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HBCUs capitalize on growing interest by adding sport options
"Men's wrestling at Morgan state, women's gymnastics at fisk and Talladega, men's volleyball at central state and women's triathlon at Delaware state where sophomore Chara Heinz says it makes all the difference for her. The opportunity to participate in triathlon and still go to an HBCU and as a person of color that is one of the time experience. The trend picked up after George Floyd's killing by police and the rise in social awareness, Delaware's triathlon coach had a Loftus says it's a pivotal moment. We get to be trailblazers in the score. This isn't a once in the history of the sport opportunity. I'm Julie Walker.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"The Watchmaker's Daughter" With Author Larry Loftis
"Back, we're talking to Larry Loftus, the author of the watchmaker's daughter, brand new book, very exciting. The whole story of Corey ten boom, you thought you knew the story well. It turns out we didn't. But the idea, Larry, that there are all these other books that came out after the hiding place in 1971 and that you were able to augment the story. I'm trying to remember Corey ten boom died in what the 70s no, I think it was 91. Oh, you're kidding. Wow. Yeah. Incredible. Because I know that I knew people who knew her, but it's an extraordinary thing to think that she went around the world telling this story. And again, for people who don't know any of the story, just the nutshell version of Corey ten boom. She's at ravensbruck concentration camp. This family has been hiding Jews, the Nazis catch them, take them to ravensbruck, this women's concentration camp, and there's so much that goes on there. But. Her sisters killed, I don't remember the details. But the idea that Corey ten boom does the ultimate. If you want to know, like does God exist. She forgives the people who've murdered her sister. Like, this is where it goes next level because most of us say, I don't get that. I can't do that. That's why we need to read these stories. We need to understand the power of God and the reality of God, but it is so amazing because what you said earlier is most people would think, hey, why should I get involved? I'll just keep my nose clean. I'm not a Jew. Let the Jews suffer. Well, if you care what God thinks, you can't behave that way. If you do behave that way, you're working for the devil. Sorry to break the news to you. So here we have these heroic figures, but her story is just one of those, it's a signature story of heroism. As was Bond hoffers. In fact, if you look at the front of the book, the epigram is a bahnhof for quote, which I pulled from letters and letters and papers from prison, which I'm sure you used in your research. So she is the sort of the Dutch version of bahnhof for doing what she can because of her faith. Fighting the Nazis because of her faith. So that's an integral part of the story.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Larry Loftis Wrote the First Major Biography of Corrie Ten Boom
"Loftus, welcome back. Thank you, Eric. Thanks for having me on again. Well, tell us you were on this program, I don't know, three or four years ago talking about another book you had written. Talk about that for a moment. Sure, 2019, we were on talking about codenamed lease and actually that's how I found this core ten boom to be my next subject because when I was researching, if you remember that story, odette Sampson was an SOE agent operating and occupied France. She was captured. They sent her to ravensbruck, the notorious concentration camp for women in Germany. And a friend of mine said, hey, while you're doing your research, you need to read the hiding place. And I knew of the book, and I knew, of Cory, but I'd not read the book. And I said, why? She said, well, at the same time, odette was at the concentration camp. Corey was there at the exact same time. And it was perfect for me because my subject in the first book was a spy, she had already been condemned to death, so they put her in a bunker at ravensbruck, below ground, she could see nothing. She's in a dark cell and she never sees any of the camp. Corey, of course, was on the outside in the normal barracks, so she saw the day to today operations of what happened, the role called in the mornings to lineups, the beatings, the work parties, all that stuff. So it gave me the other side of the picture of looking at ravensbruck. So then when it was time, 2021, I had another spy book out the princess by about an OSS agent operating in Spain. So I was looking for another book to do. And I wanted to do a different agency. And I wanted different country. And while I'd already covered all the spy agencies, my first book was about an MI 6 agent second was SOE third was always. So I ran out of all of the spy agencies. But I kept my mind kept going back to Corey because it was a new country, the Netherlands, and while she wasn't a spy, she was part of the Dutch resistance. Well, practically speaking, that's the consequences are about the same
The Eric Metaxas Show
Larry Loftis Begins "The Watchmaker's Daughter" With Bonhoeffer
"Welcome back final segment with Larry Loftus, the bestselling author of a brand new book, which is the true story. The whole story of Corey ten boom, maybe you thought you knew it because of the hiding place, but obviously that's not the case. The new book is called the watchmaker's daughter. And Larry, you begin the book with a gorgeous quote from Dietrich bonhoeffer. I want to read that just because I had forgotten this, von hoffer wrote so much. This is from his letters and papers from prison. Amazing. Let me just read this epigram that begins your book the watchmaker's daughter. This is Bond hoffer's voice. Daring to do what is right. Not what fancy may tell you, valiantly grasping occasions, not cravenly doubting. Freedom comes only through deeds. Not through thoughts, taking wing. Faint not nor fear, but go out to the storm and the action, trusting in God, whose commandment you faithfully follow. Freedom exultant will welcome your spirit with joy. That is so powerful, valiantly grasping occasions, not cravenly doubting. We're living at a time now. I have to say it, and I say it very often. When many people are wringing their hands and saying there's nothing I can do, what can I do? And then you give them an example of something they can do, they go, well, but if I do that, then this might happen and that might happen. They have ceased to live a life of meaning, a life of heroic beauty. And we are put on this earth to live that kind of life, and these stories inspire us to do that. And folks, if you miss it, you miss it. You only get to pass this way one time and God invites us into this glorious battle with him for what is right and true and good. And it amazes me that bun hoffer says, he says, faint not for fear, but go out to the storm and the action, but before that, this is the ultimate line. Freedom comes only through deeds, not through thoughts taking wing. I think there are a lot of people they think that if I worry a lot, and if I think the right thoughts, prayer is very important, folks. But prayer is action. And there's other kinds of action. If your faith doesn't lead you to works and to action, maybe you have no faith. So it's extraordinary that you begin the book with that beautiful bahnhof for quote. I want to thank you for reminding me of it, Larry Loftus. So
The Dork Forest
"loftus" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"I think everyone was like, well, that was fucked up, but it's not the most fucked up thing that's happened recently, so I guess we'll let it slide. Exactly. And that's that brings you up to date. That's what's going on. And we are up to date rangers. Let me just tell you that is this was epic, by the way. From start to finish, plug and play. JB Loftus. This is amazing. And it's this kind of attention to detail, ladies and gentlemen, that you're going to want to tune into the cast. And hear that is there anything are you doing any live shows? We have a variant debt. But are you doing any lives? Albeit San Francisco sketch fest with the bechdel cast and also a different stand up there on January 19th and 20th provided that it's also happening. And then I have a couple of their podcasts too, where I do a lot of research and I did one on Lolita. I did went on mensa and I did one on Kathy comics. So those are all out as well. Oh my God, Kathy comics. I tried to watch it for two years. I read it for two solid years in college. Oh, wait. What can you do about this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is that your podcast about Kathy? What sort of celebrate Kathy? A little bit? Yes. Interesting, interesting. It was that I spent the last 6 months. And then what are the other two? Lolita, and mensa. Here's my man's story, Nancy. I stepmother. The woman who raced me. Once said to me, when I was 16, and I said, I was thinking about trying to join mensa, without missing a beat, she said, it's just an excuse for wife swapping. Don't go deep. And I was like, amazing take. Wow. Tell us. I love that. I think she's right. She's like, I spent a year in it, and she's not wrong. People are people would like to get with other smart people, but look at this, he's also a truck driver, so he's not in your educational strategy. And they're prejudiced, that's kind of their whole deal over there. It's a very dark world. Okay, so find Jamie Loftus and follow and do all the things because she has entertained you for an hour and we all deserved it, but we deserve more. Thank you so much for doing the show, Jamie. Thanks, Jackie. It's so much fun. Yes, and rager. You know the rules out there. Take care of each other. My hat, my hat, my hat. They're dancing around my head. I had my hat, my hat. Well, what do you think of that? If it looks like a Mexican at dancing, it sounds like a Mexican hat dance. It's most likely a Mexican hat that. So take off your head and lets dance. Yay. Oh my God. Why don't we just call that at the end of the show?.
The Dork Forest
"loftus" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"So you have to have been able to find. Yes, it's so sad. No. No, but I did get my secret. I'm just going to out it because I love it. I'm very proud of it. I do have a ticket machine at my house that I've turned into a little shelf. Okay. Yeah. And then I do have a use it as a media stand, but they have this thing when you go into a Chuck E. Cheese that's called kid check. And it's to make sure that the right kid leaves with the right adult because they've had some issues with that over the years. Maybe. Oh, I know that there's signs on the door that says you can not come in if you are not accompanied by a child. But that changed. That's how I started reporting on this. In 2016, they were so desperate for business that they said, okay, actually loan a dollar can come, and we have coffee and Wi-Fi now, but please don't. And that's how I got back in. That's how you got back in. That's how I got back in. Oh my God, you were just like, and do you keep an eye out? Making sure nobody's children. You're like your kid? With my cup of coffee and my laptop because they want you to think of it like a Starbucks now. Yeah. And you can just go truly. I'm not incurred, but if you are an adult, that needs somewhere quiet to work. I mean, it's not quiet, but I was too Tuesday. Buffet, blue moon. Wi-Fi, you're good to go. It's a nice afternoon. Wow. It's a nice afternoon. Here's the thing about the dark forest is that it's a safe space. And so you get to say that and I get to say, JB loft is I bet it is. I bet it's a real safe space. And it could be a space. By the way, I am talking with JB Loftus and hurts at JB Loftus help on Twitter. And probably Instagram as well, or is it just? No, see, I don't have concept unification. It's Jamie cryst superstar on Instagram..
The Dork Forest
"loftus" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"And then you're cut off, which is why some guys will soldiers men and women will save enough for the weak. And the law of one night would they'll have a stack of their tokens from two two two two two that they'll have ten. And then they're like, oh, my God, I'm shit faced. Anyway. Anyway, but there's no way to save them up at the Chuck E. Cheese. They're like, no, no. We saw you drink that second beer. You gotta do it right. How much? Okay, so here's a question I have for you. Which is how much do you think a set of how much do you think one rock a fire explosion band would cost? In 1980 6. Fully standing animatronic. Yes. Band members. $600,000? Fortunately, only $90,000 per restaurant. In 1980. In 1980 money, it was less than a hundred grand for all 6 band members. So like 20 grand each, maybe? Yeah, and so what factor does is factor starts a factory basically in Florida where he's from and has at 1.3 hundred employees at his company, churning these things out. It gets wildly successful because there's hundreds of these restaurants. Right, right. So he's just like robots. 300 people. He's got a robot factory. He's pre Roomba. This is most people. So they keep suing each other in 1982, Nolan Bushnell does win a case against showbiz. He lands, he lands a shot. And showbiz pizza, which is fair because Robert Brock went absolutely nuts on him. So Nolan Bushnell manages to get showbiz pizza to they're supposed to provide a $50 million payout to Chuck E. Cheese over the next 14 years. But then Nolan Bushnell is the Atari guy. And in 1983, the video game industry completely shits the bed and no one wants Atari games anymore. So that really affects Chuck E. Cheese's ability to expand. Right, because everybody's because now if I remember correctly because I was there playing video games in 1983, it expands so greatly that Atari becomes just a small, you know, iconic, but there's Sega. There's midway. There's all these different companies that everyone's like, well, I'm going, I'm not going to just play Atari games. I'm going to spaceport, and I'm going to drag into lair, which is exactly like that. Okay. So that's exactly perfect sense. So he gets kind of screwed because he's strictly it's all Atari in all of the Chuck E. cheeses. And he ranched out to other video games. Okay. And it also kind of just affects their runway money because the success of Chuck E. Cheese was inherently tied to the success of Atari. So when Atari loses a shitload of money, Chuck E. Cheese can't expand anymore. So that happens in 83, which leads to in the mid 80s Chuck E. Cheese files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Okay. So now, Robert Brock realizes he's got an opportunity here, and he can finally get this revenge that I mean at this point we're like 7 years into this conflict. And Robert Brock acting as showbiz pizza buys up Chuck E. Cheese. And rebrands Chuck E. Cheese as showbiz. So it started as Chuck E. Cheese's pizza time theater and showbiz pizza. Yep. And so for a while in the 80s, the restaurant is called showbiz pizza time incorporated. A nightmare. It is nightmare. And I finally earned vector gets to make Chuck E. Cheese. The band?.
The Dork Forest
"loftus" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"Dark forest dot com has all the notes and the video that you can watch of this show. Traditionally, I tell you to donate to the dark forest, but it is November and December. I ask that you donate to a local food bank because you should. I don't know. You should do it all year, but what the heck? If you are donating to the dork forest using the PayPal link that gives every month, you could turn it off and turn it back on. You can do a matching to your food bank and donate to me as well. But all the money that I get from the donations from November and December, I'll give to my local food bank and so I will get all of that sweet sweet karma. Other than that, you can buy merch you can for Christmas, there's new t-shirts and stuff. But whatever it is, the torque forest super fun, always available. I'm sure there's things I'm forgetting to say, probably band camp, but let's get into the show. Hey, Jackie case should have been my living room, and I just did the bechdel cast again, which I love, which with Caitlin and Jamie. And I asked both of them to be on the dark forest and Jamie loft said she could do it right away. So here we are talking with JB Loftus, which is at Jamie Loftus help on Twitter. And the bechdel gas is just add back to cast BEC HDL, CA ST. And Jamie, they'll all be in the notes. But thank you. For coming on the dork for us, Jamie Loftus. Oh my gosh, thank you for having me. I know I'm glad we could make it happen so quickly. It's literally 24 hours after we recorded the first time. I know, I know. And it's the scheduling is the hardest. There are people probably listing going, I've been trying to get her to be on the show for I've been trying to be on the show for months, and I'm like, I have sent you. It's this instantaneous thing that is a very important and sometimes I just it's true. It just sometimes it works out. And we're in the midst of a Christmas of the new year's and all these things, so I appreciate your time. Thank you. Of course. And I love your Dunkin Donuts sweater, T-shirt, long sleeve. Thank you. I do these like merch drops now, like kind of like, I don't know. It's all a bit much, but I got kind of into it and I woke up early because I was convinced that they were going to sell out of tracksuits, which they did not. It's been a month. But I was really on it. So I'm excited I got it before Christmas. I have a mask, Dunkin Donuts mask. Have you ever been able to get one? They're always sold out. Right. I lost the first one. I wanted to write during lockdown. I walked. We have Dunkin Donuts. They were so I walked there, and they had a bunch of hilarious. I bought it. Lost it less than a week later, for some reason stuck in my pocket it fell out of my pocket. Bought another one. Had a almost a year.
Wellness and Wanderlust
"loftus" Discussed on Wellness and Wanderlust
"I really love to travel to new places. Yeah i don't tend to go back. Unless i have friends or family in a place but i like to try new places however i have been to italy a few years ago and i would absolutely love to go back there for being such a small country. There is so much that i wasn't able to see and so that's on my list for sure love. That would love to go back to both of those places for short now. If you were an animal. Wha- animal would you be and why. I love this russian. It's too challenging one It really is is which i love. I think i'd have to say a dog honestly. I loved having a dog so much. We just lahser dogs past rate by it. He really it was just the simplicity and the end the joy that not only she brought by that she thinks she was he he harnessed just fell so grounding and it it felt like dogs who the secret that we struggle with as adults which is just that like love the outdoors and this appetite for life and being with family is enough and it's just so nursing so i think i don i love that so much. Dogs are seriously the best. I would choose a humpback whale. Wales are my favorite animal. They fascinate me and humpback whales in particular. I love watching nature shows in general and anyone that has to do with like the ocean or whales. I'm so into watching humpbacks breach and swim in the open ocean and be with their tight. Knit pods. They seem so fun. And playful and free and i would love to spend my life in the ocean or that's so fitting for you. I love both of those answers. I think both are incredible animals so cool to see the humpback whales and i'm so sorry about the loss of your dog. The dog's truly tears in my eyes thinking about my parents dogs that just how amazing animals they are. They really do know the secrets to life. So i love both of your answers. Animals are just they are now if you could each master completely new skill. What would that be. I would love to be fluent in italian and french. I'd love to speak fluent italian to speak to my remaining family that is from italy and speaks lewin in italian including my dad and i love the french language. I love france so much visited and it felt like i had lived there and some past life so i would love to learn french. Shoe mine is pottery. I have dabbled in clay making when i was younger in art class and i always thought it was so fun and i watching ceramicist. Just play on the wheel and devon has recently got into pottery and. She is absolutely incredible. I'm constantly asking her. If i can buy her visas and i really want to learn. I just want to try and see if i am good at it. If i like it and i would absolutely love to master it. Your serve cute. It's doing something with your hands. I feel like it really is. My mom and i started like february. You know when we were just like we need an outlet for the panic and everything else. So totally i agree. It's it's really you get into that flow state. That's so cool now. What's next for each of you on your bucket list. Have so many different. I think in a really really simple bucket list action. I would just like to continue to soak up the rest of the summer and fall. I've just felt really grateful to be in the space that were in my husband. Build me this amazing writer studio out in the backyard..
Wellness and Wanderlust
"loftus" Discussed on Wellness and Wanderlust
"Mention the beginning called reconnecting rhythms. It's a supplemental course to the cookbook. So on top of learning about your cycle and how to support yourself physically this really dives in zoo. The science behind how nourishing ourselves emotionally and spiritually also supports the body. So you get twenty five percent off that which is our force. I course and we're so excited about that. And you also get a bonus. Pdf with four extra recipes. One for each as and for journal prompts for for rituals in the book so basically you look at or rituals again one from each phase and you have journal prompts invasive deeper into them so if you do pre order make sure to hold onto your order number wherever you order from and you can clean your bonuses to this page on the website as well. That's amazing i. I absolutely love those bonus items tube. I think listeners will really enjoy the book. I am so excited to try out some of the recipes and get to try out those rituals too. Because i think that that's something that so many of us need to just be incorporating a little bit more ritual in general into our lives. So i will definitely link all of that in the show notes. That listeners can find the book and police. Their p- reorders. Before i let you both go. I would love to dive into our rapid fire. Questions to the listeners can get to know the two of you a little bit better. Yeah yeah awesome. What is your top wellness tip. Mine is sleep and laughter. Oil love that mine is also quality sleep. That is a game changer. Brothers is the one. I'm struggling with but working on probably the most. It's a hard one. It really is but no excuse. Certainly something finally got my alarm clock instead of the phone. So i'm working toward it. Oh that's so great. Yeah that's a good step in the right direction review. Where is your favorite travel destination. I personally love to travel to northern california. We've lived my husband. I lived there for six years. And i still i miss it. I love it and we have lots of family. Friends there so Yeah that's where. I'd like to travel to straight now..
Wellness and Wanderlust
"loftus" Discussed on Wellness and Wanderlust
"I can sit and think and almost be in that meditative place and i think the mundane task is such a good one too. When i'm you'll prep. And i find just chopping and kinda doing something kind of the same thing that's very routine. It really does let my mind into kind of a different place. Yeah we can find ways to incorporate it into our busy lives. And that's what i've realized because i've in the past tried to implement meditation practices and it's really challenging for me as for many people and so instead of fighting got i just started with okay while i'm driving to work. I'm going to sit in silence. Which sometimes is so uncomfortable and i. I love listening to podcasts. So i feel like oh i could be listening to my favorite podcast but i need to give myself that silence so i think sometimes it can feel really overwhelming to people have. How do i fit this in on top of everything else but it is just about carving out those moments while chopping vegetables while feeding your baby you know. There's so many little things that we do. that can be quiet and peaceful. Yeah i agree on two point. Like i love what you said about integrating this idea of meeting yourself where you're at so even there's a ritual in the book for candle light meditation and the reason. I found myself really liking that. Because it's so hard to go from a busy mind busy day. Busy life to sitting in silence with your eyes closed like you just said it. That's it is really uncomfortable in israeli jarring and then we feel it makes it harder to implement and we've kind of feel like we're setting ourselves up for failure so instead of forcing this mold on ourselves that we need to do it this way which one step he could do a little easier so like in this case i i'll just watch a candle like my eyes are open my mind still little busier right because i'm not my eyes aren't closed. I can see something in front of me but it still giving me this space. In the time to slowly open myself up to a new practice that will continue to implement stillness. So yeah you're right like how do we. How do we meet ourselves and allow whatever it is. That's going to help us. Even in.
Environment: NPR
Ethanol Plant Causes Severe Pesticide Contamination in Nebraska
"In one small nebraska town residents are living alongside unprecedented pesticide contamination. All stemming from a local ethanol plant the plant wants made headlines for its unorthodox way of making the additive but now researchers are investigating possible side effects including be die-offs sick pets and health concerns christina stella of nebraska public media reports most of the gas we pump into our cars is now blended with ethanol and alcohol usually made from corn but the six hundred person village of mead nebraska is home to a plant like no other the alternate ethanol company instead used surplus crop seeds but many were also coated with pesticides that contaminated the company's main byproduct accord corn sludge called wet cake resident. Charlie mcevoy says their problems started with a stench with think smells like a combination of dead rats and writing green years later. Emily loftus lives by eighty four thousand tonnes of rotting toxic byproducts and enough waste water to fill more than two hundred and sixty olympic size swimming pools. We bought this house. We thought it was going to be a great house for kids and now the question is did we harm them and this process. Is it safe. When they're out bouncing on the trampoline we don't know nebraska closed the plant in february after years of environmental violations days later. The company accidentally spilled four million more gallons. Eleanor rogan at the university of nebraska. Medical center says that's created a rare extreme case of pesticide pollution. If you just trying to imagine eighty four thousand tonnes of something. I mean we're talking about. Rows and rows of three story told hills of contaminated stuff stuff. Rogan is overseeing a team of public health and environmental researchers investigating poison. Pets be die-offs an unexplained health issues state sampling found around a dozen pesticides in all tens waste some at hundreds to thousand times higher than safety
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"Have for it to pass. I have a thousand questions. Why i don't mean to sound like a neophyte. Here but why the difference between full and scam when the milk is going in your butt. Because in my mind isn't just going in and coming back out. No some of like hangs out for a little bit You're digesting it in a way. It's getting into your system fully know if i'm dave jesting it but i know that it takes a while to come out of your body for sure And then the skim milk is just. It's it's just because it's less it's less thick it's it's more watery got it Going so that's more of an entry thing because otherwise it's just like it's it's too thick. I don't know if any of it would really take and the bit would not be good but yeah skim. Milk is just like a little more. I don't even know. I mean but it's just thinner and and what is the bit it gets part in your butt and then what happens that i don't remember what the for the the the dog food joke that i would do was about not having health insurance and making like home remedies and whatever culminate with a dog food home remedy and No one wants to eat dog food. So there you go but the the milk bone was kind of fun. It was like i would do these like ballet routines and it would always be like there'd be a number of props and stuff involved and then it would culminate with a but chug as the grand finale to the one that was broadcast was the nutcracker and i would always look like add in some justification for the milk to be there but the milk go beyond stage the whole time and then at the end. Yeah you chug it. Okay that makes more sense than like in my mind. It's like ten minutes into the thing. And then i'm like what happens at that point. You know it's the iran to be right because you don't you have to run to the toilet or no no. We'll actually what i would like to do. And this didn't always work out. But what i liked to do with the dog food as well. It'd be like do that next to last because it's really fun in at least in a live setting it's really fun to eat dog food and make people like absolutely want to die and then just be there for five more minutes way..
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"I have decided. I just decided it was called the friend zone zone. However daniels moth my husband his mom just brought us a bag of mementos including this little laminated card. He's i hope. It's okay that i'm going public with. This is laminated card. That he and his friend made in high school. That has a picture of him a teddy bear and then in like script writing says the friendship club and he's like you get that it was a joke right. It's a joke. Who were joking. Why would we put a teddy bear on it. But it is so amazing that i'm like man. Maybe i should name. His episodes the friendship club and use that card as image. So anyway it's either the friend zone or the friendship club. I'm there's also a level where you can text me and i'll text you back. In fact the people who were at the texting level my confidence. They have already received the picture of this friendship card. A lot of them have said it's the best thing that ever seen. And i have to agree and also it's fun stuff and then on the thursday show when we do it via zoom you get the video you will get videos of all them but my studios does not really. I haven't gotten my shit together to get totally set up for video yet anyway. Pedro dot com slash house and rosa. And you could split on for gas lattes at. Let's i answer some questions okay. As and how'd you had so. It's all.
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"I think it has a lot to do with her. Being the only you know the only woman writing about single women in the newspaper at this time And i think that it was like connected to the way that i don't know it's kind of challenged the way i think about Female protagonist in general to where it's like all this does is fail like she fails all the time and she doesn't she doesn't fail only in the ways that she's stereotyped as failing but it's just like it's it's just always going to be an uphill climb for her. She's like so far from being a superhero type character and people just like were not having it. I don't know. I mean but at the same time it was like it was a million dollar industry to be in the business of kathy because there were so many women who were failing the exact same way as And you know with. I guess where my thoughts and i and the other thing is i think that people didn't even seem to consider that it could be satirical which most of it is I don't know yeah. I i feel like it is just kind of a weird case. Study in how people interpret Women's work in male dominated industry. As great as i never in all the articles i read about her from the seventies and eighties and nineties. All of it was like with the assumption that it was just a one to one of like. This is just what women are like. Yeah blah blah blah and there was just. It was just never taken into consideration that that it was satire. And that if you have a female protagonist like the you know it's like she's commenting on all the all the ways that women were kind of failed by their own by american culture and Just didn't didn't get it or like it. Or i don't know but then but then it also you know it's interesting how it's slowly kind of became the insult that it did..
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"Think it was like very like click bait erez fifteen and so they were just like we'll hire any twenty two year old and pay them garbage and they'll have no idea what's happening to them but i was like. Oh i'm a writer. This is so. And then i was also working at at as a bartender at the comedy theatre that i performed got so. It's like doing that until i had enough money to move to l. a. and then i did and then how. How is your adjustment when you got here. Did you have frontier. Not really i know. 'cause i knew a couple of people i had acquaintances but i didn't have close friends and so like it was like a rough first year but i don't know yet once i once i got through the first year and like had made friends in comedy and there were so many comics who were so welcoming and it was like such a different scene from boston. Comedy and. I love boston comedy. But it's not you know almost welcoming seen in the world. And so i just yeah it. It took a while and then i also like went through the signature like started dating someone immediately and then like four months later was like hold on. This is ruining my life so it was like the whole you know whatever the whole first year in la experience why was it ruining. Your life is not very nice guy you know and also it's like whatever i i was still like. I dated comedian. And that will work out fine for being which like literally never. Has i had just broken up with or like gone through a break up with i guess a different comedian moved here immediately started dating another comedian. And it just. It just didn't go well. Did you tend to date. Well you did. You tend to date comedians. Because those are the people you're around. Yeah yeah. And then. When i when i first started performing it was like i started dating someone at the same time. I was starting comedy and we did comedies together and it was a it was a guy mean looking at it now. It's like oh..
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"I don't know i didn't grow up remotely rural. I don't know any butchers. I don't know what i'm gonna do. It was difficult enough watching. A man needs seventy-six hotdogs. It was amazing. I wonder if one this year. Mr joseph chestnut as usual every year. He really has this on. He really is like the simone biles of hot dogs like he can do. He is at this point like competing with himself right incredible. How many hotdogs do you think you could eat. I know that if i eat more than four in a day it'll be difficult for me and for and for whoever's with me 'cause we were like. Yeah i've i've been going around with my boyfriend And yes if i eat more than four in a day is going to be a rough night and a rough morning. That's a lot of. That's a lot of nitrates to put in your body Yes so i like. I was saying in the intro. Just really admire your work. I think you feel very inspired. When i hear your po- your podcast because there's their educational and they're so well done and it. Kind of reminds me their scholarly. How do you get the idea like how. How did they all come about that. Your particular format for doing a podcast and the ideas and things like that. I think i mean. Yeah for the ones that i've done by myself. That are more scripted and researched it kind of like started as the first one i did was about being in getting into mensa as like a joke and then getting sucked into what that group is. Which i didn't realize was there is like a lot of alt-right stuff. There was a specific facebook group. That like was officially sanctioned by mensa that targeted harass people in the group on the basis of just about anything and so i got sucked into that for almost a full year and then once it was over. It's like well. I don't really know what to do. Like this could just be something that happened to me. But i was trying to find what the best format was to to talk about it and to like process the experience and share some information and it ended up being that podcasting was the easiest way to get out my my thoughts so i just wrote this really really really long essay and then retrofitted it to be four episodes of a podcast and i really. I don't know yeah i. I wasn't expecting to enjoy that process as much as i did. But once i did i started working with iheartradio. And they just they they love content of would you give them content to put advertisements in and so they They offered to give me some funding to make some more and It's been really cool..
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"I'm sort of of the mind that like well. Then he can just do it when he when he's the age to go to kindergarten. Yeah that is. It's tough but I i have no idea how to make this decision. It's not my child. But i'm gonna i'm gonna just go. I'll go the decay trick. I understand you're saying he may be away from his friends but he also maybe you will make some new friends and if this confidence thing not that i think he has an issue with confidence. He's wonderful but apparently that could be good things. Apparently he's like a little bit on the more timid side in school. Not when you come over. He's not he's all known idle. Okay interesting thank you just my. That's my quick. Not think about it too hard thought. Hey are you go. you're welcome. I'm glad i'm glad that you made that decision for me because it allowed me to see what i really wanted to do. And i think i would rather send a pre k. You're fired okay. That's what i had a feeling. I thought this was all set up because no matter what i said that you would say the opposite yes imagine trying to choose a restaurant with me at sounds sad. Great nightmare okay. That was fun. Thank you listen. We have a wonderful guest who has arrived. She is a comedian. A podcast a writer a performer. She makes these really great. Podcasts like really intelligent thoughtful. Well i mean not like this. Not like this off the cuff crap. Real rio like written out podcasts. We're going to get into more detail. What unspecific talking about but tony. You have like you had to look on your face. Like i was insulting you and i was just trying to in a self facing way insult myself. You know i believe in this project anyway. My year end mensa back door. Cast lalita podcasts. At cast is that's her most recent one about reconsidering the kathy comic among so many other things. Please welcome to the show jamie loftus. Hey what's up. hello welcome. how such a warm reception. I know it's crazy..
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"loftus" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"I'm saying i got. I got a power through this next hour. So we'll we'll get there. Yeah i mean nowadays those off. It's not you guys. It's me now that we've gone public with being mortal sworn enemies. Tony you know that. I will fly into a rage if you fall asleep. Or if you don't bring it the same rage that you flew have flown into at me and by rage. I mean i feel like maybe i detected a slight edge voice. I'm not sure regarding me unplugging equipment in my studio every week yeah. I've learned that i cannot ask you questions from all of this. That's really not the vibe. I'm trying to give off. Well it's the vibe gave off so own now see. There's that rage tony. I don't mind a question your question. It was a real loaded question. It was if. I recall the tone which i did not carry for. We've come through. I know but you know. I like to beat things into the ground exists this or i'm talking about the insects. I find in my bathroom again so give the listeners. A break again. I have trouble getting into character. Because i can't access my anger so easily but it was. Yeah i meant to ask you. Why do you keep doing that. It really wasn't like that. But that's what i heard If it felt like okay. Listen tony's it's all. I'm going to give you okay. We need to bring in. We're going to bring in our guests in a moment. in fact i feel rude making them wait but they're not here yet. They're still in traffic. But anyway i have. I'm going to do something that i occasionally do with you. Which is i make you comment on something. Where truly you're going to have no idea to make you. Yeah this one is the stakes. Are i mean. Don't worry stakes that high. But this one usually. I make you try to guess something that doesn't matter and there's no way you can guess but now i have to make a decision involving my child and i've made extensive pro and con list here and i'm going to read it to you and then you just tell me which decision i make. I'm making the decision. Not what is the decision making the decision. You're gonna listen to my pro and con list and you're going to tell me what you think as someone as an outsider who who does not have all the information but who knows me. I'm just hoping here's something in this. I just want to know. I just wanna know what you think. Yeah okay. so here's the background. I never over think things or anything. This is just gonna be perfect. Yeah you're right. I should pull in some like. Who do we know who doesn't over. Think things at all greg heller. Judging things i don't know about the greg heller store now anyway okay. Here's the deal so for elliot. My four year old. I am choosing whether to keep him in pre k..
The Daily Zeitgeist
"loftus" Discussed on The Daily Zeitgeist
"Hi my name is jamie loftus. And i have read every single kathy comic and i have some thoughts kathy guys weights comic strip which ran from nineteen. Seventy six to two thousand. Ten chronicled middle-class american womanhood day by day for over three decades and inbetween acts and irving jokes came really sharp commentary on women's struggles in the workplace rampant reagan era consumerism and predatory diet culture. So why don't we remember it that way in my new show act cast. Yes kathy chose the name for the show herself. I'm going to take a look at these comics in context and take a look from all vantage points. Why is this comic remembered the way it is. Who is kathy guys white. Who was the only woman in the funny pages. When the strip debuted who went onto win cartoons highest honor an emmy and wrote a cookbook called girl food. What else was in the funny pages during her. Tenure what topics and artists were relegated to the fringes. And what influence has her work had. What does it say about. The rightfully despised white boomer demographic where does this strip fall in the messy history of mainstream american. Feminism and at what point did the khaki characters frustration invulnerability around issues like diet culture and a pressure to succeed professionally and toxic relationship dynamics and sexual harassment. Turn into this big punch line. If you've never thought about kathy comics before i have made the summer podcast for you because the popular image of who kathy is chocolate chocolate. Ac etc can be pretty at odds with the characters reality. This is my favorite example. Kathy gets harassed by her boss in the early eighties and she literally punches him in the face and he passes out. He's passed out for an entire night. Because kathy punched him in the face. We've got a lot to talk about. And i will be consulting the experts to do so. Of course i'll be talking to cathy. Guys white strips creator as well as contemporary comic artists. Who were either influenced by or discovering. Kathy's work for the first time. I'll be speaking to women of kathy generation from a lot of backgrounds at a lot of moms of talking to experts on diet culture comic history boomers and more and i'll have some of my favorite comedians acting out the strips for you. If you're a fan of previous shows lalita podcast and year in mensa. This is another worm hole where there's a lot more to the i then. It may originally seem. It's going to be fun. It's going to hit a little dark sometimes and at the summer. Podcast for the girls so listen to act cast. That's aaa c k by me. Jaime loftus on the iheartradio app apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts..
The Bechdel Cast
"loftus" Discussed on The Bechdel Cast
"Hi <Speech_Female> my name is jamie <Speech_Female> loftus. And <Speech_Female> i have read every <Speech_Female> single <Speech_Female> kathy comic <Speech_Female> and i have some thoughts <Speech_Female> kathy <Speech_Female> guys weights comic <Speech_Female> strip which ran <Speech_Female> from nineteen. Seventy <Speech_Female> six to two thousand. 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Daily Coronavirus Update
Peter Loftus on What We Know About the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
"Peter loftus healthcare reporter at the wall street journal joins us. What we know about the johnson and johnson vaccine. Thanks for joining us. peter extra. We had some interesting vaccine news as the us was pausing. The administering of the johnson and johnson covid nineteen vaccine after there was an issue with these a rare blood clot cases that we've been hearing a lot about the cases are extremely rare. There's only six cases in about almost seven million doses. that have been administered. So far of the johnson and johnson vaccine so very very rare. This was a founding six women between the ages of eighteen and forty eight. I think the happen between six days and thirteen days after they got their vaccinations. So peter tell us what we're learning about. What's going on with this. They expect the pause to be about a few days. that's one. Fda officials said today so as you say these were extremely rare but the events themselves were serious. One of the women died. And the issue seems to be a very rare type of clot that affects the brain and it's called a cerebral venus sinus thrombosis and this is something that just also happens. Very rarely apart from the vaccine. But what i think caught. The attention of health officials was that this was happening in a small number of people who got the vaccine and they were having low blood. Platelet counts and so these two things together. We're unusual enough. That health officials think there could be a cause and effect here and that it's not just a case of someone getting the next team and experiencing an adverse health effect that they might have experienced anyway and so. That's where i think the caution comes in. And that explains i think why. Despite the small numbers health officials wanted to take this
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Intelligence bulletin warns of potential for violence at Capitol on March 4
"Two months after the attack, the turned deadly at the U. S. Capitol. The nation is again on alert for more potential violence. Capitol police revealing a possible plot by a militia group to storm the U. S Capitol tomorrow, and Cuomo's Michelle Esteban reports. That alert goes for Washington State, too. We have not received any specific threats here in ST Washington WS piece, Chris Loftus says. The campus security is seen and unseen, but gone is that heavy National Guard and state Patrol presence He insists the staffing is appropriate to risk level and for now that 8 ft fence surrounding the capital and some legislative buildings will stay as will the checkpoints. Are there groups that you know that are intending to rally on the fourth? We just narrow it down to the I don't have anything that's come across my desk that said that says that we have specifics. But we always have to be aware. And FBI Seattle, also responding in a statement that reads in part, as always, FBI, Seattle is prepared to work with our partners to respond to any terrorism threat either domestic or international at this time. There is no specific, credible threat in Washington state in relation to March.
Noon Report with Rick Van Cise
Extremists Emboldened by Capitol Attack Pose Rising Threat, Homeland Security Says
"Department of Homeland Security issued a national alert yesterday that there could be more domestic terrorism in the coming weeks. The alert warns of potential violence from extremists who still object to the presidential transition or who holds just generally anti government views. Chris Loftis with the State Patrol says there are no known credible threats to anybody in Washington state. But their guard is up. We can't be alarmist, but we can't be dismissive of the risk either. We've just seen in our recent past that there's risk can manifest themselves and people could be armed and we just can't let that happen. In Olympia, the state's national guard is standing down. But Loftus says the heightened security contingent is standing by and the fence surrounding the capital is going to stay up. Homeland Security asks that everyone reports any suspicious activity or threats of violence, whether it's in person or
KOMO
"loftus" Discussed on KOMO
"Keeping a lid on violence in Olympia. Chris Loftis with WSB says people have a right to rally but was right aren't boundless. There's a boundary and that boundary is illegal behavior that boundaries threat. That boundary is harm, and we're simply not going to allow that. Loftus says the fence surrounding the capital will come down when the threat comes down. Ah Seattle man was one of those arrested in connection with the rampage in the nation's capital. This week, 51 year old Mark Leffingwell was arrested for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer and illegally entering the capital, according to court documents. Leffingwell repeatedly punched an officer with a closed fist while attempting to enter the Capitol building on Wednesday. He is required to call into pre trial in Washington, D C on a weekly basis cover increases. The tension in this country has reached a fever pitch lately. He is hopeful it will lessen. When President Trump leaves office on January 20th. It is my profound hope that when he passes out of the White House We will have a chance to find the better angels of our nature that Abraham Lincoln talked about and where we listen to each other with an intense interest. We're willing to accept some different views. Move forward as a nation. You know the news. A small helicopter crash landed near an ice rink in hotel in Okanagan County, but luckily no one was hurt. The crash happened Saturday afternoon in the tone of Winthrop to passengers on the aircraft were on hurt. Homeowners. Time is 3 34. Let's get a check on our roadways are see Cats is keeping an eye on the roads at the Dubin Law Group Traffic Center. North bound seven at 112 Street south in Tacoma. Looks like we have a new accident there, right Lanes blocked step troll on the scene, and it looks like near Arlington. We have another accidental directions of highway fivethirtyeight. See, Post Road They're alternating traffic through there. So do expect slowdowns. I'm RC Cats Come on news. Karen's on has the latest on our forecast certainly went forecast for the next few days around Western Washington Classic January around here plenty.
Daily Coronavirus Update
Eli Lilly applies for emergency use of antibody drug for COVID-19
"Or Masuko. Company ally Lily as requested the emergency use authorization of its antibody based treatment for people with mild to moderate symptoms. Of Corona Virus, the treatment is similar to the one that president trump received and they could have one hundred thousand doses ready this month and one million by the end of the year. Peter Loftus Healthcare reporter at the Wall Street Journal joins us for more or Masuko company ally. Lilley has requested the emergency use authorization of an experimental antibody based treatment that they have cove in nineteen. This is similar to what the president was getting his monoclonal antibodies. He got it from a company called regeneration but ally Lilley has something similar and they're saying that there's a works. Okay. In clinical trials it they've been going through already and they think that they can seek approval as early as next month Peter. Tell us a little bit more about this one. Well. Yes. It is a similar approach to what I think. A lot of people have heard in the news about one of the treatments that president trump got an antibody based treatment. In this case with Eli Lilly what they did was they formed a partnership with another company where they actually took a blood sample from one of the first people in the US to recover from covid nineteen and they isolated. Certain antibodies in the blood sample. These are things produced by the immune system that help someone overcome a virus and infection, and so then to make a drug out of that, you essentially clothed that antibody and make bigger quantities of it and then fuse it and people tested, and so that's what he Li- Lilley has done. They've spent the last several months manufacturing doses of this and testing them in various studies, and so what they're seeking authorization for is to use this antibody based drug as a treatment for people who are recently diagnosed covid and have mild moderate disease and with the hope that the antibody would actually prevent that disease from getting worse and keep people out of the hospital and. So he really has some results from the study so far that suggests that this antibody can do that. It's so interesting kind of getting this education as we go through this pandemic, how a lot of these therapeutics and treatments are being made an early on we were talking about convalescent plasma literally taking the blood has antibodies from people that have had covert and recovered and putting that into people. Now, we're going through these treatments. As he said, we're using those same antibodies, making clones of them and making these treatments from that. So it really is interesting how these things are developing. Tell us about the study they started it in nursing homes and tell us how will work and the effectiveness of it. I, first he for this drug was actually in hospitalized patients and that was a very small study and they haven't set a ton about that study but I think they had what they considered promising results and then they moved on to bigger study. Don, hospitalized patient. So these would be people who have a diagnosis maybe have some symptoms, but they haven't yet gone to a severe stage. So they've tested you know having those people come into the clinic and giving them the infusion and then seeing how they do the nursing home aspect of it is from yet another study where they're actually bringing the antibody. Outta various nursing homes if that nursing has or looks like it's going to have an outbreak say if there's one case of cove. What they then do is they test the antibody and other residents and staff in the nursing home either to treat any existing disease that they may have gotten from this emerging outbreak or even for its potential to prevent disease that's called the prophylactic use of the antibodies to use it as a preventive measure, not only to treat an existing infection. Lily as I said earlier, they're hoping they can get this emergency use authorization or at least try to go for in November but they're saying that they could already have a thousand doses ready this month and as many as one million by the end of the year. So if they get that authorization, they're ready to go right away. It's very similar to like the vaccine candidates that were going through their producing the doses and having them ready just in case they get approved. Then just to clarify ally really has already filed for. An emergency use authorization with the FDA, and so it's possible that decision could come relatively soon and that would be for a single antibody. The main one that I've been talking about to treat these mild to moderate cases. In addition to that, they've contesting that one antibody they've been adding the antibody, and so it's a two drug combination and that's the one that they are expecting to apply for in November. But in either case, you're right they aren't making. The doses and they have certain targets for what they can produce by the end of the year and what they've produced already it is likely that you know if they were to get a government authorization relatively soon, there would be I think an imbalance in supply and demand there would be a greater demand then doses available, and so I think there's GonNa be some work to do to figure out if there's certain types of patients that should be prioritized. For Instance Lilley said today that it's possible that you could maybe reserve this initial supply of doses maybe reserved him for people who are sixty five and older or who are overweight because those groups that seem like they are probably most at risk of worsening to severe disease. If there's not this treatment that prevents that but you know if approved is could fill this gap until the vaccines do get authorized and push through as well. So just interesting stuff and hopefully they can work it out and hopefully it's safe and
Hugh Hewitt
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers call on memory expert
"Everyone seems attorneys are calling in a memory expert to stand in his rape and sexual assault trial in New York Elizabeth Loftus who also testified in the defense of OJ Simpson said memories fade over time and can also become distorted prosecutors have tried to show how the disgrace movie mogul used his power to prey on young women or hoping to advance their careers in
AP News Radio
At Weinstein trial, defense takes aim at accusers' memories
"Cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Loftus told jurors it doesn't take a PhD to no memory fades over time and people become more vulnerable to post event information locked as pointed out actress Annabel oscura alleges wine steam barged into our apartment and raped her in nineteen ninety three or nineteen ninety four Weinstein is charged with raping a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in twenty thirteen and sexually assaulting a different woman in two thousand six Loftus testified the emotion is not a guarantee your dealing with an authentic memory his lawyers have not said yet if Harvey Weinstein himself will testify I'm a Donahue
Art Beauty
You CAN Build the Butt You Want and She Has the Secret
"We have a but that is going to make you is go bananas Most beautiful woman who has earned earned every ounce of that. Booty Hilary. Loftus is a trainer at lift tonic. You've heard me talk about it. We've had redone on the owner of the gym. I love this and you know what if you are thinking that you can't get the ass that you want in two thousand twenty. Let me tell you just take a look at this. I Hillary. I just can't even with you. You look phenomenal Ryan before you signed on. Hillary was just saying that she got a spray Tan. So Ryan loves spray TANS. Yeah I mean I feel like it's very tan fixes like most of my problems. You know feeling really sad about things too. And I'm like you know things are not that bad. It is addicting. And it's definitely mood altering I I agree with you. One Hundred Percents Hillary. I'm so excited to have you on You know I love I love love. Love your classes at lift Hanoch One of the things that I love is your so positive and when admit it was like about a year ago I signed onto your instagram right. I'd started taking classes and I was so amazed by how number one number one how banging your body as can we just like a can we but also how how body positive you are and You we are really interesting story. You started in fashion before fitness. Can you tell us about that Yeah I went to a fashion design high school and then the natural progression was just to go to fit And then I did a bachelor's. It didn't love working in fashion I think it's when you're younger and you start doing fashion. You have this idealized version of what you think. The fashion industry is and then you get there and you're like yeah that's not it at all. I got into interior design And I loved it but like I can't handle sitting at a desk all day And I just knew that wasn't for my personality And then so I was like all I will try real estate because it's not like a hip hop skip and a jump from interior design. China you can feed your own apartments while that But you know it's just like some people can do that some people can't and it's like I didn't love it either and eh time. I started really weightlifting And then that became the highlight of my day and I kind of accidentally fell into it. I just if if you don't mind I wanNA share some of these instagram. And if you're listening to US right now it's worth it to go over and check this out. I'm first of all. This is lift tonic. This is where I met. Were you are one of the instructors. But get ready folks. Because y'all I mean you law Oh and I'm just GONNA get right to it. I will show you the picture that I was like. I mean. Can we just for doc girls angles lighting. I'm telling you but I mean yeah no I mean honestly it should everyday you gotta work at so an excuse me for saying this. Your ass is incredible and it looks one hundred percents real and it is you look strong and I love this representation of beauty because unsexy. This is my favorite. Because you look so healthy and you look I i. I'm sure you do to maintain to maintain that You have to. Yeah but I mean can I not to sound cheesy but you're wasting snatched the tiniest little waste of I. I think people would be very surprised at how much smaller their waste can get If they just eat differently Yeah Yeah I mean yeah. I stayed in entirely huge role in. How big your weight like most of the time? If you feel like it's your waistline that is the issue but that is where most tissue live that is all diet like lately ruin through Diet and now I do remember there was a post and I am not gonNa dig through them. We'll leave this one up here. We're you mentioned that. And this is what I love about your body positively. You mentioned that you were weightwise some of the heaviest that you'd been win but yet twenty four inch waist. And that's what I want to really focus on today. You know you you you really spread this message of like you eat you out. Well you know tell us what. What is your philosophy on on lifting weights Okay so let's a little preface so when I ms in fashion design I started going to college I was like about a hundred pounds right And I'm five five So when I was the heaviest I was as you know and I had a tiny ways and I would think that pretty much across the board like I feel like most people would say that I looked healthier and happier on heavier weight. Had different dimensions. Completely I was a hundred and thirty eight hundred dollars. One hundred and forty pounds. That's kind of a big like thirty eight pounds of muscle and fat. I mean you have to have both But I theory behind weightlifting. Is You gotta be consistent about and that is with anything with Diet and with your working out. 'cause I mean I'm sure if you're watching probably read that somewhere But it really in fact like if you are consistent about something show up for yourself make time And it's not just about thinking that one class it's nice like give you that that body Like if you look at me and you're like wow. Her body is great. You know it's not just coming to class twice a week and thinking that that's going to do the job because you know you really have to spend that time focusing on your food as well you know and that takes time and like planning on us. They've got the hardest part. So how many days a week are you in the gym. While I I work at one almost every day but I would say I way chain five days a week. Yeah how an a percentage ratio right. So if you were to say would you say it's seventy percent diet thirty thirty percent exercise or would you say it's twenty percent exercise eighty percent diet. Yeah totally I think that Diet. Save an disgusting disgusting roll like no one wants to hear it. It's like people work out so that they can eat more. I do eat more but you have to kind of like hit strict about how much more food you're eating like I can. I can eat a lot of Sushi. Cheap meals are insane So Caen most grown men under the table but you're also working out incredibly in your lifting really heavy and I on personal trainer her. I'm standing on my feet all day. I'm running back and forth from classes and studio I train at So it's just I'm I'm very active like all day
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
We have a deal, folks
"Ladies and gentlemen we have a deal what exactly the. US MCA is going to be from American public media. This is marketplace in Los Angeles. I'm Kai Ryssdal is Tuesday today. The tenth of December is always to have you along everybody. This was quite a day I mean yes sure that other story very big news but to those for whom the economy is our concern also so big. After a couple of days rumors house. Democrats announce this morning they have come to terms with the trump administration on the new NAFTA The US Mexico Canada agreement by name. It's been a bit more than a year since the deal was originally signed so on the theory that perhaps the details have faded from memory. Marketplace's Merrill Sagarra has this refresher fresher one of the long standing. Criticisms of NAFTA is that destroyed a lot of US manufacturing jobs. The treaty allowed Mexico to export products to the US. duty-free but wages are lower in Mexico. Doug Irwin teaches economics at Dartmouth college or what happened after that allow. US companies moved their assembly implants to Mexico so if you lost assembly jobs the original version of the US MCA tried to address that problem. It required Mexico to protect workers right to unionize and to increase wages for at least some Mexican Auto Workers Democrats wanted more than that. One thing was for Mexico to promise that conditions would improve establish Florida's messy as teaches government at Cornell but another thing was for those conditions to truly improve for the government to monitor conditions in factories. To make sure that whatever new regulations were in place would also be enforced. He says Democrats proposed that the US should be allowed to send inspectors turn into Mexican factories. Mexico said no but in this new version of the deal Mexico did agree to allow panel of experts to make sure it's following the rules. It's not clear exactly how that will work. You know it'll be interesting to see what exactly under which conditions these panels can be convened and who brings these cases another sticking point for Democrats the original deal would have given pharmaceutical companies ten years to exclusively make certain kinds of drugs. Christopher Sands is a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins so it means ten years in which generic copies cannot be made of drug. I think a lot of Democrats. The House saw this as really over the top especially since drug prices have been on the rise that part of the US is gone. Now and Democrats have also added some environmental rules. I'm Maryelle Cigar for marketplace. Honestly the first thing. I thought of this morning when I heard the news was apple's specifically glee Washington state apples from the Yakima Valley. My first reaction was a little bit of relief. Mostly that seems like we've cleared that a hurdle. That's Patrick. Smith are apple in hops farmer up in the North West the hurdle of course being no free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico his two biggest export markets for the apple industry here in Washington state. It was tens of millions of dollars of exports that were lost in the twenty eighteen crop. Not only because of the possibility of no more Nafta but also because of retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Mexico that sent his exports down thirty percent last year. Getting a deal. That would kind of clear all that out of the way and go back to some sort of stated normalcy is is really good the thing for us a state of normalcy under the US MCA no tariffs on his apple. Exports to Mexico and Canada. Just like under NAFTA but we're not making any big decisions really on the basis of US MCA or anything. We're still kind of in wait and see mode in cautiously optimistic for For improvements in in trade relations Patrick Smith up at the family farm loftus ranches in Washington. State still going. Maybe a couple of months before this thing is done by the way. See also that other big story in the news today that sucking all the air out of Washington
Investor's Edge
Why are Late Night TV Hosts Avoiding the Northam Scandal?
"Comedian and sitcom writer, Michael office says it's rather interesting kind of sad in his opinion that none of the late night comedians have picked up on anything regarding the Democrats in some of the democratic scandals that we've been seeing in the last week Loftus joined Fox News, FOX and friends and says he believes most of the late night comedians. Eight seem to have the same person writing for them. And it's it's it's stunning. That of all these late night shows, everybody's attacking it from the same angle. I've never seen anything like this. Like if you go to a comedy club. And five comics have a joke about their dog. There's going to be five different jokes and five different angles. But it's still about your Dr. Well, yeah. But this is just like bashing Trump and just bashing completely. So I don't think it's about comedy. I don't think it's about entertainment. They know a huge portion of the country isn't watching and they don't care. I literally think they're trying to win hearts and minds next Loftus shares how he believes he knows the fixes in. When you have Nancy Pelosi sitting back there sucking on her tooth like a like the winning lottery numbers are to come pop out hold. None of these four giant cars like she just stole the menus from an outback steakhouse you like no one's gonna make five. No one's going to touch on it as far as world that Johnny Carson's are today. Lofta says they're not allowed to participate. They they don't want a funny voice on the right? And that's why like the deplorable show that I'm doing is really important. Like, we gotta support this endeavour. There's creative people and we don't have that outlet
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
City of San Francisco threatens court action over Trump's acting Attorney General
"General was constituted today. The city of San Francisco threatened court action over the appointment noting that the city currently has four cases proceeding against the department of Justice that name fired attorney general Jeff Sessions as the defendant. San Francisco city attorney is asking the Justice department to provide the legal justification behind elevating Whittaker to lead the Justice department. Rod Rosenstein would have been the natural choice, by the way. Otherwise, the city says it may be forced to ask a judge for legal rationale. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports late tonight that the Justice department is expected to publish a legal opinion, supporting Whitaker's appointment that legal opinion is expected to come as early as tomorrow. Meanwhile, reports that Whitaker will not recuse himself from overseeing the Muller investigation despite his well documented his. Of making statements questioning its legitimacy have Democrats pursuing new avenues of inquiry Whitaker has declared that he is quote committed to leading a fair department with the highest ethical standards. Democrats are not taking that face value today. It emerged the top democratic leaders, including one with whom I'm about to speak in both the house and the Senate have sent a letter to Li loft us. This is Lee Loftus. He's the top ethics official at the department of Justice demanding to know immediately. What if any advice he has given Whitaker regarding recusals, quote, we request that you immediately notify us in writing regarding whether you or any other ethics officials at the Justice department have advised Mr. Whittaker to recuse from supervision of the special counsel investigation and the basis for that recommendation. It continues we also request that you provide us all ethics guidance. The department has provided to Mr. Whittaker. To date. The letter was
CBS Sports Radio
Allison's Nobel Prize beckons new era of immunotherapy
"Week. One of the more interesting Nobel prizes awarded was for that in medicine or medicine. It went to two people Dr James, Allison and Ta Su Honjo for discoveries that lead to a new way to treat cancer by targeting the body's immune system, rather than the tumors themselves. It's led to a host of new drugs. Immunotherapy is quite expensive. But people are saying that it works pretty well on certain types of lung cancer and melanoma, which is a form of skin cancer. So this story we spoke to Peter Loftus. He's a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. We started off by asking him who were these Nobel prize winners, James Allison and tests Uku Hondo. Both of them have specialized in immunology studying the body's immune system. This turned out to be a critical part of what they discovered and to put it in context, if you think about the mainstays of cancer treatment over the years. Things like chemotherapy and radiation, which were effective an effective in certain situations. But they can also be blunt instruments in the sense that they can destroy healthy cells in the body along with cancer cells. So that causes all sorts of complications going back about fifteen twenty years. There was another advance in cancer treatment. And that was the target genetic mutations in cancer cells now, immune based approaches sort of the newest wave and one of the more significant approaches to treating cancer in a long time these two scientists working separately. But in parallel discovered features about the body's immune system that led them to figure out that if used certain kinds of drugs to target immune system cells in a certain way, it'll basically better equipped the body's own immune system to go after and destroy cancer cells. So exactly how does it work. I was reading a lot about checkpoints. And how a lot of this stuff. Let's T cells, basically. Attack the cancer cells T cells are form of white blood cells. And this is where the magic really comes through in. What's so interesting about what they discovered was that the body's immune system has sort of its own natural checkpoints were break. So that it doesn't go overboard and Batak the healthy parts of the body. Cancer cells have basically figured out how to split that. And so they in some way, they sort of latch onto the brakes of the body's immune system, in a way that helps them escape described destruction. And so these drugs that have come out of the research from both sides, essentially, take the brakes off also the body. John immune