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A highlight from The Cause of Conversion
"Thank you gang, good morning everyone. Typically when I'm preparing a sermon I do my very best to make sure that it's balanced and here's what I'm looking for when I say balanced. There are lots of ways you can deliver a passage of the Bible and I'm trying my best to keep some parts of the sermon theological and some parts practical. If you aren't familiar with that first word, as I wasn't until I was like in my late teens, theological meaning I want us to think, I want us to think right thoughts about God. That's theology. And then practical, based on what we know about God, I want us to act. So a sermon, I try my best to balance them, theological thinking about God and practical acting on what we know about God. And yet when you go through the Bible, some parts of it are more one than the other. And that's okay, that's the way the Bible works. Today is going to be one of those messages that are a little bit more heavy on the theological side than the practical side. So on days like that you have to pray and you have to ask God, remember what Jesus said? We're supposed to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our mind. So I'm going to ask that God would grant a very attentive mind. Because I'm going to ask you to worship the Lord your God through the word with a mind that thinks right thoughts about God. So Lord, that's our goal. We want to think. You've given us a mind, a working mind to be able to think. It's unlike the animals who can't think didactically like we can, but we can rationalize. We can think in ways that honor you and we can think in ways that don't honor you. So I'm asking that you would grant first, that you would grant in this room a very attentive mind, that we would all aim our minds toward God to tune out other thoughts and to just spend a little time on a Sunday thinking about nothing else but the greatness of the glory and the beauty and the majesty of our great God. So help us now as we worship through the word to love you by thinking about you. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. We're in John chapter four. So if you have a Bible, grab it, open it, go to John. That's in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, fourth book of the New Testament and open to the fourth chapter. We're almost done with it, sort of almost done with it. We're about three quarters of the way through with it. Let me catch you up as you're tuning there. Jesus has been having a conversation with an immoral Samaritan woman, and no one wants to be around this woman, but Jesus did. And so he intentionally met her at the well. And boy, what a meeting they've had. John, the writer of this book, records the true historical account of what happened between Jesus and the Samaritan woman, and we've gone through most of it. Let me tell you what we've seen so far. Right now, Jesus has revealed certain things to this woman that she's gone away from this conversation knowing only one thing. She doesn't know about the cross, she doesn't know about the grave, she doesn't know about anything except she knows one thing. I met a man who told me everything there was to know about me. And she runs off and tells the townspeople, who she's going to in our passage today. She doesn't know about him being a savior yet. She just knows, I met a man who has the ability to tell me things that a mere man doesn't have. So she thinks, I just met a prophet. That's it. That's all she knows. Last Sunday, if you were here, as you're reading through John 4, John takes a pause, and he tells us this other lesson that's related that Jesus wanted to teach his disciples about this. And here's, in a nutshell, what that lesson was. Jesus says, look around you guys, God's field is full and it's ready for the picking with women and people just like this woman. The time has come when God's mission field is full of women like this one I'm talking to, women and men and children whom God wants to save. They're unconverted and God wants to bring them to the truth. And so now John is going to bring us back to what happened with the woman. So there's a story about the woman, I'm going somewhere with this, follow me, story about the woman, an intentional pause, and then it returns to the narrative about the woman. If you were paying close attention last week, if anybody comes up to me afterwards and says they knew this, I'm going to be shocked. If you were paying close attention last week, I skipped three verses. Usually I go one verse, then the next verse, then the next verse. We don't skip anything. And that's a big no -no. We don't skip verses. And so I skipped three verses because as I was studying, I realized these really belong with the text I'm going to show you today. So I purposely skipped them to save them for today. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to look at those three verses I skipped, which is found in verse 28, 29, and 30. Then we're going to skip the passage I preached on last Sunday, which is verse 31 through 38. And we're going to take the part I skipped and join it to the part where you'll see why. Can I show you why? This reads, this portion, you're going to go, wow, that reads so smoothly. It's almost like there was no interruption. Watch how smooth the narrative goes now, okay? So starting in verse 28, where I skipped, 29 and 30, then jumping down to 39, the narrative reads smooth. Check this out. So the woman, she's just finished talking with Jesus, and now this is what happens after. So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people, come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? They went out of the town and were coming to him. Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, he told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, it's no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. Now, there is a primary lesson that most preachers, when they preach this passage or if you've ever been in a Bible study or a Sunday school class, there's one primary lesson that's being taught here. In the job of an interpreter, you when you're home and you open your Bible in the morning with your cup of coffee or your spot of tea or whatever you drink and you're reading the Bible, you're all interpreters at that moment, there's only one lesson. And the job is to get at that one lesson. What did the author mean? If we get somewhere else, we've missed the interpretation. So our job is to find out what John meant by what he wrote and then get at that meaning. The meaning of this is not real difficult. It's very simple. Here's what happened. A woman had an encounter with Jesus and she went home and told everybody about it. That's it. That's the story. That's what happened. So if this passage is preached a hundred times this year in a hundred different churches all over the world, 99 out of a hundred times, here's what the sermon's going to be about. She's a witness. She's really the first witness in the Gospel of John. And so the message is going to be about witnessing. And they'll tell you, go home and do likewise. And they'll take you through it piece by piece, showing you how she witnessed, because she did a good job, and they'll say, this is how you witnessed. And I'm telling you, that is the faithful way to handle this text. A hundred percent of the time, that's the way to do it. I'm not going to do that today. Here's why. Knowing the majority of the people at our church and knowing that the majority of you have been in church your whole life, you've probably heard this preached 20 times. And I'm knowing that I could give you the main lesson in about 30 seconds, which I just did. I want to show you how the Bible can be like an onion, like an onion, and how you could read this. My grandmother's 105. You're probably getting tired of me telling you that. She woke up this morning and read her Bible for close to an hour. I'm telling you. You know how I know? She's done it her whole life. She's probably read this passage 105 times, I'm exaggerating. Every time, there's some new layer of the onion that gives her food for her soul. I want to peel back a layer. Again, there's only one meaning, but there's lots of ways, vantage points, to look at that one meaning and glean new food from this never -ending nourishment that is God's word. In narratives like the one we're reading, especially the gospel narratives where you're reading about a true historical account, this really happened in history, and where there's lots of different people in the story, you can look at it from her perspective or the perspective of Jesus or the perspective of the Samaritans. If there were other people, we could read it from different perspectives, and every time you do, you peel back a new layer of the onion. Isn't the Bible awesome? It'll keep you nourished for the rest of your life. Well, this week, I looked at the woman and I said, Lord, I'll preach this. If that's what you want, I'll just go and I'll preach a message on witnessing. I just couldn't do it. I wanted to peel back a little bit and look at this from the lens of the Samaritans. I wanted to see how it was that God converted them through first this woman and then through an encounter with Jesus. And so this morning, what we're going to do is we're going to do a case study in conversion. The Samaritans were my focus this week, which is why I've entitled this sermon, the 20th sermon, by the way, in our series through John, The Cause of Conversion. Would you give me two minutes before we start picking apart this text? Would you give me two minutes to define conversion? Because I imagine that there might be a lot of different definitions that people would come up with as to what that word means. What is that? Most people may have grown up believing, as I did, that conversion was the same exact thing as being born again. It isn't. Oh, it's related. As a matter of fact, you might think of conversion as the other side of the coin of being born again. Let me explain. Get your thinking cap on. Here we go. Being born again, theologians have a term for it just like they do conversion, and the term is regeneration. How many of you have heard the term regeneration before? How many of you have read the book of Genesis? Genesis is the beginning. When you were born, you had a Genesis. When you were born again, you had a re -Genesis. God made your birth happen again on the inside. Conversion is not the same thing, and here's how. What happens on the inside when you're born again, when God takes your dead soul, which is the way you were born, you're dead in your sins, so was I, when God makes you alive to Christ, that happens at the soul or the heart level, and at that very same instant, you mind falls, but at that very same instant, after God makes you alive, something happens in the mind. What happens in the mind is conversion, and it's really important. Here's why it's important. Look what Jesus said. This is going to get juicy. Jesus said, truly I say to you, unless you are, say the word, and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. So you tell me, is conversion important? You better believe it. Here's the word Jesus used. He used the Greek word, strepho, which simply means, look on the screen, to be changed, or a better definition, to turn and go another direction. Someone is born again. At that moment, their eyes are open to see the truth. Once that happens at the soul level, something happens instantaneously in the mind. In the mind, you are able to believe the truth about Jesus. You see him as he truly is. You no longer see your old life the way that it was. You turn away from it, and you turn to something new. That is the moment when conversion begins. It continues throughout your life. God continues to make you into something new. We call that process sanctification. It starts the moment you're converted, and it continues throughout your life. He's continually renewing your mind, changing how you see first God, then you, then the world, then every little thing continues this process of being converted into the image of Jesus Christ. So conversion is the flip side of the coin of regeneration, but it's not exactly the same thing. caused Conversion is by having the eyes of your heart opened, listen to these words, to a knowledge of God that you were prior blind to, and it's this spiritual knowing and believing that I see in this text. Martyn Lloyd -Jones said something about conversion that I think sums it up better than anybody else. Look what Martyn Lloyd -Jones said. He said conversion is the first exercise of the new nature. So once you're born again, the first thing you do, the first act is conversion in ceasing from old forms of life, my old sinful life, and starting a new life. It's the first action of the regenerate soul in moving from something, something I used to be, to this new life. That's the best definition of conversion that I could find, a way that I think will be helpful to you in your life in understanding salvation. In this text, I see a great case study of how conversion works. These people went from believing something to suddenly having their eyes opened to see something new. If you did what I did, some people, it's funny, they think that preachers somehow have some supernatural funnel from God where he pours information in your head. That is not at all what happens to a preacher. It's just discipline. That's all it is. Discipline to study the Scriptures and sit in it and sit in it, and then when you're done, sit in it some more. And God does for a preacher what he would do for you if you spent as much time in a text as I do. I spend on average about 20 hours a week preparing for a sermon, roughly 20 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. If you spent as much time as I did in this little text, I promise you, you'd start to see little observations popping out, little things you're like, oh, I never saw that before. And if you spent as much time with me this week looking at this text and looking at it, looking at it, looking at it, can I show you a few things that might start popping out to you? There are three because statements in this text. If you're reading in the morning in 20 minutes and you're reading the story about the woman at the well, you're not going to stop on the word because, would you? Because it's just the because. No one stops at the word because. But if you did stop, you would see the cause of things. Can I show you these three because statements in the text? Take a look. I put them on the screen for you. Well here's the whole text. You'd see these three because statements. Here are the three because statements popping out. Put those up for me, Logan. You have the first one? Poor Logan. The first because statement, we'll get to the second one in a second, many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. So they believed in him because of the woman's testimony. Look at the second because statement. Now Logan. And many more believed in him because of his word. But now here's the cause that changed my whole trajectory of this sermon, verse 42. They said to the woman, look at this, look church, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves. And we know, it's the first time this word is used in the chapter, we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. Church, look at me. Something caused the water bottle. What was it? Me. I pushed it. All I want to do is look at this text as a case study of what caused you to be born again, to be converted. I want to look at this as a case study to see what caused them to be converted so that you will know first how to pray for your unbelieving family, but second even more importantly, to know whether or not you're converted. There are lots of people who've been going to church for years who may not be converted. There is a major difference between being convinced and being converted. There is a major difference between being convinced about Jesus and being converted by Jesus. Not all belief is the same kind of belief. I'm telling you, I want to show you this morning, based on verse 42, there's a journey, a progression of conversion that I want to show you in this text. They were convinced and called by this woman's testimony, but they were not yet converted because they did not yet know him. There is a kind of belief in Jesus that does not cause conversion. It's the kind that maybe the brother of Jesus was talking about when he wrote this. Look on the screen. You say that you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Well, good for you. Even the demons say the word. Wait a second. And they tremble in terror. So according to James, there's a category of belief that does not cause a creature, a human creature or a demonic creature, to be converted. So just because you see belief in the Bible doesn't mean it's the same kind of belief that leads to conversion. My prayer all week this week is that God would bring us somebody who needed to be converted today. What I aim to show you in this case study is the call to salvation used by God. This woman was used by God to invite them. Being convinced about Jesus. And then finally being converted to Jesus. Here's the big idea. I'm going to spell it out for you. If you want to snap a photo of this with your phone so that you can't forget it, it's fine with me. Some people are convinced because of a personal testimony. And God uses personal testimonies to convince people. Others are convinced because of a personal experience. Lots of people have had spiritual experiences and God uses those to convince people. But there's only one cause of conversion. The cause of conversion is knowing Christ as personal Savior. Let me show you this in the text. I'm going to split the big idea into three parts. Everybody still with me? Part number one. Some people, they're called during someone's testimony. They feel God calling to them. And they're convinced when they hear someone give a personal testimony. But it's not the same thing as being converted. Here's what I'm going to show you in this text. God has been pleased down through church history to use people's personal testimonies. To draw people to himself. Theologians call this an effectual call. He calls out to people, come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. By the testimony of someone that you love or a friend. And people feel and hear God's call. But it's not the same thing as being converted. Let me show you that right here in the text. Verse 28, 29 and 30 and then verse 39. Look what it says here. So the woman left her water jar. There's lots we could say about that. She left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people. So now she's suddenly an evangelist. Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? God in this moment is using a vessel, a woman's mouth who just had an encounter with Jesus to call people to come. Come meet Jesus. That's what's happening here. They went out of the town and were coming to him. Many Samaritans from that town believed. And now based on what you just read about James, you should go, wait a minute, what kind of belief? So glad you asked. We're going to get into that, okay? Many from Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony he told me all that I ever did. So remember something. Follow me, church. All she knows at this point is that she met a prophet.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "lloyd" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Yes, it's very concerning. And again, the issue that you and I talk most about our ability to deter war with China and then win the new Cold War of the long term, I fear is suffering. We don't have 18 months to waste. We simply cannot waste 18 months awaiting the coming of some messianic presidential figure to solve all our problems. Congress needs to step up and lay the foundation for a successful foreign policy in the short term, in the mid term and in the long term. Yeah. If you have a chance to encourage McHenry today to go over and sit down with Senate leadership on the Republican side and do a package, take the heat and then go back to financial services, what he's really good at, and let someone have 15 months of just a clear sailing, because we can't do this three or four more. Well, we can. We probably will, actually. I've been around longer. There's actually probably no way out of this, but I'm glad you're at work with the time. Did you stay there all night or did you just come in this morning? I have to do a few meetings this morning, Hugh. But hey, I want to reassure you, Hugh, I want to end on a note of optimism and just say it's always darkest before it gets pitch black. That's exactly. We could do this all again next week. I mean, really. But these these 10 knuckleheads are not going to Wile E. Coyote, congressman, are not going anywhere. Chairman Gallagher, thank you for joining us. Keep doing the work of this special select committee, please. I'll be right back. America, stay tuned. When the government used emergency edicts during COVID to restrict the gathering and worship of churches, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines and their own churches being ripped apart, took a courageous stand and reopened their doors and the face of a world that chose to comply. The Essential Church is a feature length documentary that explores the struggle between the church and government throughout history. This fascinating story uncovers those who've sacrificed their lives throughout history for what they truly believe in. We discover why the church is essential and how we prove that this stand remains true from a scientific, legal and most importantly, biblical perspective. This is not your typical movie. It'll change your life. You need to see this movie with your friends and family. The Essential Church is streaming today exclusively at Salem now dot com. That's Essential Church streaming at Salem now dot com. Hey, good morning, Governor. How are you? Good. How are you doing? I'm great. I would be committing malpractice if I didn't ask for your reaction to what happened yesterday in the House of Representatives. You are an alumni of the House. What do you think? Well, it's a strong contrast to how we do business in Florida. I think you see a lot of theater, a lot of chaos. I'm not sure it ever leads to any results, whereas in Florida, everything we do is is calculated to deliver outcomes and to create a better life for the people down here. I also think just reflecting on you had like, what, five or six members, Republicans joined with all these Democrats. You know, we were supposed to have a red wave in 2022. And that didn't happen. It happened in Florida. And we delivered four additional Republicans. But that was one of the best environments to run in for Republicans, probably since like the 1940s. And we totally muffed it. And I think that that this is part of the follow on from that. But we just need leadership. I mean, we need to put leaders out there, deliver for the folks that we represent. So I think that we need we need order, we need smooth government operations and we need to deliver results. That's what we've done in Florida for the last five years. And you see the contrast. Governor, now let me turn to the big stuff. I had dinner last night with a Marine Corps general, not general officer, a field officer. And they asked me to ask you about grand strategy. And I read your your promises to fix the military and how you are going to do that, quote, within six months, the performance of all personnel in forest and our command and staff billets will be reviewed and goes on. It's very good plan. He asked, though, what is the grand strategy you will sit down by me, the resolute desk on day one with specifically China, Russia and Iran? They are working together. How do you break up that deal? Well, we need a whole society approach to fending off the CCP. This is our top threat. This decade will be the decisive decade. This is a military confrontation, perhaps a technological, economic, cultural, all of those things. We need to be have national policy geared towards fending off the CCP. And I think that Washington's policy, the D.C. kind of smart said they they've had all bark and very little bite with respect to China. I think on the current course, China will surpass us as we get into the next decade to some of the things we're going to do. You need more hard power in the Indo-Pacific. We are going to have a naval buildup. We'll have we'll shoot for three hundred fifty five ships after the first term and we'll get to three hundred eighty five ships after term two. But I think even more importantly than that, reinvigorating our defense industrial base and our shipbuilding capacity so that within 20 years we could get close to six hundred ships. I think that we had an opportunity when covid hit to really mobilize the country behind a common purpose of fending off the CCP. And we could have started doing some of this naval buildup there, but that's really, really important. And so we're going to do that. But I think everything we do is going to be viewed through the prism of how do we counter the China threat? Obviously, there's other threats in the world and we'll deal with those. But just like Reagan dealt with the Soviets, above all else, we need our grand strategy to focus on China above all else. Now, Governor, how does Russia fit in that? Because what my officer friends had last night, what's the end state that he envisions in Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine? What do you consider stability for the world in a position from which we can turn to the main player in the threat, which is China in the new Cold War? Well, we can stop empowering Russia through a dysfunctional energy policy. You can have the Green New Deal. I don't want that. I think it's bad. But just understand, when you go in Biden's direction, you are helping Russia. You're helping Iran. You're helping Venezuela. You're also helping China. So we put out in Midland, Texas, a couple of weeks ago our plan for American energy dominance. We're going to choose Midland over Moscow. We're going to choose the Marcellus over the Mullahs and we're going to choose Bakken over Beijing. Biden is effectively funding both sides of that conflict. His energy policy helps Moscow. He's also relieved sanctions on Iran and then, of course, did the six billion. They're very much invested in helping Russia with all those things. But I think we have the economic levers to be able to weaken Russia, and that's just beyond the current conflict. That is what they rely on. And Biden's energy policy will make Russia more powerful. My energy policy will weaken Russia. Now, you are a veteran and a Navy man, but you realize I think you realize the budget just can't continue on as it has. We have to re reallocate between the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Space Force and the Coast Guard. Do you have a plan and do you have someone in mind who would be the sec def that would come in and really do what Weinberger did for Reagan, which is reshuffle the DOD so that we get it back to warfighting? Yes, and so I would say rather than name and name, I'd say what I'm looking for in a sec def is somebody, one, I think it's been a mistake to have some of the retired generals go in. I supported the Mattis waiver. I think he's a great officer. But I think you need somebody who's not part of kind of that club, somebody that's got strong executive skills, and that's really going to be able to hold people accountable. It's not going to be popular in Washington, but is going to be willing to make the tough decisions and show that there's a new sheriff in town because the bureaucracy in the Pentagon is totally out of control. I do think that if you're if you're pursuing a China strategy like like I would, you do need a stronger Navy and a Marine Corps. I mean, that's just the reality of the threat that we face. So we're going to do that, but we're going to have a culture of accountability. It's to me, you look at the Afghanistan debacle, not one person has been held accountable for that entire Afghanistan debacle. And I kind of feel like 50 years ago, if that had happened, there would have been massive resignations, massive terminations. And yet you had none of that. So so we do need to have a culture of accountability and we will deliver that. When you get there, if you're the president, will you do an after action report on everything from closing Bagram right down to Abigail? And will you name names? Yes, absolutely. We need to. All right. I appreciate that. I want to talk about running mates for a second, Governor, because it's always been a tradition to wait till the last week. That's a stupid tradition. I want a fighter and I want generational change. And I say that as a 67 year old, we just cannot have an old running mate. We you know, we don't need a Lloyd Benson. We know. What is your idea for running mate? Because I don't believe in racial and gender balance on the ticket. I want someone who can fight and articulate.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Selects: How Air Traffic Control Works
"Or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, everybody. This is your captain, Charles W. Chuck Bryant. We're flying the friendly skies here in April. Looks like 2012 with an episode on how air traffic control works. So the seatbelt sign is off. You can recline. You can move about the cabin freely. You can gaze at stinky bathroom with a terrible sounding toilet flush if you wish. If I were you, I would hold it. But please listen to this episode. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. This is Josh Clark. I'm with you alongside me is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. We're about to take this joint 33 ,000 feet into the air. About to push some tin. Yeah. That's the lingo. It is. I've seen Pushing Tin as well. Yeah, I saw that movie. I assume that's the lingo. Otherwise, they probably would not have titled it thusly. You could also, that could be about like a car driving movie too. Somebody who has like a pretty good radio flyer wagon. There's a lot of things that they could apply. Or a recycling movie. Yeah. Pushing Tin. Yes. We're speaking of the 1999 Mike Newell flick with Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Cusack. Yeah, that's where John Cusack and Angelina Jolie met and ended up getting married. You mean Billy Bob Thornton? No, I'm pretty sure it's John Cusack. Yeah, I didn't think it was very good. Are you kidding? Did you like it? It was all right. All right. I have to admit that movies that I thought were awesome in the late 90s. When I go back and watch them now, I'm usually like... Not as great. Yeah, there's very few that hold up. I'm trying to think of one that I saw again recently that did hold up. I'm going to sit here for a while until I think of it. It wasn't Pushing Tin though. I don't know. I haven't seen it for a while. Well, in the movie, they were air traffic controllers. Yes. And that's what we're going to talk about today. So that's how Pushing Tin relates to this one. Right? I thought I'd clear that up in case people were like, what are they talking about again? You got any other good air traffic control movies? Well, Airplane. Yeah, of course. Lloyd Bridges. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop, stiff, and glue. Yeah. Other than that, I have nothing. What about all the real airport movies? Oh, sure. Yeah. Airport 70, Airport 75, 77. 83, 94, The Grungiers.
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The Breakdown
A highlight from Ripple's Fortress Acquisition Shows the Brittleness of Crypto Infrastructure
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 12th, and today we are talking about all of this dust up with fortress and the Ripple acquisition and what it means and who you should be mad at. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends. Well, today we are talking about one of the biggest discussion points for the last week or so on Twitter, which has been the issues surrounding fortress trust. Let's begin our particular slice of the story on Friday when Ripple announced that they had acquired fortress trust. Now, the deal was pitched as an expansion of Ripple's regulated crypto offering as they built out a vertically integrated blockchain services product suite. And Monica Long, the president of Ripple, said in a statement, licenses are a powerful enabler to build and deliver best in class customer experiences for enterprises using Ripple's crypto infrastructure across our payments and liquidity solutions, which she was referring to as the fact that fortress trust holds a Nevada state trust license, which allows it to custody crypto and act as a financial intermediary with the traditional financial system. This would add then to Ripple's existing strategy of accumulating licenses. Between Ripple and its subsidiaries, the corporate group now holds 30 state money transmitter licenses, a New York state bit license and a major payment institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. So commentary over the weekend on this fell into two camps. On the one hand, this could have simply been Ripple buying a company to add a custody service to its one stop shop approach to crypto. On the other hand, many viewed this as a quiet bailout of fortress. And indeed, the Friday acquisition announcement was slightly strange in tone. Executives asserted that fortress could add a key piece to Ripple's vertically integrated crypto offering. However, the deal announcement was a little bit out of sync with previous announcements from Ripple. Specifically, the acquisition valuation was not mentioned, which was out of character for Ripple who had brashly announced a 250 million dollar deal to acquire crypto custodian Medeco in May. And of course, we have to put it in the context into which it happened. Fortress itself was already viewed with skepticism. The licensed crypto custodian had been founded by former prime trust CEO Scott Purcell in December of 2021. Purcell had left prime trust in January of that year. That was around the same time that prime trust mishandled wallet storing customer funds, leading to an 83 million dollar shortfall. Several key executives left prime trust to follow Purcell into his new venture. The firm was also aggressive in hiring former banking regulators to their team. The rift between companies was so acrimonious that there were even allegations of IP theft in taking software systems built at prime trust across to fortress. In June of this year, the shortfall in customer funds at prime trust came to light. Around this, the company was first placed into receivership by the Nevada regulator and later declared bankruptcy. Now prior to prime trust acknowledging their insolvency, numerous high profile customers fled for other custodians. It was already widely suspected that prime trust was insolvent at the time. The most impactful departure from prime trust was swan bitcoin. In June, swan announced that they would be transferring all customer funds held in custody to fortress. The transfer took over a week and involved a shutdown of automated transactions with swan. To many, it felt like an emergency operation more than a normal business decision, although throughout the process, swan executives assured customers that funds were safe. So this is where we were over the weekend. Lots of speculation, lots of questions around fortress, lots of questions around ripple. And on Monday, new information came to light around the circumstances surrounding the fortress acquisition. The day before the acquisition, my birthday, September 7th, fortress had posted a disclosure about a security incident which they tried to make seem relatively innocuous. On that day, they tweeted, Thankfully, there is no breach within fortress technology or systems, impacted accounts were fully restored. And most importantly, of course, there is no loss of funds. We immediately terminated the vendor integration and out of an abundance of caution paused all accounts to assess and ensure system wide security. We are taking all necessary measures to make sure the vendor is held accountable. Although this has been resolved, transparency and security are of the utmost important to us and our customers. We also have some big company news we are excited to share later this week. Now, Ryan Weeks, a reporter at the block received a tip that the incident had been far more impactful than it was made out to be. Indeed, he was told that 450 Bitcoin worth around 11 .3 million had been stolen from fortress trust, although that specific amount has been unable to be verified. What has been verified is that the ripple deal was much more of a bailout of fortress than it initially seemed. A ripple spokesperson said, Conversations accelerated last week following the security incident via a third party analytics vendor, but this opportunity makes sense for Ripple in the long term. Luckily, Ripple was in a position to act quickly to step in and make customers whole, and there have been no breaches to fortress technology or systems. Fortress notified customers immediately of the incident when it happened, as they mentioned in their tweets. Now, for those of you eagle eyed observers out there, or I guess eagle eared as the case may be, owl eared, whatever, you'll notice that fortress's Thursday statement said, This technically is consistent with Ripple swooping in to make customers whole, but also somewhat misleading if in fact Ripple had had to bail fortress out to make those customers whole, but also somewhat misleading if ripple indeed had to come in to make sure that those customers didn't actually lose their funds. Now what was also made clear on Monday is that the ripple deal is still pending regulatory and due diligence approvals. Given that we already saw the Bitco acquisition of prime trust fall apart during the due diligence process earlier this year, there is certainly no guarantee that it actually goes through. Now, of course, as you've already heard, there are numerous other companies tangled up in this mess. Swan Bitcoin is, of course, one of fortress's most well known customers. They have been in an absolute narrative battle and have claimed throughout that they were completely unaffected by the issue and the client funds remain safe. The other companies impacted are the custodian services subcontracted by fortress. Their role in the industry is mainly as the holder of a relevant trust license rather than as a tech provider. We know, for example, that hot wallet services are provided by fire blocks, while cold storage is provided by Bitco. And indeed, with the behind the scenes detail now made public, Bitco CEO Mike Belshi wrote a Twitter thread outlining his disappointment with how the entire debacle was handled. On Monday, Mike wrote, they are still at risk and whether Bitco was somehow involved. Spoiler alert, we were not. When fortress lost funds, they chose to omit facts about what happened, downplay the event and conclude, quote, most importantly, no funds were lost. Obviously, we now know this was not true. I guess what they meant to say is we believe we fixed the problem and we have taken steps to make sure clients are made whole. But those two statements are not even close to being the same. Ripple has done the right thing and disclosed that a breach did occur. But fortress still has not made a real statement about what actually happened. So, summarizing what is publicly known, along with what we know from Bitco, one, fortress suffered a breach through some third party integration, not Bitco, two, via fortress's platform and some third party integration, the attacker was able to drain funds from fortress's hot wallet system, three, fortress used fire blocks for its hot wallet system, four, fortress noticed the failure and says they have fixed the problem with the third party, five, although fortress did use Bitco to custody some of its Bitcoin and digital assets, Bitco was not affected. None of the fortress assets held at Bitco were at risk from this third party integration or taken. After the breach, fortress reached out to Bitco. Bitco strongly advised fortress to disclose what happened immediately. Fortress did not do that. Eventually fortress decided to sell to Ripple. This is a great outcome because Ripple was able to make all clients whole and will hopefully help fortress with resources to correct the security weaknesses which led to this event. Ripple is a good actor here and should be applauded. The real victims here are fortress's clients who deserve enough respect to get the whole truth. They are not to be blamed. The whole situation is exactly why we need decentralization. We can't continue to be dependent on the honesty of custodians, bankers or trusted third parties acting with integrity when bad things happen. Bad things will happen and most humans don't have enough courage to be honest through it. So there are a lot of things that people are upset about here. One of the biggest strands of conversation has been around Swan. On September 11th, the company tweeted, Swan client coins are in insured cold wallets at Bitco and did not move during the reported incident at fortress. The coins are protected by video calls and physical access and are not subject to any incidents at fortress. Swan set up this agreement with fortress to use Bitco as a cold storage sub -custodian precisely to prevent such a scenario. Swan has direct on -chain visibility to funds at Bitco. When someone asked what kind of insurance Swan was referring to, Corey Clifton the CEO said, It's $250 million per wallet, with no wallet holding more than $250 million, provided by Lloyd's of London. It's the best setup we've seen. As always, take self -custody if you're willing and able. Now, responding to the critique in general of Swan being associated with these companies, which now have a less -than -stellar record handling customer assets and are now owned by a company that is anathema to many Bitcoiners, Corey wrote, Separation of brokerage and custody is the model for traditional assets for good reason, and there's a good probability it becomes law for digital assets in the U .S. I am not a fan of the trust -me -bro model of brokerage and custody under the same roof, like Mt. Gox and FTX. The goal is to have no single company able to unilaterally move user funds. We very intentionally set up Fortress and BitGo with that model. Now, I understand the narrative frustration here, but at the end of the day, the reason that Swan had to work with these companies is that there just wasn't anyone else. This is why as much as some Bitcoiners are worried about the entrance of traditional financial actors into the space, many others view it as necessary to just have more market options for crypto -native brokerage companies like Swan to actually work with. Anyways, the whole thing is a mess, reflective of how bad the infrastructure is for crypto and Bitcoin right now in the U .S., and a reminder of just how challenging digital assets are, even for companies that have big history in the space. The one other big story from yesterday that I want to cover was the FTX creditor update. The FTX bankruptcy team reports that they have marshaled around $7 billion in assets. Using updated valuations from the end of August, the estate holds $3 .4 billion in major crypto tokens. This includes $560 million in Bitcoin, $192 million in ETH, and $1 .1 billion in Solana. Now, of that, it appears that only $137 million worth of Solana is listed as vesting, meaning a much larger portion of the tokens may be eligible for sale than previously thought. The non -crypto assets include 38 properties in the Bahamas worth around $200 million, as well as $529 million worth of securities primarily made up of grayscale Bitcoin trust shares, $2 .6 billion in cash, and $4 .5 billion in venture investments, although no current valuation of those investments was provided. The firm's liabilities show $65 billion in non -customer claims. That figure is massively inflated by a $43 .5 billion claim from the IRS, which is presumed to be subordinated to customer claims. The IRS generally submits the largest possible tax claim during bankruptcy proceedings, but often negotiates down significantly or differs entirely to a creditor distribution. Of the remaining liabilities, a $9 .2 billion claim from FTX Digital Markets is assumed to be invalid or redundant, which leaves $4 .1 billion claim by Genesis and $2 billion claim by Celsius as the major non -customer claims to deal with. So far, a little over 36 ,000 customers have filed claims totaling $16 billion. Of the claims that have been scheduled so far, around 10 % of customers have agreed to their scheduled claims, while 18 % have disputed their claims and 72 % have yet to respond with either an agreement or a dispute. Now, easily the most discussed part of the news dealt with the firm's clawback strategy. Transactions done within a 90 -day window of the bankruptcy filing can be eligible for a clawback, but in practice, not all claims are pursued. The estate has successfully pursued $588 million in claims so far, and they identify an additional $16 .6 billion in clawbacks that could be pursued. The estate is currently considering how to deal with customer clawbacks where users withdrew from the exchange close to the bankruptcy being filed. Several options being looked at included the full 90 -day window for clawbacks as well as a shorter 15 -day window which captures the major public news surrounding the FTX collapse. Travis Kling tweeted about this saying, This brings up a big question of executability. How feasible is it for the estate to go sue people in every corner of earth? This is a really surprising turn in this deal. Everyone was thinking this outcome was quite unlikely the entire time. If the estate ends up doing what it looks like they want to, it will change the nature of this bankruptcy process. We'll learn more at the 9 -13 hearing. Indeed, the estate is due in court tomorrow Wednesday for an omnibus hearing which will cover numerous aspects of the case including the potential liquidation of crypto holdings as well. You might remember that three weeks ago FTX asked for permission to appoint Galaxy Digital as a selling agent. Selling would initially have a limit of $100 million per week which could increase to $200 million if creditors agree. The market has obviously begun to price in significant fear of this FTX liquidation. Sunday for example saw a liquidity breakdown in Solana as rumors of imminent dumping spread. And yet many think that the market is overreacting. Jeff Dorman, the CIO at ARCA said, The way crypto market makers and traders are front -running the FTX supply shows a complete misunderstanding of how a syndicated sale process works. This isn't an every -man -for -himself VC unlock. This is a court -ordered process that Galaxy will sell very slowly and opportunistically. Lastly, the potential reboot of the exchange remains a possibility. According to the report, 75 bidders have been contacted. The report stated that Proposals are being evaluated. Transaction timing will depend on nature of transactions, readiness of bidder, and other considerations. So, friends, if there are currently two archetypes of breakdown episodes, with one being legal battles that are increasingly poking towards a positive direction for this industry, and the other being cleanup from the excesses of years past, this unfortunately was one of the latter. But, as they say, the only way out is through, and so until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Capstone Conversation
How Does a Chamber of Commerce Work With a City to Attract New Business? Bob Linscheid and Judy Lloyd Weigh In
"How does the chamber and other business organizations work with the city to be that vehicle to attract businesses? Then maybe Judy, if you could continue and then Bob. So this is less about attraction and more about the things we're doing to incentivize businesses who are coming in. So we work with the town. We have a business marketing grant program that we work with on the, with the town. Any business coming into Danville would be eligible for, and it offers complimentary video and photo packages. And that's all town sponsored administered by the chamber. We could take up to 20 businesses. We're full for this year, but it's a program that we did last year and did a great job and they're all featured on our website. So every business that's a chamber member gets their own page, which shows their video shows their photos. And so that's an incentive for people to not only join the chamber and be part of our community, but to come to Danville. We also run our merchant to the market program, which is our farmer's market, which allows our businesses to display at the farmer's market. And we're actually looking to do some more things to expand the Danville farmer's market. So that's one thing. And then some of the other things we're doing that I can go into later, but one, I do want to talk about it a little later in the program is our new women's enterprise initiatives. So we've got a lot of different things. We work with the town on largely on grads programs, festivals. When I say festivals, I mean the lighting of the old Oak tree, which is the kickoff of our shopping season. So we work with them on some of the bigger events. We have health and wellness day coming up where we're going to have some local celebrities. So there's lots of different things that we do to showcase Danville for the beautiful place it is. Bob? Yeah. So to get fundamental on you for a minute regarding the issue of attraction, our mission basically is to attract, support and grow business in the Walnut Creek region through advocacy, inclusive economic and business development. Those are just words. But when you work with a city of our size that has a, an economic development team of three plus people, we need to be, first of all, on the same page. And so our first initiative is to promote Walnut Creek as a premier East Bay location for corporate and satellite locations, targeting finance, professional services and tech. And tech could also include medical because we have such a strong medical presence. We're evaluating and investigating the possibility of forming essentially a wellness corridor along Nayshow Valley Road as an example. We discovered that the two cancer centers that are going in here will generate between 120 and 150 ,000 additional square footage just as a result of those two functions. When you talk about business attraction, I think it's important to talk about jobs and economic development is defined as the creation or retention of jobs. So we're focusing on some of the bigger roles, even though some of the smaller retail efforts are real important. Auto, the new auto industries is becoming very prevalent here. We're going to see some different things happening with the Toyota area of Walnut Creek. And so these are all about business attraction, but you have to have a unified voice of what we are as a community and we're developing that with our cities.
Capstone Conversation
Judy Lloyd and Bob Linscheid on How a Chamber of Commerce Can Attract New Business to a City
"How does the chamber and other business organizations work with the city to be that vehicle to attract businesses? Then maybe Judy, if you could continue and then Bob. So this is less about attraction and more about the things we're doing to incentivize businesses who are coming in. So we work with the town. We have a business marketing grant program that we work with on the, with the town. Any business coming into Danville would be eligible for, and it offers complimentary video and photo packages. And that's all town sponsored administered by the chamber. We could take up to 20 businesses. We're full for this year, but it's a program that we did last year and did a great job and they're all featured on our website. So every business that's a chamber member gets their own page, which shows their video shows their photos. And so that's an incentive for people to not only join the chamber and be part of our community, but to come to Danville. We also run our merchant to the market program, which is our farmer's market, which allows our businesses to display at the farmer's market. And we're actually looking to do some more things to expand the Danville farmer's market. So that's one thing. And then some of the other things we're doing that I can go into later, but one, I do want to talk about it a little later in the program is our new women's enterprise initiatives. So we've got a lot of different things. We work with the town on largely on grads programs, festivals. When I say festivals, I mean the lighting of the old Oak tree, which is the kickoff of our shopping season. So we work with them on some of the bigger events. We have health and wellness day coming up where we're going to have some local celebrities. So there's lots of different things that we do to showcase Danville for the beautiful place it is. Bob? Yeah. So to get fundamental on you for a minute regarding the issue of attraction, our mission basically is to attract, support and grow business in the Walnut Creek region through advocacy, inclusive economic and business development. Those are just words. But when you work with a city of our size that has a, an economic development team of three plus people, we need to be, first of all, on the same page. And so our first initiative is to promote Walnut Creek as a premier East Bay location for corporate and satellite locations, targeting finance, professional services and tech. And tech could also include medical because we have such a strong medical presence. We're evaluating and investigating the possibility of forming essentially a wellness corridor along Nayshow Valley Road as an example. We discovered that the two cancer centers that are going in here will generate between 120 and 150 ,000 additional square footage just as a result of those two functions. When you talk about business attraction, I think it's important to talk about jobs and economic development is defined as the creation or retention of jobs. So we're focusing on some of the bigger roles, even though some of the smaller retail efforts are real important. Auto, the new auto industries is becoming very prevalent here. We're going to see some different things happening with the Toyota area of Walnut Creek. And so these are all about business attraction, but you have to have a unified voice of what we are as a community and we're developing that with our cities.
The Podcast On Podcasting
"lloyd" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"But it's very organic. So it's like, I'll give you an example. Let's say I'm doing a show. I'm like, Hey, welcome back to the show. My name is Lloyd Ross and this episode is titled yada yada yada. Before I jump into the episode, just want to let you know, if you want to, we've got a brand new book. The link is in the show notes. If you're listening to these episodes and you're wanting to learn more, you want to grab that book, go click on it. Super valuable. You get a free audio, you get this, you get that, you get that amazing value. Click on it. It's down below. Now, here's what I want to talk to you about. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And at the end of the show, I'll say stuff like, Hey, thanks for leaving us a five star review. Really appreciate it. Share this onto your stories, tag me in it, and I'll give you some followers back and I'll say thank you and give me some episode ideas. And don't forget to grab our book. The links in the show notes below. You have a wealthy week. See you later. So I'm bookending the actual show with, and I used to do it at the very end, but I'm like, I'm going to do it. The stars, my show, it's my show. It's my time. It's free. You don't have to listen to any ads. Listen, there's amazing content and it's very amazing content on there. I make sure it's valuable stuff. And so I'm like, I'm doing this because you're going to reciprocally give me something back and I want that. And I'm going to do that. So don't worry. Like if you're not running ads to your pot, like as in, if you're not advertising through Spotify and stuff and putting ads inside your podcast, you're literally giving your stuff away for free. Do not for a second, devalue yourself and think you can't pitch something in there, but don't be like laborious about it. Like buy my stuff, just like, Hey, if you want to learn more about me and work with me, grab my book as nine bucks. Like it's okay to do that. Right. So I've heard people doing the books as free plus shipping. Sure. You probably heard that too. Free shipping with you. It's $9. And then they get some audio, some additional audio and a free coaching call. Yeah. And a free coaching call. Yeah. Damn bro for nine bucks. Yeah. That would literally be so stupid not to do. Yeah. It's a great offer. Yeah. Yeah. That's huge. I want to do that. So now I need to finish my effing book and I need to sell it for nine bucks. Plus. I don't even know if I need an audio, but like even a free coaching call. They love audio. Like you just got to give the order away for free. They just, otherwise they'll ping you and say, man, I'm an audio person. You got to be like, Oh my God. So you just got to give it to them. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But stuff. And how does it work after that? Like I'm listening, I'm hearing this idea of monetizing my show with a value ladder, doing a free show, being the top of the funnel, being a $9 book, being like the second step. What are the other steps? Like what should the other steps be for another podcaster who's listening? So beyond that, you mean? Yeah. So what happens then is obviously you're building this great database of people who have a readership. So as an author, you're building this great readership database. And there are those that we have little courses that people want to take around micro investing and money and mindset. And we have those and people that could opt in to buy them for like 26 bucks and 40. It's like, there's a few different price points and they do. They want to learn more and commit more and do more. So they do that. But then what happens is we do offer coaching, a complimentary coaching course. It's incredible. And we have wonderful coaches that jump on. And if people are really having breakthroughs on that call and they just realize, if I got this from this, I want to continue this conversation. And so then they can join one of our mentorship programs for a year and they get that conversation for the balance of the year. That's our main core offer. So it's coaching. And I think that it's a big space, very popular. Everyone wants to be a coach, but you do have to come in with skillset and level of experience to give people that, but you don't have to start out big. Like when I first started, it was like, I think I did my first one-on-one was like 997 bucks. It was just like, Hey, you want to work with me? I've got some cool stuff. I can show you 900 bucks. Yep. And you get like a few calls for that. You got to start out small, but you've got to have it. Whatever your niche is for your podcast. I promise you people are wanting to work with you to shortcut their success and they'll pay you for that. So I don't know what it is, but if you go and you think like, if you read Alex Formosi's book, $100 million offers, it'll really give you a good sense of what can you craft as your offer. I have made possibly one of the very last questions before we jump off today. And this comes because you're a financial person. You didn't even need your law degree. You started doing developing and you take your profits from one company. And as we were talking in the green room, you're always investing some of that into buying parts of other businesses and really growing and allowing that to happen. I know that takes somebody who's disciplined and savvy to be able to do. And then you come around and you see these new entrepreneurs that might make their first hundred grand and then they purchase Ferrari with it because they've always wanted the Ferrari and they really want to show that they did something. And it gets us as entrepreneurs, it can get many of us into big trouble because we're putting it into like the wrong type of asset or depreciating asset. And so I want to think through if our listener took your advice, they hired somebody to support them with their podcast.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep371: Don't Wait To Add Podcasting To Your Funnel - Lloyd J. Ross
"The podcast is the ultimate front end part of your value ladder. And also, you get to figure out what people want. So really, I feel it should be done first and gives you all this content to work with to then write your book and your high value offer. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm joined with somebody across the pond quite far on the Gold Coast of Australia. You'll probably recognize the accent here in a second. I'm just curious, what time of the day is it for you right now, Lloyd? Adam, what's up? Thanks for having me on the show. Super excited. It's 7 19 a .m. 7 in the morning. And when you and I got on this call, you were finishing another call. Yes. Random question. When do you start your day? Today was 5 a .m. But if you were in the U .S., would you need to start at 5 a .m. or do you have to do that because you have clients in the U .S. or what? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, it was interesting you asked that because we had some of our European team on a call at 5 and then some USA people at 6. And then I've got you at 7. So yeah, if it was just in Australia, I wouldn't have to get up at 5. Yeah, here's a good place to take this. Let me just inform the listener a little bit about where we might take this. Lloyd has, I couldn't count the amount of degrees that are behind him or the one that he's about to add to it. He's got a podcast called Money Grows on Trees. He's married. He has been a developer. He sells supplements online. So he's been doing a lot. So he must manage his time well. I'm curious. Maybe first, like, do you work a shit ton of hours compared to the average human or are you just managing your time a lot better? What do you kind of? Yeah, good question. The secret to it. And the answer is leverage. So we have a lot of people leverage. So that's a lot of people in our team doing lots of stuff that I don't have to do. And also a lot of systems that do a lot of the heavy lifting for us. Like running a team that does our marketing and ads and a team that does our selling and closing and the team that does our organic marketing and administrative help. So it's not really me just doing everything, but I just try and stay in my zone of genius. So I try and figure out where I'm most effective for the day. And I try and stay in those areas and I don't try and do everything myself. So I do outsource, not my genius. That's the secret. I think that I've struggled with what I'm about to share. And if I've struggled with it, Lloyd, maybe you have, and maybe you have some insights for our listener who maybe they've already been struggling for a while, or they will as they try to grow things. And it's like, what's first the chicken or the egg? And what I'm thinking is how do you hire in a smart way so that you're not losing so much before you need them? Because if you don't, maybe you're working too hard. And it sounds like with all of your different businesses, and I didn't even mention the books, you've written two or more books. Two books. Is that right? Two books. Yeah. So like I've been trying to write the same fricking book for four years. Okay. And it's pretty close, but I can't like finish it. There's something wrong with dedicating the time to it. And so I'm thinking you must have mastered these teams that you're mentioning because you don't have to do everything, but it's scary. It's scary to hire. So let us know, like if we've got a podcast as part of a business and we want our business to grow, how should we be thinking about that? Well, it's a really good question. It's one of the most challenging things people face in business, if not the most challenging. And the thing with getting wealthy and people want to build wealth, that's why they're in business, right? And the trick to it is those that scale their time, scale their money. And no one's focusing on scaling their time. They're just trying to scale their money, but they get stuck because they're trying to do everything themselves. So to answer your question, Adam, and it's a really good question, is you outsource to other people when you realise it's costing you money to do everything yourself. So if you're losing money and income and deals and stuff because you're doing everything yourself, that's the telltale sign that you need to outsource it. And you will feel cooked. You will feel overwhelmed. You will feel like things will start falling apart. And that's the sign that you must find someone. And how you begin that journey is the very first hire is, let's say it's podcasting, for example, the first person you want to get on board is someone to do the production stuff after you've done your genius. You record the episode and you want them to do the production stuff. You want to push it out through the platforms. Check the sound quality, add the intro, add to it. You want someone to do that for you and then someone to run some sort of ad campaign to it too. Like you don't want to be doing that stuff yourself if you're trying to build a business with your podcast. So the time to do it would be when you're just absolutely fried and things are starting to fall apart. Like I need someone. So the best first hire is administration hire. Personal story. I became an investor when I was in college because my dad was an investor.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Centrality of the Gospel for Evangelism & Missions | John Miller
"This resource combines expositional sermons and lectures from the classroom of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary to help equip listeners for the work of the ministry. Welcome back. We're going to begin our second lecture. You should have the PowerPoints there. Our lecture for the second lecture is entitled, The Centrality of the Gospel in Evangelism and Missions. Before we go further into that, I just wanted to read again from the scripture, Revelation chapter 7. Here we see the end goal and it's what is seen in heaven. Revelation 7 verses 9 to 12 says this, After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen. Let's pray together briefly. Heavenly Father, again, as we come to study the role of evangelism and missions and we think about the centrality of the gospel, we're reminded that all that we do and all things are for your honor, for your glory, for you are the glorious God. And we look forward to that day when our own voices will be joined with all of your saints, past, present, future, before your throne, to give you the glory, the honor, and the praise that is your due. Help us now in this hour, we pray in Jesus' name, Amen. Said we're discussing the centrality of the gospel and evangelism and missions, of course, the aim and the goal of all missions, as in all things, is the glory of God. But it's important that in what we're doing that the gospel is kept at the center. Now let's be clear, the term gospel -centered certainly in our day is perhaps overused. And we say gospel -centered everything, marriage, gospel -centered church, gospel -centered leadership and can use it in all sorts of ways. But I think it's important for us to recognize when we're talking about evangelism and missions, certainly the gospel has to be kept central. So that's what we're going to think about in this lecture. And before we go on, you'll notice in the second slide foundational principles for evangelism. I mentioned that the supremacy, the supreme object for our evangelism is God and his glory. And here, these are some principles that are given to us as we think about evangelism and the need to keep the gospel central. Some principles that come from Dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones, he gives five different principles. This is what he says, one, the supreme object of the work of evangelism is to glorify God, not to save souls. Although certainly that's part of it, but the supreme object, the first thing is God and his glory and he is glorified through the salvation of sinners and also his justice will be glorified through the damnation of those who are lost. Second thing, the only power that can do this work is the Holy Spirit, not our own strength. And so it's not through our own ingenuity, our own intellect, our own abilities, but it is through the Spirit of God working to draw men to himself, regenerating, and even enabling us to do the work of evangelism and missions. The third principle he gives is the one and only medium through which the Spirit works is the Scriptures. Therefore we reason out of the Scriptures like Paul did. Christ, as our confession says, calls people, calls his elect in through the working of the proclamation of the Word and accompanied by the Spirit. So the Spirit works through the Word. The fourth thing, these preceding principles give us the true motivation for evangelism, a zeal for God, and a love for others. Those are the two things, think of the two great commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor, that also is what motivates us in evangelism, of course our supreme motivation is God's glory.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Gov. Burgum, Sen. Ricketts, and Adm. Stavridis on Sen. Tuberville's unacceptable hold on military promotions
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Q for Hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America, 33 minutes after the hour. I'm joined by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who will be on the debate stage in Milwaukee. He is running for president. Good morning, Governor. Welcome back to The Hugh Hewitt Show. Hugh, fantastic. Great to be with you. Good morning. Good morning. Dougburgum .com is your campaign website. You've qualified for the debate stage. I anticipate one of the questions, or more of the questions, will be about former President Trump's legal problems. Do you think he can get a fair trial in the District of Columbia? Well, I think, Hugh, there's an entire industry of pundits that can weigh in on this, and I'm not going to be weighing in on it because I think just the entire fact that all the media is spending 7x24 commenting on this, that, and the other thing, and presidential elections have to be about the future. And as you know, we're jumped into this thing late. Very few people know us. It's important for us to spend any valuable minute we have talking about the future, talking about our vision for the country, talking about the real threats to our country, including China and Russia, the Cold War we're in with China, the proxy war we're in with Russia, and so we're just going to keep doing that, and I'm sure there will be plenty of voices to fill the airwaves on their thoughts about what may or may not happen in upcoming legal battles. You know, Brett Bear and Martha MacCullum are the equal of any debate moderators in America. Do you expect them to ask questions about the former president's legal woes on that debate stage? If don't, they they'd be a rare find in American media today. All right, let's go to Commander -in -Chief responsibility because you brought it up, national security. Right now, Senator Tommy Tuberville in Alabama has a hold on 300 promotions of general officers, some of them, no doubt, from North Dakota up there at your missile bases. What do you make of Senator Tuberville's boycott and holding these career military officers hostage because Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin violated the Hyde Amendment? Well, I think your last part of that is the accurate part. I mean, I think Joe Biden and this administration are willing to sacrifice national security. You see it, you know, over and over. You see it with what they did in Arizona, with the national monument. You've seen it, what they're doing with their energy policy, which is likely, it feels like it was written by the Chinese and the Russians, the Biden energy policy, but he's willing to sacrifice all kinds of things for an ideology. And this is, you know, the military today, we have two important air bases in North Dakota, as you know, but if someone on that air base, if their parents die, if their sibling dies, the Air Force says, hey, take vacation, but use your own money. They don't pay for someone to fly to their own parents' funeral. And yet here, the Biden administration is insisting to support something which is, you know, highly political to say that the federal government should pay for that. And knowing and setting up a confrontation, knowing that Republicans have for decades said that federal funds should not be used for any portion of abortion service. So Biden knows what he's doing, doing it. If he wants those appointments filled, all he's got to do is reverse a policy and get it in line with the rest of the military. The rest of the military benefits that they provide to existing soldiers for other things that are going on in their family. Well, I agree with you. It is illegal. What they've done violates the Hyde Amendment. But, Senator, I mean, Governor, there are tactics and there are tactics. You represent a lot of career military officers. Anyone being held up has got a family. Not only that, every colonel that doesn't move up to general in the Air Force and every captain who doesn't move up to admiral in the Navy keeps a commander or a lieutenant colonel stuck. So my question is, do you approve of Senator Tuberville's tactics in attacking the Biden administration policy? Well, Hugh, I'm running for president. When I'm president, I'll reverse the policy and then no one will have to talk about this on a radio show because it won't exist anymore. It's important that these positions are filled. I agree completely. We need to have them filled. But this is on Biden. It's not on anybody else. Oh, it's on Senator Tuberville. I've got to disagree. It's an interview, not a debate. But Senator Tuberville is the only senator who has this hold. If you see him, what will you urge him to do? To continue the hold indefinitely for two more years or to get off of it, having made his point? Well, I guess I would just say, again, the Biden administration is creating this controversy. They're creating you and I talking about it because, as you said, they're doing something illegal. I would focus on maybe the president should follow the law first. Nikki Haley yesterday on this program said Tommy Tuberville is hurting military readiness. Do you agree with Ambassador Haley? I agree that Biden is hurting military readiness because he's choosing politics over national security. Governor, do you think that kind of an answer is going to impress the Republican electorate either as a direct answer or as an evasive answer? Again, I'll leave that up to the pundits. I mean, everybody else can decide. But, you know, again, I just know as president what I would do is we wouldn't have this policy and we wouldn't be talking about it. But you're not going to criticize Senator Tuberville? No, I'm criticizing Joe Biden. That's the reason we're talking about this. No, I have talked about abortion endlessly. I've been pro -life for my 33 years in broadcast. But this is about Senator Tuberville. I mean, it's devastating national security into these families. And I think it will divide the Republican field. It will be interesting to people. But you don't want to answer it, so I'll move on. I approve heartily of your online campaign with your shots from the 70s. How's the reaction to your throwback commercials? Well, I'm glad that you're – I'm glad you're enjoying them. That's fantastic. But I would say, you know, the campaign – the campaign where every stop we're talking about economy, we're talking about energy, we're talking about national security. And, you know, speaking of the 70s, when you and I were coming out of high school, you know, there was two things that the world was sure of. We were going to run out of energy. We were going to run out of food. I mean, remember the gas lines, the energy crisis, all that was going on. And, of course, you'd think after, you know, decades of moving this country forward with innovation, not regulation, we would understand that innovation can solve all the problems, whether it's food security, energy security. And yet we have a Biden administration that's obsessed with using regulation in their mind, you know, somehow that they're, you know, going to save the planet through regulation when, in fact, whenever they come up with a regulation like this with the National Monument in Arizona, which is basically, as appropriately described, a gift to Putin, it's as big of a gift as their policy that says, we're going to get all of our – you know, buy all of our batteries and solar panels from China when, of course, A, we'd be dependent on our number one adversary for critical resources here to run our economy, but B, China's opening up a coal plant every two weeks. And if you get a solar panel from China, it was made in a plant that was powered by coal. And so there isn't anything about this Biden energy policy that's good for the environment. If you care about the environment in this country, you'd want to have every ounce of energy. You'd want to have every ounce of uranium mining happening here because we have an EPA. We do things – we do it cleaner, safer, smarter than anywhere else in the world. And by the way, if we took our full capability to be the energy powerhouse we can be, it wouldn't just be energy independence, it'd be energy dominance. And we've got Yellen, Blinken and Kerry all in China, none of them talking about energy policy as a lever. When China imports 10 million barrels of oil a day, they're the most dependent economy in the world. You know they've got issues with deflation. They've got issues with employment for 18 to 24 -year -olds. They've got a huge set of economic issues that we could exploit right now, but we're not because we're not using the tool that has been the thing that wars have been fought over, which is energy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 1: USAs World Cup Collapse, Basebrawls, Jets Optimism, Life in The G-League and The OC 20 Years Later | with Gabe York and Zoe Simmons
"Coming up, an unexpected two -part podcast cameo from me. It's next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where we turned over Sean Fennesey and Amanda Dobbins' big picture feed to Brian Raftery. It's a narrative podcast called, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. You can find it on the big picture starting on Tuesday. And it is an idea I'm really excited about because it came from a class that I did as a senior in college in 1992. Me and my friend Horgs talked a movies professor into doing a special Vietnam War movies class where we watched basically every Vietnam War movie that had been made up to 1992 and then tried to write a big picture term paper about it. And the thing that was really fascinating about that class and something that stuck with me was just that whole concept of Hollywood reinventing the entire Vietnam experience under the premise of, Did We Get to Win This Time? So we got Brian involved and he turned the idea into an awesome, awesome podcast. I even went and dug up the term paper that I wrote 31 years ago. I thought it was gonna be horrendous. It wasn't bad. I was kind of proud of myself, retroactively 31 years later. Anyway, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. It is gonna be in the big picture podcast starting on Tuesday. So that's one piece of business. Second, new rewatchables on Monday night. It is the 300th movie that we've done. It's a special one. We're doing National Lampoon's Vacation. It was time. Meet Chris Ryan, Van Lathan. Yeah, and Van was pushing for it because we wanted to do Christmas Vacation during the holidays and you can't do Christmas Vacation. If we do National Lampoon's Vacation, super fun. Can't wait for you to listen to it. And we'll be running the video at some point on the YouTube channel, youtube .com slash Bill Simmons, where we put up a whole bunch of rewatchables podcasts in case you missed it. Boogie Nights is up there now. Goodfellas, Independence Day, just a slew of them. So if you're bored and you wanna throw on some rewatchables and watch us make fun of each other, there you go. Last but not least, I don't wanna say this is the most important, but it's certainly the thing I spent the most time on. Our documentary that we did about the G League with Religion of Sports and Ringer Films, we combined, and it is premiering on Tuesday, August 8th. It is called Destination NBA, A G League Odyssey. It's really good. We immersed ourselves into the G League season. We followed Scoot Henderson, Gabe York, Ryan Terrell, Mason Jones, and Denzel Valentine. And the big question was, what is this world like? What's it like to be in the G League? And I am really proud of where we landed with it. And we even have, much later in this podcast, Gabe York is gonna come on. He's one of the five that we followed, and he's gonna tell us what it's like as you're holding on to your dream in your late 20s. We try not to spoil the doc too much with Gabe, but I really liked him. He's probably the guy that jumps out of the doc in the most sympathetic way. So look forward for you to watch it. It is prime video, Tuesday, August 8th, Destination NBA. A G League Odyssey. You love basketball, just watch it, it's good. So there you go. This is gonna be part one of a two -part podcast. Gabe is coming up later. My daughter Zoe Simmons is coming up later because we did a whole bunch of OC stuff on the Prestige TV podcast. I was even on two of the episodes. But I ended up watching season one of the OC. And my daughter was watching with us and loved the show. And she was born a year and a half after it premiered. So me and her broke down season one from the perspective of what is it like when somebody 18 watches the OC, a show that is now two decades old. The anniversary was actually August 6th. And what she liked, what she didn't like, what people aren't doing anymore for her kind of audience. And we just dove into it. So that is much later. First, coming out of the gate, I'm gonna open a six -pack because we have a lot to discuss over the past three weeks, all the stuff I missed. So that's gonna be part one. And then part two, which is gonna go up later on Sunday night, me and Rossello doing this evergreen idea that we've always wanted to do. And this seemed like the perfect time because nothing's happening in basketball. So that's gonna be part two later tonight. Part one coming up. First, our friends from ProJax. What's up? All right, I'm taping this. It is Sunday afternoon Pacific time. And I'm gonna open a six -pack. There's a bunch of stories in sports and culture that happened over the last three weeks. I was just writing stuff down, things that would have been fun for podcast segments. I was just like, man, I wish I could have given my thoughts on that. Just gonna rip through them. So I have six and then maybe a couple bonus ones at the end. The first one, the biggest one, was the US women's soccer team, which lost today in penalty kicks to Sweden, scored zero goals in the last two games, scored one goal in the last three games, and that was off a corner kick. You could feel from the beginning that something was off with this team. It was all the ways. You knew in a checklist of what are the red flags? There were just red flags galore. And the only person who was really calling it out in time over and over again was Carli Lloyd, who was doing the Fox studio show. And she was the one person in the horror movie who knows the house is haunted. And everyone's like, shut up. You're not being patriotic. You just wish you were still on the team. She was right. She was right from the get -go. This team, you could see it before the Vietnam game when it was like, look at the new Nike suits. Look at these new suits. And they're all like styling as they head into the locker room. And they're running commercials. And every player has a commercial. There's players who've never done anything of that commercials. And the vibe was just off. They only beat Vietnam three -nothing in a bracket where goal differential was gonna be super -duper important. And that was a huge red flag. And we did the usual thing that we've been doing since 2019, 2015 of, oh, well, they almost scored a bunch of times. Oh, well, if that had gone in or some bad luck. There was just an arrogance to this team. Like they were carrying themselves like the defending champs, the same way like the Denver Nuggets would go into next NBA season. Like we're the champs. I was like, yeah, you are the champs because the season just happened. The World Cup happened four years ago. Everyone's four years older or wasn't on the team. And you could see they wanted to build the team instead of around the identity of, here are these new up and coming awesome stars that are gonna be in your life. They were really latching on to Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. Alex Morgan's 34, Megan Rapinoe's 37. I think one of the differences between the discourse with women's sports and men's sports is that in men's sports, we grasp for angles. And if somebody is disappointing in some way, we really go nuts. Like think of how James Harden's been treated over the last 12 years. So he's one of the 35 best players ever and has taken just an incredible amount of shit. Oh my God, the playoffs, look at his game log. Oh, he choked again. Alex Morgan, who scored twice in her first two games in the World Cup in 2011, she scored once in 2015 in seven games. She scored six times in 2019, five against Thailand in a game that was 13 to nothing, one in the other six, and then scored nothing in the four games this time around. If you take away that Thailand game, she has scored two goals in the last 17 World Cup games. This is the striker. This is the one who's supposed to be the most dangerous player in the field, who's supposed to produce goals. And she hasn't produced goals since the mid 2010s on the national level. And yet it's Alex Morgan. She was supposed to be the next one. We got to keep propping her up and pretending she's a superstar. She's not a superstar. She's really honestly never been a superstar. She certainly hasn't been as impactful as somebody like Abby Wambach was. So you have the team built around her. She's got to play. They play her the entire game, game two, the entire game, game three. She plays like 95 minutes in this game today, and they don't score goals. And the announcers just won't talk about it. It's like being on an AYSO team that your kid's on, and the coach is playing somebody at striker, and everyone's like, why don't they play Sally at striker instead of the coach's daughter? It's like, oh, you know, the coach's daughter. She's got to play there. So you have that, and then you have Rapinoe, who's 37 years old, who's just, unfortunately, great career, legendary, true legend, huge big time player. And when you hit your late 30s in soccer, it's a wrap. She looked like Yudana Rapinoe, not big Rapinoe, and comes out for the last 25 minutes of this game and can't do anything, and then misses the penalty kick. That's the thing. If you're beholden to past performance, you can't expect to succeed in the moment. And I did feel like, what were this team's strengths? Speed. They had Sophia Smith, who really was bad the last three games on the left wing. Like, she just, she couldn't even connect passes. Trinity Rodman, who's a beast. Lynn Williams, who's super fast and athletic and had some really nice moments the last two games. And then Alyssa Thompson, who's the prodigy, who's the, you know, potential tiger or LeBron of this team. 18 years old, best high school player I've ever had. They won't even throw her out there. But this was not a team that could connect passes. They weren't, like, especially creative. The coaching was just bizarre, and we'll never see that guy again. But it was like, the one thing they did have was speed, especially the forwards, and they just threw that away. And Alex, you know, couldn't do anything. So now they're out. It's the most disappointing finish of the last 25 years for the women's team. And it reminds me in a lot of ways that 2004 Olympic basketball team that we had, the USA team. And I tweeted this, I think after the second game, because that was a team that was between eras, like this one was, where all the best players on that 2014, the ones in their primes, weren't that good, except for Duncan. And Duncan was completely banged up. He'd played so many NBA games the last couple of years. I think his knee was hurt. But, you know, it was Iverson and Marbury. The talent, it just was a between eras. And you had guys on the bench, like LeBron and Carmelo and Wade, who were four years away. Kobe wasn't on the team. And it just felt generationally, like we caught that team in the wrong time. The style was wrong. And we learned all these lessons and we moved on. 2008, we win. There's a documentary about it. But this team felt like it was between eras. The Alex Morgan, Rapinoe era, which was basically done. And then you have this era coming up with Rodman and Sophia Smith and Alyssa. And, you know, it's just four years from now, we'll probably be fine. But they need to re -imagine this. And I think if you're gonna learn any lesson from this, it doesn't matter what happened four years ago. It's the World Cup. It matters what's happening now. So that's one thing. Second thing. So Jaylen Brown gets this huge contract, $304 million. Some people seem surprised that it was that much money. Chris Ryan even took a shot at it when we did our library watchables. Hurt my feelings a tiny bit. Mainly because I didn't really have a comeback. Rosella did something on his podcast about how this actually makes sense. This amount of money, when you think of how the salary cap has climbed just since 2015, and it's gonna keep climbing. And there's this world you can go into where you think about just how much everything is gonna cost in the NBA four or five years from now, that Jaylen Brown at $70 million isn't actually gonna be that intimidating. The same way we feel about Tobias Harris for $40 million now, or Klay Thompson, $40 million now. Yeah, you don't really wanna pay $40 million for Klay Thompson, but you can survive it. And I think that's gonna be where the Celtics land with Jaylen. Here's why they had to do it. They're the favorites on FanDuel right now. They're plus 470. The thing that made them the most special and has made them the most special for the last five, six years is the Jaylen Brown -Jason Tatum combo. They've been incredibly successful. The team itself has made five conference finals in the last seven years. They came super close to making the finals last year. I have now gone into the what if zone with that Celtics team where what if Tatum doesn't hurt his ankle on the first play? Do we beat Miami? They were close is the point. And when you're that close, you can't fuck around. This is not Bradley Beal resigning with Washington for 50 million a year when everybody knows you can't get past the eight seed with Bradley Beal. This is different. You're trying to win a title. You're trying to keep all your optionality open. The thing that's a little scary about it, nobody seems to totally know if he wants to be in Boston. This is something we've discussed on this pod. It's been floating out there. The fact that he wasn't happy about landing in the Kevin Durant trade rumors a couple years ago. And just in general, where the league is now, where as Woj called it, the transfer portal, where people get their contract first and then they decide what they want to do. And I think for the Celtics, they know they bought themselves a year with Jalen and they are still one of the favorites to win the title. And a lot of it's going to depend on health and Porzingis. You could also, I don't want to make the case, but you might be able to make the case that Brown had a fucked up hand last year. Cause he did. Cause he sliced his hand open. It was bleeding even during the Philly series. And maybe that was why his ball handling went sideways. Listen, you got to do the contract. It just breaks your brain. I remember a million years ago, Sports Illustrated and Inside Sports say every year they would have like a salary issue. And they would talk about these guys are making $1 million a year. And it seemed like so much money. And now where we're heading with the money, plus the NBA is the meteorites deal. The moment any of these guys becomes unhappy, what do you do? Because you're paying Jalen, let's say you're paying him 55 million a year. Plus he is the trade kicker, which the team has to pay. Right? So if he decides after a year, you know what? I'm tired of being the scapegoat. Everybody loves Jason. I'm like the middle brother of this team. I want my own team. I want to go to Houston or Atlanta. You got to trade me. What are the Celtics going to do? On top of who would want out, you don't have a lot of options and you turn into what the situation Portland's in with Deem. And then on top of it, it's so much money. It's impossible to get any sort of a fair trade for the guy. So they had to do it. And optionality the that comes out of it is frightening. I remember in the early 2000s, when the first time the contracts kind of went nuts and you would see that people get signing like six -year, $100 million deals, seven -year, $110 million deals. And the Celtics really, really stupidly traded for Vin Baker. One of the worst trades of the last 30 years for Boston Sports. A trade so bad, you knew it instantaneously. And I wrote a piece that you can probably find somewhere in the ESPN archives about it, where I compared it to the end of Thelma Louise when Harvey Keitel is running toward the cliff trying to stop the car from going off the cliff. That's how I thought about the Vin Baker trade when it happened. Then it happens and you just had this salary albatross. It's a salary cap league. And you're like, wow, we just threw away 20 % of our salary cap on this trade. There's going to be a couple of those that are just franchise killers. And whether that leads to them bringing back the amnesty clause, who knows? I wish, I've made this, I've had this idea before. I wish that they had a rule in there that if you drafted a guy, every year that he stays in the team, you get rewarded in some way from a salary cap luxury tax type thing, right? So Jaylen was 2016 draft, this would be his eighth year. Maybe like after the seventh year, because that's usually like the third contract. The guy stays in the team, maybe each year after that, he doesn't count for 2 % of the luxury tax, up to like 30%, something like that. The point is the Warriors should be rewarded for keeping Draymond and Klay and Curry from a tax standpoint, that they were that smart to draft those guys, keep those guys together. They should be incentivized, the players, to want to stay with them because there's some luxury tax stuff that the team gets. And the team should want to be incentivized to take care of those guys because it's also beneficial to them. I just wish they figured out some version of that rule. Anyway, Jaylen was always signing for $304 million. Talk to me in a year, I'll keep my fingers crossed. Next thing, I missed the running back pity party. This was crazy. The running backs all got together and they were really upset about how much money they made. And I don't know what to tell you. There's too many running backs and not enough running back spots. And I don't know if you're trying to build a responsible salary cap team in a collectively bargained era, why would you spend $30 million over two years on a running back unless the running back was awesome? Nobody even wants to spend more than $11 million on running back. So I knew that this was crazy when Damien Harris, who was on the Patriots, who I thought was really good. He's maybe not an elite running back, but a good running back, right? Somebody that if he had been on the Chiefs, he easily could have started for the Chiefs. And he signed with the Bills for like one year, 2 million. And when that happened, combined with Pacheco on the Chiefs' seventh round pick, they won the Super Bowl with him. It's just, this position's devalued. I work on this player, I've been actually working on it the last couple of weeks where I try to rank the players for blue chippers, red chippers, pink chippers, honorable mention, and have this whole point system. And so quarterbacks, Mahomes, who's the alpha of that position, he's worth 10 points. And you could even see this in the point spread. If Mahomes gets hurt, the Chiefs are 10 points, nine points, whatever, less than what they would be as a favorite. They'd switch to an underdog. And you go on down the line. Jalen Hurts, I had him as an eight. I had Joe Burrow as a nine. And you go on, you keep going down, and it's like, Geno Smith's probably a two. But then you look at some of the other positions and you have to value them the same way the salary cap values them and teams value them. Guards, they aren't worth that much. Running backs, sorry, they're not worth that much. My top running back was three points because ultimately running backs don't really matter that much. In the last like five, six years, I would say Derrick Henry was the only running back that you could definitively say, this guy almost won the Super Bowl. Like he was that good. Other than that, you know, it's plug and play, quarterbacks, it's receivers. It's much harder to find the number one receiver. Every team needs one. It's much more tangible if you don't have the number one receiver. And it's much easier to just kind of scrap together the running back position. And yet people went nuts about this. We ironically had this in the NBA with centers. You know, Vucevic, who's a really good offensive player, he signed for 60 million for three years, 20 million a year. And Jaylen Brown's going to make $52 million a year. Is Jaylen Brown two and a half times better than Vucevic? No, it's just, he plays a way more important position. You can only play one center at a time. You can patch together the center position. You could have like Isaiah Hartenstein for $8 million. You could, you know, get Robert Williams for 16. You don't need to spend what Phoenix did on Eaton where they're paying $8 and $30 million a year at center. And you don't really need to do that. You kind of feel obligated if you don't want to lose the asset. But I think the NBA is going to go this way eventually where unless it is Jokic or Embiid, the center or Bam Adebayo, it's a bonus. You could argue that was already an overpay. They gave him a huge extension. The Lakers just gave Anthony Davis $60 million a year as an extension. I would argue that's a little frightening. I feel like you could patch together the center position. What really matters in basketball is having the creator. And this was the argument five years ago with Luka versus Eaton for the number one pick. And I made this argument. It was like, go look at who wins the NBA title every year. It's always the people who have the creator. There's somebody who's on the perimeter of the ball in their hands. Even Jokic, who wins the title this year, he was a creator. He's not a typical center, right? He's basically their point guard on offense who could post up. So this happened in the NBA. Nobody went nuts. And this is happening in football. And is this where football is. If you want to make the most amount of money playing in the NFL, I don't know why you would be a running back. I would be a cornerback. I would be a wide receiver. I'd be an edge rusher. But if you're a running back, you know your shelf life's probably like five, six years. You know the money is not totally gonna be there. Now they're in this, like you have people like JK Dobbins, like, I might hold out. It's like, really? You didn't barely even play in the field. Barkley said he was gonna hold out. And then, you know, probably looked at it. And the money for Barkley is like 10, 11 million. That's unfortunately the market. So you can't fix this. They collectively bargained it. And until we get to the next CBA, I don't know how you fix it. I thought it was really weird. It felt like people had nothing to talk about. And it was like, ah, let's feel bad for running backs. All right, let's take a break. And then I'm gonna finish the rest of the six pack. All right, picking up on the six pack. We're gonna talk a little more football. I talked about the running back pity party. This is a different kind of party. The Jets optimism, which has just been stunning to me over the course of July. I have Jets fans in my life. These are people that usually have no hope and are very reminiscent of the pre -2004 Red Sox fans, just assuming the worst at all times. Why does God hate us? All that stuff. And now they have this crazy optimism based on the fact that they brought in Aaron Rodgers, who I did not think was very good last year, just throwing that out there. I wouldn't say he was bad, but for Rodgers, he was bad. I mean, we thought Rodgers was, he was the reigning MVP and we thought he was still one of the five or six most impactful players in the league. And I don't wanna read stats to you for the next six minutes, but deep balls, he was bad. Turnovers, he was bad. Leadership, he was bad. And the case for Rodgers coming back would be, well, he's gonna be rejuvenated. The Jets, New York City. This is his team. He got away from Green Bay. He's got Hackett back. I get it, but he's also at an age where we've really only seen Tom Brady succeed at a high, high level at the age that Rodgers is at. I was trying to figure it out. I have my QB ratings and I had, you know, the top tier is Mahomes and Burrow and Allen and Herbert and Hertz. Those have to be the top five. Then it drops off and it's Lamar Jackson and Lawrence. And then Rodgers, probably a hair underneath him with a chance to play himself up with those guys. But from what we saw last year, I'm not ready to put him there. So he's the 10th best quarterback in the league, probably. 10th or ninth best quarterback in the league, probably. Well, they have no offensive line. And I don't understand why people keep glossing over this where it's like, hey, Rodgers and Garrett Wilson, he's one of the best receivers in the league and Breece Hall's going to come back and the defense is really good. And it's like, yeah, the offensive line is terrible. Beckton and Dwayne Brown, sure tackles again. And then you have Robert Salah as the coach, who I cannot say I thought that Jets were crisply coached last year. Whatever he was doing with Zach Wilson was insane. No idea if that guy's even a decent coach. So I'm already worried about your offensive line, the age of your quarterback, and the competency of your coach. And that's before we get into the hard knocks curse, because for some reason they're doing hard knocks, the incredible Super Bowl hype already. And then we have the schedule, which is the AFC East has just got screwed by the schedules this year. The Jets, just for quarterbacks in 17 games, they got to play Josh Allen twice, they got to play Mahomes, Herbert, Hertz, Dak Prescott, and Deshaun Watson. And then they also have to play Miami twice. We'll see what we get out of two this year. And then a really good Pats defense. And then Denver, who knows, they might be rejuvenated. So Danny Dimes, they have to play him. It is a brutal schedule, so you have that. And then on top of everything else, you're the Jets. I was there with the Red Sox before 2004, and this is probably just as bad, where you just think the worst possible things can happen is all the time. You're not allowed to have optimism when you're Jets fans. You can be cautiously optimistic. There was an entire Curb Your Enthusiasm episode once, season 10, episode seven, about being a Jets fan. And it was called, I think, the ugly section. Nick Kroll was the maitre d'. And part of the episode was about, he would put these people in different sections of the restaurant, depending on how attractive they were. But there was this other plot, Larry's buddy who loved the Jets, kills himself. And Larry becomes convinced it was because of the Jets, that the Jets killed his friend. This was only a couple of years ago. So now they get Aaron Rodgers, and everything's good. And they're gonna win the Super Bowl. I don't see it, guys. I don't wanna step on my football stuff too much, but I'd be shocked. And Lombardi points out the defense that everybody's ready to compare to the 85 Bears. Lombardi said they had two turnovers over the last eight games last season. So that means something too. I am dubious, to say the least. If you're gonna tell me a tortured franchise actually turns it around this year, I want a tortured franchise that doesn't have expectations. Because the Lions are another one. Everybody's ready to put them in the Super Bowl or close. And the only case for them is just pretty explosive offense. They couldn't stop anybody last year. And the NFC is terrible. But that's another one where is that a fan base that should be super excited and have a ton of hype? The one that's kind of lurking that fits in this group is the Browns. Because the Browns are actually super talented. They're in a winnable division. Burroughs already hurt. And I think they're four to one to win the AFC North on FanDuel, something like that. Their over -under is, I think it climbed up.
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Austin hopes F-16 fight jet training for Ukrainian pilots will begin in coming weeks
"Defense secretary Lloyd Austin says he hopes Ukrainian pilots will soon start training on American made fighter jets. Speaking virtually to global defense leaders about ongoing military aid for Ukraine, Austin says the aim is to start the F-16 training in coming weeks. This will further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian air force in the long term. But not necessarily help Ukraine's anticipated counter offensive against Russia. The defense officials are expected to get an update from Ukrainian leaders about preparations for the fight. Austin says they'll also have to look for creative ways to boost production of more key systems for Kyiv. We're going to have to dig deeper. Washington.
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US Abrams tanks for training Ukrainian forces arrive in Germany ahead of schedule
"Ukraine says it's holding off on a counter offensive for a lack of weapons. Meantime, Britain and now the U.S. say they're pressing to help Kyiv more quickly. I'm Ben Thomas with the latest. We are doing everything possible to accelerate the delivery of these of these tanks. Defense secretary Lloyd Austin telling a Senate committee the Abrams tanks have arrived in Germany slightly ahead of schedule. The Ukrainians can begin training on this capability. Abrams tanks are being built specifically for Ukraine. The training is the most lethal new layer of combat instruction the U.S. is providing, giving Ukrainian troops the best chance to overwhelm and punch through Russia's battle lines. By the time they complete that training, the tanks will be available for them to use. But as for the timing on that, early fall is a projection. Ben Thomas, Washington
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Biden picks Air Force general as next Joint Chiefs chairman
"President Biden is picking a history making general as the nation's next top military officer. Officials say the president's tabbing Charles Brown junior as the next joint chiefs of staff chairman, Brown, who goes by cq is currently the air force's chief, the first black officer to lead any military branch. He would now be just the second black joint chiefs chairman after Colin Powell 30 years ago. This would also mark the first time both The Pentagon's top civilian and uniform positions are held by African Americans, with brown joining defense secretary Lloyd Austin. Brown's a fighter pilot with deep experience encountering China if confirmed he'd replace the retiring Mark milley as chairman. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Floyd Brown Is Calling on Jesus to Remove Evil People From Power
"The truth is, is those four wave elections were the activities of men and the principalities and the spirits that are over Washington D.C. and these other major cities have to also be held in check by spiritual forces and that means at the same time we're organizing on the ground. We have to go out and be involved in spiritual warfare and call upon Jesus and his mighty army to defeat those principalities, which are keeping these evil people of power. I can't believe you're talking about this crazy spiritual stuff Lloyd. This is a very, this is a professional program. We don't talk about that kind of stuff on here. Just kidding, I could not agree with you more. You know that about me. What you have just said is absolutely true. What we are facing, apart from God, there is no way as you've just outlined in succeeding. We need God's help just as we had in the American Revolution. We need miraculous intervention in addition to the Continental Army. We need we need George Washington. We need all these things. But without God without appealing to God or as Washington would say to Providence, there's no way we can succeed. So I'm really glad for you to bring this up because I think things have had to get this bad for most Americans to wake up to the fact that at its heart this is a spiritual battle. This is not just a battle politically. There's still a lot of people naive enough to think that this is just a political battle. It is not just a political battle, not at all.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"lloyd" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Last year and once some games entice Simpson is a highly rated recruit, but they go through spring practice and Nick Saban felt like they still needed to add something to that quarterback room. So whenever something like that happens going into the summer period, it obviously grabs your attention. So I want to continue to learn about the quarterback competition about how those guys are developing about what Tommy Reese is trying to implement there in conjunction with what they've been able to do for several years. And how Tyler Buckner figures into this equation. So the chance reporter was bumming right now in Alabama any time they make a move, it's going to make headlines, but when they add a player at the most premier position is obviously going to grab national attention. So I think that's just another layer and another storyline to watch as we figure out what's going to happen at Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, and others that are vying for playoff contention. Kenny and tackling a beat like this, there's so many different components, two new coordinators, the goat. You just don't walk in and knock on doors. Things aren't like that anymore in intercollegiate athletics. So how do you tackle this job and getting to know not only the material, but the people involved? Yeah, I mean, that's a great question and what I was saying that is this is the biggest platform that I've been on and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, like I said, but I don't plan on being anybody other than myself. When I went to South Carolina, it wasn't necessarily an open door policy there with the high school coaches. I had to rebuild connections between my paper and the community and I did that successfully going into Iowa City covering Iowa for the register. Kurt Ferrand said somebody who was highly regarded and lawn tenured in Big Ten country and well respected as is miss basketball coach Fran mccaffery and Lisa bluder as well and I had to grind in and show that I'm a I'm sure professional ask good questions be diligent be a costume and professional know what I'm talking about, provide good analysis and connect with players coaches and fans in. It was successful enough to land me a position with the athletics. So I'm just going to continue to do what I've been doing on continue to get better continue to evolve. I've grown so much from the person that you've spoken to a few years ago in South Carolina to who I am now. And I was just looking forward to continuing to get that going and developing great relationships with Alabama as well. Some of these questions I must admit are just kind of almost humorous to myself because I could be interviewing myself 40 some odd years ago about covering the greatest coach of all time and it's a scary proposition so I ask you, I say that to ask you this when and if you come in contact with Nick Saban not to give everything away, but what are you going to want to learn from him and how will you go about that? Because he's an intimidating figure. Yeah, absolutely. I'm really just going to maybe I won't even start with football. Maybe I'll just try to, you know, start a conversation off the cuff about something else like outside of athletics, maybe break the ice a little bit. Maybe like tell a joke, get them laughing and it's actually interesting when I have my last availability at Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker, who is close to Nick Saban, they work together years ago and have a close relationship. He told me that Nick Saban either likes Coke or Diet Coke. He was like, you should bring him one to kind of break the eyes. So maybe I'll bring both extend a little peace offering, but I know like I said, I just plan on being myself, I'm just gonna go up there and be confident in who I am, he's an intimidating figure. But I'm sure he wouldn't appreciate somebody coming up to him back and pin it either, especially somebody who's trying to gather information from him about his football program. So be confident, held up, hand held high chest out and tried to break the ice with him and develop a relationship that way. How about this, can you just tell him you're Georgia graduate and say go dogs? I'm in a subscription based business. So I'm going to decline that, but the people who know me grew up with me and went to school with me. They know what it is. So I don't have to say it. But I'm looking forward to this upcoming season in of Georgia ends up seeing Alabama and the SEC championship potentially the playoffs that's going to be a sight to see. One thing I will say having covered Nick Saban a long time, Kenny, is that he's smart. And I think from that standpoint, you'll get along because he likes direct questions. He doesn't like to waste time. He doesn't like hypotheticals. He doesn't like speculative. And if you just bear right in, I think you'll do great. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate the tips. I'm still looking for them. So anybody out there who's listening or watching who is Alabama fan, media member, even an athlete passed, you know, athlete that has any tips about how to continue to navigate this beat. Please let me know, but like I said, I'm just going to go in there and continue to do me myself. Do the things that have gotten me here, keep the main thing, the main thing and continue to evolve and get better from there. So I don't plan on asking anything that I think would raise his blood pressure. Maybe I will at some point, but I'm going to go in there well research knowing no one my stuff and I think this is going to, I think this is going to be really good and I told the people that at the high flight that we're going to have a lot of fun and I'll sell that to people who follow Alabama and the SEC as well. I'm going to come in. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to tell great stories and you're going to really enjoy what I bring to the athletic. Well, I can't be more excited, Kenny. I think you'll do great. It is a tremendous challenge. I'm just so proud to see what you're doing at such an early and young age to have one of the one of the beats that you will cherish for the rest of your life. Be well. I can't wait to see you soon. And we'll continue this conversation very soon. But you'd be well county. You have to say, thank you so much for having me on. You know, first day I got announced to you. Your team reached out and had me on, I appreciate that so much. And we're going to be talking a lot this fall and in the years to come. So I'm just looking forward to having more great conversations with you. The new reporter covering the university of Alabama for the athletic, and Kennedy Lloyd Smith, the third, the best name in the industry. I said that kennington, when I said that, I didn't realize it was I was going to be quoted in your introductory article. And I said, Kenny can Lloyd Smith the third, the best name in the industry. It stuck, Kenny B well. We'll talk to you soon. We'll see you soon. We head to the break right now as we roll on here on a Tuesday afternoon. Guys, fellas, men. Do you want a better sex life? Of course you do. Sex releases endorphins, feel good hormones
The Paul Finebaum Show
"lloyd" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Half of the program is live. We thank you for being with us. Every once in a while, you meet someone in the industry and they're young and they're just getting started and a couple of years later you look up and they're covering one of the most prestigious beats in the sport for one of the biggest entities. And that's where we are right now. The headline speaks for itself, covering Alabama football is a once in a lifetime opportunity, the first line of kennington Smith, the third's piece in the athletics today, even as I type this, I don't think it is really hit me yet. This is a this has been a dream and a goal of mine for as long as I can remember and it has arrived. And just think about covering the university of Alabama and Nick Saban, especially at a point in history, I covered it for a local paper, not for a national publication. It was one of the biggest thrills I ever had covering that beat, and kennington Smith, the third eye, when I introduce you a couple of years ago, you were covering high schools in South Carolina. You've come a long way, can you congratulations? Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much for having me on, and you're right. We have come a long way from Anderson, south Carolina, made it stop in. Iowa City, and now Intel's gluten getting a chance to cover Alabama, like you said, it's a behemoth, it's the premiere program in college football. And it's still surreal, even sitting here talking to you right now about it, I'm not sure, but it's going to hit me yet, but I'm more than excited to get started to sing my teeth into the program and no dive into everything Alabama and the SEC as a whole. Well, Kenny, let's talk about what you've been doing since then because you must have been doing something very well to get a beat like this. Yeah, well, after a few of our appearances on your show actually, I got recruited by the Dubois and register to go out to Iowa City and cover the hawkeyes and I feel like in my two years there I saw the best of Iowa athletics, my first season on the beat, I will football roast to number two in the country. The men's basketball team won the Big Ten tournament. I got a chance to cover Keegan Murray who ended up being a top 5 paper and had a great rookie year with the Sacramento Kings and in this past year. Caitlin Clark, with the women's team ascended to superstardom and they made a run to the national championship. You can't leave out wrestling and how important it is to the state and how electric those matches are and how prominent they are as a program as well. So it's been a great two years and I have to give you a little bit of credit because the last time I was on your show you said that there were going to be many more awards in my future and I have one a couple more since we last spoken. So I've been blessed to be able to do some great work at a high level and get on the radar of a company like the athletic and have an opportunity such as this. Well, it's fantastic. We're all proud. And you know what big fans both the folks in front of the camera are here and the ones in the back room who make all the calls says you went to Georgia, right? Yes, sir. And you covered, you've covered South Carolina and all the things there, and now you've covered one of the biggest names in women's basketball modern history. And now you're about to cover the biggest name in college football history. I know that you're in the early days of this position, but tell us about your transition and how you are going to tackle this job. Yeah, well, as far as the transition, I mean, the last few weeks have just been crazy with interviewing with the athletic getting this position. My parents, I have to give them a great shout out. They mobilized as soon as I got this position, came up to Iowa City, helped me move out. My dad and I drove a U haul from Iowa City to Tuscaloosa on Sunday, a near 18 hour drive, and then the next day, moving in my stuff and doing onboarding with the athletic and really getting that process going, but as far as what I'm going to be doing to see my teeth in Alabama, I've already started it. When I started interviewing with the athletic, I started watching all of Nick Saban's spring practice pressors, player pressers. I watched the spring game forwards and backwards several times getting a feel of the team and where they are going into this upcoming season because you're right. It is a really interesting time to be around the program right now. So I'm sure that I'm gonna continue to be adjusting and continuing to learn things on the fly and what it's going to be like in the summertime as we look ahead to SEC media days in the fall camp, but the work's already started. I have a lot more work to do and I'm just really excited for the opportunity and to be surrounded by so many great people at the athletic who are going to help me kill the coverage. Kenny, you know the narrative you can't help but know what it all encompasses covering Nick Saban and the U of a, just your thoughts on really just the last couple of days when the talk of college football has been on the transfer portal and Tyler Buckner. What have you learned and I realized you're just getting on the ground, but I'm sure this has not gone unnoticed. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, when you look at college football as a whole it's so interesting this year because when you look at the teams that you expect to contend for a national championship, a lot of them are breaking in new quarterbacks, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, to name a few. And I think it was a little something that parked up my antennas if you will, when they went and got Talib buck, obviously there's a connection there with offensive coordinator Tommy Reese, but you look at her program that is so used to having a lead quarterback play when you think about Jalen hurts too. We'll talk about Matt Jones and now to Bryce young and there was a huge question mark. This spring and gentlemen no rose started for them and relieved by young and few games last year and once some games entice Simpson is a highly rated recruit, but they go through spring practice and Nick Saban felt like they still needed to add something to that quarterback room. So whenever something like that happens going into the summer period, it obviously grabs your attention. So I want to continue to learn about the quarterback competition about how those guys are
AP News Radio
Musical 'Some Like It Hot' leads Tony Award nominations with 13 nods
"The musical version of some like it hot leads the Tony nominations with 13. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. The Broadway adaptation of the 1959 movie some like it hot is up for best musical competing against Anne Juliet, Kimberly akimbo, New York, New York, and shucked the best play nominees are ain't no mo between riverside and crazy, cost of living, fat ham and leopoldstadt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Hayes, Jodie comer, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles all earned nominations. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical bad Cinderella and a beautiful noise the Neil Diamond musical were shut out. The tonys will be June 11th in New York with
AP News Radio
White House: No evacuation plans for all Americans in Sudan
"The Biden administration continues putting together options for a possible U.S. embassy evacuation in Sudan, while warning other Americans. Defense chief Lloyd Austin says The Pentagon's working on plans and has sent troops to the area just to be ready. If we are called on to do something and we haven't been called on to do anything yet. For now, there are no plans for a broader pullout of the potentially thousands of other U.S. citizens in Sudan. Americans should have no expectation of a U.S. government coordinated evacuation at this time. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the U.S. has been warning Americans for months to stay away from Sudan. It's absolutely imperative that U.S. citizens and in Sudan make their own arrangements to stay safe in these difficult circumstances. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
AP News Radio
'The Phantom of the Opera' closes on Broadway after 35 years
"The phantom of the opera has closed after 35 years on Broadway. I'm Archie's on a letter with the latest. There is champagne, tears, and gold and silver confetti bursting from the famous chandelier as the phantom of the opera ended its run after nearly 14,000 performances, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber dedicated the show to his son who died of cancer last month. Sarah brightman, who originated the role of Christine, says she loves seeing the show through. It's always lovely to be involved with something from inception and to see how it pans out. Phantom is an expensive production and the pandemic is to blame for its end. However, producer Cameron mackintosh says all the great musicals return.
AP News Radio
Entertainment Update for 4-16
"Archie's are a letter with an entertainment update. Jessica Chastain gets so into her role as Nora in the Broadway production of a doll's House that she asked director Jamie Lloyd if she could skip the curtain call, Lloyd told her no. Jamie helped me understand that the curtain calls not for me. It's really for the audience. Guitar smirks Sheen of the Irish band the script has died at the age of 46. The band said in a statement she indied Friday after a brief illness. Their biggest song in the U.S. was break even, which hit number 12 in 2008. All right. That's a car. The Super Mario Brothers movie has set a record for the best earnings second weekend for an animated film. It brought in another $87 million this past weekend, according to studio estimates, it has earned $678 million worldwide becoming the biggest film of the year in just two weekends. A marches are a letter
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Tucker Carlson: Pentagon Leaker's Only Sin Was Telling the Truth
"21 year old, allegedly a gamer on some gaming site. And the Biden administration has called it a clear criminal act allegedly this kid isn't even a whistleblower. He's a low level air national guardsman who posted sensitive, classified, secret, United States materials online. Now, I'm old enough to remember when people would have called that treason. I'm old enough to remember when people would have talked about being a traitor to your country. But here on April 14th, 2023, I'm watching my favorite cable news host, defend the guy. Despite direct U.S. involvement, Ukraine is in fact losing the war. 7 Ukrainians are being killed for every Russian. Ukrainian air defenses have been utterly degraded. Ukraine is losing. The Biden administration is perfectly aware of this. They're panicked about it, but they have lied about this fact to the public. Just two weeks ago, for example, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the U.S. Senate that Russian military power is quote waning. In other words, Russia is losing the war. That was a lie. He knew it was when he said it, but he repeated it in congressional testimony. That is a crime. But Lloyd Austin has not been arrested for committing that crime. Instead, the only man who has been taken into custody or likely ever will be is a 21 year old Massachusetts air national guardsman who leaked the slides that showed that Lloyd Austin was lying. He revealed the crimes, therefore he's the criminal. That's how Washington works, telling the truth is the only real sin.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"lloyd" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Meanwhile, China's foreign minister Wang Yi is held a conversation with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and says China wants to deepen cooperation with Russia at all levels. The U.S. issued its updated national defense strategy today saying China remains the greatest threat to U.S. national security and that nuclear weapons are the last line of defense, but defense secretary Lloyd Lloyd Austin says, well, there are not limits to that. The PRC is the only competitor out there with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the power to do so. Saying the U.S. will now not rule out the use of nuclear weapons to fight conventional threats. Meanwhile, the U.S. is fearing falling behind both China and Russia and the arms race to deploy hypersonic weapons, it has tested its own out of Virginia, navy vice admiral Johnny wolf says, this will have the capability of operating international. This hypersonic weapon gives us the capability to get deep inland in some of the things that we need to do. And most importantly, for what we're doing in the navy by putting in on a ship and putting it on a submarine, it allows us to pretty much go anywhere in the ocean. The vice admiral says they should be ready to be played next year. And congresswoman Liz Cheney says she has crossed party lines to actively campaign on behalf of Democrat elissa slotkin in Michigan. Cheney and outcast in her own party because of the January 6th committee says, while she differs with some slotkin positions, substantive members of Congress are needed desperately in San Francisco, I'm at Baxter, this is Bloomberg, our Brian. And thanks very much 38 minutes past the hour. It's time for global sports. With Dan short swin Dan could a U.S. soccer star beheading to Manchester. Interesting question there, Brian football insider says that Manchester United is keeping tabs on U.S. international Tyler
Plan B Success
"lloyd" Discussed on Plan B Success
"S put it with the women. I it he got there. One day. women want women want to fight it because she called me up. i take. You're not gonna kill us it or do i. So i thought to have something i i had good working relationships with a lot of the partnerships out in the city and so they created a program for them so they could be playing. Could you not the end of a drug addiction. I can't i'm not there to change their. i'm not at a change sex. They want to beat them their decision on there to get you clean like i got everybody else cleaned in to help you get into a f. One young man came when he knew i was tired and of course he had made a coach vance formation. I recognize me. Sit in the back of core and in variant. He'd tell the judge. I want to tell. This is my name a gave me real first name. And i said i know that and then when i told him to come up with ex miles slash i said i will never ever forget that smile ever and he said i wanted you to know i heard you a retired so i had to come and let you know what i'm doing. He said i will be graduating next semester. He said i'm already. I already have a job counseling. And he's counseling other addicted transgender people. So that he can help them find a way. It was extremely bright straight. A student in college. I said i i had tethers camp. Good gordon clamp down on your and but he developed into a great person when he left graduate my program. I knew he had what he needed. The question is when you leave. You can either go back to your life. Whatever that was okay any or you can pick the life you now have. They picked like that they had talks about that. Talks about all of that in in terms of different choices that people have and it really is meant to was irish people no matter walk of life there in that. I want them to make a plan for their life. If you know a plan a successful. I want them to. Bring than everything before. And i want. I wanted to be so big. it can't do is. this isn't possible. Just and where do they find the book. It's on amazon. Amazon dot com and To lloyd's book it's You know this is the way to cover. Look at two heads on there. But it's i've had people. Tell me that one i had a third cousin had never met steve facebook into younger and she said after i read your book. She said i decided. I'm going back to college. I'm gonna start. You know. And so when i heard at an a couple of other folks you made me feel like anything and i said that's what it's coast to because you have greatness inside of you that you don't even know yet. I watched people transform every week in front of my eyes. i call the intervention. I don't have a college but i watched people transform. And when you see it. And i did this for fourteen years. This part of being a dutch and you see people coming in one time camera. Who came in and they were filming me for this documentary in on the program said heard me say different girls. I show you look nice today and so we took a break in. It came up there and they said we're does we notice that you're telling the girls they look nice i mean they they look nice and he said what are you doing this. The placate you know and make them feel good. I said i took out a mug shot shaq book in. They have mug shots at him. And i said remember the girl who had to polka dot blouse him. They said That's it. I flip the page. Does it this is our reach into my program and they said i said yes her look like does new said no as it turned a couple more pages said remember. The girl that appeared at the the navy blue jacket on with the red shirt and they stood. I said that's her and they said. Oh my god i it when i say you look nice. I am not trying to be nice right. Thank you so much. This has been a pleasure talking to you learning about your book learning about your career your life very inspiring and i'm sure You know a lot of people would be intrigued to go. Check out the book and to keep in touch. So thank you very much for joining us today and thank you for relating your life and the different episodes that you did. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having absolute pleasure thank you..
Plan B Success
"lloyd" Discussed on Plan B Success
"Their drugs supply And that is you know in moralize them bets but you wanna be sick. Do you wanna go that. The answer is no. They didn't want to go to that. And if they had to pick which one been there when they get high and not going to be too worried about what it looks like and all of that but i decided to do that program. I decided to help those people after all best when i wanted to do when i got on the bitch was to help people and this was definitely something. That was a plan that i didn't figure on But i i opened myself to it. And when i had approached by the chair he said would you help me with lady who getting prostitution tickets. I then decided. I'm going to help you. I'm gonna open up. A special tracked them. And i did that and i got a chance to work with people on every time they came in for two years and my job was to try to help them see the greatness. They had incited them that they might can't see it in my sister before she died. He told the lady who who had been out there prostituting she's on drugs etc and she says Do you know how beautiful and the lady looked at my sister and she looked around in the courtroom she said. Are you talking to me. And the owner said yes and amen her a court reporter the story at at her funeral. She said that she looked at my sister. Said who is the judge talking to. Because i see what you can be is that that's what i'm looking at. And the lady started to cry and then she looked back at this guy is always a guy bringing them it is so she's just no one ever told me that no one ever told me i was beautiful as she said. I want your program. And so she said within you have a seat. I'm calling the probation get signed up instead of you really want this. I can help you help you said but you gotta you gotta do this and lay said i will. Jayco empty looked in the bay. She said you can leave. I'm stay the bottom line. Were mustered told me the story and a smile and about a month later she died. And so when i had approached about a prostitution program which was on a much larger scale than one on one fish she had. I said absolutely another judge. Who's doing with me. she said. Wait a minute judge lawyer. We've we need to think about. As i said i don't think about i guess i'm in a hundred percent. So that meant she had to be an percent and the first day she had ladies come in and take them off the streets. She looked came to me and she said leonid they scared me. She said they scared me. And i said well. They can't do anything to she said. This is really rough. And i started laughing. The bottom line is that that was one of the most rewarding things i'd ever done i've ever done and I still when. I don't facebook when i retired. They found they found me and they sit. Threatened me and i did and they started telling me how they feel clean what they were doing how they doing with one of them said if i send you a ticket is it getting my master's degree he said. Will you come was of course. Of course. I will wish she left me. She had just gotten a certification is like a state certification to help a care people this. She went on to become a practical nurse and then she went on to get a bachelor's degree to be a council. Help addicted people and and she came back. It is later would a stream of people sitting at a graduate Graduation so she sat a registration. She looked and cheese and they had each one. Get up until the new graduates. This is what you can do when you leave her. You know you did well under her when the test comes we walk out the door judge roy. Now there's no you. At the judge you are the drug counselor. You is much grains. There's no more strange screening three times. A week is no more screen and it said in add up in each one of them said what they had done that same people in a long time. But this guy. Ron them all and they all stood one by one and they said there graduation year and a smile is she was one of those contacted me on facebook and i would see her get her master's degree The bottom line is that anybody can change. anybody can transform. It's it's if them the tools. Give them the things they need and s would performed justice spout now. Sometimes people say lock people up you wanna send in of all you do is lock people up and they come out. They will the stats. Chill the if it's cases and things like that they will re-offend within the first thirty six. Okay we kept stats on our graduates. Three to five years out at not be offended at nat Though the bottom line is i new book was work and when my veterans my extraju saying they would test positive but they would say but i'm not like them. It would point to the other people. Drug and i said we're using the same kind of drunks which mean not like and they sit there like them and when i heard judge russell. He's a judge in buffalo new york at a conference. Say same exact thing. He was told the same thing by his guys. He started a veteran score. Will after i listened. I said i'm starting more real good starter. I start stuff you know. So i said i'm starting when and i went back and ask my cheek judge and she said no. He said that we've got especially courts. Which you that. That's it right now. And i said where we need this. I can cut the red tape. I can have the da. I can get them into programs. I can get them into the doctor's right away. They don't have to wait. Wait so long. It's apples been trying a said and they go gac and stuff and so he said the next year i went and i talked to men who has started these programs. He was the congress by this time. Hit really acknowledged him and he said i'll fly to detroit a doctor. He said if you need to. I said fine so. I backed all geared up. I don't take no. I don't take note easily okay. And that's another thing. People should understand if you bought them for something. You can't just let it notes copy tracks. And i was prepared. I was prepared to to really go gusto. And i told us it. Look it. s just willing to come down here and speak to you. And it's absence. Look and i looked at her and she said you got your program. He said that means this much view. The second time the down here she said. Then you've got The one thing i can say about that is it. That's the graduated. That program spun off in started their own programs. It gets people who didn't come to court lost that that were lost. A learn how to give is out there like they saw mp veterans score. I was so proud of them. I don't know what to do. Essay them it's a board now to homeless vets. So i see them with their trying to help homeless. That's you know they. They have their their table set up etc and they holler judge. Lloyd i said hey and i go take pictures little. I'm proud of them because they took what was given to them and they giving it freely to other people and helping people transform helping them become a better the life that they really are supposed to leave..
Plan B Success
"lloyd" Discussed on Plan B Success
"Hey greeting seventy one and welcome back to sort of plan b's success today. We have a judge amongst us. Leon lloyd from detroit. Michigan is a teacher then she was a lawyer and then a judge and then there's also another small thing about her that. I need to mention here that her twin sister was also a judge and the sisters were judges at a point in time and she recently written a book. Your honor your honor that we're going to talk about as well so let's jump in welcome leon you and then we will from welcome. Leon you thank you. Thank you so much for joining us today. My pleasure thank you for having absolutely so. Tell us about your your life you know. Where do you begin and Teacher to lawyer to judge how did that come about. I was born in detroit. Michigan product of detroit school system. And i didn't come in the little alone. I came in with my sister. An unannounced known But she was born upside down and she came out first and then as i grew up with my twin sister we were so close We had some of the same things that we'd like to do together and that's how we became teachers. We both became teachers. We'd like the same type of thing. We've we majored in things. We taught at two different high schools The the teaching was great Both of us wanted to lawyers. You know a lot of things influenced s going through the civil rights period and we would sit there watching. Tv talking to each other. We said you know. I want to be a lawyer. I wanna help leona soon. What and you know we get motivated like that and our goal is to once we finish these. We're going to go into law. And so we. After four years of teaching in off the debt of a new car we went into law school. And we would've together. And i'm so mad. She hung with me because she was going to donate. Ucla has now. Please stay and we went to law school together We then formed a practice. Will we graduated a lloyd and we did for ten years. And then i told her i wanted to help more people. Both of us at this thing. We wanted to help. People want it to use whatever we were doing to help you be teachers. We wanted to help. Kids wanted them that the necessarily go through what we went through the discrimination. We face as a child out of it stronger. How so. It was always to help people. And i wanted to do it on a bigger scale and that was to be a judge and she's Was very serious about it. She became my camp and manage and went up against ten incumbents. A lot of people said you're crazy and these educate when it gets one to ten you know what are you doing. And i believed in myself and to me. That's very important Instilled in me as a child Something i i set my mind to in planned on doing Debbie not gonna get bumps in the road. It doesn't mean you're not gonna get you know. Hails declined. But i believed in myself and i had hurt. She believed in me and I was right. i did. I bid unseated and said now. They're not convinced her. I said i need someone to thinks like me on the bench with me. I need a partner is. She said i felt like run already. You know she for me. And two years later she brand and she won and we would known as the twins for justice and it bury creative. She watched me on the bench. She saw she said one day she says leonia people come in your or one way is when they leave. They leave a different way. He said it's like they're going into the empowerment zone. Is empower these people. And you know what i should do. That's what the law should not. Just be up to you on that saying that it can't be when it's appropriate but there's also another Used the law. And that's what i was doing. And i call it restorative justice. It's helping which door people though when she got a bitch and i helped train her. You know she did the same thing In her way but she did the same thing Be it you know. I remember her telling me kid who would mess up this old lady. Canaan all over knowledge came. It's not just giving the boy a sign you destroy property you know. There's a lot of respect lady had keeping at white fence white and you went messed it up when leon finished with him. She made him go repaint that fence. You know restore back to what it was understand. He at no of in that house. He apologized and he said anytime she needs me. I will go. It's changing what people are before they come into. I call it a transformative justice and We were doing that and then when she died suddenly two thousand one that that changed everything for me i had to re invent. I was Because we had been together for years and now all the sudden i was low i was alone and yeah i was a judgeship before she gay but we were a team and so after three months of going through grief counseling and all the counseling and a winter. Love went and I said well. God's going to give me the answer. What happens now. Because i really don't know and don't know and if any ever sell lost know and and you just don't know which way you're going kimberly someone who really knows where they're going all the time and now this was the first towns truly lost It within about two months. After i came back i was asked to preside over a drug treatment court and leon and i had talked about. We wanted to do that before. And that's it. I'm gonna do it. And so i did. That was my answer because that was the first time even though i had done restorative justice in my regular courtroom even though i had all these. Jd certificates folks letters. Admitting them into college. I had been changing their lives. They will on a pair. Okay these are people who had given these are people who had been addicted so long that they figured they try before it bakes. It never works them. This is just the way that life's gonna be. I had people who decided maybe deaf. It's better that you know this. This world that they were in is not one they wanna stay and when you have faced with people that are so so downtrodden by life You've got folks who are using prostitution so they can keep their their.
Bay Curious
"lloyd" Discussed on Bay Curious
"Game when i say bay bridge rush hour. Wouldn't you say frustration anxiety. Regret that. I didn't take part. Doom gloom and misery. You start to see whether cars are flying pastor. There's already traffic building up. It's either hope or horrible disappointment stopping in going and stopping and going all that goes through your mind. Is i am trapped with cars on every side of me and the last time i saw a video of this baby is it was collapsing in an earthquake. Paralyzing terror it's been a while since some of us have experienced the type of rush hour traffic that was normal pre pandemic but traffic is getting bad again and when the car is start to pile up those metering lights an old idea often resurfaces build another bay bridge. As soon as the bay bridge was completed in the nineteen thirties. People wanted a second bridge even back then. Traffic was terrible. Did you know the great american architect. Frank lloyd. Wright designed a bridge across the san francisco. Bay duncan keith of san jose did he studied in school. It would have been brilliant. And i think it would have been very influential and possibly change. The course of how other bridges subsequent to it would have been designed but rights vision for that. Second bridge never materialized. Dunkin wants to know why not today on the show. We're bringing you an episode that first aired in january of two thousand eighteen when even senator dianne feinstein was talking about a second bay bridge. I'm katrina schwartz. And you're listening to bay. Curious support for bay curious comes from sierra. Nevada brewing company family owned operated and argued over since nineteen eighty proud supporter of independent thought. Whether that's online over the air or in a bottle more at sierra nevada dot com cake you at silicon valley senior editor. Rachel myrow takes us back to the bridge. That never was frank lloyd. Wright loved the bay area. But you wouldn't know it because there just aren't a lot of his buildings around here seven or eight depending on how you count them including the houses. That's paul turner a professor emeritus in architectural history at stanford. He's the author of frank. Lloyd wright and san francisco a book. That's as much about the projects that didn't get built as the ones that did frank. Lloyd wright actually designed close to thirty projects for the bay area and they include some of his most unusual and then really amazing of buildings for example. His first skyscraper was designed for market street in san francisco. But right never got the commission. I san francisco skyscraper just as he never got a commission to design another bay bridge in the late nineteen forties. Right was competing for projects all across the country. A bay area engineer and fan of rights suggested he throw his hat in the ring for proposed second bay bridge. If there was some project that he found interesting he would do the design and then just hope it would get bill and he could promoted. You'd hoping we'll get that was in nineteen forty nine and right would spend the rest of his life the last decade trying to win over decision makers in california because he fell in love with his own proposal which he called the butterfly bridge the structure had the form of the action wings of a butterfly in reinforced concrete news. It's beautiful sculptural form when you look at the drawings that he did. I can't say. I see the butterfly in the butterfly bridge. I say well this is a family program. Okay from overhead. It looks like a giant lady. Parts suspended in the center of two concrete strings. Of course you can't sell a branch calling it. That or can you. Let's all visualized together that. We're watching promotional drone footage. We lift off from the san francisco end of the bridge at the terminus of army street now. Cesar chavez long curved concrete arms stretch across the water towards oakland carrying six lanes of traffic and two pedestrian walkways two arches that the roadways for the bridge separated the center and supported a hanging garden. People driving across the bridge could pull off into this landscape park and enjoy the views of from hypol- kind of crazy idea. That traffic going across the bay would stop. And there'd be enough room for parking and but that was the idea but right couldn't get the state to adopt the plan. The engineers in sacramento. We're able to say well. It's just not worked out in enough detail. We don't think it's gonna work it's too radical and very much but no thanks exactly and of course no bridge was was was built at all they ultimately they decided it wasn't necessary because a few years later people started talking about barred under the bay and so that became the solution to this traffic. Right call that idea suicidal which will turns out to be. An overstatement is the transbay tube is still going strong after more than forty years. But even as he neared the end of his life right never stopped trying to sell his bridge here. He is in his mid eighties making a pitch on k. Picks tv nine thousand nine hundred fifty three like construction on. It also seems to undulate doesn't as as well the water and reflection is needed to complete video of the ridge in the end right died and with it serious thoughts of doing something with his plans especially after the new expanded san mateo bridge opened in nineteen sixty seven every now and then for if people talk about an extra pasha bridge now stories in which bay bridge still captivates the imagination of of the public because it is so beautiful. That story was from k. Q. e. d. silicon valley senior editor. Rachael myrow so what does our question. Asker duncan keith of san jose. What does he think. Should we resurrect frank lloyd. Wright's butterfly bridge. As much as i would like to see this bridge have been built. That was for a different time. These days we're gonna make any investment it ought to be in transportation and getting trains across the bay not cars. We have enough cars already and you know throwing more cars across the bay just going to make the traffic situation on the peninsula and san francisco wars. You can check out photos of rights plans for yourself at bay curious dot org and hey while you're there be sure to cast a ballot and our latest voting round or send us a question. You've wondering about this. Show runs your curiosity bay. Curious is produced by susie rancho brennan willard and meek trina schwartz. Our show is a production of member supported. Achey in san francisco next week. Hello hello hello. My name is doris harsh. And i'm the host of right. Now we got something for you a new series highlighting how wheels community in culture come together in this very unique way here in the bay. California is car country. Everyone knows that. In addition to cars this part of the world is home to bikers skateboarders folks in wheelchairs if it goes around and get you there. It's on the table. Follow the right now. Is podcast to listen to that besides..
When in Spain
"lloyd" Discussed on When in Spain
"So that was nick lloyd. Hope you enjoyed his fascinating insights into the spanish civil war. If you'd like to find out more about nick head over to his website with more information about his toys at the moment he's not giving a face to face walking tours but as he mentioned in the interview he is organizing virtual tours. If you'd like to find out more about that head over to the spanish civil war dot com the spanish. Civil war dot com. That's his website loads of information photographs there. Nick also told me that he's actually more active on twitter. So if you'd like to follow him on twitter the twitter handle you need is at civil underscore war underscore. Spain at civil underscored underscored spain nichols also has another website dedicated to his other love which is nature and it's a guide to the environment climate wildlife and geography of spain. That's called iberia nature on the website. You need there. Is i area. Nature dot com and finally nicole mentioned Book forgotten places forgotten places boss learner and the spanish civil war that's available imprint and on kindle and you can find that on amazon or all of your usual good online retailers so that will just about this episode. Thank you for joining me Just to say if you're new to this podcast and maybe you weren't aware When in spain has a presence over the usual social media platforms so go and give us a follow on instagram. The handle is at when in spain. One lots of photography from around spain and madrid on there. You can also find us on facebook with the winning spain. Facebook groups are just search went in spain on facebook and come and join our community of like minded. Spain lovers there and of course. Don't forget there is a website which accompanies this polka series and the address you need is when in spain. Podcast dot com on the website. You'll find the back catalogue of episodes and well on the website. Bit more detail than the more show notes you find on the podcast platforms where you listen. There are photographs links and a bit more information related to each podcast episode. Okay so thanks for listening. Wherever you are around the world and i will be back next week with a new episode of the well in spain. Podcast until then asked the logo..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"lloyd" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"I think you're seeing you know. An and i mentioned washington and even atlanta atlanta's playing great guys like bogeys playing great 'cause they're out of their out of this you know. They're in their mid season. Form in a lotta guys miss midseason form. Because once they got going health and safety protocols shut him down for two weeks and then soft tissue injury sudden down for a couple of days and so it takes time to recover and their the lada guys in washington has been probably the biggest one team this year. I remember texan with scotty after we played them early in the year in. He said it's been twenty five days since we've been able to practice as a team because they had a bunch of guys out at the same time in early january february and i and i'm sitting here saying i'm learning about missing a couple of guys. He has known he has no one. They can't even get on court so you know what with me on my part and there's not me it's just it's just one of those years tonight actually neglected dimension bogdonovich when i was listening all of your injuries early in the season but yeah the wizards had two weeks. Just wiped off the schedule. No games no practice or anything..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"lloyd" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"You know after mates after free throws after timeouts. Can you give them something other than that. You know someone was talking to someone the other day and they were saying you can watch. Nba game and you can see twelve possessions than not one place call. It's not a knock on the league. That's an understanding that players are good enough that they know how to play out a flow. And that's how the game go you may have to tie it back and give them something to reorganize them. But that's just how the game's going to go and it's really understanding that. So i think going through the scenarios of how do you best prepare your players Of how to play conceptually so that they can play freely is really important. Of course that requires practice time which there is less and less and that's in that preparation ties into and that's this is management. This is leadership. How do you manage the time you you have to do it via film you should have a great staff that can implemented an individual workouts and you have to maximize when you're together as a time so that you get reps and you get the main points across to the guys You know that's the and that's really if you you speak to any coach this year. Forget me used to any coach. That's been the greatest challenge. It's been the availability of bodies and then the Lack of availability of practice sufficient practice. Time yes so. The compress schedule. I'm sure people have seen that phrase way too many times but you know there's there's the the Just the toll. It takes on the players. The games coming very quickly. There's lack of practice time which obviously you can hurt teams as well and then there was obviously just especially in january where the covert tissues postponements skies in protocols are still guys in protocols now just not in the same volume. Gimme some sense from the just from the inside. Lp have just just how difficult this season has been you. Think for players and coaches that. It's like injuries. The league says injuries as a statistical matter are not there are some a lot of really high profile ones and so it has our attention. But they're saying you know what it's actually only one more game per month. The compress schedule isn't that compressed. It was more compressed in the lockout season. Eleven twelve and the injuries aren't really but still. I keep hearing that this. This feels like a more taxing season for teams and part of that i think is getting up early for covid tests and everything that goes with that is has it been that striking of a difference. I think so. I think it's it's different. You know. I thought especially in december and january for the first time doing it in this fashion i thought it was bizarre How difficult in how different it was. We would fly to a to a city in and then that was the last time you touch the court.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"lloyd" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Opportunity as you mentioned so as you go through this period of kind of weighing next opportunities. You'll be part of obviously a team. Usa that the olympics summer What are you come away with. Lloyd what do you you know to the extent that this was the first opportunity to run. The show yourself is there. You know lessons learned that you're taking into the next gig things that you didn't even know going into this one when you were hired a few years ago. Yeah you know the first thing. Is it simple you. If you've never been a head coach you're not fully prepared. It's really that simple. You know if. I get a chance. Everyone if i get a chance. I'm going to do this. No you're not you don't know you don't know what your personnel is. You don't know who you're working with. You don't know ownership and management and how you guys communicate in so you have to take a decision in and think of all of those things and incorporate all of those people and then you have to make a decision and so whatever you have in your mind is is for you when you become the head coach and you're in that seat it's for the organization it's for everyone else. And you have to factor that in and so the decision making part of being a head coach Yeah you get. I'm i'm much better now than i was in two thousand eighteen about a lot of decisions in some have been wrong And some have been you know some have been hard some have been easy some have been wrong some been right but i've made a lot of decisions and i now have experience making decisions in and i feel really confident about that. The other thing is you're just better and terms of what you like what's important what's not important what you don't like what you can coach It everyone says it says in in that see the xs and os a great acting. Give you however. I can sit here and go through plays and and defensive schemes with do And just kinda. I feel like i can blow your mind away i can. I can draw up anything. That's really not the do i. And a lot of ways as a coach you do too much sometimes in in in. I probably did too much xs and os from from time to time and strategy and trying to do that really simply. These players are so good Keep it simple is is really the approach in and so you start as i reflect you start thinking back and you know and all i do is say You know where did i go wrong. What do i need to improve upon. I know i'm better. And how do i make that even more of a of an asset for me and my coaching leadership my style. But where did i. What did i work at. I've grown where should i have grown. What should i've spent my time doing more Things that in two thousand eighteen of trying to prepare and lead upward and our and now i have to come back in look inward and figure out. What's my leadership. How do i improve upon my leadership. Because i've shown. I can be a leader in done. That in a made the decisions. How do better is my next strategy. It's interesting the way you you. You mentioned that Just the xs and os vs leadership versus. I always think of coaching in. This league. loyd is like this combination of all these things and fans. Sometimes we'll get a little bit obsessive about the details of overruns the best out of time out place and all this stuff..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"lloyd" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"It's me and chris mannix breaking down all the latest from around the nba. And then on. Fridays and guest could be player. A coach a pundit a musician and actor really anyone in around the nba or just a fan of the game we kicked it off with hip hop legends. Tag team weeks back. We've had comedians sam morell and staff healthiest talking about their beloved knicks. Last week we had the nba's scheduling. Evan wash and today very pleased to welcome former coach of the atlanta hawks. Lloyd pierce void of course was let go back in march. But i guarantee you that my fellow san jose native. We'll be back on an nba bench by next season. You'll also see him as part of the coaching staff for team usa. The summer in the olympics Lloyd reflects on his hawks. Tenure.
WSB-AM
"lloyd" Discussed on WSB-AM
"Lloyd has been doing this for over three decades, hoping folks with their planning, quitter retirements and, of course, he's helped a lot of individuals, couples families. Working on three different generations. Now as well and been around a long time has seen just about every scenario there is to see and would love to see what your situation is. And to help you with your problems. If you have any problems, maybe he might pat you on the back and say, Hey, go on your way. You're doing great. 807 494288 is your number to call if you like to arrange a conversation. 807 494288. That's 807 494288 Just call that number and leave a message and you'll get a call back one more time. 807 494288 Martin Lloyd, We have done this before. I can't wait. Do it again In the past. We did this segment I remember called Fill in the blank and I start the sentence and you fill in the blank. I think we can all learn a little a little bit from this. Okay, 1000. Sounds like fun. Blank can be a single word. Or maybe an entire the entire thought process. I've never have been able to explain anything of the single word. So it's probably gonna be an entire thought. I'm well aware of that. There might be a few might be a few paragraphs involved in this. Okay. Here we go with the first one number one when somebody comes to visit with you for the first time, Mark Lloyd. They're most likely to be worried about blank. Great question runs. We feel that most folks or worry right now and this again. You mentioned earlier word nationwide show. So what I'm getting ready to tell you right now can be anywhere in our country. The primary number one concern we hear from folks coming into the office or just meeting with us virtually. Is that Mark? I don't know if I have. You know, I don't have a plan in place, and I don't know if I'm gonna run out of money. I don't know if I can afford to retire. That's the number one concern running out of money. But I also get for folks who have been very, very blessed who've been great savers. Or maybe folks who have inherited an inheritance. I'm hearing more of the tax conversation right now, Mark. I'm worried about what taxes they're going to be in the future, and I feel like I need to have a tax plan in place, so it's kind of a 50 50 split right now. Probably running out of money is still the number one concern. I hear that people are worried about the taxes, higher taxes down the road and had and how does that affect me running out of money? How does that affect my retirement lifestyle?.
Humans of Hospitality
"lloyd" Discussed on Humans of Hospitality
"This week's episode. I was pretty desperate to get out into the real world and find a safe way of meeting an actual hospitality professional in the flesh. So i've kept pretty local. And i visited the captain's club hotel in christchurch dorset now every morning to chat to md. Tim lloyd for one. I knew his story was a great startup. Success from honing his skills in hotels solving employed basis to learning the art of the restaurant with his own ventures taking you all of that knowledge and finally getting to apply in his very own hotel with his partner. Rob and the captain's club is a special kind of place where the simply attracting the locals for light lunch. Maybe a few cocktails as the sun sets of.
Sound Behavior, How Celebrities Are Born, Host Don Crosby
"lloyd" Discussed on Sound Behavior, How Celebrities Are Born, Host Don Crosby
"This this'll beautiful story. You can't make stuff up. It's amazing. No no i mean i you know when i was i pay by Spiral began. I was twelve years old twelve years old because i felt no hope. I was angry at god. I didn't even know they were the god you know but i. I was very angry. Because i took my dad from me. We got no money. We have no education we shat and then people make fun of us you know. They make jokes boy. Nineteen or your mother and dad stayed in bed all the time. So we just took that kind of Mauleon when i was thirteen. I it's like i cried. Oh god and i got so mad. I said you know what god was. Get all this to me. If you love me. I wouldn't you know our life would be a lot different. So i'm just want you to know god i'm going to do everything opposite of what you want me to do. I was just responded and allow rebellion. Wow yeah and i'm not proud. I started doing drugs when i was thirteen years. Old drinkin- Was kicked out of school twice and mess magic ation up and It it it was. Just you know several years that I was a miserable miserable hopeless young men in fact in high school. I had this teacher who I'm on that. He added infamy good friends today but he had an for us to like the bullying me. He wants to the class. One day thirty students and he's all right class. We're gonna do something different here. Everybody perked up. He said we're gonna vote on the most likely student in this class. Knock to succeed in life and everybody laughed and they do that is by. They laugh and pointed to me. Oh and of course i laughed. I laughed with them here inside. I was crying. I was broken man. Like the yeah the management and so. I just responded with anger and got hooked on alcohol and drugs and all that foolish but good news is When i was a nineteen years old my life turned around. I had a had a close call chris busy. I was playing in a band. And this christmas eve was gonna go to my Musician friends home and just have diego party man. And i remember standing in front of a mirror blow dry. My hair had hair back here and it was about. Donald was about eight o'clock christmas. And i'm thinking to myself. Oh this is so clear. My mind while i'm blow dry my hair. I'm thinking what it's going to be a lot of people in accidents tonight. You know things. Things are going to go crazy. And i just said boy hope. That isn't knee. So i i blow dry. My hair and i and i couldn't try. You never had a car. I'm walking across the harbour to my friend's house. Christmas eve and when i'm walking down what they call crosses he'll it was dark and no street lights but i recognize a car that was come and the headlights and i. It was old fashioned headlights. Speedo arc of a car. And i thought hold. That's bernard that's my next door neighbor. He'll give me a ride. I'm walking down the hill. And next thing i feel remember was hit struck by that car. Oh my gosh loyd. I flew up in the icu. Up in the air and dawn they say your life goes. Let me tell you. Some time stood steal that whole accident of need going down a hill and being struck by neighbor when he hit me up in the air and that probably didn't last two seconds. But don i'm telling you my whole life last before me. I remember repent and god. Forgive me while in the air and telling myself boy when you hit the ground you better get up because you're going to die if you don't and i remember hitting the ground and tell them myself out loud boy get up get up and when i get up past out and My next door neighbor burning out of the car man. You alright nikola man. You're crazy man. What do you do that for. He's all man. I'm not the black vote. He told me to the hospital and The put me in a wheelchair and and mother was living in another Town in and i was moving hardly speaking to her because i was just so enraged. Don't you know. I used to command in the middle of the night dawn High and drunk and my mother would meet me at the door little precious warming and she said moore go to bed at her here and she should've took a hockey stick and on the head with you know what she did she would turn around and go to her bedroom and this is one of the. It's good but it's sad. I would hear her in the craven on her news. Two or three in the morning and i would her. She would say oh. God help to be patient. Helped me to keep believing. I know you're going to change my boy's life while she did that hundreds of times and When i was in the hospital they loyd. Who's your next of kin. Call my brother elmer. Elmer lives in blacks harbour and he was in alcoholics and they called him and said albert. Lloyd spinning Accidents and run over by car. Alma is two of his buddies camera was already drunk. He brings them over to the hospital. It was like a comedy movie on three guys. come in. They carry me kidnapped me out of the hospital and they took me to the party and drugs in me and got me drunk. Because they knew i was in paying don. I don't even know what bones broke if there was anything growth because they never i never instinct for x rays. Homa couldn't shrink after.
Sound Behavior, How Celebrities Are Born, Host Don Crosby
"lloyd" Discussed on Sound Behavior, How Celebrities Are Born, Host Don Crosby
"Well guess our special but this one happens to be someone that i've known for six or seven years. He and his family are very dear to my heart. I've got special guests. Mr loyd bustard. Lloyd thank you so much for taking time out of your data. Come on behavior don. It's a pleasure to be here with you and it's a pleasure to be able to speak to all your great listening audience. Thank you well. You're very welcome. And you know it's funny how you know we meet one another right and you and i've met a lot of people through the ages and we know a lot of people but for one reason or another. I'm speaking for myself i. I don't necessarily connect with everyone. But when i met you it was kind of like i've known you for a long time and You remember that that. Remember that time we we met at panera. And i kind of introduce you to yourself. Don there was a there was a young lady That was a member of the church. That i had pastored in charlotte north carolina and Her name was natalie and I remember her coming to means. You pester lloyd you've got to meet this person. And i said we're sure and She's an evangelist. john crosbie. He has a he has a great business model. And i well what is it. She said well he introduces people to themselves. Man almost sounds like an oxymoron. Italy has very prophetic. i would like to just tell your a audience. Just how you and i bet. Yeah that'd be good because you were not and You and i met at canary brit. And it was one of those god moments where you just knew. This wasn't just going to be a one time. One off of a meeting. You and i connected and i asked you could you know. Tell me about yourself and You told me about your your beautiful white kathleen who i just adore. You told me about your dogs Told me about you know living in alaska and hawaii and and then you told me about global behavior hover you introduce people to themselves and I remember i took the profile. And i thought wow this is. This is just a survey. This is really really genuine. Introducing people to themselves and to this day And this has been. Yeah you and. I have known each other at least seven years little longer than i will. Tell you this that i can't tell you the times that At least two or three times a week pam and i will will real revert back to that in a very good way and I'm able to understand pam as my wife as my plan as my ministry partner my business partner and the mother while i mean it enhanced our marriage and our relationship because as you're going to see in a few minutes to pam and i come on to from two different sides of the tracks But i pretty common. Yeah it's probably is but you know. The good news is May the six ten. I will celebrate thirty eight years of marriage talk. Congratulations user beautiful couple of doing. Oh just like you and kathleen and can so i get you to my house and i don i want. I've got three great grown kids children and they're just young adults and I've got my oldest daughter lauren. Who is married now and got a great husband rocky and beautiful little granddaughters for pam. Nine son kyle. Kyle is married and living in austin texas with a beautiful wife named tiffany. Just a beautiful grandson named jasper. Did i've got my youngest daughter. cr- kristin kristin is very loving. Kind she's a sweetie art individual but she's very quiet i would think she's little bit introverted. But in a very wise way. Don i remember telling my kid you know. We're gonna i want. I want to stop you right there. Do you remember how apprehensive everyone was. That's what i was coming to. When i told them that i was bringing special guest on crosby told them about global behavior and and how that is the kid i want you. You know. he's gonna bless him today. he's He's going to do a profile on us and you're going to get to know yourself a lot better and yeah. They were apprehensive. And i remember you come into a house and Sitting down visiting and then You you know. The kids agreed they were excited about it like most sure sure. Yeah but they get it and Our youngest daughter kristin she just Graduated from high school or or no. She was still in high school soon high school. Yeah yeah she's probably. I think she's a junior at that time. Yeah and kristen. I remember her specially dawn being apprehensive. An Kristen just do it for me. Just just to and And when you when she filled out her profile on. I remember you looking at kristen's head head down because she wanted to be. They're not great she. Just you know just wasn't smile and but the head down and you should kristen. She said we should just looking at your profile here. You're an incredible young lady. Just so smart in your future is so bright and did you made this statement. We see kristen looking at your profile. I can introduce you to yourself and said if i ever wanted a great lawyer attorney would be you and chris them lifted up her head lit up and her whole complexion chains. Rightness engine this smile. Because i knew she was blown away. Because here's the thing. Don kristen had just told us she wants to go to college. And then go to law school and become an attorney. Well that was rich. So that was such confirmation. Because donna thinking about so many people in the world that don't have direction and I thank god that that he brought you and kathleen into our lives. Take his you know what kristen graduated from high school in charlotte again went to baylor university. Graduated there and do you know where she is now. Kristen is in texas a and m. law. School common an attorney. No i'm just telling you that was just such a beautiful thing for you to bring global behavior in my home and introduce us all to.