35 Burst results for "Grandma"
The Eric Metaxas Show
Rescuing Sudanese Slaves: Todd Chatman Shares One Woman's Story
"Serve a good God, a God who allows us to participate in his work. In our generation, we're talking to Todd Chapman with Christian solidarity international and part of God's work right now through Christian solidarity international is literally freeing slaves from captivity. And I want us as the western the American church to understand the evil in the world, it will deepen your faith if you understand the evil in the world and if you understand that God has appointed you to take apart and doing something about it. That's a fact that's a fact. Todd, talk to us about some of the stories or one of the stories of one of the women that has been through this process. So we can put more of a face on this, because. I guess the one that first comes to mind is a woman named joke and I had the opportunity to meet her and learn her story. He's about 26, 27 years old now, but she was taken captive when she was three years old. She was at her home in South Sudan, her grandma was there with her at the time. They were just going about daily life. And these raiders came into her community. And they grandma was too old to have any value, so they left her behind, but they took a joke and they took her mother as slaves. And so they take them to the slave camp in the north and they were separated. Mom was taken, you know, to one family. Duke was taken to another and basically now her life just became this nightmare of doing whatever her slave master. Told her that she was to do. She was raped by this man, even though he had his own family. He raped a joke. She got pregnant twice. And finally, he was able to come into freedom just a few years ago because she happened to meet this Arab slave liberator that we partner with to go in and negotiate freedom for these slaves. And he found he'd met her at a market. He identified that she was likely a slave, began to have dialog and said, look, I think we can get you out. And thank God we were able to do that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
John Solomon Debuts New Book Teaching Children About Free Speech
"Start with your new book out, children's book, tell us about it. It's a very special thing. I never thought my life would do a children's book, but it's a very special project to Mark. First off, it stars my son's hamster chunk who in this particular book becomes a newspaper editor. He published the newspaper and he can't get his newspaper out because the tunnels, the towers, the tubes in the hamster villager clogged by an evil koala bear named Carl yes Carl is modeled after Karl Marx. But the story is designed to tell young children ages four to 11. Why censorship is bad by the First Amendment was first. These are lessons that were not given them in their own schools over the last two decades. And so this is an opportunity for mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, anti and uncle, to share a story about why free speech matters in a fun, entertaining way, there's great animals, great characters, beautiful artistry, and you get to tell and pass on a value to our children about free speech that a lot of our schools are now teaching the opposite of, which is censorship could actually be good. They're actually teaching that in some places. We want to counter that brave books is an amazing group of people. They are there to be a counterbalance to scholastic and all of the woke education forces give Americans a pro God pro America book opportunity every month, and this month they're going to give my book away for you. You get it free. If you go to brave book U.S. and subscribe to their monthly book club, you'll get my book hidden headlines for free, but that's the story of my son's hamster as a newspaper editor and we teach children the importance of
The Charlie Kirk Show
Kayleigh McEnany Fought Hostile Press During COVID-Era
"Deal with a hostile press, unlike Obama, Obama would come up in his tan suit and they'd say, how is the ice cream on your trip to Europe? And you are getting like, I mean, the questions you had to get Kayleigh, you were press secretary during COVID. Is that right? That's right. The most aberrational time arguably in recent history. Yes, that's what I mean, just so everyone understands, and I'm sure you talk about this in the book, serenity in the storm. Kayleigh would come up. There are no good answers the way they were framing the questions. They basically say, you know, why did my grandma die Kaley, can you tell me? I mean, it's like, it's just, there's no good answers. Just walk us through that. You were the front lines of the most ferocious aggressive press campaign against any administration ever. This was election year. It was COVID. It was the country was changing in real time. And I thought you handled it beautifully. Walk us through that from your perspective. Charlie, I knew I needed to be better prepared than any member of the press. I knew I needed to do more research, more homework, have more answers called more department heads, get into the weeds myself. I'm not someone who gets talking points and goes out and says then. I'm someone to help create the talking points really important. I would go up and I would say things like, I fought and so did president Trump for schools opening for America's children. Set it AD nauseam at the podium. I would cite scientific data in support of the damage being done to America's kids. And in return, it doesn't matter what I said, how many footnotes I had. Jim Acosta would go and tweet out Kayleigh says it open and contravention of the science. So exact opposite of what I said, meanwhile, today, you have Korean Jean Pierre saying, a legal immigration is going down, Republicans want to fund border defund border patrol and Republicans want in our fighting to put fentanyl on our streets. These are abject lies. And
The Eric Metaxas Show
Randall Terry Unpacks the Theme of "Time Boys" and "Time Boys 2"
"I'm talking to Randall Terry, whom you must discover for yourself at Randall Terry dot com or on the rumble channel for this program, the Eric metaxas show. You can watch the two hours I did with him talking about the story of his life, which is extraordinary folks. I want to recommend it to you. If you get my newsletter, go to Eric metaxas dot com. When we sent out the newsletter, you will get this video. You've got to know who I'm talking to. This is not just some guy who made time boys the movie as important as that is, as wonderful as that is. So time boys the movie has to do, you said earlier, Randall, with. Trying to save a life medically. That theme is in time boys and time boys two, which I'm very excited about. I'm very thankful for. I want to encourage because I appreciate you teasing me about being a dad, but when I when I look at king David in the Bible and I see this boy out in the wilderness, watching sheep. He could have become bitter. He could have become lazy, but what he did was he used his time to learn to fire a slingshot and got so good that he could do it on the run and then he also learned to play an instrument because the Bible calls him the psalmist of Israel. So when our boys were little and I'm having, this is an exhortation to moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas. When our boys were young, we said to them, look, you're going to eat, you're going to grow, but you're going to learn math, and you're going to learn English. And you're going to learn at least two instruments. All of them were required to play the piano, and all of them could pick another instrument. And so the reason I'm saying this is because we're desperate in America for people who have a gift with the arts. But a lot of it has to do with discipline. And I don't want to practice too bad. You have to practice. And so you can just see king David out there with the sheep, but he's also using his time wisely to learn to throw that sling to learn to sing to write poetry to play the instrument. He was so good that when he played for Saul, the demons left Saul.
AP News Radio
Ukraine awaits US missile system after latest Russian strike
"The death toll from Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of slovyansk rose to double digits as rescue crews tried to reach people trapped in the rubble of an apartment building in the darkness of the night, a crane hovers above a destroyed apartment block, as it carries with it a large slab of debris, the rescue teams are busy searching for several people who are still in the wreckage, after two bodies were recovered, a shell shocked local residence tells the AP about the moments the shells hit her neighboring buildings. I go into the kitchen and see dust flying everywhere. I go out and see that there's no 5th floor anymore, a grandma lived there, her son, lyosha is probably out here right now. It probably is still looking for her. It's located in eastern Ukraine's danet province. The Ukrainian military is looking to beef up its ability to intercept missiles as it prepares for an expected spring counter offensive to retake Russian occupied areas of the country. I'm Karen Chammas
The Eric Metaxas Show
Doug Giles Has a New Book Released Just in Time for Holy Week
"About safe religiosity. It's not about doing church in a nice neat way. It's about something wild and beautiful and bold and true. And that is the spirit of Elijah, and that's why he wrote this book about John the Baptist, because John the Baptist was that kind of a figure. You're exactly right. There's no way he would be invited into the pulpits of most mega churches in the United States of America, which is very sad, but true. Yeah. And again, God inextricably linked John the Baptist with Jesus Christ. And here's what's funny because people think, well, you know, John the Baptist, he was rough, you know, he was rougher than grandma's breath. And then here came sweet and cuddly 7 pound 13 ounce baby Jesus. You know, when Jesus asks his disciples, he said, who do men say that I am? And they said, well, some say you're Elijah, some say you Jeremiah, some say you're John the Baptist. So Elijah Jeremiah and John the Baptist were about as cuddly as a cactus, Eric, and the way that Jesus popped off the way that he ministered the way that he stood stalwart and forthright against demonic foes and Satan himself, that's not that's not a little sweet Jesus. And again, they compared him to John the Baptist. I think we're completely missing Eric and I hope to God, man, that there's video in heaven, because I would love to see John the Baptist get on a roll when he's standing there in this little muddy creek and he's got thousands of people in front of him. I would love to see that man preach and compare it to the emasculated little sermons that the pastors like you said that are lame that are effeminate that love skinny jeans and big screens and smoke machines. I'd love to see a comparison and contrast between the way that John the way that John popped off and the way that these pop and J's preach now and day.
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Destructive Nature of the Sexual Revolution With Mary Eberstadt
"Of speaking to Mary eberstadt, who wrote Adam and Eve after the pill, 2012, dramatically important book at the time. Now revisiting it in a new book called Adam and Eve after the pill revisited. So Mary, you were just talking about the effects, dramatic negative effects, but that only now thanks to you and a few others are being traced back to the sexual revolution that all of these promises that were given out. And I think often very disingenuously. There were people that they wanted a rosy vision of a sexually free future. And what they promised, we now have enough data, enough decades have passed that we, in this case, you can look at what actually has happened and you're telling us that it has been dramatically negative and you're giving us chapter and verse. So keep going. You were talking about loneliness. You were talking about teen suicides and depression. About addiction. How are those things related? Because you can hear a skeptic say, well, look, that's nonsense. There's no correlation between the sexual revolution and these other things. What do they have to do with each other? Well, rather, obviously, when you shrink the family, you shrink the number of people you can depend upon as we were talking about with the example of who takes care of grandma and grandpa. And this has happened on a scale that has never been seen before in human history. But it's not only that you take people out of other people's lives. You take social learning out with them and what I mean by that is that those with a robust family network have people they can ask for advice, for example, or people who can help them say start a business or whatever, there are a lot of social resources in a family. And so we have diminished those.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Mike Cernovich Weighs In on Media Bias Against Republicans
"What are your thoughts on so you're talking about kind of this personality, this charisma? On how the media is typically always against Trump, at least the left wing media. And they're against desantis, but not as much kind of depends on where Trump is. Maybe they want to benefit from pitting Trump against desantis, but pretty much desantis gets more positive mainstream media covers than Trump. So would that be because he doesn't have as much at that personality? Do you think it's because of his political views? Why do you feel like Trump is going to be the one who's vilified first? Well, because desantis hasn't fully run nationally. Remember, desantis was killing grandma, 60 minutes did that special on him claiming that he was giving the vaccine to a politically powerful donor and even Democrats because Democrats wanted everybody vaccinated were hyperventilating over that lie by 60 minutes because they're going, oh great, desantis was getting people to the most popular market for distribution of the vaccine and now you're saying that it's fake or corrupt or something. Good job. So even it was weird even Democrats were saying this is too far and it's probably going to torpedo their mass vaccination plan. So a lot of it is that he is just not the national stage,
The Officer Tatum Show
A Thank You to Joe Biden
"All right, I want to talk about Joe Biden real quick and I said this in a teaser, I want to thank Joe Biden for all that he's done against this country. I mean, for this country, and I want to tell him that I support him in his 2024 run. Yes, that's right. I hope that he runs and I would donate money for him to run. So Donald Trump can sweep him under the rug like grandma due to dirt after the barbecue. Joe Biden is the worst president in United States history. The cabinet that he has is the wokest most ridiculous cabinet that there is. Nobody in there know how to do anything they're supposed to do. They all woke. They got Pete booty snitching there. He don't know nothing about transportation. He has no idea what's going on. It's just because he's gay. And then the other person is trans. I don't even know what this person is doing. You might as well still be a man. If you're gonna still look like a man with a wig on. Okay, listen, that is absolutely in my opinion disrespectful. For you to say, I'm a trans woman and you don't even put no effort in to look like a woman. You look like me, I say that. Lord help me Jesus, I want to be right by you. It bothers me that these people do this stuff and they just spit in our face and trying to embarrass our country.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Liberal 'Far-Left' Is an Anti-Human Ideology
"I was talking about how leftist lies have created my Ivan Drago theory of leftism that you're a number to them If you die you die And I know that sounds really harsh and some of you may be some maybe under the mistaken belief here that what I said is an effort to be hyperbolic I assure you it is not I say that in the most raw real way possible I'm not talking about all Democrats I want to be clear I don't stereotype them like they do it off But the guiding kind of load star of the liberal far left and make no mistake Is based around the fact that the human being is a virus It is essentially an anti human ideology You are nothing more than a chip on a board You are a chess piece that is it It's a whole essence of collectivism From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs it's a cold spreadsheet What do you give to society versus what do you take And when they perceive you as taking more than you give you are to be terminated That's why this debate about euthanasia isn't even a debate amongst the leftists They're like I mean you know the whole idea of you chatting Margaret Sanger and eugenics is a whole left to say that's why they love abortion And we kill more human viruses Get them in the womb We'll have to waste any time But if you're elderly for them you create an even bigger problem I mean we've already heard it remember Obama remember that we played it on the show before they take the pill line So grandma's got to have a hip replacement and maybe you just take the pain pill and said no maybe we fix grandma
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Biden Needs to Apologize to Rebecca Kiessling
"You had the crowd going today. What a fun day at cpac. Well, it is and as we said, our segment was human trafficking cartels and beyond the China balloon. Because you look at how the Chinese Communist Party and the Mexican cartels are in cahoots. And you look at the how this fentanyl crisis is unique to the United States and all of that fentanyl is coming out of China, Mexico, cartels, and into our community. What was your reaction yesterday when President Biden actually laughed at a woman because of the fentanyl issue and losing losing children as well? He needs to apologize to that family immediately. I thought that was in very poor taste. I thought it was almost a moment of ridicule of the sadness. And I can not imagine as a mom and a grandma. I can not imagine the trauma and heartbreak of losing both of my children. I just can't. When you look at the drug addiction in this country and the drugs coming across our border and Memphis, the crime rates are just off the charts deadliest city most dangerous city in America, what is your message to people in Tennessee about the policies of these Democrats? Well, they need to look at how the issue of the cartels and the drug trafficking human trafficking gangs. All of that fits together. And pushing these gangs into our cities and that you're driving up the crime rate. The drug dealers. You know, Todd, the thing is, when you talk to the Tennessee bureau of investigation or of any state, they will tell you. The cartel has a presence in our state. The cartel is active, in our state.
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Gheorghe Ignat Got Into Greco Roman Wrestling and MMA
"I'm excited to hear your story about growing up in Romania. So tell us, how did you get involved? You're obviously a big guy. How did you get involved in wrestling and mixed martial arts? Tell us that story. So I was born in 1983, Eric in northern side over in a year. Obviously, under the communist communist regime, I grew up on the countryside, and I was raised until the age of 7 by my grandmother. So we grew up quite poor in that communist environment. You could not literally have anything were on anything, and I remember I remember growing with my grandmother, she didn't have many animals, but she had a cow that she would milk and she had a few chickens that will give us the eggs that we needed every day. And I remember that and this is one episode that I want to go to. I was like 5 years old when these people were coming once a week to collect the eggs for the Communist Party. So the Communist Party was sending people to collect the eggs, the baby lambs, baby, cows, or whatever that the animals who had their own, we have to share with the Communist Party. And I remember this lady coming in with a gentleman asking for the eggs for that week. And my grandmother was so sad saying, you know, the chickens did not add enough to be able to share with them. We barely have for us. And what was a small kid? And I remember my grandma has a basket with a couple of eggs under the bed, and I told in my mind that she forget about those eggs, right? And I'm jumping on my feet, and I'm just bending under the bed, and I'm pulling out those eggs. And I'm like, here it is, grandma. You forget about this. So that lady understood that my grandmother just trying to put some eggs on the side for us. But they still took the eggs and just made my grandmother to pay attention to these things to repeat. So we didn't have X for a couple of days. So this is just an example of how life was in Romania at that time.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
'No Math Formula' to Reparations Plan for Blacks in San Francisco
"Now I have a question. What happens after they make their and work their way through, the $5 billion reparation and how long does that reparation last? Is it multi generational, much like the public housing? Where you have generations of people now living in public housing? Is that what we're talking about here? So if grandma gets $5 million and your mom gets $5 million, will you get $5 million? Are we talking about, say, a family of 5 could all of a sudden become multi millionaires? Just because of the color of their skin isn't America great. Another official supervisor shim shaman Walton told the newspaper that some San franciscans had suggested using revenue brought in by the city's cannabis business tax. Oh, that's a lovely idea. That tax, which had been suspended for years, was recommended for another suspension through 2025, but even that money would not come close to covering the cost. San Francisco reports that according to the city's budget office, the tax would only raise about $10.2 million a year. But there's more ladies and gentlemen. I'm telling you, folks, if you're black or you want to identify like yours truly LeBron stars, I would encourage you to get in your station wagon and head directly to Tesla. Get into your battery powered car and head right to San Francisco.
The Dan Bongino Show
The First Time Witnessing Government Intervention
"But you go into these houses And you see generations of families living in the same two bedroom apartment in the project We had the pink houses the Lincoln towers and you'd see great grandma grandma bomb daughter daughter's daughter you'd see them living in a two bedroom apartment Folks I saw him Like no one's gonna argue about me what happened You could argue all you want if you're a dopey liberal but you can just sit down and shut your pie hole Because you weren't there I was You'd see a sink full of dishes that hadn't been done and probably a week Roaches crawling around in the daytime Babies crying Diapers a mess They're calling because one of the kids has been missing for a week went out with the boyfriend Tony or whatever never hadn't seen him and then seen a kid in a week Like you call it now you haven't seen the kid in a week You know when you answer 5 600 calls like that folks things start to change And if you're a sane person and a decent person who believes that a like I do that Jesus Christ doesn't create bad people the world creates bad people You start to realize that there's something wrong with the system not the people you're encountering That deeply impacted me And it changed me forever As I get the question a lot you know how the hell did you go from NYPD to the Secret Service to running for office to this That's super weird I hardly ever happened Well that's how I was always a thinker Always like I just can't let stuff go I asked my wife I watch a movie and I got to go home and research everything about it If it's based on a true story I
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Debbie Reflects on the Significance of the National Anthem
"Finally, I thought I'd get Debbie's take on this whole business with the black national anthem. Now in fairness, when they introduced a song at the Super Bowl, they didn't call it the black national anthem. Evidently, it's a song that was dubbed by the NAACP in about 1919. This is the black national anthem. And that was prior to the U.S. having a national anthem. The national anthem although composed in the 19th century was made into the sort of official national anthem. I think 1931. So more than a decade later. In any event, they play the song, the so called black national anthem. And there you have this viral photo of Carrie Lake and she just sitting there like, I'm not gonna be standing for this one. She doesn't take a knee, but she's kind of avowedly disinterested. She doesn't. And then she goes on to say, hey, listen, I don't want a black national anthem. I don't want a white one either. I don't want a gay one. I don't want it straight one. I don't want to Hispanic. I don't want to Hispanic one. Isn't the point of a national anthem to be an anthem for the whole country? What's your reading on all this? Yeah, well, I think our nation is broken for sure. And I'm not sure that it's ever going to be repaired. So I do think that people are going to continue to do this. And they use the flag and the national anthem to protest. As you know, I love to sing the national anthem. I've been doing it for many, many years. And I don't look around when I sing the national anthem, I actually face the flag. I don't perform it. It's not a performance I'm going to sing a solo. I sing and I look at the flag and I put my hand on my heart and I sing. I'm not watching people to see if they're standing or sitting or kneeling. I don't do any of that. I do that in honor to the country that has given me and many others so much.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Debbie and Dinesh Discuss the Latest Shooting at MSU
"There was a recent shooting mass shooting at Michigan state university. Initially, I thought this might be done by a student that might be something some incident involving a student, but it turns out no, the shooter wise what? 43 year old black man. 43 year old black man and I want to highlight that for a minute because this mass shooting has had a more muted response than other mass shootings. Why? I think it's because the perpetrator is black. Now usually though for the media and for the left, the approach is sort of like this. If there's a mass shooting and a white guy did it, white supremacy is to blame. But if there's a mass shooting and a black guy or Hispanic guy on Asian guy did it, then let's not even talk about white supremacy because we really can't. Let's focus on the gun. The gun is to blame. So that's really what happened in the Michigan state. They would have loved to go with white supremacy, but since it was a black guy, it's like, okay, we gotta go to option B and that is guns. So every time there's a mass shooting, it's about the gun. And of course, the demand is for these kinds of guns, not all guns necessarily, but certainly these sort of dangerous guns, the AR-15 need to be outlawed.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"grandma" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"That's kind of a weird thing to say. Demonize Christianity, but they are. They are making us bad guys. And they, I mean, this also there's a tweet from AOC, right? Right. About seeing that the Super Bowl ad that she was like, oh, Jesus wouldn't want to partake in this Christianity fascism. Well, the first of all, the bad. That couldn't be more mild. It's essentially about sort of Jesus gets us. That's the thing about the ad. I think it's called he gets us. He gets up. And Jesus related to all kinds of people that Jesus, even though he might have disagreed or even though Jesus found certain types of behavior and conduct objectionable and sinful, Jesus never failed to engage. That's the theme of the ad. That's it. And here's a OC raging. This is fascist. These people have fashion. So fashion. But this is it. They want a group of together with white supremacists, fascists, and they don't even know the meaning of the word fascist because they themselves are fascists, right? Fascists. And they want to say that we're also terrorists. So the whole notion that if you're white, if you're a Christian, if you're a Catholic, you must therefore be a terrorist. This is the right. This is the very destructive and poisonous rhetoric of the left. We have been aware of it for some time now, but it's even more dismaying that this is not just rhetoric out there. Be bad enough and irresponsible enough of just out there in the media. But the fact that a government agency is taking the prompt to then open up these investigations, the very fact that this investigation was opened up in the first place is a very disturbing sign. Despite the U.S. blowing through the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling in January, The White House still refuses to reduce spending.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"grandma" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Think about the FBI in terms of the abuses of Trump, the Mar-a-Lago raid, the targeting of January 6th protesters, we've also heard about FBI raves on pro lifers, FBI surveillance of parents who show up at school board meetings to protest what's going on in their children's classrooms. But here's a new one. The FBI apparently was about to, and I'm happy to say that this was then thwarted. About to open up surveillance and spying on evidently traditionalist traditionalist Catholics who liked the Latin mass, meaning the mass said in Latin and also like the rosary. I kid you not. So this may seem downright crazy, but apparently it started with the Atlantic monthly, writing an article about the rise of the so called the Atlantic called them radical traditional Catholics. So they call them rad trads. Radical tradition and who are these radical traditional Catholics, their apparently believe that Pope Francis is a bit soft. And they put forward their rosary, they're proud of the rosary, and they like the Latin mass. And the FBI takes this article about the rad tracks that's in the Atlantic monthly, and basically goes, okay, this is something we need to look into. And so they create a forum for targeting these rad triads to see if they pose a danger to the national security. Danger to other Americans, are they plotting some kind of terrorist actions, and so on. And by the way, the whistle was blown by Kyle seraphin, who's an FBI whistleblower, and he goes, hey, listen, the FBI's Richmond division thinks it's going to protect virginians from white supremacy because the white supremacists are now hiding out with rosaries and advocating the Latin mass. That is crazy. Apparently one of the FBI sources was the SPLC, big surprise, a southern poverty law center. This is like an outfit that's spins out lies. And so the SPLC and the Atlantic. So what I want to say here, honey is I mean the FBI is to blame here, but I also think that there is a this is where the left wing media plays a role.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The FBI's Egregious Violations of Privacy Rights
"I talked about this on the podcast yesterday. Which is to say, I talked about how the FBI right after January 6th was pressuring banks to supply information to the FBI about individuals who had any connection with Washington D.C.. They went to Washington, D.C.. They stayed in hotels. They made credit card purchases in the larger D.C. area. And the FBI puts out a wide net. Now, how do we know about this? Because an FBI agent, a former FBI guy George Hill, testified before the House judiciary committee, and he goes the FBI was chasing people with absolutely no prior indication of having committed a crime. These were not the people who quote went into the capitol, the FBI had no idea if they did or didn't. They just said, let's catch everybody who was in the larger D.C. area and they were making their field offices follow up, get this bank information and then go check out those people. Look at their names, their social security numbers, perhaps their bank records, their criminal histories. This is a gross violation of privacy and a violation of our individual rights like as the government does have the right to take a look, but only if there's probable cause. Well, I mean, it also, you have to go back to the hearing with Nicole Parker, right? Yes, that's her name. Parker. Where she said, she actually admitted that the FBI, part of the FBI, was so politicized that they were playing politics, and that's exactly what these guys were doing. They were playing politics.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"grandma" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Almost like a bank account, except that this is with the U.S. government. And as you put money into the system, it goes into sort of your slot, and it's being held for you. And it's accumulating interest in growing so that when you need it, you're going to get it. The reality is not that. The reality is that as you and I put money into social security now, the government immediately spends it. And who do they spend it on? Older retirees who are taking money out of the system now, so that as we get older, we are going to be quote paid back and we're not going to be paid back. The vast majority of us are going to get less out of the system than we paid in. But nevertheless, we're going to be quote paid back by the earnings of younger people who are going to be in the workforce when you and I get out of it. So this is the scheme. It's a real, I don't know if a Ponzi scheme is quite the right term for it, but it's certainly a Ponzi ish scheme. And why did FDR design it this way? Well, he was very explicit about it. He said I designed it. I decided this way, so no one would ever be able to stop the program. He wanted the program in a sense to be his legacy to run in perpetuity. And I think what FDR didn't realize is that not all demographic groups are of the equal size. And so for example, when you have a large group, in this case, it's the baby boom. I'm at the very end. I think falls outside technically the baby boom generation, but nevertheless, as this generation retires, you have a giant number of people who are making demands for social security benefits, for Medicare, and you've got a smaller cohort of younger people entering the workforce. It's almost like saying it was one thing for the baby boom generation to carry its own parents on their shoulders. That's like an elephant, you know, carrying a human being, but now we're moving into a situation more closely resembling the opposite. The human being is scaring the elephant. And this is where the problems of social security come from. The Democrats are acting like there's no problem, no discussions need to be had. Any talk even about long-term reform is an attack on the system we the Democrats stand like Spartans in the past ready to protect your social security benefits. That's the true irresponsibility. It's kind of like in a family if you've got a husband or a wife who's like spending the family into bankruptcy and the other one goes, hey, let's take a look at it. Let's make sure we're not overspending here and the wife goes, you're trying to cut my benefits. You're trying to cut my spending or vice versa. The point being that that's the person who's being truly irresponsible. Why? Because they're not paying attention to the problem that does need to be addressed and does need to be in some ways solved. Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Mike lindell and my pillow have launched my pillow two. Now when Mike invented my pillow, it had everything you could want in the pillow, but now nearly 20 years later, Mike lindell has discovered a new technology that makes my pillow even better. The my pillow two has the patented
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Ridiculous Allegation That Republicans Want to Starve Grandma
"There's a huge amount of demagoguery coming from Democrats and from the left on the issue of social security. Now also Medicare, it's a pretty much the same line of attack. Republicans are trying to cut your social security and Medicare and we won't let them. Biden, of course, echoes this theme at the State of the Union, Republicans start booing him and Biden goes, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, I'm not saying all of you, I'm saying some of you, and okay, well, okay, okay, well, I guess we agree then. So the press portrays us as a kind of rhetorical victory for Biden. He cunningly got the Republicans to sign on to no cuts in social security or Medicare. Of course, the Republicans were disgusted because they weren't proposing cuts to social security or Medicare and they were they don't like the issue of being subjected to this kind of demagoguery. Now, the Democrats have one piece of evidence going for them. And that is that there were some Republicans who were talking about reform of social security. And they were talking about the fact that the system and by the way, this is 100% accurate is in long-term actuarial trouble. And so at some point, the money runs short or runs out. And so there needs to be a deeper fix, so what's going on here is that the Republicans are talking about long-term reform and the Democrats are acting like any discussion of even long-term reform is an attack on social security and is sort of a threat to cut social security now.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"grandma" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"It. That's it. And I'm saying this because I've needed to do the same, right? If it's a bad day, I've needed to redirect either depending on what's happening, either my mom or I redirect my daughter and I completely remove her, you know? We'll go for a walk. We'll go for a job. Whatever it is, we'll go home, whatever. I definitely make sure that I guard her, yeah. Do you explain to her like, oh, grandma's having a bad day, we need to go home or walk or drive or whatever. Lightly, lightly, because as you mentioned, every stage has age appropriate language and conversation. So at that moment, I may say, hey, you know what? Grandma's not feeling well or grandma's just having a bad day. Maybe she'll tear up later, you know? I just say, I keep it very light. Very, very light. So that way she won't feel old grandma's mad at her. You know? Makes sense. Yeah. And it's age appropriate and if you make a big deal about having to remove Zoe from grandma's presence because grandma's having hard time, then the next time it's just, you know, it's almost builds on the negativity instead of like, oh, okay, well grandma's not feeling so well. So we're gonna go home and hopefully she'll be feeling better later. Okay, you know, that just seems like almost like exhaling like, okay, well, that's the way it is and if you stay calm and just handle it, yeah, I can see that being super super beneficial for everybody. You know, but like I was really surprised my mom could not tolerate I had that same problem yesterday and I was recording door slammed the landscaper showed up. It's like noise everywhere. But here we go. Sorry about that. Yeah, fresh air comes with noise, unfortunately. Yes. Anyway. So there was one afternoon I was visiting with my mom in the memory care residents and this other family was visiting and they had I swear if he was too, I'd be surprised this little guy was pretty little. And you know, toddlers are loud. You could hear this kid all over the plucking. And I thought, oh boy, my mom is gonna, 'cause she just could not tune out noise, and I've just actually recently learned that her complaints about noise
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"grandma" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"It. That's it. And I'm saying this because I've needed to do the same, right? If it's a bad day, I've needed to redirect either depending on what's happening, either my mom or I redirect my daughter and I completely remove her, you know? We'll go for a walk. We'll go for a job. Whatever it is, we'll go home, whatever. I definitely make sure that I guard her, yeah. Do you explain to her like, oh, grandma's having a bad day, we need to go home or walk or drive or whatever. Lightly, lightly, because as you mentioned, every stage has age appropriate language and conversation. So at that moment, I may say, hey, you know what? Grandma's not feeling well or grandma's just having a bad day. Maybe she'll tear up later, you know? I just say, I keep it very light. Very, very light. So that way she won't feel old grandma's mad at her. You know? Makes sense. Yeah. And it's age appropriate and if you make a big deal about having to remove Zoe from grandma's presence because grandma's having hard time, then the next time it's just, you know, it's almost builds on the negativity instead of like, oh, okay, well grandma's not feeling so well. So we're gonna go home and hopefully she'll be feeling better later. Okay, you know, that just seems like almost like exhaling like, okay, well, that's the way it is and if you stay calm and just handle it, yeah, I can see that being super super beneficial for everybody. You know, but like I was really surprised my mom could not tolerate I had that same problem yesterday and I was recording door slammed the landscaper showed up. It's like noise everywhere. But here we go. Sorry about that. Yeah, fresh air comes with noise, unfortunately. Yes. Anyway. So there was one afternoon I was visiting with my mom in the memory care residents and this other family was visiting and they had I swear if he was too, I'd be surprised this little guy was pretty little. And you know, toddlers are loud. You could hear this kid all over the plucking. And I thought, oh boy, my mom is gonna, 'cause she just could not tune out noise, and I've just actually recently learned that her complaints about noise
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"grandma" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"To our conversation. It's true. It's true. And leaving them to do that, I think it's good for both because we know, especially young one, little toddlers, they need a lot of attention. And grandparents, especially if, you know, perhaps they may be going through something like this. They're happy to have the attention. And they're happy to give it to. So it kind of works all around, right? So yeah, with my daughter, my daughter went to work with me when we had our photography studio and this was back in the old days when one actually processed film and printed photos. It's like, yeah. I have like tons and tons of photos in my phone and actually printed, but she went to work with me. And so she learned just like by osmosis, like one of my favorite stories is she pushed a rolling step stool up to the counter and popped up and said, hi, can I help you? She was probably like four, and the support client was like, maybe. And it's like, they weren't put off. They were a little confused because it's like, well, I don't know, can you? You're like, this tiny person. She learned so much about work ethic. Like, I didn't have to like pound in her head about why we do jobs. Why we do the best we can. Of course I talk to her about that because she was smart enough to be like, if I can get an a on the test, why do I have to do the homework? Hated that. You're going to get that with yours because. I lost. I lost that battle. You know, the whole because that's the rules did not fly. If it didn't fit into her logic, it was a necessary and so. But she graduated from college and all that. So she's self sufficient. Yeah, it's like, there were times, and it's really interesting to watch her interact in a professional manner because it's like, who are you? Like, what the heck? Like, I did that? No. So he's surprised. Yeah. There's times. Something just happened recently and my husband and I are like, dang. We did a good job. No, that's awesome. That's awesome. I bring that up because, you know, you're not trying to teach her, scare her, you know, like, inform her of some scary stuff. I mean, yeah, dimension Alzheimer's is definitely got some scary times, but if you just, you know, a little bit here a little bit there, oh, bring grammar, she's, oh, can you brush grandma's hair or brushing her hair at three? Evolve into helping her brush her teeth at 6. Who knows? Yeah. I want to say this though. You kind of touched on this. This is another point that I wanted to share. If it is a bad day, let's say it is a bad day with that grandparent. And there are outbursts and things that are said that shouldn't maybe even violence. I am by no stretch of the imagination trying to say because you know this will happen. I am not saying that you should still keep the child in that person's presence. No, I'm not saying that. That's because that could scare them, and then they might lose all the compassion that you've been helping them develop.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"grandma" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"To our conversation. It's true. It's true. And leaving them to do that, I think it's good for both because we know, especially young one, little toddlers, they need a lot of attention. And grandparents, especially if, you know, perhaps they may be going through something like this. They're happy to have the attention. And they're happy to give it to. So it kind of works all around, right? So yeah, with my daughter, my daughter went to work with me when we had our photography studio and this was back in the old days when one actually processed film and printed photos. It's like, yeah. I have like tons and tons of photos in my phone and actually printed, but she went to work with me. And so she learned just like by osmosis, like one of my favorite stories is she pushed a rolling step stool up to the counter and popped up and said, hi, can I help you? She was probably like four, and the support client was like, maybe. And it's like, they weren't put off. They were a little confused because it's like, well, I don't know, can you? You're like, this tiny person. She learned so much about work ethic. Like, I didn't have to like pound in her head about why we do jobs. Why we do the best we can. Of course I talk to her about that because she was smart enough to be like, if I can get an a on the test, why do I have to do the homework? Hated that. You're going to get that with yours because. I lost. I lost that battle. You know, the whole because that's the rules did not fly. If it didn't fit into her logic, it was a necessary and so. But she graduated from college and all that. So she's self sufficient. Yeah, it's like, there were times, and it's really interesting to watch her interact in a professional manner because it's like, who are you? Like, what the heck? Like, I did that? No. So he's surprised. Yeah. There's times. Something just happened recently and my husband and I are like, dang. We did a good job. No, that's awesome. That's awesome. I bring that up because, you know, you're not trying to teach her, scare her, you know, like, inform her of some scary stuff. I mean, yeah, dimension Alzheimer's is definitely got some scary times, but if you just, you know, a little bit here a little bit there, oh, bring grammar, she's, oh, can you brush grandma's hair or brushing her hair at three? Evolve into helping her brush her teeth at 6. Who knows? Yeah. I want to say this though. You kind of touched on this. This is another point that I wanted to share. If it is a bad day, let's say it is a bad day with that grandparent. And there are outbursts and things that are said that shouldn't maybe even violence. I am by no stretch of the imagination trying to say because you know this will happen. I am not saying that you should still keep the child in that person's presence. No, I'm not saying that. That's because that could scare them, and then they might lose all the compassion that you've been helping them develop.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"grandma" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"It's really, really sweet to see. And of course, as you mentioned, she's on the younger side of it, right? A picture book is for children anywhere between the ages of zero all the way up to maybe even 9 years old. Sometimes older older children read the books as well because they just like the messages. Some kids just like to read picture books. But if we're talking about the average age of who can really benefit, I would say maybe about ages 5, 6, 7, 8, anywhere in between them. Those who like to perhaps play games with grandma and grandpa who like to play cards like to read with them in this story really encourages the relationship to maintain, right? Yes. Groundwork grandpa may be experiencing some changes in their cognition, but engagement is so important. It's vital to their everyday existence. That should never change, right? That's true. You made an interesting observation might not be quite the right word, but you said that she loves to brush your mom's hair and your mom's in the middle stages of the disease between bringing grandma a drink preferably water and brushing her hair its kind of, I would think acclimating your mom to somebody else helping her with some of her ADL's everyday activities of living in just the most basic, simple, joyful way, and because I know a lot of people I've talked to, you know, they're like, they don't know, I don't know if I should have the young ones around mom or grandma or whatever because, you know, as we know that somebody with Alzheimer's dementia and you said your mom sometimes has outbursts and it confuses your daughter. Yeah. It's something we want to protect the kids from ugly stuff and unfortunately that's not always easy, but it helps like zuri being able to interact with her grandmother in a way
Car Talk
"grandma" Discussed on Car Talk
"Maybe it did extend to 84, but I think that's what he's referring to. Well, did you ask him, Mike, what he meant by the statement? He kind of threw it on his as we were visiting down there and we were getting ready to leave and didn't really want to get into a long conversation. Where's down there? California. Yeah. California. I knew it. So he's worried that you live in a part of the country where your cars rust away, but it doesn't, it doesn't snow where you are, does it? Not much. The salt on the roads and that's true. But I mean, I think that's what he was referring to. And it wouldn't hurt to have someone take a look at the front end and in fact check to see how much rust, if any, there is. What kind of a card is he drive? Here's the camera. He drives a Camry. Really? Does he know about the metal fatigue problems of the Camry? Drop that on him next time he comes up to visit. No, I think he perhaps is worried too about the vulnerability that rusted cars have in accidents. Yeah. That in fact if the car is all rusted away and you wouldn't get hit by somebody, especially with your wife in the car, IE his daughter. That it could be serious. Sure. So was he encouraging you to drive alone? What if he's just concerned about general medal fatigue? Is there any danger of that? Are you sure he said metal fatigue and not mental fatigue? Those long drives now from Hillsboro. Maybe that's what he meant. Maybe you misunderstood, because you were tired. No, I think this is what he means, and it wouldn't hurt to have someone check it out. And it was nice of him to tell you, and I wasn't very nice to not give you any details. Oh, by the way, just as you're getting into the car to drive home. Oh by the way, Mike. Don't have a blowout already. But I wouldn't be too worried about it. But if you're concerned, have someone check out the structural integrity of the car. But we have a lot of 84s that come into the shop and in this harsh climate, we don't see them fatigued. So I think there are probably all right, Mike. That's why I worry about it. Is information is probably based on earlier models. Right. Okay, well, this person must have its life down in California anyway. I wouldn't mind. Just keep driving. Ignore the old one. Don't listen to anything. See you later. Okay, thanks. Good luck. Bye bye. Well, fathers in law can be a pain in the butt. They can. No one knows that better than I do. Hey, we've got more calls and ready for this. The puzzle answer coming up
Pop Fashion
"grandma" Discussed on Pop Fashion
"Oh, if they wanted to give me money, I would say that every week. Honestly, though, this conversation about dress code is so irritating. I work remotely for a super cool software company. When the pandemic hit, we closed down our U.S. office in Chicago, and we've been doing all video calls. I'm in the executive leadership team and most days have to be fresh faced and ready to go by 6 a.m.. I put on makeup because it is what helps me wake up and get focused in the mornings. I go to the gym midday, so my afternoon meeting colleagues see my post workout sweaty hot mess. This week I hosted a collaboration week where we had colleagues flying in from Europe and all over North America to meet each other and work together. Oh, that's nice. Right? I'm a huge advocate for bringing diversity to tech, and I wanted to ensure that the people I brought in felt appreciated and were shown that they mattered. I took over organizing the week because the bro they put in charge of it literally said the words sports bar happy hour. So he could watch a game and I wanted to die. Rather than picking some generic coworking space and boring hotel, I hustled to get us one of the best coworking hotels in the city and organized a fun event at a unique venue. I then showed up every day dressed the fucking part. My absolutely adorable and highly talented young team so that I look like an influencer and they couldn't believe my organized the space for them. This is adorable. I wanted them to be creative and be inspired because these insanely talented people have been working by themselves from home for months. By creating the environment where people feel inspired, they will bring their a game. This we do at my company even remotely by fostering individual growth. I'm an executive, but my success is measured by how much I'm growing other people in their desired area. This email is not to toot my own horn, but rather to say, that maybe these companies should stop worrying about people's appearances and start actually empowering people at work. Preach. I don't care if someone arrives in a ballgown or sweatpants. I for years was given these messages about how I was supposed to look in order to be professional, and I never succeeded in those kinds of environments. I felt demotivated and felt like an impostor. The second I found a place where I could be myself, I flourished, shocking, I know. Anywho, I come back to the bag of dicks, sending them now. Thank you for your great work. You're on fire, ladies. Oh, what an basic email. Thank you so much for sending that in. Also, to go on the record if you want to send us an email to your own horde toot away because the people who listen to this show have done and are doing amazing things, feel free to pump yourself up, send us an email at any time. I love that you did this for people. Because it just makes people feel included and special. All people at the end of the day want to do is feel seen and recognize that with the work they do. And who they are as individuals versus a monolith. So I just congratulations for stepping up for making people happy. For thinking, just for thinking about their experience. That's a really amazing thing to do. I love it. On the topic of workplace dress codes, I want to give a little shout out to our listener, a friend of the pod Wesley. Wesley says to tag onto your latest episode where you talked about office dress code, I was interviewed this past year about how to tiptoe back to the office without losing your personality and individuality in your workwear. So, I want to give a quick shout out to that. Also, thank you, Wesley for tuning your horn and telling us that this exists because I think it's going to be helpful for people. It is on a website called spaced out Doc dot com spaced out DOC dot com and the blog post is called business casual. What?.
Pop Fashion
"grandma" Discussed on Pop Fashion
"Knot just turned into a question mark. It's a shape shifter now. Next story, target is testing a partnership with thredUP. Thred up the second hand marketplace, you may have shopped on it. I have shopped on it numerous times. They are behind target testing out selling second hand clothing on their website. So thredUP is running the back end of it. So you can get to it through targets website, but thredUP is doing all the backend stuff. Target is saying that it is a way to further its sustainability goals and better serve its customers. They are including about 400,000 women's and kids items. That's a deep catalog. The products that are part of this are target private label, but they're also a bunch of other brand too. It's like the target dresses that you'd find on sale. Like stuff like that. But it's also brands like J crew. Free people. Zara, that are showing up on this website. This is not new, a lot of companies are doing secondhand. We've talked about many of them. Here, a lot of luxury companies are starting to get into it. ThredUP itself has partnered with a lot of brands like madewell and Macy's and things like that. I went on the site and the thing that why I brought it to the podcast is this. It was the first time it really struck me that the public is giving the clothes to these places where it's going secondhand. So my thought process is this. Since they can sell like a J crew sweater on target site. That came from somebody. And targets ultimately getting a cut of it. That struck me is kind of weird this time around. Because I can't determine where my clothes are going. I'm assuming when I give clothes to thredUP. When one of their bags, they're going to thread up like they're selling on their site. But they're curating for other companies, too. Um. So, are the prices the same as they would be if you were shopping on thredUP directly? Do we know that? So I perused and I felt like the prices were fair. They were what I would expect a secondhand. What I would expect from thredUP on their website, it seemed good, but it was like, I was just like, this is our sweater. They're selling it through thredUP on target. So what's happening with the products? I don't know. Am I overthinking this, Lisa? I want to see this. I'm coming to liqueur. I'm coming. I need to see it with my eyes. Okay, shop now. Okay, I see it. Yeah. Why do I got to do this on the target website? Is my question? Why don't I just do this on the thredUP website? I'm guessing because they're curating for a target audience. And when you look at the product as a whole, I could say as a target shopper, you're like, yeah, I'm kind of within this realm. I kind of get this, which is a service. It really is because when you go on thredUP, there's so much product and so many different types of styles. Like the idea of being able to call that a little is helpful. These pictures also look pretty good in comparison to some others I've seen. Am I overthinking this? Actually interesting. I don't know, it's interesting. And I can't, you know, you know why it bugs me. You know what grinds my gears? Is that it was like before when we were talking about search engines? When I go to Amazon target Walmart, the process of filtering through what is a third party seller, versus a thing that is sold by Amazon or target or Walmart, meaning it is in their warehouse and it gets shipped from them. That part of the process is exhausting to me. And I hate it a lot. Because it's confusing and because the shipping cost and time promises the retailer gives me isn't always in line with what is realistic with the third party seller. And so I may click on something put it in my cart and find out that that's not what's really going on. And it's just a lot of back and forth for me mentally. And if I went to target dot com and happened upon this site, which is target dot thread up dot com. I think it creates more confusion for customers who are already overwhelmed with my search. That's what I think. If I'm going to target, I don't want someone's used Lululemon shorts. That's still cost 40 bucks. I think there's something that's just not lining up here. And I can't really articulate it. But it bothers me. Not to the point where I'm going to go hold a sign outside of target. I'm just saying we're like, as a business, it doesn't really match up for me. Yeah, I'm a little confused by it too. It doesn't mean it's a bad partnership. It just means that I don't know what the ultimate goal is, I want to see how this plays out. And they are framing it as a test. So it may be something that they do for a little while and then pull back on because it's not working or it's not meeting the objectives that they want or who knows. Before a 100,000 items is a big way to start. It's a big, broad.
Pop Fashion
"grandma" Discussed on Pop Fashion
"And we know a lot of people who do like really amazing handcrafted work and I feel like they're getting beat up right now with this platform. Yeah, yeah, I did a little bit of a search this week to see what would happen if I went on the website. Could I tell that there was anything going on. And so I just typed the word strike into the search and I got lots of results of sellers who had taken down all but one listing in this one listing had screenshots of what it cost, like basically showing a sale for one of their typical items and then showing all the fees coming off and what was left for them. And this is a platform that rewards sellers who ship fast, ship free, who are giving in to instant gratification. Well, it's an Amazon mindset of how you sell because exactly that's what the company wants to compete with, but you still have people who are literally making soap in their small garages or whatever. That's who's putting out the products and they're doing an amazing job at it. But you can't have that person. They're not a one person Amazon. They're just not. Right. And they should not be expected to be. I think we can have it both ways. It's just you Etsy need to double down on what you really are and what you really should be. You can grow Etsy with without losing sight of that original vision. I don't know exactly how, don't ask me for tangible to dos. They don't want me anyway, so don't worry about it. Why don't they want you, Lisa? Everybody wants you. I don't think they would like my attitude. I would come in and be like, see what you're doing wrong. I would mansplain it, honestly. And I don't think they would appreciate that. That would be the first time in my life that I've mansplained something. Listen, your top knot would just get bigger and more glorious as you did. Oh man, I'd be like, listen here. My top knot turns into a megaphone. And it projects my voice. This is what every boyfriend I've ever had. It's their nightmare. Having a megaphone in anywhere in my vicinity. Yeah. I think it sounds delightful. Or at least you like it. My opinion is what counts. Let's do this. This is straight. On this show, there's two opinions that count. And you're listening to them both. Thank you so much. Why are you turning it off? What's that? Don't leave. Please, we love you. I hear you reaching for your phone, stop that. Let's move on. Let's give them more of what they came here for. Which is our voices. I'm going to give you a fun one. Coastal grandma style might be the next big trend. The headline on this article is so adorable. It is TikTok is suddenly obsessed with living like a middle aged divorcee. It's.
Pop Fashion
"grandma" Discussed on Pop Fashion
"Am here in awake to see another day, thank you. How about yourself corn? Well, you just told me that when you hear truth, your top knot grows, is that how you put it? Oh yeah, well, actually, I believe that what I said was when there's new drama, my top knot gets bigger. Not to say that drama and truth are like sometimes there's a big middle section of that Venn diagram. So yeah, I thrive under dramatic conditions. Well, you have a beautiful topknot going right now. I'm thinking because we talked to drama before the show or we're gonna talk drama during the show. So I think that's why that's happening. I think that is a factor and also low humidity and high not giving a fuck about washing my hair lately. They have all converged upon my crown. But those powers combined. Top knot. If I were a superhero, can you imagine me when we started this show? I never could have been top knot girl 'cause I had that little pixie cut in now. Top knot girl is here to save the day. Like, I pull little weapons out of my hair. Can you imagine? I love this for you. Yes, I can't imagine, actually. Yeah. I sleep sitting up. It's like pepper spray up in there? Yes. Call me James Bond. We can work together. Let's get into it. Fashion news are really retail news is where we're starting out. Lisa, what's going on with Etsy? Boy, oh boy, more than 20,000 Etsy sellers went on strike the week of April 11th. They closed their shops, they replaced item photos with graphics, explaining the move, so April 11th was the first day the company increased seller transaction fees from 5% to 6 and a half percent. The hike was imposed to pay for improvements in marketing and seller tools, according to CEO, Josh silverman in an announcement. Silverman also said in a report to investors, quote, we have demonstrated our ability to make improvements that directly translate into more sales for our sellers as evidenced by record sales per seller in 2021. The last time Etsy raised transaction fees was 2018. It went from three and a half percent to the current 5%. Oh, that's a big jump. Oh my God. Yeah. Exactly. So there was a notable jump then in 2018 and then there's also a notable jump and instead of doing this like a half a percent of time. These big jumps. There are also listing fees, so every time you list an item, you pay 20 cents, there are also payment processing fees. So transaction fees are just a part of the overall equation for money coming and going if you're selling on Etsy. Sellers who are on strike are saying the new hike makes it untenable for artisans to make a fair wage selling on the platform. On top of that, their map about an off site advertising program that made it unpredictable how much sellers would earn, and some sellers found out that they were unable to opt out of that program. So basically, Etsy was advertising their wares. Off of Etsy, and then when a sale would come in, they weren't sure how much of a Kai Etsy would take until it already happened. Oh, no. So we can probably all admit at this point that we live in a global environment where prices are going up. For just about everything under the sun, right? Like inflation is real, it's infecting us all. But Etsy as a publicly traded corporation has had a very solid few years. In a letter sent to silverman on April 11th, Etsy strikers said, Etsy has become a downright hostile place for authentic small businesses to operate. For both full-time and part time sellers alike, the changes on Etsy have brought many of us to the brink of financial ruin. After giving Etsy two years of record profits under the most difficult circumstances imaginable, we're tired, frustrated, and ready to fight for our seat at the table. It is telling that as I started to tell you about this story on the podcast car and stopped me to tell me that the original 5000 Etsy sellers that signed a letter, this letter to silverman that I just referenced. It has grown and the strike is now more than 20,000 sellers. Now, there are a lot more sellers than that on the platform altogether, but to have 20,000 individual sellers, pull their listings for an entire week and say, we're not doing this. Is a very bold and it's there's a lot of solidarity happening here from what I can see. Yeah. We have a lot of Etsy sellers who listen to this show. So you guys know better than we do about the day in and day out operations of the company. And a number of you have contacted us and said, hey, these increases are like killing any money that I would make on the platform. Or would make for my work. And the CEO of the company today when we're recording recording on the 13th came out and basically doubled down and said, you know, we have to have these increases because we want to position the company to ultimately be successful and compete with Amazon. His idea was it's going to hurt and the short term, but in the long term it's going to make everybody a little bit more money, especially the shareholders. But my thing with that is I can understand es talked about before about how they want to be the original search engine where you go find an item, right? So instead of going on Amazon and being like, I want a cup. I want a coffee mug. You go to Etsy's platform and be like, I want a coffee mug. That's the first top of mind thing that you go to. But the thing that the CEO is not addressing is that you were talking to individual hand crafters who can not scale and are not supposed to scale with the same sellers that are on Amazon, because Amazon sellers, yeah. Those products are manufactured, the stuff on Etsy, it is supposed to be the brand promise back at the beginning of when this platform was started. The brand promise was that it was handmade, handcrafted items, and you can not make 5000 widgets when you are an individual seller. You can maybe make 5 things. Because you are taking time dedicated time to make those items. It is slow. It is the slow movement. From what I hear with Etsy sellers bigger companies are coming on the platform to sell things at scale, which defeats the purpose of the platform, really. It goes against that brand promise. So the big thing is, who is the company right now? Are they a place for handcrafted items? Or are they not? Why do you want to compete with Amazon with handcrafted items? I don't get it. What do you think? Also vintage items. Here's the vintage representative. Yeah, if Etsy is trying to be a certain time when they suck at it. You know, it's just not because Etsy has been flooded over the years with sellers who aren't doing handmade or vintage. Yeah. And I have a lot of leeway for the people who sell some level of supplies for doing stuff. Of course. Arts, crafts, et cetera but there's also a lot of just like cheap shit that you can tell is just churned out and it's meant to look crafty and it's just mass produced and that's just not what it's supposed to be. Like I'm all for a small businesses being able to scale and get bigger. But you may reach a point where Etsy is not the place for that anymore..
Morning Moments Matter
"grandma" Discussed on Morning Moments Matter
"Good morning. We are tipping Michelle hill with Kinect over copy and this is the morning moments matter show. We are here every Monday Wednesday and Friday for a shot of caffeine, inspiration and good news. So today's Friday we're welcoming you to Friday. We are here to start your day off with some fun and celebration because how you start your day is how the rest of your day goes. What are we celebrating today? Today, September 24th is national punctuation day. We had something similar. What was it? It was yes, from the lowly comma to the flamboyant and national punctuation day celebrates punctuation that makes our world's legible and gets our point across. Let's eat grandma or let's eat grandma or two different things. Totally different things. It's very clear that punctuation saves lives. Yes. Jeff Rubin founded national punctuation day in 2004 as a way to promote the correct use of punctuation. Every year, on this holiday, he created, has punctuation challenges and quizzes and games that you can play all over the country. So if you want to go do that, go to national punctuation day dot com. Makes it easy. All the grams is wrong. And everyone else is like so. I don't care. Mine and your peas and cues and dotting your T's and crossing your eyes. And knowing the difference between a column and it's going in a semicolon is not always necessary to communicate. Well, today we take for granted those little dots slashes and spaces that turn a string of unintelligible letters into a compelling story, ancient cultures had to do without. They had no punctuations. Most early languages were purely verbal, so punctuation really wasn't needed. The earliest known document featuring punctuation is the Misha Steele from 900 BC. The next civilization to start to develop rudimentary punctuation was the Greeks and 200 BC. This is your history lesson on Friday. Grammar and English and history all rolled into one celebrated today. The Greeks previously had written an scriptura continua, which is an unending string of text, unmarred by punctuation marks. People assume started to adapt the system of punctuation created by aristophanes of bins in time. Byzantium. Yeah, that's what I said. You should be some punctuation in there. Phonetics. That's a different day. This included single punctuation marks, position differently to indicate pauses in the speeches. Like that. Though punctuation had already been adapted by the Greeks. It wasn't until the Bible began to be printed in mass that punctuation spread to other civilizations across the world. Oh, printing was widespread between 408 hundred AD. So punctuation was necessary so that those who read the text allowed knew where to pause and place emphasis. In the 1400s, a huge shift came when the printing press came along and spurred the need for even more punctuation for all that printing. So here's some fun facts. There's your history. Not been fun. So let's go to the fun facts. Did you know did you know that a question? Just a view in the podcast, you just poked me in the nose. A very hard though. It was a gentle loving poke. Got her. I love it. She tries to make me cry. I try to make her bust out laughing where she can't speak anymore. And she's lost her breath. Breathe, breathe. Go ahead. Give me some fun facts. Did you know that the question mark was once a word while we today we end the questions with the simple squiggly with the dot at the end, those who use Latin would write out the word Castillo to indicate the end of a question. That makes sense. Do you know what the number sign hashtag pound sign is called? A lot of people depending on your generation card, hashtag pound sign. That's what I would have called it. It has an official word. Okay. Octal Thorpe? That's what it says right there. That sounds like a medical term. No, a marvel villain. Octo Thorpe, an Ironman defeated octa Thorpe. Maybe he shaped like that. Maybe he's a punctuation man. He's a punctuation villain. I think he things out I understand. He flings amper stands at people. That's a sad kid. Right. Octothorpe and hamper stand. And first date. Are you snorted? Yes. Happy Friday. It's a great day. All right. Michelle is out of pocket here. I will continue on because she can't breathe. I think we should just skip my part. I can reach your part. Does this fact we're obviously much more fun? But as you know, you've done? No. Keep going. Why are you waiting for me? 'cause it's fun to watch your laugh. Punctuation can change the meeting of almost any sentence as we've demonstrated. A semicolon or an exclamation point convey tone and type words that we typically can't convey without speech. So we're lucky to have punctuation, use it properly. We'll come after you. So celebrate that to your heart's content today, throw punctuation every which way or wherever you're writing. That's right. Feels right. With exclamation points. Fill your emails with punctuation today. That's right. With octo thorpes and ampersands. Sans, ampersands. There's got to be a tea in it. No, there's no teas, tea for Tim. For Tennessee, tea for ampersand. I should never have mentioned it. Here in the U.S., I just slide right into the next segment. Off the grid. Off grid, solar electricity is still pretty uncommon. But around the world, it gives power to 420 million people. That's a lot of people. It's a lot. Did you know that? I did not know. Did you know? Hey, that's my life. Since 2017 revenue from the sales of off grid solar panels has grown over 30% every year. Wow. Particularly in places like Nigeria and Pakistan and Lebanon, where in rural areas reliable power is not still the norm. But they have a lot of sun. They have a lot of sun. The World Health Organization says notable progress has been made on energy access and recent years with the number of people living without electricity, dropping from roughly 840 million from 1 billion in 2016..
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
"grandma" Discussed on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
"Know that you couldn't use curling irons on wigs. And she's set on fire okay right. She didn't get any burns or anything. Bitchy oh yeah no. It was like a little weight head. Thanks. she was styling and getting it. Ready and guess. She started smoking and then johnny. Cd's text messages. Here's when my grandma brought powdered sugar with her through. Tsa only grandmothers travel with powdered sugar on now and they thought grandma cocaine and they. They pulled her aside. Grandma had cocaine in my grandma. Oh my god. They're coming in leaps and bounds. My grandma was so mad at my dad that she told him to drop dead. Grandma's they can say anything get away with it. S mine makes the best eggplant parm. I did cross it with my grandma last night. Oh that's awesome. I love it. Hey listen john. Thanks for listening to you. Go have a great day. And god bless your grandma. Bakes you guys to take it easy george. Twenty four george. Hey are y'all. we're doing great man. Tell me about what your grandma did in the parking lot. My grandma up some lady in the park. Now look okay. Why did your grandma and some other lady get into a fight in the parking lot. And why does your grandma. We'll pass Because the other lady was talking smack about my cousin and my grandma was not having that so she called up and said you can meet me in the parking lot and didn't her behind. Oh my god look. We don't condone violence. But it don't mess with grandma she's gonna kick your ass show up in the parking lot when you get the invite. That is terrible plan. That's a good plan. Especially it's george. Graham georgia's grandma. Hey george command. Thanks for listening to us today. It's great hearing about your grandma. Thank y'all i appreciate. Y'all you take it easy. I love a lot of these. Texts are saying these wonderful things about their grandma's grandma would always bring her own chicken cutlet to the restaurant. And i'm thinking do that. She just cooked it up and said you know what i prefer mind. I'm going to sit here and you're going to do something with salad. Dressings and stuff out of their personal time stuff into that person. Of course this texter says my grandmother could kill a chicken by tapping it on its head. It would freeze and she would grab it by the neck and just twisted encircles dear god. Grandma's i know but they would make fresh chicken from those chickens. My grandma used to hit us with her cane every time he cursed and she made us put a dollar in jar. My grandma always used to drop food down her shirt and she would always say that her boobs were hungry. Frog is a gramma. Does pay jen. Hi how are you doing very well. Tell us about your grandma. So i actually. I'm a speech therapist. I lived with her for the last year during kovin She passed away three weeks. Ever ninety nine th birthday while but see the basketball is once he was eighty. We actually just for sharing this story at her week. She was living in yonkers and her neighbors house got rob and she ran down the street after the robbers remains how you get over here. I'm him at the time. They found him robbing another house a couple of days later and they showed her hit headshot to her and she identified him and they go away. God rest are saw. I love that. Yeah yeah chocolate chip cookies. She counted each chips for cookie. So making chocolate chip. Cookie is like a four hour activities. Take grandma's are allowed to do it because a lot of time they may well. Hey thanks jen. Thanks a lot. I appreciate that story have have a good one. Youtube and other texts a rottweiler. Bit my grandma and she bet it back and got arrested for. let's talk. animals would make food. I didn't like to eat for lunch. She would tell me that. I can just go eat crap and die. Here's one grandma that always had holy water whether so in pissed off she sprinkled it on. Yes it's great. More of fixings bar steeler where she would take home the chips. She like a saver of everything she would take and hang out on the wash. My grandmother would so t hose like if you gotta run in your pantyhose instead of going to buy a new pair of pantyhose. She would so it up and save it somehow. My mother's what are you doing texts. My grandma had weighed growing her front yard. Yes grandma my grandma. When she was alive she would curse it. You in spanish if you said anything bad about her baseball team the yankees. I mean the list goes on and on. My grandma gets into fistfights over men in the nursing home kill. My grandma always farts when she's walking and blames the floorboards. Thanks tile exactly. We finally talk to grace pay gross. Hey good morning morning morning. Tell us about your grandma fella. My grandmother was a typical strict very old school grandma and she would sit with a machete Outside the house. While my sister and i would write bike and anyone that would come close to what she would just grab out the machete and the grandma's hispanic. I'll well i put that away. Come come at them with a machete with a machete grace. I would take your grandma very seriously at that point no problem. Hey listen. Thanks for listening to his grace. I hope you have a really great day today. Don't let anyone mess with you. I if not grandma's machetes waiting for him. Okay all right all right. Let's get three things we need to know. Johnny what's all right. President biden says moore corona virus. Vaccinations me in the summer of freedom and joy he's kicking off a month of action urging people to get their shots before the fourth of july his goal is to have seventy percent of adults partially protected by then so far the cdc puts that number at sixty three percent and now one of the largest grocery chains in the nation is giving away money for getting a shot. Kroger is kicking off. Its cova vaccination incentive today five shoppers. Who get their jabs in. A store clinic or pharmacy will have a chance to win. One million dollars fifty people will also score free groceries for a year. i know an attempt by jolene maxwell's legal team to get her bonded out of prison has failed. Jeffrey epstein's alleged partner in pedophile crimes will remain behind bars in brooklyn after a federal appeals court once again rejected her to be free. Maxwell's lawyers urged that her confinement at the metropolitan detention center was horrific. She's currently staring down. Eighty years in prison if convicted of helping epstein meet and have sex with underage girls over a ten year period as we know he allegedly killed himself in a manhattan jail as he awaited trial back in two thousand nineteen. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and other charges. She is set to go on trial in november. And finally we kind of laughing a little bit about this off air. So it's worth mentioning a birthday cake request from three year. Old girl has gone viral after she came up with what she thought was a great plan to keep the entire cake to herself. The girl asked for a lion king cake showing the moment that move fossa died because she thought everybody would be too sad to eat the cake and it would be all for her.
Hangout With Ds
"grandma" Discussed on Hangout With Ds
"Year bested on. I don't mind the everything's reports one of three d s three. Do i think we also give to are served. One who will come into its episode to hang out with these and i hear yeah glad to be a think we will be one of the do puzzles and guy okay. So today's episode is packaged. All of us from what segments like for the segment. I have on the show today. Bringing do somethin' called and guess what we have someone in your house. They don't mind fridge to a market for you guys especially as a kid yes. Today's here from poobah eight so it was everybody good afternoon. Go by the name precious they poke but you should also so people back again in order to hang out with these biggest boys and tells the best you do live running gag avenue fremont so yep coming back with the segment of the show. We're going to bring the fire going to bring it home i agree. They didn't know upbringing.
Kush Conversations
"grandma" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"Dude was on drugs. You know he was an alcoholic super hardcore like he was spiraling downhill. He wasn't as hungry as he was saying like. He was less of an athlete. I got his question was a do. You think mcgregor should find jake. Paul oh god he kick his ass. I don't think i don't think he should entertain that. I i think you should just let jake continue to talk. Talk talk about. What if jake slaps likes to hold on. Hold on hold on. So let's talk. Let's forget about the whole talk and shit aspect jake paul. And let's talk about just his boxing skills. Where do you put them. At in cure. Boxing per amateur though for amateur. He's not bad. I think he's got a lot of potential the he barely has fucking any bucks. I'm gonna tell you i've been sucking sightings for fifteen years. I had my fucking c class for license. For six years he is complete garbage he throws wildest haymakers the juicy that all nominations his leaving no not the fight he's leaving. He sold his mansion to move to florida to focus on box. Full-time see cbo with jake. Paul doesn't fight in his weight class. Yeah that's true. He knocked out nate robbie. Anyone that's in jake. Paul ways to twenty-five neat robson probably plays like one ninety. That'd be like him fighting. Who deontay wilder fight dyson fearing yeah tyson fury. He's in his weight class right. They'd be like him fighting. Tyson fury paul's while to twenty five. Let's get jake paul to actually fight. Someone who boxes fought. He's only kfi. He's only fought his brother but the thing is he knows. He's not boxers. He knows he's not good enough to fight someone that actually box on the regular. That's why he's trying to get an anime size money for money. The money fight. Do i mean look at logan. Mas- taller logan. Paul scored a least a fifty million dollar payday. Fighting floyd mayweather money talks and if he loses he's got a question real quick. Can we talk about that in commission fight. Of course its next. Ambition fly in and also. Let's not forget. Jake paul's supposed to be a expedition fight. With mike. tyson was an exhibition fight. There were not supposed to be any knockouts. Like what do you think about. Exhibition fights being a review events. Type shit like no should be a paper view. So real quick. What's what's your definition of an exhibition fight. Exhibition fighters wear two fighters. It's basically just a page basically just for show there's no real record at the knows no title it'd be like me and so if you paid me in. So cal defy. It'd be an thing it so it's an exhibition. But still if floyd mayweather loses that tarnishes perfect record right. That's why he's doing it because it's an exhibition. So even if he loses his regular doesn't matter all right well then my opinion on it is completely changed because i thought that he get handed. This i l by youtuber youtuber but now completely lost interest if he can't even take an l. from it and it's literally just publicity and that's fucking stupid money. These fighters are my mind is changed. I don't even wanna watch the fight anymore. Fuck no dude. I'll still watch vice. still fighting. used to watching soda can take a punch in the face man. Like there's still the off chance somebody it's fucking dropped. I mean for me whether gets knocked out by youtuber for his first ever knockout. He's going to be a mean for the rest. If if logan paul myself fifty one if logan knocks out void i could see floyd mayweather like suing him or something assault. Yeah so speaking so now. Did you see that data wide crack down on the legal streaming about that. Funny bring it up so disdain ally like you know how people like illegally stream. You have to fight all the time fucking so if you didn't if you didn't pay attention in the bill that just passed one of the in the bill that said Illegal streaming is a federal crime now so dana. Wise cracking down just cast senator. North carolina snuck in legislation. That stated that if you streamed Copy written material your Federal sense what the gaddi. So you know now that they have that anyone that's basically caused stream is going to be tracked down via fbi data. Why so in. Mcgregor interview. Dana white just said fuck it. He said. I'm gonna call all the strategies that i dare you to stream see what happens. Dunker stream the fight. We'll see it won't happen to you because you're not feeding it. It's the guys that are feeding it. That are gonna get fucked. Not the guys are watching it. You know at the same time. There's those black. Mike market guys ever cracking their knuckles. Like ri man. Let's see what the fuck you got straight up like not for nothing. It's i'd like him. It's the war on terror. Like you cut off one head another one girls back a hydrogen. Why do why do they need us to pay sixty dollars to watch a fight. When they're like dana wants money so you can pay his fighters because you also got to to. He's basically flying as fighters to fuck in the middle east one of them so funny story. There's a charging them in england. Twenty dollars the fight in their charging seventy or eighty dollars. Here the fight. I'm sorry what so funny story about. Ufc though too since we're talking there's a guy that was supposed to find the card tomorrow that got caught sneaking something into his hotel room on find islands so dana white just cut him. He's not a part of ufc and all he just come. He's not fighting tomorrow so that fight might be cancelled back. That's that's what you get. Dana white doesn't take shift tunnel. Rose around is a businessman is a personal opinion. I mean he. He doesn't wanna pay his fighters. I think he wanted to pay spiders. He absolutely already makes well enough to pay us. Fighters facility bill rather quickly and a believe across like almost like like two hundred million dollars talking to highland right. Yeah you think that's a lot of fires are going to delatour naked. Hey it's a it's a better. It's better deal for them. I had an idea actually Boy because we were talking about this very thing. It's like man. I would actually like to see somebody like maybe either bella tower or a fighter. Leaves goes makes their own org and essentially like these fights. They become packaged with sponsorship. Deals for these fighters who may be lesser known and it is increases the amount of that they make because a lot of people don't know that these fighters they live on a very small salary like they're living a lifestyle is not sustainable financially daily attempts like a big player yes like let's say like harm mcgregor pike an dozen for your. Let's say they were lesser known. I would approach them. Hey look i want you guys to fight i'm gonna offer you eight hundred thousand dollars. Just show up and fight. But i'll give you two point. Three million four win as a bonus. And then i'll give you another million on top of that if it's fight of the night school nominate incentives. Now i'm saying okay and also for the next two months while we do. Promos is sponsored by nike were required to wear nike material. This is going to increase you. Your your payout. Another ten million twenty million dollars. That's as panja at your ali. Package tip that company for two months. Yeah that would be super smart. A lot of people hop on that because fights make a lot of money. I mean it's literally modern day. Gladiators people wanna see. You know who's got the best buy question is. Did you guys prefer nineties. Our current you have seen. I was gonna ninety nine.