40 Burst results for "Junior"
Available Worldwide
A highlight from Lexy Boudreau | EFM jobs in PEPFAR, USAID and OIG
"This is Lauren with the Available Worldwide Podcast, and I'm here today with a friend who I met at post, I think my second post, I don't know what it was for her, so I'll have to ask, but I'm here with Lexi Boudreau, who has had, you know, a classic EFM career with a little bit of work with several different agencies and businesses and self and family and all sorts of things pasted together. Lexi, we usually start with a few questions, kind of to get to know you a little bit, so I'm going to ask you, where are you currently located and who do you live with? So, we just PCS'd, or I just PCS'd back to the US with my oldest son who just graduated from college and my youngest son who is going to start his junior year for the first time going to school in the US as a junior, and my husband is starting in Pakistan, so this is my first unaccompanied tour. So, everybody's got new things going for them this year? Every single one of us. I have four children and we're all doing something new. My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is a senior in college, so all six of us have something exciting going on. So, I know that we live together in South Korea. What other countries have you lived in? So, that was our third post. Our first post was, I always say it was our hardest, our hardship post was Bermuda. It was very fun but a little challenging living on a very tiny island, but it was great and our kids were the youngest and then we were in Ukraine and then we were in South Korea and then we were in Uganda and most recently we were in Jordan. With all those different countries, you must have some ultimate comfort foods. Are they country specific or is it a memory from home? My comfort food is crab cakes, which is a traditional comfort food, but that's my favorite food from growing up and it's what I miss most when I'm overseas because not it's something you normally get. So, it's honestly the first thing I try to find when I'm back in the U .S. Are you from Maryland? Sort of. I grew up in South Carolina and Maryland, but Maryland is where my heart is, yeah. Okay. I mean, I feel like crab cakes are pretty regional, though they are also one of my mom's favorite foods. Yeah, it's a Maryland thing. Yeah. So, I have a kind of complicated growing up.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "junior" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"As far as timing, the Almanac has its eye on the second of week January. Kyle Cooper, W -T -O -P News. Heads up if you ride Metrobus in DC, Maryland or Virginia. Starting today, Metro is implementing service changes to eight bus routes. Metro says the changes will improve safety, reliability and the customer experience to provide better bus service. In the district, the B -2 bus schedule is being shifted to line up with ridership demands and with school dismissal times. In Virginia, adding new stops on the 11 Y in Old Town Alexandria is expected to give riders more options and convenience. Finally, Metro says Maryland riders will see bus bay changes for the B -21, B -22 routes at the Bowie and Park Ride. Metro says those changes will improve operations and safety for the customers. You can get additional details of these changes at Metro's website, wmata .com. It is 2 -0 -6. TSA officers stopped a loaded gun and its owner from going through the security checkpoint at Reagan National this past week. The King George, Virginia man blamed his wife saying she packed his carry -on and he did not know that his gun, loaded with five bullets, was packed inside. The gun was spotted by TSA agents Thursday as the man entered a security checkpoint. This is the 28th time TSA has confiscated a the gun at Reagan National Airport this year. TSA's federal security director for the airport says travelers need to start with an empty and bag should pack their own so there are no surprises. The man was issued a citation by police and faces now a possible penalty fee of up to $15 ,000. Jennie Glick, WTOP News. The National Cathedral in Northwest has dedicated two racial justice themed stained glass windows, replacing windows that had honored Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Six years ago the cathedral removed stained the glass that included depictions of the Confederate battle flag. Simply put these windows were offensive windows and they were a barrier to the ministry of this cathedral. Very Reverend Randolph Marshall Hollerith told the congregation the new windows titled now and forever tell a different story. That lift up the justice and fairness and the ongoing struggle for equality among all God's children. The ceremony included Associate Justice Katongi Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court who read an excerpt of Martin King Luther Junior's letter from Birmingham Jail. Dick Iuliano WTOP news artist Kerry Marshall James was awarded the commission to design the new windows in 2021. His commission for the work was .65. $18 The amount symbolizes the year 1865 when the last African American sleeves were freed at the end of the Civil War. Marshall is African American. Coming up after traffic
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Orange Pilling Through Sport with Steven Nelkovski & Patrick O'Sullivan
"The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is if it works with baseball, it works with anything. If you think about value for value, the model, it changes everything. Right. Hello. How are you all? Hello from Lebanon. What a cool country this place is. It's really strange. As I travel around the world, sometimes I go to these places where you worry about the economic situation, you end up meeting the most amazing, incredible people, most amazing resilient people, and Lebanon is exactly that. So I cannot wait to get this film out. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today we have Perth Heat on the show. We've got CEO Stephen and chief Bitcoin officer Patrick, Patrick O 'Sullivan. I was going to try and say Stephen's name. I think it's Nelkowski, Nelkowski, I think Stephen Nelkowski. Danny, what is it? Nelkowski. We've never had Danny on an intro before. Nelkowski. Yes. CEO Stephen Nelkowski. Now I've known Stephen for quite some time. When we announced Rael Bedford, he'd already announced his Perth Heat Bitcoin project, and then I met him out in Miami. He gave me a jersey, and we've kind of been knocking back DMs on Twitter for this whole time sharing ideas, talking about what they're up to, what we're up to. There is so much alignment between the Perth Heat baseball team and what they're doing in Australia and what we're doing with Rael Bedford over in the UK. And so yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their progress, been impressed with everything they're doing. They're definitely a little bit ahead of us, but there's so much alignment between us and them. And I know not everybody loves the football side of things, but this Bitcoin and sports thing, I'm telling you, it's so important. It's important on so many levels, there's so many chances to orange pill people by meeting them where they're at. And I'm telling you, Bitcoin and sports is going to be big. So give me your feedback. Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy the show. Absolutely loved it. Steve is a legend. Patrick is absolutely beavering away like a legend trying to get all the Bitcoin stuff going for them. I'm going to be nicking some of their ideas. Hopefully, we will have some cool ideas. They can nick as well. But yes, let me know your feedback. Let me know what you think. It's hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Welcome, brother. Good to be on. Who's your friend? This is the chief Bitcoin officer of the Perth Heat. You actually the chief Bitcoin officer? That's it. That's the title. Chief Bitcoin officer. That's all I do. That's what I'm trying to get Ben Ark to do for us. You know Ben Ark? Yes. He doesn't even like football. But he comes along. He gets the whole thing. Great role to have. Emerging role. Yeah. You saw that job ad for that Bulgarian team. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. We've got a call with them. Joe Hall's trying to get me to talk to them. But there's two upcoming Bitcoin football teams, young whippersnappers. The league is expanding quickly. We've had a couple of recent inquiries from teams in Europe wanting to speak about what we've done with the baseball team. But as we've said so many times on Twitter and in comments that the Bitcoin sports league is a lot closer than what most people think. There's a lot of interest. Yeah. You beat us to it. I think you beat us to it. We had a couple of weeks between us, I think. Was it that close? It was. There was a nose between, I think, the two announcements. We were early November. I think you were late November, early December, something like that. We're talking 21, aren't we? 21? 20 said? Yeah. It was 21. Because I think I announced - November 21? Yeah. I think I announced December 21. Yeah. And we took over the team in April 22. Yes. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just beat us. Justin. So many things have changed since then as well in so many ways. What we thought we'd be doing in two years has just dramatically changed so quickly. It's awesome. There's loads we can get into and we're going to. But let's just do a bit of background stuff just for people listening so we can build the picture of what we're doing. So, like, introduce yourself, what you do, and yourself. I know we know you're the Bitcoin officer, but like, and then just tell people about Perth Heat, who they are, and then we'll build from there. Yeah, easy. So my name's Steven. I'm the chief executive of the Perth Heat, who are Australia's most successful baseball team. We've won 15 national titles. We've had 34 players who have played Major League Baseball. We've got an exceptional relationship with the Tampa Bay Rays, who send us out six to each eight players Australian summer. And these are top end draft picks. So one of the players they sent us last season, Junior Caminero, is on the verge of playing in the big leagues right now. So they send us the best of the best in terms of their young talent. And we build a squad and we play a season in the Australian summer. We've got a history of winning. We've got a history of producing great players. We're also the Bitcoin baseball team. And it's been, yeah, it's been an incredible ride. How big is baseball in Australia? It's big. It's look, it's obviously we've got the big sports in terms of Aussie rules. You've got rugby. You've got strong national teams with the Australian cricket team. You've got the Socceroos, you've got the Matildas. So it's not a tier one sport. But in terms of the quality of the competition, if you look at the fact that Perth Heat have had 34 players who have played for the Heat and then gone on to play Major League Baseball, there's no other team or competition that could produce that sort of statistics. So if you looked at one of the football teams like the Perth Glory, they haven't had 34 players who have played in the Premier League. So it's the competition is extremely tough and would be one of the best winter leagues in the world, especially with our association with Major League Baseball. So they send players out to you to get game time. And they also scout players that you have got of your own. There's a bit of scouting. There's international scouts in every city. But the idea of sending them out to us is they will see how the players will react in a foreign environment, a different style of baseball, different time of year. How do these players go in an environment over Christmas, New Year? Some of them are coming back from injury. Some of them have had interrupted seasons. That's a good chance for some of them to also build game time. But it's a program now with Tampa. Then in the last five years, we've had five players already play Major League Baseball. Jacob Lopez was the last just a couple of weeks ago. And as I said, Junior Caminero is knocking the house down, his 27 home runs this year. It's just a phenomenal generational athlete. And what kind of crowds do you get? Yeah, they vary across the weekend. We play a series. So we'll play Friday night. We'll play two games on a Saturday. Two? Two games on a Saturday. And then we'll play another one on a Sunday. So there's four games in the space of 72 hours. And the crowd's roughly between 5 ,000 to 7 ,000 over the weekend. OK, wow. So two in a day. What kind of demands are put on the players? Well, it's different. So baseball, if you're a pitcher, the demands are extreme. Every time you throw the ball, it is logged. It is monitored. It is counted. If you're an outfield player or an infielder, one of the batters, then that's what you're built for. You're built to play every game. So all the pressure's on the pitcher? Pitchers, yeah. Good pitching will win you championships. You need a really strong pitching lineup to bring in the different times of the game. And that's the part of your lineup which you really have to monitor so carefully. Because you could start a series with a pitcher. And if he doesn't perform well, when you bring him out of the game, when you introduce someone else. And then if they don't perform well, how quickly do you run through your rotation knowing that you've got four games to get through? So there's a lot of analytics that we look at, we monitor. And as we said, that pitch count is very, very closely watched. I've been to a few baseball games. I've been to see the A's. I've been to see the Dodgers a few times. I've been to see probably your team. Yes. We went to the Yankees. Yeah, we went to the Yankees. It was too hot, wasn't it? Yeah, it was so hot. It was so hot. Our knees were burning. There's not many roofs on the stadiums, yeah? So you're sitting out in the sun, yeah, baking. But there's heat, but it was too hot. Our legs were in shorts, our legs were burning, so we just went and stood at the back and drunk beer. Then the Yankees get absolutely back. I think they were 10 down within two innings. It was like insane. Yeah, but it's a crazy game. It can be 10 down, and you can still win. My wife has now accepted that no matter how far in front we are in a game, she won't relax until that last out. You can be 6 -0 up, 8 -0 up, and you can still lose a game just like that. It's very, very different of football. In football, if you're 3 -0 up, it's effectively game over, yeah? But in baseball, a three -run lead, a four -run lead, it can change with just one pitch if a batter walks, and then suddenly things just change. It's taken a while to understand and to even get comfortable with it. When I first started in the role five years ago, baseball traditionalists would say, well, that's baseball. It's like, no, it's not. It's bad game management. But yeah, it's baseball. It happens in the big leagues. It happens in Australia, and sometimes it happens with Perth Heat. And so your wife, is that because she's got into the baseball, or she's planning for what your move's going to be like? Bit of both. She has to be into it, but I'm not a good loser at all. Yeah, I'm not probably the best person to speak to if we lose a game for a good 24 hours. After we lost the championship series, that 24 hours was probably four months. Mate, honestly, I know exactly how you feel. We lost three games last season in the league. We lost one cup game, and then we got thrown out of a cup because we played an illegible player should have been suspended, administrative error. Every single one of those, I was not good for 24 hours. I spent the next 24 hours saying, what did I do wrong to contribute to that? Even though it's the team and the manager, it's like, what could I have done more? Could we have prepared the team better? Did we not provide the right resources, or did we not get the balance of the roster correct? There's so many things that go through your mind, but yeah, I'm certainly not a good loser. Were you a Perth Heat fan before? No, with a surname like Neil Kobski, you grew up with a round ball in my household. I was a football fan from an early age. This is a true story. Before I took the role with Heat, I had not watched a baseball game from start to finish. I had not watched a full nine innings. I'd watched parts of a game, but I hadn't watched a whole game. That first year in charge was challenging because you'd be with corporate partners, and I didn't know all the rules, and something would happen during a game, and they'd ask, why did that happen? I'd scratch my head and say, I'd have to find out for you. I'm obsessed with it now. My wife loves watching players steal bases, just running from base to base or trying to steal. Then I look at my family, Grey Caritage, and they're all into it and enjoy coming to the ballpark. Most people I introduce do enjoy it because, again, it's a different sport in terms of the pace of the game. You can relax a little bit more and then sit back and enjoy the menu of the hot dogs or the crackerjack and see some home runs in the background. Well, you don't understand the sport. It's a bit like cricket, right? Most Americans, almost every American does not understand cricket. Are you trying to explain test cricket, that it's five days, two innings each, it could rain and end in a draw? Nobody understands it, but when you understand the game, you understand what brilliant test cricket is. Like my son, he watched the Ashes with me, and I had the first two tests, I was explaining how this works, why they might declare, what the follower knows, which never got used. Trying to explain the strategy of it all. And then once he understood, he got into it, and I was mentioning going to watch baseball. I said to you before we started recording, I was dating that girl in LA, so we were going to watch the Dodgers. It was a playoff season, and I must have gone to maybe five games. I went to the game, I don't know if you know the one where Justin Turner hit a walk -off home run in the playoffs. I think it was against, it might have been the Cubs, but by the way, that itself was an unreal moment. The great finish there. Unbelievable. But I had a guy who was sat with me each game explaining it to me. And one of the things I'd never known about is the whole pitcher strategy. My from assumption the little I'd watched here or there, it was just one guy all game. And if somebody came on and it was injury, I didn't realize you're strategically placing different pitchers in the game, especially towards the end of the seventh, eighth, ninth innings. I didn't know any of that. And so once you understood that, you understood the strategy. And then there's huge strategy, whether you're bringing in a left -handed pitcher to pitch to a right -handed batter, left -handed batter, or someone that can face up to a curveball better than a slider, et cetera. Explaining the game to someone in baseball is a lot easier in the ballpark. If you're watching it off the screen, it's a bit harder to pick up. If you sit in the ballpark and you've got someone that can explain the rules, you will understand it a lot quicker than watching it at home. But the strategy behind pitching is nuts. The movie Moneyball and the strategy behind the analytics is spot on. There's so much you can gain out of the numbers. And that's a big part of our relationship, even with Tampa, is the Tampa front office and what they have in terms of identifying talent and how they use it is something that is a great benefit to an organization like the Perth Heat as well. There's a whole Moneyball thing that started coming to football as well. I know specifically teams like Brentford and Brighton have used it. But they're using it in a different way. They're trying to identify talent, which they sell out. I mean, Brighton. Can you look up their sales of players? I mean, Brighton. They have a profit of 130 million pounds, was it, this summer? I mean, historically, they weren't ever a Premier League team. No. It's only in the last, what, five, six years did they become Premier League? They're now established. But the volume of players they sell and the rates they sell their players for, have they got recent sales? Yeah. Let me pull it up. It was the same with Southampton. They kind of had that strategy as well. So there we go. Okay. Caicido, 160 million euros. McAllister, you went to Liverpool, 42 million. Sanchez, 23 million. But there's more in the previous. I mean, is that just this season? Yeah, that's this season. Did you have last season as well? I don't think it was on him. What was up at the top when you scrolled to the top? That was people who had come in. Right. Okay. But this is their whole strategy. I mean, they're now talking, this guy just got a hat -trick. The other Ferguson got the hat -trick against Newcastle the other day. People are starting to talk about him. And they've managed to have this rotation of players. Even though they're selling their best players, they've got these new ones coming through and they've got like an identity, which means it's a profitable business. Luton were the same. So Luton Town managed to get back in the Premier League from going into non -league, which itself is incredible. But they had a whole strategy of bringing players through and it's part of their revenue model. Does that perform part of your actual revenue model to develop players? For Perth Heat, it's a little bit different because if we have players that we continue to develop, they'll get drafted. And the draft system works a little bit differently to football where the club doesn't take the profit. The actual transfer fee goes direct to the player. Oh, wow. It's one of the first questions our board of management asked when they took the license over. How can we develop players and on -sell them? But it doesn't work like that in baseball, unfortunately. So, yeah, we've got a great farm system of producing young Aussie talent to go and pick up minor league contracts. But there's no return there to the club, unfortunately. Were you a baseball fan before you joined? I mean, I played when I was a kid. But not much of a fan. No. No, it was strictly because of the opportunity that came up that I joined. And when did you join? When? Same time. So about a year before, when the talks happened about, well, maybe this is something that we might be able to do. And then what the details look like for making it a possibility for a team to embrace Bitcoin as much as the team has. And then suddenly realizing that it's going to be significantly more work than what it first appeared to be. Because I didn't really have a role there to begin with. I didn't have a job. I wasn't working there at all. But then sort of trying to orange pill the board after Steve got it and to show them what we could do with it. It was very much, this is the idea. This is what we think we can do with it. And their attitude was, OK, go out and prove it and show them exactly what we could do to kick things off. And then from there, it was just small win after small win. And then realizing, well, if we're going to actually do it and announce things in November about just how far down the rabbit hole we were going to go, that we couldn't just, you know, Bitcoin is not at the point now where you can just launch and say, OK, everything worked perfectly. I mean, you know, it's so hit and miss with things that will work and things that won't work. And that's integration with systems that are already in place, especially when you're talking about a business of this size. You know, it's not your micro strategy. We don't have teams and teams of lawyers or people that can look after all of the various elements. And to go all in on Bitcoin means really restructuring how you do everything. And eventually that came back to me as my sort of ability to transition and see what will work, what's going to work now, what will work in 90 days from now and what it's going to look like in 180 days from now. All of that has changed and just somewhat to stay on top of that and to help integrate it into the systems that Steve is already looking after. Yeah. So I'm going to be interested to compare and contrast what you've done to what we've done, because like we're tiny. You know, our crowds are tiny. When we take, if you want to pay with Bitcoin on a match day, we're talking a handful of transactions. You got up to 7000 people there. So that's that's an entirely different beast. What were you, sorry Steve, what were you doing before you joined? My background is media marketing, so I used to be a sports reporter on one of the commercial networks here in Australia with Channel 7. I was there 14 years as a broadcaster, used to commentate to football games. But after being a reporter for the best part of 15 years and seeing how sports organisations run, that's where the real appetite for running a sports organisation came in and wanting to win championships. So I went and worked for a local football team, which is the Perth Glory, who play in the A -League. I was in a media marketing role there for a few years. Is that where Robbie Fowler played? He did the great man. God. Yeah. He used to come over to Mum's house every week for dinner. Shut up. Yeah. Are you serious? A gentleman. One of the most beautiful men. Yeah. We're always on the text to each other. He's a... You're friends with Robbie Fowler? Yeah. There we go. You're in. I want an interview with him. He's one of my childhood heroes. Oh wow. Yeah. And you know what? He's just a lad. He's just brilliant. He came and played for the organisation. And yeah, it was Monday night's dinner at Mum's house. He loved the Greek food, so we kept to a winning formula. That's unbelievable. Do you know the song the Liverpool fans sing about him? About we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Do you know about this? I don't know. So Robbie Fowler is one of the footballers who was very smart with his money. He just bought just properties all over Liverpool constantly. And see, he's got this huge property portfolio in Liverpool. And so the Liverpool fans sing, we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Yeah. He's a... He's God. He's God. He's just an awesome guy. Good fun to hang out with. And yeah, made so much time for the people of Perth. We had a great year together. And he's also very cheeky as well. There was a time where we weren't performing too well. We'd lost, I think, five games on the trot. And it was the time that Wayne Rooney was having a whole heap of issues with Manchester United. And we were about to do this live TV cross for Channel 7. And we knew the chairman wasn't too happy at the time. So I said, we've just got to try and deflect here. And Robbie had been in the UK for a week. And the presenter said, so Robbie, what was the trip to the UK all about? And he said, it was to chat to Wayne. And my phone had been, the media marketing guy just blew up, Fleet Street just went mad with this. It was just an off -the -cuff joke that we were trying to sign Wayne Rooney. And it was just everywhere within hours and we had to put out a press release and it was great because it deflected off the five losses that we'd had, but it was just a bit of a piss take. What was his scoring record like at Perth? Look, it wasn't as good as what it was at Liverpool. We would have been nice for him to score a few more goals, but the team struggled a little bit that year. And I think he ended up maybe with a dozen goals from memory somewhere around there. But it was a good year. And then again, I remember him taking out a little urn when England won the Ashes out before a game. And he put it up on his head and there was photos of it. He's just a great prankster in a lot of ways. He's an awesome person to have in your change room. And yeah, I'm really happy to call him a friend. So I went down the Robbie Fowler rabbit hole with my son the other week because, did you watch the Liverpool Newcastle game the other week? No, I missed it. Right. So I said to my son that there were two games when I was a kid when Liverpool played Newcastle. There were four, three consecutive years. The first one was a back and forth. I think Liverpool went 1 -0 up, then Newcastle went 2 -1 up, then Liverpool got it back to 2. Then they went 3 -2 up, then 3 -0. Liverpool went 4 -3. Stan Collimore in the 90th minute. It's an unreal game. And then a year later, Liverpool went 3 -0 up, Newcastle got it back to 3 -0. And then in the last minute, Robbie Fowler scores ahead of this flying header to go 4 -3. And so I then just had to explain Robbie Fowler to my son, why everyone said he was God. And we went down this kind of rabbit hole of Robbie Fowler goals. I was always really sad, though, because when he left Liverpool, I'm trying to remember, was it Leeds and Man City he went to? Did play both, yeah. Yeah, and I just couldn't accept him, not in a Liverpool shirt. Not in a Liverpool shirt, yeah. It didn't make sense to me. No, iconic to that club, and yeah. Absolute legend. Sorry, there's a bit of a tangent. OK, so going from commentator to chief exec, that's quite a jump. Did you have to kind of prove yourself you were capable? Did you have to pitch yourself for it? Look, I did the four years at Perth Glory in a media marketing role. I then stepped outside of sport for the first time in my career and just did some sales, what they called home and land packages here in Australia, selling some land in the house with it, and quickly went into a management role there with one of the companies. And then the opportunity came with the heat, and I was given the chance to run my first club, which was good because at the time I'd just started as president of a football club as well. So the management position was quite similar. I've run both roles now for the last five years, which has been brilliant. What is the mandate for the chief exec? How does it compare to, say, a chairman in a football team? Just look, every club's structure can be a little bit different, so yeah, a chairman for us is one of the shareholders, majority shareholder of our club, so he's who I report to. I've got the day -to -day running of the organisation, and I report to our chairman. What are the main things that you're responsible for the team in ensuring they've got the resources they need? Everything, yeah. Everything, yeah. I run the organisation. So it's basically probably almost identical to my role. Correct. Yeah, absolutely. Bigger numbers. Yeah, there's bigger numbers, but I don't think it really matters, and there's probably a good contrast with a football club. Whether you've got 10 members, 100 members, 1 ,000 members, a million members, the communication is still the same. You still treat your members the same way, regardless of how many zeros are involved. It's the same if you do a social media post, whether your club's only got 50 members or 50 ,000, you're still putting out information. So in some ways, don't get scared by the numbers. It's treat the position with respect and your members and partners, et cetera. Again, corporate partners, regardless of what the partnership value is, they're a corporate partner.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Junior" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Along with gusty winds highs will hover in the 60s so plan for a cool wet day ahead. And that's WTOP meteorologist Brianna Berman Soler we'll have more on the 8s here on WTOP. Many homes and businesses in our region are seeing the effects of Ophelia mainly in Northern Virginia. Dominion Energy reports that 5 ,000 customers are without power that's up from 560 customers in the last hour. The majority of the outages about 3 ,900 customers are in Spotsylvania and 5 ,000 in Fairfax. Meanwhile, PEFCO is reporting more than 300 homes and businesses in Montgomery County are in the dark and about 173 in the district. Stay with WTOP as we keep you updated on those power outages. It is 1205. More than a month ago the Farmers Almanac nailed the date of this storm getting today or got yesterday. So what's it saying about the upcoming winter? When the Almanac was published in it August said we would possibly get a hurricane threat on the Atlantic seaboard. Ophelia just making it to tropical storm status. Almanac editor Pete Geiger in a recent conversation with WTOP. What can we expect this winter for cold weather? Does that include snow? We talk about the I -95 corridor getting snow this winter whereas I think last winter it was very minor at that all. As far as timing the Almanac has its eye second on the week of January. Kyle Cooper WTOP news. And Ophelia has now weakened to a tropical depression. Head's up if you ride Metrobus in D .C., Maryland, and Virginia. Starting today, Metro is implementing service changes state to bus routes. Metro says the changes will improve safety, reliability, and the customer experience to provide better bus service. In the district, the B -2 bus schedule is being shifted to line up with ridership demands with school missiles. And Virginia adding new stops on the 11Y in Old Town Alexandria is expected to give riders more options and convenience. And finally, Metro says Maryland riders will see bus bay changes for the B -21 22 and B routes at the Bowie Park and Ride. Metro says those changes will improve operations and safety for their customers. You can get additional details at Metro's website, wmata .com. TSA officers stopped a loaded handgun on its owner from going through the security checkpoint at Reagan National this past week. The King George, Virginia man blamed his wife saying packed she his carry -on and he did not know that his gun loaded with five bullets was packed inside. The gun was spotted by TSA agents Thursday as the man entered a security checkpoint. This time TSA has confiscated a gun at the Reagan National Airport this year. TSA's federal security director for the airport says man was issued the man entered a citation by police and now faces a possible penalty fee of up to $15 ,000. Jenny Glick, WTOP News. The National Cathedral in Northwest is dedicated to racial justice themed stained glass windows replacing windows that honor Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Six years ago the cathedral removed the stained glass that included depictions of the Confederate battle flag. Simply put these windows were offensive and they were a barrier to the ministry of this cathedral. Very Reverend Marshall Hollerith told the congregation the new windows titled now and forever tell a different story that lift up the values of justice and fairness and the ongoing struggle for equality all among God's children. The ceremony included associate justice Katanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court who read an excerpt of Martin Luther King Junior's letter from Birmingham jail. Dick Ioliano WTOP News. Artist Kerry James Marshall was awarded the commission to design the new windows in 2021. His commission for the artwork .65. $18 The amount symbolizes the year 1865 when the last African -American slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War. Marshall is African -American. Coming up after traffic and weather, after a long stretch of positive numbers, inflation pressures may cool off consumer spending in the months ahead. It is 1208. Get a precision AC tune -up for only
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1248. Coinbase Stablecoin Master Plan Revealed!
"All right you guys don't want to miss this one. It is gonna be breaking down what is in store for stablecoins but also what is happening on more of a global footprint. There's a lot of things happening around the G20 that may have some influence on the crypto markets I think in a long -term scenario and we're gonna break all that down for you today. I think you'll like it. My name is Paul and this is the topic of an alternative stablecoin and what that might look like. This was FX Street kind of coming in on CEO Brian Armstrong talking about stablecoin hot take. This is the whole idea around flatcoin. He mentioned this I'll show you the video here in a second but basically he told Yahoo Finance basically in an interview that the next iteration of stablecoins, flatcoin, is on the horizon for the exchange. Now the point is will and are exchanges like Coinbase really going to focus in on this? And one of the things that I think is interesting here is the fact that we're seeing Coinbase move in this direction almost in unison and lockstep with what's happening in DC. And a lot happening this month most likely we'll have a house vote on stablecoins and it's very possible we could get some regulatory clarity. So I think they are queuing up for it. I want to say they meaning Coinbase queuing up for it. Remember they recently listed that they were doing and or going to list PayPal stablecoin on the exchange as well. So the idea behind these flatcoins is kind of interesting. There was a video here on this. Let me just jump over here to this video real quick. And this is where he kind of breaks it down but listen in to what he had to say. And so what would it look like to have a better form of money in the crypto space? Well it'd be something that's decentralized and maybe tracks CPI. So CPI is the consumer pricing index. It essentially has a basket of goods underlying it. Things that people spend their money on. You know a place to live, transportation, commodities like you know food and energy and wheat and you know copper things like that. And so we actually that is a good property of money. We want our money to preserve its purchasing power. All right so I'm gonna stop it there. Want our money to preserve purchasing power and the idea around tracking this against things like the consumer price index which is highly connected to inflation in general. And I think you know there are some interesting scenarios that maybe play into this for what they're trying to do. And I and I would agree with what Brian is talking about. Now remember this video that he just did was the ideas that they were trying to get behind. These are the ideas that they feel should be in the marketplace and would support. And they had a whole line list of ten different great ideas that you know Coinbase didn't have time to build everything. So it's something that I think a lot of markets are now starting to understand maybe how this connects to more of a global aspect. A couple other points you know to kind of hit within this. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also said the company is working on the next generation version of Stablecoin and that there may be a new SEC chair by 2024. So he's definitely maybe maybe either that's wishful thinking or you know something else. But they're also talking about donating to a presidential candidate who supports cryptocurrency. I think right now with Ramaswamy he's probably the one that most likely will be maybe a candidate that could go in that direction along with RFK juniors. So there's there's some interesting political scenarios playing into that. And when you think about political you know and how that plays into it you have to look on the global scale of things. But I look at Coinbase also just in their current size because Coinbase I think is one of those you know kind of the tail that wags the dog kind of companies. And if you look at just where they are currently there's just your recent data. This is their Coinbase revenue and usage stats for 2023. There's a lot here. I mean first of all Coinbase expecting to get revenue around 7 .3 billion in 2023 which is a significant increase of 2 billion just in Q2 of 2021. That's a very big jump in a market in which has been almost a full bear market since 2021. So that's a big deal. Also in terms of user stats let me kind of zoom in on that for you guys projected to have around 150 million verified users by the end of 23. Now the reason I think that's important is when you look at what happened with PayPal we talked about this if you haven't watched our PayPal video go check it out because PayPal has around 450 million users another 50 million Venmo users. So 500 half a billion people but only a small fraction of that might use the PayPal stablecoin versus if you look at Coinbase projecting 150 million verified users by the end of 2023. That is a much more captivated audience because I would say for anybody that's on Coinbase most likely you're probably talking in excess of 50 to 60 percent that are holding stablecoins and especially right now where Coinbase is rewarding USDC holding with a high percentage of yield interest that's being paid. So when you think about that the size of the market then all of the implications that rolls into the global spec of things and then the size of Coinbase themselves and the number, remember they're a global company and they're growing and continuing to grow outside the US, could become very interesting for what is going to happen around the stablecoin market. Another factor that you might want to look at is what's happening with the European Central Bank this week ahead of the ECB taking center stage as the euro is obviously dealing with some challenges here. A couple of things I wanted to look at. Problem for the euro is interest rate differentials even though the Fed is expected to hold rates steady later this month and the ECB is expected to squeeze in another hike when it meets on Thursday next week. The interest rate differential between the German and the US one -year bond or yield is around 1 .8 percent. This is a problem for the future of what is happening in the European Union and I think this is also playing out globally. Now why is this interesting or important around stablecoins? Because if stablecoins start to become a regulatory product and become very active within the financial system we're gonna start seeing a lot of countries adopting the use case for stablecoins which will only cause massive growth. Now you look at other major Western countries. Let's take a look at Canada.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "junior" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Glass windows replacing windows that had honored Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Six years ago the cathedral removed the stained glass that included depictions of the Confederate battle flag. Simply put these windows were offensive and they were a barrier to the ministry of this Cathedral. Very Reverend Randolph Marshall Hollerith told the congregation the new windows titled now and forever tell a different story. That lift up the values of justice and fairness and the ongoing struggle for equality among all God's children. The ceremony included Associate Justice Katanji Brown Jackson Jackson of the Supreme Court who read an excerpt of Martin Luther King Junior's letter from Birmingham Jail. Dick iano WTOP news. How do you protect older people from what seems to be relentless scammers who use cell phones to separate people from their money. It's a common question I get how can I make sure that my older family members aren't falling for texting and phone scams. I'm Kim Commando brought to you by NetSuite. with Do less more with get that sweet KPI checklist absolutely free and as we dot com slash cam. You probably have someone in your family who didn't grow up the sort of phones around today and that's a problem. Older people fall victim to phone scams stolen identities and hacking but luckily you can help. One block unknown callers on phones. their We all know what an unknown number is a scammer. Just be sure that you tell them that if they're expecting a call from someone not in their contact list it could go to voicemail. Two lots of important info is stored on a phone if it gets lost stolen or broken beyond repair your loved one could lose everything. Get their phone on iCloud or Google one with automated backups and finally turn on their phones emergency and medical ID settings. A smartphone can really save a life. Get TechSmartt the easy and fun way with my free newsletter. You can sign up at GetKim .com. Now to the top stories we're following on WTOP. Ophelia bringing pounding rain and high winds to our area. We'll give you the latest on a hit -and -run accident in Prince George's County. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from The CoverBag with Murp McCarthy
"Marine veteran Murph McCarthy is the creator of the cover bag the best protection for your dress hat or dress uniform cover Coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe Crain As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org All right today we're talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy owner of the cover bag calm and The women's rugby coach at the Naval Academy, that's pretty cool So Murph welcome to the show before we get to talking about business and entrepreneurship As a marine fellow aviator having had one of those on this show for a long time. Tell us what you did in the Marine Corps yes, so I Actually, I enlisted right out of high school and things went really well I was a tower air traffic controller and I ended up at the prep school for the Naval Academy and then graduated from the Naval Academy in 2000 then TBS and then went to down to Pensacola and When so helos went out to the FRS out there in Camp Pendleton quickly fell in love with it learned how to fly frogs Then I went to East Coast and I did two deployments on the East Coast And when I came back from that second one, there was a bunch of ospreys on the tarmac you know, I wasn't sure I wanted to get into that so I solicited my services back out to Camp Pendleton and then I ended up with the Purple Did foxes a couple deployments with them and then along the road. I got I got the the drone stink on me Stick with VMU doing drones and when it came time for me to get out of the cockpit I actually my services were sought by people other than myself To go do that again. So I went To VMU three and did a couple deployments With those guys then I came back to the Naval Academy where I was working in the Stockdale Center for ethical leadership and I was teaching leadership and that's when I started coaching rugby at the Academy in 2011 and then I had one last gig down at DITRA defense threat reduction agency where I was doing I was working on the open skies treaty which is a fascinating gig if you can get it, and I don't think you can get it anymore, but and then I retired in 2017 and You know, that was my Marine Corps story from the end of high school 92 to 2017 interesting so You know, sometimes transition is different. You're retiring because at least you got that paycheck of the month club membership, but Sometimes retirement isn't any easier than you know being in being in the military for four years and then getting out also So what was your transition like? Well, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I grew up You know, I was still like volunteering coaching rugby and that I Didn't see myself ever getting out of that because that was just a really fun thing for me to do It filled a lot of the you know, what you miss about the Marine Corps stuff for me But I started looking into a couple different business opportunities. I Started a business before I retired probably almost ten years before I retired and that was the cover bag and what ended up being the cover bag calm and that just grew and grew and grew to where You know, I could definitely take up a lot of time just working that when I retired But I'm I knew that was I wanted one more thing at least And that's when I started looking into other business opportunities and I got into fitness I a started franchise in Annapolis and did that I looked at a Number of other franchise opportunities, but I knew fitness was probably going to be what I wanted to do, right? So Was there an entrepreneurial bug inside of you the whole time? You're in the Marine Corps to just come about at a later time Totally. Yeah, like I've been into that kind of thing when I was since I was a kid So I remember getting in trouble for selling fireworks in the bathroom at my junior high school You know, I came up with ideas for stuff to put on ball caps Slinging t -shirts like that was always a thing but the cover bag was an idea I had when I went to the Naval Academy and You know, you're always wearing that combination cover like in the Marine Corps You're lucky especially if you're in aviation like you already ever even see that thing Yeah, buddy with the chicken you're trucking that thing all around all the time and it's white And you know, all you got to do is sit on it once or you know Be holding an ink pen that you probably should have retired a week before next to it And you gotta take the whole thing apart or buy new parts or buy a new one And I'm like man if I just had a bag for this thing, so it was like a couple years of me sketching out what it probably should look like and then designing it and then You know once you make the first couple and then you kind of go from there, but no I've always had that Hey, wouldn't this be a good idea Like I probably I probably do that like three times a week. Yeah, I've always been the same way but I think like especially when I was when you're a kid or when you're really young you have no idea how to Capitalize on your idea like yeah idea how to implement it or execute. I mean, you just don't have those capabilities and then especially nowadays with the internet and all the technology and everything and in Alibaba and China and all these resources that are available You can you could come up with a harebrained idea in just a few months be taking it to market Whereas like 20 30 years ago. It was like almost impossible to do to do. Yeah. No, and that's something you People should keep in mind. Like if you've got what you think is a crazy idea Just keep kind of fleshing it out and then you know for me it was a buddy of mine He's like, hey, I got a buddy who's got a hat and bag factory in Newark, New Jersey And why don't you send me that sketch you talked about? So I sent it to him and the guy produced a demo and And that was the first one like just like that dude. That's awesome. All right, hold that thought we're gonna take quick break We'll be right back As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing that they do Low fees and great rates resources to help you crush your financial goals 24 -7 access to stateside member service representatives with award -winning customer service Earnings and savings of four hundred seventy three dollars per year by banking with us an average credit card APR That's six percent lower than the industry average a market leading regular savings rate nearly two times the industry average I'm still with Navy Federal after 33 years and not going anywhere. 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Hello fresh meals together and when it comes to options, honestly more is more That's why hello fresh's menu includes 40 recipes and over a hundred add -on items to choose from every week We love how hello fresh takes the stress at a meal time by delivering fresh ingredients and easy recipes right to your door This fall skip that extra trip to the grocery store and have dinner ready in no time with America's number one meal kit Go to hellofresh .com slash five zero veteran and use the code five zero veteran for 50 % off plus 15 % off for the next two months to get America's number one meal kit. Go to hellofresh .com slash Five -zero veteran and use code five zero veteran for 50 % off plus 15 % off the next two months I'm back talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy from owner of the cover bag calm. So When I saw your interview come through Murph I gotta admit I'm like the cover bag and I went to your website and I saw it and I'm like ding I get it instant instant like yep thumbs up and Cuz my wife and I were Amazon sellers for many years. We're totally out of the business now. Amazon just got to be Amazon was like walking through a minefield you like you thinking you're fine all sudden kaboom your right leg's missing You're like what the fuck? anyways So we're out of Amazon now, but I loved Amazon cuz like we talked about earlier when you're when you're young You come all these hair brained ideas. That's a great idea for product That's a great idea and I could I could run them to ground and be and be putting it on Amma be putting a great product on Amazon, you know within a few months sometimes Sometimes that's not a good thing because if it turned out not to be a good idea you lose a lot of money At least I could exercise these ideas for the first time in my life. And so I have a true appreciation for a great product and I Remember, you know getting my uniforms at the Marine Corps shop or the marine the marine shop in there in Quantico And I think I still have that white shredded cardboard box with my white cover in it somewhere back in storage and and I The whole time I'm like, how am I supposed to carry this thing around? I mean for 20 plus years in the Marine Corps I carded that thing around in a cardboard box and somehow it managed to work out for him when I saw the cover bag I'm like, oh, yeah, like I get it that that's it. Like like how did how'd you just come up with that idea? It was just I mean I get it It's like it's like a problem every one of us dealt with but nobody ever thought of the idea or at least executed on the idea Yeah, well, I always thought we you know, they're expensive So all you gotta do is have to replace one and you're like man, how do I not do that again? Yeah, and that's where it started but when I had You know that run -in with my buddy's friend who said he could make me a demo I was like a demo sounds like it sounds like I'm in it But he he produced, you know The first cover bag from my sketch and I and all I had was like a little couple tweaks And he sent I ordered about 15 of them and I opened up the box of these 15 cover bags And I handed him out to the guys that were doing the color guard For the ball when we had the ball the next night and when the Marines were like, holy shit, sir This is awesome. Where'd you get these? I was like funny story like I invented that and they're like what and then I knew that I had something and that's Really? Yeah pulling my money together and like spending quality time thinking about how I was gonna do it Wow Yeah, I got like a thousand questions cuz and like I said, I'm a product guy Like I love cool products and the idea behind it. So interviewing somebody that created a product it became successful Because it was just the right idea and Let me tell you man. I don't know if you realize this bit. It is hard to find to Manufacture something in the US and it's great that this is a military product Which by the way, I want to point out like I know in the Navy Marine Corps. We call it a cover your uniform hat The other services. I'm sure the Air Force didn't call it a cover. They probably caught a hat I'm not I'm not sure about the army But you know, I want to point out a cut the cover is your official military head piece or your you know It's your military hat but in the Marine Corps Navy, we call it the cover So your product is called the cover bag But I suppose you you wouldn't have wanted to call it the hat bag because then it would have just been like anything No, and I you know how you always wondered like you watch a commercial Or hear like a radio ad you're like I'm confused but like three minutes later you're still talking about it I think some of that. Yes, I think some of that has happened with calling it the cover back You know because I thought that I was gonna be selling to guys like you and me Like I thought this was gonna be you know by the troops for the troops type thing Yeah, but I have a ton of customers that are moms and Grandmas wives like they don't know what a cover is So they're like I pick up the phone and somebody says cat bag 95 % of the time really and I just I just kind of roll with it because it's one of those You got all these old ladies buying it to you're talking about it. So let's keep that up It's like the the the Red Hat Ladies Club is buying your bag for their hats and stuff or fancy hat No, they're buying it for their husband's boyfriend's grandchildren The cover bag is a huge gift idea like I'll send I'll sell like six figures worth of these things through the Marine Corps exchanges in a year I sell a lot more than that to friends and families of people graduating Parris Island and MCRD San Diego. It's it's absolutely fascinating and Much in the same way as cover bags hat bags hat covers all that stuff My favorite is that you know, I don't pay anything for advertising like I tried it a couple times It was to me It was like wasting money because I couldn't figure out if it was doing anything at all But people will get on Facebook and argue about what should be Embroidered on the cover bag. No, it should be last name first name. No, it should just be the initials No It should be first name and then the middle name and then the last name and I'm like this is amazing because it'll go on And then the website goes ding ding ding Yeah, well I suppose you know first initial middle initial last name, you know, maybe rank before that might you know if you're selling them to all the eighth and I Marines if it becomes that if he becomes a Regular issue piece of gear. Well, then you gotta you gotta do by right? I think that's probably eventually gonna happen. Yeah Yeah, the Marines like solve a lot of your problems. They just make you do stuff The Marine Corps ever figures out. Hey, we don't want anybody walking around with a bad -looking cover again We're gonna put one of them cover bags in their c -bag issue. Yeah, that's it. That'll solve that. Yeah Yeah, well then they won't have to walk around with it in you in there with their bent arm and hand, you know So So what are some of your numbers that you can share with us or just to give us a perspective on? How successful the cover bags? Well, to be honest The company's not openly for sale, so I'm not really in tune exactly with the numbers But I've been trying to get in with the Navy exchange So the last gentleman that worked there He didn't really understand and like how the cover bag was an amazing piece of gear But they're starting to get the memo now and the main number I've been talking with them is like hey Do you know I I do over six figures worth of business with the MCX at the Navy exchanges of which there is many Many more. Can you imagine how good this would do if it was available? Yeah to the Navy first hand and then retail, you know I do I do a lot more business retail than I do goals for sale. So well, dude, that's awesome. This is good you're always gonna need to protect that cover and like I said the the parents and Girlfriends wives and grandparents are on Facebook talking about what needs to be on a cover bag and they're like, what's a cover bag? Cover and then there I am my website just gets the pinks. Yeah You know, it's like that the old the old Henry Ford story where he says Well, if I had asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse, you know, or right There's a quote similar from Steve Jobs Like sometimes the customer doesn't really know what they're looking forward what they need until they see it You can have any color car you want as long as it's black the other Henry Ford one yeah, and The cover bags kind of like that because if you said what's one of the biggest, you know You know pain in the ass things you do you deal with with your uniform? Nobody would have said I wish I had something to carry my cover in but I mean hardly anybody would have said that but When they see when they see the cover bag, they're like, oh, yeah I want one of them because I that is a pain point for me I just never realized that there would be as ever solution for it yeah, no, it's it's a no -brainer and eat and like People that aren't, you know actively using the cover like the parents can figure out that a cover bags a great idea And the other thing is, you know, mom's don't want to be buying their kids, you know, whiskey flasks and knives Something Practical they're not gonna put alcohol in or possibly shank somebody with It works out pretty good to get him a cover back and embroidery everybody loves embroidery that Yeah Now it's got your name on it, oh, yeah The embroidery thing for the cover bag is when it really exploded Yeah, and there's a nice big surface area on the thing for plenty of embroidery you can Yeah It takes a while if you come up with a design and you want me to put it on there that takes a little more time a little more involved, but I got plenty of patch choices and You can put whatever name you want on there nicknames Like if people get too wrapped up in what name they want in there or what order I'll be like Does your does your son have a pretty cool nickname? They're like, oh, yeah, we call him Sparky.
Inside Out with Tami Michaels
Fresh "Junior" from Inside Out with Tami Michaels
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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep365: 4 Things To Help You Improve As A Podcaster - Richard Walsh
"What you want to do from the business podcast standpoint, it builds authority. When you do a quality podcast, again, you're bringing on the right guests. Oh, you're presenting the proper contact. Builds a lot of authority, gives people an easy access. It's free. They can listen. You can build that know, like, and trust factor and really get that authority stand in front of them. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster. It's Adam A. Adams, and I've got a returning guest today. His name's Richard Walsh. We will connect you with the previous episode he was on more than two years ago, which was episode number 45 in the 350 or 360 or three 70 range. But back over 300 episodes ago, he was on the podcast about two years ago. What that means that I'm averaging three a week. I think that's what it means. Three episodes a week, Richard Walsh. His bio is in the show notes. You can check out the other link when he was on his company link is in the show notes and also his podcast itself. So that way you can follow him, check him out, get to know him, hire him. He's a business coach. And the podcast name is E .T .O .P. What does E .T .O .P. stand for again? So that's E .T .O .P. Escape the owner prison escape. That's the title of my best. That's right. I remember my best selling book and I modeled that up. Hey, you know what, Richard? When I was looking at your Facebook, we're connected on Facebook. I thought it was interesting. The regiment for your son. Can we talk a little bit about that? Yes, I love to talk about that. OK, all right. So right now he's doing three workouts every single day. What is this like? So he's going in the Navy, OK, which we wouldn't be doing three workouts a day if he was just going to the Navy. I'm a Marine. OK, he's not going to be a Marine because they don't need to. And we'll leave it at that. OK, no offense. The Navy guys out there, they say the Marine Corps is a department of the Navy, but it's the men's department. OK, so I've never heard. I like it. I love being, you know, I'm not original. So he was going, what's called the buzz program. So that's basic underwater demolition seals training. So he wants to be a Navy seal like it's and everybody does. And they'll go in there and there's a 90 percent fill rate. OK, and most of that's even in the first couple of days. OK, well, he's not going to be that. OK, he's going to make it. He's under no delusions of what it is, knows exactly what he's up for. So we embarked on about two and a half months ago. We did about a five month program to get him ready. So my whole goal is to increase the probability for success. OK, so obviously it's a huge physical demand, but really the real demand is mental. OK, they break you, you break. And it's not as long as you don't quit. You'll pretty much make it if you got the head for it. OK, so but physically, again, the increased probability of success. We need to train properly. OK, so I'll give you a real quick what he does. So in the morning, we do a 45 minute conditioning workout. So that's a lot of body weight and includes pull ups, pull ups, push ups, squats, lunges, burpees, you name it. Like we do a ton of stuff, you know, probably body weight or maybe add weight and stuff like that very hard, do 10 sets of that. So we'll do 100 of everything. You'll do 500 reps of stuff in the morning from there would go directly about less than 30 minutes from there. He'll do a six to 10 mile run, which is hills. We're in a very hilly country out here to do a six to 10 mile road run that in the afternoon we go back for pool and he'll do one to two miles of combat side stroke freestyle to work on training water, of course, underwater on your breath. So he actually trains on that as well. It was a boxer as well. We're doing last two years, so we will occasionally do bag workouts or as he did last night, went and sparred eight rounds with four different guys. So we do this five to six days a week, depending on the six, they will vary. And we also have what you saw today at our house in the yard. It created kind of a little outdoor training. So we'll do like an 80 pound log carry for 60 yards. He'll do 10 burpees. He'll do 60 yard bear crawl. He'll do an 80 pound log carry for 60 yards. He'll run with the 35 pound med ball extended above his head to simulate the boats they run with for 60 yards. Then he'll do a 20, a 20 foot rope climb, and they'll come down and take a 50 pound dumbbell and do a single arm farmer's carry, which is just carried at his side, he'll go 35 yards out, switch hands, do 35 yards back. And we'll do that five times. And normally do that right after his six mile run. And we'll do them. So that's three different workouts and it sounds crazy. And it's cause he wants to be in the men's department. Well, he says, yeah, well, yeah, he does, but you'll see it. I train with seals and everything else too. So they are the elite warriors of the world and he wants to be an elite warrior. Okay. That's what he really wants the skills and stuff like that. So, um, and he has a no quit mindset and that's why. Speaking of no quit mindset, I quoted you and I loved it. I loved the quote says, as long as you don't quit, you'll make it. And I was in junior high, middle school. And, and my band director made us memorize quotes. And one of the quotes I could actually a few of the quotes were about persistence and determination. Not quitting, not giving up one being from Calvin Coolidge. And he basically said like, it's not how smart you are. It's not how intelligent you are, even how educated you are or how cool you are, how funny you are, how good looking you are a lot of those things don't really make somebody successful, but what makes somebody successful is never quitting, never giving up. And so like when we're starting a podcast, it's hard, it's brutal. And he's about to go to, I guess it's probably called hell week or something. Is that what it's called? Yeah. In the program buds itself is like 35 weeks long and that's in like week five. Hell week is week five. Okay. Okay. So yeah, it's a lot more than people. Yeah. 35 weeks, nine months or something with basic and airborne school. It's almost a year to get the whole thing done. Okay. And well, so first and foremost, I want to take something that you mentioned that I think you've taken with you to your business also to your business clients that you mentor, you coach them also to your son, the mindset that you've had to be successful, the mindset that he's having to be successful. And I'm extracting this as long as you don't quit, he'll make it. As long as you just keep getting back up when you get knocked down, you'll make it. And I am curious how this can tie into you and your journey. I know you have episode 45, 45. You were on for episode 45, and I'm sure you've gotten knocked down in the last two years. It's been over two years since you've been on. I'm sure you got knocked down as you were starting your business or you started your podcast. How would you feel just to share some of the trials and how you got through them? Just a few ideas, two or three trials that you've gotten through to get to where you are right now. Absolutely. I'll give you a quick quote too, about losing and quitting.
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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Harvard Set's War Against the Constitution with Alan Dershowitz and Noah Durham
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Hey everybody, it's Andy the Charlie Kirk Show. Turning Point USA is taking charge on campuses. We are making America a better country and the reinforcements are coming. You're going to leave us some hope after this interview. You'll love it. Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA today at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Get engaged, get involved with Turning Point USA. That is tpusa .com. As always, you can email me freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust. Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. This is the most conservative high school graduating entering college class of boys in the last 40 years. Something huge is happening and we saw that poll and then I'm starting to get reports from our amazing Turning Point USA field team saying Charlie, we're now seeing this on the ground. We're seeing this when we're recruiting. The response is incredible. Now we have the macro and the micro together. Joining us now is Noah Durham, who is a field rep for the best organization in America. I'm a little biased. Turning Point USA. Noah, welcome to the program. Thank you so much, Charlie. No, yeah, you're absolutely right. We are seeing it on the ground firsthand. Just in the first week of me being back on campus, recruiting for Turning Point USA chapters across the South, we've connected over 800 freshmen just in my territory to their Turning Point USA chapter at their college and university. So we're seeing it. We're seeing the hype. And so just so everyone knows, Turning Point USA, we are doing the work on the ground to save America. This is clipboard and tennis shoes type work. While other people are kind of talking and debating past each other in Washington, DC, and they're writing white papers that people won't read. Look at these images. One after the other, after the other, doing the difficult work. Noah, walk us through in detail. This is tough work. This requires grit. This requires hustle. But the payoff is huge. Noah, tell us about it. Yeah. So, you know, first thing when I get on campus, I just set up a table and start talking about the conservative movement with people. And I've seen of time and time again, students come up and say, wait, is this a place that supports free speech? Is this a place that I can go to on campus and make friends that think the way that I do? And yes, absolutely it is. And the movement's growing and the word is spreading around campus. And I'm so excited to see it grow, especially this year. And so tell us, are you seeing, you know, especially with young men, are you seeing a little bit of a heightened interest more so than previous years? Yeah. And I absolutely think, I think they're fed up. I think they're pissed off coming out of the public school system at their high school. They're tired of these liberal indoctrination camps that keep weighing them down and they're not able to express themselves in school freely as much as they are on college campuses. And then they come to college and they say, you know what? Now is the time. I'm sick and tired. I'm joining a Turning Point USA chapter, and I'm going to make a difference on my campus and in my community. And that's also why I'm really excited for our high school department expanding and getting onto even more high school campuses than ever, ever before. So yeah, it's great things all the way around. Yeah. And so we now, we are the only organization in America at Turning Point USA that has a full -time staff, nearly 50 to 60 people just focused on high school chapter development. By the way, as we're talking here, if anyone is interested, go to tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school chapter, start a college chapter. That's 60 full -time people. By in comparison, the RNC has zero people doing anything. They're up in Milwaukee doing whatever. But Noah, talk about the grittiness of the work. I mean, your students get by the administration, they get smeared, they get slandered. You have a generally conservative region, right? Panhandle region, but some of the schools are as liberal as Stalingrad. Tell us about it, Noah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we've seen just honestly, last week we had a number of freshmen come up and they say, hey, I know this is syllabus week, but we just had a number of classes in political science department and they seem to already be pushing these liberal and woke agendas day one with their curriculum. And so they are scared. They're wanting a community to support them and we can provide that for them on campus and just creating that space where someone can come together and meet with like -minded students and have that support and be able to report on the professors that are, you know, basically creating these indoctrination camps in their classrooms is a great resource for them. And they're very appreciative of it. And yeah. You guys want hope that are watching at home. Look at these images. One after we got hundreds, we have thousands of these on campuses across America. When we first started Turning Point USA, I was told, can't happen. Young people are liberal. This work is already getting done. That is a lie. A lot of those groups are low energy. They're out of the way now. They're old. They're outdated. We are on the front lines doing the work. So proud. Noah, tell the audience your story. You started as a chapter leader, which are the Navy Seals of the Conservative Movement. Tell us about it, Noah. Yes, sir. I was actually, I think I was a junior or senior at Auburn And, University. you know, I follow Turning Point USA since the beginning on social media and everything. And honestly, I saw how the college Republicans on campus were all just kind of lame, not really doing much, didn't have much interaction at all. And I was like, let's, let's start a Turning Point USA chapter. So I just went on the website and looked up all the information, how to get it started, and kicked it off from that point on. And, you know, I had, you know, probably 10 to 12 members until I left the school, just regular members at the chapter meetings and everything. We still had a great time. But now I get to work with that same chapter that has over 400 members. Wow. Yeah, 400 members at their chapter. It's grown significantly. They actually just had their first meeting last night, their first chapter meeting of the semester, and over 50 freshmen attended their chapter alone. And we must understand, there's some kids that are afraid. These are kids that are outspoken, right? Because there's a silent majority too, right? Now talk about that. I bet, you know, because we do this thing called tabling at Turning Point USA, which is our bread and butter, because unlike these other groups that just sit around on their hands and do nothing, we're not afraid, you know, to sweat. We're not afraid to wake up early. Tabling is the backbone of Turning Point USA. So, Noah, but tell me, I bet there's people that come up all the time. I hear these stories. Again, this is coast to coast from Buffalo to Arizona State, UCLA. We got thousands of these images. Noah, you hear from people and they whisper and they say, talk about the whisper, Noah. It's a big thing. Tell us about it. No, absolutely. And I'll take it a step further. Yes, students whisper, but we also have a number of college professors that come by the table and they say, hey, I'm with you. You know, they kind of walk up, look around, make sure none of their co -workers are watching. But that's the same kind of thing. There's this silent majority that's still kind of, you know, waiting in the balance. I feel like COVID helped a lot of people come, you know, out of the closet as a conservative. But we still have to push more and more to encourage more of these professors and students to come out of the closet and express their conservative values openly and proudly. Openly and proudly. And so if anyone across the country want to start, say, Turning Point USA chapter, go to TPUSA .com. That is TPUSA .com. We are also hiring, right? And the Republican oligarchs. conservative This can't be done on campus. A waste of time. We have proven them wrong over 11 years. When we first started 11 years ago, the millennial generation was supposed to be the most progressive generation just from a worldview perspective. Now millennials are about 50 -50, almost within 50 -50. And Gen Z is trending amazingly. Noah, are you seeing that Gen Z? Have you seen something change for the positive, even more enthusiasm and more energy as we close this out, Noah? Absolutely. I mean, like I said, over 800 freshmen connected to their chapters just in week one. Week one. That's just one region, by the way, everybody. We got tons of these. This is just one place. Keep going. That's just college. For sure. Yeah. Week one, and we're seeing it too. The excitement when we're tabling. Students are running across the concourse to our table the second that they see our signs, the second they see the Turning Point USA logo. And they're like, okay, now's the time. I've seen you on social media. It's time to get involved. I want to make a difference here. TPUSA .com. Noah, tell people what happens when they sign up to start a chapter. They hear from you or one of our reps and we get them going. No excuses. Every, by the way, adults get your kids involved. If you're a student, TPUSA .com. Noah, tell us about it really quick. Yeah. Get involved. Sign up on the Get Involved form on the website. Your Turning Point USA representative will reach out to you and get you plugged in with your chapter and start a chapter today. It's great. Start a chapter. It's TPUSA .com. Noah, you're doing great work. So proud. We have the best staff in the movement and it really is special to see over 11 years. I'm telling you, Gen Z is going to shock the world. They know it. That's why they attack Turning Point USA so much. We're the most attacked organization in America. Noah, God bless you. Can't wait to see you. Maybe at a campus stop, UCF. I'm not sure if that's your territory or not, but I'll be there. All right. We'll see you there. All right. Thanks, Noah. God bless. Thank you. That's TPUSA .com. Frontlines. That should be your white pill, everybody. Oh, Charlie, things are terrible. Stop it. Go to work. Oh, you know, the country. No, stop it. Get out of the way. If that's the kind of complaining you're going to do, I got no patience for you. Seriously. I get these emails, Charlie, it's a waste of time and all this. I don't have the luxury to believe such garbage. Do something about it. Reinforcements are common. Gen Z is ascendant. Bottom up. Yeah, your leaders at the people from DC, they are awful. I get it. Do something about it. That's what Turning Point USA is all about. Next generation, young, energy, grassroots. That's the type of muscle that is going to make a difference for generations. TPUSA .com. Start a high school or college chapter today. TPUSA .com.
Available Worldwide
A highlight from Kavanaugh Livingston - First Time EFM and Management Consultant
"Welcome to Available Worldwide, the podcast by, for, and about the accompanying partners of the U .S. Foreign Service. Little did you know that responding to a post on Facebook was going to get you invited to be on the podcast itself. I thought that was a very clever hook, so I am very impressed. Okay, so you feeling warmed up? Yeah, that's great. This is Lauren Steed, and I'm here today with Kavanagh, who is currently posted in, I believe, Monterrey, Mexico. Is that correct? That's correct. And I invited her here today because she's done a lot of work recently helping support EFM careers in her community, and she has her own career journey that has been just as crazy, I think, as all of the career journeys I've heard about on Available Worldwide. So I'm really excited to talk to her today. Kavanagh, we start our episodes with what we call quick -fire questions. So I'm going to ask you three questions. You answer them in, you know, three to ten words, and we'll get started. So first off, I already kind of spoiled this one, but where are you currently located and who's there with you? I am here in Monterrey, Mexico, and with my spouse, who's a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, and my 17 -month -old daughter. Wow. So daughter while posted to Mexico or prior to? We moved here. She was only four months old. Probably baby puts a big crimp in this question, but do you consider yourself a night owl or an early bird? Even with a young toddler now, I still consider myself a morning person. Okay. Well, good. That is definitely what toddlers prefer as well. Do you have a superpower? This is Steph's favorite question, and it's kind of one of the themes of Available Worldwide. What is it that helps you succeed in life? I would say my superpower is that I'm pretty action -oriented. I have an ability to convert ideas into actions, which I think can be an understated skill set, but I think that's been an important part of my success today, career and personal. No wonder you worked in project management then. We'll get to that later. I was excited to read your bio because one of the things you mentioned is that you two grew up in this kind of itinerant lifestyle of moving around a lot. Do you have cherished childhood memories of that, or was it traumatic? All of us parents are afraid it is. Yeah. That's the thing, right? I think every experience is different for every person, for every child. It can be very difficult to move around and leave your friends and move to different countries, but I think precisely because I was young and that was what I was used to so early on, it was a really fantastic experience for me. I wouldn't change it for the world. We lived in countries, mostly in Asia because of my father's job. I lived in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. These are amazing countries to grow up in. You meet people from all over the world. I went to international schools and I'm still really good friends with all the people I graduated high school from. I know it can be hard. It's not for everybody, but I personally really loved living in different countries. That's why I'm really excited that my own daughter will have that opportunity to be, I guess, a third culture kid, as they say. What's the longest you've ever lived in one place? Well, I would say at this point, maybe it's dating me, but probably Washington, D .C. After I graduated from college, I moved to D .C. to start my career and stayed there, lived there until my husband joined the Foreign Service, so we moved to Monterrey. That has actually been the longest so far in my life. I was calculating it out for myself recently and I realized that now that I've hit the three -year point at this house that I live in in China, this is actually the longest I've lived in one place since before I graduated high school. That's amazing, yeah. When you really think about it, it's kind of incredible, right? It's a little bit horrifying, I guess, too, but it is exciting, I agree. I'm looking forward to my children's opinions on TCK life as well. Has living in Monterrey and having an infant affected your sense of self? I know a lot of EFMs are like, I was really career -oriented until I got married to my partner and now I'm in a place where everything is redefined. How has that transition worked out for you from independent person in D .C. to now? It's the question, right? For me personally, I became a mom and an EFM and kind of a stay -at -home mom all at the same time, so a lot of change happened for me very quickly. I think that while it was not easy to go through a lot of that significant change going from, like you said, I was very extensively involved with my employer, I led initiatives, I worked on business development, I did tons of client projects, so that was a lot of my life. Then all of a sudden have this little person consume everything in my whole life, my attention, that it's an extraordinary experience to become a parent, but it's very difficult. It can be very challenging for sure. Here in Monterrey, I was enabled to actually convert my job into a telework arrangement for many reasons that I'm sure a lot of your listeners can really relate to. What I thought was an opportunity after my maternity leave to go back to work, I wasn't able to do that. That has also been another adjustment for me. I'm taking on a lot of change and I'm losing identities I've had, but I've also gained new ones. That's a way to help me, that motivates me to grow through this lifestyle we've signed up for. I also say a lot has happened in this past year alone, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I think while Monterrey is a soft landing into the Foreign Service, as they say, I'm grateful for that too, because I think it's allowed me to adjust to a new identity. That's allowed me to become a lot more familiarized with EFM employment and getting to know other EFMs at post, for example, even getting to make local friends. I don't think I would have had any of that opportunity if I was working full time because I had a very busy schedule. That would have continued, I think, even teleworking from a different country. In the end, I think keep a positive attitude. There's always going to be challenges and difficulty, but those are not permanent phases of your life. The change is always going to be a constant. That is always a given. Once I embrace that attitude, I embrace that idea. That, I think, has helped me a lot, become a lot more resilient, become a lot happier with all this change and what we signed up for. If you find your community, whether online or in person, that helps a lot too. It's definitely been a journey and in some ways, it's only just started, which is kind of crazy. Well, I am curious. What is it that you were doing in your professional career before you made all these transitions? I think that will really help illuminate what your story is. Yeah. I was a management consultant for a very large multinational corporation. I won't name the company, although if I do, everybody would know it. I will just say it's very well known. It's precisely because it has a presence in so many different countries, including Mexico, that really complicated my ability to continue working for the US division. As a management consultant, I did soup to nuts work related to strategy, change management, and knowledge management projects for my clients. Of course, as a consultant, you're not just doing client projects. It's very common. You're taking on what I call the extracurriculars to strengthen our eminence so that we can better deliver and serve our clients, and also to grow the business and ensure that we as a company, as practitioners, are up to date on best practices and the latest technology that we can implement for projects. Basically, a lot of the work I would do is to help clients envision their strategic initiatives and their vision for how they will want to, let's say, transform or implement a large -scale enterprise management system, because the company I work for has a lot of IT projects, or to help them improve a certain process or system, or to improve a certain management practice. I did everything related and supported that. I led teams. I coached junior team members and managed financials. I served as a deputy project manager for a larger project at one point. I do think I'm kind of a jack -of -all -trades. I will say that's kind of why I'm consistently, I think, staffed on federal projects, because I would say there's a complexity. There's technical knowledge, of course, that I need to bring to the table to clients, but there's also, I think, an element of a lot of human empathy, because I felt like the clients who responded to me most and my suggestions and recommendations that we ultimately developed in the end, I think they felt they could really trust me. A lot of them said, I consider you be a good friend. You really listen to my concerns. I think for a lot of public servants, that's kind of a rare opportunity for someone to just listen to them, because a lot of times if there's any large transformation project that at the government level you have to implement, it's always mandated from the top. It can be politicized very quickly. It's always in the news. It's always in the press. You always hear a lot of the bad stories and not a lot of success stories. Just being there to almost guide them. I think it's a bit presumptuous to say I was - A doula? Yeah, a doula. Yeah. You got this. You could push through the pain. Exactly. Just someone there to support you. Even though it's difficult and you're going to have to work more and this will impact your job, all that uncertainty that surrounds change in any workplace, any organization, of course, you're there like your support system. I kid you not, I would say that's a lot of my job. Yes, there was managing a project, setting meetings, creating schedules, managing risks. Yes, that's a lot of the technical knowledge. A lot of it is just checking in, talking with people, saying how they're doing, making them feel better, making them feel like they can do this. I really felt like I was a teacher, like a coach. I think that's a marker of a good consultant too. Someone who really cares about the client and they show that. I can see how you had all of the kinds of tools necessary to do a kind of research and change maker project within the EFM community and Monterey then, which is one of the reasons I brought you here today because I wanted to hear about that project. How did it get started? Why were you pursuing it? Were you invited to do it? What was going on? What started this? Yes. I would say this EFM employment and retirement events that I initiated earlier this year, the inspiration for that was, I will say to be honest, was I needed project management credits to renew my project management certificate, my PMP, Project Management Professional Certification, and not working in an office or having a job. You have to find a lot more creative ways to submit evidence that you're continuing your education and your project management practice. I can tell you that here at Available Worldwide, we are all about the trying to fulfill credits and trying to do career tasks in ways that do not require you to be employed. This is a big part of our mission. I'm glad to hear you have found a way to do it and benefit other people. Exactly. There was an immediate need, but then I said, why not find a project that I can work on that gets me these credits, but then can really benefit myself, of course, and also other EFMs at post. The other part of the genesis of this event was when I wasn't able to bring my job with me to Mexico and work in telework. I started looking at other kind of telework options with US -based organizations. I just kept running into the same issue of like, oh, yeah, we like your experience, but we really can't work with you. Your presence in Mexico is a problem for us. We just don't want to take that tax or liability. I understand. Employment at post seemed like my best option. Initially, I will admit, I was resistant to employment at post. I went in assuming that a lot of jobs available to EFMs at post, I'm sure are good and fulfilling, but I really got used to a certain level of, let's say, compensation in the private sector. I got used to a certain level of responsibility. I was managing people. I was leading teams. I was a certain level of leadership.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep360: Get Rid Of Awkward Episodes With These Energy Level Tips
"For most of the people that would listen to this podcast, they're going to be people with normal, good energy level. They're going to be optimistic and excited about life. And you've got to be careful and cautious of the energy level that you come to town with, come to the podcast with. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It is your host, Adam A. Adams. And today we've got something good that we want to share with you that is going to help you. And it is about your energy level. I've got a brand new podcast client. They've been a client for more than two months, and their podcast is about to launch. When you launch a podcast with us, by the way, it takes time. And I need to share that with you now. And then I'll get into the energy level that I was going to talk about with this one podcasting client in mind. And here's the thing is the energy level that you come to your podcast with, I don't know if you remember recent episode called The Thermostat and the Thermometer, where you can either read the temperature or you can dictate the temperature. In this case, you want to dictate the temperature. So you're, again, being the thermostat, the energy level. And let me say that side note thing real quick to get it out of my head so I can move on is it takes a little bit of time when you go ready, fire aim, and you just launch a shitty podcast and you don't give a crap who listens to it. That's what's going to happen. You don't know if you're going to get any listeners and you're just busting it out there, throwing it out without a care, without making sure that all of the things are in place. That's what most people do. 90 % of podcasters really just go ready, fire aim. Somehow, some way somebody learned ready, fire aim, and then they started everybody keeps repeating it and taking completely out of context. Ready, fire aim doesn't mean do something badly. It means start taking action on a thing. It doesn't mean get things going and recorded and published that are shit. It's not asking you to please have bad quality because that's better than having good quality because you did something. No, no, no, no, no. Ready, fire aim is just about taking action, massive action. It doesn't mean to publish bad stuff. It means to take the time to understand, to start working on it, to start learning now, to start connecting with the team that's going to help you now. This is ready, fire aim in its real raw old thing as I understand it. It is for you to take the action, but it doesn't mean to make it crap. It's not what it's saying. So anyway, going to the energy level. Oh man, I am all over the place today. So what am I saying is if you want to start a podcast that is bad, you can just do whatever you want. You don't have to listen to this podcast. You don't have to hire a company to support you. You can just put out the bad stuff automatically and you'll have the podcast and maybe you'll be your only listener. It'll be a diary or a journal. It won't be a real podcast because you got to go ready, aim, fire. You got to spend some time getting behind it. And that's all I meant is some people are surprised that it of podcast another company where they could launch it in a weekend. You're going to come into this two day seminar. You're going to come in on Saturday, not at all knowing what you want to do. And on Sunday, your podcast is published. There's not enough time. That is a recipe for crap. That is a recipe for bad stuff. So something that you don't want to do. You want to spend some time and effort to make it good. So I'll say that now. That's why I said this is a brand new client and they're just starting to launch, finally launching. And it's been a couple of months. They've been working with us. They've been recording episodes. We've been editing them. We've been cutting out on Ums and Us. We've been making sure that we know who the avatar is. We did a really good job with the artwork and we started recording episodes and now it's time to launch. And now it's getting ready to time to launch as I'm listening to some of the first episodes. This is what happened. The music that he picked was so energetic. It had such a high energy level. And not only that, but the voiceover artists. So his music is original theme music. When you launch with my company, we hire real composers to create original theme music. So we did that. And it takes time to things right. And we hired a voiceover artist to record with that music to record the introduction, the 20ish seconds, 15 second intro that the podcast begins with. We chose female voiceover artists between the client and me going back and forth. We decided that even though he's a guy, he should have a female voiceover artist. So here's the thing. The music is exciting. The voiceover artist is perfect. She has an energy level above average. She's inviting. She's warm. She's friendly. She's even a little flirtatious, like in a way that's not off -putting to anyone, but a way that you just, I really like this person. This person seems like a good person. I want to be around them because they seem friendly. They seem happy. They seem excited about the content and they seem smart. It's just how it feels when you listen to this voiceover artist and remember the energy level of the music way up here, the energy level of the introduction by the female voiceover artist way up here, the engagement level on those things. It's like, you're getting excited. And then my client came in on the first two episodes, which are being replaced. The first couple of episodes, he came in, like you hear all this excitement and he's this. And basically it was like, as if he was a late night DJ. Have you heard of a late night DJ? Some of you might be so young. You don't really know what FM and AM radio is. You don't recall what these things are. You never experienced it. You always had wifi and Bluetooth and phones that could hold like thousands of songs. And that's not the case for all of us. For some of us, we didn't have those things. We're old enough to remember when we had to fine tune a big giant radio dial until it hit the exact right mark to tune in to a station from far, far away. And we recall that with these radio stations at night, the DJ spoke a little bit differently. They weren't trying to be your friend anymore. They were trying to stay out of the way so that you wouldn't have to get woken up by their introduction or their music or what they're saying to you. So it was very soothing. It was very calming. And you could actually sleep through this. I used to listen to this classical music. Actually, it's funny, random listening to classical music right now in the other room. And then it's funny. I haven't listened to classical in a while, but I used to compose music and I love it. I love classical. Anyone who knows me from junior high and high school knows that practically the only thing that I would listen to is Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. Those are my three favorites. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Pachelbel. I like Canon and D. But anyway, getting back on track, I would listen to classical music on something. I don't remember it was 98. It was 89 .1. It doesn't matter. It was late night station that I would sleep to. And I always appreciated that the DJs had their late night voice. I was like, I'm so glad that this guy or the girl wasn't waking me up with their energy, with their higher level of energy. They were chill and they were calm. And they would mention the next song that was coming on and they would do it in a tone like this and they would do it in an energy like this so that it wouldn't really disrupt me while I was sleeping. I don't love it when you record your podcast episode with a late night DJ voice, unless you're specifically trying to help people sleep. That's the case. Do it. I love it now. But for most of the people that would listen to this podcast, they're going to be people with normal, good energy level. They're going to be optimistic and excited about life. And you've got to be careful and cautious of the energy level that you come to town with, come to the podcast with and record with because it can be bad to go above and beyond like it can be bad if you're so over the top, so above average that people wonder if it's even real. People wonder if this is a fake. How can this guy really be this way? How can this girl really be this way? They're hiding something. Why are they so happy? Nobody's that happy. And so you could get some criticism by coming too high of a getting some criticism. You could also turn off your perfect avatar who needs you by going way too above and beyond, way too excitable. That could actually turn people off as well or being the monotone late night DJ voice, the Eeyore, if you will, going to maybe turn other people off as well. So you want to fine tune it. And we've talked about this multiple times on the podcast, but not in this way. In the way that I'm delivering it with you now, it's a little bit different. The energy is a little bit different. My thoughts on it are a little bit different. My analogies are a little bit different, but it still goes to show the part that stays the same is A, you got to focus on your energy. You have to understand your energy. B, you need to come in with the same energy level as your intro. That's your music and your voiceover artist. You got to come in with the same. And finally, you want to stay somewhere in the six to eight numbers. So if five is average and one is just completely dead and two is barely alive and three is Eeyore and four is just slightly below average, five being average, six being about what I'm giving you right now. I am giving you mostly a six or a seven, sometimes maybe an eight right now. And then there's 10, which is like, we'll even say there's an 11. 11 is above and beyond, like way over the top. 10 is your most excited level. And it's probably too much. It's probably too loud. And nine is a little step back, but probably still too much. So it's really that six, seven, eight, that's going to get you the best results for you, the energy level. So let's go back to number two. And that is to imitate, to copy, to mimic or to mirror the level of energy that your introduction comes in with. How do we do this? Well, for this client, what I mentioned to him, and I was like, bro, you know, I love you, right? He's been a friend for a lot longer than he's been a client. I go, bro, you know, I love you, right? And he's like, yeah, what is it? I know you're going to say something. I'm like, I just want to make sure that you got it with love is that the energy of your music on point. It is an eight energy of your voiceover artist. Great. She's giving an eight energy. And then you're coming in with a four and it sounds like something changed. It immediately confuses us. Also, we just noticed that you don't seem excited because when we get you next to those eights, it comes down. And so I gave him three options. I said, brother, going to give you three options. I sound like I'm from Scotland going to give you three options. I don't know if I'm doing a good accent for Scottish, but I do have some Scottish blood going back to my clients. I want to give them three options. They said, I'm going to give you three options. Option number one is that we take down, redo the music and the voiceover artist so that they are coming in with a five and a half or six so that you can come in with a four or five. And people aren't going to notice it so much. I said option number two, we can leave the voiceover artist. We can leave the music because you chose it. You said you liked it. You said it was perfect for your avatar so we can leave it. But you've got to at least start out your podcast and hear me out. If you're listening to this episode, this is a part to listen to and to write down and pay attention to. I said this to him as well. If those are coming out at an eight, you've got to start at an eight. You've got to come in and be like, what's up? It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's John Stockton. It's Adam Adams. It's Carl Carlson. It's Sarah Saracen. Is that a real name? Sarah Saracen. John Johnson, Carl Carlson, Swen Swenson and Sarah Saracen. Sarah Saratops. I'll say that. You come in at the same level. What I told him is you've got to listen to the intro music prior to recording. You've got to listen to your voiceover artist prior to recording. You have to have around that same level. Now, once you establish that level, you can slowly move up and down through the podcast and it will be fine. I said option number three. Option number three is the hardest option, the most challenging, difficult option, but you might want to do it. He's like, what is that? What's option number three? And my response is that option number three is we leave the music, the original theme music and the intro by the voiceover artist. In this case, a woman. We leave those where they are. You still listen to them prior to recording to make sure you're matching and mirroring, copying and imitating and not going too far above or beyond. But you also, instead of partway through your podcast, letting your tonality and your emotion go way below, you would maintain it and constantly you would maybe even write a six or a seven, six, seven or eight on your wall behind your recording. And this would allow you to always say, I've got it throughout the whole episode. I've got to be cordial. I've got to be friendly. I've got to be warm and inviting and flirtatious and helpful and excited and passionate about what I'm talking about, because those are the things that bring your people to you. It's your energy. It's how you come across. Don't forget it. Maintain that energy level at a six, seven or eight, especially if you've got music and a voiceover artist. You want to make sure that you are matching that when at least when you launch or going back to option number one. If you can't do any of that, it will be OK for you to record music that's at a four or five and an intro that's at a four or five if you really need to be at a three, four or five, because then it won't be so drastic. It'll be flow a little bit better. But I need to say again, it's still better to come in a little above average, not over the top, but a little above average at a level six, seven or eight. Got an interview episode coming up. Don't go away. This one was short. I'll see you on the next episode. Oh, hey, because three of my clients came to me recently looking to find a way to have their podcast make the money instead of cost them money. We put together a resource for some of our clients and I want to give it to you as well. It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making twenty six hundred a month. Another one forty five hundred a month. And the third is making between five thousand and ten thousand each month. And so it's been a resource that's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template. It's a template of a sponsor sheet and it gives you something that you can hand to potential sponsors and hopefully also be making twenty six hundred, forty five hundred or between five and ten K regularly each month with your podcast. So this has been a contributing factor to helping all three of those clients turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them. And the way that you can find it is just going to our website, growyourshow .com, but put in forward slash templates, growshow .com forward slash templates, and then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience. I'll see you on the next episode.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from The Empowerment of the Holy Spirit on Short-Term Mission Trips
"Life Audio. You know, I spent many years as a children's pastor, and I have done children's ministry, both within the local church, within the local context, and globally. And this week, when I traveled to the Dominican Republic, there were two testimonies that happened with children that I think are really going to bless you. And I think sometimes we forget about the fact that there is no junior version of the Holy Spirit, that when he pours himself out, he does it upon all flesh, is what the scripture says. And it's not that kids get a junior version of him, they get all of him. And so when we hear testimonies of how God works through children, it can be such an encouragement to us. I pray this episode blesses you. Stay tuned. Hey everybody, I'm Dale. And I'm Tarik. We're hosts of the Kinos Project podcast. Where we help you tackle ancient Christian truths in everyday settings. To learn more and subscribe, go to lifeaudio .com. Hi, this is Jay Sekulow. You've spoken and we've heard you loud and clear. That's why this month we're doing something big. We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you've told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. This month we're redoubling our efforts to beat back the radical left's attacks on your constitutional religious freedoms and to defend the sanctity of human life. Life and liberty are the cornerstones of our great nation, but they're not guaranteed. When the values we hold dear are under attack from within, it's up to all of us to take a stand or risk losing them forever. This is not just a call to fund our legal battles. This is your moment to get in the fight. Every tax -deductible gift you give will be doubled dollar for dollar through the ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive and help us fight to literally save lives. Go to ACLJ .org right now and join us in the fight.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Neil Sheppard Interview - Gemini's New Crypto Derivatives Platform, Listing XRP, Ripple SEC Ruling, BlackRock Bitcoin ETF, DCG Genesis
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Neil Shepherd, who's head of derivatives at Gemini. Neil, great to have you on the show. It's great to be here and I appreciate the opportunity to talk about at least a few things crypto, if not all things. For sure. I'm excited about the things you guys are doing on the Gemini side. I've interviewed Tyler and Cameron a couple of years back and certainly been a user of the platform for a while. But let's start with your background. Where are you from and where did you grow up? Sure. So, I'm English. I grew up sort of rural part of the UK, northwest part of the UK. I guess closest big cities would be Manchester and Liverpool. So that's where I was. Although most of my professional career I've spent outside of the UK, so I had the pleasure of living and working in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and now I'm in Sydney, Australia. Wow. You've gotten a tour of the world a bit. Yeah. I think, to be honest, this concept of global citizenship is becoming an easier and easier. My wife's Australian, my kids were born in Japan, they effectively grew up in Hong Kong. They're now at school here in Sydney, but my family is all back in the UK. So we have an interesting array of accents, an interesting array of saying different things, but we all kind of get on at the same time. And tell us about your professional background. What did you do before working at Gemini? Yeah. So by academic training, I'm an aeronautical engineer. So that's what I studied. But I was taken with the concept of capital markets during my time at university, and eventually moved into working in London for an investment bank in London, and effectively did that for almost 20 years prior to stepping into the crypto space. So that's what gave me the opportunity to work in those major financial centres around the world. And most of that time, almost exclusively all of that time was spent looking in the derivative space, either equity or credit derivatives. So my background is, I guess, institutional finance, risk management and trading within the derivative landscape. What was your first encounter with Bitcoin and crypto? I'm most curious as to everyone's first encounter, as it's still a relatively new asset class. Sometimes people hear it on the news, or a friend told them about it, or they read about it on a forum. What was your first encounter? Yeah. So mine was an interesting one. So I sat on a trading floor in Hong Kong a few years ago now. And we had some of the more junior guys on the desk talking about it, and investing in it. And as a sort of a hardened, I guess, institutional finance veteran, it was something that was more of an annoyance to me that why they weren't talking about what we wanted them to be talking about. And they continue to do this. Now, needless to say, at least one of those people no longer works and enjoys a life kind of skiing and mountain biking and hiking around. So maybe I should have listened more then and gotten less annoyed about what we're trying to do in the short term. But I never really had the same maybe eureka or ha moment that a lot of people had.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Former Congressman Col. Allen West Reflects on His Father
"I have as my guest Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, and we're talking about a lot of important stuff. We're talking about merit. We're talking about working hard. We're talking about earning your stripes. You just said, Colonel West, you just said that your father, when you were 15, challenged you in a particular way. Take us back there, because that to me is clearly foundational in your story of success. Well, let me set the stage for that. My dad was a corporal in the United States Army during World War II, and he served in a segregated army. My older brother was a Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps. He served in Vietnam as a combat infantryman. But at the age of 15, my dad challenged me to be the first officer in the family. And I think that's what's so important, is that we set higher standards for our children so that we can push them to achieve greater than what we had ourselves. And so my dad laid out this plan, and I knew that I had to study and do very well in high school because it was about getting accepted into a college to have a great ROTC program. I was in the junior ROTC program in high school. I ended up going to the University of Tennessee. And of course, you're not going to be an officer unless you graduate, get that degree, and then you can get commissioned. So it was that simple challenge that my father laid out for me. This was not about my skin color. It was about intelligence. It was about competency. It was about character. And throughout my military career, sure, maybe there were some officers that looked at me differently because of my skin color, but guess what? My dad taught me that you find out what the standard is and you exceed it. And no one can hold you back if that's your mentality and that's your focus. And that's how I've always tried to live my life.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from No Interruptions Podcast - Which Political Party Wins Over Young Voters?
"Welcome to this week's No Interruptions podcast where, again, the only rule is no interrupting allowed, unlike what we normally do, interrupting, cross -talking, shouting, screaming, pull out our hair, weeping and gnashing of teeth. Both of our guests get a chance to present their side, their perspective, their argument without any interrupting whatsoever. On one side of this conversation today about which political party is doing a better job connecting and wooing and winning over young voters, Terry Schilling is president of the American Principles Project. He's responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing their strategy, messaging and grassroots activity at the state level. He's worked in communications development grassroots for people like Representative Chris Smith from New Jersey, Senator Sam Brownback, and even managed his dad's race for Congress in Illinois. He led the Bobby Schilling for Congress campaign to a 10 -point victory. And Jake Poling is a field rep for Turning Point USA, one of our favorite organizations in America. Turning Point, of course, our friend and colleague, Charlie Kirk, founded. Jake attends all the Turning Point USA events all over America, is heavily involved in getting young voters engaged in politics, and even hosts his own podcast called The New Right Podcast. So gentlemen, let's get started. Terry, I want to start with you. Do you accept sort of the conventional wisdom that of the two political parties, it's the Democrats who do a better job of connecting with young voters? I think that there are, I think that's exactly right. I think that Democrats are doing, having the most success in attracting young voters. And it's because there are three primary factors that have a major impact on your political party preferences. And those three, three, three factors are church attendance. Do you go to church on a semi or somewhat regular basis? Second is marriage. Are you married? Do you plan to get married sooner or later? And then three is children. Do you have children? Do you want children? Do you have children at home right now? How many children? Those three things, if you're more likely to go to church on Sunday on a regular basis, you are going to be much more likely to be a Republican. If you're married, you're much more likely to be a Republican. If you have children, you're much more likely to be a Republican. If you want those three things, you're much more likely to be a Republican. But the trend lines with Gen Z and even millennials before them are not promising. Every in generation America is less religious than the one prior to it. These are what the trends are. Marriage rates have fallen through the floor. We don't have a divorce problem so much as people aren't getting married anymore problem. And then also on top of that, if that all wasn't enough for bad trend lines for the Republican Party, people aren't having children anymore. The birth rate is below replacement levels, which means that Americans aren't even having enough children to replace themselves after they go, which means that we're dying. So I think that how things stand right now, Democrats are the party of destruction. They are destroying things and they take advantage of all of these decaying institutions and things that we're suffering from. So I do think that Democrats are doing a much better job at bringing in Gen Z and younger generations. You know, Jake, I think it's fair to believe that all three of us sort of sing from the same playbook here, the same manual. We're Republicans. We lean right anyway. And clearly there's been deep concern on the part of longtime Republicans like me that we're not doing enough to win over young people. Then, of course, comes a long turning point, USA. I mean, I think the very existence of this organization that you're a part of gives a lot of us hope and inspiration. But react to Terry's very eloquent stating of three big factors which tend to favor Democrats connecting with young voters rather than Republicans. Yeah, no, I definitely do see where he's coming from with that and I'm not necessarily going to say I disagree with those specific points. One thing that I've noticed is that people in working with young people on a daily basis coming out of college and high school, I grew up actually a little more on the left than I came out of high school and college, which is crazy. Usually it's the other way around. I've been given so many great opportunities to to be on the front lines with young people every day, seeing what problems they actually are facing on school campuses and just in the everyday world right now. What he said is not wrong, but I do believe that Gen Z and millennials are trending, especially Gen Z, conservative. They're tired of the progressivism that is being pushed to them in their schools by adults that have no idea the way that they live their lives, what they believe. They're being told what to believe without having any moral, they have morals and they're hearing this from people who don't have a moral backbone. One thing that I do want to reiterate with that before I kind of go on too much of a tangent here, there is the, if you guys saw, I'm sure you did the University of Michigan study that came out, how boys in their junior, senior high school are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservatives compared to those who identify as liberal. That's huge and that comes from organizations like Turning Point that are, you know, on the front lines helping young people get involved in politics and giving them a voice. I feel like a lot of young people are afraid to speak out on their actual opinions due to fear of backlash. And we're finally at a point where the Republican Party is pushing and doing a good job, something they should have been doing a long time ago, pushing optimism and aspiration and the American dream and that's something that we haven't done a very good job of really for a long time, especially when I was in middle school and high school when I grew up under Barack Obama's administration, which was a complete disaster. And then one last thing I'd like to add, local GOP groups working at the city level or at the county level, they're doing a much better job than they used to and trying to bring in young people to the movement. We did not focus enough on young people back in the mid -2010s. Right now, we're a little late to the party, but we are really, really doing a nice job now at working together at Turning Point, local GOPs and other like -minded organizations to get young people excited about being an American citizen. It's okay to love America and I think young people are starting to believe that too. You know, I don't want to turn this whole conversation today on our No Interruptions podcast into a conversation about Turning Point USA, but I must say, Terry, that it's so impressive to see the work that they've done and the real, real powerful movement it has become. And I just wonder, do you know of anything on the left or do the Democrats have anything comparable to Turning Point USA? Certainly, they have college professors and wacky far -left activists and every kooky ideologue under the sun from Hollywood to academia and in between, but I don't know of any group on the left that's comparable to thousands and thousands of high school and college kids that are mobilized the way Turning Point is. Do you know of anybody, any such group? I don't know of any non -governmental organizations that are like that, but I think that if I were to compare what Turning Point has built and actually why Turning Point is so incredibly important is that what has happened in our country is that the progressives have taken over our K through 12 education system. So while Turning Point is doing phenomenal work, and I wish Turning Point was not just a billion -dollar -a -year organization, let's say we're a trillion -dollar -a -year organization so that they could compete with the public education system. It's quite unfair, but what we need to do really is, I'm not a fan of privatizing education as the only solution. I think we need to retake the education system. I think that Charlie Kirk, as head of the Department of Education, would be a phenomenal system and would actually allow us to start fixing the history curriculum, sort of fixing the lack of education, sort of fixing the lack of math and reading programs, but unfortunately, we are fighting from the outside while the progressives own the institutions that we are now trying to take over. To give the progressives credit, they fought this 100 -year, century -long march to take over all of our institutions, and they basically completed it all the way up until the Department of Defense, which we're seeing more and more about their woke programs that they have. That's Terry Shilling, who's the president of the American Principles Project. Jake Poling is a field representative for Turning Point USA. Jake, let's talk about going forward, and I want to be about answers here rather than complaining about the deficiency that Republicans are perceived to have with young people. How does it get better for the Republican Party? How do we win more young people over to our side? Absolutely. Well, for one, we just have to relate better. One thing that the Republican Party, and we all can admit, for a long time, we have not been able to relate to young people as well as the people on the top tab in a long time. One thing that I hate to give credit, but credit where it's due, in 2008, 2012, when Obama won both of those elections, he used grassroots. He used getting young people involved in politics to win his elections. He won his election based on the grassroots and young people. And then when it comes to the more recent elections that just happened with Trump and Biden, those elections, young people came out in numbers, apparently, for Joe Biden that we've never seen before. And we have to create this new wave now of the American youth to really hone in on our pro -American values, where we go from here. So it's really just engaging with these students and with these young people in high schools and in high school and in college, coaching them on speaking up for what they believe in, giving them the chance to, you know, if something goes on in their school or at their college, speak at their local school board meeting or Board of Education meetings, let them know what's going on in schools, give them that platform, you know, encourage them to vote when they can or register to vote when they can and speak about that to their to their peers. Hosting impactful events is another thing that students can do. It does not take money to do anything like that. I mean, it doesn't take much to go to your school and say, hey, what can we do? Maybe we can bring in the local police chief to come in and speak on the good work that they're doing, bring people that are like minded, that they can come in and get people excited to to push the agenda that we want, the the the nuclear family, the pro -American values, the pro -constitution values, capitalist values to more young people. And I think more young people will will fall in line with that when they realize that. I think at the end of the day, one thing that I've heard growing up and I didn't really understand it until now, when you grow up, it's a quote that I love, when you go up, you want to be a Republican. And that has a whole lot of meaning behind such a small statement that I really live by that. And I firmly believe it. It's MyPillow's 20 year anniversary with over 80 million MyPillow's sold, Mike Lindell at MyPillow wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history on their MyPillow's. Check this price out. You'll get a queen size MyPillow for $19 .98. 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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 07/31/23
"Well, we missed each other for a couple of days. I feel like I haven't talked to you in a month. I know, it's been a while. I mean, you had your dental surgery. And by the way, memo to self, because I got some coming up too. Do it on Friday afternoon. Yeah, no. You can't do it on a weekday and then think you're going to be able to bounce back the next morning. That was, silly me, that's what I thought, a Mr. Work ethic. I got my quote given back to me on the Patriot mobile text line. Didn't you say to Mike, I don't need no stinking day off? I think I did. And as it turned out, it was, yeah, so. You feel better though? Absolutely tremendous. I remain fascinated. I'm fascinated by anesthesia. I'm absolutely fascinated by it. They said they put the IV in me. Said, time to go night night. Fantastic. Boom, woke up. What was that? It's the craziest, craziest thing in the world. But all good, down one tooth implant to come. All is well. How was your Friday, South Carolina visit to celebrate the life of your former junior? That's right. I got to catch up with, of course, Peg and Joey and celebrated the life of the guy who gave me really essentially my first radio gig in 1989. So you think about that. I mean, we go back quite a ways. Well, first, big time. You were doing talk shows when you were 12, weren't you? Well, 1978 in Ohio, but then really I got started in South Carolina in 89 and Jim Burnside was the guy that hired me and he passed away. Really, really brief battle with cancer. He didn't realize he had cancer until like mid -June. He had some pain in his chest area, went off to the doctor and they said, whoops, we found spots. Which, of course, is why the message you have every day about those body scans. Early detection. So important. Early detection. I'm about to embark in the same kind of campaign that you've got in North Texas with an early detection body scan company here in the Tampa Bay area. Anyway, it was about a month. And you know, there's a blessing to that. He was 80 years old and it turned out he had a lot of cancer and he had pretty considerable pain, sadly, in the last few days. There is a blessing, I think, when you're at a point where you have a lot of cancer in your body, that can go for months and months and months. And I've seen people who have, thankfully, thank God, the people in my life, Denise didn't have a lot of pain. She didn't wither away or anything. But a lot of people lose tons of weight. They're in agonizing pain. It goes on for many, many months. And Jim didn't want that. He told his family and his friends, listen, I don't want to linger for a long, long time. So he's 80, gets the diagnosis. Did they offer him a long regimen of chemo? I know that he said, look, I'm 80. I'm not going to do that. No, they did. He was ready. They started with chemo. They said, listen, we've got new kinds of chemo, radiation. But then it was really too late. And within about two weeks, they were putting him into hospice. And so it was quick. It was about a month, month and a half from the diagnosis. And you know, look at Denise, it was a year, you know. And so sometimes it happens faster than others. And there are also amazing treatments. And for people who are in the battle, don't lose hope. Keep the faith. There's lots of innovative treatments they're using.
Live From Studio 6B
On This Day in History: The Hamilton-Burr Duel of 1804
"Thing I wanted to talk about was, and this is something I came across, I didn't realize it was today and really has not been covered like it used to be when this commercial came out. But on this day in history, I'm getting this from Fox News. July 11th, 1804, Aaron Burr, mortally wounds, Alexander Hamilton and a duel. Oh, wow. Do you remember that? Yes. You guys remember that from, you know, from high school or junior high history class, right? Is that amazing? That's amazing. It's, it's amazing because, you know, when you talk about how things were settled back then, when it comes to politics, and then you look at today, it's strikingly different. But a quick little history lesson for those who may not know this. And I think we have a drawing from that, from that day as well. Aaron Burr, who was serving as president, Thomas Jefferson's vice president. So Aaron Burr was a vice president. This is like Kamala Harris. All right. So imagine Kamala Harris now, because she's the vice president. Mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury in a pistol duel on this day, July 11th in 1804. Burr had long been politically motivated, had a long politically motivated feud with Hamilton. The feud culminated, of course, in a request from Burr for a duel. Now this is how the story goes. Thus, Burr wrote to Hamilton, you have invited the course I'm about to pursue. Nobody writes like this or talks like this anymore. It's amazing. You have invited the course I'm about to pursue and now your silence impose it upon me. While dueling, while dueling was illegal in New York and New Jersey, dueling carried a less harsh penalty in New Jersey. So guess where they did it in New Jersey, Bush and Hamilton agreed to a duel in Weehawken, just over the river from Manhattan on, on the morning of July 11th, 1804, three years earlier, Hamilton's eldest son, Phillip had died in a duel in the same place.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Carl Jackson: Do the Right Thing and Your Feelings Will Follow
"Is part of the point with the left, that I guess there's I guess you're supposed to believe that the government really cares about your feeling, the feelings that government institutions. I know Ben Shapiro, he says facts don't care about your feelings. I believe I believe that's the statement that he makes. And I think it's kind of the opposite. Facts do care about your feelings, but you have to deal with logic. You have to deal with reason. There's a there's a scripture in the Bible. I forget where exactly. So forgive me. But I believe it's in Genesis and it tells us to do the right thing and then your feelings will follow. So actually, facts do care about your feelings. So you do the right thing and the feelings will follow. You abolish racism, essentially, in college, in college. Man, I can't even think of the word in college admissions. So you abolish that. You treat people as if everyone has dignity, as if everyone is capable, as if everyone has opportunity, as long as they work hard. And then guess what? You go apply to the college. Now, here's the fact. Some people will not be able to get into an Ivy League college. Some people are going to have to start at a junior college. But guess what? That's OK. You'll save money anyway. But guess what? That's OK. That's OK. It doesn't end anybody from applying to college or anyone getting accepted into college. And quite frankly, we got a lot of work to do on college campuses anyway because they're run by a bunch of Marxists.
Kraig Facts
How Good Is Roy Jones Jr.?
"Is the 20th anniversary of Roy Jones being the first person in the history of boxing to go from being a junior middleweight champion to a heavyweight champ mouthpiece how good is Roy Jones jr. and where do you have them all time on your list of boxers I mean he was one of the most exciting ones to watch for sure after getting you know clobbered like he did a couple of times I think the magic man put him down a couple of times right right this record 69 and 9 yeah so it just you know once you've seen you know stuff like Mayweather it's kind of hard to like only person I say that's the most devastating like in you can say in different classes you got your favorite Mike Tyson is always gonna be my favorite in the heavyweight right because he was just you know one punch can just in everything right Mayweather isn't my other favorite because of the simple fact undefeated barely got touched look like he can go to the club right after the game I mean right after the fight and he made stupid amounts of money for a 30 -minute fight I'm saying so you know those two are kind of like the top of Roy Roy has some iconic moments some cold knockouts and some clown in like real he was a showboater is he the best offensive fighter in the history of boxing no who is better offensively than Roy Jones I mean first thing to come to my mind was Sugar Ray Sugar Ray Robinson or Sugar Ray Leonard Leonard Leonard was a puncher row Leonard used to give you dad work
The Dan Bongino Show
John Durham Dunks on Rep. Adam Schiff About Russia-Clinton Ties
"Cut for it. Yes. Here's Adam Schiff talking to Durham yesterday up at Capitol Hill. And Bill, what do you mean? I'm junior. Got information from Russians. You think this is normal? The Russians were working with Hillary Clinton. Here, take a listen anywhere. Mr. Durham at Mueller and congressional investigations also revealed that Don Junior was informed that a Russian official was offering the Trump campaign, quote, very high level and sensitive information, unquote, that would be incriminating if Hillary Clinton was part of, quote, Russia and its government's support of Mr. Trump. Are you aware of that? Sure. People get phone calls all the time from individuals who claim to have information like that. Really, the son of a presidential candidate gets calls all the time from a foreign government offering dirt on their important opponent. Is that what you're saying? I don't think this is unique in your experience. Oh, we'll get to that part in a second. Adam Schiff, clown joker, zero human dignity life loser. We'll get to that in a second. But notice how Adam Schiff characterizes the person Don Jr. was meeting with as a Russian government official. Who was that person really? Fox News Catherine Harrods 2017 2017 folks six years ago. Fusion GPS official met with Russian operative before and after Trump Jr. sit down, the co -founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had with Trump's son. Fox News has learned the contact shed new light on how closely the firm was tied to Russian interests at a time when it was financing research to discredit then candidate Donald Trump. So, just to be clear, if you slob, disgusting pile of human waste, you're upset that Don Jr. met with a Russian connected to
AP News Radio
3rd man charged in 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay
"A third man has been charged in the 2002 shooting death of run DMC star jam master Jay. It's the latest in a case that languished for years with witnesses reluctant to speak federal prosecutors in New York filed a superseding indictment, charging Jay Bryant in the death of Jason jam master Jay maisel, the 49 year old queens man was already in custody on unrelated federal drug charges. His lawyer says securing an indictment is one thing proving it is another. In 2020, Ronald Washington and Carl Jordan junior were also indicted for jam master Jay's murder, the hip hop trailblazer was shot in the head in his studio at the time, authorities said it involved a drug deal gone bad, Julie Walker, New York.
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"Oh yeah i mean it. It was funny. Because when i was growing up where i grew up as me juku schools weren't really a thing. There are smaller colleges but nobody really called like junior colleges right. Nobody went there fly two years than balanced and went to penn state or something it was always like yeah shippensburg you and his career for four years and graduate from shippensburg and that i would have state right and when i went down there there was a bunch of guys. That did the juku thing for two years. Didn't get the ups to division wine or whatever so then what the pgn program like. I did so. They were transferred in his juniors or sophomores. After your to the juku schools and i was like juku heels. Chewco like you guys talking about. And then that's when like my eyes rope into junior college. that was fifteen years ago But i've told plenty of. Is that now we own. They're trying to do their college scholarship stuff. It's like you know if if that's the goal and we're not there yet. This is a great route. And i actually have off and on worked with with another coach. who did that. He went to school in northern alabama. I think it was troy. Maybe or now trae go. I can't remember. Trae went to japan for years. Now he's playing for unc. charlotte yeah. It just worked out right there for one year and went on And it's it's funny man. It's just there's so many ways to get there so many ways yeah and like for me it was. The fact is i was going into team where i knew straightaway. Number one. the The beggars schools. You don't know you might not get to play every tournament. I knew i was playing every tournament. I was going to every single tournament. Was gassing as much golf. As i possibly can so i would much rather do that. And up my game and up. My education with the possibility of progressing opposed to go to the one in struggle struggle to get on team in struggle like that would be disheartening to eighteen year olds. Yeah i mean it. it's tough and that's you know that's my remind kids want wanna go play at. Ibm they have power five conferences. Right your ten. Whatever i tell them. If that's what you want to go the likelihood of you even getting a start your freshman year very small and you know and like i taught next to vanderbilt which is across from where you were when you at tennessee in those guys i was there when mataya swab will gordon. Theo humphries john augustine. Patrick morton were all on the same team together. Like there's your five and they're all playing professional golf now bike. Yeah and three of them are off to a head start. So it's like you know sixty three just to play the tournament in college like welcome monday. Qualifiers it.
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"Two ever is just talking to ask questions and stuff like that and then we went to the school. We collected like a few of our like our tigers like our stuff or uniforms which is exciting in and gar pictures taken for passes and then i met the rest of the team and moved into my room in and then i think the thing that took the most adjusting with the food and the weather could imagine the food problem. We're spicing you're accustomed to well lowest spicier but then for me. It was the night of fits that you guys have like. That was the thing. Like i couldn't believe i was like. Oh my god. That's so i'm gonna get sufa fresher fifteen freshmen thirty would all fifteen straightaway on say. I was tex-mex and fried chicken and all this stuff i shouldn't be anything but an honor In but yeah my team ramiz eggen we because of where we were like as much as a lot of people are like. Oh d one the deal and endel one hundred percent not like there's so many opportunities at detour on even more at junior college in. I would definitely say to any junior that wants to play golf. Like really go for it if you want somewhere. That's competitive where you're going to play division one tournaments you can also get your education can figure out what you wanna major then if you're not too sure and also just you travel the different states than Should never be ruled out like we played all division one tournament. The only junior college bentley played in or nationals in regionals like we played twice in texas. The are in arizona florida mississippi. Arkansas lake all over. And i was also competing against entered other international players. That maybe hadn't done well enough in their act's division one or division two so that they'd been basically told by the one schools. Hey try junior college up your game up your your education for two years figuring out what you want major did and then transfer after two years so yeah..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"A golf course called keto in texas and that's where he lives. He lives there but he has a house that has like the cloud jog in his front gate. Which and he was the group in front and someone said off towards in front of us and how funny told how in other those great ninety went go to tell the story so but no he was lovely a wish she'd done more since winning. No fin buck. I guess when you win the open you're like can put the clark jog your gates similar like jim furic so jim fiar can. I went to the same high school and so obviously thirty years apart but same high school and so what he had always put on his tournament for junior golfers and i caught him in the parking lot change in his shoes and every year the us jay gives you one of these little hats like the us open. Whatever right so. I happen to have the hat. He's right there in the parking lot. I have them sign it. It's the year he wins it at olympia fields. And i'm like i just had jim feerick Like signed this hat three months before he won the day thing and this is going to be worth some money. Nothing just never another major. The only got. I was like well maybe so or something. I don't know anything about it. I new idea that you don't labor one yeah. He came close a handful of times at the masters like stretch and then he had another run at the pga back. I can't remember where but i mean he. He was a local hometown guy right so everybody was kind of like jim. Fear was our hometown..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"The tv can see nassar's religion to this problem anyways today on the podcast. We have one of my favorites. I've known for a long time. We've competed against each and junior league matches help coach or a little bit on the way but he is from scotland. Her name is rachel mcqueen who she is tiny little course back in the early twenty ten point twelve point thirteen days so anyways rachel is taxes offer and bashes port especially for young ladies out there crawling recommend looking up do what rachel has dollar per game and her story how she traveled from pasta pine state on a win play. College golf do well so without talented too much of the story issue. Subscribe to the podcast. Watch us on youtube. She hit that will subscribe button as well. Let's get into show in this introduced. The rachel mcqueen was junior golf fans so today on the podcasts. I have the lovely. Rachel mclean. i'm known this girl for a long time. But she hasn't been in the states for a long time. She is the part at us and went to scotland backdoor home homeland and we got to know each other back in the days of coaching against each other and the junior league realms and that was a constant battle back and forth between the two our teams and then one day the united states government decided that she had to go. Unfortunately even my letter of recommendation didn't get her stay in the country so that was very unfortunate day for everybody middle tennessee but without further ado racial. Say hello to everybody. And how did you get into the game of junior golf..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"It's it's a it's a. it's it's the best part for me about going out in the woods. I'll say that you know. It's definitely what i enjoy the most now boys are getting into it and so even crazier my gosh anyways. That's story but what we've been going after almost an hour and you know they said you you without knowing it. You've been a model story for me when it came back to the state championship. You know and it's an unfortunate thing that you had to be the story but it leaves the point of as we wrap this thing up. That golf is a game. That's about a journey right in. If you look at what happens things can be a step stone or it can be the thing that crumbles and crazier downfall and you took that in stride as just another check mark on the box of who you are adult for and where you need to be to become the golfer you want to be and so as we wrap things up right. I'll put you on the spot. And if you had put put something on a billboard to motivate or to encourage other junior golfers who were in your shoes or even kill you know from your high school team and you wanna leave a sign out there on how it you know. Know twenty four saying. Here's here's garret. John lewis close. he leaves. It's you know the area to go to college. What would you tell somebody from routine to get them. Motivated to become a golfer that you could that you are. I would say just enjoy it. I mean golf is definitely a very tough game to enjoy. Especially if you're not good but if you just kinda just take a deep breath More fun i mean people take this game and there's going hoard all day Grinding grinding but if you just go out there and just kinda free will. You'll do a lot better. I mean there's to appoint in this game. There is a point where you need to be serious but at the same time. Just don't think about it as much. That's what i would say. I mean you. Golf is definitely two ways re probably need to think about it but he also needs to be like right there in the middle like you don't wanna be like over thank. You don't wanna under usually right there in the middle and just kind of keep things consistent. Don't try something new. I mean if you're playing well like keep doing what you're doing. I mean if you're not planning we'll try something different right. There's only so many things that can go wrong. If you're hitting it will mean bad. try your way in. Yeah exactly yeah..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"Swing the other way. So it's it's definitely been a very valuable asset into view. And i think the workouts that you'll do when you show us college obviously contribute a lot to you what you can continue to your success and your club head speed has gone way up from we started doing the workouts like series numbers and only keep getting better. I wouldn't suggest scott stallings workout. Yes time in the near future of those did he did really he went and stayed with. I think it was him and three other junior golfers wednesday at his house and they just did anything he did right so they worked. Yeah exactly oh my gosh. I could not do that. Yeah i've i've heard horror stories of people going over there and now obviously against like it's it's all relative right so i mean like if you do it every day scott does deal but like somebody who's never worked out like what you're about to get will yeah. You're gonna like lip to the golf course that afternoon. But you know i think that's that's definitely part of part of word of the games going right. It's a power game it's a it's getting more and more athletic man. Yeah he will think gophers athletic. But i mean i've said it before. I said after coach many professional athletes in other sports hockey baseball football in all of them are awesome in their sport and struggle with golf enemy. And so it's it's people have no idea. Yeah and it. It's tough it blows my mind and it almost makes me laugh because someone who plays basketball baseball baseball players kind of get it. Just because i'd say they like golf more than football players stick a mole spores usually a little bit. Yeah but i mean..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"You got plenty of talent to pick up sport. Be okay at it. But the thing that i always tell parents let them let the kid kind of dictate the drive right and and your parents are very awesome at being hands off right even from day one it was like they dumped you off with me and then just went and sat in the car and i don't think they've even watched me teach you for like i don't think they've seen a minute of our lessons. Now actually i think about that But at the same time different relationships work for different people. But when you were coming up through the junior golf ranks what you know. What was your motivator like. What made you want to go to the golf course and get better. It was just almost like a satisfaction. Whenever i hit a good shot and golf. There's nothing like it like. And then almost trying to beat the course like if i didn't play good low or well one day i wanna come out the next day in trying to beat it right like just do goes. I can beat it every single time. I went so old. Manpower was kinda motivator right. He's trying to beat the golf course. And that's a that's a good good way of looking at golf. Just in general is because and and and you don't know this but i've used your story a lot here lately from the state championship. We just got done with this fall where you shot nine under which i think is your best to determine ever. Oh yeah right so you know. I in just kind of leads into a a story. That makes golf. So poetic is that you go out and put together the best round you've ever played for two days shoot nine-under and get beat by four and coming third. You got to look back at the history of the tournament and you probably win that thing. You know nine..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"What's up junior. Golf blueprint fans apologized. I haven't content if you guys last couple weeks it's been we'll have taken the walter household the birth of our third son and we're also moving. Chaos says no. Excuse not have shows out. Can you guys on fridays. Apologize ahead of scheduled for you. Boys girls out there listening but we are back in action. I have a great interview day before merging golfers john martin. This fall gear chummy. Had a standout finished his high school career and canada below short at the very end of the season. But it's a good story to talk about here today and make sure that it if you're listening to the show that you're supporting the show bus describing leave us a review and it all social media at that walter. Pj to let them know that you're listening and what you like what you wanna hear if you have a story or if you know somebody that wants to be on the show. I'm semi message. Won't get them out. Here get among shows talking about how we can best get you guys to the finish line of play high school college professional golf. Whatever that is for you guys so without further ado. Let's get into the show with garrick and listened to his junior golf story as he heads to. Ut martin jomon.
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"I feel like half the town talking college golfers out of practicing and like and i think that's more personality. I love the chip and pot. I love the work. Wedges inside a hundred yards but i hate hitting balls and it's a personality thing and i'm not scared i'll we'll have a grind session man. I'm not scared to go. Dig it in the dirt but for the most part like i. I need to work on the things that i need to get better at. And that's all those areas and So you're seeing that in kinda used the golf courses the evaluation part of that. If i go out there. And i feel like all right. That's the thing. I worked on ago or use the golfer evaluate. I don't really know what i'm gonna practice on. Go out there and kind of see like is kinda if you're this pretty good so you kind of balances from there but it is funny then the the time man if there's any kind of stereotype of college junior golf it's like the time keeper had twenty seven hours. You know these three days and miss manners like what. I told this one girl down in georgia The last few days. You've hit more balls in this day than i've hidden our last two months and i've played a lot of tour vis like and she's really like she took that as positive edge. What are you doing. Go play golf and i asked her. I said do you like what do you play..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"Just how you're not. Sexy is just kinda like it is. What is what. I have to get done and i think especially junior golfers kids at the pound driver. Sometimes you know what i mean just because it's fun but at the same time like you have to be able to do this. Things that are laborers. You know if you really want to improve and it's part of the sacrifice that comes to being better or the best. If you want a goal in you know obviously your tour career has alleged to have these opportunities to give back to the junior golf community with the kids. Play free that you start knoxville. What you know what started that whole process for you to get involved. Aj jay a get involved with the knoxville community with junior golf you know what was your catalyst for that. I wanted to provide opportunities for the area that know. Knoxville was very supportive. I grew up in oakland tennessee and everyone in the acc area was incredibly supportive of me. As i started to play golf. Were living in new. Whether it was golf courses or y'all financially or just moral support whatever like everywhere i felt like we had my back and when it came around to it i lived in While my son was young we lived in arizona. Kind of half the year and tennessee half the year. And when i knew when we were going to move back. I was like we're gonna make we're going to provide opportunities that weighed in at when i was growing up in order to try to make golf accessible across all spans whether it's beginner junior elite. Whatever like we were going to try to impact at all and that is trying to. I didn't really know what that meant. you know. Got some incredible partners. The golf foundation Aj jay was very gracious to let me be a part of their event from nine years. And you know that. Kind of transition into the scotty where we have the team match-play now and there wasn't necessarily like a hard feelings conversation with it is just more providing that same continuity as far as how we run events and do things instead of tennessee and Between junior golf with robin golf foundation will win on his team and basically my right hand man here in knoxville aiden who Every time his phone rings..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"junior" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"And there's a crazy story. Were like he booked. All these like travel info and while michael is on the way the airport a colony cancelled every one of them like just to see him like this deal with adversity in scheduling changes and and understanding. What term would you go play. And you know i mean. This is my eleventh year and my schedule saw variables in it yoga. If you have to you have to do this and if you don't you can't do that. And you know we all know that one good weight changes everything and you kinda adjust from there and But try to stay on. Top of my game is best began in also learn how to get away from it as well and i didn't do a very good job of that early in my career. I kind of only knew how to just hit the golf whereas all day every day and while there is a lot of atmos still takes place you know having a family and young kids. And you don't want to say a blessed distraction but it truly is in kind of a way to kind of it. I can have the best week. I've had in a long time and come back and i've got a almost five year old little girl who could completely care less about golf like she knows that like dad's home and a timely this or my son to go out yard and do something or my honey. Do my wife. Is you know biblically long and actually knows like guys deppish top-five last week You've good job but the same side of it. You you have a couple of wisconsin. You're frustrated and this and that and it's kind of a welcome distraction to go back into that where it's not just like. Why are you messing cuts and walk it. You make put inside five feet and all these different things it kind of going with struggling so there there's positive negative both and you know kind of seeing just managing and obviously i feel like i'm smarter now than i was when i was early. Career maybe or maybe not but a little disappointed you don't hear that the knocks off honeydew list. I don't get the lean on that one. I guess if i ever do something great unfortunately not Am if my wife ever watched this I love you. And i appreciate the list but i just think it's funny when i come home. She's like oh there's less when you get home and it's all like nothing like she didn't really trust me to do a lot not not that. I'm some light magical handyman but pretty good taking the trash out kind of we kind of moved out in the woods of years ago here in knoxville and also some stuff that goes around with it. But i hold my own for the most part but anything that involves a significant amount of happiness Delegate that pretty quick there you go. that's right so y- i hear a lot of you know the college players in when they get to interact with you know guys like you in that. Play on tour the the ability to hit certain shots right. There's like a whole 'nother level of shot making that's required when you get to the pga tour the creative juices to flow in in in kind of like an understanding. How you plot your way around the golf course. Right has that level of detail. What was something that when you showed up to the tour like you had to. You had to learn in order out to whether it's a shot you had a hit or a way to play the golf course or find a way that made the golf course. Suit your game. What was that like. Yeah mean the value of our understanding like not to put yourself in a spot like or like when you do get in that spot understanding how to just you maximize outcomes and yourself from spot where you can't double-bogey and go from there and we're all human and we make bogeys and make bonehead mistakes here there but Understanding how to you know let it run off and go out there and execute the very next shot in the very next weighing and you know kind of build to deal with it as it comes and I wish i could Pitch in kind of manage my way around the green early in my career like i do now And kind of made that a pretty big focus the last few years and There's different things and kind of pick in the brain as far as different people that you thinker truly the best in the world of what they do and and they're just trying to learn and You know. I don't think there's this early like certain shots like i'll have to learn how to do this or i have to learn how to do that. They you kind of remember. The first time. I hit balls on the range with tiger was torey and i almost missed. My teton like i. We sitting there and my daddy was like man. We'd see off like fifteen minutes. The un hit a shot yet like is just like just watching tiger hit and yet you got caught up in it. I mean everyone knows that you're when you're early in your career sparked just the realization of band. That's the guy that got me to want to do this for a living and you can take it all in there actually competing in the same of innocent. No a kind of speaks to itself as far as the have made it but I think you you see parts of your game that you could always improve upon and working now was with my coach in the last couple of days in georgia and Working on just kind of peace in a little bit part of my take away my backswing all and none of that's like sexy to work. Honor fun or men. A speed drill on wednesday with the stats are working with and my took me forever working on just dying speed of putz around twenty feet. And they'll it's kinda make percentage in that i need to get better at from probably eight to fifteen to twenty feet. I need it probably improve upon a lot. And none of that stuff's like life altering mind-blowing things is just stuff that just. Hey man i gotta get a little bit better these things and that's gonna pay dividends in the long run but it's not like superfund to do or super fun to watch and like oh man what you do. I did speed drills today. It's like oh oh right right. What i at legends is always fun for me because the vanderbilt teams are there. Men's and women's team. And also brandt in ben crane would come out and practice lot and so those guys were very gracious and just letting me be like a fly on the wall and just watch and practice. Watch him hit shots. Watch bengo lesson from joe mayo. You know so that was like really kinda cool watching those two guys do some short game stuff right and it's always interesting to me like the we like. Just how you're not sexy is just kinda like it is. What is what. I have to get done and i think especially junior golfers in kids at the pound driver. Sometimes you know what i mean just because it's fun but at the same time like you have to be able to do this. Things that are labourers. You know if you really want to improve and it's part of the sacrifice that comes to being better or the best goal in you know. Obviously your tour career has alleged to have these opportunities to give back to the junior golf community with the kids. Play free knoxville What you know what started that whole process for you to get involved. Aj jay a get involved with the knoxville community with junior golf you know what was your catalyst for that. I wanted to provide opportunities for the area that know. Knoxville was very supportive. I grew up in oakland tennessee and everyone in the acc area was incredibly supportive of me. As i started to play golf for living in new whether it was golf courses or y'all financially or just your moral supportive. Whatever like everywhere. I felt like we had my back. And when it came around to it i lived in While my son was young we lived in arizona. Kind of half the year and tennessee half the year. And when i knew when we were going to move back. I was like we're gonna make we're going to provide opportunities that weighed in at when i was growing up in order to try to make golf accessible across all spans whether it's beginner junior elite. Whatever.
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"Florida had a winner series and it was just as far as financially there was significantly more opportunities than there are now as far as guys chasing mondays and trying to build some kind of status because there was the the business of mini tour. If you wanna take a look at it and that's changed a lot. I remember my first interview with some junior golfers in guys going from college to professional estimate. That same question was like is like well. I never one on a mini tour. And you know. I was able to make a decent living as far as payback in bashers. In this one and they're like what is that look like. I mean the winning check on the. Here's tour thirty five grand like have you told a major player that now they'd be like in. What world does that actually now. In america that tarheel tour had or the eagle tour at the time had four events where First placements fifty grand like you. Just hear that kind of stuff as a you. What professional golf looks like now. She's a lot different landscapes so there was a lot of opportunities to play I'll tell everyone like jason. Mondays trying to spy status and everything is great in a very admirable goal but at the end of the day like you play professional golf tournament golf in putting yourself in that situation. Teeing it up writing your name on the car thin. You know playing for a check planning proper to win tournaments. Is you know how you kind of. Check yourself in figuring things you need to get better learning how to deal with pressure learning how to manage the schedule and kinda learned in that and you know play one round tournament golf. Your white has its or qualifying golf to try to get in. Has its place in. Everyone's schedule like it can't end all be all just because at the end of the day i think you've gotta put yourself in there.
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"Show for you today day. We got scott dawns on podcasts racing. His journey to the tour three times now know scottsdale sprouted now because tour accolades but because of who he is i were curious junior golfing tennessee. Scott stolid especially the starts program scotties tournament cup matches so very active participant also helps a lot of college players. Well we'll set their trajectory but after college now with very Share his can't leave guys was so out. I sit relax now. Watch them to to watch to. Let's hear the stories and the advice for three times. Scott stop arlene is jalen. Welcome to the junior golf blueprint and today on the show. This man needs no introduction if you live in the state of tennessee his name. Scott stalin's pga tour player and a huge junior golf advocate for the players. That are trying to come up through. The junior ranks right now. And especially if you live in knoxville. You know his name for the kids play free program that he initiated a few years back but scott. I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule as the tour about to kick off in the full steam here in a couple of weeks with majors up in front of you. How did you get into the game though before we start talking about your tour career you've had for the last decade. Yeah that sounds weird man. I played every sport. Play baseball Basketball soccer never really a football guy but you know golf is something. I always did with my family. My dad played since. I was less since i remember and it was something that always did. Kind of in between seasons and As i guess golf progressed and kinda arab tiger woods came along I guess i wanted to try to get a little bit better and realize that the other sports are kinda getting in the way and it's kinda unique to hear like tell my story now especially with the the era of specialization in youth sports and yes seeing kids having to make a decision sticking with such like that wasn't necessarily the case to me it was more just. I decided i knew baseball was kinda getting in the way of golf and you know just the time effort it took to play and progress was just became very evident very quickly that as you have to make some choices. Not that. I couldn't try to to do it all but you know i needed to decide on my own that if i was gonna try to get any better at the game that i really wanted to be the best at you know some other stuff was going to have to kind of take it back seat i it was. It was very rare for kids in high school to. It'd be like a four year or for lederman in multiple sports right. I mean and that's that's a very difficult asks to be that good at that many sports and you know rob bell talks about the specialization thing. If it's if it's a passion like you have a passion for it. It's not really work. it's fine. You know what i mean. And and this is part of the journey and and like you said it got in the way with other other. Sports got in the way of you wanted to achieve some golfing goals but only a few years apart and i grew up in the same generations. Us like tiger woods wins at ninety seven masters and that was like golf became cool. I want i want to do that. That is the fist pumps me. Nobody was fist popping before tiger. Really you know. He made that he like pretty much. You might as well trademark that for the guy so you know. What was you. Ended up going to attack in deciding factors when you were making your college decisions. Obviously recruitments not even comparable now from when we were age. But but what were some of the deciding factors for you. Well may i kinda. I've pretty well documented like tennessee tech the last place on earth. I ever thought. I was gonna go nor did i want to go. Put all my hopes and dreams into going to the university of tennessee and Basically made that abundantly clear to all the college coaches as well so like. I see college coaches. Now they're like you know we were interested in you back in high school was like i never heard from his. Yeah we all you basically told everyone you wanna tennessee. And if it wasn't tennessee. You weren't interested like i did that. You are correct. So kind. Kinda i kinda dumb myself. In a whole i mean hindsight's everything and i mean. I probably would've done things a lot different than Now that i know it. I know but i mean tech ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me so best friends. The world came from there And i had a college coach that had had some. Pj to her experience in kind of knew what it was gonna take and early in my career at school. I probably didn't take it as serious as i probably should. And we had one fateful hall of fame dinner were. He told me very clearly in front of a lot of people what he thought good and bad and made it very evident that he saw something in me that i didn't see myself and kind of from that moment on it was over I was going to try to prove him right. And you're trying to be what he thought i could be and I look back on that one made while at the time. That was the last place on earth i ever wanted to be the basically like publicly shamed in the midst of the tower athletic department but it was probably one of the career. Chaney moments in onset had nothing to do with the gulf of my hand it just had that was one of the first time in my life and a few things throughout my career where someone believed in me more than i believed in myself. That was the first time that some of made it publicly known in honestly didn't care who saw or heard it or anyone is just like. Wow that sucked like embarrassing Everything but i look back and you know. This is a more of a junior golf. I cast of some of the things he said. Don't to be repeated. But i remember it like it was yesterday and You know he's no longer with us. But i think about some of those words that he said and even now the smell eleventh year on tour and look back man like i still want to try to continue to prove him right over and over and over and continue to be a good steward of talented ability to have and try to push the game not only on tour to continue to try to get better but try to make the world of golf in the place that i have a way to impact better as well. Yeah and it's funny. How you know everybody has that moment right. And that's another rob bell is right there. The hinge that one thing that has like kick you into the next year in for me. It was when i got fired from westhaven with virgil harry with both of us. We've got the boot. And the first time i had to make a decision like am i gonna go out all my own and prove myself as a coach as worthy of being a coach to all these people and not just virgils under study you know in in sometimes those moments are just kind of forced into your into your hand and you have to kind of discover who you are you know on your own sometimes to right and and when you are fish at the college career and deciding to go play tour golf you know when you had make that final. 'cause i'm going to go do this. This is this is going to be my career choice. You know what was the deciding factors in and how you know. How did that go. When i came out of the gate. I was very fortunate. I had a good group of guys in knoxville. That helped me out and awesome. And i had no idea what that was like but while i was at tech your junior and senior year you got one week at business school. You got Basically a week off of school to go interview for jobs. And you'll basically how you get credit for your klatt. You're missing class..
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"Got scott stones on auto racing his journey to the tour three times now. No scottsdale sprouted now because tour accolades but because of who. He is a person year curious junior golfing estate. Tennessee scott's all stars program scotties tournament matches so very active participant. Also helps a lot of your college players. Well we'll set their threes but after college now got with very Shared his can't leave guys was too so now. I sit relax now. Watch them to watch and to. And let's hear the stories and the advice for three times scott stop. Arlene is jalen. Welcome to the junior golf blueprint and today on the show. This man needs no introduction if you live in the state of tennessee his name. Scott stalin's pga tour player and a huge junior golf advocate for the players. That are trying to come up through. The junior ranks right now. And especially if you live in knoxville. You know his name for the kids play free program that he initiated a few years back but scott. I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule as the tours about to kick off in the full steam here in a couple of weeks with majors up in front of you. How did you get into the game though before we start talking about your tour career you've had for the last decade. Yeah that sounds weird man. I played every sport. Play baseball Basketball soccer never really a football guy but golf is something. I always did with my family. My dad played..
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"Obviously if you're a kid like that's given the old like thirty handicapped reverse loop way top. That bar doesn't pass exactly. You know we can fit into a swing in the eventually and this is where you know has been my focus. The last few years is eventually you get to a place where is good enough. Learn a skill learned the skills and don't worry about. It's not a technical problem. It's a skillset problem and too many people try and find some technical move. That's gonna make the magic button go. That's okay now. Want to shoot sixty two. No no no no no. That's not how and so anyways moving from that junior golf's behind you said you've had a heck of a run. You are now committed a western kentucky so talk to us about recruitment because your recruitment has gone through by three different. Ncwa rules changes pandemic. I mean talk about that journey because it was probably not the easiest road trying to figure out college not at all. I mean. I started out young whenever i was in a freshman or sophomore and i was thinking about college and where i wanted to play. You know. of course you always think of like i wanted to go to stanford ever since like fifth grade. They have the best golf team. I mean best golf coach. Whatever sure and whenever all the rule all the years and rules and all this stuff came. I didn't even know i mean i had asked you. It was like So can i talk to college coaches. You have to call them or something like okay. I was like junior and that was whenever the rules changed whenever it was like you. Can't they talk to you until june timber. And i was like okay. Let's right around my birthday. Maybe i'll get some good luck right but it was just like putting yourself out there. You can't you can't play golf and expect them to if you're especially if you're playing locally you can't expect people from alabama to be looking at you and i that you're not like the next tiger woods just from nashville so you have to put yourself out there. And that's kind of what i did. I mean i talked to fifty different college coaches and just putting myself out there and saying. Hey i'm riley. I'm really interested in playing college golf. I think i've enough talent to be on your team would you consider me and just. Here's my scores. Here's the next tournaments. I'm planning think that's the main key of like looking giving them enough information to be able to follow you. Stay along with you. But not applying too much pressure but i think the hardest part was my recruitment process was telling coaches that i'd committed somewhere else but i. I just ever. Every coach. That i talked to was all about me and i mean i was. I was more than grateful. I was like. Wow you're actually gonna let me come visit and get me a hotel room and all this stuff you know doing everything for me and making me feel at home but the hardest thing was saying. Hey i loved your school. I loved your visit i love. I love your golf team. But this place is right for me And i think that's the main key i would tell anyone else is understand that they're happy for you no matter where you go and all they want is for you to find and hopefully i mean you find their school best and where you wanna live..
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"Maybe yesterday day before. We're rory was saying you know you can shoot under par plane worst ball like through and through right so like it. Too dries. one to approach is play the worst one. It's hard make then thereby you have to make to birdie part from whatever that you bet that witch close which means you have to which is closed pretty tough and there was back in the day. When i was your age there was a rumor that tiger shot. Sixty six medalist. Planning worst ball. Like in his heyday. And those who have never heard of medalist or seen medalists. It's where they played the match. Not long ago with tiger and phil but that golf courses hard and sixty six alone is a good number let alone worst ball so that's definitely it's interesting that they would have qualifying events definitely a good way to practice the question about that especially if somebody your caliber beginners. I'd wait but before we jump into about having for you in college. What was i said. You've one planet tournaments you've played in a lot of cool events tennessee junior cup all that. What was one of your favorite memories from junior golf. It was definitely the last state. So i've played stay at tried to qualify four years and on all through high school soft and region every year. Like absolutely did not qualify just app. This didn't know how to play. So and i think it's just going into like winter season use your brain's kinda shuts off and you don't burn outs exactly but this year. I just told myself. I was a good enough golfer. I mean i'm not gonna play d. One gulf and not make state for years in a row so i was about to just call catch. Have not planning. You don't walk. But i played. Actually i played really good. We had our region that westhaven and ten whole tan an eight and still qualify for state. And i was like okay. This is just a sign. I'm gonna play. I worked my butt off for two weeks straight knowing that. I was going to stay in knowing that i wanted to win. Those my one goal was to wednesday and my best memory from that was going into the guy back. Maybe after the after the second the first nine the second day and i was like okay got turned something on his super. Wendy just not a great day for golf. And i birdied. I just had all pars could not get to fall. And then i made forty footer. For birdie i got this on and then i get to like fifteen. I make a bogey some now three back to back three back and then sixteen. I've five footer for birdie. And blip out so i was and he bogeyed sheldon mcknight gray gulford. Bogey on that whole earn. He bogeyed a whole at that time. So i was going into seventeen. Okay i'm checking the leaderboard to back with two to play dream come true i mean i'm just head over heels like come on i gotta do this and i hit the seventeenth. Probably the hardest solomon golf course. That's two hundred one. Nine thousand five thirty six iron..
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"I think or they're gonna they're gonna show that three hundred yard drive but they're not gonna show the couple that right left at the only show in that great shot chunk chilly chip afterwards. But you know. I think it's it's it's hard. It's hard to see past like what everybody else is showcasing and and and sometimes it's hard especially as a kid. 'cause you get a little envious of like when you see somebody else out there. Doing you know doing some. You wish you were doing right. They maybe they qualify for tennessee junior cup and you didn't write and his irks you. How can you channel that into you. Know the to create the drive right. That was the question is like how do you take that little bit of jealousy anx into i'm gonna get you next year your mind set land. It's not who gets there first. Who can get there and stay there right. Famous line by rejoice caraman use it all the time. We watch the last dance on the documentary. You could see how every instance every slight that jordan took personally in than use that to like his drive in his advantage. And we've got a. It's that's all external stuff and it's fine split. The fire has to be built inside. Like the passionate about what i'm doing. Camp be one hundred percent beaten that walter this it can't be because that's gonna burn up. It's not sustain the fire so the fire has to be there with the passion. And how. I'm trying to get better. Then what we do then is then we take that lighter fluid of. He's getting chosen for this team. This happened here. This is player of the year in. You can use that lighter fluid for like that motivation piece to help drive you when you don't feel like get that they're being able to practice. It just can't be the sole driver that you've got but you use those sleights us that those setbacks to your advantage because that is what's going to help you ultimately. Yeah i think that's a. I'm making a weird analogy. My head from your book talking about how hot water can or soften a potato right. That gasoline could be dangerous. If you're not careful with how you use it right. I mean if you say if it's only because it's to beat somebody else that's not exactly the safest course of action for that gasoline right. And so you know i think for us as athletes that you said it if it's hard to especially as a parent and this is where i'm just now starting to get into the round with my four year olds just now starting to show signs of interest in the game and all these other sports and stuff and it's hard to sit there as a parent and say y- oh i into not say something right and i have a funny story where my my son was two time. We got him a baseball bat. Balls on the t. And like one lightning strike. Came down from the heavens and he connected on this thing cinema across the street. And then the name carla great news drive to sneeze later my wife's over there trying to changes hands and take them work on the stance and i grabbed. Say hey conversation. We had a couple of years back about like not being hovering parents and she goes. Yeah i was. I gonna watch and yourself trying to correct her two year old swinging. A plastic baseball seemed kind of healthy. Yeah and so you know the thing..