36 Burst results for "One Night"
The Mason Minute
Dessert (MM #4627)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Like many, we'll be hitting the road for Thanksgiving. And our big concern, which isn't really a concern, but it's something that we've been talking about now for days, what are we doing for dessert? My wife has long been in charge of the desserts for the family. Sometimes it's an apple crisp, sometimes it's pumpkin pie, it's been chocolate pie, it's been Hoosier cream pie, and lots of things in between. But for tradition's sake, usually a pumpkin pie. That's cool. The nieces and nephews like apple crisp. That's great too, that works. They also like cookies, and she does great cookies. You know what? It doesn't matter. I will be satisfied with any dessert, because I've found very few desserts that have ever been a little disappointing. But whatever we get, that's good by me. But it's kind of funny how we're concerned with this. How this is a topic of conversation, not just one night, not just two, but over the course of weeks. My wife cares because she wants everybody to be happy. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Whatever's there on my plate, I'll fill it up and I'll eat it. And if it's pumpkin pie or apple crisp or cookies or whatever, I'll be very happy. I guess life is very good. We have lots to be thankful for. If the biggest concern we have right now is what's for dessert.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "one night" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Out on newsstands later this week. But you can read the story now on the Bloomberg Terminal and at Bloomberg .com slash this week. The story by Bloomberg News investigative reporter Olivia Carville and Bloomberg News cybersecurity reporter Margie Murphy, both of whom join us now. Olivia here in our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio. Margie joins from our San Francisco bureau. Margie, excuse me. Also here's the editor of Bloomberg Business Week, Joel Weber, here in our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio. Wow, Joel, how did this story get on your radar, get on their radar? Olivia and Margie pitched it and from the moment they brought the idea to us, we were surprised and then more honestly horrified. And we felt like it was a story that we had to do and we needed to do it on the cover to make sure that the world found out about it because it is frightening a perhaps sneak peek at the future and the lack of, you know, real common sense and laws about where generative AI might possibly take us. And the beginning of the story is like your worst nightmare. Olivia, don't why you take us there because it's ultimately where the story begins. So the story starts in Levittown, Long Island, which is an interesting place to start. This is the birthplace of American suburbia, the first post -war US suburb, and this group of teenage girls who had all attended the same high school discovered that their photographs that they posted on social media had been manipulated into deep fake porn. That that is fake pornography created using deep learning models or artificial intelligence. and Cecilia Luque, who opens the story, discovered this while sitting in a car in a parking lot in a strip mall in Levittown. And as she's looking through this website that a friend had sent her, who had also also discovered the photos. She sees images that horrified, disgusted, really scared her, these are photos which showed her being digitally undressed, very graphic images, content on the sex site included posting people about her being raped and murdered in some of the cases the images she was just a child she was five years old and she also saw photos of friends of hers who attended the same school and it was that night new years eve of 2020 that news of this website and these deepfake images really spread across this suburb in long island not them at all in other words those images obviously altered right and they knew it, they went through it but not obvious to anyone else and that's where the horrifying part comes in go ahead yeah I was gonna just say that for the woman woman now because they're 22, 23 at the time they were 18 or 19 years old and the scariest thing was looking at these photos where they had been undressed and realizing that they look real enough that anybody else who sees them is going to believe it really actually is their bodies so for Cecilia was it looking at this nude image and knowing that the breasts weren't hers but also realizing most people who saw this image would think that they were so Margie let's bring you into this an incredible story so not a problem you call the police and you say this isn't me and it's done and they take it down right it's that easy I'm being sarcastic yeah not not quite at the moment there's no federal law prohibiting deepfake pornography so the challenge that these girls had what you know they were so incredibly brave they did this investigation mostly on their own figuring out exactly who had created these images of them and they took them to the police and there was very little legal recourse for them to get justice and in fact it was it was only only after searching through everything that that Patrick Carey the the former former classmate who'd been posting these images looking through everything that he posted they'd seen that he'd actually accidentally real posted child sexual abuse material and that's what they got him on it it wasn't on the deep fake pornography at all and that's an issue that's immigration a frustration being felt by women around the world even though certain states in the US do have laws around deepfake pornography it's just so patchwork across the US and internationally there are issues the with law the as well because the technology has just advanced just at such a breakneck speed just lawmakers haven't been able to keep up with it what about the companies and the platforms arms on the on the AI front like what what did we learn about what they are can and can do or aren't willing to do Margie right so the the issue with a lot of the technology that's around now and that from our reporting we saw was really popular for creating and even child deep pornography a lot of tools those are open source so there's this kind of divide in Silicon Valley you've got the developers who've created this really incredible image generation technology that you know they they they want to be used for good who believe that it should be kept out in open the for it for everyone to use and not gate kept by big tech platforms who have typically provided services and you know you might enter in a prompt and you get your image back whereas with the open source anyone technology can go and interact with the code and therefore you can you can play with and it even if a developer was to put a guardrail in place like prohibiting adult content it's relatively easy for someone to go in and change that and so that's opened this Pandora's box we've got all these open source technologies that that even when a developer realizes are being used for bad if the cats out of the bag and people are already exploiting it Olivia the story starts in Levittown it's centered around Levittown but it spans the globe What happens in New Zealand? What's going on with a former Will Wallace? I think that was one of the most remarkable parts of reporting the story is that it really is a dual narrative you have the girls in Levittown investigating the predator who is posting images of them online on the sex site that an ex cop in New Zealand has discovered is already been posting images deep faked images of New Zealand woman as well and so he starts an investigation into the man behind this website and it's very rare in journalism or at least in my own career where you have a story that has this dual narrative where you can weave them together and see an investigation unfolding in suburban New York and at the same time in New Zealand of all places which happens to be where I'm from there's an ex cop trying to work out who was behind this website I remember one night I was driving driving back from Levittown to New York and I called Margie to talk to her about an interview I'd just done with Anna who was in the story and ultimately discovered the identity of Patrick Carey who had been posting the images and took that evidence to police and I called Margie I was excited because finally we had this key piece of the story story to tell her about it and that's when she responded saying that she had discovered that there was also this a whole whole other part to the story where there were these vigilantes this movement trying to track down who was behind this website and there was an ex -detective from New Zealand who had been leading this fight to kind of combat deep fake porn and to take down this deplorable internet sex site so where do we go from here because as you mentioned there's no federal law prohibiting any of Margie this but what happened in New York State? So in New York State we seen have the District Attorney in Nassau County which is where this case unfolded actually put forward or introduce new legislation trying to target deep fakes the problem is that you know what do you focus on? Is it the companies that are releasing this technology? Is it the regulators who can't catch up to this technology as it's being rolled out or is it the predators and bad actors like who are abusing it? Yes yes and yes. No but and I do also wonder Margie let's bring you back in. I mean in terms of police and law enforcement you know how high up on the list is this terms in of prioritizing the things that they focus on? Yeah absolutely one thing that was really interesting about Will Wallace who you know you guys have just mentioned he obviously deeply involved in this website it was a passion project of his to kind of find out you know find help the victims find the people that were posting these pictures but also uncover who the admin of the website was but because he has a background in the police he has this he really understands what it takes to be able to actually gather evidence and bring a good tip to law enforcement and and see that actually be followed through and and he
The Mason Minute
Dessert (MM #4627)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Like many, we'll be hitting the road for Thanksgiving. And our big concern, which isn't really a concern, but it's something that we've been talking about now for days, what are we doing for dessert? My wife has long been in charge of the desserts for the family. Sometimes it's an apple crisp, sometimes it's pumpkin pie, it's been chocolate pie, it's been Hoosier cream pie, and lots of things in between. But for tradition's sake, usually a pumpkin pie. That's cool. The nieces and nephews like apple crisp. That's great too, that works. They also like cookies, and she does great cookies. You know what? It doesn't matter. I will be satisfied with any dessert, because I've found very few desserts that have ever been a little disappointing. But whatever we get, that's good by me. But it's kind of funny how we're concerned with this. How this is a topic of conversation, not just one night, not just two, but over the course of weeks. My wife cares because she wants everybody to be happy. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Whatever's there on my plate, I'll fill it up and I'll eat it. And if it's pumpkin pie or apple crisp or cookies or whatever, I'll be very happy. I guess life is very good. We have lots to be thankful for. If the biggest concern we have right now is what's for dessert.
The Mason Minute
Dessert (MM #4627)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Like many, we'll be hitting the road for Thanksgiving. And our big concern, which isn't really a concern, but it's something that we've been talking about now for days, what are we doing for dessert? My wife has long been in charge of the desserts for the family. Sometimes it's an apple crisp, sometimes it's pumpkin pie, it's been chocolate pie, it's been Hoosier cream pie, and lots of things in between. But for tradition's sake, usually a pumpkin pie. That's cool. The nieces and nephews like apple crisp. That's great too, that works. They also like cookies, and she does great cookies. You know what? It doesn't matter. I will be satisfied with any dessert, because I've found very few desserts that have ever been a little disappointing. But whatever we get, that's good by me. But it's kind of funny how we're concerned with this. How this is a topic of conversation, not just one night, not just two, but over the course of weeks. My wife cares because she wants everybody to be happy. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Whatever's there on my plate, I'll fill it up and I'll eat it. And if it's pumpkin pie or apple crisp or cookies or whatever, I'll be very happy. I guess life is very good. We have lots to be thankful for. If the biggest concern we have right now is what's for dessert.
The Mason Minute
Dessert (MM #4627)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Like many, we'll be hitting the road for Thanksgiving. And our big concern, which isn't really a concern, but it's something that we've been talking about now for days, what are we doing for dessert? My wife has long been in charge of the desserts for the family. Sometimes it's an apple crisp, sometimes it's pumpkin pie, it's been chocolate pie, it's been Hoosier cream pie, and lots of things in between. But for tradition's sake, usually a pumpkin pie. That's cool. The nieces and nephews like apple crisp. That's great too, that works. They also like cookies, and she does great cookies. You know what? It doesn't matter. I will be satisfied with any dessert, because I've found very few desserts that have ever been a little disappointing. But whatever we get, that's good by me. But it's kind of funny how we're concerned with this. How this is a topic of conversation, not just one night, not just two, but over the course of weeks. My wife cares because she wants everybody to be happy. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Whatever's there on my plate, I'll fill it up and I'll eat it. And if it's pumpkin pie or apple crisp or cookies or whatever, I'll be very happy. I guess life is very good. We have lots to be thankful for. If the biggest concern we have right now is what's for dessert.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan and Paula Have a 'Euphoric' Night at the Morgan Wallen Concert
"Blast, but I gotta tell you something you Know I've been married 20 years, and I was watching a video The other day and it said if you made it past hand you beat like most people so I doubled that and Man, let me tell you something you got to share experiences with that significant person in your Kids forget experiences all this other superficial crap Expensive cars and big Homes and stuff it's a great. That's all cool. If you can get it get it do what you got to do? But I ain't your marriage counselor, But I told this couple next to me. They've been married a year. They said you got any advice. I said I do share Experiences There's something spiritual that happens. It's like a bond. It's like a real bond something happens at these things And I some guy gave me a man card like literally a man card and I so here it is Jim you can Vouch for me. It's an actual man. I'm gonna turn it in right now all right folks and give me my man card Because I was so euphoric At this concert because I love Morgan Wallen his music so much and this guy Nate Smith was so Good like started out the night so good, and I was just feeling so good with Paula hanging there, And I get depressed a lot. I don't mean to like be like a downer on this segment or all but I do I get like it In runs my family like real depression stuff, and I gotta tell you man. I didn't think I could feel that good. I didn't think I could That feel good it's probably the best night of my life, which is crazy cuz UFC last week. I didn't think you could top that But I had this feeling of euphoria, and it wasn't do I really did I only had like a couple shots to kill I'm being Exaggerated nowhere need those of course and you don't want to be ex sloppy in public but But I really did I had the sense of euphoria and sand in my boots came on and I was dancing with Paula you know I dance and I like John Travolta like you know the Italian dancing like swaying my hips with Paula and I started like getting all like teary -eyed because I really I never thought I could be Happy at one night. It was crazy. I had such a
Recipes for Success
What Inspired Ciara Lynch to Transition From Marketer to Dairy Farmer?
"So learning a little bit about your background Ciara I know that about four years ago now you've made that career transition away from being like I said in marketing in corporate this big kind of glamorous high -flying life you were in client services and you know even traveling globally for work and then you transitioned into being a full -time dairy farmer and I suppose I just love like it's not a pivot I suppose that a lot of people maybe make so I just love to understand what were some of the influences that led you to make that change. I suppose there's there's I suppose multiple influences the first the most important one is my husband is a dairy farmer I suppose I would see him in the mornings kicking up his heels and kind of jumping across the hedge to go to work while I sat on the m50 for the back part of you know an hour an hour and a half each way I was like there has to be an easier way to do this life and I suppose I just kind of got quite frustrated you know you're you spend eight nine ten sometimes twelve hours a day outside of the house that you're working to pay for I think this is just this is madness so there's a bit of that going on there you know see something else and then I suppose the level of the career that I was at I wasn't sure if I could find something like that closer to home but up and down the m50 it seems fine when you're it's all easy when you're in your 20s but kind of the older you get there's more slides than this but yeah I suppose my husband I just loved his whole attitude to life he loved work he always felt kind of never felt like work and then the other side of the thing is I just started to burn out I was exhausted even listening back to your your very act of my career I am I loved it I absolutely loved it until I just didn't love it anymore I was just knackered all the time I worked for an amazing and amazing company they were a husband and wife team I learned so so much from them and it was it was probably one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make was supposed to leave that job because you know we were really good friends as well as you know really good colleagues and I just said I can't take this anymore I was I said there was actually at one point I had stayed with my parents one night and my dad was traveling to Galway that next morning and we both left you know her house at the same time and my home house and my dad got to go away before I got to you know exit 13 and 15 like this this is insane like this is insane absolutely so yeah so I suppose between the kind of the exhaustion and then you know is there another way that we could do this and I just said okay let's let's go for it let's jump into it you know what would that look like what was how would we go about it and I suppose the influence on that then as those kind of another units came up you know there wasn't a gun to be able you know you can't just kick your fingers and go I'd like a job in your dairy farm please so a second unit a second dairy farm came up for us that we could leave and we sat down and we talked about it and we looked at us and actually a really interesting thing to do is if you look at what it actually costs you to get to work so we well he ran the numbers on it he's the numbers guy and it would be realized it was costing 10 grand a year just to get to the office so that was including you know diesel and diesel was a lot cheaper back then so that was like diesel like depreciation tax like my tolls used to be kind of 150 200 so like it's really really interesting actually just when you sit down you look at it going okay well hang on if you think you know a wage cut somewhere you know where do you really really be saving yeah it's a really really interesting exercise to do for anybody who's trying to you know write out that pros and cons list about will I make the change so for that that was a huge one for me like that is absolutely it's like that's you know you're cutting time off your salary the agency they're looking at how it actually you're you're getting to work
Flight of ideas
The "Courage" of Ignorance
"On a rural excursion, I noticed a group of my friends playing a ridiculous game. They suspended an empty coke bottle with a rope from a tree branch and made it swing like a pendulum, and then they began aiming at it from a safe distance with a rifle. I approached them and decided to give it a shot. What exactly is this? Gun? How do you film it? What exactly is expected? Let me try hitting this bottle. He pulled the trigger without thinking, scattering bottle fragments in all directions, and my pals screamed in awe. I later found that they had tried for an hour and that three of them had won shooting prizes, but they had failed. I would have failed if I had known all of this ahead of time. We would not have done anything without the courage of ignorance since we assume failure from the start. That is why I was not surprised to read about the young American man who arrived late for class and discovered an unsolvable equation on the blackboard, so he copied it and assumed it was his homework. As a result, he went home and remained up until he finished solving this equation and delivered it to his teacher the next day. The professor was taken aback and demanded that the youngster tell him the truth, this equation has no solution. So math instructors throughout history believed, it was written on a whiteboard by the professor as a model for impossible to solve equations. The pupil who was unaware of the truth solved it in one night. Here, we must have the courage of ignorance and not consider the difficulty of what we face, nor the number of people who have failed before us. This is the only possible path to success, but if the ghosts of fears surround us before we begin, those predatory black dogs will come out to tear us apart before we take a step. Conclusion The courage of ignorance is a paradoxical concept that can yield both benefits and harms. On the positive side, it often empowers individuals to take risks and pursue endeavors they might otherwise avoid due to fear or doubt. This uninhibited approach can lead to unexpected successes, innovation, and personal growth, especially in situations where overthinking and excessive caution could be limiting. However, the downsides are significant. This type of courage, stemming from a lack of awareness or understanding, can lead to reckless decisions and actions. It often results in avoidable mistakes, misjudgments, and failures that could have been mitigated with more knowledge or insight. In extreme cases, it can even lead to dangerous situations or harm to oneself and others. Thus, while the courage of ignorance can spark bold moves and breakthroughs, it's a double -edged sword that requires careful consideration.
The Greg McAfee Show
THIS Is Why Greg Calls Ken Goodrich an HVAC Industry Titan
"Call you the Titan of the HVAC business world, just because you've done things so different than anyone else. But you've never been afraid to take advice. I mean, you've attended how many seminars throughout your career? Always willing to learn more. I mean, what, what does that say? And what, what does that tell our viewers on, you know, taking advice and listening to people that may know more than you? Well, let me tell you, when my go back to my original story, my origin story in, in one of those episodes, I was looking at trade magazine one night and I saw an active convention and I mean, I was at my last dollars, right? So I said, and, you know, it talked about networking and learning and, you know, you know, all the good stuff that these best practice groups bring. And it was in San Antonio. And I said, you know, I'm just going to go. So, you know, I took my last thousand bucks and went and I met some guys, older guys than me. I was probably, well, I was 26, 27 and started talking to them. And I wasn't afraid to ask advice. I guess that's another thing. So I would just ask, you know, and I didn't have any choice. So I had to get out of the hole. I had to find the answer. So I just started talking to them and they were open and sharing with me, invited me to lunch. And then, you know, after they started talking to me and figured out that I had a little bit to offer too, you know, we started to form some associations and groups. And that really taught me like, look, this is where I'm going to get the best information is these best practice groups where, you know, they have some written materials that I can use to implement on my own processes. But the most value is the fellowship that goes on between the members. Right. And, you know, you can find these guys are doing different things. And then the sharing that goes on. Hey, tell me how to run a sales department and I'll show you, you know, how I'm running my IQ program or something, you know, and that has really been one of my key learning methods is these conventions. And then I really have just really been a student of the industry. I got really interested in it, you know, talking about I really wanted out of the business and finding your passion. What I learned was your passion is something that you're good at. You know, if you get good at anything, it's going to be a passion because you're good at it and it gives you confidence. It gives you dopamine when you're doing it. And so I just got good at it. And the better I got at it, the more I applied myself because I wanted to be better. And I kept learning and kept learning. I went to Acca for a long time and then I joined Airtime 500. And 500, Airtime I was maybe in my mid 30s. And like, you know, every day, you know, they would have the big meetings, right? You know, you'd go to the seminars. I'd be there 45 minutes early and I would pick the front center seat. That was my seat, front center, I'm learning, I'm coming here to learn. And I would plan, okay, here's what the seminars things go to this one, this one, this one. Here's what I want to accomplish in this one. Here's what I want to accomplish in this one. Here's what I want to accomplish on the overall thing. I'm going to go to the trade show and vendors. I want to meet with this guy, this guy, and this guy. In other words, I'm going to invest the money and the time to go to these conventions. I'm going to plan it and I'm going to come away with something because it's so easy to go to those things and, you know, hang out at the bar at night, drink too much, miss the first meeting and then kind of half -ass the whole thing and hanging out with your buddies and really accomplish zero, right? Which is, which I see a lot of guys do. Yeah. So I just, that's how I learned. That's how I pulled it all together. And then the experiences that I had by selling my businesses six times, you know, and dealing with people who know things that I would never typically get exposed to, you know, like I said earlier, acquisitions and metrics and, you know, now I'm in the private equity world. We're dealing with big banking and big mergers and all kinds of stuff that, hey, sitting in an air conditioning shop, nobody would ever get the opportunity
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Lynn Public Library (Hodge Podge) Book Event
"What's happening everybody, it's Kira and Ben and we're at another live show to talk about Ben's book, HodgePodge. This time we are here in Lynn where Ben is from. So Ben, tell us a little bit about growing up and your experiences and your life here. So many of you probably heard of Lynn from the poem, Lynn, Lynn the city of Sydney, never grew up the way you went in and there's a bunch more to that but it's inappropriate so I won't say it. Growing up in Lynn was for me different because I grew up in a middle -class family. We weren't technically poor but we weren't technically rich. It's a very diverse city so I was lucky enough to grow up with black friends, Latino friends and that was something I've always thought was good because it made me appreciate other people's cultures more. The one thing I will say that I did have the unfortunate situation of growing up during the and 80s the 70s where they were like, the Russians are attacking, get under the desk and my name is Brunisław Wozniak so you can imagine what the kids were like to me. They're like, your people stink and I'm like, I'm Polish, I'm not Russian. So that was kind of rough but I mean, Lynn gets a bad rap. There's a lot of good things about Lynn and that's why I put them into the book. There's a lot of history here like we were one of the first night games for baseball. We had a lot of good stuff going on. Over time, hopefully people will realize that we're not a sin city and we do have some quality people in it. That's awesome. Thank you so much. That's so exciting. Alright and now we're here with Lindsay who's at the head of adult circulation here at the Lynn Library. Lindsay, thank you so much for hosting us and having us today. How did you get into library sciences and what makes you passionate about books? So I don't actually have a degree in library science. As the head of the adult department, the city of Lynn just designates I have to have a bachelor's degree to hold a librarian position here at the library. But it was back about, so I've been here for almost 11 years. Few years back, well 11 years ago, I was just looking for another job and I came across the city had the job for a library associate. So I started off as a library associate here and then worked my way up. I went back to school, got my bachelor's degree while I was here at the library and was able to be promoted to librarian as the head of the adult circulation department. That's very exciting. It sounds like it's something you're passionate about. Now are you from Lynn or Massachusetts originally? I'm from Lynn for the most part. When I was born, my parents lived in Revere but we moved here within four years of that. So I've been here since then. I did live in Florida for four years but I've been in Lynn the rest of the time. That's awesome. Do you have any favorite stories about Lynn or any monuments or places that really hold a special place in your heart around here? Well obviously the library. When we were little, we would come here often. I would walk around and pretend it was my castle because it's such an old, beautiful building and then when we got a personal computer, we honestly stopped coming to the library as often as we did when I was very young. So it had been some time but when I applied for the job, I think it had been the first time I had been back here in a long time but I had grown in appreciation for architecture over that time. So when I came in, it was like seeing it in a different light as an adult and just having an appreciation for the building. I really like Victorian architecture which Lynn has a lot of. Unfortunately, we haven't retained as much colonial architecture because fires and things like that over the years. So Salem is very fortunate they have that but Lynn does have a lot of Victorian and even more modern era type architecture. So the library is an excellent example. It was built in 1900 so it's been around for 123 years now. I would say out of anything that sticks out to me, obviously, here at the library because I work here. Obviously. And that's so cool. I had no idea the history of this library. So being around for 123, oh my goodness, that's such a long time. Looking around, it still looks very well restored. Do you work on it? No, you wouldn't be in charge of any of the restoration or things like that, right? No, there hasn't been a lot of restoration or anything while I've been here. Obviously, there's updates to the building. Electricity was added at some point in time. It was gas light fixtures previous to that. But you can also see things like we have limited electricity available like in this room we're in right now. There's literally one or two. We have one hanging down from an extension cord, electrical outlets. So the building itself was beautiful. Obviously, it wasn't built for modern time and we do run into some snags here and there when it comes to updating it to be more modern. We're lucky we're able to get Wi -Fi throughout the building but it was a challenge maneuvering that when it was first a thing just because you have to figure out the best placement in order to get the best signal throughout the entire building that's made out of limestone. So the building is beautiful and I love it and whatever they can do to preserve it, I'm all in favor of but it also has its limitations and challenges because of its age. Of course now is this considered a historical site or a historical building? So do you have to go through those channels like through this town? Yes, it is a designated historical site. The thing is that like you'll notice like the lighting that all stuff was things that was done in like probably the 70s, 80s, 90s. I don't know exactly when it was designated historical site off the top of my head but maybe those weren't things that might fall under what you might need to do like now as part of that. I also don't know like what the parameters of that are necessarily but they haven't been any major updates since I've been here so I haven't been through that process. Very cool. So what made you passionate about like books and reading and really like attracted you to the library besides the architecture? So I hate to say this, I'm not much of a reader. I do read. I actually facilitate the Movie Night Book Club. So it's a book club that compares books that were adapted into movies. So we talk about the book, we talk about the movie, we talk about the differences, the dislikes and likes between the two of them, changes that were necessary or completely unnecessary. So that's gotten me reading a lot more I will admit but what attracted me to library works I'm very organized and detail oriented which is definitely something you have to do in order to keep things in order. So that's more what drew me to library work I guess more my organizational side. That's awesome. So what is some of like the better books and movies that you've seen lately? That sounds like such a fun and interesting club. So I'll give you the best and the worst starting with the worst, Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is an excellent movie, it is a very strange book. It is nothing like the book and the movie are nothing alike. The entire club pretty much agreed on that. We had a lot to talk about because we all really disliked the book whereas you weren't expecting that because the movie is such like a classic timeless type movie. Probably the best is The Color Purple is an excellent adaptation from the book to the movie and we had a really great discussion and it's such a classic. It's definitely different but it was a great adaptation so best and worst. That's so exciting. Now are you guys going to travel like as a group to go see the new Color Purple that they are doing that's coming out in December? I don't have plans for that. At first when I heard it I was like how are you going to redo such a wonderful classic and then I'm like I've seen previous one and I'm like oh it doesn't look too bad. So I would definitely encourage the group to go and see it but we don't have any plans as of now to do it together as a group. That's awesome though. Well thank you so much for sitting down with us and talking to us and again thank you so much for having us today. Are you going to stay and listen for a little bit? I do have to do some work at my desk but I hope everybody else stays and has a wonderful time. Thank you, thank you. Well like we have said we are so happy to be here at the Lynn Library and back to our book Hodgepodge. Ben can you tell us about one of your favorite sites here and what inspired one of your favorite stories in the book? So one of the most beautiful sites here in Lynn is probably the view from High Rock Tower. If you go up there and you look out across you can see Boston and as a kid I mean in Lynn people don't think of beauty so like we grew up in the streets and we do what kids in the streets do. We run around we cause havoc and we just have a blast you know but you don't really think of beauty. So when you go up to the High Rock Tower and you look out and you actually get your breath taken away by just the awe -inspiring view I mean for a kid growing up like you know in this area it's something that really touches your heart cause you're like wow you know there's a whole new world out there besides you know being on the streets so that was kind of inspirational for me and then Egg Rock being at Egg Rock and like looking out at you know not Egg Rock Red Rock and looking out at Egg Rock and stuff like that I mean like I said there's so much beautiful things here in Lynn and it's just overlooked because of all the different poems and negativity that's thrown out about this city but if you actually look deep down inside there's a pearl in the oyster there is a pearl in the oyster and you know you just gotta really look. Absolutely and I think you could say that for like a lot of cities especially in Massachusetts but you found it and I think you really did highlight it in your stories off recording we were talking a little bit about the story of Steve into May and how you're doing a prequel to that do you want to speak on that or are we trying to keep it like a secret? No it's fine so there's two stories in the beginning of the book A Common Christmas and Cold Hard Truth and you know I threw them together and when I did I didn't think the response was going to be as good as it was to it when people read the stories they liked the banter between the two characters I didn't think that was going to be the stories that people would flock to so I was kind of like shocked at that it was kind of cool that they did so they were asking me like you know what we want more and I was like well I don't really have more but then like I was like all right well I'll try and come up with some stuff so I started thinking about stuff and I was like all right I can put this in there that in there I got a story I can put together so I was like I can do that and then I'm looking at different ideas for like the fantasy aspect of what I did I'm looking at that and then I have a book a story in there called The Weezer about this serial killer that has asthma and I'd like to finish her story I thought that was pretty funny it's a little comedy but there's a lot I want to do hopefully I have the time to do it I am kind of old but you know I'm hoping that I can get some stuff done. Awesome well there it sounds like we have a lot to look forward to in the future.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Staying Gospel Focused
"I absolutely am thrilled to be here, but just in the way of a challenge coming out the gate here. You can take your Bibles returning to Romans chapter 1. You know, when you, a lot of people are trying to discern God's will for their life, and it's very important that you're active doing what you should be doing as just a believer. And in the process of just doing what you should be doing as a believer, God many times will use your motion in that area serving God to direct you, you know, to different aspects of service. Case in point, it'd be about 1971, and I was a student, and we'd go down to the University and of Georgia try to evangelize college students at the University of Georgia every weekend. There's a hundred miles each way, and in one particular week, every week I'd go, every week I'd go. I did that for like two years, and I was headed down there, and there was a new guy that showed up, and he and I, I'm six foot four, and in the back seat of a 1967 Mustang, I don't know if you know how crowded the back seat of a 1967 Mustang is, but I'm back there crammed in with this guy. I've never met him before. He's sitting next to me, and I said, so what's your name? He said, my name is Rich Woods, and I can't remember where he was from exactly, but he asked me, where are you from? I said, well, I grew up in California, and I was born, my dad was Air Force, served during World War II. He got out, he served in Alaska, flew ferry command up there, basically had to fly every airplane that the Air Force had at the time during World War II, got out, and then during the Korean conflict, got recalled, and got stationed in Sacramento, California, and he was governor of California's personal pilot, an OC -47. I've got the log books, they're just interesting to read, very fascinating. Then, he got transferred down to Georgia Air Base in Victorville, and that's where I was born, I was born on the base there, and so I was telling him a little bit of my story. He said, you know, he said, I served a summer internship this past summer at a church in California, and he said, you know, they'd be looking for someone to come back this next summer, and I think you'd be a shoe -in, I think you would fit right in, and the guy's And that guy, Rich Woods, never came back on that extension again. One night, we happened, there was like three cars of people, I just happened to be sitting next to him, just happened to be sitting next to him. And so, he gave me his contact info, I called him, Christmas time, he invited my to -be wife and I to come down and just interview, so we drove down, our home was around Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo area, that's where I grew up.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 120: Part 1: Tim Cardwell is a Top Cop for Drug Interdiction but Nearly Loses His Life
"Hey, hey, hi, it's Fat Albert. I have no idea who it is this week because it has been a long week. But hey guys, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dududettes, everybody, welcome back. This is episode 120 constituting, again, the 120th attempt, I can't even say it, 120th attempt to keep us off the air, but you have all failed. We are back. That's right. You're stuck with us, sorry. That's right. We don't have our crosses to bear and we're yours. That's right. Gotta pay for your sins sometime and you're paying for them on earth. Here we go. That's it. All right, guys. Well, hey, welcome back. Morgan here, along with my partner in crime. Hey, guys, it's Murph. Glad to have you on back. Yes, sir. And hey, before we get started, let's just do some quick housekeeping. Hey, head on over to Apple Spotify. Hit those five stars. We don't know how it works. It's magic. If you used to listen to us on Stitcher, they're out of business change and Google is going away. So make sure you get on something that's not going to go away anytime soon. So Apple Spotify, hit those five stars. Also head on over to our website, gamercrimespodcast .com for everything you need to know about us, including when we have guests with books. We have an extensive book list, Murph. I was just looking at that because we've got another guest coming up with the book and it's like, you know, at least 40 % of our guests have had books. I tell you what, you know, we try to read everybody's book before we have them on the show. At least one book, because some of them have tons of books. I got to tell you, I didn't read this much in college and I'm being serious. You've read more books in the last two years than you have in the previous, how many, 79? 102? 102. 102. All right. Hey, speaking of that, you had a chronological, we both had a chronological increment recently, so... Yeah, except I started counting backwards, so I'm down to 62 now. Well, that's because you couldn't count that high, so you're running out of toes. That's it. But anyway, yeah. Hey, also guys, follow us on that thing they call social media, at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram, but where you gotta be is Patreon. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We do a lot of fun stuff on there. We've got 911, what's your emergency? Murph, well, his house will burn down before he gets the number right. 199. Here we go. Here we go. Where you guys been? Where you been? We got stuff like You Can't Make This Shit Up. We've got our Q &A, our monthly Narcometer review. I thought last month, the Sicario, Day of the Soldado. Frickin', I mean, Benicio del Toro is in another movie. I think it's called The Reptile. He's good. He's good. I'll tell you what, he can just come and look at you and he's like, okay, here's my money, don't hurt me. He's scary. Motherfucker, scary. He is. And in real life, he's probably the nicest guy in the world. And that's the way most of them are. It's like Boyd Holbrook, you know, on some of his things like Justified and stuff. He looks like a killer, but then he's really nice in person. Yeah, even Logan and I mean, all the different things. He's been in a lot of stuff. Dial of Destiny, you know. So he was a bad guy in Dial of Destiny. But hey, guys, but that's where you're going to hear some good stuff. So head on over there, patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Now, you also got to head on over. Our favorite mafia queen, Sandy Salvato, the iron fist with the velvet glove rules over all that is Game of Crimes fans. Just go to Facebook and look up Game of Crimes fans, answer a couple easy questions and gain admittance into the inner sanctum where all the hilarity ensues. There you go. Just what he said. That's right. Just what I said. But you know what else I said, Murph? What did you say? I said, guess what time it is? Do you know what time it is? I'm going to ask you one more time because you got to pack. You got a trip coming up and we're doing this kind of late. So guess what time it is, Murph? It's time for Small Town Police Blotter. A little bit of James Bond there. Hey, speaking of James Bond, he would have had nothing to do with this next guy. Murph, I'm telling you. Oh, this one. This one comes out of Nebraska. And I'm telling you, them corn fed farm boys are lonely. Uh -oh. Uh -oh. They're lonely. So there is a few. This just happened October 13th. It's just like today. A funeral home worker was responsible for transporting TED bodies in Nebraska County is under arrest. Well, the felony burglary complaint doesn't really do it justice. So Ryan Smith and a colleague were dispatched last week to a home in Omaha to collect the body of an individual who died there. Now, this guy who died there left something behind, which this guy tried to come back and get. So Ryan Smith called the property manager and claimed that the local sheriff had asked him to collect this item for evidentiary purposes. Now, the property manager's like, nah, I'm dumb, but not that dumb. He denied it, but he later came back and heard noises emanating from the unit which had been locked from the inside with a deadbolt and the chain. After Smith exited the home with his clothes disheveled, the property manager called cops who busted him on a felony burglary charge. So Murph, why do you think they would want to seek DNA samples? Oh, no. Because the item left behind was a sex doll. And this guy returned. Oh, that's not what I was thinking. That's not quite so bad. I was thinking cadaver. No, no, no, no, no. This was a sex doll. The guy was removed from the house, but he left his sex doll behind. I don't know, maybe that's why he died. Maybe it was a good time. Sally, I told you to get your ass in the car. Yeah, guess what? He came and went at the same time. Oh, that was terrible. That was terrible. You know, when I went through the West Virginia State Police Academy, they'd wake you up in the middle of the night. You had to go out and do searches for a lost child. And the doll's name was Sally Rotten Crunch. Oh, moving on. You hated that doll. So Murph, you've heard the term getting shitfaced, right? Yeah, but luckily I've never experienced that. Let's hope you don't experience this either. So a former woman is facing a felony charge for what she did to an elderly neighbor. Now, Callie Robinson, she's 28. She was arrested after a confrontation at the Mobile Home Park where she and the 76 -year -old victim live in separate residences. According to a complaint charging Robinson with battery on a victim 65 years or older, she became upset with Daniel Powell. You know what his crime was, Murph? He would always speak with her while she walked her dog. What, just to say good morning or how are you? Yeah, so guess what she did? She took an unsecured bag of dog feces and pushed it into his face. Oh, oh, that's nasty. So they matched the dog waste bag. Yeah, they matched the waste bag with bags in her possession and she ultimately admitted to the battery. How old was she and how old was the victim? She was 28, the victim was 76. That's why they charged her with a battery on a victim 65 years or older. Yeah, and the punishment should be the same thing she did to him. I'll tell you what, it gives a whole new meaning to the word shitfaced and she should get shitfaced. You're not kidding, there's no excuse for that. Well, speaking of Florida, Murph, what is the largest retirement home in the United States? The villages. The villages. You wouldn't believe the stories that come out of that book. Oh, dude, I would after this story. So a 77 -year -old Florida man was arrested. He was trying to peddle some things. Oh, yeah, that was on the news here. That's legit. He was trying to peddle $1 ,800 worth of black market erectile dysfunction drugs. Only in the villages. Now, he bought a slew of ED products, erectile dysfunction, including Snovitra 20, Villatra 20, and Kamagra oral jelly. Oh, my God. With the intent to sell them locally and outside the Sunshine State, according to several papers, now, Murph, this is going to shock you. It's not his first rodeo. Guess what else he's tried to hawk? Marijuana and cocaine. No meth? No meth. Oh, dude, you've got to step up. You're not going to do meth. I mean, that's just kiddie dope otherwise. Yeah, you've got to be in the big leagues. You want to run with the big dogs, you've got to get off the porch there, Cooter. Seriously, the stories that come out of that place are just... Connie said, if she passes away first when I moved to the villages, I don't think so. They have the highest rate of STD transfers infections in the United States. Hey, if you're that age and you're getting some, God bless you. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, but I mean, practice safe sex. Good Lord. Well, that's kind of a segue. I'm not sure how to segue into safe sex other than to saying the next guest is actually pretty safe. He's a really pretty good guy. And he was somebody that you have worked with in the past. And that's how you cornered this. By the way, you couldn't make fun of him. Guess what? He's a God -fearing, right -wing, rifle -carrying trooper. Are you talking about our guest today? Yes. You know what? This guy that you're getting ready to hear his story. I met this guy. He's one of the best interdiction troopers in the United States ever. I mean, he was well -known throughout. And he's going to tell you how he learned his trade and everything. But I got to meet him when I came back from Columbia and got stationed in Greensboro, North Carolina. And this guy, his nose is better than his drug dog's nose. We didn't talk about this on the interview, so I'll tell you real quick. He called me on a New Year's Eve. I was painting the laundry room in our house. The girls were little. He called me on New Year's Eve night, and he had pulled over a tractor trailer car carrier and found several hundred kilos of cocaine in one of the cars. I mean, how the hell do you do that, you know? Because he's a trooper. Yeah, he's good. And the driver was Colombian, so that might have been an indicator. But just a fantastic guy. I mean, one of my best friends all these years later, I met him in 94, and here we are in 23, and still stay in touch all the time. And if it hadn't been for him, your stats would have been for shit, man. Still a stat where he can. There you go. Wait a minute, that's another agency. Wait the fuck for agencies to do that. What other agency would do that? What other agency would go out and make a press release? Well, there's one, you know, that's called Adopt That Effer. You'll have to figure that out. They usually show up after the fire. But anyway, we digress some murph, but we can't hear the story of Mr. Tim unless I ask you the penultimate question. Are you ready to play the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all? The Carolina North accent game of crimes. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, get in, sit down, shut up, and hold on, especially when it gets to the point where they took his gun away from him. This man is a big man. Bring on Mr. Trooper Tim Cardwell, retired, one of my best friends. If you would just like it if it was breathy, because we could talk to you that way. You freak me out when you do those voices, Morgan. Yes. We'll get you some professional help. The love doctor is in. Speaking of who's in, it's not the love doctor. It's me and Murph. Hey, and guess what? We have got somebody Murph can't make fun of. If he tries to, he's going to get in trouble, because he's another trooper. Yeah, so for all our listeners, you can feel my pain right now. Instead of one trooper on every interview, I got two troopers on here today. Who knows where this is going to go? If you hear snoring in the background, that'll be me, because we're going to be telling trooper stories. No, that'll be because you just took your medication. You were telling us of that, and you're about ready. You're going to go on the nod. I just got up from a good nap, so. You ought to be French. Our guest today is an old, old friend of mine that I met when I first came out of Columbia back in 94. I got stationed in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I don't know how we met. I don't remember now, but. I think you got a ticket, Murph. He could have given me one, I'm sure. Of course, I rode with him a few times. I could have given him one, you know? But our guest is Tim Cardwell. He's retired, North Carolina State Highway Patrolman. One of the leading interdiction troopers in the entire United States. was This guy so good at his job. He had a dog at one point. We'll talk about his dog a little bit. Who saved his life, I believe. We'll talk about that story. But who was so good, he didn't need a dog. I mean, he could sniff out coke better than anybody I've ever seen. So we've got some stories to tell him today, but what a pleasure to have you on here, Tim. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate it. Glad to be here. Kind of nervous, but I'm glad to be here. This is not an interview or interrogation. Nobody's going to advise you of your rights, but just in case, there's the door, Tim. You're free to go at any time, you know? Don't make me call your wife now. Ah, well. She keeps me straight, trust me. Don't they all? Yes. Well, let's talk as we do with everybody, Tim. First of all, one trooper to another. Thank you for your service out there to the great people of North Carolina. So think of ours, Coastal and Ulster. How did you get started in this thing we called law enforcement? As a Ute, did you fracture a few laws? Were you on the receiving end of some extra judicial punishment? Or how did you get started in this thing? Yeah, kind of. So I grew up in Madison, Medan, which is north central North Carolina, north of Greensboro, a small town, about 5 ,000, two towns combined, and just a little mill town. And I did have an encounter with law enforcement at a very young age, and it scared me, kind of like scared you straight. And I had just kind of gotten, you know, as a young boy, I was just very adventurous, rambunctious, and, in a way, got in trouble one night for throwing some rocks at somebody who had run us off from shooting basketball. And, you know, in a way, kind of retaliated in not the best way, and local law enforcement, of course, picked us up. No, no, you don't get to blow past that. What do you mean you retaliated in not the best way? We need some details. What was the nature of the retaliation? Well, so the rocks were the retaliation. So let me clarify. We were shooting basketball outside of a funeral home one night, and me and a buddy of mine, and anyway, long and short of it is, I didn't have a basketball court that had asphalt or concrete. I only had to shoot on dirt, and this local place had concrete, obviously. And so we were shooting late one night, and, you know, being young, maybe 12 years old, we really wasn't paying attention, and there was a funeral service going on. So, you know, of course, us playing caused a lot of echoing, and they come out and actually run us off, so to speak. And so kind of feeding off of each other, being frustrated, we decided to throw a couple rocks outside the building, and as such, we got the local law enforcement called, and they quickly found us and picked us up and took us to the station. And anyway, it absolutely petrified me. And anyway, they did us really good. They were very respectful and taught us a lesson, and, you know, didn't come out with any kind of criminal charges or anything. So it was my introduction to the criminal justice system in a personal way. So needless to say, I didn't want to experience it again. It scared me so much. I never heard that story. That's similar to one I went through when I was about 10 years old. Did any of those rocks happen to penetrate glass, or did they bounce off the building, or what was the nature of the damage caused by your retribution? There really was no damage. It just hit the side of the building. I wasn't that brave to throw it at a window, but, you know, it was just at a time where I was, I guess, getting out there and probably kept me from getting in trouble to a greater level, I guess. So it was good for me. So how did that factor into later then? You know, that was your first experience, but what led you into this thing of ours? Well, you know, as I look back, I can kind of recount the path. As a young man, we had growing up, the house that I grew up in didn't have a mailbox. We had a post office box. And so when I would go to the post office box to retrieve a mail with a parent or, you know, as I got a little bit older, allowed to go by myself, I caught myself reading those FBI most wanted bulletins that's displayed in all post offices, and they just seemed to capture my attention. And unbeknownst to me, you know, I never thought about a career in it, but I think that had a little factor. And then the house that I mentioned, my neighbor who had moved there in the third grade, he was a state trooper, and he spent his whole career in our home county, and he was very close with our family. He lived right behind me, and he watched me grow up, and, you know, I interacted with him quite a bit, and I was always impressed with him and respected him. And I used to see him, you know, when he would leave on a weekend working evening shift with that black and silver patrol car, it would be shiny, and, you know, he would go out. There you go. See, got to take care of that car. Even back then, it's got to take care of the car and the uniform. I think all you guys just want to be mechanics.
Mark Levin
Rep. Brian Mast: Wearing His Israeli Military Uniform to Capitol Hill
"Reason that it is mine is something similar, not to the same extent of what's going on right now, but unfortunately, that has occurred in history over and over. Israel being attacked. Most of the time, the media doesn't report the single or half dozen rocket attacks that lob into Israel regularly, but back in 2014, I was a student at the liberal then of indoctrination of Harvard Operation and Protective Edge was going on and Israel was being attacked yet again. They had taken military hostages and same thing was going on up there that's going on right now. Just people that for the life of me, I couldn't understand why they were draping themselves in Palestinian flags and rallying against Israel and one night actually started rallying against my wife and my family for being a US service member and it's not hard for people to figure out that I was a US service member. I don't have any legs and I wear a hat that says Army Rangers so it doesn't take a genius to it figure out and after that incident in Boston, in the Boston Commons with Nazi these Arab sympathizers is what I I would call told them, my wife, I said look I don't know what it's going to look like but I'm going to get my hands dirty. I'm going to find a way to go my support against this hypocrisy that is chastising Israel, show my support for Israel and when I show support for something I try to do it in a physical, tangible way and you know I called the consulates and the embassies and everything else and ultimately went and put on the uniform of the IDF and served in Israel. So you were an IDF soldier for a period of time? I was a volunteer. I was a volunteer with the IDF, held no rank you know but served there working on a
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Parasite (South Korean) (2019) Movie Review
"What's happening everyone, Keira and Ben back again. This week we will be covering Parasite. Now this film won in 2020, 2019, 2020, maybe I should look it up, but it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is a great film. Bong Joo Ho directs it. There is a lot of fun themes to talk about. So we're going to dive in. But Ben, what's your history with the film? So, again, it was a listener suggestion and you had told me that you had seen it and it was a great film. So I was like, oh, okay. And Bong Joo Ho is the director of, what was the movie you just watched with him? Anything Everywhere All At Once? Okay, so I forget what movie we watched. Did we watch the movie with him? All right, I lied. So we're not going to talk about that. I actually liked it. I thought it was good. I can't wait to talk about it. Yeah. So for those who haven't seen it, it is a story about wealth and class and I think they do it and the way that they paint it, I think they do it in such a good way. So basically it's about this one family who is lower class trying to make a living and how they con their way into working for this ultra rich family. And then obviously things are going good and then they go very, very bad. I will say that twist, did not see it coming. What about you? No, it was shocking like when the, well, I don't want to get too far ahead, but like when everything came about, I was like, oh, oh, okay. Like this is like something I wasn't expecting. And then like when it all came to a head, I was like, oh no. So yeah, it was a surprise. It was definitely a surprise. So the story starts off with, we have our main protagonist, I would say the son is our main protagonist. He's the one that kind of starts all this. He's the catalyst for a lot of this film. So he has a friend who was tutoring this family and he was like, yeah, just pretend to be a student and you should just like go and tutor too for this family. So his sister who, as we were saying off screen, was the best character in the movie. She so smart, doctors up a little diploma for him and he cons his way into teaching English to their daughter, their eldest daughter. So they have so this ultra rich family, it's a mom and a dad and then an older daughter and then a younger son. So now the brothers in the house and he's like, hmm, maybe I can get other people in this house. So first he gets his sister in claiming that it's actually not his sister and just someone that he knows who is an art therapist because the young son is spooked by a ghost that he saw in the house. So she's like, OK, I'll be I'll do I'll do this. And so she does that. And then to eliminate the driver and the housekeeper, they kind of pull these elaborate like schemes. So like they frame the driver for having sex in the car and then they explore I would use the word exploit. They exploit the housekeeper for being allergic to peaches by putting like shaving peach dust on her. And then when she's having a coughing fit, telling the woman of the house, the mom that it's tuberculosis, I was like and then the mom's like such an idiot. She was like, OK, bye. I don't know. I thought that was funny. So now the whole family has schemed and conned their way into the house with no one knowing that they're a family. These are just all they can't be bothered to ask. And OK, so I thought that this was really interesting because they can't be bothered to ask anyone that works with them anything about their life. Because if they did that, these people weren't smart enough to lie about their relationships. And I feel like their family would have been exposed way sooner if these people weren't such rich assholes. Oh, I 100 percent agree. Like there's one part where the sun says they smell alike. And I'm like, I'm like, because they live in the dark. So where they live is like this this basement, like awful place. And like people walk by and they're peeing in the alley and the flooded floods. And like they basically live in this like rundown neighborhood and it's just really bad. So like they all smell of this sewerage and like smoke. And like it's just like, like I said, it's a really bad area. So for the youngest son to catch on and well, the husband kind of says something about it when he says he has a smell to him about being the driver. But that's like the most he gets out of it. And then the son is the one that's actually pretty smart. That honestly made me so mad and sad that whole like poor person smell like that really pissed me off. OK, a lot of the things that family does like piss me off. So one of like the big the biggest like critical scenes that happens is there is a very big flood or not. I don't want to call it a flood, but it's like this very crazy rainstorm and their little basement apartment gets flooded. They are soaking wet and they're just like, I don't know. It was really sad because you can see that, like, even though they're like working and getting this money, like they're still stuck with like in their poverty because like class systems and like trying to like break out of poverty is so hard. Yeah, 100 percent. I mean, you can see the struggles even when they're getting money. But I think for them, a lot of it was the fact that they were just blowing the money. They weren't like trying to get out of it. They were just like, you know, so excited to have the money that they were eating lavishly. They were doing all this stuff instead of being smart about it. Like they were just like pissing it away. And like it kind of like catches up to them in the end. Agree. But at the same point, like I feel like if you didn't have money and like you weren't eating well and then you were exposed to that, like obviously you're going to treat yourself because like life is hard and like it is like sometimes about like the little things that are like that like make it worth it. And I think that like since they were in such poverty for such long, like being able to drink like this slightly nicer Korean beer and like eating like the better cuts of meat at barbecue, like I think that like that's like important because it's like a sign of like how far they've come. Obviously, they conned their way into it, but still so. And then I think like so back to like the mom and the smell. So I think one of the things that is like so indicative of how like rich people and upperclass people like don't understand poverty or like understand like the working class is when so they they their whole apartment is flooded. Right. And then the next day he's driving her and she's like talking in the back like, oh, we're planning the birthday party and the sun is shining and it's not raining and everyone is happy and like so crazy. And like, meanwhile, their apartments basically washed out and they've had a very traumatic night. Yeah, 100 percent. I think like the rich are oblivious to the poor. I mean, it kind of reminds me of the French queen where she's like, you know, they're like, oh, they're starving. And she's like, let them eat cake because she's so oblivious to like how it's going on, like what's going on with these people that for her, it's nothing. She's like, oh, whatever, just let them eat cake. You know, these people like starving and dying. She did pay for that comment, by the way, but she got decapitated for that. But, you know, I'm just saying like that's how like the rich get rich and the poor get poor and the rich overlook the poor because they're not in the same classes as them. So they don't see them. So they don't care. Agree. And I think too, like and I don't know, like they're so dumb and oblivious. So, OK, so let's talk about the fateful night of the rainstorm. Right. We've kind of talked about the flood. We talked about her arrogance. So what happens, though, is since they go since the rich family goes away for the weekend during this this rainstorm, the family decides to just move into the house while they're gone and just live in the house. Now, while they're doing this, they're having fun. They're eating food. They're being crazy, being themselves, being with each other. The housekeeper that they got fired comes to the door and she's like, you got to let me in. I got to talk to you guys. She discovers that they are a family and that they are conned and that she's going to she's taking photos. She's going to expose them. She's going to get her job back. All because, dun dun dun, they go down into the basement. First, also, first of all, like you wouldn't explore the house that you're buying and know that you have a bunker in the basement. That to me was like how how much money and how arrogant are you? You're like, oh, I don't go into the basement. That's the help. I don't do that. So there's a whole bunker in this basement that's kind of like kind of hidden. But like it's it's there. And this woman's husband is living in the basement because he's hiding from loan sharks. And I was like, what? So this is so she like obviously works in the house, feeds him, takes care of him. She snuck him in there to live so he could live there. And then he's actually the ghost that the youngest son saw. So one night he was like, I'm going to leave my cave. I don't know. And then he's like walking up the stairs. And honestly, I will say that scene is so well done. Like you see him just like slowly like ascending up the stairs. It's like all black and then it's just like the light of his face. And like, honestly, I thought that scene was beautiful because you kind of see it earlier in the film. You see it when the mom is walking up the stairs and she sees the housekeeper having this like fit, the like coughing fit. And that's not tuberculosis. It's allergies. And she's kind of like coming up the stairs. I like watching that like ascension. It's kind of like this like ascension to truth or like ascension to epiphany, which I thought I thought was really well done. Yeah, I agree. The husband that's in the cellar was actually the first owner. So he was the owner of the house originally. So he knew the bunker was there. And then the loan shots go after him. So he sells the house to try and get out of there. And the family takes over and he recommends this housekeeper to this family. But it's his wife so that they can have connection with her. So when she gets fired, she's freaking out because her husband's down in the cellar and he's kind of gone stir crazy because like he turns the lights on and off, like to tell the man thank you that's living in the house now. It's it's really crazy. But like the son ends up like thinking there's a ghost in the house because of this guy doing Morse code. Yeah. So he sees him and then the lights flicker all the time because of the Morse code, which honestly. OK, so then what I like about a film is when things come full circle. And this movie very nicely comes into a kind of a cool full circle. So now everything's coming to a head. The son decides. So in the beginning of the film, I forgot to mention this in the beginning of the film, the son receives a rock. It's called like the Rock of Success or like money rocker given to him by the friend that tells him to calm this family. And he's like, please like this is going to bring you wealth and success. So then the brother or the son looking at this rock of success decides that he's going to protect his family. They're going to keep their jobs and he's going to kill the man in the basement because at this point they have tied them both up in the basement and they because they have to get back to their jobs. And then I thought that part I thought was kind of weird that like also how oblivious are you that you don't notice a full family of people hiding under your table? So the family comes home from the because of the rainstorm. The family comes home. Our poor family has to hide in the house and sneak out, which I thought was very funny. And then that's when like we hear the conversation like about his smell, like he has that poor person smell. And then I thought it was so sad to when he like turns to himself and like kind of sniffs himself, like I don't smell bad. I don't know. That made me kind of sad. Yeah. And like it was kind of sad that like the lady that was trying to protect her husband, they slammed the door on her and she falls down the stairs, like smashes her skull and gets like a concussion. And then she ends up dying. Like she's like, you know, take care of yourself. You know, I have a concussion. I'm dying. You know, the husband is stuck down there with his dead wife. I mean, I was like, oh, my God, that's awful. Like, that's terrible. Like you just do nothing. He was tied up and he watches his wife die. So like when the guy comes downstairs with the stone to kill him and he turns it about on him, I was like, oh, you know, turn about fair play. Honestly, fair play, fair play. I would do the same thing. Also get me the F out of this basement. So now they're in the middle of this party where it is very culturally inappropriate for Native Americans. They're making the dad, the poor dad, the driver wear like this like crazy headdress. And like it is I mean, I guess that's what the rich do. They can just cherry pick parts of history that they like for the aesthetics and then they can exploit it and have fun with that at a birthday party. So this is happening. And our our what should we call him? Our captive, our prisoner, our ghost, the ghost, the man. He comes out into the party, starts causing all this crazy havoc, stabs the dad and stabs the daughter. And now the daughter who we've already established is the best character in the film dies. And then we see the dad kind of have his loyalty, not like questioned, but come into question for him, because it's like, you got to drive my son to the my son. You got to drive my husband to the hospital. And he doesn't because he goes to be with his dying daughter. Yeah. So like the guy that come out of the cellar, he's like trying to tell the owner of the house how much he cares for him after he just killed the daughter, like stabbed her in the chest. And then, you know, the father like of the daughter. Finally, like I forget what happens, but he said, oh, he says the owner of the house says that the guy smells and it triggers him and then he loses his shit. And then he ends up killing the guy that comes from the cellar and then he owes and he kills the owner and like then he runs off. And no one can find him. So now we have a dead daughter, the mom who's just fled. And we have an unconscious son in where is he? In the cellar. Yeah. So he's unconscious in the cellar. And then partygoers fleeing everywhere. And then in voiceover, we hear that he is regaining consciousness, trying to work and get enough money so he can buy that house because he goes and he sees the lights flickering. And what his dad is the new basement person and like a nice like German family, I think, like buys the house or something. So like I was going to con his way in. But so, OK, so that's like basically the movie in a nutshell. Obviously, we're going to talk about some themes in it. The biggest theme being wealth and money and success and what it means to be successful and what it means to have money and what you're looking for, like in life. So I believe, like in this film, obviously, when you are poor, your motivation is money. You want to be able to live. You want to be able to survive. And when you're rich, you already have that. So now you can deal with all the frivolous, stupid things of life. Right. That some people like are just don't have the time to like under not understand, but like to deal with because they're not thinking like, oh, I don't know, like, oh, we get to. Oh, our vacation was ruined because of the rain, but we can still come back to our beautiful home, like not like, oh, my house is underwater because I live in a basement apartment and it's flooded and I have nowhere to go. And my employer says that I smell like it's it's like two different worlds that they live in. Yeah, 100 percent. I think like people born into wealth are oblivious to what people go through in poverty. And then that's why you see like a lot of people that are born into wealth. Like they just don't understand if they lose everything, they just they kill themselves because they don't know how to be poor. All they ever know how to be is rich. And then you have the poor people that become rich and then they don't know how to be rich. And then they end up blowing the money like a lot of NBA stars, a lot of NFL stars. I mean, they have to actually have courses now and people to come in and help these NBA NFL players deal with their money because they don't know how. They're uneducated on how to make the money last. So they just pee through it and they buy these fancy automobiles, fancy houses. And then when it all says and done and the career is over, their money's gone and they end up having to sell everything and then they become poor again. And then they end up committing suicide because they've lost everything. So it's just a never ending cycle. It is. And I think, too, like, I don't know, I don't have extreme wealth. I work all the time. I live well within my means, I think. I mean, I am in crippling credit card debt, but that's because I'm addicted to shopping. So maybe I don't live within my means. I don't know. But I I don't know. So but I I wouldn't I I don't think no matter how much money like you get, it definitely has to be like a mindset that you're born into. Like you just like don't you just don't view things in a certain way. You kind of have this mentality like, oh, everything will work out and I'm not that worried and everything goes my way. And I'm like, I'm I'm like, I have all this money. I don't know. And I think, too, like you just become so arrogant and self -obsessed that like you do view people as like, oh, what do you do for me? How do you work for me? And like not saying that these people were like monsters to this poor family that they worked for, but like they didn't talk to them. They didn't get to know them. They didn't try to understand like any parts of them. They just were like, OK, you're here to work. And I don't know. I feel like it should have been. I mean, I've worked in a house before, so I I used to work in a home for a very wealthy family before I in my career now. And to see to to be working for someone and to see the amount of like waste and like wealth, but also just like, I don't know. I don't know how to like put it. But like there is just this like mentality of, oh, whatever we want, we can have. And like, obviously, like we're right because we have the money. I don't know. It was very it was very eye opening to me to be in a situation like that. And I and I learned a lot from it, but I felt a lot of parallels. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. It was very interesting to me. Yeah, I think that's why I like a lot of movies. Like when you watch them, they really hit home about wealth and poverty, like Brewster's Millions, The Toy, the movie with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Trading Places. So you see these things and you go, oh, OK. And you like it and you you start laughing and you think it's funny because you see the person that's rich doesn't know how to be poor and the person that's poor doesn't know how to be rich. So like it's like it's like, you know, the flipping of the situations and like they're so used to being in a certain situation that they don't know how to act the new situation. Exactly. And like, I don't know. I feel like what was I just watching? I was just watching something and they were like they were talking about having having every having money versus not having money. And it was like, well, you're lucky to not have money because you have family and you have someone that like actually cares about you and to like share things with him when you have money, you just have things. And it's like, OK, I can I can see that. But at the same point, like you don't have to be poor and happy. You can have money and be happy. I always think that the two get conflated somehow. And it's like you can I don't know. I've met good, rich people, but I've also met rich assholes like that. Everything can be true. I just think I don't know. I just don't think that I just I don't know. I just don't believe I believe how money corrupts people. We talked about this in our last episode. And I think it just kind of sucks because they're every day that we live this in this world, the class divide is getting bigger and bigger. And the gap between lower class and middle class to upper class is is growing every day. And there's not like who thought trickle down economics was really going to work? Like, are we being stupid here? Yeah, I agree 100 percent. I mean, the divide is definitely there. I was just watching. I think it was called. But they were talking about like how it was about American Indian women being murdered and how you don't hear about it. But there's like a lot that get murdered because they're on reservations and the law is not the same as it is on, you know, in the country. But there's no focus on that because they're poor, like they're viewed as poor. And then like whereas, you know, the rich white person is always thrown into the spotlight, if there's a murder or if something happens to the child, it's always the rich children or the rich white people. And it's never like, you know, the poor black person or the poor Spanish person. It's never the minority. It's always the majority that gets the focus. And, you know, and that's true. I mean, and it's always going to be money over poverty. It's just always going to be that way until, like, I don't know. I don't know what can make a change. It's just, you know, maybe eye opening, like maybe the wealthy look down and go, you know what, maybe what was that movie with the Morlocks and Time Machine Time Machine, where the Morlocks were on the ground and they were like the the the people on top were living this lavish life. But in reality, the Morlocks were eating them. So, I mean, it's like society. Like, you might think you're living this power, but without the people that are poor, you wouldn't have the money you have. Exactly. And I don't know, like I have a lot of thoughts about this. And I think this movie obviously is framed like as a satire. Right. And but like the the ultra rich, like watch this movie. And they're like, oh, what an interesting movie. Not like, oh, maybe you should look at yourself and see what's going on. And also one thing. I mean, the daughter, I so sad that she died. Loved her. She was my favorite. But if she was as clever and as smart and as good at Photoshop, I feel like she would have had a better like like I feel like she could have just like conned her way into a better job than this like this like art therapist. I mean, but it felt like she did like actual real work with the son and like really was like trying to like help him and stuff. Yeah, I don't think in the beginning any of them wanted to be in this situation. But when the opportunity came, they jumped at it. So I think the daughter would have probably done something better with her life, had this opportunity not to count. So like, you know, it was an opportunity knocks. Are you listening? And I think that's the situation. Like they were like, oh, wait. And, you know, they even said it like, oh, we can all get in here. We can all get these people's money and we can all live lavishly. And it's a family. So you want to do what your family is doing. So, you know, it was the mother, the father, you know, the daughter. So they're all together as a family. And I think that was the thing that really bound them was the fact that they had that such a family tie because they came from poverty. They struggled together. They they did everything together. So like they did this together, which I really liked, because I think, too, when you live in a situation that is more that is more poor than what we see within the rich family, you do create those bonds because all you guys have is each other. Whereas in this family, they had art therapists and English shooters and drivers and housekeepers. And they're obviously they love their children. I'm not saying that, but there is a different kind of connection there when you're not always with them doing everything and like learning from them. Like, I don't I don't know. I feel like it's very I feel like it's a different kind of relationship. Not saying it's good or bad, just different. Yeah, I think it shows with the father when the child outside the tent and he's trying to bond with them and he's trying to be that guy. He's trying to be the father. You know, I think like always be in a way at work and always being in the office. It was like one of those situations where he knew he wasn't there, like he kept on like he says to him, I'll do whatever it takes to make my wife happy and I'll make I'll make these sacrifices. And it's the opposite of the movie we just reviewed, where where the husband had no desire to help the wife notice. This guy really wanted to try and be a father, try and do the right things. But he kept on like not being able to because he didn't know how, because he's been away for so long. I think that's what we saw with that. But the other father loved and cared about his family so much when, you know, when he sees that his daughter's dead, like he loses his mind. Yeah. Whereas in the in the film that we just covered, the dad never talked to his kids again. No, but this movie is very, very well done. I would highly recommend it. I know there are probably a zillion things that we have not even started to touch on with the symbolism. This movie is very rich and it's awesome. Like we can even talk about like the wealth stone. Right. So if we look at this wealth stone that he gets, it's like the success stone or whatever. And he like uses this and this is like his idol, basically. But what does it bring him? Nothing but tragedy. Like it doesn't bring him success or at least success in the way that he thought. It brought it to him for a little bit. But then ultimately he's lost. He lost half his family from it. Yeah. And it basically almost kills him because he gets smacked in the skull with it. And like, like I thought the amount of blood he lost, I thought he was dead. I was like, oh, he killed that boy. And he wouldn't have been wrong. Like the thing is, the guy in the cellar wouldn't have been wrong if he killed the son. He wouldn't have been because like they killed it. They killed his wife. And then like he wasn't wrong for anything he did except hiding being in the cellar and avoiding his his basically his responsibilities. He made a mistake. He messed up and, you know, he was scared for his life. He was fearful of this. You know, people that are loan sharks are coming to get him. But you know what? If you didn't put yourself in that situation, you wouldn't be in that situation. A hundred percent. And I think that, too, goes back to like poor, not poor people, but like lower class people, poorer people on that search for money. Like, obviously, you can be rich and be addicted to gambling, but you can also be poor and addicted to gambling. And loan sharks don't care either way. So he he got what was coming to him, which was like really sad. I thought, I don't know. I can't imagine living in a basement like legitimately like that. Sounds so awful to me. Yeah, you could tell he was probably like lost his mind because some of the stuff he was saying and he was just acting like, you know, someone that has been cabin syndrome. I think like he was down there for so long, he had cabin syndrome and he didn't know how to be the person he once was. And he was just so like he was appreciative of the guy having the house and having electricity. So he's flickering the lights to give him more school to show his appreciation. So he clearly lost his mind. But when his wife died, I think that was like kind of took him over the edge. Oh, 100 percent like that was the absolute like tipping point, because at least like he had his wife and we have to think he didn't see his wife for what, like four months or something or however long that she was out of the house before she came back in. Maybe not that long. I don't I don't time I didn't understand in this film. So but I don't know. I thought it was I thought it was really interesting. I thought it was really good. Definitely watch it. It's a fun watch. Like I said, it's Oscar winner. And don't be afraid of subtitles. We do a lot of subtitle films. I feel like we do more foreign language films than any other film. Yeah. And like it's been showing from our listeners like they appreciate it because, you know, Pakistan, Ghana, these are the countries that like, you know, they have great movies and like American society just like goes, oh, I'm not going to read subtitles. But that's stopping you from watching amazing movies like a who believe drive my car. These are great movies. And if you're not like, oh, I'm not going to watch subtitles, then that's you missing out on great opportunities because these movies have been amazing. There's a bunch more in the queue for us that are coming up that have been recommended from people from Ghana, people from India, people from Pakistan. So we look forward to this. And, you know, right now we're going to be taking a break from this. So your requests are still in the queues, but it is Halloween season. And well, you know what? Kara loves scary movies and Ben loves scary movies. So we're scaring the movies. All right. We're going to get some nasty, scary movies. We're going to review them and we're going to tell you how good they are, how bad they are. And we're going to do the whole ball Halloween. Yes, yes, yes. So all those things, please send a request. So if you have any good like hometown horrors that we wouldn't know about, though, the gorier, the better, the more vile, the better. We can stomach basically anything. Please watch this movie. And back to your point, Ben, real quick. When Bong Joo Ho actually won the Oscar for this, he did say if Americans can get past two inches of subtitles, their whole world would open up. And I full heartedly agree with that. I think this was if this was a movie that introduced you to foreign films. I'm so glad for that. It is an incredible film. Please check out some of the other films that we've covered on this podcast, as well as just like looking online because the strike is still going on. And our support is with the writers and the actors. Please access things that are that maybe have come out five, 10 years ago, maybe even a few months ago. Appreciate and watch those films that have already been made and created. And yeah, let's get let's kick off spooky season. Thank you guys so much for listening. Like we always say, we can't do it without you. We are here for you. Because if not, it would just be Ben and I talking at each other. So October 21st at two thirty, me and Kara will be live at the Lynn Public Library promoting my book Hodgepodge. So come see us. And that's all I got. Thank you very much for listening. All right, everybody. Catch us next time on What's Happening.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 119: Part 1: Ed Calderon Fights Cartels, Corruption, and Crime in Tijuana, Mexico
"It's been a recurring thing that I hear like, oh, the DEA arrested him. No, we didn't say that. The guys we talked to made it very clear it was the Mexican Marines who went in, you know, they were working with them, but you're saying it was two federal police officers? He carjacked us. No, I mean, eventually, but I'm talking about the operation. I know what you're getting at, the actual arrest. The actual arrest was done by two federal roadside cops. He's in a dirty white, he's in a dirty t -shirt, you know. Yeah, he went through a sewer because he had some of the most advanced escape safe houses that anybody's ever seen in Mexico. At least on that end, he was the top of the game. And I say this because it seems to me that a lot of effort was put into the narrative of this operation, you know, and it was boggling the mind to some of us that have been in that field for years to try Why all that effort over some specific guy? You know, because if you designate somebody as a big figurehead and then you get that figurehead, you claim victory, you go, hey, we've done something about it, as opposed to have you really. I mean, is it about the stat or is it about the actual impact? And I know, Murph, we've had these discussions before. Well, even, and so the reason I was in Mexico City on those original meetings is as I was working out of our special operations division and I was running the Mexico Central America section. And I can't get into a lot of detail on some of this because it's, some of it's still classified and some of it you just don't want people to know capabilities. But there was a lot of discussion about that guy, about Chapo, and there were assets in place that could monitor certain things. The execution part was the problem. And this was back in, what do you say, 2003? I was there from 01 to 06, so this was 03 or 04. And my suggestion to everybody was let's bring in our special operators, just like we did in Columbia against Pablo. The problem is, once we got, we had Dev Groom, we had Delta down there with us, but then their general said, well, you can only be in the base, you can't go out in the field. Special mission unit Delta, Delta Force doesn't exist. Not the best frickin' operators in the world were confined to base. I mean, these guys are the frickin' studs of the world. But here was the difference. The Colombians invited us down there, the Mexicans won't. Mexico has a very, and I'm Mexican by birth, and I'm making my way into being a citizen in the U .S. Mexico in general has a very difficult relationship with the United States foreign policy, and it's historically been pretty bad on the Mexican end. So inviting the U .S. military to operate in Mexico is political suicide in every single way, shape, or form you can have in Mexico. If you do that, you're dead politically, and the army knows this. You go all the way back to Pancho Villa and the Alamo, and this is not something that just happened yesterday. Yeah, but I've heard rumors of very tall people wearing federal police uniforms that didn't know how to respond in Spanish. I was around for some of those weird fuckin' events. The main issue, I think, is that Mexico is realistically free -for -all and lawless. If the United States really wanted to stop the fentanyl flow through its borders, it would probably have to set up some sort of military or naval blockade on the Pacific and the Atlantic side. I've floated this idea of actually discussing this with the guy at DOD this morning, talking about the legalities of it. You almost get to the point where you have to declare a demilitarized zone. You have to say three miles either side of this is open for military action. To your point, you've got to blockade everything from the border to the water to the airspace. We're almost back into a Tom Clancy, clear and present danger thing, where you have to declare, until they declare the cartels a terrorist organization or something that gives them an official designation to go after them. To your point, it's a political issue and it's not been handled well. The whole terrorist designation thing, it's interesting. They're in politicized every way. That's why Mexico has one of the most... They assassinate a lot of political candidates in Mexico. I think it's one of the places where it's one of the most dangerous places to be one in the world. They also go after the press a lot because members of the press report on one side or the other. They're very much politicized and they're very much in the political sphere. They hang people from bridges and the amounts of the ISIS execution videos that you would see back in the day were all realistically inspired by the Mexican ones. The cartels they were doing this year, this wasn't anything new to them, beheading people. We got so upset, and we should have, when ISIS beheaded a couple of captors. But then there'd be 10 people you'd find buried in a mass grave all had their heads taken off and it was like just another day in news reporting. The ones that really pioneered the whole projecting horrible events aspect of it was Mexico. The cartels were posting some of these execution videos before ISIS. It's been interesting to see them basically express every single element that you would consider for a terrorist organization. It's a transnational group engaging in violence for a political end. They affect elections, they affect spending, they affect... I don't know why we haven't designated them that, but then the question is even if we did, what would change? I think I know one of the reasons why that hasn't happened, and it's a political and immigration reason. As soon as you declare all these organizations a terrorist organization, everybody coming over that border, fleeing from the violence, now has a legal claim to asylum. And that is a big issue. I think that is at the core of things. It's not like it's stopping anything at this point either. I mean, it's when you look at what's coming across, it's like everybody's claiming asylum anyway. Yeah. I mean, it's a hard issue. It's a complex one. Something has to be done, and if it isn't done, something's going to be forced upon the United States to react, and I think that's where we're headed. Five years ago, I said in five years, not two years ago, I said in five years, we're going to see some sort of military intervention by the U .S. and Mexico. And with everything that's going on, I think I'm pretty well on my way to kind of be right about that. Members of Congress have talked about that. It's a bipartisan thing, so something's coming. We're heading into elections now in Mexico. And what do you think about the woman candidate? Do you think she's got a shot? There seems to be absolutely nobody in the political realm that has any sort of name behind them. I think she's going to be a sure win for these coming elections. guy The other that was running, Evrat, who was basically taken out, he had some interesting ideas about the state of security in Mexico. And I think some of these are going to be rehashed by this political candidate. He had something called the Plan Anquil for Mexico, which is basically an AI -ran, Chinese state -provided security plan that involves social credit. Social credit, here we go again. Yeah, it's social credit and surveillance and drones and you name it, basically. And he showcases video of the people that were involved in the creation of this. There's a big segment of that on the Chinese president showing up in that video. I think that's where we're headed. There's open hostility and there's an open political hostility between Mexico and the United States now. There's a lot of tension going on and China's being invited in. And you can see that in different letters of the politics in Mexico and anti -Americanism in Mexico is at an all -time high. So it's a perfect storm. Let's rewind a little bit because I want to talk a little bit more about your time on the police force now and on this experimental group. What were some of the things that you got involved in that you started... At some point you felt like you could make a difference, right? So what were the things that you were doing that you thought, hey, man, I really can make a difference. I really can impact things. What kind of operations or things were you guys doing? We would basically get information from basically a national platform of information that just got started through leadership. And our leadership was basically the military members that were working in a civilian capacity at this point, like Lezola. Since they were members of the military and they were high ranking officers, they had access to information that none of us could ever have access to. So there was a clear line of communication from the top all the way to the bottom. And we had people that we can trust, that we can work with. And we had actual secrecy within the groups once we were settled. So we'd basically be going out every night, figuring some of these target packages out. From growth sites to laboratories to people who were running some of the most sophisticated abduction and ransom operations the world had ever seen back then. To just figuring out where things were coming from and where they were going to. A lot of that work was done in cooperation with the United States. I got to work on a lot of stuff with our liaison unit. So it was basically, you could see the pace of it as soon as Lezola got involved in actually being the director of us. And getting everything lined up so we could operate, it was clear. It was work being done, it was fear being felt on the other side of the table, the people we were fighting. Our weapons changed. Before we were on, it was unheard of to see a police officer carrying around a fully automatic rifle. Or a grenade launcher for that fact. Slowly but surely he started arming us and preparing us for a war. He very much treated it as a war, or as a counter -insurgency is what he would say. He would, instead of sending us out in small groups, he would send us out in big groups and we would operate in different parts of the city during the night and we would move around. So it was an unknown where we were going to be or what was going to happen. We didn't even know where we were going to be sometimes. Some nights we would just be moved around randomly. What was your area of responsibility? Just Tijuana or the state? All of Baja. I worked outside of Baja a few times on loan, but mostly all of Baja. And Mexico, if I remember, is structured, is it 38 states or 37 states? 37 states, I think. So you've got state police forces, right? Then you've got a federal police force. So back then the federal police was basically army guys dressed in grey and they would ride in the back of our trucks. That was the federal police back then when it first got started. It eventually professionalized and they were trying to figure out, so they were trying to catch up with what we were doing basically. But back then the federal police was army guys dressed in grey in the back of the truck. So there's federal police, state police, and local municipal police. The municipal police historically and all over the country has been the issue. Because it's local police that live there, that have their families living there, and obviously it's a very easy target to go after. And since there's a lot of them, you know, it's hard to move anything in a city without them knowing. So that's who the cartels basically didn't get involved with directly. And I think you mentioned it in an interview you did, it basically boils down to right, plateau or plomo, right? These guys are living there. Yeah, Lezola had a very interesting approach to cleaning up some of those municipal institutions. He basically took, when Tijuana was very corrupt, back then it still is now, but there was a time when he cleaned it up for a bit. He would go into the police precincts and say, hey, who's in charge? This guy. Oh, cool. Obviously he's in leagues with one of the two cartels that are fighting over Tijuana. So he would send him, move him to the precinct that was being ran by the other cartel. They would switch him. So they would immediately quit and then he would put his people in, you know? It was basically the best confident exam ever. Immediately most of these people would quit the next day. This sounds like Northern Ireland, the Protestants and the Catholics, you know, you switch things up. That's an issue in Mexico. I mean, some of this corruption just goes deep and is blood related. It's historic and it's very fractured. Even within a single city, you'll see one side of the city is involved with one group and the other side is involved with the other. So politics are always, it's a game of thrones almost, a level thing. But he did a lot of, we were working daily to get things back to a sense of normal or a sense of safety. When we were, when I got started, these cartel groups would broad daylight run around the city in convoys with AKs out the window, this Tijuana. And by the time we were probably five or six years in, that didn't happen anymore. They were hiding now. So things were changing. So we did feel that things were changing. How did you make it change? I mean, what did you do to make it? Because obviously at some point there's got to be, I mean, violence is inherent in things that happen like this. But how did you, from an operational standpoint, you talk about even like an insurgency. Do you get the public to work with you on this or is this just simply your tactics and your own resources? I think the municipal police was key. Lieutenant Colonel Isaulabe specifically went after cleaning up, professionalizing and sorting out the municipal police locally and using us as a brace to hold things while that was happening. And the municipal police was disarmed for a few weeks at some point. All of the municipal police in Tijuana, their guns were taken. So all of us were basically used and the military were used as an auxiliary police force in Tijuana. I remember going out on a few responding calls and that's probably the bulk of my real community policing experience was when I was basically replacing the municipal police. So he went at things systematically and I think he was allowed to do a lot at different layers of the government, which is why he was so successful. Since he came from the federal branch of the military, he was involved directly in basically institutionalizing a professional police force at a state level with us. And then he was put in charge of the municipal police in Tijuana. So he attacked it from three layers and from three sides. And I think that's what led to his success cleaning up the city, at least for the time it was, because it's pretty much back to square one right now. Was that during the Arellano Felix days? It was at the tail end of them. Something happened to the Arellano Felix cartel, probably related to most of their members being arrested or killed. There was a fracture there. A few of their top level lieutenants basically switched sides to the Sinaloa cartel. Among them, a guy named, they used to call him the three letters El Teo. He basically formed a hyper violent Sinaloa cartel cell in Tijuana and then went to war with the remnants of the Arellano Felix cartel. That's the bulk of the violence that I saw during the time that it was initially active down there. You would see 12 people show up dead one night. You would see shootouts in the middle of the day in different parts of the city. You would see the military basically show up and be involved in some of these shootouts as well. So it was very much an urban warfare setting. With a lot of the things I saw, I think when we would go to foreign training and learn from other people, I think I remember having this moment where we were being shown some of the IRA violence that happened back in the day in Ireland. How they were fighting the military, the English basically. That very much reminded me of some of the stuff that was happening in Baja at that time. I was going to say, we had two of my friends on from New Scotland Yard, the Counterterrorism Command, and one of them was working back in the day when it was the Royal Ulster Constabulary during the troubles in Northern Ireland and some of the tactics they did. He was there. He actually responded when they blew up Lord Mountbatten and the boat that he was on. We always wondered how much cross -pollination, was there any cross -pollination between the provisional IRA and some of those folks that are ending up in Mexico to teach them techniques to resist? Bomb making in Mexico comes directly from the IRA. There's no question about it. IRA people were arrested and detained in Colombia training the FARC members. Some of those same techniques and tactics have shown up in bomb testing fields in Guadalajara and Jalisco, for example. Those homemade mortar devices, mining explosives being utilized to arm civilian drones and to disperse very poisonous chemical pesticides as part of the payload. A lot of these actually do stem from some IRA influence, so there's definitely an influence there as far as the explosives that have been found all over Mexico. We've been experiencing this renaissance of explosives all over Mexico recently. Roadside IEDs are now a thing, and the military is actually learning and preparing for them now. It's something that hadn't happened realistically. We've had car bombs before, but roadside IEDs are now being utilized in places like Michoacán, for example. Murph, when you and Javier were down there going after Pablo, how many bombs a day were going off at the peak? It wasn't unusual to have 10 or 15 per day. There was one evening when we'd been out on ops all day, we came back, we were at the base in Medellín. That night we heard 17 different bombs go off. Wow. In Mexico, there's places where these bombs are being utilized, specifically drone ones. We don't have a lot of ordnance laying around all over the place, but we do have a shit ton of mining explosives that are all over the place. Do you see them using the ammonium nitrate to blow things up also? Every now and then, specifically what they utilize is a thing called Cemex, which is basically mining -level plastic explosives. Those loads are usually made with that. It's controlled and restricted, but it's Mexico. You can't have a gun unless you're poor. If you're poor, you can't have a gun, but if you have money, you can get whatever you want here. Let's talk a little bit more, because this leads into a discussion about, you're on for a long time, but you kind of crossed, as they say, the Rubicon. There becomes a point to where you realize, hey, what I'm doing isn't making a difference anymore. There are some changes in the government, changes in the unit. What starts happening where you start seeing going, yeah, this is not something I think I can do for the next 20 years. I've got to start thinking of an exit strategy. When does that kind of thinking start happening for you? I mean, it lays all the leaves, and it leaves under very bad terms, basically. Bad terms with who? With the government. He's basically pushed out by people who think he's doing too well of a job. Two of our guys get brutally killed, and one of them came out of the academy with me. I knew his family. Great guy. What's his name? Arenas. All right. We salute him. We dedicate this to your buddy. Absolutely. He was a lawyer. He had no reason to go into the police force. He just wanted to make a difference, and he had a giant heart. He was picked up outside of the hotel we were staying at by some dudes dressed in federal police uniforms who were not federal police. And while we were all being basically concentrated in the city to find these people, he was told to step down. That was the first major blow. Was he getting too close to something or just being too effective? I think he was being too effective. He was being too effective and too broad in his approach is what I think probably happened. He was basically going after everybody, and that is not something you could do for a long period in Mexico, apparently. Did he eventually suffer an injury? He over had nine assassination attempts on his life. They tried to poison him with the fruit juice that they would put in his fridge in the office. A military convoy was cloned. They found Hummers painted exactly like the military, and they were going to ambush him in some part of the city. A friend of mine was involved in the security, and he did some legendary shit to get him out of that. Eventually, when he was the police chief of Juarez, when he was leaving that job, he got shot in the back by somebody. That cost him the use of his legs. He's in a wheelchair now. He's still smart as hell, and I'm still afraid of him as a man, but when he left, it basically gutted us. He created a very velocos, forward -driven, militarized police force with a lot of dudes running around with machine guns just ready to respond to shit. All of a sudden, we were neutered. We were told to quiet down. We were told to be less overt. We were told to go back to community policing. We were told to stand down, basically. Things started slowly changing. Politically, this to -the -right presidency left office and was replaced by a central leftist presidency that was more of the old guard of politics in Mexico, the PRI as its own. The PRI, right. They had ruled for a long time. They lost the first election, I think. Wasn't it after Vicente Fox? Didn't he lose? In the PRI, that was their last. Vicente Fox and Calderón got back to the PRI with Pena Nieto. When he came in, a lot of stuff happened. It's the amnesia effect, is what I call it. Every presidential cycle ends, and anything that worked, if it worked because it was because of the other party, fuck that. It's gone. Gee, that sounds familiar. It certainly does. It's not unique to Mexico, pal. I think what's unique to Mexico is that they will throw out everybody. I mean, it doesn't matter if you have, there's no job security. Imagine this. Every five years, you would fire everybody from the FBI and rehire everybody new. This is the level of retardation that I'm talking about. You had these institutions that were built up over the span of two presidential cycles, like the one that I belong to. They were doing the job, they were getting good at it in a lot of ways, and then a lot of the people that were fired because of the polygraph exams being failed sued the government and were hired back because that's not illegal grounds to fire anybody, even though they were on the take. You would see people that hadn't been on the force in six years, seven years, just all of a sudden just show back off the office, people that you clearly knew that were working on the other side or back. And some of these guys you had actually arrested, right? Some of them were arrested by the unit that I was in, yeah, and they were back. That's got to be a weird feeling is that you realize you were in handcuffs, you were kicked off, you were charged, and now you're back. I mean, you talk about trust issues, I mean, inherently. They were laughing in the office. The cars that were in the parking lot, I didn't earn an absurd amount of money and I basically drove the same car driving into that job as the one that left that job just for discretion purposes. But some of the absurdity you would see in those parking lots after these changes were made, it was pretty fascinating. The overt nature of the corruption was like, oh, yeah, we're not going to hide anymore. Let's just take my Hummer H2 to work. In the meantime, go check us out. Also, patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. It's where we put a lot more content you won't hear on our regular podcast. We go into a lot more topics and folks, it is a lot of fun. So go check us out. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. In the meantime, everybody stay safe. We'll see you tomorrow for part two.
Abundant Encounters
God Speaks Through Dreams Because We Have to Interpret Them
"Going to be continuing this story of Joseph in Genesis chapter 40 of the Passion Translation. This is going to be the cup bearer and the baker in their dreams. And it's just such a cool story and it's so cool to think about how God speaks spirit. You know, it's not English. It's like, I mean he speaks English too whenever he wants to, but he speaks spirit. So dreams make sense to him. He speaks through dreams because we have to interpret them. And as we interpret, he gets to make impressions and he gets to speak in that into our interpretation. so, well, this is a great story and I hope you enjoy it. Here we go. Some time later, both Pharaoh's chief steward and chief baker deeply offended their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief steward and the chief baker, so he incarcerated them in the palace of Potiphar, the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was bound. The captain of the guard placed them under Joseph's charge, and they remained in custody for some time. Then, one night, they both dreamed, the steward and the baker, officials of the king of Egypt. They each had a prophetic dream with different interpretations. When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw they looked miserable, so he asked Pharaoh's two officials who were under his custody, what's wrong? Why the sad faces? We had dreams last night, they answered, and we have no one to interpret them. Joseph said to them, God can interpret your dreams, please tell them to me. So the chief steward shared his dream with Joseph first. He said, in my dream I saw a vine with three branches in front of me. I watched as it budded, then immediately it blossomed and its clusters ripened into grapes. I was holding Pharaoh's cup, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and handed the cup to the king. Joseph said to him, God has given me the interpretation of your dream. The three branches are three days, in three days Pharaoh will pardon you and restore you to your post. You will once again hand Pharaoh's cup to him as he used to do as his steward. When things start to go well for you, remember me and please be kind and mention me to Pharaoh so that he might release me from here. For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing here to deserve being thrown into the dungeon. When the chief baker saw how favorably Joseph interpreted the dream, he said to him, let me tell you my dream. I saw three wicker bread baskets stacked on my head one above the other. In the top basket I saw all kinds of bread and pastries for Pharaoh to enjoy, but the birds came and ate out of the basket above my head. Joseph said, God has given me the interpretation of your dream. The three baskets were three days and three days Pharaoh will behead you and impale you on a pole and birds will eat the flesh of your corpse. Three days later it was Pharaoh's birthday and he threw a huge feast for all his household. He singled out among his servants the chief steward and the chief baker. He pardoned the chief steward and restored him to his post and the steward handed Pharaoh his drink. But he had the chief baker beheaded and impaled on a pole. So Joseph had accurately interpreted both their dreams. But the chief steward completely forgot about Joseph and never remembered him. That's so cool how empowered Joseph is with his relationship with God. He he is able to just come to the rescue with these guys. For some of us we've really had some tormenting dreams or confusing dreams. A lot of dreams are confusing. And um I think we've talked about before but the subconscious the unconscious the part of us that is always kind of working the autonomic part of us and all those those areas that don't necessarily get a voice in our conscious mind sometimes they have things to say and it can be helpful to personify those things. Not the things but the subconscious that way we can listen for what's the voice what's being said as a Christian we are we have access to the Holy Spirit and in that access every time we have a dream and we ask for an interpretation we can have an encounter with the spirit of wisdom the only interpretations that ever go well are the ones that come from the interpreter Holy Spirit is the interpreter between us and spirit he is a spirit but he lives and has made his home inside each of us so he serves an awesome function so when we have a dream or if we want to help a friend or something like that to analyze their dream and the first stop is the Holy Spirit watching Joseph respond to these prophetic dreams as the Passion translation calls them and they obviously end up being very prophetic about their lives but it was interesting watching him just grab a hold of this cycle God told me God has given me an interpretation for your dream
Mutually CoDopendent
A highlight from A Change of Perspectives
"Hello! Welcome to Mutually Codependent with Adam and Jen. I'm Adam. And I'm Jen. Sorry. I need to, like, just choose the same intro every time so you don't laugh at it. No, I'm laughing at my dancing I was doing. Well, that's... weird. Welcome to the show. I'm sorry. This is Mutually Codependent with Adam and Jen, and what we do is smoke and talk. Jen's gonna tell you what we're smoking. Hey guys! Our strain of the show is monkey pie, with 24 .9 % THCA and 0 .3 % Delta 9. It is under that legal limit, we're right at it, so it's legal. Yay! This is a... They're actually... It's a pre -roll, and they're available from SyntexCBD .net or in all three of our locations. Adam is lighting up now. It is a pre -roll from a company called Hip Living. And it is mostly... It's an indica -based strain. Users report feeling very giggly, very happy, but very calm. I just dropped a bunch of embers all over myself. Are you okay? Do you need to stop, drop, and roll? Are you okay? I think I'll be alright. Sorry. Sorry. I just lit this pre -roll that I lit earlier, and then all of the paper decided to just fall off of it, still on fire. Oh, that's dangerous. This strain is a cross of cherry pie, apple pie, and grease monkey. Because why not? Yeah. It has a skunky, sweet aroma, and the main terpenes are pinene and beta carofilene. Pinene is found in pine trees and pine needles, and beta carofilene is often found in things like black pepper. Often found? Always. Always found. Not often. It's often found when you look for it. Yeah, so our story of the day is monkey pie. Because if you're not looking for it, it won't be found. Exactly. So often it's maybe correct. No, it's not as wrong. It's fine. We have a great show for you today. So we were having a conversation earlier, and we wanted to kind of just... We actually put a pin in the conversation and stopped talking about it so that we could talk about it while we were recording it. And just kind of about different perspectives as your perspective changes as you get older. And then it... I don't know. We'll see where it goes. We kind of had some things that we wanted to make sure and cover. And then... Yeah, I think we got story time too. Yeah, we have some story time. Well, it's signs you're getting older. Story time. But they're stories. They're stories of us realizing that we're older. Not as young as we once were. And everybody? That's like a requirement of life, right? Well, yeah, but there are days that you go and you're like, oh... Just existing is a sign that, oh, god damn it, me being a smartass is really bad for my karma, I guess. I just dropped my whole pre -roll and burned myself. I swear these little dolls are actually me. She keeps saying they're not. What dolls? I don't have any dolls. I don't like dolls. They terrify me. Let's talk about voodoo dolls. Do you... I don't have any voodoo dolls. I know. But they don't. That's true. Do you know that when Nana died, my grandmother, my very beloved grandmother, she was one of my favorite people to ever walk across the earth. I hold her to the highest regard of people. She was one of my favorite people in my whole life. Anyway, so, to my Nana, but she, yeah, what was I talking about? I don't know. I don't either. Nana was awesome. What did that have to do with what we were talking about? I don't know. Maybe that was part of your getting older feeling, relating more and more to her, maybe? Yeah, I guess. I don't remember. That's what happens when you smoke this monkey pie. We actually, we've been smoking for a little while before the episode. We decided to smoke while we talked about what the episode was going to be, so a lot of times we start the show sober. I don't think we did that this time. No, we didn't. We'll see how that goes. So, yeah, so we just, we had a couple things, you know, just what, what? Well, it was kind of, there's a TikTok trend going on right now. That's what it was. And it's, what is something that you've, that you don't like anymore or you hate now that you're older? But we talked about how that's super negative, so, like, how our perspectives have changed as we get older. I feel like that's a much better question, like, what kind of perspectives have changed for you? Like, what do you appreciate now compared to when you were a kid? Yeah, and the obvious things that came to my mind were, like, naps, you know, like, I never understood why all these old people always wanted to make me take a nap. I love taking a nap. Is it good? I can see that. I like to nap now. Something tells me you never had to tell Ben to take a nap. Oh, yeah, you did. Really? And then he would come out two hours later and be like, I slept, and he had colored his entire body with marker. Yeah, kind of like how he stays up all night on his Switch. Yeah, so, fun fact, people with autism actually have really strange sleep schedules and have a really hard time sleeping when people should normally be sleeping. My therapist just told me that because she asked me how my sleep's been. Well, what's the solution when you're a kid that has to go to school? Give him a gummy. Oh, to get him to adjust the... The CBD, CBG, CBN ones? Because the sleepy ones. Because I gave him one, and then the next night he was like, Mom, I'm going to need another gummy. He's 12. And he said, I slept so well last night. He said every night he had those, he actually slept all night. He gets anxious in the middle of the night and starts worrying about shit, and then is awake and he can't go back to sleep. I relate to that. Yeah, I think... When he was little, he just would go, Mom, when he would wake up. Like once he was like one, about one and a half, Mom. And then if I wouldn't answer, Mommy, Mommy, Jeffer, Jeffer, and it'd be like 2 a .m. What do you want? I want to watch ammo. No, it's bedtime. Go to sleep. It is nighttime for everybody. Elmo's in bed. It's dark out. I don't know, living in Virginia, compared to here anyway, I mean, we're much further south. I feel like it's a lot more dark out in the winter. Like you would be awake until it's dark. Okay, so you would think that, right? But I swear to you that Texas is the darkest state I've ever lived in. What do you mean? I don't know. There's a kind of darkness in Texas that they didn't have in Virginia. We had street lights. There was lights everywhere. Oh, yeah. No, we're just so spread out. I know. But I remember thinking that when I moved to Virginia at 18 years old, I remember the first night I drove by myself, I was like, it's like it's five o 'clock because there's a freaking street light like every five feet. And I'm not exaggerating. On the highways, on the bridges, even in the tunnel, being in the tunnel, the Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel that goes under the water, that tunnel is so well lit. You know what that was? That was the light contractor that sold a guy on way too many fucking lights and made billions. Probably. They're like, well, my estimate says that we need to have approximately three meters of light, blah, blah, blah. Probably. For every mile, we need eight lamps or 80 lamps instead of 20 or I don't know how many lights per mile. Is that a thing? But it probably is. It probably is. It probably is a thing. And somebody in Virginia at the state level was like, we're going to require these. Yeah, because it's just not like the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. It's the entire fucking state. Like even in the mountains. It's weird. I wonder if the guidelines they created were based on somebody making some money. Oh, I guarantee it. He's like, oh, no, we're going to require one extra light post per half mile. And it sounds like a smart business person. Let's play some balls, son of a... You know, that kind of thing. Whatever. I liked the old 1930s style accent you did. Oh. Yeah? Yeah. It was cute. We're going to go to the fair. Like that. Yeah. I never understood why people talk like that. It was an actual dialect that was created and I don't remember what it was. And that and the kind of like that showcase announcer kind of, you know, welcome. Yeah. It was instead of having no accent, they created an accent to not mimic any accent. Yeah. I guess that's true. That's how it felt. Yeah. How it feels. How it feels. So, all right, but that was just the way everybody talked. No, they didn't talk like that. I know. Just on TV. You know, that's what it was, though. It was just like I... Your barber didn't fucking talk like that, let me tell you. No, they didn't. Because you had barbers back then. People have barbers now. No, but I mean, like, I don't know what I meant. I don't know what I meant there. It's fine. But we also had that realization that you don't really think about this. That children really get told what to do every single minute. Yeah, they do. They're only doing the things that they have permission to do. We have the opposite as adults. Yeah. We can do everything except what is in the laws telling us we can't. But we had very few options as a young child, and I do appreciate how I can pretty much do what I want, aside from the confines of society and all that economic struggle and stuff. But I can choose to do pretty much what I want, but that's based on specific laws of no. Whereas a child is just like, I guess I'll do this right now, because that's the only one thing I'm allowed to do right now. That's a big difference, and I wonder at what age do you think that that starts to change? That they start to realize that? No, that we start to actually start making decisions about our time spent. You were much younger than I think most people because you just did whatever the fuck you wanted. Who, me? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where is Jin? She's three miles away. We just got a phone call from the church. I'm making up that story, but it's plausible. Oh, we'll get to me in a minute. yeah, So, I think as soon as you start to have free time, like this concept of free time. But free time really only meant one of five things that you could do, like you could pick up a book or you could go do this, I mean, in a structured environment like preschool or whatever. Yeah. I think about me being home with my mom when I was little. Like I definitely had a schedule that she made me go by. Like I had to get up and have breakfast. I was always the first one awake with my dad anyways, like 5 a .m., but, you know, she would wake me up and I'd be awake, I'd get dressed, we'd take Aaron to school, we'd come home if we didn't have to run to the grocery store or something. And then, you know, usually I'd watch Wizard of Oz or Gremlins, and then I would take a nap, have lunch, take a nap, and then I'd get up and I'd use... Or if I didn't watch TV, I'd go play in my room or I'd play outside. Like, I guess I had the freedom to do as I pleased in between like school time, taking Aaron to school, getting home and taking Aaron to school, and go and take and eat lunch. What age is this? Three, four. Jesus. I couldn't tell you my daily schedule as a three -year -old. What do you mean they didn't know you had autism? No. They didn't! I'm just kidding. I'm sorry if that offends anybody with autism. I'm looking back, like, how did they... I had to have that schedule. Like, there was something. There was something really wrong with her. That they should have understood that this person is different, and we should probably, you know, seek out, look for some help in this panhandle Florida town. So do you want me to talk about what I appreciate now as an adult? Yeah. Yeah, what are we doing? I really appreciate myself. So I know that kind of sounds like super conceited, but like we were just talking about, I was a weird little kid. I had a lot of imaginary friends. I had a treehouse that my dad built me where I had a swing up. You had to walk up a ladder, and I had a swing up there and a table. I would spend hours up there alone. I caught snakes as a kid and chased people with them. I would find dead animals in our... We had like an acre where our house was, and I would find dead animals sometimes and give them funerals. And I was very young doing all this stuff, four or five years old, even younger. There's no way I had that kind of freedom as a four -year -old. I had so much freedom, and I think it was because I was so different. My mom was like, I don't know what the fuck to do with her. Yeah. Well, that's fair. But I did have a schedule as a kid. I remember it very clearly that I would wake up at like 5 a .m. My dad and I would have some coffee together, and then, yes, I would drink coffee as a little kid. It was mostly milk and sugar. And then I would have... Still how she takes it. Yeah. I would have breakfast with Aaron, and then my mom and I would take them to school. We'd come home. I'd do whatever for a few hours before I had a tuna fish sandwich. I ate the same thing every day as a child for lunch. A touch of the tis of... With Cool Ranch Doritos. Still to this day, Cool Ranch Doritos. The sandwich changed. It's ham and cheese. Or bologna. I like tuna salad, though. Well, yeah, of course. With Doritos on it. And then I would take a nap. And then I would wake up, repeat, and then have dinner. I would put myself to bed at like 9, 10 months old. I learned how to crawl and get into my crib so I could put myself to bed. You were just creating some boundaries for yourself that early. You were like, yeah, no, it's bedtime. I got tired when my parents would have people over. My mom said that they would... My grandmother would... My nana would put me down, or my aunt Julie, or whoever had me, or my dad, to play. And 10 minutes later, they'd turn around, and I'd be crawling down our hallway to go to my room to try to get into my crib to go to bed, because I was done with people. Yeah, that's probably what it was. It was. You were overstimulated. Absolutely was done. And looking back on it, you were overstimulated, and you were removing yourself from the situation. I gotta go recharge my batteries. Yeah, there's a Christmas video of me in 1988, and there's a point in it where... So you're four. Yeah, my aunt comes for Christmas morning, my aunt Julie, I love her so much. She's pretty awesome. But she gives me my presents, and I loved getting stuff from aunt Julie, because she still does have fabulous style. So when I was little, even that young, I knew clothes from aunt Julie were going to be super cool. I was going to be excited to wear them. So I go to open it, and it was like a play makeup set. And I slap it in the video, and I turn to my mom, and I was like, you lied. You said this was going to be close. And that time, my uncle Jimmy, my cousin Morgan's dad, he comes over, and he says, Jenny, here's your other two presents. And it was close. Oh, God. But it was because of that change. I was expecting something, and I didn't know how to handle the change. Yeah, and most kids are just excited to get a present, but you had already thought about this present, and what it was going to be, and how it was going to work out with your other presents. Yes. We just recently started watching South Park, and I'm reminded of the episode in season one, or maybe two, one. We're still on episode one, I think. We're in season two. Oh, we are? Okay, well, Cartman's birthday party, and he chose what gifts everybody was going to give him. Was going to get him. And I wonder if Cartman is less of an asshole and more of a tism. I think he is a lot of tism. Well, I don't know if it was written that way, but - Right? That was me as a kid. I would say at church, I would ask questions like, you just said that we're supposed to love everybody. God loves everybody, but we're not supposed to like gay people. Like I had questions that doesn't... That to somebody who is years more intelligent emotionally than that adult already thought of. That's how I see it now, is I had more emotional intelligence at four and five years old than this 30 year old man teaching us. And so like, no, that's not it. And you know, I'd get in trouble and I'd have to go sit in the fucking corner because I asked an improper question. Yeah, but if Jesus loves everyone, wouldn't he love everyone? And when they say, love your neighbor, wouldn't they mean - All your neighbors. All of your neighbors? Yeah. Hate is taught. It is taught.
The HUMAN Training
Surviving Covid and Chaos: Looking Back at the Early Days of K9 Culture
"August 1st, 2020, so right in the middle of the pandemic and that was the good old days of... Not the good old days, the days of quarantine in a lot of places, everyone's wearing a mask. Should you wear a mask? Should you wear three masks? Should you wear 72 masks? Oh my God. Six feet away from people. How many boosters should you have? I mean, it was just chaotic. Nobody knew. No, we didn't have shots then. No, there was no shots. We're not going to talk about that. But you had to be six feet away from everyone, which is really nice because the leash is six feet long, so that was awesome. So yeah, we opened up. It was just Laura and I for that first month in our facility here. We did not... God, do you remember? We didn't even turn the lights on in the back three quarters of the building because why? Why do we even need to go back there? It's just the two of us. And so that was the first year, and it was August 1st. We didn't really do boarding trains for a while. We tried to discourage them because we didn't have kennels at that point because when you order kennels, they're usually a six -week lead time, but because of COVID, it was a four to six -month lead time. I mean, everything's lead time was just ridiculous because everyone nationwide, worldwide was not working, working from home, whatever. And just general trial and error, like we did cinder block kennels first. Yeah. So we had to build some cinder block kennels. So we had some. And then once we did have a couple of boarding dogs, once those first initial dozen kennels were built, then we had the ability to board. I guess we always do. So someone's probably listening, well, why didn't you just put the dogs in the crates? We did. We But it's not what we like to do. I don't like dogs sleeping in crates all the time. I don't know. I just, because if they're not training, they're in a crate, and then if they're sleeping in a crate, I don't know. I just. But we did have crates. Yeah. Julie's office was the first kennel room. Yeah. Your office was the kennel room, air quote. Oh, God. I don't even think we had a break room. No. The first couple months. And then the break room we slept in. Yeah. Well, first we slept in Wyatt's office. That room was. A noise. Wasn't too dark. No, it didn't. No, we slept. The first time we slept in the grooming room, but there's ticking because right by the grooming room is. The fire suppression, fire alarm system constantly beeps during the day. You don't notice it that much. But when it's. At two o 'clock in the morning, when there's not a sound anywhere, like what the hell is that noise? So yeah, we made it one night in the kennel room, which is, or excuse me, the grooming room. It wasn't the grooming room at that time. It was just a room. Then we went over to Wyatt's. And then we moved to Wyatt's. Oh, I remember why we only made it one night in Wyatt's office. The way it's laid out, it was too small. You know, you try to get out of the air mattress to the left or to the right, and you're up against the desk or a wall, and I thought, no, this is crazy. we So then moved to the break room, but it wasn't the break room. It wasn't the break room. And Wyatt's office wasn't Wyatt's office either. It was just a room. When the people left this building, they left all the furniture. It was full of crap. Yeah, because they went out of business and refrigerators and they went out of business before COVID. They haven't paid their rent in like a year. Yeah. So there was like a whole bunch of crap here. It was an indoor soccer center facility before. Yeah. We sold all of it. Yeah. Facebook. That was one of my jobs. Facebook marketplace. Just getting rid of all the soccer stuff that was left. We had couches here. We had chairs. Cheers. Scoreboards, goals. Cooking. Soccer balls. Cooking because they had this little bar here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They had that. Freezers. It was interesting. Who was our third person we hired? So the next one that came on was Wyatt. Wyatt! Wyatt came out at the end of August. Still paint the walls. And then a week later. Oh, I forgot about that. We finished. Yeah. We were still paper walls. Wyatt's little baby. Wasn't the baby's two? Make it look like a dog. Alex's like two. Maybe one. He was here riding around doing stuff while we were painting everything. My mom even came and helped paint it. She was 70 years old. It was pretty cool. Yeah. It was cool. I felt bad. We worked her to death. Yeah. We took netting down. It was a lot of work. The building's 47 ,000 square feet, so there's a lot of netting that has to come down. Scoreboards, goalies. Windows to clean. Oh my God. All glass walls. So all of our training fields, they're surrounded by eight feet tall human shatterproof glass. Well there's soccer prints, hand prints, human prints. Head print prints. I mean any print you can think of on both sides of those windows. I know for a fact I spent a whole entire eight hour day cleaning windows and it wasn't even half that. Not even. And then when we got that one with one side we went, oh shit. Now we got to go on the inside and do it. We're not dead. We're only halfway done. And you can't see the smudges until unless you're on the other side of the glass, so you could clean it but not miss parts. It took a long time. And then light bulbs, we replaced over, I can't really count, I know it was over $5 ,000 in the first two months of light bulbs. Oh my God. That's how many light bulbs they had lit. And in the middle of doing this, we're training dogs because Charles sold a few dogs the first week we opened. Right. The first week we opened and they knew they were our first. In fact, those first two dogs, Laney, she was just here boarding last week and that was three years ago and we were just all joking with the owner. I remember when he came in, it was just the two of you. And then Hank. And then Hank after her. Hank. They're both two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've trained. So right off the bat, to this day, they're still two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've had. And they both ended up liking dogs.
The Plant Movement Podcast
Humane Iguana Control Shares a Crazy Bedroom Invasion Story
"So what is one of the craziest stories that you can tell us in regards to catching one of these animals? All right. So one night we were servicing a house in Coral Gables. I think Gables Estates it was. I got a phone call like 11 o 'clock at night. He's like, Hey, you guys remove iguanas? I'm like, yeah, yeah. He's like, I need you to come right now. There's no one at my house. You know, I need to get out right now. I don't know what to do. It's in my kid's bedroom and my kid's bed. How did that happen? So I go, listen, we could be there right away. Where are you? She's like, well, we're in Pinecrest. I'm like, oh, I'm like 10 minutes away from you. You know, we could be there in 10 minutes. Come take them out. We'll be 10 minutes. Send me your address. So we went over there, you know, she's like, it's over there in that room. It's in there. Just looking at us. She's freaking out. She's freaking out. Imagine. And it's a kid's room and iguana. So we walk in, we always walk in super sketchy, you know, like we don't know what's going to happen. No, we don't know. It's, you know, like, you know, jump on us, but we don't know where it's at. And we don't want to scare it off to a harder position that we can't catch it. Exactly. So we were in the room for like 10 minutes to look and we couldn't find like, Mom, you sure it's in here? She's like, yeah, like, I don't see it. Let me look again. So we look around and we look at the top of his bed and it was right over his pillow. He has this pillow said comfort that was all different colors. So it's camouflage, of course, into that. So the head was just sticking out behind the backboard of the bed and just looking at us. I'm like, look at where he is at. All right. So we just, we went carefully away, you know, with our grabbers, you know, we go with our grabbers because they have a better chance of grabbing him. What's a grabber? A grabber is like a long extension that has, you know, kind of like, like to pick up garbage a lot more. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. The same thing, you know, so it gives us an advantage, you know, to like, get closer because if we get too close ourselves, they want you to run off. So we went up to him, we grabbed them and then we took them out. That's crazy. How big was that one? That was about, it was about two feet with tail and everything about two feet. Yeah, but think about it. That's scary for, for her and her kid, you know, I'm sure they were devastated. Imagine the kid would have went to lay down and how are you? Good morning. Well, nothing would happen because they don't attack. They don't attack humans. No, no, they're not really known to attack. They're more to flee than anything else, you know, but if they get cornered, if a bigger, if a larger one gets cornered, he will try and tail whip you because he needs to defend himself. Which is, which is normal. Exactly. Like when I grab him, he wants to bite me, scratch me with me because if I grab you with him, like you want to bite me, scratch me with me. They have teeth that can penetrate skin. Oh, definitely. Yeah. They have these sharp little razor teeth that's made to like, you know, just cut leaves. If you think about a leaf and it's just a sharp, clean cut, you know, so there's your skin, you know, and that's another thing. People don't know that when they want his poop, their tail drags along that poop. Oh yeah. So when you go grab the, you want to buy a tail, you gotta make sure you clean your hands, you know, because then you get some little poison like that as well. That's very
Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Ceo making a great prophet on them and bought me other goods in gas of the growth and fashion of the island city Were about to stop on their homeward voyage. I m boxing Ship all says and going into the king thanked him for others favoritism friendship and craved his leave to return to my own land and friends. He farewelled me and bestowed on me. Great store of the country stuff and produce and i took leave of him and embarked that we set sail on federal nights. Sundays by the permission of allow almighty and fortune served us and faked favored us so that we arrived in safety at bustle city where a landed. Rejoice that my safe return to my nato soil. After a short stay. I sat out for baghdad. The house of peace which door of commodity great price reaching the cetane. You time i went straight to my own quarter and entered my house. Where all my friends and kinsfolk came to greet me. That i bought me unix concubines. Servants a negro slaves still. I had allowed establishment. And i brought me houses and lands and gardens till i was richer and in better case than before return to enjoy the society of my friends familias more seriously than the forgetting all had suffered of fatigue in hardship in strange shoot every peril of travel and i applied myself to all manner of joyce and solace and delights eating thanks to lines and drinking delicious wines and my wife the loudest state of things to enjoy all. This is the story of my first voyage. And tomorrow in shallower. I will tell you. The tail of the second of my seven. Voyages safety metallised detail then. Symbol the seamen made symbol landsman suck with him and bank. Give him one hundred gold pieces saying that. Was chad us with i company these day the porta phantom and taking the gift went his way pondering that which he had had an mosley mightily at what thinks betide mankind pasta night in his own place and without morning repent abode of simba the seaman. Who received him with obama and seated him by side as soon as the rest of the company was assembled he certainly and drink before them when they had well eaten drunken and when mary and in chessel case he took his discourse and recounted to them in these woods the narrative of the second voyage. Of simba the semen..
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"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
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Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"John and going into him him with my story then sent for me before him and salam's had been exchanged. It gave me a cold. You welcome and wish me long life and made me tell him my tail. So i related to him. All that i had seen an all the tub before me from first to last where t mobile and said to me by allah on my son Been miraculously preserved when of the term life along one that has not escaped from these straits but priced allah of safety than he spoke charity to me at intrigue me with kindness and consideration. He made me agent for the colt registered for all ships. That entered the harbour. I attended him regularly to receive his commandments and he favored me. And did we all manner of kindness and invested me with custody and splendid robes. Indeed i was hiring credits with him as an emphasis of the folk an intermediary between them and him when they wanted to him. I bought the great wildland as often as i passed the city to the colt at questioned the merchants and travellers and sailors of the city of baghdad so happily might have an occasion to return to my native land but could find none who knew it anew. Any resulted the at this I was wary of long strange. Should and my disappointment enjoyed for time till one day going into king metal. John i found him with a company of indians i salute to them and they returned. My salaam politely. Welcomed me and ask me of my country and sheherazade perceived dawn of day and ceased saying permitted. Say when it was two five hundred forty four night she continued. It has reached me. Our species king that simba. The semen said when they asked me. Oh my country. I questioned the and. They told me that they were various. Custody some being called chuck idia who are the noblest of their costs and neither oppress nor offer violence to any and others brahmins a folk who abstain from wine but living delight in solace in management and own. Camels and horses and cattle moreover. They told me that. The people of india a divided into an seventy cost model that this exceeding model amongst other things that i saw in king mid john's dominions wasn't island cold when all night is had the beating of drums and tablets what we were told by the neighboring islanders and by travelers that the inhabitants of people of diligence and judgment in the i also fish two hundred cubic slum and the fishermen ferret so they striped together pieces of wood and put it to flight also another fish with the headline adam and al besides many other oneness environs which it would be tedious to recount. I occupied myself. Thus in visiting the islands tale one day aside student the boat with a stop in my hand coding to.
Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Gear and save yourself from destruction allah. Perserve you for this thailand. Where on eastern is now true island but a great fish. Stationary a middle. Most of the see where on the sand has settled and trees have sprung up of all time so that become like unto an island but when he liked it fires on it it felt the heat and moved and in a moment it will sink you into the sea. Newell drought so leave your gear and seek safety at you die and chartered perceived dawn of day in saying Say when it was five hundred and thirty nine night. She said it had reached me. I was bishop king that when the ship most cried to the passengers leave your gan. Seek safety or you die. All liu heard him left gear and goods close washed on worst five bucks brass cooking And fled back to the ship for their lives and some reached while others. among whom was. I did not. Suddenly the islands shook and sank into the business of the deep with all that weather on the dashing see surged over it with crashing waves. I sank down into the deep. But almighty allah served me from drowning in three in my way. Great wooden top of those that had served ships company for dubbing. I gripped it for the sweetness of life and is striding it like one writing huddled with my feet like all whilst the waves tossed me as in sports right and left. Meanwhile the captain made sale in the partnered with those reached ship regardless of the drowning in the drowned. And i see not following the vessel with my eyes till she was hit from site. And i made sure of this. Doctors closed in upon me while in this plight and the winds and waves bore me on all that night and the next day to letaba brought to with on the delivery of lofty island. We'd trees overhanging the tide. I caught hold of a branch and bites aid clambered of onto the land of the coming ni- upon death. But when i reached a show i found my legs cramped annulment and my feet.
Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Symbol that the semen and simba the landsman that lived in the city of baghdad during the reign of the commander of the faithful. How ruin oliver. She'd a man named simba the himal one in poor case burdens on his head for higher. It happened to him. One day of a great heat that whilst he was carrying a heavy load he became exceeding wary and sweated profusely the heat and await alike oppressing him presently as he was passing the gate of a merchant's house before which the ground was swept and watered and they're the air was temporary decided abroad bench beside the door so we started slow there to take rest and smell there and shot also perceived donut day and ceased saying admitted say wanted was to five hundred and thirty seven nine. She said it has reached me. Oh auspicious king that when the amal set his load on the bench to take rest and smell the air that came out upon him from the corridor. A pleasant breeze delicious fragrance. He sat down on the edge of the bench and at once heard from within. The melodious sowed loops and other stringed instruments and math. Exciting voices singing and reciting together with the song of birds wobbling and glorifying almighty allah in various tunes and tongues turtles. Mockingbird melles nightingales. Courgettes and stone lives where at t modeled in himself and will smooth to mike to join us then. He went up to the gate and so within a great flower garden wearing were pages and black slaves and such a train of servants and attendance and so forth as his found only with kings and sultans and his nostrils were greeted with a savory odors of all mankind meets rich and elegant and delicious and generous wines so he raced his eyes heavenwards and said glory to the overlord creator and provide who provides tomb so thou wilt without count assistant. Oh mine holy one. I cry the pod for all saints and turned to the repenting of all offenses own. Lord there is no gain saying the line ordinance and dominion neither thou be questioned of that thou dust for the indeed over all things ought almighty extolled. B perfection whom thou thou makes poll in whom thou without make stritch whom thou wilt thou cultist in whom thou basis and there is no god. But the how how mighty stein majesty. And how enduring the dominion and how excellent di- government verily thi- favors to doubt will device servants whereby the owner of this place a bid in all joy in of life and elected himself with a pleasant sense delicious meats an exquisite winds of all kind foreign the dow appointed unto the creatures that which thou wilt and that which has foreordained unto them wherefore some wary and others are addressed in some enjoy fair fortune and affluence whilst others suffered extreme of trailing mystery. Even as i do and he fell to reciting khomeini by my latest evermore joel all good sublime.
Now Try This
"one night" Discussed on Now Try This
"Everyone to get. But i thought malcolm x. heart right not so hard for so many different reasons one because he was such a polarizing didactic figure in history another reason because spike lee made the film you know. Yeah about malcolm x. But but malcolm x. in this movie is so different that any malcolm x. You would ever seen any other film. Because they're all the other ones speeches. Demagoguing are the you know the brimstone things moments in the other biographies gap. But this is you see malcolm x. Paranoid you see malcolm x. Learning out about his camera. You see malcolm x. Like not the most powerful figure in the room and that is wild. It's so different. And i think kingsley brought an air genuineness and kindness to him that we never get to see from malcolm yet father. Yeah now malcolm x. Is like a powerful figure. You see him and you think wow that is that is a person who commands a room you know and i feel like in this movie. Miss many times where he is trying to any can't And i i liked it. I like that more personable. Version of malcolm x. he is king shots kingsley. Shot to the show hi fidelity of very good show. Pretend future challenge for nick. The he's was also on plays the love interest. He he he. I was watching an interview. And that's how we got a set card on that show. Yeah basically got cancelled. So that's why there's hesitation with giving it to you because i could give it to you anytime i it's a very good show and hopefully gets cancelled at some point by some streaming service shirt so i think i think very interestingly malcolm x. has i mean i don't think it's i think it's very it's it's he has the obvious stance batta is like we have to do all we can. He his biggest point in this film as we must do everything we can to do to further civil rights to further what we can do for our brothers and sisters. You know so much so that it's alienating. Aubrey want around him. And i think one of the most poignant moments not i think there's more point moments about race and about his but i think the point is.
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"one night" Discussed on Now Try This
"Happened. So at the hamilton house. When muhammad ali won the heavyweight world champion of when he was previously cassius. Clay was friends with malcolm x. -cause. He was just joining the nation of islam with sam cooke with jim brown. They all went to the hamilton house. Which was famously away from the venue. Because black people were allowed there. They weren't allowed closer to the venue. It was a room that malcolm x. All the time and they went there and the four of them spent than the day the night talking and this really happened. They really were all there. While everything's traumatized. All the words are made up the four figures really that that amount of power won the heavyweight championship. Really all win in that room in really or friends and this is just an imagining of what those conversations with men like. This could maybe be. Yeah yeah which is which is really interesting to see something in history that has happened and be like i wonder what they talk about and then go and write it out you know kemp powers wrote the play eight years ago and he also wrote the screenplay for the movie and if you don't know the name he also just co directed and co wrote soul so he's having a very good year. Oh that's awesome. Yeah he is really interesting because when the movie starts off it felt like a play. And that's hard. That doesn't make sense right. If i say something feels like a play you understand with an means because you've seen plenty of place but i'm sure there's a lot of people out there don't know what that necessarily means but to me that's what it means that. It is a it slow with pacing and also intimate intimate gray way of saying it. Yeah and and it's also very conversational. It's written in a different pattern. Been movies typically are so immediately starts off. And i was like is this. This feels like a play. And that's fine but the pacing was a little slow for me in the beginning of the bill. And then you get in the room they get the conversations going the movie picked up and it's hard to take your eyes away scrape. Yeah but i think regina king this is her first feature film directed other things before like tv and things and she's obviously oscar winning actress. She's amazing. I think she does do things to help elevated a bit but i think she all very much on purpose. Didn't wanna lose that intimacy right. Because i think intimacy for the things that are talking about is why even do it right yeah. It's hard to busy of being able to get into the room with these people. I think she filmed it as as much as you could. Without losing that flavor because like at the beginning right she does a really good job of. I think if we just want to start there the introduction to the format i think the introductions were really good and it shows each one of them in a different light starting off with cassius clay fighting someone before he got his world championship fight yet. Get to see mohammad-ali prior to the legend as a young twenty two year old kid you know rope dope and people and you know boxing it up. You see sam cooke bombing at the copa cabana for all the white people you see jim brown getting Shed on by a white person. Then you see malcolm x. At home so there are these moments that do get away from what a play would be. But then but you're right but then as soon as all those instructions happen and once it gets like done with a pacing very much feels like a play with the dialogue in this quickened narrow type of type of words if feels like it feels like the movie doesn't have anything to contend with except for the words and that's on purpose because on a play that is all you have right..
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"one night" Discussed on Now Try This
"I love de k. Why donkey kong. I do well if it was best. Godzilla kick some tanning. It was congress. Godzilla i'd go. I dot com short king and answer the question for me answer this question. Sure i got you got seller or king kong closer to dot com john. Closer got scottsdale. It got sal god salad piece of shit or the king of kings closer to donkey kong. I like to think they're cousins which weights. What was the question about it. There's donkey goes cranky cranky. Kong this dixie. Kong king kong is like king is donkey kong's cousin or something Okay i get that. I think it'd be related. I think. Boy i love you. Know godzilla eight. What does cuts other people got those booking bowl baby. That's all come through and buck your wife immediately. But that's shit. This is a guy who clicked on one nine. Podcast wanted here one nine miami. Marcus yeah what is you know about this phone before i give it to you. I knew that it was a movie that was about very important figures in the civil rights movement. Having a night together i knew. Now you gotta ask me. why give it to. That's what i was doing. I just got called a godzilla. Simpson the chat. And i got distracting to i am godzilla sim because i relate. Big boys gotta stick together. Nah everyone everyone of the chats goes agrees with me convoys. We're convoy Okay if you want us to review. King kong going to patriotic suggestion. Just wanted to. Also you didn't want to leave all the plugging work to you know please. My shoulders hurt from all this lifting evidence. Why did you give me this movie margus. So every time oscar season comes around. I always try to like short chain short. Shortlist that that i want to see. Make sure before they awards. I don't love like the awards show. But but as an act of the concede of awarding people for their good work. It's something i've always just loved and this was on my radar but honestly it was lower on my list. Oh because we just went through the black lives matter movement were still in. The thick of things are more real everyday than they've ever been. And i can only take that in cinema so much so i watched judas and the black messiah i would. I also very much left. Yeah harder watch very real very point in a very powerful. And i only watched this movie because honestly i just had nothing else to watch. I wanted to watch promising young woman. I wanted to watch these all. These other oscar like easy accessible and i was like. Oh this one's amazon. Let me turn this one on..
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"one night" Discussed on Now Try This
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"one night" Discussed on Now Try This
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Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Cough the third. Shake the master of the ma'am you'll to the jimmy. I can tell the atoll more one just than these two. So thou grant me the remainder of his blood and his offense the soapy it. The nail man began the third story. Now assaulted and head of the jan that this mill was my wife. Now it so happened that i went forth and was absent one year and when i return to my journey i came to her by night and so a black slave lying with her on the carpet bad and they were talking and dallying and laughing and kissing and playing the close but at game when she saw me she rose came hurriedly at me with a of water and monitoring spells over it she be sprinkled me and said come forth from this shape into the shape of a dog and i became the instant a dog. She drove me out of the house. And i ran through the doorway northeast running until i came to put just stole where i stopped and began to eat. What bones were there when the stall owner saw me. He told me and let me into his house. But as soon as his daughter had sought of me she filed her face from me crying out the style bringme into me and dust thou come in with them to me. Father asked where is the man and she answered. They stogies a man whom his wife half an sauce old. I am able to release him when her father heard her words. He said allah upon the on. My daughter released him so she took a goblet of water and austria. Altering words over it sprinkled upon me a few drops saying come forth from that form until i former form and i returned to my natural shape then i kissed her hand and said i wish that would transform my wife even as she transformed me. Thereupon she gave me some water saying the soon as thou see her asleep sprinkle this liquid upon her and speak what words thou hardest meter. So shall she become whatsoever thou desirous. I went to my wife and found her fast asleep. And while sprinkling the water upon her. I said come forth from that form into the form of a mammal so she became on the instant. Ashim you'll and she. It is who now ceased with an iso sultan and head of the kings of the jan. Then the genie turned towards her. And said is the suth and she nodded her head replied by signs in. Data's the truth for such is my tail. This is what has befallen me now. When the old man had ceased speaking the ginny shook with pleasure and gave him the third of the merchants plant and shattered perceived the dawn of the day and ceased saying have permitted. Say then. cough dunya zahn. Oh my sister. How pleasant is thi- tail. And how tasteful. How sweet and how grateful she replied..
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"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Costs the ginny. This story is indeed strange and therefore gronzy the third part of his blood. Thereupon the second old man who owns a two greyhounds came up and said oh janie if our recount to the what befell me from my brothers these two hands and thus sees tisza even more wondrous marvellous than what the has heard without grant me also the third of this man's blood replied the ginny thou house my word for it if line adventures be more marvelous and wondrous. Thereupon he thus began the second shakes story. No lord of the kings of the jan that these two dolts and my brothers and i am the third now when our father died left us a capital of three thousand gold pieces. I opened a shop with my share and bought and sold therein and the night guys did my two brothers each setting up shop but i had been in business now long. While before the elder celtics stop for thousand dinars and after buying outfit and merchandise when his ways to foreign patents he was absent one whole year with the caravan but one day as i sat in my shall behold a beggar stood before me asking arms and i said to him la open the door whereupon he answered weeping the weil. Am i so changed now. No east not then. I looked at him narrowly and low. It was my brother. So i rose to him and welcome him then. Ict team in my shop and put questions concerning his case. Ask me not uncertainty. My wealth is a waste and my state hath waxed unstated. So i took him to the ham bath and clad him in the suit of my own and gave him lodging in house. Moreover after looking over the accounts of my stock in trade and the prophets of my business. I found that he had guide me. One thousand dinars. One my principle. The head of my wealth amounted to two thousand so i shared the whole with him saying assume that thou has made no journey abroad but history mind at home and be not cast down by thine ill luck. He took the share in great glee and open for himself. A shop and mattis went on quietly for a few nights and days but presently my second brother yawn dog also setting hit out upon travel sold off what goods in stock in trade. He had and albeit. We tried to stay him. He would not be stayed. He laid in outfit for the journey in fared fourth with the way fares. After an absence of a whole year he came back to me. Even as my elder brother had come back and when i said to him oh my brother. Did i not dissuade different from travel. He shed tears and cried. Oh my brother this speed destiny's decree here. I am a mere beggar penniless. And without a show to my back. So i let him to the bath. Oh jin and clothing him in new clothes of my own. Where i went with him to my shop and serve him with meat and drink..
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"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"With exceeding marvel and hardly made sure that they had doomed. Before i came to tell the when i heard ginny my herdsmen's words i went out with him and i was drunken without wine from the excessive join gladness which came upon me until i reached his house their his daughter welcomed me and kissed my hand force with the cough came and formed upon me as before qualify to the hudson's daughter. Is this true that the house as of this cough cost she gay. Oh my monster. He is the son. The very core of their heart are rejoiced and said to her own. Maiden if thou would release him sign shelby would have katelyn. Property of mine are underway father's hand. She smiled answered. Oh my master. I have agreed for the goods nor will take them save on two conditions. The first that thou mary me today son and the second that i may be which her who bewitched him and imprison her otherwise. I cannot be safe from her malice malpractices now when i heard ginny these. The words of the herdsmen's daughter are replied beside. What's our ask. All the cattle in the household staff in my father's charge assign and as for the daughter of my uncle. How blood is lawful to see when i had spoken. She took a cup and filled with water. Then she recited to spell over it and sprinkled on the coff- saying if almighty allah created the cough remain so shaped and change not but if being shotted returned to their will form by command of allah most highest and low he trembled and became a man. Then i fell on his neck and said allah upon the. Tell me all that. The daughter of my uncle did by z and by mother and when he told me what had come to pass between them. I said oh my son. All our favorite theme was one to restore the and i write hus- returned to the then ginny. I married the huntsman's daughter to him. And she transformed my wife into this gazelle saying how shape is commonly by no means loathsome after this report with us night and day day and night till the almighty took her to himself when she deceased son fed forced to the cities of hind. Even to the city of this man who has done to the what has been done and i also took this gazelle my cousin and wondered with her from town. To town seeking tidings of my son 'til destiny drove me to this place whereas all the mutton sitting in tears such as my tail.
The Nix
"one night" Discussed on The Nix
"When did you think so. Just said note for both these movies. I think we're going to go full spoilers. Because he's are sort of real life events Yeah so we feel less worried. About spoiling sports spoiling them spoiling them work. Yeah i kind of had the same reaction. I i watched a bunch of black panther stuff last year like those an amazing documentary. I think there's one about the panthers specifically what about friend hampton. It is a crazy story especially considering. I think how. They've been framed in so many ways. Like i pop culture machination. It's like oh they were dangerous but you know on the maybe on the right side of history and clearly they were mostly on that history and that's often dis- dangerous to people that are not on the right side history so i. I liked the way that this movie was clearly just grounded in their viewpoint. I feel like we have not seen a lot of that. I mean i feel like we should have way more movies about all of this era and all of the various characters players in this absolutely and i think the keith stanfield really i was reading the other day that he like when a little crazy making this movie like it was really hard for him to come back for making because he plays the ultimate judas like he is really betraying kind of things that really believed in. Yeah i mean as an actor. Here's where i think. The movie failed for me. A little bit is you. Don't get a sense of enough of his character of the real guy. I forget his name but history doesn't care about him that's fine but it's like you know ultimately he didn't care about him. Yeah you don't really get a sense of like This guy was and what made him tick like his. I feel like stanfield. Performance really brings out the conflicted feeling of okay. I'm a little bit intrigued violence. And i understand why it would help me as somebody who's basically resorting to shitty crimes or whatever and shaking down gangs and a fake fbi badge. But it's sort of like. I don't know the transition i feel a little letdown a screenplay of like who is this guy right. That's an interesting story. Because i understand. Why shocker kings latched onto it. It's sort of like the ultimate sort of judas story. But i don't know i just i don't know i almost rather seen more about fred hampton which i think has been really celebrated in now man ole stuff i mean i knew fred hampton was. I mean we grew up in oakland. Black panther lor is. It's taught you know it's like one of the few places where you know we had malcolm x. Elementary school we were taught. The history of you know true. Black history of of true leaders. Even though the rest of the united states wouldn't necessarily call them. That was but i was maybe my teachers to win it..
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"one night" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Trying to get out every day off because somebody calls the same the free. We're running the streets. We're running a stop light. High and michael fight nights by prime expert. The.
Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
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Harvard Classics
"one night" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Sat him up on his throne and sending through the chief minister. The father of the two damsels who in shalah will presently be mentioned. He said i come on the to take my wife and smile at a death for. She has broken her plight and her face so he carried her to the place of execution and did her die. Thinking sharia took brand in hand and repairing to the seraglio slew all the concubines into the mamelukes. You'll so swear himself. Five binding oath that whatever wife he married he would beat her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning to make sure if his honor for said he there never was nor is there one chased woman upon face of earth then zaman prayed for permission to fair homewards and he went forth equipped and distorted and traveled to. He reached his own country. Meanwhile shari outcome on his ear to bring him the bride of the night that he might go into her so he produced most beautiful girl. The daughter of one of the and the king went in onto her at even tide and when morning dawn. You bad his minister strike of her head and the wiser did accordingly for salton on this wise. He continued for the space of three years marrying a maiden every night and killing her the next morning till folk raise an outcry against him and cursed him praying allah utterly to destroy him and his rule and women made it up for mother's wet and parents fled with their daughters to let remind not in the city. Young person fit for carnal copulation. Presently the king ordered his chief wazir the same who's charged with the executions to bring him a virgin as his won't and the minister went forth and searched and found none so he returned home in sorrow anxiety fearing for his life from the king. Now he had two daughters showers ad and donated height of whom the elder had perused the books adults legends of preceding kings and the stories examples and inside of bygone men and things indeed. It was said that she had collected thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the pilots and them by heart. She had studied philosophy and the sciences arts and accomplishments and she was pleasant and polite wise and witty well read and well bred now on that day she said style father. Why do i see us changed and laden with cock and care concerning this matter. One of the puts tell who su has sorrow grief never shall last even as joy hath no moro. So whoa she'll go past. When the wazir heard from his daughter these words he related to her from first to last all that had happened between him and the king..