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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The NBAs Big Shift, Best NFL Future Bets and Mega-Million-Dollar Picks With Howard Beck, Michael Pina, Benjamin Solak, and Raheem Palmer
"Coming up, football, basketball, almost two hours. Man, this one's loaded, next. This episode of the Bill Simmons Podcast is presented by Airbnb. Maybe you're traveling to see friends and family for the holidays. When you're away, your home could be an Airbnb. Whether you could use a little extra money to cover some bills or for something a little more fun, your home or spare room might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb .com slash host. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time at Participate in McDonald's, so make sure to try them while you can. Tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Hope you checked out the rewatchables we did on Monday. We covered Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves as the first installment of, wait, that movie made how much money? Theme week that we're doing. I always have to raise my voice when I do that part. We have an unbelievable one coming on Monday. It's an older movie, but CR has been doing Wayne Jenkins on the pod for a while, and there might be a new character to rival Wayne Jenkins. We'll see. It was early. It was test -driven on this podcast to big success. We'll find out. We'll find out how it goes long -term, but very excited about this one. It was a really fun one, so there you go. Hey, audiobooks are on Spotify now, especially if you're in America, and if you're a Spotify Premium customer, man, you get like, it's like over 200 ,000 books. The cool thing is it's 15 hours a month that you get. So if you try out a book and you don't like it, just move to the next book. You can use up 20 minutes of your 15 hours. I think it's one of the best things the company's done since we've been a part of it. So check out audiobooks. They are now available on Spotify. Coming up on this podcast, gonna talk to Howard Beck and Michael Pina. Three big things we've noticed from the first two and a half weeks of the NBA season, and then our guy Benjamin Solak is gonna come on and talk about best future bets going forward for the NFL season. Last but not least, Raheem Palmer came on to join me for Million Dollar Picks. This is the week. This is my favorite gambling week of the season that we've had in NFL. So we're gonna talk about that, make some picks. It's all next. First, our friends from ProJax.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "mcdonald" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Actually, what this advertising boycott is going to do, it's going to kill the company. And do you think that... And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail. But they're going to say that they're going to say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things and that they were inappropriate things and they didn't feel comfortable on the platform. That's what they're going to say. And let's see how Earth responds to that. He's very big on Earth versus other planets. And yet these other companies, they are fine advertising on meta where Instagram real video show salacious content to the Wall Street Journal test accounts set to follow young gymnasts and other teenagers, including risky footage of children overtly sexual adult videos. But IBM, Apple, State Farm, Comcast, Home Depot, Disney, Paramount Pictures, McDonald's, they're cool with children being sexualized. Well, and Charlie, Elon called them out on that. Just a few days ago, Elon actually tweeted and basically said, hey, meta advertisers, either on Facebook or on Instagram, what say you now? Where are you? Why aren't you canceling them? Because as a reminder, the advertisers that boycotted X, many of the companies you just mentioned, did so because they believed that Elon posted an anti-Semitic tweet. There was an account that tweeted a very simple statement, essentially said that the Jewish community has been voting for their own demise. By the way, since 1968, 71 percent of the Jewish community has voted Democrat in all of these elections. So that tweet wasn't inherently wrong. Democrats are for open borders, therefore the mass immigration without assimilation into a common culture. And this guy was right to call it out. And Elon simply responded, this is the actual truth. That one simple tweet caused this revolt. Here's what's interesting, Charlie. Not only do those advertisers that you mentioned turn a blind eye to the disgusting, perverted actions happening on these other platforms like meta, like Instagram. But they also have partnered with anti-Semitic organizations that are actually anti-Semitic. For example, Apple and Amazon, big proponents of the BLM movement. And we just learned a few weeks ago that multiple BLM chapters around this country have revealed their anti-Semitic nature and have said very openly that they're pro-Hamas. So the doublespeak, the talking out of both sides of the mouth is really dangerous. And Charlie, there was a day when journalists would call this out. Journalists used to, in a proper country, cheer on Elon's comments. They'd say that's the exact type of speaking truth to power that we need because these institutions are corrupt. But instead, journalism now has been co-opted by the very corporate entities, heavily subsidized by the government, by the way, that they used to be responsible for calling out. So when Amazon owns the Washington Post, and when Time magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, who owns Salesforce, you have this shift of the corporatization of journalism that is incredibly detrimental because people like Elon should be speaking way more often and way more open. Andrew Ross Sorkin with the New York Times, who said to Elon in the clip you just described, well, Elon, isn't that bad for business? I actually think history is going to say that you killed the company. It's like journalists today are living in a different world. The average person sees what Elon's doing and is saying, finally, somebody's speaking for us. But journalists live in their own bubble. It shows the departure of our two worlds. And ultimately, at the end of the day, I agree with Elon, history will look favorably upon his statements. Yeah, and praise God for what Elon is doing here. It's remarkable from the purchasing of X, not caring about all the chatter, and the users of X are increasing, actually. We're seeing the amount of people that are using it is really incredible. And we need to support X now more than ever before. And I've said it once, and I'll say it again, the 2024 election will be fairer because of the liberated Twitter. I'm telling you, it is going to be a different election. Whether or not we'll win, we'll see. But people's eyes are open. I get stopped by people all the time on the street. Charlie, I've become more conservative. I follow you on Twitter. I never used to see your stuff. And now I see the content. I see the trend stuff. I see all of it. But talk more about the Bob Iger wrinkle. That's interesting to me, Michael. Well, Bob has basically admitted in recent documentation that Disney has actually lost market share as a result of their prioritization of woke politics. So Disney's turned into an activist organization, which is why it's no surprise that they pulled their ads from the X platform. But I hope that Americans will wake up and realize that Disney has become an activist organization. Because the risk that we run is that the most dominant house of children's educational content, and I say educational because so many young lives are actually shaped and formed by the content they're seeing out of Disney. So it is educational in nature, but it's a matter of what are they teaching. If they've become a weaponized organization against the classical traditional American family values that have built a functioning society, that's a very detrimental position to be in. And so out of all the companies that Elon could have called out, I'm really glad they called out Disney. I'm glad Elon said directly to Bob, hi, Bob, I'm talking to you here, because him more than anybody needed to hear this. There's also rumors, Charlie, that Bob will probably resign in the next year or two as a result of his poor management at the CEO level of guiding Disney in this woke direction because they've taken a total hit. Look at the movies this summer when Sound of Freedom is beating Indiana Jones with less than a tenth of the budget. What's the lesson there? Well, the lesson is the American people are no longer buying what Disney and similar corporations are selling. The last thing I'll mention is that in response to Disney's corrupted actions and them pulling their ads out of X, we've seen a revolt against Disney Plus today on Twitter on X. You're seeing trending stories of consumers that were once subscribers to Disney Plus, pulling their subscriptions, and I'm here for it. Yeah, all things Disney must be boycotted. The hardest Disney boycott for me is ESPN, I'll admit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from An NBA Power Poll, Plus Malcolm Gladwell Plays Sports Czar
"Coming up, an NBA Power Poll, Malcolm Gladwell. This podcast is an A plus. Next. This episode of the Bill Simmons Podcast is presented by Airbnb. Maybe you're traveling to see friends and family for the holidays. When you're away, your home could be an Airbnb. Whether you could use a little extra money to cover some bills or for something a little more fun, your home or spare room might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb .com slash host. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time and participate in McDonald's. So make sure to try them while you can. Tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. If you missed it, we started, wait, that movie made how much money? Month last night on the rewatchables. We did Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, me, Chris Ryan, Van Lathan, it was a wonderful experience for all of us. Van looked at Chris at one point and he said, everything I do, I do it all for you. Oh no, that was Bryan Adams, but we had a great time. Coming up on this podcast, I'm gonna do an NBA Power Poll at the top because there's no games as I'm taping this on Tuesday. So let's, where are we after two weeks? I tried to fly through this. I limited myself to 22 minutes. I think I went two minutes over, but I flew through it, tried to get off as many comments as I possibly could. And then our old friend Malcolm Gladwell is gonna come on and do some sports hour stuff. There's some things that he's noticed about direction sports are going in that he doesn't like, and we're gonna try to fix it. So that's the podcast, first, our friends from Pearl Jam. Here we go. All right, I'm gonna throw an NBA Power Poll at you. I'm not sure I'm gonna do this every Tuesday, but I definitely wanna do this some Tuesdays. I'm gonna go through all 30 teams as fast as possible. And I'm gonna throw things out that I feel like are important when necessary. Pot shots, important comments, things I've noticed, some fake trades, you've known me for a while. It's gonna be all the typical stuff. Going backwards from 30 to one, I'll give you the groups as we go. The first group is called the Dregs. That's Washington number 30. They are 30th in defense. And the only reason they're 30th in defense is because we only have 30 teams. I actually think there's some way they could have been 36th in defense. They're the only team in the entire league that I do not wanna watch on league pass for any reason at all. They're one and five, 15 .6 point differential against them. Shoot this team into the sun. I cannot believe House thought this team was gonna go over 24 wins. They might not go over 14 wins. They're awful. I never want them on my TV. Next group, probably the lottery. I say probably, but I'm gonna zip through these teams and then go back to somebody. 29 Utah, 28 Portland, 27 Detroit, 26 San Antonio, 25 Charlotte, who is way more fun than I expected they would be to watch, and 24 Chicago. It just feels like the lottery's in the future for all these teams. I wanna talk about San Antonio really quick. Three and four, kind of a sneaky, tough schedule. They played Phoenix twice, the Clippers, Dallas, that goofy Indiana team, Houston, and Toronto. They're minus 8 .6 point differential because they've gotten blown out a couple of times, and they're 29th on defense, which I was surprised by per 100 possessions. The thing that I wanted to point out here, because this one Benyama thing is super important. This is the best teenager that's come into the league, at least since LeBron. We can debate. LeBron, I think in year two, for two months at least, was a teenager when he was putting up 27, seven, and seven. When he started his 27, seven, seven cycle. Wembe might be the best teenager I've ever seen. They're starting Jeremy Sohan at point guard, and Pop's been transparent about this. No, no, we know we're gonna take some lumps. We're trying to figure this out. I went to the game when they played the Clippers, I talked about it in a previous pod, and it was just an absolute debacle, watching poor Sohan try to run the offense, bring the ball up. Now we're seeing teams starting to pressure them because he's not a point guard. He's a small forward. There's crazy stats now. Trey Jones, just by being on this team and not being Jeremy Sohan, is now one of the best advanced metrics point guards of all time. Right now, his per 100 on -off is plus 28 .3 because Sohan is minus 22 .7. That's how disparate the two things are. Which brings me to my point, this is too important. You have the best teenager maybe ever. You have one of the best league pass players already in the entire league in Wimby. I have no idea how long he's gonna stay healthy, knock on wood, hear me knock really loud. I just got my dog going. No, that was me, dumb ass. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is on Indiana, and they have Halliburton, who's averaging a 24 -12. He's awesome. They have Nembhard, who's great as a backup. McConnell's like, he's 13 minutes a game. He's clearly a trade piece for them. Just go get him. I'm not saying San Antonio has to make the playoffs, but they need to be entertaining, and Wimby needs to play with point guards. He clearly needs just to play off people, high screens, all that stuff. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is my choice. They have all their own firsts. They're not gonna trade those obviously, but they have some goofy picks. They have Charlotte's top 14 protected first. They have a pretty good Chicago first that I wouldn't give up. They have a first swap with Boston. There's ways to do this. I would just put that Charlotte pick next year on the table and just grab them because you guys hit the lottery. Literally, with Wimby -Dyama, literally hit the lottery. You hit the lottery and you hit the lottery. Get to do two point guards. We're not asking for much here. I wanna watch this guy. I wanna enjoy him play basketball. All right, next section is panic time. Number 23, Memphis. They're one and six. They finally got out to Schneider. And number 22, Sacramento, who lost twice to Houston in three days by 18 and 25. No Darren Fox for either game. Panic time in this respect. I know we're six games in the season, seven games in the season, but the West is one of those things where you're gonna look up and the car is left. The car has left the driveway and your family is gone. You're gonna be basically Kevin and home alone if you don't get your shit together. And I don't even wanna be two games under 500 in the West. That's how deep and good the West is. So when you're one and six, like all of a sudden two and 12, two and 13, Sacramento could all of a sudden be three and nine. I would just be nervous constantly. This is not like last year when the Lakers started out two and 10 and ended up making the playoffs. Nobody is doing that this year. The cutoff line is gonna be 46 wins. Memphis looks, they just can't score. And I think it's gonna be really, we talked about this verno last week. It's gonna be really hard for them to crawl back and be at least like 11 and 14, something like that by the time Ja comes back. The Sacramento thing, we predicted this when we did the over -under preview, like the conference is way better and they stayed basically the same. And now Fox is hurt. So it can take Fox going out for 10 games and all of a sudden you're not even in the playing game. I would just be nervous, so it's both of those teams. Again, it's early. Next group, friskier than we hoped. We have number 21, Brooklyn. Ben Simmons averaging almost 11 rebounds and seven assists a game. And yet you can't play him at crunch time, bizarre. Number 20, Orlando. Number 19, Houston. Number 18, Indiana. And number 17, Toronto. Just quickly on Houston, a delightful league pass team. I had no idea. It's like being at a buffet dinner and somebody brings like some, have you ever had a fried oyster? It's like, great, I'll try that. And then it's delicious. They play hard. I like watching them. And I did not expect a Shungun to be a potential all -star, but that's where we are. They're three and three. Again, they beat Sacramento twice, we'll see. But Orlando at number 20. Every time I do this, I'm gonna have a BS all -star of the week. I used to do this when I wrote my column back in the day. I used to call them the Bill Simmons all -stars, just people that I just liked for whatever reason. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't really know fully what he is. He tries harder than everybody on every other team. He really gives a shit. He feels additive in all these different ways. And yet at the same time, he'll absolutely like airball a three in one of the biggest moments of the game. But that guy cares. I watched a game where he got this hustle rebound. Can't remember who they, they lost at the buzzer. Get this hustle rebound and dribble back out and took a three and missed it and put his jersey over his head for like the next minute and a half. I actually think he might've been crying. He was so upset they lost. He is the most competitive random guy in the league. I love Jalen Suggs. Oh, as Saruti said, it's the Laker game. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't know what he is. He might just end up being like a seventh man on a championship team at some point. He's gonna have a moment on a good team. I don't know if Orlando's gonna be the team, but it's gonna happen for that dude. I also really like Anthony Black more than I thought, but we'll see. It's early for this team. Palo hasn't gotten going. Somehow they're four and three. We'll see when the schedule gets harder. Toronto at number 17, just the Lakers miss Schroeder. And I like what Schroeder's doing in Toronto. They're three and four, but they easily could be five and two. I've been watching them because I have their over under, I bet on. And I like where Toronto's at. I think they're better than they were last year. I think they're at least a playing team. Number 18, Indiana though. So their second in offensive rating and 25th in defense. In the 25th, I was actually surprised it wasn't worse. They can't guard anybody. They're shooting 43s a game. Their top six guys are all over 40 % three point shooting. They're kind of like the 80s Nuggets, but with threes. And they just play with a certain pace. And some days it's going to be bad. Like the Celtics put 155 points on them and it probably could have been 160 if they'd made some shots. Hal Burton's special. He's a 24 -12 this year. But the crazy thing about their offense is that Matherin's been terrible. And Matherin was a guy that they were like, this is going to be our guy. He's making a leap. We're going to trade Buddy Heald. We got to give the card keys to Matherin in that spot. And he's been bad. And their offense has still been pretty good. This is a team that anytime you see them, I don't know if you bet basketball, but if they're like plus 11, plus 12, it's like they could beat anybody any night. I'm just telling you. I'm not saying they're going to win a round in the playoffs, but just night to night, that's a team that they could just go 22 for 45 from three, make some shots. And Hal Burton, they actually should be five and two. Hal Burton blew the last possession against Charlotte the other night. But I've enjoyed watching them. I've watched an insane amount of basketball, by the way. All right, next group, the wildcards. I don't have a lot to say about these teams, but we'll go in order. Number 16, New Orleans, just seem jinxed. I'll come back to them in a second. Number 15, Cleveland. I want to see them with Garland and just, I want to watch them for a couple of weeks. I like the Struce edition, but we'll see. The Knicks, they're three and four. Nice win against the Clippers. The Randall thing continues to be nuts. Now he's taking out guys in the other team. Clippers 13, just traded for Harden. We talked about the Knicks and Clippers last week. Look, the Clippers, they played one game and they got killed by the Knicks. They're worse. I told you that last week. Still feel that way. Guess what they can't do now? Any transition stuff. The Knicks, 26 to six in fast break points last night. Rebounding. They got out, rebounded by 17 by the Knicks. Harden just brings so many things that you don't want in a starting five, but then he brings the great passing and the scoring and he can have the ball all the time. They don't need anyone to have the ball all the time because they have all these other guys who need the ball. I just don't like the trade. I continue to not like it and I don't understand it. I actually liked the team they had before they made the trade. So congrats again, Clippers. Number 12, Miami. 28th offensively. Kind of feels worse when you watch them. They haven't had their full team for a couple weeks. I'm not gonna judge them at all until December. I'm not gonna judge Dallas either. Dallas I have at number 11. They're six and one, fourth in offense. They've had a really easy schedule. So that's why, let's see what happens. Their one loss is to Denver. Let's see what happens when they play some tough teams all in a row and have one of those four games in six nights or three on the road. One of those situations. But they are in better shape than they were last year. And you look at the Grant Williams piece, which I'm not spiteful when I watch my old players. I'm rooting for Grant Williams. It's like seeing somebody you dated that you still have a good relationship with. It was nice to see him do well for them. Derek Lively seems like they have something. We talked about him last week, but he's at least like a rim runner in that kind of Nick Claxton world, but maybe a little more violent alley -oop or a little young Clint Cappelli. The Kyrie thing is the piece that I'm really interested in this. He finally had a good game last night, but for this season, 24 % shooting, 3 .8 free throws a game, which are always the two numbers to look at with Kyrie. What's he shooting threes? Is he getting in the line? And so far it's been neither, but he seems happy. When you watch them, they've been a surprisingly pleasant watch, and he seems like in a good spot. So I don't want to jinx it because as annoying as he's been over the years, and you know my stance on Kyrie, I just don't trust him. And I just feel like a seven -year track record of imploding kind of has to start to mean something after a while, but it is fun to watch him play basketball. And it does feel like he's got a specific spot on this team. They don't have to rely on him too much. It's very similar to where he was in 15 and 16 and 17 with the Cavs where he could kind of float in and out like a cat with LeBron. It's like, I'm feeling it. Oh, all right, let's give Kyrie the ball. The shooting going down though, it's a small sample size, but they also haven't been playing tough teams yet. And I'm just monitoring that because with guards, it can kind of sometimes go sideways pretty fast, and you don't realize it happened until after it happened. Just quickly going backwards to number 16, New Orleans, because they lost Ingram, they lost McCollum already. And they have this Hawkins who they drafted that everybody liked coming out of the draft, but the fact that he can play right away has actually kind of saved them a little bit. I just, I still feel like we need to do some sort of ceremony or something with them. Like we need the people from the Conjuring to just do something with New Orleans basketball. It just shouldn't be this bad every year. Your team shouldn't have two, three major injuries every year. You should have good luck at some point. And this goes back to the seventies. Remember, when they moved, when they became the New Orleans Jazz, their first major, major giant trade was for Gail Goodrich with the Lakers. They had to give up two first rounders, and he immediately blew out his Achilles. He played, I'm gonna say, less than a season. And one of the picks turned out to be Magic Johnson. So that's where we started with New Orleans, and it's been awful ever since. Nothing good has happened in this team other than they've won a couple of lotteries, but even the lotteries they won, the Davis, Anthony when they were in Charlotte before they got to New Orleans, they bring him to New Orleans and he wants to leave. And then they win the Zion thing, which seemed like the luckiest thing that ever happened to them. And meanwhile, we're still waiting for him to play two straight months. So Conjuring people, something. We need something to happen with that team. All right, the top 10. We're at a good pace right now. Where are we at? Yeah, feeling good. This is working. Young and hungry is the next thing. We got Oklahoma City at number 10 and Atlanta at number nine. If you remember, Atlanta was one of the, these are the two teams I was going nuts for before the season for their over -unders. I love the Atlanta over -under. I love the New Orleans over. And I like what I've seen from both. OK sees four and three, Atlanta's four and three. Atlanta's sixth in offense. And that's notable because Trae Young has sucked again shooting west. He's 28 % from three. Last year's 33 % from three. This might not be happening the next Steph Curry thing. Like what age does he have to hit where we have to go? All right, he's not the next Steph Curry. Because I think I hit that age last year at age, when I was age 53. I think I hit that for Trae. They killed Minnesota, which is notable. We'll talk about Minnesota in a second. But they really, I watched that game and they really, really, really handled them. I like this Atlanta team. And I think there's a path for them to be a three or a four seed if Trae can get going. And then OKC, trade for a big already. You're a guy short, like stop. You guys have a chance to be like a 50 win team. What are you doing? I want to see what's going on with Josh Getty in about two weeks. Whether it looks different than it has for the first couple of weeks here. I don't like, he's not going in the free throw line at all. 1 .3 a game. 26 % three point shooting, which we knew. He can't shoot threes. But there's also like the Chet piece of it. Seems like it's throwing them off. And I've watched games where they've taken them out at crunch time.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "mcdonald" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Absolutely. I'm down with it. It's whether people are going to lose their minds. Like, you know, we're all this talk about all these Muslims are saying they're never vote with Joe Biden now because of the Middle East. I'm like, you're going to guy that Islamophobia guy that that's the insanity, right? Like, because we've all these become people who work in a binary. And it's like you have to get out of the binary. not It's either or it's what is best for all of us. That's what you have to look at. And at the end of the day and my heart goes out to all of the people who have family over in Palestine and family over in Israel and everything that happened. Everything that's going on over there is terrible. I don't want to sound like I'm diminishing it, but we have been talking about peace in the Middle East since I was a toddler. You know, so this has been going on for decades and therefore to become a one issue voter around it now just because you're aware of it, just because you see it. That's not the most intelligent way to spend your vote. I'm not saying that you're wrong and I'm not saying that your feelings about it are wrong. What I'm saying is your feelings are blocking you from understanding the real issue and how to really help people the you want to help. You're not going to be able to help them if, and not again, it's not just Donald Trump. It's entire the GOP because they have all moved further to him than the Republicans of old. When he first took office, I ignorantly thought that he was just going to be a puppet for the GOP. I did not think that the GOP was going to bend over and allow him to run ramshod over our entire government. That's what he did. In four years, he taken has away all of the stop gaps that we had against fascism, against authoritarianism, and now it's a free for all. So we can't trust any of these people who support him or go to Mar -a -Lago and kiss his ring and all that thing. It's a mess now. We have to be smart. It's not hyperbole at this point saying we're choosing literally between the end of our democracy and fascism. That's exactly right. Yeah, and this is why your kind of voice is so needed. Like, we've, Carlos Elsrocki is our other, you know, is our brilliant comedian, Wednesday regular. And he talks about like, sit down in the lifeboat. Same way you're talking about these third party voters. Sit down in the lifeboat. You're going to kill us all. That's right. Our friends Frangela talk about, you know, I'm going to black mama for dinner this. Biden, it's what's for dinner. I think, you might know, you want a happy meal. You're getting Biden. It's what's right. You got to buy it at home, baby. We don't have McDonald's I mean, we don't have third party money. We have McDonald's. No, that's for when democracy is safe and secure off of the edge of the cliff. Then you can vote for whomever you want in the unicorn party and all these things. But until we get to a point where we are stabilized, we have to use our vote. Smart. We have to be intelligent about it. And feelings, you know, feeling feelings are not real. Feelings are not fact. You know, they're valid. And I should. So I take that back. Feelings are real and feelings are valid, but they are not fact. Yeah. And when you operate in fact and when you operate in numbers, your only choice, unfortunately, nobody likes it. Nobody likes it. But your only choice is to vote for the big D Democrats right now until we get our freedoms and our Constitution protected again so that you can exercise your freedoms in 2028 and beyond. Well, you know, when we played your bit about, you know, this is just people voting third party. It's just like, chaos oh, is fun, you know, tearing stuff down. Chaos outsiders, you know, it's like a Gallagher concert. You go, what's your plan after you smash the watermelon into sitting on the front row covered in watermelon? What are you gonna do then when the GOP is shipping you off back to whatever Muslim country they thought you came from? You know, what are you gonna do when? And this is a very real fear of mine. And I hate to talk about it a lot because, you know, people are like, that's fear mongering. But to me, there's a difference between fear mongering and being real. And everybody should know by now that slavery is still legal in our constitution. country's The 13th amendment says you can put someone into slavery if they commit a crime. Well, the speaker of the house right now, Mike Johnson, used to be a spokesperson for an organization that wanted to criminalize being LGBTQIA in this country. You know how it's illegal in some countries to be part of the LGBTQIA community. Mike Johnson was part of an organization that wanted to criminalize that here. So just think about that for a second. Yeah. If they bring a bill to the organization that wanted They bring a bill to the floor that criminalizes the LGBTQIA community. Who can you now arrest and put into and work for free for this country? Yeah. The entire LGBTQIA community and those who support them. The only silver lining I have is if they put the lesbians next to the funny black ladies, then I'm fine. Yeah. We'll out how to break out efficiently. Then we'll figure out how to take over then there will be no more XYs on this planet. Before you go, if we have to go through all of that, we're not letting another one Does your hatred of all things pumpkin spice, is it connected to Trump and all things orange or is it? It before Trump, but it got way more intense. It got way more intense when he took office, like, get it out of here. We have left to everything, Kelbel, because I know you want to know more about her on tiktok, bell a curve. I love the website voteho .org but it's spelled H -E -A -U -X because I'm from Louisiana, baby. Southern Bell. All right. Southern Bell.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The Clippers Are Dumb, Plus the NFL Trade Deadline, Sleeper Teams, and 'The Godfather' With Michael Lombardi
"Coming up, the Clippers trade for Harden. Lots of football talk and some Italian movies. Oh yeah, next. It's the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's the best time of the year with football in full swing and basketball returning soon. FanDuel, the best place to bet on the action. The app is safe, secure, and easy to use. And when you win, you get paid instantly. Get exclusive offers every day. Jump into the action at any time during the game with quick bets and take home a fast W. Plus, check out the Explore page for the simplest way to start betting. Download the app today. Bet with America's number one sportsbook. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Visit TheRinger .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and help lines available and listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Must be 21 plus and present in select states. Gambling problem, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit TheRinger .com slash RG. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time at participating McDonald's, so make sure to try them. While you can, tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. We did the Omen. We did the OG Omen. We did the 1976 one. One of the creepiest movies ever made with some of the scariest scenes that have ever been in any of these movies. Me and Chris Ryan broke all of it down for you. What else happened in The Ringer universe? Oh, The Ringerverse crew. Everybody got together for the first time and they did a live show in LA on Monday night and even dressed up for Halloween, a couple of them. It was great, great to see everybody all together. Check out the, all of our basketball stuff on Ringer NBA, Mismatch, Brazilos Pod, Ringer Gambling. Austin Rivers has his new podcast, Off Guard. And then obviously our football stuff, all our culture stuff as well. And we're gonna have a big announcement on this podcast on Thursday about an upcoming show you might not be expecting. Coming up in this pod, I'm gonna talk about the Clippers trading for James Harden at the top and why I thought it was a huge mistake. And then our old friend Mike Lombardi, we're gonna talk about the trade deadline in the NFL as well as what team that seemingly looks like their season's almost over might actually jump in the second half of the year. And then last but not least, we're gonna talk Italian movies and Italian TV shows because why not? This is a fun podcast. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. ["PURL JAM"] All right, I'm taping this on Tuesday before the Clippers game on Tuesday night. The Clippers traded for James Harden late night. They tried to do this as late as possible at night when the most possible people were asleep because they were embarrassed by this trade. And they should be because they're the Clippers. They haven't made the finals ever in the history of the franchise, dating back to Buffalo in 1970, talking five and a half decades of bad luck, terrible injuries, mismanagement. We had the Donald Sterling piece of it. We had load management. And in the last couple of years, they've had some of the worst playoff losses of the 21st century. And now they're trading for a guy who's quit on his last three teams. So they decided, you know what, we'll do this in the middle of the night on the East Coast at least. So we'll take the least amount of slack. They were bidding against nobody. There's 30 teams in the league. One of them had James Harden. 28 other teams were like, we're good. And the Clippers said, you know what, we need this guy. We'll still be not nearly as good as Denver, but if we do this, maybe we could lose in either round two or round three, maybe? I just feel like they don't have any draft picks left for the rest of the decade. So they basically traded three picks for James Harden. The worst one was a 2028 unprotected first. Why do this now? Why do this for a team with no other offers? Why bid against yourself? And why not just wait? If you know you're trading basically two and a half picks plus all these expirings they had, why not wait? The league, I don't know if you've watched it the first week, the league is more talented and more loaded than it's ever been, probably in 30 years. And there's a really, really, really good chance that a couple teams that thought they were gonna be good are not gonna be good. Like for instance, Memphis is 0 -4. Or is Memphis gonna go 25 and 57? Probably not. But there's gonna be a couple teams that are just way worse than they expected. And guess what happens after Thanksgiving and in December and in January? Those teams panic. Guys become available. Like what if Toronto is bad? What if they're like, you know what, Pascal Siakam, this just isn't working for us. What if Chicago, who's already had two team meetings, I think, in three games, what if they decide to put Zach Levine on the table? Like you just don't know. What you do know now is that there was only one team bidding for James Harden and the Clippers ended up with him anyway. The other thing, if you're giving up this much for one guy, I better know that I have a chance to actually win the title. And I just don't feel like they do. I went to the game Sunday night. Kawhi, he looks fine. He looks fine. Does he look like the Kawhi from the mid -2010s? No. Does he look like the guy from 2019 Toronto? He does not. He looks like an older playing himself back in the shape version of Kawhi. And if that's your best player, that's just not gonna be enough this year. The Celtics are too good. Denver is too good. Milwaukee has Giannis and Dame. Phoenix has a ton of scoring. Golden State's gonna be really good. They're still not in the mix. So that was my first issue. The second one, who are you getting? Who are you getting in this trade? Where you're getting I .S. Quinn on three teams. You're getting the most disappointing playoff star this century, literally this century. And there's no other person you can put in there. There's nobody who has even half of the qualifications from a playoff disappointment standpoint that this guy does. Zach Lowe came on the Book of Basketball podcast, I think in 2019, we did a James Harden podcast. And in that podcast, which was four years ago, called him the Karl Malone of guards. And I was immediately the most jealous I've ever been of a comparison. Since then, he had the 2020 bubble flame out. Then they had in 2022, the Miami series, which he sucked in. And then in 2023, the Celtic series, this guy, it's an all time resume. And the Clippers who are just playoff futility through and through for the entire franchise history were like, that's the guy. That's the guy that can take the lovable loser Clippers over the top, James Harden. He slows you down. He needs the ball all the time. The Clippers now have Paul George, who succeeds the most when he has the ball. Koulai Leonard, who has perennially succeeded the most when he has the ball. Russell Westbrook, who loves to either have the ball or crash the boards. And now Harden, who needs the ball. See four guys who need the ball. Then Norm Powell comes in, he needs the ball. Bones Holland comes in, he needs the ball. Are we playing with three balls now? No, we're gonna still play with one. James Harden can't guard anybody. That seems relevant. He hasn't played defense in four years.
Bloomberg Law
Fresh "Mcdonald's" from Bloomberg Law
"In age dot New com of York City, of 100. and the bloomberg 100. business This is and app Bloomberg, he'll The Kissinger be interred this associates is at a private saying bloomberg family Henry at broadcasting a radio later service, Kissinger date 24 there'll is Henry Kissinger be hours a dead memorial passing a at day service the away age at of in at Bloomberg 100. the The former diplomat and political scientist passed away at his home in Connecticut according to his consulting firm. Kissinger served as national security advisor and later as the U .S. secretary of state under both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. President Biden says the American Israeli dual national citizen released from Gaza on Wednesday is safe. Biden told reporters as he was boarding Air Force One to head home from Colorado that she was safe Egypt in and that he spoke with her mother and father. House Democrats are urging Republicans to vote in favor of expelling representative George Santos from Congress. California Democrat Pete Aguilar Santos said only remains in Congress due to the GOP's thin majority calling Santos a serial fraudster. Republicans trying to afford George Santos every opportunity to do the right thing and to resign. A vote to expel Santos is expected to take place Thursday or Friday. Gasoline prices have dropped for 61 consecutive across the United States. Erin Rael reports the average price for a gallon of regular gas stood at $5 .25 a gallon Wednesday according to AAA. That's down five cents from a week ago and 26 cents a from month ago. Oil continued to tumble last week after OPEC postponed a meeting until November 30th without providing a reason. The delay was viewed as a sign of a disagreement within the producer group about what to do next. Many analysts expect OPEC will roll over existing quotas through the first quarter of 2024, but some argue that Saudi Arabia will push through deeper production cuts to offset rising non -OPEC supply including record -setting production here in the US. The FBI says an agent was carjacked in Washington DC Wednesday afternoon. The accident took place near Capitol Hill with the victim saying two suspects took the car. Police later found the vehicle. I'm Brian Shook. A tentative contract between striking workers and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has been reached. The employees are represented United by the Auto Workers Union and President Sean Fain and BCBS leader Daniel Lope announced a verbal agreement Tuesday evening. Mayor Eric Adams administration is touting the success of mayor's the controversial plan that forces people experiencing severe mental illness off New York City streets. Scott Pringle reports. Mayor Adam says 54 of what he calls the hundred hardest to treat individuals have been placed into housing or are in hospitals getting treatment over the last year. These people typically roam the subways and streets and have repeatedly refused help in the past. 54 of them were given time and they received the help that they needed and now they have a roof over their head and are stabilizing their lives. The mayor's program to involuntarily hospitalize the homeless started a year ago. nothing special Critics but thoughts. puts too much emphasis on hospital care and only focuses on the small number of the homeless. Scott Pringle reporting. Do you ever wonder what happens to the letters that kids write to Santa and then put in the mailbox the post office has begun collecting them and reading the heartwarming stories. One that I read yesterday he's asking for help to keep their home because their mom is going to eviction court. Becky Hernandez with the post office in Texas says all those letters go to a main collection point. It's called Operation Santa. They're then put online where strangers can fulfill those wishes. All the information is on the U S. Post offices Web site. McDonald's is bringing back its popular adult happy meals next month. The fast food chain is teaming with artist Kerwin Frost to launch the Kerwin Frost box on December 11th. Each meal will include a choice of chicken McNuggets or a Big Mac, french fries, a drink and a special McNugget Buddy collectible. I'm Brian Shook. And I'm Ryan Curtis in Hong Kong. Let's check this hour's top business stories and the markets. And we begin with more on the American statement. Henry Kissinger's life. Kissinger passed away today at his home in Connecticut. He was 100. Some thoughts here on Kissinger's life from Rick Davis, Splumberg politics contributor and partner at Stonekirk Capital. People really take granted keen the strategic mind that he had. He didn't think in terms of just, you know, how do you navigate the United States through the world, but he realized that all these other countries and leaders were like colliding planets with our ambitions to secure a peaceful and prosperous world. And that kind of, you know, multidimensional chess game that he performed on the world stage for the better part of 70 years was really quite amazing. That's Rick Davis looking back on the life of Henry Kissinger. In business news, we had China's November manufacturing PMI numbers coming in at 49 .4, the estimate 49 .8, and the non -manufacturing PMI was 50 .2, and that was also a miss. US Treasuries rose on bets the Fed will cut interest rates in the first half of next year. Today, two Fed officials made the case for continuing to hold interest rates steady. Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester said policy is well positioned here. Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic said he's growing confident that inflation is firmly on a downward path. On the other hand, Richmond Fed chief Thomas Barkin told CNBC he's not yet convinced. I think you want to have the option of doing more. on rates. I guess the bigger point is there's no precision that anyone can point to at exactly what is the level of rates that exactly handles inflation in exactly the way you want to handle it and so you're constantly trying to adjust on the fly as you learn more about the impact of demand on inflation. That's what we're learning as we Thomas Barkin. In corporate news, two health insurance giants in merger talks. The story from Anne Cates. Cigna and Humana are working on a potential cash and stock combination that would create a giant the in health insurance industry. The two have become a powerful challenger to United Health and CVS Health. The move would also shrink the number of publicly traded national health insurers from six to five and give the Cigna, Humana entity more leverage and negotiating with hospitals or Medicare. The tie -up would likely face antitrust hurdles. In Washington, Anne Cates, Bloomberg Radio. Let's check the markets in Asia. The CSI 300 is moving up now about a of quarter one percent. The Hanks index up a tenth of a percent. The Nikkei going the other direction with a drop of about two cents of one percent. Dolly Yen, $147 .03 and the yield on the 10 -year Treasury, 4 .26 percent.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Gavin Wax
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Wow. It's Monday. Happy Monday. Do you know where you are? You're in New York City. No. I got to tell you something. I've been saying the same thing, but I've been so busy that it gets to a point where it's unhealthy. So, folks, feel free. I covet your intercession. If you don't understand that phrase, good. I covet your intercession because it's been tough. Good stuff, but last week I was in Omaha, Nebraska. This weekend I was in Colorado Springs. I want to talk about that. Just to let you know, in hour one today, in a couple of minutes, we're talking to Gavin Wax. He's the head of the New York Young Republicans Club. We're going to be talking about Israel, current events, Biden, Trump, everything current events, and he's terrific, so in a couple of minutes. In hour two, we're talking to the world's tallest man that we've ever interviewed. He is seven feet tall, and when he came into the studio, I got physically frightened. Suddenly I felt like a mouse, and I ran. You grabbed his harp and you ran out of the castle. And I clambered down the beanstalk, and then I realized, no, that was all in my head. But he's seven feet tall. I want to be clear, John Disneyland has a lot of things to say. We don't talk about his height, but I want to tell you, Nehemiah Strong, he wrote a book called Nehemiah Strong. I won't say anything except it is fantastic, fantastic, and we've got to have him back. He's an amazing man, but he is the tallest person I've ever interviewed, and we decided that he's the tallest person I'm ever going to interview. We're putting a cap on it, so anybody who is taller than seven feet, if you say, we emailed the program, we sent you our book, I'm sorry, those are the rules. John Disneyland is the tallest person I'm ever going to interview, okay? We had to cap it. At some point, it gets out of hand. It's like a limbo pole. It's like if you go any higher, you're out. Something like that, or the opposite. But honestly, we just had to put a cap on it. You've got to have limits. You've got to make rules, folks. Seven feet, that's it. I'm sorry, okay? I don't make the rules, except in this case I did. All right, so that's what we have coming up today, really, really strong conversations. Tomorrow, in hour one, I have a next -level conversation with the great Naomi Wolf. You'll see. That's hour one tomorrow. She's a big deal. She's a gift to this country at this time, I got to tell you. Later on in the week, we have Doug Giles. He's the hippie -dippie weatherman that kills lions. Always fun. Yes. We've got a lot of guests coming up. And then tomorrow, we're filming, this week, we're filming some Socrates in the Studio events, which I can't say too much about that. But in December, we're launching a streaming platform, Socrates Plus. So exciting. And we're going to be posting some of these things. Heather McDonald, Anthony Bradley, whom I know from the King's that we're finally doing some Socrates in the Studio events. But to get back to where I've been, I was in Omaha. I spoke at Hank Kunneman's church last week. I emailed Pastor Hank and his wife, Brenda. I said, you know, I'm going to be in Omaha for this event with the Speravita Institute. By the way, the Speravita Institute, amazing, amazing. I keep meeting these heroes. It was incredible. But so I spoke at Pastor Hank's church. I just went to dinner. They said, oh, we have a Wednesday night service. Would you preach? So I did. Then we went to Colorado Springs for Jim Dobson, who is a living legend and a great American hero. Doesn't get greater. He puts on a thing at the Broadmoor Hotel every year called The Gathering. The Gathering sounds like creepy a seventies movie. The Gathering, right? Yeah, it does. Yeah, The Gathering. I think it's a I think it's a role playing game that you buy packs of The Gathering. Yeah. Were there robes and hoods? Yeah, I thought of I thought of a title for a for a bad horror film called The Blooding. I knew Chris would laugh. The Blooding. Yeah. The Gathering. Anyway. Anyway, so you brought hearing you brought your amulets to The Gathering. Yes. The Jim Dobson puts us on every year. And I want to say Charlie Kirk spoke. And he just you know, he's got nothing new. He's it's a lot of fluff, basically. A lot of a lot of fluff. No, he's such he's such a wonderful. It's such a joy to to hear Charlie. Ben Carson spoke. Jack Hibbs spoke. I put this on on Twitter and on Instagram. But to be around folks like that is so encouraging because there's they're saying a lot of what I'm saying. And I realized they didn't get it from me. This is God speaking, you know, some truth to encourage us. So it was it was wonderful. I spoke on Saturday night, followed by Gary Bauer. Gary Bauer. We got to get him on the program. Gave a speech. I just thought this was so amazing. It was such an amazing speech because normally I go places on the speaker. I don't get to hear people. And it was absolutely amazing. There was also a video from the new speaker, Mike Johnson. Incredible. We're going to be talking about him with Gavin Wax today. But honestly, it was it was it was such a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing. But we've got to get Gary Bauer here in the studio because some of the stuff he spoke about, I just thought it was just beautiful, powerful, powerful stuff. And he's taken on a position with the James Dobson Family Institute. So anyway, OK, that was that was incredible. And then your wife joined you, too, which is always fun. And Suzanne joined me, which is always fun and wonderful that we get to travel together. She may go with me next week to Dallas. I'll be in Dallas. I'll be in Chicago at the end of this week. Next week, I'm in Dallas, the Council for Life. After that, going to Washington, D .C., Intercessors for America. Dutch Sheets will be speaking at that. I'll be speaking at that. So a lot of exciting stuff coming up everywhere I go. I tell people, please sign up, go to Metaxas, go to Eric Metaxas dot com to sign up for my newsletter because you're missing stuff. We just I did an interview last week with this Trump impersonator guy. I don't remember his name, John John D. Domenico. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, trust me, like he is so great. It was so funny. It got a zillion views on rumble like it got it got 10 times as many views as we normally get. What's great about John is I think he's one of the best impersonators out there for Trump. I think a lot of people just memorize bits. He actually can improvise in the voice like he's done it so long. He knows that's no that's the genius is that you could say anything. And I was asking him like real journalistic questions and he responds no matter what you throw at him. You don't want to miss it if you if it's if well, it's on rumble and also we're going to rerun it, too. We'll rerun it. But you got to you got to go to Eric. Folks, don't make me beg. I'm trying to do you a favor. We're doing interviews with people that if you miss this stuff, watching these videos, Eric Metaxas dot com, please just go there, sign up. You'll see what I'm talking about. And if you don't want to listen to them, you just blow it off. You just hit delete or ignore it. But we're interviewing some really fabulous people. And I want you to see it. Speaking of which, we've got to get our friend Michael and Del back on the program because he's being attacked like crazy. And he's a hero. I know Mike. He's amazing. And if you want to support him, you talk about being attacked and canceled. Please go to my pillow dot com. Use the code, Eric. What do we need to talk about? Do I need to tell you about the towels? How they're the greatest towels in the world? And I'm not making that up. Like I'm not making very good. We got a bunch when we did the holiday special years ago. He brought a bunch and threw them out in a Santa costume and they've held up. We have them in our still in our house in a house with six kids. These towels have held up. Yeah. We're still thirsty as all get out. We fight over them. The children fight over them because no matter how thirsty they are, they will never consume an Anheuser -Busch product ever because they're Michael and Del towels. They're principled. They're principled towels. And we need more principled cotton products. Um, my pillow .com use the code Eric and people say, Eric, where can I get your books? Almost all of my books. I would steer you to my store .com. I have a number of my children's books are there. My store .com. If you want to give your money, not to Amazon, but to Michael and Del, my store .com and use the code Eric. Uh, we would appreciate that. Okay. Today, Gavin wax and John Disneyland, world's tallest interviewee ever on the show for 10 years, Patriot mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only trust me, they're the only one Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. Patriot mobile offers dependable nationwide coverage, giving you the ability to access all three major networks, which means you get the left. When you switch to Patriot mobile, you're sending the message that you support free speech, religious freedom, the sanctity of life, second amendment in our military veterans and first responder heroes. They're 100 % us -based customer service team makes switching easy. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Dyslin
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Wow. It's Monday. Happy Monday. Do you know where you are? You're in New York City. No. I got to tell you something. I've been saying the same thing, but I've been so busy that it gets to a point where it's unhealthy. So, folks, feel free. I covet your intercession. If you don't understand that phrase, good. I covet your intercession because it's been tough. Good stuff, but last week I was in Omaha, Nebraska. This weekend I was in Colorado Springs. I want to talk about that. Just to let you know, in hour one today, in a couple of minutes, we're talking to Gavin Wax. He's the head of the New York Young Republicans Club. We're going to be talking about Israel, current events, Biden, Trump, everything current events, and he's terrific, so in a couple of minutes. In hour two, we're talking to the world's tallest man that we've ever interviewed. He is seven feet tall, and when he came into the studio, I got physically frightened. Suddenly I felt like a mouse, and I ran. You grabbed his harp and you ran out of the castle. And I clambered down the beanstalk, and then I realized, no, that was all in my head. But he's seven feet tall. I want to be clear, John Disneyland has a lot of things to say. We don't talk about his height, but I want to tell you, Nehemiah Strong, he wrote a book called Nehemiah Strong. I won't say anything except it is fantastic, fantastic, and we've got to have him back. He's an amazing man, but he is the tallest person I've ever interviewed, and we decided that he's the tallest person I'm ever going to interview. We're putting a cap on it, so anybody who is taller than seven feet, if you say, we emailed the program, we sent you our book, I'm sorry, those are the rules, John Disneyland is the tallest person I'm ever going to interview. We had to cap it. At some point, it gets out of hand. It's like a limbo pole. If you go any higher, you're out. Something like that, or the opposite. But honestly, we just had to put a cap on it. You've got to have limits. You've got to make rules, folks. Seven feet, that's it. I'm sorry. I don't make the rules, except in this case, I did. That's what we have coming up today. Really, really strong conversations. Tomorrow, in hour one, I have a next -level conversation with the great Naomi Wolf. You'll see. That's hour one tomorrow. She's a big deal. She's a gift to this country at this time, I've got to tell you. Later on in the week, we have Doug Giles. He's the hippy -dippy weatherman that kills lions. Always fun. Yes. We've got a lot of guests coming up. This week, we're filming some Socrates in the Studio events. I can't say too much about that, but in December, we're launching a streaming platform, Socrates Plus. So exciting. We're going to be posting some of these things. Heather McDonald, Anthony Bradley, whom I know from the King's College. Interesting that we're finally doing some Socrates in the Studio events. But to get back to where I've been, I was in Omaha. I spoke at Hank Kunneman's church last week. I emailed Pastor Hank and his wife, Brenda. I said, I'm going to be in Omaha for this event with the Speravita Institute. By the way, the Speravita Institute, amazing. Amazing. I keep meeting these heroes. It was incredible. But so I spoke at Pastor Hank's and said, oh, we have a Wednesday night service. Would you preach? So I did. Then we went to Colorado Springs for Jim Dobson, who is a living legend and a great American hero. Doesn't get greater. He puts on a thing at the Broadmoor Hotel every year called The Gathering. The Gathering sounds like a creepy seventies movie, The Gathering, right? Yeah, it does. Yeah. The Gathering. The Gathering. Yeah. Were there robes and hoods and things? Yeah. I thought of a title for a bad horror film called The Blooding. I knew Chris would laugh. The Blooding. The Gathering. Anyway. So you brought your amulets to The Gathering? Yes. Jim Dobson puts us on every year. And I want to say Charlie Kirk spoke, and he's got nothing new. It's a lot of fluff, basically. A lot of fluff. No, he's such a wonderful. It's such a joy to hear Charlie. Ben Carson spoke. Jack Hibbs spoke. I put this on Twitter and on Instagram. But to be around folks like that is so encouraging because they're saying a lot of what I'm saying. And I realized they it was wonderful. I spoke on Saturday night, followed by Gary Bauer. Gary Bauer. We got to get him on the program. Gave a speech. I just thought this was so amazing. It was such an amazing speech because normally I go places. I'm the speaker. I don't get to hear people. And it was absolutely amazing. There was also a video from the new speaker, Mike Johnson. Incredible. We're going to be talking about him with Gavin Wax today. But honestly, it was it was it was such a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing. But we've got to get Gary Bauer here in the studio because some of the stuff he spoke about, I just thought it was just beautiful, powerful, powerful stuff. And he's taken on a position with the James Dobson Family Institute. So anyway, OK, that was that was incredible. And then your wife joined you, too, which is always fun. And Suzanne joined me, which is always fun and wonderful that we get to travel together. She may go with me next week to Dallas. I'll be in Dallas. I'll be in Chicago at the end of this week. Next week, I'm in Dallas, the Council for Life. After that, going to Washington, D .C., Intercessors for America. Dutch Sheets will be speaking at that. I'll be speaking at that. So a lot of exciting stuff coming up everywhere I go. I tell people, please sign up, go to Metaxas, go to Eric Metaxas dot com to sign up for my newsletter because you're missing stuff. We just I did an interview last week with this Trump impersonator guy. I don't remember his name, John. John D. Domenico. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, trust me, like he is so great. It was so funny. It got a zillion views on Rome. Yeah, ten it got times as many views as we normally. What's great about John is I think he's one of the best impersonators out there for Trump. I think a lot of people just memorize bits. He actually can improvise in the voice like he's done it so long. He knows exactly. That's no that's the genius is that you could say anything. And I was asking him like real journalistic questions and he responds no matter what you throw at him. You don't want to miss it. If you and we're also going to rerun it, too. We'll rerun it. But you got to you got to go to Eric. Folks, don't make me beg. I'm trying to do you a favor. We're doing interviews with people that if you miss this stuff, watching these videos, Eric Metaxas dot com, please just go there. Sign up. You'll see what I'm talking about. And if you don't want to listen to them, you just blow it off. You just hit delete or ignore it. But you're we're interviewing some really fabulous people and I want you to see it. Speaking of which, we've got to get our friend Michael and Del back on the program because he's being attacked like crazy. And he's a hero. I know, Mike, he's amazing. And if you want to support him, you talk about being attacked and canceled. Please go to my pillow dot com. Use the code, Eric. What do we need to talk about? Do I need to tell you about the towels? How they're the greatest towels in the world? And I'm not making that up like I'm not making very good. We got a bunch when we did the holiday special years ago. 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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 10-30-2023 16:00
"The world is more complex than ever, but that complexity pushes me to look at the bigger picture. I'm Emily Chang, and I cover tech, culture, innovation, and the future of business for Bloomberg. At Bloomberg, reporters like me dig into the context of a story so you understand how it impacts you. Because context changes how you see things, how you change things. Context changes everything. Start watching my shows and more at Bloomberg .com. There's the closing ballots, and it does look like we're going to finish higher on the day. It doesn't look that way for the month, but that's a separate story. We have the S &P 500 up by 1 .6 percent, or I should say 1 .2 percent. I'm looking at the Dow Jones up by 1 .6 percent, and the Nasdaq gaining 1 .2 percent as well. And the laggard here is the Russell 2000 up by two -thirds of 1 percent, but notably higher as well. All right, we're going to get a breakdown into the groups in just a moment. Some individual movers, we're watching some earnings. But if I look at the S &P 500, 399 names scarlet to the upside, 102 to the downside, 2 unchanged. So investors willing to do some buying today? Willing to do some buying. That shows up in the industry groups as well. 24 industry groups. The only sector in the red right now is the autos and components one. That includes Tesla off by 4 .1 percent. See that red bar at the very bottom? That's the autos group. Everything else in the green, including, let's see, four groups that have gained at least 2 percent. Retail, telecoms and transportation leading the way here. All right, guys, let's get to some of the individual gainers in today's session. And McDonald's is definitely on that list. Up two and a half percent at its highs, finishing the day with about a 1 .7 percent gain. Has to do after it came out with its quarterly update. Third quarter sales and profits, it was a beat thanks to higher prices and movie -inspired ads. U .S. customer traffic, though, it did dip for the first time this year. So just something to keep in mind that not every report was.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from 2 Reasons Bitcoin OVERPOWERS The Stock Market (Next Global SUPERPOWER)
"When do you see Bitcoin breaking that correlation and becoming something other than a risk asset, a true store of value? It's this cycle. So there's two main reasons. What's up, everybody? Welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. We've got a great guest lined up. We're gonna be talking with Joshua Jake. How are you doing? How are you feeling? I'm doing great. Got off the plane coming to Atlanta just a few days back, you know, got on the plane at like $28 ,000 Bitcoin, maybe it was a 30K, but by the time it was off, 35K, market's going wild. People going, where's this money coming from? Is this retailers? Is this institutions? Is this BlackRock's fault? Is this not BlackRock's fault? And you know, it's just an exciting time to be in the markets for the first time in like three years. So I'm excited to be here. I mean, I can echo that. A lot of people have come in in this live. I mean, we have a huge amount of adoption over the last two years and it kind of dwindled off. Engagement dwindled off. We see that as creators on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram where we get all those metrics. So is there any sort of thought you have right now that you'd like to share with anybody, whether they're new in the market or they've been around for a long time, what's something that we need to consider with this new hype coming in? We got that God candle. Is there anything that we should be worried about? Is there any different sort of risk management we need to be doing? How do we not fall victim to these green candles and get ourselves in the wrong side of the position? Yeah, great question. I would say, honestly, the first thing is realizing that we've been lied to nonstop from our financial institutions, our asset managers, just year after year after year. How many times has crypto had an obituary? It's been like a thousand times at this point. There was actually just a recent article that showed CNBC and Bloomberg. So shout out to those analysts that have predicted the death of Bitcoin over like I think 25 times and 35 for the other. So moving into this new cycle, as we see hype come back and this life come back into these markets, it's the same vibes of early 2020 before we saw that rally into 2021. Don't chase the green candlesticks, right? venture capitalists, asset managers, banks, they don't chase green candlesticks, right? They're buying and accumulating year after year when we're in a bear market. So if you're brand new to this industry, you just see a big green candlestick and you're like, man, I should buy before it goes up further. Just take a breath, sit back and just let it find support. Just give it a moment and truly just understand what the asset you are buying actually is, how it functions, what the utility is before you make that investment decision. I mean, I couldn't agree with that anymore. You know, we talk about other people like Michael Saylor. He's become like, I don't wanna call him the mascot or the spokesman of the Bitcoin space, but he is case in point, you know, just taking it to the shoulder, taking it to the face, taking it to the back when he's just been DCA -ing nonstop. Some people call him dumb in some areas where he's buying near a top, but then you see he's also buying near a bottom. It's that, you know, time -tested strategy of buying because he sees value long -term. So how does one gain confidence when they're seeing the market swing about and, you know, to have that confidence to be a consistent buyer. But we were talking earlier, you mentioned that one of your main strategies, barring any other trading, your main strategy is DCA. So how does somebody, whether they're trading right now, they just got in or they've been around for a long time, why should somebody DCA? Why do you use that as a strategy and how can we implement that in all of our own portfolios to have more consistency and longevity in this market? Yeah, so there's two main reasons. The first one is just time in the market always beats time in the market. I think that's a historical model. A lot of people that have tracked the S &P and just traditionally traded, they follow that metric, right? You don't wanna be trying to time the bottom, time the top, just consistently average in. The second point of that is going to be just watch your local news media right now. Watch CNBC, watch Fox News, watch CNN. And not in the sense that you're gonna take and absorb information from there, but realize that every economist in the world right now that has the PhDs, has the master's degrees, has 14 books, has a $100 million hedge fund or $100 billion hedge fund, they're all fighting. They cannot compromise. They cannot come to agreement, right? Whether it's the war in the Middle East or it's the war in Ukraine or it's developments in the Pacific, people don't understand and can't figure out where we're heading in the future because we just printed $9 trillion in the last three years. So this is like the first time I think you've seen a lot of economists not say, hey, take a pause back. Let's focus on risk off assets or let's focus on risk on assets. It's more or less, man, when is the feds gonna pivot? Are they gonna pivot too quickly? Is this gonna break the wage versus wealth gap in America? Are we screwed? As a 26 year old, am I ever gonna be able to buy a home again in my life, right? These are those questions that are starting to ramp up. So off that second topic, how do I position myself? I don't care necessarily what someone that's 70 or 80 plus years old is wondering about what's going on in the market. So you just brought up Michael Saylor. He's either gonna be the next generation Warren Buffett because he makes the best trade in his life off Bitcoin, or he's gonna fail miserably. Now I like to lean towards the positive side of that because I am very bullish on Bitcoin, but that's my outlook. When I see all these economists and these people that have been managing these hedge funds and asset management firms for what, two, three, four decades at now, when they tell me that I'm wrong, that crypto is a bad investment and I see the adoption on the backend, all I go is show them the chart of the wage versus prosperity gap in America. Go to 1971, WTF, I won't say the word, but happened WTF in 1971 .com and you're gonna look at the wage versus prosperity gap. Our politicians, our lobbyists, our economists, they've been wrong for 50 years. This inflation's not stopping and it's not going to stop. So how I hedge myself is I follow something pretty similar to the 50 -25 -25 rule. What that rule is is 50 % of, this is my personal opinion, not FA, we know the rules here, is ultimately gonna be into those large caps, Bitcoin, ETH, some people like MATIC, some people like XRP, whatever your blue chips are. Personally, that's Bitcoin and ETH. The next 25 % is gonna be your large caps, mid caps, you know, you wanna diversify and that last 25 % is gonna be the VC strategy, right? You need to think like a venture capitalist coming into this space. This is the jungle, this is Wall Street 2 .0. This is no different than Silicon Valley, this is no different than the dot -com bubble. There's VCs coming in here like sharks, wrapping softwares and services in a product or a utility token and then just pumping and dumping a same product that's a copy and paste of the previous. And so for that reason, I treat it like just VCs. I want to diversify and invest into quite a few, understanding that yes, six to seven of them are going to go to zero, three to four of them are gonna break even and one is gonna hit that moon back. So I'm gonna pause you there just for a moment, just to clarify, 50 % Bitcoin and Ethereum or Bitcoin or Ethereum, another 25%, those other blue chips, we're talking, you know, something probably in the top 20, I would guess, right? Yeah, top 20, 30. And then the last 25%, you said VC, so it's a higher risk, the lower market cap most likely, are you putting all of that 25 % into one? Are you breaking up it into five, 10, 15? I suppose that might be determined on how large the capital pool is that you're pulling from. Definitely breaking up, yeah. You know, the moment you're taking more than even 5 % of your overall 100%, right? So if we have 100 % of that portfolio, you know, you shouldn't be allocating 25 % of that to Meme coins, right? Things that have no utility or products that have no fundamental value at all, like hex, right? Yes, I'm gonna take a shot right there. You know, you want to spray and pray on that because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if necessarily these products have good utility or not. Look at Solana, it's broken down more than an ice cream machine from McDonald's. You've heard the memes, right? It's closed on Sundays like Chick -fil -A. So, you know, from that aspect, it's gonna come to that marketing. And so you, like, again, no utility, but they're gonna pump. So that's where you just want to diversify into, honestly, like 20, 30 cryptos. You know, we're talking about, you're putting 100, 200 bucks into a bunch of them. Understanding, yes, it might go to zero, but also this might be the next polygonmatic or this might be the next Decentraland Manna or whatever it is that we saw pump in 2021. You brought up a great point earlier, and I want to get your perspective on this. This is, I think, a very important consideration with Bitcoin because Bitcoin, in a lot of ways, drives the crypto ecosystem. So what happens with this narrative, I have to ask you, with risk on, risk off, currently it's still considered a risk off sort of asset in terms of you're going to typically want to look to Bitcoin when risk comes back in the market, right? Because it's high risk. So is it risk on, is it risk off? This debate about Bitcoin still being, whether or not it's digital gold, it's going to be an inflation hedge. I think in the long term it will. But I have to ask, what's your perspective on when Bitcoin may flip out of that risk narrative, where it's truly a commodity, where it truly not only trades in its own sort of sector, but also against, counter to, for instance, right now, we see the markets maybe on the cusp of breaking down, especially after the Fed pivots. Is Bitcoin ready to have a true and sustained and continual breaking of correlation with traditional assets? When do you see Bitcoin breaking that correlation and becoming something other than a risk asset, a true store of value? It's this cycle. You get a lot of talks of de -dollarization. There's lots of talks of BRICS, China, Russia, Brazil, India, South America, all coming together and building a system that's an alternative to our current currency in the United States. Now, for that reason, that's because of all the money printing we've been printing the last few years. And inevitably we've been in debting third world countries, second world countries with world bank loans. And what happens when the United States raises their interest rates and force us to not only print more money ourselves to pay back our own interest rates, because next year we're going to be paying back $1 .25 trillion annually just in debts that we owe based off our own interests. It's ridiculous. But people don't realize the impact that has on third world countries and second world countries. These countries are indebted to the United States. They have US debts, US treasuries, right? So when they're holding onto these assets, it's going to force them to print more of their own money just to pay back off the US loans that they owe, right? So, you know, it causes hyperinflation and destabilizes a lot of countries. And for this reason, you've seen a lot of second world countries, third world countries now come into play and starting to do things like in the Middle East, you had, I believe it's pronounced Oman. I could be pronouncing that Middle Eastern country wrong, but this is right on the border of Saudi Arabia. This is in that oil basin area. They're investing $1 .1 billion into converting wasted natural gas and methane emissions and that value with Bitcoin miners. What do I mean by that? Well, this is where the world's greatest commodity comes into play. You see, you know, most of the energy that's created in our world through our fossil fuels. So let's get this out. You know, Greta Thunberg was wrong, okay? You know, we need nuclear. We do need to go towards renewables, but we rely on fossil fuels. That's not going to go away. And the infrastructure that's been built out in the United States and globally, it would take us years, if not decades, to replace the equipment and infrastructure to support new energy. So with that understanding, we have all of this energy being created and you have, and I'm sure you guys have seen it, but oil fields where there's flaring gas emissions and burning off all these oil emissions into our atmosphere. Pure waste, why not harness it? Exactly, and so we're now seeing companies like Crusoe Energy, Clean Spark, and a lot of companies come together through Exxon, ConocoPhillips, even Gazprom, which is going to be one of the largest oil providers in the world out of Russia. They're all converting a lot of that wasted energy into that value with Bitcoin and that can be done anywhere. So for that reason, I think this next cycle, this is the time where we have the Spot ETFs. We've watched BlackRock, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, everybody manipulate our markets for the last five years. They're calling it a money laundering index. They're saying it's a scam. They're saying it's going to go to zero. Meanwhile, the whole time they're investing on the back end and getting ready to develop what I believe is going to be the next biggest financial product ever, which is a Bitcoin Spot ETF. Joshua, it's been great talking with you. Where can everybody find you? Give us your socials. When are you going to come back? Yeah, so it's Joshua Jake on all socials. I do a lot right now. I just actually sold my personal marketing company, but right now you can find me on TikTok, Twitter, and then of course, YouTube. But YouTube, I'm actually transitioning, guys. It actually looks like I'll be here about every other week on Discover Crypto, hosting your guys' morning show and doing a lot more interviews and content like this with you guys here in Georgia. So stay tuned for some crazy announcements coming out of that. You can also find me on CRU Plus, which is going to be CryptosRS is George's new program. I'm hosting a show called Beyond the Headlines where I go in depth on your macroeconomics. I'd hag on certain presidential candidates and I just talk about the real things that need to be talked about in these markets that do affect crypto. Well, right on. We appreciate you being here and talking and going surface level and going super deep. I hope you all enjoyed that. Make sure you hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, ding the bell, join us here in our community. Positive encouragement, data -driven, trying to bring you the best, the peak and information here in the crypto markets and looking at those broader markets too. Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday. Thank you for being here with us. That's all I got. Adios muchachos. Thanks guys.
The Mason Minute
Spilled Coffee (MM #4601)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Back in 1993 -94, McDonald's was involved in a lawsuit over their coffee. That's why we have those little disclaimers on all coffee cups now that say caution, hot contents or some form of that. Yeah, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit is very fascinating reading and it's been parodied on most Seinfeld and a host of other TV shows and movies and things like that throughout the years. You would think by now places that served coffee would make sure it didn't happen again. But just recently in Georgia, $3 million awarded to a Dunkin Donuts patron who had scalding coffee spilled into their lap. It's been 30 years since the original McDonald's lawsuit. Come to find out back before that lawsuit, there would be hundreds of people a year who were scalded by coffee and never filed a lawsuit. At this point, places that serve coffee should know better. Even if you've got disclaimers on the cups, you've got to watch how hot it gets and more importantly, make sure you have a cup that has a lid that stays on. Lids fall off these cheap cups all the time now. Three million dollars later, a Dunkin Donuts franchisee is feeling the pain.
The Mason Minute
Spilled Coffee (MM #4601)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Back in 1993 -94, McDonald's was involved in a lawsuit over their coffee. That's why we have those little disclaimers on all coffee cups now that say caution, hot contents or some form of that. Yeah, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit is very fascinating reading and it's been parodied on most Seinfeld and a host of other TV shows and movies and things like that throughout the years. You would think by now places that served coffee would make sure it didn't happen again. But just recently in Georgia, $3 million awarded to a Dunkin Donuts patron who had scalding coffee spilled into their lap. It's been 30 years since the original McDonald's lawsuit. Come to find out back before that lawsuit, there would be hundreds of people a year who were scalded by coffee and never filed a lawsuit. At this point, places that serve coffee should know better. Even if you've got disclaimers on the cups, you've got to watch how hot it gets and more importantly, make sure you have a cup that has a lid that stays on. Lids fall off these cheap cups all the time now. Three million dollars later, a Dunkin Donuts franchisee is feeling the pain.
The Mason Minute
Spilled Coffee (MM #4601)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Back in 1993 -94, McDonald's was involved in a lawsuit over their coffee. That's why we have those little disclaimers on all coffee cups now that say caution, hot contents or some form of that. Yeah, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit is very fascinating reading and it's been parodied on most Seinfeld and a host of other TV shows and movies and things like that throughout the years. You would think by now places that served coffee would make sure it didn't happen again. But just recently in Georgia, $3 million awarded to a Dunkin Donuts patron who had scalding coffee spilled into their lap. It's been 30 years since the original McDonald's lawsuit. Come to find out back before that lawsuit, there would be hundreds of people a year who were scalded by coffee and never filed a lawsuit. At this point, places that serve coffee should know better. Even if you've got disclaimers on the cups, you've got to watch how hot it gets and more importantly, make sure you have a cup that has a lid that stays on. Lids fall off these cheap cups all the time now. Three million dollars later, a Dunkin Donuts franchisee is feeling the pain.
The Mason Minute
Spilled Coffee (MM #4601)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Back in 1993 -94, McDonald's was involved in a lawsuit over their coffee. That's why we have those little disclaimers on all coffee cups now that say caution, hot contents or some form of that. Yeah, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit is very fascinating reading and it's been parodied on most Seinfeld and a host of other TV shows and movies and things like that throughout the years. You would think by now places that served coffee would make sure it didn't happen again. But just recently in Georgia, $3 million awarded to a Dunkin Donuts patron who had scalding coffee spilled into their lap. It's been 30 years since the original McDonald's lawsuit. Come to find out back before that lawsuit, there would be hundreds of people a year who were scalded by coffee and never filed a lawsuit. At this point, places that serve coffee should know better. Even if you've got disclaimers on the cups, you've got to watch how hot it gets and more importantly, make sure you have a cup that has a lid that stays on. Lids fall off these cheap cups all the time now. Three million dollars later, a Dunkin Donuts franchisee is feeling the pain.
The Mason Minute
Spilled Coffee (MM #4601)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Back in 1993 -94, McDonald's was involved in a lawsuit over their coffee. That's why we have those little disclaimers on all coffee cups now that say caution, hot contents or some form of that. Yeah, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit is very fascinating reading and it's been parodied on most Seinfeld and a host of other TV shows and movies and things like that throughout the years. You would think by now places that served coffee would make sure it didn't happen again. But just recently in Georgia, $3 million awarded to a Dunkin Donuts patron who had scalding coffee spilled into their lap. It's been 30 years since the original McDonald's lawsuit. Come to find out back before that lawsuit, there would be hundreds of people a year who were scalded by coffee and never filed a lawsuit. At this point, places that serve coffee should know better. Even if you've got disclaimers on the cups, you've got to watch how hot it gets and more importantly, make sure you have a cup that has a lid that stays on. Lids fall off these cheap cups all the time now. Three million dollars later, a Dunkin Donuts franchisee is feeling the pain.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Bucks Extend Giannis & Pre Season Storylines
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Valid one time per day. Excludes $1 to $3 menu. It's the crossover. Sports Illustrated's NBA show. Breaking down the latest news, rumors, and everything in between. Here's your host, Chris Mannix and Rohan Nadkarni. This is the Crossover NBA Podcast. I'm Chris Mannix joined this week by my colleague at Sports Illustrated, Rohan Nadkarni. And Rohan, it's always good when we have some breaking news on the podcast. We are recording this on the day the NBA returns. Tuesday night, double header, Warriors Suns, Lakers Nuggets. That's going to be a lot of fun to watch on Tuesday. But the big story over the weekend was Giannis Atentecumpo once again saying, Milwaukee, you are my home. Giannis agreeing to a three -year, $186 million contract extension. We'll get into kind of the nuances of why this extension makes sense financially right now. And why he would do it now. And what kind of contracts he can sign in the future. But this was something I think that Bucs fans and the Bucs front office was optimistic about in the aftermath of Milwaukee acquiring Damian Lillard. But now, here we are with Damian Lillard under contract for the next four seasons. Giannis Atentecumpo under contract for, I believe, three of the next four seasons. I'll get the numbers right. But the last year's a player option of that deal. But he's under contract at least until his early 30s, putting him through his prime years in Milwaukee. Your reaction to this deal getting done at the 11th hour before the start of the season? Pretty surprised only because Giannis himself kind of mentioned early this summer why financially it wouldn't make the most sense for him to do it now. As you alluded to, there is some kind of not quite complicated math, but a series of steps that Giannis can undergo to kind of maximize the financial impact of taking this deal now. So he's still coming out ahead money -wise. I mean, I wrote when the Damian Lillard trade went down, I should say, that this was a huge win and it only becomes a bigger win for Milwaukee if Giannis signs. And that's what happened. And I think, listen, this team, the expectations still win a title, all those things. But for the city of Milwaukee, for the franchise, even if they don't win a title now, if you get another three or four years of Giannis at Centecumpo, you get his entire prime in Milwaukee. You put off the conversation, at least for a couple years, about whether he's leaving, etc. That's a huge win. It makes the Lillard trade a win already. It's really incredible work by their franchise. I mean, we sat here, Chris, I'd say at the beginning of the summer, kind of wondering aloud what moves are on the table for the Bucks because they looked a little bit boxed in at the start of the summer in terms of what they could do to improve the roster around Giannis. To go around and get Damian Lillard and then sign Giannis to an extension the same summer, when no one was expecting either of those moves, it's an unequivocal, unqualified, total home run for the Bucks. No, I tweeted this in the immediate aftermath. This was an executive of the year stretch for John Horst. Not only does he get Damian Lillard into the fold, which makes the Bucks better in the short term, he ensures long -term viability by getting Giannis' name on a contract. Just to clear up the math here and sort of explain what kind of deal Giannis has signed. He is under contract now for the next four years. This year's age 28 season, he's going to make $45 .6 million. Next year, he'll make $45 .8 million. The new deal kicks in in the 25 -26 season, which will put Giannis at $57 .6 million that year, $62 .2 million in 26 -27. He has a player option for 22 -28, which would be year five of this new deal that he's operating under, which is worth $66 .8 million. The reason that he signs this contract right now, and I want to give credit to Bobby Marks, the ESPN front office insider, because he's been able to explain this in a way even idiots like you and me can't understand. It's mutually beneficial for the two sides to do a deal like this right now. Because of that over 38 rule that exists, Giannis could sign a short -term extension again with Milwaukee in 2026, and then a four -year extension with the Bucks in 2028. What this deal is effectively doing, or the message it's sending, is that Giannis is a buck for life. He's going to be alongside Damian Lillard for the next four seasons. That's a guy we've talked about a lot. He likes Damian Lillard, and he wants to play with Damian Lillard. Not only is Giannis getting himself financially set up for the short term by signing this three -year extension, he is putting the dominoes in place to make the max possible amount of money over the next 10 years of his playing career. Anyone that might have been wondering if Giannis is going to be a buck over the long term, it sure looks right now that Giannis is going to be playing in Milwaukee for the entirety of his NBA career. I think we're looking, Rohan, at another Dirk Nowitzki. I think this is kind of a Dirk -like situation where the Bucks have shown Giannis enough. They've shown Giannis enough that he is willing to commit to this team long term. Absolutely. And I'll just leave a little bit of room. Our old friend Howard Beck wrote about it today for The Ringer that everything is great right now. Up until things change, if this flames out, whatever, we've seen stars request trades, etc. I'll leave a little room for that, but I'm with you. And I think it's great for the NBA. I really do. I want to see Jokic in Denver for his entire career. I want to see Giannis in Milwaukee for his entire career. We've kind of lost that the last few years with guys moving around teams so much. There's been this conversation this week, should Kevin Durant have his jersey retired in Golden State? I think it'll happen and I think it's fine, but it's just not the same. It's not the same as a guy like Giannis staying in one place for his entire career. It's refreshing to see. I think it's just so good for the league. I'm excited, man. I'm excited to see him battle with the Celtics this year. I miss the days when it felt like you could think these two teams are going to have to get through each other for the next few years. We're setting up for that with Giannis and Tatum for the next few years. As a basketball fan, I'm just really excited. I think you hit the nail on the head. I think he's going to be kind of remembered as this generation's Dirk for just how synonymous he is with Milwaukee. The fact that Giannis said the things he said earlier this summer, he said he wants to play for a winner, and backed it up, I just think says a lot about the kind of person he is. That was not just posturing or whatever. Milwaukee made some good faith moves, and he signed a good faith extension in return. To contrast this with Lillard's situation in Portland, Lillard committed to the Blazers, but he didn't demand action out of them before he committed to them. Giannis came out this offseason in multiple interviews and said, I'm paraphrasing, of course. You've got to make sure that you have a championship roster around me. He put a lot of pressure on the Bucs to get something done. To the Bucs credit, for the second time in three years, they pulled off a deal that made Giannis happy. Drew Holiday, his acquisition a few years ago, that made Giannis happy. Now, Damian Lillard bringing him in, that makes Giannis happy. He was able to use his status with the team to push them to go all in for a championship. Once they did, he committed. He was true to his word, and said he would commit to the Milwaukee Bucs. I do think that's commendable for Giannis as well. I think, short term, if you're looking for questions about the Bucs, there are a couple of them. Chris Middleton is the most glaring. I have no idea what to expect from Chris Middleton this year. He missed half the season last year. Then there's that weird, vague pre -season talk for me. Well, I'm going to get to that. I'm going to get to that. I like the coaching stuff. Chris Middleton, his status is a big variable here. I think with a healthy Chris Middleton, the Bucs are the number one team in the East. It's still close, because I think Boston is really good, obviously. But with Middleton, I think they're number one. Without him, I think they're number two. I'm anxious to see how healthy he is at the start of the season, and how healthy he can be throughout the season. The other part of it is coaching. This Terry Stotts story has kind of gone away over the last couple of days. Frankly, who really cares about an assistant coaching change on an NBA team? This is a real thing. Terry Stotts was given a hands -on role to effectively be the architect of this Bucs offense. We know this, because Damian Lillard came out last week and said, Look, this is the same offense I ran in Portland. The guys that are veterans on the Milwaukee team were coming to him and saying, Well, what about this? What about that? What's the right way to run this particular play? Terry Stotts was not just a sage voice on Adrian Griffin's bench. He was someone that was intimately involved and integrally involved in what this team does offensively. We've seen the reporting that there was some kind of public blow up at a shoot around or a practice between Terry Stotts and Adrian Griffin. I had not heard about that. I had heard in the hours after Stotts decided to leave the team that he just wasn't comfortable being Adrian Griffin's assistant coach. That's kind of what it came down to. Terry Stotts has been head coach in the NBA for a long time. He has had some levels of success as a head coach. Adrian Griffin came in and Adrian Griffin, people have told me he rides his assistants out there. He makes them work pretty hard. Adrian Griffin worked under Scott Skiles for a while, worked under a number of different coaches in different situations. Adrian Griffin had high expectations and demanded a lot from his assistant coaches. The way I was explained to me was Terry Stotts just wasn't comfortable with the dynamic, didn't like the dynamic with Adrian Griffin. Maybe that dust up in practice was the straw that broke the camel's back, but it felt like the people I talked to that it was coming. I don't think this is inconsequential. I really don't because now everybody else on that Bucs staff gets bumped up a seat. Now you don't necessarily have the guy on the bench with that kind of gravitas is the right word, but certainly experience that Terry Stotts brought to the table. I don't think we can dismiss his exit as nothing because I do think it's something. Yeah, not to mention his relationship with Damian Lillard, right? I mean, that's something that I think was probably providing Dame some level of comfort. He obviously posted a photo of them together on Instagram after. Take that for what it's worth. I mean Terry Stotts and Damian Lillard will always have a great relationship. Terry Stotts empowered Damian Lillard over nine years. Like took him on as a rookie and helped develop him into the player he became. So I can understand the loyalty between Lillard and Stotts. The one interesting thing about the Bucs and Celtics, I'd say, is the questions around their coaching staffs. You know, Missoula had to deal with it a lot last year, especially during the playoffs. Now listen, at the end of the day, he came within a game seven and Jason Tatum maybe not turned his ankle of making it to the finals. So maybe that stuff was overblown. But, you know, there's been a lot of talk about the assistance the Celtics added this summer and the reasons they needed to do that. Bringing in a guy like Jeff Van Gundy, for example, to consult with them. And the importance of that experience that it's a lot of pressure on Adrian Griffin in his first year to deliver a team with title expectations. And now he's losing his most experienced assistant coach. It's going to be very interesting. I think that's a serious variable for the Bucs. We've seen it cut both ways. I mean, we've seen Nick Nurse have a lot of success. We've seen Emei Yudoka have a lot of success. Other times it doesn't go as well. So I think it's going to be very interesting keeping an eye on just how the coaching staff in both Milwaukee and Boston ultimately affects what those teams do. I think one of the undercurrents of the Celtics summer, for example, was maybe moving on from some of the guys that didn't fully buy in with Missoula. Guys who necessarily didn't have the best relationship with him. So I don't know that it's going to make a huge impact because they're just so much more talented than the rest of the conference. But I'm interested to see how that plays out. Yeah, it certainly adds a wrinkle to what Milwaukee's trying to do this season. I think with such a slim margin between the Celtics and the Bucs, anything can make a difference. So that's worth keeping an eye on this year.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Changing Political Landscape in Florida and Texas
"I cannot stress this enough with AI. I look at Buffalo, New York as a perfect example. There has not been a McDonald's opened in 25 years in Buffalo, New York. And I don't believe it's because they're not profitable. In fact, I know a franchise owner and it is very profitable. The problem is, and the reason why they don't own 10 of them is they cannot hire, right? AI will allow them to be able to go back to maybe actually growing and putting McDonald's. up another Welcome to the Financial Guys Podcast. Thanks again for downloading. We appreciate it. I've been off for a few weeks, so I'm a little bit rusty here. I don't think I was on, I don't know where I was last Wednesday. Last week, I think you were at a chiropractor. Oh, chiropractor last week. It was a last minute fill -in we had. My neck is still messed up, actually. I just said to Ann, I cracked my neck. It is funny because I bet Ann here will be like, Oh, I can't believe you're doing that. And then she'll go, I can't. So what cracks is my neck and now it's a nervous condition. It's really like, you know, I got this thing right here. I got to go back in maybe today. We'll see what happens. But anyway, I have to find a good chiropractor. We had one here and he moved. He was fantastic. Yeah. Dr. Brown was the best, but I got a good one in Florida. Unfortunate to have one down here. But when I come up there, I'm screwed. I just got to look. I've been too lazy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from NBA Over/Unders, Part 1: The Midwest and Southwest Divisions With Ryen Russillo and Joe House | Starring Jokic, Ja, SGA, and Luka
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Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from Cathie Wood on Investing Lessons, Spot Bitcoin ETFs, $1 Million Bitcoin and What Drives Her
"It is the first global private, meaning no government intervention, rules based monetary system that the world has ever known. Welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we get to explore the future of money, business, technology and Bitcoin's revolutionary promise to boost economic prosperity around the world and mend our broken financial system. I'm Natalie Brunell, and I'm here to learn with you. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. None of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. This podcast is made possible through partnerships with companies I trust, and I'm very picky about who I choose to partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. Thanks for joining me, and if you like this type of content and want to see more of it, make sure to hit that like button. All right, it's time for the show. Welcome back to Coin Stories. I am really honored for this guest, one of my most requested, the CEO and founder of ARK Invest, Cathie Wood. Cathie, thank you so much for sharing some of your valuable time with me. Oh, I'm delighted. And you can thank Yassine El -Mandra and David Puel, who are in who Yassine leads our crypto effort. David is our on -chain analyst, and they have been singing your praises. So I'm delighted to meet you, Natalie. Well, I'm so grateful. I just love meeting such prominent names in the space who are carrying the Bitcoin message forward. So let's kind of start the story, though, at the beginning. I heard a little bit of your origin story on Peter McCormick's show, and I know that you spent your young life, you've lived part of the time in the UK and Ireland. But can you share a little bit more color? I mean, what was your upbringing like and maybe were you always interested in working in the business world? My upbringing, I love the fact that I moved around, probably moved, I think it was 10 times by the time I was 13, 12, something like that. And then we settled down. So, you know, I got exposed to lots of different cultures, lots of different people. And think I it was a very important part of my growing up, you know, moving into situations, you know, do I trust the situation, you know, sizing up the situation quickly. So and, you know, as as now I'm a portfolio manager, I have to do that with companies all the time. Right. So I think that that was very helpful. My father inspired me. He was a design engineer. You know, he really didn't have the education you would expect of a design engineer, but innovation levels the playing field. He became obsessed with radar systems and he became one of the world's experts. So he was a big inspiration. Someone asked me once, you know, who inspired you from a finance, taught you about money and finances. And until I got that question, I didn't realize how important a role my mother also played. So my father, you know, went to work, worked really hard. And my mother was a stay at home mom, which is what they both wanted. And and she handled all the finances. And so I learned how to budget very, very, very early. So, wow, I mean, that's incredible. I was actually going to ask you what what was your relationship with money when you were young? Because sometimes the people I've met in this space, they face some sort of hardship that that created a pain point where maybe they appreciated Bitcoin a little bit more. So so what was your relationship with money? Were you always a really big saver? And clearly you were always interested in technology and innovation. I absolutely was a big saver. I was almost scared to spend money because, you know, the money was hard to come by. And so I, I, I was a babysitter starting at age 11. I was helped by my mom, of course. And then McDonald's supermarket, a restaurant. And then I finally, I finally, thanks to Professor Arthur Laffer, Art Laffer, I don't know if you know who he is, Natalie, big, big influence in my life, introduced me to Capital Group on the West Coast. And Capital Group is one of the premier research and investment houses in the world. And at that time, so this was in 1977. I was in college and Capital was really the first investment firm to think outside the United States and which I loved. I love that idea and wanted to be a part of that. So, yeah, I guess in terms of how, why my my strong feelings about Bitcoin. Well, I'm actually I've always loved monetary policy and watched it very carefully. I went through the late 70s inflation and interest rates going up in the United States and this massive inflation by our standards. And definitely that influenced me, like, wow, this really was at least 15 to 16 years of human error. And then we had, thank goodness, Chairman Volcker coming in, you know, right at the ship, which was great. But then I've lived, you know, watched one crises after another throughout the world. And they're usually debt related and everybody seems surprised at the time. But they're they're much easier to see, I think, if if if one has an economics background and and just to bring that to the current day. And, you know, seeing and David and the entire team at at ARK will tell you, I am extremely focused on what's happening to the dollar versus other currencies right now tells me there's a dollar liquidity crisis brewing. And here again, emerging market and other currencies are going down relative to the dollar. And that we're starting to see the gold price crack. We're seeing other commodity prices, ex oil and some food prices. So here we are again, you know, this is going to cause a world of hurt. And and so I've been looking I immediately understood what Bitcoin was. And one one of the reasons I did is we did a paper on Bitcoin in 2015 and we and Art Laffer was willing to collaborate with us. He had been asked many times to collaborate on other papers having to do with digital money or or I guess it's digital cash, never, never accepted those opportunities. He read our paper and really tore it apart from in a good way from an economics point of view. And he said, I've been waiting for this since we closed the gold exchange standard. You know, this is a rules based global monetary system and this is what we need. Now, at the time, he said, you know, I love that it's rules based, he said. But if you want Bitcoin to serve as a means of exchange, the rule has to change. It has to become a price rule. So keep the price stable and vary the quantity. And of course, that's not going to happen. But even his thinking has evolved in that regard. We did a podcast. We've done a few podcasts with him on Bitcoin. We did one with Ophelia at 21 shares, who is our partner in applying for a Bitcoin ETF and Art Laffer. And, you know, he's peeling the onion a little bit more, trying to get at the essence here. Can I really trust this? And we're going to also do a Bitcoin brainstorm with Art, more of a layman, but a real monetary scholar, kind of poking holes. He also understands cryptography, poking holes. He doesn't want to find any holes, but he just wants to poke around and help other people understand how important this movement is. But the change that has happened since that first paper eight years ago is he can see Bitcoin as we move into futures based products and other structured instruments. He can now see it in its current form, becoming both a means of exchange, store of value and even unit of account. Wow, I mean, you're right. And you talked about it in your recent report, Big Ideas 2023, just how strong the fundamentals are. So it's not a surprise that we're seeing more institutions taking Bitcoin seriously. And I want to dig into some of that, including your ETF application. But for those not familiar, maybe with Art Laffer, I know he was one of your mentors and he's famous for the Laffer curve. Right. And it talked about supply side economics and that after a certain point, taxing too much is counterproductive. Do you want to share anything else just in terms of what people should know about his work? And we have a little bit of a connection because he was your professor at USC, right? I taught there, so go Trojans. Oh, did not know that. Oh, great, Natalie. Yes, he was trying to establish a supply side school of economics at the University of Southern California. And I was an undergraduate. His program was a graduate program and we met over dinner through his assistant and we were all taking night classes or doing night classes together or different ones. And he said, why don't you come in and take my courses? And I said, well, I'm an undergrad and you're in the graduate school. That's why I can't. He said, sure you can. So I had the luxury of being a part of that program and applying it to my undergraduate degree. Now, I think there were some disagreements of the school and so the supply side school of economics did not happen. But his experience did motivate him to start his own firm around supply side economics and really become a consulting firm to the financial services industry. As we were going through the late 70s, early 80s, all of the controversies, especially around monetary policy, he was also extremely important as an adviser to Ronald Reagan. Part of Reaganomics was the Laffer tax cuts, and he actually has advised many presidents. He won't do it any more to be reimbursed in any way. He just wants to be able to say what he thinks in its purest form and hope they understand his many years of wisdom and take him up on it. So, yeah, I think he's been a much bigger influence on global monetary and fiscal policy than many people understand. In the 70s, Chile, he helped turn that economy around. He was part of Thatcher's turnaround in the UK as well. And sort of the supply side movement started stirring. And in the US, of course, was exemplified by Reaganomics. So I think, I mean, in my opinion, his mentor, Robert Mondell, won a Nobel Prize for his monetary theories. And I think art should win a Nobel Prize, my humble opinion, because without much fanfare, he does not beat his chest on all of this, but he's made a big difference in a lot of countries. And I think he is so excited about Bitcoin right now being our shot around the world of going back, in the case of the United States, to private money, pre -fed. He's extremely excited about that. And so I can't wait to hear, you know, what comes out of his mouth on our ARK brainstorm in a week or so. Wow. Well, I'll definitely be tuning into that. And, you know, you mentioned the monetary policy in the 70s and the inflation. And as you were getting your career revved in the 70s and 80s, can you tell me about some of the lessons learned? Because you saw, I mean, monetary policy impact and create these sort of bubbles, rises and falls, and that ultimately probably primed you for wanting this rule -based monetary system. And I know you've been outspoken. You know, you wrote that letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Powell about his interest rate hikes and how aggressive they were. So what are the lessons and the takeaways from your career, focusing so much as you have on research, as opposed to maybe backwards looking indicators that so many people are focused on? What's the big lesson and why is Bitcoin so important? Well, I think monetary, I mean, monetary policy around the world is unhinged. It's completely subject to different human theories about how monetary policy should work. It's, you know, you've got the monetary school, the Keynesian school, the Austrian slash supply side school. But then you have on the other side of it's not just monetary policy. It is politics that influences monetary policy around the world. So it's not independent around the world, maybe a little more so in the United States than in other places. But I just think pure politics is much more of an influence than many people appreciate. And this idea of a rules based monetary system, a global one, you know, bringing the world together and, you know, preventing some of these discontinuous moves one country to the other, sending people into poverty and destroying, you know, purchasing power. I think if we could have a global monetary system that is rules based and digital, so getting rid of some of the issues that, of course, that we've had with gold over the years, I think it would be transformative. I mean, we always say ARK is, you know, is focused on technologies that are going to transform the way the world works and make it a better place. This is one of the most important ones. Well, I know you focus a lot on this sort of disruptive innovation, which many people would say that Bitcoin is the most important revolutionary disruptive technology that we've seen really since maybe the creation of the Internet. Before that, maybe the printing press. But how did you navigate the sort of cycles before you created ARK? I know you heard about Bitcoin in 2011, but before right before that, we had the great financial crisis that Bitcoin was sort of born out of and we had the tech bubble. How did you navigate all of those? And I'm sure that informed, you know, how you invest in your company. Sure. So in the 90s, yes, I was managing money. And I remember the tech and telecom bubble and was very excited about the Internet from its earliest days. I was an analyst on a lot of those stocks. And, you know, for a long time, it took investors and analysts a long time to wrap their heads around what was going on. But we studied it and, you know, kept going. And of course, definitely rode the wave that became the bubble. And I was at a hedge fund. I had created it with a partner, Lulu Wang. And as we were going through that Internet crisis, we were saying, wow, this I mean, the bubble, we were getting a little concerned. And we had the luxury of using options, mostly puts at the time. So we fared fairly well through that. And then when I joined Alliance Bernstein was that was my next firm. It was June of one and we were in the middle of the bust. And I remember I inherited a portfolio with nearly 40 percent technology stocks. The benchmark at the time was around 35 percent, and everybody was hostage to benchmarks less so back then. I was surprised that, you know, there was that emphasis at Alliance Bernstein back then on benchmarks.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 399// The Cost of Following Jesus: A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 8:14-22
"Do you sometimes doubt if you're truly hearing God's voice or if it's really your own? Or have you been in a season where it feels like He's completely silent? Have you been praying for a way to learn how to hear His voice more clearly? Hey friends, I'm Rachel, host of the Hearing Jesus Podcast. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to confidently step into your identity in Christ, then join me as we dig deep into God's Word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life. Need a new roof for your home or even just some repairs? That's a big investment, one that you should take very seriously. And you want the job done right by professionals and at a great price. You need to call your hometown roofing contractor. Serving Northeast Ohio for over 65 years, Coats Bros Roofing, 440 -322 -1343. How have they been in the roofing business for so long? Quality work at a great price. They keep their promises and communicate with you, the homeowner. 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Welcome back to our introduction to the Gospel series where we're going through the Gospel, starting with the Gospel of Matthew. And I'm just teaching on some of the things that we sometimes miss from the history and the culture and the background, things that help us understand the text a little bit more clearly. So today we're in Matthew Chapter 8, picking up at verse 14. And if you're just joining us, I would encourage you to go back and start listening from the beginning of this series. Everything kind of builds on itself, so it will make more sense, I think, if you do it that way. But we're so glad you're here. So I'm reading from the New American Standard Version of the Bible, starting at Matthew Chapter 8, verses 14. It says, When Jesus came into Peter's home, he saw his mother -in -law lying sick in bed with a fever, and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him. Now when evening came, they brought to him many who were demon -possessed, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. This happened so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He himself took our illnesses and carried away our diseases. Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. Then a scribe came and said to him, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead. There's a lot to unpack here, and hopefully we'll get through it all today. If not, we'll pick up tomorrow. But I want to make mention initially about the location of where they're at. It says in verse 14, When Jesus came into Peter's home. So this mother -in -law scene is something that is just so touching for a variety of reasons. But I wanted to just spend a little bit of time talking about Peter's home, because this is one of those places in the scriptures that we have a lot of evidence for and verification of the house of Peter. Back in 1968, there were excavations done that convinced most archaeologists that this was the actual site of Peter's house in Capernaum. And so they sifted through the remains of lots of different kinds of buildings like centuries -old churches, and what excavators eventually came to find was this house built in approximately 63 B .C. That was originally one story that had walls made of that black basalt stone that we talked about a couple days ago. There was a roof made of beans and branches of trees that was covered with a mix of earth and straw. There was pottery shards and oil lamps and coins all discovered within the ruins, and they all dated back to that first century, along with artifacts that included several fish hooks and things from the layers of the first floor that indicated that it was a fisherman's house. And so the house was organized as several rooms, and it was built around two interior courtyards. And the dimensions by ancient standards were fairly large, but it was very similar to other houses in the area that were built around the same time. It's interesting because this building, they can tell from the archaeology, it was a typical home for extended family, and Peter and Andrew apparently moved the family fishing business from Bethsaida to Capernaum, and they established their home base essentially in this house, and it was large enough for an extended family. But during the second half of the first century, AD, the use of the house was changed. Instead of a primary residential house, the domestic pottery, which is how we tend to live, that domestic pottery stopped, and the walls of the large center of the room became plastered. And that is pretty unusual for the region, except when there were groups of people that will be gathering lots at the time. So instead of it being a residential place, this is now a place that would be housing a lot of people. And there's actually graffiti that are on the walls that mention Jesus as Lord and the Christ, and that's both written in the Greek and some Hebrew. And then pieces of evidence indicate that during this time, the house became this center of Christian worship, and it became a home church. And so this home church continued to be in existence for nearly 300 years, and there's evidence from over 100 Greek, Aramaic, Syrian, Latin, and Hebrew sketches of graffiti there in the walls. It's scratched literally into the plaster walls, and there's numerous crosses, there's a boat, there's lots of other letters, and in the graffiti, there's at least two possible instances where it says Peter's name. In the 5th century, an octagonal church was built right over the original footprint, and I'm going to put some pictures of both of these up on the Patreon if you want to see what it looks like. But I want you to just think about this for a moment. We have archaeological evidence of Peter's home that later became a church. I just love that because so much of the history of the scriptures is lost. Now we do have a lot, but there's very few things that are verifiable, but it is verifiable that Peter had a home in this area in this timeframe, so I love that. So in verse 14, when it references, he saw Peter's mother -in -law. Mark later informs us that both Peter and Andrew lived here, and perhaps had been a home of Peter and Andrew's parents, but it was now occupied by the sons and their larger extended families, including on Peter's side, at least his wife and her parents. And so Paul also alludes to Peter's marriage in 1 Corinthians. And so it says she was lying in bed with a fever. And as Matthew explains this, the actual language says she was having been thrown on a bed with a fever. And what that isn't an indication of is that she was in throes of a severe illness. She was feverish. They think perhaps it was malaria that was really common in that timeframe, that culture. And so fever was considered by the population to be a disease, not a symptom. And so it wasn't just like, you know, we randomly get fevers when we're fighting off a flu or something. The fever itself was seen as a disease. And so we don't know exactly, but like I said, malaria was pretty common, and that is symptomatic. You know, it's consistent with those kinds of symptoms. And so it's interesting to see how Jesus healed her and the response that happens. And as I was thinking about that and praying through that, I was thinking about what healing from Jesus has looked like in my own life. And I think it's consistent with what we see with his mother in law. The response of Jesus healing her produces in her this service upon the Lord. So she immediately got up and started waiting on him. And I've been there. I've been in that place where I have experienced healing, the healing of God in my life. And immediately it puts me in such a place of being thankful and wanting to just serve him, serve him with my life. And I love that we see that picture here. Moving on to verse 17, it says this was to fulfill what was spoken to the prophet Isaiah. He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases. Now, infirmities, of course, mean sicknesses. And this is another allusion by Matthew to the servant that is mentioned in Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah chapter 53 in the Old Testament. And what he's doing is he's focusing on the servant's role of bringing healing. And so the servant bears the sickness of others through his suffering and his death and eventually his resurrection. And so many modern scholars doubt that first century Jews would have interpreted Isaiah 53 as a messianic prophecy, but some of the later texts from the rabbis in the later time period recognize that this was a messianic interpretation of this passage. And so what we see is even before the Jewish leaders of the time understood what was happening, Jesus was fulfilling this prophecy from the book of Isaiah. In verse 19, it says, then a teacher of the law came to him. Chapter eight, verse 19, it says that. And I want to mention this because the Jewish population, they had a high percentage that were trained in things like reading and writing, but only a very small segment of those people regularly worked with writing materials. And so even fewer had access to the books or of the law or the scriptures. And so therefore, the skills of writing and reading were very highly valued. And so throughout the ancient world, there was a class of people called scribes, which were basically people that were trained in reading, writing and transcribing. And because of the importance of that trade, they would often go beyond just secretarial skills, but they would also include things like teaching interpretation and even helping others to understand and regulate the laws that were found in official documents. So in this culture, the class of scribes that had developed were experts in interpreting the law and teaching the scriptures. And that's why they're called the teacher of the law. And so in verse 19, it says, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. The teacher of the law has in mind this kind of rabbi teacher relationship and not even teacher, but rabbi disciple relationship, because that goal of that teacher of the law is to continually educate themselves within the context of the law. So that's an admission from this teacher of the law, recognizing that Jesus truly is this amazing rabbi. If he doesn't even recognize the messianic part yet, he recognizes that there's something different about Jesus. And then going down to verse 20, it says the son of man has no place to lay his head so that the teachers of the law would enjoy a high status within that culture. And so Jesus, as a rabbi and as a teacher, he did not have a school. He did not have a synagogue. He had no real place of honor among that religious establishment, if anything. It was the opposite. And so Jesus would stay at the home of friends and relatives and other disciples throughout most of his ministry. That's what we see. He would stay at the home of places like Peter and Andrew while he was in Capernaum. Or we see in the Bible study, I talk about this. He stays with Lazarus and his family, the sisters, Martha and Mary. That expression, he has no place to lay his head. It doesn't necessarily mean that he is homeless, but rather his ministry as this rabbi in this culture would not result in this institutional establishment, meaning he wouldn't have all the benefits and the comforts that the religious leaders of the time would have.
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
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"Hello and welcome to Larry's Cast. My name is Brian Krogskard. I'm here with my archenemy for this next week, Josh Olsowich. Hello, Mr. Phillies fan. You know, I didn't take you very much of a baseball fan, but... Oh, dude, I grew up with the 90s Braves. I mean, how could you not love the Braves in the 90s? It's true. Clavin, Schmoltz, Maddox. That's right. Lopez, Lemke, Blauser, David Justice, Fred McGriff. Fred McGriff. Chipper Jones. Chipper Jones. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Yeah. I'll be at Game 1 of the Divisional Series tomorrow, Saturday, for our listeners who are catching up later. You'll know if I enjoyed it or not based on the outcome if you're listening on Sunday. Or if you're on another planet, you know that it's Saturday. We're going to have to specify that eventually. It's true. We're going to have to say this is Earth Saturday. In these space shows, it's just completely derailed us entirely. They always say like, you know, they give a time point and I'm like, is that an Earth day? Is that like, relative to what, right? You have to like specify. Like 24 hours. I do give a lot of leniency to fantasy stories based on other planets where they talk about length of days. And it's like, I mean, does the planet rotate? Well, it does. But I mean, yeah, it's like, they never really specify. It just sort of like implied like, it's a day is 24 hours because it's an Earth day. But anyway, anyway. Um, well, for anybody that has no idea what we're talking about. The Braves, the best team in baseball are playing the Phillies, who just finally clinched it like yesterday to play in the divisional series, which starts tomorrow, Saturday, and Josh lives in Philly. And I live in the south, which is the Braves circumference of fandom. The south. They're like the team of the south, basically. Anyway, you know, I'd bet a mistake about the series, but I don't want to owe him two steaks. You owe me a whole cow pretty soon. I just like carrying this debt. Based on the interest. I'm gonna owe you like a 45 ounce steak. I mean, yeah, it's gonna be like, I mean, mashed potatoes, and, you know, steams, the whole thing, cream spinach or whatever. Um, Josh, the we had a good little conversation going in one of our chats today about is the world falling apart, or is this establishing potential trend reversal, sentiment, and assets. The S &P is not really a great, like, asset to look at, though, is it, in terms of what the carnage has been? Like, if you really want to see where carnage shows up, it's got to be like rates in the Dixie, right? More than just the S &P. It looks like a little correction on the S &P. But there's definitely a lot of doomerish talk out there, wouldn't you say? Oh, yeah. I mean, the energy doomers were out in force the week before. And look what happened to oil. You've got, what do we got now? We got like consumer staples doomers because of the consumer spending numbers that came through. Excuse me. And we're seeing that on the S &P. But I'm trying to think like, what chart can I even pull up here? IWM maybe? There's there's some consumer staple ETF. I can't remember what it is. But I was looking at McDonald's, you know, it's like, this is, this is a chart that like, is happening. The golden arches. But these charts are just like happening. And everyone's like, yeah, it's a bull market. You know, I don't think everybody's saying it's a bull market. But, you know, if you look at the S &P and the Q's, whatever else. Yeah, there's an equal weighted S &P ETF. Yeah, I was just trying to find the consumer. Is this is it XLP? The point is, some of these charts just look just terrible. That's the equal weighted ETF right there. Chad can see that. Mega, mega yearly lows. There's some banks that are melting down that nobody's talking about that are small, but it's kind of emblematic of the whole market. You know, there's like we can have a crypto bull market with stuff like that going on. But if this is institutional led, as in like ETF led, then maybe it doesn't matter. You know, I don't know. There's two things that are still in good shape. One is the like, top eight stocks or whatever. And then two is basically employment. The jobs report that came out today, even this might hint at this bottom, the jobs report was very positive, meaning lots of jobs is bad now. So put that in your head first. Too much employment, which indicates potential further inflation, but that actually created a bit of a bottom on this turn that the market flipped pretty quick on that. But yeah, unemployment is still very low. The first thing you need to ask yourself is, what does the jobs number mean? Is it good news or bad news? And then you need to ask yourself, is good news bad news? Or is bad news good news? You know, are we in that paradigm? Currently? We have been except for terms today. I don't know. Honestly, you could argue either way, right? I saw the revisions for last month jobs revised was higher, I thought, for the first time in a long time. I think that's correct. Which the doomers aren't probably not going to talk about because it's been like eight consecutive revisions down. I don't know. The data is all over the place, honestly, for me. I think if you're paying attention to the macro, you get like analysis paralysis because TLT is melting down, yields are rising, housing is melting down. But yeah, here we are. Bitcoin's at almost 28k. So I don't know what to think, you know? Yeah, it looks okay. Bitcoin looks okay. It doesn't look great. I put a big yellow box on this chart for you. I knew you might need a big nice chart to see it. Well, the question that I'm asking myself is, how much of this stuff melting down is eventually at a point where it's just like, everything melts down, right? Yeah, but if the dollar, if things turn around, if money gets a little easier, let's say. But that's not happening. It's not happening right now. Whether it's happening soon, you don't know that. Higher for longer, bro. Higher for longer. Look at the bond market. We have Rick Santelli on CNBC talking about 13 % rates. I don't think it's going to go that high. It only takes a few months of like, uh -oh, stuff's hitting the fan, so we need to get easy. And the market could price that, start to price that in even before. I was listening to a Luke Gromen interview. Oh, man. Oh, man. Yeah. One of those macro people. But his point was, once that easing becomes known that it's that it could be, the economy might still be bad and it might still have a highly inflationary economy, but at the same time, the stock market and hard assets start to do very well. And he included Bitcoin in his analysis. As he would, because he's Luke Gromen. Yeah. I like Luke, but what I don't like about these macro people are they bring out these charts that say, you know, inflation is fine. The Fed needs to start easing now. They're going to be behind the curve. Well, they might be. They have tended to be quite late to the right move, right? They should have started raising earlier and instead they had to do it incredibly steeply, which caused lots of problems. They have been, but prices are still out of control regardless of what CPI is telling you, you know? Like everybody knows that. We see data points for that every day. Go to the grocery store. It may not be accelerating, but it's still. I think demand is way less than what numbers say. Demand for what? Spending. Well, we had the, so the consumer spending numbers came out Monday, I think it was, and TLDR it's down to the left. Sorry, not down to, down to the right. And in a big, big way. Like consumer discretionary. Yeah. I don't even know where that chart was pulled from or what data point that was, but so there was this implied demand picture, I think, for people that, you know, everything's going to be in trouble. Target, Walmart, you know, we showed McDonald's, you know, the consumer staples are all down. Not Rite Aid. What's another Walgreens, I think? Walgreens. Coca -Cola. Like all these are just melting down and you've got Walgreens blaming Ozempic for their, their lack of spending. It's. I think that's actually really cool. I think it's great. I think it shows you how much that they rely on people. Like people relying on a culture of. Sickness. Sickness. Yeah. Yeah. But the Ozempic story is pretty cool. Like, I feel like that is unsung, but maybe I'm just not paying attention to pharma stuff. But like, that drug is making a difference and. Yeah. Seems to be really helping people and. I don't know. Seems like America should be excited about that, you know? Well, that's why it's funny that you have the retailers coming out and saying, blaming Ozempic versus like talking about, I mean, they talk about shrinkage a lot, but that's also a massive problem. So is consumer spending, right? It's not like. What is shrinkage in your context? Shrinkage in retailers context is theft. Lost to people stealing things. Gotcha. Yeah. By the way, you didn't tell people you had the hat on to cover up your grades. That's really why. Oh, man. Dude. And the ear hair. First ever. I've never in my life had one of those hairs just sticking out of your ear until this week. I'm an old. He's an old now. But in all this, you know, gold melted down, oil melted down, dollars melting down. Dollars not melting down. OK, look, look, it's reverse. So I'm going to drive here for a second. So, yeah, I can't. I can't. I'm a pancake, not a waffle. I can't. It's the first Red Weekly here, Josh, in two plus months. I'll take it. Twelve weeks of up. It's about time. That's not normal, you know? Yeah. I'm not just saying that because I'm on the other side of that trade. It's just like that's not normal activity from anything. You don't see that on any chart. Listen, DD12 called it perfectly. Tone Vays, where are you at? Well, what I was saying on the Daily Cloud for DXY is that this is a massive TKC clamp, a .k .a. overbought conditions. 104 would be very possible here on the DXY, just based on technicals. So we'll see if that actually plays out. Look at that. Wow. That was a weekly Kiesian slam. Weekly edge -to -edge too on the DXY. Yeah. Interesting. I clearly hadn't been looking at the cloud lately. So look, on the Bitcoin side, we've held up. The ETFs for ETH has come and gone. It's been a nothingburger. But on the Bitcoin side, we held up. Gosh, look at this. More cloud news. We just got to keep talking. Yeah, so look, again, Bitcoin has done well. We've done oddly well. Some people saying we're decorolating, decoupling, talking about store of value. I don't think that's quite the case. I just think the people that were trading this... Hold on. Yeah, go ahead. I haven't watched your videos in a while, but I'm assuming the edge -to -edge on Bitcoin weekly is like top and front and center. Top and tail? Top and tail. Yes. Been talking about it for the past couple of weeks. You've been acting kind of bearish, though. I thought you were a dirty bear right now. Well, the problem with... So for those who don't know, the cloud trade, the setup, these weekly moves through the cloud have only happened two or three times historically. You don't see this often, right? This is like a once a cycle setup. This is basically a 2016 repeat. It's what you're hoping for. Really what this is, it's a mean reversion to the 50 % retracement of the all -time high to the local low. That's all this really is. That's what the math behind it will show. Correct. So once we get in the cloud, that's a really good sign that we have a chance to actually move to 42 in this case. The problem for me was that diagonal head and shoulders, every legacy looked super bearish, right? Legacy broke down a lot since the past two weeks, right? But we haven't broken 25. Sailor's buying, tether's buying. Sailor buying is not bullish. I agree, but somebody's buying something, right? We're all sitting here like, who's going to buy alts? Who's going to buy alts? Well, nobody, but somebody's buying BTC at the very least. And we get closer to the ETF every day. I am worried about recession. I'm worried about yield curve shenanigans. I'm worried about consumer spending. But if I'm just looking at the chart, it looks really good. You like 42K. I like 42, right? And back to analysis. I like 42. Send it to 42. Back to analysis paralysis. If you're paying attention to every little data point every week, it's so hard for me to have a true straight and narrow, this is what I believe in as far as trading.
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"mcdonald" Discussed on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"So I feel like I have so many questions for you. And this is what we run into all the time is I have so many questions for JJ and she has so little time because she's a very busy woman. So I'm trying to figure out what is the best question I could have for you. And I think it's what I enjoy so much about each meal or each partnership that you have is that it pushes the fan or fan, the famous orders or it pushes the famous orders culture forward in any way like we saw like how you paired with creators to talk about McDonald's Sprite and how that was like a new iteration of how it connects with creators, the effective cactus plant flea market was a new way to tap into culture. What is sort of the next step that this is ushering in? Do you feel for the brand? What does the Cardi B offset meal sort of introduce for? It's a great question, Shannon. What the Cardi B and offset meal introduces for McDonald's is it ladders up to a larger more emotional feeling that people have for the brand that we are finding even more avenues to tap into, so this idea of knowing your special persons go to McDonald's order, that's a big idea. Because it's not only true to them, it's true to so many other people and as we think about democratizing the brand and providing access, if people come in and get the Cardi B and offset meal, that's amazing. They may come in and get the Cardi B and offset meal, but also maybe they start their own meal together as one special date night that they want to have together. And so it's going to spark these conversations around our fans for our fans that was bigger than we actually even imagined. And so
Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"mcdonald" Discussed on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"There is this hack culture that is sort of taking over. And some brands are learning how to embrace it or aren't fully embracing it. And then there are some that are wholly either against it or kind of skewing away from that and really just sort of sticking to what they sort of have set for their brand and their menus where McDonald's comes in. It's like there's always been this hackability with McDonald's menus, which you've explored with the sweetie meal. It really any meal that's really come out, there's been like an adjust, there's an understanding of like, you can adjust this to however you want, or you can build your own McDonald's experience. From your standpoint from your expertise. Do you feel that brands should continue to sort of embrace this customizable culture that is taking sage or is it like your miles mileage may vary? Is it dependent on the type of restaurant? What do you think in terms of brands and whether they should or shouldn't cozy up to this culture? What I would say is, as we continue to put our customers first, brands more and more need to be comfortable sharing the pen with their fans. And their customer fan led conversations. And what's been unique about hacks, as you mentioned we did it with the sweetie meal that also we had a menu hacks idea that launched at the beginning of last year, you see it every single day. And it is almost like a love letter that your fans have towards your food because they love what they love what we have, but they love to put their own unique spin on it. That actually makes things even more interesting that sparks additional ideas, potentially in the future. And so I equate
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"mcdonald" Discussed on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"So the actual anchor spot for the meal which officially launched today is like the opposite of that. It's glamour. She's in furs, he's very dripped out. So you have this one very relatable spot where they're coming in their track pants. And they're sitting at a booth and that was like very intimate and cozy. And then you go in the opposite direction for the actual spot where they're in a stretch white limo, there are decked out in their finest. There's like a golden burger candle, which is absurd and wonderful. Right? I mean, it was interesting. And I believe you worked with Kennedy and why for that one. Can you talk a little bit about that creative relationship because I believe that they've been prevalent in all of the creative we've seen for this. They have. And one thing just I will get to that one thing I wanted to just let you know on the spot that launched today, it was actually really interesting because we have that juxtaposition, Cardi B talks about her ideal date that she wants she has with offset and she comes in and she is looking amazingly in her fabulous dress and the white limo pulls up and they're a little inside scoop on that is one of Cardi B's most favorite scenes from Sex and the City is when big shows up to pick up carry outside of her apartment in a limo. And she wanted that. She loved that idea. And so we made that a very her own, like for Cardi B and offset. And so, but what was interesting, Shannon is we have all this fancy fanciful world, but then if you notice, we didn't go to the actual McDonald's restaurant, and that was that nice exposition that they are in there. Everyday clothes in the booth. And so that's why it was like this great juxtaposition of this ideal fanciful, but at the end of the day, they cheers their high sea and their Coke together in the booth. So the magic behind all of this creatively is widen Kennedy, New York. They have been our partners since the end of 2019. And we have worked magic together, unlocking this creative strategy of fan truth together that then has really become our marketing strategy overall because we put our customer first. We lean into what are those unique moments, memories, and rituals that our fans have that we call fan truce,
Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"mcdonald" Discussed on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"That's the big thing we're talking about here. That's a congratulations on incredible campaign launch. Thank you. We're really excited and we're excited about today and what today is going to bring for the next couple of weeks as well for our fans. When it comes to really finding a way to connect with fans at a really resonant, authentic level. And we use the word authentic so often that it really loses meaning after a while, but when it comes to really touching bass with fans and authentic way, we talk about this in the past. McDonald's is really, really brilliant in how it finds ways to connect with fans that feel real in feel universally relatable. The last time that we spoke was for the cactus plant flea market, meal, which when we spoke at the time, I was sure it was going to be fine. It was going to be a successful campaign. I had no inkling or idea of the sort of mass reaction to that effort. So a huge congratulations there. I couldn't get a meal for days. And so now we get to kind of come back and reconvene for the Cardi B offset meal, which I'm really excited to dig in with you today. I'm no pun intended. So first and foremost, can you tell us a little bit about the partnership? So what is the Cardi B offset meal? Yeah, so as you mentioned, like famous orders, cactus plant flea market, and now this, what we have unlocked that has been the power of putting our brand in culture and making McDonald's a cultural icon is we start with our fans and we have landed on this creative strategy of fan truths and the fan truth that we have for famous orders was whether you're big or famous, everyone has their own McDonald's order. Even thinking through what we did with technical flea market, which was a different idea, but you're never too old to enjoy a happy meal. So as we think about putting our fans front and center, it was important to what can we do to unlock something celebrating the brand on America's biggest stage and thinking that the game was so close to Valentine's Day,
Dr. Drew Podcast
"mcdonald" Discussed on Dr. Drew Podcast
"You go in there, it doesn't matter whether you're a doctor or a movie star, or Ronda Rousey, or there were people from all different Strata of life in their rich, poor, famous, not famous movie stars entertainers, you all start with the same white belt and the same white ghee and you suck. And the guy that's the pipe fitter in Montebello is whooping your ass and you're really your ego is completely destroyed. But that's the only way that you can actually learn and get better. And eventually you do, and then you have a sense of pride and accomplishment for having achieved something. I thought that was an amazing experience that I had. Well, if there's something deeply masculine about or at least satis gratifying from a masculine perspective, maybe the more accurate way to say it of combat. Yes. And isn't it interesting that Adam always says we've now devolved into safe spaces and octagons. It's interesting that we have created an inversion of the normal bell curve, there's a man who was on a PragerU video recently. He was a trainer for the stars. And he said, middle class fit in the 70s, if you look at or 60s and 70s, you look at like Woodstock videos. Most people were middle class fit. Their health was normal. They weren't fat that they weren't really muscular. Now it's the opposite. Now we have most people are either incredibly obese or they're super, super, super athletically fit. The middle class is gone. I'm sorry to interrupt, but that was friend of the show of any tortoise. Vinnie said that. That's Vinny tortoise. Hey, is video on PragerU? I remember his name about the middle class, the fat middle class. No kidding. It's a fantastic video. It's amazing. He's been on our show. Am I on that video? Video always has me on his video. And I never know where thank you for telling me the name. I could remember his name. Yeah, he's a close friend. He's a fantastic video. It's 5 or 6 minutes on a pregnancy. That's pretty good too. You might look at it. This one was called America's fat you don't have to be. So maybe he did a previous one just called fat. But it was literally about consumption. Fat's a feature length documentary that he did. A whole documentary, yeah. That one I am in. I've advised everybody to watch this guy. I actually am sending it the links to patients now. And Vinnie together in here. Absolutely. That would be really fun. I subscribed to all of his beliefs and values. Because it would love to hear your thoughts as a psychiatrist and how to refine some of his thoughts as a trainer and nutrition essentially. Yeah, that's how we introduced himself. I was amazed. I thought it was a great video. He's a good guy. It's just prompted me to think about that because I think this topic plays out in a lot of different spheres right now in our society. Yeah, it is weird how we've lost, again, you're going to make me think about this. The lost middle has sort of an interesting, almost philosophical kind of implication to it, doesn't it? Well, there's a lost middle to everything as a lost middle to masculinity. Well, but isn't Aristotle's thing, the golden mean and we've sort of made completely. We've messed it up and you're talking about combat and how important it is. It's important because men need to learn where they are in the pecking order. Right. There needs to be something. There's a verticality in you need the verticality. Just like Jordan Peterson says, you can't just wish it away because you want to be egalitarian. It exists. It is part of life. It is a priori is there. It's never going to go away, even if you close your eyes. Exactly. I didn't want to bring that up. Yeah, it's in the lobsters. So you're going to go into jiu-jitsu, and you are not beaten up, but you are shown physically that you can not compete with this other guy. You have to show some subservience and some gratitude. Hopefully, for the learning that takes place as you go back and forth and back and forth. And today, I don't think that men are generally speaking. Men are able to do that. They are trained. They are told that they must be good that they must show all these virtues, but that there's this belief that men men must be soft all the time in order to be good. Yeah, well, it's even sorry to tell you it's because I have 30 year old sons. I see how these messages are affecting young males. Especially young white males, which is you are not worthwhile. You are the problem. You are not wanted here. And they isolate. They hide. They hide out when that happens. They don't want to be a part of the problem. They start to internalize that stuff. They're told to go away, that they're not important, and they're not valued. And above everything else you need to know that need to be valued. That's one of our primary motivators. Value and appreciation. Appreciation. That's the word I was looking for. Yes. Couples therapists that I went and talked to in residency and I brought this up on a previous episode with you. I'd bring it up all the time. He found that the main reason why good men have affairs as if they don't feel appreciated by their wives. They need that appreciation. And I think I said this in response to that is that what I have found is men want to be appreciated women want to be cherished. And if you're not doing those two things, you're undermining the relationship. You can not succeed as a woman by trying to be masculine in the way that I've been describing it, being stronger. You can't compete with men. I'm sorry. Well, you know what they can? A good opportunity to freedom to do it is there. You have the choice, but it's not going to lead you to be happy. Well, that's a different question. Which is you're entitled to say it, because you're a psychiatrist. You can say, this has been my experience. I can't say that. I'm in mental health, but not like that. I can just say, because I'm a free speech totalist, literalist, and I'm interested in freedom. So I'm interested they should have the freedom to do as they please. But if you'd like information about it, talk to doctor McDonald. How is that going to make you feel when you do those things? The men are not going to cherish you if you try to compete with them physically, you try to be a better master than they are, and you try to express more courage than them. And I'm not saying that you can't do these things, but they will not lead you to happiness because they will not be valued by the opposite sex. If you are a woman and you are, as Donovan says, you are attractive, you express a carefree spirit. And you
You're Wrong About...
"mcdonald" Discussed on You're Wrong About...
"Nuts is it's like the point of the damage is to be as big as possible to punish the company like if it was a mom and pop coffee place than like two point. Seven million is too much because they don't have that much money but if it's a giant corporation the only language a corporation understands is money so it has to be really large the entire purpose of the system that we set up in the nineteen sixties in the nineteen seventies. the sort of pact between regulators incorporations was that punitive damages and these kinds of lawsuits are how we're going to enforce good corporate behavior and you can't then turn around and be like all. It's unfair that we're having to pay these large fines. Basically now that. This is how we've decided to do this. You're just proposing impunity for corporations by reducing these damages right because like we would because we hate fellow citizens like getting some kind of a settlement like getting money that we see as unearned. You're more scared of that than we are. Scared of living in a world where corporations have no checks on them at all. Exactly we're we're we're putting the terrifying fear that somebody would get something. They don't deserve above our need to like have corporations that don't harm people widely right okay. So that's that's kind of the case. What interests me about this case is how it happened. How did this become this. Perfect titanic example of illegal system. Runamuck like how did it become shows up in a seinfeld episode right the lawsuit two thousand late night jokes exactly so i am going to send you the original ap story. This is the first america learned of this case. Oh boy so. This is published in august. Nineteen four just after the verdict comes out headline women burned by hat. Mcdonald's coffee gets two point nine million extra extra a woman who was scalded. When mcdonald's coffee spilled was awarded nearly two point nine million dollars or about today's coffee sales for the fast food cain lawyers priscilla liebeck who suffered third degree burns in the nineteen. Ninety-two incident contended that mcdonald's coffee was too hot. A state district court here imposed two point nine million dollars in punitive damages on one hundred sixty thousand dollars in compensatory damages wednesday testimony indicated..
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"mcdonald" Discussed on You're Wrong About...
"Her lawyer reaches out to mcdonald's and says look let's settle this whole thing for ninety thousand dollars that's going to cover the medical bills pain and suffering the whole shebang. Let's do ninety thousand dollars. Mcdonald's ignores them so then they file a lawsuit on the eve of the lawsuit. He reaches out to mcdonald's again and says if you guys want this lawsuit to go away give us three hundred thousand dollars. Said a lot of court done. He says later that he would have settled for like one fifty like that was like his opening bid. Mcdonald's ignores him so in august of nineteen eighty-four they go to trial and it's a weird trial in that. There's no debate over the facts so stella is like mcdonald. Your coffee is way too hot to drink and mcdonald's like yes. Mcdonald's is like stella you spilled coffee on yourself and still has like yes So the legal question is basically. Is this coffee defective. Like are they selling a harmful product. I feel like there's a basic kind of ideological question here to maybe of like. Do corporations have the right to give boiling hot liquid to seniors right. And if they can. Should they. And i say mcdonald's is represented by pennywise the dancing clown friend. I mean this is the thing that was one of the things that comes at trial is at. Mcdonald's has settled seven hundred cases of severe burns. Why not just crank down the just like twenty degrees. I feel like would help a lot. And then one of their corporate executive people says like they're saying like why do you keep the coffee just like why. Why do you have this grave. Danger all your restaurants. And he's like that's far from the biggest danger.
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"Yeah for the love for this woman that pussy that pussy was reading. Yeah pizza hut pizza sold money from victims. And you know we're actor i worked with. You told me to watch the documentary. So i was even. I wasn't even aware of really what the story was. Try try and here we care victims it was widows orphans. Mind you burn victims. I mean it's really disturbing. So but i think those other girls on the show. They wish they were hurt to probably in some way i say they all feel like pitched line to like trying to shot five months ago. They don't have the knowledge that i have that i just shared with you so imagine she can't imagine this thing spins and she becomes like look. What the kardashians. They you know they took a you know a scandal. They tw- they they. They've made lemonade. She'll be able to do the same you know. I don't think she's going to go away. And i think she'll definitely on back next season the if she goes next season. We'll that salary. Which by that time they average based on how many years she's been on it could be like seven fifty thousand a year will in fact be garnished to give to the victims and i can't imagine that as she wanted to give it up and be data the cast members are going to get rid of. I mean i worked for that money. Yeah and i have to give it up. And i wanna see i wanna see what next year brings the or. You're really close with this. You have a lot of insight with case what's your prediction. I definitely don't think she definitely thinks she's gonna do the reunion. One hundred percents is going to come back next year. The question is will. Some of the salary be garnished if so how much but no i mean. That's an interesting story. How you come back from it. Who do you date. Do you still now that this charade of this dumb dancing and singing. She can't obviously get up there and be like it's bankrupt tubing. That's not going to happen so the singing is done. Maybe maybe not i. I don't think the gays are going to be coming on what they know. I don't disagree. Okay that's just. I feel like she. I feel like she loves it so much. She's gonna find a way to come back. I think the singing crap is over. It's too expensive to do. I don't think people are going to buy tickets for it. But i think she will continue to be a celebrity personality house when people by tardy for the party. Dumpy tardy father potter. I know but i'm saying. I don't know if i think her little conscious that you did on the show. Kim's iak i don't think we will pay to see those either. I think they were pride. Events to soccer paid. I saw her at a pride events in new york. And andy. cohen was there. An interviews introduced her and then told her afterwards to take her wig off like. Take your wig off. Take your wig on part of the crowd she did. That's kind of rude and in front of the crowd. Remember is try. I love you and listen. Troy thought it was on here to do. Smokey ir do some well. listen. I want to tell people. You're based in la. Yes and you don't just work with celebrities. Someone can have the troy johnson. Incredible experience with all these different looks. I can't believe he looks. We've got done in a day. You can afford me. Yes if you can afford him honestly listen. I think it's a really really great cool thing to do. If you're coming to la let's bring and yeah if you're coming to la and you wanna have just that experience you wanna feel and you want to have the best of the best work on you. It is worth it. It is worth it to do a hundred percent not only for the experience but these are photos that you can't get anywhere else it's an l. A. experience a come to la work with troy. Get your drinks. At the waldorf dinner at craig's go by the pool at the beverly hills hotel eat at the polo lounge. Go nobu skip disneyland. These are the things that you do. When you're a juicy scoop right woman you this. This is the l. a. trip so everybody followed for johnson. That's right it's it's instagram. And then what's your website trade. Johnston dot com great love. You thank you guys. I'm getting on a couple of days to see you in seattle. that's right seattle. I will be at the triple door. September tenth and september eleventh second show on september eleventh saturday still has some great seats left so make sure you heather mcdonald dot net see justin martingale and i there and for all of my dates have the doll dot net..
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"I would assume if she was going to go to a dinner an event whatever she'd want her hair makeup dinan she. I was doing everything else. Yeah i never got hired to to do anything like that for her music project. Yes so she really had the best of the best besides you and also had staff who is longtime assistants after me. Yeah oh longtime assistant of kim crash. That's after it was hired. After i left and steph came from a small town was at a gym meta few people. And she's like she wrote this article in this article steps. Like i never knew it. A range rover was it just always interesting when people to me really have like their eyes on the prize financially and i did. I never had the mom that was just like these. Are the rich kids. We're going to join this club so that you can meet the richest kids. My always just always like make your own money make no one continue your education away from you and it just such a different thing when some like the kids just sitting in the small town was like who. I'm getting my goal. Is this much amount of money or whatever you know in my industry you know. It's it's very powerful if you're able to command five k. Day to do hair and makeup or you just make up you know. There's very few people that can command that. When you know in my heyday. I mean i still command a great a great paycheck but you know in the in the nineties and the beginning of the millennium you know i was sort of at the peak of my career. Doing you know Salma hayek gwyneth. Paltrow i was working with brands. I was doing a lot of great amazing work. And then i met kim kardashian and that was sort of the beginning of of social media and so i saw this this kind of flux of of attention for a reality star so i saw the sort of you know that there is a. There's a lot of opportunity with that and at the time it it kind of goes to your head that kind of exposure. Yeah that kind of you know. Like i've worked with diana ross fair faucet catherine deneuve amazing people and never got. I never got death threats. Because i was working with them. I never got like inundated with hundreds of emails from women all over the world that want to work with me. I got that after work barbecue and was like oh my gosh kim kardashian do for her what for her and like i hate her so much because she is as polarizing character therefore we hate you right and you know i had a lot of stalkers. I had people come into my life. Who were like friends just to get close to her. You know remember. When courtney's that scandal with courtney kardashian about some model coming forward saying he was the baby daddy yes. That was somebody that i that i was hanging out with. He was staying in my house. And he he never had a conversation with courtney and the tablets will call and say you know i use them. He was a friend of mine model. Stay with me. And so. I said i'm doing this. Shoot with courtney. You can be the blue boy today. So don't talk to her. Don't ask for an autograph. Don't ask for a picture just libranoy. Don't talk to her. So we shot and then those pictures surfaced and the tabloids wanna use them. I was like hell. No you're gonna use it was like why are you running the story. It's li- and then someone just created the story. They never saw them together in my photo that they met he came with with this whole story. But the tablets why are you. Why are you posting. This is bullshit so was the model did the model the story or did created the model created one who lied and then i kicked him out of my house because i caught him. Watching kim kardashian sex tape on computers like she's like a sister to me. You gotta go gotta go. I kicked i kicked him out and then he tried to sell the story to the temple. He was yeah. And then kim called me. I was actually in miami with erica. We're sitting by the pool in air. Co- i mean kim. Could you call your boyfriend and tell him to stop talking to the press and saying he's courtney's baby daddy and i was like what are you talking about. Yeah and i was like i you motherfucker like what the fuck you doing. He hung up on me is he. Now i have no idea idea so this with a lot of notoriety and tension came this these morally corrupt people right you know and so i felt a lot of stress and pressure at the time and then working with erica I look back. i'm thinking. Why did you invest yourself so much with this woman like i. I would never have done that now with someone with the kind of the way. I was involved with her. I would never do it now. And even though i was paid really one like you're mace basically working for one exactly. Yeah yeah i alienated a lot of clients. I you know because the money was so great. And i think that's why she she doesn't want to call you and have you say oh. I'm sorry. i'm doing mcdonald's now. You're not get over over to my house right exactly. So i mean that's why you do pay like and it's like no you will be at my beck and call and we were. Yeah yeah why. Wouldn't you be before during and after working with her. You know jerick is. Who's on the list to see my best friend. Who's also my manager now. But at the time he was my makeup assistant and he would go back to the all party at whatever pride and jerick would go back and take off. Erica's make up and hang out with her. And you know they order food and we would be you know. This is the best party. Erica's like jerry would like fockers. I wanna have fun. It was like go back with erica. How fun house. So he was like the cinderella. You're the belly that fit in with..
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"Like whoa. What's he involved in that or are you just invite. He was directing a movie for disney. He was there for like press to do the press line and so he did the red carpet. And you're there yes. I didn't walk the carpets. Just go around. He had his hands walk. Around is my first premier. But he's like when we got there like you know. I'm not walking with the only that's fine. I don't wanna like he's he public with her first day. I was like that's fine. You know but. I also don't care thing in my and i think he he loves to tell the story that that's when he was like very interested in me because i didn't wanna walk carpet ono. Look i trust me. The joke is like unseat like it's ridiculous. The whole thing. Like i don't even know how i'm here but yes. Oh my thing. I thought about it so that was our first date. We just had been together ever since. And when did you know like he's the one i want to spend the rest of my life with him. I always felt that he was like he checked all the boxes. But for me it was you know i said every sunday we go to san gabriel valley and we see my grandparents we have lunch with my whole family and you like he has show up and he did every sunday like he was a director and his big life parties and whatever and it was like he made sure to carve out. It was like four hours new driver for our bag. It's a big deal and you know was just going for the really good food. The welfare ninety percent of it showed up and we have a lot of like sort innate rules of like Algebra the eldest sits on the side of the table. And he he's the type person always used to sitting on the inside right. You get the best seat. And i'm like no you're on the kids side. You're the new kid. And he was so respectful of he like it not only respected like loved it. Yeah he loved. The whole family loved it. Yeah and so. I'm like give you get my family so just that alone was special and he. My brother like this. Oh that's all my god like they're on the phone all the no one calls me like walking in there talking. The his he'd have a brother he has two brothers. Yeah brother doesn't have a brother. No so that's really nice. Yeah but they just really connected and obviously families my thing so yeah family loves him and so. How long did you guys date before you were engaged. Three and a half years. Oh nice yeah so we wish you thanks fancy wedding a big fancy where was it. It was at saddleback grandma bill. Nice yeah so we had he. We were in china when we were engaged. She was directing a movie and we literally took the whole set. Put it on container and rebuilt it to and made it look like one thousand nine hundred ninety s shanghai at the saddle. We built the whole thing was. Oh my god. Yeah and cheryl can shadow of sequoia production. She does the governor's ball and everything so she did. The wedding and i remember thinking like she was like this is like a piece of cake. It's such an easy thing because she does huge which we locked. Because we were in china we flew home. Only through sephora wedding because a year the bridesmaids the whole thing. Whole thing. sean. Yeah yeah the whole thing. Oh my god that's my best. I was talking just asking you that i was asking a wrote down the question. Yeah i was wondering you know because now you have even before housefly. It's just you know being a wealthy woman you know and having a very very nice home and you know a different life than maybe the valley friend who still. I'm sure is living a nice life but you know it's a different level. Was it ever odd or we're for anybody or was it always just really great. And what a score that my friend. I married a great guy and we can go to her house and swim like i know because i met rob so young yeah. He was always super inclusive by friends. You know even though. I had a like i had a very kind of middle class. Lay definitely meeting. Rob was a lot bigger. Yes like he was like. Would i want my friends. Like i feel bad. And then he would like pay for them to travel with us. Yes Because i don't want to be with my friends. Yeah so he was. But rob is like. He grew up with no money so he grew he grew up in palo alto okay so he like never had his own bedroom or anything fourteen in square foot house with four kids. The whole thing and So he had a very sort of also middle class. When i like him money but not right he didn't have today right So he really understood that and he's super down to earth and so it was never an issue and yeah want my friends would be with me. They never ever treated them differently. Yes i have. Friends who live in van is in a condo. A go hang out there. That's really it's really good but sometimes sunders is not the person and especially now now that you're on tv too. Sometimes it's not the star or the wealthier person that changes it's the front then or the people from your that feel like she wouldn't wanna be invited to this birthday party in my backyard because it's just a little birthday party. We have backyard. And then you see that you've been excluded and you're like what am i. That's good that does happen to some short those so young. It wasn't like. I'm married rob in my thirties right. And then my life changed your life. Half of your life grew widow. Me in that experience i love were my bridesmaids in my extravagant wedding. Roy are mid twenties..
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"The brother. The hot brother love. What is the story behind him. Growing up here and then going overseas becoming a pop star. I it's a story behind your brother. It's super random. Just a little older than you are. So yes i'm just turned forty okay. Great contrary to everyone thinking. I'm a lot younger based on google. Based on your look what does it. Black don't crack asian no raisin. Yes sir true. I'd like to so yes. So jeff went to the michigan. And i went to uc irvine. Okay we both studied abroad in china. He had studied abroad my senior year so his sophomore year. Okay and he just called us and said like they were. I think he got discovered. And i think the the Management was looking for american born chinese at the time. Okay because it. Just china was just opening really walis in china gone and then he called hollywood to become. Yeah and i would like my trajectory was medical school business school like we were just kind of classic asian american rally and and then he called us like oh. They want me to do this demo. My mom is like what is that you know. I don't even totally out of the realm of our whole lives. And he did it and then he's like they wanna sign me and my mom's like over my dead like you're going to finish college like this is not a job that you're gonna approach what age to start was like nineteen. Oh wow okay. And he was saying. Like jeff saying at shaw is like in jazz band. Yes so i've been vocal jazz or you shall we rosenberg and and But we thought it was cool like even dirty we like nerds or cool and so he just signed the deal. And then my mom's as long as you finish michigan. I'll let you try it. And so he flew back finish school within like a year and then went back and then hit. He re released an album and then one mtv best new artist. Asia was really weird because we were just in l. a. Watching it happen but it was so like so like fifteen years ago. Twenty or twenty years ago. Yeah and that year zero. I'm rob and so i think my mind was. We need to know all about okay. Okay helped my mom and dad sort of have more open mind to jeff pursuing something in the arts other than like science and medicine. Yes yeah so so. That's what happened. It was really and he has been doing it ever since he started he single. He's saying. I think. I mean are people just besieged like are you just besieged with like hornacek's that wanna meet him an men he said but you know he was engaged last year. Our did you like her. I love her. I think the kovic they were. I called a covert casualty. Oh yeah and i said if it's life can get really hard with kids and everything so you guys can't make this work in. I would say like if you have to go through a lot if you're doing like more than just like one or two just like counseling to get ready to get married like full-blown therapy before you get married. I say no. Yeah it back together. Yeah they jeff is currently single. He's like i have a lot of men and women but he got his a lot of women live right now. Though he lives in shanghai 'oh we have a house in beijing. Robin i and he's in beijing because china's and locked down to can't go city to city so he's at my house now. Okay all right. He's an he's comfortable and he's turning the water for me. So it's it was so cute because i'm like wait. He's like a manny uncle superstar singer. Doing cartwheels like in the library. Manny because it was fighting. He's yes but he's my grew up in a very traditional chinese household and when they say it takes a village at does and everyone chips in parents were not born here. They were born in china but they met here in the states in both came over. How old my mom came late twenties down thirty. They're like full adult. Yeah my dad. My dad was twenty three years older than my mom. I was thinking very different times of china and interesting. And then you mary rob and he's how much older than twenty years old there. Oh okay yeah okay. So how did you guys meet. Everyone's wondering how you met. So i was a sophomore in college at irvine at irvine and i actually thereby mom a birthday party. Like a surprise luncheon at beast regarded in term right. Oh my gosh. That was such a good place to have the like the lunch. The bridal showers ledge ledger that my dad was like. Yeah do for mom. My dad wasn't really like that kind of guy but he's like yeah. If you want you know like you do it. Just pay for know. And i do this little surprise lunch and i remember. I was exhausted. Because it's so much work into it. And i was a kid i wanted it to be like so perfect and then my friends had texted me like do you is one. You want to go to a birthday party tonight. And i was like no. I remember lying on the couch. Mom was like go like you did so much for me today. Like she was like hi and go. So i go to this party which was in west hollywood at this big studio and it was rob's office that he was hosting a birthday party for his friend. Now who is the friend that had the connection to this party. I had some girlfriends who are older than me. Ellie party that whole thing. And it's funny because i have friends to houses friends driving up some hill off of sudden. Sounds like a good part valet like it would be like and then you're just like okay. This is kind of fun. Yeah totally that was like my sort of teenage college years. And but you know i think rob of weary of those girls and they're older and we went to this party and then i met rob there and we just talked to look very different and i think also because i was in college. I had my path So i wasn't like looking. I like my parents were ten years older than me. But i was not looking for anyone and then we just met and then he called me the next day and it was always under this veil of like befriends like i didn't think about dating him but then he called me next day like asked me out on a date our like nineteen. I was twenty. You're twenty and he was a forty and that did that like freak you out or did you want to almost hide that from like college leaving so he didn't know until i and i was like i would never live like such an open book in general. I'm like i'm proud of fake ideal. Could you get a cocktail out with him so no. I didn't have a fake. Id and i remember. We went to like ice. I soon turned twenty one. But i didn't drink anyway so don't really matter. I was really buttoned up kid like you know even like i went out and stuff i would never have gotten drink. I just liked the idea of like getting into a club right somehow. Yes but i was never that kid. So i remember he took me into mr chao for dinner and you know they bring the champagne thing and i was like. Oh they can ask for an idea. But i didn't drink like. I'll have an ice tea because i don't drink so still not drink. I drink zoe it's nine. Am i'm like worse cocktail. You know so now. I'm like now. I'm known for like my cocktails just so many. Oh that's right. Yeah lightning speed of the cocktail drinker. But but also like even though i love to make i love it because i love hosting and stuff so i don't really have a lot but no i wasn't a drinker then and so that's how he met. Go on fancy day. Our first real date was the finding nemo premier so he asked me the next week..
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"T. e. r. cit y dot com. And where do the rumors start. That came out a couple of weeks ago that possibly she invested in lisa arenas lipstick company. I believe that was a reddit. Rumor in then a re a blog actually Put my name on in the headline that. I said that even though there's nothing to story and i wrote the parent company. I shared this message. The under who wants. I got a hold of her. She immediately took down the story. And i had denied it. The minute it was posted it was. I think they need is making a mistake. I don't i don't honestly you know. Sometimes these are younger journalists. They get excited sometimes and they. They don't always fat. Check everything in i. I've learned just to kind of call them and say this is wrong. Take it down or fix it or put me on your show if you really have wanna get. They get opinionated in the night. Call when i said like to be on your show. Some are too intimidated to have me on because they went overboard on some of their opinions. A lot of them though will have the on an all clear up their concerns. Well the the other one was is. You tweeted some things about lisa renters property that she lives in. Why why why do that okay. Well first of all thank you so much asking me that question. I appreciate it First of all my twitter page that we have our our pages dedicated to erica girardi. It's dedicated to whatever we want to put on the twitter page. Let's let's be very clear about that. It's not the heather mcdonald twitter page. It's ronald richards. Twitter page and we put different things where we get feedback from different people that writing all the time and we respond to some of that context but what drew my attention to lisa was simply this. There's two species of of analogies that are important for everyone to understand one is she uses the same business. Manager is erica girardi and the same. Cpa which i thought was an interesting Similarity because most people don't share the same. Cpa in the same business manager and the business manager was make a new companies for both of them in close proximity that was my first similarity secondly jane paid for her lawyer to represent the accounting. When i started going after him to get documents which typically if he wants to show that your client is independent. You don't have you. Don't represent all the witnesses because then it gets messy in this case erica. Girardi is actually using fees to pay her lawyer to represent two of the witnesses that were ordered to produce documents for family law journey inter business manager slash. Cpa so i then sort of a wanted to probate you. What is lisa renaissance connects into her. And then we had the third similarity where she started attacking kelsey grammer on. Lie for kelsey grammer. It's common so most of the house. Y you mean kelsey. Grammer wife camille. You're you're right. i. I met kelsey grammer wife. I couldn't get the x. Y. camille Meal had made a comment about the mass care that dramatic mascara kerosene running down erica. Jane's fei scotts correct so who no one other than lisa ranna started attacking her. So i'm thinking they use the same businessman businessman manager. The attorney. is eric hiring attorneys for the same witnesses. And then she's attack in camille of your last name grammar outlets. She married someone else but just camille. We know okay great because it shows you can't follow all the names of everybody over the time but in this particular case i found it interesting that she went out on a limb where no one else would and i was just trying to understand why so then i did. Some more probing install. She doesn't live in beverly hills and she's carrying a abundant a bunch of debt on her house in so again. These symptoms i saw with other housewives in with frankly the gerardi's so i did a quick surface dive when you say symptoms you mean living beyond their means yeah opinion will we know that girard's live beyond their means. There's no question about that. They're both both the law firm and the His personal state are in bankruptcy and they have tens of millions of dollars of judgments out there. So i know they live beyond their means another couple on the housewives that i don't really need to get into because they're not really going after me. They live beyond their means. There's judgements against them. I've reported on it and then there's Then i also noticed that lisa arenas also now in a copyright lawsuit so that she didn't report and that she was recently served and a law firm assuming her and so. I was just saying that there. This is going on that. I'm looking into it. And i found it to be something that i wanted to review but the post was simply to post the fact that She shouldn't be attacking everybody like. She's coming from such a financially superior position. That's what. I was really trying to arbonne. Because i cannot stand is someone. That's a lifelong resident of the city of beverly hills. The hypocrisy of all these people that don't live in beverly hills sending this message of opulence tone deaf behavior when a lot of it is actually factually not factually inaccurate. Okay well my opinion of lisa is that you know a lot of people don't live in beverly hills. That's up part of the show. I mean they when it started. They had kim richards his cal. Richard sister living out west lake. They had brandy likely in a rental house. It doesn't it's like they just called it that. But i don't think that in my opinion watching it i don't think lisa arena shows off like the other women do like. She doesn't have a glam team that she takes year up. She and harry have lived in the same house for many years and a lot of people have a high mortgage on a house. They've lived for many years because in los angeles you can do that. The market just keeps going up and up and up. So that's just my personal opinion like you know as far as the cpa in the business manager saying. I do think that's interesting but at the same time like you don't know how that happened. One night they're talking. Oh isn't that a coincidence. And they you know it might have been that. They both a male. You probably know where they both started working with the but it could have been that they both have been working with these same companies for many years before the either one were on the show but they weren't they both. They weren't okay there. Are i mean erica. Just got retained. I mean i think that i. I'm not saying that it leads to a negative inference. What i'm saying. Is i know that eric started using the cpa. If lisa ran a referred. Erica the same business manager that could be true and then the question is why and in a lot of people don't refer people to their business managers because then you have one person sort of knowing your i. There's a lot. I don't wanna get into like fake human behavior. But it's just something that i wanted to look into and we have these similarities..
Living Fearlessly with Lisa McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Living Fearlessly with Lisa McDonald
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Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"Is the laughter through the door And then you have allegation there. We know that you didn't get the part that would this didn't cost you for. Yeah it's a lot. And i don't think any and so Oh there's no chance that's been like breaker leg lay between now and two o'clock right okay. So anyway But yeah i. But i love hearing about how the show came about and how they like picked everybody why it was so important so then looking up to get a photo you know just to kind of have you guys be able to look at this. I said i the first thing that came up with friends. Reunion director addresses lack of diversity in this special setting the cast is the cast so of course you know what it was happening. People were like. Why are there no people of color on their show in the coffee shop in new york new york city. Exactly i mean even back people like some aisha tyler to be ross's girlfriend at one point and he said what they said was good was look. There was no conscious decision. We saw people of every race religion. Color these were the six people we cast. Bryant went on to say that he doesn't have any regrets about the way friends her dow ended in may two thousand four. I'd be insane not to hire the actors. What can i say. I wish leeson was black. I loved the class. the cavs told the outlet. I love the show. love the experience. I love all my money. Grab one dollar. Exhausted is a billion billion. People have watched it it worked. It worked at least there were women on it if you want to eat healthier than listen up because this is hands down the easiest way could tshuva is a drink. That's been called the cleanest those nutrient dense meal imaginable kochav is loaded with over seventy superfoods and nutrients. And i mean we're talking maka. Route chia seeds. Sasha inch e camus camus mcqueen berry aside coconut. You've got to go check out the entire ingredient lists because it really is impressive. I have been loving it. We've been doing it for a couple of weeks now. Peter and i and the team over kochav have spent the last decade obsessing and perfecting this one product and you can really tell it started in the jungle on the side of a mountain during a health retreat. And now it's just blowing up. It's a huge craze and their mission is to bring together the world's best superfoods into a single ready to go meal to help busy people stay healthy on the go. You can make a bigger meal by adding fruits or you can just put ice and water and mix it up and it's still really good and really fills you up..
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"I have a great show for you as always lots of really juicy topics we're going to get into. And then i had the interview that the world has been waiting for the hottest guy from the internet in the last couple weeks. Maybe it is william white. The tiktok her who sings the oldies to women all over I get to talk to him. I talked to him and we find out really about his life. It's delightful so we're going to get to that in a little bit first. Let's talk about the biggest news. Harry and again had their baby girl and they named her little bit lily bit diana now i think having a middle name be. Diana was not a big surprise. I think a lot of people predicted that. Somehow someone did put out little bit a while ago and i don't know where i saw it but it was definitely before they announced that that was the name and then a juicy scooper wrote to me and said. Do you think it's a little bit of diana is maybe you're like heather. This is in every paper. But i'm just saying. I just got it and i thought a little bit of diana. She's a little bit of diana. Anyway congrats to all the young mothers running around montecito. that wanna be friends or go to the same preschool. Once you become friends with megan taylor. She's got an invitation. Here at juicy scoop okay joe joe see well as a big weekend in la. There were a three day. Gay pride festival going on. I think it ended up at the coliseum but every day were parties and on june fourth. Police unfortunately were called to joe. Joe's was house responding to a medical emergency. Apparently thirty year old man had odid according to tmz and the information they got from their paramedics. Hopefully he is okay. But the question was was a thirty year. Old guy doing at joe's house believe she's only nineteen or maybe she is thirty. I don't even know like ponytail is still going strong and i just hope that in just being authentic selves. She is able to take that pony. A lot of people are concerned about her hairline. There was a conversation about it on my facebook group to see scoop obsessed other people weighing in that. They were prima ballerina. They were really sharp hotel for long time and it did affect their hair line long-term so there is a lot of concern of when she's just going to release that ponytail and just like let herself be But anyway she was having fun and people were partaking things they should not have been partaking to from or maybe too much of hopefully the guys. Okay i had a pretty great time. I if you recognize this babe here. It is dancing with the stars. Glebe or gleb glebe. I should dame because. I met him. And i took a salsa dancing class at this place in malibu that i belong to and i thought i wrote a couple weeks ago but this was the first saturday i was available to do it and i have some really bad news for you guys. It was this many days. What pressure people say this. I was this many days old. What i realized when that. I'm actually not a dancer i'm not. I'm only good when i'm a little bit buzzed and it's free style. Meaning no choreography. Which makes sense. Because the only way i got dance class was what i did my solo. Which was the finale that i did by myself. A lot of other people did a routine together. I just said i'm just gonna do a routine by myself. Just play the music and she said i got it because i was the only one that was smiling and not mouthing the words to the song because i actually didn't know the words because i'd practice. Oh little i just let my body be free. And when i do that people think i'm a decent dancer. I think i'm an amazing dancer. Turns out when. I'm forced to do choreography and count and no left and right. It's not great other people like don't give up on dancing with the stars. I swear you can do it. I went in there. Thinking people are going to see my post. It's gonna get back to. Abc dancing with the stars. They're going to be like. Oh you know what. The show's going on so long. We've gone through so many people were about at this low level now. Should we ask. Heather mcdonald dancing with the stars. I don't even know. If i want you to ask me. I really don't. I interviewed a bunch of people that both on the mike and off have told me that they thought it was the hardest thing they've ever done their career they die. They were so happy the day they got kicked off. I don't know. I don't know and then other people i think really strive because they're super competitive people and i have to be honest. I don't know if i'm that competitive. I really since i never played sports. I am still mad. That i didn't get to the ave maria at louisville. I matt about that but that wasn't like a competition that was supposed to be given to me and then the guy decided not to give it to me and i just don't know i don't know how like i don't know that i'd be like i've got a win. This in makes you realize why the people who win win. they're athletes. they're professional. Have a dance background or an ice skating background or gymnastic background. Something like that. Those people go far because dancing is working hard. I had.
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"Pros dot com slash juicy. That's p. r. o. s. e. dot com slash juicy for your free in-depth hair quiz and fifteen percent off so avenues trying to get her point out in china and like literally known. We'll talk and ramona's like oh they got it loud. I could barely by by and then lia storms back in and says you know what ramona because at one point ramona said. My daughter doesn't talk like this at a table. So i don't think it's a generational thing. Meaning her daughter. Avery is about twenty. Five leah is thirty seven so in fact. Avery is closer to age than leah than ramona. So she was like. I'm just confused because my daughter doesn't speak like this with her friends or around me this open about sexuality so leeann storms back and she goes. You know what don't ever compare me to your daughter. Okay because your daughter was probably second d at fourteen and she says the full word of course and ramona is like you even really seem to care that much like. Oh my god okay. Fine i mean. Do you imagine if someone said that to theresa and real housewives of new jersey about her daughter. I me you saw what happened. When what happened was analogy about a g doing cocaine it reminded me of when erica. Jane got annoyed. Denise was annoyed about their threesome conversation at a party. She had on real housewives of beverly hills and later on air ca jane in front of non front and denise but the other women said. Oh please i better. Teenage girls are already having threesomes. I was like both of them are wrong. Do not bring the kids in. And don't guess where someone's child is in their sexuality. If anything i feel like these kids at least my kids and my friends kids are like almost way more innocent than we were at their age. Part of it is just the way they're being raised Pandemic also slowed it all down but like who are you to say like also leah has a daughter. That's almost fourteen as she so sex positive that she's gonna like encourage your daughter to do this. I just end. she's not drinking. But it's all okay because of grandma's are is dying and she's not going to be able to see your to her because she's choosing to be at ramona's house in the southampton's so who's really the greatest granddaughter. Then okay so. They're like let her go or grandmother's dying. They continue the conversation with ebony trying to explain that she was not trying to put down an or saying that she was superior in some way. Just trying to explain. You know that you can still be a really classy woman. An educated woman and speak freely. Use graphic words to describe sexuality and it. Shouldn't it does not affect whether you're educated was point but luanda's can't hear that she's just really annoyed and she says ebony. Lower your voice. You're talking so loud. You're talking you so loud ebony and you know why you're just an angry woman and then she that's upset ser and then ramona just keeps going. Oh my god. I just feel like it's like what i don't know about this. And then evidence says to ramona. Your white fragility is really showing right. Now and lou says do not. How dare you bring her race into this. How dare you and she's like. Oh you want to bring race into this and then louis and looks at ramona. And she's like don't absolutely not. We're not touching absolutely not we know and you kinda get this feeling that definitely girls have had a conversation knowing that a new cast member is a woman of color and knowing the climate that we're in the triggering of everything that can happen when you know unfortunately when people are not of the same race that's all that seems to be talked about especially on television is pointing out the fact that our skin color is different. And you know it just so. I think they're like oh shit here. It is and i haven't even finish. Brian lamb curry and so luanne just staff. She says you're an angry woman and she's like that is actually really racist to call me angry or something. And she's like you're not gonna tell me you're not gonna talk to me that way you're not gonna tell me i'm uneducated my own home ebonyi and she goes well then i'll leave. She's like good. I think you should leave. And then something about trash and she goes with that. You would know that word or something trash. That's what lou says to ebony. Ebony leaves in the preview for next week and please correct me. If i'm wrong and if i'm wrong i'm wrong. You know i try my best. But i see a preview and evans. Very upset i can understand why And she goes back to the house. Where lee is leah. Left the party to after she said the thing about How what age. She thought every was getting sexual. And she says to leah and then lou called me an angry black woman. I'm pretty confident that she did not use the word black but she did call her an angry woman and then the controversy is so you can't call a woman of color angry or aggressive. So if i don't know you know it's some people are not enjoying this season of new york. They are saying like it's you know it's the same thing lou. Ann try not to drink. Leah's like a free sober not. Sonia is fun she never says anything mean about anybody but she gets really drunk and she is kind of the most entertaining. One and and freaks out about the morgan stanley. You know background of her life and then ramona is rude and inappropriate so none of them have men. I did think though like do you.
Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"mcdonald" Discussed on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
"I'm sure they spent a long time fixing this photo but they still both good and leah post that on instagram last night when the show aired then the next stay. They go to luanda new southampton house for her new boyfriend. Garth is cooking the lamb curry. They talked about lamb curry so much. I just think this might be the only thing this guy can make. He likes lamb curry. He's lil younger than her. Not that much. He's a tall drink of water. Doesn't like to drink when they say they have dinners on on a friday night. He actually shows up and calls her in the date. still on. who's pulling off. Lou and you guys but i guess she gets blown off like all of us and her kids are both artists so before. They dive into the lamb. Curry is i mean. That should have been the drinking game if you're watching it last night. Every time they say lamb. Curry tak- drink. They're going to paint a nude man. Sonia rips off his his like towel around him and i guess he has a big member and they start painting the stuff. I've gone to these painting classes. I painted a bottle of wine at my country club. And it's wasn't very good at posted about it. I'm not a good artist but you can interpret this however you like remote it gets a little bored after awhile and she leaves and then you also brings over this french musician. Who she thinks would be a great match for sonya and sonya like what does not even know me. I like a guy. The guy was his hat. And you know. I'm an artist. So i don't wanna be with an artist i don't want i like french fries. But he's not my type. I like a guided navy suit with a little ascott. And i like baker is. I don't like know artists. Why does she know that you know. I need another one. So they don't hit it off but ramona's into the music quite a bit and then they sit down finally for the lamb curry and as they sit down again. The conversation goes to. Can we please not talk about this dirty stuff anymore and leah just like loses it and gets really pissed at ramona and she goes. That's it i'm leaving. And she walks out. And then i guess she goes out into the driveway and she thinks about it more. And she even more pissed and in the interim I may get some of this stuff because it was quite confusing. I think it was a lot of honestly misunderstanding. But luanne in defense of ramona. Goes you know it's not that. Were against women being about their sexuality. It's just we're both raised with a catholic education. And you know so. We're taught to be more conservative. And then who is the new girl this beautiful girl. Who's an attorney. She says what's really not about education. You know an educated woman talk about her sexuality to. I'm the most educated woman here and they're like. How do you know that she goes because i googled you all and then louis says excuse me. I'm very educated. I'm i know you are you. Are you know a nurse. That's a great education but if we're really being technical about it. I have the law degree. I entered college at sixteen like an and then louis. Excuse me what are you saying that you're the smartest one do speak three languages. I speak three languages and she said you brought education. Because no i didn't. I brought up being catholic. So that is where it starts to get like. Everyone is just interrupting each other. No one's listening to each other and they're all interpreting what the other person's saying is wrong because they're not actually listening in two thousand twenty one. It's finally okay to talk about our mental health and happiness. Humans.