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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 14 Ukraine's Top Tranny Gets Fired. Russell Brand vs. The World. Thinking About Rome?
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, happy Saturday. Thought Crimes, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? We ask that question more than you might believe. We also talk about the differences between men and women, micro versus macro. We cover Russell Brand, Ukraine, and more. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Become a member to listen to our show advertiser free at charliekirk .com and click on the members tab. And as always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. 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 revolution continues, we can still commit thought crimes. For now, joining us tonight is fan favorite, 10 out of 10 rated, Blake Neff. Say hi, Blake. Hello. That's where he goes. Hi, Blake. Andrew. Andrew Colvitt. Yes. Hello, sir. Andrew and Jack Pessobic. I can't wait for the Halloween episode where Blake is like, Okay, let's dive right into it. Jack, true or false? We got a tranny fired. True. 100 % true. Although, if I might add, the tranny has not just been fired. This is in the quote unquote Sarah Ashton Cirillo, actually known as Mike Ashton Cirillo, the spokes tranny for the Ukrainian military. Not just fired, but actually placed under military investigation. So very excited. Not a good thing to be under military. So do we have the tape? We have the tape of her talking about the Russian devils. And then the question is, was there a Russian devil that was taken up by other means, which actually segues to our second topic? We'll see. That is a real thought, crime. But Jack, build this out. You're on some sort of Ukrainian hit list. Ukrainian government wants you dead. So Jack, tell us about it, and then we'll get to it. So yeah, the Ukrainian government, specifically their intelligence service, the SBU, has this roughly to peacemaker, but it's been referred to as a kill list or a hit list where they will place people that they consider to be quote enemies of Ukraine. And now Elon Musk appeared on this list at one point. The pope appeared on this list at one point. Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald are on this list. And while we might think it's funny or silly, there's actually an American hostage right now that's being held by the Ukrainian government, a blogger and YouTuber by the name of Gonzalo Lira, who was living in Ukraine and was posting on his YouTube channel that he disagreed with Zelensky's government. He was then summarily arrested by the special services of Ukraine and has since disappeared. There have also been people that were placed on this list, including an Italian journalist, Andrea Rochelli, and numerous Russian bloggers, as well as one girl who's the daughter of a Russian political figure who were assassinated in Russia using car bombs and other improvised explosive devices after being placed on this list. After their killings, their entries on this dossier list wrote liquidated. So I was placed on this list and I was made aware of that earlier this week, right around the same time that you were really exposing everything, this American, I guess the word is American recruit for Ukrainian forces. Ashton Cirillo was saying in this completely unhinged rant, saying all Russian propagandists will be hunted down wherever you are and your teeth will Nash as we we we show you justice, only he's not the one who was dishing out the justice. It turns out he's actually the one who's facing justice now. And so let's play the tape here. And this is now play cut 22. Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "italians" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Eric Metaxas Show
Actress Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz Is in Studio!
"I have the privilege of sitting here in the studio with Jacqueline Fritchey Cornas or something like that II tried not to mess it up too bad. You're just Jacqueline. I Uh because don't. Uh you your native language. Of course you live in Switzerland is German. It's Swiss German. Swiss. What's the difference between Swiss German and German? Swiss German is like a dialect. I think that you know Germans couldn't understand us if we talk in in our dialect, but we learn it as a first language kindergarten and school. Yeah and then it's French Italian English today. Of course we start with English. Yeah and you know any other language, but it's a great privilege to live in a country where you have all these languages around because it's it's so enriching. Yeah and you're able to travel and to talk to the people and to just be in a contact. Did you know as a girl growing up in Switzerland that you would be an actress that you would want to be an actress. You know I was. On stage with 5 years, the first time in my ballet class, yeah, I was a little rat and we just you know we're dancing on stage. I hope this was the nutcracker. No it was oh good and of course I was you know I was so thrilled to feel the emotion and this first time I felt that I'm like an instrument. I played with my body with my soul and I could transmit something and I could feel that the the audiences would respond. So that was actually the moment, which was so inspiring to me, which always told me even if I'm nervous, you know before a premiere or something just go back to that little girl to that rat and and I could I happy yeah and how did you find your way into method acting. That was a wonderful coincidence. I applied for a workshop of Susan Batson, a very famous coach. You know she works with Nicole Kidman with Juliette Binoche and she once came to Europe before the pandemic and I was in Berlin. I was privileged to be a part of it and then she invited me to come to New York to continue the work to really go deeper into the character of Mother Teresa, which helped me in an enormous enormous way and I'm so thrilled that she will be here tonight in our premiere. Oh she she will be there. I'll get to meet
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "italians" discussed on Mark Levin
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Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Cybersecurity attack on MGM may have begun with a ten-minute phone call: How it happened, Special Mutare Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well -prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30 -year -old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're agile a company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long -form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non -integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So are there things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
The Dan Bongino Show
Internet Reacts to Joe Biden's Incoherent UN Speech
"It's just moron in the White House. I want you to listen to this. Here's the rotting oatmeal God. He's at the UN last week. Not only is the guy purposefully destroying them, but by the way folks, thank you for the Facebook feedback A lot of you respond on Facebook. Someone asked me, is this where we can communicate? Yeah, just go to Facebook and send message and we leave it open for messages. Someone said to me, Dan, this is deliberate. Sir, I know. Do you listen to the show? I'm not trying to be a jerk, but of course it's deliberate. You think the rotting oatmeal God is doing this by accident? His cabinet secretaries are destroying the country on purpose. They they're doing it on purpose to create a welfare state subordinate to gods their in communist China. Here he is at the UN with the whole world watching again, inherently mumbling because he's got SpaghettiOs for brains making up words. The whole world's watching this, by the way. Here, take a listen to this. Now, even as we evolve our institutions and drive creative new partnerships, let me be clear. Certain principles of our international system are different. And is there a way to just, can you play the beginning of that again? What is it? What is the of our institutions? Wait, wait, wait, stop. Okay, well, was he was always get one more time, please go ahead. No, he has the of our institutions. Wait, wait, wait. I'm really I'm not folks in the Facebook. Anybody want to? Does anyone have a suggestion? What? Jimmy or any idea what that Mike standing by? Is that Jim? No, not one last time, please. no, he has the of our institutions. Maria, Maria re follows institution, Maria, Joe Biden, Maria Riavalo, I'm Italian. There's a woman he knows, Maria Rio Valo. Now, listen, maybe an Italian I can write. That's what he did, Jim. It's not.
Discussions of Truth
A highlight from OUTCAST by Gloria Giorno
"Seek and Destroy that has been the theme of discussions of truth now for well I'm in my seventh season here and we started the show on Wynwood radio in Miami 2016 is when I agreed to do the show with them aired the first episode January of 2017 this is Ian Trottier here and today we are going to start talking if you are not familiar with the name Charlotte Iserbit she passed away about a year and a half ago she's a former advisor to the Department of Education under Ronald Reagan her story is very interesting and captivating because she talks about having received a list of these Skull and Bones members via mail that was sent to her father who was a Skull and Bones member at Yale and Anthony Sutton was hot on that trail so two names that you should familiarize yourself with and that is Charlotte Charlotte's work and that is the deliberate dumbing down of America she talks about the invasion of the American education system and that having been formalized under Jimmy Carter back in 1979 Department of Education so she talks about that through her book and then also what I was talking about was Anthony Sutton calling her being hot basically on the trail of dissecting the corruption that is it's really manipulation because Ella Hugh Yale was a major stockholder a main president of the British East Indies trading company that is a Rothschild controlled trading company and the Rothschild funded the American Revolution so I may be off here ladies and gentlemen but if you look at the flag that was flown above the John Paul Jones excuse me the USS Alfred commandeered by John Paul Jones on the Delaware that basically started the American Revolution that flag is basically identical to the British East Indies company flag and then that you trace that and you go back to Cambridge Massachusetts and something called the flag committee which is Continental Congress approved Washington Franklin adopted what became the first flag of the United what became known as the United States and that was the US Grand Union flag which as being designed by Betsy Ross that is the US Grand Union flag which is identical to the British East Indies company flag because that is where the financing came to fund Washington's army and then you ask well wait a second that's English and well yeah this it is English but it's not English because London the city of London is not technically part of England it is its own banking it's sovereign nation a Roman banking colony still in existence these are all facts and you can cross -check them but anyway so seek and destroy corruption that is how I that is that is how I theme my discussions my conversations my talks it's what I do in Trottier with discussions truth today we're gonna talk about the Department of Education rather the state of the education system in the United States so quickly before we bring the guests on we'll be we'll be talking to Gloria Giorno and her son Stevie and getting their view as conservatives what it's been like for Stevie to go through I think it's Belmont University as a conservative so without further ado thanks for tuning in for the podcast on and we're bringing on Gloria and Stevie right now calling Laurie and Stevie this is Ian Trottier for Discussions of Truth Gloria hi nice to meet meet you and welcome to Discussions of Truth I've looked at some of the work that you're you've excellent hi Stevie so thanks for for joining the the the show and please give listeners an introduction to who you are Gloria you can start tell listeners who you are what you what you do and then and then Stevie you can do the same please I try to destroy a young conservative and I also did a nonprofit the name of it is United Women Foundation what we do is mentor employ aid and young conservative women who are in Stevie's situation and we also give out scholarships to conservatives who are not in need of a scholarship but who are conservatives and who are promoting the conservative agenda in their lives thank you Gloria and that's United Women Foundation calm I'll go ahead and put a link to that in the episode Stevie go ahead and introduce yourself for us please well thank you very much for having us on my name is Stevie Giorno and I serve as the chairman of the Tennessee Young Republicans and I am the former student body president at Belmont University where I was attacked by the radical left for being proud of my country and being proud to be an American on the 4th of July in 2020 during the as a mother for protecting your your family and your country I've looked at the website I've looked a little bit about both of you and what's interesting is you have been you've come my way and your stories come my way through a contact there in Florida and your Stevie your story is daughter went through something very similar and in her university classes but Stevie go ahead and tell us a little bit about about what you experienced you were the student body president at Belmont University yet you were attacked for your political views isn't that right picture of myself in front of the White House and I captioned it that I was proud to be an American and I thanked those who had sacrificed and served so that we may have the freedoms and liberties that our forefathers intended for us and within 24 hours my fraternity was blackmailing me threatening to label me a racist and remove me from the fraternity there were hundreds of comments on my Instagram post and there were hundreds of signatures on a change .org petition that sought to remove me as the duly elected student body president even though I was elected unanimously with almost 99 98 % of the vote and so it was really bad that students friends of mine my fraternity brothers wanted to attack me because I was proud to be from this country you know my grandparents escaped from communism in Yugoslavia and my mother lived there for a year so I've heard the first -hand horrors of what happens in a communist country and I fear that our country is headed that way every single day. Now what's interesting is one of the articles that I that I went through briefly was is written by Campus Reform it's published on an online newsletter called Campus Reform and one of the stories that they have today actually talks about glorifying Che you Guevara know this is a this is a socialist figure that that helped with the with the cubist Cuban communist revolution and Fidel Castro you're you're talking about your family having come from communist Yugoslavia are you seeing are you seeing Stevie in in in in your experience on on campus now I don't know what you're doing now maybe you graduated you can bring us up to date with where you at right now but are you seeing some of these same the same signs that that perhaps your mother or your grandparents were talking about that were that were red flags for for communism growing within the country are you seeing that experiencing that I do and I think unfortunately it is getting worse specifically at Belmont University they refused the school is refusing to allow a turning point USA chapter on campus I think it it's it's it's awful it's an infringement on our First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of belief to protest to assemble and so it's really unfortunate what's going on with with colleges and universities I graduated in the spring of 2021 but I have heard of the horror stories happening at private Christian schools so -called Christian schools happening across the country and until students and parents and grandparents begin to see what is happening you know the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it exists and it's there and it's not going to get better until enough conservative students and parents realize that they need to stop funding the indoctrination machines of universities and change course well it's very brave of you to say that glory I want want to get your your view and and and I want to first first say this I opened this show up before I brought you on with talking about somebody named Charlotte Iserbyt and I'm happy to send you her link to her book it's called the deliberate dumbing down of America what she did was she started dissecting what was happening under the Reagan administration with the attack on the indoctrination that we're seeing fruits of today a few decades later but Gloria did you did you ever expect or suspect that something like this might happen to your son I I he gets into college were there any anything anything happening up to that time where he's now the student body president of Belmont University anything before that that you were that you questioned well you know hey they he might he might need to defend himself or was this a complete surprise to you it was a complete surprise there was absolutely nothing the handbook the literature the online documentation about Belmont University everything fit a conservative Christian agenda there was nothing I mean personally I think it's a bait and switch but there was absolutely nothing I was friends with some of the professors who are conservatives at Belmont or who were conservatives at Belmont and we had spoken for two years before Stevie made the decision to go there and no there was not any kind of indication that anything like this would happen now we would never allowed our son to want to go to a school where he would have been threatened for his beliefs I mean he had been working for Republican candidates since he was 17 years old so it was out in the open it's on his LinkedIn it's public so no I mean we we were told on every tour we were told at every meeting that this was a fully free campus there would be no harassment it was Christian it was conservative and I read the handbook and Stevie followed all the guidelines when these things did start to occur he did follow all the guidelines he followed all the rules he turned everything into administration and they did nothing absolutely nothing and Stevie yeah go ahead to this day they have not responded in any way shape or form nothing and this has been three years now so you have not gotten a formal response from the school administration Stevie you're simply in DC taking a photograph outside the White House expressing your gratitude for the country and the values that it stands for did you ever suspect this type of backlash coming from the because he knew that if he spoke out against them that they would send him to a camp where he'd never be heard from again and really that whole year of 2020 was either you agree with everything we're saying you endorse the BLM organization but we're gonna do everything we can to destroy you and in fact because Tennessee is a single -party consent state that means you can record conversations with only one person knowing I did record those conversations with my fraternity which my mom put into her book and in those conversations my fellow friends my fraternity brothers say if you do not apologize for your post if you do not endorse this group we're gonna do whatever it takes to destroy you and your career and your reputation so it's a more mild form of what happens in communist countries but because these students were not held accountable it is only going to get worse and worse and it did I mean there was one instance where a female student who worked at a fast -food restaurant I would go to for my breakfast in the mornings she admitted in the official College Democrat group text that she was putting quote gross stuff in my drinks every single day because I was a an awful conservative who loved this country and one endorsed the BLM organization and the school guess what the school did when I turned her in what did they do they accepted her into Belmont law school you gotta be kidding me I'm serious 100 % she was rewarded for attacking a political opponent and I think that's dangerous as we see what's going on with President Trump he is being attacked because he's leading in the polls and it's truly unfortunate that we're becoming a banana republic yeah did the did she make you sick with whatever she put in the drinks and we couldn't even get the Nashville police who are unfortunately very short staff due to the liberal City Council and the liberal mayor at the time unfortunately they were they were unable to investigate it because I was perfectly fine thankfully but they said since there was no lasting issues that they refused to investigate and then the school accepted this girl into law school with full knowledge of everything she had done struck so it it shows the systemic problem we're having and imagine if this is happening in a conservative Christian private university in Nashville Tennessee one of the most conservative states imagine what's going on in all 49 other states we don't have the ability to record conversations and to take screenshots of texts and emails and and have such transparency I mean it's terrifying to think what's happening in these other colleges yeah very well said Stevie tell us about that book and tell us about how tell us about how it's been received my husband and I we want to speak out on this we want people to know I need parents and grandparents to know what their children and yes very teen but there still are children what they face and what they are up against when they go away to school we need for parents to fight back we need for parents to take a stand if 40 % of students stopped attending their respective universities you know that the agenda at universities with administration would change so we as conservatives we have that title of being silent majority because usually we are silent well Stevie and I wanted to change that hence the book I use I feel that the book is an educational tool for parents learn from what happened to my son learn from the experience that we've had we went to this university many times it's not far from our home we investigated it we knew people who worked there who taught there and never once did we feel that it was going to be a threat to our son and look what happened so whatever you're seeing I dread to think what's going on at public schools I just dread but I want parents to learn learn read the book you'll see everything is documented in there as my son said fortunately we're able to record and we're able to use everything for information but we need for parents to be more active in their students and their children's educations even when they are at college because they are all indoctrination facilities I did live in a communist country I went to first grade in Zagreb which was then Yugoslavia in 1972 and I can tell you that on my way to school my walk to school every morning I had 1 ,000 US dollars in my backpack I knew if civil unrest broke out at the age of six I knew how to get out of Yugoslavia get into a cab that was waiting for me at the end of the hill and that cab driver would take me to the border of Yugoslavia in Italy where one of my aunts would meet me and my parents would come when they were able I also knew the police officer on the corner he wasn't there for me he wasn't there to make sure that I'd be safe or anybody else he was definitely there to protect the communist regime and Josip Tito who was the dictator at the time and the parallels that I saw with what I experienced living in a communist country and what my son endured at Belmont University it's there if it's clear as day and I want to enlighten everyone who wants to hear from me I want all parents to know this is happening in our country now too we are being silenced and shut down the title of the book folks is outcast how the radical left tried to destroy a young conservative and that is Stevie so Stevie was this a the attack on you was this coming from the BLM movement at Belmont University or in Nashville have you identified the nucleus of where this attack came from okay so let me ask you a broader question we saw during the Trump Tifa uprisings mainly Seattle Portland but obviously across the country Chicago New York but that coincided with this this COVID -19 virus outbreak as a as a university student you've now graduated but Stevie were you were you drawing any parallels to either of these things happening during the Trump administration that seemingly linked to a communist revolt within the country does that making sense were you able to draw any connect any dots Stevie we know from history that it usually doesn't work that way and the government's gonna keep taking more and more of our rights and when you couple that with what is happening what did happen in 2020 with with the riots and people getting away with committing crimes to where if you and I or anyone else who was a conservative did burn down a courthouse like they did in Nashville or protest and kill innocent people in the streets we would go to jail however because they were advancing a political movement that the liberal district attorneys in big cities supported they were let go and they were not punished like they should have been like we would have been so the hypocrisy is terrible I think it does parallel communism to where you know if you remember the black shirts Mussolini's black shirts taking control of the Italian government because they were the advancing political agenda and movement that the powers that be wanted them to they were able to harass and intimidate people into supporting them and I fear that our country is going that way and we need people to stand up now if we're ever hoping to take back our country and get it back on the right track and under control Gloria the book is recently published it looks like it was just published last month and you've got us forward by Sam Sorbo how's the reception of the book been so far what are people saying who have you spoke to about it how is it being received lot Gloria a of media outlets that are reaching out to us I'm being asked to speak almost on a daily basis different organizations different groups Stevie and I have traveled to a lot of different states throughout the country and we will continue to be touring and we are I have started a conversation and parents are now extending that conversation with their friends and that is the goal we need to start with one person talking to another and now the growth has been exponential it's incredible the book is selling very well it's available on Amazon and wherever books are sold but from what I have witnessed and the calls I am getting yes it is and I mean if we as conservatives don't speak up we're gonna be done this is it and if America Falls there is nowhere else to go and our children are being indoctrinated I don't care what level of schooling it's that they're being indoctrinated on every single level and if parents do not set a strong foundation in the household when the child is born and continue that throughout a child's life when they go to college always we will not be America any longer so the book is being well received I do have parents who have reached out to me and who have asked me questions likewise I do have some haters but that's how I know I'm making a difference because the hate is there as well yeah absolutely well said it's like when you went once you're censored you know that you're putting up the correct information on the online right Stevie are you concentrating on any particular campuses as you tour the country you point of a Christian organization and unfortunately they they canceled the meeting that was going to happen at Belmont and so been trying to help the students out there at Belmont but really I think the key thing is getting in front of as many young people as possible who are conservative and letting them know that they're not alone that the hardships they're going through have happened before and they're gonna happen again and we've got to stand up tall for what we believe in and we can't be scared of people saying mean things about us or what people put on social media or what they may say to us we've got to stand up for what we believe in if there's any chance of saving our country thank you very much let me ask you this question Gloria as we as we wind down and then I want to give each of you an opportunity to leave listeners with some final words and thoughts but Gloria as somebody who's lived in a communist country and it sounded like you did at least one year schooling their first grade what's happening right now to the border of your country what's happening down there they believe they have freedom and to an extent they do and I equate it to when I speak I speak to a lot of young people because young people are what United Women Foundation is mostly about and so when I speak I they look at me very oddly when I tell my story but what I have found that works very well is I bring up a lion at a zoo and he's in a zoo he's caged his needs are met he has food he has shelter he has water he has medical attention and it's all for free but he is still in that cage but he is able to roam in that cage correct and then we have the next picture a lion picture lion in Wyoming in Montana anywhere in this country roaming freely that lion bends for himself he finds his own food he finds his own shelter he finds his own water he takes care of himself that lion is independent to me that is the difference that is the bottom line that is the difference between communism and America that is the difference between our constitution is that lion that is roaming free throughout this country and that's what we are right now so that is something that I think resonates with young people and I I believe that putting it in a perspective of a picture like that they are beginning to understand a little bit I hope at least I mean I don't know right now what I'm seeing is a lot of people have said we cannot have an opinion because we have not experienced it which truly breaks my heart my family in Croatia thinks that they are free in effect my family basically is a caged lion yeah incredible and and let me review what is happening right now at the southern border in in the U .S.
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A highlight from Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs
"Hello, everybody. The Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming, giving you an incredible viewing experience. Now you can stream all of your favorite live sports, shows, and movies with way less buffering, freezing, and lagging. Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network, you get a reliable connection. So you can sit back, relax, and enjoy your favorite entertainment. Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network. Learn more at Xfinity .com slash 10G. Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and this is Short Stuff. And we are going to talk about something that has been overlooked for far too long, which is the origins of the plus, minus, multiplication, division, and equal symbols. I thought this was really cool, by the way. You put this together with help from FASCO, Caltech, Science ABC, among other places. And I had never thought about this stuff because I'm not a math person, but I love origin stories. And so I thought this is really neat, especially the fact that these symbols came about to begin with because people, before they had these, you wrote out a math problem like this long word problem. But not like, you know, a train's traveling in this direction kind of thing. It's more like I have divided 10 into two parts and multiplying one of these by the other. The result was 21. Then you know that one of the parts is thing and the other is 10 minus thing. Right. That was an excerpt from a 9th century algebra book by the mathematician Muhammad ibn Musay Al -Kharwazmi. I'm pretty sure that's his name. Today, you would take that same formula and write it out as x times 10 minus x equals 21. Yeah. So simple. That's it. And that reveals why these things were so important. It just saves you so much time. So not only did it make writing an algebra book that much more attractive, it made teaching it that much faster. You might not have necessarily learned it any faster, but you definitely could teach these things faster with these notations rather than writing it out. And I also saw, Chuck, that some of those sentences that they would write, some people would put it into verse, metered verse, like poems. That takes a lot of time and it's unnecessary. Yeah. And especially at the time when you're writing with an eagle's feather and an inkwell. Sure. You know what I mean? That really drags too. It's not like you're just dashing this stuff off with a pencil. Nope. So some folks came along and changed all that. According to the VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, hot read, the origin of the equal sign goes like this. A man named Robert Ricord, or Ricordae, was the royal court physician for King Edward VI and Queen Mary, and very influential mathematician in Wales. And he got tired of writing out equals over and over. So he thus proposed the equal sign because it is two little equal lines, and that's parallel equal lines. And I never thought about it, but it's brilliant. Yeah. He said a pair of parallels or twin lines of one length, and then he shows what he's talking about because no two things can be more equal. And there's a lot of extra vowels in those words, but he gets the point across. And he was saying like, this is such a great time saver. I'm so tired of saying is equal to. And he wrote it in a book called The Wet Stone of Wit. And of course, a wet stone is what you sharpen things with. So it sharpens your wit to read this book. I love that title. And it actually became very influential and well -read as far as 16th century math books go. And Robert Ricord is credited with coming up with the minus symbol and introducing it to his people back then. The equal sign, you mean? What did I say? Minus sign. Oh, just wait, Chuck. All right. Well, we're there. Plus and minus are what we use to indicate adding something and subtracting something, as everyone knows. The terms themselves come from Latin, where plus means more and minus means less. And the other thing is the plus symbol itself is also from the Latin word et et, meaning and, like this and that equals that, which is pretty great. So at one point there was a French philosopher named Nicole Oresme from the 14th century who used that plus sign as a shorthand for et, which is what they used to write. And at first it didn't take, right? I think like people weren't universally accepting this. Yeah, it wasn't until like the 16th or 17th century that it started to really kind of take off. I think the 16th century. And apparently there was competition at first too, that it wasn't just the plain old plus sign, that equal cross, that there were other crosses in the running too, including the Maltese cross. It's a great looking cross, but it takes a lot more time to write the Maltese cross out than it does to make a plus symbol. And the whole point of these things was to save time. So everybody said, yeah, Maltese cross, we like you, but we're going to go with the plus sign. That's right. So that's plus. We got equals, we got plus, minus now. In Europe, there was an Italian mathematician named Luca Pacioli. And Luca was using the symbol P with a little line over it for plus, an M with a little line over it for minus. And no one's exactly sure, but it seems to be that the M was just dropped, right? And then the minus sign, because we already had a plus sign, became the minus sign. Yeah. So you don't need the plus sign. Forget you P with the tilde over it. We're going to take the M instead. And it wasn't Robert Ricord who came up with that, but he was the one who introduced it to England.
Level After Next With Katie Barnett
Dr. Victor Manzo's Unconventional Path From Chiropractor to Success Guru
"Right, we have Victor Manzo here. I'm so excited. One, because he's Italian and that awesome. is And two, because I have to tell you the weirdest thing, right? When I saw that you were on my calendar, I was like, I feel like I know this guy. And then I went to your website and I was like, yeah, I totally feel like I know this guy, but I don't think I know you at all. But it was just like this instant. I think this is going to be a good one. So I'm really excited. I have not gotten to watch your entire billionaire success formula intro, but I did get to watch some of it and I'm excited to share that with people. I'm excited to pick your brain. I don't know if you've listened to any of my podcasts, but it might get weird because I just, I want to know all the things, but okay, Victor, give us a little bit of your background and what brought you to this point, because I know you've done a lot of things and you have worked through some different businesses and you've created the success formula that has been proven. So I have a lot of questions about that, but give us the background. Who are you? Yeah, I started out as a chiropractor. Never had intentions on being a chiropractor. It's just one of those things in life. In the profession, we always say chiropractic finds us unless you're like, most of the time you have a story or something that intrigued you. And that's kind of what happened to me. Quick backstory. My mom's a fitness instructor and yoga instructor. She's been doing this now for 38 years. She still does both of those at this time. I think she's almost 67. And it's one of those things where I saw the definition of health from nutrition, exercise. She was juicing, taking smoothies, all this stuff. And I just saw this all my life. And so I thought, okay, that's what health is. So at 16, I started studying nutrition. I started working out at 13 years old. I was just so committed to be like, okay, I want to be as healthy as possible. So I'm going to do all these things. At 19, I went to go to Arizona State for school and I ended up being on the club. I ended up getting on the rugby team, their club team. And so talk about taking fitness to a whole nother level. What was puzzling for me at the time is my health kept declining every month. And there's new things coming up, acne on my back. No matter how much I slept, I didn't have it. I was exhausted. I couldn't think straight, just a bunch of different things. But long story short, in the middle of the summer, when I went back, my mom suggested to go see Dr. Frank, who was a chiropractor used to see. And that's when my life changed. And I was so intrigued by it that I decided to skip, forget going to computers, studying computers. I was going to go into chiropractic and I went to business school, back to Chicago and then so forth. That was my journey. And then I obviously went to chiropractic school, came out. But it's one of those things where I've always was interested in the mind. I've always been interested in the deeper elements of life. I used to be made fun of like, you always want to talk about deep stuff. I'm like, well, what else is there to talk about? That makes me feel good. And there came a point when I was in chiropractic school, I started studying energy medicine, not at the school, but outside of it, energy healing and all these things. I want to understand the depth of healing. I want to understand the depths of life. And that was a preface. I didn't use that stuff when I came out of school. I was practicing chiropractic and doing that stuff. But it was about five years later where the way we've been conditioned to what success is in life and what we think business success is and how a successful chiropractor should be, or just business owners, how they should be successful. I think it's skewed in a way because a lot of people are following the same like, oh, this is what it should be. This is what it should be. Instead of what is it for you? And I started asking myself this question because in five years I hit my financial peak. I did everything the business world was saying, well, not everything, but tons of stuff, self -help, personal development. And I was burned out every four to six months on something that I love to do, which was puzzling. I couldn't understand how I can love and be so passionate about chiropractic. But yet every four to six months, I was exhausted, burned out, didn't have energy at certain points. And so when I made a huge pivot change in my life, I ended up changing the way my office was operated. I started to stop listening to business stuff and start listening and feeling within what I think I should feel like I should do, not think, but feel. And I started to define what success was. I started looking back on my energy stuff that I studied years ago and I was like, okay, I understand universal laws. I understand consciousness. I understand quantum physics. I understand these things and how it works in our lives. I want to study that stuff so I can, now I'm going to start applying it. The heck with everything. I'm going to go all in and just start applying it. My business took a 40 % hit on purpose and I started to apply these principles and a year later, a little over a year later, I was back to where I was financially. I was working 50 % less than what I was doing and I was less stressed and I was just, everything in life was just so much better. And I was like, wow, I'm doing the opposite of what they're telling me to do. And I got the results. So that's what encouraged me to want to start looking at coaching business owners because I felt they needed this. And that was the journey that started. So I started coaching about four years ago and this last year, 2022, is when I went full time into coaching and actually stopped practicing chiropractic for the time being.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jose Hernandez
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob, starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his seed because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome back. In case you didn't know, there's a film. It's called The Hill, and it's starring Dennis Quaid. I don't know what more you need to know. It's starring Dennis Quaid. It's in 1 ,500 screens across the country. That's a lot. We have the director of this film, of The Hill, with us, Jeff Celentano. Did I pronounce it close? Celentano. Celentano. Celentano. Hey, Celentano. You grew up in New Jersey, correct? I did. Okay. So that's why you got a name like Celentano. That's just, it's an Italian name. But you, I want to ask you, this is a film about, you grew up in a small town, in a small rural town in New Jersey. A lot of people don't know that those exist, but they certainly do if you know the state of New Jersey. But this is a film about someone who grew up in a rural town, small town in Texas. And his name is Ricky Hill. That's why the film is called The Hill. And again, it's starring Dennis Quaid as the father of this athlete, Ricky Hill. But I just kind of ask you right out of the gate, Jeff, how did you find your way to directing this story? Because this is a story that I had not heard until I heard about this film. Yeah. Well, none of us heard about the story. Ricky was an obscure guy who never really told many people about his story. Dennis Quaid, when I hired him to play Ricky's father, said, I just read the script. Is this true? Did this kid really do this? This is like a miracle. I said, yeah, he did the impossible. And he said, how come I've never heard of this story? And I said, well, there's so many stories out there nobody's ever heard of. And so that's why we're telling this one. It needs to be on the big screen. So my brother was in a hotel room, sorry, in a hotel lobby. And he was talking to somebody in a meeting. And he overheard Ricky next to him, the real Ricky Hill, talking about his life story and how he couldn't find a director that he liked. He had been through like 40 directors. And he never felt they had the right honesty and heart for the film. And my brother leaned over and said, excuse me, sir, once he was off the phone, this is my brother on the phone. He's your director. Talk to him. And Ricky was like, my brother's very aggressive. And Ricky talked to me. And we just bonded. And he said, you have to read my story. I'm going to send you the script tonight. I read the script. I cried my eyes out through the whole thing. I was so touched that I have said this so many times, but it's the same every time. It got in my heart and has not left even today that I had to tell this story. It was like I was on a mission. I just never gave up. And so that's how it ended up getting made. But it took 17 years to get it funded. I had been funded four times. The money fell through every time. And the last time it fell through was six years ago. Dennis had already been hired. And I thought we were going to lose Dennis. And he called me and said, listen, I love this story. It's the best story I've read in 20 years. I'm on for life. As long as you can find a time span on my schedule, I will do the film. Well, now for people who are, you know, tuning in and saying, what is the story? Tell us what is the story? Because the story is about a little boy, eight years old, who was very poor. His father decided to be a minister and a preacher and travel around the country. And they got kicked out of a couple of churches because his father was very adamant about no smoking in the church and treating the church badly. Ricky would be very poor and go out on a railroad track and hit stones all day. But he wore bag braces because he was crippled from the hip down.
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A highlight from GEN C: Dressing the Digital World With Derek Edwards, Nick Gonzalez and Megan Kaspar
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Welcome, everyone, to the special episode of Gen C. We're about halfway through Fashion Week here in New York City. So we thought for this week, we would feature a special conversation that was had at Consensus this year called Dressing the Digital World, Cutting Edge or Out of Fashion, and features a group of people who are really some of the smartest minds in the idea of digital fashion. It has Derek Edwards from Collab in Currency, one of the sort of big brains who talks about the idea of ownership of digital assets and where we're going with trust -minimized databases and on -chain recording of transactions. We have Megan Casper, who's one of the leading voices in digital fashion, also a founding member of Red Dow. And we also have Nick Gonzalez, the co -founder of UNXD. UNXD and their team help bring large brands into the digital space. Folks like Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino and a bunch of others, really an amazing group of technologists. A couple of notes. This was recorded live at Consensus this year. It is in front of a audience, so you might hear a little bit of room noise from the conversation. In addition, there is a video component that is playing behind them, just some of the assets that they're talking about. Not necessary to enjoy the conversation, but if you want to, we will have the link to the session in the show notes. So if you want to watch it instead of listen to it, all you have to do is register for a Coindesk account and that should give you access to the video. But we just thought, given it's Fashion Week, we are ready to bring you an amazing conversation all about digital fashion. Avery and I will be back next week with some amazing guests and we have a really amazing lineup of guests coming over the next bunch of weeks, which we're excited to share with you. So with that, I hope you enjoy this conversation around digital fashion from Consensus 2023. Welcome. Thank you guys for joining me. So topic today is dressing the digital world, cutting edge or out of fashion. I think we are all probably on the cutting edge side of it, but let's just set the stage. Let's introduce yourself and we'll go from my side over this way. All right, Derek, you go first. No, you're ready. I say who you are, how you fit into this world, and a little bit about what your background is. Who wants to go? Megan's got this. Megan. Hi everyone. Thank you for coming today. I'm Megan Casper. I am one of the founding members along with Derek of RedDow, which is the world's first digital fashion focused Dow. And we invest in and incubate and purchase digital fashion items and platforms to help proliferate the narrative around the digital fashion opportunities. Hey everyone, I'm Nick Gonzalez. I'm a co -founder of UNXD and we're writing the next chapter on luxury in the Web3 space. We are probably most well known for a partnership with Dolce & Gabbana, creating the first couture collection on chain, Collezzione Genesee, of which RedDow was a buyer and participant. And most recently, we're bringing Dolce & Gabbana from kind of the Web3 space into the Web3 gaming space with the launch of Masana .xyz coming up this year, and just announced a partnership with Valentino, one of the hottest Italian fashion brands out there. My name is Derek Edwards. I'm a managing partner at Collab Currency. We're an early stage Web3 investment group. We invest in some of the leading consumer Web3 projects at the seed stage. So some of my favorite products, things like Artblocks and Super Rare and Gallery, and also a co -founding member of Tribute Dow, which is focused on fashion and digital fashion and Web3. And then related to digital fashion, early stage investor and some of the products that are helping build out this industry. So things like IYK and 90CC and Shibuya Brand and Ready Player Me and things like this. So great panel here. Very excited for the combo. Awesome. And so I want to set the stage because you were all involved in that sort of iconic doge crown sale. And that was historic. I think it was over 400 ETH you bought for. And that was 2021, real high peak. And how has things changed since that moment for you? How are things evolved? We're two years from that. Obviously, the sales of that magnitude aren't happening right now. But, you know, do you think we're going to return to that? Where have we gone? And whoever wants to start up on that. Do you want to provide context on what it was? Yeah. So the doge crown is more than just, I guess, a meme. It was an actual physical item that was part of the Collecioni Genesee Drop that was based around Altamota 2021. It's a really fantastic crown. I think if we have a photo of it, that's probably going to come up. Both a physical and digital item. And this was really when we were creating something with Dolce & Gabbana, we really wanted to make something that started at the pinnacle of what fashion was for the brand. So we started with Altamota. So with the couture collection that they did. And this was a really beautiful piece inspired by the city of Venice and the doge palace that's there. And it had this very nice crossover with doge and doge coin. So it was a little bit of a wink and a nod, but was really exciting to collectors of both fashion and the Web3 space. And that's, I think, where we saw when physical and digital were combining. That intersection that's happening technically also happened in the cultural space as well, as we saw so many people in Web3 looking for the next phase of what was happening once you could tokenize items. Yeah. And as a member of Red Dow, we were most excited. This was our inaugural purchase. So we purchased the crown and the auction and also two of the jackets that were just shown. The jackets are purely digital. And this is the first time in history that a high end luxury fashion brand launched any initiatives in Web3. So that was really our moment entering into Web3 from the luxury standpoint. And at Red, we were really excited about that purchase. I know I was going to say like from an investment point of view, sort of like, you know, what was yours? Yeah, so I'll just say like since 2021, which is, I think, the question you teed up, I would say behaviorally, I think I continue to see the same things that I was looking for in 2023 that I was in 2021. I mean, this idea of digital objects having value, I think is something that has been around for decades. So I was an early player in some of these Internet economies, things like World of Warcraft, things like Diablo 2. And there were markets that would form for digital objects, whether they were armor or swords or skins. And these would be priced off market. But these digital objects didn't live on a trust -minimized database like a blockchain. They lived on a server, a private database. And over decades, we've continued to see behaviorally the same things happen. So just listen to this awesome talk right before this. There's Spencer from Yuga who referenced Counter -Strike skins, which continue to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of skins every single quarter. And these are not objects that live on a blockchain. These are objects that live on a private database. But there's still a demand and a growing demand by younger audiences to want to flex, to want to own, to want to curate their identity in these digital spaces. And so things like this drop and things like a lot of the images that you'll see up here is really just sliding into this grand trend line of younger audiences wanting to participate meaningfully inside of these digital economies in ways that help shape and inform their identity. And so I have seen nothing over the last two years than an acceleration towards these behaviors and couldn't be more excited about the things that are being worked on to optimize around this. I think it's a really interesting point you made around the Counter -Strike from the last thing. And we've seen that there's been black markets for skins, but they're not on chain. And this is a way to have these verifiable, legitimate things. And I think that's one of the things that I think is interesting about bringing Web3 to fashion is that ability to have providence. So is that something that drew Dolce & Gabbana to the project? 100%. I think it's a question that comes up with every fashion brand, particularly a luxury brand that we work with. If you're creating an item that is so exclusive and so valuable, if it's a one -of -one in real life, now it can be a one -of -one digitally as well. And that providence is stored on the blockchain. So now, Red Dow and the other buyers of Cholezion and Genesee have that piece forever for as long as Ethereum is operating. I hope it does. I'm not worried about Ethereum. Yeah. And then now that's expanding even further, more and more into the digital space. So I think if 2021 was about couture for us, 2022 was about ready -to -wear, and then now in 2023 is really about expanding into that gaming realm, that digital kind of looking towards what's going on in the digital space and helping enhance those experiences. I think we always say that people spend their money where they spend their time, and people are spending more and more time on gaming than they ever had before. You're looking at a quarter of a trillion dollar industry that has about 50 billion in cosmetics every year. It's going to be relevant, just like emerging markets were relevant to fashion brands as buyers coming out of China, coming out of all around the world. The same thing is going to happen in gaming. People are going to want to enhance their experience of those games. They're going to want to connect to those communities. And fashion is part of that. Great. And what do you say to sort of the skeptics of the people who are sort of saying like, well, that seems like a lot of money to spend on something that I can't physically hold. And we'll come back to the physical part of it. Like there are the connected pieces. No, Megan, go for it. I'll pick up. Megan. Well, you know, if you look at the amount of people in the world that are, we're all netizens basically. There's over 4 billion people using social media. And, you know, I think social media and gaming are going to merge into this social reality. And as we get to device disruption from our smartphones handheld, some near eye wearable, or even a brain computer interface chip, I think that, you know, the dematerialization of physical reality that's happening will be incremental over the next 10 or 15 years. So the generations that say, you know, digital is not as important as the physical, this really doesn't speak to them. This is more for the younger generations. And I feel like as millennials, we're sort of the bridge between, you know, the old paradigm and this new paradigm and the wave of dematerialization. Yeah, brilliant. The only other thing I would add is we're heading on a one way train right now. And it's like the convergence of multiple trend lines. It's the fact that a younger demographic wants to curate their identity in digital spaces more than they want to curate it in physical spaces. And those represent like this generation's next consumers for these objects. The second is the hardware constraints are now being relaxed, such that more immersive experiences around how you shape your identity can be enjoyed by larger groups of people. And as Megan said, we're just spending more of our time in these digital environments than we ever have. I mean, I've been saying this for years, but we've already been in a metaverse light. We are on Zoom calls all day. We're on Twitter. We're on Facebook taking photos of our physical self so we can curate our digital identity. We're already doing behaviorally the things that an immersive metaverse like environment should look like. It's just all built on private databases and it's all being patched together by bad technology. But the truth is blockchains are just a settlement layer for digital ownership. All of the information that we're using on these private databases will one day live on trust minimized databases for the benefits that we all know. There's interoperability, there's composability, there's price discovery. And these trend lines are all converging very quickly. And over time, I think it'll be shocking when folks start realizing a non -trivial amount of the world's GDP is going to run on blockchains and it's going to be digital objects and digital value. Yeah. And that really brings up something Megan, I know you've posed in virtual fashion. Can you speak a little bit about where does that come from and how do you see that growing? Well, it's still very early, but one of our portfolio companies, Dress X, they use 15 different use cases for digital fashion, which is the most out of any digital fashion company that exists. And just to sort of show their capabilities, I was the first human to wear a digital fashion NFT on live television in 2021. And then I was also the first human to be featured on the cover of a magazine wearing high -end luxury fashion. So Fendi let us superimpose digital clothing onto the photos of me. And those are just two ways that someone can use digital fashion, but people are valuing their digital identities more than their physical. And as we begin to value our digital more and more, we'll really care about the way that it looks and how we're able to show our ownership of items. Because today, the outfit that I'm wearing, the designer has no idea where I'm wearing it, who's seeing it, where it's being posted. But all of that post -sale consumer data and analytics can be now collected, put on chain, and then hopefully the wearer can be compensated. So there is definitely a lot of business models and new business model disruption that will come out of all of these use cases. Yeah, I think that really touches on also something I think we touched on when we chatted before, that idea that you start to build a community. And how is that something into all of what you're working on, but that you do get to know, not just someone who walks in the store or hands over a credit card, but you actually start to build a relationship with these customers. I mean, how does that fit in to sort of, you know, Nick? Yeah, I mean, I can take that first. So I mean, I think that this is a new experience, particularly for luxury brands. They know that they missed kind of e -commerce going online. They knew that going into Web 2 was a new experience for them, which was kind of the user could go from purchasing your products online to commenting on what you're posting online. And then now it's a whole new level of interaction that's happening through Web 3. So we have a Discord server that we're managing. That's tying into Twitter. We're doing Twitter spaces. Davide Segeri from Dolce & Gabbana was just today had the first time somebody from Dolce & Gabbana was authorized to speak on behalf of the brand in our Discord space. So it's a new experience. But the power that it's tapping into is the fact that now people are not able to just become consumers of an item and have that relationship end once they leave the store or fear that they're going to be harassed through email spam or something like that. Instead, now they're truly owners of the object that they bought digitally as well. And that creates a new relationship that can be scaled through software. So you can kind of create this digital intimacy, I think, that brands have been so good doing in the real world when you visit a boutique. Now that kind of ownership can be proof of ownership so that now when they're online, I can identify somebody like Megan who's living in the future. It's seriously like you hopped in a time machine and this is what everybody's going to be like in the next five to 10 years. And we can identify all of our holders and then help give them new items or help reward the people who are the biggest collectors or promoters of the brand themselves. And this is all evolving. It's not just going to necessarily be about one thing, but it's going to be about all these things that are leveraged through the power of digital ownership. I'll anchor this to a real world example, which is 90cc. It's the hat I'm wearing right now. And inside of this hat, there's a little nine right here. There's a little NFC chip in here powered by IYK, which is a software resolver layer for NFC chips to interact between the physical and this blockchain -based database. Once you actually have that tie between a digital asset that lives on a blockchain and a physical that can be linked to it, you can start to create very interesting experiences that could be pushed to this end user. There's a proof, there's a provenance that exists now. There's also a marketplace that can form on top of these primitives such that anyone can create a module through IYK to be able to push new experiences with the creator's intent, like a game. And that game could have score, and that score could have a leaderboard. And you can now start to see how brands can communicate with their end users post -purchase in a way that just wasn't previously possible because we now have this provenance that exists on this permanent, immutable, trust -minimized global database that we've never had access to before. And that's a very powerful primitive. 90cc is really just starting to scratch the surface of what they can do there. But there's all sorts of experiences, value -add, communication that can now exist between creator and owner of a physical object in a way that just didn't exist before. And I think that's some of the tie that I think is really exciting here over the next couple of years. The chips, are they washable? Like if you have a new shirt, are you going to ruin it when you throw in the drive? I've never washed this shirt. I'm going to wear it forever. No, they are washable, retains perfect usage. So they're pretty durable. Great. But yeah, I think that that sort of interaction in real life sort of connects these communities. And back in the 2021, again, there were the ape fest. Do you see that as kind of like gatherings by brand, sort of something that's going to return? I think it's sort of faded away a bit, but do you think that's going to rise back up? I think that wallet adoption, that's one of the biggest trends that I'm watching. And I think that it's going to take more people using wallets and being able to interact with the wallet in an easy, streamlined, simple way. Right now you have like rainbow and metamask and a few others, and they're just the barrier to entry is not super streamlined and easy for consumers. And when I think about web three versus web two, we have pretty streamlined consumer capabilities when it comes to buying things online. And I think that web three will just make it much easier. So instead of logging in and typing in all of your address, your credit card payment, I think that it'll just streamline that connect wallet and then immediately take out whatever the payment is. Hopefully your address will be saved on there. And it'll be a one click purchase and streamline. And then everything you own, like the receipts of what you own are now showing in your wallet. And you can share that from a standpoint of digital flexing or just have that for different ways of optimizing ownership and taking leverage against things that you own. So imagine 30 to 40 percent of the average American's closet goes unworn. Most people don't even know what they have. That's why they're continually shopping all the time and buying new things. Well, if you have everything in one place, you can see it and then you actually know the value of your closet and the value of your assets and you can take leverage against them. This gets pretty interesting. I actually love that. My husband actually works for StickFix, which is sort of like, you know, curating things, but they don't know what you have in your closet. And that was something we've talked about in that idea that you could let people sort of help you out curating. Like, do you think that's something that would come in? So, you know, multiple brands working together to say, like, all right, everyone who wants to be in will help you create outfits, will suggest things. Do you think that's something that's possible? I mean, just came to me, but I think that's super interesting. I think A .I. will have a huge play in that. You know, the Web 2 apps like Stylebook that catalog your clothing. I think that we'll have another application and layer of A .I. in there. So, A .I. and blockchain, I think, are huge components of what we're gonna experience with Web 3 consumerism. Yeah, I totally agree. The only other thing I would add there is we're now taking these physical objects that have helped shape identity and we're creating these digital representations of them in a very inexpensive way. When you start putting what has previously been physical into a digital environment that's programmable, that actually demonstrates provenance, that can be read by anyone on a global public ledger, all of these things are gonna mix and match. These ingredients are very powerful. And new types of products and new types of services are gonna get created, many of which that leverage models and LMs to things that we can't even dream up today. But, like, the fact that we're now digitizing the world onto this public database is an unlock that I think people don't quite recognize yet. It's gonna increase the types of products, the types of services, the terms of these markets in ways that just aren't really conceivable right now. I could just actually add one thing to that. Getting back to the point about, I think I've been talking about the connection between the brand and the community, what's also within the community themselves. Now that people can identify who is a holder of a piece of Dolce & Gabbana, the DG family boxes or any of the pieces from Riel de Parallella, they can start connecting with each other. And to the point around A .I., we just had this year with Metaverse Fashion Week, we had a fashion competition where actually people from the communities were designing pieces that could then be featured as part of the Dolce & Gabbana collection there. And one of the members of our community actually used A .I. to help create, you know, he's not a designer per se in the traditional sense, but he has enough of a way around computers and enough taste that he went and used A .I. to actually generate an outfit that was good enough to be selected as one of the finalists as part of that. So it's already here, I guess is the key. It's just not evenly distributed, I guess, as I was saying. No, I think that's really interesting, especially because I think, you know, you think of luxury fashions as highly controlling of their brand image and their IP and that, you know, Web3's ESOS is decentralized. So the idea that we're starting to allow people who are proven sort of brand ambassadors or brand fans participate in the ecosystem is really interesting. Do you think we'll see more of that? Do you think there'll be some kind of, you know, real tension points? Like, I think Dolce & Gabbana is, you know, at the forefront of Valentino coming on board. Nike, you know, coming in, there's a lot of brands who are sort of like welcoming sort of that thing. You know, they had a competition that curating Instagram so they could get people in. But I'm sure there will be brands that are sort of like, you know, we're Chanel. I don't know Chanel if they're into it or not, but and we don't want that. And do you think that is against the Web3 ESOS? Like, how do we decide that deal? I think it's a spectrum. I think it's something that brands will ring fence in the way that they're comfortable with. Sometimes people interject into social media and don't want comments. So they, you know, turn those off on the different platforms, but then they lose out on all these other great interactions. Dolce & Gabbana has been very forward thinking and as a consequence, they reap the rewards of that. So I think it's going to come down to the brand themselves, I think, as you're correctly hinting there between Chanel and others. I just wanted to add, I think it's important for people to recognize the level of success that has happened with UNXD, bringing in Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino. So if you look at luxury fashion specifically and artifacts, we would not put this in the category. But aside from artifacts, UNXD has had the most amount of revenue from a Web3 initiative with a luxury fashion brand. So I think that that's a pretty interesting data point. And I think that we're going to continue to see more and more brands enter the space as the use cases expand beyond just speculative asset investing and beyond just gaming. Yeah. And I'll add one thing, which is I think luxury fashion is a category that will be immense and will be valuable. And these are pioneers of what's happening in that space right now. But I will also say that fashion isn't just luxury. Right. And I wouldn't call myself a luxurious person. I'm wearing chucks right now. But this was all a curated choice when I woke up this morning to wear this CyberRucker shirt and these jeans and these shoes. And that choice is a choice of fashion. In the same way that me using a CryptoPunk on my profile photo with a MeVit behind it and a ChromieSquiggle flying behind me is a choice to curate and present my digital self. And there's going to be lots of those choices and lots of brands are going to start interacting with Web3 in a way that is what I believe to be fashion, even if it doesn't fit into the category of luxury fashion. And so I think this technology is very democratic. It's very open. It's very permissionless. But I think the thing that I want to convey is just a slight reframing is, you know, we all woke up this morning and made decisions to curate our identities and ourselves. And this technology will allow us to do that, curate ourselves in a digital way to a global audience. And those decisions, by their very nature, are fashion decisions and identity decisions. And this is a technology that will expand to all brands. I love that. And I think that's very true. And it sort of speaks to the democratization, but you know, it does allow people to sort of curate it on a much broader spectrum than just, you know, high end luxury fashion. I know that is the title here, but I do think fashion is broader than that one aspect. And do you think, and we talked a little bit about this, that there is sort of the ability, I know that, you know, I told you about ready to wear, but they're not quite like, you know, consumer mass market. But do you think that this in the future would open up more opportunities for aspirational people? Like we talked before, I copied a Dolce & Gabbana gown for my prom dress because I couldn't afford the real one. I had the dressmaker make it. But, you know, I would have loved to have been able to buy in now's today's world, you know, a digital version of the real dress to actually present, even if I can't afford the physical dress. And sort of where do you think we are going to fall on that sort of spectrum? I mean, we're seeing not just luxury, but as Derek alluded to, fashion is more than just that. And Web3, digital fashion specifically, more natively is very fantastical, gamified, augmented. And, you know, you could have things flying around you or wings in aspects that the physical really restricts you and restrains you from experiencing. So it's more of an experiential product that is being created. And we're seeing a lot of brands, not just 9DCC, but Psyche, actually, Alistair Hunt is building out a whole platform for digital fashion natives to be able to expand just digitally and not so much connected to the physical. So there's, I think, a huge opportunity for digital fashion native designers. Steffi Fong is another one who's really great. So, again, as we expand and explore more of our digital identities, we'll see more and more people filling their digital closets with digital fashion. What are you most excited about? What are the things we'll think we'll see in the next year, two years that you think we really need to keep an eye on? I think this intersection between physical and digital I think is incredibly powerful. And I think the primitives have now been kind of built and the standards are getting created for some really interesting stuff, some very meaty stuff as it relates to the physical and the digital to get created. I think projects to keep an eye on are for sure 9DCC, what G -Money is doing, IYK, Tribute -Brand .com is coming out with a very compelling drop at that intersection over in the next couple of weeks. So make sure to follow along there. And then just follow anything these two are doing. They're the gurus. I think the thing I'm most excited about is the next evolution of what we're doing with Dolce & Gabbana right now. And, of course, Valentino coming up towards the end of the year. That's Masana .xyz. And that's really a movement from what we're doing with Couture to Ready to Wear and then now into the web through gaming and adding a digital identity to each of the holders in our community. And that's something I think I'm really excited by. It's a cultural movement, not just a technological one. And it's where we're going to help bring more storytelling, I think, to Dolce & Gabbana and more interactivity in the digital space than people have ever seen before. Well, for me, as an investor in the blockchain space for over the last 10 years, it's most exciting to see wallets and wallets that have easy UI and UX come to bring more people in. And I think that the use case of digital fashion will help proliferate the adoption of Web3 and blockchain. I'll add one last thing. I swear I promised the last thing, which is I think a big, big tailwind over the next 12, 18 months is gaming and really great Web3 games getting created. And some of the identity things that I discussed previously being a core part of what makes Web3 ownership and Web3 assets powerful and a very powerful value prop. And I think we're at the point now where some of these digital fashion, the bridge to understanding this stuff is going to come through some of these immersive experiences that look like games and Web3 games. Yeah, I completely agree. Well, thank you all so much for joining me. Thank you.
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"Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you. The Discernment of Spirits. Could you tell us just a little bit about its formation? Well, it really began when I was ordained as an Oblate of the Virgin Mary and my religious community is dedicated above all to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises to making this retreat experience available to people in all different kinds of settings. Formal retreats in a retreat house of a few days or many days or as an experience in parishes for larger groups, weekend retreats, retreat settings, and so on. And I quickly realized that I really couldn't do this responsibly. Lead Ignatian retreats, retreats based on the teaching of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Unless I knew more about this particular piece of his teaching, the Discernment of Spirits, and specifically his, what he calls his rules or guidelines for Discernment of Spirits, which really has to do, that title, the Sermon of Spirits, generally is kind of appealing to people, but at the same time they're not quite sure exactly what it means. And very simply what it deals with is the ups and downs in the spiritual life. We all know how at times we feel a desire to pray and when we do pray God feels close and our hearts are warm and there's energy and we get up from the prayer with a renewed sense of God's closeness. And we have, the scriptures are alive, we willingly go to church, we creativity have in the Lord, we want to take new steps, and then other times, for reasons that escape us often, we're not quite sure why, the bottom seems to drop out of that energy. And it's hard if we're honest, it's hard to even want to pray. We may get ourselves to pray, but it's a very different experience now and we don't feel God's closeness and God's warmth. And the new steps that we've been taking in the spiritual life now don't seem quite so inviting. It's hard to get myself down to church for the Bible study or the the activity. And to reach out in a love based on Christ in a new way, let's say in my marriage or toward my children or in my workplace. These ups and downs are going on all the time in the spiritual life. And Saint Ignatius of Loyola, certainly not the only one who spoke about this in our Catholic spiritual tradition, but clearly is the one who spoke about this with the greatest clarity, practicality, and usability. And this teaching is formulated in 14, I'm about to say, simple guidelines. They're not simplistic, they're very deep. They touch very profound things in the spiritual life. But the simple does fit in the sense that they're very clear. They're very usable. I've been teaching this around the country now for probably about 20 years to groups of all different kinds of backgrounds, to lay people in parishes, to priests and seminarians and religious people with very developed educational backgrounds and professional people and people who may have only high school backgrounds and all the rest. I have never yet found one person when we have gone through this teaching who has said to me, I don't know what you're talking about. Everyone does. Everyone that is who has at all in some personal way tried to love the Lord Jesus, sincerely tried to live his teaching, tried to pray. This teaching will be simple, clear and usable in a way that transforms really. When I began giving these retreats, shortly after ordination, people began asking for them. And quickly, as I say, I realized that I really couldn't do these retreats responsibly without knowing a lot more than I then knew about these 14 guidelines or Ignatius' teaching on discernment. I was teaching in a seminary at the time and a point came when I had a month free and I can still see it. I went to the upper floor of our residence so I wouldn't be disturbed, brought my books up there, commentary on these rules and began pretty seriously studying them, pacing up and text. And after that, began somewhat hesitantly to give very simple half -hour teachings on these rules in retreat settings. And it was the response that began everything that led to the book eventually, maybe about 25 years later. It was electric. I'll never forget one particular retreat. The first time I did this, it was a retreat over a number of days and each day I would give a simple half -hour presentation and we went through the 14 rules. The retreatants knew and I knew that in the transmitting of that teaching and in the receiving of it, something electric had happened. And out of that retreat came a good many more requests for that teaching and it got so I was doing that teaching repeatedly in the course of a year in retreat settings. Then people were asking for it as a separate teaching just in a parish or in a seminar setting in a retreat center or wherever. And then finally people began saying you should write this up as a book. And when my religious superior said it once and then said it a second time and then said it a third time, sort of in casual conversation, finally dawned on me that maybe the Lord was saying something to me. You think so? And so I asked to speak with him and we sat down and I said, do you really mean it? He said yes. We looked at a calendar, set aside time and that's how the book came to be written. Just to help us who may not appreciate the vocabulary, because it is foreign, the actual going deeply into a spirituality based on the great teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, that a term like discernment, it's not just simple decision -making is it? No, in these 14 rules what we're really talking about is spiritual experience, the ups and downs, the things that are going on in our hearts and in our minds, the way we're thinking, the stirrings of our hearts, this kind of interior stuff, if I could say that reverently, of spiritual experience that's going on every day, most of which we don't even notice, although it affects us very much. But we'd be hard put, for example, I wonder how many of us could remember what was stirring in our hearts and thoughts this morning when we rose to say nothing of yesterday or a week ago? How much of that did we notice? How much of that, if we use Ignatius' word, could we discern? So eventually it will lead to decision -making, but it begins as an awareness of interior spiritual experience in our hearts, the stirrings, the feelings, the movements of our hearts, what we call affective experience and also the thoughts, what runs through our minds. This is the more conceptual side of things, thoughts and stirrings of the heart. What is of God in that? What is not of God in that? If I feel great energy toward this particular activity and feel a certain resistance to that other, if I really would want to do this spiritually speaking and don't really want to do that, how can I know what within that interior experience, which is changing and shifting all the time, ups and downs, how can I know what is of God and should be accepted? What is not of God or Ignatius would say is of the enemy, the tempter, the one the scripture calls the liar, and therefore is a lie, is not true, is not leading me where God wants me to go and therefore should be rejected. A teaching which allows us to understand, to notice and understand this experience and then know what should be accepted and followed and rejected, that's the teaching which we call the Sermon of Spirits. That's what Ignatius is doing in these 14 guidelines or 14 rules. It is so much more than an intellectual exercise, isn't it? I mean when you talk about listening to our hearts, again that is something that, isn't it, they're a trend to try to separate the head and the heart, that somehow the emotions that we're feeling shouldn't be integrated into the thought process that we have? I mean this combination is really quite foreign, isn't it? There's only one human being and there are different faculties, different capabilities, different aspects of our humanity, but there's only one human being and what we'll find when we grow in the ability is, please God, as we go through these rules, this will become clear how we do this. What we'll find is that when our hearts are feeling certain things, we tend to think in certain ways. When my heart is happy and alive and feels God's closeness, the thoughts are probably going to be thoughts of new initiatives that I could take spiritually speaking, new understanding of what I'm doing, thoughts that open up new ways and point out a kind of chart or pathway toward growth. When my heart is feeling heavy, doesn't feel God's closeness, is feeling a kind of, well, it can get to a kind of hopelessness at times or a sadness or just a lack of any kind of energy in the spiritual life. The thoughts now are going to be probably the contrary. Why am I doing this? Do I even want to do this? Does it make sense to pray this way? Why should I continue this? Maybe I should let that go. I was thinking of taking this new initiative in the parish or in living Christ's love in the family. All of these kinds of thoughts. So what's important is, and that's why it's important to be aware of the movements of the heart and their related thoughts because they're going to go together. We'll see Ignatius say this very clearly in the rules. So these are different aspects of our humanity but they work very much, very much in tandem if I can use and say that word. You use the term rule, a rule. Help us to understand that in relation to the exercises. If we look at, let's say the writings of Saint Francis de Sales, for example, something like the introduction to the devout life. Now depending on how it's published, let's say, what will it be? 300 pages. It's an organized, developed treatise on the spiritual life which goes kind of systematically through various things. Or Saint John of the Cross with his systematic treatises on the life of prayer and many other saints like that. Saint Ignatius is writing spiritual exercises. He's not giving a theology or a theory to help us understand a set of truths, although obviously there are theological truths which underlie what he's doing. These are, this is a very practical book. It's the spiritual equivalent of a manual of physical exercises. They're things to be done that are outlined and that is what is behind this word rule. What that means is these are short, concrete, practical guidelines which in a few words give a very rich understanding of this kind of up and down spiritual experience and related thoughts and then give us a set of tools for actually responding in real life to these experiences. When you are feeling the warmth of God's closeness, this is what you do. When you are feeling the heaviness, God seems far away and there's no energy in the spiritual life, these are things you should do and things you shouldn't do in that time. So that it's in that sense that Ignatius calls these rules. They're very practical guidelines for life. Those of us who are out here listening to the teachings of this, assuming that we're total neophytes, we're beginners in this quest, we just want to get started. What's the first thing we should do? What's the first disposition or position we should take in this exercise? Well I think for most of us and I'll certainly speak of myself because until someone taught me Ignatius text and helped me to understand it, I wouldn't have known where to begin. If someone were to say to me, well you need to be aware of and notice your interior spiritual experience, my response would be help me to do that because I wouldn't know what I was looking for. The first need that we have is to be instructed. So that's where I would say that's where we begin. That's what led to the writing of the book. That's what now about 20 years of traveling around the country teaching this has been about. Once we begin to get our feet wet in this, we begin to get an understanding of this spiritual experience, then everything can begin. Then we can begin to notice it in daily living. We can begin to name what it is. This is of God, this is not of God and then we respond with spiritual wisdom to that, accepting what is of God, rejecting what is of the enemy, as Ignatius will say. So I'd say the place to begin is to learn. What a wonderful thing that in our Catholic spiritual tradition we have masters like this with a proven teaching, proven not only by the sanctity of the author, in this case Saint Ignatius, in other cases Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint John of the Cross and the rest, but proven also because in Ignatius case this teaching has been used for 500 years now and has blessed countless generations of Christians before us. It is approved by the Magisterium of the Church, so we have a very solid source to which to turn in order to learn, but that's the first step. It's just formation in the spiritual life. When I think of physical exercise, sometimes we're about to begin the process of physical exercise. We jump in and we try to do too much or we try to go too far in the beginning and then we get discouraged and we drop away. What would your advice be to that person who's beginning to enter into these exercises? Wonderful point, it's a wonderful point. I think the parallel holds absolutely with the spiritual life. Start slowly, go through a gradual process of learning more and more about this and then everything else will follow and ideally with some kind of guidance. I would hope that something like the book that I've written could provide a kind of guidance even at home or for friends who want to go through this together. If there is in one's area someone who is knowledgeable in this and could actually lead the teaching, that would be a wonderful thing, whether a priest in a parish or someone in a retreat house or just somebody who has a background in this kind of teaching and with the help of maybe a book like that I've written or other instruments would be able to guide us. So I would say take it slowly, grow gradually in it, begin to apply what is clear, don't overreach in doing this. If something is not clear in the teaching, if I don't understand the experience, I can very simply acknowledge that and accept that. We in walk the proportion to the clarity that we have without overreaching that and then we just trust that as we continue to grow in this with the various helps that we've mentioned, we'll increasingly find our way. If a person could ever make an Ignatian retreat, obviously that would be almost the best way to learn this. It is such a fundamental building block of the spiritual life now in the life of the church today for that body of Christ, that it is not something that is limited to say a particular order within the church and I'm thinking of course it is not just the Jesuit exercise, it is available for everyone, it's a gift to everyone. For example, even your order, but your particular order, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, it is, this is an essential part of your careism. Yes, I suppose I'm a kind of living witness to the fact that you don't have to be a Jesuit to benefit from this kind of teaching. Our founder, who is the Venerable Bruno Lanteri, an Italian priest who died in 1830, fell in love with the Ignatian spiritual exercises. His spiritual director was a real man of God, a Jesuit who was a man of wisdom and holiness whom he met as a seminarian. And through this Jesuit, Father Diesbach, a Swiss Jesuit, he came to know the Ignatian spiritual exercises and Ignatian spirituality and fell in love with it and became convinced that there is, this was the gift God gave him as a founder, that there is no instrument equal to the Ignatian to spiritual means lead people to the dispositions which create a saint. It has to be lived out, but to take a person from where he or she is in the spiritual life to the point where this person now really longs for holiness and then wants to become active in the service of Christ in the person's vocation, marriage or priesthood, religious life, single life. There's nothing like the exercises of Saint Ignatius to do this. And at the same time it was evident to him that although the Jesuits have this, these spiritual exercises, they are so involved in other work, especially education, which is obviously of great importance for the church too, that in practice the spiritual exercises are not at all as available as the church needs. I think we could, a very simple test of that is if any of us listening now were to feel moved to make the Ignatian spiritual exercises, probably we wouldn't know exactly where to turn. Who can guide these? Where does one go? And so he said the church needs a group of men, religious priests and brothers who will be trained in these spiritual exercises and will not do other things so that they can make them available to the church. And he said even if you add this to all the Jesuits in the world will still never meet the need in the church. And I'll say from my own experience that I think he's absolutely right. I just constantly witnessed the power of the exercises and the fact that as soon as people know that they're available and that they can be given well, you cannot possibly meet the demand. People want them. Their heart cries out for it I think. Oh when people learn this teaching they can't get enough of it. I always remember one time I was doing this teaching for a group at a retreat house and toward the end of the teaching one woman who was on the retreat told me that she'd been looking out her window on the retreat grounds one day and she'd seen the head grounds person over toward a kind of tool shed go in and come out with several tools that he needed for the work that he was doing and she said that's what Ignatius has done for me in the spiritual life. He's given me the tools that I need to live my daily experience in the spiritual life. Now I'll say too that I think the reason why this teaching is so powerful is because it is about the ordinary spiritual experience of every Christian of everyone who loves the Lord Jesus. You have people like Saint John of the Cross who write about advanced higher states of mystical prayer which is beautiful. Most of us probably when we read that teaching or hear of it say that is beautiful but it's different than my experience. I'm not there but as I've said I have never met anyone yet who has learned Ignatius teaching and said anything other than this is it this is what happens this is my daily experience this gives me the tools that I need to live at home in the parish in the workplace in my family in my case in my religious life and priesthood in my ordinary daily experience now I know what's going on now I know how to understand it I know how to respond to it. Oh that in itself is a great gift and as you said it's one for not everyone just Catholics.
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Available Worldwide
A highlight from Jessica Hayden | Writer, Lawyer, DiploMomma
"Welcome to Available Worldwide, the podcast by, for, and about the accompanying partners of the U .S. Foreign Service. Welcome to Available Worldwide. I'm Stephanie Anderson here today with Jessica Hayden. Welcome Jessica. Thank you so much. So your byline is writer, lawyer, and diploma. I'm sure we're going to be talking about all three of those titles today. Let's get started with a few quick fire questions just to get to know you. So Jessica, what are some of your hobbies? What do you do for fun? I love to run. I have a group of friends from when we lived in Turkey that we still get together every few years to do races together. So running is a big pastime for me. I like to read. I try to like to cook. I'm not always great at it, but I enjoy it. And I used to knit a ton and my daughter's taken it up, so I'm trying to, trying to start knitting again. I love that you said you try to like to cook. Well, it's one of those things, especially when you're living overseas, there's certain things that you just can't get as easily, right? Like tortillas. So I've taught myself to make tortillas or things that the kids really like. So we try. Speaking of tortillas, what's your favorite comfort food? It's definitely anything Italian. So I grew up in a town that was half Polish, half Italian. And so our school meals would be a lot of pasta, a lot of pierogies. So my favorites are baked seedy and lasagna and the stuff that puts on five pounds in the winter. I mean, it's kind of the definition of comfort food. Absolutely. Not a salad. So I know you guys just moved to The Hague. You're currently sitting in an empty house with your welcome kit and not much else. The Drexel. And the Drexel. I can see all the Drexel behind you. When you move, is there anything impractical that you carry around the world with you? We right now own a 200 -pound Turkish door from the west coast of Turkey. It's beautiful. It is so heavy and adds so much weight. And this time I brought it. I didn't want to put it in storage again, so it is completely impractical. It's a huge piece of art. It's very hard to hang on the wall, but we brought it because I love it. I can picture it. I'm sure it's gorgeous. But 200 pounds. Wow. Yeah. That's a commitment. It's ridiculous. So you've mentioned Turkey. So what other countries have you lived in? So we actually have progressively moved west. So our first tour was in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and in between each tour we went back to the U .S. But we've been in Kazakhstan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Ankara, Turkey, our fifth year there my husband did an unaccompanied assignment in Iraq. And then we were in Ukraine and now we're in the Netherlands. So let's get into talking about sort of the progression of your life as a Foreign Service accompanying partner. I know you started in this lifestyle pretty early on in your marriage. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Sure. I met my husband actually playing kickball in D .C. and he was already in training for the Foreign Service. So we knew pretty early on we'd have a big decision to make whether we were going to I remember can't exactly when he found out he was going to Kazakhstan, but it seemed pretty obvious that that was too far to date. And so after about a year of dating, we got engaged. And so I finished my first year of law school and then we moved to Kazakhstan six weeks later after we got married. We got married right after my first year of law school. So yeah, we've been doing this. It's been part of our relationship and marriage since the beginning. Can you remember back? Was that a really difficult decision for you to make between finishing law school in the U .S. and moving to Kazakhstan? It's interesting because I always felt like I could make everything work and it might not work in the way that you typically do things. So when I started law school, I remember going into the administration really early and explaining the situation. And I said, well, you have five years to finish, so you don't have to do it in three years. You can do it in five. So we went into it knowing we'd be in Kazakhstan for two years and that we would have to come back to the States next time. So I could finish law school. So early on, we kind of hopscotched. It was his career for a couple of years and then my career for a couple of years. At some point, that became very complicated. But it did work pretty well as a baseline understanding between the two of us. You did manage to finish law school within the five years. And that resonates with me, the idea that you looked at and you're like, I can make this work. Like, there's always a way to make it work. And then you were able to actually work in law when you were abroad? I was, yeah. It was really important to me. So I attended Georgetown. So my husband was able to still work in D .C. and I was local. And I really wanted to do a clerkship, which is where you work for a judge for a year. And so we made it work that we could stay in the States for those three years. And so I started out clerking for a judge. We're actually based in the West for a year, which was pretty neat and not very typical. I And then was able to get a fellowship when we moved to Azerbaijan next. So I did a freedom of speech fellowship with the American Bar Association. So it probably wasn't the typical path I would have taken, but it opened up a really interesting experience. I got to work in an NGO and then we came back to the States after that so I could practice at a law firm for a few years. So again, it was this kind of, you know, you get two years in Baku and you're kind of the lead and then we'll go back to D .C. where I can, you know, it might not have been his dream position back in D .C., but I got to do something that I thought was important for my career. I know a lot more people are teleworking these days. Do you think you could have done it teleworking or for your career was it important to have that time back in the U .S. to get more established? It was pretty important to come back to D .C. at that point. And I do know it is so different after COVID. I do know a lot of lawyers started after law school during COVID and did it remotely. I was doing a lot of litigation, which is very jurisdiction specific. So it was it I think it was instrumental to be here and then also to make the connections within that law firm, which were really helpful when we went back out again, because I had this pipe dream that I would be able I was working for a client and I talked my way into doing a bribery case. And I had this thought that kind of ironic, you talked your way into doing a bribery case. I talked my way in without bribing, no bribery at all. But, you know, litigation is very U .S. specific. I had this thought that if I could get involved in anti -corruption work, that's something that in the past 10 years has exploded in corporate America. Every corporation has a compliance department. They do a lot with anti -bribery, with sanctions. They're desperate for U .S. trade lawyers who are willing to travel to all of these different places. And so it's one of the things I kind of thought, well, this might be a path and it ended up working out. So I was very lucky to have a mentor whose daughter had married a Foreign Service officer and she was a lawyer as well. And they had been actually posted in Istanbul and she had a really hard time finding work there. And so I felt like he very much facilitated for me what he wished somebody had done for his daughter. And he was very helpful in talking to the client and kind of going to bat for me to say, you know, she can work, she can do this work from Truckee when you move. And so it wasn't, you know, in a different world, I probably would have loved to have stayed at the law firm for a few more years, but it really was at the time a great next step and allowed me to continue practicing through that next move. That's amazing having someone advocate for you and just to understand where you're coming from and the challenges.
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Special Encore The Canonization of St. Teresa of Calcutta Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What was this glorious pilgrimage like? I would say what brought us there, there were 16 of us who left to go there, and the ones who you would meet along the way, that each of them were loved by Mother Teresa. That's the way I would describe, each one of them had a personal experience of the enduring love that touched them. I certainly had to be there. It was like something that, as a pilgrim, I felt called to be at this celebration. And I felt God wanted me to be there, therefore he would provide. And he provided for me to get there to the vehicle of these 16 people that I went with. And it was just a very caring young priest who, Father Mike was our leader of the group, and I was kind of the senior citizen, I was the oldest member of the group. The streets of Rome, as you know, are really architectural hazards. Someone who doesn't see, I could easily fall anyplace and break a hip or whatever, but I was really cared for. And there was a young girl, a woman that I met, and she was in a wheelchair, and she kind of summed it up for me when she said, Mother Teresa touched me when I was 16. And she said she just came in the crowd and touched me, and she touched me on my head. And it was like an unforgettable touch from this woman who was such an instrument, just reminded me of Jesus going through the world, and everyone that he touched remembered that touch. And so it was with me. I experienced the love and being loved by her so that she was this instrument of love in the world. There were millions and millions who saw that by television or heard it by radio in so many parts of the world. So really, wouldn't you say that maybe a billion people were touched through this instrument of God's love, because she followed what God asked her to do, and in some way experienced being loved by God as the poorest of the poor, because that's what she considered herself, that he loved her and touched her with that love. And then she began to touch one by one by one. That was her way of looking at it. We arrived together as a group on September the 1st, and we went by van to Newark, New Jersey, where we all got on a plane, and we got to know each other's names, because not everybody, there were married people, there were priests, there were single people who were on that, just getting to know each other. And then we all had different parts on the plane going over, arrived and gathered together in a group, and there was a van to meet us, to take us to our hotel. We still stayed in a little hotel called Hotel De Petrus, which was about a 20 -minute subway ride from the Vatican. That evening, I went by subway to St. John Lateran, where I heard confessions, and it was so beautiful. I heard, because of my languages, I heard confessions in English, Spanish, Italian. And who comes along but walking right in front of me is Marty McDermott that I had met in Beirut. And he and I just kind of hooked together. He was there. And again, the love, it was there in Beirut that I met the sisters, it was there that I met Mother Teresa, so we just kind of laughed as two old men. He was an aging Jesuit that they kind of wanted to get out of Beirut to bring him home to their northeastern province in New York, but he stayed there, he remained there. I think he's from Hartford, Connecticut. And we just chatted while all of the sisters that we had known through the years come pouring out at the end of the celebration there, and I just saw Sister Joy and all the sisters that I had known through the years, Missionaries of Charity. And then we hopped on a subway and came home, and I got home maybe around midnight. That was our first day. And so it was a beautiful time. On the third day, we were there September the 3rd, and more confessions, and St. Mary Major was again a beautiful church, and confessions. And then the fourth day was a canonization. And Mother has always just loved Our Lady. On the cover of the celebrated Mass was Our Blessed Mother. And if you notice her hand always pointing, Mary is such a direct link to Jesus. Her whole life pointing, you say Mary, she says Jesus. And Mother then is on September the 5th. She was beatified by John Paul II, 2002. And I was there, and when her picture went up as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and John Paul, that's the day I consecrated myself to Our Lady. All her life Mother Teresa had said, you should consecrate yourself to Mary. Oh, Mother, I have the Sacred Heart. That's where she was pointing. She wanted me to be with the Sacred Heart. No, but the best way to do it is through her. Oh, no, thank you very much. But the Pope, he told us to us, no, no. So I resisted. But when I saw those two up there, the aging, elder John Paul II, such a powerful, powerful instrument of God. And this little less than five foot woman, such a powerful instrument. I thought, what do you need to follow that? So that's the day I consecrated myself to Mary. And here she is. They really captured her look. And it was on the second missalette that we had on the following day on September the 5th, which is her feast day. So on the 4th, we had the canonization mass. The incident that was most, I sat with a couple of sisters on the way home in the airport. And one of them said it was such a powerful experience, but I have to say I couldn't get by the heat. I just couldn't get by the heat. It was 98 degrees. It was hot and a beating, beating heat down on the whole place. All I could recall during the mass with that intense heat was the time when I was at the chapter meeting in Calcutta, where it was 100 degrees heat and 100 percent humidity. And it was so stifling. And Mother would not allow a fan. They were begging her, let us get a fan. No, we have to live like the poor. What is the authenticity of our sacrifice? If we could have a fan? No. And we need a microphone. We can't hear. No. But get one for Monseigneur. So I had a microphone for the presentations and I had a fan when I was giving my presentations. She turned it off for the whole community. And I'll never forget this nun who was at that celebration. With this intense heat, every time there was the slightest breeze, she just thanked God for the breeze. She was an American nun and she was communicating to me how we are not used to that Indian heat nor the humidity. And I noticed that at the mass, her massive canonization. But everyone had to wait for that slight breeze. And that I was so aware of that every once in a while, when you thought you were going to pass out, there was a breeze. Everyone was reminded, though, of just how poor we are and how lacking in control of the events of life. And that total dependence. So she gave us all a marvelous lesson. And anyone who had been there, if they were there, including the Pope, that intense heat was down on a million people who were there. And everyone came through that and endured it. So Mother Teresa was very active during that canonization. It streamlined it, so it made it very simple, which is really what I think she wanted. Don't have the focus on me. But as the mass itself, the focus was all on God. It was the glory and the praise and the honor of God. Thank you, Lord, for the slightest breeze. Thank you, Lord, for just being here. And I found myself thanking God. And I was there. The other thing I noticed in her gathering us, there was a multiracial, the whites were far outnumbered at this mass. Not only because of the Indian priests, the African priests, the Asian priests, the Koreans, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, South Africa, and all of the world was really... ...that we are just one family. And the main, I think, lesson that I learned is dependence on God and that we are all very, very poor and the poorest of the poor. The opening day, the day before we got there, the Missionaries of Charity had in the Olympic Stadium, which they were able to get, a thousand of the poorest of the poor from their houses in Rome that they served the poor. They invited them all to come and have a feast. And they actually had this huge feast and banquet for the poorest of the poor because this was what it was all about. If Mother was going to have the celebration, the first ones to have the feast was the poorest of the poor, and she invited them to the table. And all of them were invited to come to the celebration, so they all had tickets to the event. You could see different ones as they were coming were obviously the poorest of the poor, meeting all of us, the poorest of the poor who were coming. So the universality and multiracial was what I felt was very outstanding for me on the day. Sounds a lot like Pentecost. Yeah, and the language just didn't seem to, it was like both hearing confessions and the celebration itself. And of course we had the Latin and all of us joined in were able to participate with the Latin and the singing. And again that language, that unity of our worshipping and glorifying God in that mass. Some lady was wheeling us onto the plane when we were at the Newark Airport, and she was a young girl, a young black girl, and I said we were going to be going to Mother Teresa's canonization. Well she had never heard of Mother Teresa, she was 20 years old. Oh, she said, what are you going to have, a party? I said yeah, and what is the mass but a party that God wanted? So he gets this heavenly banquet together, and that's why I was so happy when you see all these priests going out and bringing the Eucharist to every single one that was there. That was the day celebration, and I think there was a big difference then with the celebration on the 5th. And again, we can't celebrate it, but it was much more intimate. Maybe there must have been, maybe 300 ,000 there. How do you get just intimate? So there was this smaller crowd, and the priests and the participation was still so joyous and so beautiful. The day there was a cloud coverage, so that the heat wasn't as intense, so it was cooler, it was more refreshing, it was more relaxed. And at the end, one of the priests stood up, the sisters came in. The greatest gift I always felt that Mother has given us is her community. And these sisters coming in from all over the world were certainly well represented there, and lines and lines of missionaries of charity coming in. There were also the brothers, and there were also the missionaries of charity fathers. And one of the fathers got up at the end and he said, Today is a day of thanksgiving, and we are just so filled with thankfulness that God has recognized our foundress as a saint, and that we are able to participate in this canonization. And we rejoice, and you can just see St. Teresa of Calcutta in heaven with all the poorest of the poor, and us, poorest of the poor, having experienced being touched by her. And we are now celebrating, because she has touched our lives. And she always said, Unless you have experienced the thirst God has for you as the poorest of the poor, you'll never be able to know the thirst he has for the poorest of the poor. So that having had that experience of that love that God has for me through her, that that tasting of that is an enduring bond that you experience, and it just endures in it, it lasts. The love of God is enduring. The love that Mother Teresa gave, that touch that tapped that girl on the head when she was 16, that love lasts. It's an everlasting love. It's tasting the divine love. And it's the thirst that God has for us as people, so that when we pass that on, and if we were a million there, and the millions and millions that saw it on television are able to receive it and to pass it on, it was a great joy in heaven, and a great celebration on earth, and it was time for a party. The possibility of someone coming into a crowd like that and throwing some bombs, it was like the furthest thought, I believe, that peace and love is contagious. It has a power that's overcoming hatred and violence, and the way to bring this about is through that divine love. This is the force and the power that I believe is really necessary in the world today. So it was a great experience. You know, it's really striking, Monsignor, that the endurance of those who came, those who had to endure suffering during the celebration, because I watched it all cozy on my couch at 3 in the morning, back here in Omaha with my puppy and my coffee, and that was really nice, but you could see how hot it was. You could just see how people were just baking under the sun, and yet that enduring that suffering is essentially a message of her life. For all weekend, the build -up was not just on EWTN and other Catholic outlets, but it was on secular news broadcasts, CNN, Fox, all of these different news outlets were covering this great gathering. And so as you're watching these people, literally suffering with joy through the mass, it was almost like a major witness. And there's something really unique when that happens, isn't there, Monsignor, that if you can endure it, if you can enter into it like she did, there's grace somehow, even for the participants. I know you're just a couple days out of this, but for you, I mean, can you describe that now? It intensifies your interior self. You become very aware that I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able, and that's the word, endure this, whatever that be, this stress, this heat, this cross, however you want to call it. Each one has to go in there because that's where you're drawn to, and that is the center of the inner self. And that's where your dependency comes, and that's where you experience the God on whom you have to depend. So what gives you the endurance is the dependence. It stays, and it remains, and it burns, and whatever it is, you cannot last through it, and it just keeps coming on in a way, just when you think, it's going to let up. No. And then it comes just at the right time, a kind of a breeze, where it comes from, and the refreshment. And then you're drawing something in from this power, and I would call it the spirit. The spirit is now bringing you into the inner rest that's going on, is only had by those who are willing to endure. I don't know how others would describe that, but that's how I was experiencing it. As you were speaking about that, that endurance, I think that's the suffering of love, isn't it? I mean, at its very, very heart. And I know that's one of the, you had spoken so poignantly that for many who heard your reflection prior to leaving, and you were seeking a particular grace, that entering into the Immaculate Heart of Mary, even more deeply into the Sacred Heart, and I don't want to put more words on it than what you were hoping for, because sometimes even the grace we think we're going for is smaller than the one that God wants to give us. So how would you describe your experience for those who have been eagerly waiting? Well, did it happen for them? Did you receive what you were hoping for? More, more than I ever had anticipated. That which I wanted, I received, but much more abundantly. There was more. It's so difficult to describe, because you have to use the same words. But the words don't carry the meaning that the inner self has that you want to convey. That life in the inner self, that enduring bond of love. Like, excuse me, you're supposed to look ragged and tired and beleaguered for an 88 -year -old man who, you know, has traveled around the world, and I have not seen you look so buoyant and glowing and energized. I mean, this is just, it's a joy to behold you. Yeah, yeah. And I feel that way. I feel my cup runneth over. You know, they use that expression, but it's just like brimming over, full and I. I just don't know how else to express it. So if you see it, that's wonderful. And if you hear it, that's wonderful. But I'm experiencing it. And so whatever I wanted out of this, I received with a hundredfold. You're like a beautiful monstrance right now that's sitting on top of an altar with a whole bunch of light shining. And I know you're just a vessel. You're just a monstrance. But what's making everybody, it's just breathtaking is how Christ is radiating out of you right now. What I was experiencing was that inner heart of Mary. And what's the inner heart of Mary? Completely empty. Completely empty. So that every single moment you can receive whatever that is that's coming. I think that's really what I'm experiencing. The emptiness of Mary's heart. So that she has none of her own cares, but those of everyone around her. You know, everyone was caring. I felt being cared for. But it was like the kind of being cared for so that I too could experience how to care for others. Well now you got me crying. Oh my gosh. Now I'm a big weepy mess. Well Monsignor, you know, I usually ask you if you have a final thought, but I just can't even believe that there could be a finality to this experience. What are you feeling right now in this moment? The thing that I'm really kind of filled with is Mary's spirit. It's always crying out. Magnificat. Magnificat. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. Along with hundreds of other spiritual formation programs, visit discerning hearts .com. Or you can find it within the free discerning hearts app. This has been a production of discerning hearts. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. We hope that if this has been helpful for you that you will first pray for our mission, which is to offer rock solid and authentic spiritual formation freely to souls around the world. And if you feel us worthy, consider a charitable donation, which is fully tax deductible to help support our efforts. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Luke Macias
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood -curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome back. In case you didn't know, there's a film, it's called The Hill, and it's starring Dennis Quaid. I don't know what more you need to know. It's starring Dennis Quaid. It's in 1 ,500 screens across the country. That's a lot. We have the director of this film, of The Hill, with us, Jeff Celindano. Did I pronounce it close? Celindano, Celindano. Celindano, hey, Celindano. You grew up in New Jersey, correct? I did. Okay, so that's why you got a name like Celindano. You know, that's just, it's an Italian name. But you - Comes with a terrible name. I wanna ask you, this is a film, but you grew up in a small town, in a small rural town in New Jersey. A lot of people don't know that those exist, but they certainly do if you know the state of New Jersey. But this is a film about someone who grew up in a rural town, small town in Texas. And his name is Ricky Hill. That's why the film is called The Hill. And again, it's starring Dennis Quaid as the father of this athlete, Ricky Hill. But I just kinda ask you right out of the gate, Jeff, how did you find your way to directing this story? Because this is a story that I had not heard until I heard about this film. Yeah, well, none of us heard about this story. Ricky was an obscure guy who never really told many people about his story. Dennis Quaid, when I hired him to play Ricky's father, said, I just read the script, is this true? Did this kid really do this? This is like a miracle. I said, yeah, he did the impossible. And he said, how come I've never heard of this story? And I said, well, there's so many stories out there that nobody's ever heard of. And so that's why we're telling this one. It needs to be on the big screen. So my brother was in a hotel room, I'm sorry, in a hotel lobby, and he was talking to somebody in a meeting and he overheard Ricky next to him, the real Ricky Hill talking about his life story and how he couldn't find a director that he liked. He had been through like 40 directors and he never felt they had the right honesty and heart for the film. And my brother leaned over and said, excuse me, sir, once he was off the phone, this is my brother on the phone. He's your director, talk to him. And Ricky was like, my brother's very aggressive. And Ricky talked to me and we just bonded. And he said, you have to read my story. I'm gonna send you the script tonight. I read the script. I cried my eyes out through the whole thing. I was so touched that I've said this so many times, but it's the same every time. It got in my heart and it's not left even today that I had to tell the story. It was like I was on a mission. I just never gave up. And so that's how it ended up getting me. But it took 17 years to get it funded. I had been funded four times. The money fell through every time. And the last time it fell through was six years ago. Dennis had already been hired and I thought we were gonna lose Dennis. And he called me and said, listen, I love this story. It's the best story I've read in 20 years. I'm on for life. As long as you can find a time span on my schedule, I will do the film. Well, now for people who are tuning in and are saying, what is the story? Tell us what is the story? is The story about a little boy, eight years old, who was very poor. His father decided to be a minister and a preacher and travel around the country. And they got kicked out of a couple of churches because his father was very adamant about no smoking in the church and treating the church badly. Ricky would be very poor and go out on a railroad track and hit stones all day. But he wore bag braces because he was crippled from the hip down. So he just got so good at hitting rocks because he was so poor, he had nothing else to do. He hit 2000 rocks a day. And of course that transferred into baseball. He wanted to play baseball. He was addicted to it. And his father would not allow him to play baseball. He was like, you're gonna be a preacher? Because when Ricky was eight, he started preaching to the family, imitating his father. And he got so good at it that he could recite the Bible back to front. And this is not a faith movie, but it's got so much faith in it because of the father. It just translates into that. So Ricky behind his dad's back ended up becoming an all -star player in high school. And right when the scouts were about to look at him, they came to the stadium to look at him, he trips over a sprinkler head and breaks his ankle.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GEN C: How Real Estate Is Embracing Web3 With Julie Allen, SVP of Digital and Creative at Howard Hughes
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, we are back. Episode 42 of Gen C. Where does the time go? I'm coming to you from Brooklyn, New York City. Where are you? I'm at home in Miami. Look at us, both home. This is rare. Very rare. This is actually the second most popular week to take off in corporate America. The first most popular is the week between Christmas and New Year's. The second is apparently the last week in August, right leading up to Labor Day. So it's actually a nice kind of quiet week to get some work done. This is my favorite week in New York because there is nobody here. You've got the place to yourself. You can get reservations, you can get parking spaces, anything you want in New York you can get on this specific week. Well, there's been some interesting stuff happening in the world of general web three. The first one, which may be the weirdest blockchain story that I've read in a really long time, is the idea that, you know, the people who make Parmigiano cheese, which is sought after around the world, they are adding edible microchips to the cheeses so you can verify that those cheeses are authentic and they are validating them as authentic on the blockchain. So this actually, for me, was a really interesting story because this is kind of the practical use case that we had said a long time ago. This is actually a great use of blockchain. It's a public system. You can verify it. The edible microchip part, a little bit weird because I think about, you know, you're at the Italian restaurant and someone's grating that cheese over you and I'm like, how much microchip am I just getting? Right. But I did think it was sort of a fun use of the blockchain. And I guess one of my questions for you is, do you think we will see some of these kind of more boring uses, but very practical uses of blockchain coming more to supply chain dynamics to inventories around the world? Yes, I do, especially in highly sought after goods, rare goods where authentication is a real problem. So that is an interesting use case. I would be curious the durability of said chips. How exactly does that work? So I need to read further into that. But I think blockchain verification is probably the most clear use case to me of blockchain outside of crypto like Bitcoin, I would say is like the killer use case for blockchain right now. There are others and verification is one of them. I don't know about Parmesan cheese verification being a large use case. It is rather niche. 100 ,000 wheels of cheese so far have been tagged. That is an impressive number. It really is. So let's closely follow that. Let's get in touch with these cheese folks. Maybe we can ask our dear friend Mags Calla who spent a lot of time in that region this summer brushing up on her Italian. That's true. So I keep wondering about the folks who are worried that Bill Gates is tracking them, what it think that that is a case of practical innovation.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Short Stuff: Evil Eye
"Elevate your travels with the city advantage executive card the only card with admirals club membership earn advantage miles and loyalty points on your Purchases plus premium benefits that take your trips above and beyond expectations visit city .com slash executive for a bonus miles offer travel on Hey and welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here to Given us the evil eye. Mmm for all the trash we've ever talked about her and frankly it's working because I just Blew a tire on the way here to work. Is that a euphemism? No, no, I blew a tire and I lost my checkbook Mmm, you were at the grocery store. They rang everything up. Mm -hmm You're standing there looking and they were then they said you have to pay now and you want oh and you reached in your purse To get your checkbook out. I reached in my front pocket of my shirt and then you're like, does anyone have a pen and Twelve people under the age of 75 behind you rolled their eyes inside Mm -hmm, and they had a pen but it leaked all over my hand. They gave you the evil eye big Thanks to our pal Dave Bruce and the old folks at how stuff works calm For this bit on the evil eye what we in our house call the stink eye Yes, also, thanks to Antonio Paglia Rullo Who is the author of a book on the evil eye the evil eye Colin the history mystery and magic of the quiet curse? Dave talked to a lot about this because not only did Antonio write that book his grandmother was an evil eye Doer away with practitioner when he was growing up That's right, if you don't know what we're talking about we're talking about what turns out to be a very very old I don't know what you call a tradition. What do you what is custom? Superstition. Yeah, all those things where someone will give you the evil eye. Someone will shoot you a glance We call it the stink eye again. Yeah, and it's it's wordless. You don't have to say a thing. You don't have to have a What is a little voodoo doll There's a big there's a quick cello sting going on in the background 100 % you got to take that that small string section around with you It means basically well originally I think it was sort of came from jealousy or envy but can also be just someone's angry or they resent you or Maybe they're being greedy or something and it's generally always intentional But I was surprised to learn From our friend here who wrote that book that it can be unintentional. I didn't realize that but I mean I guess I guess if you're coveting Something are you jealous of somebody to the left of the person you accidentally look at and give the evil eye That's the best I can come up with for unintentional evil eye This goes all the way back to the Greeks and possibly before right? Oh, yeah long before the Greeks but Plutarch was maybe the first person to actually write about it He was a philosopher and historian as everybody knows and he wrote some essays that were collected into something called Moralia And he talked about the evil eye in that his whole jam. Was that your eyes are a source of energy That shoot out that shoot the energy out into the world around you and that reminded me Chuck of our stereoscopic episode where that one one of those ancient physicians would had their their theory was that we see by shooting beams out at Stuff. Yeah, and that's how we see and I guess that's kind of what it was based on. Yeah, totally the basically the body fills up with that jealousy or rage or whatever and It clouds the mind and then the eyeballs are right there in front of the mind to sort of Display for the world whatever the mind is thinking and in this case, it's evil Yeah, and it goes when you shoot the evil eye out of your eyes that was Plutarch's take and apparently that was the popular Take of it. Yeah, and depending on what culture you are from and your your ancestry is Sort of about you might have a long rich tradition of evil eye shooters or or Blaming everything that happens to you. That's bad on an evil eye that was shot your way Yeah, because it's not just stuff that happens to you directly like an injury or an illness It can also be things that happen to the things you depend on like your smartphone Exploding in your pocket. Remember what that used to happen. Yeah They are blowing a tire smartphones did They didn't catch on fire, right? Am I making that up? There were like mild explosions with some I want to say an Android at some point in time Yeah blowing up in people's pockets and everyone's like ha boy remember when that was a thing Yeah, and now they're right back in her pockets again back in the aughts. Yeah. Everybody's like, I don't care I love smartphones so much. I'll just take the risk. That's right so back to Antonio who wrote the book the evil eye he is Catholic and Italian and he said, you know, we don't even have like baby showers over here like that That's considered bad luck to have a baby shower. Like you're tempting fate or something like that yes, so it's a you know, sort of a superstitious danger and Over there and this is kind of true anywhere in any culture that has an evil eye history They will have protections against evil eyes like amulets and things like that and pregnant women would wear amulets in Italy Apparently at least in his family and they would say these special prayers to ward off the evil eye Yeah, and the reason why Having something like a baby shower would tempt fate and maybe attract an evil eye Is that it could be taken as like a boast or something and roasting can generate? Envy or jealousy and envy or jealousy can shoot out of your eyes as the evil eye and then your smartphone blows up in your Hand during the baby shower. Yeah, look at me I made a human and in particular babies children pregnant women and animals are the most vulnerable to the evil eye Although it can happen to anybody But there's different traditions and customs for protecting against the evil eye Depending on where you are in the world. Like you said in Turkey when you are a newborn baby You're gonna get what's called a nazar? Which is a dark blue? Circle with a white circle inside it in a dark blue circle inside the white circle and it's meant to be an eye And Chuck I say we take a break and we'll come back and tell everybody whose eye it is after this know ooh You friends seeing a doctor when you're sick is enough to make you sick or sicker and involves a lot of time and Effort at a time when you're least equipped to provide either so we want to talk about Teladoc, which is a far better alternative It's putting the humanity into health care. Yeah, think about what happens when you're sick and you have to see a doctor You've got a schedule an appointment and that could take days sometimes weeks to get in then you have to go to the doctor Even though you're probably feeling miserable and then you have to wait in the appropriately named waiting room Exposed to whatever the people around you are coughing and spewing into the air. It's a thing Well with Teladoc Health you can get in touch with a doctor 24 hours a day 365 days a year all from the comfort of your own home Just open the Teladoc Health app and get a diagnosis treatment plan and prescription if needed from a board -certified provider Download the app to get started today or go online to register or schedule a visit at Teladoc Health dot -com slash stuff That's T E L A D O C health dot -com slash stuff People are excited about what AI will do for them at IBM We're excited about what AI will do for business your business Introducing Watson X a platform designed to multiply output by tailoring AI to your needs when you Watson X your business You can build AI to help coders code faster customer service respond quicker and HR handle repetitive tasks in less time Let's create AI that transforms business with Watson X learn more at IBM comm slash Watson X IBM. Let's create a Horace it's the eye of Horace. Oh, wow. That was quick. Yeah Yeah, and like you said depending on where you are you might have different traditions for warding this thing off a lot of these countries are Middle Eastern or somewhere around the Mediterranean Sea I believe Dave Even said in his own family his grandmother in the Jewish tradition would tie Ribbons on cribs and things like that to ward off the evil eye or potential bad luck for newborn babies in that right? Yeah for sure in India They'll put some coal a black dot on the in Infants face and all these the point of these the nazar the red ribbon the black dot on the face They're meant to protect they're they're basically amulets or talisman that can protect against the evil eye and one reason why they based that on the eye of Horace is because in ancient Egypt the eye of Horace was painted on homes painted in tombs and it offered protection from evil or malintent or all sorts of problems even back then and so it kind of got mmm, you know how they take like You century know it goes from really ornate to like really stylized and simple That's basically what happened to the eye of Horace when it became the nazar. Yeah, that's a good way to say it Well, thank you and our book author also like you mentioned his grandmother Paglia Rulo's Grandma would keep a bowl of water in her kitchen and poured little drops of olive oil in there and look at the shapes and the patterns that the oil would take and Apparently that would inform her on the evil eye and if there was like someone in her family that was potentially in danger or a neighbor or something that Possibly will be or was stricken with the evil eye and I thought that was really interesting I don't know if it literally was like hey that looks like Our Gary our neighbor, right or if it's just you know, kind of reading the tea leaves, right? I'll put that olive oil was so good, too So you said that this all kind of came out of the Mediterranean did you not yes They've traced it back at least 5 ,000 years ago to tell Brock which is a city in Mesopotamia Which is tell Brock is a modern -day Syria right now and they found tiny figures that all kind of bear a resemblance to one another They call them eye idols and that they think that these offered protection as well Did you look up the eye idols of tell Brock do I didn't if? Et is not based on that. I will eat my head It's Identical to eat. It's crazy how much it looks like et man There's nobody who's seen et and would see one of those and be like, I don't know like it looks exactly like et All right, I'm looking it up and that is et. Yeah in that nuts That is et. I mean that is unmistakably an et head, right? But also even the body resembles et the proportions and everything. Yeah, that's true I don't see any arms and legs, but it does have that big squatty body. Well, thank God I don't have to eat my hat today Because they just pile on everything else bad that's happened. Was it like a sweaty old baseball cap. Mm -hmm Salty, you know, it's got the white salt streaks. It'll never come out. No, thanks So, I guess that's about it, huh for for evil eye. I got nothing else. Yeah There's all sorts of amulets and talisman you can use to protect yourself If you feel like somebody gave you the evil eye you can also say please don't look at me like that anymore I don't know what's wrong with you. That will also dispel the magic too. That's right.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Cary Cheshire
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show. Do you like your gravy thick and rich and loaded with creamy mushrooms? If no one was looking, would you chug the whole gravy boat? Chug, chug, chug, chug. Stay tuned. Here comes Mr. Chug -a -lug himself, Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome back. In case you didn't know, there's a film. If today's Friday, it's going to be in theaters tonight. If today's not Friday, it's going to be in theaters, you know, like tonight, except not Friday. It's called The Hill, and it's starring Dennis Quaid. I don't know what more you need to know. It's starring Dennis Quaid. It's in fifteen hundred screens across the country. That's a lot. We have the director of this film of The Hill with us, Jeff Celentano. Did I pronounce it close? Celentano, Celentano, Celentano, Celentano, Celentano. You grew up in New Jersey, correct? I did. OK, so that's why you got a name like Celentano. You know, that's just it's an Italian name. But you comes with a terrible name. I want to I want to ask you. This is a film about you grew up in a small town, in a small rural town in New Jersey. A lot of people don't know that those exist, but they certainly do. If you know the state of New Jersey. But this is a film about someone who grew up in a rural town, small town in Texas, and his name is Ricky Hill. That's why the film is called The Hill. And again, it's starring Dennis Quaid as the father of this athlete, Ricky Hill. But I just kind of ask you right out of the gate, Jeff, how did you find your way to directing this story? Because this is a story that I had not heard until I heard about this film. Yeah, well, none of us heard about the story. Ricky was an obscure guy who never really told many people about his story. Dennis Quaid, when I hired him to play Ricky's father, said, I just read the script. Is this true? Did this kid really do this? This is like a miracle. I said, yeah, he did the impossible. And he said, how come I never heard of the story? And I said, well, there's so many stories out there nobody's ever heard of. And so that's why we're telling this one. It needs to be on the big screen. So my brother was in a hotel room. I'm sorry, in a hotel lobby. And he was talking to somebody in a meeting, and he overheard Ricky next to him, the real Ricky Hill, talking about his life story and how he couldn't find a director that he liked. He had been through like 40 directors, and he never felt they had the right honesty and heart for the film. And my brother leaned over and said, excuse me, sir, once he was off the phone. This is my brother on the phone. He's your director. Talk to him. And Ricky was like, my brother's very aggressive. And Ricky talked to me and we just bonded. And he said, you have to read my story. I'm going to send you the script tonight. I read the script. I cried my eyes out through the whole thing. I was so touched that I've said this so many times, but it's the same every time. It got in my heart and it's not left even today that I had to tell the story. It was like I was on a mission. I just never gave up. And so that's how it ended up getting me. But it took 17 years to get it funded. I had been funded four times. The money fell through every time. And the last time it fell through was six years ago. Dennis had already been hired and I thought we were going to lose Dennis. And he called me and said, listen, I love this story. It's the best story I've read in 20 years. I'm on for life. As long as you can find a time span on my schedule, I will do the film. Well, now, for people who are tuning in and saying, what is the story? Tell us, what is the story? Because the story is about a little boy, eight years old, who was very poor. His father decided to be a minister and a preacher and travel around the country. And they got kicked out of a couple of churches because his father was very adamant about no smoking in the church and treating the church badly. Ricky would be very poor and go out on a railroad track and hit stones all day. But he wore bag braces because he was crippled from the hip down. So he just got so good at hitting rocks because he was so poor, he had nothing else to do. He hit two thousand rocks a day. And of course, that transferred into baseball. He wanted to play baseball. He was addicted to it. And his father would not allow him to play baseball. He was like, you're going to be a preacher? Because when Ricky was eight, he started preaching to the family, imitating his father. And he got so good at it that he could recite the Bible back to front. And this is not a faith movie, but it's got so much faith in it because of the father. It just translates into that. So Ricky, behind his dad's back, ended up becoming an All -Star player in high school. And right when the scouts were about to look at him, they came to the stadium to look at him. He trips over a sprinkler head and breaks his ankle.
TIME's Top Stories
"italians" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"Wrong reasons. The €9 million marketing campaign opened to maraviglia, which translates to open to wonder, was unveiled by tourism minister daniela santanche and Italy's national tourism board in it last week. It is fronted by a digital rendition of the Roman goddess Venus as depicted in sandro Botticelli's 15th century renaissance masterpiece, birth of Venus, wearing a miniskirt, holding a smartphone, and eating pizza. The digital rendition of Venus also comes with an Emily in Paris style Instagram account with 34,000 followers and counting. The page features photos of Venus posing in front of various Italian landmarks, such as the coliseum and Pantheon. A campaign ad, which aims to boost international tourism in Italy, features idyllic stock footage that isn't even in Italy. One scene shows people drinking Slovenian wine on a patio in the village of gorilla, and neighboring Slovenia's komen municipality. The campaign makes its international debut at the Arabian travel market tourism show in Dubai from May 1st to the fourth. Here's everything to know about the campaign. How are Italians reacting? The campaign has been ridiculed by Italians on social media who say it cements tired stereotypes of the country. Art historian Tommaso montanari called it grotesque and said it was an obscene waste of money, while the culture ministry's undersecretary, vittorio garbi, told la republica, I don't want to contradict my colleagues too much, but. Open to wonder, what is that? What language is that? Art historian Livia garam masini was also quoted in a statement reported by artnet, saying, where is the art? Where is the promotion in this hackneyed jumble of cliches? She said the campaign trivializes our heritage in a most vulgar way. The uffizi gallery in Florence, which houses both the Shelley's birth of Venus painting, has not commented on the campaign, but Florence's mayor Dario narda said that this is emblematic of a wider cultural problem. We're fighting against commercial exploitation that ridicules our artistic jewels like the aprons showing the statue of David's private parts or grotesque reproduction of works of art and stupid poses, he said. What has Italy's tourism ministry set about the reaction? Tourism minister Santander has said that the project sells our nation in an unseen way that has never been done before. She also told a local radio station that she had seen and enjoyed the memes that the campaign is generating online. I consciously chose Botticelli's Venus, an icon known throughout the world, and a symbol of our Italian spirit, she said. Santander also speculated about why people have criticized the use of pizza in the computer generated images. I don't understand the criticism. Pizza is famous all over the world. It is part of the Mediterranean diet. And of our cuisine, which is appreciated imitated and copied all over the world, she said. Perhaps it is criticized by the slightly snobby and radical chic people who eat Caviar and salmon. Why tourism in Italy can be controversial. The campaign is brought to light the sometimes complicated and fraught issue of tourism, with many citing the reality that Italian tourist spots like Venice are often overcrowded and subject to misuse. In June to American tourists cause $25,000 worth of damage to the Spanish steps in Rome by throwing scooters down them. Other incidents recorded in 2022, of which there are many, saw an American smash two sculptures in the Vatican museum when he was told he would not see the Pope. To combat overcrowding, Venice has announced a booking system for visitors, which charges for entry that took effect in January. Meanwhile, an influencer hotspot portofino, tourists can be charged for hovering in beauty spots for too long, while taking photos. All of this has left many to wonder what good a digital Venus and their Instagram can do for the nation..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"italians" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In the treasury yields, the Bloomberg daughter spot index is hovering around a record high still slightly stronger this morning up by a tenth of 1% trading against the Euro dollar one spot zero zero 20 against the pandas one 1823 on oil prices, they're a little bit higher this morning, but still below a $100 a barrel Brent crude at 99 78, WTI at 96 19. That's your Bloomberg radio business flash now his Liang garands, with more on what's going on around the world. Thank you, Stephen Carroll. China's economy grew at the slowest pace since the country was first hit by the coronavirus outbreak two years ago, GDP grew 0.4% in the second quarter underlining the impact of Beijing's stricter purchase to controlling COVID, economists had forecast 1.2% growth. The reading means Beijing will likely miss its full year growth target by a wide margin. Now sticking with China, authorities are said to have held emergency meetings with banks this week, alarmed about a growing number of home buyers refusing to pay their mortgages on stalled products. Sources tell Bloomberg that government officials are concerned more buyers may follow suit on mortgage boycotts, regulators have asked local watchdogs and banks to report the financial impact. And in Italy, the president has rejected Mario Draghi's offer to resign as a prime minister. It is a bit to avert a political crisis that would unsettle financial markets, and leaves the door open to Draghi, leading the government until elections are due next year, jogging will address parliament early next week, though, it has not yet clear what will follow next. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick tag powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, I'm neon garands, this is Bloomberg, Caroline. Thank you so much, Ali and garon's there with our top stories. Well, let's continue then the conversation around Italy because markets were pummeled yesterday after Mario Draghi offered that resignation. But the EU economy commissioner Paolo gentiloni has praised Italy's Umayyad in his leadership. He has also been talking about how Europe is facing slower growth because of Russia's actions to disrupt the economy. So first, listening to gentle only warning about the risk of a full gas shutdown, which has become more than just a hypothetical scenario. Growth at 2.7 inflation at 7.6 this year. Of course, if we will have a complete gas cut, this scenario could even go in a more negative way. So that was the economy commissioner talking about a growth in inflation and the EU commission forecasts on that also, here he is commenting on the leadership of Draghi. Such a strong majority which such a strong leadership is the best solution to implement all our plan and especially our recovery and resilience plan. The economy commissioner Paolo gentiloni speaking in Brussels on Thursday, let's bring in Italy's let's go live to islay and Bloomberg's Rome bureau chief Alessandro speciale and Sandra, thank you so much for being with us. How much a markets concerned about what happens next, the offer of resignation that was rejected by the president in Italy. What is the future of Mario Draghi? Markets are concerned but not on 100% alert and crisis mode. They seem to remain continent as most people are going to be fair that eventually this crisis will be patched up and there will be a way for Mario Draghi to stay on as prime minister dragon will go to parliament next week. President mozzarella sent him back there. And he's trying New York pockets are trying to forge a new alliance. The main question remains will the government be affected or will they be paralyzed by parking status just as he was this week? How much of a concern is all of this for the European Central Bank given the focus on Italian bonds? Yeah, this is another major issue. BCB is working on an anti fragmentation tool and of course Italy would be a major beneficiary because of its high debt and because of how much of this debt is exposed to rising interest rates, but of course to be confident to enact or to put in place these tools you need a solid reliable overnight enrollment and of course in the middle of the crisis. This wouldn't be the best atmosphere for GCP to go against the political opposition to go against the position within the covering capital to put this tool in place. Yeah. Mario dag is expected to address lawmakers on Tuesday or Wednesday in the next election in Italy is not meant to happen until 2024. 2023 spring 2023. So drag is governmental would have had another 9 months of life, but of course the risk if the current crisis isn't patched up and there doesn't seem to be another majority in this parliament that there might be net election sometimes early in autumn. But for now this is not the main scenario here in raw according to the next few days will be crucial. Okay, Alessandro speciale Bloomberg's Rome bureau chief thank you very much for joining us with the latest on the political turmoil in Rome. We are just seeing European barn trading begin this morning the Italian ten year yields a little bit higher this morning up two basis points three spark 27 is the figure on the Italian ten year year, but just trading just for getting there in European bonds. Yeah, absolutely. And speaking of politics, we'll be taking the pulse of the political landscape landscape here in the UK. The CEO of ipsos Kelly beaver will be joining us this ahead of the televised debate between 5 of the toy leadership candidates tonight, first of three, so we'll talk to Kelly shortly. This is Bloomberg. This is a Bloomberg money minute, running a restaurant has never been easy, and it's been even tougher during
Box of Neutrals
"italians" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"I shit on him and we say it's getting e web's the a remember those battles and like the the i'll give you an example like a moment shade between ricardo in and norris. You know if it was a world championship battle it wouldn't have been the same is cogil But because it's a it's a team effort and it was attained grand prix victory as opposed to an individual if it because the not rising for any individual plaudits really at the moment. Let's say aiden wanted to use time if they are Championship contenders the picture. All altogether in terms of that dynamic saint before you say novelty in roseburg know. They absolutely love that. Have good moments like that bahrain. Twenty was sixteen battle where they were rising really hard really fairly and they both taps love the battle afterwards and it was smiling laughing about it afterwards but to quickly deterred very sour. Not long after that. But that was also just as fine for every sort of khan and lovey-dovey moment and i don't want these are real men onto team. It's all those amendments that of championship battle that grand prix victories. A they easy going to be easy to come by with grown for and then it is a world championship and he's facial hair spray but he hasn't wanna well toddle yet and that's the one that he really really wants. And this is a different you know ferocity a to us and the has to be and it's great to watch is just mexico spectacle because at the end of the day is much sport. It's still entertainment as well. So you can. You can have calculated to i. Reckon yeah i think it's i think there's no problem with the overall rivalry. I like that sometimes. Red bullies petulant and mercedes sometimes comes across his arrogant. But that's that is sports. That's all of it. You don't get to the top level of the multimillion billion dollar motorsport industry and then just shake hands over on all the time. That's just not i think that's fine. As long as now on assaulting anyone outside the paddock at the end of the day or getting into punch on delivering school. It's good everything's fine. I think it's to wrap up the incident. I suppose yes. They both left the grand prix with no points but maximum step of course got a couple of points over lewis hamilton. The sprint rice. two points. so he's temperature believes that five points. It's hard not to putting aside the idea of whether deliberate i don't think it was It's hard not to say that red bull racing didn't fundamentally win this weekend in the championship battle rights expected to really call pain because this i mean we saw in qualifying mercedes was nearly half a second faster than red bull to leave with an extended championship lead staff in any way. That's a pretty big weeden for monday for them. Yeah they go to wi with. It was a fairly average. You know we we think about the sunday results The perez with the five-second penalty. And so he he was bumped off the podium as well Yeah that they. At least the you know in terms of both hamilton verstappen walking right with effectively points. Nice substantial point to the weekend oceanside. It's it's not the not the worst result however there is a hangover effect. Because obviously max now has three m three greed plice penalty for the knicks grown prey. So he's you know he's going to be to work on that for. I'm but in our three grid penalty arguably fee finishes on paul for the next race for example in stockton full at the end of the world for him in that regard. Either so it's Yeah it's it's not a dealbreaker entombs if he's world championship but i do do have to wonder though for the next girl and pray because obviously it's going to be repaid of silverton where he's going to get hassled about every he's gonna he's gonna get the sheets press conference because it obey the pace of every single. Tv journalists in deviant. They have to ask the question asked him sort of north south questions like books brezler command to ask but i gotta ask you questions about and that the growing prey so he's going to suck it often with a and again you have to think that in the psychological battle hamilton will be again their heads in that front because max's walked away essentially the villain of that grown pray. He'll be handed by the press in the late up to bring he'll be annoyed about that. Whereas louis desaix in halo often. Yeah we'll just we'll just carry out. There's less greasy ryan hamilton. The certainly more on for stepping in and red bull and yeah. I don't think it affects them. But it's just it's an. It's an annoying background noise that they probably don't need. And this is the main at the crunch point of the championship rounds to go. We've got russia and then a bit of a break in turkey and then a bit of a break still. I think depending on whether or not that race chain do and then we've got a real condensed drawn to the finish. This is now. We're well past the championship establishment face. We're way past that we'd and it's still so close. It is almost already met the qualification for down to the wire even if someone broke away now we've had so much already. It's such a long as as in any other year. This would have been down to the y. Already but the pressure is gonna mantovano precious ambiguous thing. You like to say about sport and that's sort of true but it's gonna can. This is way whether or not verstappen nate's championship. Winning experience on this way crashes like this will irritate more. Because you can't say well there's more than half a season to go. There wasn't silverton. Every rice is gonna count more. It's going to become only more interesting. How h drive response that it's going to be interesting and i do wonder now just to wrap up this weekend if one sprint qualifying trial left at the brazilian grand prairie normally anyway. Yes that's only small points but then as we've said estaban has extended he's championship laid this weekend solely because of spring qualified the title as only five points. I can't help it one way. The of course the points in any of the spring qualifying can because you've already had a couple but secondhand that's gonna influence all trial successful right. Imagine you've sprint. Qualifying judge to have decided the championship. Does that mean we keep it. Does that mean the pressure will be great to then get rid of it because it'll feel weird. Wow it's had a couple of isis full off the kalemba so it kind of even the the the the points lost. But i did think about this. How much bearing this has on on the championship. But it's the same for everybody so that and it's not just spring qualifying this you have a whole heap. There's rice in you think so but also not enough as well so the margin for era a lot smaller so if you think about it is what are we got the the rask grown one go russia turkey at sites. That's three mexico for brazil. Alive the table say rice and then saudi arabia every w we got seven or eight races so mental with me takes over five times before bed forty odd points at play then sprint rice as well and then you've got fosters latin as well said theoretically mec sets the fastest lap had finishes it in the points for the next seven or eight pray. Those that's another seven or eight points upi slave and in the context of this battle. That's that's nothing to sneeze at so every single point. Cancel no matter where it comes from. He's he's going to. He's going to be really on these.
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"italians" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"By with that said yes. And then a dog buzzing issue But they fall off my day in salt right. yeah full. A role for our Together in twelve months for winning conglomerate to total of free apps between the two. 'cause he's not great but it's awfully context around that Pity brazing in for them. But they also stops de scones every every around this year On voting again thankful for the time rights. But they do indeed. And that's lovely. Keep because the podcast has to come to an end as well nicely done hated nice setup back. We have to draw things replace. Even there are actually a lot more stories that we have not been able to talk. Sean show of course is under investigation. Failing to slow on the yellow bought to hide anything as we draw. Hit a cool sport. keep updated with the news as soon as it comes out. Thank you guys joining me. It was so nice. Having some new voices joining us. Harry special guests an absolute pleasure enjoyed your debut on your podcast. Hayden hype enjoyed your time joining us as well and just as ever lobby to chat to you. We will be back very very soon. In the meantime unwind relax. Enjoy the end of the tripleheader. I'm we'll catch you..
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"italians" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Mercedes staffan then i think for our. It'd be much happier with that than they. Probably on designs one nothing. His big morning practice crash wants to another call was in any type former macking that confidence that she was restored in this race. he was far up snacking here in that a little bit senate which is the story of of his season. Abc's adapting saying you call it ready to incident but yes as as you siam wasn't the best wasn't the west doubtful for our mythic context when clarence finishing italian bone great That's the most painful thing for Which which remarkably work needed. I know of attendance also was Drinks coverage it said he didn't feel like Interventional groper role. Italian at monza. Is tom around hopefully in return for next year. I'm maybe barring themselves. Maybe not school trick will be to sign ormond and it was. It was shame because it seemed like they ci lit up from about lap. Thirty eight thirty nine. They got the hard switched on and they actually closed the gap to batas and they looked at a time actually to be threatening the Run as they were closing in. But i think the length of time it took them whether that was managing ties and then pushing once they knew that they had the life in them to get the end. And maybe that was a miscalculation all we noted. The ferrari has a bit of a problem as often with the higher at harder compound tyres switching that on the maybe that that was something in there as well but they they looked like they looked reasonably competitive. When we're talking about ferrari slightly run at the race starts may be because of getting those tires switched on again but the clock seemed pretty happy with painful and science i think is probably just very glad to see the back of mums. So yeah i think moving forward they just need to have a look into that that tie switching on situation because it's something that keeps kind of bugging them onset tracks compounds and let's not forget the next topic george russell in the points. I actually wanted to touch more. Maybe on auditory. Do we know what the situation was. Hayden maybe angry you with the alpha towery cause and y we had such a disappointing day for them side. They're still investigating as we now in in terms of what happens if yet seems to be some sort of ending figuration gone gone horribly wrong. A new colleague is by with that said yes. And then a dog buzzing issue But they fall off my day in salt right..
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"italians" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"On. Max could've a- should've pulled out of the the minerva but yeah i'm just like Thinking i just don't feel like that's bright. And i don't know if it's because i want a really good championship until i just think there's something in a nightly wrong with the penalty system the it just it just. It just doesn't feel. I'm not coming away a bit going occa- yet fep play like louis time penalty. I was like. I mean. I think he was pretty lucky to get five seconds but then again there wasn't really an option everyone was saying the could have given more. They could have given a guy. But i think that was quite extreme and again every it was fueled by that motive reaction to what happened. I think if it was. I would have said. It was a racing incident because of all the facts involve sausage. Not helping a house coming out on. Cold tires probably would not have the same levels of grip and didn't relinquish the position at max going forget that no longer existed khanna mouth and all i ask i guess harry. I was quite shocked at your mouth and our day. One helluva comparison of the sausage curve analogy if anyone goes back and watches that sierras. It'd be exact. Same thing happens in hamilton again and this time he can't control that car sausage curb if the social chopin bean now i wonder if the outcome would have been the same if the drivers sorry if the students are meant to award penalties based on outcome is that evidence that they have so. I think it's it's a strange one republican debates The problem is is when we have such marginal incidents. Like this. Like neither of them i would be. I'd be really interested to talk to stewards and be like what percentage are we saying. Is the majority hair because to me. This is like fifty one forty nine which either is it. Is it three Penalty points that is that right. But we'll see if i was to all the rain on initiative. Both 'cause out is a immediately a grid penalty. is this again just highlighting the fact that we may be have a floor penalty system. I would say. Clark new tactical foulds news but comparison. Which didn't didn't take take that. I'd say that tend to get his response to Cooling attacks go foul. Because i've seen that christian said it was a racing incident tighter More strongly and i was just about to ask you guys to remake or this war thrives between team principles. Once again we saw officers percent. Of course vary strong watts from the red calm but this time tighter coming out saying attacked who who foul and max probably knew if lewis stayed out of the race was gone when it comes to whole normal we probably as competitive role than the staff nelson themselves. And they're gonna give that will vote for each drivers in any so they can gain and of course if.
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"italians" Discussed on The Daily Zeitgeist
"Physical context is important. Not just between miles and i but As a as a society we we need that shit and that's true if we had more of a culture of kissing and hugging when we saw each other like maybe we'd have like fifty percent less mass shootings. Yeah let's go that's just like greeted each other with like a rare like this despair pit of masculinity where a completely rendered inert like me around other people. Because you like. I cannot do this i should just go lift. Weights or mush a cans and say from uc like in other countries how affectionate men are really you immediately see a different sort of quality or level two that look these friendships or the then you do when like dudes are just like throwing beer cans at a wall or some shit man have like an internal combustion engine that converts every emotion into anger run. I love that we really are like just so repressed. Were basically a steam engine bra. You become you should go so like the other things that they're saying like look we get that people are getting vaccinated in numbers are beginning to stabilize but still like please. Exercise a modicum of caution. Because we're still trying to figure out like all of the nuances of even transmission with vaccinated people and knowing what to do especially with the elderly so this one expert said vaccinated grandparents hug their unvaccinated grandchildren from the back. Yes they hold their mile from behind. That i want be little worse. That was headed from behind. Your breath stinks so bad. But he said hold. Your breath began. Because it's all about the expectations and this winter time expert strongly warns against what they call the aunts kiss which is a full lip cheek plant as they say. Because again you're leaving there could be saliva left in your and then touch your mouth or touch your eyes or something like that. you know. it's it's it's it's a little bit tough and i get you know. My heart goes out but the being from two cultures that are famously. Not very affectionate. I've yeah. I have no problem like not being affectionate when i greet people i like to hug. That's also like to do. And i'll admit i am definitely one of those guys who like went to europe and someone greeted me with the cheek and spent most of the time like i had a meltdown. Nowhere to go. And then i just want to weigh challenged thought about this shot near pants just this other thing though too. Because then there's such a culture of predatory men and you know consent culture. Not right this thing here. That like even hugging you wanna be like. Is that cool. Because like there's a five and ten chance that i'm some fucked up evil person. No th there's like you know There is kind of a middle ground somewhere where it's like even before the pandemic. I stopped hugging people as much. Because i used to just like that was just how it greeted people and then i you know you kind of realize that like well. Not everybody is like into hugs. And i'm not gonna force that on anyone that's why you'd like. I think the new things like am a. Are you a hugger mugger. And then all add our ocean. Yeah but You know i would love to be in a culture where we all just made out all the time. So let's stick to. I mean there's yeah we we've talked before how they're just bringing just like grows doing cheek to cheek kisses now. You know what i mean. If we start movement yes if it'll catch on your you know if you're vaccinated right which is a thing that they're also writing in this article that like there are still people who acted like his twenty nineteen immediately followed with like or prefaced with like on vaccinated. Yeah yeah yeah bring it on in. That's what i say broker. But yeah i mean. There's cuddle parties that have become a thing because we lack the ability to deliver pre pandemic. Yeah you're put like that. Although i know some people who are like yeah man. I've been going like raves. The whole time i met somebody added thing who got to drew drinks. And was like yeah. I've been a couple raves. Like it was pretty wild but like you know. Yeah my grandma Things were bad but but they want us to be here. So here we are. We got i for them. I ran for them. I rave for the Like back in the yelich so much of like madman culture of people just having like irresponsible workplace affairs and oh shortly because they were like drinking at lunchtime but also you know like that's how people use to get their skin to skin and you know they. It's like a human need that we don't acknowledge it off. Yeah i mean but i you know the italians also probably cheat a lot to with their secretaries. I feel like we. We definitely our a culture that like does not show affection on the outside and then Like affection is just seen as something. God doesn't want you to do least settled alter so it's like no you know if you do that. Jesus cries so just make sure you do it in secret and You know fucking europe on vacation or in europe on vacation at a hostel right. If it happens it happens. Come on guys just be less Creepy and misogynistic like men from europe. Yeah exactly thank whole continent alright. Well matt it has been such a pleasure having.
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"italians" Discussed on The Daily Zeitgeist
"And. We're back anthony. Foul chee bob. I cancel bro. They foia thousands of his emails during the pandemic. you know. I think everybody was hoping to find the goods on what was really going on behind the scenes as he was dismantling the trump administration from the inside And the spiciest nugget. That's being used as a pull. Quote is where he said all is well despite some crazy people in this world. Oh shit out of control on that. One off bro problematic. I mean first of all. We don't use crazy anymore. Just wildly both misogynistic and it just it's a bigoted phrase unbelievable so this was actually an email response to someone who said they were worried about. All the people who are threatening his life in the last his family so it's hard even interpreted as being directed at trump. the the mail to him was like i saw some news. It's fake you're being attacked by some people. Hope you are well under such irrational situation. He responded thank you for your kind note. All's well despite craze view of the world so what a fuck what about the next thing. What about the next thing. Come on has got to be more than that. Can t give us the tea. I know there's a. I've heard of tea so i will say this the people who the q. People have not had a chance to fully digest all yells. I'm sure they're going to find some secret codes and their own to know what was really going on. but that is like that's it man He is really. he's a professional doctor. Rain not a comedian right. He's a guy in a in a very tough position where he has people literally trying to murder him while he tries to make sure that as few people as possible die from global pandemic. Yeah the his there. It's very consistent between what you see in the emails and what you saw in press conferences. The only difference is that he's he seems like very cautious and wary of public perception. In a way that. I could see people being like. Oh he's just all about like the press and but that is in fact like from day one people like okay so this is how you lead during a global pandemic. You hurt means daddy. You have to be understated. And he saw that. The president wasn't doing that and so mitt. Like i'm guessing that's why he was so careful about you. Know controlling the image that was put out there about him because he recognized probably that he was the only voice of reason for where the country right. Yeah it was. It was really the only rational person who was in the room with the president. Surrounded by sycophants. So i mean you know. He's he's trying to be as rational and as forthcoming as he can be given his current situation. And i'm trying some movie. He's like dude. I'm not saying anything in official word. Someone can foyer this at mike. Reveal anything remotely in what my thoughts are outside of my position. I don't think this like proves that he is like that. This is actually how is. It's just a republican or conservative leader. It's like lifting up iraq with thousands of disgusting bugs mushed cat nabet drugs and a murder weapon underneath it. Like with You get vaguely dismissive language about people who are threatening the lives of his family right. Get a fucking life ouchi. You're such a dork. I'm sure there are some democrats that they just they just. They're good at their iraq. Hiding you know what. I mean so yeah i think we're just like i think some republicans. You don't even need to foyer them because they say everything out loud no. Yeah the camera there whenever they're doing like You know one of those. Like one hundred thousand dollar a plate dinners for like the american liberty coalition or whatever you know everyone actually liked slavery is this on is this was fun. And you're like this is being taped. Dude whoa whoa. I thought okay. I thought we're all cool here. Yeah also now. You're going to cancel me for having you know neocolonial neo confederate fucking sentiments right. Welcome enjoy comedic. Stylings of l. E. can oh alright pedo real. Yeah all right. So we'll see wish nineteen when she went weird that yesterday continued. She looks like a child. I was i was being annihilated. I saw the headline to and i was like oh shit but then i was like you always have to do the things that we like. What the fuck did you do when you were. Nineteen right exactly. Yeah i'll tell you what i wasn't able to do was win any fucking beauty pageant because i am not an attractive man tried to one debutante ball and i embarrassed my girlfriend because i got so high stinking in there and this was like a tight like you know this. Like the fucking debutante balls. Yeah i tried. My best is with a huge hefty garbage bag over my my torso and i smoked outside. I did yeah. I did my best bay. You on the trash bag and you still got in trouble. You're right. i shouldn't have blown the smoke in the bag. That was didn't stick onto my will suit. I never went to a debutante ball. But i i learned everything i needed to from the From that borat thing and a couple magazine articles. Oh yeah us how that these dads are. I mean i out how much they wanna fuck their daughters solu- yeah there's there's a lot of Kind of like incestuous data energy vary a lot of like pornhub tidal energy water fly. Energy is yeah it is. It's real gross. Only know of debutante balls through like tv and movies. You know really thought it was like a dance not like this thing. I would be the only like nine or one of three like non white people there. Yeah it's like a cattle call for single eighties. Is that it. it's like eighty. This is them. This is the adult version of this child. Now we'll write a for Four other wasps former slave owners or whatever you know same thing but yeah it's like it does very much feel. It feels very gross to You know showcase your your daughter. But i don't. I don't really blame. Ellie kemper for the founding of it. I do just think it's funny. Because it was like one of those cancellations online that you're just like yeah sure i'm not even going to read it. Yes fucker no reason to hate this person. But i was like yeah. We haven't we haven't done her yet. She should be cancelled. Not.
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"italians" Discussed on The Daily Zeitgeist
"International And trudeau will be hopefully changing his tune. But that's i don't know it's just we need to look at these events just with our eyes open because this is first of all how marginalized communities are treated when nobody is looking out for them. Yes is everywhere in the world The seems to be how marginalized communities are treated when they're treated as if they don't have rights right. That's especially true in america. Yeah and just even dimensions of the withholding information you know trying to keep as much of this in the dark not properly documenting things obscuring the data. So things aren't as you know a terrible as they actually are. I mean we have to look at everything in the light of day. Like for what it is. We can't get these sanitized versions and expect that there's going to be any truth or again like for them. Reconciliation to occur by being like let's under report things and let's let's actively have campaign to silence people like right. We can't square those things and realizing that that is a tactic. It's it's like classic colonizing tactic which is basically like you continue to fight all of the people who want justice for you know what what's happened for long enough that you basically go like there's a statute of limitations. That happened a hundred years ago. Know are we expected to apologize for something that happened before any of us were born like it is like. It's a tactic so like anyone who is thinking in any way that like. Oh well because you know this is an old thing that happened so long ago. Like just know that this is a. It's it's meant for you to say these exact words you know it's meant for you to not care. It's meant for you to like not fight for justice for these communities just to generate as much apathy and frustration as possible we go. I don't know like every time we try. It's no right. Yeah they went to wait out. The clock generational the in. Just the next batch probably won't know as much as the last one right right. Yeah and i mean the institutions that we live with today are built on a foundation of ignoring these problems ignoring what happened and ignoring the injustices not making amends to me and and ignoring the solutions and ignoring us solution. Then you know. This is what you see in the documentary. Thirteenth in about america's judicial system and in the case of canada canada still separating indigenous children from their families through it seems like family court or whatever the equivalent is their indigenous children are put in foster care group. Homes or detention facilities at a much higher rate and their families are given much fewer resources to fight against that than any other community. So it's right you know it's still the echoes of this are being felt in a very real way in the systems as people live them today. Or if you just look at what has happened to american like the american indigenous population to there. We're not even close to having some kind of truth and reconciliation process like it's. It's like the the government's like let's stop as slavery right. You know what i mean. Let's not go fully out there. And that's because that's a whole other massive awful awful awful shut. That happened that. I think this is the injustice that befalls indigenous communities is at at a certain point because of the arrival of the colonizers The the pace of history just coast to a certain point in like the groundswell of ignoring those atrocities just turns it into this obscure thing. And yeah i mean there's just so again we always say this we need so many reckonings we need in like real wants to not where we go. Oh that was awful but like wonder like we have to actually write these wrongs. But unfortunately that's not going to happen when you have these could societies. That aren't built. That's like that's not profitable especially because they are built. I mean it. The sutter settler colonialism has all these like institutional mechanisms for just kind of justifying the treatment of indigenous peoples. It's like this is this is part of it and makes it so that even criticizing another country's a settler colonialists institutions is like. Oh well that's not fair because you've also done it and so everyone goes okay so it's just a cabal of silence where we all occurring. Yeah we're yes double kale. We're all bad. So there is no justice that can be handed out. You can't for the indigenous peoples of canada and the indigenous peoples all across the world to have been affected by colonizers. Yeah it's really depressing dark stuff and you see it from everywhere from canada to palestine to all over the world. Where there's you know settler colonialism. Uc kabbalah silence with institutions and the populace. Who just are like what can we. What can we do. We all live with the trauma and it's bad and we move on right. I mean there's you know. Germany and south africa are at least two countries that have attempted to right. The wrongs yeah until at least atone and acknowledge what happened so i mean there are examples of governments trying to address these things in a kind of comprehensive way. But yeah yeah it's there. There's so much that's broken and still happening Alright let's take a quick break and we will be right back. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percents or more. Is that shakespeare. it's gyco. Yeah that's shakespeare from one of published works to be not for awakening give the berries for fifteen minutes. Could save you fifteen percent or more. No it's from geico. Because they help save people money. I hate to break it to you. But geico got it from shakespeare geico. 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Yes i actually twenty minute pause yeah he We just realized like there's so many people going to the blog. Have so many people on this and then the huge trump platt social media form. Yeah yeah we didn't want to split the audience so we're definitely doing that. Good idea you said that. I'd already thought of but it's just. I still marvel at how devastating the platforming has been for his public profile. It's it's amazing it really has been. It's it's better than i could have possibly imagined and it makes me mad that it didn't happen sooner you know. He was just in like such a narcissistic feedback loop where like his narcissistic behavior was getting the desired results which was allowing him to inflate himself more which was feeding and it just kept getting bigger and bigger and the only the whole thing was based around his ability to reach people on social media and like once they punctured that he's like totally like kief. It's his own definition of loser. Now am where. I'm sure that is difficult. We all got more followers than trump right now. So right you all that rules. So that's what i say to him. Problem more social. Fuck you out that close to it might be running away mcluhan. Yeah but Yeah i mean again yet. The d platforming is it. It's infuriating again that it didn't have the senator and it's it's wild easy like from the beginning we've been talking about how poorly the blog has been running an ideology like he thought all because he can't grind it out again he doesn't go to some other normal social media platform and try and come up or whatever he just wants to be able to be like. Where do they all know my name. And they're good i came. Where's my online jeers right. Yeah i mean. I feel like also a blog is just like misses the mark as to what the the way that he like governed in the way that he communicated like it's on impulse dude and it's and it's based on a like news feed like he needs a news feed to look at and get mad and right tweed at four in the morning response in response. It wasn't like okay. Will you can write down your thoughts in this. You know in this carefully worded wordpress document. No he's not going to sit at a computer. Like what do you want from this guy. This guy is just period like it and it's so great to see him completely. Flail not given a platform of you know so he basically if he had a blog where it. They just shoved the computer in front of him while he's taken his shit. I think it would be much more popular will. But i think that's sort of what like it was. It was twitter except sometimes he went over the character limit. But it's just nobody. Was there already and summarize. His appeal on twitter was that he could interact with people. And your the president was retweeting means and it was the he was like the overly important guy at the bar. Who has that drunk asshole. Like interject in your conversation with this fucking guy from ted kennedy talking to us still g. Platforming effectively threw him out of the bar. Now it's like. Oh wow the vibes so much better now that that guy's not in screaming at everything and he's outside being like you guys out here. It's kind of pathetic in here now. That he's just literally outside on the street screaming at strangers. It is like it's just so much better. i. I love also watching him. Try to live like a little mini version of twitter at mar-a-lago where he'll just show up to whatever shitty band is performing. And just be like. I'm still the president. You know They're gonna they're going to reinstate me. Everything's gonna be fine. I mean that's the thing that surprisingly nobody in the msm is talking about is that this is clearly him clearing as plate so that he can effectively return to being president again in august. Because real g's move in silence like lasagna. And he's just that's that's how he does man he's very he's very under the surface he likes to you know. Move rick ross. They didn't know late late. Maybe miles did you. I don't know if you caught the yesterday. Maggie haberman Reported that he is telling everybody behind the scenes that he's going to again by august. Yeah he's back baby. That's cool man. I'm glad you know..
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"My favorite thing. You don't you and mike pence dude. Now i feel bad for him. He's in love and we're just supposed to just like move on with our lives while he's just sitting there wrestling with these lifelong feelings read. He's so the movie both movies. It just leaves him confused. I feel like he's by sexually coated and people need to talk about that more and the movie just one of the guys which was a minor eighties film. That was on h. b. o. L. comedy central like every day for an entire decade. So that's one of the movies. I've probably seen the most in my life has the same plot twist and the guy who's like best friends opens his shirt and reveals that he's actually a woman who's doing an undercover story on what it's like to be teenage guy. And the protagonist is like mad and conflicted and like runs away and it's a real dance ex mocking. Where like at the end. She's like. I really like betrayed and fucked up guy. Manages rolls up on a motorcycle doesn't even say a word just kisses her and then they drive off because i think the filmmakers realize like man. We've done some severe psychological rise to this teenage boy. We've just completely fucked with doug. They've dug quite a hole for this character. And these feelings set at especially at that time there like we really can't wrestle with these feelings in this movie. Yeah there's not enough there not enough oil. they're not capable. It's three acts. It's supposed to be ninety minutes. We just he's just going to have to be like okay. Great okay like girl girl. Great thank god for girl. Hetero normative ity. Yeah especially on a motorcycle to exactly brab. Well yeah but that was the toughest thing you could do in the eighties. You mike pence got similar attitudes. Although for different reasons you know he he wrote an op. Eds about move on when the animating came out because he said it was left wing. Propaganda saying like women could serve in the military one of okay so first of all. I want to go on record as saying that women can absolutely serve in the military. Anybody deserves the military absolutely and that the only thing that me and mike pence agree on is some horses are talkable and we all of our mothers all right. Yeah this op ed. He writes at for those who have not yet been victimized by the mcdonald's it induced hysteria over this film. Mulan is a fictional account of a delicate girl of the same name who surreptitiously takes her father's blazing the chinese army. And what other ancient wars against the huns. It just goes on like the last line has essentially moral of story women in military bad idea. What block like dude and also. What is he talking about. Mcdonald's for just brought in mcdonalds. For nora's i think because like you know every disney movie in the nineties had like a full corp press of like mcdonald's. They had the such wanted us. Yeah that was good. Exactly remember caused a whole bunch of commotion Loved that sexual ones sauce. I was good stuff again. Mike pence loved it too and was saying that. It's that's the only reason. This movie is all such one sauce with at six rick. And morty fan too. Yeah oh yeah What is something. That you think is underrated. I think the cost of engagement rings thing. You don't know how much you're gonna cost Did you just you go in. You have some money and you have a budget and then they're like Okay we can work with that but it's going to be you know eight hundred dollars more and you're like damn that's a lotta money dude and then i can just you bet because you're in love and then you know if i could you get a ring and it's just not what you. Yeah on. you sound like gil from the simpsons old boy hundred bucks go collar loosening going on a lot of color sweaty. I'm sweaty just thinking about that. Roy just like oh god that is i mean you know you. Just don't know i think it's the the entire wedding. Industrial complex underrated in terms of Predatory because right now we're like looking at like wedding prices. I'm asking people who i went to their small wedding. You know where they like rented out a friends cafe and finding out they spent eighteen thousand dollars total. And i'm just like i just don't i don't know how to do this cheaply and it just seems like it's all it's all a gift and i've never had a single person not tell me spend most of your money just on a honeymoon and don't go overboard with the wedding. That's what they say or combine them get a good photographer so they said at least you remember the pictures and you know you're not going to be like oh man. The members of bread remember the rails. Exactly yeah people are always like you know trying to like all. The flowers have to be perfect. I'm like flowers. It's it's just so infuriating when you look at like any event space and you're like okay. Well if people are going to be like wearing dress when they eat off this plate it seven times more to right exactly doesn't fucking no. Yeah no to wedding with the perform. Do a number. Because it's a fucking wedding there. Inanimate of fucking objects and they're being young exact same way to different fucking contracts put put the fucking wedding food and a ziplock bag and then tastes it later. And see if you're like. Oh yeah that's a seven thousand dollars fucking plate right there. It's it's just you know it's food it's food we're acting like food is should be more expensive like re pretend like all well. Everything should be expensive. Because it's like if you don't think it should be. Then i guess you're not in love. That's what they did. They victimize people like me who i are in love and just wanna buy a good ring and getting pushed around into a. I've been pushed around your guy who turns out. it was a blue raspberry jolly rancher in the plastic wrapper. Yeah you open the box. It's melted and warped. We put all our wedding money into cgi Didn't bite anyone and artist Yeah you know made it made it look pretty exactly get in like in like green screen. Suits like get the ball suits. I just want every fucking andy circus playing all of my guests. Right does a great job. We're played by indie circus. Don't even have a wedding. Andy circus does everything in grand. I can get andy circus in a mo cap stage and we can. We can do whatever the fuck you want to be. king kong. Mary's fucking smuggle. If you want yeah. I mean i think people would much rather be at that event rather than yeah. It's just a very expensive party. For non giant apes people want godzilla king kong to like. Have the first dance. You know. I wanna see ya. I wanna see smcgaels singing at last like. That's that's the wedding. I wanna see. Could you imagine like if you were like this eccentric millionaire. Where like you were like. I'm gonna make a feature length film doesn't get depiction of this wedding with the most epic beano facts and like it's like space jam but for a wedding. It's just like when you get all of warner brothers. Ip together and instead of them instead of them watching like fucking lebron james play basketball or whatever it is it's just You.
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"italians" Discussed on The Daily Zeitgeist
"Then kind of mashed together and then so the day of i went in and it's like It's a london blue topaz. I thought it was going to be like a light blue. This is really blue. It's like it. Looks like a like our jolly rancher blue raspberry which is delicious flavor right but it looks really bad on ring and so i bought that and then as soon as i got it i. I had a panic attack because i knew the opposite of what she wanted. I thought it was going to be small. But because his blue topaz and it's like kind of a cheap semi-precious stone it was a real big like a it. Looks like a seven year old like florida jewish lady georing and a yes so i ended up as i. If you're looking for a ring him out. Yeah you're looking for a beautiful blue topaz. That's not a part of this. See from titanic. Does it's like that but it's like a you know it's blue or somehow right and yeah and it's not a conflict stone. Although it became one when she saw it and she she definitely did not like it. But we're still in love your sense you had a sense gone in. Its i and i have held this milady. Oh i i knew. As soon as i got it i fucked up and the it's from tiffs. Yes yes yeah yeah. Hey can you make me a ring for way. Too much money wasted. I'll mash them together and photoshop. And i'll get you something approximating. Something i would like. It's a beautiful ring if you like. You know if you like something kinda gaudy but if if you don't still buy it from me please by the ring so we got another ring that that She loves that's coming in the mail but Yeah i got this this other one though. Anyone is really hard to sell dude. Yeah no one talk. I wish someone had told me that. I wish i had asked. That's what i wish more than anything. Is that daily. Yeah do a little daily But instead i was like i got this. What's the worst that can happen. Take much just steal my money. Do we get celia king of the hilly anyways i'm Yeah so That's the last thing we will have to sell. And his brand new never used you know it's she was just looked at it when she went. Oh wow that's when you but Sorry proposed by getting down on one knee and proposing with the box but it wasn't open men and she. I waited for her to say yes i am. And she's like we'll show me the ring and i was like our k. But it's the worst part. And i opened it and i was like you still marry me. And she was like Not with that ring. Yeah and we're still love though you know so it's it's fine. It's good it's about honesty you know. Yeah but if anyone has any stock tips or just like any like way to recoup a few grand. Just let me know you know. I'll sell some drugs. I don't give a fuck anymore. Take a few flights to bolivia for me. I down dude i got. We'll take cavernous colon and you can shop. Whatever whatever drugs you need in their dude i will. You know i'll help out. I'm just trying to help help friend. Yeah my gauge. Marin put me in so much debt. I was you take it. Yeah eah well as nice. Yeah that was yeah she. She likes specifically picked out Yeah that's smart. That's a good way of doing it. But then she was still surprised Put a mental block being like hell never actually do it. 'cause yeah yeah no she She was surprised to you. Know yeah she's like you look so gaunt jack when you propose like i sold all my blood. It's there's something to be said for being Idiot 'cause like i was able to get her to the location where i'd like set up this bar which was the first place i ever told her. I loved her gauche. Surprisingly in irish bar was pretty drunk And i had like set up the basement of the bar but the way got her. There was being like forgot my fucking credit card. The at a puck fair again. She was like okay fine. We'll go back there so you started it with a test of. Yeah right you started with a crisis. Like trawler passages malibu. Yeah yeah but Already all setup. What is something you think is overrated all overrated mu lan mu lan the orig- or the the remake both bro bones mu lawns. I i've seen both. And i mean i don't want to come off as being like. Oh it's a stupid story. I mean it's a good story about a woman who pretends to be a man so she can fight in a war in place of her ailing father like. That's a good premise But i just saw the new one recently. And i just like with both of them. I realized that. I just end up. Feeling bad for the male love interest in the movie who's rally falling in love with a soldier named paying rent. And i just feel like he you know. His story is not fleshed out enough. He's kind of just wrestling with these feelings of like you know discovery where he's like. Maybe i'm gay. Maybe i'm bisexual. I dunno race. Something about this dude that i'm in love with and then you know cut to. I'm i'm a girl this whole time. And he just be like. Aw yeah instead of being like right. I feel like instead of being yes. He's just like all that's great dude. Right i love women. That's totally what i've been wrestling with. You know vaginas helje ranger.
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"Think about it friends has summer is the busiest time of the year. There's so much to do and we all wanna enjoy it as much as we can. So you've got to recharge as often as possible so reach for a starbucks cold brew..
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"italians" Discussed on WTVN
"Italian pizza like piece of whatever comes from, and it's totally different than what we imagine the Americanized version. A flatbread, If anything, Yeah, and it's more of a crispy. It's real thin. Typically. A killer doughy center Joe, and it's and it's usually just sauce and fresh mozzarella. That's it. I gotta tell you, I give this a world if a fresh pizza vending machine points. You have to try it for the novelty, wouldn't you? Absolutely your ABC six first warning weather. So chief meteorologist Marshall McPeak joining us. I mean, Marshall, think about it a fresh pizza vending machine. You give that a shot? I mean, at least you got a test. Drive it once I would think it. I'm amazed at how fast it can do it E mean, did you say just like 3 to 5 minutes? How does it even bake it that fast? That's amazing. Well, see, I don't I don't think it I want to say Uh, you know, it doesn't even say that it cooks it that fast. I want to say it spits it out. And maybe you have to take it with you and cook it. But then it doesn't say that Ive taken bake. Yeah, but it doesn't say that either. So that's the That's the thing. There is a little bit kind of to be desired here assed far as information, but, yeah, it says within three minutes expensive, But you're right. How would it How would you do all of that? And then cook it. And then three minutes is the total. That doesn't make sense, right? I mean, just that's that seems mean because Aziz I mean, what do I know? But last time knew it takes like eight or 10 minutes to bake a pizza. So From scratch. That seems really there must be some secret to how they Maybe they've got some of it done ahead of time that they could unjust get it taken care of in three minutes. I don't know. It sounds good. Back in the 18 eighties, when I was in elementary school, we lived for pizza day. It was just kind of Oh, yeah. You know, because when you're in elementary school, what do you know? It's pizza. So, of course it's gonna be awesome. It is going to get cold tonight. We're looking at frost advisories all across the area. 36 for the over. Night low colder than that some of our outlying areas, So make sure you got those plants covered. If you can wait until this weekend to start putting in some of those annuals because it is going to be chilly two nights this week, so tonight into Wednesday morning and then Wednesday morning into Thursday morning. During the day on Wednesday, Sunshine and 60 to 65 on Thursday. Marshall Thanks 55 right now. Thank you for listening. It's the mark Blazer show. With Josh sees, you know we'll stay in Italy because that's where that vending machine.
KOMO
"italians" Discussed on KOMO
"At least for some Italians Late is not better than ever. The Jewish community here in Italy has rejected the apology by the air to Italy's fascist Eric King for his role in upholding Mussolini's race laws. I'm a BCS, Meghan Williams and Rome. Jewish groups and Italy rejected the written apology by 48 year old Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia for his great grandfather's role in rubber stamping racial laws brought in under the fascist regime. I asked my Jewish brothers for forgiveness on behalf of my entire family. The prince wrote two days ahead of international Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th. I got it. In the letter, he said. He condemned the Mussolini race laws of 1938. They stripped Europe's oldest Jewish community of all their civil rights and led to the murder of 7500 Italian Jews in the Holocaust. He called the family supported the laws and indelible shadow and a wound still open for all of Italy in 1997, the prince, his father refused to apologize, saying the law's weren't so bad. Italian Jewish community called the apology too little too late, some saying they wish he'd remained silent. Two years ago, the debate to announced he planned to launch a royalist political party in Italy to try to restore monarchic rule. Meghan Williams. ABC NEWS Rome No lockdown let up Soon in the U. K. These are your world headlines from ABC News. Health secretary Matt Hancock, the Reese early evidence that this the lockdown is starting to bring cases down. But we're a long, long, long way from that from being low enough because the case rate was incredibly high Lockdown rules are to be reviewed in mid February. Elsewhere, Australia's medical regulator has approved the use of its first Corona virus vaccine, paving the way for inoculations next month, nursing home residents and care workers among the first to get the jab. And the European Union is leaving the door open for possible legal action against the pharmaceutical companies that have unexpectedly delayed the delivery of covert 19 vaccines. You intends to fully endorse the sign contracts? I'm time Rivers at the ABC News Foreign Desk in London, 2020 declared an unusually deadly year for shark attacks that, according to researchers at the International Shark Attack file, You say that throughout last year shucks killed total of 10 people around the world, the highest number of deaths from sharks since 2013 update from ABC News and our top stories from the Coma 24 7 News Center next at 12 30. Every day. I wake up at five to give Dad his medicine every day. I wake up at five.
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"I do worry a little bit about driving people's underground so that you don't know who you're dealing with. And then you know, one thing I heard reference, say, hope everybody heard him during the days Well, The government had files on everybody. And that was a problem and the other thing and this call for unity that keep hearing from the Republicans. I mean, it's basically a call for white supremacy. Republicans can be in and out of power. Democrats convene in and out of power, but white people are always in power. And that's what they call the unity is a call for white unity. Chip Givens. What about these dissenters? I mean, where we going with this? Well, I think that's a really good point, and I would like to go back to something you said at the beginning of the segment about week FBI documents. A lot of the FBI documents, including those we know about white supremacists. Infiltration of law enforcement were leaked to the press by a man named parent Calvary Carry out really was The only black agent and his field office, I believe would be Minneapolis Field office. He was extremely concerned by the races and he witnessed and he went and took information. The public has a right to know and gave it to the media. He's in federal prison right now because he was convicted under the espionage Act for Italians what the FBI was doing. The espionage Act is, of course, the same world. They went after Daniel Ellsberg under for leaking the Pentagon papers, the same wall. They went after going after Edward Snowden under the same well, they've gotten looking weak under, so I think it's really important to remember that some of what we know a lot of what we know. Because a very grave people and these institutions tell us the truth. And our government goes and puts him in jail under the espionage Act, saying that if you tell the American people what their government is doing to them, or in their name, you're basically a spy. Right? Which is trying to take that should about fascism. Right? You know? Calling a whistleblower five. That's pretty fascistic to me, and I would just point out that you know, before Trump was an office, we had the director of the FBI, James Comey, going around giving speeches about There's now been debunked, called the Ferguson effect where he would say that because of black WASP matter protest because people were concerned the police for being violent crime was going up. Well, that's completely false. But that's one of the lies that was central to the first Trump campaign. We also know that the FBI was infiltrating the Muslim community. Ending informants called Mosque crawlers into health is a warship where no one was suspected of any crimes. And they would often times after 80 provocateurs and two of these plots, he sort of fake terrible losses. Bobbi Agent provocateurs. Donald Trump sites to them in his Muslim ban executive order justifying the Muslim. They're in one of those cases. It was a individual who was convicted a judge down to be an example in perfect entrapment. The type of environment that the people of the FBI have been created for decades of hostility towards this end of hostility towards last descent, in particular, demonizing Muslims that helped to set the stage for a demagogue like Donald Trump. To be elected. It's not all the FBI son Yes. Mm hmm. Probably back on Twitter. Sure what happened? I mean, that's that's a really tough call because letting some of his tweets or clearly inciting people, but also allowing attack monopoly the power to censor leader. Can be very disturbing. I would point out the people that Donald Trump is not the first leader fans from social media. The first such case of that was a Raphael Korea, the left wing Socialist president of Ecuador, who was banned from Facebook, right and the president of Mexico. The left wing President Mexico is very Upset about The Trump fans on Twitter. That might surprise you. But you know we've seen would be sort of Pete tied governments and laugh in America, where they been targeted by U. S imperialism has been targeted by U. S hegemony. There's been moved to sort of sensor or curtail them or take information off the Internet. That's too sympathetic to them so well, I do understand the in poll. You when you have someone on Twitter, you know, use the platform, said American president election was not fair and itwas And come over. He was going step further in finding it interesting that the government sure wherever wherever you want, you want said to me because I agree. As I said earlier that a.
In the News with Mike Dakkak
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"So i've reached out to everyone that i can think of on this story. Just a brief list reached out to members of congress both parties both chambers reached out to the department of justice to the state department the us embassy in rome leonardo global leonardo. Usa leonardo is a giant billion dollar defense contractor the eighth largest in the world. I believe i read somewhere there into aerospace. They're into defense. They're into weapons into cyber security. Think our version of Their version of our lockheed martin raytheon or somebody along. Those lines have reached out to leonardo global leonardo. Usa they have a subsidiary here in the usa. That's led by a retired. Us military officer reached out to senator. Holly senator kennedy the eu military commission representative schiff. Gohmert pelosi schumer. I've got not one reply. And i don't mean a no comment or i don't mean we've never heard anything. I don't mean anything on the record. Usually when when offices have nothing for you a communications director or press secretary will be nice enough to get back to you and say. Hey listen mike. I've got nothing more than what's already public. But off the record this this and this. I've got nothing. The silence is eerie. It's deafening so much has happened. This guy wasn't ready to publish On my usual day yesterday but we had the certification of the elections. Trump still hasn't conceded though. It's an open question whether he will and it's still an open question despite everything that's going on whether or not he's actually going to leave and whether or not biden is going to be inaugurated A lot of people are starting to lose hope. But i still believe that it's an open question. And the reason he hasn't conceded and the reason he may not be leaving may may have something to do with the story now. We've been saying all along that it's germany there was you know these these wild rumours of cia shootouts. Good cia members against bad cia members or or the other f. b. i. Officials are other military officials. Us military officials having shoot-outs at server farms in germany. It turns out. It's been italy this entire time. The operation to manipulate the votes. At least that's according to the information that we're getting now. It's been italy along the operation to manipulate. The votes was carried out in rome. Where hearing now and not just any old location in rome but the us embassy in rome. The story goes that operatives from various intelligence agencies including the cia british m. I six and the italian military manipulated the votes and then beamed them back using military satellites to voting machines in the states and the story goes that a state department employee. A man by the name of stefanos serafin. Who's a twenty five year foreign service agent along with these operatives at all of these various agencies got together on the second floor of the us embassy in rome on election night and they captured the votes as they were coming in. We thought it was frankford but again they were just passing through the servers in frankfurt. Apparently and they went on to a couple of locations in italy and the the were captured as they were coming in. The algorithms were changed again. Trump got so many votes that it broke the kind of formula. They have to stop the vote counting on election night and kind of recalibrate. And that's what happened. Remember that there's a six hour difference between here in italy so stopping the vote count at nine or ten and night puts it early in the morning italy time and then they sent the votes back. These revised algorithms. They sent him back using military satellites owned and operated by leonardo. This story it sounds of fantastical when you first hear about it until you hear that. It's been all over the italian media for weeks. It's a huge scandal over there. And as soon as i heard that my ears perked up and i said this is something that ha- has to be looked into so this isn't scuttle but it's actually a huge scandal over there. Italians are livid that they may have had something to do with interference in our election and a person a figure who's at the center of the scandal is a man by the name of claudio graziano. He's a general in the italian or not just any general. He's actually a pretty big deal. Italy in italy. He's like their David portray portrays. I think i would kind of make the analogy are general. David portrays graziano is like their version. He's a lifelong military man and he's now being accused of being at the center of the scandal and operation to manipulate votes in the us. General election on november third in order to throw the election to joe biden graziano. Oh by the way is a board member of leonardo. He's a four star general. He's led operations in africa on behalf of the united nations in two thousand one. He was posted to washington. Dc as military at all shape. He was deployed to afghanistan and the mid-2000s two thousand seven and two thousand and ten. He led the un mission in. Lebanon has been all over the world globalist. You could say or at least globalist assignments or missions throughout his entire career in december. Two thousand eleven. He was appointed chief of staff of the italian army. Two thousand fifteen assume the role of chief of the italian defense general staff two thousand eighteen graziano selected as chairman of the european union military committee. He oversees all of the us troops and he seems to have a globalist philosophy. At least from what we know in february twenty twenty graziano advocated for increased military intervention in libya saying he never saw war so close to the door of europe last november in the midst of all this pandemic that china either wittingly or unwittingly and unleashed on the entire world. He suggested a role for the eu to play in mediating tensions between the us and china may be as a play against trump and now he stands of being accused. He's he stands accused of being at the center of one of the biggest scandals in in history so this has been reported in italy for weeks literally more than a month now at broke their early december and one of the people in the operation a head of an it department. Leonardo was condom con. Maybe a strong word but was pulled in it. Sounds like unwittingly into this operation. Because he's now come forward after he figured out what happened. He came forward with his allegations. His lawyer signs an affidavit said it's all true he said he was. This gentleman was working out of a location and scar italy. The scars two hours east of rome. It's on the eastern coast of italy and on election night. This gentleman says that he undertook the operation to switch data from the us election on november third from significant a significant margin of victory for donald trump to joe biden switched them to joe biden number of states. Where joe biden was losing. The vote totals and this gentleman says he was working in the scar facility. Facility of leonardo he utilized military grade warfare encryption capabilities to transmit switch votes via military satellite to frankfurt germany. And the defendant this person. He's actually testified. Or due to testify in italian court swears that the data in some cases may have been switched to represent more than total voters registered and..