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Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_756 - Bitcoin, The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains [Jameson Lopp]
"While Bitcoin is still mainly seen as digital currency, it's essentially a timestamped log with special properties. As such, it can be utilized for far more things than payments and store of value. I presented some of the alternative uses several years ago and the list continues to grow. Brian Deary, chief scientist at Factom, wrote an excellent history of timestamping in which he argues that a secure timestamped record wasn't feasible before the existence of secure digital value. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible. What's up, guys? Welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know, and we have got another piece today. We are reading a piece by Jameson Lop, again from his blog, and this one is really fun. My favorite thing about Lop is he's really good at addressing and fine -tuning the nuance in the engineering side of Bitcoin's protocol design. That nuance and the probabilistic nature of the game theory and the cost involved in Bitcoin and just the opening quote, actually, that I used with Deary's suggestion that a secure decentralized timestamped server can't exist before you can create secure digital value. What's funny is that it's circular because the digital value is there because of the secure decentralized timestamped server. I think one of the fascinating things that it really lends to is this extremely, this very relationship strong between the nature of time and value, which I want to bring back up a little bit in this guy's take, but also I want to dig further into the whole idea of sidechains and make an assessment of kind of where we are in that because this piece was written back in 2016 and we just did the piece about drive chains and there's actually another piece about liquid and federations and a lot of these things that are starting to pop up. They seem to be having a second wind or a second level of excitement in how they get applied and how we think about it or how we think about them. So I want to revisit a lot of these things and I think this piece in particular will be really good at understanding some of the foundations for leveraging Bitcoin as an anchor for the history of other transaction systems, for essentially allowing the Bitcoin chain, the Bitcoin time chain to store proof of the state of other layers that are built off of it. And I think even six years later, this is all still very relevant. So we'll go ahead and just let Jameson Lop break this down for us. And it's a little bit long, so I'm going to have a short guy's take at the end because this will be referenced a lot in one of the next episodes that we are doing. So stay tuned, stay subscribed, and let's get into the article. This show is brought to you by Coinkite and the Coldcard Hardware Wallet. 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Drop your bank, get in the fold and there's 50 ,000 free sats for signing up at my link Bitcoin audible .com slash fold and you'll find it right there in the show notes. With that, let's get into today's article and it's titled Bitcoin, the trust anchor in a sea of blockchains by Jameson Lop. Bitcoin is the strongest permissionless blockchain in terms of computational security because it has the most resources being expended in order to secure it via a process known as proof of work.
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | Some Users May Want an Everything App, but What We Need Is Digital Sovereignty
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Thursday, August 10th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Kaloudis here again with your featured story. On today's show, we're bringing the Wondercraft AI voice back to read an opinion piece by Jameson Lapp, the CTO and co -founder of CASA. The piece is titled, Some users may want an everything app, but what we need is digital sovereignty. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. I'll catch y 'all on the other side. In late July, Twitter's logo suddenly changed to an X, followed by Elon Musk's official announcement. Twitter is officially no more, and the website used by millions around the world is now called X. According to the platform's CEO, Linda Yaccarino, the rebranding was the next step toward, quote, the future state of unlimited interactivity, end quote, morphing Twitter into, quote, a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities, end quote, or a unified, quote, unquote, everything app. But who asked for this? At a time when our lives are only becoming increasingly digital, why should we hand all of our information to centralized opaque organizations that have a track record of using it unethically? Sure, these services can be profoundly convenient, and many people undoubtedly enjoy having one user friendly application that can manage so much of their digital and real lives. But what's the price? Is convenience worth our freedom? The idea of Twitter as an everything app was seemingly inspired by the popular Chinese platform WeChat, which allows users not only to chat, make calls, and send media, but also to make payments and access a wide range of financial and personal services. As Elon Musk has said, you basically live on WeChat in China. If we can recreate that with Twitter, we'll be a great success. Despite sounding convenient on paper, there's a genuine concern about what happens when you use a single point of access for your entire digital world. If you do anything deemed unacceptable, generally by algorithms designed by people you will never know, you can be cut off in a second, often with little to no recourse. Last October, for example, some WeChat users in China reported that they were banned from the platform entirely, effectively killing their digital self, just for reposting some questionable banners condemning Xi Jinping. More recently, X itself literally hijacked a 16 -year -old account that used the atX handle, replacing its name with atX, followed by a 14 -digit long sequence of numbers without any prior warnings, consent, or compensation. Twitter's rebranding was happening alongside the launch of Meta's new community messaging service called Threads. It joined Meta's other social media offerings, including Facebook and Instagram, and is designed for sharing text updates and joining public conversations in competition with X. Considering Meta's complicated history with customer data, it's unsurprising that many are concerned that Threads is simply a new avenue for information gathering and potential abuse. Many big tech companies like Meta and X have tried to create everything platforms by expanding into new products because being present in users' day -to -day lives is a way to gather untold gigabytes of data on people worldwide. But without owning your account, everything can be unilaterally taken away in an instant, and everything becomes a single point of surveillance and potential failure.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Featured Story | Some Users May Want an Everything App, but What We Need Is Digital Sovereignty
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Thursday, August 10th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Kaloudis here again with your featured story. On today's show, we're bringing the Wondercraft AI voice back to read an opinion piece by Jameson Lapp, the CTO and co -founder of CASA. The piece is titled, Some users may want an everything app, but what we need is digital sovereignty. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. I'll catch y 'all on the other side. In late July, Twitter's logo suddenly changed to an X, followed by Elon Musk's official announcement. Twitter is officially no more, and the website used by millions around the world is now called X. According to the platform's CEO, Linda Yaccarino, the rebranding was the next step toward, quote, the future state of unlimited interactivity, end quote, morphing Twitter into, quote, a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities, end quote, or a unified, quote, unquote, everything app. But who asked for this? At a time when our lives are only becoming increasingly digital, why should we hand all of our information to centralized opaque organizations that have a track record of using it unethically? Sure, these services can be profoundly convenient, and many people undoubtedly enjoy having one user friendly application that can manage so much of their digital and real lives. But what's the price? Is convenience worth our freedom? The idea of Twitter as an everything app was seemingly inspired by the popular Chinese platform WeChat, which allows users not only to chat, make calls, and send media, but also to make payments and access a wide range of financial and personal services. As Elon Musk has said, you basically live on WeChat in China. If we can recreate that with Twitter, we'll be a great success. Despite sounding convenient on paper, there's a genuine concern about what happens when you use a single point of access for your entire digital world. If you do anything deemed unacceptable, generally by algorithms designed by people you will never know, you can be cut off in a second, often with little to no recourse. Last October, for example, some WeChat users in China reported that they were banned from the platform entirely, effectively killing their digital self, just for reposting some questionable banners condemning Xi Jinping. More recently, X itself literally hijacked a 16 -year -old account that used the atX handle, replacing its name with atX, followed by a 14 -digit long sequence of numbers without any prior warnings, consent, or compensation. Twitter's rebranding was happening alongside the launch of Meta's new community messaging service called Threads. It joined Meta's other social media offerings, including Facebook and Instagram, and is designed for sharing text updates and joining public conversations in competition with X. Considering Meta's complicated history with customer data, it's unsurprising that many are concerned that Threads is simply a new avenue for information gathering and potential abuse. Many big tech companies like Meta and X have tried to create everything platforms by expanding into new products because being present in users' day -to -day lives is a way to gather untold gigabytes of data on people worldwide. But without owning your account, everything can be unilaterally taken away in an instant, and everything becomes a single point of surveillance and potential failure.
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"Just gotten over a couple of years, and again that's just from using gift cards for paying my bills, going to buy groceries, I mean it's my debit card. Anything that I do with my debit card, that you would do with your debit card if you do it with the Fold card, you get 1 % base Sats back plus spends on everything. And I am using that money to work on a development project, I'm putting it all towards a really, really exciting development project, and I just think that's really neat, that I have these that funds were totally low barrier, like I didn't have to do anything, I just switched to Fold for my debit card, and I think they are finally going to see a project that I have been dabbling in and trying, like slow progress and incremental moving from one person to another, I finally have some real funds to dedicate to it, and I basically got it all for free from using the Fold card and buying gift cards at discounts, and that's pretty awesome, so thank you Fold. Oh, and with that, do not forget, this is only through June by the way, I totally forgot to mention that, but they are giving away 100 ,000 Sats for signing up and using the Fold card for the first time, and that includes the free card and the Spin Plus card, so I do the Spin Plus, I do the Premium, which is only $10 a month, but all you have to do is sign up on the app, get either card, and spend $20 on it. Fund it with a little bit and spend $20 anywhere, you'll still get the Sats back, and you get 100 ,000 Sats, which is more than the $20 by the way, and this is all available straight through my link, BitcoinAudible .com slash Fold. They're basically paying you for the first thing you buy on the card. Definitely check that out, and then obviously you're going to want to keep it safe by sending your Sats, withdrawing your Sats to your cold card, or your tap signers, whatever you got. 9 % off at BitcoinAudible .com slash cold card. Alright, and with that, let's get into today's read, and it's titled, What are the key properties of Bitcoin? By Jameson Lopp What is Bitcoin? Many have attempted to answer this question, but I believe that our quest to do so
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"Who controls Bitcoin core? By jamison lop. Understanding how the focal point of Bitcoin development operates. The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin cores at GitHub repository, tends to come up on a recurring basis. This has been cited as a quote central point of control of the Bitcoin protocol. By various parties over the years, but I argue that the question itself is a red herring that stems from an authoritarian perspective. This model does not apply to Bitcoin. It certainly is not obvious to alignment as to why that is the case. Thus, the goal of this article is to explain how Bitcoin core operates and at a higher level how the Bitcoin protocol itself evolves. The history of Bitcoin core Bitcoin core is a focal point for development of the Bitcoin protocol, rather than a point of command and control. If it ceased to exist for any reason, a new focal point would emerge. The technical communications platform upon which it's based currently the GitHub repository is a matter of convenience rather than one of definition or project integrity. In fact, we already have seen Bitcoin's focal point for development change platforms and even names. In early 2009, the source code for the Bitcoin project was simply a dot roller file hosted on source forge. Early developers would actually exchange code patches with satoshi via email. On October 30th, 2009, Sirius, or Marty Molly, created a subversion repository for the Bitcoin project on SourceForge. In 2011, the Bitcoin project migrated from SourceForge to GitHub. In 2014, the Bitcoin project was renamed to Bitcoin core.
Bitcoin Audible
Who Controls Bitcoin Core? By Jameson Lopp
"Who controls Bitcoin core? By jamison lop. Understanding how the focal point of Bitcoin development operates. The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin cores at GitHub repository, tends to come up on a recurring basis. This has been cited as a quote central point of control of the Bitcoin protocol. By various parties over the years, but I argue that the question itself is a red herring that stems from an authoritarian perspective. This model does not apply to Bitcoin. It certainly is not obvious to alignment as to why that is the case. Thus, the goal of this article is to explain how Bitcoin core operates and at a higher level how the Bitcoin protocol itself evolves. The history of Bitcoin core Bitcoin core is a focal point for development of the Bitcoin protocol, rather than a point of command and control. If it ceased to exist for any reason, a new focal point would emerge. The technical communications platform upon which it's based currently the GitHub repository is a matter of convenience rather than one of definition or project integrity. In fact, we already have seen Bitcoin's focal point for development change platforms and even names. In early 2009, the source code for the Bitcoin project was simply a dot roller file hosted on source forge. Early developers would actually exchange code patches with satoshi via email. On October 30th, 2009, Sirius, or Marty Molly, created a subversion repository for the Bitcoin project on SourceForge. In 2011, the Bitcoin project migrated from SourceForge to GitHub. In 2014, the Bitcoin project was renamed to Bitcoin core.
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NFL suspends 5 players for violating gambling policy
"Three are suspended indefinitely for betting on NFL games last season and will miss next season. Washington Shaka Tony plus Detroit's quintes cephas and CJ Moore, the Lions immediately released both two other lions are suspended 6 games for betting on non NFL games that at league facility Stanley berry hill and Jameson Williams. The league says a review found no evidence indicating the use of insight information or that any game was compromised. Gambling incidents are relatively rare in the NFL, which handed down perhaps its most famous punishment 60 years ago, suspending future Hall of Famers Paul hornung and Alex Karras, a full season citing bets on league games and associating with gamblers, Sagar Meghani, Washington.
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"The message. And then building and adopting as fast as we can go to win the geopolitical battleground. Is going to make or break our case anyway. It is going to be the thing that proves us right or proves us wrong. And I just, I think the crypto space, the altcoin and chick coin, space is just not really relevant. It made a whole lot more sense in 2017 just spend a lot of time and energy on that. But I think it makes a whole lot less sense today. Now I've got a lot of notes from this piece for things that I wanted to address and push back a little bit on what Jameson said, but I have way, way, way too many notes. And this is already practically a two hour episode, and it's late. So one thing I will hit says quote Bitcoin is not merely money. It is a new type of database with radical integrity and robustness assurances that can be used to improve the trustworthiness of other systems that anchor into it. This perspective also seems to grind the gears of some maximalists who believe that Bitcoin should only be money. Now, again, we talk about this in the guy's tank. But this is true on its face. That it is a new type of database, it is a radical degree of integrity and settlement assurances, I mean, it's basically a giant distributed timestamp server. Satoshi even explained it that way. But if I had to describe myself, I think the term that jamison lump, even though I wouldn't align entirely in my decisions and the degree to which I left more room for something else, so to speak, I would probably call myself a Bitcoin monetary maximalist. And my entire argument in the guys take for Bitcoin maximalism was about the monetary aspect. But when I hear something like this, that it should only be used as money. Is I do not believe that it should only be used for money. I believe that money should never its use as money should never be sacrificed for some other much lesser use case. Far less important value. Money is necessarily a sound global censorship resistant digital monetary good is far and away the most valuable use case there is. I've said this many, many times on the show, but the money is the network that enables an economy to flourish, to grow. The utility and people say, oh, your money has no utility. It doesn't do anything. Failed to recognize something that has so great a utility as to be invisible. Because there is no valuable, there is no economic exchange and communication without it. The money is basically the value of the money is basically a reflection of all other utilities put together. It's the size of the whole economy.
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"As much as the Bitcoin community and the Bitcoin only community is very strong and is growing. And I think it will continue to grow. And we aren't going anywhere. I think the conviction is stronger than it's ever been. But whatever it is that we are doing to get people into that, most people simply make the mistakes that lead them there. And maybe that's the only way. But I think there is something to be said for being more welcoming, and you can do that, and I understand that I have these two sides of me that argue about this a lot is the balance between loosening the message between hallucinating between watering down the message, watering down the truth, and between being a dick. And I think that's just a very, very difficult tightrope to walk on, but it can be done. It apps there is no reason that we can not be convicted that we can not be straightforward and explain ourselves politely. Without giving an inch to the message without watering down what we're saying at all. You do not have to lie to be nice. In fact, I think that is a horrible, horrible perception that has been pushed by the mainstream is that being nice is in telling people what they want to hear and making them comfortable. And I completely disagree. And I talked about this in the guy's take as well. Is telling someone a difficult truth. That will make the conversation uncomfortable. But giving it to them directly and kindly. Is what is being nice. It is far not you are being, I would argue it is, it is a terrible person who refuses to tell someone that they know what they know is true. Just to keep the conversation comfortable. That is someone who is more afraid, more concerned for their comfort than the delusions of some other person. Falsehoods matter. When you try to live by a lie, you will be punished for
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"Now, I don't feel like it's super important to go back into all of this again. Jamison lop. I mean, particularly on the show, not for lob. But lap has been on the receiving end, which even mentions this in the article. This has happened many times to lop throughout the history of Bitcoin. Throughout his history in Bitcoin, and this or at least my impression of this is that it is a response largely to the two Casa adopting Ethereum to selling multi sig custodial services to Ethereum users. And for the Ethereum network. I mean, I'll be perfectly honest. It kind of irks me a little bit. I do get it. He even uses his funny the video video uses from the Bitcoin 2022 conference with its Pascal gautier or gouthiere. I can't remember exactly how to say it. But it's Pascal from ledger who is asking the question about who has Bitcoin, who doesn't have Bitcoin and then who has Ethereum. And I'm the one actually saying, I was a moderating the panel, but I'm the one actually telling everybody to get out. Now, obviously, obviously I was joking. And it's actually funny. I can't even remember who it was. But somebody on Twitter cut that and literally tried to start an outrage thing and post it in a bunch of different places that guy swan was an asshole. 'cause he was literally literally thought that people should leave the conference if they had Ethereum, which I feel bad for some money like that who can't who can not, I can not can not identify a joke, like life must not be any fun at all if you just don't recognize that everybody around you all sarcasm, like imagine if you went through the world, not being able to recognize any sarcasm. But I mentioned that, I think I'm pretty sure I just muted the guy. I don't really remember. And it didn't come up again. But I mentioned that simply because,
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"Properties were superior because it's now sometimes more deflationary than Bitcoin. Tweet from Jameson lop. Dear Bernstein, Charles Larson, and Greenpeace USA. We haven't heard back regarding collaboration, understandable it can feel overwhelming. I hereby offer to change the proof of work code for a consultation fee of ten Bitcoin, thus saving 95% of your budget, PS I will even compile the binaries. In tweet. Defending against such narratives is perfectly acceptable. If all corners did not attack Bitcoin and did not attempt to ride the coattails of Bitcoin by conflating things as all being part of the same crypto industry there'd be far less conflict. But from my perspective, a line gets crossed when bitcoiners butt into other folks lives to chastise them from a position of moral superiority. Toxic bitcoiners are those who act like it's not good enough for Bitcoin to win. Everyone else has to fail.
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"Why? Because you're not a true Bitcoin or that's why. You can think you're doing everything right and pass every single purity test that comes your way. But you will eventually find that one purity test that you fail. And that makes you dear reader not a true Bitcoin, not just you, but all of us. Not only are Bitcoin maximalists not true bitcoiners, they're actually shit corners. End excerpt. A tweet from Andreas antonopoulos. The ideological purity test is not restricted to Bitcoin maximalism. It also involves a whole spectrum of other toxic isms that must all be passed. Over time, it has become a narrower and narrower ideological framework, reaching a toxic singularity. Ultimately, the only pure Bitcoin will be a ridiculous caricature, as one by one they attempt to cancel those who deviate. This rigid ideology is self mocking with delicious irony. Political correctness run amok and identity politics by those who claim to hate both. There's a particularly thorny issue underneath all the talk of Bitcoin maximalism, which is that it can be quite difficult to tell if a given maximalist is logical or emotional, scientific or dogmatic. If you can't engage in long form conversation with them. And engaging in long form discussions of first principles is not particularly conducive on popular social media platforms. Maximalism is already heterogeneous. Unlike traditional meat space cultures, there are no geographical boundaries that contain bitcoiners and serve to guide its culture. Unlike traditional cultures, in Bitcoin, nobody knows your identifying attributes, unless you choose to disclose them. Bitcoin culture is heterogeneous, despite any stereotypes that have arisen due to a small but potent group of folks who are active on social media. Loud and aggressive bitcoiners on Twitter are not representative of Bitcoin culture. Not even Bitcoin Twitter as a whole can be representative of Bitcoin culture. At the time of writing, hive has indexed 22,000 accounts belonging to the Bitcoin Twitter community. That is barely a drop in the bucket in comparison to the estimated millions of Bitcoin owners. Most bitcoiners don't care about it enough to spend much time talking to others about it. Much less to make it a part of their persona. Some bitcoiners choose to follow a white paper based orthodoxy. But just as with any organized religion based on written text, it can be interpreted in a variety of ways and has known flaws. Tweet from Jameson lop fundamentalists should note the following things are not described in the Bitcoin white paper. Script, asics multisig, addresses, mining pools, 21 million coin cap, 8 decimal precision, HD address derivation, 2016 block difficulty retarget. Best chain does not equal longest chain and much, much more. In tweet. Some bitcoiners believe it is divine and pure due to its immaculate conception and mythological founder who sacrificed immense wealth. They love to quote satoshi, even out of context, if it furthers their desired narrative. Others consider satoshi to largely be an irrelevant curiosity at this point. Bitcoin has no official leaders, but some folks choose to take on cheerleader positions and minigame followings of like minded bitcoiners who agree with their perspectives on orthodoxy and morality. Some folks look at Bitcoin and see it as a cult, and it certainly does have some cult like attributes. But if we're comparing the sociology of Bitcoin to a religion, I'd consider it to be less like Catholicism and more like Protestantism or even Islam. Why?
Bitcoin Audible
"jameson" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible
"A history of Bitcoin maximalism. Written by Jameson lop. Bitcoin maximalism isn't what most people think it is, but there is a logical explanation for how it transformed into what we see today. Over the past decade, the crypto asset ecosystem has exploded in size and complexity. While the overwhelming majority of projects are arguably scams or simply shitty ideas, one in a hundred does manage to innovate and find product market fit. Bitcoin maximalism has evolved as a result, but it has also become more complex as schisms have appeared. Unfortunately, as I'll explain throughout this post, some aspects of stereotypical maximalist culture as it is known are detrimental to the calls of Bitcoin adoption. The goals for this article are as follows. Provide a historical overview of impactful points for Bitcoin maximalism journey. Describe variants of maximalism and the pros and cons of toxic behavior. Offer warnings and suggestions for going forward. This is an incredibly lengthy essay, very few readers will make it all the way through. If you really want to skip all the details, you can jump to the summary and conclusion. The history of toxic maximalism genesis long ago in the days before Bitcoin Twitter had even formed as a community. The shelling point of Bitcoin discussion and culture was the Bitcoin talk forums. It was a simpler time. There were hundreds of new network launches that were regularly publicized by their creators with an in posts on the altcoins board. Pretty much all of them were trivially modified copies of the Bitcoin code base with changes that were mostly marketing and little substance.
Bitcoin Audible
A History of Bitcoin Maximalism by Jameson Lopp
"A history of Bitcoin maximalism. Written by Jameson lop. Bitcoin maximalism isn't what most people think it is, but there is a logical explanation for how it transformed into what we see today. Over the past decade, the crypto asset ecosystem has exploded in size and complexity. While the overwhelming majority of projects are arguably scams or simply shitty ideas, one in a hundred does manage to innovate and find product market fit. Bitcoin maximalism has evolved as a result, but it has also become more complex as schisms have appeared. Unfortunately, as I'll explain throughout this post, some aspects of stereotypical maximalist culture as it is known are detrimental to the calls of Bitcoin adoption. The goals for this article are as follows. Provide a historical overview of impactful points for Bitcoin maximalism journey. Describe variants of maximalism and the pros and cons of toxic behavior. Offer warnings and suggestions for going forward. This is an incredibly lengthy essay, very few readers will make it all the way through. If you really want to skip all the details, you can jump to the summary and conclusion. The history of toxic maximalism genesis long ago in the days before Bitcoin Twitter had even formed as a community. The shelling point of Bitcoin discussion and culture was the Bitcoin talk forums. It was a simpler time. There were hundreds of new network launches that were regularly publicized by their creators with an in posts on the altcoins board. Pretty much all of them were trivially modified copies of the Bitcoin code base with changes that were mostly marketing and little substance.
Crypto Voices
"jameson" Discussed on Crypto Voices
"Depends on exactly the nature of why they're locked out of the funds. So actually, let's pivot back then to Bitcoin and you mentioned you're going to be able to work a little bit more on changing some of the perhaps the protocol level things and has it relates to your service there. But I guess just first, generally, broadly, I think the last time we spoke, it was right in the middle of the Civil War, as it's now been called between the big blockers, the small blockers, however you want to say it. It took four years, but we got a great upgrade in taproot, and we had this new, I don't know if news the right word, but we have the signaling process. Just one broad question generally about Bitcoin and how it changed and how long it took to get that taproot upgrade and how methodical it was and how different Bitcoin has remained compared to perhaps other projects in the space. Just general kind of reflections. Do you have any do you feel pretty pretty well about how all the upgrade process is going in Bitcoin and just sort of any reflections there over the last many, many years that you've been in the space? I would say my main takeaway is that far too many people are still scarred and battle weary and I would say the kind of like where we were on the spectrum of conservative versus liberal to making changes. The fallout from the fork wars and scaling debates, I think, was that it really pushed the needle to make a lot of people even far more conservative because they want to avoid having this showdown of between different major economic players on the network and brinksmanship and people like trying to negotiate or use political tactics to figure out how to force changes through the protocol. And so the result of that is that the taproot upgrade, I would say, as an upgrade, it actually went extremely smoothly and there was no real contestation between different entities on the network. We didn't have any mining pools, I think, put up any objections to signaling and eventually validating it. But I think what a lot of people may have missed is that the sort of the friction and the major contests that were happening, they weren't happening out in the public sphere like they did during the scaling debates rather they were sort of raging on the developer mailing lists and chat rooms and whatnot. And this is because developers who are at the protocol level and actually caring and thinking about how do we activate stuff on this network that is worth what, like a $1 trillion now. They spent just a ton of time arguing over the nitty grittiest tiniest little details of the game theory behind how we might best activate this stuff on the network.
Crypto Voices
"jameson" Discussed on Crypto Voices
"Voices, Matthew rojinski is your host here from the Baltics joined here by my co host as always Alec Harris from halo privacy and in eastern U.S. Alec. What's going on man? How things over there? You know, holding steady, holding steady, my friend, as well as our Friends in Ukraine, so very happy about that. But obviously crazy times in any event, let's get back to Bitcoin a little bit for this show. Very happy to introduce our special guest, jamison lop, most of you should know him, Casa, cofounder, stato, very big privacy advocate at a great privacy presentation at honey badger a couple years ago here in Latvia. And yeah, all around cypherpunk, Jameson. Thanks a lot for joining us and welcome back to the show. Glad to be back. Appreciate a man. So yeah, I just wanted to touch base with the UC how things were in the sovereign Bitcoin world. You guys, I follow your Casa updates. You guys are working hard there. What's the latest going on at Costa? Well, let's see over the past few years, we've mostly been making small iterative tweaks to our product, just continuing to refine the onboarding and maintenance process. And ended up overhauling our inheritance program to make it even simpler because it was taking a lot of effort to get people onboarded to that. But so if I used to say this year is going to be a big year, we've got a lot of big projects underway, but nothing that we've announced yet. And it's exciting for me to, once again, really get my hands into some of the lower level protocol stuff since for the past few years, we haven't really been doing anything new at a technical level. It's really been more focused on our user experience. But we continue to survey the landscape and see what our clients are demanding and try to figure out, you know, how can we use the tools that are available to us and package them up in ways that make them more accessible to the average person. So that's really what I'd say costs main mindset is we don't want to reinvent the wheel. We don't want to do anything completely novel or exotic what we really want to do is just improve accessibility for people to be sovereign and as many ways as possible. And for the past four years that has meant helping people basically set up and maintain their on Shane Bitcoin vaults.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Spider-Man: No Way Home Review
"Eventually. What else do we have to see, sunny? Well, so the big movie out this weekend, and the big movie of the year really is Spider-Man: No Way Home. I mean, this movie is going to be an enormous enormous hit. I thought yesterday with a packed house at the Alamo drafthouse near me, audience loved it. Spider-Man, no way home, of course, our Spider-Man, it's got Tom Holland as Spider-Man. And if folks remember the end of the last movie, his identity had been revealed to the world by J Jonah Jameson who was playing a kind of Alex Jones like figure kind of conspiracy theorist, doing a very funny, very funny turn by J. K. Simmons. But this movie picks up right where that one left off. So everybody knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, Spider-Man and Peter Parker. He's got to try and figure out a way to get the world to forget about him and he turns to Doctor Strange, who has played by Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Cumberbatch, cashless spell that tries to reverse the race the knowledge that Peter Parker is Spider-Man from. Yeah, Doctor Strange should be smarter than this. You would think. He was warned not to cast the spell by his assistant slash sorcerer, the new sorcerer supreme Benedict Wong. And he does it anyway. He cast the spell in it. It messes up the very fabric of reality, villains from previous iterations of Spider-Man movies start pouring into Tom Holland's Spider-Man's universe, the green goblin, doctor octopus, the lizard electro. Hello, Peter. That's a great trailer, by the way. Hello. It's a really good trailer. I'm not giving away anything that's not in the trailer. I'm careful not to either. These are no spoilers here, really. And Peter's got to get Peter's got to get them back to their universe. That's all I'll say about that about a lot.
AP News Radio
Ohtani Steals Home, Angels Send Yankees to 4th Straight Loss
"For the second straight night the angels beat the Yankees in Jared Walsh played a big part in the six to four win with this three run Homer it's been a lot of fun pretty intense atmosphere these games are really going down to the wire against really good teams we got a ton of fans in the stands so you know really enjoyed playing in front of these crowds like this hopefully it continues New York got solo shot from Anthony Rizzo and Gary Sanchez the Yankees also grounded into five double plays Jimmy her get got the win Yankees starter Jameson Thailand took the loss now eight and five after winning thirteen in a row the yanks have now dropped four straight mark Myers Anaheim
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"jameson" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"Hello world. It's me dennis than we are in search of the new compassionate mail. I get to produce this episode. And we're here with the founder playboy. Boykin hello klay or have we gotta show this acton heyman we have our dear friend back now for the third dr jameson guard. Can you believe it's been a year. No is been a very long ear. That's one of the things that we want to talk about card because we were talking about historically like this has been a historic and historic year. And we were talking right before the program started about history and your you grew up in a showbiz biz family. Your stepmother was eva gabor right. Who was one of the gabor. Sisters greenacres had how wonderful movie career and this and you got an opportunity to be around the star system at that time and where where Compassion may or may not have n have entered into this and you were talking about some of the personalities that you had an how abe was truly as she was on tv. Could you talk more about that. You know martin buber suggests that there are two ways to approach another person either as a transaction or as a person i think. Compassion begins when we approach each and every person as a real person with intrinsic value and growing up in that environment. There were a lot of different personalities that i met along the way but eva was one of those individuals who really exuded quality of sincerity genuineness and care for the other person. She really saw each and every person as a genuine child guard. She came from a catholic traditions from hungary and her father was a general. She said we used to hide under the table. Because he was really general. And they escape from our budapest during the communist occupation. She came with very little with her sisters maga and joschka and her mother jolie really made a life for themselves and i will say it was deep blessing for me as a teenager to absorb fi her compassion. I think one of the many influences that move me and direction are committing my life as an actor. I don't know if you can play an emotion that is beyond something that you can experience and make it real. So that when somebody like a jimmy stewart which those of us who have this when he has that decency. I don't believe unless it's part of him. He could not make me believe it. But when you have that or a peck that's there or or that that that abe showed so beautifully haircut us great pre socratic philosophers characters destin. And i share that with all my students at the university. And if i don't teach you anything else. Character is justin so so well the seeds of character a did that and it was interesting again when you observed family dynamics to observe differences between her and her sisters genuinely a compassionate person and her co star greenacres. Eddie albert was the same pulling up. One night was dating. His daughter was on sunset boulevard and lo and behold guess what was coming all the way out to sunset boulevard corn stocks cow. Real thing so. I had to go through the corn stocks to get to the front door. Oh how wonderful it. Genuine person he we like a really exuded qualities in saturday. A desire for something better. Eddie was a student of the ranch book. Which i am and in in the book is found a lot of sage wisdom that helped him along his journey and is was alarming and very luxurious journey was always i We were clan. I were talking beforehand about what we wanted to discuss with you about what you learned about yourself during this past year what you learned about the world what you learned about your students. What some of the ways. That were that that that compassion has impacted influence need to influence more into what is going on. And and what is going on premier perspective so we were hoping to get a catch up with you on on. Pick any piece of that and will like you dennis. Mike you clay. When covid. I hit i doubled down. armed compassion. I recognized in polarized world. We're living in Standpoint of politics economics and social behaviors. They were living in such a world of seer and john says at best perfect love casts out all fear and so allied with perfect. Love comes the intention to demonstrate In the world and that's where compassion comes in so right out of the gate was early april. I think we got the alarm calls in march early. April are signed up for something called delivering with dignity which was deliver meals to the most at risk people in our community who were shut in because of cancer because of poverty or because of the number of things. And you know i As i said at the outset right nine oh two one. Oh brat i. I grew Privilege and so taking responsibility for that privilege was a very important mushin for me in the last year and not to say i haven't done in the past for double down on it during the coke kogo and i continue to double down on it out. So we're just amplifying our activities here locally around compassion win the george floyd murder to place or last year I scratch my head a so many of us did what could we do to begin to change culture because culture right compassion cultures. We really the only thing that's going to move us. Forward will so remember having a a talk lunchroom. Our attorney general eric ford about the fact that we had three elements of criminal justice system. We had the police force get them. We had re restrict attorney and the judicial system in jail and we had a little bit of rehabilitative Material.
Best Comics Ever
"jameson" Discussed on Best Comics Ever
"The fiftieth installment of this interview series. And today i'll be talking to one of my all time favorite creators. jim darlan in inker jamie jameson. About their work. On dread star returns in exciting. All new original graphic novel returning to the world of jetstar starlings cosmic university began in the early nineteen eighties. Under what was then marvel's epic imprint Jim of course is the creator of many marvel comics favorites like santos gomorrah drax the destroyer as well as the co creator of the likes of shonky and really i feel like. There's a co creator. Credit deserve on captain marvel. Even if that's not technically how things work with. Revamping the character there. And we've got jamie here. Of course inking dread star returns. This graphic novel will be available in print this june twenty twenty one and you can order now via ominous press dot com l. include links in the show notes. Jim jamie thanks so much for joining a gym molester with you for readers who primarily no you through your incredible marvel work seventies cosmic through infinity gauntlet on three. Your most recent said even thanos graphic novels with davis. What would you say are the biggest differences you see between the story of Nose and van thread star and the high lord. Pablo for example. There's no captain. America in the jetstar. Basically they're two different characters. I in the fact that santos's hunger that can never be a piece or satisfied that's Bases on character was dressed stars ataturkist. Who doesn't have a second half. He's very breaking things and bringing down. Evil empires asks his past history. Fruit is not much good at fitting in with everyday life and Being a productive member of that had led to do is a where i decided to put him when we brought him back twenty. Five years later. I addressed our returns. Yeah for sure no. It's it's an interesting timeline. It will definitely want to get to that. I should note here to for listeners We're going to try to stay somewhat spoiler free for jetstar returns for those who haven't had the chance to read it of course We may talk about little bit plot details here and there but i will try to give spoiler warning in the episode if we do talk about anything Plot related now. What was it about this particular. Dread star story That made you wanna come back. Really the focus of kind of the crux of the action of dread star returns There was exciting kickstarter campaign that the relaunch all of the works in these omnibus collections. That are fantastic looking from ominous press. What was it about the particulars of the plot of dread star returns. That had you kinda itching to get back to this character. Well it was putting together the star omnibus. That got things going again and this little lady behind me was a major contributor to getting me the actually draw again and the fact that she bugging me for doctor. Doom sketch blown a hole in my hand and i thought i was no longer to draw anything. I went three years without it but she could bugging me for this sketch and finally sat down and did it. After three years of squeezing balls and doing other exercise founded. I could actually drawing it and the turned out. She's a pretty good inker. At the time he was out as we went along and we have been working together. Now for two years overnight at a hosted two years working on dressed returns the book to comes after it and other little things middlemen variant covers and stuff like that also turned out We make a pretty good work team but as far as the plot itself went. I wanted to give everybody..
Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Jameson Whiskey and Cannibalism
"Whiskey today. Suck is soaked in whiskey. mostly jameson. Some irish whiskey a great drain for some fun times kicking back and enjoy the taste of one of the best exports. The emerald isle has to offer also popular drink in my experience for people to torture with by buying you shot after shot after shot until you're spending and puking in the parking lot talking about jameson will lead us obviously into talking about cannibalism. Yup john jameson. The founder jameson was originally a lawyer from a loa in scotland before he founded his distillery in dublin in seventeen eighty and eighteen o five. He rejoined joined by his son. John jamieson junior who took over the family business for the next forty one years junior built up the business before handing it over to his son. John jameson the third and eighteen fifty. One they were killing it by the turn of the nineteenth century. Jameson distilleries were the second largest producer in ireland of whiskey in one of the largest in the world producing a million gallons annually. Dublin at the time was the center of world whisky production. It was the second most popular spirit in the world after rum. An internationally jamison had h five became the world's number one whiskey and then almost a century later at the end of the nineteenth century. The jameson name would get tarnished a wee bit when reports came back from the congo. The john's great grandson. James s jameson. Jimmy james paid to watch a young girl be killed and eaten. Cannibalism not a great pr moment. Hard to build a successful ad campaign around some cannibalism. What the hell happened in the congo
WTOP 24 Hour News
Portland police detain more than 100 people during protest
"Killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the city of Portland, Oregon, has been the site of frequent protests, many involving violent clashes between officers and demonstrators. Last night, dozens of people were detained after another round of protests in the city detained a group of at least 100 marching through the Pearl District They started in Jameson Park. Some people started breaking windows that Some of the buildings in the Pearl District, and we did talk to some residents who came out after the windows were broken in the spaces below their apartments, and they were surprised. They said. They heard the breaking glass and came down and took a look. And you know they saw the people marching through and thought. Oh, boy, Here we go again, OK. Oi and TV reporter Jennifer Down Ling reporting over the summer, Portland saw more than 100 straight days of protests.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Portland police detain more than 100 people during protest
"Killing of George, Florida. Minneapolis, The city of Portland, Oregon, has been the site of frequent protests, many involving violent clashes between officers and demonstrators. Last night, dozens of people were detained during another round of protests in the city. They detained a group of at least 100 that were marching through the Pearl District They started in Jameson Park. Some people started breaking windows that Some of the buildings in the Pearl District, and we did talk to some residents who came out after the windows were broken in the spaces below their apartments, and they were surprised. They said. They heard the breaking glass and came down and took a look. And you know they saw the people marching through and thought. Oh, boy, Here we go again.
Landscape Disruptors
A Conversation With Britney and Caleb of Almond landscaping
"Caleb and brittany from almond landscaping. This is husband and wife team in. They just got done doing something that i think is one of those foundational kind of experiences on voting. They spent of. Was it a weaker a weekend. At a networking event and we're going to cover the importance of networking and mentoring. How are you guys doing. Thanks for having us good goodwill thanks for coming back on the air with us now. Can you just briefly. Explain to me what you guys were doing. My understanding is you. Went to a place called the hype house. What was that about it. It was an idea formulated a little while ago. But the the quick upfront of it is. It's the green industry. Hi house element was a gracious sponsor of the house and it was a collaborative event for a handful of influencers in the social media. Space in the green industry and a good chance for everybody to For a handful of I'd say well known Influencers come together create content network and You collaborate which is the theme of the day now from tiktok right. Which which credit. Paul jameson with With paul there because he came up with he kind of had the idea of these tiktok. Were doing these Like collaborative events or somewhat similar out on the west coast and he had floated the idea at one point a while ago of Doing a green industry version of it. Where a handful of people get together create content and do collaborative videos and podcasts and all sorts of stuff and And we're like well. Let's do it in the green industry. I reached out to to paul. Kinda push him on it and then it actually ended up happening mostly because of brittany on here in elizabeth fullerton. They kind of made. They're the ones that kind of made Made the gears made actually gears turn. I think so so now a lot of times when these guys get together to do these collaborations you guys. They'd benefit themselves right. I mean it's like oh you know i'm gonna borrow from this guy's audience get to see me. They i get but how does this feedback to help the industry as a whole. That's really the most important thing. Because if you're not one of the influencers that gets the benefit of of being there. What is the benefit to the audience What kind of content were you guys able to produce to help the guys guys that didn't get to be on the shortlist an invite to the event. Well it was in was i. I really consider myself Honored and privileged to be able to be involved in in the in the green issue hype house there and i would say what the main thing was. There was obviously a lot of You know collaboration between you know all the the influencers there and that was obviously beneficial for them but the audience one of the things. At least i can say for my audience. I was able to do things that i would normally do like through my instagram stories. And even our youtube channel and all that stuff is like. I went around with your sean spencer and brian fullerton a couple of days and britain a handful of people and we went and we would just go around. We're on anna. Maria island in florida for the week and we would just find local job sites and just go and tour the job sites and everybody would kinda report on it doing their own. Doing you know their own story. The way they do and bringing value to their audience that way just from a different location on different sites and mowing crews and just and so it was. It was a benefit i think to the audience of seeing you know some things in different regions Being reported by there. I say reported but really kinda was by their favorite Influencers wherever the right word is that. I know it was cool because like you were able to talk. Pavers on shawn spencer's channel right. And he doesn't normally provide that content his followers and jason krill who does fertilization and stuff. He was able to talk to people about that vice versa. Right jason creoles able we talked about fertilizing and stuff. I got on my channel so we took a tour around the neighborhood and just looked at zoysia grass bermuda grass and other stuff. I don't have in ohio. And i got a lot of questions for ten. How you care for it and so it was. It was a neat A conglomeration of information. I think the other thing we did is every night. We went live on a different person's channel and we made it to where people could ask questions And we filtered people in and out of the out of the spotlight so people could literally ask any question they wanted to any of the people and we were talking everything from favorite mowers too. You know how to buy or sell a business to how to grow or how best market and so really an event where you could get to you know for example. On like sean spencer shallower brian photons channel. You know we live on there. But they would see sean on there and they would ask sean about how they run a certain piece of equipment or how what their thoughts were on the best marketing practices or i would be on. Brian's channel or appeals and they would ask them paver heart scape related questions some stuff they may not normally have access to You know that kind of thing. So i think it was a really cool opportunity for for for the audience to to to get some in different information across a wide array of genres. Let's say
Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
2021 Super Bowl Ad Review
"Like there's two ads. I've really want to get everyone starts on I think they're the most polarizing we'll certainly talk about our picks for the best. Although i will say this year it was not exactly like a plus plus it was like you know pretty good lead like the the best ones were all pretty good And none of them were were tremendous home runs But that's the two that were kind of late editions. we already talked about only in passing But then also the two minute. Gps dot with bruce springsteen. Let's start with that nicole. I think we all know what what they were. Attempting you know like cheap wanted this rousing halftime in america type ram farmer. Type spot fill. It really fell flat. I actually kinda surprised that they released that one early because it was a two minute long spot. I thought at least it would be a two minute surprise So that was a little shocking to me. But yeah then when i saw it i was like oh man two minutes okay. Let's get cozy. Let's see what this is going to be like. Am i going to be laughing like last year. Because last year was such a pleasant like fun. Add to watch and this one. I just kinda felt like. Oh they're going like the safe route they're going like the middle of the road route. They're going to do the call for unity and also like to me. I as a consumer from the consumer perspective. I didn't love that. Because i feel like if i want to see a brand lean into its purpose i wanna see them. Take a side not do the middle of the road thing. I know that that's where a lot of Like i guess politics wise lot of people doing calls for unity but it still felt like a little too early for the brands to start doing the calls for unity. Like i'm still waiting for purpose from brands rather than middle of the road right now. I guess my question would be in. Jameson a. You and i talked about this many times. But i can't think of a brand that has ever succeeded by being like can't we all. Can we just come together. They learn anything from gap putting up that tweet that it was like a hoodie that had like read into on it and it's like a collie unity shoot rented after election day. Jeep is like we're going to spend twenty million dollars gap bruce springsteen in here and do the same exact thing in front of a hundred million and hope it works. I mean it was a touching message that i felt ill timed and i saw one tweet from at its kenya summit. A perfectly like what they displayed in that ad fundamentally goes against lead. Diversity inclusion is in america right now. And i think right just did didn't didn't showcase what america is today showcase a unity of one america used today. And you know what. I would have actually appreciated if they just re-run last year's groundhog day ad and donated that money to a cause that actually supports you know unifying missions I think that would have been funny and understandable and Yeah that that really fell flat a lot of the ads this year. Celebrities team to kind of try to force things like the cuts. The storylines is just we. I felt like the in this kind of i guess my last real thought on jeep is just the it's the kind of add that cmo's and and if i'm just being honest here because it's late i'm tired League basically wealthy white folks and and and just affluent people in general kind of ivory tower folks are gonna be like what a brave message like wouldn't important message. I'm so glad they used their storytelling to do this. You know what i mean. And and that's but to everyone else on the ground like who who has survived this past four years and knows how much farther we still have to go. It's just like oh there's a small church in kansas. That's that leaves their doors open. Okay cool then. Never mind like we're all good and you know it's just anyway. That's that's my. But i i also wanna make sure we say plenty of time talking about oatley because who wants to start us off one. No we haven't gotten to talk realism curious. I loved story. edited the story By katie lindstrom and No they wanted to go with something else in there. Trying to come up with With all these eight years and ended up like the ceo was kind of forced into the spot because he was like well. I guess i have a better idea. And he brought back an idea that he had and it was just him trying to come up with a jingle and From i saw you know it. It definitely caused a stir In terms of using a simple melody and a simple backdrop and like a shaky table with you know that lovely oatmeal gone. They're really worried about that class. Like nobody take this down from production. Okay we're going to go with it. But i thought it was so so on brand you know it. It was not expected and A little endearing. And you know i am. I am a consumer of that brand. And you know they. They also laid that message with you. Know the mission of. Let's also be sustainable and talk about. Let's let's take a quick pause to listen to the song for anyone who might have missed it in all of its glory It reminds me of like kind of like nineties weirdo alternative Kind of punk music. I don't know there's this weird vein of like intentionally bad dead dead milkman. style was. let's give it a listen made for you. Who moves like male but made for you. Well no no no no bill nicole. What did you think of the okay. So here's the thing. I actually when i was first watching it. I thought to myself like oh. That's actually kind of cute. I don't hate this. And then everyone i was in the room with just got quiet and they all just started like laughing at the same time. They're like oh. This is terrible terrible. We hate this. We all hate this. So i actually think that i'm one of the few. Maybe i'm i'm the right consumer here or something. I like the brand also personally but yeah. I didn't hate it right away. I get the cornyn est. And i get that like i don't know maybe maybe now that i've listened to not while i'm also editing and distracted by other things i get it but i listen. I was kind of like oh cute. Okay i have to say. Maybe one of my favorite advertising tweets of all time. And i won't name him because he's a great dude and Good on him for his transparency but so someone tweeted that oatley dropped the ball and then a few minutes later shared his own. Tweeden's i've been informed that my agency created the and and so it's actually fantastic
The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"jameson" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"No knees. I don't know if he ever retired but i don't think he's playing baseball again. Okay he might still be under contract to be honest so that's why he hasn't retired. Yeah right hand signed brad hand side with nationals for one year ten and a half million bucks This is a move that i kind of wish the yankees were willing to make and not worry about the luxury tax one year. Ten and a half million bucks. You add another quality arm to the bullpen one and done kind of in a vacuum in a vacuum. It's the yankees. Were never going to do it because of the luxury tax. But don't you agree like that could have been useful signing. Yeah could have gotten a lot more out of him. Probably than at amount of you know. I saw another report that the yankees are looking to dump atom out of. You know they were. They looked like they were trying to dump it in the pittsburgh area. Go take this gotcha. As if it was your boy who is your big signing. He had a good first year. It a great first year. He just saying it really sucked in two thousand nineteen. That's been broken. That was your guy though. I mentioned okay. I mentioned gary sanchez. Earlier pudge rodriguez did a wfan interview. And he had some interesting coming out or something talking to wfan. to be honest. gary sanchez. Guys i got something to say about gary sanchez. What apparently they are. Play for the yankees. I don't know that they're friendly. I don't wanna say friendly. But they have talked and worked together. A few times but only punches. Puerto rican and gary's dominica god oil and water. No no. i'm just saying. Like i. At first i was like oh. Maybe they've got a dominican connection. Then i remember. Pudge rodriguez is puerto ricans. He may be the best. Puerto rican one of the best puerto rican baseball players evidence. Beltran says says no to that. Carlos beltran cheater pudge rodriguez probably did a bunch of steroids when he was in texas. All right. pudge rodriguez said he doesn't enjoy baseball right now. He feels like he comes to the ballpark. And it's depressing thing for him right now. That's what i see. When he's playing. I think too much pressure on himself is trying to do too much of talk to him a few times. And he's very positive. But gary plays in an organization in a city. Where obviously you have to do a good job pretty much. Every night. he needs to breathe. He needs to relax himself. He needs to believe that he's a great player because now the mental part of his game is not there. He feels like everything else. He doesn't have. Baseball is depressing for gary sanchez. Says hall of famer pudge. Rodriguez is absolutely right. This is exactly what we've been talking about this. This this is where. It's falling short for gary right now. It's the mental side of the game. He's got a he's got to believe in himself. He's got all the god-given ability to mash the ball and he's got a a rocket arm he's got all the abilities in the world that's why he's still on this team. That's why the leash along with him. He's gotta get. I've been saying this for years. He needs a frigging sports coach. He needs a sports therapist. Like you need someone just like psychologist. Fix thank you. He needs to fix the mental game to see the fueled. The what was it. I keep going back to this. Move as ball bagger vance he has a see the field like block everything out see. That doesn't golf movie. Good golf movie. Will smith caddy. Not ben affleck the other. One matt damon. What am i thinking of. What's what's the one with kevin costner. I'm thinking of called tin cup where he hits the ball in the water like one hundred times. The it's an amazing it's a it's a great movie Is kevin costner. The best sports movie actor ever does he have the best. Does he have the best sports movie on his. Imdb page he's got. He's got to hall of fame classic baseball movies in Field of dreams and bull. Durham he also has for love of the game. Which is an underrated movie. He's got ten cup. He did draft day. Which i haven't seen solid but very different not. It was entertaining. Also that haven't seen yeah. I think he's up there. I definitely think out there. He's saying ten cop is one of these movies. That's just a phenomenal phenomenal movie. I look he's got he's got to figure it out in his in his in his brain man. That's it like you just gotta get gotta get to that good place get. He's got to get to that happy place he's gotta go stand in front of a. You've gotta be happy. He's gotta imagine his grandmother and a field of whatever. It is whatever that happy. Whatever that happy places. Gary sanchez needs to go there. Because do you know in happy. Gilmore when Shooter mcgavin is like making out with his grandmother instead. Ask gary and gary gary's disturbed happy place is is just like kyle. Gosh yoga like making out with gary. All it's terrible words. Joe joe girardi been been militant and screaming at him. Look i want gary sanchez to succeed. Because you know. Why if gary sanchez is playing. Well it's a very very good thing for the new york yankees. And i'm a new york yankees fan when gary sanchez is an earlier. I folks when jerry sanchez is not playing. Well it's not good for the yankees. Because then we all have to hitch our wagon to kyle ishioka. That's not the best thing in the world. Gary sanchez is bar none the best catcher on this team. He just needs to show it now. And it's gotta be it's between the ear soul. Very much and padre padre guess who clearly has a relationship with gary sanchez is being just the doubling down on this That we've thought for a long time and And proving it to be true so it would just be so fantastic as a yankees fan this year. If we didn't have to have. Gary sanchez talks all season about. If he's gonna start if he's going to not start if he can be the starting catcher because that that's been going on for three seasons whether it's austin roe mind or whether it's cuyahoga yoga like i just don't. I'm so tired of having the conversation. I just want gary like you said to play well so he can shut everyone up and we can just stick him behind the plate..
The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"jameson" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"Pretty close one hundred and twelve innings at a four point three one day. How much of an impact is that really. It depends on those are felt like is those beginning of the season. You know as a bridge to get to some other guys. They at the end of the season to get but if he's taking a four point three one era into september. He's not i. I can't wait for david garcia to take the ball game two or game three of the playoffs. No you're kind of like well. If we get to a game four flip a coin is going to be garcia. Is it going to be montgomery. Is it going to be clark schmidt. Like that's where he is probably. That's a realistic. Expectation is key. Might start a playoff game and you kind of flip. A coin. With him on the mound. That's just three hours and that's fine. I don't think that the way that they have this thing set up. They're not expecting him to take a playoff start by any means that said if one of these young guys steps up and flashes and is able to you know take a bigger step in. They're expecting than they have. The they certainly have the potential cows point. He's exciting because he's got that potential. Yes that's their saw. The potential in him. He's got to work on some things young kid so there's a lot of things that that he has to get better at but But certainly like the demeanor of him. The talent that he has is is there. And we're seeing this guy. I mean you're you're showing me that. The barrel percentage was not great and the whiff percentage was not right. But what i saw was that his fastball had you deceptive velocity. Because he has he hides it a bit and they were having a very the opposing hitters. Were having a difficult time. Picking up speed sample picking up that that That fastball and when you have deception fastball and you are replicating that same motion and that same delivery for that change up. You're going to get a lot of guys swinging a missing because there's the variance between the two speeds. It doesn't at that at that point. It doesn't necessarily matter as much know your top level speed. So i i liked what i saw. So i'm i'm looking at the Thanh stats right now. And he's got less than a home run per nine innings allowed in his career so far. So that's it doesn't eighteen season and check it out because it's an impressive season He was ninth in jahra ninth and fifth tweeted a phipps that. I can't believe i did that. No when you when you drafted that tweet. Did you not have fifth originally. Then you're like what i've heard andrew talking about this google fi v. I think it's up or fep. Something i'd to google it. I had to look up. Meant that i had to look up the person who is the best at it so i could get a so. I could get a you know. A top level barometer. You used it but do you know why it's impressive. Yes because it takes the field. There's out of play. It tells you the result of the pitch essentially one of the. Wh what i like to do is look. Your fifth is one of the ones that i actually like. I think it's a good step. I just this for the education of all the all the listeners. to in case they want to be educated. Not that i by any means. Donald mackay date this. So what i like to do as i say okay. Look at his era because the ira is a is a old school staff that we all know and love and we all can understand three point two zero era beautiful then i look at his fifth and if his fifth is close then i then my mind says that the ira is legit okay. So it's v that season with three point four six close very close that area was legit however if you look at that three point two two era and then saw a four point one five fifth. You'd say that area not legit. That was likely to come up. Because i was getting about him is that yes exactly because era has luck involved. There's fielder luck. There's there's a lot of to for four point two v and and three to yarra now if it's over over two hundred nine hundred ninety s well over one hundred ninety one innings it probably would would sustain itself in the. Ira would start to come up. You're right about that but say it was one hundred and five innings there could be. It could be a variance there. So the the thing. I'll go back to you in that in that year is yes i know. He had tommy john surgery. There's there's a couple of things if you're looking at if you're looking at his stats from eighteen. And nineteen when he got hurt. There's two things that stuck out to me. One in eighteen hundred ninety one innings pitched love that absolutely love that i think it was top ten in the league and there are a bunch of people bunch up at the top it was it was only a few innings off of the top person. The national league yara in february tied for ninth in the league. So he's among the top ten in the national league in a lot of these stats when you look at two thousand berg's a good place to pitch to let's also when you look at two thousand and you look at two thousand and nineteen. Look if you're i don't know what you have but if you have a thanks so look at the difference between the sliders also. There was a major again. Small amount of innings. He only pitched like thirty nine innings. Thirty seven things in two thousand nine hundred but his slider percentage was up and when you think about his delivery and what you have to do with your arm when you throw a slider. There's definitely more torque on your elbow at that point so i don't know if that had anything to do with it. That's just a coincidence. But he definitely upped his slider a percentage that year. I think it was like thirty nine percent or something like that. It was it was much higher So the the whole the. I mentioned earlier less than a home runs per nine innings allowed in his career and i was expecting his ground ball rate to be a lot higher. I mean his rate fit. Yeah which is decent. But it's not like it's not crazy high like by no means is he a ground ball rioters. When i was. I was looking at that too because i thought the exact same thing. It's funny and then. I went back to gary cole- stats. I was looking to see what was is like forty forty three close. They're both pretty close. Yeah yeah and and garrett cole give up two home runs per nine innings last year. So Yeah i mean that also might be a product of pitching in pittsburgh. Like i said pittsburgh's a good place to pitch. That's true to some of those fly ball and he's going to be coming to yankee stadium. He's gonna pitching fenway toronto baltimore all these places always that a lot of home runs. Those are those are those are places in the american league's wise. I'm interested in the other. So we know the injury. That's one of the obviously the thing that we have to look for the the second thing that assuming health at this point we gotta look to see how he is making adjustments and how he's reacting to these pitching mechanic as well you shortening her arm swing that that's a. That's a pretty big. That's a pretty big delivery difference and not going all the way back so being able to one keep the velocity up which i've seen reports that he's ninety five ninety six. He's he's still pop. The glove You know can't that mechanical elbows. You can see how it is to get back into bad bad habits getting all the way back there or if he's able to really be disciplined in stay now. What mabley is this new thing. Well if he could do with a computer yeah. I don't know if he's physically able to touch his elbow or is allowed to touch the players. No no especially not during covid no touching but even africa but i'm not sure lakes allowed to touch the players. Get behind the computer nerds. Tell us what you see. He's only allowed to glass. You're not you're not. You're not allowed to talk to me. He looked so nervous. When you went out to the mount every single time so buster olney was tweeting. A you mentioned this a few minutes ago that garrett cole and him our friends and like the yankees got a recommendation from coal. Basically that this guy yes you wanna trade for this guy s. You're you're buying that. You're drinking drinking that kool aid. You kidding me this. This is exactly the cool. I know where you're going with. Let me let me go there. Then please let me go there..
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"jameson" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"Savvy had surgery february twenty seventh. I was one day off ferro. Twenty-seventh that means his timetable to return to competition. Put him somewhere in march to may of two thousand twenty one cashman do remember in his press conference said could be june could be july could earlier be later. It's probably going to be later. You regret i. And i think a move like this the fact that they have all this depth look. I was pining for them to go out and make a big move with pitching because they had the ability to do that. because the roster's the roster played out that they had the they have a available spots on the major league roster for a major league pitcher and they could have made a trade or made a big free agent splash and been good because they have these minor league guys who can stay in the minor leagues for a little bit. That's not exactly what they did. They made a couple moves but they added body so they they went halfway there. They weren't half of that maybe even a little further than halfway there. They added bodies that have serious potential right kluber arab. We talked about this last week. I think is potential is extremely curb. I don't think it's what everybody thinks. It is jameson. I think does have a very very high ceiling. If he's healthy he's got he's got all of the ability in the world and i think there's a very high ceiling there that we had bought time. There are there are a ton of arms right. Now that can contribute today on the major league roster and that's a very some of them you've got to find out of the the lot of arms behind garrett cole to that you have confidence with putsch pitching in october. That's the goal for the regular season. Find two out of the seven to have confidence going into october. But the that study continues that it found anecdotal evidence and it talked to Or sorry if found anecdotal evidence and it also looked at actual data to find for whatever reason teams ease their pitchers back into their full workload in the first season. Back from tommy. John surgery however there is no evidence to directly link workload and injury following. Tommy john surgery that makes sense so teams still take a slow approach with their pitchers. They don't have them pitch full innings. They have on pitch counts etc. However there's no evidence to suggest that if a pitcher goes back into his full workload in his season following tommy. John surgery that it's going to directly lead to the same injury again. I don't think it's always a about leading to the same injury. I think it's also about finding your mechanics. Finding the the the you know the confidence level for the pitcher on the mound to get back to where he was before surgery. So there's a lot of other things that play into this besides them potentially getting reinjured. I think most of the time what we see the year after a tommy john surgery when a guy comes back yes he physically ready to come back. He's back but he's not pitching to the same. You know the same lines that he would Before the surgery you don't see the the a lot of the same sharpness of the pitches. The location is takes a little while the comeback and again that confidence. I think that confidence the big thing. It just takes them to. You know it takes a beat for them to get back to the major league pitcher that they think they can be so. That's more to me. Why i think then bringing him slowly long. Build his confidence out. Make sure that the pictures are refined all those things rather than the the pitch lot so they have the ability to do that now. He doesn't need to be you know mediocre on the major league level. He can work on it behind the scenes and to kyle's question about what we think about debbie garcia his stats for twenty twenty. Three thirty four and a third innings. Four point nine eight year lamb playoff point one game two planner. Big big. Start in game two of the playoffs. Four point one five fifth. His statcast ranks are actually underwhelming. But i kinda wanna just. The caveat of only thirty four innings in their his best metric was walk percentage he ranked near the top of the league in walk percentage which is good but he allowed hard hit. He allowed high exit philosophy high. He hit kinda hard when guys made contact. Barrel percentage was bad with percentage was bad. He had good curve spin rate as well. However if you remember that start against boston he just didn't have his curveball and he got crushed. So i feel like that curve balls and x factor pitch for garcia was that when curbs on it kind of opens up his fastball and his changeup when curveballs not on he he's pretty hit -able at least that's what we saw in twenty twenty. I just don't think we saw enough to to really get a gauge of what he has long term. I think we saw flashes of what he can be in. We saw his deception. And i'll i'll take really from what we saw. David garcia in twenty twenty twenty was just for me all. I tests like these numbers. Don't really mean that much to me. Because just what would you take zips. Twenty twenty one projections for him. If if you could say right now i'll take that or not a roll. The dice hundred twelve innings pitched four point three or four point. Three on your hundred Yeah i bet. It's not a full season but that's pretty close. Yeah so when. You're todd about xp i'd like to see him take another. I'd like to see that that that short stint in twenty twenty did him well for twenty one and he'd be able to like the kid doesn't get phase as what we saw. It's a matter of just being sharpened preparing for major league season. I think that will be a big deal for him coming in now that he's already kind of gotten that out of the way totally. But i think when when kyle's question about will we have debbie garcia as as another guy in the rotation. I mean projections. You even just said..
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"jameson" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"They were talking about of a bunch about this trade in what the talks were with cashman and apparently they were in moscow. Well yes they did not which made me happy because we talked about that last week. I was like why wasn't even rumored. The yankees were in on moscow. But they were they were and what what cashman decided to do not go after him and take that that i guess bigger risk with james tien i i guarantee a lot of teams were extremely scared away because of these arteries and for whatever reason the yankees feel good about the The the where he is the health. He's definitely you know tried to revamp some mechanics if you look at him throwing now and where he was. He's put out some videos of throwing Just before around. Christmas time and Earlier in the month and you can certainly see the shorter arm blue blankets he. He doesn't go back as far. If you look at some of the older pictures of time in pittsburgh you see that ball like all the way above his head behind his back like really high and outstretched and you could just you know if you if you can continue that That arc in your mind you can see the big looping arm swing and there's a lot of torque on the elbow and you're doing that so they're definitely trying to comfort and and you know a cradle that elbow and make sure it. Doesn't you know hopefully guessing get into another bad position. So how much of the decision to not go. After months grove as hard or not make a trade for moscow of and decide to trade for thanh was due to their salary because musk grove is do four point. Four five million this coming season and tahu change shoe point to two point two five so about half they're both arbitrary under arbitration for the following season and then they're both free agents twenty twenty three so they're time line is different. It's just that i on makes about half rate now as what musk me. Well i'm sure also had. I mean there are some considerations there but i feel like with that amount of money. You can move things around and make a work if you needed to. But there was a higher prospect pool. That was that was needed For for that trade. Anton was a better value. And if you can get a guy who's coming out pitching again if he's healthy. I think it's a win. That's that's the biggest. That's the biggest thing. If if he can pitch to a pitch this season you the chances are he's doing pretty well because he's a good pitcher. So i like the move i really do. And the fact is that most probably going to be a much bigger and more expensive pool. Maybe they're asking for a major league player in into our or frazier. Who knows but. I'm happy with this i am. I think i'm happy to i. I don't want to get carried away like you were talking about managing expectations. This is not a you. Stick them behind garrett cole in the playoffs and you're confident against anyone he's going but that's not the type of pitch true it very well could be it very well could be. Because if he's pitching to that two thousand eighteen stat line. He's a damn good pitcher. That's a that's a solid number two. I know that but that is over a year ago two years ago plus tommy john surgery so it makes me feel better because the tommy john surgery now were were getting into well into our second year which is when we actually start to see these guys throwing much better so his rehab is tommy. John he had the surgery august of two thousand. So by the time august of this year rolls around two years removed from that surgery whereas severino is only a year out from the surgery as we speak right. Now i mean. He had surgery last february end of last february. I think it was february. Twenty sixth is when severino had the surgery of last year. So he's he's not gonna reach that two year mark until next for no but he's gonna be well into that second year. So i think severino at the end of the i think another thing what this does is it just buys more time for severino which i think they're trying to do and because they're certainly not gonna rush him back and if you put him towards the end of this season middle end of the season you're well into your two for him as well and and you're hopefully going to see better results physically you know him and making cleaner mechanical changes and things like that so can i actually mailbag question because it talks about that very thing it's from kyle in this was sent before the taihang trade just fyi but it it dovetails nicely into what we're what we're discussing says hey guys pumped i found the show this past year and appreciate all you guys do talking about the upcoming season in hearing what you guys touched on. I is pitching really our biggest worry. A feel like our pitching kind of held up for the most part in seems pretty much the same next year if not better last year. Playoff hittings garbage. We've got to put up runs. And i'm tired of seeing joe state and torres stanton and co strikeout. Starting pitching can you guys dissect what you really think about with debbie garcia. I think this kid looks good as a ton of potential for the second half of the season. Could we see cole. Severino kluber debbie and montgomery. Thanks hells keep up the good work now. We know we're going to be adding tie on that. Mix as well but the part. I want to talk about. I read a study published in two thousand seventeen about pitcher performance following. Tommy john surgery. Because i think it. Now especially with two guys on the roster. It's extremely important. The estimated time for recovery is twelve to twelve to fifteen months. The average return to competition is four hundred and fifty two days. That is the average for all of the pictures that they looked at returning to action that means returning to a major league mound not returning to a a spring training mound or anything like that or recovery..
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"jameson" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"What's up everyone. Welcome to the bronx pinstripe. Show episode five hundred and ten acres mid a move jameson on after fifteen minutes of google and figure out how to pronounce his last name. I am ninety nine point. nine percent. sure it's thanh. Because i found a sports net pittsburgh broadcast that introduced the man and you know what the yankees got corey. Kluber corey kluber. I am far more excited about the tie on acquisition. Am corey kluber. I feel like at least. I don't know why. Maybe it's just a trade and it's not the yankees going back to the well of. Let's see if this previously all star level player can recapture some magic and stay healthy and let's be. Let's sorta gamble on that. I understand tie on has his own injury history but at least he's on the younger end. At least there's some new upside there right that the like the unknown as exciting. I guess i feel like you're talking yourself into this one. I'm i'm a very excited about this. Because yes the guy has injury history. He's he's back from his second. Tommy john john. That's a rare club. That's a rare club him nathan of all day talking about but so he's been ready to throw going on bullpens since september of last year like the guy was trying to get into games and he's got all the upside in the world like that's the beauty about him. You say he's young. He's twenty nine years old. So he's youngish. He's he's he's under thirty. That's good is younger than me. He's he's youngish and he's got pedigree like unbelievable pedigree and not too long ago two thousand eighteen. He showed what he could do. He had a very good season. And through a lot of innings. So i'm very excited about this. Because i think this is this is exactly where cashman does this is what we were talking about. This was the way that they were going to add. They were going to find the opportunities across baseball. Cashman was gonna look for these opportunities and and make a trade. That was a a lo- Low value for against the cap for this year and and probably trade minor. That your state didn't give anything up if you wanna look at dot mcgill I'm sorry go johore her. It was probably the one that you'd be looking at me like we saw him a little bit. He did show some decent stuff but again not the yankees. Have half a dozen of miguel. You hurries in the minors that hard right handed throwing catches like are probably bullpen arms. Yes they have a solid handful of them and they're all pretty damn close to each other as far as what the upside is. The all of them just need to have some control. If they have control they will get They will get an opportunity that being said this is a starting pitcher six five Former number two pick a long time ago but a former number two pick. Oh and by the way one of his best friends if not his best friend in baseball is garrett cole to me wasn't a big deal someone posts in our group something from instagram stories of the two of them get someone posted. That's not current right. That's not a car i will. I will believe that it's from yesterday. Did you look like they were in. That look like they were in a college kid. No no they were just hanging out in like a basement bar or something drinking some wine. That's what it looks like. They were doing. I think that that very well could have been. I think that's an old picture from their on a picture of its on his instagram literally daycare. At kohl's it's a it's a gift it's back and forth. Yeah of him choosing an old. It doesn't matter. Here's the thing their friends. And it's beautiful. And the fact that he. I've heard multiple interviews. Now this guy talking a couple of other podcasts that you know he just wasn't at a level of maturity when when he was with caracul to be on that level were gear kohl's like years above beyond anybody else now. He's at a point where he can start to to to drink that water a little bit more. Let's drink that gatorade. And i think you're going to have a good impact. Obviously the biggest thing here is if this guy can stay healthy this. This is what i'm about to say. I really has no no basis in reality or anything like that. So this i don't put in the same category as cashman trying to trade for james paxton are trying to trade for sonny gray or even Pineda those guys. Laura and much lower risk that those guys were brought in to be potentially the yankees ace they all had as potential or they were aces on their previous team. They were brought in to save the yankees rotation and there was pretty decent prospects going back to the other team number one prospects. Two of those cases. Yeah in pineda's case it was. It was just montero who i know flopped completely but he was the yankees number one prospect at the time and was projecting a damn good hitter when he was with the yankees and then sunny grace case. They gave some injury. Risk is but three All was in the top. Ten billion was the yankees farm as top five. I believe the time he was. He was all all three of the players that they've traded to oakland. Were in the top seven of the yankees system when they when they traded him at the time and then for james paxton justice sheffield was the yankees number one pitching prospect when they made that trade so those are much more high profile prospects going to the other team in the pitchers coming to the yankees. Were had a lot higher expectations. This one's lower. This is a lower radar. Move james tien. Jamison is not expected to be the yankees number one pitcher. He's not even expect to be the yankees number two pitcher and maybe it's foolish but that gives me more confidence hill actually contribute and and and and help but the but the biggest thing for him is injury history. So that's that's the biggest thing for him. The you're you're a To tommy john expectations are made us. Your expectations are managed that. That's that's the number one thing for you. You can't have expectations. That are higher. Or if garrett cole wasn't here you would not like this move because you would see it as trying to dig up a number one somewhere you put words in my manipulated trade and then seeing potential and then not actually going after it. That's what you would think because there's nothing in this guy's history that says he's a number one pitcher. He had good season in two thousand eighteen. He's not and what not a number one season in two thousand and it was. It was a solid it a very good season. Yes i know that in the national league in the national league central. It's it's it's just different. The talked about actually central but the american league east specifically for offenses like the top division in baseball for the last ten years so he's had some rest he's good he's got he's got a year and a half off and there's certainly risks because now potentially by the time july rolls around twenty twenty one the yankees are relying on two pitchers in their starting rotation in their first season. Back from tommy johnson. Yeah for sure. Severino severino entirely on And who knows if miguel turns into a number one pitcher in pittsburgh. We're going to say brian cashman. You're stupid more on. Why'd you make that trade. But i don't think any of those prospects that the yankees gave up are going to turn into awesome players for the for the pirates. They're all kind of lottery ticket. Prospect guys. it was a good move. It was an absolutely it was it was a it was a shrewd move..
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Turnovers Doom Saints in 30-20 NFC Divisional Playoffs Loss to Bucs
"Bill. I just want to dive into it here. Because there's a lot to get to after watching the bucks. Beat the saints. Thirty to twenty so new orleans had been in tampa bay twice this season in week. One about four hundred years ago and then again in november. So what was the difference in this game vs those other two. I really simple pablo the saints. Just didn't protect the football. In the two regular season games between these teams the saints won the turnover battle. Both times there are plus three in the week one victory and then one up in the rematch. Tom brady threw five picks across those two games. Only seven in his other fourteen games. That really felt like the saints had his number and they were gonna have to flip that to win in new orleans. Well they flipped. It didn't turn the ball over the saints coughed up. Four times including three interceptions drew brees. The bucks turned the first few takeaways and two touchdowns and use the fourth to wrap up the game and kneel down. It's virtually impossible to win a playoff game. That sort of margin the saints will just sloppy in this game. Mean breeze could have thrown four or five picks. He threw an awful interception under pressure for the first one and on the same page with alvin kamara on a scene route for the second interception. The third bounced off jared cook. Who also fumbled away a completion on a drive where the saints were looking at. Go up to scores. They lost the ball and proceeded to give up seventeen unanswered points to end their season. So clearly the bucks had a formula of sorts for stopping breeze in it seemed like every aspect of this game. But it's not just that they stopped him instead. They made him look straight up terrible really often and i'm wondering how did they do that to that degree. Well i really think that todd bowles bucks defense. Look the tape from last week's game against the bears look how drew brees was playing. Look at how pal those receivers were moving and just didn't think there was anybody in that lineup who could reliably win against man coverage or beat them down field with their speed. This was especially true. After the saints lost deonte harris who had two long punt returns early in this game to a neck injury the saints did get a long touchdown but it was not with brees on the field. It was the lone snap for one jameis winston who came in and use the same trick. Play the bears ran against them last week. For a long touchdown coming across his sanders they handed to them. Refers goes to jameson mega man. Wide open trade smith at the twenty five fifteen ten five and a touchdown saints and jameis winston. What a touchdown pass against his former overall when breeze on the field it was pretty clear at the game plan was to dare him and his receivers to try and take shots towards the sidelines and get downfield and the game plan worked the bucks used heavy doses of twists and stunts upfront create pressure and then just smothered breezes receivers. I honestly it really felt the only reason. Sean payton didn't bench breeze for winston on the last drive. The game is because it was probably a last few snaps of drew brees his career.
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The Best Ads of 2020
"You're listening to yeah. That's probably and the ad we podcast. We've talked about marketing media technology in pop culture because in the end everything is an ad especially this week. Because it's our ads of the year episode. Look forward to this all year. We get to nerd out about which adds stunts activation chains weird random social media responses from brands. We really liked this year and joining me this year to talk about it. We've got enes alaya who covers Performance marketing experiential marketing for edwige. Ian it is always great to have you here. Hello thanks for having me. We've also got katie lindstrom katie as a reporter who covers up breaking news and quite often big creative campaigns that are coming out katie. It is always a pleasure to have you joining us from your in austin austin texas. Got to be here and We've also got jamison fleming senior editor for membership here at ad week. jamieson has He's involved in just about everything H- here dad wake. And so i can't think of someone better to have kind of a big picture over overview and opinions on a lot of the biggest work that came out of the year. Jameson thanks so much for making time for us. Yeah accent. it'd be here excited to really digest very weird here battle tossing. It really was and i have to say of all the years of doing this every year. The ads a determining the as years difficult just I'll go and give the the can alert in the sense that Add wigs twenty five ads of the year Including our number one pick are all on dot com as of monday So if you're listening to this Probably monday or later. You should be able to find that on advocate dot com this year. We also did a reader's choice Bracket for the first time where we let. We identified thirty two of the biggest campaigns of the year and again ads and weird social responses. And even some political fundraisers and people really went nuts with it Jamison unload by you. And i both been watching edwige stuff for a long time. The level of this readers choice voting online was bananas. Yeah i mean the the semi finals between oreos and stake of guts. Seventy two thousand votes just on twitter. And i don't think i've ever seen any twitter poll by any twitter user. Get seventy two thousand votes so kind of crazy. When two brands with loyal followings can do twitter to say at least yeah that one was a crazy match of oreo created a doomsday vault when among many other doomsday scenarios happening this year There was an asteroid supposedly headed toward earth and so oreo created an underground bunker to save its recipes and Other things so That was up against stay. Combs campaign on social media against misinformation which was a very different kind of form of marketing. But they're following turned out in force. Seventy two thousand votes later. Oreo was the winner. Only i will say by promising to follow back. People who voted thing and then and then had a real struggle to follow through on their campaign from us. So as we record this we are in the final round which is orioles doomsday vault versus The princess bride reunion which was a fundraiser for wisconsin. Democrats really brilliant idea. They brought together just almost every Living actor and a person behind the princess bride Fred savage couldn't make it because it was his brother's birthday and he was spent with him but Everyone else pretty much. He's alive was there and As a really fantastic idea. So we won't know the winner when we record this because those are being battled out over the weekend but we will be able to talk about our favorites. So with that katy. We're we're just gonna go round robin here we're gonna talk about. Each of us has individual favorites. We i am happy to talk about ad. Weeks official favorites. But let's start out just on individual katie tells about one or two that you really love this year. I was thinking about this and just kind of thinking back to the ones that i shared with my own friends and family this year. That are you know. There's some overlap in some that are just kind of silly oreos already shouted out orioles doomsday camp. But they're proud parent Short film they released a couple of months ago. One that i just thought was really powerful. And i ended up sharing with it with a bunch of different people just because i thought it was a beautiful little short film and the story behind it was at the two actors who play a gay couple are actually partners in real life and it really came through when i thought was just like a lovely example of storytelling and then to shut up the mid west. The canadian beer brand labatt made some ads in that came out in the summer but it was like they had to completely reshoot their campaign so many brands had to this year. After creating a summer campaign that was not pandemic friendly and then having to totally start from scratch and there's was one of the one of the first stories like this that i covered in more like in-depth way they literally got back from there shoot for their summer campaign on the same day. That trump announced a national emergency. And then they that these two creatives just like created these really funny ads from with it within their own homes using like a power washer to simulate tubing and using a spray bottle and a little treadmill dissimulate like wake boarding. So it's kind of a funny way to pretend like these midwesterners we're at the out at the lake having a good time when that wasn't actually possible this summer over the summer so those were a couple of them now. Did you see that one griner. No no i didn't catch that one. It's it was by the burns group in and it's a pretty small like regional brand. But i just thought it was such an interesting pivot to use the word of the year.
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A Day Laborer Who Dreamed Of Returning Home To Mexico Dies Of COVID-19
"Have the story of a man who lived in the margins struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic. There's a Home Depot parking lot west of downtown Los Angeles. Day laborers line up on the corner waiting for construction jobs. Until recently, there was a man who always sat under a small tree on the sidewalk. His name was pulling over Ramos. This was kind of his spot leading in the shade for jobs. Ramos isn't here anymore. The last time anyone here saw him he was sitting under that tree with his head down. Something was wrong with him. S o. He was sitting there waiting for a job, but he was like, have pain in my chest, and she wasn't able to breathe. Jorge Nicholas works at the Central American Resource Center of L. A. He's the organizer at that day Labor Center and he knew Ramos. So one of the workers here took him to the to the ER. And after nine way never felt him in Polina Ramos is one of more than 290,000 people who have died from Cove in 19 in the United States. He was 53 years old. He was a day laborer. Desperate turn a paycheck in the middle of this pandemic. NPR's Danny. Hey, Jack spoke to some of the workers who remember their friend. Rufer named Fernando Sanchez waits for jobs along the busy corner this morning, he and Paulina Ramos used to wait out here together, reminiscing about their lives in Mexico. Of it. Uh, almost e saw him a few days before he went to the hospital. Sanchez says he stares at the ground as he talks about his friend. Yeah, more more than the bedroom. He looked really thin. He lost a lot of weight, he says, Hey, looked sad E think When someone thinks they're going to die, they know it. They could just feel it being soft. Yellow President Erica Sanchez is standing near a makeshift memorial for Ramos. Workers set up a small table with flowers and prayer candles that could be seen from the street. The flowers are wilted now. Jorge Nicholas, the organizer of the day Labor Center, says workers here don't normally share their feelings. But their friend's death has changed that they can't even believe it because they don't even think with he's passed away way know about design. Behind the flowers. There is a black and white picture. It's Ramos in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines and tubes as he battled Cove in 19, But the color photo the workers pinned above the memorial. Reminds them of the Paulino Ramos. They all knew a quiet man with graying black hair mustache and the little smile. Ramos was alone here in the U. S. It had been years since you've seen his family back in Mexico, his wife and three kids and grandkids he'd never met. He was, um I love your father, a loving husband and he always trying to provide for his family. That's the reason he came here to be able to provide a better opportunity for his kids. Nicholas says Ramos worked demolition shops across L A for over a decade around hazardous materials like this pestis and mold in concrete dust that makes workers like llamas more vulnerable to complications from covert 19. Forget this was all about some common chemicals. There are strong chemicals in the old buildings we work in, says Jesus Mon. Hey, He's one of the older workers waiting on the corner here. He's been a painter since the eighties, which hand pick a Jameson Don't be. A lot of workers here have damaged their lungs, he says, including me. Move. Bella Heroes Depending on all these stories are a reality for day laborers. Most employers don't provide protective equipment. They don't provide health insurance. Either day. Laborers don't get sick pay, and many workers like Ramos are undocumented. Mario Gara is a welder from El Salvador. He's been apart from his family, too. And as he stands in this parking lot He wonders if he'll suffer the same fate. Is Ramos. Nobody flat over a woman? The Sally port? Remember guns everywhere. E don't know if I'll ever go home to El Salvador or if I'll die here, he says. I want to see my mom and my daughter, but that's life life already hard made even harder. Since the pandemic shutdowns in March, work in this parking lot has dried up, and Ramos could no longer pay his rent. He did find a little help. He received a $300 grant from the Central American Resource Center of L. A and the National Day laborer organizing network. Ramos. It was a lifeline. He recorded this video to think the donors Mayama. Polly. No, this is Ramos is voice mail Yesterday E got money for food and rent, he says. I'm grateful. I got help, so at least I could eat. I'll try to make it last. Well, God cinema. Jorge Nicholas, the organizer of the day Labor Center, says he can still hear Ramos is deep voice. They talked a lot about family, Ramos dreamed of returning home. So we could finally meet his grandkids. You used to get very nostalgic when he talked about coming back to Mexico to his family. You know something right? Because I had two little ones. So he used to tell me like, spend time with your little ones. You know as much as you can. I'm sorry. I think that your kids, you spend time with your kids. Last week. Paulino Ramos is remains were sent back to his family in Mexico.
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Data Begins To Provide Some Answers On Pregnancy And The Pandemic
"All considering our health more during the Koven 19 pandemic, But women who are pregnant as the Corona virus circulates through society may have even more concerns. Are they more vulnerable to the disease? And what about their babies? But in the early days of the pandemic, there was very little research to provide answers. Now a number of new studies and CDC reports are out and the picture is beginning to be more clear. Dr. Denise Jamison is the chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University. She's also a member of the Kobe task Force of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr Jamison. Thanks for joining us Thanks so much. I want to start with a big overview. So many women were concerned early on if they were pregnant or just had a newborn of what this could mean for them and their babies. How worried if at all, should pregnant women and mothers of newborns be about Coben 19 at this point based on what science tells us Well, I think these recent findings over the last few weeks should be somewhat reassuring to pregnant women and their families. However, I still think there are many reasons to be vigilant about covert 19. It's still really important that pregnant women take measures to protect themselves, and it's also really important that pregnant women have access to cope in 19 vaccines as soon as they're available. Let's talk about some specific concerns Women had there was a fear that if a pregnant woman was covert positive, she might pass that along to her baby, either in utero or during childbirth. Do we know if that happens? Well, it seems to be able to cross the placenta and infect fetuses during pregnancy. However, the good news is that this doesn't seem to happen very often. And there isn't evidence that when this happens, there's an association with birth defects. The way we found with viruses like Sica, and those babies are generally okay despite being infected for the most part, the babies yes have done well. Pregnant women in general are more susceptible to respiratory infections and Koba 19 is obviously a respiratory disease. Do we know if Kobe has exacerbated respiratory issues and pregnant women? They're probably more likely to have severe disease if they're infected with Cove it But this increased risk is not nearly as dramatic as it is with some other respiratory infections such as influenza. Which seems to be something that it applies to the general population as well. People who are in some way have compromised health often find themselves more compromised when they get Cove it that's correct. Some of these studies are small. What caveats would you have to say about the limitations of what we know so far, Although we continue to learn more every day, I think they're important challenges to all the data. The biggest problem is that most of thie reports don't have an appropriate comparison group, so you have to be able to compare either. Pregnant women with Cove it to non pregnant women with Cove it or you need to be able to compare pregnant Cove it positive women too pregnant Koven negative women. And for many of these studies, they don't have an appropriate comparison group. There were some women wondering if they should avoid getting pregnant during the pandemic. Would you advise that toe? Wait till it's over. To try to have a baby? I would not recommend to delay in pregnancy. I think women can take measures to avoid Cove. It During pregnancy and to protect themselves during pregnancy and when to get pregnant is such a personal and complicated decision on this pandemic will probably be with us for a while, I would not advise delaying pregnancy solely on the basis of the covert pandemic. Dr Jameson and your job. Do you still work with patients? Yes, I am on labor and delivery. Today you are. Have you found that the experience of being pregnant or having a baby during the pandemic has Compromised or reduce the joy of pregnancy and delivery for any women. I hope it hasn't substantially reduced the joy of having a baby. But I do worry that with restrictions on visitation in the hospital and then also the social isolation after women go home from the hospital, I do think it's fundamentally change the experience of having a baby in a way that you wish it hadn't It sounds like yes. I look forward to a day when the pandemic is over, and we have a safe, available effective vaccine and we don't have to social distance. That's Dr Denise Jamison of Emory University. Thank you for coming on the program. Thank you for your interest in this topic.