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RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from RadCast Rewind: Episode with Fishing Legend Al Linder, Now on Carbon TV
"Hey, Radcast is on. And welcome to the show, Mr. Jim Zumbo. Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here and I use that term loosely when I say gentlemen. Al Winder. Just want to welcome you to the show. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. There's nothing makes me happier than a coke in Minnesota. If I can't be out fishing, I should be talking about fishing. Hayling from Wisconsin, Janna Waller. Thank you so much for having me. It's Radcast. Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. Powered by Bowspider. Brought to you by PK Lures and High Mountain Seasonings. And now, here's your hosts, Patrick Edwards and David Merrill. Again, Al, it's great to have you on the program. I do want to give a quick shout out to Danny Kertola, my cousin, for helping set this up with Al. That was a big deal. Thanks, Danny. Yeah, so I really appreciate Danny and Al. Just want to welcome you to the show. Al, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. Nothing makes me happier than a coke in Minnesota. If I can't be out fishing, I should be talking about fishing. It's going to be well below zero tonight. So Al, that's probably one of the big motivations for Patrick and I to start this podcast is we both have young families and we're both avidly into the outdoors, whether it's fishing, hunting, or a little bit of both. So that's our goal is to recruit new anglers and new hunters to the outdoors. The timing is really appropriate for it. We've got a whole new recruitment coming in because of COVID that our sport has never seen before, experience in the outdoors. And they need some guidance in a lot of cases to respect the resource. And that's an important part of what's happening now with these whole lot of these newbies coming in. Yeah, it's been fun to watch you over the years because you've really helped teach everybody about that. And I know as a kid, I always looked forward to outdoor life coming in the mail and also in Fisherman Magazine, because that was the thing was I wanted to learn more about fishing and growing up in Cheyenne, Wyoming, it was like a dead zone of fishing. There's really not much close unless you're going to drive two hours to Glendo, three and a half hours to Seminole, five hours to Boyson, you just forget about it. There's just nothing there. You talk about teaching people. I was reading that as much as I could, because I knew when I went, I had to really capitalize on those trips. And you've done an amazing job about that. And I just wanted to know if you could just share some tips with us, what's some key strategies of getting kids and just other anglers out on the water? What are some good strategies and tips? Number one, make sure you take them when you can get them back. I can't hold eyes how important that is, especially with the younger ones that have shorter tension spans. And it is critical that barber is going down or something pulling on the end of that line. And that's one. And even with new adults, and we have a lot of those coming into the sport now that have never fished before. And yes, they have patience where the young people don't, however, their patience will reign after one or two trips without getting a bite. It's the biggest hindrance that I've seen to our sport and your people back. The key is getting a bite to light that fire. They got to catch something. And you don't want to take them out in miserable weather conditions. You have to weather good and do everything in your power to make sure that they get back. And the reason people fish and continue to fish is they had a good experience and a good experience is something pulling on the end of their line. That's really the reason you're out there. That's what motivates people. It's the miracle of a fish. It is amazing to me, my entire life in this business to see what a fish can do to change somebody's life. Yeah, a kid sitting on the dock catching bluegills and all of a sudden nowhere, a two pound bass runs out from under the dock and grabs your bait. You never had your catching your six and having a ball and out of this bass is there. Your hook did break where you landed your life forever. Somebody has never met fish. Yeah, they heard something about it. They're going out with somebody that knows something about all of a sudden next to the boat. This monster opens his mouth and bites on it. It's an image that burns into your spirit that will change. It never goes away. That's what lights the fire in this sport. And it's why it's so important that the end of good weather to do it. And that's the key is to get them action. And then if they're really young, you know, after two, three hours, they like to think around and alive. You get a few fish around all kids like that. They're fascinated with fish bouncing around in the life. And that's the key. It really is the key to keep them motivated, keep them fishing action in a short period of time. But again, with the adult or even a young person after after. So you get them out for two trips the third time. Yeah, you're going to say you want to go fishing with me today. You got too bad experience that they're going to go back and play video games. So the interest won't be there. Well, I was fortunate enough to grow up near Saltwater and my dad in the Pacific Northwest. We did a lot of salmon and halibut and deep sea. And I got introduced very young to fishing. We actually just had a podcast with my dad on talking about starting that fire that you're talking about. I'm curious, who was the fishing mentor in your life? The person that got you hooked on fishing? Well, actually, my brother's 10 years my senior. And he took me everywhere from the time I was a little kid. He's seeing a burning passion. He shared that he said there was something about it from the time you were little. You were obsessed with fish and fishing. And he nurtured that. He actually nurtured that in him being 10 years older than I am. Yeah, he took me under his wing. And I had some really good experiences in those years. One of them that really fed my passion for fishing was my mother. And this is strange, but I got to share that story with you. My brother obviously loved the fish. So he took me everywhere we could go. We fished all over the ponds and lakes and creeks and rivers in between Chicago and Milwaukee. And there's many of them. And we were out every moment we could go. He'd be able to go the way he took me. But my mother really liked to fish. And she's seen people would ask me at a young age, wouldn't you go to a Christmas gathering of family or friends like this? And yeah, what are you going to do when you grow up? Boldly coming? I'm going to be living fishing. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to look at you. Oh, OK. You're going to blow it off. And my mother, she, under the guy, my brother, would she at Christmas time or birthdays or special event every time I found my Christmas presents and gifts were the latest, greatest fishing tackle in the industry, whether it was a rod, a reel, a lure, magazines, books, anything that she fed that fed it and fed it. Never said that's a dumb thing. How are you going to make a living in a fishing industry? Especially at that time, that many years ago. Yeah. And the only thing you get, you tackle manufacturers and outdoor writers that at that time, one of the inspiring outdoor writers to me as a kid was Jason Lucas. He wrote for Sports of Field at that time. And he wrote a book called Lucas on Bass. And I'll bet you I read it a dozen times. It marked every page, the experiences burned into my mind. But experiences like that, and then television, I remember pioneers of the TV fishing business, the first one, his name was Gattabot Gattis, the Flying Fisherman. He was the first one that syndicated television fishing shows. And he'd fly to different locations all over the country and share his fishing experience, Gattabot Gattis. And then that led to Virgil Ward, that was the true championship fishing. And he was the one that lit by fire to get into the fishing industry and do a television show in the business. He was here in my hometown in Brainerd, Minnesota, when we were starting Lindy Jackal Company. And his producer, his name was Jayden, he gave us a call at the office one day and he says, Hi, I'm Dave Jayden, I'm with Virgil Ward, championship fishing. We've been in the area for three days. We're having, we want to do well, I should have went to Bass Busters gig. And he says, can you help? And I understand with the way you're a really good fisherman, everybody says, go call Al if you want one. So should we do a show? That's absolutely. We went out, we got a phenomenal show shot in four hours, he got everything done. He's all happy. He took off, went back to Missouri, and we finished that. My brother looks at me that night, we're talking. He says, that's great. He does a television show and talks about the lures that he manufactures. I said, we could do that. We got, why don't we start a television fishing show and help with that's what led our fire. And that was it. That trip went there and we bought a camera. I mean, that's what camera and my brother learned how to use it and how to voice tape together. And you're shooting with film at that time. You had to rewind these stories on how you get into the game and into the fishing industry and into the sport and the different aspects that are available. You get these different stories from everybody that is enough to make a living business. But I'll go back to what I said just a little bit. Just what a fish could do to change somebody's life. It's astounding to me how it happens all the time. One experience with a fish and just bam, your life is changed by it. Yeah, I agree. It's an amazing experience. I remember catching fish when I was little and how it lit my fire. And again, I promised that I would do this on the podcast and I hope it's not lost because you hear this stuff a lot. But my friend Seth Ewing, who lives in northern Idaho and myself, we grew up just eating up your shows and the magazine. And it really did benefit both of us. He's an incredible fly fisherman and he learned a lot from your fly fishing video that you guys put out with Dahlberg. And I love the smallmouth and the walleye and those kind of species. And so it's just one of those things where I hope it's not lost on you when you hear us say thank you so much for doing all of that because it really did inspire a lot of people across the United States and the world to go out and fish and to take other people fishing, which I think is really cool. One of the things that I always enjoyed and my dad and I always enjoyed watching you fish was just the joy on your face. You were always chuckling and laughing and having a great time. We were just living vicariously through you as the wind blew about 70 miles an hour through Cheyenne, but it's just, it really did make a big difference. And I do want to, I want to ask about this because this is really important to David and I, we both have little kids and we take them out fishing, hunting different activities and you have kids of your own. And I know like he's very influential and big into the fishing business as well. But can you talk a little bit about what that was like raising your kids to be fishermen, but also raising them during that time that you're just so busy and you got all these things going on with the fishing world and the fame that you had going on. How did you manage all those things and still make it a great experience for your kids? They grew up in the business they did. There's not all seven, Ron had seven children. I've got two boys, all of the kids, even the girls, three of his kids are girls. They all served in the business doing something. Yeah. From the time we started Lindy Tackle Company, they were pouring sinkers and learning how to tie snails, raffle them on cars. They were exposed to the business as a family run business all their life when they grew up in different fields and did other things. But a number of them stayed in the business and are in the business today, like Jimmy and Banny and Billy and my son Troy.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 121: Part 2: Mike Fredericks Hunts Cartel Bosses and Survives a Terrorist Attack
"What were the, uh, what was your, what was the meat and potatoes? What were the staples for you in terms of making cases? What was big at that time? You know, I tried heroin when I first got up there and I didn't want to rephrase that. I attempted to make heroin cases. I brought an informant up from Portland and he kind of jerked me around. I mean, it was a very ethnic thing at the time. He didn't make any cases. So then I kind of switched to cocaine. Methamphetamine was big. We had guys doing meth up there. You had meth labs in Northern Idaho and we coordinated. There were only two agents in Idaho and two agents in all of the state of Montana. So it wasn't unusual for me to take a case number in concert with either Idaho or Montana agents. And then I'd do like the undercover or I'd run cases in those states, stuff like that. So we knocked off a couple of meth labs. There was one that was kind of a, it was a predecessor to Breaking Bad because my lab case was in a motor home. They were buying the precursor chemicals from Oregon, Washington. I don't know if they got the chemicals actually from Idaho or not, but they were bouncing around. And six months I was tracking these guys, tracking the chemicals, tracking where they were, identifying the organization, the cook and all this kind of stuff. And then when it ultimately came down, they were in a motor home on the banks of the Columbia River, which divides Oregon and Washington, outside of Hermiston, Oregon, the Pendleton, Hermiston, Oregon, or in Eastern Oregon, that area. And we took them down and it turned into a big deal because we got, I don't know, a couple of pounds of meth. We got a bunch of cars, we got five weapons, and it went to the appellate court, the Ninth Circuit appellate in San Francisco. You mean the Ninth Circuit? Yes, exactly. But they upheld the convictions. Everybody went down. Were they affiliated with biker gangs or, you know, any drug organizations? Or was this just more of a freelance operation? No, this was freelance. This was one guy, one old time cooker in quotes, that actually I got him twice. I got him back to back simultaneously. He ran a lab in a motel in Clarkston, Washington. At the same time he was coordinating the lab, the motor home lab that we took off in Oregon. So we were doing the motor home lab primarily. I mean, we had like four or five different DEA offices respond. We had a plane on the final stage. We had the state police. We had everybody working on it. And simultaneously he blew up, inadvertently blew up the lab in the motel in Clarkston, Washington. Isn't that the way it is for most of these guys? This isn't the safest thing to do. Yeah. But I tracked him simultaneously to doing the other one. And then once we arrested him and indicted him in the district of Oregon, I also got him indicted in the district of Eastern Washington and put him in jail again behind. I mean, he had back to back sentences in two different federal districts, which was kind of cool. And I turned an informant that was his muscle guy, his guy on the motel lab. And he'd been a Vietnam vet. He was an addict. He testified and he was a character too. I mean, I met him and tried to recruit him and he was wearing a 45 revolver on his hip, like a Western gun fighter.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Crexendos NetSapiens Platform Winning Share, Growing Fast, in the Service Provider Market, Podcast
"This is Doug Green and I'm the publisher of TR Publications and I'm very pleased to have with me Doug Gaylor, who is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Crescendo. Doug, thank you for joining me. Thanks, Doug. Glad to be here. And we also have with us, again, John Britton, who's the Chief Revenue Officer at Crescendo. John, thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Doug. We needed one guy not named Doug on the podcast. Yeah, so there won't be any confusion. And as you can – I know this is an audio podcast, but as people see we do the real Doug and I, we're clearly separated birds. Fairly related. So, you know, I'm very pleased to be able to host these podcasts here at Crescendo's NetSapiens platform meeting. And Crescendo's NetSapiens platform winning, we're going to be talking about winning in the service provider market, a huge and important topic to all of our partner readers who are looking for new, good ideas to grow in 2024. So, you know, again, we're here at the NetSapiens platform user group meeting. And this is your third UGM, is that right? Since we merged with NetSapiens, this is the third time since we brought the two companies together. And maybe for people who are not familiar with that, because the two companies are using Crescendo's NetSapiens platform. Tell us just briefly what that all means. Yeah, so Crescendo is the parent company. Obviously, we acquired NetSapiens in 2021, and so the NetSapiens platform now supports over three and a half million users out there. And so it's still the NetSapiens platform. This is a NetSapiens platform event, but it's Crescendo powered by NetSapiens. So Crescendo is still the main name out there, but NetSapiens is the important name from the platform perspective. So it's the NetSapiens platform and it's Crescendo powered by NetSapiens. So, you know, inside this hall where we're doing this special conference about the NetSapiens ecosystem, the Crescendo ecosystem, but also outside of this place, in the wider world, what are the trends you're seeing, especially for the partners? Yeah, so I would see, you know, just to kind of touch on that, Doug, I would see for us as a company, we're having a new partner community coming to us that we'll have Doug talk about a little bit. And then from our partners' perspective, you know, they're continuing to see great growth in the UCAS market. You know, I think Cavell's got it forecast with a 15 percent annual growth rate over the next five years. Our partners in total are growing at about double the rate of the market. Many of them also moving into contact center as a service. And with what we're talking about at this event a lot, our new API 2 .0 release in our version 44 software, the ability to do more CPaaS type offerings or programmable communications. So the trend we're just seeing is, you know, companies wanting to deliver a great employee experience and customer experience. And, you know, it's our responsibility, and we feel like what we empower our partners to do is to be able to deliver a platform that does that. Well, let's drill down a little bit more into detail. So, you know, we have Legacy Broadsoft and Metaswitch partner communities. Are you guys making inroads into those communities? Those are pretty big places. They are big places, and we're making great inroads there. So we have 220 -plus licensees using our platform now. We had 18 new logos or licensees last year in 2022, and we're on pace to eclipse that for 2023. And we're seeing a lot of interest from Cisco's Broadsoft base and Microsoft's Metaswitch base. We know that Cisco has got the largest base of platform providers out there and Microsoft Metaswitch second to Cisco. We're the third largest platform provider in the country now. But what we're seeing out there is that Cisco and Microsoft increased their prices, decreased their support. Broadsoft had a major layout at the end of last year. So we're seeing a lot of dissatisfaction with those Broadsoft and Metaswitch licensees, and that's good for us. We announced a large Broadsoft migration just a few months ago on a press release, Access4, out of Australia. And we've assigned a nice Metaswitch opportunity that's going to be migrating over from Metaswitch to the Crescendo platform here very relatively shortly. And so we're excited to see as they ignore their customer base. We're getting a lot of knocks on their door, and that's great for us. And I think there's two separate trends that are kind of motivating those partners to look elsewhere. On the Microsoft Metaswitch side, it's really a feel that there's no roadmap or future or really ongoing enablement of their platform. They're not adding anything new. They don't have a robust roadmap. On the Cisco Broadsoft side, they're just actively substantially increasing the costs for their partners. And then from the smaller partners on up, on the Broadsoft software, which a lot of them built their businesses around, forcing a more overt move to try to make the partners go move to WebEx and WebEx calling with the Cisco brand on it. With our solution, it's 100 % brandable to the customer. We consider ourselves the Intel inside of the communications industry, if I can use a term from a few years ago. But it's just many people that use our platform over 3 .5 million users globally, they don't even know who Crescendo or NetSapiens is. It's 100 % branded for our partners. Right. And that's the way you guys like it, right? In other words, you're here to help them create a brand. Absolutely. And it's their brand. They're using our platform, but it's their company and it's their messaging. We're giving them all the tools to be more successful. And as John says, most of our licensees are growing faster than the industry is growing on an annual growth rate. So, you know, in some ways you've answered some of my questions that, you know, it sounds like this market, these marketing roads are beyond geography and also beyond specific market to market issues. Yeah, they really are. We saw 43 % growth year over year in our revenue just for the first six months of this year. So we're seeing tremendous growth within our organization. And that growth is being spurred by our licensees out there growing their business, adding new licenses and new sessions with us. But we're also seeing great growth internationally as well with that 630 % growth in our international markets year over year. And obviously that started with a low number because it's a fairly new market for us. But we've got over 20 licensees internationally now and seeing great growth in the international markets and that great representation at our conference from folks from Australia, the Philippines, the UK, Germany. And so we're seeing great adoption in the international markets. And that's probably because the international markets are still a little bit behind the U .S. with VoIP adoption and cloud adoption. Yeah, it's really cool, Doug, at this event because we do this annually with our community. We've got attendees from five continents that are here. So we really, you know, are honored that our partners from Australia and other places around the world, the Philippines, would travel all the way to Scottsdale to be at the event with us this week. It's great engagement with them. And we're just thrilled with the growth in that part of our community. That's really amazing for someone to get on a plane from Manila all this way to come to this conference and learn about different options and so on. I mean, you know, which brings me to another issue. Are there other issues, other reasons that are driving this growth that are getting someone to get on a plane from Manila to come to Phoenix? Yeah, I would say one of the things that we consist in is something that we work to maintain, but consistent feedback we get from our partners. We're in a place in the market that nobody builds their first UCAS offer on our platform. They come from an open source. We talked about Broadsoft, Metaswitch, another. They've done something else first. They get to a point where the scalability and the management gets challenging for them or they have other pressures that maybe their partner is producing for them. So people find, you know, our platforms powerful, but it's simple to manage and easy to use. So I think part of what's helping to continue to drive that growth is just that, you know, ease of use in the technology. We use a sessions, not seats model. So where some of our competitors in this part of the market really, I would say nickel and dime their community with a lot of incremental licensing, right? You've been in the industry a long time, so you know how complex licensing schemes are for a lot of people. With us, our core pricing is really built on concurrent sessions. So as you're successful with our platform and your customers are using it more, you're paying for that usage based on their utilization and not based on the specific feature set that you deploy to any one user or one customer. So, you know, people can have extremely profitable offers built on our platform and they can also really customize to go after specific verticals industries or other things that kind of fit the ethos of their business in the markets they're trying to address. You know, we talked a little earlier about, and we also just before we started podcasting about UCAS, but you know, I've seen a lot of conversation here at the show about CCAS and CPAS. So that is deliberate? Is that something you're saying to the partner community, hey, these are places now where you can win? It really is. You know, our partners for years have always been UCAS as their core and UCAS is continuing to grow. It's a twenty eight billion dollar industry with 15 percent growth rate over the next five years. And so that's still the core competency. But we've really expanded that with our offerings to CCAS and now CPAS. So CCAS is what a four point five billion dollar industry right now, but that's going to grow actually faster than UCAS over the next five years, about 18 percent clip. And we're extremely excited about our our CCAS offering with our CX product having great, great adoption out there. We had some great success stories on one of our forums yesterday talking about the adoption of our CCAS offering out there and just ease of implementation. And also with the technology, we're seeing a check dbt application built into that context and offering sourcing great adoption there. And then on the market, the CPAS market is actually growing faster than the other two markets. So we're seeing twenty eight percent growth rate on the CPAS market. So a lot of talk in the conference over the last two days on where CPAS is going and how we're helping our partners with CPAS offerings to help in their expansion on what they can offer their end user customers. Yeah. And last year's event, we made some announcements around the CCAS and had a focus there this year with our version 44 release of the software. We're enabling what we call our API 2 .0 release, which really takes and makes it gives our partners capabilities more like CPAS type things. So I know you've been in the industry long enough. You know, we talk about communications enabled business processes before back a few years ago. You know, but for us, we think of this more as programmable communications where I can build applications specific to my customers or industries or areas that I want to address. And so with that higher growth rate market, we're very excited that we're giving our partners these tools so that they can kind of expand their offer into some some different parts of the market. And we're you know, this is we've also joined recently the CPAS Acceleration Alliance, which is obviously an industry group, a global group that's kind of focused on addressing that part of the market. And our chair of one of their working groups are steering committees also as well. So we're making a big commitment to that because it gives us and our community new areas to go after and grow in their business and continue to be successful. And this seems to be a big thing here that I've heard again and again that you guys are helping organize at a very extensive portfolio solutions that someone has partnered to put out of their umbrella and walk in and solve lots of problems for us. Sure. Absolutely. We've got 43 vendors that are part of our conference. That's a record number for us. And all of them have different tools and applications that our community needs. And so the electricity and the energy we've got out on the floor out there is tremendous because all of our licensees are seeing products that they're seeing how they can grow their business by taking advantage of any of these applications. And so, as John mentioned with the API 2 .0, it allows all of these applications to work much more seamlessly with the core UCAS product. And again, you're walking in there as a partner with your own brand, with all this backing you. Exactly. And you're able to then customize the API. Yes. So you can be a small company in Boise, Idaho, but you're appearing as the biggest and the best because you've got all the tools to go take care of that customer, whether it's an SMB customer or a large enterprise customer. One of our partners yesterday, he's got a 10 ,000 seat customer out there and he's bringing these applications to us. We're not talking about just the SMB market now. With all these applications, we're able to go much higher in the ecosystem and get into those small and good sized enterprises. Doug and John, I really want to thank you for joining me today. And also, by the way, thank you for inviting me to join this experience to do some programming and podcasting, really, I guess, from from this event. It's been really interesting. It's really incredible that I hope all the partners listening and watching this will consider this as well. Where can we learn more about Crescendo? So you can go to crescendo .com now at C -R -E -X -E -N -D -O dot com and go to our website and find out more about the company. Gentlemen, thank you very much indeed. Thanks, Doug.
RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from Deep Dive into Broadheads with Ryan from VPA Archery
"Fish on! Hey, Radcast is on! And welcome to the show, Mr. Jim Zumbo. Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here and I use that term loosely when I say gentlemen. Al Winder. Just want to welcome you to the show. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. Hey, I'm looking forward to it. Nothing makes me happier than you'd be talking about. Hailing from Wisconsin, Janna Walling. Thanks so much for having me. It's Radcast. Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. Powered by Bowspider. Brought to you by PK Lures and High Mountain Seasonings. And now, here's your hosts, Patrick Edwards and David Merrill. Good day to everyone. Hello and welcome to the show. We're back, Radcast Outdoors in the indoors talking about the great outdoors. The fall is in full swing. I've definitely been out and about. I know Patrick will be missed on this episode today. His chair is here. We're wishing he was here. Wish him all the best. He's out doing Patrick's stuff. And I've been out doing David's stuff, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming. Got to punch one tag. You guys can go check out the social media, Bowspider. Had a phenomenal 16 days in the woods and it was well earned. Some people say must be nice as far as getting to disappear into the woods for most of September. I also disappeared into the work trade show schedule starting in November and didn't quit until August. Here's trade -offs. I got a great supporting family and wife and spouse that allowed me to be gone all year working so I can turn around and be gone all fall hunting. Never did truly find the monster bull elk or monster buck I was looking for. Found a good enough buck to hang a tag on. Messed up on a big herd bull. I'll give you guys the story real quick. We were sleeping in teepee, wood stove, titanium. Amazing on those cold mornings to start a little fire and get dressed in 90 degree beautiful heat versus 32 degree frosty mornings. Listen to bulls bugle all night that night within 50 or 100 yards of the teepee. Honestly, we could have put it somewhere different, but we had stock with us. So trying to camp on water when you're that high elevation is difficult. Anyways, there was one bull just wouldn't quit about 300 yards from camp. I snuck over there and I had a choice to go right or left. There was two small trees and I'm looking down kind of a ridge ravine into a small basin, Aspen rolly basin. There's no more than 200 yards visibility every direction, but it's a beautiful little timbered ridge that drops into this little Aspen meadow and I'm working the edge and I come to these two bushes and there's a dead tree on the right hand side and then the trail goes straight down into the open meadow. So I decided to stay in the little bit of cover. I stepped up on that dead tree cause it was a wide forked tree with a bunch of branches so I couldn't step between it. As I stepped up on there, I skylined and at 28 yards was a few cows and at 52 was the bull and some more cows and he was 3 .30, 3 .40. I would have been happy. So needless to say, they all exploded and ran away. We called in a couple of rag horns.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from Parasites, Toxins and Viruses Role in Inflammation with Dr Todd Watts
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Mark Levin
Part 1: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"For McCarthy Paul Gosar Arizona 9 voted for McCarthy Darrell ice at California 48 their Freedom Caucus members voted for McCarthy Lauren Boebert Colorado 3rd voted for McCarthy Ken Buck who we now know as best buddies with Liz Cheney for God's sakes who hates Kevin McCarthy well he did as he was directed apparently he voted against McCarthy Matt Gaetz you know well Kat Florida's third voted for McCarthy Bill Posey Florida 8 voted for McCarthy Anna Luna I think she just had a wasn't there Greg Stube Florida 17th voted for McCarthy and where Trump supporters Byron Donald's Florida 19 voted for McCarthy Andrew Clyde Georgia 9 voted for McCarthy these are Freedom Caucus Mike Collins Georgia 10 voted for McCarthy Marjorie Taylor Greene Georgia 14 voted for McCarthy Russ Fulcher Idaho 1 voted for McCarthy Mary Miller Illinois 15 very delightful lady my wife and I met her and her husband voted for McCarthy Clay Higgins Louisiana 3rd voted for McCarthy Mike Johnson Louisiana 4 voted for McCarthy Andy Harris Maryland 1 voted for McCarthy Eric Burleson Missouri 7
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 118: Part 2: Marc Cameron - From Deputy US Marshal to Arliss Cutter to Tom Clancy
"Okay, so the next time I asked for a ride, I didn't get one. No, that's when you look at the other people and say, I meant to do that. Yeah, I meant to do that. Exactly. Well, yeah, that's what you do when your lights are on and they look at you, you just speed through the light and go on to some fake call somewhere, right? Drive like hell. Hey, I want to start progressing into talking about your books, but I want to talk about your time on the Marshalls. When you look back, what's one of the most impactful cases or impactful investigations or things that you did? Because when we had Billy Sarukas on, we talked about the DC Sniper. You guys do some just fantastic work. You've got some great technology. We talked earlier, Blair Dean, when he used to run the TOG, the tactical operations group, some of the stuff you guys do with phones, I mean, just amazing stuff. When you look back on it, what's one or two things that just really stick out to you and you think back and you go, I'm glad. Maybe it wasn't the biggest case, but you look at it and you go, that one made a difference. I really liked that one. Have you got one or two like that? Yeah, sure. It's interesting and I'm actually, in the book I'm working on now, I'm making a comparison. One of the things I really liked about the Marshall Service is you could start your day working with all kinds of tech, especially in Alaska and North Idaho, working with all kinds of technical equipment. Back when I was starting, it was pagers and things like that. That's kind of a cool thing. In the Clancy books, I could talk about pager technology and all that that we don't really use now, so it's not sensitive anymore. But working with phones and computers and all kinds of stuff, and then two hours later, be tracking somebody's boots on the ground through bear country up here and really have to do it the old way. And so, I really like that. I kind of gravitated towards rural work because yeah, we still use cell phone technology. We still use all that stuff, even in rural areas, as far as tracking people and even social media stuff, but we really have to rely on knowing how to physically man track and that sort of thing. So early on in my career, I really enjoyed the high tech, using pagers, using cell phones when they came. I sat next to a guy in the academy who is just a brilliant, brilliant deputy. Even back in 1991, he had a stack of papers about cell phone technology and he realized back then, this is the future of tracking fugitives. And so, he worked with Blair and those guys and I don't like to name their names because he's still kind of half in the business, but he's just a brilliant guy and he helps me quite a bit with the Clancy's as well. So, I really enjoyed those sorts of things and the cases were many, but when I got to North Idaho, we had a case. Now again, you guys mentioned Weaver and Ruby Ridge and all that. So that's the zeitgeist up there, the feeling and the kind of the anti -fed and the animosity and stuff like that. So we went into that and then we had a guy that was wanted on a... He was just wanted on a federal parole warrant. So back then, we had a lot more parole warrants and then, of course, parole got abolished, but we still had a few people wanted on parole. Now it's all supervised release. And we like parole warrants because there was no court. You just arrested the guy and took him to prison. When you violated parole, you just went back to jail. There was no, you know, pass and go or anything. You just went to prison, not even the county jail, the nearest, because they were property of the Bureau of Prisons as far as what the courts saw. So we were looking for this guy, his name was Farron Loveless. And as we started investigating more, we learned that he was a suspect in kidnapping a Jewish couple across the state line into Spokane. He held them hostage in their own home for three days, two days maybe, but I think a couple of nights. And he had like fed their dogs and snuck up to their house and got in and held them hostage. And he had been in prison, then he jumped parole and then come over here. And he had a hit list of a bunch of feds he wanted to kill and not just feds. So we're learning all this little stuff on him that kind of blossomed out of this parole warrant. And we worked it for a number of months, but we started to learn that he was just really a bad guy. But as we got an informant involved and some other people, we learned that he was hiding up on a mountain. He had married a woman, he was in his late 30s, and he had married an older woman in her 60s that had a son and a grandson. And she had Social Security and stored food and kind of back before prepping was a thing, she was a prepper. And so he had basically gotten all her food and he had his...because he was really living a life on the run, completely disconnected. He had no phone, no nothing. So he had moved this teenage boy and this 60 -year -old woman up into the mountains of North Idaho and they built their encampment up there. And they had booby traps, they had fish hooks hanging from monofilament. You might recognize this if you've read the book there. He had split pieces of wood with shotgun shells up through the middle of them and buried all around for like homemade land mines and various booby traps around. But now imagine in that situation when I write a note to headquarters that says, hey, we got this guy and a woman and a teenage boy up on a mountain in North Idaho, we'd like to go get him. They said, not in a million years are you going to go up and have a gunfight on a mountain in North Idaho with a teenage boy and a woman and a fugitive. And so we had to come up with a lot of different plans and it ended up that my partner who had been working on it with me, this was back after the first World Trade Center bombings, and he was part of our special operations group. So we were protecting the judges back in New York. So he had to rotate out every few weeks and go back and help with the protective details. And so he was out of town, so it was me and the FBI where they had helped work on the case because we all had to work together. And there was an FBI agent named Tom Norris, who's a Medal of Honor recipient, I should say. Tommy Norris, he's the only FBI agent I ever met with a glass eye. He's the guy that saved Bat -21. So, I mean, just a phenomenal dude and he mentored my oldest son. He's just a very unassuming, FBI let him get away with what he wanted to because he was a Medal of Honor recipient and really just a class act. So he was helping on it. So we came up with a plan to lure Farron off the mountain. And originally, he had a bicycle and we knew he would come down off this mountain. There was quite a hike up there, take his bicycle and maybe come into town once in a while for supplies. And so I came up with a plan to put a flashbang next to the bike and we'd hide and we'd lure him down to the bicycle and then get him there. Headquarters said, nope, no flashbangs on a mountain. So we came up with another plan and Farron was super prejudiced, super white supremacist, super prejudiced. So we said, we sent our informant back up and this is all not sensitive now because it's all come out in court. But we sent the informant back up and he said, hey, there's a Hispanic gun dealer in town that wants to buy some guns, but he's got two white girls that he's pimping out in Priest River, Idaho and you might want to come down and sell him some guns and take care cleaning of up the race a little bit. And Farron actually said, I'm going to come down and do that. I'm going to come down and get, I'm going to sell him some guns in air quotes and take care of this Hispanic guy that's pimping out white girls. And I mean, that's just the way his brain worked. And so we set up the time and we had Boundary County deputy sheriffs and Bonner County deputy sheriffs and Tom Norris and I. And the plan was when Farron came riding by on his bicycle, there's a long, long bridge outside Priest River, Idaho that goes over Priest Lake. And we were going to pinch him in the middle of the bridge because we knew he was going to be armed. He had a hit list and he had a violent past. And so Tommy was behind him and I was coming up to meet him. And the idea was when he got on the bridge, we'd get him pinched between our two cars and arrest him so he didn't, nobody else was in danger. We would close off the bridge. Well, as Tommy got in, Tom Norris got in behind him, he saw that he had a pistol out the, like in his hip pocket. He had a GP 100 pistol in his hip pocket and a little backpack on and a little, like a 10 -22 rifle sawed off sticking out the back of his backpack. And I mean, he's like the Wicked Witch of the West, you know, riding on his bicycle towards town to meet this guy. And Tommy, I don't know what happened, whether he touched the gun or what, but Tom pulled it beside him and just bumped him off the road. So he went ahead and endowed and went into the ditch. And so I sped up there and this all happened very fast. So he went into the ditch before he got onto the bridge. And so I was right there and there was a boundary county deputy right behind me in a marked unit. And so Tommy bailed out of his car. I bailed out of his car because of the way Tommy had to come around.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Real Estate Market (Crashing)? Price Reduction Scripts & Systems
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. And we are back. Now we're going to be really drilling down over the next five podcasts on pricing listings to sell, but also getting price reductions. There's a lot of technique to the things we're going to be sharing with you guys. A lot of scripts, a lot of systems. It's very important that you use the notes that are below. Obviously we try to, I think almost always put all of our notes, right Julie? In the show description below. So scroll down, all the notes are there and we're going to be really getting into the weeds with all of you so that frankly you can start pricing your listings to sell. If you have listings now that are overpriced, then you can get them repositioned on the market so they correctly reflect the market's expectations. That was a script. Did you write it down? Snuck that in on them, didn't you? I did. And when your hunting expires, as all of you will be doing, you're also going to be knowing how to get the prices adjusted accordingly so the properties will sell. So this week is very intense, really focused on pricing properties to sell because it is going to become very, very tricky in many markets. Now I'm going to start out with a little bit of, we need to I think have a common understanding of the difference between value and price. And I'm reading your notes and I see what you're about to talk about so I think this will fit in perfectly. It's a good intro. Right. Well, we'll see. Back to you. Yeah, exactly. So I was thinking about this last night, how to explain. So Julie and I, when we socialize with people and go to parties and just talk with all of you guys, just run across everyone. People make the mistake constantly of saying there's some sort of or alluding to or believing that there's some sort of big price or value erosion that's going on. Value erosion, not price erosion. Value versus price. That's where I'm going with all this. Because back in 2007, 8, and 9, there was value erosion. The values of the properties actually dropped below what people paid for them. So there's a difference between pricing and value. So get this clear in your head and then I think it'll give your mind room to be open to the thoughts that we're going to be sharing with you in a second. So if you have, like I'll give you an example, Julie and I had, let's say if we had a car for sale and let's say we put the car for sale for 50 grand and even though the market tells us that the car is worth 30 grand, like every single comp, every single thing that's out there is telling us that car is not worth 50, it's worth 30, right? You guys with me so far? And then we eventually, in order to get the car sold, we have to adjust the price down to 30. Did we lose 20 grand or did we just finally price the house correctly? Do you guys get the difference? And so what a lot of people are believing is because they have to price their properties correctly that the properties have lost value. No, they didn't. They lost value maybe in your head, right? They didn't actually lose value. The difference between, so for example, if we'd bought that car for 30 grand, let's say, and we were selling it for 15 grand, then yeah, we lost 15 grand. That's like what was happening in 2007, 2008, 2009, well, mostly seven and eight. The definition of a short sale, you're selling it for less than you owe. Well short sale, you're selling it for less than you owe, or exactly, assuming you owe like you just said. So yeah, so that's the whole moral of the story here. So please don't think this is anything like the previous market, which I'm teeing you up perfectly. Exactly. As we have said, pricing is the hot topic all week because it's a big hairy topic. We'll take a look at the factors causing price reductions, what to do from a listing agent's perspective, as well as what to do when you're representing a buyer. And we're going to dive into some price reduction scripts and give you the confidence you need to navigate the changing market. So let's first take a look at what's happening to prices right now. And no, by saying that, we are not talking about the market crashing. Just as Tim said, the market is not crashing, it is simply normalizing. So here are the facts, hot off the presses. Nationwide, one in every 15 listings had a price reduction in the past 30 days. That's about six and a half of active list, six and a half percent of active listings in the country. However, some markets have seen 50 % of active listings get a price reduction in the past 30 days. So let's compare those two. Nationwide, it averages out to six and a half percent of actives got a price reduction last month. But there are many markets that it's quite a bit more severe. But so what this is, when you see this kind of statistic, we've seen this before. Julie and I have been doing this for decades. And what this is kind of a, I don't even want to, I don't want to be overly critical, but this is essentially sellers who have unrealistic expectations as far as what their homes are worth. We call it aspirational pricing. And frankly, this is evidence of agents that don't know how to actually properly price properties. In other words, they're just taking the listing at an elevated price. Maybe they don't know how to go about setting the price correctly in the first place, or maybe they don't want to, they don't have the skill set being blunt to get the property priced correctly in the first place. So when you see these kinds of widespread statistics and especially something like 6%, which is a pretty meaningful number, honestly, when you see numbers like that, that is essentially the market still adjusting to the new reality. That's the sellers adjusting to the new reality. And that's also the agents having to learn how to adjust to the new reality. And then, you know, doctor filling their sellers, you know, learning how to write exactly this, this type of information. When you see these types of statistics, this is 100 % proof that the market is still very much adjusting. Now, also taking the time, you know, take when you're considering all this, what time of year it is, what's the, you know, what's interest rates are doing. And so these types of things in a cyclically adjusting market, the numbers will go up and down pretty radically pretty fast. So just adjust accordingly. This information is as of two days ago. That's right. Now, the five metro areas with the highest percentage of listings that got price cuts, this is the percentage of listings that had a price reduction. When I give you these stats, these percentages, that doesn't mean they're coming down by that percent. That's just the percent of overall actives that had to have a price reduction. So that's Wenatchee, Washington State, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Carson City, Nevada, and Austin, Round Rock area, and Waco, Texas. Those were all in the 50 to 54 percent of active listings came down. Again, that doesn't mean they came down by 50 percent. It just means half of the actives had a price reduction. Now she took that sort of sampling because obviously price reductions were happening all over the country, but she was using that to show the fact that it's happening in these completely different unrelated markets. That's right. So unlike before, you know, when the market was super hot for several years, kind of the whole country moved about the same way. We were all going rapidly up in price. We all had multiple offers basically on anything. All it had to do was be available. Well, now we're seeing markets kind of stretch apart, and what's happening in the ones I just rattled off is different than, say, Florida, which still is pretty strong. So you have to know your actual market. Now, this is all happening, all these price reductions are all happening at the same time that prices are still up by at least 3 percent this year and are expected to end up averaging about 5 percent higher by year's end. This figure shows you that we are normalizing, not crashing. A crash would not have price increases. Okay, so that's worth, we really need to drill down on that. So listen to what Julie just said, be very, very clear in your head. There were no price increases, there were no value increases that were happening, it was value basically, that were happening during 2007, 2008, quite the opposite, right? Properties in some markets dropped by, you know, 40 plus percent. That is not what we're experiencing. Year over year, what Julie just explained to all of you guys, is that in many markets prices went up, values of properties went up by at least 5 percent. So despite what the headlines and all the click -baity things on all the news channels and all the rest of it are leading you to believe about real estate, guess what? If you own a home, it went up by probably at least 5 percent this year. Exactly. Okay, now, remember, again, we're proving the point that we are adjusting and normalizing, not crashing. Remember this, at $52 trillion, the total value of homes in the U .S. is up, get this, 49 percent since before the pandemic. That truly is insane. Yes, 49 percent. So these price adjustments won't be catastrophic to most sellers. We're a very long way away from short sales, so don't go thinking the sky is falling. Okay, so again, worth drilling down. Prices are up by almost 50 percent in the last... It's since 2019. Now what you're seeing now with the price adjustments or the price reductions essentially that many markets are now experiencing, remember that you still had 5 percent increase in value in the last 12 months. So you're looking at properties in many markets that have increased by at least 50 percent since 2019? Yeah, since pre -pandemic. Okay, so that is a substantial massive increase. Now, the value of those properties, there's no reason to believe, and it's incredibly important you're really clear in your head about this, that the values of the homes are going to somehow regress back into say 2019 values. And I read that sometimes from people that are, I don't want to come off overly negative, but they really piss me off because they don't use any real factual information. No, they're only using their thought that, well, you know, prices were going really high in and 2006 5, and so then there was a crash, and since prices have gone up, there must be a crash. That's not based on any underlying factors. It's just basically, well, that's what it did before, that's what it's going to do now. It's basically yo -yo thinking about, you know, there's going to be another bubble that's going to burst. There's no reason to believe that's true. The same people who've been predicting that since, again, 2019, they've been wrong year after year after year after year, and they're going to continue to be wrong because nothing is the same as it was back in 2007. Well, that's why we're facting them, right? Okay, so look at the runway, though. Okay, so a 49 % increase since pre -pandemic, and you know, the average, and not every single listing is having a price reduction, but when they do, they're still only coming down by less than 5 % on average, so you've got that remaining, you know, 44 % left to go before you're even Steven with 2019. There's just so much runway there. Now, are there isolated instances where people refinanced, took a bunch of equity out, didn't have a very big down payment in the first place, and maybe are behind on payment, and that makes them even very, very, very randomly, literally less than, I think it's like 3 .5 % of the market of closings were even short sales. So along those lines, again, you'll have this memorized because that is what you do. Possibly. We'll see. No, she will. You watch, listeners. So what percent of all home inventory is distressed? almost It's like 4%, but it's less than 4 % overall. Which is a record low for what period of time? Forever. Yeah. Literally forever. It is a record low since they started recording it, I think back in the 80s. You remember when all the - And actually, it's gone down. It was a previous low, and it's actually gotten lower in the past quarter. Remember when all the naysayers were saying, well, when the COVID - Forbearances. Forbearances. There was going to be a foreclosure wave. There's one thing after another, after another, after another. Okay. So the forbearance naysayers, there's going to be this awful backup of foreclosures due to forbearances. Well, they also said there would be a silver tsunami when all the baby boomers just had to sell their houses all of a sudden. And they also thought there would be an Airbnb bust. And now the new thing is, as soon as somebody has to make their student loan payments, well, that means they're going to miss their mortgage payments from one drama to the next, but not based on facts, which we like to sprinkle upon you. Again, the reason that we're so adamant about you guys getting these facts and the reason that we spend so much time on this podcast and our coaching program to make sure you have the actual information is because if you operate with bad information, you're going to then pass that bad information along to your customers. You're then going to, you know, it always comes down to the same thing. If you don't believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today, you're not going to take the actions today that would have made tomorrow better than today. In other words, if you believe the sky is falling, you're sure as hell not going to do what you don't want to do when you don't want to do at the highest level, you're not going to learn to price properties correctly. You're not going to learn how to get prices, you know, lower prices on homes. Why would you bother after all tomorrow? It's going to be, you know, some sort of, you know, locust apocalypse, so you're never actually going to make tomorrow better than today. So that's really the reason that you want to purge from your mind all of these naysayers, all of these snake oil salesmen that are trying to sell you into the belief that there's any sort of anything other than frankly, amazing things that are going to happen in the real estate markets. And here's a little foreshadowing, and we're working on a podcast about this. If you look purely at the demographics of what the United States is experiencing over the next 20, 30 years, it's extraordinary and it's going to do nothing but maybe even increase the demand for housing by something like five to seven X. So that's how many home sales and how much new construction is going to have to be built just to meet demand and it's going to be built and that demand will be met and you are going to be a beneficiary of that provided that you are taking the right steps now to, you know, stay relevant in the real estate. That's right. And provided that you make it through this next three to six months because it is going to be more challenging than you're used to. That's why we're talking about price reductions because we've seen, you know, we've gotten texts, we've seen videos online, we've seen stuff on social media where agents were losing their minds over having to do price reductions, hearing about price reductions, having to ask a seller to come down.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Ron Hammond Interview - Crypto Regulation News! SEC Gary Gensler Hearing, FTX Trial, Crypto Bills, Coinbase, Stablecoin Regulation
"Last time he spoke in front of the House Finance Service Committee, he kept saying multiple times, we have not lost a court case on crypto at all. We have brought several actions. And again, remind you, they call settlements wins. And so in their case, they were. They had won every single court case. But now that talking point is really faded because, as you mentioned, the Ripple's case, the Grayscale case, there's also ones like the Coinbase suit going on right now. This content is brought to you by Link2, which makes private equity investment easy. Link2 is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO. Within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and fintech companies. Some of the crypto companies you may recognize include Circle, Ripple, Chainalysis, Ledger, Dapper Labs, and many more. If you'd like to learn more about Link2, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Ron Hammond, who's director of government relations at the Blockchain Association. Ron, great to have you back on. Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure. Ron, it's going to be a busy week. It's already a busy week here in DC. Tomorrow is, of course, the hearing with chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. Tell us about that and what can we expect. Definitely. For those who may not know, Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, is going to be testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee for the second time this year. That's a really big deal because, to remind you, last year, they barely saw him at all in that committee when the Democrats had control. But if the Republicans can control, they want to exercise oversight of the SEC as much as possible. And again, it's pretty typical, though, for the opposite party to try to put the screws on to the party that has the White House. But in this case, a lot has happened, both in crypto, but also just generally, that it's going to get a lot of flack for Gary Gensler, whether it be on private funds, ESG. And again, crypto will definitely come up a lot after talking to several folks on the House side. He recently testified, though, in front of Senate Banking two weeks ago, and we didn't get too much out of that candidly. We saw a couple of questions from Senator Hagerty from Tennessee on the issues of promethium, for example, and Bitcoin ETF. We also saw some questions from Senator Lummis on SAB 121, which is more crypto accounting standards, and how do you custody actual crypto for banks. So I think we're going to see a lot more hard -hitting points from the House, especially on the Republican side. But I'd also like to caveat, as well, that the shutdown approaching, a lot of Democrats are going to use their time to hit the Republicans. It's just standard politics here. The Republicans are the ones in the House that are really slowing things down, unfortunately, when it comes to funding the government. So Democrat, any for the most part, is going to utilize their five minutes to not really talk about Gary Gensler, but talk about the Republicans shutting down the government. Because again, that's a major, major thing here. As much as crypto is big for us, the macro of all of the shutdown has a lot of implications. So we won't see crypto come up too much, but after talking to a couple offices, it does seem like we're going to have some definitely hard -hitting questions, very similar to what we saw earlier this year in the House. Yeah, and to your point of, you know, things have certainly changed since the last time he appeared, because you had the Ripple lawsuit decision, you had the Grayscale decision, where Grayscale won that, Ripple won a big chunk of theirs as well. And the Prometheum details are more about what Prometheum is and what they're up to. So do you think there's going to be some hard -hitting questions around that, those cases and those things that happened? Definitely. So if you recall, last time he spoke in front of the House Financial Services Committee, he kept saying multiple times, we have not lost a court case on crypto at all. We have brought several actions. And again, remind you, they call settlements wins. And so in their case, they were. They had won every single court case. But now that talking point is really faded because, as you mentioned, the Ripple case, the Grayscale case, there's also ones like the Coinbase suit going on right now. That's got a lot more attention. Actually, it looks a lot better for Coinbase post those decisions. And so he can't rely back on the courts here or say that, hey, look, I'm winning in all these court cases. And actually, especially in the Grayscale case, he lost 3 -0. And two of those judges were Democrat appointees and they're based here in D .C. And so I think that having that set the tone of like, look, you are really overextending here and you're losing in the courts, not by a small margin, by unanimous margin sometimes. And it's just not crypto. You are pushing the balance elsewhere where other industries like ESG or like private equity are seeing these wins and saying, you know what? I think we're going to actually have a chance to win against the SC as well. So like the ETF situation where crypto really just goes out ahead and fights a lot of these fires for more traditional finance. And then those folks kind of benefit from crypto's push. I think we're seeing some of that happening now with the Grayscale case and Ripple case and Coinbase case empowering other industries who feel like they are also having overreach from the SEC saying, you know what? I think we have actually a case here when we can actually win the courts. So I think it's going to be a major theme of this hearing going forward. But also there's going to be several other questions to your point about Prometheum. That was a major issue for that committee, which had Erin Caplan in front of that committee just a couple of months ago. And they reiterate all the talking points, securities laws are clear. The SEC gave us a way to work forward and move things forward. But that argument really fell apart pretty quickly. And we're seeing that in this case, that the Prometheum line that there is a pathway forward registration, there is a way to comply, just doesn't hold water. And so I'm pretty sure we'll see some members of Congress tighten the screws a little bit there because it's been really more of a black box, the SEC, of how this process went. Caplan just kept saying that we actually kept working the SEC and they were clear, but that has yet to even show itself. So I think there'll be a major other theme for this hearing as well. Now you mentioned Coinbase and everyone's looking at that lawsuit. There was also news reported, I think you mentioned it, where Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will be on the Hill. They've also launched an education campaign around crypto. Tell us about that. Yeah, Coinbase has been a godsend, candidly. Again, we used to have only about five or six lobbyists during the infrastructure fight. And again, we're going up against the banks who have over 150 plus lobbyists. We have going against other agencies or other groups that have way more funding. But Coinbase really has stepped up and said, look, the fights here in DC, we are committed to the United States and we're committed to resources here in the United States and DC to educate Congress, to educate regulators, and to showcase in DC why crypto is important for the future of the United States. And so they're having a huge Hill day tomorrow, actually. Again, it lines up not on purpose at all with Kerry Gensler testifying and of course also the shutdown too. But they're going to be having a whole set of presentations for Hill staff and members of Congress to learn from founders. It's not just Coinbase itself. They're also bringing in other founders from other companies and having a whole demo day, a Hill day, you can say, to educate various offices. And so I think it's really important to have. We're all seeing a lot of other folks from the industry come down. So it's going to be quite the crypto week here in DC. Of course, bad timing with the shutdown, but no one can really plan it like that. So we're really excited to see how that plays out, especially with all the heat recently more moving to AI in terms of interest, but also scrutiny. I think it's good to have more adults in the room and say, hey, look, crypto was the AI about one or two years ago. We're still here. We're fighting a lot of big battles. We need Congress's help to move the needle. But at the same time, let's show you why this is important and why this technology needs to be in America and not be based elsewhere. Because unfortunately, we're seeing a lot of folks migrate over to London, migrate over to the EU. And Coinbase is really taking a strategic stand saying, we're here to stay. We're here to comply with the rules, but we also need some action from Congress. So we'll see how that goes. Sure. Yeah, that's really great that they're doing that. And education advocacy are certainly key. And speaking of legislation and regulations, obviously, we had the market structure bill get marked up in the house. You also have the stable coin bill. What's the latest with those and the next steps? I know the shutdown is probably delaying a lot of things. What are the latest on those items? Yeah, so we were kind of expecting by October timeframe to have a vote on the stable coin bill and the market structure bill. There are other crypto bills as well that passed out of the house financial service committee, but those are the two main big ones. And so the plan was, hopefully, was after this whole shutdown drama that we would have a vote probably in October, but it's looking more like November now. And again, our message to folks is the closer we get to that 2024 election, we're almost a year out, all of a sudden, all bipartisan politics goes away and folks start retreating back to their bases. And it's my team versus your team. And that's when everything grinds to a halt in DC. We're already seeing that right now a little bit with the shutdown where folks are saying it's my team versus your team, but the Republicans are a lot more splintered on their teams. And so we want to make sure that we get these bills pushed out of the house on a good bipartisan basis and then showcase to the Senate why it's important to take up this legislation. Now, there are been some rumors going around recently. Again, Politico report on it, Punchbowl report on it recently, too, that Patrick Henry gave an interview saying, look, the Senate Bank Committee, my Senate counterpart, they're doing completely different things than we're doing in the house. We're focusing on crypto and capital formation and data privacy. They're more focused on marijuana banking, exec compensation, and banking regs. So we are in two different camps on two major different issues. But if we were able to make a trade of some sort, the priorities that Sherrod Brown, who's running for reelection in deep red Ohio, who's going to need all the help he can get, would at least his case to voters saying, look, I'm actually working on this committee that traditionally has not passed that many bills. Mind you, again, they haven't passed a bill, except for this year, for four years before that. And that's during his time as well as Republicans in the chair time. It's crazy. And so in order for this to move the needle, they have to have a trade. And I think that's what's really important to say. If this trade were to happen, a lot does have to happen. But this does provide a pathway potentially for crypto legislation to move forward to the president's desk. Again, a lot has to happen. A lot can mess this up. But this isn't one of the first few times we're seeing kind of a light at the end of the tunnel. And we're really excited by it now again. But we have to have a lot of education because the Senate has not really given too much thought to this issue besides a couple handful of really powerful champions. Yeah, boy, fingers crossed, toes crossed, everything, hoping they can get something through the House and then we can go through the Senate. Boy, I'm hoping something happens by early next year before the madness of the election cycle. Now, there's also the trial for Sam Beckman Fried and the whole FTX debacle. In addition, there's been new updates around Sam Beckman Fried's parents and how money was moved to his aunt and Stanford University and much more. What do you expect to happen in October with this trial? So the main issue that we're going to have here in D .C. is just the noise. A lot of people are going to be talking about the SPF trial. It does have a huge media attention, for better or for worse. And again, we've really at least made sure we tell folks in D .C., again, this is not a crypto problem. This is a complete scammer just using newer technology. But guess what? Same old playbook as we've seen with Madoff and others. But there is concern that there are, at least in the case of the House, for example, we're voting on these big bills. FTX came up as a reason to support the bill, as a reason also to oppose the bill. Some folks say, look, there's no coming of a customer funds. That's what FTX did. And this bill bans that. On the other end, they're saying, you know, well, this legitimizes the crypto market. So this could potentially make more FTXs come up down the road. And so we've seen FTX kind of being pulled in two different directions when it comes to supporting or opposing legislation. And so our concern is the 300 plus members of Congress who have not sat in a crypto hearing who may not even know what Bitcoin or Ethereum is, are they going to listen to the headlines and say, look, actually, SPF is all crypto, which we all know it's not the case. Or they're going to say, SPF did this fraud. That's why we need to pass legislation to make sure this doesn't happen again. And so we're trying to really thread that needle. Of course, you know, we still know everything is going to come out through the trial. There could be some regulatory implications. Again, the campaign donations is a major factor and a major reason why a lot of folks in Congress are a lot more put back by crypto and kind of staying away on the sidelines because they don't get burned again. But as we're seeing kind of recently with the indictment with Senator Menendez recently from New Jersey, some members of the Senate took money from his PAC. And so there's a lot of, you know, just it doesn't matter if you're in crypto, doesn't matter if you're a Singh Senator, there's a lot of issues when it comes to campaign financing as a whole. And a lot of folks are on their toes here. But I think, you know, we want to make sure that we showcase it. Folks, SPF kind of went abroad and tried to really railroad the industry here in D .C. by trying to screw DeFi with his legislation and trying to protect his fraud and scam. Let's make sure it doesn't happen again. Let's put some rules on the road because, yes, SEC is not providing that right now. They haven't for years. And so it's time for Congress to act. So we'll see how that makes the dynamics. I'm sure, again, there'll be a lot of D .C. ties and connections with that court case. So if there's anything damning, we'll soon find out. But our hope is that this actually encourages Congress to act rather than sit on the sidelines saying, no, we're good. Crypto is kind of all SPF, FTX. And what do you think about the dynamic of and I don't know if this is going to be discussed in the trial at all, but Sam Beckman Fried and FTX officials met with the SEC many times. These are confirmed things on the calendar. I believe Sam met with Gary Gensler, according to some calendar updates. Does that play a factor at all? Because obviously we don't know what was discussed and what was the agenda items. But would that bring any pressure on Gary Gensler? Like you met with this guy. Yeah. He said in the New York Times article back in December that he met with SPF, I think it was twice actually, SPF and Gensler personally. But again, also remind you, it's a big organization. SPF was in D .C., more than any CEO in any industry I've seen in my time in D .C. But at the same front, staff meet all the time too. I mean, it wasn't just SPF. He had a whole team of staff that helped out on this front, both at the CFTC, at the SEC and of course with Congress as well. And so Gensler said again explicitly that he met with SPF twice. But I think it'd be good to know, look, how many times does your staff interact? How long do those conversations go? What do they lead to? Because there were some rumors swirling around that FTX is going to get a pass of sorts. And again, those are rumors. We have not had confirmation of that. But the one thing about the court case is that it's going to bring all this to light. So if there's anyone that's saying anything half -truths here or they're trying to protect their character or protect their image, it could really bite them if they have been lying to the press or they've been getting half -truths here. And so if I were to chair Gensler, this likely will come up in tomorrow's hearing. The question is like, look, it's going to come out. The truth will come out. We just want to make sure you're shored up here because it's going to be really bad for you on top of all the other things that have been happening in the courts if you've been caught potentially lying here. And again, I don't see any reason why he would in this situation, but I think the focus should be also not just on SPF and Garrett Gensler, but where do the staffs and the senior level execs and regulators also meet from FTX and the SEC? Hmm. I'm very curious to get those details. Now, speaking of FTX, obviously with the relation with Binance, and I forgot to ask you this earlier, the judge recently said it blocked the SEC from conducting further discovery, if I'm not mistaken, with Binance US. Have you heard anything about that? Not as much, at least in the DC front, but at least when it comes to the Binance situation as a whole, there's still that looming DOJ investigation that a lot of folks in DC are waiting for that shoe to drop. Again, there's various rumors of why that DOJ lawsuit hasn't dropped. There have been confirmation reports of central sanction evasion violations, as well as money laundering violations by Binance and the parent company, not Binance US to my knowledge, but Binance. What is the relationship though between Binance US and Binance? Is that there much cohesion there or is there actually a pretty separate line between those two entities? So one thing's for sure though, a lot of folks in DC or in the early of 2023 are hearing a lot more from Binance. They were definitely hitting DC a lot more, trying to get their narrative out. And I think the mounting allegations are pretty damning. And we've seen a lot of folks who were in DC for Binance trying to deliver that message. They're not here anymore. It was a very short stint for them. So whether that be for the company having financial problems, whether it be more of the regulatory issues, that's unclear at the moment. I would lean more to the regulatory issues, but I think it's all going to come more to light as time goes on, but it's pretty bad. So we'll see exactly how Binance recovers from this, if at all. But at least here in DC, the folks that they had speaking, they largely aren't here anymore. Wow. And final item here, obviously you got the Gensler hearing tomorrow with the House Financial Services Committee. Is there any other major hearings for the remainder of the year that we should be aware of? Not at the moment, at least in terms of big ones. We are seeing some small hearings, rumors coming up right now for more of Senate banking. Again, if they do consider crypto legislation, they've only had one major crypto hearing so far this year, whereas the House has had over 13. But again, like I mentioned earlier, that's just two separate priorities for two separate chairs. But if this trade were to happen, I think I'd just keep an eye on Senate banking. They just had their first AI hearing last week. And as they kind of get more into the AI issues and tech issues in finance, that's going to eventually loop in crypto more and more. So I think we'll keep an eye on Senate banking. And then finally, if we are looking for those votes happening on the House floor for the stablecoin bill, as well as the market structure bill, I probably keep a little eye on the House as well. I guess I think lastly, I'll say now, too, is tax issues. We've been talking a lot about securities law, commodities law for quite some time. But tax issues are really percolating to the surface here. Senate Finance, which is Ron Wyden, who's a big champion for crypto, Democrat side, as well as Mike Crapo from Idaho, they actually put a request out to the industry and another stakeholder saying, look, what does taxation for crypto look like? Please help us. Who should be reporting 1099s? Who should be doing various filings and such? So that's just a request ended in early September. And so we potentially could see some action or at least some legislative hearings on what does crypto taxation look like. And I think it's a very important issue with the broker definition coming out from Treasury. There's a lot of comments going through that system right now. So we'll see where that lines up by keeping an eye on tax issues. That's going to be a major fight for quite some time. And I think it's going to be really important. It's a little nitty gritty, but it's very important for any business to operate in the United States. Yeah, absolutely. That's a big one. And I know there's been some other things happening. I think the FASB rule and with corporations being able to hold Bitcoin and things like that on their balance sheet, I believe there were some updates there. Don't have the full details, but there's certainly a need for further clarity and for individuals and institutions. Ron, always great information, man. Thank you so much. Happy to help. Thanks for having me.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
A highlight from LGM Podcast: Waging War with Gold
"This is the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley. And with me today, I am delighted to have my very own co -authors, a long -term friend of the blog, Charles Danoff, who is not a newcomer to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. You may remember him from such podcasts as the Top 50 Westerns of All Time, and I don't know, possibly some other podcasts some other time in some other place. And also not a newcomer to the podcast, Dr. Jeff Williams, who you may remember from a podcast we did some time ago on street crime and firearms. But both of those are a little bit deep cuts for the LGM podcast group. How are you fellows doing today? Great, thank you. Yeah, good. So the occasion of our podcast this week is a project that the three of us worked on together for about two years. It is a book that is now available through Lynn Rainer called Waging War with Gold, National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages. And this project is a labor of love that we spend a great deal of time on. It is available through Amazon and other sellers. We would deeply appreciate any thoughts that anybody might have about it. Then today we wanted to explore the project, sort of think through what some of the main arguments are, but also think a little bit about the process of how we went through and ended up writing this book. So I think it's probably best if we start with you, Charles. Maybe you could do the sort of the brief outline of our argument book, but then also if you could tell us a little bit about sort of where you're coming from and what attracted you to this particular project. Sure. Well, the germ of the project really started when you recommended me for visiting professorship at the Army War College. And against all common sense and odds, they took your recommendation. And I spent what was a very fruitful, eventful year there, after which they canceled the program. So I guess I had an impact. But during the course of that, and we had discussions which later turned into presentations, and I was able to run a seminar on it about the idea that one thing that is lacking from what is called professional military education, and honestly in international relations and strategic studies in general, is a consideration of the role that finance plays in the contest station for international supremacy. So we developed a theory based on this, which starts out that states do, we start with some really basic and universally accepted assumptions, at least within the IR community, which is that states seek to maximize either their security or their power, whichever word you use, and that in the course of that, they contest with each other in international arenas or what are called domains to get to hegemony where they can stop worrying about whether they're the most powerful state in the system or not. And conventionally, the domains have been considered to be land, air, sea, and more recently, space, both actual and cyber, and those have been gradually integrated into the study of international relations. Our argument is that international finance is also a domain, and that in the same way that states compete by force of arms, they also compete using instruments of finance. And also, because there have been epical changes in the international system, we developed an adjunct to that theory, which is that in the same way that there are revolutions in military affairs that change the balance of power, there are also what we call revolutions in financial affairs, technological changes that affect who is the hegemon of the system. And in order to demonstrate that argument, we not only argue that it exists now, but that we go back basically to the beginning of recorded civilization, and we have several historical cases. Part of that is motivated by the Army War Colleges and professional military educations deep in abiding love for the Peloponnesian Wars. So we figured that one way to get a foothold with at least that particular audience is to how demonstrate using the Peloponnesian War and as well as Polybius' writings afterwards that these conflicts existed and influenced the outcome. That's the gist of the argument. So I have more thoughts on what you just said, and I want to frame it a little bit more in terms of international relations theory. But before we do that, I want to go to Jeff. Now, Jeff, you come from a slightly different academic background than Charles and myself. List your affiliation here. Charles, you are University of Idaho, and Jeff, you are Transylvania University, Lexington's own, Transylvania University. Lexington's own. Exactly. So Jeff, from your perspective as an economist, what about this project seemed interesting to you and made you want to explore more deeply some of the stuff that we wrote about in the book? Well, when you first described it to me, I guess it was a phone call. You were just talking about the idea and the idea of the finance domain, the domain framework just seemed like such a beautiful way to think about a lot of different issues in finance for me, which is very clarifying. Just that very notion was very clarifying in terms of thinking of institutional development and sort of a lot of stuff that kind of is talked about by financial historians and economic historians and all sorts of people in the present day and going back. And I think that the idea of the domain just structured stuff in an almost magical way in terms of my thinking about it would be the way to describe it. And so as sort of specifically in your sort of academic training as an economist, how would you say that economists and political scientists think differently about finance and specifically finance, right? Not the economy more broadly, but specifically the role of money.
What a Weird Week
A highlight from What a Weird Week: Hugs, Long Things, Explosions! Fri Sept 1 2023
"What a weird week. Hugs. Long things. Explosions. Friday, September 1st, 2023. Hi, everybody. It's Weird. This is like crazy news here. Really weird, weird tale. Well, I got a great show for you today. It was so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi, friends. I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week show. We talk about weird stuff from the past week's news. If you want to get the stories in more detail, find out more about the podcast or the video stuff. Just remember shownotes .page. You can start at shownotes .page. This is season 4, episode 49, first published Friday, September 1st, 2023. All right. Kicking off our countdown of weird stuff, number 10 is very long stick of meat makes headlines. From meatandpoultry .com, my new favorite website, Wenzel's Farm. They are a maker of meat snacks. Meat snack makers. Meat snacks. Anyway, however I said it, it was awkward. Story of my life. Wenzel's Farm celebrated their 75th anniversary late August by setting the Guinness World Record for longest meat stick. It was 314 feet long. Other things that are 314 feet long, American football field, not including the end zones, Statue of Liberty on her pedestal, and eight school buses. It was a very long stick of meat. Number nine, very long sandwich also makes headlines. A diner in Idaho has broken the Philly cheesesteak world record. How has this happened, Philly? Idaho. Idaho, Philly. Congratulations to Main Street Diner in Lewiston, Idaho, who made a cheesesteak that was 722 feet long. Important note, they used Monterey Jack instead of Swiss cheese. Still counts though. They chopped it up into six inch portions and they sold those portions for charity. Pretty nice. Well done. The ball is in your court now, Philly.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
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Monitor Show 18:00 08-19-2023 18:00
"Appeal to the Fifth Circuit, which is considered the most conservative appellate court in the country. So we'll see what happens there. Thanks so much, Shao. That's Professor Shao Wang of the University of Virginia Law School. And that's it for this edition of the Bloomberg Law Show. Remember, you can always get the latest legal news by listening to our Bloomberg Law podcast, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Southern California is preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Hillary, which is now a Category two storm. Officials in the region say they are working hand in hand with FEMA as the storm approaches and the National Guard has been called in. Hillary will hit Southern California and the rest of the Southwest as a tropical storm probably early Sunday. The White House says President Biden is getting constant updates and is working with Governor Newsom. A storm of this magnitude has not made landfall in Southern California since 1939. Forecasters warn it's likely to cause catastrophic and life threatening flooding over the region and the southwestern U .S. through Monday. Former President Trump is reportedly planning to skip the upcoming Republican debate and instead will be interviewed by Tucker Carlson. The debate hosted by the Republican National Committee will air Wednesday in Fox News. The New York Times says Trump, the GOP front runner, has an interview lined up that same night with Carlson. Trump previously signaled he might not take part in the debate as polls show him holding a huge lead over his 2024 GOP rivals. The suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students is fighting evidence from prosecutors. Brad Siegel has more. In a hearing Friday, defense attorneys for Brian Koberger had witnesses testify about DNA evidence and genealogy testing. Detectives use genealogy tracing to identify Koberger as a suspect in the murders.
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"Interactive brokers clients earn up to USD 4 .83 % on their uninvested, instantly available cash balances rate subject to change. Visit ibkr .com slash interest rates to learn more. show. Remember, you can always get the latest legal news by listening to our Bloomberg Law podcast, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Hurricane Hillary is threatening to bring heavy rain to Southern California in the coming days. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has a strict warning for residents. Angelenos are urged to stay away from the shoreline and beaches throughout the duration of the storm. Southern California is under a tropical storm watch. The alert is in effect for much of southwestern California, from San Diego, the San Bernardino County Mountains, and on to Catalina Island. The federal government is launching an independent third -party investigation into the cause of the wildfire that's killed a confirmed 111 people in Lahaina. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives National Response Team is working to determine the origin and cause of the fire. The suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students is fighting evidence from prosecutors. In a hearing Friday, defense attorneys for Brian Koberger had witnesses testify about DNA evidence and genealogy testing. Detectives used genealogy tracing to identify Koberger as a suspect in the murders. The Mexican cartels continue to recruit children to work as human smugglers. Michael Board reports.
Northwest Newsradio
"idaho" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"The criticism. When I tried to do was balance two things, my desire to be involved and engaged and on the ground and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries. The White House press secretary says that President Biden has been satisfied so far with the federal response here in east Palestine. She would not commit to whether the president himself would visit. ABC's Alex perche reporting. It's been more than three months after four university of Idaho students were killed in an off campus house, and the school now announces how it plans to continue the healing process. ABC's Brian Clark has more. The university of Idaho says the owner of the rental house on king street gave it back to the university, which will now demolish it. The school says this step will both promote healing and end any efforts to quote further sensationalize the crime scene. The school also says a memorial garden is in the planning stages led by a university committee with student representation. There are also scholarships being established in the names of the four victims. Brian Clark, ABC News. The latest execution carried out in this nation was done in Florida last night when the condemned killer Donald dillbeck was put to death. ABC's Jim Ryan says, still backs was the 7th lethal injection, carried out so far in 2023. Of the 20 remaining execution scheduled for this year, 7 are to happen in Oklahoma, but a survey of 500 sooner state voters finds that 51% would support replacing capital punishment with life prison terms. I believe it's time for our leaders here in the state House to take key to what the citizens of Oklahoma are saying. Demetrius minor heads a group called conservatives concerned about the death penalty. He's calling for at least a pause in the state's executions. Jim Ryan ABC News
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Link Garret 5 31 on Wall Street and Michael Barr is here with those headlines from New York and around the world. Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Nathan. The New York City native who saw smoke canisters inside a pack Brooklyn subway car before opening fire on commuters last year has pleaded guilty to terrorism and gun charges. Frank James appeared in federal court in Brooklyn yesterday. James faces a sentence up to life in prison. Republican congressman George Santos did not answer any questions shouted by reporters as he spent day one in the house once in the chamber Santos sat alone. The Long Island representative admitted he lied about his resume while on the campaign trail. During her briefing White House press secretary Karin Jean Pierre commented on Santos. This is something that the House Republicans, the Republican conference, they will have to decide what they owe to the American people in terms of standards and service. That is something that they have to decide on. There are growing calls for Santos to step down. The man charged in the November murders of four university of Idaho students waived his right to an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania. That will speed up 28 year old Brian kober's transferred to Moscow Idaho to stand trial. Colonel Robert Evans Jack of the Pennsylvania state police. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Their friends, the community of Moscow, and the university of Idaho. Police are said to have linked coburger to the crime scene through DNA. The Russian military says unauthorized use of cell phones by Russian soldiers led to a deadly Ukrainian rocket attack on the facility where they were stationed. It raised the death toll from the weekend attack to 89, meanwhile, State Department spokesman Ned price says that the U.S. will support Ukraine. We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes, as we have said, president Putin can choose to end
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"The death of Emmy Award winning journalist Barbara Walters who passed away Friday at the age of 93, Disney CEO bob Iger called Walters a true legend who hosted many of the most important interviews of our time several ABC correspondents have spoken out about her passing, including ABC world news tonight anchor David Muir and national affairs correspondent Deborah Roberts, who called Walters, a trailblazer and a barrier breaker, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got on social media to thank Walters for holding people accountable and caring about the truth. Police confirm and arrest has been made in the murders of four Idaho college students, Moscow, Idaho police chief James fry, identified the suspect as 28 year old Brian koberger, who was arrested today in Pennsylvania and is being held without bond and awaiting extradition. House Democrats have released former president Trump's tax records from 2015 to 2020, the document show he paid just over a $1 million in federal income taxes during the first three years of his presidency and paid no taxes in 2020, claiming large business losses. I'm Chris scratchy. And I'm Charlie pellet. At Bloomberg world headquarters. The S&P 500 Index wrapped up the year down 19.4%. Stocks move lower today on the final trading day of 2022, closing out the worst year in more than a decade. So where do we go from here? Ethan debit his chief investment officer at moneta group investment advisers. We are going to see some recovery in equities simply because everyone's been talking about power versus Tina. Is there an alternative or are there reasonable alternatives at the end of the day for a high growth portfolio you still need to be exposed to equities? So I'll see some pickup in those value names, healthcare, industrials, and just in general, just a very broad base of old economy staffs. We'll see recovering. Even debit hov minetta after a dismal year for tech, Sylvia jablonski at defiant CTF, says large cap technology stock valuations will recover in the latter half of 2023. I'm actually not so afraid of tech. I really like that full of these prices. I like Microsoft and Amazon at these prices. I think that the future of relies on things like cybersecurity. I think that the future relies on the cloud and artificial intelligence. Sylvia jablonski, a defiance ETFs, will certainly one of the hardest hit big tech names in 2022 was EV maker Tesla with the stock down 65% for the year. Tesla meanwhile is expected to announce record quarterly deliveries in early January, Ben callow is senior research analyst at Robert W Baird. He has got an outperform rating on the stock with a $252 price target. He says one of Tesla's biggest assets is its talent. I just saw a report they have 2 million job applicants and 2021. And the number one place for engineers to go do they want to work in surveys is SpaceX number two is Tesla. And so that's what's the biggest competitive advantage that Tesla has and the people that work for them. Ben callow of Robert W Baird, heading into the new year, lots of questions about the path of interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve, Eric knutson is multi asset class chief investment officer at neuberger, Berman group. The fed is forecasting that rates at the end of this year are going to be 5 ish percent growth is going to be half of a percent inflation is going to be 3.2%. That's a real yield of almost 2%. We haven't seen a real yield like that consistently for over 15 years. We think you should pay attention to the fed. And this is a dramatic change from the environment we've seen over the last ten to 15 years. Eric knutson of new burger burman, so a down Friday, S&P ends the year down 19.4%, the Dow on the year down 8.8% NASDAQ this year down 33.1%. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 100 countries. I'm Charlie palette. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg radio
National Day Calendar
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"This episode is brought to you by boar's head. If you're looking for something delicious, look no further than boar's head pit craft turkey. It's slow roasted with real Mesquite wood chips to give it a real pit smoke flavor. And it's authentic dry rub made of paprika, brown sugar, and Mexican chilies gives it a bold taste you need to experience yourself. Boar's head. Compromise elsewhere, find pit craft turkey at your local boar's head retailer. Welcome to May 17th, 2022 in the national day calendar. Today we celebrate stunning stunts and sweet substitutions. This episode is brought to you by boar's head. If you're looking for something delicious, look no further than boar's head pit craft turkey. It's slow roasted with real Mesquite wood chips to give it a real pit smoke flavor. And it's authentic dry rub made of paprika, brown sugar, and Mexican chilies gives it a bold taste you need to experience yourself. Boar's head. Compromise elsewhere, find pit craft turkey at your local boar's head retailer. Shoshone falls in southern Idaho is known as the Niagara of the west, and boasts some pretty amazing views, but a little past the falls is one of the coolest attractions in the state. In 1974, evil knievel, the world's most famous stuntman, attempted to jump the falls. People around the world watched on TV as he launched off the ramp on a steam powered rocket that he called the X two sky cycle. Unfortunately, knievel didn't make it to the other side because the parachute deployed two soon and he crashed into the snake river. If you're in the area, check out the evil knievel jump site, and on national Idaho day, celebrate the gem state in all its glory. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and in the case of cherry cobbler, that need was for a pudding. I'm talking about British settlers in the American colonies who were longing for a taste of their hometown favorite, suet pudding. The problem was a lack of ingredients and the rudimentary ovens, which most people had in the new world. But this episode of dessert impossible had a very happy ending. Clever baker's opted for stewed cherries instead of suet, and when topped with biscuit dough, the substitutions were quite delicious on national cherry cobbler day, celebrate the ingenious results of making do with what you have on hand. You can't have your pudding if you haven't had your meat. Listen, I don't want to put it. That's something that my dad used to feed birds. That's why I thought too. I don't want to live in a place where we're thinking we want the fat over the sweet cherries. All right, that's why we live in America, John. That's right. My manager. I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we celebrate every day. Pass the sewage, please.
Hey Moms in Business
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"That'd be perfect awesome. That's good good trade. I just had a a little flashback. So one of your team members and i were messaging back and forth after we got connected and her bio in her. Instagram says making idaho. Idaho home and i was like i love you. Oh yeah yes. Is that katya kaley. Kaley haley is. It can now haley haley. She's outdoor events. That's her instagram. Handle is like that is what she is. Sure she's okay equal yeah. I wonder who. I think it was one of your team members who those after we talked after she started following me and i looked at her bow. You know who it might be kerry because So i had her originally third listening to the social socially modern yod cast or whatever. And so i was like all of that. I we need to get her whole team out for the floor event. I know we do. I mean oh go awesome. I'm going to be there. I'm super excited. I should be. It's going to be so much fun. Yes locked up the rest of the team. Let's do a little plug on that. Because let's do it kristen. So if you guys are in arizona. Or you're cool like mckenzie and wanna fly out to arizona november fourth and fifth we have our second flourish event. Yup even starts november third if you want to come to the vip dinner which is really fun way to get to know the girls before you spend a couple of days with them so all you have to do is look on moms in real estate instagram and you will see how to get connected with us through the flourish event. Yes and so. Why don't we wrap up and do you by wrapping up. I don't why don't we just give a little advice to any new agent out there That might be either thinking about getting into real estate or in real estate. Like what advice would you give them. The biggest thing is finding a team got going to invest in you and who is going to be you know your second family. And i think that is the biggest thing. 'cause that the first year two years is super scary. And you need someone who's going to be behind you but just because you may have found your team doesn't mean that you know and if it doesn't work doesn't mean that you have to say i think you know just finding your home and not giving up is is huge. I agree and you've done obviously a spectacular job doing that. So i am so grateful that you pour out your heart new agents and that you have a heart to help those girls and that you've created environment where they can thrive that's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being on today right. Yeah thank you for having me awesome by guys..
KQED Radio
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"Infections in Idaho have skyrocketed, while the state's vaccination rate is among the lowest in the nation. More lights are coming back on in Louisiana, nine days after Hurricane Ida By late today, Cruz had restored power to some 700,000 customers out of 1.1 million who lost it? Meanwhile, President Biden surveyed storm damage in New York and New Jersey. We'll take a closer look after the news summary in Texas a Republican bill to overhaul state elections is now law despite protests that it will suppress minority turnout. GOP Governor Greg Abbott signed the measure today banning all night and drive through voting and limiting mail in balloting. He dismissed lawsuits already being filed. Would be astonished if a law like this was not challenged in court. I feel extremely confident that when this law makes it through the Livia litigation phase, it will be upheld in a court of law because exactly what we've said. Abbott also defended a new law that bans most abortions. After six weeks of pregnancy. It took effect last week. The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled today that imposing criminal punishment for abortions is unconstitutional. The decision directly affects Coahuila state along the Texas border, but it also sets a precedent. 28 Mexican states now penalize abortion, while four allow it. In most circumstances, the plight of Syrian refugees is raising new alarms. Amnesty International report that Syrians who have returned home have been jailed, tortured and even killed by security forces. Group criticizes nations that claim it is safe for the refugees to go home and then pressured them to leave. Mass demonstrations unfolded today across Brazil in support of embattled President Yeah. Tear Bolsonaro in Brasilia, the capital debt, tens of thousands turned out with flags and banners. As Bolsonaro helicoptered in. He blasted judges for jailing some of his key supporters on charges of supporting violence, milk.
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"Rest assured, you'll get the best bet at the best price on junk your sleep only mattress firm offer valid with clothing. Purchase restrictions apply about at participating locations only for offer details. Visit mattress firm dot com slash sale you with an A P News minute, president Biden met with people in New Jersey whose homes were damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. It's incredible. We're so thankful that I'm surprised my is that and what otherwise you would not assume. Could generate a Water height. That went up in some cases almost in the windows. These homes over a little literally over your head, according to Focus is the storm in the Northeast is blamed for at least 50 deaths. The president says it's climate change and not just in New Jersey every part of the country. Every part of the country is getting hit by extreme weather. And we're now living in real time. What the country is going to look like, and if we don't do some, we can't turn it back very much, but we can prevent it from getting worse. Meantime, in New Orleans about 400,000 homes are still without power from Hurricane Ida. I'm Ed Donahue As he gets a firsthand look at Hurricane Ida's damage. President Biden is focusing on both short term relief and long term fixes. In New Jersey, where at least 27 people died due to either the president drove through a neighborhood with damaged furniture and other items stacked outside homes. The losses that we we witnessed today are profound, and he says more will come unless the nation acts. The president says. It's seeing climate change's effects in real time. With more frequent and ferocious storms, wildfires and the like Now is the time to invest in infrastructure to lessen climate changes impacts. We can't turn it back very much, but we can prevent it from getting worse. SOCCER Megane Washington The covid surge in Idaho is forcing hospitals to make choices. There are so many patients with Covid 19, arriving at hospitals in northern Idaho and the north central part of the state that public health leaders are activating what's called crisis standards of care. That means hospitals can dedicate scarce resources to patients most likely to survive resources like intensive care unit rooms. Other patients will still receive care, but they.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
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"Your market is shifting towards a balanced market or at least a less competitive one make sense. It does now three hundred. Not that many really. That's most people want gonna notice it but it. I remember when julie and i were coaching agents and it was around two thousand late really early two thousand and seven but really late two thousand six we head coaching clients in virtually every major market in the country. And i remember italy i We were comparing what our coaching clients experiences. Where specifically in san diego. Las vegas and certain parts in southern florida and what we're looking for and again we would coaching clients experiencing. What are they saying. Days in the market all these types of things. So we're on the front lines asking agents even way before like redskins using passed information right all these articles that are is be sharing content from you. They're all they're all looking in the past and they're throwing out guesses as to what the future is going to be because of the position that we were in because we coach agents we coach all you guys and we're on the front lines and the coaching industry. We're able to know what's going to happen based on what you're actually experiences are. Now what's happened. So why am i think around stuff right. what's so. Why am i telling this because what we saw back then in late two thousand six as we saw inventory build way more than this but we say so inventory build and then we saw it sell off and it went through that cycle maybe three times to the point where built and it didn't sell off and that's when i remember the new century or something that's when the first major subprime mortgage company failed that was in southern california so again hot market crazy market. Everyone and their brother is gonna buy ten houses. The was insane back then. Not like that now. If you've always wanted to try meditation but think to yourself. When would i have time. You should check out head space head. Space is your daily dose of mindfulness in.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
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"This is just a real way for us to have an adventure obviously Celebrate what appears to be the end of real cova vid the pandemic stills lingers in some markets. I understand by the lead i tell you in. La they're masking again. Good thing. I have some in the car. Yeah exactly so yeah. That's what this is. All about and man is wonderful. I have to say it's wonderful to be back in the united states after being in puerto rico for basically two years straight puerto rico. But you know it was a isolated island there for a while. We'll how you can read science here. You don't have to okay you know. Put your spanish translator backwards. Translating bright you can talk to people without having to figure out how much okay. That's the end of their english. That's in spanish outcomes. The google app. I'm still in the back of my head thinking. How do i say that in spanish kind of deprogramming that for the next week or so so one of the things that we've been following is what's happening in obviously the real estate market's that's our primary concern here of course juliette. I can't stop doing here in boise. We're looking at realtor dot com. We try to avoid zillow but we are looking at realtor dot com and seeing what was for sale and again. There's and we talk to john awebber. Yesterday she's part of xp group She's a fantastic agency cells. I think she said eighty houses a year. Wonderful wonderful galleys. Here in the boise idaho area. Make sure you reach out to her and we talked yesterday her expanding her real estate team because she has too many leads. so definitely. If you're in the boise area. Reach out to john awebber. But we're talking with the market here on the market here. Even in boise which let's say. How do you describe boise. I think it's a heck. I don't know it does kind of remind us of like a mid western town out west sort of a normal Surrounded by mountains. It's like where were you. I grew up honestly mice. The mountains cornfields drive. But i mean this fall river. The old joke is if the world comes to an end you wanna be in a place like calm. Soho from or boise. Because then you still have another two or three years. That's that far behind. But i mean the truth. This is really it's nice. It is nice. It's cozy people are very friendly totally very outdoorsy. People are out doing stuff along the river. I didn't know that you could surf in a river. For example you can picture that by the way Not yet when i'm going to zoe couldn't believe it either so my first thought was okay so i get. I'm not a surfer. Obviously we're from ohio. But you know. I get surfing in the ocean. Wipe out you'd have hopefully a fairly good landing. I was thinking you surf in river and you wipe out. Aren't you nagging your head into some rocks. I honestly looked at those gentlemen trying to surf in that river. And i just sorta felt sorry for him. Yeah well at least. You're wearing helmets. So i'm still putting all that together from a guy's perspective. I'm telling you right now. The whole the whole game. There was to look cool. Look like a surfer girls. That's what that whole foods whole under a bridge and there's a little bit of whitewater and they're acting like they're surfing for about six inches. That was the whole scene. Yeah people told us about. Did you see the surfers on the river every servers. We're from puerto rico people. Let's see was nothing. We've seen people kite surf. We appreciate the effort because you know they are kind of far away from notion. Yeah for sure. I mean like i said. This reminds me of columbus ohio..
Real Estate Coaching Radio
"idaho" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"To one. And we're back in juliette is a today is july the nineteenth. Yes and we are in boise idaho. Yes for along the river meeting with lots of great friends and colleagues and coaching clients. It's been fantastic diseases and the the are will harass you. Well not even little if you call over six thousand miles. Probably in twenty states hardly little. That's what we're going to end up doing. And it's picking up momentum every state we go to there's more and more people reaching out wanting to meet with us and it's fantastic and for those of you are interested in doing so. We do have a map of where we're going to be and we're going to post it on instagram today. And if you guys want to message and communicate with us you can always text me at five one. Two seven five eight zero two zero six but the best way really is just messages through instagram. Because that's where we're going to be posting pictures and travel updates and all that good stuff. And that's tim and julie harris on instagram. So hashtag tim. And julie harris you'll find us easily and yes so that drive from from where we were to hear word we drive. Gardiner montana. Yeah is the kind of the south west corner right. Outside of yellowstone the original entrance to yellowstone. Which is kind of charming over. Here to boise. And we stopped at. Idaho falls along the way right and it was unbelievable. How many wild wild animals. I don't even know what you want to call them. The elks and the bears. And all these types of things that you see in yellowstone when you get off the beaten path and they're just pretty much right there. And i have to say the things that always amused me when i was. It was gardner. Right where they had to post signs telling people like to stay within a certain distance from these wild animals. When i put some of these pictures on instagram. I just found that unbelievably funny in a way. Because where in the world do you have to be coming from or a like told not to pet some like twenty foot tall thousand pound elma antlers. Exactly bigger than you do. I really need a sign telling me not to pet the damn thing. I know but we did. It was unbelievable. We were driving through town and there was this heard of elk that were just everywhere and i saw the distance. I think i mentioned this on our last show. I saw on the distances massive elk and we thought for sure will to be just a statute that whatever the bank or whatever putting her front lawn and it wasn't it was a male elk and it was just enormous and just all these tourists were maybe within six feet from the thing taking selfies and whatnot in the cop had to tell people to go away but the ultimate we didn't care he was used to look around he was an elk. Influence are probably. He liked it. But this is something. I have been asked to talk about our experiences. That are a little bit. I think surprising. And i'll tell you. Some experiences were having their surprising. Specifically hotels are extremely hard to find. Inflation is real. Things are super expensive at just what you hear about on the news and what you read about intellectualize about on the podcast like jillian idea to experience it. In real time is really quite astounding. And i'm going to mention this. You know over and over again because it's really important. You guys are paying attention to that. That for example hotels julie's booking your hotels usually two or three days in advance sometimes just a couple of days in advance. And even luke where we're going next after boise kennewick washington kennewick washington where lansing karen kenmore and in kennewick washington. Julia had a hard time finding a hotel room. And even there it was. It was surprising. And then after that..
Here & Now
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"Apac was spotted in this part of the valley. Recently miller's return to set up a wildlife camera and do a howling survey he climbs off trail sit still for over an hour and calls out to the wolves then he waits for a call back nothing today but when he does hear something. That's a good indication. Okay something's going on right here. He's gathering intel so he can direct sheep away from those trouble-spots that's not possible. In the herders he works with deploy air horns in flashing lights. Just making sound flashing lights to scare wolves away since the project started more than a decade ago. The number of sheep killed in the area is down. Only one wolf has been killed yet. The effort is an outlier in idaho. Because ranchers here preferred to use lethal methods and want to lower the wolf population now because of new legislation passed this year. That's easier there are more opportunities for hunting and trapping and private contractors can kill wolves on behalf of the state miller thinks the new rules could have implications for the wolf projects. Work he says moore wolf. Hunting will inevitably break up packs in without a cohesive unit. They might not be able to go after traditional prey instead opting for easier targets livestock. That theory has been supported but also challenged by research. Still the nonlethal work will continue this summer. One rancher who works with the wood river wolf project is cory peavy the sheet manager at flat top ranch in carry. Initially he was skeptical. I wasn't convinced that a few flashing lights and proverbially banging pots and pans was going to make any of difference using nonlethal methods takes time in coordination. Peavy says but it's been working Implement things that change if you move a up. Few move lights around something for them to fixate their curiosity on. It's enough to inspire caution in the wolves and he's trying other things on his own like a pilot study with a researcher who's monitoring if attaching flashing lights to his ships. Ears will deter predators. Making these changes is risky. He says for example the lights could stress sheep out in that could affect their growth. But he's willing to experiment for a larger good. I see the potential benefit as being worth it. So i take that risk. The wolf project reduces some of that risk because it pays for logan miller position and all the gear it gives to the sheep. Herders in nonlethal management recently got a big boost in each of the past two years wildlife services a government agency which often responds to rancher calls by killing wolves has received a one point four million dollar appropriation from the federal budget for nonlethal projects..
All Things - Unexplained
"idaho" Discussed on All Things - Unexplained
"Some much honesty that people just trust him. That's just the way he is. And hopefully they've. I've gained that from him but he It was when i was about four years old. He was called out to help on this call where this big foot was trained to shake a a mobile home office foundation and at the time a lot of the indians didn't have we're talking not even telephones you know and and most of them still cooked over a fire and and you know talking almost third world country but anyway. This big foot was trying to shake the house of the foundation and the people waited until the circled the house and run around the back and they ran out and jumped in the car and went down to the police station and the police send out two cars with policemen but by the time they got there the the big foot was gone but he had completely dismantled the pump house behind house so they found these great big footprints in the mud and they followed him down the canal towards where we lived and they ran into this big foot that was named behind a bush but it was head and shoulders above yellen at then but the indians disbelieve. If they're not actively hurting anything just back off and leave them alone so they did they just bhakta and after a little bit that bigfoot wondered off and and left the that area and i said so what happened to the family. actually actually heard.
Locations Unknown
"idaho" Discussed on Locations Unknown
"So pretty pretty good sized Search and rescue operation going on and in addition tabby missing. His dog was missing to at this time. So there was mentioned that they were doing aerial thermal imaging but according to one of the searchers. The thermal imaging is difficult at best and can be greatly hampered by tree covered deep valleys gorges and canyons. So and i could see that like the heat signatures not being able to get through the canopy if it's have heavily heavy brushing yes so we always talk about you. Know the thermal imaging that a lot of aerial helicopters us in this is an instance where effective. It's probably more effective. In places. I would say like Joshua tree national park some something more flat open So okay moving. On october seventh so the search is still going on. He was reported missing on the twenty eighth. We're now on october seventh. The search continues the idaho. County sheriff's team has continued his search by ground for the past four days. Canine teams from the high country. Search search dogs began arriving and multiple teams were deployed throughout that location. The next few days after this so they actually were getting dog teams from several different states. So they got teams from montana. Wyoming washington in utah so pretty pretty cool to see that kind of coordination effort. You know it's what a week or two after. He went missing so fast forward to october fifteenth. Now and actually some good news happens. Todd's dog ruby. A black labrador. Retriever was found on the eastern slopes of seven devils mountain range according to a local news report from the time. So that is. That's pretty remarkable. The that is dog was found They said he. The dog was dehydrated but otherwise in good conditions so it. It's a searchers at the time said. They were puzzled by the location where the dog was found sense. Todd was last seen on the western side of the canyon and the dog was on the eastern side. And there's no way from what i research that you can get across the river in that area so I mean the dog somehow got over there. But it's just it stuck out to me when i was doing the research that the searchers were made a note to say that this was a puzzling discovery. One thing the searchers tried to do was they tried to get ruby to lead them back to todd but they had no success doing that so pretty smart idea to try. Yeah yeah you always hear stories of the dog trying to help out. But maybe the dog didn't didn't like or was like to disoriented or yeah. I mean i. I know from experience when i've gone Bird hunting in the past. The dog always knows the path back to the truck So was the dog moved by somebody. You know who knows. We'll get into theories on that so fast forward now to october nineteenth. This was the final day of the search for todd you know. They've searched for the better part of a month. And i think they were planning to end the search a little earlier but then they found his dog and got hopeful that it might lead to finding todd from comments that i read from people that lived in the area or work there. They speculated that the chance of todd surviving that long in the the devils canyon area was pretty slim at that point but You know like i said. His family remained hopeful at this time as an experienced outdoorsman that he would somehow find a way to survive and from what i read his wife did make some visits to the area to continue the search which is pretty communist families after the the official search engine ends families will continue to hit. The park can walk the trails and try to do whatever they can Sure i feel feel so helpless. Almost like in like almost like he's got to do something even if it's kinda perilous like it's just better than not doing anything at all so That was really the last bit of information we had for over a decade on this case in then there was a huge break in the case on april twenty. Sixth of twenty twenty so the idaho. County sheriff's office and the idaho. County were notified by hunter. Who found what he believed to be. The remains of a special above bernard creek so the hunter located other items in the area including pack containing camping equipment in a digital camera. So this Hunter reported this information and the law enforcement officials sent out eight personnel from the sheriff's office and they were taken by jet boats who the mouth of the bernard creek by kilgore adventures. They've then hiked approximately one mile in where they located at portion of human skull and other skeletal remains they also found hunting gear and a pack that hof landers wife positively identified as belonging to her husband officers. Were also able to recover photographs often. St card located in the pack which belonged to hof lander. The thirty said that everything found at the scene indicated that the remains were todd. So do they talk about what was on the cards cargo. They just said they were photographs. That belonged to hof lander in the in the official press. Release at there wasn't any other information On the pictures on the camera So now fast forward to actually just very recently january late january of twenty twenty one. The human remains found were actually officially identified as todd hof lander by the fbi and they used dna dna analysis. So you know very recently that he actually was identified as todd so that that's kind of where the timeline stops joe. And i i wrote down some of my my thoughts and questions about this case and then i also have some comments from some locals in the area to that we can kind of go through but so couple of my questions i have and you can. You can let me know. If i'm i mean idiot or or what but you know if he was this experienced i. My first thought right away was why. Why was he wearing jeans while hiking a rugged alpine area if those genes got wet or he fell into a any kind of moisture gets on them. They're going.
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"It was their film and tv show and there was a guy who is like a key grip. Yup that like just kinda just ran off and was in this area so okay we can move on from that hells canyon. Archeological district is a twelve thousand acre historic district that is listed in the us national register of historic places. There are many sites with pictographs in the largest of which are buffalo. Eddie with more than five hundred pictographs and pittsburgh's landing where nearly thirty boulders covered with them in eighteen o six three members of the lewis and clark expedition team entered the canyon region along the salmon river but turned back without going deeper into the canyon. Hells canyon is the deepest river gorge in north america at seven thousand nine hundred feet. Healthcare need is actually deeper than the grand canyon. So is it just small in size in just really aggressively deep. yes so obviously. The grand canyon is vast vast. But yeah hell's canyon is just. It's deeper so it's yeah. It's not as fast as if you saw the grand canyon. Oh in georgia. Just an update. I while you were talking just now. I looked up. How close hells canyon is to. It's called the nez. Pierce nez perce national forest. It's about i wanna say. Two hundred and seventy miles to like not related but the tribe was probably ear like encompass that area so they just named a lot of stuff after the tribe. The okay so heaven's gate lookout is high above hells canyon. Day is a place where you can see the state of washington. Montana and oregon. So that's pretty neat. See three different states from from the at height and just a fun fact. Did you know mike in idaho. It is illegal for a person to fish while riding the back of a camel. I i didn't know that joe. That's really strange. Loss campbell's aren't You know natural to idaho. But that's the bob's law. It's there's some guy named bob did something with the campbell and fishing. What we're just going to make this illegal so it doesn't happen again app. So the climate in the area coldest months as you can imagine her december and january with lows in the teens while the hottest months are july and august with temps in the low seventies. So it's a pretty temperate climate. Hey erik. Snowfall in the coldest months are about a foot of snow while rainfall in the summer between one and two inches a month. So you know looking at the climate you can definitely tell that it's it's kind of a drier area. Okay yeah yeah. I mean you know you know this experience some of the mountainous regions in colorado. Get a ton of you know in the winter and rain in the summer so it probably has something to do with being on the east side of the the mountains. I can't remember the range now. Yeah i know we mentioned rain shadow and we screwed something up and somebody got mad at us. I don't wanna talk about it. Because i'm not a climatologist or a weather person but i understand that the mountains do something with the atmosphere to which. Sometimes it doesn't rain as much there you go. I think that that's the way i'm gonna put it works for me. So other weather considerations You can get the flash floods frostbite in the winter. which is also hypothermia from being wet to be winter. Either i should. I should change that to say you can get hypothermia at night. If you're wet don't have the proper. Drying or heating lightning can always been issuing their top amount and When they do you get snow There are avalanche potentials. Yep so the terrain is steep and rugged with allegations going from about eight thousand feet to fifteen hundred feet above sea level Some peaks in the national force are near ten thousand feet. So you're not gonna have anything over ten thousand. It's not too high. You still get a little bit of that. Potential altitude sickness but not nearly as bad as if you're up in the fourteen Some of the animals in the area rocky mountain elk rocky mountain bighorn sheep mountain goats whitetail deer meal deer. There are timber. Wolves black bears cougars. Bobcats rattlesnakes wolverines and different types of falcons and eagles. So i'd say if any animal is going to be an issue you're you're in that the cats and the bears In the timber wolf area. And i'd say rattlesnakes to our would be an issue. Yeah actually reading some comments from locals on a forum where. I was doing some research on this case. They actually said rattlesnakes or some of the biggest concerns in this area so Is there like a big population rattlesnakes. More so than normal. They said they they've encountered lottery rattlesnakes in this wilderness area. So if you go hiking in this national forest or the canyon just be on the lookout for rattlesnakes. I'm i'm gonna make a hypothesis about this because we ran into this when we were in. Where were we again. Zion zion and the reason. Why is because it was raining so much and they said when it rains a lot. They'll actually come onto the path because the sun hits the pathan it's warmer. I wonder if you have rally snakes and a much colder climate. It's kinda the same thing. Where like everything so shaded and rugged where the path is actually the best place for like a warm blooded creature to be so they're encountering a more often. There's any snake experts listening. Let us know in the comments That's that's my hypothesis. I'm not saying that that's the reason. So don't yell at me. i'm guessing. Yeah i guess so. Yeah outside of just a rugged terrain there are some exposure potential lack of shelter. That you'll see once you're reaching higher elevations the difficulty. There's nearly nine hundred miles of hiking trails in this area and they're also seventeen. Campground says a lot of places to go trails. Do range from easy. To very hard and hiking and backpacking available for any agent experience. So what they're saying is there's there's probably some easy ones you can do but there's also some gnarly back country that you can get into and one thing i would stress. I kept coming up in all my research on this case in this areas it's very very rugged and very remote i there is a stat somewhere where there's a huge percentage of this national forest that doesn't even have access to a road so all you have to go like horseback or hike to get to the certain. Yeah so it you know. It's very remote which means there's not going to be a lot of options for like we said shelter or first aid or any kind of a services. So you really. If you're doing a back country trip in a place like this you really got prepare. And i would. Even i would if i was going hiking. Probably by a personal locator beacon and take it with me just in case something happened. Those are the easiest way to get rescued. Seriously when you're that far back it's gonna that's like the big key is a you always wanna leave your itinerary but it's gonna take teams some time to get out to. They can't simply just drive there because of the nature if you're down in the canyon. Gps is going to have a hard time working. You're not gonna have cell phone service with those personal locator. Beat beacons usually work off satellites. And i believe are one time use but it could be life or death if you went missing in a place like this so just something to think about right. Well let's Let's learn about todd. Yes so tod. Hof lander like we said a thirty nine year old male. If he was around today it'd be fifty. He was six foot one way to one hundred and eighty five pounds so.
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"Hells canyon or walla whitman. National forest is located in his roughly six hundred fifteen thousand acres. It was established in nineteen seventy five by president gerald ford and sees just over half a million visitors per year that was of data as of two thousand and three. Yeah didn't really have a very good data on this area and it's part of the much larger national forest which is a couple of million square acres so it looks like a pretty cool area. I almost hate doing these because we see so many cool spots know about and then we see them and i just get mad that we can't go. Yeah just a little backstory the earliest residents of hills. Cannon was the nas- pierce tribe is this Close in as pierce wilderness. Where we've had one or two cases that we've actually covered that area I wanna say yes. But i know if we're wrong we will. We'll find out. I'm like ninety percent. Sure i i think it's one episode. Nez perce nez snus per person than maybe. The other one is pierce. I just remember the one where it was their film and tv show and there was a guy who is like a key grip. Yup that like just kinda just ran off and was in this area so okay we can move on from that hells canyon. Archeological district is a twelve thousand acre historic district that is listed in the us national register of historic places. There are many sites with pictographs in the largest of which are buffalo. Eddie with more than five hundred pictographs and pittsburgh's landing where nearly thirty boulders covered with them in eighteen o six three members of the lewis and clark expedition team entered the canyon region along the salmon river but turned back without going deeper into the canyon. Hells canyon is the deepest river gorge in north america at seven thousand nine hundred feet. Healthcare need is actually deeper than the grand canyon. So is it just small in size in just really aggressively deep. yes so obviously. The grand canyon is vast vast. But yeah hell's canyon is just. It's deeper so it's yeah. It's not as fast as if you saw the grand canyon. Oh in georgia. Just an update. I while you were talking just now. I looked up. How close hells canyon is to. It's called the nez. Pierce nez perce national forest. It's about i wanna say. Two hundred and seventy miles to like not related but the tribe was probably ear like encompass that area so they just named a lot of stuff after the tribe. The okay so heaven's gate lookout is high above hells canyon. Day is a place where you can see the state of washington. Montana and oregon. So that's pretty neat. See three different states from from the at height and just a fun fact. Did you know mike in idaho. It is illegal for a person to fish while riding the back of a camel. I i didn't know that joe. That's really strange. Loss campbell's aren't You know natural to idaho. But that's the bob's law. It's there's some guy named bob did something with the campbell and fishing. What we're just going to make this illegal so it doesn't happen again app. So the climate in the area coldest months as you can imagine her december and january with lows in the teens while the hottest months are july and august with temps in the low seventies. So it's a pretty temperate climate. Hey erik. Snowfall in the coldest months are about a foot of snow while rainfall in the summer between one and two inches a month. So you know looking at the climate you can definitely tell that it's it's kind of a drier area. Okay yeah yeah. I mean you know you know this experience some of the mountainous regions in colorado. Get a ton of you know in the winter and rain in the summer so it probably has something to do with being on the east side of the the mountains. I can't remember the range now. Yeah i know we mentioned rain shadow and we screwed something up and somebody got mad at us. I don't wanna talk about it. Because i'm not a climatologist or a weather person but i understand that the mountains do something with the atmosphere to which. Sometimes it doesn't rain as much there you go. I think that that's the way i'm gonna put it works for me. So other weather considerations You can get the flash floods frostbite in the winter. which is also hypothermia from being wet to be winter. Either i should. I should change that to say you can get hypothermia at night. If you're wet don't have the proper. Drying or heating lightning can always been issuing their top amount and When they do you get snow There are avalanche potentials. Yep so the terrain is steep and rugged with allegations going from about eight thousand feet to fifteen hundred feet above sea level Some peaks in the national force are near ten thousand feet. So you're not gonna have anything over ten thousand. It's not too high. You still get a little bit of that. Potential altitude sickness but not nearly as bad as if you're up in the fourteen Some of the animals in the area rocky mountain elk rocky mountain bighorn sheep mountain goats whitetail deer meal deer. There are timber. Wolves black bears cougars. Bobcats rattlesnakes wolverines and different types of falcons and eagles. So i'd say if any animal is going to be an issue you're you're in that the cats and the bears In the timber wolf area. And i'd say rattlesnakes to our would be an issue. Yeah actually reading some comments from locals on a forum where. I was doing some research on this case. They actually said rattlesnakes or some of the biggest concerns in this area so Is there like a big population rattlesnakes. More so than normal. They said they they've encountered lottery rattlesnakes in this wilderness area. So if you go hiking in this national forest or the canyon just be on the lookout for rattlesnakes. I'm i'm gonna make a hypothesis about this because we ran into this when we were in. Where were we again. Zion zion and the reason. Why is because it was raining so much and they said when it rains a lot. They'll actually come onto the path because the sun hits the pathan it's warmer. I wonder if you have rally snakes and a much colder climate. It's kinda the same thing. Where like everything so shaded and rugged where the path is actually the best place for like a warm blooded creature to be so they're encountering a more often. There's any snake experts listening. Let us know in the comments That's that's my hypothesis. I'm not saying that that's the reason. So don't yell at me. i'm guessing. Yeah i guess so..
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