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Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Time Travel to 1994: A Journey into the Music and Movies of that year.
"Well, here we are, episode 119. And on this episode, myself in the wrecking tube, Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio from the Music Relish Show. We'll be talking about the year 1994, in music and movies I think, it's always interesting. So sit back, relax, break out your flannel shirt, your grungy jeans, and enjoy 1994 music. It was an interesting year, so I think you'll enjoy it. More interesting than what Todd Zauchman thinks it is. He thinks it's nothing, so we'll see. The KLFB studio presents Milk Crate and Turntables, a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean. Now, let's talk music, enjoy the show. Thank you, Amanda, for that wonderful introduction, as usual. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends, and welcome to the podcast. You know the name, I'm not gonna say it. We're streaming live right now over Facebook, YouTube, Dlive, Twitch, and X, formerly known as Twitter, and I don't know how many other live platforms. Well, it's gonna be a good show tonight. It's gonna be an interesting show tonight. Yeah, 1994. As I said in the intro, my friend Todd Zauchman just absolutely sent me a text destroying the year 1994. Oh, I just looked up 1994, I don't know what you're gonna talk about, there's a few things and I don't know how you're gonna make a whole show out of it, and good luck with that, because that's how he talks. That's exactly how he talks. I'm just gonna do this, and you know, it's not gonna be a good, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's how he talks. Now, he'll deny that, and you'll never know if that's the way he talks or not. He'll just have to take my word for it. I'm Todd Zauchman, and I don't know about 1994. Well, enough about him. He'll probably be piping in pretty soon, but yeah, 1994, it's a good year. It was a good year for Mark Smith from the Music Rellers Show and Luke Colicchio from the Music Rellers Show. That's for damn sure. It was. What's up, gentlemen? It was a really good year. How you doing? I was just guessing. I figured for 94, listen, we were all younger, so it was better. It was a big year. Hey. So I have to stop right here. Dave Phillips, who's been watching the podcast from pretty much day one, Patty Yossi. Hi, Patty. Good evening. I love you. Dave Phillips, for the last couple of weeks, he's piped in at the end, and he's like, I missed it. Like something's changed. Ah, Tiffany Van Hill. That's my buddy. That's my buddy, Tiffany. She's one of the people that teaches me how to work with horses. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. And she knows what she's talking about. She's modest, but she's very good at what she does. As are all of my friends and teachers, trainers, mentors from The Herd Foundation in Delray Beach, Florida. It's a nonprofit if you're in the mood to donate today. Look them up. Herd Foundation. Give us some money. Nah, I'm not going like that. No. No, we do. We help veterans. We help veterans, and so it's a good cause. But back to Tiffany. Yep. That's my buddy. Good evening. The Herd Foundation teaches us so much. That's right. That's right. Maybe I'll do a Herd Foundation podcast. You should. Since I'm pretty good at it. You're going to have horses on? What's the horse named after the cookie? Huh? Isn't there a horse named after a cookie? What are some of the horses' names? Oh, Fig Newton. Fig Newton. Yeah. Fig Newton. That's my boy. That's my boy. Good looking horse. Yes. Yes, he is. And we have Stitch. Fig Newton is a retired dressage horse, dancing horse, right? Echoes of Echo and the Bunny Men bring on the dancing horses. We have Stitch. He's a retired racehorse. We have Miss America. She's a retired jumper. Then we have two mini horses. We have Cinnamon. She was a cot horse. You know, pulls the kids around. As would be Sammy. Sammy's the one that looks like Kaja Gugu for you people from the 80s. Looks like Lamal. It looks like Lamal from Kaja Gugu. Gotta do. And he was saved from a kill pen. Yeah. But he's a mini, but he thinks he's a Clydesdale. What do they do with horses after that? Is that the proverbial glue factory? All right. You know what? Right away. Penalty box. Oh. He's raining on my parade. I'm in a good mood. Now I'm all bummed out. Thanks. You feel sad for the drummer now. This is going to be a horrible show now. Leave it to the drummer. Right, Mark? Leave it to the drummer. Get out. It's always the drummer's fault. That's right. See, Tiffany says, that does not exist past our gates, Lou. Because nobody wants to talk. Back to the penalty box. Great start to the show. Lou is just in a mood tonight. I think he's been hitting the whistle. What's going to happen? You're going to come back and it's going to be an empty chair. He's very ornery tonight. Right away. He's very ornery. All right. He's filling his oats, as they would say. Yeah. All right. Lou's back. I'm all right. I'm all right. Okay. Enough about horses, although I could now, at this point, talk about horses for two hours. I love it. I love it. But instead, gentlemen, first of all, how's things on the music relish show? You. Take it away, Lou. Sure. It's fine. It was such an awful show. I thought I said the wrong show for a second there. It's been nothing short of amazing. Don't jump over each other to answer that question. It's always fun. Last week was fun. We got knocked down a bit by Warner Brothers because we played a clip of an America song featuring Dan Peake. Yeah. You're going to watch that. Yeah. We talked through the whole thing, but Spotify is much cooler than YouTube. YouTube sucks like that. YouTube, they have a very strong algorithm. They can kiss my rosy red ass over that. That's right. You tell them, Lou. Fuckers. That's right. Get me kicked off YouTube. That's right. Let me see. John Morris, he was our shift commander. When I met him, I was, I think, a two striper, and he was what they called a butterbot. He was a second lieutenant, I believe. He said, tell them stories from the Nipah Hut in the Philippines. That's a big no. That's a whole other podcast, but they would never make it on the air. Just leave it at that. It's like a chain of Nipah Huts? No. It was a bar slash club called the Nipah Hut. Tell one story. No. They had a giant spaceship that would come down from the top. It's kind of like George Clinton in parliament. At the end of the show, this big spaceship came down from the top. Smoke. Like you said, parliament fucking pelican. Then the thing went open, and everyone would walk up and get up on stage, all those drunk GIs. Like, yeah, I'm going in the spaceship, and you go down these stairs, and you're in a fucking basement. I don't think it was a basement. It's like something from a fucking horror movie. How do you get out? And then somebody goes, this way, this way, go, go, go, go. That's the cleanest story I can tell you. It's the cleanest story I can tell you. Sounds like fun. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. I got a story for you off the air one of these days. So okay, music relish show's going good. Excellent. I just wanted to say, Lou brought up, he made the show. His segment on bad love songs. That will go down in history as some of the best podcasting ever. Bad love songs? Really bad love songs. The worst love songs of all time, like in rock. It's a deep vein. Is that something, is that like content I could probably like borrow with Perry Mind? Because I'd love to hear that list someday. We voted him off the board. We're no longer a false triumvirate democracy. Wait a minute. We toppled the AI monarchy. There's three of us on this one. Are you two going to overthrow me too? Are you like rebels? None of those stories you're told, no. They're wrecking too. Instead I'll start calling you the Sandinistas. The hostile takeovers. You go on podcasts just to take them over? Like Amiens took over the White House. Really, yeah. Yeah, we could do that. I would love to. Maybe next week we'll do, we'll take a break from the years and we'll do like a, kind of a jambalaya, you know, of stuff. Like throw some music news in there. We'll do some trivia. Maybe I'll come up with some questions for you guys. You could give us that deep vein of worst love songs ever. And it's funny, we noticed that several of them made everyone's list of worst love songs. So it's got to be universally bad. Okay. If everyone said that, that fucking song. Then there were a couple where I said I liked the song, but Lou and Perry were like, what? I'm always, you know, on the one side. Yeah, the one. When it falls into like that kind of metal, metal category, you have a soft spot. Air metal. Metal ballads. Oh my God. How I grew up. Yeah, yeah. As young as Ron Mark, you didn't have to deal with those 70s ones. Yeah, that's true. I did. This fucking guy. Blah. See what I mean? He's setting the bar high. Remember, this is how he talks. I don't think there's anything good about 1994. Blah. So he talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, well, an American Arnold Schwarzenegger. He talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger without the accent. We're going to pass the bar on this one. I am here. Let me see if you can entertain me. 1994. Blah. All right. So let's actually get right into 1994. Yeah. So we'll start on January 19th, 1994. Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. Oh, shit. Bryan Adams. Bryan Adams, yeah. Wow. On January 21st to February, as it's spelled, the Big Day Out Festival takes place, again, expanding from those previous years. Blah, blah, blah. Auckland, New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones, and Bjork. Nice. That's an interesting... Probably each night there were headlines. I would love to see Bjork. Me too. I would never want to see the Ramones. They'll never get back together again. Unless they perform in the Pet Sematary. Yeah. Hey, Lou, can you put him in the green room? No, I'd like that one. That's a good one. Come on, there's a little crossover. Put him in the green room. Put him in the green room. Okay, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's going to be a long show. It's going to be a long one tonight. I feel better about myself now. Got a little redemption? The redemption song? Yes. I got a Buffett story for you. Oh, yeah? His one song was The Pirate Looks at 40. He would segue into Bob Marley's redemption song. Oh, jeez. And it didn't quite... Wait a minute. Buddy, that is the quickest way to get to the penalty box. I'm not playing it, though. I know you're not. You're poking the rhino right now. I'm a guitarist. You're poking the rhino right now. You're not a rhino, you're a nice guy. Come on, we went through that last week. And so, as I've been saying each week, I'm just going to say right now, where's Jack? Okay, and we'll move on from that. Hey, Jack. Hey, Jack, please come back. He didn't listen before, so I don't think he's listening now. Let's see. January 25th, Alice in Chains released their Jar of Flies album, which makes its U .S. chart debut at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do that. Right? But they still are always talked about as like number three or number four out of the big four. Big four being? Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden. And Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains is never getting that kind of... Whereas... That first album, the record company made them sound like another band. Yeah. And that's not their fault. They were produced that way. Dirt was a great album. Yes, yes. And Layne Staley was one of the greatest frontmen ever. Just as cool as the other side of the pillow, as they say. Yeah. voice Very unique also. Today we were talking about what we were going to talk about in the show. And he goes, when I saw the videos, he goes, I didn't match his face with the way he looked. Right? He said he was expecting like a grungy, more... No, he was slick. He was slick. In the Man in the Box video, he's got the kind of long... But then he changed it up. He slicked the hair back, he wore the shades, you know. Just turned into a... Suzanne McPhail. Another one of my horse people. She's the one that introduced me to that whole thing. And she said, who's Jack? That's right, I guess. At this point. On January 29th, The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of LA. Wilson's 14 -year -old son is killed in the accident. What a good day. Ah, this fucking... I saw this and I was like... Dead horses was a bummer. I know, I know. I saw this and I'm like, there's no way around this. February 1st, Green Day releases their breakthrough album, Dookie. Ushering in the mid -1990s punk revival. Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification. Now, I did like them back then. I actually did. I was stationed in Southern California in Riverside. And I decided to get like a side job. You know, I was in the Air Force. But I was like, I want to make a little more money. I want to do something. So I got a job at a record store. Cool. Was it Spencer's or something? Forget the name of it. Oh, Spencer's. They sold all the trinkets, too. No, no, it wasn't Spencer's then. It was something like that. It was a chain. Hot topic. They sold DVDs, too. FYE. No, it wasn't that. I'll remember it. I was working there when Dookie came out and the fucking whole wall was covered with Dookie CDs and they were flying off the shelves. It had a pretty fresh sound. It was fresh then. And coming off the 80s were kind of slick in a lot of ways, except for some of the real heavy alternative. But to hear a song like that on the radio, that was like hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit on mainstream rock radio. Good drummer, too. As a band, whether you like him or not, I think he's really good. Billy Joe Armstrong. Oh, Trey Cool. Trey Cool, yeah. February 7th, Blind Melons lead singer is Shannon Poon forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because he is loud and disruptive behavior. Poon is later charged with battery assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station telephone. Now, this is the dude that sang, you know, And I don't really care if I sleep all day And he's in the daisy field, so you think he's like this really, like, chill dude. And like, you know, me and the B -girl, man, you know. The B -girl, yes. And the tap -dancing B -girl, and like, I'm just this dude's a fucking lunatic. He was taking substances that made him. Oh, yeah. That was a short career. Was it him that did a duet with Guns N' Roses? What was the video, a song from Guns N' Roses with a video where they're up on like a water tower and they jump into the water or something. I forget what it was called. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they did it with him.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Fresh update on "lieutenant" discussed on Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"Well, here we are, episode 119. And on this episode, myself in the wrecking tube, Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio from the Music Relish Show. We'll be talking about the year 1994, in music and movies I think, it's always interesting. So sit back, relax, break out your flannel shirt, your grungy jeans, and enjoy 1994 music. It was an interesting year, so I think you'll enjoy it. More interesting than what Todd Zauchman thinks it is. He thinks it's nothing, so we'll see. The KLFB studio presents Milk Crate and Turntables, a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean. Now, let's talk music, enjoy the show. Thank you, Amanda, for that wonderful introduction, as usual. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends, and welcome to the podcast. You know the name, I'm not gonna say it. We're streaming live right now over Facebook, YouTube, Dlive, Twitch, and X, formerly known as Twitter, and I don't know how many other live platforms. Well, it's gonna be a good show tonight. It's gonna be an interesting show tonight. Yeah, 1994. As I said in the intro, my friend Todd Zauchman just absolutely sent me a text destroying the year 1994. Oh, I just looked up 1994, I don't know what you're gonna talk about, there's a few things and I don't know how you're gonna make a whole show out of it, and good luck with that, because that's how he talks. That's exactly how he talks. I'm just gonna do this, and you know, it's not gonna be a good, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's how he talks. Now, he'll deny that, and you'll never know if that's the way he talks or not. He'll just have to take my word for it. I'm Todd Zauchman, and I don't know about 1994. Well, enough about him. He'll probably be piping in pretty soon, but yeah, 1994, it's a good year. It was a good year for Mark Smith from the Music Rellers Show and Luke Colicchio from the Music Rellers Show. That's for damn sure. It was. What's up, gentlemen? It was a really good year. How you doing? I was just guessing. I figured for 94, listen, we were all younger, so it was better. It was a big year. Hey. So I have to stop right here. Dave Phillips, who's been watching the podcast from pretty much day one, Patty Yossi. Hi, Patty. Good evening. I love you. Dave Phillips, for the last couple of weeks, he's piped in at the end, and he's like, I missed it. Like something's changed. Ah, Tiffany Van Hill. That's my buddy. That's my buddy, Tiffany. She's one of the people that teaches me how to work with horses. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. And she knows what she's talking about. She's modest, but she's very good at what she does. As are all of my friends and teachers, trainers, mentors from The Herd Foundation in Delray Beach, Florida. It's a nonprofit if you're in the mood to donate today. Look them up. Herd Foundation. Give us some money. Nah, I'm not going like that. No. No, we do. We help veterans. We help veterans, and so it's a good cause. But back to Tiffany. Yep. That's my buddy. Good evening. The Herd Foundation teaches us so much. That's right. That's right. Maybe I'll do a Herd Foundation podcast. You should. Since I'm pretty good at it. You're going to have horses on? What's the horse named after the cookie? Huh? Isn't there a horse named after a cookie? What are some of the horses' names? Oh, Fig Newton. Fig Newton. Yeah. Fig Newton. That's my boy. That's my boy. Good looking horse. Yes. Yes, he is. And we have Stitch. Fig Newton is a retired dressage horse, dancing horse, right? Echoes of Echo and the Bunny Men bring on the dancing horses. We have Stitch. He's a retired racehorse. We have Miss America. She's a retired jumper. Then we have two mini horses. We have Cinnamon. She was a cot horse. You know, pulls the kids around. As would be Sammy. Sammy's the one that looks like Kaja Gugu for you people from the 80s. Looks like Lamal. It looks like Lamal from Kaja Gugu. Gotta do. And he was saved from a kill pen. Yeah. But he's a mini, but he thinks he's a Clydesdale. What do they do with horses after that? Is that the proverbial glue factory? All right. You know what? Right away. Penalty box. Oh. He's raining on my parade. I'm in a good mood. Now I'm all bummed out. Thanks. You feel sad for the drummer now. This is going to be a horrible show now. Leave it to the drummer. Right, Mark? Leave it to the drummer. Get out. It's always the drummer's fault. That's right. See, Tiffany says, that does not exist past our gates, Lou. Because nobody wants to talk. Back to the penalty box. Great start to the show. Lou is just in a mood tonight. I think he's been hitting the whistle. What's going to happen? You're going to come back and it's going to be an empty chair. He's very ornery tonight. Right away. He's very ornery. All right. He's filling his oats, as they would say. Yeah. All right. Lou's back. I'm all right. I'm all right. Okay. Enough about horses, although I could now, at this point, talk about horses for two hours. I love it. I love it. But instead, gentlemen, first of all, how's things on the music relish show? You. Take it away, Lou. Sure. It's fine. It was such an awful show. I thought I said the wrong show for a second there. It's been nothing short of amazing. Don't jump over each other to answer that question. It's always fun. Last week was fun. We got knocked down a bit by Warner Brothers because we played a clip of an America song featuring Dan Peake. Yeah. You're going to watch that. Yeah. We talked through the whole thing, but Spotify is much cooler than YouTube. YouTube sucks like that. YouTube, they have a very strong algorithm. They can kiss my rosy red ass over that. That's right. You tell them, Lou. Fuckers. That's right. Get me kicked off YouTube. That's right. Let me see. John Morris, he was our shift commander. When I met him, I was, I think, a two striper, and he was what they called a butterbot. He was a second lieutenant, I believe. He said, tell them stories from the Nipah Hut in the Philippines. That's a big no. That's a whole other podcast, but they would never make it on the air. Just leave it at that. It's like a chain of Nipah Huts? No. It was a bar slash club called the Nipah Hut. Tell one story. No. They had a giant spaceship that would come down from the top. It's kind of like George Clinton in parliament. At the end of the show, this big spaceship came down from the top. Smoke. Like you said, parliament fucking pelican. Then the thing went open, and everyone would walk up and get up on stage, all those drunk GIs. Like, yeah, I'm going in the spaceship, and you go down these stairs, and you're in a fucking basement. I don't think it was a basement. It's like something from a fucking horror movie. How do you get out? And then somebody goes, this way, this way, go, go, go, go. That's the cleanest story I can tell you. It's the cleanest story I can tell you. Sounds like fun. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. I got a story for you off the air one of these days. So okay, music relish show's going good. Excellent. I just wanted to say, Lou brought up, he made the show. His segment on bad love songs. That will go down in history as some of the best podcasting ever. Bad love songs? Really bad love songs. The worst love songs of all time, like in rock. It's a deep vein. Is that something, is that like content I could probably like borrow with Perry Mind? Because I'd love to hear that list someday. We voted him off the board. We're no longer a false triumvirate democracy. Wait a minute. We toppled the AI monarchy. There's three of us on this one. Are you two going to overthrow me too? Are you like rebels? None of those stories you're told, no. They're wrecking too. Instead I'll start calling you the Sandinistas. The hostile takeovers. You go on podcasts just to take them over? Like Amiens took over the White House. Really, yeah. Yeah, we could do that. I would love to. Maybe next week we'll do, we'll take a break from the years and we'll do like a, kind of a jambalaya, you know, of stuff. Like throw some music news in there. We'll do some trivia. Maybe I'll come up with some questions for you guys. You could give us that deep vein of worst love songs ever. And it's funny, we noticed that several of them made everyone's list of worst love songs. So it's got to be universally bad. Okay. If everyone said that, that fucking song. Then there were a couple where I said I liked the song, but Lou and Perry were like, what? I'm always, you know, on the one side. Yeah, the one. When it falls into like that kind of metal, metal category, you have a soft spot. Air metal. Metal ballads. Oh my God. How I grew up. Yeah, yeah. As young as Ron Mark, you didn't have to deal with those 70s ones. Yeah, that's true. I did. This fucking guy. Blah. See what I mean? He's setting the bar high. Remember, this is how he talks. I don't think there's anything good about 1994. Blah. So he talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, well, an American Arnold Schwarzenegger. He talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger without the accent. We're going to pass the bar on this one. I am here. Let me see if you can entertain me. 1994. Blah. All right. So let's actually get right into 1994. Yeah. So we'll start on January 19th, 1994. Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. Oh, shit. Bryan Adams. Bryan Adams, yeah. Wow. On January 21st to February, as it's spelled, the Big Day Out Festival takes place, again, expanding from those previous years. Blah, blah, blah. Auckland, New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones, and Bjork. Nice. That's an interesting... Probably each night there were headlines. I would love to see Bjork. Me too. I would never want to see the Ramones. They'll never get back together again. Unless they perform in the Pet Sematary. Yeah. Hey, Lou, can you put him in the green room? No, I'd like that one. That's a good one. Come on, there's a little crossover. Put him in the green room. Put him in the green room. Okay, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's going to be a long show. It's going to be a long one tonight. I feel better about myself now. Got a little redemption? The redemption song? Yes. I got a Buffett story for you. Oh, yeah? His one song was The Pirate Looks at 40. He would segue into Bob Marley's redemption song. Oh, jeez. And it didn't quite... Wait a minute. Buddy, that is the quickest way to get to the penalty box. I'm not playing it, though. I know you're not. You're poking the rhino right now. I'm a guitarist. You're poking the rhino right now. You're not a rhino, you're a nice guy. Come on, we went through that last week. And so, as I've been saying each week, I'm just going to say right now, where's Jack? Okay, and we'll move on from that. Hey, Jack. Hey, Jack, please come back. He didn't listen before, so I don't think he's listening now. Let's see. January 25th, Alice in Chains released their Jar of Flies album, which makes its U.S. chart debut at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do that. Right? But they still are always talked about as like number three or number four out of the big four. Big four being? Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden. And Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains is never getting that kind of... Whereas... That first album, the record company made them sound like another band. Yeah. And that's not their fault. They were produced that way. Dirt was a great album. Yes, yes. And Layne Staley was one of the greatest frontmen ever. Just as cool as the other side of the pillow, as they say. Yeah. Very unique voice also. Today we were talking about what we were going to talk about in the show. And he goes, when I saw the videos, he goes, I didn't match his face with the way he looked. Right? He said he was expecting like a grungy, more... No, he was slick. He was slick. In the Man in the Box video, he's got the kind of long... But then he changed it up. He slicked the hair back, he wore the shades, you know. Just turned into a... Suzanne McPhail. Another one of my horse people. She's the one that introduced me to that whole thing. And she said, who's Jack? That's right, I guess. At this point. On January 29th, The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of LA. Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident. What a good day. Ah, this fucking... I saw this and I was like... Dead horses was a bummer. I know, I know. I saw this and I'm like, there's no way around this. February 1st, Green Day releases their breakthrough album, Dookie. Ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival. Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification. Now, I did like them back then. I actually did. I was stationed in Southern California in Riverside. And I decided to get like a side job. You know, I was in the Air Force. But I was like, I want to make a little more money. I want to do something. So I got a job at a record store. Cool. Was it Spencer's or something? Forget the name of it. Oh, Spencer's. They sold all the trinkets, too. No, no, it wasn't Spencer's then. It was something like that. It was a chain. Hot topic. They sold DVDs, too. FYE. No, it wasn't that. I'll remember it. I was working there when Dookie came out and the fucking whole wall was covered with Dookie CDs and they were flying off the shelves. It had a pretty fresh sound. It was fresh then. And coming off the 80s were kind of slick in a lot of ways, except for some of the real heavy alternative. But to hear a song like that on the radio, that was like hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit on mainstream rock radio. Good drummer, too. As a band, whether you like him or not, I think he's really good. Billy Joe Armstrong. Oh, Trey Cool. Trey Cool, yeah. February 7th, Blind Melons lead singer Shannon Poon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because he is loud and disruptive behavior. Poon is later charged with battery assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station telephone. Now, this is the dude that sang, you know, And I don't really care if I sleep all day And he's in the daisy field, so you think he's like this really, like, chill dude. And like, you know, me and the B-girl, man, you know. The B-girl, yes. And the tap-dancing B-girl, and like, I'm just this dude's a fucking lunatic. He was taking substances that made him. Oh, yeah. That was a short career. Was it him that did a duet with Guns N' Roses? What was the video, a song from Guns N' Roses with a video where they're up on like a water tower and they jump into the water or something. I forget what it was called. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they did it with him.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh "Lieutenant" from Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"Well we wanted to take a closer look at China -Europe relations just in particular because we've had this trip by Valdes Dombrovskis, the trade minister on a four -day trip and it's interesting to note here that these relations didn't blow up over the EU subsidies for EVs. Some had been worried about a new trade war developing between China and Europe. At least for the moment it hasn't happened. European officials found that the Chinese government was willing to talk and make some new promises so we're joined now in our studios here in Hong Kong by Jenny Marsh, Bloomberg's became team leader for greater China economics. It doesn't mean necessarily, Jenny, that everything's rosy, but there There was the possibility that things could get a little edgy, particularly the comments from the Vice Mayor Ha Lee Fung were pretty critical in a sense, but then things sort of got smoothed over. That's right. I mean, you know, when the EU first announced this probe, I think the Chinese were pretty surprised. You know, they sort of hit back and called it a naked act of protectionism, which was pretty strong rhetoric. So going This trip, you know, people were sort of wondering, you know, what the reception would be like, you know, whether or not the Chinese would perhaps downgrade who it was that met the EU trade chief or if they would sort of have similar fiery rhetoric, you know, actually, I think, hella fun sort of comments of concern and dissatisfaction on the the scale of sort of Communist Party rhetoric, it was like reasonably measured. Obviously, they're waiting to see EU, see how this pro pans out and at the moment, they still have a chance to shape it. But I I think think also, this is sort of emblematic of this broader trend we're seeing in Beijing, which is they're trying to stabilize their political relationships across the board, you know, and I think that makes a lot of sense right now, given the So diplomacy? Wolfari Yeah, I mean, I think it's I think sort of that Wolf Warrior era, you know, they've evolved from I think, you know, there's still plenty of Wolf Warrior talk out there. But they are taking a much more sort of nuanced approach. And, you know, there's been this flurry of cabinet level officials from the US coming to Beijing, I think, Raimondo's visit was seen as a success. Yellen spoke about her meetings with the Chinese officials as very sort of constructive, and they weren't just giving her talking points, they were really engaging and discussing, you know, even Xi Jinping earlier this week, you know, Italy is planning to exit the Belt and Road and you know, she has pledged to stabilize those relations with Italy offering an olive branch as they exit. So they really appeared to want to make friends not lose them right now. Yeah. Can we go so far as to say that it appears that a policy change has been made? I don't know. policy A change, definitely the thinking, the thinking in foreign policy seems to be right now to end coming up from Australia this year. That's pretty symbolic after the fallout they had during the COVID crisis over the origins of the virus, you know, and all this sort of the tariffs and the blocking of Australian exports, you know, we're starting to see some of those measures being eased now. And if Albany comes out, I think that's very emblematic of China sort of having a shift in the way it approaches its foreign relations, yes. We've got this probe underway at the moment into the EV vehicles. How long do we anticipate that's going to take or what are the likely outcomes here? I mean, I think nine months was the timeframe that was was bandied around when the probe was announced. So I'm not sure that's official. It was just sort of like, informed people's best guesses. You know, you could see tariffs imposed on exports of EVs from China into the European Union. The curious thing, I think, from the Chinese side is who this is sort of meant to target, I think, because actually Tesla is one of the that companies sends the most cars from China into the European Union. So I think there's probably a lot to be worked out around this program. And it's very unclear right now exactly sort of what parameters it will set. on. But the working group that the Europeans and the Chinese agreed to during Don Bronski's this visit week seems like it's a good sort of vehicle for the Chinese to try and to shape the outcome Yeah, the bigger story obviously is China's overall relations with the west. And we've noted that And this one seemed to have passed reasonably smoothly. And we've noted that the US has sent a number of level officials to China. China wouldn't be ignorant of the attitudes of of the chambers. You see the surveys from both the American chamber, the European chamber about companies losing confidence in China. Is it possible that that is also weighing in on sort of looking down the road for China and its interactions with the West? Absolutely. Yeah, two very sort of damning reports from the European chamber and the US chambers of commerce in China last week, you know, talking about firms being extremely gloomy than mostly happened for decades and that coming at a moment where the Communist Party is sort of on this charm offensive to try and woo foreign investors reinvigorate and the private sector, you know, it has to be worrying for them. I And so think, you know, the surveys are showing that the geopolitical turbulence affects business confidence, it isn't something happening between politicians above the sort of the daily hum of business, it really does impact them the on ground. So, you know, you have to think that does sort of come into the calculus when the foreign ministry, and, you know, she and his sort of lieutenants are thinking about how they want to sort of manage their it comes of think we do. In fact, we have Kevin Kainsbury coming up next hour. So we'll focus on that. But it was one of the stories interesting from yesterday that broke a little bit early for us to cover in detail this morning. But it turns out that the Evergrande chair, Hui Ka Yan, has been put under residential surveillance, cannot meaning you move about freely or communicate with anyone. That's a story that we'll take a closer look at next hour. Many thanks to Jenny Morris for joining us this hour. Jenny's the Bloomberg team leader for greater China economic and government patience. USD margin loan rates from 5 .83 % to 6 .83 % rated the lowest margin fees by stockbrokers .com. Their clients can also earn extra income by lending their fully paid shares of stock. Join Interactive Brokers clients from 200 plus countries and territories to invest in stocks, options, futures, funds, and bonds on 150 global markets. Rates subject to change. Learn more at kr .com slash compare. Do you need to communicate and collaborate from anywhere? Vonage does that. 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History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "lieutenant" discussed on Mark Levin
"Rights movement King's lieutenant and they marched on that border with a guy named Walter Mondale you may have heard of he was the Democrat nominee for President of the United States who got slaughtered in 1984 big union guy the union supposed illegal immigration Joe Biden is supporting an invasion it's not even immigration by the millions and millions of people coming into the country he wants to get them work permits as fast as possible work permits and this clown Sean Fain and other clowns selling out their membership how many union folks out think that Biden is representing the Union and how is he doing that exactly exactly how is he doing that by destroying our industries by oil and gas industries by shutting down our pipelines who the hell do people think are making the pipelines building the pipelines the steel and the pipelines where does this stuff come from show up now hard -working men and women have to produce it what about them well you know little oversight that's okay you simply cannot support the so -called green new deal which is a Marxist anti -capitalist movement centralized industrialization policy industrial policy and capitalism and labor interesting enough at the same time because you are destroying the existing economic system so all you and men women who've come up through the ranks to get seniority all you men and women particularly the unions who've learned a profession whether it's electrical plumbing brick laying other aspects of construction whether it is refining and producing natural resources, oil, different metals, steel, aluminum, rubber you're all gonna get screwed you're all gonna get screwed you can ask I want a 40 % increase for a 32 hour workweek how do you like this there'll be no work week and you'll get no increase because that's where we're headed that's where we're headed when you kill the industrial heartland of this country there's no foreign government doing this it's our government doing and more specifically it's the Democrat Party doing this they'll sell the union members down the river as fast as they sell the black community down the river which they've been doing for a long time they will sell anything and anybody down the river for power and they will lie about the Democrat Party hates America so why do people think it's going to embrace patriotic hard -working Americans whether they're union or non -union they don't they lie they just want the support that's all that's all wake up America that's all they want borders wide open who does that help does it help you who does it help seriously well somebody's got to pick lettuce I don't want to hear that we don't need six seven point six million foreigners in this to pick lettuce for God's sakes but they are here to help large corporations and multinationals who get paid pay workers under the table and yet Sean Fain accuses Trump of being the voice of billionaires when he wants and he wants to close the border Chuck Schumer says my father who was a union guy taught me let me tell you something I'm in a union today I've talked about the sag kind of stupid union is this I'm in a union with a bunch I'm stuck so Chuck Schumer talks about his dad the union I am a union guy whether I like it or not but what does that have to with do anything Chuck Schumer's the leader of the Democrat Party in the Senate again open borders again an economic policy that drives up interest rates people can't buy homes soon they're not going to be able to afford cars but he's a union guy you and Schumer says persistent persistent prison Schumer this is not hilarious a guy goes to Harvard Law School he graduates passes the New York bar gets elected immediately after assembly New York congressional seat opens up he runs for that gets elected to Congress serves there many many years al domato he figures he's vulnerable particularly given the demographic and political changes in the state of New York he runs against a motto funded by all kinds of dark money Sean may I call you Sean? Sean? and he wins his Senate seat this is a man literally who hasn't spent a minute in the private sector but he's a union guy so don't worry about it Joe Biden's another one gets elected to the Senate when he's 29 years old gets sworn in when he's 30 before that he was a member of the Wilmington City Council man never worked a day in his life outside the government but he's a union guy too all these great union and they're opening the border to anyone and everyone who comes in they're not just hey are you a union guy hey they're not even asking if they're terrorists or criminals they're punching them right through how fast can we do this how fast can we change America the Democrat Party is thrown in with the racists the Democrat Party is thrown in with the Marxists the Democrat Party not just it them represents it's unpatriotic you can say this about union workers they're patriotic you know you when go you by go one of these building sites and they're building one of these massive sky rises which always amazes me how people can do that sort of thing I certainly can't and what's always hanging from the building that's being constructed or from the crane a massive American flag something you will not see at the DNC headquarters you you so I really do think a lot of these union workers are being sold a bill of goods these unions are democratic not entities they're monopolies the antitrust laws do not apply to them because when they were written they were specifically excluded because the truth is UIW the should be broken up no union should have this kind of power no no union boss should have this kind of power none hey there they are Chuck Schumer the last guy who should be talking about you it's hilarious and Biden I always supported her and Schumer my dad was a union guy oh yeah he loved unions he was a union guy and you I am a union guy persist fight good will reward you and you'll succeed going we're to persist and we're going to succeed but what the hell is he talking about we're going to persist and we're going to succeed he supports a 32 -hour workweek on his own staff they're not going to get a 32 -hour workweek and a 40 salary increase are they Mr. Biden he would never give that to a step be way too expensive you know can't do that plus we have work to do here I mean we got at least put in a five -day 40 -hour week and forty percent increase we don't have a budget for that but go get him get him get him get him outside my office yes get him and the suckers in New York who vote for this this buffoon are the prices prices not high enough in New York you think car prices should be 20 -30 % higher? how's it going in New York with Democrat policies and crime and open borders and illegal immigrants jobs the safety schools where they have no school choice how's it going up there in New York going okay because that's what the Democrats are doing to the back on 77 WABC Ocean Drive in Coney Island Ocean Drive is the only luxury rentals in New York with a spectacular ocean you wake up in the morning and breathe that ocean air I'll certify that you're gonna live 10 years when I became successful I want to live on the ocean if you have worked hard you deserve an apartment on Ocean Drive too go to nyc .com
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Firefighter Cancer: Diane Cotter Describes Her Husband's Harrowing Diagnosis
"Diane Carter is a self -taught citizen activist who's upright focused and determined efforts in support of her husband fire lieutenant Paul Carter during and after their battle against Paul's occupational cancer served as the inspiration for the documentary Burned protecting the protectors by filmmaker Elijah Yetter Bowman and award -winning actor Mark Ruffalo executive producer. Diane is the ultimate standard bearer a smart outspoken and fearless woman who continues to march at the head of her six -year campaign to remove PFAS forever chemicals from the gear worn by today's firefighters. No less an authority that Ed Kelly general president of the IAFF has properly called Diane Carter the firefighter's hero. The firefighters hero that's uh some big big shoes to fill so Diane tell us your story first of all welcome thanks for being with us I actually watched a movie yesterday that you sent us and I had to pause several times because I was so overwhelmed and so pissed off a couple times good um yeah so we'll talk about the movie but first tell us your story can you give us your background a little bit sure thank you I'm glad to meet you ladies finally in person big follower of the show I love it I love what you do I love that spouses and significant others are involved because um that's what I am that's all that I am it's a it's a fire wife I have no formal education I did get my hairdressers license some years ago and I was the worst hairdresser in the world so I didn't go far but I stayed at home and raised our children until they were about 10 and 11. Paul got on the fire department in 1988 when our son was two months old and our daughter was 18 months old our son is now a firefighter in the same department my husband served at now works in the same station in Worcester they had a beautiful beautiful life we embraced everything that we loved about the fire service his friends became my friends their wives became my my best friends we vacation with them etc. Paul had spent 25 years on the rescue in Worcester he had a 28 -year career at age 55 he decided it was time to climb the ladder so he took the lieutenant's exam and he made lieutenant and he was pretty disappointed because that meant that he'd leave his crew and he had worked with this crew you know on the same shift for 25 years they'd gone through a lot together the Worcester warehouse fire they've gone through so much together at any event we went on vacation with our firefighter families to moosehead lake up in maine and we came back to a beautiful ceremony in Worcester city hall when my husband was promoted to lieutenant along with one of his best buddies and the rescue saw him off and it was wonderful Paul was getting ready getting prepared to go back on to a new rig and he had an appointment to see a doctor because he was going in for cataract surgery his pre -exam showed that he had just a very slightly elevated number in his psa for prostate he had that check regularly as he did a lot of checks for his health because he was a very fitness aware person at any event he did get the call to come in they wanted a biopsy and i thought nothing about a biopsy because to look at him he literally looked like a 45 -year -old at 55 he was very fit very very strong and the picture of health we went to the doctor's office and i can remember that day because i was just so adamant to get this over with this appointment because i had things to do and we were making small talk with the doctor and we were in the tiny doctor's office room the exam room and out of nowhere the doctor said yep it's cancer and in that moment that moment i can remember because i remember i screamed and i fell into the chair and Paul who's almost six feet tall he broke out in this sweat all over his body i could just see the beads of sweat come out from everywhere on him and he sunk into a chair he tore his shirt off and he sunk into a chair and i can remember the doctor talking for 45 minutes and i'm crying and Paul's looking at me looking at the doctor looking at me looking at the doctor and we didn't hear a word he said
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A highlight from UNCHAINED: With Execs Leaving and Market Share Declining, Can Binance Survive?
"This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. Binance US, obviously the first thing on their mind is sort of trying to fight the SEC and figure out a way forward. I mean, there is a world where Binance can exist where it's not quite as big as it was before. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, I was the first mainstream media reporter to pick up a cryptocurrency full -time. This is the September 15th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by fails, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade, and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Stephen Ehrlich, editor of Forbes Crypto Asset and Blockchain Advisor and director of research at Forbes Crypto. Welcome, Stephen. Thanks, Laura. Thanks for having me. Just a heads up, everyone. I have a sore throat, in case you can't tell. So you might hear a slightly scratchier voice from me today. There have been a number of news events related to Binance over the last several months, to the point where there are now a number of questions swirling around the exchange in its future about potential regulatory and possibly even criminal actions against the exchange and its founders. And then, of course, what all of this could mean for the crypto industry if the exchange that has been the biggest crypto exchange for the last six years either falls or at the very least loses its top spot. So, Stephen, can you start by giving us kind of the main events or highlights of what has been happening with Binance over the last several months, including, you know, another big, you know, event this week that have brought Binance to really what feels like an existential point in its story? Sure. How much time do you have? Because I think this is just a 30 -minute show. But no, I mean, in crypto, we kind of feel like every day is a week, every week is a year, every year is a decade. And for Binance, there's been no shortage of big news. When FTX collapsed in November sort and of left CZ as like the big 800 -pound gorilla that really was kind of lording over all of crypto, there were a lot of thoughts that, hey, maybe this is Binance's moment. It was already the biggest exchange in the world by a large margin, and it just became so much bigger and even more systemically significant. It's been a very difficult year for Binance. I mean, just beginning with the fact that in the 60 days post collapse of FTX, more than $12 billion worth of customer deposits left the exchange. A colleague of mine, our terrific Director of Data and Analytics, Javier Paz, put together a report just talking about these massive investor outflows that Binance has really worked to try to stem ever since. I mean, then the hits kind of kept coming. I believe it was in February that the New York Department of Financial Services forced Paxos, which was the issue of Binance's stablecoin, BUSD, which at one point I believe reached over $20 billion in market cap and was seen as a legitimate competitor to Circle's USDC and the biggest stablecoin of all, Tether, which has a market cap of $83, $84 billion or so. But DFS forced them to with something that came out of the SEC as well. And that was a really big hit for Binance. It might not have been quite as flashy as the suits from the CFTC and SEC that came in later. But if you're just talking about dollar terms and financial impact, it was massive because Binance was really trying to make BUSD the biggest stablecoin in the world. They had incentives to encourage trading with BUSD. And in particular, think about what people do. And obviously, Lara, you know this and many people in your audience do as well. When you have $20 billion or $40 billion or $80 billion in cash, you can invest it in treasuries or money markets that are paying 5 % annual returns. And that's an incredible amount of money that you can make virtually risk -free, especially in a market like today where trading volumes are dwindling, reserves are dwindling. It's a really nice way to sort of supplement assets. So, that's one thing that happened. In March, the CFTC sued Binance for a suite of charges. A lot of it stemmed from the CFTC's allegations that Binance was operating as an FCM, a futures commodity merchant, basically saying that they're offering options and futures contracts at various digital assets without registering with the agency, which is required to do in the United States. And then in particular, and this much like the SEC's suit, which came out in June, they both talked about efforts Binance went to not only let US customers participate on the exchange, but actually help them find ways to get around geo -blocking activities that they put in to make sure that the best customers could still trade on the exchange. So, there's the CFTC lawsuit in March. There is the SEC lawsuit that came in June. There are rumors that the DOJ is investigating Binance and they would bring criminal charges. CFTC and SEC are sort of civil endeavors, which would kind of lead to fines and maybe bars from trading and certain activities. But obviously, DOJ could bring criminal penalties if they bring such charges and are able to get CZ into custody. And then, I mean, there's other aspects too as well. I mean, Binance has been losing payment and the banking partners around the world. Binance US in June had to become a crypto -only exchange because they lost their banking partners in the US, so they couldn't handle US dollars anymore. They lost their auditor in January. And then on top of that too, just a wave of executive departures going from the C -suite to country managers. So, this is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. It's really been just an onslaught of bad news after bad news. I mean, there's been a few glimmers of new product initiatives and things like that. But a few other steps I want to throw in there are that spot volumes, like in terms of its market share, it had about 60 % of all crypto exchange volume market share at the beginning of the year. Now, for the last few months, it's been at 45%. And they laid off a thousand people. And then actually, let's also now mention the executive departure this week that was at Binance US. Tell us about that. Right. So, Binance, as you rightfully said, has been losing market share. They remained the largest crypto exchange in the world, but they are losing market share in this dwindling market. I actually believe the latest numbers that came out from CC Data put Binance's spot market share at least at around 37%, 38%. And if you're just looking at their spot volumes, I mean, they were comfortably still above $20 billion daily, even at the beginning of the year. Now, it's down to about $5 billion. At the peak 2021, it was over $60 billion. So, I mean, just think about exchanges make money by taking small cuts of every exchange. And if your volume goes down 80 % or whatever, I mean, that's money that you're no longer getting. And obviously, that's very consequential. And then with the executive departures, as you said, that's something that I know CZ has tried to gloss over. I know when we've reached out to some of the departed executives and they've either responded to us or to just public Twitter postings, et cetera. I mean, they kind of said things like, we want to take care of our family, the time is right. There was no acrimony involved, so on and so forth. But at some point, all of this takes a toll. And at least with regards to Binance US, which is the US I think franchise is the term that they like to use for that particular exchange, they're in a very tenuous situation right here. I mean, even before, and I'll talk about Brian Schroeder's departure in a second. I believe right now, I just checked the numbers before we recorded this, they're averaging about 20 million, not billion, not 200 million, but $20 million a day in transaction value. 10 million of which is Bitcoin. I believe that I think they charge something like 10 basis points per trade. So if you think about that, like 20 million times 0 .1, I'm not really good at doing math in my head. I use a calculator for that despite the fact that I'm a financial journalist, but you can just think about how little money that actually is coming in. And then obviously since Binance US was created in 2019, there's always been issues and questions about its independence from the larger exchange and would it actually be able to find that sweet spot of separating itself in the eyes of regulators while maintaining the super sauce that is made by Binance, a love brand by many customers. And they've gone through three CEOs at this point, Brian Schroeder just resigned. I was speaking with some sources familiar with Binance US and I was basically told that this was not a planned departure, that the 100 person layoff was, but the removal of CEO Brian Schroeder, the exit of him was not. I've also been told that it's important to kind of keep an eye off some of his key lieutenants now, because remember when he joined, one of the first things that he did was raise a $200 million actually seed round at a $4 .5 billion valuation. That's something Brian Brooks, his predecessor had wanted to, but he wasn't able to finish it. Brian Schroeder did. And then for part of that, that kind of saw Binance US as a growth company, he brought in some key lieutenants, chief legal officers, chief risk officers. And I think that now that Binance US is kind of moving away from obviously growth, like any exchange to sort of conservation, it's important to look at some people he brought in and they may be looking to leave. And actually one of the sources I was speaking with told me that their chief risk officer is Sydney Majala, and I want to look at my notes to make sure I don't get the names wrong, and head of legal, Krishna Jubelty, have actually emails that have been sent to them by some of the other rank and file, have started to bounce back. So I don't know if that necessarily means that they may have already left, but it certainly, I think it's important to, now that Brian has gone, see if some of people that he brought in after he raised this big round with a lot of high expectations, if they are going to follow suit. In a moment, we're going to talk about some of the potential regulatory or potentially even criminal actions against Binance and its executives. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible.
Unchained
A highlight from With Execs Leaving and Market Share Declining, Can Binance Survive? - Ep. 544
"This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. Binance US, obviously the first thing on their mind is trying to fight the SEC and figure out a way forward. There is a world where Binance can exist where it's not quite as big as it was before. Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the September 15th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by fails, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Stephen Erlich, editor of Forbes Crypto Asset & Blockchain Advisor and director of research at Forbes Crypto. Welcome Stephen. Thanks Laura. Thanks for having me. Just a heads up everyone. I have a sore throat in case you can't tell, so you might hear a slightly scratchier voice from me today. There have been a number of news events related to Binance over the last several months, to the point where there are now a number of questions swirling around the exchange in its future about potential regulatory and possibly even criminal actions against the exchange and its founders. And then of course, what all of this could mean for the crypto industry, if the exchange that has been the biggest crypto exchange for the last six years either falls or at the very least loses its top spot. So Stephen, can you start by giving us the main events or highlights of what has been happening with Binance over the last several months, including another big event this week that have brought Binance to really what feels like an existential point in its story? Sure. How much time do you have? Because it could take, I think this is just a 30 minute show. But no, in crypto, we kind of feel like every day is a week, every week is a year, every year is a decade, and for Binance, there's been no shortage of big news. When FTX collapsed in November and sort of left CZ as the big 800 pound gorilla that really was kind of lording over all of crypto, there were a lot of thoughts that, hey, maybe this is Binance's moment. It was already the biggest exchange in the world by a large margin, and it just became so much bigger and even more systemically significant. It's been a very difficult year for Binance. Just beginning with the fact that in the 60 days post collapse of FTX, more than $12 billion worth of customer deposits left the exchange. A colleague of mine, our terrific Director of Data and Analytics, Javier Paz, put together a report just talking about these massive investor outflows that Binance has really worked to try to stem ever since. Then the hits kind of kept coming. I believe it was in February that the New York Department of Financial Services forced Paxos, which was the issue of Binance's stablecoin, BUSD, which at one point I believe reached over $20 billion in market cap and was seen as a legitimate competitor to Circle's USDC and the biggest stablecoin of all, Tether, which has a market cap of I think $83, $84 billion or so. But DFS forced them to shut it down. I believe that order was also issued concurrently with something that came out of the SEC as well, and that was a really big hit for Binance. It might not have been quite as flashy as the suits from the CFTC and SEC that came in later, but if you're just talking about dollar terms and financial impact, it was massive because Binance was really trying to make BUSD the biggest stablecoin in the world. They had incentives to encourage trading with BUSD, and in particular, think about what people do. Obviously, Laura, you know this and many people in your audience do as well. When you have $20 billion or $40 billion or $80 billion in cash, you can invest it in treasuries or money markets that are paying 5 % annual returns, and that's an incredible amount of money that you can make virtually risk -free, especially in a market like today where trading volumes are dwindling, reserves are dwindling, it's a really nice way to supplement assets. That's one thing that happened. In March, the CFTC sued Binance for a suite of charges. A lot of it stemmed from the CFTC's allegations that Binance was operating as an FCM, a futures commodity merchant, basically saying that they're offering options and futures contracts at various digital assets without registering with the agency, which is required to do in the United States. Then, in particular, and this much like the SEC's suit which came out in June, they both talked about efforts Binance went to not only let US customers participate on the exchange, but actually help them find ways to get around geo -blocking activities that they put in to make sure that the best customers could still trade on the exchange. There's the CFTC lawsuit in March. There is the SEC lawsuit that came in June. There are rumors that DOJ is investigating Binance and they would bring criminal charges. CFTC and SEC are civil endeavors which would lead to fines and maybe bars from trading and certain activities, but obviously DOJ could bring criminal penalties if they bring such charges and are able to get CZ into custody. There's other aspects too as well. I mean, Binance has been losing payment and their banking partners around the world. Binance US in June had to become a crypto only exchange because they lost their banking partners in the US so they couldn't handle US dollars anymore. They lost their auditor in January, and then on top of that too, just a wave of executive departures going from the C -suite to country managers. This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. It's really been just an onslaught of bad news after bad news. I mean, there's been a few glimmers of new product initiatives and things like that. But a few other stats I want to throw in there are that spot volumes, like in terms of its market share, it had about 60 percent of all crypto exchange volume market share at the beginning of the year. Now, for the last few months, it's been at 45 percent and they laid off a thousand people. And then actually, let's also now mention the executive departure this week that was at Binance US. Tell us about that. Right. So Binance, as you as you rightfully said, has been losing market share. They remain the largest crypto exchange in the world, but they are losing market share in this dwindling market. I actually believe the latest numbers that came out from CC Data put Binance's spot market share at least at around 37, 38 percent. And if you're just looking at the spot volumes, they were comfortably still above 20 billion dollars daily, even at the beginning of the year. Now it's down to about 5 billion. At the peak 2021, it was over 60 billion. So, I mean, just think about exchanges make money by taking small cuts of every exchange. And if your volume goes down 80 percent or whatever. I mean, that's money that you no longer that you're no longer getting. And obviously, that's very consequential. And then with the executive departures, as you said, that's something that I know CZ has tried to gloss over. I know when we've reached out to some of the departed executives and they've either responded to us or to just public Twitter postings, et cetera, I mean, they kind of said things like, we want to take care of the family, the time is right. There was no acrimony involved, so on and so forth. But at some point, all this takes the toll. And at least with regards to Binance US, which is the US I think franchise is the term that they like to use for that particular exchange. They're in a very tenuous situation right here. I mean, even before and I'll talk about Brian Schroeder's departure in a second. I believe right now, I just checked the numbers before we recorded this. They're averaging about $20 million, not $200 million, but $20 million a day in transaction volume, 10 million of which is Bitcoin. I believe that I think they charge something like 10 basis points per trade. So if you think about that, like 20 million times 0 .1, I'm not really good at doing math in my head. I use a calculator for that, despite the fact that I'm a financial journalist. But you can just think about how little money that actually is coming in. And then obviously, since Binance US was created in 2019, there's always been issues and questions about its independence from the larger exchange and would it actually be able to find that sweet spot of separating itself in the eyes of regulators while maintaining the super sauce that is made by Binance, a love brand by many customers. And they've gone through three CEOs at this point. Brian Schroeder just resigned. I was speaking with some sources familiar with Binance US. And I was basically told that this was not a planned departure, that the 100 person layoff was, but the removal of CEO Brian Schroeder, the exit of him was not. I've also been told that it's important to kind of keep an eye off some of his key lieutenants now, because remember, when he joined, one of the first things that he did was raise a $200 million actually seed round at a $4 .5 billion valuation. And there was something Brian Brooks, his predecessor had wanted to, but he wasn't able to finish it, Brian Schroeder did. And then for part of that, that kind of saw Binance US as a growth company, he brought in some key lieutenants, chief legal officers, chief risk officers. And I think that now that Binance US is kind of moving away from obviously growth like any exchange to sort of conservation, it's important to look at some people he brought in and they may be looking to leave. And actually one of the sources I was just speaking with told me that their chief risk officer is Sydney Majala. And I want to look at my notes to make sure I don't get the names wrong. And head of legal, Krishna Jubelty have actually emails that have been sent to them by some of the other rank and file have started to bounce back. So I don't know if that necessarily means that they may have already left, but it's certainly I think it's important to now that Brian is gone, see if some of those people that he brought in after he raised this big round with a lot of high expectations, if they are going to follow suit. In a moment, we're going to talk about some of the potential regulatory or potentially even criminal actions against Binance and its executives. The first quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible.
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Monitor Show 19:00 09-08-2023 19:00
"At a bit, they're still a little bit above pre -pandemic levels, but getting closer around three and a half percent versus around three percent or so. And medium and longer term inflation expectations are basically where they were before the pandemic. That's John Williams, the president of the New York Fed, speaking exclusively to Bloomberg's Michael McKee. And that does it for this episode of Bloomberg Best. I'm Justin Milliner. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. A federal judge is denying a request from former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to move the Georgia election interference case against him to federal court. Meadows argued on the grounds that he was a federal officer when the alleged election crimes took place. The move was seen as a better path for Meadows to perhaps get the charges dismissed. Last month, Meadows, former President Trump and 17 others were charged with felony racketeering and conspiracy counts in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that would restrict access to the drug. If a Pristones maker is requesting the nation's highest court take up the case next year, the so -called floating border wall, which is meant to deter illegal immigration into Texas, is not going anywhere. Lieutenant Chris Olivarez with the Texas Department of Public Safety says it's unbelievable that the White House is trying to stop something that's working. The federal government continues to attack Governor Abbott for stepping up and taking on the responsibility to secure the border. The Justice Department is suing to get the border buoys out of the Rio Grande. A federal judge agreed, but an appeals court ruled in the state's favor, keeping the status quo.
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-05-2023 23:00
"Investment Advisors. Switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. Harris Wald is my producer. I'm Barry Rituls. You've been listening to Masters in Business on Bloomberg Radio. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID -19. Her office confirmed the news Monday, saying the 72 -year -old is experiencing mild symptoms. She's expected to remain at her home in Delaware. Meantime, the White House says President Biden tested negative for the virus Monday evening. He'll test at a regular cadence this week and monitor for symptoms. Police in Pennsylvania are still searching for an escaped inmate they call extremely dangerous. We're asking residents to check on their neighbors. If they're not at home, please let us know so we can check their property and their absence. Lieutenant Colonel George Bivins said they're working to find convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante and want to make sure no one is hurt in the process. New York State Attorney General Letitia James is calling for coordination amid an influx of asylum seekers. Liz Warner reports. James is one of several New York officials marching in the West Indian Day parade and she commented on the recent letter exchange between Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams. The letters, the accusations, the recriminations don't serve anyone and what we really need is someone to coordinate. And so I would urge everyone to get together in a room or on a Zoom call.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Col. Allen West (encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. It's a nutritious smoothie of creamy, fresh yogurt, vanilla protein powder, and a mushy banana. For your mind, drink it all down. It's nummy. I want vanilla, I want, I want vanilla. Here comes Eric Mataxas. Here's Eric Mataxas. Hey, folks, welcome to the show, or to this part of the show. I have the privilege and joy of having as my guest in this hour someone many of you are familiar with, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. He is, as you probably know, if you know anything about him, a Christian constitutional conservative. So am I. He is a combat veteran. I am not. He's a former member of the U .S. Congress. I'm also not a former member of the U .S. Congress. As you know, I am currently the senator from the great state of Wyoming. Actually, just kidding. Allen West, Colonel, welcome to the program. It's good to be back with you, Eric, and thanks for lowering your standards and allowing an old paratrooper to come on. An old paratrooper, yeah. I don't think anybody thinks of you that way, but thank you for being so humble. I gotta ask you, there's a lot to talk about, but you wrote an article, you write a weekly article for .com, townhall and the new one is called The Pitfalls of Identity Politics. Let's just start there. What is the gist of what you have to say there in the new article at townhall .com? Sure. Well, I think that when you start to listen to this whole thing about equity, what it means is that we're not going to be judging people based upon their character or evaluating them based upon merit. It's all about a certain color skin or demographic or thing of this nature, and I bring out the point with this current nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, who is basically Al Sharpton with four stars on his shoulder, and how he came out and said that he does not want to have any more than 46 % of white combat fighter pilots in the Air Force. And I'm thinking, what happened to just wanting to have good pilots in the Air Force, those that have the skill and have the ability to fly and to fight and to win? And then I further go into the instance of Kamala Harris, who without a doubt was selected because of identity politics, and now the Democrat party finds themselves in a very tough situation, Eric, because you have a core president in Joe Biden that really is faltering, he is failing, but without a doubt, they're afraid to replace him with Kamala Harris because her approval rating is even worse. So the pitfall of identity politics, when you don't look at people based upon their skill, their capability, their competency and merit, this is where you end up falling. Well, I mean, I think where we should start is to say that we understand that a good idea can go wrong, right? In other words, the idea that we want different kinds of people represented, whatever, like that's sort of a nice idea. But the question is, how far do you take it? What do you mean when you say different kinds of people? So it's one of these ideas that the reason it's appealing to so many is because it sounds good, right? You know, it sort of sounds like a nice idea. I mean, when Barack Obama was elected president before we all knew that he was a communist, you know, a lot of people thought, well, it's nice optics that America, which has struggled with racism, which struggled with slavery, that we now have somebody in the White House who is a black man, you know? And on the most surface -y level, those things matter. Optics matter. But obviously, something happens when the government gets involved and they start saying, we're going to mandate these kinds of quotas. And we know that the Supreme Court very recently overturned the affirmative action idea for colleges, something that, you know, you and I, we grew up with this, that this is like this basic thing. And you kind of think, is this ever going to, are we ever going to get past this? Well, we finally did because we have a Supreme Court that understood that, you know, this is not constitutional. But what we're talking about now, what you just talked about when you're talking about it, you know, is he the chairman of the joint chiefs or to become? Well, he is currently the chief of staff of the United States Air Force, and he's been nominated to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So when someone like that takes this thing to the nth degree and says that we want X percentage of people who are blacks piloting, you think, you gotta be kidding me. Like you're kidding, you're talking about fighter pilots. Why would you degrade the military by saying this is the metric? Why would you do that? What does it say about what kind of a leader you are in the military? How did someone like that, who you describe as, you know, Al Sharpton with four stars, how can somebody like that have risen to get four stars? That doesn't speak well of the military, obviously.
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Monitor Show 16:00 09-04-2023 16:00
"Sticking around for our next segment. And that wraps up our first hour of the weekend edition, holiday edition of Bloomberg Business Week from Bloomberg Radio. Ahead in our next hour, we break down the latest installment of the magazine, a special double issue dedicated to cities, from the Big Apple to Nashville to a so -called forest city in Malaysia. This is Bloomberg Business Week. I'm Carol Masser. And I'm Tim Stenebeck. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines coming up right now. We'll be right back. Plains in South later this week. Thousands of people in attendance at Burning Man in Nevada may soon be able to leave after being stuck for days. People have been stuck at the event located in the desert after torrential downpours caused muddy conditions. Organizers noted yesterday, the mud made the main road into and out of the event site impassable. Police in Pennsylvania are still searching for an escaped inmate they call extremely dangerous. We're asking residents to check on their neighbors. If they're not at home, please let us know so we can check their property and their absence. Lieutenant Colonel George Bivins said they're working to find convicted murderer, Danilo Cavalcante, and want to make sure no one is hurt in the process. Cavalcante was allegedly seen on video in Pecopson Township, west of Philadelphia and near the Chester County prison where he escaped from. Bivins said they have had Cavalcante's mother record a video that they're broadcasting that asks him to turn himself in peacefully. Rolling Stones fans won't have.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Hiring Veterans with Matthew J. Louis
"Matt Lewis is one of the nation's leading experts in career transition for veterans and public service professionals. He coaches individuals on their transition efforts and advises employers on hiring programs designed to successfully assimilate these valuable talent pools. His new book, Hiring Veterans, is 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 Crane. Service isn't just what Navy Federal Credit Union does, it's who they are. That's why Navy Federal created tools to help you earn and save more. Find out more at NavyFederal .org. Army veteran Matt Lewis, author of Hiring Veterans. Matt, welcome back to the show. Had you back in 2019 on the show. Talk about your first book. And your second book, Hiring Veterans, is coming out here real soon. This episode will release in September, so it's almost perfect timing for your book release. And your last time you were on was pre -COVID, now we're post -COVID, so we're both still here. Take us back. Tell us what you did in the Army. Yeah, Joe, first, appreciate it. I really enjoyed coming back on the show. And by the time this airs, the book Hiring Veterans will be published. It's due out on Labor Day of 2023 here. So again, just to kind of refresh people's minds, if they didn't listen to the episode a few years back, quick thumbnail sketch on who I am and my Army involvement there. I'm a West Point grad, class of 91, first Gulf War veteran, was in the Army as a tanker, an officer. Spent five years active duty, another 16 in the Reserves, and ultimately retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Did a number of things in the Reserves, working at the Pentagon for a while, serving as a recruiter more or less for West Point, my alma mater. Really enjoyed the time there. But that made for a couple transitions, one out of active duty and one that was a little less challenging in the Reserves because I'd been in the corporate world for quite a bit of time by then. So that's kind of the short story. And so as you transitioned out of the Army back then into the corporate world, what were some of the highlights of your transition, the good, the bad and the ugly? And you've learned a lot about transition because you're basically in the transition business at this point. So I'd like to hear what your initial transition was like. So I left, and this is ancient history for those coming out of the military today, but I left active duty in the mid 90s. These were the Clinton drawdown years. And because of that, that was part of my motivation for getting out. There wasn't, again, being part of the armored force. That branch was hit a bit disproportionately from some of the others. I didn't see a big future there at the time. So I used graduate school as my transition vehicle. It's still single digits in terms of veterans that choose higher education as their path. It worked for me. It doesn't work for everyone. And then I went from there on onto the corporate world. I was very purposeful about it because I had kind of put a plan in place a couple of years ahead of actually leaving active duty. So I did quite a bit of study, actually took some graduate level courses while I was still on active duty and purposely transitioned. But even so, that still left quite a struggle I faced in leaving. At the time, the support systems that exist today were nonexistent, pretty much. The Army, again, I'm an Army guy, had in place in its infancy a little program called Army Career Alumni Program, nothing like the SFL TAP or its various permutations today. It was administered literally within your last five days on active duty by those that, frankly, had just departed the service themselves, took the off green suit, came back in wearing a civilian suit the next day. So it was kind of an exercise in the blind leading the blind. So I kind of figured out myself. I'd assumed that was going to be the way anyway. And again, I was a little more proactive and purposeful about it. But that still didn't prevent the issues that a lot of us face. Yeah. And so your experience with corporate America and having the J .O .B., where did the interest in transition and hiring veterans and getting involved in the military transition come from? Yeah. So there's a couple of interwoven themes there. One would be just the focus on entrepreneurship. And we covered some of this ground on our last time together, whereby in spite of all the planning that I did, I was ultimately impacted by a couple of rifts over the course of my career. That alerted me to the fact that I need to have a plan B. And that ultimately came what is now Louis Advisors. It's well over a decade old now, but it oversees all of my publishing work, which is a good segue to the second theme around how I've kind of pivoted my personal journey, career journey, over the better part of the past decade, to focus on this core issue of eliminating the civil military divide in the country. And really what spurred my book efforts and what I'm doing now, having left the corporate world entirely as president of a little startup called Purepost. So just to outline how, one, my work is driven today and then maybe get into a bit of the rationale specifically on the book efforts. But I'm tackling this vision of eliminating the civil military divide in the country on three different fronts or in the military. We would call them lines of effort. The first on military side was the first book we talked about on my last appearance here several years back called Mission Transition. It's gone on to be the most awarded book of its kind. I'm proud to say it's a practical guide to help our service members find full employment, optimal career fields when they leave the military. But that's only half of the civil military divide. The other half is the civil side, and that's what hiring veterans is all about, which comes out on Labor Day. This is a practical guide for organizational leaders. I'll use that more agnostic term, whether it's for -profit, nonprofit, academic organizations, governmental organizations, they're all case studies in the book. A practical guide for them on how to put together programs to successfully assimilate members of the military community. Veterans, mill spouses, what have you. Even if you're successful with those two, there still exists in my mind, by my way of thinking, a lack of a warm handoff from an employment standpoint. Again, all of this is focused squarely on employment for reasons we can get into.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Matthew: Emmanuel (Which Means God With Us)
"You know, there is a world of difference between saying to someone that I am for you and telling them that I am with you. These two things do not mean the same thing. There's a world of difference between telling someone, I'm for you, I'm in your corner, I'm rooting you on, you've got this. There's a world of difference between telling someone that and telling them, I'm with you. In World War I, there was a lieutenant. His troops were getting ready to go over the edge. They were ready to take on the enemy. They were ready to cross the trenches. And this lieutenant, he's anxious. He's nervous about what might happen, and he sees a commander coming down through the trenches. The commander looks at this man, and he can see the anxiety. He can see the nerves there, and so he comes alongside him, puts his arm on him, and he points out. He points out to where they're going. He points out to no man's land. And he tells them, when we go out there, I'm going to be with you. We're going to do this together. And that gave the younger man a sense of confidence. It wasn't the old grizzled veteran just saying, you got this, from a distance, and go do it. Rather, he was saying, I'm going to be with you as you do it. I'm with you in the trenches, and I'm going to be with you in the battle yet to come. As we said, it's one thing to tell someone I'm for you. That's easy. You can do that to anyone. It's another thing to say, I'm going to invest myself in the outcome of what you're going through. I'm going to enter into the crucible of your pain with you, at your side. There's a comfort when a commander or a general does it, but how much more so when a god does that. When god not only gives us a word and says, hey, you got this. I'm for you. I'm in your corner. But rather when he says, I am with you as you face this. There's something encouraging about that. In today's text, it's exactly what we see. In today's reading, the birth of this child, the one who had come from a throne down to a manger. In this text, we see that this one was to be named Immanuel. That this one was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. And that his name literally means God with us. God with us. Not just God for us, but God with us. Verse 23 of our text will say, behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son. They shall call his name Immanuel, which means God with us. This is one of the primary attributes, one of the primary things that makes our god cool, that makes our god awesome. One of the primary things is because he didn't just create the cosmos, spin it like a top, and then go off and watch us from a distance to see how things would turn out. Rather, from the get -go, from Jump Street, from the garden, that which he created, he dwells with. He creates Adam, he creates Eve, and then he walks and talks with them in the cool of the afternoon. The pagan gods didn't do this sort of thing. They didn't pay attention necessarily to everything that was going on. The god of the deists, the people who think that God is just this aloof god out in the cosmos somewhere that has nothing to do with us, who wants that kind of god? Thank God that's not the god we have. Rather, we have a god who is with us in the midst of everything we're going through. This was true in the garden. It was true at Sinai. It was true in the tabernacle. It was true in the temple. That's true for even us as New Testament believers because where does God reside now? God is with us. Do you know how the book of Matthew closes? Do you know what the very last verse is? Here we see as Jesus is introduced, his name means, I'm with you, God with us, the very last verse in the book of Matthew, the very last block of text in the book of Matthew says the same thing. In the Great Commission, we see this. Go therefore, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, teaching them to serve all the things I've commanded you, and lo, I am with you even to the end of the age. You see that? There's a bookend. The moment Jesus is introduced in chapter 1, the message is that God has come down from the throne to be with his people. And then prior to his ultimate ascension, he says the same thing because I'm going to leave my helper. Oh, and by the way, I am with you even to the end of the age. That's a God we can love. That's a God we can worship. A God who is not just for us but a God who is with us. All right, if you would, let's look at verses 18 and 19. We're going to talk about the God who is with us as we see of his birth. In verses 18 and 19, we're going to see what was going on with Mary Joseph, and then we're going to work our way through the text as time will allow. Okay, verses 18 and 19. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. All right, at the start of this passage, we see something just very ordinary, something as natural as natural can be. There's a woman, an individual who's pregnant, a pregnancy that will lead to childbirth. Very natural, happens all the time. However, in these verses, we see that there's something unnatural or at least unusual that's going to take place. Verse 18 adds an unordinary qualifier. It says that there's going to be a pregnancy, normal, but in this case it will occur without physical union. Now I'm not a physician, but I have studied anatomy and the like, and I know that's just not the way that this works. Well, verse 18, we're seeing the seeds for something that we call the virgin birth, and this is one of the most important things to understand with regards to Christ's birth, with regards to the incarnation, because this is not an average everyday event. Rather, this is a miracle, and it's not just a miracle, but it's a fulfillment of prophecy, because Isaiah said this is the way it was going to go down. Behold, there be a virgin who would give birth to a child. Now verse 18 clarifies it. It's not Joseph's child, and for these verses, we know this much. They're betrothed, but there's been no physical union then. Now if you've seen Fiddler on the Roof, you remember the matchmaker? Remember the matchmaker? Well, they had similar things throughout Jewish history. They would have a season in which people were brought together. This was tradition. They were brought together by matchmakers and parents and others. They were put into a union, and yet there was a year. I know you want to sing it. There was a year of time after they were brought together in which they were sort of betrothed. We might consider it engaged. It's not really a point -for -point analogy, but they were betrothed. They spent a year in this estate prior to physical union. That's what's going on here. It's actually much stronger than an engagement. This is a strong relationship that they have, and yet it has not been consummated physically at this point. And so, all of a sudden, out of the blue, Mary is with child. Uh -oh. Now, we have lost touch with the word scandal. We really have. I mean, dear heavens, everything is a scandal. It doesn't matter what news. Whatever you pick up, there's a scandal on every page from every direction. It seems like every aspect of celebrity or politics or athletics or what have you, scandal, scandal, scandal. We've lost touch with it. In fairness, it didn't always used to be this way. If you're watching a TV show, if Barney Fife stole part of Andy Griffith's sandwich, they can make a whole scandalous episode out of that. There was things in the past that seemed scandalous at the time that now it's absolutely nothing. We've lost touch with scandal to the point we look at this text, and we don't understand what Joseph's going through. And his culture and his time, what he and Mary were just experiencing. She's pregnant, and there's no father. There's been no physical union. He is betrothed to someone who's pregnant, doesn't know what's going on. This was a scandal of scandals. And in his day, based on an understanding of Deuteronomy, this could even have led to her death. This was not a small thing. This is a huge, huge event that's taking place. And so, in verses 18 and 19, we see Joseph in the middle of a conundrum. He's betrothed to this individual who has this situation going on. He doesn't know how it happened. He doesn't know exactly what's going on, but he has concern. Now, he cares for Mary enough that he doesn't want to see this become the public spectacle that it otherwise very well could be. And so he attempts to find some way to accommodate her well -being, but apart from being able to marry her, because he's a just man, and there's obviously been in his mind an infidelity that's taken place that would disqualify that union. Now, before he could act on that impulse, an angel intervenes. Let's look at verses 20 and 21 to see what happens in this intervention. Verse 20, but while he thought about these things, while Joseph thought about all this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she'll bring forth a son, you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. All right. As we said in verses 18 and 19, Joseph and Mary, Mary is now pregnant. Joseph is trying to figure out what to do. And in verse 20, we see that while he's contemplating, which I'm sure this took some time for him to work this through, but while he's thinking about these things, he goes to sleep. He's worried, he's anxious, he falls asleep, and in the midst of his sleep, an angel of the Lord comes to him in a vision, in a dream. And this happens at other intervals as scripture as well. And when the angel comes to Joseph, it's a simple message. It says, Joseph, what you think has happened is not accurate. But let me tell you, you're worried you should take Mary as your wife. You shouldn't be. Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. Now, I don't know what kind of theologian Joseph was at this point. We believe him to be older than Mary, but we don't know what kind of theologian he was. But whatever his theology was, he probably didn't fully understand that last statement. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. Joseph didn't have John Calvin around to explain all the Trinitarian implications of this. And I imagine Joseph had more questions than answers, even when he hears this news. And yet he knew this much, even if he didn't have all the Trinity figured out at this time, even if he doesn't know what it means for the Spirit to overshadow her, even if he's still going, what does that mean? He at least knew this much, that Mary's pregnancy was not a function of her sin. He knew that there was not some other father in some tent down the street. He knew that the child that she was pregnant with was from God. And some way that he probably couldn't fully articulate, but he knew it was from God. And then God, through the angel, tells Joseph what to name him. Now naming rites in Jewish culture or any culture come from seats of authority. If you think about it in the garden, in the garden, Adam and Eve, you know, they're given the garden and all the animals are frolicking about as animals do. And Adam and Eve had a job, they actually had a couple of jobs. One was to take dominion over that which God had given them, and another thing was to do what for the animals? To name them, right? The greater names, the lesser, right? That's why parents named children are not children naming parents. Kind of glad it doesn't work that way. In this case, we see that God himself, through the angel, takes ownership over the name of his own son. It's not up to Joseph to name. He says his name will be Jesus. His name will be Jesus. We'll see that a little bit more in the verses yet to come. Whatever the case here is, the idea is that as this child is born of the Holy Spirit, this child comes with a purpose. His name will be Jesus because Jesus means what? It means the Lord is salvation. His person is yoked to his work. The angel identifies his person and his origins from God, the Holy Spirit, but he also identifies here's what he's come to do, and we're going to see that a little bit more in the verses yet to come. What we're also going to notice here, just a minute, is that when the angel talks about who will come to save his people from their sins, remember last week we talked about this. The people didn't necessarily have a problem with their sins. You know what the great irony is? You give someone a cure for a disease they don't think they have. If you come running up to someone on the streets of Gulfport with a vial of some cure, some medicine, or what have you, for a disease they don't understand they got, they'll just say, you crossed the other side of the street. They won't care because they don't recognize what you're holding is the cure for a problem that they have. The same is true with sin. The culture around us doesn't really think they have a problem with sin, and if they do think sin is a problem, they do this thing that's convenient. They redefine sin to be something that is external to them, a problem other people have. Whatever the case, when people had no understanding that they need to be saved from sin, if anything that they need to be saved from, it was going to be from Rome, which is what we talked about last week. Their fear, their concern, Joseph's concern, Mary's concern, the people down the street's concern was not so much that, oh, my sin is going to get me. And yet, that was the spiritual guillotine that was over their necks and ours apart from this child that was born. Every man, woman, and child has stood condemned under sin. You read the Book of Romans, the first five, six chapters, as Paul is condemning the human race and saying, well, this is our problem. Then, of course, he introduces the solution. Well, the angel introduced the solution too and says, this one has come not just to make your life better, not just to pour a little Jesus seasoning on things to give you your best life now. This one came to this end, to this object, to save you from your sins, to save you from a problem that you might not even understand that you have and that our culture certainly doesn't understand it has. That's why he came, and here's the thing. That's what the whole Old Testament said he would do. The Old Testament said when he shows up, when the Messiah we've been waiting from since Genesis 3 .15, when the seed shows up, he will come to save people from their sins, not what they were looking for in the first century, not what they were looking for in the 21st century. And yet the Old Testament prophecy said that's the guy to look out for, one who is not what you expect, one who will come to save you from your sins, one who is not going to come down on a red carpet from God, but will be born in a place like a manger. Isaiah 53, one of the most famous chapters that speaks to these issues, says this. This one would be wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace would be upon him. By his stripes we'll be healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to our own way, and the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity of us all. The angel got it, and he says in the manger, Joseph, and in the womb of Mary right now is the one that has come to do just that. And the cruel irony is the people won't be looking for that. As he gets older, they'll reject him. They'll reject what he came to do, and yet this is the one. This is the child. All right, let's take a look now at verses 22 through 25 and just kind of build on this case. Okay, verse 22. So all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord through the prophets, saying, Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son. They shall call his name Immanuel, which is translated God with us. Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took to him his wife, and did not know her until she had brought forth her firstborn son, and he called his name Jesus. All right, as we just said a moment ago, Christ's person is yoked to his work. The great problem in our age is that our culture doesn't do the same thing. At Christmastime in December, you just watch, people don't have a real problem with the person of Jesus so much. They like cute Jesus, even divine Jesus. That's not really the problem. The problem is his work. He came to convict us of our sins, to turn our hearts to God, to cause us to repent, and to rescue us from sins that most of us don't acknowledge that we have. But in this text, the angel spells it all out. He says this is the reason he's coming. This is the reason he's coming, in order to save them from their sins. And as he saves them from their sins, he will be the fulfillment of prophecies that said he would do just that, which is why even the angel quotes the Old Testament here. End of verse 23. Behold, the virgin shall be with child, shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel, which is translated God with us. There's a continuity you're supposed to see with that which is written down recorded in the Old Testament and that which comes on the scene here in Matthew chapter 1. God wants us to see that, and Matthew was desperate that his contemporaries saw it. Remember, their problem when they killed Jesus was they didn't recognize him for who he was. I mean, they had other issues too, but that was chief among them. They just didn't know what they were doing. Isn't that what Jesus said? Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. Same idea. They had a Messiah on their radar that they wanted, and it wasn't this one, this guy. So at Matthew, when he's writing chapter 1, when he's writing to the Jews, he started with the genealogies we talked about last week, and he said, all right, this Jesus is going to be a son of Abraham, which makes him a Jew, and it's going to be a son of David, which makes him a king, or in the line of kings. His objective was to tell the Jewish audience who this Jesus was. Well, here, as chapter 1 continues, he gives the biography even more so, and he says that this one, this Jesus, which means God is salvation, is also named Immanuel, which is an Old Testament prophecy that means God with us. Matthew's making the case, even here in chapter 1, clearly in chapter 1, to a Jewish audience, that this is the Jewish Messiah. Now, would that be compelling? Well, to some, yes. To others, not so much. Now, the past 15 minutes or so, we've quoted Isaiah a few times. I think I referenced Malachi as well, but there in verses 22 through 25, we see the reference again to Isaiah more acutely, more specifically, and this is a reference that to the Jewish audience should have resonated with him, but again, as we just said a moment ago, the irony is that it didn't. The reason that's ironic is this. Matthew knew that many of his fellow Jews had rejected Jesus while simultaneously longing for a Messiah, and his objective here in chapter 1 is to say, hey, guys, they're the one and the saint. The one you rejected is the one you were looking for, and that's what Peter does in Acts 2. He tells the Pharisees, you know the one you killed, the one you nailed to a tree, the one you hung on the cross? That was him, and when they finally get it in the book of Acts, when they finally get that, what happens to them? Scripture says they're just broken to the heart because then they understand what they did. They understand that the light of life had come to them. They didn't recognize it, and then they killed them. As we look to wrap up, we're going to build on all these things as we head towards baptism, as we go towards the temptation, and the things that are going to follow in the book of Matthew, but as we wrap up, I want to return briefly to the word Emmanuel, which we've already established means God with us. Now, earlier I used the term, the term deus. Let me explain briefly. I know many of us know it, but let me explain briefly for those who don't. Every culture, when it comes to religion, there's two camps that they fall in. One, assuming that they believe in God at all, one is the camp of the deist. That camp believes God exists, but we can't know him. He formed the world around us, but then he went off and he does his thing and we do ours. That's deism. As Christians, we're not deists. The alternate is what we call theism. Theism posits that God exists, but you can know him, and what's more, he wants you to know him. You and I are theists, and if you drill into that term even more, we're monotheists. We believe in one God. We're not polytheists that believe in a lot of them. We believe that there is a God. You can have a relationship with him. There is a God and there is just one. Now, that's highly desirable because the alternative is you have a God you can't know that doesn't care about you, and that's what a lot of agnostics in our day do. They go, I think there might be a God somewhere, but they really don't think you can have a relationship with him. Who wants that? Who desires that? Well, the picture in Matthew 1 and throughout the book of Matthew, the picture that's painted here is completely different. It's not about a God who formed the cosmos and went away. Rather, it's a God who is ever -present with creation and undergoes the life experiences, the human experiences that we do up to and including birth. You have a God that can relate to you. You know, one of the greatest hardships or plagues on our age is the plague of loneliness. It's this idea that no one can relate to what I'm going through. The life circumstances have conspired in such a way that I'm going through something that no one can really understand, no one can really relate to, and then there's an isolation that comes with that, even a withdrawal. Maybe some people withdraw from us, and then we're left in this estate. Some of us, maybe many of us, are left in a state of loneliness, maybe for a season, maybe for a lifetime, and it's the hardest thing if you've experienced it. If that's you or someone you know, this message of God with us, and this word of manual should hold a special meaning. Others leave might us, others might forsake us, others might let us down, and yet the God who walked with Adam and Eve, when there was just two of them in the cool of the afternoon, walks with us still. Even we're just one of us. God is with us no matter what we're going through. He's not just munching popcorn, watching what you're going through this week. Some of us have a picture of God that He's up there in the clouds somewhere with a long beard, a long robe, and He's just kind of doing this to see what we do, and He's ready to punish us and the like, and He's there and we're here, and there's this distance. That's not the God of Scripture. The God of Scripture is a God who is intimate and close and wants to be close to you and wants your hand to fit in His. He doesn't call you a peon in the kingdom of heaven. He calls you a son or daughter, and that has meaning. What father or mother among us has not held the hand of our child and felt that proximity, felt that closeness, felt that bond, felt that unity that comes with holding your own? Well, that's what God wants with you. And even now, even if we've been fleeing from Him, His arms are open to this. He came as a babe and a manger, the most defenseless thing that you can possibly come. He came from a state of great glory into a state of great hardship, great difficulty. It would ultimately lead to His death, and yet He did it because He loves His people. He's not indifferent to us. He's not indifferent to us. The other problem that we can sometimes verge into is we can think that He's indifferent to me, but He's cool with other Christians, but I've done something that is so egregious or He knows my past or He knows the things I did yesterday because of that there's this gap. If there's any gap in your walk with God, it's not because He's drifted away from you. It's because you're pushing Him away. The God of this book does not withdraw from children, from sons and daughters, but He's like the parable of the prodigal son. His arms are open wide. Matthew 1, God with us. Matthew 28, God with us. Behold, I am with you even to the end of the age. Whatever you face this week, this book is not an abstract thing that just applies to other religious people or you on occasion. It applies to you today. God's with you as you face whatever you're facing, whatever hardship you're walking down, whatever valley you're traversing, God is with you, and that's a great encouragement of Scripture, and no other faith can present it except this alone. God is with us. We see it in Matthew 1. We're going to see it in Matthew 2 and the balance of the book. Let's pray. Join Dr. Toby Holt and Dr. Dominic Aquila for a tour of Israel in February of 2024. For more information, visit fpcgulfport .org.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Pastor Allen Mashburn
"We are representing a second whistleblower from the FBI, Marcus Allen. Due to whistleblower retaliation by the FBI, I've been suspended without pay for over a year because of you, ACLJ donors. You get the best attorneys in the world. Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxas show sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. It's my privilege to introduce you today to someone to whom I have just been introduced. I'm talking about Pastor Alan Mashburn. Pastor Alan Mashburn is one of those crazy pastors who doesn't understand that you got to keep religion out of politics. You should never mix the two. Well, maybe I'm kidding. Alan Mashburn is running. Pastor Alan Mashburn is running to be the 36th lieutenant governor of North Carolina. Now, I don't know if you folks know, but the current lieutenant governor of North Carolina is a hothead, a Christian named Mark Robinson, who is just one of the brightest lights in American politics today. So he, I'm told by Pastor Alan Mashburn, is going to be running for governor. Praise the Lord. And Alan Pastor Mashburn is running for lieutenant governor. All I can tell you is I'm ready to move to North Carolina if this happens. Pastor Alan Mashburn, welcome to this program. Well, thank you, Eric. It's an honor to be on. I appreciate all you have done in promoting conservatism and Christian causes. Well, listen, you and I know that we forget about conservatism and Christian causes. We're just interested in truth. And it just so happens that in this crazy day and age, that falls into the category of conservatism or Christian causes. But it used to fall in the category of common sense and reality. And we are now at a point where the insane left, sometimes the demonic left, has been really at war with reality and with the God of the Bible, with his reality and with everywhere we look. So we're seeing moral corruption. We've never seen anything like it, let's be honest, in our lifetimes, never seen anything like it. So it thrills me that you, who are a pastor, are running for lieutenant governor in North Carolina. I heard Mark Robinson speak, I don't know, about a year ago someplace. And I thought, wow, this is tremendous that we have men of God running for public office, winning public office. I want to talk to you about everything. But give me a little bit of a background on yourself. Where did you grow up and how did you come to be who you are today? Well, I grew up in central North Carolina and North Carolina has always been home, except for the time I moved away in college. I have been a pastor for over 30 years and I have a family, of course, my wife, Melissa. We have four children all the way from ages 19 down to age four.
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A highlight from Chairman Gallagher on What Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Should Ask the GOP Candidates About Xi and CCP
"We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, Hillsdale dot edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, a listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google Apple, iTunes and Hillsdale. Morning Glory America Bonjour. Hi, Canada. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Tomorrow night, eight Republicans will meet on the stage in Milwaukee for a debate. I am certain that China will come up the Chinese Communist Party, but I'm not sure how. Brett Baer, of course, coming up later in the program. Martha McCollum, two superb professionals, the equal of anyone else in our business, will be asking the question. But I thought I would talk it through with the chairman of the House Select Committee on Engagement with the Chinese Communist Party. Mike Gallagher, congressman. Good morning. Great to have you. Thank you for joining me. It is great to be with you, Hugh. We're going to come back around to this kind of war, which I finished last night on the recommendation of you. It is a remarkable book. And I had no idea how awful the chai comms were to our American prisoners. I just I didn't know. Did you know that before? Did the Marines teach you that when you were in the Marines? No, there's there's two things that I think, well, a lot of actually our modern thinking about how to prepare people for when they get captured. Think survival of Asian resistance and escape school, which I attended when I was in the Marine Corps actually comes out of the experience of the Korean War, particularly some politically sensitive moments when a few American captives refused actually to go home. There was, of course, this controversy during that time period post Korean War in the 50s about this idea of brainwashing. This is prominently expressed in the fictional book The Manchurian Candidate, which became a major American movie. But a lot of our thinking about how to better prepare pilots in particular because they get shot down for resisting in captivity actually comes out of that period. Well, a couple of takeaways I'll never forget. There are no Turks died in the camps. The Turks are the toughest people in the world, and none of them died in the Chinese Communist Party camps. And the Americans didn't eat everything they could eat because they didn't like it and they died of starvation. But the fact that the Chinese communists treated our men that way is a tell because they've reverted to this mode. They were the hardcore Maoist, Leninist mode in 1950 through 1953, and they've reverted. And that's what I want to talk to you about. I want to ask you at length. We got a lot of time this morning and thank you for the time. If you were advising Brett and Martha based upon your six months, what would you tell them are the major takeaways that you've learned as the chairman of the Select Committee? And how would you suggest they be turned into a question? Take your time, because that's a big that's a big question. What have you learned thus far in six months? And how would you convert that into questions for our candidates? Well, I think the overall thing to realize for these candidates and this advice is worth what they're paying me for it is that there is, in my opinion, something called the commander in chief test. It's not you know, you're not graded A through F. I think it's a pass fail endeavor, but it is absolutely critical. Put differently, I'm not myopic enough to believe that foreign policy or a particular issue of foreign policy is going to win the candidate candidate the election, but it could very well lose them the election. The final thing to say about the assumptions going into this when it comes to foreign policy is that the conventional wisdom is that it doesn't really matter from a political electoral perspective. And there's a lot of social science to support that. I just would say it doesn't matter until it does. It doesn't matter until things go haywire on the world stage and suddenly voters are looking to a prospective commander in chief to communicate, if nothing else, a sense of safety that I have the temperament and the plan to keep America safe in a very dangerous world, which leads, I think, to the answer your question more than anything else. I think these candidates need to communicate that they have a clear understanding of the threat we face in the Chinese Communist Party, the scale and scope of this threat. Why this isn't just a matter of some obscure territorial disputes in the South China Sea. This is indeed a global competition. The CCP has global ambitions. What happens in Xinjiang, what happens in Beijing is not going to stay there. They are intent on exporting their model of total techno totalitarian control, which leads to the second point that you need to find a way to contrast that threat to enduring the and inherently superior American values. And I do believe that this is a contest between two fundamentally incompatible systems of government. And it's unlike anything we've seen since, of course, the old Cold War. So communicating the stakes, communicating who we're dealing with in the nature of a Marxist Leninist regime that will stop at nothing to ensure that they survive at the expense of their own people. And that is the enemy of freedom around the world is the most important thing. In fact, I would say even more important than any particular policy position is just communicating that understanding of the threat and the prioritization of the threat, a recognition that as president, the most important issue that you will be dealing with as commander in chief is how to deter a war with the CCP in the short term and win a new Cold War with the CCP over the long term. So let's put that in the form of a question for Brett and Martha, because I think you're right, I am looking at, of course, I've always looked at every one of these debates as an audition to be commander in chief. Eventually, there comes a choice with the Democrat. But right now, when I vote in the Virginia primary, I will vote based on who will be the best commander in chief. And because that's what matter. 9 -11 matters. What is the W do on 9 -11 that matters? What does W do? The Afghanistan and Iraq. What does anyone do on any moment of crisis? What do they do in the situation room? Figuring out how to elicit that about China is a difficult thing. So you've been doing nothing but this for six months. And by the way, recap for our audience and Pittsburgh Steeler fans what you have been doing for six months, because they may never have heard of the select committee. This might be the first day they're listening to the audience. No acronyms or five dollars in the tip jar for food for the poor. Well, the speaker of the House created the select committee on the CCP to do two things. One is to communicate why this matters, why anybody in northeast Wisconsin or Pittsburgh or Ohio should care about the threat posed by the CCP, to shine a light on all the things that they're doing, whether it's threatening to invade Taiwan, whether it's establishing illegal police stations on American soil, whether it's infiltrating American universities or attempting to build spy bases in our near abroad, to explain why it matters and why your average American should care about it. The second thing is to identify policies and pieces of legislation that can pass even in divided government. In the 118th Congress, what is the center of gravity in terms of steps that we can take in order to put ourselves on a better position to beat the CCP in this short and long term competition? So that's what we've been doing. We've broken it down, essentially, as though this isn't a perfect organization into three main lines of effort. And I do think this reflects our overall lines of effort, our grand strategy against China basically has three main components. One is military competition. What are the things we need to do to deter a war over Taiwan in the near term, as well as ensure that we maintain our dominant military position over the long term? The second is what I call economic statecraft. How do we selectively decouple from China so they don't have a coercive leverage over us so they can't threaten, for example, to cut off the export of advanced pharmaceutical ingredients in order to bring us to our knees? And then the third line of effort is what I call ideological warfare or ideological competition, which is not only how do we rediscover a language for talking about American values and incorporate values and human rights back into American grand strategy, but also how do we better defend our institutions from Chinese Communist Party subversion, from something called United Front Work, from traditional espionage, things like that. So we aren't corrupted and divided from within, which is what the Chinese Communist Party is trying to do. Wang Huning, who's Xi Jinping's top lieutenant in the 90s, wrote a book called America Against America, in which he talks about Americans as greedy, factional. And that that title, America against America, I think reflects their overall strategy, which is to divide Americans against Americans and thereby make it impossible for us to compete. So we've been developing policy recommendations along each of those lines. We've put out two reports, one on military competition, one related to human rights. And we're going to be putting out further reports. So, you know, I think those are useful starting points for for candidates who want to prepare for a debate in terms of where's Congress at on this issue? Where's the bipartisan center of gravity? Where can you potentially build on some of our work? But that's what we've been doing for six months. It's trying to understand and explain the threat and then identify policy solutions that help us to combat that threat. How would you put that in the form of a question by Brett or Martha? Well, there's the overall prioritization question, you know, what is the biggest threat to American national security, which is a bit boring, but no, it's not that's not boring. That that is that is the question, isn't it? Shouldn't that just be asked? What is the number one threat to American national security and why? Shouldn't that be it? Yeah, I think that that's table stakes, right? That's a good diagnostic question. And then it also allows the candidates, if they want to use their full time and I forget how much time they get to really articulate the key distinction between them and the Biden administration, because if you read the Biden administration's national security strategy that they talk about China as a pacing threat, although I'm hearing now that the Pentagon is saying don't say pacing threat, say pacing challenge or competitor, because we obviously don't want to provoke the CCP for whatever reason. I've described this as kind of like a Voldemort phenomenon. There's this belief that the more more we say things like New Cold War or say that the CCP is doing bad things, that it will somehow become more true, which I think is absurd. I'll be right back. Sherman Gallagher is going to stay with me through the break and then we're going to bring him back and then we're going to do that again. And we're going to talk to him for 15 minutes this morning about this. I can't believe I'm doing that. 15 minutes with Mike Gallagher coming right at you, America. Stay tuned. I'm back now with Chairman Mike Gallagher. This is the segment between the radio segments, so you don't get to hear this unless you're watching it on YouTube or on the on the television station. Chairman, in terms of what level should we expect of our candidates knowledge? I see your Green Bay Packers thing yet. Do you know the Browns cleared 38 million in cap yesterday by restructuring Joel Bentonio and Miles Garrett's contract? We have no we have the most cap space in the NFL. We are the team to beat. We will see you. I actually I don't think you're making it to the Super Bowl this year. We are going to be in the Super Bowl this year and you are not ready for this. I'm glad this isn't on the air because this is a serious conversation. But you had to do that little thing. And I'll I'll just go get my brown sweater and just put it on during this segment like that. I'm going to wear this all the time now on the air because we're going to the Super Bowl. Chairman, do you know that we cleared Miles Garrett contract yesterday? You know what we do? Do you follow sports at all or do you just do ChaiCom stuff? I don't follow Brown's contract minutia. I'll confess. I'll confess that, though. I was I was yesterday. Someone said that I had the potential to coach for the Browns after I helped them with a constituent case issue, to which I said I would never coach for the Browns on an Intel. All right. Let me get serious again. I'm going to try to go off the off the rail. We'll get back on the rails. How many times have you guys held public hearings? Oh, gosh, I think 10 at this point, approximately 10. You had at least one set of war games. You have more war games coming. We do. We have we have at least one more coming up that's going to be more focused on economic and supply chain issues. OK. Do you think the candidates know anything about that? I really do want to try and use today to focus their attention on China. Do you think they know anything about what the select committee has been doing? Have you been approached by any of them? I think some do. It's part of the reason I wrote an op ed on this that appeared today in The Wall Street Journal just came out was an effort, maybe shamelessly, to draw attention to some of the things we're doing, because I think it creates some unique opportunities. I mean, to me, you know, the most and this reflects my bias in thinking that hard power is the most important variable on the world stage. I think a candidate who can articulate what we need to do to rebuild the military in general, but really the Navy in particular, which is, as you know, Hugh is really struggling right now. It needs to be our priority force in our priority theater. It's not. We're going backwards. There's questions about focus, warfighting prowess. You know, I wrote a report with the help of Admiral Montgomery about the lack of warfighting focus in the surface Navy with Tom Cotton, Dan Crenshaw and others. I mean, I think that's a massive opportunity for a candidate really to take the ball on defense and go a few layers deep beyond just peace through strength, military good, China bad. You go a few layers deep on that and sort of communicate that you have a coherent plan. Doesn't need to be super detailed. Doesn't need to be a 50 page white paper about everything we need to do. But just as an overall strategy for fiction, I'm going to get your comms team in trouble again. I haven't seen this plan that you and Cotton worked on. How can I not have seen this plan? Well, this is a year ago. You got to blame Cotton's comms team for this because he was OK. And usually it's good to blame Tom Cotton. He's on next hour. I'll do that. Is that widely available? Yeah, it's Cotton did it with four of us in the house. It was over a year, a year and a half ago, kind of in response to all of these ship collisions. Some of the reports that we were getting from active duty sailors and just the changes over the years to training in the surface Navy. We did a deep dive drawing on the expertise of Admiral Montgomery and others. I will give him about that in the next hour and I'll get a link and I'll make sure it's posted out to the candidates. Don't go anywhere. I'm coming right back with Chairman Gallagher. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, Chairman Mike Gallagher of the House Select Committee on Engagement, the Chinese Communist Party returns. We talked during the break and we got off course because we did a little football trash talk. But now we're back on course. Chairman Gallagher, have you read this book? You had Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the warriors who fought to the end. It it made me furious. It absolutely made me furious. Have you had a chance to read it yet? No, but my friend Commander Salamander, who's great in his podcast, Midrats, I highly recommend, just did a podcast with with the authors. So I listened to it. It's not the same, but I am now looking forward to reading the actual hard copy. Well, the end of the book, which I don't know of Commander Salamander got to because I didn't get to it and I talked to him for a long time. It's about how the chai comms came in as soon as we left. They have designs on Bagram. They know what the air raids mean. They know what the strategic minerals mean. It's just a great example of what happens when we retreat in the world. In fact, in the in the this kind of war book you had me read, I wrote down some notes. A retreat once started as the most difficult of all human actions to reverse. And they were talking about the retreat of the Norcs at that point. And then we would retreat later when they counterattack with the chai comms. But we retreated from Afghanistan and they have come in. Have you focused yet on what they're doing there? It hasn't been, admittedly, a subject of a hearing. You know, we have experts, you know, regional experts and Afghanistan experts. I think the key thing to bring it back to the the presidential debate, obviously the obvious thing to do is to connect the surrender to terrorists in Afghanistan, our abandonment of our position, our abandonment of billions of dollars worth of military equipment to then the collapse of deterrence in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, because I do believe that our feckless position in Afghanistan sent a clear signal of weakness to Vladimir Putin. And no wonder Vladimir Putin ignored all of our warnings leading up to the invasion on February 24th because we look so weak on the world stage and we allowed terrorists to completely take over the country. And I think also that has had a negative impact on our deterrent posture in in the Indo -Pacific, across the Taiwan Strait. You mentioned critical minerals. I also think this is a huge opportunity for presidential candidates to articulate a plausible path towards reducing our dependency on China for critical mineral processing. They control 90 percent of the processing. Right now, I think our attempts to wean ourselves off of our to to establish some form of semiconductor manufacturing independence are not going to be successful, in part because the Biden administration has placed so many onerous regulations on grants for chips, fabrication facilities. But if a Republican candidate, particularly one with a business background or with a gubernatorial background, came in and said, here's our strategy when it comes to advanced pharmaceutical ingredients, critical minerals and rare earth processing, tie that to a robust domestic economic agenda. That's a massive opportunity for someone trying to pass the commander in chief test, because the reality is we are going to have to reclaim our economic independence from China in key areas. The progressives are experimenting with one way to do it. We need to identify a way that is fundamentally free market, but not but nonetheless achieves the actual goal of reducing our dependency on China. Chairman Gallagher, there's only one veteran on the stage, Ron DeSantis. Mike Pence has got a son and a son in law on active duty. Of course, Nikki Haley's husband is deployed. Those three know about this in terms of of why is China a threat? Is it a fair question to ask? Why is China a threat? What is it that worries you about China? Is that a fair question? If so, how would you answer that or suggest they answer that if you are one of the people on the stage? Well, first of all, I do think DeSantis has been really good on China and probably the best in the field. I was watching the forum that they did in Iowa. I forget what it's called, the Iowa Faith and Family Forum. And he proactively brought up China as an issue and talked about what he's done in Florida to combat the threat, talked about the threat in global terms. And so the most of the discussion focused on Ukraine. And I understand that that's more of a politically divisive issue on the stage. And so there is a you know, I think the moderators will want to identify the differences between the candidate thus far. Governor DeSantis has been talking in clear and unapologetic language about why the CCP is a threat and what he would do to combat it, which is greatly appreciated. More to your point, as a Navy veteran, I think he has a huge opportunity to be the Navy guy, be the guy who's going to rebuild the Navy and put it in a position where it can it can deter Xi Jinping from attempting to achieve his lifelong ambition was to take Taiwan by force. So to answer your question, Vivek just told me last week, we'll give them Taiwan after we achieve semiconductor independence. In other words, Vivek understands Taiwan is important for its semiconductor. Your colleague on the committee, Ro Khanna, tweeted at me last night when I was already offline that that doesn't do the trick. That's not why we're worried about Taiwan going down. Who's right? Well, obviously, our interests in Taiwan extend far beyond semiconductors. Our interests predate Taiwan's emergence as a semiconductor powerhouse. And if the concern from Vivek and I think it is that our dependence on TSMC for semiconductor manufacturing needs to be eliminated, I just would say two things. It's highly unlikely that we're going to achieve semiconductor independence by 2028. TSMC is investing far more money than the CHIPS Act is investing right now. Even under a Republican president, we would struggle to wean ourself off our dependency. But if the CCP had control of Taiwan, they would still be able to hold the rest of the world economically hostage. And that is the issue. Semiconductors or other or some sort of domain of economic competition. If they had Taiwan, they would be able to completely dominate the region through which trillions of dollars of international trade go. The other thing I would say, it's I mean, we got to go to break. I'll come back to go to break. We'll be right back with Chairman Gallagher during the break and then one more segment beyond. Don't go anywhere. America, I'm Hugh Hewitt. Portions of The Hugh Hewitt Show are brought to you by Food for the Poor. So I'm back with Chairman Gallagher, Chairman Vivek's answer to that is I'm going to get India to cooperate. And if Taiwan closes the Taiwan Straits, we're going to close the Malacca Straits. Ro Khanna says that's that's crazy. That doesn't work. I don't know what the answer is, but I know what Vivek has told me. I don't think he agrees with you, but I'll let him speak for himself. I don't want to put words in his mouth that we have to worry that much about the Taiwan Strait. Well, he's obviously very smart. I would say this with Marxist Leninist regimes, their appetites grow with the eating. So I think it would be a mistake to think that if we just surrender Taiwan on a date certain that we wouldn't have to worry about the problem. If they're the dominant regional power, they're one step closer to becoming the dominant global power. And that, I think, is the answer to your earlier question. Why? Why is the CCP a threat? Because they're trying to destroy our geopolitical position. Primarily by convincing us to destroy ourselves, they believe, as we mince words about whether they're a competitor or an adversary, they certainly believe that they're in an existential war with the free world led by America and that China will win, rendering America and our constitutional system of self -government subordinate, humiliated and wholly irrelevant on the world stage. So you can sort of think of it as as an assisted suicide. You know, they're trying to expedite our collapse. They provide the chemicals, fentanyl, the collapse in prosperity. Covid, IP theft, economic warfare and the self -loathing and depression via political interference and information warfare. So I think the the the threat would not stop after Xi Jinping had taken Taiwan. I think it would only expedite and become greater. So if you could read Xi Jinping's mind, what is he thinking about us? What does he want to see happen to us? I think he wants us to look inward and to abandon our position on the world stage and to be consumed with internal political battles. I also think he likes seeing us embrace this almost the CCP's narrative that America is an evil country. America is a neo colonial racist hellscape. I mean, this is CCP propaganda that a lot of Americans have embraced. I think ultimately he wants us to lose faith in ourselves as a force for good in the world. And ultimately, over time, he thinks the rest of the world is going to Finland dies more in the CCP's direction as an alternative model of government and world leadership, in part because America has lost faith in itself. That's why I think primarily the hard power is the most important variable. This is an ideological competition overall. And ignoring the role ideology plays in the competition is a fatal flaw. And so we need to find a way to press the candidates on that as well. You know, the we got two minutes before we come back. The ideological competition is quite simply not discussed. And I don't think our media is familiar with it. They're not stupid. They're ignorant of the ideological. They don't even believe it exists anymore. Chairman, have you run into that? Do your Democratic colleagues believe that there are such things like Leninist and that that the 20th century ideological competition is back with a vengeance? Well, I think for two and a half decades, we tried to take the communist out of Chinese Communist Party, and this belief persists that, well, they're not really communist. They're not really Marxist. They've embraced forms of capitalism and they're they're rational actors. And I think this is a dangerous way of thinking to go down, particularly under Xi Jinping. The party has embraced its Marxist Leninist roots. Xi's spirit animal is, in fact, Stalin. He looks to Stalin for guidance on how to operate. And so a candidate who understands that and can articulate that, I think, has a massive opportunity to distinguish themselves. The Democrats sort of come at the ideological competition through human rights. And there are a lot who genuinely believe in the cause of human rights. And though there are times when we have to prioritize between security concerns and human rights, this is when dealing with China, that's not an issue at all. We're coming right back. Stand by, chairman.
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"The Eric Mataxas Show? Well, welcome! Tune in, and then move on to item number eight, Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Mataxas! Hey folks, welcome to the show, or to this part of the show. I have the privilege and joy of having as my guest in this hour someone many of you are familiar with, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. He is, as you probably know if you know anything about him, a Christian constitutional conservative. So am I. He is a combat veteran. I am not. He's a former member of the U .S. Congress. I'm also not a former member of the U .S. Congress. As you know, I am currently the senator from the great state of Wyoming. Actually, just kidding. Allen West, Colonel, welcome to the program. It's good to be back with you, Eric, and thanks for lowering your standards and allowing an old paratrooper to come on. An old paratrooper, yeah. I don't think anybody thinks of you that way, but thank you for being so humble. I gotta ask you, there's a lot to talk about, but you wrote an article, you write a weekly article for townhall .com, and the new one is called The Gist of What You Have to Say There in the new article at townhall .com. Sure. Well, I think that when you start to listen to this whole thing about equity, what it means is that we're not going to be judging people based upon their character or evaluating them based upon merit. It's all about a certain color skin or demographic or thing of this nature. And I bring out the point with this current nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, who is basically Al Sharpton with four stars on his shoulder, and how he came out and said that he does not want to have any more than 46 % of white combat fighter pilots in the Air Force. And I'm thinking, what happened to just wanting to have good pilots in the Air Force, those that have the skill and have the ability to fly and to fight and to win? And then I further go into the instance of Kamala Harris, who without a doubt was selected because of identity politics. And now the Democrat party finds himself in a very tough situation, Eric, because you have a current president in Joe Biden that really is faltering. He is failing, but without a doubt, they're afraid to replace him with Kamala Harris because her approval rating is even worse. So the pitfall of identity politics, when you don't look at people based upon their skill, their capability, their competency and merit, this is where you end up falling. Well, I mean, I think where we should start is to say that we understand that a good idea can go wrong, right? In other words, the idea that, you know, we want different kinds of people represented, whatever, like that's sort of a nice idea. But the question is, how far do you take it? What do you mean when you say different kinds of people? So it's one of these ideas that the reason it's appealing to so many is because it sounds good, right? You know, it sort of sounds like a nice idea. I mean, when Barack Obama was elected president, before we all knew that he was a communist, you know, a lot of people thought, it's a nice, it's nice optics that America, which has struggled with racism, which struggled with slavery, that we now have somebody in the White House who is a black man, you know, and on the most surface level, those things matter, optics matter. But obviously, something happens when the government gets involved. And they start saying, we're going to mandate these kinds of quotas. And we know that the Supreme Court very recently overturned the affirmative action idea for colleges, something that, you know, you and I, we grew up with this, that this is like this basic thing. And you kind of think, is this ever going to, are we ever going to get past this? Well, we finally did, because we have a Supreme Court that understood that, you know, this is not constitutional. But what we're talking about now, what you just talked about, when you're talking about it, you know, is he the chairman of the Joint Chiefs or to become? Well, he is currently the chief of staff, the United States Air Force, and he's been nominated to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So when someone like that takes this thing to the nth degree, and says that we want x percentage of people who are blacks piloting, you think, well, you got to be kidding me, like you're kidding, you're talking about fighter pilots, why would you degrade the the military by saying this is the metric? Why would you do that? What does it say about what kind of a leader you are in the military? How did someone like that, who you describe as, you know, Al Sharpton with four stars, how can somebody like that have risen to get four stars? That doesn't And one of the problems that you're seeing in the military right now in the senior level leadership is that we don't have the best or the most competent, we have the most politicized. And one of the things going back, speaking of Barack Obama, what he did very successfully in his time as president was to purge out senior military leaders that did not want to go along with this ideological agenda. And you're right, in that many people in the United States of America thought that this optic of having this black man to be president United States of America would wash away all of the previous condemnations and the sins of the country. But what we should be doing is not looking at optics, we should be looking at character. And I think that that's one of the things that we learn and know about as Christians, when you know, Jesus Christ talked about, you know, it is not so much what someone is having enter in through their mouth is what comes out of their mouth, because it's coming from their heart. And I think that's what we have to start evaluating people on. And you write something like affirmative action, you know, it sounded real good back in the day, I'm quite sure you can agree. But when you start to understand the soft bigotry of the low expectations, this says that, you know, because of your skin color, I just don't think you can make this standard, you can meet this qualification, but we're still going to allow you to be a part of something. And see, that is what is anathema to us in the United States military, because the standard should never change, the qualification should never change. So I go back and think about the Tuskegee Airmen, the 332nd Fighter Squadron, the first black combat fighter pilots, and guess what, no one was caring about their skin color, when they were the most requested bomber escort union unit in World War Two. And that was because they never lost the bomber. So it wasn't about we want to have these guys escort us because they're black. We want them to escort us because we know we'll get home. That's what we should be looking for.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"lieutenant" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"This man was a decorated police lieutenant. What does this tell us about his past? Who is this man really? I mean, they are so many questions. Listen, we're going to continue to look at this. I'll continue to track the case, love, love, love, and appreciate all of you. I got to go, my wife and I both have doctors appointments to dad. I told you I'm getting better and better, I think. Recovering from a serious lung infection that I've had over the past few weeks, my wife is recovering from a surgery that she had. So thank you so much for your love and prayers and support. But this case all has got me hot. Let's continue to track it and follow it. Love and appreciate all of you. Take care of my be right back here tomorrow. See you soon. Break it down put a break break the break the break breakdown. I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we are the momentum advisers every single week. We talk about wealth management, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. We are financial advisers by day, we're entrepreneurs by night. We're building wealth for ourselves and we want to make sure that you understand how to build wealth in your own family. Tune in for shows like is your money racist, retirement savings, investment one O one. We literally run the gamut on all the things that you need to know about financial wealth, creating a legacy for your family, and really just wealth creation as a whole. What we find is that these conversations are happening, but they're not happening as much as they need to in diverse communities. And so we're bringing a new voice, a new amount of energy, and we want you to tune in. So we bring the tips we bring the strategy and we always bring the good news. So make sure you tune in every week to the momentum advisers, there's something for everyone.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"lieutenant" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"As you may know, though white supremacist organization, the Proud Boys, were one of the main groups behind organizing the mobs on January the 6th, two years ago, where there was an insurrection at the nation's capital where they took over the capitol, multiple people died officers were brutalized, I mean, completely dismissing the myth that conservatives love police. They don't love police, conservatives hate black folk. When they talk about being pro police, it's because they're anti black. They're not pro police. And they beat and battered and mall police all over the capitol. And conservatives didn't speak out against it. In fact, conservatives have been horrible to those police for the past two years. And so many people wondered, why in the world did the D.C. police really take so long to respond and did the Proud Boys and other organizers have inside information? People have always wondered this. I mean, from the moment the attacks were underway, and it was revealed yesterday. In the very serious federal sedition trial, which is our incredibly serious charges, it was revealed in the federal sedition trial that the D.C. metro police department lieutenant Shane LeMond, a white man. Was passing secrets to the Proud Boys for months. And here's what's wild. Dudes still has his job. Not only has he not been charged. He hasn't even been fired. He is on paid leave right now. Even though it appears, the D.C. police department has been knowing for months and months. He was suspended. This past February, it is, let me double check on that. I'm like, oh no, it's February right now. I think he was just suspended earlier this month. I once it was revealed to them what took place. Dude still has his job and it was revealed and they showed the text messages and open court. But for months and months and months, he was giving the Proud Boys heads up. Telling them where police were going to be, you know, letting them know when people were going to be arrested. What was going to happen? He was basically acting as an inside informant for the Proud Boys right up until the days leading up until the January 6th insurrection. These are the types of things that we've been told for years. The FBI released a report ten years ago saying that it is a very serious possibility that literal white supremacists were infiltrating police departments across America. What is man Shane Lamont? Is literally giving inside private information to the Proud Boys? Information that was helping them understand exactly what risk they were taking exactly where police would be, who was going to be arrested when, where, why and when and dude still has his job. Which I want to say blows my mind, but it doesn't. Because police in America are about as hard let me correct that. White police in America are about as hard to fire as any single person in the country. And I say white police because you saw those black officers that all participated in the murder of Tyree Nichols, those black cops were fired immediately and within a few weeks were fired, charged, arrested, jailed, I mean, lightning fast, as they should have been. But here we have definitive proof. That a cop is giving inside information to the Proud Boys. As I hold on, if they're charged with federal sedition of trying to overthrow the government, what does this mean? What are his charges? Where are his charges? How is he on paid leave? How has he not been fired? Let's unpack and explain it right after the break, we have a quick word from some of our sponsors. And I'll be right back, stick with us. I've got so many questions. About how these men officer lieutenant Shane Lamont and the D.C. police department and the Proud Boys, how did they get to know each other? Here's the thing. Because this trial is not about officer Shane lamon, because he hasn't even been fired, more or less charged. All we really know about the extent of their relationship are the text messages that they had, we know that some of those text messages have been deleted. We know that they also have phone calls. We don't know the nature or the extent of those phone calls, but did they meet in person? When, where, why, how? How the question I really want to know is, how did they get to know one another? How did the lieutenant of the D.C. police department? Get to know these particular Proud Boys. Where did they meet? How did they get each other's information? How did they become connections and informants for one another? How did they begin working together? What was the nature of their relationship? Was it paid? Was it unpaid? What was really going on here? And I mean, all of those questions have to be answered. This man's cases need to be investigated and pulled. At the moment in which it's determined that a D.C. police officer is acting as an informant for the Proud Boys, not the other way around. That he is the informant. Not the Proud Boys are informing him. But he is the informant for them. At that point, we've got a lot of questions. And that this man hasn't been fired is peculiar. But he hasn't been charged is peculiar. Because this was two years ago when was this learned? When did this information come to light? How much longer was he allowed to work his job after it came to light? How much longer after January 6th did he keep communications with them? Was he continuing to inform them after January 6th or did it stop there? I have so many questions. But it really starts with this officer being fired and charged. Why does he still have his job? Tell me that. Besides him being a white police officer and white police officers having so many protections in America, why else does this man still have his job? It makes no sense. I'll pay leave or not. Why is he not been terminated? Are you going to allow this man to resign and keep his pension? That's what it looks like. Particularly now that I have his photo plastered on my Instagram page, you can go there right now and see him,
Bloomberg Radio New York
"lieutenant" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Social platform former president Trump says I will be putting out my response to the unselect committee of political hacks and thugs. It comes after the house elect committee investigating the January 6th capitol riot voted unanimously to subpoena Trump. They say they presented the evidence that Trump set the events in motion. The committee displayed new evidence that showed the Secret Service had received tips of potential violence on January 6th nearly two weeks before the capitol riot, committee member democratic congressman Adam Schiff. This female, for example, was an alert that the Secret Service received on December 24th with the heading, armed and ready, mister president, according to the intelligence, multiple users online were targeting members of Congress, instructing others to march into the chambers on January 6th and make sure they know who to fear. Congressman Schiff and other committee members say the former president must be held accountable. The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from former president Trump after he asked the court to intervene in the fight over the FBI surge of his Florida estate. The ruling means judge Raymond Derry, who was appointed by a Florida federal judge, will continue his independent review of the more than 11,000 documents seized by the FBI, but will not review the more than 100 documents with classified markings. 5 are dead including an off duty police officer after his shooting spree and Raleigh, North Carolina in a neighborhood. Raleigh police lieutenant Jason Borneo said police are questioning a male juvenile suspect. Motive, the reasoning behind their actions is going to come to bear in the coming days. Lieutenant Borneo joined the mayor of Raleigh saying we must stop this mindless violence in America. Connecticut governor Ned leman has ordered flags flown at half staff after two police officers were killed and a third wounded and a shooting in Bristol. Authorities believe the 9-1-1 call about a domestic emergency was a hoax to set up the officers. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news. 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries, some Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg. This is the Bloomberg real estate report. Brought to you by the national association of realtors. Rising market trades have a growing number of potential movers hunkering down in their current places instead. People can't move. Billionaire real estate investor Barry stern. If you have a fixed rate mortgage and it's a 3%, you're not going to move to a new house with a 7% mortgage. So you're going to be stuck, which is why new home sales are plummeting. In time Redfin says, as mortgage rates hover around 7% home prices are softening in the Bay Area. Down 2% year on year in San Francisco. And 3% in Oakland, home prices in most other major metros did rise year on year home searches though. They plunged 35% from a year ago to the lowest since the march 2020 started the pandemic. And if you are trying to buy of course all this means less competition, as for inventory, it is finally increasing a bit to almost three months worth at the most since July of 2020. In a sign there is still demand out there though. One in three homes nationwide currently selling for more than the asking. And that simple burglary estate port, I'm Denise Pellegrini
Bloomberg Radio New York
"lieutenant" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"5 33 on Wall Street 53° in Central Park still dealing with the accident westbound Hempstead turnpike, Michael Barr has more on what's going on in New York and around the world, Michael. Thank you very much, Nathan, a suspect is in custody in the fatal stabbing of a 61 year old FD and my emergency medical services lieutenant. Police say Alison Russo was stabbed yesterday afternoon in a random attack while on duty standing outside an FDNY EMS station in Queens. Russo was rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. New York mayor Eric Adams. She was working for this city. She plays paid the ultimate sacrifice because of that. Russell's death sparked an outpouring of emotion and sympathy outside the hospital with lots of tears and hugs, Laura kavanagh is the acting FDNY commissioner. Lieutenant Russo exemplified FDNY EMS. She served the city for 25 years. She was a World Trade Center first responder. She was cited multiple times for her bravery and her life saving work. The suspect, a 34 year old man is not been charged yet, an official says a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of zapper Asia killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens, at least 28 others were wounded when Russian forces targeted a humanitarian convoy heading to Russian occupied territory. It happened just hours before Moscow planned to annex more of Ukraine in an escalation of the 7 month war. President Biden called Russia's so called referendum aimed at annexing Ukrainian land and absolute sham. The United States I want to be very clear about this. The United States will never never, never recognize Russia's claims on Ukraine, sovereign territory. Biden made his comments speaking to Pacific island leaders at The White House. The wife of Supreme Court Justice clarence Thomas appeared before the January 6th committee investigating the capitol riot. Jenny Thomas answered questions behind closed doors for four hours in the days after the 2020 election she urged the Trump White House to fight back and emailed state lawmakers asking them to help overturn the election results. Global news, 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts to more than a 120 countries, I'm Michael Barr, this is Bloomberg Nathan. Thanks, Michael
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"lieutenant" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"You are not at 30,000 feet surveying the state like California or a state like Massachusetts. You're there in the neighborhood with the people on a day to today basis. And to your point, there's no place to hide. So if you've survived 16 years, were you actually mayor for 16 years? I have been, yeah, I feel fortunate. This is my 17th year, been reelected 5 times by the people in my community. And I feel blessed. So tell us about why you're running for lieutenant governor. What do you hope to bring to the office? You know, I touched about it earlier. I really feel like for the Commonwealth to be vibrant and thriving, we need our communities working. And right now, a lot of our communities are working, but not all. Salem's a gateway city, which means that we have a very diverse population, both in income and race and language and culture. I think it makes us more livable, but it also can bring different challenges. And we know there are gateway cities throughout Massachusetts, places that were regional economic hubs that some are doing better than others for our Commonwealth to do well, frankly, we need all of our cities working well, not just Boston and Kendall square and seaport district. I hope as mayor, as someone who's been an innovative leader with executive experience as a city that's nearly 400 years old, we have to not only be mindful of our history, but also be thinking forward thinking in a way that what's the next iteration of our community going to be, who are we going to benefit and how are we going to do that work?
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"lieutenant" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show. I am Jimmy, and I want to introduce you to a new segment of our show, the meet the candidate series. It is intended to give candidate 20 for public office a platform and a voice. So voters know who is running for office, why they're running and what they hope to accomplish if they are so fortunate to be elected. So please feel free to share these interviews with your family and friends and citizens around this fine land because an educated and informed population is essential for a healthy democracy, and isn't that what we all really want, a healthy, democracy, enjoy the interviews, stay healthy. My name is Jimmy tingle, and I approve this message.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"lieutenant" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To prisoner with that Bloomberg business news flash Want to get back to our guest Carrie Healy She's president of the milk and center for advancing the American Dream She is former president of babson college former Massachusetts lieutenant governor member of the council on foreign relations She really has seen the world from so many different angles She's still with us via Zoom for those who are watching on YouTube So talk to us a little bit more about the milk and center You know I mean it when Tim and I were there we were there in the fall as well I do always love going to milk and 'cause yep there's a big financial focus but you guys are looking at these big macro issues in terms of what ails us in the world global issues And the last two two three years we're now going on We are talking so much about the inequities that are out there in the world And you talk about this American Dream you know how do we need to think about getting to the American Dream going forward for more One of the ways that I think we should be thinking about it is how do we help people reach their full potential How do we remove the obstacles that are in the way of regular people who are just trying to make sure that they can make a good life for themselves and their families And one of the things that we've seen right up front is that this whole notion of a college education being the doorway to the American Dream has actually become in some cases a stumbling block to the American Dream I'm so glad you went here 'cause this is what I was thinking about Go ahead Yeah so what's fascinating is there was a McKinsey study recently that said there are 30 million Americans out there who have the skills to be making 70% more income Now imagine that 70% more income but they can't because they don't have the degree necessary to get that job And a number of employers and I don't blame employers for doing this but I think that now I'm asking employers to reconsider this approach but a lot of employers have simply said it's going to be easier for me to find well qualified people for my job if I make a bachelor's degree necessary Right If I just make it a qualification right Carry two and I are staying in the background We're like absent college is telling you And you were the former president of babson college Would you did you come to this conclusion recently Did you come to this Would you have said the same thing while you were the president of babson Was there something that changed your opinion about this I think I'm just starting to see in the last year or so the statistics You know I've started to dig into what are the obstacles for people achieving the American Dream And I was really lucky at babson college because it was a business school It was an undergraduate undergraduate business school So the kids coming there the young people coming there They wanted to go into business They wanted to be entrepreneurs and they got to start their first company in the first year And have that experience And so they went just charging out into the workforce and either started their own companies or got jobs immediately 99% of them get jobs in the first 6 months after graduation So I didn't have to worry about them I actually didn't even have to worry about looking their parents in the eye and saying you know what This is a good investment You should go ahead and pay this tuition because I knew for a fact that it was going to pay off And so what I became very aware of when I was at babson was that not every college has that same return on investment for their kids And their students And the parents And so that investment can either be a good investment or it can be a bad investment depending on what your major is what the quality of the college is and what your you know what your ambitions are what you want to do with your life And so I have become very frustrated with this idea that colleges are ranked based on their elitism their reputation based on perhaps how much research they do Those are the things that more likely drive the rankings that you have traditionally thought of rather than how do graduates of those institutions do for the rest of their lives Are they able to support themselves and their families And are they able to achieve their dreams And so there needs to be this turning of the corner around that issue So Carrie how do we as parents in a society my dad was first generation my mom was second generation I'm one of 7 kids you know from the get go since we were kids It was all about going to college and kudos to my parents for doing that with all of us But we had no doubt that that's what our goal was How do we as parents in a society where we tend to look down I think it's fair to say on people who don't have degrees How do we do that rethink And over in Europe you know apprenticeships and other things are valued I mean I kind of would like to be a plumber because plumbers are in demand and they make a ton of money I see what our club is actually a very good career path at this moment I think it's important to start the conversation by saying that the typical person who goes to college makes more money over the course of their life more than a $1 million in most cases then the person who does not go to college right So your parents were right my parents were right in saying this is a pathway to being more economically secure over time But and this is where the granularity of those kinds of discussions needs to come into play So but 16% of high school graduates actually make more than the bottom 50% of college graduates Wow What So yeah so let me say that again 16% of high school graduates make more money than the lower 50% of college graduates Wow And they don't have the debt And they don't have the debt And if you have some college it's 23% who do better than the lower half and it's 28% of associate degree holders who do better than college graduates The bottom half of those So it's more nuanced than just go get a degree But the options but the options are different and just in the last minute that we have with you Carrie talk a little bit about what you're doing at the milk and center for advancing the American Dream with companies like Coursera Yes So what we have done is we have put together with Coursera and Google and meta and other organizations that offer tech based skills certificates We put together a certificate that is now recognized by a 150 different employers and that certificate will give you a technical skill There's a whole menu of ones to choose from There are about 6 or 7 different types of skills that you can choose from Plus it has an entire range of liberal arts skills soft skills things like critical critical thinking or communication skills things that are going to help you be employable again and again throughout your life And we're putting these together.
AP News
"lieutenant" Discussed on AP News
"Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hotel will be sworn in just after midnight to replace him, breaking another glass ceiling for women in state politics. Hogle, who said she didn't work closely with Cuomo and wasn't aware of the harassment allegations before they became public, has vowed no one will ever call her workplace toxic. She plans to keep on Cuomo era employees for 45 days to allow her time to interview new hires, but said she will not keep anyone found to have behaved unethically. At least 35 employees in the governor's office have left since February, according to staff rosters. Khokha will need to quickly build your own team of advisors who can help steer the administration for at least the next 16 months, And she has already said she plans to run for a full four year term in 2022. Julie Walker, New York I, Mike Rossi, a reporting an energy giant, will require coronavirus vaccinations for some workers. Chevron Corporation will require some of its workforce to be vaccinated against Covid 19. Wall Street Journal reports Chevron will require workers traveling internationally living abroad or working on U. S flagged ships to be vaccinated. Now, the FDA has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. Cox Health, which operates hospitals in southwestern Missouri, says it will require employees to get vaccinated. But in South Dakota Republicans in the House what Governor Christie gnome to call a special session to pass a ban on Employers requiring Covid 19 vaccinations. In Mississippi State health officials say they've received an influx of calls about people trying to treat covid 19 by ingesting an anti parasite medicine purchased at livestock stores. I might grow CEO. A P news. I'm Tim McGuire. President. Fighting hopes the final FDA approval of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is enough to convince vaccine skeptics to finally get the shots vaccinations free. It's easy, it's safe, and it's effective. It is convenient. For 90% of Americans. There's a vaccination site less than five miles from your home. The Pentagon says the final approval allows it to press ahead with plans to require members of the military to be vaccinated. National security adviser Jake Sullivan says more than 37,000 people have been evacuated so far from Afghanistan more than 10,000 Ferried out on US planes from the Kabul airport. In the last day or so, we have established a network of transit centers in multiple countries in the Gulf in Europe. Where we are getting US citizens on flights home and we are running biometric and biographic background checks on Afghan evacuees before bringing them to the United States or having them relocated to a third country. At least a dozen people are missing in.
WHAS 840 AM
"lieutenant" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"Installation. Lieutenant Colonel Brian Loveless says someone on the base reportedly heard two shots fired, which prompted the alarm, but no gunman was seen. The base immediately went on lockdown and people were told to seek cover. Attorney General Merrick Garland is citing a troubling rise of domestic violent extremism. In the U. S. As the country's lead law enforcement agency. The Department of Justice is devoted to a broad scale approach to countering the threat. Both foreign and domestic terrorism. During the same Senate hearing today, Kansas Republican Senator Jerry Moran says there's an epidemic of ransom where threatening the US one that threatens our food supply. And one that threatens our energy infrastructure. The Justice Department recovered most of a roughly $4 million ransom that was linked to the recent hack of the colonial pipeline Chipotle announcing an increase in prices to offset an increase in employee wages. RBC's Mark Remillard has detailed, Chipotle says by the end of the month, it's implementing a $15 an hour average wage. The company says the increased wages will be rolled out over the next few weeks since starting wages will be between 11 and $18 an hour going forward in order to cover the cost. Chipotle says it's instituting a 3.5 to 4% increase to menu items depending on where you live that might add about 25 to 35 cents to the average burrito price on its menu. Mark Remillard ABC News Eastern Kentucky University is now running a clothing bank for LGBTQ students. Closet Transform will be at the Powell Student center, and those in need can walk in for things like food and clothing. School officials say The idea is to offer gender affirming clothing to students who need it in East Texas bakery that initially felt a backlash for offering specially decorated cookies for Pride Month is now feeling the love. Instead, a week ago Confections Bakery in Lufkin, Texas, was a tiny unknown shop owned by two sisters. Women posted pictures of the rainbow decorated cookies they've made for pride month and heard a quick and angry response from some customers, some of whom canceled orders then says Miranda do older came the positive comments and the business. I was shocked at the outpouring of support families waiting like two hours and lying to get.
Transition Virginia
"lieutenant" Discussed on Transition Virginia
"No it will. Not but glenn has no other choice but to do this. Not only because he believes it and he's right in the general election. The only way republican could win even though it's still a very far could in today's gel atmosphere regardless the republican is a republican could win if republican is in the middle in the general election. However for glenn out he has no other choice but to do this in addition to being right above the general glenn's voting record is not solid conservative record. He has been courageous in had voted for gay rights. He had voted on. Labor issues had voted on work issues and therefore he could not even if you wanted to position himself as the far right candidate and thus he is going for you know. Hail mary my mind here glen bell a friend of mine who is a member of my small business development caucus in the house. And he's going for hail. Mary on okay. If the vote is split among all the ones that are splitting the right vote. Is there a chance of people. Go for the number two on the ballot Are they gonna divide enough that vote that he may be able to squeeze in and if all fails than nominate. David ramadan frail g. As as i joked on twitter yesterday when his staff of hashtag david for l. g. instead of davis forever. You know this is probably not the worst strategy for a ranked choice ballot I mentioned just a minute ago that you need to win the suburbs in order to win an election and yeah he is definitely not the most conservative he is not ideologically partisan and that is going to play well and the moderate suburbs You know the problem. He has just one of numbers. The number of voters who identify republican over the last four years have diminished to the point that it's just you know the hardcore extreme believers so will any of those people that glenn davis really needs to win and list him as number one or two on their ballot. Even be there in the first place is it's an open question. Your the ranked choice dynamic is all theoretical at this point. We really haven't seen it play out this way so it's gonna be fascinating to watch now on. Glenn davis like many of these candidates. This is another running theme that will have many of them have an immigrant story on the campaign trail. He talks about his great grandfather. Emigrated from italy He also talks about losing his job. Nineteen ninety nine living in a one bedroom apartment where he started. It company he also has this story about his childhood that speaks to his agenda. I remember being nine years old sitting on a couch one night when the phone rang. And my daddy. It was about my uncle william and my uncle. William were did a convenience store about a mile from where i live today that it was robbed. He was taken back and he was murdered. And i remember. My family said weeks after that they. They said that he probably did it before. Because it was before incensing. Abolition of parole. It wish mcelwain had his firearm on him. Because he's still with us today but they never blend ghazi never said we needed more gun. Control that this is a political origin story that weaves together gun rights with truth in sentencing. All these candidates talk about defending the second amendment. But glenn davis has this personal story. Will this resonate with voters yet will to a certain extent though within that small universe of republican electorates that are gonna participate in upcoming conventions in in may there is a segment that are one issue voters and that's the second amendment voters and that will resonate but would be enough to win number of those voters who are also very interested in other social issues. Which davis is not strong on. I doubt that that will be the case. You know speaking as a hard core. Democrat glenn davis actually gives me the least amount of heartburn and that's simply because i've watched him work by the way he's been a guest on transition virginia before and listen to our show regularly and he is somebody that democrats could negotiate with if he were to become lieutenant governor so of all the republicans in this race. I i see davis as the one that could actually bring the republican party forward and stand a chance of winning in the general one thing that he talks about that really. I find kind of striking is that he will as lieutenant governor. He will literally use the platform. Being lieutenant governor will actually speak out about issues there in the senate chamber. This is what he had to say about that. You know it's not just good enough. Republicans to say no it. Republicans to stand up and share. Why so as lieutenant governor. But you'll see from the days up there doing that. You will to cox about stepping down from the day to get a speech about life. Well rb darned it might keep my mouth when it comes to the second amendment. So what he's talking about there is in the last session when republicans were in power just before they lost it. All kirk cox was speaker of the house and he got down off the diet to give a speech from his ceremonial seat on the house. Floor opposing abortion rights. So if glenn davis is elected lieutenant governor who literally be presiding over the senate sessions where he could theoretically give a speech about any topic whenever he wants So what do we make of. The potential for glenn davis to be disruptive on the senate floor and giving speeches about the second amendment and maybe other things it classic case of comparison between leadership styles glenn mentions famous act by former speaker costs who decided to step down from day to speak about important issue of personally and was i remember that speech. It was very emotional was very personal however the optics of it in the way it was done it actually walked down the speakership in demonstrated really no other way to say it. But a lack of leadership by cox the time it's arguably the same light leadership had reached a despite how how good of a man is in service in his long-term service to virginia and as a delegate as teacher and so on a he didn't have that charisma even seen by his here one of his colleagues today former member of his caucus who elected him speaker saying that wasn't leadership the new leadership or the leadership style should be using the days. And as as lieutenant governor. I would stand up there and do so is what glenn davis say. That's a classic textual leadership compares in style that i teach to my students at george mason of the sharp school. And that's a huge difference between your old guard in the new guard among virginia. Republicans even though. They're both running at the same time today. The old garden new guard are both still competing for positions in leadership of this forty regardless how dwindling.
Transition Virginia
"lieutenant" Discussed on Transition Virginia
"To hear somebody talking about it. It's an important issue. Great okay and so. Our last candidate here is paul goldman. Mr goldman has been around virginia politics for many years. He worked for howland henry. Howell who ran for governor unsuccessful several times in the sixties and seventies. He also worked for former governor. Doug wilder now when goldman speaks. You'll hear about henry hall and doug wilder quite a lot just about every time. He speaks campaign finance records show. He raised about three thousand dollars. And this is how he introduced himself at virginia. people's debate. truth is i thought about not participating. Never been more embarrassed by my party. I was henry house campaign manager godfather of progressive politics in virginia. The only white person in virginia willing to be doug wildes campaign mets. They threw a lot of stuff at us. We results we could handle it but last month. Democrats in the house of delegates killed a constitutional limit to take a racial poison pill in the education clause in the virginia constitution. He thought about not participating in the debate because of something. Democrats didn't want to do and henry hall something and doug wilder. What's happening here. yeah. I mean i'm just really afraid of when somebody comes out with the drinking game because if henry how is on it i don't know from make it to the end like every answer talked about wilder or henry. How he wasn't adult in the nineteen seventies when all of this was going on. And if you're somebody who wants to elect new blood. This man's not it one of the things he wants to focus on is education and on the campaign trail. He talks about education every opportunity that he can including this question when he was asked about his support of lgbt. This is how he responded one of the reasons. I'm fighting so hard for these. No school bathrooms particularly for the women in the sports facilities for women in these rundell. Obsolete schools is atrocious. There would have been fixed them up. And i'm surprised. We haven't heard more about education so far that is the great equalizer is education an issue that will capture the attention of voters. Yeah i think. Education is thomas mentioned. That's one of the big issues The bathrooms that some of our schools are atrocious. He ends correct. I really think that was a very good statement by him. It probably would have been better with a henry. How reference though. Yeah yeah he. He's not wrong on the issue at all and people should listen to him and listen to what he says. At this point though i would say that like when when you're somebody who says you debate whether or not you even want to participate. You're not a serious candidate and it's just that simple. I just can't believe he has got mclean virginia money. What's the hold up there. We actually we got a rep this episode. Let's talk about that. So i read off all of the time clean. Virginia had donated to these campaigns which was many. What do we make of the fact that clean. Virginia has given twenty five thousand dollar donations to so many of these candidates. This is what they've said they would do. They said that because they've primary was so large and because there were so many people that identified with their organization that they would give an equal amount to each one of them. I'm pretty sure the only camera soul hasn't gotten it is that he is not taking any pac money. Which clean virginia is a pet now. Obviously a supporter of clean. Virginia could ride an individual's check the same so. I don't think they've done that. So i don't know until benefit from that but yeah they're spreading the money around to support all the candidates that support their organization. Yeah it's a really interesting move from them because you don't usually see organizations split. Their money that way cynical you might just look at it as an interest group trying to hedge their bets right and say well. We've got a lot of friends here and let's make sure one of them remembers that we were there contributor early on trevor one last question before we wrap this up so about eight candidates is they're going to be a ninth candidate. It sounds like there's going to be a ninth candidate getting in the race It's not someone that i know. It's not an elected official. So i guess we'll see. I guess there's still time you know. I don't even know when the deadline is for the petitions but it's the twenty fifth. I we got time to get to an even dozen here michael. I think we should get there. If people just dig down work hard enough you too can get on the ballot and possibly be the next lieutenant governor of the commonwealth of virginia. Yeah that's a nice place to leave. 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"lieutenant" Discussed on KHVH 830AM
"H I'm Julian Norton Dennis Lieutenant Governor, Josh Green. Thanks. Large gatherings can safely return to Hawaii by May On Monday, the doctor said enough presidents will be vaccinated by then toe lift limits on their large gatherings that have been considered a major infection risk for months. His estimation. Factors in additional facts seem makers like Johnson and Johnson having their shots approved within the coming weeks and boosting the local supply. Last week, Green said he thinks the islands can achieve herd immunity by the fourth of July if everything goes according to plan That would mean at least 70% of all residents becoming immune via vaccination. More than 150,000 doses have now been given statewide. Former state epidemiologist Dr Sara Park is out at the White Department of Health. Mark was a top deal H official during the first few months of the Corona virus pandemic. She went on leave in September amid criticism of the state's spike and infections and difficulty managing contact tracing efforts. Dr Sarah Kimball took over the role on an interim basis and remains in that position. State officials confirm Park lift December 31st, but they have not said Why. The state's behind on Corona virus vaccination efforts for the hardest hit ethnic group in the islands. According to community advocates. Pacific Islanders often live in poor communities. Making it difficult for them to access computers and make vaccination appointments for large sites like Conlan disappeared to and Blaisdell center. Many Kapu to also don't.
WMAL 630AM
"lieutenant" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Morning. So glad to have you with us. 6 35 Lieutenant General Tom Spore is going to join us. We'll talk about Joe Biden's reversal. Of the transgender ban in the military. What the impact going today? 7 35. We talked to Jerry Higgins, chairman for Virginia's 10th District Republican Party will get into delegate recruitment with him at 805. Peter Doocy of the Fox News Channel is here. That guy likes to ask tough questions of the Biden administration. 8 35 congressmen Jody Hice will be with us as well. I'm Vince colonies with Mary Walter. Good morning to you. How you feel Invention? You feeling okay? You good? Any cost anything like that? I think you're worried about I feel can rested and ready. I'm limber. Good this morning, Mannix. You know I'm on step. Good. Every time every time I keep saying to my husband time, I like coffee, right? Feel like congestion. Anything we go. I got a good cove it It's kind of a joke between us. So like I got Cove it He's like you've had the longest case of covert ever, you know is clearly my allergies. Right? Let's just take some use it X and get up here. But I'm fine. But I do have two friends that have Cove. It they they both got it back to back in there's sixties and seventies. I want to say they're older. Um and they basically had the flu for a week, she said. For like five days, they had the flu. And, she said, But her case is much not as severe as her husband's, because he's a man. So she said. He had a man version of Cove it and she had a woman's version of Cove it so he was much sicker than she was, she said. It was just like to float that he had a worst case than she did, you know? His leg it the man flu, so I'm sorry there you saying Are you suggesting that it's garbage? That men are not hit harder. They just one more. Or is it? Yeah, that's what? Wait. Not my words. Those are hers. Speaking from her personal experience, she said, Well, you know, he's a day behind me. But his case is much worse than what is this It is what is this sexist garbage of 508 in the morning? You know, men, men are my words. Wait a second. Oh, men actually have been hit harder by covert. They're more likely to get it in there. Also, I think we're likely to die from it, but he's not dying. Okay? All right. I'm just saying that his metamor likely to die from it. I would, I would. I would lean into s probably likely that he did get a harder case. You know, I think it's just that their version is louder. That's all I said. That's what it is. And then once he went down, you know she had a way he was. There was no way he was like he was not getting the one getting up and getting the orange juice or anything like that. It was up to her. So anyway, Um so I actually do someone now who got cove it which I think this is the first These were the first two people I know personally who have gotten over it made for real. Yeah. You. Wow. Yeah, I'm try was trying to think before this like, I don't know anyone else who's gotten Cove. It So you mean yeah, Like a really personal love like on a personal level. Like I've heard of other people, you know, like a neighbor. Like so someone so down the street has Cupid. I'm like, okay, you know, but like personally Yeah, right. Because you have like You have a lot of like famous friends and stuff. We've gotten over it. Their distant friends. Yeah, they're not. They're not bad. Wouldn't consider those right there like it's like, I consider all my friends on Facebook. You know what I mean? They're not all friends you've got, you know, E mean, they're not like you and may not tight. Not like no like pregnant. That's what you'll be pleased to know that the government on the way They have a covert released plan. But it cost $1.9 trillion. That's a lot of money for relief and so much so that a bipartisan group of senators have gotten together and they're expressing concern about this, and it's being led by Joe Manchin Senator Joe Manchin. He set up a call on Sunday between 16 Senators and Biden administration officials. And that includes Biden's crude of coronavirus coordinator Jeff Scenes and director of the White House National Economic Council. Brian Dese. And the conversation centered around the as I said the proposal and, um It's the call went on for over an hour, and lawmakers reached what's being called a consensus that vaccine just distribution to remain a priority. I think we can all agree on that. That was a print. That was that was kind of like low hanging fruit for consensus, right, Um And but they're concerned that the proposal offers too much money to higher income earners, according to Politico. Some of the lawmakers on the call quote balked at the stimulus payments, urging the White House to make them targeted towards those in greater need. According to sources on the call, Susan Collins questioned why a family making $300,000 would receive benefits under the proposal. And identifying the overall price tag as a concern, according Tol Ellipticals, Senator Angus King said this isn't monopoly money. So it's good to hear that they're concerned about speed..
600 WREC
"lieutenant" Discussed on 600 WREC
"The most important And the country that were born in Is the best. Great to have you with us, 800 to 822882. If you want to be on the program here is a couple of sound bites to illustrate a couple of points that I have been making all day. On the program specifically in the last hour. First up is the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania is name is John Fetterman. He was on the CNN with Poppy Harlow. Some show called CNN newsroom on Friday. She had a question for him. She said, Mr Lieutenant Governor. It sounds like you sounds like you don't think Twitter made the right decision by taking the president off the platform. Is that right, saying that Pennsylvania was rigged or that we were trying to steal the election? Unquote. That's a lie and that you do not have the right that is not protected speech. The second, those tweets went up. They should have been deleted. That's not the platform in someone. It's deleting lies that are yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is none, and there's a difference that is not protected speech. No. One Republican Democrat whatever has the right To say those kind of incendiary lies who gets to crawl in lies? Who is this magnificent personage sitting somewhere who gets to proclaim that whatever, Trump said about Pennsylvania is lies. But more importantly, Lieutenant governor Federal what the hell did you people do for four years? If not lie. About Trump colluding with Russians to steal the 2016 election. When everybody knows it was Hillary Clinton that did exactly that. You guys still haven't conceded the 2016 electro? Yeah, Hillary may have but you haven't You're justifying everything. You're doing that Donald Trump on the basis of a lie that you can't stop telling. And nobody is deep platform in you. And nobody is taking your tweets down. And nobody's even suggesting that your tweets Lieutenant Governor Federman, come down. The Democrat Party has spent the last four years lying about the 2016 election. How in the world is what you people are continuing to do any different than what President Trump is saying about Pennsylvania Today? You guys started all of this. You guys on the Democrat side with the media are the people who got it all rolling that the American electoral system has been torched. That it has lost its honor and integrity. You're the ones for four years with never ending reports in the New York Times your Bible and it's CNN, The Washington Post. Your old testament that all of this that happened was undoubtedly true. You have put everything on your side up to the Test of legitimacy and you have claimed the Trump colluded with Putin. You said that he was a traitor. You said that he was an agent of Vladimir Putin, You said, and you never had a scintilla of evidence. Mr Lieutenant Governor, The Mueller report came up with a flat out Nothing. There was no need for the Mueller report. There was never any evidence that Trump had done anything. For Donald Trump for a couple of weeks or a month talks about how Pennsylvania may have been compromised. And you think somebody has sitting up on high determining that's a lie. And for that, Donald Trump needs to have those tweets taken down. But nobody is suggesting it. Any of your lives be taken down. Nobody's even suggesting that what you guys said for four years, his lies except people like me. But you don't have any evidence. And nobody made a move to shut you down. Nobody made a move to the platform. You nobody made a move to Take your so called offending tweets down that one of you said, hear you saying Pennsylvania was rigged or that we were trying to steal the election? That's a lie. What you say about Donald Trump for four years and counting. Lieutenant Governor Fetterman. You don't have that right? It's not protected Speech. What protected you for four years? And counting. Oh, The New York Times reporter. I'm sorry, The New York Times reporting it legitimizes it. No. The New York Times reporting it. Does nothing but slam the reputation of The New York Times. The second, Those tweets went up from the president. They should have been deleted. I could say the same thing about the never ending lies from John Clapper from from Clapper from John Brennan. From Comey. From Hillary Climbing the list is never ending. The number of people who consistently lied struck strokes. Merck Lisa Paige. That whole FBI combine all And yet Nobody made a move to take your tweets down or two. Suggest The New York Times not be able to report what they've reporting because I didn't have any evidence. They lied about the fact that they had evidence. This is exactly what if you descent You're a domestic terrorist folks, If you if you descend from whatever it is the Democrat Party today believes They are claiming they have a right to shut you down to delete your tweets. Now the lieutenant governor here, Pennsylvania, Mr Federman, he stopped short. Suggesting that Trump B d platform that he didn't agree with the Rasputin, Jack. And his decision to take Trump offered Twitter. But we have somebody who does he ask you can always kind of Democrats to give you what you want..
WCBM 680 AM
"lieutenant" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"See it has the story, although federal prosecutors in Arizona wrote in a court memo of strong evidence, the pro trump mob that invaded the U. S Capitol last week aimed to capture and assassinate elected officials. The head of the investigation is not going that far, Michael sure, when the acting U. S attorney for the District of Columbia said Friday there is no direct evidence at this point of kill capture, teams sure, once said the complexity of the investigation and number of people involved appears to have led to confusion. Also a town hall dots come. The retired Army general has been tapped to lead an immediate review of the attack of the capital Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Calls in a familiar figure to investigate what's been called a domestic terrorist attack on the U. S. Capitol last week, has asked retired Lieutenant General Russel Honore to lead an immediate review of security, infrastructure, interagency processes and command and control artery is best known for serving as commander of the Joint Task Force Katrina. Is coordinated the military's relief efforts for those impacted by the hurricane in 2005. He worked with congressional leaders in that role. Bernie Bennett in Washington. President Trump will be leaving Washington Wednesday morning to begin his post presidential life in Florida. Refusing to participate in the ceremonial transfer of power. Mr. Trump once stood hold his own departure ceremony, a joint base Andrews and Maryland before his Final flight on Air Force. One officials were considering an elaborate send off event reminiscent of the reception's ease received during his four years in office that would include red carpets. Color guard military band and 21 gun salute More of these stories of town hall dot com. Totally normal to be constipated with belly pain, straining.
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"lieutenant" Discussed on KOMO
"Polyurethane codings as well as phone so truck bed liners is kind of their specialty. That process involves a lot of different hazardous materials. People within half a mile of fire got an evacuation notice but can now return to their homes or offices. Has Matt Cruz or making sure the scenes safe. No word on the cause of that fire. A more feminine women are more likely to be sexually harassed. That is a bias with negative consequences, according to a new U W study. Lead researcher Bryn Band Law says they took a closer look at the meat to movement movement is centering and benefiting very narrow subset of woman so mostly feminine. Attractive like white Hollywood actresses, resulting in the belief that Mork conventionally attractive woman or more credible, we find that, in consequence, more masculine, unattractive women are neglected when they are sexually harassed. The study involved 4000 people was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. There's bipartisan pushing Olympia to legalize sports betting in Washington state that was introduced by Republican Senator Curtis King and co sponsored by Democrat Marco Leo's who says it builds on sports betting at tribal casinos that was legalized last year. Next step would allow other existing card rooms in the state to access this opportunity as well. But there are exceptions, for example, gambling on any collegiate Event in Washington or involving a Washington team would be illegal and there would be a complete ban on betting on East sports. Elias admits he's not sure the bill will pass this year as lawmakers are more concerned about the pandemic and subsequent economic fall out. Jeff Pooja look, come on News all summer is looking better already. With planes set for see Fair and the return of the Blue Angels. Navy's fighter jet demonstration team is too new planes A C 1 30 Super Hercules in the role of fat Albert. And the larger and louder Boeing F 18 Super Hornet Lieutenant Caitlin forced her AK Blue Angel number eight, is celebrating its 75th anniversary by flying the new planes at sea fare, You know, really the new Super Hornet in our demonstration. It now represents the aircraft that most of the Navy fleet is flying. And it's the aircraft that I got to buy walls in the fleet, So I'm looking forward to getting to show it off to the public. It's just one on sale for the Sea Fair Weekend events, which happened August 6 through the Eighth coma News Times 7 40 for the Beacon Plumbing sports desk. We've got basketball going on tonight. Men's basketball right now, In the second half Gonzaga Bulldogs. They had a pepper dine 65 to 48 half time. Now the Trojans lead the Huskies 44 to 23 commas. Bill Schwartz tells us about a successful college coach jumping into the NFL. Urban Meyer built winning football programs of the University of Utah, Florida and the last stop Ohio State, leading the Buckeyes past Washington and the Rose Bowl and then stepped away from the game. Mayer is now signed on with the Jacksonville Jaguars to be head coach and who's their quarterback? For now? Former Washington State star Gardner Minshew. The Seattle Seahawks franchise Q. B. Russell Wilson says he was not in favor of firing offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. But trust head coach Pete Carroll's decision. How would Wilson summarize the Seahawks 12 and four season with an early playoff loss? We didn't win in that last game. You know, I think it's much as you could say what went right. What went wrong? I mean, you have to build a women when you get to those moments, and you have to be able to find a way to overcome the L. A Rams beat the Hawks in the NFC wild card but took their lumps. Quarterback John Woolford ruled out of this weekend's division game, A Green Bay with a neck injury. Jared Goff will strike for L. A and in college hoops U C L. A cruise past visiting Washington State. 91, 61 Sports and 10 and 40 After the hour, Bill Schwartz come on is it's a brand new year and Haverty furniture is here to.
KSFO-AM
"lieutenant" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"Well, he's been identified as one Eric Munch. Oh, I believe he's a retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, but there are security of pictures of him before, during and after the siege. In which he's stopping at a local Starbucks to grab a coffee with his mom. And there he is again with his mom going up the Capitol steps, and they're clearly identifiable nice when you could do stuff with your mom. That is kind of nice anyway. Apparently he's more fun of his wife and his mom rather than his ex wife, who reported him to the feds. The retired Air force lieutenant Colonel can thank his ex wife for his arrest. Well, now, this is a different name. Now they're calling him Brock. Um He was the guy photographed holding zip ties inside the Senate chamber was pretty easy to I d deck on body armor, military helmet and a tag with the Punisher skull, but his former spouse provided further until the law enforcement His wife of 18 years, called the FBI on Friday. I don't know why we know that But she recognized him from his get up. And he was arrested shortly afterward and is facing one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building, etcetera, etcetera very long, one count of violent entry and other stuff that we often these initial charges or just a pretext to hold somebody till you get to what you really want to chill. We still don't know Larry rental Brock So I would like to apologize to Mr Marshall. Whoever you are. Well, there were two people with zip ties there. There was one that was all in black and I believe the second one had his face exposed. This is The guy. I think that the ex wife was Hello? Yeah, A lot of people were assuming the zip ties or for abducting people or holding them for whatever whatever you're gonna do Hostages or I don't know. What do we have Any idea what they're going to do with the zip ties? No, not yet. The FBI might. I mean, they've got these guys in cells and they're talking to him with lawyers. They'll find out. I would guess. Is there a chance that everybody vastly underestimated the size of the Cuban on crowd? I feel like this has gotten us more to do with it, then that you know the media kind of built.