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A highlight from CRYPTO NEWS! BLACKROCK BITCOIN SPOT ETF FAKE NEWS PUMPS & DUMPS BITCOIN & GARY GENSLER IS BLOCKING BTC ETF!! LARRY FINK BULLISH ON CRYPTO
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I'm sure many of you heard about the fake news around BlackRock's Bitcoin spotty TF getting approved. That was fake news reported by Cointelegraph. It started a whole domino effect where everybody was retweeting and recovering it, but no one had actual sources. And that's something that we can all take away from here and learn a lesson from. We have to verify, don't trust, verify. And $65 million in Bitcoin was liquidated within minutes following the fake reports that BlackRock's spotty TF or Bitcoin's spotty TF was approved. And Bitcoin had a huge pump. On some exchanges, it went above 30K and then, of course, dumped as the reports were highlighted as fake. So we got to be careful here, folks, in this social media area that we're dealing with. And in fact, Larry Fink, BlackRock's CEO, went on Fox Business today and he made some interesting statements. So he did a little bit of damage control, PR control here, but he made some bullish statements as well. So one of the main takeaways here is that he said crypto will play a role as a flight to quality. Very bullish. Let me play a clip of what he had to say. This rally is way beyond the rumor. I think the rally today is about a flight to quality with all the, you know, all the issues around the Israeli war now, global terrorism. And I think there's more people running into a fight to quality, whether that is in Treasury gold or crypto, depending on how you think about it. And I believe crypto will play that type of role as a flight to quality. So there you have it. And some of the other statements that was brought up in that longer version of the interview, Eleanor Terrett of Fox Business highlighted, Larry said, I was busy all day. I only heard about it an hour ago. So talking about the Cointelegraph fake report, he only heard about it an hour ago. I don't believe that for one second. And I think Larry went on here to do a little bit of damage control. And look, he's selling his book, right? They have obviously been investing in Bitcoin, mining in Bitcoin itself and crypto, and they're applying for a Bitcoin spot ETF. So he's laying the groundwork for the next millions and billions of people to come in and buy the BlackRock spot ETF once it is approved, right? Pretty clear as day. I think common sense and logic would tell you that. One thing I'm happy about is you and I are here early ahead of the herd, right? We're doing the contrarian move against the herd, right? Because right now they are scared, they're selling, right? They don't do their research. They don't understand the charts or the market cycles. You have to take time to educate yourself about that. So if you are here early and you understand those things, then you are on the side of smart money. Something else he said is that it's an example of pent up interest in crypto. Talking about the pump, he said, we've been hearing from clients around the world about the need for crypto. And of course, crypto will play the role of flight to quality. So this is very bullish books, huge bullish news. Obviously he's talking up his book, but I think we all recognize that they are all putting their cards on the table now. Institutional investors, Wall Street, we know what the game plan is, right? They're all investing in it globally. They're building funds, they're building custody services, trading services. They want ETFs, they're building their own exchanges and much more. It's very bullish. And I am super excited for next year. I think Larry knows that, look, these quantitative tightening cycles, this inflationary situation, it will all come to an end. As I've said many times, the bear market situations will come to an end and we'll be back in a bull market. Liquidity will fall back. QE will be back. It's just a matter of time. Is it hard to go through the current tightening cycle? Of course. It is tough. Obviously, there's world conflict as well. So it's just a matter of time and we got to be patient, but just think about it. You are doing what BlackRock's doing. You're buying the dip and you're being patient, right? And waiting for Bitcoin spot ETF approval. The herd will be buying Bitcoin on the pump. That's not when we buy. We buy when there's blood on the streets, when it's dirt low, when the rest of the herd is scared and they're running in the opposite direction, right? This is how you have to invest, whether it be in stocks or real estate or much more. So very bullish statements here from Larry and clearly big things happening. Now Miles Jennings highlighted something here, he's from A16Z Crypto about fake news on Twitter or X or social media. He said, just a reminder, fake news in X post causing significant market movements isn't unique to crypto. Eli Lilly lost $15 billion off its market cap in November, 2022 because a verified account impersonating its brand announced that they were making insulin free. So this is the world we live in. Whether you're investing in crypto stocks, even real estate, you have to be careful with these rumors and these fake news. You got to verify, don't trust, make sure there are sources. Now quick word from our sponsor. This content is brought to you by Cryptonomy and Cryptonomy is a great platform. It is a web three focus crypto venture fund and trading organization. They allow you to easily earn a high APY off your crypto and they do so in a very safe manner. 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So it's a great way to earn APY on your crypto. Once again, I'm using this platform, trying to earn as we're in this bear market. So be sure to check out Cryptonomy, links will be in the description guys. Go check it out, take a look, see if it's for you and if it's something that you want to participate in, but definitely check it out. Once again, they are a safe platform, been around for a long time and you can check out all the variety of services and the company history and much more. Do your research here on Trustpilot. They have a pretty solid rating as well and you can learn more about them. So once again, links in the description. Now continuing on the news of the Bitcoin spot ETF, Preston Byrne highlighted something here that the SEC in part is the blame for some of these rumors and so forth. He said, honestly, the SEC's failure to approve a Bitcoin spot ETF is what allowed this to happen. If they would have done their job and allowed one, a fake announcement wouldn't have made a dent. So obviously Friday, the SEC did not file an appeal to the court's ruling that they were arbitrary and capricious in denying the grayscale Bitcoin spot ETF. So that was certainly a win and that kind of lit the flames here that a spot ETF could get approved. And of course, somebody launched a fake news at Cointelegraph and we saw what happened. Now the other interesting part is that Cathie Wood in just an interview last week said some things about Gary Gensler in the SEC. Eric Balkan has highlighted this. He said, here's some notable non -fake news. Cathie Wood saying the SEC staff who is currently engaging with spot issuers for the first time ever understands Bitcoin and its merits and that it is just Gary standing in the way, which is what we sensed as well. He's talking about him in Bloomberg. So very interesting. And this is being reported by multiple news outlets. She's saying that Gary Gensler is the one standing in the way. I think that makes sense. This is why I've been saying he is a scumbag regulator and I don't know what he's up to. Obviously he's with Elizabeth Warren, who's anti -crypto, not to mention he's trying to kill these crypto startups. So I'm sure Gary does not want Grayscale and Winklevoss twins and some of these other folks to get a Bitcoin spot ETF before BlackRock, before the Wall Street crowd. We know how the game is rigged, folks. So that's what's happening and Cathie's calling him out big time. Now here's something Ryan Salkus and Massari had to say regarding this. If you think a Bitcoin spot ETF is inevitable, you underestimate how corrupt Gary Gensler is. He's a political animal that can't lose face. How corrupt Liz Warren is, Elizabeth Warren, she wants to kill crypto and fundraise off that. How corrupt the White House is thanks to Warren staffers.
The Breakdown
Fresh update on "jennings" discussed on The Breakdown
"And indeed, this is a very diplomatic version of the most common take within the industry, which is that many reasonable people recognize that there are challenges in the way crypto networks and firms deal with illicit finance, and that in fact, there's generally no real opposition to responsible expansion of existing laws to cover the crypto industry. However, the concern is that almost every single proposal from this administration has been presented as merely filling gaps in the law, while in point of fact, masking a massive expansion of power, often with questionable justifications or legal basis. There's also the issue of tone. After the presentation, Adeyemo tweeted, It was a pleasure to speak at today's Blockchain Association Policy Summit, where I focused on the steps we must take to prevent bad actors from using the digital asset ecosystem for illicit activity. Masari's Ryan Selkis said, A16Z General Counsel Miles Jennings wrote, And this is definitely a genre of takes that you can see on X slash Twitter right now, that this is such a brazen power grab that it's hard to even take it seriously. It's definitely clear from Adeyemo's post speech interview that this isn't some misstep or misunderstanding. They are very, very focused on getting some serious new powers out of this deal. Now, people like Austin Campbell are trying to thread the line. Discussing companies responses to this, he said, For Austin, the big condition is that definitions are applied sensibly. For example, he's against requiring validators wallets and infrastructure to have KYC and AML record keeping requirements, which just doesn't make sense for that type of actor. Now, another piece of this is that many feel like it has bigger implications than the Treasury Department realizes. Omid Malekan, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, wrote, And that's a red flag for every other country on earth. It calls into question the dollar status as a reserve currency and makes everyone marginally more likely to adopt an alternative. The problem is that there is no other fiat currency that qualifies, but there is at least one non fiat currency that does not as a total replacement, but rather a form of diversification. So thanks for the Bitcoin ad, Uncle Sam. Now, to me, for sure, the thing that is most interesting about this is not just the aggressiveness of the proposal vis-a-vis the crypto industry. We know that Treasury has long been the biggest antagonist in the U.S. government against crypto, and so it's not particularly surprising on that front. I think what's interesting is that it's basically a proxy to try to control the next generation of euro dollars around the world. And it seems very clearly and loudly to be so. There is a lot being risked on the idea that the U.S. dollar remains the cleanest dirty shirt between using the dollar as a weapon of war and proposals like this. It's hard to imagine countries not looking for some type of alternative or at least hedge. Now, just to round this out, driving home the point that they are serious about cracking down on illicit finance and crypto, OFAC announced sanctions on another mixing service on Wednesday. A Bitcoin mixer called Sinbad was added to the sanctions list, banning all U.S. persons from interacting with a pair of Bitcoin addresses. The website Sinbad.io was also seized in a joint operation between the FBI and law enforcement from Finland and the Netherlands. The Treasury describes Sinbad as, quote, Analytics firm Elliptic said that the service has been used to move some of the 35 million stolen from Atomic Wallet in June of this year. Just over 100 transactions had been conducted by the Sinbad wallets, making it appear to be a fairly small target compared to other mixers previously sanctioned. According to the Treasury's press release, Sinbad also processed funds from the hacks of Horizon Bridge and Axie Infinity. Curious information, as both hacks occurred in the first half of last year. However, in February, Elliptic had claimed that Sinbad was a relaunch of previously sanctioned mixer Blender, which could explain the discrepancy in timing. The Treasury also claimed that the mixer had moved funds tied to sanctions evasion, drug trafficking and darknet marketplace sales. Adeamos said in a statement, Look, I don't think anyone's complaining about this particular action. And if the Treasury Department really did encourage responsible innovation in the digital asset ecosystem, I don't think anyone would have proposals or assume bad faith when it comes to them taking action against illicit actors. It's just that, unfortunately, at this point, good faith is not something that most people in the crypto industry assume when it comes to the Treasury Department. That makes it real hard to work together on common sense proposals and just leaves things in a pretty contentious place. Anyways, that is the story from here. Like I said, I think it has much bigger implications than just the crypto industry. So a situation that is worth watching with some consideration. I want to say thanks one more time to my sponsor for today's show, Kraken. Go to kraken.com slash the breakdown and see what crypto can be. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!
"Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And this is Step You Should Know, the little close to home edition. Yeah, right. In two ways. One is that as podcasters, we are on one end of the parasocial relationship relationship. Correct. Yeah. And the other is like, I have these, I don't know if you do or not, but I have parasocial relationships of my own with podcasts. I don't have any because I'm sane. Right. Oh, I'm totally kidding. I don't think I have any. No, I don't have any. I think what it is, is it has nothing to do with sanity. My imagination is just not that vivid. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Because I think for this to set, you have to be able to imagine yourself like in the room with the people you're listening to, for example, or what you would do after they stopped filming the TV show or something like that. Like any, you're big into comedy. Any of your big comedian people that you love, you know, never think like, God, we would be friends if we knew each other. No, I really don't. I don't. I feel like deficient because of it, but I genuinely do not have any parasocial relationship that I can bring to mind. And I don't remember ever having that. I think I just assumed that they wouldn't like me rather than they would like me, which makes it much harder to have a parasocial relationship with somebody you just assume you wouldn't get along with very well. Well, then by some estimates, you're part of the 49 % of people that of Americans, that is, that do not have parasocial relationships. And if you're yelling at us right now, because we defined it yet, a parasocial relationship is a, it's like when you listen to a podcast and you think, I know those guys. They're like my friends. We would be so, we would be such good friends in real life. It's a one -sided relationship between a consumer of a thing, a fan of a thing and a public figure. Yeah. And one of those papers you sent me, I saw it described rather aptly as a one -sided intimacy at a distance. Yeah. And in our go -go, be normal as much as you can type society. That sounds a little like off base, a little weird, a little out there to some people, I should say to others. It's like, well, yeah, of course this is normal life, but we, we should say like, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It can go wrong as we'll see, but at its base, having a parasocial relationship does not make you a loser, a loner, social misfit, a weirdo. It actually makes you slightly healthier emotionally, intellectually, in my opinion. Yeah. And as we'll talk about, studies bear that out that it's, you know, I think they put it at generally about three to 5 % of the time it can go south and we'll talk about that kind of stuff when it becomes obsessive and stuff like that. But yeah, for the other 95 to 98 % of people, it actually provides quite a benefit because it makes someone feel good and it makes people laugh a lot of times. And I feel like comedy a lot of times is what you associate more. I'm sure you can have parasocial relationships with like Peter Jennings or something or Dan Rather. I'm sure that happens. It would be harder though as we'll see. You generally think of it in terms of like either a podcast or a TV show when you would sit around and you would think about which friend am I or which Sex and the City character. You're such a Miranda. That's the kind of thing that we're talking about here when people identify so much that it's like a real relationship. Yes. And I want to say I am in that very unusual and unique position as are you and as are most podcasters. That you're Miranda? Right. I totally am a Miranda. Actually, no, what's the other one's name who is married to Kyle McLaughlin. I feel like I identify more with her. Yeah, Charlotte. Charlotte. Yeah, I'm a total Charlotte. What I was going to say though is I'm in the unique position of being on the opposite side of a parasocial relationship. That's a very rare place to be. And I can tell you that I do enjoy hearing about that. Like when we're at live shows and people tell us like where they think of us as like their friends or whatever, I always love to hear that kind of thing. Yeah, me too. Yeah. So I don't want to, I don't engage with them myself, but when they are thrust upon me, I'm like, oh yeah, I love that. Yeah. And we feel the same way generally. And most times when we meet listeners who are awesome like that, if we did know each other, there's a good chance we might be friends. Yeah. I think that's another thing too is I think that's kind of like that weirdo view of it. Like the irony of it is they're so far off base that like if they ever actually did meet the person in real life, they would be horribly crushed and maybe even mocked. I mean, at least from our experience, most people who do come up and tell us that they think of us as friends do seem like people we would probably hang out with in real life. Totally. There's also, and I'll talk about this a little bit I guess later, but I'm in a situation where a lot of the podcasts that I consume are comedy podcasts where I do kind of know the person. Oh, okay. But that's a quasi -parasocial relationship because I find myself thinking I'm better friends with them than I am when in fact they are just industry colleagues that are loose pals perhaps. But I think like, oh yeah, me and Scott Aukerman are like great friends because we have so much in common. Yeah, he does not think that. Scott's a great guy, super nice, he's always been very nice. I'll be on his shows occasionally. We both worked with him a little bit but we're not great friends even though I feel like we are because I listen to so much of his stuff. Okay, I'm glad you need to check somebody. I was going to ask you who you have parasocial relationships with but I feel like quasi -parasocial relationship is very niche. Yeah, probably so. So let's begin at the beginning. These things haven't been around forever mostly because they're a product of media communications. They would not exist otherwise because without media you would actually be interacting with this person face to face and that's the big rub of the whole thing is that other person is on the other side of a screen. They're in your headphones. They're not there physically but the way that they present themselves to you tricks us into um becoming friends with them or having an affinity for them just as you would if you met them in real life and the whole thing is traced back to a couple of sociologists named Donald Horton and Richard Wall who back in the 50s started noticing that people would actually talk back to their TV and that they as sociologists they said this is interesting that's kind of unusual and probably new people don't understand TV and I think I'm sure it existed before in radio but as we'll see media has added to itself added to itself added to itself over the generations over the the last you know half century or so to make it more likely that you're going to have a parasocial relationship with somebody in media and a deeper one too but the whole thing started with TV and people shouting at it and what they coined was a term called parasocial interactions. Yeah and that's I think TV also was all of a sudden you had a couple of other ingredients to the recipe that could spawn a parasocial relationship which is repeated consistent faces that you're seeing it's not like you know go into a movie which you could do before the you know 1956. That person being in your house in your living room every week or even every night was a different thing and they were talking to you they were looking at your face and there were new kinds of media personalities that they hadn't seen before which is like game show hosts talk show hosts newscasters people looking into the camera and talking to you the home audience and that changed things and they were fascinated by what they called this relationship between what they dubbed personae who are you know the Dan Rathers or whatever I don't know Dan Rather or so on the tip of my brain. What's he even doing these days? He's writing and stuff right? I don't know it's been a while I haven't heard from him in a while he hasn't called me back.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 689:SEC Showdowns & Global Surveillance: Ripple, Coinbase, and Project Atlas
"Good evening and welcome to the crypto overnighter. I'm Nicodemus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Wednesday, October 4th, 2023. Welcome back to the crypto overnighter where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news. So let's talk about that. Tonight, we delve into a series of pivotal legal and regulatory moves that are shaping the crypto landscape from Ripple's courtroom victory and the SEC's broadening grip to shifts in US political power and international surveillance efforts. Buckle up because it's arrived through the judiciary, the hill and the cryptic corridors of global finance. The US Securities Exchange Commission, the agency that's been a thorn in the side of crypto recently faced a significant setback. Judge Analisa Torres rejected the SEC's motion for an interlocutory appeal against Ripple. For those unfamiliar, an interlocutory appeal is an appeal made during a trial. The SEC wanted this to challenge a previous ruling that partially favored Ripple. Judge Torres stated that the SEC failed to meet its burden under the law to show that there were controlling questions of law or that there were substantial grounds for differences of opinion. In simpler terms, the SEC couldn't convince the judge that their appeal was necessary or that it would advance the case in any meaningful way. The trial is set for April 23rd, 2024, and any appeal by the SEC must wait until after the trial concludes. Legal experts are divided on the impact of this decision. Some see it as a major win for Ripple, while others urge caution. Bill Hughes, a lawyer at blockchain firm Consensus, stated that it's not typical for such an appeal to make it through at this stage of a trial. On the flip side, crypto lawyer Jeremy Hogan called the decision a disaster for the SEC. Gabriel Shapiro, general counsel at Delphi Labs, warned crypto advocates not to get too excited. He clarified that the SEC still could appeal the case later. However, Scott Chamberlain, an entrepreneurial fellow at the ANU College of Law, argued that the SEC is now stuck with a weak factual record, making a successful appeal more difficult. The SEC initially filed a lawsuit against Ripple and its executives in 2020, accusing them of raising $1 .3 billion through the sale of XRP. The agency also sued CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co -founder Christian Larson. Judge Torres previously ruled that some of Ripple's sales of XRP did not violate securities laws, but other direct sales to institutional investors were securities, leaving a partial win for the SEC. Now, what does this mean for crypto? Well, it's another example of the SEC failing to clamp down on a major player in the crypto space. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took to social media to express his enthusiasm. And why wouldn't he? The SEC has been handed a defeat, and it's a win for those who champion financial freedom and decentralization. Ripple's courtroom victory is definitely an eyebrowser. The SEC just got a reality check. But just as one regulatory Leviathan stumbles, another tries to stretch its tentacles. Buckle up as we dive into the SEC's latest power play. The SEC asked a federal judge to deny Coinbase's motion to dismiss its lawsuit. The regulator argues that Coinbase knew the cryptocurrencies it sold were securities under the Howey test. The SEC's audacity here is staggering. They claim that each crypto asset issuer led investors to expect an increase in asset value. According to them, this makes those assets securities subject to SEC registration. Now, let's not kid ourselves. The SEC is trying to stretch the Howey test to fit their narrative. They want to regulate the crypto market without waiting for Congress to give them the permission to do so. Coinbase's legal chief fired back. He stated that the assets listed on Coinbase were not securities and thus not within the SEC's jurisdiction. He even went on to say that the SEC's arguments would mean everything from Pokemon cards to stamps could be considered securities. And he's right. I used to collect Magic the Gathering cards back in the day. I even made a little money at it. That said, they're not securities. According to Miles Jennings, the SEC's motion is just riddled with holes. Jennings is the crypto legal counsel at A16Z. Even if the court agrees with the SEC's main argument, their case could still fail. The SEC's definition of an investment contract, he argues, has endless breadth. Coinbase has been clear. Crypto trades do not meet the definition of an investment contract because no actual contract is established. The SEC, however, argues that a formal contract isn't a prerequisite. The SEC also tried to They're claiming that Coinbase is just trying to distract from the fatal flaws in their own legal arguments. They even went so far as to say that just because they allowed Coinbase to go public doesn't mean they endorsed the trading on that platform. The SEC's move to deny Coinbase's motion to dismiss this lawsuit is a clear signal of the regulator's intent to tighten its grip on the crypto industry. The SEC is not backing down. Instead, it's doubling down on its belief that cryptocurrencies can be classified as securities under the This is a pivotal moment, one that could set a precedent for how cryptocurrencies are regulated in the US. Coinbase, on the other hand, is not taking this lying down. Their legal team is pushing back hard, arguing that the SEC's broad interpretation of the Howey test is overreaching. But let's be real here. The SEC isn't just targeting Coinbase for fun. They're sending a message to the entire crypto industry. Comply or face the consequences. This case is a glaring example of the SEC's overreach. They're trying to regulate a space they have no business being in. It's a power grab, plain and simple. And it's not just Coinbase that should be worried. If the SEC gets its way, the entire crypto industry could be at risk. So what's at stake? The court's interpretation of the Howey test. Is it Coinbase with its narrower view, or the SEC, which wants a flexible and broad interpretation? This case could set a precedent that impacts the entire crypto market. The SEC's bid to control the crypto narrative is both audacious and revealing. If you thought Ripple's case was a lone battlefield, think again. With the SEC's eye on Coinbase, the stakes couldn't be higher. But there's a shift in the tectonic plates of US politics that could ripple through these regulatory showdowns. Hold on tight. You don't want to miss this.
The Breakdown
Is the SEC's Proposed Crypto Custody Rule a Threat to the Industry?
"We're starting with what I see as one of the big crypto battles right now. It's something that might seem subtle, but I think could actually have a pretty dramatic impact. I am talking about a new proposed SEC crypto custody rule. And to get a sense of the significance, I'd point to this tweet from Tyrone Ross, who wrote, I really don't think folks understand how damaging this particular part of the new custody rule is for the space as a whole. No adviser in their right mind will attempt to comply with this. So what is going on? Well, a group of crypto players, including the blockchain association, andreessen Horowitz, and coinbase have all filed letters calling for major revisions to the SEC's proposed changes to custody rules. Jake javins gave the blockchain association tweeted, in February, the SEC proposed a new investment adviser custody rule that would restrict capital formation and put U.S. investors at greater risk. Today, the blockchain association filed a comment letter explaining how the proposal both contradicts the SEC's mission and violates federal law. Miles Jennings, the general counsel at andreessen Horowitz wrote on Friday, we filed a comment letter to the SEC's safeguarding custody rule. We did not mince words. The proposal is another misguided and transparent attempt to wage war on crypto, and if past, it will result in investor harm, market inefficiencies, and poor capital formation. Coinbase's chief legal officer Paul grill wrote earlier this year, the SEC proposed major revisions to a rule requiring RIAs to hold client assets at qualified custodians. Today we're adding our comments to the pile to explain where this proposal is misguided and how it can be improved.
The Dan Bongino Show
CNN's Scott Jennings Shreds Randi Weingarten Over School Closures
"Fortunately Scott Jennings who actually have met a few times He's a really nice guy He's a CNN contributor a Republican who works for CNN So God bless him right I mean can you imagine doing that every day Having to deal with some of these people But he got to take her to task really saying probably what every single American certainly would every parent would love to say to this lady Let's play cut 18 Millions of American parents I have four at home I had to teach them at home My wife had to teach them at home I am stunned at what you have said this week about your claiming to have wanted to reopen schools I think most you'll find that most parents believe you were the tip of the spear of school closures There are numerous statements You made over the summer of 20 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools And I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that's been done to these guys I have two kids with learning differences Do you know how hard it is for them to learn at home and not in a classroom that was designed for them And for you to sit in front of Congress and the American people and say oh I wanted to open them the whole time I am shocked I'm stunned I'm stunned and there are millions of parents who feel the exact same way Go ahead So I don't know you sir and you don't know me But I have worked for the last 20 or 30 years Helping kids every single day I've been a school teacher I've been a union leader Yeah sorry I wanted to cut her off I don't care what that lady says She's a liar It doesn't matter
The Dan Bongino Show
Leftism Is About Forfeiting Rights & Freedoms
"Left this throughout modern sentient being human history have always always understood the value of having their shock troops in the street See here's the thing about leftism and socialism collectivism The idea that you should forfeit over your kids your house your car and your money to a government and a bunch of central planners The idea about it is it's so patently ridiculous on its face that anyone would want to give up the freedom to control their own lives to a bunch of idiots in a government But they need to fake it to keep the public perception of popularity going or everyone would laugh Folks the idea of forfeiting away your money your kids your car your home and everything else to a controlling entity in the government Again on its face is an absurdity I mean the reason jail sucks is because nobody wants their freedom taken away So how is it that socialists have gotten generation of generations of kids and adults to put Che Guevara shirts on who was a murderer and a thug and a communist despite the fact that they still have iPhones in one expensive jobs and want to go down to Miami and drive a Lamborghini around Those two ideas are an absolute conflict It's because they give this socialist creed a perception of public popularity by owning the streets They do the left is wanted to own the streets forever BLM and tifa the 60s the 70s it goes back decades None of this is new None of this is new Rallies for Williams Jennings Brian I mean it's goes back forever None of this stuff is new
The Officer Tatum Show
Our Country Deserves a Moralistic Standard
"I honestly believe in our country we should have a standard. I don't think that, you know, you should be mad at somebody if they want to identify with a certain way and be gay or whatever. But I do think that there should be things put in place to keep a moralistic standard, which means that marriage is between a man and woman and that's it. If you want to have some type of government, recognition, then you can call it a civil union with benefits and all other stuff that come with what they call government sanctioned marriages or government related marriages. You could do that, but just don't call it marriage. Because then when you call it marriage, then you start encroaching on all kinds of other things that are morally inconsistent. I believe with the foundation of this country. And the same thing with like trans and stuff. Okay, you can be trans, but you have to be an adult. It is against the law, the transition your kids outside of the age of 18. That's what I think should happen. Give them kids a chance to grow up, give them a chance to figure out what they're doing in life. It's a young girl, jazzy, what's her name, Jennings? Jazzy Jennings I made a video about her, her mama. The other day. It got almost a million views. This young girl, they transitioned her at four years old. And this is my biggest problem, and I feel like people are probably mad at Uganda and some of these African nations for Bannon and stuff because I think they see the writing on the wall and they're fearful of their society being taken over like ours have been in some of these cases. They transition this year at four years old.
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: The Media Doesn't Have the Monopolization It Once Had
"They had when they had ABC NBC and CBS and cronkite and Jennings and broke on these others right When they own that they decided what the story was If the story that was going to go out to the nation that night was Ron DeSantis sucks all they had to do was say it and that's all you heard I think their obsession with disinformation and misinformation in that crap is really a result of the democratization of social media and cable news and people like you and me and talk radio That's why this stuff isn't sticking anymore amber Like this botched evacuation narrative isn't going to work because you just asked a simple question Okay well why didn't Biden then tell people to attack I mean he didn't do it either So it's all BS It's not going to it's not going to spread because it can't because you've got these obstacles firewalls like us Yeah I think you nailed it The media doesn't have the monopolization on information that it used to have And people will sometimes say oh I miss the old days when the media was objective and unbiased And I don't think they ever really were It's just that we didn't know what we didn't know right We didn't have people out there who were able to get these large platforms that they could dedicate to unraveling a lot of the mainstream media lies so it seems worse now because there's just more life that's being shed on it But I think that they were always at the very least the left leaning Now with the ushering in a the Internet and all of these independent outlets who don't have to rely on corporate dollars to exist the media is trying everything that they can do to shut us down because we are finally exposing them for what they are and that terrifies them
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"jennings" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"The AI today podcast produced by cognitive cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from cognitive analysts and guest experts. Hello and welcome to the AI today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Walsh. And I'm your host Arnold schmeisser and thanks again. We've heard from many of you our listeners here at AI state podcast. And as mentioned, we've been going strong since 2017, our 50 year maybe soon rolling into our 6th year. I can't even believe I'll be saying that soon holy cow. Over 260 episodes. And as you know, our focus since the very beginning has been about who is doing what and how are they doing what with AI today. Now, there are a lot of podcasts that talked about AI. Tomorrow and the research, and there's a lot of people that even talk about AI yesterday in the past and maybe some ideas and thoughts and fears and theories around AI. But AI today pockets is all about people who are trying to make AI work today here and now all the challenges, all the problems, all the issues. And this is why, you know, in podcasts like this, we like to hear directly sometimes. You've heard enough from us, but to hear directly from folks who are really practitioners putting AI together in the field. And as recently, we've been doing a lot of interviews with some of our folks who have really been implementing AI, especially with best practices. Right. So we're really excited to have with us today, Christine Jennings, who is project lead business systems analyst at Centene. Christine, who also goes by KJ so we'll be calling your KJ throughout the interview today is also CPM AI certified. So we're really excited to have her with us today so we can dig a little bit deeper into learning how she's been applying CPM AI in the real world and some of the challenges that she's helped overcome. So welcome KJ and we're so excited to have you with us.
Mark Levin
Caller Upset the Media Tried Distancing Glenn Youngkin From President Trump
"In my lifetime Mark Donald Trump had the most substance filled campaigns as far as the work ethic the topics all he wanted to accomplish but to listen to Scott Jennings next to van Jones last night and Gloria borger they could not refrain from making the young in campaign all about distancing himself from Donald Trump where I feel it was the complete nothing even close to that I'm not convinced young king is going to be a great candidate but he certainly did not know he was a great candidate He won What are you talking about You mean governor As a governor you know time will tell if in four years he's done a great job But my point is he didn't win that election because he distanced himself from Donald Trump And when you listen to Gloria borger in that moron it's not just them You hear it all over Fox You hear it all over MSNBC You read it in the newspapers and everything else I live here Youngin didn't distance himself for Trump He managed the relationship That's what he did He's his own man He ran his campaign he poured a lot of his own money into it to try and counter the Democrat dark money that was poured into the campaign He said even agrees with audits and so forth And so on he didn't dump on Trump He was never negative about Trump He never said a negative thing about
History That Doesn't Suck
"jennings" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"It's six pm on monday. November second eighteen. Ninety six and exhausted william jennings bryan stands on the balcony. Lincoln hotel in lincoln nebraska. He's given five hundred speeches over the past ninety days today alone. He's been up since six an giving eighteenth speeches all over nebraska for the past twelve hours. But he can't give up just yet he's going to give ten more speeches between now and eleven o'clock tonight tomorrow is election day after all and he's going to give it all. He has until the very end below the balcony. Crowd of thousand people are waiting to hear from the great commoner. Hush falls over the crowd as will begins ladies and gentlemen. This is the last opportunity that i shall have to dress the people of lincoln before they sit in judgment upon the issues present in this campaign. Tomorrow we'll decide the financial policy of this nation for the next four years. At least three months. I have done what i could present. This question to. The american people traveled from nebraska to the atlantic and everywhere i have preached the same doctrine in advocated the same principles. They called it a sexual question when we began but they have found out that it is not a sectional question. It is a great controversy between the money. Power and the common people of all this country. I want you to understand campaign which we have had to fight. They have told us that the great interests of society were against us. Yes certain great interest have been the trusts have been against us but the trust are no more against me than i am against the trusts. The syndicates which have been selling bonds for the government are against me. But my friends. They have reason to be. Because if i am elected they will no longer bleed the american people. They see that the corporations are against us. Yes many of them are and they have reason to be because we believe that the corporation is a creature of law and that the government was created it is still greater than the corporation and should compel it to obey the law. We felt the influence of some of these corporations. We know what it is to have them say two men who are with us that if they vote our ticket they must be discharged and lose their bread and butter but my friends while we have against us many of these influences which are considered great and potent. We have on our side. Those who believe in the old fashioned idea of government that it should guard equal rights to all and special privileges to know friends. Varas the day upon which you register your will. Tomorrow is the day when by your ballot you described government under which you desire to live if you desire government of syndicates by syndicates enforced indicates you have a right to it and you can. Her influence with those who are against us. Still believe in the government that lincoln desire the government of the people by the people and for the people you must join with those who believe in a government hide at people work that lies before president who goes into the office with a desire to reform the financial policy. Dr trusts syndicates. From this land will be hard enough. If you supported by the people his work would be impossible became. We're not supported by them. We'll wraps up a speech cloud explodes into a closet cries of the next day. Millions of voters turn out to vote for one of the two williams the civil war vet and former governor of ohio. Republican candidate william mckinley or the great commoner and us congressman for nebraska democratic candidate william jennings bryan. Perhaps urban workers feel the need to support the business for which they work. Perhaps will consistent appeals to farmers populists alienated city folk regardless the results are soon clear. We'll mckinley takes. The densely populated northeast the northern midwest. Out to north dakota and part of the west coast william jennings bryan's takes the rest but it's not enough. The outcome is a slight popular and electoral college. Victory for will mckinley. The next day. Thursday november fifth 1896. Both men demonstrate statesmanship the free silver democrats since telegraphed canton ohio honorable william mckinley. Senator jones informs me that returns indicate your election i hasten to extend my congratulations yet submitted. The issue to the american people and their will is law. Wj brian the president-elect wires back honorable. Wj brian i acknowledged the receipt of your curtis message of congratulations. Thanks and beg. You will receive my best wishes for your health and happiness. Tycoons breathe a collective sigh of relief fears of the gold standards death any potential destabilization of the. Us dollar are gone. They'll carry on with their business with some big. Andrew carnegie embracing social gospel thinking and taking their philanthropy to a heightened level at the same time. The economy's about to boom though. Crediting william mckinley for that might be a bit of a stretch as you likely remember. From episode eighty eight. The yukon gold rush is about to begin. That's going to shift the nation's gold two silver ratio as it happens silver issues going to kind of fizzle out. But the battle isn't over. William jennings bryan immediately publishes. The story of his campaign is a book entitled the first battle. Sounds like he's not leaving the political arena anytime soon nor have we heard the last of the american railway union president who turned socialists while in prison after the pullman strike eugene debs. Indeed the gridlock. Politics of the gilded age are fading fast before the social issues in overseas expansion dicamba rapidly approaching progressive era. Those are stories for yet another game. We've got one or two special episodes and then one last gilded age tale that needs to be told that of an industrialized newsouth and a supreme court ruling destined cast a long shadow over the nation. That's right it's about time. The.
History That Doesn't Suck
"jennings" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Former governor then descends from cotton shake hands with the mining. So goes a typical day in william mckinley front porch campaign rather than storm across the country to rally up the voters. The republican candidate is leading voters. Come to him and they definitely come over the course of the campaign. Roughly seven hundred fifty thousand americans from across the nation. Make the track to the mckinley. Halmi canton ohio to hear him. Speak against his free silver democratic opponent william jennings bryan. The republican will continue to assail. The democratic will over the free silver issue. Will mckinley loads what he sees. As will brian stirring up divisions and making class warfare to quote the ohio republican on another front porch occasion my countrymen the most un-american of all appeals observable in this campaign is the one which seeks to array labor against capital employer against employee. Basically william m doesn't want this to turn into a campaign of main street verse wall street but that dynamic is definitely taking shape with particular thanks to his own campaign manager and republican national committee. President mark hanna. Working out of new york mark leans into the class division rhetoric as he courts donations from industrial titans. This produces serious results the tycoons or robber barons whom we've come to know quite well pony up john rockefeller's standard oil donates. Two hundred fifty thousand dollars. John himself throws in another two thousand five hundred. The barren of banking j pierpont morgan donates. Another two hundred fifty thousand dollars to the republican cause and those still reeling from the panic of eighteen ninety three and the pullman strike various railroads managed to muster another one hundred seventy four thousand all in all with donations from business tycoons pouring in daily the republican campaign spins about three point five million dollars by comparison. The democrats raise a measly three hundred thousand dollars to put that another way. John rockefeller and his company alone gave will mckinley. The rough equivalent of eighty percent of will brian total campaign budget. And that will go a long way toward shoring up. The republican candidate not leaving his front porch. Look we'll mckinley isn't stupid will. Brian is a brilliant speaker. I mean striking crucifix. Pose while making a tasteful jesus reference that skill and that's why along with considerations for his wife. Ida's health will. Mckinley isn't about to go toe to toe. Travelling the country he bluntly tells his campaign manager. Mark hanna. I cannot take the stump against that man. It's a smart play but also one that will mckinley can make in part with massive war chest with that capital. The republican hires one thousand four hundred speakers to go across the country stoking. Fear that o'brien administration will mean the destruction of american business. Industrial leaders threatened close down if the great commoner as will brian has called gets elected which scare some workers into thinking twice about voting for the democrat. The republicans also published one hundred twenty million pieces of campaign literature as well as newspaper articles attacking brian. The mckinley campaign even suggests that the young nebraskan isn't just for free silver but a true radical an anarchist. Just like the protesters at the hey marketed decade. Back sound stacked. But it's not like william jennings bryan doesn't have his supporters grover cleveland style bourbon. Democrats now called gold democrats peeling off but will. Brian is seen real success. Rallying democrats all over the south and west while some industrial workers fear. Brian's policies will lead to their place of employment getting shut down. The unions counted out with support in fact october meeting with workers. In new york's union square. Some even call him quote the new messiah. The light of the world the fearless tribune. Of the people william jennings bryan close quote moreover. The populist party joined the democrats in nominating will brian. He gets support from the significantly. More radical eugene debs to eugene rights to the democratic candidate quote. You are at this hour. The hope of the republic close quote and so the very different candidates campaign and they're very different ways. we'll. Mckinley gives front porch speeches and relies on mailers and hired speakers. Will the free silver messiah. Brian leans on his rhetorical skills. The young nebraskan travels over eighteen thousand miles on four nonstop railroad trips. Giving five hundred seventy speeches between august and november. He averages eighty thousand words a day drawing thousands of listeners in up to twenty three speeches a day which is more effective. We'll find out shortly but one thing is certain regardless of who wins between big business financing and across country speaking tour a new era has begun an american presidential elections..
AP News Radio
Jimmy Garoppolo, Nick Bosa Lead 49ers Past Eagles 17-11
"Jimmy Garoppolo's threw for one touchdown ran for another to lead the forty Niners still seventeen eleven win over the eagles grab a look at the twelve play ninety seven yard drive with a fifteen yard touchdown pass the jawan Jennings with twelve seconds to go in the second quarter the give San Francisco a seven three lead Grobbelaar made a fourteen three with ten fifty two to go in the fourth quarter with a one yard touchdown run some weeks easier than others but it's never I mean even last week came down to the wire at one point so just one of those I don't know when you go in different ways like that thing that makes for a good Sam eagles quarterback Jalen hurts had a one yard touchdown run for Philadelphia or even their record to one a one Michael Luongo Philadelphia
AP News Radio
'Jeopardy!' Hosts Mayim Bialik, Ken Jennings Will Finish 2021 Season
"Another jeopardy question has been answered sort of the latest decision on any of the new full time jeopardy host is literally a split decision Sony pictures television says Maya Bialik and Ken Jennings will turn to the duties for the rest of the year here's how it will work the Alec who's been named interim hosts will host for shows that air through November fifth after that Jennings of the article share hosting duties to the end of the calendar year depending on their schedules it's unclear what is to happen after that November eighth will mark the one year mark since the show's beloved host Alex Trebek died of cancer I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"In the town of herzegovina. Rock hurt so didn't you begin. I think you said like herzog iraq. You really hit an over so dinner just saying it is making me cough right through the center of had so ganor off. Is the river. Rock and rudy took his people across the river and built a new factory. No i'm sorry. There were two factories that were that. Were part of this. This company and rudy took the south factory and ati kept the north fact. This is a steinbeck novel. These two brothers fighting and one of them crosses the river with his people shaking his fist. Yep and but they stayed in this. It's interesting they stayed in the same town as rivals and and What bitter bitter bitter brothers. yeah they Rudy initially called his shoes rueda short for rudy destler and it was the other called data originally right originally Ati went from ati called the shoes. Odd us but there was already a brand of children's shoes called awda so he just put an eye on adidas slower and and the The evolution of rueda two puma was kind of just p- puma just is is a bad ass cat whereas rueda sounds like somebody's is revealing. That rudy shoes go on to become puma. Rueda became puma. Yeah rudy rudy. Shoes re really rudy. Do rudy tutti fresh fruity and the two companies began. What became a A rivalry throughout the twentieth century and a rivalry where it basically divided the town. Anyone who lived on the south side of town also worked in rudy's factory and only war puma shoes and anyone who lived north of the river worked north of the river and wore adidas. This is insane. It's a company town but it's divided between two companies that are just totally strange and hate each other and it and it was a not just a neighborhood thing but a family thing your if your father worked for you worked for adidas it never would occur to you to wear a puma shoe if there are people that you know that said that you would never mention the name of the of the The rival across the river. He can't even say it and the town was called became nicknamed the town of bent necks. Because the first thing you did was look at someone shoes and that would tell you everything about. It is literally gang colors. Yeah so you're walking around you know you can't really interact in the town without looking down i so the town of bent next became it's it's well it's nickname and i think i think only recently it stopped being kind of known that way in the region the their success throughout the fifties and sixties was very connected to sport the first world cup after the war. The germans weren't allowed to participate in in nineteen fifty. There was still you know. Germany was still an occupied country. And the and you did a very naughty. Yeah genocide you cannot be in. The world are not allowed to play football but by fifty four. there was a kind of rehabilitation happening west. Germany saw that trying to keep the germans beaten down. Didn't work after world war one and maybe the way to do it after world war two is just getting back in in the game and tournament a healthy. Happy capitalists is still a unified german team or is it a west germany east german team. I guess the time this would have been the west german team. They were allowed into the nineteen fifty four world cup and adidas became the official shoe of the german team. Now both ati and rudy were really at the forefront of the idea of sports marketing and rudy was really good at it but audie had all these friendships and relationships connections to people in sport because he was making the shoes and was and people came to him to find out about the shoes. The coach of the west german team was a man him sepp herberger and separate had also been a nazi. But that wasn't what they had in common. What they had in common was the love of shoes and so up became a like a. He was the one that shows adidas to be the shoes of the german team. And from that from nineteen fifty four all the way into the late seventies. The competition between the brothers had a lot to do with what evolved into sports marketing thing. I had a jump in the shoe game since they actually had all the real engineers and designers working for had better and better shoes right. But somebody still on but rudy was a better marketer and in the end It was at the nineteen seventy world cup. That rudy got palay into woman's and as part of the contract palay at the start of the game ran out onto the pitch and held his hand up to the referee. Who is about to blow the whistle to start the game and bent down and tied his shoes on camera in front of a billion people watching the world cup and this was like a a little little buzzed marketing. That rudy came up. Must've been controversial at the time now. It's just commonplace that there will be sneaker wars as part of every professional sport. I think i think that it was only later. Revealed to be a was just like oh hang on. I've got time. I shoot my puma and so the camera pans down to you know to capture palay their tieing shoes. And it's it's just up to you if you want to see what shoes wearing if you wanna buy those for yourself you don't have to bend your neck if the cameras bending for you but it is true that that adidas always had the lead in terms of technological innovation and they always were the biggest company and it it actually was ati son horst dassler..
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"And that was probably even more pronounced then yet. Yeah that you know. The family business belongs to the oldest child and there seems to be some parental favoritism. Paulina or pauline ended up in the long run siding with rudy. Does each have a favorite. This is always fun. It seem it seems like they did. Although kristoff seems like he may have stayed above the fray but going into the war there was. i mean they're both members of the nazi party but weirdly that to talk. I think are older brother to fritz. Also joined it's good to have common interests it is. It is nice. But i think it brought. Nazism brought the family together. For whatever else you can say about nazi but going into the war. There was not a would expect that the german war machine would say. Let's convert your some boots. Yeah factory to some cool you know if not like marching boots than cool commando like spiderman boots but that turned out not to be the case and they made the difference in the war maybe if if they had made adidas adidas boots they certainly had all day. I drew aspirin all day. I dream about sudeten land. They turned out that that rudolph was conscripted and the company was kind of shutdown and machines were moved in and it was put into it was put to work as a manufacturing plant for you know initially for wo jets and limited. The older kid got drafted. The older kid got drafted and went into what after the war was suggested was kind of a Like an s style intelligence unit. So all of this again sort of disputed by conflicting testimony at the end of the war eventually oddy retools the factory and the adidas factory. Or what would soon be adidas but the The factory starts manufacturing. Bazookas can use the same jeans. Do you think. I will ever discover that he could just turn sneaker machines around and make busy bazookas. The bazooka had not bazooka was an american invention and it was only when they started capturing american bazookas that they reverse engineered them. And and so you know audie was was in the basuki making a bazooka making business. The basuki making xueping. That's the zucchini. Spent the war xueping. They ended up making almost one hundred thousand bazookas before the end of the war. Wow but at the end of the war. There was a lot of contention rudy was captured. The the american tanks rolled in and rolled into were. They rolled into one to what the name of the place. get iraq. and there's this There's this kind of dramatic story that the tanks rolled into the town and they were just kind of like pointing their cannons that anything that looked like a part of the war effort and just blowing up buildings run the russians versus these are americans because this is very okay at which point caccia ran out and stood like a like a like cotinine square stood in front of a tank and said no. No no. don't destroy the destroyer bazooka factory shoot. Plant don't destroy our shoe plant because we are innocent. And i think might have even said. We gave shoes jesse owens in the thirty six olympics. And somehow the american soldiers didn't destroy the factory turned their cannons away and then went on down the road destroying other fans and the american every other factories. Like we gave some of these crackers to jesse owens. He said they were written good. We have some of these bazookas to to jesse owens holy cow. They actually i guess Billeted the american officers There in schloss destler which their pretzels buttered on these guys. That's right and there were several. So so then there's a there's this kind of You know the the the in the nuremberg fashion. Like everybody's got a tone or at least account for their performance in the war. And there's all this record public record of them all being nazis and public zukas for the world and and rudy actually being arguably a zoolander commando or like a bad actor. He's got a black leather jacket in the closet but they make the case that they are. You know kind of essential to the shoes being a a non-political thing you know they're kind of they're ready to play a part in the rebuilding of germany. And eventually the americans realized we can't prosecute every nazi in this country and they and they everybody was making something for the war machine right and so they you know they absolve them of their involvement but the damage between audion rudy is done and part of it was during these during these trials. They kind of denounced one another actually did denounce one another. And an ati said rudy was a was a bad nazi and rudy said. He was making bazookas. Are you kidding me. His name's literally adolf and the americans couldn't decide who to believe so they let both pretty smart. They let them both go. At which point their shoe company they decided to split in half a really was gonna leave one does left. Shoes was rightish if only rudy and audie though the way that they worked it out was that the people that were in sales and marketing and administration. They they they. They allow their employees to pick who they went with. How interested in sales marketing and administration all went with rudy because they worked with them entrusted him and liked and all of the engineers and manufacturing people stayed with ati and that was the larger portion of the company. Ati kept the original factory and rudy went across the river..
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Around world war one when the older the older two siblings fritz in and rudy got conscripted into into the army and of course as we know germany lost audie went into the army. Right at the end. Didn't see didn't really see action. But they came back to their town and there was an incredible famine of well. Not only of food but of supplies there was there were there was no leather available. There was no there. Were no raw materials available at all right and at this point. Ati kinda makes the decision to leave leave. Baking behind and at the age of nineteen starts shoemaking company. And he's making shoes with found materials. He's basically taking the leather out of discarded military equipment. He's using rubber from old tires. And he's he's stitching together shoes and he starts a company that is specifically making sports shoes. If you can think about like organized sports in the pretty new nine hundred. Ninety i'm sorry. Nineteen nineteen yeah. These would have been you know. Sports were either. The i kind of the a distraction for the well to do or the kind of hardscrabble street sports but there wasn't you know a culture of sports in the same way. It was an aristocratic there was mountain climbing and then there was everything else. Not amount climbing. Didn't even really exist in the same way unless you were more than playing tennis soccer. They're playing soccer tennis soccer. I guess a yeah like cat kicking was big at the time. His company was called sport. Fabric gabe router dassler and it was show they shortened it to gator and he started making shoes and at that point his brother rudy. His older brother. Older by two years joined the company in the two of them kind of Burgled along making shoes and again spending time with with ati as the creator and rudy as the salesman trying to get their shoes into the hands of people that were playing sport as a you know making sort of innovative shoes out of different kinds of material. It's funny there's a rosiak in jobs already. Yeah there's like one of them who knows how to the product and the other one who's into the relationship. Yeah the engineer and the and they partner with a local you know a local metal smith and they get him to make little spikes that they attached to the bottom of the shoes and the first football shoot there. The first invented those cleats cleats basically. But it's really a in the nineteen thirties where they start to kick into gear. And that's where adolf. Hitler really comes into the picture. Because the brothers recognize in the rise of the nause's that there is a new focus a new emphasis on sport as a right way of of young fit aryan youth. That's future chairman. E- expressing your your nationalism through like this halen hardy pink cheeked sport and so both brothers join the nasdaq party in the very early thirties. So only weeks. After hitler is released from prison dykes and they partner with the hitler youth and began making sports shoes and and basically profiting from the you know that naasi interest in health and outdoors manship. I wonder if they're holding their nose like a lot of you. Know it's it's not like german liberals at the time didn't know what hitler was or are these guys like true believers like this is the way forward for the country they hopeful or are they just trying to sell more exercise gear. Well this comes up a lot later after the war in particular because this gets adjudicated a lot and i and it was a big feature at the end of the war in the in the truth and reconciliation around the remember trials Where the us army. And the united the allied attempt to bring nazis justice meant that there were all these local tribunals on topics but also the americans pretty quickly realized that if they were going to prosecute every nausea factor. Yeah you know it wasn't gonna work and so part of the marshall plan was to exonerate a lot of people that maybe should have done a little bit more in terms of Reparation for though for their crimes but the sense is that the that this was an and certainly the story that that ati told later was that yes it was. It was just a matter of expediency. Never was a true believer the it was just. It was a good a michael. It was only business but they and there's some evidence in the in the sense that as he tried to get his shoes into the hands of sports people audie recognized and rudolf recognized. I think as the marketer that the nineteen thirty six olympics. We're going to be an incredible opportunity for them to get their shoes in front of the world and they should have put him on. Jesse owens it turned out and they did put him on. Jesse oh oh is that right. Yeah they went to jesse owens and and as far as the story goes silently handed him a pair of their sort of revolutionary gaeta. Shoes and jesse owens wore them and wore them to victory. So i guess that's pretty good evidence that they're really just more interested in advancing their own business than they actually were in nazi ideology if they if they're okay with everybody having the same shoes. Yeah yeah you kind of. I mean it. It was. It came into play after the war the fact that they had supplied shoes to jesse owens because it was. It was a mitigating turbo. Believer would have kept their shoes just for the team. Yeah exactly right. And somehow sneaking over and handing them to. Jesse owens didn't attract the attention of hitler until after the fact ken hallowes underwear feeling feel great. I look great minefield. Good i might look good are yours yours mac. Weldon my underwear are mac. Well then i'm wearing right now. I wear them all the time They're coveted under underpants in my social circles. People trying to steal them. Some kind of underwear hamburglar buddies always trying to steal my underpants. It's just one of the things i've had to come to grips with that. 'cause you threw them to the crowd like tom jones for some. That's right i did it i did. I did it for too long. And now people come up around the street. They think that my underwear are fair game. And and their mac. Waldon's yeah you can replenish year. Supply at macworld and dot com. And it's not just underwear. John i know you like there. you like. They're they're above the waist garment. I got hoodies and whatnot. They've got shorts. Go polos sock socks or socks. You name it for any aspect of life. If you're working with going out this really not a time of your day when you should not be wearing something macworld going to work going to home going on a date to people still go to work going to work in your home. Go to work sure. Even if they're going to work at home you don't eat pants for that but mack well and has very very comfortable pants. That don't even feel like pants. 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"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Eight thousand miles away and so journalists followed up with the village and ask them what the future of the prince philip movement is. What would you do if you are a believer in principle. How would you adopt your beliefs to the current moment. Double down double down on it right. I mean that's what the russians did now. He's in heaven fighting fighting for the village. I mean one of the reasons. The bible was written when it was sixty to one hundred years later. Is that for the first forty years. After jesus died the people just assumed he was on his way back and he he was supposed to be back like within a year. And then there's no point in writing these stories down you just. You're just talking to a group of people that are kind of milling around waiting for jesus so by the time. Mark got around to writing the reading the book down. I gotta write this down a while. Sure i mean it might be starting to forget some of these stories suddenly. There's a bunch of new guys who don't remember the stories and never met the original guy and then matthew and luke. Where like. I've got you know all these other stories. We should write those down to. It's just like third generation members of the temptations or citing and then john was like no no no no no no. I've got some stories. Yeah that's what they should do. They should they. Should write the book of philip well. These guys had an option that the early christians never did. Because philip had a lot of well-publicized offspring sure. I know them. I know some of them sure. You mentioned earlier that he was a terrible father and made gloomy private school and all england but there was the one that was a harrier pilots who ended up being a sex criminal. Sure what about the you know. All we all love prince andrew. The world's greatest hairier sex. So what happened. Which which lucky. Kid got the nod. They decided that prince charles was now their new god. I thought it was going to be princess. Am somebody with a little. Bring a little bit of freshness debuted. They don't have the most enlightened views on gender in the town of your on. And i'm really sure maybe we should start a cult principle. Although that might be weird to all the places in its practical all the places on vanuatu that would have had adoring pictures and engravings of queen. Elizabeth many with prince phillip are soon going to have pictures of prince charles presumably unless he abdicates he does seem. I guess the most philippine of the you don't mean related to the island. No philip. well the philippians no. Isn't that like a circus manual. No you'd say phillipine what's your sure. I mean he's got the ears he's got he's got the knows he's never gonna be. He's he's basically been married to a powerful woman and never going to the king so he married a powerful woman that he could get rid of unlike unlike his dad and go back to his first love although she his powerful wife still still overshadows him. I think i wonder what they think about. Camilla on the island of tanna. I'm not really sure. Do you think they get the crowd of they have netflix. No no. They've resisted all technology. Maybe they just mcqueen and that concludes the prince philip movement entry. Nine eight seven dot p. s. Eight two zero seven certificate number five zero two two seven in the omnibus future rulings in the unlikely event that social media still exists. In your era. You can find ken. Jennings all over the internet like prince. Philip oliver micronesia. You can find all my various cargo cults worldwide. that's right. I a friend in new zealand. Who is like just turned on tv and you were hosting jeopardy. So maybe i am going to get my first melanesian cargo cult. What are you going to bring to the people of melanesia that will make you want to come back. What are they not have dipping dots. The.
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"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"To return some this exactly like principal when i hear that story. I'm like well clearly talking about prince philip. The duke of edinburgh right. It's hard to say. How much has been changed by the subsequent seeing it through the lens of prince philip career but in a vague way there was a story about a a light lighter than them guy. Yeah with a you. Know who who marries a goddess or another powerful spirit over the waves. I mean any time you go to a fortune teller. They're going to tell you that. A light skinned guy has been trying to contact. Those are the two elements right. There's there's a connection with a new stranger. Yeah maybe a love match and travel over water right right right. Those are the two things and so those are both present in this legend because there is some at this village. There is apparently some tradition adjacent to that in the nineteen sixties due to the anglo-french condominium then running new hebrides. There were pictures of queen elizabeth everywhere that was the thing about a crown colony sure and nineteen sixty s. Those were the that was that was pete. Queen elizabeth inter inter crown. Yes and she would be pictured She'd beyond the money she was she was pretty. She's four covers a disgrace right. She would just be sitting on should be on magazine covers with her beautiful children and often she has next to her her her her gallant husband be draped in metal. He's a milit- military hero. He's draped in metals and he I feel like we spend a lot of this show talking about Older hideous men and how hot they were when they were younger but prince. Philip is a good looking man. he's he's very white strong jaw line kind of a regal looking a substantial knows. He was always balding. Even i think when they were first married. But it's a good look on him whereas distinguished but it's a good look on on prince philip where it isn't on prince rainier of monaco right lake like prince philip's. Yeah seems dashing. Seems like somebody that might have sort fighting score scars whereas prints raniero is. Yes seemed like a guy that should be selling you hard salami. You know we don't know what kind of what species of listener were speaking to right on this program right. They could be from a variety of eras variety of fi la they could be plants that could secrete their own pungent. Musk cable certainly have their own. Different smells but almost certainly if you can smell you're gonna have smells. You prefer aren't chicken exactly. It's going to be a smell of your species. That is not socially acceptable and very smell. That is and you know who knows more about that than anybody else is native o right native native who Who cares about the products you put on your body. Yeah i mean this stuff is is going to be true across eras globally. You may want an aluminum free deodorant. You almost certainly do. Yes unless you are made of aluminum. You wanna deodorant without You may want unscented deodorant. For example you may want broad spectrum. Spf thirty sunscreen for your face and body. If you live in a dystopia future it may be that you that. You're you're raised evolved in a time when the sun did not penetrate to the earth and then the skies clear because of a strong zephyr and all of a sudden. The sun is burning. Your you're pasty white ectoplasms. I can't imagine a time when you would not want to smell like coconut vanilla or citrus and herbal. Musk or lavender and rose. I mean everybody's gonna want body wash deodorant..
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"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"He's only a prince of greece because his mother was some fallen habsburg. But we've had several requests on the show to cover an unusual element of prince philip's biography of which he actually became aware and when she probably enjoyed now way before we get there you know when we come over to dinner. It's clear that the attraction is mindy and that you are just sort of there as her concert. now that's true. How would you feel. How much would you chafe if if you were mindy. Jennings's concert if you were what's minis Made name Bom if you were if you were Mr boehm jennings mr mindy. Bom mr mindy bom. How long before you chafed. I think i would shave. I dunno does it come with all the not because not even because she's a woman but just to be the all. I already chafe at being your second banana when you and i go to baseball games and you throw out the first pitch and don't you just have to sit in your in your seat that you got from calling higher. Yeah but not. Because of you. I call the rock and roll higher up. Yeah but i sit and kind of go for for for them. I assume it must be difficult. And i don't and just assume that from my experience speaking to people who have been in that position mindy has a friend of ours. Who really think who has a couple of friends who wanted to confide in her about you. Know what it's like to have to What happens to your identity. When suddenly you have a spouse with some level of unexpected level of status or famer prestige yeah and mendis quite untouched by the whole thing. And she always just kind of blinks and says sympathetic things because she has never thought boy. What an ordeal. It is to have a to have an accomplished spouse but many people do we had a we had a friend We have a friend who was recently profiled in a magazine piece and Had a spouse that was quite upset that that the they're the spouses accomplishments were not recognized. That happens a lot. I have a few friends who are famous and their spouse spouse resents that they're that they're vanity project isn't held in great esteem. And you do see a lot of these vanity projects. Jerry seinfeld's wife's cookbooks. I'm sure fantastic. But and it's good that she's finally graduated from high school i did. I do remember one time at your house when you you ask somebody to pass you the catch a bottle or whatever and it took a little bit of time or somebody took took took time to get it to you and you said you know. I paid for that ketchup. Didn't feel very much like you or you were like you know what you know. One would have any ketchup. If it weren't for me. You need to be thinking about me. I'm a game show every time you add catch up to your hot dog. Let's be frank. Yeah i don't know. I don't know would that be a i feel like if it came with all the money and comfort go boating and you had to sleep on your dad's mattress there's no comfort. There's no freedom more comfort. That's very specific to prince philip. If i was if i was if i if i had married into money and i was just a trophy in america yeah. I don't know that i would mind. Yeah i'd be an odd choice. Closure right i mean why. Why are you guys still feel like if jennifer lawrence wants to marry like an older guy and have him just around to say funny. Things i'm available. It's happening in seattle. Now that melinda gates mackenzie bays also newly single in seattle. She numbers she. She fairly quickly got a re engaged to just a teacher at the kids own seattle private school. Some of my friends kids chemistry teacher. Yeah suddenly he's gonna be mr mckenzie beza captain my captain and he immediately quit. He's not he's not teaching there anymore. But i bet you he signed pre-nup our sure but i assume all the all the faculty were really. Yeah what the discussions in the break room. Were like everybody. Updating their the picture on their picture on the website right on tinder another melinda single again. There's probably a lot of that going on. Oh i guess maybe their kids are not in high school anymore. I can't remember how old the youngest is. i think. yeah so. She's gotta be hitting the bars. Maybe she likes dirac yet to know what are qualification on. Well i mean you think a trophy husband. I mean i cut a dashing figure but would you have a royal title. Like prince phillip. Would you be like the duke of ballard. The duke ballard. Please the duca ballard. Please not ballard west seattle the duke of burien yell addict period but Getting to what made prince philip a movement. We need to kind of move the lens from buckingham palace bell moral or whatever all the way across almost to the exact antipasto point on the earth's surface we head now to sunny vanuatu in the south pacific. It's in melanesia somewhat. East of new guinea near fiji st. It did not occur to me that this was an antipodes but now that you say it. Wow the the actual antipodes has to be fairly close. It's a little south of their speen in new zealand are almost precisely antipodes tip odal. I don't know if it's anti portal or an typical via the the sun never sets on the british empire. At least it didn't. The sun has continued to not set on the british empire. I believe.
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"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"We can take off your clothes and strip and run all around the field with them trying to catch with morganna the kissing ended on your heels but he had he had a cautionary tale about a taiwanese console like a diplomat. Who had who'd been asked to. Throw the first pitch at an ems game and had insisted that heathrow for them because he had pitched in highschool not. You don't have to worry. Sure you wanna throw it because you know sixty feet. Six inches is longer than looks. No no no no. I used to pitch in high school. And he he gets up there and he does a big wind up and he just throws into the dirt at his feet. Oh it rolls most of the way dogs. Oh so the the advice. I got from this mysterious stranger who turned out to be the owner and chairman of the seattle mariners was. Don't be here out there. Don't be a hero. I would absolutely try to be a hero. But i've i have heard from people that it harder than it looks a and also the mound the height of the mountains taller than you think you'd think it would be an advantage but for the layperson. It actually causes a lot of confusions and so but you know my friends who have an in at the baseball field. I've never proposed. And it's probably because i'm not famous enough but one day one day my fame will lead me to that mound and i will be a hero. I will throw it from up there. And i'll do the whole wind up and everything and i will. I'll hit a hot dog vendor almost certainly but it'll be worth it. I paid it forward. And i got maria gig. Can maybe she'll i don't think she's going to be able to. She doesn't have the pull the maybe she'll get george in there and then he'll get you. Oh i bet get it there. I bet after game we attended with you. I brought my daughter and she and i had gone to baseball game several times over the years but she was always kind of too young to really watch an entire game. Fortunately the mariners have playgrounds for kids. So do yeah we would take over. And or i would i often. It was just the two of us. And i would take her to the playground and she would play play for a while and that would be enough and will the wonderful thing about going to a baseball games. Such a spectacle that that alone will kind of keep a kid interested for a couple of innings. At least it's always something to look at. At some point there's gonna be fireworks at some point. There might be dots. The ice cream of the future. And i i think later i realized oh we went to see the mariners versus the texas rangers. A matchup no one cares about but but later on when maria throughout the first pitch it with a yankees game and there are a lot of yankees fans there and as everyone knows. They're awful and so there was much more screaming. There was much more a suggestion of possible. Fan violence seattle lot more transplants than it used to and as a result there are any any game we'll have an influx of local fans. If they get a tipping point they will try to start their own chance right. If they get a lead they will start taunting the locals there. Sitting near there was a lot of taunting and as we all know. Seattle is a place in a lot of new yorkers who are trying to leave new york forever. they come here. Seattle seems like the opposite of new york in some ways and in my experience of the of the new yorkers. Come here there are two kinds and one kind is wow. This is so much better than new york. No-one yells at. You almost never smells like pu. It's not cold it's not hot. I walk everywhere but not really you can walk everywhere in new york and then the other kind is hey. What's the matter with this place. Everybody's so you know you're also week no one else. You don't never smells like pooh. How are you going to get you get nothing done. Nobody's friendly and those people you know are going to go back to. Goodhearted person had no accent no good hearted person like a new york. Hey he would lose his accent in they come in. They're like well hello. I'd love to see you some time but probably not soon by nice talking to you. And the new yorkers hey why does everybody on your web guy. A guy wants was i was working on broadway and A guy not in new york not new york but in seattle because we sold the new york times. My new standard. It used to be before the new york times was in every supermarket that this was a place you had to come get it. And so i met all the new yorkers because they all wanted to read the new york times they'd come in and they'd their new yorkers so they would talk to me about you know they'd walk in and they go. Hey we're i'm from your from new york. I know you're here by the new york times and a guy stood there at the counter. One time looking around and he was like. What is everybody in seattle. Where boris karloff shoes. Like what's the deal with that. And i was like all entered icing play. I said well you know it's we're we're alternative alternative fashion. We all are like angry and sad and so we were big clunky shoes. And he's like yeah. It looks like y'all one leg shorter than the other like go back to new york whereas the the well-mannered ones immediately start saying. Hey forget about it. Hey forget about at least forget about it. The the you know the ones that want to live out here. They go get some longer boots. It's the first thing you do. When you first thing you did they. They can't wait. They can't wait to get some flannel on. Give me some of those big black boots. But so the new. The new yorkers obviously at the sporting games are all. They're even if they're from even if they're from connecticut. They exaggerate that yankees at the rangers game. My daughter got pretty bored. And i she was excited about you through throwing out the first pitch but then it was. It was kind of went downhill from. That game. Went to extra innings. Yeah it was a long slow drag and and and they kept us there because it was july second and they promised a big fireworks display so we should have left after the sixth inning. Just to keep her kind of. I don't want her to think of going to a baseball game as a negative experience punishment. Because it's very expensive punishment. Every time she room you can't you can't pay thirty five dollars for for field level seats. Yeah and i tried to placate with like oh. We'll get hot dogs. Well now we'll get pizza will. Hey i never got her dipping dots. Because i don't believe it is the ice cream of the future. No it's got be no. It was not the past and it's certainly not the ice cream of the president third option. It's about the ice cream of the president you can. You can get it now but it has traveled in time. That's what made it so cold. Never had called. The delorean is yeah. That's right well because of dry cold ice cold. One thing she loved about being in the baseball stadium was the wave and she was familiar with it because the wave has become a thing that it's not just a synonymous with sports but it's synonymous with gathering of people at a boring moment. You look around. You go while there fifteen people here. It's not inevitable but but often enough someone will go the way of and they'll stand up and and it'll be a funny moment where ten people kind of standing in a big circle will do the wave and i was shocked when it happened at that game because it was the first game back. At first post pandemic full post pandemic capacity and mariners games had been up until now the season yet not many people not enough people to do the wave not enough people to make lines at the concessions it was like a utopia..
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"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"A few years ago new york. Times writer named bruce feiler attempted to quantify you know because the the decline of the middle initial in american public life if you look at the congressional when what he called of members of congress is their roster across the rotation if you look at the the members of congress and the united eighty four percent of you members of congress had middle names in one thousand nine hundred seventy it was still seventy percent so it held up into And then the baby boomers killed killed it by two thousand nineteen. It had dropped to me. When did he do this work. Two thousand fourteen. I can't rebound writing by the last day in the last decade and a drop to thirty eight percent. Now you're not saying they don't have middle names just that they're listed. This is the use of the middle initial middle. Names are more common than ever and as you point out people are maybe giving kids a number of middle names because just for the kind of the fun of the parents. The child will not benefit by this in any way and might in fact be in our case. Our daughter has tried a couple of different over middle names. But what happened. Is that her first. Three names her first name to middle names actually form name like jeb stuart. Nobody called him. J e b. They called him. Jeb save time and and then apparently jeb. Bush was named after him weird but But yeah our daughter for a while on her softball team was known as the name that her first three initials make interesting. Yeah but that did not stick it. Did she still has called that name by several by people that know are and i bet you'll have the softball name. Yeah it's kind of cool. Sports name many parents who have given their and it's really is just. I think it's kind of the ego of childbirth like the creative impulse like why. Why give a kid one name if you could do six. Yeah why not put mcgeorge in there but the loss of middle initials. I'm assuming is maybe more of an egalitarian impulse. Sort of the jimmy. Carter vibe of like. I'm just a not one of these washington people. The reason i didn't they my child kenneth wayne jennings before because it sounded a little bit prakash. The fourth is always a bad. Well also he will be the third now because everybody would have moved up. We don't do family. That's not correct so there was. You gave your son like like cool hippie name like dylan like a handkerchief around the heads middle name. So he could actually be t- dylan jennings if you want to be a. But today i feel like that's also been colored his previous just by all the kinda robber barons and j pierpont morgan's and j gays and t boone. Pickens did it. But t dylan. Sounds very bohemian. To me tiki dylan. Jenny used to sound bohemian. I think to have the first initial. I like i think. Picasso experimented with being pc. Ruiz picasso on when he would sign his work. Or maybe it was. Yeah maybe maybe p. or something but yeah pablo ruis. Picasso is a hard name to say and it also not for them but pablo. Ruiz ru public delightfully off. The latin lantana us us us northern europeans. Who can't y But it doesn't sound like a cool painter. You're right you can see why. He went with pablo picasso bub-bubba. It's the rhythm of it. Nobody ever called pablo picasso. Bruce feiler probably all his wives mistresses. Bruce feiler also looked at pulitzer winners. Found that in the twenties and thirties. The majority of them had middle names by the forties and fifties. It was down to half. Then there's a big dip between the eighties and the nineties from forty three to twenty six percent between ninety and people who previously were using middle initials Dropped them nicholas kristof writing in the new york times always nicholas kristof and then he wrote a column about how You know what i just. This just conveys the wrong thing anymore. This now seems old timey. And i'm gonna lose the deal. It was around the same time that obama's foundation lost the h. It just it just started to seem like a relic. I guess to me. It sounds like a board room boardroom. and it's still true in i i've thought about this before because you know the. Us governments increasingly gerontocracy. And that's why. Donald j trump and joseph r biden still kind of have the will have the middle initial probably on their presidential portrait and the same is true in Among latter day saints the leadership of the church is in the seventies and eighties and nineties. And they all still have the middle initial because they came up in a time when that conveyed official status in america. You gotta have a middle initial on your name plate and somehow the the hyphen in exile alexandria okay. Ceo cortez is totally different right. The hyphen seems progressive. And it's no longer feels aristocratic. It feels i. I because the names are latino. Names that i don't know because the suggestion is that the her parents combine to make a lino a. Hyphen name. yes and that's true today. That's true you will see more. Yeah hyphenated kids at a seattle middle-school are coming from progressive parents keeping the mom's name around at least for a generation right. You could just keep going forever. You know the their kids might have four hyphenated last stadiums and their kids will have eight but she's a c. which is very jfk. She is the first american politicians since lbj j to to have the three letter thing. She's going to have an airport sunday. I do think we lose something in in losing the middle initial. Because there's been some research on what middle initials do convey in two thousand fourteen to Social scientists. i know you love these guys. we're just one more thing about ao. See her Her mother's last name was.
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"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"That very welch. What if i was your old west author like morgan john roderick It's pretty good multiple. Names go back to the way wait. What's your middle name. Wayne the ws for wayne. Serial killer kim w jennings. I've seen that. And i'm the third and i did not advance when previous kenneth we jennings pass. Oh you're kenneth wayne jennings the third you never put that on your checks. I don't the same reason. That richard winfield garnett the third use it. Oh i thought it sounded important. That's why you objected to that because it applies directly to you. Yeah yeah i would i would. I would have moved up to junior now. Yeah but requires my dad to decide. He wants to be senior. Also he's keeping the to that forces you to keep the three. No he's still junior junior. But that's what forces you. He likes to say that you know. Because i'm always ken jennings in the president. He's ken jennings junior. It's really been a it's not identity crisis and possibly time travel paradox for him. He's he's sounds like the the son of his own son. It's bill gates is a junior. Yes but what The way they differentiated is that His father called himself william gates senior. And that's that's one you don't your father could just become senior. He could if he believed in your manners. Agent of chaos. Everybody moves up one. All the time doesn't that sound better. Ca kenneth wayne jennings senior. You'd be you. He be Just aspiring his whole life to become a senior break out of that junior mole he goes from sounding like a serial killer cowboy to sounding like a bank president kenneth wayne juniors seniors get used less for the first of the name can just leave it off. He's the original. Wash it he. After he's the right man it would be a rhetoric him to call him senior was. He lived his whole life without being a senior until had a child. Change your name just because you named a kid after you you. Don't you already named a kid after you. You've definitely got an inflated sense of yourself. Yeah you know the the tendency to name children after ancestors after their after their genealogical legacy or heritage is really at the core of what created middle names. 'cause morgan is the Is a family name. is that right. Yeah family family surname. Yeah you know. The romans had three names often guys. Julius caesar in they would be. There would be a pre norman which was like your personal name. Guys was julius. Caesar's equivalent of john. Ken and then. Julius is your noman your family name. Oh that that was the equivalent of the surname and the third name which is often what we remember today in the cicero or whatever that was called the cog newman which originally it was kind of nickname later it became kind of supplemental hereditary name to distinguish different branches of the family. You know how you would you know. I have this problem today. i just. I had my brother's family visiting me. That's the that's also the jennings's and then my parents came over from scam to go to the ball game with us a neighbor the jennings is too so i can't tell my sister had the jennings's were staying with us. I because i'm the jennings's so you can say the olympic jennings says or the utah jennings right exactly so. This was. The roman cognitive carcinoma became kind of the equivalent of that. Or if you did something awesome in your life your cognition could become a sign of that like if you wanna battle you could become magnus maximus or something. So your dad is ken. Jennings junior you. Are ken jennings jeopardy jeopardy us is a do you have a do you ever use. No i mean there are some that rod roderick long winters. There's some there's some nicknames that people might apply to me but i'm not going to adopt a myself and as a result you can have. It became fashionable because fads always sprawl to have multiple cog no mona. Where if you accomplished multiple things you would just keep adding names and this seems a little odd to us to have the family name in the middle and then a series of kind of descriptive or delimiting titles. But it's this is the exact same system that's used today and a lot of east african cultures action so it's apparently. There's something intuitive about it. Classroom these bantu people did not get it from reading about cicero well. In hungary the last name is first and that's true in korea to yeah and And china and japan as well. Oh the last name is i really. Oh i didn't realize that. About japan and china. I mean you can say it in. It's commonly anglicised especially for japanese. People would say well t- chiro suzuki but but if they were saying it in the old fashioned way the date of way they would say suzuki each year. You put certain. I i did not know. Maybe that's part of the asian ethos of putting family before self. You literally do it. 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The Mason Minute
What You Type (MM #3815)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Like many people, I've been following the debacle of the new host problems for jeopardy when producer Mike Richards takes the job and then his bad deeds is a bad boss comes back to haunt him. He ends up stepping down. They want to name former jeopardy champion, Ken Jennings, the new host, but they found a few problem tweets from a few years ago and said they really weren't comfortable with him taking over the show because people weren't excited about that. Yes, I guess it's kind of cancel culture coming in. But let's be honest, like the old saying, what you say can be used against you in a court of law, kind of works on the Internet, too. What you type will be held against you forever if somebody screenshotted it. I remember when MySpace first came around going back to what 2004, 2005, we used to track into potential employees and look to see who they were and what they were and to be honest with you. Well, here we are now with social media being around for over 15 years and well, what you are typing 15 years ago no matter how old you are, can't come back to haunt you. I guess it's no fun to be vanilla, but hey, if you don't say anything that people upset, you probably don't have to worry about it.
The Mason Minute
What You Type (MM #3815)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Like many people, I've been following the debacle of the new host problems for jeopardy when producer Mike Richards takes the job and then his bad deeds is a bad boss comes back to haunt him. He ends up stepping down. They want to name former jeopardy champion, Ken Jennings, the new host, but they found a few problem tweets from a few years ago and said they really weren't comfortable with him taking over the show because people weren't excited about that. Yes, I guess it's kind of cancel culture coming in. But let's be honest, like the old saying, what you say can be used against you in a court of law, kind of works on the Internet, too. What you type will be held against you forever if somebody screenshotted it. I remember when MySpace first came around going back to what 2004, 2005, we used to track into potential employees and look to see who they were and what they were and to be honest with you. Well, here we are now with social media being around for over 15 years and well, what you are typing 15 years ago no matter how old you are, can't come back to haunt you. I guess it's no fun to be vanilla, but hey, if you don't say anything that people upset, you probably don't have to worry about it.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Ken Jennings' Old Tweets Torpedo His Jeopardy Chances
"Do. Ken Jennings is out. The stuff he said was really stupid. I think I'll meet this thing. Like last back in 2004, he won a ton of money as you know, 74 games in a row, but then they found these tweets and it's all bad. He actually started by saying, this is awful. One time posted nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair. It's not funny. You don't make fun of people in wheelchairs. I'm about to have beauty, you idiot. Again, a non common trying to be a comic, don't try it. Just be as smart as jeopardy guy. Then a couple of years after that, after Kathy Griffin held up that picture of Donald Trump's decapitated head. He makes a joke about Barron Trump, who was then 11. And his baron seeing a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster, he thought of as his dad and his little heart is breaking. These are the kind of guys you want to punch in the face. Then he described an older woman who was mourning her dead son by tweeting this awful maga grandma is my favorite person on Twitter. So this guy can go screw himself
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"The book came out Michael strange collapsed from what they thought was. Fatigue entered out to leukemia and she died shortly thereafter ending this great and tumultuous relationship for margaret wise brown but she rebounded just a few years later. She was suddenly engaged to james. Stillman rockefeller jr. speaking of being a member of a wealthy manhattan family storage rolls and rolls. He is a rockefeller. His dad had run. What became citibank. I think at the time it was the national city of new york. His dad had run that for decades. So pebble rockefeller was doing very well for himself he. He had actually been on the cover of time magazine. I think all the spread. The dad dad was an olympic athlete. Who had actually been on the rowing crew. With benjamin spock that olympic gold medal in the nineteen twenties and was married to a woman who had previously been married to torah hired all of omnibus fans. So this is her new beau pebble rockefeller and this is now the new love of her life. And everything's going great and she heads to niece france for work and has to get surgery there on an ovarian cyst oh and is recovering in the hospital and is recovering well and wants to show off to a nurse. How well she's doing so she like kicks. Her legs amir to kick her blankets off and in doing so dislodge is a blood clot in her leg and is dead of a pulmonary. Embolism within the hour. Oh no so margaret. Wise brown passed away in Nineteen fifty two what she would have been. Let's see born nineteen ten. She would have been in her mid forties so not a long life and as you say you asked if she had lived to see the book become a success she was accessible kids writer but good night moon was not selling a million copies a year like it would in the seventies and eighties and nineties so in kind of a funny postscript she left the rights of of that particular book in her will to The son of a friend of hers woman named mccormack who you know it was kind of a seemed like she needed a single mom. She left it all to this kid. Unfortunately the kid by the time she died the kid was already a teen and already kind of a delinquent. And he inherits the rights to this book At a time when he's already enmeshed in drugs and crime and nineteen fifties drugs and crime. he's like He's like he's a rebel of that. Yeah wow a brando. So from the fifties into the sixties in the seventies a trust is releasing to him. You know the book is starting to make more and more money. He's getting increasing allowance of hundreds of dollars a week which immediately goes into his arm or his awful friends or whatever and so he lives a dissolute life the wall street journal profiled him in in the two thousands at some point where albert edward clark was still alive pushing sixty and still like living his still can opium dissolute life traveling around the country abandoning kids and families and women right and laughed. But now a multimillionaire. You'd think but he just manages to you know he gets the check twice a year and it's it's gone weeks later. He never signed it away. he's just he just does not much blow. He never made a bad legal decision. He just Yeah apparently just makes a series of of bad decisions. The trustee probably died in the seventies giving him sudden access to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Which again was gone by the end of the year and he seems like he's not all there it's kind of i kind of feel bad that they even or profiling this guy who can't even remember the name of the book and just jokes about that. It's you know just just alcohol syndrome early alzheimer's or something. And now believe that margaret wise brown was actually his mother and that. Nobody's nobody's talking about this and and a window. The rights become public domain. Well sonny bono. Copyright act extends extended at twenty years. So he can count on. He can count on Proceeds from good night moon coming well into the tooth twenty two thousand forty s. Oh boy at which time he would be in his late nineties and probably. I don't even know if. Actually i think he's still alive. I didn't find us notice for him. So every time you give a copy of goodnight moon away at a baby shower or something..
Janet Lansbury Podcast
Being Unruffled Is All About Knowing Where Your Child's Behavior Comes From
"I would not be doing a podcast stuff your feelings hide your emotions if you do. Listen here than you know. That i'm all about the opposite. I'm all about encouraging normalization of emotions all emotions having a curious attitude about them encouraging our child to express all there's no judgment on emotions and yes. We do need to do that for ourselves. As well as models but when i speak about being unruffled what unruffled really is is an understanding of our child and child development and behavior. What causes children to do these kinds of things that this parent shares about screaming in her mother's face throwing books saying she doesn't want to be hugged or kissed those the only actual examples that she gave. But i can picture a lot of things that children this age do. So why do children do this. What's going on with them when we understand that and can connect with it. We're still not going to be perfect. Yes we are going to get triggered or have an emotional reaction to certain things but not as much and the more we practice. What we're seeing here. Which is in all of these cases. Maybe not quite the affection one. But i'll get to that but in these cases of behavior that yes could make us angry or annoyed. The reason our child is doing that. Is impulse impulse. That comes from dysregulation emotional centers. They've gone into fight flight or freeze. They are in. What mondale hooked calls the red zone. They're not using their brains and their reason to do what's right. What they know in the frontal part of their brain is right. That part is getting hijacked by their emotions and tina pain. Bryson dan siegel talk about children flipping their lid. Well that sounds very extreme like something. We would definitely notice right if my child was just going off completely. Sometimes that does happen. We noticed that but through all these other subtler forms of it things like. Here's one that maybe we can relate to as adults. Maybe i've i'm on a diet and cutting sugar out but you my friend see me. There's a candy bar there. And i grab it. Tear the repre start taking bites. Am i super upset their m. i. Flipping my lid not really. But i've done something impulsive. That i don't want to do and so my friend telling me jennings shouldn't do that. Wouldn't be a helpful thing to say because i know i'm not supposed to do it and i did it anyway. An impulse may be do
Native America Calling
When Yukon River Chum Stocks Collapsed, Donated Fish Came in From Bristol Bay
"This summer saw some of the worst runs on alaska's yukon river but bristol bay processors have been enjoying great runs and donated fish to alaska native tribes along the yukon river kyi. Uk's olivia egberts reports. You're going to write the number of fish on this label. that's tanya ives. She's packing up chum. And kim salmon to be distributed to villages along the lower yukon river bristol. Bay processors sent the salmon too. Quick pack the only fish processing plant on the yukon. This donation is about twelve thousand. Pounds of salmon. Quick pack is splitting it up. Between ten lower yukon river villages the yukon river has seen its. Worst summer chum. Salmon run on record that means the commercial. Fishery is closed and puck can't sell salmon this year subsistence. Fishing for chum. Shook is also closed and many people along. The river have not had a taste of the fish yet. This season with puck voted the salmon community to community we down thousands of pounds of frozen fish a tender boats lowly motors up the cold rainy yukon. At the helm stands captain darren jennings saving delivering salmon to the villages is new to him in previous years. It'd be picking up commercial. Fisherman's fresh catch and taking it. Back to quick. Look we dock in saint. Mary's workers from all gotcha and undressed ski. Tribes the fish into their pickups and then drive them to households all evening a woman inge bay from saint. Mary's is grateful to have at least a bit of fish. We got to right now. I have them dying out. So i can can them with little opportunity for subsistence salmon. Fishing her grocery bill has gone out. her husband. walkie says they'll have to try for other species of fish to get them through the winter in saint. Mary's i'm olivia egberts.
Seattle's Morning News
'My Body, My Choice': Healthcare Workers Protest State Vaccine Mandate
"High right and choose what I'm gonna do with my body, My body. My choice, the same argument used by pro choice activists adopted by anti vaccine mandate protesters in Pula. I think it should be choice I'm vaccinated. My daughter is not, And I think it should be her choice whether she would like to be vaccinated or not. They are against the governor's vaccine mandate for all healthcare workers. The large crowd gathered at an intersection drawn there by a conservative Christian group on Facebook, the same group that promoted stop the steal protests in Olympia back in January, which coincided with the insurrection at the US Capitol 2.5 hours north in Bellingham, another group protested outside of a hospital over the same vaccine mandate issue. Cairo radios Nicole Jennings reports from Peace Health Saint Joseph Medical Center. The States mandate health workers have until mid October to get the vaccine or say goodbye to their jobs. Bellingham protester Frank says the mandate violates those workers rights and that it's an especially bad idea during a health workers shortage. We need doctors and nurses. We don't eat less of them, especially to be fired. You're taking something they choose not to do that's truly insane. Peace health says the vaccines have proven themselves to be safe and effective and that it's imperative for their caregivers who are medically able to get the
The South Florida Morning Show
Mike Richards Slated to Be Next Jeopardy Host
"We'll after all that jeopardy has a host. I'll come on. tell me executive. Producer rob jeopardy. Might richard jonah goldberg. Thank you very much. Everyone tim for real for real official over lavar for rila guerrilla variety reports a source close to the deal a source close to their thinking. He's according to our own reporting. He's in advanced negotiations from to replace alex. Trebek's that's alright. Even signed on the dotted line yet. Not official yet. I still hold out. Hope for jordy la forge their reading rainbow guy. Lavar burton well. He's executive producer he he previously hosted divided the pyramid. Let's make a deal the releases right. So he's he knows what he's got. He's got experience and we just had that that poll last week Jen found where he he ranked very highly in asia. Survey came in second among the fans. They're trying to say ken jennings was like a ball. As like who. The guy likes ken jennings. Nobody liked jerk. Yeah but this this richards. What's his first name. Mike mike richards he was. He was good looking neapolis very he was very homey. It's like you already knew him though. I was just thinking about wink martindale. There's some and and what was the one with the microphone. With the mass match mattresses microphone was feet long and sort of talk to somebody. Russ this age. He would just point it forward. He didn't have to move to talk to him. You just go and who is on password. What was oh joan. London's she was always on password. Paso i'd think about dick clark. Was the twenty five thousand dollars. Pyramid was the host of the gong. Show who he was a spy. Chuck barris read his autobiography. One of the most amazing lives of all time. It's amazing he was a multi multimillionaire because he he produced in created. Most of the game shows you know. Wow it was amazing spy for the us government or so probably. That's what he also wrote. That song down at palisade park really wrote that. Wow barris was amazing. Was he was great. Alan lund lead ludlow. Ludden was with the password. Art linkletter to right.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Who and he was a successful painter in his day. You know sort of a landscape artist and portraitist. He had this flash of inspiration that he was going to paint a canvas. That was a full three hundred sixty degrees a painting all the way around of a of a landscape but not also overhead. He's not inside his fear not overhead but but quite tall. Okay in order to create this this land you know the the effect of a landscape but the innovation and his patent because he did get this idea patented. His idea was that the painting would be exhibited in a purpose built structure Which he called the rotunda and it was a. It was an enormous building. This is all this is all in his vision. An enormous building. That would have the three hundred sixty degree painting in it and then the viewers would be restricted to a certain kind of like a platform in the middle of the building. The interior of the building would be dark. The painting would be lit with skylights. A penny would be lit and you could stand in the center. And because you're you know your horizon was restricted. It would have the the similitude of nature depending on how good the painting was. Of course right am so. As a proof of concept he painted a view of edinburgh and he built a structure in his backyard and charged schilling. Come in and check out this. This like new way of seeing. He just somehow hung it up around his yard. Well yeah he built a building that would block out the light and then hung this indoors. Yeah hung this painting in three hundred and sixty degrees and he would kind of You know part of the immersive effect of it was that you would walk into a dark chamber get acclimated to To darkness and then walk into the experience of the paint. He's in movies without the movie. He's invented movies and the effect on people of of the time was overwhelming. Isn't that crazy. People were blown away by the experience of being effectively like tower and able to look and able to see all around. You a place you're not it's the aerial view more than anything like nobody's ever nobody's ever been higher than a church tower then well but but also people hadn't travelled a far. Yeah the experience of being able to see a place and have it feel real without actually being there. It was like being on a spaceship and the technology still terrible. It's just a bunch of paintings of edinburgh so there's just something maybe he's addressing something deepen the human mind that loves what. Just the sense of being transported. I guess i mean. It's the exact effect of putting on virtual reality headset now. That's actually good tech the foreign of want to saying this guy getting most of the way there with a bunch of paintings of edinburgh right so it's not the tech that is transporting thing about about virtual reality. Part of the tac was being able to paint the perspective of someone who's standing in the centre and looking all around so it you know it wasn't enough to just stand in one place and paint your vision of edinburgh. It must be a couple. I'm trying to think how it works. There must be some single point spectators at the horizon. It's curving between them so sometimes you're looking right down the lens and sometimes it's a little bit curved and then you get back to another angle and in order to. I mean there was later on in the in the mid eighteen hundreds there was a further invention of a kind of basically like a sort of set of what would you describe it as lenses and that could account for the change in perspective and then actually like a like a projector that would project these scenes onto canvases allowing the painters to paint without stitching together. Various perspectives You know at first there. Were these problems that it sir. But you know became part of the craftsmanship that you would blur those perspective changes and you can do it. You know because there was a line of tree do it behind a tree and and as as the experience kind of matured there started to be depth of field like they would put little shadows of trees. Kind of down on your on the artificial horizon. They could put things closer and further away from the viewer to give that sense of depth and use those things also to kind of sh- yeah camouflage But the experience of or the success of robert barker's backyard pamuk panorama and he coined the word out of two greek to greek. Greek sub pan means all right pan means all and then horam a- means view So finally see it all view the success of it so kind of like energized. The the the world of london that a purpose built rotunda was built in a lyster square in downtown london. An enormous structure built explicitly to show the the paintings of robert barker as spectacle and it opened to rave reviews he was charging three shillings. A person's got gotta be a moneymaker they're just cranking out money. And the the experience of being in the structure you would go in you would climb a stair you would be completely in the dark you know all this kind of all these pre experiences that are meant to to like disoriented you and then stepping out of the middle staircase into a room where the where panorama was. You were still in the dark. Basically and panorama was illuminated by natural light and it was so overwhelming that that it was very common for people to be sick to their stomachs. Because they you know it was. Wow it was like it was like showing a kadam. You're or taking a child up in an airplane. I remember the first time. I took my daughter in a small plane. It was a it was a kenmore air floatplane leaving from lake union and she was swept three and a half. We're looking out the window. And it's all apprehensible to her right. We're in a boat and see the floats. These are the book and then there's the propeller there's the pilot and she's looking out the window avidly and the plane starts along the water and it's all very clear what happened. How old is she three. And a half four and she's looking out the window and then the plane lifts off the water and she's like. Wow this is incredibly. You know really fascinating but as the plane went above tree top level and.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Of course even though he's in the cabinet he is not be secretary of justice because that would sound too much like a maybe a a comic book characters secretary of justice sounds like judge dredd or something but the problem is that once. They established the department of homeland security. Nothing it was like the death of irony. Nothing could be more ridiculous sounding the man. Nothing could sound more a third regen. Yes so why not just have a secretary of truth. We already have all the other orwellian but there's also the solicitor general. Oh yeah yeah who served in the justice department and he is the primary prosecutor. Yes he litigated in front of the or she litigated in front of the supreme court. Right and the interesting thing. I have found which i did not know about the attorney general and the solicitor. General is that there is a eighties era trend since the nineteen eighties. They have commonly been called general. Oh like as if it were a title at you. Know the attorney general testifies in front of congress. It's not unusual to have senators direct the questions to general reno or general ashcroft or general bar or who's an obama era general holder as if that was their rank. It's common at the supreme court when you want the solicitor general to to make an argument. You call him or her general olson interesting as if they were military generals which is to me seem super weird. Will you remember that. You remember that episode of the west wing when josh lyman is at the hospital because the president garfield has been shot or whatever. Oh yeah he gets shot he gets. He takes a bullet in an assassination attempt and georgia. Josh lyman is in the hospital. And he's trying to you know he's trying to throw his weight around and i remember. Maybe i have this episode completely wrong. But i remember at one point. Josh lyman says you know. I have the a equivalent rank of lieutenant general or something like that. It's not even true white house. Staffers have equivalent military rank. It always stuck in my head because it seemed implausible that the the deputy white house chief of staff would as a political appointee have an equivalent military rank chart. Because you could be there for six months and get fired for six months or you like you get to go on the px and All the dvd's military id do. I get to board first. Are you looking it up. What every time. I looked this up. The most of the references are to josh lyman and not to real of staff right. Oh you've looked at us up before no looking it up right now but all the oh here we go state department protocol. There are state department protocols that have a kind of precedence this is in order of precedence. Yes that would put civilian authorities like a like a white house administration staffer in receiving line. Something and in his protocol. The chief is indeed higher than three star general right and it's a way of communicating like civilian authority. This is this is pearl white house reporter who says that. For example a national security council senior director is the equivalent of a two star flag officer gentler or whatever it is called. If josh is actually the assistant to the president he would be ranks above that. So that's more like a four star general. How or or what's what's that kind of. Admiral called fleet admiral. What's the what's the equivalent of a four star general full admiral full admiral right. That's weird but there's no such equivalence between the solicitor general the lawyer who argues cases but in front of the supreme court. There would be no reason for that person to have any equivalency to look it up. Where are they the president. I don't know let's see. My surgeon is the solicitor general. A real general signed ken. Jennings dear santa is the solicitor general. Mom this state dot gov protocol page has now moved how much we care about this too after find it. Well it's it's it's the point you're making the order of precedence of the united states of america. The solicitor general does appear here They are a twenty three. B which would make them equivalent to the head of a federal departmental agency for example the fbi there is good as the head of the fbi or the hot ditty that puts them just behind level. Twenty two which is insane. Which is the chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve and the commissioner of the social security administration. You're behind them but good news. You're ahead of the twenty level twenty four people which would be a retired joint chief of chairman of the joint chiefs. Who still has some. Yes a retired. Chairman is still ahead of independent agencies. Like a retired joint. Chief of staff is ahead of the current head of the say peace corps fcc or us international trade commission. No wonder how often the postmaster general by the way is twenty-five but just behind those guys. I wonder how often in american history you find a situation where five guys are standing around in the hallway at the white house and they're all about something and somebody pulls rank on somebody else because they all surely must know we need to do a show just about this order of precedence. Because it's insane number one president number two vice president number three before any of people who could actually inhere those offices. A state governor when it's your own state if you're in montana. The governor governor montana ahead of the speaker of the house. The chief justice six eight former presidents in there with those and their widows or their widows This year replaced by your spouse that you this is the type of thing where.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"jennings" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"You wear your colonel uniform. And he was like. Sometimes you have to wear if the actually dress. The part there are a ceremonial occasions. When he's expected to show up in what everybody thought it was funny when in the reagan era c. Everett koop war his the. He's vice admiral the the head of he or she. The head of the the surgeon general. The head of the public health service corps is a vice admiral because it has ranks. Apparently there's colonels if your friend indication but apparently it's run by a an admiral not a general so yes this kind of naval looking uniform and no no surgeon. General had worn his ceremonially in a generation. Apparently when coop decided he would be between the uniform and kind of the weird uncle. Sam beard plus the fact that he was a very visible voice on eighties. Air issues like abortion and aids. He had a higher profile than really than any surgeon general before or since he really was he really was a public figure but yeah mostly because of his odd facial hair. they look like navy uniforms. All of them he's admiral man and of course it would be incorrect to call the surgeon general general because he or she is an admiral There are director generals in many big ngos and government organizations. I think the only director general in the us government is the one who runs the united states foreign service. There's also a controller. General do you say comptroller or do you say controller. What i say comptroller. Don't you i from the i think controller is i guess in a in a business. I say controller. But it's supposed. I think it's supposed to look like comptroller. Do it's french origin but be pronounced control of it because it looks like comptroller. It's okay to say comptroller. The times that i say comptroller. It's always to do with the university right. Like a company has a controller but a university has a comptroller. That's weird it should be. Maybe i've just invented. That should be the other way around. 'cause company has competent it. Oh like the roller of the whole companies. The comptroller you go The us government has a controller general. That's the guy that runs. The general accounting office created in the twenties. Kind of the harding. Era are modern budget. Process started with these twenty era budget acts that created the whole idea of how the legislature passes a federal budget. And there's got to be an internal to be in charge of those books and that's where the office of controller general was born. I'm just realizing that my doctor friend. When he said that he was the rank of colonel he was saying that in order to communicate it to me. Because he's really gonna gap. Does he was putting army terms for you. But it's naval ranks would be naval ranks right. He would be captain. Not a not a colonel unless that some little trick that they play at the health and they're kind of makes sense. For noah for the noah commissioned corps the weird april and to have tab nautical sounding ranks because of the lowest scenic but really for a public health service. Do they need to sound watery. I think i would imagine. Most of them are on land most of the time. Yeah yeah probably they're not in submarines that much know what do you think space for are the ranks in space force Army navy life. They've got to be air force like which would make them army like right. Army like yeah. I guess that makes sense for except not privates airmen. But that's a problem a problem because the star trek view of the future is that. It's a navy admirals and captains all the way down. You got those little pipes when when captain kirk comes aboard well. It's true that a spaceship is a but the se this is i think the classic lack of imagination about space force because we'll just make it the air force but higher. The thing is the air force's always trying to come up with reasons to exist. Well the air force should have been given space then well. That's exactly what i'm saying. They're by far the closest to space of any of the eight uniform services like the was in charge of nuclear missiles right. But that's very tenuous connection are. Do you know air force. People are they pissed about space force because they just lost they now. They have a ceiling on their on their sphere of influence. I mike my senses. That air force people can choose to go to space force. I suppose if you were in the navy and you wanted to go to space force you to but like i think at the airport yourself in canada well right if you know no there are more. Ufo's living under the ocean than anywhere else can obviously to hitch a ride in the hollower. So no i think if you're at the air force academy now if you go to the naval academy you have to choose between the marines and the navy. Okay and i think if you're the air force academy now you can choose space force in an away. What i'm gonna minor and space force. I think hedge my bets. I think they should just elevated nasa to become a Sure military service. Yeah exactly. What does nasa have a uniformed corps. Why doesn't why don't they trade off. General why are there. Noah guys in uniform with with funny braids but astronauts. Don't necessarily get the nuts. Maybe they all came from. No i think the uniform of nasa is a short sleeved white button down shirt with a pocket protector. That should be the that should be. The thing should be a vice admiral if the size of your pocket. Protector should convey your rank in valor star. Wars kind of equivocate right. The imperial imperials have admirals running the stars but they also have generals presumably landing the the land forces as well. But you know a lot. More about star trek than i do well. There's what's his name captain. Whatever sees his. Admiral get four strangled at the beginning of empire and then he becomes an admiral. What are we talking about. Now is a star wars or star wars star wars the so and so saw has what do the who captain darth vader. He's always killing off his officers for sure. So he takes out. Admiral whatever. And then captain whatever suddenly admiral now but captain is a rank in the navy. Yes but there's also generals oh one one of those guys in the conference room with tarkenton star wars general and the guy. That lands has at outs on hot as a general. Well that makes sense right to your. You would have yeah. The navy is carrying the army to the to the next planet to colonize. That's what they do or they could be the marines the imperial marines. Although they never say that do they have marines in star wars. That's the that's the ultimate question. If if you are a soldier being transported on a navy ship. I think the navy carries army but the guards on a navy ship marines. We're gonna get so many letters from people explaining leagues Imperial all the people that have watched every episode of rebels and clone. Wars are going to yell at us about not realizing that admiral duca was a mccall's count. Do cu vice admiral. He's got that coop like beard. Anyway that brings us to the two officials general the us government that I'm most interested in officials general. I like that because they are in the jets. They serve on the justice department. There's the attorney general..
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"What else workers united it. Somehow it just gives it an official imprimatur. It really does that. It wouldn't have it really does and it and it does feel at that point literary rather than functional right. it's it workers united and united workers. Yeah one sound so prosaic. Yeah and just like oh. It's just a bunch of maybe. That's because of milling around because it's the less common structure. It's a it becomes distinctive. It's how ranting it really is. Yeah i mean the abbreviation would still be a true. So you could. You could still say that. But i mean a lot of things. You could call a friends. Bill archaic the fact that it was used it came to us. A lot of these constructions came to us via the normans mean. They stuck around. Longer in fields and specialties. Where the educated norman french stuck around longer or was more embedded in the the terms of art for example yes all the sciences all the all the specialized professional fields even religion. For example. you have cleric speaking latin. The norman french. That's why we have life everlasting or god almighty we can still say everlasting life for almighty god. But it doesn't sound weird to us to do the post positive order there. You know the people that i hear this. Most from his alchemists. I every time i'm talking to a group of outcome assembly. Get your word order straight. I must take my my purple. And mix it with my elixir. Royal heraldry. you're joking. But heraldry is is a place where all the adjectives tend to come after you know if you describe. Somebody's coat of arms. It's going to have a bend sinister with a lion. Passant or a dragon rampant. I think ramp is when you're up on your i never. I don't know what all the things mean but it's a raw gets a lion rar royalty. Of course we mentioned it was what the kings of the norman dynasty would have spoken. And that's why we still have phrases like the prince regent right. The queen consort even the idea that we put retinal numbers entitled after ivan. The terrible or henry. The eighth you know. There's no reason it couldn't be the terrible ivan or the henry but but it's just borrowed from from the way the The original king spoke cuisine. You know we get a lot of our recipes from romance languages. So it's it's veal. Parmesan spaghetti bolognese. Not give me some of the volunteers spaghetti right taco supreme like. It's just you. It conveys something it's nicer than a supreme taco sounds weird. Yeah supreme taco. But i do wanna talk a supreme supreme taco might like curtail voting rights whereas a taco supreme just sour cream on it. But it's interesting that we would say that we would say that about a taco that it's taco supreme but we would not say that person Onto me an insult supreme. Right you know like it doesn't it. It doesn't sound like shakespearean right no. It didn't go all the way to permeate our language. it's really located. It's reserved for idols. Yeah coinages that are much closer to two norman. French or two to romantic culture. We hear burger supremo talking. I mean the kind of conveys mid twentieth century a burger royale but we still don't But right but it still doesn't sound. It's still has some kind of cool official sounding brand. Yeah it doesn't sound medieval no but it sounds like a subdivision outside of a philadelphia laws. Another common one where these norman french term stuck around and again. They just sound official malice. Aforethought not court court martials notaries public a lot of times. They're just phrases that stuck around because they became cliche time immemorial an heir apparent to trip the light fantastic. You know these these just only survive in a single context and there are some adjectives. The always go after an now even in english where that's unusual emeritus for example. The diplomat emeritus professor emeritus or galore. Extraordinary it's not grammatically correct to say we've got galore flowers or my wife is an extraordinary chef. Those those words have to come after. It's funny because i have had time immemorial on my list of potential omnibus topic really for a long time because just the concept of time immemorial in the way it's been used throughout history. What does that mean even remembered before. There were memorials to think so before we have records yeah right at a time stretching to infinity or time time into the darkness of time does it include. Would you say the present day part of time immemorial shouldn't i shouldn't give it away at your inch around this. Well yeah i mean we're kind of traipsing around it but but yeah it's it's here it's right in between laugh tracks and oral rehydration therapy on my list of of potential show ideas so you're not alphabetical. I guess no. Do you keep your show topics alphabetical. I keep them chronological but the problem then is it's always just like last in first out. You know there's stuff. I wrote months ago that i i can't even remember what it means anymore whereas the thing i thought of last week is what goes in. Probably the single. Most common use of post positive adjectives in english. The one field that just loves him to death is politics right. We still say the body politic as kind of a highfalutin way to refer to political processes and bodies it's so proximate to law yes and law loyalty and royalty and law and royalty really. The the normans really brought the hammer down in terms of if you think about all the all of our laws are derived from that period. English common law is the basis for a lot of american law. And do you remember. The recent kerfuffle over don't call biden president kind of a right we talk about. We don't call biden president-elect that term is nowhere to be found in an actual legal documents. President is a post positional adjective. The chosen president the elected president. But not yet what. What did the conservatives want to call president biden when he was i think they wanted to call him. President trump. It just didn't work out. There are examples like I mean this is gonna sound very old timey but on voi- extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. I love those titles but they always feel very turkish german. But that's not true. They were used in western europe. In fact they were used. I think up until modern kind of congress of the times or actually maybe more like league of nations united nations times kind of democratize the relationships between nations because what that conveyed back in the day was we only send our ambassador to the good countries. Everybody else gets an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. He has the full power of the of the head of state of the sovereign. He just doesn't represent he's not able to make his own decision in those mobs embassador is supposed to be. As if y- the is standing there ambassador doesn't have to call home and ask. Yeah and he has the full power to do all the things that he does not embodiment of the king. And the same way. I always wanted to be a minister-without-portfolio wouldn't that be great. It just seems like exactly the right job for me. It seems incredibly easy. Yeah all these other guys are. They have portfolio. They're always working through their portfolio. That seems they've got an inbox minister. Plenipotentiary however is not entirely out of date. The island of aruba still has a minister plenipotentiary in fact all the the dutch west indies aruba and curacao they send a minister plenipotentiary to whatever kind council is in charge in in the netherlands in charge of the dutch overseas territories right because they are still colonial possessions. Yes and so. That's the only place in the world where minister plenipotentiary still used. When these aruban and kris allen diplomats research report home to To i guess formerly surinamese independent now but before when it was still duckie on it would have had a minister plenipotentiary but by far the most common use of post positive adjective as we've already alluded to in political life is the blank general. The word the adjective general appearing after titles right. The united nations has a secretary general former many.