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The Dan Bongino Show
Government Lies, Censorship, and Outbreaks: Can We Trust Anyone?
"Lot this idea of a reputation and who we are and with this really perilous timer and now inflation the economy the growing censorship movement government spying another outbreak of some virus or bacteria in china it's critically important that any country any of its citizens trust its institutions and its government who at a minimum tell them the truth even if it's bad i know that sounds pollyannaist sick government government lies about everything all the time yeah i know that's the problem that's the whole point of the segment but we don't have to replicate that as a republican party we don't have to be part of that if the democrats want to own lying and have a reputation for being liars which they do and you want to useful be a idiot that falls for it and go right ahead but we shouldn't partake in that you know who are we like what do we stand for do we stand for things or do we not i'm hearing a whole bunch of things coming out of dc that are really making me believe that we don't really have anything bedrock any bedrock principles we believe in anymore tommy tubberville the senator who's trying to you know stand up for human life and with his uh... actions in the senate he's got fellow republicans like crap it all over you've got a massive inflation crisis due obviously mathematically to outrageous levels of government spending and what do we got we got republicans basically playing along proposing budgets that are just gonna further the downfall and and and make bankruptcy de facto or de jure make it inevitable i mean who are we do we stand for anything or not are we gonna have a reputation for honesty and decency or we just gonna play along and become the you know that the swampy counterpart to the already lying liberal left it's amazing to me how many things the left
The Dan Bongino Show
This Is a Perilous Time for America
"I discussed it today on my podcast today too because um you know we're in this really kind of awkward yet perilous time right now we've got this action coming up we've got this primary and we're in the middle of a primary where you know people are eating each other alive over you know almost nonsensical things that nobody seemed to care about a little while ago we've tried to stay out of that you know i've made my preferences clear but i'm i'm pretty clear on who you know i don't believe in republican i'm republican violence political violence of course talking about you know not actual stuff obviously but just these relentless attacks against each other i think are kind of ridiculous but uh it's it's important because i brought it up against us but on my mind a lot this idea of a reputation and who we are and with this really perilous timer and now inflation the economy the growing censorship movement government spying another outbreak of some virus or bacteria in china it's critically important that any country any of its citizens trust its institutions and its government who at a minimum tell them the truth even if it's bad i know that sounds pollyannaist sick government government lies about everything all the time yeah i know that's the problem that's the whole point of the segment but we don't have to replicate that as a republican party we don't have to be part of that if the democrats want to own lying and have a reputation for being liars which they do and you want to useful be a idiot that falls for it and go right ahead but we shouldn't partake in that you know who are we like what do we stand for do we stand for things or do we not i'm hearing a whole bunch of things coming out of dc that are really making me believe that we don't really have anything bedrock any bedrock principles we believe in anymore tommy tubberville the senator who's trying to you know stand up for human life and with his uh... actions in the senate he's got fellow republicans like crap it all over you've got a massive inflation crisis due obviously mathematically to outrageous levels of government spending and what do we got we got republicans basically playing along proposing budgets that are just gonna further the downfall and and and make bankruptcy de facto or de jure make it inevitable i mean who are we do we stand for anything or not are we gonna have a reputation for honesty and decency or we just gonna play along and become the you know that the swampy counterpart to the already lying liberal left it's amazing to me how many things the left
Awards Chatter
A highlight from George C. Wolfe - 'Rustin'
"Monarch Legacy of Monsters, an Apple Original Series. The world is on fire. I decided to do something about it. On November 17th. This place, it's not ours. Believe me. The most massive event of the year arrives. If you come with me, you'll know everything, I promise. Oh my God, go, go, go! Monarch Legacy of Monsters, streaming November 17th. Only on Apple TV+. My guest today is one of the great storytellers of Stage and Screen, which is why it's only fitting that he's here at the Fest to collect the Storyteller Award. He's a playwright best known for writing 1986's The Colored Museum and co -writing 1992's Jelly's Last Gem. He's a theater director best known for directing the original Broadway productions of Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Perestroika, two landmark plays in 1993, and a host of Broadway musicals, including 1996's Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk, 2004's Caroline or Change, and 2016's Shuffle Along. And he's a screen director best known for directing the 2005 limited series Lackawanna Blues and the films Night in Rodanthe from 2008, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks from 2017, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom from 2020, and this year's Rustin, the story of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Over the course of his career, this 69 -year -old has been nominated 15 times for a Tony Award, winning three for best direction of a play for Angels in America Millennium Approaches in 1993, best direction of a musical for Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk in 1996, and best special theatrical event for Elaine Stritch at Liberty in 2002. He was nominated for an Emmy best directing for a limited series for Lackawanna Blues in 2005, and he has twice been nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for outstanding directing of a miniseries or TV film for Lackawanna Blues in 2006, which resulted in a win, and for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2018. The New York Times' Ben Brantley has described him as a brilliant stage director, arguably the best now working in the American theater. The Los Angeles Times declared, there are few living talents who could be viewed as as much of a New York theater institution. Interview Magazine said it would be difficult to overstate his status on Broadway, and Tony Kushner proclaimed that he is the premier theater artist of my generation. And those are just the quotes about his work in theater. There are many more about his work in film. But without further ado, would you please join me in welcoming to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival and to the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast, Mr. George C. Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe, thank you so much for coming to Savannah. Glad to be here, glad to. Let's just start at the very beginning. Where were you born and raised, and what did your folks do for a living? I was born and raised in Frankfort, Kentucky. My mother was a teacher, and she later became a principal of the schools. I went to that school. She taught me. It was horrifying. My father worked for the state government, and that's that. For the first eight years of your life, the town in which you grew up was segregated. Yes. You have spoken about wanting to go see a movie, 101 Dalmatians, and not being able to do that because of your race. Well, my grandmother was this incredibly ferocious figure who would take on anybody. I telling remember her that I wanted to go see 101 Dalmatians at the Capitol Theater. I remember her calling and them telling her no. It was sort of startling and shocking and fascinating because it was the first time I'd ever see her come into contact with a no. So that was fascinating. But then it integrated, and then at one point, when I went to high school, I was editor of the high school newspaper, and I went and convinced the man who ran the Capitol Theater that I should go see movies for free so that I could write reviews. He said, but by the time the review comes out, the movies will be gone. I said, but it's cultivating a love of movies, and so that's what my column will do. It was my slight payback because then I got to go see movies for free. I love it. Let's talk, though, there's a moment you've described over the years. You were in fourth grade, and your, at that time, all black grade goes to an all white class. But that time, I think it was probably a little bit older, so I got about the PTA and the singing. Well, I think by that time, Frankfurt was integrated, but I still went to this black school which was connected to a university there. And the principal, this woman named Minnie J. Hitch, you told us, because we were going to be singing a song, and the lyrics were these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame. And she told us that when we got to the line that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame, we should sing it with a ferocity and that we would shatter all racism in the room. So I literally remember these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch, you know. And then racism was gone. And racism was gone, exactly. They were all transformed. But it sort of was like so cluelessly wonderful for somebody to tell someone that young that if you say words and if you say them with power and conviction, you can change people. And that sense of potency of conviction and language was embedded in me, and it's never left. When did you see your first theatrical production that was done professionally? When I was 12 or 13, my mother went to do some advanced degree work at NYU, and she brought me a log, and it was one summer. And so I saw a production of West Side Story that was done at the State Theater at Lincoln Center. Then I saw a production of Hello Dolly with Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey. And then I saw a production, as it turns out, from the Public Theater and Mobile Unit that Cleavon Little played Hamlet. Wow. And it was done in Washington Square Park. Wow. And some in respect, each of those three productions had, I think, a lasting impact on a kind of aesthetic. Right. And the thing interesting about the Mobile Unit, it was free. And so it was seeing the rawness of that energy of the audience was also very, it was very, very, really wonderful and really interesting and great. So the throughout rest of your time in high school, you were increasingly involved in theater and school. I don't know if it was specific, I think, was it writing, directing, acting? What were you focused on at that point? Acting and directing. And also it's very interesting because when I went to that high school, I stuttered really intensely. So this is one thing I was talking about earlier. So they decided that I was stupid because I stuttered. And so they called my mother over to the school to say, and they wanted to put me in remedial classes. And she says, are you crazy? No, that's not happening. And so I developed an Evita complex. So I said, by the time I leave this school, I will be running it. And so I was editor. I was drum major. I was the worst drum major since the dawn of time. I just, you know, I was editor of the newspaper, of the literary magazine. I just did all these stubs just to, you know, how dare you dismiss? I could tell. And I never heard the story about them calling my mother over, but I could tell I was being disregarded. Right. I sensed it. And I went, no. So you start college in Kentucky and then move to Pomona and California. What at that time? This is there. Oh, yeah. We're doing the whole thing. Exactly. What was the idea of going out to California? Was it just to have a change of scenery or did you were you already thinking maybe that's where you go if you want to be in show business? No, not at all. I had always dreamed of going to New York. I would I would watch, you know, TV shows that were set in New York, like the Dick Van Dyke Show. And I remember this is kind of neurotic and crazy. But I what I really I was obsessed with Disney and I wanted to have my own amusement park. But I wanted money. I knew you need a lot of money. So I decided that actors made a lot of money. This is when I was seven or eight. And so and I knew the actors starved. So when I was seven or eight, I used to practice not eating. So that when I went to New York, this is insanely true that, you know, that I so I could deal with it, you know. Well, little did I know one doesn't need to practice starvation. So you graduate from Pomona, go to L .A. for a little while to do theater, to do theater. OK, now theater, as I guess you quickly concluded, is primarily in New York. Well, yeah, I mean, at one point I did shows and I started to get some good reviews in the L .A. Times. And then I got called in. I don't even remember for to be a writer on a sitcom. And and I and I said something funny and they said, oh, he's quick. We're going to have to tie one hand behind his back. And I took that literally. And that's when I went I'm moving to New York. You know, I just was it was like time to go time to go time to go confront a whole bunch of other stuff and things I need to learn and get smarter about. Well, so, OK, you move. It's 1979. You're in your 20s. You moved to New York. Early 20s. Early 20s. Right, right, right. Very early. In fact, I was 19. I was just pretending to be 20. Something like that. Yeah. You moved to New York. There are a number of years then after moving there that were we can say lean. You got to put into practice not eating so much. You what said once quote, I came to New York to write and direct. And when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. Close quote. What do you mean by that? Well, it's so interesting because in L .A., it's you know, it's you know, there's more space. So so, you know, poverty and wealth are very much so separated. And then in New York, it's, you know, they're next door to each other. And the intensity of the inequity at the time, plus the fact that I had no real power over my existence, sort of magnified all of that. And I remember I remember seeing I remember at one time seeing this image of this of this woman in a fur coat. It was winter and eating chocolates and there was a subway vent and there was this homeless woman sitting there. And she had newspaper wrapped around her legs instead of boots. And she was like like crazy and was like and just seeing those two images next to each other. It's you know, it's the thing about New York. Every single time you step foot outside your front door, you see somebody who is worse off than you and you see somebody who is living a completely different life to you. So you have you get instant perspective whether you want it or not. So in those those leaner years, you are teaching a little bit. You're going to get your own MFA at NYU Tisch in dramatic writing, your... Dramatic writing and musical theater and a double MFA. And then there's a opportunity to have a work of yours produced for the first time at Playwrights' Horizon, which is a big deal. Playwrights? No. And how did that go? Well, it it was interesting. It was it was ultimately the best thing that could have happened for my career. I didn't direct it. I wrote the I wrote the book and I wrote the lyrics for it. And it and there were things that in the rehearsal process that I. And also, when I first came to New York, I said, I'm a writer and director, and they said, no, you can't do both. You have to focus in on one. I said, but I could do both. And they said, no, you can't. So I focused just on the writing. So then I there were things that were happening in the rehearsal room that I knew weren't right. But in the spirit of ra ra ra, getting along and being good guy and all this sort of stuff, I didn't object. And then I remember there was a tornado passing through New York City on the day my bad review came out. So I'm standing on the corner of 95th and Broadway with the winds blowing. I'm reading this hate review. And it was so very painful. But it was really interesting because it was very good for me because, you know, I went, oh, if this happens again, if I get another bad review. And of course, I've gotten bad reviews. But if it's going to be because it's my vision. Because it's I because I put every single thing I had on the line. Everybody, we're only in the room to make a very beautiful baby. And if we become good friends as a result of that, that's fine. But we all have a responsibility. The people that you're collaborating with to do their finest, best work. And you have to do your finest, best work. And it was interestingly enough, when I was at NYU, the piece that I wrote that bombed, I went, oh, this is going to be successful. And then there was this play that I wrote just for myself called The Colored Museum. And yeah, none of y 'all applauded when I said the title of the other thing, Paradise, did you? No. But that's what happened. It was the most interesting thing because I wrote one for success and I wrote one for myself. And that was the thing that succeeded. And so it was a very deeply, deeply, deeply valuable lesson. It was just like, and then eight weeks later, all those people who trashed, eight weeks, no, eight months were that it were eight weeks. Eight months later, all those people who trashed me were going, oh, where has he been? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I'm so glad it happened that way. I'm so glad that the first piece was treated that way so that therefore it gave me a clarity and a sense of responsibility. And doing and doing work that I believed in and and that was that I believe mattered as opposed to something that was going to lead to success. It was just one of those slap you in the face and get smart, George. So you mentioned The Colored Museum, which let's just say, though, you know, you had you're coming off the rough review. How did you even get the opportunity to do The Colored Museum, which is going to as if you don't know, it was the first big success for Mr. Wolf. So how did that opportunity even come out of that? Well, it came out of that because I was at Playwrights Horizons because the guy named Lee Richardson, who was running a theater called Crossroads, said you're at Playwrights Horizons. And I don't think there's ever been a black playwright at Playwrights Horizons. Do you have something else that you've written? I said, well, funny you should ask. Dada, Colored Museum. And so that's how it happened. So there is there were they were both connected in a in a in a way that didn't seem so at the time, but was sort of brilliantly perfect. I want to ask you. So The Colored Museum is produced at Crossroads in 86 and then moved to the Public Theater in 87, which you'll notice the Public Theater, the great off Broadway institution, is going to come up quite a few times in this conversation. But for people who weren't around at that time or don't know or whatever, can you describe what The Colored Museum is about and what the controversy backlash that that provoked was? Because it was you you had to develop thick skin early on because it was not all fun and games in response to that one either. Well, but that was different. That was called pure unadulterated jealousy. So that was that was that was just, you know, I came from nowhere and all of a sudden I'm at the Public Theater. And Frank Rich wrote a wrote a review, a rave review, and said it's the kind of playwright who takes no prisoners. And people thought and that meant he kills people. The language kills them. And people thought that that meant I was soft. So it was just like that was just dumb cluelessness. That was very that was very easy to dismiss. And and, you know, and it was it was just jealousy. It was and that I, you know, I went, oh, my feelings are hurt. Oh, I'm over that. OK, go to hell. You know, it's just sort of like I didn't I didn't sweat about that. Well, tell us a little bit about the show, because this is your big success. First. Yeah, it was first. Well, it's it's interesting when I was at NYU. In the dramatic writing program, there are about three or four people writing plays about old black tap dancers, and they didn't happen to be old black or tap dancers. And so and I was just I was just I just thought about it. And I said, so somebody has figured out, has made a decision or dynamics have been created so that people have decided what black is. And I'm going, I'm black, I'm black my entire life. And I view it as this ever changing, complicated, insane, brilliant, amazing thing. So it was an effort to shatter, shatter any preconceived notions that I thought were going to stand in the way of what I wanted to create. So I wrote this play, which was eight exhibits set inside a museum. So I wanted to shatter all the perception, any perceptions that were in my head. So it's to liberate me to go in any direction that I wanted it to. And that's what happened. And it became this and it became this very successful show. It played, I think, for I think for 10 months at the Public Theater. Then it went to the Royal Court in London. Then it toured all around. And now it's it's high schools do it now and stuff, which is great. So it's in. And then as a result of it, then I started getting interesting from that. I went from, you know, being completely flat broke to then I met the kids of studios. I got Mike Nichols wanted me to write a movie for him. Robert Altman wanted me to write movies. So all of a sudden, you know, these job opportunities happened. But it wasn't for many years that you actually went into film. In the meantime, you were kind of seizing this interest in the theater, this opportunity now in theater. There was a person who is legendary by the name of Joseph Papp, who founded and ran the public, who took a great interest in you and, you know, brought you in there. And and we can say, you know, in addition to producing the colored museum, right. Named you one of three resident directors there offered to have a producing entity within the public for you. This was a big champion to have. He then passes away in 1991. He gets succeeded by a lady who was there for only 18 months. And then in August 1993, this institution of the sort of first thing that comes to mind when you think, at least for me, off Broadway comes looking for a new director. How did you become aware that there was interest in you for that position? And was it was that job, which you then spoiler alert, got and held for the next 12 years? Was it what you thought it would be? Nothing is ever what you think is going to be. But that's the point of the journey. It was actually it was I was I directed a Broadway show called Jealous Last Jab. And then I was then offered Angels in America. And and then I was in the middle of directing a seven hour play. And then they called up my lawyer and said, we want to talk to George about running the public theater. And I went, well, I'm kind of busy right now. Can they come back after? And they said no. And so they wanted to make a decision. So when I was in rehearsal, it was announced that I was running the public theater. It was I loved the thing which I loved. I loved, loved about running the public theater was giving artists money, giving artists money and spaces where they could go do work. It was that, you know, because I after after Jelly, I went, oh, this is hard. Surviving Broadway and dealing with all of these all of the dynamics and the money and the audiences and all of that stuff. This is really, really hard. And you have to be really, really tough. And so I knew all these artists who were really gifted, incredibly gifted people, but maybe weren't as tough. Can we can I just mention a few? Because these are shows that were given a spotlight by you in those years, which, in fact, several of them were just revived in the last couple of years. So decades later, people are, you know, coming back to them. But let's note, Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992. This was a dear, dear, very Smith and important show there. That was 1994. We had Top Dog Underdog, Suzan -Laurie Parks wins the Pulitzer for that 19 excuse me, 2002. Take me out again. Just revive. So these are the kinds of people who were talking about where you can. And this the public was not particularly known for its being inclusive prior to your tenure. Well, I'd say it was I think probably yes. I think it's also a place that gave us, you know, for colored girls and it's also a place that gave us for short eyes. So I'm so I would I wouldn't totally agree with that. And also these were very smart artists and these were tough artists. But there were, you know, it's just you people when you're beginning, you need a place to play, which means you need a place to fail so that you can get smarter. Like I had with Playwrights Horizons, you need you need to to do the work and not feel the pressure of it being the biggest hit in the world because you're growing and you're learning and you're getting smarter and you're getting tougher and you're learning more savvy. Just like the things that I allowed on the first production that was done, I didn't allow on the second one. And so you get, you know, so you're growing, you're growing all these muscles. It's not just your talent muscles. It's your your ability to defend yourself and to protect your work and to go, I disagree with that. And, you know, I remember one time there was a writer who was doing a play and a couple of things got really wonky at rehearsals. And I said, well, why didn't you speak up? He said, well, I was just scared that I was actually doing a play at the public theater and somebody was going to discover I didn't know what the hell I was doing and throw me out. And it's that fear you have to get. You have to realize that fear and doubt and other stuff, all that stuff is a part of growing and you have to have permission to grow. And so that's that's what I took on very much so, which is creating a space that was there. I wanted the I wanted the audiences and the artists there. I wanted it to look like the subway at rush hour in New York. I wanted to have all kinds of people there. So that was the thing that I loved after a while. It became very, very clear to me that as much as I was creating spaces for other artists, it was very challenging to be one. And while being in charge. Well, let's go back to, again, what you were doing when you got that opportunity to go there, because this was the beginning. While you're creating these opportunities for people off Broadway, you were making your first inroads on Broadway. As you mentioned, Jelly's Last Jam, 1992, you co -wrote and directed this about Jelly Roll Morton and the birth of jazz. Your first Broadway show musical with Gregory Hines and small role the first time you're working with Savion Glover. And this gets 11 Tony nominations, wins three and sort of leads to Angels in America. Now, this is it's been looked back at. I think the New York Times looked at it as the greatest show on Broadway of the last 30 years. It's an all timer, obviously, but you first saw it as a spectator in Los Angeles. It started at the Mark Tabor Forum. There doesn't sound like there was even a thought in your head that you might ever have anything to do with this. How did that change? Well, Jelly had opened up and I worked with a producer named Margo Lion, who passed away, who was a very dear friend of mine. And everybody, you know, and there were some changes that were going to be made from the Tabor to when it moved to Broadway. And she brought my name up and Tony Kushner and someone called me up and said, Tony Kushner wants to come and talk to you. I said, OK. And he came over and he talked and I had never read the play. I had only seen it. So I talked to him about it and just gave him my observations.
The Spiritual EFT Tapping Podcast
A highlight from 108. Trust Yourself EFT Tapping Meditation + Talk
"How powerful is the Cox network? So powerful that one day, the internet will let your doctor perform miracles from thousands of miles away. Connecting to remote operating room. Giving a whole new meaning to the term house call. Operation complete. The Cox network, with gig speeds everywhere. It's internet built for tomorrow, today. Cox, bringing us closer. In Cox serviceable areas, speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Cox terms apply, other restrictions may apply. use How to EFT Tapping to grow as a person, to grow on your spiritual path, and to truly change your life in any way that you are looking to change your life. Because I believe that we deserve to have the life that we are meant to live. Thank you so much for joining me today. Let's get into the podcast. Welcome to the Spiritual EFT Topping Podcast. I've taken a break for a few weeks, but I hope that you'll enjoy getting back into this tapping that I have for you today, all about trusting yourself. And am I at a stage of life now where I have a full -time job and I'm going to have a full -time job for the foreseeable future. And so my podcast, I'm going to try to stay on top of it, but I might go some weeks here and there without posting anything. But I really enjoy it as an outlet for myself. So it's something that is definitely still going to be part of what I do. Because that and what I do on Insight Timer is a really nice outlet for me to have. So I hope that you'll still follow along and check out whatever I have going on whenever it's going on. And again, it might not be super consistent, but I think that when I feel in the right mood to do something and put it out there, it'll be better than just kind of forcing myself to do it when I have, you know, a couple minutes here or there, which I don't love doing. I don't love the forcing myself to do anything. So today our tapping is all about trusting yourself. And that is going to be, or it is, a really important tapping if maybe that's something that you're having a hard time with right now. I know that this has been a very big theme for me for probably most of my life. And knowing that, you know, we all have like an innate wisdom that is talking to us, whether it's through our body, whether it's through our mind, or however you feel you best kind of pick up on things. I think most people it's through their body, whether or not they can tune into that or not. And then the other part of that is, you know, you might have an answer based on how your body is reacting to something, but you may not trust it and you may not trust that that's the direction that you should go in because you don't trust yourself fully. So you're not trusting that whatever it is that you're getting, whether it's just like a feeling in some part of your body, whether it's good or bad. Because, you know, as much as we can get good feelings, we can also get really bad negative feelings. And know, okay, this thing I'm about to do is not right for me, but you might not trust that. You might get that feeling. And then that might be confirmed to you when you go and do that thing, that you're trying to, you know, just say, oh, well, you know, I just felt that way for like no reason. And then maybe you might do that thing. And like, maybe it's a really, you know, dramatic event or something that, you know, you didn't expect to go the way that it did. And it's not all bad to have experiences like that. I'm not saying that you should just, you know, never go to things that feel hard or whatever. But I think sometimes there is more of a knowing that we can get about certain things.
The Plant Movement Podcast
How a Generational Shift Might Affect the Future of the Green Industry
"It's pretty crazy to your point. Like there's so much generational change going on in the industry, right? Like, I don't know. How do you, how do you see it playing out between all the people who, you know, they've been doing this for 30 years. They want to get out of the game. Do you think that folks are going to be able to pass it on or, you know, how, how many hustlers are there out there? Like, like you look at a, you know, grow and really build your nursery out. Well, to, to, to tell you the truth, it's, it's not looking super duper bright at the moment. It's looking bright, but let's say from a grower standpoint, a grower is probably the most intimidating side of the industry a hundred percent, because it's not like, Oh, I want to go, I want to jump into the green industry. I'm going to become, I want to open a little plant shop and, or you want to do it at the mall or you want to do it at a little trade show, whatever. And you spent $3 ,000 by some plants and your investments, three grand. You want to get into lawn mowing. It's, you know, $1 ,500 lawn mower that you bought off Facebook marketplace. And now you get a little trailer for 600 and you tow it with your Prius, you know, whatever it is, your mom's car. And now you're in, it's a light investment when it comes to growers. It's a big investment. You know, you got to get it land, either you buy it or you rent it and you got to put irrigation and you got to know what you're doing and you got to put ground cover and you got to buy all the pots, soil, fertilizer, you know, all this stuff, the plant, the baby plants, step it up. You got to wait six months, you know, and a lot can happen in six months where you're in hurricane season right now, you know, then you have freezes in the winter. A lot can happen where you can lose a lot. So it's a very intimidating side of the industry. And I do see a lot of the older in the older businesses, the ones that have kids that are engaged. I see probably half of them, those, those kids being able to grow out the business and continue to maybe make it even better than what their parents had done. But where their parent, what their parents were able to get to because now they're integrating other things. And then I see the other 50 % just kind of like winging it, like, Hey, dad, what do I do today? You know, type mentality where they're not like engaged. I don't know that that's basically where, where, where I see that at the moment. I see a need for just so much in the screen industry and for growers. Like right now we have a shortage, not on product, but a shortage of quality. How do I know that? Because we move a lot of product and I can't grow at all. Nobody can grow at all. The biggest nurseries out here, the biggest nursery out here is Costa Farms. Okay. They have a couple thousand acres. Guess what they do? They have people grow stuff for them because they can't grow at all. You know, it's, they move more than what they have space to be able to produce. And there's not enough of that top quality right now that I see. I know it has to do with the economy, has to do with slowdowns, has to do with choices people have made that haven't been the best. And, you know, things like that, not reinvesting, not thinking long term, whatever, whatever. The train of, you know, low interest rates, the handouts, the COVID money, all that stuff is dried out. So if you didn't play your cards right and know that this train was going to come to an end, then you're, you're in a tough spot. And, and that's the reality. So it's tough to buy the good fertilizer and it's tough to buy the, you know, the good soil that your plants actually need. And it's tough to be on a spray schedule because the, you know, pesticides aren't cheap. And then you've got to hire somebody to do it. And then you've got to have the equipment and it's not easy to do. Totally. And you're taking it to your point, you're taking a bet. Where do I think we're going to be six months from now, a year from now? Cause you're, or if you're growing trees three years from now, five years from now. Like, you know, and you know, who knew that everyone was going to decide they want to redo their, their yards, right? And then you also have, let's say the other side of the industry or the old timers, they've made millions. So it's like, I got to deal with all this pressure from the County making new laws and the governor making new laws on immigration and all these different things that moves the industry smoothly. And it's like, man, I don't want to deal with this crap. You know, I can sell. And that's what I've seen. I personally have five fathers, five people that I know that two of them, they, they are one of the only nurseries that grow specific items. So what does that do? It puts a huge hole in that inventory. If they go out, like if they sell and they start building homes or God knows what they're going to do with that land. And then it gives opportunity for others, but will the others show up quickly? You know, like I would love to just go buy everything and keep going, you know, keep the staff and keep going, but you need to have, you know, a foresight and you got to, you know, move, like move quickly, but you can't jump into all this stuff because that's how things crumble.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 123: Part 2: Rikk Rambo Survives Two Shootings, An Assassination Attempt, and an 800-Pound Grizzly
"Yeah, we did not because, you know, since they were part of, they were in probation and all that with the juveniles, and we didn't really have anything to do with them unless we were investigating them. And I was out of there pretty, you know, pretty shortly after that but never, you know, not able to track, you know, whether that was effective or not. Just don't know. But I do notice watching them. Let me ask you, after going through that, did you think about breaking the law after that? Nope. Nope. Nope. I'm good. Nope. You know, I thought back to all the things I did as a juvie, you know, that might have been, you know, and I'm like, yeah, I think I went the right, I think I went the right direction. Yeah. Well, so you said you did that, you hurried because you had to, you know, you had paperwork to do at Pittsburgh. So how long did it take you from the time you applied to the time you got on Pittsburgh PD? I would say it probably took probably close to about a year, almost like with DEA. DEA was very methodical, very slow and very good with the way that they hired you. But Pittsburgh Police, yeah, but when it happened, it happened in a whirlwind. I waited about a year. When I went to take the test at Pittsburgh, I drove all the way from over in western Ohio, so about a five hour drive, showed up at the convention center, you know, going back to when we're talking about how popular policing was, how difficult it was to break in. Went to go take the test. It was at the convention center, like a Van Halen concert in 1984. There must have been probably close to, I think they said 18 ,000 people for 200 jobs. So I mean, I took the test and didn't think anything was ever going to happen with that many. And being an out -of -towner, because, you know, there's a little bit of nepotism in some of those back east towns, but yeah, about a year. But boy, I'll tell you, you could tell they had a protocol in place to keep the out -of -towners out and to keep the, you know, the people who knew people inside or whatever, to keep Pittsburghers, Pittsburghers. The gal calls me from Pittsburgh out of the clear blue and she goes, you're considered for the job. You have two and a half days to move here. And I'm all the way over by the Michigan border, working over there. And I found out later on this gal had some issues with people like, anyway, yeah, so she had an issue with out -of -towners and some other things. She's been on the racist side. Let's go ahead and say it. This gal was very racist. But yeah, she said, you have two and a half days to get here and she says, this is what you have to have. Now I'm in Ohio. You have to have a driver's license, proof of residency, like a lease or whatever. You have to have a telephone, subscribe to your name and power. And you have two and a half days to do it. It's, I mean, but luckily for me, my secret weapon was my mom and dad lived within an hour of Pittsburgh. So I'm back that night. The next day we head up there and luckily mom and dad were Uber before Uber was cool. They drove me all around Pittsburgh. Thank God I passed the test on the first try and didn't screw up any of the questions and what have you. But I passed the driver's license test. So I got my PA driver's license, ended up finding an apartment, did everything in one day. Ended up having everything I needed in one day. And I totally baffled her. I could tell when I showed up at the public safety building with all my stuff, all my gear, you could tell she's very disappointed. Her name was Cookie. Anyway, yeah, I showed up and had it all. And so that's how it all went. And it kind of bolstered what I thought too when I went to the academy, because when you walk through the door of the Pittsburgh Police Academy, it's also very old. I mean, it smells like history when you walk in there. Old, old building. Walked in and there's this old disgruntled, this is my indoctrination into Pittsburgh Police. I walk into the building and you smell that history. I walk in and there's this old pissed off cop sitting there. And he's like one of those big city, old pissed off stereotype cops. He's got an unlit cigar chomped in his mouth and whatever. And I remember he was very voluminous, big guy, sitting there just angry looking. And he had the tea sitting at a table. There was a container over here with nightsticks and a smaller container on the table with blackjacks. And if you're not familiar with blackjacks for people out there, they were an impact weapon that was your backup if you couldn't use your full size nightstick or once they went to Asps, the expandable batons. But a blackjack was basically a leather wrapped, about a foot long. It had a steel spring in the middle wrapped in leather. It had a handle. It had a lead ball also wrapped in leather on the end. It's kind of sproingy. You could kind of give it some spring. It was meant for close quarters stuff. But yeah, it was like a 1900 Keystone cops blackjack nightstick and this pissed off old cop sitting there. And he says, name, sign here, get downstairs and get your uniform. And like I said, there was no friendliness. So I go down, I get into the locker room and the first thing somebody said, and this is the first thing in Pittsburgh that anybody said to me from the PD, I get down there and one of the other new recruits looks over at me and he goes, so who do you know? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm just that token out of town kid and whatever. But I mean, that was really not a big deal. The rest of it wasn't nepotism or anything. That was the first thing it said. But you could see a degree of people that were there that had been, you know, that were like legacies or they had known somebody. But for the most part, it was a bunch of good guys and gals. And that carried on all through Pittsburgh. You know, I think a lot of the times for us, you know, we're our own best critics when it comes to not wanting a dirty cop, not wanting a bad cop. Not even somebody that, you know, is even halfway, like doesn't treat people the right way and whatever. I mean, so I mean, most of us are our own best critics. And I can honestly say, like with Pittsburgh Police, I work the second worst part of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh's north side. It's called Zone 1. But all through my career in Pittsburgh, I met like maybe, maybe two or three guys that I'm like, oh, boy, I wouldn't want to work with that fellow. But that's out of hundreds of people. And we'd jump zones and go over to their zones and help them out. It would work special details like events and work with detectives. But yeah, my experience for the rest of the time with Pittsburgh was very, very good. It was truly a family. One of the biggest problems we had when you'd have a serious call where you had to call back up, like you had a gunfight going on or you had like a really serious foot chase. One of the biggest problems was trying to sort out who all had showed up at your scene when you write your report. Because, you know, Pittsburgh had a whole bunch of agencies going on that were kind of like on top of each other. And even though Pittsburgh police was the clearinghouse for like a robbery or a shooting or what have you, you know, we had Allegheny County police, Port Authority police, sheriff, school, and they could come back you up if necessary. And so it just looked like a carnival if you had like a really serious call. And so my experience was, though, that the people we worked with were unbelievable. Never, never had a bad experience in the field. Very lucky. Well, yeah, you had a bad experience in the field, weren't you? Didn't you tell us something about two weeks after you got released? You're out on your own. Didn't something happen? So I guess we'll tell a couple of these. For the first two weeks in Pittsburgh when you get out, they didn't have a field training officer program. What I tell people that even 15 years ago, 20 years ago, I tell people, yeah, Pittsburgh didn't have a field training officer program. You'd graduate after your six -month academy and they're like, here's your badge, kid, go out and be good. And that was the way they did it. Wow. So you had no FTO. You got a badge and a gun, go get them, Tiger. But what they did do for your first two weeks is, for familiarization, they would put you in all the different, they don't call them precincts in Pittsburgh, they're called zones, but they would put you in a different zone in Pittsburgh for like a three -day period. And that way, during the two weeks, you could experience every one of those zones, know where their stations are, if there's a court, whatever you need to know about. And you'd also do patrol work with another officer. Yeah, so my first week on the job, so many things happened in one and a half weeks that kind of like shows you the quantity over quality when it comes to, you know, street law enforcement in a big city. But I remember my very first call for service, I was in Zone 2, which is our downtown area. That's the big sprawling downtown and then the Hill District. And my first partner, he was an older guy, a little bit gruff and what have you. You could tell he's kind of like, he's not real happy being saddled up, you know, with the rookie, but that's what he had to do. And it was nine o 'clock in the morning and they get a call of an unknown disturbance from Point State Park. Point State Park is where, if you look at Pittsburgh proper, you have two rivers called Monongahela and the Allegheny River. They flow together and form the Ohio River. Well, right there where that point is, they have a really, really nice park right there. It's huge, absolutely huge. But nothing ever happens there usually because you can't escape. It'd be like Snake Pliskin trying to get out of New York or whatever, you can't get out of there. So it's unusual to have that call. So we get down there, we just drive right through the park in the patrol car, right down through the green lines, we get down to where the problem was, was a park bench. And there were several business people, a couple ladies, a couple guys, dressed very nice, and they're kind of standing back just like watching this poor thing unfold. It looked like it was a homeless guy. He had that Obi -Wan Kenobi homeless look to him with all the multiple layers of clothes where you can't really tell what's going on. And so he's laying on the, I don't know if it was a he, but we found out later on, the hard way. We found out the hard way. Yeah. So he's laying on the park bench and he's kind of like in the fetal position, but you can't see anything but like that Obi -Wan Kenobi rap going on. Nothing. Can't see hands, but he's in, it looks like to me as a young, brand new, fresh out of the box, fresh -faced kid, I'm thinking this guy is going into convulsions. And he's making the sound that's like, grrr, grrr, grrr, grrr. I mean, he's making these like animalistic sounds. He's in convulsions. And so I'm just kind of like, huh. And this cop, without skipping a beat that I'm with, old timer guy, he gets out his big old Micarta nightstick. He goes over in front of all these business people, takes it and just jams it right into the area that's probably going to be this guy's sternum or ribs or stomach or whatever. And just, he doesn't hit him with it. He just sticks it in there to give him a little, you know, hey, pride. He sticks it. Well, the guy never misses a beat. He stops. Well, he does. He stops for like maybe a second. Like he stops the convulsing and the gurgling sounds. And then he goes right back at it again into the convulsions. And I'm like, oh man, it's like our first day and this is going on. And these business people are like all shocked. They're like, oh my God, because of the nightstick. And the cop, my cop, he goes dirt and jams the guy again. He goes, hey, I said, get the F out of here right now. And the guy stops making the gurgling sounds and then sits up. And now you can see it's a dude. He's dirty. His face is really, really dirty. And robes his and whatever he had going on comes open. And there's no easy way to put this. I'm going to make the sound effect. If you heard that sound effect, that's what fell out of his robes. He had this thing that looked, it didn't look right. You know, when you see something that doesn't make sense to you, and just for like maybe a two second period, your head is trying to figure this, like, what am I looking at? I don't even know what I'm looking at, but you know what you're looking at. This guy had a monstrous monster dog. Yeah, he had a monstrous dog. And he had been performing fellatio on himself. And I'll be honest with you guys. I'll be honest with you guys. You know, I've told this story ever since from Pittsburgh on, like when you're sitting in a surveillance van, you're like, what's the weirdest thing you ever saw? Or like, what's the most thing that ever made you the most jealous? Anything like that. But yeah, so we're, I saw, but before we did our podcast today, yesterday, I just wanted to see, I want to make sure that I haven't misremembered this story. So I went online and I typed in, I typed it in. I hope my, yeah, don't look at my browser for this one. I typed in, can a man perform fellatio on himself? And you know what? I was totally justified in whatever, in telling the story the way it is, because according to Men's Health, and hey, you know, Men's Health says that it can't be wrong, 0 .2 % of the male population in America can actually do that to themselves. So you don't have to break a rib, I guess. You don't have to do anything weird. You're like a fetishist type thing. But anyway, so that guy sits up. I know it makes a lot of mental, you can't help, but just get the mental images. I'm sorry, but if you do that, are you automatically gay then? I mean, how does that work? I don't, you know what? I'm not here to judge. I'm not here to judge. All I can tell you is, I guess I, you know, if I had to, I'd have to say, I would probably be homeless too. You know, if I had that going on, I might be homeless, or at least never leaving my house. I don't know. But yeah, so that comes out and flops down and what have you. And the business people, and not just the men, I mean, not just the women, the men too, it was like, you know those 1950s movie screams? Yeah. Like the over -the -top, like from all the old horror movies, like, ah! That's what universally happened to that small little crowd of business people. They were nowhere to be seen in about 25 seconds. They were gone and whatever. And you know, the guy, the park bench guy, he reels it in, or I'm not sure how that spools it up. I'm not sure what he did. If he had a holster, I'm not sure what he did. But anyway, yeah, so he gets it back in there somehow and gets himself bundled back up, and he just goes trudging off. And he never did say one word that you could understand. It was all just like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, just total nonsensical gibberish. And he just kind of wandered off into the sunset. I guess that's what heroes do. Ah, jeez. Yeah, he wandered off into the sunset. And I'm thinking to myself, huh, I went through five years of college and 70 years of military, and here we are. It's great. It was absolutely great. I would not trade my time with the things we saw in this world.
The Mason Minute
IJBOL (MM #4596)
"For we've decades been using initialisms and usually didn't know it. I've always thought they were acronyms. Let's say for example somebody texts you something and you type back LOL for laughing out loud. That's actually an initialism. Initialisms have been around since like the Usenet in the 1980s. So of course old people like me, I use LOL all the time. Well of course Gen Z is tired of LOL and they've got a new one, IJBOL. And I'm thinking to myself, what does IJBOL mean? Very simple, I just burst out laughing. Now I realize, laugh out loud, I just burst out laughing. Similar emotions, similar expressions, but isn't it easier just to say LOL? Now I realize once old people like me started using it, Gen Z, younger people, millennials don't want to use it anymore. Once it becomes mass media, they don't want any part of it. So if you ever see IJBOL, you now know it's a young person and more importantly, you know they just burst out laughing. I'll be an old timer. LOL is simple for me. It's quick, it's easy, and it's only three letters.
The Mason Minute
IJBOL (MM #4596)
"For we've decades been using initialisms and usually didn't know it. I've always thought they were acronyms. Let's say for example somebody texts you something and you type back LOL for laughing out loud. That's actually an initialism. Initialisms have been around since like the Usenet in the 1980s. So of course old people like me, I use LOL all the time. Well of course Gen Z is tired of LOL and they've got a new one, IJBOL. And I'm thinking to myself, what does IJBOL mean? Very simple, I just burst out laughing. Now I realize, laugh out loud, I just burst out laughing. Similar emotions, similar expressions, but isn't it easier just to say LOL? Now I realize once old people like me started using it, Gen Z, younger people, millennials don't want to use it anymore. Once it becomes mass media, they don't want any part of it. So if you ever see IJBOL, you now know it's a young person and more importantly, you know they just burst out laughing. I'll be an old timer. LOL is simple for me. It's quick, it's easy, and it's only three letters.
The Mason Minute
IJBOL (MM #4596)
"For we've decades been using initialisms and usually didn't know it. I've always thought they were acronyms. Let's say for example somebody texts you something and you type back LOL for laughing out loud. That's actually an initialism. Initialisms have been around since like the Usenet in the 1980s. So of course old people like me, I use LOL all the time. Well of course Gen Z is tired of LOL and they've got a new one, IJBOL. And I'm thinking to myself, what does IJBOL mean? Very simple, I just burst out laughing. Now I realize, laugh out loud, I just burst out laughing. Similar emotions, similar expressions, but isn't it easier just to say LOL? Now I realize once old people like me started using it, Gen Z, younger people, millennials don't want to use it anymore. Once it becomes mass media, they don't want any part of it. So if you ever see IJBOL, you now know it's a young person and more importantly, you know they just burst out laughing. I'll be an old timer. LOL is simple for me. It's quick, it's easy, and it's only three letters.
The Mason Minute
IJBOL (MM #4596)
"For we've decades been using initialisms and usually didn't know it. I've always thought they were acronyms. Let's say for example somebody texts you something and you type back LOL for laughing out loud. That's actually an initialism. Initialisms have been around since like the Usenet in the 1980s. So of course old people like me, I use LOL all the time. Well of course Gen Z is tired of LOL and they've got a new one, IJBOL. And I'm thinking to myself, what does IJBOL mean? Very simple, I just burst out laughing. Now I realize, laugh out loud, I just burst out laughing. Similar emotions, similar expressions, but isn't it easier just to say LOL? Now I realize once old people like me started using it, Gen Z, younger people, millennials don't want to use it anymore. Once it becomes mass media, they don't want any part of it. So if you ever see IJBOL, you now know it's a young person and more importantly, you know they just burst out laughing. I'll be an old timer. LOL is simple for me. It's quick, it's easy, and it's only three letters.
The Mason Minute
IJBOL (MM #4596)
"For we've decades been using initialisms and usually didn't know it. I've always thought they were acronyms. Let's say for example somebody texts you something and you type back LOL for laughing out loud. That's actually an initialism. Initialisms have been around since like the Usenet in the 1980s. So of course old people like me, I use LOL all the time. Well of course Gen Z is tired of LOL and they've got a new one, IJBOL. And I'm thinking to myself, what does IJBOL mean? Very simple, I just burst out laughing. Now I realize, laugh out loud, I just burst out laughing. Similar emotions, similar expressions, but isn't it easier just to say LOL? Now I realize once old people like me started using it, Gen Z, younger people, millennials don't want to use it anymore. Once it becomes mass media, they don't want any part of it. So if you ever see IJBOL, you now know it's a young person and more importantly, you know they just burst out laughing. I'll be an old timer. LOL is simple for me. It's quick, it's easy, and it's only three letters.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Flight to Quality" and the Bitcoin Circular Economy with Gabby from "Global Spanish" and "Lightning Koffee" - October 17th, 2023
"Hello and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danzig, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clipston, Greg Foss, Thomas Strahleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right, good morning all you Cafe Bitcoiners, good morning Peter, Terrence with one R. Good morning, how's it going everybody? Good morning. It's going great. Oh, and look who just showed up his top with two R's, throwing you an invite. All righty then. Welcome everybody, Cafe Bitcoin, once again this is episode 456, shout outs to our guys and gals on fountain and nostril nests. Our mission here is to provide signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin today. We're going to be discussing a flight to safety, shifts in institutional perspectives on Bitcoin and how fiat, this broken ass monetary system enables state level warfare at a level that I suspect might be impossible otherwise if you actually asked people what they wanted to do and had to get everybody's buy -in. We'll talk more about that later. Later today we've got lightning coffee. These folks make coffee, take payment in Bitcoin, contributing to that Bitcoin circular economy. Personally, if I find out, like if I'm going to try, if I'm looking to buy something, whatever it is, coffee, hats, whatever, you name it, if I have two options and there's one made by a Bitcoiner and I know that it's at least similar in quality or better, I will always buy it from the Bitcoiner instead because, all right. Good morning, Mickey, how are we doing? Good morning. Doing good. How are you? I am fantastic. You're pretty short. You're a short timer nowadays, aren't you? Or are you already free? Short time. Short time. Not quite free yet. Mike was trying to trick me. Is he here yet? No, Mike's not here yet. So I was on a Spaces with Gary Leland last night and Mike came up and was asking questions and he's like, you know, he's trying to get me to say some stuff, but can't say the stuff yet. The day is coming, my man. Dom Bay, good morning. Terrence with two Rs. Good morning. Morning. Terrence. Yo. Dom, how does it feel to be on the show at 9 a .m. instead of 7 a .m.? 8 a .m. here, but it feels good. Good morning to whoever's on the Bitcoin Veterans channel. I assume that's Jordan. What's up, everybody? Hey, Alex. What's up, homie? Was that not an awesome freaking weekend, bro? Dude, talk about being re -energized and like just ready to take the world on. Crazy good. Shout out to Joe Carlessari in the audience if you would like to come up. Throw me an invite. All right, let's dig in. So apparently Bitcoin is now a flight to safety. Who would have imagined this dude? Good morning, Ant, by the way. This dude, wasn't he pooping on Bitcoin a couple of years ago? I'm pretty sure he was. Producer Jacob, let's play this thing. This rally is way beyond the rumor. I think the rally today is about a flight to quality with all the issues around the Israeli war now, global terrorism. And I think there's more people running into a flight to quality, whether that is in treasuries, gold or crypto, depending on how you think about it. And I believe crypto will play that type of role as a flight to quality. Somebody needs to keep the education going over here. He did. And he did clarify in a later interview that he couldn't say Bitcoin because they have to spot ETF. He did explicitly state that in a later interview I saw. Is that for real or is that a joke, Dambe? That's for real. I'll try to find it. He said that when the first interview he was on, CNBC, he said that. He's been saying that the entire time. Yeah, he said that early on due to regulatory. Yeah. If you're about to launch a multi -billion dollar ETF, if there is an idea that you are trying to pump your own books, basically, prior to this, this is not a good thing. I don't think the regulators, in fact, it might even be illegal. Terence, what do you think? So with IPO it is, there's like a quiet period. I don't know about ETFs, but out of an abundance of caution, it's better not to do it. And there might be a law against it. But I think even if there isn't a law, the SEC won't like it. So he doesn't do it. That's pretty funny. It's like, you know, I know these are laws, but you've got, you know, like, you know, the news outlets have been reporting this for a while. Like everybody knows these guys are putting out this. But news the outlet is not the one issuing the security, is the point. And it doesn't make it any less irritating, that's for sure. Because every time I hear it, it's like fingernails on the chalkboard. But it is what it is. I think it's bullshit. Peter, would you classify that as cringe? Would I classify what the saying crypto is cringe? No, no, no, you said it's irritating. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Does that classify as cringe to you? Is it cringey? I don't know. I don't know what fucking cringe is. Thank God. I hate that word. It's ridiculous. I think it's bullshit. This is just my opinion and I'm about to fucking irritate and maybe piss off a whole bunch of people. But I personally think that dudes who use the word cringe. Alex, you're being cringe right now. So anyways, I think it's bullshit. Fuck yourself. Think of all the other people who have been filing ETFs and they talk about Bitcoin all the time. Like Cathie Woods and all these other people. It's bullshit. That's a good point. Which is probably why the SEC might, if they had their druthers, if they could, they might favor the BlackRock and Fidelity ETFs. Why? Because with gold, right, you only have two big gold ETFs, IAU and GLD. You don't need like 50 or 20 or 10 or whatever it is, Bitcoin ETFs. It'd be nice to have it, more choice, but I'm not sure the SEC is going to have as much confidence in the smaller ETF applicants, to be honest. One thing that's for sure, we talk about all the time on here, Alex. Interesting watching Fink's body language. He's definitely uncomfortable in the whole conversation. And then when he says crypto, he moves himself in his seat and he's like, yeah, that could be this, this, and crypto. And he kind of spits it out and cuts himself off. I mean, if you watch it closely, there's definitely some tells there. I just stuck the video up in the nest if you want to check it out.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GENC : Innovation at the Core of Marketing with Alyson Griffin, Head of Marketing at State Farm
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, I have to play you the new intro that I just made for Gen C. So here it goes. Edge of my seat. All right. So you might've noticed that was me not speaking English, but I am going to Portugal next week. So that was me speaking Portuguese. And how did I do that? Well, both you and I have been experimenting with, Hey, Jen's video translation software that utilizes AI to speak in multiple languages. You added an amazing piece that you put up on LinkedIn the other day. If you speaking Hindi, I don't know if you actually speak Hindi or not. Very limited. Very limited. But I just want to throw this stat out before I want to get your thoughts, which our is old friend, Mr. Beast, 50 % of the people who watch his videos don't speak English. And so what he does is hire voice actors all over the world to be the Mr. Beast in their local areas, because he knows that for him to go as global and get as many views as he needs, he has to be in language. And so what do you think about, Hey, Jen, and some of these new tools that are coming that will allow for video translation that is not only only, audio but as you and I have both been playing with, it also literally changes your mouth movements to be speaking the language that you've selected. Sam, thank you for turning me on to Hey, Jen. My first thought was that I was going to use it to connect my grandparents along because we do have a language barrier. And while I was sad to see that Telugu was not a supported language, I was like, it's okay. I'll do it in Hindi. And I sent it and they actually thought it was real because, you know, not everybody is familiar with powers of AI, especially with this sort of intonation, which is amazing. And then I started playing around with it a little bit more. And I want to call out Hey, Jen, but also 11 Labs, which is the voice translation that is powering all of this. Hey, Jen is sort of bringing that video, but 11 Labs does the audio. And we've been working on a couple of little things with 11 Labs in different capacities. I'm really impressed with what they're building. And it's critical because only 14 % of the world speaks English, yet 59 % of the world's digital content is in English. So if you're a person who doesn't speak English, much less, God forbid, is not literate, then you can't access the amazing, wonderful world of the internet that we all know today. It's a massive thing. I think it's early days. And of course, everybody rightfully so has questions on where is this data going? Who owns it? Who's storing it? Hey, Jen is an LA based company. And 11 Labs has raised from a number of investors, including Andre Sinso. We've done some diligence on them, but I think it's early days. But this technology is insanely powerful for brands, but in the immediate term for content creators. If I was a content creator, I would be using this immediately for my target languages, because it'll expand your reach so much, enable you to connect. And by the way, it's not going to be long before that's happening on demand. In real time, I mean. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I did the same thing you did. I recorded a video that I translated into French and I sent it to my friend in Paris. And I said, I've been working on my accent. What do you think? And he gets back to me and goes, oh, like, you're really nailing the language, you're really nailing the accent. Like, you've come a long way. I don't speak French. Because the intonation is like you, right? Right, exactly. It's cloning your voice. It sounds like a white person speaking Hindi. Like, there's some things that are colloquialisms that a local person would never say, but it sounds like how you would speak Hindi if you were very good at it. Yes. I will also say what was fascinating to me was Angelique Vendette, who I also sent the video to, responded and say, okay, here's the problem. It's speaking French Canadian. It's not speaking Paris French. And then I had other friends who because I had put it up on Instagram and for the one in Spanish, I had tagged Mexico and I said, can't wait to get back to CDMX. And someone tagged me and said, no, this is speaking European Spanish. This is not speaking Latin American Spanish. So I do think there is like a lot of nuance that still needs to get worked out in it. But just the fact that I could record a 48 second video that people in Paris and people in Mexico didn't recognize that it was AI at first. I thought it was fascinating. I think you hit it exactly, which is, oh, yeah, if I was a content creator, if I was a brand marketer and I was doing shorts, I think this is a perfect way just to get more reach for your content at a 30 to 90 second level, which should be labeled as AI also. Agreed. Definitely. Cross -country transparency, 100 percent. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But I do think that anyone who hasn't played with the page and video translator or there, you can now do it just by uploading a photo and snippets of your voice powered by 11, as you mentioned. So you can actually create yourself saying anything without even having to record a video at this point. You could all do it by text. So it's pretty fascinating. I'm very excited for where this stuff is going, because this is the kind of use case that I think you and I look at this and we're like, this has a very tactical, tangible opportunity. And I think the stat that you just mentioned, only 14 percent speak English, but 60 percent of the content is in English is such a big business opportunity when you really think about that. So, so relevant. Let's pivot from there to a very related topic, which is I don't know if you saw this week, but TikTok has started using AI labeling and Reddit and Reddit. Right. Exactly. For TikTok, anytime you use one of the filters that utilizes AI, now it's going to be labeled as AI. They also are doing auto detection for people who are utilizing AI software and they want anyone who is utilizing AI for their content to have a label on it. I think this is a step in the right direction. I would love all news content also to be labeled like this, because there's a lot of stuff out there. I read an obituary that was driven by AI about a basketball player who had passed away and it said the basketball player is unliving. So that was the way that AI described him being dead, was that he was unliving. And so clearly there's a lot of stuff that needs to get worked out. But from a brand perspective, from a creator perspective, I think that the idea that we should know when things are being modified feels like the right thing. But do you think that affects the creator economy in any way? I think it's similar to how we do hashtag ad, like trust or transparency is key. We just need to be transparent about using these things. I've thought that for quite a while as it relates to Instagram and TikTok filtering because people get unrealistic like body images. I mean, yes, some of this happens in like magazines and photo shoots and all of that stuff it has for a long time. But I'm all about trust or transparency and the digital ecosystem. Agreed. And I also think there's a healthy respect for knowing when someone might be utilizing a tool. It's a productivity tool. It doesn't mean it has to be less entertaining. It doesn't mean it has to be less interesting. I think our enterprise brands, though, we're still at a place where like we can't just use 11 labs like at scale right now. It's not ready yet. It's like a proof of concept. This is how it could be going. And back to what we've talked about before, it's building the muscle for when this really hits scale, we're going to be ready. Correct. And in terms of just going back to Mr. Beast, who has these 13 actors that play him around the world, he said, our team is very actively looking because it's not cheap to do that. And he said, our team is very actively looking. He thought from his perspective and when their research that it's going to be still a couple of years before we actually see it being good enough where he's comfortable. What he said, which was interesting, is they've done some AB testing where they use the voice actor and then they'll use a cloning. And he said every time he does a cloning, people are calling out that something sounds wrong and it distracts them from the content in the video, which I think for someone like him is just really important to make sure it's landing. Totally, totally agree with that. Yeah. All right. Final story before we get to an amazing guest is Crossmint and MasterCard are going deeper together. So Crossmint powered this artist portal that MasterCard released a couple of months ago. It actually brought one hundred thousand people into blockchain. It was primarily based on music and that was also powered by Crossmint. And it seems that Crossmint and MasterCard are getting in bed together even more with an eye toward small business, which I thought was kind of interesting. Just the idea of easy ways when you think of utilizing your MasterCard to pay for something and then thinking about a reward system that can be on chain, that feels like it makes a lot of sense, right? I hit my 10th time at the coffee shop. I get a little NFT that says I'm a 10 timer and maybe that gets me a free coffee later. But this feels like a very natural, easy way for blockchain and brands to get together. And I want to know if you have any thoughts about that. Yeah, well, I love Rodry and the team and of course, Raja and his amazing team at MasterCard and everything that they've done in this space. So recently connected with Raja and he was like, I'm still very bullish on Web3. And one, I love him for saying that because there's so many mixed reactions right now. And it's amazing to hear leaders who continue to invest, continue to launch programs like their startup accelerator and continue to support these sort of Web3 native businesses, massive bands of what Crossmint is doing. And I think that a partnership between a payment processor and a minting tool makes a lot of sense because you're likely going to be paying maybe not thousands of dollars, but a couple bucks for some of these things. And having that super integrated is a great fit. And shout out to MasterCard for continuing to innovate in this space. I see them. I see Visa. I see the banks really continuing to lean in and identify these enterprise use cases that can make their customers both B2C and also B2B customers lives a little bit easier. Well, we have asked Raja to be on the podcast 27 times, so we're going to continue to ask until he shows up. So, Raja, if you're listening, we're coming for you. Avery, after the break, we are going to come back with Allison Griffin from State Farm, a big brain marketing thinker, so excited to hear her perspectives on marketing, on the metaverse, on Web3, on innovation in general, because she's such a great thinker on that. So we will talk to her after the break. Sounds great.
The Spiritual EFT Tapping Podcast
A highlight from 104. Acceptance EFT Tapping Meditation + Talk
"Hi, I'm Nicole and I'm an EFT tapping practitioner and I want to help you learn how to use EFT tapping to grow as a person, to grow on your spiritual path, and to truly change your life in any way that you are looking to change your life. Because I believe that we deserve to have the life that we are meant to live. Thank you so much for joining me today. Let's get into the podcast. Welcome to the spiritual EFT tapping podcast. This podcast I'm actually going to have tapping. I haven't had that in a couple of episodes and this is actually a brand new tapping that I think you're really going to like and it is all about acceptance. That is the title of this week and I think I found that acceptance is such a big part of like processing a situation and it's something that I think I have a really hard time with. For example, you know, if something comes up that I wasn't expecting or I didn't want to happen necessarily or like an outcome that I wasn't looking for, maybe I was looking for a different outcome. I think sometimes like the hardest part for me is actually accepting that like, okay, this isn't happening the way that I wanted it to happen. And after I kind of get over that hump that it's fine, but it seems like in the past couple months just situations that have come up. It's like that hump is almost longer than just getting it's longer than kind of how I feel when I get to that other side of it where it's just like, oh, this really kind of like sucks that it didn't work out and because it's almost like just accepting that it didn't work out. It's just for whatever reason that takes longer and I think sometimes it is because there is a little bit of hope that I'm holding on to that like, okay, maybe this isn't, you know, what's going to happen or whatever it may be and I think sometimes it has nothing to do with that. Sometimes it's just literally because it's like, well, I just don't want this outcome. Like I don't want this to be what's happening and yeah, I think all of that's really hard. So if you're struggling with acceptance in any way or just as a thing kind of like struggle with acceptance, then this tapping is going to be really helpful to you. And I don't want to talk too long about it because I just feel like, you know, it just meant for you to listen and to just, you know, take in and hopefully it helps you in your situation and what it is you're going through and just helps you get closer to that acceptance and something I really hammer in in this tapping particularly is that it also like you're not supposed to just do this tapping and then magically like accept everything that you don't want to happen after this tapping. I really hammer in that it's it can be like a longer process and it's so important to be gentle with yourself and just I mean, even if you need a long period of time of like, okay, I know that I haven't fully accepted this and but you know, maybe every day I get like a tiny bit closer and really just knowing that that's okay, like that's all you can really do and then by almost getting a tiny bit closer to acceptance, you're kind of, you know, even closer to just kind of getting over that hump of that situation. And yeah, I mean sometimes it's really all you can do. So I really hope this helps you today. And if you like what you heard, I would love you to leave a five -star review on this podcast. It really helps get it out to more people and you can also check way more of my content on Insight Timer, which is kind of like where I live and where my content lives. I have so many toppings over there and I also have a lot of courses. So I also do sometimes live toppings. So check that space out. You can see that in the show notes and if you ever want to reach out, I'm on Instagram at nicole .4 .reel and I'm on email at hello at nicole4real .com. But most people just find me on Instagram. So yeah. Anyway, I hope you have a great day today and I hope you enjoyed this topping and I will see you in the next episode.
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Phone Booth (2002) (Thriller/Psychological Thriller) Movie Review
"What's everyone? happening It's Kira and Ben back again. Today, we're doing a user suggestion phone booth from 2003 starring Colin Farrell. So I saw this movie when it first came out and then I had not seen it again, and re -watching it for this podcast was an absolute wild ride. Ben, let's talk a little bit about your history with the film before we get in it. So I never watched it. Naziru Wanda from Ghana suggested it, and this is my first time actually watching it too. This is your first? Okay. So I knew going in, I had remembered the main plot points of this movie. I had forgotten a lot of the other plot points of this movie, and I forgot what big of a cast this has. So our main man, Stu, is played by Colin Farrell. Our main police detective is played by Forest Whitaker. Colin Farrell's wife is played by Rahata Mitchell, and then his wannabe mistress is played by Katie Holmes, and then the voice over the phone is Keither Sutherland. So a wildly large cast for this film. Obviously, this movie has come out post 9 -11, which I think you can see a lot in the blue tint of the film. If you guys look at color theory, and we're not going to talk about color theory too much about this because the movie is so wild, but if you look at movies that come out directly after 9 -11, there is this very odd bluish tint to a lot of them. I think in my heart, like when I've done research about this and what I've viewed from it as well, is when you're watching films like this, I think it's because it kind of portrays this surreal sadness that everyone was feeling. Kind of like when you look at films made in that time that are set in the Middle East, they film everything with this yellowish tint to make it seem more like third world. So I thought the bluish tint of this movie was so insane, especially having it be set in New York. Then when I was doing some research about the film, this movie was actually supposed to be released in 2002, but it didn't get released until 2003 because there were actual sniper attacks in DC that delayed the release of this film because this movie is about a sniper terrorizing a man in a phone booth. Like I said, first time seeing it and the character of Colin Farrell reminded me of the character from Fast Timer at Ridgemont High that was selling the tickets. They mimicked each other. I was sitting there going, wait, I'm expecting Spicoli to walk out any second. I mean, they were just to the T, the exact same character. I was like, whoa, what's going on here? Yeah. I think that character is such a classic archetype of asshole. I think that was the point. Colin Farrell is this publicist. He's a liar, he's a slick talker, he's a fast talker, he dresses well, he uses people, he manipulates people, he doesn't care, he's all about himself. We see this in the way that he treats his assistant. We see this in the way that he treats one of his clients, which was an uncredited Ben Foster. I was losing my mind when I saw that. I was like, Ben Foster, what are you doing here? Then he manipulates the owner of a restaurant. He smooth talks this client that he has that wants to be an actress. It's Katie Holmes, she's a waitress. Then he even smooth talks his wife into being like in the beginning when he's not confessing his crimes. So this movie is so insane and I do not want to rag too hard on this movie because it was a user suggestion. But the plot points made to me legitimately no sense. So the pacing of this movie is incredibly fast. It's only an hour 20 and I swear to God, if this movie was longer, I would be like, Keith or Sutherland, shoot me because I can't handle it. So obviously, Stu goes into the phone booth to call his mistress because his wife tracks the phone calls that he makes on his cell phone. Which I was like, first of all, if you're keeping tabs on like your, you don't do that unless you don't trust your husband automatically. Then it comes out later in the film that they've only been together for three years married for one. So they're very new in their relationship. So Colin Farrell goes in to make a phone call to Katie Holmes. You can see he's trying to be slimy and she's rebuffing him. She's like, no, I have work, I have this. He's like, well, let's do this. He takes his wedding ring off. Very just much not a nice guy. Then that phone call ends and the phone starts ringing so he picks it up and on the phone, dun, dun, dun, is Keith or Sutherland's voice. He starts terrorizing him and being like, you can't leave this phone booth. If you leave this phone booth, you're going to die. A pizza man comes up to him and tries to deliver a pizza to him and he's like, you're a dick, I didn't order a pizza. Who orders a pizza to a phone booth? We have this other sub -storyline of sex workers, which to me was the most pointless storyline. I get the point of the storyline. So we have to have him have this interaction with these sex workers to then get their bouncer involved, to then have Keith or Sutherland kill the bouncer and frame Colin Farrell for it. Which first of all, makes no sense because you can see the bullet marks on the outside of the phone booth. So how is he shooting? How is he shooting? How could he shoot? That makes no sense. Then everyone's like, he killed him. It's like, no, he didn't. So this sub -storyline is so insane because first of all, it's like 2003, so you either have a beeper or a cell phone or you're using this phone booth. If all these girls work in this club, that's right across the street where this bouncer is, that Leon, that they get involved, why can't they just use the phone in the club? Why are they terrorizing Colin Farrell? He's just like, let me use the phone and then they're all screaming. I thought it was such a weak portrayal too, such a cop -out portrayal of sex workers. Like very, I don't know, just like what you would think of when you think of a man -written sex worker. Just loud, brash, unkempt, very, do you know what I'm trying to say? Yes, I'm a street kid. So yeah, I hung around with the prostitutes and drug addicts and drug dealers. So I totally got it. I mean, I saw people that did act like that, but those are the ones that were really hooked on drugs and were just like, half the time when they were acting like that, they were on something. It wasn't like a normal way for them to behave. Most people don't want to draw attention to themselves because they don't want the cops on their ass. Exactly. So this dude dies and Kether Sutherland is like, look what you made me do. Actually, he's like, you had me kill him. The guy was like, no, I just want this to end. So Kether Sutherland is, in his own mind, a pioneer of justice. Entrapping these men that he watches somehow, he watches and listens and convinces them that they're either going to die or confess to their crimes. So the two examples of the people that he has done this to before, I view are actual bad people. We have a director of adult films who actually directs child pornography and is a pedophile. So I'm like, okay, deserves to die. Then we have another man who's an insider trader on Wall Street. I mean, you don't have to die for that, but it is like a real crime. Then we get to Colin Farrell, whose crime is wanting to cheat on his wife and being an asshole. So to me, none of these make sense. The first two, kind of get. The third, Colin Farrell, not at all. I get it because they're trying to make him more likable. We have to be on Colin Farrell's side, right? So if he's a real criminal, we're not going to be on his side. I wasn't on his side. But you know what I'm saying? He's our protagonist. So we can't have our protagonist be as awful. But at the same point, it's like, well, then maybe you should have just had him kill adulterers because this makes no sense. So he, in his mind, Keither Sutherland, is this vigilante that is cleaning up the streets in New York because he wants people to atone and commit their crimes. So he's holding Colin Farrell hostage. Forest Whitaker comes in. He's trying to negotiate with Colin Farrell. He thinks he killed this guy. He's like, let me help you, let me help you. Up until this point, they think he's armed and dangerous. It is not until Colin Farrell's wife, Kelly Rahada Mitchell, comes in, which for some reason in 2003, you can just run through police barricades and just be like, I'm his wife, run through police barricades, and then be on the front line with the cops. I'm sorry, that never happened. No, not at all. No, they would have her pushed to the side. She would not be in a hostage negotiation. It wouldn't happen. She would not be front and center to the point where he can put a mark on her. So then we see that Forest Whitaker kind of actually comes around to see that Colin Farrell is being terrorized. He is not doing this of his own free volition. He sees the little target on Rahada Mitchell and he's like, oh, OK, maybe this guy is like real. So then they start looking for him. They're like, OK, we're going to find him. We're going to find him. Colin Farrell's delaying him. And the guys and then obviously Colin Farrell comes clean. He's like, OK, I'll come clean. Like, I don't want to die. I don't want my wife to die. I don't want this girl who I want to be my mistress to die. So he confesses all his sins of being an asshole, which everyone's like, OK, you're a dick, whatever you're holding up the street. We got half the police force here. What? And then obviously when they think that they kill the killer, when they think that they kill Keither Sutherland because they go up to the apartment where they trace the call from, it is actually, plot twist, the pizza boy. And it's like, OK, so he's killed Keither Sutherland for this one person. Two people just sacrifice them for no reason to get this guy to confess that he's a slimeball. Feel like we could have done this a different way. And then so then another so we're going to get to all the insane points. But this is the end of the story. And this is the last insane point. Or one of them is that Colin Farrell is now alone in the ambulance. They put something in to make him fall asleep. So he's all loopy. He's all daisy. And then active crime scene in an ambulance. Keither Sutherland walks up and just starts talking to him just like, oh, like you passed the test. You did it right. Like what happens? Like and OK, so he's like talking to him like, oh, you did the right thing. You did the right thing. And Colin Farrell is like, what the fuck? I thought we killed you. And then he walks away. And the last thing he says, which I think is legitimately the stupidest thing. And if this is the point of the movie, it is the dumbest point when he goes, well, if a phone rings, do you have to answer it? I would say no. I would say no. And that is the last line of the film. And then it goes into this like ringing sound, goes all the way out into the satellite shot, goes to black, and then you hear another person pick up and say hello. So it's like obviously this is like a cycle for him. But the way that he picks his victims is makes no sense to me. Yeah, no. And if a phone rings, you don't have to answer. You don't have to answer it. Look at all the things like when a stranger calls bad. They picked up the phone, bad tidings, scream, scream, picked up the phone. Bad tidings. No, you don't have to pick up the phone, especially like if you don't know who the person is. Hang up, hang up. And I did think at some points the voice that Keith or Sutherland used did sound like the ghost face voice, like to the point where I was like, do they have the same voice actor? Is this even even Kiefer Sutherland? Like I was like, this movie is so bad. So I thought a lot. So let's talk about Keith or Sutherland's character. And I obviously am not a fan of this movie, but I thought the way that he was poorly written was like they were trying to make him like John Doe from seven, kind of this vigilante who lives by his own rules, has his own code of justice and kind of is enacting on that code of justice and terrorizing these people. I think in seven it is done much better with an actual point, with an. We have fully fledged characters. We have reasons that make sense in this. We have no back story. We don't know what he why or why he's doing this now. And you think you think they're given a back story when he when he's talking to about Nam and stuff and he's like, are you stupid? I'd be 70. Like and like I'm like, so who are you? Why are you doing this? Well, what is your point? I mean, did you just one day wake up and say, hey, you know what? I'm just going to execute people I feel are bad. I mean, and that's your concept of bad. And your concept of bad is another person's concept of good. I mean, it's like when people go to war. Yeah. The countries fight, but each country thinks they're right. Of course, there's a right and a wrong. But both countries think that they are the right ones. Of course. And the only one that actually like comes out to be the right one is the one that wins, is the one that wins. And I would say in this movie, no one wins now because everyone's motivations make absolutely no sense. I would say the only motivations that make sense is Forest Whitaker's, because he's literally just trying to do his job. Yeah. And then like I was watching when he's his his rapper talent comes on and I was like, what the hell is this, Malibu's Most Wanted? Oh, my God, I thought the same thing. I was like, why are we watching Malibu's Most Wanted? I was like, this is this is this. And then it looked really bad because they get these two big black guys and this little tiny white guy. And he looked terrified to be around the black. And I was like, this is so stereotyping. This is awful right here. It is awful. It was so stereotypical. It was like someone just kind of grabbed at archetypes that they see in pop culture and was like, yeah, we'll throw this in the film. So I also thought the film was shot horrendously. There is it felt like it wanted to be a Tony Scott film, which RIP Tony Scott, I love your films. But it had this kind of like shaky camera. We're switching in and out of views of like like digital versus like these split screens versus like this like granule kind of like VHS effect. And I was like we're like fast paced moving through the city. And I was like, this movie makes no sense at any point. Did this movie make any sense? It does not. No. Like I said, I thought the character was the guy from a fast time at Ridgemont High.
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Is crypto dead?
"Hello, welcome to Leisure Cast. My name is Brian Farsgaard here with the one, the only Josh Olsowich. Hey, Josh, Brian, how are you? I'm doing great. How are you doing? Good. It's hoodie season back in my natural form. This is my favorite time of year. The crowd wants to know, not because it's tax filing season, but because it is not miserably hot anymore. That's true. It was 90 upper 90s here last week. It was nuts. Oh, that's hot. Yeah. Yeah, no, I love it because the humidity calms down. Yeah. Temperature calms down. People get back from their summer breaks and maybe they start trading. I don't really care about that part. Oh, you're in the deep south because you got that gross, gross heat plus humidity. Yeah. So I need this break. I need this break. I love this season. Football is back. I know you care about that a lot. Huge fly Eagles fly. That's what they tell me to say. They say They here. played quite well last night. I did. I watched a bit of it. They did play well. Yeah, football season, playoff baseball. I mean, fall is really the greatest time. The changing of the leaves eventually. We won't get that for a little while, but we have much to be thankful for. Thanksgiving. Speaking of thankful, that's not too late. We have much to be thankful for, Josh. Bitcoin does well on Thanksgiving, historically. Well, could have fooled me this month. Look, we might be grasping at straws here, but there's not much else to talk about. Not much is going on right now. Everybody's just kind of waiting for a bunch of things. Yeah. And we're just in limbo here. You know, the old trusty 200 week is one with the price. Ethan BTC. We're just basically the average of... We're below it, though. What if this is the historic high ever for the 200 week? What if it only curls down below it forever more? That would be pretty bad. It's certainly a sign of being sideways at best when you're hovering around all the moving averages of whatever sorts you want to analyze. There's really not a lot to say on Bitcoin. I think the market is so thin in both directions that we are one headline away from a 10 % day one way or the other. Something bad goes down with an exchange that rhymes with... Finance. Let me see if I can find a word, Josh. And, you know, that's the negative 10 % day potentially. But if we get that BlackRock ETF, maybe... We're gonna be saying that for like six months. It'll just be around the corner, guys. Just wait another few weeks. BlackRock's gonna come save us, guys. Not a place we want to be, you know? The same thing with halving. You don't want to be the central focus, even though that's how it's been historically. This is no different than 2020, 2016. It's no different. It's just, you know, same stuff, different day. It's got to be boring, even in the good times. Even when there is another cycle, historically there has been. There's still loads of time that's just boring where people get sucked out of the ecosystem, lack of paying attention, etc. Hey, Josh, I want to give a shout out. Thanks, RedScrutinizer, for bringing it up early in the show. We usually mention it towards the end that Josh does videos. But Josh does videos, and you should check them out at Carpe Noctem on YouTube. Carpe Noctem. I don't know how to spell it, so I'm saying it. Yeah, that'll help. People have no clue. It's N -O -C -T -O -M? There you go. You know what I randomly looked today at our... This has turned into a podcast of a podcast, but I looked at our reviews on some podcast stream, and it was over four and a half stars. I was like, oh shit, we got... People like us? I guess so. I don't know. I will say there has been a steady crew who have watched and listened to this show for like six years. It has been six years, Josh. They've tolerated us for quite some time. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. We started in 17, so six years. Six years you've known me. I've owed you a stake for about three. It's true. That's very true. Yeah. Thanks for being here, y 'all. Appreciate you. Even when it's really boring, how can you possibly make money when it's not boring if you can't be here when it's boring? Well, look, there's two things you can do. You can learn about the tech, which might sound cliche, but I did a lot of my Bitcoin learning in 2015, 2014. You know, there's not all those damage else to do, then like to learn what the hell's going on with this stuff, right? Drink the Kool -Aid, get indoctrinated, whatever. That was the time. Look at some of these long timers in the chat, Karen, Callie. We actually met in person one time even. She's been here for most of the time since we've been recording. I like this one. I like you, but I also hate you since 2019. Thank you, Liam. We will take it. You know, the thing is we have very little agenda other than our own bags, but we're just talking about our thoughts about them here. We're not trying to convince you to buy them or sell them or anything else. We're just discussing it and y 'all are here because you decided to listen to conversation. So there's very, very, very little opportunity to be victim to our terrible words. Well, hip hop is right. The best content does come during the bear market, I think. Yeah. So anyway, back to price. Yes, I've been DCA for months. I could care less with prices. The lower it goes, the happier I get because that means I get more BTC. If it goes below 15, sure. I don't care. I'm not worried about, we've talked about this for weeks, but if we're below 15 and it's 2025, then we're in trouble. But if we're boring and oscillating between 23 and 30 for the next six months, I'm not worried about it personally. 23 and 30 would be great. This drive chain nonsense is exciting me because governance debates historically have been bullish. If nobody cares about what you do with the chain, then it's not a good chain. Sure. Yeah, I agree. The ultimate crazy shower thought is where does BlackRock, how do they vote on the fork? Are people actually talking about a fork? No, but let's say it comes to that. I'm not talking about the most likely scenario here. I'm talking about a potential scenario. I'd assume they'd vote with the miners. I'd assume they'd vote for it. I don't know. There was something in the prospectus about forks for the BlackRock ETF. I can't remember exactly what it said, but yeah, I don't know. That'd be interesting. If that comes to pass, I don't think it will, but something to think about way down the line. Yeah. Zero X, lots of vowels says ESG fork. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Fink has really backed off the CEO of BlackRock. He's really backed off of the ESG narrative. And if anything, we're getting a lot of press on the side of Bitcoin being ESG friendly. So it's really... Grid stabilization. Yeah. It's really changed after that. I think the New York Times piece was the bottom of the dirty Bitcoin narrative potentially. I think grid stabilization has to exist though. They have to figure out how does this not just waste energy, but how does it create stability? How does it use renewables? You have to push into those things really hard because otherwise I personally feel like proof of work feels kind of pointless if it's not just work, but it's also waste. Proof of work that's not waste, I think is fine. Well, you're securing the assets. What are the values for all of the banks globally? I know, but proof of stake is also doing a pretty good job of securing the assets. Proof of stake has yet to prove itself. It hasn't been a successful proof of stake chain since existed. it's We haven't seen Ethereum proof of stake in a bull market and it hasn't done so hot so far. So it needs time to prove itself. That's all I'm saying. Look at any proof of stake coin historically, and they don't do well for whatever reason, they do not do well. I'm not saying it's not secure. I'm just saying, look, it hasn't done well. Yeah, undeniable. I'm not sure about that. Let's pull up CoinGecko. You tell me which. EOS? Has that done well? Oh, come on. I'm talking about will Ethereum do well with proof of stake? Yeah. Okay. But I'm saying we can't just assume ETH is going to do well because it's ETH. It's changed its security model. It's changed the yield component. It hasn't proven itself yet in my eyes. That's all I'm saying. Neither has Solana, neither has Tron, Cardano, Dot, Matic. All this stuff hasn't really done anything or gone anywhere. Five years ago, we had a list of other 10 proof of stake coins that didn't do anything. I maintain this philosophy of Bitcoin versus Ethereum, wherein the variability of Ethereum is okay. It does change. It does have governance adjustments, but it's still pretty Chad -like. BTC, you know what you get. It can be good, but you just know what you get. That doesn't make Ethereum bad. Alts should have higher beta to Bitcoin. They're just riskier. And that's where all the stupid stuff happens. So yeah, there's the Lido issues with these. But there's issues with every proof of stake coin. Historically, they just don't do well over time. That's all I'm saying. There's issues with miner centralization as well. Of course. But miner centralization issues are very similar to the staking centralization issues. Similar, but I wouldn't say the same. All I'm saying is if you're drinking the ETH Kool -Aid, I don't care which side of the debate you're on. I'm just saying find one proof of stake coin that does well over time. I haven't seen it. I have not seen it. Ripple doesn't count. Doge doesn't count. Litecoin doesn't count. You will, don't worry. I hope ETH is the first one. But we just haven't seen it. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. ETH BTC appears to just want to keep going droopy sideways down. I don't know if we call this a direction or not. I mean, that is a downtrend over the last year, one year of downtrend. But it's not like puke -y. You want to hear a crazy thought? Bitcoin's having will be more bullish for ETH than it will be for Bitcoin. Sure. I don't think that's that crazy. It's down 23 % in a year, ETH BTC. Relative to previous bear markets, that's not much at all. 80%. Suzanne's got time. Or I'm saying we've created some stabilization in these asset ratios. I don't know. Well, it doesn't look bullish, but it doesn't look turbo bearish. You know, it looks neutral. It looks like it's ready for lows. It doesn't look like it wants to go higher, that's for sure. But would you expect it to? It's not the coin that's getting an ETF. It's not the coin that has all the flows. ETH? Yeah. Oh, dude, the first thing you do once the Bitcoin ETF is announced is assume the ETH ETF is on the way. Right. We've talked about this, that the best news for ETH is, of course, a Bitcoin ETF. Who cares about Bitcoin, right? That's fine. I'm not going to disagree with you. But I'm saying in the moment, the flows are just not going to come to ETH first. ETH will have its day. There's no doubt ETH will be at 10K. Clip it, chat, clip it and ship it. Talk to me in 2025. ETH BTC may do super well. It may go to 0 .1. But over time, it has not done well. I do like T -Bells flip mode. ETH. I think most of the civilized universe likes T -Bells. ETH to 10K is where you lost me. Not because... Is that too low? No, no, no. Not because I was unhappy. I was euphoric. Okay. That's all I need. Just little ETH to 10K action, Josh, and sunset. We ride off into it. That's all we need. You know what else I was thinking? What's that? It's the constant thought of these institutional products. Are they going to offer a yield component? Eventually, they should. I just don't know if that's baked in to the initial applications, right? Yeah. Shouldn't probably be baked into the initial applications. Why not? What if you have BlackRock, you know, take over Lido? What a crazy thought that is, you know? It is a crazy thought. Then we really get to see how good Proof of Stake is. Yeah, I just got excited. I think we need to think like that because of the institutional influence that's clearly going to be here eventually, right? What's going to happen when OFAC compliant BlackRock takes over ETH, you know? Same thing with Bitcoin. They're buying miners. They've got influence on all sorts of stuff. Just something to think about long term. Yeah. I don't think we've really seen the wars that will exist, like have looked puny compared to the wars of the future. No, I don't think we'll have BTC staking. But I don't know. Things could get wild, right? Absolutely wild when the most important asset manager on the universe is in our backyard all of a sudden, you know? Yeah. I want to talk about the dollar. But first, there was a ruling this week where there were two dissenting opinions in crypto's favor. But I don't remember what the ruling was on. Do you remember? I thought one was for Uniswap, but that was two weeks ago. No, it was about the Stoner Cats thing. NFT stuff. As an NFT person, what are your thoughts on that? I think a lot of NFTs played like dance real close to the fire. But at the same time, I think it's really interesting and encouraging to see SEC commissioners write these dissenting opinions and making pretty direct correlations to things like Star Wars collectibles of the past. Like, for someone to purchase a Star Wars collectible and think that, okay, this might be valuable in the future is not an unreasonable thought. That does not make it a security, you know? That said, I don't know that I would say like Stoner Cats or many other NFT projects were like in perfect compliance with what they were doing, too. Like, they might have been going a little hard on the, hey, a number might go up thing versus like... They were a product of their time. Versus enjoy the cats, you know? You buy it for the quality of the art.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 21 Evangelism
"Back to John chapter 8, there can be no real discipleship if there is not knowledge of the Word of God. And I quote 2 Peter 3 .18, the verse that is the key to this book, growing in grace, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen. The knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ comes from a knowledge of the Word of God. And the Bible is the truth written revealing Him, the living truth. Jesus said in John 8 .31, if you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples indeed. The secret to the whole matter of discipleship is knowing His Word. His Word produces faith, Romans 10 .17, therefore we must continue in His Word. The importance of the Word of God cannot be overemphasized. Bible study and Bible knowledge are a must for a believer to become a real disciple of the Lord. I remember just before we had the break, I was going to give you an illustration of memorization. Navigators, I learned from them, and I believe it's true, that if you just run something through your brain 49 times, it's yours for life. I did that. I've done review, of course, some. But those verses have stayed with me. That first section of verses navigators used was 106. There were six spokes in a wheel, and six verses per spoke, and three times. That was 36 times three, 108 verses. I learned that the year I was a freshman, and I want to tell you those verses I still draw on constantly. And they've stuck with me, and I did it exactly the way navigators said, review every day for seven days. The way I memorize now, I do memorize passages while I'm shaving or something. I try to memorize while I'm driving the car. Sometimes that becomes a little dangerous. Because you can't remember the verse, and then you have to get the card out and look it up, and there could be a wreck. I haven't had one yet. I don't know when it's going to happen. But I go walking. I go walking in the morning, and take my memory verses with me, walking, and memorize while I'm walking. That is difficult. My wife likes to walk too, but I walk ahead of her so I can memorize, and she walks too slow. And I walk ahead of her, and then walk back past her, and walk back ahead of her and back past her. She's also. memorizing She carries a testament and memorizes out of the testament, and we don't talk to each other while we're walking. That isn't very romantic, I know, but we are memorizing scripture and hiding it in our hearts. So you can memorize scripture, and you can do two things at once. I need to walk. It wouldn't work jogging. That doesn't work, but you can memorize while you're walking, and so I do. Now, the illustration I was going to give you was, I was 13 years old when I got a bicycle. That's kind of late for kids now. They get them when they're 4 or 5. I can't believe what kids are getting now. They've got to have... I see around campus these kids in camp with their cellular phones. It just blows my mind. How many kids have cellular phones nowadays, and I've heard of parents buying them 700 minutes a month. For heaven's sake, what's going on? I think we're stupid around here. I got a bike when I was 13, and it was a bicycle. Those were the old timers. Those were when you needed to stop, you pushed the pedal backward. Some of you say, Young, you don't know what I'm talking about. You think I'm talking in tongues, but it literally happened. You step backward on it, and it stops the bike. And the coaster brake, thank you. And I got used to that, rode that, and I rode that probably until I was 18, and I guess I quit riding bikes and didn't ride. And I didn't ride a bike again until I was 64. And I decided, now 64 minus 13 is 51 years. I hadn't ridden a bike for... minus 18 is what? 46 years. I hadn't ridden a bike for 46 years. And I said, Honey, I think we ought to get us each a bike and do some bike riding. And so we went down and bought each a Raleigh bike, and the knuckleheads had changed bicycles in the meantime. They no longer had coaster brakes, they had hand brakes up here, where you'd stop them up here. And I tell you, I like to kill myself. Now I hadn't ridden a bike in 46 years. And all of a sudden, here I am, riding a bike, and I come to stop and I step back and the crazy thing won't stop. And before I would do this, I wrecked the bike, hit a telephone pole or something. Now, it had gone through my brain, Zig, you see, they say a thought goes through your brain, and it makes a track. You've got electronic switches in your brain, it makes a track through them. And the next time you think the same thought, it makes the same track. And the next time, the same track. And finally, it makes a rut up there. And if you'll run it through it often, brainwashing, that's what it is. Memorization is brainwashing. I wish I'd have done memorizing scripture instead of telling dirty jokes when I was a teenager. You know, some of those dirty jokes still come back to me. I'm 76 years old and I was a teenager, that'd be 60 -some years ago. And I don't tell them, but every once in a while, one of them will flashback in. A lot of the good things I thought never come back, but some of the bad things, because I ran them through there and got a rut. Well, what a blessing it is to run through there and get ruts all through your brain with scripture that cleans your mind up. And so the secret is to review, review, review, run it through your brain, be brainwashed with the Word of God. And I believe we need to develop our people. Everybody in our adult Sunday school class memorizes a verse a week for the class. However, we don't have a system of review for that. We have a memory verse every week and every week. And I hope some of them work at retaining them, but we ought to work at scripture memory. There's nothing more valuable than that. And so the person knows the truth, capital letter B, he realizes victory over sin. If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed, John 8 .36. Though the Jews were in bondage to Rome, they tried to deny the fact to the Lord Jesus. He did not argue with them about their political bondage. Instead, he stated clearly that all men are in bondage to sin. And Jesus said that to commit sin is to become a bond slave to sin. A disciple must realize victory over sin. No one can become sinless in this life, but the believer who really wants victory can know deliverance from the bondage of sin. And so a disciple is one who seriously takes the Word of God and applies it to his life so that he'll see victory in his life. Cases as examples of discipleship. II Timothy 2 .2. This was the early church's method, Paul's method. And it's exactly what we should do today. The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Now that ought to be a motto of our ministry. That ought to be a goal, the motive of our ministry. Scripture says the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men. So what did Paul say to Timothy here? Timothy, you've learned from me. Timothy, you're my son in the faith.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep. 116 - Talking About The Music Of 1977
"Well, here we are. Episode 116. On the march to 200 and beyond. And on this episode, I have the Wrecking Two with me, Mark Smith and Luke Colicchio from the Music Relish Show. And we're going to be talking about the year 1977, and music, and some movies, some news flashbacks maybe. Interesting, yeah. I say it was the beginning of the end of the 70s. Yeah. So sit back, relax, get yourself some Acapulco Gold or some Panama Red, break open a bottle of Rianini Limbrusco, sit back, relax, and enjoy 1977 all over again. The KLFB Studio presents Milk Crate and Turntables, a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean. Now, let's talk music. Enjoy the show. Thank you, Amanda, for that wonderful introduction, as usual. I got a little FaceTime from young Amanda this afternoon. So I'm sitting there just kind of chilling. Oh, my little girl's calling me. She calls me. And hi. I'm like, what's up, little girl? She just kind of looks and says, can I see the cats? Oh, yeah, that's my life. She don't miss me. Misses the cats. Anyway, welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. And welcome to the podcast. Do you know the name of it? So I'm not going to say it. We're streaming live right now over YouTube, Twitch, Twitter. It's Twitter, formerly known as Twitter X, whatever, a lot of them all over the place. It's going to be a good show tonight. It's going to be a good show. In the intro, I mentioned Acapulco Gold. And speaking of Acapulco Gold, it's Luke Aleccio from the Music Relish show. No stems, no seeds that you don't need. Acapulco Gold is... There you go, buddy. That's a blast. That's sweet. Let me give you some of that, buddy. Thank you. Yeah. A little teaching charm for you. Enough of that. And speaking of Panama Red, it's Mark Smith from the Music Relish. Chardonnay Gold. Instead of Acapulco Gold, he's got the Chardonnay Gold. Yeah. As usual. What's up, gentlemen? How you doing, gentlemen? Good. How are you? Doing all right. Doing all right. Yeah. Hey, you know who I don't miss? Who? I really don't miss Jimmy Buffett. Let's start off the show on a... He's a cynic. I don't miss him. I don't miss him. I'm not going to miss Jimmy Buffett. I really jumped on that bandwagon. Never really got it. Me neither. To me, it's not a bandwagon thing. It's something where I knew there's two or three songs and more steel drums, really more steel drums. But things I've heard, you know, scanning through Margaritaville radio, there was some pretty good stuff. You know, like nothing going to change your world, but you know... It's not my type of music. No, I'm not a parrothead. And I think his concerts were his big, like the Grateful Dead, you know? The concert is what it is. The experience. Yeah. Right? The Jimmy Buffett experience. I guess so. Yeah. It was his motif, you know, escapism kind of, you know. But he did spawn that horrible genre of golf and western music. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather sit in the parking lot with a cooler of beers and a hibachi and listen to the pretenders. Yeah. Did Jimmy ever tour with the dead? Is there really a fuck up with the dead? That would have been a huge crowd, though. Boy, that's the mellowest concert ever. Dead parrotheads. Dead parrotheads. I think he's more of that mellow west coast. I think I could see him touring with the Eagles or James Taylor, I think, more now. He's some Key West buddy. Don't put him on the left coast. No, no, no. He's a Key West man. He was his own entity. Actually, he moved from the Key West. He didn't live there for a long time. Right. But his studio was there. His studio was right next to his bar, right like connected to his studio. Yeah. So that's where he would go. I remember when I worked U .S. Customs behind the scenes at Miami International, he had his own private jet. It would come up from, I guess, the Keys, but he didn't travel in just anything. It would be like, because if you have your own jet, you have a parking spot. You would have a bus. You would have a bus, like a tour bus would take him from Key West. It is from Miami. It's about a two hour drive. So you're going to do it in luxury, but everything's good with you guys. Hot. Yeah. Too damn hot up here in New York. It's hot as Bono's whatever was balls in the back of my neck. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like this. I want winter. Did Lou freeze up? Oh, no. There we go again. The pressure's on me. I got to be Lou. You've got to be Lou. Let me get this brain. I've got to be Lou. I've got to be Lou. Then there he goes. He's off the screen. Ten minutes. Let's set the timer. Set the timer. Will he break ten minutes? Will he come back on under ten minutes? Let's see. I'm starting it. See? I got the timer going there. All right. All right. Well, we're talking about 1977. I was old, but eight years old. So, I was, let me see, probably 12 going on 13, I think, right? I'm 59 now, so you're what, 56? 53. 53? Yeah. And you were eight? Yeah. I was born in 1969. So, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. Yeah. That was right. 13. Well, 12, 13. Yeah. Yeah. I think I was beginning. I was a freshman. I was a freshman. Although, where I grew up, the freshman didn't go to the high school. That was only 10, 11, and 12. Ninth grade was at its own building. Oh. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, 1977, interesting year. Yeah. A lot happened. Yeah. As I said in the intro, I think 1977 was the beginning of the end of the 70s. Yeah. Things were really starting to change. I think disco still had a little bit of a hold, but I think that was the tail end of disco, and it was the beginning of punk, and so there was a transition. That's where, I think, right there is where it started. So, let's get right into 77, as I usually do. I'm starting to like this little format. Yeah. Year by year. And it makes a long podcast, but hey, listen, we're in it for the ride with whoever's listening. We're in it for the ride. January 1st, 1977, The Clash headlined the opening night of London's only punk rock club. You know the name of that club? No. The Roxy. Another Roxy. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So, let's start right off with stories. So, I get off the plane at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. So, 10 years later, right? 10 years later, 87, I get off the plane. My buddy's there, meets me. It lands right on the base. They called it the freedom bird because the turnaround flight was taking people home, right? I get, you know, they bring me back to temporary quarters. I get changed. My buddy's like, let's go. And we go off base. And it is absolutely insane. Like, you can't even imagine the sounds and sights and the energy. And yeah, I can always say, like, if you saw Deer Hunter when Robert De Niro goes back to Saigon, you know, and it's like just that motor, little motorcycles driving by and it's a dirt road. The main street is a dirt road. And this was your first time in the Philippines? In the Philippines. Yeah. It's stationed there. And my buddy says to me, he says, all right, listen, when you go into these bars, you got to act like you've done it before. Oh, come on. I grew up in Boston. I run the streets. I was in the subways. Of course I can. I walk in the first bar I walk into, The Roxy. It's called The Roxy, right? And I just, first thing you see is a bar, a U -shaped bar, right? Big U -shaped bar. The music is just cranking. I think it was like Motley Crue or something just cranking. And right in the middle of that, running right down the center of that Horseshoe bar was a stage and there had to be 15 girls up there just dancing. Like go -go girls type thing. Uh -huh. In bikinis. I was like, what the fuck? Oh, shit. And then I order a beer and the bartender is this Filipino girl. She looks, she says, first thing she says to me, you cherry boy. Cherry boy. Meaning I'm new. And I said, I looked at my buddy. I said, how does she know? He says, it's in your eyes. You're just staring around. They see it in your eyes. Yeah. They know that look. And the rest, as they say, is history.
WTOP
"first timer" Discussed on WTOP
"And process changes are behind the delays. A party in petworth was an instant hit Saturday highlight. I'm a first timer, not a frequent flyer. Dustin Picard says despite a weeklong wait porch fest exceeded all expectations. Very cool vibe just having a whole neighborhood out here and just bumping around. There was a little something for everybody as people of all ages played musical porches. Each setup playing songs with their own unique vibe, Picard says nothing beats reuniting with your old crew for a jam session on the porch. We all have a different parts of D.C., but what's really been cool about this is all brought us together in this one neighborhood. In the district, Matt koufax WTO news. D.C. police chief Robert Conti says he will be stepping down in June before starting his new role with the FBI, a community organizer by sharing what she hopes to see in the city's next top cop. Nene Taylor is the cofounder of the nonprofit Harriet's wildest dreams and says she knew back in 2020, the job chief Robert Conti agreed to take on would be challenging. I know what she can't wanted to do for the city, but I also told him that he wasn't Superman. Crime across the district has been on the rise and now as the city prepares for Conti's successor, Taylor hopes to see a leader take over who encourages proactive initiatives. The solution is to actually pour into the resources and to those communities, get to the root of the problem, which is poverty, housing, lack of jobs. She says her organization will continue to support the city in hopes for a strong working relationship with the city's next chief of plea. I do this work because someone did it for me. Melissa, how will WTO news? A dispute between two men led to a stabbing on the grounds of the Washington Monument, a man reportedly stabbed another man in the 1600 block of constitution avenue, northwest, just after 5 p.m. yesterday, NBC four reports, D.C. police say the victim was taken to a hospital with non life threatening injuries. U.S. park police say an arrest has been made related to this stabbing. And to say I turn after a child was hit by a car in Prince William county earlier this month, that 8 year old girl has died from her injuries. She isn't being identified publicly by authorities because of her age. Investigators say the child was sitting in the road
WTOP
"first timer" Discussed on WTOP
"And process changes are behind those delays. And a party in petworth becomes an instant Saturday highlight. I'm a first timer, not a frequent flyer. Dustin Picard says despite a weeklong wait porch fest exceeded all expectations. Very cool vibes having the whole neighborhood out here and just bumping around. There was a little something for everybody as people of all ages played musical porches. Each setup playing songs with their own unique vibe, Picard says nothing beats reuniting with your old crew for a jam session on the porch. We all have a different parts of D.C., but what's really been cool about this is all brought us together in this one neighborhood. In the district, Matt koufax WTO news. Chief Robert Conti you'll be stepping down and D.C. will begin a new role with the FBI in June or he will, that is. We're now hearing from a community leader about the work ahead and how they hope to see the next police chief support the city. Nene Taylor is the cofounder of the nonprofit Harriet's wildest dreams and says she's watched chief Robert Conti take on the challenge of making D.C. streets safer. He really wanted to, I think, in his heart, reimagine safety, but so much trust was lost because of the police system. As Mario Bowser and the D.C. council worked to fill the position, Taylor hopes to see more grassroots initiatives, like the crisis response coalition supported and working alongside police. And so we need to divest from incarcerated state of mind and invest into community and resources and actually hold agencies accountable. Melissa, how will WTO news? Three O 7. Now it's been two years since Arlington county's community oversight board was created. This to look into complaints about police officers. Now the real work begins. The last piece of the puzzle was a county board approved memo of understanding called a MOU between the new oversight board and the police department. That was approved this week. Independent policing auditor, mummy Ibrahim. We have a lot of work to do, but I think what we've set out in the MOU and the work that we've done so far gives us some good kind of marching orders and a foundation to get started with this very important work. Members of the oversight board of train for some time to be ready, including ride alongs with Arlington county police officers, the board was created after the death of George Floyd, Kyle Cooper, WTO news. Coming up after traffic
WTMJ 620
"first timer" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"One call. That's all sports desk here is Greg Matt. Say, Well, the Brewers magic number to clinch the NL Central is down to 12 that could be reduced by a couple tonight where we need to win over the Phillies and Reds lost to the Cubs. Milwaukee 30 Games above 500 Kristen yell, itches, heating up hitting 3 40 over his last 26 games, just kind of plugging along and trying to contribute every night And honestly, I don't even know when, like I started doing better. It kind of just all feels the same, but just focus on trying to help our team win. And you know this is easy going and compete like that every night and Everything else kind of takes care of itself. Freddie Peralta on the mound for the Brewers tonight, with covered beginning at 605 on WTMJ Day, one of the practice week for the Packers. Green Bay begins the season on the road Sunday in Jacksonville against the New Orleans Saints. Aaron Rodgers views this year's Packers team. In high regard similar to last year and the year before that, there's a consensus that we got a really good opportunity to put ourselves in that position again, like we have been the last couple years, so there's a lot of positivity around around the squad. Obviously, we're bringing back most of the guys from last year, added Randall Cobb to the mix. Matt LaFleur's mindset is a simple one. It's a new season. So every year you got to get you hit the reset button and You gotta You gotta go out there and do it. You've got to prove it. Short injury report for the Packers that area. Smith among two players limited at practice today and the U. S. Ryder Cup team features six rookies John captain Steve Stricker filling out the squad today. With some first timers, including Tony Fino and Daniel Berger. This would be the first Ryder Cup since the mid nineties. Phil Mickelson has not participated in, but he is part of Steve Stricker's staff as a vice captain. Three day competition begins September 24th that whistling Straits Patrick Reed Captain America not part of that group. And he said a lot of success in these sort of competition 73 in two Is his record by far the best record of any American golfer and Ryder Cup appearances. Yes. So this is kind of an interesting one I thought read would be on the outside looking in, not because of his numbers. They're fantastic. But he was dealing with pneumonia not too long ago and had to pull out of the Tour championship, the FedEx Cup playoff events. So his health is a big question, but he's back. But he played last week in the in the Yeah on the tour and talked about not being 100%, right. Yeah, And it doesn't help. If we're being honest that he's not popular amongst the other golfers. He's difficult to play with that. So if you're on the fence that's going to tip it. The other day. Likability is rather low. I know I did find an interesting that Brooks captain Bryson to shambo their beef. They they have said publicly they're going to going to put that on the back burner. Which I think is wise only when the Ryder Cup just pair them up. You will go for it. You a NBC is cheering for that all day long, absolutely kept is injured, so hopefully as risk as well enough that he can play. It's going to be fun to watch right here in Wisconsin..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"first timer" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"It's a massive. Massive park will just for people who haven't been to tanzania. I've only been to the the some of the other perks that we're talking about. If i go to and goran gore which is amazing place definitely go cool place feels like right out of either mutual of omaha wild kingdom or kratz creatures or whatever. Your generation version of africa looked like. Looks like this place but you're also gonna run into traffic in the park. There's lions there. There's going to be a dozen different vehicles all around the lions and so it is not a remote destination in the same way now and i think the reason one of the to go to those places. Because you're like you're going on safari in my life where it's my first one or bringing a multi generational tramp the density. There is unparalleled right. You're gonna see everything in short order. Probably maybe within a day. But you're also seeing a lot of landrovers too but here you will not so we didn't see under the only other people saw. Were actually park rangers during that time and they still have a ton of wildlife. I don't believe they have rhinos anymore. Those have been poached out Pretty significantly all of eastern africa. But you have this massive park to yourself and your they're mainly for the wildlife but it's incredible you in. I think because of that it does feel very wild. When you're just out in the bush pretty incredible and i did go on a walking safari in a lot of the been pulmonary forty walking. I can't even count anymore. And most of them are actually walking safaris. Their nature walks. I mean like they are but they're steering most people away from the big stuff. I'm going to walk up in petty hippo. You're saying they will keep you very far away from those which is which throught sometimes to hugh might do something stupid and you don't know if you're in that group so it's just obviously say fat but this particular walking safari was incredible. It was very wild. They didn't scare us away from things. We saw pride lions on our walk. I mean we didn't go right up to me. Sleep day your distance but a lot of times. You don't see that sort of stuff on walking safaris. We walked right to one of the river. Benton's first thing in the morning and as we approached the river bound. Obviously he's a very high and steep river end but there was probably two hundred. Hippos that just rushing out of the water and it was one of the more incredible things that i've seen in terms of just sheer numbers of wildlife. Sos pretty incredible when and you say obviously very high and steep the obviously there is the to walk up to a river where there things like crocodiles and hippos is. Ill advised and so you walked up to a place where you could see down into the river. Yes correct i. We weren't super high app. And then once we got to another band and we got a little bit closer and luckily it was very steep says the big fat heavy couldn't is agile as they are for their size. They could not run up at riverbank. Run like thirty five miles per hour or something like that when for short distances of all it is incredible and one guy told us that they're born mad. They're a little temperamental. I've had a few run into pippo. And one of my bosses actually almost got run over by hypocrites. That's furniture boston likes it. You like a good distance from hippo. Or when you're looking down on them. I just find them so fascinating and so fun to watch. I think they're telling jokes. As far as i can tell because they seem to be laughing from time to time i mean those are actually their incredible one thing about itami to besides the fact that i saw these massive group of hippos carrying out of the water. But they actually tom. He's actually known for super heard of things and one of them is the hippos there are different mudholes that if you search for a catastrophe one of the pictures you will find these mud holes when it super hot just packed full of hippos on top of and i saw one of them. And it's just like this big one pitch. I mean i'm terrible. You don't get too close but just piles and piles of it. Wasn't you encounter like jelly beans in a jar. There's no way possible. I mean there are hundreds of them and they also have super herds of buffalo sometimes thousands. I've heard but also super herds of la's elephants as well. Which is pretty incredible today. So what is a typical day. You say walking safaris more common than the landrover safari either. Not so much more comment i think. Just they're walking. Safaris are some of the best. I've ever been on because they don't shy away necessarily from actually seeing some of the big game which is a strategy of a lot of places i think. Although to be fair zambia. Zimbabwe do have incredible walking safari spending edge. Sign in. you're going to get more of a nature walk so i think that was one of the things that was so great about this. Particular spot saw a nature. Walk where i'm going to be looking more at birds and safe things in dengue and smoke or prince or something got okay. I'll talk about different plants and stuff that are important to the ecosystem and then you might see something far away but this is proper walking safari which is incredible If that's your thing some people it's the moving on like that up close and personal so obviously it's super safe from are incredible there. It may not be for the first timer and one question because there's a variety in terms of watkins. For as i understand i haven't been on a walking safari in terms of whether your guide is carrying a rifle or just maybe a stick. This is true. Although i think a lot of it actually has to do with the reserve. Or the parkway there are some places that you are not allowed like in botswana. You're not allowed to carry. At least things are changing their. But you don't have rifles. Were you when you're going. So i think a lot of that also has to do with the park and their rules as well to be on the side if you have paying guests obviously or any gusts you don't want to have a bad run with an elephant or something like that so my somewhat educated guests on that is that that may be particular to the rules of the park. That seems likely and qatabi. You do not have an armed guy. I believe we did. Oh yeah i do believe we remember the forty different walking tours. you've done. yeah no no. I i believe that we did. I think he had it. Yeah i think he had a rifle but he was not at all concerned. Actually i did ask him when we were going up toward tall the hippo bit probably we got charged by hit but before i was like he knows how to use that right and to rangers. This guy's the best shot in tanzania with alright. He's my guy he's with. Yeah you get a rifle. He wasn't in any hurry. Well sometimes the biggest danger sadly for the rangers in tanzania or any of these parks are poachers more than the animals..
The Wellness Mama Podcast
"first timer" Discussed on The Wellness Mama Podcast
"This. My oldest son shot his first year last hunting season and it was really interesting to watch him work through that mentally that process of it and kind are feeling the levels of the pride of being able to bring food home to the family but also that responsibility and realizing the gravity of actually having brought that food home and what that meant and i saw him be so excited and so proud to be able to cook at deer leg as our easter dinner or christmas dinner. And how wanted to make sure every little last piece was used and then the bones were made into broth and It was it was really interesting to watch him. Go through that process. And you're right. I think so. Many people miss out on that in the modern world and admittedly. I've never been happening. So i haven't had the direct experience but i got to watch it through my son in i as you're saying that katy i'm putting myself in your son shoes and is fourteen years old. The first derived shot. I cried my i. I i just. I couldn't believe what about down here and it was hard and it's still not easy but then as you're saying there comes this pride of this -ccomplish this by providing and you know what this animal is worthy and valuable such that every piece of it should be utilized and that's i think that's another part of the lifestyle that i come from and a lot of my audience adheres do is just way. Waste is not it it. Probably all of us in our lives we. We don't waste anything on purpose. But when you feel that this animal gave its life your sense of utilizing much as possible down to the hyde for the leather the bones as you mentioned the whatever part might be the tongs the organs. And it's like i got gotta make the most of this and with that also comes a sharing aspect and a good friend of mine chain mahoney. Who speaks on this cultural. i'll call it. Reconciliation of the emotion versus the reality he says. Does anybody ever come over. And say hey. I'd like to share this piece of of beef. I bought at the at the butcher shop today but so often they come and say hey. I was lucky enough to take this year this elk. Do you want someone to share this with the sharing aspect of wild food. That is present in a way that i see in no other part of our food world and at like. You're observing. That how proud of your son was to provided and part of that is that sharing aspect. I'm here to share the the cultures of no matter. What culture you come from there has been sharing community aspect of food since began and hunting is one place where that's still very present today. Yeah absolutely and i think it also eight points to so many of these skulls you touched on this a little bit in the beginning but the skills that we can learn not just from hunting but from interaction with the outdoors in general. I think this is something that we have largely separated from in modern society. And that i think is really important. I definitely make an effort in our family for our kids to spend a lot of time outdoors and certainly. I don't think it's nearly as much as it could or should be but i feel like there are so many really really valid and applicable life skills that come from spending time in nature whether it be hunting or whether it just be camping or hiking or having an interaction with the environment in these different ways. I know you've talked about this. Some in the past as well like what are some of these life skills from appearance perspective that we as families and for our kids can learn from our time outdoors. Oh boy there's this list could get long katie for me. The the life skills that i now at my age and having been a business owner for thirty some years i look back at. What were the important life skills that helped me be successful in business in. Where did i get those. And so many of them were being in the out of doors. And i don't. I'm not saying only for hunting or fishing but all outdoor activity it. And i'll just give some really simple ones that i take for granted but when i introduced new people to these outdoor activities. I get their feedback. That tells me wow. This was not a life skill. They had and part of it is dealing with uncertainties. You take a person and you say you know we're going to hike outta here in the dark and it's two miles and we got to reverse this and go through there. That is frightening for a lot of people but after they do it the first timer to they lose that fear in the fear comes for months certainty. So how how do we get out of our comfort zones and force ourselves to deal with this comfort and the outdoor spaces are full of opportunities to do that. Whether it's okay. Read these books about like i live near yellowstone national park here in montana so many folks who come here think. There's a grizzly bear weight and behind every tree and going to grab them in. Eat them or something and so there's a lot of uncertainties just dealing with landscaped wildland gates. Were you realized that between weather the elements other species out here. I am no longer in control so The the lack of control over other elements is a lifestyle. I have where it's easy for me to focus on the factor or the the features that i can't control and not fret and worry about those that i cannot control. I can't control the weather. I can't control the the moon son. I i can't control so many things. And i'm comfortable with that When you're out fishing or you're out hunting or you're out for a gene. You have to have a plan of. Where am i going to go to acquire this food and usually fail. You fail about nine out of ten times. Failure is a life skill and how to handle failure how to have resolved and figure out. Okay i failed that time. But i learned from it and i'm an apply what i learned in my failures to eventually reach a point of success. I touched on the responsibility aspect that comes with with taking your own food from the lives of of wild things hard work. It has no pursuit in the outdoors. That if you wanna be successful at that comes without hard work. And i could just go on and on this list that i put together of these kind of things i i was doing a presentation and someone asked me the question of hate you bought and sold and manage these businesses. You've been very successful. What do you attribute it to. And i said y'all. I think if i had a trip most it to be the fact that i was a very poor elk hunter when i first started and i made years and years of mistakes and i should write a book called the elk hunters. Mba because there's all these business skills that come from from these outdoor pursuits. You're you're taking in all kinds of information at one time. What's the win doing. What's the animal doing. What are the other people on the landscape doing. What type of conditions habitat season. You're just taking in tons and tons of information really rapidly and you have to make a decision in ten seconds twenty seconds and those are life skills and business skills that i get nowhere else all activities i do all the courses i watch all the conferences i go to none of those life skills are taught in those places the.
Elevate: The Official Podcast of Elite Agent Magazine
"first timer" Discussed on Elevate: The Official Podcast of Elite Agent Magazine
"On the show. Today i'm joined by a couple of innovators in the area of real estate automation. That's rex lab. Ceo anton babkov and rick crm. Hit of product. Tom mccarthy so welcome. Back to the show and tom and the show for the first time. Tom glad to be here. Yeah really really excited. Thanks for having a say well. It's it's great to have you back because we've had some great chats in the past. And thomas mentioned your first timer on elevates they can you describe exactly what it is j. x labs. Yeah so. I'm the head of product for rex. And my role is basically purely focused on the on the crm in coordinating without design and development team. Basically chart the cost for the product. So i spend a lot of time talking to customers getting product feedback and then taking that feedback to product team and working on building new features and solving new problems and moving the product ford and a bunch of ways. Amazing and radio. I think you'll buys have changed on the website. Because i was reading them before we walked in here. And they great. By the way and anton you describe yourself as doing all sorts of ceo things including hailing. Take news and jumping up and down with excitement. What's the in may jump up and down with excitement in the race in recent months. Oh god what i. It's an exciting time. It's such an exciting time to be alive. The roaring twenties of back. This is my big name. I think Covid has done some really interesting things in terms of people saving money and also suppressing some of those instincts that we have to travel abroad. And do all those things as we don't destroy we're gonna be stuck here for a little while so it's really interesting. Seeing how people are translating that into into creativity and Into some you proceeds and is really fascinating with the money. Money supply people are starting to spend some of those that was squirreling away. What's happening with the property market. What's happening around climate change. What's happening in technology and being at the cross section of that business. That that's definitely got me jumping up and down with excitement at the moment. It's extraordinary such an amazing time for the industry. Such extraordinary time for the industry to make hype all the signs but also kind of knowing that this really strong fundamentals that are driving some of the gross and some of the activity that we saying. It's a really big macro changes. It's just an exciting time. Who wouldn't be jumping up and down.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"first timer" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"He reminds me of my granny she walker with the facial marshad with the winter the dirty john. Keller we were talking about not only can cut your throat. He can beach on a one timer from the circling over..
The Showtime Podcast with Lakers Legend Coop
"first timer" Discussed on The Showtime Podcast with Lakers Legend Coop
"Of the greatest players ever played this game and it's just, You know, it was just, I think it was just perfect to have Kobe, I mean, to put him in, and he's first timer, you know, it's unfortunate that it is the way it is, that we lost him and tragic that the crash that happened, but we're going to get in and, you know, but again, it was just, yeah, it makes me want to cry because he should be here Thursday. And the other thing to me, that stood out about it was, you know, she, she, she was talking about the, his willingness, to play through injury to play through, you know, physical pain, and the toughness and wage. And to me, I thought it kind of spoke to the modern game and something we talked about a lot with guys, you know, resting and you know, it's an inevitability of the game today, but I thought that she had in part of her speech. She took it to sort of that element of the NBA today where it's like, guys just aren't there's no willingness, you know, not to say it's less competitive but I think that's what she was sort of alluding to was Kobe just wouldn't sit out with birth. Sure. He's, you know, he every game meant so much to him and it's something that you guys obviously played with to the same kind of mentality, now, that's all school basketball. You know, his father's, Jellybean Bryant and I'm pretty sure he wants his dad, twist his ankle. And if you love this game of basketball and I'm not saying that a lot of today's players don't love it, but you gotta be willing to give it your all. And you know, that's one reason that the Lakers are suffering the way they are. Now I'm not saying LeBron wasn't hurt. I had a bad ankle spring two and then I wanted to get out there on the floor, what I wanted to play. So I'm going to do everything I can to rehabbing the treatment things like that, but if I can kind of walk and I knew that my teammates needed me because I was a defensive player. I'm going to get out there, but today's players are love different. They're more cognizant and conscious of their health because that is their money makers. Their baggage and, you know, things happen. But yeah, she made a I think it was A little cheap shot. She shot to these guys because again, these guys do not play. And this thing was this was the maintenance thing right.
First & 10s
"first timer" Discussed on First & 10s
"Going to a restaurant, it's like going to sit in a chair and there's like lipstick marks. Yeah. Cheater. That's how you know, there's a fucking cheater that sat here before me. And I want a different seat because you know what they say about cheaters, they're just not good people. They think I'm just not good people. They don't make good choices. Get there. They get their lipstick markings everyday, get their lipstick markings everywhere. So, there are lipstick on the collar. No more lipstick on the collar. Now it's off on the ceiling on the staircase. On the pillowcase, on the couch, cushions on the windowsill. Well, this is uncomfortable. Yeah, it's wherever cats, same side, the back seat of the car back seat of the car. I mean, you just name it, it's endless. So you're welcome. All right, that doesn't for this episode of the first attends. If you want more riveting material like this, go to first timer podcast., all words for all of our old episodes where we're about to help out of the stereo app right now. Stereo app is where you early stereo app, is where you get this, what it is, what it is, is Jake. Having an aneurysm holy shit dude, I don't know what's going on stroking out, live on the show, right now what it is is Stereo app, page. You go to your app store, download the stereo app. Yes, is what we're trying to tell you. Plus on the stereo, I think I had lipstick on my ass home. That's why it's throwing me off. It's not non-toxic either toxins. You're infiltrating crazy. Like what is going on? Basically get the stereo app from your app store or stereo, that's what I was trying to say cuz we'll hop on June 2nd for our live chat and you'll see when we pop up there. So until Friday I'm Jasmine, I'm eighty.
The Broken Comic Podcast
"first timer" Discussed on The Broken Comic Podcast
"Two hours. Get to go up there and and do material thing. That's been going on for a long time now and i did. It is the first timer did lottery. The guy who brought us up was a dick and what he said was something very very like not very positive to make not only the comedians but the audience feel like like they want to be there and i just. I can't go off anyone. Because of one i didn't know anyone. I don't want to ruffle feathers or whatever the folks you know. Go away as you know. And then but i always had like a serving disdain in my heart for this. But i saw but he does know that but then when i when they kept doing Late night when. I kept going to this lady. Jane's was there and as the host. He said something like you said something that was so so positive to like make people excited about staying for the show and and they stay and every time. I've seen them after that. That's always kind of hobbies been. He's been an extremely positive. Even to now. When i used to go to the new comedy club when i did late night or whenever i used to like at night or sometime randomly he would be on the show hosting and i would luckily get up so now you know another another pilot guy in east. He's been so nice and positive where like what they do at comedy clubs like after the show is over for the late night when as dr checks. Now that's called the czech spa now. Comedian goes on that spot. Which is like everyone says is kind of the worst spot. Because everyone's check and not ready for you to you so with jamie has done multiple times now for five comedians out on that on that spot most times he would just do you know he would just kind of do a set on that czech spa that way when everyone is done. The next comedian comes up. Everyone has their attention to comic which is not every community and does and it really is the most like you know it really is the most righteous thing comic and do but it's really cool thing to do ever since then like era just been cool with the guy and we talk. We talk music into the same shed and It's he's like one of the people in harmony pool. Like i have such the most respect for and.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"first timer" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"We're back on Sunday, maybe all of us will see them but you know will will will prompt no boring tomorrow 2. Okay, that's cool. Don't call me for any emergency podcast or videos. The TP is going to get used tomorrow. I'm out next. I'm I'm skiing. I'm out next Wednesday and Friday, I'll be on the chair of the borrowed live. I'll be if there's if there's going to be on the chairlift live. So if you want to if you want to give that a shot going to be on the month. 4G network? Yeah. Yeah, we could try that. I'll be shredded. All right, that's it. We're done. Thank you for watching. Once again. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel will do this. One-time Marigold medical medical medical, stem cell therapy. It's good for what ails you Cedric Maxwell from our Network went there often just way witness did he got witnessed it section and he feels like you you took them long enough of the first timer is you get to bring in a friend is a man. Oh 97853 705 tell him Cedric Maxwell sent. Yeah, you get a free you gotta sit. Yeah. Wow, that was a hearty laugh. All right, sounds good. Samaritan Medical. Make sure you go there, I might go there I could use a stem. You said? Yeah. Yeah, what do I do? They'll just they'll stick here wherever wherever you need it that's whatever is wrong. And their goal is long term. It's fixing the problem long long term not short not a quick fix like a cortisone shot or this or that so and again, they use stem cell therapy to try to kind of rehabilitate rather than just like I said alleviate pain so anything for Bobby's face know when that would have been a good cell if they could but yeah. Yeah don't take that off. Thank you again everyone volume kidding. You look up see if we put that as a comment. I think I'd have the support here. Yeah. That's right. You want to do Peppa Pig? Omits. Let's see on us off. All right, YouTube channel to tell a friend join us for the next show audience keeps growing. We wanted to get bigger and bigger. So we guys appreciate you afraid to tell an enemy tell somebody that you haven't talked to recently. It's a good Icebreaker tell enemy and honestly trolls welcome to we see you out there fine. Whatever. I don't see I don't I don't see Charles man. Yeah, come on a string it it's fine. You're all welcome. Okay, we are having a good time. And what's this? I like this one. You guys here today? It wasn't great..
MyTalk 107.1
"first timer" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Was that was the beginning of you guys that your show earlier saying what's up? I was working on the podcast. My boat started to show this morning. Amy, and everybody's got a choice is how you start to show. Some people do it professionally, and we just say, Wow, they get it. Listeners get it first timer. Long times they get it. Um We're hoping for an escape currently in South Padre, Texas, Lori says. But apparently the weather followed US taxes getting some weird. Winter storm right now that it's big and big power outages that are happening there right now. You have any longing as to where you really want to go? Donna, Is there something on your destination? You want to get to? Really I'd like to just go somewhere Tropical. Yeah, a little bit. I haven't done that in years, and I used to go every single year. Every single march March 17th Oh, room with the same group girls and we haven't gone in Probably five or six years. Oh, my God. Probably as long as I've been here. Yeah. I haven't taken a vacation since I started working here. What? That's true. No, she just I mean, I take vacation time. No, I haven't got on really a vacation like not a tropical one Didn't go. You went South Dakota this summer? Yes, that's a trip. That's not a vacation. So what's the their trips? Or just if you if you're with kids, it's a trip. If you're without kids, it's a vacation trip is where you're like doing stuff. Vacations where you're just laying around. Oh, right. Whatever..
NewsRadio KFBK
"first timer" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Movie reviews Ken Dog is here, joining us tonight and what do we look for? What do we have? What what's on your mind this week? Okay, I got a couple of them. You want to watch streaming on Netflix came out late last week. I want to say and it was. It's called. It's a Korean film called Space Sweepers. It's a science fiction film set in the year 2092. And basically, there's this cottage industry of People who, uh, basically collect junk in salvage. Okay. And this crew picks up young, humanoid roll robot named Dorothy. That is, the government alleges a weapon of mass destruction. The truth is a lot more complicated than that. And it's the evil corporation trying to hide. What they're doing is altruistic blah. But you've seen it in a lot of science fiction movies, but This is bat crap. Crazy in a good way. They they do some neat things here, um, the special effects of really good. It's a chase film. And also you can't be afraid of subtitles because they have this multicultural cast the villain. Is corporate corporate guy played by Richard Armitage. Amy, Of course, he speaks English the entire time. He's based best known for the hobbit movies, and then you have the Korean basic cast. Then you have Persians and you have this and you have British and it's just It's It's a multicultural cast, not seeming like stunt casting. Because it's a futuristic film. I thought that was really kind of cool. And the acting is actually pretty decent for movie like this. Usually I expect to see Speed racer with live action. You know what? Oh, yeah, you know that acting the entire time, right? This is good. I'm giving it four out of five. It is It is a fun, fun movie, And it's on Netflix now and if you've got it, you should check it out Name of it again. Space sweepers. Space sweepers? Yes, exactly. All right, all right. The movie of the week, though, just came out today on HBO, Max and then select theaters. If there's a theater open in town. Good luck, But get HBO Max. You can see this. Another Warner Brothers on the Warner Brothers Slate. It's called Judas in the Black Messiah. It's directed by first timer. Shaka King also co wrote the script. And what is It's a historical drama based on the murder of one of Black Panther leaders, Fred Hampton. Okay, takes place in 1968. And the infiltration of Bill O'Neill played by like Keith Stanfield is terrific. Bill O'Neill. He's a small time grifter who's recruited Jesse Plemons, Roy Mitchell and FBI guy to infiltrate and, of course, historically, it lead to Basically.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"first timer" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Do believe Frank. Why'd he embarked right into the back of his car with a T M. Marchal with wide open from the circle and went to the backhand and charge side of it. We're tied Onan. One timer whiffed on it. Now try by Cuban against Garza Bullet Oh, dominant Kuba League after both dad with Donna Kuba League and teamed up with fluid 56 side. Alva. Reimer the Hawks with lead that's hap fully on NBC SPORTS Chicago That power play of the Blackhawks is absolutely humming. Welcome back to the hockey show on ESPN 1000 with Brian Hanley. I am Pat Boyle, Brian 14 Power play Goals in 12 games. They didn't record their 14 power play goal until the 30th game last season. Well, you know, Kubelik talked about having a five on five mentality when you have the man advantage, and both units are working at different times. And I know that the players have been saying it's grape is that then one unit doesn't feel the pressure of the other one's not Joining the party, But you know, pat you and I talked about before the show. Last year. Historically bad and 18.4% Power play was in the last decade. That's pretty much the conversion rate. It's not just one year, not a snapshot. That the differences, according to Ben Pope in the Chicago Sun Times, and he does a terrific job covering the team. They've had an 18.4% diversion rate on average, from 2009 10 season through 2014 15. And that was 10th in the league and then from 2015 16 to 2019 20. It's still the same 18.4%. Inversion rate. But there were 24th in the league because everyone else in the league got better or the rules allowed them to get better, and the Hawks were static. Now they're basically doubled that up with 37.8% conversion rate on the power play, and for a team that's not laden with star talent and doesn't have a lot of finishers. You have to. You have to have the special teams going and they do. I mean, the PK has been respectable and respectable and the power play is been. I mean, just looks like a different animal right now, and I didn't think they had enough talent for two power play units. I thought like, Actually, they were going to just load up and do what they did last year to your point about how reliant they were on one unit last year. Pain was on the ice for 27 of the 33 power play goals last season, so all but six he was on the ice for this year, six of their 14 power play goals. Have been without cane on the ice. So that second unit has been absolutely humming. Yeah. Mark Souder, Curry, Chef Bohdan and Kuba Leak. That was the group that was out there. And those are a lot of Other than Yan, Mark 1st and 2nd year players in the National Hockey League. That's that's pretty incredible. Okay, let's go to the phone lines. I'm jealous of where this guy's calling from from Clearwater, Florida, about 30 minutes from the site of Super Bowl. 55. Craig joins the hockey show. Good morning, Craig. Good morning. How you guys doing? Tough? Not as good as you. Yeah, like 75 right now, you know, like wind blowing what's interesting about 80. They got a celebrity. There's a celebrity football game starting in about two hours. Doug Flutie. It's supposed to be one of the starting quarterbacks. I'm gonna embarrass fan as well as the Hawks fan. I'm gonna do a little quarterback scouting for the Bears, right? They should be looking about Flutie. Yeah, right. And then I'm hoping that they have, like Jennifer Anderson and Heather Locklear lined up at wide receiver or blind up it running back or maybe just lined up anywhere. I don't care about. You got a nice little Saturday lined up for yourself cracked. What's on your mind about this hockey team? Yes. So you know what I mean? I'm just answering your question. I It doesn't change my mind at all, because I'm a season ticket holder. I watch a lot of hockey and I and and even last year I went to the last game before Colbert 19 stop the The whole league, and that was against ST Louis. But they were playing pretty good hockey. I mean, they weren't winning a lot. But there you could see that they were starting to gel. And I'm really not surprised, and I'm happy. You know that. I don't mind. I'm not signing Corey Crawford. They don't need Be signing older veterans to extend the contract that kind of stuff. I mean, they need to get out of it and and turn the page. And even when Quinn Bowl was like, Okay, people are upset. But you know, Kirby, Doc would still be in the minors right now. He'd be he'd be playing junior hockey of Joe Colombo was running the show, So I'm glad call it sincere. I'm glad he's playing the young players that this blanket and guy should have been up. Yes, you're probably, and I just think you know, I'm not saying they're gonna want to stand the company's time soon, but but, man, I mean, they're but they're playing well, you could see it. You know, they're they're working. All right, Greg, Thanks for the call. Go to that celebrity football game and find the bears a quarterback, All right? I'm not blaming I'm looking man. I am looking all right. Thanks, Craig. Um, Heather Locklear? Yeah, There's a lot of what is it? What is this? A celebrity's contest of 1997. Heather Lockley. Well, you know, whatever floats your boat. Exactly, Um, look, first of all shade on Joel Quenneville like this guy's taking shots left and right. And his Panthers have a point streak going to the best start second best start for Panthers in a season. Right. Look, nobody's saying Let's start build the parade float Tonto to take this team. Grant Park when this when this shortened season is over, But I think you're just looking at Decision to go young the decision to develop players that decision to go with three unproven goalies and have them battle it out. And the third goal you turned to Is among the league leaders 12 games in The buttons they have pushed so far. Seemed to be working, and I don't think Honest Blackhawk fans out there, Okay, especially after those first three or four games. I don't think they saw this coming. If they're if they're honest with themselves, right? No, no, I don't think stands are coming. After that. It will ask him, But we do have a Twitter poll out there because the Hawks are 44 and four and 41 and four of their last nine What does that mean? Does it mean stands plan's working doesn't mean the playoffs are possibility or doesn't mean as much as ground Hog's day. Business punks the Tony Phil he saw the shadow Woodstock. Willie didn't see the shadow. So if you're going with Phil Six more weeks of winter. And believe me this next week's gonna feel like six months of winter. I'm going with Woodstock, Willie because I'm hoping for an early spring. But that said, doesn't mean a post seasons on the way and doesn't change Is it As a president, GM If the Hawks even said another step, and there you have an opportunity to do that, with Dallas coming up here and prove that they can compete and win against the some of the better teams. You get itchy and say, Hey, maybe we have something more here than we thought, and you make plans accordingly and make moves accordingly. Is Kevin Lincoln. In the real deal on 9 28 save percentage. 3123323776. John and Evanston joins the hockey show on ESPN. 1000 morning, John Hey, guys. Yeah, I think like in the real deal, I think he's he's on the verge of being something real good. But the one hockey player that I'm gonna be watching against Dallas tomorrow. Um Is such a suitor. I mean, since his hat trick against Columbus. The kid is around the net, and he's picking up rebounds. And you know, doing the job and hey, can skate. I mean, he's quick. He's gonna get up and down the ice and Uh, you know, I'm not going to go overboard and say this guy is going to be rookie of the year or anything, but I'm glad he's messing with this team mates, and I'm glad he's having fun and And you can tell that he's having fun now. Because that first you know that hat trick got him on off the snide and He knows he can score in this teammates know that they can give him the puck and at least he'll get the puck on the net and they could go for rebounds and Like I said, I think lacking in the real deal in the next guy, but I'm not going to get ahead of myself..
The PewterCast : A Tampa Bay Bucs Fan Podcast, Buccaneers
"first timer" Discussed on The PewterCast : A Tampa Bay Bucs Fan Podcast, Buccaneers
"Depends it with a player. Like lynch who is a look. This is what twenty seven time in a row. So he's a fringe hall of famer has to be younger than most diehard people by her fans like you have to at least acknowledged that he's a fringe hall of famer plus he plays safety which is a position that has the fewest amount of players at that position in the hall of fame. So it's a fringe position. Okay danny already got two guys in there and you got a guy in the room who now also played with him from that same defense. And now you've got like you're gonna put four guys and then after that it's all put in five so it's all about who goes in. I like peyton manning. No doubt time hall of famer ledge is going be like a number four number five pick for the for the class. He'll be like a number four number five. Pick for the class. Whenever you get in rod woodson. I think he's the first time hall of famer. Now you got calvin johnson some people say yes. Some people say no So if you say yes to spots left right if you say you got three yeah and look. And here's the thing. All those other guys are they just as deserving of hall of fame nods as as lynch and day. I think tony boselli is just in the fact that he was two separate franchises. I pick yeah. The jaguars picked him first. Overall and then The texans with their supplemental draft. Pick tony boselli. As their first ever franchise pick right right. Well i'll say this. At the end of the day. I think both lynch enron they deserve to be in. I don't know that this is ron. Daise year no like like guerande. It's great that he made the restroom. Yes out in the room exact. I exactly but. I don't think that this is his. I don't think this is your if it's anybody it's going to be lynch and i don't. I mean yeah. I don't i don't know and i i don't know i don't know if the hall of fame voter just have an issue with lynch or if it's just if it's all the politics of it or what i talked about it's like he's a fringe player at a fringe position i end. He's not a first timer. Then he keeps coming up against like some of these classes. Like you're like you guys are getting in. who's left. yeah that was last year. Here's all the guys get and it's not going to be anybody else. Sorry john i. I will say this. If i compared the two speeches between rhonda's and in john lynch by ira. I thought ron daise was much more convincing. Would you think of the presentation itself I thought it was boring. Bland interesting i'm sorry. He's sorry those of you listening to the podcast like this is. I'm sorry when you're doing an upshot of your nose while you're trying to convince me to vote for your guy like movies camera like i'm not interested in looking at your boogers. The whole time off off camera all time. I'm not interested in in over here and sounding like i'm reading off of the script for the third time in a row like i The presentation didn't thrill me it. That wasn't convincing..
Snarf Talk
"first timer" Discussed on Snarf Talk
"Hey hey were old right there. We're here hello world period. Hello world hello world. I don't know if i do. It's like the old Like in the early days of computer programming is like when they just started a computer. Coding like html and that kind of stuff yes. That's i don't know why but they would always right. hello world. they did in the code or like like they write code so the text would be hello world like when you open the screen to the computer would know it's just like It's like if you are writing a new piece of html code. The first thing was like hello world and there as like a text placeholder. Oh i don't know why. Why do you even know that. Because i'm a bit of a coder. A bit of a coder doing some coating this week. Actually on some website stuff. So no kidding. Yeah hello world. Program generally is a computer program that outputs are displays the message. Hello world all right very simple in most programming lanes and often used illustrate the basic syntax of programming language. Within the first minute of the show you've taught everyone some and they should all be appreciative of that. Well i'm sure they're really excited about it. Yeah episode triple one. Ooh one one one. One one is the episode. Were on to new day. It's a new night to new podcast. Is it like some kind of a milestone podcast for you. No not at all just one one one. I just thought it was a fun number. We're back on thursday night to that is citing. This hasn't happened. I think in months. Like legitimately months before thanksgiving and honestly. I think it was like before october. Yeah since we've recorded on an actual thursday night. Hopefully this is our regular scheduled programing time so that you guys can set your clocks to eight o'clock on thursday nights and next always watch x make sure supposedly going to have a brand new avenue first timer. Yeah big first time first timer over here. Yup patriots subscriber. Big time Fan friend of mine for a long time. Yeah me too. But i'm not going to release his name until here Also sponsor yes and is sponsored. Erica just said. I just finished clone wars going to go cry now. Congratulations now. it's time to start congratulations. Thank you immediately into star wars. It is you after you get done with your cry. Get into rebels because it's going to change the tide of the continuation. It's set later on like like a quite a bit later on but it's funny because We talk a lot..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"first timer" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Everything on. Well, why don't you look at yourself first, man? I mean, dude, you scored three points in this game. I mean, I know it's nine. But no, it was three points. And quite honestly, you're an offensive guru. That's why you came here. And those stats that himbo just just put up on Dan talked about. That's not except in one night you've got in the playoffs, you know to at the last three years. Congratulations. That's because that the NFC is a hell of a lot weaker in the sea. What the When I look at this, you know your guy at Northwestern Chicago kid that fits better because this guy that plays in Chicago this guy? I mean, I don't I don't like it. I don't like the way he doesn't take every day of bullet form. That's your job As a head coach, you don't make your quarterback. Take everyone. You take the day bullets. And that's why I don't respect about that was Rex Ryan and get up the other day now, now granted. Now, he does say At times we got to do this. I know we got to run the ball. I'm not an idiot, he says all that don't doesn't do it. No. And right after the game the other day, he says, I know that we have to have an offense that could run the ball consistently. Well, you keep saying it, but you don't do it. A friend go back to 2018 when they were playoff team and 12 wins and coach of the year and executive the year. How many games did they not break the 20 point barrier? Right. It was all about the takeaways on defense there for like two Rex Ryan's point that the offensive guru hasn't been any part of goo or route. Maybe he's just It and certainly the spasm of the three game win streak. Where there Scoring 30 or more points in each of those games again has to do against who you're playing against annual running the ball at that point, but he doesn't he doesn't he Hey, didn't have an epiphany doesn't want to run the ball. You don't get credit for that and T bear fan Bob's point about business moment. Um No, George said that in, Ted said, We don't need no shows to let us know what bears fans think about where we're headed or what? Well, the fact that nobody was allowed in soldier field. Last season, And who knows what's gonna look like next season of it's gonna be 25% 50%, who knows that everyone gets vaccinated. Maybe it's back to The point is when you fall out of the habit of writing those checks those big checks for season tickets. You know, And also you realize your Sundays when you're not watching Ah, Nate in 18 that's really may be closer to a six and 10 team. You know you find other things to do with your time and your emotions and your financial investments, not nearly as much as it was. It's Zoe. I'm with Bob. I mean, you get a couple seasons like that, and you feel like the ownership never is on the same page with you is a fan. They they say they get it, but they don't It's easy. I think that comes saw that to everybody. It's easy for you to put the pen in the checkbook away, and so you wake me up when you're relevant again. Yeah, it makes it a lot easier after you go through a whole season like this because of the pandemic and everything else of not going to the games, finding it to her way to do it. Finding a way to tailgate in your backyard, walk in the house or bring the TV out to the backyard to have people over to the house. Save a lot of money and still put out a nice spread out of weekly basis. Um, that then going to the games and the hassle of getting the parking lot and do it all the other traffic at the end, sport. I mean, no, I mean soldier Field is not an easy place to get to a certainly leave after a game unless you're leaving. The middle third quarter because you know what's coming. 3123323776. We go to River north and Bob. Hello, Bob. What's happening? Hey, good to talk to you, Fred. And you was well, Brian. It's great to hear voices. I had a thought, and you guys can stop me any time you want. First of all, I think we're the promise of bears have Morris is fantastic Phenomenon appears promised more papyrus peons problem that I think that's what people are. Still think. Sell the team cell team five crafted a gazillionaire right? And he's got big a zillionaire where the Patriots win or lose. Patriots are like his hobby, you know, And like in the Seahawks. I know. I think Paulie on passed away, but he always Microsoft is a lot of like big money owners that like this is their hobby. Just really do for fun. Where's the Bears? This is like, you know, a bunch of people like this is like their business, and they're trying to make a buck. And I guess if you know the day you Robert Kraft, the Patriot is a little bit of money. So what he wants when a Super Bowl the bears, I think, given the choice and I'm not saying any of us would be any different. This is how you feed your family. They'd rather make money than when the Super Bowl if they could do both. That's great, but I think that's why you know Ted Phillips is such a. You know, a revered I think character up there. Could you just keep the business on the straight and narrow? Here's all I'm saying, if I were the Bears Would hire Louis Riddick. Okay in a heartbeat, and I do think this now ask you this spread and Brian, you guys. They're smart guys if they're if paces in Maggie's contracts were up this year Up this year. Do you think we'd still be having a collaboration? Talk and come by. Ah, crap. Or you think those guys would be getting the brick. I think maybe hitting the bricks always and bring back instant like Frank said he didn't sell any tickets and let's be brutally candid. Who knows how many things going to sell next year, even if they're if they can open the gate 25% 30% also, who knows? It's like trying to said some of these people, you know they they lived through the pandemic to maybe they can't afford the things. Maybe they don't want to buy the ticket because it seems kind of ant. And I just think that if you hired Louis, Riddick and at a football guy, you'd still make money. At least you would have better. It would be a more of us straight. Nero and I do think that I think that they're scouting department. Good, But I do think that like GM like you said. He was a first timer, and we had to learn with them as a you know, he's not feel Epstein's not returned,.