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The Breakdown
A highlight from Beijing Bazooka: Why China Isn't Being More Aggressive As Economy Deteriorates
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 5th, and today we are talking about why China's growth engine may be falling apart. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back to The Breakdown. I hope all of you who are celebrating the long holiday weekend had a great end of summer and are looking forward to what promises to be a... well, actually, I don't know what fall promises to be. We're in the hinterlands where I believe, on the one hand, the worst of the bear market has ended, but on the other hand, it still feels like we're pretty far away from a bull market beginning. That's, of course, because no one new is coming into the space right now, and that means it's all of us who have sort of stuck around here, just kind of circling around the drain. There was a great example of this this morning where Visa posted some news relating to Solana, and whereas during a bull market that might send prices surging, Solana itself was basically flat from yesterday and is still down 3 % on the week. I think, unfortunately, that until new sets of money come in, we're effectively just sideways and down only. But given that lethargy, it's a good time to get away from thinking about crypto asset prices and thinking about bigger topics and issues. In fact, today we are jumping entirely outside of crypto to talk macro and specifically China. Now, obviously, the China story is bigger than just China and even bigger than just general global economics are interconnected. China has been a deterministic actor in the global economy, especially since COVID. Their ongoing lockdowns kept supply chains screwed up and depressed global demand, and by extension, their reopening was supposed to herald a return to normalcy and create some economic buoyancy. Alas, the country finds itself in the midst of a serious economic downturn. In the US, we see article titles like from the New York Times on August 31st, why is China in so much trouble? From Bloomberg yesterday, China slowdown means it may never overtake US economy. From The Economist August 24th, Xi's failing model, why he won't fix China's economy. So given that, let's get into what's actually happening. First of all, last quarter's GDP growth in China came in at 3 .2%. That is a significant amount below the government's target of around 5%. Now, in addition to not meeting that 5 % target, when that target was announced in March during the National People's Conference, it was recognized as the lowest growth target in the Chinese economy. In a note published last week, Bloomberg Economist wrote that, Now, depending on who you read, you will find a range of explanations for this slowdown. To some, it's about a demographic collapse with a rapidly aging population. To others, it's about shifting trade policy and ongoing US attempts to decouple from China that have led to a slowdown in international investment. Others point out that internally in China, there has been a shift of emphasis from growth at all costs to security and resilience as China prepares for increasing conflict with Western powers. Now, of course, over the shorter term, the explanations for the slowdown are more defined. The Chinese reopening failed to live up to the hype and youth unemployment in particular has soared. It was last recorded above 20 % before reporting was suspended in July. Now, the consequences of the economic slowdown have led to issues piling up in a myriad of places across the financial sector. There are now problems bubbling to the surface in housing, financial services, and even the currency. Beijing has begun intervening with assorted rescue packages, although they remain closely targeted at this stage. So far, the government has avoided direct fiscal stimulus of household spending, which might be used to bolster collapse in consumer demand and stave off outright deflation in retail prices. Now, many have questioned why the Chinese government is being so restrained with fiscal support during this downturn. This is because it's a little bit different than the strategy deployed before. During the 2008 crisis and subsequent global economic shocks, there was no lack of willingness to deploy the quote Beijing bazooka and engage in system -wide support and massive infrastructure spending. This time around, we're not seeing that kind of approach, which has puzzled many international commentators. And yet, of course, it's not like the Chinese government is doing nothing. As multiple problems have reached a crisis point over the past few weeks, the government has launched a round of targeted interventions, so let's look at a few of those. The first sign of major interventions came last Sunday, when Beijing announced a package of measures aimed at boosting the stock market. A tax on stock trading was reduced for the first time since 2008, and in addition, the top stakeholders in firms that were trading below their IPO price were restricted from selling shares. Deposit ratios for margin financing were also lowered. Alongside these overt policy decisions, Beijing also leaned on large institutions to support the market. During a seminar held the previous Thursday, the China Securities Regulatory Commission extracted a pledge from assembled pension funds, large banks, and insurers that they would help to stabilize the stock market and boost economic development. These combined actions caused a dramatic pop at last week's Monday Open. Chinese markets began the day up 5 .5%, but the euphoria was short -lived, wearing off in just 10 minutes of trading with the market collapsing back down. The primary Chinese index closed that Monday up only 1 .2%. By way of comparison, the last time China cut stock trading taxes in 2008, the move triggered a 9 .3 % rally the following day and kicked off a significant bull run into the following year. Now, the changes were widely anticipated after Beijing pledged last month to, quote, invigorate capital markets and boost investor confidence. The Chinese stock market has been a fairly horrendous place to invest in recent years. The major index is down 4 % so far this year on the back of two consecutive years of annual losses. Chinese markets are underperforming a broader sample of Asian equities by about 6 % this year and have been one of the worst performing markets in the world. Foreign investors have been fleeing the wreckage. The past few weeks saw over 13 consecutive days of net selling from international firms, which is the longest streak on record. Still, with a little over a week since that Monday intervention, there do appear to be some signs of success. The Shanghai Shenzhen Index, the major onshore market index, is now up 2 % since last Monday's close. More importantly, the index has now seen two weeks of a positive trend. The main Chinese index is up 3 .6 % since this year's low, which was recorded the week prior to the interventions. Now, this recent surge in Chinese stock saw an extra boost from large housing developers during recent trading. The Hang Seng Mainline Properties Index rose by over 8 % on the back of good news for the troubled property sector. The biggest headline was generated by Country Garden, which was previously the nation's largest developer. The Chinese property Goliath had missed $22 .5 million in interest payments on $2 denominated bonds in early August. Concerns mounted throughout the month that this missed payment would lead to an official default and potentially bankruptcy, which was of course the path that rival developer Evergrande went down over the past two years. However, Country Grand has now caught up with delinquent interest payments on the two bonds within grace periods, avoiding a default. The payment came after successful negotiations surrounding another tranche of bonds which were due to mature on Friday. The firm managed to negotiate with creditors to push the maturity date out until 2026, affecting $537 million in principal repayments. Still, Country Garden remains under pressure, with $2 .9 billion in note obligations falling due throughout the rest of the year. Overall, the firm has $187 billion in total liabilities.
Evangelism On Fire
Fresh update on "goliath" discussed on Evangelism On Fire
"I don't know if I'll be able to make that thing go back on there, right? You know, might heal it crooked or something, this lawsuit, I'm good. You know what I love about hearing about you praying over the arenas you fight at, praying over the people who are gonna be viewing your fights. You have the support of your pastor, you have the support of your church. I think that's just amazing, right? That's so cool. I mean, this is just not a fighting career. This is a ministry. And you know what I believe about you? That God is using you and your team to reach people that no one else on planet earth could reach in the name of Jesus. Yeah, 100%. And it comes from those experiences where people are like, whoa, that really happened to you? And I'm like, yeah, you know what I mean? And it just blows their mind. But if you just look at what God's doing in my life, you can't really deny Him. Coming from all of that, you can't really look at my life and go, all right, well, that's good for her, but I don't think there's anything to that. You have to look at it and go, well, even the hardest skeptic has to be like, well, maybe there's something to that one. That's rough. Talking about rough, what has been some of the worst times of your entire life? Sounds like you have a whole list, right? Yeah, it's like just a Rolodex just continuing to just filter through, you know? Yeah, I had a really very tumultuous childhood. It was really bad. Yeah. So I would say probably from about the time I was six or seven until, oh God, 20, probably some place I ran around, I had my son, has just been nonstop. Is there one thing out of the Rolodex of your life experience that you'll share with our audience? I'm just trying to pick one, really. I mean, I guess I don't want to give another one of my dad because I don't want to paint him in like a super bad light. I think maybe the time when there was, you know, there's been several very distinct periods of my life. There were two, about like five years, three to five years each where I did not want to live. And that was not an understatement at all. Nor was it an exaggeration either. Like I was actively trying to think of like new ways to do it, maybe things that wouldn't be so traumatizing to like my family or, you know, there's definitely something to asking, you know, like when females do, you know, take their own lives. A lot of times they there's a lot of concern for, you know, who's going to clean it up or who's going to find it, you know, so that there's a lot of like there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. And honestly, like that was those those are the darkest times of my entire life. I think there were there were three that really stand out. Being when I was pregnant was one of them, which I forgot. That was a really dark time for me. Right. But, you know, here I am. I've got a beautiful son. He was born premature, but now you would never be able to tell it. He has such an extensive vocabulary. This kid was talking about pressure earlier. Like, wow. Yeah, I'm serious. Like he was because, you know, as I squeeze like the juice out of his little the fruit, the diced peaches. Yeah. And so yesterday it was squeeze. And today, before I took the paper up or the, you know, the film up, he started pushing on it. He said, oh, pressure, pressure. And I was like, whoa. You know, his conceptualization is just astounding. You know what? You know, you were mentioning your dark time of thinking of committing suicide. And I was there, too. There was a point in my life where I'm like, man, I hate my life. You know, I don't see the purpose for my life. I want to die. I had a strategy on how to kill myself. And then, you know, I met God during that time. But during that time that you experience of being suicidal, how did God help you through that? I really wouldn't I wouldn't be here if it weren't for him. But it's a little bit more specific, I guess, than just, oh, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for God. You know, it was pretty much the way that he's gotten me through the majority of my life was this sense of destiny about something, you know, um, that I've had. And I don't really speak on this very much because, you know, a lot of people don't think I'm insane for the other stuff. They will definitely think I'm crazy for this because it's so spiritual, right? People are uncomfortable with that. But ever since. Yeah. So I'm going to tell you, you're not going to freak out. No, no. Yeah. So since I was about seven, eight, nine around that time period, I became extremely, extremely obsessed with the end times. I'm talking like not a normal amount obsessed with the end times. Yeah. And I have avidly studied anything I can get my hands on, not just biblical material, but also, you know, from an Islamic point of view, because there's that, you know, a very well written book called the Islamic Antichrist, and it kind of it's written by a Christian, but it talks about how, you know, there's their scriptures kind of mirror our scriptures where like our Antichrist is like they're like Jesus or, you know, kind of figure. And so I'm really obsessed with with the end times. Yeah. And you know what? I'll say this. I'm with you. I'm very, very laser focus on eschatology. Yeah. Yeah. I was just going to use that word. Yeah. The study of the end times. And you know what? For me personally, I don't know how and I don't talk about it much either, because most people, they will get freaked out, like what you're saying. Yeah, but they get angry if you don't agree with their time frame for the rapture. What it does for me, it helps me to just dig deeper for a relationship, you know, well, in my relationship with Jesus. And it motivates and inspires me and gives me straight fire to share the gospel with as many people as I can, you know? Yeah. So I understand what you're talking about. It's it's like, man, I've studied, I've broken down like Daniel Revelation. I've gone through Thessalonians. I've gone through so much of just so many different places in the Old Testament where it references the last trumpet and just just all this stuff. Right. I've had dreams and visions of like literally a battle during the end times. And, you know, someone comes up and we're all in a tent dressed in like, you know, modern military gear and like all of its high tech. And someone comes and hands me the sword of David, which was the sword of Goliath that he used to cut off his own head. And man, it was just God has told me from a very young age that I was going to have something very significant to do with the end times. And so I have 100 percent grown up my entire life with that belief, with that burden as well. You know, really up until just about recently, like when the world just went absolutely insane. It was like it was going there. But then it just there was something that kind of like and it feel like things changed in the spirit, spirit realm. But anyway, I really didn't want it. And I would tell God straight up, I'm like, I don't want to do whatever it is that you have for me to do. Right. Like, especially when I was suicidal and I really wanted to die. I was like, look, he's like, you know, I have these things I need you to do. And I'm like, but why? Why do you need me to do them? Like, I'm literally like I'm out here in the middle of nowhere on a horse farm. Nobody cares about me. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't get it. Right. I'm like, can't you just pick somebody else? And he's like, well, it doesn't work that way. But if you really don't want to do it, then I guess I have to. You know what I mean? He's talking about it because it even it even is it correlates to the Bible. And the more that I've studied the Bible, like growing up, the more I realize, like I'm kind of like a Bible character, because it's kind of like, you know, God tells them something, some way, some form through a bush or, you know, a form of an angel or whatever. And they're like nine times out and they're like, well, I don't know about that because there's all these reasons and I really just don't want to do it. And, you know, yeah. And I miss the time I was like, God, I just want to go home. Like, I just I just want to not like not be here anymore. Right. Like, I want I want that rest. I want no more tears. I want no more. You know what I mean? I want none of I just want rest. Right. He's like, you have rest when you've done what you're here for. And so that's literally every time, like any single time. I remember the one time I was like, I just can't God. And he was like, well, it's OK. You know, I love you, whatever. You know, whatever you choose to do. And I was just like, oh, so of course I stayed. But like, you know, there's a purpose. Right. And he's just consistently reassured me of that over the years. Absolutely. I have to believe that this is that purpose. Right. Yeah. And he's giving you a bigger platform to fulfill the purpose. He's, you know, calling that he's given to you. Hey, so what are some of the best times of your life? Oh, OK. Oh, she's lighten up now. Yes. I love the good times stories. Definitely my son. I never thought I was going to be able to have my son. And he's incredible. Any time I get to see my Grammy, I love riding horses. I grew up on a horse farm. I loved that part of it being outside. We were always like playing in creeks and throwing mud and ride bikes. And, you know, I just I really loved that part of my childhood. I love my life right now. I'm so happy. I'm happy when I'm at church. I think my happiest times are when I'm praising God, spending time with my kid and fighting. Those are my three three, like highest, highest joys that I've felt in life. I feel like are are those three. I love it. I love it. Hey, here's a question. This is I call this this is the biggest question of our podcast conversation today. This is heavy. Are you ready for it? Yeah, let's go. All right. What's one thing about your testimony that you've never shared with anyone? Anyone? Oh, one time this was like I think I was eight years old, maybe nine. And I can literally remember where I was laying. I was laying on my bed in my room with my feet up against the wall. And, you know, life was really, really awful. And I remember telling God that like I hated him. Mm hmm. And that haunted me for years. Yeah. I mean, I'm talking like haunted me for years. And I was like, is that the unforgivable seed sin? Did I blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Like, oh, my gosh. So, yeah, for a really long time, that freaked me out. I've never really I've never told anybody that. I always felt bad that I told God that I hated him. Yeah. Well, thanks for sharing that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't hate him. I just you know, I was a kid and my life was crap. So I was like, yeah, I understand. And you blame God. Obviously, everybody does at some point in their life. Yeah, exactly. Happening. Yeah, that's if you're if you are a Christ follower, you have done that at some point of your life, you know. Yeah. I mean, and you're you're still going to do it sometimes, you know, unknowingly, you know, sometimes you just might have that instant reaction. You're like, what? And you're like, oh, but hey, you know, I like to say, you know, when something crazy happens, I'm always like, God, don't know what you're doing, but I know that I trust you. You know what I mean? So I think that that's that's a good takeaway for anybody. You know what I mean? You don't always have to know exactly what he's doing. You just have to trust that he is and that he's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. And, you know, he loves you. I don't care what the world says. I don't care what people have twisted to your views of God. He loves you like he loves you. Yeah, that's God in love, right? Like so I read I'm just going to say this real quick, because I know we're almost at an hour and we're probably trying to wind down. But I just this is something that really kind of changed my perspective on God a really long time ago. And I want to share that because he just put it on me. Yeah. So I was reading a book and it talked about how God is love. Right. So what is love? Love cannot you cannot force somebody to love you. Right. Because that's not love. That's control. Love has to say, I love you and give you the option to either accept or reject it. And then they then accept your answer. Right. And so like that kind of blew my mind because God doesn't force us to love him. I mean, he is the all powerful, omnipotent creator of the universe. And he could if he wanted to. But that's not the point. He wants a relationship with us. The only way that somebody you can love somebody is by having a relationship with them, getting to know them, learning their character, becoming enmeshed with them and by trusting them. And, you know, through experience, that's what God wants. Like, why do you think we have relationships? Aren't we made in the image of God? He wants relationship. That's probably why he is. You know, there's there's a triumvirate there. You know that the Trinity. So, I mean, it just makes sense, right? Like he's not trying to force you in anything. He just loves you and he just wants you to come talk to him. Just say, hey, God, what's up here to talk to you? Even if you've been away for a minute, he doesn't care. He is especially happy when you're like, hey, God, what's up? You know what I mean? Oh, Heaven's like, oh, they're back, you know? Yeah. That's so good. You know what, Sydney? This is a Christian podcast, but I'm always realizing that there's someone out there listening. They are not Christians. They haven't made a decision to follow Jesus. But they're curious, right? They're curious to see what he's about, right? It was a place to see that the Lord is good. Yeah. Yeah. And what you just said, you're you're you're talking about God is love and God loves you, right? So for that person that's listening, they're like, man, you know what? I haven't made a decision to follow Jesus. He's not the savior of my life. He's not the leader of my life, you know? And I've heard what Sydney's talking about, about his love. You know, and how he's created me to have a relationship with him. And they're thinking right now, man, maybe today's the time that I make that decision. What would you say to them? Sydney Sundance Smith, welcome home and let's pray. You know what I mean? Let's welcome you in. All you have to do, literally, all you have to do is believe when your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord. Right. He will come into your heart and forgive your sins like boom. You don't have to do anything about it. You just literally say say the words and believe in your heart. And it's not going to hurt you anything. Right. I've heard, you know, what people say, like, if you're wrong. Well, then you lived a good life. But if, you know, if I'm right, then kind of want to be right. You know, so. Yeah. But yeah. I mean, it doesn't hurt anything to to seek a relationship with him. He's the he's the most high, you know? Yeah. So literally, all you have to do is just is just say, Jesus, you know, I invite you to come into my life right now and invite you to come into my heart to to take over habitation. And I just want to feel your love. And I believe Jesus name. Amen. That's it. Amen. Amen. If you just said that prayer, you know, I want to congratulate you. Welcome. You just made the biggest and the best decision of your life. You know what Sidney and I are going to do? Hey, just go to my website, evangelismonfire.com. That's evangelismonfire.com. Go to the comments section on the home page and leave me your name and your address. And Sidney and I, we are going to send you a free Bible. We're going to send you a book called Begin. This book is about your first steps of following Jesus as your savior. We're going to invest into your relationship. So do that right now. Do not wait and we'll send that to you. And congratulations to those who made a decision. Thanks so much for your time with me today. It's been an amazing time. And thank you so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey of sharing your faith in Jesus with others. Make sure to check out today's podcast show notes for a description of today's show, along with other super important details. And also make sure to share this with a friend and subscribe over on Apple podcast as well. I really appreciate your feedback. Evangelism on Fire Nation. So share a review on Apple and let me know what part of this episode resonated with you the most. And hey, if no one has told you lately, God loves you. I love you. You matter and you have divine purpose. Now it's time to go out there and share the boom. The gospel message with others. Make sure to join me for our next episode.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Urgent Need for a Leadership Change with Chrissy Casilio
"Well, everybody now has been saying, oh, he had a really bad August. No, he's had a really bad 12 years. But the difference is he now has an opponent that's shining a light on it. That's that's the difference. Obviously, it has been a particularly bad. But but like you said, there's been a pattern for 12 years of this type of incompetence. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast with Mike Haeflich and Mike Speraza. Today, we are extremely pleased to welcome Republican challenger to Mark Polenkars for Erie County Executive Chrissy Casilio live and in studio. Chrissy, welcome and thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me. I feel a little odd that I'm the only one here not named Mike. Yeah, well, that's a problem in our office. There's a lot of problems between Lomas Haeflich, Mike Shaver, Mike Zimmer. We dominate the office. There's a lot of Mike. Yeah, that's right. And we're sorry if you get whiplash because you feel like you're watching a tennis match here today because you're sort of sandwiched between the two of us. That's OK. So so I knew of your last name, at least just from a lot of the business that your family has done. But can you just tell our audience, our listeners a little bit about yourself? Because I think some might feel like me, like, geez, Chrissy Casilio. OK, let me start Googling and let me just Google the Casilio name. Yeah, of course, you find things on a very highly successful business that you've had based out of clearance. Right. Yes. Yeah. So tell us about yourself. So I'm actually not involved with the family business. I decided to do my own thing. I have my degree in journalism. I thought I was going to be the next Oprah Winfrey. And although maybe not her, maybe she's not a good example. Yeah, she's she's she's getting canceled right now. I don't know. Pre -cancel Oprah. OK, I got it. I have my degree in journalism and I thought I was going to make a career in that. I had worked with WBEN and very quickly I learned where the money actually is, and that was in marketing and PR. So I had the opportunity to switch over. And within my first year of working in marketing at the radio group, I very quickly realized that this was my thing. Fast forward, I have owned Casilio Communications for 10 years. It is a marketing communication agency where clients hire my firm to manage everything for them. All of their marketing, all their communications, internal communications, external communications. We do it all. I'm very proud that the business is 10 years old. I've been doing this for 15 years. And so my business is actually one of the reasons that opened my eyes to everything that was going on. And I'll tell you why. Do I need to tell you about my family or do we skip that over? It's up to you. They're probably really nice people. I mean, I don't want to dismiss them and ignore them. I didn't want to get too far without acknowledging that I'm married to my high school sweetheart. He is a pharmacist. He is a saint. And I have three small kids and they're all excited. What's nice is that they're young enough that they don't really know what's going on. They just know that they think that mommy's a superhero. Lots of excitement. The parades, I'm going to have to do parades no matter what for the rest of my life, for the kids. So I have three small kids. I have a wonderful husband. That aside, my business, one of my clients is a nursing home group. And this is what really was the catalyst in opening my eyes to how things were being run in this community. And I'll tell you why. I have been with them my entire career, before, during and after COVID, and I knew the numbers from what I do because I'm on the communications team, on the PR team. We work together as a team. There's a handful of us. And when Andrew Cuomo had that nursing home order, it was like the grim reaper went through the facilities. And they say, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And when that happened, besides it being tragic enough in itself, I saw Mark Poloncarz and Dr. Bernstein, who I call Dr. Overtime, I saw them do absolutely nothing about that. And I felt like I was going insane because I knew they knew the numbers. I knew that they knew what was going on. And then I knew that they were doing absolutely nothing. And what was astounding to me, I mean, you don't have to be the director of health to know the type of care in nursing homes. It is the most intimate type of care that you will ever, I mean, you're getting your teeth brushed, you're getting dressed. These residents aren't even getting out of bed unless somebody is physically lifting them out of bed. And you're getting help in bathroom situations, right? You're getting hugs and compassion and love. I mean, these people are angels. And so then for some reason, at some point, it got, besides the horrible idea from Andrew Cuomo and the state people, then we had our own Erie County leaders, quote unquote, fail us. And then what bothered me even more than that. So I'll give you then a number of examples. So besides the fact that we were giving them the numbers and I saw they were doing absolutely nothing about it. But, you know, so Poloncar has had his daily COVID briefings and, you know, he'd yell and scold and talk to us like we were children. And he must have gotten some sort of rush being in that type of position. A lot of them did, including the former governor. It definitely went to their head. But I remember this one time that, and I'm going to be careful protecting my client, but I remember this one time he was doing his press conference and he was talking about that there was an outbreak in one of the south towns and he started scolding them. And he was threatening to shut down schools and, you know, putting curfews in place. And I don't even know what at the time it was like, we're going to go and level C, three, four, like blah, blah, blah. And I remember looking at the numbers that he was putting on the screen and I remember the numbers that we had submitted to the county and all but maybe one or two was from that facility, from the facility. That facility was having an outbreak at that time. And he never shared that information. He didn't have to name the facility, but there's a different story, completely different story. If you are giving numbers that there's a case and saying, hey, we might have to get ages your 85 up and they're all at this one facility, but you're going to close on your schools and close on mine, it would have told a completely different story. And he would have been more transparent of what was going on. But here's what I it's funny, some of the stuff you said, because Mike and I just did a morning show and we said the same thing like, are we missing something? Where is the data that we're supposed to be seeing that would change our minds? Because I just haven't seen it yet. Still, it's been three years. I still don't have any data yet that tells me, Mike, shutting down schools was a great choice. Mike, shutting down the economy was a great choice. Mike, you know, doing whatever was a great choice. The only choice that was actually should have been made was the one they didn't make, which was nursing homes. That was the one they should have made. Don't put sick people back in nursing homes. They did that. Remember, though, at the same time, they told us that we killed grandma because we didn't get vaccinated or we don't wear masks. I do want to go to Mark Poloncarz because I think he's a house of cards, obviously. But Mark, Mark has had a lot of opinions on a lot of issues. And for the most part, he's been wrong. Right. And one thing Mark doesn't do, Chrissy, is say I made a mistake. I was wrong ever, ever. I've never heard him say that once. I my one question before we get into his job performance is if you're in that position, let's say, and you may if you're the Erie County executive, you're a governor, you're whatever and you make a mistake. Are you one that would sit there and say to yourself, you know what, I'm going to go to the podium and I'm going to admit my wrongs and I'm going to work on it and get better at what I made the mistake on, because that's what we have to do. I have to call clients all the time and say, I am sorry. I told you I just did it last Friday. I told you a number and it was a different number based on this factor. And I had to man up to that and own that. That's what people have to do in business and life and relationships. Is that something you're willing to do? Have you ever made a mistake? You have to. You have to. Because similar to me, and this is where my business experience comes in. I'm in the same boat as you. Now, I very rarely make mistakes with my clients. I don't know. I would agree. I agree. But you do. But the times that I have I'm I'm my success is based on job performance, not the single mistakes. It's the overall pictures of are my clients satisfied with my performance? And what's amazing to me is how for some reason that doesn't apply in government. Ever. You can mess up time and time again. You can never take accountability. You can never own anything, but you'll get reelected. It's astounding to me. But if I were to do have if the performance of Mark Polancar was happening in a private sector, he would have been fired 11 years and six months ago or his business would have closed or his business would have closed because because people would have been like, no, you you're not good at this job. But that's the sad thing is that money, money speaks. You know, it's tough with incumbents. You're definitely in a position where you have influence and your head gets bigger and bigger and your confidence gets bigger and bigger. And then what happens is that you're no longer serving the people. You're just serving the. What do I want to say? I feel like themselves, like they're serving themselves in their little inner circle, like I think they're so afraid they're going to let their their friends, their family down at the expense of of all of us. Right. The people that they're really supposed to be caring about. Well, I will say what I have found, particularly with Polancars and again to my earlier statement, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And decisions are being made for climbing the political ladder. Decisions are being made to appease Albany, appease the federal government so that he can feel good about going and saying, I have a good relationship with Albany. I have a good relationship with the federal government, but completely ignoring the fact that that relationship is actually causing this community more harm than good. Right. Right. And now, I mean, just let's bring it up to basically today, we are now hearing reports, 52 people that were housed in a cheek to our hotel are now being relocated to an Amherst hotel because of a broken sprinkler system. The reporting and again, we're not there to tell you this is right or wrong, but the reporting is that illegal immigrants were hanging clothes lines off of sprinkler systems. And now you've basically turned that hotel into a mess. It's uninhabitable. Correct. Right. So nobody can even be in that hotel now because they have to make repairs. It's not a place that any human being can actually even be in. So now they're going to relocate these people to Amherst. Before that, Republic Steel is going to leave 178 people now seeking jobs. We heard Mark on a Friday afternoon try to justify the what they called the blizzard of 2022 after action review by basically, again, not apologizing and not saying he'd have done anything differently, but by saying, you know, you know, there are some things that have gone wrong of late. But how about this and how about that? And how about you give me a break, essentially? Right. You forget. That report was bizarre. It wasn't actually a report. It was just a pile of papers that have been sitting on his desk for seven months that he just then made public as if that was supposed to mean anything. But like you said, there was no reflection of, OK, from this report, this is our next step. This is our action. There's nothing. I mean, yes, he has said things here and there, you know, but at the end of the day, you had 12 years to do even half the ideas that you were thinking of and you didn't. You got caught being incompetent again and you're just trying to brush it under the carpet. Forty seven people died, right. Forty seven people. That's double what what happened in the blizzard of seventy seven. I was like nine years old. The blizzard of seventy seven had twenty three people die. This was double. And you knew days before that this massive storm was coming from the west days before. And he waits and waits until Christmas Eve. And then he shuts things down. Then he says, oh, we have to shut things down. But by the way, we can't even get emergency vehicles out. So guess what? You're on your own, folks. Like that's essentially what happened. And like I was going to say that to the deaths are tragic enough and sad enough of what happened that day. But then you add into the fact that he told emergency personnel, including police officers, by the way, nobody will be patrolling the streets. That was a legitimate thing that he talked about during this whole thing. Nobody will be patrolling the streets. They're not going to go out. OK, then you have businesses in Buffalo, one of which is a client of mine, get looted and there's food getting stolen. There's anything getting stolen from you. You can't have it both ways, right? You can't say we're going to shut the city down. We're going to shut the counties down. Oh, and then we're also not going to have anybody around to help if somebody's sick or injured or if somebody's business is open or business is able to be looted. And that's what happened. And he took no responsibility for that either. That to me is just as bad as anything, because you essentially told people, we're not here to help you at all. There's another important factor, too. It seems like people are forgetting about November 2014 when we lost, I think it was 14 people then. How many storms are we going to go through where people are stranded, having to spend the night on the Thruway where people are dying? I mean, this this is western New York. It's it's like Florida being caught off guard if there's a hurricane. It's so bizarre. How is there not an action plan in place that's just just like Florida? I mean, you go down there, you see the signs for the hurricane routes. They have the protocols of this. People know what to do. How is it that we just don't have because systems like that need to be in place so that we don't have politicians like Mark Poloncarz putting commerce over the safety of the people. Right. And the systems are there and then you need someone to say we're activating the system. It's like we are now using this this emergency plan. The task force is now out and ready and helping. And but you don't have a guy like him. He slept through the night when he should have probably the day before, maybe even by 10 o 'clock that previous night said we are now shutting the Thruway. We need everyone off the Thruway while they can get off. I mean, I get so fired up over that. I get fired up over the nursing homes, the assisted living. My mom was in assisted living at the time that all happened. And I thought to myself, great, if you want to have people wear masks, hazmat suits, for God's sake, in nursing homes and assisted living, I'm all for that. The little paper masks are probably not even close to being enough in those places for those very, very vulnerable people. And Mike, real quick, I'll say that not even just for covid, for anything. Right. I mean, like those people, if they got a basic flu or a stomach flu or something, they could they could pass away. Sadly, like their their their immune systems are so compromised at that age when they're in there. Like, if you're serious about covid, then be serious about covid. That's my problem with all these people. If you're going to get serious, get serious. If not, don't waste our time with it. Right. And I'm sorry, all I was going to say is I mean, this all seems to culminate into an idea of patterns of behavior, patterns of horrible, horrible job performance behavior. And yet he's still sitting there in office and he still gets a pass by his supporters. I just I just wanted to add to because, again, I was in the thick of it. You had you had your mother, you said that I had 19 facilities across New York State where I'm overseeing the communications of it. I'm I'm receiving the messages of the website of people talking to their parents, of people dying. I saw firsthand the people dying. I saw the messages coming in. Mom, we can't see you. We love you. But the thing that also, you know, I can't speak for the rest of the state. I kind of can. But if you look at Erie County, we had the convention center empty. We had our schools, our universities closed down. We had surgery centers not operating. It's not like we needed to put them in nursing homes. And you think it have the spine and the leadership to say we're not putting them in nursing homes. We have these other options. But it was just this blind like whatever comes from Albany. That's what we're doing. And that's continuing to happen. It's funny because the Buffalo, well, everybody now has been saying, oh, he had a really bad August. No, he's had a really bad 12 years. But the difference is he now has an opponent that's shining a light on it. That's that's the difference. Obviously, it has been a particularly bad. But but like you said, there's been a pattern for 12 years of this type of incompetence. Yeah, here's what I'd say, because I'm going to get into the the second part of Mark Poloncarz himself personally and his attitude and his personal issues. I think you say 12 years, Kristine, I agree he's been here for 12 years and he's been doing certain things for 12 years. But realistically, you only have to look at about the last year, the last eight months to get a picture of who Mark Poloncarz is. And is this who you want as your leader? Right. And we're going to look at here we go again back in January and that's now coming to light. We have we have numerous issues with Mark Poloncarz and, you know, assault. We have been threatening to shoot a process server. Now we have a relationship issue. Look, I've been you said high school sweetheart. I've been married to my high school sweetheart now for five years. I've been together with her for 14. I have never once even as a college and high school kid told her she couldn't leave somewhere. She didn't want to go or or screamed at her outside my home. Yes. Do we argue with our spouses? Of course we do. The last thing I do when I argue with my spouse, I was getting her face. I'm usually like 20 feet away being, you know, we're going back for nothing ever like what they said. That's what rational normal people don't do what he just did this week. And they brush it off like it's OK. Yeah. Like my husband and I, maybe we're the weird ones. We don't even say the F word to each other because you have we set up these boundaries because you have this level of respect and love for each other. And there's no reason to if you're really that mad, you know. Take a break, work it through. It's bizarre. And what's interesting is that since becoming a candidate, it's amazing how one once story comes out, suddenly more people feel comfortable coming forward. And the story is now starting to pour in, not necessarily about the personal matter, but just his overall demeanor of now everybody's coming up to me. Yeah. He's been a bully forever. Yeah. That's his personality. He has a hot head. This and then the stories. I was at a restaurant. He did this. I was here and he did that. Like it's a pattern of behavior. You have to have a certain type of personality. Yeah. Some type of anger issue to be treating people that way. No doubt. And I'll say this, Mike, you and I, you know, have people that we work closely with this office. You do not want a leader that's like that getting angry or upset about things. I have no problem with that. Being irrational and almost crazy is a problem to me. Right. Like, again, I would I if Mike Lomas, I'm going to use Mike Lomas as one of the founders of the firm. If I saw him and his wife yelling and screaming at each other and report came out and said, Mike Lomas cornered his wife in the home, of course, we would have a conversation with Michael. We'd be like, what's going on here? No doubt. Mike Lomas doesn't do that. Why? Because he's a rational, normal person that understands how to live day by day. Right. Same thing with Glenn. Mike, same thing with you. That's that doesn't happen to normal people. It doesn't matter if you're Republican or Democrat. That should not happen. And that is a crazy thing. When you think about that guy's running a whole county. Yeah. Well, and again, the pattern of behavior. And yes, that's a domestic issue. And we talked about shooting the process server. But look at how he lashed out at Hannah Buehler from Channel 7. Look at how he got all angry with Byron Brown. The head on to where we began about Stefan. The headlines of that storm very quickly turned to that spat and how he treated Byron Brown. Name any natural disaster in all of the world where the story was. Look at these elected leaders bickering. And that was such a time to shine as the city. Good neighbors. It was a time for them to say, hey, they did the storm. But look at look at how they came together. And instead it was this pissing match between it. How embarrassing. I will say Byron Brown didn't really even I feel like go back. He was just like, whatever. I thought he actually handled it well. He did. Yeah. I give him a lot of credit for that. Yeah. If anything, I mean, you'd say to each other, you know what? We'll do this later. Like right now, this is what we have to do. We have to figure this out. We have to save people's lives. We've got to put that other stuff aside for now. But to your point, Chrissy, you know, when you you see someone behave this way, like if I witnessed someone be that way at first, I'm thinking it's like a one off bad moment just happened to me. But when you start hearing story upon story, to your point, yeah, it is a behavior. The other thing is when you get to the point where you are doing that, you are chasing someone down to get your cell phone back. You might allegedly got physical to get your phone back and then people are screaming around you. To me, that's a sign, that's evidence that you don't have the capacity to sit back, be patient and be thoughtful and actually figure out a better way. And that goes back to job performance, but also personal behavior. If you are flipping out, the first thing you do is flip out and then you're seeking forgiveness for that. That's a problem. And that's Mark Poloncarz. And if people continue to think, heck, 12 years of this and we want more, you might have a problem, folks. You might you might seriously have a problem if you don't think you need to make a change. Let's go to this. I mean, you know, I've seen over the years you see Lynn Dixon, the last election, loses by about seven points before that, Ray Walter, 2015, he loses by only getting about a third of the vote. How can you win? How can you win against him in a in a in a county where you feel like his supporters will just continue to forgive, keep giving him a break? And then here he is in office again. Yeah, that is undoubtedly something that can't be ignored. I I'm not stupid. I know that this is David going after Goliath. I know this is my first time running. I went from zero to one hundred. I get that. But I also know that I have the leadership, the personality, the demeanor to keep fighting until we cross the finish line. To put your answer your question in simple terms, I think people are starting to wake up. I think people are fed up. I think they're tired of what's been going on. One of my lines that I've quickly learned from this past month is Nimba, not in my backyard.
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"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. Back again, eh? Glutton for punishment, eh? When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Mataxas. I continue my conversation with Dutch Sheets. And Dutch, again, people ask me, where do I get hope? There are a few voices, you, my friend Mike Thompson, and a tiny handful of others that I believe are saying what God is saying and are trying to encourage us in the midst of these things, that we are to fight, we're to stand. It's actually a rare opportunity that we get to be the church. We get to stand and live out our faith in a way that for many decades we didn't need to. We could just play happy, clappy, safe church. The Lord is not allowing that. That's absolutely right. No longer, we can't do it. This is winner take all. I tell people, this is David and Goliath. He made no bones about it. He said, we're going to fight and whoever wins gets it all, the land, your wives, your kids. That's what we're fighting for right now. We're fighting for our inheritance as a nation. We're fighting for our children, our grandchildren. There is no more middle ground and God has moved us there, but he didn't do it without our help. He just allowed us to exercise our free will and we're there now. He sort of lifted, pulled back his covering and said, okay, that's what you asked for. You didn't want my involvement in your schools. You didn't want my involvement here in government. Now you're going to see what happens when that takes place. Now we need rescue. That's what's going to happen. But we must be rescued. I say this in my post, I know you've heard me say it, there is no hope for America apart from supernatural a intervention. We must be involved. We must have people rise up in government. We must have a change in education. In other words, we have to reform, but we could never reform America now without a supernatural empowering from heaven. We have to have something happen. The people can't see me, but I'm pointing down here, a change of heart. There must be an awakening that writes his laws on our hearts. Too many Americans don't care what God thinks. They don't care about the things we care about. But when they are saved, when this outpouring of Holy Spirit comes that we call revival or awakening, the conscience comes alive. He writes his laws in our hearts and suddenly we care what God thinks and we want to know what the Bible says about it. And so he's going to do both in his mercy. He's going to bring revival and that will give us the strength we need to reform and change the laws and the schools and all of these things that will get us back to sanity.
The Bible in a Year
"goliath" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"We realize we don't none of us know the battles that we're going to have to face in the future. All we know is the task that is at hand. And the great lesson for us is when we do the task that is at hand, we are preparing ourselves, who are being prepared for the battle that we're going to be facing in the future. And if I avoid the task at hand, if I avoid doing my daily duties, essentially, another way to say it, if I avoid the battles of now, I won't be prepared for the battles of later. David did not avoid the battles. Earlier on, so that he was able to rise up in the moment when all Israel needed someone who was not just willing but also able to face the giant. And I just think, think about this. You and I are going to have giants in our lives. And so what we're called to do is, okay, face the paddles of today. So that we can be prepared. To conquer the Giants of tomorrow. Then Saul clothes David with his own armor, gives him his own sword. And remember, Saul is a shoulder and a head in the shoulder, taller than anyone else. And so this would not fit David. He was not I assume not that tall is his height does not mention once in scripture. And so we recognize this is not going to fit him. And he's not used to it. He is not trained with these weapons. He's trained with his sling, he's trained with his staff. Last thing, maybe second to last thing. So David, yes, two last things. Here we go. There's a moment when David goes out against the philistine, he goes out against Goliath. And it says in verse 48, it says when the philistine arose and came in drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the philistine. This is just critical. David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the philistine. Sometimes, I dawdle. Sometimes you might dawdle as well. Sometimes I hesitate and sometimes you might hesitate as well, especially when it's time to move. It is time to go. It might be time to fight. It's time to act right now. And I hesitate. And I wait and I linger, and I may be stroll up to the battle line and David here.
The Bible in a Year
"goliath" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"Do O lord protect us, guard us forever from this generation. On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the sons of men. Father in heaven we give you praise and we give you glory in honor. And we give you just thanks. Thank you, God, for all that you've given to us. The very fact that our existence comes from you. I mean, you are the ground of all being father in heaven. The source of everything that you are being itself and just the fact that we get to exist is because you share your being with us. You share the gift of existing with us. If you were to forget us for a moment, lord God, we would cease to exist. And so thank you. Thank you for remembering us at all times. Thank you for holding us in existence at all times. Thank you for being so faithful and being such a good dad. Help us to not forget you, help us to remember you and remember your love. Remember your faithfulness. Help us to walk in faithfulness as we walk and thankfulness as well at this day in Jesus name we pray amen in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So I don't know if I've ever said this before, but first Samuel chapter 17 is literally one of my favorite chapters in the entire Bible. I love the story of David and Goliath. And for many, so many reasons. I love the fact that when here comes Goliath and he challenges the armies of Israel, basically we don't need to have both our armies kill each other. How about let's just have one person go against one person and then whoever wins that army wins. It's a style of warfare that existed back in the day. And it spares a lot of people's lives, which is pretty great thing. It's very high stakes, though, obviously. But here's what I love about this is when David is sent from Bethlehem right from his father Jesse sent him to bring food to his brothers, David hears this. And something in David is like, well, someone's got to fight. Someone's got to do something. Remember how Jonathan was that you have the armies of Israel who are hiding in holes and Jonathan sees this and she's like, we have to go into battle. We have to do something against these Philistines. Here's David, who has the same kind of heart, has the same kind of he's the same kind of person. David hears this challenge. Here's my favorite part, not my favorite part. Here's a favorite part, where David sang, you know, someone's gotta fight, someone's gotta fight, and his oldest brother, eliab, here's him. And here's what he says. Why have you come down and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption, the evil of your heart. You just come down to see the battle. And David, so the older brother, classic older brother right there. So I know what's going on. You just wanted to see the show. You just wanted to talk big. And I love David's response because he says, what have I done now? Was it not but a word? And as a younger brother, I'm like, why are you so mad at me? I was just talking so good.
The Bible in a Year
"goliath" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose 5 smooth stones from the brook, and put them in his shepherd's bag, or wallet, his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the philistine. And the philistine came on, and drew near to David with his shield bearer in front of him. And when the philistine looked, and saw David, he disdained him, for he was buddy youth, ready and comely in appearance, and the philistine said to David, am I a dog that you come to me with sticks? And the philistine cursed David by his gods. The philistine said to David, come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air into the beasts of the field. Then David said to the philistine, you come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day, the lord will deliver you into my hand and I will strike you down and cut off your head and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air into the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel and that all this assembly may know that the lord saves not with sword and spear for the battle is the lord's. And he will give you into our hand. When the philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the philistine, and David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it, and struck the philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. So David prevailed over the philistine with a sling and with the stone and struck the philistine and killed him.
The Bible in a Year
"goliath" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"But I probably will tomorrow. Just to let you know, just heads up on that one. Probably say it again tomorrow. But today is day one one zero. I don't know why I'm saying it like that. Day 110. Oh my gosh, you guys, this is the stop for a second. 810. Well done. Phenomenal work. I just, what a gift. Here we are, reading from first Samuel chapter 17, praying, psalm 12. First Samuel chapter 17, David and Goliath. Now, the Philistines gathered their armies for battle, and they were gathered at so called, which belonged to Judah, and encamped between soko and azaka, and FS Damien. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with a valley between them. And there came out from the camp of the Philistines, a champion named Goliath of gath, whose height was 6 cubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was 5000 shekels of bronze, and he had grieves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze, slung between his shoulders, and the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spears head weighed 600 shekels of iron and his shield bearer went before him. He stood, and shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why have you come out to drop for a battle? Am I not a philistine and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. And the philistine said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man that we may fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Now David was the son of an epithet of Bethlehem and Judah, named Jesse, who at 8 sons. In the days of Saul, the man was already old and advanced in years, the three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul
The Bible in a Year
1 Samuel 17: 19-36 David and Goliath
"But I probably will tomorrow. Just to let you know, just heads up on that one. Probably say it again tomorrow. But today is day one one zero. I don't know why I'm saying it like that. Day 110. Oh my gosh, you guys, this is the stop for a second. 810. Well done. Phenomenal work. I just, what a gift. Here we are, reading from first Samuel chapter 17, praying, psalm 12. First Samuel chapter 17, David and Goliath. Now, the Philistines gathered their armies for battle, and they were gathered at so called, which belonged to Judah, and encamped between soko and azaka, and FS Damien. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with a valley between them. And there came out from the camp of the Philistines, a champion named Goliath of gath, whose height was 6 cubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was 5000 shekels of bronze, and he had grieves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze, slung between his shoulders, and the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spears head weighed 600 shekels of iron and his shield bearer went before him. He stood, and shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why have you come out to drop for a battle? Am I not a philistine and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. And the philistine said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man that we may fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Now David was the son of an epithet of Bethlehem and Judah, named Jesse, who at 8 sons. In the days of Saul, the man was already old and advanced in years, the three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle, and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were eliab the firstborn, the next to him, abhinav, and the third shamah. David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth between Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. For 40 days the philistine came forward and took his stand morning and evening. And Jesse said to David his son, take for your brothers and ifa of this parched grain and these ten loaves and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers, also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare and bring some token from them. Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Ella, fighting with the Philistines. And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him, and he came to the encampment as the host was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry. And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle army against army and David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers. As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the philistine of gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before, and David heard him. All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were much afraid. In the men of Israel said, have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel and the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel. And David said to the men who stood by him, what shall be done for the man who kills this philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel. For who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? And the people answered him in the same way, social it be done to the man who kills him. Now eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men, and elie abs anger was kindled against David, and he said, why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness, I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart. For you have come down to see the battle. And David said, what have I done now? Was it not but a word? And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people again answered him as before. When the words which David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this philistine. And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against this philistine to fight with him. For you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth. But David said to Saul. Your servant used to keep sheep for his father, and when there came a lion or a bear and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if it arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has killed both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised philistine shall be like one of them, seeing that he has defied the armies of the living God. And David said, the lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this philistine. And Saul said to David, go. And the lord be with you. Then saw clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David belted on his sword over his armor, and he tried in vain to go, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, I can not go with these, for I'm not used to them. And David
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Putin Is Done if He Loses War
"Vladimir Putin is threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And I must tell you I would not be shocked if he used tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine. The man believes that he can not lose. And he's losing, which is beyond belief, nobody would have predicted this. This will go down in the annals of warfare. As a remarkable David versus Goliath. So he's done if he loses. I could only imagine what the precautions he takes. 24/7, not to be killed. Poisoned stabbed, shot the fenestrated,
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Preposterous Civil Lawsuit Against Brandon Straka
"Folks I'm talking to Brandon strock, a Brandon chilling story, but we haven't even really gotten into the civil suit. This is the most preposterous thing of all. You mentioned it yesterday. You are being charged with all kinds of things. It's sheer madness. Who do you think is behind this? Well, that's one thing, again, I would love to get to the bottom of and that I hope that some investigative journalists or heavy hitters in the conservative media start asking those questions. I really hope that that happens because what has happened is a law firm in D.C. very well funded very big operation, something that it's like David versus Goliath for me. They have put together this lawsuit. In which I call them a social justice warrior law firm because if you go to their website, what you'll see is that they're primarily focused on suing people for civil rights violations and which is a good thing in theory, except that this is obviously a very progressive and leftist mindset because if you look at what they're saying on their website is that they're going after white supremacists, they're going after domestic terrorists. And these are all buzzwords for Republicans, and Trump supporters. So this is in my opinion a Democrat party funded nonprofit law firm, which is abusing the law to engage in law fair to hurt people who are of an opposite political ideology as themselves. And so in the month of September, they served me in this lawsuit and I can't prove this, but what I believe happened is that they went out, they found 7 capitol police officers who happened to be black and brown people said, we'll cover all the expenses, will represent you. You don't have to do a thing, but basically be a plaintiff in this lawsuit in which we are going to allege that dozens of people engaged in a racially biased hate crime attack on black and brown police officers on January 6th. We're going to call them white supremacists and racists and we're going to claim that they attacked you and you just have to go along for the ride. That's what I believe happened.
Mark Levin
Appeals Court Rules Pennsylvania's Mail-in Voting Law Unconstitutional
"What happened here ladies and gentlemen was that there is an act called act 77 And I'm giving you the very bare basics because the key lawyer himself will be on the program in a couple of hours And the act was passed and it was unconstitutional Because it attempted to displace the constitution of Pennsylvania which required an amendment and amendment by the people to change the voting system It is very difficult to change the voting system in Pennsylvania Which is why they went to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 5 to two Democrats and they're not just appointed They're elected So you can see what we're dealing with These are Biden Democrats Most of them were elected by a public sector big labor By the teachers unions Bought and paid for if you will And so today David bike Goliath Today the media can no longer say well they bring these cases in their meritless Regardless of what the state Supreme Court does And if the state Supreme Court violates the state and federal constitution again as it has before then the case will be will they need to bring the case to the U.S. Supreme Court And let us hope that this time The U.S. Supreme Court will take the case This is the case this is the case one of two that was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court And they
The Charlie Kirk Show
Locals Founder Dave Rubin on His Merger With Rumble
"With us right now, is a friend of mine and the founder of locals, which is now merged with rumble. Congratulations to all behind it, including the founder, and he's one of the smartest and one of the most courageous fighters for free speech. On the planet, Dave Rubin, Dave, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Smartest and courageous, Charlie, our guys sent you the paperwork I see. I think it's good to see you. Now I omitted handsome because that would be weird. That would be weird. I like your hat. Thank you. It wouldn't be weird for you, but that's a separate issue. We can talk about that if you want. Not really. So, Dave, first, congratulations. Locals is amazing. We're starting to use it more and more. You're part of this parallel economy. Talk about it. You're an entrepreneur. It got acquired or merged with rumble. So walk us through that. Yeah, you know the truth is that for guys like us and all of the people that are now online and in mainstream media who talk about the problems of the world for a living, there is a value in talking. And then at some point, if you don't do anything about it, you're just talking. And then I would say you get ultimately diminishing returns on that. So all of us were screaming about big tech and were upset about shadow banning and de boosting an algorithmic tricks and all of this stuff. And I thought, all right, well, I've talked to a lot of people. No one seems to be willing to do anything. I guess I'll build something. And that really about three and a half years ago was the genesis of locals. I thought, well, what do I need as a creator? I want to own my video on my audio. I want to own the user data. I want to be able to communicate directly with my own audience without having to go through YouTube or Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, et cetera, et cetera. And we started building a really great product that also allowed my audience to subscribe to my stuff in essence so that I could actually make some money by producing, hopefully worthwhile content. And the company really grew really fast. I was able to get a great team of investors to help us bring on more programmers and just the right architects to build a really nice and I would say elegant product. And then the rumble guys came along and you know a bit about Chris ober rumble and the other people over there. And I thought, well, you know, you can fight alone, meaning I could build a great product and I can try to fight Google myself. And you know that David guy did beat Goliath, so maybe Dave can beat Google. But sometimes it's good to have a team too. You can think about as team sports so you can think Lord of the Rings or whatever. It's good to have some other people around you in the battle. And we just saw a great opportunity to merge what we're doing, which is subscription based solutions with what rumble is doing, which is sort of underbelly of the Internet, replace Amazon AWS, but also the front facing video YouTube side of things, so to speak. And we've
Strong Opinion Sports
"goliath" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"This is strong opinion sports episode 400 and 26. Welcome. It's one of those special episodes. Remember, we're doing a series about Tom Brady's made in the arena. The docuseries documenting each of his ten Super Bowl appearances this episode, what's the title of this one called? It was something with a G I remember it was called I have it here. Oh, come on. It's about Tom Brady's 2007 season and the Patriots losing the Super Bowl goliaths is what it's called. So David and Goliath is about Tom Brady losing the 2007 Super Bowl to the New York Giants. And before I forget, I want to say this because I got a cool opportunity coming up and I'm not gonna lie to you guys. I don't really know what to do with it. I got an email, a guy's like, hey, I like your series. You're covering main in the arena. He's like, I helped make it. And I'm like, what? And it's like one of the creators of man in the arena who, I'm not, I shouldn't say it. If it doesn't work out, I don't want to blow them up, but please, if you have any ideas, okay, I want to hear this or that about the making of this series, it looks like I'm going to interview one of the co creators of man in the arena, which is like, what the heck? It's amazing. When you just make stuff, sometimes universe responds. And so I don't actually entirely know what I'm going to ask him. It's a weird interview because I'm like, huh, I don't entirely know, what would I ask the guy who made men in the arena? Probably about how much creative control the Tom Brady have and how did they structure stuff? Things like that, but if you have any questions, okay, that would be an interesting thing to ask one of the creators of man in the arena. Please let me know because I am all ears, comment on YouTube, I'm happy to listen to feedback and probably insert some of the stuff you guys write in. You want to ask this guy interviews during our sit down. Now, I want to skip ahead of my notes because this episode of main in the.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Truck Driver Ed Durr Defeated New Jersey's Most Powerful Lawmaker
"When I saw the story. Did anyone watch the live stream last night that I was doing? I don't think I've laughed that hard my entire life. When I just saw this, I was flipping through social media and I couldn't control myself when I saw this story of this truck driver from southern New Jersey who spent a 153 total dollars on his campaign. $153. And as of right now, the election is about to be called in certified. He's about to beat the second most powerful person in New Jersey, the head of the Senate presidency in New Jersey by 2000 votes, right? And so and by the way, this is not even about Republican or Democrat. It's not about any of that, right? It's about wait a second time out. Like, what? And so I did some digging into this, right? I was like, okay, who is this guy, right? Is he a son of Jeff Bezos or like, you know, is he part of the Rockefeller family or was he born with some sort of birthright and so you look at this guy and his name is Durer, right? And yeah, you could laugh at the name, whatever, but you look into it. It's like if you were to have central casting of like what the normal American was. Now, some of you guys might not remember the 2000 was it 16 or 2012 president presidential debates of that guy that wore that like red sweater? Do you remember that? Then bone, right? Thank you. Guys, remember that, maybe not as before your time. It's like, I just want to give that guy a hug, right? He's just wants what's right for the world. So few people like that anymore. It seems in public life. And so this guy Eddie decides to do the ultimate David and Goliath type exercise. Now, I don't know how I'm gonna do my best to describe this to you. The guy he was running against is the head of the Senate of New Jersey, okay? It's untouchable. An example would be like if a random candidate decided to run up against Chuck Schumer, okay? That's just or a random candidate would just be like, I'm gonna run against Nancy Pelosi. This guy runs the state of New Jersey. Now, he was to give an idea, he's been an elected office since 2004. Some of you were born in 2004, okay? I know I know that because I actually just talked to someone that was literally born in 2006, not even born. And so this guy has run the state of New Jersey. He runs the entire political apparatus and machine. And so when you start to look into it, you're like, all right, how did this guy make it happen? So you look at his campaign receipts are like, did he get a big contribution from the pharmaceutical companies? Spend a $153, $85 of which was spent at Dunkin Donuts. And the remaining $70 was spent on flyers and materials and so they said, what was your grand strategy? He's like, I just kind of showed up and asked people for their vote. And so he was conducted in an interview last night. The first thing he said is like, I have no idea what's going on, right? The first thing he says, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night, but no, I'm kidding. But all of a sudden you read deeper into this and this is an important thing is he ran because he was so disgusted and he was so upset that he is a truck driver continually kept this economy opening and keep going and he just felt continually insulted by the people in charge.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'America Lost' Filmmaker Chris Rufo on the Poisonous Ideology of CRT
"Welcome back to one on one with Chris roof though. All right, so I promised we'd get back to that question of how we leverage our power and how we respond. But let me ask you the personal question. We had, I'm sure you've met him. We had James Lindsay on who's written the book critical theories, which goes into quite some detail. I love this stuff. I'm a one kid Harper goes in some real real detail on. You know, why quick, very, really happened. The role of quit theory the connection to Rachel justice and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I asked him, I had to, because, you know, as a child of people who suffered under ten regimes, I said to this guy, he was born here. Why are you doing what you're doing? Why are you deciding to take on the Goliath? Why are you walking into ariadne's maze as a lone researcher? And he said, and I love his response. He said, I just saw too many of my friends suffering injustice. Across academy being pillory being having their careers destroyed because they didn't want to acquiesce to this political dogma. Let me ask you, Chris, I've seen your film, which doesn't relate directly to what we're discussing, but I think there's a very strong overlap or there's at least a tangent that connects us in terms of what's happened to America in your film America last. But let me ask you. Why are you the guy who triggered the executive order in the Trump administration, banning critical race theory? What was the motivation for you to grasp with this Medusa? Yeah, I mean, it's pretty simple. I love this country. I love what it stands for. I love what it fights for. And I think I saw this hole that's opportunity this problem that conservatives had not developed a new vocabulary to fight these threats. And I thought I was uniquely positioned to be able to articulate it and also given the kind of courage to fight for it. And I think that we need to kind of come together and fight around these inspiring ideals and not let them be degraded and debating and destroyed. And I have a heart for it. I have a heart for people that are suffering for people at the margins of our society. And I saw very clearly that critical race theory is a kind of elite ideology that serves the status of people who are already fine and well off. Yeah. But actually embedded in that theory is something enormously destructive for poor and vulnerable people in our country. And if we want to actually help poor people, if we want to help broken families, if we want to help racial minorities live the full expression of their human potential and contribute to the United States to the fullest extent we have to fight this ideology because it's poisonous. It's pets. And it's anti American to
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak on New Film 'The Last Duel'
"I'm also talking to John smirk. What a great day. John Merrick, we've you want to talk about a movie. What do you want to talk about? I thought I'd lighten the mood a little bit and tell you about a movie that I saw, which I thought was a lot of fun. And whose message might not have been in the end, what the makers of the movie intended? This is the movie the last stool. It was the last stool, the last duel. A duel. Eric, Eric, get you digestion treated. This is warping your judgment. Wow. Because I was going to say that is the worst title for a movie. They need to feed that. The deal and it's 70 France. It's about the last trial by combat in the history of France. You know in the Middle Ages before we had elaborate developed judicial system, sometimes they would try a case and the two combat the two parties would fight it out. And the belief was the guy would give victory to the person who was in the right. Kind of like David and Goliath. Right, right. But this belief had faded mostly by the 1300s. But this is a true story, based on historians account where a powerful courtier was accused of raping a woman who was married to a much poorer, more obscure knight. And she goes to the authorities about it. The authorities side with the more powerful one, the guy who victimized her. Her husband backs her. The only way to get justice is for him to challenge the accused rapist to a combat tri. Trial by combat. And they fight it out. And in the movie, you see three different versions of the story from the husband's point of view from the accused rapist point of view and from the woman's point. This is like Kurosawa's rationale.
S.H.E.Talks | Spreading Hope Everywhere Talks
"goliath" Discussed on S.H.E.Talks | Spreading Hope Everywhere Talks
"We live we move. We have our being. Is christ so believe. Jesus christ there is nothing that is impossible with ga and we have to believe him for and god wants that relationship with anyone who even not yet believes. Jesus he wants to have a relationship with you too. But he's received my something that was in the flesh on earth walking among walking. Living with things that you barriers cell. But i didn't see this. What jesus didn't see not me. Jesus didn't see him but that was he was still guy incarnate. Steelers fan But so let's let us look at what this word guy you have wrapped in power and made my way per. Let's look at what that word means for me. You says in other words. God is our support. He is protection He will help us. He will hold a steady as we trust in him and faithfully rely on him to be our strenghten. You know he is our way maker. He gives us wisdom as we face. Those challenges head on. We don't have to be afraid we'll have to be in fear whereas with his presence would perfect low cast out all fear that so he had the one who is perfect. Love that it's because god is love. You should remove your fear because you know you're walking with guy before you great and anyone against you and with god. We shall his where he where it makes our prosperous. His word has got is the lord. Jesus and jesus was the word may flesh. He makes our way prosperous the word in who jesus makes highway prosper so with him his presence with him We are process. We will see all the difference in our lives as we face challenges hit on with him. So let's look at one more thing. Let's look at the benefit of god's presence allies of in the life of david. And i same seventeen. Here's another here's another example. Now we all have children. The story of david and goliath okay. But we've only heard part where david beats this giant david the boy basis giant. But one thing that was missed out of a lot of those stories where it was the presence of god day it was a president of god that gave david power with the fast food. Stones and ludo slingshot meekness. Nine foot tall Foolish philistine champion from gareth. A season warrior goliath who everybody was scared of. It is why arm were afraid of this. This giant philistine. Goliath and david just war. He knew who presence was with him. In the presence of god i sanchez to seventeen verse. Twenty five david to the philistine economy with a sore spin javelin. That's the net represent natural. Come to you the name of the lord..
Latino USA
Looking Back at the Secure Fence Act
"This october will mark fifteen years. Since president. George w bush signed the secure fence act of two thousand and six bill. I'm about to sign is an important step. In our nation's efforts to secure our border and reform immigration system congress approved the act with bipartisan support authorizing nearly seven hundred miles of new barrier along the southwestern border with mexico up until this point just a few dozen miles of border wall had been built and that happened under democratic president. Bill clinton under president george w. bush the secure fence act would focus on militarizing the nearly two thousand mile long border with mexico the act allowed vehicle. Barriers checkpoints increased uses of satellites cameras and other technologies order. Property owners would soon received letters from the federal government asking them for permission to enter and survey their land. This would lead to legal battles and property seizures with many of these moving into new administration's today reporter aaron nelson takes us to a university in brownsville. Texas we're dr. juliet. Garcia led a legal battle against border wall construction. This case is a reminder of the fights. Many continue to wage against an opponent almost impossible to defeat. Here's earn nelson. One overcast morning and late spring. Dr juliet garcia stands at the wild entrance of a defunct golf course overgrown palm palm fronds obscure the welcome sign where the university of texas brownsville. Golf team was headquartered. The golf course was popular with retirees and young golfers hosting tournaments for local high schools countless thousands of rounds of golf every year. If it's part of what we're trying to build here but that's gone now. What lies beyond the wall. Today is a no-man's-land. An outcome of goliath versus david kind of battle. This story begins in late. Two thousand seven a few months after the secure fence act became law the federal government targeted. Utd's land and other private land to try and build a border wall as president of the university. Dr garcia was forced to step away from the classrooms and into the forefront of an unexpected fight to protect the institution. She had helped create. Nobody wants to take on an issue like this. You know. I mean. I'd jobless to hire faculty not fight department of homeland security.
The ChoNilla Podcast
"goliath" Discussed on The ChoNilla Podcast
"Shit really. Yeah yeah yeah. So there's there's like papers in there like that argue like now david with never fight with the philistines you crazy. It's okay so a quiche. People are fist are from the philistines. Yes she is. He's the king of a place called gaffe. Okay which is predominantly philistine philistine place. Yeah and david is an israelite correct. So they're planning to the keys. Commanders replanning that they have the whole plan for while that they're going to attack israelite jim. They're gonna use david. Yeah oh yeah. I gotta make him my buddy. I don't think david would have fought like. I think they're right though. Do you think yeah. I think david would have not. He would've been like wait. These are people. I have no idea. I just tell the stories waist. Okay so when david just to kind of go back. So when david fought goliath goliath was team philistine hosting yeah and he waits so she was with saul at the time. So song was he's israelites. Yeah okay like the. The appointed beat the divinely. Appointed king of the israelites. Then right he got jealous because david popular and edited just this about like god better songs about him beat a big giant okay so so now hunting and he was running away from any found refuge in philistine country. God okay okay. Okay but then. The commanders are questioning your loyalty right right. Okay and his men are predominantly israelite. Right got it. Okay you got it. Okay since nineteen fifty one. The is testament him journals have been generally recognized to be indisp- an to be an indispensable. Indispensable for scholarly work on the old testament. So david knows zoellick told. David look like commanders are concerned because you're an israelite and he's like no man i'm cool. I'm totally down for guys this whole time. Oh yeah for a while now. Anyways when he's been fighting that means they would go and attack different places and some of those places are israelite places. David was right there with them and he was right alongside. Wow it's getting jealous to like saul. I.
Outcomes Rocket
Democratizing Access to Hospital-Grade Disinfection with Eli Harris, President of R-Zero
"Talk to us a little bit about our zero. What is it that you guys are doing. how are you adding value to the healthcare ecosystem. Yes so it was almost sixteen months ago. Now with the academic. I started a a ticket hold. I got in touch with the two mentors in mind. Both entrepreneurs who i've known for about a decade and the three of us started talking about how there's certain events throughout history that just create everlasting societal and infrastructural changes in a dork way. We kinda like in what was happening of the pandemic to nine eleven. How after nine eleven. We have the department of homeland security. You have. tsa fourteen thousand agents. You still can't take a water bottle of where shoes through the airport. You go to a ballgame. You walk through a metal detector. These are all new standards that were created and adopted post nine eleven in some of these psychological star tissue after that event accelerated decrease adoption of those standards. But we never arrest fundamentally the world took on a new posture around security in all shared spaces at our thesis. Fear was at this event of the pandemic was going to broaden that word security to biosecurity to biosafety and in the standards that all organizations are gonna fold as they regard a human health in the safety of their staff their patrons of their communities at large so what we did. Kind of unpacking the disinfection industry. And we've learned quickly that this is a massive industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars market cap governed by these goliath players. Ecolab clorox se. johnson diversey. All of these companies are extremely old. Some over a hundred years old and more or less all pushing commodity chemicals and our response to the pandemic was to go around and host buildings down the chemicals. And that's what we did in. This industry has not evolved with the technology that is becoming become commonplace in almost every other industry. It's extremely antiquated in what we're doing with chemicals. I mean there's there's a lot of limitations there one is. They're not always that effective. There's a lot of human error and how they're applied there's a massive labor cost a massive op ex chemical costs at. It's horrible for the environment. So we got in touch with. Dr richard wade and dr wade actually ran cal osha for fifteen years. He taught at harvard oxford. Uc irvine. We like to call him. The michael jordan's disinfection. He's he's forgotten more about this industry than most of us will ever learn. And he's quite special but he let us on a study to really understand. What are the best tools that exist in infection prevention today. And why have we not democratized access to those
Capitalisn't
"goliath" Discussed on Capitalisn't
"I admit i was coming up a little short. Actually i don't think so so. Think about social media for example. If i typically chris james tragedies to say if you're doing something that society doesn't like eventually you're gonna add the government after you you're gonna have the consumer satisfied you're going to have the walkup. Complaining is now going to be a good business. Long-term that sees proposition. I would like to see the numbers to trust that. This is always the case or most of the time the case i would like to believe so i wear certainly in the very long term is hard to imagine that this is a great strategy in a sense is a border version and you heard the term of the net promoter. Score is a marketing concept. People have used with a lot of success is the difference between the customers that we love you and the customers that hate you and i think that industries that the bad companies particularly but also indicated that they low net promoter. Scores are right for change so comcast it probably not but as probably a super negative net promoter score because nobody likes comcast and actually i love matt stoller that came up and said the worst. The sentence in language is from comcast. And i'm here to help. But so that is an industry that you know that people are upset..
The Indicator from Planet Money
"goliath" Discussed on The Indicator from Planet Money
"Sally herships in. Inc's smith on tenterhooks. This is the indicator from plant money. The global market for conferencing software is worth eight point seven billion dollars. And they're all these huge players vying for that money. I mean like google has one hundred. Twenty thousand employees microsoft has over one hundred and fifty thousand workers. Zoom has just a few thousand. It's pretty tiny. Zoom should never have beaten out. Its mammoth competition. So how did it do it. Dan show david and goliath tale technology. This message comes from. npr sponsor. The capital one saver card. You were an unlimited four percent back on dining entertainment and popular streaming and three percent back at grocery stores capital one. What's in your wallet. Terms apply see capital one dot com for details. This message comes from. Npr sponsor fund rise making investing in private real estate at as investing in stocks bonds or mutual funds build a more diversified portfolio today at fundraise f. You and d. r. i s. e. dot com slash indicator win kertzman is a research analyst who covers social conference platforms like zoom. So he spent a lot of time thinking about why some companies are more successful than others. What zoom did right. Was something really really simple. It focused on delivering happiness. And that sounds so esoteric and so non business that it's perfect. Okay wait a second. I have to push back here because as somebody who has spent like a great deal of the pandemic on zoom. I don't. I don't know how happy i zoom makes me. Maybe a lot happier than not having zoom zoom mission statement is to quote make video communication friction lists and its philosophy is quote delivering happiness for a lot of us especially during the pandemic videoconferencing has delivered a lot of happiness. I mean it has been a way to see friends loved ones family that you just could not see person. It's also been a way to keep your business going but let's be honest. There is kind of a love. Hate thing going on with online conferencing. It does not always make us happy. So we're gonna circle back to this later. I will hold you to that. Sally herships because we have things to discuss but in the meantime wayne says win the pandemic was its height. It was very particularly difficult time. And he says zoom offered videoconferencing. That didn't create you. Know another source of stress. Hit just works. There are only about seven buttons maximum on any given screen. It just works. And that's actually why we use a lot of google and a lot of the things we use when it just works. We're happy still. There are these other enormous companies that offer similar services and z. managed to beat them like cisco and google. So let's look at their mission statements to. Let's start with cisco's because eric wants zoom. Ceo used to work there. Stacey would you please read cisco's mission statement absolutely here. It is quote to inspire new possibilities for our customers by reimagining their applications securing their data transforming their infrastructure and empowering their teams. How are you feeling lost happiness. I choose happiness. Sally and eric reportedly says that when he worked at cisco he quote did not see a single happy customer. I mean granted. He is now the competition. So you have great itself. But still and he destroyed that has all these really fun. Features for instance you know. I'm talking to you now from the surface of mars. I could have a moustache if i wanted to. Or there's like skin smoothing technology to make you look like young fabulous. This is all true but sometimes the special effects can backfire. Which is exactly what happened to this lawyer in texas. Who had what you might call a tiny little mishap during virtual court. And you need to know. His filter was a cat. Mr pot and i believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings you might want to Judge if somehow you miss this video it is it's epic it's like this little cuge kitten phased sue sweet with little folded down ears and this giant rolling is and the little kittens houses movie with the lawyer so you have these two very serious sort of peering into their cameras and this cat live not. I'm not a cat. it's amazing. I mean it's it's like in my opinion one of the best things to come out of twenty wani anyway back to cisco which does not have a cat filter when eric left cisco and founded zoom he decided to make happiness key and weighing. The analyst says. Don't be skeptical. The strategy worked even talking to a lot of the folks who are working at zoom. It wasn't just something on the board that they followed. It really had a different Way that they handle customers but of course we can't really keep talking about zooms big win without looking at one of its biggest contenders the eight hundred pound gorilla. Google google basically owns us. All we use g mail and calendars and google maps and google has own video conferencing software. Google meet also google hangouts. So let's look at google's mission statement your it is quote to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. It's not feel feeling nothing. I'm dead inside but to be fair. Google has been organized it's been trying to dominate the conferencing market but unlike zoom google is a giant company. It wants you to use all of its different products and services so it inadvertently put this speed bump in place one of the challenges. Google threw up there and any barrier at this time. Perhaps one too much is that you actually had to use a g mail address also if he were a paying glow customer. You can't just buy glow meet. You have to buy a package and this is where zoom out again. Not only do make an effort to be easy to use but it was also easy to buy which in terms of business strategies sounds almost comically obvious but again during all that disruption when the pandemic hit some of these conferencing software companies were forcing potential customers to talk to us sales rep. I and there could be a weight of multiple weeks to do that to be fair. Google video conferencing has done really well and of course ellie zoom has had its issues. It has not been totally smooth. Sailing security was a pretty major issue for a while. I don't know if you remember people zoom bombing stranger showing up in meetings. And that's a problem. If you're trying to have some kind of secure conversation wayne says zoom has solved the problem and he said there was a very good reason that it jumped on that issue so quickly. Trust as it's often said is earned in crops and lost in buckets makes sense but we can't talk about seen without talking about the other kind of happiness like the kinda feel dreaming up from my soul after a day of staring at a webcam on my god fatigue is real the amount of my brain devoted to like worrying about fly away. Hair his like quintupled last year. I spent so much of my time. When i'm supposed to be talking about economics wondering like if my hair has been doing that all day it's a problem all right but still. I think we have to just admit that video conferencing is probably here to stay. It can make life better in so many ways. Yeah it definitely can. But i think you'd go ahead and through my camera right now sally. This episode was produced by dave blanchard. It was fact checked by michael and the by cake kincannon. The indicator is a production of an arc. Ps i am not a cat what happens to police officers who get caught stealing lying or tampering with evidence. Each week we open up an internal affairs that used to be secret to find out how well the police police themselves. Listen to on our watch. A podcast from npr and kate..
Command Line Heroes
Shopping for the Web
"This season. We've been unpacking the longest year in tech history. Nineteen ninety five. The year our future began so much started in that time but few changes were more consequential than the advent of online shopping. In just a couple of decades it's grown from a handful of startups to a team of goliaths and we couldn't live without them. But as we'll see the dominance of certain online shops is only partly due to brilliant business maneuvers. Now like i said amazon is not the entirety of commerce but it is the big fish in the pond so let's begin their why in nineteen ninety five did amazon start delivering packages. What made it possible. And what's at founder. Jeff bezos on a path toward shipping billions of packages every year. He immediately understood the whole idea of transferring currency at making trades with this new use of this relatively new technology. The internet robert specter wrote the first book on amazon. It's called amazon dot com. Get big fast and that should tell you something about the amazon origin story. It's a story about capitalizing on a particular moment. Seizing the day in the early nineties. Basil's lived in manhattan. He was making more than a million bucks a year working at a hedge fund that relied on algorithms cutting at the time and it speaks to the sort of business. Basil's believed it. A data driven business and automated business. Meanwhile the hedge funds founder. David shaw adebayo's and a few others to look into this newfangled internet thing see what kind of opportunities were there. So jeff and other people looked at various product categories. In of all things books rose to the top as the most obvious product category. Why books
The Bible...but Funnier
"goliath" Discussed on The Bible...but Funnier
"The philistines with sworn enemies of israel. And so it made sense. They ended up in the war. The philistines and the israelites. Both camped opposite signs of a valley ready to do battle. Now they just wanted each other made slowly faces in the direction of their enemies however one day the silly faces ended the philistines called authors. Secret weapon a giant named goliath. Oh gaffe the guy was nine feet tall with some seriously thick and heavy armor. He had this spear that weighed more than most dudes of the day. Goliath stepped forward his footsteps causing many quake's these riots. Quick to but not just because the ground was shaking because they were scared out of their minds glaviano side in a big booming voice. Why have you dead come up to battle. I will make a deal. The only chance you have to win. Choose a fighter for your side and send them against me if he wins. Then you win this battle. We will commit to serving you. But if i win. This is a lot more likely arming. Have you seen the my biceps. Then you must be. our servants. Goliath drove a hard bargain was an offer. The israelites couldn't reviews because literally they couldn't philistines had a giant on their side. So is the king of the israelites at this time. He looked down at his minute of valor his fierce warriors. But they were all trying to hide behind tents and barrels one guy shouted knows goes every soldier mainly put their finger on their nose saul saw that no one wanted to fight so he became greatly afraid meanwhile in a city far away from the battle. A young boy named david of bethlehem traveled to the camp on his father's order. David had to bring food to his three oldest brothers who certain saul's army. He also carried with him a wide sort of cheeses for the commander of the army. No i didn't have that in. That's in the scripture. David not worked with the sheep but he left them in the care of another so he could go on this journey to become the world's first store dash deliver when david finally got to the camp and found his brothers. He walked into a meeting.
Scuba Shack Radio
Wet Notes 5-6-2021
"This is wet. Notes here on scooby. Shock radio for may six two thousand and twenty one. I want to start off today with a story. That is a bit of personal meaning to me. And that's a story about what some recreational divers found while diving out in hawaii. Awful and i. Now i have quite a few dives out there. Awful and i and these divers found some unexploded world war two era ordinance. They found two bombs. One was at seventy four feet and the other one was at ninety four feet. The divers immediately notified to hawaii division of aquatic research. Who went out to investigate it and confirmed it was unexploded ordinance the report indicated that the munitions were about three hundred yards offshore. The exact location wasn't disclosed when but it may be in the area of the first and second cathedrals again personal for me. Because i have probably about at least twenty. Five dives onto cathedrals as of now. There aren't any more updates and there was no mention on the divers website and they run many charters out to the site. Let's see where this goes. I recently checked out the four ocean blog to see if there was anything of interest will there was a lot but one thing did pique. My interest for ocean occasionally does a blog on plastics around the world. And that's where they identify articles or stories that talk about the plastic crisis facing the world. Now one article was from interesting engineering and it was written by deora as deamer and this was about plastic eating mushrooms. Yes certain types of fungi can ingest and eat plastic apparently in two thousand eleven some yale researchers discovered rare mushroom in the amazon forest and it was able to digest and break down plastics. One of the scenarios suggest that these plastic eating mushrooms could be placed at the bottom of landfills interesting over the years. There have been various successful experiments. So what's the holdup perhaps speed. It takes times for the mushrooms to eat and digest the plastic and there's also competition for other investment now. Here's a bit of disturbing news that i saw from dima apparently there's going to be a virtual meeting of the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission or dfw see on may twelfth and thirteenth one of the topics on may twelfth. I think it is a two. Our discussion is to review and update the goliath grouper. Now this review is to look at if they should allow a limited highly. Regulated harvest of the goliath grouper. Why well that's a really good question now if you go out to the f. w. website you'll be able to find a detailed Presentation on this review. Even if the science holds up and supports the harvest. I would have to ask if the enforcement is of a regulated harvest. Dean feels that. The economic value of the goliath grouper are better served without any harvest and continue the protection they currently have. Sos thousand island. Well what's that all about. Well for those of you are familiar with the saint lawrence seaway in the thousand island region. Sos stands for save ontario shipwreck thousand island chapter now. This was reported in scuba news. Sos thousand island wants to create an artificial reef off of brockville in canada. Why are they making such a bold proposal. Were there are three main objectives. I an artificial reef will reduce the pressure on the local historic wooden shipwrecks and then second. An artificial reef can preserve the maritime history of ships that had been destined for scrap and finally this effort will assist the local aquarium in promoting maritime heritage and discovery. This is still a long way off but there is some good news in that day of identified a ship that could be used and it is the former canadian coast. Guard vessel the c. c. g. s. mont. Mandy now this ship was built in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and it was decommissioned and sold in nineteen ninety nine. Let's see where this one goes. Well here's something that. I just saw from patty. I think it was on the patty pro blog. Patty women's dive day. Two thousand and twenty one is coming and the tagline on the blog was celebrate the connection between mandy and the ocean. This year's patty women's dive day is july seventeenth 2021. This event started six years ago in two thousand and fifteen and it was started as a way to encourage more female participation in sport scuba diving to date there have been over four thousand patty women's dive day events in over one hundred countries. I'm sure last year was a little tough to get events planned and executed safely this year. More places are opening and travel is picking up. Everyone can participate be on the lookout for patty women's dive day event in your local area or maybe even travel to a nice destination to participate and finally today. I thought i'd give everyone and update on traveling. To the bahamas. As of may first the bahamas ministry of health has released new guidelines for entry departure. I if you are fully vaccinated for covid nineteen that's two weeks from your final. Does you don't need a covid. Nineteen tests prior to entry. Nor do you need to fill out the daily health questionnaire or get a covert test. After your fifth day on the island. You'll still need to apply for the bahamas. Health visa prior to entry. And you still need to get a covert test before travelling back to the united states. Now we're heading to nassau a may twenty six th so these changes make things a whole lot simpler. Hopefully more countries will open up. Like the bahamas. Well that's it for wet notes on may six two thousand and twenty one here on scuba shack radio
Circle Round
Storytime: 100 Rooms
"Round everyone. One hundred rooms The morning of frederick's one hundredth birthday. He woke up with a smile. He'd lived a long happy life working his way up to become a successful merchant and raising three daughters whom he adored their names were harmony melody and colli appeal. Frederick always loved music but he was too busy buying selling and trading to learn how to play an instrument so we'd given his daughter's musical names in hopes that sunday one of them would become a musician harmony. His oldest didn't seem very interested nor did his middle child melody. A colli appease ears had always perked up the opening notes of any song and from a young age she was dabbling in all sorts of instruments from the violin. The piano to the drums to celebrate fredericks one hundredth birthday. His daughters threw him a big party at his grand mansion. All one hundred rooms of the mansion were brimming with smiling chattering guests after the guests had gobbled up their cake and gone home. Frederick called harmony melody and goliath to his side. More daughters today was marvelous. Thank you glorious party harmony. The eldest had grown up to become a businesswoman. You're welcome father. It was such a pleasure organizing the guest list and ordering all the supplies and everything looked so. Perfect fredericks middle daughter. Melody was a hotel manager. The staff setup. Everything just as. I requested the tables the chairs the flowers. Everything frederick smiled at his two daughters. You both didn't beautifully then. He turned his eyes to his youngest. You alive those musicians. Wherever did you find them. I've never heard such wonderful music in my very own house.
Influencer Networking Secrets Podcast
"goliath" Discussed on Influencer Networking Secrets Podcast
"I will play. I mean my website is probably the best place to go. Just simply al mcbride dot com. That's a amc. Pri dot com undiscerning few resources. There that if you go out mcbride com slash many chorus. I have a little A day for week or so An email course on giving you the psychological answer negotiation through little examples little stories. I've been told it's it's a good read with. That comes a a negotiation preparation schicchi. It's the first few pages of a longer cheat sheet that i use with clients. And so there's that but as a sentence also what you mentioned earlier which was the dealing with goliath. Podcast is on a wherever you got your broadcasts or trip. And also linked in them unquote. Active on linked in with people are interested. That can look up. they're awesome. Well being out of questions for the moment my friend i will just ask if you have anything else for the good of the order. You want to add before we sign off. I mean look. I think people in some ways over. Think a lot of the negotiation When they're going into make some some some business deals discreet as said to act with values treat other people will talk to people like human beings at its as he said be curious genuinely curious in the needs of the other side and then framing your Situation in your offering if you will or your needs to slot in his best to counter about i know that sounds very overview like but that's some of the key principles they're just as i said act with integrity and and most people will do. Okay know if you want to have more strategies and more a techniques and methodologies around that you know absolutely pleased to get dutchman. It's said a lot of this is based on on those subsided. Principles that a lot of people as the intuitively. No good word. Thanks so much for joining us on influence. Networking secrets left abbey back again sometime soon. My friend thank you so much bullets. Great conversation cheers. Thanks for listening to this episode of influence networking secrets. Don't forget to go to the poll. S edwards dot com forward slash influence or networking secrets. To get signed up for your free copy of influence or networking secrets. The book if you found this episode helpful please share with someone you know who would benefit. See you next time..
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Shopify is taking on e-commerce giants
"We've been talking again. About small businesses rushing to get on line during this pandemic and suddenly all kinds of companies want to help with that from amazon to facebook to oetzi to into it and shop by the ottawa based company that helps merchants create websites enable payments and ship their goods to customers shop. If i had unprecedented growth last year it revamped its shop app. Which tracks shipments enables payments to include local shopping collections. And it's got with so called marketplace's no relation facebook and instagram walmart and google to let merchants on its platform also sell on those platforms harley. Finkelstein is the president of shopping by. He told me a big draw for small business owners. Is that shop by. Lets them own their own customers. Their data belong to them. They control the personal information their customers and unlike a marketplace we do not force merchants to give us any independent rights to use their data. The only thing that we are allowed to do is to provide them with better insights better information of which they can make better decisions based on their data so for example. If we see that you were getting a spike in traffic coming from pinterest for example we may encourage you in the admin to act with pinterest channel and try to see if you can actually find more customers there and is it only their data or do give them insights that are based on similar retailers or anything like that or you aggregating at all not really no. i mean. We'll we'll give them very broad industry macro trends and so we really don't aggregate data in that way simply because each those businesses are really independent. And then i wanna ask you about your kind of frienemie placements which is in some ways. Shop of is positioned itself as david up against goliath. But like you said you're working with some of these glass facebook and instagram. What is the risk and being kind of both allies and competitors with some of the biggest names in commerce is so i don't think we actually compete necessarily with the marketplaces. I think our merchants do but we also have to ensure that we are future proofed against what may be the future retail trends and in terms of that competition. I guess technology. You certainly do feel a little bit of you. Know co optician I suppose where there should be cooperation and some competition but the positioning of shop. If i being at the center of commerce and not being a marketplace not being a discovery tool gives us an opportunity to really play with all these different surfaces wherever consumer might be found but there are elements of your business that compete with elements of some other businesses right like facebook pay versus shop. Pay or even the shop app which seemed like it might be headed in the direction of a marketplace versus facebook shops. There's no intention of turning something like shop which is really more of shopping. Assistant app really. The idea of the shop app has to be a consumer shopping assistant. So that if you're buying off five different sites plus marketplace the shop out can tell you where all of your packages are they can provide you with. Incredible realtime order tracking. It can help you shop pay which are accelerated check which is now process like over one hundred thirty seven million orders But the idea was shop is really a way for our merchants shop fai to have a deeper relationship with existing consumers so we all know that the cost of customer acquisition. His is certainly going up in some categories. And we're not facebook and we're not google we're not necessarily the discovery platforms social media platforms but one thing we can do is to increase. Ltv lifetime value of the relationship between a consumer and a brand net. Release the the the purpose and the objective around shop. There there is no. There is no plan to create a marketplace there. You'd also mentioned shop pay and facebook. Look i think social media. I think you'd probably agree that social media in places like instagram are the town squares of the current digital world and if that is the case and consumers are using social media for more than just connection there. They're using it also for things like commerce. Then it's really important that any merchant of ours that wants to sell in those platforms is able to use the best tools cutting edge technology and and shop as one of those
Bellwethers Podcast
"goliath" Discussed on Bellwethers Podcast
"I rubin cherry when charges like that changes project lyrics will be up there. I'm like running late eighties. I was dating myself a little bit but married like the old school hymns and just just there was such a such an annoying on songs. And every time we like we sing and we re unlocks things like texas bag to win with guy When god did things amid away then right and and if he did it before he could do a now. That's a worse. I surely season. You're like this just annoyed an powerful line if he did it before he could do it again reminds us that god is He's big he's he's on our side and yet like anybody we face that got his is going to be with us in conduit with david ryan whenever he faced the The lines in in the in the those the big huge animals right whatever you tend to the sheep flock he He got was what we did. And when he defeated those animals that he kills animals right so the same principles like if he did. He did before he do it again. So when he faced goliath was prepared. Ready he knew that guy was going to be because guy was telling the small things at a guy helped him to defeat goliath fly. That's how it is with. Our lives guy has helped us with these battles whenever he goes to a new battle. Sometimes we do forgive guy has done but once we remember williams done the big things become small where we just have to remember those but yeah. I don't think i don't know who does this for. I've been listening this and you're facing a i. I really urge you guys. This is the worship. And that's like the best source. I can speak to you and you just open it up. You know you feel like you know. Just open up say pray for speak to me and you know as as the entrepreneur podcast but being so much about god i mean because i would like to say without god has nothing allies. I mean i would not be here for where i am. I'm pretty sure for jeremiah. Agency the same thing. And i say that everybody else can say they said the same thing. Everything's gone even here. And i just can't be your story to. You just have to believe in him you have to. You know you just have to worship him through your brakes. And i. I can see that change can break off and massive things can happen and you just added seventy years of to him because he is super awesome and you know him and it's more like him intimately at. I think that's is a super amazing. It's not going back can be. That can be told someone something that he had experienced firsthand for yourself. So listening guys just phrase through your breakthrough the west worship or your to and if you want to help you can have jeremiah myself up and you'll be able to have to and i'm pretty sure is like a super guy super friendly i just. Dm man. i come to your party. I said it was like that is like a down to a guy. And i think he can help you out a lot as well and you can come to assault me as well..
KLIF 570 AM
"goliath" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"With real news and information. 5 70 K. L I f I'm Freedom Ross. The federal government is partnering with the state of Texas to launch three covert 19 vaccine mega centers, including two in the D FW area, South Dallas, a new site. Fair Spark in Arlington decided a TNT stadium. Together. These sites will be capable of that ministry more than 10,000 shots in arms a day. Jeff Zion, says the Biden administration's covert 19 coordinator and says federal teams are being deployed immediately. Toe work with state and local resource is to open the sights. Shots are expected to begin the week of February. 22nd. North Texans are weighing in on Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's decision not to play the national anthem before home games so far this season. There's a lot of controversy, the message is trying to remove themselves. I think they're trying to get back to basketball, and I think Bob says good intentions behind not doing it, but I think it just has the adverse effect. Because now it talking about it. Professional sports teams across the country have caught grief and recent years for allowing players to kneel during the anthem in protest over social injustice is not clear. If the Mavericks will play the anthem again this season. If you would like to receive breaking news updates, Text K L I F 267664. It's time now for the Calyx of traffic Watch. Here's Dave Allen. Self down. Dallas North Hallway, a belt line road. There's a disabled vehicle blocking the right lane. Traffic is slowing right around the Rapa ho Ah! Crash in downtown Dallas on North Valley. I 35 in year Commerce Street. This is in the right lane now westbound 30 your jam through the cannon all the way back to I 45 Something like 45 at Simpson's toward road still have a wreck, blocking the left lane that crash in Arlington on westbound I 30 just after Cooper Street has been cleared with Kay Goliath right.
KFI AM 640
"goliath" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Mentioned that a lot of the ancient list of traditions the Bible talks about Goliath, the they text Tell us that in previous ages, living things according including human beings were larger than today. And even that's part of just ordinary science. Yeah, I live in California. You can go to the the mountains of California see the big redwood trees. I think they're holdovers from that previous age, when things were bigger when plants and animals were bigger, the wounds were bigger than bears were bigger than tigers were bigger. The trees were bigger. So in these ancient texts, there's a story of a man who lived. Thousands of thousands of years ago when things were bigger, and he was involved in the fight between the de my gods and the demons. As he was fighting on the side of the Democrats. It's the forces of good and the universe and he was very he was a great warrior, and he destroyed Many of the representatives of the forces of darkness. So the devil guys told them OK, take a rest. Just rest for his dogs you want so he rested for thousands of thousands of years of escape when he woke up and went outside. You saw the human beings. They had him also plants that all becomes smaller. So yeah, I think they're giants did exist. There have even been some discoveries course a lot of stuff you see on the enter that there has been photoshopped. This is that brother But there are some really interesting cases like the discovery of Castle doubt. In France there in the late.
Up First
Small investors turn GameStop into a Wall Street "David and Goliath" story
"David and goliath story but with social media yeah. A story of small stock traders outwitting big institutional investors and making a fortune. Doing it for the moment game. Stop who's star covered around four dollars a year ago over three hundred dollars with the biggest gains happening just in this past week and in large part due to the buzz on social media online brokers tried to put the brakes on the wild ride but yesterday there were many more twists entrance. Npr's berliner senior editor in our business has been following all this. Thanks so much for being with us. He's got can you give us a recap of All the ups and downs this week. Yeah well let's start with game stop. It's retailer video games and familiar story. It our time It was in a lot of malls wasn't a good place to be And a bunch of headphones said you know that it's only gonna get worse for game stops. So they they bet against the stock. It's called short-selling At the same time though the online communities where a lot of people have taken to online trading People who were They were game. Stop fan maybe they had boss stuff there as kids and there are a lot more people treat online during the pandemic and they started buying stock when there's really push down And it just started picking up steam totally proliferated this weekend. It became kind of a mass movement. It sends the stock price in the stratosphere and the big hedge funds took a lot of losses. I mean that's the point and people make money a lot of people lose money who who winds up paying the price well. So far it's the hedge funds the short seller's they've lost a lot of money billions But that could all change if the game stop stock tumbles back to earth like for example where it was at the beginning of the year. It could be really painful for a lot of people who join these. These of message groups in in a place called a wall street bets where they've gathered to push up the stock. It's been kind of a jubilant atmosphere but if the stock starts fine they could get hurt pretty badly. Should we expect greater controls on. These rollercoaster trades to come in well. We saw some during the week. The popular online broker robin hood restricted trading game. Stop stop people from buying the stock. There was a huge backlash against robin hood. People were saying there was a lady double standard against small investors Robinhood opened up trading again on friday beyond that we should be hearings in congress and the securities and exchange commission dot a warning to be on the lookout for market manipulation. But there's no public evidence of that so far in this situation. There's nothing illegal or wrong about being enthusiastic about his stock now. If there's evidence the stock price was artificially inflated that would be a different story. How much has wall street been shaken by this. By saying how i'd want to say how easy because i'm sure it's not easy but How this could happen so unexpectedly. It's a seismic shift The power was in the hand of small investors for once you know wall street. Firms have had a lot of advantages in markets. That's let some people think they're rigged and this time the emitters got the upper hand Where this goes. No there could be some bearing back of short-selling but really we don't really know
KSFO-AM
"goliath" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"Continue, Senator Ted Cruz remains with us. Now. This is a rare moment. We're talking about Robin Hood and David's, You know, slang, Goliath and Goliath runs toe big government for help. Um And so I said, Go out. Rare moment. I agree with AOC. You tried to have me murdered last week. It's not gonna correct me if I'm wrong. Um, I remember the event as you calling for a legal audit of the election. The way something Democrats have done in the past. Well, that's that's exactly right. And this so quick, Oh kerfuffle started because AOC sent a tweet that actually made sense, saying that that we need to ask why Robin Hood is shutting down or very citizens from trading and giving special rules for hedge funds. And I thought, read it and said, I'll be damned. I expect she agree with what she's saying. So I retweeted it that I wrote. Two words fully agree, and and then simply, uh Arrow pointing down and and she responded by by losing her mind by by sending a syriza of screening tweets, accusing me of trying to have her murdered, which which is really unhinged, and I got to take on Yeah, it reflects where the Congressional Democrats are. Now they're filled with rage. They're filled with hatred. And for four years, the Democrats in the media have defined themselves in their party by hatred for Donald J. Trump. That's who they are. They don't believe in anything other than hating Trump. Now, when they have control of the White House, both houses of Congress. They're trying to kill everyone. It's like the end of the Godfather movies where they're crying like Michael Corleone at the end of every movie. Settles is the deaths and tries to eliminate his enemies. That's what a Lucy and the left is trying to do. They're trying to destroy. President Trump. They're trying to destroy me. They're trying to destroy every conservative. They want to destroy you. And they want to take the 75 million Americans who voted for Trump. And try to falsely paint them as a bunch of racist, bigoted rubes who need to be canceled in a race from society and this spontaneous Insurrection. It turns out the pipe bombs were planted the night before, according to the FBI. Senator we live in troubled times. You are emerging voice of leadership insanity and keep up the good work. We appreciate you checking in with.
Raising Christian Kids
"goliath" Discussed on Raising Christian Kids
"The lamb who was slain. that's in revelation five eleven twelve. You can reword this information to share with your child for little ones bible toys dot com has an action figure that you can play with to act out the biblical story and i will have the links and the show. Notes and ministry sparked dot com offers free teaching aids also twinkle dot. Com has a free powerpoint. This is a great tool in which you can have your child. Teach the family about the story of david and goliath child retain lessons better if they're afforded an opportunity to teach others in the family or friends for older children. There is a plethora of free activity worksheets bible pathway adventures dot com says to enjoy our free bible word. Search david and goliath facing the giant fun for kids to print and learn more about david. Samuel king saul goliath in the philistines. And remember we face evil giants every day in our world. They may not be nine feet tall but they are equally intimidating and teaching our children to rely on jesus as their savior. They will have the holy spirit's powered overcome whatever giants. They will be facing. Remember if you like what we're saying. What reteaching it raising christian kids. Please tell others this week. I'm offering four king of glory children's books from rock international. Just email us at raising christian kids at g mail dot com and tell them you listen to episode thirty one and you want to be placed in the raffle theresa one of these free books and you can watch the king of glory movie for free and i will have that link in the show notes. So let's together go out and slay those giants. This podcast is part of the edify. Podcast network edify is a faith inspiring app. That brings together the best christian podcasts. In one place for your listening enjoyment cut through the noise and grow faith by diving into the world's top christian podcast today download the fifa for free from the app store or google play or by going to edify dot app that's f. I dot tap..
KQED Radio
"goliath" Discussed on KQED Radio
"And Greg's Like like that thought, okay. Hill, who would fit the bill there and is Greg was thinking about it. She thought it would be funny. You know, it really messed with the NHL is if we vote in a player player who couldn't really keep up couldn't really shoot. Couldn't really handle the pipe. The slow guy with the bad hands couldn't do anything. Let's let's let's really you know, drop a stink bomb in the room and then It hit him. The perfect guy. Ah, Goliath of the league. John Scott. All my God. John Scott. All star John Scott Scott is 68 to 70 was a behemoth cracks, the less he was the guy that would only play between five and eight minutes a night. Great. Couldn't really shoot a best. Couldn't really skate got killed in the corner up on top of that when John Scott was on the plastic, That's a later that's that's a cheap shot. That's unacceptable on Lee thing. He was good at all he could do was knocking other people senseless. Go God. Then, after Castle like, Well, this is cracked something on, you know, hockey terms? This guy is a predator. John Scott was what you would call a new old fashioned goon. Yes. Oh, my God. That's the one. He's the one he got from that point on. There was no other answer to the question like that was the guy that it would have to be. Just got What What is that? And what started there, as a tiny joke between two guys on a podcast would end up twisting the fate and fortune of one of the most feared load punishing players in the national hockey You be quiet..