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AP News Radio
Missy, Willie and George Michael among Rock Hall nominees
"14 acts have been nominated for induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Marches are a letter with the latest. Iron Maiden, Rage Against the Machine, soundgarden, the white stripes, and Warren Zevon are being considered for rock hall induction. I'm crazy. The list includes a lot that might be stretching the definition of rock, Willie Nelson, Cyndi Lauper, a tribe called quest and Missy Elliott. At the other nominees are Kate Bush, Cheryl crow, Joy Division and new order, George Michael and the spinners, inductees will be announced in May, the induction ceremony will be in the fall.
Mindful Mama - Parenting with Mindfulness
"missy" Discussed on Mindful Mama - Parenting with Mindfulness
"Table as I talk to doctor Missy grider. Missy, thanks so much for coming on the mindful mama podcast. Thank you so much for having me, hunter. I'm so glad to be here today. Okay, well I'm looking forward to talking to you because you created something called the body safety box. And I want you to tell us what that is. Yes, I would love to share that with you. Thank you. So the body safety box is a child abuse prevention, educational kit that I designed to help protect elementary school children from childhood, physical and sexual abuse. There is one box that is made for kids ages 5 to 8, and the second box that's made for kids ages 9 to 12 for a tween crowd. So child abuse prevention, child abuse, particularly childhood sexual abuse is such a sensitive topic. It's such a disturbing topic that as parents, I think we often aren't sure how to best approach it with our kids. So we often don't have the conversations that we really want to have because we just don't want to get it wrong. You know, doesn't that make sense? And doesn't that just sound like so many of us as parents. So yet an informed child hunter is a better protected child. So the body safety box gives parents all they need to make tough conversations easy. The body safety box contains all the language parents need to
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Leaving Your Cell Phone in the Fridge
"Of all, I thought mister Patterson would not be returning at all to any future books. I thought we'd eliminated mister Patterson. But I find that some of Dwayne's habit Dwayne frequently leaves his cell phone in the refrigerator. That is a habit that Dwayne is actually, where did you come? Who do you know that leaves their cell phone in the refrigerator like Dwayne? Other than Dwayne? I think I might have heard maybe you did that at some point. I don't know. That was Dwayne and so secondly, we've got a Missy like character developing in Cassie's life. It's her mother, not her mother in law. Is she gonna be a fixture? Yes, and she has been since the very first book. Her mother in law and Cassie have absolute opposite worldviews and her mother swans around their house watching MSNBC and her calf Dan and railing at the world and it's a good contrast. Like Missy in the Joe picket books, Cassie's mother's there just to increase the tension and annoy her to no end. No,
The Dan Bongino Show
Leo Terrell: Dan Bongino Would Not Take the B.S. As FBI Director
"And this is an argument I've had with friends of ours and the conservative talking head space as well Saying oh it's not the rank and file and a blanket term is inaccurate I mean blaming everyone in the rank and file is the opposite problem That stereotyping and the other way But absolving the rank and file as if I just serve the warrant fully understanding in most cases There was a political motivation No Leo I'm sorry I was a rank and file agent I left And I saw what was going on That's your responsibility And then I'm not tuning your horn but let me tell you right now I've listened to you when you said it on expertise issues like law enforcement I heard you on the overall day And you know how the sausage is made And what is Missy in the FBI management is somebody who knows the process You know the game And I'm serious I'm not joking around I hope your listeners really just swap social media You can run the FBI because you know you won't take the BS from those people who have been in the bureaucracy for 20 years We have to save this country and the first thing we have to do is save our legal system Dan our legal system is in danger Lady lady justice is not blind She got one eye looking at those who disagree with the democratic platform
Broken Record
"missy" Discussed on Broken Record
"Didn't even think, like the way we are now, we're probably more open to just playing stuff and seeing what people think, we didn't do that then. We came in saying, okay, this is going to be the first single. And then we're going to come with this. We wasn't playing it for somebody to tell us if it was hot or not. We was playing it because we thought it was hot. Exactly. And as time went on, your confidence can either build or it could stagger or it could just go to nothing. And I think as time went on, we probably started to ask people. But then I got to a point that I'm just like, nah, I just want to do music that feels good to me. And absolutely. Just like you, you are legendary. Legendary. At this point, you probably doing it like, I'm just having fun. There was a time where you may have felt like you was concentrating on making this kind of music or timeless. So you're not even thinking like that now. I'd improve myself. What? I'm having fun. I'm going to take two spoons and hit on this trash can and throw this out because it feels good to me right now while you have proven yourself time and time again. And what's the use of doing music if you can't have fun with it? Absolutely. I've always tried to make music that I like and never question what anyone else is going to think because I can't, I can't imagine what anyone else is going to think and at least if I'm true to what I like, at least I know some one person likes it. You know, it's better than making something that maybe nobody likes. I'm making things that I like and I care about it. That's all I could do. Absolutely. I said, just think if there was one person in the room, I always say Michael and Quincy or whoever else was in that room when they were creating thriller. They all had to be aligned in the same space. Because if one person had been like, what is close to midnight some evil is that what kind of song is this? It could have threw them all the way off and made them trash that record. But they was all aligned in that room where they had to be like, visually, they was in the same place. I see it. I hear it. This is going to be huge. And those are the type of people that I try to, you know, keep around, not just yes, ma'am, people, you know, if it's something that is truly whack, I want my Friends to be like, yo. Absolutely. Absolutely. Otherwise, you're living in a world of not reality. Like you have no idea. It's like, I want to make something that I like and if someone else doesn't like it, it's cool, but I want to know if they don't like it. It's just so I understand the world, you know? Right, right. But yeah, I mean, you were such a legend in people dream to get to that place. And you have an impeccable ear. So I know that, you know, when you have an ear like that, you would have to be a 120 for anybody to be like, nah. If you was to say, even at 90, you be like, not that ain't it. I'm gonna believe it. But I feel like you're exactly the same. We both been doing it long enough where we, you know, it's like it's obvious we know what we're doing. It's okay. Yeah, yeah. I almost definitely probably had a few producers mad at me when I realize now that ain't it. That means that means you care and you're honest, you know, that's part of the job too, it's not just going along with it. Yeah. You know, especially in this time when you've been around for so long, though, but then you may get some young dungar ones that come in and be like, nah, I don't know what you're talking about. This, I'm telling you, this, what everybody listened to and that's the great thing about, I think, what we have done is we created something in yourself that hadn't been done. And so you are in a position to be able to say that because you wasn't following what everybody else was doing. And if you can teach any upcoming producers like, hey, you know, you stand out. Because at the end of the day, you don't want it to be 5 of you 'cause if you got 5 of you, then most of the time, the label going to go with the cheapest one anyway, so you better hope you to cheat one because otherwise you're not gonna be picked like it's gonna be easy for them to go with the one that is popping right now. So you better off just trying to do something that will be game changing. And game changing, you don't get a lot of those. You can count those. It ain't ain't a lot of game changes. It's true. Thank you so much for speaking to me. This was beautiful. I thank you and hopefully we will see each other. But it's been fun and I appreciate you just know that you are legendary and will continue to be and it was an honor speaking to you. The honor is all mine. Thank you so much and we speak soon and hopefully I get to see you and give you big hug and thank you personally. Yes. Well, you enjoy yourself and be safe out there. Thanks to Missy Elliott for talking through her career with Rick and sharing insight into a creative process. You can hear all of the songs mentioned in this episode along with the rest of her now 25 year old album super duper fly. On a playlist at broken record podcast dot com. Next week, we kick off a monthlong slate of interviews Rick Rubin did with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. To commemorate the release of their newest album, unlimited love. This is the peppers like you've never heard them before and trust me. You don't want to miss it. The first episode comes out Friday, April 1st, the same day as the app. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash broken record podcast where you can find all of our new episodes. You can follow us on Twitter at broken record. Broken record is produced with help from the arose, Jason gambel, Ben holiday, Eric Sandler, and Jennifer Sanchez. Our executive producer is meal about. 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Broken Record
"missy" Discussed on Broken Record
"More at IBM dot com. We're back with the rest of Rick Rubin's conversation with Missy Elliott. Tell me about your writing process. How does it start? What's the first thing that happens? My writing process, a lot of times I could be riding down the street thinking of something. I listened to a lot of my friends problems. Sometimes I'm just sitting and listening to a conversation. And just pick up ideas and listen to what they going through. And then get a track and sometimes I'll already sing melodies in my now that I, you know, we can do that on our phones. I'll sing melodies on my note thing on my phone. Before there's even a beat. Yes. And then once I get a track, you know, I can adjust it to whatever track it is. Once I have the words and somewhat of a melody, I can adjust it to whatever track. Is it all about the words or could it be about the phrasing or the melody? Sometimes it's depending on what the vibe is. Sometimes, you know, music. You may hear a track and I believe music speaks to you, you know? And kind of tells you, you can hear record and you may hear a track and say, oh, these sounds like sound like sexy chords and make you wanna sing a song about sex. So you hear a song and it sounds like a motivational chorus. I believe courts really do give you a place of feeling. But a lot of times when I'm just walking, sometimes I walk in the mountain and I'll just think of a melody. So the melody for me a lot of times, be first, 'cause sometimes I'll get on the mic and I'll just hum some stuff. And then in lyrics account. I honestly was like, I had to just do an album where I'm just humming a bunch of gibberish. To the show, this is how most people, a lot of people create that way. Have you ever written a song with another person like sitting together looking at each other and writing a song together or it's always each person does their own thing. Last year was the first time in my whole career. That I have collapsed with a writer. I have written every last one of minds, every last one of anybody else's I've done. And at some point, you know, you just feel like, hey, it's good to just have some freshness coming in. You can't 90 years old. I'm still talking about it. I'm feeling the right. Open a rightful Cardi B. Up in the right Beyoncé. You got to know when it's like, okay, it's okay. To bring in help because I've done this with another 5 years it'll be 30 years. Yeah. 25 is a good number. 25 is a great number. And congratulations on the anniversary of the first solo album. That's an incredible milestone. And a funny thing when I tell you that album, we did that album in two weeks. And we did it because I wanted to have my own record label so bad. And Sylvia rose said the only way that I'll give you a record label is if you give me an album, give me one album. And I was like, Tim, come on, let's get her this album, so I can get this label. So we did it out of Harry on up. Like I really wanted the label so bad. And because at that time, I had member I had left and went back home, so I didn't want to be an artist anymore. And so we did it so quick. It was two weeks. And I was like, here. And from that album, it went on to the next album, the next album, the next album. But initially, it was just like, I just wanted to label. So that's how that album came about. Fascinating. So in some ways, when you took a break in 2005, it's almost like that's how you wanted it to be from the beginning and then just other stuff happened. Yeah. That's amazing. That's amazing. I love doing both, but I'm very shy. It although it may not seem like it, 'cause I get to talking, but I'm very shy. So people have to understand like I started in a group so to go from a group to a solo artist, you have to mentally already know that that's what you want to do. And that's not something that I came in this thing thinking. So I ended up being a solo artist and everything you feel like everything is on you now. You don't have, you know, other people that you could talk to when things go crazy. And then, you know, the second album became more stressful. The first album I always tell people you are at your most vulnerable, you don't care, is you don't have nothing to compare it to is that second album that is going to give you that headache because if your first album is successful, then you're chasing trying to find the success of whatever records you put out that made that album go, you're trying to find that same style for that second album. And it just feel like, oh my God. Nothing is right. And I didn't even appreciate my second album until later. And realized that actually that album was a masterpiece because we used a lot of theatrical loops and stuff in that album mixed with hip hop, but at that time it was just like, oh, that was, that was a headache. That second. 'cause it's scary, you know what it is a thing called sophomore jinx. Yeah, for sure. I didn't want to be an artist, but now I'm in it. And so now I gotta make sure I don't fail the second album. So that was.
Broken Record
"missy" Discussed on Broken Record
"All we had been hearing. The song, the song was already written, tell me what you played her. I mean, I played it for after I had demoed the vocals. Because that's me at the beginning, saying love you, baby. Me and Tim, went in and recorded it. And then I played her, you know, the version with my vocals on it. And she loved it. And she got it immediately. Which when I think about it, it just shows that she was aligned with us, musically anyway, because we had to show people how to sing and rap over something that, like I said, that hadn't existed before. People didn't know where to place this music. They didn't know whether to go to the R&B and hip hop or to the pop. They didn't know where to place it. But she got it. Immediately. But that actually wasn't the first record that she did. The first record she did was if your girl only knew. And even for her to get that record. And we were only supposed to do one record on alea. And it went from one to two to three to four to 5. It just kept going. Wow. And she took a chance because she was Aaliyah already to the world. You know, she had the chance to be able to work with any major producer out there. And here we were to young kids coming in. With nothing really under our belts and she just was like, I love what y'all doing. And she just kept recording each record that we would do. She would be like, I want that one. I want that one. Yeah, I love that. And she did it. Typically when you would write for someone else, would it typically happen like that you would write it, do a demo of the whole song and then present it to the artist or was it ever more collaborative than that? No, I always wrote it and always demoed it. And then I started as time went on, I started to get, I would write it, and then I would get Jasmine or tweet or somebody to demo for me. But actually, the one person I did have demo in early on on one song was Gina Thompson, she demoed, I care for you for Aaliyah. But yet I would just go in there and write the songs and then demo it. And then I was not like, I didn't consider myself a singer singer like that I wasn't giving you no Whitney Houston notes. And so by me not being a singer, I would just kind of rap singing and that's how if you listen to one in a million, it's like rap singing because I wasn't a person who could do all of those runs and stuff like that so I would just rap sing songs and it just ended up being a new kind of rhythm too. Have you ever written a song for someone else they not do it and then you end up doing it yourself? Has it ever happened? No, I've never written a song for someone else and then I ended up doing it. I always ended up giving it to someone else. Yeah. 'cause for me, I'm so critical on myself, like that's probably been the hardest thing for me is once I do it for the artists I have them in mind or artists in mind and not me because I know when I do stuff for myself is always like some weird crazy stuff. So I know that those artists probably be like, oh nah, you bucking. So I've never taken a record that I had for somebody else and use it on myself. So when you say critical of yourself in that way, I want to understand it better. Is it that the song's not good enough for you or that it doesn't suit your personality or if there's a song that you think is great, but that it's not right for you that you wrote, what's the thought process? Well, me as the artist, I do stuff so differently for myself that a lot of times it's so like out there, I couldn't imagine, you know, somebody else saying don't. You know, something I said and work it. I couldn't imagine somebody else saying some of the stuff that I've said, not to say they wouldn't, but I just know stuff that is more suitable for me. So when I do those records, they're more tame down than what I would do for myself. Yeah. Because for myself, I'm taking the chance. I'm just like, you know, I'm going to say whatever, you know, I'm going to say she's a bitch. I'm going to say pussy don't fail me now. And sing it. And these artists would probably be like, now Missy, I do many things, but so I'm just different as the artist. Yes. So your records tend to be more extreme and you could say lyrically harder or more challenging or crazier. It wouldn't feel right to give someone else a song like that expecting them to do it. Yes, even to this day, like it's a few artists that probably would do. It's just because I say, yo, I'm telling you it's going to go as hot. But for the most part, I'm taking more of a risk on myself. So those records that I do for other artists. Once I do them, I just say, hey, this will go to somebody, but just not me. Who was the first artist that you or the first group of artists that you looked up to and felt like, this is my inspiration. This is what I want to do. Who are the people that got you to want to do it? Oh, so many artists, the gospel, I would have to say the clock sisters. As far as R&B, prince Michael, Janet, when you come to hip hop, I would go back to Roxanne, Queen Latifah, light, salt and pepper, the reason I started rapping. LL, big daddy came public enemy, moaning, you know, all the hip hop mothers and fathers of this thing. I would say to be honest, the whole 90s for me early 90s really just like inspired me. But the 80s also because I feel like the 80s people were experimental. With music. The song pepper is the reason that I started rapping. They are most definitely the reason. We have to take a quick break, but we'll be right back with more from Missy Elliott and Rick Rubin. What if you were a major transit system with billions of passengers taking millions of trips every year? You weren't about to let any cyberattacks slow you down. So you partner with IBM to build a security architecture to keep your data, network, and applications protected. 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Broken Record
"missy" Discussed on Broken Record
"To be creative. Yes, absolutely, because when you think about those reels, when you think about recording from tape that the tape that I always wonder who came up with that and like who? To do that and to be able to, I was able to put harmonies that way without us even having a studio. This is so crazy. And you've worked with Tim from the beginning throughout your career pretty much. Yes? Oh yeah, from that day, that first day of going to Tim's house in his dad hated when that doorbell would ring, 'cause his dad, I think, drove trucks. And so he would be driving late at night and he would just be fussing like, y'all got to go. Y'all got to get out of here. Make it on that boom bap. I got the drive. He would be fussing us out, but we were so, and we were so intrigued, it's so crazy. When I tell you, I think back to just the beginning, like the first song that I ever heard, 'cause I heard him, I seen an interview attempt not too long ago. And he was like, you know, Missy taught me so much. And it's funny because I learned so much just from the first song I remember Donna Summer last dance. And I said, at a young age, I was so intrigued at the structure of that record. And I was like, what made her start this slow? Yeah, it starts slow and then it turns into a dance song and you're not expecting it to turn into a dance song. Yeah, and at a young age that intrigued me that I hadn't heard a record do that. And till this day, that is a structure that I always say was just so amazing to me. That was the first record that caught my attention. So I always gravitated to things that probably people wouldn't have paid attention to, but then when we by the time I met Tim and we started getting into hip hop really crazy. Well, I was in the hip hop before I met him because I'm quite sure he was into it too round junior high school. We were in the UTFO run DMC days. But by that time we was in the public enemy when I met Tim and everything was chuck D and play everything was, yeah, boy. Are they not? And we would just sit and listen to the 8 O 8s and stuff that they would have in their records in the break beats that they would use in public enemy records. And we was just always so amazed. We then, you know, we were most definitely in the tribe, and I always used to say, goo you sound just like Q tip. Tell me that. So those days really shaped us too. Just the whole hip hop culture, like we was so heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, into it. We'll be right back after the break with more from Missy Elliott and Rick Rubin. What if you were a global bank who wanted to supercharge your audit system? So you tap IBM to unsilo your data, and with the help of AI, start crunching a year's worth of transactions against thousands of compliance controls. Now you're making smarter decisions faster, operating costs are lower and everyone from your auditors to your bankers feels like a million bucks. Let's create smarter ways of putting your data to work. IBM. Let's create. Learn more at IBM dot com. What if you are a global bank who wanted to supercharge your audit system? So you tap IBM to unsilo your data, and with the help of AI, start crunching a year's worth of transactions against thousands of compliance controls. Now you're making smarter decisions faster, operating costs are lower, and everyone from your auditors to your bankers feels like a million bucks. Let's create smarter ways of putting your data to work. IBM. Let's create. Learn more at IBM dot com. We're back with more from miss Elliott. Tell me about Tim as a person. Tim. To believe first he was DJ tummy too. So he was so quiet. A quiet genius. And what I always say about Tim and Pharrell just amaze me in two different ways. Tim, because he didn't play, he went off a feeling when he created music. Somebody that went to school probably with technically say these sounds put together are wrong. This is not in the correct key. But he because he went off a feeling if it was right. It was wrong, but it was right. And it was new, and it was new. Yes. And, you know, we really showed people how to rap and sing over a cadence that hadn't existed. Before us. That Kate is so off. To people, I remember one in a million was hard to get played. Because they were saying a lot of people were saying a lot of the program directors were saying that they couldn't mix it in or blended in with the record before or after because of the rhythm of it. Yeah. And it was weird because although it was so slow, it still made you bounce. In the weirdest way, like all the songs that we did just had this bounce even if they were so records. So I think that's the genius in that is that sometimes it's not just about just being technical because I've had people who are amazing, technically, but the feeling is not there. And so that's why I think Tim was always so great at what he did because he went off a feeling. It felt right. It's amazing that there was a time that that was too unusual to go on the radio when it had so much of an effect in all music that came after it. Tell me the story of that song from the beginning. First time you heard the beat. I was out working with 7 O two and Tim call me and was like, hey, you know, we got this opportunity to do something on Aaliyah. Now, you know, we still knew. Nobody really knows who we are. So when me and Tim got together, I'm like, Tim, you know, were we gonna do? Because she was already a superstar. So I'm like, yo, let's just give her our old sound. Nobody never heard it. So it'll be like a new sound. Because that sound was probably four years old to us. Wow. Because we had been signed and the stuff didn't come out. So we have been on that wave that whole rhythm. And I said, let's just give her that. So Tim was like, are you sure I'm like, yeah, like, dude, you know, we were still in a place of, we didn't know what was hot or not. All we knew was what we did. Yeah. You know, this is hot. Not knowing it was really hot, but it.
Broken Record
"missy" Discussed on Broken Record
"Of the great innovators in popular music ever on the show. And I don't say that lightly. Missy, misdemeanor, Elliott. This year is the 25th anniversary of misses certified classic debut album, super duper fly. When that album first dropped, Missy's unconventional rhyme scheme and unique flavor, paired with her childhood friend Timbaland's futuristic production, set a precedent for what was creatively possible in hip hop. And throughout her career, Missy's maintained that level of playful creativity. You can hear it on her slew of radio hits like.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"missy" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Dot com. You'll run out your dancing and you never see a folks welcome back to your taxes show. Guess what? I'm talking to Missy Robertson. One of the, there are thousands of Robertson's out there. And even in Monroe, Louisiana, there's just like dozens of them, but misses the pretty grandmother. Actually, several there are several pretty grandmothers. It's very confusing. You're married to Jace and you have a children's book out. A new one, which is called because you're my family. And you were just talking about at the heart of it is this idea of unconditional love. And so I have tasted your mother in law's cooking and I love it. But it's not unconditional love. It's based on the quality of the taste of the cooking. You're talking about something very different, which is it's a hard balance for parents. Let's be honest. It's a hard balance because I think Bonham for talks about cheap grace. There's cheap love. You see people that's like love, love, love, but they're not, they're not doing the tough love sometimes with their kids. It's just all, I love you, but they're not understanding that love that it's more complicated than just, I love you. So you're not really talking about kind of sloppy love. You're talking about unconditional love, which is, well, again, it's God's idea of love. That's right. I mean, it's the chase you down in the middle of a rainstorm and save your life before you fall into the river, even though you just disobeyed me, kind of love, which is what happens in the book. And you know, you think about the parable of the 100 sheep. Jesus left the 99. The shepherd leaves the 99 to go and chase after that one. That the unconditional love. That one did not follow the rules. He got away somehow because he wasn't following the rules. And so if he would have stayed within the boundaries of what was expected of him, he would not have had to been rescued. And that tells a lot about us. We mess up every day. We stand every day, but Jesus is unconditional love, blows down over and over and over all over us. And I was just, I was just reading this morning about that and first John three to go allow me to read this because I think it's very relevant in what's going on, even with Putin, where he says, first John three in bars ten, this is how we know who the children of God and who the children of the devil are. Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. And then override our 16, he says, this is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need, but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth. And so I think when I think about those words and what John was talking about, it's not just about blood family. It's about the family of God. And so we can say I love you brother and sister. I love you sinner. But then when their needs arise, how do we show them? Do we tell them again? We love you, and we hope the best for you. Do we really show them with our actions? I have to tell you, Missy, my wife and I were just reading first John chapter three a couple of days ago. And I thought, this is one of the most amazing chapters in the description. Yes. Because it is really by some standards by the sloppy standards of our day. It is harsh. It says, if you do not do these things, you do not love God. So it's one thing to give lip service to God. Obviously in the pistol of James, he says, faith without works is dead. And you have a lot of people talking, but you need to live it out, self sacrificially. And if you don't, it proves you actually have no faith. You can talk about it, but you have to live it out. But first, John, in that chapter, I just thought it really lays it out. It kind of like stops you. It makes you realize, wow, God is. It gives you a lot of comfort. Deal with me. It's fundamentally comforting, but it's also startling in a way. Because we kind of don't talk like that in our modern culture. We're all about acceptance. And we forget that it kind of cuts both ways..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Duck Dynasty's Missy Robertson on Unconditional Love
"I'm talking to Missy Robertson. One of the, there are thousands of Robertson's out there. And even in Monroe, Louisiana, there's just like dozens of them, but misses the pretty grandmother. Actually, several there are several pretty grandmothers. It's very confusing. You're married to Jace and you have a children's book out. A new one, which is called because you're my family. And you were just talking about at the heart of it is this idea of unconditional love. And so I have tasted your mother in law's cooking and I love it. But it's not unconditional love. It's based on the quality of the taste of the cooking. You're talking about something very different, which is it's a hard balance for parents. Let's be honest. It's a hard balance because I think Bonham for talks about cheap grace. There's cheap love. You see people that's like love, love, love, but they're not, they're not doing the tough love sometimes with their kids. It's just all, I love you, but they're not understanding that love that it's more complicated than just, I love you. So you're not really talking about kind of sloppy love. You're talking about unconditional love, which is, well, again, it's God's idea of love. That's right. I mean, it's the chase you down in the middle of a rainstorm and save your life before you fall into the river, even though you just disobeyed me, kind of love, which is what happens in the book. And you know, you think about the parable of the 100 sheep. Jesus left the 99. The shepherd leaves the 99 to go and chase after that one. That the unconditional love. That one did not follow the rules. He got away somehow because he wasn't following the rules. And so if he would have stayed within the boundaries of what was expected of him, he would not have had to been rescued. And that tells a lot about us. We mess up every day. We stand every day, but Jesus is unconditional love, blows down over and over and over all over us.
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"missy" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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They sell the three week quick start pack for just 1995 to anyone struggling from pain like next shoulder back hip or knee pain, 1995, about a dollar a day, but what they haven't broadcasted much is that every time they sell a three week quick start, they lose money. In fact, they don't even break even until about four to 5 months after if you keep ordering it. Friends, that's huge. People don't keep ordering relief factor month after month. If it doesn't work. So yes, Pete and Seth are literally on a mission to help as many people as possible deal with their pain. They really do put their money where their mouths are. So if you're in pain from exercise or even just getting older or to the three week quick start for 1995, let's see if we can get you at a pain too. Go to relief factor dot com. Relief factor dot com or call 805 108 three 8 four 805 108 three 8 four relief factor dot com. I use it. It works. You can do what you feel like there's a thing. Hey there folks, welcome to the aircraft taxis show. I will be playing the role of Eric metaxas. I'm his understudy, and I apologize in advance, but I didn't have a lot of time. As my guest, now listen, you know if you know me, how much I love the duck dynasty folks, the Robertson family. I just love them. I had the privilege of including them on this program many times, but also on my crazy Christmas special, a couple of years ago. And my daughter and I got to go down, duck hunting with Phil and uncle psy, and let me just tell you, I don't care if we didn't kill that many ducks. I had a good time. But there are so many of these wonderful robertsons that today I get to talk to Missy Robertson, who has a series of children's books out Missy, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for having me, Eric. Now I want to be clear, you're married to Jase. Of course. The best looking one. And that's not so much. Now, come on, they all got beards. We don't know what any of them really look like. You would agree with you. We don't know what an evil look like. But all of you, and I just find this funny because your father in law Phil, you know, he's all about they need to get married young. And you all get married pretty young and have kids young. And so you're telling me that you're now a grandmother, seriously? Yes, she's three months old and she's perfect. Yes. Well, congratulations on looking so great as a grandmother. But I just want to, I want to say that your family does represent family values and the best sense. And I'm glad having written a lot of children's books myself that you have written some kids books. So tell me about them. They're brand new. They're just out like right now. Yeah, so I've written one in a series of children's books for brave books and the one that I co authored with them is called because you're my family. So I guess that's why they thought of us for this book and me in particular because family is very important to us to the robertsons and actually just to Christians in general. I mean, God is the one who orchestrated the structure of family and so it is vital to the stability of our relationships and I mean all the way up to our nation and internationally to the world. It's very, very important. The stability of our family. Well, it is interesting. I mean, I don't make the case often, but when you think back, you know, the history of the United States when we think of tocqueville and conservatives. They always saw that I guess it was Burke, who talked about the little platoons, the family, the church community, without these things, you can not have a free, vibrant society. And it's always interesting to me that marxists, communists, their anti family in one way or the other because the family, just like the church, is a threat to state power. And so no matter how you slice it, family is important, important to God. And then of course, important to free societies and we need to kind of make that point. Marriage is important, raising kids. All these things are bigger than themselves. So I just had to get that out of my system. Well, it gets back to the commitment. I mean, if you can't commit to the ones that are closest to you, how can you commit to anything else in life? Once it gets too hard, the going gets tough, you're going to leave. But the ones around you, if you can commit early on and teach your children how to commit and teach your children how to love unconditionally, that's what this book is about, then that does require stability and it takes stability. It takes a lot of, it takes a lot of strength and courage to do that sometimes because our family disappoints us a lot. And we have a large family. We disappoint each other a lot. We have to learn to forgive. And that's where that unconditional love comes in. If you can forgive, show mercy inside of your home, you learn to do that outside of your home. So, you know, we're looking at right now with this war going on across the ocean, it seems like, and it is, it could happen to us at any time. Evil exists, and has always exist everywhere..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"missy" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That today I get to talk to Missy Robertson, who has a series of children's books out Missy, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for having me, Eric. Now I want to be clear, you're married to Jase. Of course. The best looking one. And that's not so much. Now, come on, they all got beards. We don't know what any of them really look like. You would agree with you. We don't know what an evil look like. But all of you, and I just find this funny because your father in law Phil, you know, he's all about they need to get married young. And you all get married pretty young and have kids young. And so you're telling me that you're now a grandmother, seriously? Yes, she's three months old and she's perfect. Yes. Well, congratulations on looking so great as a grandmother. But I just want to, I want to say that your family does represent family values and the best sense. And I'm glad having written a lot of children's books myself that you have written some kids books. So tell me about them. They're brand new. They're just out like right now. Yeah, so I've written one in a series of children's books for brave books and the one that I co authored with them is called because you're my family. So I guess that's why they thought of us for this book and me in particular because family is very important to us to the robertsons and actually just to Christians in general. I mean, God is the one who orchestrated the structure of family and so it is vital to the stability of our relationships and I mean all the way up to our nation and internationally to the world. It's very, very important. The stability of our family.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Duck Dynasty's Missy Robertson Has a New Series of Children's Books
"That today I get to talk to Missy Robertson, who has a series of children's books out Missy, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for having me, Eric. Now I want to be clear, you're married to Jase. Of course. The best looking one. And that's not so much. Now, come on, they all got beards. We don't know what any of them really look like. You would agree with you. We don't know what an evil look like. But all of you, and I just find this funny because your father in law Phil, you know, he's all about they need to get married young. And you all get married pretty young and have kids young. And so you're telling me that you're now a grandmother, seriously? Yes, she's three months old and she's perfect. Yes. Well, congratulations on looking so great as a grandmother. But I just want to, I want to say that your family does represent family values and the best sense. And I'm glad having written a lot of children's books myself that you have written some kids books. So tell me about them. They're brand new. They're just out like right now. Yeah, so I've written one in a series of children's books for brave books and the one that I co authored with them is called because you're my family. So I guess that's why they thought of us for this book and me in particular because family is very important to us to the robertsons and actually just to Christians in general. I mean, God is the one who orchestrated the structure of family and so it is vital to the stability of our relationships and I mean all the way up to our nation and internationally to the world. It's very, very important. The stability of our family.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Why Eric Would Rather Be Buried Than Cremated...
"Seeing your Instagram posts about a new late night show. Can you say more about that? Well, it's called the talk show with Eric metaxas and I can not say more about that. If you want to know more about that and I'm not kidding, you have to go to Eric metaxas dot com, sign up for my newsletter. Only there can I really say what needs to be said. I'm not kidding. Yeah, go there. I've heard Eric state that he will be buried and not cremated after death. Is this true? He didn't give a reason, and I'd really like to know his thoughts on the subject. Well, there's a lot to be said on this. But let me simply say that I think the biblical way of thinking is it's incarnational of the Bible is pro body. It is not anti body. That's part of it. I think that there are notes of paganism
How I Built This
"missy" Discussed on How I Built This
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This message comes from NPR sponsor Wells Fargo. As a seasoned small business owner, you need checking that fits your complex individual business needs. Wells Fargo's small business checking offers greater efficiency and control over daily finances, so you can focus on running your business. Plus, access to advanced online banking tools and local bankers dedicated to understanding your financial needs, all so you can bank without missing a beat. More at Wells Fargo dot com. Wells Fargo Bank NA member FDIC. Hey, welcome back to how I built this. I'm guy raz. So it's the mid 1990s and title 9 has only just become profitable. And Missy is still running the company on a shoestring and still looking for ways to get new customers. The way we did it is the old fashioned way, you know, we went to a lot of races and tournaments and we would sell stuff like our excess inventory, we would sell there and we would build up our mailing list by doing that. And then the hard work of building a customer file, you know, selling people, a sports bra, selling a woman a sports bra, you can't do without, and you earn her trust on that, and she comes back to you for all of her athletic apparel needs. And to this day, I would say that we are much better at keeping our customers than we are at acquiring new ones. That's just always. And I think that's again that sort of bootstrap Y hitting singles, you know, our customers know that we get them that we're product users and product testers. So that once they find us, they stay with us for a long time, but it's not like we're going out there, and we're going to do a $100 million marketing campaign that's going to net us a whole bunch more new customers all at once. It's just never been the model. Was that ever was it always designed to be a direct cause this was a direct to consumer business from the beginning. Was it was that the model from the beginning did you ever think, you know, maybe we'll do a collaboration with Macy's or something? You know, I think we just weren't sophisticated. I wasn't sophisticated enough to think like that. I was just, I want to control everything that I can. I know it's a delusion, but I still want to control it, right? I mean, certainly people propose them, but I just couldn't, again, remember, we're mostly selling other people's brands at this point. Yeah. But title 9 on it? Or was no, it's just with whatever brand it was. Whatever brand got it. Okay. And I guess eventually like 8 years in or something, you finally opened up a store like a brick and mortar store in Berkeley. And what's interesting to me is today we're looking at the women's apparel market. And it's enormous, right? You really are the pioneer. You really created this category with title 9. And this is long before Lululemon or Athleta or outdoor voice is any of those existed. At that point, 8 years in, did people get it? Or was it still a curiosity? You know what the most incredible statistic about that first store was the amazing thing about that store was that over 50% of the customers that came to that store came from more than two hours away. Wow. Who were they were they were they a high school athletes college athletes non just women that want to work out what age rangers? I would say probably we think of our customers sort of like that 30 to 50 age range. And it was pretty much that then as well, you know, they're not. They have some disposable income because at that point direct or E comm wasn't as big a thing. There are very few people were willing to buy something sight unseen. Yeah. But what we found mostly was people were coming from all over the country. Yeah. They were flying to SFO, and they would come to our store. So we were really looking for that woman who is in the workforce now and is coming into her own either an aerobic studios or in the outdoors and needs to find the gear that works for. Yeah. The second piece though I will say is our sports bra business ended up. There was a small piece of that that ended up being a big part of our business to high school and college athletes, even now. We have a lot of mother daughter first trips to buy sports bras happened in our retail stores. I wonder, you know, one of the it's essentially I've heard you describe a low point in your career as a leader was during your first maternity leave because obviously you were incredibly overjoyed at the birth of your first child. You were 37. You had a very difficult long labor and you just decided that you were the CEO and the founder and you didn't want to take a long leaf that you were back in the office pretty soon after the birth of your daughter. Yeah. And I think, you know, it's a little bit of a hero complex there, right? You know, the business was doing well. I was still running the business at that point, but the business was doing well enough. But you know, I mean, that's the thing about running a business you get so much positive reinforcement, especially if you're the founder owner, entrepreneur. You've done every job. You know all the answers, and then I suppose there's something about like, wow, a new mom. I don't know any answers. I think I'd rather go back to the place where I know my answers. I mean, if, you know, you want me to get into the psychological underpinnings of that choice. You know, I have this picture, it's like a Polaroid of Gilly, so she comes to the office with me and when she was a newborn. Yeah, yeah, really young and she's all like swaddled and she's on one of those spinny chairs, like spinny Rolly chairs. And she's just lied, they're all swaddled up, like right on the chair and there's no one around. I'm like, huh. But I think I needed to have that in real life like, wow, that's really, that's really screwed up. I gotta do better. But then I think now when people talk about work life balance, I think, you know, there's really no such thing as balance. If you want to do something really great whether that be a great mom or be a great entrepreneur or a great businessperson, you're really gonna have to dig in and have a lot of imbalance for a while. But it always has to flip back. We're gonna there's gonna be a teeter totter. Sometimes it's gonna be, I am really digging in on work. And sometimes it's gonna be I'm really digging in on home. And then for those ordinary.
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Hey, welcome back to how I built this. I'm guy raz. So it's 1989 and Missy has decided to quit her job and put $30,000 of her own money into launching a mail order catalog for women's sportswear. And that $30,000 is pretty much all she has to spend on everything, including the clothes. But the good news is that there are all these big manufacturers and small manufacturers who are starting to think about the coming women's market. Now, the retail stores are not necessarily buying the stuff because obviously they're worried about that a customer coming in. Today. But these manufacturers have to think about tomorrow. So lots of manufacturers were starting to what they used to call shrink it and pink it. And I think they still call it that. They take their men stuff and they do it over in pink and call it a day and make it smaller. So but the good news about that is there were a lot of also small brands of women my age or a little bit older. Who were also starting to design and manufacture women's athletic apparel. So the idea was that you were not going to manufacture your own stuff. You were going to find it. Right, you can afford you're going to find manufacturers buy their stuff. And then put it in the have a catalog and that would be it. And eventually, I'm assuming you got connected to probably smaller manufacturers. So yes, we could have gone into manufacturing. And that probably would have cost me a half a $1 million more. An unlimited amount of money. But what I realized pretty quickly is there were enough of these small brands you know me moving comfort was like the first women's running brand. So I started calling on folks like that and you know, mostly what I did is, well, one, again, I'm operating out of a garage in the house that I have a room in. You're living in like a group house with other yeah. I'm living the group house and I wanted the cheapest rent, so I got the room that was actually the garage. Nice. So yeah, nice. So I have to go outside to go to the bathroom to come back in the house to go to bed. Yeah, whatever. And I'm trying to get these manufacturers to talk to me, but they're not going to talk to me if I'm meeting them in my garage, so I would go down to my brother's office in Foster City. I can't remember where he was, and I would meet people there in his office. It would be like official, right? Free WeWork. You could Starbucks, really. Exactly. It was pretty everything. So how am I going to fake this? Yeah. And then finally, one of the messages, so what's going on here? And it ended up being the sales rep for moving comfort. And so then I just said, well, I'm starting. And I don't have an offices in my brother's office and she was very kind to me. She said, well, look, I'm gonna, I can see you're real, why don't we just come? I'll just come and show you the line. I'll show it to you. And you're living room. And moving comfort was one of the first businesses that I mean, they became our bank. And they were a manufacturer moving comfort. A brand like Nike put a small one and they they were like, okay, we're willing to work with you. Yeah. And at this point, I know it's mainly you by yourself, right? Actually running the company, but I mean, did you have any help or support? Yes. I just was surrounded by a whole bunch of people who were willing and fired up about this idea. Who were they? My teammates, right, I was playing ultimate frisbee. My teammates were my early models. And then one of my teammates happened to be a woman who was an editor at women's sports and fitness magazine. So if she became my first copy editor, she had a friend who was a graphic designer, so she designed the catalog for free. I had another friend who I met playing basketball, and she just, 'cause you had to have a corporate package. I don't know why, but that's what you need. A corporate package was like a logo. Letterhead, all these things. A brand they call it a brand Bible now, I think. Yeah, you had to have that. So my friend, Lisa did it all and threw in a T-shirt for $90..
How I Built This
"missy" Discussed on How I Built This
"Berkeley, California. When I passed a clothing store with an unusual name. The store was called title 9, and I thought it might have something to do with a law but a law I couldn't remember right at that moment. So, a few days later, I looked it up. Title 9, I was reminded was a U.S. civil rights law passed in 1972. It prohibited discrimination based on sex in any federally funded school or educational program. And among the things the law did was to open up high school and college sports to women. Colleges and universities that received federal dollars now had to provide the same opportunities for women to participate in sports as they did for men. According to the women's sports foundation, before 1972, just one in 27 young women played sports. Today, the number is two out of 5. In that year, 1972, less than 20% of all the athletes on the U.S. Olympic team were women. But by 2016, nearly 55% of the team was female. And much of this is because of title 9. The same year title 9 was required to take effect in schools, 1976. Missy park joined her high school basketball team in Greenville, South Carolina. She'd go on to play division one basketball at Yale. But after years of wearing bad fitting sports apparel as a student athlete, Missy decided to solve her own problem. And in 1989, long before anyone would hear the names Lululemon or Athleta, Missy park founded title 9. One of the first brands to make sports apparel. For women. Now, today, many of those other brands are multi-billion dollar companies, either backed by a venture capital or publicly traded. But title 9 is comparatively small. This year, it will do roughly a $100 million in revenue. And unlike its competitors, title 9 is owned only by one person. Missy park, she bootstrapped the brand from day one and built it very, very slowly. If the company grew by 5 or even 10% a year, that was considered a victory. And that slow growth has allowed the company to build a sustainable and supportive culture. Missy park grew up in the 60s, 70s and Greenville, South Carolina, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Her dad was a World War II veteran and became kind of an overnight entrepreneur when he bought the small manufacturing company that he once worked for and as for her mom. My mom, on the other hand, was a stay at home mom and we always accuse her of being part of a secret feminist cell in Greenville South Carolina in the 60s. Because she was. What? She thought women ought to be paid for birthing babies. Yeah. I would say that was a pretty good head of her time. My mom and dad had separate checking accounts. I remember my mom fighting to get her credit card and her own name rather than in misses Russell hunter park. So my mom loved being a full-time homemaker, but she thought it was a position worth paying for. And this was really, this was people don't remember. I mean, the 70s was, I mean, this is the era of ERA, equal rights amendment and of Shirley Chisholm and Bella abzug, you know, with her hats, right? Huge leaps and strides that happened in the 70s. And from your description of your mom, she was either secretly harboring those feelings or maybe not so secretly harboring them. Yeah. Well, you know, my parents were so unusual. Like my mom was in charge of the girls and our allowances. And we had budgets and we had to reconcile at the end of every month and we had to give money to savings and to offerings and each year we would take on other responsibilities. It was her expectation that we would go up to be financially independent women capable of running our own finances in our own life. Yeah. And as a little girl or maybe even a young teen, did you know for sure you were not gonna end up living in Greenville, South Carolina? No. I would say I'm the kind of person that may be everybody else is for sure about it and no one's more surprised than me. You know, I really loved growing up in grainville. It was at the time a great place for me. It's a small place, I can ride my bike everywhere. I was in that first generation of girls and women that were able to grow up with title 9 being in effect. All the way through high school and all the way through college. And of course, talent just kind of opened up sports for women and girls at the time. And you got to play lots of things? Yes. I got to play every sport. You know, I mean, coming up when I did, especially as a girl, you just played all the sports. And if you were willing to play and you were willing to try, it were pretty good because there weren't as many women pouring into the sports and fields as there are now. So, yes, we will say guy. I think that I was a big fish in a very small pond. That's what I'll say. I'm curious because here you are, you are in a small southern town in the 70s. Being a debutante is a was some extent still is but less so. Was a kind of a cultural phenomenon in the south. Was there, like were you a debutante, for example? Oh my gosh, I hate your guts right now. So let's just go on the record right now. I hate your guts. Yes, I was a debutante. Now you and me and all of your listeners know that. And in my home office here, you could see my little rebellion against that. There's a picture of me what about 19 and a white gown with long gloves that actually won't go up above my upper arm and biceps sadly. And I'm spending a basketball and I have my basketball sneakers on it. So you were forced or kind of pressured to be a debutante? You know, here's the danger of things like that. Yeah, I'm just a kid. This is where I grow up. And now I look back on it and I see it differently, but it was one of those things, you know, I love my mom and dad and had very quickly understood like there's some battles that if you can give in and it's not much skin off my back. Then I should just do it because it's gonna make my mom so happy. But it is the source of a lot of amusement a much of my family and close friends more because it's so different.
The Smoking Tire
"missy" Discussed on The Smoking Tire
"Right next to you in their own planes and so because they are if there are by the way you are really doing something really right in your life if you're flying next to fit the other. People rolling your your. Something's gone very well in your life. Actually right for at least a minute. Jerry jerry while crashing die this is why flying cars in a bad idea because then there will be fifty eight. God don't get me started a fucking flying cars flying cars. I'm so i'm so tired of fucking flying cars like stop. Oh we'll tell you about the papers. I've written on those but you're right i. I don't think they're coming anytime saying. Oh my god. Fly cars drive me nuts. I gotta be honest. Those personal drone things usually a one person like you know it's a very powerful drone that human sits in. It looks like fun. But i don't wanna see them shits all over the sky big. You're at being attacked by loki till the train. Just build a good train for everybody but back to the future to which has probably the most realistic depiction of what flying cars would be like. There's the skyway is jammed. There's traffic when they're flying cars. If you've seen the film exactly Missy I know you don't come to l. A. off in. But if you do we would love to feed you bourbon and have you tell us. Stories of flying fighter jets. That i that got buried in there but i think that sounds like a good use of your time. I i'm in la actually quite a bit up on that. Well we're right. We're right by lax. So please please come see us and do another show and talk about other things. I really enjoyed this conversation. Thank you so much for your time. Likewise i really appreciate you inviting me. Yeah we'll have to upgrade our our minutes email. Zacarias zac reserves evil. Yeah we're we should be out premium blend. Ucf bullshit bed Thank you so much. I and and missy is a is a great follow on twitter it's a missy underscore cummings She's a really one of my favorite people to follow on twitter in this space because she really breaks down very complex concepts in a in a really simple and straightforward way so Thank you so much for your time and everyone else out there. Thank you for listening we. We're back tomorrow. who's like. I think we were podcast every single day. Five podcast this week so live people. You're getting an ear full of us this week. We're back tomorrow afternoon and thank you. Everybody and have a great night bye..
The Smoking Tire
"missy" Discussed on The Smoking Tire
"I mean that actually not being in that game anymore and that was a real wakeup call for the rest of the industry e you know an crews have had permission for almost a year now to operate without safety drivers to to do real driverless operations in san francisco and they haven't and so the fact that they've been able to but they're not at that suggested that they just pedestrians and bicyclists. Problem is serious so you know yes. Canestri danger but also bicyclist. Probably i think are the highest danger of having. Something happened to them around the car because they can move a little bit faster than pedestrians and coming out from behind a truck from around owner cars. Again they don't have imagination and they don't. They don't recognize for example when they're near a college campus or a high bike area. These these types of decision making has not yet been imbued inside the systems. And so i do think in indeed. I'm not the only one that there are several bicycling advocacy groups. That are lobbying big. I'm in dc astaldi technology from being put on road amount. Well it's interesting that you brought up the uber accident because in that particular case that vehicle Which was a modified xc. Ninety volvo i believe was being operated by an employee of uber. Who's paid understood job. It was was to monitor that vehicle and you know obviously the car. The car didn't do its job and she didn't quite do her job. And and this is what happens right and she got complacent i think. In the way that a lot of people who have access to you know lesser versions of this but missy d the fact that is one death put uber out of business when faced with accountability for the death in terms of autonomous vehicle research whereas many people have died in Tesla vehicles that we're using the autopilot software time but the blame. You know what i mean. The tesla's still in business. They're still selling this stuff. Why is the difference in accountability between the two so important because we could blame her right. We could blame the safety driver. Who in theory should have been able to She'd been doing her job. Then that's what mattered. The blaming game. Blame that one purse than and because i can blame her. You know we we feel better about the technology and that's what we're doing for every single tesla death. Is that we when the driver. So josh with brown jeremy banner walter lang i mean. These were all the some of the very early accidents where people died very horrific deaths and especially for water wanting who was playing a game on his iphone. We know that for sure you can read the national transportation safety board report about it but everybody jumps on that fact and then start going into blame the passenger but i think that there have continued to be so many high profile cases. Indeed there was just recently won a couple of weeks ago in california. I think in san diego where major die when he was by a tesla who that autopilot on lutheran intersection so. I do think that eventually you're going to see change because these lawsuits and there are a number of them will eventually hit the courts. I have actually. I have to stop. I've got a line of lawyers in a holding pattern in my life. I answer other calls. I can't help the number of players. Want me then in in these cases so i know firsthand that that the the there is a groundswell illegal activity and what's unfortunate about this. Is this country. We live in because the regulatory agencies will not do anything that the only avenue that that consumers have now is through the legal system. That's going to be exercised. You know one of the great one of the great Things i learned about growing up is the misconception that if it's legal it must be okay. You know what i mean. If it's illegal it must be bad. So i think i think a lot of people what you might call. I dunno normies whatever regular regular folks. what are they go. You can buy this. This is something you can just by. How could how. How bad could it be if it was if it was so dangerous. There's no way they could sell it right. Well we believe there's a vetting process but tobacco turns out started in pretty much like what we need to say. Yeah that's a perfect example of something that is terrible for you and yet legal for sale it because the because we want to believe that the technology is close at hand in its mature enough and ready to go but the regulatory agencies have been Especially in surface transportation has been completely absent through the years and then the companies are. I mean look at the stock price at that actually has done so much for advancing potential unsaved technology. It boggles my mind. That stock christ is as insane as it is for tesla that keeps putting pressure on government agencies. Even inside the state of california. So i just told you. The state of california has said it is a four waymo cruise to be dropped doing self driving in san francisco. I don't think it. Is you know what i don't think that you know. I'm not elected officials so it's easy for me to say that they're the ones who are trying to walk a fine line between promoting.
The Smoking Tire
"missy" Discussed on The Smoking Tire
"Tire thirty checkout or keeper dot. io slash smoking tire to learn more. This is a really helpful thing. Guys make it a part of your life. Get your brain power back and exit that password loop keeper is jammed and last but never ever ever leased just parked in our number four position. My folks at tradecraft farms boy have they got some new hotness on the shelves right now just dropped it off at the caribbean. Well the finest thc and cbd products in southern california bar. None absolutely bar none his legal where you're at or you've come to california to visit us kind folk out here. Dude grab some for yourself but if you can't do that if life doesn't turn that way or if it's not legal where you're not just give tradecraft farms of follow on instagram tradecraft. Underscore farms dot on instagram beautiful. Pretty pictures right. And if you if you live where where. This kind of stuff is a mainstream right now by all means visit one of their retail locations were asked for your local dispensary Tradecraft farms the official. Thc products of the smoking tire. Podcast all right. I have been very excited to do this. Show for a while on. This person is incredibly interesting to me. She's a great follow on twitter. Dr missy cummings is a professor of human autonomy autonomy human autonomy interaction at duke university studying how machines and people most optimally work together and in fact some of the fallacies and myths surrounding the future of automation. I am so ready for this one. I can't wait. It's going to be super interesting for everybody. Dr missy cummings on the entire podcast missy. I am so cited to have you. This is amazing. I am when people come on whose work. I'm really really interested in and i like i write down all these questions like this is like. I'm super excited to talk your homework in fountain pen looking at i keep it. Oh gee they pay me better than they pay your students kidding for. I have recorded the intro at home. But for those of you..
Be Calm on Ahway Island Bedtime Stories
Shelter Pet Parade: A Guided Meditation and Story for Kids
"Our story today is a shelter pet parade. Five new arrival landed our island airport. They were labeled handle with care in five very special containers. Were gilbert the goldfish mustard. Be the parakeet mri. The dog kit. The cat and larry the iguana on the flight over the five had been talking. They were all being transferred to our way. I learned animal shelter so that they all could find their forever families and be adopted. At first they all felt nervous. Not knowing where our island wise or what would happen when they arrived missy dog encouraged all of them to take a deep drag in breath in and out so that they would feel less nervous. She was grateful. They were all together and she told them she had heard that away. Island was a very nice place with people who loved their pets very much and considered them to be part of the family. And that's what each shelter pet wanted a forever family. The airplane ride had been noisy but not too long ago and after they landed their carriers were brought off the plane and immediately placed into an air conditioned van. A man checked on each of them to make sure they were ok as he checked each one. He called them by name. Larry iguana the man read off the tag peaking in. How are you doing fellow. Larry sat quietly feeling glad that the airplane ride was done mustard be parakeets. How are you little birdie. The man said mustard be ruffled. Her father's also feeling glad the airplane ride was done and gilbert goldfish man. Read from the tech What a great name he. Exclaimed gilbert swam around with enthusiasm ms kit kat. The man appearing in. Don't worry sweetie you'll be at the shelter soon. Everyone is very nice. You are safe. Kit was very frightened but the man's soothing voice made her feel a little less scared.
Confronting: O.J. Simpson
Columbine Survivors Detail How the Tragedy Still Affects Their Relationships
"The rebels project was founded by four columbine survivors in two thousand twelve to ensure there would always be someone who would be able to understand and support survivors of mass tragedy and mass trauma. The group got together at amy's for a fundraiser. And talked about what it's like to have a relationship after surviving mass shooting michelle wheeler i worked directly with survivors in the support groups and i am a columbine survivor. My name's missy mendel. And i m e. I'd high school survivor. I am kelly murphy and michelle and i work on survivor support groups each month and i am a parent of two students from this school. Highlands ranch shooting and there is also a domestic shooting in my family and i'm related to a perpetrator in a victim smaller columbine survivor and related to the rebels project. Through amy's bitch. I'm and i'm from the ninety one las vegas shooting. My name is cartoon. I'm a columbine survivor. And one of four co founders of the rebels project here. We are at our eighth annual rebels with a cause fundraiser. and amy who basically lifted us up. I mean we were doing like silent auctions in. Somebody's basement regardless of what you're trying to do or who. You are as a human being survivor. Not you're winning drag your own garbage into a relationship. So i just started. Seeing somebody and thing was. They wanted to know where. I was from so littleton colorado and they were like. Oh this is not here in colorado than this is somewhere else this is like. Where are you from littleton colorado. Hey isn't that or columbine. Where'd you go to school. Columbine were you there. Yeah tell me everything about that. This is our first date faulk off and it happens constantly.
Mark Blazor
Biden, Capito Pursue Infrastructure Compromise
"I'm Missy Jepson talks over a sweeping infrastructure upgrade. Our ongoing president Biden and West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore. Capito spoke by phone today, agreeing to talk again on Monday. Senator Capital is leading a group of Republicans Seeking a compromise over the president's infrastructure plan, though reportedly, the two
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Self-Driving Cars Might Never Be Able to Drive Themselves
"This week. The california dmv said it's reviewing whether tesla is telling people that it's cars are self driving when legally speaking they're not this follows. Fatal crashes that may have involved. It's autopilot feature tesla advertises a quote full. Self-driving upgrade option. One guy has been busted tesla's multiple times for reckless driving. He hangs out in the backseat and steers with his feet. Meanwhile no cars are actually fully. Self-driving yet missy cummings. The director of the humans autonomy lab at duke university says the so called deep learning. That cars need to see the road around them. doesn't actually learn. I can show a convolution. Neural net a million images of a stop sign and it will learn what a stop sign is from those images but if it sees a stop sign that doesn't match exactly those images then it can't recognize it and this is a huge problem because if a strand of kudzu leaves starts to grow across just the top twenty percent of a stop sign that is enough to make the algorithm be dumb and it doesn't recognize it because it's never seen a stop sign with one stranded kudzu leaves across it.
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
Few Funerals Match President Andrew Jackson’s Fowl Send-Off
"Jackson was laid to rest at his tennessee home. The hermitage on sunday june eighth is funeral was attended by three thousand mourners. Who had come to pay their respects to the man they revered despite his many moral failings parades were even held in his honour. Presbyterian minister. Reverend william menefee norman's presided over the services. At least he was supposed to. Another mourner named paul had chosen. That particular moment to unleash a series of vulgarities offending everyone within earshot. It wasn't as though people hadn't heard them before. Jackson himself was known to curse up a storm when upset or frustrated however a funeral was no place for such sentiments even for a man as colorful as andrew jackson after several minutes of interruption. Paul was escorted from the service to another room. According to nor he had grown excited by the number of people gathered and couldn't help himself missy. Paul had grown up in the jackson home having been adopted in eighteen twenty seven and became like another child to rachel jackson andrews. Wife rachel died a year later in eighteen. Twenty eight paul was then left in the care of the rest of the family. After mr jackson's inauguration in eighteen twenty nine the president never forgot about him though and often asked how paul was doing in his letters home. Once jackson returned home after being president he spent much more time with young paul. Who picked up on every word that came out of the man's mouth. Eventually paul took to repeating everything he heard and oftentimes that included swearing like a soldier to anyone and everyone inside the house. It's not clear how long paul lived. After that in the wild they tend to have a life span of twenty three years in captivity however african grey parrots can live as old as sixty. That's right paul. Was the only parrot ever forced to leave a president's funeral for hurling offensive words the guests now. That's what i call foul language.
Slate's If Then
Tesla's "Autopilot" Problem: What's Causing the Tesla Crashes?
"This past saturday night a test. The model s. crashed into a tree in a neighborhood north of houston both men inside. The car were killed fiery crash that left two men dead. The victims were in a tesla that burned for four hours midst. The kind of everyday tragedy. That happens all across the country. But there's something about this crash that's different the cause still under investigation but authorities say they are quote certain. No one was driving the vehicle at the time of impact. One man was apparently in the front passenger seat. Another in the rear now. Investigators want to know whether tesla's autopilot feature played a role in the crash. Tesla says autopilot is meant to assist drivers with things like braking and steering not to take over but at least twenty three other crashes have some linked the use of this technology technology that missy cummings has been warning about for years. Do you remember where you were when you heard the news about this latest test crash. Houston i was hiking on the appalachian trail. And you just kinda hit a peak and then all of a sudden my phone buzzed. Cummings is a professor at duke. She runs the human and autonomy lab. They're studying how people interact with automated technology. And i looked down and it was a friend of mine who reached out to tell me what had happened. Cummings knew that given her public criticism of autopilot. Lots of people including people like me. We try to reach her so she turned her phone off and kept hiking. I also kind of shook my head and was like well. I told you so and i hate to be one of those people but i've been telling people that this was going to happen for a long time and so you know that's actually why. Turn my phone off in cabra hiking. Because you know i've spent my whole life trying to do good in this with research people don't listen and then people die
Purity Products
Rapper DMX Dies at 50 After Massive Heart Attack
"Of 50. So many feeling the sting of DMX is lost. Missy Elliott, writing on Twitter that this is heavy for the hip hop family. DMX touch so many there was music. Iced tea writes very very, very few will ever do it like DMX, and that he was too young to go and DMX, his longtime label, def. Jim put out a statement calling him a brilliant artist. Nothing less than a giant and his legend will live on forever. Jason Anthems and ABC News Hollywood. Florida congressman Matt Gates continues to dismiss
Look Behind The Look
"missy" Discussed on Look Behind The Look
"She distrusted me to do it. But this time she did have an opinion. And i was like how do you want to look. And she goes out and to look weird. I don't look whatever i want to look like. I could have been in. Destiny's child or i'm a beyond saved. Backup dancer i here. I know how to do that right. And so after. I'd done a destiny's child so much and the glamour. I love that video of her. I think it's one of the most glamorous just with the wind in her hair blowing whatever it was. You know that's all hype williams. Brilliant things to it was just a fabulous thing and really if you guys have not seen the making of you have to google the making of or behind the scenes video power. It's the funniest thing watching them. Gaga learned the choreography that day. And she's a nerd really and it was just hysterical watching beyond say and gaga navigates. And the really fun part is watching them watch it. When they were watching the takes that they had done laughing their asses off completely giggling and laughing at each other. It's really cute. okay. I'm gonna. That's that's what i'm into the second thing. Yeah that's not see so. Many people always ask makeup artist. What happened like why did you stop. Oh of course. Yes i that question a lot i. You're not you're working for yourself. You're self employed. It's a freelance job So you're not fired ever. It's you know people take breaks. Like with a leash. I you know there were a lot of clients that nobody ever did anything. When i was working with people like missy or mariah my period with them was exclusive. Almost although i did other things they they never really used other. People gaga. We've the fame. I did the look of the tour. I went on tour with her for a lot of that time. But then after that project she moved on creative line and also after the born the born the square video to be honest. I really looked at my period of time with her. And i felt like there was nothing new that i could do for her. We had done absolutely every outrageous thing without a fail with really without it being a mess. And i was just like i would be stupid to push that you know i. I really felt like you know. I'm not getting any younger. I would rather book and that epic period of time with the fame monster cover that was shot with heavy swimming and essentially ending with born this way video and every single thing in between i mean what. Makeup artists can say the exactly. No i completely get that. I completely breida now. I am not working with and
Look Behind The Look
"missy" Discussed on Look Behind The Look
"So you know for me missy and gaga. Were very much the same thing. I completely carving a place and pop culture for them as artists. Yeah and i so unbelievably proud to say that. I was part of that. I mean you know both of those artists. There's nobody that compares to either one of them. They're so unique in their own way. And what i'm really proud of is i'm proud to things slightly different with the two of them. Say it was showing people that a woman didn't have to look a certain way and didn't have to fit into a mold to be a trendsetter and to be sexy while she did and it really what we did with her and it was a village. I mean it was june ambrose in hype williamson myself and You know hairdressers along the way with the finger waves and you know all of that. It was just so new and especially in that genre of black music. It had never ever ever ever been done before. How did how did mri. I see her just as the pioneer. So did she come in with any idea or concept or did you all come together. You have lots and lots and lots of ideas what was interesting about. Missy is from a makeup point of view on nobody ever said to me. This is what you're doing. Okay ever about anything. I mean we would collaborate. It was a collaboration. Yeah more with director more with the creatives. The glam squad and the creatives in general. I don't remember ever. Certainly there were gigantic. Creative happened with both of those artists with every project share. I was part of those need to share. It was always a well. He's got that part. Okay okay great. I mean she's a bitch video. I'm super proud. Let's talk about it Tell me everything per cent again faked my way through. I can't lever. And you know.
ESPN FC
Liverpool hit their stride in victory at Tottenham
"Six place firs hosting fifth-placed liverpool and this match did not disappoint liverpool running out three one winners for me. no alexander. Arnold monitor the scores for liverpool hoi with a brilliant goal for spurs but that's all they could muster liverpool then move into fourth jump west ham. Four points off the league lead spurs sitting six eight points behind league leaders manchester city. Steve nicol shocker. His life jurgen klinsmann with us tv. How good we're liverpool. Today i think on the team were there. Were excellent. you talk about open attack football. That's exactly what you go. You talk about creating chances. That's what you saw you got. Three goals disallowed and you other opportunities that maybe could have made this school lane way. Bigger than actually funny stop is with your first and six choice a box and then james melda then five year old. He's probably fourth choice in the middle of the park. I mean what performance really to dispose and play the way they did School the goal fantastic performance. You're going to attack has been slipping of late liverpool. What was the difference in this one. Well the defense was Liberal group created more chances and finish them off as well. I mean who who knows what would have happened. If someone's goal in the third minute would have been a regular goal by divorce rightfully so it was disallowed. But if that would have been the lead for spurs maybe different story. But i think than liverpool really controlled the game Scarlet three beautiful goals. Even if you know part A spurs pack but they never created enough throughout the ninety minutes. It was obviously a big blow to lose hurricane at halftime if injury again so deserved victory from liverpool cobble of outstanding performances from their side. I look at Tiago first and foremost he played an incredible game and obviously they have their strike spec scoring going forward shock. Oh what are you. Come away from this match. More impressed with what liverpool did or disappointed in spurs performance impressive what liverpool dead given given the issues that liverpool had come into the coming into this one as tv rightly pointed out. But at the same time. Don't don't let that disguises five. That i am hugely disappointed with so much about spurs on the performance today against this liverpool team who you know kind of makes if the time i thought spruce threatened to dominate the midfield. Because never pool. Don't have any real Baldwin's in their own midfield as as always with sonnen key and In they're talking line. They looked so bad on the counter attack. Key don't missy has to come off but then you look at what liverpool dead or semi spinach allowed them to do and the buildup to the first on robinson is allowed ten yards into the swiss hard before anybody thinks about getting clueless to picks out the pasta. The one player who's been running behind them all game long. And then it's a defensive mystique by dial for the second goal. Laurie should have done better tough but he wrote on should have done better And in the end despite the fact that maybe you can Yourself with the fact that he three goals three defensive mistakes liverpool despite all issues were by far the best team. You're gonna any issues. The spurs approach sounded well in all. They obviously almost called the goal. It was allowed for for someone. But then throughout the entire game that didn't create create enough hurricane until he obviously was subdued then because of the injury Was never really into the game. And it's it's just simply not enough liverpool. Look like they could score. You know every minute. I mean we had a couple of opportunities already in the first half and Obviously when you didn't have individual mistakes can happen in philly especially in the first two roles then You really look bad at the end of the day. Stevie i suppose proof today the an order for them to win games. They can't go to over the proper football team and we can't in utah men behind the ball. Then they can do that and it can break on you. But this became an open game and can't do an and jozies komo after the game and pretty much has not had one world appraiser liverpool only said is all the mistakes they made. Well let's say the mistakes and made is because of the pressure would because they were so open that the defenders can't handle it and liverpool school goals so listen supposed to meet today proved exactly what thought torty taw against the proper team. Not good enough. They have they have to sit down with the ball and try and be clever and get on the attack.
AP News Radio
Janet Yellen wins Senate approval as treasury secretary
"Hi Mike Rossi you're reporting Janet Yellen win Senate approval as treasury secretary the ETS are eighty four the nays are fifteen without the Senate overwhelmingly approved Janet Yellen to be the seventy eighth treasury secretary of the United States the seventy four year old Yellen thus becomes the first woman treasury secretary in the department's two hundred thirty two year history Yellen who was also the first woman chair of the federal reserve is expected to play a key role in arguing for president Biden's one point nine trillion dollar corona virus relief package prior to Monday's vote Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said few people possess the experience and expertise that Missy Ellen would bring to the treasury all fifteen votes against the Allen came from Republicans Mike Rossio Washington
Trivia With Budds
10 Trivia Questions on Big Mouth
"It is now time to dive into ten thirty questions on the hit animated sitcom big mouth. Here we go big mouth trivia. Here comes question number one. What actor is missy most obsessed with on the shell number one on big mouth. What actor is missy most obsessed with number one question number two which piano playing ghost lives in knicks attic number. Two which piano playing ghost lives in knicks attic number. Two and number three. When j is talking about the queen's nuggets is what is he referring to number three. When j is talking about the queen's nargis what is he referring to number four. Who did the voice of the main camp counselor on season. Four of big mouth number four. Who did the voice of the main camp counselor on season. Four of big mouth number four question number five on season three. There's an episode named after one state. What is it on season three. There's an episode named after one state. What is it and number six. What do nick jesse get high on in the episode drug buddies number six. What do nick and jesse get high on in the episode drug buddies number six number seven in the episode. The department of puberty jesse gets trapped by the depression blank. Fill in that blank and the episode. The department of puberty jesse gets trapped by the depression. What number seven and question number. Eight who becomes knicks hormone monster at the start of season three number eight. Who becomes knicks new hormone monster at the start of season three question for season four. What does t h stand for number nine on season four. What does t h stand for as a nickname for characters number nine and number ten. What is andrew superpower on the episode super mouth number ten. What is andrew superpower on the episode super mouth. Those are all your questions. were big mouth trivia. We're going to jump into those ten answers when we come back. After this weird noise we are back with the answers to big mouth trivial. One of my favorite shows on netflix. Number one what actors missy most obsessed with that is nathan fillion mri on this show as well as my mom. Kieran buds of joliet illinois. She loves nathan fillion. she loves castle. She really likes to show castle number. Two which piano playing ghost lives in knicks addict. That is duke ellington duke ellington number two and number three. When j is talking about the queen's nuggets he is referring to lola's toes to very gross and it's on season four j. the queen's nuggets lola's toes number four. Who did the voice. The main camp counselor and season four. That was john. Oliver john oliver late night host and comedian number five on season three. There's an episode named after one state. What is it. it's called florida. One of my favorite episodes of the entire series. A lot of crazy stuff happens. Watch that episode. Florida number six. What do nick and jesse get high on the episode drug buddies it is. We'd gumy's get into jesse's dad's we'd gummy collection. And they go nuts number seven in the episode. The department of puberty jesse gets trapped by the depression. Kitty the depression. Kitty sort of an eight cat. That keeps you depressed number. Seven number eight. Who becomes knicks new hormone monster at the start of season. Three that is connie. Connie becomes knicks new hormone monster at the start of that season number nine on season four. What does t h stand for. That is thick hogs men thick hogs men a weird nickname from seth. Rollins voiced character at camp and number ten. What is andrew's sister. Power on the episode super mouth. He has the power of invisibility invisibility. And there you have it. Your big mouth. quiz has been completed. I thought i had done on the show before and realize that i had not so there. You go big mouth trivia.
Checking In with Michelle Williams
interview With June Ambrose
"Listen up. This is going to be such a fun. Episode of checking in with michelle williams. I've had a few moments with my guest. June ambrose as it relates to mental health and fashion and there was an episode that we filmed on his show she had on. Vh wild cod style. By june ambrose. I was so insecure. Because i was coming out of well. It'd been a few years. Since i was a solo artist. And no longer touring. They're singing with destiny's child. I was trying to find my style footing outside of the group. How was trying to refine. It actually couldn't refine it. Because i had to define it and june. Ambrose really really helped me with that. Will we found out that it was deeper than defining my fashion sense. We discovered so much fear in me of walking alone doing something by myself so she said to a place where it was a cia trap. He studio where i only thought that. If you're training for gymnastics or the circus that you should only be going to these types of places but going into that trap appease plays when you have to stand on the ledge. I literally burst out in tears. Because i had a revelation that i was scared to take the leap by myself. That was just a personal nugget. I'm just so thankful to june for helping me discover that once again at went beyond anything that she was going to put me in fashion wise. It went beyond anything that surge on the makeup artist was gonna do with my makeup. It went beyond any even. They dyed my hair but none of that mattered. If i was going to continue to walk around with so much fear hours just literally gonna look fierce and be fearful and wanna be fearful some just so thankful to june for helping me take that leap of faith. Now i want to welcome to my podcast. June ambrose and amazing style icon herself but she has made her clients to be celebrity style icons as well especially in the hip hop world for superstars like missy elliott and jay z. And so many more. She's also the creative director for the global brand puma. And when she's not on my podcast she's an n. b. man costume designer for some of the biggest music videos and tv shows. But let me tell you something. She's also just a fabulous friend wife and mother please welcome. I can call her my friend. Y'all please welcome june ambrose. How category. I absolutely absolutely. I really wanted to just speak on your joy. And also the psychology behind your styling. But as i was thinking of people to be on this podcast especially those that are walking their journey to have a better quality of mental health. As said june. Ambrose is always smiling. June ambrose is always full of joy and i was like i never see her in a bad mood and i just wanna know june. How do you keep your joy. It's really exhausting. To be sad it'd be sad instead of the other way around. Yeah like it's. I find that you know i. Smoke is joining that. Were on in life. The cycle we think it's as we're living but it's going very slow but it's actually going really. It's a short trip you know. We're lucky we get a hundred years. You know so. I tried to make everyday count. I try to even on my worst date on on our bed. Dang something happens that may be upsetting or disappointing. I know that it won't that you know there's always a tomorrow. Hopefully yeah if. I want there to be if there isn't gonna make this moment joyful. Yeah i just to tap. And i think since memories really help you to kind of stay happy you know when you tap back into those moments that joint like always tell people that hate taking photos if you feel awkward and uncomfortable in front of a camera tap into like sense memories and think about the feeling the emotion not about. What's in front of you but think about what's inside of you. You know that constant reminder that technique is something that takes practice so if you work on tapping into the joy. When you're in pain you'll be able to call on it even if it doesn't it doesn't sustain you for length of time. At least you know you have the ability to tap into a good feeling. You have that choice now. Some people struggle with not being able to tap into their joy. You know for for many reasons. But i recognize that is one of my superpower so i like to share it and it's just again. It's less exhausting. it's more fun being degi. Hear what she said. Did you get those nuggets. I mean because i feel like you were saying even if you are having a bad day you don't you're not gonna let it turn into your worst day and i also feel like if you're having a bad day some people will let everybody know around them that they're having a bad hair then you make everybody else have a bad day for michelle is kind of also you patient than than a man in space and i'm in creative space also working with celebrity talent and working with corporate big companies beauty brands in different scenarios and being on camera you after how to put that away and not bring that into the space right. So it's like you can't walk into a classroom day you know. You can't go on camera with a day. You have to find a way to pack away.
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
Sarasota attorney resigns state job to protest Rebekah Jones raid
"Our next guest resigned his position on the florida government. Because of what you're about to see. We showed you this video last night. When rebecca johns the florida health department whistle blower. Who was fired for refusing to manipulate covid. Nineteen data joined us here to describe what it was like. When florida state police officers entered her home at eight. Thirty am on monday. Searching for computer evidence about a possible text that should not have been sent. They entered her home with guns drawn. And aiming those guns upstairs in her home at her husband and her two children ages two and eleven outside in the house relaxing. She'll all the children off all down missy. Jones come down the stairs now. Police come down. Fear is what rebecca jones said about that last night on this program. I thought i was being arrested. I had no idea what four. But i have honestly been expecting to santa's to send people after me for six months. I didn't know they search word for the house until they start healing warrant inside and tell me. Tell me husband and two children to come downstairs. Which was confusing. Because i had no idea why. And they're standing at the top of the stairs and the my husband is holding our two year old daughter in my eleven year. Old son is behind him in there pointing their guns at him at the end of that discussion last night. I reported the breaking news. That attorney ron philip. Kofsky resigned in protest from his position on judicial nominating commission after he saw that video of the police guns drawn in rebecca jones home and after he studied the search warrant that was issued by a judge who appointed by florida governor rhonda santa's in his resignation letter from the post. That governor disentis appointed him to attorney ron. Philip kofsky said i have been increasingly alarmed. By the governor's response to the covid nineteen pandemic. I believe the policy of this state toward cova is reckless and irresponsible. I have followed the events of miss jones and reviewed the search warrant that led to her home being raided. Based on. What i've seen and read i find these actions unconscionable even if the facts alleged are true i would still call her a hero. I no longer wish to serve. The current government of florida in any capacity joining us now is landfill kaczynski. The former vice chair of the twelfth circuit judicial nominating commission in florida. He's also a former general counsel to the sarasota republican party. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Mr full custody. We really appreciate it up. Tell me how you came to your decision. Did you see the video first. And then read the search warrant and an assemble your thoughts from those two things. Yes i i saw. The video in obviously was pretty shocking. Outrage like everybody else. And then i posted something on twitter about i reaction to that in actually. A trump supporter sent me a link to the search warrant From the miami herald website said. Well you know before you say anything. You'd better read the war and see what terrible thing she's done. I did that and it just made me more matt well. I'm gonna read from the warrant because it's all about a text. They're in there with grow with guns drawn because a text was sent to florida of workers in the florida health department maybe to twelve hundred people and the text said. This was a group text and it said this. It's in the warrant. It said it's time to speak up before another seventeen thousand people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don't have to be part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it's too late. That was the crime that was being investigated with guns drawn in rebecca johns home yet. It's outrage said not And the fact that a a search warrant was signed which was so broad which encompassed them seizing all of her electron devices with no minimization or limits. On what they could do once they receive. Those devices led me to believe that really their primary. The primary target of this warrant is not necessarily rebecca jones in the primary purpose of the war is not to make a criminal case against rebecca jones. The primary purpose of all of this is to find out the identities of the people inside the state government core talking to her. And what they're telling her. And i think that's really what they're after. Yes and she said that she has had some confidential sources in there who've been trying to give her a good information about covid and she worries now that with the seizure of electronic devices the identities of those people could well be obtained by the state. Police who's boss is the governor of the state of florida. And and i you make the point that those police officers knew exactly who this woman is that she's kind of famous in florida now. Yeah absolutely. there's there's just no. I know that. The governor's office is denying that he had any knowledge whatsoever about this investigation. Or this warrant. I mean this is a law enforcement agency. That reports directly to the governor's office it. It doesn't report to a state. Attorney's office locally. So this is. A nemesis of governor descends us and has been for six months and outspoken critic high profile. So the idea that his own law enforcement agency would execute a search warrant like this on such a high profile critic and they wouldn't clear through him. Or as general counsel i that just strains all credibility to me rod filled kofsky. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. And also thank you for taking your oath as lawyer seriously and your position as an officer of the court seriously when you see something like this say something about it the way you have. We really appreciate that. Thank you