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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/03/23
"Not just any Fleetwood Mac record, little secondhand news, first track when you put the needle down, when that little Rumors album was released, you heard this, you heard the great Lindsey Buckingham, who is 74 today. Mike, you've caught, you've caught the Mac a few times, have you not? Oh, sure, sure. Love Fleetwood Mac. What a sad, what a sad story because he's so, he's a genius. He's a total genius. And they fired him like four or five years ago. The chemistry was just terrible. He does solo tours now and does some, some Fleetwood Mac stuff, but I just hope he's just not... These stories, these stories about these guys all breaking up and fights and all that. The Eagles, of course, had an epic, epic battle. You know, who they fired, they fired, I guess, the, I mean, they had a big, the two of them, the two founders, I guess, of the Eagles. They broke up and then they came back and, you know, it's like, hey, life is short, you know? That's it. You know what it makes you think about? It makes you think about Aerosmith. Same five guys, 50 years. There you go. You got to get Steven Tyler well again because he like blasted a vocal cord. But anyway, speaking of people who've been together for a long time, here's my buddy. How are you doing? Well, I'm good. I'm just trying to make sense out of the, the rage that the establishment Republicans and the Rhinos and the squishes are exhibiting towards Matt Gaetz. Now, I, I think there's a lot of merit towards the frustration over what Gaetz is trying to do in, in ousting Kevin McCarthy personally. I think Kevin McCarthy has done a great job. I think he's, he's fine. You know, it's a tough conference. It's a tough coalition. You got to hold it together. McCarthy did a great job in helping to identify strong candidates in California and New York, in New York. And without those victories, Marc, we don't have, we don't have a Republican majority in the House. Now, we have a slim majority in the House, slim, four, four people. That's it. All right. So I want to present, and I get it, you know, this is probably giving the Democrats a lifeline. It's ceasing our momentum. This is probably not the most productive thing to happen right now to try to have this crisis over the Speaker of the House. But what the establishment types are saying in their rage, and man, are they mad. I mean, Marc, they're not agitated. They're not, they're livid. I mean, I, I heard this morning, I, I never knew Switzerland could be so angry. Man, for Switzerland, Switzerland's got the knives out in the show before yours. Geneva is on fire. Oh, my gosh, Switzerland is burning. This is a reference, of course, to the always even -handed, neutral, and presidential matters, et cetera, our buddy Hugh Hewitt, who has decided to take a couple of sides, take one side on this. Not so neutral on this issue, is he? I mean, it's just like full -blown, Gates is a clown, he's a fraud, he's a traitor, he's a this, he's a that. I saw a tweet last night that got me thinking, and this is, I think, a reasonable thing to have as part of this conversation. Has Kevin McCarthy fulfilled the promises he made in order to get elected speaker in the first place, or hasn't he? It's a reasonable thing to talk about. It was, you know, Gates and Lauren Boebert and Eli Crane and all these real, you know, sharp -elbowed Republicans got concessions from McCarthy in his bid to become speaker. Remember, I'm old enough to remember that wasn't so easy. That was not long ago. Exactly. And it wasn't that long ago. It wasn't that easy, right? Well, he promised they would pass 12 appropriations bills for a budget, in other words, fiscal responsibility in the budget. He'd give members at least 72 hours to read legislation. Now those are not, that's not onerous and that isn't crazy. So those two promises, well, both of those promises were broken this past weekend. And Gates is saying, you broke your promises and we're going to hold you accountable. Now, does he have a plan? It doesn't really sound like it to me. I don't know who you replace him with. Thank you. And it does hurt the Republican momentum we have. There are over 200 Republicans who are solidly in McCarthy's corner. But Mark, we expect some accountability. We do expect disruption. We do expect people who are warriors and fighting for what we believe in. So it just seems to me that to turn on Matt Gaetz all of a sudden and, P .S., insult the millions and millions of Americans who are rooting for him isn't very productive. Are they rooting for, first of all, your sound, sound logic throughout. Are they rooting for him in this particular tactic or they admiring the lofty standard that he has? And it may not even be all that lofty is like, hey, you made us promises to become speaker. How about keeping those promises? There's an old adage that it's possible for multiple things to be true at the same time. Here are the two things that are true at the same time. Kevin McCarthy has been a very successful, very impactful speaker and deserves a lot of conservative praise for the things he has been able to do. There's thing number one thing. Number two is he might have fudged on some of these things, seems to have fudged on some of these procedural things, and I don't say that to be dismissive of them. Some of these things that he promised the Gang of 10 or whatever they were that were that were holding him up. So in what form is this the only accountability? Is this the only way to call him out? Because all I would ask, and I'll give this back to you in the following way, is if Gaetz tactics are so great and if they are to be admired, what is the end game? What is the plan? Trump's have disruptions a plan, and it's a wonderful plan. Various other people who are disruptors, there's a place they're trying to get you to. Here's what I want to do that is specific. Here's the goal I'm trying to get to. What exactly is the Matt Gaetz end game? I don't know, and I don't know that he knows. I'm not sure he does. I would suggest, I would respectfully submit that the way to deal with these differences is behind closed doors, not to burn it all down. I mean, again, make no mistake. I don't agree with the Gaetz tactic right now. I don't want anybody to be lost on that, but I also strongly disagree with disparaging the spirit with which he's doing it. And again, savage millions and millions of Americans in the process. So listen, I guess Cal's out of the barn. He's called for the vote. The vote's going to come today or tomorrow if they oust McCarthy, which is possible because Democrats are quite capable of adding to this misery right now. Right now, Gaetz needs some Democrats. And if he gets Democrats to support him because they like to sit back and see this kind of dumpster fire, well, McCarthy's out, Mark. Is there an irony there in that Matt Gaetz needs Democrat help to oust a speaker whose worst sin is doing something with Democrat help? Yes. That's a great irony with a capital I. Great way to put it. It really is. And I heard a congressman, you know, a RINO New York congressman on Hewitt this morning and they are again, they are on fire. As you said, Geneva is burning. But this guy pointed out, well, I don't think any of the Democrats are going to want to be associated with this guy, Matt Gaetz. Don't be so sure. Strange bedfellows sometimes. Well, AOC of all people said this week, hey, we're not going to it's not up to us to bail the Republicans out of the mess they're in. Believe me, they're enjoying this. I do agree that this benefits the Democrats. I'm sorry for that. And I hate it. But I also don't like seeing, you know, somebody called a nihilist. I mean, nihilist. You know, it's like and he's anti -American and he's got his daddy's boy and daddy was the Florida. I mean, they're just attacking him personally. I mean, it's it's kind of wild. To see it. There are bigger fish to fry. I want to share with you. You mentioned earlier I was listening to you talk about the plight of the big cities. Horrible story out of Philadelphia. There was a young journalist, an LGBT journalist who was very prolific on X and social media mocking conservatives for being concerned about crime in big cities like his city of Philadelphia. And this guy was even mocking the idea of having a gun to defend yourself in your home. He was mocking and taunting Republicans for criticizing cities like Philadelphia. He loves this Jim Kenney, this sanctuary city mayor. Markie was shot and killed in his home this week. He was murdered seven times, seven bullets put in his body. And of course, the ghouls on social media are dancing on his grave and they're mocking him. Can't do that. But but you must understand that this is life or death, that things are happening in these cities. And I hate it. I hate it for his for obvious for him and for his family, his loved ones. And again, a well -known journalist in Philly, apparently in the LGBT community. But the bottom line is a day before he was murdered, he was literally, you know, poo pooing the idea that we got a crime problem in Philly, mocking the people who are trying to draw attention to the issue to make it better. And it's funny. So did you hear the two things when I was talking about the conversion of Dallas mayor Eric Johnson? He said, listen, we need Republican mayors in our big cities, so I'm going to become one. We also need to elect more of them. And that seems like a ridiculous long shot. How do you get a Republican elected in most of America's big cities? And I don't know the answer to that except to try. A lot of people don't even want to try. We have given up. We have ceded the cities to Democrats. Is that helpful? 70, 80 percent of Americans live in these big cities. Is that helpful to just give up or should we try to it's a marathon, not a sprint. It's an uphill steep climb to try to get some sensible Republican mayors who can save our cities. You spend so much time in New York. I grew up in the suburbs of D .C. I'm in Dallas and Fort Worth all the time. You're in Tampa all the time. Big cities are beautiful. There's no more beautiful city in America than San Francisco. It breaks my heart what happens out there. Should we try to save American cities or say, screw them, get buried under your own bad policies? I'm inclined to say you own it. You live with it. You've got to you inherited this. There's a great column by Douglas Murray of the New York Post called The Fall of Lululemon. How stores have surrendered to looters. He tells the story of how Lululemon fires employees who try to stop shoplifters from walking out with the high end material and merchandise from Lululemon. And a lot of stores are doing this. They're firing any of the employees. They're saying, let them go. Let them walk out. And guess what? When you when that happens, when you encourage it. I mean, it's not a sane society anymore. I mean, call us old fashioned. Law and order is an important thing. It's one thing that people want to steal, but for businesses not to mind being stolen from. Well, but I'm intrigued by the employees thing. And for those that don't know, Lululemon is high end athletic wear, mostly for for women, but not exclusively. And so there's some some an arm load is some serious cash if you're going out the front door. Thousands and thousands of dollars. What do we expect? I mean, if I'm an employee, I'd love to say, well, I'm not going to let this happen, blah, blah, blah. But sometimes these people might be armed. I mean, what these what these stores need is armed guards to prevent this, not employees trying to try and try to go vigilante. Two female Lululemon employees in Atlanta confronted three masked men who pillaged the store. All they did was call the police. Right. I mean, one of the systematically said, you know, what do we want them to do? What do we want? They did call them. They were fired. They were fired for for for OK. Pardon me. Confused host for for calling the police or for not doing more for calling the police. No, they did too much by calling the police. One of the fired employee told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we are not supposed to get in the way. You're supposed to clear the path for whatever they're going to do. And then it's over. You scan a QR code. We're not supposed to call the police. We're not supposed to talk about it. And Douglas Murray says Lululemon isn't the only company in America that has taken this completely lax approach to its own stock. Well, guess what? Lululemon's on the verge of bankruptcy. They're going out of business. And Douglas Murray writes, you know what? I'm sorry. Count me as one who's not real sympathetic. We're in post consequences America. And this is how Congressman Henry Cuellar gets carjacked. Or it's not the specific because of this, then that because crime is going to happen. But we're going to get more of it in cities where people know they'll get away with it and know that punishment does not await them. And there is a choice that Americans get to make. Republicans are law and order. The Democrats are certainly not, no matter how mad Switzerland gets. Look at that. Look at that call back. Happy Tuesday. And the Mike Gallagher Show lies ahead. Everyone knows that putting money aside and savings is really important. But then what? Should you keep your savings locked in a CD for a higher rate or keep them liquid in a money market? Can your checking account help you save, too? 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Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Rebecca Alvarez Story Built a Sexual Wellness Brand
"Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the colorful world of Skittles. Skittles brings you a jolt of five fruity flavors in every bite, giving you the chance to taste the rainbow like never before. Break free from the ordinary day -to -day with the help of Skittles chewy candy. Skittles is a must in my candy jar, movie snack, even my secret to an afternoon pick -me -up. And I don't even care who knows it. Add a splash of joy to your day with Skittles. There's nothing better than fruity fun that tickles your taste buds. Taste the rainbow. I've been wanting to talk with Rebecca Albera's story for a while. She is an award -winning entrepreneur, sexologist, and intimate product developer. Three titles that do not often go together. But I'm glad we waited for this moment when, like many of my very favorite conversations, we find Rebecca and her company Bloomy, a wellness brand focused on clean, intimate care essentials, at an inflection point, asking the very familiar question, will what got us here get us to where we want to go next? Rebecca, finally, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad it worked. I'm so happy to have this conversation. Rebecca, among the things you say about intimacy is that so much of the root of intimacy is unlearning bad sex ed. What was the bad sex ed that you grew up with? My bad sex ed was actually no sex ed to start with. I definitely saw love, and my parents modeled that so well. But in terms of, like, in my community, in my school, did we have sex education? Not really, because it was abstinence -only education in high school. It's wild that someone goes from growing up in an environment that is abstinence -only to, I mean, by the time you are in college, you're very clear that you want to study sex and sexuality. I sit at the intersection of so many things, being Latina, a woman. I was a single mom at that time. I just felt like I could relate to so many people's intimacy journeys. And I wanted to create the spaces where we could talk about it. I didn't know exactly what it was going to look like. But yes, in college, I tell this story, you know, I was apprehensive about sexuality because my first year in college, I was actually assaulted. And I ended up transferring home. I ended up at Cal, a very liberal, very progressive school where I could take so many wonderful classes that were holistic, and I shared with people that it was very healing for me. I had great therapy. I had great all of that. But the education, it just transformed my life. When did it become clear to you that you are an entrepreneur? To be honest, I feel like I've always known this since I was little. I had that spirit of, oh, that should be a business. And why don't we have a solution? I would just see things differently than like the cousins I grew up with, I think. They would joke and say, why do you always have so many ideas? Why are you always so bossy? But it was just little. I was little and I was like taking initiative to create things. Talk me through the evolution of Blumey, because as I understand it, the original idea was a multi -brand marketplace. How did it morph from that concept to a place for education, advice on intimacy with a line of sexual wellness products? I had been in the industry for 10 years. I was working as a consultant for startups, helping them with their product development. And I was coaching both singles and couples, learning so much about intimacy challenges, intimacy goals, and really helping people in a lot of different ways, where at the end of so many of my sessions, my clients wanted solutions. They wanted the book, the product, the toy, the whatever it was. And so I would manually send this to them. I started creating a list, but it was a little bit like it was a lot of work on my end to always curate. And so what I did is I said, I'm just going to put these products that I recommend that are clean, because it's very important that these products be healthy, especially for these areas of the body, put them all on a page. And that was the beginning of Bloomie, where I had multiple brands. They were my favorite clean brands that I would recommend in the category. And then when I developed our first product with our team, it was called Bloomie Arousal Oil. We still sell it. It's a bestseller. That was just the beginning of a pivot for us. And that's why we fundraised and why we ended up really focusing on Bloomie's products, making solutions for products that I wish I had 10 years ago. The question I'm about to ask you seems particularly relevant given the timing of your and my conversation, but I want to take us back to April 2022. Your line is set to debut at Target and your funding falls short. How does that happen? Funding for women of color entrepreneurs is severely lower than what it should be. There is less than one percent of funding that is going to entrepreneurs of color and Latina founders. So I never use that as an excuse. But when I went out and I fundraised, I did everything by the book. I trained, I did accelerators, I did boot camps. I had a cis white male co -founder. I had everything you're supposed to, and I'm using quotes, to have. And we fell short. We wanted to raise two million. We raised one million. So what did I do? I ended up seeing that there is no standard for my industry. This is new. Intimacy companies were not being venture backed at that time. And I just realized I'm going to have to do things differently. So we crowd raised. We basically opened up part of our round to the community where they could invest one hundred or two hundred dollars minimum. We raised almost a million dollars that way, two different times. And then we also I took out personal loans. We had a few angels give us personal loans. I took out a line of credit. Like I did everything to make sure that we could have sufficient capital to meet the demands of going into retail. And even with that, I'll say when founders ask me, what does it take to go into retail? It's so big of a question. I want to sit down and go through things with people. But you have to estimate how much you're going to need to be on shelf, stay on shelf. That's even harder. Mark it and to not plan to be profitable right away.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
New York Judges Obviously Don't Have Access to Zillow
"My other favorite story of the morning. This is a revelation. New York judges do not have any awareness of or access to Zillow because yesterday a New York judge ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud because he overvalued his property. And apparently, judging by Eric Trump's ex post yesterday, the New York judge valued Mar -a -Lago at about 80 bucks. And apparently it's worth more than that. Now, who among us have not Zillowed a property that you drove by when you saw it for sale? Who among us have not Zillowed a property that that we thought that would be a nice place to live? I wonder what it cost. Zillow has brought the multiple listing service to you. And and so apparently New York judges do not have access to Zillow because the idea that a real estate developer inflated their value. First of all, I work. I know real estate developers. I worked for a real estate developer. Real estate developers are my friend. I hope Leonard Frank is listening right now. Leonard is retired from Pardee, which was my largest and biggest client for a quarter century. And but I mean the Baldwin brothers and Sun Cal and Lusk and you name it. I represented him on Endangered Species Wetlands and CEQA NEPA issues. And I have never met in 25 years of legal practice, a developer who undervalued their properties. Never. It does not happen. But the judge in New York, because it's New York and by the way, this this helps Trump. This helps Trump as much as the story is Trump say he might want to buy a Glock as a felony. That story as well. At some point, you just laugh and you think, I hate the media so much, even if I don't like Donald Trump, I'm talking to you people out there who don't like Donald Trump. At some point, you know, you're going to vote for him because you want to see their heads explode on Election Night 2024.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
No One Wants to Go Into a Job Knowing They're Potentially Going to Die
"Thought about this while we were talking to Dee Cotter because I was, I wonder what CAL FIRE is doing with the PFAS because I can't imagine that the state, I mean California is very much about health. Like we're avocado toast eaters. So when she was talking, I was really intrigued by it and I actually went to go Google it and nothing came up. So nothing came up when you Googled it? If you Google CAL FIRE PFAS in gear, the state fire marshal's office comes up, firefighting equipment and boom PFAS. IFF articles come up, US fire administrations come up, but there's nothing, there's a lawsuit from 2022, but there's like nothing, no, nothing. Huh. That's interesting. Yep. Same thing. So I'm Googling it and I don't see anything. So I'd be curious to hear more about that. We're doing research live everyone. I don't know. That's from the, they talk about the foam, the firefighting foam. Yeah. They don't talk about the gear. So yeah, their gear is killing them too. So that's a whole nother situation and something that adds to the overall distaste for public service, I think, and why people don't want to work from fire departments. Yeah. Because I mean, so like this other comment just said presumptive cancers have been slowly eliminated in Texas. That's frightening and that's kind of bullshit. Oh, let's talk about the fact that if you do die of cancer, you have to go through this whole, like, even though it's presumptive in California, right? You still have to go through this whole investigative process and they can find that you didn't actually die of cancer because of firefighting, but they can deny the claim. So it could be, it may or may not be a line of duty death in that case. Oh my God. Why are we going backwards? And why do we have to file the paperwork if it's presumptive? Like, why can't it just be? They died of cancer. It's a line of duty death. End of story. Oh, you're still working for us? Oh, you're on your deathbed in cancer? Here's your money. Like be done with it. Yeah. Thanks for your service, but also we're not going to pay for your cancer. Sorry. Right? I'm just like, this is utterly ridiculous. But it's the same. Who was it? Was somebody comment on that too? Or was that in the RDMs that said it's the I haven't read it yet, but I'm frightened to read it. It's too much sometimes. I don't even know. Anyway, sorry. We got off on the cancer topic. Went back to that. Went back to that. Back to that. So if you haven't listened to Dean Cotter's episode, definitely check it out because it's frightening. But it also goes back to what we were saying. Like being a firefighter is not glamorous anymore because it's not what it, I mean, let's say it's not, nobody wants to go into a job knowing that they're going to potentially die. Not even heroically, you know even a heroic death. Right, right. It's, you're just going to walk around in your, uh, turnouts and possibly develop cancer just from, from that. It's just not, it's not
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Navigating Change: Chelsi Shares Her Family's Courageous Journey
"We always keep it real about fire family life and sometimes our firefighters need to change the scenery and need to make the difficult decision to transition out of departments that they've been with for many years. So on that note, Chelsea and I have been keeping a little secret from you. Mostly Chelsea has been keeping the secret for months. You want to spill the tea, Chelsea? Oh man, it has been months, hasn't it? I was thinking it's only been like a month, but it's been months. You're right. Sure. I guess. Way to put me on the spot. No, but seriously, yes, I should say I have been eagerly awaiting the time when I can share some very exciting news. My husband has left Cal Fire. He decided it was not time to make a change and he's transitioned into a municipal department as a ECC assistant director. And we're so excited and it's a fantastic change. It's all good things. That's a huge move from Cal Fire to municipal. And we know how hard it is making these kinds of decisions, especially for firefighters and their families. Transitioning careers in the fire service is no small feat, but the decision to leave a department you've been at for a really long time is definitely a lot of excitement mixed with some serious anxiety and uncertainty, I'm guessing, right? Obviously there were struggles in family planning and time management and work -life balance and all of those things. And that finally came to a pretty ugly head recently over the course of the last six months. It really started to take a toll on his mental health and our family life. And so it wasn't so much a difficult decision to think about transitioning out, but then when he finally decided to pull the trigger, it was like, am I actually going to do this? Am I actually applying somewhere? Am I actually taking an interview? Are these things actually happening? And are they what's best for our family? And am I going to take a pay cut? What's going to happen with my pension? How, you know, am I going to lose all my sick leave? There's definitely a lot of anxiety that comes with it, but I would say it was more anticipation than anxiety because it was excited anxiety more than it was like, Oh crap, what have I just done to myself? And it didn't come without a lot of discussion. There was many nights of hardcore discussion about what's this going to look like and you know, things. So I think a lot of firefighters and their families can kind of relate to this too, because it's not really just about their career. It's about how it impacts the whole family. I mean, we hear about this a lot, firefighters changing departments. Give us advice on, you know, what would you say to spouses who might be going through a similar situation? Because it's kind of weird and uncomfortable for some, and there's a lot of pushback from, you know, the current department and a lot of gossip and a lot of just unnecessary crap that goes on behind the scenes. So yeah, and I think we've experienced, like we've experienced a little bit of that. I can't say that I really care. Like, you know me, like I don't, what you say behind my back is none of my business and I could really care less about your opinion because it's not your life. So go ahead and say what you want. So my best advice for that particular situation is just don't care. You have to do what's good for you and your family. And if that means leaving the department after 20 years, then that's what it means. And that's not to say that there wasn't good things about the department. For us, it just wasn't working and it was impacting us on a much bigger scale than we ever have been impacted. And so, you know, you just have to do what's good for you. And if there's people within the department that want to push back against that, then they're not looking out for your best interest. They're thinking about themselves. And while I understand that when someone leaves a position, it does leave holes and overtime for other people, you know, those people also have the choice. There's always a choice. And if you're so impacted by overtime that it's causing you to be mad at somebody else who made a good decision for themselves, then maybe it's time to take a little look in the mirror and find out if you also need to make the same decision. That's just the way it
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Evangelist and the Church
"At the In your outline at the top of the outline that I will read when we get there I'm going to intersperse those throughout the message those verses and in a couple other ones Christ Bible Church has been involved with over these many years that we've been in existence quite a few evangelistic opportunities in In the corporate life of the church Very early on we were involved with the Bay Area Rescue Mission going there. We still are We have had individuals who have gone street preaching Prior to the pandemic for almost 20 years we were involved with two prisons State prisons San Quentin and Jamestown prison where a couple times a month Several of us would go later once a month, but but always there for almost 20 years I see several people who helped at the Chinese New Year's Parade where we went there to hand out tracks had quite a big turnout to hand out tracks there the gospel fest of course our brother Gerard who in addition to street preaching goes over to Cal Berkeley on a regular basis of several times a week and Today we have it turns out we have another evangelistic opportunity that we're going to talk about in the subsequent business meeting and The message is really tailored to that Issue and so the message is going to kind of be narrowly focused on the idea of evangelism Obviously, there's much to say about evangelism, but I'm going to be very Narrowly focused and you can see from your outline in the bulletin That we have two points. We're going to talk about the role of the evangelist in the life of the church and then we're going to talk about the church or the role of the church in the life of the evangelist and Though the message is quite maybe narrowly focused it it has Application I believe to all of us not just to what we want to talk about at the meeting So in the first place this morning We're going to look at these four a sub points as we think about the role of the evangelist in the life of the church We're going to talk about the existence of this role or the stated role secondly the need Thirdly the example of Philip the evangelist and as we trace through the life of Philip the evangelist, we're going to see several characteristics or traits about this evangelist What makes an evangelist what do they do? How do they act? What do they think and Then fourthly under this point. We're going to look at some precepts For evangelism that we're gonna gonna kind of broaden our thinking a little bit about this and then secondly and more briefly We'll talk about the role of the church in the life of the evangelist first of all the role of the evangelist in the life of the church Before we talk about a very specific Spiritual gift or calling or role We acknowledge that the whole idea of evangelism is really broadly stated especially in the New Testament actually Throughout the Bible but but especially in the New Testament If we were to try to come up with a very simple definition of what an evangelist is We would say it is simply someone who brings the good tidings of the gospel The good news of the gospel glad tidings of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ They're a messenger with the good news of the gospel One of my favorite verses That illustrates this definition is in Luke chapter 2 where those angels appeared to the shepherds by night Remember those shepherds were very fearful and the angel said simply this fear not Behold I bring you good tidings That word in the original is almost identical to the word evangelist.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Ashley Iverson on Widowhood and Finding Love Again
"My late husband was Corey Iverson killed fighting the Thomas fire in December of 2017. And since then, I have experienced five and a half years of widowhood. It's, it's a wicked experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone. However, it's like the greatest hilarity of life of just as dark as it gets. But it's, it's also provided me with the most profound light and wonderful experiences that I could have ever imagined. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful for all of it. I, I really hope I don't have to do it again. Yeah, it's strange to say that I wouldn't change it. And this beautiful person that's sitting beside me has made life a whole lot better for myself and the girls. And it's really special. It's not my first choice of profession to fall in love with again. But you know, it is what it is. Yeah, so I'll let you chit chat a little bit about yourself. Oh, my favorite thing talking about myself. Thanks for the opportunity to come on and speak with you tonight. So I'm a fire captain with Cal Fire and I'm here tonight because like Ashley, I've experienced some of the most darkest times in my life that have ultimately brought me to, you know, my reality today is just pure and utter gratitude for where I'm at and a new perspective on life. And, you know, I'm just grateful to be here share a little bit about my story and hope to share a story to those who, you know, are going through or have experienced some of the things that I've gone through. In a nutshell, I'm sure more will come out. Okay, so let's start from the beginning of Ashley and Phil. How'd you guys meet? So eight years ago, ironically, Cory and Phil, their paths crossed on the job for about three months, right? And so it's, it's really special for me, the fact that Phil knows Cory gives a massive amount of peace and just, just him actually knowing Cory, there's another level of respect and honor that he comes with and wants to show up with for myself and the girls, which is really special. We were brought together by one of their captains befriended me after Cory passed. And three years ago, I met up with them, the group of them were down here at a convention. They met up for dinner with them. And that night, I definitely noticed Phil, but it was kind of like, I don't, did we even have much context? No, we did converse briefly, but it was more, it was such a large group of people. There wasn't any real substance to what we had. I don't really, I don't remember really having a conversation. I just remember like feeling his energy, but there was also something that was very significant. And I knew that I didn't have any business knowing him at that point in time. I don't know. It was something where it was just like, okay, beautiful man. And I have to go by, you know, and a year ago I met up with the same group and he happened to be with them again. And we were walking from lunch back to the convention center. And I noticed the good looking one had dropped off, not knowing that he was the same one from three years ago. And when he caught back up, I could see a level of distress on his face. And I just, I pulled him aside and I asked him if he was all right. And he was sharing with me that he had a daughter and she's really struggled with him not being home. She was young at the time, she was three. And we ended up just having a heart to heart on how challenging that is
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Santander's big night (3 hits, 3 RBIs) helps Orioles outlast Guardians 8-5
"Kyle Gibson pitched into the 6th inning during his 7th win in the offense scored 7 runs in the first two winnings as the Orioles beat the guardians 8 to 5. Anthony Santander and Gunnar Henderson each drove in three runs, Henderson said the early runs for Gibson took the pressure off. Oh, it's great to get runs early on the board 'cause that gives your pitchers some lingers and went out there and did his thing and then had tough a few hits at the end, but he went out there and pitched well and both been closed it down. Cal quantrill gave up all 8 runs over four and a third to fall to two and four Felix Bautista earned his 14th save. Craig heist Baltimore.
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Viking great Joe Kapp dies
"Joe Capp, the hard nosed quarterback who routinely ran into tacklers instead of away from them while leading the Minnesota Vikings to their first Super Bowl and California to its last rose bowl has died. He was 85. Cal confirmed that cap died on Monday. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for the last 15 years and was residing in an assisted living facility, his son JJ Capp said, the family made plans to send his brain to UC San Francisco researchers for steady of the potential connection between his dementia and hits he took to the head with his punishing playing style. I'm geffen cool bar.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Okay. What you do. And I quote Ted Koppel, the former ADC anchor of nightline and reporter of the book. He said, once the truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder, truth is a howling reproach. I always love that line. It has such power when it's spoken boldly as you did at the prayer breakfast. That's Mother Teresa did. And as others do, I don't know why we shy away from truth. I mean, scripture tells us we're going to be attacked and persecuted. If we speak truth, especially truth, the power. But it's okay. Speak it. Live it, proclaim it. It has a power of its own. It's interesting. Because we're talking to you about this book a watchman in the night, brand new book, what I've seen over 50 years reporting on America. We seem to have figures in journalism who understood the idea of truth. And I have to say, I really don't see that very much anymore. Certainly not in what we call the mainstream media. They seem to have jumped on to the leftist narrative and seems to be apologists for the current regime and when I say regime, I don't just mean this administration. Generally, the cultural regime in which we find ourselves. Well, a friend of mine says the greatest power of the media have is the power to ignore. If you put let's just say an experiment, if you put The Wall Street Journal in The Washington Post next to each other, you would think you're living in two different countries. The one covers things that really matter, the Washington of The Wall Street Journal. And the other, the post is basically all opinion. Yesterday is a recent front page. It was all transgender and the abortion pill and crazy right wingers. And you look at the journal or the Washington times and you see something totally different. This is why I tell people to have a balanced media diet. Don't just go to one source for your information. Yeah, eat a little poison and a little non poison. Read both. No, seriously, I can't imagine that anyone was doing it. Unless you're a professional journalist who has some kind of obligation to read The Washington Post or The New York Times. In this day and age, honestly, I don't know why anyone would, because they really, they've killed themselves. They died by their own hand. There was a time when they were merely left leaning. They are now practically fiction. We'll be right back. Final segment talking to Cal Thomas, the new book, a watchman in the night. In the year of the kind. Of misses Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know. Folks welcome back. How Thomas by the grace of God is a friend of mine and some of you might think, I'm just having a mind for that. Wrong. Cal Thomas, if he were my enemy, which at times he has been. Is someone who understands the world of journalism, pretty much better than anybody. And he has written a book a watchman in the night talking about what he's seen over 50 years reporting on America. Now, Cal, I just have to say it again because we were talking about in a moment ago. It seems to me, generally speaking, that journalism has died in America, something happened. There was a time when I could watch CNN, I could read The New York Times. I have to say, with the advent of Trump, they seem to have lost their minds. They seem to have convinced themselves this is Hitler 2.0, all the rules go out the window, do everything you can to destroy him because he is a threat to whatever version of democracy. They claim to be interested in that day. So it's very hard for me to take, I mean, The New York Times are seeing and seriously, that's an understatement. As far as I'm concerned, they are as dead as Yale and Harvard are dead. They are no longer, they're drafting off of or I should say they're operating principally on fumes. They have a legacy. They have a name, but they are effectively dead. It's like Time Magazine, any of these great institutions, but they are effectively dead and people need to reckon them as such as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, they become propaganda organs, much like some dictatorships in other countries. I just think that a lot of this is because of worldview, people go to these public schools and then these universities. They have a secular progressive worldview. They want to get into journalism to quote change the world. And yet, you know, I remember having Leslie stall on my old Fox show once and asking about the dearth of conservatives and the media said, oh, I'm sure we have lots of conservatives that CBS. I said, name one. And she went silent. She couldn't name one. I did a decision making capacity. They're just art and me. And they all come at the news or events with the same political and religious and social worldview. Everything the secular progressives say is good. Everything a conservative political or Christian person says, it's bad. And that's the way they filter all of these stories through that prism. Well, but as I say, I think that they have essentially killed themselves. In other words, they were, they were operating for a while, send me asphyxiated, but I really think that they're dead. I don't think that anybody can take The New York Times seriously. I mean, I saw it happen. I mean, the idea that I could read the times through my own lens up into a point. But once Trump came on the scene, what they were printing as news was clearly opinion, which to me is like strike three if you're in the journalism. Yeah, that's right. It's all opinion now. They have opinions sections, but it doesn't really matter. I like to say that I read two things every day. My Bible in The New York Times. So I know what each side is doing. It's a big left slide. That was funny. That's more true than that. That was good. Okay, so if people want to read your column, where can they find it online? What's the best way for them to find it right away? Well, I would hope they could find it in their local newspaper and I still think that especially newspapers out of New York and Washington and Los Angeles still have an influence in at least cover the local news in their respective areas. They should write or call the editor and thank them for carrying my column if they do and asking them to carry it if they don't. Or they can go to my website, Cal Thomas dot com and help with their sleep press test by reading my columns and radio transcripts there. Now, I just want to conclude, you're not related to Helen Thomas. Not related to Helen Thomas, clarence Thomas, doubting Thomas sir Thomas English..
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"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I'm talking to count Thomas. His new book is called the watchman in the night what I've seen over 50 years reporting on America. Cal, I mean, I don't know where to start. I want to talk to you about the Reagan landslide. I want to talk to you about Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. Can we start with the Reagan landslide? Because that was a big moment in America. I certainly remember it. Why don't we start there? Because that's when you wrote your first column in 1984. Well, of course, Reagan was one of the most optimistic presidents we've ever had, even in his last letter to the American people when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He said, he still believed America's greatest days were ahead. This kind of optimism is catchy. It's a wonderful thing. And recall that when he first ran for president, the media were completely against him calling him a cowboy with a hair trigger was going to get us into nuclear war. By the way, did that happen? Did Armageddon happen under his watch? I'm pretty sure it must have been because they were so sure that it would. No, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It was Barry Goldwater that destroyed the world in nuclear Armageddon. I always get that mixed up. Anyway, so Reagan was optimistic. He wins in a huge landslide in 84, just as Trump did three years ago, except that election was rigged. But so back when we had actual elections, Reagan connected with the people and he was allowed to have a second term. Yes, he was. And he inspired an awful lot of other people who still were doubtful about America's future. Remember, this was still in the middle of the Cold War. He stood up to the Soviets. When they put Pershing missiles in Eastern Europe, the media went crazy, but when Reagan announced Star Wars as they derisively called it, he was going to build up America's military and crush the Soviet Union, which he did. Editorials columnists were full of stuff. We're all going to die because of Reagan. Oh my goodness, what are we going to do? And of course, the thing about the left is when they're wrong as they always are. They never apologize or say they're sorry or issue a correction. They just move on to the next thing.
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Cal Thomas Spills Truths About the Reagan Landslide and the Media
"I'm talking to count Thomas. His new book is called the watchman in the night what I've seen over 50 years reporting on America. Cal, I mean, I don't know where to start. I want to talk to you about the Reagan landslide. I want to talk to you about Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. Can we start with the Reagan landslide? Because that was a big moment in America. I certainly remember it. Why don't we start there? Because that's when you wrote your first column in 1984. Well, of course, Reagan was one of the most optimistic presidents we've ever had, even in his last letter to the American people when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He said, he still believed America's greatest days were ahead. This kind of optimism is catchy. It's a wonderful thing. And recall that when he first ran for president, the media were completely against him calling him a cowboy with a hair trigger was going to get us into nuclear war. By the way, did that happen? Did Armageddon happen under his watch? I'm pretty sure it must have been because they were so sure that it would. No, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It was Barry Goldwater that destroyed the world in nuclear Armageddon. I always get that mixed up. Anyway, so Reagan was optimistic. He wins in a huge landslide in 84, just as Trump did three years ago, except that election was rigged. But so back when we had actual elections, Reagan connected with the people and he was allowed to have a second term. Yes, he was. And he inspired an awful lot of other people who still were doubtful about America's future. Remember, this was still in the middle of the Cold War. He stood up to the Soviets. When they put Pershing missiles in Eastern Europe, the media went crazy, but when Reagan announced Star Wars as they derisively called it, he was going to build up America's military and crush the Soviet Union, which he did. Editorials columnists were full of stuff. We're all going to die because of Reagan. Oh my goodness, what are we going to do? And of course, the thing about the left is when they're wrong as they always are. They never apologize or say they're sorry or issue a correction. They just move on to the next thing.
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"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"They're saying, hang on a second. I've just got to ask you before we go to the break. I want to talk about what are some of the favorite things that you wrote about, because there are so many to choose from in here. When we come back, what should we talk about? I like when I read about 1997 the year of farewell, the Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. Can we go to that when we come back? Sure. All right, folks, hold on. We're talking to Cal Thomas. He has a new book out called a watchman in the night. Another land now my mind is gone my head has grown I saw it right in a roll and stone I wait now we will catch my soul is the right man another. My pillow is excited to bring you their biggest betting sale ever get the Giza dream bed sheets for as low as 29 98, a set of pillowcases for only 9 98 and rejuvenate your bed with a my pillow mattress topper for as low as 99.99. They also have blankets in a variety of sizes, colors and styles. They even have blankets for your pets, get duvets, quilts, down comforters, body pillars, bolster pillows, and so much more. All the biggest discounts of the year are happening right now so don't miss out. They're also extending their money back guarantee for Christmas until March 1st, 2023 making them the perfect gifts for your Friends, your family and everyone you know. So go to my pillow dot com and use promo code Eric or call one 809 7 8 three O 5 7 and you'll get huge discounts on all my pillow betting products, including the Giza dream bedsheets for as low as 29 98 and get all your shopping done now while quantities last again use code Eric and save my pillow dot com. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to count Thomas..
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Cal Thomas: "Once in a While... I Learned Some Things From Liberals"
"I'm talking to my friend Cal Thomas, and you get to listen. It's kind of crazy. Cal, you have a new book out called a watchman in the night, what you've seen over 50 years reporting on America. We were just talking about Kitty Carlisle Hart. I don't believe she's featured in the book. That's why we're talking about her. Because people will buy the book. And they're not going to hear about kitty Carlos. So now is the time for us to talk about that. But you had the privilege of meeting her and getting to know her a little bit. And she really was kind of one of those iconic New York Grande dames, which neither of us is, let's be honest. Well, that's true. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years, Eric is if you want to get a hearing, you have to not just ingratiate yourself to people of a different political or social persuasion, but actually take an interest in them. It's why I counted people like Ted Kennedy, as my friend, I got endorsements for the book from Henry Lewis Gates at Harvard, a friend of Obama and pat sajak, the host of wheel of fortune. So that pretty much runs the political gamut from left to right. But we spend so much time these days attacking each other and throwing rhetorical bombs at each other. We don't persuade any one of the correctness of our point of view when we label other people and call them names. So I try to take the time to develop relationships with people on what we call the other side, although they're my fellow Americans. And that has opened up a whole new world of communication, listening by them and listening by me. And once in a while, not often, I actually learned some things from liberals.
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Cal Thomas and Eric Reminisce About Kitty Carlisle Hart
"I were together. It was the 96th birthday event for Kitty Carlisle Hart. And I remember I went there, she sang at her 96th birthday. This was at what? It was one of the hotels on Park Avenue here. And I went there with Dick Cavett, and I look over and there's Cal Thomas. I've known you from long before that. But it's hard to believe that the woman who was singing was in a night at the opera, the Marx brothers film from 1935. So I just, I'll never forget that evening, I'll never forget seeing you there. Well, let me take a quick Kitty Carlisle Hart story. Some years ago, I was attending the national conference of editorial writers in St. Paul, Minnesota. And the gentleman who was heading it up the editorial page editor of the St. Paul pioneer press called me and desperation. I had another event that night. I wasn't going to go to this particular event. And he said, look, you got to come back and help me out. I said, why? Well, our speaker who was supposed to debate Kitty Carlisle Hart has been held up due to bad weather at the airport. And I don't have anybody. I said, you're asking me to come in and debate an old lady. Are you crazy? So no, no, please. Come on, you got to help me out. So hold on, hold on. Tell me again, what was this here, roughly? This was in the early 90s, as I recall. In the early 90s, and what in the world was the subject of the debate to be? Because she was once the head of what? The national endowment of the humanities or something like that? Right. There was a big controversy then whether a federal money should be used to underwrite some of these agencies that featured scatological and other things anti Christian things. Yes, I think you may be referring, I believe it's called PBS or NPR. So yes, that was a hot debate. And she was on the wrong side of it. Poor kitty.
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"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I still can't believe this. Your book, the book we're going to talk about right now. It's called the Watchmen in the night. What I've seen over 50 years reporting on America, Cal Thomas, America's number one syndicated columnist, holy guacamole. How is that possible? 50 years isn't what it used to be. Let's be honest. Well, I'm a lot older than I look. I guess it's persistence, you know, Eric, I'd ever take no for an answer. I've got started doing this column in 1984, the wonderful publisher of the LA times, Tom Johnson, who's an LBJ Democrat, but a very fair minded individual, opened the door for me. Gave me an opportunity in the column just took off. And he was gracious enough to write the introduction, which I'm very happy about. And of course, you were in the reporting business, the journalism business, parentheses, journalism is dead, of course. But back when it existed, and when it was alive, you were in that business long before you even got the column. So Cal, let's just, I want to start with your story because we haven't done that. Where did you grow up? And how did you find your way into the business of journalism? Well, it's a great story. And usually it takes about 30 minutes, which means I'd have to refer you to my agent for a speaking fee. But just the brief mention, my father knew only one person in the broadcast industry. He had no background in this. He happened to be an announcer at the local NBC station in Washington. And when he found out that I was interested in this field, he introduced me to him and the announcer took me down to the NBC News department in D.C. and introduced me to people and said, well, we don't have an opening for anything now, but fill out an application. And then I did three weeks later. They had copy boy quit. I was 19 years old. And I got the job. And that was the start. I work with some really, really great journalists. Most of whom came out of print or broadcast newspapers, wire services, to broadcast, and they were huge influences on me. I suspect anybody under say 50 or 60 years old wouldn't remember the names David Brinkley, or maybe him. Richard harkness, Bryson rash, Ellie Abel, all of these were really good writers. And they all wrote their own stuff, by the way, as I do. David Brinkley wrote his own stuff.
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"The Watchman in the Night" Covers Cal Thomas' Extensive Career
"I still can't believe this. Your book, the book we're going to talk about right now. It's called the Watchmen in the night. What I've seen over 50 years reporting on America, Cal Thomas, America's number one syndicated columnist, holy guacamole. How is that possible? 50 years isn't what it used to be. Let's be honest. Well, I'm a lot older than I look. I guess it's persistence, you know, Eric, I'd ever take no for an answer. I've got started doing this column in 1984, the wonderful publisher of the LA times, Tom Johnson, who's an LBJ Democrat, but a very fair minded individual, opened the door for me. Gave me an opportunity in the column just took off. And he was gracious enough to write the introduction, which I'm very happy about. And of course, you were in the reporting business, the journalism business, parentheses, journalism is dead, of course. But back when it existed, and when it was alive, you were in that business long before you even got the column. So Cal, let's just, I want to start with your story because we haven't done that. Where did you grow up? And how did you find your way into the business of journalism? Well, it's a great story. And usually it takes about 30 minutes, which means I'd have to refer you to my agent for a speaking fee. But just the brief mention, my father knew only one person in the broadcast industry. He had no background in this. He happened to be an announcer at the local NBC station in Washington. And when he found out that I was interested in this field, he introduced me to him and the announcer took me down to the NBC News department in D.C. and introduced me to people and said, well, we don't have an opening for anything now, but fill out an application. And then I did three weeks later. They had copy boy quit. I was 19 years old. And I got the job. And that was the start. I work with some really, really great journalists. Most of whom came out of print or broadcast newspapers, wire services, to broadcast, and they were huge influences on me. I suspect anybody under say 50 or 60 years old wouldn't remember the names David Brinkley, or maybe him. Richard harkness, Bryson rash, Ellie Abel, all of these were really good writers. And they all wrote their own stuff, by the way, as I do. David Brinkley wrote his own stuff.
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"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Now, I told you before Cal was on the air that I, you know, I've known him for a long time and frankly, I don't like him that much. But as a favor to our mutual friends, I said, maybe I'll have him on the program. So Cal welcome. Well, thank you very much, Eric. I must say it another indication that standards are falling everywhere if you're having me on. It's true, it's actually true. I said to Alban Alban, you're kidding, not Cal Thomas. No, Kyle, listen, I love you so much that I can joke with you. It's one of the reasons I do love you. We've known each other for a while, but not nearly as long as you have been writing and reporting. I still can't believe this. Your book, the book we're going to talk about right now. It's called the Watchmen in the night. What I've seen over 50 years reporting on America, Cal Thomas, America's number one syndicated columnist, holy guacamole. How is that possible? 50 years isn't what it used to be. Let's be honest. Well, I'm a lot older than I look. I guess it's persistence, you know, Eric, I'd ever take no for an answer. I've got started doing this column in 1984, the wonderful publisher of the LA times, Tom Johnson, who's an LBJ Democrat, but a very fair minded individual, opened the door for me. Gave me an opportunity in the column just took off. And he was gracious enough to write the introduction, which I'm very happy about. And of course, you were in the reporting business, the journalism business, parentheses, journalism is dead, of course. But back when it existed, and when it was alive, you were in that business long before you even got the column..
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"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"It's too horrible to contemplate, but we need to. Yeah. You know, as I, as I read about the stories and you can imagine, we freed over a 100,000 Sudanese slaves since 1995. And you read their stories because every human being that we free has a story to tell about how they became a slave in the first place. And they're horrific. And there's a lot of common elements. But it's staggering to think that there are still even though we've freed over a 100,000 of these slaves. There are still we're guessing 35 to 40,000 more Sudanese slaves. Most of them women, but sometimes men that have lived their entire life. In captivity. And yeah, you think, boy, how can that be here in 2023, but it is. And so we are relentless in our pursuit to free more people. We can't do it without generous donors like yours who make it possible. But just as a little primer on history, how this happened. So it goes all the way back to 1983. Civil War, religious persecution in Sudan and Christians were basically told you can't be a Christian in Sudan. And so they revolted against that and they ended up the government got into cahoots with some Arab forces and raiders and they were allowed to go in and destroy farms and take people captive, take them to north Sudan. And those are the people that remain enslaved today. Now, this is not an ongoing issue. This is one of the most common questions we get. Hey, if we help CSI secure freedom for a slave, aren't we, in essence, create a creating a market for that. And the short answer is, no, you're not, because it's an honor and ongoing problem, the slave taking was abolished back in late 90s. And so no more slaves are being taken captive. But what they failed to deal with in that legislation to stop the taking of slaves was that further act to go ahead and free the ones that had been taken. So that's why CSI jumped into that space, you know, some 30 years ago in the early to free those captives. And so that's the way we do it. We don't pay for the freedom of these women or kids and men with money. We actually exchange cattle vaccine because most of these slaveholders are actually cattle farmers, cattle ranchers that live along that border of north and South Sudan. And keeping their kettle alive because that's their source of revenue is their primary interest. So we have discovered that we can get them this hard to obtain cattle vaccine exchange that for a slave who has less value to them than their livestock and we can affect the freedom of these women. It's pretty amazing. It is amazing and before I forget to say it, I want to exhort my audience. Folks, if you can hear my voice that's you. To do anything you can do. $250 enables CSI to free a slave. This is a human being, an actual person, and to set them up in a life of liberty. This is not just to free them, but then to set them up in a life of liberty to do that, you have to go to metaxas talk dot com..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"cal" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Through hardship, you persevere. Through toil and sweat, you succeed, you dedicate years to fulfilling the calling on your life. Why do you go to such lengths? Because you are born with a purpose. You are a Christian leader with a desire to change this world. As a student and graduate of regent university, you will gain the education that will prepare you to lead in such a time as this. Say yes to your purpose, visit regent dot EDU slash learn more. Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show, sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least to make it a double or triple line, but now here's your line jumping host Eric my taxes. Hey there folks. I don't know about you, but Mother Teresa was kind of a hero of mine. I write about her in my book 7 women. But she wasn't really known for the work she did among the poorest of the poor until Malcolm mugger, spectacular British journalists who became a profound Christian made a film about her called something beautiful for God. That phrase comes to my mind now again to do something beautiful for God. And in the loony evil times in which we live, sometimes doing something beautiful for God is the only answer. People say, what can I do? What can I do? Well, if you can't think of anything more practical, just do anything that's an unmitigated, beautiful thing for God. Do something for God. When you do something for God, it's a kind of spiritual warfare. In fact, it is spiritual warfare. When you do something for God. So most of you who listen to this program know that a couple of times a year, we reach out to you on behalf of our friends at Christian solidarity international. Christian solidarity, international, is in the business, except they don't make money of helping persecuted Christians, Christians who are persecuted brutally, some of whom are literally and slaved for their Christian faith, many of you have given to our campaign to free slaves, Christian slaves, in Sudan, we're doing that again this month. And I wanted to kick it off by having our friend Todd Chapman on the program to talk about it. He's been a spokesperson for CSI Christian solidarity international for some time. He's very familiar with the work they do. I want to say it again. This is really important work and we don't reach out lightly. We don't say to you, hey, give your money to this charity. To help the arts wing of the local museum, this is literally about freeing slaves. And the idea that we get to do that is almost unbelievable. So that said, Todd Chapman, welcome back. Hey, thanks, Eric always a delight to be with you. Appreciate it. The work that Kristen solidary international does is almost unbelievable. I think most of us who live in the United States or in any place like the United States, we can not imagine that there is slavery. We just don't want to think about it. It's too horrible. And I always say to people, I want you to think about how horrible it is, only because you have the opportunity to do something about it, which is itself amazing. I can not free somebody from North Korea today. I wish I could. I don't know, there's no way to help those people except to pray. But in the case of those enslaved in Sudan and elsewhere, Christian solidarity international has spent years and years and years building networks and relationships so that we actually can do something about it. So you could tell I get very excited about this, but I want to hear more about what is what is going on, how Christian solidarity international does that. Some people are new to the program and they haven't heard about this before. I care about this deeply. So tell my audience, how does this work? How is it possible, first of all, that in this day and age, people are literally enslaved. We're not talking sort of people. We're not talking sort of. We're talking literally enslaved 2023 right now while we are free, there are people enslaved..
The Officer Tatum Show
Gavin Newsom Vacations While California Citizens Suffer
"Okay, Jennifer, you were telling us about the 21 people that were stuck in a big bear, I believe, I believe it was. Homeboy Gavin Newsom decided to take a vacation, people were stuck literally with their lives threatened essentially. They didn't have the proper equipment to dig themselves out. Gavin Newsom goes on a vacay, but you were telling us about helicopters. Remind us of what you were saying right before the break. Right. So there's a volunteer organization called Cal dart, and they run rescue missions when there's natural disasters. They've been involved with the state for decades. So it's not just like some random group of pilots that nobody knew, right? So they know how to operate in these conditions. And they were trying to bring medicine and food and things that to the mountain, and they were denied 6 flights on one day where it was clear were denied and then two more days went by with bad weather with people stuck. There was one man who couldn't get down the mountain for his dialysis treatment because all these people were stuck for 7 days while it was snowing. So by the time it stopped knowing they'd already been stuck a week. And so this guy was already kind of getting in bad shape. He couldn't get down there. And then they tried to send a medical vehicle up to get him a medical transport. They wouldn't let the transport up the mountain because the guy didn't live there. The transport driver.
AP News Radio
Coles hits late floater, TCU edges Ariz St in March Madness
"TCU overcame an 11 point second half deficit to edge Arizona state 72 70, the difference maker was Jacoby calls us jumper with three seconds to go. There's a lot of shots today that was flat. And the last one I got it up and that was the difference and went in and it was a good shot and I'm happy for my team. I'm happy to win. The west regions 6th seated horned frogs advanced to a Sunday meeting with number three Gonzaga. The bulldogs pulled away in the second half to down Grand Canyon 82 70. In the south region, Baylor defeated Cal Santa Barbara 74 56, earning the bears a battle with creighton, which beat North Carolina state 72 63. Bruce Morton, Denver
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Christian, In Name Only
"A lot of universities that have a Christian name only have a Christian name, the content is just as woke as any place else. What is the story with Cal Lutheran? Yeah, you are absolutely right about that. Is a private Christian school. So upon coming here, I assumed it would be somewhat conservative. But I found out that leftism has replaced religion at and other Christian universities in California. And when I got here, I realized there were barely any conservative clubs and leftism and wokeism were being pushed down my throat and every class I was in. I recall when on even international Holocaust remembrance day, my school not only issued no statement, but instead decided to hold a ceremony on campus that day, honoring the stolen land that our campus apparently resides on instead. And this just proves how this school prioritizes a woke agenda over everything else. And I was really inspired to get more involved in the conservative movement after realizing this. It was horrible my turning point USA chapter that I actually had on campus here got kicked off campus for not aligning apparently with having diverse and inclusive values, which is what the school preaches. So I was really happy to discover PragerU and get more involved with prager source as well to find other young people with like minded values, especially in California as well.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
What You Need to Know About the 'Cop City' Protests in Atlanta
"There was a riot in Atlanta on Sunday. And I doubt you've heard much about it. In fact, it hasn't been much covered in the media. And well, even the local press, the Atlanta journal constitution, the so called AJC. By the way, predicted they knew that there was antifa, Black Lives Matter, a lot of these activists are mobilizing. But here's how they talked about it. They said that opponents of a plan to build a police training center on an 85 acre wooded property in the Cal county. Gathered to kick off a week of protests and festivities. Aimed at stopping the project from moving forward. So they make it sound like it's like a town fair. They're going to be like, they're just getting together to have a protest, but then they're also going to be having food and drinks. This is not the case at all because if you look at the images and they are available on social media, mainly posted by conservative videographers, you see a lot of the same kind of signature images that we saw in the aftermath of George Floyd. You see police vehicles turned over, you see things on fire, you see basically people marauding and burning and looting and all of this in Atlanta. And it's a big story, but like I say, the story immediately is muted. Why? Because the left's narrative is always nothing to see here, mostly peaceful, and now, 23 people who are arrested, they seem to be antifa members. And so here you go. Antifa is supposedly just an idea, right? It's not an organization. It doesn't really have members. Except it does. It has members. And in fact, we have all their mugshots. They're, by the way, just as frightening looking as the earlier mugshots of antifa, apprehend these. And one of them very interestingly is a lawyer at the southern poverty law center.
AP News Radio
Gas pipeline to Vegas to resume operating after shutdown
"A leak in a fuel pipeline facility in California forces a shutdown of deliveries of gas and diesel from Los Angeles to areas, including Las Vegas and Phoenix, despite the pipeline leak, officials said Friday they believed supplies would not immediately be affected pipeline operator Kinder Morgan tells The Associated Press, the leak was discovered Thursday at a company station near Los Angeles, and that its Cal niv and SFP west pipelines were shut down. It says there was no fire and no injuries, but did not say how much leaked or when service would be restored, in Las Vegas, Clark county officials said they do not anticipate an immediate impact on gas availability. I'm Julie Walker
KOA 850 AM
"cal" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Cal. If Oranienburg will cast their votes today in the recall election of governor Gavin Newsom, his facing strong criticism over his handling of the Covid 19 pandemic in his state. And Republicans are hoping to take control of the governor's office. The president was in Long Beach yesterday and slammed Newsom's competition clone. Of Donald Trump. Can you imagine him being governor of this state president, referring to the conservative candidate, Larry Elder, and we get the latest with kfbk is my glory on the situation. And Mike. How did this recall effort even start? Well, it started last year when there was a lot of anger about the pandemic and specifically some of the restrictions that were coming on regarding restaurants and school closures and that sort of thing, And then the thing that really catalyzed it was When Gavin Newsom was caught in the Prince Laundry, the famous restaurant in Napa County, California, where he had made restrictions about people not being able to meet in person and with math. And yet he was caught doing the very same thing and that kind of sparked the whole recall movement. But when you look at the voter makeup there in California Democrats outnumber Republicans What 2 to 1. So why did this get so close and down to the wire? And why is it now? An issue that may be Gavin Newsom will be recalled. Well, the Republicans were really successful in getting a lot of channeling a lot of that anger and getting it into voter turnout in terms of the reading terms of the recall position, so it qualified for the ballot, But we're seeing some numbers. Now that sports some really good hope for Gavin Newsom for his his team. We know that more than eight million people, California's have voted so far on the recall election That's about 36% of the electorate, then of those returned 52% of registered Democrats that's above their registration numbers. Of about 46%. So there They're outperforming the registration numbers. Republicans are about the same that 25% independent voters with no party preference 23%. But there's still about 14 million ballots yet to be returns. Mike I read this more to this is more about disliking Gavin Newsom them and it is necessarily loving. Obviously the leading candidate and Larry Elder is that correct? Yeah, There's a lot of, um, um mixed feelings about Gavin Newsom. Even from Democrats. They may like his policies, but they don't necessarily like him. Personally, They sometimes find them to be a little bit of loop or a little bit of an elitist. The French laundry incident being sort of a case in point, so there's no love lost there. But many Democrats are coming to the polls because of the Impotence of what's involved here. They know that they could lose not only the governorship, but ultimately, Dianne Feinstein leaves the Senate. It can be controlled the Senate as well. And who is Larry Elder? And why do Republicans like him? Very older as a conservative talk show host based out of Los Angeles, and he's been very, very popular with his face. He's also been successful in raising a lot of money. Um, so far he's raised about $11 Million 11.7 million, and that's far more than any of the other recall candidates on the Republican side or anywhere at all. But he's resonating with a lot of voters here. And Mike. It seems like that This recall has become nationalized. Obviously with the president. The vice president has Kamala Harris has roots Obviously there in California. How does that play in the state? I mean states here like Colorado? We don't like to be big footed nationally for our local elections. Is that having that that feelers that really helping Gavin Newsom Well, I would say it's definitely helping. We've seen a lot of big name coming to California the last couple of days. Joe Biden. President Biden was here yesterday as a matter of fact, meeting with Gavin Newsom to go over the wildfire damage in Northern California, and then he campaigned in Southern California in Long Beach last night, too. Urged voters to vote No on the recall. Before that, we had, um Kamala Harris, who, as you mentioned is a native Californian. She was here. The vice president was here last week. The campaign for Gavin Newsom and we've had also a lot of Add that have run, including former President Barack Obama. Who has weighed in an earth voters to vote. No, So in many cases, people don't like to be big footed, as you say. But in this case you have celebrities of star status who are resonating with voters and making a difference from KFBK in Sacramento. Mike Laurie, Thanks for the report. We appreciate it. You bet 8 28 on Colorado's morning news about a minute away from our top stories at the bottom of the hour, But first we go back outside. Dave Hunter isn't getting any better on.
Titus & Tate
"cal" Discussed on Titus & Tate
"I think it's great. I mean i i liked it illinois not afraid of the fire and it's also data the day kofi coburn you know you look at the two teams like kofi coburn's the best player you between those two programs right now so at the end of the day advantage between all three programs you'd better hundred tickets dickinson. He's better talk. he's got for gender. So i enjoy what also kentucky michigan or both better teams in illinois ethic. Yes you're always better last year. The michigan was but a an anti. They were better vote I think i think kentucky michigan better team so let let the let the debates commenced you know like. That's what that's what makes fun. Just don't don't get me well. Well speaking of someone getting involved in this whole process right so this is happening. There's a page on instagram. It's called cb content if you don't follow it it's like we're all the fodder is right. It's like the guy that runs. this is is. He's welty no doubt. he's twelve years old. And like i all the page. Because i can't follow twelve-year-old. I'll check in and see what's going on in the comments of this. You know. title washington drama is atta miller. You know obviously five-star crude you know chicago kid that goes to play for illinois for one year then transfers the will wait in the bag. He's in the comments and he's like illinois fans me. I don't even know why like i got the marines like crying. Laughing emoji ring is what he said. I'm not even kidding. It's like a hundred comments of these illinois fans ruthlessly going admitted no kid deserves this but like you know what i mean like you. You talk about involving yourself. It's like something that's happening over here. At miller should be you know out of the way you know b- practicing with will wade and his team. Lsu that he jumps in the comments and then these illinois fans who like you said. They're lit on fire anyway Their hair is on fire. They are burning. They wanna attack anybody. Adam miller jumps in the comments and this is like you know fresh meat for them. They are just like this is this is what we wanted. And they're just going savagely after and You know poor one outta miller but the illinois fans are fired up. We need to have katy back to give us an update on. What's it sounds like. It's an illinois story more so than kentucky you don't availa- you sounds. We'll count the first two parts of the three par chapter. Were all good for now. It's like it's like cova vid like kick it out. Get it out of here. I wanna have people in china and then we get the number under crew. We're going to have the number one recruiting class for the first time since what two thousand eighteen or so like they make it sound like. It's like long laborious process to get number one recruiting class again and then tie. Washington starts this whole. But i think it's good for kentucky because having a arrival in the big ten that you don't have to play one it kind of gets louisville out of the way like we don't like you know we're not talking to you guys anymore. Like stop chris. Mac and right had this national rival with illinois indiana. So you don't have to worry about like the mike woodson play and mike woodson actually has more. Aba experienced coach cows so he actually has more cachet in those spaces like get out of here. Take illinois where you know that. You're you know the better version of brad underwood and coach cows mine. So you focus on your target here and you also have the back pocket of you know. Your girlfriend was with us aka coca cola like that. They have all the all the chips so they get their adam. I need a. I need a ride college basketball rivalry to start On the internet a non conference starts doing this. A lot of sense of as kentucky. And all roy start playing each other now solely because their fans Each other players talking shit on the internet and all that underwood in cal- call each other and like should we play. I think it'd be good just to like. Let's just do it right. let's do it right. I don't think i'll see you at mohegan sun right. I mean that's that's that's the play like somewhere like that. This is where this is where a college basketball needs. Dana white because we're he forces them to play each other because the brand was not calling. John calipari versa. They're not talking. They're not could you not on group jazz. But if it was like mandated that that bilas steps up and he's he's the dana white of college basketball and he dislike assesses. The heavyweight picture of college basketball de contenders are out there. And he's like all right. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make you to plates. Go ahead fight do it. What if that's the meeting this fall. You know the incidental as having their meeting there. Come to jesus meeting. What if that's the decision. That's made like they consult with you. Know vince mcmahon and dana white and all these and mark ever comes back. And he's like. I got to more like vincent man you know. Got to be more like dana white. I gotta like suspend people for games. I got a force big time match ups. I gotta create drama like that. That might be the move there. I would argue that college. Sports and professional wrestling are already very similar to each other. The characters the yeah. It's real and one of them is acting and you. He'll turn which we don't.
Titus & Tate
"cal" Discussed on Titus & Tate
"That's the final note for cow that he wants. He's their agent like he's the players. Aj i i wrote a story when the ringer started the only thing they ever let me right and it was like john. Calipari is basically an agent for his players. Like the way you hype them up in the way that he likes talking about go sharing their money that they got this nike shoe deal and all that sort of stuff you know. I basically. It was like pd of college basketball. Like he's just the hype man. He's like a bad. You know what that's who he is. This video is like this. Perfect encapsulation of cow at some level and it was beautiful and then we get that we get the number one recruiting the country or is he shared on sharp. He's gonna go play with our guy. Scott clark came on our show and told us he was going to kentucky so shout the sky so those two guys are at twenty twenty two but then title washington their five star crew. From this year he goes on instagram. Live titus and he starts a few that you and i i've enjoyed katie underwood came on our show. talked a little bit about kentucky illinois. Thai thai washington goes on lie. There's an illinois fan in the comments going at him he says. I don't know illinois's out. No i don't even know who plays on illinois is he saying illinois's like no is zero which is hilarious. Which i think is the most disrespectful that you can do is. I don't pronounce your school. The subtle subtle mispronunciation is is a great great way like the the best example is there is a guy that there's a guy named brett that i'd know From from the fears. I think i've said this before. But a. I didn't like him like him. One bit and i would just call them brent all the time and it's stupid and it's not that funny but lake cut him where a yeah. Yeah he was. He was taking shots. That this guy calls me wartime slowly. Chipping away so yeah you drive. Someone insane doing that. So that's what washington was doing illinois he says and then he keeps going. He says we don't even know anybody on illinois's oh yeah actually we know kofi annan kofi stops down hold up a second kofi was supposed to come play with us so we were about to take your best player. You know he's like kinda gets passes is out And then you then you find out that according to illinois fans tie washington was down to kentucky and illinois. So you're like wait a second so this guy so ninety live talking about he doesn't know anybody on illinois But he also almost committed there. So that's that's strain. He also visited illinois. Yeah exactly and then curbello andre. You're below the point guard. Illinois obviously sees his video takes offense because he's on the team that tie washington who's a freshman hasn't play college basketball for he's talking about. He doesn't know anybody on that team. Cabello like you said puts on his story like covering his mouth sneezing. Because it's so you know and then and then puts clown and in and then you'd like you said it's not just high washington I it's to kentucky players there so then he goes to his next story and corrects himself with an asterix and says clowns so cabello It makes it known how he feels about kentucky. I think you know with will leaving going to kentucky. You know there's a. There's a nice little ring rivalry between these two schools. They play each other. That's what an offseason real annoyed. By the way yeah that they they position that 'cause hundred hundred dick said in illinois it michigan general in illinois have. Yeah now we've always a swing ended. Everybody always just lake in the streets. Just doing helicopter fist. Just in their fans are out there. You know what i mean. That's the thing like the fans are in the comments. The theanswer like ah. You should have seen poor tie washington all the comments or illinois people being a you got a this mound to go to kentucky yada yada yada. You know going at his neck. You know just saying the you know like you said swinging at everybody. Yeah like illinois fans. I love the energy but calm down breath. I don't know maybe this is what i like it. I guess i guess it depends on what they're if if they're taking the approach like we are better than all of you and we're gonna we're gonna have that attitude that like illinois is a great basketball program and we're gonna beat your ass and Which i guess they're it inherently that is how it works when you're talking trash but there are ways to talk trash. We are not like saying our team is better than your team there. You're you're just a troll. You know if if that's the illinois fan base that i respect i respect it feels very nc state to me and so if that's the if that's the move that they're just gonna start beach with everybody and and an hey everybody in illinois fans. I was saying this. Because i've been columbus. Obviously for the game on saturday. Football game on saturday. And we're doing the tour with charlotte people at fox in I'm kind of like explaining. Ohio state football culture. A little bit to people that you know. I don't i don't know how at this point. I think everyone kinda gets a house. Football i was. I was explaining the hatred for michigan because like someone pitched an idea whereas like what we walked around and asked ohio. St themes like how they feel about michigan football. And i was like i understand why you think that's a cute idea and funny because it's like it might elicit some funny answers but by and large this is not a game to stay people like they legitimately hate me. I am convinced that the average ohio state football fan watches more michigan football than the average michigan football fan. They watch him wanna hate michigan. You don't have the whole. I mean that's got carolina fans watching duke lose. You know what. I mean very sadistic but it's also a great. If you come to a tailgate at at by the shoe there will be a lot of people that set up their their tailgate. Right outside the shoe right in the shadow of stadium have no intention of going inside. Do not have tickets. They want in there and they have like two. Tv's and they're the back of their truck and one is on the house to football. Game and one is on the michigan for point. And that's how it works. Yeah reason. I'm bringing this update is because if that's like what illinois fans become where they're just they're almost like not even watching what cheer two hundred dickinson michigan yeah. Tv's they don't even have illinois champagne. Illinois off of tuesday just showing kentucky michigan gave a whole bars just like going nuts who love it. You know who cares for penn state..
No Jumper
"cal" Discussed on No Jumper
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No Jumper
"cal" Discussed on No Jumper
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Yes of Rockefeller men are shot. The knives who used to manage a vital. He took us down here and mayhem spiff. Oh yes to chick. And he was more interested in. That girl. didn't meet freestyler. And i always bring up song when i see him. I said yeah. I could have been on the right right. Use use morticians. I rapid reform. He's like i mean when you wrap it for mining and now it's it's you and your artist pisses you off your fucked me. Listen i going to be so hard to do. He got bad as pitch you know. He's let me s rockefeller his and his glory. And i'm rapping. He not giving me all contact. And i'm like getting man but he. He noticed them getting like i'm listening. Keep rapid some still rapid. I'm saying i get mad. And i stopped was almost thinking which was a him and at and different rat forum like oh yeah nice. Then being siegel came in his like yo yo gotten is is nice. Then what's being paid two tours. Linney yesterday appearances source law competition saw. That's millennia joke like samya rockefeller. It'd be laughing those air because prior to me in my may not took me to spiff. Oh yes but you know. Things have before reason i ended up in baseline anyway fast forward. I mean there were cam and that's it was just amazing walking and base last seeing fucking cheesy plane. 'cause we want and plea walking around with three rockefeller chains on freeway in a room recording skewness box in another room record. I'm like damn. I really made it to the fucking major lease. I'll just some fucking horon new london nauman baseline with rockville. This shit is fucking amazing. You feel me as mom blowing. Yeah so i was just playing my pot and can was hungry. Anguilla going there. And i go we not gonna rag is out man fuck down. Let's work we you know things. We can't work and i. I liked it that work because he come to rockefeller just to be happy to be dell rockefeller not saying that's not a stat. Who wouldn't wanna be happy. But i came to work though Capable of this work. In niggers. I came to get busy. And he made me a part of that process and that's how it was on. This is what. I do like three hour records of the first diplomatic community album. And then i told him mega alma. Cut the rope. 'cause i turn myself in some damn don't all assaults care gel i gotta do one two three right. I wanna fuck this nigga gonna take. This might take meal. Sol's assign that because you know. That's you invest ought to go to jail. You could say fuck you man. I got south view right. Some like i broke. The news is on. I'm scared i'm like you can't because we like three or four songs. My damn. i'm like really be honest. our man. I gotta tell us to go to jail. Make your candle outside. What like yo man. I do three san and you have to do to off of it. But i'll be home and so and i were. I well we're gonna keep your name alive when when you come on the deal for you blew my fucking mind. I'd always gonna be like damn you wanna jock. Can't fuck with you my right. You'll bad like he's got a lot going on right now each side in iraq and ain't gonna fucking bring me along with knows that. So he's like yeah. No we're about that. Several make you a star so when you hear. This is what i do. He's wrapping on the intro as a majella already. This man how route he's locked up. He's about the come home. Hit him row by the time. Thomas shit touch. Districts are recorded that in the streets He said that before we even be allowed the right so he already had it in his mind. The put this record out and promote me. While i'm in jail what i'll me signing paperwork citizens inc mancha so this is a gamble emmy looking back. I'm like dan me being the. Ceo of over spectacle label. And i just got signed a rockefeller. What i gamble on negative about to go to jail. Even though he nice he bought the due to fucking is will. I keep him on his fucking records. Yeah it's a big decision fucking decision right all right so paint the picture when you came around chair. I came around like a. I don't know. I mean i was around. When he was around town today he he was going on when i went to baseline for the first time. But when did we start to like. I got your introduction as one of one of the diplomats. Took me a minute. You know i put in work i had to you know. I went on own on tour like it's like a radio freestyle in that. All the radio stations going crazy out in any seven i even. Oh my deals was based off of me freestyle. Also you were just like impressing people that like me cam had a mean with sony back in Two thousand and four just offer my freestyles and ended the deseo at the town. Dave mcpherson all. He wanted to do me freestyle. He went ahead no songs and nothing. You get what. I'm saying so i had to put in a lot of work. Put put out to mix safe prove myself you are saying. Yeah once once once. The deals came as far as wants. Dwells was situated. He put out his album of. I was featured on his album. And you know cam got me umbrella. Deal facts and you know what i'm saying. The show forty gives the entry story too so we can flush it out. You're the street dude. I write can't forty buildings so you show a story short. He come on their bill to he. So we.
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"It's a hard question right. Because if you're writing books i guess declare metric that The publisher going to have his book. Sales brings them. You have a number and it's a powerful number because it determines what happens. Let's say with your next book More than anything else. It affect your publishers. Have business models built in the in the they actually put these numbers in there And and that is important but it's also a lag measure right in the sense that it's it's a measure that There's not an effort that you can do. Let's say today that's going to directly improve that metric. It's it's a metric that lags. Lots of other types of activities often an indirect way and so the problem with with lag. metrics is that You can't directly affect them and so if you obsess about them it can lead you at. It could lead you down. Ineffective paths or into in the colefax of productivity. So what i try to do is if there's going to be measures i care about I would rather than be lead measures which are metrics that. It's process oriented. I can directly improve this metric by doing acts this week and i want to say these terms. I'm i'm borrowing from a book called the four disciplines of execution. Also read. Because i remember when you referencing deep work. I immediately ordered the book and got that as well. Yeah exactly so this is these are ideas. That actually came out of how the stephen cubs consulting group has very successfully helped teams within companies execute on goals and so it's a really validated methodology. I think is very useful. But it's also as i wrote in deep work is. Hey this idea. for business. methodology be pretty relevant to your personal life as well and and that's where it is right so you're focusing on lead measures like i wanna spend You see this book as well. Of course you know i wanna i wanna spend this minnea- hours this week producing really valuable things Or this many hours exposing myself to really interesting ideas and grappling with them right. These are things you can control. you can directly increase. How well you did on that metric and so finding the right lead metrics that you're pretty convinced are going to indirectly eventually help the lag. Backtracks is the way. I like to think about things otherwise otherwise you go crazy But you end up really you. Could you start following pads that like you. You're so desperate to move the lag measure you find yourself. You know in some sort of weird area dude. Some sort of weird behavior. That's far away from the things you care about that. It's not really help you create valuable at your wondered. How did i get your. That's how people lived up. Is i think you're focus shifts for believed to lack benchers. One of the other things. I wanna ask you about because you're here for a second time you're here. Two years later is obviously The state of our education system. I mean you've been in it for two years I wonder what's changed. What you noticed in your students Water the things. You would tell parents who are listening about this. And what are the things that we need to consider their important here. Yeah i know we talk about this. Usually every time we talk We check it right the future of education because it seems like this has to be poised right has to be poised on the brink of disruption because from the technological perspective. Everything is here. Add what i find interesting is. Let's between when we last talked dow dot a lot at least for my view. Donald lettuce changed yet at. Actually i think the stasis itself interested right the why why have we see this set of disruptive shift towards maybe aboard to centralized or bespoke model of higher education. Now there could just be their subs Systemic obstacles still that haven't been cleared. We're not quite at the tipping point where that's ready to happen yet. It what it does happen Cub fast snack could still be out there But another thing. I've noticed he the toughest fitted the classroom. Is that if you look at pedagogy there. There really is what technology that has persisted for Well over five hundred years dow which is sublimated a rube with other people hockey to about ideas. And it's something about that. I think that's persistent because there's something there right this is. This is a mood of education That has weathered midi other. Technological disruptions probably the biggest which beat the book at and i think we forget how disrupted the codex must bid to the to the did somewhat fledgling notion of sort of university style education. This idea that you could have Interbay should captured by experts very accessible. Idex you could move very quickly for one idea to another with citations. You can reference books you think. What's the point of other ever gallery gathering like balodia or the university was for example or loved it. was appointed gathering. But he could just get access to these books but persisted and that it persisted through the advent of radio the advent of television all these things which are supposed to be disruptive and so now i'm in this area where say up my hands up. It's really interested the watch what's happening with higher education disruption But i don't know where it's going. And i think the fact that there's this persistence of some of these old forbes on how starting to believe that maybe we overlooked something We there's the edtech people like the show these slides where they feel like a classroom eighteen fifty and nothing has changed which we did. It now did that. You'll problematic but like well. Nothing's changed between basically the year. Five hundred had now when it comes to this type of teaching. And maybe it'd be a problem that say there's something fundamental and analog had persecuted or action that works really. Well remember more improve your focus and multitask better Is a brain sharpener. That helps you. Do all three hums. Wearable boosts your working memory and will be available in late. Twenty twenty one. Sign up to be notified when launches and to learn more about the science behind I think dot com. That's think h m dot com hamas designed for healthy adults and should not be used if you're pregnant have cognitive impairment implanted devices or history of seizures the hump patches not intended to diagnose treat cure or prevent disease to learn more go to think com dot com. Yeah it's Is interesting where teaching an online writer's workshop and one of the things that we decided to do was flipped the whole model on its head and give people the lectures ahead of time and come to class to discuss an even in a digital setting in when we did this last time we found that the most valuable thing was the actual peer to peer interaction. Not me teaching And then passively consuming yeah. This isn't surprising he'd Or something. I learned a lot about with research by do book was the degree to which so much of our braid is actually dedicated to social processing. How much of it is dedicated to help to sort of understand. Extract nuance from interaction. With other human. That you're there person with a we are really social beads and were very good at being around other people interacted with because i guess this was of course key to survival and so i'm wondering if this has something to do with the fact that you find that pay what people get together it person be it to deliver to betrayal directly or to discussed material. Lots of good things happen. Yeah well speaking of which. Let's actually shift gears and get into the meat of wire. You're actually here. Which is to talk about this new idea digital Minimalism what really planted the seed for this. Because you know from having read. Both of your books are all three of your books. I got the sense that deep work was really about the role that distraction and social media and these technologies play in our professional lives but digital minimalism is a way of taking that same approach to our personal lives. Yeah that's exactly right. So after i published deep work two thousand sixteen. This was one of the big pieces of feedback. I started getting for readers which was okay baby. I by this premise. That technology is having these unexpected impacts at a professional life but what about our personal life at the sets. I was giddy. There had been a shift though at some point in the last two years people began the shift from mickey self deprecating jokes about how much they look at their fode to actually feel it really concerned. You actually started to feel. Hey this is taking me away from things valuable.
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"Well there's a lot had so we should. We could cut of divide these consequences. It two different categories Let's start with the most serious and about syria says let's actually talk about Physical health and wellbeing right At here there is just a really scary results right especially if you look at Young women generation z. So the first generation to actually have access to smartphones. A social media started their preteen and early teenage years So you and i were belittles college. We did when we arrived at college. We did have these. We did have these as teenagers if you look at the statistics. There's there's nothing all that alarmed about. Let's say Self harbor mental health statistics first generation. There hasn't been much changed that much change recently but if you look at generation z. At a particular Look at young women generation. See what you see is a bad asif spike. It's one of the scariest of see. Would you look first at the exile exile related disorders and second. Would you look at actual sort of hospitalizations for self har- which is which is really the the ground truth If there is a mental health crisis going on because sure there could be differences at report. Eat as cultural exchange. But the thing that's the ground truth is people are hospitalized. But say for for Extreme depression suicide attempts yourself hard and that's just skyrocketed at. There's really no other way. No other explanation of fist time. He did social media smartphones. So if we want to start with the big consequences if you put these things at the hands of young people whose brains are still developing lead. Who are still going to You know these hard middle school. High school period is causing this talking physical harp unprecedented levels of increase if these self harm and mental illness. This is a really big deal. 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Visit a mystic creative dot com slash tribe to join again that's unmistakable creative dot com slash tribe. Welcome back the unmistakable creative. i'm happy to be back always enjoyed talking with you. I always enjoy talking with you as well. Always learn so much from you. You have a new book out called digital minimalism which we are going to talk about in a lot of detail but before we do that you know that i like to start with weird and very unusual questions and i thought i'd ask you a question that i don't think i've asked you before many other people before and that is what is one of the most important things that one or both of your parents taught you while you're going up. And how has that impacted the choices that you've made with your life. Well we certainly had a a family culture that think rewarded. Don't you call it character. Not that's the right word that you doing. The right thing is important regardless right so you know you're a kid you're at the restaurant the the the waiter brings back to check. They've they've left. Something significant office significantly cheaper than it should be. You call back the waiters as his rod. I wore buddy. You know that type of little thing over time can really build up a sense that okay. What's important is sort of what you do even when you don't have to so i think i think that that has been sort of a key backdrop to sort of the way i see building values driven life. How's that shaped you even as you're a student as an author as as well as an educator in the way that you teach people well i think one implication of this type of thinking is that Sort of convenience and comfort gratification. In the moment these are not the metrics. These aren't the metrics that you're trying to optimize right that the metrics trying to optimize is doing doing things value doing the right things to things that are important sort of abstract which i think is a lot of really important implications. I mean it helps support. A work ethic It helps support resilience. It helps support Focused on important things over trivial things So so just this one idea can actually lead to quite a bit of of good implications in how you lead your life. So let's talk a little bit about the the whole idea of metrics that you're trying to optimize because it's something that i've thought a lot about Particularly because i had a book launch recently and as part of getting ready for this interview believe it or not. I haven't been on social media since. I read your book like i basically said okay. Let me take you know thirty days off to see what will happen. But one of the things that really has made me think about is the way that we measure our lives our lives these days like we quantify everything you know are working are worth or so coupled And i can't help but wonder what are the implications for our being With the ways that with the ways that we choose to measure our lives. Like i know that david brooks talks about this distinction between eulogy values and resume values and yet we live in a world where you have an opportunity to constantly showcase your resume values brightwell. Metrics are are a double edged sword. So when you look at very high performer. Let's say elite performers very specific fields immobile. Certainly they're using some sort of quantitative based metrics to help guide. The type of incredibly focused work is required. Let's say you know build a superstar level skill. The problem is i think you're putting your finger on this is that there's bore bore eggs at our culture that's bringing this type of quantification into areas where it's really causing more harm than good. Let me one way to think. A lot about social media is that it's sort of a an artificial quantification of your social life. This idea that you have numbers. Don't excuse me. Not just friend counts but re tweets and likes into. How much do people appreciate this. I can and i can see the numbers that my friends have like a baseball player looking at the back of the baseball car of their teammates. And think what he would you take this type. The power of qualification at pursuing metric improvement. And you take it out of a small number of really rarefied instances where you know. I may professional chess player. And i am trying to improve my ranking. Because that's what my whole career about when you take it out of the rarefied instances it really can drive a lot of Maladaptive behaviors good point. That you're putting your finger out there. I mean as somebody who is an author and somebody who is a blogger who has a pretty popular blog in s sold books and has been successful with your books. How do you think about measuring your professional accomplishments. In how do you measure The value of those things. Because i think that one of the most difficult things for me with audience of one was when the numbers weren't living up to my expectations that i remember mr saying will. Isn't that the entire message of the book. And so i. I wonder how you think about those things..
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"You're listening to Cal bears basketball on kgo 8 10. 3 47 to go Stanford. It's 66 Calle 50 bears back in action Thursday, three clock tip against Utah will be on their 2 30, then Saturday against Colorado. That's a seven o'clock ballgame so well. Pregame Bud Light Tip off show will be coming on the air at 6 30, but the bears plenty of work left to do on this one. Big Mountain to climb down by 16 on the road at Stanford. Yeah, it's been, you know, similar to the game on Thursday night. We're Stanford's just been able to get a lot of shots. A lot of made baskets right at the goal. They got 42 points in the paint out of 66. So that's It's a great percentage. I mean, there's two of seven from beyond the art and their 10 of 18 at the free throw line. So this is a team that Wants to attack the basket. Doesn't want to settle for threes because, you know, I don't think it's a great shooting team. But because they could score around the basket, and they have the ability To slash at the basket. Plus they have a low post threat and Oscar to Silva. You know they're going to be able to stay in a lot of games. And there are a threat to anybody in this league because of that, But if they have a night where They go against the big team that can keep him away from the basket right? It might be a little bit more problematic, but they know what they want to do. They know the kind of players that they haven't what those players can do. They've done a great job offensively of devising a scheme that gets them those kinds of good shots. Jones at the free throw line knocks down the first one. You went to the silver. He's got 19 on eight of 14 shooting. You did it. The one 13 ball, Then he also Mr Free Throw that's kinda newsworthy for Oscar to Silver also has six rebounds. Jones Connect.