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AP News Radio
Police arrest suspect in Atlanta shooting; 1 dead, 4 wounded
"Police in Atlanta say technology played a big part in locating the suspect in Wednesday's medical office shooting. Atlanta police deputy chief Charles Hampton junior, says Dion Patterson fled the scene and stole a truck within minutes of allegedly shooting 5 women in a medical office waiting room. What we were able to pick up on the camera network system is that he went to a Shell gas station where he commandeered a vehicle. After Patterson's arrest Wednesday evening, Cobb county police chief Stuart van hooser says technology played a huge role in tracking down the suspect. We have a fairly new real-time crime center by a local company named fusus, a flock is a fairly new company. It's a local company as well. We have partnered with both of those companies and they have brought us some amazing tools. The truck was found at a parking complex not far from the ballpark where the Atlanta Braves play. We had a lot of clues, enough clues from both our real-time crime center and flock to have a pretty good instinct on the calls that were coming in. Then Patterson was spotted about a half a mile away. Technology played a huge role, but technology doesn't do any good without people who are determined to capture an individual that would do something like this. Audio courtesy, WSB. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Police capture suspect in Atlanta medical practice shooting
"A man accused of shooting 5 people in a medical waiting room in Atlanta has been taken into custody. Dion Patterson was captured in Cobb county, Georgia Wednesday evening, police say the 24 year old is suspected of shooting 5 women killing one of them inside the waiting room of a medical practice in midtown Atlanta before stealing a running pickup truck from a nearby gas station. Cobb county police chief of Stuart van hooser, said new technology played a huge role in helping narrow down tips on the suspect's location. Those tools are what really got us the clues that we needed to make this successful. Patterson was arrested about half a mile from where the truck was found at a parking complex near the battery and truest part. An undercover officer was the one that originally saw and confronted this individual. The suspect's mother, accompanied her son to the medical office. She told the AP Patterson was a former coast guardsman who had some mental instability for medication he started taking recently, Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens applauded the arrest. We need to do everything we can to ensure that folks who shouldn't have guns can't get them. Audio courtesy, WSB. I'm Jennifer King.
Mark Levin
Atlanta Shooting Suspect in Custody After Manhunt
"In Atlanta This guy in the waiting room and a medical building We don't know really any of the details Polls had a gun And starts spraying bullets all over the place shot 5 women one of whom died unfortunately And they just caught him And I want to salute all the police departments law enforcement departments that were involved in that because that was not easy In a dense area where the suburbs not too far away but they pulled in everybody They pulled in the police in Atlanta In the county Cobb county they pulled in the Georgia bureau the state police the FBI they pulled in the police for the various colleges and universities in the area as well as the school systems I mean it was all hands on deck and I want to congratulate law enforcement at all levels because that's law enforcement at its best Just like Nashville was law enforcement at its best People don't care about color they don't care about any but they say let's get this guy He just killed his shot a bunch of people tried to kill apparently a number of them The spokesman at the hospital said that the many of the wounds were pretty horrific And there again that's not a gun control issue That is a criminal control issue
AP News Radio
Doval escapes in the 9th as Giants hold off Yanks 7-5
"San Francisco Giants bounced back from their opening day loss at Yankee Stadium taking the second game in the three game series 7 to 5. The Yankees picked up run in the first time error by giant starter Alex Cobb and another in the third on Giancarlo Stanton's line drive Homer, leading Cobb to find solutions when things were unraveling. The clock is ticking, you know, and when you, things are unraveling a little bit and you're kind of trying to find a decent group you gotta slow it down and you just have to do it another way. The Giants answered with home runs by Jack Peterson and Brandon Crawford in the fourth, but the Yankees tied in the 5th, leaving Lamont wade and Travis Estrada to break it open the 6th RBI singles. Matt mankiewicz New York
AP News Radio
Jake Walman scores late goal, Red Wings beat Hurricanes 3-2
"Jake waldman scored with just 3.2 seconds remaining, giving the red wings a three two win over the hurricanes. Just a good play by copper. It's like a Gopher bro. Neither is not much time left, so he made it a really good pass and good screen it went in. The late goal cut Carolinas leading the metropolitan division to one point over the Devils, although the canes have a game in hand. Dylan Larkin and Dominic kubala also scored for the wings. Cobb started the scoring 59 seconds in and Larkin added his team high 28th goal and 15th on the power play. Defenseman Brent burns and Jacob slavin tallied for Carolina, but Alex node COVID shut the door over the final 35 minutes. I'm Dave ferry.
Game of Crimes
"cobbs" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"What shit did you have in your throat right before we start before that sounded terrible. Well, the more I talk, the horse or I get just throughout the day and my wife is always on my butt about go get something to drink because I was coming in here to turn this on. She's like, get you something to drink. I got me a bottle of Gatorade here. Yeah, right, sure. Gator gator 8. Down there in Florida. If you haven't figured it out now, we kind of skipped part of the introduction. Hey guys, welcome to game of crimes. The penultimate true crime podcast on the Internet. By the way, it's the only one. Where we actually talk to the real people involved in the real stories and it's done by real cobbs. Well, one real cop in a sort of want to be used to be a cop, but then kind of became a fed. And one guy that would go get your gas and change your tires. I mean, he's a trooper. Fucking a DEA won't do that for you, pal. It's courtesy and protection. We call trooper. You called troopers. That's right. Hey guys, so welcome back. This is episode 89. Game of crimes. I am here, you know, obviously it's me and Murph. You kind of figure that out by now. But this is gonna be a good one. We'll get into that in just a second. Just a little bit of housekeeping here, head on over to Apple and Spotify, hit those 5 stars. It really helps us out. It really really does. It's helped us bring on some new advertisers. We're trying to take this show to another level. So all of your help really helps us so we appreciate it, head on over to Apple Spotify. Hit those 5 stars, our advertisers do take a look at that. They see what kind of ratings we have. And you guys have definitely helped us out a lot. Also hit on over to our website, game of crimes, podcast
AP News Radio
'Dangerous' Alabama tornado slams buildings, uproots trees
"A massive storm system rolling across the south is spawned a tornado that costs substantial damage in Selma, Alabama, on Norman hall, the tornadoes shredded walls of Homs topple roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement. The national weather service described the tornado as large and extremely dangerous and says it caused damage in a matter of minutes. That struck fear in residents who saw buildings brought down. She said that she was the baby queen. Oh my God. Severe weather also caused damage in Georgia, damage was reported in county's west of downtown Atlanta, including Douglas and Cobb counties, thousands of customers in Alabama and Georgia, or without power. I Norman hall
AP News Radio
Republican Kari Lake narrows gap in Arizona governor race
"Officials are still counting votes for Arizona governor Almost a full week after election day there's still one race for governor that has not been called That's where Democrat Katie cobbs leads by 26,000 votes over Republican Carrie Lake after Lake won a majority of the 99,000 votes reported in Maricopa County Sunday the race is still too early to call with about 171,000 votes left to count Lake needs about 57% of those to win Lake is a former TV broadcaster who's never let in the race she's also one of the most prominent election deniers seeking office this year I'm Shelley Adler
Mark Levin
Asst US Attorney Launching 'Same Day' Voting Investigation in Missouri
"In the state of Missouri whoever sent this to me needs to send it to me again in the state of Missouri there's a county called Cobb county And it seemed looking to find this Stick with me America And an assistant United States attorney covering that part of Missouri Contacted the person in charge of elections and that county which apparently is a Republican county And there's some issue they're trying to raise respecting people who are handicapped voting In the assistant U.S. attorneys office says they're going to have four individuals in that county To find out what's been taking place to question people and do a same day investigation Did you hear this mister producer In Cobb county Missouri The same day investigation Tomorrow So this was the Biden plan It's now coming to fruition They're going to work with radical left wing groups and they are going to work with various entities within the Democrat party umbrella To raise civil rights issues In a number of these Republican states
AP News Radio
Georgia judge extends deadline for receiving Cobb County absentee ballots after lawsuit over failure to mail them
"A Georgia judge has agreed to extend a deadline to return absentee ballot for some voters than a suburban Atlanta county I Norman hall Cobb county failed to mail more than 1000 requested absentee ballots a staff error is blamed Some of the voters filed a lawsuit Sunday seeking the extension after election officials acknowledged the mistake on Friday the officials agreed to the lawsuit's demands that the deadlines to return ballots be extended and that voters be contacted and set an absentee ballot by overnight mail Cobb county in recent years has leaned democratic as Atlanta suburbs have diversified
AP News Radio
Trump aide Meadows ordered to testify in election probe
"A judge has ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before special grand jury investigating whether then president Trump and his allies illegally try to influence Georgia's 2020 election I'm Ben Thomas with some background Medals attorney has argued executive privilege and other rights shield the former chief of staff from testifying Meadows is a key figure the Fulton county district attorney says in December 2020 Meadows made a surprise visit to Cobb county during an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes Meadows also sent emails to the Justice Department alleging voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere and passed along to the then president debunked conspiracies that other officials were forced to S.W.A.T. down and he sat in on phone calls with Georgia officials in which Trump pressed them to find enough votes to overturn his loss in the state I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Judge still at 61 HRs, Severino 7 no-hit innings for Yanks
"Luis severino throws 7 hitless innings to help the Yankees up on the rangers three to one Severino struck out 7 while walking just one batter over those 7 innings Yankees manager Aaron Boone went to the pen to start the 8th his no hit bid ended with his pitch count at 94 I think it was a good decision you know I don't want to go out there and have myself and not be Google postseason you know we look up on the bigger picture Marwin Gonzalez and Giancarlo Stanton hit 8 thinning solo homers to help the ALA's champion Yankees when their 98th game of the season Aaron judge won one for four with an infield single to remain at 61 homers going into Tuesday I'm Denny Cobb
AP News Radio
Braves miss chance to gain ground, lose 3-2 to Giants
"The braves remain a game and a half behind the mets in the national league east after they lost to the Giants three to two Spencer strider kept the game close he pitched 5 innings giving up 9 hits and three runs striking out 9 but took the loss He put up a battle at the end and the bullpen did a phenomenal job So we were in the game but yeah there was so good We just came to the braves with the two run single by dansby Swanson in the 8th inning The Giants are 9 games behind San Diego for the final wild card spot Alex Cobb got the win going 7 scoreless innings allowed 6 hits and had 7 strikeouts Ryan lyong San Francisco
Mark Levin
Ex-Trump WH Lawyer Ty Cobb Calls Him a ‘Deeply Wounded Narcissist’
"Then we got this guy Ty Cobb Not the baseball player but the goofball the guy with the big handlebar mustache He stands about three feet three inches tall and he's about 8 feet wide One of them And then he's he's popping off When you represent somebody or represented somebody you don't do this Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb calls him deeply wounded narcissist Who acted in a criminal way to overturn the Biden win This was a Trump lawyer In a new interview Cobb said Trump acted in a criminal matter when he sought to have the vice president Mike Pence block Congress from certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election win Cobb also said Trump's conduct on January 6th while a mob of his supporters attacked the capitol could lead to him being barred from seeking the presidency God I'd never hire this guy He sounds like an idiot He's talking about the Fourteenth Amendment No way Permit Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb called ex-president Trump a deeply wounded narcissist who acted in a criminal manner In a new interview Cobb said Trump's conduct on January 6th okay He said there's a simple way to disqualify Trump He told NBC News chief Washington correspondent major Garrett Major Garret how come you never had me on
AP News Radio
Urias wins his 8th straight decision, Dodgers top Giants 3-0
"The Dodgers have won 7 straight against their Northern California rivals beating the Giants three zero since the all star break the Dodgers have won every game against the Giants over a 12 day span When he pitched 6 innings giving up 7 hits and had 6 strikeouts In his major league debut Miguel Vargas with a single double and two RBIs Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had praised for Vargas It was just good We won He played well had good at bass drove in two runs And family got to see it It was Cobb took the loss He gave up three runs on four hits in 6 and a third innings Ryan leong San Francisco
AP News Radio
Update on the latest sports
"BP sports I'm Josh rowntree in the NHL one eastern semis already over while the other one was evened up Tuesday night Correspondent Mike mancuso with more from New York Andrew Cobb scored a goal and added two assists as the rangers knocked off the hurricanes four to one even the second round playoff series of two wins apiece Frank for Toronto Adam Fox and Mika's advantage at old school to give the rangers a three to nothing lead after two periods Cops 5th of the playoffs iced the game midway through the third and he spoke of the team's effort I feel like today was a good effort again from our team And I think we played a pretty good series so far And we're just trying to build off some of the momentum that we've created in these last two games You go to your search in 30 saves for the win the hurricane is over 5 on the road in the playoffs They will host game 5 on Thursday night In the western semis Edmonton grabbed a three one series lead over Calgary with a 5 three win Ryan nugent Hopkins scored a pair of goals for the oilers including the game winner with under four minutes to go Evander Kane scored his 11th and 12th goals of the postseason for Edmonton as well No sweep in the NBA's western finals Dallas able to stave off elimination with a one 19 one O 9 win over Golden State The Mavs hit 23 pointers and Luka Dončić scored 30 points grabbed 14 rebounds and dished out 9 assists to force a game 5 We got to believe you know I think our difference was way better today and I think we take the paint You know those two things are key And that's what we got to bring to San Francisco On the diamond Toronto took down St. Louis 8 to one as Jay's pitcher Kevin gausman got plenty of run support That's what we are you know That's what we normally are So you know it's been pretty quiet in there lately So you know for us to kind of get our mojo back I guess You know just have that high energy Everybody talking in the dugout It was nice to see And the NFL has expanded the Rooney rule again This time to include quarterbacks coaches in a further effort to diversify the coaching ranks The change was announced Tuesday at the owners meeting in Atlanta I'm Josh Brown tree AP
AP News Radio
Rangers power past Hurricanes 4-1 in Game 4 to even series
"Andrew Cobb scored a goal and added two assists as the range was knocked off the hurricanes four to one even the second round playoff series of two wins apiece Frank for Toronto Adam Fox and Mika sabana Chad old school have to give the rangers a three to nothing lead after two periods Cops 5th of the playoffs iced the game midway through the third and he spoke of the team's effort I feel like today was a good effort again from our team I think we played a pretty good series so far and we're just trying to build off some of the moments that we've created in these last two games You go out your circ in 30 saves for the win the hurricanes of 5 on the road in the playoffs They will host game 5 on Thursday night Mike manky so
AP News Radio
Alonso hits 3-run homer, Mets rack up 18 hits to rout Giants
"The mets racked up 18 hits including three home runs to route the Giants 13 to three Pete Alonso was three for 5 with three RBIs Alonzo and Jeff McNeil each with two run homers Mark kenna also went deep Francisco Lindor's double scoring two runs gave him 500 RBIs in his career David Peterson got the wind pitching 6 innings giving up three hits and two runs with 6 strikeouts Here to help the team win you know anyway I can and do my job every 5th day and focus on that Like I said one pitch at a time and help this team win Help us get to our goal The Giants have lost 5 in a row for the second time this season Alex Cobb gave up 6 runs on ten hits and 6 innings Ryan leong San
The Kicker
"cobbs" Discussed on The Kicker
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Not Another D&D Podcast
"cobbs" Discussed on Not Another D&D Podcast
"This is a headgum podcast. Welcome to dungeon court. Don't have to do it, but it feels so good. But it feels so good to do it. Today, we are joined by Jeremy Cobb, writer, director, actor, one third of three black halflings and the resident DM welcome Jeremy. Thank you so much. It is such an honor to be able to sit here behind the bench. We're gonna bring you up. Oh yeah. Right now you're actually with you're actually in the bailiffs. What do bailouts say? Nothing pin. You're in the bailiff's dunce's corner. Not a lot of esteem to go around down here. Why is there so much alcohol back then? But we do have an oath for you to swear you in to get you up on the high chairs up here because we are big giant baby high Ferris. Yes. Which is great because there's a little tray for snacks. Yeah. Yeah, and I can strap myself in. Yeah. 'cause they're very teetering is the things. You are gonna want to be strapped in. You are gonna get a little bib that catches all the detritus that you don't fit into your mouth. Really great to just feed bag it up mid and you just hand that to me on your way out. I host those down in the back alley. Yeah. That explains all of the crusty bibs next to the bottles of alcohol. Yeah, Jeremy, if you'd like to read the oath and swear in, we'll get you, we'll get you here on the court as one of the judges here. I will put one hand on my picture book beginner's Bible. Wow. Beginners by? Yes, it's called the beginner's Bible. My God. It has, it has illustrated versions of a bunch of bibles. You can't start a kid off on a pro Bible, you know that. Yeah, yeah, you gotta start them with a gentle New Testament. You wait till they're like angry teens to introduce old man. Yeah, that's interesting. Oh, this goes full old. Most of this book is Old Testament believe it. Wild. They have to omit some stuff, right? Or do they just make it? Definitely. That's probably what beginner means is like none of the sex scenes. There are a lot of dry passages of who fucked who. Two years old. An illustrated version of the song of Solomon babies first erotic literature. All right. All right, I will read this. I, Jeremy Cobb, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the players as well as the DMs against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that I take this obligation of my own volition and that I will well and faithfully embark upon this noble pursuit of justice, so help me gods. Wow. Welcome. We have the actor there, 'cause I was feeling a little bit swelled with civic pride. I did salute.
Revision Path
"cobbs" Discussed on Revision Path
"We want to be? When we get to that age. So I'm constantly thinking about the future in normal yet intriguing terms of life now. Well, just so you know, kind of wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you and about your work and everything, oh my. Yeah, so if anyone wants to find me on LinkedIn, definitely reach out to me. If I can't get back to you, I will find somebody that can't get back to you. So Terrell Cobb, TER E LLC OBB on LinkedIn. If you want to follow me on Instagram, it's a vintage underscore numbers four two four. I'm always there. And those are some of the main channels right now where people can find them. All right, it sounds good. Well, Terrell Cobb, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. One for just kind of like, you know, given a peek behind the curtain as to what it is that you do at Microsoft and even how you've helped to create community, not just inside of Microsoft or designers there are black designers there, but also to help out in the community as well, but really showing the fact that perseverance is really the way there are so many paths into design. There's so many ways to be a success or to do anything really in this industry. And I think what your story really illustrates is that there's no one single way to do things. You know, there's no one way to be a success, and so hopefully people will get a chance to hear your story and we'll take that to heart. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. This was incredible. Thank you so much, Marie. So I really appreciate it. Big, big thanks to Terrell Cobb, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Terrell and his work through the links in the show notes after vision path dot com. And of course, thanks to our wonderful sponsor brevity and wit. Brevity and wit is a strategy and design firm committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world. They accomplish this graphic design, presentations, and workshops around IDEA, inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. If you're curious to learn how to combine a passion for IDEA with design, check them out at brevity and wit dot com. Brevity and wit creative excellence without the grind. Revision path is brought to you by lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created, hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. What did you think of the interview? Better yet, what do you think about the podcast overall? Please reach out to us and talk to us, don't be a stranger, you can hit us up on either Twitter or Instagram, just search for revision path all one word. Or leave us a rating and to review on Apple podcasts. Let everyone you know know about the show because it really helps us grow and reach more people all around the world. Of course, you're in the states this week is Thanksgiving so hopefully you have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving, especially if you're gonna be out there traveling..
Revision Path
"cobbs" Discussed on Revision Path
"Like how did that manifest itself? You know, it was incredibly important to see other people like me within the design world. I think like most designers starting out your constantly looking for mentorship and to sometimes you have to be the mentor as you're rising yourself. And you're providing advice to people, however, you're looking for some advice yourself. And I think within the different groups, it was the opportunity to not only see people that look like you doing amazing things and being able to connect with them and saying or resonating and saying, hey, I have gone through that as well, or I have had this conversation as well to more of just that camaraderie of have you had an ethics conversation about this design? What did they say about this ethics conversation and being able to just talk shop with them in that way? I think the pleasure that I have within all of these groups is they're all unique and all based on just different stories of how they got started. I think within the Capital One space, there were roughly about 6 of us that stood up at an all hands and were like, hey, I see you. I see you. I see you. And it was like, maybe we should stay in touch. And then it went from maybe we should stay in touch to maybe we should have meetings to maybe we should influence more recruiting and to maybe we should have somewhat of a council or somewhat of a type in a bit. And then with the Capital One piece, it was then like, how do I extend that outside of the company? Because I can't just do it from Capital One. How do I also extend inside of the Dallas area? So then it was working with the Bobby lloyds, the bike called ting blind. The labor will is the Adrian here to kind of expand just create a ripple here in the Dallas area, but then also move around to the Houston area. So, you know, just trying our best to create events and also create community for us here. And I think that just follow to be just going into the black designer space at Microsoft because it was it was so welcomed by other people in that community too. And also the aspect of being able to create something that you know 20 years from now will still be there is something that, you know, I get chills over just simply be thinking like, you know, hey, that group is going to be amazing because we set it up in that way and they have their heart in the right place. When you know when you think back throughout your career, you mentioned mentorship, who have been some of the mentors that have really helped you out in your career. Oh wow. I think there's some really awesome people out there as a, you know, some folks like ty Griffin comes to mind, then there's, you know, people who were helping that didn't even know that they were helping that would just more friendships. Tim Allen's out there. The daily Davis is out there. The folks like doctor ocho, who was pretty much the person who kind of helped me shift from saying like, I'm just going to work in a hospital to hey I'm going to go to college. I'd say those people along with the pastor Higgs and speak account Kansas. The Lisa carters that are out there. And all the football coaches associated with it, those are some of the people that kind of gave me the drive, but also instilled that I can not just keep this to myself. I have to also grow a rope back before somebody else or leave a breadcrumb for somebody else behind me so that how I can help them would be beneficial to the future. In recent years, what would you say has been the biggest lesson that you've learned about yourself? So I would say that I've learned that I am incredibly a nerd when it comes to setting things up and being deeply in process. I read some of the similar books throughout the week. I have my coffee and sit on the stoop and actually bask in the sun. But also just that appreciation of design and the little things. And I think this recent trip that I just took to Denmark for a design workshop there kind of reminded me as I saw enabled person actually leave the train with a wand with a wand who was basically visually impaired, actually get off the train, stumble on the little ground stubbles and pretty much make their way like a boss to the escalator. Without any help, it was a reminder to me of like somebody thought and process of this person leaving the train in this way. Somebody thought about the doorknobs. That's in front of me, somebody thought about the angles that in front of me, what are the processes that I'm creating for people behind me as well? How do you define success now? I define success a little differently from other people. And I say that just to say that I look at success as an opportunity to succeed. As long as you have that opportunity, I don't believe that you fail. I believe that you learn. And if you have that opportunity, you've started in part of that success. You've already to start is success. I like that. Because oftentimes really it's just that first step that you have to make. Exactly. You have the thought and you have a couple of seconds to go about that thought, right? Or a couple of minutes or that first step like you meet? Just to, I think we're a little bit hard on ourselves sometimes. And I think just to start in itself is success. What would you like the next chapter of your story to be? So I have this grand dream of creating pillars of design practices across the country. And their anchor inside of some of the experiences that I've had over in the past of the different tech companies or the different businesses that a work for. But I think mostly the desire to have those communities or those practices. It's kind of related back to just one in the lead breakdowns. I want to my desire is to work on the next the next 20 years now. There's an amazing book out there called what the forecast. And I look at it almost every week because it kind of puts these brain like exercises in front of you that says it's 5 years from now. I am doing this. I am driving this. I am living here and it goes from 5 years to 15 years to 20 years. And I'm constantly thinking about those 20 years just because if you don't start on it, it'll just sneak up on you. So that's my next step here just continue along that path of thinking about those mixed 20 years and I have breakfast with some amazing guys almost every other weekend and we joke and say like, well, we're talking about our 85 year old self. And what our 85 year old self is eating, what could we do now to help our 85 year old self? Are we at 85 and we're riding motorcycles to meet for breakfast? Are we pulling up in our wheelchairs? We have scooters like how mobile do.
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"Where you felt like you had leveled up? I think it was the first opportunity to leave South Florida and working in the banking industry down there at the credit union where I started to see these shift from design as more so as a graphic or tangible color or button style to design as a product experience. Element. Moving forward. And I think that was the transition from working in South Florida, the credit and to getting a first big break at working for Barclays bank here in the Dallas Texas area, one of the mentors that I had at the local ad agency who saw the drive of what I was doing actually called me up from the South Florida area. Like, hey, you want to try this out? It's like, well, you know, I'm pretty good. I'm building websites. I'm doing club flyers, I'm good. All right. I'm around my family, but not too close because you don't want them to know my nerves were pretty much up close to no so I can go hug them and come back. But it really was at that point in which I saw the level kind of changed because it went from me being just a single designer slash webmaster slash business representative at that local credit union continuing that trend to not just being a slash but being a focused disciplined designer. And that was coming into that first level of product design at Barclays there with that company. Now, also, you know, prior to Microsoft, you worked for two other pretty large companies you worked at Capital One. You also worked at FedEx, was it a big sort of culture shift going from those two companies like one's logistics one's banking, going from that to like a strict tech company? Was that a big shift? So, I mean, the amazing part of my pathway is that each one of those companies had a different element that I'm using today in farms of my leadership and moving forward. So within Capital One and the FinTech arena, you're constantly thinking about how could you do things as a group? It's all about innovation, how to be, and I greatly appreciate just being there in that arena because it Capital One didn't consider itself to be a bank. It happened to be a, as they say it a tech company that so happens to be a bank. And that opportunity of being with instant innovation all the time and blue sky thinking and being able to stop projects from releasing and saying, hey, wait a second. Was that innovative enough? Are we really proud of this thing to the introduction of service design and introduction of critical thinking and the folks from audio coming in and kind of miss merging into that as well? Capital One taught me some of the college of product thinking and design external to school, external to that other layer of just design as a button color or movement. Okay. Capital One gave me the piece of grounding then moving into FedEx. It was like, wait a second. I've learned all of these things. I can put these things to use. Do you want to see them? And they're like, now we're a little bit more safe here. We just have it was like. Yeah. But I think the logistics side of FedEx taught me the technical aspect of what an engineer actually has to do in order for packages to arrive at a certain time. Understanding and I'll never forget this quote. From one of the engineers, he basically said to me, how do you build a tank? And I was like, what do you mean? Military bills tanks. Send a request to the military. They build a tank. He was like, no, if you had to build a tank yourself, how would you start? And I think this is similar to your clock challenge here, where an engineer thinking about a tank is going to be the larger items first and then start going into the cogs of the tank and building the cogs to get back out to the larger things. Having a base building in and then starting building out the shell of the tank and the color of the team. None of that matters to them. And that gave me the perspective of how an engineer thinks versus a pen fix versus a designer thing. So wrapping all of that around and I'm turning the corner here and going back to where I met at Microsoft, it was the critical thinking and also being able to take chances at Capital One. Also along with the technical understanding and saying, hey, I can't go build this tank without these particular cogs. They're important to somebody. They're important to the experience. And then they're also important to the team that's building it. So how do I become a technical designer slash team player and then entering into one of the largest tech companies in the world? How do you mash up all of that experience into something and make sure that you've you can speak the engineering language you can speak BPM language and you also provide the quality and also the confidence within a customer using this product moving forward. So that's someone hopefully answering that question in the best way. No, no, that makes a lot of sense. I mean, I think that you always want to think about how you can transfer skills when you're going from one really big, I think type of company to another one. And granted all of these do have tech sort of at their core in some way. You're just using that tech to solve different problems. Right. Right. And I think doing that and also keeping the duality of going back to football. You know, no man left behind or no person left behind. And going back and sitting having lunch with the engineers sitting next to them and saying like, hey, show me what you did, because that was kind of dope. How did you do that? Spending the time to get to know your teammates, getting the time to actually make this analogy. Football, there's 93 plays to a game. How many times have you talked to your coworkers in a week? How could you start to understand what they're going through? How could you start to extend your team and actually give them the same type of camaraderie that they're looking for? Because you are spending a lot of time with that person. So just anchoring back those principles inside of the duality of also having the technical chops to talk shop if you needed to. Yeah. And you know, one other interesting thing, you know, and you sort of talked about this, I think a little bit at the top of the interview was that you've also maybe not at each of these companies, but certainly you did this at Capital One and now Microsoft. You know, you started these these black ERGs was an important for you to sort of build that community as you started,.
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"Able to see those classes actually happened, gave me an opportunity to wait a second. They're doing what I was doing, but drawing, but they're making stuff move. They make in their drawings move. How is that happening? Wait a second. And I think after talking with the professor that night, I actually went in the next day and changed my major to art. And then started to go down this path of being the football player leaving practice with an easel. Across the football field with an easel and all of my art mysterios and running it to the art lab. And of course sitting in the corner because pretty much I'm just leaving football practice and fresh hours but still just leaving football practice four hours of practice. So I dealt with that dynamic for two more years and it was incredibly beneficial for me. Just simply because it started to introduce me into graphic design. I was always exposed to graphic design via bubble letters, airbrush tees, just drawing certain things for certain people, but just didn't know that it was actual profession behind it. And being able to make that correlation there kind of sparked my career into the design world. Yeah, so getting that exposure to it knowing that this is something it's an option that you can take because prior to that design was something that you just sort of consumed. Like you mentioned in these sort of like bubble letters and stuff like that. But now knowing like, oh wait, I can do that too. I can make that. I mean, even that whole setup about leaving football practice and going to our class with the easel. Sounds like a feel good holiday movie or something. I mean, if you ever want to transcribe that into a story, I bit hallmark, pick it up. That sounds pretty dope. I may have to do that. That's a good idea. Yeah, so what were those like early days post college like in terms of your career? You graduated now you were majoring in graphic design. What was next after that? You know, it was the real world posting its first challenge to me. I think that first challenge to me was getting into an internship well as a football player, you're spending 40 hours a week on football. So you're not able to kind of go away and market yourself to other agencies and say like, hey, I'm a designer. I could do these things. It just wasn't acceptable, or it wasn't available for you. But in my case, the real world slapped that was put in front of me was I in order to work my internship, which I finally got at a local ad agencies, shown you with some partners there Topeka Kansas. I was only able to do that internship on Fridays from roughly 8 a.m. to three p.m.. In order to be able to do that, finish with school, but of course I have to make money somehow. So I hustled my way into talking to a Topeka youth project, a local small school that taught kids that were 15 to 21 jobs and life skill readiness. So it was my job to go out to the local fast food restaurants, the local libraries. Anybody who had a job for 18 and actually become a business representative and pitch the school to that company to say, hey, I know you manager and I know this kid that I just taught this class. You guys sound like you'll be a great match. You should probably hire this kid. Right? Getting the kid higher that was the first indication of negotiation and stakeholder like agreements, right? Knowing how to actually have those conversations, right? While doing that, I was only able to work, I believe it was 28 hours a week or 25 hours a week with that company. In order to do that as a business representative, I bargained to say, hey, let me help you with your website and your logo as well. So I'll do your website and your logo and I'll also be your business representative. I was doing that. So a normal day for me post college and this is how bad I really wanted to be in this world of design. I worked from 8 a.m. to roughly about three p.m., Monday through Wednesday at the typical youth project on Tuesday through Thursday. I was working overnight shift at FedEx, unloading trucks. So pretty much from roughly about three a.m. to 7 a.m. and then in between the Thursday to Friday, I was also unloading packages to target and basically being a target shelf stocker. All so that I can get the internship completed and also get the first level of experience out of the way. Now, I'm not saying that, you know, most designers now coming out of college don't have to worry about those types of stories and those types of hustles, but it was just a slightly different from me being in a small town and just wanting to make this work so bad and not wanting to go back home and say like, you know, hey, I didn't do it and make it. That was the start of hard work makes something out of you. But then also hard work increase the character that you need. As you continue to progress. You are hustling. Listen, man had to happen. That reminds me a lot of there's another guest we had on the show several several years ago. His name is Ben lindo. He's an industrial engineer out of, I think he's on affiliate Pittsburgh, one of the two, but he was mentioning how he would do design school. He was doing design school, and it was a UPS driver at the same time. And like would come to class in his UPS uniform and the teacher would always have something to say and that kind of thing. But he made it work. I mean, you know, when you're out there on your own, you have to hustle to make that, you know, it's going to make that happen. You have to make those sacrifices, those compromises, and it sounds like you really, really hustled to make that happen. So props to you. Exactly, exactly, and I think it benefited me a lot just because I was exposed to so many different conversations. So many levels of small talk. Yeah. So many levels of strategy. I knew that I can unload a semi truck of boxes from FedEx and under an hour. An under 56 minutes holding that record doing that, right? But I also knew the pattern of if I unload the boxes too fast on the belt, it could stop the belt. And then pretty much that makes the day longer for other people that are behind me. So it's just so many lessons that are there through on that first year out of college. Yeah, I mean, it really teaches you the value of hard work, too, you know? I mean, I think it's one thing if you're going to school and you manage to land that super cushy gig right out of school and it's not too hard but not too easy, like it's just kind of a Goldilocks kind of situation. But I mean, there's another thing when you get out and you really have to hustled like carve your way into a position or to get to a point where you're gonna be, you know, hopefully setting yourself up for the future in a good way, you know? Exactly, exactly. I think, you know, just being the first of the family to go to college first of the family to graduate college. You knew and understood you are your help. It wasn't something else that, you know, you can wait on you were your help. You were ascending this index avenue and arena so that you can then help your family on the back end of it. Yeah, like you said, you know, it's that thing where you don't want to go back home like defeated. You don't want to go back home like, oh, I couldn't make it. Like you sort of, that also pushes you and drives you to succeed as well. That feeling. Yes. Yes. So you worked for a number of companies between being in Kansas, being in Florida being in Texas, work for a lot of places. When you look back at your career now that you're at Microsoft, do you feel like there was a particular moment or a particular job or anything.
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"At middle school and high school is really something. That is so key. And even if they choose not to become a designer, we still win because we just taught them design thinking. So now from that point on, they have that emotional intelligence or that critical thinking mass to take with them to the next adventure. And I think that's part of the reward back to us as well. Absolutely. Now let's kind of switch gears here a little bit. You mentioned being in Texas is that where you also grew up? No, actually, I grew up in South Florida and a small town called point and beach, which is roughly about 40 minutes north of Miami. Okay. Growing up there like were you exposed a lot to design and everything? Not at all. So I like to tell the story this way that grown up in also just South Florida in general. You're growing up in a football arena. And there's not much else to do outside of football. You got the notoriety that you had from football. There's countless of times of pretty much kids starting playing football at four years old. And you could see those kids training and practicing with parachutes four or 5, just trying to get faster and trying to get better. There, it's still to this day, I believe the South Florida is leading in the most NFL prospects within the country. And it's not by chance. It's just simply because of the arena of how important football is in those areas. Because of that, that had gave me an opportunity to be exposed to being a football player, but just doing a little differently. I still had some of the tenacity of being on the D line and I got to use my hands and knowing how to be fast and running 7 O 7s with different people. But I also found a unique ability of me actually setting up the field. I love the aspect of walking each 5 yards and putting a colon or a shoe or a hat down to say that this was a first down. This was a yard marker or this was going to be the goal line, even down to cones. I'll never look at orange cones the same ever in my life because I would take these orange cones and you would create different patterns that Pentagon a triangle square a circle depending on the pattern that's on the ground. That's where your feet or your toes would interact with in order to be the drill. I got really good at setting up these cones. I really started to understand like, well, wait a second, I'm good at this. I can also draw a little bit. Where is this leading me? And I just said, like, not don't worry about it. I'm good. I'm just, you know, put that to the side and continue on with life as is. But the opportunity presented itself when I got into college once leaving a point in area, but I appreciate the hardships of boynton because it taught me the lessons that were needed to be a champion on the things that came to me afterwards. I know what you mean about sort of growing up in that crucible of football. I mean, I'm from south Alabama. I will like south central Alabama. And it's either Alabama or auburn, one of the two. So I know I know what it is about like, and I remember, you know, there were like those, you know, like, pop Warner football leagues and stuff like that. You know, I wanted to be in my mom was like, nope, you're not doing that. But I remember, there would be 6 year old 7 year olds in like pads tackling. Like, I remember that vividly about growing up that whole thing about just really getting into football. Exactly. I mean, that's exactly it, but I think this is kind of like how I should be back how football kind of taught me design because being one of those four year olds out there with the helmet that can't hardly hold myself up. But baking tackles, it's not just the football field. It's the people. It's the cars around the football field. It's the atmosphere of the lights being on at a certain time. It's the concession stands as part of food trucks before food trucks were food trucks. It was all of that atmosphere that kind of gave me a sense of how not knowing it at times, but how design was working or things were designed around me. Yeah. I was in the margin man too in middle school and high school. So every Friday night, like, yeah, that whole, it's a whole production. It's a whole production the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So, given that football kind of taught you design in that way, that's also why you ended up studying it, I would imagine in college where you went to the post spring university, right? Well, the interesting thing, yeah, I went to washburn university. I think prior to washburn university, I like to tell the story this way that I earned my way to the middle of Kansas at a junior college called butler county community college by not getting great grades at in high school. So that also earned me the opportunity to see a deer for the first time, see a cow for the first time. Yeah. Found that out. And they're mean. They're very mean. They're very mean birds. Probably because we eat them every year, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. So it was so interesting to have that culture shock from being from the city and break and heart hardship and going into country immediately. The school itself was a college, a cemetery, a Walmart in an oil field. The rest was just the school. So it was a start reality of, hey, if you want to excel in life, there are some things that you will have to do. And that's our reality basically helped me understand what the direction I wanted to go into next. And so as part of the juco experience, you get an opportunity for teams from across the country to come in and actually draft you or actually pick you up a recruit you from that location. So it's actually high school part two. And during that process, the school watch burn drove about maybe three to four hours down the road in Kansas and actually picked me up and took me to the campus and at least you know like one of those moments where you step in and like look around like man, this is nice. Okay, I think I could do this, all right, and it was it was slow and it feel like academia that you saw in the movies for my aspect, right? Okay. And I think that's what drew me to it because I saw like a calmness or a piece around it. And I think heading there starting out, it wasn't immediately designed. It was jumping directly into psychology. And I thought, for sure that I was going to be a psychologist, actually getting up to some of my senior year in psychology classes and actually stopping and actually working as security as part of the design as part of the work study football job, making sure that people log off the Mac lab. I guess I got an opportunity to kind of play on the computers from what every once in a while, right? And the classes that were more of the later classes were the illustrator, the Photoshop that would date myself now. Last time maybe it was a smack classes, right? Oh my God, swish. Oh my God. He took it back, you really took it back with Swiss..
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"External to the company as well. That sort of feeds into what I was gonna ask. What sorts of things are is the group doing internally and in the larger community, but recruitment sounds like a big part, at least of that external, I guess outreach of the group. Is that right? Indeed, indeed. I think if we look at just some of the general grounding of the group itself, it's based in on not just looking at one form of design. So that's one of the biggest differences there. It's not just a UX designer and you're a part of the group. It's more so of design with the capital D as its reference from our fearless leader Sterling. It is design. It's research. It's producers. It's data science, motion designers, audio designers, front end development, illustration, all of these people are a part of the group. And the key points there is getting into the intentional community to influence diversity. So influencing diversity internal to therefore make it external. Just creating that ripple so that we can continue to build from the inside out and doing that it was growing the community itself by creating teams channel as safe places. Along with the opportunity to share out hackathons right now, anybody in the group can kind of spin up a opportunity for someone to have a review and they can basically get started and you'll have multiple people join in and give them feedback. And it's different because you're getting feedback from friends in that sense, right? You know, I could tell you nah brought us, not gonna make it. That may not make it for yeah, since I like that. That's gonna be amazing, right? And it'll be a little bit different because it kind of feels that it's coming from that place that we get most of our things from that feel safe for us. So continuing to drive that type of community was important to us and doing it internally through the community piece, but then also reaching out to external to the community and going after middle schools and high schools and also HBCUs. Last year, we had a couple of events where we actually partnered with some of the HBCUs out there to kind of expose the craft of design to them. Interesting. You know, when I was in an HBCU 27 years ago, one of the first company one of the first tech companies I interviewed with was Microsoft. And actually, I mean, I think I've told this story on the podcast before. I'm well outside of college now, so I can sort of tell the story how I scan my way in there. But essentially I was as a math major in college. And my whole thing was I was part of this program that was sponsored by NASA like my scholarship and everything. And so the goal was like, oh, when you graduate college, you're going to work for one of these NASA facilities. I had already interned at two NASA facilities so in my mind, I'm thinking boom, career set when I graduate, NASA, right? 9 11 happens. When that happened, the funding from my program got pulled and it went towards Homeland Security. And so this whole guarantee of like, oh, well, you're gonna work for NASA when you graduate, completely gone. So I'm like, damn, I gotta find a way to like. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I graduate because I was working at the high museum selling tickets for like 8 70 an hour, like not making, you know, no real kind of money. And it really had no prospects of career stuff, but I had sort of gotten in really good with the computer science department with the secretary there. Shout out to misses banks. I don't know if she's even still there or not. But got in really good with her started hanging out in the computer lab and stuff, started hanging out in her office and that got me access to this interview book. And the interview book was basically, you know, juniors and seniors that were interviewing with all these companies and all you had to do was just kind of like slip your resume in, put your name down. And I was like, I'm just gonna slip my reservation there. And write my name. And I interviewed with real player to show you how long ago that was. That went nowhere. And then I interviewed with Microsoft. And I remember God, I remember the woman's name who I interviewed with, but there was a black woman. Interview with her. And she gave me one interview question. She was like, designed an alarm clock for a blind person, and she slid over like a sheet of paper and a pen, and I was like, just walk me through your process. And I'm like, oh, okay, so I was talking through, like, oh, we should do this. And it should vibrate and, you know, maybe have sound and all this kind of, you know, she was like, okay, all right, great, and she took it and she put it in a folder, shook my hand and that was it. That was the interview. I was like, that's it? Okay, well, apparently it was good enough because they flew me out to Seattle to do an interview with Microsoft and they had it in this sort of almost like an elimination style. I don't know if the interviews are like this now, but you do the first interview and if you pass the first when you go to the second one, if you pass the second one you go to the third one. And this was all day for like an internship. I remember because it started that maybe like 8 a.m. and it was getting until around maybe like 7 p.m. I was tired and I forget what the question was, it was something about notepad and right to left text or something and I think it was at that point that they realized, wait a minute, you're not a computer science major, are you? 'cause it was some programming stuff that I was like, I don't know. I don't know how to do this. And I didn't get the internship. But I remember vividly being on the campus and everything and like when I think of companies that are sort of giving me a chance in college, like Microsoft was that one company. So the fact that y'all are still doing HBCU research now some 20 something years later is a testament to the fact that you all have put skin in the game, and that it's not just, oh, we need to look for a diversity, where should we look? Why not look at black colleges like you all have been doing this now for a long time? Indeed, indeed. It's incredibly rewarding, not just to win by yourself, but it's also incredibly rewarding to see others win and see that spark in a high school is I that wait a second, I can become a designer. I could be a researcher. I can work at Microsoft. It was like, yeah, or actually one of the previous workshops with coat house, shout out to koda in Atlanta, who brought in 29 students from morehouse and spellman. At the time. And we ran through just a roughly about a 6 hour to 7 hour workshop with design and you can kind of see the amazing minds that are there and applying design thinking to those amazing minds. Our leaders coming behind us are going to be crazy good. And I think that is the reward that most of us get from that because there's a great chance that, hey, we will be working with these leaders later on in life. So it's extremely rewarding. And I would say the fact that you're, you know, you mentioned high schoolers and middle schoolers like you're going past just reaching them while they're in college. Like you're giving them at a really pivotal age when they can make a decision on where do I want to go in terms of my I want to say my career. I really think it's unfair to sort of burden in 18 year old with that anyway, but the fact that you're showing them that this is an option because now social media and technology is ubiquitous. When I was a teenager in the 90s, there was like Game Boy that was tamagotchi. They were super Nintendo. They were like, it was all consumer electronics sort of stuff. Certainly no smartphones or anything like that. But now you can sort of show them like you can be more than just a consumer or a user. You can be a creator. You can be someone that makes this stuff and to show them that at such a pivotal young age.
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"Brevity and wit creative excellence without the grind. Now for this week's interview I'm talking with Terrell Cobb, a design lead at Microsoft in Dallas, Texas. Let's start the show. All right, so tell us who you are and what you do. So my name is Terrell Cobb. I am a design lead over at Microsoft as part of the digital transformation studios. Digital transformation studio. That sounds super lofty, and I'm sure we're going to get into that. But before we do, how has 2021 bin for you so far? How have things been going? 2021 has been a great ride for me. I believe that last year during the pandemic, it was learning how to be more self sufficient at home and also taking care of the family, all while taking care of myself as well. And I think within 2021, I've gained the appreciation of changing states and moving, and then also starting to center life around just taking care of me and also taking care of the family. So that's been a good ride so far. Nice. Also, you moved to Texas this year then. Yeah, so when Microsoft had the opportunity for flex work, I took advantage of that and got an opportunity to come back to the Dallas area and get to some familiarity and also just enjoy the atmosphere that we're in right now. Sorry to rub that into what was it in northwest folks? I was gonna ask what's changed for you last year, but clearly location's been a big part of that. Yeah, and the sun. Being able to see this one. Nice. So being a design leader Microsoft over the platform that you mention, can you tell me about that? Like, what all does that entail? Right. So the digital transformation studios is a conglomerate of several spaces within Microsoft. One of those faces in which I work in is the business applications group, business applications group are the parts of the business that actually build applications for large enterprise customers. And being able to sit in that part of the arena of Microsoft, it allows me to see how businesses are specifically using supply chain and provide certain intelligent solutions to that supply chain space. What does your team make up look like? Yeah, so my team today is made up of a couple of designers and also a researcher, however, one of the things that we kind of anchored to within Microsoft is being able to go with an a one Microsoft mindset. So I also consider my engineers and PMs as part of my tetrad or my team as well. So have an amazing group of people that I get to build amazing things with on a daily basis. I feel like that's been a fairly new development within companies to have like a researcher on the design team. As it relates to what you're doing, how does that work? I appreciate research so much. I believe I'm one of the biggest advocates for research and also content design. But specifically research, I believe that they're the silver lining of experiences. And if we don't have their heartbeat of what the experience should be, we're building in the wrong direction and that could be expensive over time. I can see how certainly if you feel like you're going in one direction and internally, you might think that's a good thing and then your users are using it and it's something completely different. Responsive to it a receptive to it like you want to and you have to go back to the drawing board. Exactly, exactly. I think just being southern and being from the south, those properties, like it's wrong to run a 100 mph in the wrong way. You would want to go in the right way so that you're not making program mistakes. So yeah, they're essential to a start of the project, they're essential to the midpoint of the project and they're essential to the delivery part of the project. Welcome me through what a typical day looks like for you. So a typical day from be these days are just a bunch of negotiating. It's either negotiating confidence of how much confidence the user is going to be exposed to by the options or things that we're building. It's also the negotiation of time of how much should the team be leveraged against a certain initiative? What are we talking about 6 months from now? What are we planning for a year from now? How do we engage the team itself? And I think recently, really taking a step back away from just design as a delivery as a process to more of enjoying the process of actually designing in the delivery will get there, but actually taking the time to enjoy the process of discovery going into definition, going into actually defining from the research and actually delivering something that's far off. And I'd imagine like in that process, you're also working in sprints and making sure everyone's up to speed in other parts of the company or maybe the other parts of your team because you mentioned engineers as well that you're working with. Indeed, indeed. So it's a healthy balance of speed and quality. And I know not a lot of other designers out there have to deal with most of that, but being at a large enterprise company like Microsoft is just there's nothing new under the sun. And you have to bring in your best footing on what that solution could be next. If that makes any sense. No, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Yeah. Now also at Microsoft, you're the cofounder of an employee resource group they're called black designers at Microsoft, which is for black designers at Microsoft. Tell me how that whole thing came about. Yeah, so the amazing story behind that is that I came into Microsoft and previously started other groups like Dallas black UX and also while I was that Capital One, with a couple of folks that kind of cofound the black end design employee resource group there. When I got to Microsoft it was more of, hey, I'm just going to focus on my career and a climb. I'm going to leave the employee recess group to the side. I'm going to just stay focused and do this. First day walking in, I meet another black designer and say, and she basically says to me, cheering Porter, from Houston, it's misses to be that, hey, I've never worked with a black designer before. You are my first black designer that I've ever worked with before. Wow. And that was the inkling of, okay, here we go. We're about to do it again. You're like the Grand Theft Auto meme. You're like, oh, shit, here we go again. Here we go. Here we go. No, so and then was intensified by both of us being on the same team and actually going to orientation. And when we went to orientation, we saw on the screen another black designer that was a part of the studio. We were like, well, wait a second. Where is she? And it's Zoe in and she's been inside of the studio, but pretty much could not find her. And then lo and behold, the next all hands, we meet with each other and we're like, huh. Okay, there has to be more of us. Where are we? I think along with that and just how big the company is, along with some of the understanding of designers being disenfranchised from not even being inside of the world of design from a black designer standpoint, we took that as an opportunity to build something ourselves inside of Microsoft and grow the talent that's internal. But then also attract talent that's.
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"The Packers came away with a twenty four twenty one win over the previously unbeaten cardinals that came with Kyler Murray threw an interception on second goal with twelve seconds remaining the pick came shortly after the Packers were stopped on downs near the Arizona goal line Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes to Randall Cobb as the Packers won their seventh straight since a season opening loss to New Orleans Rodgers was twenty two of thirty seven for just one hundred eighty four yards and no interceptions Murray finished with two hundred seventy four yards passing in two interceptions as the cardinals fell to seven and one I'm Dave Ferrie
MIP Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
"cobbs" Discussed on MIP Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
"That would help and change society. I think honestly what you're doing right now as part of it. You know that we have to. We've had these conversations. Going back to our undergrad years that we have to create a parallel infrastructure as a vet. When one thing we can respond you know that we can change the terms of the conversation that you know. That's why i right. That's why you broadcast. That's why you know all of us. That are doing the work. We're doing fly teach you know and trying to. We need more people doing those things and we need to have more of an infrastructure to be able to say. No you lie about this person. That's not what this is and there's some people who never you believe that you know but there are some people out there are persuadable people who open minded and rational reasonable and i think our struggle is to make that fear in that conversation in a way that works for us. Yeah folks term mood days. Disinformation and what's happened in critical race as a great deal of that that is going on july. Cobb is Helping push back against. Please check out his piece in the new yorker magazine or go dot com brother always a pleasure to have you know. Make it plain right. Vicky took wasn't wasn't expedient workable. thank you brother. what's next piece. you're working on. Oh okay talk about it just yet. But i really important is going to be coming out in the next month or so. Yeah gilani's classroom is brought in just the four walls at columbia. Obviously when he writes his to educate all of us. So thank you brother you. Thanks for getting woken listening to make it plain. Please remember to listen like and wherever you get your podcast. Please give the show a five star rating and please do spread the.
Assistive Technology Update
"cobbs" Discussed on Assistive Technology Update
"Well when was reuben started two thousand seventeen. See that merv. It was founded excellent. And why was verb started. I know there's some other kind of services that may do some of the same things. Why did did verb. It's important to enter that market so our ceo was once upon a time a lawyer and as many times we have experiences in our work that will result in varying types of frustration. That so many good things can come out of that and for tom. He was really wrestling with the low quality of transcriptions that he received while doing his work. As an attorney he was spending a lot of time and money and transcribing depositions and thought that surely technology would be able to provide much more effective and efficient process for this and so while he was looking for a solution for the legal space he realized that you know the sector meted transcriptions not to have so much manual labor again. The process was inefficient. It was costly. It was time consuming and so this observation prompted him to internet only the legal market but also education corporate and then recently media excellent. I was just about to ask you where all what kind of industries this might be useful in. But you've already kind of asked the answer that one for me misty. Whom all could this assist as as you know our show is kind of about assistive technology and and disability but i figured verba definitely has some definite. Ada kind of consideration so whom all could verb assist absolutely. It's a perfect question. So our services truly catered to the needs of individuals with varying abilities. We do abide by the american's disabilities and its regulations. We have reliable speech tanks tools that enable real time captioning and transcription for education. of course. that's where my focus is. But i'm thinking about lectures in classroom discussions and really enabling all learners to participate and our hope. And what research shows is that this can increase information retention bob as much as eighty percent. I'm so truly all individuals not just those with a learning disability or hearing or vision loss or some other kind of. I'm hearing impairment but truly everyone is is better able to engage with the course or with the materials that may be discussed in an online meeting. And this helps him to succeed academically but also professionally a good thing with with online meetings. How is the pandemic kind of change. The need for your services. So we have seen i would say something. That is very much in alignment with what we're seeing in all kinds of markets as far as different kinds of services that may be needed so initially. Interestingly enough i joined the company in the middle of this pandemic and twenty twenty. So all i have known is verb verbiage kind of operating in the pandemic. But i can tell you that my experience has been looking backwards. I was beginning to get clients with him. I would be able to work that. It really increased usage partly because we were still trying to figure out what we would do as educators and as educational service providers to students across the united states and frankly joshua it was a difficult challenge. Not only for what we traditionally defined as a student even if they might be opposed traditional learner. But also how do we support stash. How do we support our faculty win. They too are also working from home in trying to figure out in define a way to continue doing the work of providing education while the pandemic is creating such ongoing uncertainty in. Frankly we still see that today. We plan on that. My customers are planning to do the next best thing based on what we know that we continue to find the knee that we must be nimble and flexible as our plans change in whereas we respond to the reality around us definitely. And i know here's something. We run into a lot our privacy consideration. So we're kind of bound by hip. I know schools have the furka and all the other different kind of acronyms. Are your services compliant with different privacy. Rules are excellent. 'cause i know that's an issue sometime. Sometimes things are sent to the cloud. We don't really know where they go. So i know at least wade who used to host. This is our security officers so he would probably come down and yell at me. If i did not ask such a question of course is an important question and of course we provide to our clients. Perspective clients all of the documentation. I'm so that they can be certain that we are very mindful of epa and other kinds of regulations excellent. I think you've kind of touched on this. But i really want to kind of drive. It drive it home. What set you apart from. Kind of other transcription services. Accuracy is key technology only transcription and cashing platforms. Seemed to only be seventy five to eighty percent accurate in truthfully. That's just not near enough to what is needed for. Most professional transcription use cases so verb continues to harness the power of the artificial intelligence. That i mentioned earlier but also the human intelligence and that combination really does allow us to reach that ninety nine percent. Accuracy level in the turnaround time. You know it's it's not enough to just be accurate that you need to be fast because we want to make sure particularly in education that we're providing an equal learning opportunity and that doesn't work if i have a lecture today and i can't receive live captions at the same time that my peers are receiving the content. That's delivered or to wait three days for video. That might be posted an lms. By the time. I would receive those actions. New content has been released in most cases. And so if you're not timely student is always operating from a deficit and that is just not it. Doesn't it's not up to snuff so to speak. We want our students who use these services to have timely access and accurate captions from the get-go. Oh definitely definitely along those lines. Can you tell me a story about someone. That's been assisted by verb. Had you so i was meeting with a client the other day and for the most part many of our clients do sort of fit that traditional mold of you have someone who has some kind of hearing loss and can benefit from the captions. But when i was speaking with this particular clients she was telling me a story about one of the students that she serves. Who's coming back to school. Very much opposed traditional conned of student and she was telling me that the student has the mobility impairments and that the student felt compelled to try education once again having been exposed to similar kinds of technology and because the student has mobile impairments.
Assistive Technology Update
"cobbs" Discussed on Assistive Technology Update
"For meetings court class card or many other uses transcription is a great accommodation. The may have become even more useful over the last year and a half. I guess today is dr misty cobb. And she's here to tell us all about verb it and their solution to your transcription. The needs dr cobb. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me yeah. I'm really excited to get into talking about this. But could you start off by telling our listeners. A little bit about yourself and your background. I'd be glad to you. Thank you so as i said. And you've introduced me. My name is. Dr may calm. I have spent somehow the past twenty years in the education space and so i started very early off at working in an it department at a local school system having moved into the classroom teaching computer science and business courses for a number of years. Different school district's here. In the state of alabama where i reside then had an opportunity to move into higher education as an instructional designer and then was promoted to a director of distance learning a local university and then i found myself working for blackboard so i was kind of theirs for a number of years moved over and ended up serving them for ten years in capacities that range from solutions engineering to product management. I it was a sheer pleasure and delights. You have worked with great people at blackboard and then so many cons in the united states that are across the globe and then that the god another opportunity to join verb it and so i've been with the verb it now for a year in the role of senior customer success manager working with strategic clients across the non and saints excellent. Very good background. And i know. I've used blackboard many times with many individuals. So thank you for all you do with that. And i can only imagine working. It a school would have. It's it's it's very unique challenges half to work with different folks before so we're very happy to have you on today..
This Day In Esoteric Political History
"cobbs" Discussed on This Day In Esoteric Political History
"On haiti. But that doesn't explain. My the war ends in nineteen eighteen and the united states stays there for fourteen years after that in as occupying force and so it increasingly looks as time goes on that you know the the german thing was just a leash for this and even the kind of thinking that goes along with the occupation where american soldiers specifically american soldiers from the south are given priority for the occupying force because the belief is that white southerners know how to handle black people and of course black people all fungible. You know if you speak creole if you speak french Or if you were born and raised in georgia and you speak english. She all the same kind of people and what we need is like a good Georgia white man. Good out of 'em invite men who can come in and instill order amongst people at the the anti blackness the idea of anti blackness monopolizes the sentiment in how people are treated but it also is astonishing to see white americans. Look at these people that speak french. You know like there's not there's not a recognition or in the dr black people that speak spanish there's not a recognition of blackness outside of operating outside of the monolith that there are so accustomed to admittedly everytime idris elba opens wire. Admittedly there was a similar people. Thought he really was stringer bell. And what's the new one that loop. Luke sure he gets the same people lose their minds. So i'm destruct by the swiftness of this action. I mean clearly you know. Haiti is evolving swiftly into into chaos as a series of has of assassinations and political upheaval. But you know. I i suppose you laid out the rationale for having ships literally in the harbor with troops ready to jump in. But i mean it's you know the day after the assassination the troops there shortly after the rewrite in the constitution. I mean what's the way to rain. This question is this a existing playbook or is this the us being incredibly opportune to use the most generous word possible. I think it's both and especially the part about rewriting constitutions you know because just seventeen years before this you know in the spanish american more The united states enters with the argument. That is defending the spanish colonies of puerto rico and cuba from the atrocious treatment. Which there was atrocious treatment from the spanish. But that didn't mean that the united states had a vested interest in democracy building there because they create since the cuban constitution. You know as a a ride on an amendment to a bill. On a completely separate thing. I could be wrong about what it was but it was completely unrelated. Bill that i think is budgetary us onslaught but the platt it Let's just write a constitution and handed to these people And the same thing that happens in the philippines you know which had been fighting for their own independence outside of the context of the americans and initially believed that the americans were aiding You know the whole seventeen. Seventy six thing may get it Until they realized that the united states wants to just simply replace the spanish not You know be a forceful philippine independence and so. I think that it's really haiti. Has to be understood what happened in nineteen fifteen has to be understood in the context.
Get Up!
"cobbs" Discussed on Get Up!
"And he wanted to go and robert kraft. Actual owner of the team was in favor of giving tom the opportunity go elsewhere. He said i he deserves it right. He's been such a good player for us. He deserves to go on. I think as you look exactly as what aaron rodgers did he just kinda followed that map in that progression. Listen when you have that type of power when you can go in and command. Say listen. I'm done with this organization. I mean they're not gonna play and you force their hand. I think it shows the ability of this point only a few players. But here's the kicker green bay. I think did it early before camp even started because i think they they have the hope of restoring this relationship in the only way to restore. It was to extend some type of olive branch. We all ask. What does aaron. What kimberly wrote a letter about what is really what i think. Green bay gave him what he wanted. And now this is going to be the start of a conversation of. Hey aaron what can we do and let me say this. They win the super bowl. I can guarantee you those two sides come together to do they been in to see. Jp jamie should games if they get a third. You're talking about buffalo bills type dynasty way back in the day. Will you get there. What they're doing is not unprecedented. But it's pretty freaking close so i liked. What green bay did. Kimberly brought up an interesting point though earlier this morning. That sometimes if you look at some other players in the nfl that we think to be very high profile. Who would seem to have a lot of russell. Wilson had his thing. This off season. Couldn't get out to shawn watson. We know the circumstances of change but before all of these allegations came out he wanted out and it didn't look like the taxes are willing to trade him. What are you hearing from people. You talked to inside the sport about the concern on the part of front offices that players might start doing exactly what mark is saying. I think we're seeing it. I think they know it's probably coming more guys but again you've got.
WSB-AM
"cobbs" Discussed on WSB-AM
"Cobb. Waves of volume leaving South Marietta Parkway up toward highway 92 5 75 HP unusual brake lights filling in through the bells, fairy curve, triple team traffic. 95.5 WSB. This is a State media Francisco acknowledge Just a few hit and miss showers this afternoon. A high round 85 low Tonight near 72 79 degrees on Peachtree Street at 407. I'm Chris Chandler 95.5 WSB Atlanta's news and talk That's right, baby. We are in the building filling in for Mark Aaron. And you know what time it is our question of the night. What would you want to know? How are you going to die? Or when do you want a God? Pick up that phone and call me right now? 404872. 07 50. You are now tuned into word on the street on 95.5. W S B. Thanks so much for joining us. We're following Shelley Wynter and I talking about the water boy who was shot on 2 85 on the ramp. College park. Shelley Wynter. We're going to continue following that, as they update us on exactly what happened like a hit, though. Yeah, it looks like from what you said. Right? Yeah. When they described it, they said two men pulled up in a white four door sedan. Each of The men with guns and opened fire on a group of 17 year olds. So this is just out of hand. It's it's broad daylight, broad daylight stuff like this seems to be happening more and more in a T. L get it. This is a different I don't know. These are different Gangsters to me. Absolutely. And then you heard Chris Chandler covering it. The dual stealing wallets out of ladies' purses at the grocery store. Don't do it. I'm one Shelley Wynter. I have all of my cards. I don't even go in with my purse. I have all of my cards. I'm the one. I have it on my phone. Do you do that yet? So I have all of my cards in my Google pay and I don't go in with the person. You get to the phone, right? That's good. That's the fuck. I don't need the purse. I just need the phone now. You can't do without the fingerprint without the fingerprint going to it. So it's It's really secure. No, you can't come boost your ship to my house. No, no, You can't. So ladies, be careful. One lady. You heard Chris talk about it. He just said. Basically, she said as she was away from her perch for, like, two seconds, But it's all the same time you really You really can't do it. I don't understand why everyone. I just don't get what's happening. The government is sending out checks that they stopped sending out checks. Is that what's going on? I don't know. I just you're getting free money. Well, like if you're a criminal, and you're getting free money, Why would you steal from other people? I don't think that's I think people just it's just when it's in your sh Elliot's in you. It's in you. You just do stop. What do you do about people like that? Like when you catch someone No seriously thought that you stole someone's wallet in the store, and then they will charge thousands of dollars, charged thousands of dollars. But technically, it's like it's like a misdemeanor or something because you use no gun. There's no violence attached. So what do you do Those people they know by doing that they're not going to get in a lot of trouble. Do we start to up the ante on punishment? Like if you catch the person who's stealing wallets from people still, uh um, carts in the store? Do you throw the book at them? Like Do you start to just throw the book at these people to get them to stop? Or is that something that doesn't happen? I think with most cases, you look at the situation in the circumstances. Not that you condone it. Not that you say, Hey, I understand your baby was starving and you needed food and you guys are homeless are almost out. You it doesn't. It doesn't permit you to do it, But I think you look at it at a case by case basis you start. I think people have to really start thinking about. I think you know elected officials and the people in law enforcement really have to start looking at increasing public. Shipments for what used to be minor crime. Absolutely, because of minor crimes and things that lead to bigger crimes. You know, you allow four kids to sell water on the side of a highway. Now you have people shooting at him crazy. You know what I mean? So do you say, Oh, well, the boys are not doing anything. Well, clearly they're involved in something because people just don't randomly shoot four kids. On the side of a highway unless they're targeting them. Yeah, well, good. Good thoughts to ponder if you want to weigh in on that. Please do 40487207 51 800 wsb talk. You heard Scott Eby say our question of the night. It comes from something that Shelley Wynter and I saw the other day and it is basically we'll call it the death. Calculator. And basically, the scientists say they kind of can predict in some stages when you are going to do the people, older people, but you did it. Yeah, you can put in. No, I couldn't finish it. But you but you could put it in for your your mom. Your grandparents you put in their age What They're going through the medicines they take and they can predict this calculator when they will die so Question becomes. Do you want to know when or do you want to know how you will die? 4487207 51 800 wsb talk. I started it and it said, uh Are you sure you want to know? And I was like, No. This is like some Weegee board stuff. I don't even want to do it. You started. So you went through the process. Okay, So what do you want? What do you want? Do what you want. And if you call, you have to pick one or the other Because you know, some people will say I don't want to do either. Do you want to know when you will die? Shelley Winters back to me, Can you Come back come back to you because I I came. Well, we came up with this question about an hour and a half ago. I still don't have my answer. I'm going back and forth right now. 4 12 in the afternoon, right now, I say I'd rather know how. Rather than when. Okay, I would rather know how, rather than when I vacillated back and forth, And so what we'll do is I'm stuck. I know my answer. 100% now thought about it. But first the roads little slick out there. Some rain.