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Game of Crimes
A highlight from 117: Part 2: Charles Lutz Takes on Unpopular Causes from Vietnam to DEA to TSA
"Did you ever get any chatter that he was still alive, you know, anywhere? Well we, we, we looked for him. I had information he was actually a fled to Irania Perthet, which is a town on the Cambodian border in Thailand. And so I actually wanted investigative assistance and I went up there and spent a couple of days at a picture of Sukhri and checked out all the bars and massage parlors and whatever, see if we could find him. And, and we never did. But the other case I was going to mention, I think you might find interesting, is while I was doing this undercover thing with Sukhri, the agent who was handling the Herman Jackson, Ike Atkinson case in Bangkok, which is a group of, of retired military NCA, NCOs that were, had been smuggling heroin back to the States. That agent was transferred back to the States. And then in those days, every case had to have an agent assigned to it, if only to write status reports. So my boss, Paul Brown, dumped this Atkinson case on me and I thought, oh man, what, I got enough to do. But it actually turned out to be a blessing because I, I, I guess after a few days, got a call from San Francisco from an agent, Lionel Stewart, and there had been a couple of, of guys in, arrested in Japan, military, US Army guys, and they, one of them flipped and identified his source of supply as the bartender at a bar owned in Bangkok by this Herman Jackson. So I thought, wow, you know, maybe, maybe we can make something in this case after all. Long story short, Lionel came over and we made, he actually made an undercover purchase of heroin from the source of supply. We, we got him to San Francisco where he was arrested and he ended up, I mean, it's a long story, but we ended up being able to, with some of the evidence we got through that case, we were able to prosecute Atkinson in North Carolina. You gotta, you gotta understand, Morgan, this guy's talking about Lionel Stewart. So when I get to Miami and Charles here is the ASAC, we had two associate SACs and one of them was Lionel Stewart. This guy was a shuckin' and jivin' character. I mean, he was hilarious, black gentleman, would not cut anybody's slack. He, you know, he called a spade a spade and he did it to your face, he did it behind your back, but he was hilarious. I mean, he would just entertain. You could see how the guy could work undercover. I mean, he could sell ice to an Eskimo, you know, that kind of attitude. Yeah. Well, in my book, I call him the professor of undercover science. There you go. That's a good title.
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "brown" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
"America is helping our neighbors in need and if you're able you you can too. Donations are being accepted at feedingamerica .org slash coronavirus. Brought to you by the ad council and feeding America 200 food banks strong. I'm Emily Chang and on my new show The Circuit I speak with the big names in tech culture and innovation and ask what's next. You'll hear from leading tech CEOs and investors alongside influencers and celebrity entrepreneurs. This is a chance to go deeper to meet people in their world and find out what drives them. Watch The Circuit Thursday nights from Bloomberg Originals. You can catch it 10 p .m. Eastern on Bloomberg TV and on the Bloomberg app and Bloomberg .com and download The Circuit companion podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Bridge Bank helps breakthrough ideas actually break through and remains dedicated to providing financial solutions to the risk takers the game changers and the disruptors those committed to making the world a better place. Bridge Bank has been providing financial solutions to technology and innovation companies from inception to IPO and beyond for over two decades through its national network of banking teams and offices. Bridge Bank, a division of Western Alliance Bank. Member FDIC. Bridge Bank, e -bold venture wisely. A treat for Bloomberg surveillance are Jonathan Farrow staying in London in conversation with the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, Mohammed El -Erian of the University of Cambridge and the Nobel Prize
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.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh update on "brown" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"Subscribe to get the latest headlines it's the click of a button you'll find on the Bloomberg business app bloomberg .com plus Apple Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcast stay with us for that conversation including the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Bloomberg. you you Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast feed on the latest edition of the Bloomberg Business Week podcast station with Aaron Ryder producer of Dumb Money the movie about the GameStop phenomenon that led to GameStop In moment this we were all trapped in our homes maybe with a little bit more money from the stimulus check that we got we were glued you know we did not have the connectivity to our friends or family we began to form communities online and I feel like this moment was like the moment that Wall Street was gamified in some in in
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.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "brown" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
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The Breakdown
A highlight from Could Oil and a Gov't Shutdown Screw Up Powell's Plans?
"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 Friday, September 22nd, and today we are talking oil, macro, everything that could throw the economy off. But before we get to that, 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 a link at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, we are sort of continuing the macro story today that we picked up around Powell and the FOMC this week. And one of the questions that Powell was asked was about risks that threatened to knock the economy off course. Two that he mentioned that we're going to spend a little time on today include oil prices and a potential government shutdown. Let's start with oil first. The price of crude oil has steadily increased over the past four months. From a low of around $70 in June, oil reached almost $90 a barrel for the US -based WTI benchmark contract and $95 per barrel and $95 per barrel for international Brent crude earlier this week. The price increase for crude has driven US gas prices back above $3 .80 per gallon, the highest level since last October. Overall, gas prices have ramped up by 20 % since the beginning of the year, according to AAA. Now, there are a number of factors all contributing to steadily increasing oil prices since the June lows. The first is OPEC+. The economic group of oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have recently curbed output. Production cuts, which were agreed to late last year, have been gradually implemented over the past six months. In July, Saudi Arabia voluntarily cut an additional 1 million barrels per day from its production quota, about 10 % of its previous output. Existing production cuts across OPEC have already been extended into next year and analysts expect Saudi Arabia to extend their voluntary cuts until March. On Thursday, Russia further constrained supply by banning the export of diesel and petrol. Russia is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel alongside their status as producing around 12 % of the global supply of crude oil. The International Energy Agency said last year that Russian refineries produce, quote, roughly double the diesel needed to satisfy domestic demand and typically export half their annual production. Analyst opinions focused on the simplest explanation for the ban, retaliation for sanctions. Henning Gloestien of the Eurasia Group said, Russia wants to inflict pain on Europe and the U .S. and it looks like they're now repeating the playbook from gas and the oil market ahead of the winter months. They're showing that they're not finished using their power over energy markets. The Kremlin said the ban was temporary and aimed at addressing rising energy prices in domestic markets. However, they gave no timeline on when the ban might be lifted. U .S. and European policymakers have largely banned the importation of Russian refined fuel since February, which has required Russian supply to be routed through third party regions including Turkey, North Africa and Latin America. Now, OPEC cuts over the past year were predicated on a weakening demand profile heading into this year. At the time they were announced, recessions were expected across Europe and the U .S. China was an open question with the potential of reopening pushed back in the midst of additional pandemic waves. But since then, the European economy is sputtering along, albeit with dismal manufacturing data out of Germany. The sanctioning of Russian supply has caused European demand to be displaced to other regions with refining capacity, largely India and the Middle East. In the U .S., recession has been continuously pushed off into the future and oil demand is now back at all time highs with no signs of slowing. Although the Chinese economy has hit some turbulence recently, oil demand remains robust. Analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources. What's more, analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources in part to mitigate geopolitical risks as well as to shore up its manufacturing and transportation industries. So with oil prices spiking, many are wondering whether the White House will once again intervene in markets using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Between November 2021 and September of last year, the White House authorized a number of SPR releases. The final policy saw one million barrels per day provided into the market over six months. A small amount of oil was restocked earlier this year, but the SPR still sits at a little over half its pre -pandemic level. Earlier this week, a headline circulated proclaiming that quote, Biden says depleting SPR is on the table. This was later found to be a hoax with no legitimate source, but it demonstrates how difficult high oil prices could be for the U .S. economy heading into election season. To wit, many saw the SPR release as a political decision rather than an economic decision heading into the 2022 midterms. In the private sector, U .S. oil inventories have recently hit 40 -year lows of 46 -day supply, well below the longer -term average of 65 days. And while August's inflation reports already showed a small uptick due to oil -related prices, the effect is expected to be more profound across this month. Dario Perkins, an economist at T .S. Lombard said, That said, it is important to keep these recent inflationary developments in context. We are not yet in danger of undoing 12 months of solid disinflationary progress, not even close. Others suggested that high oil prices would have a greater impact on growth rather than inflation. Maya Bhandari, head of multi -asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management said, It really impacts the growth side of the Goldilocks equation rather than the inflation side of things over the long term. Theory is that sustained high oil prices begin to eat into disposable income for households alongside higher costs of production for manufacturing and logistics. These combine to reduce growth and potentially tip the economy into recession. Overall, this situation in the oil markets has, to some, many parallels to the liquid natural gas spike in the winter of 2022. Prices in some markets rose more than tenfold, European energy companies scrambled to secure supply at any cost, and multiple firms went bankrupt due to the volatility in markets. This week, Bloomberg reported that the trading arm of French supplier Total Energies has played a major role in bidding up the price of U .S.-based oil. Their source claimed that the firm is paying a premium for physical U .S. barrels, pushing the spread against futures to levels not seen since last November. With all of that said, there are some signs that the oil market is beginning to cool off. On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell to $92 per barrel, which represented the third straight day of price declines, which is the longest streak in almost a month. Warren Patterson, head of Commodity Strategy at ING, said the Fed's hawkish messaging has quote, put some pressure on risk assets, including oil. The dollar index has risen by 0 .8 % since Chair Powell left the podium, a large enough move to weigh on asset markets. Patterson said he still expects Brent crude to move above the $100 mark in the near term, but that he doesn't anticipate the move will be sustainable. So that is the view on oil overall. The thing that I am definitely going to be watching more than anything else is the political dimension of this. We are now entering the period where everything, even more than usual, is going to be completely wrapped up in what it means for the election season. If prices at the pump keep trending up, it seems very likely that the Biden administration will be willing to do what it takes, including SPR releases, to get those prices down. But that's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on. Now what about that other factor that Powell mentioned? Well yes, indeed, my friends, the US government is once again hurtling towards a shutdown after efforts to pass a short term spending bill were scuttled on the House floor on Thursday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to marshal Republicans to vote through a package to keep the government funded past the end of September. Closed door negotiations continued late into Wednesday night, but were apparently unconvincing. The bill currently being considered is the $886 billion Defense Appropriations Act. The bill was stifled in the House after five GOP representatives refused to allow debate to begin by voting against a preliminary procedural rule. Democrats also voted against the measure and appeared to taunt Republicans apparently reveling in seeing the GOP's slim majority descend into chaos. Among the Republican dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the inclusion of $300 million in funding to the Ukrainian war effort. On Thursday, Politico reported that Pentagon sources have said Ukrainian operations have been exempted from any shutdown, making that part of the dispute rather moot. McCarthy sent House members home on Thursday night to return to Washington on Tuesday. He told reporters after the failed vote, quote, two people flipped, so I got to figure out how to fix that. That wasn't the impression they had given us. Now, this was McCarthy's third attempt at bringing the bill to the House floor. The current proposal on the table is a 31 -day stopgap funding mechanism to forestall a shutdown to begin next weekend. McCarthy remarked on the change in tone in Congress among that extreme element of the Republican Party, stating that, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. Now, even if a 31 -day stopgap is passed in the House, it seems unlikely to make its way through the Democrat -controlled Senate. The bill includes a 30 percent temporary cut to domestic agencies and immigration law changes, neither of which are likely to get the seal of approval from Dems. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said instead of decreasing the chance of a shutdown, Speaker McCarthy is actually increasing it by wasting time on extremist proposals that cannot become law in the Senate. House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries remarked that the situation was playing out as a, quote, Republican civil war. Now, if it comes to pass, this would be the 11th government shutdown since 1980. The logic is that hard -line positions that don't enjoy support in the Congress can be put directly to the American people by shutting down the government and drawing attention to the impasse. Republican Ralph Norman said last week that, quote, we're going to have a shutdown. We believe in what we're doing. The jury will be the country. Still, the record on government shutdowns doesn't really support that strategy. Not one of the 10 previous shutdowns resulted in the dissenting group extracting concessions. Typically, the American people quickly turn on the party they view as blocking access to government services over a petty squabble. Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said, This is such a dumb fight because there's no principle that we're standing on here. It's just bad tactics. While the dispute is nominally over excessive government spending, with Republican dissenters pushing for funding to be reduced back to 2022 levels, the underlying problem is, of course, the level of discord within the Republican Party. McCarthy was voted in as House Speaker after a record 15 attempts. The process took four days and frequently descended into a farce. This was only the second time in the post -Civil War era that a House Speaker had failed to be elected on the first attempt. Conant noted the terrible optics of a government shutdown of the Republicans' own making heading into election season, stating that, quote, Biden didn't win because of his political skills and soaring oratory. He won because Republicans blew themselves up with Trump. I'm afraid we're seeing history repeat itself, with the GOP once again helping Biden by shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, never one to shy away from controversy, Trump fanned the flames on Wednesday, posting that, quote, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats half the country as enemies of the state. He added that, quote, This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit they must not fail now. Use the power of the person to defend the country. Now, zooming out and trying to get away from the politics of the situation, which obviously is not the focus of this show. The reason that this was brought up at last week's FOMC press conference is that a government shutdown would halt the publication of government data. This would include employment, inflation and growth statistics, which are currently playing a key role in guiding Fed policy. Now, given how much the Fed has said over and over again, their policy is going to be driven by data, presumably not having access to that data would be a fairly big deal. Yet in spite of that, Powell tried to put on a brave face, saying, If there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get and we would just have to deal with that. Now, by way of some history, the longest ever government shutdown lasted 35 days. The dispute was around funding for the border wall and quickly turned public sentiment against the Trump administration. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate, but the administration failed to convince their own party to fund the wall. At the time, Democrat Senator Jon Tester called it the most stupid shutdown I have ever seen in my life. However, if this week's display is anything to go by, that 2019 shutdown could soon have some competition for that title. Now, what does this all have to do with the crypto sphere? Well, I think in many ways these are just exemplary of the state of politics in general. And given that, perhaps it's not surprising that former Senator Pat Toomey is not optimistic about the chances of crypto legislation being passed during this Congress. Just prior to retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Toomey introduced his own crypto bill, which focused on stablecoin regulations. Now, the House currently has two major crypto bills eligible to be brought for a vote. One would establish a stablecoin framework while the other introduces more broad crypto regulations. While speaking at a Georgetown Law Seminar on Thursday, however, Toomey said, I don't see a path forward in the Senate regardless of how the vote goes in the House. He added that of the two, he sees the stablecoin legislation as having the best shot. The sticking point will likely be Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. While Brown has been outspoken about the risks of crypto and the need to bring the industry to heel, he has so far remained extremely quiet on exactly what form of legislation would meet his approval. And of course, any crypto legislation would need the support of Democratic senators to pass a vote to become law. Still, during an interview on Thursday, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said that she thinks that Brown's lack of commitment to a legislative position might actually be a good thing. Shirzad said, Now, last week, Brown wrote a letter to head regulators at multiple agencies urging them to use their existing powers to crack down on non -compliant crypto firms. This of course seems to be the clear intention, at least at the SEC. On Tuesday, the head of that agency's crypto assets and cyber unit, David Hirsch, warned that more enforcement actions would be coming against crypto intermediaries, including DeFi protocols. Still, Toomey, who serves now as an advisor to Coinbase, views stablecoin legislation as the solvable problem. At the moment, Democrats are pushing for the Fed to serve a central role in regulating issuers rather than granting oversight power to state regulators. This preference is believed to be driven by the White House. Toomey said, He thinks that senior Democrats will get on board once the White House is satisfied with the stablecoin proposal. Although that proposal might have to wait until after the election, as Toomey said in the next Congress, I think it's quite possible to get something done.
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"So I wanna talk to my guest today because everything I talk about each week in the beginning of my show, Rebecca and I are gonna be talking about today. So Rebecca Whitman, she is called the Magnetic Abundance Mentor. I love that. She's an international best -selling author. She graduated with honors from Princeton University. She was awarded Life Coach of the Year and Empowered Woman of the Year by International Association of Top Professionals. LA Weekly Magazine featured her as one of the top seven entrepreneurs to watch in 2023. She hosts the top 1 .5 % globally ranked, balanced, beautiful, and abundant podcasts, which won the Positive Change Award. Her philosophy divides life into seven pillars of abundance, which include spiritual, physical, emotional, romantic, mental, social, and financial. She helps people achieve balance within these seven areas so that they can experience more fun and freedom in life. She has been featured in New York Weekly, Miami Magazine, and LA Weekly Magazines. In addition to her appearances on ABC and CBS, she has guested on over 100 podcasts. She has given keynote speeches at Columbia University and UCLA and has shared virtual stages with renowned thought leaders Grant Cardone, Jack Canfield, and Les Brown. You can find out more about her if you visit her website. It's RebeccaElizabethWhitman .com. Welcome, Rebecca. Thanks so much for being here with me. Thank you so much, Melissa. I'm so excited to be on your show with such a delight to have you on my show a couple weeks ago, and now we get to continue the conversation. Exactly, yeah. So I was on Rebecca's show on her podcast, The Balance Beautiful and Abundant Show, and it aired August 29th. And you guys who are listening, you can find it on any of the podcasting platforms, Apple, whatever you listen to, Spotify, Google, and yeah, you can listen to the show. And it's also, it's on YouTube too, right, Rebecca? I think you're on YouTube also. Yep, YouTube as well as Apple, Spotify, and all the podcast platforms. Absolutely. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. So yeah, so now she's here. So let's talk about you and like what got you into this kind of this abundance mindset, like starting to do this kind of work? What made you want to do it? Were you always doing this your whole life or is this something that you kind of fell into or came to, I should say? Yeah, I moved to Los Angeles 22 years ago to pursue my childhood dream of being an actress. And I had small parts on huge shows like Friends, CSI, and 24, and I never got that big break. So I supported myself at children's acting schools and the children were busy during the day at school. So I would attend spiritual lectures with great teachers of the law of attraction like Michael Beckwith, Esther Hicks, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, and I started applying it to my life and I got immediate results. I was making six figures working part time at a kid's acting school. And I didn't quite apply it as well to my love life. I had a series of really painful breakups with emotionally unavailable men. And I even married one thinking he would change. Three years later, I filed for divorce and my marriage was slowly and painfully unraveling as my dad was slowly and painfully dying in a nursing home. And in one of our last conversations, he asked me to write a book. And a few months later, my dad had made his transition and my marriage had dissolved and I was sitting across the desk from my financial planner. And he said, Rebecca, I find it interesting that you are making more money than you've ever made the same year that you lost your marriage and your father. And I think you should write a book. So I wrote a book based on the seven key areas of life, which I now call the seven pillars of abundance, and it's called How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. And now I help women go from burned out to balanced, beautiful, and abundant. And using these principles, I'm now happily married to my soulmate. And now I just coach women. I have the podcast and I just love this mission, teaching people they don't have to be burned out and overwhelmed to receive abundance in life.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
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"Hello, and welcome to the Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition Podcast, the show designed to give you science -based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers, doctor of natural medicine and creator of DrJockers .com, and I'm the host of this podcast. I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself, and on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into the show. If you're struggling with stiff or aching joints, and you're tired of letting the cis -comfort steal the joy and freedom from your life, then I have a natural solution you're going to love. It's called Joint Support by Pure Health Research, and this stuff is amazing. It contains seven of Mother Nature's best superfoods for supporting comfortable, healthy, and flexible joints. It even promotes healthy cartilage growth, too. 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So thank you for doing that. Thank you for being a part of our community and let's go into the show. Hey everyone, welcome to the Reversing Type 2 Diabetes Summit. I'm your host, Dr. Beverly Yates, MD. It's my distinct privilege and honor to interview a wonderful colleague of mine, Dr. David Jockers. He's been a leader in many aspects of health and continues to help people have clarity about their health. One of the things that's so interesting as we do all the episodes here for the summit is I'm trying very consciously to give people different points of view and different aspects of what it takes for blood sugar success to be well. So with Dr. David Jockers, we're going to introduce him in just a moment here. He's a doctor of natural medicine and runs one of the most popular natural health websites online in drjockers .com and has gotten over a million views for monthly visitors and his work is really popular. It's been seen on shows like The Dr. Oz Show and Hallmark Home and Family. He's the author of the best -selling book, The Keto -Metabolic Breakthrough and also The Fasting Transformation. He's a world -renowned expert in the area of ketosis, fasting, brain health, inflammation and functional nutrition. He also hosts his popular Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition podcast. Be sure to look up his work, check out what that he's offering. Dr. Jockers, welcome to our summit. Thanks so much, Dr. Beverly. Great to be on with you. Yeah. You know, I've really been excited for our talk because I think that there are so many ways in which people can eat and nourish themselves and some things are certainly more helpful or successful when it comes to blood sugar control and glycemic regulations than others. So with that in mind, let's dig in right away here. So please, if you would share with us your perspective here, what is inflammation and how does it develop? Yeah. Inflammation is just a natural process of healing. In fact, it's actually designed to help protect our body from some sort of chronic systemic infection and so, well, not chronic infection, but some sort of systemic acute infection from killing us quickly. And so I think we look at the history of mankind. More people have died from infections that got into our bloodstreams, bloodstreams spread throughout our body, went into major vital organs and killed us is what used to kill most of our ancestors. And so our body has created this inflammatory process to help protect against that. So the infection that gets in doesn't get into our lungs and cause pneumonia or our nervous system and cause meningitis. And so in order to do that, we created this inflammatory process to keep basically infection under control. And it's also part of the healing process. We break down damaged tissue and we try to remove that in order to build new healthy tissue. So for example, if we sprain our ankle, we're going to break down that tissue and try to rebuild new healthy tissue in that area. So inflammation itself is life saving. The issue is that it should be turned off when the appropriate area is healed. And so in our society, we have certain vectors that are turning up inflammation. For example, one is called leaky gut, right? So when somebody has leaky gut, there's damage, micro damage to the intestinal lining. And every time that person's eating food, particularly food that causes more gut irritation, they are further tearing that gut lining and they're not really allowing their body to heal properly. And therefore, they're spewing out bacteria and endotoxins into their bloodstream through that lining, through that hole. And that's driving up inflammation in the body because the body thinks that it's under attack from some sort of systemic infection or some sort of basically infectious process that could be life threatening. And so we've got to do what we can to get inflammation under control in our society. And so I think about it like a fire in a fireplace. You know, if the fire is on in the fireplace, it's great. It warms the house. You know, it creates a great environment, an ambiance. However, when we dump gasoline on the fire, right now it spreads on the walls and starts to burn our home. And obviously that's when it's a major issue. And so in our society, we have lifestyle habits that are dumping gasoline on the fire and causing us to burn up our home. And we just don't really understand it. We don't realize that's actually what we're doing to our body. And then we later, you know, after doing this for years and years and years, we get diagnosed with the chronic disease. But this is many years of chronic inflammation, damaging cells, tissues and organ systems of our body leading to, you know, that disease diagnosis. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you for laying that out so clearly. You know, it's so interesting in clinical work, sometimes it comes up. People are like, this just happened to me overnight, thinking that their body has attacked them or betrayed them and that their diagnosis has come on all of a sudden when in reality, nope, this was years in the making. So thank you so much for pointing that out for us. So anyone listening to this, if you have an inflammatory problem, please know. It took time for it to develop and it will take some time for it to heal. The good news is, if healing is possible, that it's likely to be a lot faster compared to the silent onset process. It's like too bad. It would be great if our body, as we get more and more inflamed, gave us a sound or a noise or maybe we turned polka dotted or something so we can know that something's going on here, you know? Yeah, for sure. And many times people do have chronic symptoms that are giving them a warning sign. And we just ignore it in our society, right? It's kind of like a check engine light goes on in our car. Typically we know, okay, I need to bring this in and get it looked at. But in our society, if we have headaches, chronic headaches, if we have chronic gut pain, if we have chronic joint pain, if we have skin rashes, acne, eczema, if we are gaining weight and we try some lifestyle strategies and we're just not losing weight, if we're gaining weight and we can go on and on, in our society, oftentimes the first thing we do is we go right to some sort of medication or we try to just ignore it. It's like we just let the check engine light stay on or we take some duct tape and just kind of stick it over it and pretend that everything's okay with the car. And that's really what we're doing. We're not actually getting to the root cause. Exactly. So that brings me to my very next question for you, which is this. What are some of the root causes of inflammation and how can this be measured quantitatively with lab testing? So when we look at root causes of chronic inflammation, one, and this is what you're really addressing in this summit, is a diet and lifestyle that is not right, right? So high blood sugar and insulin resistance, primarily driven by the food that we're consuming and lack of exercise, right? Lack of movement, food that we're consuming, obviously stress plays a role. So high stress, poor sleep hygiene and poor sleep quality. Sleep quality is super important. We've got to make sure we're sleeping really well when we are sleeping, but also proper hygiene when it comes to sleep. That plays a big role with our sleep quality. For example, shift workers, they might sleep eight or nine hours, but because they're sleeping at the wrong hours that are not right with, you know, humans, natural circadian rhythm or we're supposed to be sleeping at night, they tend to have higher levels of blood sugar and insulin resistance compared to people that are sleeping the same amount of hours and working kind of a normal shift and then sleeping overnight. So those are major factors. And then beyond that, we have things like chronic infections. So we know that when we have different infections, whether it's a candida overgrowth in our gut, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, H. pylori infections in our stomach, parasite infections, Lyme disease, things like that, that all drives up inflammatory processes in our body. Chronic overload of toxicity. All of us are exposed to chemicals in our air, water and food. So all of us have levels of toxicity coming into our system. But if our drainage and detoxification pathways are working properly, we should be eliminating a good amount of those and keeping our toxic bucket under control. And so we all have kind of like a toxic threshold. And so if we keep things under that threshold by keeping, you know, by limiting our exposure to toxins and then by allowing our body to detox and drain effectively, then, you know, that doesn't drive inflammation. However, if we're consuming lots of toxins from the food, we eat the air, we breathe the things we're putting on our skin, the water we're drinking, and then we're not doing things to help improve our lymphatic system, our liver, our gut, our kidneys. Right. We're not we're not peeing. You know, we should be urinating. Right. We should be peeing out toxins. We should be breathing them out. So respiration, perspiration, that's sweating, urination and defecation. Right. So we should be peeing, pooping, breathing. And sweating out these toxins. If we're not doing that, then our toxic load goes up, goes over that threshold, drives inflammation in the body. So toxicity is a big factor. You know, I mentioned stress. There can also be things like post -traumatic stress disorders. Right. So where somebody's had major trauma and their body never really recovered from that trauma and they're kind of reliving that trauma. Maybe somebody that was a war veteran or perhaps they were sexually abused or something along those lines. Right. They may relive those traumas on a regular basis, driving up inflammation in the body. So all of these things need to be addressed and and considered. Somebody might be living in a mold toxic house, right, breathing in mold and mycotoxins on a daily basis. They're trying to live a healthy lifestyle, but they're constantly overloading their their system with toxins. And so we've got to be able to look at all of those factors and make sure that we're addressing those to keep inflammation under control. Now, when we're measuring inflammation on labs, there's some easy labs that we can look at. You know, you can get done on blood work. For example, one of the most common is high sensitivity C reactive protein. CRP is a protein that our body, our immune system produces in response to inflammation. And, you know, so long as you don't get a false negative, like if you work out really intensely right before you get your blood test done, your CRP will be through the roof. That's actually a healthy level of inflammation, because after we exercise, we have inflammation to help our body heal and recover. So normally you want to not work out roughly 48 hours before getting the test done, ideally at least 24 hours. So you get the right measurement and your HSCRP should ideally be under one and really as close to zero as possible. And so typically it's not flag tie unless it's up over two or three, somewhere in that range. But anything over one is a sign that there's underlying inflammation there. And that's something that we definitely want to look at and address. So that's a big factor. You know, I know in this in this summit, I'm sure you've got people talking about things like hemoglobin A1C. We know hemoglobin A1C, that's a sign of the glycation process or basically when a sugar molecule binds to a major protein, like in this case, when it binds to hemoglobin, major protein that helps bring oxygen to the cells in the body and denatures the hemoglobin. And so it causes a sticky protein process. So we should have ideally like the optimal range really is is really under under 5 .2 on the hemoglobin, 5 .2 percent under. And so typically in our society, nothing is flagged until it's up over six, up over six percent. I like to keep mine under five, right? Between four point five and five. Some are in that range to make sure that my hemoglobin, my red blood cells have great capacity to bring oxygen to the cells so I can create the cellular energy I need to really thrive. So hemoglobin A1C is a really good marker. There's another one actually that you can test, too. It's it's it's called a novel marker for systemic inflammation. It's called GlycA, right? And so it's also a marker of glycosylation and again, a sugar molecule binding to proteins. In this case, GlycA looks at proteins particularly involved in the immune system. And so when that's elevated, I like to see it between one hundred and three hundred. Some are in that range, more closer to one hundred when it's up over three hundred. We know that's a sign of systemic inflammation. In fact, there are some individuals that will have normal HSCRP, but we'll see the GlycA elevated. And so that's a really good it's a novel marker. They've just been doing a number of studies on that, really starting just in the last five years. Very interesting marker. We know, for example, statin drugs will have a cholesterol lowering medications can have a mild anti -inflammatory effect that may bring CRP down, but they don't bring GlycA down. Whereas a lot of lifestyle strategies that you're talking about on the summit will help bring both of those markers down. And so that's a that's a really important thing to be looking at. Another key marker is LDH, lactate dehydrogenase, which is part of our natural energy, you know, our glycolysis and Krebs cycle. It's kind of a Krebs cycle glycolysis intermediary enzyme. And so when that's elevated, it's a sign that there's inflammation, particularly heart tissue related as well as liver. Right. Could be related to liver. And speaking of liver, liver enzymes are another really good marker. So when we're seeing liver enzymes like ALT, AST, GGT, when these when these are elevated up over roughly up over 25, that's a sign that there's inflammation affecting the liver cells. And then based on the ratios, for example, if ALT is real high, AST is kind of in the normal range, roughly 10 to 25 in that normal range. We know that inflammation is really affecting the liver when AST is high and ALT is more in the normal range or a lot lower than AST. We start thinking about that inflammation affecting muscle tissues or affecting the heart in particular. So that's a key marker for that. When GGT is real high up over 25 again and the AST and ALT are lower than the GGT, then we start thinking about biliary tree, gallbladder, bile ducts, that region. So it kind of helps us understand more of where that inflammation may be located. So these are just some of the markers. You know, if you get a good a good look, you know, you can also look at just a lipid panel, like where you're looking at your LDL, which is considered the bad cholesterol, your triglycerides, your HDL levels. We like to see the triglyceride to HDL ratio. If there was one thing I was going to look at on a lipid panel, I think all the markers can have some importance. We can get some good clinical data from all those markers. But if there was one marker I think is most important to look at, it would be the triglyceride to HDL ratio. So how many triglycerides, which are basically free fatty acids that our body can use as an energy source that are circulating in the bloodstream versus the high density lipoproteins, which are a carrier molecule that helps bring fats, lipids, all different types of molecules back to the liver from the cells. And so when we're looking at that ratio, we ideally should be under two. So under two parts triglyceride to HDL, roughly close to one. And that kind of close, as close to one as possible, one part triglyceride, one part HDL, like to see that triglyceride level certainly under a hundred. OK, and we look at that. That is a key marker for insulin resistance and inflammation. If your triglyceride to HDL ratio is up over two, if your HDL is under 50, you know, triglycerides are up over a hundred. You know, definitely a sign of insulin resistance and inflammation taking place in the body as long as the test is done fasting. Right. We always want to make sure with the lipid panel definitely can be affected if we eat a meal right before we we get that lab done. But that's a really key marker to look at and helps us understand how well our body's responding to getting nutrients into the cells. So when triglycerides are real high, we're not good at burning fat for fuel. We've got all these extra fats out in the cell or outside in the bloodstream. And those fats can become denatured and cause more reactive oxygen species and drive up oxidative stress and inflammation in the system. So all very important markers to be looking at. A lot of these tests are not expensive, but glyca is a little bit more pricey. But most of the other ones you can easily get from your physician. Just go in, ask for the high sensitivity, high sensitivity to your reactive protein, lipid panel, liver enzymes. Right. They'll run all of those. And then one other marker that we should look at as well as vitamin D levels are 25 hydroxy vitamin D. A lot of research out showing that levels on certainly under 30 nanograms per milliliter, where you're you're the lab will actually flag you as deficient, you know, linked with all cause mortality. So if you have levels under 30, you're all cause mortality, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, neurodegenerative condition. We talk about any sort of chronic disease and then dying of anything goes up. Right. So it's really easy actually to bump that up. Ideally, we do it by getting in the sun. However, most of us just not getting enough sunshine. We may not be living in an area where the sun's going to impact us in a significant way to get the vitamin D if we're up. Let's say we live in Canada, we live in Maine, we live in these northern climates. It's going to be harder to get enough vitamin D from the sun. But if we are in a you know, even if we are in that location, like in the summer months, trying to get as much sun on as much of your body as possible. Obviously, you don't want to burn. But outside of that, trying to get the sunshine is key. Sun offers a lot more benefits than just a vitamin D supplement. However, taking a vitamin D supplement as well can be really helpful. I usually recommend about a thousand international units per twenty five pounds of body weight taken with meals you do at one or two doses, depending on how much of that you need. And that will definitely get your vitamin D levels up. You want to test every three to six months or so and kind of look at where you're at. Ideally, I like to see it up over 60 nanograms per milliliter, usually not concerned about overdosing. The research shows that as long as you keep it really under about 150 nanograms per milliliter, you won't deal with any sort of, you know, toxicity, vitamin D toxicity. It's really hard to get it up over 150, although it can be done if you're taking like 50 ,000 units every single day. So if you're taking roughly five, 10, 15 ,000 units every day, you're probably going to optimize your vitamin D and do really well. And so those would be some of the key labs I would definitely recommend. 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Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep.118 - Rewind to 1967: The Year That Changed Music Forever
"Well here we are episode 118 I think I think I forgot to list a few this might be like episode 120 or 121 I don't know I guess that's a good thing when you do so many you lose count anyway on this episode we're gonna be talking about the year in music 1967 and as usual I have the wrecking two in the house Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio of the music relish show very interesting yeah a lot happened sit back relax it's gonna be another two and a half hour podcast but we love it enjoy the show the KLFB studio presents milk rate and turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean now let's talk music enjoy the show yes let's talk music thank you Amanda for that wonderful introduction as usual welcome back my friends to the show that never ends welcome to the podcast you know the name I'm not gonna say it was streaming live right now over Facebook YouTube X formerly known as Twitter twitch D live and again I always I don't know how many other things and this podcast will be heard on every podcast platform yeah yeah 1967 so it was quite a year think you're in for a little little ride tonight yeah and you know who wasn't born in night oh he was three in 1967 marksmen from the music relish show good evening I was two years from being on this earth so you weren't even really thought of no you thought of it 67 think of that think of that yeah you weren't even thought of you weren't even like a sparkle in as they say in your father's eye there might have been the beginning of a sparkle who knows so let me see I'm looking at my is my screen still fuzzy on my end but I'm not even seeing it on YouTube right now I'm seeing it's live but I just got the image of the vinyl really yeah what the hell wait wait wait wait yeah no it's on it's on I see it I see it but my screen looks fuzzy right yeah that's how I'm seeing you from my end yeah what the hell let me check something here hold on okay let's do a little in show my you know that smooth little March of colors next to you when you open up the show yeah happy it's all like gone really weird I'm looking at this right let's go back to this see what happens I'm supposed to be in 1080 and I'm looking at it right now now you're sharp you just got sharp it goes back and forth it's a strange see like hearing yourself huh I guess I don't know what do a refresh here I'm playing it right Tom Benwald says it looks good patty says it's blurry that was in the beginning and it looks like it's sharp now so it goes back and forth you're starting to get blurry again it's strange got any storms down there no this this would this will drive me crazy now this is it's not supposed to be like this come on it's like a Grateful Dead show warts and all rice we're talking about 1967 there's no digital so it was still waiting for Luda come on so you know I'm going to do I hate doing this but I'm going to do it to you buddy what's that no don't cut me I'm not cutting you I'm gonna I'm gonna hit a refresh which might take me off the screen so the show is yours for about I don't know 60 seconds let's see what happens here let's see reload I'm gonna reload it so I'm going off the screen I guess it's time to advertise the music roll show with my friend Perry and my friend Lou we discuss opera we have fun how am I now you look better look yeah yeah looks better yep and I just advertised my podcast is that the opera I'll pay you I'll give you the money later on then I lose my this is like okay here we go you look better though all right good yeah good you know me I the technical stuff drives me crazy especially you know it's not only sound it has to be oh it's this is a live stream so it has to look yeah good and you don't want to drop out in the middle of the show no like me and Lou do once in a while race right let's see is the chat working let's see now I'm not seeing any I'm not seeing any comments so let me try this well sorry for the podcast listeners but I gotta get this shit right hey it's okay I should be seeing I should be seeing comments because people have already made three comments you over here maybe they're bored and they don't want to comment anymore no it's there it should be showing up on my screen over here right we know that my boss you busting balls only Bono does that let's see public so it should be getting huh this is crazy seven minutes in and I'm here we haven't done anything yet let me see send comment test I just sent a text to message I see I see you as I see mine okay good we're good we're good let me switch over to my other account and do the same thing I just want to make sure yes just our audience is bored they don't want to comment actually this is all Lou's fault yeah yeah always the you know I would probably lost the other comments is because I rebooted so hmm all right well you know what we're gonna start without Lou right as I say that as I say that does he have what does he what do you let's get the full screen nose is that why you were late you had to clean your nose and he's back in Paris again you brown nose er I've been a bad dog my laptop and he's back in pair you left here in Paris you must have left it back in the United States I did I left on the plane how you doing Lou I'm doing alright how are you guys doing well I just had a little technical difficulty and we blamed you because you weren't here so you left me alone and I had to talk opera with myself talked opera yeah rigoletto did you talk about rigoletto this time I'm just really boring you know I'm like all right this is why this is a two and a half hour podcast some of us have to work tomorrow all right here we go let's jump right into 1967 musical events in 1967 and the year kicks off right away with a bomb a bomb on January 4th the doors release can arguably one of the greatest debut records ever arguably if you had a top 25 greatest debut that albums would have to be in the top 10 it would have to be yeah you know if you had a top 50 that would have to be in the top 10 right even if you don't like them you have to say that was so ahead of its time oh it's so different nothing out there was like the needle and all you hear it kicks I mean fucking what a way to start an album it's a heavy song it with a bossa nova beat yeah I mean that's pretty clever yeah 67 so you know bossa nova was pretty hip again John Densmore over underrated underrated underappreciated I think you are you are so correct you know never gets the the the consideration that I I don't know you can't put him in greatest of all time but could he be okay if there's a top there's a top 25 drummer top 25 drummers is he in it good question and in rock we'll just say in rock I think he could be I could see him making so I don't know if he's a universal pick but I could see him on some list I mean he's something you'd have to think about like you said like it doesn't get noticed so much you know yeah yeah or it I mean although his drumming wasn't shy I mean he's jazzy as hell I heard um writers on the storm yesterday and his adjustment playing is great in his adjustments during the shows just for that yeah yeah the unpredictability of you know how the how the song was gonna go right because they could rehearse it all they want once Morrison got into that zone well in the drama keeps the beat right yeah yeah the drummer has to stay up with that yeah and played to the clown so to speak right you know and my my problem is if some of the clowns don't have the beat you know at one point they've got to give in like I said Morrison or even Dylan they'll set the tone but they've got to be steady themselves you know it's yeah otherwise it's just erratic but you know yeah guy like Dan's more I mean I had skill I had a lot of a lot of technical ability right feel yes cool so obviously his drums always sounded good yeah on the earlier on the other records even you know three years worth of music whatever I guess I would be who produced some Jack Holtzman was the producer did a good job Jekyll or now wait so no what was it Paul Rothchild yes yes yes I'm sorry Holtzman was he on the record company yeah yeah was that it was that chrysalis or chrysalis I think or just like yes that's a lecture a lecture weren't they on chrysalis though also I thought they were yeah maybe maybe chrysalis was a subsidiary but uh yeah Jack Holtzman's son is Adam Holtzman he's a keyboardist right now he plays with here we go Stephen Wilson but he does a little blog on Facebook and he talks about growing up and he was like six years old and his father brought him to a club to see the tour Wow at six years old he just talks about like yeah it's a great little blog Wow all right and four days later on January 8th Elvis Presley turned 32 on January 14th the human be in right the human be e -i -n human being takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park polo fields with spoken words from Timothy Leary Allen Ginsberg Gary Snyder in others live music was provided by Jefferson Airplane the Grateful Dead Big Brother in the holding company and Quicksilver Messenger Service speeches from Jerry Rubin and others were also given at the event although it's one band there I liked yeah Quicksilver Messenger Service who was it on January 15th 1967 who is your favorite poet of all them I know you're not asking me Arthur Rimbaud who influenced Jim Morrison good answer good answer way to bring that first opening segment rough full circle we're getting better Scott we're good now you guys get a lot of good trust me I'm getting a lot of good feedback so let's keep it at that I don't want you son ask for more money and on January 15th 1967 the Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan show at Ed Sullivan's request finish it he asked them to let's spend sing let's spend some time together is that the one there you go yeah and then he told him a really big shoe I hate to do this I mean I come back on penalty box I don't say just he beat my record okay look he just got on the show after late and these are either he's stuck he's frozen put the dog nose back on where'd it go are you throw it at the camera like your headphones on January 16th 1967 the monkeys begin work on headquarters the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material and it was fucking horrible fucking horrible what were they thinking they know they were thinking the egos got too big they thought they were the music well the argument can be made that you know Mike Nesmith did write different drum yeah so he could write songs but I don't think he was a pop songwriter you know headquarters and they try to be all fucking like 60 ish and shit they weren't looking for pop were they they're trying to be like more psychedelic yeah I think so there were their channel on the Beatles with those quirky little yeah with anti -grizzelles on that I don't know some weird shit I'll tell you what though I don't care about it myself but it was surely a harpsichord on it because that's what all those records had they had to have a harpsichord and I have the book this the 100 best -selling records of the 60s the monkeys got a they've had quite a few albums on there oh they do yeah they were they were but I mean I thought it was just a condensed period of the show which it probably was but it's still I mean they've got I mean most of their albums sold really well yeah yeah ah you like the show what's it is like the show I did I still like it I still love it I love that that that's so that humor is great like dumbed down brilliantly done though humor yeah way was what they were supposed to act like that yeah you know what I mean there was no like these guys are bad actors they knew exactly how to do that they pulled it off great it was campy it was great for its time it's still great to watch now yeah I do think that banana splits were a better band yeah that's I'll give you the banana splits were a kick -ass band yeah yeah kick -ass man did you see the movie recently came out it's a horror movie with the banana splits the banana splits movie it's a horror movie yeah yeah it takes place in an amusement park and they're they're robotic and in Dyson and slicing baby Dyson and slicing I have to say oh man that's yeah okay yeah Dyson and slicing it's good it's kids again campy movie but I couldn't not watch it yeah I have to say I'm sure Fleagle is a total psychopath well I'm not gonna give you any and no no no spoilers here those was it just Dyson and slicing on January 17 1967 the daily mail newspaper reports four thousand potholes in Blackburn Lancashire and Guinness air Tara Brown is killed in a car wreck these articles inspire lyrics for a day in the life a day in the life yes on January 22nd 1967 Simon and Garfunkel give live can't give a live concert at Phil harmonic Phil harmonic call in New York City some of this concert is released on October 4th 1997 on their box set old friends but most is not released until July 2002 that's some more okay January 29th mantra rock dance the quote ultimate high of the hippie era is organized at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco featuring Janis Joplin grateful dead big brother in the holding company for three Moby grape quirky that would've been interesting that's the best man that's the best as though for they're almost like the MC five kind of I think they were just kind of but they're they're a San Francisco band and beat poet once again Allen Ginsberg shows up to do his spoken word I heard he was a member of NAMBLA I wouldn't the National Association of Marlon Brando look -alikes I heard I'd someone I remember he actually he was a sponsor of NAMBLA but anyway on January 30th 1967 the Beatles shoot a promotional film for the forthcoming single strawberry fields forever at Noel Park in Seven Oaks have you seen it I have seen it I haven't seen it in a long time it's really cool yeah yeah it's kind of dark speaking of dark on February 3rd 1967 UK record producer Joe Meek murders is it his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head in Holloway North in London it's kind of dark didn't he produce sleepwalk yes letter Telstar some early we talked we did it bit of a genius really yeah let's see February 7th Mickey Dolan's no let me stop February 6th Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolan's of the monkeys fly into London Dolan sees till death do us part on British TV and uses the term Randy's scouse grit from the program for the title of the monkeys next single release Randy's scouse grit not releasing it is an offensive term Britain's British census forced the title to be changed to alternate title and then the next day Mickey Dolan's meets Paul McCartney at his home in st.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MONEY REIMAGINED: CBDCs Unleashed: Changing Finance for All!
"You're listening to Coindesk's Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren. Hello and welcome to Money Reimagined. I'm Sheila Warren. A reminder, you can listen to us weekly on the Coindesk Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts. And we'd love to hear from you. Tell us what you think. You can email us at podcasts at coindesk .com with the subject line, Money Reimagined. I'm in Washington, DC this week at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative conference, which is taking place at Walter Washington Convention Center. The theme is curing our democracy, protecting our freedoms, and I am extremely grateful to be invited to participate in this event. But our topic today is much broader than that. I'm joined by Carmel Cadet, who's the founder and CEO of Mtek, which is a New York -based fintech startup with the goal to rebuild central banking infrastructure for the Web3 era. Now, Carmel and I have had the opportunity to speak many times in the past, including when she was instrumental in developing the world's very first national digital currency, the Bahamian Sand Dollar, which many of you will be familiar with from discussions we've had on it on this show. That was her first big government project. But since then, she's signed on six other central banks in the Caribbean and Africa and has plans to onboard more to their platform and their regulatory sandbox design offerings. I'm really looking forward to Carmel joining me today to talk about the advances in central bank digital currencies and CBDCs, particularly how they're being used by diaspora populations and how we're thinking about this opportunity and this technology in spaces that don't necessarily get the attention of groups like the Bureau of International Sutterments, the BIS, or even, frankly, the U .S. government. So, Carmel, welcome. Let's start off by just a little bit by way of background. Tell us, this is an interesting thing, an unusual thing to have gotten so deeply engaged with. And what was the moment when you kind of realized, hey, digital currency is something really critical and important? Your background, of course, you grew up in Haiti. I'd love to hear a little bit about how all that came together to make you the ambassador for this technology opportunity that you are today. Yeah, I never thought I would actually play that role, but I'm happy to be here. So, as you mentioned, my name is Carmel Cadet. I'm the founder and CEO of EmTech. It started really with my story. I'm originally from Haiti, born and raised. And when I migrated to the U .S., I became fascinated by the concept of financial markets, the access to credit cards, the access to mortgage, and car loans, and student loans, and realized that how access to capital and access to money really impacts lives. So, when you think about helping people out of poverty, it's one thing to do aid, but it's another thing to really build a better infrastructure that are more long -term, better institutions, and better access to financial markets, more importantly. So, I was really curious about that, but I didn't know what to do about it at the time I was 17. So, my mom told me to go to school and get a job. In the meantime, as I figure it out, but sure enough, my background is in corporate finance. I ended up lending. But before that, one of my first job was as a teller at a credit union. This is one of those jobs you get to see how people experience money. Day -to -day, paycheck to paycheck, every Friday, every two Fridays, people have a different experience in how their lives are changed with the fact that they get paid, or sometimes when they lose their job as far as how that impacts their lives. Then I got into mortgage underwriting, got to see how the credit system works in the U .S. How do you provide credit? How do you buy houses? How do you get home equity lines of credit? And how do you build value and invest in other properties? I've seen so many different lives changed by financial services. Yet again, I did not know what to do about it, but I landed an internship at IBM. I spent 10 years at IBM. This is where I fell in love with technology. So marrying the two, fast forward to around 2017, IBM was launching the IBM blockchain division. For me, I heard about blockchain before I heard about Bitcoin, believe it or not. The ability to use a technology that really flattens out the intermediaries or the models that you get access to financial services is something that I really, really got excited about because a lot of the policies over the years have changed the makeup of the financial industry in a lot of emerging markets. If you think about Basel III, if you think about the de -risking of a lot of countries, I've seen the results of that, kind of how more and more people in emerging markets did not have access to banking services. And that impacted my family. That impacted how we sent money and how much it costs us to send money back home. And the idea of using technology, I got to see that from IBM. IBM builds just amazing, big technology that impacts the world, so much so that you don't even feel it. You don't even see IBM everywhere, but IBM runs just about everything that we run on and that we use. I fell in love with that concept and blockchain for me was the first technology that really made sense for me for how to do that. So the very simple concept that ignited my curiosity to go into this space is to say, you know, we've been waiting for the banks to bank the unbanked. This is something that different policies and different efforts have tried to drive. And even if you think about Senator Sherrod Brown's bill around fed dollar accounts, the idea of forcing the banks to provide a digital cash or a fed dollar account to unbanked users or low deposit holders, it was a debt on arrival type of proposal because commercial banks would never have the incentive to do something like this. And the fact that I worked at a retail bank and a commercial bank, I understood the business model very clearly. So what blockchain represented for me was really an idea. What if we take the most used asset that people use every day and trust every day, especially those in emerging markets, which is paper cash, what if we digitize it with blockchain? Could we provide financial inclusion by design and having people be part of a digital financial service infrastructure that could be built on and give them an access to a new world? And that's around the time where I got the opportunity. I saw the RFP from Central Bank of Bahamas. And of course, I'm from the Caribbean. I got super excited. I cannot tell you. I remember the first time meeting that RFP, when Central Bank of Bahamas said that they're looking for a blockchain solution to modernize their overall payment infrastructure to drive financial inclusion across 700 islands that make up the Bahamas. I don't think most people know that. It seems like one island is 700 islands. So that was a moment for me. And sure enough, with no architecture, with no reference at the time, me and my team at IBM got together, found partners to work with, and really pitch an idea that the Central Bank of Bahamas ended up really selecting and has now deployed. And I just came back from the CBDC conference in Istanbul, where they were presenting their efforts and their progress. And I think they're one of the shining stars. Yeah, well, I would agree in part because they were the first in part because to your point, it really was about inclusion by design, not just laying over, I use this example a lot, the way that roads were built in Boston and Cambridge is they just saw where the cows were walking and laid down concrete, basically, right, or whatever was used at the time paving. And I think the Central Bank of the Bahamas did not do that. Their goal was actually to create a system that was better in some ways, not just digitize the existing system. And I do think we've seen some other efforts at CBDCs really just digitizing existing systems, not interrogating those systems in the way that I think you and the bank did. But I've got a million directions we could go. But let's start with let's start with this. Because it would be interesting, actually, I could see how you'd be interested in something like a Bitcoin or something like that. Instead, the idea of paper cash was the most compelling thing. Can you just talk about how a how you see CBDC is playing out in the broader digital currency landscape? But also, why that? Like, why fiat, right? Like, why your approach focusing on that specific opportunity as opposed to the broader, let's say, you know, crypto opportunity, or even, I mean, as we were so ended up in the IBM Blockchain division, looked at blockchain in different use cases, so global trade, food provenance, and different application of technology. When it came to financial services, of course, Bitcoin was the first use case that really broad gained visibility and broad access and even fame, if you will, as a token, but in itself, what we continue to see is one, the learning curve on how to get into Bitcoin. I remember how proud I was when I was there. Oh, yeah.
Lets Be Frank Podcast - Men's Mental Health
A highlight from Shadows of a Silhouette - Fortune Favours The Fortunate
"Welcome to Let's Be Frank, the men's mental health podcast. Join us as we break the stigma, embrace vulnerability and prioritize mental health in men. Together, let's use your voice. Guys, welcome back to Let's Be Frank, the home of men's mental health. Today, we have got a brilliant rock and roll quarter in the house that go by the name of Shadows of a Silhouette. And the sound is a fusion of alternative, rebellious and personal vibes. Coming from the heart of England, this band has released over 25 original tracks on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon. We're joined by Nathan Tyler, who, along with friend Greece, have been creating music for four years, turning out more than 50 songs on SoundCloud and major platforms. Drawing inspiration from legends like Arctic Monkeys, Bowie and Nirvana, the music has even graced BBC introduces for the East Midlands. And they've rocked the Metrodome in Nottingham. They've also played the Quarry Stage during the Wyandotte Festival in front of 2000 fans, an experience that fueled their passion for music. This year, they have hit the main stage at Wyandotte Festival, producing an unforgettable show. So guys, girls, stay tuned as we dive into the guys world and discover what drives this band's unstoppable journey. But as always, let's check in with resident host Mr Ryan Smith. How are you doing, mate? What an introduction that was, eh? I'll tell you what the hell's going on. This is like the big time now, isn't it? This is just like, I'm going to say so rock and roll, but that's like, I think that's more like 60s rather than the 90s, I don't know. Anyway, I just know I'm older than most of this band put together. So, yeah, no, absolutely brilliant to get these guys on. I'm feeling good. Started watching the ice hockey today, you know, a little bit late jumping on with you just because of the ice hockey. But do you know what? I'm in a good place. So, yeah, guys, welcome to the show. How are you all doing? Well, thank you. Thank you for having us on. You say you're a lot older than us all put together, but we all know, mate, you're still 21 in that. Hard to show if it was, but we break through and still look like a one year old messing about. Bless you, bless you, bless you. Panthers or Steelers? Don't mention that second one. No, if you mention that second one, you mention that second one and we'll just stop this right now. All right. No, no, no. I didn't realise. That's all right then. That's all right then. Yeah, yeah, Panthers, Panthers through and through. No, but guys, honestly, welcome to the show. We've been throwing a couple of conversations back and forth for a bit now and it's finally here. So, you know what? Guys, introduce yourselves. Well, we're Shadows of a Silhouette and, of course, we're a four piece band from Derby. We just, Derbyshire, we try and focus on sounds that are a bit more like authentic, like through and through. Even all of us playing our own instruments on songs like you wouldn't think that to be something that you'd be lacking in the music industry. But actually, nowadays it's more dominated by electronic simulated sounds. I'm Nathan Brown, the lead singer. I've got Rhys Carter, lead guitarist. And Ferg's in Corfu at the minute, but we've also got Tyler Anderson, our drummer. Fantastic. So, yeah, guys, I managed to listen to your latest track that's going to be released, I think, later this month. You know, well, later in September. We're recording this at the beginning of September. But, you know, you're going to be releasing that one. I'll tell you what, I was listening to my car on the way back from Mansfield earlier and it's catchy and I get it. You know, it's I think it speaks. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to that being released. It's my personal favourite song that we've written for a long time. Yeah, it's fun to play in all life. Yeah, it's quite political. It's a banger. But, you know, it's really like a partial political. It doesn't really speak to supplement anybody else, any political party or belief system. It's more for the common man, isn't it? Yeah, it's just more for the common good side of politics. The politics doesn't actually get spoken about in politics. No, no. And, you know, I actually thought, you know, it actually reminded me of sort of Age of the Shadow puppets. Like Shadow puppets? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's that sort of... You're sorry? It's funnily enough the first band I ever saw live, actually. Yeah, that's why it's had that sort of beat to it, that sort of rhythm to it. And it just, yeah, you know, it was good, it was good. Well, I'll take that. Anyway, no, absolutely. What was the whole process behind writing that song? So, what was your thinking behind it and kind of how long has it taken you to... Well, I had a riff kicking about from the start of lockdown, really. Obviously, we couldn't practice, so... We were writing other songs. Got me loop pedal, yeah, and got the riff down. But we didn't really touch it until about, when was it? Like January? It started kicking it about, didn't we? We got some drums on it, and then Nathan wrote, as he does with most of our tracks, wrote all the lyrics for it. And, yeah, it's... It came quite quick, though, didn't it? It was just one of them, like, kick your fingers movement when you and us rehearsing. And then it just, we just all looked at each other and just thought, this is awesome, this. And then Nathan's writing side to it. It just... Put the structure together. Put the structure together, and then, like I say, it was just about... The words just came straight out. It's this one. Yeah, it's what we opened up the main stage with one or two as well. Yeah, it's brilliant. It's quite... Yeah, like, straight in your face, isn't it? Tempo, it's got tempo, it's got attitude. It's like hitting a knockout punch in the first round. It is a cracker, it is truly a cracker. It is really a cracker. Yeah, the lyrics, the lyrics. And it was, as you say, it... It's just the whole idea of that track. Straight in your face. Yeah, that's what we wanted. It's a song to get people's attention, really. And then it's... You know, who are these? And then it's... We've got you in the palm of his hand then. Crick up your ears. Also, it's an expression of that... Those little thoughts we all have about, you know, on a daily basis, when we're considering what's going on in the world around us. It's just a... No. With our ability to create media, to add into the great ocean of it, we think certain songs come out in principle, or because of principle, that something to have been spoken like that, or in a way, just for some... It can be heard from somewhere by someone. It's just about the rich going rich and the poor going poor early on, isn't it? Well, it's about the trap. We're all trapped. It seems like we're... The fucking mouse trap's already come down over us, and we're all stuck, you know. But life keeps going by for everyone as an individual. But there's a stranglehold on a lot of us, personally, as people trying to get through this world, but it's so slow for some people who don't have to suffer it. So, looking at kind of that... You know, looking at the song, are you speaking from your own sort of backgrounds and stuff as well, your own experiences? I think it's kind of impossible not to, of course. Like, when you are writing Straight From the Heart, not all of our songs are, right? Because sometimes it's nice to write a song about an idea that doesn't paint a memory. It's just... But then again, on the other hand of that, a lot of our tunes are personal anyway. Especially over the last couple of years, with what's gone off with Reece and Nathan and stuff like that. So, it's a way that I sort of... I'm sure Nathan's probably the same as to get these thoughts that are in your head. I have to get them out on paper and write them down about lyrics or poetry and then channel that into some of that music, which then becomes something tangible. The thoughts that you've got in your head, for me, it's the perfect way to sort of... Say what you want over it. Yeah, get it out and... To make room. Then it becomes relatable, because although it's personal to you, other people can then relate to that and hear what you're saying. Like, yeah, I know what you're on about here. Well, certainly we want to know what it feels like when they can hear the fact that we're getting something off our chest in these songs. Yeah, yeah. Because it's not whitewashed at all, really. We all work full -time, full -time jobs. We didn't go to uni or study music or anything. We came together because we all... Look like rockin' art. Look like rockin' art. We think it's one of the best things in the world. It's a freedom from life. That's good the thing about music, where it doesn't matter what race you are, doesn't matter what religion you are, everybody can come together and just be in the same field or at a venue and enjoy the same thing. Everything goes out the window. It's a universal language. And there's a lot of culture where we come from, a lot of working culture of people working really hard, raising families, but not really making enough time for themselves. We come from an area in the East Midlands where lot a of insufferable mental health is right there on the surface, but people don't even talk about it. They all know what's going on with each other. I know Jack's got a question for you, but obviously we've just jumped on beforehand and where I live, it's actually, what, five, ten minutes from... Not even ten minutes, is it, from where a couple of you guys live? So I get what you're saying. You're looking at the smaller sort of outlying villages that are ex -coal mining places. It's a similar sort of state in Wales. It's a similar sort of state in Lancashire, Yorkshire and things like this. And it's these forgotten roots. And listening to that track that you've shared with us, you can really hear what you guys are trying to achieve. So it's more of an observation rather than a question. But I know Jack's got a question for you. Before we come, because obviously we're going to look at your personal journeys and kind of delve into there and prod around a little bit, but while we're on the subject of why not, I want to ask you guys, how was that experience going main stage? It didn't even seem like that much of... There was a feeling of being out of place, but also at the same time being exactly where we're going. Yeah, it wasn't imposter syndrome, but you feel like... The best thing is if you feel like you've earned it, but then you also feel that if you're not getting nervous for a gig like that, I think you've got to get nervous to some degree, because at the end of the day, you're entertaining people and everyone's around on you to put a good show out. And then we just hope we deliver. And that's like, it doesn't matter how much of a buzz we've got to have to play. And the first thing I said to people closest to me was, did you like enjoy it? It's not about us, it's about the fans. Yeah. But the experience is just... What was that feedback like? Oh, brilliant, yeah. Absolutely awesome.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Robert C. O'Brien and Neil Auerbach join Hugh to discuss how the GOP should approach Climate & Energy policy
"You know what that means. That means Dwayne will be sitting in for me tomorrow. That's what that means. That means the Browns, the Cleveland Browns, are on Monday Night Football tonight against the Threaded Steelers, and they gotta go play in Pittsburgh. Last time I recall a Pittsburgh game, the Steelers snapped the ball over the head of Terry, not Terry, Big Ben Roethlisberger at the start of the playoff game. That's all I remember about Pittsburgh, but tonight I will be screaming from 8 .15 East Coast time until probably midnight. I don't know how long the games go with the new rules, but whatever, Dwayne's gonna come in and talk to you about the Browns win tomorrow, and then I'll be back on Wednesday. The real reason for that is that we have friends in town that we haven't seen in a couple of years, and we are going to go show them down East. So I'm gonna be down East after I'm up late watching the Browns. So tomorrow morning, if anything bad happens, it's Dwayne's fault. I wanna begin today with a horrible story, and it's every parent's nightmare. If you got little kids in the car, you may not want them to hear this because it's just every parent's worst nightmare. It's a small story, right? With terrible tragedy, involves four children. A baby died after ingesting fentanyl at a New York day school preschool nursery. Three other children from the Divino Nino daycare were hospitalized and treated for opioid. Now, two adults have been arrested for reckless indifference, and two are charged with murder for the death of the one -year -old.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 09-16-2023 15:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries' environmental impact, behind sand. Yeah, sand. You get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. And that is it for this edition of Bloomberg Best. I'm Ed Baxter. And I'm Denise Pellegrini. And this is Bloomberg. Stay with us now. Top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. United auto workers are holding talks with Ford and GM on day two of the UAW strike. Union members are striking for better pay and pension benefits. Representatives for both GM and Ford say negotiations have resumed after Friday's pause. Union leaders are pushing for what they call a strong and fair contract. President Biden sent two high level White House officials to help mediate the talks. Post tropical cyclone Lee is slamming New England as it barrels toward Canada. The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says Lee is now packing top winds of 75 miles per hour, about 100 miles south southeast of Eastport, Maine. Some 85 ,000 customers have lost power in Maine. Forecasters say tropical storm conditions are likely to continue for several more hours along the coast of Maine and Cape Cod. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will remain in office. State senators voted on 16 articles of impeachment today after ending deliberations. The senators acquitted the attorney general of all counts. Paxton only needed to be convicted of one of the articles to automatically be removed from office. He was accused of abusing the power of his office to help a political donor. U .S. Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson is calling for American schools to teach the history of racism in the U .S. Jackson was in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday to mark the 60th anniversary of his death.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week
"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 Saturday, September 16th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. 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 a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Well, as you know, I have been doing something a little bit different for the weekly recap recently. I've been collaborating with Scott Melker, the wolf of all streets on Friday morning with a live show that we've been doing. That's basically a chance to count down what we think are the most important stories and have some more editorial analysis around them. Obviously, you guys know that when it comes to the normal breakdown show, the way that I insert editorial isn't me giving my opinion on every story that comes through. Instead, it's about how I curate the breadth of different opinions, and that's what really matters to me. I want you guys to have lots of different opinions so you can make up your own minds about everything that's going through this industry. However, people have responded to having a chance to have a little bit more of subjective that opinionated take. And so today, while Scott is in Singapore for token 2049, I decided that I would do my own countdown. This is pretty off the cuff. I'm just letting it rip. But these are what I think are the five most important stories in reverse order. Of course, we're going to do a countdown. Let's make it a countdown. At number five, we have the Gensler hearing and his subsequent comments. So what happened? Well, there was a standard oversight hearing for the SEC this week in the Senate Banking Committee. And of course, everyone in the crypto space was waiting with bated breath to see what soundbites would be trotted out against us this time. Certainly, they were there. Sherrod Brown, who's the chair of that committee, certainly used it as a chance to reinforce his view that a crypto is bad and that be the SEC's enforcement record is good. And Gary's prepared testimony also had some knocks on the crypto space as well. When it came to the hearing itself, the biggest soundbite from Gensler was when he responded to Sherrod Brown, saying right now, unfortunately, there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud, abuse and misconduct. That was the headliner quotable that people ran with. And yet what was notable about crypto in this hearing was how little crypto there was in this hearing. Indeed, it was almost totally supplanted from the GOP as a topic of interest instead to be something like Exhibit A in a broader case that it seems like Republicans are going to be making for the American public heading into election season, which is about the overreach of Biden appointees and government agencies in general. There was a lot of antipathy towards Gary Gensler for his refusal to comply with Republican requests for oversight. Ranking member Tim Scott, for example, called this dereliction of Gensler's duties to the American people. And in general, it seemed like Republican members were gearing up for much bigger fights. Things like the major questions doctrine, which is a new vector for having the conversation about how much authority agencies and unelected officials can claim. Those seem like the battlegrounds that are shaping up in this pre -election season. So the reason that this hits number five at the list is not that there was something really substantive that was said. It's the fact that there wasn't. And indeed, that crypto has become part of a very different narrative, which is something that given that we are just at the beginning of presidential election season, I think we're going to see a lot more of. Now, as to the question of whether crypto not being a hot button congressional issue throughout the rest of the election cycle is a good or bad thing, I think that's a little bit in the eye of the beholder. Certainly, we had a pretty good chance to get some bad legislation on the books during the time when antagonism towards the industry was highest. But at the same time, you have a whole lot of people and a whole lot of companies and a whole lot of institutions that simply aren't going to touch the space with a 10 foot pole until we get some at least basic clarity. I think that if you are in that camp that wants that basic clarity, the best that you can hope for is some very targeted legislation such as common sense stablecoin rules or something like that. Number four on our list today, we have of course, Binance executives leaving. This was the only one that I knew had to be at this certain level. Because of course, four is CZ's favorite thing to say when anyone has anything to say about Binance this year. TLDR three executives left this week from Binance US making the total 13 across the entire conglomerate since June. News broke on Tuesday that Binance US CEO Brian Schroeder was gone. And then on Thursday, the head of legal and the chief risk officer followed suit. Now added to that we have allegations from the SEC that Binance US were not cooperating with document discovery and that their wallet provider is a Binance subsidiary offshore. In other words, effectively a direct allegation from the SEC that Binance lied earlier on in the lawsuit when they said that they would not send client funds to Binance International. Now CZ did come out and address the rumors around Brian Schroeder. He said in the tweet, there's been some speculation regarding recent management changes at Binance US. Brian Schroeder is taking a deserved break after accomplishing what he set out to do when he joined two years ago. Under his leadership, Binance US raised capital, improved its products and service offerings, solidified internal processes and gained significant market share, all of which helped to build a more resilient company for the benefit of our customers. We are grateful for his contributions. Of course, the crypto world falls into basically exactly two camps. The one who followed up that post saying thanks so much for the explanation. Of course, that's it. And the rest of us who are looking at it sort of shaking our head saying, of course, that's the only thing that you can say. So what's actually going on? Well, it seemed for a very long time like Binance had basically no future in the US. It is under absolute assault from basically every regulatory angle. And regardless of what turns up, there's already been a huge impact on market share. It doesn't have access to banks. And at this moment, we're seeing trading volume in the single digit millions for 24 hours, which effectively means it's not doing anything. We've had eight months of online science from that CEO Brian Schroeder. And so it's hard to imagine that there's any real future there. Now at the same time, it's important to remember that Binance doesn't necessarily need the US. It is still by far the biggest exchange in the world, although its market share has decreased as well. And it would be a pretty rational move at this point just to move on to greener pastures. Now that said, it does not at all feel like the regulatory story and the investigative story around Binance is done. And while I'm certainly not rooting for them to have done bad things, because God knows this industry doesn't need another SAM. I also would like whatever's going to happen to happen so we can get on through it. Speaking of SAM at number three, we have FTX selling approved. This has been a big emergent narrative, really more of a fear than a narrative. And the TLDR is that Galaxy Digital has been approved to start selling FTX's liquid crypto assets. FTX has about 3 .4 billion worth of liquid crypto to sell. And Galaxy has been authorized to sell 50 million of that this week and next week, and then 100 million per week after that. There had been some discussion before this approval around whether people could just get their crypto back instead of it being converted to US dollars. But basically, the bankruptcy estate said that that was just impossible based on how messed up things were internally at FTX. Now, why this matters is less the bankruptcy process and more about the market internalizing this deep fear that we have this big multi -billion dollar sell pressure coming right down the pipeline. Lots of people have pointed out that it's not in anyone's interest, Galaxy Digital FTX or any of us, for this group to just mass dump this and create negative price impact. But that hasn't stopped people from being scared. It feels to me like one of the next things we just have to get through and frankly might correspond with another round of negative press around SAM's trial coming up next month. But if we're asking for opinions, get through it, we will. I think the pressure will be less bad than people think it will. And I think there will be a little bit of a rebound narrative when people realize that it is less bad than they anticipated. At number two, we have the SEC but in a different context. The SEC settled their second case against an NFT project this week, that project being Stoner Cats. Now, I did a whole show about this. But basically, the important things about this are one, the SEC saying its jurisdiction extends to NFTs, two, the reasoning for the SEC's jurisdiction extending to NFTs making it seem like their jurisdiction extends to your Magic cards and your anything else as well. Three, for the fact that we are again seeing their strategy of going after smaller projects who have very little incentive to actually defend themselves and much more incentive to just settle and move on with their lives. And four, for the increasingly direct dissents from Hester Purse and Mark Ueda. Now, there are a lot of pieces of that. I don't really want to go into the whole NFT and collectibles argument again. I did that on the show a couple days ago. I will only say here that I do think that overreach in this area potentially undermines SEC authority in the long run, because I don't think it's going to hold up necessarily. I think the bigger thing to watch is once again, the culmination, the crescendo, if you will, and the coming endgame between this SEC and the industry. Now, of course, should the SEC be emboldened by another Democratic administration, things could just continue or even amplify. But it does kind of feel like we are at the period where most of the big shots have been fired, cases against Coinbase, cases against Binance, etc. And now they're back to trying to pick off easy targets that have implications that would lead to the accumulation of their own power. Perhaps once again, this is the reason that the GOP opponents of the SEC have decided to make the issue not crypto per se, but regulatory overreach in general and Gensler's desire specifically to expand his personal authority and the authority of his office in ways that undermine the authority of Congress. In other words, the reason that the Stoner Cats decision gets so high on this list is not so much the Stoner Cats decision. In fact, it's not hard to find people even in the crypto community who don't really want to go out on a limb to defend Stoner Cats. Instead, it's about what it represents in terms of the cycle and where we are in the fight versus the SEC, which leaves us with our number one, which is actually a news story that broke a week ago on Friday, which is Ripple acquiring Fortress Trust. Now, it's not really Ripple acquiring Fortress Trust. That's the number one. It's what has happened subsequent to that. Specifically, the very brief timeline of events is that last Thursday, this is Thursday, September 7th, said that there was an incident and that all client funds were safe. On Friday, however, Ripple announced an acquisition of Fortress, which coming right after that all client funds are safe announcement certainly raised some eyebrows. And indeed, by Monday, back to this week, we found out that this was actually a bailout and that $15 million was stolen from Fortress, which was made whole by Ripple. On Wednesday, Coindesk dug up the incident report from the software partner, and it appeared that the software provider and not Fortress themselves were the ones that had the breach. Although it also doesn't appear that Fortress were really abiding by the best practice security offered by that provider. On Monday, Anchorage Digital co -founder Diego Monica had discussed the issues with housing crypto custody within trust companies that may or may not have the technical expertise to do it safely. Now, it was related to the prime trust wallet incident, which, by the way, happened under the same watch of the guy who was running Fortress Trust. But it's certainly just as applicable here. Diego said it is an integration failure. It is a company that did not have the technical ability to do what they're saying that they do. So you've got multiple layers of why this story matters and why it's at the number one slot. First, you have the significance of this crypto institutional consolidation. Fortress was one of very few custodians, and so seeing them get acquired by Ripple will have Ripple effects for the rest of the industry. Second, I think that it is reflective of the larger brittleness of crypto institutions right now coming off of the chaos of the last two years. The infrastructure for big businesses and major funds and major investors to interact with this industry is very, very bad right now. Now, of course, a lot of that is due to the fallout of things like Operation Chokepoint 2 .0, where it's just getting harder and harder to be banked, for example, to get access to things like banking services and accounting services. But whatever the set of reasons, it has set back and will set back the industry. Obviously, one of the major positive trends that we have in crypto right now is the fact that major institutional players are circling around the edges, starting to wade their nose in. You've got Franklin Templeton adding their ETF application to the mix as a for example, and maybe that should be on the list as well. But it will be a significant barrier for those companies if they're not able to actually interact with these basic services like custody without having to go build it themselves. Now, the most likely outcome in my estimation is that they do, in fact, go build it themselves, that the companies who are good at all of these different parts of the traditional financial sector reapply simply that expertise to the crypto space. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if what happens and how the regulatory stuff resolves is that basically authority to do all these things is given to who the regulators perceive as the adults in the room. Another way of putting this is that in the same way that BlackRock is likely to get the first ETF, because that gives regulators the ability to say, look, we gave it to a safe party, I wouldn't be surprised if you see more and more crypto activity being managed by these storied, vaunted financial institutions that have long term relationships with the regulators themselves. At the same time, of course, there is no crisis without opportunity. And by the end of the week, Swann had announced that they have plans to spin out a Bitcoin only custody service. They announced that they are working with cold storage provider BitGo to develop the service and they are planning to structure it as a trust company. Now they are quite clear that this is a very difficult thing to do, that there is going to be a long period of getting the requisite regulatory approvals. But ultimately, I think it would be a huge boon to the ecosystem for that service to exist, especially from a service provider that Bitcoiners have built trust with. And that ultimately that combination of reflecting where the industry is, and the really low ebbs and hard points of what's happened over the last couple of years. But also the fact that there are multiple paths forward, some which we might prefer to others is why the Fortress Trust Ripple and now Swann situation makes my number one for the week. Anyways, my friends that is going to do it for the weekly recap. Let me know what you thought of this format. Come join us on the Breakers Discord. It's a great place to talk about this. I hope you are having a great fall weekend. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 670:Binance and Celsius Scandals, Bybit Defies UK Exit
"Good evening, and welcome to The Crypto Overnight. I'm Nickademus, and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Friday, September 15th, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnight, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. First off, we take a look at the SEC's tightening grip on Binance US, unravel the legal quagmire ensnaring Celsius network, and expose the political maneuvers around central bank digital currencies. We'll also dissect Senator Sherrod Brown's stern warning to crypto regulators and explore Vitalik Buterin's skepticism on Hong Kong's crypto landscape. Lastly, we'll discuss Bybit's stance on the upcoming financial regulations in the UK. The US Securities Exchange Commission accused Binance US of not cooperating with its ongoing investigation. The SEC filed a lawsuit against Binance, leveling 13 charges against the platform. These charges include breaking US securities laws and operating as an unregistered exchange. Binance US's holding company, BAM, produced only 220 documents during the discovery process many of which were described as, quote, unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures. The SEC raised questions about Binance US's use of Kefu, a wallet custody software service owned by Binance's international entity. According to a previous agreement, customer assets were supposed to be solely in BAM's custody and not shared with other Binance entities. However, the SEC argues Kefu appears to have control over customer assets. Binance US has been accused of responding to the SEC's demands for relevant documents with blanket objections and refusing to produce documents that it claimed did not exist. The SEC also expressed apprehension regarding Binance US's use of Kefu, which appeared to contravene a prior agreement aimed at preventing the diversion of assets overseas. Several Binance US executives, including the CEO, head of legal and chief risk officer, have recently departed the company amidst two rounds of layoffs. The SEC's ongoing probe into Binance US is a glaring example on the exchanges, operations, and compliance measures. The SEC's focus on Kefu, the wallet custody software, is particularly noteworthy. It raises questions about the integrity of asset custody in the crypto space, especially when international entities are involved. The SEC's skepticism isn't unfounded. The lack of transparency from Binance US, especially during an investigation, is a red flag. It's about trust. If Binance can't be transparent with a regulatory body, how can users trust them with their assets? The departure of key executives from Binance US adds another layer of uncertainty. It's not just a matter of corporate reshuffling. It's a sign of instability at a time when the company can least afford it. In a space that champions decentralization and autonomy, the SEC's actions serve as a reminder that regulatory oversight isn't going away. And for those who view such oversight with skepticism, this case serves as fuel to that sentiment. And the SEC isn't just knocking on Binance's door. It's knocking on the door of the entire crypto industry. And how Binance handles this will set a precedent, for better or worse. Now, if you think Binance's SEC woes spell chaos, you can hang on. Celsius Network's legal inferno makes it look like a tea party. One executive's guilty plea could set the stage for a seismic shakeup. But first, if you're enjoying this deep dive, hit that like button and subscribe to your daily dose of crypto clarity.
The Corporate Shadow
A highlight from 54. Navigating Conflict: Turning Disagreements into Opportunities for Growth
"This is the corporate shadow. I'm Dr. Ryan Giffen, a professor and people operations expert helping employees and bosses build stronger, meaningful, productive relationships. Conflict is like a constant companion in the realm of human interaction, and it's never more apparent than in the bustling corridors of our workplaces. It's a natural consequence of diverse perspectives, personalities, and ideas converging under one roof. But here's the catch. Conflict, if handled effectively, can actually be a catalyst for growth, innovation, and stronger relationships. However, when it's mismanaged, it can leave behind a trail of broken connections and irreparable damage. So buckle up and get ready to explore the transformative power of conflict resolution. By the end of this episode, you'll be armed with practical tools and stories of success that will help you harmonize your workplace and make conflicts work for you, not against you. Conflict is an inherent part of human interaction, especially in the workplace where those diverse perspectives and personalities converge. And so let's explore some of these techniques and provide real world examples of organizations that have successfully turned conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration. First, one of the techniques we can use is active listening, or I call this listen to learn. It's really one of the fundamental aspects of effective conflict resolution. Leaders and employees need to strive to understand the other party's perspective thoroughly. Encouraging opened and honest communication is vital. By active listening, individuals can gain insights into the underlying causes of conflict, identify common ground, and build empathy. If you want to take it a step further, Brene Brown tells us to have courage over comfort. And to do that, we need to be vulnerable. To be vulnerable is being able to get in the arena with the individual and wrestle with the conflict together. Here's a real world example, and it's at Microsoft. At Microsoft, CEO Satya Nadella has actively promoted a culture of listening and empathy. When faced with internal conflicts and disagreements, he encourages his team to engage in active listening sessions. That approach is what helped Microsoft resolve disputes and foster a more inclusive work environment. Another way in which we could tackle conflict is through empathy and perspective taking. Empathy and perspective taking. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person by putting themselves in the shoes of the other party and considering their feelings and motivations. Doing this is going to help leaders and employees bridge the gap between conflicting viewpoints. This will then lead to more constructive, empathetic conversations that help resolve disagreements. The online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos is known for its empathetic approach to conflict resolution. Employees are encouraged to take the perspective of customers when resolving issues. This is what resulted in improved customer satisfaction and loyalty. So apply that to your internal customer. Take an empathetic approach. Look through the perspective of the other individual. This will help you increase that relationship and perhaps even more productivity. Third is quite simple, and that is effective communication. Effective communication is really the key to resolving conflicts. And so leaders and employees need to express themselves clearly and assertively, focusing on the issues at hand rather than resorting to personal attacks. Additionally, by setting ground rules, setting ground rules allows you to come from a place of care for respective communication as this will create a safe space for resolving conflict. IBM has a long history of effective conflict resolution techniques. At IBM, the company encourages employees to use the I language rather than you language. For example, I would say, I feel instead of you always, or I would say I've noticed XYZ behavior rather than you're doing this behavior. By using the I language, this will be a more effective way to communicate that doesn't attack the other person. It fosters a more constructive conversation and minimizes defensiveness. Collaborative problem solving. Collaborative problem solving is the next technique we could use. And so rather than viewing conflict as a win lose situation, leaders and employees should approach them as opportunities for collaborative problem solving. Working together to find mutual beneficial solutions can lead to stronger relationships and innovative outcomes. Google is renowned for its approach to conflict resolution through collaboration. In fact, the company promotes a culture of experimentation and encourages employees to view conflicts as opportunities to brainstorm new ideas and solutions. This has really led to the development of many groundbreaking products and services in which Google has provided to the marketplace. And lastly, mediation and third party involvement can often be an effective technique. In some cases, conflicts can escalate to the point where an intervention of that neutral third party is necessary. And a mediator can help facilitate such conversations, ensuring that both parties have a chance to express their views and work toward a resolution. It doesn't have to be a fancy mediator that you spend thousands of dollars on. In fact, look inwards, look towards your human resources department. When all else fails between a manager and a coworker, perhaps HR could help act as a mediator so that all sides are heard. The United Nations regularly employs mediation techniques to address international conflicts. Skilled diplomats and mediators help conflicting parties find common ground and negotiate peace agreements, preventing further escalation. And so at the end of the day, you all, conflict is an inevitable part of life. Embrace it. Don't run away from it. It's how it's handled that can make or break relationships both in your personal and professional lives. Effective conflict resolution techniques such as what we discussed today, active listening, empathy, effective communication, collaborative problem solving, and third party mediation are the essential tools for both leaders and employees alike. By embracing these techniques, organizations can transform conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration, ultimately fostering a more harmonious and productive work environment. The real world examples provided today demonstrate that successful conflict resolution can in fact lead to innovation, improved customer satisfaction, and heck even global peace. That's a wrap for today's episode. Remember embrace conflict. This will be a catalyst for personal and collective growth. When you can transform disagreements into powerful opportunities for understanding, collaboration, and positive change in your life. The Corporate Shadow is produced by InnoSpire Inc. The views expressed in the Corporate Shadow does not reflect the opinions or views of Hyatt Hotels Corporation or any of its brands. Thank you for watching.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Cousins/Jets Momentum, Cowboys Fever, a Red Sox Reset, and Million Dollar Picks With Bryan Curtis and Kevin Hench
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Did a rewatchables on Monday night. We did Black Hat. Also was on the Big Picture. We did a big Denzel Washington movie draft. I got way too competitive. And then on Wednesday night, Amanda Dobbins and I on the Prestige TV Podcast, we broke down the first two episodes of season three of The Morning Show. The most ridiculous show on television, not just this year, but every year it's on. It just wins the title automatically. If they had a ridiculous show category at the Emmys, they wouldn't even have any of their nominees. I mean, maybe winning time would get nominated. I don't know. But Morning Show just clears it out. What a batshit, crazy, ridiculous show. Wow. It's really like they created a podcast thing so we could just break down the morning show. That's really, I think, the real reason behind podcasting in general. Coming up on this podcast, Million Dollar Picks and a little Vikes Eagles at the top. And then editor at large at the Ringer, Brian Curtis, who was also a giant Cowboys fan, comes on and talk about the Cowboys. Could this be the year? Keep saying that, but could this be the year? And we talked some NFL stuff. We talked some sports media stuff. We talked about documentaries and just all the stuff that happens when Brian Curtis comes on. Oh, we talked about Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as well, who have hit a really interesting milestone as a combo. So that happened. And then Kevin Hench, my buddy, the Red Sox fired their GM today, and we couldn't resist spending 20 minutes recapping. One of the four -year oddest, strangest four -year runs the Red Sox have ever had. And we're still in the middle of it. And I still don't understand why Mookie Betts isn't on the team but also like, man, since the 2018 World Series, the Red Sox have just been a hot dumpster fire. And I say that knowing that they almost made the World Series two years ago, but when you look at everything that happened, wow. So Hench comes on and talk about that. It is all next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. ["Pearl Jam Theme Song"] All right, I'm taping this part of the podcast. It is 11 .31 East Coast time. East Coast Bill is here. East Coast Bill is in Boston. I was visiting my daughter and doing some other stuff. And Thursday Night Football came on and I thought it would be a great idea to do the top segment after Eagles Vikings. East Coast Bill fell asleep at halftime. It was a new record for me. I guess I'm old. I have another birthday coming up this week. This is why I live on the West Coast because I talk about sports for a living. And East Coast Bill gets a little sleepy when the game is kind of boring and plodding along. So East Coast Bill missed some time, had to catch up, had to do a little rewind. Fortunately, there's so many commercials. I was able to still watch anything, but the Eagles beat the Vikings. They're now 2 -0 on the season. And I would say it's an uninspiring 2 -0. They probably shouldn't have covered against the Pats. They could have lost. This game they win, they don't cover. I guess on the good side, the DeAndre Swift, they traded like a 15th round pick in 2038 for them. And this little way they put together their offense where they load up on wide receivers, they hit the jackpot with hurts, and then they just say, you know what we're going to do? Just grab running backs because there's 98 of them every year. We're just going to grab two and pay nothing for them. So offensively, they look great. Defensively, you saw it last week with the Pats. The Pats were able to throw it on them. Mack almost had 300 yards in the last three quarters of that game. This game, Kirk Cousins, over and over again, heroically going for the cover, finally gets it. The Vikings cover, they don't win. Home team's now 5 -12 against the spread this season. Underdogs are 10 -7 against the spread. But for the most part, not allowed to report, the Eagles just state. They messed around in the first quarter and then said, screw it, and ran the ball down Minnesota's throat. I was thinking, Eagles, Cowboys, if you were going to make a combined over or under for wins for them, and I gave you 26, would you go over or under 26 wins combined for the two teams? They're 3 -0 right now. I would probably go over, especially when you look at the NFC and you think Philly, Dallas, San Francisco, lock those three down. I like Green Bay, Detroit, maybe New Orleans, Atlanta, and maybe that's the seven for the playoffs. And then you have Tampa Bay and the Rams. Who knows what was real and what wasn't real. Tampa Bay beat Minnesota by three in week one. We're like, oh, Tampa Bay, that's interesting. But now Minnesota's 0 -2, maybe that doesn't even matter. Rams, who knows? I mean, they just have so few good players that the moment two of them get hurt, it feels like their free fall will happen. So the NFC is already kind of uninteresting, I guess is my bigger point. Unless the Giants can rally, and who knows after the 40 -0 debacle last week, they're playing Arizona this week, so they looked out of that. But for the most part, it seems like three good teams, maybe the Packers, maybe the Lions, maybe the Saints, and then we're going to have a really bad seven seed. So if you're Minnesota, and you're looking at 31 of 270 teams started 0 -2 and made the playoffs since 1990. 31 out of 270. I can't do math, but that's not good. If you're Minnesota, at what point do you consider trading Cousins? Cousins was all over the place on the internet this week as a possible Rogers replacement. He makes 35 million this year, that's it. The Jets, I think, could do some chicanery if they wanted to. They have this thing where the Packers, it's a conditional, I think second, that turns into a first, but the Packers would have to waive the right for the condition. Clearly, Rogers is going to play 70 % of the plays, but still, they'd have to figure out some way. But if you're the Jets, could you somehow trade for Cousins and save your season? We're going to find out a lot about the Jets this week against Dallas. They get annihilated and they're one -on -one for the season, but annihilates Dallas them and they have to look at their offense and go, all right, we have a really good team. What are we going to do? Is it Jacoby Brissett or do we swing big and try to get Cousins for a year? Cousins has over 700 yards and six TDs in the first two weeks. He's been a fantasy god. I don't know how that plays out. I wish it was like basketball where I could just put stuff in the trade machine and see if it's going to work. For some reason, we made football trades more complicated than basically anything on the earth. I have no idea how the Jets would trade for Cousins, how it'd work, what the mechanics of it would be. What's he worth? Is he worth a first rounder for one year? Is he worth a third rounder? You just never know. Again, DeAndre Swift went for a 15th rounder in 2038. Cousins, I have my eye on because if you're Minnesota, you're not good. You were completely lucky last year to go 13 and four, whatever it was. Now that's evened out and maybe you start looking around and going, all right, let's pack in this year. I don't know what would have to happen, what number they would have to get to. Would they have to be one and four, one and five, one and six? But Cousins to the Jets, it's a fun talk radio topic, at least. We're not doing talk radio here. We're doing sleepy sports podcasting, but Cousins to the Jets has always felt right. It's always felt kind of perfect. He always just felt like a Jet waited to happen at some point in his career. The Jets fans listening to this right now are like, how can he keep doing this to us? We just had the Rogers thing. We had Zach Wilson. Now you're gonna throw Cousins at us. But again, Cousins, a little bit of a turnaround. He was in that Netflix show. He's kind of the big winner of quarterbacks with Mariota being the big loser. But I feel like the tide's turning on Cousins. Even Primetime Kirk today, always a disaster, gets the cover. Who knows? Put him in New York. We'll see. Philly's got, they're just basically have to figure out what their team is. They've already had a bunch of injuries and they even had a little AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts. Who knows what happened on the sidelines there, but didn't look awesome. But they have two months here to figure out their team. They're a big stretch. Week nine, Sunday, Dallas, that's home in Philly. Bi -week, week 11 at Kansas City on a Monday night. Week 12, Buffalo home. Week 13, San Francisco home. And week 14 at Dallas. So again, Dallas at KC, Buffalo, San Francisco at Dallas. And that's gonna be the five game stretch that determines are we a one seed? Are we a two seed? What is our season gonna look like? And they just have to get there. They have to stay healthy and they have to get to that point. So not a lot of lessons from Philly, Minnesota. Do I regret staying up? Although I guess I didn't stay up because I got this little nap in at halftime.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from Top 3 Quick Tips to Stop Sugar Cravings
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Conversations with Coach LA
Battling Male Stereotypes in the Music Industry With Rey Royale
"Had talked about, you know, some of the things that you face as a male, um, R and B artists in the music industry and what stereotypes. It's a lot, it's a lot. What stereotypes, you know, you find yourself sort of having to combat in terms of your identity and your image. Well, I know mine was, I've struggled up and down with my weight for many years. Right. And I know a lot of people don't, a lot of men don't touch on this, you know what I'm saying? Cause the ladies traditionally, they, they like the, you know, like a Chris Brown or like a Trey Songz build, like the skinnier singers. You know what I mean? Well, we like, we like, we like Fat Luther. How many y 'all like Fat Luther? Well, I might be aging, I might have aged myself, but I love Gerald Laverte and I love me some Big Luther. And again, so me, I think because of the type of songs that I sung, that I sing, I always felt like I had to be in shape. You know what I'm saying? Cause I was like, you know, I don't think girls be taking chunky dudes seriously. Like, oh, he's just, he's cute. Like he's chunky. Like what? Like girl, like I can do the same things to you, baby. Like don't get it twisted. But, um, it was, it was always, it was always, it was always a thing for me. And, um, I never, that was a couple of things that like, I remember being depressed about that too. Like, you know, until I really like locked in on it. And I feel like, uh, make a long story short, when I came with the ready EP, that's when everything just changed for me because first I was like Deacon Ray. You know what I'm saying? You was doing, you had a lot more of the, the, the soldier baritone. Right. Yeah. But not even just in the music, like just my image too. Like I was, I was more of like, everyone used to call me Gerald Laverte. Yeah. Like I was like the Gerald Laverte type dude. But then when the ready EP came out, they was like, hold on. Yeah. He tried to slim up on us. Yo, like, yo, what's good? Yo, he tried to get some muscles. Like what happened? Like I was, I was like, okay, Ray's on his grown man. But you know, those are the things that, um, that inspired me because it's all about the story for me. Right. And, um, of, of lifting other people. And I know a lot of people deal with that. And most, and most times you, you think it's females, right. That go through the whole, Oh, I think I'm fat, you know, and all this stuff, but males, we go through that too. We think about that because again, especially when you're under, when you're on camera, everyone's looking at you. Everybody's looking at something to try to tear you down or try to be like, Oh, that's not the reason why you're going to be, you, you can be successful. And you have to learn to weed that out and do what makes you happy. Um, and I, and I say, my manager, shout out to my manager, like she was the first person to be like, Ray, you got to love yourself during your journey. That is very true.
Brown Ambition
"brown" Discussed on Brown Ambition
"Don't have like honestly word a point where we don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. Like i- i- legit don't know whereas before the shutdown like people would say metaphorically like well you know tomorrow's not promise deliver today and you would feel it on like a certain level but now i feel it and i know that on a cellular level like i do not know what's gonna happen tomorrow. I don't. i don't know it's happened politically. I don't know what's going to happen. You know news wise. I don't know what's gonna happen regarding kovic like are we do for the killer locus warm. That should be experienced clip point of it all in body like this is. I'm playing devil's advocate. But this is like a small part of my brain that i'm constantly trying to talk down off the ledge is like what's the point in saving. Why don't you just blow your money now. Like i mean on what really. But you know he'll financially people are and unite talked about this to like the sense of The structure that you have with your budget like even something as simple as household budget seems to feel so silly or like doesn't really compute with today's world. So how can you adjust like mentally how you look at your finances and your financial planning so much of that has to do with the future which none of can predict right now. A lot of it like we were talking before a lot of for me budgeting very tied into myself worth because budgeting involves money and i have. We're in a capitalistic. We're a capitalist society. so i have often times equated. More money equals better. Better self worth which is really terrible in hindsight for me to have even thought that. But that's really what we're taught right. I would say that. I'm sorry asking that question again because i totally forgot my money. Are we like to call the older. I'll be like you talked about. And then i'm like wait. Why the future future. How do we lake today. When it's so hard for us to like remind like wanda we're talking. Tiffany imagines herself in the future as wanda and she does is for wanda a wanna can be happy. You rely low wanda lie. I got you wanda sound like a sassy. 'cause i wanna cussing always i've always. I've always contended my spirit. Animal shannon Yeah because honestly i mean and that's that's kind of a good point to make right now. Shannon was is. I'm guessing she's still alive in our consciousness. Sinead is a small business owner. She does very well with her salon. She has support. She had on kilo and other friends. And every you know and she every so often she got so you know have fun but for the most part and it was a hard worker. So i think you know if i imagined myself as bar is character character. Rca like that that. Actually i mean real talk. That honestly is probably what i'm going to do when i get off this phone call because i do need to like work on my budget but i think that that's a good thing to do. Like what like imagining yourself as want. Yes it's you. I mean we're kind of used to in this day and age with social media imagining ourselves as an avatar but he there's something in psychiatry psychology that we call Like like when you when. I'm talking to somebody. Let's say who's experiencing depression or has in the past and i will sometimes ask questions to determine if their goal oriented or future oriented right. A lot of us are not goal or future oriented right now. Because we don't know what's going to happen from day to day but if we can kind of imagine ourselves not as our aren't going to be my best self run this marathon thousand rise on peleton this like it's not that it's not a not like goal oriented like i hit this goal. It's more so needs to be about imagining yourself in a happy place despite what's going on because we are we're in a new normal. It's not going to be the same way as it was before it's it isn't i mean i don't know anybody personally who would feel comfortable walking around without a mask like in the airport in a restaurant in like anything like that so i think it is. I think it's good to focus on. What do i like. I want to be someone who is at peace. I wanna be someone who definitely feels confident and when it comes to budgeting. I know that i was having a hard time last month because i actually was starting to slip back into having some anxiety and depression and so I was telling mandy this yesterday. I was like you know i like. There are some bills that they were like a mining. You're gonna pay these bills are like because you usually do and now you're not and it was because i was just so cloudy with my thoughts because some of my depressive in my depression anxiety symptoms came back and honestly i would say over the past two weeks. I had my medication adjusted like i had increased. I have been more go with the flow. Like water off a duck's back. But i was. I mean seriously like stressing embiid like tim. You didn't pay eighteen and t. cell phone bill. I look at you like like you like you really fucked up right now and it's not that serious. It's not. It's just that i needed to get to a better place where i felt better so i think that when it comes to budgeting it's it's important but i'm going to have to change my budget to reflect the fact that i don't go nowhere i don't have to I don't have to include my restaurant. the restaurant portion of my budget where i usually use now. I will say this last month. When i wasn't feeling that great i was. I was like oh nobles on pulse means word okay like it's like oh that's going to cover it up but then i ended up feeling bad about it later because i was like. You don't need to do that. So i think we need to really look at the budget or new normal budget as things that we need not necessarily to feel happy and great because i bought a lot of dumb shit and i'm like where you wanna go with them sneakers nowhere like you don't need these things but i think we really need to just look at. How can we make things easier for us. How do we need to outsource certain things are budget. Allow for that. Because it wasn't really until so like maybe last year that i was like. Oh i really need to like outsource these things like. There are things that i can afford to outsource or you know they were even things that i would barter for other with other people with other people with so i think we need to get to a point or people hopefully can get to a point where they feel they feel better about themselves and that really might involve someone talking to a mental health therapist or mental health clinician or psychiatrists psychologists. What have you but also talking about like what are the things that make me me. What are the and maybe. What are the negative coping strategies that i was using before the pans before. Kovin that i've carried with me into this pandemic snacks. yes been. What are you thinking over there. As it's been thinking that like one of the what i love. Well i guess if there is any bright side to all of the starkness is 'how comfortable people have gotten talking about therapy and suggesting therapy to each other. And when i main people i mean black folks. That never was a thing. It was agreed to pray. No one talked about there and It's just become like. I said it to someone the other day i was like. Yeah well you don't have considered therapy delegate like yeah Even like my church. France which is like i mean that was never a thing like abbas super cheap friend and she was my therapist. Today was so great. And i just thought you know if there is a bright side is the fact that people are understanding that you need help and that going to therapy is not a replacement for god and prayer and that they can work in tangent in tandem together. Thank you Know and i'm loving people like sarah roberts robert. She says that all the time which i love because so many people look up to her teed. Td jake's daughter and so yeah so. I guess i was just thinking about that because quite honestly i've been dragging my feet. I've been using a therapist. I want a black woman for the longest just to there are what i do have several companies that i want. It can be really stressful. And sometimes. I don't even know that i'm stressed until i'm like. Yeah so once less than you slept fully you know so just having a place to. Because i'm like the go-to for everyone. This little thompson and i feel like i'm everyone's pulling finger a tow. Yes i'm just like well. What people are like text you. I'm like i had fifty unread text. Texas new email emmy so yeah so i mean i just think that if anything else it just tiffany to find a therapist. I don't know why been dragging my feet. I guess i'm just like oh..
Brown Ambition
"brown" Discussed on Brown Ambition
"Miles. Check my schedule. Seem you know. Like i was like the amount of things i was cramming into a day was absurd absurd and it wasn't until i was as we all were forced to take a step back. I was like what. Why are you doing this like like. What are you gonna win something at the end like now so once i was able to slow down. It really afforded me the opportunity. I mean it was hard. But once i was able to slow down i was able to really just take stock of you know like what do you want. What do you want out of life. Not out of wednesday not out of this job. Like what are you want and i was like. Honestly i'm like i'm i've been grinding since two thousand two thousand. I'm like a bitch is tired. i'm tired i'm tired. You know i still want to. You know see patients and make a difference. But i don't need to you know. Start training for the for a bodybuilding competition. Or whatever like these goals. I had beforehand. It's it again is is that it's that desire to have control of your life but by distracting ourselves so there are a lot of things that i was doing. Just distract myself. Because i to realize that i wasn't happy and when i was able to do all of those things during the day and just pack my day with stuff. Did i feel better. Maybe superficially like did. I feel like i accomplish something yes and i think. I equated accomplishing whatever. It was quote unquote with feeling good about myself and once that wants this pandemic pulled the rug out from under us. We were searching for things to do like like. I'd saw some some meam on instagram. That was going around like if you don't come out of this pandemic with the skill then you waste time. I'm like first of all. Don't tell me what to do okay. That's that's number one number. Two number two is everybody should be allowed in. Everybody is allowed to live their own life as they see fit and do i do. I wanna learn how to knit. Do i wanna learn how to do needlepoint. Of course. I do but this may not be the right time because i'm not able to full i. I.
Brown Ambition
"brown" Discussed on Brown Ambition
"Well let's talk about healthy ways of coping. I mean you mentioned sort of like you want to control something so like what are the things we can do to bring back some sense of normalcy in control in our lives when everything feels like. It's bat shit crazy right. So i think the first thing to to do is and this is kind of a hard. The hardest thing to do is to admit that your stress admit that you're anxious and make your depressed. Admit that you can't sleep at mitzi yourself that you know even though we've been in this for a long time we're now at the point where we're quote unquote used to it. We're not on like a fundamental level. But it's like okay. today's monday i'm gonna do this. I look at my schedule. I'm going to do that but it's not an ideal situation so admitting that you have an issue admitting that you are not comfortable like things are not right to the point where it might be interfering with your day to day and and interfering with your mental wellbeing is key after that i would think that the best thing to do is for for someone to talk to someone they trust. Because you'd be surprised. And i'm i'm speaking as somebody who has a history of depression anxiety. You'd be surprised. I was really surprised. At how helpful. It was to get my feelings out of my body and when you're dealing with depression and anxiety a lot of it is guilt driven is like well. I don't want to burden this person. You know with my personal issues because they are going through all this stuff too and you know what if that person is a real real friends you and they really care about you and love you. They'll listen to you and they'll you know kinda help you through it and that person might also be going through things and you could also serve as berezin for that for your friend a loved one to be like you know like i. Let's talk about this I think the third thing to do is to really set a routine and and mandy you. And i spoke yesterday and i definitely agreed with you at the time like i like routine versus schedule like a schedule. Sounds like oh this. Is my class schedule for the day. Like these are things that like. I have to do. But i don't really want to do versus a routine which is like. Oh i'm gonna wake up at this time. Because that's when i wanna wake up or that's when i might need to wake up it's a routine to me. Sounds i mean it's semantics but it sounds like it's more. It's something that i can control. It's more manageable. So you know depending upon the person's lifestyle or what they need to do. I mean i remember. In the beginning of the panic. I actually was trying to schedule like cocktail hour during during the early evening. Like i can really not. Yeah like maybe not even drinks like canapes. Like something i was like. I need something to just make my day feel like oh look at this. We're having a good time right. And then i think the other thing that people really need to consider end as terrible as pandemic has been for a lot of people. The one thing that has really been great about it is that there are actually. It's actually easier to get hooked up with mental health services because most mental health clinics aren't open but they do see patients or cl or referrals or clients via apps via video chat via telephone even so it really has at least in psychiatry and psychology whereas telemedicine or telehealth was something that some of us were into like. Now we all to be into it because if if that's if we don't get used to it we don't get acclimated to a. We're not gonna have patience. We're not going to be able to treat people and happy to help. People feel better the way that we need to right now. And i think the i think the last thing and this is gonna sound. You know kind of obvious like half an obvious but you know. I tell people tell. My patients like you know if you if you don't have a preexisting medical condition that's preventing you from going outside like go outside. Let go outside. Because i as an introvert oust. I love being in house. I'll stay in house all day long. But when i finally like okay we gotta go outside. I'm like oh my god it's on out here like look look at this. I look at these trees. I can feel the air now right now in l. a. and in california like the whole state on fire so sometimes there's like yeah maybe don't dis my out there. Yeah like yeah. I've been in the house for the past like four or five days. So i'm starting to feel a little bit antsy but you know i think exercise is important like you like we really need to find what we can do to increase our levels of serotonin in our brains so that we don't end up dipping into depression anxiety but unfortunately a lot of us have it almost brings up another another important point. You've mentioned guilt. And shame and i feel like there was something that happened with the pandemic where people who were at home. It wasn't just like let's go outside. It's like oh i'm gonna. This is what. I'm going to train for a marathon or i'm gonna learn how to a minister traffic on. I always wanted to do myself personally. I gotta peleton and now it's something that unlike. Oh why am i not on the peleton. Why would one hundred rides yet. And it's almost like you can take these little things make you feel better but then that becomes the stick that you beat yourself with a little bit when it comes to like guilt. Shame so how do we like talker that. How can we just give ourselves a break for not going so over the top of this extra time that we perceive that we have. And you know like there's this idea that you can win quarantine by learning a new hobby or language Why why are mean not to ourselves. We're doing ourselves because we were so go. Go go before the shutdown. So i remember distinctly. I'd wake up. I go work out at six. Am i come home. Help my son with his lunch and make him breakfast. Take him school. Come back home..
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"Because i am obsessed with telling my google like i'm like hey google tell me the news just whenever i have downtime or i'm cooking or like walking the dog i just. I'm kind of szeswith. Listen to us but you're right like it doesn't really change but something about that has become like a tick for me to want to consume it just to see if something new has happened or if there's new information there's something i i was told last week i was doing this As being recorded for this documentary about millennials and Mental health and my topic was anxiety and there was an interesting time. The producer used which was What do you call it Doom scrolling and i was like i was very apt but it sounded like i mean again. I'm inert it sounded. I was like ninja. Scroll like the enemy and we'll be back in the day. He was like imani now. I was like okay. Sorry it was but he so who explained doom scrolling is the act of basically. Like what you what you explained like you're in your in your news app or you know you ask you your nearest i- you know machine alexis. Whoever like oh tell me the news because it's it's everything is so out of our control and just being able to at least ask an ask your phone or ask device. Hey can you tell me. The news is somehow comforting. Because it's something we can control but then when we start to actually read or it's we're told the news. We consume the news. We are trying to gain more control of our lives. But the problem is that like i said before there certain things that are factual in the news a lot of things in the news that are factual but there's a lot that a lot of a lot of news stories. That are very speculative like we think by my win. Oh but we think trump my win. Oh we might think ah. It's not doing us any good. I understand that these news outlets need content. But it's not doing us the public any favors because it's just creating this is creating this mood of like i don't give a fuck but then i a mad anxious all the time. It's like it's like well. I'm anxious. I don't know what's going to happen zeta day but then at the same time. It's like okay. Well what do you wanna do like. I don't know what can i do. I can't go outside. i can't go with my friends. I like you know like do. Like i can't like i can't be me so to answer your question from like five minutes ago. My bet. i think what's been happening. As far as let's let's use dooms growing as an example is very similar to what happened in the beginning of the pandemic with the toilet paper right. So why did everyone suddenly one toilet paper. Why did everyone suddenly won't bottled water like it's not like oh we have a pandemic now the water the water is poisoning. It's not poisons it's just that we wanted to be able to have control of something. When everything else was completely chaotic like our world turned upside down. I went from you know being worked on a friday to now. I'm home on a monday. Like oh what am i supposed to do now and was really that was really scary to a lot of us because we maintained schedules and our mind. Our minds were maintaining routines that even if the routines were annoying like sitting in traffic or having to go to work and talk to your co worker. Who you don't like there. Were still things that your mind could count on. So humans are first of all of social creatures and we're also creatures of habit and when you take away both you're going to have what what we now have which is probably the largest global mental health crisis that we've ever encountered so if we're going to talk about you know why do people feel this way. Even why do i feel this way. Sometimes because again we're used to habit and we're used to structure and it's gone. It's gone like where we're trying to. You know six seven months in. I can honestly say that. I have a better structure but it's still not what the what i'm used to the majority of my life so we're kind of just looking for things to know gain control over. I think for you know honestly for people who are anti mask whereas yes. It's silly to me as a physician. Like why would you not wear a mask like i respect myself and even if you don't respect me like you should respect yourself and not wanna get sick potentially from me but i think a lot of it is that they're like okay. I can convince this is something i can control. I can control whether. I wanna wear my mask or not. Even though maybe i'll get a ticket depending on the town or the city or you know maybe somebody will yell at me. You know depending upon the the business they answer. But it's i mean it's it's become unfortunately and overwhelmingly very political but it just reminds me a lot of like we have to hoard toilet paper and water. Because you know was like what's going to happen. i'm like. I have no idea what was up with the toilet paper thing but i actually have like obsessive compulsive personality disorder. So i have a habit of hoarding cleaning products. Anyway so i was actually pretty good. I do feel like the doomsayers the survivalist. They really came out on top. O- listening day were hawaii. Second there can be for months. Yes they're like. I told you in someone like my mom. Who's a nurse. Who was like i did to jar watched filthier exactly. Yeah i i mean as a physician. I've been around a lot of sticky nasty kind of situations but it really wasn't till his pandemic that i was like damn like people are nasty like y'all like collectively like y'all now wash hands like it used to be. You know i. I would go out to the movies and then i would go. Use the bathroom and go wash my hands in in the restroom and then it there would always be like somebody in there who wouldn't and we will all be like l. like she's a nasty but you know it was because of you know like people like that or people who all let me drink after you let me be all up phase. I mean that's you know unfortunately how You know some of.
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"But now i love it ten years two thousand and five fifteen years. No two thousand nine so two hundred nine finished my fellowship in forensic psychiatry so since then pretty much. I've been treating psychiatric patients so you are well so business. Must be booming. I'm yes business is booming. I would say. I mean like straight up when this all this happens like i freaked out like everybody else. 'cause it was basically it was like friday and i'm out here in la so it was like i think it was march thirteenth or something like that friday. It was like Okay so we're probably going to be on quarantine and i was like okay. Well i don't really know what that means. Like as it pertains to me and then monday. We were all locked down and i was like. Oh my god. Do i have a job. What do i going to do. So i pretty much been exclusively seeing patients via telehealth so either by video conferencing or by via telephone In is business booming. Yes i i work at a hospital. I am the medical director. Also the chief medical officer at a mental health hospital out here in los angeles called gateways hospital and the patients. That i see because i have a forensic psychiatry background. These are patients who came from jail or came from the state mental hospital. They might have committed some really like really agreed crimes but it was due to their symptoms from mental illness. So i basically get them stable and keep them stable so it hasn't it hasn't necessarily increase for me. It's it just. I had to change the mode with agitated the motive how i was seeing my patients which honestly really i really liked being honestly i mean i think we both talk the helper introverts The section between mental health. and the. what's happening right now. I mean everything happening in the world is just a lot right now and i feel like it is the exact right moment to have you on because for like five or six months into this thing and i was telling tiff like we really haven't taken a step back to pause and examines. How has this affected us all. So i mean what would you say. I know that your you know your patients have like you were saying you know severe mental illness. But what can you break down like mentally sort of what it is. What's happening to us. What's going on. Why anxieties up. It feels like people who had maybe low grade depression before probably more prone to having it pop up now. I mean like tiff. How's it been for you. Like i feel like we just need someone to explain to us what's happening and how we can cope. Yes it's been There were especially in the beginning. At first i was like i'm good. I'm good i'm good. I'm good you know and then there's just been this week of good not good not good in. I remember. Last night. I was scrolling through social and i literally had to say no. My husband wanted somebody one of those videos. We all know what i mean. What we mean by like you know. Black den lack beaten bodies and i said honestly babe i've refuse i refute. I'm not looking at anymore those videos. I'm not it's too much. it's too much in Yeah that's how. I'm feeling that. I'm feeling that i'm feeling in a place where i feel like. I'm striving hard to protect my piece because it's just all too much. Yeah i am. I have always known that. I'm not good with seeing people in the act of being hurt or being tortured. I i don't want to invite that into my space. I'm now i'm fine with picking up the pieces in helping someone after the fact but if for me i need to know is is okay. So tell me what happened. Okay great those defects all right. Now how do we get better. I haven't watched one video. Probably since i'm not even lying. Probably since rodney king. I'm like. I'm not wash initiative like i'm not i don't need to invite that in some space so i'll look at the news like Not look at it. But i'll read the news from my news app on my phone for like fifteen minutes and a day. And then that's it because everything else is like speculative conjecture and things that i don't know if you guys have been noticing this but like the news that that bubbles up through the cova cracks if you will is some wild shit because i take away the headlines from kobe's wild. I saw us like apparently. There's li- i mean it's summertime but you know kids in cars overheating and dying. Some there was some woman who kills grandparents. Like it's just it's so much weird nest. That's going on so i purposefully dull like if there's a video i'm like i'm watching that i'm not dry. Mc it's all it's reckoning ravening where we're having. Yeah i i can talk. We're having with the reality of what. It's like to be black in america black and brown america and that is happening at the same time. We're like everyone's lives are at risk in the world's on fire in the pandemics. I mean so. You mentioned hiller locusts. I'm just kidding. There's no there's killer wasps or something right like i. There's aliens on venus today. I was aliens on venus. Can we join them do they. You know are you. Can i apply for admission. I don't know that. But i was like in the earn me. I'm like. Is that possible. Because i think venus is like a gashes planet but whatever whatever again let's not even focus on that 'cause i'm nerd honor it out so let's my knowledge of venus is like sailor moon from that goes but fifteen minutes a limiting news. I think that's something that i i need to do that..
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"Amazing the beautiful the intelligent and the real doctor. Money You hi everybody in to you guys. I like that though. Yes it is browner just because i'm here so so yeah i'm totally like i'm so high to like meet. You guys virtually 'cause new normal but yeah like this is. This is great. I'm super happy to be here. So dr mani you have been a practicing psychiatrist for how long now Let's see my. I'm looking at one of my degrees on the wall in my office. Yeah okay flex on us. That's all right sorry. Yeah that really wasn't a flex. But i realize now sound like one of my degrees one of my four things on the wall for them. Let's let's respect. Well i will. I will admit like honestly. I didn't pay for them. My parents did right. So i actually spoke about my mom. I spoke to my mom about this because we have a youtube show. Actually that We we usually do it every monday. I have to do that in a couple of hours. But i never let anyone know in school that i didn't receive financial aid or that. I had a scholarship so i would always memorize where the financial aid office was. Because at the end of the year. Y- apparently you have to do like your financial aid. Wrap up. And i don't know anything about like i've heard loans like stafford moans and stuff but that vitamin so. I would just memorize where the financial aid office was. Because i didn't want people to know you know the my basically my parents saved up for it and I did have a scholarship. My alma mater as xavier. Abor university in new orleans and i had an academic scholarship. Abc you yes. Yes but yeah. I i never. My mother told me when i was a senior in high school. She was like well. If you wanna go to school in the northeast and i'd gotten into like wesleyan and vassar. Which is my mom's alma mater. Jews like you can do that but she like. She was really really adamant about me going xavier. Because i wanted to be a doctor and it's basically a black doctor factory and has been for decades. So she was like. Here's the thing we can pay for your college because it significantly cheaper like. It was much much cheaper than northeast like ivy league tuition. She was like i could pay for your college. You can get a car basically you can be out here but when but if you go to a school in the northeast you're going to have to take out loans and i was like well then no so My my so basically. That's what happened. So when i would be at a college like i said xavier and then when i was in med school i knew i mean the majority of people that i knew. Who are my med. School class were on scholarship or received financial aid. But and i knew where the office was. I knew the building. But i just never been in the office. Because it didn't apply to me so amazing. I love that story and also how odd that you are ashamed of something. That was so amazing. yes it was. I mean honestly. It wasn't that i was fearful of anyone shaming me and i wasn't i wasn't ashamed of having like my friends know like the brown and black. You know friends that i had. It was more so like i was. I want these people know because then like it's like oh so 'cause assumption is your on financial aid when we all known white women benefit the most from affirmative action in those types of scholarships or those types of situation. I just didn't want to have the conversation of like okay you know. My parents are very They're they're very what's the word i'm looking for. They're very austere. And that's what they taught me and that's what they taught like you know my cousins and everybody else in my family. So i always saw money as a tool and not something to be spent. And i guess. I didn't want anybody to think that like. Oh so you think you're all that so i actually. I haven't admitted this to anybody outside of my circle of friends. I don't think until like this year. Because i just didn't i just didn't want people to know i'm like that's my personal business. And they'll also the way. I grew up. It was like you know you keep your financial business to yourself So we always. I guess i mean like we were solidly middle class and we became middle upper class. But we still you know went to sam's club costco like my mom grew up a welfare. My dad wasn't on welfare but he he just had to hardworking parents. That weren't getting a lot of money in the jim crow south so i would just taught you know like yes money but like it for you like oh you went outfit. That's that's cute. Go get a job. So i've been working him ever since you have get your working papers in new york. Yes i remember that high school summer. Yup i used. I went to this. There was a school. I went to calhoun on eighty first and west sentiment and and there was like a. I don't know if it was like a special needs school or something. Similar it was like a block away. And i remember when i was fourteen. I went over there and got my working papers. And i've been working so if i'm forty four now i've been working for thirty years. Wow yeah so anyway. I'm sorry how how to answer your question. Because i just i'm asking the question i just i have so many i like i can go on sanders so just like you know. Be like imani okay. Tap out your own podcast. Can we just say imani state of mind. I out i love it. I listened to one of the most recent episodes yesterday as as my today. It's super fine. i've been so i've been a practicing physician since two thousand nine. That's all right. That was my question..
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"So just in doing this in the water or water and i imagine like if he thought this in his head and probably look really cool but just the quality of the video and everything doesn't look great. Yeah so yeah you know this video ship but Him verse fury. It's not you know everyone wants to write while off. I just have this weird feeling while. Get it done. Duty larry's my favorite fucking fighter. They went under the pop up. Close to the arc slow motion not too far out do too far out. You fucked up. He's looking jack though. Yeah definitely yeah. I mean that's basically talked about this. What's this this horry saying that he would fight dick if he does well. I supposedly muslims meeting with the ac- soon figure out what's next. The at gauges deal done. Thank god if Nicosia's looks good and does his job at uc to sixty six. Why not me nick. That's the fight. I wanna see. You can paint that story all day. Yeah redemption for his little bro fantastic classified fight. The always wanted to do since. I was in strikeforce. He's seventy. I was like man. That's that dude. I'd like to fight. Nothing personal just because of his style so they lose it all out there so i get a fight with nick. Be a blessing. I think timber snake fantastic fight okay. There's no yes see this weekend. But there veto arianna of anders. Not this weekend is it is oh shit september eleventh so so very hard anderman training it should. Is you ready to go. It was preparing for mike tyson for a while right so i'm not sure if he's like deep into training but he's definitely trying to vitor vander vitor a legit fight. I got tour in silvers. Tito tough nine the office for tito days a monster. He said there's somebody else on this car. It's the kfc car dumping and is this on Trillo or some shit yup yup and then even holyfield is suing trailer. So i don't know how that's gonna work. A vander suing trillard effort like money. He didn't get from what fight. I think from a dealer. There is supposed to do for the mike. Tyson fight like he was supposed to get some money for some reason. Okay here. The odds faded faded lightly. And this is for anderson sylvan. Trt's i would assume an even bigger than that. I wouldn't touch forty eight. You're not gonna make you fight okay. So also be kfc. Twenty one and all of you should outstanding. What a. I haven't heard that name in year stint alexander into cochran. You know him from the software gay porn thing no no. I am not familiar where i were. He did some day. He did some to make money pasties guys. We're good for dakota. Cochran was yeah. Houston looks right now. Fuck as jack city boy. I see what you're doing. And what do i get no kick watch so i see what you're doing now. You wanna see. Looks like. And i'm be jack city and there's our boy they just know they use the bad picture but that's you know. Look he looks great here. Oh he does like three days ago. Never shave that beard again. Exactly ever ever ever yeah. He's always been jackman. He's not as big as you think. Though in person he's kinda short. Yeah super powerful. Though he was like the most jacked one of the most jacked persons. I've ever seen on jack city that it. That's it. san jose. Is this thursday friday saturday. San jose improv september eleventh and then in two weeks the big boy san antonio texas bud light event center one show september twenty four one shows september twenty fifth and i'm bringing some heavy hitters. I got derek post and david lukas chapelle lacey. The boys are all with me. We're going to blow this bitch..
Brown Ambition
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"Insurance expert on. And i'm like forgetting on her name. What's her name anyway. She came on one of her points was especially for black and brown communities. If you even if you don't have children consider getting a policy because you can make a nonprofit your beneficiary and this is another way of potentially passing down wealth in communities that don't have a lot of wealthy benefactors for example so you know even if you're single you don't have any children take an insurance policy out term life insurance. It's really not that terribly expensive. Especially if you're younger and look at it as a way of passing on wealth you know to to a good cause if you were to pass away. But that was a really interesting point that she made such a great idea. I never crossed. My mind would be such a great way to help out. 'cause there's no one needed to worry about supporting after you leave. I mean that'd be a great way to to help out organization you care about home or just like get one of those cool benches always wondered like how do people get those benches in central park. I'm always looking like these. Who are these people who are donating money and getting their names on like what's going on. What's this process. They did you need to know. They had some money and they died. That's when chris all right well that was fun. See you're doing it you're doing it. I'm talking to myself than to you. I'm the one who's like tiffany. What am i gonna do without her. But so far so good. I'm definitely not trying to replace tiffany to those standards. Because she's she's. I won't get into but she's an amazing speaker. I always love the both of you are i. I love listen to both of you. Oh thank you well. It's been really wonderful having you but you're not off the hook yet. My friend my new financial friend. 'cause we have to do our favorite segment segment segment after questions brown boost.
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"Is mandra. And i am joined this week very special. This is the kickoff of our summer coho series and our first suburb co host. Is chris browning from popcorn finance chris. Hey thank you so much excited to be joining me. I'm excited to. I feel like we have had these tandem podcasting journeys and it wasn't until not that long ago that we actually connected one one to get to know each other a little bit. I think the pandemic made a lot of zoom meetings possible because row at home anyways it did remember how our first call i think it was maybe three by. I set up a call with you and then it was back before i had childcare and i think you had to endure maybe fifteen minutes of a screaming child before i finally gave up and put you out of your misery and myself. And let's do this again. And then maybe three months went by and i was like i finally have childcare. Let's talk let's do it so you can put me on hold and call me back later. It's fine. I understood such a gentleman. Well let's talk about popcorn financed for the folks who don't know porn finance. Which is your podcast. It's been around for four years now right you also have another podcast note because one is not enough. I don't know how you to your other. Podcast is called. this is awkward. Talk to the folks and tell them why they should listen. Thank you for the introduction. There is a popcorn finance. It'll be four years at the end of june which is crazy never would have thought it would be going on this long but it is a short form pilot gas where i talk about finance in about the time. It takes make popcorn. That's the name of the show comes from short-form try to keep the episodes under ten minutes and talk about all things finance investing saving money issues. All that stuff is just a place quickly. Get into these topics and make it less scary. And as you mentioned. Because i apparently don't like to sleep started another podcast with a friend of mine Allison from inspire budget. We have a show called. This is awkward and that one is a little more fun. It's a little more light hearted we have people call in. And they share with us awkward money situations that they've dealt with and then we kind of talked through. The situation gave our advice on how we would have dealt with how we've dealt with similar things in the past. So that's the other show have going on. I love that have you ever had. I think we may have unusual friend. Broke millennial aaron lowery. Have you ever had on the show. I have multiple times. She wrote a whole book on awkward money. Conversations y'all got check out the brooklyn lineal series just low plug for a pal. Oh god that. I mean you guys must have endless endless material because everything about money is awkward. It really is. It really opened my eyes to how many of us deal with the situation. I think sometimes we think is like justice. Like we're the only ones will weird family or friends asking for money but it's like no everybody. Everybody's doing this stuff. I mean like my family. I'm trying to figure out where we're supposed to have a family reunion in atlanta at this coming weekend. So it's my first trip with husband and the baby. He's i'm like less at least silverbacks needed now. Things are safer. Let's get on a plane. He only rides free for another six months. So i gotta take advantage of his own. He's considered an infant even though he's huge so he's gonna ride for free we're gonna go to atlanta and it's a family reunion and the only details i was given but now it's like my dad is on the outs with my aunt and no one will tell me what am i. What do i need to bring I need to figure out who to give money to. I don't know how much and it's it's already becoming a a delightful dramatic situation but whatever. I'm just there to eat so That's that's he had to go to the famous situation. Just i'm just here for the food. Whatever the drum was born on. I'm not a part of that do you is your family like family. Reunions sir browning family reunion somewhere. My family's from the south so barely anybody is out here in california. So i only went to right right. You just gotta separate so. My dad's from arkansas amounts from louisiana. That's real real southern yeah. I'm from georgia from atlanta from a major city. Where my dad's from they. They got a walmart and that's pretty much. That is real real southern those two states right there yes so we're both southern transplants on the coasts. Yeah so this is a big deal for me to even and i'm not gonna lie. There has been family reunions. That i haven't gone to just because you know it was in georgia. I'm here in new york and it was always an inconvenient time but this time after the pandemic i think it just helped me realize how important is like my uncle's god bless them they survive this pandemic. My great uncle's they're all in their eighties and nineties. It feels like and so it's really just like a celebration of you know that side of the family's on excited to you. Know all the drama aside. I'm excited to get us together. I mean if anything the past year it kinda does make you appreciate family especially your older family because a lot of people who don't have family that had because of the pandemic so it's like all right you know. I need to make him over point to see my parents and be around. These people who you know you only gonna be around for solo absolutely. Yeah awkward. I mean honestly. I've been thinking about awkward money conversations lately because for my husband and i one of the ongoing arguments. I don't know if i call it awkward as much as just just a complete difference of opinion about how to spend our money really has has always been for maybe the ninety percent of our relationship. We have spent arguing back and forth about whether or not to get a tesla. Are you familiar with tesla chris. I'm very familiar protest. I've been. I've been stalking tesla's for many years i've not. I've not met one abroad into my home yet. But i've been watching. Yes sales my husband. I mean this was one of the first huge fights we ever had was when we were It was twenty sixteen or something like that. We had moved in with his parents to pay no rent so that we could save up for our wedding. And you know and me on the personal finance expert and our relationship. So i like to say. And i'm kind of uptight and media tiny bit of a control freak about our whole saving and plant especially at that time when we were really working hard to to set something aside and pay for the wedding and cash and at the time you could reserve a tesla i forget which model it was like the one two three xyz who knows. And i said he talked about tesla's. But i just you know. It's kind of like sports. I just it just in one ear out. The next like yeah. He's into that thing. Yeah sure that sounds like luxury car. We could never afford. So why even you know. Entertain that but one day. I got the mail and there was this letter in it and it was like congratulations. We've gotten your thousand dollar commitment. And you're in line to get a tesla. And i said older i was mad. I mean looking back on it now. A thousand i mean it was. It was a lot of money especially when we were literally just putting ourselves so in such an uncomfortable situation living with his parents with one bathroom and a teeny tiny apartment with like no air conditioning and the worst summer new york. You know we were struggling. And i'm like but you spent you put down at not even to get the car.
Patriots Dynasty Podcast
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"No there's no fair weather fans in cleveland browns are. There's no fairweather. No no it wouldn't be leaving a game no matter how bad they be one thousand two wildcard. Remember this one of the only playoff games on this list your steelers endings. Thirty six thirty three down. Twenty four seven comeback twenty nine points nineteen minutes in the game. The browns are up twenty four seven with gord in the third quarter as tough. It's one of those early. Two thousands playoff gains fields. all muddy. everyone says browns-steelers smash mouth. They just they were up. Led the whole game and chris format to ma five hundred and twenty seven yard scrimmage no touchdowns in the regular season in the whole season. Last fullback is one bad foul. He had he has more apostrophes in his last name than he had touchdowns on the season. He has more than one pasta. Yeah that's what i'm saying. And then he's the one that's going to score the touchdown and then ran tom and l. frozen two point conversion to see what's neutral browse never even snuff unbelievable whole contra for like four hundred yards in that game though he did and they some tom. There's a bunch of chipping before the before the game started as well is just. It was just tough especially the playoffs. You know it makes it so much. Yeah i mean because some of these are big blowouts. Some of them are are like will. So which would you say is worse getting blown out. Even if it's at home on monday night or europe big and you you lose in comeback fashion like a twenty eight to three. Yeah i think you lose big. You know because that's worse it's all sort of blend together eventually and it's really painful losses that stick with you right. Yeah okay. that's what i'm saying. Yeah and especially. I think it adds more to when it's the playoff game as well off the playoffs either. Both of those are worse than the playoffs are worse in both of those. You know just in general. Because i don't think this'll be a top ten loss if if it was in the playoffs. It's just another. They lost nineteen the loss of twenty four seven lead. It's worse their next game on the list. Two thousand one week. Eight chicago bears in overtime. Twenty seven twenty one. I remember this game up. Twenty one seven one minute to play air score thirty seconds left recovered the onside kick sensing trend here and then convert a thirty four yard. Hail mary as time expires title. Game tight right but it gets worse like so. Let's put this senator perspective. You're leading twenty one seven with a minute to play sixty seconds and you're.
Brown Girl Radiance Podcast
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"I've had the opportunity to interview. So many amazing brown girls abroad the season for missionaries to expats to globetrotters in my next guest is a citizen of the world in official nomad. She's an accomplished writer and creative. We met last year through her husband. Who is a college friend from. Bam you stand up bam you and during my first conversation with his guest. We actually talked or three hours because it was such rich dialogue. But i promise we won't talk for three hours today and i'm very excited to welcome to brown girl. Radiance nation asia nichols halen. Hey around welcome. Welcome welcome in thank you. Thank you for inviting me to share the stage semi part of brown mooradian family. My pleasure i know. Everyone's going to enjoy hearing your story today. So if you wouldn't mind just sharing a little bit about yourself and your background with all of my friends. That's what i like to call listeners. Okay oh hey. Let me see about about me. i am. I've been on the road. Traveling since two thousand eleven never had any intention of that never had any intention of traveling at long really was only supposed to be one one year but so much happens in that time. That kept me. That told me i wasn't done. I.
Brown Girl Radiance Podcast
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"Becoming but club enduring this currencies. In this third season i've been highlighting brown girls abroad. These are dynamic women who are missionaries expats globetrotters nomads and citizens of the world so to celebrate three years since guide placed the vision for brown radiance podcasts. On my heart. I wanted to share three things that you can do for free to support this. Podcast i if you are listening to this. Podcast on apple podcasts. Please leave a review. I love hearing feedback. Second please make sure to share the podcast with a friend or a family member and if there's a particular episode that you think would resonate with someone please send it to them. Also if you have an instagram account please make sure to follow me at brown girl radiance podcast but their way. You can support this podcast through a platform that has been a labor of love. And i'm so excited to share with you. I just launched a new website. It is brown girl radiant dot com again. That's brown girl. Radiance dot com. Podcast is not included in the web address. It is simply brown girl. Radiant dot com. You can listen episodes there and you can also sign up to be a part of brown girl nation. It's free and i promise. I won't spam anyone with an abundance of emails. I'm just looking to build community for my listeners. For my radiant friends. As i like to call you and this podcast is available for free on multiple platforms such as spotify google pandora and amazon just to name a few. I love delivering quality content to you on a monthly basis as you can imagine it does come with production and maintenance costs so if you feel lead and you want to give a voluntary donations no pressure at all on the new website. There is a bright pink fuchsia link on the top right corner where you can sign up to get something if you feel that i am working on merchandise for the podcast so donations would definitely help with expansion projects like that as well as other great things that are going to be coming in the future and i know that i said i would give three ways you can support to celebrate three years brown girl radiant but i will actually offer one final thing. You can always pray for me. Prayers always welcome on this podcast journey also just for life in its totality. This vision did come from god. And so i want to always continue to invite him to be a part of this process. So thank you all for listening and for your continued support. I consider it an honour anytime. Someone chooses to listen to an episode. I.
Brown Girl Radiance Podcast
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"Brown girl radiant celebrates the brilliance of women of color the reflective conversations and story. I'm your host pure brown joy. Hello to allah my radiant friends. Happy women's history month by hoping he'd been able to celebrate all of the incredible women in your life. Who inspired you every day. We are continuing this journey on season. Three of brown grow ratings podcast where we are celebrating brown girls abroad and i am excited to introduce you to my next guest. It was such a fun interview but before we do that. I wanna share that. This is a milestone for brown girl. Radiance podcast three years ago. on march. Twelve twenty eight teams. That woke me up on a monday morning and told me to start the podcast. I had no idea what i was doing. So i got up and i knew how to start a podcast and the rest is history or since it's women's history month. Should i say her story. I started recording episodes from may through august twenty eighteen with an amazing tribe of women who trust in my vision and then in september of that year. I released the first episode. This current episode marks the twenty fifth of brown girl radiant hide cash and our listeners on every continent. This is currently a monthly podcast..
Brown Girl Radiance Podcast
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Brown Girl Radiance Podcast
"brown" Discussed on Brown Girl Radiance Podcast
"I well. It's not really my dad. Who told me but my uncle me how. Oh is that me down now. I'm not much yet yet but you will be because one day you'll get to go there right okay. July joy when questioned for ya. Okay so i took an ax. Those cuts yeah. I said okay. That means that means. Ask away okay. So what's your favorite animal. Some my favorite animal is probably a jag. Wire because i it's a feline feline. It's like in the family with lions tigers. Oh yeah that's the jaguars year about you. Favorite animal is the most important in in. What is that. It is a parrot. Wooten parents are beautiful. Any have at least two murray wit favorites. Okay go ahead. I like lions. Yes and i like. What is it again. But you have a goldfish. Which one gummy. Oh so you like fish too then. Right only gun only gummy. Yeah and gumy is really cool like last year. We did something. No the fish could do what he did. He fun slip. What yep wow. He is something else isn't he. He's like one of those flipping fishes while he's a beautiful fish that i know for sure yet n n. He's like super cool that some people call him gummy beer. I like that our gummy bear. Sue i love them to play. Need a fish. Gummy ono that you can eat in gums fishes. You know what. I mean yes. I would not eat the fish gummy. I mean like vicious. Start shoe we yet. That are that are actually gummy bears. But there but they look like fishing like the candy. Gummy fish. Those are yummy. Shot can ask you some more questions yet. Something the internet. Oh you wanna question about the internet. Okay what do you want to tell us about the internet. Now young me question. Navigate the best part thing internet okay. What's the best part about the internet. The best part is that you can download and you can play games and you can watch channels. You can tax. You can do face time. You can do facebook. You can do note. You can do like almost everything. Okay so i heard all about what you like about the internet. Now what questions do you have for me. I saw who is. Who is your favorite president so far. That's an excellent question. My favorite president so far is barack obama. That's the same on. I wanted to say well. But i like his daughters. Sasha and malia pressuring me. I believe the other smaller. She is melissa's the older asked sister. Yes so that's the one name again. Shasha get so. Sasha should be the youngest yes. I love the obamas and michelle. Obama looked fabulous at inauguration. And you have the same birthday as michelle obama. I know which is not great. Why not you don't wanna share a birthday with anybody now. Because i don't get her party. That makes sense. Yeah i will lead. We got kicked. If i were there oh you would have to cakes. 'cause you would have some of your cake anthem Then she had some. Mike can hurricane. But i get bigger piece makes like almost bigger. They harsh outside her party. But the cake. You're michelle's party. Yeah what else sleeping. Oh okay so it was like a dream now okay. It was reality rowdy real life. Yes your mom. Didn't tell me you went to michelle's party. Because he was. Now keep that and don't tell anyone not even mom. Oh okay on ninety evening sister okay. Not even anyone ochre not even. More back a bummer. Not even barack obama yet. You can't even meet him. I can't meet him now. I'm already met him. Oh yeah a long time ago. When when you were twenty three Milk day something. Yup do you have any other questions for me. What are your the questions. My question are what ch- colleague did you go team. I went to florida am university with mommy right. No she went to hampton university. So you guys onto different colleges yup. They're both things but they're both historically black. Universities it s picking up. No we were in two different states rather near. We're far away from each other for college. Do you know what college you wanna go to yet. Now well you have a few years before you go to college right three years. No you have your only in the first grade so you have like eleven more years. That's been great. Yeah exactly so you got to figure out where you wanna go. Do you have any other questions for me. Which house do you like better. Do.