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ACN Newswire
Blockchain Life will host the 10th Global Blockchain and Crypto Forum in Dubai
"12 a.m. Monday, February 13th, 2023. Blockchain life will host the tenth global blockchain and crypto forum in Dubai. Dubai, February 13th, 2023 ACN newswire, the tenth global forum on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and mining blockchain life 2023 takes place on February 27 28 in Dubai. The event is attended by key industry players, government representatives, heads of international companies and funds, investors, promising startups teams and beginners. It tap us noteworthy that the forum is a meeting point for a premium crypto audience, including world crypto whales. What to expect whales of the crypto industry at one place top speakers with world changing insights and analytics global expo of the latest web 3.0 technologies breakthrough smart networking app the legendary after party on the luxury yacht trip top speakers yet shoe cofounder and executive chairman of animoca brands, founder and CEO of ablaze Sergei khatra founder of listing help. And jets capital Ben Zhou cofounder CEO of bybit doctor marwan Al zuri CEO of Dubai blockchain center Carl renfield crypto entrepreneur, founder of crypto jobs dot com Chris MM crypto cryptocurrency expert. Cofounder of M and crypto Gabriel Abed ambassador of Barbados to the UAE doctor Muhammad Al hamri director of technology transfer office at University of Sharjah, blockchain and crypto adviser men in Shah founder and CEO of avalanche global solutions and cyber Gracie chin managing director of. Big Qatar and 1 February 27 28 Dubai Atlantis the palm by a ticket now blockchain life dot com Asian tickets roll copyright 2023 ACN news wire. All rights reserved. WWW dot ACN newswire dot com.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Unpacking CES 2023: Where Was Web3?
"How is CES? How is a consumer electronic show? What did you think of it this year? I didn't make it, so I'm really curious if web three was everywhere, or if it was anywhere. Great question. CES was a little bit of both. One, there were some amazing people, great conversations that were had. We interviewed, I think almost 20 people and did a bunch of great Sessions on stage. And so that was fantastic. The thing that I was most interested in is how much web three was not showing up on the show floor. For anyone who hasn't been to CES, it is really an expo show. It is a 1 million ft² of demo space for people to show off their new wares. There was like 15 foot holograms of Mark Cuban. There was all of this amazing sort of gaming and VR tech and haptic tech that we saw and tons of autonomous cars. But when I kept looking, I was like, oh, I'm not seeing much web three here, which compared to when you go to a south by Southwest or a can or even art Basel. You see what three almost everywhere? Here it was kind of missing. And so I'm just, I was a bit surprised because I thought I would see more from not being there, but seeing the news, what was your takeaway? Yeah, well, I was thinking about going and I've been to CES a bunch of times before. This year, just timing didn't work out. So I was following along the news. I was really excited to see what Raja for Mastercard announced with Mastercard's web three accelerator. They're doing that in collaboration with polygon studios, which I thought was really cool. That seemed to be sort of the biggest web three announcement in news, but a lot of what I was seeing was more hardware developments like L'oreal, unveiled some new technology on the applicator phase for people with accessibility challenges. I thought that was amazing. I didn't see a ton about web three though, outside of Mastercard's announcement with polygon.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Podcast Movement Apologizes for Presence of Conservative Host
"It opens my mind to this crisis. So I reported on my radio show that at the podcaster, what is the movement? Podcaster movement is gigantic podcaster movement. A lot of people have podcasts. Yes. So they have their big convention last week in Dallas. Daily wire had a booth there. Just a booth. And Ben Shapiro spontaneously went to visit the booth because a lot of his fans were there. And the head of podcaster movement wrote a groveling apology that Ben Shapiro even showed up. But we have video of what? What? Oh, really? Oh, I'm curious. I play. No, let's play it. Yeah. Yesterday afternoon, Ben Shapiro briefly visited the p.m. 22 expo, though he was not registered or expected, we take full responsibility for the harm done by his presence.
AP News Radio
Biden admin to promote availability of COVID antiviral pill
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Mike Gallagher Podcast
Las Vegas Hotels, Casinos Comply With Strict Mask Mandates
"And life is good. We're off to Las Vegas. I may have to make a little detour and go to the slot machine on the way to the broadcast position tomorrow, or on the way back. I'm not a big gambler, but I like my wheel of fortune a little bit. So maybe my fortunes will maybe fortune will be kind to me tomorrow. By the way, I found out strict mandate in Las Vegas for masks. There's nobody on the casino floor nobody at the shot show without a mascot. They've given dispensation to those of us who are broadcasters while we're on the air, but that's about it. I wondered how that was going to fly with thousands of gun owners. And shooters and outdoorsmen and women having to wear a mask on the floor of the sands expo and convention center, but I am told by my spies on the ground, oh yeah, mask mandate is in place and it is enforced. Interesting.
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"expos" Discussed on Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"Yeah, they're small charging update is for the mega charger, remember Tesla is apparently building one of these and Modesto for PepsiCo. We talked last week about how that permit had been issued and drive Tesla Canada today now reporting that the inspection for that permit has also been completed, so it looks like construction could be starting at any time. All right, last couple of quick things for today, you may have seen that rivian stock was way up, lucid stock was way down on rivian, the 25 day quiet period after the IPO is now over, so a lot of brokerages today coming out with their price targets on rivian stock. 12 analysts in total, 8 of which have actually come out with buy ratings and the other four at hold. So relatively bullish consensus and the average price target barons is saying here is a $132 per share across these 12 analysts. Interestingly, piper Sandler has picked up coverage, so Alex Potter who we just spoke with a couple weeks back, they've got a $148 price target and an overweight rating on rivian. They're using a 20 year discount cash flow model to get to that price target and they're assuming eventually rivian could get to 11, 12% of the U.S. market and 7 8% in Europe. They expect rivian to eventually hit a three and a half million annual volume rate. I think a lot of bullishness here for them stems from the fact that rivian is a pure play EV manufacturer with a lot of focus on vertical integration, but they obviously note that vehicle production is messy. They say rivian has no track record. Investors must be ready to endure volatility and delusion. So like we talked about when rivian IPO, my thoughts here, rivian can grow into its valuation for sure, but I think there is still a ton of execution risk. Diminishing that risk to some extent is access to capital, which is pretty strong for rivian, especially with analysts supporting this valuation. Anyway, now that piper Sandler has picked up coverage, we'll have to talk to Potter about that next time we have him on. As for lucid their stock was down 5% today, quite a bit more in the morning. That was because lucid announced on December 3rd that they did receive a subpoena from the SEC requesting certain documents that they say appear to concern the business combination between Churchill capital and lucid and certain projections and statements. They say that quote, the company is cooperating fully with the SEC and its review. End quote. So we'll see what comes with that, but that will wrap it up for today as always. Thank you for listening. Make sure you subscribe and sign up for notifications. You can also find me on Twitter at Tesla podcast and we'll see you tomorrow for the Tuesday December 7th episode of Tesla daily. Thank.
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"expos" Discussed on Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"Plus we kind of knew that from the autonomous vehicle testing reports required in California, which that year that Tesla made that video was the only year that they've reported on that, and I don't remember specifically, but I think they had like 40 miles driven or something like that. And I think most of us at the time assumed that that was Tesla filming for this video. So if that's the worst thing they can find after speaking with 19 former employees, I would say that that really isn't too bad. And it's very clear they're trying to emphasize the negative things here. One clear example of the bias in this writing, they talk about the quote unquote recall that Tesla had on the FSD beta by saying quote, an early November Tesla recalled nearly 12,000 vehicles that were part of the beta test of new FSD features after deploying a software update that the company said might cause crashes because of unexpected activation of the car's emergency braking system. End quote. Now they know as well as we do, that yes, even though that was technically a recall, it was resolved in a day with an over there software update. How very surprising that they chose to omit that detail. Anyway, another beta related news we did get FSD beta ten 6 yesterday, as many of you have seen, I did do my first drive video, just an update on that that I wanted to provide. I didn't end up being locked out for very long, the availability did come back without having to seemingly do anything else. Some commenters said that maybe just changing the navigation destination would have fixed it. So if that does happen to you, you can give that a shot. And then I didn't get a strike thankfully towards losing beta. So it must have been a lockout due to the conditions, which totally fine with that. But I do think that Tesla should put some sort of an indicator of why something is locked out. Since with 10.5 and 10.6, the eye tracking has been much more aggressive in terms of both warnings and strikeouts, which has a lot of people I think a little bit nervous. So that's what I suspected, but it would have been nice to have confirmation that it wasn't due to that on the spot. And Tesla does already have a warning message for FSD being unavailable due to poor weather, obviously that didn't show up for me though, so it must not be programmed for that situation that I was in. So hopefully toss I can get that added. Obviously not a huge deal, but would be nice. All right next up, we've got a couple of reports on gigabyte in the first one is in regards to a water pumping permit that is being challenged in court by environmental groups, rb 24 reporting today that a court date. That was scheduled for this week has been postponed. Indefinitely, and they say that, quote, observers assume that the Tesla production star planned for this month will no longer be sustainable due to this delay..
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"expos" Discussed on Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"To a safe re energization of our sustainable energy systems. End quote. So my best guess is that this whistleblower situation would be very similar to the details that we had discussed around that lawsuit. There were reports around that sign that Tesla had established something called project Titan to basically fix issues with solar systems. So this person probably just feeling like all that was not publicly disclosed when it should have been. Not being a lawyer, I don't know that I can add really anything more than that. But if you're curious on just sort of what was going on with this Walmart situation, as I said, covered it in a man's detail in three episodes back in 2019, which I'll link to in the description. But if you just want to look it up, it's the August 22nd August 23rd and November 5th episodes that year. Time stamps of four minutes, three minutes and four minutes and 30 seconds respectively on those. Last thing that I would say here is that if the SEC does find Tesla did something wrong here, tests I could challenge that in court, just like they did when Elon Musk and a tessel board faced penalties in regards to the going private saga..
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"expos" Discussed on Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"Hey everybody rob mauer here and today we're going to be talking about a reported SEC investigation of Tesla in regards to Tesla solar. Also got a report from New York Times on the development history of full self-driving after they've spoken with some former Tesla employees. We'll talk a bit about FSD beta ten 6 as well after post my video on my first drive on that yesterday. Then we've got a bit of news on Tesla's Giga Berlin, and there's been some conflicting reporting there on maybe another potential delay. We've also got news on a rivian and lucid and a couple other things as well. Quick look at the stock which I'll expand on here in a second, but Tesla today finishing down 6 tenths of a percent to $1009 one cent. The NASDAQ did rise throughout the day, so Tessa followed that back up a little bit after a tougher morning. For its part, the NASDAQ ended up almost 1%. All right, before we get into the Tesla specific news, I do want to make one quick correction in regards to a story we covered last week, which was about a potential Ford F one 50 lightning delay, prefers deliveries into September, or its director of EV communications. I'm a Berg did comment on this on Friday, saying that quote, there is no delay to delivery timing of the F one 50 lightning. Customer deliveries are on track to start in spring 2022. End quote. So I wanted to make sure to correct that right off the bat and good for Ford there. Okay, so I'm getting into Tesla, probably the most attention today revolving around a report that the SEC is investigating Tesla in regards to Tesla solar. We'll talk about that in one second. I do want to wrap up with a couple of stock related things first. Obviously, that SEC report probably weighing on the stock today. But we did also have a price target increase for Tesla from RBC today up from $800 previously now to $950 per share, as a result of increasing their delivery forecast for 2023 through 2025. They for the first time have added whatever we're going to call the model two to their delivery forecast, starting in 2024, but really in volume in 2025. The other thing I'm a stock is that of course we'll wait and see if there are any more form for us tonight, but we didn't get any new ones from Friday. So just the one pre scheduled exercise and stock sale last week from Elon, and I know as we head into this week, we're now at December 6th, obviously a lot of anticipation for December 9th. And if something is going to happen on that day, I remain pretty lukewarm on that topic. Some of the speculation has been that maybe that's the date, Elon would be done selling. I don't think that's likely to be the case as we talked about. Elon needs to sell somewhere between 7 and 15 million more shares. And so far he's been selling one to 2 million a week. So that would be a lot for him to sell in four days. I think that's pretty unlikely. Even the first week when he had the unscheduled sales, that was only about 6 million in total, and he seems to have stopped at least for the time being the unscheduled selling. So whatever 12 9 ends up being, if anything, I don't think it's the end of him selling. Last quick note then before we get into the SEC stuff, Elon Musk is scheduled to participate in The Wall Street Journal's CEO council. So he's scheduled for a 30 minute interview tonight at 7 30 p.m..
Defocus Media
A highlight from Optometry Podcast: Transitions XTRActive Polarized and Transitions XTRActive New Generation Lenses.
"And we want to get into. The details of these products will begin start offering our patients are. We'll talk about extra active polarized i. It was showcased at vision. Expo east and the transitions. New generation lenses were demonstrated at the transition to the studio in jean. What was the driving force behind those two new product introductions for twenty twenty one i would have to say it's definitely innovation. Innovation is it's part of transitions. Dna as you know. We have a team of our d. scientists that are constantly trying to improve our products. Improve the or clarity improve. The outdoor darkness color perception activation invade speed. And it's through this innovation that we've been able to extend the transition's extra active line of lenses with these new launches dot governor. You're there you've got to see this product in person. And i mean what would what happened at the transition. The studio in the transistor's the pulse. We'll let me tell you. When i saw this technology fell out of my chair because i was blown away i mean innovation innovation innovation. When they say that it's in the dna it truly is. I mean we've seen that over the years of prescribing from the chair of educating our patients and the one thing we know that our patients love definitely innovation so to be able to go into the exam room and have this conversation after. I saw this amazing technology by patients. Were just blown away. Just like i was so for me. It was an exciting day. Exciting time and just super exciting technology and innovation in general. I think this phase into mine because there is polarized dishes lennon's that's been available now was ago transitions vantage. It was the first bit acrylic lens to offer variable polarization. How does this new transitions. Extra active colorized blends differ. Well for those transitions vantage fans. Let's start off. What's the same transitions extracted. Polarized lenses are clear with a hint of ten indoors in offer dynamic polarization. Meaning they go from clear to extra dark and polarize when activated and transitions extract. Polarized differ from transitions vantage lenses. In a few ways these are now clear than ever indoors. We've added visible light activation in the car they reach up to ninety percent polarization and they're twice as fast feedback. There's are major. Improvements is huge. I mean that's one thing that we always want to see it better with innovation and technology. Right we have this conversation with our patients A lot of times they think of the old school way of how lenses were and now we have something that we can bring to the tablist going to really Satisfy their thirst when it comes to lens technology. Yes a really patients have everything they loved about vantage in transitions extractive polarized or with sharper vision. Larger field of view and more vivid colors that brings to mind a natural question little transitions. extract polarized. Replace the transitions vantage linda. Lenses yes as we continue to launch roll out the transitions extract of polarized products. We will begin. Phasing out transitions vantage nice. Nice so i want to talk about another polarize option. Because i know that the transitions portfolio is just wide. I mean you have pretty much anything you can think of to accommodate any patient that sitting in front of us. But how does the transition extract of polarized compared to the transitions drive where Because i know that's another option. That's out there as well. So what's the difference in. How do they compare to each of it. Well it can about it. You know we we did. Just talk about the benefits of transitions. Extract polarized lenses and there are a great option. Your primary care because they're clear indoors and at night now. Transitions drive where lenses. they're always polarized. And the photo comex they start off all color and then adapt between three colors specifically designed for different driving scenarios and they adapt to light behind the windshield and outdoors. So you're really getting a length that helps remove glare off the road and hood of your car So it really helps for peach picture. Perfect drive i would say transitions drive. Lenses are a great option as a second pair especially for anybody that spends part of their driving. The driver is almost like a sophisticated son. Last is going to agra. Adjust that it's never gonna be your indoor pair of lenses for that transition extract polarize could take you indoors two outdoors. Yes absolutely. We've seen a lot of questions on social media you know. Color hugely mirrors are hugely. End and transitions has done a great job of answering the call to bring the people what they want so some of the questions. We've been seeing at around. Social posts are are the transitions extract. Polarized lenses gonna be available in other colours. Rick mears
Raising the Bar with Alli and Michael
Purely Elizabeth's Elizabeth Stein on the Beginnings of Her Entrepreneurial Journey
"Love to hear maybe just start out telling a little bit about your story and how why you decided to take the leap. Yes so i started officially in two thousand nine but before that really. I was living in new york city i was. You know it might twenty trying to figure out life. And at the time i was working for a handbag company doing doing sales and marketing and i met my boyfriend at the time who was a triathlete and he really got me into this kind of whole new sense of health and wellness. I would say. I was always a healthy person but starting to do marathons biathlons certainly a two point. Oh version of that. And i think you started competing with them i did. I got up to doing a half. Ironman was along. Just were the person who would hide in the woods during the cross practice in high school. Because i hated to run them. I know really what he taught me. Was that an so much more mental than physical. And i think that art became super intriguing. Jimmy a really holistic health and that is so much more than just what you put into your body and so i started searching for another career option and ended up finding institute for integrative nutrition on i did bear program in two thousand seven and really what that taught me was food medicine. You know kind of everything that's coming to the forefront of health and wellness today in that program really learned that there is not many options for healthy gluten free products and i had started to eat. That way really was working with a lot of clients sewer eating that way suggesting and then they end up feeling better. Products on the shelf were few and barbara. I really saw an opportunity for healthier better tasting and initially started as something in the background of my mind. I ended up going to a local. Triathlon exploded participate in the race but really to promote my nutrition practice. I had a booth at the expo and figuring any thing to entice people to come in shop with me. So i've made this batch of blueberry muffins to get people to talk to me at of course not one person sign up for my nutrition practice. Everyone just wanted to know where they could buy these not fence and that became the moment and took off from
Monocle 24: Section D
"expos" Discussed on Monocle 24: Section D
"And finally on today's show we look the future of sustainable materials and fabrics. Nina miranda is founder of the sustainable angle a not for profit organization behind the future fabrics. Expo held annually in. London is the world's largest dedicated showcase of commercially available environmentally conscious materials to find out more about her work and attitudes towards sustainable fabrics. I caught up with nina. We started talking about the expo itself. We always left talking about the future fabrics expo which is the largest dedicated showcase of sustainable innovative materials for fashion designers. It's basically a product from the sustainable angle. Which is a not for profit organization which was set up ten years ago. And it's all about initiating and supporting projects that helped lowering the environmental impact if industry and society so very very broad but actually we then focus very much on the fashion industry because it is a polluting because it connects to every single one of us food and fibers the one thing. We all have in common without us and that we interact with every day and it was very obvious that this is an industry that has great potential to change and therefore if it changes it can also have a huge impact on lifestyle in general and of behavior of everyone involved these days not just in fashion and design but people who are literally in st making decisions as to where every day i mean in addition to the future fabrics expo or i guess rather outside of it. You also advise businesses on brands through your not for profit the sustainable angle on how they can make you know and at the risk of sounding obvious here sustainable decisions. Can you tell me a little bit about those business relationships that you're trying to build where literally working together with brands helping them. Cheap not only source better materials but also how to engage with their teams how to get the teams involved and make them on the stand important. Their own decision making is and this is something of course that connects directly with you. Which is we know. We've known this for ten years and even more. That design holds a really important role in the decision making process and its designer that actually controls about eighty percent of the environmental impact of the product at the very outset after design process so all the products that we are doing. Have that very much in mind. So it is about trying to engage decision makers it is trying to pass on knowledge and information and i guess in terms of passing on knowledge and information. I know that whether you're working with brands at the expo you're always inviting designs to touch and see materials in person and i guess really have a tactile experience looking at printing color. Why is that tactile experience so important. It's trying to showcase those actual solutions so that there isn't really a death by powerpoint where you just keep talking about those planetary boundaries that were breaking but actually we all showing the very solutions that you can make a product that has a low environmental impact. So it's a very tactile an interactive experience as well that is specifically the future fabrics at ten wanted to show these materials and invite the designers to touch them and to see them firsthand rather than sort of having this image. That was just lost way too long. That these sustainment materials have lower environmental impact. That is just not true and certainly not today when there are so many incredible colors and prints and finishes that you can add to a more sustainable base cloth at but you know you need to see it to experience it and especially designer. Who's a visual creative person engages in really fruitful way with when they can actually see in touch those materials and a whole new world opens. Then i native fermoy and it sort of seems that letting designers really see those materials. Say that those materials Equality is obviously very important. But i guess in felt like for a long time. The term sustainable fabric would would maybe conjure up this idea of material. That wasn't necessarily six or repealing or even that performed particularly well but that's shifted now and we know that's not the case. Can i ask when these perception started to change or perhaps maybe better when you started to notice it. Changing these are just nice fabrics. I think this is where the real change has happened since one thousand nine hundred and that was a real tipping point when you to sense how designers they didn't really need to be convinced anymore and sort of dragged by their behead into future fabrics which sometimes felt was a bit the case. For the reasons you've just mentioned but it was really that they were coming. They were of where their industry was really having a terrible impact on environment. I mean who wants to design something intentionally that has about impact certainly not a visual you creative person and so they really were starting to come and sort of looking for help as to. How can we possibly carry on our careers and stay in the industry and make it for the better. I would say initially was about. How on earth can we make this better. But now it's really like how can we not only make these products better and fashion bad about. How can we actually use it as a tool and as a vehicle for change to pass on this message to the wider to the community in society that we do have an environmental problem. We can all make a difference and it sounds tacky but to simply buying a piece of clothing that wasn't made with conventional cotton has actually have real impact. And you can do that yourself. So fashion becomes a communicate. That of course has always been a communicator and is at the forefront. Fashion is the industry to pass on to communicate this if new way of living and therefore it has a huge role to play. I guess that makes perfect sense to. But i want to change tack here on the final question to really bring these conversation full circle you mentioned at the top that food and farmers are the things communities around the world having common. Can you tell me a little bit more about that link. Maybe i came to that conclusion and be how. We're all connected. The reason why. I got into this in the first place is because i did a master's in sustainable agriculture and rural development. That was almost fifteen years ago. That i started that and before that i was working on environmental policy on greenhouse gas emissions trading these projects and it was clear that agriculture forestries is the one thing that connects almost every industry. Everything's extracted or and for everything. We need soil beneath trees and can be a very polluting way of doing things and when you look at how we planting things and how we are expecting things. There's not only always a lot of waste involved but also it was. Polluting always takes out too much fun the soil than we give back and so want to understand how essentially we're doing everything wrong and how we're living in the biggest design mistake ever and how not following the patterns and the cycles. That nature is showing us how to do. It's a no brainer to see that you have to look hundred as and you have to see how we can find better methods of cultivation processing of design overall when it comes to the actual product so whether it's food or fiber that we use for closing there's a lot in common that is of course the soil that these plans that we then use are grown on my thanks to nina morenz e there found a feature fabrics expert. And that's all the time we have today show if you came for even more design related listening then catch up five minute week. Sister show monocle on design extra. That is every thursday. Today's show was produced and edited by mainly evans with research from charlie film court. I'm nick nice. Thank you very much for listening and goodbye..
Monocle 24: Section D
"expos" Discussed on Monocle 24: Section D
"Copenhagen fashion week. Held in the danish capital highlighted. The most talented new works of scandinavian designers beyond the elaborate runway shows. It was in the pad back surrounds of the revolving trade show where deals were being done and new collections. From the most interesting creatives in the region will being shown to explore this further. I met with frederick. I worked for real trail copenhagen as tough operations Has been doing that for the last couple of years. Our approach is that we present the skin even and have to offer. We are asking even Rudy trade show. We are regional trade show. With international ambitions our main market discontinued. Yeah it's Germany benelux in terms of how we pick out brandt's we are very picky. We don't take branson if they don't already have a business navia or an agent or distributor the cuss. Everybody has to bring something to the table. we don't want branson from. Let's say america. We don't have a single client in In denmark scandinavia because they basically only comes to take the money and waiting for the other brands. -pointment spires to come. You want the brands to invite people to bring something to the table so it becomes an even better party so it it is a little bit like making a potty. Okay you bring the cake. I bring some beers. i don't have so much money. So song That's basically how we do it. One person joining the party for the first time. This year is a nikola hanssen. Frederick's brother who chose revolve As the platform to showcase his copenhagen based international label poems newly started Men's brand with roots in tennis culture for wearing on and off the court. We're at Revolver trade show in copenhagen Which is i think. The the trade show this year We ended big side concert hall called forum. Where it's Yeah just a lot of brands showing product talking to buyers talking to press. And you know you'll brand is relatively new and you've decided to invest in being here is important for you to be here with palms. We don't want to be perceived as a fashion brand but it's also about us recognizing that new started brands. We have some context. We're working with some good social But there are a lot of stars we can't get through to and if we had a showroom on our own site like any other town no-one we'd go there because we don't know them and we don't have the leverage we didn't have to branch for them to go there yet so this just a nice. We f- introducing the brand getting people involved and hopefully get more people to open the eyes for it and what we do and it's funny. We were talking before about how grand fashion shows can be an events and how much hype there is but i guess for smaller labels. It's it's the events like this really help them get caught for right. It's well you can be sat around like minded companies. You can be in front of the right people. How important is is the trade fair element to younger branded fashion. We want to work with stores that make sense for us in the long run and we want to grow the brand with them and work with a few good ones as opposed to just hammering the brand out two hundred stores and then just doing it halfway. The trainer will limit is is crucial to us because it allows us to get the brand. New markets allows us to reach more people in ultimately. It allows us to tell the story of palms which is getting more people involved in tennis for listeners. Who may not have seen your brad. Can you tell us that story. How did it come together. What's the idea. And and what have you done so far. I started playing tennis year ago. I'd always been skateboarding growing up. And i never really fell. The tennis. could be for me. And i think myself included and a lot of other people have this preconceived notion of tennis as being very elitist and not that inclusive for them. I started playing during the pandemic on a complete enough of it. And i wanted to pass this feeling onto more people and make people realize that tennis can and should be for everyone. So that's really the idea with pompous. Where yeah romance will able. We create products to on and off court. We have shorts and pull this play tennis in but we also have sports coats tote bags. We have twelve trousers. We have problems shirts But roles have tennis balls. Grab chris the racket and sweat towels when you go on the court It's really it's really a medium of telling stories and really trying to emphasize how tennis can be a vehicle for meaningful exercise. But i realized i was only hang out with my friends when we were out getting beers drinking wine. Whatever we realize that this isn't amaze me to be your friends. Just meet up seven in the morning plan. Our attendance grab a coffee and they go to work. The history of tennis is so bitch in terms of culture and historic in politics. I mean it's been a driver for change for so long. And i think it should continue to be that but i think there's also this barrier of entry like a social cultural barrier venturing sense because tennis has always been shown in this kind of crappy leads light and i think what we want to palm showed in a new perspective drawing sentiments from the realms of architecture ought to sign skateboarding culture in culture in general and then interpreting them through the scope of tennis. We were talking before about. You know the people you're working with. It sounds like a lot of them are copenhagen-based so what does copenhagen mean as base for creative business for design and fashion business. I come from a background in branding. Communications riding done renard ical and worked in jackman kitchen branding. So i've worked in fashion industry. But i had no idea how to make clothing but what was really focused to me was to make a product that was really good from the start because you can have a good product and not have a good brand. But you can't have the around the product comes. I always so we're working with some really talented people who've worked in production pattern making full full longtime also really talented graphic designer. Who help us translate ideas into these tangible products. I've lived in coming for the past seven years. And i think what about copenhagen thing. What's everyone's impression when the gophers has said it's a small town so everyone knows each other. Everyone's very supportive. And finally i wrapped up my to a at revolver talking with emerging design that marcus at roma. He tells me more about one of the most talked about topics at this year's trade fair sustainability. I'm the founder of the brand called. Do here. At the volvo showing my fourth collection spring summer twenty two we have three lines made of The first line is made that start fabrics. I saw a lot of surplus big sold around europe and then we have the second line made from san cell that's produced in. It's the third line. Is kenny cuts in line. Linemate from Find cuts made locally in vogel where we produce all of our product and maybe let's focus on the debt. John stuff Civil because we all seem more and more of this in the industry but also it's quite a difficult thing to do because you're essentially taking leftover material ri- and then repurposing. It said what's your process for doing that. It's kind of a gangway to do it for me. I get a lot of inspiration from the fabrics. I source around All around europe. Sometimes we have a certain amount of loose. We can make a product from and i say to the buyers you can only by a certain amount but then we can make another style in another fabric. That's kind of similar terrific. That's the ganic way for me to do it. And it creates a lot of diversity in the designs.
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"After the show to learn about special financing for talking tech listeners listeners. It's mike schneider here and i'm proud. Molina wilkin back to talking tech. Mike i know we wrote stories during the pandemic about people playing video games as we were forced to adopt a stay at home lifestyle but now there are some actual survey findings support. This tried brett. The entertainment software association. And that's the trade group that puts on the annual electronic entertainment expo which we refer to fondly as e three That association just released its annual essential facts about the video game industry report and found that more than half of video game players fifty five percent so that played more games during the pandemic and most players ninety percent so they'll continue playing after the country opens up. This is based on a four on four thousand. Us adults surveyed by the market research. Firm ipsos For the usa now some other findings Respondents said that video games provided stress relief. That was from fifty five percent of them and forty eight percent. Said you'll games provided a distraction Parents also said that video games churches in escape in a break for the kids. That's seventy one percent of parents surveyed said and more than half a parents. Fifty nine percent said their children play educational games in two thirds of parents. Sixty six percent said video games made the transition to distance learning easier for their kids. Some other interesting fact survey overall two hundred twenty seven million americans say they play video games and that's up from two hundred and fourteen million the year before. I don't know what you think. The average age of video game players brett but they are thirty one years old. How many games identify as female. Forty five percents Eighty percent of the game players in the us are over. Eighteen
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"The outcome of elections close elections moving forward. I think that that's the correct analysis on this I just wanna give a brief analysis of my own before i go to eugene. I just have more of a question. Right i have a question for the Purported leftists who believe that you should not vote for democrats in elections because democrats to be fair are incredibly disappointing they are. They're disappointing but they are different from republicans especially when it comes to federal court appointments Nominations for the supreme court for instance and as we know donald trump had successfully appointed and confirmed three supreme court justices during his term and now as a result of that. They're making all these rulings. That are pro-corporate and also dismantle whatever we have left of our democratic process. So how exactly is a third party supposed to win. How is this making it. Easier to create a system in which a third party would have any chance of winning electorally. I just want to know. I just want to know. Can they answer that question for me for a second because those are the same people who argued. Don't vote for hillary. Clinton don't vote for joe biden right. Who cares about the supreme court. I remember them saying who cares about the supreme court. You should care about the supreme court. He should also ask yourselves. Why are people who claim to be less ds advocating for something that actually makes it increasingly difficult for the left to win. I don't know. I don't know maybe you guys should be asking that question because this this is going to have a negative impact on elections not just in the state of arizona but in many of the other states that are upset that biden one over trump in what was typically a red state. I don't know why this is so hard to understand for some folks. You fight like hell in the primaries for progressives and i've told you primaries are more important than general election because that's where you might actually have good choices and then if you lose the primary which sucks you don't like hillary clinton and joe biden. It doesn't mean they're the same as donald trump or any republican. Who is going to put these justices on. Why is that hard to understand other all the same. No we tell you how they're the same on economic issues. They're incredibly similar. That is correct but not on every issue and the supreme court unfortunately is massively important. Guys think about it right today. There was other decision we told you about earlier in the show where the supreme court said. Oh yeah you can hide your secret. Donors that bribe politicians regularly. We're not even allowed to know who they are right now. Trump appointed three justices. This supreme court is now six three and these decisions were six three. If if hillary clinton had won. I can't stand that. She beat bernie sanders and the primary. I think she's a phony in a thousand ways but we shave appointed conservative justices. No she would've appointed by the way moderate judges justices. Let's keep it real right but would they could. It have been six three or five four in the other direction where they say yeah. of course. we're not going to let let dark money donors and exist without finding out who they. Who's priming our politicians. And of course we're not going to let them take away voting rights. Yes that is very very very very likely what would have happened instead. Our democracy just got shredded again because trump got to put three people on the supreme court. Please use your mind and use your judgement so that you can understand what the right thing to do is depending on the context. Okay now on the heart of this opinion look eight years ago. The supreme court gutted the voting rights act before a lot of states needed pre-clearance before they restricted voting because historically they had restricted voting against african americans and they didn't just say hey in the beginning they did but later they got more clever. They didn't say like oh. We hate black people. We're not gonna let it. We're gonna make it harder for them to vote. No they say oh. It is so important that we have a poll tax so that the right people can participate. And we're trying to get make elections better not worse wink wink. And what are they doing. Totally discriminated against african americans. So that's why we pass the nine hundred sixty five voting rights act so one of the most important things you remember. I haven't dream martin. Luther king now republicans pretend to be in favor of him. He's the one that got the voting rights act passed right and so supreme court guts. Says you don't need pre-clearance it mainly affected the southern states. That had done this for literally hundreds of years right i. They didn't allow obviously any boating. And then they restricted the voting. Now they don't need pre-clearance and so now but in that decision they said don't worry section to the voting rights act is still in place and so if you bring us cases where there's discrimination that you could prove guess african-americans either by intent or by effect. We'll tell you okay then. They're not allowed to do it. Well this was section too. So they brought the case in front of john robertson. The supreme court and robert said. Oh yeah you did. It does have a discriminatory effect. I don't care. I don't care that's small. Who cares. we'll arizona decided what what by eleven thousand votes elections are decided the whole national election based on the electoral college. This time around was decided by forty three thousand votes at three states. The whole point is the small margin of victory in these incredibly important stays. Roberts probably was laughing like don't worry about it. We'll only win by a little bit. Yeah no i mean look the in this case there was evidence that it disproportionately impacts minorities in the state and the conservative justices. Totally ignored that. Well acknowledged yeah. It does appear that that's the case but the the laws itself are race new. Hey it's rachel behmen. Check out my new album cycles. Now on spotify.
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"Makes it far. More difficult to strategically accomplish what the left wants to accomplish. Why why would they do that. It makes no sense. Look that's why. I'm so proud that we'll pack is nonpartisan. And they're not playing around there super nonpartisan. they've got some of the most conservative. Legislators that i totally disagree with on every other issue at the state level that introduce resolution. 'cause some right wing voters a lot of right wing. Voters also hate the corruption right and so and it allows them to do what almost no other group does so the groups are usually either on the left or the right so when it comes to the groups on the left that are terrible on this issue like common cause that common cause not involved in this as far as i know but they all pretend to be against money and politics and then secretly helped money in politics. Aclu is a porn on this issue. Wolf pack calls them out every other groups like oh no no no. No they're allies. Don't touch them because we're on the left. Well i don't care about the left or the right wolfback doesn't care about that. We care about. Are you in favour of corruption or you against the aclu did brilliant work in the trump years and the upheld our rights. And yes you can do new us and say they're great on this terrible on this right. They did great work and they collected tons and tons of money then they took some of that money and they use it to argue to keep money in politics so aclu's completely one hundred percent in favor of citizens united you should if you donate a day's he'll you. You should let them know. Don't take my money and then go spend it on a case that aids and abets corruption in this country is your to hate him and they're not just wrong. It's okay to say. Look i love you. You're wrong and i don't want my money spent on that okay. And then lastly on the republicans mitch mcconnell and donald trump agreed on one thing. They agreed that the irs should also not be allowed to see the secret donors insane so trump to drain the swamp. If you're on the right. Look at what i just told you about the left right. So we're honest about that. Do you ever see anybody on the right honest about the right including donald trump. No there were busy kissing his as twenty four seven did he. Drain the swamp. Hell no he is a law or ruling rule. I should say where he's owner. And i don't want you to see the secret donors that are funneling me money. Oh by the way. The corrupt republicans money corrupt democrats money. I don't wanna see. I don't want you to see pelosi's donors i don't want you to see macos donors so i want the irs to not be able to see who these secret donors are either you know why because trump loves the swamp. Mitch mcconnell is the top swamp muster in the world fighting now but when it comes to corruption. That's the one thing they agree on yes. They love the corruption. They love the swamp. We all gotta get united on the right and the left as actual voters and say we've had enough of washington and all of this corruption wolf dash pack dot com. Go join them now. Joined the effort whether you're right or left wing. There's one other supreme court ruling that we need to discuss. It has to do with voting rights in an ideologically split vote six to three vote with conservative justices of course ruling in the wrong direction. The supreme court upheld too restrictive voting laws in arizona. State that of course went to joe biden The democratic candidate in this past general election. And so the republican lawmakers in the state decided to Basically pass laws. That would throw out votes that were cast in the wrong precinct and then the second law is against ballot harvesting indicating that if someone lives in a rural part of the state or if someone is elderly or disabled they cannot give their ballot to a loved one to submit it for them so obviously it makes this whole process lot more restrictive for some voters. it disproportionately impacts African american and minority voters in the state of arizona. And so that's the argument that was made in this case that Worked its way up to the supreme court. Unfortunately the supreme court voted against Striking down these arizona laws. We have more details for you on this. Let's go to the first video that gives you an example of the reasoning that alito had in this decision but more importantly the type of ramifications this will have on elections moving forward justices. Come to this decision. Justice alito.
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"Saliou so aclu's like no. I don't care. Money's awesome and it's speech and don't look at my donors and i'm doing this out of principle and and and i don't see the bribery. I don't see that as a governmental interest. No i think money is just talking to people. Like jamie raskin. Who's in congress. That had a great line was about this. So if you go in and give money to a prostitute or you're just talking to her because you'd be arrested right. It's a really good point. It's a really really good point officer. What do you mean. Just i was talking to her. And if you don't have a right to even see what we're doing. We're gonna go commit illegal activities. You're not allowed to look and you're not allowed to even find out what the hell i'm saying because it's just money it's amazing. Well the acp and the aclu is an agreement with The us chamber of commerce. Which of course does not hide the fact that they want this ruling to apply more broadly to the electoral process elections Freedoms of speech and association deserve the same rigorous protection in the context of elections as they do in other contexts the influential. Us chamber of commerce argued in its brief to the court because really this country is dominated by the us chamber of commerce. It's not dominated by democracy. The democratic process any specific political party. It's whatever corporate interests watt corporate interests will get and while there's all sorts of nonsense in fighting with people who claim they want to change the system. The fact of the matter is you have The corporate wing of this country. That's incredibly powerful. Obviously they've got the resources but they're organized. They understand the importance of the elections. That take place of ensuring that they strategically think about how to install these pro-corporate justices into the supreme court. That's why whenever someone tells you. Oh elections don't matter. Don't pay attention at all. Who cares about the supreme court. You should care about the supreme court because the rulings that they're passing down right now are going to impact us for generations. Okay how do you reverse something like this. It's incredibly difficult. If not impossible and so why. Why would anyone advocate for something that actually.
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"Didn't get the other stuff. Oh thank god is what he's thinking right now because look if they charge you with a random bogus crime. What the hell what you're gonna put me in jail for this right if you're actually innocent and that was the only thing you had done or not done right but if you knew you committed murder and this and that other thing i'm not saying trump do that i'm using announce okay and they charged you with jaywalking. It'd be like yes. So that's what's happening with donald trump and guys we need. We're not even getting into the money laundry. That's a whole nother conversation. And there's another problem here is that the statute of limitations might have run out of some of their past crimes exactly now if he is found guilty on the larceny charge. That has a potential prison sentence of fifteen years. So that might persuade weisselberg somewhere down the line to cooperate with investigators but as it stands right now. He has pleaded not guilty and it doesn't seem likely that he'll cooperate with them and he's been incredibly loyal to donald trump not just throughout this investigation but throughout his career he's worked beside donald trump for decades and they're very close Donald trump the cheapest man in the world apparently gives them cars to drive intuition to pay for his grandchildren. So that's actually the most shocking part of this entire story. And so the relevance of that is that donald trump is known by everyone especially the people closest to him as notoriously cheap. He never pays for a damn thing. And as you all know the six bankruptcy brags in public openly about. I don't pay my bills. Only sucker spe their debt. No you just squelch on it and you go bankrupt. And he just take people's money and wait for the next sucker. He brags about it in magazines right but he never did that to weisselberg. Why because weisselberg is a guy who has the books. donald trump. It's been previous accountant said. Oh trump can't doesn't understand the county at all when we were talking about taxes. What just make them low. And i'd have to talk to his wife at the time. It was ivana trump right because she was smart. And he's i didn't mean it that way and then they asked him about his dad always like oh fred. Trump knew exactly what he was doing. So donald.
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"Eleven thirty am pacific time. I'll see you there. That does the manhattan. New york state attorney. General might bring different charges. The more serious charges and guys. We're saying that these charges are not super serious right but that doesn't mean they're not true. They are true and in terms of what other people be charged with it. I think it's a mixed bag to be honest so in some context yes they would definitely be charged. If you're rando doctor and you're cheating on your taxes they're probably gonna find you rather than criminally charging you but it depends. How much was it. How many years was a systematic. They want to make an example out of you so that it creates a turns for other people. Okay this is the question. I have and it's a genuine question. I'm not an expert on these tax issues mostly because i work at ti and there's no scenario in which this would ever happen but if ty t. was like yoyo longtime employee you do really good work. We really value you. Were giving you a mercedes. We're leasing a mercedes on your behalf. How do i then pay taxes on. That least mercedes right. How does that work. where do i go. How do do i report that to the irs. You just put it as a line item in your taxes saying this is a benefit that i god. I would never know to do that by the way i would. I would by the way. I would break that law and not even know that i broke that law. That's not the case with these guys. These guys know what they're doing. I'm going to say yeah. So look i get it so if you guys made that honest mistake they're not gonna come after you full bore. Oh you got a pens from your work in a technically you should have reported the thirty seven cents and stuff. Now they're not gonna get you report the snacks this there's certain requirements et cetera. Right we barely got snacks here. So now we don't even have the anyways but if you're the chief financial officer for forty eight years for the trump organization do you know these laws of course and if you've been doing it for decades was systematic and done on purpose. Yes and they have witnesses saying oh we you know including family members saying no. We knew we were breaking the law. We knew that it was under the table. And so and by the way here's another context in which they would go after someone like that if they were in the mob and they know they've got other stuff that they did but they hey you you cheated on your taxes that's literally. What needed al capone right now. By the way guys the reason donald trump is happy though and guys look we do it honestly fair program here. I despise donald trump right. But i'm telling you hear that these charges are not the most serious charge. Because that's a right. That's the news and then you'd have to see what the interpretation analysis okay. the reason trump is elated. Is he knows how many illegal things he's done. He's like they only got. That.
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"And so the if you pay normal tax on your in new york you're gonna pay at least fifty percent because of federal state and city taxes in city taxes new yorker significant. So you're talking about about about you. Know obviously eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars or so and that's a world of money that he's shooting off his taxes. If you cheated off your taxes for the rest of your life you might not be able to cheat to the tune of eight hundred fifty thousand dollars and so it's significant in that sense but i there's disagreements as to whether how serious these charges are right and ari melber is saying. They're super serious. He's on msnbc and he's a lawyer. And i like hari. But i have a different opinion. I think this is more like a bussing someone on drug possession. Because you know they're actually dealy right and you're going to try to flip them on the dealing because you don't really care about the possession that much so in this case is this against law. Yes would you be busted for. Yes is a good that they're bringing these charges nonetheless. Yes but but there's much bigger fish to fry so for example michael cohen talked about. Hey we cheat on everything we tell the. Irs one thing to lower our taxes we tell the banks something else to get big loans so if you have two sets of books that's a massive crime right so now weisselberg has not flipped on that. So i am. I'm a little concerned here to be honest that if they had the evidence already they charge him with that bigger crime And so one hundred percent and so. I'm worried that they don't yet have the goods on the dealing. And they're charging me on the possession to try to get to that and so it doesn't mean that they're wrong on the on the what i'm algae museum. The possession charge he. He looks like he definitely did it. They have excellent witnesses and they have good books on it so but you know sometimes people folks went on that and if they do oh my god trump people are gonna go nuts if he gets acquitted in fact trump. Today's celebrating like. Oh this is going to hurt sleepy. Joey said i'm thrilled with it. He's apparently telling his advisors. I if i were a terrible person like donald trump. I would be celebrating today as well because as things stand right now. This investigation doesn't look so great for the prosecutors but again you you never know how this can develop it to me. It's really abundantly clear that they're focusing on coming down hard on weisselberg because oftentimes look what he did is wrong. There's no question if it's proven what he did is wrong and he should suffer the consequences but he's being charged criminally for this when in reality if someone is caught engaging in similar activity prosecutors. Don't really go after this right. There might be or dirk could be a civil suit And fines associated to ensure that the money that wasn't paid the taxes that were evaded or in fact later paid and their fines associated with that as well. I think what they're trying to do is persuade him to flip on donald trump. Because they don't it seems like they don't have the goods on donald trump right now right now. There is one other possibility which is that they actually do. Have a lot of evidence or you guys wanna know how. I relax after a long day of stressful news i take. Cbd from our new sponsor sunset lake cd so said like cd's a farmer owned business. That ships craft cbd directly from their farm to your door for years set. Cbd was vermont dairy farm producing milk for ben and jerry's and in two thousand eighteen. They started growing hemp for. Cbd set lakes dvd. Has something for everyone. Tinctures salves fudge coffee and even sour gummy bears. I like steak. The government bears. Obviously it helps me wind down right before bed. Not only are the products wonderful. But i love supporting and progressive. Small business sunset lake. Cbd uses sustainable. Farming practices is majority. Employee owned pays fifteen hundred minimum wage as supports independent media like the young turks. The team is so set lake..
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"You're a member make sure checking out schools tons and tons of fun. And i want to get one more. Shot onto sean appleby. Who wrote an super chad. He's a producer level member and he has a bunch of questions on the ama that we did earlier in the week and he said glad to see you shangai thank yesterday but thank you for the qna. I can't wait for the next one so much fun. Love unions pittsburgh for life. Okay so thank you guys. I love the producer level members. That's why we we do the qna trying to give you guys more for for helping more and pushing out the truth and change all right all right. Donald trump's chief financial officer the chief financial officer for the trump organization specifically has turned himself into the authorities as he was expecting criminal charges against him And he has in fact been charged by the manhattan district attorney's office The charges include tax evasion and also grand larceny and we now have some more details about. He and the trump organization has been accused of Evading taxes for as many as fifteen years Also essentially getting paid with these schemes. That prevent the irs from knowing about huge portions of his income so his lawyer. Mary mulligan said that her client intends to plead not guilty and by the way he did in fact plead not guilty and will fight. These charges in court. Prosecutors previously tried to persuade weisselberg to cooperate with the investigation but his lawyers recently said that he would not be of assistance. So my read of this is they're coming down hard on weisselberg in the hopes that he will turn on. Donald trump and cooperate with this investigation as this investigation stands right now it does not appear as though donald trump or members of his family will face any criminal charges however this is just the beginning so who knows how this story will develop now. We covered this story just yesterday. And now we have some more details about the extent to which he allegedly evaded taxes. As i mentioned as long as fifteen years So prosecutors have zeroed in on the benefits that weisselberg and his family received from donald trump including tens of thousands of dollars in private school tuition for one of weisselberg grandchildren a rent free apartment. On the upper west side of manhattan and least mercedes benz vehicles weisselberg wife also received her own least mercedes so there's also some indication that he was paid with cash that he did not report And so as a result of the way he reported his income which wasn't honest right He even received tax refunds from the federal government to the tune of one hundred. Thirty three thousand dollars now. We don't know how this amount is broken up based on the cars or the apartments or the tuition or the cash But prosecutors are looking at about one point seven million dollars of unreported income to the irs. Okay so now. One point seven million dollars a lot of money..
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"West regime. Mma capitals republican democrat But basically they think they're the easiest to buy because they any plays y to that they have the excuse of pretending to be from a conservative state. They're not actually serving conservative voters. they're serving exxon mobil. A giant multinational corporation in fact. They're robbing the people of west virginia to serve exxon mobil. And it's bipartisan capital. Does it mansion does it and look look at the names he gave you. It's exactly the names we've been telling you okay mansions easy cinemas relatively easy and those are the first to democrats. He mashes those total in the back pocket of corporations. It's absolutely confirmed. Will the rest of the mainstream media going forward to say oh. These are the politicians bought by exxon mobil. No they'll never say they'll pretend they have principles right but look at that name chris coons how many times have you heard his name on this. Show you've heard me saying over and over again. He's one of the most conservative mona one of the most corporate democrats in the entire country. And he's really important if what she'll because he's a senator from delaware one of joe biden's best friends so kuhn's is a stalking horse in essence. For what joe biden's actual positions are you by coons partly by biden. Okay so i don't know any other show talking about chris. Coons and and it's so obvious. He's from delaware. He was one of the campaign advisers. Joe biden so when he goes on both against fifteen minimum wage. That's show buying say. I never wanted. I never wanted. I wanted to serve my donors exactly and he does it with exxon mobil to by the way the whole list that he names in different parts of the video maggie hassen and other corporate democrat from new hampshire. She's going to run a new hampshire now as she's kissing the ass of every corporation because she thinks that's the way to beat a popular republican in new hampshire. What a dumb dumb idea if you actually serve the people of new hampshire. You'd have a better chance of winning. Go with corporate strategies so near guaranteed jank jank. I'm sure that the democrats lose these elections are losing because of slogans. Like medicare for all or defunding the police. It's those things right which is weird because progressive democrats usually have an easy time getting reelected whereas these corporate democrats are the ones who the ones that always always capitulate to corporate interests. They're the ones who usually lose especially in the midterm election. So let's wait and see what happens in two thousand twenty two. Yes and so by the way he also named republicans. Just capito barrosso john. Cornyn steve daines and marco. Rubio llosa embark kelly. Who's a democrat. Okay so what do we tell you about. Marco rubio the most corporate republican there is. That's why covert media loves them. I if in my book that is actually gonna come at some point. I explain how corporate media all these different quotes marco. Rubio's definitely gonna win marco. Rubio is one of the leading candidates in two thousand sixteen. Oh it'll be such a joke. For trump's gonna win marco rubio our beloved corporate republicans gonna win and then he got almost no votes because right wing voters and left wing voters. Don't want these corporate lackeys. The only reason why democrats still vote for them is because they trust the new york times cnn and the lies that they are fed about how these are honest principled politicians when they in fact. There's just order takers now. I gotta give you two more. Because they're absolutely devastating so he says at one point the same guy. You're looking at here. You wanna be able to go to the chief chief of staff. He says and say we need. A congressman. so-and-so sorry here we need a congressman so and so to be able to either introduce the bill. We need them to make a floor statement. We need them to send a letter. You name it. We've asked for everything. So that water. I tell you this is like hey hey waterboy hair care. Come here come here. Here's a check by the way the the channel four that did this report trace checks back to mark kellyanne others. of course the exxon mobil does that amaker. They do through american petroleum institute. Then there's a dark money so when you see them speaking on the floor of the house or the or the senate sometimes. The literal words written by lobbyists sickening. There's supposed to be the people's representatives but last one is the killer quote. This describes all of american politics. He said. I make sure i get them the right information that they need so they look good so we get them talking points. Make this is what you say. Boy yes sir. Yes sir and you're gonna look good here. We're gonna pretend that you're doing something while you're secretly helping us and then he continues and then they helped me out here are captive audience. He said they know they need you. And i need them there it is. That's all of american politics. They need you because they need us the heat the lobbyists say because we have the money and he can't win without money so we just bride them. We just give them legalize bribes. America made it legal other countries. By the way don't have illegal. You're not allowed to have private donations from corporations at other countries here in america you could just fun live through dark money groups over a billion dollars in dark money groups in in the last election. So they're like we just we just tell them what to say and then they need our money and we need their votes. The voters voters the.
The Young Turks
"expos" Discussed on The Young Turks
"Watch we're playing defense because president biden's talking about this big infrastructure package and he's going to pay for it by increasing corporate tax took the highways and bridges and a lot of negative stuff starts to come out to visit jemaine. This right is this. That doesn't make any sense for highway. Bill why why would you put in. Why would you put in a something on all emissions reductions on climate change to oil refineries in a highway. Bill i mean it's it's the exact talking point that we got from the republican party in response to buy infrastructure bill physical infrastructure physical infrastructure that we got. We don't want to do anything about climate change physical infrastructure and lo and behold. the bipartisan. Deal strips out any of the climate action provisions that were present in biden's initial infrastructure proposal. Yeah and they. We told you ahead of time on the show that they were going to strip out the green energy provision and they were going to only keep the provision that allowed private corporations to profit off of the infrastructure bill. That's exactly what they did in the bipartisan compromise. And he breaks at different times in this interview about. Oh yeah we do. Education of members of congress in other words. We right what they're supposed to say. And then they say these they sometimes we'll even right floor speeches so here parrot. Do as you're told. He's a cracker right. So these what did we tell you a thousand times on this show. They're not having actual debates. This isn't that about principal when you tune into cnn. And you read the new york times and telling you and they tell you. What joe mansion and lizzie. Graham thinks they're participating in a false kabuki theatre it was never real. They're not having actual debates. They're taking money from exxon mobil and then they're doing as they are told sometimes quite literally and so when they exxon mobil tells you ain't gonna be no green energy because green energy hurts us. In another video they got a couple of executives on this right they explained will if you do the green energy stuff it might work and then it'll be irreversible then it'll be hard for us to get our. He doesn't say unfair but he's get advantage back right in other words. Just go to work and it's gonna help. The american people don't do that. Exac- care about helping the american people because the core of this is. Do they want to do this to maximize profit horse thing. To of course exxonmobil's is not a charity right and yet every idiot. That covers politics in in america's like oh well you know they give money to politicians but you know we don't know why don't know why they do it so they the laws are written on behalf of corporations and not us. They have a fiduciary responsibility. Which is the excuse they use over and over again not only in the secret videos but afterwards what. We didn't break any laws and we we have to maximize profit for shareholders. We have a legal responsibility. But that's true that's absolutely true. And so that's what we have to get rid of money in politics because we legalized bribery. Is low as you allow private citizens and corporations to pay a limited money to politicians they will pay unlimited money to get what financial return again. If you're an individual that might be different but if you're a corporation you must maximize return so you cannot give it these bribes these legalize bribes to these folks. Unless you think this is going to make me lots of money and often at your expense including subsidies where they directly take money out of our pockets and give a tax mobil and now let's get to naming names because there's a lot of bastards in here that you should know about well. Some of the bastards are individuals who have been fighting the infrastructure bill on the democratic side. So let's let's hear what our good friend acceder. Exxon mobil lobbyists keith.
The Young Turks
"expos" Discussed on The Young Turks
"A it's it's it's an easy talking point to say look on for carbon tax so so that's the talking that is a in my mind ineffective and cosc- it's an effective advocacy tool because it's something that they don't have to worry about actually passing So it's positive. Pr for exxon. And i also want to just add one point about the context in which this conversation is taking place as we've mentioned already. He thinks he's being interviewed for a job. And so this is the only time possibly one of the only times the only kind of context where in a job interview you literally admit to the individual that you're lying to the public about what you really believe but secretly you're working with nefarious groups to undermine any type of policy that would actually benefit the environment like the the reason why he's talking so openly about this is because this is what the industry wants from one of these Senior lobbyists for fossil fuel company. They want someone who plays all of these tricks to get the most profits necessary for the the shareholders right. There's no question that that's what is in every interview if you're a lobbyist. They're they're not hiring you to not bribe politicians effectively. They're hiring you to bribe and cajole and trick people. You don't have to trinka politicians. Just buy them and he's gonna explain that in a minute it's amazing he's gonna name names okay but but when it comes to the american public and the american media there you know the media's the suckers they're useful idiots so you look at the carbon tax thing he's saying oh we just smoke and mirrors right so we pretend to be for something that we know is that we're gonna pass honey times that we told you on the young turks. They pretend to be in favor of things that they know are never going to pass and he tells me she mean. If you tell the washington post the senator like seems a little conspiratorial. I believe that the politicians are honest. Well okay if you suck at your job you would believe that this is it's over. Its definitive here. he is telling you. Here's another trick that he mentioned the first video he says. Oh yeah yeah we just hide behind the third party groups like american petroleum institute and they become the whipping boys. And then we get so. It's not exxon mobil. Another knew that. Oh this interest. American petroleum is. You can't connected to any one company right so if you want to get angry at them. Sure get angry at them. Who cares as long as you're not getting angry at exxon mobil who's actually doing the bribing of the politicians exactly. So let's get to the heart of the matter. Which is the bribing of the politicians as we know biden just bragged about securing a bipartisan infrastructure. Deal with the involvement of republican senators. It is an awful waterdown bill which could potentially privatize about one. Hundred billion dollars worth of public infrastructure. Meaning that americans are gonna get slapped with all sorts of tolls and fees just to use the infrastructure that we've been using so far We did a great story on that you should check it out. but with that said What are the inner workings of congress right. What kind of role does exxon mobil play. And sure enough. This corporate lobbyist talks about that very issue and how they're basically defeating everything that we want included in that infrastructure bill. Let's.
The Young Turks
"expos" Discussed on The Young Turks
"Bite against some of the science. Yes did we hide. Our science absolutely not did we. Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts. Yes that's true but there's nothing illegal about that. We were looking out for our investments. We will looking out for our in our shareholders. So janke says there was nothing illegal about what we were doing which is actually true. And he also just bluntly states that they were looking out for their shareholders. Because that's how this system works. These companies look out for their shareholders. Not for the environment or for the good of the people the most obvious thing in the world and we all like but the mainstream media pretends that oh corporations being prophets that sounds conspiratorial. They're interested in that. Is that why. They're giving campaign donations. The whole country right now is saying with me all gore's but isn't it amazing. Look into you think about it behind the scenes which confirms everything we've ever told you on the show so i even in that first video. Let's break down a bunch of things so he talks about how well of course. We're basically using shadow groups to fight the real science right and he. They claim to publicly support action on climate change while undermining it behind the scenes. He thinks he's doing a job interview so he's like. I'm really good at doing hatchet jobs for corporations like exxon mobil and we'll ally publicly and then tell you privately. How maximize profits for shareholders by tricking the american public and buying off politicians. That we're gonna get to the politicians in a second. I wanna give excellent tremendous credit to on earth that's greenpeace's uk's investigate a platform that this so bless their hearts forgetting and it's such a clever trip because the minute they have money on the line and he thinks i'm going to get a job that pays more because i'll tell you all my dirty tricks right but now they ask exxon mobil afterwards. Hey what do you say about this. And i saw mobile says we've supported climate size for decades. Yeah no no. That's exactly that's exactly what he said. You would say publicly. You'll say you supported for decades while secretly undermining and then you're talking point afterwards is a direct confirmation of what he says. Okay that's exactly right. So he does touch on how exxon mobil will use these hollow. Pr strategies publicly to make it appear as though this fossil fuel company is very much interested in doing. What's right by the environment There take climate change seriously when in reality they're advocating for things they know will not pass probably because behind the scenes. They're lobbying to ensure they don't pass and so the carbon tax is an example of that here. He is talking about that very issue. Nobody is going.
Clark Howard Show
The Importance of Working as a Teen
"Believe that it is essential that teenagers work. Maybe some part time during the school year indefinitely during the summer. I know today a lot of parents. Don't see it that way. They want their kids learning how to do something like a year round sport that maybe makes them look better applying for college or They want them to learn how to play some kind of musical instrument to an extreme or whatever and those things are absolutely valid. I think it is invaluable for a kid to be in the workplace. Know what that means. No what it's like to get a paycheck and think you're making so much per week and see after all the deductions how much you actually net out in also to know what it's like to be on the other side with customers sometimes. That couldn't be difficult others very kind and others complicated. And so you learn all that as a kid then my rule for my three children was they all had to start working in a traditional work kind of job when they turned fifteen so my oldest is now thirty two worked in a restaurant as a hostess. My daughter is now twenty. One worked in a restaurant as expo. Which is where you're in the kitchen making sure every orders right as best you can before it's delivered to the table so you don't have take backs to the kitchen. Pig cost to a business and reputation and in loss food and then my son who's fifteen has his first job working as a lifeguard at a waterpark and all three of them the fifteen year old now the two older ones they took lessons and my son taking lessons from being in the workplace. That are absolutely phenomenal in again. Because there's such a labor shortage right now. Teenagers who may have had difficulty finding decent employment for some part time work now can
Esports Network Podcast
Esports Betting Start Ups ft. Steven Salz, CEO of Rivalry
"Help me talk about, mostly anything related to E sports betting including my own company. He's worth setting aside the volume Stephens falls into the CEO of rivalry and E Sports and sports betting company. How you doing? Stephen Good. Thanks for having me excited to be here in case people don't know who you are. You're you're based out of Toronto Canada. Like I said, see old rivalry, the the Robin Hood of e Sports and sports betting. You're a former of yourself, you know, you turn this passion into what I would call a content to Commerce authentic story. Then you kind of build this platform from scratch and you know just early this your home is what twenty million dollars. Yep. Awesome. So yeah and robbery, of course, it's answer. Maybe it's the the leading sports betting and sports media property right now offering fully regulated on Thursday. During these Sports awesome, it's such a great industry. They tend to find yourself in. And I just, I'm just curious, you know, how did you ever find yourself in that position? Yeah, so, I guess it goes back. I mean, so first one, when I was younger, I'd played a bit of time, Rainbow Six on Xbox, like early Xbox and that's a new bra know in Canada, there was definitely like, I mean, it was really a sports then it was just people pussy. Clans and playing competitive. Competitively online and there was actually this is like Roman MLG was getting started. They would host these like really really, really tiny tournaments at The Fan Expo in Toronto and the fanxchange is like Toronto's version of Comic-Con. It's like the Canadian like small version of it. So would play we play at those with my I have a twin brother so we would we would do that. Then we got extremely addicted to World of Warcraft played that Route 4 to 5 years. Really, really consistently up until like the end of kind of let's say, burning Crusade. And then once University and decided to kind of do some other things with our time, but did that and then do professionally went into the financial industry sort to finance for a bit and then really in like 2013 and 14 when valve released the arms deal update and skins trading started to pick up, I was just playing Counter-Strike box games and do a lot of people do. Thought that was a really interesting kind of business and it paired a little bit with my current experience in the financial industry and honestly we're just getting excited by wage. Happening like in Escape Marketplace this to like Dota 2 in csgo skins, the market places. I ended up meeting these two guys, Ryan White and Kevin Wimmer who are the co-founders of Loop Market, which is anyone here that would do two player and bought skins should remember? Cuz I think, at one point, we were the largest Dota 2, skins Marketplace globally. So they were running that out of Toronto, which was more just coincidence. And this is like a 1015 early 2016. At this point we ended up becoming Partners where I said, hey, you know, well, maybe raise some money and help dilute Market a bit, but let's also look at doing other things and let's say, gave me media any sports together
Talking Tech
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a Look Back
"So the electronic entertainment expo or e three big virtual online video game convention is a rap. But that doesn't mean we're done talking about it yet. I with brent ticket a few well-earned days off. I have just the guy here to help me out mark saltzman. Welcome to the podcast and thanks for taking time to join me you know. I think we likely met for the first time in in the real world. Agony three or maybe a yes I've been more than twenty of them. I think you have to hopefully next year. We'll get see you there in person but nice to see on zoom today. Yeah likewise yeah my i. D three was ninety seven in atlanta. So that's probably about right because you brought me onto usa today to write for the publication in The fall of ninety eight so we probably met around that cool. Well thank you again all. Yeah thanks for all you've done for us and folks you know you can always get marks Regular contributions on tech that usa today dot com and at the bottom of each of the stories. There's ways to see what other stuff has worked in But today we're talking about three in markham interested. What did you think of this year. Virtual e three. I liked it. I wasn't sure going in with an all digital show. Obviously i figured it would be better than not know me three at all. Which is what unfortunately happened last year at the pandemic but enjoy kicking the tires on the new games And actually getting my hands on them. But i was actually really impressed with everything you know i it off youtube lot in a bit twitch and i you know four pack days of announcements and panels and fireside chats and and some of the hosts analysis of it all. I was actually impressed. I think it was a really good job. And i think it sets the stage to what will likely in the future which is a bit of a hybrid. I mean i think we're going to go back to l. a. or somewhere else and we're gonna see some of these games but i think the advantages are also for those. You don't have the industry anybody can attend. It was completely free. And if you missed some of the live events you could just watch it on demand later. I mean it's a win win. i think so. I liked this year. E three including the lineup of games that were
Wall Street Breakfast
E3 2021 Is Around The Corner And Here’s Everything You Need to Know
"Annual electronic entertainment. Expo is taking place in a virtual format this year. Nintendo microsoft's xbox ubisoft entertainment and capcom are all at this year's e three while sony and activision blizzard are skipping it xbox game studios halo infinite bethesda software star field ubisoft rainbow six quarantine as well as new games for the nintendo switch. We'll be some of the more closely watched. Titles a wild card to watch is whether ubisoft will tease out. Information about its open world star wars game
The Dan Bongino Show
Why Would George Soros Get Involved in Local Politics?
"And producer Mike reminded me of something I said on my podcast weeks ago, talking about George Soros. Liberal mega donor who decided was a good idea to start to get involved in local races. Attorneys General City state's attorney's local prosecutors, why would he do that? Why would a billionaire left this get involved locally? Because that's where the real change happens. Right now. It happens to you. It's touchable, feel a ball change. Obamacare affected. A lot of people may not affected you. I promise you when your local city state's attorney, or whatever local prosecutor funded by George Soros money gets in there and stops prosecuting criminals like what's happening in L. A with Jorge Gascogne and others. And in Missouri and other places. All of a sudden the crime rate Expo explodes and your car gets stolen and your kid gets mugged or God forbid worse.
Talking Tech
Ready for a Summer Games Fest?
"So mike you remember when we used to go to the electronic entertainment expo and see a bunch of new video games. Yeah seems like another lifetime ago. It's been nearly two years since last time i was. I was in los angeles for the annual e. Three industry convention obviously last year. It was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic and to fill in the void. Our pal jeff keely created this summer fest which was a series of online streamed events including a preview of playstation five and a bunch of games. And now if you're into games you've probably heard jeff who began covering the industry as a teenager and then in later years began producing the game awards in two thousand fourteen which many of equated to the academy award for video games. Well this summer. He's going to produce the summer games fest again and kicks off june tenth so far participants include Playstation xbox activision to k amazon games electronic arts epic games riot games tencent games and newbie soft. And there's more but that's that's that's gives you an idea it's going to be really well supported and then there's a new. A new independent games will be highlighted in something called days of the davos. Which is a showcase produced by eight bit and double fine productions which is one of our favourite game developers and they've made some super games including full-throttle second thoughts and grim fandango. I'm not sure if you're a fan or not but rock band. Weezer live on this june tenth broadcast. And you can watch on all the major streaming platforms including twitch twitter youtube. We have all the links in my story on tech usa. Today dot com they'll be more musical performances and special guest announced in the coming weeks jeff said and in the announcement came out. But what's really going to be. Interesting is if when and how the summer games i might conflict and come right up against e. three which is back this year but we'll be all online and streamed.
WBZ Afternoon News
The Massachusetts Travel Order Is Being Replaced With An Advisory – Here’s What Will Change In Boston
"Is here, and it's not just the season Starting to change tomorrow, A new round of residents become eligible for a covert back. Seen anyone over 60, along with workers and sectors, including restaurants, grocery stores, transit utility Food and agriculture, sanitation and public works employees. The travel order that requires people to quarantine or provided negative test becomes a travel advisory. And we enter phase for of reopening, which allows up to 100 people to gather indoors venues opening at limited capacity that includes the long awaited return of fans to the stands. Gillette, the Garden and Fun way. Here's Matt Shearer. The new normal is almost here. Phase four. Step one of Massachusetts reopening plan is another big step towards returning to our pre pandemic way of life. Some notable comebacks, dance floors, a wedding's expo halls overnight summer camps and fans in the stands at Boston Sports Games. The last one comes with a caveat of a 12% capacity limit. That's more of a home crowd than teams have seen in over a year. Bruins next home game is Thursday, and Celtics fans will see the green again on March 29th. Meanwhile, 29 groups are asking Governor Baker to halt these reopening steps, fearing 1/4 wave of the pandemic. However, if things go well, case numbers continue to drop in vaccination rates keep climbing. Then the state will move into phase four step to that would include bars, nightclubs and amusement parks. No word on when that might happen at the
All of It
NYT Reporter Kyle Buchanan Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Golden Globes
"About the Golden Globe Awards. So, he said, it's just 87 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press. Paris Press, not a single black member. When you look at the nominees, it's Golden Globes so white It's 2021. Why Is this persisting within the Hollywood foreign press? You know? Well, the Hollywood Foreign press is an extremely insular bunch. You know, the reporting in the L A Times and in the New York Times this past week has a zoo revealed that several foreign journalists you know, over the years have tried to enter this group. And have been pushed out. In fact, it almost seems like the more legitimate the journalists. The worst. Your chances are of getting to this organization, perhaps because they were You know, worried about this kind of expo? Say, um wide. Are they still making while choices Because they are a wild bunch. You know, I've met Nick Those voters. They're eccentric to put it mildly, and they really thrive. On this kind of, you know, glamour and this this feeling that they are a pivotal step on the way to Oscar and they're not willing to give up any of that influence. In fact, they try toe. You know, only expanded, but they do so in such a weird way because they are secretive. In a way, you know, there's there's not They're not. They're not out there while they are out there, you know, rubbing shoulders shaking hands took himself fees. Um, if you want to define the list of their membership, that's when the H F P A really starts to clam up because they're not representing the best and brightest of global entertainment journalism far from it there, representing Maybe the savviest and canniest people in awards season that's more their speed than been trying Tost ablest any sort of legitimate credentials. The people who make up that group. So in terms of them being homogeneous, it sounds like they don't really might not particularly care. Well, yeah, I mean, they are homogeneous in the sense that there are no black voters, which is a kind of insane thing in the year. 2021. Obviously we know that Academy, which votes on the Oscars, has been taking sweeping steps over the last few years diversify its membership, which was primarily older, white and male. Gloves have not taken any such steps. And while they are somewhat divers to be Primarily rewarding American movies. To the extent that even a film like denarii, which is American, is shunted off to the foreign film category simply because it's characters often speak Korean That is indicating that ah, wide gulf between what you're covering and what you are what you look like what you're made of who makes up this group. And I think you know if they're going to purport to speak about this industry and who deserves reward with any sort of authority, and you know it's questionable sometimes whether they do or don't have it. And they have to absolutely take a look at themselves. I guess it kind of Buchanan. We're talking to him. He's the award season columnist for The New York Times. The Golden Globes are this Sunday. So here's a bright spot. Best director for motion picture category. There are more women than men nominated several fennel for promising young woman, Regina King for one night in Miami and Chloe Jiao for Nomad Land. Do you think this is the year we could see a best director Everett at the Globes of the Oscars. I do think so. You know, I'm sure the eight FDA would much rather we focus on that category than any other And certainly, you know, I mean, such as the story of award shows and often is the story of, you know, America generally that you have progress in one respect and then two steps backward somewhere else. But, yes, it was only a couple years ago that Natalie Portman was introducing the best director category is the Golden Globes. And very pointedly said Here are the five all male nominees this year that can't be said. In fact, there's a majority of women and I do expect that Chloe job for Nomad Land will prevail even if no man land doesn't take best drama, although it has a very good shot at that. Globes and not going to miss their opportunity to reward a woman. A person of color. She will be the first woman to win the best director trophy from them since Barbara Streisand for gentle Wow. He just kicked it back far for me
The Leader
How Facebook is Planning for a Post-Lockdown UK
"Steve. Let's start with the big news this week. Which is of course. The boris johnson has announced the uk's roadmap out of lockdown is the role for companies like your social media platforms like facebook to play in bringing the uk outside again getting us away from screens and getting back to something like no malady. Yala david and i think that it's been ready clay roe that we can play and i think that like all organizations immediate moment when we saw the pandemic arrive any company is going to be going. Okay what can we do in. How can we help people. How can we ensure our employees siphon well enabled upright. And how can we contribute. So what is clearly a global knowledge In the uk so that was almost the mindset. We set out with a nano ten months ago. We won't be able to back in any time. Decided we do everything we could do. But certainly the kind of is important areas for a facebook have been. How do we make sure people see credible inaccurate information of course the other big paul is helping businesses in a business as large and small but particularly small businesses and founder over two million small businesses are us all platforms in the uk alone to be able to sell within the uk and actually beyond the yucai expos have. How can we help them. Develop the skills the knowledge and the capabilities to enable them to To in some cases survive and get through this and another case is really thrive and make that pivot towards online commerce.
Popcorn with Peter Travers
Viggo Mortensen on new movie 'Falling'
"This is popcorn when we talk about. What's out there at the movies. There's a movie out there now. Called falling vigo mortenson. My guest is starring in it with this time in this movie falling. He also directs. It's the first time it's his feature directing debut and it's in many ways at top story but it's vigo to me. It's him saying. I'm going to take this on and see what happens. And what happens is so incredibly moving so figo. Welcome good to have you. Thanks is wonderful to see again. What i can't say. What attracted you to this because you wrote. This is something that came out of your own head and it feels very personal to me. But i don't know just help personnel. This it is personal but it's also I mean it's largely a fiction fictional family but the foundation of it is feelings. I have for my mother especially but by connection to my father as well into my childhood and adolescence so there are elements of truth. As far as i remember an memory subjected that after do with my upbringing and even with the aspect of dementia that that's dealt within the story. I've had a lot of experience with that. Both my parents stepfather grandparents. I've seen it up close in a caregiver. And it's something i wanted to explore. I wanted to explore the limits if there are any communication especially with people that you have a hard time communicating with other. I wanted to just more than anything asks questions. Rather than give answers. Ask myself questions and maybe half the audience are the people that you can't communicate with our the people. Obviously there are people that want to communicate with are there. People don't deserve to be communicated with or listen to i personally. Don't think so. But as person makes their own decision about that. It's i wanted to look fine. I wanted to explore the idea of empathy of communication and closer. We've gotten to the release of this movie. Which is february fifth. Us canada unexpectedly an away. Unfortunately this movie and the polarization the conflicts with this family that it deals with problems of communication are more timely than ever. Well i mean we come in the way i see admit point even low. Your movie is there's a great many flashbacks. And i should just say up front. That basically you're playing a gay man with a father who is suddenly hit by the ravages of dementia. It may even early onset and yet through the flashbacks in what we say we see. This man has always been difficult. He's been more than a handful. You know he's a racist in him. There's a person who can be a bowling and yet through the flashbacks to we see that he's capable of love. He's hard to take and yet we feel that we haven't seen except toward the end of the movie. What it was like when your character decides. I'm not gonna play at his wet. I'm going to try to give something. That is empathetic rather than something. That's hostile john. Is that yard. You're in sub it in your own life when you dealt with now in. My father wasn't anywhere near as difficult to deal with. We had better communication than john willis do in this story though sunan father but but my father was a man of his generation. He was not american use denmark but he was raised on a farm born during the depression went through the german occupation during world. War two ran away from home when he was fourteen You know self taught person who then eventually after he married. My mother moved the united states. He somehow got into business. School finished it in half the time by doing night courses nine. Just a determined person. Very self reliant. But like many men of that generation he was kind of even in his gentlest moments. A my way or the highway kind of guy. And that's just the way it was. And then you didn't adapt to changing times that well either the sixties the seventies is like what the hell's going on from their point of view. Why can't things just be the way they should be in. Men and women are women all that stuff and so there was a bit of that on my dad but but he was nowhere near as it was not as much of a conflict as you as i depicted in the movie. It's a fiction as i say this story. Even those became a father son story a basically the moral conscience to like the the the the fulcrum emotionally morally of the story really is is the mother for me. Is gwen by hannah. Gross the inspiration and the reason that they argue a lot. You know both father and son and also father and daughter. My sister played by laura. Linney the bone of contention. Is gwen a lot. So that was an important role and i. I guess that character resembles my mother and my relationship with that character in in the movie is more like my relationship with my mother than than the relationship with the father's like my own father. There's there's a lot of you that i see in this character in terms of how you play it and also how you directed wrote it which is nature of you know we see this man. He grew up in loved the farm. He loved it. He related to the horses to the answers like you. you know. there's something about nature where the best of him somehow is shown when he's with these animals he can't seem to rang. The embassy has them to is actual family which people in general yeah. It's just kind of tragic when it is said it is said and you know it's no accident that the first third of the movie threaded through it is this sequence that has to do with the duck the sequence of events right from seeing it shooting it bathing when it's sleeping with plucking cooking it and then finally you know eating it sharing it that way. let's that john that grows up to be your character of sleep. Was the dead duck. He lets him do that. He does some well. Yeah that whole thing. The story was away to introduce among things. What you're talking about the relationship that that family has with nature expos with life and death and all that would nature you. You all grow up for time on on a farm. I grew up in part. I bo bo cities and farms. I mean i learned to ride horses. When i was really little when i when i could walk and And my dad was someone who was raised on a farm And he introduced me and my brothers at the earliest possible age to campaign to know how to make a fire to forests and rivers and animals and fishing and hunting. And all those things. So i was very much part of my