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Mark Levin
Guest Host Rich Zeoli Unpacks the Latest Elon Musk Attack
"Media matters executed this plot in multiple steps as x's internal revealed first media matters access accounts that have been active for at least 30 days passing x's add filter for new users media matters then exclusively followed a small subset of users consisting entirely of accounts in one of two categories ready category number number one those known to produce extreme fringe content and category number two accounts owned by twitter's big name the end result of that is the algorithm keeps showing them extremist lunatics on the platform and also their biggest advertisers that's what the algorithm is showing them now there are not a lot of extremist lunatics on the platform there are 500 million users the amount of actual extremist lunatics on there is very small small very it's like 0 .0 percent to quote dean but the algorithm does its job so it shows those accounts because they're following them and then it shows the big the advertisers then what they did was a feed precision for the single purpose to produce side -by ad slash content placements that it could screenshot in an effort to alienate advertisers there are various programs that allow you to see multiple tweets values a program called tweet deck so I can keep tweets open and I can scan different accounts I can know if somebody's talking about me I can you can use platforms like that you can see multiple tweets that's essentially kind of similar so they would have the column of their lunatics and the column of their of their advertisers
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "dean" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Dan Bongino Show
Nikki Haley Wants You to Verify Your Identity on Social Media
"Gonna it's be lovely that's why these show rates are because we never bs you here it is the single all most horrendous idea ever broadcast from a candidate for office i think anywhere in the country let me just say in advance i got no beef with nikki haley okay i got no beef if she's a republican nominee i'm gonna support her over joe biden or gavin nuisance or kamala harris or who or dean phillips or whoever else runs okay but that doesn't mean you get a yes i'm a trump supporter i had an issue with the abortion thing brought it up on the air i and i i'm i'm fair to all the candidates i've had issues with some some other people of the candidates positions i don't like tim scott's stuff when he was still in the race in criminal justice reform but nikki haley i she's trying to backtrack this today this doesn't need a backtrack this needs a full full just pull it out root and branch just come clean just say listen i'm really sorry this was a stupid idea this is the single dumbest idea i've ever heard yet nikki haley came out yesterday with basically a proposal to docs every single person on the internet for the government to take over algorithms now as a tech investor myself i mean is rumble gonna fall into that too i mean we have a a chat room in my show is that a blog that we can is is uh... the mcgraw main family and that that's in their real by the way you go to my chat they're hilarious olden mcgroin in the growing shaking away probably laughing jim are these real people yes they are are yet i don't want to know the real names they don't want the real names known but she has some entitlement to the real names i want you to listen to this check this out when i get into office the first thing social media accounts social media companies they have to show america their algorithms let pushing what they're pushing the second thing is every person on social media should be verified by their name personal that's to national security threat when you do that all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the russian bots the iranian bots and the chinese bots and then you're going to get some civility when people know their name is next to what they say accountability and they know their pastor and their family member is going to see it it's going to help our kids and it's going to help our country no no miss haley no you have no entitlement whatsoever in the government to knowing people's online activity what they're doing it's none of your business they're not breaking any laws if the holding shaken and aiken mcgroin family in my chat wants to be aken shaken and holding then that's
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Dean" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Reports go to commuterconnections .org to sign up or call 800 -745 -RIDE. I'm wtop traffic. Early Friday morning here and temperatures aren't quite as low, not quite as cold out there as it's been the last couple of mornings. We're starting out upper 20s to upper 30s across the area with partly cloudy skies. Clouds quickly on the increase and we'll be dealing with some rain between 11 a .m. and 5 p .m. High temperature today between 45 and 50 degrees. Rain showers move out in your drive for your Friday evening plans. I'm 7news chief meteorologist Veronica Johnson of the First Alert Weather Center. 39 degrees upon circle. You're waking up to 32 in Germantown, 37 Annandale. We are back up to 41 in our nation's capital. Good morning. Welcome to WTOP. Time now is 4 21. It's this Friday morning. You're with Dean Lane on Santa. I hope you are having a good day in the North Pole. Is it cold all the time there? Is that why
The Dan Bongino Show
Cannibalism Theory and the Left's Desperate Racism Accusations
"Love you you're welcome the p ones you know i'm going with this my cannibalism theory of the left is very simple conservatives ignore these idiots now we will police racism where we see it because we believe in god -given rights but we've started to realize that the left doesn't mean whenever it the left cries racism it's a political fight it's not a moral they they know tarring people with that label has worked for them in the past it doesn't work anymore the left calls everyone their mother their dog their cat their hamster everybody's a racist to the left so we just give it up i mean we know it's not even serious anymore so the charge is now now jim you've been in radio three decades you and mike both i asked this a lot of you but you know know for a fact twenty thirty years ago if you were called a racist it was a big deal folks you could lose your job i mean it was a serious thing the democrats have so watered down this label and have called every bit no one buys it anymore so the cannibalism theories given that we're ignoring them they're going to start using it now that racist label because it works on their own people just not us they're going to start using it on their own people queue up for me if you would jim cut for here here is cnn doing a segment on dean phillips and i want you to listen and dean phillips at end the of this has the perfect comeback to this being called a racist because he's in new hampshire thing and it's how even though the guy's a democrat i never support democrats ever but he has the perfect comeback if recuse of the same thing check this out your exchange with them casey over uh... black voters and not not just black for his key coalitions in the democratic party was really talented yeah and you you know know and i'm i'm really into some really bad barrels here and when i learned when i learned about that because he's obviously gone back and forth with jim cliburn because cliburn supported this move to have the first primary go to south carolina he said it was disrespectful of black voters the way phillips is going about his campaign and and i think we should just note that trying to win a democratic combination without the help of some of these critical groups is i think next to impossible although i want to know you think let's how dean phillips answer this question first of all if he feels i've disrespected anybody i apologize but if it's because i was in new hampshire speaking with voters here that that was voters i take exception to that because when i'm in south carolina shortly visiting with black voters that is not disrespectful to muslim voters in michigan listen and dean ellips i don't know you you're a democrat i don't support democrats ever but ladies and there are learning moments to be found on social media and the internet everywhere that is actually how you
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "dean" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Showers veronica says mainly falling between 11 this morning and five in the afternoon comfortable high of 50 degrees you're waking up to 37 degrees in our nation's capital good morning to you I'm Dean Lane time now on WTOP is 4 .14 in the morning. This is WTOP News checking out stuff to watch this weekend new on the big the screen shift it's about a man who runs into a stranger with otherworldly powers if you will who banishes him to a parallel earth and he fights to get back to the woman the people here have no hope you still looking for that wife of yours you're clinging to scraps of rumors and then he
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Monitor Show 16:00 11-13-2023 16:00
"Investment Advisors, switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. Dean, we're talking what, 3 .3 % year over year here, 0 .3 % on a month -to -month basis here, and that's relatively in line with where we've been now for the last couple of months. I'm not sure if those numbers get hit right on the nose, I'm not sure it really changes the narrative at all. All right, we're getting the closing bells here in New York on this Monday afternoon here, and once again, a low volume day leading to what is two relatively unchanged markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is in the green on the day, but only by about a tenth of a percent, higher by roughly 49 points and change as we wait for these numbers to settle. The S &P 500 lower by about 3 to 4 points, or about a tenth of a percent, while the NASDAQ composite is going to finish the day lower by roughly 30 points, or about two tenths of a percent. And the Russell 2000 really emblematic here of just how tepid the price action was, unchanged on the day at 17 ,000 and change. All right, so tepid on the price action, you look at the S &P a little changed here lower. If you dig a little bit deeper though, a little bit of a negative tone in terms of the individual names, 307 to the downside, losing some ground in the Monday trade. Katie, 194 to the downside, so a little bit of a, like I said, a negative slant to unchanged in today's trade. Yeah, and you take a look at some of the industry groups, there's a lot of green, a lot of red, so it all washes out to about neutral, but you take a look at what did well today, and it's the autos group, but we know a lot of that is coming from Tesla, but nonetheless, that group higher by about 3 .6 percent. Healthcare equipment and services also having a good day, so too is energy. So those are your bright spots. You take a look at the bottom of the list, what isn't doing too well today from an industry group perspective. You have retail, real estate, you have tech hardware, and you have utilities leading losses.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Dean" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"With wtop and dean lane friday morning december 1st at 352 good morning this is wtop news as we head into the busy holiday season stress may be on the mind these days google search trends expert and as brian says this friday top morning the searches right now this month show just how tired some people really are this time of year in a lot of places the weather is getting colder students are taking midterms and everyone's just tying up loose ends holidays before the so we saw a lot of search interests around burnout of all kinds so academic burnout relationship burnout stages of burnout and alongside that we saw that people were you know searching for coffee so just kind of give them that extra boost of energy brian says the early part of november was filled with searches about veterans day and people who have served in our military they say it's better to give than to receive but there are some holiday gifts where you can do both actually rather than returning or ignoring them there's a thing known as regifting if you didn't know what that was if you go that route what the is right way to actually do it though if you're like me i have a regifting closet and i put the things in there and so people maybe got two crock pots or two toasters and so they might you know rather than return it put it in a closet and then come christmas time if you know somebody is in like maybe someone's starting out it needs a toaster you can repackage it make sure that you regift it make sure there's no ordinary from your wedding i mean it's perfectly fine to give it to somebody who would want to need that's washington post personal finance columnist michelle single terry with that advice there to of the world entertainment returned this morning it's time for a throwback thursday as an 80s new wave band returns to the dmv this coming weekend in fact a flock of seagulls performs live at the philmore in silverspring on saturday i would love to hear your reaction when in pop culture like pulp fiction samuel jackson goes hey hey you fucking seagulls i think it's brilliant because it shows that people are still talking about us mainly i guess because of a haircut it just shows that the band had something that is timeless front man mike score says over spring we'll hear the band's breakthrough hit i ran we were looking for a record deal we went to a local record label liverpool in and they had a picture on the wall of two people running away from a flying source so i just started to develop a story hear our full chat on my podcast beyond the fame jason frailey debbie's here news didn't you get away are listening to 103 .5 fm
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jeremy Stahlnecker
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Mataxas! Folks, welcome back. It's always a joy to speak to Irish people in general, but when you get two of them, it's unbelievable. I have two friends, the journalists, Phalom McAleer and Anne McEnany. Anne, did I get it right? McElhenny. McElhenny, are you sure, though? Anne McElhenny and Phalom McAleer, I love you, too, and you're always doing great things. Welcome back. Thanks so much for having us. Phalom, what are you guys up to this time? You guys are really, you're very clever with the things you do. There's a photographic exhibit. I think we should talk about that. Yeah, so we've, you know, we've covered the Kermit Gosnell story really since it broke in 2013, 2012. As you know, we made the movie. We wrote the book, which was a New York Times bestseller. We did a play on it. We did a podcast, a top rated podcast. But as part of our investigations, we came across the crime scene photograph. Some source gave us the cry. All the crime scene for not everybody knows what we're talking about. So briefly, tell my audience who is Kermit Gosnell, because there are people listening today that haven't they weren't listening six months ago or a year ago when we were talking about this. Well, Kermit Gosnell was is America's biggest serial killer. He was an abortion doctor in Philadelphia. And also was selling opioids, opioid prescriptions. And he was his clinic was raided by the DEA and the FBI because he was selling drugs. And they find a murder mill. And he is America's biggest serial killer. He murdered babies born alive. He murdered or he killed several patients, several female patients. He was a monster, but he was allowed to kill in plain sight because he had abortion clinic above the door. And the bodies kept coming out and the authorities wouldn't look behind that door because he was protected by the sacrament of abortion, the leftist sacrament of abortion. So we've kind of made it our job as journalists to really show this story for what it is, try and understand what happened and how it was allowed to happen. Much more important. So as I say, we've written these books about it. Made a movie about it, starring Dean Cain. But we have these crime scene photographs which are show evil and show the banality of evil as well. They show every aspect of his operation from the clocking in where they have to clock in with the cards, wishing people happy birthday. And then there's bits of it that are more explicit. So we thought, you know, the left are always doing photo exhibitions about Gaza refugees, about climate change, about, you know, all these victims, refugees, all these kind of things. This is a big tradition in America of crime scene photos being used as exhibitions, as works of art. And we thought, let's do this. Let's make, let's bring this to people because the great thing about crime scene photographs is they're taken for evidence in a courtroom, not pro -life, not pro -choice. They're neutral. They were never challenged by either side. They're factual. And people need to see the facts before they make up their mind. Where is the exhibition? So the exhibition is happening in Columbus, Ohio. And the reason why we're in Ohio is that there have been, since Roe v. Wade was overturned, there have been six ballot initiatives. Three of them were pro -abortion ballot initiatives. Three of them were pro -life. But in every case, the pro -life side lost. So Ohio, in on the 7th of November, there will be another of these ballot initiatives. And it's a very, very extreme ballot initiative. It's actually, what it's going to do is going to enshrine in the constitution of Ohio that you can have an abortion up to nine months. So it's very, very extreme. And people are being asked to vote on that. That's why we decided to bring this exhibition first to Ohio, where people need to be educated. And, you know, as Phalen said, these photographs, these are unimpeachable. These were shown in a courtroom, and no one ever challenged them. Neither side ever challenged the veracity of them. So, you know, because a lot of times I think the pro -abortion side can say that they feel that photographs are shown have been tampered with, that the pro -life movement have, you know, photoshopped. Well, no one's photoshopped anything here. These are very raw. And as Phalen said, you know, some of them show the banality of the workplace. But further into the exhibition, you know, as you walk in and you make a choice in this exhibition, we've been very careful about that. As you walk through the more extreme photographs, which are the photographs of the remains of the babies that were discovered on the premises the night of the raid, 47 bodies were discovered that night and brought to the medical examiner's office and, you know, posed and photographed so that doctors could make an evaluation of how they had died. We have those photographs, those kind of more explicit photographs, we have them shrouded in, you know, with a curtain, with a black curtain, also to show reverence for the remains. But people have been very, very moved. I mean, we've just had, somebody came to the exhibition yesterday, an actor who said, if only I knew then what I know now. And he wept in the room where he was looking at the photographs of the dead babies. Where in Columbus, Ohio, people are interested in seeing this? I know it's only up for another day or so. So what is the, is there a website where people can look this up? Yes, they can go to evidencetheexhibition .com, evidencetheexhibition .com. It's in the short north area of Columbus, Ohio. But the address, the specific address is there, evidencetheexhibition .com. And we would really welcome people to come. We are, as I said, open until Tuesday, until the day of the vote. People have already started voting, by the way, in Ohio. And it's extraordinary what people can tell themselves. But the lies that are being told by the pro -abortion side need to be answered with truth. And the truth that this exhibition shows is that people went to Gosnell. Lots of people went to Gosnell. He ran a very lucrative business. And the people who went there were six and seven and eight and nine months pregnant. So it's real. And it happened. And it went on for decades. And Pennsylvania allowed it to go on for decades, despite the bodies piling up, literally the bodies piling up and the complaints piling up. And this is what Ohio is welcoming in. This potential is what they're welcoming in. But I also think that the pictures of the babies are extremely powerful. I know, Eric, I believe I've shared some of these photographs with you in the past. So I think you know what we're dealing with here, but they are in some ways, I mean, this sounds so strange, but they're almost exquisite. They're so perfect. And their humanity is undeniable. And I think the left and the pro -abortion side really liked to push this idea of the clump of cells. In fact, the Guardian newspaper not that long ago published what turned out to be really a very fraudulent image showing some kind of fluff that they were saying that that's really what an abortion looks like. And it's completely untrue. So as I said, these photographs are unimpeachable, and people need to be educated. And we would really like to bring this exhibition around the country next year in 2024. I think there's seven or eight of these ballot measures on the books already all over the country, Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania, many, many states where they're going to be asked. And I've read recently, and I think I agree with it, that the pro -life movement fought very, very hard to overturn Roe v. Wade. But I'm not sure they were ready for the win, because now when people are being asked to make the decision, when the people get to vote, they're, as I said, six out of six ballot initiatives so far, including in three conservative states, were lost by the pro -life side.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Dean" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"1st. I'm now on WTRP 338. Welcome in. Graphic and weather on the 8th and when it breaks. Let's check in with Ken first Berger in the WTLP traffic center this morning. Thank you, Dean. Good morning everybody on Southbound Westbound 95 down in Virginia. Right lane closed because of the accident south of Russell Road. Also westbound 66 just west of the Prince William Parkway. The accident that was in the right lane and over on the right shoulder has been cleared. So all are lanes now open. Also the work zone westbound 66 between the Beltway and Nutley Street has been cleared. However, westbound 66 just after West Ox Road left lane is still blocked. Actually that is a mobile closure on the 66 eastbound express lanes right at the Beltway. Right lane is a mobile closure and then eastbound 66 after Virginia 28 Sully Road to the left lanes are blocked but the work zone and various locations on southbound Sully Road on the approach to 66 has been cleared. Not so the case on southbound Nutley Street. All lanes are shut down by the work zone. This is on the ramp to eastbound 66. Southbound or the in loop of the Beltway after Connecticut Avenue and Maryland you had two right lanes and the right speed up lane all closed. However that has been clear that was a broken down vehicle now out of the way. However in Prince George's County eastbound Landover Road Maryland 202. This is prior to 75th Avenue between US 50 and Martin Luther King Jr. Highway that is shut down. All lanes are closed because of the accident activity. Also watch out for the broken down vehicle westbound 29 in Montgomery County at Lockwood Drive. I'm Ken Berger WTOP traffic. We're starting our day here dry those early morning still hours partly cloudy but clouds will be on the increase and we'll be looking at some rain showers by 10 to 11 a .m.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Active Threat
"Which you should all be aware of. Why my generation hates Jews. My peers have been indoctrinated. She's a 21 -year -old, I think, at Stanford. You're familiar with this piece? No. Julia Steinberg. We have to have her on. I heard great things about her and her article is demonstrative of that fact. My peers have been indoctrinated to believe that Jews are oppressors. So even our mass slaughter is seen as justifiable revenge. I'm 21 years old and Jewish. Apparently 48 % of my peers want people like me dead. As of October 23rd, 64 % of 18 -24 year olds think what happened on October 7th was a terrorist attack. 77 % of us think, quote, It's true that Hamas terrorists killed 1 ,200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people, including whole families, kids, and babies. But when asked, is this, in this conflict, do you side more with Israel or Hamas? 48 % said Hamas. 48 % of America's 18 -24 year olds. The left has done a good job. The left has been effective in shattering the ability to think morally in a generation of young Americans. Side with Hamas? Half? It is a poll. It is one I am familiar with. Let's see what, who put this out. It's a Harvard -Capps -Harris poll. Center for American Political Studies. The Harris poll. Wow. Half of America's 18 -24 year olds side with Hamas? Do you believe that? No. You don't believe it? What do you believe? I don't think they side with Hamas. They may... Well, even that, that's virtually as bad. No, it's not. Well, it is in the sense... No, siding with Hamas? Yeah, you're right. Siding with Hamas, okay. Well, I don't know the answer to that question. Does one believe a poll? The polls have been notoriously inactive. All right, well, we have to find how the question was praised. They have a lot of questions here about optimism, about their own life. Biden's approval rating remains just above 40 % as it has been for the last year, which proves there is no damage he can do to the country which would hurt that. GOP approval remains at about 50%. Democratic party approval, let's see, also underwater. Overall congressional approval ticked down to 30%. Here's an interesting part of this poll. Then I'll get to the Middle East. RFK Jr., Netanyahu, Haley, and Musk have highest net favorability. Isn't that fascinating? Donald Trump is the most favorable, but also one of the most unfavorable. Hillary Clinton is higher in the unfavorable. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., favorable 49%, unfavorable 30%. Joe Biden, favorable 45%, unfavorable 49%. Kamala Harris, favorable 44%, unfavorable 47%. And so on. I'm only mentioning these things to give credibility to this poll. It doesn't seem to be Republican or Democrat in its orientation. Most voters view Israel favorably just behind the U .S. military and police. See, that's a good thing to read. That's right, U .S. military is number one, 80%. Police, 67 % to 22. Isn't that something? And then Israel, 59, 21. But that includes all voters, including those above 25. Anyway, I'm going to continue with her piece. I am not surprised. In high school, my homeroom had an exercise where we made a T chart dividing various ethnicities, religions, and other identities into the categories of oppressor and oppressed. Isn't that fascinating? The indoctrination? By the way, all the anti -PragerU columns, nearly all, cite me as having said, yes, we bring doctrines to children, but tell me what doctrines are wrong. So in that sense, we indoctrinate. There is no education that doesn't indoctrinate. If teaching kids that they should treat their fellow human being decently, isn't that indoctrination? So isn't the issue in life? It's like saying Dennis Prager is pro -killing. Yes, I am. When you're killing a violent intruder in your home, who is about to murder or attempt to murder a member of your household, killing would be right. Killing is right in a just war. So saying Dennis Prager is for killing is dishonest. You have to tell what doctrines, in the case of my pro -indoctrination comment, I'm for. Women, oppressed. Straight people, oppressor. Black people, oppressed. This was on the, this was on a, you know what a T chart is? Okay. Then we reached the Jew category and we paused. This being a high school in Los Angeles, many of my classmates were Jewish. I recall we skipped it all together, but the T chart stayed on the whiteboard. If there were fewer Jews in that room, I'm confident that Jews would have gone squarely in the oppressor column. Social justice theory became part of everything. My senior English class was not about great literature, but about readings in critical theory, mostly about race and gender. Isn't that astonishing? I mean, I take that back. It's not astonishing at all. Isn't it depressing? She didn't learn about great literature. I had a non -academic weekly homeroom class in which we learned that every white person is racist and all men are evil. It took me a long time to shake off a hatred of men. It wasn't socially acceptable to disagree and no one really tried. My high school got a dean of gender studies and feminism. You hear that? How much of the education money now goes to such positions? Deans of gender theory, gender studies and feminism. At the time, one of her roles, that's fascinating, it was a woman, shocking, to help seniors write their college applications. In answer to the question, what is the most significant challenge society faces today, I wrote, it was identity politics. She gave me a note saying, that meant I was rejecting the advances of the civil rights movement. I changed it. Did you get that? Did you get that, folks? She's against identity politics and therefore, she is opposed to the advances of the civil rights movement. So, they're taught, at least in her high school, I assume in vast numbers of them, in a vast number of them, that the civil rights movement was about affirming racial identity. I understood the civil rights movement as saying your racial identity shouldn't matter. Your character identity, your individual identity, that's what mattered. Well, if Hamas are liberators, then racial identity is a healthy thing. My friends, I want to tell you about one of the most influential books of my life. In fact, it's on my list of the ten books that most influenced me. And it's just been re -released, George Gilder's Men and Marriage. George Gilder has been clear about the stakes for the family since 1974. Fifty years later, the need of the hour remains. Men who take responsibility for themselves. Men who love their wives. Men who raise their own children. Men who tackle the workforce. 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ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
A highlight from The Best Gaming Podcast #419 Whats Next? | Ironman | Spiderman 2 Bugs | PC Ports Suck | Industry Hot Rumors | Game of the Year Awards
"We frog for a week straight. So you got fat from fried left. I was thin and she came back. I was fat because I ate fried frog like twice a day. I know a lot of people, a lot of kids in school get pretty portly from beer, you know, because there's so much sugar and beer. So everybody, this is Carrick with ACG and we are here with the live best gaming podcast number 419. Got a bunch of rumors, Spider -Man stuff, celebrating gaming order here to change the game a little bit. That's my plan is to make it a little bit more about celebrating gaming for friends talking about titles, talking about good stuff that almost sound like I said, talking about titties, but talking about titles, talking about games, titties, enjoying ourselves, hanging out, boobies and games. We should have an entire podcast just about boobs. There's a bunch of stuff. Actually. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Other shit. They were all they were just talking about tits, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it gets a little horny there. Sup, everybody? Thank you very much. Carrick should honestly do audiobooks. Maybe I will, man. Maybe. Maybe I'll read a couple of audiobooks, make some money on the side. B Sparks is in here. Josh Carey, a herpa, a herpa is in here. I don't know what that means. A herpa. No. A herpa. Dye Phillips is in here. Hush out ghoul as always. Welcome Deon. Jimmy Dean man. Bunch of people I see all the time, which is pretty, pretty crazy. Make sure to tweet out that we that we're doing this if you want to. And if you don't want to tweet out anyway, damn it. Let's see. Let's start. First, let's start with what we've been playing. Jay Mann, Jay, Jay Meister, full arena, Jay Perry, the source reps. I haven't talked to you all week about what you've been playing. I think I've either seen silver or seen Abzi talking about, but I don't think I've seen anything from you. What are you? We haven't talked this week. I think in the discord. I've been playing a lot of Lords of the Fallen and I know, you know, there's been a lot of negativity around it and I get it. It does have some issues, but I do think it has a lot to offer that, you know, has some cool mechanics that I've been discovering things that the game doesn't write out, tell you you can do, but you kind of naturally discover like some stuff, for example, you know, you, you could put on the lantern so that you see the platform that only exists in the world of the dead, then you get on it and then you remove the lantern and it goes away. So, so then that allows you to maybe drop in some hidden places and find loot and stuff like that. And there's a lot of mechanics around that. So it's not just a gimmick, you know, it's integrated into all aspects, even combat too. So certain bosses will have different reactions to those lantern abilities and some of them unexpected and, you know, can really help turn the tide as well. So it's, I think, very clever. A lot of cool stuff there. I do have to say, though, I don't know how you guys feel about like souls stories. There's something about it. Every single time I jump into it and I'm like, dude, I'm excited, right? I'm going to read every description and then that lasts like two hours and I start skipping dialogue. I just like there's something that's like Lords of the Fallen has bad VA, right? You know, it's I would say it's hit or miss. There's some good ones, but then there's some pretty yeah, pretty like, you know. What are they? Are they I'm reading at a at a table read sound or is it not fitting the character? It is kind of like found it in a couple, a few, a few. You know, there are some really great ones. That's the thing. So it's kind of like hit or miss. And the setting is great, is very interesting. It's awesome to explore. If you like getting lost in the world and figuring it out and stuff like that's awesome. You can get in there, do all that. But I got to tell you, the new game plus is basically unplayable to me because you don't have bonfires in new game plus. Right. Yeah. We did talk about this. So you have to create them, right? Well, but here's the thing that doesn't work because you can only have one bonfire that you create in the Umbral world. You can only have one at a time. So the whole point of the bonfires is not as much as a checkpoint. You know, when you kind of learn the game, it's more a way to traverse the world effectively. Without that, there is a central hub that you can kind of cross between places, but there is a great deal of backtracking you're going to have to do and trudging through areas over and over. That sounds like not fun. Yeah. I don't know why they did that. That could be a cool mode, like a challenge mode or something, but I would never play the game in that way because I love traveling back and forth like, oh, did I miss something here? You know, let me go back farm that location that was really useful, right? I like doing that, you know, quickly. People in chat, do you feel the same way? I would say for me, in game plus, I like the switch ups. I like that people are doing different stuff with Starfield and you see that that is true. Yeah. I mean, that field based. That's pretty hard. That's pretty that that's like in game plus, plus, plus at that point, like that's pretty rough. They did warn us. They I do remember us talking about this about three weeks ago where we had seen the post about the end game plus having that. So I mean, it's what it is. It is what it is. Yeah. Has that been it? Lords of the Faun? Yeah. And I played a little bit of Spider -Man today. Little bit of Spider -Man. OK, we'll talk about that in a second. What about you, Silver? What have you been playing? Nearly exclusively Cyberpunk 2077. I started a new playthrough on the 2 .0 patch and some of the Phantom Liberty content. I really like a lot of the changes to the 2 .0. I really like that grenades and health packs have become cooldown items now that they're not like consumables. I think that flows really well into the game's combat system. I really still enjoy that the different builds and different gameplay aspects, whether you play as a netrunner or stealth or like gung ho, they're all fun. This playthrough I focused on being gung ho, so like ripping off machine guns, instagipping people with machine gun fire, which gets really, really satisfying and really, really fun. So the multiple ways to play it, it's become one of my sort of favorite games to pick up and play. It runs beautifully on the Xbox Series X by now. Absolutely gorgeous game on there, particularly in the display mode. I forget what it's called, like the fidelity mode, whatever it is. Don't mind playing it in 30 FPS, it runs and plays fine in that for me. The game just looks absolutely gorgeous in it. But I am disappointed that like for PC, they haven't addressed the key mapping issues at all in the 2 .0 patch. You still do not have full key mapping functionality for Cyberpunk's PC port. That bugged the shit out of me. I had to do a mod for that. You can't remap keys for like the netrunning and stuff like that. It's really, really bothersome to me, particularly as like a key accessibility feature that you should be able to remap your keys for PC port. Yeah, sorry about that key thing. Did you find that when you're talking to people in dialogue and you can walk at the same time your W and S while you're walking changes the dialogue option and there's no way to change that other than a mod? No because I don't use W and S for movement, I use the arrow keys. Oh, does the arrow keys not change the dialogue options? I didn't find that. I always use the mousecroller. I didn't tend to use movement a lot. Yeah, you had to do like an I and I edit to stop that from happening. Also, I don't actually use keyboard and mouse for Cyberpunk's PC version because of the lack of key mapping features, so I use gamepad for it. Yeah, there was a lot of bothersome stuff when it came to keybinds, 100 % yeah. I also played some Spiderman 2 today. What about you, Abzi? Yeah, I played some Spiderman 2, but my highlight this weekend, honestly, is modded Red Dead 2, dude. Last podcast you told me about a couple mods and I went ham, there are so many fucking amazing mods for Red Dead and it just completely changed the game for me. It's like I'm playing the game and I'm like, this is a benchmark game overall. This is a game that no game has reached the levels of in terms of detail and immersion, what you can do in the game, especially with these mods. So I downloaded some visual mods, a visual overhaul and all that stuff. I also downloaded this thing called PED damage overhaul, so enemies are no longer squishy, you know what I mean? So it's like, even you, you know, I was going to point that out both ways, low TTK. It also does it so that the enemies are less accurate, like more, more believably accurate. And while they lose health, they lose accuracy as well. And they bleed, right? Didn't you say something? Oh, yeah. So the other one I got was, was all shots cause bleed outs. So now like, like bullets cause people to bleed. The big one though, is the W E R O, which stands for something, but it's euphoria somewhere in there, which improves the ragdoll mechanics and everything, the locational damage reaction. So if you hit someone like in the knee, he goes like to the ground and kind of holds his knee and stuff as opposed to like your stomach or whatever. And it's really, really accurate. It's insane. Another one is immersive scenarios. And that one is fucking crazy. You talked about it last time. Yeah. Incredible. Yeah. It lets you do any activity that an NPC can do that you can't because it was locked to the NPC. So you could like lean out a wall and smoke a cigarette. You can interact with like every item you can see. It's very, very contextual. Like you can do a lot, but what, what really surprised me was how detailed it is. It was, they carried through the quality of detail from rockstar into the mod. So like, for example, like when I sat down around a campfire to light this cigarette, wasn't just an animation of him smoking a cigarette. He rolled the cigarette and started smoking. And when I pressed end, I expected the animation to just end and go back to walking normally, but no, he kept the cigarette lit up, held the cigarette with him as he was walking. And then a new contextual thing came up where I could smoke wherever I want. Like there are little things like that, depending on where I'm looking, because where the camera is, is where his face is looking. So depending where I'm looking, he smokes differently and all the, all the animations work properly. It was fucking insane, man. Immersive scenarios it's called, and it's really, really well done. And then I got a crime and law rebalance, which rebalanced a lot of the wanted systems and stuff like that. I basically made it so that if you hit someone with your horse, the cops aren't going to come after you. There are a lot of different, like improvements. PETA ran that game prior to that mod, man. Yeah, exactly. You bump somebody with your horse and it's like, oh, what are you doing? The world came after you. Yeah. And then I got some gameplay ones such as I can rob whatever bank I want. And I can, I can purchase houses and I can also, you know, the system of the, the bounty hunting system. Now there's like a couple of quests of bounty hunting in each town and made it an, an emergent what do you call it? A radiant thing. So like you can keep just doing bounties if you want. Yeah. So fucking amazing. You can go to Nexus mods or like they have their own, own mod website for tech. There's just a lot of really, it just heightens the game all around. It's awesome. That's very cool. And then Spider -Man. Well, you said Spider -Man. So you did Spider -Man, you did Red Dead, anything and then anything other than those two for the most part? No, that's it. Other than that, like my, my big game this month that I'm looking forward to is Alan Wake too. So I'm just, I'm just passing time until that comes out. Yeah. Um, Brandon has an amazing, probably the best super chat that's ever been asked. So we got to go over this. He says, would you rather get 1 billion to never masturbate again or 100 every time you masturbate? That's such an easy answer. That's an easy answer. Come on. Come on. I'd be at a billion pretty quick, but yeah, billion pretty quick. Plus you also, you also have, um, income that is reliable and you can do it whenever you want. It's a job. It's a job. Yeah. You're like, I got to make 200, 200 bucks today. So this is a tough month. We're going to allocate some time here. Testosterone's low. I'm just not feeling it today. I mean, dude, I can make a thousand a day easy with that. Oh my God. Okay. Well, there we go. Um, anyway, uh, amazing, uh, super chat even at a thousand a day that we're still taking quite a while to reach a billion math on that one. Yeah. Yeah. Let's not throw the calculator up. Hash, uh, how shall Google $5 super chat? If you can choose a radioactive animal or insect to bite you, which would you choose? Oh, but you choose the power you get from that. Okay. Cause I was saying, seriously, if you just get bitten, that just suck balls. But uh, yeah. Okay. So you get bit by a road beetles or a, Oh dude, Bombardier beetle that shoots acid. Hell yeah. Hydrogen peroxide. Like the poop beetles, the ones that are just like curling poop, that's your super power. You can just like roll poop really well, dude. I'd be, this is the honest truth, man. I'd probably turn out looking grosser than I do now, but score, I'd probably a scorpion and I grew up just awesome stinger or something like that. Or maybe you want, you want a, well, he didn't say you will grow one because Spiderman didn't really grow eight or eight arms either. You know, I think someone would be like, yeah. Or bite them, I guess, but I always liked scorpions, man. Scorpions are frigging awesome. Like, uh, but what about you guys? Is there any animal that you or platypus man? Cause those dudes are incredible platypus, man. I want to get bitten by a rabid dog and then I want to be afraid of water. That's my power. That's useless. That would be legitimately useless. You would just be a dirty mangy animal actually hindering you. You just explained chupacabra. No the joke was that it was rabies that I wanted to get rabies. You would be, you would be inflicting rabies on enemies, dude, I'd get bit by an elephant and amazing have memory. Yeah, I'd get bit by an elephant and just be like, yeah, eidetic memory or whatever. Just like sperm whales are pretty goddamn amazing. Sperm whales are also ultimate boss battles in the, in the deep between giant squid. Oh dude. Oh, a giant squid getting bit by like a squid would also be pretty cool. Squid man. See, that's the problem is we don't know what you would look like afterwards. That would affect. That is otherwise it would go like, like somebody said, an eagle. It's like, yeah, I mean, it, you know, if you want to look noble and shed, it probably would be enough by a sperm whale and become captain they have. Yeah, well, true. Yeah, you still look human. When you look at all the like Batman, you know, not in other than the fear of bats and stuff like that, especially as a child. It is interesting though, that most of the time they don't, you know, the villains are the ones that get mutated the worst. And you can sort of tell that when you look at it, it's like, so it depends on how much you mutate. Like I said, Spider -Man didn't grow eight arms. You know, he built the suits that do that or people built suits for him. But yeah, different animals would be very cool. I mean, it's like that's the crux of what, 90 percent of superheroes, maybe not 90. But yeah, a lot of them. Yeah, a massive number of superheroes. It's always about animals and stuff like that. But anyway, the radiation thing, right, that you see that so much, dude. Yeah. And it's like like real life radiation. You just get cancer and die. But in the in the comic book, you go green. And yeah, I remember it's like in an old Spider -Man comic, like there was like a male section where people were mailing questions for like one of the editors. And there was a funny question. I still remember where how Sandman got his powers, whether he wrote a radio active sandwich. Oh my God, that's actually a good idea. There's a Chevy Chase movie from the 80s. I don't know if, you know, none of you guys probably know that other than maybe Silver, but he has radio radiation hit him and he gets powers. And at the time, he like uses it to have sex with a woman, uses these powers for all this crazy stuff. And I remember even as a young kid going, dude, that's not how radiation works. That's not OK. Yeah. It's sort of retrain myself to not take it serious because I love Chevy Chase. But even as a kid that didn't pass the sniff test that I think radiation, it was probably after Chernobyl. And it's like, you know, so it's like it's post Chernobyl kind of stuff. But prior to that, oh, sure. I thought, you know, radiation, man. It's like or, you know, gamma rays, gamma rays. Yeah, that's exactly what I was doing. Gamma rays. And you're like, oh, do gamma rays. I love Samuel L. Jackson says that when somebody says, oh, it's just gamma rays. And he's like, gamma rays can be dangerous. And it's just like a double a double awesome hint. Reptiles can grow back tails. Some people are talking about that. How about a rabbit? I could be so cute. You just die from looking at me. Get bit by a crocodile. Crocodile. What? What is it? What is he just called? I mean, you have croc killer. You have killer croc. Thank you, Batman. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. Something like weird popped into my head. It's like a very, very weird type of thing to say, like a stoner type of thing to say. But Batman, has there been like a vampire Batman comic thing? OK. OK. I'd never put two and two together like he's a bat and vampire. It wasn't based on purely that. It's the one where the virus I just talked about it in discord about six months ago, I started reading it. But it's where this vampire virus spreads across everybody. And so they all get it. And Batman is trying to save people. Then he gets it. It's not infected. Does anybody know the name of that comic line? Because it's a massive comic line. So anybody in chat, you know the name of this comic line, but it's a massive comic line that involves that. I don't know if there's been separate ones, though, you know, like or where he truly gets bit by a vampire. But you do have a saying. Is that right? Mm hmm. No, Morbius. Morbius. No, that's that's the other one. That's the movie. With man bats. The other one I was going to bring up. You came and left so fast, dude. That meme was like a five minute meme. Yeah. The morbid the morbid time, Morbius. And people posting gifs of the whole movie on this literally they go the whole movie in a gif. Really? Yeah. I never saw that one. That was Jared Leto, right? Yeah. Dude, there was also I don't really have an issue with him. Every single Star Wars movie in the gift, but like 10, 100 X speed or something. Oh, really? Just super. That's just like the whole all all my movies, people ruin people. People try to ruin stuff a lot, man. I saw it with the last bit. Deceased. Yes. Thank you very much, guys. Spike the bloody deceased. And it's honestly it was very. Yeah, exactly. I knew it. You know, dude, I want to see like a Vladimir to push like Dracula, Dracula crossover, where they join up. They take join up. Yeah. Oh, deceased is zombies. You're right. You're right. You're right. There is a vampire one then, for sure. But the one you guys are right. I'm talking about deceased because they're tearing superheroes in half. Like it's basically the boys kind of thing, you know, where they go that extra step. So let's talk about Spider -Man. So we've all played it. Yeah. First of all, what are you guys thoughts? We'll go we'll go with the length of time, the shortest first. So Johnny, you played at the shortest amount of time, right? Sounds like just a little bit today. Couple hours today. So what a great first impression. Yeah, right. Go for it. You know, I really like how those guys do story. There's something about it. It kind of flows really well. In all of their games, I've had this thing where you can kind of go through it and have a great time, even though we talk about Mary Jane and we give her a lot of shit. And I do think in this one, she seems like, again, it's very early, but I didn't get that big manipulative vibe that you talk about from the first one last game. Yep. Right. Yeah. So in this one, it's like, you know, okay, we're a team, you know, let's make this work because Peter is in tough times or whatever. And I have a much better feeling about this Mary Jane than I did that other one that was it kind of was a very self -serving character. She was very driven about her career, but it was like everything was an instrument for her to, you know, to get the story she wanted. Absolutely. It's a good, good point. Yeah. And I just, the other thing I noticed is how awesome the performance mode is. I really just highly recommend people at least try it out because once you go into the performance mode, I think it's pretty hard to come back swinging in that is, you know, it's amazing. And then switching back and forth like, okay, I'm going to do some stuff with Miles now in this district, whatever. And you know, the suits have styles, which I'm such the greatest thing in the world. Yeah. Like a, just a palette difference, you know, cause you like the suit, but you're maybe a bit bored with it, change the color, wrench into things and yeah, go green. You know, like there's some unexpected colors in there. I absolutely love the stuff with the suits. And so far, I liked the idea of having the common skill tree for like both of them and then each have their own as well, because I was wondering how they were going to do that. And I thought that was a good way of putting that together.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Debt Spiral with Preston Pysh & James Lavish
"It's not just some random Bitcoiner and some guy from Cincinnati talking about this debt spiral anymore. It's everybody on Wall Street. It's like very credible people. The math isn't working anymore. And this is looking like we're crossing the event horizon and there's there's no return. Hello, Bitcoiners. How are you all? It's surviving out there. You having a good week? Right. I've got a very cool show for you today. I'm going to get into that in a minute. But welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today on the show, I have got two legends. I've got James Lavish and Preston Pish. Now about a year ago, we recorded with James, we recorded with him and Greg Foss. We looked into the debt clock, we looked into the debt spiral. And a year on, we wanted to follow this up because the debt clock, I think it's increased by like $3 trillion. And we wanted to understand what's happened, what's changed, are things getting worse? What's this going to mean for us? What's it going to mean for Bitcoin? Is inflation coming? Is high inflation coming? Is hyperinflation coming? James is a great guy to work through this. And we all know Preston, we know the show we made with him about the monopoly board. So to get the two of them together and talk about this in LA was an opportunity we could not say no to. So let me know what you think of this. I do want your feedback. You know how to get hold of me. It's HelloWhatBitcoinDid .com. Morning, Preston. Hey, good morning. Morning, James. Good morning. How are you both? Needing coffee? Yeah. Thank you for the coffee. Thank you for the early show. Thank Danny for that. Actually, I've been up since half five. That's not bad. Half five. Not me. I didn't go out to play last night. Half five. You don't say half. Well, we'll say 5 .30. Okay. Sorry. I didn't even understand what you said. Half five means 5 .30. It's like, oh, whatever. I haven't done my American Duolingo yet. You go down south. It's tricky. 5 .30. 5 .30. Welcome both. How you been? Been great. When did I see you last? Was it Nashville? I don't know, man. Yeah, Nashville. It was Nashville. We were talking about BlackRock. Were we? Yeah. Did I last see you in Bedford? Or no Miami? I feel like no Miami. Yeah. It's like every few months we get to hang out now. Yeah. There's so many events. So many events. Do you remember what we spoke about about a year ago? No. You don't? With Fosse. With Fosse. Oh, yeah. That was fantastic. Yeah. We talked about, there was a debt problem coming. Yeah. Well, you retweeted that recently, again, because we were, when we were preparing, we're looking, always, you look through people's Twitter, see what they're talking about. And we saw your retweet of it again. Was it a pin tweet? You know what happened? Yeah, I had pinned it. What had happened was back in July, August of last year, Greg and I were having a conversation. We're talking about the debt. And he's like, you should probably write something about the debt spiral. I was like, yeah, that's probably a good idea. And then, you know, we, I wrote that and people were like, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, what? Yeah, what? How does this work? Yeah. Well, so I was going through that this morning and I hadn't realized that was the one you wrote a year ago. I thought it was recent. And I got down to the debt clock and I was like, oh, no, that's wrong. Because it was like 30 .7 trillion. And then I looked at the data and I was like, oh, shit, this was a year ago. And we're at, what, 3 trillion cents? Here we go. Oh, yeah. Well, here's the interesting part, which what's great about this is this is a great website, the usdebtclock .org. But they're using all of the data that's coming from the CBO and the Treasury here. So they're just pulling data from actual government sources. Right. So this isn't just made up. And you can see all the way in the top left, 33 .5 trillion dollars. Well, here's the crazy thing. We crossed 33 trillion just about two weeks ago, just over two weeks ago. So we've added 500 billion dollars of debt in two weeks. That's half the GDP of the UK. How are we doing? I think it's not GDP, about a trillion. I don't know. 1 .1 trillion I think the UK GDP is. You added that in two weeks, half of it. Well, we added the entire market cap of Bitcoin in two weeks. Yeah. How's that? But the whole premise of that thread was that we are spending far more than we're making. So if the US was a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it would be called a zombie company because we're not covering our interest payments. So our interest payments here is the best part is that last year when I wrote that thread, the interest payments were like $600 billion. They're now approaching a trillion for the year. If this was my personal finances, my house would probably be foreclosed on. Very soon, you wouldn't be able to pay your credit card debt. And you'd be taking out more credit cards. And those interest rates would just be going higher because you're, OK. So this is what we talked about last year. I know. We're going to revisit it because I think it's worth it. OK. Well, I mean, the bottom line is that we're fucked. The punch line is, yeah. Well, the whole point was that we had compared. I compared it to like a single parent who was just trying to keep up, right? Yeah. And you and I talked about this. We talked about this at length, Preston and I almost daily. But the bottom line is it's like you're a single parent. You're trying to keep up. You know, you've got your mandatory expenses. OK. So you've got your mortgage, your car payment, the food for your kids. And so you've got to gas for the car. You've got to make these payments. And if you don't, then you're kind of screwed because you either lose your job, you lose your house. So you've got to. But you're not keeping up because of inflation. So what do you do? You take out a credit card and you start charging these credit cards. Well, of course, you're not keeping up because you're in a negative earnings position. So now you're taking out, you fill up that credit card. And then the interest payments on that credit card are so high that you start paying the interest payments on that credit card with another credit card and paying on your mandatory expenses. And it just goes into a spiral where you just can't get out of. So you literally go bankrupt. But the problem is, as your credit gets worse, the interest on the credit cards that you're offered is higher. So it makes it even worse. It just compounds it. And we said, well, some people won't even lend you money. Exactly. So we said, yes. And so we said last year that you get to the position where people won't lend you money and they're going to charge you a higher interest rate for it. And that's what's going to happen to the US debt when we get to a point where people realize, oh, god, this is not stopping. They're going to have to issue so much debt that I want a higher interest payment for this. I'm not going to lend them money at 3 % for 30 years. I want 5%, 6%, 7%. And here we are. Or like when I was in Argentina a couple of months ago, they're offering 150%. Yeah, well, that's hyperinflation, which we could get to. I don't think it's hyperinflation yet. Yeah, hyperinflation is 50 % a year. Yeah, exactly. That's an academic definition. It's ridiculous. OK. But my interest in this really is that, and I think the reason we have to revisit it is because lots of people listening to the show, they like Bitcoin, but they tend to tune into these conversations more. It's really a macro show. We call it what Bitcoin is, a macro show. And we know that because we'll get you two on and there'll be like 80, 100 ,000 people listening. We could get Nick Szabo on and it'll be less. So we know, and Nick Szabo people love, but we know that people want the macro because they're like, this is the shit that affects me right now. How bad is it? And what do I need to do? Yeah, because it's affecting your personal finances and the future, the future of Bitcoin. And having in the last few months been out to both Argentina and Lebanon, where I've seen a company, a country which has effectively collapsed in Lebanon, where the currency isn't worth shit. It's used as change, actually. So when you're going to Starbucks, you buy a coffee and you get your $12 change, you'll get $10 in the $2 in the lira. They use it for change. And the only people actually using it are government workers now. And they'll, yeah, I could tell you so many stories, but essentially they just put a new law in place. People who work for the army can get a second job because the money they get paid is worth shit. And so I've always been of the belief that hyperinflation is something that happens in developing economies or other parts of the world that you hear on the news. And it's never really going to come to the UK. It's never really going to come to the US. But actually, we spoke about this in the UK. We talked about one of the ideas is that you could run triple digit inflation to wipe out the debt. And so I think the reason it's important to keep covering this is you're the experts. Where are we? How bad is it? How bad could it get? What's the time frame? And what can people do? They're really important questions. To your point on the credit card example with the rates going higher. So when you look at the last year, we've seen inflation pull back, but yet you've seen treasury yields across the entire duration of the yield curve continue to go higher. Let's define that first. Inflation pull back. We still have inflation. It's just not as bad as it was, but prices are still inflating. So that's something that the government wants to confuse you on that. They say prices are going down. No, no, they're not. The rise, the rate of rise is going down, but it's still rising. So go ahead. That's a super important point. Let me add to that. That's where our prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has been gaslighting the British people because he's been saying, they asked about tax cuts recently, and he said a very honest thing about inflation. Have you seen this? Actually, this is wild. Get this up. But he did say also that I want to bring down inflation so people have more money in their pockets. I was like, hold on a second. If you bring down inflation, they're not going to have more money in their pockets. They're still going to have less money in their pockets. It's just at a decreasing rate, but you're still going to have less money because you've still got inflation. And that was a fucking lie. And I was like, are you lying, or do you not even understand it yourself? It's the same exact thing that we have with our press secretary here. She was gaslighting us, and they just refused to answer the questions. They just keep pointing back to, oh, it's getting better. Watch this. So this is some wild honesty. It's a tax. It's a tax that impacts the poorest people the most. And that is why the best tax cut that I can deliver is to halve inflation. And that's why I set it out as the first. Economically, the impact that it has on people is to eat into their pockets, it puts up the prices of things, it effectively acts as a tax. And that's why we must bring it down, and that's why we are, and the plans are working. But my question to you, Prime Minister, this morning is about the impact of the changes that you have been making. And you're explaining that you think they're the right things to do. And you're basically saying, bring it on to your critics. But on the one specific, your close colleague, Michael Gove, this morning has said that you should commit to cutting taxes for working people before the next election. So she's trying to argue in the background, I don't know if you heard her, she's saying, but inflation is not a tax, and the Prime Minister is saying, yes, it is. And so now he's kind of being honest. Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, which is wild. Well, you know, but I want to hear what else the press needs to say. Oh, no, no, I find it crazy that the BBC is arguing on the opposite side of that. That was crazy. No, so, and James's point is really important. So you have disinflation, which means the prices are still going up, they're just not going up as fast as they were when they were 8 % annually. But when you're looking at the yield curve, and you're seeing it continue to blow out, the yields are going higher, which means the prices are coming down, you would typically see that if inflation was rising, you would see that behavior in the fixed income market, because everybody would be trying to adjust and have some type of yield on top of that inflation rate, which is really kind of your keystone that you're trying to outpace or your hurdle rate is whatever that inflation rate is. So the fact that we're seeing that continue to sell off is effectively the example that he provided with the credit card where the rates keep going higher, because people don't, they're getting to the point where James wrote this article a year ago or whatever it was, and it was kind of like, oh, yeah, look at this guy over here. He's, he's some Twitter guy, a macro extremist. Look at this. Look at this. I had so many people come into the thread to say, you're out of your mind, you're exaggerating. Oh, you're exaggerating. And then Luke Roman told me, Luke Roman told me, he goes, it's not just some random Bitcoiner and some guy from Cincinnati talking about this debt spiral anymore. He says, it's everybody on Wall Street. It's like very credible people talking about what James highlighted a year ago, that the math isn't working anymore. And this is looking like we're crossing the event horizon and there's there's no return. Well, Caitlin Long said this to me four years ago. She said, even is it even longer? I'm not sure. Four or five years ago, I made a show with her and Safer Dean and she was like, they've got it. They're running out of bullets here. And I don't know when it's going to hit, but it's going to hit.
College Admissions Decoded
A highlight from The Power of Hispanic Serving Institutions
"Hello, and welcome to the College Admissions Decoded podcast, an occasional series in the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC. I'm your host, Eddie Pickett. I'm a longtime NACAC member and a member of the NACAC board of directors. In my day job, I'm a senior associate dean of admissions and director of recruitment at Pomona College in Claremont, California. NACAC is an association of more than 25 ,000 professionals at high schools, colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations, as well as independent counselors who support and advise students and families through the college admissions process. Our topic today is Hispanic Serving Institutions, also known as HSIs. Historically, HSIs are colleges and universities with Hispanic undergraduate enrollment of at least 25%. In 1992, Congress formally recognized HSIs and created federal appropriations to support these institutions. Today there are over 500 HSIs in the United States. HSIs play a vital role in the communities they serve, offering culturally relevant programs, a sense of belonging, and services that help students succeed. For this episode, we're joined by Belinda Sandoval -Sasweta, associate vice president of at admissions University of Redlands in California. Welcome Belinda. Thanks Eddie. Happy to be here. We're also joined by Argenis Rodriguez, director of a support program for students. Welcome Argenis. Happy to be here. Thank you both for joining us today on the podcast, particularly after this summer and the Supreme Court decision that came down. So let's just get started with the first question. Belinda, can you tell us a little bit about your background and the work with HSIs that you've done? My pronouns are she, hers, and Aya. I am a Mexican -American. I identify as a Chicana. And so I serve on the advisory council, which is made up of faculty, staff, and students. And we work together as a council to write our first grant for Hispanic -serving institutions, which we were proud recipients of this summer. And Argenis, same question. Can you tell us a little bit about your background and your work that you've done with HSIs? So I'm currently the director of a program that's aimed to support the specific needs of students as they are pursuing an undergraduate degree. And the program balances academic advising and personal support, along with career exploration, leadership development, and community engagement. And so what do Hispanic -serving institutions guarantee to offer students that other colleges and universities might not? Hispanic -serving institutions are intentional in supporting this population of students, like offering a sense of community and relatability. And Hispanic -serving institutions also offer a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And they will continue to play that critical role in providing Hispanic students with the education they need in order to enter their career fields. Very similar to Argenis, you know, I think that institutions are, they show their commitment to serving students. And I was actually reading Gina Garcia's book on Hispanic institutions in practice. And part of that really does a call, really has a call for us to not just be an institution that enrolls students, but be an institution that serves Hispanic students or Latinx or Latinos. So I think a Hispanic -serving institution is thinking about how to not just enroll them, but really truly serve them and serve them well while they are students. I like that idea of serving but also being intentional. So Argenis, can you start this next one? Just how do institutions approach students' success for HSIs? So the way that HSIs approach students' success is by utilizing data to determine what programming can provide support to Hispanic students in close equity gaps. So the data is utilized specifically to track multiple factors, such as first -year progress, graduation rates, and cohort program involvement. Then to Belinda, sitting on the admissions side, are there other unique factors that colleges and universities are tracking, such as first -gen or anything else with this HSI population? We certainly track first -gen. We also do a lot of programming at the recruitment level around language. So for example, we might do sessions in Spanish, we give tours in Spanish, just to give families an opportunity to really feel like they belong on a college campus. And I think that's a big part of that recruitment phase of being an HSI, is really thinking about how to incorporate families into this process. I would also say, you know, that student success looks at both how the student performs while they are a student, but it also is about how a student does once they transition out of the college community, right, and that professional sense of, or transitioning into the professional workspace. And so we're still thinking about ways to do that. With our new HSI grant, we were able to infuse funds into existing programs that we know are doing very well to retain both Latino students, but really all students. Can you tell us a few of those programs that you're specifically referencing? Sure. The programs that I'm referencing are things like our First -Year Journey, which are a couple of days of an outdoor experience that students do very well in transitioning to the university. And so we really want and encourage our Hispanic students, our first generation college students to participate in things like that, as well as our summer bridge program, and our mentor program, which is called STEP. Sounds like you're doing some great work over there, University of Redlands. Kudos to you all. Thanks, Eddie. And what I've noticed also with HSI, similar to HBCUs, is there's an immense version of pride in their schools, and both graduates, staff, and students affiliated with these schools. So Argenis, coming to you, can you talk about how that pride is nurtured on campus, and why so many students find the HSI experience attractive? Community colleges are an essential building block in the education journey of many Hispanic students. HSIs continue to be attractive because they foster community. Our commitment to Hispanic students and the status as an HSI is reflected in the college's participation in the Excelencia in Education National Initiative. You know, the CO is a national certification for institutions intentionally serving Latino students through data, practice, and leadership. So you pointed out community colleges being a strong support system. Can we just talk about how to get students comfortable at the community college and then also transitioning them from the two -year into the four -year and the importance of that too? So an example of this is by one of our programs that we have on campus called Connexiones and Connexions, which is a program designed for Latinx students. And the purpose is to increase engagement and clarify their academic and career interests. And another example, I guess if we're talking about how we are assisting transitioning them out, it's through a program that we also have on campus, which is Grow with Google. And that's a career readiness program that is centered on helping students, providing them with the preparation needed to enter the workforce through digital skills and career workshops. Thank you for that. It definitely always thinking about what are the opportunities presented by different colleges. And we hear about certain schools, not about all. And so as we think about the vastness of higher ed, that's also really important. And so Belinda, similar question coming to you, but just how does the University of Redlands build pride on your campus? I think there's a lot of different ways that we build pride, certainly with the traditions that are just part of the institution and making sure that all students feel like they are part of who, you know, of the institution and the fabric of the institution and making them like feel this isn't just, you know, an age old tradition that certain students happen to connect to, but that we try to infuse that into everything that we do. But I think, you know, at the end of the day, it's really about validating who a student is. And I think that is a real big part of coming into the institution. I mean, a lot of what I talk about with families when I do Spanish programming, for example, is that, you know, this is their community, too. And for a lot of our students that are first gen that are part of that identifies Latino or that are part of the Hispanic community, they've never been or have never set foot on a campus before. It's really talking about this is your space, too, really is powerful for them. And we get questions like, can I bring salsa to my daughter, you know, during on the weekends? Or can I, you know, go to the soccer game or can I do those kinds of things that if you've gone to college feels so like, of course you can do that. But if you are a first gen family who's never been to a college in the U .S. before, those are, you know, important questions to ask because they just don't know. And so I think that validation of who a student is and who, you know, their family is and the make of the dynamic of that family and where they come from really is important. It goes a long way. If you know me, I'm a numbers person. I love some good numbers. I want to give a shout out to University of Redlands as well. They're about 50 percent first gen students. You want to talk about creating opportunities. That's creating an opportunity. You know, at Pomona, we're about 20 percent and we're really excited about that for a private school being at nearly 50 percent. Kudos to you. So thank you for doing that great work and creating those opportunities for everyone. So staying in that numbers scene, I'm going to throw out this other stat that I saw was pretty interesting. So according to Excelencia in Education, HSIs in the U .S. enroll 66 percent of Latino students. For reference, there are 500 of them. There are about 4000 colleges, so 66 percent of students and about an eighth of the schools. So more power to HSIs to start. But with the student population increasing in the U .S. faster than any other population in terms of higher education enrollment, what does that mean for the future of HSIs? Well, I think that it means good things for all of us that are currently identified as a HSI. You know, we are committed to the work. We want to make sure that we are creating spaces that validate our students. I would also say, you know, that it really does speak also to all institutions. And I think it's a call for all institutions to really think about, you know, you have this fast growing minority group. And so that so I think the HSIs are in a unique position and that we have been thinking about how we are serving our Hispanic and Latino students. But I do think that all institutions really need to be thinking about that, about how they are serving this fast growing group, demographic group. I mean, it's a wonderful opportunity, right, because HSIs are now at the forefront of educating and preparing Hispanic students, you know, for the future. And that it seems like a very colorful future from the data that we're seeing as well coming down the pipeline. Students are starting to make their choices. Many prospective HSI students have a variety of options when selecting a college, including PWIs or predominantly white institutions, the term that we've used historically by the Department of Education. What should students think about when considering whether to attend an HSI or a PWI? And what have you heard from students on this question? And we'll go to our hand is first. So students who have expressed interest on PWIs, from my perspective, like they often worry about the cost of attendance and HSI community colleges offer Hispanic students a quality, affordable education that can prepare them to continue their education at a PWI if that's what the student is wanting to go for afterwards. Belinda. What I would say is, you know, every institution opens the door. And so I think whether a student selects a PWI or an HSI, I think it really is about whether a student is going to take advantage of the resources that are available. And a student that is thinking about an HSI oftentimes really has a good sense of who they are and what it is that they're looking to do and what kind of community they're going to be able to, you know, be, let's say, successful in. A student attending a PWI and I was one of them, I was a student that came from the Inland Empire and in California and went straight to PWI and I loved my experience there. It challenged me to think about who I was and my identity in a different way and how I could, you know, challenge the system a little bit to include me into it. But I would say that it made me that much stronger when I moved into the professional workforce. So I wouldn't say that one is better than the other. I would just say that when you're looking at institutions, the HSI's are going to provide a different environment than a PWI. And there are some very basic things. Like I give examples of, you know, you go from things like selling Mexican candy in the inspired out music of the commons and the quad area to the pedagogy and that is is being taught in the classroom to the faculty that are being hired. There's an intentionality there in a way that is not present in other places. Yeah, thank you. I always just tell students, like, know what you're getting yourself into. You know, as you're making your choices, you don't have to have a list of all PWIs or all HSIs. You can have a mix of them. As you get your decisions back, that's when you really have to make those choices. But understand the situation you're walking yourself into and also what do you want out of college? Because what you want isn't always the same as your peer or somebody who looks like you. So understand what you are wanting and what I and why I'm here at this school. So that's what I tell students. And now the question that we've all been waiting for, probably, and particularly thinking about this Supreme Court case, the SFFA case that just came out. And so considering the recent decision on race conscious admissions in the Supreme Court, some may question the need to focus on and provide federal funding to HSIs and other institutions that serve specific populations. What would you say to those who question the value of supporting HSIs? The recent decisions are not a deterrent. Like, HSIs understand that race does impact the student's access to higher education. You know, this can also affect persistence, retention, graduation and career outcomes. But that HSIs are also committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. And I would add that we talked about this fact earlier, right, that with that Latinos, they're the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. And I think a big part of what we are here to talk about is how do we make sure that our institutions are serving our students well? And so really thinking about what the value is of supporting HSIs, I think the value is that we are educating the future of the country. I want to be very clear to the students and counselors listening to this podcast that the discussion topic that you can write about in your essays, you can still write about whatever you want because I've been asked, well, you know, I'm Latino, can I write about my application? Yes, you can write about whatever you want. What the Supreme Court has done is it's limited our ability to evaluate race as a status alone. And so we can evaluate the discrimination faced. We can evaluate the motivation because of and the characters you've learned because of your race. But we can't just use race alone. So that's what the Supreme Court has done. It has not actually limited your ability to speak about race in your application whatsoever. So I want to be clear about that. I'm afraid that's all the time we have today. Many thanks to Belinda and Argenis for a great conversation. And thanks to you, our friends in the audience, for joining us for this podcast. College Admissions Dakota is a podcast from NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling. It is produced by LWC Studios. Kojin Tashiro produced this episode. If you would like to learn more about NACAC's guests, our organization and the college admissions process, visit our website at NACACnet .org. That's N -A -C -A -C -N -E -T .org. Please leave a review and rate us on Apple Podcasts. See you next time on College Admissions Dakota.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from How Crypto Will Change The World
"In case you missed it, Eric Voorhees delivered a fantastic keynote at the Permissionless Conference in Austin, Texas. He talks about why the rule of blockchain is better than the rule of law, gives the SEC direction for what they should do next, hint, get out of the effing way, and tells us why crypto devs should be given Nobel Prizes. I put together some of the best clips from his speech, so let's dive in. It's time to discover crypto. He starts with this. Raise your hand if you're here because you love banks. No hands. Crickets. Crickets, okay. We know why we're here. We're here because we don't like banks. Yes, okay, sure, Lambo's good, but all right, Eric, come on, let's get with it here. Raise your hand if you're here to get your eyeballs scanned by Worldcoin. All right, right there, he's talking about Worldcoin. I feel bad for the people who actually did scan their eyeball. Raise your hand if you're here to celebrate KYC or other forms of wholesale spying on innocent people. All right, raise your hand if you're here for a rebellion. All right, there's some hands. And that's ultimately true. I think there's a little bit of rebel in all of us. Cue the James Dean clip. You're tearing me apart. All right, this next clip, he's going to talk about how the ethos of crypto is similar to the ethos of a frontier America. And as I was working on this speech, I realized that the theme was going to match the name of the event, Permissionless. I love this name. It's one of the best words that captures the essence of our industry. It is radical. It is rebellious. It's non -compliant. It's American. This is America. It's American. You know, a kind of kid, but at the end of the day, he's ultimately right. We need to take back control because that would be the American ideal, and we have lost control of our money. All right, well, let's hear why Eric Voorhees says Bitcoin is interesting. Why was Bitcoin interesting? It interesting was because it was permissionless. Bitcoin invented permissionless money. And with the invention of smart contracts on Ethereum a few years later, we had all the tools we needed to build an entirely permissionless financial system. Permissionless financial system? I mean, what does that mean? Permissionless. They can't stop Bitcoin, and by they, I mean the big bankers. Bitcoin is bigger than them already, and they hate it. All right, now you might be saying, well, Deezy, isn't cash permissionless? Well, let's see what Eric has to say about that. You may say that cash is permissionless, but not if you're sending it across any distance. Try moving $10 ,000 across a border, and you will be swiftly reminded of the permissions that are imposed on you. No, cash is not even permissionless. And he brings up a great point right there. Cash isn't permissionless. We have it in our idea, oh, it's free, I can exchange freely, but like he says, jump on a plane with, he says, $10K. Imagine a million dollars. Imagine trying to move a billion dollars. With Bitcoin, that is possible. And all right, that sounds great and all, but how can it change the world? Consider that essentially all action in the economic sphere requires money. And in a world where most people struggle to put food on the table, the economic sphere is literally the arbiter of life or death for billions. And when he talks about arbiter, he means the people making decisions for you, sometimes against your own best interests. That's why I like crypto because it frees us from that. Most people don't have the luxury of working toward their passion. They work, they toil, they transact because they need to live.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 118: Part 2: Marc Cameron - From Deputy US Marshal to Arliss Cutter to Tom Clancy
"Okay, so the next time I asked for a ride, I didn't get one. No, that's when you look at the other people and say, I meant to do that. Yeah, I meant to do that. Exactly. Well, yeah, that's what you do when your lights are on and they look at you, you just speed through the light and go on to some fake call somewhere, right? Drive like hell. Hey, I want to start progressing into talking about your books, but I want to talk about your time on the Marshalls. When you look back, what's one of the most impactful cases or impactful investigations or things that you did? Because when we had Billy Sarukas on, we talked about the DC Sniper. You guys do some just fantastic work. You've got some great technology. We talked earlier, Blair Dean, when he used to run the TOG, the tactical operations group, some of the stuff you guys do with phones, I mean, just amazing stuff. When you look back on it, what's one or two things that just really stick out to you and you think back and you go, I'm glad. Maybe it wasn't the biggest case, but you look at it and you go, that one made a difference. I really liked that one. Have you got one or two like that? Yeah, sure. It's interesting and I'm actually, in the book I'm working on now, I'm making a comparison. One of the things I really liked about the Marshall Service is you could start your day working with all kinds of tech, especially in Alaska and North Idaho, working with all kinds of technical equipment. Back when I was starting, it was pagers and things like that. That's kind of a cool thing. In the Clancy books, I could talk about pager technology and all that that we don't really use now, so it's not sensitive anymore. But working with phones and computers and all kinds of stuff, and then two hours later, be tracking somebody's boots on the ground through bear country up here and really have to do it the old way. And so, I really like that. I kind of gravitated towards rural work because yeah, we still use cell phone technology. We still use all that stuff, even in rural areas, as far as tracking people and even social media stuff, but we really have to rely on knowing how to physically man track and that sort of thing. So early on in my career, I really enjoyed the high tech, using pagers, using cell phones when they came. I sat next to a guy in the academy who is just a brilliant, brilliant deputy. Even back in 1991, he had a stack of papers about cell phone technology and he realized back then, this is the future of tracking fugitives. And so, he worked with Blair and those guys and I don't like to name their names because he's still kind of half in the business, but he's just a brilliant guy and he helps me quite a bit with the Clancy's as well. So, I really enjoyed those sorts of things and the cases were many, but when I got to North Idaho, we had a case. Now again, you guys mentioned Weaver and Ruby Ridge and all that. So that's the zeitgeist up there, the feeling and the kind of the anti -fed and the animosity and stuff like that. So we went into that and then we had a guy that was wanted on a... He was just wanted on a federal parole warrant. So back then, we had a lot more parole warrants and then, of course, parole got abolished, but we still had a few people wanted on parole. Now it's all supervised release. And we like parole warrants because there was no court. You just arrested the guy and took him to prison. When you violated parole, you just went back to jail. There was no, you know, pass and go or anything. You just went to prison, not even the county jail, the nearest, because they were property of the Bureau of Prisons as far as what the courts saw. So we were looking for this guy, his name was Farron Loveless. And as we started investigating more, we learned that he was a suspect in kidnapping a Jewish couple across the state line into Spokane. He held them hostage in their own home for three days, two days maybe, but I think a couple of nights. And he had like fed their dogs and snuck up to their house and got in and held them hostage. And he had been in prison, then he jumped parole and then come over here. And he had a hit list of a bunch of feds he wanted to kill and not just feds. So we're learning all this little stuff on him that kind of blossomed out of this parole warrant. And we worked it for a number of months, but we started to learn that he was just really a bad guy. But as we got an informant involved and some other people, we learned that he was hiding up on a mountain. He had married a woman, he was in his late 30s, and he had married an older woman in her 60s that had a son and a grandson. And she had Social Security and stored food and kind of back before prepping was a thing, she was a prepper. And so he had basically gotten all her food and he had his...because he was really living a life on the run, completely disconnected. He had no phone, no nothing. So he had moved this teenage boy and this 60 -year -old woman up into the mountains of North Idaho and they built their encampment up there. And they had booby traps, they had fish hooks hanging from monofilament. You might recognize this if you've read the book there. He had split pieces of wood with shotgun shells up through the middle of them and buried all around for like homemade land mines and various booby traps around. But now imagine in that situation when I write a note to headquarters that says, hey, we got this guy and a woman and a teenage boy up on a mountain in North Idaho, we'd like to go get him. They said, not in a million years are you going to go up and have a gunfight on a mountain in North Idaho with a teenage boy and a woman and a fugitive. And so we had to come up with a lot of different plans and it ended up that my partner who had been working on it with me, this was back after the first World Trade Center bombings, and he was part of our special operations group. So we were protecting the judges back in New York. So he had to rotate out every few weeks and go back and help with the protective details. And so he was out of town, so it was me and the FBI where they had helped work on the case because we all had to work together. And there was an FBI agent named Tom Norris, who's a Medal of Honor recipient, I should say. Tommy Norris, he's the only FBI agent I ever met with a glass eye. He's the guy that saved Bat -21. So, I mean, just a phenomenal dude and he mentored my oldest son. He's just a very unassuming, FBI let him get away with what he wanted to because he was a Medal of Honor recipient and really just a class act. So he was helping on it. So we came up with a plan to lure Farron off the mountain. And originally, he had a bicycle and we knew he would come down off this mountain. There was quite a hike up there, take his bicycle and maybe come into town once in a while for supplies. And so I came up with a plan to put a flashbang next to the bike and we'd hide and we'd lure him down to the bicycle and then get him there. Headquarters said, nope, no flashbangs on a mountain. So we came up with another plan and Farron was super prejudiced, super white supremacist, super prejudiced. So we said, we sent our informant back up and this is all not sensitive now because it's all come out in court. But we sent the informant back up and he said, hey, there's a Hispanic gun dealer in town that wants to buy some guns, but he's got two white girls that he's pimping out in Priest River, Idaho and you might want to come down and sell him some guns and take care cleaning of up the race a little bit. And Farron actually said, I'm going to come down and do that. I'm going to come down and get, I'm going to sell him some guns in air quotes and take care of this Hispanic guy that's pimping out white girls. And I mean, that's just the way his brain worked. And so we set up the time and we had Boundary County deputy sheriffs and Bonner County deputy sheriffs and Tom Norris and I. And the plan was when Farron came riding by on his bicycle, there's a long, long bridge outside Priest River, Idaho that goes over Priest Lake. And we were going to pinch him in the middle of the bridge because we knew he was going to be armed. He had a hit list and he had a violent past. And so Tommy was behind him and I was coming up to meet him. And the idea was when he got on the bridge, we'd get him pinched between our two cars and arrest him so he didn't, nobody else was in danger. We would close off the bridge. Well, as Tommy got in, Tom Norris got in behind him, he saw that he had a pistol out the, like in his hip pocket. He had a GP 100 pistol in his hip pocket and a little backpack on and a little, like a 10 -22 rifle sawed off sticking out the back of his backpack. And I mean, he's like the Wicked Witch of the West, you know, riding on his bicycle towards town to meet this guy. And Tommy, I don't know what happened, whether he touched the gun or what, but Tom pulled it beside him and just bumped him off the road. So he went ahead and endowed and went into the ditch. And so I sped up there and this all happened very fast. So he went into the ditch before he got onto the bridge. And so I was right there and there was a boundary county deputy right behind me in a marked unit. And so Tommy bailed out of his car. I bailed out of his car because of the way Tommy had to come around.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Short Stuff: The Dakota
"Hello everybody, the Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming giving you an incredible viewing experience now You can stream all of your favorite live sports shows and movies with way less buffering freezing and lagging Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network You get a reliable connection so you can sit back relax and enjoy your favorite entertainment Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network learn more at Xfinity .com Xfinity .com Hey and welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're going short stuff architectural style specifically architectural style from the mid to late 19th century specifically in Manhattan and the Upper West Side specifically about the Dakota That's right. Can I say something very quickly since this is short stuff? Sure Right before we recorded you said Dakota Fanning and that reminded me I just got back from New York and I had six celebrity sightings One of which was Elle Fanning. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's in the lobby of a hotel. I go in that hotel to pee I'm always got my head on a swivel in that town, especially in fancy hotel lobbies Sure, and I was like, hey, this is Dakota Fanning and I was like she was sitting with people I was like, there's got to be somebody else famous went to the bathroom came out sitting next to Jessica Chastain Wow, pretty major sighting then at one of my pavement shows I saw Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig Yeah, they're married okay Wow say so power couple yeah, I mean he co -wrote Barbie with her and Dean Wareham of Luna, they're all good friends and they were all together So that was a three banger in one and this this lady near me was jumping up and down like screaming it at Greta Gerwig and she was very sweet from up above in the balcony and like made the little heart symbol and like said she Loved her was very sweet. Oh, that's sweet. And then sat next to Tiffany Haddish on the way on the flight home Wow She was a girl across the aisle from me. Did you but did you bug her the whole time? No, I didn't say anything. Were you like, hey, hey Tiffany, you remember this one joke you told? Layers She's great though. She's very pretty too. Yeah. Yes. It is. Wonderful. I like that voice. She's got that sort of a low voice kind of like this I'm Tiffany Haddish. That's right Okay. All right. We got to go cuz we're talking the Dakota here and not Dakota fanning or Elle fanning No, the apartment building in New York City. That's right. The one where John Lennon was shot in front of Live there. No, no. No, he lived there and he was he was shot on the sidewalk outside the Dakota. So That's not the only reason the Dakota's famous. Although it's probably the biggest reason the Dakota's famous One of the reasons that Dakota is famous is because it was one of the first apartment buildings in New York City like they didn't do apartments back then and even more spectacular than that it being one of the first apartment buildings is that it was Plunked down in the Upper West Side at a time when Central Park West one of the most What is it white healed high healed? Well healed well healed like Bits of stretches of real estate in the world was a dirt road still and nowhere's Phil nowhere Yep, nobody wanted to go up that far. They're like, there's nothing up there That's right. Hey seeds in in fact, it was so far out that The guy who built the Dakota who will meet in the second Edward Cabot Clark bought it from an industrialist Whose wife threatened to divorce him if he built their house out there and he's like, I don't just get rid of this piece of Land then yeah, she's like I want to live down here where it's posh in alphabet city You know, it's funny is if you you remember if you go read our book There's a whole chapter on keeping up with the Joneses in it Oh, yeah talks a lot about this part of of New York history where there are all sorts of nowhere's Ville's around that today are just like incredibly and famous Expensive that's right. All right, so the Dakota like you said people were not living in apartments at the time they were living in brownstones, which were single -family homes and There were a couple like a couple started to spring up in the 1870s They weren't great. They were Kind of like you think of New York apartments. They were small. They didn't have a lot of light People didn't love renting And living in them and along came this guy Edward Cabot Clark that you mentioned He was the president of the Singer sewing machine company So he was loaded and he got together with an architect named Henry Janeway Hardenberg a great name and to get into real estate and the first thing they built which is sadly not there anymore is Kind of a prototype for the Dakota called the van Corlier a red brick five -story 36 apartment building that was on 7th between 55th and 56 Yeah, and it immediately improved on its predecessors Because the rooms were larger the apartments themselves were larger. There was a courtyard. So there was plenty of like natural light and air Had elevators apparently which are we're talking like the 1880s 1870s and there was also I think a What was there oh there was a ramp that went beneath it so then You didn't have to solely your family reputation by accepting deliveries out there in public You could go down to the basement and meet the delivery driver to get them to take whatever they gave you Yeah, and it was just nicer overall I think there was a an intercom system and you know, like Spanish tile. It was just it was just a step up for sure and all of a sudden in 1878 They rented out very quickly and so Clark was like, alright it turns out if you if you build it nice enough they will come and Apartments can be a real thing and like you said bought that property or I guess it was just land at the time, right? Yeah, yeah bought this land from Jacob Henry Schiff way way uptown and Decided to build his second Sort of dream property there. Yep, which would be the Dakota and I say that we pause for a message break and then return and begin talking about the Dakota some more and Tiffany Haddish right after this I'm Jonathan Strickland host of the podcast tech stuff I sat down with Sunun Shahani of Surfare Mobility, which recently went public We talked about flying and electric planes and regional air mobility The future of travel doesn't have to include crowded airports cramps seats or long road trips It can be as simple as using an app to book a short -range flight on an electric plane Learn more on tech stuff on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast This episode of stuff you should know is brought to you by t -mobile for business Hey everybody have you ever been driving around looking for a parking spot getting more and more irritated and you think why can't I just Look up parking spaces around my area I mean like wouldn't that make sense and if you find the spot faster You're going to create less traffic and in that sense Everybody's life is made better just by the ability to look up a parking spot. 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That's right offering the nation's largest 5g network T -mobile is the best network partner to take your business to the next level now is the time to business Bravely and start building your future today Just go to t -mobile .com slash now to learn more So Chuck we're talking about the Dakota now starting now Okay, so if the van Corleer was a Advancement based on the stuff that came a few years before it the Dakota was an even better advancement Improvement based on the van Corleer. It had big apartments big rooms Courtyard lots of light Ramp underneath and all that stuff, but it was also like even more Luxuriously designed like if you came over to someone's apartment, you couldn't see through down the hallway to every single room the walls were kind of like designed around so that you couldn't like there was a Separation between your visitors in the living part of the apartment or the sleeping part, you know the family part I guess is what you call it just little details like that Another big detail is that it had its own power plant that generated electricity for it in the 1870s Yeah, not bad the kitchens had little balconies so if you had stinky stuff like garbage that you couldn't get down or Maybe even stinky food or something. You could put it just right outside the kitchen, which was something that a lot of places didn't have Yeah, they had a boiler So they had insulated pipes bringing steam and hot water into the building Which was a big innovation at the time and they had tennis courts. They had croquet courts It was it was a real gym. It still is it's one of my favorite buildings in New York Every time I go up there to Central Park, at least I try to pop out on that area and just go go Give it a look Because it's a beautiful building. It's sort of a mishmash of styles It's been called, you know, French Renaissance or got German Gothic or even Victorian and it's kind of a little bit of everything But it's it's beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen it in person if I have I didn't realize it You may have it's it's lovely. It's right there on a corner. So here's the thing when Edward Cabot Clark was creating the Dakota He was widely derided for it. They called it Clark's Folly because people were deeply insensitive in the 19th century and the reason why they call it that is because again, it's in the middle of nowhere and People aren't really into apartments Like we said they live in like three -story Brownstones like they live in homes They don't live in apartments the people who lived in apartments as far as this house stuff works article points out were widows Widowers and people who are waiting for their wealthy relatives to die so they could inherit their house And all of a sudden Clark is like no. No, we're changing the game Anyone who is anyone is gonna want to live in an apartment and it turns out his gamble paid off. He was right Yeah, he sadly he died before it was finished So he didn't get to see it come to fruition But it was certainly not his folly because like you said people lined up to rent these things or I guess I don't know were they all rentals at the time. I wonder if anyone were available for sale. I think they were all rentals Okay, well people rented him, but they were people that had money. They just weren't like robber barons who wanted to live in mansions They were they were sort of the early New York, you know upper class They were people who like were bank presidents and people who like the CEOs of the time, right? Apparently the Adams sisters were heirs to a chewing gum Fortune they live there with it and that flavor tea berry one of the greatest gum flavors of all time. That's a Was it tea berry? Now, are you kidding? Cuz I can't tell no. No, that's for real. It's like a Kind of salmon pink colored Gum, no, no the the wrapper is okay It tastes like salmon too. No, it's a really delicate unique flavor and you could probably find it like Cracker Barrel Don't they have all sorts of old -timey candies or one of those rocket fizz places? I have no idea anywhere that sells candy I'll bet they have tea berry stick gum and it's really worth trying. All right Nice tip there. Thanks. So The Dakota started a trend all of a sudden luxury apartment houses started popping up all over the place Kind of in the same model with like bigger rooms and higher ceilings and stuff like that and the Upper West Side it wasn't right then but around the early 1900s that really started to take off and Really changed the face of New York of New York, you know, they they started building up more after World War one, obviously when New York said they could and Apartments became the way to go. Yeah Eventually, the the Dakota started seeing a different clientele not you know Straights and squares like bank presidents but like stars like Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland Wowie Wow horse Karloff, too That's pretty cool Imagine living next to him and then of course two of the most famous residents John Lennon and Yoko Oh, no Is blamed widely for moving John Lennon to the Dakota and he would have lived had she not done that Do people say that? Probably somebody out there. Okay poking fun at those people. No, I think he loved the Dakota Yeah, it would seem to be his home. They were there for like a dozen years. I think right before he died I'm not sure how long he loved New York City though. It was it was a great scene for both. He and Yoko. Yep You anything else? I got nothing else go check out the Dakota if you're in New York It's a great great looking building.
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
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"It says it was developed by Saul Kurtzner, who is apparently a storied South African hotelier, and has hosted New Year's Eve events headlined by performers including Fergie and Sting. Nice. I mean, the water park looks awesome. It's got a casino. It's got a gajillion hotels. So I would think people can continue going to this place no matter what, because it looks like a one -of -a -kind property in the Bahamas. What could go wrong in the Bahamas? This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Markets. With Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. We got a lot of green on the screen here, but the volume is light. We constantly underestimate the strength of the US consumer. This is a market that's much more optimistic or bullish than maybe central bankers are. Breaking market news and insight from Bloomberg experts. There's still some concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating. As small and medium -sized businesses struggle, they don't present as much competition. The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the US. This is Bloomberg Markets. With Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. On Bloomberg Radio. All right, coming up in this hour, we're going to check in with Catherine Lim, senior analyst. She covers consumer and technology with Bloomberg Intelligence, because I want to talk to her about this company that's coming public, AMER Sports. They make Wilson tennis rackets and Solomon ski boots. Those are my favorite ski boots. Like that stuff. And plus, we're going to talk about Matt Miller. What is Matt Miller driving these days? You know who we got? Michael Dean. He covers all the Euro autos. Yeah. So he's like one of your favorite guys. We'll get him in there. We'll talk about Matt, what he's driving, because he's always driving something. And he's a total car guy himself. Total car guy. He loves cars. Yeah, he loves cars. Michael, Kevin.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 125 - Cultivating History: Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden - Dean Norton
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Dean Norton fell in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left. After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University, he began his career as the estate's boxwood gardener. The historical gardens of the first president of the United States, George Washington, became his responsibility in 1980. His promotion to horticulturalists allowed him to apply the latest plant science and horticultural management techniques for historical gardens. Dean has devoted considerable time to researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America, as well as the Garden Club of America's Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College, serves on several historic property boards, and lectures nationally and internationally. This is Episode 125, Cultivating History, Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden, with Dean Norton, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 64. Dean, why did General George Washington, the first president of the United States, garden? Well, he really gardened for necessity. The earliest gardens were called gardens of necessity for health and survival. Of course, the most important plant to be planted within a garden were vegetables, something that you were going to have at the dinner table to eat. Vegetables were huge to him. Even during the Revolutionary War, he wanted to make sure that his troops were getting as many vegetables as they could whenever possible. I would not actually call him a gardener per se, but for a year and a half, he became a designer. He totally redid his country seat from a very simplistic design to one following naturalistic design principles. Then that landscape were four very fine gardens that he oversaw. What story does the Mount Vernon Garden tell? Tell us the story of a man that wanted his gardening world to be complete, I would say. He had a very small botanic garden, which he fondly called his little garden. When he was here on site, he was typically doing that work himself on his knees, planting seed and seedling saplings. He kept such good records in that little tiny garden that we were able to recreate that quite nicely. His earliest gardens were a fruit and nut garden and a kitchen garden, but when he changed his design, the kitchen garden remained as it is. The fruit and nut garden became a pleasure garden with vegetables in there as well, which is kind of an interesting combination. He had a vineyard for a while, but the grapes failed, and that became a fruit garden and nursery. The nursery was for plants that he could grow to plant on other areas of the estate and also to grow things just for collection of seed. What is today's mission for the garden? Today's mission for the garden is interpretation. We are trying to share with our visitors what life was like in the 18th century, why these gardens were important. Certainly after 1785, the gardens took on a new role, which was for people to come when he had created here at Mount Vernon. The story of gardeners themselves, the gardeners that Washington hired through the Articles of Indenture, also the enslaved gardeners that worked with the professional gardener to cultivate till to harvest. It's a great story. It's one that we thoroughly enjoy telling. Gardening really hasn't changed much from the 18th century, so the more we're out there digging in the earth, we think of those gardeners from the past. Today's visitors, how do they respond? I'll tell you what, when they come through the gates and they get to the Bowling Green Gate and see the house for the first time, that's exactly what they were expecting to see, this beautiful house that Washington lived in. But then the further they go into the landscape, they're really totally blown away by the amount of landscape and gardens that Washington had. They weren't expecting that at all. I think the gardens are well received, and I think that the stories we tell throughout the estate in so many different areas are certainly appreciated by our visitors. The garden's been there for about two and a half centuries. You've told us that there's four gardens that make up the Mount Vernon Garden. Could we walk through each one of those and you tell us about them? Sure. The panic garden is a simple garden, very small. It was intended to plant things that Washington was not familiar with, although sometimes other things that he knew quite well ended up in there as well. He received 500 Chinese seed, which he planted in one of the beds. None of them came up. So actually, we could show one of the beds with nothing but bare dirt and we would be exactly correct. That was his playground, and he truly loved getting plants he wasn't familiar with and planting them in there, and he did most of the work in there himself. There was an area that he started a vineyard, hoping to get some grapes for making wine, but that failed. That four -acre area became a fruit garden and nursery. Washington kept such good records that the fruit trees are planted exactly as he describes in that particular enclosure. Part of it is a nursery as well, where he grew trees and shrubs, also some other grasses and things just for the collection of seed. The kitchen garden was the first garden laid out in 1760, and that has been cultivated as a kitchen garden since 1760. It's never changed in its purpose, which is the only garden like that on the estate. Both the kitchen garden and fruit nut garden were an acre in size, so that's a significant garden. The nut garden changed from a garden of necessity to a pleasure garden, and that was meant to be the aha moment. When people were strolling around the Bowling Green, they could look through that gate, they saw a beautiful conservatory. The idea was to walk in there and just enjoy the beauty of the flowers, and those flowers were there for their enjoyment and not for their use. I think his gardening world was quite complete. You said the conservatory, would that be the greenhouse? That's correct. It had a greenhouse that he copied from a lovely property called Mount Clare, just to the north of Baltimore. The owner was Margaret Carroll. He asked for permission for some information, and she was thrilled and gave him all that he needed, even his first plants for his collection, to get his greenhouse started. I started studying that greenhouse in pictures. When I think greenhouse, I think a glass top or a plastic top or something like that, and this was constructed quite different. Could you tell us about how it was constructed and it was heated? The greenhouses in the 18th century typically just had glass panes on the south side, this was southern exposure. Also typically they were triple home windows, so you could open top and bottom to allow for good air circulation. This was quite modern, very good. It had a vaulted ceiling, so hot air didn't get trapped up at the corners. It had a wood door on the west side of the structure to keep afternoon sun from coming in. It was too hot. A glass door on the east side to allow morning sun in. It had shutters that closed very tight, so in the wintertime when you got whatever heat you could get from the solar energy, you could close those shutters and retain the heat overnight. It was heated by a stove room on the opposite side of the structure. The fire pit was quite low, and that hot air and smoke would go underneath the slate floor in the greenhouse and then rise up along the back wall and out the chimney. It was very efficient. It housed the semi -tropical plants and citrus trees in the winter. Not for them to continue to fruit, so he had lemons and limes and all that. Just to keep them alive in the wintertime. In all these gardens, he's combining beauty with necessity. How did he accomplish that? The one garden that really does that beautifully is the upper garden, or pleasure garden. He wanted a pleasure garden. He wanted the aha moment when someone walked into there. It's a 10 -foot -wide path, edged in boxwood with this greenhouse at the end. He was concerned, though, in that he didn't want to lose a lot of space to the growth of vegetables, which were still the most important plant that he grew on the property. 18th century horticulture said, look, George, you can do both. Plant your vegetables and then surround them with a border of flowers. The border could be three feet, five feet, whatever you so decide. It's the border that's actually the pleasure garden. So you're really not losing that much space to growing vegetables. How did Washington change his gardens to enhance Mount Vernon's natural beauty? He adopted the naturalistic style. There are four key elements of that. The curve line is nature's gift, management of surprises, random planting, and hidden barriers. If you can do those four things, you're well on your way to a wonderful naturalistic design. The management of surprises, the curve line helps you with that. Around each bend, you can do something different. The book that he's learning all these techniques from was written by a gentleman named Batty Langley. He wrote the book in 1728 called New Principles of Gardening. Washington purchased it in 1759. Langley goes in, he says, once you've seen one quarter of your garden, you should not have seen it all. There's nothing more shocking and stiff than a regular garden. He said every garden must have good shade. If you have to walk more than 20 paces in full sun, your walk is not worth it. Washington really took all these thoughts and comments to heart and made sure he put trees on either side of his serpentine avenues. Around each bend, he added shrubberies in wilderness areas and groves. It really was a complete landscape, and it was all just trying to stay within the qualifications or the requirements of a naturalistic garden. There are many historical events that took place away from Mount Vernon. For long periods of time, Washington was gone. How did he stay in touch with his garden and its growing? Much to his demise, much to our benefit, Washington, during the 45 years he lived here at Mount Vernon, he was away for 16 years, only visiting his house a couple times during all that time. When he is away, he's communicating with the land manager with lengthy letters, three, four, five pages long, giving him instructions to do this, make sure that is done, have you planted this, I want to try to do this next. We have that exchange of letters. Gives us a tremendous advantage in being able to represent Mount Vernon as accurately as we do in today's world. You should be considered the current garden overseer, but there's been many that have come before you. Have you got any good overseer stories about your predecessors? Yeah, there's some. I'm number 37. I don't know if that number is exactly correct, but I'm honored to be the current gardener, whatever number I am. They were all pretty competent in their practices. Washington called one clever because he was so good at grafting trees. Probably one of the cutest ones is when Washington's trying to hire a gardener. He's writing to his land manager saying that the gardener should not have any children, but if he does, only one, but certainly no more than two. He just keeps going on and on, giving almost any option possible for the gardener. He was always looking for the Scottish gardener because they were some of the best. I'm thrilled to be following in the footsteps of so many great gardeners. I hope that I'm continuing their tradition of maintaining a beautiful Mount Vernon. Tell us about the people that worked in the gardens during Washington's time. He hired gardeners under the Articles of Indenture, so they would come over, he would pay their way, and they would have to work that to pay Washington back. Some of them stayed for many years. There was a German gardener named John Christian Eller who was here for a number of years. They had a bit of a falling out, but apparently after Washington passed away, he actually returned because there is something in the notes about a German gardener saying that he used to work here. There is one from Holland, England, and then of course you had your Scottish gardener at the very end of his life, which Washington said that he was dedicated, sober, passionate about his work, and that in short, he's the best hired servant I've ever had. What makes it even better is that he says he has never been happier. I think that's really wonderful, and it certainly rings true for me. For being here at Mount Vernon as long as I have, my life here as a gardener has been a very happy experience. What did the garden go through between Washington's death and until the time it was bought by its current owners? It started to fall and disappear rapidly. Visitors' accounts have been occurring since Washington lived here. People visiting, and they write in their diaries or letters to friends, which is tremendously valuable to us, for that is our Polaroid to the past. Washington died in 1799, and visitors in 1801, 1802 are saying that it's deteriorating, it doesn't look anything like it did during Washington's time, so things just started to fall apart a little bit. You didn't have the money, you didn't have the dedication maybe to do as well. Not to say that work wasn't being done and things weren't being cleaned up as best as possible, but definitely it was noticeable to visitors that it was in a bit of disarray. When the Ladies Association purchased the property in 1858, things started to change, of course, quickly. And of course, Mount Vernon is in their hands today, it's a beautiful, beautiful site. Did they buy it from the family? They bought it from John Augustine Washington, the fourth Washington that owned the property before it was sold to the ladies. It cost them $200 ,000, and with that they received 200 acres, where others said you should take everything down but the mansion, because that's all that's important. They made the decision that they wanted to keep everything that was there during Washington's time, which was absolutely the right thing to do. We have all the outbuildings. It's an amazing opportunity for visitors to come to see an estate, a plantation, as it was during the time of the owner. Are there new discoveries being made through modern archaeology and research, or do you feel like you've re -established everything there? No, there are new discoveries all the time. It's amazing. Archaeology, the science, is becoming more and more exact all the time, with radar and LiDAR flyovers and just all these wonderful techniques that they now have. We're still finding letters that we didn't have before. Eventually we may find the plan that Washington did for the Bowling Green. We have the plan's key that is in his hand, but we don't have the actual plan itself. You can never write the final chapter in this adventure that we're in here from Washington's time till now. We try to represent things as accurately as we can, but we may find a new letter or something that will totally alter our interpretation of what we were using or going on to create an area that we thought was accurate, but new information may change that, and we will go back and make those changes so that it's historically accurate. Where did Washington acquire his plants? Initially, the landscape was completed by nothing but trees and shrubs that he found in his wildernesses surrounding Mount Vernon. So it's certainly a native landscape, and he identified these plants in the wintertime by structure and bud and had them dug and brought back. He did say that he was looking for exotics. He loved plants of all sorts. Now, we don't know if an exotic to him was Mexico or South Carolina, but what we do know is he said he wanted plants outside of his geographic area. People sent him gifts of plants often. Also he ordered from three of the principal nurseries of the time, John Bartram in Philadelphia, William Hamilton in New York, and Prince on Long Island. He ordered a lot of these plants and that he was experimenting with and putting within his landscape. I heard a story about a Franklin tree. Was that ever a part of the estate? The Franklinia, I think it was actually ordered from Philadelphia, and we've tried to grow them any number of times. We can't get them to survive. They're very finicky. They need to be in a spot they're really happy with, and so far we haven't found that spot on the estate, unfortunately. What's the significance of the Bond Plan? A gentleman named Samuel Vaughan visited Mount Vernon in 1784, I think it was, or 83. He was a landscape designer. He did a good bit of work up in the Philadelphia area, actually did some work around Independence Hall. He came and visited Mount Vernon, and in his sketchbook drew the plan of the estate, and then went back to Philadelphia. We drew a beautiful big plan that was very, very accurate. Washington said that you've drawn my estate accurately except that you've enclosed the view with trees, and so the only problem that Washington states is when looking from the house down the Bowling Green, down a vista to the forest beyond, there were two willow mounds that were planted on the Bowling Green. They weren't meant to act as punctuation points. No planting would occur within that, so you had a wide open view to the west. Whatever reason, Vaughan decided to draw trees all in there. In Washington's eye, it was all correct except for that. So it's a beautiful plan, archaeologists have used it, and all the buildings that he shows on that plan are where they find them when they dig in the soil. So he was recording the existence and not proposing new things. There's been some debate about that because Vaughan was a designer, and some say, well, how do we know that this is something Washington had, or was Vaughan drawing what he thought it should be? The written account seemed to support what Vaughan was drawing was accurate. So it's all about interpretation. We could look at two passages somewhere and interpret it both totally differently. I think the Vaughan plan is amazing. I think it's as accurate as we can possibly get. You've mentioned the Bowling Green a couple of times. What grass did they use in the Bowling Green? Their grass was called goosegrass or speargrass. They also had rye, and it's even bluegrass. It was a very coarse grass. Coarse grass was kind of important, actually, because they mowed it with the English sigh, and a very fine -bladed grass would be very difficult to cut with that implement, whereas the wider -bladed grass, they could cut quite nicely if they had a good sharp edge on their sigh, and the sickle, of course, would have been the weed eater. The Bowling Green was meant for games and entertaining and would have been mowed on a regular basis, rigged, rolled, and mowed right up until you may have a drought or something where the grass would stop growing, just like we have in an experience today. What variety do you grow there now? Weeds. It's just, I'm serious. It looks great from a distance, but if you walk up on it, it's just clover and creeping Charlie, and if it's green, I'm fine. We don't want to use chemicals on the lawn. We have a lot of visitors, a lot of children running around, so it's just as natural as possible. We overseed and everything, but no, just don't look too closely. Well, that'd be more accurate to the period, I guess. You know, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see the grass back then. It was maintained in a way that it was intended for them to bowl. They had lots of games with the hoops and other things, so it was used a great deal as a green for entertaining. How do you cut it now? Oh, we have John Deere's to go 13 miles an hour. It's pretty nice. You know, front deck mowers, it's great. Is that a reel? No, my goodness, no. Years ago when I started, our only riding mower was a Toro reel. Now, nothing against Toro, okay, but that thing never worked. Poor man that was operating, he was a World War II vet, and he was always in the shop just standing here waiting for his mower to work. So no, it's not a reel. My dad had a reel mower, and he was always working on it too. My dad's way to fix anything was with a screwdriver, not to actually tighten any screws. He would just beat on it. He was so upset. You've got the serpentine pass. What materials did they use? It was a combination of gravel and clay, pea gravel, smaller grade gravel, and it was cobblestone up around the circle in front of the mansion. Washington said if he could find any alternative form of paving, he would certainly use it because gravel roads were constant maintenance of raking, rolling, adding new gravel to keep them from being muddy all the time. That's exactly what was used in the gardens as well, was a gravel type path. Is that gravel mine from the Potomac? Washington talks about a gravel pit. It would seem as if they got a lot of it from the Potomac, and they would have sifted it to get the right size stone that they wanted. I think there were a couple sources, but not real clear on it. What kind of staff does it take to maintain all this? In horticulture, my responsibility has to do with anything that deals with chlorophyll and manure. The gardeners, just like in the 18th century, they said a garden an acre in size will require one full -time gardener, and so every principal garden we have is one full -time gardener working in that spot. Then we have a swing gardener that does all the smaller gardens and helps in the other gardens as well. We have a landscape gardener that takes care of all the non -exhibition areas. It's truly bare bones. We have some summertime help, college students, some high school. College students love it. We give them as much opportunity to learn whatever they want if they want to work in the greenhouse or use equipment. It's a really great program that we have for that. Then we have our livestock crew. We have five full -time livestock employees that maintain the genetic line of three very rare breeds, and those animals are here for interpretation as well. One thing I just want to share is that Mount Vernon is a very special place. People come and they don't leave real quickly. I've got almost 53 years. Our five livestock staff combined have 92 years of service here at Mount Vernon. It's just truly amazing. Wow. What type of livestock? We have a milking red devon, beautiful reddish -brown cow, aussebal island hogs, hog island sheep, and a Narragansett turkey. So all these are on exhibition at our Pioneer Farmers site, which is a site that we created in the 1990s down near the river. That's a site where we interpret Washington the farmer. That's the livestock's playground. They get to take the animals down there, the oxen, the horses, and work the fields. So it's really very exciting. It helps bring the estate to life. Are you taking the manures and the straw and things like that and using it in compost, or how does that all work? 100 percent. That's all we use. We have huge piles that we are able to windrow with using a manure spreader. We always have these windrows, just these lines of the material that is whipped around by the manure spreader. The row is about maybe eight feet wide, ten feet wide, and it's about six feet high. The oldest windrow is used as the fertilizer used in the gardens. And once that's gone, we windrow the next row over to aerate it again. We just always have a source of compost that we can use in the gardens, and it just works out beautifully for us. How long does it typically age? It doesn't take long, really. We have a pile that's been here for so long that even stuff that is not that old, maybe three months or so, when you mix it up with the other, it turns out very, very well. In the 18th century, Washington would take manure from the stables and just put them in a dung repository for a fortnight or two. You're only talking two or four weeks, and then they thought it was readily available for the gardens. So it was much more rapid for them than it is for us. Are there any special approaches that you take to maintaining a historical garden? The approach to maintaining a historic garden really is visual. We want them to see a garden that is planted in the manner that would have been in the 18th century. We want them to see what an 18th century garden looked like. As far as our actual practices, it is really no different than what would have been going on in the 18th century. Our tools may be a little sturdier, a little nicer, rakes, shovels, soil life, and everyone has one of those on their bill. You can do anything with those. As far as planting, we're definitely concerned about height derangement more than color coordination. We want to make sure the plants we plant are appropriate to the 18th century. Paths, the box which should be trimmed, are very short. They were never intended to be a backdrop for perennials, just as a border. That's the main thing. We want it to look right. The way we take care of it, that hasn't changed for 250 years. What are your biggest challenges with the garden? People, compaction, really the damage that comes from, especially kids, I used to share that the worst pest we can have is a child that's been on a bus for five hours from somewhere, gets here and the chaperones go, go, go, and they just start running. Back when we had big boxwood, they would just go and run and jump in and break a branch of a 150 year old boxwood within 10 seconds and that's hard to control with any kind of spray or whatever. But I developed to have a hard trap that was a bit larger. I found out I put an iPad or something in there, I could catch five or six at a time and I would let them off at the West Gate. The chaperones would eventually find them, but at least we got them out of the garden.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 08-29-2023 14:00
"We don't tend to use country music because those people will sue us, so you've got to go where you think you're going to be successful. I guess there's some truth to all of that. Matt and Rick, thank you. Analysis, you could only get here on Sound On, the fastest show in politics. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington with a lot more to follow. Did you hear the news on drugs being negotiated by Medicare? We'll have that next. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. Testing 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Now, from our nation's capital, this is Bloomberg Sound On. The president's approval ratings are very low. The majority of Americans think he shouldn't run at all. The four years Donald Trump was in the White House were totally different from the four years that Biden has been there. People are going to say, I was doing better then than I am now. Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy and perspective. From D .C.'s top names. You've got to work to get people back to work, but not only that, but to higher paying jobs. The Russian threat is being degraded, and unfortunately it's being degraded at the cost of Ukrainian lives, blood, treasure. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. President Biden drops the hammer on Big Pharma. And you saw this coming. Welcome to hour two of Sound On. As the administration today announces names of 10 prescription drugs that will now be subject to price negotiating by Medicare. Prices could be cut in half in some cases. We'll have more with Bloomberg Health Care reporter Riley Griffin here at the table with insights from Donna Shalala. The former health secretary, former congresswoman from the state of Florida joins as Florida now braces for another hurricane as well. Later, the first Bitcoin ETF gets a green light. We'll talk to Nathan Dean from Bloomberg Intelligence.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from Every leadership problem is a teaching one
"In this episode, I speak to Jim Savusi about how every leadership problem is a teaching one. We look at the complexities of leadership, the importance of continuous learning, and the similarities between teaching and leading. We also discuss Jim's desire to start a movement to rid the world of bad bosses. I wonder, are you a boss that does leadership on the side? In this conversation, we look at the importance of being open -minded and willing to learn in order to be effective leaders. We also emphasise the significance of identifying and living by one's core values. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today, our guest is Jim Savusi. How are you doing? I'm doing great, Judith. How are you? I'm doing fantastic, thank you. Jim, tell me, what makes you dance? What makes me dance? Well, I love music, but that doesn't make me dance. What makes me dance is when someone takes their values and applies it to what they do with their work, especially if they're in a leadership position, especially if they're a boss. It makes my heart sing when I see someone who is living their values in their authoritative position. And it comes through in everything they do, and you know what, all the people around them are dancing, their hearts are singing. I love that. I love the idea of your heart singing. Tell me a little bit more about you. Well, I spent many, many years in many leadership positions, starting when I was 12 years old, and I was in Boy Scout and thrust in the positions that were for much, much older kids. I didn't really understand what leadership was. I did a lot of different things in my life, including building sets professionally for theatre and a variety of other things as well. And eventually, though, I went after my passion, which at that time was academia. I wanted to be an English professor, so I became an English professor. Spent three decades as an English professor and also was an administrator. I was a dean and I was a vice president, so I was a provost reporting to the president and did that for a long time. When I first became a dean, what happened was I was at a small university outside of Baltimore and I was asked to become the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. I was a faculty member, but I was a faculty leader, of course, because I wasn't always in those positions. But they said, OK, we want you to be the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. And I thought, great. Except there was no School of Humanities and Social Sciences. I had to invent it. I had to build it from scratch, which wasn't that hard. I mean, putting it together was no big deal. It was just nuts and bolts, right? Just management, putting this with that, what works together. What was hard was getting it up and running and keeping it running. And something in me shifted at that point because I realized, OK, I need something else. I've always been a leader and not a bad one, but I worked on instinct. But I needed to learn how to be a leader, how to be a better leader and how to apply that consistently. And that required me to actually start studying leadership as a discipline, start reading about it, going to conferences, going to trainings, meeting people, learning as much as I could about leadership.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Massive Significance of the PayPal Stablecoin
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, August 12th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Sort of. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it. Give it a rating, give it a review. And if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Happy Saturday. At the end of this week, I had to travel a little bit last minute. And so my choices were either one, skip the weekly recap altogether or to do something just a little bit different. So obviously, I decided to go with doing something just a little bit different. And basically what you're getting is a long read Saturday on top of a long read Sunday, which is coming tomorrow. Tomorrow's episode is a fun walk down memory lane. If you are interested in Bitcoin, the piece is actually from twenty nineteen. I think you'll really like it. And for today's weekly recap, I have two pieces that are obviously much more contemporaneous. And I think in some ways do certainly reflect big themes that have been on display both this week and last. The first is by Brian Brooks and Charles Calamiris. And of course, Brooks was the acting U .S. comptroller of the currency in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. And before that, the chief legal officer at Coinbase and is now a partner at Valor Capital Group. Calamiris is now dean of economics, politics and history at the University of Austin, and was the chief economist of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Brooks. The piece they contributed to the Wall Street Journal was called stable coins can keep the dollar the world's reserve currency. And if you listen last week to long read Sunday, you will have heard this argument. Stable coins, they write, blockchain based assets backed by bank deposits and treasury securities are at the heart of a dollar based revolution happening throughout the developing world. Their price is supposed to stay steady, often at one dollar. Think of them as digital versions of prepaid cards with the potential to be important tools of American soft power in a world where the role of the dollar is in question. Stable coins aren't merely a more efficient means of electronic payments. With some economists and policymakers worrying about de -dollarization, i .e. the eclipse of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, stable coins could bolster the post -war arrangement in which the dollar's dominance helped foster global trade and the biggest reduction in global poverty ever. But that can happen only if Congress implements a sound and stable regulatory framework. That is why House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry's bill to regulate stable coins is vital. It would establish federal and state oversight for stable coin issuers, impose qualifications for reserve assets, and implement rules on redemptions and public disclosure. It's hard to argue with these seemingly bipartisan goals, and Mr. McHenry has collaborated on the bill with Representative Maxine Waters for more than a year. Yet, at last week's vote on the measure, Ms. Waters and most of her Democratic colleagues pulled their support, with no clear reason for their sudden change of heart. Did they suddenly decide stable coins aren't important? Any tool that could boost the US dollar should be considered. Dollars as a share of reserves held by foreign central banks have fallen in the past generation. In 2000, dollars represented almost 73 % of global central bank reserves. Today, the share is around 59%. Though much international trade and many commodity transactions are still settled in dollars, this year, large countries including Brazil and Argentina entered bilateral agreements with China to use the yuan and their local currencies for trade settlement. Rumors abound that a summit next month, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, will consider creating a new currency arrangement. While leaders of the so -called BRICS countries deny an impending currency union, Anil Suklao, South Africa's ambassador -at -large for Asia and BRICS, said, The days of a dollar -centric world are over, and BRICS nations intend to settle trades in their local currencies in the near future. This year, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammad al -Jaddad said Riyadh is open to settling oil trades in currencies other than dollars, once an unthinkable idea. U .S. policy hasn't boosted global confidence in the dollar. The asset freeze on dollar holdings in Russia's central bank imposed after Russia invaded Ukraine, while understandable politically, shocked investors and central bankers, who realized for the first time that the dollar may not be the safe store of value it once was. A de -dollarized world would damage the U .S. The dollar's reserve status reduces U .S. borrowing costs, which is crucial in an era when government borrowing and spending are at a record high and still climbing. Reserve status also insulates the U .S. government, banks, and the general public from foreign exchange risk. All things being equal, reserve status also allows American consumers to buy foreign goods more cheaply, since foreign producers would rather have dollars than other currencies. The nationalist and anti -colonialist impulses behind de -dollarization in the developing world aren't likely to help citizens of those countries. Argentina's decision to price trade deals with China in Yuan and Pesos may reflect Argentina's national pride, but the country's 114 % annual inflation rate means that workers there will see their purchasing power quickly decline. And that's nothing compared with Zimbabwe's 175 % rate or Venezuela's 400%. At the end of last year, 17 countries had inflation rates above 20 % and 57 had rates above 10%. This is where stablecoins come in. Faced with the dismal prospect of saving their wages in local currency stored in local bank accounts, more citizens of high -inflation countries are opting to use dollar -backed stablecoins as a synthetic savings account. Dozens of startups offer stablecoin savings and payment options in Latin America and Africa, often in countries whose leaders are vocally and visibly moving away from the dollar. Dollar -backed stablecoins have market capitalization in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and they support transaction volumes many multiples of that amount. These offerings are attractive to ordinary people in those countries because they don't require an account at a local bank, only an internet connection. In addition, many stablecoins pay interest and have no minimum balance fees and low or no transaction fees. More important, they free people from tyrannical developing world monetary policy and allow them to store the value of their hard work in relatively stable dollar form. Stablecoins could be to finance what Voice of America has been to diplomacy. They can communicate U .S. monetary policy directly to the people living in other countries when American efforts to engage other governments aren't succeeding. If stablecoins flourish, citizens of other countries will increase the demand for dollars independent of, and perhaps contrary to, their government's political decisions. But for stablecoins to succeed, U .S. politicians need to agree that redollarizing the global economy is important. The McHenry Bill is a good place to start.
Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
"dean" Discussed on Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
"Itself. A 100%. And there you've hit the point in today's society, exercise, movement, and everything else. We've become lazy and we see it as a chore rather than a privilege. And I believe that the art of movement and having choice and being able to see what your body capable of is a real privilege. But we seem to have turned something off where we use all the excuses that it's too hard that it's easier to order Uber eats or takeaways or go through drive-through when I was in America, I noticed as well because I've spent a lot of time working there that a lot of life revolved around eating next and I was like, what do you mean? There was a whole society that was based around consuming, whether it was television or things, everything else. So in the pandemic that we've been having, I've been hoping that part of the situation would be to realize that we have so much more available to us that maybe is free and that is movement and connection to self, to create a stronger society where people can have conscious decisions because they're thinking clearly they're healthier and they can have better conversations and that conversation starts with yourself. So when you don't want to run or you don't want to do anything, or you come against people in a group training that are going, yeah, dean, but how do you advise people get over what I call your ego is not your amigo?.
Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
"dean" Discussed on Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
"Yeah, and I just want to touch on that as well, is we do have the opportunities, but we've become a society on autopilot, right? And I just want to remind everyone that dean, you've been on The Today Show, David Letterman, Howard Stern, ESPN. So we've got this time together. One of the promises we made a pinky promise before we start is we would make this a radical episode where people will go, oh, I can't escape that fact. So we want you listening to this going, yeah, that does resonate. I do get in my car and go to work, or even with COVID and lockdown, I'm actually not freeing my mind about the possibilities, because one of the things that is bandied around is the wood freedom and how everyone's lost their freedom. And I argue that that's not the case. I think that we're trapped in a mental cage, which says we have to do things a certain way or go to restaurants or buy things and kind of consume before we create. And when you're adventure running and we decide to, you know, I would recommend that everyone take their pants off and strip down to their boxes on their 30th, but. Not everyone's gonna have a captivating life-changing moment and nor should people wait till it's too late. But if you're listening to this and you haven't been out in nature and you haven't experienced self sufficiency, I think it's worth asking yourself, what is the right of return of staying in your comfort zone between taking a leap of faith? And the thing is you might not know where it goes, but on this conversation with dean today, we're going to talk a little bit about how struggle and personal perseverance and physical acuity is actually worth the risk..
Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
"dean" Discussed on Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
"This is going to be episode 164 season four. I can not believe it. I knew that I spoke a lot for a reason. As a kid, but today I'm exceptionally excited. I was reading my guess bio flipping through his new book, and then I had to just go and take a walk outside and go wholly chopsticks. This is an extraordinary human. They're not only displays. The true sense of radical self belief, but ripples that out through everything he does. So I'm really excited if you haven't got your pen and paper. If you don't have your headphones in, if you're not selling somewhere quiet, please go grab it. You can come back at any time, thank you for joining us today, but I want to introduce speaker bestselling author ultra marathon endurance athlete. And one of times most 100th most influential people in the world dean Kansas. So dean, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure and an honor to be talking with you. Thanks for having me on. And listening to this, you can't see dean's background. He is a regal by all his medals and trophies behind him. So I'll be sure to take a screenshot of that and make sure that we can, you know, share all the winnings from a life that you have designed with passion and purpose. So what I will do, dean, is I always love as a guest that you can kind of give your little personal insight to your journey and what you do, just like we'd meet an elevator because I think that anyone listening to this sometimes when we read bars out, for example, you're a three time recipient of endurance athlete year of the ward. You've been a U.S. athlete ambassador you've carried the Olympic flame. You have men's fitness as well as the all time fittest men on the planet. You know, that's pretty incredible. And also a superhuman. So I think, you know, 50 consecutive state, you ran and 50 consecutive days that's 350 miles and kilometers that's just crazy. So to do that sort of thing, you have to have a radical sense of self belief dean. So how did you get from a young kid growing up to being the fittest man on the planet? It was a circuitous voyage. I'll put it that way. You know, I grew up in Southern California. And some of my earliest childhood recollections are running home from kindergarten. So I remember I just used to love to run. I love the outdoors. Loved everything about it. I kept running until I was in first form and I think we call it first form at 9th grade in high school. So freshmen in high school and we won the league championships in that 15. I decided that running was boring. And I was going to stop running..
Discussions of Truth
"dean" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"Worried about a government that can declare either the federal government or on the state level or even local level that can declare an emergency and in declaring that emergency enhance its own power. I'm very skeptical about government power. Governments obviously necessary. It's the way we organize civil society. We need rules. We need laws. We need enforcement. But when a government can declare itself bigger than it had been the day before, because of an emergency whether it's the war on terror or whether it's the war on drugs or COVID or a year from now. Global warming and who knows what sort of powers will be declared. So that's the next book. And that will be probably an anthology with a lot of different contributors. So I will just be mostly an editor and write an introduction to try and pull some themes out of that. But that's one major theme I'm looking at. And discuss your truth be happy to host you when that is ready. Gain some final final words and final thoughts for listeners, please, sir. Just to compliment to you, you're a great interviewer. You've asked some questions. I've done hundreds of these and you've asked some questions I've never gotten before. You probe well and follow up well. And I compliment you on that. Well, that's very kind. Very kind of you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, dean router, the hidden Nazi the untold story of America's deal with the devil dean I look forward to keeping in touch with you, sir. Thank you so much, and great to be with you. I'm going to end it at that. I'm going to end it at that and you can. I haven't looked, but I can imagine folks. This book is widely available, just pop it into pop it into your search engine. And here is a excellent example of learning from our past. What transpired in Germany in the 1940s.
Discussions of Truth
"dean" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"They've never heard of Auschwitz. It's startling. The level of ignorance. So, you know, you mentioned people buying this and makes good gifts. I wouldn't buy it for somebody that's not yet in high school, probably 9th grade, but anybody on the younger end, but my father's in uncles love this book. But I think the first message I would want the younger generation reading this book. And because it does describe World War II, it does describe the Holocaust. It is hard sledding at points because it tells them terrible stories and some things that are difficult to read and difficult to write and learn on my part. But I think it's so necessary to know these things. That would probably be my biggest takeaway in. In your view, dean, why do you think these Americans continued? Let's say dulles. Well, why do you think that these people even you've mentioned the Henry Ford? I've mentioned Standard Oil. What do you think Americans went along with this knowing that it was essentially an enemy that their country was fighting in that sense? Well, I think it's very similar to the way that it happened with the German people. I think it was incremental. So it's step by step and no single step seemed remarkably bad. And there were also secondary gains. I'm a big believer in capitalism. I'm a free market guy. I'm also a Law & Order guy. I also think that countries by large act in their own best interest. And I think there was a lot of all of that going on here. But and it happens in a hundred times and it never leads to a Holocaust. So it's just impossible to know sometimes how evil the people you are dealing with are. And I think that was the case here. I don't think I can imagine there's an American businessman who would want to get in bed with a country and a regime that's going to kill tens of millions of people. I don't believe that of American businessmen and women. I think they were sold a bill of goods. I think it's easy to look the other way. And a lot of circumstances, there might have been more of that than there should have been. But I think on this side of the Atlantic, I think there was a lot of shock about the exactly what happened in the Holocaust. That's why Eisenhower took cameras in there because he thought what had transpired was.
Discussions of Truth
"dean" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"Everybody knew this was a technology that would be this mad scramble for the scientists and Hans Hamlin was in a position to deliver them. Now, a conventional history will tell us that we just got lucky the Americans got lucky. We stumbled on the rocket scientist, but we prove in the book that Hans kendler delivered them, and then at the end of the war, faked his own suicide, and that we, the Americans had him in custody long after the war long after his reported suicide, which was adjudicated validated by a German corps. So he consequently, nobody searched for him and we've been in touch with the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. The visn thaw center, the U.S. Department of Justice office of special investigation, those are our Nazi hunters. Nobody searched for him because everybody bought the bought the suicide. So the most surprising aspect of this book, although there are many, many others, is that overall story arc, the fraud that was perpetrated on the world by Hans camera with the help of the Americans. Can you identify any Americans that were behind this scene? Well, through the work of these researchers I mentioned the indefatigable work of the researchers. They've just uncovered lots and lots of documents. It seems that Hans kendler got most of his help from the U.S. Army, CIC. That's the counter intelligence core. And the guy who had his name on the paperwork was a lieutenant a major and then lieutenant colonel Dale garvey who worked for army CIC, the counterintelligence corps. They were the group that recruited that found kamler recruited him and then had him in custody for 11 months after the war. So there are other names involved. Some of them are more speculative. I mean, the biggest name probably is Alan dulles. There are some strong suggestions that he was involved in this. He certainly had knowledge of it, whether he was an architect of this plan and we can't really prove that, but we can certainly show that he was involved in this whole swirl of activity, the idea of the U.S. recruiting Nazis. Using that as intelligence assets are exploiting them for their knowledge and then helping them escape justice. In the case of kamler, even escaping any historical reckoning until the book had not seen. Dean is from your evidence are you suggesting that active Americans knew of this corrupt covered up angle while the war was going on? Oh, there's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. His death was being documented. His suicide had been documented while we had him in custody. So it's interesting because in the post war right after the war, there were two groups of Americans present really..
Discussions of Truth
"dean" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"And science great to be with you. Well, it is a pleasure of mine as well dean. Dean, let's get right to it. And discuss discuss the hidden Nazi the untold story of America's deal with the devil. Take a moment if you would, please, sir. And introduce yourself to listeners. Ian, first of all, it's great to be with you. I'm a lawyer by training and trade. And this book was brought to me actually by a colleague of mine from my college years who've been researching what he described as a notorious and all powerful Nazi general in doing his research, he came across another researcher column Lowry in Ireland. And I was brought in as a lawyer to draft an agreement so the two of them could share their research. And this friend of mine Keith Chester who became one of the researchers in co authors of the book, said he made startling what I described as unbelievable claims about the provenance of this general and the ultimate story that they were in the process of uncovering. I couldn't believe it. But all I had to do was write an agreement so they could do a collaborate together and share research and so on that basis that I got involved and then became the principal author. I have practiced law and been in a federal law enforcement I've seen the way the world works. I've been involved in a couple of book projects before. So it was on that basis, really. That's my background that led me to this project. So you're a lawyer by trade. What is your experience in law enforcement dean? Well, I've been in the inspector general community of the federal government for about 5 years total. I would say, that is a part of the federal government that polices the expenditure of federal funds with grant recipients and also by federal agency. So when you think fraud waste and abuse, the IGs, the inspectors general are the guys who are out there at the men and women who are policing the use of funds to make sure that the funds are not being misappropriated and not being stolen outright. And when used they're used to properly within the guidelines of the grants. Were you finding any misuse of funds during your time? Plenty plenty. Yeah, I mean, I was in smaller offices, so our grants were not a mammoth Department of Defense grants, where there were so many opportunities for much more fraud. But we saw a lot of misuse of funds that people spending money on things they shouldn't have been spent on. And we also saw some outright theft, which is discouraging. But that's human nature. And that's why we have law enforcement. That's why we have laws. And laws are meant to be followed, but they're often broken and we need the enforcement side of things. Deane, did you ever at any time envision yourself getting into this book of this type of topic? I understand this was brought to you to draft an agreement between two resources, but you've put your name clearly on this book. Did you ever did you ever consider getting into this topic? I did not. I mean, the other book projects I've been involved with are law and policy. And I had always wanted to do something other than that. I am a fan of history, my heritage is German and I've always been fascinated with World War II. My father was an army officer, a U.S. Army officer, so he was abroad when I was born, so I happen to have been born in heidelberg..
Scientific Sense
"dean" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"My guest is professor. Dean demento was professor of behavioral science in europe. Biology at ucla. the primary goal of barclay. You still understand that your basis or temporal information processing game. Well thank you very much for having me.
Help! I Suck At Dating with Dean, Vanessa and Jared
"dean" Discussed on Help! I Suck At Dating with Dean, Vanessa and Jared
"I kind of wish my step in there like dean like get your crap together you know. It's not getting wasted and going to parties and trying to make out with girls. I kinda messed up. And i mean if i think that happened i think that My relationship life would've turned around a little earlier and i. It's funny to say. But i don't think podcasts ever would have sprung up if that were the case not to say that like you know i dating because none of my friends ever stepped up and said anything to me but i do think there. Especially at the age of twenty two. Like you are super impressionable. You have a lot to learn really. Nobody likes you. When you're twenty two or twenty three right listen Listen swift. And i think that's blink one eighty-two right. Nobody likes you three right. What's the song terrorist things about age. I think it's like fifteen anyways. That's beyond the point. My point is twenty two as a young enough age to where you're allowed to make mistakes but you're not you shouldn't be vilnai's for calling your friends out for making those mistakes especially like if you have the maturity to call them out for them like i think one of the reasons. None of my friends called me out. And what i call my friends out for it was because we all lacked the maturity so like if we had maybe like mature friend or to have like. Hey like this isn't right. We've just got word from rally that it was t- swift sings fifteen. So i was only seven years off. I was just about to say dean. Is this going to sound familiar. I don't know about you. But i'm seeing lynn. Twenty two. that was terrible. That's what it is. Yes okay thank you. Thank you jerod. I knew i wasn't that okay. I appreciate that twenty two. And hey i'm blake. I'm a big blink. One eight two fan so a little that miss that reference but anyways There's no shame calling your friends out for that. I personally like wouldn't be mad at you for separating yourself from your friends that are making those bad decisions because at the end of the day. It's like they're probably gonna make those bad decisions towards your friendship at some point so you have every right to to say something and then if the need to separate yourselves as friends comes about. I think that's totally find it. Here's a question i have for you. So anonymous ends emailing us about her friend. Do you think anonymous should go to the boyfriend and say listen. I love my friend. You can't keep doing this to her. Yeah that's really a question. I think she should go to the friend. I.
Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"dean" Discussed on Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"Dean's list with Janice Dean, a school bus driver in Greenville, Texas. Helping 1/4 grader get used to her routine makes today's Dean's list. Nine year old Dylan Williams had never been on a school bus before. At Bella's mom, Umbria shared a video to Tiktok praising her daughter's accomplishment, she says, My daughter is visually impaired. Today was her first time getting on the bus. By herself. She did it and I'm so proud of her. Andrea says she's been taking Adele into and from Carver Elementary School for years, but had a change of heart. When Adele in Express, she wanted to go to school on her own. When a Delon came home from school, she had befriended her bus driver, Mr. Ryan and Bria recorded a snippet of Adele in and Mr Ryan and posted it on Tiktok. In the clip. Mr. Ryan had an umbrella opened for Adele and to protect her from the rain and walked up a concrete staircase and sidewalk with her one commenter wrote. They were brought to tears by the sweet moment. There's not many Bus drivers like him out there. He's amazing, Mr Ryan and Ellen. You both made today's Dean's list. Janice Dean Fox News. I'm guy Benson. It's Labor Day. And this is the best of the guy Benson Show back on the guy Benson Show Happy Hour Classic song Beer for my horses. And the meeting behind that will become very clear in just a moment. I saw this story over the weekend, and I'll just preface it by saying, I'm glad everyone is okay, but a Wyoming rancher named Frank Reynolds, I think belongs in this particular catalog. Unlike presents real American heroes Real American here I loved this ad campaign. From Bud Light, and they've changed it to real men of genius. And then I think we talked about it. They did one related to the pandemic anyway. Frank Reynolds.
By His Grace
"dean" Discussed on By His Grace
"I am your host misty philip. And today we're going to talk about redemption so for those of you who know my story. It is definitely a story of redemption. What you may not know is why. I called this podcast by his grace. I called this by his grace. Because everything in my life has been a gift from god and and the fact that i am here with you today proclaiming the goodness of jesus christ is because of his grace and his mercy and his love because before i knew jesus i was an absolute train wreck and when i met jesus my whole life changed. It didn't make my life easier. Actually i ended up having a lot more problems and difficulty in suffering. But i had jesus. And that's what made all the difference in the world. He has redeemed and restored everything in my life. Much like my guest today. Athena dean holtz athena was the diamond sponsor of the spark media conference and she is a pike. Castor a former radio host and author speaker publisher a bookstore owner and a pastor's wife. She hosts an amazing conference and does so many things but her whole everything. She does rest on the scripture romans. Eight twenty eight. That god works all things together for good for those who love god and those who are called according to his purposes. This is the final installation of interviews that i did at the nrp. And while i was there i also had the opportunity to share on athena's podcast more of my redemption story. So go check that out. If you want to hear more of my back story but today. I want to introduce you to athena gina and her amazing god story. Hey all i am on the floor of the nrp expo with my friend at fina dean holtz. She is actually the diamond sponsor of the spark media conference. And i am so excited to introduce you to her..
Immigrants of Toronto
"dean" Discussed on Immigrants of Toronto
"You're listening to episode. Seventy five of the immigrants of toronto podcast. My guest today is dean from india. He moved here in two thousand eighteen dean. Welcome to the show. I asked her. Thank you so much for having me today. Greenwell welcome to the immigrants of toronto. Podcast aiming to open people's minds through real stories of immigration and now your host oscar saint eighteen. Thanks again for being here and very excited to to having this conversation with you. But why don't we get started with a brief introduction of yourself. Would you mind telling us a little bit about you. absolutely My name is dean louisville and my pronouns a he and him i am a communications and public relations professional and on the side and muslim musician and a self taught what gala does. Something i picked up. During the young i moved in two thousand eighteen from india and back in india. I had been working across media. Television radio brinton digital new. So i had about five years of experienced elected into canada. After coming hill. I pursued a bridging program fall internationally trained communications professionals and after that i worked very briefly with a television show that caters to newcomers again mandate finally landed a full time position in the nonprofit sector. So i am currently working as a communications specialist as the five nineteen that is canada's most prominent than should be t q to as community sentence was provided vessels vessel. Perfect is a great introduction like a great elevator. Pitch three on dean. Let let me ask you a little bit about so you move hearing twenty teen. How was your life before that like. Why did you decide to to carry out in alaska very honestly mall life back in india which is my country version I was really happy. That was nothing. Lacking i had family a professionally angrily well You know as a journalist. And i was just getting to do lot of good work covering some stories about some very important issues socially to ahead community especially the musician suckle So young there was really nothing lacking but in other something within me that wanted more. I wanted to see what life is like a distant country. Whatever would plank and coincidentally funny enough canada's netted on the guts. I had never been to. Canada immigrated here. But i don't know i'm was just somehow drawn to the fact that it is known to the country that's very welcoming skilled immigrants and just thought it would be a great place to move and make a difference with my Other physicians by skins and Which is why Toronto because it is really helpful. Communications in all things media you know besides vancouver that yet around just seem like the best place to get started until you already answer. My next question was when white toronto. But if you're uncertain one question dean anaheim intrigued about this because we were chatting a little bit about this before we started recording when you move q. u. mchugh as a permanent resident. And after that you decided to study a bridging program and the reason why. I'm trying i'm asking this question is because a lot of false including myself. We moved here as students. It was kind of a prerequisite to get the permanent residency. Your case already had it but you decided to study. I think my question is why did you decide. Do you already had the with a lot of fuss. Lutes think about it as the the big price which is arrested in residency. What did you decide to study. That is a really good question. You know Oscar just from the folks at had spoken to. When i was doing planning for canada of before coming a none of them such as yourself had had moved as students than they walk them. It with the way up But for me. It was very different. Because i got my bum and residency on the basis of my qualifications and the work. I was doing in india But that said. When i came here i wanted to diversify i was In my last job was working as a journalist. And i really wanted to diversify moore's communications professional If you want to speak about it colloquially jack-of-all-trades you're supposed to know how degree dried tripled edit a analytics. You name it on a communications person On these things The but that said. I didn't want to go to school. And you know pursue another master's degree just for the sake of it because they already had a master's in communications and it was from a university that sets recognized even out till so. I didn't want to just go back to school for the sake of it any for the sake of getting another degree. I really wanted to understand. What the communications media landscape look like in toronto in ontario and even canada who's to and I guess i found To a large extent those answers in the bridge tool Employment in media and communications program. It's abridging program that began in twenty eighteen I never knew existed again. Actually when i went to access employment full symbol resume writing workshop. Which most newcomers do they told me about. This goes on city. Noise created Needs and you might just want to try it. And that's how i enjoyed in it How is abrasion goes different. Unlike unacademic goes they. Don't teach you anything. Neil in domes of teary. You're not learning new concepts but what they really doing is the taking you as you all with your qualifications with your skills with your knowledge and trying to see how you could leverage that to make you job ready in the canadian market. They send merola. Communications can be pretty Nuanced so as to say because it's not driven by numbers it's not driven by you. Know a skill that that he can learn a not. It is sausage. Are you dealing with people. Endo you know you're writing reading and so forth so i would say On the vision coast was useful in many ways. Because it gave me a good understanding of the media landscape deal and It had me understand. You know where the future lies when it comes to and communications as street. So that's why. I decided to go see that 'cause north sir. I think it's it's great that you did Especially because as you said like sometimes we come here and it's something that i mean. A lot of people that i've talked to mentioned is like they come here. Maybe they have experienced at home a lot but transferring those skills to to new culture. Something like that. It might be challenging especially again as you said like. It's it's a lot of self skills that you need to learn. It's inning to learn that people communicate differently because of different society so the rules that we have are different than the ones that you had by canadian. Maybe the ones that i had in mexico. It's different so. I think the bridging programs are great. And we've talked about a couple of guests before and i cannot recommend them enough so i'm happy to hear that it's something that helped you absolutely dean one question you mentioned when you were introducing yourself you mentioned about the that you were able to get a job in your field on all that and that happened after the program you want to ask you. How long did it take you to to get a job in your field and also toys like. How are you liking it. You know what. I would be really honest in saying that. I i still struggled like most newcomers and most immigrants to find employment even after the bridging goes and understandably so because no no 'cause.
I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"dean" Discussed on I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"This is genius. Member network. Who focuses on seo seo of youtube is not to rank in search is to rank after other videos right. That's how you show up because people start in searching and they'll watch eight other videos based off of what's being recommended so the big views come from what's being recommended not from search so that's the game the play. So how do you game that system. You make video with the same title as videos that are already showing up that are getting views and then you make your own art like you. Attach your art to it. It could be reaction. Could be a podcast interview could be directed camera. There's lots of ways to do it but there are some changes that using the word Motivation versus inspiration were might dramatically changed. The course of how much to promote your video based off other videos using motivation instead of inspiration and two for you might be the exact same thing. Yeah instead means the same thing to me but if you could get a headline that would convert you know ten times better by switching one word out would you do it. That's amazing Would you what about what about using money. Would you recommend buying exposure buying Is there a way to speed up the process. If you're willing to invest some money in getting traffic to your site to your so depends on. What your ambitions are right for. Some people having ten thousand subscribers on youtube means something so all they care about is the flex to show people they have ten thousand subscribers and that that helps them get more clients not on youtube but in the outside world so there you can. You can now anytime you're buying. I'm talking also bind within the ad words product. If you're buying something your channel can get banned right now. I'm not talking. Some people go. There had to help save like even some big accounts. Like oh yeah. I bought this thing off of red argentina and they got me fifty thousand subscribers but now my my count is banned a cape. Some guy in argentina. I'm talking about like if you have a channel that you've got let's say you. Do you teach people how to draw. And you've got a book on read. This learn out of draw in your channel is about drawing and somebody's typing into youtube how to draw and other than making videos hoping that they're gonna show up organically as their away to bid on your actually showing up when they do it. So it's the thing that you're hoping for just kind of accelerated so two different strategies depending on again. I'll also working within google's products use products. The first is pre roll outs. Yes and pre roll ads linked to a landing page. So it's you if that video of that book is about learn how to draw. Teach you how to draw. And i've got this book that's gonna help you do it and it costs ten bucks or fifteen bucks. It's free or whatever you're going to show up before other people's videos on how to draw and and you're not thinking brandon. This is just conversion. This is just like running facebook. Ads our allies. There's a link. Your i'd shows before their video they click the link. They hit your landing page and you try to sell them something. Yeah that works and a lot of people are leaving facebook to go to youtube now. Like a lot of the big big market is spending. Millions are leaving facebook because of all the issues and going to youtube. Because it's a little more wild west in this stuff. So i was early..
I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"dean" Discussed on I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"The marketing podcast in in two thousand forty is all of us in vr sitting in dean's home together. We're all still just talking in front of a camera. So it's a skill set that you can use forever regardless of if you even exist in twenty years so i love that. That's a good insight so to get the videos as fast as you can. get them..
I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"dean" Discussed on I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"We miss is on sabbatical wrestling year and on behalf of the entire genius network team. We welcome you to this. I love marketing session. Thank goodness we have dean jackson. Because dina's remarkable and brilliant. evan carmichael. Now evan carmichael bay leaves an entrepreneur. Dhs gary vein attack called him. The dj who inspires people and ed by let called him the modern day napoleon hill at nineteen. Evan built then sold a biotech software company at twenty two he was a venture capitalists raising five hundred thousand to fifteen million dollars. He now runs a youtube channel for entrepreneurs with over two million subscribers and three hundred million views. he's written four books and he speaks globally. He wants to solve the world's biggest problem. Here it is. People don't be leaving themselves enough. Forbes named him one of the world's top forty social marketing talents and inc named him one of the one hundred great speakers and one of twenty five social media keynote speakers. You need to know now even set two world records. He uses a trampoline in the stand up desk. He owns canada's largest salsa dance studio. That's where he met his wife and he has a giant to read those bag in front of him all day long to remind him that he's stronger than the doritos. Toronto is hall. he's a husband father. Tsm fan and team. Oh main we're exceedingly fortunate to have along with. There's of course. The jackson and mr evan carmichael welcome. Thanks guys great to be here. I'm i'm i'm excited. The dive in on something to be here. Thank you it's a. It's a blessing. And i'm ready to dive in. I'm super excited. I've seen all of your videos even before we met to tell you i was watching One of your videos just a couple of weeks ago. That was the one with quentin tarantino and where he was talking..
1170 The Answer
"dean" Discussed on 1170 The Answer
"Dean. Ah lot of record highs and people are, you know, excited about where the stock market has been, But let's remind people that's not necessarily going to stay there. Let's talk about risk today. Marty. Yeah, great point. No. You know when things are going well in the market is plugging along is it's been doing under the Trump Administration and Had record high levels. In spite of, you know, some pretty challenging times with the covert 19 pandemic situation, a lot of people out of work, and there seems to be this giant disconnect between you know what Wall Street's been doing here know of a market shooting higher. At the same time, so many people suffering and struggling financially, And what happens is after 40 years of doing this kind of work. I've seen this a number of times where in the good times, people forget about downside risk, and in the bad times, people think. Oh my gosh, it's going to be this way forever. I just want to remind people that they need to be cautious. You know, we've had a record run up on the stock market at or near record levels and attack the same time. The numbers are a little bit fuzzy on Wall Street. You know, I think the market's a bit ahead of itself. I would fully expect to correction to becoming not that in the long run, that's a bad thing that is likely a healthy thing. But at the same time right now, the multiples the price to earnings ratios are, in my estimation, pretty out of whack. And, um, a good give back a good correction. I don't mean a depression type thing. I'm talking about a correction. Anywhere for me to maybe 12% would allow the market to reset in, you know, shoot higher on firmer ground, So you know, I think people forget know what the dynamics of laws if you've got $100 in the market, and the market takes it down to $50. It's a 50% loss. But now to come back to 100 from 50, it requires a 100% increase. So that's why we talk about you know the risk factor and really understanding what it means to recover from losses. Yeah, I agree with that, Marty, I and you and I have talked about this on the on the main program. Often on and it's it's good to have a healthy correction that's more smaller in magnitude every once in a while, then have it build and build and build. And then suddenly, the bottom drops out. Yeah, Everybody thinks back to 2000 and eight when we had nearly a 50% market, you know, bombshell and it took people you know. 78 10 years Tol back T even on that kind of a drop so healthy 8 to 12% correction is good. Let's the market reset and then move higher based on actual earnings and multiples. That makes sense rather than some inflated kind of bubble number, And I think that's kind of where we are right now. So just a caution. Be careful, Make sure your allocations are appropriate for your age and your risk tolerance level. And talk with your advisers.
The Sue Plex Podcast
"dean" Discussed on The Sue Plex Podcast
"Twisted genius dane. Is as a german and welcome to another edition of the suplex. Pokhara here on in yours on this point sunday afternoon morning or evening depending on when you're listening now. My guest is softer noon or today. Shall i say is the twisted genius dean. I him so missed the ice. Welcome how are you sir. Thank you very much. I'm on doing okay. i'm hanging on in there. Is i think the rest of the so you know. He's been a spin a weird and crazy time from all of us. The whole the whole world had to live with with covid fillets vaccine in the western world. It's been over a year since we've done any shows we've had all the stuff with with with speaking out since then we have not seen. How how things going to come come back and change off to. That is as a strange time to be to be around the some just looking forward to life. Getting back to normal really could heal. They see a couple of days from a year from now i. It's a bit a desperate now. Jaded over camera up and start show again. money egypt's getting a bit is the bit desperate now how. Oc we've you mentioned speaking out and you meant jealousy the pandemic how how wash your hope ready for for the business moving forward like this someone who's been around for maybe even a lot longer than a lot of people. Don't sign your own. Because i've been around. That's what he is. Well this is now. How how are you feeling of the of the back of the whole speaking out and and what. What is your hope so moving forward in embracing a very good question. I think i think it's some open. Dow is up a lot to think everything i would say. I've learnt don't assume that things are right. And i think i think now the if we have any any concerns about anything any suspicions and if in the people will be a lot more A lot more willing to speak up come forward ask if everything is is cayenne If thing is finding people won't take offense. 'cause i realize what what you're doing this is right know. Were there have been a few things they..