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The Dan Bongino Show
Dan's Advice for Caller Conrad: Take Action Yourself!
"Alright, let's go to the phones. Let's take Conrad. Conrad, you're on the Dan Bongino show. What do you got for us? Yes, Dan, love your show. I called once before. I'm going to keep this short. We were talking a little bit about Republicans. I've been to the Republican committee office in Illinois in the suburb of Chicago. These guys are just, they sit around, they smoke cigarettes and eat donuts and they don't do a thing. Okay, now I realize they're blue County, blue city, but still they rolled over. They don't want to do anything. Okay, so if you have any recommendations on that, let me know. other The thing I do, everything go ahead. Yeah, Conrad, I got to take another call, but I do have recommendations and I want to address that. You know, my friend Ginny Thomas says all the time, we're the leaders we've been waiting for. Don't wait on the party to do it. You can go out and find a group that's actually doing stuff. You got Scott Pressler running around the entire country voters. registering Go look him up on social media. He's got an app you can download. You can go out and do this yourself. You sound like a very interested guy who cares about the process. You don't need permission from the Republican institutional party to do anything. So,
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "illinois" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
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Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Meet Chicago Northwest with Mario Farfan
"Army veteran Mario Farfan is the account executive of meek Chicago Northwest an organization that is bringing Conferences and meetings to the northwest Chicago suburbs coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Jop trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe crane Service isn't just what Navy Federal Credit Union does It's who they are That's why Navy Federal created tools to help you earn and save more learn more at Navy federal org slash join Hey today, we're talking with army veteran Mario Farfan from meek Chicago Northwest Mario welcome to the show We're looking forward to hearing which good things you're doing up there in Chicagoland So before we talk about all that takes back to us what you did in the army Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Joe. Thank you for inviting me here today Excited to be on your podcast to share my story a little bit So, uh, well, I joined our military right at the high school literally after the graduation party the next day I was in the car with the with the recruiter Headed to all the preparation and in the other paperwork administrative stuff. So that was 19 night August 1994 I ride the South Carolina for Jackson for basic training Awesome, and you're looking through your bio your parents were Guatemalan immigrants, right? Yes. Yes, they were going from Guatemala to Chicago I came here after a long wait a wait time back in the 70s and They started their their journey in Chicago in Chicago the west side of Chicago actually humble park And that's where I was born But then they ended up moving closer to the north side And I speak in street corners because I'm from that era in Chicago is something about Chicago I know you I know you from Kansas City you mentioned as we talked earlier So we grew up on Winnipeg and Broadway, which is essentially the north side. They call it Edgewater now Back in the in the early 80s a very different area there that it is now a lot of Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees And immigrants that came after the Vietnam War. I did not know this Obviously as I got older I went back and there's a digging around how I grew up Why was there so many, you know different ethnicities? So I yes, I grew up in Chicago border ways in Chicago, correct? Yes, and so Tell us a little bit about some of the things you did while you're in the army Yeah, so I was I chose my MLS was 94 Bravo back then I think it's changed 92 golf now, which is a cook essentially my thinking a 17 year old person getting Advice from many different people that weren't an army They were like Mario choose a job that it's gonna you know, not be too strenuous or dangerous So you're not gonna so I wasn't gonna be an infantry or Airborne Ranger. I knew that right away So I decided that you know, and I was interested in cooking my mother She you know love to cook so I said to myself it would be something interesting to venture in So I was a I was a cook in the military Definitely had a lot of friends because we were out in the field You know, we had the nice kitchen trailer set up with hot coffee and grill and all my military friends had to eat those MRE So they were like, hey Mario, you know, hook me up with something hot stuff like that So I definitely gained a lot of friends which was pretty cool because I started doing networking back then. I just didn't know it Yeah, great experience. So talk about your transition out of the army. Was it something you're expecting to come on quick? Were you prepared unprepared? I would say I was policy. I'm prepared to be honest So I got out on night 99. I was in Germany my last stop At the time so it was more of a pressure to stay in. That's what I remember the most It was a lot of fear a lot of you know, high pressure to stay in like what are you gonna do? So then life is not great You know stay here, you know, you can retire which I know many people do I know many people Friends that I have still they retired in Germany. They ended up just living to staying there, but my family at the time Was going through a struggle financially and I felt like I need to come home and just be back with them and support them as much as I could so I They gave me my paperwork and I was on my own. Basically. I got back to Chicago, which is very difficult right because Chicago Back, this is like 1999 2000. So just trying to you know, figure all of it out It's a lot right because it's benefits. There's paperwork. There's things that we just don't know about and I'll be honest the last Ten twenty years. I'm learning more and more, right? I Know too recently. There's just many benefits of veterans have that. We just don't know about especially when it comes to entrepreneur small business Something that I want to mention in in 2015 I started a Hispanic chamber out here in the suburbs and part of that was just thinking about how to look out for you know Hispanic business owners So now I'm thinking about better veteran business owners because I do run into them Hispanic or non -hispanic and they talk to me and say you know what? We we need better resources for our for our veteran business owners that are either starting a business On the middle of their business or just trying to figure out how to take their business to the next level So I'm always thinking about that. I'm always thinking about that. I am I am on me Chicago Northwest. That's my full -time job So so that that I'm able to incorporate it because I am I still continue to meet People from from that walk of life and as a veteran myself, I didn't have my own business, right? But If I had that information, who knows right 20 years ago Whatever 24 years ago who knows what would have happened to me when I came back, but I did what most veterans do I enrolled in college right away. It just tried to get out there in civilian life I began a 20 20 year career in banking. That's what I ended up doing so But so yes, I was a banker Assistant manager branch manager for 15 years and a regional manager up to a business banker So I did all facets of banking retail banking when it comes to helping small businesses and that's where I end in my career and and And then I decided to take a another a different Turn in my career into the what I'm doing now with me Chicago Northwest is you know working with us so still working with businesses right because associations nonprofits Diversity clubs sports clubs. Those are all businesses, right? So now all we do now in Chicago, Northwest we talk to them We we bring we try to invite them nationally, right or even internationally to the Northwest suburbs They come out and see what we have to offer so they can have the conferences the conventions or their meetings here. So That was a long answer. I know Back to what you said if I just one of five my transition If I had to rate it, I'll probably give it a one or two. It was it was it wasn't it was not great Yeah, it was not great. So sounds like you ultimately landed Well now I don't I'm not real familiar with the Chicago suburbs But is the Northwest Chicago suburbs primarily Hispanic or have a heavily Hispanic influence or I know she says something about you were targeting more Hispanic Since you're probably fluent in Spanish targeting the Spanish business network Yeah, great question so Chicago in itself state of Illinois itself has a large Hispanic population in itself city Chicago obviously is the largest city which is a heavy heavy Hispanic presence in the suburbs is starting to change, right? You have also an Asian presence Middle Eastern Indian presence, so it's starting to change very very a lot of Backgrounds and cultures Polish as well are out here in the suburbs It's all a mix but I would say definitely in the last 10 20 years the suburbs people have migrated Either to work out here in the suburbs to live out here go to school out here Public schools is a challenge, right? I I went to public schools. So hey, I made it I mean, I made it but it's not it's not easy Joe. I'll tell you that especially when I grew up in the 80s was definitely not easy, but So the answer to that would be yeah Yes, the the suburbs are being more diverse across not just Hispanic so the reason I started the Hispanic Chamber Joe because there's this Hispanic chamber in the city downtown on most people that live in the suburbs don't want to travel You know, it could be an hour for traffic an hour into the city just to go get resources and help So I figured why not have something here for them where they can go and get resources Find out about grants or how to start a business or get the paperwork in order So that's kind of how why I started to need I need that I saw in the suburbs in the middle Which wasn't there awesome? 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The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "illinois" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Sponsored by Lowe's. Save big during Lowe's 25 days of deals. Right now get up to 50 % and off select artificial Christmas trees, holiday lights and more. Lowe's knows deals every day. Ballad through 12 -6 while supplies last selection varies by location. The state announcing yesterday that the migrant base camp plan for Brighton Park, a 38th in California, won't be happening after all. The decision comes after the Illinois EPA ruled there were environmental concerns on the site. Governor Pritzker says the state does not select those locations but Mayor Johnson pointing reacting the finger back at the governor. The state of Illinois knew that this assessment was happening and felt guidelines or any sort of methodology in which they were requiring us to go by, so we used the standards that available were to us. The 800 page report found high levels of mercury and other chemicals on the site. The state is now working with the city to find alternative housing locations. A Cook County judge has overturned the conviction of Darien Harris who has spent the 12 last years in prison for murder. Harris was just 18 when he was arrested for murder in 2011 and sentenced to 76 years in prison. His family claims he was home watching the NBA playoffs at the time of the shooting. place The crime took at a BP gas station across the street from Jackson Park in the city's Woodlawn neighborhood. Harris's attorneys argued that the conviction was based on testimony from a witness who was legally blind and that there is no physical evidence linking Harris to the crime. It was not known at the time by the defense. He's blind. He's legally and actually blind. He couldn't see what he said he saw. We have other witnesses who have said they saw what happened and it was not Darian. Harris will remain in though custody as prosecutors plan to retry the case. A legendary television producer Norman Lear has died. Lear who was 101 years old died of natural causes surrounded by his family in Los Angeles on Tuesday according to an obituary posted on Norman Lear .com ABC News entertainment correspondent Bill Deal looks back on his career. Norman Lear produced some of the most popular sitcoms of the 1970s including the classic All in the Family. The show which premiered in 1991 was based on a British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. In a TV legends interview Lear said he when read the script I thought oh my god my dad and me we fought about all of these things. In 1999 President Bill Clinton awarded Lear the National Medal of Arts noting that Norman Lear has held up a mirror to society American and the way we look at it. Bill Deal ABC News. And you heard it right here last night on WLS a big win for the fighting Illini in the opening game of the Jimmy V classic Madison Square Garden. They took down the 11th ranked Florida Atlantic Owls by a score of 98 to 89. Terrence Shannon and Jr. Marcus Damask led the way with 33 points each. Next up is a match with the 17th ranked Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday. WLS news time 1104. And
The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Decline of Critical Thinking in Education
"All of this just screams that there's a void of leadership, right? There's a void of leadership in our federal government. So things happening across this country and across the world, when America used to be the strongest leader in the world, and the things happening now are because of the void of leadership under this Biden presidency, the void of leadership in states like New York and California and Illinois, cries for defunding the police. That's what has led to all of this. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick, along with my partner, Mike Speraza. Mike, it is Election Day. We've been waiting and waiting and waiting. And here it is, November 7th. I will say it's a big day, especially here in Erie County. I do want to say, Mike, kudos to you. We used to have some really good bloopers on intros coming into the podcast, and we haven't had one in a while. You've been on your game for like two years straight. We first started this. We would used to do a couple of reboots, you and I. But we've had a good run with the start of the podcast. Old pros, right? We are old pros now. We should pull some of those out. Those are actually fun. Maybe we'll do that. We'll do a little blooper reel of a podcast someday. There's probably some with Mike and Glenn, too. I'm there's sure often some fun stuff happening before we actually record or during recordings. But, yeah. So, Mike, I want to definitely spend some time today on the importance of voting and how people will vote here in Erie County. I mean, one of the things I'd say about that and I'll pick up more on that later. Everyone always wonders, what can I do? I'm only one person. Nothing. You know, I can't make a difference. You know, you hear all the excuses. And honestly, I just give so much credit to like Mike and Glenn. Mike is sending out texts saying, tell your mother, your father, your brothers, your sisters, your aunts, your uncles, your nephews, your nieces, your cousins. Tell them to get out and vote. Like, we have to spread the word. We can't all believe that we can't make a difference because we can. We'll talk a little bit more about that shortly. But, Mike, first, war rages on in Gaza and calls for a ceasefire persist from the left. They just can't acknowledge that these bad guys, these terrorists, these savages all in Hamas have to be eradicated. Yeah. I mean, this is this is a pretty wild revelation for me, to be honest. We've talked about this on this show and our morning show a few times now. But I really I'm kind of at a loss. Right. I mean, you've said it. You know, if Pearl Harbor went and happened right, if America just said, oops, they didn't mean it, you know, what are we supposed to do? You know, if 9 -11 happened in America and said, oh, no big deal. I mean, that's that's what this sounds like. And this idea of ceasefire, Glenn said it when he came on the radio show Saturday, Mike, before you were on the show. He said he goes, people don't realize Hamas has been shooting bombs into Israel for like last three decades. You don't hear AOC talking about that. You don't hear Talib talking about that. There wasn't a call for ceasefire when they were doing that. Right. And that's the part that that to me is is pretty sickening. Like, again, I'm not saying I want America involved in the war. Let me just stress that. I'm not saying put our troops on the ground. I'm saying Israel has every right to do what they feel is right to get Hamas out of their neighboring countries, to get the Lebanese forces that are terrorists out of their neighboring countries. Like, I have no problem with that. I would do this if Canada was this way and we knew there were known terrorist cells in Canada shooting rockets at America. We wouldn't put up with that for 10 seconds, Mike, not one bomb, not one bomb. And we put up with that for no. And there's an Israeli defense system called the Iron Dome. Now, if anyone's listening or listens sometime after today, Tuesday, November 7th, we have never proclaimed to be Middle Eastern experts. OK, I will never proclaim to be that I don't want to be a Middle Eastern expert, but I'll tell you what, if I'm living 10 miles away from some group who just randomly will shoot missiles to try to destroy the group that I'm part of and me, I think we have a right to say those people have to be eradicated. We've got to get rid of them. I mean, I don't I don't know how people can be so dismissive and be so ignorant of that fact. And Mike, look at evil happens. It's happened for millions of years. Right. We can even go back just to 100. We had an Adolf Hitler, right? There were innocent Germans that died in World War Two because of the evilness of, you know, Adolf Hitler. Benito Mussolini, same war, right, was an evil dictator in Italy. Right. Innocent Italians died. I'm an Italian. Innocent Italians died because of the evil of their leader. This and it's terrible. And I hope that no, you know, innocent Palestinian or innocent Israeli dies, just like I hoped that no innocent Russian or innocent Ukrainian would die. But this is what happens when evil happens. There are innocent bystanders to that. That doesn't mean, though, that you can just say, well, we can't let anything happen. So we're just going to let these Hamas terrorists kill our innocent people like it just doesn't work like that. No. And here here are Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini says that he expressed strong regret over the crimes of the Zionist regime. So this is still the stuff you hear from Iran's leader going to talk to Hamas's leaders, going to talk to Hezbollah. I mean, they believe they have every right to eradicate the Jews from this earth. And they are justified in doing what they did on October 7th, one month ago. They have they have no regard for that as as being evil. They think it's completely justified because Jews should not exist. The Israeli state should not exist.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
Fresh update on "illinois" discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"But Christian friends, listen to this too. Am I saying that you shouldn't be involved in politics? I know somebody's going to ask me that and there's no Q &A today, so I'm afraid I have to work this in quickly. Absolutely not. But let me just point something out. Why a human politics like that? Is that the only way you can do it? Self-promotion? Never let them see you sweat? Never admit you're wrong? Always take credit for everything? Be coercive? That's real power? Is that the only way to do politics? Of course it's not. But why is that the preeminent way? You know what? Politics is like sex. You always knew that, didn't you? Think about this. Back in Luke chapter 7, do you remember a woman, the woman who was a prostitute, and she gave Jesus the perfume alabaster flask around her neck? Remember that? Because what she was saying is, I thought that spirituality was really all about sexuality. I thought basically sex is what moved the world. But I realize now, actually, sexuality is about spirituality. Actually, I realized that through my sex and my sexual activity, I was trying to get something done that only Jesus can give me. I was trying to get closure. I was trying to get a sense of security and acceptance. In all of my sexuality, I thought that I was really achieving something that only Jesus can achieve for me. And therefore, she laid her sexuality down before Jesus' feet. That didn't mean now she can't ever have sex, but she's never going to make it into that idol. And it's never going to be the thing that drives her, and it's never going to be her identity, and she's never going to be actually, in a sense, a slave to it ever again. Now, politics is like that. In what way? But there's an awful lot of people that ask me questions. They say, well, come on now, what is your church really about politically? In other words, the idea is that, really, here's religion, but underneath everything is politics. No, no. Here's politics, and underneath everything is really religion. In politics, if you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ, you're going to try to get things done in politics that only God can do. You're going to want to have a sense of impact. You're going to want to have a sense of significance. You want to have a sense of mission. You want to say, I can change the world. I can really change the world. Politics can only change so much. And if you turn politics into an idol, you'll turn to something. I mean, if you're conservative, you'll make a god out of the market. If you're a liberal, you'll make a god out of the state. And what you'll do is you'll say, that is the answer to all the problems. And you will, just like, in a sense, the woman used sex to do something that only God can give her, closure. So you can use politics to try to get something that only God can give you, which is mission impact. Change the world. You can only do that through God. Get involved in politics. But first, like the woman laid down her alabaster perfume, Pilate should have laid down a scepter. Thank God. Jesus could have given him back. Jesus wouldn't have said, well, you're a Christian now. You can't be involved in politics. Oh, no. Finally, finally, finally. Pilate would have finally not been such a screw up that he was in politics, frankly. Now, in what way then, though, is Jesus political? You see, on the one hand, Jesus didn't say, yes, I'm political, because he had to show that he's not. And that he doesn't bring you a political program. And to become a Christian, you do not first decide where is the politics going. You must not do that. Otherwise, he's not the king, you see. But on the other hand, on the other hand, the reason he didn't say no, I'm not political, he didn't say yes, but he didn't say no. Why? Because, in the end, what Jesus Christ does to you changes every part of your life, absolutely. You see, if you want to know how that works, in a very sly way, Luke is not only showing us that he's not political, because Herod and Pilate say he's not. And that's Luke's way of saying, Jesus is not basically a political person at all. He didn't come like that. He didn't come to do that. So don't think that basically Christianity is all about politics. But on the other hand, there's a third politician. Did you know there's a third political operative in this story? There's a third one. You say, well, okay, Pilate, Herod, where's the third political operative? It's Barabbas. Oh, yeah. There was a real revolutionary, and he was in prison. And it was the custom at the Passover, you know, to free a prisoner. And so even though Luke doesn't tell us, the other three Gospels tell us that it was Pilate's idea. Pilate comes and says, you know, I don't really want to have to kill this man, so I'll tell you what, I'll give you a choice. You want me to convict him, but let's free a prisoner. What shall it be, Jesus or Barabbas? Barabbas was a real revolutionary. And in other words, Barabbas was in jail for really doing the things that Jesus was about to be punished for. And, of course, Pilate was a little upset and didn't realize it backfired because Pilate puts in front of them two Jesuses. Did you know that Barabbas' name was Jesus? Do you know the word Barabbas means son of the father? And so you have in front of us two sons of the father. We have in front of us two Jesuses. Pilate says, which one do you want? And, of course, the world says, give us Barabbas. Why? What Luke is trying to say is Jesus in one way is a revolutionary, a very different kind of revolutionary, a very different kind. You see, on the one hand, the story of Barabbas and Jesus is brought out because Barabbas is you and me. When Jesus Christ is killed for the very sins that Barabbas is guilty of and Barabbas is freed, what have you got a picture of? Do you not see it? Don't you know an insult when you see it? The Gospel writer Luke is trying to say, we're Barabbas. Can you imagine Barabbas? Barabbas is in prison and he's getting ready to be crucified and he's thinking about the suffocation and he's thinking about the nails in the hands. And then he hears a crowd outside crying, crucify him, crucify him. He said, oh my gosh, it's going to be any minute. And then he hears the soldiers come in and open the door and he says, oh my gosh, here it's going to be. And the soldiers say, you're free. And then Barabbas would say, how could I be free? And the soldiers, you know, being very gruff and stupid and all the thing. Oh, here, come on. And he takes them out and he shows them. What's Barabbas going to say? He's going to say, wait a minute, that's my cross he's bearing. Those are my nails he's receiving in his hands. And that is my death. He's dying. He's the only person in history that could actually literally say that. And I am breathing his fresh air and I am released. You see the word there at the very end? He released Barabbas. That is the gospel. God made him who knew no sin to be sin that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Do you know why Jesus was not saying anything? Do you know why Jesus was letting them beat him? Because Jesus Christ was taking our punishment. He was acting the way a guilty person should act. He says, punish me. He was being true to us. He was being faithful to us. And if you take that in, if you take that all the way in, if you know that you are now, don't you see what's so interesting? Jesus didn't just die for you so your sins are forgiven in a general way. What you have is what the theologians here in the picture of Jesus and Barabbas call double imputation, double imputation. It's not just that Jesus died so your sins go to him, but his freedom comes to you. His righteousness comes to you. You are now treated as if you never did these things. God now accepts you and loves you as you are. That's revolutionary, absolutely revolutionary. Why? Because do you know what it means now? It means your identity, your real wealth, your real citizenship, your race, your ethnicity, your culture, your class status. None of those things are as important now as what Jesus is to you. And that means your whole attitude toward your politics, toward your culture, toward your class has all been changed. And you're free to go wherever you can do the most good. You don't have to fight. You're not bitter all the time. Because your identity isn't your race, it's not your class, it's Jesus. It's not your wealth, it's not your career, it's Jesus. You suddenly are radically changed, radically freed in every way. Your attitude toward everything. He is incredibly political. And let me close with this. Tom Skinner, African-American pastor who lived in New York and died not too long ago, he preached a sermon at Urbana Missionary Conference in Urbana, Illinois in 1970. I didn't make it, but I got the tape and a number of my friends went. I was a brand new Christian and I could not listen to this sermon enough. You know, we're about to take a missions offering at the end of this sermon. At the end of the service. Why? Because we believe that the best way to change the world is to fill it with the gospel of the grace of Jesus Christ. And there is nothing more revolutionary and politically revolutionary in the end than that. If I had time, I'd tell you, where did anti-slavery come from? There was nobody, no place, nowhere, no culture that ever came up with the idea that it was wrong to enslave somebody else. It came, I think, from what I can tell. People finally thinking about what the gospel means. Historically, that's certainly where it came from. Came from the evangelical awakenings of the late 18th century. And this is the reason why Tom Skinner in this incredible sermon ended a sermon like this. He said, Barabbas is the guy who's going to destroy the system. Barabbas was going to burn them out. Barabbas was going to kill them. Why would they want Barabbas? Barabbas was going to shoot down the religious leaders because he saw them as part of the establishment. Why would they ask Barabbas out? He's dangerous. Well, here's why. If you let Barabbas go, he starts another disturbance or riot. You can always call out the National Guard. All you have to do is push a few tanks into his neighborhood, and you can squash, you know, whatever he's up to. You can find where he's keeping his guns, and you can raid his apartment, probably in the East Village. Yeah, you know what he says? You can always stop Barabbas, but how do you stop Jesus? How do you stop a man who has no guns, no tanks, no ammunition, and is still shaking up the whole Roman Empire? They thought there was one answer. They said, we've got to get rid of him here and there, right now. Let's get rid of Barabbas. We can always stop Barabbas. This is our only chance. We don't want him to rule over us. So they killed him, and they buried him, and they said, that's the last we will ever hear of that revolutionary. And then Tom Skinner says, three days later, Jesus Christ pulled off the greatest political coup of all time. Are you king of the Jews? Yes. Let's pray. Our Father, help us understand what real mission is, how to really change the world. It's by looking at what Jesus has done for us, and then having the emotional and spiritual wealth to be able to do the same thing everywhere in the world. That will have tremendous political ramifications, and we ask that you would help us to have the politics of Jesus. We pray it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Executive Director of The Bush Tennis Center Tim Stallard Talks Bringing The Pros The Texas
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. I'm your host Kamau Murray, and we are here with all things tennis. Mr. Tim Stoller, Tim is the general manager and director of the Bush tennis center down in San Antonio, Texas. And they are hosting a really cool tennis event this weekend. It is the, Tim, go ahead, give us the name. Yes, the San Antonio International Team Tennis Championships, and it's at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. However, the Bush tennis center is way out in West Texas, about 300 miles away in Midland, Texas. So that's kind of an interesting dynamic of this event. Yeah, we want to hear a lot about that because I'll be honest with you. You know, I built 27 tennis courts in the city and the Bush tennis center has the exact same mission as I do, and I'd never heard of it. So we want to dig into that. But first, let's dig into your background. You have put on more than 50, you know, ATP, USDA, Pro Circuit events, assistant coach at University of Texas, spent time on the court with Andy Roddick. Tell me about your pedigree, where you come from, how you got in the game, and how you were able to travel through so many different levers of the sport. Well, I actually, it started in Rockford, Illinois, way up north, and started playing tennis and just, it was one of those things after my parents got divorced a couple of times. I love baseball, but trying out for baseball teams was more problematic than just entering tennis tournaments. So I kind of fell into tennis through that and loved the sport. And you know, like you said, went on to coach at University of Texas and started, you know, just had some great players. And that's really how I got into starting to run events is I was trying to get wildcards and help out players that I was coaching. And way back in the day, I had two really great players in Texas. One was Julie Scott, who is an All -American at Stanford. And, you know, I couldn't get wildcards. And the other one was Elizabeth Schmidt, who played at UCLA and went on, now she's a head coach at Rice. And very deserving kids. And the USDA said, you know, if you start running tournaments, you get the wildcards. So at one point, I had 13 challengers across the U .S. And some of those challengers, like Champaign -Urbana, are still moving along. So it was an interesting process. So we've held calendars the last two years. And it is a tough business model. To have 13 of them, you know, they struggle to make money. They break even at best. To have 13 of them, you must have had a model that worked because no one would ask for it 13 times if you don't. So tell us about your experience with challengers because we see challengers in the U .S., you know, come on and off the calendar, right? And it hurts our U .S. players from, like you said, creating that vertical for where they're in, you know, the collegiate pathway, they want to try to hand it to Pro Tour, they can't get a wildcard, not enough events to spread the wildcards out. How did you make the challenger model work? Yeah, you know, I was able to get national sponsors. I mean, it covered everything. So I had great sponsors, AOL, Porsche Cars North America, Bear Stearns, HealthSouth. So I just went out. I had a great mentor, a big advertising company, GSD &M. The founders of that really kind of showed me how to put media value behind packages. And I found a kind of a good formula. So you know, I would have literally just, you know, Porsche would say, we need these markets and I would jump on a plane and go to Miami and find facilities. But it was a nice problem because I had all the financials together. You look at the challenger that was in Dallas for years, that was over 20 years that they had it at TbarM. So lots of great challenges throughout the years. Now when you would sell those packages, would the sponsor take all 13? Or like the major sponsors take all 13, then you add on locals? Or was it, you know, and the people would pick off whichever ones they wanted in the markets? Yeah, for the most part, you know, we'd have our major sponsors would take all the markets and then we'd sell kind of patron, local, because you always want the local community involved. So we'd have local patron packages. And we really did our best to make it a fun event, you know, pro -ams and music and access to the players. And, you know, for me, a big part of it was telling the story of the challengers. I mean, I love challengers because you have the veterans that are hanging on that come to get the points. You got the top juniors in the world and they clash at the challenger level. And you know, I'll never forget, I was in a drive -through at McDonals in Austin, Texas, and I got a call from Andre Agassi's brother asking for a wild card into Burbank. And at that time, I'd already, I'd committed, I had a player, Brandon Coop and Robert Abendroth, I committed my two wild cards, so I couldn't give him a wild card, but I was hoping the USTA would. And you know the story, I mean, he got a wild card, he played against Sarga Sargisian in the finals. They called it the Battle of Armenia. And it was a great tournament and it was great to see him come back a year later. He was already back to number four in the world. So it was really just an inspiration to see Andre. Yeah, so, you know, I think that one of the things we us to underestimate is like really the job of these challengers, right, especially in the US soil, is to help promote the next generation of player, right? So I always like to hear a famous story. So our challengers, our wild cards went to Ben Shelton last summer. That's awesome, man. I always hit the semis, obviously got to perform, got a wild card into, got to upgrade a wild card, got originally got a wild card in the Qualities of Cincy because he was in Chicago so long, upgraded to the main draw. And this year, Alex Mickelson wins our event, goes on and plays Newport, right, gets the final to Newport, loses to Manarino, I think. So tell me about another famous wild card story where you see, you gave a wild card to someone that has some potential. And then other than the story you told us where you're like, you know, we had a hand in that person's career. Well, a couple of them, one in Rockford, Illinois, back to Rockford, Illinois, I had a challenger there in February following the Midland, Michigan challenger that's still going. And I got a call from one of my idols, Nick Boletary, and said, I've got this girl, she's number one in the world. And she's not going to make the cut for the challenger. And we think she has a lot of potential. It was Anna Kournikova. So I gave her a wild card and she won it. And you know, I believe, you know, five months later, she was in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. And what's cool about Anna is Anna came back and we've done a lot of charity events. And following, we did an event in Beaumont with Pete Sampras. And she flew after that over to Horseshoe Bay to do a free clinic with my wife and kids. And it was the first kids courts, it was the Andy Roddick kids courts out at Horseshoe Bay. But she flew over, you know, did it absolutely for free to give back to the kids. And she's amazing. But it's really funny that, you know, that started when she was 13 years old in frigid Rockford, Illinois, in February. So you mentioned your wife and kids, do your daughters play at all? They did. They're older now. They're once graduated from A &M. She's an architect and my other daughter is about to start her master's in communications at A &M. Now, did you tie your hand at coaching them? You know, obviously, I'm trying to coach my kids. And I'm trying not to let what happens on the tennis court blend into the car ride home or blend into the dinner table. But sometimes that's really hard. Did you try your hand at coaching them? And how did that go? Yeah, I did. My wife was really their primary coach. And my wife was a great player, all American at Texas, coached at Texas. She's number one in the Southerns, finalist at the Easter Bowl, just a great player. And we are very different coaching styles. My wife is very, you know, very, very fired up with the girls. I was a lot more laid back. And you know, when I go to their matches, I'd have the newspaper, my Starbucks, and they go, Dad, you're not even watching my match. Of course, I'm watching every point. But when they look at me, I've got my newspaper up and my coffee is kind of downplaying it. But they were great, you know, we're really proud of our daughters. And we officially became grandparents about a little over a year ago. But, you know, tennis was just a great experience for their life. And it, you know, for me, it changed my life. You know, growing up in Rockford, Illinois, my dad was an automaker, tool and die maker, neither one of my parents even know how to keep score in tennis. And like I said, after a couple of divorces, I had a wonderful coach, Pat Wicks, that gave me a lot of free lessons and I just worked my butt off and it opened doors. And, you know, that's what we're really inspired to do with the Bush AIDS Outreach Program is create that opportunity. And I mean, we have 100%, any kid that comes, we provide full scholarships, partial scholarships, we turn down no one. That's our mission. So we're real proud of that and we've helped a lot of kids and we're expanding that throughout the state of Texas and then happy to really help, you know, great foundations like the Ryan Brothers Foundation, John Isner. My wife and I, we went out and helped Sloan. Sloan had over 300 kids bust in from Compton at USC. My wife and I went out and helped with clinics out there to help Sloan, but she does amazing work year -round. So there's a lot of great stories and a lot of great things that, you know, people see these great players on the court, but I'm really inspired for a lot of things they're doing off the court. So tell me about the Bush Tennis Center. I would say I didn't even know it existed. I didn't know that the Bushes were big tennis people. I knew the Koch Brothers were big tennis people down there in Texas, but didn't know the Bush Tennis Center existed. So tell me about how the Bush Tennis Center came along and how you ended up taking the job. Oh, it's, in 2015, I had John Isner, Sam Querrey, and the Bryans, and we did a four -day run where we did Atlanta, Nashville, Midland, and then Camarillo, California to do something for the Bryan Brothers for their foundation. So those four guys, 2015, went through just to do a one -day event and just started talking to the people that founded the Bush Tennis Center and they were having some challenges with the business model, asked me to, hired me as a consultant initially. And I just said, you know, here's all the things that need to be done. And they're like, well, we want to hire you. I'm like, well, I don't live here. I live in Austin. My wife's director of tennis at Horseshoe Bay Resort. My company's in Austin. They're like, well, we don't care if you live here, just come and check into the Double Tree Hilton downtown Midland and come and figure this thing out. And you know, it was really neat because at that point I was working, I was trying to build a similar facility next to Dell Diamond with Reed and Reece Ryan, Nolan Ryan's kids. They owned the Minor League Ballpark there and we were kind of going down that road to maybe buy the ATP event in Memphis, build a facility like this. And you know, we're going down that road, but there was a lot of politics and just dealing with governments and stuff. I go out to West Texas and they're like, you know, here's the keys to the place. How much money do you need? Let's get it going. I mean, it's just an amazing opportunity. And we're on 35 acres. We've already on the far west side, we just opened a $4 million park designed for special needs children. So we've got zip lines. Everything is set up where kids can play just despite, you know, physical challenges. They can play side by side with all kids. We have a $4 million park. We just broke ground on a new 90 ,000 square foot athletic center, which will have five indoor basketball courts, 15 volleyball courts, a 75 yard turf indoor field. And then Lance Hooton, who I actually met through Andy Roddick, who's traveled with Andy. It's going to be a sports performance training center. And Lance Hooton's coming in and using his expertise to develop that as well. So, you know, it's a big campus and it's all set up as a nonprofit. It's a legacy for the Bush presidents. And you know, I feel like to some degree I get to be Santa Claus because I get to really help a lot of kids. And that's super important to me. And we've got a staff that is just amazing, that just cares so much about helping kids and really developing a great event, a great product. Now you're also building indoor tennis courts. And what people don't know is like in these southern markets, right, places where you just say California, Texas, Atlanta, Florida, even, he's like, why do you need indoor courts in those markets? Sometimes it is so hot, right, that you just need the, you need the roof for the shade, right? Or sometimes like in Florida, it'll rain all day, right? And you need the roof for the rain. So tell us why you would need indoor courts in West Texas. Well, a lot of times it's just too windy. I mean, we're just out in the middle of nowhere. It's flat as can be. And, you know, as they say, there's not a lot out there, but there's a lot under there. I mean, we're on the biggest reserve of oil on planet Earth, the Permian Basin and the Delaware Basin, you know, come right out of right out of Midland, West Texas. And but it's flat, high winds. So we lose a lot of days where, you know, the wind gets up above 25 miles an hour. It's not playable. Dust is blowing. And then, you know, we have one hundred and one hundred and ten hundred and fifteen degree days in the summer, and then it drops to twenty five degrees. That's just all over the map. So indoor courts will definitely help us. We're looking at doing eight indoor hard and four indoor clay, and there's no way to do outdoor clay. It would just blow away. So it would be so dry and you'd be you know, every year we bring in twelve tons of clay to sort of re -top off our red hard shoe courts. I mean, I would only imagine how much money you spend on. Oh, yeah. It wouldn't last.
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Fresh update on "illinois" discussed on Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
"Today from a second to come a police officer charged in the death of manny ellis officer timothy rankin is charged with first -degree manslaughter to other to come officers frank are charged with second -degree murder and first -degree manslaughter rankin admitted to applying weight to ellis's back while ellis was lying handcuffed on the ground rankin says he feared ellis was trying to get out accounts that related you myself from the right side of his torso i think i had just placed my right knee on his right shoulder and i kind of just formulated a plan with officer burbank that i was going to take the right side his of body of miss ellis's torso and also burbank was going to take the left side of miss ellis's torso frank had also said that at one point ellis bucked officer burbank off of his back that's coma force preston phillips a crowd funding effort to identify human remains found in seattle has paid off and police say they've identified the body of 33 year old paul bosart bosart's remains were found between 2017 and 2018 in seattle's magnolia neighborhood he hadn't been seen since he left illinois in 2017 the cause of his death and still has not yet been determined we'll check sports next when was the last time your roof was inspected if you have concerns or maybe you're seeing some moss up there check out high performance homes these give guys will you three quotes to choose from so you can pick the right option for your budget and when high performance homes comes out you'll get one of the most thorough consultations you'll ever receive from a roofing company these guys will actually get on your roof they'll take pictures and videos of every square inch then they'll provide an accurate bid right there on the spot down to the penny last the HPH team is so dialed in they have mastered all installation guidelines and they'll protect you with their leak -free guarantee so if anything goes wrong they'll always make it right guaranteed it's truly a white glove red carpet experience take advantage of special in -house financing then save your spot on their install schedule today for your new high performance roof windows siding and solar schedule your consult at hphusa .com that's hphusa .com as a kid I went over the handlebars of a bike my teeth broken I had no smile when I got older found I the technology and results well some of you have seen my smile I know the guy that can do the same for you with a complimentary consultation and CT scan just simply tell them Mark Christopher sent you. Dr. Timmerman he's in Tukwila website drtimmerman .com that's d -r -t as in Tom i -m -m -e -r -m -a -n and you can do with this little to no money out of pocket with Blue Cross Blue Shield drtimmerman .com look now for a full smile solution for all things automotive repair and maintenance Tom Turner knows where to go performance prep is one of the region's top automotive repair shops and welcomes even the most challenging automotive problems on all makes and all models of domestic and
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Kevin McCullough
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I believe today is Friday. Chris, is today Friday? It is. Happy Friday. I always struggle with the days of the week. I've found that the worst things in my life over the years have happened on one of the days of the week. So days of the week always, they trouble me. All the days of the week. I mean, if you can figure out a way to avoid them, you definitely should, it sounds like. You know what I'm saying? And yet, I got to be honest, I'm not going to lie, the best things in my life have also happened on particular days of the week. If this is too cerebral, folks, that's because you're tuned into the Eric Metaxas show, where we indulge in this kind of absurd humor. I apologize in advance. Let's get serious for a second. We will be talking today about some really brutal stuff. My first guest coming up in a moment is our friend Kevin McCullough. We jokingly refer to him as Vostradamus, because he is a political prognosticator of the first water. But today, we're going to be talking about Israel. And I want to warn you that he says at least one thing, I think two things, that are very graphic. And if you've been paying any attention to what happened on October 7th and thereafter, that it's appropriate it gets graphic. We are relearning in America that there's a thing called satanic evil, cruelty, brutality. We need to remind ourselves that this is real. And so he, at some point in our conversation about Israel, says something, or maybe there are two things that he says I can't remember. But Chris Himes, you know, last night, I wanted to mention this. By the way, I'm in Chicago, Chicago, not far from where the Bears may be relocating. I'm in Burr Ridge. It's a suburb of Chicago. But I'm speaking tonight, the Chicago, Illinois, the Illinois Family Institute. They have a gala this evening and I'm their speaker. But last night in my hotel room, I tuned into the 700 Club. I've been on the 700 Club many times. They are an excellent source of news. And I don't know if I've said that on this program. But when you're looking for news, they can be an excellent source of news. They've got a great news division on the 700 Club.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "illinois" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Decisions aren't black and white think red 725 the update now Rob Woodfork. Alright let's start with college basketball of a local variety 7 -1 George Mason on the wrong end of an 8 -2 run to close out the first half they now trail number 17 Tennessee 39 -26 at halftime the Patriots shooting just 36 percent from the floor the vols meanwhile knocking down 51 percent of their shots and therein lies a difference in game this two other games midway through their first half of play George Washington on a 16 5 run to open their game against Navy the midshipmen have made just two of their first 13 shots OVA shooting a red -hot 66 percent and 50 percent from three -point range they North lead Carolina Central 25 to 13 in fact Isaac McNeely is outscoring the opposition by himself with 14 points for the Cavaliers at the Jimmy V classic FAU leads Illinois 42 -39 at halftime of a game between ranked teams and later two more ranked teams at Madison Square Garden it's 5th ranked UConn playing number nine North Carolina in the NFL today the Jaguars say Trevor Lawrence has a high ankle sprain with no timetable for his return little bit of a dodged bullet there as Lawrence appeared to be hurt much worse in that Monday night loss to the Bengals last night Rob Woodfork WTOP sports Rob thanks coming up after traffic and weather on WTOP the man who lived at that Arlington that home exploded was known to the FBI it's now 726 dominion jewelers creates custom jewelry that pleases for every occasion because I wanted to get her something unique and original for holidays the this year because the birth of our first child only happens once in a lifetime because celebrating 20 years is something special just
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from They Want You To Love Big Brother + A TPUSA Staffer Gets Attacked with Peter Christos
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, Dinesh D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hey everybody today on The Charlie Kirk Show. Jenna Ellis pleads guilty. Owen Schroyer goes off to prison. A struggle session occurs. Also a Turning Point USA staffer gets a concussion for defending elderly Jews in Skokie, Illinois. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast application and type in Charlie Kirk Show. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. You can email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created. Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Mason Minute
Worst Tippers (MM #4593)
"I talked about this earlier, but more businesses, more restaurants, more service industries are putting their hand out looking for a tip. USA Today did a recent study on tipping, found the average tip percentage in the US just shy of 18%, 17 .94%. California residents tip the most, averaging 22 .7%. Illinois residents tip the least, averaging just over 14%. Millennials are the best tippers, and of course, tips vary on a person's income level. But what was interesting is when they broke it down by the state. The 10 best tipping states? California, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, Rhode Island, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, all over the place. What about the worst tipping states? That's where it got interesting. Hey, Tennessee, fifth worst tipping state, average percentage 15 .4%. Illinois is the worst, following Mississippi, South Carolina, New Mexico, then Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Utah. I'm always in the 20, 21 % range, so I don't feel so bad.
The Mason Minute
Worst Tippers (MM #4593)
"I talked about this earlier, but more businesses, more restaurants, more service industries are putting their hand out looking for a tip. USA Today did a recent study on tipping, found the average tip percentage in the US just shy of 18%, 17 .94%. California residents tip the most, averaging 22 .7%. Illinois residents tip the least, averaging just over 14%. Millennials are the best tippers, and of course, tips vary on a person's income level. But what was interesting is when they broke it down by the state. The 10 best tipping states? California, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, Rhode Island, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, all over the place. What about the worst tipping states? That's where it got interesting. Hey, Tennessee, fifth worst tipping state, average percentage 15 .4%. Illinois is the worst, following Mississippi, South Carolina, New Mexico, then Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Utah. I'm always in the 20, 21 % range, so I don't feel so bad.
The Mason Minute
Worst Tippers (MM #4593)
"I talked about this earlier, but more businesses, more restaurants, more service industries are putting their hand out looking for a tip. USA Today did a recent study on tipping, found the average tip percentage in the US just shy of 18%, 17 .94%. California residents tip the most, averaging 22 .7%. Illinois residents tip the least, averaging just over 14%. Millennials are the best tippers, and of course, tips vary on a person's income level. But what was interesting is when they broke it down by the state. The 10 best tipping states? California, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, Rhode Island, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, all over the place. What about the worst tipping states? That's where it got interesting. Hey, Tennessee, fifth worst tipping state, average percentage 15 .4%. Illinois is the worst, following Mississippi, South Carolina, New Mexico, then Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Utah. I'm always in the 20, 21 % range, so I don't feel so bad.
The Mason Minute
Worst Tippers (MM #4593)
"I talked about this earlier, but more businesses, more restaurants, more service industries are putting their hand out looking for a tip. USA Today did a recent study on tipping, found the average tip percentage in the US just shy of 18%, 17 .94%. California residents tip the most, averaging 22 .7%. Illinois residents tip the least, averaging just over 14%. Millennials are the best tippers, and of course, tips vary on a person's income level. But what was interesting is when they broke it down by the state. The 10 best tipping states? California, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, Rhode Island, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, all over the place. What about the worst tipping states? That's where it got interesting. Hey, Tennessee, fifth worst tipping state, average percentage 15 .4%. Illinois is the worst, following Mississippi, South Carolina, New Mexico, then Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Utah. I'm always in the 20, 21 % range, so I don't feel so bad.
The Mason Minute
Worst Tippers (MM #4593)
"I talked about this earlier, but more businesses, more restaurants, more service industries are putting their hand out looking for a tip. USA Today did a recent study on tipping, found the average tip percentage in the US just shy of 18%, 17 .94%. California residents tip the most, averaging 22 .7%. Illinois residents tip the least, averaging just over 14%. Millennials are the best tippers, and of course, tips vary on a person's income level. But what was interesting is when they broke it down by the state. The 10 best tipping states? California, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, Rhode Island, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, all over the place. What about the worst tipping states? That's where it got interesting. Hey, Tennessee, fifth worst tipping state, average percentage 15 .4%. Illinois is the worst, following Mississippi, South Carolina, New Mexico, then Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Utah. I'm always in the 20, 21 % range, so I don't feel so bad.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 130 - Cultivating the Perfect Garden with Effective Goal Planning Jeff Rugg
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. You'll be happy that you listened to this episode before you plant your first plant. It begins with setting garden goals. Jeff Rugg is an educator at heart, and for over 33 years, he has written the weekly nationally syndicated newspaper column, The Greener View. He taught the University of Illinois Master Gardener and Master Naturalist programs. He now teaches via the internet through his YouTube channel, Greener View, with over 300 videos and more coming. Many of the videos match the playlist of the chapters of his Greener View gardening book. The book is available at greenerview .com. There is a $30 discount on the softcover edition when using the promo code podcast. This is episode 130, Cultivating the Perfect Garden with Effective Goal Planning, with Jeff Rugg. Jeff, how would you go about setting goals for a new garden? It's interesting because I would say most people think of their landscape in the smaller pieces when in reality it's a much larger part of a whole. We as people look at property lines, but nothing else does. The weather doesn't look at our property as a separate little place. The birds don't. The frogs don't. Nothing else does. As part of an ecosystem, we have to look at all the different influences that are coming into our yard. When it rains, where does the water go? How does it get across the property? There's all these different aspects that are out there that are much bigger than just one little part of our garden. We have a front part of the garden where we're trying to make the house more attractive and then focus attention to the front door. We have a backyard that we're going to use for all kinds of purposes. A lot of times side yards in the United States are north -south or east -west. We have utility areas on one side where there's a gas line and electric coming in. The water meter, whatever is on one side. Sunshine on one side and shade on the other side because of the north -south, east -west. There's just a lot of areas of the whole property that we can call a garden. I have a lot of times people that want to grow one thing or they're interested in one specific thing. They want to have a patio and they're not concerned about the rest of the yard or they want to have a vegetable garden and they're not concerned about the rest of the yard or they're only concerned about the front. A lot of times we work just with what they're looking for, but we have to take into account all those other things that are going to influence it. What are your thoughts on setting up a budget for your project? Budgets for people that don't know anything about plants can be really difficult. If you're a plant parent and you have a lot of plants in your house and now you're looking towards doing something outside, you have a general idea of what the costs of the plants are. Probably not necessarily what the cost of the mulch or paved zone patio or a deck are going to be. For me, I had to redo a bathroom recently and I had no idea how much a bathroom would cost. I'd go to the local hardware store and start looking at sinks and bathtubs and just start getting pricing ideas in my mind. The plastic sink is going to cost a lot less than the granite sink. That part I knew, but I had no idea what the overall pricing would be. If you're a plant person, it's a little bit easier. If you're a novice and you have no idea what plants are, plants that are smaller are going to cost less. You're going to spend time or money when you're putting in a landscape. You can put in a small tree, five foot tall, in the diameter of a broomstick for a lot less than you can put in something that's going to require a crane to put in. The small one is going to take years to grow big enough that you can hang a swing on it. You're going to spend time or money, you just have to start doing some research, talking to nurseries, going to the neighbors who've just had a landscape installed, find some friends who are into plants and start asking them what the prices they've been paying. A big driver is whether you're doing it yourself or you're hiring the different phases out. If you're doing it yourself, you don't have to worry about the installation price, but a lot of times there's a little bit of a maintenance thing that maybe comes with the installation or there's a guarantee that comes with the installation if the company installs it rather than you installing it. There's more to it than just the price of Paris and of Meade putting it in versus the landscaper putting it in. A lot of times it's actually less expensive if you have the landscaper put it in because they're going to do it right and you're not going to have to do this three or four times. I always have the option of phasing in your garden project. I find that most people's dreams are a lot larger than their pocketbooks. Right, the whole thing can be phased in. You want to pick what's most important. A lot of times if it's a brand new home, the homeowners association or the village or whatever you're in will require that the front landscaping be done before you can start doing other things in the backyard. You want to get that part installed. After that, where are the uses going to be? Do you need to have a patio or do you need to have a play area of the grass for the kids? What are the uses are going to be? A lot of times it's more important to put in trees first, especially if it's going to be a large tree where you're going to have a tractor or something else driving it around to the back and ruining all the grass that you installed first. Put in the big trees, spend a little bit of money on those up front and get them growing so that phase is done. Then you can start putting in the less expensive phases and the ones that don't require the equipment later. How does climate relate to a garden? I'm talking micros and macroclimates. Can you explain how all that works? Sure. The climate is basically long -term weather. We look at the climate on 30 -year scales where after 30 years we drop the previous 10 and add on the next 10. When climatologists are talking about the climate, they're looking at the last 30 years. We a lot of times have weather information for over 100 years. They need to have that comparison factor because we don't have the 100 -year data for a lot of places so they're looking at the 30 years. It's based on temperature and rainfall. If you have a warm, wet area that's in the edge of a continent with an ocean influence, you might have a tropical rainforest. If you have a warm, wet area in the middle of a continent, you might have a wet prairie. It's a bit of an influence from where you're at on the continent besides the temperature and the rainfall. When you take that overall climate, now you're looking at your own garden, you know that okay, I'm in an area that doesn't have a long winter or does have a long winter and has a lot of ice and snow. You look at that as the overall climate, but on your own landscape, the front of the house may be facing towards the west or the south and have a lot more heat than the north side. The plants that are in the sunny area where there's reflected heat off the building might be a few hardiness zones warmer than the back shady north side facing landscape. Need different plants that are capable of surviving the heat in the summertime and don't need the cold for dormancy in the wintertime, whereas on the north side of the house, those plants are in the shade and they're in the cool areas and so it can grow plants that are acquiring colder temperatures for the wintertime that need a dormancy time that is longer. Depending which on way the house is facing, you've got microclimates, we call them, that are different. If you put in a fence that blocks the wind and now traps some heat, that's going to change the microclimate for the area. Depending on where the neighbor's house is and where your house is, where the trees are, where the fences are, those things are all going to influence the microclimates for your landscape that influences which plants you can grow. What about soil conditions? How does that affect your garden and can they be different from one side of the house to the other? Oh, absolutely. The vast majority of plants are growing in the soil and they're not moving. One of the definitions of a plant versus an animal is the plants are stuck there in that soil. They're using that soil as an anchor. If it's a shallow soil and you're putting in a big tree, that might be a problem and it will blow over in the future. If you're putting in a plant that needs wet soil, a damp soil, shoreline kind of condition, but you're putting it on the sunny slope, all the water drains off quickly and dries out too fast, that can be a problem. The nutrients that are in the soil make a big difference and the amount of organic matter in the soil makes a big difference. Each type of soil grows different kinds of plants. You have a dry desert soil that's going to grow cactus that's not going to grow water garden shoreline plants. The main differences between those are going to be the pore space and the water holding capacity. A good loamy garden soil for vegetables would be soil that's pretty much 50 -50 of solid material and pore space. Pore space is divided in half and half of its air and half of its water holding. If you imagine a sponge that you dip into a bucket of water and you pull it out, the large pores in the sponge drain the water out and the small pores retain the water. That sponge would be 50 -50 with a lot of air space and a lot of water at the same time. That's what a good loamy garden soil is. Cactus would require a soil that is maybe 80 % pore space and just a few percentage being minerals and not very much organic matter. Whereas a shoreline plant would want the pore spaces filled with water and not have very much air in there. Whatever type of plant you want to grow, say you fell in love with lilacs as a kid, now you want to have that in your landscape, then you have to look at your soil types and see if the soil is proper for growing a lilac. Azaleas and rhododendrons and some of the hydrangeas require a more acidic soil so that they can grow a better root system. If the soil is too high of a pH, the root system won't grow very well. You need to have a good idea of what kind of soil it is. If you're in a subdivision that's got a lot of clay on the base and just a couple of inches of topsoil on top, you're going to have a hard time growing a lot of plants because they're not going to have enough soil, they're not going to have enough water holding capacity in that small, thin sponge that's sitting on top of the clay. If you have a choice, if you can get 6 or 8 inches thick of layer of topsoil, that will help a lot. Again, it depends on the climate. If you're in Arizona, then having a 6 or 8 inch layer of topsoil is probably not what you're going to have and you're not going to be growing native plants in that. So you need to take into account the climate you're in as well. I know in our area we have a lot of rolling hills and we have a lot of situations where we have cut and fill. Do you ever run into those situations? Well I'm a flatlander in Illinois. Our problem is more getting water to drain out of the soil because we have such large areas that are flat. You can go for miles and miles and miles of flat land and the water doesn't drain anywhere because it's all flat. It doesn't have any place to drain. The soil that forms on a hillside is different at the top than at the bottom because smaller organic matter particles will wash into the soil and wash off the soil. The bottom of a slope or the flat area at the end of a slope is going to have more organic matter. The top of the hill is going to have more rocky soil, more gravelly soil because it doesn't drain away as fast and you don't get those washing down the hill. The slope has an effect. The angle of the slope towards the sun has an effect as to whether it dries out faster or if it's north facing it doesn't dry out as fast. Over time the plants that are growing on the top of the hill, the middle of the hill and the bottom of the hill, they influence the soil because their root systems often have organic matter left behind. Different plants that grow on those slopes are also going to influence the type of soil. You have the slope angle, the minerals that were there to begin with and then the organic matter that's left behind by the plants all influencing the type of soil. As you make a cut and fill you're reversing some of those things. You're taking off the top of the hill and putting it in the bottom of the hill. Now you have a whole different situation. Doing a soil test to find out which soil you've got. The front yard may be at the top of the hill and the backyard was filled. You've got a whole different situation back there. What I run into the most in those situations, a client will say, well why is that same plant growing really well over here and that plant over there, same plant, it's not growing well. Well it could be a various amount of things but often I observe that plant that's not growing as rapidly or as healthy is typically in cut soil whereas the others in fill. So I would think that has to do a lot with the soil compaction too. Yeah unfortunately and very few of us are supermen or we can see through the soil and see what's underneath there. The fill soil, it can be all kinds of construction debris and it's not even necessarily visible construction debris like two by fours or plaster, washed out paint bucket or drywall bucket. Left a whole bunch of chemicals in there that are not a big solid lump but they're influencing the soil chemistry. At what point do you start thinking about maintenance on your garden or landscape? Right at the beginning if I can. For the new person that doesn't know anything about plants, they don't even know that they're supposed to be thinking about maintenance, how they're going to take care of the plants, whether they're going to water them or prune them or fertilize them or whatever. They just don't know what's going to happen. The plant person that knows some things about plants know that they've got to do some of that but they a lot of times don't have an idea of how much work it's going to be or what the cost is going to be to do that work. That's something that really needs to be discussed pretty much at the beginning. It was you doing the analysis phase of figuring out what the landscape is going to be, how much work it's going to be to maintain it is a big thing that needs to be looked at. You're wanting to think, will this plant overgrow this location or will it stay in bounds? When you start thinking about the plant choices, how would those affect your maintenance? They really affected a lot. So many people want to buy a big plant and put it in a small space. This is especially true on model homes where they take a large plant and a baby of a large plant and they stick it into the landscape because it looks good right now. Those people go shopping and say, I can afford that $20 plant but it's a plant that wants to grow three times bigger than what the space would allow. Then they try to chop it back down because it's covering the windows. I've seen so many houses where the front windows are completely covered up because of so many plants growing in front of it because they weren't maintained. They were too big of a plant. When it's all done like that, the only house plants you can grow are mushrooms.
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
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino: Get the Hell Out of New York, California, & Illinois
"You the truth. And saying I'm this because I love you guys, man. I love you all in the audience, both the podcast and the radio. I see you out there, you say the nicest things to me. It's real love, that God -given emotion. It's an attachment I can't explain. You guys mean the world to me. I'm telling you right now, get the hell out of New York and California and Illinois. Listen me. to I'm giving you some tough love right now. Some of you may not want to hear this, but Dan, my kid plays Little League. My daughter's got friends here. Folks, we are five minutes away from full police state. It is here. I tell you I'm long in the United States, I've got to tell you I'm getting shorter. Nobody is stopping this. Please hear me out. There are things I see being in the conservative content space in here and also being an investor in multiple companies that you don't see. I don't say it to try to sound like some elitist foie gras eating snob. to I try say because there are things out of giving people my word on one front and ethically, business -wise and legally I just can't say. But I can say this, however bad you think it is, however bad, to the most skeptical person right now in my audience who thinks
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from MilitaryFares.com with Scott Lara
"Scott Lehrer president of military affairs comm is a US Navy veteran taking his passion of traveling and serving fellow veterans He was recently appointed president of military affairs comm an online travel website giving deep discounts to veterans coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success and now your host Joe Crane As a member of not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org Alright today we're talking with Navy veteran Scott Laura who is a president of military affairs comm Scott You and I've been in you know in loose touch for several years now You've been following the podcast like almost way back since the beginning if I remember correct Absolutely, just a huge fan of the podcast and appreciate everything you do Joe for our veterans and family members of veterans Yeah, so let's start off like we usually do take us back and tell us what you did the Navy Oh my gosh back in 1979 I was working at the Kmart camera department in Aurora, Illinois Just outside of Chicago and I was about to graduate from high school and my assistant manager there said Scott What do you want to do after high school? I said I have no clue, but I don't want to go to school You know don't want to go to college and he goes well join the Navy see the world Well, the problem is he didn't tell me that the world was 75 % water. So I joined the Navy When I went into Chicago to get all registered They said, you know, what do you want to be? I said, I really don't know and they said well What about a fire controlman? I said, well, I don't want to fight fires and the guy laughed He goes well about like being a radarman and it's like that sounds cool and they said, okay Well, you'll go to boot camp here in Chicago in a couple weeks. I said I'm going to San Diego They said you're going to San Diego cuz I mean I joined in set in September and it was starting to get cold So I went to yeah, I went to boot camp in San Diego at 79 then I went to a school at Damnet, Virginia Went up to Maine to get my ship the Morrison FFG 13. It was in three pieces in Bath, Maine They put it together. We sailed down to Boston and Was commissioned there went to Mayport Went to church there in Jackson, but here in Jacksonville met my wife I'm married 39 years to grown kids and two grandkids And so I love the Navy and all over the world Italy Spain France Panama Canal off the coast of Iran and Iraq and I love the Navy but I stayed in nine years It was just really hard on my wife with two small children So I got out and then I went on my entrepreneurial journey. We'll talk a little bit about that What was your transition like when you got out of the Navy you get a job right away? Was the entrepreneurship thing already there? Well, fortunately and the one thing I want to share with the audience. It's who you know, and You've got to be out there you and it's not even the internet It's just like who do you know? Because I knew some people and I was able to get a job with a division of driver's license in, Florida So I got out I immediately had a job I wasn't making a ton of money but I was an employee and I worked there and then I of course I got a couple other jobs to as Other things opened up. But yeah again for those folks that are listening to the podcast you got to get out there There's no one who's gonna promote you but you and you got to be professional. You got to look good You got to speak good and it's who you know, and I will just say for anybody listening reach out to Joe or myself We would both love to help anybody to to move into that transition the only thing I would caution you about is that a lot of people will try to come after veterans and say hey Join this franchise and you know 50 $100 ,000 and a lot of us don't have that kind of money A lot of us don't have time to go back to school Now a lot of guys do have the GI Bill or other Opportunities like that, but I always love helping fellow veterans get on the path to a good job and success Yeah, it's so true it's who you know and unfortunately if you've been in the military like you were for nine years You may not have a big civilian network But you might have a network of veterans that got out before you and keep in touch with them but I hear I've heard stories were like I applied for a thousand jobs and didn't get one response from anybody and it's like Well, that's pretty typical these online job boards most of the time you don't get hired from them unless you know somebody on the inside and Then you still got to apply through the job board and then because you know somebody your Application gets pulled and then you find your way in it's it's it's all about who you know Definitely one super secret tip. I'll share Joe is that veterans get one free year of LinkedIn premium so just go on LinkedIn you know let them know you're a veteran and There's lots of free courses on LinkedIn and that that's my secret. I mean, that's how I know people Being in the travel industry getting to know the CEOs of these travel of these cruise lines And once you're on LinkedIn and you reach out to them and be humble be nice. I am so -and -so and But again, the problem with the military is they really don't prepare us for civilian work We veterans think well just because we're a veteran or we work hard and we're dedicated. We should automatically get the job Well, the job market is so tight now that they're being very selective on who they hire Yeah, they want they want somebody to have all the qualifications that they already need They don't want to train somebody like the military always does train people from scratch In the civilian sector, they don't they don't have time to train you They they need you making them money from day one And but there are there are some good skills military guys have as far as you know The soft skills the leadership the motivation You know, they show up to work on time They're not late, you know, those kind of things can be huge Some some people like to view those things as maybe the givens of a typical good employee But if you don't have some of those basic skills that the job requires, it's it's really tough for civilian companies You know to hire you and bring you in because they can't afford To train people for months or years on end like the military does well Joe You make a very good point in addition to that guys. You can't go in. I want 80. I want 90 I want a hundred you may need to go in for 25 or 30 thousand get your fee You know be trainable be open listen learn and once they see that then you can go up But I think so many people Joe think, you know I deserve 70 80 90 100 and maybe your wife or your spouse wants you to make that money To bring it in but you got to be realistic absolutely As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing that they do Low fees and great rates resources to help you crush your financial goals 24 -7 access to stateside member service representatives with award -winning customer service earnings and savings of four hundred seventy three dollars per year by banking with us an average credit card APR that's six percent lower than the industry average a Market leading regular savings rate nearly two times the industry average I'm still with Navy Federal after 33 years and not going anywhere Navy Federal is insured by NCUA NFC you reserves the right to change or just continue promotions and rates at any time without notice Dollar value shown represents the results of the 2022 Navy Federal member give back study credit card value claim based on 2022 internal average APR assigned to members Compared to the advertising industry APA average published on credit cards comm value claim based on 2022 internal regular savings rate average compared to 2022 industry regular service average rate published by FDIC gov learn more at Navy federal org In a startling description the UN food chief warned the world with words knocking on famines door He called what we're facing a perfect storm of a perfect storm He's not alone parents published that a food shortage could be coming even in the u .s.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Ministry of Evangelism
"Welcome to the Heart for God podcast. With many years of experience pastoring and helping to start churches, Dr. Jim Townsley has some practical and biblical advice that can be a great help to you and your ministry. On this podcast, Dr. Townsley and other guests with special expertise cover a variety of topics. His goal is to help you lead your church to be a healthy, strong, and balanced ministry, and for your family to be happy, healthy, and living for the Lord. Welcome to the podcast today. I'm glad that you joined us. I have with me here Brother Matt Barber, and he is an evangelist. He's been at our church since Sunday. This is now Wednesday, so he's had several opportunities to speak to us and preach the Word of God. Matt, it's good to have you with us this morning. Good to be here. It's a pleasure. So I want you to just say a little bit about your background, who you are, your family, what God has called you to do, and where you were before. Well, I was raised in a pastor's home. I had great opportunities to hear the gospel. I got saved as a child. When I was 16, the Lord finally got a hold of my heart, and I surrendered to him, and that's when I felt called to preach. I went on to Bible college. I went to Baptist College of Ministry up in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, back in the early days of the college there, and that's where I met my wife. So a lot of good things happened in those days. And then our first ministry was in Woodridge, Illinois, where I went there as an assistant pastor. So that's in the Chicago area? Yep, that's right, southwest suburbs of Chicago. And within six months, I found myself the pastor of the church, and we stayed there for 13 years. And you have family? Yes, sir. Yep. So my wife, Chelsea, and then we have five children, and so the Lord's blessed us richly. And the years at Woodridge were wonderful. We learned a lot. The church grew. It had been through a lot, and we were kind of in a re -establishing, rebuilding phase at the church. And then in 2018 and 2019, I began to feel the Lord stirring my heart towards evangelism, and that's where I felt called originally. And by 2021, the Lord finally gave us the green light, and we stepped out by faith. And so we've been traveling full -time now the last two years. So stepping out by faith is no small exaggeration, because for an evangelist, to get started, people don't know you, they don't know your name. So how does that all come about? How do you end up getting meetings? Well, that's a good question. When I first announced it to our church, they were shocked that we were moving on, but I felt that the church was ready for another hand at the till, so to speak. The church was established, and I guess they thought that I was going out into evangelism by popular demand, and that was not the case. I didn't have anything on the schedule, and I was just trusting the Lord. I expected to be working full -time or part -time as we got meetings lined up, but God and His mercy just allowed the meetings to come in. And they didn't come in all at once, but the Lord stayed ahead of us by three or four weeks or a month or two, and He just filled up our year. We found ourselves traveling two or three weeks a month, plus Sundays and Wednesdays here and there, different places that first year. This second year has been a lot more busy. We spent the whole summer just packed all the way through. We're out west and got to see some beautiful country. But the best thing is we've been seeing God's blessing and seeing God just confirm the step of faith with meetings and with fruit. Dr. Darrell Bock So you're traveling with your family. So you've got a pole -behind trailer, and you've got seven people in that thing. How do you live in that? David Jones Well, you know, the Lord already provided the Ford Excursion. That's right. It's a 2002 Excursion. It's the gas kind, the gas guzzler, but we already had the Excursion, and when the Lord was stirring us up to go, of course, the first question is, can we do this? And the first thought is, no, we can't do this. This is impossible. But then we began to look into it, and we found some pole -behind travel trailer options that would work for our family. In fact, we only found one option big enough that I could actually haul with our truck. And so it's got several slide -outs, and it has a lot of roomy space for the kids to sleep. I say roomy in relative terms, but it works for us. It's tight, but we've been doing fine the last couple of years. Dr. Darrell Bock So you've been a pastor. Now you're traveling as an evangelist. There's got to be a pretty good perspective you have. What is the difference in what are some of the things that people might be interested in, the difference between being a pastor and being on the road as an evangelist? David Jones Well, there's some stark differences, and I guess just going back to the root of it is there are two different gifts in the Bible. We have them listed in Ephesians, Chapter 4. Of course, you have the foundational gifts of the apostles and prophets. Those are no more because the foundation has been laid. But then it goes on to mention evangelists and then pastors and teachers, and I think pastor -teacher is kind of the one idea of pastoring and teaching a flock. So what is the evangelist? Well, if you think about it in the order of events, before you have a church, you have to have gospel preaching so people can be saved so you can have a church, right? So evangelist, an the word evangelist comes from the word evangel or gospel. So an evangelist preaches the gospel, but all of us do that, right? But it's a special gifting that focuses on the gospel. So as an evangelist, I think God gives a special desire, burden, boldness, or even I think also clarity in preaching the gospel so that people can understand. And that's not something to boast of, it's just something that God begins to reveal what your strengths are, what his giftings are. So evangelism is a pioneering gift. Oftentimes evangelists will plant churches, but that's not always the case. My older brother Nathan is a pastor. He planted a church. He would not call himself an evangelist, but he planted a church. So God can use different gifts for different things. I was an evangelist, but I was pastoring for 13 years. But the whole time, I knew I was an evangelist who was trying really hard to be a pastor. It's hard to explain that, but I knew that. But I'm thankful for that background so I could understand the ins and outs of being a pastor and how a church works. But an evangelist is a pioneering gift. You lay the foundation. But an evangelist can also be a restorative gift. I think of Paul. Obviously Paul was an apostle, but if you look at the way he traveled, he was trailblazing. And that's not something just an apostle can do. There were others who did that. In fact, when Paul and Barnabas split up, Barnabas took Mark, and he went off in a different direction doing the same thing that Paul was doing. So there were many who were traveling around in an itinerant way, preaching and laying new foundations through church planting. But then Paul continuously came back and had a desire to circle back and establish and strengthen the churches that he had been a part of. Well, that's itinerant work. I think in America we see a lot of the typical evangelist who travels itinerantly, preaches revival meetings. But that's not unfounded. There's a basis for that in Scripture. I just think the evangelist is more than a revival man. An evangelist can plant churches. An evangelist can go to the mission field. But I think there is a desire in evangelists to not only plant or lay a foundation, but then to be used of God to establish or to even bring an outside perspective that can help a church. And the pastor is there day in, day out. God uses that outside perspective and that special outside gifting to complement the pastor and to help the church grow. Dr. Darrell Bock So what would you say your goal is? As you go from church to church, what is your purpose and goal? What do you feel you want to accomplish by doing that? Dr. Mark Bock Well, a lot of evangelists focus on the word revival, and that's a good word. It's actually more of an Old Testament word, although we see the concept in the New Testament as well. But basically the way I look at it is churches need to thrive and new churches need to be started. My role in that would be to preach the gospel so folks can be saved. But then if I'm going back through established churches, then my goal is to see churches restored, revived to a place where they can grow again. And obviously individuals in that church being, to use another word, quickened. David talked about that. He says, quicken thou me according to thy word. And I think the evangelist can be used of the Lord to have God's power to open eyes, to quicken, to revitalize a church so they can grow. Not that he brings revival with him. Not that he has anything better than the pastor has. But it's a different gifting that complements the work of the pastor. Dr. Darrell Bock So a different train of thought here. From the perspective of a pastor, having an evangelist come into your church, how can a pastor best prepare to have an evangelist come, and how can he take care of him while he is there? Well, I mean, going back to Ephesians 4, they're called the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church, right? So the pastor, I think people see that clearly, the pastor is a gift to a church. If you have a pastor, you have a gift. God has gifted and blessed your church. But I think sometimes pastors forget that the evangelist is also a gift to the church. And there are many pastors now who aren't having evangelists for various reasons. And I would say they're robbing their church from a gift that God wants to give them. Not because the evangelist is so special, because it's a gift God designed for the health of the church. So knowing, seeing it as a gift that God has established, make room for it, you know, promote it.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Michael and Thomas Pack
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. Have you heard that some people have a nose for news? Well, Eric has a nose for everything. That's why this is called The Show About Everything. Now welcome your host, who definitely passes the smell test, Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. It's The Eric Mataxas Show. I play the role of Eric Mataxas. In this show, which is nonfiction, I interview people, usually on subjects that are close to my heart or that I think are important. Today I'm talking to filmmaker Michael Pack, who's been on this show before, who is responsible for a brilliant documentary called Created Equal, Clarence Thomas in his own words, and other things, and also Michael's son, Thomas Pack. We are going to talk about something that is as close to my heart as anything could be. It's the idea of bringing, let's call them conservative values, although that's just a fancy way of saying truth and reality, into media. It is crucial. People of faith, people of Christian values have dropped the ball on this for, I don't know, about 100 years roughly. So whenever somebody is getting into this game, I want to do everything I can to get to know them and to bring them to you, the audience of this program. So Michael Pack and Thomas Pack, welcome and thank you for being with us today. Thank you for having us on, Eric. It's a pleasure to be back on your show. Well, as you know, Michael, I am hot to trot on the subject of what I just mentioned. Now, you just wrote an article at Real Clear Politics. I want to talk to you about that because you sort of summarize what I was just getting at or you explicate what I was just summarizing. Talk a little bit about that and you can mention upfront as well what Thomas is doing. So lead us into the conversation. Well, you're right. The Real Clear piece, which is a bit long, so I guess I explicate rather than summarize, but it tries to lay out what's happened in the culture war over the last at least 50 years, maybe you're right, closer to 100. And what we can do about it. I mean, the fact is, as everyone knows, the progressive left dominates the culture. And they have at least since the 60s where they announced a long march for the institutions and they said they were going to work to take over first the university and then other cultural institutions, and they have succeeded. But I say, Eric, that it is to their credit. This is a battle of ideas. And especially in the area of film and television, they're fighting for the ideas they believe in. You are quite right that we on our side have failed. They're to be commended for succeeding. They're fighting for what they believe in. I agree with you that what they believe in isn't right. So that's a negative, but they're commended for fighting for it. And over those years, they've built up institutions that supported and defended and make it possible. So I lay that out in the real clear piece, which people can also find on my on my Twitter page, Michael Pack underscore. But so I try to give how so over 50 years, the left has poured tens of billions of dollars into this process, and it is their right to do so. And we ought to say that they have allied themselves with a very powerful ally in the form of Satan. We don't need to we don't need to get more specific than that. But people need to understand that, you know, you're very gracious by saying, oh, they're fighting for their ideas. Their ideas are harmful to human beings, not to conservatives, not to people of faith, to human beings in general. And so you're right that they believe in these ideas. But I just have to say, speaking to you as a Jew, you know, Hitler believed in his ideas. So because somebody believes in their ideas, they get, oh, well, they've got their ideas. We have our ideas. I agree with you 100 percent. I know. No, of course, I know you do. And you're being gracious. So go ahead. But but the but but that's right. I mean, one way of looking at their ideas is they have a negative view of America just taking that one slice of it. And we have a positive, upbeat view of America. I mean, we we are documentary producers, and I think this is this left takeover of culture is both in drama, fiction and nonfiction and in the nonfiction realm. It's clear as a bell. The 1619 Project, which began in print, was now a multi -part Emmy nominated Netflix series. And and on like that is America based on racism and the defense of slavery, or is it based on the principles of the Enlightenment? Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence and it matters for the country and the world which side you're on. So I agree with you. But their ideas are wrong. But given that they're wrong, they're right to fight for them. So we need to fight for ours. But but we have we have the model of what they have done and we need to just do it, too. It is not that hard. It's not that complicated. It was not a conspiracy on the part of the left. They announced they were going to do it. It's their right to do it. And they did it. I mean, I mean, even in America, communists, for example, have every right to promulgate their views, which I think is appropriate, given the First Amendment. It doesn't make their views right, but it does give them the right to promulgate them. And it's well, think of the irony, though, that the left is increasingly I mean, just to be fair, that it is because of biblical values, it is because of the values of the founders of this nation, that people on the left. On the wrong side, have the right, which we have given them to promulgate their views, it is why Nazis could march through Skokie, Illinois. It is right, so we believe in free speech. We believe in this kind of stuff. But the irony is that we're now living in a time where we're seeing the left having gained power, use it to squelch and censor voices with whom they disagree. So in other words, they were willing to ride the train of free speech as long as it helped them. And then now that they've gained the upper hand culturally and in other ways, they're suddenly deciding, you know what, free speech was nice. It was nice for a while. But now we don't want those conservatives to have a voice. So there's an irony here, which ought to be mentioned. There is. They're now the enemies of free speech. And in part, it's because, as you say, it's no longer convenient. But in part, it's because of the radicalization of liberalism, the sort of left liberal part of the Democratic Party. I mean, it used to be since the 60s, the new left has been an enemy of free speech. Herbert Mercuza and company never believed in free speech. But that was a minority view on the left. And now, as you say, it's increasingly popular under other rubrics like stopping disinformation and misinformation. And it is. Do they get that from Stalin? I'm always trying to trace these ideas back. I believe it was the Moscow School of Stalin. In any event, I think, you know, legally, you know, Karl Marx did not believe in human rights and individual rights. And he his whole worldview is opposed to that. If you believe in historical determinism and you know which way the world is going, why encourage freedom of speech? So both left and right, Hegelianism, Marx being left Hegelianism, was not really in favor of these kinds of freedoms, these Enlightenment freedoms. And in a sense, they were a reaction against it. I'm not an expert on this, though. Eric, you're going to get into topics too deep for me pretty soon. Well, obviously, we're not here really to talk about this exactly, but it's worth touching on. Well, look, the good news, the headline to me is that you and Thomas, whom we will let get a word in edgewise momentarily, are creating award winning, fabulous documentary films and trying to encourage others to do the same. It's it really is a wonderful thing, as you and I have discussed. I'm getting involved in that a number of media projects and yours have been done with such extraordinary excellence that, you know, even those on the left have had begrudgingly to honor you when we come back. I want to get into everything and I want to ask you, Thomas, about this kind of conservative incubator film project that that you're putting together. Folks, it's the Eric Metaxas show, ericmetaxas .com. Don't go away. Folks, have I told you about Moink? M -O -I -N -K. That's moo plus oink. I get all our meat and our salmon from them. M -O -I -N -K. Moink delivers grass fed and grass finished beef and lamb, pastured pork and chicken, sustainable wild caught salmon straight to your door.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
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"I said this the other day and the media came after me. So I'm going to be very specific with how I say this. In the last 20 years in the black community has the music and the culture and the art has it platformed piety and virtue and nonviolence or has it probably platform violence and gang behavior more than the other. Let's be honest, right? And that culture manifests into action. Is that the only reason, of course not. But I also just think very simply and solely that over a period of time, you show behavior, you commit crimes, you go to jail, and you encourage men to stay loyally married to the women that they are with and to go into the proper course of action. I think there's also some negotiation and compromise of the trade deals that we're signing. The jobs that we shipped overseas, the muscular class that has disappeared, and also an issue that really animates me. I'll be honest, is our complete and total open porous southern border that disenfranchises black Americans directly. Why the black community is not angry about 5000 low income, let's just say, let's say entrance into the country is perplexing to me, right? If you want a real America first immigration policy that puts black Americans first, close the border and gets, you know who said that? Jesse Jackson used to say that. But now for other reasons they want to complete and poor southern border. Thank you, though. Appreciate it. Too many agreements. We need more opposition, but sure. Hope maybe you're one of them. I don't know. Hi, Charlie. I'm so glad to be here today. Okay. Yeah. I'm a delivery driver here in Chicago. It's one of the most dangerous jobs in Chicago except for our brave Chicago police officers. First of all, you said you're a what driver? A delivery driver. Yeah. And I want to just say I keep attuned to a.m. 5 60 here. All the time. I'm on a.m. 5 60 every day, by the way. Yes, I listen to your show all the time and I want to thank you for standing up against the woke Democrat mafia here in Chicago. It's so important. And for saying the truth that the 2016 election was rigged, it was stolen, and that is why that is why 20, 2020. You said 16. What's that? 2000 16, right? It's about 20. Oh, 2012. I'm so nervous, Charlotte. I'm so excited to speak to you. I'm so sorry. 2020. Yes, the 2020 election was rigged. It was stolen. Yes, no. It was stolen, right? And I want to thank you for standing up for that, and that's why when the 20 two elections came around, I told all of my Friends and family, I said there's only one way to stop this woke Democrat mafia, and that is to boycott these elections because they're never going to hear us if we don't really stop from participating in their lives. It's a farce. It's a farce. And why should we participate? You said it yourself. Why should we participate? Okay, let me tell you why. So I love the energy. You buttered me up perfectly, right? But I got to disagree. It is not rational to stop engaging in the civic process that decides who is in charge. Hold on. Even if it is, hold on, let's go one second. Even if it is rigged, okay? Even if it is rigged, going through a tradition of voting, at least opens an opportunity, a chance, a micron that you actually might still be able to have representative government. What you are doing, respectfully, is a guarantee that you'll never have a voice. The other side yearns, hear me out. They yearn for a day where we decide to stop voting ourselves because we're so disenfranchised. So it's a chicken and the egg thing. But the right answer is not to stop, you know, stop showing up and boycotting all that. It's guaranteed the other side will win in that regard. It makes it makes no sense to me. It makes no sense to me just because like we know they're stealing our votes here in Chicago. They say vote early and often because the Democrat mob is stealing the vote. They make sure they control these elections. We have no power here. There's no point in voting. So I say we have to resist this. We have to fight.
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"illinois" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"The line. Our staffer will help you with that. Thank you. Okay. Hi. So my question is on the topic of abortion. So I am involved with Greek life at my school, and the culture that is currently being promoted is that you hook up with random dudes and then you can go and get that baby gone. What do you think we should do as college students to prevent that culture from continuing to build and build? Well, first praise God for your moral clarity. Hook up culture is awful, and it's especially awful for women. It actually makes women very miserable because men and women view sex differently. Women do not view sex as transactional as men do. It's a very personal and emotional experience. And when they start to have sex with a lot of men, it actually leaves them psychologically damaged and broken. And that is the fact that we're seeing manifest of a generation of young women that think that they can participate in a hookup culture and they get a lot happier. And they're actually the most miserable they've ever been. The second thing is is we have to educate that that is a human being. You're not just going to go get plastic or cosmetic surgery. I ask people sometimes, how many abortions do you think happen in America every single year? I got an answer at a recent campus event. They said, oh, about 20,000. It's a million. I know. It takes people breaths away, right? There's 3000 abortions a day in America. That's not good for anybody. And nobody likes to say this out loud, and the people in highland park will scream at you if you say this, but abortion has become a type of birth control as a last chance measure. Do you agree with that that people look at abortion that way? Yeah, I mean, personally, my mom had me at 21. She was a young adult living in the city and she made the choice to keep me. She made that choice by the way. I come from a place where it's like, she raised me. She took ownership of her actions and raised me to be a great young woman. So I can only, I can only imagine that if more young women take that step, what this society could be. So there's two things. It's not just the woman that needs to take responsibility for their actions. It's the man that needs to take responsibility for their actions too. And these weak men, I could go on and on and on about how awful that whole culture is. But you said something important. Take responsibility. We have a generation that prioritizes pleasure over duty. One of the reasons we're in the mess that we're in is we want to do what feels good over what is right. And the abortion industry hinges on an entire flawed moral argument that my temporary orgasm matters more than a baby being able to live in this world. Nobody wants to say that out loud, but that is exactly what drives the abortion industry. We need to educate people that you might have done something you regret, you might not have been proud of yourself, but terminating another human being because you made a mistake. It's not good for you, and it's not good for them, and it's not good for society. Thank you for your moral clarity. And thank you for being here. Thank you. Hello..
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"illinois" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And I think that's really beautiful, and I'm here to help. God bless you guys, and let's do some questions. All right. Okay. A couple of ground rules on the questions, please. And thank you for that warm reception. This is obviously an ideologically sympathetic audience. Thank you for that. If somebody comes up to the microphone and says something that you think is laughable or objectionable or on the left, but I repeat myself. Let them finish, don't mock them, don't laugh at them, don't interrupt them. The left is out there trying to cancel our event. I get death threats every single day because I believe in things that are very simple. I never want to become the monster that we oppose. So if a liberal comes up to the microphone, let them speak and we can have dialog. All right, thank you. And we'll start with the questions here. The white supremacy person is you're able to come up. Anyone who disagrees, you're allowed to go to the front of the line. And you're able to ask questions and we're able to have dialog. We're going to start here, and then we'll go from there. And again, please allow just allow the dialog to happen if you feel inspired to say something, then get in line, and you'll have an opportunity to do that. Okay? Let's have a question. Hi, Charlie. How are you? It's actually, I want to share a little thing with you. It's actually my first time in Chicago. I'm from southern Illinois. I've never been Chicago. So yeah. I understand that you have a family, a wife, a daughter, and I just want to ask, how is your daughter? How she hit any big milestones yet? She's amazing. Thank you. I encourage all young people to get married and have children. It'll change your life. It's a moral good for you and a moral good for society. Be fruitful and multiply. And she's amazing. She's 6 months old now. And it happens fast, doesn't it? And it's a great blessing. And people say, I got to ask the question all the time. Charlie, how has it changed you? It's certainly radicalized me. And it's radicalized me in a sense of it makes me more motivated to fight and to win of anyone that would dare to harm a child in this country. Unfortunately, there's a lot of them. Thank you. Thank you. John hersey high school. I won't hold that against you. Wheeling. Even though they won't claim me. How's it going tonight? Good, make sure the mic is on. Yeah. I have a question. What was the process of starting this organization in the first place? What was the process? Yeah. Started June 5th of 2012, suburbs of Chicago, right after I graduated wheeling high school on June 3rd, no money, no connections, no idea what I was doing. Great mentor of mine who I wish was still alive. He used to come to all these events, Bill Montgomery, some of you might remember Bill, one of the most amazing men and his legacy lives on. Without him, the organization would not exist. And then foster freeze, who also passed away unfortunately, wrote us our first check and people laughed at me and scoffed at me and thought we couldn't succeed or do anything from there and now we are the nation's largest conservative organization of its kind and we're just getting started. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you..
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"illinois" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"You have to fake your own hate crimes to try to get attention. But we can talk afterwards if you would like. I would actually enjoy that. But. This city had still has great potential, and it could be turned around. It can be. But one of the things that's going to take is it's going to take an attitude. To re embrace, to re embrace what Chicago once was. If my message could be condensed to one thing, is I want that chip on the shoulder back in Chicago. I want I want, I want not just the 85 bears in the 90s bulls, which showed the world that this city can produce championship sports products, but also the fans that supported them that was able to understand that even though we are insulted by the national news media and never taken seriously, we could do great and ambitious things. So what does that mean? I want Chicago to kind of just tell BLM to go to hell. I want Chicago to say, you know what? It's not racist to go arrest looters and put them in prison for a long period of time. Stop. Because you do that out of a love for your home. You do that out of a love for something that is greater than you. And unfortunately, we have allowed false narratives and ideological lies after ideological lie to put us into a place of paralysis. When you know it's not a good thing, when you know so materially in front of you, what is happening is not sustainable is not good is not beautiful. And I'm not even talking about the school system issue here in Chicago, which is just such a catastrophe. What we've allowed to have what the cartel has done to the kids in this city. The cartel, of course, which is the Chicago teachers union that has done unbelievable damage. To the children in this city. And again, I'm not going to weigh in on any politics. We're here at just to talk about education, hopefully, to teach something. You guys, if you guys want to talk about it, whatever. I literally don't care that much except for the fact I'm glad to see people starting to wake up in one regard. But nothing is actually going to structurally change until you break the back of the Chicago teachers union and allow parents to be able to send their kids to better school. Nothing is actually going to structurally change. It's not. And it's a tragedy. It's a shame, because the people that suffer the most are the ones that the left tells us they care about the most. Isn't that something? It's the ones that they say, oh, you know, we care the most about the victimized marginalized minority groups. You have been in charge of every instrument of power in Illinois and Chicago for 30 years. How have you done? Almost every major business has left, you can't get a U haul literally at times in Illinois, leaving the state. Or boxes, there you go. South Barrington is basically Naples, Florida now. It's basically what it is. Like, oh yeah, I live in south Barrington, otherwise known as Naples. Oh, really? That's great. And it's something. I don't mean to be all negative because you guys are here. And you can change it. And you could change it because of something I mentioned earlier, which is the power of memory. It's easier to restore something you remember. Than to build something that people won't believe in. And I'm afraid they're trying to eradicate any sort of memory of this place being the Beacon of hope that it once was. And so one of my messages I want to reinforce here is I'm touched by the stories of people that came here into the city with absolutely nothing. Nothing. And they built a life for themselves. And they lament and they say, boy, I wouldn't raise a family in Chicago. And I mean this with all with a 100% clarity. I really wish I could still live in Illinois. I say, Charlie, why don't you? It makes zero practical sense at all. It's just, it is impossible to run a business of our size and our scale to attract people that see the world the way we do. You got to go to the sun belt if you want to grow if you want to expand. And also, just honestly, I also want to be in a place that shares my values or at least in some way shares my values. But that's an interesting point, isn't it, which is how much is Illinois actually fallen and what can be done to save it? That's a deeper question than it is to have actually a serious answer. But I'll close with this, and then we could do some questions which I really look forward to. Which is the attendance tonight demonstrates that there's a lot of fights still in this city and in this state. And thank you. I'll be very honest selfishly, I was upset in one way that Candace couldn't be here. But selfishly, I was glad I actually had the salt box to talk about my home to you guys. Because this is very close and personal. I get angry. When I see Chicago continue to descend, this place is such untapped potential. And for those of you that are making that are making a decision to stay, God bless you for that. For those of you that say, I'm going to stay as long as I can, and we're going to keep building a family, and we're going to keep building communities. We're going to keep building churches and we're going to keep building businesses. I'm with you 100% of the way to revive this place. Because I still believe at a deep fundamental level. This place can be brought back to can be brought back to greatness. The goodness that so many of you have demonstrated was derailed and detoured and taken advantage of. And I've had the opportunity to travel all 50 states twice over. There's no place like Chicago. There is no place like this. And I want to see it restored. But unfortunately, this is not a, this is not an infection that has just happened in Chicago. This has happened around the rest of the country. And it's also, it really is an argument of material reality versus ideological pursuit, right? At some point, good people have to rise up and say, this is insane and we're not going to stand for this any longer. For example, for example, when somebody says that men can become pregnant, you should say you're insane. I'm not going to stand for this any longer. When somebody says that America's a racist country, you should say we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world. We are the we are the greatest example of a multilingual multiracial country. And instead of focusing on victimhood narratives all the time, maybe we should focus on how the heck have we been able to get along pretty well with each other over the last couple of decades. And what can we do to actually lift the standard of living of people and white supremacy? That's we'll have a chance to talk about that. It's amazing. It's interesting. And white supremacy coming from a city that just had a black mayor that was one of the worst mayors in the history of the city. Yeah, but the problems white supremacy. No, maybe the problem is stop electing dumb people. Anyway, you certainly can get the mic. I mean that in a second. So that's part of what we do here tonight because we want to hear other ideas and see who's right. You got to fight. And you have to love your home enough to sacrifice for it. I'm touched and honored to be here. It is a great encouragement to me to see so many of you still care. The rest of the country has written off Chicago and Illinois as a hellscape and a wasteland. I know you have not..
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"illinois" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And we look at the amazing stories the last 20 or 30 years of what came here. And then something changed. And it didn't happen immediately, but boy happened gradually then suddenly, didn't it? Where a couple things happened, if I can pinpoint them. The first thing that started to happen is that your decency was taken advantage of. Most people in Illinois did the right thing for 20 or 30 years. You paid your taxes, you raised your kids, you went to work, and your leaders abused you. And I have to be honest, it's not just like one party thing I honestly don't care about that. It's just about an ideology of deceit and plunder of what happened in the state the last 20 or 30 years. And the only reason Chicago and Illinois is not what it used to be, is because people that had political power lied to you looked after their own self interest and did it repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly and eventually that dam broke. And it wasn't just in one thing or their it's not just the pension system or the taxes or how we fund schools and all that. It was a culture and you at the culture was the culture was the silly people of Illinois are too polite and too decent to ever challenge me Mike madigan. And I mean, finally, Mike madigan is out of office, but it's not like things are about there's just another creature that's going to fill the void, right? Yeah, madigan should have been in prison when I was born in 1993, okay? Not just in prison recently. My whole life, Mike madigan was head of the House of represent Speaker of the House. And so, but it bothers me and it should bother you when good people are taken advantage of. And they're just asked to roll over. And honestly, when I look around what's happened, the outward migration of this great city in this great state, it makes me better. Because it has become kind of a relic to a memory of once was. And the other thing that has really bothered me in the last couple of years is the hyper emphasis in this in the city and in the state on race. I don't think that has helped anybody at all. And the hyper emphasis, I think, is actually created deep fissures and not just division, but conflict where it's not necessary. And I have to be lectured by leaders in Chicago about systemic racism, where it's like, okay, stop lying to me. There's 500 murders in the city, and most of them are black on black crime. So why don't you just shut up about systemic racism and actually talk about some of the root causes in this city? No, it's white supremacy. No, it's not. It's not white supremacy. Okay, it's not. White supremacy is killing people in west Chicago. That's brilliant. How many white people are killing black people in west Chicago? I'll let you count for a second. White supremacy is so rare in Chicago..
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"illinois" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Is a combination of timing options. Yeah me sicilian. So they do made pace in auctions linus uncertainty and the flexibility so so many look into the future you see some uncertainty and if you have some flexibility to make future decision that is some bad So instance you know You know dating is if you say you know. I see some uncertainty. Automobile prices lifted called to make more tangible. And you some flexibility to buy that elliptic automobile in the future for example. I can delay the decision. Because i got a gas powered guzzler that they wanted to get rid off in two years I have some kind of made that electric automobile casing decision that is value. Because we don't quite know what a lately instrument is going to be what values going to be all of that. So it's obvious case that delaying a decision value right then. There's some certainly. Yes absolutely the value delaying has uncertainty. And i think you you brought up a good point so when you evaluate the value of flexibility son somehow relying heavily on a model you create on how things wall and so that tends to be one of the challenges. When whenever we're doing a real option even financial washington facing is how do you create a model of uncertainty such seventy bill. This model induced making your decision to inject withdraw investing in in the manufacturing of god that that valuation was actually acted and the convocation real options founder. Send historically Financial options are sort of stand. So i could go out and price at fleiss auction lead on pfizer using it postponed centers. It's essential every single decision. That's not the case of real lobbyists Markets is so so you talk about looking to stay here so it in oil and gas company doing exploration development as soda company. You know putting in some sort of field or these homeless options. These said not single standing auctions eastern obligations. Yes it is so one example aching..
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"Illinois com Whether it's like casual or die hard, I don't know if you agree or disagree, but I think that's a joke. Once it's taken to me, That's it. You would like to see Lennon like a goal kick. Yeah, I assume Because you have to have a dead ball. Then you have to whistle of debt. Essentially, which is the one should be dead ball. That's the one thing, though. In soccer, you don't really unless it goes out of bounds, or you have a foul. You don't generally have a stoppage of play, So that's the one you know you kind of changing the game dramatic. Every time they score goal. They stopped play for three minutes, so these guys can celebration. I mean, I know it's hard to score in soccer. My God, I mean, the thank heavens. There's a lot of scoring in this this tournament. I think there was a lot more scoring in this tournament that I've seen another tournament, So yeah. That's why I think this tournament's been entertaining, exciting. It is and I enjoy soccer very much. Spain, Italy first half though we're almost put me asleep, like, please, guys, let's go. One more excitement. Nobody wanted to make the mistake. Nobody want to make the first mistake. The second half the game opened up a little more. It was funny to watch I'd be up for changing that rule. There are other rules. There are rules here in American football, that I'd be up for changing and I know you're going. I disagree on this one. I think it's way too punitive for a team to lose possession when they fumble the offensive team through the end zone. It reared its ugly head in a big playoff game and Arrowhead last year between the Chiefs and the Browns. The Browns were going into maybe make that a close game at the half. There was a big swing going into halftime there, and I believe the rules committee was going to address that this offseason. I kind of lost track of that. I don't know that they change that session of the football is very important in the NFL. Yeah, I know. We disagree on this one. Very important thing is way too punitive. You fumble through the end zone. You're going in the ball gets fumbled. It doesn't go out of bounds or it hits the Piland pylons the end zone. Remember, that's correct. That's a touchback. Ball goes back to the other team. You have to possess the ball. In the great game of the NFL. Your Koh's argument. We disagree on that one. I think it's a real that. What about this rule real quick and we'll grab some calls in the NFL. I still think it's a little too punitive pass interference is a little too little bit too harsh on the and the defensive team. Yeah, I think it should be 15 Remember Holding used to be 15 yards to go back 10 or so much holding. Then they just said, Okay, these guys going to hold right, let's not give her access. It's not at the point of attack. They They have minimize certain penalties. Would you be fine with the college rule? Would you be fine with 15 yards in the first down instead of a spot foul? The automatic first down is tough on defensive holding. Yeah, 15. That's true. That's holding. I wouldn't give it the automatic first down. I give it to five yards and you get to do the doubt all over again that the automatic first down this little bit ludicrous. That's that's good point. But they want the offense. I like to pass interference penalty. I like it. Are you okay with love the distance you're going. I disagree. And if Obama did the answer on the balls at the one yard line interference that's awfully rough man. I wouldn't mind if they change that to the college and just said 15 years, didn't it used to be 15 yards back in the old Days? York or was it always A spot foul. It was on the NFL. Was it always spot file in college football? It's that no, no, I know, but I thought the anything I thought Khan was right. I thought like in the sixties, maybe, and I feel like even I feel like even when I was a little kid, am I crazy that it was still only 15 yards in the NFL? We'll double check that somebody knows. Check it. We want to 3323776. Alex isn't wheeling. Hey, Alex. Take arm. I think you're correct on the shootout because every other sport like with the NHL, when there's um a direct shot with NBA and the technical free throws you don't get to play on if someone misses from that. It's an automatic stoppage right after the play is done, and the player takes the shot, So I think that's that's a good point. Because I don't you don't see it everywhere else. But I think what makes this worse, too, is that it's England and their their fan base. Just soft like you're talking about the most urgent team that hasn't won anything since 1966 and they always say it's coming home, but they will win this, so I think they're still overcompensating for losing the Revolutionary War. The royalty members keep coming over to America to the losing them and every single tournament, the euro the World Cup. We hear it's comin home. It's coming home coming home. Nowhere. Yeah, whatever it is, it's awesome. Michael had a funny line going into the game because coming home has it ever been home, Alex? Thanks. That was pretty funny like because you haven't haven't been here. Euro certainly hasn't been here last time. They wouldn't be Germany since it was West Germany, for crying out loud, So that's a reference to a a song that was recorded in 1996. I believe England with a hosting it that year, and they recorded a song about the World Cup trophy coming home. And so now they busted out every single major tournaments and they have failed to actually getting your five. They haven't beaten Germany since Franz Beckenbauer was alright alright, we'll grab a few more calls. And what am I crazy? Should they change? That rule in soccer and other rules that you like to see change 3123323776. We'll be right back. You're listening to climate in your co.
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"And let's like you guys were also very very red state. Aren't you know sh if you will certainly besides chicago well. I always say that you can't get a Is a different and then below. Central art basing centralia is different three quarters of illinois You know because you go down to zero and or giant city and so that's where the glaciers ended and those hills and mount are the. There's a completely different landscape than central illinois and about. I'm not trying to get bonuses. I'm just asking because like thinks does play a lot Especially like legalization. And what i'm saying is that you know that we were completely blue because everybody the population is in. Chicago is a more liberal area. Because it's a city and everything but role areas down here everywhere. He lo- is rural. Count so i mean we have a couple college towns that are blue. But that's how ill annoy. Loves is talk right water. Eleanor is completely blew all around in circles. and then you're going to have blue spots counties where the universities are everything. Read heavy room. Yeah so it'll take a couple of years for your legislation. Defend us bath. I'll tell you this It's it's not the conservative people in illinois. Who don't want we they. I mean i was fucking smoking much as anybody. I know. it's and lobbyists that you know. Are you know messing with that. I don't i don't see there's a you know some trump supporter i don't see. I don't see one trump order same no matter of fact the trump supporter. They love lead so It's red and blue is not so much the issue near as in money and lobbied i love we because it crosses all bounds. There's rich poor doesn't matter what gender your ethnicity it doesn't matter it crosses all boundaries and you can never anybody. I have done high with doctors for festers garbage man. I went to castle for a wedding and went down and got high workers around smoker. Enjoy freedom out of them knows that they were gonna professional cock maker on the jazz. Oh god that's going to be weird. Who makes dildos for livid. Do i wear chaps. Isn't that interesting. How many times have you thought to yourself man. I would love to ask someone who makes those questions hustle moody and i've got some questions when indefinite i me mr show out. It'll be overseeing the day of the skit where it was a chord shaman. The gym was bitching does he. Didn't want to be around that they own parents like this is how you get your money. Do you want you know your choice and then about conquering warehouse. Offerings scott brings reminds me show conquering young farmers for really interesting episode. Dude oh like god. I know woman blacksmith. Who made slack stuff for people seriously. Yeah that's cool is estimate. I'll make chains and stuff that you saw for the fun. It's like actual. Ooh bro that site. it's fun. Oh yes she makes his she. You know it's always special. They're they're asking her to make this image say chain me up in the dundee for three days still.
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"This is like our three point. Accrue like this is the third time that we've had different people like this isn't who i started off. Gas went those two people so callan lips actually started with two different people that i went to high school with and my friend said one day does make a podcast as fucking down. No way no one would listen then the next day on. I just thought about a man. Honesty sounds like fun rally. I can say pretty funny thing. Sometimes i like and giant fucking hits on camera and shit so why not you know. I like me a story about that. Like we've i've met a whole decent amount super cool guiding connections. You know. I've made connections with a pretty popular dude in the industry that we're hoping to get on scene. I don't wanna say anything to jinx it but Hopefully that'll become the yet we just started off and they weren't able to stick with it I ended up. Having we had so carolina's a guest not too long before that happened. And then got susser yet. Is is in his youtube channel. That going on if you've ever wanted to start a podcast being know where to start..
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"I tried to do what then medicine is doing for you. I mean what's what's the heightened for you is this for you I mean again. What i like is i like really energetic. Sativa was focused. That you know helps me with my eighty now. One of my best friends and he gets anywhere near the salinas now than i smoke. He goes straight into panic. Attack is not for him. I mean he does nothing but just knockout indika that kinda levels now but when i take a nap so you know i think that's why i love the lancelot just because it's so diverse in what it does to everybody and it affects everybody so differently that You know whenever as asking what's the best grandma is just like. It's impossible to answer those questions. Unless you know exactly what checklists you're looking for and what you're trying to do and you know when i was i mentioned to when i was when reviews. I look at the lab test United i learned all about interpreting. You the primaries secondaries and everything People say useless and everything but again was not ramirez. It allows me to figure out what combination of curves or more importantly. What i found is minor chirps in when they're grouped up the three or four minored serves. They're always grew up together. Had a one or two percent or whatever it is those are ones that have finding that had. The extreme body wasn't so every time that i would you know what else got this. Go try to find those things to see the hands and so you know this whole year happened. Just need learning what these things do. Outfits affects nina. How you know so. I'd sell other people. It's not like oh this is really good or biz. In just the very high. The turbines are really tasty or anything but yeah it's the best food is like the kind of just like depends on. The person is well obviously to just trying for the first time. That middle of the road thing is a good you know. Doesn't your lower the hatch. I'm guessing everybody on this path by despise nothing like that was something stronger. A little taste. I like the strong's indika possible..
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"When i was getting into this. I didn't know how to start the social media sites. That's my fucking. Hey i i still now. It's mandatory his job in the industry and everything else now Rookie showers. what we're talking about. I do that all the time. Just i about talking about. I don't know. I forgot to your. I'm with you come here curtain. I don't know i forgot august relic all. We were talking about bad cartridges. That's what away one to the conversations. Were everybody always freeze everything because we all just so sto alphabrain to what the fuck. I'm not about to go balls deep on another dab so so got his thirty five percent as you're saying bad cards. Can we take a positive ready to take a hit. I heard of some mobile cards in cars. This is four or five months ago brand iverson. there's not bad coniston. That spencer is there has been. There's moldy products. There's all kinds of stuff that i've been. I did a lot of people who email me and message me. A lot of you know this happened to me in the seventy and you need to do something about it or whatever it is do you think's you're really really dry dry. I can understand. Its corporate cannabis. They're trying to pump announced massive standard. It's not dry and insuring it properly. The mold is a non-starter period. That is just ridiculous. Lesson that needs dealt with a media the that stuff. I can't live where i work record. But it's working in candidate. Industries is definitely. I'll ask you know the weed that goes into. The dispensaries dislike some of his great. But it's kinda like restaurants man like everyone knows that back in the kitchen. There's some pretty nasty stuff going on but you don't care began as good. She is like that. Every way. Iraq might question is because i've never come across moldy weed if i were to go to a disco. How would i know that it's moldy. You're not gonna know so you open it up us existing. I suggest illinois is. I say you know doing a parking lot. But i guess that's actually legal container car yet but when you get home you fill yourself carrying your bag inside. Open your bank on camera. Open your package and look at because if you don't do that it's a lot harder to refund and go back and say hey i don't want this. I want my money because they just. It's really hard to get a refund in illinois dispensaries some dispensary way harder than others But i suggest you do that. Everything on record. I always tell these you know business and cultivators that i talk to the president's if you think that you're getting away with some you're not getting away with these illinois trees. The i'll trees guys. Thanks stop these. People are falling there. They know exactly what you're doing. They know what projects putting out. And they're so the whole cana fan equal. You're not hiding anything from.
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"I got that initial waiver all women's flavored stuff living free about because tree everything. That's i've had spend a parent or the offspring that really really liked had excellent tree. Yeah i just bought banana leaf rolling acres yesterday. The nanna leaf manley ceo grammar palm leaf. Worms have grown in my front yard. I might have gone on my friend yard too. So legit have bananas. Banana trees grow. Bananas on our lead is like we're billion. They took home. It says non. gmo vegan. All organic all natural moist. And i tried rolling one. But i couldn't get it the stigma as well. But i didn't get one when the next summer feeling trying again. Are you gotta suck on that thing. Yeah you gotta kinda slobber on him a little bit like down to look like a backward now. It's getting done on a friday night. Cairo's like an combining dutch backwards. Except you don't get that nasty taste like actually tastes really really good. Would you try one of those. I'm not a fan of mix and anything in my beside we. So i want clean glass bombs on clean last taste. I think papers role everything else. Just wasting all on fearing with when i want. Which is you know i want. Roll up then hold on. Give me one second year. Really gonna like listen. I got this hold other attorney. I grew up poor. So when i was younger. So i don't know. I'm sure when i with my harvest that i'll be rolling up and i don't mind i'm not again i've spent looking okay. Okay first off at a joint. So i've smoked my shares i. I've really got a little wasteful. When i was younger and i was you know shit you wanted innings begin mean. I thought the same thing. When i started smoking esam hash do that is these like i like to join the you know. You're know the new air joint reviews for them You know with the hashing flour. Yeah did okay. So jason your the illinois products into some of those into a whole baiters has definitely appreciate this dude. So meiomi is a grower out. Santa paula which is like thirty forty minutes away from me and he went out to denver convention and he knows that i like to partake a lot..
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"illinois" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"How's it going everyone. Candice kurtz back for another episode of the crew's conversations on we got the full crew. He are gamma co-host so cow. What's going on everybody. He'll be ready to have a great day. Today we aren't Computer man lifts. Excuse me have guys. In today's gas for bringing another midwesterner another illinois man for his part of the illinois news join. We have mr jason brown here with us scan. Have you been an honor for sure. It's nice meeting. Other fellow people in cannabis in the same state because everyone that seemed to meet. So he's out west or down in florida. We don't really get a lot of people that are actually located in the mid west gala has like Bank there anywhere or point. Five billion years ago was the first planets they're made that's how far behind in the west coast with the are full mature market here that we are not even getting close to so i mean we're just the really. The whole community is pretty small incestuous in illinois i would say already Which is not a bad thing you get you to see. Who's trying to get into good things and you know posing a boost muscle sure and solid illinois. Nestor they has bad prices. As much as it is bad taxes you have eighty dollar grabs with like thirty percent tax. let's disgusting. I remember paying ninety bucks for one gram of shatter is like i have my card so i can get a gram of wax. Eleanor tax-free around sixty eighty dollars. What it is. But yeah. I was buying grants and concentrate out in colorado for twenty thirty dollars. Yeah that's that's how it was when two of they're like all right cool or five hundred net like out there you can get solvent lists for forty fifty bucks. And that's not. Just send you to the roots dude. I don't know if the solvent have you had that before hash. Rosin like straight solving. This has even hash like majority of the times. It's made through like show extraction solving. This is literally when they take the droplets.
Exploring the Midwest with Jody Halsted
"illinois" Discussed on Exploring the Midwest with Jody Halsted
"Your home state as well as a few places that people might want to visit when they when they travel when they vacation. Thanks for having us. Thank you laid to be here. So when most people think of illinois their thoughts immediately go to chicago. And it's a great city but there is so much more to the state. So if you could share a misconception that you think people might have about your home state or one that you've heard before. What would it be cindy. Have you heard any misconceptions about illinois. I would say just that. Chicago is the entire state. And there's a lot to do below i eighty. I think that there's a lot of agricultural sites that people can stop a lot of agritourism. That abounds in the state of illinois From being from. I'm sure that you may be adds a misconceptions about the state before you moved. Oh totally so. I came from. I'm from bombay laws in the city. Right and i came into Bloomington illinois so it's complete opposite and it's such a it's for me was such a stock difference and i realized that yes illinois is so much more than chicago. It's these small cities smaller communities smaller towns that has sole fendi and welcoming you. Just you just can't go wrong. So yeah i mean it is definitely not just chicago. And it's not just Either how about you melissa. What misconceptions have you made be heard about the state of illinois. Yeah it seems. I hear often that it's flat in just full of cornfields. Maybe people know chicago shiny. But like you know. Cindy said we have so much more to offer in what they wanted to highlight actually quickly as choose a grasslands because it's in northern illinois but it's inland and when you're talking about flat illinois will they actually have Rocky rock formations made out a seat. Saint peter sandstone there. And i think it's kinda really need that Just kind of like in the middle of northern illinois we have these formations when people kind of think that we're more flat than we probably are. We have a lot of hilly country We have a lot of rock gorges. And things like that. So that's one thing. I want to bring out so as we mentioned about illinois cargo immediately comes to mind and you have quite a bit of information to share about not extra cargo but other cities. Can you tell us a little bit more about. The city's people can experience when they visit illinois. Sure definitely Lumping the comes to mind. Is beverly beverly actually But its own little thing. The south side and it has a lot of irish And as well as it's got some amazing frank. Lloyd wright inspired homes so again you know people think about only the city but if you go down south side Dez beverly and then there's you news chicago campuses well which has some mazing architecture and just concert and of course my my a alma mater illinois state university giving to normal to when i started over twenty years ago it was just the university but now so much has grown around the city Yes we have university. But we also have this community that this off just as different restaurants. It's like a small little town of it's all you kind of all naturally gravitate to what because you want your grocery stores restaurants. Would you just have to kind of flip. Maybe a block away from the indian area and you have the jewish neighborhood. You have a russian neighbourhood and it's it's amazing to just kind of walk down the street and you get this influx of all these cultural nuances that just boggle the mind and you're like intrigue than you wanna find out more and they all have their labors of a food and history and festivals small festival for each culture Really knew a great kind of a taste of all the things you can find within those cities absolutely. I couldn't agree more so now when we're thinking of the city's obviously the polar opposite of that is the countryside and cine you are are at girl who are the one i mean you. You travel through the finding these terrific agricultural gyms and destinations. Can you tell us a little bit about some of the the fun things you've found in illinois when you're when you're talking about that agricultural region and the farms sure everywhere you go there's a lot of agricultural history In in the town of golden illinois is is beautiful on danish windmill. There's everywhere you go find all kinds of agricultural history. A lot of the small museums have tons of agricultural history in them Peru plow works in peru illinois. There's so much history to find in. Like i said these small museums are really truly gems. i just was in Up in the white illinois this past weekend and they have a windmill. the was from the state. there it was part of the john are honest. Eight in it. You could go and just sit outside and see it in full malinois. They have the immigrant museum everywhere. You can see all of these just amazing agricultural sites in they have a lot of antique tractor show was events to during the summer festival. So there's a there's just a ton of activities and and things to see and do looks like cindy might have frozen on cindy smaller. I know. I know that you had said that. You saw something really cool recently in finley. Yes i did. I'm sorry i meant to talk about that yes in feeling illinois. We amazing dote tower fascinating. The goat tower of it was the only one that i know of in the. Us of these goats are mountain goats and they actually have up the side of the tower. And you can go and visit the site. The couple had seen it in another come in south africa at Viewed at a winery and decided that they wanted build a several backyard. And i was able to last year to go and see. This is just amazing to see these goats. I a hero different places up on this tower so that was is quite quite a scene. Unlike anything you would expect in the countryside anneli and with agricultural tourism. I think one of my favorite things in the midwest is a really beautiful barn. I mean there's just something.
Scoops with Danny Mac
"illinois" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"You spent more than a decade in mccomb western illinois. You're very aware the illinois program. Did you always think if i get that chance in in your mind had idea what it might be like to be the head coach there. It hasn't been sort of what you thought. It would be an some question answering i you know. I think it's It's a special place. I i love champaign urbana. i think it's the best college towns in america. I'd i'd you've got a vibrant university with that is a world renowned on the academic side and then you you partner with an elite basketball program in band. I don't know what else you could look for. And so i i'm i'm it. It's been everything that i thought it would be and and continues to be because there are no fans in the building since the buzz. That's out there. Are your friends in the coaching world. Text in you. I don't know if right underwood's at the grocery store gas station but you get the sense. I mean because there's a lot of buzz about your program. How do you actually get that feeling from my daughter's I i'll be honest. I've been off social media since september. So i don't look at that And and And maybe that's a really good thing you know. I don't It keeps me pretty. Pretty tunnel vision keeps you pretty focused on the job at hand You know. I hear certain things for my staff or your certain things from our managers but again it's it's okay. I you know i There'll be plenty of time to catch up on some of that. Stop but right. Now it's it's It's a pretty narrow focus for me. What are your daughters. do they tell you stuff. They've read are they. Just jumping around in august. Both both i and it's It it's it's pretty cool when you hear it from him. They they know more about what's going on. And i i mean they really do know about our team. And what's what's happening all the all the pretty cool clips that come out. United no know put on the bulls game the other night. Somebody told me that i. You know eddie johnson. That's really neat. That's and but again it's it's It's focus is narrow. And and i'm proud as heck that people get to do that. Get to enjoy it because you know. That's what college sports is about. And illinois basketball's elite. Our fans are lead. And i'm happy that everybody's getting a joy that emily think about the ncaa tournament coach. I would think this is a group. That's been tested We started by talking about the road.
Scoops with Danny Mac
"illinois" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"Let's talk a little basketball. What do you say. We talked to the coach of the hottest team in college basketball. That would be the fighting aligned. I of illinois brand under what is our guest on the kilcoyne conversation and boy. What a what. A story going on in champaign not only winning games but running through the gauntlet because cove ed. There were scheduled changes understood. But you'll annoyance a plank. Five of their last six on the road. Granted these are not full hostile. Arenas but you're still going on the road five year last. Six including the final three at wisconsin at michigan at ohio state in the align. I win all three. The hammer michigan. Who was number two in the country at the time and then they beat ohio state on a late bucket by zuma who had been out for a couple of games so perfect time to talk basketball with brad. Underwood what does it mean for the program to be back at this level but also what does it mean to be a number one seed in the nc double a. tournament. Certainly his team has been truly tested at this point on a little bit more about him getting that illinois job remember he was at western illinois as an assistant coach for eleven seasons so he was in the state not that far away just sorta always looked that illinois job that that should be a premier program and it is right now there's no doubt about it and also the story of his weight loss how it started it's It's a little meaning. Actually an insult from his daughter got him going and he started losing weight. And he's you know closing in on fifty pounds weight loss. It's got that terribly mean scowl when he gets mad at his players or the wrath and he. Here's a lot about his players. make fun of it. But i've i've really enjoyed every visit had with brad underwood doesn't just give coachspeak off so you'll enjoy it as much as i did. It's kilcoyne conversation and.