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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why We Have to Support the Fight in Ukraine
"Former ambassador and national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, appeared on Fox with Mark McCallum yesterday to explain the American interest in the war in Ukraine. It's the best summary I found anywhere cut number 7. Well, Martha, here's what we've seen happen. The Chinese humiliated us with a track across the United States over multiple days with a spy balloon. And it stopped and lingered over our nuclear sites, our silos is soft and lingered over our the second leg of our triad, our air force bases with nuclear capable bombers. And then to stop by our sub pens to see what was going on with our submarine force. So it was an embarrassment. And that balloon should have been taken down forthwith as soon as we found out about it, probably as an Internet American waters. The Chinese got away with it. And the only consequence is that Tony blinken instead of meeting with his foreign counterpart in China in Beijing, he met with weighing in Berlin. All right, Munich. In Germany. So what was the consequence of the Chinese? So any wonder that they think they can get away with supply and lethal weapons to the Russians for their fight against Ukraine. And by the way, general Kellogg was absolutely right. We've got to win this thing in Ukraine and it's in America's interest to win it because China and Russia are unlimited partners. And if we can use the Ukrainians to totally degrade the Russian army, and show that we can win one of these wars, that will deter Xi Jinping from invading Taiwan. So this is a very important fight in Ukraine, and it has serious implications with our relationship with China and what happens in Taiwan.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ's Initial Thoughts on Election Night 2020
"I mean, who would have thought? We'd ever miss hanging chads. So this show is a combination of famous bits and politics is a bitch. I can't believe we have to go to bed. It's 1 o'clock in the morning here in Las Vegas. My throat is horse from screaming at the TV, screaming at Donna brazile, Chris Wallace, Jake tapper, a number of other assholes that I just can't John Roberts. I can't say. And some fucking boring woman, they put on the Fox News channel, along with Martha McCallum, who's the wolf in sheep's clothing and Brett Bayer who, listen, he has his one hour time slot on Fox that's the most boring fucking show, you ever want to see. You know, I know he's steady Eddie, but he has no panache, no pizazz, the team that Fox put together to bring us this election night special, the biggest election of our generation. What a fucking dud, so I'm a horse. And I'm a little worse for wear, but this is an embarrassment. Not to mention there was some very dubious behavior. If not criminal behavior, and we're going to find out in the ensuing days, you know, we heard for a while that Pennsylvania was going to be a pain in the ass. But did we expect it to be this fucking annoying? you guys lock up and go home? What kind of fucking union is this? Are you kidding me? The presidential election hangs in the balance and you're going home. Did we expect Arizona to apparently apparently I should say flip like we're being told it flip? Is this the ghost of John McCain sticking up Trump's asshole? Sure seems that way if the numbers hold up. Wisconsin we don't know yet. Michigan, we don't know yet. And the Secretary of State and Pennsylvania said they could be counting ballots till Friday.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Queen's Enduring Virtues
"Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on Fox with Martha McCallum yesterday talking about the queen. I'd like to play that exchange cut number four. I think senator McConnell and some of the other guests have captured pretty well. I think of bedrock. I think of foundational virtues, the things that the queen did. It was for long year serving in the Trump administration. That's for 70 years the stamina, the dedication to public service is immeasurable. I did have a chance to meet her. She always was Winston. She had joy in her heart as well. She joked, she says, oh, you're the survivor. She was friendly in a way, but demonstrated enormous wisdom as well, right? From Churchill to trust, there was always someone there who knew the sweep of history, appreciated the sweep of history, worked with prime ministers from across the political spectrum to deliver good things for the people of the kingdom, which she was responsible for.
AP News Radio
Damian Lillard agrees to two-year, $122 million extension with Trail Blazers, per report
"Damian Lillard received a two year commitment from the trailblazers an extension worth $122 million The extension comes months after the blazers sent back court made CJ McCallum to the pelicans Bradley Beal was banking on the wizard's latest rebuilding effort He accepted a 5 year deal worth up to $251 million to stay in Washington The wizards have made the playoffs 5 times and beals ten seasons with the team never getting past the second round Also the raptors have inked forward DJ Wilson to a multiyear package I'm Dave
Radical Self Belief - The Mojo Maker© Podcast
Snippet with Julia Newbould
"Another thing is that even if you're not in your 40s or 50s, you much younger, you've probably still got money that you don't think you have because if you've got a super fun and you've got insurance to that super fund, which typically people do, you've got a couple of $100,000 there. So there is a meaningful amount that everybody's leaving, but you know you've got to figure out what it is that makes you take and what you want to leave behind. I mean, personally, I love the arts and I have had a lot of pleasure going to theater and concerts and so on. So when I really thought about what I wanted as my legacy, I want to help someone perform in the odds that probably wouldn't get a chance before. And it's very complex to set it up and you really think about what how would I pick that person, you know, after I'm dead, who would choose that person and you know I had to think about, well, which of my friends would be good to put in those positions and you know, that's the kind of fun part of it. I think the thought that we're going to die, that's not a fun part. But you've got something positive to leave behind. That can be very, very pleasant. And I think that that has actually made me feel less afraid to die, knowing that there's something that I will leave behind. It's so interesting the word mortality. I mean, I lost my father a couple of months ago. My mom's 81. So once you get to a phase where you start losing your parents, then you start thinking about what's next. And also when we talk about legacy, we're not just talking about when we pass on. I know a lot of CEOs and business founders and people they're trying to bring their children through their leaders inside the corporation legacy is not just, I guess you're well on testimony. It's also if you founded a business or you've got something going, what happens with all that vision and creativity and culture that you're trying to create. So there are many footprints that we leave as individuals. And I just wanted to say I love the fact that you found who would be if the executioner of your will who would have the charter of putting up this fund and finding those people, you found that a fun thing that bought light to what would normally be a discussion and a thought process, most people just don't want to go to. Yeah. And I think that bringing up the discussion that's really difficult. And I think it was this time last year I was talking to a lawyer and we were talking about wills and he said, now he's a good time. You know, the families get together for Christmas. You know, when everyone's together, talk about your will and your parents will and what they expect and what a siblings maybe you eat expect to do for your parents and so on. And what you expect for your children as well. So depending on what stage of life you're at, it's a good time when the families together to bring things out in the open. Because there's so many things with wheels. You know, if you have more than one child and you don't want to split things evenly or even if you do, you know, the kid's going to say bit so and so got something more when I was alive when you know it's a very complex area and can cause so much family problems. And I think getting yourself right in your own ground and energy is the most important thing. But you know, why do you think that we have money in itself as a topic? The other thing about this is a lot of people feel they don't have enough. So once you start looking at what do I need to retire with so my legacy after work, let alone what do I need to pass over? Is that if he actually front you from a lot of people because there was a thing going around Instagram that said, if you retire with a $1 million, you know, you have to live off 33,000 a year, so to speak. But a lot of people can't even imagine retiring with a $1 million at the moment. And so there's a lot of fear around not having enough right now, let alone set sparks a lot of triggers in people that what if I'm not wealthy enough? How do we know our idea of wealth and how can we be comfortable with what we have now in order to do the next step of planning? How do you help that discussion with your read is even? I think all of it, you know, whether it's your will or whether you've got enough money. To be discussed. And I think it's the way that it comes up in conversation. And so for myself, I read a book a couple of years ago with Kate McCallum a financial adviser. It's called the joy of money. And basically, we looked at money as it's not a discrete topic. You don't talk about money as separate to the rest of your life. It's the enabler for what you want to do in life. So can you afford the holiday break it down? You know, what do I need to leave each week? It's hard to talk about the future without looking at what you have now and is that enough is that satisfying is that giving you pleasure? Can you turn that down and swap work for life after you get retirement age? It's a difficult topic. And I think there's so much going around about how much you do need in retirement. And you know that $1 million figure. Yes, you know, you're living off 33,000 a year, but that's if you don't draw down on the capital. And at some point, maybe you will draw down on the capital. You know, that's what most people will do. But you've got to look at it and figure out what would you do if that was all you had. If you had 33,000, how would you make up the shortfall if you're going to have a shortfall in your life and think about alternatives? You know, retirement now isn't just shut the door on your job and you walk away. You might do something part time. You might do the same job part time. You might change careers.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kevin McCullough on the Nuances of Unrest in Kenosha, WI
"Today right now is Kevin McCullough. He's talking about the Kyle whitton written house written house verdict that just came in just about an hour or so ago. And let's continue on with that with Kevin McCallum. Kevin? Well, we were talking before the break a little bit about the dynamic. I think the media really missed on this because when you're talking about police violence in New York or Chicago or Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, LA, you're talking about a very different dynamic than you are in Kenosha Wisconsin. I've been to Kenosha Wisconsin, a bunch of times. It is a college town. You have the big university of Wisconsin there. You have the it is in essence. It is a city technically, but it is in the middle of farmland. And you don't have people just rolling up to go protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin on a regular basis. There's a very different sort of vibe and feel. And when people are saying, why would Kyle rittenhouse who didn't live in the exact neighborhood where this went down? Why would he come over there to do that? Well, in the Midwest, farmers have each other's back in small towns look out for one another, and so forth. And by the same standard, if you had these protesters bust in causing the perpetrated and very intentional chaos that they were trying to create, then why wouldn't people that were from the region also say, well, wait a minute, not in my house. I'm not going to let this go down. So I think the media fundamentally misunderstood the fabric of who they were covering and where it was from, but they also obviously got it quite wrong in that the prosecutors just did not have they didn't have much of a case. When you have one of the victims saying that he pointed a gun at the accused and has to admit that, you know, he had basically threatened him by pointing the gun at him. That's an immediate wash. I'm surprised that the judge didn't almost at that point throw that case out completely just on
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Republican Winsome Sears Challenges MSNBC's Joy Reid: 'Get Your Facts Straight'
"I know we shouldn't spend a lot of time on MSNBC personalities. But what the lieutenant governor elect of Virginia has done with one particular odious talking head over there, joy Reid is magnificent. This woman's story is astounding. She immigrated to the United States from Jamaica had a tough time it was in a Salvation army homeless shelter. Got out of that challenge and that that pressure and that toughness and that hard life, U.S. Marine ran a women's shelter, served her state as a delegate now is elected. She's the number two elected official in the state of Virginia. First woman of color to hold that position, it's a magnificent story and joy read thinks Republicans like winsome shears are racists and white supremacists somehow, and dangerous. So yesterday I saw winsome Sears on Martha McCallum's show on Fox News. This, to me, sums up everything of this week, it sums up the collapse of the woke agenda. It sums up the this was a collapse of the this was a repudiation of the Biden agenda. We all know it. They know it. James carville knows it. A Democrat strategist been around forever, and he knows how the game is played. And he said, woke this is crushing and destroying the Democrat party. So I give you winsome shears on Martha McCallum show yesterday on Fox News with a very heartfelt challenge to one joy, read. You have to be willing to vocalize that these Republicans are dangerous. That this isn't a party that's just another political party that disagrees with a thumb tax policy. That at this point, they're dangerous. They're dangerous to our national security, because stoking that kind of soft. White nationalism. Eventually leads to the hardcore stuff. Your reaction to that, miss Sears. I wish joy Reid would invite me on her show. I'm let's see if she's woman enough to do that. I'd go in a heartbeat and we have a real discussion without joy. Speaking about me behind my back, if you will. She talks about white supremacy. Does she know that I ran against a white supremacist? I mean, joy, come on, get your facts straight. And then come talk to
Mark Levin
Terry McAuliffe Caught Lying in CNN Interview and Political Advertising
"As I was saying if I was rudely interrupted by the clock Kate Bolden is a CNN host In term of colors on her show today mister producer seriously will he reach out to turn the call and tell him I would like to interview him Just give it a shot She wants to know why do you talk so much about Donald Trump Cut 13 go But Terry to my question do you think do you view your only path to success Because it is a clear choice that you talk about Donald Trump so much Do you see your only path to success here is making this Terry mcauliffe versus Donald Trump No I haven't met most of this campaign If you look at my advertising look at one of your long edge during the break I'm hearing Virginia I just watched it on Fox And it was all about Trump And it was all about junk and if junkins governor he's going to prevent women from having abortions Now this guy's a low life He's an absolute lowlife Glenn youngkin is never indicated that and Glenn young couldn't do it if he wanted to no governor can do that None None Regardless of my personal feelings no governor has the power to overturn the Supreme Court Just the way it is So McCallum is a liar
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Does Terry McAuliffe Have an Eye on the Presidency?
"I love it when a commentary comes together. I had not figured out until after my Washington Post column on junk and mcauliffe came out, how bad McCallum McCallum could be so bad? Why doesn't he repudiate the fund the police? Why is he in favor of school boards? Why won't he define CRT? It made no sense. And then a friend called me up yesterday political consultant said, well, Terry's running for president. He can't repudiate all these people. And I just ask one young kid in the first hour and he's heard it too. It makes perfect sense that he's running a campaign with an eye on 2020 for any can not tick off the left. It does make sense. It is a theory and the other part about that is you have David drucker story about internal Republican polling, private Republican polling, suggesting young kid is going to win. But there's also the RealClearPolitics average of polls, which I'm looking at right now, which has McCall was up by three and a half points and out of it looks like 18 poles on the screen going back to July. You have to call us leading in 2017 and young kid leading in one in early September. So I mean, it may work for him. Which is another reason to
AP News Radio
Joc Pederson crushes a three-run homer in the fifth
"Jack Peterson ripped a three run pinch hit home run in the fifth inning as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Milwaukee Brewers three nothing and took a two games to one lead in their National League division series Pederson's blast robin Travis d'arnaud and Dansby Swanson who are on with singles Braves starter Ian Anderson went five giving up just three hits and striking out six Freddy Peralta the brewers starter went for also giving up three hits Adrian Houser who relieved in the fifth surrendered all three Braves runs Gary McCallum's Atlanta
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Lindsey Graham Defends Horseback Border Patrol Agents, Calls for 'Incompetent' Mayorkas to Resign
"You know they put. They put fences around capital but the borders wide open to the tune of two million criminal immigrants to this invasion thus far and as democrats report from the border but twenty five percent of them have the wuhan and they're not tested and they're just laughing at you knuckleheads putting on your man. Who put your mask ron. I'm going to the supermarket really a. Why don't you pretend the supermarkets the emmys or barack hussein's party or the border senator. Lindsey graham was talking with show favourite martha mccallum yesterday about the disasters of this administration. Play that clip. Give me real quick quick. So all i can say is what biden has done is he surrendered the border to drug cartels cody's and human smugglers. He surrendered afghanistan to terrace. The taliban and al qaeda in a major terrorist attack is gonna come our way because between the combination of allowing afghanistan to fall back into terrorist hands and have a completely open and broken border here in the united states is just a matter of time that the terrorists come through that border to kill a bunch of us. And here's what. I want to say to the american people. The man on horseback is there to protect your family. The people rushing our border have put us all under siege. And i think the most inhumane things going on right now in america is that the men and women of the border patrol of been completely abandoned. Them god's scapegoat and treated like dirt by elected officials in the democratic party and this administration. So i'm not unhappy. I am pissed secretary. Marcus needs to resign. He's completely incompetent. The border is not closed. It has been surrendered. A man senator. Lindsey graham and bali needs if if if the democrats have the lord and the constitution and the love of america may orcas would be out. He's not incompetent. He's doing what he's being ordered to do. It's you got gotta look up the chain. The handful of people controlling those strings on biden's ira- ira- iraq. You could practically his job moving. They need a little more. Wd forty that jaw just like a puppet. Now
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"And i think some people want to leave rail off because well. He's only the third most important player on those celtics teams that make a couple of finals and win one championship. He has this iconic all-time shot for the heat. These role player right. He's there robert. Oreo essentially at that point but that that diminishes what and already was over the course of his entire career the totality of his career where he had been a leading man a number two whatever. 'cause there's that discussion to jack like this is another one of those quandries is that you've got chris bosh as third wheel on to title teams in a four-time final. He go to four straight finals. Which again in the modern era that didn't used to be routine the heat going to four straight finals. Obviously this is followed then by the cavs going to four straight and the warriors going straight but for a long time even though shacking kobe. Laker teams although spurs teams. Nobody wants a four straight finals. Bosch is really key and important evolutionary type player on those teams. But he's the number he's like the third wheel pal. Ghazal great statistical career memphis but noth- nothing to show for it goes to the lakers in his kobe's number two and now wins a couple of championships but he's a number two so weighing number twos number. Three's mono ginobili is another one number two number three wherever you wanna put him on. The spurs pecking order. So there's that one to like the james worthy argument. I guess yeah that celtic game is tough. Because i'll tell you. I tell you what was a wrestling matches. Paul pierce kevin garnett career. Kevin garnett. his. He's i think he's going to go. Down is underrated. That guy was a just an amazing layer and that celtics team and paul pierce was to me a one of the ones you kind of miss a lot of shots played. You know maybe you toward the end You know had some wasn't what he was but he's another tough Wrestle with and There's a lot of those. There's a lot of those type of guys you know if you say well. He was never the the big dog of course if you ask call. Oh i was the big doll i got. You know. I was the guile he was for the. I mean whatever first half of his career. He was more of the vince. Carter type right where it's or carmelo. Anthony somebody who was best player team by far most talented put up. The biggest numbers got the most shots. Didn't have much to show for it. And then paul pierce the back of his career we completely recast the way we view him because they do go to a couple of finals once they get garden ray allen and they do a championship and paul pierce the mvp of of that finals like. I can't like that to me that that that weighs a lot like if you had on the first of your career all the individual accolades but none of the team's success and then you've got the team's success later by taking a step back and your finals mvp..
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"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Well not nearly as sophisticated. There's a lot more shots there's more rebounds so rebounding numbers are inflated back. Then because everybody's shooting a lot more and missing a lot more with rebound numbers for centers are inflated. 'cause they i mean nate thurmond. I don't have stats in front of me. But monster monster numbers you know Because centers got all the rebounds. You're you're right. And i i you know dolf would be on there and one of my guys to show that how fair an incredibly independent. I am one of my favorite players growing up. And i used to go watch and play was billy cunningham You know the kangaroo kit style. The eye test. I mean it was just an amazing player lefty but i went back and billy at a very Headed abbreviated career left and went to the aba. Not that that should be against. Then he came back and he was diminished because of injuries. Billy to me is certainly on. That could go. Could go less than i just love. The guy and was probably damaged by a knee injury. That would have been fixed in in your orthopedist office. Probably and he would have been gone on to greatness counterpoint. Counterpoint nickname is the kangaroo. Kid you should just make it you know. There are so few great nicknames. Any more kangaroo kid is phenomenal. especially because it's a kangaroo kangaroos jump and this is a game we're jumping matters All right so the modern era go ahead. Yeah bill bill. Sharman was a you know shooting guard on the celtics teams and he was a great great free throw. It was one of those first guys. Put it named ten guys. You want the line. You got bird. Barry steph curry nash. Bill sharman is one of those guys that go up to the line. But my god if you watch them as a shooting guard compared to some of the guys that came along that you could. You could argue that. He got pulled along the.
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"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Team are willis and frazier and you can have a decent argument about the bush around monroe. I mean i'll take it a step further. The showtime lakers are legendary. And when one a lot more championships than those extremes did but i'm still not sure that james worthy should have been on that list along with magic and kareem he. Was you know a vital third star there but worthies one of those guys who when you start playing the game of like our. He's part of these store teams championship teams as part of a dynasty but how vital to that dynasty was he and if he were on another team without magic and kareem are we still glorifying his career. I'm not saying tossing off the list for that reason. I'm not saying. I've even made that decision yet because i haven't as we tape this but i but i thought i'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about whether james worthy actually deserves to be there and it's not the whether deserves to be there. It's whether twenty five years later when we're trying to go through lebron and curry and harden and westbrook and carmelo and everybody who's come along since our does worthy still hold up when i'm kind of thinking about worthy and did some guys as we just mentioned the knicks. Did some guys get dragged along by the wonder in the back of their teams. And you have to ask stat about james. But i remember thinking this those laker team. First of all they won five. You don't do that with two guys and that offense when you look at. It was one of the great things in the history of sport. It was so efficient in the half court. Okay they threw the ball into kareem. I get it. And they were so efficient. Going up and down the court that i saw the way they played the game. Those showtime lakers is almost underrated. They are unbelievable. Team and worthy was a huge part of that team. Do i remember him..
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"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Who's not on. I say that is great. That's why we do these lists. Just tell me who to take off you know. Just tell you to take on you know and some of that. Yeah and some of that. The best advice i got from from some folks who i talk to you about doing this while i'm wrestling with this because it is torturous. It's hard it's fun but it's really hard is like there's a. There's a huge group of players. We're all gonna probably agree on you. Know maybe even sixty or seventy maybe not seventy six. Let's say sixty seventy five and in the last ten to fifteen or whatever. We're going to be a lot of personal preference. Not personal bias. But just i value this player in what he brought to the league. More than this other player in a different voters going to say. No no. no no but you're overlooking that this guy invented this one move or dominated this one five year span or whatever it's retreated to assess the totality of their careers their individual dominance. and also. You know this is one of the phrases i always use about. Mvp every year individual dominance team success. There some weird sliding scale that is in my head that cannot define. But you're trying to combine these things and you see that. I noted that these guys like every mvp except for mcadoo had made the top fifty list of champions are on the top fifty list. Dominique is a guy who i assume. How voter decided this back in. One thousand nine hundred six but a lot of people probably left off dominique for lack of postseason success leading his teams anywhere. And that is something. We'll have to wrestle with with a number of guys. But i just think that if you're if you finish your career in the top twenty top twenty five scorers of all time. No matter what your other deficiencies might have been as a player. Defensively as a passer. Whatever g you were great like carmelo..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"West hal greer willis reed butcher havlicek. Sam jones nate thurmond billy cunningham and so that group you can see a lot of why they they got there not just individual excellence but all of those guys except for elgin baylor had championships retired and so championships figure really a lot. In this i looked at also in the top fifty the fifty th anniversary list. Only nine guys made that who did not win rings and that was a baylor. Nate thurmond. pete. Muravich dave being george urban. Charles patrick ewing stockton malone Only one mvp only one guy who had won mvp during the first fifty years didn't make the top fifty. That was bob. Mce do so. Mvp feels like an almost automatic election. Unless you're bob mcadoo. So let's get to bob mcadoo for a second because one of the guys one of the guys on wrestling wrestling with. Yeah he got. He got snubbed. In one thousand nine hundred ninety six my good friend mark stein has never forgiven you in the rest of that voting panel for i leaving off one of his his childhood heroes. And there's a really strong case can do to make it. But that's now you're adding training mat. Mcadoo ended twenty five guys from the new era and not selling. Knock off too many guys. Did you let me just ask in general again. Without giving away your your seventy five ballot regrets misgivings looking back about who got left off for all. I know you might have voted for. Mcadoo had been outvoted in nineteen ninety-six but between mcadoo and adrian dantley dominique Those are three guys that were considered snubs back than dominique. In particular and a lot of people i think are trying to find ways now to get dominique on the seventy five team. We're the guys that you thought. That were legitimately snubbed. And when i say legitimately snubbed. I mean it's not just the usual complaint but like this was a mistake these guys should have been on yeah dominate and it's interesting what's ninety said howard because we're we all try to get rid of and i think in general one of the things that were try one of the few things we do pretty well is vote on these things. We take it very seriously every year. There's an mvp boat. Oh you're just like him because he you know. We tried to get rid of stuff and we call up other people and we try to do that correctly. Because it seems it seems important however comma as we had these little things inside of us that talked to us and they are a little as prejudices. I'm not even gonna call. That likes dislikes. And i hear bob mcadoo whispering tiny and for me dominique when i was covering bolivia i just loved the i just..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Still only nine teams. There were twelve teams and sixty seven. Fourteen thousand nine hundred sixty eight also. There were no black players in the nba or the cia predecessor until nineteen fifty so four years into the league history and even then there was a belief among black players. Then that there was a four man quota per team that you were going to have more than four black players on a on a team so you also didn't have a fully integrated fully staffed up for a better term league. Not all the best talent was there. And i haven't done the math on this jack but i mean the percentage of white players who made the top fifty team. It's pretty high especially from that nineteen forty-six to say nineteen sixties group up to nineteen seventy. So it's it's it's necessarily skewed. And i think we should recognize that women reassessing every twenty five years or so. I think that comes up in in baseball. That jay ruth you know. His singular achievements did. Not you know. He didn't play against any african american player. At the same time. I totally agree with you. There is an argument. also that For example let's take bob cousy. If any of our young viewers any of your young fans would watch old films of coups coming up and do it his dribbling saying you know kind of and look like he couldn't get by anybody and we get into this argument of. Oh my god. Bob cousy yeah. He can't guard. Kurt look steph. Curry on an isolation and bob cousy. You're going to say what is cruzi. Do it on this list. And some of those guy is from early. Guys have to be there that some of their achievements is based on making this league. What it was that there. They are the revolutionaries. They are the guys that did it..
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"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"You know guide for my era. I won't reveal what he said. Exactly but dave dupree. Who was my friend from back. In the day they'd goes you can kick somebody else. You can't kick. He can't have made the team. And you kick ass off. And i said yes to that and then i said no and i ended up kicking making a few kickings to make room for new guys and i guess my particular. I'm not gonna say bias. Particular thought process was that i'm an old guy back covered the league in the eighties. And i really wanna shade this so fans that are coming. I don't do it for the fans. But i didn't wanna have all old names on there and if it came to me a choice between some mortal who helped make the league in the nineteen fifties like not bill russell course or but and then a guy who wondering about now even if he wasn't a legendary oss player i may be gave a little break to that so there's some degree of modernism in this thing but i don't want to go too far on that of course i have bill russell of foresight. Have you know wilt chamberlain. Course gary west elgin baylor oscar robertson. But it came to a close thing. I kind of maybe thought i should go more modern. Yeah that helps answer the question. No no it does to an extent because these things are all tied together. I mean one of the questions. I've been asking other friends in the business who whose opinions i value is. Should we consider the fiftieth anniversary lists. Sacrosanct are those fifty a permanent fifty and you can only add them. Like how seriously should we take it and one of the things that i've struggled with aside from just how dramatically this game in this league change from decade to decade to say nothing over the course of five years. It's also that simple math question right. Even if those fifty were universally agreed on as the best fifty of the first fifty years when you have another twenty five years pass to say that there could only be twenty five players in two thousand five years that we're better than any of the people that fifty list just defies all logic like if you hit some golden age of the sport and let's face it because of training and specialization and all these advances we've have people are there are more great players now. I just think there are and if you have four guys who are alzheimer's over twenty five years to just to throw out one possible number necessarily implies that you have to knock off some of the guys from the original fifty. The other thing that i've i've decided in my own mind jack to make me feel a little better about potentially throwing guys off from the original fifty is this. That was the greatest fifty list..
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"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"To welcome an si legend and good friend jack mccallum. Jack how are you sir. Thanks for coming in. I'm doing okay. Our our you of doing well so i've already laid this out for the listeners. What we're gonna do today. But before we begin a quick caveat for both of us and the listeners. So we're going to get into our seventy. Th anniversary ballots here but out of respect for the process not to give away too much because the league's not announcing the results of this for a few weeks. Now that your ballot a minor the only thing but we'll mention all the obvious or some of the obvious guys that we're adding or that we're putting on this list but it'd be wrong to unveil our full balanced now. Also impractical for two of us to go through seventy five names in a podcast might lose listeners. Along the way so the results are gonna come out around opening night. I'm told so everybody will learn the results soon enough there are. I don't know how many other people voting but any case and respect for the process. We're not gonna name entire ballots but we'll discuss some of the thought process. Try to tackle some of the the quandries along the way and we'll just we'll just go from there so let me start with this question jack. 'cause this is your second time doing this. She did the fiftieth anniversary list. You were voter back in ninety six. And i'm still alive still. I was looking over the list of voters for back then. Not a few of them. We've lost along the way. Unfortunately so i just hope i'm around to do the top one hundred and two years you will be. I wanna be on a mountain top somewhere jet. No one's gonna find me in twenty five years. I'm just going to be out like forget it. Alright so philosophical question to frame this from the top. Which is this when we talk about the seventy fifth anniversary list. Seventy five players for the nba. I seventy five years. Is that the greatest seventy five players like. These are the best seventy five to ever play the game in the nba. Or is it seventy five players who represented the best of their individual eras and the totality of the league in other words. Is it just about the still set. And how great. They are playing the game or is this more of a historical kind of of posterity exercise. Where we just want to recognize all of these eras because there are different ways of going about this and i thought it was interesting that Our friend bucur on his podcast has been doing this as an exercise where he says. I'm breaking it into fifteen year segments so that we can respect every era and i'm not sure. So what is it. Best seventy five or is this more of a posterity exercise. Well i guess. I kind of just to bail out on the question. I guess i kind of fall between the big. The big question we had ear howard was which kind of speaks to your question. Do we just go to the seventy five lists and copy the fifty that we add elected back in nineteen ninety-six that we just automatically put down my first answer that because i remember i was talking to another..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"mccallum" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"On this podcast. I will probably have filed ballot for the nba. Seventy fifth anniversary team. That of course is the top seventy five players of all time to coincide with this. The league's seventy fifth anniversary season. Of course this is the follow up to the fiftieth anniversary team. Greatest fifty of all time. That was chosen back in ninety six. I got to tell you this was great honor. I was very pleased with the nba. Asked me to be a voter on this panel. It's something i could not turn down. I take it very seriously. But folks i gotta tell you. It is and has been excruciating. I have spent a ton of time on this. It's torturous trying to figure this all out. Do you keep fifty from the previous anniversary team. Just add twenty five. 'cause i gotta tell you. There are way more way way. More than twenty five great candidates from the last twenty five years who need to be considered. And if you've got more than twenty five now you're kicking off some folks from the top team and there were some snow back then to of course. How do you compare. Players across eras always afraid exercise. One usually try to avoid because it's so fraught. The game has changed. Dramatically players have changed It it's just very difficult. So i needed someone to help me sort this all out. Fortunately i had the perfect person to do that so here to to do that and clarify my own. Ballot is a fellow voter for the seventy fifth anniversary team. He was also voted on the fiftieth anniversary team. He is one of my role models in this business. He is a hall of famer. Kurt gowdy award winner back in two thousand and five one of the best ever to cover the nba. For sports illustrated. He is of course. Jack mccallum and i can't wait to pick his brain before we get to that a reminder. Please subscribe rate and review the crossover wherever you get your podcasts. Hit me with all your feedback on twitter at howard beck. Okay deliberating. The seventy fifth anniversary team with.
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"mccallum" Discussed on Pop Culture Cosmos
"And twelfth in anaheim can deep into my soul there I wasn't and i know the val staples can be convincing. Yes bullied mayor or anything like that. And he's like. Oh i and the other thing is double that tonight by then i'd like to leave the country for the first time in two years so i'm not one hundred percent sure i'm an offering but like i know many of my friends that going and that is something a concept probably aren't really like to go because i think this is going to be a special power com but yeah what is the jury still how i think the next month or so there has just because i really just killing me. You're telling me because. I cannot go. Because of my vaccine rollout in canada is piss poor icon. Believe the four months between shots. They're doing they're trying to speed it up a little bit. But even even if i got my second dose might my crew which is a little bit younger than my one camera guy. Day that i always use. His second shot isn't so scheduled until two weeks after power khan and they're saying you gotta wait two weeks after second shot for immunity and stuff like that and you know full disclosure by have. My son has an autoimmune disease. So i have to be super careful. We are like the one percent extra cautious you know even when my wife and i are going to be evacuated. Our kids don't have shots at my son six years old. They don't have anything for kids like that so we could bring something in So if i go anywhere. It's like i have to quarantine get rapid testing before it can come back into the house it. It's it's it's a lot to manage so if you go to power you can't talk about human at all that that's the rule that will giving you the thing. We'll sing cannot. This deval was acid. If i do come to power industry. I probably wouldn't get a table. I just be there was like some walking around chime rav. For the second time i wouldn't have Whenever a meeting point not just below. Let take taken panels and begun. Take in powell on bravo being. Tell you we'll go nine nice to meet you. Sign a book of whatever of this. You know if i got inside is still the. I think i'll know the next month aside. No talking about return faker. 'cause we can't have any development that is caught on camera killing me. Kevin smith ran the room and he goes yes. I'm gonna give you a million dollars to make your dreams happen. Kid just gets missed. The awesome We don't have any other questions. It looks like everybody is is showering that yet. That's very board that you showed with with praise with that is human love the way that comes together all that gives me all the fields It does i do sound is saying now return. A faker is totally a direct sequel to revelation. That's awesome. i'm glad you're watching. I love your support every time. You're so positive stuff. I get excited and sunshine beams from you on a daily basis my friend. So it's great to see that radiate to this livestream I want to thank everybody for watching. Of course thanks to my good friend. James utah who. I will bar going to power i understand. You gotta get your caged rat in all that too so we will definitely be a power on the year after for sure. Twenty twenty two. that's That will happen for sure. i won't be going this year a ninety nine percent now but like you said val staples creative who knows what what happens. So thank you all at james any last words than just thank you again for fuller shine to fight inflammation or the love for the documentary. Excuse me the son of faker and his took the future amount whatever that may be brazil while thanks for everybody and again if you want to get in on fake you hit up indie gogo. We've got a couple backers since we did. This live stream. So that's awesome the heavy part of the murdy. We will see you guys next time. Thank you.
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"mccallum" Discussed on Pop Culture Cosmos
"And i agree with you agree that i i think the thing i didn't worry about that is when you take something. So far. Removed from what was then it becomes. A man went through that though batman went through that with a bat mite in all the sidekicks in a sin like every great brand has to go off the deep end before it can come back you become batman eighty nine well. The thing is like we in one thousand nine nine. We have the new adventure payment. And i would be utterly fascinated if we'd go adventure. Hey man now what the outrage would be by because you know. I still love that series. I still love the eventually man. The way i dealt with that in the early nineties was initially. What is this. And then i was never found that toy line. You know the the you eventually payment toy line. But the coffee. When i when i daily nights i decided to treat it as like an old town reality. I love the call to this. So many good characters so many wonderful episodes like it's you know i'm sure people maybe like one out of every thousand. What's dot com code since the fan base but said the need bitch eight months of bloody good show is some episodes. I would say that if an episode good a mexican go. I wish relations on that. Then you know it's doing something ryan but yeah i guess i guess we'll say anonymous we can. We can speculate and do this. Moslem revelation but sometime tells in the end you know two years now three years from now. We'll revelation and seizure still be a thing olympia thing of over implemented the Anything anymore so yeah in some. It'll be interesting to say. Yeah i suppose you to trump. You gotta try things you know. They they tried. I keep telling people an quite fascinated by the fact that when you think about the two thousand to relaunch. What was that supposed to do bring in a new generation of fans. I don't think. I know anyone in our communication a fan base facebook groups associate may do whatever who is action said. The two thousand show is where. I discovered heyman because everybody that was watching buying collecting washing. The two thousand to show and a franchise was everybody grown up in the nine thousand nine hundred that now. I despise link-ups Mattel's initial attempt to relieve spreading to those two filed at that level. And as early as like. I uni one successful. The brand lucky the cg show become successful. I know for facts from that has an effect where they will. Look today legacy. Bryant's late lights colder. And i do stuff with something so my question relates. They may do stuff with some out stuff they might do montek. Sarah mini comex all celebrating the history and if the the future success if that makes sense book yeah i We wanted success the brands and yeah he's talking about. It is a shame when you see something like to see how it will six. Let's do not man but it brings a new old. yes and then they hopefully look back at the past. I mean it didn't what was from. Now he's let you go. You brought in a group of sorry allowed fan vice. The new she was showy who when that show in just kind of quickly just as bash. We will you know kind of one of the problems with powerful. We were hoping say what you know. How about everybody was hoping the powell bringing that whole new generation of fans. It just really did a kind of if anything you saw separation of where the where the new she refines and you the old pay puts the i guess we saw people but Yeah not with you know. You can be cynical. Would discuss this until we're blue in the face. But the fact is success only breed success so if it works than imagine if the cgi shug like Successful ones like the official licensees companies. Just like yeah. Let's make this return. Fake official thing because let's see copies then so as i see but yeah you never know. I think it's it's you look at it as i will i. I'd like these things for the brand but at the same time you just you just want it to be successful at the end of the day because anything he man is better than nothing handyman russian side as well so i agree and i think to your point. I agree with you that episode one the first fifteen minutes i think it is the attack on grey skull that we've all been waiting to see where skeletal actually wins. We saw the action figure of skellig. God so we know that skeletal are will get the power of grace goal at some point and i think it's a good mirror like a parody of the two thousand two opening episode with skeletons attack on the on the great hall. This time he's actually successful and remember. These looks have to change and the characters have to change because this isn't a single episode that lives onto itself another within the mythos. this is an arc. Yes has to have transformation which has always been integral to human. I have the power. It's transformational thing And these characters will change and they will go off and become something different throughout the series and like you said bring it. Bring it on your grounding in and the things that we love clearly with this trailer. I i give you the latitude to now go forth and allow these these characters to have experience in and fully arc at this point because i think the thing that i was quite surprised about the most of all the trade is such a state cliff of that transformation sequence. Yeah the new adventures of. Hey man was okay. It didn't get it ryan Unless you there's ton of kinda got it right but yeah the eventually mine. Transformation sequence was a very good the two dozen to start strong but they started playing around with it too much. And i've always said the transformation sequence really in its essence needs to be full of shops presented holds up the sold percents. Hasn't eddie man. He man's cringes about okay. That's literally only needs to be done to over complicate it. My promo thousand two was at times you'd get like hose at the sold. The clouds the sole does does this more clouds. Lightning does this look over that. They said he got some seasons. Where the thing just hayes chance that did you do the stretch. The muscles grossly different shots. This times is fifteen shots one transmissions that joyal dub. Yeah i get what they're trying to do like show all the power coming into it and he's like look nine hundred thousand three film mention company did it some perfectly and showed you why that is so iconic. It's not just the phrase. I of the power is the transformation that just does that when we go why i'm surprised about about the The transmission soul in the in the in the revelation showed surprised one. How much liked it. Because you know you get initial bonus okay. That's cool by love. That show prints out of doing that and he said those light you see that kind of a theory of garner he's always rainbows agreement. Whatever but you get word Ethereal golden lights shining on him then. He does the ace away his body moves. It helps the. She's so good at the hands of maybe another shootout looked pretty craft by love the bit where the all kind of hits him and he's all blue and stuff. I thought look right was why i'm such a state cliff of transformation the whenever anybody does sarai but this was though while i feel. They've nile the power and going to be a long shots. It's going to be pretty book. I question where that power harnessed comes from. Where does the power vest come from. There's nothing i hate. More than sudden appearance of items like when characters reached behind their back. And now here's the thing that they need or you know this this day sex mackinaw if it's over here at suddenly forms of like transformers where you have this giant truck. That's a that's a huge thing in a mask get squish down into cube. So i wonder i wonder what the rationale behind all this stuff is if they actually try to explain it if there's an evolution of human where the power harness gets dropped and something new comes in as the character evolves through the ten episodes. Really curious to see what's going on there If faker raises the sword of the power harness comes on him in that shot that we saw if that's part of it and that's why he got into integrate. Skoll i just it's weird to see things appear out of nowhere. Lightning bolt coming down from the heavens. I.
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"Oh it's coming to net flix. Oh i saw people sign like oh. Is that gonna be the same songs. They're not gonna have tyler in every episode. It was just clearly for the trailers it's It's almost like a cultural action. Is it's an anthem. one eight is too. I think quite appropriate but yet the the thing that people seem to be going to. And i get it because i wasn't gonna say folds to hasha would but i know looking at we'll be singing already The payment in terms of Promotion is the episode three. Those you know that new zealand new evil in that new or co those designs pop up by exit three so everything we see all the action labatt battle. The classic looks cloudy from first episode. And a half maybe two episodes at most. Yeah so is there is a bait and switch and i get that because because a trailer is then what the thing i can come back to. What is the trade supposed to do. Supposed to draw you so in other words like icon. Imagine a trailer where. Just take characters the toll king Mossy is by the way all. You need to pull people in the job that you know. Unfortunately resort with the batman. Superman which. I personally didn't like that trailer. They did try to wear. They basically showed the three act structure. You can kind of see where this goes and it really spoiled. The mega side batmans macy. Man they team up one shows up. They find states like ohio under seat. Bad's gonna die spoiler so yeah it was just So yeah it was It was kind of weighed in that sense. I get why people slightly. And you know what i haven't seen any of that. All i have seen is nothing but super positive reaction. Maybe the minute a one percent people are are questioning it. Not crapping on going. Not what's gonna happen here. i. I'm not sure what's going to happen here. And you know what as a filmmaker if the trailers drawing you in enough to ask the question and toy with it in your imagination and then it's done its job. It's exactly exactly doing what it should do. the song is meant to pump. You up just like you said you know. It's a device tool to hook you into the world to bring you back to the eighties. That classic footloose track. I it's fun. This is the fun serious masters of the universe that adult fans have been looking for. They said from the beginning. This is fan service of one one from the beginning. We're not trying to do anything else. It's not a bait and switch. We're trying to appease you show you the characters and the toys in the places that you love again. What kind of expand on the story in have a culmination of a true finishing my thing is i can imagine like lee lee cleven of cnn chap quite bit above. Say we tried to yesterday. And he's was at this theory for the series but looking at tralee said he believes that initially is almost like a classic. Because what you're doing is bringing people up to speed so blades you'll get a plastic. Maybe tackle the royal palace which wasting prints out in transplant. Maybe a file on the fossil plans evergreen forests. Whatever you wanna call it. And that's what you see sculpture. He juuling and skeleton with join vista wherever and then culmination little Grace go and then webley casco's make back happens that is to you knows but that's not call effects willoughby's see everything changed but my mind typing is yet. I'd love to see the classic characters throughout but at the same time that trade approve today. The visually were in the right direction. You know it's not. I was worried. 'cause you get those four anime anime studios and they put out very sub paul kind of animation. They think they're doing. The doing is just looking anime culture and all that season to destroy big is crazy expressions that the tree itemize about staging direction timing. Stop the you get from having knowledge of japanese animations seventies eighties nineties and visually intelligent timing sites direction. Everything it was fantastic. I thought wow. The one thing i could do without in the was the. Cj is our feels like as yeah is what we saw in two thousand and ten. Why surprising given that live. Twenty is removed from that show and it still. But i'm hoping the cg will be kept for. And i think it will because it is clearly search based animation is like i say the thing. I'm looking forward to most Go forbade is once we have this cosmic event. Whatever is is saying where he goes. It's like saying gonna get carrying to changes and bub warranty lemay and whatever but guess what make a good story. We may know we saw that was cracked or whatever but we may. We may get a good story. And i hope we do. But you didn't know that until we sit down to watch that decides on july twenty third whenever that stance when you sit there and go right judgments been might you know. Of course you can give opinions on a trade route ever. You can't look at a trailer. And i've decided i know exactly what they says. It's like no we can speculate. What's going on in this words on it. Really and i highly doubt all of those voice actors coming record lines. That doesn't mean he's not gonna go. So yeah i'm looking forward to and guess. What a certified watcher. It's simple as i said before about dream sheera kind of the first season. But i wasn't in a rush to go back and bullets seasons t three full and i'm okay with that. I might at some point. I'll watch him. I don't know but to me. It's like i'm you know i'm no less than fancy doing that. You know something cold a few things. But yeah i I'm excited by it. Because he's one something new. And i'm not talking about like our new refreshing type because i think the one thing i worry about Between us but nobody else is. The is the cj show. I worry that that's going to be such a huge departure. The the one. I keep sites for kids. And that's fair enough but i think one the existing And so kind of eighty nine hundred to degrade biosynthetically. I worry the just to go anywhere. Because he's trying too much to be something other than hey man and then but then. That's that's a. That's a story for another time. I like sort. We've got off tangent. Go this is perfect and you know what this is a point where i completely disagree with you but in that respectful way where i am so excited for the kids. Cg show because first of all us hardcore collector fans that grew up with it and that the continue to live and breathe in and push it out there and be the flagware is like you are like like. I'm trying to do with the documentaries. We have revelation and we can sit and talk about whether that strikes the right court this other show. I love that. They're trying to take chances. I don't know anything about the story. I don't know anything about the look other than some of the images and the logo treatment. It's a little two thousand two ish but completely like cg janet. I'm fine with. I gimme variation. Do what you want if they would have just given us thunder cats roar without these other options that we're getting to cater to us. Then i can understand why the fan base might be alienated with the fan. Base really. can't be that upset when we have something like revelation coming down the pipe. I think that makes it easier for them to to let go of any anxiety that they have over the kid show. The kids show has way more potential to be a bigger head than revelation ever will because of that fanbase if it catches on. 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"mccallum" Discussed on Pop Culture Cosmos
"Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to another infamous or maybe famous depending on what happens after this livestream of faking film mation name is rob mccallum the case in the beard that you've come to recognize embrace over the last couple of months as we as we start this journey to discover what is going on with the unofficial cartoon the return of faker one man's dream to it released to the public as well as chronicling the evolution of cartoon history with particular notice to that lovely studio film itself. We're gonna get into all that plus a little bit more including masters of the universe revelation the brand new trailer that dropped recently runner kevin smith. But i don't wanna talk bore you just by myself. You've already got that before. And i saw the metrics not good. Let's bring in my good friend. Mr james e talk to liven up this and pay off all you lovely people at their. That's where you're here. Here's here's the man fireworks good. It's it's been a while we. We ended the campaign for faking summation earlier about a month ago. Really at this point may sixth on kickstarter and that was the last time that we had a good report back and forth. We've texted a bid. We've had some emails. I know what's happening behind the scenes for you. We're gonna share some of that including on this special livestream a snippet from what i understand if some of the new material that you're working on the return of baker exciting man. It's exciting i i too. I've seen to storyboards now that you sent me. We're gonna share one today. I think and i'm excited to see what people's reactions are we got people chiming in of course in the comments. If you're out there give us a like a thumbs up subscribing. Wanna make sure your notify next time. James and i decided to go live and tell you everything that's happening with this project. Of course james. What has happened in your life before we get to masters universe revelation. It's what everybody's talking about it and he may community regardless of your personal preference. How you doing. What is your life when like the last four weeks. i'm yeah good like after the The ridiculous success of fighting formation. That was obviously the which was just old love combined. My lord very positive. Everybody was yeah it was. I didn't get any love. No i think you gotta share some of that my way my friend catalogue copy and paste a great deal of people. Just just congratulate may even in the real world i would. I would say friends and they would say Oh i can't believe you'll kick social posting them on social media so a couple of how well that didn't as i saw him was reeling from that and then the last few literally after that finished ozark right but while collegium some new scenes for the retake of the ninety minutes of material so kinda sat down up in die of been credit line diarrhea. True so much. Like this phobic myself from lovely window and that's simply the Subject been doing that really As well as you know socializing his london stock sloping up again. That's been nice guy drinks and stuff with real people again and What else did so many by styles and yet just kind of kind of go up to yesterday. I rarely blatant the the the the trailer. Revelation is kind of stuff guy on boot. Oh this is happening as well. So yeah it's been. It's been eventful few weeks. Since the campaign ended. Definitely socially and creatively. I haven't playing nothing but catch up since the campaign ended running kickstarter campaign is really tough and we got lucky with ours. Everybody seemed to really embrace it. And kinda run with it and do a lot of the heavy lifting of course you were an instrumental part of not taking a lot of stuff off my plate in terms of my responsibility even still once. That campaign ended the next day. And i started looking at the stuff that i had pushed off neglected and scheduled for later my month filled up very fast and so it's probably only like really now and within the last few days that i've actually start to feel where i should be in terms of things that i don't have this mountain of responsibility that i know i'll get to it later. Get to later. Which is good. The stress is gone. And it's about pushing forward now in forging ahead and just going back over research and we'll talk about where i am with the process in what is going on with the documentary soon but when this trailer dropped yesterday Everybody was excited for it. Everybody has been talking about it. And you're one of the flag bearers of the masses the universe community dialect and say i like to think people ask you. What your opinions are. There really listen is you. Don't you dive really deepen it. Especially if you're looking to compare the film. Asian cartoon to what the powerhouse animation cartoon. Is that what it's going to be known as where we just always going to say the kevin smith one i mean. Yeah i how how. Slow the studio. But it's just one of those things isn't it so we take you say philly jetlag i wouldn't say i think most referred to the near eventually. Hey matt as new eventually you really hear jet lag even mentioned d.c of because it was kind of like that slightly but so yeah ended up. Seeing my counties a mixture take thousand two and mike thousand two next month. I think this will honestly go and fold. Revelation is quite distinctive Because he's got that kind of extra The times i think people just us. That's reflexive dicing. Powerhouse would be mentioned much though that. Set the visuals on this trade war Good i think as society were you anticipating the need to speak out on the trailer when it dropped or were you going to let the trailer decide how active you are going to be involved in the discourse that was happening or it's one of those things grand plan for i did you know i had that a Geeked out of youtube. Page the netflix. Tabbed for a good few days. Just sitting there in my browser windows yet counting down at forty hours and seven hours and two hours law here. We go yeah. I wasn't sure i was going to react. So i'm just going to be honest. You know dako for this and yet when the trailer drugs a i watched it once in the second time i just felt motivated just captured immediate thought which is grab a bunch of images. If anyone looks at the i like the montage six images are brilliant but but if you look at the taylor. Charging next to fister and clamp champ. She's got the spinney load. Anything only knows as much as the we'd like bullring knows pissing. Dammit it will post oh that was be rushed that slightly anyway. I was very impressed by the visuals and stuff. And then i was the next one posted that i posted the actual because people can say i give him. My history of posting official videos is probably gonna be taken down taken down soon may be. They must enjoy me having the older. That's at least is. I have everything. disney folks there. It is not so the documentary starts out. I own everything here and disney owns the planet of so. We'll the house of mouse of was the thing and then the next thing i posted seat pretends that our ongoing projects and relationship as it were when i when i watched the real trae like mega third time. I watched it..
KCRW
"mccallum" Discussed on KCRW
"So much. Jack McCallum is national correspondent for the L A Times. Mm. Record heat waves that swept the Western U. S and Canada over the last few weeks also killed off marine life. A billion sea creatures along the Pacific coast may have died in just the last two weeks. Yes, that's billion with a B. They were essentially cooked to death by triple digit temperatures, not at all common along the coast, especially up in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists say these mass die offs could become more common, and one such scientist is Christopher Harley. He's a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia, who studies the effects of climate change on coastal marine ecosystems. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Well, you are up there in Canada and you took a walk along the shoreline in Vancouver. And what did you see? Well, The first thing I noticed before I saw anything was the smell, which was not a good sign that things had gone well during the very hot weather. And the second thing I noticed was the shoreline crunched when I walked on it, which is not normal, and that's because I was walking over. Dedge muscle after dead muscle in dense beds, and, uh, the Diack was was pretty astonishing. Oh, wow. Astonishing Even for you who studies this? Yes, and I have seen a few heatwaves before and they have killed some things on the shore. But this was far above and beyond everything I had ever seen before. So these animals that the muscles this, uh, starfish, the sea stars, the crabs were they exposed by the receding tide, Or were they actually in water and the water was too hot for them. They the ones that suffered the most were exposed by the tide, and it was just a terrible coincidence for them that the hottest weather Happened at the same time as some very low tides that we're right in the middle of the day. So it was sort of a worst case scenario if you're trying to avoid getting too hot and year, estimating that A billion of them died. The more places I go and collect data, the higher I think that estimate should be. I am certain that a billion is conservative. On one shore in an area about the size of a tennis court alone. There were about a million dead muscles in a similar area. You can sit even more dead barnacles and once you start adding all those species together. And thinking about how many tennis courts worth of coastline we have in Washington and British Columbia. The numbers become pretty staggering. Right. How far down the coast do you think it goes? I have gotten reports from as far south as Hood Canal and Puget Sound in Washington and as far north as the central coast up on British Columbia. It happily, seems like some of the outer Coast may have been spared where it's a little bit cooler, and the tides were early in the morning, so the effects seem to have been worst in the sort of the inland waters of Puget Sound in the Strait of Georgia. And so let's focus on one in particular one group of animals in particular the muscles a big die off. As you say, your foot you were crunching on mussel shells. So there are animals who served who rely on the muscles to live right who eat these muscles. So what does this mean for them? Yeah, well, the starfish or one of the things that tied coolers like to go out and see and they eat an awful lot of muscles so they'll have to wait for the populations to recover to get that food source back, but lucky for them. They can go for months without eating if they really need to, But I'm worried about other things. Like some of the migratory seabirds. There's a species of sea dot called the surface cutter that relies on muscles in the winter when they come down to the Vancouver area before flying back to the Arctic to breathe. And I don't know how many muscles they need, but they will have fewer when they arrived this winter. And then I imagine also, you know, people survive off these. They have livelihoods. Farming these for food. So what is the effect for that economically? Yes, there's there's some wild harvest, and there's a lot of, uh, aquaculture shellfish farms. And if you're a muscle fan, um the good news is those are grown on lines that hang down in water all the time. And those those were probably okay. But if you are a fan of clams or oysters, a lot of those are actually grown on beaches that are exposed at low tides. And I have seen and heard about some oysters that have died on beaches and people in Washington, in particular, are worried about their clams because a lot of clams died during the heat wave as well. This is the first heat wave of this magnitude, but there will likely be more right and more die offs. Yeah, And that's that's the scary thing. This would have been a once in a 1000 year event is the estimate I've heard. But it might become a once in five year event, and it will take a while for the system to recover, and if there's enough time if this was a one off the system would eventually bounced back. But If we start hitting it so often that it can't recover. We're just gonna start losing. Some of the species were used to seeing they'll have to either live further north or not, or they'll go extinct. I don't know. So the diversity is definitely changing. Northern shores are going to start looking more like Southern shores. We'll see big ecological changes. So if northern shores start looking like southern shores, what do southern shores look like? Uh, well, well, I've I've worked in California. I worked in Washington. I've worked in British Columbia and the further North you go. The higher the diversity is, And that's partly because it doesn't get so hot that it kills things. So I'm worried that British Columbia will start to look like some weird combination of Southern California, northwestern Mexico and Asia because the species that are doing well here during the heatwave are a lot of the ones that have been introduced to us from southern Japan or China. Like what? Jellyfish? We have oysters that do a lot better than the muscles. I mean, even though some oysters died, they were they were hardier. There is a non native CNN money that one of my students are studying, and they seem to be fine..
Pop Culture Cosmos
Ubisoft Reveals Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora With New Trailer at E3
"Avatar is coming out. Its avatar frontiers of pandora. That's going to launch in twenty twenty two the bone to pick with this trailer. Well you know. It's a standard. We're not gonna show you any gameplay. Trailer is the dramatic way that they go ahead and do things on these first. Looks like we saw a battlefield. Twenty forty two last week they show you zero game play but they show you what the game could be like going forward so it. It essentially relives the the original movie. What's that about it. And i know again. I've never been a big fan of avatar. I know it as rob mccallum. Our good friend said it lost its cultural footprint for a while. But you know there's still a fascination in certain parts of the world it has regained the top spot. All-time sniff sniff of interest in game. Sorry but i want to hear your thoughts on avatar frontiers upendra my friend so the trailer makes it look like the game could be really good but there have been avatar video games out before and they've been monumentally awful. So how many times have we seen these three. I don't. I don't take much stock into these cinematic trailers that they show up. That shows zero game plan. I don't take any stock on anymore. The and that's the deceiving part to. Yeah you know that kind of upset me with tiny tina's game two right. They didn't show many gameplay footage of stuff so again battlefield. Twenty forty two. I mean they're gonna show for that this weekend a few days here back. We'll probably cover it here on one of our shows but still it's it's it's i'm not a big fan of i just dive because they really absolutely shove it wowed me ten years ago two thousand or maybe two thousand seventeen thousand eight when they did that stuff out of it. Looks like it could be cool depending on what it is but i just. I don't see anything video game. Wise with the avatar franchise just has not had a history of success or even anything mine minorly resembling success. I don't i don't see this i don't see this being something. That kind of leaves a footprint anywhere.
On The Media
Cancel Culture: Slaying the Fox Monster
"We're going to cancel anybody. We disagree with cancel. Culture now has permeated every single part of our society. Sadly i predict it's only gonna get worse. Silence more dangerous voices. You know sean hannity. Maybe you're onto something in advance of an impeachment trial of ex-president on the grounds of inciting insurrection. There is growing sentiment for the cable. Channel that most amplified donald trump's ravings to be held accountable as well in the past week. The new york times washington post mother jones variety and cnn. All entertained musings about fox. One way or another being shunned from polite society. Washington post media columnist. Margaret sullivan declared quote corporations. That advertise on fox. News should walk away and citizens who care about the truth should demand that they do. Such is the post insurrection. Comeuppance zeitgeist after the january sixth riots mainstream social media rid itself of donald trump and thousands of other conspiracy theorists twitter. Dropped more than seventy thousand accounts devoted cunanan single day likewise partner. The extremist heavy twitter clone lost. it's internet host. Republican members of congress suddenly lost sources of campaign funds and donald trump himself lost crucial business relationships. Cancel culture sean. Well yeah more or less and so in this hour. We address two questions first. What if fox news were to be neutralized or at least radically ostracized and secondly in a democratic society in which free speech is foundational. Is that an outcome. We really want. Both questions are premised on the belief that whatever fox has been since one thousand nine hundred ninety six launch a megaphone for wedge issues fearmongering lies conspiracy theories culture. Wars has poisoned with sleep. Mutated it's no longer just an argument with the left. It's explicitly a safe space for insurrectionists and all those who imagine themselves under the heel of tyranny tens of millions of americans have no chance there are about to be crushed by the ascendant left. These people needed defender. You need a defender. Why is no one defending them. That was tucker carlson. One day after the storming of the capital which according to angelo kerosone president and ceo of the left leading advocacy group media matters for america exemplifies the channels dark and treacherous turn. They know that a part of their audience especially tucker's with this idea genocide that white culture is in some way being replaced in decayed and they are trying to appeal to that and they're warning them. They're coming for them. It's a political plain and simple. It's now standard operating procedure in the democratic party. Are you or have you ever been a supporter of donald trump on put a scarlet letter tv on supporters. This is a slippery slope. Are people going to say. We're not going to sell you a car. A republicans. we're not gonna. We're not going to issue you a mortgage conservatives. I mean how far does this go. And you listen as the geniuses explain how the single biggest threat to country isn't chinese. Hegemony or even the coming hyperinflation. Pretty much uncertainty now. Which was one hundred percent caused by elite mismanagement of our economy. But no let's not talk about that. The real threat is a forbidden idea. It's something called that's carlson. Dismissing worries about cunanan a cult dedicated to dismantling government filled with pedophile cannibals. Which is something of a departure from historical conservative values of states rights fiscal responsibility a strong military and self reliance because you know cannibals. The last year in particular is when it certainly seemed as though the cauldron of him and lies. That fox news had been boiling boiled. Over and i think it affected. Everybody's lives i with kobe and all the misinformation and how they influenced the public health response and then in the aftermath of the election. An how they kind of built the framework that really helped undermine the results in the minds a so many of our fellow citizens and after the rage it had helped fuel finally materialized into violence. Did fox hole back humbled in jason over. Its own dark power. No just last week. Here was fox news founder. rupert murdoch. Australia denouncing not insurrection but cancel culture is rigidly enforced. Conformity didn't better. I circled central me. A straightjacket on sensitive -tuni- people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech. To be suppressed for this awful woke orthodoxy murdoch's denunciation of political correctness was widely interpreted as a vow not to cave either to the bleeding hearts or to the even fringe ear conservative channels like newsmax and one american news where many maga- fateful fled on election night. When fox was the first call arizona for joe biden in the aftermath the perennial ratings leader skidded at least temporarily to third place in cable news and for now. Murdoch is steering into the skid. Npr's david folkenflik reports by taking even more news fox news one of their top news. Anchors martha mccallum. She was shifted from seven pm prime evening slot to three pm in the afternoon. And that is a major opinion our and let's be clear conservative opinion. Our among those auditioning is maria bartiromo an anchor. Who has made a lot of unfounded. Unhinged claims here's one from let's just for the sake of argument except that fox news channel has not only crossed a line but defiantly stayed there and thus the chorus of calls for boycotts by its advertisers and of its advertisers in order to starve the beast in the interest of full disclosure in other spaces. I myself have called for that very thing. This happens to be the work. Kerosone media matters has been undertaking. Four years with mixed success. One of the big efforts was a campaign to get either glenn beck to be less destructive or ultimately fired and that's exactly what happens on the other hand or recently advertisers have sled tucker and laura ingram they have lost about half of their paid commercials they used to have more than thirty commercials show now the average between fourteen and sixteen and even though they've lost money obviously they're still on the network and they
Science Friction
This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.
"I wanted. I didn't want to have not only smoldering away in my pelvis. bit also small does away and you hit. It's always in your head as much as i could rationalize it and say i'm very scientific in my approach things and it wasn't a problem every day would come to me at three o'clock in the morning when i sat a worrying about all the other things worry about three o'clock in the morning you will saying parts of them and the body that they will never really say themselves. Also get tonight. It's an extraordinary thing that that was true kind of but it is still amazes me today. That people want to see the inside. Bids cannot have my video. I want to share it on social media. you know. i've seen all your videos on youtube. Can you make sure my prostate goes up in this episode. It's a franken. Feel this conversation about an experience. Men don often talked publicly about. So let's meet the scientist and the surgeon interested in nature. This is professor robe ramsey as a molecular biologist and kansas scientist and on the saudi also makes art. He's a black belt in karate rossi's by his husband father of two children but trying to understand how the natural world works was a i love of his and i've always been driven by trying to understand biology and i'm also a little bit inclined to like machinery and structures and the way things work and essentially sells Machines and i like the way they operate and they're really have siamese different facets to them and of causing disease machinery goes wrong for me. The very first day i was in an operating theatre watching people take cancerous. Lump sexually as it was then breast cancer. I was instantly captivated. This is professor. Declan murphy lading urologist and kansas surgeon. He's been in a for over a decade but you can he he's rh lilt and even though it's cancer he's dealing with everyday like rob. He's loved his job. Died dot. I was in the operating theatre was meeting these patients before and after as a medical student and honestly i just became almost overwhelmed by the idea that people will allow other people to do surgery on them. That it's such a huge privilege to be allowed to do surgery but i was fascinated by urology because it's it's quite a a big field work. In it's everything from the kidneys dancer. The bladder and the prostate and the pain is in. The testicles are all areas in the urology domain that can be affected by cancer. Now dick lennon rob happened to be call. Eggs at the pay to mccallum will pay to mac cancel santa in melbourne as a scientist rob's focused on amongst other tricky conundrums developing vaccines that target gastrointestinal cancers like colorectal cancer as a surgeon declines leading the way with us robotics in the operating theatre and often the cancer arena. You'll find that scientists and surgeons just don't traditionally makes much but robin declan like many others at paid amac a different because i want to do science. That reflects the needs of people with cancer and the clinicians trading them are remember being at a hospital where declan was doing a tag team robotic procedure on a patient was having some colorectal surgery plus a prostatectomy and i was there on saturday morning with my eyes pocket collecting some samples clincal trial without doing their in the operating room because these patients have agreed to be part of a trial in that case. That was a patient to kansas. Quite complex work but rob wanted some tissue as some cancerous tissue to take into the lab. And i was watching these two guys work. Seamlessly together is something is a of beauty in any group of people that do things well together and there's almost subliminal communication. What's coming next that i'm bumping to each other The theater staff all expert. They work as attainments really like a formula one team. It a stop and i'd never. I've never worked in the center where you will have a a professor of colorectal science in the operating room with you so and we get used to that at peter. Mac it's the same prostate the same for melanoma central breast and and i just find as an extraordinary environment. I've never worked in a place that has that. Degree of translational multidisciplinary care where people are. They're asking the questions taking the tissue doing trials etcetera etcetera. And it's just a extraordinary. I can do some cool things in my lab question. I of been geneticists for most of my research life and we can do cool things with jane's in cells and also indeed on animals and you can find great science out of that but does it always reflect what's going on in the patient and the answer is sometimes but not always and i want to the always it is relevant. What happens in a patient. It's all about the patient in the has always westbound lot that though so these two colleagues late in their fields in cancer but then kind of a sudden curve ball and a role change. The scientists in the surgeon were about to become the surgeon. And he's patient he's rob i have a great jp. I've been going to for quite a long time. Really thoughtful considerate kanda guy. We've we always have a great show. When i go to visit him. I have a checkup every six months. For basically blood blood pressure to have a level that cannot be controlled just by exercise and diet.
Pop Culture Cosmos
"mccallum" Discussed on Pop Culture Cosmos
"Pleasure. It is something. I definitely recommend to want to go ahead and check it out. It covers basically the whole genre of the video game industry and covers so many facets of that industry obviously for me. It's something that goes back. Decades and how influential at the time early on especially with the atari generation for me. How influential video game box. Art was how fascinating as a kid. Go to the different department stores and toy stores and see the different video games and decide. Which one do i want my you know. I'm asked my parents. I had some extra money. Which one i want and out of the against impressions and influence was based off of the video. Game cover art. That was there and you just don't have as much of that these days i think. And that's something. I wanna talk about here in a second. I mean over. The course of the years. Nintendo's sonic like you mentioned throughout the years with the genesis with the nintendo systems with the early systems even early on of the playstation era an xbox era. You had very influential box art. That allowed for a lot of people. Pc's nineties gaming and you cover that with doom to which one of my in the two with two more influential covers. That are out there. It's not as much these days. Because as was mentioned during the course of the series you did touch on that subject as far as now we have so much of more of impression in the video game world with downloads and maybe something is lost when it comes to video game box are do you see that as far as or how can video game box art evolved to be able to be just as effective in two thousand twenty one will. They're still clearly a desire for it. I like to make the correlation to vinyl. You know vinyl audio files out. There are obsessed with it and they'll wait for record store day to come around and hunt down their favorite releases that's done by their bands or singer songwriters and get that kind of special release. There's places like limited run games that really believe in the physical product of the game because if we love the game. We're going to put this much time into it. It's worth having it in reality not in the ether. That could disappear forever if the code gets lost if it gets damaged hard-drive ships and breaks or you don't have the technology to read it anymore. It's gone forever when we get to hang onto something touchstone that little piece of treasure that we can always carry with us and we form a connection with it. It's a touchtone it's it speaks to us. It's a part of us at that point. So i think it's important that we continue to have these. These physical representations of the things that we love and we're getting it a little bit more now with the collector's edition that gave software released will have the statue in the bulk or some art or some prince that come with it or the figurines or the skill. Come as part of the game as well. You'll get you know a steel book version of or something like that and you know there are limited and that kind of drives up the hype as well but i think it's important. I don't think it's enough just to have a digital image. That goes out there and gets re purpose for all these storefronts in these banners. It's cool but it's not enough. I think with the ease of digital creation. Now we should be seeing more art we. There should be more campaigns about building this world and bringing people into these worlds. Whether it's you know sports game like an nhl franchise from ea or a tomb. Raider or final fantasy. A world of warcraft..
Pop Culture Cosmos
"mccallum" Discussed on Pop Culture Cosmos
"That's up against a lot of big tv things that happened. There's the mandalorian there's cobra kai i think a season okay. What's action figures venture out of the top ten that dropped onto twenty twenty one. So okay okay yes you skated by just about just made it onto the wire. Yes just made the wire but it is the thrill of the chase the thrill of just going out and finding out. Exactly what can g get. What is he going to go ahead and choose. What are the best options and how he gets you involved as well as far as various points at times through your interactions within each other and how sometimes the pressure goes you the feedback he gets and things of that nature and the banter that you have back and forth it reminds a lot of people including myself of your interactions nintendo quest and obviously the again it comes down to the thrill of trying to find those perfect action figures that will go ahead and fetch a good price auction for the special charity in mind so i really think that the way you guys set it up was a very admirable. I did enjoy my time watching action figure adventure. Great well thank you so much with those kind words. What did you think. Video game boxer. Since we're soliciting all your feedback at this point how that show brother well video game box. Art is also a series. You can check that out on amazon right now and i'll tell you what it's good i. Of course i really enjoyed some of the later episodes especially the ones that i'm most familiar with with the people in my life that i'm most familiar with i. E your co producers in crime out there. i don't wanna give a big shoutout to retro city games and also as well nicole allegation and of course. Douglas hoi wu. I hope the family's okay. The family safe. I know that they're very busy at this point in time..
BBC World Service
3 UN peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic
"Three peacekeepers from Burundi have been killed in the Central African Republic, where rebel forces fighting the government ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. Jessica McCallum reports. A U N statement blamed unidentified armed combatants for the deaths in two separate incidents to other peacekeepers were wounded. U. N. Secretary general's office strongly condemned the attacks, warning that they could constitute a war crime. They came after the rebel coalition called off a ceasefire on said it would resume its advance on the capital. The rebels say the president faster than our cars. Touadera is trying to rig Sunday's vote. He in turn, has accused his predecessor Francois Bozize, a of plotting a coup. Something he has denied. The
Dose of Leadership
Martha MacCallum Discusses the "Unknown Valor" of Iwo Jima
"Martha McCallum. Here you are on dose of leadership I can't believe it welcome to the show it's great to be here Richard Thank you for having me big fan of you obviously in in your work that you've done and obviously a big fan of of the book being a primary ince unknown valor, and what prompted you to write this I think I know the answer this I see say but I just I'm curious about why you got so passionate about World War Two about that generation and specifically you would Jima. It was a personal connection when I was growing up my mom used to occasionally take out letters that were written to her and to her father by her beloved cousin Harry Gray who had been killed at Iwo Jima when he was only eighteen years old and the grease from his death just sort of was there never went away it wasn't something we talked about. All the time obviously but it was very real and when I read the letters, they're so beautiful and he was such an eloquent eighteen year old and wrote great informative letters that had a lot of information them about what was going on and they would often when I did pull out, dust him off and read them I couldn't really get through them without. Being brought to tears. So, and of course, I never knew him but his mother, my aunt, an was someone I was very close to and his sister my aunt Nancy also somewhat I was very close to end became got to know on such a deeper level through the writing of this book which grateful for. So when I started to think about writing a book I. Sort of couldn't get around the subject it was it felt as if it was calling me and it was a story that I needed to tell and I also knew, I wanted if I was going to spend the time and effort writing I wanted it to be a real book of history a book where I would learn a lot. So if I was going to take time away from my work and my personal life to dedicate myself to this, I wanted it to be a inexperienced. That would pay off for me. You know that would be a lot. So it did that in spades and honestly by the time I was done I thought if this book doesn't sell more than ten copies, it will still have been worth it to me. You know I I it resonates with me because I became friends obviously in the marine. Corps and we look at Iwo, Jima with sacrosanct and I've never visited the island. You're fortunate if actually put your feet on the ground there and I've flown over a few times when I was in the rink was a pilot in the Marine Corps and we'd fly over. You would Jima going back and forth from Okinawa and stuff. And it was weird when every time we'd fly over it in, we'd all be talking and joking that. But when you fly over it, they're just be the stunned silence every time we fly over you a German and to give you these chills just because if anybody studies at knows the stories in particular that how many people sacrificed their lives and were injured, it's just phenomenal thing about the numbers in the short amount of days where on such a three square mile or piece of dirt you know it's just. It really is it's almost as if it's a piece of the moon race loading in the middle of the Pacific and I completely connect with what you're saying. Of course I have never served but I was on this flight that only to a once a year it's A. It's to you know a memorial slight to honor those who were lost there, and it is a memorial that has Japanese dignitaries that attend and American. Veterans that attend and their families in a few reporters and people who are interested get to go on his flight. So I was really fortunate to be on it and there was this amazing commodity on the flight and we had all traveled a lot I flew from Newark to Tokyo. And then Tokyo to Guam and then Guam alternate late to gene on the day of our trip there, and it's a day trip. You go in the morning couple of hours on the plane fly back that evening and the Japanese government has complete control over Gina. They have since the sixties. So they dictate the amount of time that Americans are allowed to be on the island, right which in and of itself is sort of an interesting situation. But So it's all very regimented when you land, they take your passports away. They put them in a bag when you're ready to go they give them back to you. And you can leave. But when we were flying from Guam to Jima and the plane was obviously only people who were all on this sing of our mission and we had first class about five, I believe. A woman veterans who were on a couple of from Tarawa but there were five I believe you Jim Veterans a couple of who had never been back. So we're saying sort of camaraderie everyone's joking around a little bit talking to each other with all get to know each other over the last few days on Guam and some of the things that we did together before that. But as soon as the pilot said, okay, you're going to see what Jim now coming up on your left as soon as we dip under these clouds. And as soon as we dipped under those clouds, there was silence across the plane and I looked over at some of these veterans looking down on the island through the window hadn't been there since they were seventeen eighteen, nineteen years old and you could feel that flood of emotion come over them. They saw it and I will never forget the dramatic approach to that island landing on it. It's still steaming as a volcano in different parts of the island. So it's it's smokes while you're looking at it it's kind of a surreal place.