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"Hop stars and professional athletes he's represented. When you see video of Cardi B leaving the courthouse after assault charges were reduced to misdemeanors, you can see Atlanta attorney drew Finland walking beside her. And now he may be walking next to an even bigger celebrity in the most high profile case you can think of. Finland will be representing former president Donald Trump if he's indicted for trying to overturn the Georgia presidential election in 2020. Joining me is Bloomberg legal reporter David vor yakis, who interviewed findling. Hashtag $1 billion lawyer. Tell me what that's about. Drew Finley is a defense lawyer in Atlanta who's built quite a reputation over the last decade, representing hip hop stars in reality people who've been caught in legal or criminal problems and he's gotten a number of people either acquitted or had their charges reduced and he's built such a reputation that one of the rappers that he represented called him the hashtag $1 billion lawyer. This was a guy named young Dahl, who Finland was visiting in Hollywood after he'd been shot. The nickname has stuck at young doll died in 2021 from 22 gunshots. And he represented Cardi B in that trial? There was an assault case in The Bronx, it involved assaults at two different strip clubs. And she had assault charges that were reduced to misdemeanors. He's also represented the rapper waka flocka flame, who had a gun charge after there was a weapon found in his bag at the Atlanta airport and he was acquitted and he also represented several members of the ref group Migos, most particularly after they were arrested at a concert at Georgia southern university. He's also represented other celebrities like Alvin Kamara, the New Orleans Saints running back and the record to baby. David, I have to congratulate you for saying waka flocka flame without hesitation. And findling feigned started with representing Atlanta rappers, and he says he's gone out of his way to try to understand rappers. They find that he is a very constant lawyer who also listens to them and gives them life advice and he's had a good track record of success. He's been defense lawyer in and around Atlanta for nearly 40 years. And so he knows the prosecutors and the judges and the jurors and able to connect with juries in a very powerful way that's brought him a lot of good results. He also connects personally with the various hip hop people that he represents. His practice goes beyond just criminal representation or is he just a criminal defense lawyer? He's a criminal defense lawyer who also does civil cases as well. And, well, he primarily built a really good reputation in the Atlanta area in the last decade or so he's done cases all over the U.S.. I always find that a lawyer's office says a lot about the lawyer. I know you visited his office. Tell us about it. It's an office in an upscale office park in the Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta and there are dozens of framed photographs and newspaper clippings of him with his clients for whom he's gotten good results through the years. And there's also three large paintings in the entry room. One is of Sam Adams one is a thurgood Marshall and one is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He has supported progressive legal causes through the years. He was the president for a year of the national association of criminal defense lawyers where he made a number of speeches and he supports people who are he believes unjustly detained and believes that the criminal justice system is tilted against black and brown dependence. So as you said, he supports progressive legal, causes he criticized Trump during his time in The White House once calling him racist and pathetic in a tweet. Why is he taking on Trump as a client? Well, that's not entirely clear to me except this he defends himself by saying that he's able to separate his clients and his commitment to the law and serving them from his personal life and his personal beliefs and personal political beliefs. Do you know how Trump found him or why he selected him out of all the attorneys in Atlanta? Drew fiddling said that some lawyers who worked with Trump reached out to him and interviewed him and that he ended up becoming his advocate in Atlanta. At this point, he's representing him in presumably trying to persuade the district attorney funny willows to avoid indicting Trump. Our understanding is that he would also represent him at trial, but I guess we'll have to see what happens when and if that becomes necessary. And you spoke to colleagues of his who said that he's very good at convincing prosecutors not to bring charges. Right. It's not only that these excellent on his feet in the courtroom and at birth across examiner and can really bond with a jury. But that he understands how state and federal cases are constructed and can convince prosecutors many times to either forgo charges altogether or not bring the charges that are a serious as their initially contemplating, so it could well be that his service to Donald Trump is in convincing funny Willis not to charge him at all. And do you know if he has met Trump yet? It's not clear to me if he's met him, but I know that he's spoken with him. What did he say if anything about Trump's case? He said a few things that sort of in reference to Trump's case, one about the RICO statute. He would not talk about the terms of his engagement or Trump's case specifically. What he would talk about is the reco statute, which, of course, is the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act under Georgia law, which is something that funny will us to just attorney has brought a number of times, particularly in her war on gang violence in Atlanta. And he believes
Bloomberg Radio New York
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"As the price of oil bounces to around $73 22 cents a barrel. S&P 500 helped 18 points, a panther percent, the dungeons and duster leverage 257 points higher. That's up to 8 tenths of a percent. The NASDAQ 100 off four points right now. And we check the markets for you every 15 minutes during the day, all day long. And that is your Bloomberg business flash, mountain ball. John Tucker, thank you so much, we appreciate that. All right, it's World Cup. We've been talking football slash soccer for weeks now. We're coming up to the semifinals in the finals since it's been very exciting. So that's still can't believe Harry Kane missed that penalty. Oh, please, come on. Dude, I know but he's still a great player, don't worry about it. Okay, so it's bad for you. When was the last time England won a World Cup? 1966. They don't even wear the star on their Jersey anymore, right? Because it's like too long. All right, enough of that. All right, so let's get back to U.S. soccer. It is growing in this country many different leagues. We've talked to Ira Jersey. He's here in our Bloomberg interactive broker studio. He's doing it in New Jersey real, central New Jersey doing all kinds of craziness there. Good stuff growing that business. But we also have Darren van tassel joining us here in our Bloomberg interactive broker studio South Georgia as in the state of Georgia, South Georgia, tormenta, is the football club, the FC, they're in statesboro, Georgia. So I'll let you think about statesboro. Before you go. The Allman brothers. Exactly. Darren, thanks so much for joining us here in our studio here. Talk to us about South Georgia, tormenta FC. Talk to us about the league you're in, what's going on there in that lower level of soccer that is not quite the World Cup of boys are growing. What are thrilled to be here with you guys? Listen, I'm probably wearing the star on Marc crest today. Yep. Where fresh off of our title in USL League One, this is our fourth year. It's the league that really I think is growing the game in the United States, perhaps better than any other. And what an honor it is to fit in the global game. The World Cup's going on and we're talking about Harry Kane. We're doing the same thing at our level. Just finished up. We've got coming off that championship season. We also have a W league of women's team who also won the championship first time in U.S. soccer history that two championships have gone with the same club on the win and the women's side. Our players come from about 15 different countries. And they've settled in the statesboro, which is quite frankly the smallest market in U.S. pro soccer, but in some ways too, it's also front page news. We're not having to battle some of the larger professional sports than the other in the other sports. And we're growing. The rules the same in the U.S. leagues. Are they still allowed to tie at the end of a game? Like the game's over in a tie? Is that allowed? It's 100% identical. Rules. So I mean, I would talk to us about so Darin stand in south Jersey, South Georgia, you're in New Jersey. Talk to us about that level of soccer and how competitive it is. How does it work? So the level the drop off between the highest level in the U.S. and I think the U.S. USO championship, which is the second tier and then USL League One, which is the third tier of U.S. soccer. There's differences, right? But a lot of those differences have to be with roster construction because of how much you can pay players and realistically be financially viable. But give us ballpark figures. Well, so for example, the highest paid players in Major League Soccer make like $5 million a year, right? So that's a little bit different than the third division, right? But it's very similar to the same structure that they have in Europe. So in Europe, when you have a team like, you know, there was a very popular show during COVID called Sunderland till I die, for example. And that team is a huge team, has a 65,000 person stadium, got relegated, went down from the Premier League down to EFL Championship down to EFL League One, and is that now stayed there for a number of years. They'll have a budget that's more similar to the Premier League than other teams in their league. And they still can't get out because you know what? It's roster construction. It's how good your coaching is. There's a lot of different aspects to how good a team is other than just, you know, who are the exact players on your team. All right, Darren, we're Bloomberg, we're all about business. Explain to me the economic model, you as an owner. What's the economic model? I think a lot of people that follow sports probably wonder how do clubs pay these guys when they make those kind of salaries. And I think here's the reality, most clubs can't. And most clubs don't. Teams lose money in pro sports, but stadiums don't. And the real estate around it absolutely does it. That's a very similar play that we have. You've got to own your own stadium in this business and you've got to really control the real estate around that. We are in the midst of really about almost over a hundred acre development there in statesboro, which is right across the street from Georgia southern university. Yeah. We just finished phase one of the stadium. That's where we won the title and listen, the stadium itself has turned it into a place that you live, you work, you eat, you play, there's a music venue, there's condos that are there, retail. So people have to come to these stadiums to get there to get their work done. They have to breathe, and they can't just be open on game days. That's the economic model in a nutshell. So what kind of growth are you seeing, because there have been a few times in my life when we thought soccer is going to get big in America. When I was a kid in the 70s, all of a sudden it looked like it was going to be huge. We had the World Cup here. And the cosmos and it didn't really pan out. I remember when the Columbus crew kicked off, I'm from Ohio, everybody got behind it, got super psyched about it. It just didn't really pan out as much as we thought. But now I feel like there's a real possibility that it becomes a dominating sport because what parent wants to have their kid play football, you know? It's not just your instincts. It's clearly happening. Here's what I think it's happening. It's the only sport quite frankly that's being handed up to us from our kids. Some of us grew up playing soccer, but most of our sports that we grow with baseball basketball football has been handed down. This is being handed up. That's an economic tidal wave. You got to get on board with is clearly breaking through. And the other big differences are leagues and our teams are much more financially on firmer ground. We've got a much more stable league. I can speak for the USL in that regard, one of our players is now with Columbus crew and that's an exciting movement up from where tormenta goes. These leagues are far better connected. We still have more work to do, no question about it, but it's coming in the World Cup four years away. But do you work together as kind of a farm team organization then as well for the higher leagues? Well, we're open to all of them. We're not connected to them like a double 18 might be with the mets of the Yankees, for example. So we're all independent in that regard. Some have a closer ties than others. We don't know how many teams are in your league, for example. 14 teams in League One, we're adding three two more this year. We've got 5 more slated for 24, 5 more for 25, and by the time we get to 26, it'll be a fully built out league with 30. And 26 is
The Garden Question
"georgia southern university" Discussed on The Garden Question
"Trees above them catch fire. Do you need to treat them with herbicides. Those serve invasive capital I invasive species that are particularly bad bullies. How about telling us a success story of rescuing or saving a rare plant? I got a great story. Yeah. And it's not just my story. It's a story of partners. It's the Georgia plank conservation lines. These are organizations that work together in Georgia, just bring together whatever resources and talents they have on behalf of critically rare plants and their habitats. A great Georgia success story is dwarf sumac. What's Russ Michelle looks like a sumac you might know, but it is it's dwarf and it's hairy and it's fuzzy and it's adorable. It's maybe maybe three feet tall when biologists got involved maybe starting 50 years ago. There were two populations left in Georgia. Populations were male and female and they were separated by hundreds of miles and wow. It's hard for B to get between those male plants and those female plants that were separated. Partners at the Atlanta botanical garden partners at department of natural resources, partners at state botanical garden, Georgia southern Botanic gardens, Georgia southern university, many partners working on behalf of this dwarf sumac, bringing it into cultivation. We pot up and have little snippets of males and females, but they just sit there. They don't flower at the same time, they don't reproduce. If I'm looking at it, I'm using a very technical conservation biology term. I'm looking at saying they're forlorn. They are forlorn. They are failure to thrive. In plant conservation, we tend to not mix populations. We're trying to keep the genetics of each population moving forward through time. Ginny crus Sanders, who is at the time at the Atlanta botanical garden. She's now the director of state botanical garden, and doctor mitzi Moffat, one of the state botanists of the department of resources. He's now with fish and wildlife. They're like, we are losing this plant. We were down to four male plants and a handful of female plants. We're dwindling, even in cultivation. They said, we've got to bring them together in the wild. So, on Valentine's Day, they planted the males and the females on some state property. That for a while, but within a year, those males took off. So we went from four males. Now there are tens of thousands of stems, ten years later. Maybe they needed privacy. I don't know. But they needed to be in the wild. So there are things that we don't understand. There's things that as much as we scientifically tinker with these species and try to learn everything about their life history. There's things we don't understand. So many species need to be in natural areas to survive and thrive. But now in this site they are reproducing. And they are making baby dwarf sumacs and that is a great success story because we came very close to losing that species in Georgia. When I hear sumac, I think about in boy scouts making tea with it or some kind of drink. Yeah, people still do that. There's so few seeds. I don't think I could do it with a dwarf sumac. But maybe someday, they'll be ridiculous amounts of seeds and we can have a sumac tea. There you go. You've met in connect to protect several times. Would you like to expand on some more? Yes, please, and thank you. Connect to protect is an idea that we borrowed from our Friends at Fairchild tropical garden, and they were planting gardens to connect rare plant habitat across the lower Peninsula, a Florida, a rare plant habitat, the pine barrens. We modeled our program in Georgia off of that, and that we can connect to protect for wildlife.
Democracy Now! Audio
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of bush. Era extraordinary rendition. International kidnapping by state agents and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs. He stabbed a top secret. Study leaked to the new york. Times by fame. Pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg reveals the us military pressed then president dwight eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainland china during the taiwan strait crisis of nineteen fifty eight the document shows. Us military planners were ready to accept the risk that the soviet union would launch. Its own nuclear retaliation on behalf of its ally china and that millions of people would die daniel ellsberg told the new york times he decided to disclose the document now. Due to rising tensions between the united states and china over taiwan senate democrats have introduced a bill that would trim seventy three billion dollars the us news arsenal over the next decade. The smarter approach to nuclear expenditures or saint act was co sponsored by oregon. Congress member earl blumenauer and senator ed markey of massachusetts. They introduce their bill monday. As the congressional budget office released a report projecting the cost of maintaining the us nuclear stockpile through twenty thirty at six hundred thirty four billion dollars. Mali's facing a new political crisis after soldiers detained mali's president and prime minister and what appears to be the country second military coup in less than a year. The african union and united nations issued a joint statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the two leaders. President bond. Dow and prime minister mokhtar. Wan who are reportedly being held at a military base outside of bamako the two leaders both came to power in september. As part of a transitional government following a military coup burmese authorities have detained in jail to. Us journalist. who's been reporting on the burmese military. Coup danny fencer was detained. Monday at the airport in rangoon as he was preparing to board a flight to malaysia. Fence is the managing editor of the publication frontier myanmar. The committee to protect journalists has demanded his immediate release calling his arrest. The quote latest grave threat to press freedom in myanmar. A prominent black lives matter. Activists in britain is in critical condition after being shot in the head at a party sunday in south london. Police say they don't believe the activists showed. Johnson was the victim of a targeted attack. But some fellow activists say she's received death threats in the past the. Us supreme court has declined to your the case of a missouri. row person. her who seeking to be shocked by a firing squad rather than die by lethal injection ernest. Johnson suffers from epilepsy and says missouri's plans to inject him with the drug pinto. Barbital will trigger excruciating seizures. That amount to cruel and unusual punishment after the court six conservatives declined to hear johnson's case without explanation justice sonia sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion signed by justices brier and kagan quote missouri is now free to execute johnson in a manner that at this stage of the litigation we must soon will be akin to torture given his unique medical condition she said and a federal court has struck down at georgia law banning state from doing business with anyone who supports the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by independent journalist. Abby martin who was barred from speaking at georgia southern university in two thousand nineteen because she refused to sign a pledge against the beedi s movement under georgia law any recipient of a government contract larger than a thousand dollars must sign such a pledge filed the lawsuit last year my right to speak at a conference on media at a public university was conditioned on my pledge to never participate my constitutional right to engage in peaceful political action. It is not just this particular conference but my right to speak at any public university or similar event in the entire state has been taken away. Because i will not forfeit my constitutional rights by signing this pledge and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report when we come back. We'll speak with reporter. Emily wilder she was just fired by the associated. Press after a disinformation campaign led by college republicans at stanford university over her support for palestinian human rights as a college student. She was fired days after israel bombed the ap offices in gaza. This is her first live tv interview about her. Firing a.
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"georgia southern university" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of bush. Era extraordinary rendition. International kidnapping by state agents and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs. He stabbed a top secret. Study leaked to the new york. Times by fame. Pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg reveals the us military pressed then president dwight eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainland china during the taiwan strait crisis of nineteen fifty eight the document shows. Us military planners were ready to accept the risk that the soviet union would launch. Its own nuclear retaliation on behalf of its ally china and that millions of people would die daniel ellsberg told the new york times he decided to disclose the document now. Due to rising tensions between the united states and china over taiwan senate democrats have introduced a bill that would trim seventy three billion dollars the us nuclear arsenal over the next decade. The smarter approach to nuclear expenditures or saint act was co sponsored by oregon. Congress member earl blumenauer and senator ed markey of massachusetts. They introduce their bill monday. As the congressional budget office released a report projecting the cost of maintaining the us nuclear stockpile through twenty thirty at six hundred thirty four billion dollars. Mali's facing a new political crisis after soldiers detained mali's president and prime minister and what appears to be the country second military coup in less than a year. The african union and united nations issued a joint statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the two leaders. President bond. Dow and prime minister mokhtar. Wan who are reportedly being held at a military base outside of bamako the two leaders both came to power in september. As part of a transitional government following a military coup burmese authorities have detained in jail to. Us journalist. who's been reporting on the burmese military. Coup danny fencer was detained. Monday at the airport in rangoon as he was preparing to board a flight to malaysia. Fence is the managing editor of the publication frontier myanmar. The committee to protect journalists has demanded his immediate release calling his arrest. The quote latest grave threat to press freedom in myanmar. A prominent black lives matter. Activists in britain is in critical condition after being shot in the head at a party sunday in south london. Police say they don't believe the activists. Sasha johnson was the victim of a targeted attack but some fellow activists say she's received death threats in the past the. Us supreme court has declined to your the case of a missouri. death row. Her who seeking to be shocked by a firing squad rather than die by lethal injection ernest. Johnson suffers from epilepsy and says missouri's plans to inject him with the drug pinto. Barbital will trigger excruciating seizures. That amount to cruel and unusual punishment after the court six conservatives declined to hear johnson's case without explanation justice sonia sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion signed by justices brier and kagan quote missouri is now free to execute johnson in a manner that at this stage of the litigation we must soon will be akin to torture given his unique medical condition she said and a federal court has struck down at georgia law banning state from doing business with anyone who supports the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by independent journalist. Abby martin who was barred from speaking at georgia southern university in two thousand nineteen because she refused to sign a pledge against the beedi s movement under georgia law any recipient of a government contract larger than a thousand dollars must sign such a pledge. Martin filed the lawsuit last year. My right to speak at a conference on media at a public university was conditioned on my pledge to never participate my constitutional right to engage in peaceful political action. It is not just this particular conference but my right to speak at any public university or similar event in the entire state has been taken away. Because i will not forfeit my constitutional rights by signing this pledge and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report when we come back. We'll speak with reporter. Emily wilder she was just fired by the associated. Press after a disinformation campaign led by college republicans at stanford university over her support for palestinian human rights as a college student. She was fired days after israel bombed the ap in gaza. This is her first live tv interview about her. Firing a.
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"georgia southern university" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of bush. Era extraordinary rendition. International kidnapping by state agents and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs. He stabbed a top secret. Study leaked to the new york. Times by fame. Pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg reveals the us military pressed then president dwight eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainland china during the taiwan strait crisis of nineteen fifty eight the document shows. Us military planners were ready to accept the risk that the soviet union would launch. Its own nuclear retaliation on behalf of its ally china and that millions of people would die daniel ellsberg told the new york times he decided to disclose the document now. Due to rising tensions between the united states and china over taiwan senate democrats have introduced a bill that would trim seventy three billion dollars the us nuclear arsenal over the next decade. The smarter approach to nuclear expenditures or saint act was co sponsored by oregon. Congress member earl blumenauer and senator ed markey of massachusetts. They introduce their bill monday. As the congressional budget office released a report projecting the cost of maintaining the us nuclear stockpile through twenty thirty at six hundred thirty four billion dollars. Mali's facing a new political crisis after soldiers detained mali's president and prime minister and what appears to be the country second military coup in less than a year. The african union and united nations issued a joint statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the two leaders. President bond. Dow and prime minister mokhtar. Wan who are reportedly being held at a military base outside of bamako the two leaders both came to power in september. As part of a transitional government following a military coup burmese authorities have detained in jail to. Us journalist. who's been reporting on the burmese military. Coup danny fencer was detained. Monday at the airport in rangoon as he was preparing to board a flight to malaysia. Fence is the managing editor of the publication frontier myanmar. The committee to protect journalists has demanded his immediate release calling his arrest. The quote latest grave threat to press freedom in myanmar. A prominent black lives matter. Activists in britain is in critical condition after being shot in the head at a party sunday in south london. Police say they don't believe the activists. Sasha johnson was the victim of a targeted attack but some fellow activists say she's received death threats in the past the. Us supreme court has declined to your the case of a missouri. death row. Her who seeking to be shocked by a firing squad rather than die by lethal injection ernest. Johnson suffers from epilepsy and says missouri's plans to inject him with the drug pinto. Barbital will trigger excruciating seizures. That amount to cruel and unusual punishment after the court six conservatives declined to hear johnson's case without explanation justice sonia sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion signed by justices brier and kagan quote missouri is now free to execute johnson in a manner that at this stage of the litigation we must soon will be akin to torture given his unique medical condition she said and a federal court has struck down at georgia law banning state from doing business with anyone who supports the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by independent journalist. Abby martin who was barred from speaking at georgia southern university in two thousand nineteen because she refused to sign a pledge against the beedi s movement under georgia law any recipient of a government contract larger than a thousand dollars must sign such a pledge. Martin filed the lawsuit last year. My right to speak at a conference on media at a public university was conditioned on my pledge to never participate my constitutional right to engage in peaceful political action. It is not just this particular conference but my right to speak at any public university or similar event in the entire state has been taken away. Because i will not forfeit my constitutional rights by signing this pledge and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report when we come back. We'll speak with reporter. Emily wilder she was just fired by the associated. Press after a disinformation campaign led by college republicans at stanford university over her support for palestinian human rights as a college student. She was fired days after israel bombed the ap offices in gaza. This is her first live tv interview.
Ending Human Trafficking Podcast
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Ending Human Trafficking Podcast
"Human trafficking. Podcast this is episode number two forty four. The role of customs and border protection in disrupting supply chain forced labor and why it matters to all of us. Produced by innovate learning maximizing human potential. Welcome to the indian human trafficking. Podcast my name is david stove. And my name is sandy. Morgan in this is the show where we empower you to study issues via voice and make a difference in ending human trafficking sandy. I'm so glad for our conversation. Today we are so pleased to have a leader that's part of a organization that such an important partner in the work. We are doing to end human trafficking. We're so glad to welcome to day. Cynthia f wittenberg to the show. Cynthia was appointed. Deputy executive assistant commissioner the office of trade in two thousand sixteen charged with overseeing one of the most important aspects of us customs and border protections complex mission the silting lawful trade while protecting our supply chain to support our nation's economic growth and security under her leadership bp addresses many of the complex challenges and today's trade environment including ecommerce force labor unfair trade practices and regulatory reform. Miss whittenberg civil service began with the us. Customs service at the port of new orleans and an import specialist thirty two years ago while serving in a parallel career as a commission. Us army reservist. She's a graduate of dillard university and also has a master's degree in public administration from georgia. southern university. miss wittenberg so glad to welcome you to the show. Thank you day is a pleasure to be here now. Look forward to our compensation today. Well our conversation is so timely. Because this is january twenty twenty one. It's national slavery and human trafficking prevention month. And i've read something from some folks in your office about the vital role that the customs and border patrol folks play in ending modern day. Slavery and most people are not even aware of your role. Can you give us a little bit of an idea of the intersection between c. Bp and human trafficking right here in the us dot com morgan again. Thank you for an opportunity to discuss this very very important matter to to all of your listeners. This is as you mentioned. January at time for the people of united states to bracket nuys the vital role that we can play in ending modern day slavery. Cb p. works very hard to raise the awareness about the dangers of forced labor that may be woven into the supply chain of goods that are destined for the united states and also to prevent unethically made goods from hurting americans in our economy. So as i began to understand the customs and border patrol. I always thought it was more about you would identify victims of trafficking that someone was trying to bring into the us. And when i saw the first detention order announced everything changed for me. Can you explain to our listeners. What the power of a detention order does in fighting human trafficking especially in the context of supply chains absolutely the us customs and border. Protection is in fact the global leader in leveraging our customs and border protection a bharti's to combat forced labor. So i'll take you back in history a little bit the tariff act of nineteen thirty granted customs and border protection of unique authority to prevent goods made with forced labor from entering the us commerce. And since then we've had the passage of the trade facilitation trade enforcement act of two thousand fifteen that straight the customs and border protection authority to address forced labor in the supply. Chain one one of the issues that we were faced with prior to the passage of the trade facilitation trade enforcement act was that the original legislation had a clause called a Consumptive demand clause and that clause made it difficult for customs and border protection to enforce the presence of up components that are woven into goods coming or attempting to be entered into the united states. Because if we had information that would lead us to believe that goods contained over tainted with force labor. The importer could raise an issue that particular good was not available in commercial quantities that were demanded and thereby making that particular shipment from the forced labor authority so since the passes of the trade siltation fight enforcement act it eliminated that consumptive demand clause and now that enabled us to take a stronger stance when faced with goods reasonably indicate that there's forced labor in the development or the production of that. Good so the result of that as we are able to issue. What's called withhold release order w ro and base withhold release orders instruct our cb personnel at the ports of entry to detain shop containing goods. That are made hall apart from forced labor. Cb pages detained a shipment the importer. Stan have up to three months to either submit proof. That's proving the negative so to speak that the goods were not produced with forced labour will proving that goods were produced legitimately without the use of forced labor or the import may be able to export the shipment if the importer fails to take sufficient action than see. Bp will seize the shipment and what happens when you sees it but does that mean that we take physical control of those goods and then we still working to determine the final disposition of those goods. Okay so for years my students there we have a club called live to free and they have talked about supply chain transparency. They do fair. trade fashion shows. They create fairtrade shopping. Lists they only buy chocolate. That can prove that children or adults weren't slaves in that and so that that's always felt like david and goliath fight. I'm dollar by dollar making a choice not to purchase products where the supply chain is tainted by slavery. And now you're telling me this is going to be the goliath you're gonna stop it right at the border. That's going to be.
Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast
"Our top story. The fbi announced that it is arrested of buford man for his role in the deadly us capitol riot that occurred in january forty nine year. Old verdon andrew. Nellie was arrested by the fbi with the assistance from the gwinnett county. Sheriff's office information. About what mr kelly is being charged with or what led to his arrest. Have not yet been released by. The department of justice is the second person from good at to be arrested. In connection with the riot that occurred on january sixth buford resident grant more was also arrested back in january and charged with carrying a pistol without a license and unregistered ammunition county. High school. students won't have to worry about their gateway tests this spring the task when county students take to show their mastery of some of the subjects taught through the academic knowledge and skills curriculum is being waived this spring as the district continues to deal with the impact of the covid nineteen pandemic the requirement for seniors to pass the test to receive their high school diplomas as also being waived in addition to waving gateway test for this year. The district is also looking back to students who struggle test before the pandemic the waiver also affects students would have graduated in previous school years but still haven't passed the test. A longtime veteran of gwinnett county schools has been chosen to take over the system school improvement and operations effort on at least an interim basis mr l. taylor will replace steve flint. Who will leave later this spring to become the superintendent of columbia county schools. Mr taylor is currently one of the district's assistant superintendents for middle schools. Mr taylor earned his bachelor's degree from georgia southern university and business education and his master's and doctoral degrees from georgia state university in educational leadership. He's also an adjunct professor at piedmont college. A pair of atlanta recently received life sentences for their involvement in a string of robberies at asian owned and operated businesses across metro atlanta including businesses and duluth in norcross. Twenty five year old arabian wear and twenty six year. Old byron smith were sentenced for the crimes which occurred in october november of two thousand seventeen in addition to one business in duluth in one in norcross mr smith and wear accused of robbing one business and stone mountain one in roswell to endure ville and three in atlanta. Mr where was accused of shooting three women including one who was shot in the back during one of the robberies of which all three women survived. The shooting was sentenced to serve five concurrent life terms in prison as well as six concurrent twenty year prison terms in also pay over one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars in restitution. Meanwhile mr smith was sentenced to serve twenty seven year prison sentence as well as three years of supervised release. He must also pay more than one hundred thirty. Five thousand dollars in restitution. Why by at kia mall of georgia. We provide award. Winning customer satisfaction have been a family owned business for over twenty years buying or leasing with us as fast and easy and you can get pre approved online and simple steps. We offer top dollar on trade ins have new vehicle specials that are updated every month and are factory trained technicians make servicing your vehicle convenient with extended service hours. Stop by and shop with us on the lot or visit us online at loved my kia dot com. Are you changing your health. Coverage this year considered reese richardson with health. That cares reece's a licensed adviser right here in georgia that takes a unique personal approach with every customer to find the right fit recess access to private plans that fit any budget. That's right tell reese what deductible works for you. Reese works with individual coverages families and businesses so next time you consider switching up. Your health. Insurance call reached richardson at eight one. Three seven three four. Three two zero six for your free quote when county public school administrators are asking the county school board to make a change to its public common policy that will limit the number of people who can speak at board meetings under the proposal. Only fifteen people would be able to speak during monthly business meetings of the school board with the public comment period limited to thirty minutes. The school board voted thursday to put the proposed policy change by state law. Only the school board can change policies for the district so all district officials can ask for. The change is ultimately up to the board members to decide whether to do the student leadership. Johns creek team ran a successful food. Drive this past week. Collecting nearly two hundred and items to help brunettes hispanic community members. Who are anita food. Due to the pandemic the team consisting of students from johns creek high school l. The ethnic food drive a gwinnett county's duluth middle school and collected enough food to help nearly seven hundred and fifty family members. The food drive was held in conjunction with the cadillac coalition. A nonprofit organization series disadvantaged immigrant residents in good at partners for the food drive included duluth middle school atlanta food bank mama's student leadership of johns creek in the senior center and now how is peachtree corners changing the world with a living laboratory full future tech community reporter. Jp edwards is with the city manager of peachtree corners. Brian johnson to find out all the details of curiosity. Labs also curiosity. Lab is a city created and operated living laboratory on for technology for mobility for cyber security so ultimately. It is a specific. I guess right away if you will a specific assemblage of parcels in roads in which the city decided to take this public infrastructure added a bunch of technology into it to facilitate the testing and demonstration of advanced in autonomous vehicles. For smart city technology connected vehicle Cybersecurity all sorts of technologies. That are out there so we ultimately decided to create this area this environment the sandbox if you will throw a bunch of technology toys in it and then tell the world hey why don't you come play in our sandbox perfect your technology invent new things But do it here. In in peachtree corners at tech park atlanta and we did that in the adage of if you build it they will come has been never been more true than it has been here. So companies from all over the world have the ability to come bring their futuristic technologies. Test them out in peachtree corners. That's correct so if you think about the evolution of technology the very first time technology needs to get tested. You need to do it. In a closed controlled laboratory environment a parking lot with a bunch of cones or abandoned airfield or in some cases you know some of these companies have actual tracks to do this very thing over time. The testing weeds out the wheat from the chaff. So to speak you get technology net at some point fails and you got to go back to the drawing board to perfect your scrap. Whatever or.
Never Ninety Nine
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Never Ninety Nine
"On the the podcast bourbons kick it. It was i got like hit a fourteen. Different teams of people trying to sell me mushrooms. Different people like do you need some. I got some hydrated. You wanna t them home. Do you want to drive them. Yourself and i was like okay. We're onto something. But i say what the fuck did we talk about. And then episodes. They're going to mushrooms from instagram. they would do that. Yeah so. I don't know what that was not do that. We've got to be a friend. Cal man georgia southern university which is in the middle of fucking we talked about buck know. We talked about last time. No no no statesborough near savannah stuck on milledgeville. It's also fucking nowhere. True is also a little tiny college. Georgia was pre bego Middle georgia state college. Adam would there. okay. That's why i've been there. I've i've had good times good times but excuse me but i did go to school there. Barrel oh yes. Did you know that. I lost my train of thought counts. Guys went the reason that you just recap what we're talking about. That see. i told you were going to be best friends i did. I did for a second. What else she's recap recap forgot. Forgotten back on it. You're ready to be one of my best friends. Yeah right. I mean we already know this cool pals yes so there is cows everywhere fields everywhere outside of the city so like my friends used to go pick mushrooms and then they would. They had these. Jeez were. I never went. Because i was i. Don't i'm scared. I ain't going to someone else's property was he was scared. I was just like fucking. I'll just pay for not worth my time. You know what i mean. That was that. I should say that. It's not worth walking through shit in certain time fun now. Well not for me. It was for the enjoyed the effects of eating them. Yeah but yes. They will have the shakers kicker. She's so their genes from their knees down shit stain. The go out there and it's like fuck pick mushrooms. I get your boots on the waiters. Yeah so that was a big thing. When i was in college mushrooms because they were everywhere easily accessible people go pick it up like shocked like former coming out. Get off my get out of here. Yeah i don't blame him like fuck off my lane going scare my cat or i mean even liability for them like you. Break your ankle on someone else's property and you're like fuck man. I haven't no mushrooms. Is i was in college. I did not against them. I just i like you. I mean like he's got things got to well. There's this fair all the time. it was just like hey. There's this mushrooms everywhere it's not even like a big deal eat mushrooms from the public's all the time yeah they don't fuck you up or whatever but they tastes good. Yeah you eat these particular ones. They make you fucking transcendent reality. That's cool but dropping avail. Yeah but you don't have to go process them or go see creepy dude by. She's like they're just does it right there. Yeah this do. I let them drive for a second this off the florida american flag. The right there. Just pick them and think. Yeah you know what i mean. So it wasn't like very weird Thanks for sarah was on accident talking about that. We got kool aid from. We did either my fridge by my roommate grape. Yes yeah yeah so room. I have been out like hanging out at the bars or at a party or something. Whatever i'm thirsty came home. Drunk became home drunk. Yeah don't judge me. I was in college. I was like twenty something. I want some purple drank. Yeah so i came home. And i was like whatever i'll drink water or a glass of water to open a frigerator. There's like one of those plastic jugs hand kool-aid a roommate me. Kuwait candidates got what was big ass. Plastic cups filled. The medium are playing five grams later. I don't even know yes. This is the first time. So like i was playing tekken which is a fighting playstation game played in pep pep. There's much people around. And all of a sudden these mother fuckers star. that's getting closer put the controller. Alan like unintentional drugged myself. I looked at the hospital bro. Something's wrong with me. he's like what's up. I was like man. Everything looks really cool. Something they write it a right right normal. I look at it and i was like reality isn't right because what i said to me. I was not right but it's not right. I mean he's drink that purple kool aid. I was like i did. He's like you're cool man. He's like dude that was shrew may look like two seconds long pause like pick up the controller. What because i didn't know what was happening. You just have like jello shots. Whatever the fuck you have a college. I don't the night i'll remember the alcoho- river coming home because the rest of the night was just par for the course for beating college coming home. I remember that and then like ask well as free fuck out did expect it and then i was like well. This bill was mass tracers. Yeah yeah it was just like it will be the day when it comes to alcohol the versus being like. I'm going to just throw alcohol in a glass and throw an automatic mixer into it and then you have someone who knows how to make a drink. That's much better way better way better. They have a spiritual experience the first hour mushrooms also unintentional front attention so but it was also had a tech experience. I had a great experience. Those also drunk. Yeah so like you know. it'd be kind of interesting. Yeah it depends on how you use like. You could use a four recreational drugs or you could use them for mind altering experiences like set was set in tension satin setting said setting right setting intention. Yeah so litter had zero attention. Because i didn't know what was happening. Which is that. It knows. I was fucked up points. Whatever lymph another kool aid. Yeah you know what i mean so like. I didn't have like i didn't like see. I didn't see the anything. That changed my life. Except for i was like whoa i was like reality is fucking weird right now i was like. Oh wow yeah so. That was the first time. Was it this ship. If you're watching a ball. I wanted to target and bought a champagne. Glass stay stimulus champion. Yeah yeah it's pretty legit ray. I'm gonna get you one so we can do this. Yes do you have.
Never Ninety Nine
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Never Ninety Nine
"I seen one where it was a sleep. Study they while the person was. They made a tone and then they put a fragrance so one tone had a good fragrance one tone how to bad fragrance and then whenever the people woke up and they did the same study they only same tones. Yeah so what the big tone you would see them. Take an inhale and with the nasty tone. They would like hold their breath so so. That's something that just had a fumble. What does that mean that. I can't remember. What does it imply that. I don't know your i mean your senses are just comparing like you're you're hearing versus your smell sense. Here's your smell would definitely override or it works whenever you're not conscious so like your words smell. Your sense of smell has like a deeper connection to that lizard. Brain lutheran lizard brain the big worm. Yeah but yeah what like. I won't crystals to be real. Yeah i mean. I'm not saying they are not understand. Like i just need more research now. Don't even need more research. Man's wanted to do more shit to me. Yeah i have a whole life surrounded by crystals should get a bigger one like a life sized human. You should get like a life true right. Just get something about me. I like going through school and stuff. I was surrounded by clean hippies man which is my favorite kind of hippie. We're good group of people. Yeah it's my favorite guy man like like like all the stuff just taking a shower. Yeah you don't smell like ten day old potentially like i said i've never missed anything more than live music right now just like feeling the base filling and then feeling everyone else around you. That's the best part. Yeah there's a thing. Camera was called synchronicity. This there's something with a group of people a collective consciousness when a group of people come together hive mind. Fan yeah trimming. That's a cool thing to be a part of especially when it's when it's when it's resonating vibrating to like to like a high vibration and everyone is there and everyone's giving to it. It's good to flip side of that. Is the mob mentality. Yeah someone snaps in. Yeah freak the fuck out and that split like like riot angry behind whenever things start swarming like one person sends off that like scared signal. Ants do at bees. Do people do it. Yeah that's the riot. You take each individual. That's in a riot separate on their own accord. Like oh man. That was weird. What did you throw a rock in small business. That had nothing to do with whatever they're pissed off. You know what. I mean like this angst and you just like they have to do something. So it's kind of crazy how that collective consciousness so it's kind of it is cool to be part of it when flow in the good in the good the hamlin that kitchen good kid so i went to georgia southern university. That's where that's where. I got my undergraduate degree. Yeah well boop milledgeville. Is that in. Milledgeville statesborough georgia near savannah. And i never forget it. Because i grew up in the inner city because it has connotations but grew up in the greater metro politics atlanta area. I wasn't lying. I would just say i was just saying. They didn't grow up in the projects or anything. But i did grow up in like the inner city of atlanta. That's the greater metropolitan area. Technically right and if you don't live in georgia it's just atlanta atlanta for miles. The state is just as either south georgia. North georgia early anna. So yeah right how close you are so i was. I went from that environment with all the bad gangster stuff around me and then so i drove to georgia southern which is in south georgia near the coast. And i'll never forget us. A we drove a drove for three four hours three hours through woods through interstate. That just goes to like woods. There's even there's not even two lane road right. Say no interstate. There's not even road. Signs rhodes on billboards. There's enough traffic to put billboards there so a super boring but i got off the exit to you like go to the school and this is actually before like iphones and stuff. So like i had to like right down the direction. I think printed map quest. Yeah there we go remember that if you guys are listening for mapquest like they were wrong with you. Yeah we miss you. But they were wrongly ninety nine percent of the time but this time it was right so i got off the exit the exit off interstate to go to georgia southern cottonfields used to like. I have some cotton in my car picked up on the side of the road. You just like. I want some of that. You just drove by and i was. I pulled over on the side of the road. And just like illegally stole piece of is speaking of olfactory doug ford's farts man dog for it. I guess that's the theme of the show. Something that i have recently found. I not i used to. I had mentor of mine. Call at your strongroom. Strong-rooms who's in your strongroom. Because like we're all people. We all have vulnerabilities and downs. And key goes and all the things that come being the human. Who's in your strongroom. Who can you go to like. It's metaphorical room. Is that a real room. But like you don't think of as a metaphor like who's in there that's gonna lift you up to the truth in the not hits you with us. Negative bullshit riley. Who's in your strongroom So i've that's a big thing who's in nearly. Who do you lean on. You actually say things to where you can be vulnerable and allow that space to be created have been a positive when you walk out of the strongroom which is a very important part because a lot of people have. I wouldn't call it a strong. And they have the room. Yeah call their bullshit bullshit. Revenue left with a more bullshit. They walk out. And there's like what the fuck. Yeah they user just worse. Like so like i've been clearing out my strong real like i sold my business my financial situation. Everything has changed right. That's a whole new. You know has been great. I've seen who's here for me for money Which has been interesting. Yeah i've seen here for me for just my general kindness or like just things that they need for me and they don't reciprocate they don't actually care about me. There is a user relationship now. I'm all about being nice and kind helping people but like when like you don't care about me you only care about. Oh you provide for them. Oh i provide awesome words and kindness and solitude and strength in or whatever i mean use the word kindness or whatever but like when i am in a predicament like no fox are given. So i've been cleaning out my strong room and seeing who is actually in there and they're like oh it's been it's been wild man like all right thaad. It is birthday day was linked to that links in germany. You gotta do contact. And it's pro ports. Throw your pearls seven years. Good stuff. Seven years mess it up bourbon cool. Yeah so this seventeen hundred zero. I've been told that this is the jam so into the liquor store and got some so funny story. I didn't tell so went. Part in this guy was like displaying. The liquor store guy. So i walk in. He lives real trendy hip surgery like. He had a mustache. The head twisty special cream. he definitely has some. He has some sav in his mustache hair. In so i was like. Hey man. i've heard this bourbons. Pretty good seventy which is fantastic by the way And it's only like twenty. Three dollars was was told to get it. So i was asking him about it and he was like dude. This is what he said he was like mom in. That's one of my my man. That's my favorite juices that we sell assurances at the scene. Yeah actually. I just didn't want to hear frigging kidding music anymore. I'm pretty damn. I listen to stuff. That's good pretty good. You mean but sometimes but he likes the same shit over and over literally on playing in old town road weird thing. They're like watch. Two hour movie started again. Yeah so i think not even joking. I think it was an old town road.
WDUN AM550
"georgia southern university" Discussed on WDUN AM550
"Workers say they want a thorough investigation on many levels of a chemical leak at a Gainesville poultry processing plant last week, but They also say they want the impacted workers to be paid while the plant remains closed, paid time off from the day of the incident on Thursday, until he kind of turned safely toe work it any out there. Previous status or until they can return to work to a plant is near by them. Susie Duran with Po Dare Latin ex coordinated that our long plant press conference with the number of agencies yesterday she and others say the families of the workers who died and the workers who were hurt at foundation food Group last Thursday have not received fair compensation yet for their losses. There is a go fund may fund raiser underway to help those who have been impacted an alto man, one of two people killed in a single vehicle wreck on I 16 and South Georgia Sunday night, the Georgia State Patrol says 19 year old Jordan Hunter Thomas died when his pickup truck hydroplaned and Emanuel County The truck left the highway and hit a tree. Thomas was a 2020 graduate of Lakeview Academy and Gainesville of Vigil held last night at the school to remember him. Thomas's 18 year old passenger, apparently a classmate of Hiss at Georgia Southern University, also died in the crash, the police chief and an officer in a west Georgia city off the job because they were apparently using racial slurs. Video from a body Cam Warren during a black lives matter. Protests last year recently surfaced in the city of Hamilton Police chief Jean Allman resigned. Officer John Brooks was fired last week. Hamilton City officials working to have both men removed from their jobs after viewing and listening to the body cam footage. Wdun news time. A 34 Georgia's Department of Public Health confirms there are 19 cases of the cove in 19 variant that have shown up in the state of Georgia. W. D. Yu went to Austin Eller says At least one of those cases is in neighboring Gwinnett County, according to a news release from the department. The 19 cases are spread out among nine metro Atlanta counties, including when at county 19 infected individuals include eight men and 11 women ranging from 15 to 61 years old. In a separate statement, a spokesperson for District to Public Health, which oversees Hall County confirmed that no cases of the variant Have been identified in their area. Governor Brian Camp says he approves of Georgia's progress and fighting covert 19, but he stopped short. Of saying that he's excited about the progress that the state has made. Even with reports of decreasing infection race didn't progress, but make no mistake. We're not celebrating. The viruses we well know, still impacting, hospitalizing and killing our fellow Georgia. The governor's office also issued an announcement about vaccine appointment, saying providers are not taking additional appointments right now until the supply can catch up to the demand. Well, there's no need to put your coats and scarves away just yet. That's the official word from Yona, the ground hog at the North Georgia Wildlife Park and White County. See it..
Beach Talk Radio
"georgia southern university" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"If you check them out online. The carts are really cool. They had him down on. Fort myers beach. We're able to check them out down there. It sat about carson. We appreciate those guys because they really have introduced us to a lot of the folks down here on the beach too so check them out and and rent one if you if you want to their super cool and right now our second guest on our first show from ding. Darling is kevin. I don't know if we're saying your last name right. Kevin god see and if you didn't stay got all the is silent silent cameras here and if you can get nice and close. They're nice and clean so you're good to go and dear. I'm going to let you start it off so i can. I am also. I always after. I just wanna i just i wrote down your new title because it's a little bit length as little. Oh yeah it's a little thing so you are now the permanent project leader at. What is the new south west florida. National wildlife refuge complex. Is that correct. That's right project leader for some florida refuges. basically so that's seven national wildlife refuges in lee and collier county. So i'll be based out of here. Ding darling kind of our hub But then we also bandage of island bay collusive hatchet national wildlife refuge matla shape pass national wildlife refuge and pine island and then down in How call your county. There's florida panther national wildlife refuge and ten thousand dollars while right so before we get into all of that what you had been the director here at ding darling correct. So i was acting for about a year and a half while paul was on a paltry tech My predecessor he was on detail and then he retired but while he was on On a detail doing a regionally. Important project I kind of stepped up from my job at the florida. Panther national wildlife refuge in was was serving in his position for about a year and a half. So tell everybody a little bit about your history. And how you got involved in this kind of because you've been you've been doing this a while. This is not a short term gig right. No no this is It's it's it's it's a career of twenty two years twenty two years so i i. I learned about the national wildlife refuge system. When i was in college i was at georgia southern university and started the to volunteer at Okay finocchio national wildlife refuge in south georgia and name. Yeah great place. Four hundred thousand beautiful acres of swamp. And it's just. It's just gorgeous. And i fell in love with the mission of our the agency the us fish and wildlife service. And from there. I got in to Fell into the career. Got into what's called a student career employment program With the us fish service station that Merritt island national wildlife refuge in that was Late nineties and then In two thousand. I moved here to santa bell and i was For eight years. I worked here as an education specialist as and then And then supervisory park ranger before jumping up into management..
Short Wave
Animal Slander! Debunking 'Birdbrained' And 'Eat Like A Bird'
"All right first up bird brained again. People say this when they're implying somebody needs to get it together or they're scattered. Yeah clearly not a compliment right so for more on this you talked to Corinna newsom. Hello Hi Emily. Yeah Hey how are you? I'm good how are you good? Good my name's emily. Corinne is a Grad student at Georgia Southern University studying birds and before that she was zookeeper she's got a deep well of experience to draw upon for today's episode. What's your relationship with that phrase bird brained? I usually get a little bit offended when I hear the word bird brained as a person who spent a lot of time training birds For the purpose of education and showing off natural behaviors. I've gotten a chance to look very closely. At how birds think and understanding the way that they think and being very impressed with their cognition and so when I hear people use bird brained as an insult. I am. Dan Personally insulted. You gotta stand by Your burs. Starting off strong. I mean you gotta set the tone. Okay trusted expert. Witness Carina newsom approaching the bench. Hit us with that sweet sweet evidence. Carina SAYS BIRDS ARE OVERALL PRETTY SMART. Cognition depends on the species of course but birds in the Corbett family like crows and Ravens are wicked smart. Oh Yeah Yeah Yeah. They can memorize faces. They were Super Cool. Experiments on that in some crows can make tools which is usually associated with primates. Correct and you know what other birds are. Smart Parrots. They are incredibly social animals. They are also very skilled at mimicry. At recognizing even memorizing patterns At picking up on behavioral cues from humans. Corinna says that parents are tough pets precisely because they're so smart you have to give them mental stimulation and if you don't they're going to occupy themselves which oftentimes may end up looking like biting your furniture tearing apart your shoes wreaking havoc on your home here. It's need constant mental stimulation or else. It's just havoc and all of this has to do with connections inside their brains. Do I smell little data? Kwon Oh you. Do you better believe you do so a couple of years ago. This study came out that looked at brains across different types of birds songbirds parrots various birds of prey and the study looked closely at this part of the brain called the medial spira form nucleus which helps connect the Sara Bellum to the Tel and south one. Zero Bhalla is at the back of the brain deals with muscle movements balance. That kind of stuff. Do you know what that is yet? Yeah I know stuff kwong. Okay fine well do you know at the Telegraph. Alana's I yes. Go read do go right ahead. What is it okay. All right Gimme second. There's a lot of stuff in the brain Yeah it's this really intricate set up structures in the brain that are required for some of the most complex and evolved functions. Yeah you clearly. Google that With I can't you're breaking up on going through a tunnel. Ma'am you're in a closet? You can't be gone through the same time all right anyway. Moving on the key here. Is that the bridge connecting these two parts. The medial spire form. Nucleus and birds is a mark of strong cognitive abilities and parrots have an unusually large medial spiral form nucleus for their size so the birds have small low noggins but really advanced Lil Naga. Oh yeah good point. That was my follow up question to this research. Carino was talking about two and so despite the fact that birds have like very very small brains Usually like the size of a walnut forest and even larger Brain Bird. Those brains are the most effective at packing neurons compared to any other brains including Mammalian brains. So you hear that birds punching above their weight when it comes to neural density honestly. I'm not surprised. So some birds have about as many neurons in therefore brain than like a primate so because their brain has some complex folding and the the neurons are closer physically closer together inside of the brain. They can have a large number of neurons accomplishing a lot of the same goals that animals with bigger brains and their but fewer neurons have. Okay Kwong the verdict on bird brained. Oh you know what it is Mattie. Do I even need to say it slander? Getting so good that you taught me how could Lord okay? Okay my turn so I looked into the phrase eat like a bird. Oh yeah very curious about this. People will say that it suggests. Someone doesn't eat very much that they're like peckish right. Which you know the official. Npr shortly position is that just. Don't comment on how much or how little somebody eats you know what I mean. Generally speaking yeah mine. You're on food business. Yes so okay. Let us start our examination of eat like a bird by considering the simple hummingbird. Do you know how they eat. Deer Kwan no no I do not dear Mattie but I fear but I fear you are about to tell me in excruciating detail first of all let me start off by saying you're welcome second introduce you to Alejandro Trico. He is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Washington on curator of birds at the Burke Museum of the University of Washington. But before that when he was a graduate student at the University of Connecticut he was part of one of my favorite bird. Eating related experiments ever so humming. Birds have really long tongues that dart out to get nectar and for a long time scientists. Thought that the tongue worked like a tiny tiny little tube so small the nectar. Kinda just shoots up the tongue on its own by what's called capillary action Ali in his boss Margaret Ruby. The did not by this capillary action. Theory Oh We were discussing. How the equations and the predictions from those capillaries don really made sense in terms of what the actual the hummingbirds in nature look like. But here's the thing on one does not simply eyeball a hummingbird tongue. These little are as thin as a fishing line and they dart in and out of the beak at like fifteen to twenty times per second. Whoa so to solve these problems. What we devise were tiny transparent flowers with flat sides so we could film through it and see the action happening on. We needed high speed video because it's happening so fast so we were filming between a thousand and two thousand frames per second just to see how long would interact with the nectar. So cool all right so. They made little glass flowers so they could film through them. That's that's pretty genius. Yeah and what they saw kwong. It changed the Hummingbird game. What we saw is that the Humbert on when he touches the nectar. I the portion that is inside the liquid on falls on it has little fringes on those tubes on those open up. Oh so it definitely isn't just a static little tube no not even close as the tongue is shooting out of the beak. It's compressed by the beak but when the tip of tongue hits the nectar it splits into two like a little snake tongue and those tips. They have these little flaps that hoping an those flaps fill up with nectar. That is so amazing.