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Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
"Proof of Life After Life" With Dr. Raymond Moody & Paul Perry
"Welcome back, and if you're just joining me, I have proof of life afterlife authors Raymond Moody and Paul Parius, my guests, and we're talking about what happens when we die, NDEs, near -death experiences, and shared -death experiences. So, Paul, do you want to share a story that really stuck with you, that has made you want to continue? I mean, this is such interesting work. I mean, you guys really must be like... You can't stop. You can't stop. I started out planning to write one book with Raymond. Now we've written six books together, and I've written all these other books with other people, and made two movies. Yeah, I love that. So, do you have one that kind of stuck with you? I do. I know, because there's so many, and I don't want to take away, because for everybody that has this experience, it's got to be amazing to them, right? And that's their story special. But yeah, one that's just kind of stuck with you. Well, a Hollywood producer that I can't name, was on the East Coast visiting her boyfriend. And her boyfriend had never met her family. He was in Massachusetts, and she was in Los Angeles. But early in the morning, one time in Boston, she began to feel uneasy, and kind of found it impossible to get back to sleep. And as the feeling intensified for her, she began to think about members of her family. And then she started to think about her father, and then for no particular reason, because he had been healthy when she left, she began to think that maybe he was in some kind of a health distress, and needed some kind of a help. She began to toss and turn as she did it, and her boyfriend woke up, and said he was having trouble sleeping as well. They began to talk about this. It was early in the morning, and as they did, they suddenly saw her father hovering over the bed, as she said, like a ghost. And they both saw the father, although her boyfriend had never met her family. And they both just froze, looking at the father for several moments. Then she got a call later, not much later, that her father had died. And her response, her quote to me was, it was strange, but not creepy. I looked at him for signs of distress, or some other reason that he was there, but I just couldn't figure it out. Then it dawned on me that he had certainly died, and wanted to tell me himself. And she said she'd always had a strong bond with him, but this felt perfectly natural to her. And that was one that stuck with her. We have other ones in the book that are like that, though. Yeah, you do. Yeah, I love the book, because you give many stories from people who have shared with you their own experiences, and they vary greatly, which is what I thought was really interesting. I love
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "east coast" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Cloudy temperatures going to stay in the 40s. Heading into Friday we begin a nice little warm -up we're in the mid 50s with partly cloudy skies and heading into Saturday looking pretty good too mostly sunny skies temperatures near 60 degrees. Heading into the sunny time frame we got a bit of a washout coming our way forecast models indicating anywhere around from a half inch to over an inch of rain possible throughout the day on Sunday and into the early morning hours of Monday temperatures are in the mid 60s during this time frame so not not expecting expecting any any kind kind of of wintry wintry precip precip with with that that but but just just a a good good old old -fashioned -fashioned East East Coast Coast storm storm on on Sunday Sunday.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from David Brooks on How To Know A Person
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there, and of course, to listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues. All of them at hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Inside the Beltway this morning, I'm so glad you joined me. I want to talk with you about this book. David Brooks's brand new How to Know a Person, The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. David joins me now. Hello, David. How are you? It's good to be with you again. It's good to talk to you. David, I'm used to getting books, and I got yours for free. They get sent to me. I want to tell you I'm going to buy six copies of How to Know a Person, three for my children and their spouses, and three for friends who are no longer friends that I want them to read. I wonder if you've had other people tell you that they're going to be buying your book to give to other people. Yeah, thank you for being generous on Twitter about the book. I appreciate it. Yeah, no, I've had people buy it for all their employees. I've had people buy it for the families. I haven't heard about buying it for ex -friends, but it's a good strategy. It is. We just live in these brutalizing times. It is. And my book is supposed to be a missile directed right at that. It's about the precise skills of how do you get to know someone, how do you make them feel respected, seen, heard. How do you make them feel respected, seen, and heard? I know why my friends are not my friends anymore. It's because of Donald Trump. They thought me insufficiently outraged about Donald Trump, and I can't bridge that gap, right? I can't be other than what I am, which is I voted for him twice, and if he's the nominee, I'll vote for him again. But they don't understand it, and I don't know that they're trying to understand. I don't understand them either, but I think How to Know a Person has assisted me. So, congratulations. Let me also tell you, I told our mutual friend Bob Barnett that I was telling people about your book in Miami as I prepared for the debate, because my wife and I talked about one statistic in particular, one paragraph actually, on page 98. Thirty -six percent of Americans reported they felt lonely frequently or almost all of the time, including 61 percent of young adults, 51 percent of young mothers. The percentage of Americans who said they have no close friends quadrupled between 1990 and 2020. 54 percent of Americans reported that no one knows them well. That is an extraordinary raft of terrible news, David. Yeah, and I found it's hard to build a healthy democracy on top of a rotting society, and so when this people are filled with loneliness and sadness, it turns into meanness, because if you feel yourself unseen, invisible, there's nothing crueler than feeling that people think you don't exist, and you get angry, and you lash out, and we have these school shootings. We have bitter politics. We've got the brutality of what's happening on college campuses right now, where Jewish students are being blockaded out of classrooms or have the recipients of genocidal how to build a friendship, how to make people feel that you're included, and these are basic social skills like the kind you could be taught at like learning carpentry or tennis or something like that. It's how do you listen well, how do you disagree well, how do you sit with someone who's got depression, how do you sit with someone who's contemplating suicide, how do you sit with someone who disagrees with you fundamentally on issues, and I just try to walk through the basic skills, and in my view, there in any group of people, there are two sorts. There's diminishers, the people who stereotype ignore, they don't ask you questions, they just don't care about you, and then there's another sort of person who are illuminators, and they are curious about you, they respect you, they want to know your life story, and they make you feel lit up and heard, and my goal in writing the book was partly social, because we need these skills to be a decent society, and partly personal. I just want to be better at being an illuminator. I think it comes through in the book. I listened to your interview with Katie Couric and her colleague, who I don't know, and they were trying to get at a question a couple of times, I'm gonna try and land that plane. Why did David Brooks write this book? Well, I'll give you the personal reason. You know, some people, if anybody watched Fiddler on the Roof, you know how warm and huggy Jewish families can be. I grew up in the other kind of Jewish family, and our culture was think Yiddish, act British, so we had love in the home. We just didn't express it. We were not a huggy family. We were all cerebral up here, and then when I was 18, the admissions officers at Columbia, Wesleyan, and Brown decided to actually go to the University of Chicago, which was also a super cerebral place. My favorite thing about Chicago, it's a Baptist school where atheist professors teach Jewish students St. Thomas Aquinas, and so I went into the world of journalism where we just Frederick Buechner once put it, if you cut yourself off from true connection with others, you may save yourself a little pain because you won't be betrayed, but you're cutting yourself off from the holy sources of life itself, and so I just wanted to be better at being intimate with other people. I've heard you now three times, read in your book, heard you tell it to Katie, and heard you tell it to me, the anecdote about the University of Chicago, the anecdote about Yiddish and British, but what is new is you brought up Buechner, and I've never read Buechner. I now know his backstory, which is so tragic. You include it in the book. I did not know he had a tragic backstory that illumines his character for me, and maybe I will go and read it, but you're in interview mode. How many different book interviews have you done? Uh, probably 20 or more. I don't know a lot. You're definitely, I know what that's like, where you want to get through an interview, and you want to make sure that people, you land the point, and I want to get a little bit deeper than that. I want to find out if you're with your self -examination. There's been a David Brooks self -examination underway for a long time, but you have not yet written your book about God. Are you going to go there? Yeah, well, at the end of The Second Mountain, I wrote a book about my spiritual journey, and how I grew up, my phrase was religiously bisexual, so I grew up in a Jewish home, but I went to a church school, and I went to a church camp, so I had the story of Jesus in my God. And then when I was 50 or so, reality seemed porous to me. It seemed like we're not just a bunch of physical molecules. You know, I once, I was in subway in New York City in God's ugliest spot on the face of the earth, and I look around the subway car, and I see all these people, and I decide all these people have souls. There's some piece of them that has no size, weight, color, or shape, but gives them infinite value and dignity, and their souls could be soaring, their souls could be hurting, but all of us have them. And once you have the concept of the soul in your head, it doesn't take long before the concept of God is in your head. And so I went off, especially about 10 years ago, and it's still going on a spiritual journey of just trying to figure out what do I believe? And I learned when you're on a journey like that, Christians give you books, and so I got like 700 books sent to me, only 350 of which were different copies of Christianity by C .S. Lewis. And so that was my journey. And it didn't, it was very slow and gradual. There were some dramatic moments, but not a lot. But I realized, oh, I'm not an atheist anymore, and my heart has opened up to something. And I think this book is the extension of that. When your heart opens up to God, and if every person you meet, you think this person was made in the image of God, I'm looking at somebody so important, Jesus was willing to die for that person, then I've got to show them the respect that God would show them. I've got to try to see them with the eyes that Jesus would see them with. And that's a super high standard that I'm not going to meet, but it's a goal. And Jesus says, even in brutal, tough times, He sees people, He sees the poor. And the main thing He does is Jesus is always asking questions. Somebody asks Him a question, He asks them a question back. And that act of questioning, what you do for a living, that's a show of respect. And that's the doorway to seeing someone. And so to me, I think questions are a moral act that we're phenomenal at when we're kids. And then we get a little worse at it. And I come sometimes leave a party and think that whole time nobody asked me a question. And I've come to think like only 30 % of the people in the world are question askers. And so part of the thing I do in the book is just try to say, here are some generous things to do to ask people questions. It is a, that is the key takeaway, how to ask questions. And this is a skill set. I sent a note this morning to my friend, Jan Janur, who has been running a Christian ministry for 30 years called The Wild Adventure. He wrote a book called Turning Small Talk into Big Talk. And I was reminded of it. Yours is a longer, more complicated examination of the art of asking questions and why you want to do so. It's also, it reminded me a lot of C .S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory. You have never met an ordinary human being. Everyone is an eternal horror, an everlasting splendor, and you believe that and you get to it. And I want to talk about how one gets there, but I want to begin, interestingly enough, with a comment Katie Couric made you. And I listened to that yesterday. I'd finished your book last week and I made my notes last night. And then I listened to Katie Couric interview. She spontaneously brought up her interview with Sarah Palin. Why do you think she did that, David? I like Katie a lot. And she's been a guest on my show. I loved her memoir, at least the first two thirds of it, which was about her younger life, which I thought was fascinating. Why do you think she brought up the Sarah Palin interview? I was also struck by that because I don't think she talks about it enough. I know Katie from various things and I don't think she talks about it all that much. I think it was a time when she was asking questions and somebody just wasn't answering. It was a time when she was having a miscommunication. I imagine that's why she wrote up. Do you have another theory? I do. I think it's because she's been misunderstood because of that question and that she wants people who only know Katie Couric because of that question to know that that's not Katie Couric. And that, to me, it was it made perfect sense she used to be known. And that's the central theme of this. People want to be seen. They want to be known. And if you are known for the wrong thing, in this case, the Katie Couric Sarah Palin interview, you want to you want to get that off your cargo ship, right? You want that unloaded. And I thought, wow, you really the book worked on her. Let me tell you also, on page 134, you talk about face experiments with infants. I want them outlawed. David, what did you think when you read it? I think those are cruel and awful. Tell people about them. Yeah, so babies come out of the womb wanting to be seen. Baby's eyes, they see everything 18 inches away in sharpness. Everything else is kind of blurry because they want to see mom's face. And these experiments that you referred to are called still face experiments. The babies send a bid for attention. And the moms are instructed, don't respond, just be still face. And in the beginning, the babies are uncomfortable. And then after a few seconds, they start writhing around. And five within seconds, they're in total agony, because nobody is seeing them. And I really don't think that's that much different as adults. I think when we're unseen, it is just total agony. We're rendered invisible. And that's what I encounter in my daily life as a reporter. I used to go to the Midwest. I live on the East Coast, but I spent a lot of time in the Midwest. And maybe 10, 15 years ago, once a day, somebody would say, you guys think we're flyover country. In the last five years, I hear that like 10 times a day. And so a lot of just people feel they're invisible. And frankly, that's a little on my profession, the media. When I started as a police reporter in Chicago, we had working class folks in the newsroom. Our reporters, they hadn't gone to college. They were just regular people from Chicago, and they covered crime alongside me. Now, if you go to newsrooms, especially in New York, DC, LA, San Francisco, it's not only everybody went to college, everyone went to the same like 15 elite colleges, and a lot of the same prep schools. So if you're not in this little group, and you look at the national media, and you don't see yourself, it's as if they're telling you your voice doesn't matter. You don't exist. And that's a form of dehumanization that we've allowed to fester in this country. And of course, people are going to lash out. Yeah, I just spent two weeks with really wonderful professionals at NBC preparing for this debate. And at one point, I asked one of my colleagues in this exercise, I don't work for NBC, how many people do you think in this room voted for Trump? And taken aback, they did not answer because the answer is obvious. Nobody. And if if your newsroom is full of 100 % people not only didn't vote for Trump, but actually loathe them, you can't cover the country. It's impossible because you're not seeing the other 50%. And what your book is, I hope the newsroom is distributed as well. We are all about seeing people who have long been marginalized, and that is important. But if you don't see people who are supporting Donald Trump, for whatever reason, you can't cover the news. Let me ask you about this Philip Lewis fellow. I love him, because he finally gave me the courage to teach the do the Dormant Commerce Clause in the 11th Amendment with the confidence that even though my students are terribly bored, they have to know this. Where did you meet Philip Lewis? Because he's talking to teachers. Teachers need to read this book too, if only to be comforted in the fact that every teacher has this experience.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "east coast" discussed on Stephanie Miller
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The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Impact of Safety on Economic Activity
"Here's the taxpayers, just like, well, as long as I can have my little bat blue, and I can go watch the bills. Well, wait till you start getting price out of that. Don't don't get involved. I'm amazed at the amount of people that bitch about things but actually do nothing to get involved to help right. Alrighty, welcome back. Mike Lomas, Ron Rheinstein in studio with us today. Well, hopefully, as always, we'll just pop around and go over. We're actually going to talk a little bit of economics too, but the place where money meets politics. And if you need us throughout the week, folks, 833 -FIN -GUYS. Ron, where do you want to start? You put together a bunch of stuff here. We can talk about the economy, GDP numbers. According to the Democrats, everything is hunky -dory. It's great. Sunshine and roses. Sunshine and roses. Although there's still snow on the ground. I know. There is snow on the ground. That was a little bit depressing. My kids were happy. Like, oh my god, it's so pretty. Yeah, when we were driving back from Wilson with Halloween for our kids, excuse me, you just start to see that I'm like, yeah, that's not rain. And then I think by the time I took the dog out for the last time, I was like a little bit after 10, I'm like, yeah, that's... Well, you're right on the border with me. Yeah, where you get pounded. Yeah, usually it's funny because usually the officer, we get very little. None. Well, I would say none, but not much. No, not even close to the soutouts. Not like what we get. Yeah, but I think everybody got a little bit of dusting. Yeah, no, I mean, as you look at the economy and where, you know, they're all high -fiving, popping bottles of champagne and, you know, the U .S. GDP, according to their figures, rose by 4 .9 percent. The, you know, also exceeding expectations of 4 .5. But yet, if you look around, folks just, not even just in western New York, but just overall, where savings are in decline, inflation has not slowed, contrary to what these maniacs are going to claim. Disposable personal income, again, according to their data, contracted by 1 percent, which isn't good. Yeah, yeah. And the biggest driver of this GDP growth has been government spending. Well, government spending, and I think we forget about the rebound of COVID. Yeah, I mean, we literally destroyed the economy. All kinds of businesses and some of these business owners that you and I work with on a daily basis are still trying to struggle to get back, which means they're, you know, some of these business owners that got into, hey, I worked 60, 70 hours, I got my restaurant to where I thought it needed to be, I could take a little time back, you know, maybe I'm back to 40 hours a week or spending some time with family. They are now back to 70, 80 hours a week, struggling to try to make up for the extra loans they had to take out to survive and that means more risk, more, so when I see, oh boy, the economy is like, well, yeah, a huge part of that, a huge part of that is these business owners trying to rebuild from COVID. And you even, driving around, this is Monday night, I was, I got home a little bit later, the amount of restaurants, like, because I don't know, like, I went a different route than I normally did when on my way home, but there's a lot of places still closed. Oh yeah, for sure. It's not a seven -day work week. No. With restaurants, other businesses. Well, we measure success here in Erie County by if something opens. We don't actually look at the overall picture and say, okay, are we growing? Like, let's compare it to, I don't know, Florida. Yeah. Where there are very few vacant properties. They can't build fast enough. No, they can't build fast enough. That's exactly right. And interstates are expanding because I know you guys are on the east coast and for, god, I can't believe I'm saying this now, but like for over 30 years, my family's been on the west coast. And when you take 70, or when we took 75 back 30 years ago, it was a two -lane interstate in each direction. Now, every time we go down there again, because we have family friends that are down there, I have, you know, relatives that are in Sanibel, so you still take 75 when you fly to Tampa, they keep adding lanes. They keep growing the interstate. Why is that? Yeah, well, millions of people relocating for freedom, by the way, for freedom. For freedom. So many clients are like, you know, I don't really like the heat in the summer, but boy, I do like the fact that the, you know, the feeling of, hey, if another COVID was to hit, if the Chinese decided to stir up another flu, I don't feel like I'm going to lose my business. I don't feel like I'm going to lose my freedom. Yeah, I don't need to show my jab card to exist in society. Yeah, no, and by the way, another young girl died the other day. I got 33.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "east coast" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"The East Coast well listen I have to thank you since we last talked I have two new rescue doggies for the first time in my life I have a little tiny dogs I have Bonnie and Clyde they're a Shih Tzu Yorkie mixes and a love I had giant dogs as you remember I had great Pyrenees oh yeah and so I now my girlfriend has allergies the and asthma so I have two little hypoallergenic dogs and I gotta tell you they love your food they love nature's blend as much as my giant dogs did yeah one of the highlights of my life is how many testimonies we got on how much dogs and even cats love this food besides it being I think the highest level of biologically appropriate health they just love I am telling you I I have unsolicited testimonials my one of our other producers that fills in Sean Kaminsky his dog jefe was notoriously picky and I said would you like to buy some of dr. Marty's nature's blend he said yes he said his dog went crazy I think it's the raw the it's freeze -drying isn't it because I feel like the Kimball I used to use they kind of blast it and it takes all the flavor and the nutrients out right oh yeah freeze -drying is like having like five slices cake and eat it to what it does if you go to dr. Marty pets calm slash Miller or you can text Miller to 511 511 or if you want to shop in store how fun is that dr. Marty pets calm use their store locator I think if I ran into in person I would faint my doggy daddy my hero dr. Marty thanks your for love of the animals of dogs and cats if you go to dr. Marty pets calm slash Miller or you can text Miller to 511 511 or if you want to shop in store how fun is that dr. Marty pets calm use their store locator enter we this world of hyper reality in you didn't case know hyper reality is the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality especially in technologically advanced societies the action of hyper reality is to desire reality in an attempt to achieve the desire to fabricate a false reality that is to be consumed as real
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from Raiders Fire McDaniels & Trade Deadline Moves
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Visit CNN Underscored .com today to discover the perfect gift to make this holiday season truly special. Happy shopping. Hello, everybody, and welcome into the MMQB podcast. I am Matt Verteram alongside Gilberto Manzano, as is the case every single Wednesday. And Gilberto, look, first things first. Here's the good news. We still have our jobs. The bad news is some people with the Raiders do not. Now, maybe if you're a Raiders fan, maybe that's not bad news. Maybe that's great news. I don't know. I'm not I'm not part of Raider nation. I would imagine that the frustrations at an all time high. You have covered the Raiders in the past as a Team Beat guy. They are now looking at Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach because Josh McDaniels is gone. Dave Ziegler gone as the general manager. And so we'll see who takes over that post eventually. This is not exactly new to the Raiders. This has been a revolving door, whether it was Jack Del Rio at one point, a head coach, or it was John Gruden or it was Tony Soprano or it was, I mean, on and on and on and on, you know, Mike Mayock at GM. And you can just keep filling in the names. None of them lasted that long. And so now the Raiders mid -season firing, of course, because it's happened with Gruden under different circumstances. Gruden, essentially, they had to move off of immediately. McDaniels are moving off of because he just flat can't coach. What are your thoughts on the Raiders and what happened essentially at like midnight for most of the country, these two out the door? Yeah, you know, I'll start there. It was like, I think, 10 p .m. on the West Coast. So, you know, I was still up trying to enjoy the last couple hours of Halloween. And Matt, I was watching the original Friday the 13th. I was carving a pumpkin. I had like maybe, you know, 50, you know, chocolate bars. You know, I was stuffed and I saw this from Adam Schefter. And I'm like, oh, okay. I was a little surprised. Mark Davis actually did it 25 games into the hiring of Josh McDaniels, which I think we all could say, yeah, it was a bad hiring a year and a half ago. But shocking that Mark Davis actually did it before the second year was over. And this guy, what, a month ago told a fan at SoFi Stadium, smart enough, smart enough, you can't fire Josh McDaniels. And all of a sudden you're the one that got smart enough. OK, I don't know. I have a lot of emotions about that, you know, the way it played out. But, you know, I wanted to give you my reaction about how I caught this on Halloween Eve. And I'm sure people on the East Coast, you're two hours ahead of me, Matt. So I don't know if you caught it right away, but a lot of people were sleeping and they woke up. So you probably like at midnight, OK, what the heck happened here? But I'll start there. I was just shocked that Mark Davis did it, but it was a right call. I Yeah, figured you'd do it after the season. But it's funny because I was assigned the Monday night game. And so the Raiders are playing the Lions and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, like, what can I write about this game? I mean, the Lions are just rolling up and down the field. But like I've written about the Lions. I've been in a few of their games this year in person. I was like, look, there's not I feel like we're not learning anything about the Lions. They're a good team. And the Raiders are sitting there in Grappola, throwing for like 40 yards through three quarters and just hideous football. Adams is frustrated. McDaniels is just looking at his face like he knows the end might be near. And I said to our editor, John Bloom, I said, you know. How about I just write a piece that I just say they should fire McDaniels and just bench Garoppolo and be done with this? And we then both kind of agreed like, well, that's all right. You know, it's early. We'll pass on it, whatever. And we ended up not writing anything about the game because the game is kind of just a non story. And I was joking with John this morning. My God, we should have wrote that piece would have been the most prescient people in the country. I didn't think it was going to happen the next day. But I mean, what a what a just absolute tire fire. Look, Josh McDaniels. Is a terrible head coach, and he showed that in Denver, like he not only was bad in Denver, he ran guys out the door. You know, Jay Cutler gone, Brandon Marshall gone. Josh McDaniels from afar has the syndrome of being the smartest guy in the room. And he's not the smartest guy in the room. Not saying he can't be a coordinator. Had plenty of success as a coordinator with Brady. And I don't know if he could be a coordinator without Tom Brady. He had plenty of success with him. Josh McDaniels was a disaster in Denver. He quit on the Colts before he even got started with the Colts. And now you look at this Raiders tenure. They never got any traction. They blew a million big leads last year. They went six and 11 after making the playoffs. I might add the year prior. Runs their car out of town, runs Darren Waller out of town. Hunter Renfro is barely playing. And now you're sitting here in the three and five, and they're not even as good as a three and five record would indicate. They have not played well all year long. I just think the Raiders going forward here. It now becomes a matter of. How do you fix the process of finding the right guys? Because Mark Davis has not found the right guys over and over and over like this starts with him. You could fire the coach in the GM all you want. Mark Davis has been a failure of an owner since he took over for the late great Al Davis, of course, his father. That's where this thing starts. Like, does he bring in an outside firm to do these hirings? Because I think that's where this has to go at this point. He has proven he cannot make these hirings with any kind of success rate. Yeah, man, you know, I'm concerned about, you know, Mark Davis just, you know, being kind of a you know, he cares about what the public perception is. OK, what are they saying out there? And that's why he went off on that fan. And so if I say I'm saying smart enough and I'm like, why do you care? Let the guy just say whatever he has to say. And then you're the one running the show here. You know, you're the one has to make the smart decision for the team. And yes, he did the right call. Let him go. Josh McDaniel's. But his two last hirings, he wanted a big name. He wanted a big name with John Gruden. You already went down that road. You give the guy a 10 year contract like, you know, I think you want to make you want to make a splash. You're going to Las Vegas like that didn't sit right with me. And obviously that that went sideways for different reasons. And the same thing with Josh McDaniel's. You're going to get headlines regardless. Like, yeah, you know what happened with the Colts briefly with the handshake. And then you bail out and then what happened in Denver? Like these are all red flags for the guy. And you still go because you want to try to copy the picture away. That's the biggest thing right there, man. You can't copy something and try to replicate it. And that's kind of the worst way to do it, too. So, you know, and I'll say this about Josh McDaniel's, because, you know, I guess my rule and I get why you want to write that piece. But and I get what you guys decide is a little too soon, because it did feel a little too soon. But it was a right situation because Josh McDaniel's background is offense. And that is a horrendous offense. I think he's put out there. And reason number two, man, it was his guys. He finally said, you know what, Derek Carr, different regime. Let me get Jimmy G and I don't know what the story is about Jimmy G's being the number one, two or three option. Who cares? You picked them. You brought them in with Dave Ziegler and all these Patriot guys came in. And you're still that bad. Josh Jacobs was a reigning champion a year ago, and he's rushing for like two point four yards per carrier, something pretty bad. So that's your background. And the other the third point, Matt, you always need a scapegoat. And the defense has been playing pretty well. Patrick Graham cannot take the fall when his defense is actually producing. It's your office, your guys. So see you later. Yeah, I mean. I'm to the point with the Raiders. I'm thirty five. I know you're essentially the same age as me. They've sucked my entire life, say, for like three or four years with Rich Cannon. OK, and that's not that sounds like I'm just like taking some cheap shot out. My point is you got to do something differently. I mean, it's some juncture. You know, the Raiders have this weird pride about like who they are. That was great in the 70s and 80s. You there don't should be no pride in who you are now. You've been a losing friend. You've you've been the Lions for 30 years. You've been the Browns. That's who you've been. I mean, everybody talks about the Raiders like this is some unbelievable gold standard of a franchise. Yeah, it wasn't the 70s and 80s. It's not anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. I mean, they have not won a playoff game since the twenty two season. Two thousand and two. You're talking over 20 years now. And most of those years have been non -competitive. And you're now looking at this thing going, all right, look, you need a quarterback, you need a coach, you need a GM. That is that is a lot in a division where you're looking up at Patrick Mahomes and in a conference where you're looking up at not only Mahomes, but at Burrow and Allen and Lawrence and potentially the ascension of Tua and all these other guys. Lamar, right? And all these guys. They have miles to go, which leads me to this. I don't know how you feel about this. We haven't talked about this for a show. At the end of this season, I would trade Devante Adams and I would trade Max Crosby for as much draft capital as I could possibly get, because by the time they're really good, Adams isn't going to be there anymore. And by the time they're really good, I don't know what you're getting out of Max Crosby. Like those guys both fetch first rounders plus right now, maybe even multiple first rounders. Like if I'm them and I'm the GM there, man, I know it's going to be a rough couple of years. I get it. I would trade both those guys for the highest possible value I could get. Yeah. And you know, the concerning part about Mark Davis being so quick with the firing. Like, does he want like a quick fix? Like you think this roster is ready to win now? Yeah, you got Devante, Max Crosby and Josh Jacobs, three guys that are pretty good at the position, but you need a full teardown. Go get the draft picks like you mentioned, Matt. And, you know, and actually do a hiring where you're not trying to copy the old silver and black way or copy the Patriot way. Like find your own identity. Mark Davis, like, like it's been many years now, over a decade, your dad hasn't been around and you know, you can't copy things that you can't go with for the big name. You don't want to try to keep up with your, your, your owner friends and say, look at who I got here. And look how much money I'm getting on Las Vegas. Like the other bad thing too, like seeing the, the, the allegiance state of being taken over by the opposing fans. Like you're, you're the Raiders. You have fans all over your Raider nation. So even that part is really bad for where Mark Davis is doing. So like you mentioned, you know, hire somebody from the outside to help you out because you haven't been doing it right. Credit for owning your mistake and eating the money from the Gruden contract and now with Josh McDaniels, but enough with the copying, the quick fix, like I'm with you a hundred percent tear down this roster. Like, like yesterday, what are the Broncos doing? Keeping all these players, like go get the draft picks and do a full rebuild. So a lot of heads crashing moves. It's weird. Like the dovetail on the Bronx, that's actually a perfect segue into this, this next topic we're going to have here last. I'll say on the Raiders by the way, and all these things enough with the Patriot way, you know what the Patriot way was? It was Belichick and Brady. That's the Patriot way. So unless you're, you're turning back time, 20 years, it's not going to work. The Broncos though, you know, we want to talk about the NFL trade deadline, which of course was on Tuesday, winners and losers go. You did a great piece, man. I'm breaking that all down. I encourage people to check that out. I agree with you. Just about everything you wrote. It was excellent. Um, I sat there and thought the same thing you just said about Denver. What is the point of keeping all these guys like, do they think because they beat the chiefs in that game, that they're a contending team now? I mean, I don't know if, let me save everybody to suspense and drama. I sat through every snap of that football game. If you told me the chiefs had money on Denver, I'd be like, that makes sense. I could see that that was the worst game I've seen them play in the Mahomes era. And I'm not trying to gain away from Denver, but I'm going to be honest. That was not because Denver was some juggernaut in that football game. The Broncos went an average of 33 yards per touchdown drive.
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"February 2024. Call 301 -919 810. Dave Doldine, WTLP traffic. Let's head over to the 7 News First Alert Weather Center. Meteorologist Pena Mark joins us now. Mark, so what's going to happen tonight with our weather in this rain? You know, it's mostly going to be a rain event and the overall coverage is going to be isolated to scattered in nature and right now we are seeing some showers moving into the northwestern suburbs mainly along I -270 out towards Frederick and western portions of Maryland. You're getting some light rain at this time. Temperatures right above freezing though in this area so right now as it's falling rain but the overall forecast is for temperatures to stay in the mid to upper 30s in the overnight hours and as the precipitation picks up a little bit some of it could fall as snow in the late hours of tonight mainly around midnight to about 4 a .m. Overall no frozen precipitation accumulation is expected as again temperature is just way too and warm we've been above freezing for days now so it'd be a different story if we've been below freezing but not the case. Heading into tomorrow precipitation ends in the mid morning hours and then we're looking at gradually clearing skies heading into the afternoon hours temperatures will be in the mid 40s by tomorrow afternoon and then a nice little warm -up happens heading into the second half of the week we're in the mid 40s Thursday mid 50s Friday and then heading into Saturday we're looking pretty fantastic with sunshine in the forecast and highs 60s Sunday we're tracking another storm system which right now confidence is building that it could be a bit of a washout on Sunday with just a good old Old -fashioned East Coast rainstorm with rainfall models suggesting about a half inch to almost an inch of rain possible on Sunday so just keep that in mind if you're trying to plan anything for the weekend outside as I mentioned just a few light rain showers moving into into the northwestern suburbs temperature wise it is 45 in southeast it is 46 in Veltzville and currently it is 43 in Tysons alright thanks so much coming up on WTOP how a local school districts agreement with its teachers union could help
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The Clippers Are Dumb, Plus the NFL Trade Deadline, Sleeper Teams, and 'The Godfather' With Michael Lombardi
"Coming up, the Clippers trade for Harden. Lots of football talk and some Italian movies. Oh yeah, next. It's the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's the best time of the year with football in full swing and basketball returning soon. FanDuel, the best place to bet on the action. The app is safe, secure, and easy to use. And when you win, you get paid instantly. Get exclusive offers every day. Jump into the action at any time during the game with quick bets and take home a fast W. Plus, check out the Explore page for the simplest way to start betting. Download the app today. Bet with America's number one sportsbook. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Visit TheRinger .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and help lines available and listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Must be 21 plus and present in select states. Gambling problem, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit TheRinger .com slash RG. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time at participating McDonald's, so make sure to try them. While you can, tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. We did the Omen. We did the OG Omen. We did the 1976 one. One of the creepiest movies ever made with some of the scariest scenes that have ever been in any of these movies. Me and Chris Ryan broke all of it down for you. What else happened in The Ringer universe? Oh, The Ringerverse crew. Everybody got together for the first time and they did a live show in LA on Monday night and even dressed up for Halloween, a couple of them. It was great, great to see everybody all together. Check out the, all of our basketball stuff on Ringer NBA, Mismatch, Brazilos Pod, Ringer Gambling. Austin Rivers has his new podcast, Off Guard. And then obviously our football stuff, all our culture stuff as well. And we're gonna have a big announcement on this podcast on Thursday about an upcoming show you might not be expecting. Coming up in this pod, I'm gonna talk about the Clippers trading for James Harden at the top and why I thought it was a huge mistake. And then our old friend Mike Lombardi, we're gonna talk about the trade deadline in the NFL as well as what team that seemingly looks like their season's almost over might actually jump in the second half of the year. And then last but not least, we're gonna talk Italian movies and Italian TV shows because why not? This is a fun podcast. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. ["PURL JAM"] All right, I'm taping this on Tuesday before the Clippers game on Tuesday night. The Clippers traded for James Harden late night. They tried to do this as late as possible at night when the most possible people were asleep because they were embarrassed by this trade. And they should be because they're the Clippers. They haven't made the finals ever in the history of the franchise, dating back to Buffalo in 1970, talking five and a half decades of bad luck, terrible injuries, mismanagement. We had the Donald Sterling piece of it. We had load management. And in the last couple of years, they've had some of the worst playoff losses of the 21st century. And now they're trading for a guy who's quit on his last three teams. So they decided, you know what, we'll do this in the middle of the night on the East Coast at least. So we'll take the least amount of slack. They were bidding against nobody. There's 30 teams in the league. One of them had James Harden. 28 other teams were like, we're good. And the Clippers said, you know what, we need this guy. We'll still be not nearly as good as Denver, but if we do this, maybe we could lose in either round two or round three, maybe? I just feel like they don't have any draft picks left for the rest of the decade. So they basically traded three picks for James Harden. The worst one was a 2028 unprotected first. Why do this now? Why do this for a team with no other offers? Why bid against yourself? And why not just wait? If you know you're trading basically two and a half picks plus all these expirings they had, why not wait? The league, I don't know if you've watched it the first week, the league is more talented and more loaded than it's ever been, probably in 30 years. And there's a really, really, really good chance that a couple teams that thought they were gonna be good are not gonna be good. Like for instance, Memphis is 0 -4. Or is Memphis gonna go 25 and 57? Probably not. But there's gonna be a couple teams that are just way worse than they expected. And guess what happens after Thanksgiving and in December and in January? Those teams panic. Guys become available. Like what if Toronto is bad? What if they're like, you know what, Pascal Siakam, this just isn't working for us. What if Chicago, who's already had two team meetings, I think, in three games, what if they decide to put Zach Levine on the table? Like you just don't know. What you do know now is that there was only one team bidding for James Harden and the Clippers ended up with him anyway. The other thing, if you're giving up this much for one guy, I better know that I have a chance to actually win the title. And I just don't feel like they do. I went to the game Sunday night. Kawhi, he looks fine. He looks fine. Does he look like the Kawhi from the mid -2010s? No. Does he look like the guy from 2019 Toronto? He does not. He looks like an older playing himself back in the shape version of Kawhi. And if that's your best player, that's just not gonna be enough this year. The Celtics are too good. Denver is too good. Milwaukee has Giannis and Dame. Phoenix has a ton of scoring. Golden State's gonna be really good. They're still not in the mix. So that was my first issue. The second one, who are you getting? Who are you getting in this trade? Where you're getting I .S. Quinn on three teams. You're getting the most disappointing playoff star this century, literally this century. And there's no other person you can put in there. There's nobody who has even half of the qualifications from a playoff disappointment standpoint that this guy does. Zach Lowe came on the Book of Basketball podcast, I think in 2019, we did a James Harden podcast. And in that podcast, which was four years ago, called him the Karl Malone of guards. And I was immediately the most jealous I've ever been of a comparison. Since then, he had the 2020 bubble flame out. Then they had in 2022, the Miami series, which he sucked in. And then in 2023, the Celtic series, this guy, it's an all time resume. And the Clippers who are just playoff futility through and through for the entire franchise history were like, that's the guy. That's the guy that can take the lovable loser Clippers over the top, James Harden. He slows you down. He needs the ball all the time. The Clippers now have Paul George, who succeeds the most when he has the ball. Koulai Leonard, who has perennially succeeded the most when he has the ball. Russell Westbrook, who loves to either have the ball or crash the boards. And now Harden, who needs the ball. See four guys who need the ball. Then Norm Powell comes in, he needs the ball. Bones Holland comes in, he needs the ball. Are we playing with three balls now? No, we're gonna still play with one. James Harden can't guard anybody. That seems relevant. He hasn't played defense in four years.
The Restaurant Coach Podcast
A highlight from Episode 125 Leasing Logic & Mastering the Life-Work Dance with Kyle Inserra
"Restaurant owners are told all the time that you need to work more on your business and less in your business, but how do you do that when you're so busy running the restaurant? Want to know a secret? Restaurant success isn't rocket science, it's people science. Donald Burns, the restaurant coach, has helped over 2 ,300 independent restaurants over the past 13 years make more money while working less in their business. His signature 3P framework and coaching systems are designed to get you results that work with your schedule. The action plan is easy to follow, and you get one -on -one support from the restaurant coach personally. If you ever felt deep down that your restaurant could be better, make more, and still give you your life back, then it's time to talk about restaurant coaching. Warning. Restaurant coaching is not right for every restaurant. Side effects of restaurant coaching include increased profits, better staff, happier guests, stronger brand identity, reduced stress, improved relationships, and quality sleep. Talk to the restaurant coach to see if coaching is right for you. Loading in three, two, one. Welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast. It's the cure for the common restaurant, expert interviews, tools, and tips to get you the restaurant you know it can be. Now, here is your host, Donald Burns, the restaurant coach. And welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. And today, we're not just adding some spice, we're turning up the heat. Have you heard of Kyle Encerna? If not, you need to crawl out from under that rock that you're hiding under. The mastermind behind successes like Papatina and La La Taqueria, he's more than just a restaurant guru. He is a beacon for those navigating those treacherous waters of the hospitality industry. And he's also a hell of a real estate expert. So our recent powwow really drove home some stark realities. Due diligence when you're looking at restaurant property isn't just essential, it is a non -negotiable. Jumping headfirst into that flashy lease because it looks cool, think again. That dream spot may just be your worst nightmare in disguise. Without assessing the real deal behind the traffic flows, local vibes, and your growth potential, you might as well just toss your investment down the drain. Oh, and let's trash that tired old mindset of life -work balance while we're at it. Kyle's perspective? It's not about teetering on the seesaw trying to balance your work and your life. It's about mashing them together into a harmonious dance where one fuels the other. Think of it less as balance and more of a badass integration. In the relentless, unforgiving world of restaurants, passion alone isn't going to cut it. So sit down, tune in, because this episode is dripping with insights and maybe, just maybe, a kick in the pants that you didn't know you needed. And welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. I am honored to have back on the show a frequent guest on the Restaurant Coach Podcast, Kyle Encerna. Kyle, how are you, my friend? How are things on the East Coast? They're good. Getting cold today, which kind of stinks, but you know, that's what we signed up for. I mean, I think last time I was on the show, I was actually outside in the backyard. If you were. If you were outside, yeah. Slightly. So it was warmer, but yeah, it's good, man. It's good. Thanks for having me. That's awesome to have you here. It's always great to talk to you, my friend. It's like, it's like, sometimes I wish, like, we could, like, just talk every week. So, you know, cause I, I feel like I learned so much every time I speak to you on the podcast and I learned some new stuff. And, and you are just like a jack of all trades. I mean, not only do you run restaurants, you also do real estate. You run a couple of podcasts. You just had a new baby. I mean, come on. I'm sicko. Yeah. It's mental. It's a disease. I can't, I don't know. You know, you're, you're like, you're the epitome, you're the epitome of that Mario Andretti quote. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. That's you. You are the epitome of that. You are. I've never heard it, but yeah, sounds about right. Yeah. Now, now you've had some impressive, you know, impressive background and stuff like that. And you've had this real kind of foundational kind of thing. And you've had some ventures like Popatina and then a lot, a lot of Taqueria, right? Kind of just walk us through the journey that you've had that kind of led to kind of your iconic establishments you had and also how your real estate stuff. Kind of tell us the journey you've taken.
The Restaurant Coach Podcast
A highlight from Episode 125 Leasing Logic & Mastering the Life-Work Dance with Kyle Inserra
"Restaurant owners are told all the time that you need to work more on your business and less in your business, but how do you do that when you're so busy running the restaurant? Want to know a secret? Restaurant success isn't rocket science, it's people science. Donald Burns, the restaurant coach, has helped over 2 ,300 independent restaurants over the past 13 years make more money while working less in their business. His signature 3P framework and coaching systems are designed to get you results that work with your schedule. The action plan is easy to follow, and you get one -on -one support from the restaurant coach personally. If you ever felt deep down that your restaurant could be better, make more, and still give you your life back, then it's time to talk about restaurant coaching. Warning. Restaurant coaching is not right for every restaurant. Side effects of restaurant coaching include increased profits, better staff, happier guests, stronger brand identity, reduced stress, improved relationships, and quality sleep. Talk to the restaurant coach to see if coaching is right for you. Loading in three, two, one. Welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast. It's the cure for the common restaurant, expert interviews, tools, and tips to get you the restaurant you know it can be. Now, here is your host, Donald Burns, the restaurant coach. And welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. And today, we're not just adding some spice, we're turning up the heat. Have you heard of Kyle Encerna? If not, you need to crawl out from under that rock that you're hiding under. The mastermind behind successes like Papatina and La La Taqueria, he's more than just a restaurant guru. He is a beacon for those navigating those treacherous waters of the hospitality industry. And he's also a hell of a real estate expert. So our recent powwow really drove home some stark realities. Due diligence when you're looking at restaurant property isn't just essential, it is a non -negotiable. Jumping headfirst into that flashy lease because it looks cool, think again. That dream spot may just be your worst nightmare in disguise. Without assessing the real deal behind the traffic flows, local vibes, and your growth potential, you might as well just toss your investment down the drain. Oh, and let's trash that tired old mindset of life -work balance while we're at it. Kyle's perspective? It's not about teetering on the seesaw trying to balance your work and your life. It's about mashing them together into a harmonious dance where one fuels the other. Think of it less as balance and more of a badass integration. In the relentless, unforgiving world of restaurants, passion alone isn't going to cut it. So sit down, tune in, because this episode is dripping with insights and maybe, just maybe, a kick in the pants that you didn't know you needed. And welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. I am honored to have back on the show a frequent guest on the Restaurant Coach Podcast, Kyle Encerna. Kyle, how are you, my friend? How are things on the East Coast? They're good. Getting cold today, which kind of stinks, but you know, that's what we signed up for. I mean, I think last time I was on the show, I was actually outside in the backyard. If you were. If you were outside, yeah. Slightly. So it was warmer, but yeah, it's good, man. It's good. Thanks for having me. That's awesome to have you here. It's always great to talk to you, my friend. It's like, it's like, sometimes I wish, like, we could, like, just talk every week. So, you know, cause I, I feel like I learned so much every time I speak to you on the podcast and I learned some new stuff. And, and you are just like a jack of all trades. I mean, not only do you run restaurants, you also do real estate. You run a couple of podcasts. You just had a new baby. I mean, come on. I'm sicko. Yeah. It's mental. It's a disease. I can't, I don't know. You know, you're, you're like, you're the epitome, you're the epitome of that Mario Andretti quote. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. That's you. You are the epitome of that. You are. I've never heard it, but yeah, sounds about right. Yeah. Now, now you've had some impressive, you know, impressive background and stuff like that. And you've had this real kind of foundational kind of thing. And you've had some ventures like Popatina and then a lot, a lot of Taqueria, right? Kind of just walk us through the journey that you've had that kind of led to kind of your iconic establishments you had and also how your real estate stuff. Kind of tell us the journey you've taken.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from UN Antisemitism
"Cable news, noisy, boring, out of touch. That's why Salem News Channel is different. We keep you in the know. Streaming 24 -7 for free. Home to the greatest collection of conservative voices like Dennis Prager, Jay Sekulow, Mike Gallagher, and more. Salem News Channel is unfiltered and unapologetic. Like, watch, anytime, on any screen at SNC .TV and local now channel 525. now. We're good Not exactly sure what the technical problem was but welcome to The Dennis Prager Show. My apologies, I am live in Cleveland, Ohio, which of course is responsible for the glitch here. Sometimes connecting from remote locations around the country lends itself to those sorts of issues. But we are, I think, better now, whatever the situation was, it is gone. So thank you so much for joining us for The Dennis Prager Show. Live in Cleveland, it is the ReliefFactor .com studios and we are still trying to figure out how and why it is that the United States of America is producing millions and millions of radical terrorist sympathizers. And that is what the focus of a lot of today's show is going to be. The breaking news, by the way, from Hamas, or excuse me, from Gaza, where Hamas has been operating, obviously these horrific and carrying out these terrible terrorist attacks against Israel, is that this morning a deeper incursion into Gaza was carried out by IDF forces. This is the response that the IDF and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has for the United Nations that is telling them to lay down their arms in surrender. The response from Benjamin Netanyahu is exactly the response that should be being delivered this morning, and this afternoon if you are on the East Coast like I am. What we are finding out right now is that the United Nations, the globalist community, whatever it is that you want to call it, they are united in their opposition to Israel and therefore in their opposition to Israel's pretty much lone ally in the world, and that is the United States. And that means it's time for us to make some very serious decisions. I want to start with this, and there's no sugarcoating it, there's no ambiguity here. There's no way to make this look or sound any better than what it is. It can't be interpreted any other way. The United Nations is anti -Semitic at its core. All right, the United Nations General Assembly hates Israel. They hate Israel, they hate Israelis, they hate Jews. They despise the existence of the Israeli state, even though the United Nations helped actually affirm its existence in 1947 -1948. What we know from Friday's UN General Assembly resolution vote, in fact not one but two different votes, what we learned from those votes is extraordinarily telling. Now if you don't know what happened, let me just fill you in. There was a resolution that was put up for a vote before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday that demanded that Israel lay down its arms, that they agree to a quote -unquote ceasefire, which means lay down your arms and essentially surrender. Surrender to the terrorist organization sponsored by Iran, a United Nations member, a terrorist organization that committed the most horrific wartime, and that it wasn't even wartime because it wasn't even against fellow, you know, enemy combatant soldiers or troops. They did it to civilians. They did it in Israeli communities, going home to home and committing the most barbaric, savage animalistic attacks one can imagine that can be committed against innocent people, right? Israel has been ordered now by the United Nations, at least by way of the resolution. It is non -binding, but it does state that the United Nations as a body, as a globalist body, is indeed in agreement that Israel should not go after those who committed that barbarism. That they should not go after them because they might hurt other people that are in the way in Gaza, right? So the resolution that was adopted by the body, again, it's non -binding, told Israel that they must agree to a humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities, which is another way of saying ceasefire.
Psychic Christine Wallace Healing House
Psychic Christine Wallace Reveals Exciting Changes Coming to the Podcast!
"Everybody, this is your psychic Christine Wallace. I'm getting ready to get another episode for you together. It's going to be going up on Sunday afternoon and please remember to like, share, subscribe and comment. If you like these episodes, then it's super important that you do that because it gives me some encouragement to keep it going on. I would also like to see some of your comments and let me know how you feel about this show. Has it been helpful to you in your spiritual journey? I would like to know, you know, what kind of episodes you'd like me to talk about. Which ones are your favorite? Where are you from? Let's get to know each other. You can go ahead and even like text me and let me know what you would like me to share more of, more things that actually resonate with you, don't hesitate to contact. You can go ahead and text me or call me 855 -70 -T -A -R -O -T or 855 -708 -2768. I also have email christine .w psychicshop810 at gmail .com again that's christine .w psychicshop810 at gmail .com. The reason I'm putting up this post is because I plan to make a lot of changes to the podcast episodes and I'm also working on creating a subscription podcast which is gonna be called Falling for the Beast, Women and Their Monster Mates which is gonna be discussing, you know, women who get involved or connected with these terrible people and just can't seem to get out of it, don't know why, they're not being treated well and it's not just gonna be me on that topic. We also are gonna have Saylee and Carolyn which are two other healers that are also working together with me and we're gonna have conversations about this together and separately as well. So that's gonna be a whole new show and you're gonna be required to subscribe to that one for sure but on this one, like I said again, please don't forget to like, share and subscribe the and like episodes that you like and definitely comment, email me if there's anything you want to share, email me if you'd like to talk to me on my live show, that's another thing I'm planning to do on Sunday afternoons, I've got a live show that I'm putting up every Sunday afternoon where we can do some Q &A where you can send in your questions or come up live on my show and ask questions and I'll be able to answer them for you. And also we're gonna have like a set schedule as to when I put up these episodes, I haven't like I said, been on this as much as I should have and that's because I've always kind of been busy putting together the new shop in California, Northern California and I also still have my shop on the East Coast, Philadelphia PA and I'm gonna be coming back to Philadelphia soon by November the 1st, so I look forward to seeing you on the East Coast. Saylee and Carolyn will be here on the West Coast doing some classes for guided chakra meditations, one -on -one sessions, Reiki healing, just go ahead and check my website trustedpsychicadvisor .com and like I said, we're just getting some stuff more organized as far as everything online. Again sending you guys lots of love and light and I look forward to seeing you and helping you on your spiritual journey. Don't forget to reach out, thank you for listening in, good luck everybody and our next episode will be up Sunday afternoon, so be sure to check in.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Left Openly Supports the Demon Savages on Social Media
"This morning and I mean it that the. I know you got a lot going on in your life. got You kids baseball games, you got your job. You got to feed your own kids. You got, you know, proposals that are backed up and an air conditioner that don't work and a car with busted up brakes. Their lives and get things done and they work for a living like my job working for a living means going out reading the news and everything that's going on every single day. So I kind of get to cheat a little bit. Having said that, I am seeing a an extremely dangerous development right here in the United States, it's something that I always knew was there and I always knew the potential for was there, but now seeing it and watching it up and nobody almost doing anything about it has me a little bit concerned that they'd be downplaying that. If you're on social media for any appreciable amount of time, I don't know if you've noticed this, but there is this just large swath of the leftist Democrat Party that is now openly supporting the demon savages open. There's nothing you can tell them to change their minds, you say to them like as they're going and ripping down, you know, missing posters of Israeli and American hostages, you say to them, well, you really want to be on the side of a bunch of demon savages and we're gouging out people's eyeballs and the accounts that are coming out out of Israel and the border with Gaza are just so horrifying it's hard to read. We're on a nine o 'clock over in the West Coast in the morning. It's obviously new and East Coast time. It's hard for me to talk about this early. I've actually been trying to limit some of my exposure to it to you. It's got to be because sporadic it's just I don't even want it to become mundane and happen that I just the more stories I hear I'm like am I becoming used to
Op Persoonlijke Titel
A highlight from Gert Jan Segers
"Oh, personal cathedral. A respect of life and blood, for the cake that you have made, and the cake that you have made. Cake and cake. Christian Segers. Good day, and what do you want to do today? Yes, what do you want to do today? Well, I am in a vision of nouns, curses of life. Very interesting, because you live next door to a camera, and there is light coming from here, and I am talking has Hold on to it, here I am looking at someMotherhood, and they will look at me like that. ..There is a realistic fundamental statement in that Un jointly, I live this way, What do you think about that? Good. I have a good life. I have a good life after a long period of time. And to be honest with you, I have been living in a lot of places in a long period of time. And that is not so clear to me. So it is easy for me to have a new life. I have to live a new life. With new work. And that is easy. I have been living in a lot of places in a long period of time. And that is not so clear to me. And I do not believe that I have a good life after a long period of time. Yes. So what do you do with a small amount of money? Or a small amount of jobs? For that matter, what do you do? No, I do not. No, that is not a moral thing. What I do is... I do not have the ability to live a lot of life. I have been living here for a long time. I do not have a job. So that is what I do. I try to live a lot of the way I live. That is what I do. No, and I try to live more. That is how I live my whole life. More than that. More than that. And that is why... I cannot live with my parents anymore. But I do not have a job. So there are very small relationships. Yes, that is not possible. So the last period is a long period. We have a court model for that. We have the relative court. And I can do new work on the other side. And follow that. You are not in the politics. You have other things. But how come you are in the politics at the same time? I politics. study That is what I do. That is what I do in politics. That is what I do in real life. I want to know who I work with. Who I work with. That is what I do. And what I do for a living. But what do you do then? Do you go to the middle school? Yes, the middle school. It is a political interest. I have done a lot of discussions. I have been there 10 years. I used to teach... ...that you know what I write about in the law. I would go to my class. That was the intent. And I would demonstrate. And it was a very difficult time. The battery again. Totally. And then about 1980 I studied. In company. That is an eye of][ in all, and I saw the politics and the chances in the closer time. And I 18 and 19 got The question was whether I would be able to go to a non -RPF proxy. That is one of the problems of the Christian Christ. I can talk to Paul Blocher about that later. But I have a political view on that. I am a journalist and I have been to the Netherlands for 8 years. And I have a political view on Europe. For me it is of interest. But it is very important that I am talking about what I am talking about in the European Union. In the 2000s you were a journalist. No, no, no, no. But you have a lot of plans. Yes, I sit at the convention in one type of period. But no, no, no, no. The question is whether I am going to go to the EU and not the Cairo. Yes, that is not the question. What do you mean? No, what I am saying is that you have to go to the EU. And you have to know what you are going to go to Cairo. No, I am talking about politics. No, I am talking about the EU. No, no, no, no. I am talking about the EU -Radio 1. And I was in the past four years in the EU. And I was on my 8th birthday. And that was when I was in the EU -Band. I was in a plane. Yes, that is right. It was a long time ago. And I was there for a year then. It was 20 kilos. English is better than German. From back. With two microphones in my head. And we then went all over the world. Yes, yes. Exactly, exactly. But you still have a lot of money. I must have a lot of money. What about you? I have been there for 18 years now. You have a lot of money. But I have been there for a year. I am not a journalist. Yes, that is what I am talking about. Yes, that is what I am talking about. I have been there for a year. No, no. My life is very different. No, because if you are a journalist, you have to... No, I don't know. You have to do it in a way that is different. I was born in Lise. My father was a ballerina. He was a ballerina family. But it was the first time I had ever seen him in a ballerina. Because he was always there. And he would always have a vlog about the character. He would always have a vlog about the character. And that was in 1997. And he would always have a vlog about the character. He would always have a vlog about Lise. I was there for a year. My oldest brother Bruce Susser. He would always have a vlog about the character. Yes, that is what I am talking about. That is what I am talking about. For a group. For all of your friends. You have to do it in a way that you can move on. You have to be a European. My father would have a lot of fun with it. But he would have a lot of fun. If I could do it in a way that I could not do, then I would have a lot of fun. And that is what I probably have to do. I was there in the afternoon. I was there in the morning. I was there in the morning. And we were there for a week. And the afternoon was a little bit cold. In the beginning of the 8th year I was there in the morning. In the weekend I was there. No, I was not scared. I thought to my elders it was our fault. I was scared. I was scared. I was scared. I saw my oldest brother Bruce Susser. He would have a lot of fun. He would have a lot of fun. He would have a lot of fun. He would have a lot of fun. He would have lots of fun. A lot of fun. No, not at all. He would have a lot of fun. He would have lots of fun. He would have lots of fun. He would have lots of fun. The thing is that he was very happy. And my friend said I was going to be a little bit younger. I thought he was younger. But I was very happy and I was very happy he could be on this show. I was very positive about that. But it's a very familiar thing to me. That's why I wanted to come here. And that's why I'm here. For housing, it's very difficult. It's hard to get a lot of energy. It's normal for bettering, that's what I'm talking about. Well, in this way I think that I can see that all the people who live here, who live in Europe, who are living in Europe, they don't know what housing is. But it's a very rich thing to live in here. And a very dry thing. To see what you're doing, and what it's really worth. And what you do. Maybe you'll have a good life, or a good life, or a good life. Yeah, I don't think that life is worth it. Maybe a good life is worth it. Maybe it's worth it. But it's very difficult to see what you're doing. And what you're doing with your heart. And what you're doing when you're in love. So you're living in a very rich country. My house, very rich. Yeah, what do you call it? A righteous house? Well, I think it's a very rich house. Well, a very, very, very righteous house. Yeah, I think it's a football stadium. It's very thin. But I think it's a very rich house. It's a very Orthodox, very rich house. It's in the middle of the East Coast. You can see the city. You can see the city in the background. And it's a very rich house. Why is it here? My father was born in a small house. He was born in a small town. He was born in a small town. And he was only 8 years old. So I was born in the street. And I didn't have a school. But he was only 8 years old. He had a TV. He was born in a small town. He was only 2 years old. And that is a very deep hole in my mind. I don't know much about it. And that's why I think it's a very rich house. I think it's a very rich house. And it's very rich, but not a very good house. I think it's a very good house. And I think it's a very rich house. I've been living here for a long time. I've been living in the area. I've been living in Europe. What's going on now? But the deep hole I don't have a home in. I'm not sure about my home. But I have a home. And that you, as a minority, but I hope that the minority will be able to do so, that would be helpful. I am an Orthodox Christian, that is a minority, I am a part of the minority. And I know that there are people who don't have their lives. There are people who don't know how to work. There are the privileged people who know how to work. There is a Christian pastor who knows what to do. He knows how to work. And that is why the minority is a minority in the minority community. They have the power to live their lives. And that is what they live in the community. That is, yeah, that goes very deep. So if I have a minority person who, with a lot of pride, with the right to be here today, the right to be in the community, the right to be in the community, to be able to live their lives, to be able to live their lives, to be able to live their lives, then I can see that for the other people it is a very dramatic thing. That there is a very big problem. But it is not a bad thing. It is a totally different thing. And the great thing about the people here is that they have the other hand on their cake. They have their own food. So see I how much, much, much better it is for the minority people than it is for the minority people. I see that in a luxurious situation. My life is very different from what I have been given over the years. And I have been given over the years a lot more than an ethnic identity. I have been given over the years a lot more than an ethnic identity. And I have been given over the years a lot more than an ethnic identity. So I think that it is a very dramatic thing. That there is no big difference between Christian and minority people. That is why I think that there is a big difference between Christian and minority people. That is why I think that there is a big difference between Christian and minority people. But it is interesting to note that all my brothers and sisters, there are a lot of great, great people. Great people. And all of their children, and that is what I would like to tell you, will always be with God's life. And that is why in those days you have been told you are a Christian. You have been told you are a minority. That is why it is so important. I have always imagined that my daughter is not going to be a Christian. That would be a very difficult thing. And I have always imagined that my brother is going to be a Christian. I have always imagined that my brother is going to be a Christian. And the moment I was there, I was really surprised.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from Chargers Staley Mistake & Burrow's Rebound
"Hello everyone and welcome back into the MMQB Podcast. I'm going to show you this week Connor or Albert. We are coming at you earlier in the week. And so it is I, Matt Verderam, alongside Gilberto Manzano, as always, as we are getting ready for week seven of the NFL season already. Gilberto, I don't know about you, man, but every year, every year I get all excited for opening day. And I'm like, all right, great. It's week one or whatever that game is Thursday night and a full slate on Sunday. Sometimes we get that doubleheader on Monday. And then I blink and it's Halloween and it's week seven and it's week eight. Somebody seems already out of it and you're starting to see who's the real contender. Does that happen for you or do you feel like the season goes a little bit slower for you? Yeah, it's kind of like a mix. It's like, oh, wow, it's week seven. But then when you're always writing stories and you're working, it's like, oh, OK, can we get to maybe the playoffs now? Less games. And this is just kind of, as a reporter, kind of annoyance here. When I saw maybe four or five games in the late window, I'm like, come on, I want to focus on three. I can't do five games. So things like that. But I'm with you. I do enjoy football. Those upsets on Sunday were. Yeah, we did not see that coming. So, you know, you kind of hit the walls as a reporter. But, you know, as a football fan, you always enjoy it. You know, it's crazy to like you bring up a good point about the late slate. You know, that that four o 'clock window on the East Coast and there's four of those games this week. But I feel like in the past, not that there are less or more games. I mean, it was kind of like what what it's always been. But I think that it feels like this year, a lot of those games just have not been good. Like you go into the games and you're like, yeah, you know, I don't love it. And I think part of that is a lot of the teams on the West Coast right now are not particularly good. I mean, Denver is not a good team. The Raiders, to their credit, three and three, but not like an overly great draw. I think most people expect they're not going to be tremendous as the year goes on. Arizona is not good. The Rams are a decent team. You know, depending on the matchup, could be a decent game there. Obviously, San Francisco and Seattle are excellent. But like if those teams aren't hosting in that late window, you're kind of stuck, right? I mean, you get a lot of these games, you're going, eh, I didn't mention the Chargers are kind of like the Rams. I mean, it depends on the matchup. But, you know, you look at this week's slate and the national 425 game is the Chargers hit the Chiefs, which, okay, you know, it's a good game, divisional matchup. Green Bay at Denver, not overly exciting. Arizona at Seattle, again, love Seattle, but not like overly enthused because Arizona is involved. So I wish they would almost have the ability to flex like they do for Sunday Night Football, where you could flex a game, you know, maybe with a few weeks of notice, because it wouldn't really screw up fans. You're going to the game on Sunday, well, okay, now you're just going a couple hours later.
CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 569 Disrupting Big Pharma with Blockchain Technology
"All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast, where I am joined as always by my co -host, Mr. Brendan Veman. Brendan, how are you doing today over on the East Coast? You're hanging in there, no storms ripping through your neighborhood today? Despite it being hurricane season over here, we are hanging in just fine. We are starting to get the beginning of fall, the weather is starting to cool down, and I am feeling amazing. I think I'm going to go play some pickleball after this, Bryce. Yeah, love it. Yeah, America's fastest growing sport. Also, I heard very much responsible for quite a lot of medical bills these days. People are getting hurt left and right on the pickleball courts. The actuaries have not been pricing this in, but anyhow, we are going to have a very interesting discussion today with the co -founders of PharmaDao. We've got Israel Merski and Gennaro Durso. I apologize, I'm not Italian and I know I didn't get that right. He'll say it beautifully in just a second. These are the co -founders of PharmaDao. Gennaro is also the CEO of Genetics Network. We're going to be learning about really the big pharma industry and how we're going to disrupt it, how we're going to bring decentralization and transparency and sovereignty and all those good, beautiful things that blockchain can bring to it. Let's introduce our guests here. Gennaro, we'll say hello to you first. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Really nice to be here and give you some insights, I hope, into how decentralization can make a difference in this very important space. Can you say the last name without butchering it like I just did, please? My name is Gennaro Durso. Beautiful. I love it. Just something about the Italian love language. It gets me every time. Israel Merski, it's a beautiful name as well. How are you doing today? Thank you very much. Very well, thank you. Good to be here. Absolutely. We're going to bust into the big pharma industry and how we're going to disrupt it. Before we do that, I want to get you guys acquainted with our audience. We want to know a little bit about how you guys came into the market from the pharma industry, now into crypto and blockchain. Gennaro, let's go with you first. Tell us a little bit about you and how you found yourself here. Well, I guess the story really begins that I'm a scientist. I was trained in the classical sense of basic research, doing all the things that we do to get to a point where we can run our own laboratory. I was running a lab in the University of Miami as a professor. I really was under a rock for the most part. I was working really hard in science and decided to do something very important during the pandemic, was find treatments to save lives. Our technology was used in that case, but then I realized that it was very difficult to bring these things forward just due to the system, the way it works in the large pharmaceutical industry. That's not to say it's necessarily awful, it's just that it's And so along that path, I realized that there might be an alternative way when I learn more about blockchain and the technology. And I thought of it at that time as a really powerful approach to form a distributed ledger that people could join in and do something more direct towards the things we needed at the time. So one thing led to another. I spent about a year and a half really pursuing the dream of saying, can we decentralize, can we drug democratize development, drug production? And the answer to that question is, I think we can, and I think we can do a very effective job at doing that. And so PharmaDao was born, at least conceptually. And then that's led to basically creating something called Pharma Collective, which is a foundation 501c3, but also has the infrastructure being run by PharmaDao and this decentralized tech to develop or produce drugs in the public interest is our main job at this point. And I should say that Israel and I are co -founders, but we also have several other people that have joined the community and are actively pursuing this mission.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 10-12-2023 15:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Didn't even place in the top three this time, huh? Yeah. Michael McKea writes in, he voted for Grazer. Well played, well played, Michael's a winner, that's why. I'm Joe Matthew with Kaley Lines. Bloomberg Business Week starts right now. And a very good afternoon everybody, it is Thursday, October 12th, 2023, Carol Messer along with Tim Stonovik, and 3 p .m. on Wall Street, but we're not on the East Coast, that's East Coast time, we're on the West Coast. We are, it's noon here in LA, it's where we are, we're live from Bloomberg Screen Time at Naya Studios right in the heart of Hollywood, California. We are definitely, and surrounded by celebrities, change makers, folks that, you know. Did you see Kris Jenner? She just walked by. She just walked by. I was in the makeup room with her. See, this is what I miss when I don't get my makeup done. Sharing makeup tips. Yeah, exactly. Listen, the focus is all about the next generation of pop culture. It's Bloomberg Screen Time. We're talking about moguls, celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs. These are the folks that are at the center of it all, and they're tapping into trends, and really driving the next wave of content that we all want to be consuming. And also determining how that content is being created and delivered in so many different ways and all at the same time.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP141 Cloud Security Coast to Coast: From 2015 to 2023, What's Changed and What's the Same?
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anne Hunchuvakian, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show, argue with your hosts and the rest of our Cloud Security Podcast listeners on our LinkedIn page. Anton, this is a fun CISO episode that's full of growth lessons, leadership lessons, interesting stories of migrating to cloud and one of the strongest endorsements of cloud as both risk reduction and business velocity improvement I think we've gotten on the show to date. What did you think today? I think so too. I think that we should not lament that the episode did not cover how to improve configurations of your cloud armor or how to run SIEM or any of this. It's a really good episode with a guest who experienced some of the lessons that clients are learning today, but eight years ago. So it's really fascinating that it's like for many companies, his past is the future and that makes his lessons hugely valuable. Hugely valuable and his advice is applicable to both CISOs all the way down to people who want to get started and get promoted in our field. And so maybe with that, let's turn things over to today's guest. With that listeners, I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we're joined by Jeremiah Kung at AppLovin. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm excited to have you here because we have something in common. We've both had the East Coast to West Coast experience. I started my career in Washington, DC, and I swear to God, the people I worked with at the startup I worked at First Shape, to this day, if I get drinks with them, they rip on me for wearing a suit to my interview with them. So the East Coast to West Coast interview, the whole thing is very real. So what's your take on that distinction aside from costumes for interviews? Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not a big fan of wearing ties either. It feels like a weak pair of hands slowly strangling me all day long. Yeah, for me, it's more of a metaphorical one. I was born a West Coast surfer kind of guy for the longest time, but career wise, especially making the moves, working for bigger banks, which I saw them as East Coast, let's face it, the bigger banks are New York, North Carolina. It's very suit and tie, very more button down, very much more about the controls, the frameworks, the committees, and infosec has to give the go ahead further than it goes to production. West Coast being out here with places like Palo Alto, where innovation is rampant and it's wonderful, you got to move fast. So you live by the speed and the velocity of your releases. And if someone's slowing you down, they're going to keep you from getting to market faster than your competitors. So it's a very different approach to information security. I remember earlier when I started speaking about this about a year ago, you can tell all sorts of funny stories about being at an East Coast company. And you know, all the red tape you have to go through and everyone kind of sighs and kind of agrees with that. But you know, at the end of the day, the West Coast, you have other risks you need to be aware of too, as well. And it's about trying to find that balance and attending to what the risks are. So the fundamentals don't really change, but out here, you have to innovate faster? Innovate faster. And I think really what you need to understand to have is a clarity of the risk, right, to really understand what the risk is. Coming from a big bank, of course, losing data is a huge thing, operational risk, regulatory risk, and there's all of that layers that you need to go through. With the West Coast, you really need to kind of understand, okay, how's this company making money? Where's all our data sitting? And you know, what are all our attack surfaces? So I think this is a basic step for anybody information security is to really understand what the asset inventory is, including intellectual and data assets. But it's not just small company, large company, though, because it sounds like if you're in the West Coast startup, your risk of just dying, the risk of startup going kaput, deep in my heart, I think it's more important than cybersecurity risk. I'm joking about it. But ultimately, I understand if I am a startup guy, the startup going out of business is a higher risk than security issue. Of course, security issues can also drive you out of business. Yeah, I get that. But that's not just what you're talking about, right? There are other issues. Yeah, absolutely. Other issues on that, because operational risk is again, if your competitors beat you, and you lose market share, okay, yeah, regulators are going to come after me or something like that. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of business. What's the big deal there. But at the same time, if you do get breached, that's going to make you lose market share as well. So you need to kind of figure out what that balance is. Okay, that makes sense. So let's shift gears. This was actually kind of a cool intro. And it introduced the whole concept in my mind. Now I kind of think, hi, are you East Coast CISO or West Coast CISO? Maybe my greeting for the foreseeable. One other thing we wanted to explore, and this may have something to do with this cost dimension is, initially, when cloud computing public cloud showed up, the default stance from any CISOs was kind of slightly negative and, or maybe strongly negative or get this cloud out. I'm not allowing it in my company. So this was probably like a good number of years ago. Now, certainly this changed, and we see a lot of CISOs embracing cloud. But here's the thing. We hypothesize that there are CISOs who are active cloud fans who kind of want cloud because it's better. And admittedly, we have a CISO here, Phil Danables, who is of that type, but he joins Google Cloud because of the belief, presumably. Now, are there other CISOs who think cloud is just superior for security and they're driving cloud adoption as opposed to resisting it? What is your take on this? Yeah, that's a great point. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've talked to people on both sides of the coin on this one, and I'm kind of obviously in the more cloud -centric side, but I'm a little bit more in the middle to the left of that, if that makes any sense. I'm very pro -cloud. I think it deals with, very efficiently, a lot of the old concerns that you would have about security, patching updates and Vone scans and Vone updates and all that other type of stuff, because you can spin these things up so quickly, the fixes and release it out there. It's not, back in the old days, some guy with a CD running around from every server trying to load and update patches and stuff like that. You know, that's such a funny thing to pause on, because maybe this is my youth speaking. I sometimes forget that people had to do that. And I think for a lot of our listeners, it's hard to appreciate that, yeah, really, that's how it used to work. If you had to patch something, it wasn't Terraform Apply, my new version. It was a dude with a CD in a server room somewhere. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if you were in a freeze period to try to do patches, you had to go through all sorts of updates and things like that to try to get in, and it gets all sorts of approvals. I think the dude with a CD is the least of your problems, is the talking to all the layers for making a change, submitting requests in paper forms, you know, ideal bureaucrats. I think the dude with a CD would be like, dude comes in, sticks a CD, and does the patching. That's fast. No, no, no. But some of that still exists, right? You still need change windows, you still need approval. So maybe here's the question is, how does Cloud, for you as a CISO, change that part of the equation? What's the non -technical changes? Improved. Not changed. Take the pessimistic stuff out. How did Cloud improve this for you? Anton, I think that's known as leading the witness. Okay, fine. Yeah. I feel like you're trying to give me what the answer is there. But I mean, I'm already on that side. It's really the visibility. Because, you know, being at Apple, we're strong partners with Google Cloud and being all in Google Cloud, I can really see where our assets are, I could see trends over time, I could see the logging and the monitoring and all the alerts and the phones all in one spot, which is very nice. But I get it, not every company can be 100 % in the cloud. I would imagine that a bank, you're going to at best be some kind of hybrid approach to that, depending on the size of the bank. And I could see and outsource a lot of the running around changing. I just had this question the other day dealing with some audits. Hey, show me when's the last time you changed and rotated your keys and how often that is? Well, being in Google Cloud, they do that for you. And you guys do a random rotation of that. Whereas AWS does it to make sure the keys are rotated every 365 days, according to NIST and TIP standards. You guys do a random rotation, which it could be two weeks, it could be 365 days, but at some point, those keys will be rotated. So that's kind of the intelligence behind to keep it random, to keep it fresh, to keep it on top. I appreciate that from a security perspective. And I don't have to rely on a team to constantly run, again, running it out and changing keys and this and that, even at a cloud level where you have to, you know, you can just terminal in and do that. This is just handled for you. And as we moved more and more to Kubernetes, more and more to serverless environments, these ways old of needing to do security become less and less impactful. But then again, there's always a new attack surface that has yet to be discovered. New problems are going to come and show and raise their heads from a security perspective. We're just on the way of discovering what those are. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So I want to go back in time a little bit to maybe when cloud was newer for you. I understand you were part of some big migrations back in the day. What did you learn about doing those, quote unquote, right? It was really lucky to be with Capital One 2015, 2016, sometime when they were deciding to be the first big bank to move everything 100 % into the cloud. So famously cloud forward. Yeah, very cloud forward. Yeah. So how did that go? It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work, but it was really interesting. It was great to be part of that team to really learn how cloud can mitigate, how to move quickly, how to combine the teams. I think one of the things that I found to be the right way of doing things was they took a very strong two in the box approach, really kind of a three in the box approach. And what they mean by that is for those teams to move forward, the development team would have one lead that was the business lead and say, hey, this is what the customers want. This is what the industry and market trends are looking at. And then there would be a tech lead say, okay, this is what the teams can develop and how long it's going to take. And then I kind of squeezed my way in there to become that three in the box, the security perspective to listen, okay, this is what the business wants. This is what tech can provide. And here's the risk and the risk we need to mitigate. And to have that conversation was invaluable because you got it from every angle. You didn't just hear what IT said that I can only do so much and why is the business wanting that? You got to hear it from the business exactly what they wanted, how they wanted to do things and why too, and why this was important for the business. That makes a ton of sense. So what were maybe some, for people in a similar boat in the future, how did you get effective at communicating the risk to people? How did you help business understand that? How did you help IT understand that? What was it? The saying that they say, fools talk, cowards stay silent, wise people listen. And that was really kind of key for me on that one was at first listening to the business, understanding their pains, understanding what they were challenged with. This really helped me to assess my risk and also come up with mitigation plans that would work for the business. Again, same approach with IT is understanding, okay, what are their pains? Where are they coming from? And this way I can come up with what the plans should look like with considerations for everybody across the board. Okay, so... Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Tim. I am kind of curious about it, but I'm nervous that we are kind of reducing all this to effective communication only. Is this... Sorry, this doesn't sound very right. But the point is that effective communication clearly had a huge role, but there are other pillars for success because a huge migration of the first half of bank to the cloud had other tricky elements, right? Yes. So that was another one. What we had was a very strong partnership with our cloud partners at the time. They had been sitting and working with, especially since there were no frameworks, there was no really references. I remember even the regulators at the time were sitting, okay, that's great. You guys are doing that. Can we just sit and listen to see what you guys are doing so we can kind of spread this out with the rest of the banks and standards out there? I think the key partnerships with your vendor, your cloud vendor specifically, was invaluable, providing advice and having that back and forth feeds. I remember working with one particular tool. We said, hey, this encryption standard is not really up to snuff. Could you guys work on that and develop something? And sure enough, I think within two or three dev cycles, they had something that was what we needed. To this day, I find that to be an ideal approach, working with my cloud vendors or just any vendors that I have. I appreciate those who will sit down, listen to me and hear my complaints and do the whole listening and coming up with an approach. I think almost all my security vendors I'm using, as well as the cloud vendors with you guys, have that type of approach. Okay. That does sound like real magic for a lot of more technically minded leaders I've met. So this is solid. This advice is worth the price of podcast alone in my mind. So to sort of progress further, like you mentioned that you learned those lessons quite some time ago and many companies are still learning them even now. And for some of them, cloud is with the future, funny enough. So now that you've went through all this and other lessons, how are you approaching securing cloud given differently the lessons? Like what are you doing better in 2023 regarding securing cloud compared to the original lessons? For me personally, it's a little bit different. Talking to some of my peers who still haven't made that jump, they seem to have that lack of trust of having their data set somewhere not on a server that they're under control over at some point and at their own personalized data center that they have, their own physical security, own the HVAC systems and all other type of stuff. They want to have that data. Okay. That's an approach. It's going to be tough to scale over time. I think one of the things that I found to be very successful here that's helped is reading a lot, a lot of reading, a lot of talking to other peers in the industries and a lot of vendors going to these discussions to stay on top of what the recent threat is and what the other trends are and what the solutions are out there. I think that's key. We're a community and that has to be pushed forward if that makes any sense to continue to talk to folks. I think sitting in your own little silo is not going to work very well. Well, I don't think I know. Yeah. I forget who it was on the show, but they said that security is a team sport. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess on that thread, actually, I want to pull on this a little more. I often joke with CISOs on the show that what they need is not another piece of technology, but rather a family therapist to help their relationships with other teams. What advice would you give to other CISOs, security leaders on first building better relationships with other teams, and two, how to get out of the saying no mentality and into that real collaborative listening mode? Yeah, that saying no mentality. I've talked to some CISOs like that who said, yeah, I'm looking to hire and I need people to join my team because I need them to get out there and say no as much as humanly possible. No, people don't actually say that? Explicitly said that? Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember I stopped and I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, man? Are you doing okay? Wow. I can imagine his life was pretty miserable. Maybe if you're working on a highly top secret government project where you got to hide the alien bodies, maybe. That's a good example. Yikes. Yeah. I think a family therapist is a great way to do that, to work with their teams, but I think really at the end of the day, it's not that hard. Everyone wants to do a good job when they come to work, hopefully, and everyone wants to get along with their work base. I think the thing is just the key is to be available for them if they have questions. Try to initiate those conversations and also learn when to back off. Everyone's busy. They have a lot of their own success metrics they have to shoot for, so if you can be part of that formula, great on a day -to -day basis, but if they're a little too busy for you to come back at a better time, pizza and beer is always a good way to go as well, but I think it's just trying to be as value -add as possible at all times and be understanding that everyone's trying to get their jobs done as well. I think that's key. That's good advice not just for security leaders, but for PMs as well. One of my favorite pieces of advice for PMs I ever heard was framed as bring the donuts, and I think security is kind of this way too. With PMs, nobody invited you, and they can get along just fine without you for the most part, so you've got to really understand where they're coming from and what value you're bringing to the equation if you want people to work with you constructively. Yeah, it's knowing your role. Security can be a value -add and can be positive for the business, but a majority of the time we're kind of a cost to that business, a necessary cost and maybe, hopefully, a helpful business benefiting cost, but at a cost, nonetheless, people aren't usually going to go to the company for how secure it is, especially on the West Coast. It's about how much money or how handy their product is first. Security is kind of a second thought, but we can definitely work together on that. I have heard some pretty inspiring stories on this show and in my professional life of how security helps teams move faster by taking, say, risk out of the equation or automating away some risk, and so I think maybe in cloud, due to its nature, there's unique opportunities for security teams to be helpful there. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Usually, if you're already moving into the cloud, you're kind of taking a fresh start, and that's where you can really do the security by design. I get it. If you're on mainframes and you've been around for 30 years and now you're the new security person, it's really to go back and difficult to do security by design from the start, right? You're kind of retroactively trying to find fits here or there. But starting fresh into the cloud, it's like, okay, we could do this by design. AppLovin's been great about kind of doing that with protecting their data by saying, hey, I don't need a lot of sensitive data. We're going to try to use our own attribution formats and other types of formulas to grow our customers' business without taking on a lot of that sensitive information. So that helps reduce the risk, again, secure by design. So this is good, especially excellent. Okay, Tim, you can make fun of me for saying excellent, but this is excellent. However, excellence hasn't spread uniformly, right? And you do see people who are still in the saying no mentality. And regarding architecture, we do see a lot of people still stuck essentially in the 90s regarding architecture. They want to lift and shift, or they're even debating whether this new cloud thing is for them. So given your experience, what's your best advice for the leaders of these organizations where either the CISO is blocking cloud or maybe even CIO doesn't want it? So basically, they are not getting any of the benefits. And when they start doing cloud, they do it in a very on -premise way, the lift and shift way. Yeah, that's a tough one, because you're really trying to tell somebody to change their entire point of view. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, you need to have that aha moment, travel to Damascus moment for them. And I don't think I could give them individual advice to have that aha moment other than travel the world, talk to folks and, you know, experience and see what else is out there. I know for AppLovin, when we jumped over 100 % into the cloud, our business just naturally spiked because of the efficiencies, how quickly automating compute usage was with that intelligence to go up and down for what our demands were. That's amazing. And, you know, again, that's a strong partnership with Google on that, having just an incredible team that really kind of jumped to everything that we needed, which was fantastic. Not easy to find in the industries all over the world. So that was really helpful. But I think they need to talk to people who have those success stories and just to see what it is. I think at the end of the day, if those folks would talk to the business more and to see what the business needs, they'll kind of start to see, yeah, that it makes sense. That's where we need to kind of move towards. But that has to be that personality of I got to get out of my silo. I got to talk to people out of my comfort zone, because you may not be a business person. You could be a genius infosec person. But if you don't get the business and have that background, it's going to be difficult to travel far. Yeah, that's for sure, Drew. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. You really can't go far in security unless you can bring other people on board. And that's one of the things we've talked about on another show, I think, a CISO episode, talking about the challenge of developing people who've excelled for their technical skills as they rise in their career to then excel on non -technical skills. What advice do you have for those people to make that leap from I'm great because I can understand X .509 to I'm great because I can convince the person down the hall that our interests actually are aligned? Yeah, that's a great point. So even on my own team right now, I have people who are very smart, very technically have done some great things, and they want to get to that next level. So for me, to that level, to try to help coach them along those lines, I recommend understanding all the different domains and then having a very strong relationship with the business and spend time with them. I think peer mentorships and things like that to do exchange programs within the company are also very important to understand how the business works and just spending time with them. I think that's, I guess, it's almost like what a social CISO type of thing. It's just very social, and it's really about getting outside of your shell and understanding everyone else's pains and what their goals are to win for their game. That's really kind of at the end of the day, yes, technical, that's good. You need that, absolutely. But it's all about people, processes, and tools. It's a three -legged chair, right? So people are so key, and I think I find a lot of the really, really smart infosec folks tend to focus on the tools, and everyone ignores processes, right? No one wants to document anything, but that's also very important too. So those are the kind of key aspects. But this sounds like hard work. It can be, but it's really depending on your personality types. But it's really not too hard. There's a lot of great classes out there to kind of coach yourself through, and just the ways of thinking about stuff, which is good. I read this great book called Superforecasting, which was, Phil Tetlock wrote this, and it was really about a way of how to think of things differently. You don't have to be highly educated. There's these experiments that are to use folks to become, quote, unquote, superforecasters. Some of the best performers, one of them was a housewife who just had a high school education, but because once she learned how to use the little levers and stuff to do the math on this, it became about how did she see things and how she thought about things. And it was about, okay, most people would see an event and automatically change their opinion about something broadly. For her, it was about, okay, that changes my opinion a little bit towards this direction. And then she would gather more and more data, and each time it would move the dial to the left or to the right. And eventually, she was able to call out, yeah, in six months, this is going to happen. And she was right. I think it was close to 87 % of the time. People like that had that kind of approach is really helpful. And I think, again, that kind of breaks down from what we were talking about today is about seeing the trends and kind of seeing the forest of the trees and then looking at every piece of information. And they'll just stick to one piece of information, which might be legitimate, but have that kind of shade your whole approach. You got to see all sorts of factors to kind of come in and see at the end of the day. And I think if you do that, you're going to see that cloud's going to be, for most cases, not all. Again, if you're hiding UFO bodies, okay, maybe not. We'll see that it's an advantage. Well, Jeremiah, I hate to do this on such a note, but I have to ask you our traditional closing questions. Sure. First, do you have a tip to help people improve their security when migrating to cloud? And two, aside from super forecasting, which sounds great, do you have recommended reading for our listeners? Yes. Super forecasting was a great one. I read another great one recently called American generalship. I'm just about finishing it up right now. It's pretty good. It's ideal of how to become a stronger leader and a stronger follower at the same time too. This kind of helps you coach of, okay, this is how I can mentor somebody. And this is also how to be a good mentee at the end of the day. It also has a lot of really great military stories in the background on that too. So fun stuff there if you're a fan of the military. And I'm sorry, what was the other question? One tip, one easy to follow tip for people. Yeah. I'd say try to make a new friend inside the business. At least once a month, have these one -on -ones and have a cup of coffee. I think it goes a long way. I remember getting on an airplane ride home from one of these other team events, talking to sat down two folks that I don't normally work with and got to spend five hours instead of watching a stupid movie, sitting there and talking about their business and what they're seeing, talks of AI and how they're using co -pilot and chat GPT and all that other type of stuff. It was really fascinating to hear their point of view of what they saw from a line of business that I didn't normally do a lot of work in. That's a fascinating answer and fits with the theme of the episode, which I think might be listeners, go make some new friends. So with that, Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. 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It's your journey. Welcome, everyone, to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Thank you so much for listening. The usual periodic check in with Andrew Marchand from the New York Post this week. He joined the pod to talk about a variety of topics in sports media. We get into the ABC ESPN Monday Night Football staggered star double headers. We get into how ESPN and the ESPN and Pat McAfee marriage is going. Deion Sanders stuff. How the media has handled Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. What's going on with WWE and Monday Night Raw most likely looks like it's going to be on the move. Andrew had some stuff on that. A couple of things about local New York radio. So a bunch of sports media topics with Andrew Marchand on this episode. And then Salicata joins me as he does every week for our train of thought segment. Where we get into some NFL things about the Eagles. Should the NFL ban the Eagles one yard play. Joe Namath and Lou Holtz making headlines. Get into these ridiculous prop bets on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. And Sal has a rough Sunday coming up. So if you're a fan of the train of thought segment, you'll want to hear that. Before we get to the full episode. I want you to make sure you listen to past episodes. If you've missed any and make sure you subscribe to us. I media Jimmy trainer. We've had a great run of guests. Kevin Clark from ESPN was on the show last week. Scott Hansen hosted the NFL Red Zone channel two weeks ago. Julian Edelman three weeks ago. Charles Barkley, Peter Schrager, Chris Russo, all recent guests. So if you missed any of those, give them a listen, download, subscribe to the pod and leave a review on Apple. We'll read it on an upcoming episode. All right. Andrew Marchand from the New York Post, followed by Salicata and train of thought. It's all coming up right now, right here. On S .I. media with Jimmy trainer. All right, training me now. S .I. media podcast regular. This periodic visit from the New York Post. And the March and Iran podcast is Andrew Marchand. Andrew, how are you? I'm good. How you doing, Jimmy? I'm good. I just realized I didn't put my phone on do not disturb. So I'm going to do that as we speak. And I'm going to let you know that I had a reader last week for my mailbag column on S .I. com, send it an email and said, when is Marchand's next appearance? So here we go. You made someone happy. Thank you that person. You made someone happy by coming on today. Let's start with this. A lot of media news to get to. Have you heard anything from ESPN or do you have any intel about how they feel about the last two weeks? How the staggered Monday Night Football doubleheader has gone? Because I've gotten a lot of emails and tweets about it. I'm sure you have as well. Yeah, I haven't talked to anybody specifically about how they feel about it. I mean, it is an NFL decision. ESPN is not in control of how those games are scheduled. Maybe they have some say, but it's the NFL decision. Yeah, I don't like it. Actually, in our podcast with John, it was my who's down this week. And the reason I just feel like I kind of said this on our part, it's too it's like having two quarterbacks and you have none. Right. And now if you have Joe Montana and Steve Young, there are two awesome games. Maybe that'd be better. But I just find my attention split and I don't know. And even at like halftime, I wouldn't recommend you go to the other game. Like I get what they're trying to do there, but it's not the NCAA tournament. And usually it's in like the second quarter, third quarter. So I personally don't think it really works that well. Now, I think they want to avoid I'm not positive, but I think they want to avoid that 10 30 late window. We used to get the Monday night and you get the, you know, crazy crew, either Chris Berman or Golick and Greenberg, you know, some of those crews back in the day. They probably don't want that late night game where, you know, you're losing that East Coast audience if it gets too late. But I don't know. I don't think this necessarily works. See, I like it. And what are the tweet? What are the tweeters say? Most people seem to not like it. Yeah. And why do you like it? The more the merrier. Give me as much football as possible. If I can watch eight games at one o 'clock on Sunday and four or five games at four o 'clock on Sunday, I can handle two games on Monday night. So, you know, I have two TVs. I put one game on each TV and two is better than one for me. That's just how I feel. Yeah, I've been a little running around these last couple of Mondays when this happened. So I may be a little bit, you know, my opinion skewed a little bit by that. It hasn't just been like I'm just chilling and watching, been running around a little bit. So perhaps that's, you know, maybe I could be swayed. I will say, you know, I don't know. This is a whole separate discussion. I would love to know your take on this, but I always feel like it's a little tough sometimes to criticize people in this podcast when I also have to book this podcast. So I try to be careful. Yeah, I notice you're very soft. That's what you're trying to say. Sometimes. So I'm sure this guy will never come on again, but they gotta do better than Chris Fowler on the secondary game. Just not, it's just not working. Chris is not a great play -by -player. Right. He was a great host, studio host. Can I say one thing? Yeah. He's on tremendous tennis. Like I watch the U .S. Open every single day. I think he's great on tennis. It's football where it's just something feels off. Well, tennis is also slower. And like you look at people who do really well at the slower sports. Like, you know, Jim Nantz is better than Chris Fowler, but Nantz is really his best thing is golf. And I think he's an OK NFL play -by -player. And at the end of his college basketball run, he was definitely, I don't know, OK is probably, you know, he was OK there as well. And I think if you look at Fowler and his history, now he's been doing play -by -play for a while now. And he has gotten better. Like when he first started on the number one crew, I mean, if I were covering it then, that would not, I probably would not have been that kind. Because he has gotten better, but it's not really good enough. And he's the rare case, I think with Herb Street, that Herb Street makes him better. Usually it's the play -by -player who makes the analyst better. And yeah, I think you're right. And I also think, you know, in fairness to Fowler, you know, ESPN put that crew together. They replaced Levy there and they had a year or two under their belt together as a team. And, you know, not the full team, but him and Riddick, Levy and Riddick, and then Jadolowski. And I think they kind of don't, they underestimate chemistry. It takes time to build it up. And so I think that hurts. And he just, he's a college guy too. It's hard just to come into the NFL. I know he, you know, he's talked how hard his schedule is with the U .S. Open. And then, you know, doing a game a couple days later. And then doing a college. And so, you know, that's hard. And so, yeah, he's not a tremendous play -by -player. To me, this is just me, it felt like when ESPN gave him that gig, it was more about ESPN trying to impress the NFL. Like, look, we have our number one college game. Like you had said earlier, the secondary Monday night game for years was, you know, Golic and Greenberg and Chris Berman with a cast of character. Rich Ryan did it one year. I think this is ESPN trying to say to the NFL, because now they have a Super Bowl and they have this big contract. And, you know, they brought in Buck and Aikman. Like, we're serious, we're going to take our, regardless of what you think about Fowler, he's their lead college guy. So, I feel like they're like, oh, look at us, we're putting the lead when, you know, that. Yeah, I think they screwed up and I think they know they screwed up. I think that they ended up shifting who was in charge of the NFL. It was Stephanie Drewley. And they moved her off the NFL after, you know, I think that didn't help her cause in terms of staying on the NFL. I think they were satisfied with Levy. He was a good guy, which they value. After they brought in Joe Buck, he was very gracious. You know, Levy's a very good hockey guy, especially studio host. I thought he could have, you know, could have been the pregame show on Monday Night Football. He's in, again, not their, in my opinion, they had other people who are better play -by -players for football, but it was good. Like, so, yeah, I don't think it was to impress the NFL. They got Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They got the Mannings. I mean, they spend, they're spending 50, 60 million dollars a year on their booths. Like, I don't think the second team booth is gonna, you know. If anything, I think it was, there was a thought before Buck and Aikman that Fallon and Herb Street might get the NFL. Might get Monday Night Football. Might get the potential Super Bowl. And then this is kind of a carrot since they didn't get it. But I'd argue, and I even talked to Chris Fowler about this. So, I don't know if this is the case. I just don't know if, I mean, Chris Fowler does the national championship. He does the biggest college game every week for Disney. I can't, like, I get it. Maybe he wanted to do NFL. But is this really gonna satisfy him because you're doing a second game, which generally aren't that great? I don't, I don't see that long -term, personally. And I think also, strategically, if I'm ESPN, I'm putting a young play -by -player. Now, Joe Buck, we both think it's great. Like, he and Ian Eagle are the best two play -by -players going right now. And, um, but, Joe Buck's contract's up in a couple of years. If I'm ESPN, and I, you know, I think they'll probably re -sign Joe Buck, and they should. That said, he makes a lot of money. And, you know, I would be saying, who can I develop? What young guy can I develop? So when I go into that negotiation, I really have somebody who's on the rise. And I can say, hey, look, you don't want this, you know, the 15 million a year? Then we'll go here, you know? But if you start demanding, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but, demanding even more and more money, I'd want an option. I don't think they've created an option. They've actually put somebody in that spot who they've already said they'd rather spend 15 million dollars on Joe Buck than have Chris Fowler as the lead play -by -player. So, I just think negotiation -wise, and strategically, in terms of saving money, it wasn't a great decision. Yeah. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth, either. They had Fowler, Greasy, and Riddick. Excuse me, excuse me. Levy, Riddick, Greasy. Now it's Fowler or Lofsky, Riddick. To me, that, and, Fowler's used to a two -person booth with Herb Street. They have Buck and Aikman, which is a two -person booth. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth. It's just, for football, it just, I don't get it, but, that's just my - It complicates, it over -complicates it. Yeah. And like you said, chemistry. I think it's much harder to develop a chemistry with three. I mean, you know, the local Mets situation is different with Gary Cohn, Ron Darl - Is it in baseball, is it football? What three men, can you name - I mean, I guess back in the old Monday Night Football days, there were three men booths that had - Yeah, Collinsworth and Aikman with Buck that one year. Yeah, one year it lasted, you know. So, I don't know. But, there's no more staggered double -headers. The next one is week 14, and both games will start at 8 -15. I think that's the one that's going to piss a lot of people off. But, that's a long way down the road. You got the two TVs. Yeah. I asked you if ESPN, how they feel about Monday Night Football. Anything you've heard about how they feel about their new partnership with Pat McAfee. I mean, it's early, but they're bullish on it. I mean, they've kind of handed the keys to the network to McAfee. I mean, you can't - it's kind of like Stephen A. now. You can't really turn on ESPN almost every day except basically Sunday without seeing Pat. And so, you know, I think initially the ratings weren't that good. I think they got a little better in terms of the TV ratings. I think that kind of makes some sense because if you think about it, he was a YouTube show. Yeah, he's got to play for TV. Yeah, and he's still a YouTube show. Well, it is a play for TV because they think that they had Max in there before. They think that the ratings will be high enough that they'll be able to charge more for the ad rates. I guarantee you the money they'll make off of McAfee on social media and YouTube will be 8 billion times more than the money they made off Max Kellerman on social media. Oh, 100%. No, you're right. No, you're right. There's no doubt about that. And look, they want to get, I will say this, like, does it work? I think a lot of times when companies make big moves, you know, big time moves, a lot of times they make those moves when the person's kind of towards the end, you know, they got McAfee on the rise. Like, you know, we, you know, you and I have been aware of McAfee for years now, but he's really like, you know, here, I don't think he's at the plateau, you know, where most people go up and then they plateau and then they go down. He's at, he's still, I think, going up and then maybe the plateau is on the horizon and you can plateau for 20, 25 years if you have the right attitude and personality and just have the right act. So that's where I think that makes a lot of sense as a bet because it's not, I'll hit one close to home, Rick Riley leaving ESPN. I mean, leaving SI for ESPN where, you know, Rick Riley is one of the great columnist ever, but at that point, you know, whatever, maybe it was the internet, I don't know exactly. It just didn't really work as well at ESPN as it did at SI. And so I just think they've done that and that's kind of, you know, teams do that in sports and I think sometimes networks do that. And so I feel like signing McAfee in his mid -30s is kind of like signing a baseball free agent who's in his mid -20s and I think that's what you want to do as opposed to getting a, signing a 35 -year -old and, you know, thinking they can still play, you know, like, I don't know, like a Josh Donaldson, maybe trading for someone like that, Jimmy. You see what I did there? I don't need reminders of the horrific Yankee season. I just did that on purpose. I don't need that. My head was going, who am I going to say? All right, yeah, Josh Donaldson, but it was a treat. Just a, yeah, you want me to say Brian Cashman should be fired. It's amazing too, they replay that. I didn't know this was going to be the situation going into it, but they replay the show as soon as it's over, I think, on ESPN 2 and then they replay it at night on maybe ESPN News or one of their, what you said about if you're going to put on one of the ESPNs at any point in the day, you're going to see Pat McAfee. Yeah. So that's good for him. Like I, you know, people feel like - But I also think, ESPN has to be, they have Aaron Rodgers on their air every week. It's a news making thing that's on their air every week. They've got Nick, he's got Nick Saban on his show every week. Yeah. That's a news making thing every week. I would think ESPN has to be, forget the numbers because the numbers, I think, will be there. It's still a new thing. You have, the ESPN audience is older, the McAfee audience is younger, it might take some, but I would think ESPN just on the brand and the cachet of that show has to be thrilled. I think so. I mean, but if you talk, like I have, again, I'll probably make some calls here in the near future, but so I haven't talked specifically with anybody about that. But generally speaking, when these things first start, everyone loves it. So then we'll see. Again, I'm not saying, I could see it either way. Like, you know, McAfee has not really stayed at any of these, throughout any of these contracts he's had. So that's something to watch. Maybe this one he does, but that hasn't been the case previously. So that is something. I think the fact that he's on game day has to help the relationship there a little bit with ESPN. Here's the thing about McAfee. If you're managing him, in my opinion, and it's like Casey Jones, the former coach of the Celtics, was known for just throwing out the ball and telling McHale, Parrish, and Bird to go play, Dennis Johnson. At least that's how I remember as a kid. That was his reputation. And I think McAfee is sort of like that. Just give him the ball, let him do his thing. He's not looking to, you know, for some strategy. Let's, you know, triangle offense. He's not looking for that. He's looking for, let me do my thing. I know what I'm doing. And the thing about McAfee is he's very smart. Like, I know he plays this, like, he's not smart thing. It works very hard. He works hard and he's very smart. He's very savvy. He acts as if, like, you know, maybe he's, you know, just a dumb jock. But he understands the media business very well. We need, we need to discuss the Kelsey Taylor Swift thing because I actually think it's a legitimate media story. If Fox is going to get these increase in their demographics of the female audience, the young people, the NFL has gone all in on this thing. I mean, they changed their Twitter header to, like, a Taylor Swift thing. They're putting out Travis Kelsey Swiftiest plays on their social media. He's gained, I guess, a ton of followers, the jersey sale. Let me start with this. How did you think Fox handled it on Sunday when she was in the stadium? Do you think they overdid it? Do you think the fact that they had an unwatchable game takes them off the hook? What was your take on the Chiefs -Bears on Sunday when she was there? I think the second part, and I wouldn't take them off the hook, but I think the second part, you have an unwatchable game that you had to switch most of the country out of because it was so non -competitive, that you have Taylor Swift there, it's a big deal. And, you know, there's a lot of Taylor Swift fans who are football fans, a lot of non -Taylor Swift fans who weren't watching that game, but it was a talking point, right? Like, I saw Taylor Swift in the concert this summer, but that was kind of - Look at you! Yeah, how do you like that? Look at you! You couldn't even get tickets. Big shot. Where'd you get tickets? My daughter's friend just won the lottery. No shenanigans. Oh, really? Tickets were $235 each, which is still a lot of money, but not, like, $1 ,000. And it was just kind of happenstance, how I ended up going. I was going to say, if your daughter's friend got tickets, how did you end up at the era's tour? I mean - Were you, like - It's just a long drive to get to the metal lands, didn't want them driving back. They're older, they can drive, but at, you know, one o 'clock in the morning from Taylor Swift, so - But you were in MetLife and watched the show. Yes. Friendship bracelets? Well, you want to know something funny? This is a good one. So, my daughter's friend said to me, do you want a - do you want a jewel? And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm okay. Thinking she's saying a jewel, like a jewel, smoke. But she was saying, like, to, like, get bedazzled, a little jewel, which I would have taken. So later, I was like, I told my daughter, I said, but your friend, she said she asked me if I wanted a jewel. She's like, no, no, she didn't say you wanted a jewel. She said, do you want a - a jewel to put some ju - you know. Right. I didn't have any bracelets, but I was into - I liked Taylor Swift. I wouldn't go again. I kind of felt bad being there, because there's people who give their left arm to be there. But it was - look, she is an unbelievable performer. I mean, it was - you could - first of all, I liked some of her songs. Secondly, the level of performance. It was just, you know, it was an A+. I mean, that - that - and that is something, even if you didn't like her music, you can appreciate it. And also, I appreciate it if I had to go to the bathroom. Easy pass right in there. No one. Right. No one's leaving their seat except for people like you who aren't in it. Yeah, and especially, yeah, and more skewed women.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
Wealthy Behavior
A highlight from A Primer on Mortgage-Backed Securities
"Welcome to Wealthy Behavior, talking money and wealth with Heritage Financial, the podcast that digs into the topics, strategies and behaviors that help busy and successful people build and protect their personal wealth. I'm your host, Sammy Azuz, the president and CEO of Heritage Financial, a Boston based wealth management firm working with high net worth families across the country for longer than 25 years. Now let's talk about the wealthy behaviors that are key to a rich life. On this episode of the Wealthy Behavior podcast, we have a special guest, Ken Shinoda, portfolio manager at Double Line Capital, where he manages and co -manages several fixed income strategies, as well as overseeing the team investing in non -agency backed mortgage securities. I can think of a few people who would be better to speak with at a moment in time like this for the market, just given the sharp moves we've had in interest rates, which have impacted bonds and stocks and mortgage rates being higher than we've seen in a long time. And be sure to stick to the end as I digest this conversation with our chief investment officer, Bob Weiss, and share his key takeaways as well. I'm excited for this conversation, so welcome to Wealthy Behavior, Ken. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Could you provide our listeners maybe with a brief overview of Double Line and your role with the firm? Absolutely. Double Line is a Los Angeles based asset manager. We predominantly manage fixed income, but we also have some passive smart beta equity strategies that have done quite well. We have a commodity strategy, but I would say about 90 % of our assets are fixed income based with a heavy tilt towards securitized products, which are things like mortgage backed securities, asset backed securities, collateralized loan obligations. We have about 95 billion under management. And what is your role specifically with the firm? I know I mentioned the bio, but how would you explain that to listeners? Yeah, I am a portfolio manager across a variety of our products, especially those that are more focused on mortgage backed securities. I also have the structured products committee, which oversees the asset allocation process on our securitized focused strategies. How did you get started on this career path? How did you get to this point? I wanted to get into something real estate related coming out of school. I had a couple of interviews. I actually was interning at Trust Company West TCW, which where many of the Double Line employees came from and just happened to stumble onto this role. I never didn't come out of school thinking, hey, I want to trade mortgage backed securities. It wasn't really something that was pushed on the West Coast. I think East Coast schools are more investment banking trading focused. So, luck happens. Pretty big asset management community out in the West Coast with a pretty big presence, especially in Southern California with PIMCO, WAMCO, Capital Group out here. So there's actually a pretty big fixed income focus, at least in the Southern California area. Great. And we've talked a couple of times already about mortgage backed securities. How would you explain those to listeners or maybe people who've read the big short and have some misconceptions about what they are and how risky they could be? If you go back a long, long, long time ago before we created the government sponsored entities, Fannie, Freddie and Jeannie Mae mortgages, if you went to a bank to get a mortgage, it was always going to be floating rate, a digestible rate mortgage because the banks didn't want to take on such a long duration risk. And what happened was Fannie and Freddie and Jeannie Mae were put into place to try to get the cost of debt down for Americans to buy homes and a goal to increase home ownership or help more people get into homes. And they introduced the 30 year fixed rate mortgage and then they would package up those mortgages eventually and create bonds backed by these mortgages. So you can basically buy a bond that's government guaranteed, that's whose cash flows come from these mortgage backed securities. And so instead of taking on credit risk, what you're really taking on is prepayment risk. If rates go down, borrowers have the ability to refinance without any cost really. And if rates go higher, then the refinancing activity slows down. So you have this kind of like uncertainty of how long your investment is. Is it a one year bond or is it a 10 year bond? It all depends on the prepayments through time. So instead of sitting around and worrying about credit risk and default risk, you're really sitting around and worrying about the direction of rates and what that means for refinancing activity. And so the direction of rates is a great place to go. You've been doing this for a while. How would you characterize the investment environment, the interest rate environment that we're in right now? Well, it's been the worst interest rate environment that I've seen from a sharp movement and rates higher. I mean, we've been in a bond bear market now for three years, the 10 year yield on a closing basis. The low was in August of 2020. Intraday, we were a little bit lower in March during kind of the fiasco when the shutdown started. And we've reached new highs in August across the curve really. So it's been a really tough market. Part of it's been driven by the Fed with their reaction to high inflation. And we've seen a pretty dramatic increase in short term rates and the long end has fallen. And we have a little rally as there was hopes and glimmers of a soft landing and data rolling over. But what we have now is the soft landing narrative is still there, but the data's coming in better than expected. So I think a couple of prints, the GDP print came in strong, you had services coming strong, you had some jobs that are still coming in strong. And so the whole curve has kind of shifted back up with the market now thinking the Fed may still have more to do. And if they don't have more than one hike, they're at least going to keep rates higher for longer. And if the economy is strong, then why should long term rates be so low? Maybe they should normalize up towards, let's say, four and a half, five percent on the 10 year. So that's kind of what's happened, I think over the last 30 days is the narrative has shifted from kind of this expectations of growth rolling over to, you know, perhaps growth is better than expected. And now the market's just waiting and watching for more data to come in to guide them. So you're not to put words in your mouth, but maybe you're more in the camp then that the higher rates that we've been seeing is a good sign for the economy versus a bad sign for the economy? I think in the near term, it's a good sign. It means that the data is coming in positively. The data is backwards looking, though. So I think inevitably the lags will kick in and higher rates will start hurting certain pockets of the market. You know, the what's happened is so many high quality companies locked in such low cost of debt and so many Americans locked in such low cost of mortgage rates. Right. Three, three and a half percent, you know, maybe a year or two years ago that it's just taking long for the transmission mechanism of higher rates to come to the economy. We just have way more fixed debt than than we used to. Europe is a place where the transmission mechanism is perhaps working faster because more of their lending to companies is floating rate at banks. So the places where we're going to see the pain and we're already seeing pain now are pockets that are more floating rate. So commercial real estate is a good example. A lot of floating rate debt there. You're talking about people that borrowed it like, two percent, three years ago, and now they got to roll their debt at like seven percent. Right. It's going to create issues. Bank loans, bank loans float and the cost of debt is effectively double. The average spread on the bank loan index going back 10 years is about 500. And short term rates are now 500 basis points. So these companies went from borrowing at five percent to now having to pay 10 percent. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time. Those are those lags that everyone talks about. And I think that they'll still come through eventually. And it's probably going to happen sometime in the fourth quarter or first quarter next year. So right now, the move higher in rates, I think it's in reaction to the positive economic data that we're seeing. But I still think it's an attractive entry point. If you haven't owned long treasuries or assets that have interest rate risk, it's been a good thing for you. So congratulations. But now it's probably one of the cheapest parts of the market. I mean, you want to buy assets when people are pricing in all the bad things. There's not much downside left. When I think about treasuries, that's kind of how it feels right now. Like everything bad that could happen is happening or has happened. Right. The Fed is hiking. Inflation was high. Foreign buying is very low. Economic data surprisingly upside. So it's kind of like all the bad news seems to be in. Last week was interesting because you had that services PMI come in stronger than expected. It will jump up. I think it went from like 52 to 54 or something. If it's north of 50, it's expansionary. And the economy in the US is very service oriented. And off that news, the bond market didn't really move much. It's already kind of at these high levels. I think you would have expected another move higher in rates on that news, but it kind of just settled in. So the big headwind right now is the supply. There's just a ton of treasury supply coming. But if you get any data surprise to the downside come kind of Q4 or maybe Q1 of 2024, I think that could ignite a pretty strong rally in rates. So the thing to worry about is really, does growth stay stronger than expected? We grow our way out of this, right? Yeah, absolutely. So would you agree that the Fed is much more influential in determining short term rates and the market is much more influential in determining like 10 year yields? Yeah, I agree with that. I think that's accurate. So maybe back it up and help our listeners understand what makes the 10 year yield move in either direction? What does it mean when it's moving up or when it's moving down? Yeah, I mean, there's different ways to models that have come out from different participants to like estimate what the fair value for the 10 year should be. One of them is what is the neutral rate of interest that's neither accommodative or restrictive? The R star. And that's, I think, the first layer. So let's just throw a number out and say that's like 2%, right? Then sometimes people say, well, then you need to layer in what long run inflation will be over that 10 year horizon. So let's call that, that's another 2 % or so core CPI gets back down to that level. And then some term premium, maybe that's 50 basis points. So that would get you to like a 4 .5 % 10 year treasury yield. You're getting the neutral rate plus some premium for inflation over 10 years plus some term premium. And you could argue over the term premium, maybe it's supposed to be 50, maybe it's supposed to be a hundred. If you think it's going to be a hundred, then you should think 10 years going to 5%. Now on the flip side, there's buying from pensions and there's buying from money managers and other institutions that kind of can drive the fair value below that four and a half number we just came up with, things like QE, right? That's why we got to such low levels is that the buying outside of those that are just looking at that fair value coming in, maybe it's lack of supply, maybe it's foreign buying and so on and so forth. So part of it's driven by kind of expectations of inflation through time. And then part of it's just driven by the supply and demand of bonds that are out there. And that can be, things like QE can affect that, right? So that first 2 % that you called, I was picturing in my head is almost like the neutral rate. What determines that? What would cause that to be higher or lower? Or is that just fairly static across time in that assumption or that model? That's the big debate upon the context right now is, are we in a new world of higher inflation where the neutral rate would need to be higher? Whereas if you go back to like the last 20 years pre -COVID, let's call it when we were in this like world of secular stagnation, where there was arguments that maybe that neutral rates is much lower since we're living in a world of lower growth, lower inflation, so on and so forth. So depending on how things shake out and what the future looks like, maybe that neutral rates higher. What are some things that could make inflation and growth stay higher? There's like the three D's I call it. It's like demographics, right? We've had a smaller workforce every year going back the last 10 years because the baby boomers are retiring. We also stopped immigration pretty aggressively too. So demographics are part of it. You got defense spending, right? Governments are definitely spending more on defense and that could be inflationary, expansionary. We've got spending on decarbonization, right? There's going to be trillions of dollars spent on decarbonization. There's infrastructure spending that needs to happen in the US. There's all these sources of potential growth that are coming that in theory could keep growth higher, inflation higher. And this is not a bad thing for the economy, but it just means that rates will probably have to be higher. And so I guess the real truth will be shown is after we kind of get through the next 12 to 24 months, soft landing, no landing, hard landing, whatever, what comes next? And are these long -term forces that are potentially pushing through into the economy going to keep growth and inflation higher in the future? Got it. So pivoting to mortgage backed securities, what are you seeing in the mortgage backed securities market now? Yeah, mortgages look the most interesting they have in almost 10 years. If you look at the spread on current coupon mortgage backed securities, which are the bonds that are being manufactured today by the loans being made today. So these are like seven and a half coupon loans get packaged into six and a half coupon bonds. The spread on them somewhere call between it like 165 to 175 and relative to corporate spreads, which are almost a hundred or a hundred ish, maybe a little bit wide of that.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"east coast" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Related to I won't even finish that. I won't even finish that terrible joke. I don't know that knowing me has always been to your benefit. You know, I feel like sometimes it's let you down. They're building they're using cement language instead. It says a bit different for concrete. One of them is a part of the other. One of them. Yes. Cement is an ingredient. In concrete. I believe, right? And then it stabilizes all of the other stuff that goes in it. It helps to keep it together. I just watch the distinction experts over here. Yeah, I, you know, it's funny that you say that. Because I just watched a thing on the apparently manufacturing wait, which is it that's the ingredient in the other? Cement is the ingredient of concrete. Okay. Apparently, cement, the process for making cement. Bad for the environment. Horrible for the environment. Just really, really a problem. And so, you know, it is a shockingly high contributor to global warming. The creation of cement, really, you know, you can't just can't take these things for granted. I had no idea. And I watched a box explainer video about it, and now I'm all worked up about cement. Well, I guess they've lost some leverage with Oakland now, so I don't know whether that means that their new destination might play more hardball or whether this is just the a's dropping the ball. Regardless, I mean, do you even still want the a's if you're a's fan? At this point, like, do you want them to screw up this move and stay? Or are you good riddance at this point? I don't know, but I think what you want is for, well, I'm sure that there are a lot of different feelings about it, but the team would be nice. Yes, that would be, yes, that's the punchline here. If it were me, I would want the Las Vegas project to fall apart and not be viable and for Fisher to sell the team. And then you're still in a, you're still in a fix because that ballpark is not a big league quality ballpark anymore. And I wonder, here's the thing that we should probably try to find out this, you know, it could be a little bit of reporting that we do. Is there a point at which the Players Association can say, this isn't tenable? This isn't a safe playing environment, right? Because I know that there are rules around that stuff, like you have to have lights of a certain quality, they have to have a certain luminosity and brightness. At some point, well, it's not like the PA has been shy about filing grievances against the yeast. But it's just like, this feels like a, you need to get osha involved. Yeah, right? Yeah, I mean, I guess the possums aren't necessarily posing a danger to players, but even so that is maybe just a symptom. Smell in there, man. Yeah. Yeah, not in the whole ballpark, but like that broadcast booth. Do you think you probably smells probably smells really bad? Yeah. Where was it that players complained about rat urine, smell? That was Dodger Stadium, I think. That's right. I think that's right. And if I recall, didn't, they had to do something about that, right? I think it was the Met's complaint about the urine smell. And then there was speculation that perhaps, you know, it was a bit of subterfuge. It was a bit of sabotage that sort I want sabotage that they were trying to throw them off their game by making it smell horrible. Which I gotta tell ya, that's an effective because I'm like a very smell sensitive person. And it can ruin your whole day, you know, can just really wreck your whole day. Yeah. I meant to mention, though, that that dual debut of stone and that NO west race is shaping up to be a fun one. So fun. Only two games, I believe, separate the Dodgers Padres and Diamondbacks. Currently. Correct. So now the Dodgers do have the highest division winning odds, according to fan graphs. So we were all sort of saying is this the year that the Padres finally catch them? It absolutely could be, but the Padres were favored by the playoff ads when the season started. And they no longer are. It's still pretty close. It's like 48% Dodgers, 40% Padres. Oh, 5% Diamondbacks that the Giants actually still have higher division odds than the Diamondbacks do. But really. We can't incorporate pesky into the nest. Yeah, we haven't figured out a way to factor in pesky to the model. So there's not a ton of separation here that Dodgers are 18 and 13 and the Padres are 16 and 50 and the dive backs are 16 and 14. But it's looking like a fun one. The Diamondbacks will fit at least make some noise as they say. So they'll stick around and be competitive and maybe the Dodgers and the Padres will pull away from the Diamondbacks or maybe one will pull away. But I don't know, you can't like the Dodgers, they're calling up Gavin stone and they're playing Mookie betts at short stop and they're spending a lot of plates and doing a lot of juggling and there's just not a lot of depth there and I think I saw a quote from Fabian ardaya recently about how trade Turner was saying that he never really got any interest from the Dodgers. They talked a couple times, but there was never any offer or anything and he would have been interested in staying if they had made a competitive offer. So all along, they were knowing that they were going to go into this with less depth than they have had and then of course Gavin Lux got hurt another guy's got hurt. But they have Dodgers thus far and they have made it work and they're in first place and they're in pole position. A fairly fragile pole position, but still they're there. But look out, Ben, because, you know, the Diamondbacks now have a positive run differential. So it's all bets are all bets are off, you know? They're coming, they're coming for you. Thoughts are really fun. That's a nice satisfying name to say. It's a fun name. If you look at the zips, both the zip top 100 and then just the projections more generally from a preseason perspective, like Dan was like, wow, is absolutely in love with the Diamondbacks. They were, they, zips, the system, what am I trying to say? Yep, there you go. The system, especially on the pitching side, was like really cuckoo for cocoa puffs when it comes to the Diamondbacks. You know? They've been fun. Yeah. They've been fun. They have been fun and pesky. Yes. Speaking of divisions, I meant to bring up the ale east because the degree of dominance of the AL east
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Game that was supposed to be a night game and it was kids still in school, et cetera. So everything kind of conspired against that game being extremely low attendance. And the 1997 White Sox weren't anything to write home about either. And the 1997 Blue Jays were even more mediocre. So that's how you get, I guess, a sub 2000 attendance. The only other instance was September 91 game between Boston and Cleveland that was a little under 2000. So it's been a long time. Yeah. It's been more than 25 years, I guess, now since you had won that low, but if there is don't get one that low, in the dog days, this summer, I would be sort of surprised. Well, and you know, you sit there and you're like, you're disincentivizing people to even come and protest anymore because you're censoring highlights. So what portion of the attendance are you inadvertently curbing as a result of sensory as tendencies and just to add a wrinkle Ben? Have you seen the news out of Nevada out of the state of Nevada? What? Well, so this is, this is passing, retweeting a piece from the Nevada independent, which is an independent newspaper in Nevada go independent press. Only 34 days remain in the Nevada legislature session. The assembly speaker, if something was going to happen, it really should have been in place last week. The a's deal to buy the land for a potential Las Vegas stadium is dependent on the passage of the $500 million tax package, and he is quoting a tweet that says, Nevada's assembly speaker says the Oakland a's have not presented concrete language requesting 500 million in public money to help construct a stadium in Las Vegas, and if a proposed bill doesn't materialize soon, the legislature could quote run out of time. How are they this bad at all of the things? You mistreat your fan base. You won't invest in your club. You won't invest in a ballpark that doesn't have a giant real estate development attached to it in Oakland, and then are you maybe fumbling in the place where they famously are like, everyone's a mark, let's give away some money. What are we doing? That's insulting to the Nevada assembly. I should be careful because, you know, hopefully they're just going to look at this and say, go try to find a mark elsewhere. It's not us. I don't know, man. What a mess. Is concrete language about building a ballpark related to I won't even finish that. I won't even finish that terrible joke. I don't know that knowing
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"And it's a pre planned segment regardless of what's going on. There might be some bells and whistles and special fancy cameras and camera angles and stats and that sort of thing. So those can be beneficial at times. But all the other stuff just seems like a distraction. I don't have a sense really for whether people have embraced this and I'm just being a complete curmudgeon. And everyone else is gung Ho about this. I'm not sure because I do see a lot of people complain about it. And sometimes I see people see it's cool, but mostly it seems like during exhibition games, which I am all for on board with, but I just don't have a sense of whether anyone's tuning in because someone's going to be miked up during this game. I don't know if that's a big draw. Right. Yeah, I think while we are supportive of the concept of aging gracefully. It's such an odd what a loaded little discourse to jump into. That would be. Yeah, I have a lot of sympathy for how difficult it is to be a broadcaster who sort of parachutes in. And I think that, you know, they do a lot of work to try to bridge the gap between what they understand and what a local broadcast crew would understand. And so I don't want to say like, oh, it's so easy. Just be as good as the guys who follow them. And you know, candidly, they recycle so many teams for the Sunday Night games that they do get to know these guys. Yeah, that's true. I remember when we talked to you, like two weeks ago, anyway, what's different now? But I think that it really isn't quite as complicated as what they are suggesting that they could just let the game breathe a little bit more. And if what they're trying to sort of counterbalance is, the remove that they have from these players because they aren't covering them for a 162 games, maybe that's an asset, right? Maybe we can look at those broadcasts and say, hey, you're going to hear a crew that has no skin in this particular game because they aren't affiliated with either team or you could lean the other direction. And I don't want to bounce anyone from that booth. I'm not like, get out of here, but you know, they could have an open seat in the booth and maybe cycle in someone who does cover the team at the time. And if they want that perspective, where you get to know a guy over the course of a season in spring training and what have you, you know, there's a ready made solution to that, which is to put a broadcaster who talks to that player on a regular basis in the booth with you. So I think that there are a lot of ways that that broadcast could kind of zhuzh it up if they're looking for a way to differentiate themselves from the local teams broadcast. But this wouldn't be my preferred one. And like we said last time, you know, these minutes are at a bit more of a premium now because the games were shorter. It's sort of, it's funny because it's like they spend so much time on those broadcasts where they did at least in the first couple of weeks of the season. I say that like the season has been going on for so, so long, but talking about the pitch clock and all the differences and the games are shorter. They're shorter. And it feels a bit like there wasn't a reevaluation of, hey, we don't have to fill quite the way that we have had to in seasons past these games aren't quite as long we're not looking for moments on the field to help punctuate the broadcast and make it feel dynamic. We've already added a bunch of dynamism back into the game, both in terms of making the action livelier having emotional and bases, et cetera. So it's like, what if you should maybe take this as an opportunity to reset and try fewer things and sort of add them back in slowly with consideration to say, okay, we actually have a good balance now, you know, we did one, one managerial interview. That's all. No more, you know? I think that we could view it as an opportunity to kind of reconfigure some of the segments of those broadcasts that maybe don't work quite as well or take up time just to take up time. We don't have time now. We don't have time to do that. You got to type ten. If they're going to do this, I wish they would lean into just concentrating on what is going on in that game as opposed to just a general talk show discussion. Yeah. Give me some insight. What Manny Machado was watching with his wife. That doesn't seem like a thing I have to care about. Right. And maybe this is just the sicko sea med perspective speaking and your actual national audience doesn't want to be totally in the weeds, but if we're talking to someone who's actually involved in the game, just give me what is going through their head right now, like which way are you leaning on this pitch? Where do you think he's going to hit it? What's the scouting report? What do you think you're going to do in your next at bat? What did he throw you last time that you're anticipating next time? That sort of thing. And maybe they wouldn't want to give away some of that. They wouldn't want to divulge the scouting report because it could be relevant later in that gamer in the next game. So you might just be inherently limited in this sort of insights you could get. But that would be the saving grace of it for me if we could actually glean something from what is going through a player's mind. And depending on the player, there might not be much going through their mind. But with some players, at least there is, and they're constantly evaluating things and thinking through probabilities, even if they're not thinking of it in those terms. So that's what I want the cerebral look inside. And I rarely get that from these interviews. And MF bachelor friend of the show wrote about this for SIS August and she spoke to Carl ravich, and he said, they're doing their jobs. We don't ever want to interfere with that. We trust them to speak when it makes sense, and they trust us to ask questions and realize, look, there may have to be a pause here. There's no way you can not interfere with that. I mean, they're doing their job. The interference might be more or less limited, but it has to be some slight distraction. I almost hope if this continues for the next 20 years or something, maybe we'll have enough of a sample to do a study to show how players perform in the half innings when they're mic'd up. What are their defensive metrics look like how do they catch out of their pitch? How do they hit and maybe then in the 2055 or something I can demonstrate that there's an actual cost to doing this to player performance and then I can kill it forever. But it'll take a really long time to have a sufficient sample to do that sort of study. But to me, I think it highlights the unique nature of baseball or unusual nature of baseball in maybe not the most flattering way,
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg rally of fan grafts a low mech. Hello. So we mused recently about why players are willing to do in game interviews, live from the field. And we know now, I think it was reported a couple of weeks ago by Andrew marchand of the New York Post, which I had missed until a couple of listeners pointed it out to us. But they are, in fact, being paid for that, which I guess is not a surprise, but they're being paid according to this report about $10,000 to do one of these in game interviews and the money doesn't come from the broadcast networks. It comes kind of from the league and the Players Association. So I think you had mentioned last time something about this maybe being something that the Players Association should be involved in at least and sounds like they are. So they have sort of an earmarked joint fund that MLB and the Players Association share and this money comes out of that. So for any normal person with a typical salary, this would be a heck of a deal because $10,000 for a half hitting, what is that ten minutes, maybe less these days? So you're getting thousand bucks a minute, or maybe more than that, right? Just to utter a few words here and there between place. So sense appealing on that level, of course, $10,000 is sort of a rounding error for a lot of players, particularly players who are the ones getting miked up, right? Because it's usually not someone who's making the league minimum. It's more of a veteran, more of a well-known name who is probably making millions in which case 10,000 is just a tiny fraction of what they're making. And yet I imagine even if you're making a lot, especially if you didn't grow up with a ton of money, it's still like you're giving me $10,000 for ten minutes of work. If you can call it work, I'm doing my work and meanwhile, I'm just going to banter a little bit between pitches and you're going to give me 10,000 bucks. Okay, fine. So I do understand why they want to take that deal. I suppose I'm still not enamored of the practice. But it does make it make sense from their perspective. Well, and we understood that this was the sort of thing that only gets done if the Players Association is involved. I just think they need to refine the parameters of it. You know? They just need to kind of hem it in because as we said, I'm not optimistic we will do away with it. I don't know that the money piece of it changes how little I like it. No, right. But it's good that they're getting something, I suppose. Yeah, right. Go ahead, get paid. I mean, I'm glad someone's making something off it, but it does remind me of the final season of brockmire, which did a jump ahead in time. And in this scenario, it was almost like a dystopian sort of scenario of future America and baseball. And one of the things that they featured was players live streaming, essentially, from the field, just to kind of open up their own revenue streams. So they basically be on some equivalent of Twitch just during the game talking, monetizing their presence on the fields, having ads, et cetera. So this isn't quite that, but it's a step along the path to that. So I don't know, it's just this New York Post piece says that, first and foremost, it is nice for the national games to have wrinkles to make them feel different. Second, it gives MLB stars a chance to show their personality, and I guess in theory it does, although it doesn't always provide the best showcase for their personality because, again, they're extremely distracted because they should be especially with the pitch clock. There's just not that much time. So it depends, there are certain guys who I think take it in the right spirit or have it the right personality to do it. And they just have fun with it. And other guys, it's maybe not the best platform or venue for them. Maybe the happy medium here. Maybe the place that we should encourage them to land with all our authority to dictate these things. Yeah. I don't mind players being mic'd up. When they do the mic'd up sessions that are cut together after the fact. Oh yeah, totally. Those are delightful. And I think that they do allow guys to more naturally display who they are because you get to see them going about their business and talking to one another and it has, they know they're mic'd up and it is funny to put they warn each other. But it is a more organic display, even though there is still some artificiality to it. And you know, everyone needs an editor, right? Even the most interesting people in the world are not interesting every single second of the day when they're talking. And so you can kind of pick and choose the best parts and you're not interrupting the play on the field in the same way you're hearing them narrate that play and interact with one another. And so I want them to lean into that more. And I realized that if they think the national broadcast needs wrinkles, which is what if we tried just like as an experiment, not what if we didn't because the baseball is the thing about it is it's entertaining on its own. We don't have to. Lard it up with all this stuff. People like their local telecast for the most part because they get used to those people and they're just constant comforting presence in their lives and they know what they're talking about. They know the storylines. They know the players, they talk to the players, all the wrinkles with national broadcasts. People dislike the wrinkles, people want to Botox the national broadcast. They do not want that. They don't want it to be basically a podcast during the game where I don't know, Michael K and a rod or just chatting with someone and it's a pre planned segment regardless of what's going on. There might be some bells and whistles and special fancy cameras and camera angles and stats and that sort of thing. So those can be beneficial at times. But all the other stuff just seems like a distraction. I don't have a sense really for whether people have
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"If no one's doing it, where are we in terms of the product issue? So the big concern and you highlighted this months and months ago was the diesel diesel shortage on the U.S. east coast. Where is that now? It's bad and it's getting worse, especially as we get colder weathers in New England. We can't get enough diesel to the east coast. The region relies on it for heating and at times for power generation and we lost imports from Russia and from Europe as well that we're necessary to tie those inventories. Inventory levels now are at 70 year lows. And we're just starting heating season. We had abnormally warm early November end of October and early November and as that shifts are going to see a precipitous drop in the inventories and then the crack spread and differential between New York harbor and the Gulf Coast will likely continue to widen over the coming months. Well, that's all. Tell me what the Jones act is and what do I need to do to repeal it? The Jones act is an over a hundred years old. It was put to protect the U.S. naval industry and basically says in order to transport anything between U.S. ports, the vessel has to be built in the U.S., crude by U.S. folks and register in the U.S.. So there are very few of them. All right, for now, thank you so much for joining us at Fernando valley. He is the oil annals for Bloomberg intelligence. Coming up on the program, how brands are leveraging the World Cup for awareness. You're listening to Bloomberg intelligence on Bloomberg radio, providing in depth research and data on 2000 companies and 130 industries. You can access Bloomberg intelligence via B, I go on the terminal on Paul Sweeney. And I'm Alex Steele. It's 25 minutes past the hour, and this is Bloomberg
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"In the east coast are just curious about, which is the new boom in Florida. What is the character this time of the boom in Florida? I mean, you were there with Bogart and bacall a few years ago. But what's the character of the boom this time? I would say that the real estate boom ball and Tom is extraordinary. I purchased my house on the island of Palm Beach. In 1999, it is up 17 X so what do you do? And who was who are these people? I mean, do you get the sense? They don't have a score. They're moving from up here, but that's always happened, but do you think that it's sticky? I mean, aren't they going to wake up and say, you know, they are hedge fund guys like me, but the 30 years younger. What's the mistake that hedge fund guys like you 30 years younger making right now? Liz and Saunders had a great chart out today of the mood of alternative investments. What's the different practice now versus when you were in your ute? Well, I think I've labored on the transformation of market structure movement from active money management investing to passive investing risk parity, the popularity and explosion of exchange traded funds. So I think the one mistake. And this is one of the reasons that sea breeze why I always average into my loans in shorts. Is that market structure changed tend to exaggerate short term moves and no short term moves, by the way, can be weak or a month as we saw in the polar opposite action in June and July and the indices. So I think it's important the mistake to answer your question is to not take a full position at the get go to average end because the market because the market market structure is so different than when I was a kid at kiri Peabody as a housing analyst. It was a few years ago. Doug Cass, thank you so much. Seaweed's partner was in there. He is a bit tepid short on the market. Dow, negative 400 down negative three 97. With our news in New York City here's Michael Barr. Tom ball, thank you very much. Democrats say the political winds are shifting after months of talk that Republicans would have a landslide victory in this year's midterms on top of voters minds according to a new NBC poll threats to democracy. At 21% ahead of cost of living at 16%, President Biden's approval rating, however, is sticking to 42%. Heavy rain and flash flooding continues to threaten millions of people in the west, at least 12 million people between Arizona and Louisiana including much of Texas remain under flash flood warnings at Zion national park in Utah, a woman is still missing after flash flooding on Friday. Search and rescue teams are looking for 29 year old chatel, agni hore from Arizona. Jonathan schafer is the park spokesman. The family has been in the park and we're working to support them as they go through all this with all of us. There are more than 20 people working on this search and rescue operation. And they're working all along the length of Zion canyon. Zion national park spokesman Jonathan schaeffer says her backpack was found which contained many personal belongings, including her cell phone. It's believed that gasoline prices will probably keep dropping at least for now. Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm spoke on Fox. Our energy information administration has projected that by the fourth quarter, gas prices will be around three 87 on average. However, if supply and demand kick in, prices could go up. If China opens up significantly after COVID, there will be a more pressure on demand. Secretary Granholm says the war in Ukraine took a lot of oil off the world market after COVID. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman says he intends to visit Russia to try to help WNBA star Brittany grino get back home. Ryan was sentenced to 9 years following her conviction on drug charges earlier this month. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news, 24 hours a day on air, and on Bloomberg quicktake. Powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries on Michael Barr, this is Bloomberg Tom Paul. Blue button there. Thank you. It's my first time in the studio. Thank you again for getting that. For me, Michael Barr, I just mentioned with Doug kiss. The Yankees are 6 O 7 ball, mets are 6 42 ball. This is exciting. Metz Yankees, I mean, come on, it's like 6 average 6 26 30 ball. I have to say it into all the mets fans out there, including my father in law and mother in law, I like the odds this year of the mets. Well, this is the soft part of the Met schedule. Bringing the Yankee Stadium. Yeah. The way the anchorage. But as badly as the Yankees have played the stadium sold out every day probably just amazing. So yeah, so the excitement level, Tom, in New York City, both in Queens and The Bronx is just awesome. Yeah, they got a two game series Yankees and mets starting today. And Detroit takes on this miracle, the angels. Yeah, you know what? Why are the angels losing to the tigers? I mean, let's be honest, I'm happy, it's all get up. But the angels should not be losing to the tigers. I'm sorry. That's why they play the game. I want to celebrate the sport seems to be doing so well, but do you hear kids playing baseball? Do you ever? Well, I'm gonna just lacrosse mad. We're not lacrosse mad part of the world. It's tough for my little town to get a literally going. I mean, because every kid plays lacrosse. Yeah. I mean, it's fascinating to me. How well the sport seems to be doing and the excitement of it. And yet, it's the opposite of a soccer. We're the kids. Well, now there is a problem because you've got the football games kicking up. There's a shortage of referees now. For what? Yeah, there's a shortage of referees. Kids American football? You mean? English football or American? No, American football. Oh, American sense. What's that? Michael Barr, thank you, Bloomberg business of sports
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"Capabilities are And as soon as they can get up and get work in they will Officials expect widespread power outages that could last for days up and down the east coast some parts of the northeast could see up to two feet of snow from the nor'easter Parts of New Jersey are reporting over a foot of snow this morning is the powerful storm hits the northeast Noah reports there have been ten inches of snow across central Long Island in New York The New Jersey coastline has been hit the hardest so far forked river being covered with over a foot of snow A silver dollar and great condition made back in 1794 has been sold for a record $12 million Rare coin experts believe it's the first ever silver dollar minted by the United States I'm Brad Siegel And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom As we've been reporting snow will continue through the day in our area The latest from Bloomberg meteorologist Scott Kaplan Blizzard warnings in effect for eastern Long Island and the Jersey Shore winter storm warning elsewhere Snow will continue heavy at times through the day especially from New Jersey Shore up in the Long Island strong winds sometimes gusting to 50 mph or more will create blizzard conditions Still accumulations ranging from three to 6 inches north and west of the city 6 to ten in the city and a quarter more on Long Island States of emergency have been declared in New York and New Jersey because of the storm Officials at a Manhattan school say a 14 year old student brought a backpack full of weapons including knives and brass knuckles to class It happened at intermediate school 70 in Chelsea The daily news reports he was suspended after.
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"Point is America thus far West Coast than east coast Who else is by all those 60 deliveries been to American buyers Yeah all U.S. at this point Our focus is to expand into Asia once we get our classes in the U.S. rolling with our and by the way our U.S. capacity is for domestic product So U.S. source U.S. delivered served the U.S. market and then our Asian manufacturing will then convert to Asian deliveries So we'll have the Asian markets also And can you give us an idea of who the purchases are You said there's been an interest certainly in the delivery space Is that who's buying Is it individuals who just want an easier way to work So yeah it's a real mix We've seen 50 50 60 40 kind of split where retail sales for people who really want to solve these urban mobility challenges heart and challenges So half of them have been gone to these very patient customers We had back orders and we were filling the orders as fast as we can but we really got a heavy interest out of retail So out of the commercial And now we've sold to a series of initials buys initial cells for these commercial users and we're starting to see a lot of delivery a lot of restaurants things like that that are wanting to deliver themselves And this is an ideal solution because usually there's only one driver to deliveries and small convenient very economical so it fits nicely into the next step seems to be an evolution going on in the food delivery and small possibility market right now Kevin pavlov really scoring that circle of all the demand there for electric vehicles People want a huge trucks People want tiny thing wheelers to electromechanical CEO We thank you for your time so well over there and Las Vegas Meanwhile that does it for this edition of blueberry technology Do make sure you tune in tomorrow as we're going to be joined by Jennifer Corona It's a cofounder.
GSMC Football Podcast
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"Institution. He deserves the utmost respect from the trojan family during this tradition. Whoa this is crazy. This is crazy now. We had speculation that. Usc was just the pitiful performance against stanford and shouted stanford showed to the stanford cardinal for taking that performance. They had against kansas state and turn it into a dominant performance against usc. Usc is not a bad football team. You was ranked fourteenth in the nation for a reason but this is this is crazy. They basically fired their coach after the first game second game. Excuse me second game. I league conference game now. The statement goes on as a committed to upon my arrival at usc during the past two offseason. We provided every resource necessary for football program to complete for championships. The added resources to -nificant increased expectations for our team's performance. And it's already evident that despite the enhancement. Those expectations would not be met without a change of leadership. Whoa this is a major bomb. A major the ball. That was just dropped on you. See on pac twelve ho. This could change everything regarding usc. And the pac twelve. If you seem to dump their head coach one of the programs who supposedly one of the great all-time football programs just dump their head coach after two games two games. We obsolete i. I want to say i didn't take coming but i kind of saw it coming but i didn't expect it to come. This early statement also goes on. This season is just getting started and we have the opportunity to really do something special with his team this program. I'm confident that our intern head coach dante williams gives us a higher probability for success. The remainder of the season dante's experience and well respected coach. Who was renowned for his own ability to philip relations with student athletes and i appreciate his willingness to take on this challenge with ten games left. We still have control of our own destiny. In the pac twelve and with a tremendously talented group of student athletes and complete faith in phenomenal assistant coaches and supporting staff in the john mccain senator. I believe that we can win. That statement for athletic director. Mike boehm of usc. Well my you know what you know what i say to this. You know what. I say to this statement here about five years tuli here about five years too late now. We all know that college football especially in the pac twelve pack twelve college. Football is better when us's dominant because when usc is dominant the pac twelve is more dominant. It just as much as i don't like usc as much as i love to see usc lose usc makes the pac twelve and makes coach football a better place because they provide that billing they provide that la atmosphere that la mantra ellie ideology and usc in my opinion is the only team who can get big time recruits from california from texas from georgia from all these hotbeds of recruiting and compete with the sec. Compete with the acc. You're not gonna have teams like washington. You're not going to have teams like stanford who are truly great programs. You're not gonna have those teams be as dominant and represent the pac twelve like they should like. Usc would if they are dumbed. We've seen this plenty of times. The pac twelve. They are more dominant when usc is a bat. And when us's not a factor the pac twelve just isn't a factor too simple as simple as that. That's major major news..
GSMC Football Podcast
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"But you can still see the growing pains and you can still see the. We were turning when he was on the field. And you can see why he's a rookie but it was interesting. How they shuffled in. And out. And i'm going to be keeping tabs on them to see how the shuffled jimmy trading in and out. Because they're still going to be some situation where they're going to be in the red zone and jimmy's gonna come out. Trades gonna come in and he's going to be able to confuse defenses and defenses. Aren't going to know where the bulbous but still it was a good game for the quarterback. And you know what that might not have been the best game. The quarterback those three games those three games between russell between cuyler imprint Between jimmy might all take a backseat to what happened. sunday night. Sunday night came along. Everybody was tired. Everybody was you know kind of like a little exhausted from football and watching football all day but then sunday night came along and all is went to la all eyes were on stafford and the new look rams and he didn't disappoint. He was brilliant. Sean mcveigh has. His quarterback has his quarterback that he's been planning for for so long and you know what he's got his guy and watch out because this might be the best team in the nfl. I might stayed at right now. The los angeles rams who they might be the best team in the nfl and with their quarterback matthew stafford coming from detroit to la. He looked good. he was fishing. He was smart with the ball. He looked powerful and at the end of the day he looked happy to be arbitrary. Wouldn't you be happy to move your job. Oh hey you know what. We're moving your job from to troy the motor city the prompt detroit. And we're just gonna pack everything up and we're going to go to los angeles and you're going to be like a star there because he might be the happiest man in the world right now in sports just because he moved detroit. A basically bottom dweller. Who's let's be honest detroit in a rebuilding mode to a playoff and it can super bowl contender in a season in an offseason. I mean just look at the numbers the numbers he put up last night. Who show you. Why the la rams. It's kind of weird. Say the la rams but still while the la rams are one of the best teams that are in the nfl and you know let. It's scary because this is just the start. Just look at last night's numbers cancers which have a good defensive team. The bears have a good squad on defense. Who you know might might be able to compete for the nfc north or the at least in my opinion but still twenty four twenty six three hundred twenty one yards in your debut. A twelve point three average in the air three touchdowns at wapping a hundred and fifty six quarterback rating there are a lot of great performances last last sunday with cuyler murray with russell wilson even with jimmy garoppolo but this one by matthew stafford might have just topped it all. Can we talk about the nfc west and can we talk about how they may be the best division in football. I've said it before. I've said a four standby mag. We might see all four teams in the nfc west but cardinals the seahawks. The forty niners in the los angeles rams all competing to make the playoffs. It's crazy it you may think. Oh that's possible. it might be. it might be. It's crazy how loaded these teams are town in the west. It just crazy all the good players. All the great talent moved west for some reason and they're one of the top story lines in the nfl right now. The nfc west is now the nfc best. And that's a great store and we'll get into more storylines because there's a lot of great storylines happening week..
GSMC Football Podcast
"east coast" Discussed on GSMC Football Podcast
"Welcome back back. Show look back. The podcast had a great weekend of watching football back in our lives. Hopefully you able to get some great football whether it was college football on saturday or nfl. On sunday okay. We gotta lock stock doctor so previous segment. We got into everything about week. One and just how great football is to have back in our lives and just how great it is to sit down on the couch and be a couch potato back on weekends and do nothing but watch twenty four hours. It seemed like of straight football and we got into some of the best week action. We got into how the nfc west might be the nfc best and we'll get into more back and i got into my psa of. Let's just enjoy the game. Enjoy the game and football is entertainment. And i got into my rant about my psa. But let's get back to it so we've got into the forty niners last before i went to my huge rant and i just had to say i just have to say the. Nfc north might be one of the weakest divisions and we'll get into more of teams in the afc north but let's not look past the detroit. Lions they've got some great not not great but they got two guys on their team. I like the running back combo of williams and split. I really liked that that went to punch the thunder and lightning and not many people are talking about this guy but this guy might be one of the best if not top. Three top. Five tight ends in the league. Let's talk about tj hopkinson tj. Hodkinson might be one of the best tight end in the league that nobody is talking about. I put him up there with celts. I put him up. The with kittle waller andrews either top-five tight end in the league and detroit's got something with them and we know jared goff loves his tight dent. We know he love his security blankets. But this guy is a based and golfing. No joke. either. There's a reason he was the number one pick in two thousand one seventeen thousand eighteen but he showed some plash played. He threw three touchdowns against a good forty niners team. Now everybody can say we was garbage time. Oh they had a back end that would spilled with twos and threes. But you know what a lions team led by dan campbell. Who's going to bite your kneecaps off going up. When they're down which was probably one of the craziest things i've heard still dan campbell. And that detroit lines team will be a tough match up for anybody in the nfc especially in the afc north which might be the new. He'll of the nfc. I thought the nfc east was bad. The nfc north pole. But we'll get into more that later but going back to the best in the west the qb play in the nfc west might be the best division. Which has the best quarterbacks in the league pants down going from. Top to bottom in that division. They might have the best quarterbacks in the league. Now we already talked about tyler. Being fantastic in tennessee and nobody saw that coming. You saw tendency just getting routed by arizona. Raise your hand and nobody saw that coming. We thought russ cook the colty. He's wickedly you just is but you know jimmy also had a nice day in detroit now. Everybody talked about trade lanes everybody talked about. Oh they drafted trae lands to replace jimi. Well you know what maybe that competition over training camp with trae boosted jimmy. Maybe pushed him even further to say you know what i got this guy on the back of my shoulder coming for my job. I'm going to show you why they paid me. Twenty seven million dollars to play quarterback. And i'm going to show you can lead this team and lead this offense which is one of the most prolific offenses in the leak. I'm going to show you why..
Casandra Properties Real Estate Podcast
"east coast" Discussed on Casandra Properties Real Estate Podcast
"I also do see a lot of parents. That are buying their adult children of condo in downtown san francisco right now because either they're working there or because it's become a little bit more affordable and the overbidding in san francisco's. Calm down so much you have a little wiggle room with even negotiating you know. So i see that coming back and i do see that in in the coming months in the coming years it's going to bounce back. Maybe not as strongly as it did this last time. But i do see prices coming back for shore with the momentum of buyers that are wanting to go back in as second time second homeowners or potentially just an in town or even as a rental property. That's great insights so Could you profile your east bay buyer a little bit further and curious with the difficulties with transportation. Where is this buyer working. Oh yeah this is such a great question because the profiles exactly the same for all these so young ish couple young couple. I'd say between the ages of thirty and forty five working in silicon valley one or two. A one or two people of the household has completely stopped commuting and has had the option of working from home and so that profile is so happy to move to the suburban homes that have these great schools for their kids and the great parks for family lifestyle. Backyard excetera bay usually have an in law or apparent that either with them for. Let's say a couple of months out of the year or somebody that actually just lives with them So they want that expansive house that has announced house for potentially six people. And it's usually dual income has been wife both working and i would say most of them are still okay to commute to the silicon valley even in the potential traffic coming back For at least maybe twice a week and they're okay with that because it's only twice a week and they got out of the house twice a week but then they get to come home to like beautiful backyard and a much bigger home that they owned prior to to how this world has changed in the past twelve months. So that's pretty much the profile buying so these clients clearly you have an outstanding relationship with. I think last time we checked fifty five star reviews on your zillow profile in. And i'm i'm wondering you know the testimonials in the reviews that we were. Were checking out your. Obviously you're meeting. You're exceeding your client's expectations you know. What's the formula that turns a customer into a repeat client. Oh such a great question so staying in touch and being wholehearted about the trump action today. I really don't like using the word transaction because i'm not very transactional when it comes to my clients. I hope they feel this The goal is that i'm part of their journey and their life changes so once you buy with me or once you sell with me. I truly truly will be open and honest about feedback of houses that they're going to buy if there's something i really don't think is good for them. I will share that. I will be open that a not very transactional in that sense like oh you like a house. Let's just write an offer without my opinion So i think that that probably has a lot to do with it..
Casandra Properties Real Estate Podcast
"east coast" Discussed on Casandra Properties Real Estate Podcast
"That has a swimming pool right now. Is on fire like it's just crazy whereas before pre kobe but it was like oh pool i probably won't even use it and i'm going to spend the fifteen grand to fill it up. So that dynamic has changed but location. Wise we have the east bay. Which is which is what's been blowing up in the past twelve months and the south bay which is considered silicon valley is still holding up. It's still crazy but it's the type of homes bed are different. I would say single families in all these markets are highly desirable condos and townhouses have taken a little bit of a backseat Because of lack of space condos and townhouses also have a lot of stairs which now with a dynamic of most people still working from home and kids at home and potential in laws and visitors and guests that are staying longer those try level townhomes and condos. Don't don't work very well for those scenarios. So and in san francisco right. I mean the san francisco market has definitely definitely changed the condo market in downtown san francisco has changed most of the owners. There have moved out to the east bay. So what is an average price in your. Let's say one family. Detached royce point average price. Point about one point is and a lot of first-time homebuyers are jumping at that price point. And i say that so hesitantly because something may be priced at one point. One one point two but it'll get over bid to one point five so the average is become one point five and for that you're getting anywhere from fourteen to eighteen hundred square foot single family with the decent lot. Obviously the closer you get Price point of Two million you'll start getting slightly bigger homes. It's about twenty two to twenty six hundred square feet twenty seven hundred square feet with bigger lots so the first time home buyer profile is jumping and really at the one point five mark not to say people are not jumping in at the million to million to mark. But in that price point you're really looking at condos and townhouses so you touched on something really interesting there A spar with my sellers all the time on. Yeah curious your your opinion. You had talked about one point five but you hesitated because the list price was one point. One one point two. Yeah are you a you a believer in Hitting the mark from the previous calms..
Casandra Properties Real Estate Podcast
"east coast" Discussed on Casandra Properties Real Estate Podcast
"Most sellers would go with the strategy of pricing. Where they think it's going to land right us. Realtors hate that strategy because it'll backfire in so many ways with the market the way it is right now you kind of want the market to drive up the price and that's where you're going to get more than the projected verses pricing it where you think it's going to go and then you overpriced it. It becomes less desirable until it ends up selling around that listed price taking overbidding out of consideration to a certain degree at price based on where it should be based on normal conditions and let the market drive it up. You get a much better reaction that way..
KQED Radio
"east coast" Discussed on KQED Radio
"And stored at minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit. It's unstable, flammable and requires special trucks to transport. Rich man's min is vice president of the industrial Welding Distributors Cooperative, he says because of its volatility, oxygen is typically produced within about 100 miles of where it's used near steel factories, for example, oxygen producers dot the Rust belt and the East Coast. But if you exist out West, that's kind of the problem. El Paso has Albuquerque as even Denver has and why, for example, oxygen produced in Texas cannot ship the hospitals in Brazil. But unlike toilet paper or medical masks, demand for oxygen doesn't hit everywhere at once. So was hot zones travel from coast to coast. So too do the demands on oxygen man's been, says companies sought new ways to coordinate the transfer of oxygen and supplies across longer distances. His trade group started acting as a clearing house to exchange resource is who has access cylinders who has access storage equipment who can lend somebody something for a short period of time? And it's everything from the oxygen itself to the storage tanks to even the people to come out and help set up an installation companies like Norco on Oxygen producer and Boise, It's President Elias Margo. Nous tracks the virus like a weatherman watches hurricanes Every day. I start my day to look at where taste trends are moving data, he says, helps him anticipate what's needed. Where One time he had an excess supply of portable oxygen machines. We then quickly had the ability to move those into the market that really needed them. And.
WIBC 93.1FM
"east coast" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"The Wi D. C Storm desk, preset by technology recyclers Certified Electron IX recycling this attack Dash recyclers, calm Lady. Three. W Why PC mobile news on the level on the go. Snow still slamming the East Coast a clear sky 21 degrees on Monument Circle, but it feels like 16 Today's high 32. I'm John Herrick. Here's what's trending at 6 31 70 Million Americans from Georgia, all the way to Maine being impacted by winter Storm parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, still under those states of emergency this morning. And that is restricting travel in New Jersey. 661 crashes reported so far since the storm began, including this jackknife tractor trailer in Hackensack in Connecticut and emergency crews out there. Fox is Aisha Hosni reporting that the winter weather also delaying Corona virus vaccine distribution in some areas. New York has already had to close down multiple vaccines sites because of the weather conditions. That means hundreds of flights to and from Indiana to the East Coast were canceled Monday and you can expect Or today because of that storm if you haven't East Coast flight check with your airline. When can we take off our masks? While Dr Justin Stransky with Detroit's Beaumont Health System says We don't know yet, he says it first. It's important to determine whether people who have been vaccinated can still transmit the coronavirus. Even if they don't have any symptoms. Potentially. It does prevent things like asymptomatic transmission. But Very importantly, We don't know that yet and.