35 Burst results for "Harold"
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Chris Kohls Reflects on Harold Ramis' Performance in "Ghostbusters"
"Any hobbies? I collect spores molds and fungus. Another classic line perfect for T-shirt, the late great Harold Ramis. There was supposed to be a side bar story of a romance between Annie Potts Janine and Harold Ramis character. It wasn't really developed, but he brings so much to all of this as well as the person who helped scale back aykroyd's script and make it far more manageable ramus didn't just act in it. He also wrote a lot of the final Ghostbusters. Yeah, him and reitman says that he basically came up with the whole concept of this as a startup business as opposed to an already existing business like franchise, which was originally was going to be. And yeah, what they did here is great. It's almost like a superhero origin story. And I got to say Egon is perfect. Whatever, you know, Harold Ramis was thinking Egon was going to be. He said, I played it as a new age Spock from Star Trek. It was spark for the 1980s. Perfect. Perfect. But see, the weird thing is he doesn't come across as Spock. But he comes across as whatever, you know, a scientist, a serious scientist who really takes his job seriously. He does have this kind of ability to almost to take things too seriously and not to get jokes and to take everything literally like it's unclear whether he even understands that the secretary is hitting on him. That's not even obvious. So it's like, and he's perfect. The way he plays that he created, you know, sometimes when we're acting, we think we're presenting the character in one way, and then you watch it back and it's something else. And this is one of the reasons why some actors hate watching themselves. Because they're like, oh, that's not really what I was trying to do. It doesn't matter if the audience loves it, it wasn't what you were trying to put on screen. But whatever he was trying to put on screen, this worked.
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In Macron's France, streets and fields seethe with protest
"Four French president Emmanuel Macron, the look of determination on young faces, only Harold's a deepening crisis, his government, igniting a firestorm of anger that he railroaded a bill through parliament, pushing the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. 17 year old ELISA fagnes is taking part in her first protest in a country that taught the world about people power with its revolution in 1789, and again seething with anger against its leaders graduating from bystander to demonstrator is a generations old Rite of passage. Forehead looks both excited and nervous as she prepares to march down Paris streets to find authority in declaring Noel. Critics accuse Macron of effectively ruling by decree like kings of old, but in the French Revolution, king Louis the 16th ended up on the guillotine. There's no danger of that happening to Macron, but hobbled in parliament and contested on the streets piled high with wreaking garbage. He's been given a tough lesson again about French people power, freshly scrawls slogans in Paris reference 1789. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
What We Know and Don't Know About the Biden Docs Scandal
"Bret baier had my life and Harold Ford junior and myself on last night. We spent most of the panel talking about garage gate and my cut number 7 is my second hit on this. I want your reaction to this because I don't know what the origin story is, but I brought it up last night. Can we play senator cotton cut 7, please? Last word on this, I want to turn topics. We need to know the precipitating event, Brad. What is there a grand jury that's asking for these documents? Why did the Penn Biden center begin the search? Why were lawyers involved? Normally when you're moving documents, it's not the stuff that lawyers do because they're cost too much money. Did the grand jury put in a document request? There is a grand jury investigating Hunter Biden Hunter Biden's attorney admitted to that publicly. I'd like to know the events before November 4 and I hope the Republicans dig deep into the precipitating events for these searches and why lawyers for the president are present looking for the documents without security classifications, but Donald Trump's home had to be rated by the FBI. I also want to contrast that senator cotton with secretary Clinton also presidential candidate when her server was seized. It went to her lawyers and they deleted half the emails. And I see the stream is frozen. But tell me why do you think there are two different approaches? Is this just naked politics? Well, I think that's pretty obviously the reason is that Donald Trump has an R after his name. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have these after their names. Again, it's hard to generalize about these things unless you know the actual content of these documents, the reason they were removed, it is apparently a very common fact that when presidents and vice presidents leave office that some of these documents can find their way inadvertently into boxes, it may have happened with Joe Biden that may have happened with Donald Trump, it happened with presidents before them, rarely are those something of great concern. It's not like for instance a government employee or contractor, spirit and documents out of the classified facility and sharing them with our adversaries or sharing them with the media. But we have to know the circumstances about these documents. To make a final judgment. I will say this about Hillary Clinton, what she did is much worse than what either, in my opinion, and what Joe Biden, Donald Trump has been alleged to do. She was using a server to conduct active business.
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Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers' homes
"Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico have arrested a failed Republican state legislative candidate in connection with a shooting at or near the homes or offices of democratic lawmakers. I Norman hall. Authorities say Solomon Pinot was angry over losing the election last November and made baseless claims that the election was rigged against him. Pinot was arrested at his home by a S.W.A.T. team for the alleged drive by shootings, Albuquerque police chief Harold Medina described pina as the mastermind of what appears to be a politically motivated criminal conspiracy leading to four shootings at or near the homes of two county commissioners, and two state legislators, pina himself is accused of pulling the trigger in one of the crimes. I Norman hall
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Queen guitarist, women's soccer team top UK honors list
"Queen guitarist Brian May has been appointed for knighthood by the British royalty. All right. Rock legend Brian May holds many titles. He has a doctorate in astrophysics. He's an animal welfare advocate, and now at age 75, he's a knight, trying out the sound of that. I think the officially I'm Brian Harold may, and I wanted to have that in there because that's my dad. That's like honored him going dead. Who would be thrilled? Of course, but he's not here. May is among hundreds of artists, community leaders and athletes recognized for the UK new year's honors approved by King Charles. He says this is a challenge, a spark for his charitable work. What a night is supposed to do is go out and do good in the world. And that's what I feel it's about more than anything else is to give me a little bit more, maybe a little more confidence, a little more energy, a little more power. I'm Jackie Quinn
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Did You Watch 'The Five' on Fox News Yesterday?
"Did you watch the 5 yesterday? Did you notice anything unusual about the 5 to 5 is at 5 p.m. eastern 4 p.m. central the 5 is one of the most popular successful shows on Fox News. It's a combination of jeanine pirro and it's always seems to be the Greg gutfeld show, but Jesse waters and Jessica tarlov that the liberal progressive lady Harold Ford Geraldo gets on there once in a while. It's a very successful show. And it's probably their number one rated show next to Tucker Carlson. Do you notice anything unusual about yesterday's 5? In fact, let me just open up the phone lines and ask you if you noticed it. One 806 5 5 mic. Do you see anything a little unusual about the 5s coverage? I know they're, where are they in Miami? I guess, for the patriot awards, they're doing a Patreon thing. And they're on remote. But they did a regular show. And if you settled in to watch it and you enjoy the 5 and you appreciate the show, maybe you noticed something yesterday. I'll let a caller point it out. Instead of me telling you, because there's a big story behind this. And there's a big issue that looms large. And yesterday's episode of the 5 prove what is reality with the political landscape.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Nashville Songwriters Association's Bart Herbison Shares a Story
"Start back though a little bit in the wilder days of Nashville when it was really growing. You tell a great story. One about your very building that you're in. The office building. If people were to come to Nashville and to see if they were to drive by you're building. What would they tell that story? Because it's really a famous building that you really it has nothing to do with Nashville songwriters, but it's where y'all have now. There was a man named Harold shedd. And Harold was from breeman, Alabama. A musical area, breeman, Georgia I'm sorry. And had worked in muscle shoals area, a musical area might as white an asphalt doing radio jingles. And one day hero went, I record jingles, I can record songs. And took the ill advised move of mortgaging his house. To sign a band named young country. When I say built, that would be a lie. Beg barred and stole some really antiquated studio equipment, put it in a room near music row and recorded this band. And the record labels, let me shout. Hey, did this man? Some of them like, what the hell do you think this isn't country? I don't know what this is. They're off temp other off key, never call us again. So Harold had invested everything he owned, and I think quickly learned, maybe this isn't that easy. And the band was ready to walk because they were a bar band. They played around the south making a living, they had kids. They were older about this time. And Harold goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not done. We're going to make a second record. And over months and months and months when the ban wasn't touring, they did. And Harold Senate to all the same labels, and most of them didn't even listen to it. And they said, what did you not understand about we hate this? We hate you because this isn't country. It's like southern rock. We don't know what it is. And so that was that. And there were three songs left. Harrell said look, let's just record them, and by the way he named that room the first music mill. And so they recorded them. All but one, they had one song left. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, as happens in the music industry, RCA was not happy with the Nashville people running it. So they come down and fire everybody at the record level. Everybody. And they bring in, I think he was 27. He was in his 20s, a kid from New York, named Joe galani. He goes to his big lovely office and what used to be the Sony building and they're showing him around, he sits down, there's one one cassette tape. Sitting on his tape player. He puts it in and goes oh my God.
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No. 7 LSU's defense secures 13-10 road win over Arkansas
"7th ranked LSU was able to grind out a 1310 win at Arkansas LSU coach Brian Kelly I'm proud of our guys having the mental toughness to battle and find a way to win a football game when we were challenged the way we work today Josh Williams ran for 122 yards and a touchdown for the tigers Harold Perkins junior had four sacks and two forced fumbles while helping LSU hold the razorbacks to 248 total yards The 8 and two tigers forced and recovered an Arkansas fumble on the razorbacks final drive with one 19 left to clinch the win I'm Dave ferry
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Turtles in demand as pets, leading to a spike in poaching
"The plight of turtles is expected to get plenty of attention at an upcoming wildlife trade conference Freshwater turtles are among the world's most trafficked animals environmental police detective Harold geiss says an intern working with him had been doing a lot of Internet research He came across a Craigslist ad which was someone offering up some turtles for sale And we went from there Police arrested the seller of some tiny turtles after arranging an undercover buy at his house Poaching is driven by growing demand for turtles Lou Perrotti is director of conservation programs at Rhode Island's roger William zoo It's getting ruthless where we're seeing thousands of turtles leaving the United States on an annual basis Karate says this can't go on Turtle populations can not take that kind of a hit with that much removal coming out of the wild One study found over half of living turtles and tortoise species are at risk of extinction I'm Ed Donahue
The Addicted Mind Podcast
"harold" Discussed on The Addicted Mind Podcast
"Today, my guest is Harold Jonas and we're going to talk about blockchain the sober, I want to call it the sober economy, this new idea of leveraging blockchain technology to help people in recovery, but first, before we jump all into that, Harold, do you want to introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about you and what your into this work and then we're going to get into that technology, which I'm very excited to talk about, because I'm a big blockchain fan. Okay, thanks again, Dwayne for having me. And getting through our technical challenges from our first episode and go around with this. Just to begin, my name is doctor Harold Jonas. I am a licensed mental health counselor and I practice in the great state of Florida and have been here and actively participating in healthcare since 1988. My journey started in 87 when I got off a plane, hope we'll see addicted to heroin and methadone. Wound up in one of those traditional treatment centers and managed to somehow learn to be teachable, which was a known experience because of course I knew everything there was to know about pretty much nothing. And learned that there was another way to live and that would be drug free. So since then, late 1987, I've been on this journey of continuing to move forward in self care and helping profession and work with addicts primarily, but also with people with other mental health disorders and with families. And adolescents. So with all that kind of behind me in a sense as far as a brief introduction, what I've been doing here is leveraging technology and healthcare and that started even earlier in my career when I got my first kind of laptop, I guess it was. It was a RadioShack 8 megahertz suitcase of a portable computer that was only dos. And we got it at a yard sale. And I carried that thing around religiously and really was determined to teach myself how to use it. Even though it took forever to do anything, it was endless little teeny screen and it was this really big suitcase. And I really wish I hadn't let it go because it would obviously be an antique at this point. And something of a collector's item. But long story short, I've been really fascinated and just recently come in the realization at all my life I've been fighting being a nerd and never really wanted that label. And yet that's really more empty in that direction than I am in the areas of my wildest fantasy of being the next Michael Jordan or whatever it may be because I am certainly not that. I tried really a nerd at hard really I mean if you're here in every area but only wanted to be the next whatever. And that was my way to fame and fortune was through athletics. And ironic thing is I couldn't see the ball really until I was like 12 years old because they didn't know I needed glasses and so of course I was king of the strikeouts and missing baskets and so forth but God I wouldn't stop trying. But aside from that, I always read and was able to really nurture myself and keep occupied and branded red and red probably thinks way beyond my understanding but read them anyway and absorbed it. So with this technology piece came along really hit me hard when I was had a little portable printer I was running around doing in a home evaluations without adolescence and then printing out stuff and people were getting wowed and that was back in the 90s. I mean, when I was doing that, but it really came to fruition for me when I had a coffeehouse with one of my enterprises that I had started. We had a coffeehouse and catered to people in recovery. And when the iPhone was introduced, I watched groups of people stand around and he's actually stopped talking to each other and just send text messages and photographs in groups with coffee. I like coffee and the one he did in her thumbing everything. And I'm like, oh, this is amazing. And this is the future of therapy. This is the future of communication. This is the future of now. And it was right in front of me. And so what happened is that, you know, obviously it had been staying drug free, all this time and improving myself with education and raising a family and juggling multiple balls at the same time over the course of my career to be able to sit here with you today comfortably and not feel pressured that the phone's going to ring and something bears going to happen. Which is a nice change. Absolutely. So I don't know if that's a real good encapsulation of where I'm at, but I'm really been invested in implementing and leaving a contribution behind more than being a taker, which I had been for quite a few years. And then giving back, but now in a healthier way than I've ever done before. Right. And making a difference. Yeah, and then making a difference comes from your own experience of struggling with addiction and dealing with all of the chaos that comes from that. So your nerd Ness is now part of your, I guess your asset to add something to, like you said, give back to create something to help people who are in Dire Straits who are struggling, you've been there. I know we talked before that many times you were homeless, living on the street, not knowing if you were going to make it. And Karen, you know, not caring. And you just get into a point of apathy that just doesn't matter. For me, jail would look like a pretty good intervention, and a longer period of time in jail, 'cause I kept getting arrested and I kept letting me out. I didn't get that whole thing. I kept violating probation and you kept okay, you need to go back and throw in a halfway house or whatever. And I was like, I need to stay here. I don't know where to live. I have nowhere to eat. I didn't know you got to go take care. I'm like, okay, and so that's how that evolved. So I gave up on that as the intervention and just really dug into well accepting things as they were. And learning how to, you know, you learn survival skills on the street or you don't survive. And so that's how they came to be. When I got the opportunity to change and give it my best, which was very unsuspectingly from a very strange source where my father showed up in my life after a long period of abstinence, he showed up and said, you know, we're bringing you to Florida and give you an opportunity to do something different. I said, you know, I have everything to gain and nothing to lose at that point. So, and given up everything, you know, the drug gods have taken everything from me. And I'd given that willingly and sacrifice my storage area, all of the material possessions I had left, and there was nothing but a suitcase and no, I had no keys. I had no keys left. To open anything. Since I have accumulated massive amounts of keys, like I feel like the key maker and the matrix and all these keys get things. If I don't label money, I remember where they are. It's kind of funny. So back to this nerdiness, the turning point was
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Uvalde school chief plans to retire after community outrage
"The public school superintendent and you vow to Texas says he intends to step down at the end of the school year Hal harrell says he plans to retire and that his heart was broken on May 24th That's the day 19 fourth graders and two teachers were massacred at rob elementary school in the Texas school district Harold runs The school board voted unanimously Monday night to begin the search for Harold's successor His announcement came a day after school district officials fired a new officer who had been a state trooper on the scene the day of the shooting and a week after they suspended the entire school police force in a post first reported by CNN and now taken down from his wife's Facebook page harrell says he's been blessed to work among amazing educators and staff for more than 30 years and that these next steps for the future are completely his choice Carol and other local officials have faced heavy criticism over their handling of the incident officers allowed the shooter to remain inside a classroom for more than 70 minutes I'm Jennifer King
The Dan Patrick Show
"harold" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"The best outside chance of lightning and being able if you got shirts underground to win two games of series. You got a chance to win it all. And they have the potential to do that. They haven't pitched the full season. They've got another hundred innings in them, and I think the injuries early on puts them out of real strength heading into the postseason. Are we past our hatred or should we be past our hatred for the Astros? We should be past it because a lot of those players no longer are there. But they are overlooked. It's a very talented team. I think they're the best probably in the American League. Although my sleeper is the Blue Jays. Oh, people are overlooking the Jays. Got a lot of young talent there. Young talent. They got an asim manoa. Burials can be there. I think they got the staff that can do it the bullpens there. And then the outside probably the best pitching might be the Mariners. They probably are the best pitching. I don't think you're a Mariners. Your Mariners. But I think the lineup is strong enough. No. Altuve going to be a first battle Hall of Famer? He should be, but he might get the Ravi Alomar treatment. For a lot of guys held Robbie back for a year because he spit on the umpire and had that controversy with the, what does garbage can get? I guess with my colleagues. They might punish Altuve for that, but he's a tremendous talent, I think he's the first battle Hall of Famer. Yeah, I wondered about that of how long do you punish somebody for something like that? And the crazy thing about Altuve and it's been backed up by so many people, he never wanted signs. He didn't want people to tell him what was coming or nothing. And I played with guys like that. You know, Alvin Davis never wanted to pitch. Tony Gwynn never wanted to know. You know, I wanted to know. Let me know. So you didn't know you had guys who would signal if they were on second base. They would let you know. I used to do that quite a bit. You know, Ken Phelps was like, I'll take two strikes for you to get the second. Still the base and let me know. And yeah, I had one time, Johnny Moses gave me the wrong sign. I thought it was gonna be a breaking ball and it was a fastball. I was hit me. And after that, I was like, I don't want anymore. Okay, how would you signal me if I'm at the plate? And it's going to be a breaking ball. Well, there's a couple of different ways. One, I would go to my knees, like if I stand up right now.
The Dan Patrick Show
"harold" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"The 5th lowest all time, the lowest since 1968. That's when the league hit two 37, the last season before the pitcher's mound was lowered. Anybody want to take a guess the overall league batting average, this year. Todd? Two 57. Two 57, I think seat O'Connor. Two 75. All right. No, this is the overall league batting average. Everybody. Okay. One 75 then? I don't know. I have no idea. Sorry to scold you in front of everybody. It was four 15. No. It was a stupid guess, but sorry to scold you. Marvin. Two 38. Pauline? Two 60. Two 43. All those guesses were stupid. No. Just so stupid. Don't you watch baseball? It was a bad exactly. Yeah, spring and Harold Reynolds. You knew that, right, Harold? Yeah, I knew it was around that I was guessing two 31 while you were going through that. That was kind of my number, but all right, Harold Reynolds, MLB network analyst, the postseason begins tomorrow, and you can watch Harold on MLB network's coverage throughout. They'll air live before and after every game the schedule in its entirety available at MLB dot com. All right, we got a poll question. I'll give you Albert Pujols career. Or your good buddy Ken griffey junior. Wow. That was a tough one. But it really wasn't that difficult. I'd say griffey. Oh, you know, I look at Albert's numbers, yes. Incredible. But griffey's career, just all the things that came with it. The 19 years old when he broke in, everybody knew who he was. He dominated he changed the sport. All those things I think are probably maybe bigger than the numbers. It gets respect that he probably should, but griffey did. Well, we likened Albert Pujols to Tim Duncan. We liked junior to Allen Iverson. I can see that. Yeah. The flair and what he captured. Like Iverson did, right? Yeah. The lightning in a bottle. Yeah. Yeah. How big a favorites are the Dodgers and how big a favorite should they be? Well, I think they're probably highly favored, but I don't think they're overrated with the favoritism. I'm a little concerned about their starting pitching. The top three guys in the lineup, I think have a chance to be all Hall of Fame potential players. Mookie, Freddie Freeman, Trey Turner, credible. But there's a drop off after that. And I think the pitching is not where it was at. You lose walker buehler. That was a huge blow to them. And Scherzer is now at the mets. So you look at the staff from last year that didn't get all the way there. They're two down. I just don't see it. All right, so then Dodgers still the favorites, right? Yeah, I still think the braves are the favorite. Okay. All right, well, defending champs here, so you got the braves as the team to beat. Yeah. All right. Second best team in bed. Let's look at the best teams in baseball. So American League again nationally. You got the braves as the best team in baseball. The president is the best team in baseball.
The Dan Patrick Show
"harold" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Leaguer and I think they paid him a $1 million to play for ignite. And he not afraid. He already acts like an NBA player, but he's 6 two 6 three. But solid, nice touch. Good handle and seems creative. But Victor, Victor looks like the real deal. You know, that's tank. That's tank a thon, man. Right there. He plug him in into a team. All of a sudden, you got something going on there. Plus he's just learning. He's 18. Although polio, he said yesterday. You sure he's 18. I go, I don't know. You know, it's not like a tree. I can cut him open and go, look at the number of rings here. No, he's 24. I said, even if he's 25, I don't care. He got a lot of talent, going to grow into that body, you have fun. We don't have a nickname yet, but in French, pair Dre E spray is lose on purpose. Oh, people are trying to tank them. Okay. I think we just go with tank or tanking. Which the French word for tanking? Is that like pare? Nobody knows French, like I do. Do you realize that I had two students in my French class in high school who were from Quebec. Their French speaking and they transferred in and they took French. And I said, come on. Like if I went to Quebec and went to high school and they offered English. Can I get into English and get an a? But then again, we all got seasoned English and that's our native language. Let's take a break here. Coming up Harold Reynolds from MLB network. Whose career would he want? Ken griffey junior's or Albert Pujols and will get his playoff predictions as well. More phone calls, back after this, Dan Patrick show. Todd, you hear it, my voice every single day. Enthusiasm and energy. Yes. I've got it. And
The Dan Patrick Show
"harold" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Jeremy Lin will join us in an hour from now from China. He's got a documentary on his career, Lynn sanity, and it's entitled 38 at the garden when he scored 38 on Kobe and the Lakers. But when you start to think about one hit wonders in sports. Because we do this with music all the time. And Jeremy Lin is, I think, by all accounts of one hit wonder. Unbelievable, nice career, but what he did when he was in the garden when he was with the Knicks was truly Lin sanity. There's an omission, it feels like a glaring omission of those interviewed for the Jeremy Lin documentary. The one person that I wanted to hear from Carmelo Anthony I don't know if he was asked, I'm going to guess you would want Carmelo in there. Wasn't Mike D'antoni, the coach at the time, does that sound right with Lin sanity? I'd certainly love to hear from Mike D'antoni, what that was like, all of a sudden your go to guy is Jeremy Lin. The guy you get from Harvard, where they don't even hand out scholarships at Harvard. But went there and he was trying to hold on for dear life. Next thing you know, he's lighting people up. Including the Lakers for 38. But I just remember covering that and you're thinking, how much bigger can this get? It was crazy at the time. But there's a documentary and we'll talk to him, he'll join us from China. Where he's still playing basketball. Yes, hunt. D'antoni was quoted as saying he initially underestimated Jeremy Lin way before lindley, but looking back, it was one of the most incredible experiences of his life being the coach of the Knicks during that time period. I wanted him to be interviewed for this. I'd like to hear from D'antoni in coaching him and what it's like when you have somebody that came out of nowhere and what the friction was like between Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony. I'd love to know that because initially you'll see Carmelo and he's cheering like, hey, this is cool. It's almost like when you bring a new baby home and the baby at home is like two or three years of age and I'm like, all right, hey, I got a new baby. Wait, this baby's staying? Then all of a sudden you're like, no. No, I want to be the baby. Well, I'd like to have heard from Carmelo Anthony on this. 8 7 7 three DP show email address DP at Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter, handle at DP show. Jeff and Detroit joins us on the program, otherwise known as snacks. Hi, Jeff.
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Jean-Luc Godard, radical French New Wave director, dies at 91
"Film director Jean-Luc Godard who revolutionized popular French cinema in the 60s has died He was 91 It was Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature breathless New York Harold tribune That made him the star of the French new wave cinema in 1960 Godard's partner Anne Marie Maeve says he died peacefully at his home in Switzerland today His handheld camera work jump cuts and other radical techniques at the time went on to inspire filmmakers at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival The writer director of in praise of love was asked about a quote he uses from St. Augustine The
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Candy, cash, gifts: How rewards help recovery from addiction
"For an increasing number of Americans addiction treatment involves not only hard work but also earning rewards Harold Lewis and Connecticut has been fighting drug addiction for years Things have changed since he started earning small prizes I'll take the stop and shop gift card It's for attending meetings and staying in treatment for opioid addiction Psychologist Sarah Becker at northwestern university says rewards programs are powerful Biologically the use of substances lights up the same part of the brain that is lit up when a person wins the lottery falls in love or experiences something really positive and exciting Studies have shown rewards work better than counseling alone for addictions It's working for Harold Lewis It makes recovery fun because recovery should be fun because you're getting your life back And the Biden administration backs the method in its national drug control strategy I'm Ed Donahue
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Ramirez has 3 hits, drives in 2 as Rays beat Royals 3-2
"Harold Ramirez had three hits and two RBIs for the raids and a three two victory over the royals Ramirez provided a pair of RBI singles The last snapping a two two tie in the 5th inning He's hit safely in 5 straight games since returning from a broken thumb Christian bethancourt added a Homer to Tampa Bay 7th win in 9 games The rays received four and a third score of sittings of relief after Ryan yarbrough tossed 82 pitches Sean Armstrong picked up the win in Pete Fairbanks notch the save Kansas City starter Zack Greg he was lifted after allowing two runs and 5 hits over four innings I'm Dave ferry
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Can Life Emerge From Non-Life? Dr. Stephen Iacoboni Weighs In
"Just saying that science really came up with this preposterous idea. We certainly know it's preposterous now for honest that life emerged from non life. If you believe in evolution or natural selection, which I don't, but if you do, you can see the mechanism, there's a mechanism, reproduction, and you can see how things would change over time. You can get that idea. But the idea of life emerging from non life where there can be no evolution. You got nothing and then you got life, it seems to me that scientists are very wary of talking about that, that I think probably my guess is by now they're embarrassed because they know that you can't get from a to Z in a single bound. That's exactly right, Eric, and one of the things I did in my search for answers was to try and get those atheist scientists to slip up and admit something. And so there was a book by Franklin Harold called the ways of the cell. And I wrote a 6 page chapter in the book on him. And he ends his chapter by saying, even though I am a scientific atheist, we still don't understand the origin of life and until we do the mystics and the skeptics will continue to say that there is a God. And he was an emirate emeritus. And so he couldn't get in trouble to get fired because he wrote this book being slightly honest. What I write in my book is I try to stick to everything that is considered. Accepted science. I don't try and make things up. And so the received wisdom is that the universe is 15 billion years old with the Big Bang, which you write about. And then earth formed and it took a long time in a billion years later. There was life. So as tour says, and everyone knows, you can't get there from here, period. And so my book also goes on to say that there is a mystical force called telos, I just call it because Aristotle has helos. And they point out that he's a smart guy not me. And that somehow there is a driving force in nature that drives all living things and it drove the first cell somehow to become alive.
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New Mexico officials announce arrest in murders of Muslim men
"An arrest is made in the shooting deaths of as many as four Muslim men in Albuquerque New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico police chief Harold Medina tells reporters We arrested 51 year old Muhammad said and charged him for the murder of two Muslim men in our community That from koat Investigators say sayed who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan some 5 years ago was seen leaving his home and followed by police for some 100 miles before being arrested Test our weapons in the home and his car provided the evidence needed to charge him with two of the killings He is also a suspect in two other killings and this from koat mer Tim Keller thanked the Muslim community They never gave up on our police department And they never gave up on the city where they live And I want to thank you for doing that There is no way we could have put these pieces together without
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Tigers beat McClanahan, Rays 9-1 on Lou Whitaker Night
"The tigers retired Lou Whitaker's number one before ending the three game skid 9 one over the raise Harold Castro drove in two runs and scored twice in helping Detroit win for just the 5th time in its last 21 games The tigers put it away with a 5 run 7th capped by Miguel Cabrera's RBI double Javi Baez added a two run double to back Garrett hill who allowed one run over 5 and a third innings Hill and the tigers bullpen blank Tampa Bay after yu Chang homered in the second Shane mcclanahan took the loss giving up four runs on 6 hits and 7 innings He's ten and 5 I'm Dave ferry
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10 family members killed in Pennsylvania house fire
"Gracia reporting ten people are dead in a Pennsylvania House fire Pennsylvania state police say ten people 7 adults and three children have been confirmed dead after an early morning house fire Pennsylvania Harold baker a nescopeck volunteer firefighter who responded to the scene told the citizens voice newspaper of Wilkes bear that the victims expected to eventually be found were members of his family including his son daughter father in law brother in law sister in law three grand children and two other relatives The fire was reported around two 30 a.m. One person was found dead inside the house shortly after emergency responders arrived and two other victims were found later in the morning Authorities say a criminal investigation is
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10 people, including 3 children, killed in Pennsylvania house fire
"Reporting a firefighter says as many as ten people are feared dead in a Pennsylvania House fire A volunteer firefighter who was among responders says as many as ten people are dead after an early morning house fire in northeastern Pennsylvania and the victims were his relatives Nazca peck volunteer firefighter Harold baker told the times tribune of Scranton that the victims expected to eventually be found include his son daughter father in law brother in law sister in law three grand children and two other relatives The fire was reported around two 30 a.m. One person was found dead inside the house shortly after emergency responders arrived and two other victims were found later in the morning Authorities say the victims ranged in age from 6 to 70
Food Heaven Podcast
"harold" Discussed on Food Heaven Podcast
"Pick one, pick your top three. The golden unicorn for dim sum in Chinatown. It's like a massive like 6000 ft² dim sum spot. Oh, I think I've been there. Yeah, it's huge. It's a great dim sum spot. I also go to peppers in Brooklyn for jerk chicken. And then my man got a spot too and crown heights. I forgot the name of it though. But I go to his 5 tour to get jerk chicken. And then I go to the breakers in Brooklyn, my boys started a pop up like a Filipino residency there. And they've been doing cooking food there for like 6 months now and it's been lit. So every time I come back, I always try to show love and go over there and check it out. And then obviously hotspots and over here my chopped cheese that hygiene is a 110 for missing some good chopped cheese, but almost some regular Douglas stuff, man. I'm just in the block, you know, just doing regular shit. I go to a bodega and get a regular sandwich, but you know, listen. I wrote all of those down. I'm going to check our mom. I see her writing. Okay, sorry. I have a real quick follow-up question. Here's one thing that I find a problem with in myself. So I do love food and I love good food. You mentioned being regular schmear degular. Like, how do you go from this great creative meal, food and then be okay with just like a regular degular like, I don't know, I feel like I always now, and having to have the best of the best. How do you change the palette? Yeah, I understand. Yeah, I went to the same kind of situation a few years ago. I just felt like reconnecting with something that makes you feel good. And for me, could Chinese food doesn't be fucking around the bodega, you know, eating some random shit that the Aquaman is making for me in the middle of the night. Those things are the things that I reconnect with. And I understand that good food is good food. You can taste good food with great products and all that kind of stuff. But for me, the hood, like the foot in the hood, the shit that I grew up with and stuff that reminds me of just the happier times, you know what I'm saying? Especially growing up in the early 90s and 2000s in New York. And that's the only reason why those things just for sentimental reasons. And obviously you're going to eat good food and have really good products and all that kind of stuff. And I do that also on the side. But for me, it's really just reconnecting with that and then just trying to still tap into where I came from and just remembering all that. And then you can eat where you stick or whatever. Whenever you want to, but generally you get a chopped cheese here in the West Coast. So this one thing that I really kind of miss, you know? I don't even know what a chopped cheese is. I lived in New York for a long time, but is that like a Philly cheesesteak? Okay, gotcha. Yeah, I feel like it's come up just more so like after you love. So that's probably why I don't like it. I also feel like it's more of an uptown thing because you were in Brooklyn. Yeah, I feel that a lot like the emotional side of things. It's funny because yesterday, I wouldn't normally buy box Mac and cheese, but Annie's like, sent me some. And I was like, oh, let me just make it. 'cause I'm all about making Mac and cheese from scratch. And I made it and just so many emotions came up from me from my childhood just like making box Mac and cheese and also I had like bunny shapes. And so, I don't know, it was a really special moment for me. I love box vaccines. Yeah, I mean, you think about it too, as an entrepreneur, how can you make that a healthier, right? How can you make a healthier version? I found this ramen that was like the same cost as top ramen, but these guys made it look like wheat flour, like all type of sugar that they made their own spices. Like, you know what I mean? So for me, I'm also trying to figure out how to make it a healthier and one of the projects that I'm working on that were kind of starting out in Taiwan is this uncle Harold brand of like, what does a bodega look like like a healthier bodega look like where you go into a bodega and you know where your food comes from? Where your chicken comes from where your meat comes from where you pour comes from and all this type of stuff. And so we're creating a little kiosk where we're working it out now. We're going to open it up in Asia first, and then we're going to bring it back around to the hood in a couple of years. Oh, I love that. That's so dope. All right, so LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and YC was city has the best food. What do you think? Oh, really? I mean, it just regional, man. There's good food everywhere. I think, but you know, if you want really good Mexican food, you go to Los Angeles, east LA, if you want really good Asian food to go to Vancouver, BC, you know? If you want really good seafood, you go to Maine, right? It's just regional. That's originality, really. And where are you at? And that's what I'm figuring out now. You can find really good food anywhere really now. People are becoming more conscious of in Phoenix. I thought it was a small town, but it's a huge step to a bunch of young chefs here that are doing crazy things. And I've never really had southwestern food before, but it's really good as deep in flavor. It's deep embraces and meats that are cooked for like, you know, 6 to 8 hours. So I just depends on regionality where you at, but I mean, New York got the best food I think, you know, overall, you know, if you're in what region you win, you can really capture the essence of the place and what place of the food and stuff like that. So that's a good, it sounds like New York, basically. I would say top three LA Mexico City and then New York and D.C.. Ty, maybe. Okay, well, Harold, uncle Harold, chap Harold. Where can people find you like your work, people who are interested, who love what you have to say, tell us about all the restaurants, the handles, the appearance. And I'm still on the team for I think another year I'm going to resign again in a couple of weeks. Right now I'm in Phoenix opening a southwestern restaurant with Angela Sosa. The restaurant's called Tia Carmen, as far as auntie, who's a Dominican lady. He's Dominican too, man of 5. So the food has some Dominican food in there, which is pretty crazy, but it's very high end, which is we're interesting to. And then we're going to be opening villa rossa in San Francisco, which is my flagship restaurant. And on September of this year, so keep an eye on that, that's it. Oh my God, you're killing it. What about New York? Are you going to do a pop up in New York? Where can I eat your food in New York? A man said, open up this junk called smack witch in the west village. We're about to do a collaboration that when I go back in March, we're going to do a little collab, little chopped cheese Cola, and so I might be there just my essence will be there, we're going to be running the spot. And it's called smack which is in the west village. They just took over a spot. So yeah. Amazing. We should do like a food tour, go to the Phoenix one, and then I want to try it because San Francisco needs some better food. So I'm excited about that. Cool. Well, thank you so much. This was awesome. Keep shining. And we'll catch you next time. Thank you so much for your time. Thanks so much for listening to another episode of the food having a podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to connect with us online where most active on the gram at food heaven, but we're also on Facebook and Twitter at food heaven show. If you like this podcast, make sure to rate review, subscribe and share with a friend. Yup, our podcast is released every Wednesday in each week. 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Food Heaven Podcast
"harold" Discussed on Food Heaven Podcast
"While you started a McDonald's, you said you've worked out all these Michelin star restaurants and I'm wondering based on all the things that you've learned, what are some of the biggest mistakes that amateur cooks make. And do you have any advice for beginners? Because a lot of our listeners, like, you know, they kind of struggling in the kitchen, they're trying to improve upon their cooking skills, but they still want to eat really good food. I think the one thing that people kind of when it comes down to cooking is I think they're just afraid to fail. You know what I mean? You pay all this money for this food and you want to make it right and it doesn't taste good. I mean, that's just part of it, right? If it doesn't taste good then you just do it over. That's what we do in the kitchens. You know, like these dishes that treat and restaurants. They've gone through maybe 8 different iterations before they come out. So I think the one thing that people need to just get over is just being afraid to fail and that kind of equates to life too, right? People just need to just go for it and just not be afraid to make a mistake or overseas something or burn something, those are the next time you cook it, you understand time and temperature, how to work with the product a little bit more. And just about repetition. And that's how we became good cooks. We just cooked the shit over and over and over and over again, night after night. That's the only reason how we can tell when the fish is cooked when the meat is medium rare, went to slice the meat. What type of stuff? But do you feel like it's a skill? Or it's learned or it's both. It's a craft, so crap. Yeah, so you just got to do it over and over and over again. It's the only way you can really, you know, get it right. Like your mom didn't get that out of school boy or write the first 20 times she did it, right? She had to get yelled at, but her mom, right? So now, you know, she's like, what's 60 some? It's like part of her arm now. She makes every day that she knows when the rice is ready. She knows when the chicken is ready. 'cause it's part of it. You just gotta do it in repetition. And I think, you know, with the pandemic, people wanted to cook more. And they understood that making bread is hard. It's not easy, making bread in your crib is dumb hard. So, you know, you get more appreciation of the product, but also you get to understand, you know, how to make bread and your little ass space too, you know? So I think that's what happened during the pandemic. The thing people fell back in love with food, you know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. I fell out of love with it, but then I'm slowly getting back to it for sure. I was just like, I don't even feel like any of this. But speaking of not feeling like it, so this is a kind of random question. So in a relationship, are you someone who does the cooking or once you get home, it's like cooking is your job and you're over it. And you just want some microwave meal or someone else to do it. So it just depends if it's a long day. If it's past 16 hours, then yeah, I want someone else to do it. But it was like a regular 8 hour day or 9 hour day. I'm down and cooking. I'm always, I'm always hooking up the house because there's like a meal prep situation, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to eat a little bit healthier now. So we got all these things already. Like Sundays on my days off, so I usually like prep for the whole week. And then whoever's my girlfriend, whatever, she just warms it up in the microwave or the oven. And it'll be ready for her, but Sundays and Mondays pleasure to cook like a nice meal for us. And every night when I get a chance, I'll cook, but usually everything is really meal prepped up. She's gonna warm it, but I do enjoy take off with them. Yeah. I'm curious as a chef. What is something that you would meal prep for lunch? Lasagna, sauce, basically a lot of sauce, curries, like Thai curries, but I'm like a little batches ready to go, just gonna pop in the microwave, that girl Elle mini golf or whatever, or TikTok. You got really famous with that salmon dish. We've been eating that a lot lately, just like cooked salmon with rice and Maurice sheets and sriracha and they've got to have the stuff. Yeah, you know, whatever, whatever we go, we shop in the Asian market, so we have a bunch of Asian stuff, the house, and there's always a rice cooker, I have a little griddle at the crib too. So we just see her fish or chicken, whatever. Something simple. Crazy. Yeah, that sounds really good. Yeah, that does. It also sounds like stuff that you can easily reheat, stuff that you could just throw together in a pot, you know, things that are practical. Yeah, I think that's the only way to really live intelligently in a way where you know spending more than $200 a week on groceries, you know what I'm saying? And sometimes I bring some stuff home from work too, you know? Yeah. And I just bring that home, but you know, it just depends. You do get in a lot of ways. Being able to tell you that. I'm okay with that. Yeah, I would just be the trash can. I would be eating everything. Sounds like a dream. So you told us that you're in Phoenix right now, you're from New York, you're working with BA. What's going on? First of all, how did you get involved with Bon Appetit? And what are you up to right now? What's happening? Are you coming back to New York? Yeah, so the way I got into Bon Appetit was when everybody was canceling them. I was like, oh, this is a perfect opportunity right here. They're like, hurt, or they're like trying to find a new way to get back in the scene. So I just DM Brad on Instagram and said, you can't get back to where you need to be without a person like me and your team, and he said, you're right. And then they hired me after like 6 interviews. I don't know, they just let me be who I am, and that's kind of one thing I told them, I was like, look, I can be on Bon Appetit, that's fine. But as long as you let me be who I am, I can't change, I can't be a different person in the street and then be a different person on TV because people see me on the street. I don't want to be out there acting all different and stuff, you know what I mean? Especially in New York. And so that happened and then project wise, I'm in Phoenix right now for 6 months until July. And then I moved to San Francisco four months ago. I have a project with Brookfield, the Brookfield mall, whatever and the World Trade Center. So I have a project with remote opening, Filipino restaurant in San Francisco, September, and that's going to be my full-time thing for the next few years. Wow. So you're not going to be in New York. My coastal. I'm going to be back close to I also have another licensing agreement thing. I'm working on for the company that they want me to do some stuff in New York. So I'm going to be by costar. I'm going to get a place where I have a place in New York now and then I have a place in San Francisco. So I'll be back on school. So you're pretty much like booked and busy. Trying to man, you're not trying to get out the road. The thing is, it's like, you're so good at what you do, which is why it's so exciting to just see you thrive and shine. Because I'm being very sincere when I say, I would not watch Bon Appetit if it was any more if it wasn't for your videos and I could tell that you are just being authentically yourself and it comes through and I'm glad that you said that you needed that in order to join that team. Appreciate it. Keep doing you. Okay, so it sounds like you're tri coastal by coastal when you are in New York. Where is your favorite place to eat? If it's too hard to.
Food Heaven Podcast
"harold" Discussed on Food Heaven Podcast
"The following podcast is a dear media production. I just want to give you guys a heads up that there is some light cursing in this episode. So if you have little ones around or you're listening at work, you may want to put in headphones. Hi, I'm Wendy. And I'm Jess, and you're listening to the food heaven podcast. Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness. You guys, we have maybe one of our favorite guests of all time today, his name is Harold via rossa. He is a chef. And I would tell you more about his background, but the bio he sent us says simply just a kid from the south Bronx. He's downplayed. He's downplaying himself. Because he's a chef. He's on Bon Appetit. He is opening up several restaurants across the United States. We were so excited to chat with him today from everything about how he incorporates culture into cooking in a very authentic way and how he really seems to understand foods from so many different cultures and this is a product of growing up in the south Bronx. We talk about his brand Filipino soul food, how he got into cooking, how he incorporates cooking at home. Yeah, I think that might be the shortest buy we've ever had from a guest, just sent me his videos from Bon Appetit. First of all, we've both been over Bon Appetit for all of the foolery that they've been pulling. So we were like, cancel, then just sent me this video, and I was like, oh, who's this? I was like, wait from, I was so confused 'cause he had on like a Compton T-shirt. He was giving me Mexican vibes, but then he was talking like he was from The Bronx, which I can easily identify, obviously, because I'm also from The Bronx, and I'm like, who is this person? He has so much personality. And enter chef Harold, uncle Harold. I have been loving his videos and yeah, we are just so happy that we got to speak to him about all things cooking, culture, entrepreneurship as well. So yeah, we think you're really going to enjoy this episode. And before we jump in, we want to highlight a list of review. This is from John goode, the perfect blend of research and compassion, simply inspirational. I'm a professor and was asked to teach a nutrition course, listening to this podcast not only changed my entire post to teaching that course. It has changed my approach to teaching and life in general. Thank you so much for being a cancer source of reliable information and inspiration. You are the best. Oh my God, I'm literally tearing up. That's so sweet. Sweet. Wow. Thank you. That's really sweet. Thank you. That is so sweet. And it's funny because I was telling Jess that I recently reconnected with someone that we used to work with who is now a director at the Lehman college nutrition program. And she was telling me that she shares our podcast with all of her faculty and her students. Joss, are you crying? I literally was tearing up. Oh my God. 'cause I was like actually really soaking it in. I'm like, that is really sweet and nice and meaningful. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. So yeah, that means a lot. That means a lot. Thank you so much for leaving that review. And yeah, go on iTunes, leave us some thoughts, leave some words. If you have a couple minutes and thank you, thank you, thank you for everyone who has left the heartfelt review. Yeah, all right, with that, let's jump in. Okay, Harold, so we are so excited to have you on the podcast. I was watching Bon Appetit and I have to say, you made it good again. I canceled them, and then I was like, wait, who's this? And then I was like, telling my husband, I was like, oh my God, chef Harold is amazing. And we love your videos anyways. So we want to hear more about that story, but first, tell us where the name uncle harrell comes from 'cause I know is that your handle and I think you have like a restaurant named uncle Harold as well. Yeah, uncle Harold became sort of like a brand activation for us. I had a I have a nonprofit called in sergo project, which I teach kids about low income neighborhood and local neighborhoods about how to be social entrepreneurs and stuff like that. And uncle Harry came about when we were trying to figure out how to delineate the branding from both in circle projects to kind of my personal brand. And so my uncle to like, 12 nieces and nephews. So every time we all get together, I'm the one cooking. I'm the one telling all the crazy stories. So I'm basically the dog. So that's how it came about and I guess it just kind of rolled everybody really likes the branding for it. So yeah. So tell us about where you're from. We want to know the origin story. Have you always been cooking? When did you get into cooking? Started from the bottom now we're here, tell us everything. I was born in the Philippines. I came to New York 1994, and we went straight into the south Bronx and so I had to really assimilate myself right in the middle of the early 90s and cooking I was doing it for a lifestyle. I didn't want to be a chef, right? I needed a pair of sneakers. And I asked my mom, he was a money, and she said, we'll get a job at McDonald's and they said, oh, fuck it. So I got a job and McDonald's. And that's how it all started for me. And I just enjoyed the people that work in the restaurant business. I enjoyed the process of being in the restaurant business, and then I just forced myself to fall in love with it. And then here I am now. I have a 25 years now, 25 years in the game. Wow. Wow. That's a long time. Growing up in The Bronx has a Filipino kid, because I'm from The Bronx. I also grew up in The Bronx and I don't know that I ever met a Filipino person in the bras. So how was that? Yeah, it was black and Chinese until I was 17. That's the way I was rolling the whole time, especially in the south Bronx. In the 5 mile radius, there was no Filipinos, right? All my neighbors were Dominican, Puerto Rican, Haitian, so I just assimilated with that and kind of, you know, it was a golden age of hip hop too. So really kind of just, you know, it was the perfect time. I mean, the first song that I heard when I came to New York was Rene by lost boys when I heard that song, that's when I really kind of fell in love with hip hop fell in love with the culture and in love with the south Bronx really and kind of my community and you know I've been lucky enough to have friends that grew up with me and that we're still friends to this day. So, you know, I never really forget what I came from and to the truth. Yeah, I love that. One thing I noticed about your videos on Bon Appetit was they're from so many different cultures and I thought you were too many kids and then you were making Mexican food and it sounded like it was very authentic. I was like, oh no, he's Mexican and then I go to your page and it's like, oh no, he's Filipino 'cause you have the Filipino soul food. So can you talk about how culture influences your cooking and also how is it that you seem to authentically know about all these different types of cultural dishes. I found that very refreshing. Yeah, I mean, I'm from New York, so this is the melting part of the whole thing. And I think growing up with so many different types of people, but I mean, I lived in Washington heights for like 12 years. So I grew up around dominicans, Mexicans, and stuff like that. And working in restaurants to your assimilated.
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
"harold" Discussed on BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
"And if you have a 6 pack, you know, what I'm talking about, I've never had one in my entire life, which means I haven't wanted it bad enough, right? That I could have one. But I'm honest with myself about that. You should be honest with yourself too. Do you want passive income? How much do you want? The reason I said that thing about, do you really want a $1 million? Is it's a lot of work. You might not want that much. Maybe you're cool with a $150,000 because you're willing to commit to that much work. How much free time do you want to have? Do you want to have all your time to yourself? Are you one of the people that like to work, you just want freedom on what you work on? And then what kind of relationships do you want to have? Do you want to authentic genuine amazing friendships? Or do you just want acquaintances that you sort of know? Because none of those things happen on their own. They are all things that have to happen intentionally. In 5 years, Harold wants to be generating $5000 a month in passive income from enter properties, as well as doing two flips a year for a total income of $100,000. That's very clear. Number four set a one year goal. This is after your 5 year vision. A goal is a.
Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"harold" Discussed on Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"I'm sure they would be a complete amazement. At our system do they. Well and and certainly you have elected officials the board members on the greeley water and sewer board you welcome public input throughout the process. In fact you you encourage it but my concern is first of all ballot. Language is always exceedingly confusing right. We can agree on that point. But and i respect voters and their engagement in the process but water is so complexity. So complicated and my concern. Is this well. This'll just throw a stick in the spokes of the city's agree The city of greeley's ability to procure and provide water. Should they pass. And i'm talking about ballot questions to g For generations to when the original charter was set up Set up the water. The water board. At that time it became the water and sewer board in one thousand nine hundred seventy three. But one of the real purposes was to develop a group of volunteer nonpartisan citizens who would become subject matter experts in the field of water in colorado and really has had a long and proud history since eighteen seventy in water and has had a major role in the development of water law. And i don't in colorado but throughout the throughout the west so this is a subject matter. That really has a lot of a lot of experience. But the intent again was to have citizens who could be subject matter experts Another interesting aspect. That were really is unique. And i think it's important for people to understand in addition to the current seven citizen volunteers on the water and surfboard We have the mayor the city manager and the finance director who are ex officio members of the board and what that means is that they do not vote when it comes to vote but the input that they provide. is invaluable to the board members. And i think as citizen board members we can provide Input to them as well. So we have a system. And i think has worked very very well for the citizens have really over the time period. And if it's the old saying is it's not broke. Don't fix it. Said said eight twelve now. Northern colorado's voice one or three one thirteen ten. Kfi joined this. Morning by harold g evans of course He served on the water and sewer board for twenty four years. Let's talk a little bit. About what is at the genesis of all this and i know We kind of have to give it the reader's digest approach in terms of explaining it. But you had saved greeley's water coming out in opposition against what i think is an absolutely brilliant project of course talking about terry ranch When that indeed was approved by the city council saved greeley's watered then launched that petition drive garnering enough signatures in order to get up. These initiatives are these ballot questions referring to two gene to age on the ballot. What's the genesis of.
The Lawfare Podcast
"harold" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"Have different conceptions of truth is different acceptance. The facts are they tend to have more bubbled existence. They tend because you can disagree with any of this. They tend because they're hanging out in like minded communities to engage in group polarization. You know you said at the end of the book you ask the question. Which unconstrained institution poses the greatest danger to the body. Politic hyper partisan media flailing to retain readers and viewers or presidency with direct access to tens of millions of admirers. I mean so. I just wonder whether he are you neutral about this change. You think it's bad for the country. I absolutely think that they divisive miss. That afflict society now is a dangerous and never more so than in the midst of a pandemic when health recommendation. So politicized as we've seen. So i think you know. I'm not gonna make an excuse of saying. The book was written before the pandemic but it was but of course it's unhealthy. But i also you know looking at the long view. We in the era of hyper partisanship. We manage to elect abraham lincoln as a leader. Who's who oversaw the greatest crisis in the greatest threat to democracy in american history. So i think partisan journalism is not automatically bad. The difference is in lincoln era. You either read a republican newspaper or a democratic paper and though papers were openly and proudly aligned. I'm waiting for the day when cnn declares itself eight a force aligned with the democratic party. I'm if we can't go back to the days of walter cronkite and howard k smith and others than than maybe people should be aware of the specifics of who they're watching and make the identities more a requirement. You know think it's kind of obvious sure it's obvious but it was. Why was it. Proudly a bannered in the nineteenth century and is so reluctantly admitted to why did fox news begin with. Its its existence. I sang that they were a truth. Teller that the news with all of the fairest news coverage ever. Majesty there's a bit of phoniness involved on both sides. And i would like to see either. I don't think we're gonna get a return to nonpartisan journalism any time soon. I absolutely believe that. What you said was right. And i end my my book with a reminder that pat moynihan said that you can argue about opinions but you can't argue about facts but we do argue facts and we're groping now for away for Social media platforms to address. The statements lies in incendiary commentary. I think that that's a big fight. Going forward yet to the kootenai quote the sentence after you quote pat money handed out in the interview here. The sentence after the moynihan quote is the trump era may usher in a permanent upheaval which americans never again agree on basic information or trust in traditional news service. I like that to happen..
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"harold" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"Of the news cycle. Isn't this something that is in the sense that roosevelt with fireside chats from ways to communicate records that people other presents that as well but trump is communicating commenting on events and controlling the agenda and making announcement kind of twenty four seven been witnesses. Susan hennessey described it as a fireside chat or a fireside rant. One that has no beginning and something different in kind from what's happened before absolutely and i think part of it is personality driven. It's his trump's constant. Need to be the center of attention on stage. Part of it is the inescapable nature of the changing technology. Listen george. Washington publishes farewell address in a little philadelphia newspaper that does unsuspecting about being given the gift of exclusivity. It was as much of a lightning bolt as a major tweet from president trump probably because of the infant once as opposed to the frequency. But yeah i mean he's he's simply bass. And i try the book to relate how he i latched onto twitter and how he recognized it as a new means that would be important. A new means of communication. That would that suited him and i joke. You know maybe it was because his limited attention span was so well suited to a platform at only allowed at that time very small number of characters in each. So i think you know the technology and the communicator met was kind of a perfect storm for that reason and sure. It's a fire. Cy grant every minute. Because he's taking advantage of the technology and maybe taking advantage of the fact that he is more important with his messaging now or at least equally important then the press yeah any. He communicate up to eighty something million now directly. That's just you know that really does circumvent the president as you said it does control their agenda. You describe trump is unconstrained. We haven't talked about the accent which he lies and attacks institutions in people in all the ways unprecedented ways but you also have a story about the press being kind of unrestrained right. Yeah i mean. Well i still. I absolutely agree that the press is you know but one of the pillars of the republic that he is chipping away at in terms of questioning all of the of the things that actually make america great. But i don't know if the press is complicit but i think on occasion there too complacent i. I am kind of surprised at the kind of questions. I've been hearing at daily briefings in recent weeks. Now the president has resumed daily briefings. I mean i remember a day when a dan rather would ask really pointed questions that they were going implore forms. I think they're not questioning as closely as head. Because they don't want to be in the in the glare of one of his attacks on nasty women or wiseguy were smart. Ask question complaints so you think they become timid in the face of donald trump. I think the more timid in that press room than they are in their commentary on air. How do you explain all the lies. You told that we heard you know in. August is kind of grandstanding and not meant to do anything. But provoke tirade. But you know it hasn't been enough questions on the post office as far as i'm concerned on the silencing of dr fao chee and Dr burks i think people are again. I mean he is a. he's a force of nature. And you know. He's like that hurricane that he said was going to go to alabama one day he's kept a hurricane twirling and i think it's very hard to stop it. How has depress performed in general in covering a range of us one is that they've been super aggressive. Done a great job in telling us everything's going on inside. The trump administration. Another view is that the press has descended into ultime partisanship as bad as it has been before that opinion in factor being mixed in news stories that journalistic outlets now have a much more of a political slant like they did in prior times. I'm just wondering what. What is your general.
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"That they were kind of empowered by the pentagon papers was out. An how important was that period presidents. Like oh i think empowerment is a great word. Not only the pentagon papers but the ability of the press two so relentlessly cover the watergate. Cover up and And i say maybe a little bit cruelly in the book. I think the dream that every journalists since has harbored that maybe they could become as famous as wealthy as carl bernstein and bob woodward maybe even be played in the movie by dustin hoffman and robert redford. You get much better than that or to be played by meryl streep as katharine graham going after the the going after the pentagon papers. So yeah i do. Think culture shifted with nixon. The the seismic shift. I pointed to the clinton years but was because of the coincidence of the rise really a huge imprint of partisan journalism returning nixon thought journalism was partisan because he didn't think he got a break from the press from the time he was prosecuting or persecuting alger hiss as a congressman is a senator. He hated the press and doubted their fairness. From that moment forward and of course you know. Proceeds on a steady architect denouncing the press when he loses for governor of california controlling the message when he returns the big comeback as president creating an enemies list denying access but yes the press is emboldened by in the clinton era. We have partisan journalism as a fixed fact. Maybe just as you know the hateful spiro. Agnew warned about when he was sent out on the road to rage against nattering nabobs of negativity as he's so absurdly alliterative. -ly could it. By the clinton era you have high water. Mark of talk radio you have the first stirrings of the internet and you have entrenched cable news fox news entering the scene. You have cnn entering the same. And you have this. What i thought was a toxic combination of gotcha journalism and new technologies. That made every move that bill clinton made or had made subject to investigation and press inquiry. And you know not only things that he deserved to be questioned but things that look in history or at least my rating history to have been you know unfair ridiculous diversionary waste of time like whitewater like the so-called travelgate like the inquiries into vincent foster suicide things that the press should have left alone in my view or as one day stories as we call it. Why did this happen was whether just technology was the twenty four seven news cycle on cable news. It was a kind of all of the above. I think. I think it was. Also i think there was a visceral dislike of bill clinton in. I should add that. I find him very likable. I think i made my bias is clear in the book about him and not just because he was the only living president who had who allowed me to question him about his relationship with the press. I've always liked president. Clinton full disclosure. He appointed me in two thousand to be the chairman of the us. Lincoln bicentennial. So i should put that on the disclosure list. But i think they thought he was getting away with murder as joe klein put now. Joe klein is a reporter. Who was really close up and personal with clinton during the nineteen ninety-two campaign. He was on the plane with clinton shot the breeze with him every day. And little did clinton know that. Joe klein was making furious notes for the novel that he would anonymously published or co primarily colors about how he was getting away with sexual indiscretions promiscuity you know using his wife to cover for him to charging to the rescue and i have a quote from klein later in the book you know what was it about clinton that made the press react in this strange way and he said it was. If you know we'd all lived through the sixties we'd all dump things and david gergen said the same thing by the way who worked for clinton we all did things we didn't wanna do and we'll skated and clinton will not that we didn't want to do that. We're sorry we did clinton skated and he was sort of our guilt trip. It was like our discretions. We're going to be exposed if we didn't expose clinton's and has some weird psychological impulse to its subjecting him to war or an scrutiny and relentless spotlighting than any president has ever endured. let's jump ahead to donald trump so first of all characterize there's been a lot written about from use of social media has his very extremely antagonistic relationships with press his showmanship tactics in controlling news. Slow that he wants to control and in the press is reaction to calm and just tell us what you think about that whole ray of things. Yeah i I and i can't wait to hear your take on it so i think you know in a way. Trump is part of this tradition. That as you said at the outset of our conversation dates back to george washington macro antipathy between journalists and the press usually healthy sometimes excessive. As clinton era i also think he is like fdr with radio like john kennedy with television news conferences like brock obama with the at the advent of the internet. His a master of a platform reaching tens of millions of people every time he has the whim to to communicate and of course i mean twitter and other social media platforms and i think where the press has fallen down and i think they're doing a better job of resisting these days. Maybe because where again in an election cycle but his tweets lead the day's news the way they early edition of the new york times used to lead the day's news or an ap wire story would lead the day's news television used to do it's morning broadcasts based on what the times had written out at ten o'clock tonight before now. All the presidential coverage seems to emanate from trump's bitterest tweet storms in the early morning from heaven knows what venue is writing from. Probably we don't wanna know so isn't isn't this isn't his control of twitter and the content dominance.
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"And how president trump's relationship with journalists as many precedents. And it's not the low point in president press relations. We also discussed the likely arc of the battle between the white house in the media after trump leaves office. It's the law fair podcast. August twenty fifth herald holzer on the president's versus the press you cover in amazingly interesting detail the disputes and confrontations anxieties between presidents and journalists. Going back to the beginning of the country one of the themes that. I discerned anyway in the book. And maybe maybe a subtext is called. Is that we all think. Donald trump is having historically unprecedentedly antagonistic relationship with the press. But your book is away kind of calling that conventional wisdom into gresham is. Is that fair. yeah. I think it's absolutely fair. And probably more than a subtext. Give us the highlights for why people think of trump is being unprecedented vicious towards the press. But as you point out there episodes throughout history which were in some ways much worse than what trump is done. I mean i think the reason perhaps we think of trump as doing more damage to the traditional relationship of the press and the white house is that his message is intensified by daily briefings ostensibly on corona virus but ultimately each containing some sort of incident blowback against journalist and because the rest of his anger is communicated on on twitter which reaches tens of millions of people in an instant and those it doesn't reach reaches the messages reach because the mainstream press in the broadcast press. Carry those tweets as the major news of the day. So we're confronted repeatedly with the manifestations of trump's anger at the press and frankly depresses anger at him. Because he's criticized and accused of fabrications more more than any of his predecessors but my argument is that it away. Aside from the high technology he uses his bark has much worse than the bite of other presidents and yet yes absolutely george washington for sure that really furious at the press at the end of his first term and throughout the second but john abraham lincoln prosecuted newspaperman and had more than a few imprisoned during their presidencies. An i think that can arguably be considered a worse threat than than than bombast. A woodrow wilson imprisoned. A few editors in his day in the name of national security and barack obama wiretapped reporters and in some cases their families. So i'm just suggesting that this is nothing new but that it seems to be carried with more frequency on the worldwide web so when we get to trump at the end of the podcast. I'm going to suggest that there may be something new but your point is well taken. That there's nothing like the alienist edition acts or what was going on in the civil war or wanted to in terms of presidents shutting down the press and censoring the press and the like and putting it in that historical context. I think is very useful to tell us about the press. In the seventeen ninety s it was in many ways it was like the press today in some ways. Not how would you characterize the nature of the american press. Donald the republic. Well there was very few newspapers. They were usually published weekly. Eventually they became bi-weeklies not dailies for a while not many copies printed. Many of the other shows used hand presses in in the eighteenth century so you can imagine how precious a newspaper was but also how electric it was to get news. How exciting it was up to. Forty people would read a single newspaper. They were so precious and confident. So washington wanted a press in the national capital of philadelphia but he wanted it to be nonpartisan instead of just reporting him as the ongoing national hero without criticism. Something unusual happened even by today's standards. I think his own secretary of state who happened to be of a different party and happened to be. Thomas jefferson imported agai to start a pro republican in those days. Jefferson was republican slash democrats. So i'm just going to say republican to make it simple a republican newspaper to start up in philadelphia in opposition to the pro washington pro federalist paper and not only did he encouraged it to establish itself. He hired the editor as a translator in the state department to offer him a subvention so that he could afford to start the paper and before long. Benjamin franklin's grandson started another anti-washington paper so washington is not only the first president. He's the first president to be criticized brutally by by opposition journalists establishing this partisan phenomenon that begins with washington so to dwindles at the end of the nineteenth century kind of be replaced by news emphasis by yellow journalism and then comes back in the era of bill clinton. I think that's where i trace its origins with the advent of and the proliferation of talk radio and cnn msnbc and fox news maybe a little earlier and clinton there. We'll get we'll get. We'll get to those changes. I was struck. Knew this but you have some great examples of just how incredibly vicious newspapers were especially towards washington. And how much it got to. Yeah is aids. I mean including vice president. John adams was really thin. Skinned on jefferson was pretty cool. Usually both sort of noted and kind of gloated i think about washington's thin skinned about his temper and they sell examples of you know little tantrums he had and it was a pretty big man so the tantrums must have been phenomenal and that included throwing newspaper to the ground and stopping on it with his boats yelling about what he was being subjected to and how i love to go home to mount vernon and give it all up. What did he needed for. And to washington the reports that question everything from his diplomatic policies to his personality when he was this is a guy who was practically a secular saint in america when he became president he was criticized for you know a pomposity lavishing attention on.
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"harold" Discussed on Stay-At-Home Son
"Twenties that That you know people retired didn't have anything else. Their longevity was relatively short. I've seen as well and as opposed to mind but you know. I don't know of anybody that spends more time. But their cottage or more times on trips fishing trips Other trips that. I do all over the place but i'm binged outweigh and then but i love having a problem to solve in the morning and other people's problems are the best helping them work through them and better and coach them and help them become better. So in a nutshell. That's exactly why work but that's part of my as low my self actualization in and Self esteem or ends were is to give something back. And i've got a pay back. You know all the people that did it for me. Yeah so seems like you're taking a lot of time off time. You actually putting into your work. Now that you're all. I probably now i i would imagine this past year like we would. We put a lot of people in like. I'm part of a compound director of a company. Now just an adviser. I used to be an owner but we put people in a two thousand hours is called a full year of work. You know fifty fifty times forty something like that. I might work Maybe three or four hundred dollars so how. I've cut back a lot. When jack that will you met me at the other station. The other station. I was out i was i work. Virtually fifteen hundred dollars a year. Because i was. I was a senior advisor to the to the head of the whole site case i would. That was more of a time job and you know you know the goals that they set for that particular utility and we achieved them all right. Yeah from my understanding. I think we outfitted a year. But i was allows only there for that year so it was interesting. So so yes this has been. It's been really cool to hear you talk about what you think and your mentality throughout your career but also how you thought about how you think Yeah kind of going into extra extra level has been something that i can speak for. Bribe's something. I haven't really considered that much. No especially with the being a student. It's almost lake. I convince myself. Oh i don't have time to to think about how. I think i just gotta get some stuff dot com. But i've never actually seen someone who's done it and it worked so well for them. Yeah it's been it's been cool so herald. That's that's all. We wanted to cover as far as content with you. But i think we'll be really good for our listeners as it would be fine if this was meta thinking again but isn't what would be the one piece of advice. The one kind of partying sought that you would leave with someone who's not necessarily in the nuclear industry but is trying to work for themselves and get into a successful career path in a similar way to to what you have done question. Thank you it such an individual thing. I you know what the best thing i. Here's one of the best piece of advice that would give people confidence and to make sure that they're happy life to if you could forget about better thinking even if you could study one thing would be to study maslow's triangle which is our hierarchy of needs. So everybody has the same five basic needs but we all have different wants bid but we all need food water safety shelter esteem right. We need social. We need a steam self actualization but everybody is different needs or wants around it so i need to make living. I wanna be a nuclear operator. And it's it's more to get in touch. Not this is a form of meta thinking actually but it's at the highest level to really say. Am i really balancing my life here. Is it all social funded play. No because it is your life. And i think that would then get you to really look at no. I'm i'm dissatisfied with this. And then you know. Apply that bid boat. Don't worry about just what you want. That's gonna make you happy and satisfy your five basic needs the wants around driven by those needs. And what's going to really make you happy. Visit the house you know. People are now people in in my family's fear their host poor they really are they got this great big and they're live so close to the edge there sweating bullets and they're not happy so i think that's it and let it drive you. Where were you should go by truly understanding yourself and then and then hanging around with good people so my kid is posted about to you know like like minded people. Don't waste time with people that aren't like that. Yeah that's awesome before we let you go. Could you just spell that for me. I really want to check it out. Matt is it maslow's triangle maslo until abraham basil psychiatrists famous Various ended maslow's triangle so m. a. s. l. o. w. Okay great and it's talking about are in. Its its way deeper than anybody even thinks when you look at it but and my big lead to talk on that sometimes matter of fact maybe to have you back for season two or something like that. Okay i'm reading. I'm not fully understanding this but Am i getting this rates. You're kind of convincing yourself of like some actor some job that you want and then some on everything you do. What kind of make that happen. Is that kind of like you'll recognize the opportunities. If you set the goal sold the best i could save remember. You know at the start of this. I said i was going to leave. At as soon as i could when i when i started you had to work to your fifty five. By the time i got there you could get fifty. But all i set a goal of i'm gonna leave. I've been in love this job at do leaving a love it but i want to go into business for myself. I had that desire and then nuts. That's it so i set the goal. I had no idea what the business would be the goal. And then i then the opera. I recognized opportunities. Yeah because of it. But i didn't worry about. It wasn't so i started in seventy two dating. I started at seventy two in the nuclear industry and it wasn't until the ninety s so eighteen years then saw my first opportunity and it was time i developed as far as i wanted to go with the career dimbleby upwards in it was move outwards so and then all of a sudden i said okay what am i gonna do. It's getting close here. Got eight years left and then the opportunities just jumped out which i described and then so so. This maslow's triangle is just a way for you to put on abor what those desires would be up. Yup i'll send you. I'll send you a picture of mind guys. When i'm finished i'll take a picture of it. S right on my wall here. It's you know people have all kinds of boards. That they put up motivate them and say where they're going and i'll take your mind on that'll deepen your insight. I'd ask you to keep it Between us though. Yeah maybe i'll. I'll make one for myself and maybe i'll put it up on our website as an example. Yeah you can make generic yup. Excellent great will herald. Thank you so much for the time. This has been really eye-opening. I was expecting to learn a lot about nuclear and i did but i learn a lot more about what are your thoughts Was which i think long term for me will be a lot more valuable in a little tricks to maybe get the next job. You had By my pleasure gentlemen.
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"You know. I believe that's what you've gotta do and you've got gotta you know. We all have maslow's triangle and people should really understand what their needs are on every one of those five basic needs that we all have. But you know you've got to take care of food water safety shelter social all those types of things but you can't make crazy Changes but every it's like investing the three of us would have all different Risk you know that we would take testing to invest and it would be it's analogous to that career to. I'm one of those confident guys. But i knew that i'd be very marketable. Once i found out the way. The nuclear industry grabbed me for a new reactor and they offered me a job. They wanted me to bandage the whole place. You know the state of the new reactor. But i think people have to build towards that gain that confidence but then how risk are you so i was. I was risk adverse. Because i wouldn't leave without a pension like my original mentor in the facilitation. Wanted me leave right away. Because he was confident. I i i would work. But i wasn't gonna take that chance because if my health went that my family would be you know in january. So i think you've just got gotta look at your risk risk-averse you are but push yourself or some goals. Prove it to yourself. By using what i said that meta thinking of just set a goal for yourself and improved yourself that that don't worry about the how exists and it does was so by setting that goal and you're gonna make it more. You'll find a way as opposed to planning the way start. We took a psychology course and i was in seattle because our company was going to merge with another one and they they were a lot on meta thinking but it was a really simple thing they they said to us at the end of the day and we all were going out seattle the joining ourselves and hooked up with different people in the seminar at and they said think of one thing. Just one thing and don't look for it and see what happens so i thought of a white picket fence and my buddy who was with me. My business partner. He's he was. A paraplegic Paul was in a wheelchair and we were going to out to dinner with someone that invite us that was local. And so we're we're we're wheeling down on the boardwalk rate in the high hills in seattle and it's on white picket fence. And i don't know how the hell it was way up in the in the hills and i saw white picket fence and i said hey. There's a white picket fence. What did you think of. You won't believe in holstein cow. And i said geez tough. I'm serious so we jumped in a taxi. We got a van. And then paul night jumped in and then we stopped because we wanted to get some wine for the The couple that were entertaining that night with a mexican dinner. So we're in this grocery store which had wind in picking up some orders and wouldn't you know he just vote wrenched. His neck in iowa stumbled over his his wheelchair behind him. Because yeah to see a carton of milk with a holstein cow on also. It's not type of thing. So what that's called as we are telling illogical we will see what we want to see. Oh naturally so. It's the same way with setting a goal of something you want to attain. Just set that goal. Put it in your subconscious. Imagine it you realizing it each night you an affirmation something like that and watch what happens. And so when. I work with a lot of young people and challenge them about opportunities in their workplace. That they could broaden their their the scope of what they offer or they're learning put in extra time themselves. It's amazing what they come back to me. And i said don't even think about ed. And the they said within a week you're going to see opportunities. You've been walking by the last five years and it works all the time stride wells. Try it yourself. I definitely well. It's also interesting to kind of shake. That idea of this learned helplessness thought. That all you know. There's not much i can do. And i'm just by just by putting these goals in your mind and not even actively working towards those that could help you like you said just realized opportunities that have been around you the whole time. Well that's interesting because you guys are really. You're you're poking at perfectly because if you don't do that the flip happens and that's what learn helpless is part of think of all the times you know maybe a set a goal new year's resolution. I'm going to start working on everyday. That's tired drop some weight here and you know and so your conscious mind has has set back and but your subconscious mind knows jacqueline you kidding. You've tried this before you never did it yet. And so you'll do it for the first two or three days and then on a one day somewhere downstream use. I don't feel like at this morning. And your subconscious is saying yeah. Who are you fooling. You know where you know unless you get a hold of that through meta thinking thinking about an realizing your sub-conscious has all the memories all failures all the time. She tried every time people put you down and support you and your filled without self talk rather than an affirmation you know because i work out. Every day i work at our every boarding. I'm sixty nine years old. But i do it because i affirm that because i work out you know i wouldn't be able to live at do things i still climb trees and and i'm an outdoors than i kayaked canoes. Everything i'm into And that's how you have to get away from that learned helplessness. I thank you very said on that. I think that's really valuable. What i wanna get into next is at you know as we talked about you. Technically retired and access that pension in two thousand one. But how you. And i know each other's i met you working for ontario power generation in two thousand nineteen is herself eighteen years after this technical retirement. I'd like to get into if you have any advice for for people like brad i one on. What are your thoughts on retirement. What should your goalby and to to be frank Like why are you still working. Why are you personally still still getting up and going to work. I'm sixty nine. And i'm still working. I have a two year contract still ahead of me but it can interrupted anytime either side but and it is for a large nuclear utility and all i do is go in and Mentor and work with young people or managers at any level that would need some help and act as an advisor. And why do it because name anything. That could be more fun than not I spent a lot of time with people. Doing the training of control room staff and it's highly technical and i was an i was qualified before i left to be able to qualify people with that federal license. So i set up a business do not and hired a lot of people to help me do it but that's all i do now is go in and do observations and give some coaching and i love it. It's not the money it's either way. Retirement I don't i don't even know if if it's going to be a word that future was with younger people like yourselves. You just keep on living but you know. There were a lot of studies done in the nineties and early.
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"Episode Race mountain us stay at home. Said everybody welcome back we're here. We're here with herald herald. Thanks so much for making the time. My pleasure yes so this is going to have a. I assume on a nuclear angle and we wanna just kinda talk about your pass through the profession and how you you started your own your own services at some point and just your mentality throughout this entire process understood. So i guess we'll start at the start you know graduated high school in In where'd you go from there in so this was in sixty nine when i graduated in those days it was five years of high school so it was called great thirteen. Th they had a special deal in those days in that there's two things if you're marks were high enough by the end of the by the end of december you got early acceptance at a university. They would accept you right then. You knew what was coming and if they were very high you actually had early. Admittance in which case. You didn't finish great thirteen and you could go right into engineering. Which meyer ritual thought So i've had that lined up but then Just the i challenged myself doesn't really make sense to go to university. And i had some good knowledge here because i knew i wanted to go into the nuclear power generation field. My dad i grew up. We grew up in niagara falls. Those kids and dad worked at one of the hydraulic stations. Rate were the bottom of niagara falls and he was in the very first group hired out of that old ontario hydro into the nuclear power program that they were starting up on -tario so i knew the about that career path and my father. At that time. When i was graduating we were living. By the bruce nuclear power site to my dad worked there and he was a control room operator. So they're licensed from the federal government like an airline pilot and they've lied the reactor in the control room and that was the. That's that was a five year program with at once. You were hired. You spent two years working in the field. And then were put on a five year program which was regarded as reputed as being tougher than first degree quite frankly nuclear physics and all of the other learning of the systems of a reactor. And and so. I do that. That was available to me especially You you had to upgrade thirteen. So i wanted to complete grade thirteen and you had to have a heavy science math background. Virtually everything had to be that and they had to have good marks. So i really weighed the advantage of do i go to university for four years and pay for or do i go into this. Nuclear program get paid and get a free education. And i always had in mind that when i could retire i would retire at the earliest Possible time that. I had a bit of a pension and then start my own businesses. Didn't know what the businesses we're going to be. But i knew is going to go into business for myself. And i want to be out by about fifty years old so similar to you. Know joining the armed forces and put in twenty years. You don't re up you retire. You got a bit of a pension so that led me to bail on the university degree that makes sense. It's interesting to me that you had this concept of advertisers. I can start my own business. I have no idea what they are. But that's just the direction i wanna go. I find that funny. Well you know. That's the key though. So what i'm gonna talk to you about is is a term called meta thinking and that is thinking about how we think and the key behind that particular thing. I raised my children and anybody. I mentored that way as it set the goal. Don't worry about the how otherwise you'll lower your your your goal your lower your expectations never worry about the how that will come because we will be in tune you. Won't you will see opportunities that you would miss driving. You're driving you pass advertisements for freezers on sale or whatever something like that. We won't see it. You don't see if you're if you're freezers broken down you will see it. Drew medicine met thinking if people it's fascinating if people are interested in that but it is really thinking about the way we think. It's a fantastic study. I try you know mentor. A lot of younger people than i pass by and encourage them to to do some research on that and see if that resonates with them and they could apply your no. I don't know if this is the same thing. Is this little rod sticking out of his front door and we never interested to a couple of weeks ago and we never hit it and analysis. We noticed it while always run into. Well that's kind of cool because that's exactly right in that. If you're riding a bicycle and i do a lot of mountain biking if you look at the rock you'll hit where you wanna go so it's interesting we have. We have your goal here to retire. Fifty owned businesses. Why don't you tell us a little bit about how you got from point a to point. B yeah so it's it's it's kind of like you're always moving and i've told my kids that you know as long as you're progressing in your career developing and looking at every opportunity it doesn't matter if your head ignores and the train goes by an opportunity at north northwest your movie you know. You're you're moving. It's easy to to to change your course rather than if you're sitting there stagnant in on just others to take care of you and my whole career. I looked at it that i was working for myself. I had a boss. I worked for. You know the nuclear power generation But you know. I was really working for myself. So i it. Some of it was luck. You can call it serendipity if you want but one one thing that started me down. One of my couple careers was Management and union. We're having a very difficult time getting along in the plant. I was at and they decided to go into a cooperative effort. Trying to problem solve their issues they brought in outside consultants but then they wanted Well not really a facilitator. Mediators have asserted power. You know like a mediator can put people in caucus different groups and put a little pressure on them so it's implied that way and this is more of no. You're the experts. We'll just take it through a process that you'll even old the process of what you wanted to be to protect both sides. You know idiots out there so we're going to change relationship and union members. Want to see you beating up management every day. You know if you're gonna change that you've got to talk to them about it and and say no. We're doing this for a reason so brought an outside consultant but then that consultant system. You're not going to rely on.