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Crypto Critics' Corner
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"Cass, I can tell you for me personally this has been by far the most difficult thing that I've been through. In my lifetime. And just as the author of the whistleblower said, there was a period of time where I began to suffer from some pretty severe depression. There was nothing to celebrate here. I lost over 30 pounds. It was difficult, sometimes just to get out of bed and put one foot in front of the other. And I can remember my dad sitting at the foot of my bed one night reading and rereading the 23rd song. Obviously, none of us want to find ourselves this position. People we care about people we love. Family members are pulled into it, right? So many people are pulled into it. But I think what helped me personally to whether the storm and move forward, I was blessed to have a great team that stood by me. My husband was a huge source of support, my parents, that made a big difference because a lot of people don't have that. We all do have those moments where we have to make those choices. It is good for corporations to have a speak up culture where people feel like they can come to their superiors and their executives and describe the problems to them instead of to law enforcement or regulators. What kind of things make it possible for a company to have that kind of culture for people to feel like they can discuss these kind of problems in their workplace and make these kind of changes without having to whistle blow without having to go through all of those experiences. Yeah, that's a great question. So when you have these entrepreneurial fast growth companies, like what we see in the crypto space, we saw it in dot com, telecom. The founders are often the ones who set that tone at the top. The culture permeates throughout the organization. And so having a code of conduct is important, defining the values that are important to the organization, making sure everybody understands what the purpose of the company is, that you have a purpose that's bigger than profits. If you see something that you're not comfortable with, we want you to speak up. We want you to come to us, having a chief compliance officer, for example. Letting people know, here's what we want you to do. We want to hear from you. And then making sure that you follow up on it and that you get back to the person, protecting the person's anonymity is important if at all possible. So all of these different things work in an ecosystem together to make sure that companies have this transparent speak up culture. And then sending out surveys, I think ethical surveys are really important to touch every employee in your organization. Either one on one or through small group roundtable discussions or through ethics questionnaires. And think about it with a lot of these big scandals if a compliance officer or someone had sent out an ethics questionnaire, it's likely because lots of people knew about some of these things that someone would have said, hey, well, yeah, there's this thing I'm uncomfortable with. So making sure for executives making sure you get out, you talk to people at all levels, not just at the top. And that you ask them the right questions. Is there anything that you're not comfortable with? Honestly, I think it's quite important that people listen to this and take away the right lessons from
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"It's a lot easier for you to bring charges against that person, knowing that they're going to then flip against all of the people that you really want to get to. So it's a tough position to be in because I suspect you would get charged with something because they know that if you don't want to get actual prison time, you're just going to talk. And there's no reason for you not to at that point because these people are not doing anything for you and your career is over at that company. So that's right. No one wants to be in that position where they have to decide, okay, I might get probation if I just play along. You want to nip it in the bud. You want to be like Cynthia. I like the point that cast made the different divisions within the Justice Department followed different protocols. Betty and Troy, they were very close to obtaining immunity. Originally, a division of the Justice Department within Mississippi was going to handle this case. But when the southern district of New York got the case, it was a different story. So your point sometimes people will plead guilty and then they cooperate with the prosecutors in the case. So Betty and Troy, they wrote their resignation letters. And I think it's worth reading all engage my acting background here. Yes. His childhood acting background. Dear buddy, this letter is to serve as notice of my resignation from WorldCom effective today. The actions proposed regarding quarter close entries has necessitated this action. If needed, I can assist with any transition issues that may arise. My income situation is such that I request we work out an equitable arrangement regarding some sort of salary and benefits continuation until I can obtain other employment because I feel that upper management has forced my decision surrounding my resignation. This is not the course of action that I prefer, but feel I must take. So is there anything that jumps out to you guys about
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"It represented amounts that were paid to third parties to at least telecom fiber. It had jumped up dramatically and was out of line with the company's revenues. And so Betty and Troy took the results to their boss who went to the controller, the controller walks into the CFO's office. And the CFO says there's no way these numbers are right. You guys have made some kind of an error. Go back, close the books, find your error. So they go back and forth and Betty and Troy go through the close process again. They can't find this error anywhere in the books. And at this point, there was something like 5 days away from having to release earnings. And so the pressure was really starting to build. And the CFO told the controller look, here's what I need you to do. He said, I want you to go back and find what's known in accounting as some excess liability account, some cookie jar reserves. And draw down on those reserves so that you can reduce this expense. So that line cost expense as a percent of revenue stays flat at 42%, consistent with what it's been in the prior quarters. So that when Arthur Anderson comes in and looks at key ratios, quarter over quarter, everything looks to be in line with their expectations. And when the Wall Street analysts like Jeff greiman and others look at ratios, everything will look to be in line with what they are expecting to see. And he said, we'll find this error next quarter. But this is what we need to do for now. So the executives at the top of the company don't know how to go into the system and actually physically key some accounting entries. And this is the point at which the inner circle had to grow. Well, Betty and Troy aren't very comfortable with what they're being asked to do. And so you've got the CFO who is highly respected, three levels above them in rank, asking them to make these entries. He's telling them that there's an error. He says, we don't have any students here at you and Cass can be the pretend students. What would you advise them to do? Probably talk to a lawyer. Yeah, I mean, it's challenging because my understanding is the cookie chart part they did it first is like a legitimate accounting practice as I understand. Especially when you're going by acquisition and you're trying to combine together all these books. It's not uncommon to end up with some of these weird little leftover amounts. Pulling those down seems like it might have been a questionable but reasonable decision there. As it goes on and you start to get asked to book more and more, you want to offer the advice that you should say no to those things, but as you've talked about here, there's a lot of pressures and these individuals and other people have to make these decisions as they're doing it. And so it's kind of like hard sitting here in the outside to say that someone should have stopped it, you know? So what they ended up doing was requesting a meeting with the CFO so they go to his office and they sit on the couch across from him. And he really praises their work. You guys are doing a fantastic job. Thank you so much for your hard work. And he uses this analogy of an aircraft carrier. So he knows that they're thinking about leaving the company. And he says, imagine that this is an aircraft carrier, helped me to get all of the planes landed
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"Smaller dollar entries because they knew that Anderson did not test amounts below $50 million. The same thing happened in health south. How south made hundreds of thousands of entries capitalizing operating expenses. But instead of making a few larger entries like WorldCom, they made them below $4000 because they knew that the external audit didn't test below that threshold. So too much sharing of information with the client consulting as a conflict, Anderson actually in their work papers documented that rural comm was a high risk client, but they didn't change their audit procedures based on that. And they identified capitalization of operating expense as a potential fraud threat in their work papers. They were required to ask about these own top post entries. So management will close the books and then they would make this fraudulent entries on top. And instead of going into the accounting system and pulling out these entries, they could have done that. They asked management whether there were any of the own top entries. Of course, management said no, and they documented that. And they're working papers. So we're in a totally different place today than we were 20 years ago in terms of audit quality, I think, and the firms making sure that they are testing smarter, not harder and with technology. You can go in and pull out casts we talked about round dollar amounts. I mean, they're all types of odd entries that you can go in and easily pull out. However, I will say that independence is an area that I have been reading a lot about lightly and there's a big push with the firms that say they need to beef up their independence because they are building their consulting practices back up. Francine McKenna talked about that recently when she was on the show about how that was initially stopped in his gradually become more and more common again.
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"In a closer comparison than even just the promoters, which is a clear, more or less a one to one to what you guys were just discussing. We also have entities in cryptocurrency like Cumberland global and a handful of others. They function as like the same way you're talking about the super banks. They function as like, we're going to market make. Also, we're going to invest. Also, we're going to have an exchange. Like FTX and Alameda. We're going to have our hands in every single cookie jar and ultimately like bitmex. It was proven. They were trading against their customers. Like these guys had access to the order books and they could trade against their own customers. And front run them and spoof and do whatever it took to liquidate their own customers. It just seems like such an obvious like, oh, well that's a problem. And to me, that's the Vanguard of enforcement in the crypto industry. It is just started to happen. So we're going to see more cases on market manipulation. More cases on insider trading. And whether that market manipulation is just as you describe whether it's front running or spoofing or wash trading, that's where the SEC is going. To this point, the SEC and the CFTC as well have really focused on offering unregistered securities or out and out thefts. Those have been the two sort of low hanging fruit that they've gone after. And now we're starting to see changes. Of course, with the insider trading case, the coinbase case, and just last week that the hydrogen technology case, which is a case that involves a sort of wash trading, a sort of spoofing, but basically where a programmer was hired to pump and dump a certain amount of coin that was released by hydrogen allegedly, although that programmer has now agreed to a settlement. That's an interesting case. It's a little more complicated. And I think all of those things that you refer to cast, which I think, to some extent, there's been a bind eye turned to them. I don't think that's going to happen anymore. I think the regulators are saying, hey, there's a real problem here. And we've addressed it in traditional financial markets, but now we have to bring that over to crypto. We want to minimize regulators having to chase down fraudsters and criminals, right? That's totally inefficient. We want smart balanced policy that allows for transparency for some attestation or assurance over metrics that are really important to society and the public. While at the same time, allowing room for innovation of new technologies. Besides these comparisons, I think, are valid. I think the more direct comparison between someone like Jack and cryptocurrency are like the cryptocurrency researchers who are heavily invested in cryptocurrency, or who even will do some angel or VC investing while still publishing protocol research reports and stuff. Sometimes when you hear them talk, it reminds me a little bit of Jack's brazenness. Where he was writing an email that his upgrade of AT&T that he did was a business deal in his mind to get his kids into this preschool that the AT&T executive could. And that when The Wall Street Journal started reporting on some of Jack's conflicts of interest, he said to New York, magazine, the reality of the world is that analysts are becoming increasingly important in the banking practice of firms, not just for underwriting, but also for mergers and acquisitions. It just is what it is, it's part of the business. You also said once when challenged as to whether or not he could remain objective is response was objective question mark, the other word for it is uninformed. Like he embraced the conflict of interest and cas and I both experienced in cryptocurrency.
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"A response from Alan Greenspan following the 2008 financial crisis. Chairman waxman says, so you found a flaw and he says, yes, I found a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works, so to speak. Chairman waxman, in other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right. It was not working. Mister Greenspan precisely, that's precisely the reason I was shocked because I had been going for 40 years or more with a very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well. So you had this credit default swaps that were not regulated. And you had these big banks that were not required to keep adequate reserves. It wasn't a requirement. And so the banks would give out bad loans, then they would take their profit, bundle the loans, divide them into tranches, sell them off, throw the risk over the wall to someone else, and the government did not really understand the systemic risk. You had the banks who were not properly reserved and not required to be properly reserved, and then you had AIG, which was the go to insurance company for the banks. And they were using a model that was developed by a Yale professor and the analyst at AIG using this model came back to the executives saying there's only a 1% chance that we'll ever have to pay out on these credit default swaps. So AIG reserves nothing, right? It was like a series of dominoes. And my point of bringing this up is had there been smart balanced regulation requiring the banks to be properly reserved for these credit default swaps had Congress really understood the systemic risk that was posed, right? And we had smart policy in place, then that collapse would not have happened. It was because of no regulation, right? Because of a lack of regulation that we found ourselves in the situation we found ourselves in 2008. I think one of the gaps that we are facing in the world and in our country is a lack of managing monitoring and understanding systemic risk across a broad array of areas. I think that we are way to reactive. And when Congress comes in and reactive mode, legislation often causes us to swing too far in the opposite direction. Like originally with sorbet is actually came out after the world come and enron collapse. There was way too much money and effort spent auditing and implementing these very detailed transactional controls down in the bowels of a company that are not likely to prevent and detect these large on top collusive frauds. So it would be much more effective if we could find a way to be more proactive and to make sure we understand the systemic risk that are building across a broad array of areas. So how do we identify these harms and the levers that we can pull to mitigate the harms? I think that's really important. I think that the regulators have woken up on crypto. In representing crypto whistleblowers in front of the CFTC and the SEC, I get to talk to the regulators. The enforcement attorneys.
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"So if the government collects a $100 million, the whistleblower can literally get up to $30 million, my partner, bob, we just mentioned a bit ago was one of the lawyers who represented the ranbaxy whistleblower who ended up being paid out $48 million. So with those kinds of numbers, it definitely changes the calculus. And then the other way they change the calculus is through helping whistleblowers remain anonymous. Now, there's never any guarantee that you can remain anonymous, but all of these programs have a commitment to confidentiality. And most of the whistleblowers do remain anonymous. So they can provide their information if somehow it ends up going to trial. The government may have to reveal who the whistleblower was. But their policy is, they don't do it. I think the government has started to learn, hey, whistleblowers are important and we need to protect them because it is really a difficult process. If you're out there on your own and in public making accusations, regardless of whether or not they're true, it's not a panacea, but we're definitely moving in the right direction. A lot of people are willing to stand up, step up to the plate and raise their hand because it's the right thing to do. But what this does is incentivize even more people to stand up because they know that they are going to be able to have anonymity that they will have an attorney supporting them and that if they lose their job, they will have some means of supporting themselves, financially, the number one way in which straws are identified as their tips, the association of certified fraud examiners shows that year after year after year. The top two reasons people don't come forward are because number one, they fear retaliation. And number two, they don't think anything will happen anyway. So what these bounty programs have done is really encouraged and pushed corporations across the country
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"And what I can tell you is that most whistleblowers are pretty average citizens who are just doing their job, going to work every day, trying to support their family. At this point, I was 37 years old. I had two daughters, my oldest daughter was 12. My youngest was 11 months old. My husband was a stay at home dad. So I was the sole supporter of my family. And I loved rural college. I loved the people. I worked with. We had worked very hard to help build this company. It was a celebrated company all over the world. And especially imagine in Mississippi, these were jobs that were very important to the state of Mississippi, rural comet this point employed something like a 100,000 people. Most of all those people were honest average citizens going to work every day. Doing their job. So there was absolutely nothing to celebrate here. It was heartbreaking. It was gut wrenching. And as you mentioned, even the people who were complicit with the fraud, these people weren't strangers to us, these are people who we had known for years. We knew their spouses. We knew their children, the director of accounting his son, went to school with my daughter and to church. So these are people in our community. We see them in the halls and the cafeterias. So it's very different when people you work with are perpetrating a fraud versus reading about something in The Wall Street Journal. When you look behind, I guess that the machinations of all these fraud scandals. And how they're perpetrated behind the accounts and the numbers. These are always stories about people and choices. And that's why I have felt such a passion for sharing the story, I've spent the last 20 years analyzing many, many frauds. What do they have in common? How can they be prevented? Because that's ultimately what we want to do, how can we detect them more quickly?
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"So I'm sitting there thinking, okay, I don't remember anything about the rule of ten on my CPA exam, learning about that in my accounting class. There is no rule of ten, right? So ultimately, they did, but the allowance up. They probably just pulled it from some other bucket. But that's one of the first things that we identified that started causing me some concern. Now, if you flash forward and talk about the prepaid capacity, cast, what you mentioned, that really started with an audit of capital expenditures. So for those who are listening, who are not auditors, they'll just have to kind of hang with us here for a minute. But a capital expenditure is an asset of the company. It's expensed over a long period of time, depreciated over a long period of time. And we had audited capital expenditures before, but we had never heard this term prepaid capacity. So what happened was in the early stages of this audit were given these two schedules that didn't agree. And when I asked one of the finance directors, what's the difference in these schedules, he could easily explain a portion of the map, but there was part of it that he said, I don't know what that is. It's something called prepaid capacity. If you want to know more about that, you'll have to go and talk to the controller. And so at this point, we had access to the company's accounting systems. Arthur Andersen did not. They actually relied on management to provide them with all of the schedules that they needed to conduct their audits. And so I called in, I had about four or 5 techie auditors who were really great on my team. And so I called one of those guys in, and I said, hey, look, can you go into the accounting system and see if you see anything called prepaid capacity? And he came back pretty quickly. And found an amount in one account with that description. But we didn't know what it represented. And we realized that one of our prior audits that we could only see half of every accounting entry. So the controller, by the way, later testified in federal court that he had intentionally cut my system access and my team system access to try and keep us from finding these entries. But all we know is we can always see half of the entry. One of my answers says, hey, look, I know somebody in information technology who has developed this homegrown program that is supposed to allow you to trace transactions through the SAP accounting system. And he's been begging someone to beta test it. And he can't get anybody to volunteer. So he said, look, let's volunteer and see if it works. And basically what it did was give us a backdoor into the accounting system. Now, internal auditors are supposed to have full and free access to whatever we need to do our jobs. And it allowed us to see both sides of this entry. It also allowed us to trace this entry back to what seemed to be its origin and then forward to what appeared to be its final resting place within the books. And so we actually go to the conference room and we get up on the marker board and we're going back to what's known in accounting as these tea accounts. We're basically trying to understand all these transfers of entries. They're moving this round dollar amount in and out of all these different accounts that absolutely made no sense to me from an accounting perspective. But once I said, hey, look, when you take the movement out of the middle, you're really left with this large round dollar amount moving from an expense on the income statement to an asset on the balance sheet. My staff were like, so what?
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"Simply not enough end user customers to support all of these networks that had been built out. And the idea that the Internet was tripling every quarter turned out to be a myth. It was growing at a much slower rate, which comes back to the point about making sure that the assumptions that are driving a market or a business is strategic decisions are valid. And then when the bubble burst, that's where the pressure to commit fraud came from. World columns, revenues started to decline. All of these companies that had placed orders with the big carriers back in the 90s just started going bankrupt. One after another after another, and canceling their orders with the big carriers. And so in 1999, if you looked at the backlog of orders for the big carriers, it was just unprecedented. None of them could keep up with the orders. In fact, a lot of customers were placing orders with multiple carriers to see who could provision the service first. So it was just this wild west gold rush environment. And that's what drove the industry to its heights. And those poor strategic decisions spending billions to build out the network over leveraging and then signing leases with third parties for telecom fiber in places where rural did not have their own network. They saw these three and 5 year operating leases, which are supposed to be expense in the current quarter to reduce your revenue. And what WorldCom did was they would say, here's where we are. Here's where we tell the street we were going to be. Okay, we're $700 million short. And there were literally pick that up and move it from an expense on the income statement to an asset on the balance sheet. And then they would depreciate it over a much longer period of time. It's accounting shenanigans, right? I mean, this is basically without getting into the weeds.
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"Building companies and the largest ranch in North America and Timberland, hundreds of millions of dollars of stuff. All of this looks great when it's going up. That's a very interesting story, a pretty actually a pretty risky retirement strategy. Bernie was moving closer to retirement, but he did not want to exercise his options or sell his stock to diversify. And in fact, if you read the book extraordinary circumstance, it's my book. I talk about the fact that he really didn't want anybody in the company to exercise their stock. In fact, he held almost all of his stock until the bitter end. And his defense attorneys use that in court. They said, if he held his stock until the end, how could he possibly have known that there was a fraud going on in the company. In fact, when he left the company to try and liquidate some of his holdings and repay some of his loans, he took the last couple $1 million he had, and he bought more work on stock. Basically, he went, Cassie went to the bank. He took out something like a $1 billion in margin loans. He put up his stock options as collateral. So just like you said, as long as the price is going up, everything's great. But if it starts to tick down, there's a problem. And that's exactly what happened. When the dotcom bubble burst in March of 2000 and then the telecom bubble burst in September of that year, the price started ticking down. And he got a margin call from the bank. I think it was for $50 million. And it's not until you're way down the road that you realize that the bubbles burst. When you're in the midst of it, people think, well, this is just a temporary downturn. In the market. And so the compensation committee said, look, we'll loan you the $50 million to cover your margin. He could have sold some of his stock, exercises options.
Crypto Critics' Corner
"firestone" Discussed on Crypto Critics' Corner
"Back everyone. I am Cass PNC. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, mister Bennett Tomlin, how are you today? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm great. We have a couple amazing guests. I'm unbelievably excited about this. Cynthia Cooper, who is the CEO of the Cooper group and is a recognized speaker bestselling author and a consultant on issues of corporate governance, ethics, and leadership. She also was the whistleblower who called out WorldCom Cynthia, wonderful to have you here. How are you? Thank you, Cass. I'm doing great. I'm excited to be here with you and Bennett. Well, thank you for joining us. And then along with Cynthia, we have Darren firestone, who is a partner at Levi firestone muse, a law firm in D.C., where he represents whistleblowers in the cryptocurrency industry. Darren, welcome as well, how are you? I'm great. It's great to be here. I am an avid listener. So it's a thrill to be here in person. Awesome. Well, it's amazing to have both of you. I guess we should start off with WorldCom. That is how I came to know your work, Cynthia. I want to say that you essentially got me on the path that I'm on with your book extraordinary circumstances, reading that and looking at all of the ways that that transpired, it seemed to feel so similar to what I was seeing currently, but let's talk about that. First of all, maybe you can help our audience understand what was WorldCom and what was your role at World Cup? First, thank you, Cass for your kind words, your support, and for all that you have been there doing. I've loved watching your podcast. I'm actually going to go back to the beginning and watch all the way through. Very important work. So I was the vice president of internal audit. For a rural comma reported directly to the chairman of the audit committee and dotted line to the chief financial officer.
The Voicebot Podcast
The Alexa Prize Story - Professor Jan Sedivy on Winning the Alexa Prize SocialBot Challenge and 40 Years in Voice Tech - Voicebot Podcast Ep 225 - burst 05
"I start date group and there were many students who got through Applause am giving the who worked with me. Owner fees asuncion Step by step We have been following the progress in the industry and i was You know get inca people who are more and more interested than who are willing to cooperate and in some i would say like plenty fourteen. He decided to do question answering. So he did the Different knowledge database as son view slowly but surely giving questions like typing questions Did voice until Land the very basics of or the students learn the very basic so unhappy like do data extraction duties on the And then sunday in twenty sixteen. All's own came up with this competition and the competition or the main task of the competition was to create a social boat. Which would engaging louis and also entertainingly talking to users so and the target or the goal of those to talk as long as possible to survey difficult to convert into functional end to any a system function so it was something which is a entertainment as well as mathematics and many many different algorithms in it and a deadline We once of the road is meant a muslim put on there but they just resold so we should try and the weaver very pessimistically plus weaver. starting beautiful He can do these universities. We are admiring from here that they have a much better team. Sunday would be those who would lead. But the thought okay. Let's give it a try so we put together a proposal and the we mainly based on our work in the question onset. Inca believe me or not. We made between the top twelfth. Who was elected as these semi-finalists that time and is brought us like two fifty For students and This money this was something fantastic because this monday helped me to keep the key people on board and no students receive money therefore four day fully concentrated on the problems. We were interested in which was the social. We stopped the to put it together. In a very practical by firestone stopped with trying cody allies debts time grew and neural networks and after a few attempts we thought. Okay that is. This does not work. It's very difficult. And we opt for very simple based system and started to grow a simple system and it worked it did something is and people were able to talk to it so we went on indie competition. The uber very surprised that we were doing very out. We saw on the leaderboard by Even two or the competing sites and we've had been we have been leading so we continued. We ended up in the final on the second sports which was unbelievable. Fantastic success v about twice in seattle Received the mind price in In las vegas so unbelievably nobody for a while. I was in las vegas but none of the students was ever in las vegas. Which is again something you cannot note. See anywhere else. Except in las dos.
The Babylon Bee
"firestone" Discussed on The Babylon Bee
"Works up your follower of joseph smith. Oh man the more. The les not like this. One follower of joseph smith urges nation to reject morally flawed leaders. Always gets us the nicest they the nicest email and say more and more when doubt. Oh shoot still say no mormon these things they like would publish material talking about mormons all the time and then a couple years ago. I know it's now. Elliot's identify any anytime. Someone says you can't tell me that you know i'm just stubborn. Even you made your bed now drinking. I'm sure most of them don't care but yeah you know sorry. Sorry mormons we just you know we make fun of you. One time we just a little bit. Yeah we didn't. We didn't do mormons. Didn't i'm sure that wasn't that. Was the south part of south park. Yeah yeah. I'm sure the mormon aren't a big fan of that either although it didn't they take out ads in the playbill. Did they go the open. It's at checkout. Check out the real market unless it was a fake mormon ad and they were babylon deserve more than babylon be got one. I'm sure they do the babylon letter. Firestone google stars. I'm sorry guys. I like again. I don't see anything right now. The colobian beige or something. I do teach voice over it as well and i work with people and utah. They're the nicest people are nice and they have the nice thing down. They really do not. Just get.
WGN Radio
"firestone" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Those Firestone reds. Alex Pelo. We'll let that chicken as the racing machine swing wide out of turn Number three. He'll touch the rumble strips and right in his tire tracks is Rina Speak a cake? It's a nice large between turns five and six about a five car like disadvantage for Rita, speaking over Pelo give that young Spaniard Alex below who won earlier this year and Barbara Motor Sports Park. A lot of credit. He got the heat into those Firestone tires because VK was wearing him out on that out lab. They'll make their way through Turns seven and a Pelosi advantage about four car lengths over B. K. There is a slight breeze right now, that's starting to come on The South end. And perhaps part of that is just the exhale of Alex. Hello because he's got a lot less work to do this time. By then he did last. Rita's VK is behind him, but not nearest closest. They're going to turn number 12. As the last circuit Hello now into 13 case right there as well. It's about a 20 yard advantage right now. For Polo Scott Dixon is your leader. Blast pitted on lap number three Grow. John Harvey Pelo VK Ray whole new Garden. McGlaughlin heard a passion of the top 10. Then it's Marcus Eriksen 11th Alexander Rossi 12th at Jones's 13 Willpower is 14. Felix Rosa Quiz. This 15th 16th Asado 17 Pato Award. 18th, Ryan Hunter, Rey 19 Sebastian Board 1/20, James Hinchcliffe, 21st Dalton, Kelly 22nd, Juan Montoya, 23rd Charlie Kimball In 24th Is Jimmie Johnson, Conner Daly, 25th 17 Laps Down to Pit Road and Ryan Marine double windows down here one. Jack Harvey is being coached as he chases Roman Grosjean. Be patient. Roman still needs to go to the primary black tires. Jack Harvey started On the primary tires, so he might be just where he needs to be on. Then we expect to see Scott Dixon in the PNC Bank Kanda coming to pit lane. Any moment Del. We'll let you know when he comes down the pits some of the other movers.
The Unofficial Shopify Podcast
The Most Common CRO Blind Spots
"Someone approaches conversion rate optimization their first instinct is to do what the first instinct to syrup off everyone else. Okay see things that they think work. They think everyone else's smarter than them and so they take these ideas. No doubt looks interesting. They hear about a blogger. Doing something like oh. That's interesting and then or this this worked for this other store our competitor and they they take that and they run with it and it doesn't work for them and they're like line and this work well. There are a lot of reasons why it might not have worked. Main thing is that you didn't think about what really worked for you right. You didn't go back to first principles and think about the customers. That are coming into your store. I think it's a huge problem. So you it's it's shiny toy syndrome. It's the grass is always greener. So i go outside. And i see. Oh well this across the street. This other store has this way cooler side than me. And i perceive them as being more successful reality i have no idea what their businesses like it all but i just perceive them as being more successful for whatever reason and i say all right well then i just attribute that to whatever thing i notice unlike yeah and thus we have some shiny toy syndrome action happening and i think that is where people get in trouble yeah. I think that's right like what ends up happening. I had this conversation with a client a few months ago where they were like our biggest competitor is doing this. We should do this. I'm like well. How do you know that they're doing it right. And they were just like just like shocked. And what do you think they're conversations were internally that led them to this decision and then the response to that was they. Didn't yeah exactly right. What you don't realize is that everyone is a group of smart people on a zoom call trying to figure it out in the dark like everyone else. Yes we're all in a cave with a candle and maybe there's eight people with candles. They might do slightly better but we still. It's such a young industry and it evolves so quickly that i literally. I don't think anybody knows what they're doing. No one knows what they're doing right. What i'm doing to go back to as we're firestone at a series. I think he's still has a series. This is called now right. And that's wildly popular because it gives you clarity and safety and a sense of strategy for cheap right like you can. Just go and look at this without works okay. Great and a lot of it actually does work because the problem with conversion rate optimization is that in many ways it's like getting to just basic first principles getting some best practices in place getting something that's familiar for customers and that makes sense to people right but then when it comes to doing something that's more like custom tailored to the specific needs of your customers. Everybody just like. I do what they don't know what to do with it. And that's where i come in So what should people be doing instead. So we've established that like the shiny toy syndrome. The grass is always greener. that is problematic. And you're just kind of when you're doing that you are. You're blindly throwing stuff against the wall which there could be. You're gonna get success some of the time but we need a. We need a framework. We need a better approach here. So how should i be approaching it and then we'll get into the most common pitfalls or missed opportunities. Yeah i'll tell of an anecdote that i like to tell my clients especially when they first come in the door if you ran a physical store right assuming those still exist. I don't even know but if you ran a physical store people come in right and there's some about a foot traffic and you. The owner of that store are behind the counter. And you can observe right or you can talk to them. And so the problem is twofold number one. You can't. you aren't observing them and the second is that you can't talk to them necessarily can be like hey. Do you have any questions. And what happens in that. Process of observation conversation in a physical store is that you understand the customer's needs a little bit. Better you may not close the first few sales but eventually understand. Oh people are coming in for this. I should be making a couple changes to the store. Changing the way that i'm marketing myself or putting the this stuff over here or whatever it is right and so there's something that's observable that you can see right now. How do you take that process and apply to e commerce. Well i think that you can actually look at what customers are doing and ask them. What motivates them. I don't think that's difficult the problem that when you're stuck behind a computer all day and your as nerdy as i am you. It's not your default to go out and talk to customers. It's not your default to go out and observe what customers are doing. And when you try to do that you're stuck in an application like google analytics which is bad so the process of understanding what customers say and what customers do is a little bit more slippery and difficult but no less essential right. So how do you go about doing that. Well a lot of the tech industry has figured this out and it's using a lot of unsexy terms like research analytics and data right. I like these things. I'm getting excited. I like these things. Because that's why i get up in the morning i get up to research customers right and you may not. You may be if you're listening to this in your store owner. You're probably waking up to ship product to customers grow. The store grow the business. You might be thinking about stuff. If if i'm lucky and you're my client and i think that for me like the fundamental answer is that you need to go out and understand what your customers are doing. And you need to be a little bit more proactive about it. And it doesn't come naturally in retail as an industry right because normally the people come to you and you can just look at them and that's the research. The research already just happened because people were shopping with you and you understood what made them really light up and buy your stuff and you got that feedback on a daily basis but really all you're getting feedback as people complaining about that where their order is and occasionally anecdotes from your friends about the products. That's like your research process. And maybe if you're lucky you go in and look at g. nathan. Conversion rate is bad today. That's it but nick. I'm my best customer. I know what they want. I don't don don don right. I know what i want in my world view has quickly been wildly warped by being so close to everything. Yes the business owner. Yeah exactly like you are. Actually it gives me no pleasure to report that you are maybe the worst example of a customer. The storm okay. You're yeah and once we accept when you're starting out and you have no customers like you don't have a choice but like at some point you have to move beyond that and then that's where you start you need to start figuring out your customer and you're right online. It is so impersonal divorce that it gets strange. And so you need to go through and do the customer research talked to your customers on the phone. Oh my gosh. Pick up the phone call and try and uncover okay. How do they see themselves. Why do they buy and then also do it at a larger scale through customer surveys and what they have heard you say that i love and because i have found exactly the same thing to be true. Is you do a customer survey and often you could find that like that one magic phrase that suddenly becomes the headline on the website. And that's the thing that really increases conversion rate
77WABC Radio
"firestone" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"We can ensure that we can mount their solar panels correctly. That's that's a big thing. One of the trends that we've seen this, Uh, panels were just getting larger and larger. So now now we're seeing About 450 watt solar panels that are 80 plus inches long, Esso when you when you start looking at things like snow load and wind loads and things like that. It's very important that that we are designing and manufacturing racking that will meet their requirements. Plus, there's a slew of you all requirements that air I seem to be ever changing and adding new things on so you know, I tell people you know, we we have to meet the needs of the roofing industry, which is is no small thing. And we have to also meet the needs and the requirements of the solar panel manufacturers and You know, we're sort of the marriage between those two things, something that's very, very well. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Good right now is something that's very important. And he just said is like solar. Can we talk about this on our shows all time? Solar contractors do solar anyone could be a solar contractor. Well will design your entire building will make it energy efficient with three normal energy. We do roofs and roof products. You know someone roofs that we do on a multi million dollars to do a roof. It's real important what you put on top of that. There's all different kinds of rules. Rubber of the gpm roof. Silicone rose and things like that. So a lot of times the solar contractors do the solar someone else does the roof and then there goes your warranties. So we we weren't t everything and wanting the best But going back to when I was just gonna say when I so really interrupted. Everybody is that you know, we get certified from G from Firestone, all different types of roofs, and there's all different ways you could put your product on it. And they, too, are always part of my research researching a product by the way, I won't put anyone on this on my show that I don't believe in their products, which we recently kick someone off. I'll think about that later. But their product is best for laying on your roof. No matter what materially use. It has some real nice. I like the way it's design because it displaces the way better than most of these racking systems. It's really important. That how it works, You know you're putting tons and tons on your roof, And here's a product that's guaranteed warranty for 25 years. It's gonna be up there and it's just you don't want to have roof leaks. The biggest thing in this industry is huge projects, calling us up. We need to get these panels off our roof and redo the roof s so so it's kind of important Timothy. Good product and alien. This product and there come. You're always updating it. Besides updating their products, they're also make their stuff faster. So it's faster. It's a big part of this industry. You know the costs go down. People are getting more money, but doing an installation. He just changed the way they ground the panels. It's just lightning fast. My my opinion. Well, and it's and it's a kind of expertise that you're simply not going to get from these fly by night. Solar contractors. And these are the details that make the difference in whether you are going to have a good experience, a great installation that is warrant ead and guaranteed for the longest term in the industry. Ellie Rothchild from Salida Racking. Thank you so much for sharing some of your expertise and your partnership.
KFI AM 640
"firestone" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"For $80 million Bill Seward. Hey, if I news Let's get an update on that 91 again. Looking at Anaheim. They should be opening these lanes up very shortly. 91 eastbound before gla sell all the cleanup has been done. So they have said that they're gonna open those lanes up. So that'll take some pressure off right now is still pretty patchy from about Harbor Boulevard for your Dr Diamond bar. We're gonna call this westbound 60th Grant now. The crash is taking away the three right lanes. There might be a fuel spill here as well. So you drive on the 60 is jammed up it. Phillips Ranch Road 57 is affected from Temple K A pie in the sky is sponsored by injury. Attorney Superwoman super lawyer dot com Jeff Bossy and some clearing on the 605. Yes, some explanation now South 65 problem in Washington has cleared but it's still slow from Beverly Boulevard down to Washington. But now has a new problem coming up to CHP. Sounds 605 Firestone. That's just past the I five. Tires rolling around on the freeway. So just be careful. The big problem, though, if you just joined US East end past the 605 and all money free left lanes are blocked. And at times the whole freeway's shut down. The bottom line backed up through Santa Anita and still building at this hour North 605 to the east end. That's open but slow coming up from the 60. Promotable of art up to the north of the 10 is good. Get on it. Francis Kato injured in an accident. Business Superwoman Super Lawyer. Calm Jeff Ball. Okay, if I in the sky, Okay, I find this guy helps get to their faster. I'm robbing banks. When the National Hockey League season starts on the 13th, the teams will be organized into four new divisions a north West East and central and the league has for the first time ever sold, naming rights. To the divisions so the Kings and Ducks will be playing in the Honda West Division..
MYfm 104.3
"firestone" Discussed on MYfm 104.3
"Even sure you have the details. Haven't sent some photos to you to make sure this time. All right, Thank you guys have a wonderful day. Us. All right, you two. All right, Tony Jordan stand by. She's the morning traffic. Tony, what's going on? Well, they cleared a crash out of the way on the 14 Freeway South. Downside is you're coming up on Escondido Canyon that is out of lanes. But traffic slows just before that, and it's going to stay pretty busy other way out towards sand Canyon before it improves. But past that point, you're looking at a good drive to the five his head into the new hall pass. Not a good drive on the five. If you're coming through Burbank South found side just before he gets the 1 34. They have to right lanes blocked off because of a crash with the big rig and that's backed up now is you coming away from one of us, said the South bound side of the 1 70 years, the busy right from Chevron way over towards the one who won because of road brick and two right lanes. But you are now looking at better speeds on the 1 70, as opposed to the five freeway. Laurel 57 10 Freeway South and connect her to the North bound side of the floral five. That transition road to shut down because of trying to retrieve a car that went over the side of the roadway. That's back it up now is you coming away from the 105 westbound side? The 91 is slow from just before the 7 10 or towards Alameda. Alameda is still a good South found alternate for you not seeing any major congestion there yet. So instead of the 7 10 take Firestone to make that South bound Dr. This Tropic Port is sponsored by Stater Brothers. Happy New Year from the State of others. Markets family to yours. May you and your family have peace, good health and happiness after traffic. I'm Tony Jordan with Valentine in the morning on What a 43 My album from Tuesday's finally here and everyone's excited for tacos, Mom, Dad, the kids, even the neighbors. So grab some old El Paso standing stuff, Taco shells and tortilla bowls and let's get this party started..
Let's Talk Addiction & Recovery
Betty Ford's Healing Legacy: A Conversation with Susan Ford Bales
"Today, we're joined by Susan Ford Welcome. Susan. You are aid author, photo journalist. The youngest of four children to President and Mrs Ford. We are appropriately here at the Betty Ford Center, where you're also on the board of trustees of the Hazel Betty. Ford Foundation. Your mother's legacy. was as a breast cancer survivor and advocate, and as a woman in recovery, and as an advocate for being a woman in recovery. How has the legacy of your mother? Affected your role here at the Betty, Ford? Center. Wow Her shoes were really big to fill your So when she stepped down from the board and I became chairman. I. Think it was harder than living in the White House actually because. We mother and I come from two different parts of recovery. She is a patient and the family member. So we have very different opinions of things than and what's important to us One of the things that she made me do, which was extremely painful with sit on every city every single committee. And participate on my witness finance. Finance. But I learned it. Sure. And so I feel like she did a great job of preparing me to be chairman. So it's it's just we come at it from a different angle in a different perspective family and children's services is extremely important to me because that's how I was affected by this disease. Did you come to the the role of being the chair here at Betty? Ford, did you come to that reluctantly? No because I had been on the board for cheese, probably fifteen years I'm it had just been a long process Mother was gracious and allowed me to raise my children before I came on the board because I was pregnant when the. Betty. Ford. Center open. So. I don't think I came on the board until my youngest was first grade or second grade, and so she gave me some time to get my children raised in at least in school because it required several days travel and all of that in childcare and all the complications that we go through to participate in something like that. Let's go back a little bit and talk about the history of the Betty, Ford Center there's a lot of people who think that when your mother found her own recovery in the late seventy s, she went to the Betty Ford Center. It wasn't even here now was, how did the Betty Ford Center come to be. Johnson from Eisenhower Medical Center decided that. They wanted to have a treatment and it had been in the plan at Eisenhower for some time, they wanted to have an alcoholic treatment center on the campus. and. So Leonard firestone mother's dear, friend was also on the board of Eisenhower. And so Johnson Leonard. Kinda. Tag. Team. Durham. and. She was really in a recovery about four years. But she agreed and I and I thought that was a very courageous step to be so early recovery. So she came to all of us children and she said. When I'm long gone. You're the ones that are going to have to live with the fact that your mother had A. Drug and alcohol treatment. Centre, named after you. How do you feel about that? Wow, and we also we don't care. I mean. It's what a great Lexi you know. She was one of the first to step out and and share her story So once we got past that it was just a matter of mother and Leonard Raising the money. To get this place started and of course. Way? Back, then in the early nineteen, Eighty S. The Hazel and foundation played a role also in the birthplace. Can you share just a little bit about that? Well, mother spent quite a bit a time when to Hazelton, because Hazelton had done it. So well, they were probably the leaders in the in the sense that they had been around the longest And it was successful There's lots of treatment centers that haven't been successful. Some other went back and spent probably close to a week there visiting with counselors visiting with a staff talking, how do you do this? What did you do? Right? What did you do on? Why? What makes Hazelton successful because we basically wanted to copy what they had done, but in a different location sure who would have ever imagined decades later. The two organizations would come together and I WANNA to come back to that in just a minute. But First Susan I want to address an issue that. Always bothers me and then set the the Betty Ford. Center is seen as a place for. The rich and famous for the exclusive for those who can pay out of pocket. But that's not at all what's happening here is no and less than one percent of the patients here are what we would think of as celebrities. Yes. We've had some celebrities, but so was Hazelton I mean. So as other places everybody needs treatment, it doesn't matter what you do that determines you need treatment. So, and they don't get treated any different than. My Mother didn't get treated any different Long Beach. The women, she shared a room with. So it's the same.
Morning Edition
Military Role Widens in Pandemic Response
"Do you see the military on a path to contain the outbreak in its ranks well sort of two parts of this one is what are they doing to protect their own personnel and they're I think they're they're they're doing it immediately good job I mean they have the enormous advantage that they have a younger healthier population as we know the Firestone you know tends to target less healthy older people it gives them an advantage shows the outbreak of the Roosevelt that got out of control but again you know we got one one sailor die and I think at this point so twenty percent that is the main factor biting if there was a huge challenge here for everybody I think they are they're doing okay on that and learning as they go the big challenge for me is using the defense production act and DOT's unique talent when it comes to production distribution and logistics the bill but we need to build in there I don't think our federal government has done what he could do it nationally on P. P. and now on the critical shortages existing supplies we get to that testing regime just about everybody says we need without build more stuff than we not responded I think that the federal government was fast enough to meet that responsibility let's talk about what that stuff is personal protective equipment you alluded to there and of course there's test kits there are ventilators which have been in short supply in some places but it's interesting when we asked the secretary asked for a few weeks ago about that about you know mobilizing defense industries in particular he said that's not really that's not really our job it's not really that kind of industry this is a presidential authority that he would use on other kinds of industries but not necessarily something that defense department would concern itself with yeah mark and I've had that conversation a number of times and and I well I I disagree with him the following sentences initial matter yes this is supposed to be FEMA and HHS that are taking the lead but just like with the field hospital the gun bill which would done largely by the army corps of engineers DHS and FEMA made the request into your T. took the lead because they have the capability and that is my strong belief is that the defense department of the department of like three hundred million dollars and procurement a year nobody in the federal government comes close they are the ones with the skill set to tell manufacturers we need ten million swaps we're gonna we're gonna figure out a way to make you build them we need a million caskets same thing so I think the DOD both in terms of logistics and production should be much better used by the federal government we get a dusting capacity we let's talk about testing capacity for the military before I let you go because we just heard that they are about a quarter of the level that they want to be by the end of may they want sixty thousand tests per day just for the military what's holding that up well the same thing and that was a big part of the argument I had with the secretary was okay yeah forget about the country for the moment DOT said two million employees helpless contractors that they depend on still protesting capacity for them and I think the fact that they're not there even in that critical he shows you the lack of a capacity that
Can We Talk?
Joan Rivers: Can We Talk?
"Joan rivers career spanned nearly six decades she started with cabaret and off Broadway shows in the late fifties and then became a star of late night television hosting the tonight show and the late show with Joan rivers and eventually the daytime Joan rivers show in the nineties. She was best known for her comedic and sometimes mean-spirited interviews with celebrities on the Red Carpet John. Style was self deprecating abrasive. Everyone was fair game including herself. She charted new territory and comedy by telling stories from her own life combined with her willingness to talk about taboo subjects like hot flashes sagging bodies bad sex and marriage problems. You may have noticed that we borrowed our podcast. Name can talk from this hilarious. Talented and complex Jewish woman. Can we talk? Was Jones signature. Tagline sometime. She's it as a punchline. Sometimes it was a setup. It was an invitation to her audience. A signal that she was about to confide in them. Here's Joan on the show in the early. Nineteen Eighty S. I would not cheat. I would not cheek Maine because nobody asked me but I not because I think why we talk. I think my husband's spooner man okay. Which is very hard to save. I feel very close to you. I especially if you can. We talk was also Jones way of calling attention to her flaws and other people's her way of saying let's stop pretending and tell the truth here. Can we talk? Let me tell you something. The reason I have nothing happy the way I'm blessed is because I'm getting older at least seven very drop because Oh oh you don't know what it's like to get older too. You know what it's like to go in the morning to take facial mask and realize you're not wearing what so. Why did we borrow her? Tigon FOR OUR PODCAST. When we started the show Joan had recently died and we were all steeped in the debate about her role and her complicated legacy as brilliant and hilarious. But also crass and sometimes cruel. We love that. She had so many dimensions and that she believed in telling the truth about women's lives and expanding the range of models. We see all things we knew we wanted to do to. We also liked that. Can we talk was an invitation to our audience to join us in this project of storytelling and with that. Here's a wonderful interview from J W as archive recorded in two thousand six for our documentary. Jewish women in comedy making trouble. Joan talks about her early days at the Chicago. Comedy Clubs Second City being a woman on Johnny Carson's tonight show and playing midwestern clubs as New York Jewish comic later in the interview. She talks about going back to work after her husband's suicide in nineteen eighty seven. She starts by telling Interviewer Rachel. Talbot about a fight. She had with her parents over her decision to go into comedy. I left my house in pedal pushes enter old car that I used to drive and went to New York in speaking of the year and it was just awful and my dad wrote me a letter say that we are going to You'd better come home or we're going to have you committed. I was living in the bars on hotel for women and my dad wanted says and pulled me out. It was a scene. I think they ever forgot dragged me out. It was just horrible scene Harles. They just thought I was really life as though question about it. They just couldn't accept that. This is where I was going to end. This is all I could do so the I went back home and then I went away. Yeah it was just awful and then Pity yes that was great. Second City was very competitive. It was six of US thrown on stage. And it was make up your own lines and get your own scenes going and everybody wanted to be the star second city and everybody wants to get their stuff and so it wasn't like being gracious. It was like I got a better idea I wanted. It was very competitive and that was great too. I learnt in second city. You have to talk up and I learnt the freedom of you. Think it's funny try it. Don't wait don't think about it. I still do that if freed me. It taught me to be tough. It taught me to fight. If you thought you're Si was good you went into four four and a taught me co with your instinct. Only do what you truly think is going to be funny. It changed my life and then you you came back to New York Nissan. You learn so much from second cities are how had your comic persona change came. When I came back with second city I was myself onstage. Good bed or different. I was what I was and I was a divorced when no Jewish smart college graduate not particularly attractive girl on stage and I was telling you about my life. It wasn't about my mother-in-law was about what I'm going through my mother's hysterical because I'm single and I'm having an affair with a married man and my gay friends. What happen to my gay friends and it was all about truth. The first routine that really worked. I had a WIG hairpieces. I was driving into New York to perform at this club. And the WIG flew out of the window and a car drove over it and I said there I was walking on the west side highway. With a dead Wigan my arms had says firestone on and no one stops and all the truth and taking the truth and exaggerated and it just opened me up. I never went back. I never went back to. He's so fat that unless I really believe when did you find out Johnny Carson? Nothing in my career. I think that's why I was that you log come easily ever. I've never been the first on anything all my friends. And that time I was working the village with my George Carlin and Richard. Pryor all these wonderful men everybody got through everybody was on Carson and on Griffin and I was brought up seven different times to the Carson show. I was finally rejected by Secretary. Who is eating lunch while I was performing? I mean beyond humiliating. I got on because the night before some comic bom so they called me up and they said you can come on but not as a comedian. They had no faith in me. They brought me on as a girl writer and at the end of the show at the end of that night on air. Johnny Carson said to me you're going to be a star it was maisy and I look behind me. I couldn't believe and the next day. My life change changed overnight. They were getting all these calls and stuff. Was there ever a feeling of like? Oh you're to New York reports. I was doing costume regularly. I don't think it was hosting really I was you know the Golden Girl Carson and the ages come back and say you to New York to Jewish you to New York and my husband was married by that point. Ed You said this is ridiculous. He said picked the worst city in the country. And they said Milwaukee they still have been meetings. This is nine hundred seventy. There's still enclaves. They dress up Nazi uniforms and saw Adolf stand. He said center Milwaukee. And let's see and they sent me to Milwaukee and I was. They had to change the size of the room and put in the ballroom. Our I put originally in a little hotel the pfister in their little comedy room and they had to over the ball and put me in so that changed everything they said. Okay America will get her. I mean people begin to put little pockets and it's so stupid because funny is funny. You're minutes was using back on state. What was that decision? The decision was very simple. One I know money I had to go back to work. I didn't have the luxury of being the widow in the house on the hill so I had to go back to and nobody wanted me and Vegas gave me back my contracts. 'cause isn't nobody wants to see anybody that has that kind of you would just fired. would terrible glistening one out that. I was very hard to work with It was just all wrong all wrong. I was banned from late night. I've never been brought back ever not one late night show So I was really struggling my career and I had all these bills. Listen was in. It was just a bad time so I went back to little nightclubs. I said well I'll start again. I went back and started doing little like us and out of that came the red carpet
NFL Live
Hot Seat Szn: The NFL Coaching Carousel
"Dan You talked about. How if it's only been a year? Sometimes a team will say. Let's give this guy a chance to turn things around. But it's been a couple of years in in Detroit with Matt Patricia. Why do you think that team came out before black Monday? And said we're going to hang onto him despite the fact that he's one In two seasons as many games as Jim Caldwell one in a single season before he was fired in Detroit I think the key is bob coined the GM right he comes from New England. He gets rid of Caldwell he goes and six out Patricia who knows from New England and he has sold ownership on. We can build this thing. Long-term here's what Martha firestone foreign said about her decision to bring back both former patriots quote. We expect to be a playoff contender. We expect to play meaningful games in December as she's referring bring to next season when she brings him back whatever he's told them about here are signs that it can work. They've bought whether they're correct or not. I think you know the former New England crew. That's running the Detroit. Lions has convinced Detroit Lions Ownership. Here's why this can work here. We're sorry it hasn't worked right away but two years isn't long enough. Give us another chance. And we'll see how much does the GM matter when we're looking at these teams in trying to evaluate whether or not they're going to move on from their head coach well matters a lot. It commensurate a couple of different ways one. How tied together are they did the GM hire the coach? And right now when when Quinn goes Detroit cold wells already there. You figure we'll cold well. It's not going to last because Quinn's GonNa WanNa bring in his own Guy Lo and behold that happen happen so if you are the guy that the GM hired that might help you if you are the guy that GM hired but it's going poorly and you're the the first guy the GM hired then. Recent history has shown us that you are the one in trouble and the GM is not there are coaches out. There that will tell you that. GM sits in the owner's box. He talks to the owner all game. He's the voice he hears while the coaches are down there on the field losing and it's pretty easy for the GM that kind of position himself. Like hey this isn't my fault. Let's make a change and try it another either way. I do think there are situations where you see more and more around the league where it goes in the other direction where. The coach kind of picks up in San Francisco. John Lynch came because Kyle Shanahan wanted wanted him in Buffalo Brandon. Beane came because Sean McDermott wanted him so I like that. Formula Teens are using now or they get the coach. I coach brings in mm somebody. He knows he can believe in. They understand the salary cap in the same way and can do all that administrative stuff together. I think that's that's a formula that looks like it's working in a few spots.
Past Gas
Henry Ford's Rubber Utopia
"It all started in in nineteen twenty five. Henry Ford was having lunch and his Dearborn Michigan Mansion with his good friend business partner entire magnate Harvey firestone Harvey. RV and Ford had been friends and partners since Ford started building cars decades earlier. So yeah just remember like he invented the model t which I like cheap car and basically he brought the car to the mass. Exactly Mr Firestone had begun ranting this time primarily focused on the impending rubber cartel that had been proposing England by one Winston Churchill. I am not a crooked. You know that payments de Yeah with a cigar and he's like on this day I I am not a crook and it will live in infamy. Yep that's him. The purpose of also the was Churchill. The king no the purpose of the rubber cartel was to limit the export of rubber in order to not overextend national resources. In case there was another World World War One thousand nine hundred eighty five probably a good idea but harvey firestone didn't like that idea. He believed that rubber prices were going to spike in the US as a result and therefore negatively affect firestone tires. Not some things never change Harvey firestone was not alone in this fear even even presidential candidate. FDR feared the effects of a rubber tariff. Remember was viewed. As the automotive industry's chokepoint seen as even more crucial than oil it's crazy. The the automotive industry relied on vulcanized rubber for literally everything from tires to hoses gaskets. A price increase of any kind could sink the young business so there there was a legitimate fear of turtles. Pain passing seems somewhat reasonable. Also it's it's it's kind of like okay here newsflash guys. If you're listening to this this might lose some you know in. I believe in climate change. And it's SORTA like yeah making some changes like you know not dumping tons of poisons into rivers and stuff might be more expensive for some people but in the at the end of the day. It's good not to have poisoned rivers and it's also probably good to have like rubber to defeat the Nazis. Yeah Germany was totally destroyed and they were afraid of something all of Europe. Yeah they're afraid of something like that happening again because those wounds had not been healed all and Churchill was just saying like hey fellers hello. Hello how does he talk. Talk like this is how are we talk again elegant. Listen listen fellows. That women's of all are still fresh insulting. I say that maybe we just save some of US supplies in case of fruit bikes out to again rubber. Blow Hurrah. Yes that's always saying always saying. Hey guys the whole world was just at war four. I think it might happen again. Maybe we should just like chill and be ready and these guys are like a money so harvey firestone was fed up with living in constant fear of their so he decided the best course of action would be to grow his own rubber smart. This wasn't the first time he had some some crazy idea. In fact Harvey tried to declare economic independence from the UK and fly rubber under the American flag. A few years earlier but that was truly the ramblings of a madman who doesn't seem to understand that you can't just not claim another country's resources by saying this cheaper so I'm just going to say it's it's American now although now that I think back on it that's kind of how we did a lot of stuff so yeah but harvey actually had a plan. He decided that he was going to start his own plantation in Liberia where the conditions were almost perfect for growing rubber trees by keeping the production in house he could avoid all the access fees associated with importation from other countries. Henry Ford had also tried growing his own rubber a year earlier. In one thousand nine hundred eighty four he had purchased this large quantities of land in the Florida everglades only to eventually do nothing with them. It was cheaper for four to import. The rubber. The idea of dramatic price is increase was still only speculation. But Still Harvey's plans had peaked and reports interests and after the lunch meeting was over. He requested that it's personal aide aide Leopold would find out where the best place to grow rubber Leopold come over here boy. Where's the best place to go? Rob A AH go find out how Liberia was the obvious choice. Harvey firestone discovered. It had the perfect climate when he put his plantation there but unfortunately Henry Ford word was very very very racist and he would not dare step foot in such an uncivilised and African society so they came to the conclusion. I mean that the rubber should be grown where it originated in the Amazon. So rubber comes from both vines and trees and you let it grow and then when you chop it you squeeze the vines and Latex Literal Latex comes out trees yeah so it's a liquid and then they they put out onto like big flat drying areas than when it dries. You can pull it up like a sheet of Latex and then you take a bunch of latex yeah stack stack into bales. And then that's what gets shipped out to like Volkan Ization plants and stuff like that. So these plantations are really only concerned with drawing the vines and extracting latex from okay okay and Liberia had the per client. But what about the Amazon Amazon also. Very clearly great. Climate only problem. It's a lot harder harder to get into the rainforest than it is in Africa. Got You throughout the nineteenth century. The Amazon River Basin supplied all of the world's rubber and made up forty percent of Brazil's exports sports at the height of the rubber boom in the second half of the nineteenth century but the Amazon's rubber room quickly turned to bus as plantations in Asia and England. Were able to go. Rubber and much denser populations and much more efficiently in Amazon many natural species that are not present in other countries limit the growth of trees so but organizing united plantations and other countries the efficiency was greatly increased. Henry had another incentive to go to South America besides his racism in End Theodore Roosevelt's book through the Brazilian wilderness. He accounts his experiences traveling through the Amazonian rainforests. One of his most significant observations is that many fast-flowing rivers could provide an almost perfect power source for any industry bold enough to be born there. He claimed that the right kind of senators such his enterprising businessmen of foresight coolness and suggest city who would be willing to put migrants to work for an advantage that would be mutually beneficial will give rise to a a great industrial civilization money. If anyone thought they could fill that description it was Henry Ford art now. Henry Ford did not really make cars. Henry Ford thought that he made men the maker. Men's like me. This builder of meant the cars they produced produced were simply a byproduct of his training. He was praised as a sociologist manufacturer. If anyone could reshape the native Brazilians into prosperous factory workers it was Henry Ford. They don't want to be or so he thought they don't want that.
Sips, Suds, & Smokes
And then you shake the can
"We'll get oh boy dave. How many beers have you tried so far just this here well? You know I haven't been any festival so that's really you know dampen now what I've done but I'd say between the daily beer reviews. Just you know my day drinking stealing beers from other people when they're not looking around three hundred. Is that Elvis who ooh. Let's not bad I mean that's the only half how about some some of the rescue. What's what's your number just for the year? Yeah it's probably be about three hundred. I probably do about five hundred a year. But of course I can drink mobile and you come on now. How would say that I drink a couple of two three hundred a year? Maybe this year maybe a little ahead of the curve because of been to a few extra festivals but yeah seems to be average here for me. I'm not so sure what it is this year but I'm looking at archive in terms of beers that that I have and divided it by the years I have been archiving beers and so on average per year three hundred and forty nine as wow calculator for that is like yeah brought in the math. He's he's got the slide one ounce officer true true but a lot aren't confessed to the vast majority of the beers that I have are probably probably less than four ounces on average. I view spews yeah. There's the power of the drain. Spit takes probably on average two to three thousand every year. That's if between industry tastings beers. There's that get sent to us. sometimes you know more than once yeah the Armadillo beer not going to happen not gonNA make the show more years. Here's the great American Beer Festival. I mean you're going to drink a few hundred. Yes definitely when we've been to things like that that have you know probably fifteen hundred beers alone. You know at that that we're probably hammered down but I don't know. Would you say that tasting more beers actually do you like that better or would you rather just have like a hundred really good beers. You know every year I'd like to do both both is that you had to go. We have three hundred good beers through the bad ones to know the good good ones that you'd like to stay exactly right. I mean there's beers you. You know you try when you're going out to place and there's beers like if you go festival and then there's beers at a tasting bottle share air but then there's just like beers when you're sitting around having dinner or you know mowing the yard or whatever you know waking up first thing in the morning you know get ready to go. Oh wait never mind and then there's the beers that are available to you on Friday afternoon after you bought your lottery ticket in the refrigerator there behind the counter no just kidding well. It's football season in my beer actually increases with each week so consumption cause very good. It's it's fabulous drowning of sorrow thinner. Today is the day of hope. It's the first game match well. Let's definitely add to those totals today. Good Will Kendall. I'd like for you to read our son's ratings for our audience today. We'll be discussing in writing these beers with the suds ratings plus plus. Our signature belching sounds here those ratings now one that sucks Gimme anything about too do was that about three or four Abbadi should really not make that sound and five listen to that time Gimme another war well done all right thanks Kendall. I appreciate you reading surgery today. So this is a blind tasting so like I said each host has brought one or in the case of kindle is brought to beers and we're just GONNA GONNA go around and for each host and we're going to talk a little bit about that beer what it tastes like and then we'll rate it and then we'll tell you a little bit about that beer as well so hang tough with us through this I think find it rather informative by the way we do this an awful lot and so we really enjoy a tasting like this to do yeah. It's a lot of fun yeah all right kindle. What's happening in my currently beer number wine? Let's see here number one. My the first impression was it was kind of multi and hoppy that was tastes which makes it's a family only hoppy definitely yeah. I know you're a Sierra Nevada free so it's a good malt cascade came out of California. -FORNIA is yes yeah but it is not Nevada. Okay we as a Sierra Nevada shirt on being in front of me to throw us off. Every spare thing about kindle is a swerve is a firestone Walker. Oh Oh I'm GonNa say this is from the Lago Nita's family wow yes oh I know close log Anina serve drinking beer so is this little something it is not like a description sure hit a slips rated. Did I okay okay. I'm sorry anymore comments. I lots of comments but not about this subject suck. I wasn't ready fallacy. Let's let's figure out a rating severe here. I give it a four so so four it is here for kindles first beer. Somebody shake GRANDPA. He's sleeping again. This is a kind of a classic west coast. Ip and the reason I picked this. It's not a new beer but the format was new to me. The description is this beer was
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Inside Donald Sterling's Clippers Era
"Grew up in los angeles in the eighties and i remember watching clipper games on t._v.'s a kid. The games themselves weren't weren't really anything to talk about. I mean the team almost never won and yet the voice of the clippers ralph lawler. Somehow made me care well. That was my job and part of the craft. I just felt that was my job to find a way to keep people interested did in a game. That very often wasn't very interesting because we had a lot of those lottie years. That weren't very interesting but there's always a story to tell if fifteen win season there's some young player or players that you've got a story to tell about them that that humanizes them. That makes people likes them makes people root for them. How rookie was a master at making the clippers likable no matter how much they lost honestly think a lot of fans tuned in for ralph more than the basketball because god knows there was no one at the actual arena except for penny marshall and billy crystal. How did you become a clipper fan because no one was a clipper. They asked me to play. They said listen. We only get four guys tonight. Can you still dribble sports arena. Yeah i had tickets for awhile and we they were great but there was no challenge you know and then a friend of mine calls it's come on. Do you want to go see the clippers play as a all right. There was nobody there. I mean it was a triple double meant. There were three couples. Uh at every level the clippers screamed not showtime but that didn't seem to bother donald sterling or at least it didn't seem to register register. He got a lot of negative press but it was attention. People knew his name and he liked that. That's kind of all. He really wanted to be the center center of attention. That's why he started throwing his party's. They were fabulous donald and shelly sterling's infamous white parties so called because i guess we're expected to come wearing white. Everybody came in white except for donald who got to wear black. L. is just fabulous. It was just a big white party. The biggest white party took place at the end of summer as a way to kick off the basketball season. We'd have the players there. They'd get up on stage and a lot of the fans and a lot of ticket holders. Were there down in the white. Show intel tell don casey attended the party's when he was a coach for the clippers westie cups like this high so you can't drink too much wine little hotdog sticks in a multi-million ekberg. His bailable white party is notorious after uh-huh one time with my wife i i was never allowed to go again. It wasn't quite my style anyway but was so seedy an oily about it is he'd have forgive me but it's true he'd have like grade c actors and actresses. The hangers on the people wanted to get back in show business but he'd also mingle mingle with people who were stars. Billy crystal was one any hired more than just impersonators. There were some lovely ladies walking turnaround. Donald called them hostesses. He had them at every party. He threw he'd actually advertised for them in the paper looking for california model types but they were glorified. Call girls there to look good and entertain. The male guests and shelley had to smile and endure it another public humiliation at the hands for husband too much one. The shelly said maybe not enough. There was always a photographer roadster. He had to have a private photographer for everything everything he did. Give a hand to america where he were walking around him. His voice was talking. He was like yes fabulous. This the mirror quentin richardson was drafted by the clippers in the first round of the two thousand draft he was from chicago played college ball there and then declared for the draft after his sophomore year he was barely twenty years old when he landed in los angeles inexperienced his first donald sterling party. We know we were there whereas the is is his guest athletes but then you had i guess you would say his friends and his normal guest is like you know definitely not the same type hyper looking crowd is we are and so for us. We will kind of standing there and just check everything out and it's like you know. This is for a lot out of us the first time this is the first preseason team type owners meaning or house or any of that. We've ever been to have been involved in so i'm i'm dislike. I'm be respectful say will serve because then i'm over here may want it all and we wanted with player los angeles. This was the best part of the party for donald sterling showing off his players. Don't need have the individual players. Stand up and tell why they love l._a. One of his favorite questions and so you'd have all these guys standing ended up you know danny manning and charles smithson yom mark jackson and stand up and say why they i love l._a. And there's a lot of beautiful girls aren't there and i'm you hong. Come on please. I remember four wilt chamberlain who was getting up there and he was almost at the end of his life and he looked very rail thin to me but he says what what am i doing here. I see you you tell me he goes. I don't even know this guy. It was almost heartbreaking. I was just like okay. I'm ready for somebody to make the first move so soon as somebody else leave. I'm gone like i just don't want to be the first one to leave but from out of here he would hold your hand and just would not let go was it was really really uncomfortable. I mean all my god you. He just wanted to someplace else. The thing is as awkward as these parties were. Donald never seemed happier. He got to be the bell of his own ball and for a few hours a captive audience had to at least pretend to think it was really cool that he owned the worst human basketball because in real life no one was donald sterling so donald found ways to manufacture that for himself to force the conversation to the fact that he he owned the clippers whoever happened to walk up he would ask him advice about the team he would go to the airport after a game and the baggage handlers i would say donald sterling over to me and said. Do you think we should trae. Danny manning you talk to the waiter to restaurant talked to usher at the games is famous. This thing is what i think of my coach just as likely he'd be listening to a cabdriver as he would be to a general manager a scout in bach loud he would call me sometimes was late at night. You know i'm roy firestone. You know everybody. You've watched all these interviews. Tell me about larry brown and why he should be the coach of our team. It's ten hindu eleven at night. It's the owner of the clippers. I'm not a basketball coach analysts. He goes roy. Your opinion matters you know he called billy crystal said. What do you think of larry brown. If you say i should hire him. I'm hiring them. Billy crystal must've told him to hire larry brown because he did and it was a good higher in one thousand nine hundred and again in nineteen ninety-three brown actually led the clippers to the playoffs for the first time since before donald on the team but then
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Florence could be costliest storm ever to hit the U.S.
"Path of hurricane Florence to prepare for a massive storm associated administrator. Jeff Baird says Florence is dangerous forces is the strong storm to target the Carolinas in this part of our country. In decades, we will experience power outages, we will have infrastructure damage. There will be homes damaged. They will be debris on the roads, and Bayard says the country will not recover in just a few days. This storm is not a glancing blow. The storm's going to be a direct hit on our coast. And I want to set the expectations. Now, it is going to be a long time and a long term recovery. When we when we talk about the effects of flaws over a million, people are evacuating and rights Ville beach, North Carolina's city manager, Tim O and says they've started preparations last Friday. We knew this is a really bad storm. We are under voluntary evacuation. Al turns mandatory tomorrow at eight AM and after about eight PM nobody's gonna come on. And off the
Hugh Hewitt
Elliott, NASCAR and Watkins Glen discussed on Hugh Hewitt
"In NASCAR ninety nine the. Charm chase, Elliott was on cloud nine is he. Swears I where women the NASCAR Cup series by holding off Mark tricks junior for the final twenty two laps at the iconic seven turn. Watkins Glen, international road course Elliott had. Been close to a wet several times with eight runner up finishes in twenty seven top, fives with those, stats he said. He, never doubted that sooner or later he would breakthrough for a win the victory also locked him into the postseason playoffs and guarantees a shot at, the NASCAR championship Astra tricks he said no matter what he did he couldn't force Elliott into a mistake that will, allow him to take over the lead Jerry Jordan Watkins. Glen New York Justin Thomas earned his third PGA title of the year capturing, the Bridgestone invitational by four strokes over Kyle Stanley at the Firestone country club in Akron he captured his first world golf championship now heads into his title. Defence at.
Colleen and Bradley
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Don't Call Themselves Married
"Is brought to you by firestone heather locklear spacing possible lawsuit from an emt who claims locklear kicked her during a recent incidents what authorities were called to locklear's house that same one where locklear allegedly punched a police officer according to tmz the emt has been assigned to desk duties due to injuries to her neck and her head yeah the emergency worker is hired a personal injury lawyer to handle the potential lawsuit she's working for compensation to pay medical bills she also wants money for pain and suffering as well as emotional abuse get paid celebrities are going to behave badly i want mine duly noted inviting celebrity to come and beat bradley trainer up outside on the corner of university avenue and whatever all right will smith and jada pinkett smith they're making headlines today because they don't call themselves married will smith says the label of husband and wife don't mean much and in a new interview will explains quote we don't even say we're married anymore we refer to ourselves as life partners where you get into that space where you realize you are literally with somebody for the rest of your life will smith continues quote there are no dealbreakers there's nothing she could ever ever nothing that would ever break our relationship she has my support till death and it feels so good to get to that hear about their relationship so much because people keep asking them about it yeah likes to fire those people because they're lazy all right a little notable obituary that happened late tuesday afternoon when i mentioned it today one of the dogs who played duke the talking dog in the bush's baked beans commercials has been put to sleep due to cancer his name was sam he lived in florida and bush's baked beans did release of official response on their facebook page saying we are saddened by the news of his passing and are grateful to have had him to pick they roll that beautiful bean footage one last time for duke i hope so will they said they're going to continue the character duke in their commercials because you so beloved and finally kylie jenner showed off part of her daughter stormies shoe collection on snapchat and word is that it's worth twenty two thousand dollars kylie said quote stormy can finally some of her sneakers so i'm about to see if she likes shoes still cute this is horrible children should not have schuch elections no barbie collections or transformer collection not shoe collections what if they really liked shooting thanks.
LeBron James agrees to 4-year, 154 million dollar deal with the Lakers
"Is the news that is gripped the nba the sports world the brian james is going to los angeles he will join the lakers he's agreed to a four year one hundred fifty four million dollar deal espn stephen a smith reports this is the entire length of the deal there were no optouts very similar to what he did in miami going for a four year deal espn's brian windhorst notes this is also going to be a longer process for lebron in l a that it was in miami's not just about what the lakers have today this is as well as mentioned this is a more of a wide ranging deal that is involved with lifestyle involved with business interests involved with the lakers can be and they have options to address the add star players and they've options to add key role players that lebron will be connected to and it's probably gonna take them a while two years so maybe to build up to what they can be that is bryant away and horst espn nba insider among the flyers who have joined kentavious caldwell paul gets a one year twelve million dollar deal in the breaking news moments ago lance stevenson has decided to join the brian james with the los angeles lakers nba free agency it's what to watch for yes the big domino is falling but what comes next what to watch for is brought to you by firestone complete auto care keeping cars running newer longer whatever you drive driveafirestone we had you back to.
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Seattle Mariners just keep winning
"Eleven fringe open championship dominic team in straightsets he's danced morgue record for the most major major titles in one event ceac safety earl thomas says he will skip this week's mandatory minicamp won't be back dillas contract is resolved he also said he wants to remain with the seahawks for the rest of his career baseball mariners continue to roll up the wins three one delivering on and thrilled the right field is way back way back god nearly off the store board that was just straw kyle seager eight two run blast and the mariners have the lead it is five to three touch them all kyle that was crushed seven ten espn with a call kyle seager go ahead two run homer in the seventh seattle is one seventeen of their last twenty two after a five four victory at tampa bay in other action bluejays found the orioles thirteen to three curtis granderson editor threerun homer at three hundred ninety six reds take down the cardinals six to three indians no problem with the tigers nine to two white sox defeated the red sox five to two at fenway twins top the angel seventyfive snaps the angel six game winning streak san diego's clayton richard loses at no hit bid and the seven padres still be the marlins three to one the phillies take down the brewers freight pirates lead the cubs seven to one in the night that wrigley astros a seven six lead on the rangers in the seven doll final round of the saint jude classic and memphis dustin johnson has the lead at seventeen hundred support shot lied about new york yankees about new york mets bus subway series returns coverage begins today at seven eastern on espn radio and on espn presented by firestone figure senate hood that with you on espn radio espn app you also get our show on.
The Phil Valentine Show
Bill Cosby, Oklahoma and Gm discussed on The Phil Valentine Show
"Going to complete the mission the judge hearing the retrial of bill cosby on sexual assault charges has now approved seven jurors for the case he also ruled that a friend of cosby's accuser will be allowed to testify about hearing the accuser talk about a big payday the major school districts in oklahoma have cancelled classes for tomorrow as a teacher strike will go on for a third day being greedy what we're fighting for is our kids that's why we're here we're that voice for those kids they deserve better jennifer thomas in her colleagues say yes they want more money but they also want more for their schools good news for the bottom line of the big three gm posted a sixteen percent year over year sales increase fiat chrysler reports sales this march were fourteen percent better than last march and ford posted a three point four percent gain wall street it was down and up and up nicely the dow is closing up about three hundred and ninety points the nasdaq hit hard by the amazon selloffs he's up seventy one the firestone dot com from the.
Colleen and Bradley
Actor Corey Feldman claims he was stabbed; police investigating
"You by firestone corey feldman claims he was stabbed multiple times by a quote wolf pack out to get him feldman tweeted a picture of himself in the hospital this morning saying that three men approached his vehicle last night then attacked him while his security was distracted a rep for the lapd depar los angeles police department however tells page six that they never considered the matter and attempted homicide and that feldman didn't have any visible lacerations really weird it's like the time that i said i got that by a dog but i didn't typify dog and just been my own excuse you other this is a real story for teenagers lost you were a teenager and corey feldman is what in his late forty avenue but i think our mental capacities probably going to say he has some arrested development i think given some of the stuff he's experienced i'm i'm not saying i'm just saying i'm not i'm not a psychologist treating him but that's my nonprofessional opinion tyra banks has confessed to getting a nose job early in her career bank says that she had quote bones in my nose that were growing itching so she got those fixed said she added cosmetic surgery when she corrected the issue banks is talking about her surgery now because she feels every sponsor ability to tell the truth also she has a book to sell right also bones were growing in itching that's what she said is that a condition birthday party no way yes way i mean i think we might as well just go ahead and confirm this first comes love comes mirror then comes the baby in the baby carriage in the bourbon key and finally martha stewart she says she kisses on the first date because quote how else are you going to get to know them fast she's also been on more than one date and a single night oh let's not unbelievable.
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NASCAR - 2018 Kevin Harvick wins Phoenix ISM Raceway third straight Cup series race sends a message to 'all you haters'
"Kevin harvick grace to his third straight nascar cup series victory on sunday holding off kyle busch whereas record extending ninth career win at ism brace we in phoenix coming off victories at atlanta in las vegas harvard got in front of bush on the last series of pitstops on the mileoval harvick took the lead for good with twenty two laps to go the winner on egmore and radio yeah definitely was a it was a battle today a lot of fundraising with with kyle and danny and chase therefore the way in an in our car just kept getting better look like kyle started to get loose out the corner the nine was definitely to lose as we got towards the end of the race kyle busch wild up second through much of the race today i actually thought we had a chance to outrace a and beat them you know there with the eleven when the eleven was kind of holding up the four i had an opportunity to get to his outside and make a threeway battle for the lead and take the lead before he get before the forgot clear of traffic in you know wants to four gets clear traffic and he's in his own air there's there's heartbeat that guy chase elliott denny hambledon polesitter martin treu ex junior rounded out the top five sunday in nascar race in phoenix the rest of the top ten included clint bowyer aragon merola daniel swore as eric jones and kurt busch also sunday sebastian board a one of the variety indycar series season opener the firestone grand prix of saint petersburg a victory handed to him when alexander rossi and rookie robber wickens crash with two laps to go or day running third takes over the lead when onto the win talked about it on abc tv is one is emotional messages went to overcome a few bumps in roles than of all fire and if you broken bones to come back in this victory circle and couldn't be any happier for the whole a del cohen racing bassar sullivan and nco master and and everybody on board an older boys and mean that they work so hard it's it's a tiny group you know the oregon entails often who didn't enough the fastest car today but with consistency and which is you know we pulled it together we're going to get.