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Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Asks Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling: Is "Measure O" Working?
"Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50 % plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10 % of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
What Are Energetic Activations? Photographer Adjanys Marrero Explains
"Talk about like you do these, what do you call them? Energetic activations is your part of what you do, you like to do. What is that? How do you explain how they work? Yeah, absolutely. So during the photo shoot, just because I have done so many throughout the years and each session is an experience, but as I started to work with more people who are in the law of attraction, manifestation, and energetic, I noticed that while we were in session and the way that I directed them through the direction actually created these crazy breakthroughs. So I started to really get these downloads around how when you not only brand your vision and brand it for the world in a very beautiful way, whatever feels beautiful in a line for you, but you're absolutely almost able to break into that frequency into the future because a photo shoot could be quite a pampered experience. It could be like you're leaning back and you're receiving the spotlight and you're allowing yourself to be seen and there's nothing you can do except pose, you know, no matter how uncomfortable you are, you're still being held. And I realized that a lot of people, it's almost like they grabbed that future self and they just literally brought it to this very present moment. And I was like, it's like you meet your future self because you're dressing how she would dress, you're speaking and you're feeling into that. And I'm bringing that energy because I want you to be at your highest calibration because I know that's what's going to get captured in the image. So the reason I do metaphysical branding is because if you're in a negative mood, okay, for example, I'm sure you have a lot of listeners, but I'm a woman who is speaking to women, being in front of the camera is nerve -wracking. Yes, it is. So many body issues, so many issues, you know, it is nerve -wracking. And so when you are scared of how you look, even if you look beautiful, but your hair and your mind is going, I look crazy, I feel ugly, I'm bad, I'm this, I'm that, I don't care how beautiful your images look, the energy that is being emitted is going to put people off. Yeah, I agree with you on that. So what I need to do is to break people out of thinking about themselves and thinking about their clients. In my sessions, you're always constantly thinking about the work and the love that you're giving your clients. So when I capture you, I literally capture you the love you have for those who are going to see these images. So they can like receive something from that. So that's where we have the 50 milliseconds, you know, because we do energy work and we do it very intentionally. So yes, they look gorgeous. Yes, you're having fun. But at every step of the way, we're thinking about how we're serving the collective in the name of the divine. Always, always, always.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Dan Bongino Show
Gun Confiscation in Biden's America: Will You Be on the List?
"Who have 100 ,000 followers. I'm not even mentioning their names, but just imagine for a second you garner 50 thousand followers. You're Joe Smith. You've got a regular job, living a decent life with your two kids and the dog, whatever it may be. And all of a sudden you start posting about and Biden wins, God forbid, in 2024, you start posting about Hunter Biden's crack problems and his paintings and money laundering. Oh, next thing you know, look, you get a knock at the door. We'd like to talk to you about these Twitter posts, by the way. You have a gun, son of your business. Well, actually it is our business. You have a gun. We'd like to see that. Next thing you know, you get some kind of flag red against you. Your guns are confiscated. look, Oh, they find a gun in your house and all of a sudden they make up some phantom menacing thing. Oh, he lunged for it. Meanwhile, you were seven rooms away while they're in your house. This is what worries me. They will use the gun list as a way to target their political opponents. Not that they're going to confiscate every gun. There's no way. They have no chance. But how would they do that, folks? And now let's play a little interactive game. But, Dan, I've listened to your show before. It's illegal for the federal government to create Yes, correct. It's also illegal for the federal government to use tax dollars to pay off people's student loans. But they do that. There's always a workaround for tyrants. And the workaround for the tyrants is the background check system. The federal government wants to desperately compile a list of everybody that's gone through a background check for a firearm. So they have a list of every firearm and who bought it. The problem, ladies and gentlemen, is the mandatory background check is only for sales from FFLs. It's not for private. So Mike if or I were to give away a firearm to, say, our daughters or sons, and they're not prohibited possessors, the government son of the government's business, your gun, you can give it to whoever you want, as long as it's the law. They want
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Daddy Issues Podcast
Chris Reflects on His Incredible Bond With His Daughter
"Now, how is your daughter handling all this? Three years old, is she doing the sleepovers like great? Because I know you've only had a couple. So I just had my first sleepover, not last Wednesday, but the Wednesday before. So I've never had a time in which I haven't seen my daughter except when they withheld her. So it was like a month or two during that time. But no matter what, I was always, always seeing my daughter every Monday, Wednesday, Friday in the middle of the day, and every other Saturday and Sunday consistently. Never missed any time unless they were the ones withholding. And so, you know, the time difference has been difficult because like you're constantly back and forth dropping off. But for the most part, we have an amazing bond. Like I don't know if it's necessarily really affected her because the first overnight, not a single problem. Like she was like in heaven being here with Daddy. Like she has her own bed and I'm like, are you going to go sleep in your own bed? Are you going to sleep in, where do you want to sleep? And it's like, I'm going to sleep in Daddy's bed. I was like, but don't you want to try your bed out? I'll lay down, but I'm going to sleep in Daddy's bed. And like she just like sprawled out and she was like laying horizontal like my dog on the pillows. And it was like just, it was really adorable. But more importantly, like it was that whole day. I had 24 hours with her where like I wasn't in a rush to do anything. I just, I got to go about my normal day and I had her with me and she was so happy. And just spending the day with Daddy and the doggies and just, it was just so much fun. And then she's now looking forward to it because now she knows Wednesday's on my overnights. But then, you know, October is going to come really quick and now I'm going to have every Wednesday and every Friday. So it's really, it really was something else having her just the entire time without having to negotiate a time back and forth. And part of my negotiating now is like, you know, October is going to be an odd month for the other party because I have her every Friday. Which doesn't give her a weekend. And so I even offered, like, you know, here I am, like, I'm like, listen, you don't have a full weekend. If you want, I'll move the weekends that I don't have her and I'll move that Friday to a different day during the week. I'll have her different, a different day during the week for the overnight and then you'll have a full weekend with her. She still hasn't even responded to that. And that's what's crazy because most men, even me, like I talk about that stuff and I'm like, you're not only compromising for your daughter. But you're also compromising for your, your ex to make her life easier and have her be able to have your daughter on the weekends and things like that. It's like, why would you not try to get along and do that stuff? You know, again, it's, it's, and I, and I've always said this, I said this to everybody, it's not necessarily the ex. Her and I, if you take away the family core thing, her and I have always gotten along really well. It's her mother that's controlling her. She is, she is a pretty amazing person if you take away the grandmother. And so it's the grandmother making these decisions and not her. So like her, her option is either listen to the grandmother and just don't communicate at all, which is what, that's been her strategy this whole time. Is she doesn't have to cooperate because the courts have made the least amount of decisions possible until now. Now she knows that the court is like, you know, it was just a huge bombshell. I did not expect a 50 50 physical custody agreement. Like I did not, I was like mind blown. I just, I was like everyone on my side cause I had people there of course it was like crying. They're like, I'm in tears. Everyone's in tears. They're like, what just happened? It's like, what on earth just happened? Like, you know, I, I just, I just finished a criminal accusation which was indicted and you know, the judge, I actually, there was, there was a pretty big bombshell actually that happened. So part of my PTI is I need to get a psychological evaluation. But part of the transcripts that I showed you before is the judge wanted her to get a psychological evaluation, which basically was us like in 2021. But then the judge backpedaled because my attorney at the time was like, well, the burden of proof is on her. So if you want us to do a psychological evaluation, she should pay for it. And the judge completely backpedaled. She's like, Oh, well she doesn't have support. So how do you expect her to pay for it? Well, you're the one who wanted the evaluation. Okay, we're not going to issue the evaluation. But imagine if an evaluation was issued then how much, how, how nothing else possibly would have happened. I probably never would have been wrongfully accused of a crime. Like she would have been forced to co -parent or I would have had more, more parenting rights or more time with my daughter and she would have had, she would have been forced to co -parent.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh "More Than 50 %" from News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
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The Mason Minute
Clogged Nozzle (MM #4623)
"Over the weekend, I was getting ready to go out and do whatever I was going to do. I don't know what it was. I was taking a shower and was doing my hair and pulled out the hairspray and tried to use it. And the nozzle was clogged and it just frustrated me. I've been using hairspray now, I think for something like 50 years and it always has a clogged nozzle. I wouldn't say always, but I use a big can. So therefore I have to fix the nozzle frequently. Now the easiest way to do it, pry the nozzle off the top, stick it in hot water for a while and it'll loosen up all that sticky gunk that comes out with the hairspray. Wouldn't you think at this point, if I've been using these nozzles for 50 years, there'd be some company that would have figured out a way to make it so the nozzle didn't clog, the nozzle didn't stick, it would get through the entire process of spraying your hair before the can's empty. I have a lot of problem with these spray cans these days too. I have a problem with my spray powder where some of those nozzles don't necessarily clog, they just stop working. I realize it's not high science, it's not big business, but it's still frustrating. We've got a lot of technology, but the nozzle still hasn't been fixed.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "more than 50 %" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Mason Minute
Clogged Nozzle (MM #4623)
"Over the weekend, I was getting ready to go out and do whatever I was going to do. I don't know what it was. I was taking a shower and was doing my hair and pulled out the hairspray and tried to use it. And the nozzle was clogged and it just frustrated me. I've been using hairspray now, I think for something like 50 years and it always has a clogged nozzle. I wouldn't say always, but I use a big can. So therefore I have to fix the nozzle frequently. Now the easiest way to do it, pry the nozzle off the top, stick it in hot water for a while and it'll loosen up all that sticky gunk that comes out with the hairspray. Wouldn't you think at this point, if I've been using these nozzles for 50 years, there'd be some company that would have figured out a way to make it so the nozzle didn't clog, the nozzle didn't stick, it would get through the entire process of spraying your hair before the can's empty. I have a lot of problem with these spray cans these days too. I have a problem with my spray powder where some of those nozzles don't necessarily clog, they just stop working. I realize it's not high science, it's not big business, but it's still frustrating. We've got a lot of technology, but the nozzle still hasn't been fixed.
The Mason Minute
Clogged Nozzle (MM #4623)
"Over the weekend, I was getting ready to go out and do whatever I was going to do. I don't know what it was. I was taking a shower and was doing my hair and pulled out the hairspray and tried to use it. And the nozzle was clogged and it just frustrated me. I've been using hairspray now, I think for something like 50 years and it always has a clogged nozzle. I wouldn't say always, but I use a big can. So therefore I have to fix the nozzle frequently. Now the easiest way to do it, pry the nozzle off the top, stick it in hot water for a while and it'll loosen up all that sticky gunk that comes out with the hairspray. Wouldn't you think at this point, if I've been using these nozzles for 50 years, there'd be some company that would have figured out a way to make it so the nozzle didn't clog, the nozzle didn't stick, it would get through the entire process of spraying your hair before the can's empty. I have a lot of problem with these spray cans these days too. I have a problem with my spray powder where some of those nozzles don't necessarily clog, they just stop working. I realize it's not high science, it's not big business, but it's still frustrating. We've got a lot of technology, but the nozzle still hasn't been fixed.
The Mason Minute
Clogged Nozzle (MM #4623)
"Over the weekend, I was getting ready to go out and do whatever I was going to do. I don't know what it was. I was taking a shower and was doing my hair and pulled out the hairspray and tried to use it. And the nozzle was clogged and it just frustrated me. I've been using hairspray now, I think for something like 50 years and it always has a clogged nozzle. I wouldn't say always, but I use a big can. So therefore I have to fix the nozzle frequently. Now the easiest way to do it, pry the nozzle off the top, stick it in hot water for a while and it'll loosen up all that sticky gunk that comes out with the hairspray. Wouldn't you think at this point, if I've been using these nozzles for 50 years, there'd be some company that would have figured out a way to make it so the nozzle didn't clog, the nozzle didn't stick, it would get through the entire process of spraying your hair before the can's empty. I have a lot of problem with these spray cans these days too. I have a problem with my spray powder where some of those nozzles don't necessarily clog, they just stop working. I realize it's not high science, it's not big business, but it's still frustrating. We've got a lot of technology, but the nozzle still hasn't been fixed.
WTOP
"more than 50 %" Discussed on WTOP
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The Greg McAfee Show
Mike Agugliaro Talks Jealousy, Envy, and the Dangerous Game of Comparison
"Got a privilege to have Mike Agigliaro here with us today, and Mike owns a few companies. He owns the Food All Group, and he also owns Business Forge, which he'll probably talk a little bit about both as we do our podcast today. But Mike, I know you've been in the business, you've been in the heating and air and plumbing business, and you've purchased a few, you've sold a few, so you've definitely been in the industry quite a while, which we'll talk about. But we were on Facebook the other day, several weeks ago, and something came up about a subject about jealousy and envy. And I mentioned something, and that's kind of how we started talking. But, you know, jealous and envy has been around since Adam and Eve. I mean, that's what happened in the garden. Cain and Abel were jealous of each other, the first two kids from Adam and Eve. And as business owners, it's really easy to get our eyes off what we do every day and start looking at other companies, which I advise not to. But what is your opinion on that? What does it do for the business owner, the company, and everything like that when we start doing that? Yeah, well, I used to tell people the most dangerous thing is Facebook because it created this comparison effect. And the comparison effect is when you think someone else has something that you should have. And I think it's, you know, if people don't know how to control it, what they do is they have this, they live within this fantasy of seeing people, right? You see people, it's back. If I do a post about something about, you know, life by design or compelling your life to go to the next level or connecting deep in your relationship, I get two or three. And I think people have this kind of fascination to what they don't have because they're stuck in this wanting to have this emotional, immediate gratification, right? It's probably like we all have a buddy bought a boat, real excited, tells everybody about the boat. He's buying the boat. He has the boat six months later. No one cares. No one even knows about the boat. No more. It sits, it's growing weeds. He don't clean it no more. And his wife can't wait to get it out of the, out of the backyard and scaling companies. If we go into it, you deal with this, you deal with this a lot with people looking at you and right away, they want to say, you know, if you're a big company, you must be a thief. That's what I dealt with all the time. Right. And it's, and I don't know why, I really don't understand that, but it's human nature a lot of times because when you're achieving and you're making things happen, I often say you're a moving target and you've, but the best way to keep from being shot is to keep moving upward. So, you know, what harm, what harm does jealousy and envy cause for the business owner? Yeah. Well, people become very, you know, first off they become this whole jealousy and, and goes into this world of judgmental, right. And, and, and cast, casting judgments on what they think is true versus not true. And, and when I scaled, I built a company called CEO Warrior. I built that company which was to help the plumbers, HVAC, electricians, pest control people. And I built it to show them a different way, a different way of thinking. I don't know about you, Greg, but like, if I can get people to just change their framing in their mind, I can easily teach them marketing sales and operations. Like that's just a, that's a basic functions of a company, but to get people to think different. So when I started working with, you know, smaller companies now they scaled so many of them scaled, I mean, 50, over 50 companies that I worked with before I exited the company, sold in the last 30 months and became, and 90 % of them became deck of millionaires. I used to tell people, tell me how you, how do you act when you're in the office? And what they do is they, they, and this goes to the point of jealousy. There's oh, so and so around the corner, they got 50 trucks. And the reason they do that is because they charge too much and they, they pressure sales people. And, but it wasn't true. I'm not saying it's not true for any company, but it wasn't true. They just needed to, what is it? They were casting these stones, right? And I said, well, what about this? What about if we shift our framing just a little bit? And instead of looking at them at their, their bad and they're doing things wrong, why don't we ask them what they're doing?
The Dan Bongino Show
Think Things Are Bad Now? We're Not Even Close...
"One person to dictate the whole show but it's more than one probably other people were thinking that the point I'm trying to make about my is it bad enough theory that as bad you intelligent conservatives out there in the audience think things are the border the economy and they are public safety. The story liberals are getting from mouthpieces the in media and their government officials are things aren't that bad. Inflation is down I percent you notice how they phrase everything it is the problem is prices aren't down at all but you see how that the dipsy do flipper ooh how when you flip an argument and you make it about the inflation rate not about the price level people pay all the sudden it sounds like things aren't too bad. That's the point I was making, it's not a critique of the cops I know they've made arrests. I can't imagine the pressure and if the situation were reversed and the victim was a minority and the attackers were white this would be the FBI would be involved and the National Guard would be called in. I can only imagine the pressure they're under but no this was not a knock on the cops at all. This isn't bad enough theory is something you need to understand because it's not a theory it's real. People will not vote until the situation has gotten catastrophic. It doesn't mean we can't win elections folks we won in 2016. I'd argue we won in 2020 with all the shenanigans involved. We won. We can win. It was a rout in 2016. We won seats we had no No business winning. We can win. What I'm suggesting to you with this isn't bad enough theory is in order for a Reagan -esque 40 plus 9 state landslide a Giuliani 18 -point reelection that happened in his reelection effort in a blue state in a 50 -50 country it has to get sadly really really bad
The Mason Minute
Weight Loss Drugs (MM #4620)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. A lot of talk on the news about drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and Monjaro and Zepbound being these wonder weight loss drugs. And of course I've had a couple of people ask me if I'm thinking about taking a drug like that. I guess it's almost a slap in the face. It's kind of a reminder telling me, hey, you're fat by the way, which I know I'm fat. Luckily I'm comfortable in who I am. I'm not pleased with my body shape or my body size, but I'm comfortable. I like who I am. And I watch these drugs and well, number one, they're injectables. That means a needle. And I hate needles. The fact that I'm getting flu shots and COVID shots and all sorts of injections, including my allergy shots over the last few years, and I don't want to add any more. And number two, I'm still very nervous with side effects. I keep reading about all the side effects these drugs have and yes, they were maybe meant for other uses, but now being adapted for weight loss. I'd love the idea of losing 50, 100, 150 pounds, but then again, I'm worried about how my body would handle losing that much weight. Well, it sounds great in theory. I just can't imagine a quick fix for this.
The Mason Minute
Weight Loss Drugs (MM #4620)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. A lot of talk on the news about drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and Monjaro and Zepbound being these wonder weight loss drugs. And of course I've had a couple of people ask me if I'm thinking about taking a drug like that. I guess it's almost a slap in the face. It's kind of a reminder telling me, hey, you're fat by the way, which I know I'm fat. Luckily I'm comfortable in who I am. I'm not pleased with my body shape or my body size, but I'm comfortable. I like who I am. And I watch these drugs and well, number one, they're injectables. That means a needle. And I hate needles. The fact that I'm getting flu shots and COVID shots and all sorts of injections, including my allergy shots over the last few years, and I don't want to add any more. And number two, I'm still very nervous with side effects. I keep reading about all the side effects these drugs have and yes, they were maybe meant for other uses, but now being adapted for weight loss. I'd love the idea of losing 50, 100, 150 pounds, but then again, I'm worried about how my body would handle losing that much weight. Well, it sounds great in theory. I just can't imagine a quick fix for this.
The Mason Minute
Weight Loss Drugs (MM #4620)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. A lot of talk on the news about drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and Monjaro and Zepbound being these wonder weight loss drugs. And of course I've had a couple of people ask me if I'm thinking about taking a drug like that. I guess it's almost a slap in the face. It's kind of a reminder telling me, hey, you're fat by the way, which I know I'm fat. Luckily I'm comfortable in who I am. I'm not pleased with my body shape or my body size, but I'm comfortable. I like who I am. And I watch these drugs and well, number one, they're injectables. That means a needle. And I hate needles. The fact that I'm getting flu shots and COVID shots and all sorts of injections, including my allergy shots over the last few years, and I don't want to add any more. And number two, I'm still very nervous with side effects. I keep reading about all the side effects these drugs have and yes, they were maybe meant for other uses, but now being adapted for weight loss. I'd love the idea of losing 50, 100, 150 pounds, but then again, I'm worried about how my body would handle losing that much weight. Well, it sounds great in theory. I just can't imagine a quick fix for this.
The Mason Minute
Weight Loss Drugs (MM #4620)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. A lot of talk on the news about drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and Monjaro and Zepbound being these wonder weight loss drugs. And of course I've had a couple of people ask me if I'm thinking about taking a drug like that. I guess it's almost a slap in the face. It's kind of a reminder telling me, hey, you're fat by the way, which I know I'm fat. Luckily I'm comfortable in who I am. I'm not pleased with my body shape or my body size, but I'm comfortable. I like who I am. And I watch these drugs and well, number one, they're injectables. That means a needle. And I hate needles. The fact that I'm getting flu shots and COVID shots and all sorts of injections, including my allergy shots over the last few years, and I don't want to add any more. And number two, I'm still very nervous with side effects. I keep reading about all the side effects these drugs have and yes, they were maybe meant for other uses, but now being adapted for weight loss. I'd love the idea of losing 50, 100, 150 pounds, but then again, I'm worried about how my body would handle losing that much weight. Well, it sounds great in theory. I just can't imagine a quick fix for this.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from David Brooks on How To Know A Person
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there, and of course, to listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues. All of them at hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Inside the Beltway this morning, I'm so glad you joined me. I want to talk with you about this book. David Brooks's brand new How to Know a Person, The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. David joins me now. Hello, David. How are you? It's good to be with you again. It's good to talk to you. David, I'm used to getting books, and I got yours for free. They get sent to me. I want to tell you I'm going to buy six copies of How to Know a Person, three for my children and their spouses, and three for friends who are no longer friends that I want them to read. I wonder if you've had other people tell you that they're going to be buying your book to give to other people. Yeah, thank you for being generous on Twitter about the book. I appreciate it. Yeah, no, I've had people buy it for all their employees. I've had people buy it for the families. I haven't heard about buying it for ex -friends, but it's a good strategy. It is. We just live in these brutalizing times. It is. And my book is supposed to be a missile directed right at that. It's about the precise skills of how do you get to know someone, how do you make them feel respected, seen, heard. How do you make them feel respected, seen, and heard? I know why my friends are not my friends anymore. It's because of Donald Trump. They thought me insufficiently outraged about Donald Trump, and I can't bridge that gap, right? I can't be other than what I am, which is I voted for him twice, and if he's the nominee, I'll vote for him again. But they don't understand it, and I don't know that they're trying to understand. I don't understand them either, but I think How to Know a Person has assisted me. So, congratulations. Let me also tell you, I told our mutual friend Bob Barnett that I was telling people about your book in Miami as I prepared for the debate, because my wife and I talked about one statistic in particular, one paragraph actually, on page 98. Thirty -six percent of Americans reported they felt lonely frequently or almost all of the time, including 61 percent of young adults, 51 percent of young mothers. The percentage of Americans who said they have no close friends quadrupled between 1990 and 2020. 54 percent of Americans reported that no one knows them well. That is an extraordinary raft of terrible news, David. Yeah, and I found it's hard to build a healthy democracy on top of a rotting society, and so when this people are filled with loneliness and sadness, it turns into meanness, because if you feel yourself unseen, invisible, there's nothing crueler than feeling that people think you don't exist, and you get angry, and you lash out, and we have these school shootings. We have bitter politics. We've got the brutality of what's happening on college campuses right now, where Jewish students are being blockaded out of classrooms or have the recipients of genocidal how to build a friendship, how to make people feel that you're included, and these are basic social skills like the kind you could be taught at like learning carpentry or tennis or something like that. It's how do you listen well, how do you disagree well, how do you sit with someone who's got depression, how do you sit with someone who's contemplating suicide, how do you sit with someone who disagrees with you fundamentally on issues, and I just try to walk through the basic skills, and in my view, there in any group of people, there are two sorts. There's diminishers, the people who stereotype ignore, they don't ask you questions, they just don't care about you, and then there's another sort of person who are illuminators, and they are curious about you, they respect you, they want to know your life story, and they make you feel lit up and heard, and my goal in writing the book was partly social, because we need these skills to be a decent society, and partly personal. I just want to be better at being an illuminator. I think it comes through in the book. I listened to your interview with Katie Couric and her colleague, who I don't know, and they were trying to get at a question a couple of times, I'm gonna try and land that plane. Why did David Brooks write this book? Well, I'll give you the personal reason. You know, some people, if anybody watched Fiddler on the Roof, you know how warm and huggy Jewish families can be. I grew up in the other kind of Jewish family, and our culture was think Yiddish, act British, so we had love in the home. We just didn't express it. We were not a huggy family. We were all cerebral up here, and then when I was 18, the admissions officers at Columbia, Wesleyan, and Brown decided to actually go to the University of Chicago, which was also a super cerebral place. My favorite thing about Chicago, it's a Baptist school where atheist professors teach Jewish students St. Thomas Aquinas, and so I went into the world of journalism where we just Frederick Buechner once put it, if you cut yourself off from true connection with others, you may save yourself a little pain because you won't be betrayed, but you're cutting yourself off from the holy sources of life itself, and so I just wanted to be better at being intimate with other people. I've heard you now three times, read in your book, heard you tell it to Katie, and heard you tell it to me, the anecdote about the University of Chicago, the anecdote about Yiddish and British, but what is new is you brought up Buechner, and I've never read Buechner. I now know his backstory, which is so tragic. You include it in the book. I did not know he had a tragic backstory that illumines his character for me, and maybe I will go and read it, but you're in interview mode. How many different book interviews have you done? Uh, probably 20 or more. I don't know a lot. You're definitely, I know what that's like, where you want to get through an interview, and you want to make sure that people, you land the point, and I want to get a little bit deeper than that. I want to find out if you're with your self -examination. There's been a David Brooks self -examination underway for a long time, but you have not yet written your book about God. Are you going to go there? Yeah, well, at the end of The Second Mountain, I wrote a book about my spiritual journey, and how I grew up, my phrase was religiously bisexual, so I grew up in a Jewish home, but I went to a church school, and I went to a church camp, so I had the story of Jesus in my God. And then when I was 50 or so, reality seemed porous to me. It seemed like we're not just a bunch of physical molecules. You know, I once, I was in subway in New York City in God's ugliest spot on the face of the earth, and I look around the subway car, and I see all these people, and I decide all these people have souls. There's some piece of them that has no size, weight, color, or shape, but gives them infinite value and dignity, and their souls could be soaring, their souls could be hurting, but all of us have them. And once you have the concept of the soul in your head, it doesn't take long before the concept of God is in your head. And so I went off, especially about 10 years ago, and it's still going on a spiritual journey of just trying to figure out what do I believe? And I learned when you're on a journey like that, Christians give you books, and so I got like 700 books sent to me, only 350 of which were different copies of Christianity by C .S. Lewis. And so that was my journey. And it didn't, it was very slow and gradual. There were some dramatic moments, but not a lot. But I realized, oh, I'm not an atheist anymore, and my heart has opened up to something. And I think this book is the extension of that. When your heart opens up to God, and if every person you meet, you think this person was made in the image of God, I'm looking at somebody so important, Jesus was willing to die for that person, then I've got to show them the respect that God would show them. I've got to try to see them with the eyes that Jesus would see them with. And that's a super high standard that I'm not going to meet, but it's a goal. And Jesus says, even in brutal, tough times, He sees people, He sees the poor. And the main thing He does is Jesus is always asking questions. Somebody asks Him a question, He asks them a question back. And that act of questioning, what you do for a living, that's a show of respect. And that's the doorway to seeing someone. And so to me, I think questions are a moral act that we're phenomenal at when we're kids. And then we get a little worse at it. And I come sometimes leave a party and think that whole time nobody asked me a question. And I've come to think like only 30 % of the people in the world are question askers. And so part of the thing I do in the book is just try to say, here are some generous things to do to ask people questions. It is a, that is the key takeaway, how to ask questions. And this is a skill set. I sent a note this morning to my friend, Jan Janur, who has been running a Christian ministry for 30 years called The Wild Adventure. He wrote a book called Turning Small Talk into Big Talk. And I was reminded of it. Yours is a longer, more complicated examination of the art of asking questions and why you want to do so. It's also, it reminded me a lot of C .S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory. You have never met an ordinary human being. Everyone is an eternal horror, an everlasting splendor, and you believe that and you get to it. And I want to talk about how one gets there, but I want to begin, interestingly enough, with a comment Katie Couric made you. And I listened to that yesterday. I'd finished your book last week and I made my notes last night. And then I listened to Katie Couric interview. She spontaneously brought up her interview with Sarah Palin. Why do you think she did that, David? I like Katie a lot. And she's been a guest on my show. I loved her memoir, at least the first two thirds of it, which was about her younger life, which I thought was fascinating. Why do you think she brought up the Sarah Palin interview? I was also struck by that because I don't think she talks about it enough. I know Katie from various things and I don't think she talks about it all that much. I think it was a time when she was asking questions and somebody just wasn't answering. It was a time when she was having a miscommunication. I imagine that's why she wrote up. Do you have another theory? I do. I think it's because she's been misunderstood because of that question and that she wants people who only know Katie Couric because of that question to know that that's not Katie Couric. And that, to me, it was it made perfect sense she used to be known. And that's the central theme of this. People want to be seen. They want to be known. And if you are known for the wrong thing, in this case, the Katie Couric Sarah Palin interview, you want to you want to get that off your cargo ship, right? You want that unloaded. And I thought, wow, you really the book worked on her. Let me tell you also, on page 134, you talk about face experiments with infants. I want them outlawed. David, what did you think when you read it? I think those are cruel and awful. Tell people about them. Yeah, so babies come out of the womb wanting to be seen. Baby's eyes, they see everything 18 inches away in sharpness. Everything else is kind of blurry because they want to see mom's face. And these experiments that you referred to are called still face experiments. The babies send a bid for attention. And the moms are instructed, don't respond, just be still face. And in the beginning, the babies are uncomfortable. And then after a few seconds, they start writhing around. And five within seconds, they're in total agony, because nobody is seeing them. And I really don't think that's that much different as adults. I think when we're unseen, it is just total agony. We're rendered invisible. And that's what I encounter in my daily life as a reporter. I used to go to the Midwest. I live on the East Coast, but I spent a lot of time in the Midwest. And maybe 10, 15 years ago, once a day, somebody would say, you guys think we're flyover country. In the last five years, I hear that like 10 times a day. And so a lot of just people feel they're invisible. And frankly, that's a little on my profession, the media. When I started as a police reporter in Chicago, we had working class folks in the newsroom. Our reporters, they hadn't gone to college. They were just regular people from Chicago, and they covered crime alongside me. Now, if you go to newsrooms, especially in New York, DC, LA, San Francisco, it's not only everybody went to college, everyone went to the same like 15 elite colleges, and a lot of the same prep schools. So if you're not in this little group, and you look at the national media, and you don't see yourself, it's as if they're telling you your voice doesn't matter. You don't exist. And that's a form of dehumanization that we've allowed to fester in this country. And of course, people are going to lash out. Yeah, I just spent two weeks with really wonderful professionals at NBC preparing for this debate. And at one point, I asked one of my colleagues in this exercise, I don't work for NBC, how many people do you think in this room voted for Trump? And taken aback, they did not answer because the answer is obvious. Nobody. And if if your newsroom is full of 100 % people not only didn't vote for Trump, but actually loathe them, you can't cover the country. It's impossible because you're not seeing the other 50%. And what your book is, I hope the newsroom is distributed as well. We are all about seeing people who have long been marginalized, and that is important. But if you don't see people who are supporting Donald Trump, for whatever reason, you can't cover the news. Let me ask you about this Philip Lewis fellow. I love him, because he finally gave me the courage to teach the do the Dormant Commerce Clause in the 11th Amendment with the confidence that even though my students are terribly bored, they have to know this. Where did you meet Philip Lewis? Because he's talking to teachers. Teachers need to read this book too, if only to be comforted in the fact that every teacher has this experience.
Mark Levin
We Can't Diminish Ron DeSantis's Effect on Florida
"In the culture, made a difference in politics, made a difference in the economy, either anything else. I said she's George W. Bush in address, and of course the sycophants got very upset and they posted on it. So I took it and I Because did. that's what it is. So you have George Soros's Media Matters Nikki supporting Haley. What did you think about that? Let's talk about AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens. These are very difficult times. Everything is very, very difficult. When you go through a drive through, a fast food drive through, Mr. producer, through have you been one of those lately? You have two kids and a wife. It's almost $50. I don't blame the franchisees or the corporate. The food is unbelievably expensive. In some states, they've massively increased the minimum wage and the benefits you have to order. So the food is fast, but it's not that cheap anymore. And people used to use fast food as a way to get through hard times. So it's tough out there, as
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: CPMAI in the Real World, Interview with Dr. Philipp Schlenkhoff, CPMAI
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Mulch. And as you can tell from my voice, I'm a little under the weather today. So I will be on today's podcast, but Ron might be doing a little bit more of the talking than me. Yeah, well, sorry to disappoint you. You're here for Kathleen to hear her more than 50%, but you know, she will still be here. You're going to hear her questions, but you know, I'm going to do my best to channel Kathleen's voice when she's not speaking. So I'm your host, Ron Schmelzer. And if you're listening to AI Today podcast for the first time, you should know that this is the place to go to hear all the great interviews and thoughts about what is happening with AI Today. And for those of you that follow AI, you know that every day is like a millennium. You know, here in AI, things just change so fast. And we have been in the midst of a lot of series of different podcast series on talking about different things about AI. Of course, generative AI is like the hot thing of the moment because it's everywhere and in every product. I think it's in a toothbrush I have now, generative AI. You can talk to your toothbrush. It's going to be everywhere. It is everywhere. So we have a generative AI series, but we also talk about AI failures. We have an AI failure series. We have a use case series. We have a trustworthy AI series. We have our glossary series, which actually is now starting to come to an end. I think we've gone through almost all the terms we can get to. But of course, we also have interviews with thought leaders and especially those who have gone the next level and certified in the CPMI methodology, which is a best practice for running AI projects. And on that note, we are really excited to have with us today Dr. Philip Schlenkopf, who is co -founder of the AI Transformation Institute and is CPMI certified. Welcome, Philip. Philip, thank you so much for joining us on AI Today. Thanks for having me, Ron. Great pleasure and quite an honor for me. We're really excited for today's interview. We'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them a little bit about your background and your current role. All right. First of all, sorry for my accent. I'm calling in from Berlin in Germany. And my way, how I found to AI is sort of a bit surprising because in the end, I started with business administration and studied that, went into corporate restructuring, went into consulting or that one, and then shifted further into the part of sales and learned that from the very beginning. And then after, you know, in a role managing director of a medium -sized company for which was owned for private equity, after a couple of years, I felt it was time for something new. So then I got to know via a business angel, Hans Utzgerreit, who is a professor at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, DFKY. The name might be familiar because his son actually was co -publishing the Google paper, Attention is All You Need, Jacob Utzgerreit. And I got to know him and he had a spin -off out of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, which was called Giants Technologies in the field of natural language understanding, relation extraction. And we were doing at that stage, some kind of corporate intelligence service. So I got to know him. I liked the idea. And so I invested into the company, led the company, and we did a lot of things to scale it, you know, having an architectural frame, which would actually do the job, setting up a sales team and doing sales and getting the first customers on board. And that went quite well. So we could sell the company after something like more or less a year to a strategic investor, which was very, very fortunate and very productive. And then I had to stay on board for the post -merger integration for quite a while, another year. And after that was kind of the question, what do we do now? What's generative AI? We saw early, we saw from the very beginning in our job to understand information that we could use transformers to help to get our precision up and our recall up. So that was actually great. And then, you know, then was the phase it was after November last year. And then was the question, what do we do? Do we build a product? And at that stage, our problem was that, you know, we couldn't find a lake, a market, which was not too big, that the big players would go into that market and crush you. And which wouldn't be too small, which could actually sort of, you know, still have where you can have a reasonably scalable business. And in the end, in the application layer, we didn't find the business case who would do the job because we thought, and we saw that, you know, this application layer was very thin. If it's so easy to set up a product based on API, then the problem is everyone can do it. And then the product actually sort of gets less important than the market access. And then we thought, you know, if the product gets less, export and less important than the market access, the market access in the end is the more important thing. And that for that market access, you don't find a startup because market access as a startup is very expensive. So in the end, our analysis led to the fact that in the end, generative AI and the boom which comes along it and all the transformation and change will be something for the existing companies who can just incorporate the solutions into their current offering. So having said that, our solution to that was, yeah, well, that will lead to a massive need for re -upskilling in the field of, well, actually for all professions, more or less. And that's why we founded the AI Transformation Institute where we do, you know, partly something like you do at Cognalytica, training people to better understand the technology and how to use it. And on the other hand, we do quite a few consulting jobs with customers on sort of helping them in their project to challenge them to go into the project management and eventually even take over some coding paths to help them to actually get their product onto the street. Yeah, in the past, I mean, that's fantastic, by the way, and hard for us to disagree with any of what you said, because you're right, AI is so transformational. And as you said, AI will be a core part of every product, right? Even things you would never have expected in the same way that the Internet and mobile have been so core transitional that just selling something general about we will make the Internet work, we'll make mobile work doesn't do anything for you because it's so core to everything. And I like how you think about market access. That's very, very interesting. But yeah, what you were saying about, you know, really trying to implement these for particular industries and particular applications, I think that's sort of the rub. We always are so surprised sometimes when we talk to people in major companies as we spend time, some of our interviews even here, folks who are unfortunate 1000, some of the biggest companies, and you think to yourself, they surely must be implementing, you know, AI at some advanced level. I mean, these are fortunate 1000 companies represent like what percentage of the global economy, like what 90? I don't even know what the percentage is the vast majority of the global economy. So you'd think that they would be well, well, well ahead. And then when you talk to them, you find it's actually the opposite. They're much farther behind in their AI. They tend they're not the leaders as much as the fast followers and the ones that can figure out how to apply AI to their problems. Those are the ones that get ahead, not just some AI experiment. So I don't want to ramble on and on about that, but it's hard to disagree with everything that you've said to that point and actually really sort of like, you know, my question kind of follows up on that. And that is sort of like the the challenges because people see the promises. They kind of get wrapped up in the hype. Maybe they even do some small AI projects. A lot of them are proof of concept that don't really find their way to any sort of long term use. So something kind of gets in the way. Right. So what do you see as some of these challenges in making AI projects work data, advanced analytics, any of that in that realm? Yeah, thanks for the question, Ron, because well, thank for what you said earlier, because that's something I've always thought that was only the case in German large corporates. Yeah, some of them are quite far ahead, but some of them, there's really not happening anything. And if you say it's the same in the U .S., then I'm a little bit relaxed from the European perspective. Yeah, but that's what we see in companies quite a lot. Yeah. That actually the C level is because of their age. Yeah. They're not that innovative. Yeah. They haven't fully understood the impact of the technology. And then sort of they talk to their CTO and the CTOs are maybe not that open towards the technology either. And they say, you have so many projects already in my pipeline. Yeah, I cannot prioritize that right now. And then you talk to the legal departments and those guys as well say, well, yeah, but there are a lot of and, you know, in Germany, you GDPR, you know, data regulation, we are sort of very cautious about all of that. And then the legal your legal team tells you, well, that's kind of, you know, everything is quite unsure and, you know, there's not real legislation, you know, and then sort of things get postponed and there's no active pressure to change that. I'm not talking about all the companies, but there are a few which go in that direction. And then the problem is sort of the grassroots thing works against it. Yeah. People use it anyway. And then exactly what then is happening, exactly what, you know, legal and the tech department wanted to avoid, you know, all the private and the customer data flowing into sort of some model by sort of the open, by the free version of the tools. And that's kind of a challenge. Yeah. So first of all, valid point, it's a top -down approach. Yeah. There needs to be an AI strategy in the companies and that needs to be sort of carefully thought through, always depending whether it's the core value creation process where which is being transformed or whether it's just a support function like sales or marketing, then you'd rather go for a tool option. But if your core value creation processes are going to be transformed, you need to think about something between using tools or maybe sort of build your own AI and that needs to be understood and then implemented. And as you said, you know, it cannot be some kind of a pilot which never goes into operation because then you don't have a success. And if you don't have a success, you will never really put money on it. So it needs to be, and that's something I really love about CPMI, you know, think big, start small, iterate often. It's so true in the projects, yeah, that you cannot tell that often enough. And I know you guys pronounce it a lot, but it's really true. It cannot be said, you know, enough.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep409: Top 5 Benefits of Hosting A Podcast - Nathan Payne
"It's kind of difficult to see like what works. So we just put out as much as we can. And I believe with consistency and with the right SEO titles, it's going to grow inevitably grow bigger and bigger and bigger. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm joined with Nathan Payne. And he owns a company, Painless Flipping, the podcast Painless Flipping. And we're going to be talking about what he does, how he does it and how his podcast supports his business, because he also does coaching and mentoring to help people flip houses. First and foremost, Nathan, what is even flipping a house mean? Just start there. Maybe the listener doesn't know what a house flip is because they've never driven by and seen a house upside down. So for me, there's like two meanings to house flipping, right? There's like flipping a contract, flipping, you know, a house, right? Or actually like getting a hammer and flipping a house, like getting a hammer, doing the rehab, doing that. I look at both of them the same, right? Like it doesn't really matter the extra strategy. We look at real estate, we get a property and we determine the best way to make money. And if that's flipping the contract and wholesaling it, if that's assigning is another where a lot of people call it assignments or fixing and flipping yourself, like on HGTV. So to answer your question, either one of those. Okay. So HGTV is what we need to be thinking about if we want to know what you do, half of what you do. So I teach people how to flip a contract, how to assign a contract. But again, eventually what you're going to do is pick out which one is going to make you the most money. Sometimes it's going to make you more money to actually physically flip it yourself versus just selling the flipping the contracts or signing it. So, but I teach people that are brand new, how to flip a contract, assign a contract, wholesale it because it doesn't require any capital. There's this guy, his name is Matt Theriault and I used to listen to his podcast a lot. And then I joined a mastermind that he's in. So he's become somewhat of a friend and he's got frequently talks about the difference between a slow dime and a fast nickel. Have you heard that too? I have, yeah. In this case, if you're flipping houses or flipping contracts, like wholesaling a house, why would you choose the fast nickel sometimes or why would that make you more money sometimes? Well some people don't have the luxury to flip five and when I say flip, like physically flip and rehab five properties at a time, right? Because that requires money. So that's the slow dime, right? The fast nickel would be wholesaling it because you have three projects or you have one project and you need to keep the cash coming into your business. So that's the difference. I've had that happen in my business where it's like, Hey, I got marketing spend going out. I would like to flip this house. I just don't have the luxury to do that and on the money. So I need to get the money now. So basically another way to say it is like, you can make a third amount of the money in a 10th of the time. And so in a way you're making more per hour by wholesaling than flipping sometimes. Yeah. Again, it just comes down to what can you do? Like a lot of people overextend themselves and they flip more properties, they rehab more properties and they have the bandwidth to do and they get themselves in trouble. It's the same thing with people that buy single family properties, right? They follow the Kiyosaki model and they're like, yeah, let me just over leverage myself. I don't have all the money and if the tenant leaves or destroys a property and you don't you're in trouble. So you just got to be careful that you keep that cash coming in. Cause cash is what enables the business to keep running. And then you have a secondary business that coaches and supports other people to be able to learn how to make the fast nickel. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of what I teach is like how to get, yeah, the fast nickel cause a lot of people, they start in what I believe wholesaling, they start the wrong way. They just go and spend a ton of money on marketing and they're like, let me go find a deal. And it's like, Hey, you're jumping past a lot of steps here just cause you can pay $10 ,000 on mail. Like I did when I first started, it doesn't mean you know how to handle incoming leads. It doesn't mean you don't know what price to buy them or who to wholesale them to. So I try to get people to say, Hey look, before you jump into all that marketing, let's make sure you understand the process of finding a buyer to make sure you know what a deal is. Yeah. So that's what I teach people. I did a whole bunch of flipping and all sorts of random stuff, apartments, self -storage units. I did a flip on a mobile home and I learned that you can't sell mobile home parks that were older than a certain year to FHA buyer. And I learned the hard way, but I also tried wholesaling and I did it the wrong way. I didn't use your coaching. The painful way, huh? You did it the painful way, not the painless way. So we had spent five grand a week for three weeks. We got one deal out of it, five grand a week on direct mail, by the way, to the listener who's wondering, this meant that we did these little tiny postcards that I think costs us like 26 cents each ish to get them sent out. And we sent out thousands and thousands of these multiple times to multiple people. And one person called us back. We got their house under contract. We flipped it. We made six grand and then we quit. We never tried it again. We were like 15 grand to make six grand. So yeah, I definitely like that for your strategy, you're teaching people how to make the money without spending as much money, right? Yeah. Cause again, like when I first started, same thing with you, like I actually got a coach and they're like, Hey, mail unknown equity. So we're like, okay, great. He said to mail $5 ,000, let's double it because that will double our chances of getting a deal and making more money. So we spent 10, got about four calls or like five calls. You know, sometimes the response rate mail can be terrible, especially in Utah. It's not very good. But later to find out and we didn't get a deal. So it's like a lot of people starting out when they spend 10 ,000, they're not able to really recover or don't want to recover from that. So for me, like my mission is to be like, Hey guys, you can do that. Just don't start off that way. A lot of good stories saying that they did well, but they don't tell you that they spent 50 K and got a 60 K deal, but really their profit will 10 ,000, but really is a 10 ,000 like after all the time and the heartache and all that stuff. Well, yeah, we had two or three of us that we need to split six grand with doesn't make very far. Does it? I love that you're doing that. Another mistake that I made is I didn't have hire any coach, so we just went and did it on our own just from listening to a couple of podcasts only. I really suggest that if somebody is going to want to do something like that in the real estate industry, like they probably ought to have a coach, a mentor in their corner that could really support them. So you started doing that and I want to understand like how this all works with your podcast.
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"The first follower is the spark that really makes the fight. Now here's the second follower, this is a turning point. It's proof the first has done well. Now it's not a lone nut and it's not two nuts. Three is a crown and a crowd is news. A movement must be public. Make sure outsiders see more than just the leader. Everyone needs to see the followers because new followers emulate followers, not the leader. Now here come two more people than three more immediately. Now we've got momentum This is the tipping point, and now we have a movement. As more people jump in, it's no longer risking. If they were on the fence before, there's no reason not to join in now. They won't stand out. They won't be ridiculed, and they will be part of the in crowd if they hurry. See, that's the thing. A movement, one, a movement of two, a movement of 5, a movement leads to momentum, momentum leads to numbers, numbers need to majorities, majorities lead to minorities, minorities don't want to feel left out being a minority, so they join the minority. Natural human psychology and sociology is very simple. No, one wants to be perceived to be the lone ranger out there. This is an a comic book. This is real. So companies are afraid to stand up and say something, well, there's an LGBT group group out there saying my CEI score isn't high enough and I've got a run some ads celebrating LGBTQIA issues and if I don't do it and celebrate it. So let's go hire Dylan Mulvaney. Well, what happened again? People stood up. And now you're seeing momentum. You know, the patient's part, I want to reemphasize. You've got to be patient here. This culture war is a long time coming. A long time coming. It's going to change slowly. But ladies and gentlemen, nobody wants to be in the minority of a movement or else you look and you're like, gosh, why are all these people against me? You start to question yourself. Like, my gosh, am I wrong? Have I evaluated the circumstances around this particular issue in the wrong way? You start to question yourself and uncertainty is a demon in that. And in that scenario, the colony of bigot am I, people start to question themselves. But you don't question yourself when you see 51% of people out there. And that has been the danger of social media. Social media has led to a lot of really positive outcomes, a lot, information exchanges fast, movements on our end can move faster because the information exchange, you can have that thunderclap thing, you'd be able to thunderclap a tweet around the Internet. Social media has got a lot of benefits. But one of the downsides of it is that magnified one of alinsky's rules, which is it's not what you have. It's what your enemy thinks you have. And the problem and how that's related to this video and how we're in this cultural shift now is that the radical left, the left that believes drag queens should be able to shake their junk in front of your kids face when they're 6 and 7 years old. That is a ridiculously small portion of America. Now you're hearing this probably thinking, no, no, no, everybody's for that. I mean, we've heard it. No, believe me, they're not. That is a sliver of America, but they are very loud and they are very local, very vocal, and they are on these social media platforms where you see it and it gives the perception, this patina, again, of authenticity behind it. What really is an AstroTurf effort. There are real believers there, but most of its AstroTurf. People just playing along. The only way to break that patina of authenticity, kraken, scrape it off. Is to get out and break out of the social media system into the real world where people do real stuff. Like this, this is the watch company I've never heard of them before. They ran, they said, this is a real ad. It's one nuclear right away. And it goes to show you that you're all going to hear about this for the first time at this company. About many of you. What you can do and how you can start a momentum, how momentum and start a movement and switch the minority of the majority, not because the minority has ever been a minority. The minority was the majority, but you can see when you launch a spot like this by the number of users, gosh, we've been the majority of the whole time. They're the crazy people on the other side. Listen to this ad from this watch company and tell me the culture isn't shifting. Check this out. When I was a little girl, I had this dream that seemed so impossible. I was going
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"To be threatened. His congregation has faced it for more than 50 years, and it's gotten worse recently. Unfortunately, we've had people driving by yelling out slurs, derogatory comments toward homosexuals and queers and faggots and even to the context of what happened in Colorado Springs, your next things like that that just causes fear. That fear of different people or cultures or even fear of the unknown can be a powerful motivator but pastor Dan says Christians and people of all faith backgrounds have the ability to stand on an even more powerful platform. What is the greatest moral value that we have? And that is love. And that is inclusion where all people are included in the family of God. And so I think it's important for us to see that we are all connected. And it is not an us and them. I'd say don't let fear keep you away from coming to continue to worship and growing in your faith because then the fear wins. And I believe love conquers fear every single time. Pastor Dan says people of faith can and should move beyond thoughts and prayers and take action. By showing support to communities by whenever there is a rally let our voice and let our face be seen as a physical support to the community itself as people have been there for our community. We want to be there for them. And I think it's important to listen. To take time to say, how are you feeling? How are you doing? What can we do to help you rather than having a prescribed response? What do they need? How can we help? And I think listening and learning from people themselves, I think is really a beautiful way to go. The right reverend Susan Brown snook, bishop of the episcopal diocese of San Diego says, taking action and advocating on behalf of others is a fundamental teaching of the scriptures. Following the commands of our Bible, we believe that God cares for the victim for those who are oppressed for those who are living in poverty or some other kind of disadvantage that God cares for them, especially deeply. And that it is our responsibility as people of faith to care for them, especially deeply too. And that advocacy can go into the halls of power in cities, states, and the nation. Advocating at every level of government for the kind of changes in laws that would help protect people's lives. We believe that every person's life is precious. And that, as people of faith, we are called to support the dignity of every human life. The challenges of responding to and preventing incidents of violence and hate are big and daunting. But the bishop says every person can begin making a change right in their own backyard. We can't each one of us be deeply involved in every issue that each one of us can take one action to benefit another person. And so we believe that every person is called to reach out into their community to love and serve their neighbors to get to know their neighbors and to understand how we can make this world a better place. The bishop said we also must be mindful of those communities who are more susceptible to acts of violence and she warns against complacency. Gun violence disproportionately impacts people in low income and immigrant communities. I think we saw that clearly in the last three mass shootings in California. And I think that it is too easy for elites to ignore the issues that others face. So when it comes down to it for people of faith, the commandment to love thy neighbor is the beginning and the ending of how we address and ultimately work to prevent the next mass shooting. Eddie McCoy, cogo news. Coco real-time traffic sponsored by indeed dot com. The reaction Bernardo on rev to the south 15 currently flooded out accident east 54 briarwood in the center divide, east day quite slow in the east county east willows to pine valley road, west aid at pine valley a car into the center divide snow. All change are required on other mountain highways, the CHP is asking you not to travel on those highways
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"Or now more than 50. People who have were killed and Ida or the you know, nearly a dozen who were killed Americans who were killed in the Kabul attack at the airport, and we can just see them as that as numbers. But I think one of the things that this play does so beautifully, as reminds us. These are people with full lives with families who love them that they may never see again. When they go into these wars, or, you know, sometimes it can feel like our very life is a war and we don't know if we're going to come home at the end of the day, certainly for first responders right now, that's a message that I think is Is really present. Whether you're you know, police officer Dr uh, nurse, and so how do we stop and say, what are we doing? We're taking these people's lives were very literally taking these people's lives and we're watching the numbers of people who die from covid just rise and rise and rise, but they're not just numbers. To not just numbers. They are people, and I believe there are people or savings. So how do we put aside our rage and the polemic nature of current day and actually come together to find some peace and to save lives? And I think that's really the goal of the poet and the goal of the piece that Lisa and Dennis have created. If you are just tuning in this is City lights on W A. B E I'm Lois writes, is speaking with theatrical outfit artistic director that torn in an actor lives so Rio. Some of this script includes classical Greek Iraq Does, which has been, uh, it's been fun. It's really beautiful place actually opens with just a little bit. And don't worry. Audience is it's not a ton. It's very you know, sparse. But it is it is just a beautiful the way that and I'm totally going to butcher this, But Matt can help me out. It is in hex emitter. Matt, help me out here. Yeah, Just the rhyming scheme is like some better, which is it's like sort of six couples to align or, like 66 beats to align as opposed to Shakespeare, which people do more familiar with which is pent. Amateur. Which is five and the way that it was written in the language that it was recorded and was designed to be sung not to be read. So when you hear woven through this piece, these moments of sung Greek. I hope it just sort of bands time a little bit. It's like a little trick of the mind. As you can imagine what might have been like to To be there 2,503,000 years ago. What was it like to read and memorized the ancient Greek leg? I was very fortunate to have some great dramaturgical help with this, And that's right. It was meant to be sung in you and you feel that in in the rhythm, So the first sort of phrase that is sort of repeated throughout is men and I eat the tail choice. Helios man in the morning. York Io's get their last dip The mousse au chaos absent here, Um and I probably butchered that anyone who is out there and I just speaks ancient Greek, but I've sort of fallen. I mean, not enough to actually, you know, go back and learn ancient Greek. But, um, you know these phrases that if something magical and you sort of understand the birth of theater if someone could come on, and it's almost like an incantation The way that the lines are written the rhythm. I mean, it's sweeps you into the story, even without understanding the language, So yeah, I think it's really wise that they included that in there. Oh, it was gorgeous to hear you read it. I was swept up right now. What is modern day about this tale, The creators call it and really it. No pretense about this being the Iliad. So what modern or contemporary references appear in this crypt? Also, I think the big way in which Lisa and Dennis reinterpret the plane is looking at the Trojan War as the first in a long line of wars, many of which are very similar. And many of which are mentioned in the play, and by considering the Trojan more is like a protein war, the first of a series of dominoes to fall. It points to this idea that war is something that repeats and the circumstances for war that arise are things that repeat. That the things that we are living through today or things that people have lived through before and if you understand what you're living through as part of a cycle Rather than the Trojan War. It's like a war and a list of wars rather than the moment that you're in. It is a moment it just offers a different perspective and a different historical understanding. So the play contains these glimpses of ancient Greek. And then there is modern translations of passages of the Iliad. And then there's very contemporary language, and you just get the sense that the images in the play can be understood and seeing with many different eyes. When you're talking about warfare in the desert, it could be sandals or desert boots. Oh Oh, I'm nine years fighting off and on fighting to the wall and back groups and one day Trojans win the next with like a game of tug of war and nothing to show for it. Exhaustion, poverty and loneliness. What was it like? Uh, it was a pain. It was awful. It was it was. It was hot. How about that? It was hot. How can I Nine years. So for do you love him when you're beating this one here, come back and your baby is 10. He left home and your baby is one You come back to your baby is dead. You come back. You know your wife is dead. You come back. Your wife is hat. You come back. Your wife has had three affairs and two more kids. Uh.
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"Is hosting more than 50 in school vaccination clinics within the next two weeks to vaccinate everyone that we can. So if we start to run out of vaccine, we're gonna have someone bring us more vaccine. We're going to make sure we get everyone a shot that wants a shot, Captain Bryan Wallace tells Carole seven TV, the department will offer the Fizer vaccine, which is approved for emergency use and Children as young as 12. This ninth grader got the shot. I was really happy gets me a chance to go actually talk to people without a mask on, so that's really nice. Students do need parent permission to get vaccinated. And while the CDC and states have both eased up on the masking restrictions, King County is not quite ready yet kind of radios. Heather Bosch explains a new directive from Seattle King County Public Health strongly urges you to keep wearing your face coverings whenever you're in a public place, including grocery stores and other businesses. How Officer, Dr Jeff Duchin says You should also wear a mask outside. If you can't socially distance, his directive applies to nearly everyone, even those who are fully vaccinated with exceptions, such as Children and people with disabilities. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will keep his position in the company. The foundation says it has not received any formal complaints about Gates. And it's not investigating those media reports that he asked employees out while he was married. Grays Harbor County plans to use nearly a million dollars to lift people out of homelessness. Representative Jim Walsh pushed that program, which will purchase of publicly owned building and converted into transitional housing. Get him off the street triage. What the issues are and get him into programs that set them back on a healthy path tells Katie Th is Jason Rance. The pilot program will be controlled locally and not at the state level. I will. Radio forecast Widespread showers today mix of clouds and sun breaks. Also.
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"And smart watches. Four astronauts just returned from the international space station and are adjusting that toe life back on earth after their re entry into Earth's atmosphere and oceans splash down after more than 160 days in space. Now the space X through Dragon capsule carrying the crew back to Earth splash down on Florida early Sunday and NASA's first nighttime ocean landing and more than 50 years. Astronaut Shannon Walker, Victor Glover. My competence and Japanese astronaut. So Tina Gucci all fielded questions on Thursday about their arrival back here at phone. It was the first regular mission to be taken, and then they're returned from the I s s supported a spacecraft built By evil and must Company. No. And I am looking here and it appears that we may have We may have some Internet connection here. So let's try this are we Are we good to go or should we keep it over the phone here? With me. What's that? Okay, This is lives. This is you folks you're experiencing how the sausage is made. We'll keep moving here. For fans of Aaron Neville. They won't have many opportunities to hear him live from now on the legendary R and B singer officially retiring story. In ghosts on his official website and on social media yesterday, Nevel says the idea of touring it Longer appealing to him now. He laughed at the road in March of last year when the pandemic four forced Most artists to stay home, he says. While he still enjoys singing, being on his New York State farm with his life for the past years, taught him life short, too many wants to spend the rest of it being less worried. Level is 80 years old and Man, You want to talk about a career and well deserving retirement. But this is one thing that I really feared and talked about a lot. How many of these artists are just going to hang it up, and we will obviously enjoy their past works, but we will not get to see them perform again because Like Aaron Nevil, who's 80 years old and spent a year at home on his farm realized, you know, I'm done working, and this is what I want to do with my life. No. Um, why imagine War Aaron Neville was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to, uh, the entertainers who have filled our lives with so much heart. Uh, I'm assuming it's the tip of the iceberg. As far as When it comes to Retirement. And if he had a blast to, uh surviving members of the monkeys announcing their farewell tour this year that kicks off in Seattle, of course that was slated to take place last year. Yours truly, actually on tickets to it on the show is postponed several times and Now it's been touring. It's been tuned in. I turned into a fare well or I say that we times quickly take us with you wherever you go by downloading the tox screen life bring mobile app. You can always reach out to yours truly anytime across the board on social media and that Matt Ray talk Use the hashtag A FN and, of course, the follow the show on Twitter to at America's first news. Use the hashtag a F and, Well, if you're hunter on outdoors, man, maybe a stargazer, a landowner, Whatever. Whatever. You're camping. It gets dark at night. You know your ability to see changes. So imagine the.
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"More than 50 cents since Christmas. Oh, my goodness. How much are you gonna waste? How empty will your wallet be? When you finally get where you want to go? It's New Jersey. Fast traffic with the info. Bob travel in the southern portion of the state very difficult this evening icy conditions slick roadways, and it looks like they just lowered the speed limit on the Garden State Parkway to 35 MPH. Due to icing that's an effect from Cape May have to exit 69 along the way, some very tough, north bound traffic heading out of Port Republic. They're still too right lane shut down for a crash just beyond exit 48 that also affects traffic on Route nine. North bound, heading back up to the Garden State Parkway. Now on two of two, and Bridgewater, you've got a north bound crash being worked on right around Bridgewater Commons. They've gotta link shut down a Commons away. And an overturned vehicle being cleared away. And wall Township that's on the south bound side of Allenwood Road heading back down to 1 38 Westbound 78. They've got one stalled vehicle cleared away by exit 13. But there is still a stole that truck just beyond 12 him that's gonna rightly blocked And in New Brunswick on route 18. If you're heading south bound by New street, you'll see a lane shut down for a pothole in the road way. So it looks like repair work out there this evening crossings in pretty good shape tonight, leaving and entering the state Hudson and Delaware. Everything moves well, and this report sponsored by the crones and collects foundation. Crones and Colitis Foundation has been at the forefront of inflammatory bowel disease, research and care for over 50 years. You could learn more about research, education and supported crones colitis Foundation daughter Work traffic every 15 minutes. Next reports up in 18 from the N J Auto lending traffic desk. I'm Jeff from a New jersey when at 1.5, New Jersey, 11.5 is your vaccination information station. We have all the latest covert 19 news, including how to get.
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"More than 50. People are without a home after a fire tore through an apartment building on Duval Lane in Gaithersburg. This one started about 4 30 yesterday afternoon. Nobody was hurt in this case, but 14 apartments were burned, and it caused About $2 million in damage. Officials say the fire was caused by an electrical problem in a units ceiling. Ah, longtime activist is using her expertise to shape leaders of the future. The fight for black women's Rights is a battle Marcella Havel has been waging for over 40 years. We worked primarily on lifting up the voices of Black women. She's the founder CEO. When President off in our own voice Black women's reproductive justice agenda. Part of her mission is to train the leaders of the future through their next generation Leadership institute that trains them in leadership and reproductive justice in campus organizing. In community organizing fellowship recipients are selected from historically black colleges and universities throughout the country. Stephanie Gaines Bryant w. T. O P News. The report is part of WTF. He's continuing coverage of Black History month and the black voices who make a difference in our community. Read more on w t o p dot com Search Black History Month Less than two months before national elections in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a brief appearance in a courtroom in Jerusalem, too. Hey. He pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption. The prime minister has denied the charges. He claims they have been orchestrated by bias, law enforcement and media. In recent months of real Israelis have held weekly protest, calling for Netanyahu to resign The post that he has held for 12 years longer than any Israeli prime minister. We have Dave just ahead with sports. It was not the Super Bowl shoot out. A lot of people were expecting the RECAPS just ahead. It's 7 47 44 basketball fans love scoring in nets, But what else do they have? In common? A chance for an easy 100 from bet, MGM Register for the king of sports books. And when $100 in free bets when you place a $1 Moneyline wager on the Wizards versus the Bulls, And if either team hits a three you win. Simply sign up using bonus code w T o P 100. When you make your first bet to take advantage of this offer, maybe have more in common with table tennis fans. No matter what your sport.
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"The priceless artifact was purchased abroad more than 50 years ago and passed down by family to the current owner who had concerns about how it was obtained. The statue was given to authorities and will be displayed in a gallery once it's repatriated to India. Look, force Inner Katya, our news. Hey, you when ignition Successful launch into space from Cape Canaveral last night, The space X rocket workhorse Falcon nine lifted a Turkish communication satellite into orbit. It was the first of more than 40 planned launches this year by Space X. I think you know, it's really cool to see something lift off. But to see those boosters return. I know that's the coolest. It's like something out of like a fifties movie. A B move science fiction movie. Yeah, Katya, our news time coming up on 707. Where they land the whole rocket on Mars right like it's. That's not how we did it right, But that's how we do it. Now it's time for traffickers. Detour Dan in the Valley Chevy dealers Traffic center How we landed on our way to work this morning. You know, we've had a pretty good time of a gym. It's still Friday light, at least in my definition of it, But I would tapped back that up by telling you that there are a couple of crashes that go with it, though less bound. I 10 right at the 17 split. That's where the H O V Lane is blocked with crash the wreck mostly off left, but you will need to stay. You're right in order to get by it. There's also wreck now coming in on the north about I 17 north of Grand Street Approaching the 10 Stack. It is off, right? But there's a whole lot of wiggle room there. So I'd lean to the left Just the same North bound 17 north of Grand Street again. A wreck off right? It does look like you've got some extra minutes on the 10 eastbound 16 minute ride. Wanna wonder, the 51 52nd Street and University of crash? Traffic report brought to you by the Lundborg Ich Dien Increased property values mean you might be able to finally drop your mortgage insurance asked the lead mortgage team are you can start saving hundreds of dollars every month Cost 6 to 3875.
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"Have you tried to overthrow the election law enforcement now trying to track down the rioters? The FBI is looking for information about individuals who may have been involved in the deadly violent activity of the U. S. Capitol. The bulletin asking anyone in the public who witnessed rioting and violence to submit information, photos or videos at FBI dot gov slash U S capitol. Maybe she's Lion Elmo ease the mob's assault turned deadly when, say, D. C police a Capitol police officers shot in Killed woman. Three other people died after suffering medical emergencies D. C police chief Robert Conte says they found multiple bombs to pipe bombs have been recovered One pipe bomb from the DNC another pipe bomb from the RNC. Cooler from a vehicle with the with a long gun it that also included Molotov cocktail more than 50. People were arrested. Congress is now dealing with challenges to the electoral college vote that made Joe Biden president elect Democracy apparently still here. This is one of those moments that the country will never forget. What does it mean? It means we got through this election? By the skin of our teeth. Joe Biden one Absolutely no doubt about that. But if it were not for the person of Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell, maybe in a couple of other people, this mob might have represented the end of the democracy. A B C's Terry Moran. Social media. The outgoing presidents preferred method of communicating with supporters is Muslim, him temporarily, at least after a serious of presidential post that did not condemn today's violence and one that appeared to justify the capital. Mobs anger Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have now frozen the president's official accounts for between 12 to 24 hours. No comment from the White House on that temporary baby sees Andy Field You're listening to ABC News..
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"Every man should have the right to have his grievances resolved in an orderly fashion without fear of Reprisal. Every man who performs his work should have security on his job. Every man should have adequate insurance to meet the needs of unexpected illness or death. And the letter went on from there, and it concluded that these were not issues of race relations that it was about economic, justice and dignity for all of those who work for a living. On February 29th. The mayor published a letter of his own in the Memphis Press Scimitar in which he maintained again that the strike was illegal and that no negotiation would happen until everyone returned to work. Only after everyone went back to work. Would he meet with representatives of the public works Department and, in his words, quote, make our meaningful grievance procedure even more meaningful. The letter said that the mayor would recommend an eight cent raise, but it also made it clear that he would not approve dues checkoff. The mayor also sent letters to every striking worker, and each letter invited that man back to work that day without union recognition and without any other concessions. The union filed a suit against the city in federal court. The court rejected that suit on March 1st the same day the mayor's home was vandalized, and he blamed the striking workers. By this point, the Memphis strike had started to gain more attention among national civil rights leaders, Reverend Lawson and was a friend and colleague of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and he had been in touch with him about the strike. And on March 5th. The announcement came that King was coming to Memphis. We're going to talk more about this part of the story after we first pause for little sponsor break. Paper. Ghosts is a true crime podcast that investigates the search for the person responsible for the abductions of four missing girls in neighboring New England towns For more than 50 years, Each case has remained unsolved. Every day is like being lost in limbo. I pray every day that we finally said so we couldn't go on. It wasn't until this past year that things took an unexpected turn a breakthrough answers. Two decades old questions in witness is finally ready to talk. I don't think that's the person that was there. I can't describe what he's married. I smell him a mile away. Jesus, Mary and Joseph seen a whole Tess amount of grief for many. You know what I think it is. Listen to paper, ghosts on the I heart radio app, apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Born of smokeless flame, the Djinn existed before mankind itself. Billions of people throughout history and across continents have believed in these.