburgh to tulsa which is a thousand miles culture. Change to right. You had a culture and there was no easy way probably while you probably take. I ninety the whole way arguments from minnesota. Right you're traveling. The whole north like every snowstorm there ever was. We drove it once and yeah. It's a long drive lot lot of winter scenery there so easy airport airport. Did you fly. Because there's no easy.
Habits Of The Few with Mo Naboulsi
"bradley" Discussed on Habits Of The Few with Mo Naboulsi
"I'm going to drop my anchor and that was a different foundation. That foundation right there. My life started to rebuild. And i felt like my house had crashed like a house on the sand in. I want a house on the rock. That would stand in. So that identity was new habits. new ways of coping with pain where new mindset shifts there was like a rebuilding but overall it was extremely painful and it's easy to kind of summarize it but it's not like it's just linear progress in growth and it's not like oh it's just principles unpleasant. It's more like this wrestling. And it's some steps forward some steps back it's trying to figure some stuff out and At the same time it's glorious was happening but it's in the fire of the trial it's like the gold refined in the fire the dross gets burned off and and it's like It's the temperatures hot you know. I first of all i applaud you for that and i don't want to overlook one specific thing so you you dealt with a lot of physical pain physical trauma that you had to endure for for almost a decade. Yeah There is a scope that really sticks with me says the pain will leave you once. It is finished teaching you and we often.
MyTalk 107.1
"bradley" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"And Bradley shows. We begin the third hour of our program today. I'm the Bradley trainer coming will be back soon. Man, bro here for all the fun today as per usual is our good friend. Holly. Hi, Holly. Why are we asking this question? We're asking. What's the song in ever need to hear again and call a 6516411 of 71? If you've got a sign now, this isn't about songs that you hate. This is about songs it you don't even need to necessarily love them. But this isn't an exercise. In song bashing. This is a song that you have heard. So many times that you just you can live a full life and you never have to hear it again Ever. It's just we're retiring songs. We're sending them to the great beyond. Did you have a particular song that made you Want to ask this question. Yeah, Over the weekend. I was listening to the radio. Imagine that. Okay. And I heard Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. Oh, God. Waste. Where were you that you heard? Mark Arena Ville. I was listening to the radio Bradley, just like Just listening to the radio, huh? Just listening to the old fashioned radio like some people are doing to us now. And so Margaritaville came up on the playlist. That is a song. I don't hate it. But I definitely never need to hear Margaritaville ever get in the history of my got Somebody agree. I couldn't agree more with you on that song. I Don't hate it, but it's just everybody's love. It's everybody's love for it is like no no, I'm over, though, Bradley,.
MyTalk 107.1
"bradley" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Bradley trainer of your Whoa, Hey. So okay. Can I can I just give you what? Okay. I just want to give you a quick overview of and I'm going to just do it like really quick point by point. Why I've been thinking about Justin Timberlake this weekend, and then we're gonna wind it back to talk about framing Britney Spears. So he's of course mentioned in framing Britney Spears stick a pin in that we're gonna get to it. Also, it was Super Bowl weekend. Which then it got me thinking about his performance with Janet Jackson, not his solo performance, but the Janet Jackson performance that he guested on and the wardrobe malfunction heard round the world. And how how she suffered for it differently than he did. Hey, he did not suffer for it. And then I want to just sort of tie this all of a pretty bow and tell you I watched that movie that he is in on, um e think it's an Apple plus Palmer. Yeah. Now really quickly recall that Palmer the reason you first started hearing the name Palmer Is because he got caught on a balcony in New Orleans, where they were filming Palmer with his hand on the inner thigh very sexually of his co star, Alicia Wainwright. Now. I noticed when I watched the movie, I thought, Well, okay, every time I see a promo for that movie She's not anywhere near it. She's not pictured. She's not mentioned. They don't show any footage of Alicia Wainwright in any of the Trailers for that movie. And I thought, Well, she must not have that big of a roll. Oh, On the contrary. So that's how hard they're trying to push her out of your memory. Push the cheating scandal out of your memory, which just doesn't make Justin Timberlake look all that good. Well, then I also watched the framing Britney Spears documentary this weekend, and he figures heavily into it. Bradley. Yeah, so let's now go back and reframe Justin Timberlake. Based on framing Britney Spears. Yes. Oh, in framing Britney Spears, you are reminded of the relationship which everybody you know, sort of. They were like, Yeah, This was like an American royalty world win romance. You know this this Couple on bear was anyway. So that's how it sort of presented, But then you begin torturous. I nding of all the drama. Once their relationship ends and the framing of Justin Timberlake as the wronged party at the end of their relationship. Implying that Britney Spears was unfaithful, which led to like I don't remember which song it worried me a river, which, by the way, he cast a Britney look alike in the video for And here is what I have to say about that, anyway. Let me first finish by saying so you are reminded of how problematic the media's portrayal of the end of their relationship was because it very much puts Justin Bieber. Did I say Bieber Timberlake as the victim. Britney Spears is the perpetrator, which which is so problematic for so many reasons like she was a slut. And she cheated on him. And he was just a nice all American young man who just had love in his heart, and she broke his heart. No, don't know what What probably had happened was he was very savvy and thought who I can make some mileage out of this for my career, regardless of what the actual truth is in the relationship between the two of them. He and just and just look at this because his career is complete with these kinds of moments, right? Like he he benefits from He knows the game and plays the game and where Britney Spears was not playing the game. Right, like she didn't have somebody. This is my interpretation. It appears to me that he and his people framed this moment in such a way as to be advantageous to him, and as his career that is the end of their relationship. She did not because naively, and here's where we start to put things on Britney, which you have to be careful about because I'm implying she was naive, or at least unconcerned with the same pressures of publicity's e and celebrity that Justin Timberlake was. I don't know if that's true, but that's certainly the impression I got re watching that piece of history last night like Oh, I see how this went. Justin Bieber is going to take this. Oh, my God. Justin Timberlake's going to take this storyline and ride it all the way to a career. And that's the way he's always been right. Oh, yeah, I'm not shaming him any more than I would shave any other celebrity for playing the game. Um but it but it's shady. And there's a lot of other things that we can point the finger at Justin Timberlake for not Bieber when you when you look at when, and that's sort of why this was all in like it just emerged in Such relief this weekend for me because of those three kind of events, the watching the movie Palmer and thinking about how it's been presented without Giving any publicity to one of his co stars, who he reportedly cheated on his wife with when you think about how the fall out from The Super Bowl went and then put it next to how he manipulated our view of Britney Spears role in the end of their relationship. You start to see a different version of Justin Timberlake See Justin Timberlake being very, very thoughtful about the way his narrative is portrayed. In the popular media because I think about the woman that he what's her name. Alicia Wainwright. I think about Alicia Wainwright and how her career was very likely harm. Yes, by being caught up in this narrative. Yes, I think about Janet Jackson and how her career was harmed in the narrative that they had. I think about Britney Spears and like the harm that she suffered. Being connected to that narrative. I'm not saying that he is responsible for all of these people's drama or trauma, but he is certainly there. Yes, and certainly the beneficiary of being the good guy even when he's allegedly cheating on his wife. He looks.
MyTalk 107.1
"bradley" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Colleen Bradley, tell me the name and show telling Colleen the nanny. Yes. She was working at the shop. Closed predictor out in one of those crushing scene GTO. Was she to go? She was out on her fanny. So over the bridge. Hmm. There it is. Also did not watch that show. Okay? Bradley. Did you watch the nanny? Yes, I did actually. Mister Sheffield used to be on my old soap opera. Which was days of our lives Wonderful. Welcome his. He played shame. Wow, Thanks for sharing that. Here's the deal. Isn't it weird that like I watched that dumb soap opera for like a decade of my life, and I can tell you So many things that happened on that show. And if I tried to tune in today, I would have no idea because so much is so much changes. Okay. Sorry going. That's true man. Also that I retain all that junk. And I can't remember like what we had for dinner two nights ago. Okay? Come on. Here's our fourth theme song, a show that's in the Tummy, Westfall, multi verse Tell me the name of this show here. Probably trainer Bradley, That is Mission Impossible. A I want to know how the all these air connected because that's half the fun, right? Right. Like if we were still in our twenties or in college and getting drunk sitting around our dorm rooms, we would what we'd be talking.
The Kindle Chronicles
"bradley" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"You land. It's always a pleasure. I want to comment briefly about Bradley suggestion that jeff bezos might split amazon up himself. I'll admit to extreme skepticism. When i first saw what he had written about that idea but you know as we talked. I guess i saw the advantages that amazon might gain from being the one reconfiguring itself in order to minimize the disruption for customers as opposed to having government regulators do the work driven by more political pressures than by customer obsession. I'd still rate the prospect as a long shot. But then i back the mayor of south bend indiana to become the forty six president so i kinda like longshots speaking of which i enjoyed every minute of the two and a half hour confirmation hearing that mayor pete head yesterday before the senate committee A model of how brief answers really are a good thing because each senator only has five minutes. And if you're smart you let them do most of the talking and this exchange at the very end with the senate committee chairman. Senator wicker from mississippi. You'll you'll get a chance to hear the hear. How laconic pete was and then also a little pleasant exchange at the end of it. Mr buddha judge will you pledge to work collaboratively with this committee provide thorough and timely responses to requests for information as we work together to address important policy issues. I do. And i will thank you very much and up. I understand you had a birthday earlier this week. That's that's true. You ran for president. United states where you actually constitutionally quality now by much but just made the cut okay and and you're on the tonight show last night with jimmy fallon and you're on the morning. Joe show this morning in terms of of of thrilling experience out is being before this committee today. Compared to those. I would characterize this as a unique experience chairman very well said. I reached out to austin clan for an interview for this weekend. He wrote a nice note. Back saying lend nice to hear from you apologies but i have to decline for now slammed with requests and being home with the kids fulltime and trying to write best austin also. I reached out to brad stone. Because i know he's working on a new update of his everything store book about amazon and asked if he wanted to kind of do an off broadway conversation with me before he goes on the circuit and he said he. He looks forward to talking with me about the book. But it's probably not gonna be coming out until about may that is going to be one well-timed book he's been working on it for about a year and in the current changes in washington with Everyone on both sides of the aisle looking at amazon another tech companies. The definitive new book about amazon is going to have a lot of readers. I'm sure that will. I sure will have a chance to talk to brad about it around the time that it's released. This is len edgeley for the kindle. Chronicles on santa bell island and florida. Thanks for listening. Please stay safe..
The Kindle Chronicles
"bradley" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Need to get a little can of oil for the bicycle i ordered and the next day it shows up on this island off florida In the pandemic so you get this sort of tension between the absolute excellence of the consumer experience versus these really important you know philosophical. How do we set up society. How do we handle these huge powerful tech companies and It's not clear to me which one trumps the other at some point. If i'm a politician in. I'm actually splitting amazon up. And there's some kind of of how fast the the prime member gets. There can bike oil. I wonder if that creates sort of a countervailing political pressures while. Yeah i like all your theories and all this but don't get in Between me and and that package of the blue smile on it because it's kind of central to the way. I live my life. I think you're touching on something that's really important. Which is that first of all. That's very good argument for. Why an entre breaking up on its own because if the regular is left to regulators. They're gonna do what regulators do which is the you know the The main point there to me is that you know. I think it's part of our media culture. I think it's it's social media driven It's it's caused by a lot of things but the world will try to tell you that you have to be Binary you either have to believe this over here. And if you don't believe this over here you must believe that over there there's no nuance to anything You can never you know if you dare Praise something that. Donald j trump did over the last four years. Then you must be some insert Word here for the label that applies to you before that if you a conservative and you pray something. That obama did Then you're just must be soft or something must be wrong with you You know and you could go back you go. You know bush clinton matter it. People are always going to have that point of view. I think it's critical to be able to praise amazon amazon. Google even worst offender of all You know these big companies you gotta be able to praise somebody for what they do right While also holding true to the philosophy in the underpinnings that would get us to a better place You know so that's I think we need to find a way to cause breaking up these big companies to be celebratory event rather than punishment. Ns abby politician if there is one out there Should be thinking in those terms. It's going to be the story the next five years or so We'll we'll have this audio file because You'll you'll get credit for being the first person to predict the basil's would break up his own company. You'll you'll be able have your own show at that point. The bradley channel. I've been wrong many to get all right. Well i have been speaking with. Bradley met rock. Ceo project voice as always great to talk with you. Bradley and safe travels out there. I hope this is an experiment that goes well for you and i applaud you for it. I it's something. I haven't heard anybody else doing it in organized way and it really kind of fascinates me so be saving and go. Well i appreciate.
The Kindle Chronicles
"bradley" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"For the interview. Bradley rock is an entrepreneur with a bold sensibility. That i've come to admire when macmillan announced new library book purchase terms that made it more difficult for patrons to borrow borrow new releases. Bradley band mcmillan employees from attending his digital world conference in nashville Without mentioning the d be ban. Mcmillan backed down and withdrew the library policy. Changes last year Several years ago. As i remember bradley stood up to amazon's intimidating corporate lawyers when they tried to keep him from using alexa his name marketing and event that he was putting on peace. He's still at large and now he has begun in the midst of cova de thirty six city in person tour to discuss the latest developments in voice assistance. That's his new focus of activity so that prompted me to reach out for another kindle chronicles interview with the ceo project voice. Bradley met rock. We connected by skype. On tuesday january nineteenth. I was here in santa bell and he was on the road in the tampa bay area. Here is our conversation. I imagine an idea that is the same vicious. Had a genesis moment of some kind. Either in the middle of nighter or somewhere looking at a sunrise you do you remember when you first got the idea to spend almost three months going coast to coast on a toured during a pandemic phrase it that way. Yeah you it's hard to say You know it. It was the culmination of numerous interactions. We're talking to companies every day. You know we we we interact with companies in in the voice and conversational. Ai space every day you know sometimes publishing if it's a digital book world thing but we're talking to people all the time and you know twenty twenty the as you can imagine the common refrain. Was you know. We're not traveling. Big companies are. We're not traveling period and of senate's Smaller companies are. Were not traveling. Except you know if it's really really really really important. So and You know the as the year went along You know there was fits and starts to the to the whole thing. I mean there was times where you know Almost every september or late august september everything was opening back up and then there is sort of a second wave of stuff closed again so amidst all of that The the thought process. I had was.
The Kindle Chronicles
"bradley" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Today is january. Twenty second twenty. Twenty one here in santa bell island florida. My conversation. this week is with bradley. Met rock who is at the start of thirty six city in person tour speaking outdoors in small groups. Covert safe He's talking about voice assistance. And a i. We're going to find out what he's learned so far and also why he thinks. Jeff bezos is going to break amazon up before the feds can get their hands on it. Also have some news tech tips for you and also word from two writers who will not be my guest next week. Let's get started. First.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"bradley" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"I listen to several podcasts. Every week and it is especially a thrill. When i can bring onto host of one of the podcasts that i listen to on a regular basis because i feel like i know this person already but we've never had a conversation in this case. It's actor bradley. She he's the associate professor of religion at skidmore college. Which i look where that was bred as like you must be snowed in spirit man. I'm here in southern california for california boy whose deaths from maui. This is not my native environment so well a little bit of your background. You actually went to zoos. The pacific university. Which is right down the road from where i live where you got your be in philosophy and always wonder you know when a undergraduate majors flossy where they planning to end up. You ended up getting a master's in philosophical theology at oxford. And then you did. Some time in france doing postgraduate work in philosophy. And then finally you finish up at the university of california. Santa barbara doing your piece de and religious studies. I just want. It's tell my listeners. If you ever enjoy some of the conversations i get into on this podcast. With my guest that crosses over into this post evangelical political sort of realm. The person feeding me. Most of my information is now my guest on the show. That's kind now thank you. That's flattering thank you can. Let's start with your story. Because i think what set you up. Not just as an academic to have such a substantive take on what's been going on during the trump years before trump years where we're going to go after the trump years is also not just rooted in your research but it's it's based in your own life so tell us a little bit about that. Yeah i let me just say thank you for that flattering introduction and just. It's it's an honor to be here. So i've been looking forward to this for a long time and i'm really grateful so you know for me i. I grew up in north orange county. My father's japanese-american my mother's white woman from tennessee. And they met in the middle <hes>. He's from hawaii and we grew up. Your belinda placentia fullerton area. I did not grow up religious. My dad was was culturally. Buddhist is what i would say he. He mowed the lawn. At the buddhist temple on maui in inkatha louis he. He went to japanese school there. But when i was thirteen and ask them about what it meant to be a buddhist to give me a book and i read it and i thought after i read it he would discuss it and i realized later. He gave it to me because he didn't know anything that was in it. He just didn't want to have me ask questions about what it meant to be a buddhist at fourteen. I had a very extreme conversion at a evangelical mega church and a conversion meant that i went from the kid who was hanging out with other teenagers behind the movie theater. Smoking and drinking and doing that kind of stuff to within months standing in front of the movie theater asking people if they knew my savior the lord. Jesus christ and if they knew where their so would be return ity. Tell us a little bit about how that dramatic conversion took place. I was invited to wednesday night. Bible study at rose drive friends church. <hes> rose drive is part of that network of quaker churches that richard nixon grew up in so i i was invited to that church by a girlfriend and i thought you know i'm fourteen. There's not a lot of ways to see your girlfriend on a with night off to pragmatist and there's no way mom can say no to this. If i want to go to church she's gonna say yes. So let's do it. This is a great plan <hes>. She dumped me very quickly but that youth group became my second home. I found there what you would find in the ninety s at youth groups all over the place. Young cool hip leaders. They had tattoos. They played the guitar. We have a lot of fun games. The bible messages weren't boring and all of a sudden the existential angst. I had about the meaning of life and the depression that i faced throughout my entire childhood. I found answers found solutions to my condition. In jesus in god and so a very quickly i went from a kid probably hanging around folks who are going down the wrong direction drugs and alcohol and other stuff too when my mom asked me what i wanted for christmas on my <hes>. When i was sixteen. I asked her how much she was gonna spend. She told me i said mom. I want you to give me that money. And i'm going to buy as many pamphlets and tracts and bibles as i can for people in nepal and i'm going to send them there because that's what's important and that's why how we should be using our money. Now i gotta ask you bread. Did your parents on the one hand. I'm sure they're going well. This is nice. He's not hanging around with those bad people anymore. The water bozos right. Okay right these these these yoga right but but at the same time is dislike. Did our son just joined a cult. So it's exactly what you said. For mom. there was times. I think she was relieved. But you know when your son is saying. Hey i don't buy me letterman's jacket for the basketball team. Send the money to nepal for bibles. I think she kinda wish. I was back to the guy getting caught with the kid. Smoking pot again. I mean she was kind of like. This is a little extreme. It was a lot harder for my dad. My dad's japanese-american guy. He grew up in the cradle of asian american. You know <hes>. Communities on maui. His life was in the buddhist temple even though he he really didn't wasn't a practicing buddhist so for me to join a mega church especially church. That was ninety percent. White was really hard for him and it took a lot of convincing to let me go to the wednesday night. Bible study or the retreat or the youth group party or whatever.