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The Breakdown
A highlight from Chokepoint Across the Pond: Chase UK Says No Crypto Transactions
"We've got election season coming up, remember? And if the Dems win and Gensler comes back to the same office, he doesn't care because he has the wind at his sails. And if he loses, he also doesn't care because he's out of the job. I would expect, in other words, for every court decision that goes against the SEC to be answered not with a rational shift in policy and approach, but instead two blazing middle fingers from a bureaucrat potentially on his way out the door. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, September 27th, and today we are talking about this crazy, strange Chase UK letter banning people from accessing crypto from their bank accounts. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, I have to start the show by eating some crow. In the morning yesterday, a letter started going around that people were, of course, breathlessly posting as fact long before it was confirmed, and it just did not read right to me. So much so that as more and more people started tweeting about it, I actually posted it saying, I think this letter is fake. Let me just read the whole thing to you. So it's not long, so you have a sense of why I was skeptical. The header says Chase, and it says our policy around crypto is changing. Here's what it means for you. Hi. To help keep your money safe from fraud and scams, we're changing the type of payments you can make from Chase. From 16th of October, 2023, if we think you're making a payment related to crypto assets, we'll decline it. If you'd still like to invest in crypto assets, you can try using a different bank or provider instead, but please be cautious as you may not be able to get the money back if the payment ends up being related to fraud or a scam. Please head to our website for more info about how to protect your money. We've made this decision because fraudsters are increasingly using crypto assets to steal large sums of money from people. Declining these payments is one of the ways we're help keeping you and your money safe. All the best, the Chase team. So a couple of things that really stood out to me. One was the tone in general non -professionalism of the letter. The use of the word fraudsters seemed very, very strange from an official corporate communication. This is obviously quite a colloquialism and so the idea that it was being used as a formal explanation for why a bank would be denying an entire category of payments options to its users seemed a little crazy. Continuing that questionable tone was the ending, all the best. That's how I sign off my emails. That's not how a major bank signs off its emails. Now, of course, there was also the general grossness of the policy if it were to become real, but that really wasn't even what I was thinking about initially. And yet, shockingly, it was confirmed to be real. I was wrong and somehow a bank associated with Chase had sent out that letter. Now, later in the day, it became clear that the policy was for Chase UK rather than the broader US or international banks. But even if it was only a domestic UK policy, the aggressive move still rubbed many people, perhaps most people, I would say, in the industry the wrong way. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted, Now, Andrew Griffith is the UK Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for the City of London and Rishi Sunak is, of course, the Prime Minister who was formerly the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said while he was at that post that he wanted to make the UK a crypto hub. LightSpark CEO and former head of the Libra project at Meta, David Marcus, added, Now, UK commenters were surprisingly quiet and that's perhaps because Chase is a relatively minor player in the UK despite being a major global banking brand. Chase has, in fact, only had a presence in the UK for around two years and has less than two million customers. They're also limited to offering online services, so are, in practice, a lot closer to a fintech platform than a traditional bank. Just by way of comparison, relative to the population, Chase UK has a similar footprint to Huntington National Bank in the US. Now, if Huntington banned crypto transactions in the US, you can bet we would be chattering about it, but it wouldn't ultimately be seen as that big of a deal which perhaps explains the lack of outrage from UK crypto investors. That said, of course, Chase isn't Huntington. Regardless of whether they have a large customer base, Chase UK is still a subsidiary of the largest western bank in the world and because of that, the important part of the policy change is unpacking whether this is an idiosyncratic decision of an insignificant bank or speaks to a broader policy outlook at JPMorgan Chase. Now, the reason given in the letter for this policy change was, of course, to prevent fraud. When fielding questions from media throughout the day, a Chase spokesperson doubled down, saying, Austin Campbell rightly points out, quote, Bitcoin attorney Crypto Hat responded, Austin, eminently reasonable as he always is, responded, and other financial institutions to fight said fraud, not turtling. Now, of course, even if this policy change only affects a couple of million Brits, it still matters in the broader fight to ensure crypto investors and firms have fair access to banking services. This has, of course, been one of the biggest themes throughout this year. The pushback from the US crypto community matters in order to ensure that banks can see that these sort of blanket bans are simply not an acceptable way to deal with issues around fraudulent transactions. And for a place that said it wants to be a crypto hub, the UK in particular has had a string of larger banks rejecting crypto payments over the past year. In February, a group of CEOs from major UK banks appeared at a parliamentary hearing. Multiple CEOs said their banks were blocking crypto payments, and although they listed fraud as a major concern, they also mentioned the volatility of crypto investments. The problem became so large that the UK's Financial Conduct Authority published a report on de -banking earlier this month. The report stated that the regulator had facilitated conversations between banks and crypto firms to ensure that they would be able to open and maintain accounts. Still, some large UK banks, including NatWest, are currently refusing to service crypto firms across the board. Now, one alternative opinion came from Francis Pulio, the founder at Bull Bitcoin. He said, via video chat, and essentially interrogate them to make sure they aren't being sucked into a yield, cloud mining, or other crypto ponzis. Still, as you might imagine, even among Bitcoiners who share Francis's disgust with crypto scams, this wasn't the primary opinion out there. Indeed, by and large, the sentiment was, and this is the end -then -they -fight -you phase. So what to do? Well, some, like dGen Spartan, basically say vote with your feet. They write, but getting banks to open accounts for crypto individuals and companies is another. Just vote with your money. My crypto -friendly banks get my highest share of account. The others? Meh. Now, another response is the entrepreneurial opportunity. Rama Lawalia, the CEO of Lumida Wealth, said, Although, indeed, later he tweeted, I don't know, man. All in all, it feels a little choke pointy to me. Remember, the whole point of Operation Choke Point and why it's problematic is that it creates a scenario where government and regulators don't have to ban anything because they just make it so economically untenable and politically risky for big service providers like banks to work with crypto companies that a de facto ban is the natural response. And speaking of de facto bans, let's turn now to the intransigent SEC, a bipartisan group of House Financial Service Committee members have written to SEC chair Gary Gensler calling for the regulator to immediately approve spot Bitcoin ETF applications. Mike Flood, Tom Emmer, Willie Nickel and Richie Torres penned the letter, which asserted that, The SEC's current posture is untenable moving forward. Following the Court of Appeals decision, there is no reason to continue to deny such applications under inconsistent and discriminatory standards.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/06/23
"So, we saluted the life of Jimmy Buffett yesterday, properly so, but boy did we miss a birthday yesterday. Freddie Mercury would have been 77, passed away back in 91, so I had to pick a Queen song, had to pick a Queen record. How about You're My Best Friend for the Mike and Mark segments? Not bad. There you go, buddy. We can sing We Are the Champions because we're the champion of all things mysterious. And topics that need to be explored. We go where few dare go. You shut me down yesterday when I told you about the Delta Airlines flight that was forced to land. But then, of course, you saw it all over Twitter and X and everything, right? Well, I know because everybody's 12 years old. Somebody had a, I don't even want to say it again, somebody had a horrible digestive event on a plane and they had to sandblast the plane for six hours. They had to replace the carpet. I mean, they had to replace the carpet on the plane. That's a true story. Can you imagine being on that plane and the poor pilot, and there's an audio recording of the pilot saying, five, seven, one, Delta heavy. We have a biohazard problem on the plane. The biohazard. Ladies and gentlemen, you may want to look over the left side of the aircraft because that's where we're going to be issuing the parachute so that you can get the hell off this thing before we all die. I'd never fly again. That'd be it. That'd be it. And speaking of flying, didn't you do it yet? Are you in New York yet? Today? No, after the show today, I'm headed to New York where it's going to be 110 degrees. You know, Texas heat is one thing. New York City heat is ghastly because there's no breeze. You're walking up and down. So we're going to see the Eagles in concert tomorrow night. I'm going to see a couple of shows. We've got some meetings. I'm going to go to Philly for a big event. Oh, cool. With Chris Stiegel. Is that our guy? Chris Stiegel and Dennis Prager and Pastor Robert Jeffers from your neck of the woods. That's right. That's so cool. I have a question for you. It's called, for a moment, welcome to Mike's Entertainment Options or Mike's Travel Habits. As we have noted, you are fresh back from the UK. I trust you had a magnificent time. So Mike's on the ground in England for 24 hours, sends me a picture off of his balcony. Was that a CG? Was that a green screen? Because from your balcony, it's like, oh, there's the London Eye, oh, there's Westminster Abbey. Where were you? Well, there's a story behind that. I'm a little reluctant to tell the story. Joey and Peg are my dear friends. Joey's a little more frugal than I am. And he found a hotel. And I'll go ahead and say it. It was a nice Marriott right on the River Thames, right outside that giant monstrosity eye thing. That Ferris wheel. It's a massive Ferris wheel. It's gross. I mean, I think about the River Thames and I think of Mary Poppins floating gently. Big Ben and all these beautiful, and then there's this monstrosity, and Brits don't like it either. Everybody kind of, it's a cool tourist thing and you go up and it's one of those giant Ferris wheels. Anyway, the hotel, this Marriott is right at the Ferris wheel. So not only is the infernal thing beeping every time it moves, and so you hear the beeping in your room, but like you saw, you're right there. I mean, the view is crazy, but not only that, but the deal breaker for me, the AC wasn't so good. Is England like Laguna Beach, California, where we stayed at a beautiful place and it happened to be 82 and they didn't have any AC? I thought I was going to die. Well, you know, again, the UK, they're not really like AC -oriented like we are. They have it, but I said, that's it, I'm out, King Tut needs some AC, I got to have air conditioning. And it wasn't even hot over there, but at night, I don't know, I mean, God forbid if the day ever comes where they yank the rug out from under me and I'm, you know, singing show tunes at a cheeseburger joint on the weekends and I can't afford an air conditioner because I got to have an air conditioner. Anyway, I knew of a place, a much nicer hotel, so we actually checked out. That was a one -day gig, but it was spectacular visuals. And speaking of show tunes, that leads me to my actual really quick question because there is stuff going on in the world. So you sent me, as you always do and I love it so much, it's like, hey, look where I am, hey, look where I am. And on at least a couple of occasions, you were in the front row, shocker, of this magnificent show. I guess it's called Tina or somebody is Tina Turner and wow, was she good. Wow, was she good. It's actually a Broadway show that also went to the West End and there was, I saw a woman named Adrian Warren who played the show, played the part, but yeah, it's a musical about the life of Tina Turner. And on another night you went and saw Les Mis. The best production of Les Mis I've ever seen in the history of going to the theater. I bet it was great. But here's my question and here's where you and I are a smidge different. Okay. You're in London and you go to Broadway for lunch like every day. So there's a whole country outside this theater as you sit in a seat and see something that is admittedly fantastic, but that you could see at some other time a hundred yards from where you're staying. But the West End is London's version of Broadway and they do theater a little bit differently. First of all, I mean, the ticket prices are even more affordable. You know, you sit in the stalls over there. They don't call them seats.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The No Interruptions Podcast - Who will be the Democrat's 2024 Nominee?
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch anytime on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Welcome into this week's Mike Gallagher Show. No interruptions podcast. The only rule, no interrupting allowed. So if you get frustrated when you hear a bunch of people on TV talking over each other and yelling at each other, if you get mad at big mouth Mike Gallagher for interrupting callers, this is a great place for you to settle in and hear two sides of an issue from two smart people who are going to present an opposing point of view. As you know, I've been maintaining for a long time now that it seems inconceivable to me that Joe Biden can be the nominee in 2024. I went on vacation last week in London and what Brits are saying about President Biden was pretty astounding. So let me bring two people into this conversation. John D. O 'Connor is an experienced trial lawyer. He's been practicing law in San Francisco since 1972. This is a guy you want in your corner if you're ever in hot water. He's the author of the new book, The Mysteries of Watergate, What Really Happened. And I'm really looking forward to reading his book. And Mr. O 'Connor definitely believes that Gavin Newsom will be the Democrat 2024 presidential nominee, which is something that I've sort of leaned into. Now, Douglas McKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official. He was a writer in the White House for Presidents Reagan and George H .W. Bush. He writes for Town Hall, hundreds of columns in every major paper. And he's the author of the book, The Liberty 56 Lessons from Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence. So gentlemen, to both of you, I appreciate you taking time to join us today on the No Interruptions podcast. Mr. O 'Connor, let me start with you. You believe that Gavin Newsom will definitely be the nominee. I think a lot of signs point to that as well. To my vacation last week over in the UK, I started asking a bunch of Brits, Uber drivers and waitresses and waiters what they think about the American political scene. And it was astounding how many Brits would say to me, unsolicited, I can't believe you have a guy who's in the condition that Joe Biden is in as your commander in chief. They can't believe it across the pond. They cannot, and they certainly don't think it's sustainable. Is it your belief that based on Biden's infirm, you know, the feeble, you know, out of it physical condition he's in, is that what leads you to believe that Governor Newsom will be the Democrat nominee? Well, that's number one, Mike. The King has no clothes. Our media does not really publicize as infirmities as they should, but it's just obvious to anybody who's observing such as the Brits you're talking about. There's no mystery here. Now, think about it. It is a year and a half away from the next election. This guy can barely make it now. He can't complete a sentence, really can't carry a thought past a few seconds.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Chairman Mike Gallagher (House Select Committee on China) and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin
"Cable news, noisy, boring, out of touch. That's why Salem News Channel is different. We keep you in the know. Streaming 24 -7 for free. Home to the greatest collection of conservative voices like Dennis Prager, Jay Sekulow, Mike Gallagher, and more. Salem News Channel is unfiltered and unapologetic. Watch anytime on any screen at snc .tv and local now channel 525. I talked with Ro Khanna yesterday, your colleague, about a lot of things, but I did not cover your Washington Post article because I wasn't aware of it at the time I talked to Ro Khanna. Do the Democrats agree with you in the Washington Post article that we ought not to be funding with American dollars Chinese aircraft carriers? Some do. I mean, I think everyone can agree upon at least that aspect of it, that American dollars should not be funding the Chinese Communist Party's military buildup. Make no mistake, they're embarked on the largest sustained peacetime military buildup since World War II, potentially ever, depending on how you defined it. We shouldn't be investing our money in Chinese aircraft carriers, fighter jets, artillery shells, advanced nuclear technology, but that's what's happening. We launched a bipartisan investigation into BlackRock and MSCI. My ranking member, Raja Krishnamoorthi, has expressed a ton of concern about American dollars funding Chinese military buildup. In many cases, this money is going to companies that have already been flagged on various government blacklists for posing national security risks. What's crazy, Hugh, is that it's not illegal, but it's suicidal. We're subsidizing our own destruction. We're allowing pension funds, university endowments to invest in Chinese companies that are building things designed to kill Americans in a future conflict. No matter where you draw the line for decoupling, let's say you just want transparency measures, as some Republicans do. You want a broader set of restrictions on American money going into China, as I do. I think what's inarguable is that money shouldn't be funding military companies and technology companies like AI companies in China that are perfecting their genocidal surveillance state. Now, the Financial Times also ran a story this morning that Goldman Sachs has been taking Chinese money, laundering it in effect. It's not criminal, but they're hiding the origin of the money, and they're buying U .S. companies. It's the opposite of what BlackRock is doing, which is sending American money to Chinese companies. They're taking Chinese money and putting it into American companies. Do you want to stop that flow as well? Well, particularly if these are national security -related companies, I saw that some of the investments were in the cyber space and in the supply chain space. It all depends on what type of control comes with the investment, but potentially, that could give them access to information or effective control over companies. That would be bad for American national security. I think it's definitely worth looking into. The bottom line is, Congress, we need to step up and legislate a fix to some of this stuff, whether it's on outbound capital flows, which the Biden administration just released an executive order that's filled with loopholes. It's a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough. We need to legislate that when it comes to Chinese money being invested in American companies. We tried to fix CFIUS to get at some of that issue, but clearly, it's not up to the task. We need to legislate a fix to that. Here's the other thing, Hugh, that I find interesting when it comes to American investments in China. In addition to being morally reprehensible, the Chinese funds have been terrible investments. Over the last five years, the S &P 500 has soared to about 78%. Meanwhile, things like BlackRock's FXI ETF, which invests in these Chinese large -cap companies, it's down 30 % in that same period, even as Chinese GDP supposedly doubled. That doesn't make sense. A lot of the funds we looked at in our investigation similarly underperformed drastically. Where did the money go? Is it going into corrupt Communist Party coffers? I don't know. My only point is that beyond the national security concerns, just as an investment proposition, China looks bad. There are systemic risks to a continued investment in China that range from having your assets seized in the event they try and take over Taiwan, or just the inherent risk involved in things like variable interest entities, for which there are no shareholder protections. Part of what we're trying to do on the committee in a bipartisan fashion is to engage Wall Street in a dialogue about this. It just seems insane to me that we would continue to send our money to China, where it's being used for nefarious purposes. Well, you know, Chairman, the investment bankers make their bonuses based upon the amount of money they move through. So they have every Adam Smith -driven incentive to just blow you off. Does your panel have subpoena power, by the way? We do. I would grab Larry Fink. I would grab Jamie Dimon. Separate hearings. And I would put them down and say, let's talk about this because it's a national crisis. Let me ask you, by the way, I think if I had a bell, I would have rung it when you said Sisyphus. I believe that violates the acronym rule, does it not? Oh, you got me, Hugh. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. I apologize. $10 to Food for the Poor, because that's it. It's $10 tip jar for Food for the Poor. When you use an acronym. I want to talk to you about increased applying unilaterally. I did because you're a repeat offender. Like, you know, that on the sentencing guidelines, people who do the same thing over and over again, they get fined more. Princeton people are particularly prone to this. And then when you pick up a Ph .D. from Georgetown, you really become. And then you go to Marine. Did you ever go to the command general staff college or the war college or anything like that? No, I got out as a captain before I had to do all that before my brain was corrupted. Well, they have many acronyms there. I'm listening to a bio of Eisenhower and I can't keep up. Let me ask you something, Chairman. Ro Khanna was on and we were talking about artificial intelligence. And he said they're sitting down with the speaker about what to do. I have no preconceived opinions, but I do think they might want to just add the Select Committee on Engagement with the Chinese Communist Party, and artificial intelligence regulation, because you've got a smart group of people. It's working. Would you be opposed to that if the speaker and the minority leader wanted to expand the jurisdiction of the committee to look at what we do about A .I.? Not at all. And we've actually, in our early investigation, had numerous conversations about A .I. and I would expect those to be part of future policy reports. We release, I would note Ro Khanna is my ranking member on the innovation subcommittee on armed services. And we see eye on a lot of things related to military innovation going forward and have a very good working relationship. And he's willing and I think him going on your show is a testament to this. One thing I really respect about Ro is he's willing to mix it up. Obviously, he's very progressive. We disagree on a lot of issues. I'm right. He's wrong. But I respect his intellect and his willingness to mix it up. Three quick ideas here on A .I. for small steps we can take in this Congress as we consider sort of the broader long -term implications. Well, related to what we were just talking about, American venture capitalists, American money in general shouldn't be allowed to invest in Chinese A .I. companies like Baidu. It just makes absolutely no sense. Again, we're subsidizing our own destruction. Two, when it comes to autonomous vehicle technology, which is going to be one of the most widespread deployments of A .I. in a way that really affects the American people over the next 10 years, right now of the 10 -ish companies that are allowed to test in America, at least three I believe are Chinese, but our companies are not allowed to test in China or expand really at all in China. And as a matter of reciprocity, that's wrong. We shouldn't allow Chinese A .V. companies here in America. And then finally, the ethical guidelines that the Pentagon has for the use of A .I. are a decent start. They're pretty good. I actually think we could build off those, expand those across the federal government with the goal of not innovation suppressing on A .I. or slowing down our efforts in this area, but also ensuring there are guardrails so that we don't have uncontrolled A .I. that does things that Americans are concerned about. And then you start to build out the concentric circle so we're on the same page with our allies. Start with our closest allies, the Brits and the Aussies, and then expand from there, and particularly focus on countries that have a unique technological capability in A .I. If we do that, if we get sort of the overall ethical framework right, I actually think we can turbocharge innovation in this space and make sure that we win the A .I. race and the CCP does not win the A .I. race. Well, it is a national security issue, but I've got three suggestions for you and your colleagues. First of all, a stand down order to every regulatory agency out there, the FTC and everybody else. They have no idea what they're doing. They just don't. A .I. is new. It's not meant for old regulatory structures like the Interstate Commerce Commission trying to regulate airplanes. Doesn't work. Number two, you've got to change the pay scale for technologists. Now, they used to have a special pay scale out at China Lake for the rocket scientists that we needed at China Lake and other advanced weaponry systems. We need a technologist pay scale that is just way better than we've got. We're going to lose every technologist that DARPA has. And then number three, and this is what I want to ask you about, we need visibility. I mean, walk in rights to every room in Silicon Valley and every A .I. company in the United States. By walk in rights, I mean, if a guy from DARPA shows up and they knock on the door at Metta and he says, show me to your A .I. lab, they don't get to lock the door. These are like nuclear science. We can't let this stuff be developed in private. Do you agree with me? I agree with that. I guess the flip side of that, though, Hugh, is enough research security such that, you know, an MSS operative, a Ministry of State Security think KGB in China couldn't just walk in to the same facility or United Front operative. And honestly, your reference to China Lake, I think, is a great instructive example here, because when it comes to the things we put in our weapons systems, we have a very old suite of things called energetics, which make our weapons go and go boom. We develop more advanced energetics at China Lake. It's called CL20. It stands for China Lake 20. The Chinese stole that technology. That's what they put in their weapons systems. And that's why their their rockets go farther than us and have greater destructive impact. So that's a lesson in how not to do things. And we remain too risk averse to use things like CL20, even though it's now old technology. It was developed in the 80s. So a lot of examples that we can use from there in order to apply to the A .I. competition today. I'm going to geek out. The Office of Personnel Management, AKA OPM, so I don't get fined. OPM had a separate schedule for scientists at China Lake that was policed by the deputy director I replaced, the deputy director at OPM. He was a scientist who had worked there. And he said, you know, no one's going to work for us unless we pay them. It was like double the highest number. Rowe said yesterday we got to pay him like we pay our doctors. No, no, no. We're not going to. This is the most lucrative field in the world. You got to give him a piece of the intellectual property. I mean, you really have to come to grips with the fact that technologists make the dollars. And I don't know that the American people really understand the difference between what the private sector pays a level one technologist and what the government will. We're going to lose everybody.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 113: Part 2: Tye Holand is Saving Children with Operation Underground Railroad
"That's the devaluation of life. That's what's hurt us in so many different areas. Well, let's start setting the stage for a little bit because we want to talk about Operation Underground Railroad. So as you're going through this career, was it just time for you to retire? I mean, did you max out on what you get from retirement? Or did you say, I've had enough, I got to go do something else? What was your decision on pulling the pin? Well, I think we all got to a point or get to a point where you kind of know you're done policing, but I wasn't done serving. And so that's where I was kind of conflicted. And since 2006, I've been in kind of this human trafficking realm. I worked with a group, International Justice Mission, and I was a contractor with them. And so I did a lot of work in Southeast Asia, infiltrating organizations and bars and nightclubs and finding trafficked victims. So I did that for many years. And then in 2016, I got hooked up with Operation Underground Railroad. And so I was doing work with them on a contract basis. So I would go to any number of countries and do cases and stuff like that. So in late 2021, we started talking and they needed a director of special operations. And so it kind of worked out where I said, okay, it's time, I can go do this and still serve and be a part of a fantastic, fantastic organization. Hey, so let's set context for this. But just out of curiosity, you've been looking at this subject for a long time. What are the top five worst countries for this? You know, shoot, top five worst countries. Because everybody thinks about things like Thailand, you know. Kind of areas. I mean, there's, I would say more areas. I mean, you got Southeast Asia, you got Central America. You got a lot going on in the Caribbean. You have a lot going on in South America. I mean, name the spot. The sad thing is it's going on everywhere. Because human trafficking is, I think it's $150 billion a year industry. It's second only to narcotics, the drug trade. Human trafficking is, and it's true. The cartels. Well, it's becoming more lucrative for the cartels with less risk than trying to, you know, narcotics, you know, drug smuggling. Oh, absolutely. I mean, they're not, the cartels aren't stupid. And they know, they know that, you know, a kilo of cocaine can be sold one time. You've all heard this analogy. But, you know, you get a 14, 14, 15 year old girl, and you can sell her 10 times a day, 10, 12 times a day for umpteen years. And look how much money you made off of one person. Well, let me ask you, when you're talking about the worst areas of the world, is that where the kidnappings are taking place? Or is that the people who are partaking of these innocent victims? Well, the vast majority of, or a large majority of trafficked kids are from a known person to them. Whether it's their family, family, friend, clergy, any number of different things. But they're of a grabbing person in that, absolutely. But the majority of it, or a large, large section of it is by people that they know. And what do they get, and what are the folks that are doing it, getting out of it? Are they, this is the, it's a money transaction for them, right? They get something for this? Oh yeah, they get the money. No, I mean, but the person like you said, a clergy or a family member, like the girls introduce a girl into something, and she ends up being used. Is this a money transaction for the girls? It's a money transaction for the person that did it. The mom, the dad, the cousin, the uncle. Wow. And so, taking that just a little bit further, what are the worst countries or locations of people who subscribe to, you know, sex acts with underage children? I would say the United States is the number one purveyor of it. I would say, you know, you have United States, Britain, or, and then, you know, Australia, you have those. When I was in Southeast Asia, I mean, I can't tell you the amount of Americans and Brits and Australians that I saw over there. That's where they coined the term sex tourism from. You'd go over there. And now the one thing, the only thing that came out of that, I mean, they did finally end up passing some laws to make it a federal crime. It was tricky to establish jurisdiction, you know, how do you have jurisdiction over something that happens in Thailand, you know, or Australia or places like that. But have those laws been effective at all? You think it's slowing this down? Oh, there's been absolutely, there's been people held accountable that were caught in a foreign country doing.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Short Stuff: History of English
"But I like the short version, and we want to thank EnglishClub .com, and in particular, TheConversation .com, and a professor of lit at the University of Bristol named Ad Putter. Go fighting Abby's. Is that what it is? You got me again. But anyway, Putter wrote a really good article that helped out with this one. But we're talking about the history of the English language briefly, because I was just kind of curious, like, who were the first people to speak English? And the first English is what you have to talk about first, which is, of course, Old English, which came about right after the Romans left Britain. This is a very long time ago. They colonized Britain, but they were like, things aren't going so great in the Roman Empire, so we're going to leave. Yeah. So, it's just interesting. The Romans spoke Latin, but the Brits spoke Celtic. And then after the Romans left, because their empire was crumbling around them, the Brits still kept speaking Celtic, but not for very long, because the Romans had basically been occupying Britain, but they had also been, in turn, protecting it. But as the Roman Empire crumbled, it left Britain totally vulnerable and open to invasion, and in very short order, that's exactly what happened. Three Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, all basically came down from northern Germany, Denmark area, and said, we own this place now. You guys are going to start speaking like us. Yeah. They spoke what's called North Sea Germanic, and those Celtic speakers were kind of, they ended up where they ended up, which was north and west in what we now call Ireland and Scotland and Wales. So, the Angles, which was one of those Germanic tribes, like you've ever heard Anglo -Saxon, that was because they were the Angles and the Saxons and the Jutes. Two of the three of those tribes were the Angles and the Saxons. And once they got to Britain, their language was referred to as what we would call Old English or Anglo -Saxon. And it is the original form of English, and this was used in the early Middle Ages, but this is not anything that you would recognize as English as we know it today, except for just a few words here and there. Yeah. Like, his, he, some of these really, really old words. And remember, he, they think, is possibly as old as humanity as far as words go. That was already in use. But, yeah, it didn't bear much of a resemblance. And so, Old English, Chuck, was in use, I think, from about 450 to 1100 CE. Yeah. And, you know, the original thing that got me looking for this was if they could pinpoint, like, not necessarily the people, but who the first English speakers were. But our friend, Professor Putter here, actually does name a couple of people. And this is, you know, this is sort of as legend goes. But when these Germanic tribes came through, they asked a couple of those leaders, Hengist and Horsa, to come in and help protect the country. And showed they up. They, and of course, again, this is, this is, as the story goes, we really don't know if it's true or not, but they would have been the ones that brought in this Old English. So, technically, you could say that they were maybe the first English speakers as we know it as Old English. That's so fascinating. Like, if these guys aren't legendary, they are the first English speakers in England or Britain. So, Old English stuck around until the Normans came along. So, in 1066, William the Conqueror, the head of the Normans, he was the Duke of Normandy, which is in France today, showed up in England and said, Hengist, Horsa, you guys are a few hundred years old, it's time for you to hand over the reins to me, William the Conqueror. And it just so happened, since he was from what's today part of modern France, he spoke what you would kind of recognize as a type of French. And so, the Normans brought French to England. But rather than it becoming totally widespread, it actually became part of what Professor Putter calls a linguistic class division, where the royal court in the upper classes spoke the king's French, and then the lower classes continued to speak Old English. Yeah, and what's going to happen here, of course, and as we'll see, as England got to conquering for hundreds of years, you pick up on words as you move about the earth. And in this case, a lot of French words were added to what was now known as Middle English. Do you want to hear one that I guessed was right? Yeah. Sausage. Oh, yeah. Sausage. Sausage. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about a big change that happened to Middle English pronunciation that linguists are still trying to figure out right after this. Sausage. 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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Mike Benz Unpacks the Global Growth in Populism
"Trump without Brexit that happened before Trump. So 17 and a half million Brits vote to leave this collectivist quasi socialist entity called the European reunion, the biggest vote in British history. Then you have autobahn, then you have Modi, then you have later meloni. So what's happening here, I mean, this is a real problem for that foreign policy elite because this isn't just a U.S. growth in populism, but this is a global one, correct? Totally, totally. No, you nailed it. That's exactly right. And that is what that really is actually how the censorship industry started. That is the censorship that Americans face today on YouTube on Facebook on TikTok on Reddit on anywhere on the Internet other than currently this enclave being protected by a deus ex Machina in the form of Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition so that you can make memes. This was the higher up you go in the censorship industry. When you start looking at the firms who are doing the censoring, you will inevitably see that they are being funded by foreign policy establishment institutions. That is, you start to see that it is actually about control over not just the United States, but really the political ecosystems of all countries around the world in order to make sure that there is no resistance to what you may call a sort of transatlantic security states consensus of how to how to organize a society. And so one of the things I find so disturbing about this is this is not just a theory. This is empirically verifiable by simply going to the website at the national endowment for democracy
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
All Quiet on the Western Front: A Movie You'll Love and Hate
"Good morning, sunny. Thank you, how's it going? Good, I need to ask you about all quiet on the western front. Which I got from Netflix this week. And it's awfully good and I can't finish it. Instead I've been reading about World War I, you know, a 140,000 French man dead in four days in the first battle of the war, three years later, 20,000 Brits die in one day. They're antietam in their entire history. It's just so grim. What did you make of all quiet on the western front? All quiet on the western front is one of those movies that's very frustrating to me because it's very clearly a well made picture. I admire a lot of it. The shots were very, very well constructed. The editing was very well done. The acting is all very good. And yet I still didn't really like it very much. It really, it just insists upon itself in the sense that, you know, it's a movie about it's a movie with a very specific point. War is bad. And it wars pointless and wars meaningless and it really drives that home over and over and over again to the extent that I really think the most effective part of the film is the opening, I don't know, the first ten or 12 minutes or so, which is I agree. Like a little short story in and of itself, right? The naivete of youth concerning war. Right. So in the opening 12 minutes, there's the sequence in which a young man is basically convinced to go off to war and he goes against the wishes of the parents and he's only 17 and he dies pointlessly and tragically and the next batch of recruits gets his jacket. It's a really well done sequence, but that gets to the whole point of the movie and the rest of the movie is just that ten minutes over and over again.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Brit Hume: Not a Big Fan of Trump's Latest Attack on DeSantis
"Britt Hume doesn't think too highly of the nickname, Brit Hume, pretty level headed guy, usually great analysis out of Washington, D.C., here he was last night on Fox News. Not quite understanding the nickname penchant the president Trump has. Yeah, it's just kind of two guys in the ring sort of striking out at each other with very long distance jabs so far. I think it's likely to get much more intense. It's going to be very interesting to see how Ron DeSantis goes about trying to fend off Trump's attacks, which was so effective against Trump's rivals in 2016, remains to be seen with that strategy will be so far he's basically deflected them. I don't know how long he can keep that up, but it'll be interesting to watch. Yeah, Ron DeSantis. Do you think that's going to stick the sanctimonious? I don't think Ron desantis sounds much different to Sanders. I'm not sure what the point of it is. I don't think I don't think that hurts him in any way. What does it mean? Well, I think it's short for sanctimonious.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
The Idea of Sending Western Weaponry to Ukraine Is Insane
"Comes to supplying weapons, this is really, this is hugely important. Right at the beginning of the war, I wrote an analytic piece, I think it was for breitbart. And what I said back then, ten months ago, hasn't changed today. The idea that we should be sending that anybody, the Germans, the Brits, or the Americans, should be sending western weaponry to Ukraine and cash is insane. This is a former republic of the Soviet Union. What they need is Soviet era equipment, which is standing in stockpiles in former Warsaw Pact nations like Hungary, like Poland, the Baltic states and Romania. They need to this is the Polish deal. Remember the Polish deal, Poland said, we've got MiG 29s while given to Ukraine if America backfills. Biden says yes and then 48 hours later because he's a feckless senile old get changes his mind. So they should be supplied equipment they know how to use, not Abrams tanks that nobody in Ukraine has ever driven that have 19 different types of oil to run them and that need a resupply chain from America. No, give them Soviet air equipment that we don't want anyway. Give them ammunition and lastly, just because we have a dominance in ISR in intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance when it comes to military satellites give them the target packets to hit the Russians that are on their territory where it hurts.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kevin McCullough Weighs In on Last Night's State of the Union Address
"I loved about last night was that from the top down. Kevin McCarthy sat behind Joe Biden shaking his head, no. And at times, it looked like the House of Commons, not the halls of Congress that we were in last night. Where the president lied most egregiously, he got called out on it. Give us an example. Well, he tried to say that Republicans were wanting to extend the deficit and ruin the economy and that they were going to try to sunset social security and Medicare. The house nearly came apart. The reaction to those statements was so strong, it was literally like watching the BBC and having one of the Brits bang his shoe on the podium or something. It was really and from that standpoint, I'm kind of glad. The American people need to see that the people that they've sent to Washington aren't just going to sit by and take the same old piles of pablum that they've been asked to swallow in the past.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
The Fragility of Joe Biden's Power With Jim Carafano
"Can you cut through the noise and just get to the signal of the last two weeks when it comes to these classified documents? Or maybe most useful is you help us in terms of how other nations look at us when these issues like Afghanistan and withdrawal and everything else. When TSS CI documents are next to the paint cans in the garage. This doesn't look like a serious country, does it? Yeah, so we should let's talk about that person. We'll talk about what's actually going on here because you raise a really good point. Just a few weeks ago, Joe Biden was on top of the world. I mean, he didn't get trusted in the midterms. It was like he basically pushed through a ton of his leftist agenda, so he could turn to the left to say, look, I accomplish what you want. And he was so emboldened. And then to me, it's really careful. So emboldened that even went to the border, of course, had been criticized for not doing that for two years, and now he goes, why? Because you feel so strong and so powerful that it can go to reports lie his way through this and get away with it, right? I am impervious to this. And you have two weeks later, he is really under assault. And I think it shows the fragility of his power. And so I think very much world leaders are back to where they were. Before the midterms worrying about, does this guy really have what it takes? Is he really solid? Is he really the leader of this country? You go from such a seemingly powerful position to stumbling over talking points from his lawyers about the documents. Right. And he has a distracted. And because they don't really think he is a strong foreign policy president, even in Ukraine. We have to remember he was dragged into Ukraine. His national security adviser Sullivan, every day says, let's just cut a deal and get the hell out of there, right? So Brits were embarrassing us in terms of their forward leaning. You know, even look at Iran. I mean, the Europeans have been really tough on sanctioning the Iranians on their human rights abuses. And the administration is almost been adrift. So I think the world opinion is we're back to maybe this isn't the guy that's going to be around in two years and maybe isn't the strongest partner right now. So that's true.
AP News Radio
As Prince Harry's book hits shelves, what do the Brits make of it?
"British royal prince Harry's memoir has finally hit the shelves. After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers have the chance to judge Harry's book for themselves, spare went on sale around the world on Tuesday in Britain, a few stores opened early to sell spare to die hard royal divers and the merely curious Caroline linen, a 59 year old customer who'd waited at a London bookshop from 6 a.m., says she simply interested in all it contains. I want to be surprised by it. And nothing shocks me so far. I've had two I've watched the both of the interviews on TV. And I'm not shocked by anything. So I
Mark Levin
Ukrainian Troops Locked in Combat Along the East, Waiting for Weapons
"Washington compost Kyiv Ukraine Ukraine forces locked in a grinding battle for control of the country's east struggled to hold off Russian troops and buy themselves some time Yesterday while they await the arrival of the advanced rockets and anti aircraft weapons promised by the west Now I want to thank the Brits who have been really at the front of this I want to thank many of the once captured nations in Eastern Europe our closest allies in Europe actually like the polls and so forth I want to thank the tiny little Balkan states Finland I want to thank even these formerly neutral states They see what's taking place And now finally we've said hey you know what And the problem is you get these medium range rockets now with the pinpoint precision And the good artillery It takes weeks to get them in the field and get them where they need to be and train these guys to do this Weeks So when they wait this is what happens
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Brit Hume: We Can Only Hope Media Will Do More to Learn About Hunter
"And he dove into this last night, talking with Brett bair on Fox News channel. Well, it was something they said they couldn't touch. And they said they couldn't touch because it was not verified. Of course, news organizations pick up stories that some other news organizations have reported. They don't necessarily claim them as their own, but they report that the other news organization has said this. But when the New York Post reported a hundred Biden's laptop and its contents, everybody said, oh, we can't touch that. We can't touch that. Now The New York Times and The Washington Post have discovered there's a lot to this story and they're always was a lot to this story. I guess we should say better late than never to those news organizations and because they have big they have big staffs and they can delve into a story like this. So let's hope they do more. Well, I suspect they will do more because the investigation is evidently multifaceted. And I hope they get to the bottom of it, but then again, I always hope they'd get to the bottom of the corruption of the Clinton family. I always hope they'd get to the corruption of Nancy Pelosi and her wealthy wealthy husband. Their investing in stocks that you know there is so much insider garbage that goes on, how does somebody go into Congress a hundred years ago and come out a multi multi multi millionaire?
Mark Levin
Sen. Ted Cruz: U.S. Has Limited Weapons to Ukraine Since Obama Admin
"And then you know I don't get the sense that we are providing the Ukrainians with the military equipment they're begging for or the incredibly courageous president of Ukraine wouldn't have to keep asking for it And I get the sense also that the Europeans are providing more weaponry than we are Do we know I don't know So we don't know the specifics We know several things We know number one going back to Barack Obama Barack Obama repeatedly refused to give Ukraine any lethal military aid even after Russia invaded Ukraine invaded Crimea in 2014 Obama was sending them blankets and teddy bears And I and others in the Senate were leading the fight to send lethal military aid and Obama blocked it Fast forward to Joe Biden Biden last year twice halted the shipments of military aid to Ukraine Once in April once in December Biden did both of those because he was trying to negotiate with Russia and he thought that by cutting Ukraine off from military assistance that Russia would be likely to make a deal He doesn't understand that Putin and all bullies in tyrants They don't respect weakness And I can tell you in January there was a bipartisan group of senators that went to Ukraine and when we got when they got there and there were cameras and toe that were filming everything They were unloading shipments of lethal military aid from the United Kingdom because the Brits had stepped forward and were providing military aid to Ukraine and they were so ashamed by the camera showing the UK stepping up and doing what the U.S. should do that Biden finally began providing some military aid but we need to do much much more We need to be providing them with stingers and javelins and significant numbers
The Archive Project
"brit" Discussed on The Archive Project
"Alternative ashes chasing one. It's really fascinating to you. So catcher mike early combined hunter and what he was somebody who's originally a very minor character but once i go to sleep the i love writing in happening this perspective of this. You know bounty hunter which is probably as far away from who i am is the fictional character can be I share nothing in common with him. And i really loved his voice and be in his hands matching his role in the story. So you'll see characters like that will pop up and really grab you in those pictures that you do me. A lot of the writing process about recognizing that recognizing the difference between interests and And decided to go in the direction of what's really exciting. And i think. I am always more interested in writing about relationships than i am in writing about characters solves. Gem would a lot about the characters alone. Enjoy that but also i love relationships. I wanna see dynamic duos. I wanna see People who Bring out interesting things in each other people who make life difficult for each other. I think that's one of the things that i really liked about book is that you have these pairings of characters often. In in a way that generates it generates tension when these people are together in a room alone. you don't know twin happens reader but also reveals who they are and for me. It's about finding those types of dynamics and finding the sex of relationships in which characters are going to bounce off each other in interesting ways and prioritizing or spending time with those characters in alignment. So i just try to be open minded and i tried to divorce myself from any previous notion that i have what i planned from book and religious followed. Who's exciting to me in. Who kind of jump off. H so agree with brad. And not like i feel like in the vanishing affleck. Excitement is really palpable. In it draws you in as a reader and it really makes you want to spend time in that world on my end. I think my process similar in that. I'm really only interested in four or five things so the question of power you extra those things for her on writing the same over and over again like. How do i come up with a narrative. I live in that. I want to spend time in always on the forefront of my mind but i knew with memorial i think the three things off hand like i knew that there was an emotional pocket that i wanted narrative to end up in. Although i did not know how i would get there. I knew that meets go. Who is mike's mom. She would be the emotional center of a novel. A lot of ways. Because it is novel of arrivals and departures benson and mike who are sort of romantic douro at the center of it. They don't spend very much time in the same place over the course of the book and maximum is who ties them together in a lot of ways in many ways she sees more than they see of one another and i think the third thing that i know off hand was that i wanted to give as close to equal credence to mike and ben as i could in the current draft like the final one that people have in their hands than has about eleven hundred more words. More than mike in like. It was like the goal of mine to get as close to one to one as possible. But i wasn't good enough to do that but it was really important to me like to come up with a relationship through which we like the reader like the audience. Like you didn't walk away thinking like okay like this whole relationship. Israeli government to call bends fault or vice versa. It's all bikes fault or saved. It was solely solely due to balance and trying not to lean into that meant to me. I felt that. I couldn't illustrate their relationship from a prescriptive lens partly because be really productive partly because that wasn't the world that i wanted to occupy for the length of writing on the novel and i think that had to finish it to figure out where it would ultimately end up because i just didn't know that you know once i did end up there like that was the end of Took some time to get there. So as far as developing the characters. A lot of why impetus for writing. The book was to see who the characters were and where they would end up because they were just that interesting to me. You know so much of Drafting process is trying to build a world in trying to find characters. That are that interesting to me. That i'm willing to sit with them for three years or however long at you know because it's important to follow your obsessions. Follow your concerns. If everything's you feel as though you know you're you're that wedded to them perhaps Now that's the route to follow or at least it was for memorial tapping into romantic relationships with came up. I adore and i cannot say it enough door. Door reese and jud they're like the healthiest couple. I've read in a book by other because it was just a relief to re of and it's not as though vanishing half to me was dislike traumatizing book. I didn't ingested in that way. But i have to say when we got to those passages there was such a security there even though that they respectively had their own insecurities right but together. None of that seemed to really matter because the love was so deep for those two and then we have candy. Who's chasing something. And i'm curious about if you can speak to this and i say that a lot because i don't wanna like kinda put pressure on authors to answer things that may come off as hypotheticals but with reese and jud and then we have kennedy and what dude seems to be very aware of herself and it is again coming from negative space right of being raised in mallard where kennedy is so uncertain of self and she has such privilege. And i don't know like can you speak a little bit into that kind of creating bear kind of respective.
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"Out we We stopped at the treehouse. Was in a back then was in this country. Red barn thing and You know it's funny. How much things have changed in just five or six year five years right because hazies were rumored thing around here and so we had. We went to treehouse. And i was silly enough to say well. Where can we sit down and have a pint in there like just take your beers and get out of here go to the barbecue place. We don't have there's no drinking here. I'm like okay. So we got our cases and we went to the barbecue place. And i think it was It wasn't julius. It was bright bright with citra and my brother and i popped. These can't and i felt like the whole room of this barbecue. Place smell like this orange grove was just like it was one of those moments and so we drank the spirit. I was just like okay. I'm sold i. You know. I knew at that moment that i wanted to try to figure that out so because i never had anything like that before and so when we got back we opened the brewery. I think the tuba soloist batch. Number three or four after filled the food. And i've been playing around with it ever since but it's definitely it's it's Michael with beer was to try to make beers like i had tasted that day in massachusetts. So now everybody everybody has hayes. And it's like lots of people including myself kinda feel like they're hazed out a little bit or a lot But at the same time. I think there's room for some variety and so i will definitely say that our our our are dryer and and have some bitterness to them. They're not They're not as sweet and as soft as some other interpretations could be. And i hope that's okay because i i prefer this way curious about your water water chemistry. I know we talked about your filtration. You're doing our water is is really not conducive to brewing. So we we we have our. Oh and we start with a water basically empty and then we have assault recipe for every beer. We make soon so this year. You know fluorides are a big deal. I think we went four to one chloride on this at two hundred per million fluoride so fifty parts sulfate. Maybe.
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"We'll come back in just a second find out what that is and we are back and you'll have to go to the youtube channel to see how this bill was poured but we now all have a little now. What's this glass cor. That's a good question. We don't know what's i think. We call it pub- pub glasses okay. Pump glasses We have All got glasses of your tuba. Sola right if i am correct. Was your first effort. Hazy and craft beer brewing. Gave it a nine hundred thousand nine. Now that's pretty darn good for i f is my is my thought anyway. Tell us about this. Hazy wall cy assesses. Because you know how i like hazies came. It's got to be a really good one for me to enjoy. Okay carry on a plane. Well the the the summer of maybe it was the spring of two thousand sixteen prior to opening this place. My brother and i met In in boston and took a rental car up to vermont and on the way.
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"Beer wine. Hybrid co fermented beer. That is probably not gonna see on a lot of topless. But i've never seen it. It's fun it reminded me of a brewery that used to be in denver And they call them own beers yet. I can't remember the name of that brewery but they had horizontal tanks and their survey tanks horizontal. They had bags and they actually pushed the beer with air with compressed air and because there were bags that kept the air. You know what i mean. Yeah yeah but yeah but that was they. Were almost exclusively wine beer hybrids interesting. Yeah this is just like little side projects that we do. I mean i think we you know this is two barrel. So maybe maybe three barrels of beer at the end of the day three and a half barrels. So it's it's tiny but but they're fun and they're unique and they're kind of the people who like seem to like inquirer fiscal. So how do you serve those in in in these. Yeah coup glasses and it's bowel condition as well okay. So you know it's You know we'd like you have a you have a bordeaux blend symphony. Or if i remember rightly there's The border with a traditional bordeaux petite. are Merlot and cabernet. I think and then another one was zinfandel and karen carignan or so. The juice from so now. Yes when after that first year of trying like literally pulling grape skins out of a barrel at the end of the year for like two hours in the a cold rain outside. I said from now on. We're going to go over there and they're going to press. Press the grapes for me. We take that. Fresh juice added to our barrels top. It off at the food or refinance and then we we save some must or i guess you know it's called pomace. It's the skins of the grapes. Okay and then Freeze that and then at the end of the year. If we feel that the beer needs some more tannin's we can. We can kind of almost dry happen. Hannon's tannin's tenant the tannin that's the stuff that was supposed to give you a headache right in the stuff that makes your mafia-like had green tea. You know it's.
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"Of making this beer that they could hide the alcohol. And that's sad has something to do with kind of mall choose it in and hamas flavor they they impart and they cover the alcohol so that you can taste it and i think that's a skill by itself. Wow pretty good. So john finally from you because we got to wrap up with mark you have a lot of craft beers on tap here in in your in your establishment How do you go about judging. What you think is going to be a good selling. Well i mean. I think as far as like the craft beer thing in leaving out what kind of marketing accompanies to do. I think we sort of have decided to. I decided to go to craft beer selection. I think it's our depends laird. There's a group of people that come in the present company included that Sort of helps out with with making selections or styles and depending on the time of year and and would dictate what kind of styles you're gonna do. And and certain breweries are going to always have something that's interesting and i and i actually think that some the the more limited quantity beers Sort of creates a certain cachet. Yeah amongst beer drinkers that that that contributes to that and be able to add that i know some other places as source like specialized having beers. That are hard to get so and we know some of the his really good over here. We've we've been an experience of that mom..
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"Poor about Down the side of the glass about two thirds of it and then I pour the rest of it down the middle. Because i want to create a nice head on the beer that gives us a bouquet and aroma as well as being you know visually interesting so an all malt beer like sam adams will form a really nice head because the head on the beers protein fact The head is so thick you can actually flow to bottle cap on it. It's like a happy little boat loading there. So that's a good measurement of all. Well brewed beer. Okay we're back now from the break and mike crowd has really increased here. They have gathered around because what we have is going to do. A little bit of a tasting and see how how marks Way of tasting beer of appeals to some of our favorite home brewers and These guys are from winfield the right around the corner and Mock and his buddy mike. That's right because it's mike mike. Mike and mike mock vandenbossche. They have produced some raw biz. So what we have here is an imperial out and we pull them into tasting glasses and now this isn't readily available commercially. But we hope it will be very very shortly john. The owner of john's tavern has a ride john. You have the sample in front of you. have.
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"The appearance you know. It has been nice. White small bubbles head that stays for a long time. And that's because of the nitrogen that they have in there that's causing it. It's it's a medium brown and slightly hazy which means it's not filter most likely they don't filter into flavor. Okay after take a sip of it okay. Okay to while he's doing that it does look good when the head sticks around longer. I mean his beer just looks that much more appetizing. And and you wanna drink it looking at it. Because he's got a little thin roof find a creamy looking head and still. He's an inch down. He still has a little. Bit ahead. Still looks so appetizing and i understand that as it goes down the glosses called. Lacing am i right greg. Thank you very much. Thank to assess okay so back to the days. We said we call it a slope. Yeah you can call. That's right anyways It has a sweet malti start so the first thing he choose a maltese sweetness. Then it dries up when he goes further and in the middle. I'd tasty apple or fruity character again. It's in the middle. And then the hops kicking hop flavor especially some bitterness. But there's more flavor in this one and that sticks in the back of your tongue and once swallowed the beer stays so it's it has this Hop flavor lingering in your mouth for long time so that's about the flavor of it. It's it's well-balanced because it has the ball in n hop bitterness varying balance. Okay so i asked both Makes it really pleasant to drink if we talk about the mouth feel. I guess it's light to medium body at somewhere there in the light light side of the medium. It's creamy okay. That's part of the mouth feel. It's very creamy and again the nitrogen does that. Ju i think And there's not much to say about the mouth fill otherwise hard for me to figure out quickly. Anything else like Then as far as the overall impression or my personal opinion. it's. It's very nice beer. That i will drink a second one third one. There's nothing offensive about it at this time we can also say there's no bruin flaws says there it hits a home. Homebrew always expect some ruin flaws occasionally these professionally made beers normally don't have them Like diaster tills. And whatever have you. That don't belong to the character of beer. He said a big wide. Well i we'll find out about that later but anyway so to me. It's very nice nicely balanced. And he's also. I would call in session beer because of the low alcohol contents. Abc kinda lows around five or less than five even four point seven four point seven. Thank you so so you can drink more than one of those and and enjoy. that's good. Wow what a description. Now how long that in a in a bid judging contest how long would you take to assess. You'll be it. They say you should take about.
The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
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The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
"brit" Discussed on The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
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The Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Pubcast
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"Spirit characters as you get like the elements of bourbon not like a full blown bourbon. Yeah as you kinda go off to swallow to kind of get more of it. Come at yeah yes. When it's a little bit dry the mall character comes through more. It's not too dry like if it's too dry the monk character becomes annoying but no this is just. This is very nice. This is a very usual. Bub and stout guy like all following the rules of most well with the alcohol alcohol. You and you get more of a feel for if you have to have a drinking session with it. Because you're your first taste might be love it or whatever but it's not until you have actual sit down session with it because then does it. Bill does a sweetness build up on your palate. Or does it not mean how does it and i. The feeling i'm getting is added. The sweetness isn't going to build up. I think i think it's going to do pretty well. I think it's going to be balanced very nicely now. I would like to know whether or not he put this into above barrel but it doesn't sound like he did because from the information on the awful. He boven soap these award. And then that would say you're pretty. Well guaranteed that he did not by bourbon barrels. Yeah.
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"Laid back a little things in the bottom of your glass. Oh the little things in the baltimore. My glass okay. So i am drinking alcohol. An official big thorn fom Sniffed and at the baltimore it it has kind of a swahili etching design itching. It's it's like. Nor joseph stick up an of us swirly things so basically when you swirl it around you get little extra action in combination. Now he i think you said that was cool something It's it's nucleus insights. I figured you were talking about some. Etchings does like fat tire makes classes with the little bicycle etched autumn. And the same thing bubbles while mine's filled with oats number three at the moment. So when i m to all let you see what's in there but it's kind of like a little swirly some thing in the baltimore you can see it from now sign if you hold it up high. You can all swirls go outside. Yeah you can see. This is really good radio. It's canada looking at the looming up. My baltim- nice swirl. For thank you. Yeah and i. I think adds a little extra something as you swallowed round but i really liked to go see. Look as i swallow it around. I've now look had coming on that beautiful. So do i really is so can you as we sit on the deck are intrigued with my good buffet. Yes how many different birds have you seen already lots of red wing blackbirds. Blackbirds blue jays. Sparrows and whatever. That thing is with the dark. Oh that is a White bristles and not. Okay one of those things. Now in the winter we get Rose-breasted or chestnut jess not breasted dot tattoos s just slightly smaller got little chestnut breast when we is really cool because they run on up and down the the trees. He was hanging upside down. There wasn't there. They're pretty good right side. Looks like i can't see it from you know. It's the food of all in the cages. Penis pena's no on the right all as soon as so. That's okay it's woodpecker so it so here because we got a lot of trees around the pub gone Well let's chickeny little chicken black half. Chickeny what chu thank you. Well we we have an awful lot of woodpeckers in this area red bellied downey And then harry will peck us. And they really liked the suet. What are the orange and red balls lights. Or what the orange and red bulls mike. Goodness male pull my pants off now. That those one dollars hanging in food or some. Yeah no nothing like that. So it's it's a nature Extravaganza.
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"Right. That's where i'm from fill your. Yeah your banner man. They'll stay now. I grew up in bloomington bloomington central close. That's pretty close. Pretty close okay. That's the home of Stay fire state farm and Isn't it country insurance down. A country companies was down there. Yeah and now. I think they're called. The country used to be country old country. Hokey be kept away. Say that yeah. I think the biggest employer down there was the farmer might still be. And then it's still state and then diamond-star was the plant that they built in like in the eighties. Mitsubishi mitsubishi and chrysler. I think that's been taken over now. I seem to remember that has been taken over by a company who is producing all electric. Suv's and i wish i could remember the name of the featured in an apple. Tv series called the long way out. Which is you mcgregor. Obi wan kenobi number two And his friend. Dr electric bites. They ride electric bikes. All the way out from the end of south america to go all the way back up through south america back into los angeles on electric vice holly davidson bites and it's a really fascinating series There was a connection. What my original connection to the plant and both.
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"Think it's like twenty twenty two or something like that or twenty twenty three. I don't know but we also created a new class of brewery class. Three brewers license that mimics abreu license and one differences. That you can distribute up to two hundred. You can self distribute up to two hundred barrels of your beer now so for and that's a huge thing i have been talking to a distributor and i'm putting him on hold. I don't need them now. I'm not going to distribute more than two hundred no It's it's a fantastic thing. I very different is just because you are slightly. Bigger around for is although evil. It's helpful for us. But i mean what helped us get through. Covid was are. We had a lot of distribution another state. And so when are tapper. Kinda died We had something else going on which really helped us Get to The tough times and now that Now that we're kind of through that we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now. The tap room's picking up again and we've got all the distribution in this picking up so But i think that helped us out a lot and I think anybody that was doing a lot of canning and just selling Some people were selling over the internet and using making good use of social media. Did better Anybody that was just pretty much. Taproom only was probably struggling a little more. But i mean as far as the distribution goes it's self distribution. It's great for us too. But it's not as big of a game changer. Big of a game changers would be probably for some other people because you've had a distributor anyway. Right yeah yeah. The distributors generally aren't interested in brewpubs. Because there's such a limited amount of production you know limited.
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"Now. You have to go and do be a school tonight. You teaching beer school. Where who are you teaching. This would be the front of how staff at Right okay so are you open. We are open We close eight though. So i'm going back to teach them after we close and you know there's a chance that it's early in the week it could be slow. We could start early. So that's why i'm trying to get back there. Okay well we'll you on now. What are you going to teach them in school You know we. We've we've only had a couple employees until recently so i'm doing a basic tier school for the the new employees. I'm gonna teach them how to make beer and walk them through the we're gonna taste through some of the recent hop find beers and also gonna in the past. I've told them what beers would pair well with dishes from the chef but instead i'm teaching them how to pair beers with food so that we don't have a scripted. This beer goes with that dish. It's more the server engaging in conversation with guests and talking about you know different options. There's not only one beer. That pairs with the dish. There's several that could could work and and work in different ways you know he's a put you on the spot. What would pair well with the size for the rice. This is light this. I would put in. I would put this up with a salad like a nice salad with like berries and nuts. And grandma you don't put fruit for greens. Food dish may be seafood. A what a seafood dish of some type. No they go. Yeah that'd be good Shrimp or something. Something like that or some very nice sir. Talk crab legs maybe rab legs. Okay crab legs once but the doctor khirbet.
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"It's mr kim mullen ueno this. What does the us as he does. No no no or senor. Two ways senior pasta meco and then and then that the heard some dulcet tones. A independent crown from scratch street brewing. Mr chuck for hello. Hello hello oh my god. He blew the wise there. Hello sit back relax. Oh i can hear you fine. You don't have to get close into that mike. You could mention chuck's in his church street shirt and church street hat Yes and church street shorts as well all grubby. you know. he's east got skinny. Legs sticking up so hopefully we don't on. That was crawling around. You came straight from work it up. Thank you and i mentioned that. We all sitting. On the britain yankee pob deck. Enjoying this wonderful weather. I don't know if it's wonderful. It's been bloody hot. You're pretty nice right now. it is. I'm glad to say that the sun has gone over the house. We're in the shade. It's cool down a little bit. We'll kind of comfortable so today it's going to be big thorn big foam burry down in georgetown illinois. Now ken you. And i went down about a year ago. I couldn't believe how long ago it was And we visited with Anna and aaron aaron schweik and young who all the co owners partners and all around fantastic people who down at The big film brewery. It's an open air brewery and.
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"Last weekend Brit Justin Timberlake's publicist was so hard at work Saturday. The planted story with okay that There's no that it made it sound like it was from team Britney Spears. Lady doesn't hate Justin. She loves him. Him and blab oven. And on Sunday there was a story where GT was very sympathetic to J. T. Brittany wouldn't like this and slammed the tabloid nature of The New York Times documentary. How You know That was last weekend. And so he puts out his instagram apology. And then what happens a couple hours later, his publicist is hard at work, telling Page six Justin did this on his own. It's really from the heart. This isn't about publicity. So the Hollywood speak on this is 100% and about publicity. That's how They're spinning this from so many directions. Someone just tweeted me tweeted us that they graduated from junior high and high school and college by the time they got this college. Well, that's how like really, that's how long it has been. I was just going to say, because we're reliving their early outs right now. He could have apologized about this. You know any number of your years? Even just, you know, super funny. He's Janet Jackson gets banned from radio and gets canceled And then he gets asked back to the Super Bowl and 2018. And this is Prince who did already don't forget the him accepting that a word for Prince and using it as an opportunity. Make fun of princes height. Like the Golden Globes. Remember that day, Okay. He's in a hole often enough that it's Zach's enough. It's enough is enough. I agree, and and I really want him to do another interview because I absolutely hate that all these media outlets. Have to explain in their story. What even apologize for because he can't even say it in the apology, So I don't like, Would you accept if one of your kids or love her husband? Rocco. You too like when somebody has to apologize for something. Part of the apologies. Is that admitting what you did right? I'm sorry I did this. Yeah. I mean, I'm just sorry. You feel bad. Yeah. When you're raising a small kid, you need to make them understand. You know why? Why this is wrong? Yeah. Why? Why? It's wrong. And why we've, you know, explain. You explain, because you can't because too often we throw out the shallow. I'm sorry, or I'm sorry for her. You're filling in there. I'm sorry. I was Part of that. I didn't know what I was doing. I'll do better next time. You gotta apologize for the action. The action that you did so serene, high low. Read woods words. I mean, Justin, just straight up. The PR team is already at work. He did this on his own. It's really from the hard. This isn't about publicity. And then you know his wife, Brandi Carlile and Chris Stapleton have been really the on Lee celebs who would have praised him for this. And Johnny Carlisle did And you just can't feel just said Ah, Heart I love you. And probably her system like that in Where do you think she's talking to him? I think so. I mean, she might be making a plan. But listen, this is always there's nothing more humiliating for a woman, Then getting publicly busted your husband making out with somebody while you're pregnant. Net home. It's right up there with You know him dumping you while you're eight months pregnant. We're looking like glory. Kardashian, Vili crowd up, Lily. Oh, gosh. We don't love you, Mary Louise Parker for Claire Danes. Okay. I mean, that's like it's a hard you can see. That's get some while it might take some therapy. Well, I make a mix. You know, Lori Good news for Britney kind of today. Oh, let's talk about that happening. Conservative case? Yeah, that happened yesterday. There was Britney Spears had a minor victory in court the he had gone to court to ask her dad not to be the conservator of her. You know, a state in herself and everything. And uhm hey, wanted to be soul, the soul person, and they're keeping the investment firm that the court appointed as cold conservative. Because, um You know she her conservatorship is of her person and her finances is duel and, um In some of the things that we learned from framing Britney The New York Times documentaries that conservatives are a last resort because they're almost always practically forever. And Brittany's dad, Um, you know, step down, is the conservator of Britney's person after he allegedly abused her son, Sean. And then Britney got a restraining order against her dad. With Kevin's help her ex husband can't that's right. And so he got taken off of her person Hood, but he still co conservator of the finances. Mm hmm. And she petitioned for this investment company Best Summer trust in November to be the co conservative and that all happened. So this is good news. But it is Very slow and very difficult. This is Listen. This is a massively wealthy white woman okay to get out from under conservatorship, and we heard in that in California, the attorney who was speaking on the record who's now on her dad's team. Said. I've never been involved with one that it's been over, right. So she's you know, had a court appointed lawyer for 13 years, but her money Pays for Jamie Spears is lawyers. Right against conservative ship against her. It's just It's such a whole gaslighting situation. So anyway, I She's probably very you know, happy about that. And, yeah, you know. Anyway. It feels like we're back in 2000 and like five or six, talking about Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, like they are in Janet Jackson. But it's Anyway, I'm glad that that that that ham too, and I hope she's you know, going to be freed from the grasp of her dad. The fact that you know, like if she wanted to get married, it's not let her get married or have a baby. It's just like really. Appalling. Yeah, that it is. And the kid member they kid who said Leave Britney alone. Remember that kidding? Cried, Uh And you know, people were like he was just like, leave her alone. He's 33 years old now, Chris Cracker..