36 Burst results for "First Year Ago"
The Greg McAfee Show
Business by His Design With ServiceTitan's Chris Hunter
"Titling this business by his design on purpose Chris and So I've got Chris Hunter Chris You know, we've talked a little bit about our Relationship with Jesus and running a Christian business, which we both take serious and So I want to start off with a couple questions As far as when we talk about our Christian walk and we refer to Jesus and Bible scriptures Could you share a little bit about your walk You know, when did you become a Christian and why? Yeah, well first, let me let me just say thank you so much for inviting me on man. I'm a huge fan Followed you for a long time and a lot of what even led me originally to you was your your strong faith and you wasn't ashamed of it and I respected that and I've always tried to Find other leaders and mentors that that I knew were were following that same path and that I could learn from right? So I I don't know. I can't remember how exactly I first heard about you But a longtime fan and a glad glad to finally connect like this and you sent me a book I really appreciated that that was it's a great book that you have as well So, oh and I remember let me let me think back way back when you had a game that I bought and then we played at our shop and it was a Basically teaching the technicians and everybody had a all about business, but it was in a game format and I love that So yeah flashback there. I just remembered that yeah, that was called top gob and it was stood for the open book game of business and Yeah, I just I wanted to let Technicians and installers and everybody else know just a little bit about making decisions in a business. So that's a pretty cool game Yeah, it was excellent. But yeah, so so back to some small walk So let me give you the short version. So I was really blessed man. I grew up with In the in the church grew up my mom was a strong believer always a taught me the right things and and All that stuff my dad as well, but I remember at 11 years old. I kind of had my first taste of Mortality like what in the world so I had my my stepdad at the time was killed in a car accident And it just opened up a whole lot of questions for me, you know, like oh my what does that mean? Where do they go? What happens? You know? And all of that since happened and and and at that point time is when I kind of hit that. Oh my goodness I need a Savior, you know, and I remember My mom to tell me all about it as well. And and I even had grandparents that always, you know, modeled it as well So at that point time I become a believer But now fast forward. I was a typical teenager man. I'm telling you Greg. I ran hard had a lot of fun did a lot of things and and and Lo and behold kind of fell fell into the trap of just living my life my own way For for a while and even in business, but then in at some point I want to say was probably around 2010 2011 I really had a Awakening, you know, like oh my goodness This is my my chance to live a godly life Pass on a legacy and really make a difference So at that point time is really when it turned for me and I went all -in as as you can say, yeah that's that's a great story and you know, I think we all need to There's gonna be a time in everyone's life where they realize they need something more There's something else out there there. We can't do it on our own every time we try it fails and And we can only create temporary happiness so long yeah, and and when I say, you know, a lot of people have the have the conversion story of all they were Doing drugs and drinking and all this stuff. So I'm necessary. I wouldn't necessarily that I wasn't all To the outside looking in. Oh, wow a great guy, you know, look at him, but you know what? I just was very apathetic. I wasn't I wasn't being intentional. I wasn't trying to to use my influence I wouldn't try to Do anything that God blessed me with these gifts for so so it was I was living Chris's way But it was very apathetic and so the conversion to going all -in wasn't necessary like oh my goodness You were terrible and now you have you've completely turned around but in all sense of the world I was being very very complacent and apathetic with the responsibility God had given
The Crypto Conversation
Fresh update on "first year ago" discussed on The Crypto Conversation
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. 5 years ago, deep in a bear market, a group of traditional finance experts founded BitGet and they've been building ever since. Now, with 20 million users worldwide, BitGet is committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure one-stop crypto investment solution with copy trading, future trading and spot trading. Your security is their priority and BitGet has one of the largest protection funds in the industry with US $300 million to cover potential trader losses from unforeseen events that are not due to misconduct from the user or platform. BitGet wants to inspire everyone to embrace Web3 so if you're new to crypto, learn more at the BitGet Academy with free blockchain courses, crypto guides, cryptocurrency trading strategies and more. Or for the experienced investor, trade smarter with daily access to institutional-grade crypto market intelligence and trends analysis with BitGet Research. I've put links to BitGet Research and the BitGet Academy in the show notes so get amongst it or simply go to bitget.com. Thank you to BitGet and now it is on with the show. My guest today is Gracie Chen. Gracie, of course, is a managing director at BitGet, a leading crypto copy trading and cryptocurrency exchange platform. BitGet, of course, are also the sponsor of the Crypto Conversation. So yeah, it's fantastic to have Gracie back on the show. Welcome back. Hello, Gracie. Hi, Andy. Just before we jump right into it, Gracie, do you want to just quickly reintroduce yourself really? Just give us a little bit of a sense of your career path and what has led you to being a managing director at BitGet. Sure. Again, happy to be back. I think last time we talked about copy trading and a few other stuff about BitGet and myself. For those who have never met me, I'm Gracie Chen, managing director of BitGet. My blockchain journey started back in 2014 when I was a TV host. I was interviewing business leaders such as Tim Draper and also celebrities such as Tom Hiddleston and Michelle Yeoh. So in 2014, some of my TV friends asked me, Gracie, you should check out crypto. At that time, Bitcoin was only worth around 300 USD. So I started to buy some major cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH and XRP, and later I became one of the early investors in BitKeep, now known as BitGet Wallet, and also get to know the BitGet team through this investment. And according to Google Play Store figures, BitGet Wallet is actually top four inside wallets as of October 2023. So I'm very proud of this investment and also my journey in the crypto space. Fantastic. Thank you, Gracie. I thought what we could do today would be really good just to get your thoughts on 2023, the year that has been, and of course, perhaps the year ahead, there is a lot happening next year. There's some potential positive tailwinds for Bitcoin in the wider crypto market. So we'll talk about all of that. But perhaps just quickly before we do that, do you want to just give us a sense of what is, how are we looking at BitGet at the moment? What kind of year has BitGet had? How's the copy trading going? What's going on? Sure. So yeah, copy trading remains as one of our strongest features or product, like flagship product. As of today, we have served, I mean, copy trading itself have served more than 500,000 users, and we are launching new features in this product as well. Previously, we probably just had derivative trading, and I think during our interview, we also had our spot trading in copy trading, but recently we also have new stuff. I'm actually checking like now, because I was just told yesterday that there is a new thing. But basically, I think that's like AI related copy trading and like specific strategy related. So basically, we keep innovating on this specific product for BitGet, we are doing pretty fine. So our platform token BGP just reached an all time high recently, like within two weeks at $0.58. One year ago, it was only about 0.1 something like less than 20 cents. So proud of our token, proud of our platform, we've been doing well. I saw Leo Messi a couple of weeks ago in Miami, had a nice chat with him when we were filming the newest New Year commercial with him. So yeah, I'm very excited for what happened in BitGet by myself, and also in the industry in 2023. And of course, I think 2024 is more promising, and I'm glad that that's one of our topics today, or probably the main topic. So a lot to share. Yes, indeed, Gracie, a lot to share. And of course, listeners, you know, if you do want to check out BitGet, and you haven't already, of course, the main website is just bitget.com. But as always, there are links in the show notes to various parts of the BitGet ecosystem, the Web3 wallet, all sorts of stuff, all the research resources, everything. All right, then, Gracie, well, should we start off and just talk a little bit about 2023? The year that was really, yeah, how was 2023 for you? What do you think were some of the key events impacting crypto in 2023? Okay, so for our industry, can I start with sharing some of the experiences I had in 2023, some of like the highlights, please give us a little bit of context. Go ahead. Well, we're gonna talk. Great. Yeah, so for 2023, or just like within the past 12 months, I've been literally traveling around the world. So today, I would love to share with everyone about like my global outlook and based on some of the experiences I had, like what I've seen, where I've worked, and who I've spoken to for the past 12 months around the world. So for example, I've been to Europe, I was speaking at some events in London and Paris, I attended EATCC, where I met more than 100 people who are really building a Web3 project. And that means I got to see some of the important trends happening in those places and love to jump in and talk about this later, a bit more. And also went to Singapore, Hong Kong for some meetings with government officials.
The Greg McAfee Show
How Faith Has Helped Chris Hunter in His Business Journey
"You share a specific challenge or a difficult moment in your business journey and how your faith played a role in overcoming it? It's a great question. I mean so for me, I can't tell you how many times I mean Even the smallest challenge. Yeah, I would I would pray daily, you know, it forever little thing So, I mean it wasn't just a matter of the the big ones for me. It was a Matter of just leaning on on a God's wisdom all the time but but I'll tell you what one one significant one for me and this was wasn't necessarily a challenge, but it was an opportunity and So At one point in time I was approached by a franchise group, right? This was early in my business and they were they had this model where they wanted to give you a bunch of money They wanted to write you a big check and then essentially you convert over to the franchise And then and you know operate that way. Well, they flew us down and wind and dined us, you know and all the stuff They're really oh, it just looks like an awesome thing and they were prepared to write us a million dollar check Hey just cash this check it's yours and to me, you know I'm from a small town in Oklahoma and I don't care what you say million dollars my eyes just got huge You know, it was a lot of money. I couldn't even imagine at the time having a million dollars You know like that and and I was gonna take it, you know, I'm like me my wife both were like, yeah Hey a million dollars would be a fool not to do this deal. And then I remember praying about it. I'm like God just don't let me mess this up, please, you know, I mean make it either Yes, or no, just help me Don't let me get in the way of this thing and I sure enough man my gut hit and it twisted I could just feel it and it said no, you know don't and I was and so I'm thinking okay we're really gonna turn down a million dollars because You're prompting me to say no So for me that was like a huge like line in the sand Are we gonna take the money the million or say no because of prompting by my God to tell me hey This ain't the right time. And uh, so me my wife both decided you know what let's let's let's roll with it Let's trust trust what's in store for us and we said no And turn that deal down now fast forward a few years later several years later Our business took off the private equity boom came in and we were able to sell the business later on for for much much more than that, but uh it was it was but that was a pretty key time for me just to say would you turn down a million dollar check if God told you to say no, and I don't know how many people could say that but uh Made for a very real decision to make you know Yeah, and if you were out there on your own and you didn't have the relationship With God with Christ as you do You would have said yes, and then who knows who knows where you'd be a million a million is still a lot of money But boy it spent pretty
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Spent $400 BILLION on Illegal Immigration?
"Dan bongino so i told you before the break when i played a clip let the fox business report they told you what illegal immigration is costing us per year and it is an absolutely ridiculous obscene four hundred and fifty one billion dollars let me say that is off by ten percent and it's four hundred billion dollars four hundred billion dollars to pay for illegal immigration now again again because i'm interested in the truth and honesty you shouldn't be here illegally we we did it the right way my family my wife and you should do with two it if you first act in the united states is to flip us the double barrel middle finger and break the law you don't deserve to be here but from a strict economic perspective are these costs real certainly sounds like it the problem is over time people can mean productivity so let's hey this if gets a little complicated i'm not doing it intentionally say it costs us four hundred and fifty one billion a dollars year to process i don't know three million people that are in the country illegally and probably another five five hundred thousand that are got a ways we don't even know about but we're still paying for anyway that that cost would go down each year why because people would start to work not everyone's gonna stay on on government benefits people would eventually i'm not apologizing for illegal immigration so don't please don't send me any nasty grams i'm simply giving you a pure spreadsheet take on it over time it costs less by the time you get to the second generation typically that generation works they go to school they produce it probably cost you a lot less the problem we have with biden and if god forbid this guy gets re -elected or any democrat for that matter is is that this a recurring
Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Asks Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling: Is "Measure O" Working?
"Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50 % plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10 % of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention.
Capstone Conversation
Capstone's Jared Asch Welcomes Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling of Walnut Creek
"Jared Esch, the host of The Capstone Conversation. Today, we are joined by not one, but two awesome women from the city of Walnut Creek. And we are going to hear about what inspired them to run for city council. What are some things that they want to encourage in other candidates who are considering to run or not to run as you make the decision ahead of next year's elections? And that applies to people throughout the whole East Bay area. That's not just here in Walnut Creek. So hopefully their message will resonate with people throughout. So first thing we will do, Mayor Pro Tem Luella Haskiw, do you want to go ahead and tell us a little bit more about yourself? In my career, I was a CPA specializing in tax, but I also did family law consulting and other business consulting. And I was inspired to run for a couple of reasons, one of which is I was close to many of the people who were on council and I just absorbed a lot of what they could accomplish by talking to them and watching them work. But also, I believe that we were going into an interesting economic cycle and maybe somebody who had my experience would be a good addition to the council. And our next guest is Councilwoman Cindy Darling. Cindy, tell us a little bit about your background and what convinced you to run. Well, I'm one of the newest members of the council. I was elected in 2020. Before that, I'd served 10 years on the planning commission for Walnut Creek. So I'd seen a lot of the issues that were working in the development end of things kind of bubbling up that were going to council. And I was interested in having a bigger voice on those than you just have a planning commission. I'm also a small business owner here in the city, and I spent most of my career working on really tough, naughty environmental problems around the Delta endangered species. And I felt like I developed a lot of skills there in helping people work together and solve problems creatively. And I wanted to take those skills and bring them to the council and help move Walnut Creek in a great direction. That's great. I appreciate that. Luella, you've been mayor two times, including 2020 during the start of the pandemic. Pandemic issues, businesses shutting down and then lots of looting here in Walnut Creek. What was it like to be mayor during that time? Can I say that the first round was was sweet. I really enjoyed the first time when it wasn't quite so stressful. But I will say about 2020, whenever I've talked to anybody who have had been mayor in Walnut Creek the last year to have been assigned a job with mayor, there were so many issues. We had a police shooting that was under scrutiny. We had looting. And I'm not even sure anybody knows to this hour what triggered the big looting that was at Broadway Plaza. It could have just been the gangs that were beginning to form and take over other places. But we forgot about Walnut Creek has some really nice high end stores to do. And then they all came. I don't think it had anything to do with the political choice. Nevertheless, it was incredibly damaging to the people who were at Broadway Plaza and it didn't stop there. Other people were involved in it. I make a joke about the fact that when George Floyd had been killed and people were really involved in making protests, a whole group of people showed up at nine o 'clock at night on a Wednesday and had a riot in our front yard doing a significant amount of damage to our garage doors, burning flags, scaring the bejeebers out of our neighbors. The police did call us and say, get out of the house. So we were safe, but it was an ugly experience for the neighborhood trying to find the best of the worst. We did have to buy a new garage door and we now have a battery pack up. And then I made it onto the news the next day. So good spads, but it was tough and the fiscal issues were tough. We started out with anticipating a comfortable excess budget. It turned out that when everything had to close up, sales tax went away and then we had to figure out what to do about that. And we got lucky that we came upon the pop -ups, the restaurant pop -ups, and we tried every way we could to save all the businesses, did away with our now famous parking meters and let people park. There weren't that many people using the parking meters. And so it was a very difficult time. Nevertheless, a sense of proportion, a great council, a great staff got the city through probably one of the most difficult years the city had to survive.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
A Young Fire Spouse's Journey With Her Husband's Cancer Diagnosis
"A few episodes back we sat down with Diane Carter and she shared her story of her husband's line of duty, panther diagnosis, and her relentless pursuit of making turnouts safe and just exploring PFAS and all that fun stuff about exposure in the workplace. If you haven't listened to that podcast, we definitely recommend it. And today we actually have another first responder spouse, Brittany San Pedro with us to share her story about her husband's line of duty cancer diagnosis. Brittany, welcome. Thank you for having me. Brittany San Pedro is a speech therapist assistant, wife to a firefighter and a mom. She has been with her husband for 10 years and has an 18 month old and another one on the way. In late October of 2019, Brittany's husband at the age of 30 and 10 years into his career noticed a small lump on his collarbone. After several tests, he was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was the first line of duty cancer diagnosis in the history of Greeley fire department. Since then, many changes to screening and early detection have been made as a department. As a result, several malignant polyps, skin samples and ultrasound readings have potentially saved the lives of other firefighters within the department. Today, Brittany is sharing her story to help anyone who may feel alone or scared, especially after a health diagnosis. She also wants to encourage change and promote the importance of regular screenings and early detection. Okay. So tell us your story a little bit, the whole thing. We want to hear it. My husband came home one day and just kind of mentioned like, Hey, I got out of the shower at work and I just noticed I had a bump on my collarbone. And he's like, you know, I haven't had my yearly physical. I'm going to go in, have it checked out. And you know, none of us, we weren't really worried. And we were just kind of like, okay, he has a bump. We're going to go check it out. And his general practitioner ran blood work and then started him on antibiotics thinking it was just an infection. His body was fighting something and blood work came back fine. It didn't go down with the antibiotics. At that point, they did an X -ray. Everything looked fine. The blood work looks fine. And his general practitioner asked him what he did for a living. And you know, you fill out that survey, you tell him what you do. And he's like, you know what? We're going to, we're going to keep going. We're going to keep looking. If you're fine with that. You're a firefighter. It just makes me sit better if I, if I keep digging a little bit. And he kept going in for appointments. He then got an ultrasound done. After the ultrasound, he scheduled an appointment for a biopsy to have it looked at. And at this point we hadn't even heard the word cancer yet. I at the time was a special education teacher at a school across the street from the hospital where he was having the biopsy done. He texted me and let me know he was going in. He was super nervous. I let my co -teacher know, Hey, my husband doesn't usually have his feelings out like that. And lets me know that he's there. He's like, that's fine. Go. I ran across the street and he went back. Everything was fine. He came back out and then he just had this look on his face that I'll never forget his eyes started welling up with tears. And I guess the doctor who performed the doctor tech who performed the biopsy, you know, before his doctor had a chance to say anything told him, yeah, this is pretty typical for lymphoma. And both of us were just kind of like, what is happening? What's going on? We were hit by a bus. We didn't even know that this is something that they were looking for. And we called our closest friends, our little mini fire family. And we were like, Hey, we need support tonight. And in a minute, everybody was together at one of our friends house and everybody was just talking trash about the guy who stepped out of his scope of practice and said some things he maybe shouldn't have. And we were like, it's not going to happen. He's too young. He's healthy. There's no way. So a couple of days went by, we got a phone call saying that the doctor wanted us to come in, even though it was his day off and usually not a great sign. So we were a little nervous going in. And then when we sat down, he let us know that they, they did find it to be Hodgkin's lymphoma and that they needed to start figuring out what stage he was at coming up with a plan, trying to figure out everything. And we were both strong until they asked us, you know, are you guys, you guys are young. You guys just got married, just bought a house. Like you, are you guys wanting to start a family at some point? And I just started bawling because I already knew what was coming. And he said, I recommend that you reach out to a fertility specialist, if that's something that you would want to do. And you start reaching out to all your resources. And we did, after that, he started chemo in like less than a week. It was probably like four or five days. And he had chemo, he had it on Christmas. He had it, like he started in November, had it for about six months and then took a little bit of a break and then started radiation. And then after he went through radiation, his end date was March 14th, 2020. And then right after that, the next day the world shut down, but it was just, you know, for us, it was just amazing because he never, we never went to an appointment alone. It was just such a somber time. We were just had this dark cloud of stress and not knowing and anything. And at the same time when it was so dark, such a beautiful thing, because we had the department bringing rigs and down we packed that cancer center and, you know, we had some of his best friends, like his best man and another Lieutenant was there at every single one of his chemo appointments. And, you know, everybody kind of band together for him. It was kind of, it was a beautiful thing to see everybody supporting each other and making sure that he was never alone. You know, the Terry Farrell Fund reached out right away. You know, they did a cut it for cancer for him. It was just something that they hadn't ever experienced before at the, this department. And we were, we were just kind of overwhelmed with all the support that we had,
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Brittney Sampedro on Husband's Line-of-Duty Cancer Diagnosis in Colorado
"So lymphoma is a very common cancer in the fire service, right? I did a little deep dive, maybe not super deep dive, but I definitely looked at some of the statistics for firefighters specifically. It's crazy. If you ever research it, which I'm sure you probably did at this point, the female firefighters, I did not know how like a 600 % increased risk of breast cancer. That's wild. Wow. And then firefighters have obviously a significant increased risk of cancer as they progress throughout their career. So at the 20 year mark, gets a little more at the 30 year mark, it gets a little more. So cancer is not uncommon in the fire service at all. But you said that the department specifically would never say for certain that it was because of his exposures to chemicals on the job or their gear containing the PFOAS. So was he eligible for any kind of benefit or anything from job related cancer? It's not covered under like a workman's comp type of thing. Colorado has something called the Colorado Cancer Trust. So it's departments that elect to put money into an account that say like, there's an eligibility criteria. He had been a firefighter at that point in 2019 for 10 years. So he was eligible to say like, yes, he's had enough exposure to have been at risk to have this type of cancer that is known or more common for firefighters. So lymphoma was on there. I know testicular cancer is a big one too for men. I didn't know breast cancer for women, but there is an eligibility criteria. They don't come out and say that this is work related. And the department and the everybody who works for Greeley Fire was amazing. They all covered his shifts. So he was able to go through treatment. He had to step offline for a while. And then when the pandemic hit, he kind of was forced to sit at a desk for a little bit just because his immunity was still really low. But I don't even think that there was something written out that like, what happens if a firefighter has cancer? It was just kind of like the guys, everybody at the department banding together and being like, I got your shift. I got your next shift. And they got it all figured out for us. But there was never like a, like, this is work related is workman's comp. It's a, it's a work related issue. It was kind of a separate, you know, like having the cancer trust and then having the Terry Farrell fund reach out to, knowing that it could be a job related cancer. So Colorado is not a presumptive cancer state then. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. And it's crazy to me that in 2023, after all of these studies that there are States that don't have that presumptive cancer legislation. It blows my mind.
The Dan Bongino Show
The REAL Reason Dan Was Banned From YouTube
"From I am HO in my opinion the real reason I was banned from YouTube is because was I an investor and a rather large one in their competitor which is rumble where my podcast and Steven Crowder's is hosted so the strange thing happened this weekend that yesterday I see account tweets out that he's got another strike from YouTube two strikes for having me on he tweeted out YouTube wants is dead they just hit us with two strikes one on the main channel one on Crowder bits just for having Dan Bongino on we're one strike away from being permanently banned he notes this is why we have mug club and rumble it's the only way to support support the mission can you imagine being a trillion dollar company alphabet google that owns YouTube finding a little old Dan Bongino so scary that he goes on Steven Crowder show which makes its way onto YouTube and you threatened to ban him permanently from the platform and issue them two strikes for doing it folks listen there's a serious uh there's kind of a serious off ramp to this highway I'm on here the reason I'm telling you this story is can if happen it to me it can happen to you I had an option when YouTube started relentlessly attacking my channel for telling you the truth about COVID I had prepared myself by going over to not only investing in rumble but to bringing my audience over to rumble we had 800 ,000 subscribers on youtube we now have 2 almost .97 3 million subscribers on rumble so it's not even close so I had a backup what I'm trying to tell you is if we lose this next election and they know they've got the censors and the Biden regime and the been in charge for the next four years folks I'm warning you right now you're next you are running out of opportunities to set up a presence in the parallel economy I'm not telling you to get off youtube or or twitter or anything like that or twitter is actually ok now but facebook I'm telling not you I'm on Facebook I'm not time we talk on Facebook a lot of us matter of fact the guy who couldn't figure out if you know you know was on Facebook right I'm not telling you to get off it stay there I'm simply telling you you are insane to not set up a separate and distinct profile for yourself in the parallel economy I'm telling you even even relaxing lady Rachel's telling
The Mason Minute
Movie Marathons (MM #4633)
"I realize the way we watch television has changed a lot over recent years, and it's all because of the streaming services. But I really think they overdid things over the holiday weekend, where a lot of the channels were running marathons of holiday movies. I know a lot of it was TBS and TNT, but they ran 24 -hour straight versions of Elf and Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story, and I know I'm forgetting a few, but a lot of Christmas programming over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I understand why they do this. In years past, marathons were kind of left to the days when people weren't really watching. For example, Christmas Story has been running a marathon every Christmas Eve to Christmas Day for decades now. But it looks like we're going to be seeing more of that because we can watch Christmas Story year -round now. We can watch any movie, any TV show, year -round. People aren't watching cable TV or the TV networks quite as much, so they're looking for ways to get people excited. It's easy, it's cheap. How many more times can you watch a Christmas Story, Elf, or even Christmas Vacation? Just a matter of time for some channels or 24 -hour marathons all the time.
The Mason Minute
Movie Marathons (MM #4633)
"I realize the way we watch television has changed a lot over recent years, and it's all because of the streaming services. But I really think they overdid things over the holiday weekend, where a lot of the channels were running marathons of holiday movies. I know a lot of it was TBS and TNT, but they ran 24 -hour straight versions of Elf and Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story, and I know I'm forgetting a few, but a lot of Christmas programming over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I understand why they do this. In years past, marathons were kind of left to the days when people weren't really watching. For example, Christmas Story has been running a marathon every Christmas Eve to Christmas Day for decades now. But it looks like we're going to be seeing more of that because we can watch Christmas Story year -round now. We can watch any movie, any TV show, year -round. People aren't watching cable TV or the TV networks quite as much, so they're looking for ways to get people excited. It's easy, it's cheap. How many more times can you watch a Christmas Story, Elf, or even Christmas Vacation? Just a matter of time for some channels or 24 -hour marathons all the time.
The Mason Minute
Movie Marathons (MM #4633)
"I realize the way we watch television has changed a lot over recent years, and it's all because of the streaming services. But I really think they overdid things over the holiday weekend, where a lot of the channels were running marathons of holiday movies. I know a lot of it was TBS and TNT, but they ran 24 -hour straight versions of Elf and Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story, and I know I'm forgetting a few, but a lot of Christmas programming over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I understand why they do this. In years past, marathons were kind of left to the days when people weren't really watching. For example, Christmas Story has been running a marathon every Christmas Eve to Christmas Day for decades now. But it looks like we're going to be seeing more of that because we can watch Christmas Story year -round now. We can watch any movie, any TV show, year -round. People aren't watching cable TV or the TV networks quite as much, so they're looking for ways to get people excited. It's easy, it's cheap. How many more times can you watch a Christmas Story, Elf, or even Christmas Vacation? Just a matter of time for some channels or 24 -hour marathons all the time.
The Mason Minute
Movie Marathons (MM #4633)
"I realize the way we watch television has changed a lot over recent years, and it's all because of the streaming services. But I really think they overdid things over the holiday weekend, where a lot of the channels were running marathons of holiday movies. I know a lot of it was TBS and TNT, but they ran 24 -hour straight versions of Elf and Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story, and I know I'm forgetting a few, but a lot of Christmas programming over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I understand why they do this. In years past, marathons were kind of left to the days when people weren't really watching. For example, Christmas Story has been running a marathon every Christmas Eve to Christmas Day for decades now. But it looks like we're going to be seeing more of that because we can watch Christmas Story year -round now. We can watch any movie, any TV show, year -round. People aren't watching cable TV or the TV networks quite as much, so they're looking for ways to get people excited. It's easy, it's cheap. How many more times can you watch a Christmas Story, Elf, or even Christmas Vacation? Just a matter of time for some channels or 24 -hour marathons all the time.
Mark Levin
Democrats Are Threatening Israel's Very Survival
"You know it's interesting when israel one it's independence the state of israel and people get confused with that and how how long the jewish people have been there the jewish people have been there for four thousand years but the modern state of israel the establishment of the state of israel it was proclaimed on may 14 1948 within a few hours president truman issued from the white house a statement that said the states united government recognized the provisional government as the de facto authority the new state of israel two days later the soviet union followed with a formal recognition to an exchange of letters by stalin's right -hand man stoff and should talk the foreign minister of israel and it said confirm your receipt of your telegram on may 16 in which you inform the government of the ussr of the proclamation on the basis of the revolution of the united nations resolution november 1947 of the creation of alzheimer the independent state of israel make requests for the recognition of state of by the ussr i inform you in this letter that the government of the ussr has decided to recognize officially the state of israel and its provisional government so today's so two days later the soviet union recognizes israel and from that moment until 1967 formal diplomatic relations but seven diplomatic relations were broken off and weren't resumed until 1991 one the . also israel's closest ally the state of israel was established was not the united states it was france. france was israel's closest ally and it's believed that france provided israel with certain technological information to enable them to build atomic weapons it was france. eisenhower was a little chilly toward israel at least at the toward the end by the despite what some israeli officials are saying at the highest levels in even worse than obama even though obama's acolytes are surrounding biden in instituting their ideological agenda the fact is you can see since obama's presidency that the demographics of the country enhance the demographics of the democrat party have significantly changed. there's more islamists operating under the umbrella of the democrat and receiving tenure and receiving student visas and all the rest of it than during the obama administration and exist big time now and being funded by billionaires and they're being lost network and others
The Dan Bongino Show
The Mainstream Media's Plot to Destroy America Exposed
"Republic. That's us. The media doesn't want you to talk about a United States first policy because they're interested in nothing more than a globalist open borders world where everybody can take advantage of the United States and dismantle capitalism and bring their socialist ideas here. It's the whole Soros type plan. That's why they're always pushing for open borders. It's not an accident. It's why the talked Democrats endlessly about demographic destiny. Jim, how many times we played this video and I'm talking about demographic destiny, five, six, at least. I mean, if the Democrats are obsessed with talk about it all the time. Here's what's going to get in their way, though. You have it? Yeah. How long is that video? Like a minute or so? Here, I because this is important. This is what's happening around the world as people start to elect conservative leaders populist and leaders who are saying, hey, we're not doing this immigration stuff anymore. Take care of our own country first. But the Democrats are obsessed with demographic destiny. do How I know it? I just listened to him. Now you can, too. Coming out into the open in a few years, to we're going be a majority brown country. White people will not be the majority in the country anymore. This will be the first ever in American history in which whites will be a minority of the generation at some As of 2007, every year, babies being born in this country, whites now with a minority in 2044. Everyone is going to be a minority. As the demographics change, as white people become the minority in the country, is coming. which Demographics is destiny. Demographics is destiny. Demographics is destiny, right? The country is changing. I've been saying it here. Other people have been saying it here for years now, even before Donald Trump. The is demographics destiny. The white population is declining for the first time in history in America, while the number of multiracial Americans have more than doubled. So we live in a country where the demographics are changing. becoming It's less white. Correct. Okay. You'll be announcing that we're calling the 38 electoral votes of Texas for the Democratic nominee for president. It's changing. It's going to become a purple state and then a blue because of the demographic. Folks, do not be cowed. Do not. There's the left wing activists, progressive sucky liberals love more
Northwest Newsradio
"first year ago" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Coming up, what life has been like and you've all the Texas in the years since the mass shooting nearly one year ago. I learned that grief doesn't ever end. And it's the small little things that will trigger a memory of their child. Sorting through the future of AI, what are the dangers, but also the opportunities of artificial intelligence. GPT four will, I think, entirely automated away some jobs. And it will create new ones that we believe will be much better. And battling the stigma of mental health concerns in the Asian American community. They already have a difficult time many people talking about their inner thoughts and being vulnerable and feeling comfortable with that in general, let alone speaking with a therapist. All ahead on perspective. It was nearly one year ago this weekend, May 24th, 2022 that a gunman entered rob elementary school and Yuval, Texas, armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle, and opened fire on a classroom full of fourth graders. He would kill 19 of them and two of their teachers before he was finally stopped by law enforcement on the scene. ABC News reported on the story, and on the people who call you Voldemort. We're a very small, tight community, and breathe. We love our evolving. We love a while. After the shooting, we stayed. ABC News embarked on a project called uvalde 360 five, the goal to continue telling the stories of this community and these families who lost so much in the nation's deadliest school shooting since sandy hook. One of those who was on the ground from the very beginning was investigative unit producer ismael Estrada ish as he's known to us here at ABC News, sat down with me to talk about what it's been like covering
WTOP
"first year ago" Discussed on WTOP
"Wilmer on Sunday highs mid 50s to low 60s, a chance of late day rain on Monday. Highs in the 50s. I'm storm team four meteorologist by Jennifer chantilly's 62 Penn quarter at 60 in Columbia, 57°. We're headed down to the 40s in places, brought to you by long fence, save 20% on long fence decks, pavers, and fences go to long fence dot com today, schedule your free in home estimate. Now ten ten. It is the 5 a.m. hour in Ukraine, February 24th, 2023. It was one year ago that Russia invaded. The situation appeared bleak, Moscow expected a victory within only weeks, but the Ukrainian resistance surprised Russia and the whole world. How did the Ukrainians do it and have they managed to stay in the fight for this long? CBS News correspondent Charlie daggett had joined WTO's Sean and Hillary from Kyiv earlier to discuss it. It was extraordinary to witness because I was here. We were here when that unfolded and a very next day when they were handing out these weapons. At sports centers and along intersections, it was real and it really was happening and they were putting up barricades and we had civilians who were loading up molotov cocktails. And yes, it was not going to be enough clearly. That was not going to be enough to stop one of the most powerful militaries in the world, but we spoke to the defense secretary, Alexei resnikoff. And I put that question to that civilian soldiers wouldn't be enough. He said, it wasn't just that. We had spotters. We had people pinning when Russian tanks were coming down the street. And the soldiers that they did have, they put them in the right places. There was a place hostile, which is an airport, just a 25 minute drive outside of the capital and we went there afterward. And what happened there was extraordinary. The elite Russian paratroopers were trying to establish that as an air bridge in order to take over the city itself and they were stopped. Long enough for the full soldiers to go in there to an axle battalion strength to go in there and to turn the Russian forces back. And we've seen these horrific images in places like bucha and urban. These are suburbs of Ukraine that were taken over for a time. But when Ukrainian forces were able to push them back, do you remember the 40 mile convoy of death? Everybody was expecting what's going to happen there. I myself was expecting, not necessarily that there was going to be a sort of massacre in the streets of key, but it would be under siege that it might fall within 72 to 96 hours as western intelligence and greeting. U.S. intelligence was predicting. It just didn't happen. And in the time it took to get the western supplied weapons, the bigger weapons in there, it turned the tide against Russian forces. It has been extraordinary to witness. On the front line at this point, a lot of the people fighting for Russia are conscripts, the Ukrainians to your point are literally fighting for life and death. Where does the fighting stand now? Well, we went out to the front lines east of Bach mount and shut down their places just getting pummeled as you've seen along curse on outside of our key itself. Anything within Russian artillery range is getting hit constantly. And when we went to the place just northeast of Bach moon, their genuinely wasn't a 32nd period where there wasn't an explosion either incoming or outgoing. And I know there's been a lot of reporting and Ukrainian forces have been talking about artillery. That's really what they need right now. Mostly it's ammunition because they are burning through this ammunition far quicker than the United States or any of America's allies or any crane's allies can provide it. And you can't get here quickly enough. So it really is an artillery war. In some cases, we talk about trench warfare. French warfare when you see it up close is a small arms fire. It's grenades. It really is a matter of a couple hundred yards either way in either direction. So we talk about the fight that has stagnated or stable front lines. That kind of suggests that nothing's going on. No, the opposite is true. They're actually fighting for every inch in their fighting constantly. So along those battle lines, this is a very active and dynamic fight that's going on. CBS News correspondent Charlie daggett, he was with our Sean and Hillary a little earlier from Kyiv and it is technically still the day before here, but already in the 5 a.m. hour in Ukraine in that Marx one year now since Russia invaded. We'll stay on top of it for you on WTO. A lot happening in sports, both with the commanders and caps and rob has it all next. Y'all feeling lucky. Luke combs here and I have an exclusive opportunity for you to win a half a $1 million by running me and the living lucky with Luke combs lottery experience. When it rains it pours for
Bloomberg Radio New York
"first year ago" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"States are unfortunate extreme abortion bans. Make no mistake about it. If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it. But let's also pass. It's also passed the bipartisan equality act. But you're LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity. Our strength. Our strength is not just example of our power, but the power of our example. Let's remember the world's watching. I spoke from this chamber one year ago just days after Vladimir Putin unleashes brutal attack against Ukraine. A murderous assault, Vulcan images of death and destruction. Europe suffered in World War II. Putin's invasion has been a test for the ages. Tests for America, test for the world. Would we stand for the most basic of principles? Will we stand for sovereignty? We stand for the right of people to live free of charity. Will we stand for the defense of democracy? For such defense matter to us because it keeps peace and prevents open season and would be aggressive and threatens our prosperity. One year later, we know the answer. Yes, we would and we did. We did And together, we
TuneInPOC
"first year ago" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"I'm Jim veteran in Paris, and this is CNN. All right, welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. It is Wednesday, January 5th, I'm John Berman with Brianna killer this morning in Washington, D.C. for our special CNN coverage. One year ago today, Republican lawmakers, a coup hungry president, and right-wing
What a Weird Week
"first year ago" Discussed on What a Weird Week
"You've tried on your mobile device, imagine how that filter that when you're thinking of that saucy one or whatever, that freaky deaky filter imagine now you're beaming that to your congregation, the Church of England. That it could have been worse. Instead, you had a cool fellow. Basically looking like a cool fellow. And then when he looks at the camera, he suddenly has sunglasses and a fedora hat on, he looks like one of The Blues Brothers. Cool minister looks cooler. That's kind of that's the takeaway, I guess, on that story, our number ten story. Without looking it up, couldn't tell you the biggest movie of all time. It is avatar. It had been avatar for a while. It is avatar again because they rereleased it in China. So it was Avengers Endgame endgame at game Avengers Endgame. I don't know who Ed Asner, who would star in that. I'd watch it. They rereleased avatar last weekend in China and made some millions, and now it is the number one money making movie. Let's move on from this. Endgame. Number 8. Bill ackman and investor who got in early buying stocks for a company that everybody online everywhere you heard this story in your ear holes. They called the company the Amazon of South Korea. So the I know I pronounce that part right, Amazon of South Korea. The actual name of the company is I want to say it's coupang anyway, this investor bill has a billion over a $1 billion worth of stocks in this company shares in the company. He's given it all over to charity. So that was in the news this past week. Restores your faith in humanity. Eh? If it doesn't, maybe one of the other weird stories we have this week will, the one about the ranch dressing, it's next. More Heinz sauces is the number 7 weird story in a world that only a few years ago fought that ranch dressing was still pretty cutting edge. As far as sauces go, ranch is still pretty great. Heinz has started thinking outside the box. He came up with one weird sauce and got a lot of attention and then they were like, hey, these weird sauces. They get a lot of attention. A lot of free publicity. So they're thinking outside the sauce box. It's a sauce box, juggernaut. They've opened up Pandora's sauce box. Copyright 2021, what a weird week productions. So anyway, they're churning out new combos of ketchup and Mayo and ranch. So they have one that is called Han now. Hand stressing sounds like nickname of a motorcycle cop on television, but it's fun to say, that one is hot sauce and ranch, by the way, but you can click the show notes for more. Lady in the Netherlands got a robot tattoo this week, not a tattoo of a robot, a tattoo done by a robot. There was a tattoo artist controlling the robot, arm, the tattoo artist was hundred mile hundreds of miles away. I meant to say, by the way, off the top, I should have warned you. We're trying to do this live off the floor zero edits this week. Don't have a lot of time, so we're going with all the mistakes. Editing is hard, you guys. It's not really. I've said that before, it's not really. This lady had her arm and some kind of contraption, looked a little bit like a 3D printer box, maybe. Meanwhile, the tattoo artist, hundreds of miles away, manipulating some sort of device and a lady gets a tattoo. The tattoo is something sort of abstract. It's a safe, you know, that's a safe one to go with for the first time. They're testing this out. Because if it was supposed to be the Mona Lisa and it came out looking like a duck, that would be bad. Go with an abstract. So it's not every conspiracy theory that I'll buy into, but I hope that somebody was ready to pull the plug on this device if it became sentient. And started to begin the total human extermination project. You know, one of these robots is going to, maybe it's not the tattoo robot, but do you want to see the deal how it all went down that it's in the show notes we haven't linked. Number 5. The guy who made news this week for breaking the world record involving drinking a Capri sun very fast. The record for drinking a Capri sun like, you know, sort of like a juice box, mini sip, whatever. Those things. The Capri sun. 16 seconds and change. Doesn't seem that fast, but you have to start the clock before you remove the little straw. So that would take, especially I've got giant sausage fingers, sausage, sausage fingers. And so that would be hard to do, remove the straw, and then pierce that Capri sun. And then start drinking. So you have to work on if you want to break this record. You have to get good at fine straw manipulation. And then also being thirsty is probably that's going to help. Scientists grow human tear glands in a lab and actually make them cry. That's it. That's all you need to know. That headline is weird, right? This is a result of stem cell research. Some people can't make tears. So this would help those people in May revolutionize acting in sad scenes, especially on television. I'm thinking soap operas to fast turnaround TV. Maybe these things will also first the medical miracle, but then also help the acting. Scientists surprised by plants a mile under the ice in Greenland. It's a Greenland. I always want to say Greenland, I'm going with every time it comes up, I say I'm going with Greenland. I'm going with Greenland. These plant fossils were found way under the ice. And proves that there wasn't always ice there in Greenland. But the weird thing about this story, if you're asking me, oh, you're not. Next story. No, I still, I have to tell you. The weirdest story is how they got all the data. So this is how all this went down, this plant fossils in Greenland stuff. In the 1960s, the military was looking to have a secret storage facility for nuclear missiles. In the 1960s and as a cover for this, this is, listen, I'm telling you, trust no one about nothing. Hey, because in the 1960s, they're like, okay, we need this secret facility. Nuclear missiles. All right, I've got the perfect cover, you guys. Let's just pretend we're doing scientific research on the soil. So they dug these, they did some drilling and they took soil samples. It made it seem like it was real science. They just put those things in a freezer in the 1960s. Although soil samples, and then a couple of years ago, they accidentally found them in this freezer. And that's how they got the soil sample from a mile under the ice in Greenland. That's weird, right? I mean, I'm not wrong about that. Am I? Number two. That assistant district attorney in Pennsylvania who just got demoted because while he was being an assistant district attorney, he was also making DoorDash deliveries, like during work hours. I'm gonna insert this is a clip we had on our radio show the other day. This is the sound bite. It is never good when your boss has to call a press conference and say something like this. What he has done is indefensible. Thoughtless, selfish, and stow stupid. It's senseless. His door dashed during hours when he was supposed to be working exclusively for the bucks county district attorney's office and the citizens that we serve. That's the fellow in Pennsylvania, the assistant district attorney was also delivering for DoorDash. Ain't nothing wrong with that. That's good on his work, but those worlds are not supposed to collide. You're not supposed to be on the job as the district attorney and also like you're not supposed to be serving someone a subpoena and also bringing them their chicken sandwich. Those worlds should not collide. We all do it. I remember somebody I won't mention, get too specific, but somebody who worked in the copy department, the creative, writing commercials, the radio station, that person was at the same time as they were writing award winning commercials. They were also working on their novel. Some sort of erotic fiction. And that got found out, everything was fine. I think we all got a discount code for the erotic fiction came out. Anyway, we've all done something. No. Number one story this week, engineers at Stanford University have finally figured out exactly why hummingbirds hum. It's because they don't know the words. Now they really did years of research. If you really want to dig into it, it involved a lot of high-speed cameras, years literally years of ciphering the math. But it's pretty much what you would think. They just found exactly why they can pinpoint exactly why, but it's what you think. It's the flapping of the wings and how fast or the frequency of the flapping for.
What a Weird Week
"first year ago" Discussed on What a Weird Week
"Hi Friends, this is Scotty. This week's what a weird week podcast is a rebroadcast from one year ago, so from the first weekend of February 2021, please enjoy what a weird week. What a weird week for Monday, February 1st, 2021. This is season two episode one. Hi, everybody. It's weird. This is like crazy being here. Really? We're down. Well, I got a great show for you today with some wonderful stuff. Thank you for coming back to what a weird week the podcast of the weirdest news stories of the week took the month of January off here we are season two episode one. Well, we did have an episode in the podcast screen we did in scream also maybe we did a podcast that was my daughter's English assignment, haven't gotten the grades back on that yet, so fingers crossed everybody. Hey, I assume I'll get a grade back as well. And I'll have something to report maybe next episode. Ten. View off the top. Ten 9 8 7 6. Some rapid fire ones to get back into the swing and things. The guy on Twitter who shared his story of volunteering to be infected with parasites for science, good lord, click the link if you want to like 50 different 50 different parasites on purpose. 9. Dunkin Donuts offering weddings in the drive-through this Valentine's. They say we're all nostalgic for good old loving love. On Valentine's Day. But lousy stinking COVID, no fancy dinners out the violins and the non plastic cutlery. We're not doing that with COVID, so donut love is the answer. 8. Oh my gosh, this one is so weird. Because cores can't officially run an ad during the Super Bowl Anheuser Busch or whatever their company name is, they have exclusivity. So cores is going to offer a video audio experience on YouTube that is supposed so far big deal, right? This is supposed to, they've worked with a psychiatrist, psychologist, they've worked with a dream specialist, somebody this is all credible stuff. Here's what they're doing. The YouTube video audio experience is supposed to make you dream. They're supposed to put advertisements in your dreams about course. The new beer, they'll be advertising as the MKUltra beer. Mind control joke. 7. Everybody this past week has been talking about the Reddit GameStop, the stocks that read it can appear to make sore and the stockbrokers who appear to be sore as well over the whole story. Anyway, the manipulation of the stock market, we do have a link. There were a lot of great links shared because when this story came out, many of us, myself, for sure, we realized don't really understand how the stock market works. 6. Rolling Stone's 50 most anticipated movie releases of 2021 makes the list because in a time of COVID, some things that were normal now seem weird. So that's number 6. I can't believe they're going to have an average of one, almost one anticipated movie per week. Maybe it's because we've watched all of the things. Maybe that's the reason you usually you'd anticipate a few big ones, here's a few big ones for the first half of the season. But now we're anticipating 50, a top 50 list in Rolling Stone because my gosh, I watched YouTube cats for an hour yesterday. That was well, here's what you do. First you, you scroll through Netflix, and then you look up and it's, wow, three hours. Three hours still haven't found anything to watch. And then flip on YouTube and hope that live cats channel just hope that a cat will walk by the screen. Yesterday, our into it, no cats. You know, I stand by my decision. It was still a good, it was a good watch. Live cats, YouTube, with no cats. 5. Number 5 is volcano mouse once thought extinct is actually doing great. If you've never heard of the volcano mouse, I know what you're thinking, this is a mouse that obviously it must spit lava that can burn through a bank vault. And we need to plan the volcano. Mouse heist. Well, volcano mouse heist, not easy to say. It's a great thought, but the volcano mouse is the kind of mouse living near mount pinatubo when it erupted in 1991. Scientists thought, well, ain't no mice surviving this, but they did science. They did. And now there's a study published volcano mouse doing well. What was it though? This study is not out about exactly how they survived the volcano eruption. What was it? Did they are they incredibly smart, incredibly fast, is it cheese? Perhaps eating cheese can help you survive a volcanic eruption. Four. Number four is the subway tuna sub lawsuit allegations. Lawsuit out of California claiming that subway tuna subs are not tuna. If that is true, what are subway tuna subs? I mean, if it's false advertising than a sub shop ought to be made to tell the truth, but also this is going to be one of those deals where it's tuna ish, like good enough for tuna and delicious, right? And the lawsuit is just gonna make it go away. Get in the way of me having a delicious sandwich. Maybe it's goldfish and eel, we don't know right now, the lawsuit people say they have run tests and they know what's in there and brother it ain't tuna. But to be continued, that's number four. Three. Number three, TikToker horrifies viewers. Oh, I just had to include it because the headline fantastic. TikToker, horrifies viewers by making mashed potatoes out of a bag of chips. And they Michelin starred chef says the hack is ludicrous. Actual headline. So we live in a time where it is your right to be outraged. At anything, someone does, wearing Crocs, outrage, change your hairstyle. Well, come on. We're all allowed to be offended by your hairstyle choice. Boiled some potato chips. Oh my gosh. A nearly had some sort of infarction. I'm going to send you my ambulance, Bill. This TikTok guy boiled a bunch. I don't know, was that a did that? I thought that was some sort of hilarious commentary on society when I wrote this example, but this guy on TikTok boiled a bunch of lay's potato chips, plain chips, turn them into some kind of mush, called it mashed potatoes, said they were delicious. Do we know if they're delicious? I do not. However, they were deliciously anger inducing online, and that is number three. Number two, pink Kraft dinner. Thank you for sending me this a bunch of people sent me the link to this one for Valentine's Day. Craft is putting out candy flavored pink Mac and cheese as a promo slash giveaway. It's gonna be a thousand boxes available. You can check their website. It is so damn romantic. Hey, pink Kraft dinner. I made you this baby. Kraft dinner. What do you mean? What.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Right Charlie thank you so much So as the U.S. capital is being overtaken by supporters of then outgoing president Donald Trump just one year ago today We learned we really leaned I should say on our D.C. team big time to understand and track what happened and continue to do so really in the days and weeks after it as well that included our Billy house congressional reporter at Bloomberg news who was at the capitol during the insurrection Billy joined us in the days after and share what was going on as he was in lockdown on that fateful day one year ago Here's some of what he said to us at that time I was actually in the House chamber when they slammed the door shut pulled guns and rioters were knocking and banging and cracking windows but I must say how security performed admirably They escorted the members out then they estimated us out and we were safe It was an incredible experience if not harrowing Billie has congressional reporter at Bloomberg news who joins us right now on the phone from Capitol Hill Billy I remember all those conversations with you and was thinking about you and our colleagues who were there You guys really gave us incredible information incredible insight As you look back at what happened when you were going to hear yourself speaking nearly one year ago and what we've learned and seen in the days after the insurrection what strikes you What really leached out to be is that there's still elected members of Congress who suggest that that was not a violent day that was not a violent insurrection And that they expect colleagues who were pinned in that chamber and elsewhere in capital complex that day to sit down and work alongside with them on legislation and other matters Even though they still a year later don't accept what is clear on video and what they sometimes themselves actually saw So that's if you want to talk about the gulf between the parties in Washington Only enlarged what was already a big split before the riot Billy that's exactly where I was going to go Because it does seem like even I hear comments from some members of the house right now and it's almost like January 6th 2021 didn't happen or they were living in some alternate timeline or alternate universe based on your reporting and what you described Is this something they really believe or is this what they think their constituents want to hear And it will get them reelected Well I met capital now and I just left a press conference with Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz and they just now launched a bunch of scenarios they say they want investigated that the FBI prompted the insurrection and to either disrupt GOP challenges to the election or to make Trump backers look at So that's where we are And we can't take that seriously Absolutely not But there's good point in what you raised is people they speak to at home and elsewhere These two actually travel around the country as sort of a Group draw espousing the stuff and people apparently believe them and or at least want to believe them And as we see in polling Trump is already with regard to another presidential run way ahead of anybody in the party And there are two of his biggest backers Does he speak for the party and I ask we just talked about a story about longtime Republican strategist Karl rove who's blasting Republicans who back that Donald Trump the false 2020 win claims that he made Who is the voice of the Republican Party today Well I'd say the most obvious in those active are those two Republicans appointed by Pelosi on the January 6th House committee investigating what led up to that riot and what occurred that day Liz Cheney the former vice president's daughter And of course Adam kinzinger Illinois But they are outliers in their own party Maybe even seeing their final Kendrick is not running again at the end of this year And change facing not only opposition from Trump but at home backers opponents of Trump back So but they are the most out front but they themselves are seen by many in their party as outliers Well we should note that Illinois Republican representative Adam kinzinger who just mentioned he's going to be on sound on with Joe Matthew starting at 5 o'clock today So we'll be sure to listen for that You mentioned representative Liz Cheney Her father former vice president Dick Cheney he was actually at the capitol today That was a remarkable and kind of unexpected but essentially there was a short session of the House which hasn't been in session this week I called a pro forma And Democrats were there Pelosi the Speaker of the House gave a few remarks But only Liz Cheney was among sitting members of the House Republican members in the room and but her father was with her The former vice president And that was kind of moving They sat together and afterward he talked to reporters about how proud he was of his daughter and how the leadership of the GOP party today in his view is nothing like what it was when he was in the house and he did serve in the house for ten years Hey Billy just got about 40 seconds left What do we as all Americans deserve to know What do you as someone who was there and continue to report on what happened What are we still need to know just quickly Well what I think we in Congress has done a pretty good job at this whole hearings multiple hearings on the security lapses I think what we need to know is what the January 6th committee seems to be focusing on is this 187 hours that day I mean minutes that day in which National Guard was not called to the capital reinforcements were not brought in and who.
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"The Tao is down 131 down four tenths of 1% I'm Charlie polite David Weston is a Bloomberg business flash Thank you so much Charlie pellet Pennsylvania congresswoman Christy houlihan was in her office in the capitol building one year ago today preparing her remarks about the certification of Pennsylvania's electoral votes for president When a mob attacked the building and she spent the next 14 hours barricaded in her office until the all clear was sounded Welcome now representative hulan back to Bloomberg So welcomes great to have you Congresswoman So just for a moment take us back to that day and what you experienced Sure And thank you for having me on this really solid day That day was a day that frankly I anticipated would be a hard one to begin with I had asked my staff frankly to not be in the office at all in anticipation of that very long day and a difficult one But of course we couldn't anticipate how difficult it would be and how our ability to be for the future of our nation So I did I brought my pajamas frankly along with me I brought a TV frozen dinner but didn't anticipate certainly that I'd be sitting barricaded in my office for the better part of 14 hours and that I would be standing on the floor of house or representative at one or two in the morning descending the will of the people So bring us forward a year if you would What have we learned since then that might help us avoid anything approaching that in the future So I think that there are a couple of things that we need to be doing to help avoid this One is I think we need to be frankly holding people accountable who still to this day are a thousand the lies that brought us to this place There is there is a fabrication that somehow this election was an improper one or not certifiable And we need to make sure that elected officials are held to account for that and that is something that we can do with our votes Another thing that we can do is we can think about how we can protect the sensitivity of our votes through things like the Voting Rights Act that we've been talking about or the John Lewis voting rights bill as well And finally we need to be kind of resetting the conversation and really be about civility and decency with one another and really sort of lower the temperature so that it's not quite as vitriolic as it has gotten in this nation I think it's really important that we listen to one another and that we set the tone and tenor at the top of our nation at the top of the leadership and representation of our nation and that's something that I in my office have tried very hard to do not just over the last year but since I've joined the Congress Go back to the first thing you mentioned which is really holding people accountable Some of those who to this day as I understand it denied a legitimacy of the election And by the way in those early morning hours still voted against certifying some of the votes Some of them are people you serve with has this affected the workings of the Congress itself because of what happened on that day It's hard to imagine that it wouldn't affect the workings of the Congress I serve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania There are 18 of us 9 Democrats and 9 Republicans And the Republicans colleagues of mine in the Commonwealth all voted against certification of the election which is a staggering idea because those same members had no problem actually taking the oath of office and being sworn in with the very same votes that were that they were contesting at the presidential level So I've worked really hard to try to understand that I've worked really hard to try to figure out ways to continue to work bipartisan atlan across the aisle as an individual representative of this government and my community And I know that many others have as well but it is human instinct to doubt one another but we really have to make sure that we're considering and seeing the best in one another while we're working together To make sure that we're fulfilling the sanctity of the constitution that we're all sworn to serve And so I'm not going to lie This has been a very very hard year It's very hard to walk on the floor of the House of Representatives still to this day But it's my responsibility and the os that I've taken to do that Congresswoman houlihan I want to mention one specific thing because you've written about it actually You've published something about what you call updating the electoral count act of 1887 most of us don't know about that act I'll be kind of Frank with you But give us a sense of what could be reformed in the legislation to make sure that in fact there isn't the opportunity to overturn an election Exactly what that reform would involve which is right now the kind of loophole that I think that the Trump administration president Trump's administration thought that they saw was the ability to overturn the will of the people at the state level by effectively sending it back to state legislatures from the national the national seat of authority here in Washington D.C. And in fact in order to sort of modify our reform this that would close that loophole So that couldn't be done So effectively we wouldn't have the opportunity to change the will of the people through this kind of antiquated methodology that we have in the electoral count procedure You mentioned a couple of bills that are pending right now The for the people like the John Lewis Voting Rights Act from the democratic side to reform things national in terms of how we vote But a lot of individual states have enacted legislation since what happened last January 6th that might point in the other direction At the time I remember people were concerned about the possibility of Pennsylvania legislature overruling the count What's the state of the law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania right now There have been a lot of proposals some of them very worrisome in this state legislature of Pennsylvania We are one of the many many states that are saying kind of going backwards in that trying to find ways I believe of suppressing and pressing the ability of people to exercise their right to vote and have clear and unfettered access to the ballot So I do worry about that Our legislature right now in Pennsylvania is Republican controlled both in the House and the Senate and our governors office is a Democrat a governor wolf And so I'm thankful that we do have a balance there at least right now that is able to withstand those kinds of challenges to the electoral process But that won't.
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"George Floyd was murdered one year ago today, while in police custody is being transformed from a side of morning to an outdoor festival celebrating Floyd's life and his legacy of racial justice. As NPR's Asia, Roscoe reports President Biden had hoped that by now part of that legacy would be full congressional approval of stricter changes in policing. At the federal level, Biden's Justice Department has opened up so a civil rights review of the Minneapolis police Department but in his joint address to Congress by them set a deadline for Congress to pass the George Floyd build into law by this anniversary. That was a very clear choice to set that deadline, and it was a bit of a risk, but that deadline has not been met. European Union leaders are imposing sanctions on Belarus for grounding a commercial airliner to detain an outspoken critic Teri Schultz has NATO's response. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is calling for an urgent international investigation into what he describes as a state hijacking by the government of Belarus. He says the Sunday incident in which journalist Roman put a ceviche was arrested when his flight was forcibly diverted to Belarus. Demonstrates how the regime in Minsk attacks basic Democratic rights. President Biden's hoping to raise Belarus his actions as well as concerns over Ukraine's sovereignty in his first summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, June 16th in Geneva. This is NPR news from KCRW. I'm Cherry Glaser. With this local news Update. With summer coming and emotions already at a boil. Authorities have quietly started to force summon house people from their camping spots on around the Venice boardwalk. An estimated 2000. People experiencing homelessness live in Venice and the boardwalk now features hundreds of tents stretched shoulder to shoulder. Here's L. A City council member, Mike Bahman, speaking to KT l. A started opening up the vendor spaces and the volleyball courts And as we're doing it, we're trying to house or shelter as many people as we can, along the way. We're not doing a massive fortified militaristic sweepers were seen elsewhere Bond and has been under fire from constituents who oppose his plan to shelter on housed individuals and parks and beach parking lots. Hardy. Roberts has lived in Venice for 20 years and says the homelessness problem has never been worse. We've had a home invasion next door to our house. We have multiple robberies. We have a 10 ft fence People have climbed over our fence was just a constant, constant sort of.
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"Country. One year ago today, police arrested a man named George Floyd. He died face down in a Minneapolis ST for the police officer's knee on his neck. In the protest that followed, We heard many voices on morning edition One was Minnesota State representative Ruth Richardson. People might remember no wells conversation with Richardson and her teenage son because he loved the freedom of going for a run, and he talked about that. His mom, though, had worry what would happen to him on the streets? This week. We called them back. It definitely has been. And I'm relented Ng year in many ways, and I know that with the murder of George Floyd, there was this moment where it seems with the covert pandemic kind of the world stopped and was paying a lot of attention. But I also recognize that for communities that look like mine. This wasn't a new occurrence. And it still affects them. Her son, Sean, who loved to run Thinks more about its safety these days has been biking more This year, Of course, a jury convicted Derek showed in the officer who killed George Floyd, who was not acquitted. His police often are I think that Have this be the first time in the history of our state. Where a white officers convicted of killing a black man. And they're so many families who are grieving. The loss is of individuals. It just lets us know that we have so much more work to do and to really get to that to that true justice. Our coverage one year ago also included two retired Minneapolis police officers who talked with Noel about what went wrong after George Floyd's autopsy report was released. Going to revisit what they said. At the time. There was only like five of us on the department. So going was probably the six lieutenant. When Gunter left the force in 2012. Sergeant ELISA Clemens left in 2001. I read them the message that had come across my phone. The autopsy report just came out and it says that George Floyd Was killed. George Floyd died from ex fix E ation by pressure, it said it was a homicide. A Lisa Clemens fell back in her chair and clapped pressure. You clapped your hands? Absolutely. Why? Because that seals it in cement for me, because you know it's gonna cement the case is immense. The case. Against him and its immense that the conviction that we should get from that case when Gunter didn't get excited for me, it confirmed. What we already knew. So to me. Just that's what it did. It just confirmed what we already knew. I've been talking to protesters here since Saturday. Many of them have had bad or even terrible experiences with the police. Some of them even said George Floyd's death wasn't an aberration. I wanted to know what police officers thought, but they can't really talk. Retired police officers can Clemens and Gunter didn't want to see the brutal video of Mr Floyd being killed, but they did. What struck them is former cops was that Derek shoving didn't look in any way agitated. There obviously wasn't adrenaline dump, or we were past that because he had his hand in his pocket. Absolutely. And Anyone using force of appropriately or necessary wouldn't have their hand in their pocket. That's your you've reached your your drilling has dropped. Hearing what we call code yellow, maybe baby and cold White. I mean, he's got his hand in his pocket. There are levels for force where there are levels that we operate on and coat white is where there's no threat. Um there's no sign of a threat. You're not anticipating any threats. He was clearly coat white because his hands in his pockets so there was no threat Only cold white. So you tried to be in what we call Cho yellow meaning you're not. You're not completely chill, but you're aware you're aware of your surroundings. They know all this stuff because they were on the job for so long. They're proud to have been Minneapolis police officers. That doesn't mean they go easy on the force. ELISA sued the department twice for discrimination, harassment and retaliation. She won twice. They know they're bad cops, but they haven't seen anything like this video. We've always rendered aid. And I didn't see that. I didn't even see That they were concerned. You know when the when the ambulance came and put him in an ambulance, You know, I'm looking at the cops, and there's just no It was like there was something missing. There was no connection that this man was in in in need of help. As a matter of fact. Sarge, and I both Heard on the video, the dispatchers say. Ambulance coming code too, Huh? Which means they're it. There are two ways that animal is going to come Co. Two and Code three. So three years running lights and siren and you're getting there as fast as you can. Co two means your take your time. There's you know, it's not as serious country says there's really only one of two conclusions you can reach after watching that video. This person either wasn't trained properly or wasn't Adhering to their training properly, but but that didn't enter my mind. When I saw this, I was like His intentionally not You know, applying Properly like there's no because he kept digging his need. There was no adjustment. There was no but when there's this is different in a needs to be said this is different. So that people don't think that we condone other shootings and needs to be said that This is different. You watched him die. You watched him take his last breath, and I don't think There's been anything like this video that we've seen, and I think, because of that it is touched. Visceral part of you that Just responded, and immediately following that. I felt this uncontrollable rage. Um To the point where I didn't want any comfort..
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"We'll get to that. And just a little while spending some time that a looking back one year ago What were we doing? What were we talking about when it came to the pandemic? All right. We're going to talk now with old old friend of mine from college Days, talked to Jill Feldman about a year ago. What was going on in Italy. During the early days of co vid. Bill joins us now again a year later, actually about 13 months since we last talked, Jill, Welcome back and thank you. As always. You look great. Thank you. You describe because I know all blow it. You describe where you are in Italy. I'm in Tuscany, which is in the center sort of North Center of Italy. And near Florence near Sienna, and I'm in the countryside where they make the good key. Empty. Go to Chianti, and you and your husband raised olives. We raise olives and we make olive oil. Theo oil was really good this year, prolific lots and lots of olives. S o. I hope it will be the same this fall. All right to get all of here. I'm I am assuming that mine is somewhere in transit on a ship on the way to Santa Fe. Okay, send me a dress. One of those things that you cannot ship It's simple. Sure it came in rancid by the time I got here. Our guest. Jill film and she lives in Tuscany old friend of mine from college Days has lived in Italy for many years before that lived in Paris, and she travels around. She's an opera singer and an opera teacher. You still teach classes, right boys classes. You still teach classes? I do them online at the moment via Zoom and I'm on my way to Geneva in a month's time, less than three weeks time to sit on the jury for the Thus, the upper class, so I do a lot of jury duty we call for singers. And I still teach they don't sing anymore. All right, so early on in Italy, you were. Italy was one of the first and hardest hit countries with Covad. When we talked 13 months ago, the military were out There was a strict curfew. Even though you're out in the countryside, you would still see military armed military. And you were not going out much your husband would go out for supplies, but You would stay home. How has that changed in the last year? Not very much. I have really been here on the land for the last year. And Ah, I do go to the market. I'm Don't make him do it all, Especially since he has started working some more. And when he gets back, we have these very strong quarantines. If you go to do a job somewhere when you come back after quarantine for at least five days, depending on where you have been And s o, then he can't go anywhere during that time. But my life has really been very, very, uh, Alone appear on the hill on the farm. I walk a lot. I just do walks and walks and walks in the woods. And I don't see very many people haven't seen my daughter for a year and a half. She lives in Minneapolis. She's in Minneapolis, and she's coming in in June if they would stop canceling her flight because it's been canceled five times already rescheduled, Cancel three sketch. So we're hoping That she will be here in June. Is the EU okay? With Americans coming now? Well, they're talking about it, but they leave it up to each country and Italy has not lifted its ban. Yet they're these special covert free flights, covert tested flights. From either New York or Atlanta. You can take a flight where you have to take a test 72 hours before and then 24 more hours before and then again on the plane, And then when you get off the plane and they call they think that those people are safe. They don't count kept vaccinations yet because they don't know enough about vaccinations, so they don't know if they work. But, uh, people coming on those covert tested flights do not have to quarantine That means on Lee, wealthy Americans and Brits will be our tourists here in the summer. We need. The tourist industry here has absolutely gone broke and they need to re open. My fears they will reopen too soon, but The European Union wants to reopen to American travelers, especially fully vaccinated ones. Speaking with Jill Feldman. She's in Tuscany, Italy, friend of mine from The early Santa Barbara days going to college of Santa Barbara. You see as be all right, So you just received your first shot a couple days ago, Correct. Yes, This was a neck stream battle. I mean, assed, you know, the European Union is way behind the States or Britain. On DATs because as far as I can tell from what I've read that they tried to negotiate a lower price at the beginning, and they weren't able to S o. They didn't order enough doses and they went toe. AstraZeneca, which is the British Vaccinate vaccine and then the The company at the last minute did not deliver. It says in the fine lines of the contract. Yes, we will deliver by this state's within our possibilities, and so they gave it all to Britain. And so the opinion and had to then go back and make a new deal with visor. They just made the deal. The doses just arrived. But we're terribly behind on Lee about 30% of the population is Vaccinated if that many if that means And I fell into a category goes by age group. And I fell into a category of Extra extra fragile or something like that. And I managed to get my my, uh, vaccination two days ago. All right now, assuming you had enough doses, What's the level of confidence of the Italian people? What's the level of hesitancy is we have here in this country Will people Are people going tol get vaccinated in in large numbers in Italy. People are going to get vaccinated in large numbers, especially since it's so hard to get You know, in order to get the appointment I got I had to go on the sites 20 times a day, you know, just checking to see if there were any appointments And then finally you get one and you grab it. There is hesitancy here, of course, but I just talked to a local guy a butcher, actually. He said To me, I'm head is intense. But everybody says to me this is to be done. So he did it. You know, it's Ah, It's pretty obvious. So we've We've had so many deaths, but so have you. Um, it's just obvious that we have to all be vaccinated if we're going to get anywhere. So my my criticism is of the pharmaceutical companies who will not will not share their technology and will not suspend their patents and that's why we don't have enough doses. But Biden has evidently just come. Has changed course, and he's now going to try to do away with that and suspend the patents and get more vaccines out there. We're all in this together. It's not just Europe. I mean, we're still comfortable here. But look at India, Brazil. We have to. They have to suspend those patents they've already made. I don't know. $50 billion. It's enough already. So that's why we don't have the doses. It is never enough already, Joe, we know that We're talking to Jill Feldman in Tuscany in Italy, and we talked to her 13 months ago in the early stages of Cove in things were really dark and the president and in Italy and in Europe, Italy, especially triaging people, the first it really, you know, come out triaging people. Hospitals were due. Kind of decide who was going to be given the treatment and allowed to live on that kind.
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"Council on our tuesday edition of classic radio theater. We're going to have frank sinatra in another episode of rocky fortune from sixty seven years ago february sixteenth nineteen fifty four one husband too many a case of too many husbands after rocky is hired by a beautiful woman to kill her husband for a five thousand dollars now. You never knew what you were going to get with rocky fortune. And they weren't all great acting programs put. They were fun and they you know. They helped tied sinatra over until his his career revived. Don't you know that'll be on our tuesday edition of classic radio theater. We will now get onto the story of doctor. Kildare the conclusion of the broadcast from february. Fifteenth nineteen seventy one years ago as. They're.
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"Even Republicans joined in that vote, but most Republicans gave her support. Where does the party go? Next on morning edition from NPR News. And NPR analysis of vaccination sites found demographic disparities in their locations. I'm Noel King, and I'm Steve Inskeep. The sites tend to be farther from black and Hispanic people, then from white people. Also a journalist in Myanmar says few people believed a coup was coming until it came, and we meet a person who found the tomb of a man who helped to end slavery in Brazil. It is Friday, February 5th one year ago today, the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump in his first impeachment try. The news is next. Live from NPR news on Korver Coleman. The Senate has approved a resolution letting Democrats advance plans to take up President Biden's coronavirus relief bill. NPR's Claudia Chrysalis reports. The move is a workaround to bypass Republican objections to another big stimulus package. After 15 hours of debate, Senate Democrats approved a budget resolution to fast track Biden's proposal to inject another wave of stimulus into the economy. Vice President Kamila Harris cast the tie breaking vote, one of her first in the chamber to approve the resolution on this vote, the ayes or 50. The nays are 50, the Senate being equally divided. The vice president votes in the affirmative, and the amendment is agreed to. The resolution drew dozens of amendments overnight in a process known as vote a Rama. The House is expected to take up the plan, which lets Congress move forward with Biden's pandemic Rescue bill in the coming weeks. Claudia's Ellis NPR NEWS Washington President Biden discussed his relief package at the White House today with Democratic leaders from the House of Representatives. He says Americans need the economic support. The Labor Department released its monthly report on jobs this morning, and Biden found the data anemic. You saw the jobs report. Only 6000.
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"first year ago" Discussed on KCRW
"One year ago, a large helicopter carrying Laker great Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other souls crashed on a foggy Sunday morning it sent a shockwave through Los Angeles and the sports world. You know, like they say, you officially die when you for gotten, you know, And I don't think he I think he's living through all of us through every single person he's ever inspired. And Steve can take is remembering Kobe through art and everything else on the next greater L A Today it one in 6 30 on KCRW. This is press play on KCRW. I meddle in brand well, if you are frustrated with the vaccine roll out here in California, it's going even slower in most other parts of the world. Mexico has temporarily halted the distribution of the Fizer vaccine. The drug company could not keep up with demand there. Until now. Mexico had received fewer than 800,000 doses, and that's for a population of 127 million. Which, though is more than most of the developing world. Of the world's poorest countries. The West African nation of Guinea is the only one that has received any vaccine and only 55. People in that entire country were able to get them. Among the richest countries. Israel is leading the world it has given at least one does to nearly half its population here to tell us more about what's happening on a global scale. Is Nico Loose. Eonni. He's senior advisor at Oxfam. Welcome. Thanks so much for having me is ah, proud California and former You sail alone. It's It's great to be with you. Well, it's great to have you well. Let's talk about what's happening in the poor countries just mentioned Guinea a population of 12 million people, but only 55 have received the vaccine. What's happening in Guinea and other countries like it. Well, what's happening in short is a moral travesty. I mean, I hate to be blunt, but we're on the brink of huge moral and economic failure. Um, and the price is really going to be paid. By you know the life and lively hoods of people living in the poorest countries. Unless something changes quickly. You mentioned that only 55. People in the poorest countries have been vaccinated. That's in comparison to, you know, 65 million in richer countries. 22 million here in United States, and as you said, we should be frustrated. We need more doses. As quickly as possible. Um, but, you know, if you're living in Kenya or Bolivia or the majority of the world that lives in poor countries, you may be having to wait until 2022 maybe even 2023 to get access to this vaccine. You can imagine the desperation beyond frustration. It Z desperation at this point. Well, Even the president of South Africa yesterday accused wealthy nations of hoarding vaccines is that what's happening that they basically bought up a bunch of vaccine even more than they need? Yeah, I mean rich countries like the United States, Unfortunately, led by former President Trump have taken the position that they would open up their pocketbooks and use their political and economic might to hop in the front of the line to strike. Bilateral deals with companies were developing the vaccines in order to serve their own people First, it's what we call vaccine nationalism. There's nothing wrong with, you know, trying to protect your people from a deadly virus, but Out. It has devastating public health consequences in other countries. But let's remember at the rate of speed of these mutations. If we're not able to get this under control globally, the vaccines that work putting in our arms here in the U. S in the rich world may not work. Um and then just just on the economic side if you're globally integrated business If you work in the airline industry, you don't want to deal with the situation where we have pockets of ex vaccination and European You're dropping in and out. Unfortunately, stating pen, Where else? Yeah. You're dropping it in and out. I'm gonna just ask you this. What about the W. H O Kovacs Initiative, which aims to Really try to inoculate the poor parts of the world. I think the goal is to have two billion shots. In this year given out to poor countries. Yes. So the correct facility is really the antidote to this vaccine. Nationalism on Vaccinating 20% of the population of the You know a developing world. That's means eight out of 10. People be left out next year and potentially the year after. So that bar is really too low. And then it also, you know, um, is competing with, uh, these bilateral deals which I mentioned of rich countries, according the vaccine. There's simply not enough supply. That's why you know, we've joined organizations around the world public health experts racial, labor and faith leaders economist to call for what we're calling a people's vaccine, which would mean that the vaccine is free of charge to the public everywhere in the world. It would be fairly distributed first to those who need it most and then. Lastly, on this production point, we want to see as many doses produced as quickly as possible. As a global public good, and there's a facility within the W. H O called the Corona virus technology access full that would allow Companies to share their technology and know how of how to make the vaccines that kind of recipe to make the vaccines and so that certified producers all over the world who really start to upscale production. So it's kind of like open source software. In a sense, it's open licensing exactly of the most needed soft flash hardware in the world today, right? Well, I guess, uh, yeah or a generic or something like that. What? Why would the companies Be interested in doing that. I mean, it is their their intellectual property that they hope to make money off. So I mean, First of all, I think you know, there are a lot of really good people in these companies that want to do the right thing. Um, you know, they're looking at the history of someone like Jonas Salk, who gave away the patents. To the polio vaccine to the world, and he said, You can't patent the sun scientific discoveries is something that no one should should claim is.
KNST AM 790
"first year ago" Discussed on KNST AM 790
"We have 1160 homes on the market 1160 So we are down 53% in inventory from what was a record one year ago. So, you know, just simple. High school economics. Jerry. If you have half the supply of any commodity, what does that do to the price? It's gonna push prices that Yep. So a appreciation is really you know what it's happening, you know, and the I think the other you know, the sobering number is that our inventory is 11 60 a month. But the 11 60 total homes, first half 11 60 sorry for the total homes, but the month supply of inventory. We do that that math. It's less scent of one month supply a 10.8. Of one month supply of homes available that if everything stopped right now and 8/10 of a month, we would we would be out. I mean, so. So what is that? 30 30 days in a month and 80% 24 days We have a 24 days supply of homes on the market hoof and then the other good news here pending sales. So what's in the in the hopper for next month? A year ago. We had 977 homes, you know, in line to be closed on. Well, we have 1293. Homes under contract waiting to close right now that compared to 9 77. That's an increase of 326 homes. That's more than 33% more homes. In the pipeline to close right now than there was a year ago. And that's just miraculous when we have less than half the inventory So we have, you know a total of 1160 homes for sale, but 326 more than we had a year ago that that's an increase of 32.3% in the independent homes for sale, and and we're not in we're in the slow time of the year is the slowest time of year. So if you are looking and you have not, you better get something under contract. I mean, the next 30 days or you're gonna miss out again. I'm just telling you, this is the slowest time of the year January what people get in the mail in January their bills from Christmas exactly credit card bills. Where did they get in the mail From February. They get their tax for your tax refund check and that all this extra money is coming in and then also, you know, stimulus checks also will help people with down payment. So and there's ah a lot of money coming into the economy and and that's going to change things. So now what about closings? Jerry? We have, you know, Western, half the inventory a year ago, In the month of December, we closed 1258 homes. This December. We closed 1530. Wow. So it's closings are up 21% when inventory is down 53%, and it just it doesn't make sense. Well and again that is one of the main drivers. There is great. Rates being as low as they are is fueling that fire. And that is AH, There's no that's the primary reason why demand is so high. Is just that. I mean, there are also other factors. People are relocating from different cities because they can work remotely And, you know, I mean, there's a lot of other ancillary factors, but that interest rate element is a key factor to this and then you know, we talked earlier about the winter visitors, and there's always a surge, especially in markets like Saddlebrook in Green Valley. That you know the winter visitors coming and that the inventory just taken off the market because not a lot of people buying in July in the retirement areas, But This year. I mean, that's just been low inventory the whole year through and you know way had closings. And But the price in Tucson Ah, year ago was 8 240,050. Today. We're sitting at 268,000. Now I want you to compare that to the average home listed in the United States, which just broke 350,000 for the first time. So the average across America I mean, Iowa and South Carolina everywhere when you average all that in The average sale price is $350,000. And here we are in Tucson, Arizona at 2 68. Does that make us kind of show up on the radar? You know, we're one of the top 34 cities in the United States for population and you don't have to shovel snow here this time of year. 330 days of sunshine is a big selling point right about now. And you know this weather. It's very, you know, cool. When I first.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"first year ago" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"Rota virus deaths in the U. S yesterday, exceeding 4100 for the first time ever. And according to the Johns Hopkins University, Telly, it's also the third straight day of record deaths. More than 268,000 new infections from the virus reported yesterday as well. Ah California College campus now offering students easier access to Corona virus test kids that's was in a University of California, San Diego vending machine and students seem to like the idea. This is super convenient instead of candy bars, Each freak it contains a swab and a vial that once used can be dropped off on site within 72 hours before the vending machines, many students and staff were making appointments, too. Test done by a nurse on campus. There are more than 10 testing kit vending machines on campus on Lisa Brady. Fox sees Labor Department releases its December's job report today, economists expected to be anemic in the continuing investigation. A deadly skydiving plane crash in Hawaii more than a year and a half ago. The FAA now says the pilot hadn't received competent pilot training he intends skydivers died in that crash. Boeing has reached an agreement to settle a Justice Department investigation into its development of the 7 37 Max jetliner. The aerospace China has agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion in penalties, including $1.8 billion in compensation for airlines to resolve charges related to conspiracy to defraud US aviation. Authorities in connection to two deadly crashes of its 7 37 MAXjet, according to the Justice Department. The crashes occurred less than five months apart and are believed to be connected to a faulty anti stall system and resulted in the worldwide grounding of the jet in March of 2000 and 19. Boeing's chief executive, David Calhoun, said the Justice Department's deal appropriately acknowledges how the company fell short of its values and expectations. Hillary Barsky Box knew about Jack. Hello here. This'll is Fox. What's behind a name? Well at shady Grove fertility. Not only are we home to 85,000 babies born and counting, we're also proud to have earned more than 5005 Star patient reviews. If you've been trying to conceive for.