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Lets Be Frank Podcast - Men's Mental Health
A highlight from Shadows of a Silhouette - Fortune Favours The Fortunate
"Welcome to Let's Be Frank, the men's mental health podcast. Join us as we break the stigma, embrace vulnerability and prioritize mental health in men. Together, let's use your voice. Guys, welcome back to Let's Be Frank, the home of men's mental health. Today, we have got a brilliant rock and roll quarter in the house that go by the name of Shadows of a Silhouette. And the sound is a fusion of alternative, rebellious and personal vibes. Coming from the heart of England, this band has released over 25 original tracks on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon. We're joined by Nathan Tyler, who, along with friend Greece, have been creating music for four years, turning out more than 50 songs on SoundCloud and major platforms. Drawing inspiration from legends like Arctic Monkeys, Bowie and Nirvana, the music has even graced BBC introduces for the East Midlands. And they've rocked the Metrodome in Nottingham. They've also played the Quarry Stage during the Wyandotte Festival in front of 2000 fans, an experience that fueled their passion for music. This year, they have hit the main stage at Wyandotte Festival, producing an unforgettable show. So guys, girls, stay tuned as we dive into the guys world and discover what drives this band's unstoppable journey. But as always, let's check in with resident host Mr Ryan Smith. How are you doing, mate? What an introduction that was, eh? I'll tell you what the hell's going on. This is like the big time now, isn't it? This is just like, I'm going to say so rock and roll, but that's like, I think that's more like 60s rather than the 90s, I don't know. Anyway, I just know I'm older than most of this band put together. So, yeah, no, absolutely brilliant to get these guys on. I'm feeling good. Started watching the ice hockey today, you know, a little bit late jumping on with you just because of the ice hockey. But do you know what? I'm in a good place. So, yeah, guys, welcome to the show. How are you all doing? Well, thank you. Thank you for having us on. You say you're a lot older than us all put together, but we all know, mate, you're still 21 in that. Hard to show if it was, but we break through and still look like a one year old messing about. Bless you, bless you, bless you. Panthers or Steelers? Don't mention that second one. No, if you mention that second one, you mention that second one and we'll just stop this right now. All right. No, no, no. I didn't realise. That's all right then. That's all right then. Yeah, yeah, Panthers, Panthers through and through. No, but guys, honestly, welcome to the show. We've been throwing a couple of conversations back and forth for a bit now and it's finally here. So, you know what? Guys, introduce yourselves. Well, we're Shadows of a Silhouette and, of course, we're a four piece band from Derby. We just, Derbyshire, we try and focus on sounds that are a bit more like authentic, like through and through. Even all of us playing our own instruments on songs like you wouldn't think that to be something that you'd be lacking in the music industry. But actually, nowadays it's more dominated by electronic simulated sounds. I'm Nathan Brown, the lead singer. I've got Rhys Carter, lead guitarist. And Ferg's in Corfu at the minute, but we've also got Tyler Anderson, our drummer. Fantastic. So, yeah, guys, I managed to listen to your latest track that's going to be released, I think, later this month. You know, well, later in September. We're recording this at the beginning of September. But, you know, you're going to be releasing that one. I'll tell you what, I was listening to my car on the way back from Mansfield earlier and it's catchy and I get it. You know, it's I think it speaks. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to that being released. It's my personal favourite song that we've written for a long time. Yeah, it's fun to play in all life. Yeah, it's quite political. It's a banger. But, you know, it's really like a partial political. It doesn't really speak to supplement anybody else, any political party or belief system. It's more for the common man, isn't it? Yeah, it's just more for the common good side of politics. The politics doesn't actually get spoken about in politics. No, no. And, you know, I actually thought, you know, it actually reminded me of sort of Age of the Shadow puppets. Like Shadow puppets? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's that sort of... You're sorry? It's funnily enough the first band I ever saw live, actually. Yeah, that's why it's had that sort of beat to it, that sort of rhythm to it. And it just, yeah, you know, it was good, it was good. Well, I'll take that. Anyway, no, absolutely. What was the whole process behind writing that song? So, what was your thinking behind it and kind of how long has it taken you to... Well, I had a riff kicking about from the start of lockdown, really. Obviously, we couldn't practice, so... We were writing other songs. Got me loop pedal, yeah, and got the riff down. But we didn't really touch it until about, when was it? Like January? It started kicking it about, didn't we? We got some drums on it, and then Nathan wrote, as he does with most of our tracks, wrote all the lyrics for it. And, yeah, it's... It came quite quick, though, didn't it? It was just one of them, like, kick your fingers movement when you and us rehearsing. And then it just, we just all looked at each other and just thought, this is awesome, this. And then Nathan's writing side to it. It just... Put the structure together. Put the structure together, and then, like I say, it was just about... The words just came straight out. It's this one. Yeah, it's what we opened up the main stage with one or two as well. Yeah, it's brilliant. It's quite... Yeah, like, straight in your face, isn't it? Tempo, it's got tempo, it's got attitude. It's like hitting a knockout punch in the first round. It is a cracker, it is truly a cracker. It is really a cracker. Yeah, the lyrics, the lyrics. And it was, as you say, it... It's just the whole idea of that track. Straight in your face. Yeah, that's what we wanted. It's a song to get people's attention, really. And then it's... You know, who are these? And then it's... We've got you in the palm of his hand then. Crick up your ears. Also, it's an expression of that... Those little thoughts we all have about, you know, on a daily basis, when we're considering what's going on in the world around us. It's just a... No. With our ability to create media, to add into the great ocean of it, we think certain songs come out in principle, or because of principle, that something to have been spoken like that, or in a way, just for some... It can be heard from somewhere by someone. It's just about the rich going rich and the poor going poor early on, isn't it? Well, it's about the trap. We're all trapped. It seems like we're... The fucking mouse trap's already come down over us, and we're all stuck, you know. But life keeps going by for everyone as an individual. But there's a stranglehold on a lot of us, personally, as people trying to get through this world, but it's so slow for some people who don't have to suffer it. So, looking at kind of that... You know, looking at the song, are you speaking from your own sort of backgrounds and stuff as well, your own experiences? I think it's kind of impossible not to, of course. Like, when you are writing Straight From the Heart, not all of our songs are, right? Because sometimes it's nice to write a song about an idea that doesn't paint a memory. It's just... But then again, on the other hand of that, a lot of our tunes are personal anyway. Especially over the last couple of years, with what's gone off with Reece and Nathan and stuff like that. So, it's a way that I sort of... I'm sure Nathan's probably the same as to get these thoughts that are in your head. I have to get them out on paper and write them down about lyrics or poetry and then channel that into some of that music, which then becomes something tangible. The thoughts that you've got in your head, for me, it's the perfect way to sort of... Say what you want over it. Yeah, get it out and... To make room. Then it becomes relatable, because although it's personal to you, other people can then relate to that and hear what you're saying. Like, yeah, I know what you're on about here. Well, certainly we want to know what it feels like when they can hear the fact that we're getting something off our chest in these songs. Yeah, yeah. Because it's not whitewashed at all, really. We all work full -time, full -time jobs. We didn't go to uni or study music or anything. We came together because we all... Look like rockin' art. Look like rockin' art. We think it's one of the best things in the world. It's a freedom from life. That's good the thing about music, where it doesn't matter what race you are, doesn't matter what religion you are, everybody can come together and just be in the same field or at a venue and enjoy the same thing. Everything goes out the window. It's a universal language. And there's a lot of culture where we come from, a lot of working culture of people working really hard, raising families, but not really making enough time for themselves. We come from an area in the East Midlands where lot a of insufferable mental health is right there on the surface, but people don't even talk about it. They all know what's going on with each other. I know Jack's got a question for you, but obviously we've just jumped on beforehand and where I live, it's actually, what, five, ten minutes from... Not even ten minutes, is it, from where a couple of you guys live? So I get what you're saying. You're looking at the smaller sort of outlying villages that are ex -coal mining places. It's a similar sort of state in Wales. It's a similar sort of state in Lancashire, Yorkshire and things like this. And it's these forgotten roots. And listening to that track that you've shared with us, you can really hear what you guys are trying to achieve. So it's more of an observation rather than a question. But I know Jack's got a question for you. Before we come, because obviously we're going to look at your personal journeys and kind of delve into there and prod around a little bit, but while we're on the subject of why not, I want to ask you guys, how was that experience going main stage? It didn't even seem like that much of... There was a feeling of being out of place, but also at the same time being exactly where we're going. Yeah, it wasn't imposter syndrome, but you feel like... The best thing is if you feel like you've earned it, but then you also feel that if you're not getting nervous for a gig like that, I think you've got to get nervous to some degree, because at the end of the day, you're entertaining people and everyone's around on you to put a good show out. And then we just hope we deliver. And that's like, it doesn't matter how much of a buzz we've got to have to play. And the first thing I said to people closest to me was, did you like enjoy it? It's not about us, it's about the fans. Yeah. But the experience is just... What was that feedback like? Oh, brilliant, yeah. Absolutely awesome.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "palm" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Generally, yes. That's why he looked into an eclipse. Yes. And he's a moron. Yes. Uh, a new book reveals while Trump almost never wore a master in the COVID, uh, pandemic, even prior the development to of effective vaccines and treatments for the infection, he was worried about his makeup. Yeah, that's according to the Hutchinson. Yes. Uh, he, they describe, she describes Trump's visit to an Arizona facility Honeywell in May, 2020, where he went maskless, despite the fact he, uh, she, he tried on a white mask before the event and asked staffers for their opinion. I slowly shook my head. The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it. I pointed at the straps of the 95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mess, he saw they were covered in bronzer. He was not happy with that. Why did no one else tell me that? He said, I'm not wearing this thing. Trump was almost never seen wearing a mask. After that, the press would criticize him for not wearing a mask, not knowing that the depth of his vanity has caused him to, uh, reject masks and then millions of his fans followed suits. So millions of his mega morons also didn't wear a mask and, and died and seen and a million of them died. That was the punchline for that. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, rich in Palm Springs. Hello, rich. Hi, Stephanie. I wanted to say, I'm sorry about your mom lost mine seven years ago and still not quite over it. So, um, it, yeah. Um, so we all know that Lauren Bulbert's not that bright. Right. And we know, Yes. And we also know that if you say Beetlejuice three times, that's when you're correct. Right. So maybe she thought that, you know, in helping her friend that was there with her, um, rub three times and you get penal juice. Oh, rich Louise. I mean, really? So Harry, I blame Harry Lippman for all of this. Are we all just going to work blue for of the rest the morning? I blame Palm Springs. Yes. It's a dry heat. No, it's getting to him. I think there is a theory though. If you say Lauren Bulbert three times now, Beetlejuice appears. Scary. Okay. Judy's, Judy is staring at me judgmentally. Okay. Gay in Colorado wants chime to in on our spider that Jody has set free to run with lots of former Fox at a farm. Yes. Hello. Good morning. How are you? Go ahead. So I am thanking Jody for saving that poor spider's life. You know, my husband is a tradesman and of course he's in call spaces a lot and those spiders are all around him. And so we wanted you to know they do talk to each other. Can I just say, if that was the last job on earth, Frangel would not take it. You know, I, I am so phobic. I'm so phobic. I, you know, they're in the bathtub in the morning and they're giant. I And think, okay, now I'm going to have to do something. I'm sorry. There's just something about spider webs giant. What kind of giant spiders do you have in your tub? Like a tarantula? A quarter, quarter I don't know. I don't know what vintage, I don't know what you are, but don't you feel like any of us, Oh, well I'm going to blow my cover. But if you live through the seventies, just we have an irrational fear of running away from a tarantula into quicksand. And then somehow if you got out of that, you'd end up in the Bermuda with triangle piranha, right? Yes. With thank you, Jody. That would be the final thing. Oh, thank God I'm here safe in the Bermuda Triangle. What are those fish? Thank All right. you. Well, I always put, put something up in front of you for the spiderwebs. That's my advice. Jody, Jody, waves her arms in front of her before she walks into the studio. I do it when I house. leave Are my there any neighbors watching? Yes. Okay. Or maybe I should get you like superhero shields to come in and sword like a plastic sword and a shield or get rid of the spiders or get rid Karen in Chicago. Hello, Karen. Hi. Good warning. All I can think now is that there are millions of American men that are naming there. You know the Beetlejuice. What was the latest? You know, straight you little minxes. What was Jojo from Jersey yesterday? Dry rubbing the man's Something like that. I don't know. Oh, Lordy, Lordy. Well, you know, it could be said Lauren that Boebert was just being a liberal helper. Yes. Right. Yes. Yes. Wouldn't you give a hand to a friend? You know? Yeah, exactly. She misunderstood that song. She did. She did. Okay, so I have to say, you know, yeah, there's so much misinformation out Out there. And I just think that there are people that just kind of hear these things and then repeat sound bites, without having a full understanding. So I think that like in the absence of mainstream media, we do have be to kind ready of when we're having these conversations. We may not win over, you know, the people that are full on MAGA, but there are people in our lives that just are not paying as much attention. And, you know, so like you hear people like that listen to the right wing talking points, talking about the open border. And in actuality, Joe Biden gave them four opportunities to close the border. And I think there was one count that was out there that only two Republicans voted to close the border. By that was another like just the stream of bull. Donald Trump got away with a meet the press. He said 15 people million coming across the border every time he just pulls numbers out of his ass. It's like not even right. I mean, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, I mean, it's just we have to because they're just not going to do it. I mean, they're just doing the same stuff that they did in 2016. I love Chris Hayes and Joy. They're always steadfast in it. Nicole does a pretty good job of it. But there's so many people that it's just like, that is a perfect opportunity to educate the public and they just let it go. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Anyway, that's why you are guys so important. And we were saying that's why we can tell Nicole Wallace has Harry Lippmann on all the time because they're both little potty things. We don't appreciate working blue around here at the Stephanie Miller show. I mean, you know, an A. people. OK. Listen, I know exactly what I can and cannot say on this show now. Yes. Yes. Yes. all You see them anyway. Love you. All right. Love you. OK. Bye bye. Yes. Speaking of discipline, information, Chris, information. My point is, I know we all thought, like, oh, when Ailes died left and then when he died, like, oh, maybe Fox will blah, blah, blah. It's not. That's all about the money. Yeah. Now that Rupert Murdoch has said high they have ratings. Yes. Yes. Yes. It'll still be Motel Fox. Yes. Yes. Hi, I'm Ailes Roger from Motel Fox. Oh, dear. You know, my pappy used to say, always be looking for a fox in the henhouse. I never understood exactly what he meant until a couple of weeks ago. So if you're considering asking a coworker if she'd like to go to Motel Fox for a little fair and balanced on the side, I'm here to tell you to think about it because it might just cost you more than $39 .95 a night, even if it's from a place you invented and built with your own two hands. Not that I'm bitter, but honestly, who would turn this down? I mean, I'm not exactly Han Solo or Luke Skywalker. Okay, I'm Jabba the Hutt. Haha. So as you're traveling this summer and you're thinking about where to take Ms. Asia, go ahead and visit us here at Motel Fox. We'll still be here, even though I won't. I'm Roger Ailes and we'll lead on the ride for you. Ah, thank you. Thank you very much. Plan the hits. Okay, John Fugleson coming up in just a few minutes, then Fridays with Frangela, 19 minutes after the hour. portion This of the show brought to you by what everyone keeps asking me about on Twitter.
Dateable Podcast
A highlight from S17E3: Where Are All The Dateable People? w/ Evan Marc Katz
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Welcome to the datable podcast. Happy September, everyone. Where did this year go? Flying by. Did we end up in September already? I feel like we're I'm barely writing 2023 on anything. I feel like time always goes so fast. It's like slow in the day. And then when you look at it cumulatively, you're like, how did another year go by? I mean, you just turned 40. But you're now getting closer to 41. Oh, it's so wild. But I get feel like we should close the loop on our Joshua Tree slash Palm Springs trip because we were so excited about going we're doing this like datable retreat, the two of us lay out by the pool and dream big, then a hurricane decides to grace California Southern unprecedented and we were warned that first was like a category four to seek shelter and the desert, you know, high desert was like high warning because of flooding. So we canceled our trip sadly, or postponed, I should say. I know. Hopefully this wasn't a bad omen. It's okay. It's new. We are going in September. It's actually going to be better weather. Palm Springs in August is kind of brutal. So maybe it all worked out for the best. And I will say like ability to get refunded on travel was pretty freaking seamless for this. Yeah. So we were lucky enough. We're staying at Airbnb of U .S. friends. She was able to refund us. We rebooked. Same with my flights. Very easy. So yeah, I was unfortunate. Also, the two days that we were going to be there for the two days of the hurricane. So I'm kind of torrential rain. Kind of glad we didn't do it because, you know, the whole point of Palm Springs is to be in the pool, in the sun. Yeah. We were just kind of going to be sitting at home in torrential rains. Like I'd be flying to a hurricane. Into the eye of the hurricane, which is not the best idea. But this just shows the difference in our personalities. Because when you first called me, be like, do you think we should still go? I remember just being like, you're being super vigilant. I think it's totally fine. It's just, we've never seen a hurricane in Southern California. It's totally fine. And then I turn on the news. It's like, seek shelter. The grocery stores were out of toilet paper, water, everything like chargers, flashlights. Everything was gone. And I'm like, oh, shit. This is like a real thing. If you hadn't said something to me, I would not have thought it was as bad as it was going to be. I will not take credit if my mom did not say something to me. I was also ready to board that plane. So, you know, I think it's just being alert. And I talked to you about the hurricane. You're like, oh, it'll, it won't be a big deal. It'll be fine. So then when she was messaging me, I'm like, no, it'll be fine. And then after I like kind of brushed it off, I did do some research. I'm like, do I really want to go down for this? Like, it really does not look fine. Yeah. Yeah. And also it's like SF was experiencing like the best weather possible. I'm just like, why? But it's okay. We will have our retreat. It's going to be beautiful out. It's going to be amazing. I'm very excited. But the hurricane did not stop us from bringing you the next episode. What would you call him? He's not like a, he's not like an idol. Is he an idol to you? I don't know. Okay. So we got an email from our guest today, Evan Marquette's booking agents, and we get a lot of emails from booking agents, a lot of them, so many, in fact, and this immediately caught my eye because I remembered when I was in the thick of dating, this is probably when I was, I don't know, like 25, 26, maybe 20, actually 26, 27, when I was 25, I moved here definitely wasn't dating was more just like hooking up, having fun, but then got into this mode. All my friends wanted to suddenly settle down and I'm like, Oh, maybe I should try these dating apps also. And my best friend from college that lives in SF Bay area too, she had this random roommate at the time that was probably 10 years older than us. And she had this binder, this really thick binder that was like how to online date. And we were just, we were immersed. Like, I mean, this was okay. Like I, we already said, I just turned 40. So this is over 15 years ago, right? Like this is a long time ago. And this binder was just held the secrets to online dating. I'll call it online dating. It wasn't even dating apps. We had to use match .com, jdate, eHarmony, all those are the old school data gaps. And this guy was the author of the binder, Evan Marquette, and she had gone to his workshops. This roommate, I honestly don't even remember the roommate's name, I will remember her always for introducing us to Evan Marquette. She just spoke so highly of him because she had gone to all his like online dating seminars and she passed the gospel down. She passed the gospel down to my friend. And then we started like reading about him online. We got his eBooks, you know, we started really getting into all of his stuff. And I will say he was one of the first dating coaches that felt like he was really at the end of the day, trying to put you first because before him, I had read all the dating books, why men love bitches, the rules, all the terrible dating books that basically tell you to be someone else. And this was the first time I was hearing you are amazing. You are just taking this, right? Like you are standing for things that you shouldn't be standing for. And it was a very different approach. Like his whole, I guess, demographic is like smart, successful women is his primary demographic. I think everything he says on this podcast applies to everyone, regardless of your gender, your sexual orientation, it's applicable to all. But just to put into context, that is his primary demographic. So I think, you know, like he had a lot of ways to combat a lot of the dating advice that hetero women have been fed for years. I think it's hilarious that the binder is about how to online date. Yeah, it's a physical binder.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Palm" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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"Are you ready to wage a war without end against you? Are you ready to wage that war armed with nothing but bottomless poverty? I didn't think so. In that case, stop talking bullshit. And get yourself some shoes, because the air in here is unbreathable. Money corrupts, and that's not news. Today, it's Black Rock, Vanguard, and State Street. But not too long ago, there's an entity that held even more power than those multinational conglomerates. We're going to take a step back in time to the Catholic Church of the Renaissance and learn how it basically controlled everything it touched and how the game has stayed pretty much the same through the 21st century. We may just find similarities to how banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite wield political power today. Let's get it. Now, before you get your commenting fingers twitching about how I'm being mean to Catholics, know that I'm just talking about a political institution 500 years ago. I'm not talking about Catholicism as a religious practice or the church today. You do you when it comes to religion. This is America. Okay, now let's get back to the Renaissance. One big similarity the old school church has with our tradfi overlords is the emphasis on secrecy. Both institutions are shrouded in mystery. No one really knows their entire net worth or their intentions. Well, other than maintaining the status quo so they can rake in as much money as possible, both the Catholic Church and the banks have covered up scandal and corruption time after time so they can continue business as usual. Back in Da Vinci's time, there are all sorts of rumors of popes and other church officials not exactly keeping up with the Christian morals they were preaching. There is abuses of all kinds, incest, orgies, mistresses, bribery. We're not even talking about the polycule. You name the sin, the Renaissance popes were probably doing it. There is even a pope who supposedly drank children's blood. And that same corruption seems to be rampant within the banks and hedge funds in modern times. JP Morgan was found to be handling the payments between Epstein and the people he was trafficking with. In fact, the number of billionaires with connections to Epstein are startling. What were you doing on the island? And we'd probably hear more about similar corruption and scandals within Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street if they didn't own basically every news organization in the US. But we'll get to that a bit later. For now, the big boys just pay a lot of fines for doing bad things. And that brings us to the first tool you need if you want to control everything. Here's a hint. It's all about the money. Have you ever heard the phrase, money is power? Well, I'm pretty sure the Renaissance Church invented that concept. Most economists reckon the wealth of the modern day Catholic Church is actually immeasurable due to all the priceless artwork, artifacts and the money laundering going on. And the reported $30 billion net worth is still high despite countries going through a Protestant Reformation during the Renaissance and subsequently reclaiming church lands. So just imagine how much land and property the church owned back when Catholicism was the only thing on the Christian menu. Although it's really hard to know for sure just how much cash the pope was raking in during the Renaissance, economists estimate it would be a little over $40 million annually in today's terms. And remember, this income doesn't include the land or artwork they're receiving as gifts or claiming by force. This gave the pope the kind of capital countries are usually playing with. And thus, the church had the same power as monarchs. Some would argue even more. And folks, we may have ditched the funny tights and corsets or maybe you have, but we have the same kind of issue today. Vanguard, Black Creek and State Street manage almost $20 trillion, which is almost more than the U .S.'s GDP. And not only do they control more wealth than most countries in the world, those hedge funds are also managing wealth for countries, which creates a vicious, incestual cycle of corruption. Back in 2016, Forbes reported that the wealth gap is worse today than it was in the Middle Ages. And that's not very hard to believe when we know the top 1 % holds 15 times more wealth than the bottom 50 % of America. And during the COVID lockdown, the 10 richest billionaires doubled their fortunes, while 160 million people fell into poverty. So how did both the uber wealthy of the modern day and the ancient Catholic Church amass this kind of wealth? Well, the church had millions of people tithing 10 % of their income. Doesn't this sound a bit like the interest we pay banks on loans and banking fees? And 10 % is nothing in comparison to the types of interest we pay just to exist in the modern world. The highest credit card is over 30%, and most of us are paying somewhere in the 20s. And because the Fed is raising rates, other borrowing is getting more expensive, too. Student loan rates have increased, and taking out a loan to buy a home is nearly impossible these days because rates have almost tripled. mortgage rates haven't been above 6 % since the housing crisis in 2008. And yet, somehow, it's only us plebs who are paying these kinds of rates to borrow money. The corporations like BlackRock and JP Morgan take out loans with nearly 0 % interest. In fact, the wealthier you are, the less banks deem you as a risk. So you get the best rates. But in reality, this turns into a vicious cycle where the hyper wealthy hoard more money and the poor can't afford to borrow. Right now, the average interest for a personal loan is between 6 % and 36%, where the average interest for businesses is 2 % to 13%. Interest is leveraged against the average American the same way the Catholic Church used to leverage Ursary Usury is the practice of charging interest, and it used to be the biggest sin you could commit. But the church got creative with how it weaponized usury. It didn't go after wealthy banking families like the Medicis, who supplied the church with gifts and managed church money for free. The church conveniently cracked down on the practice so that the lower classes wouldn't have access to the extra capital that would give them the opportunity for upward mobility. It's wild how the past is so similar to our present. Why do you think day traders and TradFi have to keep at least $25 ,000 in their accounts? Supposedly, it's to protect the poor from the volatility of the market. But the way I see it, it's just another method of keeping smart people from changing their economic circumstances. And who do you think pressured the SEC to create that law in the first place? I'm willing to bet it was a giant money manager like State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock. They would like to have a monopoly on trading and hand all of us regular Joes a measly little 0 .01 % or whatever the bank interest is these days. I say no. And I want more than a toaster. And speaking of monopolies, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on salvation during the Renaissance, so people couldn't exactly go around negotiating that 10 % tithing rule or what exactly counted as a sin. It's really similar to how we can't really negotiate modern prices in this supposedly free market. The monopoly aspect is something the church and our wealthiest modern day corporations have in common. Look at the bank failures recently. Despite Jamie Dimon claiming the smaller banks are good for our financial ecosystem, Chase was very quick to gobble up the banks that went under. If we weren't there already, we're scarily close to a bank monopoly. Another way the Catholic Church made money was selling indulgences to rid the nobility of their sins. The Renaissance nobility were up to some shady things too and needed to be seen as moral so they could stay in power. The most corrupt nobles could buy a spot in heaven by donating land or commissioning artwork. Doesn't this feel a lot like government subsidies and contracts for major corporations? Hey, you want to look like you support green energy? Give Elon Musk millions to play with. Oh sure, Blackstone, we'll subsidize your billion dollar debt with taxpayer money because it makes us look like we're stimulating the economy. No problem. Another modern means of absolution is corporations using carbon credits to pay off their climate sins. This is how companies like Exxon have a higher ESG score than Tesla. They know who's palm to grease. Another great way to amass incomparable wealth is to be able to claim yourself as tax -free. If you can pull that off, it's an amazing feat. Just ask the NFL. Throughout history, the Catholic Church found ways to skirt taxation by the state and that practice is alive and well today. Do you think Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are paying income taxes? I hate taxes. You hate taxes. We all hate taxes. But in our current society, we pay them. And it's a little more than unfair that the wealthiest among us are acting like they're tax exempt. Both the mega wealthy and the Catholic Church of the Renaissance controlled education and access to information. So kind of like mind control. The church kept their religious texts in Latin to keep the masses from being able to access it themselves. We already talked about how they also chose a lot of their sins to maintain the status quo in social hierarchy. It's a sin if you don't hit the like button. Similarly, corporate lobbyists have forced the government to slash education funding. That combined with other factors have made tuition exorbitantly high. We already talked about the student loan issue. Most people can't even afford college anymore. And if you take your education into your own hands by trying to stay up to date on news and media, you'll quickly realize almost every media company is owned by major corporations who have BlackRock and Vanguard as their primary investors. So you can't always trust what they're telling you because they have an agenda to stay in power. That's why it's hard to find information on the full extent of the corruption of the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard. I'm sure many reporters have pitched stories that have been shut down by the shady higher -ups. But here at BitBoy Crypto, we're proud to bring you the content that can't be bought by dark Wall Street money. Finally, that brings us to the third way the church and finance sectors control the world. It's not what you know, but who you know. And you know me. And I know you know that I know you. Political wheeling and dealing. And if that doesn't work, position your family members in places of power. Every royal court and government had pupil ambassadors that would ride back and forth through the Vatican and other church lands negotiating with church officials. That sounds a lot like a very early version of a lobbyist to me. And because as the head of the church, the pope had immense power, he was able to recommend marriages, which usually involved installing a member of his family at a high position. Pope Alexander VI married his daughter, Lucretia Borgia, off three different times. He simply annulled her first marriage when her husband was no longer politically advantageous and the Borgias may or may not have been responsible for murdering Lucretia's second husband. Pope Clement VII married one of his family members, Catherine de Medici, to the future king of France, which was a helpful political alliance during a time fraught with Protestant uprisings. This should all sound very familiar because the majority of our politicians, no matter the political party, have familial or social ties to banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite. There are so many examples of this, we can't list them all, but here are a few to sink your teeth into. George W. Bush had an uncle who provided discreet banking services for people in Washington, DC, and his brother Jeb also worked in banking before politics. Then you have the Clintons, whose son -in -law is an investor at a Texas private equity firm. Trump is friends with all sorts of sketchy billionaires across the globe. And look at Jared Kushner. And then you have Biden, whose son Hunter has been a hedge fund principal, venture capitalist, private equity fund investor, and painter. And now we have even more of Jamie Dimon's shenanigans. He doesn't have enough power running the largest bank of America. He's thinking of going into politics? And remember, guys, political corruption is like an iceberg. The evidence we have is just the tip due to how good they are at covering their tracks. And the Renaissance pope's habit of just making princes is exactly what our financial overlords do today. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor out of nowhere, and Pope Alexander VI made one of the sons he had with his official mistress, a prince who supposedly inspired Machiavelli's The Prince. I don't think he inspired the artist, though. BlackRock and the likes are making princes, too. This is where we get into the modern day campaign financing, where it costs millions to be democratically elected prince. In 2016, only 158 families controlled 50 % of campaign financing. Our biggest banks spend millions on campaign financing for Republicans and Democrats every year, and that's just the money they actually report. There's a bigger, more illicit pool of dark money that controls politics. And if you think they're spending billions on these politicians just to be nice, think again. Nobody spends something for nothing. Billionaire Bernard Schwartz is quoted as saying, I don't ask politicians to do what I say. I want them to hear me when I have a problem. And according to Vanity Fair, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink loved to go around saying that he told Washington what to do. Doesn't all this sound a bit like the Catholic Church saying, Well, you technically can do what you want, but if you don't do what I say, your soul will spend eternity in a very hot, not -so -nice place. You don't want to know where that poker goes. And now we get to number four on our list. It is better to be feared than to be loved. Also known as scare tactics. If the immense wealth, information control, and political corruption wasn't enough to scare the living daylights out of you, the Renaissance Catholic Church took it to a whole other level. The way the church portrayed hell through artwork and story was absolutely terrifying. Of course you're going to do whatever the Pope says to save yourself from eternal damnation. And the banks and hedge funds do this too. Make sure you have an IRA because if you aren't getting our measly 5 % every year, how will you possibly be able to retire? Don't worry, that number barely covers inflation on a good year. And if you don't buy things with credit cards or open a car loan and pay his interest, you won't have credit to buy a house later. And finally, this one's my favorite, guys. If you don't bail us out, the entire world will explode. We're too big to fail. And now we get to the final element you will need to succeed at controlling everything. Drum roll, please. Military power. Plato said, All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. And folks, he was probably right. The Pope would also deem certain wars holy and approve military actions. When Henry VIII left the church, the Pope excommunicated him and told his people that rising up against him was holy because he'd gone against God. Pope Alexander VI issued the Enter Saterra, which authorized Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert and enslave the Americas. And sometimes the Pope would even command armies himself. Did you know the Pope raised and commanded the army that was responsible for the Crusades? So I guess that we can be thankful that the hedge funds and banks haven't started raising their own armies. But then again, why would they when they have the entire government under their thumb and they could spend the free time bathing in gold? Today, massive corporate institutions lobby in favor of warfare because it benefits them financially. Corporations have made billions from the war in Ukraine and the Iraq war was conceived to financially benefit oil companies and their investors. Just look how much BlackRock has invested in military weapons. $56 .74 billion. And you can't tell me they don't have a financial interest in the military industrial complex. That was a lot of info, guys. And I'm impressed you stuck with us for this trip down History Lane. I don't want to leave you on a gloom and doom note, however. Here's the bright side, folks. The Protestant Reformation did come as a reaction to the Catholic Church's corruption and power. And hundreds of years later, the church is still powerful. Nowhere near as powerful as they were during the Renaissance. We have the same opportunity to throw off the yoke of the banks and hedge funds that control our current financial system and government. That's where crypto comes in. No matter how much they try to manipulate the market, they can't control our gains, especially when we think long term. Do your research. Find out who the biggest investors are in the companies you buy from and patronize smaller businesses. Take your business or credit unions instead of feeding the pockets of the giant banks. Really question what politicians are telling you and push for campaign finance reform. This is a potential future where we all are free. That's all I have for you guys. DZ out.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "palm" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Clarence Thomas reportedly fraternized with donors at a yearly summit for the Koch network. That's the political organization run by the billionaire Koch brothers. It is the latest in a series by ProPublica that's been revealing close relationships between Justice Thomas and conservative interests. We found that in 2018 during the donor summit, Thomas flew out to Palm Springs a private on chat where he then went to a private dinner for high dollar Koch donors. Koch staffers told us that he was in brought because giving donors that sort of access was seen as a valuable fundraising tool, a perk for big donors basically. And he did not disclose this 2018 flight on his annual financial disclosure, experts which told us is a parent violation of a federal law. That's ProPublica reporter Joshua Kaplan, one of the reporters who broke the story. Thomas did not respond for comment. This new revelation will likely raise new questions ethics about at the Supreme Court. Last month, Thomas updated his financial disclosures to include previously unreported luxury trips he took that were paid for by GOP mega donor Harlan Crow. Now to the Russia's latest in the war Black in Sea fleet headquarters in Crimea has been hit by a Ukrainian missile strike. one serviceman is missing. Social media images show plumes of smoke billowing over the building. The attack comes a day after Russian missiles and artillery pounded cities across Ukraine, killing at least five people. And Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky is now in Canada. It's a follow -up to the quick trip he made to DC yesterday explain to why Ukraine needs more help in its war with Russia and what kind of help they need. Russia's begun attacking Ukraine's power grid and the objective appears to be severely damaging the country's ability to generate during the winter. This isn't part of the reason Ukraine is asking for long -range missile systems. Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky is telling Ukrainian journalists based in Washington, we've been some working time on this issue and for in a powerful way. And he says it will be the same as it was with F -16s. He says, the moment will come, we will get them. That's WTOP national security correspondent Kopp stories we're
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Self-Defense Laws and Online Radicalization
"I believe they want to save the environment. The fact of the matter is none of the results of everything they do doesn't help the environment. Like you said, that guy just donated all these money to environmental causes. That money is going to go so these people can strap themselves to something on a highway instead of planting trees. All righty, welcome back. Mike Lomas, Go Legal Financial guys. I should have asked you. I guess I'm hosting. I just opened my mouth. Not that there's like a host here because we don't take commercial breaks, but we are the financial guys. It's a place where money meets politics and thanks for tuning in to a... I love these podcasts, by the way, between morning mics, podcasts, and radio shows. We're doing what we love to do, which is really cool. And I love the 45 minutes and out, 40 minutes and out, no commercial breaks. It's pretty good. It's nice. So I don't know where to start. Western New York here. Glenn, you're down in our Florida office now, but we'll be back here shortly. I'm in our Western New York office. I'll be down to Florida shortly, so back and forth. But Florida is all about hurricane, hurricane, hurricane. I love these environmentalists. So they're like, oh, by the way, every hurricane is a once in a lifetime storm. It's like, okay, I think they go the last... This has never happened before. Well, coming into like the Gainesville area, well, actually it was 170 years ago. Now, hmm, what did we not have 170 years ago? Oh yeah, the freaking automobile, right? Like they want to blame all this on climate change, but it happened 170 years ago. Because it's hitting that part. It's now global warming. And it's so stupid, right? I remember when we were talking to Congressman Chris Collins on the air one time and we were talking about, he was talking about Marco Island, houses on Marco Island. Just bought there. He just bought a house there and he bought there because there was no way that anything, though, the hurricane had never, ever, ever... Because of the way that... Let me back you up for one second. No, no, no, no, no. Let me back you up for one second. As we were doing that, because you and I, we have offices down in Palm Beach, the storm was heading right for Palm Beach. And he said to us, he said, that's exactly why I bought a Marco Island. When I kid you not, we got off the air two hours later. The storm had gone south around the tip of Florida and back up in Marco Island. It literally did. It jogged left and it curled around and it came right back and whacked Marco Island and went right across Naples and right across Lake Okeechobee. I know God's got much bigger things to do than listen to the financial guys at a Saturday afternoon. However, however, it was sort of weird that at 301, as soon as we got off, that storm turned. Really, you guys, karma right there. But the point is that storms, they do whatever. They hit different parts. It's not because of global warming. It's just stupid. Honest to God, what a dumb statement to make. We've been warm, cold, ice ages. We've had hurricanes that have hit the panhandle, Louisiana, Texas, because it just hasn't hit that particular exact spot of the coastline. Are you out of your mind? It has. 170 years ago. That's what's funny about it. 170 years ago it did. So really it did. But not within the last, you know, not since 1974 when they started to keep statistics on it. It's just stupid. These people are lunatics. By the way, we were talking for the show, you know, Patagonia, the guy who created the clothing brand Dives, right, left almost all of his fortune to environmental groups. That and along with Hollywood are the people that are funding these whack jobs that are putting other people at risk. Let me ask you this, though. Everyone's seen this video by now, right? The tribal police, they literally, they take the truck. I love it. They just run over the thing. They clear the road. They arrest everybody. We're not in violence. We're not in violence. Here's the thing, though. Let me ask you this. These are, are these, are these all beta males in that line? Because I got to be honest, if I'm anywhere near visibility of the front, I'm probably going to walk up there after a while, I'm going to probably pull off the road and maybe take a walk or drive down the shoulder. If I can see what's going on and I realize there's a protest, I'm rallying like, you know, half dozen, dozen other rednecks in that line. How long would it take to walk down the cars and grab, you know, nine, 10 other, you know, guys and just say, okay, we're moving. And when they say they're nonviolent, well, you're, you're holding up a, you're holding up miles and miles of people in the desert, right? I mean, look at, I drove, I drove through the desert a few weeks ago. It was a hundred degrees. If that 110 actually during the day, if I'm stuck on that road and there's nothing else, by the way, I can't like turn my car off and just sit there without air. I've got two kids in the car, right? There's people that have animals, pets in the car, right? So you turn that car off, you don't get air conditioning, you die. If you run the car, you eventually run out of fuel. I mean, they are a real threat. They are a real danger and they may not be violent, but it doesn't mean they're not putting people at risk. I tell you how many people could die at 110 degrees. I tell you what, you can be as nonviolent as you want while I'm kicking your head in to get you off the road. I gotta be honest. In the middle of the desert, you blocked the road in the middle of the desert. I'm finding as many of the rednecks as possible and you're getting an ass whooping. I gotta be honest. You're getting out of the road. They needed that. I'll give you 10 seconds to get out of the road or you're getting an ass kicking. Fortunately, it was on tribal land as we were talking before because had it not been, you'll get some liberal piece of shit prosecutor that will now charge the police officer instead of saying thank you for saving the lives of all these people that could have burned to death in their cars. That's the game now, right? That's why George Soros funded all these, right? You remember those folks in St. Louis, the attorneys who protected their home with an AR -15 and a pistol. Now, I don't agree with the woman waving it around like a pointer. That was clearly... But she didn't have the proper skills to let it go. That was her property. You can wave the damn thing any way she wants. Get off her goddamn land. She had the right to defend it. Get off her land. Get off her land. And they prosecuted her. They went after her, right? So all these people in these states, if you're a non -friendly state like New York, you have to really think twice about defending yourself. Think about this. I know. Somebody breaks into your home at two o 'clock in the morning. Think about this for a second. You're by yourself in your home. You don't have your kids. You don't have your wife. You have nothing to worry about to protect. You have an opportunity to go out the back door and get out of your home. Now, however, in New York State, you have every right to defend your home. Is it worth it? I mean, think about that for a second. I'm going to stop and think about that when I'm in New York now. Do I just leave the... I'm going to leave the house and let my guest just break into my home because otherwise I'm going to get prosecuted. Or at least I'm going to get investigated. What if you can't leave? What if you can't leave? What if they have you at gunpoint? Well, then I'm defending myself. Well, then I'm defending myself for sure. I mean, but that's ridiculous. It's to the point where it's just so asinine. I mean, the old saying, rather judged by 12 than carried by six, right? But still, you shouldn't have to think like that. In Florida, you don't have to think like that. In Florida, you can be in your car and have somebody threatening you in your car and defend yourself in your car. I .E. Florida's at a 50 -year low when it comes to crime, 90 -year low in Miami. Because the criminals know it. The criminals know it, right? They know. By the way, it doesn't make it. It's perfect. But I'll tell you what, it's a hell of a lot better. You know, look at... We own a financial company. When your crimes are up 50 % in one state and down 50 % in another state, those are pretty telling... That's a pretty telling tale, right? Like, you know what? Like when we pick stocks, we look at numbers and like, gosh, boy, those numbers are really good. Well, I think let's do more of that, right? Let's maybe buy some of that company, right? I mean, just sad where we are in the states like New York and California. How do you not look at the crime? By the way, I said to the group the other day, it was Chicago. There was a bunch of reporters who actually got mugged as they were doing their online report. The report. It's crazy. And like you said... I did a charity golf tournament with a client on Monday. He was part of our team. A police officer. And he said, he goes, Mikey, he goes, it's absolutely disgusting to see these same people that we arrest time and time and time again. One of the illegal aliens who was out on a bail to rob some cars. Illegal. In the country, illegal. He's out on cashless bail. A joke. A joke. But yeah, here we are now in the national media for the rest of the week and the weekend we'll focus on this tragic shooting in Jacksonville, right? This is one tragic shooting amongst many, many, many tragic shootings. The manifesto will be released right away, I'm sure, right? He's already is a white supremacist, 21 year old young kid, and you'll say, well, we should not have the guns. Okay. So he, instead of walking with an AR, he could have walked in with a pistol, done the exact same thing. But here's the thing that at some point, are we, I mean, are we actually going to have an honest conversation about what is radicalizing these kids? You know, whether it's on the right or the left, on either side. The mental illness problems, which we continue to say something, but we refuse to look at any of that, right? You've got a huge homeless problem in this country. Part of it is caused by the welfare. Part of it is caused by the massive amounts of mental illness that's out there. And instead of getting these people in the right spots, getting them medicated, you know, getting them in the right direction, we just let them back out on the streets because boy, they can't have that on their record. If they have mental illness on the record, they'll never recover. Well, guess what? If they have mental illness, they'll never recover. Right. Well, this kid, like this kid was the Asian one that's mostly white. Did you see that? That was a different one. Yeah. Yeah. The mostly white Asian. That was another, another classic headline from CNN. Right. The mostly white Asian. No, this one was the Jacksonville kid, a 21 year old and tragic. Yeah, sure. So anyway, so the, but the thing, they're all, everyone's out there immediately. It's like, we've got to do something about the systemic racism in the country.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 13:00 08-25-2023 13:00
"Looking, you told me you were looking for, you were looking at a Rolex GMT Master II, which apparently is more expensive when it's used than it's new? Right, because if you buy a used one, you can get it today, right? I was looking at one of Wilson in Scarsdale yesterday, they had one for $16 ,000. If you buy it new, it's like $10 ,700. But you have to wait a few months, maybe a few years. Anyway, very interesting story. For Simone Foxman, I'm Matt Miller. This is Bloomberg. Joe Matthew starts right now. In four years that Biden has been there, people are going to say, I was doing better then than I am now. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy and perspective from DC's top names. So you got to work to get people back to work, but not only that, but to higher paying jobs. The Russian threat is being degraded and unfortunately it's being degraded at the cost of Ukrainian lives, blood, treasure. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. He's already selling the mugshot. Welcome to the fastest show in politics. As Donald Trump's campaign begins merchandising the mugshot seen round the world after the former president surrendered in Atlanta, we'll look at the many trials he now faces with Bloomberg legal reporter Eric Larson and with Dave Ehrenberg. He's back with us today, the state attorney for Palm Beach County.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Giant Storm Not
"You've spoken and we've heard you loud and clear. We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you. Life and religious liberty. We're redoubling our efforts to beat back the radical left's attack on your constitutional religious freedoms and to defend the sanctity of human life. This is your moment to get in the fight. Every tax -deductible gift will be doubled. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here in horrific, tropical storm unseen since 1939. I am lucky to have arrived safely in order to broadcast. It shows my commitment to you that I am in today as is everybody else. You know what it's you know what's doing outside right this studio in Los Angeles County? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It is not even drizzling. This is what you have heard on the news so let me report to you from where I am in Los Angeles County. Nothing is happening. Nothing happened yesterday. It rained. It rained. The only odd thing is that it doesn't rain in August in Los Angeles County as a general rule. That's why Dodger games and Angel games are almost never rained out. Or Padre games but that's San Diego. This is extremely significant. Extremely significant. And I want to tell you why. Last night my wife and I attended a wedding. And I spoke to the groom and he told me that about 40 people did not show up because of not the storm because of the hysteria over the storm. Pure undiluted false fake hysteria. My heart broke for the guy. He has no victim sense about him. He just mentioned it in passing to me. That was I would say that was about a third of the people. Many of them by the way flew in from cities across the country to go to the wedding. And they didn't go. Imagine that? Hey honey, did you see the news? Did you read that the governor of this state has declared a state of emergency? Governor Newsom in whom I don't believe there is an authentic bone declared a state of emergency for the county of Los Angeles and maybe others. Is what I'm saying getting clear to you? Nothing happened. Now there was flooding. You've seen pictures. I looked at the Daily Mail printed or published in England and it made where I live look like a national disaster. How many photos does it take of some flooding to cause it? There was a guy knee deep in water with his car stuck in Palm Springs. Palm Springs? What county is Palm Springs in? I don't think it's LA County. It's way east. Okay, I feel bad for the guy. Hasn't been a tropical storm in this area in Southern California since 1939. By the way, will they blame it on climate change? This of course is the inevitable obviously. Like it's in Riverside County. Okay, thank you. That means a lot to my listeners across the country. So I'm trying to be privy to the discussion that a couple who had planned on coming to the wedding last night. The discussion they had goes, I assume it went something like this. I mean they'd really feel bad if we didn't go. Yeah, but did you see the news? Oh, not just the news. Let me share with you my dear friends. Here is taken from my phone. This came up, I would say just about every hour. You know an emergency alert you get on your phone? Emergency alert severe. I'm reading to you from my phone. I'm sure you got the same thing and you took it as seriously as I did. A national weather service. A flash flood warning is in effect for this area until 3 a .m pacific daylight time. This is a dangerous and life -threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding under an evacuation order or attending a wedding. That was beautiful that they added that. That's how personalized these messages are. They knew we had said yes to a wedding invitation. Life -threatening situation. So back to our couple. Hey honey, you we know came in from Cleveland. They're really expecting us. Yeah, but darling we can't risk our lives to attend a wedding. I mean in the long run of life, I mean you know. Yeah, but honey look outside the window. It's just raining. There's nothing. There's no wind. It's not even a particular downpour. Yeah, but did you see what the governor of the state said? Did you see what the national weather service said? Did you see what NBC news said? Yeah, but honey look out the window. That was my first urge. By the way, I'm not saying it's panic during COVID that it was just as likely to be the man panicking as the woman. Foolishness doesn't know sex or even gender. I want you to understand though this does not bode well for the country. It really doesn't bode well. Let me see here. I wrote about this. I wrote about this in 1999. And I'm trying to find it because you could actually see it in my book of essays. Think a second time. If you want to introduce yourself or me or someone else to me, get my book of essays. 44 essays on 44 subjects. And I wrote an essay at the time on this very issue. Let's see if I can. Yeah, no, I won't have to find it. I wrote about a story. It happened to me about 25, oh no, 30 years ago. Let me see, what's 25 years ago? Yeah, no, about 25, 28 years. It's irrelevant. 25 or 30. I had a speech in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, right outside of Philadelphia. I was in Manhattan. I slept in Manhattan the night before, Thursday night. I had an evening speech. I don't know if it was Thursday night. It's not true. I don't know what night of the week I was going to speak. But the night before, I slept in Manhattan. The whole night, all I hear is blizzard, major major storm. Do not go out. Do not drive unless it is an emergency. So I planned instead of taking, let's see, what would it be? What is it, the filly from New York, an hour and a half? So instead of leaving an hour and a half before, I left four hours before. But I looked out the window of my hotel room and nothing was happening. There was about an inch or two of snow on the ground. This was my first introduction to do I believe my eyes or do I believe the news? And this was a revelation in my life. The power of media and panic is such that you can deny what you are experiencing and seeing because of the induced panic. Schools are closed in LA County. Gold dealers are a dime a dozen. They're everywhere. What sets these companies apart and whom can you really trust? This is Dennis Prager for AmFed Coin and Bullion, my choice for buying precious metals. When you buy precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. 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Monitor Show 14:00 08-17-2023 14:00
"Having to move some of its pride merchandise in its stores. There's also the issue of theft and crime that they actually talked about on the conference call. So we're going to dig into that. Oh, there's a whole lot to dig into there. Thank you so much, Kailey, for coming in and to Bloomberg's Wendy Benjaminson. It's been fun. The second hour of sound on begins in just a few seconds from now on this Thursday morning. Much more still to come. You're listening to Bloomberg sound on. This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Now from our nation's capital, this is Bloomberg sound on. Former President Trump has a protected constitutional right to make statements, even if the statements are has been protesting these judicial reforms. Bloomberg sound on politics, policy and perspective from D .C.'s top names. China may be less of a desirable investment target because of their own economic issues. I would hope that the Senate in the House can get a plan in place and avoid any kind of a government shutdown. Bloomberg sound on with Joe Matthew and Kailey lines on Bloomberg Radio. Welcome to the second hour of sound on the fastest show in politics. This is the voice of Kailey lines doing my best Joe Matthew impression today. Luckily for me, though, I do have Wendy Benjaminson still in the seat to talk all things politics with us today. And as we were just discussing, we have to talk about former President Trump and his legal troubles. We'll get a prosecutor's perspective. Dave Arenberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, is going to join us with his thoughts on the timeline and many other matters. Plus, with Wal -Mart and Target reporting earnings this week and issues around, quote, woke merchandise and theft, they're sparking interests for this particular politics program. We'll have more on that with Bloomberg U .S. retail reporter.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Legally Pay Less in Crypto Taxes!
"Would you like to get paid to listen to this podcast grab the fountain app for free and get all our badness But earn some sweet Satoshi's download for free now at fountain FM Imagine paying only four percent taxes to the government for your business income and now imagine paying zero Capital gains taxes for all of your crypto gains. Well, I don't imagine it. I'd live it Legally, sir. Lord Travis is super busy today so you've got me and my guest Davin Michaels here to discuss how the tax situation that I mentioned is real life and How you can surround yourself with high performers that may help set you up for a very profitable Future by joining us on the high seas. Yarr sound exciting Ahoy, matey come along with us on this ride for episode number 693 of the bad crypto podcast Welcome to the bad crypto podcast Sir Lord Joel come here with you Travis Is getting ready to do some globe trotting and he's got a lot of stuff to do. He's very busy right now And so I'm rolling solo today, but not truly because I've got a guest with me he's an old friend and We're just gonna jump right into the interview because there's two things that I want you to walk away with as you listen number one how to pay less Taxes legally and not just crypto taxes, but any type of gains taxes on your stock portfolio taxes on your precious metals gains crypto and more and I want to invite you to come along with us on a vacation on the high seas. You're gonna love this Let's listen in As You know Sir Lord Travis and myself have been living in Puerto Rico now for over two years It's it's been really interesting met a ton of incredible people, but one of the gentlemen who is Responsible for me being here is an old friend. His name is Davin Michaels Davin's an entrepreneur he's a crypto guy and He was on episode number 382 of this podcast a little more than three years ago But you might not know it because he was on the same show as dr. Ron Paul Dr. Paul, of course was the headliner and then there was like oh also Davin and I wanted to give him the spotlight today because we've got a lot of really interesting things to talk about Davin Michaels welcome back to the Republic of bad cryptopia, sir Mr. Joel calm my dear friend of almost 15 years. It's great to be here with you Mika No, I think it might be longer than that. I think it might be too if we had met around 2007 it's it's 16 years. Yeah. Yeah, we just taken it your way for me. I'm sorry about that We just celebrated the 15th year of one to three employee. I was shooting a commemorative video for our employees So that's 15 years there Wow And for those of you watching the video version on YouTube rumble or Odyssey that is a real background Davin lives really a big stones throw away from me right on the harbor here in Palma still Mar and It's a beautiful day. It's a hot day But you know, what's mind -boggling to me is here We are closer than the rest of the states to the equator and they've been having a worse heat wave Then we've been having yeah, not too bad here. Not too bad. Nice breeze Beautiful paradise all year long. Yeah So for those of you that really want to go deep on the Puerto Rico connection and the tax benefits I recommend you go back to the episode. We recorded three years ago. It's bad co dot in 382 we'll have that in the show notes for this particular episode as well But I want to touch on it Devon before we get into some other things today Including we're gonna be talking about so you guys want to stay tuned for this an interesting opportunity To go on a cruise with us in April. That's a little teaser for you let's let's start out with the overarching benefits of why Americans are moving to Puerto Rico Yeah, absolutely so Puerto Rico is a territory and if you are a u .s Citizen and you jump through the legal hoops and you make Puerto Rico your legal home In other words, you live here at least half the year then you essentially pay almost no tax So we pay four percent federal income tax We pay zero percent capital gains We pay zero percent in dividends and it is truly a game -changer a dear friend of both yours and mine and neighbor of So many years John Lee Dumas who is an unbelievably successful podcaster JLD always says I work 4 % of the year for the federal government and 96 % of the rest of the year for myself. He said he works the first couple of weeks of the year for the government then that's it and That's that's a big game -changer. So we lived in LA where we were paying I don't know between You know corporate and federal and state and I think I was paying about 63 % in taxes and it was just absolutely ridiculous And so we first moved to Vegas got rid of the state tax and then eventually moved here and got rid of most of it But there's so many more benefits, too So for example, one of the greatest benefits is is deal flow and you were talking about that a few minutes ago The amazing people you meet here because you got to be a mover and shaker to do this You know, you you have a tax situation, right? You need to save money. You're doing well in addition to that To pick up and move to a territory You have to be a pioneer which you are such a pioneer and you you and I both have that pioneering spirit as does Everybody over here. And then what happens is you have to spend at least a half a year in paradise. It just sucks Right. I mean look at this. It's just so hard, you know, so it's gorgeous here all year long There's great food great people and the actual people who live in Puerto Rico actual Puerto Ricans Are some of the loveliest people in in the world. They will just give the shirt off their back for you They are so nice. So wonderful and I'll give you an example You just walk down the street and people are saying good day to you. Good day. Good day Good day. Well, we leave we travel and and people aren't speaking to us like saying like greeting us on the street We're like gosh, you know you get used to this, right and then we greet people and they look at us like we're crazy But there's also a lot more benefits than just tax benefits. So so the way all this works is Puerto Rico is a territory. They have their own tax authority and it's not the IRS It's hacienda. And so if you're a bona fide resident of Puerto Rico, that's who you're paying your taxes to you're letting the IRS Know what you're up to but you're paying hacienda And there's all these other programs that are available to they used to be a whole bunch of different acts They've now put them under an umbrella called act 60 when Joel and I got into this It was called act 2022 and we were just two of those acts but now act 60 brings them all together and Just to give you some examples of some of these acts I have a car that is a plug -in hybrid It only gets 19 miles on a charge. Okay, it's just it's just a token thing But because it has a plug I was able to import it here tax -free and save 30 % in taxes There's an entertainment tax here. My cousin Danny was just here shooting a Pilot for Amazon. She got a 40 % tax break of which you can you know cash in that tax break at 97 and 19 to 99 cents on the dollar so it's essentially cash back There is a hospitality credit if you have like an Airbnb that has at least I think it's seven or eight beds and baths You get 40 % back over four years Many of you who might live in the u .s. Might be familiar with Opportunity zones where you get amazing tax benefits Well, 98 % of this entire island is an opportunity zone and this list just goes on and on I learn about all these new incentives all every day and I don't know all of them But in a few minutes, we're gonna talk about one way that I'm gonna both you and I are gonna learn all about them And by the way, Joel My guess is you don't know about all of them either. No, I don't I know, you know act 60 That's that's what I'm here on and it's you know, what you say is so true I came for the tax breaks. Yeah, and I did have friends already. I knew you and I knew JLT and Had visited in fact I think that we you're recording the last time you were on the show was when I first visited you In February 2020 the episode came out the the following month and we were going to move Yeah that May and then kovat hit and everything became more complicated and we put it off for another year But I'm really glad that I pulled the trigger when I did I came for the tax breaks But I'm staying for the community I have never in my life and I'm approaching 60 ever nor in a community like this of high performers of creative people of good hearted people and you have everything in where we live in Palma del Mar from Thousandaires to billionaires and from hanging out with people you wouldn't know the difference of who you're hanging out with Because it seems like the egos are largely checked at the gate and people were all here kind of for the same reasons Yeah, it's a yeah for sure. Sorry to interrupt. It's but yeah, it's like kind of a flip -flop and t -shirt community, right? So how are you gonna be flexing? You know what I mean? So it's nice. It's nice people do check their egos at the door I think for the most part there's all of these Groups that were in and signal and what's happened. There's always something going on You know, I've become a pickleball enthusiast since I've moved here. Erin is a big golf Enthusiast and you know, we we live on the golf course So holes five and six of the palms course are right behind our condo And the beach is right outside the door. And so it's just there's always something to do We're going somewhere tonight. Are you are you joining us tonight? What's going on tonight? I don't know Okay Yeah, check check with your social director. I'll check with mine. Yeah, but Like you said I've never experienced anything like it except on like television, right? These little you know, these TV shows that take place in this little small town Everybody knows each other and they're all like best homies, but I've never experienced in real life until moving to Puerto Rico I think part of it is you know when you're in the city like we came from Denver To somebody's orchestrate calendar with yours in multiple couples calendars to get together. It's a big deal It's an event here. There's so many people and so many friendly people that it's like hey, what are you doing for dinner tonight? Hey, we're having you know karaoke at our place this weekend we're going to the beach club on Sunday and and people just continue to get together to the point where We have now had to since we've been here vacations with Groups people of from here So we basically just pack up Puerto Rico and we put it on a cruise ship and take it on the road and we'll talk A little bit more about that here soon. By the way, are you going to Rustin's a rip your float party tomorrow? Yes, I am But we have another party simultaneously, so we're gonna be jumping back and forth So Let's you know, we kind of hit on the governmental programs the things that are available here And we'll try and find a website for you guys that has all of the different acts so that you can take a look at Those let's talk a little bit about some of the the services on the island and the things that people are working on Yeah, so what's interesting is well, okay. So let me start with my own personal experience. So I always I Felt that when we came here we were gonna approach this as we are a guest in this Territory and and so I don't you know, try to push my opinions or agenda on anybody and My goal was to make this place a better place than when I got here Right to make a difference and make an impact and I like I kind of an impact jump junkie so I really like that and a lot of people are doing the same thing here and You know, you could you could actually come here and say I'm not gonna do any of that I don't want to have any impact I'm just gonna do my time and so on and so forth and you would still impact the economy because you'd hire a ton of people to help you with a bunch of different stuff and you put a lot of money into the economy and so I'm involved in a lot of projects here One of my favorites is I am a member of PMPR partnership for modern Puerto Rico which is the think tank that was created by Alberto backo who's the former secretary of commerce to Puerto Rico and He actually if you came in on our program act of 2022 several years ago He would have signed the decree because it was he and his regime if you will that that that ushered in act 2022 And it has had such a huge impact on the on this island So many things are happening I'll give you an example in this enclave that we all live in There has not been new development here in two decades in 20 years because it was overbuilt in the heyday prior to 2008 Now there's new construction here And people are benefiting one of the things that is included in the act 60 program not in my decree But in the current decree is that you have to buy a property within two years You can come here you can rent a place.
Mark Levin
The Left Media Hates Trump-Appointed Judge Aileen Cannon
"The staff at MSNBC and just to name a few. Just to name a few. And so they attack this judge and who do they bring on? They bring on some little trick out of Palm Beach County who is a state prosecutor who is a radical Democrat state senator. And who's show does he go on? A low IQ, no ratings clown by the name of Joe and never Trumper, it's a hate on for Trump. Cause Trump looked at him funny one day. And Joe knows this guy. On and he says, well, it's outrageous that the judge in Florida would dare to, to say anything about the odd venue situation where Jack Smith and the boys and the mob lawyer Garland are using a grand jury in Washington DC to and then sending it down to the grand jury in Florida. Let me ask you some folks, how many I've never, been a lawyer for over 40 years. I was chief of staff at the department of justice for a long time. Special assistant too. I don't remember it happening ever. Now it's possible in a complicated case where you're dealing with perhaps international crimes or are you dealing with sort of state to state criminal activity like drug dealers and so not not in a case like this. The whole purpose here is to violate the manual for prosecutors dealing with grand juries. The title of the manual section is venue limitations but look at MSNBC anything goes. The same network that was going
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Centrality of the Gospel for Evangelism & Missions | John Miller
"This resource combines expositional sermons and lectures from the classroom of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary to help equip listeners for the work of the ministry. Welcome back. We're going to begin our second lecture. You should have the PowerPoints there. Our lecture for the second lecture is entitled, The Centrality of the Gospel in Evangelism and Missions. Before we go further into that, I just wanted to read again from the scripture, Revelation chapter 7. Here we see the end goal and it's what is seen in heaven. Revelation 7 verses 9 to 12 says this, After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen. Let's pray together briefly. Heavenly Father, again, as we come to study the role of evangelism and missions and we think about the centrality of the gospel, we're reminded that all that we do and all things are for your honor, for your glory, for you are the glorious God. And we look forward to that day when our own voices will be joined with all of your saints, past, present, future, before your throne, to give you the glory, the honor, and the praise that is your due. Help us now in this hour, we pray in Jesus' name, Amen. Said we're discussing the centrality of the gospel and evangelism and missions, of course, the aim and the goal of all missions, as in all things, is the glory of God. But it's important that in what we're doing that the gospel is kept at the center. Now let's be clear, the term gospel -centered certainly in our day is perhaps overused. And we say gospel -centered everything, marriage, gospel -centered church, gospel -centered leadership and can use it in all sorts of ways. But I think it's important for us to recognize when we're talking about evangelism and missions, certainly the gospel has to be kept central. So that's what we're going to think about in this lecture. And before we go on, you'll notice in the second slide foundational principles for evangelism. I mentioned that the supremacy, the supreme object for our evangelism is God and his glory. And here, these are some principles that are given to us as we think about evangelism and the need to keep the gospel central. Some principles that come from Dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones, he gives five different principles. This is what he says, one, the supreme object of the work of evangelism is to glorify God, not to save souls. Although certainly that's part of it, but the supreme object, the first thing is God and his glory and he is glorified through the salvation of sinners and also his justice will be glorified through the damnation of those who are lost. Second thing, the only power that can do this work is the Holy Spirit, not our own strength. And so it's not through our own ingenuity, our own intellect, our own abilities, but it is through the Spirit of God working to draw men to himself, regenerating, and even enabling us to do the work of evangelism and missions. The third principle he gives is the one and only medium through which the Spirit works is the Scriptures. Therefore we reason out of the Scriptures like Paul did. Christ, as our confession says, calls people, calls his elect in through the working of the proclamation of the Word and accompanied by the Spirit. So the Spirit works through the Word. The fourth thing, these preceding principles give us the true motivation for evangelism, a zeal for God, and a love for others. Those are the two things, think of the two great commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor, that also is what motivates us in evangelism, of course our supreme motivation is God's glory.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich got his Christmas present when Matt held his breath for 3 minutes. Rich is now a certified installer. $500 Is waiting for YOU !!! You just have to click somewhere and print something. Matt had notes on a napkin and disposed of them responsibly after use. Episode #410 August 10th. 2023
"Hello all people, episode 4th and Thursday is Astor Hub Day and this is Rich from Bismarck. And this is Matt from this mic over here. It's Thursday of August 10th. Yeah, the month's screaming by. I tell you what, it's almost a half year past. Yeah, pretty soon it's going to be September. No, I'm waiting for Christmas. Yeah? Yeah, it's coming. Santa ain't bringing you anything. No, I mean... You're on his naughty list. I tell you what, I can get a Christmas present right now. Yeah? Yeah. Let me ask you, can you hold the bread for three minutes? Sure. Yeah, so do it, so I can have a quiet moment. This would be Christmas. Let me sip my coffee. It would be Christmas present. Yeah. So, I mean, outside today was change. It was rain on and off, right? Right. All day, on and off. Yeah, you got that. That got it right, right? And other than that, it was pretty humid. What does that have to do with Christmas? What snow comes from? Where is it? Water, right? Right. So we got the water, snow is after. Yeah. Yeah, snow is coming. But I don't think it's going to snow here. No? No, has it ever snowed in Naples? I think it did. I think it did. Seventies. Yeah, it got down to like 27 degrees or something here, right? Usually there's like once in five years I scratch the eyes of the window in the morning, get excited. Oh, you do? Put my palms of my hands on the window, just take a picture of it, and then for five years I have to wait. There was a snow in Naples. We need to figure out a event, but I heard it was in the seventies. Yeah, we'll do some research. Nice. Yeah, so, you know. You can have it. Maybe we're going to be lucky. I don't like snow. You don't? Well, I mean, I like, you know, I like to go maybe visit it, but I don't want to drive or live in it. You know what I mean? No, I don't want to shovel it. Yeah. That's just a nasty thing, you know? You like to shovel other stuff. Yeah, yeah. I don't like to shovel the snow. I did plenty in my life and the problem is you start shoveling it and it's like God is laughing at you because he knows you're working your ass off and shoveling the snow. You turn around and that crap is back again.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich got his Christmas present when Matt held his breath for 3 minutes. Rich is now a certified installer. $500 Is waiting for YOU !!! You just have to click somewhere and print something. Matt had notes on a napkin and disposed of them responsibly after use. Episode #410 August 10th. 2023
"Hello all people, episode 4th and Thursday is Astor Hub Day and this is Rich from Bismarck. And this is Matt from this mic over here. It's Thursday of August 10th. Yeah, the month's screaming by. I tell you what, it's almost a half year past. Yeah, pretty soon it's going to be September. No, I'm waiting for Christmas. Yeah? Yeah, it's coming. Santa ain't bringing you anything. No, I mean... You're on his naughty list. I tell you what, I can get a Christmas present right now. Yeah? Yeah. Let me ask you, can you hold the bread for three minutes? Sure. Yeah, so do it, so I can have a quiet moment. This would be Christmas. Let me sip my coffee. It would be Christmas present. Yeah. So, I mean, outside today was change. It was rain on and off, right? Right. All day, on and off. Yeah, you got that. That got it right, right? And other than that, it was pretty humid. What does that have to do with Christmas? What snow comes from? Where is it? Water, right? Right. So we got the water, snow is after. Yeah. Yeah, snow is coming. But I don't think it's going to snow here. No? No, has it ever snowed in Naples? I think it did. I think it did. Seventies. Yeah, it got down to like 27 degrees or something here, right? Usually there's like once in five years I scratch the eyes of the window in the morning, get excited. Oh, you do? Put my palms of my hands on the window, just take a picture of it, and then for five years I have to wait. There was a snow in Naples. We need to figure out a event, but I heard it was in the seventies. Yeah, we'll do some research. Nice. Yeah, so, you know. You can have it. Maybe we're going to be lucky. I don't like snow. You don't? Well, I mean, I like, you know, I like to go maybe visit it, but I don't want to drive or live in it. You know what I mean? No, I don't want to shovel it. Yeah. That's just a nasty thing, you know? You like to shovel other stuff. Yeah, yeah. I don't like to shovel the snow. I did plenty in my life and the problem is you start shoveling it and it's like God is laughing at you because he knows you're working your ass off and shoveling the snow. You turn around and that crap is back again.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Death And Final Days Of Moses
"Welcome to the podcast of First Presbyterian Church of Gulfport, Mississippi. To learn more about our church, our beliefs, and our pastor, please visit fpcgulfport .org. Outside of Jesus Christ, there is no one that has had more of an impact than the man we call Moses. Moses was used to deliver God's people, to bring them the law, and to build the tabernacle. However, in God's time, Moses died. In today's study of Deuteronomy 34, we'll consider the final days of this great man of God. Over the years, Moses had gone up mountains multiple times to meet with God. On a number of different occasions, Moses had ascended a mountain in order to meet with God there. The time we're most familiar with is when he received the Ten Commandments. In today's text, Moses would do what he had done multiple times before. He would go up the mountain, but this time, he would not return. This time, Moses would die upon the mountaintop. Now, what do you think the last thing that Moses saw was? What do you think the last thing he heard was? The last vision that we're going to see as we jump into today's study, the last vision that graced Moses' eyes, it was a look into the Promised Land. God had made promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he renewed those promises across the years. Moses himself had looked forward to this great day, and here on the mountaintop, he beholds that which was promised centuries ago, he beholds the Promised Land. And he sees in that moment that the promises of God are not void, that God can and will do everything that he has said he would do. So Moses looks out, and as he looks out at the Promised Land, dear heavens, it's so much better than where he just came from. Moses had just come out of the wilderness. Moses had just spent 40 years wandering around with the people in the wilderness, and now he looks out and he sees the Promised Land, and it's every bit as good, every bit as great as God had told him. This is truly a land flowing with milk and honey. I don't know what that looks like, but it sounded pretty good, especially in contrast to the wilderness that they came out of. This is a land that was green. We see palm trees in here. This was lush. This was desirable. There was any manner of things about this land that was far superior than that which he had come. So Moses' life, in a sense, had been building to this moment. Moses' ministry had been building to this moment. At one point, God had commissioned Moses to deliver his people from bondage to Pharaoh, to deliver his people. Now, here's the thing. It's true of them, and it's true of us. When God delivers you from something, when God delivers you from one circumstance, he also delivers you to another. You understand that? When God delivers us from one thing, he delivers us to another thing. In the case of the Israelites, the wilderness was not the end game. God delivered them from Pharaoh, and they spent time in the wilderness. But ultimately, he was delivering them to the promised land. So this was the day, this was the moment, this was the time that Moses' entire life and ministry had been building towards. And it all culminated in his own eyes and his own ears as God whispered, This is the land. This is the land. So Moses saw this. Now, as we look at today's text, I want us to be encouraged. You and I too live in the wilderness. We might not recognize that at times, because at times it's fairly nice, at least here locally. And yet this is the wilderness, and God has trained our eyes just as he has trained Moses' eyes to look towards a promised land that awaits, and to have our entire trajectory, our entire life's course, to head towards that day and that location. So in today's text, on the one hand, we're seeing a story of one man beholding the promised land. On the other hand, today's text is a call for us to look forward to that day when we will behold an even greater promised land yet to come. All right, if you would, let's look now, verses one through four. We'll reread these verses and work our way through the balance. Verse one. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab, which were no great shakes, the plains of Moab, to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is a cross from Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, which is up towards the north, all of Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the south and the plains of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees as far as Zoar. Then the Lord said to him, this is the land. This is the land of which I swore, which I promised, which I covenanted with you, to give to Abraham, to Isaac and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. And I have caused you, caused you, Moses, to see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross over there. All right, before I unpack these verses, I want us to recall that if you've read through the book of Deuteronomy, you'll see a few chapters earlier in chapter 31, that God had already told Moses what was about to go down. In other words, nothing that's happening here in chapter 34 is a surprise to Moses. He didn't go up to chapter 34 and all of a sudden realize that this was the end. God had told them way back in 31, also in Numbers, he had told them this is what's going to happen. This is the time frame. This is what to expect. So in chapter 31, God told Moses that the end is near and even told them when and where it was going to occur. But he said, go and get your house in order. And so Moses did and he offered all the people a series of blessings and of course a series of warnings as well. And of course he taught the individuals, he spoke to individuals about the things that they needed to do and the time to come and yet he blessed all of those that he had loved and led for all of these years. And when that was complete, when those actions were done, it was time to go up the mountain. And that final action, that ascending, is what we see in verses one through four. Now in verses one through four, the descriptions we have of going from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho, if you're a cartography sort of person, you understand that this meant he literally went to the tallest mountain range and to the tallest peak in that mountain range in order to look out. And from that vantage point, he beheld something he'd wanted to see really his entire life. He looked out and he saw it to the north and the east and the south and to the west, this landscape breathtaking which was greater than anything that he had expected into the distance of the land that God had promised. And as his old eyes took this in, as he took this in, as he filtered this experience, this sensory experience that he was seeing, he hears the word of God whisper to him and said, this is the land. Moses, this is the land. This is the land that I swore to Jacob. You know, there is something cool about those moments in life, however rare they may be, when faith becomes sight, when that which we have believed may be for decades only to find out that God, God has fulfilled it in our time and in our sight. For decades, Moses had been leading by faith. I mean, he'd been in the wilderness. That's all he really had to work with. He'd been leading by faith. Now God had blessed the people. He'd given them the quail and the man and all these different things. God had protected the people and put a hedge around them. Their sandals hadn't worn out despite being in the wilderness. God had protected the people and yet it was just a miserable time. It was miserable for Moses in particular because the people were grumbling all the time. Man alive, if you read anything that the people of Israel did during the book of Exodus or Deuteronomy, what you'll see is that this was a rebellious house. They grumbled and they complained. There was even a point when Moses basically said, God, kill me now because the people, they're just too much for me. I can't take this anymore. I can't take this anymore. So Moses had had this very difficult, very challenging time when he'd been out in the wilderness and yet at this moment, the faith that he'd had for decades, the faith he'd had across all these travels, the faith he'd had even as things were going miserable, the faith he had after day after day of things just being so difficult for him, the faith that he had had that God had sowed in his heart is fully realized and validated in this moment. Moses, this is the land. Everything you've done, all your ministry, it's paid off. You have done what I've asked you to do. You delivered the people from Egypt and you've delivered them to the door of the promised land. Moses had believed for decades that God could and would do exactly this. Moses had believed and had faith even when this world gave him faith, having a faith tested and even critiqued by others. They had critiqued him. They critiqued his faith. They critiqued his leadership. After all this time, he realized that everything God had told them had been true. That's exciting to think that there's a day for you too that'll come when your faith will become sight. There's things right now that you take by faith. Well, here's the good news. God's intention in his time is to validate every ounce of faith you have ever placed in him. There will become a time when faith will become sight just as it was for Moses. Now before we look at verses five through seven, I'll ask us, the promised land of Canaan, that no longer holds as much appeal to us per se. And yet Christ himself, Christ said, hey church, hey new covenant community, there is a promised land that's even better than that one. There's a promised land that awaits. And he introduced that promised land when he was talking to his disciples on the night he was betrayed. He gathers them close when they're anxious and he says, hey, let me tell you a little bit about that promised land. He said this, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there you may be also. Moses worked all his life toward the promised land and toward being the recipient of the promises that God had long made to his forefathers. Well, the promise that Jesus made to the disciples in the church is even greater and it's on our horizon as well. Let's look at verses five through seven. So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no one knows his grave to this day. Moses was 120 years old when he died. And his eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished. There has never been, never, never, never, never been a man like Moses. Outside of Christ himself, who had the advantage of being fully God and fully man, outside of Jesus Christ, there's never been a man utilized on this entire planet to do the things that Moses did, to accomplish all that he accomplished. To the degree he's considered the great intercessor, the giver of the old covenant. He delivered God's people. He brought them the law. He helped construct the tabernacle. He led them to the promised land. This is one of the greatest profiles any leader could ever desire. And yet, interestingly, in verse five, he dies. What does that tell you? This is the most important man in the era of his day. In all of the cosmos, there was no man born of woman, no man of flesh and blood that was as critical, you could say, to the kingdom of God and to the working of God's purposes than Moses. And yet, in verse five, Moses died. What does that tell you? It tells me we're all replaceable. It tells me that we all minister for a season, however long that season may or may not be. It's a season. And in God's time, he will raise up others, like Joshua, to continue the work. And therefore, as he continues that work, the glory goes to God and not to man. Scripture refers to Moses as the servant of the Lord. Don't miss that. The greatest character in Moses' story is not Moses. It's God. In God's time, as wonderful and amazing and as just tremendous a human being as Moses was, in God's time, he called him home. Now, did he call him because he looked at Moses and said, oh, Moses, you're looking kinda creaky. Moses, I'm just feeling so bad for you. The arthritis is kicking in. You're just shuffling. Moses, let me do you a favor. Let me call you on back. Enter into your rest. Did you do that? Was Moses in that sort of condition? Well, at 120, I would think he would be, but interestingly, Scripture says that wasn't the case. Scripture says that his eyes had not grown dim. His natural vigor was not diminished. Moses was still at 120 years old at the powerhouse. I hope to be at 50, at 60. He was a powerhouse, and we know he was a powerhouse because he did something that I couldn't do and I don't think we all could do. He went up this mountain at 120 years old. We know that he was capable. We know he wasn't shuffling. We know he wasn't near death because he climbed a mountain in the very text we're looking at. This is a man that God didn't call home because he just couldn't bear to see him falling apart this way. He called him home. Because his time was done and his utility in the eyes of God was complete. That'll be true of us as well. There will come a time when God calls us home and rest assured, he will not do so until he is convinced that our utility, our kingdom utility is complete. Now, here's the thing. We might question that timing. We might say, I could do more. I'd grow more, experience more, what have you. And yet God knows what he's doing and he knew when it was time to call Moses. He knew the time to call Moses was different than the time to call McShane. He knew the time to call Moses was different than the time to call Aaron, which was much earlier. You and I, we have a challenge when it comes to mortality. You know one of the things that's developed and I think it's a 21st century North American sort of thing, the bucket list. You know, I looked across theologians and I said, surely this concept of a bucket list, surely a Turretin, surely Spurgeon, surely Calvin wrote about the bucket list, surely. Not so much. It's something we've developed because we have this idea that with the time we have, we should experience everything we possibly can and do everything we can. And I get that impulse. There's a lot of stuff I wanna do. I just mentioned Bob Ross and violins. There's things we all wanna do. And yet, in God's time, he will call us home. Moses never went water skiing. Moses never ate a chocolate bar. Some things we take for granted. Moses never had a po' boy. There was a lot Moses didn't do. But in God's time, when Moses' season was done, God called him home. And that's okay. We don't understand when God calls our loved ones home. We don't get it, we don't like it. And yet, if we look at what they've meant to us, if we look at how they poured their lives into our own, we rejoice that not only did we know them and experience those benefits then, but we continued to reap the benefits of having known them in the first place. There's the old saying that people don't really die, that they live within us. Well, in this sense, they do. The experiences we've had with them continue to infect and inform us in the most positive sense in the time they had to come. And as an aside, our reunion's not that far off. Our reunion's just around the corner. If we have faith, we'll soon have sight. All right, one last thought in verses five through seven before we look at verses eight through 12. One thing I do not want us to miss. So Moses, he dies. God calls him home. God says your utility is complete. Now enter into your rest. So God calls Moses home. Now with that said, Moses dies. I don't know if he's sitting, standing, what have you, but Moses, he's done. Now, who's up there with him? Anyone? Bueller? God is with him, right? So who buries Moses? God. Look at the text again. Look at verses five through seven. So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no one knows his grave to this day. Do you see this? Moses dies, and then God cradles his body. God cradles his body and takes him to his rest. And he takes him to a place where no one will know where the grave site is because people can be weird about relics and the like and go rushing and touching and receiving the blessing. God says, no, no, no, we're not doing that. So God takes him, cradles his body, and he buries him in a location known only to God. There's no more tender picture, at least not many more tender pictures, that I can see with regards to everyone's passing than to see this. See this picture of God cradling the body of Moses. Doing him this service, even in death, to see that he is buried. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. This text bears witness to that. Let's look at verses eight through 12. Verse eight. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for 30 days. And so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended. Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him. And so the children of Israel heeded him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. But, but since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. And all the signs and wonders which the Lord had sent him to do in the land of Egypt before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land, by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel. You know one of the cruelest ironies of that text? For 30 days they mourned and they grieved, and actually this is a customary thing. We don't know that they were actually mourning and grieving like right there on day 29 and then just stopped on day 30 or what have you. We don't know exactly how this works, but we know this much. While he was alive, the people didn't care for Moses. While he was alive, the people really, really went at Moses. They routinely rebelled and rejected and said who put you in charge? They routinely critiqued his decisions, they critiqued his leadership, they critiqued everything about him. They grumbled and they complained. As we said in Numbers 11, Moses even went to God and he says just take me home, take me home already. I've had my fill of these people. And yet, and yet here's the thing, no one in the camp, no one in the camp of Israel that day remembered a time without his leadership, without Moses being in charge. Moses had been a constant stabilizing force in their presence amidst all their difficulties. And now, now he's gone. That can be challenging for us when we lose those who mean so much to us. We have individuals who have been a constant stabilizing force for so long, they've meant so much to us and in God's time he takes them. And yet, even as God took Moses, even as he cradled his body into the grave, God was not unconcerned with what happened to the people. And so God had raised up for the people a means of leadership, specifically Joshua, who would be no slouch for what it's worth, who would be no slouch. Whatever the case is, even as the people wept, which is a little ironic because they didn't love Moses too much while he was with them, we see that even as they're weeping, God has prepared a new leader. In verse nine, we see that he's raised up Joshua. In his providence, God uses different human instrumentation to do his will. At a certain point, all of us will be called home to glory and God willing, God will have raised up other people, whether it's for this pulpit, for this church, or in Gulfport in the community around us. God is busy, as we've seen in the baptism this morning, building his kingdom and plugging and playing different individuals in at different times. Moses, my servant is dead, I'll raise up Joshua. There was still good news for the people, God had not left them even if Moses had. All right, with our remaining time this morning, I want to briefly reread the eulogy that we see in verses 10 through 12. We talked earlier about Moses with regards to who he was and the powerhouse he was and no one was like Moses. Let me read these verses because they're somewhat unique. God doesn't do this for every prophet or individual in his word. Verse 10 says this, but since then, since that time, there's not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face and all the signs and wonders which the Lord had sent him to do in the land of Egypt before Pharaoh, before all his servants and in all his land and by all that mighty power and all that great terror which Moses performed in the sight of Israel. All right, thinking question, who wrote Deuteronomy? Let me ask you a harder question. Who wrote those verses? we Ah, know that Moses wrote the Torah. What's the first book in the Torah? Genesis, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. We know Moses wrote these books. He celebrated as the author of these books. Moses wrote Deuteronomy and yet who wrote that? But since then, there's not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses whom the Lord knew face to face and then goes on to say about all that he did in the time of Pharaoh. Who wrote these words? Well, many, just as an aside, many believe that Joshua wrote these words. And the reason for that's twofold. Number one, Joshua was used to being Moses' assistant, for lack of a better word. He was used to basically being the guy, the number one, the Spock to his Kirk. He was used to being the guy who would come alongside and help and assist Moses across these years. And it makes some sense that Joshua was the one who wrote this passage given that he was eyewitness to this stuff. He would have certainly been the best, most qualified candidate to write it. Others believe that possibly Ezra, which is a unique thought, but Ezra or other prophets may have been the ones to record them. Well, regardless of who it was that wrote these words, this epitaph, this eulogy here at the end of this book, regardless of who it was that wrote them, we do believe that they're inspired and inerrant and infallible, and their message is this. Moses was one of a kind. The Israelites could not have asked for a better leader even if they didn't recognize it in the time that he was leading them. The Israelites could not have asked for a better intercessor on their behalf, a better deliverer. And yet, just as they would kill the prophets in the years thereafter, they routinely rejected and despised, just hated the very man that God had raised up to bless them. Now, over the centuries, the Israelites would come to see differently. It's funny how that works. Over the centuries, they would come to see differently. Over time, they would come to see Moses as the God -ordained instrument that he was, the great intercessor, the great deliverer, the mediator of the old covenant. In time, they would come to see it, and to prove that they would see it in time, in synagogues, in the synagogues of Christ's time. You know what there was, one of the features of the synagogues? There was a seat. You know what it was called? The seat of Moses, the seat of Moses. In the synagogues, even in Christ's time, they would talk about the seat of Moses, and the point is this, that over the years, they began to understand Moses in ways that they didn't at the time he was leading. They began to revere him. They began to revere him to the point of even in their synagogues, saying that the place, the seat where someone sits in order to read scripture from, the seat where the law is given, we'll call the seat of Moses. Now before I pray this morning, let me ask you, I think a very fascinating, very relevant question. It's actually a question that R .C. Sproul used to ask his students. Here's the question. This really is a thinking cap sort of question. Do you think Moses ever entered into the Promised Land? Now, I'm not using this as a euphemism. I'm not talking about heaven. I'm not talking about that final rest. I mean the literal Promised Land with the dirt and the soil in Canaan. Do you think that Moses ever entered into the Promised Land? Did the feet of Moses ever stand in Canaan? What do you think? All right, hearing both. All right, so here's the answer. Here's the answer. Do you remember in Matthew 17, the event that we call the Mount of Transfiguration, where Jesus Christ goes up a mountain. It's during his public ministry. He goes up this mountain. And when he gets to the top of the mountain, who does Jesus encounter there? Moses and Elijah. In the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus goes up and he encounters the two titanic men of Israel's history. Elijah, on the one hand, the greatest of the prophets. You could say he typified all of the prophets. But Jesus also encounters Moses there in Canaan on the Mount of Transfiguration, standing amongst him. I think it's kind of fascinating. I think it's awesome that God in Deuteronomy 34 allowed Moses to see the Promised Land just as he'd said. And he said he would die, and he did. And yet how good is God that all those centuries later Moses got to stand there? I think it's interesting to see how God fulfills his promises, sometimes in ways that we don't expect, and sometimes fulfills the desires of our hearts in ways that we don't expect. God had told Moses he would not lead the people in the Canaan. He told him he would die before ever setting foot there. But in time, he gave him the privilege to where stand his eyes once beheld. In God's time, Moses' faith became sight. And I like that that's true in Deuteronomy 34. I also like that it's true in Matthew 17. And I like that it's true of us. Whatever you're clinging to this day, whatever faith is sustaining you to wake up tomorrow and get back at it, whatever faith is sustaining you to go about your jobs, your vocation, your family life in the midst of all the reasons just to stay in bed, know this, your faith will be validated in God's time. There is a day when your faith will become sight. Let's pray. To search through an archive of Dr. Holt's previous sermons, please visit us at fpcgolfport .org, or you can look us up at sermonaudio .com.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GEN C: From Batman to NFTs How Warner Bros. Discovery Is Building Web3 Into Franchises
"So getting back to Web 3 and knowing that Warner Brothers has a ton of beloved IP and knowing that you've invested in these communities and you continue to invest in them, even your execs are calling out Discord names, which is totally something that we do as well, too. We're like, oh, yeah, here's so and so again. We kind of like know their patterns a lot. But knowing you've got all this beloved IP, what are the next steps that you think need to happen in Web 3 for it to continue to grow and be meaningful for fans beyond sort of those blockchain natives? Yeah, I mean, it's been a crazy ride the last 24 months, right, or 30 months, just kind of watching this industry evolve so fast. And for those that lived through the dot combust in the late 90s, early 2000s, like this was so much faster, how quickly things kind of rose and, you know, kind of diverged. And I think it's a build time right now, not to use that cliche term, but I think it's, you know, really trying to remove the friction to participate in the space, both for consumers and for new companies. We actually just announced last week we're launching a form of a accelerator tech incubator with a company called Acme Innovation, where we're inviting emerging technology companies, largely in the Web 3 space, to come to Warner Brothers, meet with our executives, do a little bit of a startup boot camp, and help us solve problems that we're trying to solve. And, you know, this kind of came about through a lot of the conversations I was having in the NFT space was, if only we could do X, Y, and Z with, you know, this division in our company or this division in our company. And it's very hard to navigate those conversations even internally. And so we thought, as a company, let's come together and say, okay, let's look at some emerging technology, whether it's in the Web 3 loyalty space, whether it's in kind of embracing community management, that kind of thing, and see if there's things that can be applied across our whole company, and then eventually the industry. And so I think it's investing in, you know, not losing sight in what this can be and what, you know, not just kind of the blockchain of it all, but as your point, Avery, the broader Web 3 definition, what it could be, and keeping your eye focused on the future. To me, that's really forward -thinking, I think, of you guys as a brand. Also, to continually want to invite the folks who are building at the base levels, sort of to help teach you guys what is it they're working on, and let you inform them, here's, as a historic brand who has a lot of firepower behind it, what would it be like to see and see if there's a synergy there? Yeah, I mean, what we look at is, I mean, again, in my position, I'm privy to a lot of really great pitches and demos and things like that of stuff that's coming. And, you know, a lot of it, we'll look at it and be like, oh man, like, this is amazing. I don't know what we would do with it. But it's just so exciting to be part of it. But then you start to overlay our great brands and franchises and like, oh, what if we were able to use this emerging technology to be able to allow Batman fans to experience Batman like they haven't been able to before? You know, it's this kind of continuous hunt for super -serving the fans. And that's ultimately all we're ever trying to do is how do we keep telling these stories in new and exciting ways and celebrating the past as well? Do you think you'll ever go super -D -Gen, like Batman versus the Super Yeti or Crypto Punk 4479? I mean, there's ways we can go with this. You know, I like to consider us part of the broader community, you know, like we've done some collaborations here and there, you know, but I think, you know, some of the projects, we're just trying to do different things, you know, but there's so much overlap. Even in our own projects, we have great projects with multiple partners. We have a trading card partner, Cartamundi, also known as Hero. They have a great product. We have our back howls. McFarland Digital just launched two weeks ago. And that community of fans is just going from one to another to another. Like they're encouraging, they're seeing, they're embracing, they're more than any place I've ever seen it. I actually, I was doing a Twitter Spaces last week and it was with our partner Palm or Candy Digital now, as well as McFarland. And I think it's the first time we've ever done a public forum with two licensees of ours on the same conversation. And it wasn't competitive. Right. And so it's just, it's such a refreshing thing to see, like I was mentioning, to see this power go to the fans. Like we're all trying to collectively build something better for everyone. And it's being driven by the biggest fans on the planet. Like I'm a huge Batman fan. I'm a huge Looney Tunes fan. Like, and all the people that work on these projects are definitely like drinking our own Kool -Aid on this stuff. Like we really love to create new stuff. Sounds like a really fun job and a really special role to be able to connect fans and emerging technology to do more amazing things for fans. So on that very positive note, Josh, thank you so much for taking the time to join us and to chat on Gen -C today, sharing your invaluable insights and your career and entertainment and sharing the path that you've blazed at Warner Brothers in DC. It's really impressive. And we look forward to seeing more cool innovations from you all and your partners. And as a side note, I think it's really nice to hear, you know, you give so much credit to your partners. That doesn't always happen. So I appreciate you calling some of them out and listeners check out some of these cool brands and makers that Josh mentioned. Awesome. Thank you so much, you guys. Josh, thanks so much. Thanks, Josh.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from IRS Whistleblower Testimony Exposes Biden Family Corruption
"The Mike Gallagher Show. They're teasing you with, oh, if he's befuddled and confused and muttering and stumbling, that somehow that is charming and that's actually evidence of his effectiveness. Most people watching this don't think that Joe Biden could be running a McDonald's, much less being the president of the United States. And I think more and more Democrats are realizing it. In the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike. Governor Ron DeSantis has changed his campaign tactics. Now he's given interviews to a lot of people, including Jake Tapper over at CNN, and he always does a great job. I mean, he should do more interviews. And obviously the campaign strategy now is to try to get more and more people acquainted with him. Of course, everybody knows President Trump, and the other night at the Turning Point event down in Florida, President Trump said that DeSantis is neglecting his home state of Florida while out on the campaign trail as insurance companies are fleeing Florida. Trump said at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, we are totally dominating DeSantis right here in the state of Florida. So we want him to get home and take care of insurance because you have the highest insurance in the nation. Now this is going to be a campaign talking point for Trump. He's going to go after DeSantis over what Trump claims is an insurance crisis, a homeowner's insurance crisis in the state of Florida. Is it correct or not? Is it true? Well, I thought we'd bring in a veteran newsman, the great Roger P. Shulman, who has done news in this market for many, many decades, had the opportunity to have lunch with Roger a week or so ago with our old buddy Steve Hall, who's another legendary newsman and radio personality in Tampa since retired. Hey, Roger, let's catch up on a couple of things. It's great to see you and great to have you back on the show. I was reading an article over at PolitiFact that says that Trump is actually correct that Florida has the highest homeowners insurance rates in the United States. And as a Floridian, you and I are both Florida guys now, I can confirm the homeowner's insurance issue in Florida is a real mess. It's even worse than that, Mike, because we lost our insurance at my home, farmers just left the state for the most part, and they're just going down belly up by the dozen. And what the problem is, let's say you lose your home insurance, you have to get another company. Well, another company is going to require a four point inspection. That inspection will include the roof. And if your roof is more than 10 or 15 years old, the new company won't accept it. So you may have to spend twenty thousand dollars on a roof just to get your home inspected properly to get the insurance. So a lot of people are actually leaving Florida. Suddenly they were paying a reasonable mortgage, reasonable insurance. Now they're paying massive home repairs and massive new insurance payments. So, yes, this is a crisis and people are actually leaving the state. And I can, you know, from my perspective, I can confirm it's happened to me as well. My insurance agent a couple of weeks ago told me that my homeowner's insurance is going to more than double. So, and this is happening to homeowners all over the state. Now, the question becomes, and it is a mess, I think you're right, crisis is the right word to use. I get emails and text messages and calls from Floridians all the time saying, I don't know what I'm going to do, seniors who are on a fixed income. This is a real, real crisis for many, many people in Florida. The question then becomes, is it a reasonable talking point or is Trump justified, do you think, in blaming Governor DeSantis? Is this a Governor DeSantis -Florida legislature problem? What could they be doing? What could the Florida legislature be doing, in fact, to fix it? Jaw -boning these insurance companies, making possible guarantees that if it goes over a step in, there's a lot of things they could be doing. It's not totally under their control. We have these hurricanes that come in here and cause a few billion dollars worth of damage. The insurance companies say, we can't handle it. We can't do anything about the hurricanes, but we can do something to make it more safe for some of these insurance companies to stick around. Something can be done, but it's not totally under the state's control. Well, it's going to be a legitimate talking point in the campaign, and Governor DeSantis is going to have to defend Trump's criticisms and attacks. But I think you can confirm and I can confirm this problem is real, and it's not an easy fix to be sure. There's another issue I wanted to talk to you about. I have, again, on a personal note, a personal story to share. I've got a property where I'm having yard work done. I want to have a little irrigation system installed, and I want to have yard work done, landscaping created, right? This has dragged on for months and months and months. First of all, there was the process to get a water meter and irrigation meter and all that, but that isn't really the issue. But there's this issue. I called my landscaper guy yesterday and said, what's taking so long? He goes, the holdup is the irrigation company. I said, well, what's the holdup? He said, Mike, Florida's immigration laws have created a collapse in that industry in Florida where the workers, he kept calling them the immigrants, the immigrant labor is fleeing the state because of Florida's intense scrutiny of companies and illegal immigration. I said, so they're leaving? He goes, Mike, the company that I work with to do the irrigation has an 80, they have had an 80 % exodus. They've lost 80 % of their workforce because they are, in his words, immigrants who have fled the state, likely headed for Texas. Roger, does this have to do with DeSantis' crackdown on illegal immigrants and the E -Verify system? The E -Verify system is part of it. Any business that hires more than 25 people have to E -Verify all of them, whether you're Americans or an illegal alien or whatever. That eliminates a lot of them. A lot of the driver's licenses from other states are not being honored here if they're held by illegal aliens. This is a big problem. 2 .7 million immigrants work in Florida, 26 % of our workforce as of a couple of years ago, and hospitals have to verify. Now, I was just talking to some strawberry growers. We have a great strawberry crop and plant city. They're having a massive problem with their harvesting and tomato growers. It's affecting agriculture, tourism, and the hospitality industry. A lot of the people who clean the rooms and do the work in the kitchens, many of them are illegal immigrants or immigrants who don't speak much English and they're scared by this situation because they're getting conflicting information. So, a lot of them have decided, the heck with Florida, we're going to Texas. Wow, fascinating. And again, when he told me that yesterday, I couldn't believe it. I wanted to bring it up. Roger P. Schulman, great newsman, extraordinary. And we had lunch over there with Steve Hall in Plant City. Where do we go to, Fred's? Fred's Market. If you're ever in Plant City, Florida, Fred's Market, one of the best places to eat in the world. Home cooking. It is the real America over there. Buffet style. Jason Aldean could have shot his country music video right outside of Fred's Barbecue. I loved it. I loved it. I loved it. Great seeing you, Roger. It was good. And the company was fantastic as well. Thanks, Roger. Roger P. Schulman, newsman here on AM -860, The Answer in Tampa Bay, and again, been in this market for many, many years. So this brings me to an interesting dilemma, honestly, because I'm very impatient. I want this yard work finished. And I asked the guy yesterday, I said, well, first of all, I'm not really excited about the fact that you work with an irrigation company that has 80 percent illegal immigrant workforce. And he said, Mike, that's everywhere. He goes, there's not a whole lot of companies that are in this field that don't use immigrant labor, as he kept putting it. And of course, he really means illegal immigrant labor. And it gets back to that question, progressives love to ask this, who's going to cut our lawns? Who's going to mow our yards? Who's going to clean our laundry? Who's going to clean our houses? And so I guess the question I'd ask for you, I'd pose to you is, if it's between getting the work done or not, would you use illegal immigrant labor? I mean, there's two interesting issues. And listen, Trump's going to have to contend with the illegal immigrant, and you know where he is on that. I mean, he's hardcore. This is a Florida problem. And you know, some would say as Florida goes, so goes the rest of the country. But I want to ask you about both of those issues. First of all, flat out, there's no way around this, the homeowners insurance issue in Florida is a crisis. It is a catastrophe. And there are Floridians who are leaving the state. They can't afford it. In some cases, the homeowners insurance premiums are higher than their mortgage. And DeSantis is going to have to address that. No way around that. And I really suspect that a lot of this is out of his control. I mean, let's face it, you do have hurricanes in Florida, but we're not the only state with bad weather. This has got to be addressed. And number two, again, me being an impatient guy, I'm like, come on, let's get going. Let me get the irrigation system installed. Well, when you lose 80 % of your workforce because they fled the state to go to Texas, where I guess that the state is Texas is friendlier to illegals than Florida is. What do you do? What would you do if confronted with that? Would you because I would say that on principle, you should reject using illegal immigrants to work in your home or on your in your yard. But it's one thing to say it. It's another thing to practice it. What do you think? 800 -655 -MIKE. I'd like to get your reaction to this pair of issues that Floridians are facing. And it might be an issue around the country as well. Do you have the same experience in your state? Let me hear from you. In the ReliefFactor .com studios, 800 -655 -MIKE, 800 -655 -6453. We have one open line. I hope you join us. Left -leaning activists are attacking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Read The People's Justice Clarence Thomas and the constitutional stories that define him. 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"Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, I give you my take on the viral conversation Tucker Carlson had with Andrew Tate. Paul Manafort also joins the program. And we talk with Raheem Kassam about Ron DeSantis and the state of the 2024 race. Support our program charliekirk .com slash support. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. That's freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at Andrew and Todd dot com. The center of the conservative movement will be Saturday, Sunday in West Palm Beach, Florida. President Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, Steve Bannon, Josh Hawley, J .D. Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, Governor Asa Hutchinson, Mayor Suarez, and many others. But noticeably absent, we received a decline from Governor DeSantis. And here to make sense of it, Raheem Kassam, Raheem, who is not part of Turning Point, so maybe he can offer kind of an outsider's really kind of clear perspective here. Raheem, what am I missing? Why is why did Governor DeSantis decline our invitation to speak to six thousand grassroots super activists? Well, Charlie, thank you for having me. I'm sorry to have to talk about this issue because I know it's probably a particularly insulting one as far as you're concerned. I almost feel like I should be interviewing you about this. And and, you know, it's one of these things where you got to look like below the surface of this. I know a lot of people were speculating immediately that perhaps Ron DeSantis was worried about getting booed or jeered up on the stage. And my attitude towards that was, well, no, not really. I mean, it's a very welcoming audience. I've been to several of your events that people are never rude or churlish, especially to speakers that have been around on that circuit for years and years, as Governor DeSantis has been. And so I started to sort of think about, you know, what are the other pressures on the Florida governor at the moment that might be causing him to have to kind of park, to put it in a mild sense, snub is probably more more accurate and more representative of the insult that him and his campaign are doling out here towards those those grassroots activists. And what I came down to is this, DeSantis seems to be able to hop on a plane and get to a different part of the country almost every day to fundraise. There's no shortage of it. Yesterday, he was in Wisconsin doing a fundraiser with the Council on Foreign Relations, neoconservative AEI donor who used to give to Rahm Emanuel. And he has time for that. And he has time to go and see his donors in the Hamptons this coming week who are demanding that he explain why his campaign isn't got the momentum that, you know, they all promised it would have, especially if you give me two hundred million dollars, which people have done. And so I think this is probably coming down. Like actually coming down to what the campaign would refer to in newspeak as like scheduling clashes. Right. But what it really means is crisis talk. It's crisis and crunch talks with the donors. It's crisis and crunch talks about Iowa. It's crisis and crunch talks about why he's not making a move in the polls. And unfortunately, I think your event is getting the thin end of the wedge there. Yeah. And again, I don't want to play the victim. We have an amazing lineup here. But Rahim, it's I'm trying to understand the calculus of the DeSantis campaign. It's perplexing to me because you have voters that you have to win over. And by the way, we did a ton of events with Governor DeSantis last fall. Our audience is very fair. I see it completely differently. He if he wants to be the nominee, get in the arena and try to assert dominance. You know, buy a booth, do an influencer reception, try to win over the audience, open up questions. You know, Rahim, it's not just our students that are there. We have hundreds of pastors of mega churches that will be there. We have 500 donors. We have 10 billionaires that will be there. So it's not like there's no donors if that's a big priority. Every major media outlet will be there. 300 influencers will be there. But Rahim, I'm just trying to understand the calculus. And yes, we do consider it a little bit of a snub. And President Trump, to his credit, you know, attending is really something. Does it show you that that there's some sort of a plan that DeSantis has that we have not yet been read into, which is to kind of win the Chamber of Commerce primary first before actually speaking to donors? Because what I can say, Rahim, is what we are receiving from attendees and grassroots, hundreds of messages. People feel insulted that he is not attending this weekend. Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean, the interesting part of it is that so many people may have been coming along in part to hear from Governor DeSantis. Right. Knowing that you would have and he's been at turning point events before, knowing that you have other presidential candidates up there probably thought like, hey, yeah, this is going to be a good time for me. You know, I've read so much about what's going on in the media or seen him on Fox all the time talking about this, that and the other. But I'd really like to get up close and personal and see, you know, maybe see if he's as awkward as people say he is. Maybe see if, you know, you can disprove some of those things by by meeting with a person, rubbing shoulders, shaking hands, all of the things that go on at political conferences. And to turn your back on that, like you said, this isn't just a student summit. There are there are thousands upon thousands of other leading people in the movement who will be attending your event. And it seems like that, OK. So Reuters today puts out a story that says Iowa is do or die for DeSantis. And this story appeared to be briefed by the DeSantis campaign. At least that's how it read. Right. People who know this world know what those stories tend to look like. And a source close to the campaign said this. Well, yeah, you just talked to the campaign and somebody didn't want to go on the record. So they are themselves now saying we are going to replicate the Ted Cruz strategy of 2016. Now, remember, Ted Cruz won Iowa, but also remember, Ted Cruz did not become the president of the United States. Ted Cruz lost the nomination. Ted Cruz was not the one up there on the debate stage against Hillary Clinton. And thank goodness for that, quite frankly, as much as Ted Cruz is good on some issues, he would have been no way near a candidate as strong as Donald Trump on that stage against Hillary Clinton. And so you look at who he's got behind him, DeSantis, right. Jeff Rowe, Axiom Strategies, that whole Cruz campaign team from back in 2015, 2016, and you go, oh, I see, you're just trying to do a redox. And the reason that they're spending more time fundraising rather than actually campaigning, which would involve turning up at your event, is because the consultant class want their big bucks paid out. What is this? No, finish your thought, please. Well, look, here's the other part of this that I've been saying for months now is that they're not running a populist campaign. They're not populists. The MAGA skin suit is about as much as they have offered to the Republican Party base in recent months. And sometimes it's not even that. They're putting together a new oligarchic establishment Republican donor class. And by the way, they're barely hyped. You can see when he goes to the Dominion Law Lawyers Office to fundraise, you can see when he uses Rahm Emanuel's old backers. You can see time and time and time again, Council on Foreign Relations, all of these guys. That's the team he's putting together. And that's not a populist way of campaigning. And maybe he's telling us something. Maybe he's letting us look. I'm not that much into you. So there's this story. I don't know how accurate it is, Raheem, that there's a kind of a crisis meeting in the Hamptons. Can you fill us in on that? I mean, I saw that you kind of broke that story, added some commentary to it. Yeah, that's right. Look, we were we were following up on a lot of the reporting that was done by Charlie Gasparino on the same issue earlier this week. And I think this story has gone around a little bit around the rumor mills, around the gossip mills. And it just came to a point where somebody was ready to report that out. And that's what that's what Gasparino did. So we pick up on the basis of that using my sourcing, the people I've spoken to. You'd be surprised at how many people down in Florida actually, you know, still still want to I say this as if you're on different sides, but reach out across the aisle of this Republican presidential primary and talk about what's going on and what needs to be fixed and the problems that are manifesting themselves down in Tallahassee at this current point in time. And so, yeah, it looks like at some point over the next few days, DeSantis and perhaps some key members of his team, his inner circle are going to be in Southampton, in the Hamptons in New York, and having to explain to some quite quite peeved donors like, hey, where is our money actually going? Because you have moved in the polls, you've moved downwards in the polls. So what's going on? You know, are we are we going to be supporting you in the future? Tell us what the plan is. And of course, the brief plan back to that is, you know, we're playing the long game. Well, let's get into the let's get into the I want to I want to get into the detail about that. And also just, you know, Trump standing in the party, I got in a little bit of a heated conversation with DeSantis donor the other day, and that's fine, like, he has a right to do that. And he's like, oh, Trump's going to lose the nomination. I don't know one person that's voting for Trump. So, yeah, you live in Aspen, okay, like just you live in Aspen, okay, you live in Aspen.
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"Foolish idea, and yet it is not an unfamiliar approach. No, we need constantly to come particularly to portions of the Bible with which we are familiar with a genuine spirit of agnosticism. Not in terms of wholehearted, unbelief in the know ability of God beyond the realm of the natural world. I'm not using it in that primary sense of agnosticism, but rather in the sense of investigation in the spirit of not unbelief, but the spirit of I'm not sure that I have ever fully grasped this story. I'm not sure I understand entirely what it is about. And to the extent that one is prepared to do that, it will yield benefits. But in going to the subject with an open mind and with an investigative mind, I made two immediate observations. They're not brilliant, but it's just the kind of thing I want to point out to you. First of all, I realized how much I was influenced by the headings in the Bible, particularly in the NIV. And I think in every one of the gospel writers, the material that is before us this morning comes under the heading, the triumphal entry. And I thought about it, is this really a triumphal entry. And I determined that it isn't a triumphal entry at all. It is the story of a dramatic approach. That the process of going up to Jerusalem, these few miles from Bethany and on is dramatic in every respect. But in actual fact, in the marking account of events, the final entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, as you will see in verse 11, the dewitt, we will come. It's really a very quiet ending to the story, isn't it? And he went to the temple and he looked around it, everything, and he said to his friends, it's really quite late, I think we should go home now. I admit to him, that's a personal perspective. There was a public arena in which things were taking place, but nevertheless, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. And also, along with that, I realized how influenced one was by the familiar preacher's point on palm Sunday, namely the fickleness of the crowd. And there's hardly a palm Sunday sermon that you don't hear where the person says and the crowd was going down the road shouting Hosanna Hosanna, and then they turn around and they did a one 80 on it, and then they started shouting crucified crucified crucify. And the point is made the crowd was fickle down and you're a fickle crowd today and I don't even know why you're here and so on. And everybody goes away feeling rather disgusted with the preacher. Well, the more I study this week, I said, yeah, I'm not sure that at that point is well made. I'm not sure that it can be substantiated to the extent that we find it. I don't want to, this is not the point of my study this morning, but just an observation and passing. I think what you discover is that there are essentially two crowds being mentioned.
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"Because when she wakes up in the morning, what she's done, so I was like, okay, so I concert reminded that betraying her sister. I thought the man. To me, that was good. I was like, okay, because I was like, you know, as you go on the film, I'm like, okay, I get what's going on. We're going to drag this out, but I was like, but what are we getting at? I thought, okay, this is starting to make a little bit more sense. So I liked it a lot. Yeah. So here's the thing, like if you were stuck in this loop and you had the option of just chilling all day in the pool and like drinking a whole bunch of beer and then going out that night to a party where there was going to be a birthday cake and like a free bar. Yeah. Would you, I mean, I guess eventually you would get bored, but you would get bored with it. How many weeks do you think it would take for you to get bored of that? She went to, well, she went to a diner and then busted out the old laptop. I used to go to the library too and I don't know. Well, I've read like people speculate, how long Bill Murray was in Groundhog Day, like how long he was in that day. And I've heard like centuries. Possibly hundreds of years. He learned piano. High sculptures. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, you never really saw that with this movie. They never really perfected a craft or like they don't said it was his 1 millionth birthday. Like, I'm sure it's a joke. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think this one did attack more of the philosophical side of it than Groundhog Day did. Like you said. It was a little bit more lighthearted and Groundhog Day. Whereas this was more like, what does it mean if you experienced the same day over and over again? Like, truly. What does it mean to be a human in a life where there are no consequences and there are just constant repetitive cycles over and over again. Yeah. Like I get that, but also, was it an all inclusive resort? Like, was there an omelet bar? Because I think wake up every morning and have the breakfast set up every morning. He was just making daiquiris or margaritas in the communal kitchen that they had. That communal kitchen looked bomb. I'm just saying the amount of time I would spend in this weird time loop. The answer would change if we had like an omelet bar and if there were like, I would want to try every combination. Every omelet comment, I would like to get some pineapple juice, maybe some tequila. Let me try mushroom Swiss spinach, no jalapenos. Yeah. See if I can get myself behind it like I want to learn to make the perfect omelet. Learning to make an omelet is important. I'm very true. Anyway, this is a good movie. No. So you're 7. You're 7. 7. 8, 8 and a half. And my metric my criteria that I've always brought up is like, does this movie make you feel things? You know, that's the big difference between a 9 and a ten. I think this movie makes you feel things and I think that's why it's an 8 over a 7. Yeah..
Cinemavino
"palm" Discussed on Cinemavino
"The brachiosaurus, what the fuck? The dinosaurs. Apparently those are a tourist feature, like they have like actual dinosaur sculptures. In the polymer screen area. That was when they were doing mushrooms. Wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, but again, at the end, and the credits you see them again. And walking towards the weird cave. Whatever. The movies have a little fun. Yeah. It makes you think. It makes sense. To get bread get head cave. Skull island. Skull. I am. Sucked out. See you later. What did you think of this movie? It was dog shit, y'all. Fuck. No, I'm kidding. No, I liked it. I did not love it. This was your first time saying it was. I remember seeing the trailer for it and then just kind of zoned out. Never saw it in 2020. So my first time seeing it, it was actually yesterday. And I liked it. It was very, honestly, going into it, not knowing what it was. I read the little blurb, but okay, so it's a repeating whatever. But I didn't really know how similar it was going to be to groundhog's day to me. But it was very funny. I liked it a lot. I can't say I love it, 'cause I love Groundhog Day. And I was like, man, I liked it a lot. And it was very, and again, the time, hour and a half, thank freaking God. And it was like, and the comic relief, the perfect timing. I didn't know until you said it, but Sandberg is like, at first I was like, God, I've never been a huge, I think he's fucking hilarious. Saturday Night Live. Yeah. But I've never liked any of his movies. And I know this might be blast me, but what's the TV show? Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I've never gotten into that show either. And I never watched it. I love Brooklyn 9. Yeah, it's like, I don't know, for some reason I just can't get behind him. A lot, you would. Fuck you. But he does kill this movie. Does Amy Sandberg Canadian? Sounds Canadian. I don't think so. But we need to verify that. Sounds Canadian..
Cinemavino
"palm" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Well, and you guys stuck around for the stinger at the end of the credits, right? The mid credits scene. Where basically J. K. Simmons comes back to the wedding and he's just like, Niles. I got the message from your girlfriend. Is it really work? And it's Niles and the tuxedo and he's like, I have no idea who you are. And it's basically proving that Niles gets out because at the end of the movie, if you just watch it to where it ends, you think J. K. Simmons just never finds out. This is continuing to live in a loop. No, he gets a message from Christine malati. And finds out how to get out. Yeah. That's sweet. That's nice. Thank you. What do you think? All right, so I would give this a 7. Just because Groundhog Day for me, is this movie but better? Like, I appreciate it. I love every movie that is a weird little loop. There's the, oh God, the death saves or something. There have been live die repeat. No, well, that one as well, but there's like one where like a weird mascot is killing some sorority girl. And I can not life of me remember the name of the film. Happy death day. That's it. And there's a sequel to that too, that wraps it all up. I'm like, oh shit, this is really good. This is like a really good two parter. But I love all of these weird, time loop movies. Also that lived I repeat. But yeah, this one was also great. The cinematographer for this one is Quinn Q tran, who has done several different films. I can't remember the other shit is not on my tongue right now, but her husband also plays D&D for critical role. And that's how I knew her name. I'm like, oh, fuck yes. Like, I had heard about her through critical role. And she's very good at her job. So that was her cinematography that you enjoyed so much waffle..
Cinemavino
"palm" Discussed on Cinemavino
"That come out recently. Exorcism. That recently come out. Existentialism is a pretty new train of thought. Something else recently came out. I was just farted, and I think I'm going to have to well, it's even better that it might not have been Travis, but we don't know. We're going to have to go back. I mean, I'll claim it. We'll have to pull that out of the podcast and see if our listeners can figure out which one had dealt it. That's actually that's a whole point of nihilism. It doesn't matter who smelt it nor delta. Look, it's just the fact that it was dealt. It's going to be on our Instagram stories. You make the call who dealt it. And I know that's a call you guys are dying to make out there. Who dealt it? Yeah. Paul springs. So Niles. So Sarah meets Niles at her sister's wedding reception. They hit it off immediately. Mainly because of his don't give a shit attitude that he exudes at the reception was kind of vibes up with her attitude of being pretty much over everything that's going on. So they kind of hit it off and head off for some nookie in the desert. And he gets attacked by a stranger out of nowhere in the night. Played by J. K. Simmons. God, I love J. K. Simmons. That was perfect. Yes. And so he Niles is wounded and kind of stumbles off to a K with her running frantically behind him. He gets into the cave, gets sucked off into some yeah, he does. Yeah. He gets shunted. He gets me. Yes. Yeah, he does. Yeah, okay, what's a better way? He goes to another dimension. He gets vortex into a hole. No, I'm going to put it the way I did before. He gets sucked off to another dimension. We're going to leave it like that. Good for him. Just say he gets sucked off in a cave. I'm going to leave it just the way it was. I'm happy with that. Freezing. And so he vanishes, she follows him, she vanishes, they both wake up. It would have been a better movie. They wake up November 9th morning, Groundhog Day style, rebooting everything. They start all over again. And now she comes to realize that he has been there for years, possibly centuries, repeating the day over and over again. Just one of my favorite lines in this movie where he's just like, yeah, it's one of those time loops you might have heard of. Yeah. One of those time loops I might have heard of? What? Yeah. And so she realized that now she is cursed to repeat this day along with him and along with J. K. Simmons character who is haunting Andy Samberg. Occasionally, he occasionally gets a wild hair and goes predator style hunting Andy Samberg through Palm Springs. And captures him, tortures him, kills him. Liv died repeat. And so they basically get to know each other they bond, probably, again, over years and years, maybe decades. And she has to contend with his extreme nihilism, but she comes to like him. And it's a matter of can she tear down his armor that is his nihilism. And possibly in the end, can she figure out a way to get them out in the loop? You know, can they have a love affair in this repeating day over and over again? And does anything mean anything? It's like it definitely asks bigger questions and does anything mean anything? Does our need for companionship define us? Does our mortality define us? Does anything mean anything if we don't die? If you can't die and every time you die or fall asleep, you wake up the next day, perfectly fine, and there are no consequences for your actions, ultimately..
Cinemavino
"palm" Discussed on Cinemavino
"The gir arbitrary rose and the gravier Bordeaux, all affordable, all good. If you're looking to give wine to a lot of people. I could do like 60 bottles of this. Maybe only $12, but it tastes like 16. Yeah. Exactly. That's your advertising right there. Yeah. Where do they get that? Actually, this is really good. I'm enjoying this. Is that trapez? Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina. You're going to take a picture of this label and share it on our Palm Springs, Instagram. It will be it will be shared. Was it wasn't Dick Grayson a trapeze artist? Yes. Trappist monk? Touche. That'll be podcast on Instagram for those who haven't followed us yet. Go ahead and get on over there and follow us. Todd offered movies dot com. Oh yeah, we've started doing voting stories and things and other social media practice. I voted on for my best friend's wedding. Dermat mulroney was the winner of the sweepstakes versus Dylan McDermott. Same person. Either way. Whatever you want to call them. Palm Springs. This Palm Springs. So my notes real quick. It is a and this is going to be a mouthful of fantasy sci-fi rom com. It kind of covers several genres blended into one seamless whole. It was released on Hulu, July 10th, 2020 at the peak of the pandemic, they released this in a few theaters, but theaters weren't really doing a whole lot of business then. So the primary arena for this was Hulu. It was released to almost universal claim via critics and audiences. It was nominated for Golden Globes for best picture and best actor for Andy Samberg. Real quick synopsis film takes place on November 9th, Palm Springs, California. Sarah, who is played by Chris maladi, meets Niles and it took me to rewatching it. I felt stupid. Rewatching realizing Niles is short for nihilism. I did not realize that at first because I'm not very bright. So now you make us feel stupid because none of us got that. And I wanted to know. Other people see this? I mean, I know, but for Taylor, what is nihilism mean? Anybody who's seen lebowski can sum it up in one sentence. I believe it's flee, who says it of course we believe in nothing. You can't trust nihilists. They don't believe in anything. Taylor means they don't believe in anything. Thank you. Which we got a heavy dose of in everything everywhere all at once. Yeah, the contrast of nihilism and existentialism. Yes. This one is pretty much just a heavy deep dive in the nihilism. And I know what existentialism is, but Sean, if you could explain it to Todd for me. I can not. Okay. Oh, I didn't watch the movie. There you go. So that come out recently. Exorcism. That recently come out. Existentialism is a pretty new train.
Cinemavino
"palm" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back to cinema vino. We're going to continue our wedding series tonight talking about Palm Springs. Movie I enjoyed quite a bit, came out about two years ago. I'm hearing with traps bud. Bravest hud, Taylor Owens. Yo yo, Sean Jordan. Howdy, I've got the whole crew here. This would be part 5 of our 6 part wedding series. We are drinking trapeze, Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina. Tapesh. Nice budget red. I really like this. You know, tasty. Yeah. This one clocks in at about ten bucks. Really? This is X, not bad. Maybe 12. If it's over ten, it's not much over ten. Argentinians, wines, not people. Generally cheaper than other rides, pretty affordable, yeah. They tend to be. Argentina quiz. Is that the one that has moved vedra? Is those from Argentina? You'll see those in France. Primarily. Yeah, that's a French throne. Is there some other Argentine ball bag? Okay. I knew it started with an M yeah. 'cause I'm a little bit of an awkward position. So you guys talk amongst yourself for a second. I'm a scooch away. Go ahead. So Argentinians. No, no. Oh, hey, what's up, man? Oh hey guys. So yeah, Malbec is going to be the primary grape out of Argentina. That's kind of their niche grape because you'll see that Malbec and France is a blending grape. It's a grip that they add in the Bordeaux with Cabernet alone. Get more of a blending grape. It's a blending grape as knobs might say. Argentina has kind of made it their own. And they release a lot of stand-alone. Malbec. In France, there is a region that does Malbec called cahora. Sometimes you'll see a little bit of reload blended in there, but a lot of times it'll be a Malbec centric wine. So I got those fucked up. So what is a move Vera? That's another grape. That's another variety. It totally different in that in France. Blending. Yeah. You'll see that blended with grenache and syrah a lot. Like in the rhone. There you go. Very good. That's the end. Ganache, I like a ganache. Yeah. You'll see me better than they're kind of round them out, kind of sand them off a little bit if they get a little bit too big and bold. So I'm a veteran is a good grape to kind of round off other grapes. So this is an Argentinian cabinet. Cabernet. I opted not to do a Malbec from Argentina because Malbec. I love Malbec, but it is a different animal..
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"palm" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"Day just looking for another one like it A stop will announce in nba The localities we work at. It's not what you think of as your classic fossil locality with an outcrop and rocks that you can see a lot of the material erodes out of the ground so are working in crop fields. That you know aren't being planted at the moment. Nevis growing season's over just like walking around in old cotton fields and just looking at what's on the surface. It's the person you and walking through one of these fields and just saying this palm fruit renzo rock to sitting on the surface of the ground and he said that like that's immediate you know serve discovery. It's really warring right because most of the time you don't process material until you get back to the lab seeing you don't necessarily know what you have but in this case the dishonest thing sitting on the surface you could tell exactly what it was you know. He spent the whole day looking for more more of them only found the one so far is field experiences gala. Let's maybe about as good as it gets By one of the i think the best parts of steadying a fossil specimen especially when working on for a while is finding something new and interesting. Let you hadn't noticed before. And which allows everything to fall into place so in one of the fossils. I worked on his paper from a couple of years ago. We're trying to figure out in palm fruit. We're trying to figure out where goes and this is part of why we ended up doing this Big ct survey of all comforts to build this data set by it had trades that could have placed it in one of several groups of palms none of which were closely related. So i can go here here here like i don't know and that's that's really frustrating. One thing one at one method we at least in the lab. I might use a lot of microbes. Et so micro cat scanning specimens because we get remodels out of the data and then we can slice them. Any which way we can generate three models of of certain structures. You can kind of be like digital dissections and things like that and i was working with a cat scan of the specimen and after having spent a bunch of time on rendering realized that the end of car which is the hard sort of inner layer of it actually had this huge hole in it and there is a ceiling coming out of it a little bit of tissue coming out of it and so just having that one trait the fact that the nfl has this whole recall germination for and we know where in the fruit that germination force located atop that actually matters that immediately gets us to one particular group within poems and so sometimes you get really lucky that you discover a trait that's really useful and that can happen just all in a short span of time in the lab or in this case sitting on a computer playing with a three data you know and that makes all the difference in terms of you know figuring out a fossil. So that's the point at which you know the pieces together and then you and then because you're sort of thinking about in terms of being part of his group you start to look for other traits of that group analyses. You start to look for them then you're like. Oh yeah actually. Has this other thing in this. Other thing that you know when you're just thinking about the whole spectrum of palm diversity. You can't always see that so anyway. Those are two examples of of nicer moments learning out on on fossils. That's wild end yeah. I love those sort of crystallization moments. That make you a high there. We go but also. How cool is it to capture that moment in history. I mean literally a moment in this little seedlings life that has been preserved for millions of years. I mean that in and of itself is incredible but then to have it all kind of complete a bigger pictures so satisfying that is. I'm glad you're able to share that with us. Yeah it's not know very little very nice looking seedling. tonight makes for an interesting figure. Sure but yeah. That happened to be a really useful trait. Sometimes you stumble upon tricks. They're interesting you're like well. It doesn't isn't really that much cool. But what do i do with this. Yeah this is awesome dr matsunaga. This is really fascinating stuff. And i think i speak for everyone listening saying i'm really excited to see what comes out of your lab in the coming years. I mean you were at a really cool point in time and it sounds like you got a lot of really great collaborations in the work. So if people want to keep their finger on the pulse of what you're doing find out more about the research you have done. Where do you recommend the go looking. One place you can look is I have a a lab website on which i try to keep updated with what working also a great source of information on. Just what paleo. Botany is up to at ku. You can go to the cave biodiversity institute website in go to our division so i am one of several paleobotanist here at ku There's another curator of failure body here. Brian atkinson on. We have a number of students in the also. Haven't an awesome collection manager. reserve it so excellent all. There's a lot of paleo. Botany happening here And so if you if go to the website which i think is being revamped. This summer we can keep up with us there. Yeah i think. This is a really amazing place to do paleo botany because they're such a long history of it here and there are so many of us. It's not so great. And i might have to bug you a little bit more after this two tracks them down to pick their brains as well but i'll put up links for everyone. That's interested that way. They don't have to stop driving their car to write them down. But thank you so much for taking time out of your schedule to talk with us. This is really exciting. And i wish you all the best and obviously open door policy anytime. Something new or exciting happens in the world of paleo. Botany palm evolution that sort of stuff. reach out because you're welcome back anytime to talk to us about it. Thank you so much for having me. in a lot of fun just chatting with you about about this great. Well hang in there. Stay healthy and happy paleo by nizing too cheers all right. That does it for this episode. What a fascinating topic to study once.
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"palm" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"And so one of these questions has to do with the relationship between homes and we origin of modern tropical rainforests because today most palm species are found only in tropical rainforests and this is a abiam on that has been around for quite a long time. But there's some debate on when exactly these environments originated and sort of what their role is in the evolution of poems. So one idea is that you know. Basically palms or always. Tropical there are always tropical found in tropical rainforests. The problem with that is that moms. Go all the way back to you know. At least the the late middle cretaceous and of people are not convinced that these types of environments were around at this time because there isn't a lot of direct evidence for them. That's not to say that they couldn't have been around or not restricted to certain regions or areas. But the evidence is far as the extent is sort of sort of mixed who really start to see them take off later on in the easy so there are there are several possibilities so poems are always tropical and you know when these environments really expanded during the senate zoa sort of went with them another option that i want to explore this is this is totally. Reasonable is whether palms might not have arisen in tropical environments. But later you know sort of took off when those environments started to spread around the world so this sort of relationship between palms and the origin and changes in tropical environments through time. I think it's just a really fascinating thin that we can. Now start to look at using the fossil record and also integrating different areas from plant biology in evolutionary biology. Right and what interests me the most about those kinds of questions. Is that these ideas or hypotheses have been put forward and a lot of times. It's you know okay. We have scant evidence or maybe because of this one area we feel it could be this way but then someone can look in another direction and go well. It could also be this way but until you can build those data sets. It's really hard to actually answer those. And and it kind of is a really cool place to be to be sort of on the forefront of building enough of a data set to start really chipping away at this depending on the region. You're looking at but it also is interesting because yeah i mean you do kinda just associate poems. With tropical climates. Nowadays in the question then becomes as like. Is this the pattern. That's always been or is it not in. Both of those are really exciting. Whether you know you have evidence for one or the other not getting too. Attached to one in particular can open the door to some really kind of goosebumps moments in evolutionary ecology and again connecting it to what we see today. This idea that you know palms are pretty darn old when it comes to angiosperms and and what are they been doing and what we look at outside when we see upon you know. Are you a more recent thing or is this something that your ancestors have been doing for a very long time. I mean all. These things are super exciting. And it's great to kind of be on the forefront of that. Yeah i think these are things that i mean. I'm definitely not the only person interested in this from there are lots of scientists on biologists that. I've been working on these questions for a really long time. But i think there are lots of people that are interested in this that have things to contribute towards kind of getting out. This question and that kind of collaboration is essential for kind of getting at these types of questions because you know all of these different data sources anatomy the fossils all of the living species in the molecular data. All have information. That's relevant mom. And we don't all have the expertise to deal with all those data sources. So yeah i think for for things like this. Collaboration really becomes key there for sure. I mean this is science in a nutshell and it's really nice to hear from someone doing it right. Is this idea that. I think a lot of people just picture someone such as yourself in lab going okay. We're doing this. i figured it out. I'm writing it. I'm publishing it but what you just outlined there is like everyone needs to come to the table and it's cool to hear especially disparate fields talking to each other you know. I can't think of things that are less similar in my mind than necessarily looking at sort of the molecular analysis of genetic material. And then what you're doing with a fossil but they can inform one another but also just trying to understand palm diversity both today and you know however far back you want to go. I mean that in of itself requires so many different people to come to the table and collaborations. They need to happen right. Yeah exactly and you know. As far as the fossil record goes you know there are always going to be limits of what we can understand from them. You know there are. There are some questions that are just unanswerable. Doesn't mean we can't go after them because we usually don't know when we question that we just can't. We can't address and so i think it's important to also pay attention to how much information you can really extract from from your data. Answer be honest about that too. I mean this is something all scientists do but they're sort of the hope and then there's the reality but i. I do think that there's a lot more we can. We can get out of the fossil record on. So just gonna keep chipping away at it certainly and so for your work particularly for the trees that you're building are they're regions of the world that interest you more or more useful or you just trying to get as much from a variety of places as possible. I mean again. I'm completely ignorant to the how this process works. So.
Astrology & The Hermetic Arts: Holes to Heavens
"palm" Discussed on Astrology & The Hermetic Arts: Holes to Heavens
"It with us. It's an honor pleasure. Sure thing it's thank you for any closing words wanna share with the audience. Closing words mean anything really. You can always just say not must Well nominee. That's for sure it some travel trip as much as you can every heartache one thing it is very hard but very soon we can travel again up in trouble in the street and as just as a personal challenge if there is one major tool that can help heal this.
Brain Burrow: Digging Deep into Psychology and Horror
"palm" Discussed on Brain Burrow: Digging Deep into Psychology and Horror
"Depths of the mind. It's time for lock diva anti and brain pharaoh. Welcome everybody to the episode of brain burrow about digging deep and this is your host mark valenti and today i have the special privilege of introducing a colleague and mentor. I will say ms courtney palm. So courtney wanna see how you're doing and want you to talk about. Who is courtney palm. Well i thank you mark for having me on this blessed day and thank you everybody. Who's watching means a lot for both of us and we hope that you're equally having a beautiful day wherever you are so who am. I think that's a really deep question that not a lot of us know the answer to so on the surface. I could tell you who i'm projected to be by everybody else or i can tell you you know. I'm just this earthling. This fellow pilgrim like vibing on this planet like a spaceship floating in or liken this universe that we call earth like really. Don't know who i am. And i think that this is fifth journey where we find out who we are so on the surface. I'm this person who loves animals who loves people and also could be irritating by them. And the dis- loves the erc honestly. And i'm just trying to find out. What the heck's calhoun. Yeah that's a great answer in a very deep hands which. I'm not surprised because you're constantly communicating sort of about who you are and how you interact with others when you mentioned that you're sometimes irritated by people. What do you mean. Talk a little bit more about that. Well i think the problem is a lot of us. Operate our daily lives in our own little reality tunnel at we've sort of fabricated around us and believe ours. Our world truths what israel to us. And we don't know maybe what's real to someone else and what's real to them could be irritating to you. Someone speeding and traffic in a fast car and cutting you off and you're just like a whole and it's just like you know you're irritated by them. You'll like that person deserves getting wreck and create a minute. Like why am i. Not the bats their realities like look at me. I'm cool. i'm gonna fast car or am for an appointment or whatever you know. I get irritated by people. Who aren't even. I get irritated by people who are like trump is amazing and spied him socks. Biden's amazing and trump socks who we don't even know who these people are like. We just saw the face of them on tv. We don't even know who they are like. We can't just say these things so like it just is ear hitting i think because the collective unconscious mind right now is really kind of dance and a very layered with with these attitudes and beliefs systems without really like being expanded in their own minds. Like it's just really closed off very narrow minded very brainwash society and it can be very irritating especially to me when i'm like trying to rise above it you know doing plant medicines meditation self-healing and all these things. Then i get pulled back into the three d world. Where i'm like this. Like dense energy gets so frustrating and people need to wake the fuck up ups okay disclaimer. But yes you can swear. This is a wake up. I just i get frustrated. I think ultimately in the end you realize that we really are all connected. We really are like vibrating here together on this planet and for us to be released separate is like an illusion like we really are here like if you look at it. Fundamentally or even spiritually all sort of been created out of the same essence essentially so the irritation that we're seeing other people could be something that's trying to make us wake up and see something more about ourselves so that you can actually make a change and become a better person or become enlightened or whatever so. I don't know. I get frustrated. But i have to understand. People are coming from as well with our stories. Yeah so it's a very empathic approach because even when people are taking you it still sounds like you're trying to understand where they're coming from and the. Yeah so i'm just wondering how do you do that right. Because you're human being you get stressed you get tired. You get pulled in a million different directions. You get hungry. You get all these things. So how do you even have the energy to be able to sort of kind of navigate. Some of these situations but also recharge yourself. That's a great question mark. I think it's ever we're at. We're always trying to figure that out. I think day by day because you can get pulled back into that especially when you're dealing with your own life stressors But the the best way to do it is you know. Take time out to pause and try to rise above the situation. Not necessarily thinking that you're better than the situation but you just kind of seeing it from a higher perspective where you're looking at everything kind of play out below us than you're like separated from yourself and then you can see what could possibly going on A really vague not vague. But just at an interesting example. Recently my father has been really on edge and like really irritable and kind of like fighting with my mom a little bit because he sawing it's company to someone and he's like ananta about it because you know he's worked his whole life really greater half of his life on this company and now to sell it to someone else. It's it's his baby that he's basically giving away so naturally he's going to have that attitude so he's putting anything to me protecting anything onto me with this attitude. He has an interesting is that to sing. It's like it could be agitated to at certain times. And i'm just like you know i totally understand you're coming from. I know you're stress app companies. Use of the things that we have to do when we step back. And we're dealing with someone. Who is maybe angry or jealous or irritated or sad but we don't take it personally because we have to see where they're coming from and how they're operating like have what are you dealing with in your life. What's making you act this way and then bus. You can do that with yourself as well if you'd like. Wow like with the full moon brought out some amazing energies for people and you could either have been like trapped in those energies or you could have used it as an opportunity to see. Pass yourself kind of find more enlightenment. Like for me on sunday The energy was very dense was like super performance like in libra that divine feminine energy's rising to the top try to balance out is divine masculine energies of really like wreaking havoc on the planet. For quite some time now because you know the masculine energies very straight narrow very authoritative and the feminine energies which we all have with a balance of both. Hopefully we can bounce. Some of us are out of balance but the divine feminine energies are very rooted in compassion understanding race. And when you like when that full moon was coming on me. I was like depressed. Suddenly you're tasted what is going on. And then i realized i was like oh. These are the sides of myself. That i'm not happy with. How can i show myself compassion for these.
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"Holy for them when they were shouting. Diana was actually insincere. it really wasn't genuine. It wasn't about giving praise to god goddess or for even what god had done in their lives. It was praised based on what they believed he was going to do in what was about in the days and weeks to come and when it became clear that he wasn't bringing it the way that they wanted it they turned. The praise was self-serving raise. It wasn't god directed craze and communities. Same way no matter what we're doing some type of praises in the things that we do is that sometimes the united service we praise. God let me ask. You is our service self-serving or is it to bring praise and honor to god. Praise has got to be sincere. cannot be insincere. this wasn't just nine twenty nine. That received us. Jesus even so that matthew chapter fifteen verse he said these people drive me with their models on me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. Half-hearted insincere praise does not honor god at all all of us is a form of trying to pretend and there's now through heartfelt desire towards had in that first thirteen verse one the lay speak with tons of menu but have not love. I've become a sounding. Brass reclaiming symbol is. Just talk about the love. I half of my brothers behalf. We can do all the right things we can. We can look like we're trying to act spiritual we can sound like being spiritual but if it is not grounded in a true love for god. It is empty praise and we are no better than those simply late hoax on the ground. One day in shop crucify the next sound chapter. Eleven verse. One tells us this award. It is good to prison. I will praise the lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright in in the conservation. See parties is not. it's not mine. This is heart base and they'll be reflected in the songs that we sing. It'll be it'll be seen in the acts that we do. Their priests wasn't just insincere. Their was also incongruent. Chapter six verse. Forty six tells us this. Why you call me lord and do not do the things which i say reviews this example before if you said that your kids or two nephews or your nieces or or somebody right that linked to come up and say i love you but yet they won't clean the world right that they don't do the things he asked as you say well. If you love me do what. I telling you know different with god see. Our craze in our shelves will not just be heard will be seen in everything that we do. Matthew chapter seven verse. Twenty one says this everyone who says to me lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father in heaven. What does that tell you what that tells me. A lot of people that go to church on sunday morning. The lincoln mate. They've been coming to church and they shall more than they can. They can seem like they have a level of relationship but there really is relationship all religion. If you've got to relationship with god interna help but affect the way to live your life now maintaining always get it right note if so. We're all doomed. South included is that they were going to get it right but we we tried we can to bring and bring pleasure and if all we come to ensure we offer up praised because we feel that what we should do and then when we leave the church building on a sunday morning or whatever day of the week it is go we find ourselves than say okay there. I did my duty. And if that's the attitude it's not sincere and it's not congruent. This should be. We begin our worship. But it culminates out there right. It's easy to permission how there once we leave this place that we come to church not to get a homemade that freezing church or maybe something lectures well at. I heard this way. We'll pick up before can eat. You know expecting people to feed your ford pickup. Your four degrees. But there's that mentality that church for some reason police line come to simply get where somehow get stroked and get built up and do we get those absolutely but why so we can get filled so we can go out there and give what we've down away to those who need it and give it away until you find yourself emptying you come back next week. Get filled up the board so you can go out and give even that away see. That's true worship when it goes beyond just here just as in cuddled temporal timeframe of an hour hour and a half sunday but title reaction. Go out and we live. Our worship imitation is the highest form of praise. Now i'm not saying a crecy. Okay talking about immigration when we choose to meilen our lives after another model as after crisis heist appraise that can ever give to him. And that's why the disciples their praised on palm sunday. It took me to the grave proclaiming the goodness of god. What is your worship take you. Where's the take me..
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"This happened back at the red sea. If you remember right. They cost over the red sea. Great miracle only took them three days to start complaining again and said we'd be better off in egypt. They totally forgot who their god was. Of course we could get on the issue with the same way are we how many times this guy come through in our lives in some way in some form and only find ourselves a few days later experiencing some other situation or struggle or catastrophe so those ascott yariel they understood was coming. Jesus he was the one that had the power to save but what he was was the son of david. Well maybe reading into this let. Let's let's look a little bit more. What do they say next. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord. You're not have this understanding that. He is lord rather than the one was coming in and some he was sent of the father was and so therefore is true but did identify him as board and then they go if you look down in versus ten and eleven is this. When jesus entered jerusalem. The whole city was stirred. They began to ask who is by all this fanfare for this individual. And you see their interest eleven. This is jesus again. They stopped there. But we begin to see their heart follows. This is jesus the prophet from nazareth in galilee. Just another profit. Just another one sent from god but not god personified and believe it was in this. We see so much of why the fellow short i see some other. Very big warnings to us is a church in the people of god as we go into not just this week but as we will cushion existence and it simply this. How true is your craves how throws your praise are waiting to come into church on sunday morning just to see songs that praised magnifying. Glorify him only to find ourselves during the week shaking only to find ourselves during the week not living the same kind of christianity that we live on sunday shouting. Oh god save your salvation. We live a life. That is why he came to die on the cross. We still find ourselves living in sin. I think it's good for us to make sure praises genuine. See the problem with the israelites as they leave down the road when it came to their home pom poms were out there. Were winding to receive something. It was out what it was that was going to be brought to them. There were often praised. Matterasian their problems. We're not up. In a total surrender to the king of kings and lord of lords to the one that could map just bring salvation from tyranny but one of green salvation from the ultimate tyranny that being the work of the enemy the worker saying the word sin death and the grave see. Jesus could come and brought deliverance to the temporal could have brought deliverance from the romans. But that would have been soul minuscule compared to what it is ultimately came to bring because the freedom to ebro and the concrete that he did that didn't just affect the romans in the first century. It's affecting the kingdom of darkness on the way to this day and so can take pride and joy in the path serve god and truly is king of kings and lord of lords. How is your praise. What was going on with these people. First and foremost praise was really insincere. In fact again. This wasn't something new with the israelites. We seem to have seen this over and over again and again that just as relates even own lives but if you look at chapter twenty nine verse thirteen. It tells us this. Therefore the lord said it as much as these people drawing near with their miles and other means with their lips. Sounds like singing worship songs. Doesn't it but giving testimony but have removed their hearts far from me and there's fear toward me taught by the commandment of man so we have going on with their hard appraises. They could sing a good song. Then been shout a great praise to god but it was only lip-service heart change they a form of religion. They didn't have any true relationship with god and we see that says covers their fear. There's fear toward the was not from the malaysian ship. It was not from their interaction with god. It was because it was by the commandments of man. And that's as far as it went and we know that that is true. Even when god is we can take the holy spirit was present like yours today. Well let's remove the holy spirit from the equation. Formula restored him outside and delivered for me. 'cause why were they really delivered from egypt. They were never from egypt. Not the promise. Land they were delivered from egypt to go into the mountain. Worship god the promise laid was to come after that. But what happens. Is these relates more about the privacy of the work so much about the model. They weren't so much about being. God was in fact when they optima cyanide. Whether you most should go to enforce didn't have a desire to be in that relationship with.
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"Pastor. Tim golden these podcasts. We focused on going relationship with god maturing in the faith through his word stewarding relationships with one another as well as learning to make disciples as we share the gospel of jesus. Christ each day highlights. What of these facets of spiritual character growth and stewardship so be sure to comeback each day or a strong and healthy walk with lord thou. Let's see what the holy spirit wants to show us today. Okay if you open your bibles on this time. Sunday to matthew chapter twenty one matthew chapter twenty one and we. Actually you just read this reading and we are going to read it again because there's things we don't want to miss this. Just get a really good sense of the word is we are going today again. Matthew chapter twenty one starting at first one and it says there as they approached jerusalem and came to buffet jr on the mount of olives. You sent to disciple saying to them. Go into the village ahead of you end up once you will find dog entitled there with her cold biver untie them and bring them to me and if anyone says anything to you taliban that the lord leads them he will send them right away. There's took place fulfill what was spoken through the prophet say to the daughter. Zion see your king comes to you. Gentle in writing on occult rather donkey nicole. The disciples went and did as jesus had instructed them. They profit on key and the coal place the time that jesus statham on them a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road to crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted hosanna to the son of david. Blesses you who comes in the name of the lord hosanna in the highest when jesus entered jerusalem. The whole city was stirred nast with us. The crowd answered this. Is jesus a prophet from nazareth and galilee. And then we're going actually continue eating the snack protection g second temple area and drove out all went by selling their you overturn the tables of the money changers and the of those selling dubs news written. He said that my house will be called a house of prayer. But you have made it. A den of robbers lord. We thank you today that you said jesus to us that he would come that you'd cleanses from our said to enter here into this what we call passionately tied from palm sunday to easter lord. We asked you would draw attention all that much more to all the did all that you accomplish two thousand years ago on our behalf to deliver us from the lectures of sin and death so that we could experience life everlasting but even more important that relationship with you and god is we dig into this passage today. Would you be in our time together when you open our hearts. Jesus name amanda so jesus enters in the way. This is the climax of his ministry that is taking place as he gets ready to enter into jerusalem. And of course we know that very famous phrase it mentioned there in verse tan that they leave their cloak. They lead down branches at tells us elsewhere and they began to cry out. Hosanna to the son of david blesses you comes in the name of the lord hosanna in the highest and that is very exciting. Isn't it. i mean to to know that there was this was going on but at the same token is exciting. Was it was also very discouraging. It was discouraging for christ because we know that before christ entered into jerusalem. It tells us the he wept over tourist one because he knew that they were not getting it that they were not truly understanding his reasoning for coming but yet to keep jesus from coming in and making a entrance though not a white stallion rather on a donkey and again this was to fulfill what it says in scripture but we know that he welcomed that moment as an empty and shallow as it was because even though they were shouting hosanna to kreis even though they were waving palm branches lane them down and acknowledging his coming in as a king. There's some things that we can really gather pretty important from what it was that they cried. First of all they cried whose in now what they hit me. I mean i was proud of the church for a long time. You just that was something you just always shouted when it came time for palm sunday but what does it mean. It means simply safe in indirect knowledge that what was bringing with salvation in some form and in fact it wasn't just a shout of those it was in cleaning. It was a shout of excitement was shot of trying but was also a hard foul leave is how many know they were being overrun by romance. They had been oppressed for so long. And now jesus riding it this messiah and they'll cry was. Here's the one who's been singing. But yet now she's coming into it. Come and bring your salvage that is very excited and if they would have just stopped there but yet you get some real good keys the clues into this crowd as we mean further. What did they find it. They tried to to to sign of david. You notice that is not to the son of god. When they were acknowledging was what they do from testament scripture. Here the messiah comes just one that would be there. Deliver would come from the lineage of david. They were all educated in the word. They understood that they understood the sculptures. And so that's why they're claiming here comes can save us from this lineage. He is the son of david but even greater than being the son of david is the fact. He is the son of god. But the fact that kaud- only saw him as the son of david begins to really shed some light into what really takes place the rest the week that we are coming into and why the say crowds of one hand on on sunday joseba is the same that find themselves a few days later. Shouting crucify him. How can you switch. How can you turn so quickly. Should surprises insulated from known.
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"That was an honestly that was really all they could do right. They can't get into trying to guess what team might have done with. Gained that work way. Right so they could only go by what you did For team that have fewer opportunities clearly cost him in this bracket and it's up and down the bracket But the the bottom half of the bracket you know the nineteenth and below wichita state. I think the only team played fewer than twenty five game. Everybody else you know because they have more chance to prove. Themselves benefited from that Those opportunities in the in the mind of the committee that you're though that was unfortunate louisville. Also i think only twenty eight bulow saint louis only twenty games each level also had not only they have their own kobe but then the atc also had to cancel several games so It was it was difficult for those team. That didn't have enough game. Jerry palm is with us All right let's let's dive into the bracket jerry and a couple of weeks ago ahead Para schon and Gp was talking about the sportsline simulations that were being run off of your latest Bracket tala giese every day and at that point it was like a historic Probability are stork number of times tournament. At that point was being simulated gonzaga was ending up the winner or gonzaga or baylor were ending up the winner folks and idea of kind of how the model has projected things over the course of the season and didn't in your is. Just what kind of a. If i can use an air quotes determine front runner Zags have have been to this point kind of pacing the field And until this point is we can separate the tournament now. I'm not involved with or flying rejection right right but your bracket correct bracket Yeah i think you don't before baylor had kobe problem. They were those were the dominant heap account to dagon. Pay off the long. Those two separated themselves from everyone else then. Michigan joined the bat brave but they had their own problem. Having been the since and now i delivered its for an unknown length of time Though we don't know how long he'd be out for him to make the a deep running tournament they could probably get through a couple of games allowed but So michigan was also doing very well in the end of the season illinois made a big surge finally playing like the team. I would be before the season for me. They were the big ten favorite Iowa also favored by a lot of people But you've got to guide who could be in the nba right now come back to school and covert into soon move. Been terrific all season long and the other players developed like rabelo has come along great Williams them a lot. So i think that illinois as a chance to also make a deep now and maybe more along lined with gonzaga and baylor as dominant team to college basketball more so now michigan and baylor hasn't been the same that they got out of their copa paz. But you also have to keep in mind. They're playing big twelve teams of them. Going undefeated throughout the entire regular season was probably not great. Anyway be just because the top seven teams in the league. Really good the you know it would only take one off day for baylor fall short but baylor a chance to the deep run I dag illinois in a pinal. I think it's finally mark year at his his team. W i think you know coburn. Give good dagga problem. Because they don't have a you know a true post like that. I mean tinny played in the post but he's not really a guy like covert back in the basket all the time kinda guy But they could play into regular season. Beat them comparably. And i was that big man in the country regardless so That i think again. Win the over mind wireless. And then i kind of went with for the other had alabama while city you can see jerry's full bracket at cbs sports dot com. You know it's so interesting at jerry watching to come off of You know his time away and what he's been able to do watching teams come off of of covid breaks baylor's a perfect example right because there's no template for how teams would respond for this and you know we saw a state Hang around for a long time with baylor that first game back until baylor's talent kinda took over the only team that really hasn't looked susceptible at all to any break at any point. This year is gone sagging. You think that's fair. Well then what they did have a. They didn't have a problem with inner team. That haven't really add much of a problem with their bill. Couple of games in the west coast converts wasn't able to schedule to play teams like iowa. Like heck the only thing we missed was the gonzaga baylor regular season. Matchup right exactly. And that's unfortunate but Yeah well in debt you'll gonzaga half the bronco schedule. You get the best team that they can play because that's how they can get a good deed with the committee because they know or they at least cannot count on their league being good enough push them up and give the tests during the season. Though this year that baylor was a a sixty to put them in the top twenty five of the bracket and baylor and byu gave them a really good game in the championship game of their tournament. But it's a dagga did not have doesn't get during comfortably find copper. And they've been able to do that. Jerry palm is with us. Cbs sports dot com is where you go. So are you saying there's a chance. The missouri tigers jerry are if they get past while they're staring down the barrel of oklahoma and then potentially gonzaga. What did you make zoo Over the course of of the year and again you can see jerry's fix and is full bracket. Cbs sports dot com a team. That i dunno played well and as a mizzou grad. It was nice to see them win. Some some big games early in the season but they kind of you know the. The computers didn't love him. They were winning. Some of these possession games that you thought might even out a little bit. Things kinda turned me down the stretch. Well what do you make the tigers overall year this year cons of martin has done endowed the challenges that they have with oklahoma and then potentially Having to take a crack at gonzaga know that's actually that's doing a nutshell They around one You know they had. They had the probably top resume for me to try and deal with that. I had higher the nine. I thought they should. I still think it should be higher the night but that's fine but they beat illinois they alabama. they wanted tennessee. They wanted arkansas. The one in florida. I mean they beaten to really good teams and but then. They can't beat mississippi mississippi state or did they lose georgia best player without for a couple of games and that that part of it. But you know still just they have a resume of a team. That looks like you know they could. They could just as easily lose their first round. Game made the sweet sixteen. You know so it oklahoma. Good team That that should be interesting. Eight nine game and the way they get better competition give china. They might need the beth. The i'm looking at your bracket i'm looking at Parishes bracket they're all cbs sports dot com. Give folks Team that maybe is not a household name so to speak. I'm using air quotes. Maybe be The national audience saw less of those teams this year than they would in the normal year but You think because of their talent. Maybe they're seating as advantageous A couple of teams that you think folks should be aware of that. That could make a run. Well you want.