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AP News Radio
Ahead of House debt ceiling vote, Biden shores up Democrats and McCarthy scrambles for GOP support
"The president and House speaker are scrambling for support ahead of a house debt ceiling vote. The debt limit and budget cuts package that squeaked through the House rules committee on a 7 to 6 vote is headed to the U.S. House. President Biden and speaker Kevin McCarthy are trying to assemble a centrist bipartisan coalition to get it passed and avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default in less than a week. We'll pass the bill. Speaker McCarthy is of all the congresses in the past. You're going to add up all the money that they rescinded and add them together. This is higher than that. 218 votes are needed in a 435 member House, the deal faces opposition from hard right Republicans who say the budget cuts don't go far enough. Trillions and trillions of dollars in debt for crumbs for a pittance. Representative Scott Perry is the chairman of the freedom caucus. This deal fails, fails completely. The White House said President Biden has had more than 100 individual phone calls with lawmakers, House democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, says Democrats will do their part. We're not interested in political gamesmanship. We're interested in avoiding a catastrophic default. Liberals are upset the deal greenlights a new work requirements for older Americans on food aid and a natural gas pipeline through Appalachia, Jennifer King, Washington
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "hakeem" discussed on Stephanie Miller
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I love you Bob Seska Where are you coming from? Bob's calling is from Washington. You says good Bob why look at you in your big straight superman shirt and Travis Moten's big gay superman shirt. Yes that's the first thing we do when we wake up in the morning is coordinate our We're in Captain America Superman. Here in the Stephanie Miller Cinematic Universe as you like to call it. Yes. Yeah see there's a special club of tall people that we coordinate all of our nerd clothing before we start our day. I don't aware be that we have a special handshake and everything it's great. Speaking of nerd stuff I'm very excited about your new Star Trek podcast with Mary Trump. Oh thank you yes. You had a talk with some other nerd who I don't know who it is but what is it talk about the first episode the showrunner for the new show sure he's only responsible for the greatest season Star Trek ever Terry metallus I hear you Bob I hear you Bob I understand you're correct okay yes but anyway so it's not you it's recorded the first episode when does it drop as the kids say next week it'll go down next week did yeah I say go down I meant drop drop next week yeah that's yeah but yeah we had a great conversation with Terry metallus we talked for way too long because here's the thing with doing this show because Kimberly's not a fan of any of this stuff any of this star to call me while you're doing your nerd stuff yeah yeah well happens what is a lot of the things I'm gonna say on the Star Trek show is rolling out of my mouth for the first time yes it's all things that I've thought about or read about but actually verbalizing those but you don't say brand -new for me you don't say them because you want to get laid so you well right that's part of the consideration of it yeah but the other part is Kimberly just goes what are you even saying what Cardassians isn't that a reality show I don't know when Travis talks my eyes just glaze over I just hear clicks and beeps like Woodstock speaking the grown -ups from the that's peanuts yes what I hear but this way Bob you have time to talk about to it so you can get laid by Kimberly as opposed to turning her off with all the Star Trek talk okay I'm trying you what know I'm trying to groom her I'm grooming that's exactly what like I'll start to work in like I'll figure out like okay she's really interested in this particular idea dear and philosophy I'll say well you know there was a Star Trek episode boy that incorporated yeah these values yes I feel her pain yes I feel her pain we love you because you're as weird and random as we are um you tweeted the first movie that comes to mind when you think of a swimming pool is and I don't know why you were even thinking of course I'm like Sunset Boulevard the dead screenwriter on the
Mark Levin
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Doesn't Believe in Work Requirements
"Work requirements for able bodied welfare risks We're talking about basically single individuals He says are extreme and irresponsible At the end of the cut then go ahead 145 House Republicans voted against so called work requirements in a amendment to the farm bill that would have imposed such requirements on snap recipients 145 Republicans including the current Speaker of the House So the notion that they want to now lecture us in the context of trying to avoid a default about so called work requirements is extreme and irresponsible So you got to listen very carefully to what he said So the Democrats put up a bill that's focused exclusively on Republicans on farmers In 2018 In order to make points by saying look at this There are probably but that's not the way this works The Republicans are proposing work requirements for everybody For everybody with the live in the city whether you're living It doesn't matter The Democrats didn't do that And so another propagandist Hakeem Jeffries gets up there and spews his stupidity And so the Democrats firmly do not believe people should work for welfare Even if they can we're talking about able bodied individuals And that's what we're talking about Individuals Grown men Who won't work
AP News Radio
Debt limit fight: Biden meeting with Congress leaders put off until next week; staff talks proceed
"More talks between President Biden and congressional leaders over the debt limit impasse have been put off. The president was to host Congress's top four lawmakers tomorrow, but The White House says the meeting has been pushed to next week. Its billing that as a positive sign of staff level discussions making progress. The group met Tuesday, including top Democrats Hakeem Jeffries. We have to avoid a default at all costs. And Chuck Schumer. This isn't difficult. Who says House speaker Kevin McCarthy must take the default threat off the table, but McCarthy says things need to change. To bring common sense and responsibility to
AP News Radio
NBA MVP: 76ers' Embiid wins league's top individual honor
"The league scoring champion Joel embiid has earned his first NBA MVP trophy. The 29 year old from Cameroon averaged 33.1 points to when his second straight scoring title. He averaged 10.2 rebounds and had a career high with 4.2 assists per game, indeed becomes the second winner from Africa joining Hakeem olajuwon the Nigerian who won for Houston in 1994, in the top two time winner Nikola Jokić showed that Denver Nuggets and third place finisher Yanis onto the gunpo of the Milwaukee Bucks. On Norman hall
Mark Levin
Hakeem Jeffries Lies, Saying Republicans Don't Want to Teach the Holocaust
"And Hakeem Jeffries said something that I thought was quite appalling I want you to listen to this clip Cut 7 mister producer 7 go They want to ban a book called mouse It's about the horrors of the Holocaust And egregious crime against humanity that we should never ever forget 6 million Jews exterminated They want to ban mouse A book about the Holocaust What's so offensive in that book Let me read a passage They took us from our papers Our clothes and our hair we were cold And we were afraid Extreme mega Republicans don't want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust That's not the position of the Republicans It's not a single Republican in the House of Representatives who supports that view Not one
Mark Levin
Two Republican Councilman Killed in New Jersey
"As I posted on my various social sites you have two Republican city councilmen who have now been murdered In New Jersey Within a week One was a black woman a Republican Have you heard much about this Does there seem to be much concern about this I just tell you because certain lives seem to me more than others They seem to mean more than others It's like January 6th versus all the other riots that took place The only person killed on January 6th was a peaceful protester But you wouldn't know it He'd been asleep for ten years and you woke up and you listened to the reporting You know the Democrat party in the media had been hiding a lot about Hakeem Jeffries Do you know a lot about hakim Jeffries mister producer No Does The New York Times know a lot about Hakeem Jeffries Yes New York Daily News yes The Democrats know a lot about hakim Jeffries when they made him their leader One day they wanted to be speaker Mark pauletta has done a dive into the background of Hakeem Jeffries And he wrote about it And my question is why isn't this covered by the morning schmoe and misses schmoe
The Dan Bongino Show
Hakeem Jeffries Is Wrong About Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitic Comments
"Is House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries complaining about the removal Now representative Omar certainly has made mistakes She has used anti semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats When it took place four years ago clearly and unequivocally condemned by Democrats when it took place four years ago isn't this funny I've got this article from the Washington times in front of me was written march 6th 2019 when representative Ilhan Omar was caught making those anti semitic comments Here's a quote from the article let me see Rank and file Democrats circled the wagons around freshman rep Ilhan Omar on Wednesday forcing party leaders to retreat from plans to rebuke her by passing a resolution condemning antisemitism The Democrats for years ago as Hakeem Jeffries said did not rebuke or condemn Ilhan Omar for those comments They couldn't even get up the Gump shedding The pass a resolution condemning anti semitism something is wrong on that side of the aisle Of course you and I know this So no mister Jeffries I you may try to memory whole what's been going on for the last four years with this woman but what we remember the Internet is forever and as much as the left has tried to ban the truth from coming out we remember Ilhan comments and we know the things she says to this very day So obviously no that is a lie She has not redeemed herself in any way And I don't believe that apology anyway
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Olivia Beavers Reports on Committee Assignments
"Democrats named their members to the Jordan committee, the subcommittee of the judiciary into the weaponization. They have not named their members on the select committee on the Chinese Communist Party chairman Gallagher just confirmed that to me. Do you have any reporting on the latter? Do you know when Hakeem Jeffries is going to name the select committee on Chinese Communist Party members? We don't. And I think as chairman Gallagher said they're waiting to fill up more of the regular order committees that Jeffreys and all of them would before it's McCarthy who decides who gets to sit on those committees. So they're filling in populating those and then they'll do house until and then live to this work. Committee on China, then they'll do these others, but I also think that this gives Democrats the opportunity to wait to see how some of the battles before with ships, wall well, and congressman Omar play out before that they make some of their final decisions. And maybe then hacking Jeffers can make some calculated decisions of who sits where.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Rep. Mike Gallagher on His Discussions With Hakeem Jeffries
"Have you talked to Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the minority party in the House about why he is, it may be that everybody wants on, it may be that he is balancing appointments on the Jordan subcommittee as well. There might be a lot of reasons, but is he talked to you about it? I actually talked to him in passing on the House floor and I know that he and the speaker have talked about making sure this is a serious effort. I think he's going to appoint serious people by at least from what I've heard about that conversation and he told me yesterday that he thinks this will all be resolved soon, but the select committees are getting populated last. I think that's driving a lot of this and he's probably trying to balance who do I put on the weapon and the weaponization of government committee? Who do I put on the intelligence committee? Who do I put on the China committee and how do I kind of balance all these things in the competing demands of various members? So again, I'm hoping that we get members appointed today so we can get down to business because we're already kind of getting pushed a little bit to the right here.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Katherine Clark's Antifa Son Arrested in Boston
"The sun of Massachusetts congresswoman Katherine, Catherine Clark. Now she's the number two on the Democrat side. No, I'm not talking about no, not bodily functions. She is the number two. Hakeem Jeffries is the minority leader. She's the number two. So anyway, her name is Catherine Clark, you saw her there, had the long sort of the silver hair woman. Anyway, she's got a son who thinks he's a girl. And the photograph of this dude, this is one bad looking dude right here. His name is Jared. And goes by Riley, but Jared is was in Atlanta or pardon me was in a Boston rather and attacked a police officer. He was a part of antifa. Attacked a police officer, punched the guy in the face. Jared Dao is accused of defacing a bandstand monument, which is a landmark monument, was spray paint. Still in jail apparently, that's according to The Boston Globe. Congresswoman Clark says, my daughter was arrested in Boston. No man, that's a son. And if you can't tell the difference, you're not smart enough to be in Congress. I love Riley. And this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain and parenting. You know, I get it, you love your son, ma'am, your son, but the fact of the matter is, he's a thug. It's okay to love your child, but you gotta call him out when they do something wrong, man.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Who Will Serve on the China Select Committee
"How many members will it have? Do you know who is going to be the ranking minority member and what members are you certain are going to be on the committee with you? There will be 9 Republicans and 7 Democrats. So a smaller committee analogous to the size of the Intel committee a little bit smaller than that actually. I actually think that is an asset. It makes us more nimble. It makes our ability to respond to things quickly. More obvious and easier. As for the specific membership of the committee, starting with the ranking member on the other side, I don't know. That'll be for Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader to decide entirely. I do know this. We have a lot of Democrats with serious national security street Cred that have asked me about it and have said they've asked Hakeem Jeffries to be considered for ranking members. So I'm cautiously optimistic that they're ranking member will be someone of substance. Not only with the right temperament, but with the right background to bring to bear on these issues and that will make our work. Again, more bipartisan. So that's a good thing in my opinion. But we'll see. That's entirely up to the Democrats to choose. And I spoke with Hakeem Jeffries on the floor yesterday. I just reiterated the fact that, you know, I'm not going to use this to score cheap shots. This is about putting in America, putting America in a position where we can win this new Cold War, and we can deter World War three in the near term where you can enhance our deterrent posture. So my hope is they'll participate. On our side, similarly, Kevin McCarthy will make the decision. I'm submitting a list of a recommended members, but it's ultimately up to the speaker. He's got to balance a lot of things.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: The Big Winner Is the Conservative Agenda
"Hey Todd, you know, it's great to be with you and you know I was listening to all these people saying, oh, it's okay chaotic on Capitol Hill and look at the fighting and there are a bunch of babies and all of this and all of that. And I'm sitting back watching my television set and thinking to myself, you don't look a big winner here is the big winner is the conservative agenda because these people, the non rhinos, the non Republicans in name only. They really had it out there on the floor. I'm from New Jersey, originally and I like a good fight. And you know, I'm not the biggest hockey fan in the world either, but when they fight in a hockey game, I love it. And I think that the more fighting the better, the more argument the better because I was very impressed that it's no longer going to be a house of sheep. All the group think on the left, everybody going along with Nancy Pelosi and now Hakeem Jeffries and whoever else down the road, I'm glad to see that there's some shepherds in the group and not all sheep. Yeah, I'm with you on that Robin. And again, it's not like they were out there caning each other, which I would have minded seeing, actually. I had to see how that works out. But I like to see a little bit of feisty this out there. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that the winners are the American people here. We have a lot to do in Washington. And there's been a lot of lies. There's been a lot of corruption. It's very irritating to people who have sat back and on their couch and they're watching this and we're sending people to Washington and they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing. I thought it was great to see chip Roy out there and Matt gaetz, whether you love him or hate him or however you feel about the man. You know, he stuck to his principles. He's not without issue. And some of the other ones, I
AP News Radio
McCarthy's next big task: Win GOP support for House rules
"Newly elected House speaker Kevin McCarthy is about to face his next big test with the divided House of Representatives that's passing a rules package to govern the chamber. The rules package generally a routine task at the capitol could bring the next showdown for speaker Kevin McCarthy, who needed an epic 15 ballots in hours of negotiating concessions to get enough support to become speaker, already to moderate Republicans, are expressing their reservations. There could also be trouble brewing on raising the debt ceiling and funding federal programs. Ohio Republican Jim Jordan on Fox News Sunday. We got a $32 trillion debt. Everything has to be on the table. But democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on NBC's meet the press, says he's concerned the cuts promised to conservatives will go too far. Undermine the health to safety and the well-being of the American people, it may undermine national security and a robust defense. He says they'll work with the GOP to find common ground where they can. Jackie Quinn, Washington
WCPT 820
"hakeem" Discussed on WCPT 820
"And welcome back. So Catherine Clark is the House minority whip. She's number two, you've got Hakeem Jeffries as the House minority leader and then she is the whip. The person responsible for what's called whipping votes kept making sure, you know, who's going to vote for this, right? Counting votes, all that kind of stuff. And she's from Massachusetts. The 5th district of Massachusetts, Framingham, Cambridge, Medford. And yesterday, she was the person who nominated Hakeem Jeffries. They're going through this process, by the way, right now, on the floor on the house of the floor, the various people being nominated. They're going to hold another vote. But her nomination speech was just breathtaking, and I just wanted to share two minutes of it with you. This is representative Catherine Clark as part of her speech to present Hakeem Jeffries to the to the to the house. I'm Scott. And small businesses needed to reopen and the American people wanted vaccines. They said no. When we tapped insulin costs for seniors at $35 a month, they said no. When we lowered healthcare costs in premiums for working families, they said no. When we defended the civil rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, they said no. When we protected lives from senseless gun violence, especially in the wake of the horrors of buffalo and evolving, they said no. When we stood up for women and reproductive freedom, they said no. When we brought manufacturing back to America, they said no. When we answered the urgent call to protect our planet and invest in clean energy and create tens of millions of good paying jobs, they said no. When we said women deserve equal pay for equal work, they said no. When we said that child care and paid family leave should be available to every worker in this country to every family, they said no. When we secured the fundamental right to vote for every single American, they said no. When we stood by our veterans and expanded their access to healthcare, they said no. When we defended our democracy two years ago tomorrow from a tyrannical president following the January 6th insurrection
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: House Speaker Debate Shows Distrust in the Establishment
"You're not just your journalist You're not just you don't have tunnel vision which is one specific topic You cover a lot of things on your Twitter And this vote up there on Capitol Hill I know a lot of the McCarthy type folks even in my conservative talking head space you know they have a difference of opinion and some of them are friends of mine but we don't all agree on everything we're not automatons like the left We don't know Hakeem jeopardy How game jam that's all they do We have differences of opinion But I find some of the commentary by people laughable suggesting this is chaos comparisons to January 6th You've been watching this like I am Look chaotic to me house convenes They gavel in They put names in the nomination You either get a majority of the people that show up to vote or you don't You know Julie that's the process Is that stormtroopers on the floor beating the crap out of people If they don't have the votes they don't have the votes I mean I don't understand Why are we on the conservative side Always having to fight our own people who parrot left wing narratives trying to humiliate us The left doesn't do that I'm always astounded at people who cover politics who don't understand politics don't like politics and don't understand how it works right This is politics I'm sorry it's not just in a nice shiny package We're no one hustle sunny feathers I mean this is the war within the party There is deep distrust for establishment Republican leadership in Congress including justifiably Kevin McCarthy So this was a fight worth having We'll see how it ends But I think it has empowered some very influential persuasive passionate voices that we need in this party And so I commend the people who are undertaking this I certainly do not criticize them because this is what politics and political power is all about
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Democrats Hold a Moment of Silence to Commemorate Jan. 6 Events
"Democrats never want to let a crisis go to waste, they're holding a moment of silence on Capitol Hill led by Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi to commemorate the two years since the January 6th riot. It's nice of them to pay homage to Ashley babbitt like that. That's really nice. It's very noble of them. I'm glad they appreciate Ashley babbitt being shot dead by a capital hill police officer. There's Nancy. Oh gosh, don't worry, I won't torture you. I have a friend who's been saying one good thing about the speaker McCarthy debate is it's finally taken the foot off the gas pedal of the incessant January 6th stuff. The obsession that the Democrats have with trying to hang the actions of hundreds of rioters two years ago around the necks of all Republicans and all Trump supporters.
Mark Levin
Ro Khanna: Could Republicans Vote for Hakeem Jeffries?
"This is my great concern I'm not saying it's going to happen but if you go down this road you can't be sure what will happen Here's ro Khanna He's a Democrat from Silicon Valley And he was on CNN yesterday Cut to go Well we are going forward There wasn't a single defection in the vote for Hakeem Jeffries Of course a historic vote The plan and an answer 'cause you're good stalinists Let's be honest about that That's why there's never a defection Can't have a defection But anyway go ahead The lead a party in the House of Representatives And we're very optimistic about our leadership Here's the sense if there are 5 6 Republicans want to come across the vote Hakeem speaker we'd be thrilled People have floated this idea well what about a moderate Republican There have to be in my view at least two conditions that are met First they can't hold this country hostage with the debt ceiling or government shutdowns And second they can't have subpoena power to do frivolous investigations against the president Unless they agree to those two terms I don't think a single Democrat is going to vote for any Republican And yet there are Republicans who might agree to that
Mark Levin
Forget About the Sunday News Shows
"This Sunday is why it's how you forget about the news on Sunday do not watch these Sunday shows Meet the depressed defaced the nation They are propaganda mills These are Democrats who run these programs Just frustrate you And of course they're coming to the rescue of Hakeem Jeffries He's not an election denier The only Republicans can be election in ours Not Hakeem no So now they're attacking Hakeem Jeffries He's a historic figure Just like Nancy was a historic phase You can't attack her You can't attack these historic figures ladies and gentlemen And yet Hakeem Jeffries was and is an election tonight It's also a left winger left winger Who's anti semitic and racist uncle Is close to him and he's close to him even though he doesn't agree with his quote unquote theory You know the Jews are rats It's a theory Then we have this guy Raphael Warnock who's running for the Senate To historic Don't question him Now Herschel Walker who's an African American he's a joke But you see Raphael Warnock is historic Now they've spent a $100 million down there trying to destroy Herschel Walker This is why people just don't want to run for office It's a lot of money To change somebody from who he is to what they want him to be And yet we know information about Warnock and none of it came up over the weekend They're asking everybody about Trump who wants to get rid of the constitution don't you know I like the Democrats who you know they support it
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: Every High-Profile Left Figure Denied 2016 Election
"The Democrats just picked a new leader Hakim Jeffries now I know amber you follow the game here as much as I do sadly it has turned into a game The left told us the worst thing you could be right now is an election denier right If you are you should be banned from YouTube Twitter Facebook SnapChat TikTok You shouldn't be allowed to speak You should be hung from your toenails Upside down 20 hours a day Four hours to get your breath back in that's it Which is really strange Because Hakeem Jeffries is on video and audio I just played it before you came on Repeatedly questioning the 2016 election Your thoughts are missed disaster It's so typical pretty much every high profile figure on the left at this point we know based on their old social media habits and posts that they all thought to 2016 election was stolen And the ones who didn't outright say it were pushing the idea that Russia had colluded with Trump to help him win anyway So he came Jeffrey's Nancy Pelosi Korean Jean Pierre the current White House press secretary and then the former one Jen Psaki They have all done it It's funny When a Republican wins and they didn't want them to win they claim voter suppression but then when a Democrat wins and Republicans point out fraud they say that you're an election denier
It's All Political
"hakeem" Discussed on It's All Political
"I know jared huffman doesn't have one that's that would be his district without here in this rain brin for awhile Do you have or if not him. Do you have a favorite west coast. Well i will say that will park. Actually interestingly enough combines rice spent a lot of time in new york was born in harlem right right. Didn't spent time in the california. He all spent time in baltimore. Of course pelosi connection plus and then northern california in and around oakland right right kelly and then of course with death row records In southern california so he brings a lot of things together. I do very political in his early career. That is correct You know one of my favorite to pop songs. <hes> is <hes> against lots in He He has a phrase in that where he talking about some things that related to when he was in a tough spot in new york And he would he would use the phrase. The realist ish. I have a wrote and I've just thought about that phraseology. A lot during the trump years because we've been compelled to engage in real talk because the stakes have been so high and we can't sugar coat. The situation that we confront to park never did And <hes> and against all lines. We were able to win back the house and now have this triangular alignment of values between the house. The senate and the presidency and and we'll continue to get things done for the people. Okay cards manhattan jeffrey. Thank you for being. Thank you for rechristening. The podcast here at the chronicle. And thank you for being on thank you. It was just so great to be back at the chronicle building today in a renovated. Newsroom to record this podcast of very pumped to be back for the first time in a year and a half. I'd like to thank everyone listening and hope that you and your families are safe and healthy. I'd like to thank congressman jeffries for being on the podcast today. I'd like to thank the king webby award winning producer king kaufman for producing today's episode. And of course we always throw out some love for our fabulous theme music. That song you're listening to is called cattle call and it was written by randy clark and performed by randy clark and crow song. And remember the matter of your fan of biggie. For fanta to pock. It's all political.
It's All Political
"hakeem" Discussed on It's All Political
"But i do believe that we're going to land in a very good place while you're here and of course the home district of of the boss. Nancy pelosi So give us give us a pelosi story that we we don't know about give us give us a insight to what it's like working with her that we don't that we don't know well and you you don't have to suck up all too much. You just give me give me something really well just simply say this. I think that We all we know that she's smart as a whip And we'll go down in history as one of the most legendary legislative leaders ever She's tough and she's fair at the same time. How does she keep people to get the the the the caucus together. I mean there's rarely defection. There's got some trouble with this tax bill but there's a rarely defects. What does she do to she. She's not a yeller she's a she's she come out like her daughter i said was. She's kind of like an italian grandma. Sometimes you know kind of guilting you in the store what would is. What is her superpower there. Well i i would say One was clear to me is that she loves the caucus. She loves the congress the constitution and the country. That is clear in everything that she does. I hadn't heard the italian grandmother analogy But that makes a lot of sense to me in. Italian grandma is very loving but also if you cross the line. There could be some challenges. Yes as as someone who has had a couple of time. Grandma's i feel that would it be learned from her personally. What would have you watched her up. Close she's obviously. She's a huge fan of yours. I remember sitting various to'real board where she was talking you up several years ago. What have you learned from her. Well it's been amazing opportunity To be able to work closely with her to learn from her And to watch how she leads during a very difficult time she was really built for this moment and was the tip of the spear in leading us out of the trump era winning the house governing pushing back against donald trump and his excesses and ultimately holding the house and helping to make sure we won the senate and the presidency. The thing that i've learned from her. I think that is most impressive. Is she respects. All aspects of the broad coalition of house democrats progressives and she represents a very progressive district here in san francisco. As i do beck at home. The people's republic. Oh brooklyn yeah same thing..
It's All Political
"hakeem" Discussed on It's All Political
"That's what the former president said and it appears that so many republicans continue to adopt that philosophy and the people of california rejected that lie and that level of responsibility in the recall election. Not trump is not going to be on the ballot and twenty twenty two. How'd you get there's been a concern about. How do you get the dick. Latino voters young voters under thirty thirty five how do you get them. Engage without trump on the ballot trump. At the top of the ticket would. Would you do to get to turn out those voters who are very key in these house. Races in california especially in swing districts. We'll trump is not on the ballot but trump ism remains on the ballot and in the aftermath of the violent insurrection. You would have thought that reasonable. Republicans would have run toward democracy as opposed to running away from democracy But instead of embracing the fact that the heart and soul of america is the notion of self government. One person one vote and that what we saw on january six was wildly unacceptable and can never happen again and instead they continue to perpetrate the big lie that donald trump actually won the election and that joe biden is not a legitimate president and so it continued to worship at the altar of the cult of personality that is donald trump so i think trump is will be on the ballot for many voters but most importantly democrats are acting decisively to cut taxes for working families and for middle class families to lower costs including in healthcare and child care for everyday americans and to create millions of good paying jobs. That's what the build back better act is all about and as speaker pelosi recently indicated our top priority as we go back to washington will be to make sure that we get the bipartisan infrastructure agreement.
It's All Political
"hakeem" Discussed on It's All Political
"Political writer and today our guest is new york. Or should i say brooklyn congressman hakeem jeffries. He it's a rising star in national politics a member of the democratic leadership in the house and is often mentioned as a possible successor to house speaker. Nancy pelosi we will talk about as well as everything from next year's midterm elections to possible new taxes to new revelations about what was really going on behind the scenes at the january six insurrection at the capitol. And for those who know jeffrey's they know he's a big fan of hip hop artists. Biggie smalls even quoted during donald trump's second impeachment trial but we asked him what his favorite to pox core quotas. Here yes we go east coast versus west coast rap battles were all over the place of the jeffries and now here is our conversation guardsmen..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"And you know the places where they were fruits berries and nut trees. They're still lives there. he's like man. You know all those countries are everywhere. They're not anywhere. The apple trees on the plum trees. And i can only do. That's due to a loss of pollinators. I don't know why that would be the case But i just wonder know. I don't know that a planet that's the only living things that humans use is viable. I don't know that is not viable. But i feel like that's not a good formula that yeah if it doesn't serve me i don't care about. Yeah well that's kind of you know our treating the other life forms or the player Yeah for hope you know is the human potential for me I see so much potentially humanity right. If we would trusting. We were trustworthy. We'll be star trek tomorrow but you know the people who who is a top of our political classes. You don't always seem to. It seems to be about power agreed dynamics quite often more so than service. What's best for the nation. What's best for the people And and you know. I'll give you another example. I would love to see humanity as a whole. Come together you know. We've had three atmospheric emergencies global warming acid rain hole in the ozone layer. Right what that says to me is. Oh we can engineer our atmosphere. Yeah going into an international treaty to do that. We're like oh let's go for all the money we can't use. We created a crisis now. Let's fix the crisis or pretend it doesn't exist right so anyway. I don't know what else going forward that think you know it is. It is the human potential. It is the idea and i think that ultimately in in reading your book in talking to you really strikes me as as you know the legacy of dr hakeem luce which is that not only is it the patents and the innovations and the discoveries about our cosmos about our galaxy about our son..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"The scales and so people will will assess them as having more psycho pathology and having more potential psychosis when really if you look at the questions. They say things like the police are out to get me. Oh my god what is like they are you know. And it's one of those things that if only white people are writing the tests and if only white it it's just like if you've never had the experience of you've never opened that frame there and how do we change that. It's not that yes it helps reading. Your book helps opening up my perspective and my mind helps but you have to have seat at the table. You have to also be writing the test. That's why i appreciate you for having me on today. Because you know in academia. I feel like people like me are often swept under the table. And what do i mean people like me. People who have the lived experience of being at the very bottom you know. I think that there is sort of like a bourgeoisie academia alley and sold. They're like okay. You have skin. That is consistent with Having the experience of this race but then you find out that in fact that's not their experience of a of that. Why won't they give the microphone to someone who's actually You know sold a dime bag here and there. You know what i'm saying. Yeah no absolutely. I think humor why they won't do it. Oftentimes i think they're scared of what you're gonna say. Yeah and i feel like people talk to people feel comfortable are who reflect them in a way. You're so right. And i think that the i mean the whole point of this is that i've been really working to change the narrative of my show. It's not just about science but science happens. it doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in a cultural context and so as much as like. Thank you for thanking me for having you all i want to say to you. Thank you for coming on..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"Quick loading while you're right except for me right and she goes. Yeah the only reason why you made it 'cause goofy. She's made by that. You know later years. She says well he has the self deprecating uber that puts people at ease. Who had reason why you're not. You're not scaring people. You're not just like old switching. Yep you do okay let me make sure. No one is a village threatened by me writing. I'm a safe black man. Got the handy. Especially if i have a banks woman about four you owe now you going right yeah. Also it's a complicated world. We live People are complicated. It's one of the things i dislike about. Conversations about race is that we do. Sometimes they know white black right and you know at a certain point. I learned that people are all individuals you know and honestly at the age of twenty four. When i left mississippi to go to graduate school at stanford i was of the mind. All white people are racist right assault experience at that point. Then i come to. But here's another point. I like to make is that. You know when you're subject to People mistreated you for whatever reason you know you sort of develop a radar so that you can avoid it right. So i kinda l. racist radar right so one of the things that triggers that is people who talk to you like superiority or what happens in academia a wow the realize. Oh you're not a racist you're just an asshole bagley. Everyone like your superior exactly right and also all skiffle a kinfolk right. Yeah if i look at who's fought outguns on me. I've had goes put out or being racist incidents. I've had guns pulled out all be a necessarily by police but by far is black dudes or both guys all right so you know. It's a complicated situation. And best thing we can do is all interacting get to know each other as individuals right.
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"Brings up one other thing for me as you were talking about working as a professor and kids coming to you and revealing their their horror stories and their pain and through your book telling about your own personal Horror stories and your pain. And i think one of the things that really i don't know comes up for me as this idea of frame of reference. Just like you were talking about with if you haven't eaten in people like a. I don't know i eat every day I remember when i was working. I worked in foster care for for a few years as part of my training in in a group home setting so i was hearing many of these horror stories. That you talked about it was My my population of patients was There were all girls Kind of preteen adolescent preteen and teenage girls. Many of them had been trafficked. Many of them had like pretty violent abuse and neglect mysteries. And one of the things that really resonated for me. And i feel like we all get this intellectually but once you really get it emotionally so many things fall into place for you. Is that kids who are violently and horrifically abused in the home when they're young. Don't know that that's not normal. Because that's their frame and it takes a while to once they enter into the greater world to understand options to understand that. That's not everybody else's frame. And i think we say we see the same thing with poverty with class divides with race divides if we keep people segmented and they don't have a seat at the table. They don't know that that seat even exists right. Exactly i'll give you a good example of what justice right so i used to television show called outrageous acts of science. Yeah we would frequently saying this hotel. The sheraton universal. Oh my gosh you must know. Karen bondar care good for instagram love. It doesn't go anyway. You how many times. I'm in that hotel and the elevator opens and it's a woman at her children in a children's start getting on the elevator involves docile and they let the door slow to catch another way by not with him like a nice guy in the world right or even like when i was in boston like this is the one i don't i didn't get i was taking the train everywhere next to me. Why is it there so you know. I don't smell of decent looking guy all these. These microaggressions that that occurred at people are just completely unaware of and it is. There's nothing you can do. You know being you know like for example you know a woman named arena holbrooke okay. So she's an amazing woman she. She speaks six languages. She's a black woman rovan. La got her undergraduate degree at caltech went to uc. Santa cruz do astronomy. But then decided. I hate the field or at least the people in the field so let me study the people in the field right if so.
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"Fellow teachers say things that will be you know the opposite of motivating mista this positive force that motivating force if you could be the person that says. Oh i'm interested you so for example when i was in the when i first started doing extracurricular activities. It wasn't when i got mississippi. It was just before that. When i was a houston so i live in a community dole at south park which you know the hood and a bus into the third war to attend james ryan high middle school right which is near. Yates high school. That was the hood to but now gentrified so sologub hood. It's now better camps with those teachers. Saw me right. All those teachers are like. Oh my god look at this case performance. They were like okay. I would've put the drama club by english teacher dead. I wanna put you in the bath club. Math teacher did ask assigned to swim. Team at it was brou- extracurricular activities. Be adroit it to the by teachers that i got to be able to compete outside of my school z. That all i'm competitive. When i try right that you know establishing that identity was really important for me going forward. Right to sprinkler activities wants idea so down. Mississippi's and the interesting thing. Is that actually really contributes to the resiliency. Because you're now a multifaceted human being with multiple interest so as you get older and you say maybe i want to go to college and maybe you try on a a major and it doesn't quite fit. You're not just gonna give up. You're gonna say that's okay. I have other things to offer. And i have other interests. Well let me tell you something about mississippi at least back in the day you have to work from the once you get like seven years old your work right and working on the field working in the woods and where i was living. It was hauling pulpwood. And if you don't know what that is good for you let me tell you. It is hard at dirty words of. But i would out there and you know i was a city boy woods and i could not believe how hard it will. Baker does work and there was like zero sympathy. Yeah so you know by and then you know a carrying a tuba through the mississippi. He did military boot camp. And i go to a program..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"Every kid. If a kid said mathematics or science the audience would just iraq right. Because they know so. Yeah other kids will bully you. Because you're getting attention from the teacher. And that sort of thing you know. There's all these people especially the adults who are salsa ploy of right because of the value. They value yeah. And so i'm interested in you personally when you were young did you. How readily did you find that in yourself. How much did you feed it. How much did you try to suppress it like. When when how was that identity development going for you and sort of. When did you know so what happened with me. It's a strange thing. How how it worked out for me. But by pathway to an intellectual identity was books so by mother was a reader. And i remember when she was seven years old. She bought me like two or three little books but they had my name in it. My sister's name my best friend's name right. It's i just love reading those books At the same time. I became a really excited about the natural world. Right for watching. Tv shows barring stouffer wild. America jot cousteau right. That's what i was into while it turns out that my mother's best friend had a son who was two years older than me. This guy grows up to be the second highest ranked african american in the us. Navy submarine fleet ultimately. It's running to base at ames station in san jose nasa. They're brown is his name. And darren in i sorted together hat intellectual kid. A identity develop if so when i was eight years old for example dare taught you chess. We'll play chess all the time. If so you know. After the mini years we separated after high school. We went about our separate lives and we reunited twenty ten. I was in the bay area. Utah we we met a man you know. I just wanted ob- agent famous bronx. 'cause i've been telling the story about you all these years and always credit you with the person who gave me the identity of being a smart guy and where he says to me blows me away goals where you know what we as each other because before you showed up. It wasn't cool to be like that right but then you made. It came from me to be like that right. So yeah and and and so i had sort of a ambassador to introduce me to that way of thinking and at the same time you had a single. Bob worked all the time i was left alone. A lot and my first experiences with humid's involve a lot of islands right so i've not been that humans. You know your love hate relationship with a bright source. My greatest source. Enjoy my greatest source of pain. But you know. I was a you know i was gonna title the first chapter of the book. It ain't safe. Beat the humid's so you know. I found myself bonding with books at a young age. And that's kind of what led me to being. You know the the identity ultimately developed..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"College. Football rancher to me would be getting a graduate degree in topic right so if you got a phd in chemistry or physics. That's like the equivalent of playing college ball. You're damn they're professional one more step elite training you got traded but the point not make it is is that how can a high school teacher. Who's teaching math and physics. Prepare future physicists. When they don't even know what that is right. And i'll give you an example of that. There is the the classic statement of the misguided student trying to learn math. would. Will i ever need this. Would i use this in my life. Right what he know what i learned. There are something to that when you actually look at the math. That's taught and the math. That's actually done as a professional engineer scientist for the most part all you really need to do as far as numbers are concerned is added multiply single digit numbers. Most of the time. Right your stuff. Like expert Cubed right may you know you ask provided. The street was Times x. cubed they'll look at you like you're crazy most people right massimo's plus three five right in the exact same problem but It you know so. I say all this to say that if you grow up with me in your house you get those things and you get a very young and so by the time reached college already. Seen it several tabs compared with me had my parents right. When i'm giving college i've seen things for the first time and not only that the way i've been educated it harder for me to learn the railway than if i been Educated probably from the start. You know you have to learn things to learn the right way on us right. We're not walking around with empty minds. Were walking around with mines that are filled with procedures and heuristic that that fit our kind of were frame in our world view and sometimes those things are actually yet. They negatively impact us in in other areas. Like you take a fish and you put a fish out of the water and into the tank or vice versa and all the sudden a lot of the skills that were developed help navigate that one world do not work in this new world. Yeah you know. I that is classic. When i was first profess region i would ask the my l. s. Why don't we just teach the students all the professional ways from day. One like i'll give you an example. If you're going to be a scientist or engineer you have to write up these professional reports and to that. You mostly use a software Late coral attack. So why do we have do this college book or lab report for that. That is never used anywhere else in life. Yeah he's the knowing the professional way from day one true. Yeah why are we so often learning how to do it. The way we're going to do it in industry or in academia once we get there as opposed to. Yeah that's really interesting. Yeah like adjusting the frame. I think one thing to kind of to kind of go back to is when you mentioned being in stanford and realizing a these people are not entrance. Likely smarter be they Definitely don't work harder. I feel like there's this the c. To this which is that..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"A and so. I've jumped from i. You know. I get bored easily to right so i jump from area to area so then you not try my hand in new bake so look over the last five years of my career. I've been the chief science officer for discovery. The space science education manager at nasa headquarters administrative position. And you know. I bet a lot of television and i've not been in a classroom at all right and so now even in your twenty twenty you know i. I spent that year in in half and mostly twenty nineteen writing the book right. So you know hopefully make a movie and do a podcast by own and do other things. And i just started a new professorship at george mason university's all Very cool. I love that and and so as and when you do your professor ring are what kind of science i always like to ask this of especially of cosmologists. Like what is your quote lab look like is it. A whiteboard is it. Computers is it you know like how are you doing your science so let me tell you the description of my last lab okay. I i switched between highly computational work and laboratory work right building instruments detectors that sort of thing so my last research ruben actually had to research groups one was doing what we call near. Field cosmology or galactic archaeology and basically the idea is we find stars for whom they have a special characteristic which means we know how bright they are either different types of pulsating variable stars and because we know how bright they are based on how bright they appear. We can tell how far away they are all right so once you do that. For many many stars you can map them out in three d. space and sort of identify and disentangled the various substructures. That came together to form our galaxy And if you understand how our galaxy formed that informs the on how other galaxies may have formed and tells you how to university ball so that was one side. The other side was my plasma physics group so our laboratory is the surface of the sun so we publish a lot of solar physics papers. But also i would tell my students to pay attention to phenomena. That is what we call scale in barriot. That means that you know something phenomenon and we're looking at it in stars in may happen on the scale of millions of miles in stars but he can happen on any scale. And so what am i. Griping students identified Such a process. That accelerates ions in the in the sewer atmosphere and so we split off of experimental group. That is doing ion propulsion based on this new technology so we published the first paper on it in two thousand seventeen and now it's about building. The prototypes wow so Studying phenomenon that occurs naturally within the furnace of the sun and then saying way we can maybe take that and utilize the science utilize the physics and the chemistry that we've learned from it and actually then apply that to something that we can use here on planet earth absolutely absolutely. That's part of why i call my work hacking. The stars hack into ways right. One is to repurpose so To learn this stuff from studying the sun analysis use it for this technology. That idea immediately. Graham school i have several patents in Manufacturing computers to go after physical technique and applied it to semiconductor manufacturing right..
Talk Nerdy
"hakeem" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"Ado here. He is dr hakeem older shade came. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me having here. I when your book. I came across my desk. I was really thrilled. And i immediately reached out to the The publicist that usually works from the publisher. The publicist from the publisher and said please can we. Can we get him on my show. Because i think that I'm i'm just really excited to talk about this story. I wanna today. It's going to be physics but also life physics and social justice physics and race and class and socioeconomic status but all of that is to say physics. And you because you tell this is a story that's not just about your work is a professor your work as a scientist i should say but your your life and how you got where you are today but how who you are is is always gonna be rooted in in. You know the kind of context of some of the problems here in america. Absolutely and you know i i wrote my book because people ask for it and so i felt that i had to be just completely.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"hakeem" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Go bill. The end is near. The end is where did you. What was the biggest lesson for you from this basketball season. Did you take anything away. Did so you feel like the bucks. Were the right team that won. And yet i could argue. If durant's big toe is six inches back the nets when the title like i like how regular remember this season five years from now they could sustain. They couldn't couldn't get they couldn't play well enough to get kyri box. They could play well enough to get heart and healthy. The bucks did that. Yeah we watched the guy have made me one of the most catastrophic looking injuries with not and they held it down until he got it so to me. That was the difference. I'm like this is the whole down here. Can you hold me down. Yeah you hold your best players down. And the milwaukee bucks held them down so i tip my hat to. Because the lakers couldn't do it. You know so. Yes could philly philly kind of been have to do it. They just didn't play well so they were the best thing. Would you trade. For ben simmons without question you know i used to play with a couple of guys and as you say. They couldn't super basketball all through my life high school college. Whatever and i always a good shooter. But i'm like oh come on. Let's go workout. will you come. We'll get jumper right. We'll get an eighty johnson. I said but you know we gotta get to a point where you're gonna shoot it. Well enough you're gonna tell you. But i still do this so well. You're not you still might not see it. So let's concentrate on what you do really well. So yeah you don't shoot the three but they might not ever have to see it you know and that's when you start becoming a leak and that's what you honest it you said. I don't super three while. But i'm gonna do this so great that you might not have to see and i think ben has really focused on that and say i'm gonna push the basketball at six foot ten at a pace that you might not ever see me shoot at three but i will work on what you might have this. Yeah i guess. I'm a big defender. Has i thought he was terrible. In the playoffs i mean he obviously fell apart. The question for me is there's this i think as a regular season guy. I could build a team around in. That's good right like you said. I put the ball in his hands. I'm running. i'm going shooters. I'm just. I'm i'm giving him the car keys doing his thing. But when we get to the playoffs and it slows down and it gets super physical and it gets tense and you can feel it in the arena and every every possessions like squeezing blood from iraq Do i want him out there in those in those situations. That's the part. I can't wrap by hetero well to be a great to me and lights like a superstar. Not not a lot of all star. There's all sorts to stop a superstar five way to control the game. Obviously we know rebounding scoring assists in his defense leadership and then the last which is the most important for guard is pace of games so in the playoffs. When you play. The scenic sons. With steve nash jason kidd. You still have to play fast. Yeah like they make you play at that. I don't care who you are. You're gonna have to score one hundred ten points. The beat the phoenix suns. with jason. kidd. Steve nash at the point in the playoffs. That's how he has to say to me. That's what i would be emphasizing. If i was a team-mate coach general manager president. You have to play his face and you have to make us play and make other teams say you gotta school hundred ten to beat us and if you could do that no one's going to give a damn about to jump shots well. He's not the player. Hakeem was but everyone forgets there. Was this a key moment right in ninety two before he had his three run where he wanted to get traded. He was out. There was available. And i remember there. Were like reggie lewis for hakeem trade rumors. Every city had their version of like. Can we gotta keep a little like what is happening dame lillard now and i wonder like with this philly thing because to me it seems broken. I just don't think embiid and simmons make sense together. I don't think they're ever gonna make it but we kind of felt like with akeem in houston in ninety two. It's like oh well he can ever be. The best guy in a title team needs to change of scenery. We had all these preconceived things then he ripped off one of the great three year runs. Any centers. had simmons isn't akeem. But it's always. I always i was think about that. Sometimes their trade you don't make can be the best trade you make you know the trade i was just gonna let you actually go through and it was glen rice. And lots of divas for accumulates. What and that's it. And and and i gotta pick glen rice. Was the shooter you saw at. The time was slot. So you know that was a trade. That was gone out. And i remember going to the team and goi- really want about me and then l. Anyway he went to college there. Yeah i can't believe in houston. He's been a place he'd been for twelve years. You know were really close and most of all team. That's well guys. Like we all had a relationship where we could ask the honest question to each other and and he kind of danced around it and so he said i haven't heard.
StarTalk Radio
"hakeem" Discussed on StarTalk Radio
"That same experience. Yes in your work and your work or in your admiration of the universe or anything that puts you in that same wonder of i see the night sky in three teen oneida kinda outta body kind of like this. This is why. I'm this is why i'm here. Like what is there something that happened. Sometimes you have these insights right that that aren't really insights which is like. Oh that's really interesting so for me. Data doesn't and so the data that did that for a year ago was a visualization created from sloan digital sky survey data done by lawrence berkeley laboratory. So we say things like. Here's two million or two trillion galaxies in the observable universe and show these slices of the universe but when you see a three d representation you can look around universe. You see what the galaxies are just to be clear when you project the full three d universe on paper you take slices through. Was these places you're referring to when you go to a full visual three d representation. No longer slices necessary to clarify is that is that the barrier oscillating stereos surveys for that so boss. This is this the precursor away. Yes guy surveys. But so here's what i thought about. This is not actually in three eighty but it triggered by vegetation. Because what do we do. We from students astronomy in order for them to understand the universe. we say you know things like this analogies. The universe is the basic building block of the galaxy is the basic building block of the universe in much the same way that the sale is the basic building block of your by and i thought to myself. Well you know what. Let me take that to to the limit. Let me take that seriously. So shrank myself down so small at this is when human sale in in respect to me is like the size of the galaxy with respect to me now twenty two for nerves out there so i did that now if i if i did study the universe from that perspective so say i'm an elephant and i'm like oh i see these types of galaxies. They're spirals they behave this way too. Structured is wage. Oh i see these. They behave this way. The orient themselves as wage. Now let me do the same thing in my analogy. I'm an inelegant. Oh i see a nerve cell. These things behave this way to distribute this way. Blood sales bone cells muscle cells. You have any idea what an elephant is. What you're saying is so you you are Who's the woman who drives the bus. That can go any size shape a magic school by you. You're on the magic school all during that all time at all. That's pretty wild. Oh man that's a. That's a great analogy. I love it. Yeah yeah yeah. It's a change of perspective. Let me give you another change of perspective right because scientists. We always like to talk about like how everything's off space like. How long does it take a light rage. You know that you know that. visualization on the internet. Where in real time. We're going to travel from the sun. It shows travel of the beam of light. A brilliant really completely bryant. Right i love was asian. I tweeted it. And what he's wandering said someone's shows the actual beam of an actual beam of a video of a beam of light moving from earth to the moon and it takes about one and a half seconds so you see take one and a half seconds then you see like go for like from the sun to the earth that takes eight minutes and twenty seconds so you wait there for the stuff and what you say. Damn that light is slow. A talked so so in your in your You quote even haytham. Yes we spent a bit of time on him in cosmos once remind everybody who he is he is i. I consider him the first Practitioner of scientific method. He's the guy who showed that the i is a passive receptor. It does not send out a beam and bounce back. and when is newton your favorite scientists. I've heard saying my boy. I if i bothered and others is because i stood on the shoulders of giants even l. height. Them was one of the people. He was speaking out because his book of optics as a scientific trees in history at around the turn of the century. One thousand just change everything. So this is in the golden age of this laws right back between like eight hundred and eleven hundred ad. So there's a quote here. Which is it's the it's it's got it all in. We only allow me to read it if lease emissions lease normally your voice okay so just a reminder even out haysom was a mathematician and astronomer and and basically credited with the first formulation of the scientific method which would take probably another six hundred years to become widespread use but he landed their first and if learning the truth is the scientist goal. Then he must make himself an enemy of all that he reads he should also suspect himself so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. There in two sentences is the fundamental seeds of the scientific method on typically ed and his his statement about holidays is amazing as well or man to imagine. Arrangement of the heavens does not make it exists okay. That's good. I liked the first one better. We left here so so tell me you were born james. Plummer junior thrive. And now you're now you pulled the african card. So where did that come from and why you know what so the burst thing. The seeds of it started. When i read my very first novel which happened to be the book groups. Everybody was talking about i. I didn't have any love or adult at the age of nine right As armed sitting around the bar board is. I don't know what it gives us thing read and i got stuck. I mean i could not put it down. But when he got captured that was the first thing they just got me at heart. When can take you can take our cabinet right then. The second one was the the the middle pass. And you've been a way and you've been a a Star.
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"hakeem" Discussed on StarTalk Radio
"Paul house vogel through it. I will not i will fumble through this and then chuck you come in and make it better as i met. Okay so tell me so. So so where. Are you born as i live in some like historic communities. I was born in new orleans and my whole community is new orleans. East by bother is from rural mississippi. So i spent half of by age pre eighteen life there but also i have a foothold in south central los angeles man where he has a bunch of cousins who are actually Crips or what as no crips. Og rips nee startups yet you know murders and went to prison or a couple of decades and these people you harare with absolutely yeah man. I've heard i would. Everybody like you know. Nfl thing about The current life. You know the current bulb because in science. We have this sort of conflict. You know on one hand. Somebody makes a mistake. That's cancel them. But on the other hand y'all let's go into the prisons. Let's deal with the You know the people that are incarcerated and help mop through education science. So you know i. I believe in redemption and because so many people in my life. I've seen be redeemed. Well i'm gonna push back on you. How cain just a little bit i don. I don't think that your story was of redemption at burger king. I knew that chuck. I never said i was smart. Just because i can read one hundred seventy five paint night. okay. I can read. What you're saying is not to put words in your mouth. But what i think what you're saying is your environment and the people and the company you kept was quite an exposure quite a baptism into the challenges of inner city life. In you absolutely look everybody's ready to beat you up including your own family by family happened to have an entrepreneurial spirit so As a very highly competitive. So i got into that life at the age of nine seri- seriously and it was something i was drawn. I was drawn over that life. Which term i call it my dark side right. Dr side was like across. Gotcha gotcha gotcha okay. Crime and light lightsabres right. That's the whole thing about it. That's was watts about right. You have this state of a superposition. Between these days to quantum states i get existed in both of them simultaneously. Nerd and gangsta right. James the nurses okay. But you were black nerd. So that makes you a blurred. Okay just to be clear about that so tell us about. How is it that you kept your compass direction throughout the crime. The violence the muggings. The you know. How does it. Because most people don't and there's probably still in jail in prison because i didn't want to stay that way right and for me. It was very simple tomorrow. I want to live indoors. Eat right and so when i was finishing high school. I'm like oh. What do i do all the military so i joined the military then. I get out of the military. And at that point on aimless as france convinced me to go to college so now in college you have your dorm paid for by your your financial plan which forbid one of the things people talking to me about all my life. Is this free education. We get that miss me somehow loan. I was able to pay for my tuition housing food but then college is coming to an end. I had no idea what to do. And luckily a woman named cynthia mcintyre claude air box showed up all cabins and said hey. We have this thing. We're starting call the national cops like physics students so let me tell you why how you can become a business which i really didn't see as my career. I became a physics major because physics is what was easy to me and the reason why was easy is because i fell in love with albert einstein was ten years old and just studying but even before that i fell in love with logic problems right and as always solve all these logic problems so even though i was like grossly under educated by the time i graduated high school i was passionate about the universe and i taught myself a lot of business without knowing. Okay so you were incompletely educated you still have have passion for learning which is a very important thing and i think you're being a little humble because you are clearly an auto debt and have been entire life and i don't even know that means what does that. What does an auto that. He's got a good thing or bad thing did you. Did you know it means that you're able to teach yourself you are self. You are self didactic. You sell yourself so so. Instead of saying he's self taught you call an auto died decked that yes yes suppose. Beautiful seriously i think the other thing that is a bit under looked i mean. I'm under appreciate it. And i say this not just to you but to everyone listening what people see in you is the case and use it. You know people often look at you and see something and because you are in your current situation you can't see it and so throughout your life of your book. There were always people were like. Hey man you should. Hey man you should write a thing in there. Were the reason why they do is because they see it and now look where you are and it was there. Here's the thing you didn't go quite.