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The Doug Collins Podcast
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"I mean, you may not like it, you may not be your proper sense of let's send in Anthony Blinken to actually discuss how we can actually come up with a terrible idea for the United States. But then we look good. And we can talk to people at our cocktail parties about how diplomatic we are. No, these people don't understand diplomacy. They don't understand they understand strength. China understand strength. North Korea understand strength. Iran understand strength. Putin understand strength. And if we don't get this through our head, folks, this is going to be a disaster that will continue to build, continue to build and continue to build. So all that said, for the rise of the anti Semitic issues here in the United States, where you can't even call out, I mean, you got members of Congress who can't even call out the rapes and the plundering in that happened in Israel, but yet we'll call out every politically correct thing here in the United States when you've got a foreign policy that is non existent. And you've got no retaliation for attacks on American forces. You're just in a in a bad spot. So as we look ahead into this and we look ahead at where we're headed, I think each and every person needs to really look at the 2024 election. I'm gonna spend some more time on this later, probably next week. Later this week, we're going to have first thing. So we have Senator Ron Johnson will be on with us looking forward to having the senator on for his perspective on a lot of things going on in Washington, and I'm going to end up here today on this Wednesday. With some discussion, Washington, Washington has got I made a podcast did a podcast a couple of weeks ago that I really laid it out. So sometimes it just has to be said, if you want to go back and catch it, you can subscribe to our podcast, go back and check the previous episodes. But we've got to get to a point Republicans, especially on the hill Democrats in the minority on Democrats are under majority in the Senate have got to come back to understanding that, you know, you've got to get something done. That doesn't mean that you're going to get everything that you want. It doesn't mean that you get everything that you need. It means that you need to actually put in place a process to get to 18 in the house 60 votes in the Senate and one president to sign it. And that deals with appropriations bills, it deals with Pfizer, it deals with FAA, it deals with agriculture deals with everything we're dealing with right now. And right now, we can't seem to come to that we're blaming everything saying, Well, if I can't have my way, then the rest of the world is wrong. That's not the way you govern. It's just completely not the way you go. So in, I want to just briefly touch here, we've done a lot of foreign affairs day, I wanted to briefly touch on the fact that Washington is at a stalemate, they'll probably leave at the end of next week, House looks to be voting formal impeachment articles, which they if they were going to do this should have done it back in September, to begin what will be a first of the year process of impeachment hearings and others with Joe Biden and possibly and my orcas as well. So really, as far as from a perspective, you've also got less than 10 legislative days, when you get back in January to take the first deadline for the budget that you did this, this laddered CR in which you had the some broke into the first batch in January, some broke into the second batch into February of funding the government. And we've not even started, we're sitting here three weeks, you know, two and a half weeks into December now, and after Thanksgiving, and after the CR passed, and nothing has been done. So if you're looking for a lot to be done in Washington, DC, you've come to the wrong place, go pick up more on that next time we get together on the podcast. But you know, to understand the ins and outs. Also, I didn't touch on today, but I want to do a little bit longer deep dive, the presidential race is getting down, Donald Trump is is looking more and more to be the Republican nominee. I think the others just simply have to go. hanging on thinking something's going to happen in his court cases, and then they can try and slip in for some, you know, unknown reason how they would run between DeSantis and Haley and the others. But you're seeing the field shrink. I do have Doug Burgum actually got out of the race this week. And Doug, by the way, had a great point. And I think it's something that we need to look at from a Republican Party perspective. And Democrats need to look at it as well, because they've sort of locked everybody out as well. And that is, who gives the right to the Republican National Committee to determine who should be on that stage? And, you know, again, you they are narrowing the field based on their criteria based on the folks who have the most money, folks, if that had been true, and so many of our primaries over the past 4050 years, you may not have gotten the candidate that you ended up getting. And this is gonna be a bigger discussion for Ronald McDaniel and others, especially at the RNC on while we're doing the debates as we're doing them number one. And number two, how are we doing the debates as far as determining who can get in. So you take off a voice like Doug Burgum, who's been a governor of a very prosperous, you know, growing state, and you're taking him off completely, in which, you know, that might be the chance in which he does able to catch fire, he may not have the the institutional backing of others. But maybe he has a message is to be shared, maybe some of these others, Tim Scott, and some of the others with the more you take off, the more than you are limiting who the Republicans get to pick for their nominee. And if you're taking it out saying, Well, the only way we're gonna do this is you get enough donors, you get enough polling, and then we'll let you on the debate stage. I think we're really gonna have to take a look at that as we go forward. But again, more conversation for another day. This has been a Wednesday edition of the duck Collins podcast. Glad you're with us. Look forward to seeing you again on Friday when we have James and we have chip and we will be getting into a raucous Friday's fun. So until then, y'all take care. To work at all. Then there's those social justice elves. They keep pointing out everyone's differences, dividing the elves and getting them all riled up. And don't get me started about the reindeer right selves. The shop floor just isn't a happy little place it used to be. We should have used red balloon.
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"More at i b k r dot com com slash compare on a thing we begin in the middle east where israel pushes further into southern gaza uh... prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling on the world to stand with israel in the war with hamas strict all civilized leaders governments nations to speak up against the so -called city stand those stand with israel stand with civilization benjamin and yahoo also accuses international national organizations of ignoring violence by hamas during the october seventh attack elsewhere overseas karen russian president president vladimir putin is in the united arab emirates on an international trip that will also include a stop today in saudi arabia rootin has previously limited his overseas travel to close allies since the invasion of ukraine when we turn to d c c now nathan the presidents of harvard m i t and you can address in anti -semitism on campuses harvard president claudine gay says confronting hate while preserving free expression has been a challenge i've sought to confront hate while preserving free expression this is difficult work and i now that i have not always gotten it right harvard president claudine gay also testified that calls for the side of jews is anti -semitic and violates harassment terms but said the university takes action and speech crosses into conduct elsewhere in politics karen president biden says he might not be running for president again again if one thing were different bloomberg said baxter has more that one thing if donald trump were not seeking to return to the white house biden's comment quote if trump wasn't running not sure i'd be running but we cannot let him win for the sake of the country now this was at a fundraising event in massachusetts but it also comes into play as he's had to face criticism and doubts about seeking four more years at the age of eighty one ed baxter bloomberg radio righted thanks to markets now and and eco data that's reinforcing rate cut speculation bloomberg's john tucker joins us with more good morning john and care of the number of job openings decreased by six hundred seventeen thousand in october bloomberg economics says he it's evidence of a broadly loosening labor market that leads the fed to cut rates by one hundred twenty -five basis points next year a separate report tuesday showed easing inflation of the service sector it indicates both sides of the fed's mandate employment and price stability are moving toward their goals in response to your u .s. yields a briefly top five percent back in october they broke below four point point two percent and are holding at that level this morning i'm john tucker bloomberg radio all right john thank you big big bank c .e .o.'s testify the senate today they're expected to address capital requirement concerns and that's things the that you need to know to start your day brought to you by interactive brokers and straight ahead we have more global headlines plus a check of sports and this is bloomberg
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"All right. As I said, you know, look, I never thought that, you know, real life and it's amazing to me how real life and sports always seem to intersect. And there's no better way to see the intersection this past week than to see the absolute and just craziness of the college football playoffs committee. And I'm going to have to say, I'm agreeing with Paul Finebaum on one thing, and I'm going to stop on touch today. I promise you, we got Biden to discuss. We've got Hill to discuss and everything else. But and also Donald Trump and the presidential stuff to deal with today as well. But let me just say this. I don't normally agree with Paul Finebaum on everything. Probably not most things. But Paul Finebaum made this comment that I heard today that was very clear. It was from another reporter who talked about the fact that if you were in the same if you were in the room with the college football playoff people, nobody would know what any other anybody did or how they voted. And I have to agree with Finebaum. This is something that's like, OK, why is this you know, there's no transparency or why why do we you know, and something that deals not only in just the atmosphere and deals with the reputation of many in the college community, that you're also talking billions of dollars over an outlay of TV rights and everything that goes to these. How would you not know if there was somebody who had a bias? There was somebody that, you know, that didn't look this. But anyway, a whole different issue. We'll discuss that more. But it is looking more and more like Washington, D.C., where transparency is also not a big issue. Let's hit on a couple of things that we've not had a chance to talk about. This ultimate divide in this country that is going more and more on the anti-Semitic vibe that is taking over, in which you have pro Hamas, pro terrorists, is what these many of these demonstrations have broken down to. When you have pro Hamas groups, and I'm not going to call them pro Palestinian, you can get mad all you want. Go to Doug Collins podcast dot com. Click the email button. Send me all you want. I don't really give a rip. OK, if you Palestinian people and their plight is one thing Hamas governs Gaza with an iron fist. They determine who gets food, who gets water, who gets shelter. They determine everything. And they're the ones who have been lobbing rockets into Israel every day, seemingly for the last 15, 16 years since Israel pulled out. There's no Israelis in Gaza. And this is what you get. So I look, let's just be very honest here. This is not a Palestinian argument. This is a Hamas argument being made. And if you're making this argument and you're not even dealing with these other issues, then it's a pro Hamas argument. So just basically shut up, sit down. I mean, this is the I can't make it any clearer, especially when you see the horrific activity that took place again. And I'm not sure how I have to even clarify this. What happened on October 7th was horrific. The rapes, multiple rapes, where they would just line them up and rape them to vilify them, take their heads off, cut body parts off. This is sad to say and for a family friendly podcast here, but let me just say that this is what happened. And we have to show that is the reason why Israel has to go in and take out Hamas. And yes, there are civilian casualties. Yes, they have been told to leave. Yes, no other Arab country wants them. This is something that still needs to be discussed. But Israel is doing everything they possibly can to tell them, get out of the way. Don't let them, you know, don't let them Hamas find refuge in your home or underneath your hospitals or anywhere else. They're going to be taken out. It is still amazing to me that it took October 7th for Israel to actually wait this long to actually go in and begin to root out the problems of Hamas in Gaza, seeing how they had been literally lobbing mortars and rockets into Israel almost daily for the last, as I said earlier, 10 to 15 years. Can you imagine for just a second and let's put this in perspective, if Mexico or Cuba or the Bahamas or Canada were regularly lobbing missiles and bombs and missiles and mortars into the United States, how long would it take us to take them out completely? I'll wait for the answer. Really, we would take them out pretty quickly. But this happens to Israel every single day, whether it is Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah to the north in Lebanon, or just a random act of crazy from somebody that Iran is backing today. They have to live with this at all times in the nation of Israel. And I think this is the part that, again, it's amazing to me that sometimes we're, you know, I'm just backing up here, we're having this conversation of why did we have to, you know, why, you know, now to put the brakes on and hold up and don't do this in Gaza. And the question is, is no other country in the world? I mean, can you imagine, you know, just England taking fire from Holland or France or Ireland or anywhere and not responding? Again, this is what makes this inevitably so hard to deal with. And in dealing with this, they have to be taken out. But I've got a bigger gripe that nobody wants to talk about. And the Qataris are going to have to talk about this as well, because the Qatar is where the Hamas leadership is living in high luxury, eating well, doing whatever feeds their things that they said, and that really they hold against the entire Palestinian people who live in Gaza. They do not need to be in luxury. If they want to fight a battle against Israel, they need to be shipped out of Qatar, and they need to be shipped back to Gaza City, posthaste right now. If you want to if you want to cause war, and but other people dying, you don't need to stay down there in luxury and do it. And the amazing part is, is how Israel has been restrained enough to not take them out where they're at. Again, how do you justify this? I mean, that's like saying that the United States is going to war with China, or Russia or wherever, and all of our leadership is going to go to the Caribbean and all their leadership is going to go to, you know, somewhere in the South Pacific, and let the two countries just battle it out, while the two leadership groups sit there in luxury eating, you know, very fine food, having no problems, no shooting at them or anything else. I'm trying to put this in easy terms for you to understand, but this is what Hamas leadership is doing. Hamas leadership is simply sitting in the third country, directing the torture of their own people who elected them to lead to get them water. I mean, these are the same people who tore up water pipes given for humanitarian aid to make them into rockets. Okay, again, you will support that you will scream two part country state to party say that we can have all the discussion of peace you want. But the peace has to start with number one, Israel has a right to exist. And number two, we have to live at peace and you cannot continue to fire rockets. And then when you decide to cross the border, you write pillage, plunder, cut people's heads off, cut people's breasts off, cut people, you know, parts off. And kill them while they're sleeping, take a baby out of the womb, put baby in a oven. I mean, this is all fact that happened. So again, now you have an administration who has been less than forthright in how they've dealt with this. I mean, there are different standards and how they dealt with the Ukraine and how they deal with Israel. They've told Israel to abide by international law, make sure they don't have any war crimes, make sure they do all this, never really giving anything to Ukraine except money. I had a big disagreement with a person the other day right before Thanksgiving on Fox News, where they basically said, you know, it was calling out Israel and basically saying that they were mass murderers. And we got into a big fight about it on TV. And I said, you're not gonna do that. You're not gonna get to come in here and just call indiscriminate killing is what Israel is doing. But this is where we've ended up at. In the United States, you have people who have no understanding of the Palestinian region, who have no understanding of Israel, who have no understanding of Hamas and the terrorists and thugs that they are, who are protesting in our streets and are using it just as they did other incidences of violence that happened to just destroy cities. And when you have just recently in Philadelphia, where you have Hamas protesters, sympathizers attacking Jewish businesses, going after people, you have students, as I heard just today on Capitol Hill, you had students who are not safe in their own schools and you have college presidents at Harvard and MIT who are so politically correctly stupid that they're not even protecting the Jewish students on campus. This can't stand. I mean, if it's where we're at as a country, it just blows the mind as to where we are. So again, we've got to stand with Israel. We've got to make sure that this Hamas is put to rest and that they can't keep doing this, where Gaza can be safe and productive, and that they can actually have freedoms that they would exist in a situation in which they would be peaceful in. But again, it's not the Palestinian people who try to make and scrape by living. It is their Hamas dictators that are keeping them this way. Make this deathly clear to you that this is a situation in which these leaders were elected by the Palestinian people on promises that they would be taken care of and that they would, you know, fight for them. And yet they take their water pipes, they take their food, they take everything else. And then the world is saying, well, that's too much. Don't don't go after them. Again, by administration. This has just got to again, I'm not gonna put up with it. I'm not gonna put up with it here on this podcast. I'm not gonna talk about it in the sense of any other way. But that's just where it is. The other problem I have with this situation that we've got to deal with in the Middle East, is the fact that the Biden administration is giving tacit approval, it appears to the Iranian backed military. Especially the Houthis in Yemen and others to attack American military bases, American shipping, international shipping. And yet we seem to do nothing. Seemingly, we'll hit a warehouse we've yet just until recently have not killed any of the ones who were shooting at us. And we have had them attack our ships, our ships took out three drones coming from Yemen. And this is a country that makes Gaza in some ways actually look prosperous, much more prosperous than they are because they are. In Yemen, in which you can't even barely feed yourself. And yet they are firing state of the art weapons and drones, and using them to attack Israel and to attack the United States Navy and shipping fleets in that region in which they actually can take a helicopter land on a plane and take a ship and take it hostage. Now, they're not doing this because all of a sudden they turn sand into dollars. They're doing it because Iran is backing them and Jake Sullivan just the other day had said the quiet part out loud. When he said yes, it is Iran who is giving them money. They don't have the resources to do this unless Iran gave them money. I wish Jake had went ahead and said the other parts out loud is that is the Biden administration has helped in this fiasco by propping up the oil revenues out of Iran because of the prices and they've also been giving them money through these settlements. Again, for what reason except for them to turn around, use the money against us. We're funding both sides here. It's just, you know, again, I for someone who deals with this, he looks at it from a military perspective, he looks at it from a national security perspective. This cannot, you know, continue in this way. And the only thing these terrorists understand is force understand, you shoot something at us, we kill you. That's all they understand. Now, you might not like that. And you may think that's horrific. But I'm gonna tell you, if you have a loved one on one of those ships in the Red Sea right now, and they send a drone or they send a ICBM, or they send a missile at them, and we don't take that group out, then you're putting your own American lives and sons and daughters lives in danger. Period. End of statement is this is what it is when they're attacking our military bases, our airfields in the Middle East at a rate of almost 100. Since October, the United States has been in the middle of the seventh. And we've had three responses, basically, or four at best, depending on how you want to count it. And this is, again, I don't understand the Biden administration in this this function. So when you take the anti Semitic rise in the United States with the pro Palestinian, pro Hamas, pro terrorist groups that are terrorizing many of our very democratic cities. And then you take the inadequate response from the Biden administration on the defense side and putting our, our airman and SEMA and sailors and soldiers in harm's way, because we're not properly responding to the attacks upon our bases, then you have a situation that is just deteriorating worse and worse. And the more it deteriorates, the more we don't take a strong stand. Now, the more it is going to be likely that we end up in a further escalation of this war, which none of us want. So when you look at the world picture right now, you have Ukraine, who's begging for money, they're sending their basically their Prime Minister, their vice president here to beg for money from Congress. The Zelensky is going to talk to the Senate senators about they talked to me yesterday about the getting more money. They're on the verge of being claiming that they don't have enough money to continue on that Russia's getting ready to take over. That this is going back to what many thought in the original that Russia would just outlast them. And that seems to be this the strategy right now with Russia and Zelensky. So for the president who was elected that the adults would be back in charge, if this going back to Afghanistan, this is going back to how we deal with North Korea, this is how we're giving money to terrorists in Iran. If this is how we deal with China and Taiwan, if this is how we deal with Russia, through the Ukraine, and this is how we deal with friends, like Israel in the Middle East, I think the it would be time to put anybody back in because the adults are not in the room, or in the case of Joe Biden seemed to be asleep at the wheel, because our standing in the world is awful right now. And I believe the 2024 election, which we'll discuss here for a few minutes, is going to depend and hinge a great deal not only on the domestic, basically, ineptness of the Biden administration, but it's also depending a great deal on the foreign aspects of the foreign affairs in which our standing in the world has dropped. In which we are no longer viewed as leadership, we're no longer viewed as accountable, we're no longer viewed as dependable. And if you don't believe us, just look to Afghanistan and other places where we just are not stepping up and showing leadership. And then with Israel, when we put everything restriction wise upon Israel, and try to get them to a ceasefire, which only protects Hamas, the Joe Biden administration is completely inept when it comes to this, seemingly, when it comes to how we deal with the world. So I don't want to hear another liberal tell me, well, we needed the adults back in the room, we needed people that are understanding of the process of diplomacy and others. Well, in a certain point in time, they're going to understand that diplomacy, I believe, has a very valuable place, I believe that our some of our foreign assistance is very wisely spent in areas where we don't want to have war. But then you also got to understand that there's sometimes when power only understands power, when thugs only understand power, they're not going to go up against somebody that they don't know what's going to happen, which is why is I think I've said before on this podcast that, you know, over the last 40 years have been two presidents who came into power with everybody believing that they were either going to be a dictatorship, or for the most part, they were gonna get us into another war. Neither did that was Reagan and Trump. Because really, the world didn't know how to take Trump, I mean, Trump would take out military leaders who was actually attacking and planning attacks on our service members, he would actually talk to the Taliban, send them pictures of their own houses, saying not another one to be killed, and nobody was killed. For 18 months.
The Doug Collins Podcast
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"I mean, you may not like it, you may not be your proper sense of let's send in Anthony Blinken to actually discuss how we can actually come up with a terrible idea for the United States. But then we look good. And we can talk to people at our cocktail parties about how diplomatic we are. No, these people don't understand diplomacy. They don't understand they understand strength. China understand strength. North Korea understand strength. Iran understand strength. Putin understand strength. And if we don't get this through our head, folks, this is going to be a disaster that will continue to build, continue to build and continue to build. So all that said, for the rise of the anti Semitic issues here in the United States, where you can't even call out, I mean, you got members of Congress who can't even call out the rapes and the plundering in that happened in Israel, but yet we'll call out every politically correct thing here in the United States when you've got a foreign policy that is non existent. And you've got no retaliation for attacks on American forces. You're just in a in a bad spot. So as we look ahead into this and we look ahead at where we're headed, I think each and every person needs to really look at the 2024 election. I'm gonna spend some more time on this later, probably next week. Later this week, we're going to have first thing. So we have Senator Ron Johnson will be on with us looking forward to having the senator on for his perspective on a lot of things going on in Washington, and I'm going to end up here today on this Wednesday. With some discussion, Washington, Washington has got I made a podcast did a podcast a couple of weeks ago that I really laid it out. So sometimes it just has to be said, if you want to go back and catch it, you can subscribe to our podcast, go back and check the previous episodes. But we've got to get to a point Republicans, especially on the hill Democrats in the minority on Democrats are under majority in the Senate have got to come back to understanding that, you know, you've got to get something done. That doesn't mean that you're going to get everything that you want. It doesn't mean that you get everything that you need. It means that you need to actually put in place a process to get to 18 in the house 60 votes in the Senate and one president to sign it. And that deals with appropriations bills, it deals with Pfizer, it deals with FAA, it deals with agriculture deals with everything we're dealing with right now. And right now, we can't seem to come to that we're blaming everything saying, Well, if I can't have my way, then the rest of the world is wrong. That's not the way you govern. It's just completely not the way you go. So in, I want to just briefly touch here, we've done a lot of foreign affairs day, I wanted to briefly touch on the fact that Washington is at a stalemate, they'll probably leave at the end of next week, House looks to be voting formal impeachment articles, which they if they were going to do this should have done it back in September, to begin what will be a first of the year process of impeachment hearings and others with Joe Biden and possibly and my orcas as well. So really, as far as from a perspective, you've also got less than 10 legislative days, when you get back in January to take the first deadline for the budget that you did this, this laddered CR in which you had the some broke into the first batch in January, some broke into the second batch into February of funding the government. And we've not even started, we're sitting here three weeks, you know, two and a half weeks into December now, and after Thanksgiving, and after the CR passed, and nothing has been done. So if you're looking for a lot to be done in Washington, DC, you've come to the wrong place, go pick up more on that next time we get together on the podcast. But you know, to understand the ins and outs. Also, I didn't touch on today, but I want to do a little bit longer deep dive, the presidential race is getting down, Donald Trump is is looking more and more to be the Republican nominee. I think the others just simply have to go. hanging on thinking something's going to happen in his court cases, and then they can try and slip in for some, you know, unknown reason how they would run between DeSantis and Haley and the others. But you're seeing the field shrink. I do have Doug Burgum actually got out of the race this week. And Doug, by the way, had a great point. And I think it's something that we need to look at from a Republican Party perspective. And Democrats need to look at it as well, because they've sort of locked everybody out as well. And that is, who gives the right to the Republican National Committee to determine who should be on that stage? And, you know, again, you they are narrowing the field based on their criteria based on the folks who have the most money, folks, if that had been true, and so many of our primaries over the past 4050 years, you may not have gotten the candidate that you ended up getting. And this is gonna be a bigger discussion for Ronald McDaniel and others, especially at the RNC on while we're doing the debates as we're doing them number one. And number two, how are we doing the debates as far as determining who can get in. So you take off a voice like Doug Burgum, who's been a governor of a very prosperous, you know, growing state, and you're taking him off completely, in which, you know, that might be the chance in which he does able to catch fire, he may not have the the institutional backing of others. But maybe he has a message is to be shared, maybe some of these others, Tim Scott, and some of the others with the more you take off, the more than you are limiting who the Republicans get to pick for their nominee. And if you're taking it out saying, Well, the only way we're gonna do this is you get enough donors, you get enough polling, and then we'll let you on the debate stage. I think we're really gonna have to take a look at that as we go forward. But again, more conversation for another day. This has been a Wednesday edition of the duck Collins podcast. Glad you're with us. Look forward to seeing you again on Friday when we have James and we have chip and we will be getting into a raucous Friday's fun. So until then, y'all take care. To work at all. Then there's those social justice elves. They keep pointing out everyone's differences, dividing the elves and getting them all riled up. And don't get me started about the reindeer right selves. The shop floor just isn't a happy little place it used to be. We should have used red balloon.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"one thing" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule. It has been said today, where is bravery? I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found. It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered. And this majority say, be damned with anything else. We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do. Why? Because we won an election. I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun. Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Glad to have you with us today. Thanks for tuning in. We've been a lot of travel, a lot of stuff. Friday's Finance with Chip and James has been great. Glad to be back with you. We've got another great Friday's Finance coming up this week that you will not want to miss because we're back and we're going to discuss the absolute horrendous nature of the CFPB. And not CFPB, I'm already back on politics, but the college football playoff folks and the how they came to the top four, which is just, again, absolutely ridiculous. But we'll deal with that later on Friday. There's more important things to talk about today, and that is the wonderfully inept state of our country at this point. And I want to talk about a few things with that after the break. But it's good to have you back here on the Wednesday edition of the Doug Collins podcast right after the break. We're going to dive into it. Hey, everybody, you know about Legacy Precious Metals, Legacy Precious Metals, you hear from them. We talk once a month. We talk about Legacy Precious Metals, talking about Precious Metals being part of your portfolio, how they're your navigator. Well, now they're not only navigating in a new way, they're actually giving you a new way to buy gold and silver. In fact, Legacy Precious Metals has developed a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice, and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. I'm more of a ship to my door kind of person. I enjoy having them with me, but they can do it either way, and you can now do it online. It gives you real access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time, anytime. You'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. This platform is free to sign up for. Just visit legacypminvestments.com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold hedges against inflation and against a volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but a different asset class. This platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver, no matter how small or large, with just a few clicks. Remember, do as I have done. Go to legacypminvestments.com and get started today, and now you've got a new tool to help you along in your investments. Hey everybody, it's MyPillow's 20th year anniversary, and over 80 million MyPillows have been sold. Mike Lindell and MyPillow wants to thank each of you and every one of you for giving you the lowest price in history on their MyPillows. You will receive a queen size MyPillow for $19.98, regular prices $69.98, and just $10 more for a king size. You will receive deep discounts on all MyPillow products, such as bed sheets, mattress toppers, pet beds, mattresses, my slippers, and so much more. This is a time to try out something other than the amazing products that you've had your eye on. Go to MyPillow.com, click on the radio podcast square, and use the promo Colin, C-O-L-L-I-N-S, to receive this amazing offer on the queen size MyPillow for $19.98, or call 800-986-3994. This offer comes with a 10-year warranty and 60-day money back guarantee. It's time to start getting the quality sleep you deserve. You know how I know that? Because I sleep on my pillow every night. Go to MyPillow.com and use promo code Colin, C-O-L-L-I-N-S, or call 800-986-3994 today.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Fresh update on "one thing" discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"All right. As I said, you know, look, I never thought that, you know, real life and it's amazing to me how real life and sports always seem to intersect. And there's no better way to see the intersection this past week than to see the absolute and just craziness of the college football playoffs committee. And I'm going to have to say, I'm agreeing with Paul Finebaum on one thing, and I'm going to stop on touch today. I promise you, we got Biden to discuss. We've got Hill to discuss and everything else. But and also Donald Trump and the presidential stuff to deal with today as well. But let me just say this. I don't normally agree with Paul Finebaum on everything. Probably not most things. But Paul Finebaum made this comment that I heard today that was very clear. It was from another reporter who talked about the fact that if you were in the same if you were in the room with the college football playoff people, nobody would know what any other anybody did or how they voted. And I have to agree with Finebaum. This is something that's like, OK, why is this you know, there's no transparency or why why do we you know, and something that deals not only in just the atmosphere and deals with the reputation of many in the college community, that you're also talking billions of dollars over an outlay of TV rights and everything that goes to these. How would you not know if there was somebody who had a bias? There was somebody that, you know, that didn't look this. But anyway, a whole different issue. We'll discuss that more. But it is looking more and more like Washington, D.C., where transparency is also not a big issue. Let's hit on a couple of things that we've not had a chance to talk about. This ultimate divide in this country that is going more and more on the anti-Semitic vibe that is taking over, in which you have pro Hamas, pro terrorists, is what these many of these demonstrations have broken down to. When you have pro Hamas groups, and I'm not going to call them pro Palestinian, you can get mad all you want. Go to Doug Collins podcast dot com. Click the email button. Send me all you want. I don't really give a rip. OK, if you Palestinian people and their plight is one thing Hamas governs Gaza with an iron fist. They determine who gets food, who gets water, who gets shelter. They determine everything. And they're the ones who have been lobbing rockets into Israel every day, seemingly for the last 15, 16 years since Israel pulled out. There's no Israelis in Gaza. And this is what you get. So I look, let's just be very honest here. This is not a Palestinian argument. This is a Hamas argument being made. And if you're making this argument and you're not even dealing with these other issues, then it's a pro Hamas argument. So just basically shut up, sit down. I mean, this is the I can't make it any clearer, especially when you see the horrific activity that took place again. And I'm not sure how I have to even clarify this. What happened on October 7th was horrific. The rapes, multiple rapes, where they would just line them up and rape them to vilify them, take their heads off, cut body parts off. This is sad to say and for a family friendly podcast here, but let me just say that this is what happened. And we have to show that is the reason why Israel has to go in and take out Hamas. And yes, there are civilian casualties. Yes, they have been told to leave. Yes, no other Arab country wants them. This is something that still needs to be discussed. But Israel is doing everything they possibly can to tell them, get out of the way. Don't let them, you know, don't let them Hamas find refuge in your home or underneath your hospitals or anywhere else. They're going to be taken out. It is still amazing to me that it took October 7th for Israel to actually wait this long to actually go in and begin to root out the problems of Hamas in Gaza, seeing how they had been literally lobbing mortars and rockets into Israel almost daily for the last, as I said earlier, 10 to 15 years. Can you imagine for just a second and let's put this in perspective, if Mexico or Cuba or the Bahamas or Canada were regularly lobbing missiles and bombs and missiles and mortars into the United States, how long would it take us to take them out completely? I'll wait for the answer. Really, we would take them out pretty quickly. But this happens to Israel every single day, whether it is Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah to the north in Lebanon, or just a random act of crazy from somebody that Iran is backing today. They have to live with this at all times in the nation of Israel. And I think this is the part that, again, it's amazing to me that sometimes we're, you know, I'm just backing up here, we're having this conversation of why did we have to, you know, why, you know, now to put the brakes on and hold up and don't do this in Gaza. And the question is, is no other country in the world? I mean, can you imagine, you know, just England taking fire from Holland or France or Ireland or anywhere and not responding? Again, this is what makes this inevitably so hard to deal with. And in dealing with this, they have to be taken out. But I've got a bigger gripe that nobody wants to talk about. And the Qataris are going to have to talk about this as well, because the Qatar is where the Hamas leadership is living in high luxury, eating well, doing whatever feeds their things that they said, and that really they hold against the entire Palestinian people who live in Gaza. They do not need to be in luxury. If they want to fight a battle against Israel, they need to be shipped out of Qatar, and they need to be shipped back to Gaza City, posthaste right now. If you want to if you want to cause war, and but other people dying, you don't need to stay down there in luxury and do it. And the amazing part is, is how Israel has been restrained enough to not take them out where they're at. Again, how do you justify this? I mean, that's like saying that the United States is going to war with China, or Russia or wherever, and all of our leadership is going to go to the Caribbean and all their leadership is going to go to, you know, somewhere in the South Pacific, and let the two countries just battle it out, while the two leadership groups sit there in luxury eating, you know, very fine food, having no problems, no shooting at them or anything else. I'm trying to put this in easy terms for you to understand, but this is what Hamas leadership is doing. Hamas leadership is simply sitting in the third country, directing the torture of their own people who elected them to lead to get them water. I mean, these are the same people who tore up water pipes given for humanitarian aid to make them into rockets. Okay, again, you will support that you will scream two part country state to party say that we can have all the discussion of peace you want. But the peace has to start with number one, Israel has a right to exist. And number two, we have to live at peace and you cannot continue to fire rockets. And then when you decide to cross the border, you write pillage, plunder, cut people's heads off, cut people's breasts off, cut people, you know, parts off. And kill them while they're sleeping, take a baby out of the womb, put baby in a oven. I mean, this is all fact that happened. So again, now you have an administration who has been less than forthright in how they've dealt with this. I mean, there are different standards and how they dealt with the Ukraine and how they deal with Israel. They've told Israel to abide by international law, make sure they don't have any war crimes, make sure they do all this, never really giving anything to Ukraine except money. I had a big disagreement with a person the other day right before Thanksgiving on Fox News, where they basically said, you know, it was calling out Israel and basically saying that they were mass murderers. And we got into a big fight about it on TV. And I said, you're not gonna do that. You're not gonna get to come in here and just call indiscriminate killing is what Israel is doing. But this is where we've ended up at. In the United States, you have people who have no understanding of the Palestinian region, who have no understanding of Israel, who have no understanding of Hamas and the terrorists and thugs that they are, who are protesting in our streets and are using it just as they did other incidences of violence that happened to just destroy cities. And when you have just recently in Philadelphia, where you have Hamas protesters, sympathizers attacking Jewish businesses, going after people, you have students, as I heard just today on Capitol Hill, you had students who are not safe in their own schools and you have college presidents at Harvard and MIT who are so politically correctly stupid that they're not even protecting the Jewish students on campus. This can't stand. I mean, if it's where we're at as a country, it just blows the mind as to where we are. So again, we've got to stand with Israel. We've got to make sure that this Hamas is put to rest and that they can't keep doing this, where Gaza can be safe and productive, and that they can actually have freedoms that they would exist in a situation in which they would be peaceful in. But again, it's not the Palestinian people who try to make and scrape by living. It is their Hamas dictators that are keeping them this way. Make this deathly clear to you that this is a situation in which these leaders were elected by the Palestinian people on promises that they would be taken care of and that they would, you know, fight for them. And yet they take their water pipes, they take their food, they take everything else. And then the world is saying, well, that's too much. Don't don't go after them. Again, by administration. This has just got to again, I'm not gonna put up with it. I'm not gonna put up with it here on this podcast. I'm not gonna talk about it in the sense of any other way. But that's just where it is. The other problem I have with this situation that we've got to deal with in the Middle East, is the fact that the Biden administration is giving tacit approval, it appears to the Iranian backed military. Especially the Houthis in Yemen and others to attack American military bases, American shipping, international shipping. And yet we seem to do nothing. Seemingly, we'll hit a warehouse we've yet just until recently have not killed any of the ones who were shooting at us. And we have had them attack our ships, our ships took out three drones coming from Yemen. And this is a country that makes Gaza in some ways actually look prosperous, much more prosperous than they are because they are. In Yemen, in which you can't even barely feed yourself. And yet they are firing state of the art weapons and drones, and using them to attack Israel and to attack the United States Navy and shipping fleets in that region in which they actually can take a helicopter land on a plane and take a ship and take it hostage. Now, they're not doing this because all of a sudden they turn sand into dollars. They're doing it because Iran is backing them and Jake Sullivan just the other day had said the quiet part out loud. When he said yes, it is Iran who is giving them money. They don't have the resources to do this unless Iran gave them money. I wish Jake had went ahead and said the other parts out loud is that is the Biden administration has helped in this fiasco by propping up the oil revenues out of Iran because of the prices and they've also been giving them money through these settlements. Again, for what reason except for them to turn around, use the money against us. We're funding both sides here. It's just, you know, again, I for someone who deals with this, he looks at it from a military perspective, he looks at it from a national security perspective. This cannot, you know, continue in this way. And the only thing these terrorists understand is force understand, you shoot something at us, we kill you. That's all they understand. Now, you might not like that. And you may think that's horrific. But I'm gonna tell you, if you have a loved one on one of those ships in the Red Sea right now, and they send a drone or they send a ICBM, or they send a missile at them, and we don't take that group out, then you're putting your own American lives and sons and daughters lives in danger. Period. End of statement is this is what it is when they're attacking our military bases, our airfields in the Middle East at a rate of almost 100. Since October, the United States has been in the middle of the seventh. And we've had three responses, basically, or four at best, depending on how you want to count it. And this is, again, I don't understand the Biden administration in this this function. So when you take the anti Semitic rise in the United States with the pro Palestinian, pro Hamas, pro terrorist groups that are terrorizing many of our very democratic cities. And then you take the inadequate response from the Biden administration on the defense side and putting our, our airman and SEMA and sailors and soldiers in harm's way, because we're not properly responding to the attacks upon our bases, then you have a situation that is just deteriorating worse and worse. And the more it deteriorates, the more we don't take a strong stand. Now, the more it is going to be likely that we end up in a further escalation of this war, which none of us want. So when you look at the world picture right now, you have Ukraine, who's begging for money, they're sending their basically their Prime Minister, their vice president here to beg for money from Congress. The Zelensky is going to talk to the Senate senators about they talked to me yesterday about the getting more money. They're on the verge of being claiming that they don't have enough money to continue on that Russia's getting ready to take over. That this is going back to what many thought in the original that Russia would just outlast them. And that seems to be this the strategy right now with Russia and Zelensky. So for the president who was elected that the adults would be back in charge, if this going back to Afghanistan, this is going back to how we deal with North Korea, this is how we're giving money to terrorists in Iran. If this is how we deal with China and Taiwan, if this is how we deal with Russia, through the Ukraine, and this is how we deal with friends, like Israel in the Middle East, I think the it would be time to put anybody back in because the adults are not in the room, or in the case of Joe Biden seemed to be asleep at the wheel, because our standing in the world is awful right now. And I believe the 2024 election, which we'll discuss here for a few minutes, is going to depend and hinge a great deal not only on the domestic, basically, ineptness of the Biden administration, but it's also depending a great deal on the foreign aspects of the foreign affairs in which our standing in the world has dropped. In which we are no longer viewed as leadership, we're no longer viewed as accountable, we're no longer viewed as dependable. And if you don't believe us, just look to Afghanistan and other places where we just are not stepping up and showing leadership. And then with Israel, when we put everything restriction wise upon Israel, and try to get them to a ceasefire, which only protects Hamas, the Joe Biden administration is completely inept when it comes to this, seemingly, when it comes to how we deal with the world. So I don't want to hear another liberal tell me, well, we needed the adults back in the room, we needed people that are understanding of the process of diplomacy and others. Well, in a certain point in time, they're going to understand that diplomacy, I believe, has a very valuable place, I believe that our some of our foreign assistance is very wisely spent in areas where we don't want to have war. But then you also got to understand that there's sometimes when power only understands power, when thugs only understand power, they're not going to go up against somebody that they don't know what's going to happen, which is why is I think I've said before on this podcast that, you know, over the last 40 years have been two presidents who came into power with everybody believing that they were either going to be a dictatorship, or for the most part, they were gonna get us into another war. Neither did that was Reagan and Trump. Because really, the world didn't know how to take Trump, I mean, Trump would take out military leaders who was actually attacking and planning attacks on our service members, he would actually talk to the Taliban, send them pictures of their own houses, saying not another one to be killed, and nobody was killed. For 18 months.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Fresh update on "one thing" discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule. It has been said today, where is bravery? I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found. It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered. And this majority say, be damned with anything else. We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do. Why? Because we won an election. I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun. Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Glad to have you with us today. Thanks for tuning in. We've been a lot of travel, a lot of stuff. Friday's Finance with Chip and James has been great. Glad to be back with you. We've got another great Friday's Finance coming up this week that you will not want to miss because we're back and we're going to discuss the absolute horrendous nature of the CFPB. And not CFPB, I'm already back on politics, but the college football playoff folks and the how they came to the top four, which is just, again, absolutely ridiculous. But we'll deal with that later on Friday. There's more important things to talk about today, and that is the wonderfully inept state of our country at this point. And I want to talk about a few things with that after the break. But it's good to have you back here on the Wednesday edition of the Doug Collins podcast right after the break. We're going to dive into it. Hey, everybody, you know about Legacy Precious Metals, Legacy Precious Metals, you hear from them. We talk once a month. We talk about Legacy Precious Metals, talking about Precious Metals being part of your portfolio, how they're your navigator. Well, now they're not only navigating in a new way, they're actually giving you a new way to buy gold and silver. In fact, Legacy Precious Metals has developed a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice, and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. I'm more of a ship to my door kind of person. I enjoy having them with me, but they can do it either way, and you can now do it online. It gives you real access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time, anytime. You'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. This platform is free to sign up for. Just visit legacypminvestments.com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold hedges against inflation and against a volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but a different asset class. This platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver, no matter how small or large, with just a few clicks. Remember, do as I have done. Go to legacypminvestments.com and get started today, and now you've got a new tool to help you along in your investments. Hey everybody, it's MyPillow's 20th year anniversary, and over 80 million MyPillows have been sold. Mike Lindell and MyPillow wants to thank each of you and every one of you for giving you the lowest price in history on their MyPillows. You will receive a queen size MyPillow for $19.98, regular prices $69.98, and just $10 more for a king size. You will receive deep discounts on all MyPillow products, such as bed sheets, mattress toppers, pet beds, mattresses, my slippers, and so much more. This is a time to try out something other than the amazing products that you've had your eye on. Go to MyPillow.com, click on the radio podcast square, and use the promo Colin, C-O-L-L-I-N-S, to receive this amazing offer on the queen size MyPillow for $19.98, or call 800-986-3994. This offer comes with a 10-year warranty and 60-day money back guarantee. It's time to start getting the quality sleep you deserve. You know how I know that? Because I sleep on my pillow every night. Go to MyPillow.com and use promo code Colin, C-O-L-L-I-N-S, or call 800-986-3994 today.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Fresh update on "one thing" discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
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The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
Mark Levin
America Needs to Understand It's Role in the Middle East
"Oh my god what the heck's on going here what do you want to tell the American people about how things should go forward I think there are two points, Mark, if you'll permit me. The first thing is that America needs to understand its role. America is you know Iran calls America the great Satan yeah that's because it's great and they want to divide it so they call it the great Satan but America is great and if it departs from that role it's not only America that suffers at the end of the day it's the entire world certainly the free world certainly the people who believe in values the of Judeo -Christian ethics. America can't step back from its leadership role and when it does that as it began to do during the Obama administration you're going to have a rise of malevolent powers who are going to ultimately cause suffering for Western civilization as well. Well it's not going to stop here Israel is really the like my son was the point Israel is the point squadron for Western civilization and if we defeat Hamas then America benefits and the in Europe in Europe benefits Judeo -Christian world benefits but America has to be out in front and has to lead and it can't step back from that role. That would be my first point. The second point is we have to go back to our roots to our sources. We've kind of lost a moral compass because we've lost where we've come from. If you don't know where you come from you don't know where you're going. You've written about this extensively in the book on liberty. You always have to look back and see where do we come from? Where are our roots? roots. What do we believe in? If we confuse that we forget that. We make 1619 into 1620 or 1620 and the founding gets all confused. If you have a confused beginning then you have a very confused future. So I think it's really imperative that America understands its leadership and understands its roots and if that happens Israel will be far more appreciated than it is now. The reason why Israel is derided in so much of academia in the media is because wokeism has over taken and America's role and its history has been forgotten and confused. Very brilliantly put. How is your family coping with all this? The rest of your family is a big hole and yet your citizens of Israel this threat still looms over your family like it does the entire citizenry there. Mark, you know it's quite a move from talking about America's role to my family but I'll tell you this, you know we always have to see ourselves personally in the context of a bigger picture and a bigger picture in the context of our personal lives. You know when I got the knock on the door at 12 30 at night the two officers came to inform me that my son had fallen. I really didn't know what name they were going to say because I have
Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Asks Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling: Is "Measure O" Working?
"Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50 % plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10 % of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention.
Capstone Conversation
Capstone's Jared Asch Welcomes Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling of Walnut Creek
"Jared Esch, the host of The Capstone Conversation. Today, we are joined by not one, but two awesome women from the city of Walnut Creek. And we are going to hear about what inspired them to run for city council. What are some things that they want to encourage in other candidates who are considering to run or not to run as you make the decision ahead of next year's elections? And that applies to people throughout the whole East Bay area. That's not just here in Walnut Creek. So hopefully their message will resonate with people throughout. So first thing we will do, Mayor Pro Tem Luella Haskiw, do you want to go ahead and tell us a little bit more about yourself? In my career, I was a CPA specializing in tax, but I also did family law consulting and other business consulting. And I was inspired to run for a couple of reasons, one of which is I was close to many of the people who were on council and I just absorbed a lot of what they could accomplish by talking to them and watching them work. But also, I believe that we were going into an interesting economic cycle and maybe somebody who had my experience would be a good addition to the council. And our next guest is Councilwoman Cindy Darling. Cindy, tell us a little bit about your background and what convinced you to run. Well, I'm one of the newest members of the council. I was elected in 2020. Before that, I'd served 10 years on the planning commission for Walnut Creek. So I'd seen a lot of the issues that were working in the development end of things kind of bubbling up that were going to council. And I was interested in having a bigger voice on those than you just have a planning commission. I'm also a small business owner here in the city, and I spent most of my career working on really tough, naughty environmental problems around the Delta endangered species. And I felt like I developed a lot of skills there in helping people work together and solve problems creatively. And I wanted to take those skills and bring them to the council and help move Walnut Creek in a great direction. That's great. I appreciate that. Luella, you've been mayor two times, including 2020 during the start of the pandemic. Pandemic issues, businesses shutting down and then lots of looting here in Walnut Creek. What was it like to be mayor during that time? Can I say that the first round was was sweet. I really enjoyed the first time when it wasn't quite so stressful. But I will say about 2020, whenever I've talked to anybody who have had been mayor in Walnut Creek the last year to have been assigned a job with mayor, there were so many issues. We had a police shooting that was under scrutiny. We had looting. And I'm not even sure anybody knows to this hour what triggered the big looting that was at Broadway Plaza. It could have just been the gangs that were beginning to form and take over other places. But we forgot about Walnut Creek has some really nice high end stores to do. And then they all came. I don't think it had anything to do with the political choice. Nevertheless, it was incredibly damaging to the people who were at Broadway Plaza and it didn't stop there. Other people were involved in it. I make a joke about the fact that when George Floyd had been killed and people were really involved in making protests, a whole group of people showed up at nine o 'clock at night on a Wednesday and had a riot in our front yard doing a significant amount of damage to our garage doors, burning flags, scaring the bejeebers out of our neighbors. The police did call us and say, get out of the house. So we were safe, but it was an ugly experience for the neighborhood trying to find the best of the worst. We did have to buy a new garage door and we now have a battery pack up. And then I made it onto the news the next day. So good spads, but it was tough and the fiscal issues were tough. We started out with anticipating a comfortable excess budget. It turned out that when everything had to close up, sales tax went away and then we had to figure out what to do about that. And we got lucky that we came upon the pop -ups, the restaurant pop -ups, and we tried every way we could to save all the businesses, did away with our now famous parking meters and let people park. There weren't that many people using the parking meters. And so it was a very difficult time. Nevertheless, a sense of proportion, a great council, a great staff got the city through probably one of the most difficult years the city had to survive.
Gloss Girl Bridal Diaries
Booking Your Wedding Vendors: Essential Tips For Your Big Day
"So yesterday we had a little bit of a chat about the top four things that you need to book first, which if you listen to the first one, I missed one very crucial one. So you can guess which one that was as I repeat this, but it was venue caterers in one, photographer, videographer and celebrant. Which one do you reckon I forgot? I don't know. Let's just say you really need this one to get married. You actually do need this one. You cannot get married without this one. It's illegal. It is illegal. You can get married without this one. However, it will not be a legal binding of people. That's right. So to give the recap, those are the top four things that we highly recommend in our experience, in the time that we've spent with our thousands of rides really are the first things you need to be booking. And because we work with amazing vendors here in the Hunter Valley and in other places that we have worked before that, we just know that these are the ones you've got to get locked in. So to recap, basically this is all about your priorities, but those top four things you're always going to need a celebrant to make it legal. You're going to need a venue. So whether that is something really low key, whether it's your backyard, whether it is a chapel, you're going to need a venue of some sort somewhere you stand to say I do. And 9 out of 10, if not 9 .9 % of people, whatever, 100 % of people usually want a photographer or videographer or both. And these guys, they can only do one on a day. So you have to lock them in if you want a particular date or of course you want those particular vendors for your wedding day. So I think we're all in agreeance on that one. And then we did a little bit of a touch base on wedding dress shopping. We talked about the other vendors that you'll need to book and there's a good chance I may forget some, but you've got your dress, all your suits, you've got your hair and makeup, your florist, just stationary. If you save the dates, just signs. Look, there is so much to think about. Oh, you know, what about all the extras, Candice? Yeah, like cakes. There's cakes that need to be made. I don't know, is cakes separate? I mean, does everybody have a cake for their wedding? So maybe an essential, that one. Maybe, yeah. Accommodation. Accommodation. Especially if it is a destination wedding or if you're not from the Hunter Valley. Do you get banned? Yes. Yep. Do you get banned? Yeah, and the accommodation. Sorry, just because I cut you off there. Especially if it's a destination wedding. You've got to not only organize the wedding party, but unfortunately most of the time you're organizing your guests as well to make sure that they can get somewhere. I mean, it doesn't even have to be the Hunter Valley. We've got a lot of options here, but what if you're getting married in Fiji or Bali? Middle of nowhere. You need to think about how many people, and I guess that also can factor into what venue you choose as well. If you are having a larger wedding with people that are coming from overseas or out of town, you know, somewhere that is easy for them to access or that has some sort of transport systems. I know that quite a few of the venues have buses that will transport people back and forth. You can hire buses. I know that the Hunter has quite a range of different buses around that can take people to and from different locations if your ceremony and your reception are at two different locations. There's quite a bit with accommodation that needs to be thought about. I think that it's probably something that a lot of people leave to the last minute as long as they're sort of organized. If you're planning your wedding 12 to 18 months out, I guess you're not really thinking about, well, where am I going to sleep in some ways because you're just trying to get everything organized. Maybe bride and groom you're organizing somewhere and your honeymoon afterwards, which is something else that you have to organize if you're taking a honeymoon. But yeah, it's mum and dad. It's auntie Chazza, you know. It's even the day before, like us as hair and makeup artists, where are we going to be doing hair and makeup? That accommodation needs to be booked for the bridal party either the night before or the morning of. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, absolutely.
The Dan Bongino Show
Don't Jump to Conclusions About the Mystery Virus in China
"Hostages held in terror hands and on this pneumonia in China. I don't even know if it's pneumonia, and no one should jump to conclusions on it. That's what they're saying in the media. They'd be saying, here we go again. Now, could this be dangerous? Yes, definitely could be. We've seen this before. However, I don't trust anything coming out of the media. And I want to warn you, I'm not an epidemiologist. I'm not a biologist. I'm not a medical doctor, but I'm not a moron either. I'm not stupid. I'm well aware of viral transmission vectors, how diseases spread. They spread sexually. They spread through respiratory function. They can be aerosolized. They can be droplets. You can get a disease spread through a third vector, mosquito, dengue fever. There's bloodborne pathogens. This is not it's stuff. What is this thing in China right now? What is it? You've got to keep one thing in mind. The Chinese Communist Party, anything they're going to put out is probably going to be a lie. But you also have to keep in mind, they were under really extended lockdowns for a long time. Folks, the immune system like your muscles needs to be worked out to develop and grow, to learn to recognize deadly pathogens from common bug. There's a significant portion of your health. These Chinese Communist Party folks had their people on lockdown forever. I just want you to keep in mind, could this be something serious? Yes, but it could just be a normal virus that's making its way to China because their immune systems
The Mason Minute
Plan Ahead (MM #4632)
"I'd like to consider myself a person who plans ahead for any circumstance, for any emergency, for any situation. But every now and again, the plans go astray. It happens whenever we travel back to Indiana to see family. You're always running at the last minute and you always forget something. The one thing I didn't plan ahead for this time, making sure to take some echinacea, some extra vitamin C, some extra vitamins, and some precautions so I didn't catch a cold. The one thing I always run into when I go to Indiana is you have most of the parents are educators. So they're dealing with kids and parents and lots of people every day. The kids, aging from 6 to 16, they're interacting with lots of kids and germs and well, it caught up with me. Yeah, I started feeling sick almost by the time I got there on Wednesday night. On Thanksgiving Day, I took three naps to the tune of about nine hours. By Friday, full -blown cold. Saturday feeling worse. Didn't go anywhere. Didn't do anything. You can kind of tell in the voice it's not feeling quite right. It's just a cold. But I have to remember, plan ahead. When going to see the kids, make sure I'm prepared for the germs because there are going to be a lot of them.
The Mason Minute
Plan Ahead (MM #4632)
"I'd like to consider myself a person who plans ahead for any circumstance, for any emergency, for any situation. But every now and again, the plans go astray. It happens whenever we travel back to Indiana to see family. You're always running at the last minute and you always forget something. The one thing I didn't plan ahead for this time, making sure to take some echinacea, some extra vitamin C, some extra vitamins, and some precautions so I didn't catch a cold. The one thing I always run into when I go to Indiana is you have most of the parents are educators. So they're dealing with kids and parents and lots of people every day. The kids, aging from 6 to 16, they're interacting with lots of kids and germs and well, it caught up with me. Yeah, I started feeling sick almost by the time I got there on Wednesday night. On Thanksgiving Day, I took three naps to the tune of about nine hours. By Friday, full -blown cold. Saturday feeling worse. Didn't go anywhere. Didn't do anything. You can kind of tell in the voice it's not feeling quite right. It's just a cold. But I have to remember, plan ahead. When going to see the kids, make sure I'm prepared for the germs because there are going to be a lot of them.
The Mason Minute
Plan Ahead (MM #4632)
"I'd like to consider myself a person who plans ahead for any circumstance, for any emergency, for any situation. But every now and again, the plans go astray. It happens whenever we travel back to Indiana to see family. You're always running at the last minute and you always forget something. The one thing I didn't plan ahead for this time, making sure to take some echinacea, some extra vitamin C, some extra vitamins, and some precautions so I didn't catch a cold. The one thing I always run into when I go to Indiana is you have most of the parents are educators. So they're dealing with kids and parents and lots of people every day. The kids, aging from 6 to 16, they're interacting with lots of kids and germs and well, it caught up with me. Yeah, I started feeling sick almost by the time I got there on Wednesday night. On Thanksgiving Day, I took three naps to the tune of about nine hours. By Friday, full -blown cold. Saturday feeling worse. Didn't go anywhere. Didn't do anything. You can kind of tell in the voice it's not feeling quite right. It's just a cold. But I have to remember, plan ahead. When going to see the kids, make sure I'm prepared for the germs because there are going to be a lot of them.
The Mason Minute
Plan Ahead (MM #4632)
"I'd like to consider myself a person who plans ahead for any circumstance, for any emergency, for any situation. But every now and again, the plans go astray. It happens whenever we travel back to Indiana to see family. You're always running at the last minute and you always forget something. The one thing I didn't plan ahead for this time, making sure to take some echinacea, some extra vitamin C, some extra vitamins, and some precautions so I didn't catch a cold. The one thing I always run into when I go to Indiana is you have most of the parents are educators. So they're dealing with kids and parents and lots of people every day. The kids, aging from 6 to 16, they're interacting with lots of kids and germs and well, it caught up with me. Yeah, I started feeling sick almost by the time I got there on Wednesday night. On Thanksgiving Day, I took three naps to the tune of about nine hours. By Friday, full -blown cold. Saturday feeling worse. Didn't go anywhere. Didn't do anything. You can kind of tell in the voice it's not feeling quite right. It's just a cold. But I have to remember, plan ahead. When going to see the kids, make sure I'm prepared for the germs because there are going to be a lot of them.
The Mason Minute
Snoop Dogg (MM #4631)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. I'm sure you've heard or seen the story about noted marijuana smoker and rapper Snoop Dogg where he announced the other day he was going smokeless. He was giving up the smoke. Everybody went crazy. The internet went crazy. Oh my gosh, what's he going to do? A man known most for his marijuana consumption was not going to smoke anymore. Of course, I looked at it and went, okay, something's up. When you do marketing like that, you always get a sense that it's going to be a stunt. And it was because just the other day he came out and announced that he was going smokeless with the new Solo Stove Smokeless Fire Pit. It was all marketing hype. Everybody was hustled. Everybody's gullible. And it made me chuckle. Snoop Dogg was going to stop smoking marijuana. Why would he announce it? Unless it was something for health reasons and because he didn't explain it anymore. That's what made me wonder. There had to be something up with it. It's one thing if you come out and say you're going to stop smoking because of your health. Going smokeless. Don't worry, folks. Snoop Dogg hasn't changed. He's just making more money working for Solo Stove. Makes me laugh.
The Mason Minute
Snoop Dogg (MM #4631)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. I'm sure you've heard or seen the story about noted marijuana smoker and rapper Snoop Dogg where he announced the other day he was going smokeless. He was giving up the smoke. Everybody went crazy. The internet went crazy. Oh my gosh, what's he going to do? A man known most for his marijuana consumption was not going to smoke anymore. Of course, I looked at it and went, okay, something's up. When you do marketing like that, you always get a sense that it's going to be a stunt. And it was because just the other day he came out and announced that he was going smokeless with the new Solo Stove Smokeless Fire Pit. It was all marketing hype. Everybody was hustled. Everybody's gullible. And it made me chuckle. Snoop Dogg was going to stop smoking marijuana. Why would he announce it? Unless it was something for health reasons and because he didn't explain it anymore. That's what made me wonder. There had to be something up with it. It's one thing if you come out and say you're going to stop smoking because of your health. Going smokeless. Don't worry, folks. Snoop Dogg hasn't changed. He's just making more money working for Solo Stove. Makes me laugh.
The Mason Minute
Snoop Dogg (MM #4631)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. I'm sure you've heard or seen the story about noted marijuana smoker and rapper Snoop Dogg where he announced the other day he was going smokeless. He was giving up the smoke. Everybody went crazy. The internet went crazy. Oh my gosh, what's he going to do? A man known most for his marijuana consumption was not going to smoke anymore. Of course, I looked at it and went, okay, something's up. When you do marketing like that, you always get a sense that it's going to be a stunt. And it was because just the other day he came out and announced that he was going smokeless with the new Solo Stove Smokeless Fire Pit. It was all marketing hype. Everybody was hustled. Everybody's gullible. And it made me chuckle. Snoop Dogg was going to stop smoking marijuana. Why would he announce it? Unless it was something for health reasons and because he didn't explain it anymore. That's what made me wonder. There had to be something up with it. It's one thing if you come out and say you're going to stop smoking because of your health. Going smokeless. Don't worry, folks. Snoop Dogg hasn't changed. He's just making more money working for Solo Stove. Makes me laugh.
The Mason Minute
Snoop Dogg (MM #4631)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. I'm sure you've heard or seen the story about noted marijuana smoker and rapper Snoop Dogg where he announced the other day he was going smokeless. He was giving up the smoke. Everybody went crazy. The internet went crazy. Oh my gosh, what's he going to do? A man known most for his marijuana consumption was not going to smoke anymore. Of course, I looked at it and went, okay, something's up. When you do marketing like that, you always get a sense that it's going to be a stunt. And it was because just the other day he came out and announced that he was going smokeless with the new Solo Stove Smokeless Fire Pit. It was all marketing hype. Everybody was hustled. Everybody's gullible. And it made me chuckle. Snoop Dogg was going to stop smoking marijuana. Why would he announce it? Unless it was something for health reasons and because he didn't explain it anymore. That's what made me wonder. There had to be something up with it. It's one thing if you come out and say you're going to stop smoking because of your health. Going smokeless. Don't worry, folks. Snoop Dogg hasn't changed. He's just making more money working for Solo Stove. Makes me laugh.
The Dan Bongino Show
Aunt Retells the Tragic Story of J6 Defendant Matthew Perna
"Rest of your holiday weekend and please enjoy the show. Well if you listen to my show before I don't know if you just tuned in or when you tuned in but I was telling a story about these new January 6 videos which now clearly tell an entirely different side of the story I said a lot of stuff happened on that day we've talked about it candidly fairly on this show for a very long time what bothers me is the left was looking to hide an entirely different side of what happened that day not us it was them doing because they don't want you to see the entire story they want you to see what just died and one of the stories is about a really tragic case of a gentleman named Matthew Perna and here to discuss that is a good friend and a real warrior his aunt Jerry thanks a lot for taking the time we really appreciate you coming on today thank you for having me on well we met through police tapes this movie we did and I remember seeing you on the Dinesh had sent me kind of a screener rough cut of the movie and I'm watching you talk about Matthew and what happened to Matthew and my wife I looked over and she couldn't take it neither could I it was such a horrible story if you could tell the audience what happened with Matthew let's and yeah just just tell them what happened your your version of it is really kind of tough to listen to but everyone needs to hear it well Matt went to the Capitol on January 6th he thought going he to was be part of a celebration that day the crowd was big and he got you know into the crowd and it was announced that Mike Pence had certified the election results it wasn't exactly what what he had planned and as the crowd moved forward they went to the Capitol and he was in a huge crowd of people people and he did go in he went inside a door that had been previously opened he walked around inside the building filming from his phone and he walked out he went back to his hotel he made a live Facebook video talking about the day the video is still visible on our website he was very calm and cool just talking about the day and he he made a comment that he said Mike Pence proved himself to be a traitor today and he said but don't worry don't worry this isn't over yet and that was basically the way he said it and about a week or so later I'm sitting on my couch in Florida maps up in Pennsylvania and I saw a post Facebook that said the FBI had posted pictures of people from January 6 so I clicked on the link and I was scrolling through the photos and lo and behold there's Matt's picture and I was speechless I didn't know what to do so I called one of my brothers up in Pennsylvania and I said you need to go to Matt's house first thing in the morning his picture is on the FBI website so six o 'clock in the morning warning my brother shows up at Matt's house and Matt already knew that his picture was there and he and he had contacted a retired police officer and asked him what he should do he told him to call the local office saw the FBI in Newcastle Pennsylvania so at nine o 'clock in the morning that's exactly what Matt did and Matt seriously thought this was all a huge misunderstanding he just needed to explain that he didn't hurt anybody he didn't break anything and he thought this would be resolved and so the FBI came out to talk to him and I had a couple of my brothers there present as witnesses and they listened to Matt's story and they made it seem like yeah I was just a misunderstanding and they left and Matt called me and I said you know I don't like the sound of this I said I'm coming home so I a got on plane and I flew home that week and I said we need to get you a lawyer and we did we got him a lo lawyer and and behold the FBI showed up and arrested Matt that week while I was there and they took him in and they processed him and they may let him go he was not placed in custody he was told he had to report to somebody if he were to leave the was charged with four misdemeanors the regular ones the rating disorderly and conduct and we met with his attorney his attorney said oh this is nothing this is just a slap on the wrist you've never been arrested for anything before don't worry about it I've got this well then they slapped 220 of the J sixers with the felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and that's when it got serious but his attorney was still saying don't worry this is this is nothing so somebody sent me video that they had of matt outside of the capitol at 2 55 in the afternoon and I says well that's almost 45 minutes after congress adjourned you hadn't even gone inside yet he said no so I thought well there's your evidence right there it's right there on video you didn't go inside you didn't obstruct anything so I sent it to his attorney and his attorney said it nope doesn't matter they said he was there so it was an obstruction and and that video isn't going to help so this was a start of a nightmare a nightmare watching matt worry and deteriorate because the newspaper facebook social media everybody was brutal they were showing the video from january six that everybody has seen countless times and calling it an insurrection and matt's community turned against him his business which he ran through social media was taken away from him all of the accounts were he disabled and didn't want to leave his house anymore and he would have meetings with his attorney that were you would have to go into the attorney's office and they would meet with the judge via zoom because of the whole covid mess and they would cancel those meetings at the very last minute every and postpone them and it would just wear on him because he would prepare himself mentally what he was going to say and they would say up it's been canceled and this went on for quite some time and um that was deteriorating something awful he no longer ran he was a runner he gave away his television because he couldn't stand to see the news anymore with his picture on his dad was who is my oldest brother has parkinson's disease and it was affecting him something awful and matt felt very guilty about the effect it had on his dad and as the year was coming to a close it was almost christmas matt had lost a ton of wait he was vomiting blood at this point and he told his attorney just i just need this to be over what's the best way for this to be over his attorney said plead guilty you're looking at six to twelve months in a federal prison camp minimum security and matt says okay what then i'll that's do and matt was going to he told me i'll turn it into a positive he said i'll teach my fellow inmates help them get their geds i'll work on another degree for myself at the time matt was very intelligent and very giving so that was settled and the hearing was scheduled for march the third and a week before the hearing matt called his attorney and he said i just have a bad feeling it's just a counseling came over me so that's the day my mother died march the third his attorney says well matt i have bad case they've postponed your your hearing again to april fool's day and the prosecution is looking to add a sentencing enhancement of terrorism and this could have taken matt's sentence to nine years in jail matt called me on the phone sobbing that day uncontrollably sobbing sobbing i could not hardly understand him he kept telling me he he loved me kept apologizing to me for losing all of my friends because i lost every friend i almost almost everyone i ever had over this and i told him don't worry we're going to get through this together don't worry god's not going to let you go to jail i promise you this and he told me he loved me i told him i loved
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"one thing" Discussed on The ONE Thing
"The black guy born race in black community black church flex schools colleges like everything comes to work for the first time in georgia institution. The first time he or she has really had to deal with diversity. Is that if you really think about it. I mean because our own time we we spend our time with people have shared experiences so there difference in their similar so fast forward i come to work and now got interact with people who are different and people who have thought had you thought away people have said hispanic people this you make all these assumptions because you never interacted with the media assure you watch. Tv show. He walked estimated at a store medina. Really don't come to work now. I've got mix i can work with. You have lunch laughter standing music. Fm stay off. This happens at work so you think about tune ity for deion is to make us little 'society better appreciate an embrace our differences. All it happens at were. It's huge what it does. Is it also distills a big challenge and simplifies the solution by honing in on where that happens most and if we start to focus on how to make our workplace a more inclusive space where people can achieve great things together and then they learn how to solve problems together and that impacts and wow. It's pretty humbling. The amount of influence that we have. I can't tell you. This is the thing that the biggest hot. I grew up as his ed southern southern religious of christian background and examples of why this reset focus. So we've got to use this gift of People cringe gifted Johnny before i let you go. What's the one thing for people who are listening right now that are in this up people and their leaders of organizations and they know they're facing a reset. What's the one thing they can do to start. Would be to an very kind of hannibal but this. You've got to get comfortable which change just your entire mindset is the days of stability are gone for and so you had better used at change muscle because Everything you know when people say well. This is what it was yesterday. Now you tell me it's different. Yep sure am bednets I can't this longer. The rules are in a handbook that you can go pull innate rules. Five years ago ten years ago and they're going to be rules tomorrow is just those days are gone. And that's probably this this idea that you've gotta be able to embrace change in our relationship would change back to my point out. People don't problem changes just like how you want to be forced upon them. It's going to be forced forever. Net requires a real insys. Shit that is. It's that's the one thing. I love that because you're right. It's the one thing that we can get comfortable being uncomfortable. It makes everything else possible there. You have it folks. Our conversation. With johnny see taylor what stands out to me is that every company has a culture but not all of them are built with intention. The cultures we developed within our organizations have the power to influence the world and if we want world that prioritizes and serves people. We have to build our cultures with care. I'm proud to say that. The one thing is a great example of this when we work with organizations to implement the principles of the one thing into their cultures it does more than increased revenue and bottom line results. It teaches individuals how to think differently about their time in all areas of their life. Criminal and professional. When you help your team prioritize their personal life the whole company wins. If you're interested to learn more about how our team can help yours me. More productive request a consultation by visiting the one thing dot com slash teams. That's the one thing with the number one in the url slash teams and if this episode has brought value who someone you know or care about that would benefit from listening to it. Would you share it with them. And if you're that percent welcome to the one thing podcast click the subscribe button so that all future episodes will be automatically downloaded to your rice. And for all of you. Please consider leaving us a rating and review. We read those and they bring us not just joy because i really do enjoy reading them ensuring how the principles of the one thing and our show or making an impact in your life but also it helps us understand what's resonating and how we can serve you more. Thanks so much for one thing podcast. We look forward to being with you in the next episode.
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"N. e. This episode is brought to you by sovereignty. Sovereignty creates game changing supplements to help your focus and your sleep. I personally have tried to their products purpose. Plus and dream plus purpose. Plus is great. If you feel like you're lacking focus and you want to hire focus throughout the day. They use a blend. Cbd and see bg which is a mood enhancing hemp derived ingredients. They also have seven clinically studied ingredients with some of the world's best adapt to deliver results. You can feel almost immediately and for those of you. If you struggle with sleep you may want to check out. Dream plus a relaxes and calms the mind and body. While helping you fall asleep and stay asleep longer. Ear thing is they have a great guaranteed. And if you're not happy with your results they offer a money back guarantee on your first purchase within the first thirty days of purchase just head on over to sovereignty dot com and use code o. n. e that's code one for twenty percent off your purchase that's s. v. e. r. e. g. n. t. y. dot com and use code. Oh n. e. for twenty percent off your first purchase that challenge. I want to sink into it further. Because i hadn't really appreciated the fact that when you mentioned within the four walls of our organization we are now at a point where clearly those actual walls have evaporated for many of us as we're working from home and so that distance between big c- culture in literacy culture it even bigger because i'm not in the of shared walls where i can be protected from influence or even sheltered at all from that big si even just from nine to five each day. I mean that's huge that challenge the hadn't even really sunk into me until you just said it now has made that worse in some of the downsides to because when at least i used to be able to control your mind an influence your hearts for eight to ten hours a day. Are you working remotely. Not so much. An even if we're hybrid so sherm one day we fully remote other when we did that for the government. Everybody before it was doing and it's har- even that that that that exercising experiment that negation was har 'cause you lose that ability to really keep people in off. And i know that sounds almost military but it is well. It's also opening them up to what's possible because sometimes the culture around us doesn't really shape or serve up possibility in the same way that when you're in a different environment you're able to see differently. He like. Oh wait that's possible here. How people can get along or speak to each other. Respectfully disagree and move forward. It can be anything but when you visit a different organization or a different country and you're confronted with difference and you see people living it that makes it more achievable versus if you see culture written on a plaque on a wall or let's be real maybe zoom screen. Then you're challenge to live it without even really being taught how that's a real tough thing killing you just hit. You just described much more than i would have the challenge of culture it twice suit so much of the boat talking about it because we get that right hope to things naturally flow partly because the people were not culturally aligned will leave elite because one thing that human beings. They don't generally stay uncomfortable for law. They decide is not right for me. You that you can influence people to you know. Get with the program. But if they don't they leave and that's that's what we're hoping happens so in this weird way to carry on with this. As opposed to the big c influencing middle seat. I think the pandemic a shown real light for us on the idea that little c. needs to impact biggs term. We talk a lot about Workplaces lead to a better world. And that's exactly the point. We think that if we use the workplace to have to reset a cultural nor like this is how you disagree with people. Bright burning houses down. We don't fight them. This is the way you do have constructive disagree right. We think that teach people how to do that. Build that atrophied muscle that you described right then we can truly influence the broader society so the whole construct here is acknowledged that the big c. will make a little harder to achieve but commit yourself to little c. Really being the change that our country in anita world needs that make says that's why the culture is bigger than just the culture within your get. It not only makes sense. It's pretty inspiring because it gives us the keys to unlock change on a much bigger scale simply by investing in our people in our culture and inner organizations at work one hundred million people go to work everyday in this country out of three hundred thirty million and most of those other under six million are children are elderly. So i mean we have the ability to truly truly if employers embraced this reset. It means we've got to change some of the way we operate. We've gotta say little things. Like the fact that i don't have children doesn't mean that someone who does we should consider how we give them real paisley these ills that employers can say because look bills is. There's some things we do for the good of all not just see right. We haven't made up a little off. Our politicians have been able to kerala. Individuals aren't doing it so we say work. The employer corporations businesses have an opportunity now to truly truly influence direction of our country or ever right. And that's what what the right in really really made was on you talk about that reflecting on my own experience in my job working for the one thing. I'm really fortunate to work. At an impact based company. Where i get to live the legacy of gary and jay's book and come to work every day on a mission to teach people how to think differently about their time and be more productive and the culture behind that mission. It's influenced me in personal ways in my personal life. it's influenced my relationships. And i learned those principles on the job. I've always been grateful but the way you just described it hit home for me. Because that investment in me is an investment in my family and it's an investment in my community because it has fundamentally changed the way i show up for people because i've learned those things that might work empowered and what a huge gift is such a gift and and we as lawyers have to see it that way even on the bad days because sometimes want law employs. Not but then you say you are being given to get to truly truly impact much further than sort of Times of your business. You really are to your better. Mother your spouse if we teach you how to manage conflict. You're a better neighbour if we teach you how to deal with. People were different than us. So the diversity. Equity inclusion stuff is not about in of itself. It really really can help us change the way people interact one. Kim was thinking even about when i came into the workplace. Not me but let's say the.
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"Great hit a great head deck. Talk to me about how you started to transition from work back to personal time. 'cause this is something that i personally have struggled with and i'm i've been constantly testing what i would do differently so that i can get out of business mode into family mode which is a whole different i noticed this before coveted and then it was really like exhausting me and so i i just stopped scheduling dinners usually six thirty i just stopped scheduling anything after five thirty and i and i would put some time in the oh that i'm going to meditate then i'm gonna go take the dog for a walk during cova everyone walk the dogs. I'm gonna go for a bike ride. Like i just i put something in there. I'll just go for walk. Let's podcast you know. Jump on the treadmill turn on the tv. Something as a separator. I i almost never walk from a zoom collar meeting Into dinner directly anymore. Unless there's it could be avoided. I just noticed a huge change from from changing that behavior in. That's what we stopped having her lives. Was that fifteen to thirty minute. Gusts commute from ought to be stuck in traffic on the train but it turns out we actually liked the time probably those who are on public transportation like the more because they weren't you know i. It was long but they weren't in anything active. I guess the question for you. Who's listening to this is one. How're you doing transitioning from work back to actually your personal life and if you have opportunities from there will can you do actually have some transition to robert based on the conversation. You're having with with different companies. What do you think of future is going to look like when it comes to work. I think if there's one thing that's come out of the pandemic and a lot of the great resignation going on right now is that is that people want more flexibility. I think they saw the day could get results to get things done. During the pandemic skied involved part of some of the request to come back in the office. There can't be done otherwise. Feel a little bit hollow I think they also enjoy that time of their kids. They enjoyed not commuting. And so why do you think they'll be a range I don't. I don't think we're going back to how was before. And i think that you know the there are certain types of businesses that are living service or teamwork otherwise but to all. I think that happened is. We took trends. That were happening already. Pushed him five years ford. And it's rare that we actually go back so i think someone. Adopting a universal approach of there is no flexible work environment. It's it it sort of all or nothing in the office. I think you're gonna run mark cuban's been saying this a lot with respect to Cryptocurrency supply and demand undefeated. And i. i think that particularly yeah. Younger workers urban city who live in apartments probably are happy going the office but those more senior level employees who live in the suburbs and stuff. I if you want to start. You know restricting demand or or saying look. We're not gonna offer something that allow the market really looks for in a very competitive marketplace. I i just don't see how you're not going to be at some disadvantage. I'm i'm okay with the companies. We're primarily going to be working all this stuff but you know for goldman sachs ceo to come out day. This is an aberration that we're hoping affects as soon as possible and then they announced record revenue and earnings while everyone was working from home two weeks later like if i'm the analyst working ninety hours a week i i'm i'm thinking that's pretty disingenuous. And maybe he's more concerned with all the millions of dollars of office leases. That that that we yeah. You don't think of progressive bank is gonna come out and say look if you wanna work ninety hours a week. We're gonna let you do that where you want it at and look interesting. Discussion like my publisher. My book source books like they were always very in person no remote in the pandemic it and i think they looked at it and they said look certain things like when we're deciding on for buying a book. We're having a team meeting like we need to be interested in. That's a really important dialogue. But when one of the editors has to sit down at at the book all day long do they really need to go to the office to close their door and not be distracted. And do that. Like just to have no flexibility in your system just seems to be out of line with with reality these days. You're thinking the future of work is more around the hybrid model if not fully yeah. I'm not saying officers are going away. I think there's a place for them. I think there is going to be a demand for more flexibility in all types of work environments So so i think you're just gonna see more employees looking for that and therefore more companies offering it and then it becomes a little bit of a a a circle. They're saying robert. Where can people learn more about you and your book assured they could find my book on some speaking podcast information at robert glaser g. l. a.'s e e r dot com perfect and. The book is called. How to thrive in the virtual workplaces. You can pick up. I'm assuming amazon also amazon. Wherever books are sold. At this moment. Which i'm sure changes but i yes. You'll have no problem finding it online the audible and on the website to. I actually have a if you don't wanna read the book. I have a one hour course. Basically walks you through the whole book. I'm an thanks so much for investing your time with us jeff. They have at our conversation with robert. Glaser author of how to thrive in the virtual workplace. You can check them out at robert. Glaser dot com and we will link to that in the description of the show as well. Here's the twenty percent that really stands out to me one. If you're a leader in an organization declare what your strategy is going to be. Are you going all back to the office. Are you going fully virtual or are you doing a hybrid. Make the declaration to clarify that means. What specifically does this mean. That's the question. How could this fail. Start to point out the various things that you would need to have in place. Are we going to allow people to work from anywhere. What are our expectations around when people should be available to work. What are our expectations when it comes to how we communicate with one another how we let people know one were available versus not available if we are going to be virtual more often. How are we going to build culture and connection among team members. When will we strategically come back together in person. How does that flow to our budget. These are all the questions that we have had to ask over the past year. The other things that you really need to consider are what are the goals of the organization. What specifically does success look like for the next year based on that. What are the priorities that we were going to say. Yes to in order of priority. Who specifically is responsible for each one. And how do we begin to have a rhythm where every week we connect one on one with our director reports where are direct reports here vision for what they are going to accomplish this week. So they're not only on track to accomplish their monthly and annual goals but they are delivering the piece of the overall business plan that allows the company to achieve their goals. These are all the things that we help with when we work with companies the goals the priorities strategies how to enhance your one on ones. There's more clarity and accountability. If you'd love to learn more about what that looks like we're happy to line time to chat with you just head on over to the one thing dot com slash teams again. That's one thing dot com with the number one in the url the one thing dot com slash teams. If this episode brought value. Please think of somebody that you need to share it with. If you're new to the show hit the subscribe button. So all future episodes will automatically downloaded your device of choice and please leave us a rating and review. It genuinely helps us reach more people and fulfil our purpose which is to help. You better invest your time so you can achieve extraordinary results. I'm rose jeff.
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"Just thought of it you could consider asking yourself is. How could this fail journal. Your answers come with then review. Ask which of these or the twenty percent failures that would drive eighty percent of the impact and come up with solutions to those to start and this is an example. One of the kind of key starts from the book we had someone who went and spent time in asia to help us launch our asia. Business he was traveling around every place he researched. He made sure that there was a hostile with a work. Senator with dedicated internet. The hours that he'd be able to access it that he would have that like he went through a fair amount of work to make sure that he would be set up productively to work not just going hoping for the best and so i think this is two parts. This is both the employee taking that seriously. And then as you said before the employer setting those expectations There's probably a hundred questions that we could come up with. That could be answered around in a flexible work environment. Like what are the standards in how this works so give you. if you're coming to work for acceleration partners we would say look. Here's the type of office set up. We would like you to have yes. We have flexibility can move around. However you need to operate in your sorta home zone here specific. You're hired into your state or your home a hub territory. If you move. We need to know that you can't just move out letting no 'cause again we may have to change. Registrations are we may have otherwise here. Here's what it looks like for time that you can spend away. No we don't cover your visas and stuff to go to australia. If there's no business reason to do that and and so i mean it doesn't cookie but we're actually very specific around like what you can do and what you can't do with the kind of flexibility but the flexibility is all around you know meeting the clients objectives hitting our performance objectives. And you know being responsible about what. You're being asked to do the more that you show that you're able to do that. The higher your trust and flexibility level with the organization ghost. Yeah i love the club. I i wanna talk about the boundaries and the transitions because this was it was one of the most common themes that i heard after people had been normalized working remotely. They felt like the number of emails had gone through the roof. The number of meeting requests went through the roof and they actually felt like they were working more hours. Because 'cause they were they were and there was and there were no boundaries. So the things people need to consider so that they can actually strike some work life counterbalance so there was a perception before the piano. The people work home or slacking off. I think the data showed that they were actually working. More as you said because they don't have the boundaries so those transitions report look work or not work if you live in a two level home leave your phone downstairs an hour before bed very few of us are in a lifesaving industry but you see something at seven. Am you see the ten pm. Lose night asleep. I wish i would take this advice more often. I i don't have my phone in my room downstairs but there's some time i saw something nine o'clock at night where i am writing the reply angry client or otherwise it might dream all night and if i just had not seen it to the morning i would've gotten ten hours sleep so so if you have if you have your phone on your night table and you roll over the morning look at it. There's gonna be stuff to happen overnight and it's not going to be great but it's also not going to be life threatening that is like being yanked in your pajamas into the office. And that's how you're starting your day so leave it downstairs. Turn it off you know. Go to your goal. Checklists morning routine. Otherwise you know. Do that have that at that time. At the end of the day have the dedicated based the dedicated space also serves as a visual reminder to other people in your house that you're in your workspace or your available because sometimes that that is hard for them and you gotta draw those those those boundaries As you said. I think people are are working more because there's available another great kind of tip that i have. I would say like if you're working out of hours because you want to like for example like. I have a big time on saturday morning. When i tend to quiet early kind of catch up on emails. I need to delete or otherwise in like i have the outside the coffee like it's good but if i reply to someone's email on saturday didn't they think they need to respond to me the simplest thing i learned years ago. I used delay delivery so anything that i respond to out of normal office hours. Just because i had the time i wanna do i have that email. Send the next morning during normal business hours in that way. I am not implying someone that you know. They have to reply me to reply to me. There's also some conditioning training if you're in client service or otherwise. Hey you're not like it's a it's late. I'll get back to you in the morning during normal business hours. You know or or or or something like that 'cause otherwise you start training people that you're gonna reply all the time but it's coming on. The leaders did not send all those emails after hours or use. Delay delivery or try to make like you're looking for replied. I remember. it was my first ninety days with the company i partner jay said i refuse to train the world that i am responsive to the channel of email and i asked him what he meant by that and he said every time somebody sends me an email if i reply quickly i train that i'm that i'm responsible. Email and most people feel like they have to respond quickly. If people are waiting for their responses nobody has ever set that expectation. It's a story that they have told in. Reinforce themselves young people learn right. Sometimes we say responding quickly to say that you can't respond is helpful so if you send emails at eight o'clock at night four times in response to get every time sire note. I'll reply to it tomorrow during work hours like the person's going to get the hand you know eventually after that. Yeah absolutely and and the thing that i like about what you said robert you as the leader you set the tone and you cast a shadow to as the leader. First and foremost set the tone. If i email you outside of normal business hours my expectation is not that you reply. Mmediately if i really need you. I'm probably going to call you or text. You right and two then take it upon yourself to try. I love the idea of delay delivery. I had never done that personally. Love that idea by a great side effects to this. If you're an employee by he worked on a bunch in on saturday set them all up at six thirty six thirty five.
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"I think people are missing the morning commute in the afternoon commute like. Don't leave your phone downstairs. I'm i'ma dead get up in the morning. Make your coffee your tea. The paper do your journal do whatever you know. Read your one thing book like have your morning routine before you turn that stuff off because then you're just basically being with into the office and i learned this two years ago like i need. We don't miss the commute but there was something to the unwinding at five. Thirty six o'clock the vision transition. It's really important I get to the dinner table after five hours. 'cause kids were all screaming and i'd be like a so. I go for a walk bike ride. I dunno something podcast Get some exercise meditate I think those transitions are born. And then one last thing and then follow up. It's important to be reliable I think that just because you're working from home if we operate on the same office rule. If you're going to get a coffee if you're going to the bathroom like i don't need to know about it but if it's workday disappear for two hours you should tell someone that i think once they start to question your availability or reliability. It's hard to get back. I think i think the companies should give trust. I but i also think it never hurts to just you know what i'm gimme shouldn't care. I'm picking on my this afternoon. Or if they expect you to be available and you're always kinda can't be found. I think that trust breaks down quickly. That's interesting because again. It's what are the question jaaz me. What are your standards and expectations around. Yes when you're available and how you're going to communicate. And when i think about it yet when we're in an office we would say i'm about to go into a time block for the next hour. If you need anything hold it or hey. I'm about to step out. I've got a doctor's appointment just communicate. And how simple is it just to take that into a slack message or teams message just to manage the expectation. I hadn't thought about what happens if the people begin to question your. Oh yeah it it. It's not yeah like we say like. We have an absolute environment of giving trust i but once trust is broken. It's hard to rebuild and just as you said. You don't have to ask permission any to go the doctor you need to pick up your kid all this stuff. It's all part of our flexible environment. But like it doesn't mean you can't tell someone and you know we were looking at exit interview piece of feedback that we got. Oh my manager is. It's interesting two way street. Like they're always on about my time. Where i am and and and that is not the case in i can guarantee you in this case that this person was not findable a few times and then it. It's i rolled into you. Know where where. Where are you i. Actually there's something my team. I get annoyed. Because i appreciate it. But i get annoyed. That they're always going to get him gonna get you can go. I'm not it but they they actually do out of respect so let me know like i'm going to be the doctors for a couple of hours like you need me and i think that's a just those people are never the people that you can't find their reliable someone to summarize because for you as an individual to thrive if you're going to play a virtual role moving forward or that's full-time or hybrid one. Does your environment support your goals. It's the number. One thief of productivity that people's environment does not support their goals. And when the pandemic i hit being at your dinner table was totally acceptable. And it's become more permanent now so to really ask the question. Where is that bunker. That place that i can design to support me focusing on the things that matter. Most second thing. I heard you talking about. Robert was just tech setup like having a decent like a fifteen dollar light off of amazon that gives good lighting. I mean the number one comment. I get when i get on a call with a company. They comment on my microphone. Yeah the you have the same. When i do the cr. This is the best value. I've tried the three hundred dollar one hundred dollars and it's really good. Yeah that might have on if you go to amazon. Eighty are twenty one hundred eight twenty one hundred. It's about one hundred bucks and it just one. You sound amazing but it just makes you look professional and then i love what you said about the background. I mean you have green screen. This is my legit background but actually designed what is something that people will want to look at. Yeah i mean think about it like we have to standards. We have in a lot of this. Was waived during kobe. But we haven't intercompany standard. Which is if you got after peleton jump into a company meeting. No one cares right. But if you're making a million dollars sales pitch you're talking to a client like they. That's not what they wanna see. It's not the perception of you looking like you. You know you can't breathe and all sweaty like it. It is like i said there. I think there was a large exemption and understanding for kids running around all that stuff. I think now going forward or go back to again. A professional conversation should look professional. Particularly those people are interviewing like. I'm interviewing someone for remote work. And they are a dark dungeon with internet. That i can't hear and at a role where you're gonna sell present like it's not gonna. It's not gonna make a great first impression. I agree with that. Now talk about the organizational side for the leaders who are asking the question. Okay how do we thrive as a remote organization whether that's full-time or hybrid. What are some of the things that they need to consider. Yeah so. I think there's for the stake in the ground. Pick the strategy and then how are you going to support that strategy. How are you going to allocate resources. If you're if you're not gonna have the office. Are you gonna have a a a technique person. Are you going to have certain standards gonna put out there saying you know what you need a synchronous hundred megabit internet. You need a less than two year old laptop with two gigahertz processor. And we're gonna give you two thousand dollars a year to cover the stuff. We recommend a standing desk. Second monitor things that we have productive but so so help them get to that environment and then i think again it is more about supporting whatever those processes and systems are so. If you decide that you're two days in in two days out what's second look like. Do you have training organized around. That i would strongly revisit your on boarding. You're going to have people starting remotely I would also strongly try to answer all those questions up front like. Where can i work. Where can i work. You know another thing that comes up. This was another discussion. I was having with someone around You know doesn't mean that you can bag on around the world and travel. And i think you know i i in our example like the business fundamentals. Come first so like if you have clients in the east coast hours if you wanna go somewhere for the month and you wanna work those hours then you want to use the time at the at that place on the weekends in the mornings you wanna go to europe and heavier mornings in work the night hours and have the weekends and be there. That's great because you're not asking everyone else to reorient around you. But if you're on a you know chuck wagon in the in the great outdoors somewhere trying to use your cell phone dropping of calls like that's probably not gonna work. So i i i. I think that it it's fine. Gene venues and locations. I think this is where again coming to be specific on a positive viewpoint find a chain venues locations but you need to be set up to work and be available in those locations Question that i.
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"Crazy right all right cool so let's five to ten thousand feet in the way you do that. You simply gave us three steps step. One started collection step to spot the differences and then step three temple ties the examples that you can apply them to your life exactly right and i will say about spot. The difference is there's a lot more in the book that we've covered here. There are other techniques you can use to identify the big features identify what stands out and just to give you a taste for some of these in the book. I reverse engineer. Ken robinson's tedtalk. Ken robinson as the most popular tedtalk of all time. And what you find when you reverse engineer. It is that over the course of twenty minutes. He shares a grand total of one. Fact it's got the most popular all times gone viral. And he's got one fact. If i was writing ted talk from scratch. I would assume that. I need to throw in some really crazy persuasive. Facts to get people engaged but in fact what you find you. Reverse engineer his talk he's got grand total of one. What does he do. A lot of. He has a ton of storytelling. He's got a lot of anecdotes and you get that inside not by watching or not by listening by reading the transcript i reverse engineering and looking for the features and the talk against spotting the difference comparing his talk against talks that haven't gone viral. You see where he over representing on anecdotes and under representing on facts. That's what this allows you to do. Is find the key differences identify patterns and utilize that those insights to create something new. I love that. I love that. All right where can people learn more about you. Best place to go to find out more about this book is decoding great. Spoke dot com. The reason i share that website is because you'll get a free course and how to apply the strategies when you get the book anywhere. Just share a receipt. You'll get free course. You can find out more about me. At ron friedman. Phd dot com and up. My company's website ignite eighty. That's eight zero dot com and the reason it's called ignite. Eighty is because over eighty percent of employees or not fully engaged at work. The mission of ignite eighty is to teach leaders science-based strategies for elevating people's performance happiness and health at work a love that while thanks so much for investment time with us my pleasure. Thanks for having me. They have at our conversation with ron friedman. I really enjoyed this conversation. Just because one the the alignment with the one thing and to simplicity of it we all know it feels like to have big goals for ourselves to feel like were meant for more and to not be satisfied with where we are at and it can get frustrating. When you work hard to bridge that gap from where you are and where you think you should be it. It doesn't have to be and part of that is getting out of doing it on your natural abilities. Stop doing it based on how you would naturally approach and start relying on those that have gone before you. Examples of other people are other organizations that have achieved something extraordinary. Reverse engineering how they did it so that you can spot the difference. See what is it that they did differently. What's that difference. That made the difference. And how can i put that into a simple plan that i can then execute in my life or inside our organization based on everything you heard in this conversation. What's the one thing you can do especially by doing it. Everything else would be easier or a necessary. We'd be the type of person who actually pauses the episode and searches for that answer. Because if you do you guarantee that this was actually an investment of your time and not an expense if this episode has brought value to you please think of somebody that you know that needs to hurt shirt with them. It could make all the difference for them. If you knew the show press the subscribe button so all future episodes are automatically downloaded your podcast player of choice. If you would consider leaving us a rating and review it means the world to us. We read everyone that genuinely helps us reach more people and live our purpose. Which is to help. You better invest your time so you can achieve extraordinary results eyebrows. Jeffords we look forward to being with you in the next episode..
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"Be played together. Those that's a very extensive metric. I would actually urge you to narrow it down to three to five items that are easier because otherwise it feels like work is how many i want to narrow it down to okay. I don't know one there. you go. How on the point as the point is when you start this when you start identifying your metrics you do not want a hundred dollars. You wanna have a small doable number so that it feels easy and rewarding and critically. It's not enough just to have metrics you want to evolve those metrics every quarter not going to be the same metrics if there are the same metrics probably not growing as the problem Some other tips. I can offer you about. Metrics is that you also want to have some negative items. So what's the what's the what's the thing that if you're too good at at a certain metric there could be repercussions so did i neglect my work by spending too much with my kids an item for some people that's a way of procrastinating in escaping is is is going too far on that item. It's going to be different for every person but the key is to track the metrics because the more attention you give these metrics the better you'll get in fact. There's a study in the book i talk about. That shows Study at kaiser permanente where they had people come in and follow a diet and what they found was the group that was keeping a food diary on top of the diet lost more weight with the same diet as the group. That didn't have a food. Diary in is because just tracking their food. Consumption made them more mindful of having of the choices they made because they knew they have to report at the end of the day. No missiles like if you if you keep a. I don't know if you do this with your community. I know i do this with my group. Is that will do time tracking and invariably just the exercise of doing the time tracking makes you four forces you to use your time more responsibly. Because if you're not tracking your time you can go and spend a half hour on tick-tock after lunch but if you have to report that on a time she to yourself. You're embarrassed to do that. And you make better decisions. I'm literally sitting here with a cupcake below my desk as you're talking about return them like oh. I so would not eat that. If i had to write that down exactly exactly. That's the point so true become still needed by the way to talk about visualization yellows. Do okay so there is a very interesting study in In the book about visualization. And why it actually makes you worse. If you're not doing correctly. So what are we here. The internet nonstop visualize success visualized success. Right what happens when you visualize success. Is you actually less likely to be successful. So i'll give you a study that backs us up. This is a study done out of ucla where they had introductory psychology students about to take midterm rupe. One divided them into three groups group. One was told to visualize themselves getting a great score group to was s to visualize themselves studying for the test and group three was asked to just track the number of hours that they spent studying and what they found was compared to the other two groups. The group that visualize getting a high score did worse than the other two groups. Why because when you visualize success you are temporarily stated you feel the the emotions the positive emotions and satisfaction that comes from succeeding. You don't do the work in contrast visualizing yourself doing the work makes you more likely to follow through and and it's part of it is because you're now frontloading decisions. You're not thinking about. Oh what do i. What am i going to need to study. What do i need to go because you visualize yourself doing the work. You've frontloaded the decisions you're more like execute and you're more likely to be present. Which is why. I love your example. So you are visualizing yourself before you leave the office being present with your family your front wondering what you'll need to do the decisions. We need to make hydrophone maybe as those types of things that make you better equipped to follow through so that you can actually be with your family when you get home. There's another tie here that i'm realizing what the one thing when people do a four one one when people in companies adopt this model where it's no longer just. Here's your annual goals. But they've got a break those down into monthly goals which they bring down into weekly activities that weekly goals not weekly results weekly activities. Sometimes they struggle at the beginning because turning a result into the activity they will do to drive the result. They're not always clear how to bridge. The gap in their mind is not wired that way yet a once. They are in their clear. It's not just going to accomplish this thing this week. It's either the tactical things i will do. They will lead to me accomplishing that to the point that i can open up my calendar and showtime blocks where. I'm going to do those things now. They're having a relationship with their goals. Now they're becoming the person they need to become to achieve what they want to achieve. And i love that. Because what you're doing there is. You're forcing them to make the connection between the outcome and the behaviors which is what really were doing. When we're quantifying our our metrics refined our metrics were forced to think about. I didn't ask you. How would you feel if you felt more present. I'm sure that'd be great. I don't care. But i care about is. What are the behaviors that define presents for you. because then i can measure and i can quantify anything. I'm a researcher. So i believe we can quantify anything as long as we had specific enough with our questions. I love that. I love that. You've got an interesting story in the book about tender and how that relates to decoding greatness. Walk us through that. So how tender gets good at figuring out who you're going to find attractive. Is it asks you to rate a few people at the beginning. You have to swipe right if you like them swipe bluffing. You don't like them and then with tinder does is. It takes the examples of the people you have found attractive and it looks commonalities and will make it. Makes hinders so powerful is it's avail is able to through its algorithm identify. Commonalities that you consciously may not even be aware of so you may be swiping right or left depending on what you consider attractiveness but what tender could then identify is perhaps all the people you've selected our particular height or have a particular personality characteristics or have something in their profile like spicy food that you had no idea that was the thing you found attractive and with that teaches us is that how algorithms get good at identifying patterns is having examples without the example of the people that you found attractive tenders algorithm is fairly useless. Same's true for all of us. We need those examples of greatness so that we can work backward to figure out what makes them unique and obviously identify. Some of those patterns temple ties them. Execute against them involve them it. All starts with the collection and that tender story illustrates that so powerful same is true for spotify by the way spotify had scrape refused. Spotify spotify. i do every morning when i jump rope. Do you use discovery. Weekly no pam about the blow. Your mind seduce. You gotta look up discovery weekly. Every monday spotify will select for you. This is just for you. A selection of songs that is based on the songs you have listened to and light in the past it's using an algorithm to identify the features of songs that you may not even be aware of make those songs interesting to you and if you go through that for a few weeks beginning of may not be perfect. Go through a few weeks and you like the songs within discovery weekly. You're training your algorithm to select songs for you. I can tell you every monday. I get a good ten solid songs that are in my collection that i never would have found in a million years had not been for that. Algorithm is a discover weekly or discovery weekly must be discover weekly then so i just searched discover. Weekly your weekly mixed tape of fresh. Okay i'm gonna there you go. That's my day on fridays. There's new release radar if you look that up. Those are artists who whose songs you've liked in the past anything. They've put out that week. That shows up on new release radar. It's good it's good for. That's how i built my jump rope. Mix overtime is listening to certain artists and having them recommend other ones in the ones. I really like throw into the playlist and then i just go.
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"On what. Your values are being willing to say. Great i get. That is the approach that most people do. But what's the approach. That's right for us. It's an alignment with our values. In the moment. We stopped doing most of the things. We're doing our revenue went way up. It was crazy. And i would tell you that. What's interesting about that insights that you had that is completely on. Point is to embrace your preferences so in my case. I don't try to write like lag. While but i do like certain elements that he uses But if i were to try to mimic it it wouldn't work and the reason it wouldn't work for me not just because people now expect the glide walian formula but for me i find the long stories. Don't hold my attention as well as they might rather people. I find myself flipping through the pages to see what the actual insight is no. I have raised that about myself. Which is why. My books have a lot of stories. But they're super short. Because i want to get to the actionable insight. And i want to show you how to use it and i had some people might consider that as not as failing the willing formula or as you said that you were failing at internet marketing. But you know what i like. It and it makes me distinctive. So that's what you want to embrace his. You wanna find a formula that works for you. And it's to be part five part somebody else's formula two parts and other formula and then and parts you. Yeah so. I want to pivot this to how somebody can use this in their personal life as were huge on setting goals were big on accountability and a lot of people struggle to track their progress on personal goals. Easy if it's about reducing debt or losing weight at that's numerical. It's easy but when it's something like how do i become more present with my family. How do i become a better husband. Father wife mother. Whatever it might be. You have an approach for this. Yeah so that first. Half of this book is about reverse engineering. The second half is about how to get good stuff. So how do you apply all the insights. We have firm skill building to shrink the gap between your vision and ability and that can be applied to everyday life as well so the first chapter in the second half of the book is called the scoreboard principle in the scoreboard. Principle is simple anything you measure. You are likely to improve on. And it's because numbers have a remarkable hold on our attention and there are evolutionary reasons for this in the evolutionary past. If you did not pay attention to numbers you were much. So if you didn't pay attention to how large a tribe was that made you vulnerable if you didn't pay attention to which quantity of food was larger. You didn't pursue it so we are instinctively focused on numbers. In fact neurologists believe there is a unique area of the brain that is responsible for numerical tracking that is consistent across species. Not just humans species and you can leverage that this is by the way why numbers are so addicting to us. This is why we're obsessed with our facebook count. And how many people re tweeted are tweets. And how much money we make. Even when we reach a certain point where comfortable we continue to optimize for money. And it's because unless you know what you're optimizing for you're going to fall to the default and in our society its money or it can be followers or could be influenced some level and you mentioned how much easier it is to get better at weight or income or whatever the case may be that numerical and so the key here is to make miracle the thing that you wanted to succeed at and track your performance. You want a game affi- at for yourself so indicates the presence with your family. I would ask you what are the features of being present with your family. What are the specific behaviors. That that might include. It might be reading a role. Can we actually dive into this. Because i'm in the middle of a sixty six challenge on this. Okay let's do it. Yeah so i tell you why it matters. My daughter said something to me three or four months ago. She said daddy You care about your work more than you care about us. I mean talk about straight to the chest. And i was like i. I asked question. I said honey. what are you talking about. She just restated that you care about your work more than you care about us. Why do you think that. And she said well. I watched how much time you're working. And i see how much time with your with us. You work more than you're with us. Which means you must value your work more than you value us. She's a by the way. Okay daddy's in trouble. And i firmly believe communications the way it's received not the intent so iona which led me to when we launched our last sixty six day challenge with our communities. I i need to as it gets. Bell love me. I need to form a habit that allows me to be more present with them so it started by mijas saying yes once a day when they would ask if i could play. Instead of saying no daddy's doing the dishes i would just say yes and drop it. But i even found that that wasn't sufficient enough to drive the result and so now i'm at the point where staring at the door in my office when i walk four. I get to walk out that door. I have to visualize myself being present with the family. Because if i can knock that domino down and actually prepares me to be present with them. Now take that as background. And let's dive in and figure out how we make this more numerical. That's great now. I will say that. We should circle back visualization. Because there's a section in the book on that that i think you'll find thing but in your case i want to ask you to reverse engineer. What are what's the perfect day with your kids. Let's take a weekday. let's take a weekend. 'cause there are a lot of variables there the perfect week weekday weeknight. And what what is spending time with your kids mean in terms of your actions. Sure perfect week day would be when i get back from the gym in the morning. The kids are still sleeping. they would wake up. We'd baggage other kiss each other. I would help them make breakfast. And we would have a conversation about the day while they make breakfast and we would sit down and we would actually eat breakfast together. Then they'd be off on their own to go get ready for school. I'd be getting ready for work. And we'd gather and hug and kiss each other once more before they get in the car and they're off to school and then when they get home and i get off work. I truly am off work. Phone is not on me. I am actively engaged and playing with them and really having a moment with them. Length is less important than the fact that it is high quality. While.
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How many of you have done a four one one but you did not time block those priorities if so put me so. This was super interesting when we started When we were over the course of time as we've been learning how to better help people have the one thing. We got people to start updating a weekly four one one yet. People still weren't achieving their priorities and when we dug in and tried to identify why it was so simple. People did four one one but they didn't time block their priorities. It's wider model. Is identify your one thing time. Lock your one thing. Protect your time block identifier. One thing. that's what the four one one helps you do. What are those priorities. In order priority. Time block them. Make sure your calendar reflects them then. Once it's on there now we get to work on. How do we actually start to say no to things for a select period of time we say yes to what matters most. Are you still updating a weekly four. One one will or no. I did one probably three weeks ago so now. Okay i'm not. No you got two paths here and this is for everybody before one is eighteenth domino. Is that domino. The could knock over the leaning tower of pizza and while the leaning tower is in fact leaning. None of us could run a knock it down. It's too big so for a lot of people they hear of the four one one and say that's going to be my one thing i'm gonna start there. Will you might be there and you might not be so every single person on here. You need to evaluate if four one one is the correct domino for you right now if it is. Awesome immense clarity. If it's not give yourself permission to go smaller because well when you fire up your computer. What's the first thing you do. First thing i do is well. I got to meditate. Read before fire Beauty and i purposely avoid my email. So i'll actually go now many of you on here when you fired computer. The first thing you do is you check your email. Give me a number one in. 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"Clarity to living in chaos out of that shift. Yeah it's palpable. The purpose of today is to bring us back to the basics. The things the time the The timeless simple truce having time off adding time blocked free one thing having time blocked plan and everything else is everything else. If you wanna run around the rest of the day like a chicken with your head cut off showing up to every meeting. Checking email multitasking. You but you won't. You won't do it because once you know what it feels like have time blog. Free to do what matters most once. You have time blocked to plan to make sure you have real clarity and perspective you. Just don't go back so let me ask you a question out of everything when it comes to time blocking. Where do you need help. Most right now put that answer in the box. Anything related to work so michelle when you say anything related to work. What does that mean exactly sticking to the time. Lock blocking time out for your one thing committing to it on protecting it Quantifying the time needed to block like that staying on track protecting the time block. Okay cool so this is this all certainly very aligned and this. I'm really glad we have will. Here today goes easing in your shoes. It's all the same thing so well say hi. Everybody thanks for having me your best vanna white. My friend nominee joe and obama way. I doesn't struggle struggle saying now so good so good so well. How can we invest our time with you. What would bring the most impactful most impact Man i just don't be to stick to what i've learned from from an one. The one thing. Publication is lovely book going back to it as a reference. But i'm still not there yet. I love with zeta about tasting real clarity. That's what i'm after. I don't know who get that now. But i would to. That challenge accepted when you say what you've done so far. What have you started doing. Well i started going through some of the courses in in mature area. I did my full one. But guess what i forgot about it. And it got loss of where on my computer so I'm about bear on bear having multiple one and not looking at when it when it comes to time blocking largest. I'm going through the checklist. And when i'm asking these questions to will for everybody else who's here. I'm asking these questions of you as well. So we'll between now and the end of the year. Do you have all your vacation box. Always oh yeah okay. Cool for everybody. Who's on here if we look at your calendar would we see your vacations blocked between now and the end of the year. Give me a yes or no in the chat. Box just helps me know. Where did you always do this well. Or is this a new thing that you've implemented man with four five year at least four or five years. Whatever always bought the last two weeks of the year and our first year winning at. It's is big for us. Oh i love that. What value has brought for you. Oh man it's the value. Add say is knowing that my wife. And i have time set aside for just us. We don't have keys but really no one else is gonna in our lives to those types that best great value for us. I love that bella back. Do you have time blocked on a weekly basis. Even if it's just wants for your one thing whatever you deem to be the highest priority yes. I felt hesitation there. I actually no no. I think. I know about one thing is sometimes. It's like you just mentioned earlier that his shifts. But when i look at my calendar no it's not no okay cool. I appreciate the transparency. I don't lie and trying to get away with what man south bad. I am at lie counter to my wife's belief. I'm actually pretty good at listening. Zell on a weekly basis. Do you have time blocks to plan. I have a better mccallum. Yes and what do you not saying there that you should be saying. I don't stick to it. The models will stick okay quite so so you're getting the things blocked but you're not necessarily sticking to it Let's dive in on the one thing. Do you have a consistent one thing or does it shift okay knowing your schedule. I'm wondering what's time that you can block. What's that ideal time for you to invest in your one thing that you actually think you can stick to what comes to mind. You mean the time of day. Oh the morning. The morning i keep for actually me in reality. I my mornings sacred. It's like i keep those open. I'm not putting on it but akihito so block for openness. Okay that's fine so you have time to invest in what you choose. It's just not as focused as intentional yet. Yes that's what time do you leave open for yourself in the mornings from a eleven as pretty good and if i had followed you around with a camera for the last thirty days how often would icu actually honoring three hour block versus letting other things creed a very few times as i say i. It's it's time that. I keep open until i need. What's up but it's now so very few times that you honor it or very few times that you let something in burr. Few times at our honor. Awesome out of curiosity for those of you. Who are here. How many of you is will describing you if so put me in the chat box majority of people. You're in good company my friend so i keep reinforcing this because we need to. We need to celebrate progress over perfection. You're not going to be perfect. I'm not perfect. And i get to publicly on a weekly basis and light years better than i used to be..
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