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"Blackjack also has the numbers. He's striking with nine divisions, divided into three corps. On the American left, the balding, mustachioed, and rather rotund Major General Hunter Liggett commands First Corps. His doughboys will work with the French Fourth Army, yet to the left of them, to take the deadly Bellowood-esque Argonne Forest. In the center, we have Major General George H. Cameron's Fifth Corps. To them falls the daunting task of taking Montfaucon. A 300-foot rise here gives the Germans well-placed artillery an excellent observation point over the whole American sector, so Blackjack needs this taken out post haste. Lastly, Major General Robert L. Bullard's Third Corps holds the American right and will attack between Montfaucon and the Meuse River. Fresh off of a victory at Saint-Mihiel, the Yanks are filled with confidence while the Germans are demoralized. Sounds like the psychological setting is ripe for swift American movement. To quote Blackjack, in my opinion, no other allied troops had the morale or offensive spirit to overcome successfully the difficulties to be met in the Meuse-Argonne sector. But is Blackjack's confidence well-placed? None of the divisions here have even seen combat apart from the 33rd's Illinoisans who fought at Saint-Mihiel. Some men in the 79th Division, part of the 5th Corps assigned to take Montfaucon, have only been in uniform for a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, such aggressive posturing might encourage his less strategic generals, say Robert Alexander of the 77th Division, to push too hard. Well, time will tell. At 1130 p.m. on September 25, 1918, American artillery begins to fire. Soon, an astounding 2,711 guns are blasting away, tearing through more ammo in a few hours than the Union and Confederate armies combined fired in all four years of the Civil War. The sound is overwhelming. Men with the 1st Corps' 129th go deaf. Among them is a 34-year-old captain and future U.S. President, Harry Truman, who says it looks, quote, as though every gun in France was turned loose, close quote. Meanwhile, ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacker is flying over the exploding countryside just before daybreak. He'll later recall that through the darkness, the whole western horizon was illuminated with one mass of jagged flashes. At 530 a.m., the bombardment gives way to a rolling barrage as doughboys go over the top. Watching is Lieutenant Colonel George Patton, who's just penned a letter to his wife, which opens with, just a word to you before I leave to play a part in what promises to be the biggest battle of the war or world so far. George might be the commander of the 1st Corps' 1st Tank Brigade, but he isn't one for watching. His patience for staying in a command post as his 140 tanks roll forward can only last so long. It's sometime after 10 a.m., September 26, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel George Patton trudges through tank tracks in the forest looking for his men and machines en route to Val Ven in support of the 35th Division. He's been out here for three hours and has amassed an entourage of some hundred officers and men. Some want to follow, others fear not. Pressing forward through the lifting fog, they soon reach the southern edge of the small village of Chepil, and that's when George and his impromptu battalion suddenly face machine gun fire. George yells for everyone to get low and follow him back as he tries to figure out where on earth his tanks went. It's not long before he gets his answer. They're bottlenecked. A French Schneider got stuck trying to cross between two wide German trenches. George is livid. Why haven't he? He will. The tank brigade commander braves German bullets, grabs shovels and tools off of the exposed tanks, and puts the Americans and French alike to work, digging a French tank out. As the men work, George and Captain Math English stand above the trench, surveying the land and planning the next move. Lieutenant Paul Edwards yells for them to come down. George responds, hell with them. They can't hit me. He stays there while the tanks cross, using hand signals to give directions to the deafened crews inside these machines of war. But as the tanks move on, George remains eager for action. He waves his swagger stick overhead, shouting, let's go get them. Who's with me? His 100 strong force jumps up and follows the athletic colonel over the crest of the hill in front of them. That's when the Germans really open up. Seems like they were waiting for this exact moment. Everyone drops to the ground for cover, looking up at the sky. George has, well, he says a vision, a vision of his veteran ancestors. In his words, I felt a great desire to run. I was trembling with fear when suddenly I thought of my progenitors and seemed to see them in a cloud over the German lines, looking at me. I became calm all at once and saying aloud, it is time for another patent to die, called for volunteers. Six men answer his call. Already sure of his own death, George jumps up, shouting, let's go, let's go. He charged forward and are immediately cut down. Five of the six volunteers were killed. George is hit in the leg. The lone other survivor, George's orderly, Joseph T. Angelo drags his wounded commander to safety. On his insistence, George is taken to the 35th division's headquarters to report on the battle before finally going to the hospital. It's a similar story for day one of the Meuse-Argonne across the American sector. Doughboys, brave but green, charge forward with mixed results. General Robert Bullard's third corps on the American right sees the greatest success covering some six miles between the Meuse River on their right and Montfaucon on their left. As Robert will later recall, his men advanced, quote, almost as far as we had anticipated and my corps that day had suffered no great losses, close quote. On the American left, where George Patton just suffered a wound severe enough to take him out of the whole offensive, General Hunter Liggett's first corps sees the smallest gains. No surprise as these men are dealing with the dense Argonne forest, but among those on the corps far left, 77th division's commander, General Robert Alexander, is particularly galled at his New Yorker's slow progress. That brings us to the American center and Blackjack's greatest hope for today, V Corps' attack on Montfaucon. None of these three divisions have ever seen battle. One division commander, Major General Joseph Kuhn of the 79th, has never led infantry before today. Little surprise then that Montfaucon remains in German hands as the sun sets. The day was so disorganized that German General Max von Galwitz thinks the attack might be a diversion with the real attack still coming from Blackjack's more experienced troops over at Saint-Miel. Indeed, the German commander is confident that the coming days here at the Meuse-Argonne will go just as well for the German army.
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"Charlie commands the 1st Battalion of the 308th Regiment in the 77th Division, aka the Statue of Liberty Division. The division commander is General Robert Alexander, and though a man of action, he's not the strongest leader or strategist. Indeed, his own superior officer, 1st Corps Commander General Howard Liggett, has actually wondered if Robert's promotion over the Statue of Liberty Division was a clerical error. Be that as it may, the 77th Statue of Liberty Division is now positioned to the right of the French, on the far left of the Muse-Argonne American sector, and this hard-nosed general is determined that his doughboys will drive the Germans back. Damn the costs. For Charlie's battalion, mostly rough and tumble Lower East Side melting pot New Yorkers, peppered with freshly arrived Westerners to replace their fallen, this means advancing a little less than a mile northward into the thick Argonne Forest, up the Charlevoix Ravine, taking the main German line, then pushing to the other side of the Charlevoix Valley to take a road and railroad on the next ridge. They are to do this today, blindly trusting that the French to their left and the 307th Regiment to their right are keeping pace and not leaving them open to a flanking attack. It's now 8.30am. The whistles blow, and galloping Charlie leads his doughboys into the woods. They stay as low as they can, hugging the west side of the ravine toward La Palette Hill, thankful to find that the trees stop most of the occasional German sniper and machinegun fire coming at them from both sides of the ravine. But eventually, Charlie and his men come to an opening. German bolts fly as seasoned New Yorkers and fresh-faced Westerners alike take cover and return fire. Charlie is no coward, but he loves his men and won't see them slaughtered without cause. He sends word of their predicament back. The message goes up the chain, to Colonel Cromwell Stacey of the 308th Battalion, to General Eben Johnson of the 154th Brigade, and finally, to General Robert Alexander. The division commander is unrelenting. He barks a message over the phone for the 154th Brigade's commander. You tell General Johnson that the 154th Brigade is holding back the French on the left, and is holding back everything on the right, and that the 154th Brigade must push forward to their objective today. By must, I mean must, and by today, I mean today, and not next week. The message is relayed back to Charlie Whittlesey with one caveat. Colonel Cromwell Stacey gives Charlie permission to cut eastward across the ravine to try the other side. The bespectacled Major answers, All right, I'll attack, but whether you'll hear from me again, I don't know. It's now about 2 p.m. Joined by Captain George McMurtry and his 2nd Battalion, Major Charlie Whittlesey leads their combined forces along the eastern side of the valley floor near Hill 198. A German sniper is holding them up, so Charlie sends Lieutenant Harold Rogers with B company out to deal with him and an accompanying Bosch machine gun nest. While a few soldiers distract the Germans, the rest of B company circles around and surprises the machine gunners. The 30 plus Germans, all older reservists, quickly surrender. A small force marches them back to the American lines as Charlie otherwise leads the mixed forces of the 1st and 2nd Battalions forward. Soon Charlie's men stumble upon an abandoned German trench. It's overgrown, but was clearly long held. Is this not the main trench of the Gieserhehr line? The line that the Germans intended to hold to the end? What on earth? And what's happening with the French to their left? Or the 307th Regiment to their right? No matter. They've yet to go as deep as General Robert Alexander has ordered. Charlie's doughboys next arrive at a marshy green open plain. There's a small brook crossed by a narrow bridge. Single file and broken up, the Americans dash across as German soldiers fire. The Yankees are lucky. Between the distance of the shot and the sunsets diminishing sunlight, most of them make it across. Ascending a steep slope, the 1st and 2nd Battalions soon reach a road. Charlie can hardly believe it. They've suffered about 90 casualties, but they've reached their objective. Immediately, he orders his doughboys to dig in on the slope below, forming an oval shaped perimeter. Charlie also sends privates George Newcomb and John Haught to check on the French to their left, while runners relay word back to his superiors that they've surpassed the Germans Gieserhehr line and reached the road beyond, as ordered. But the two privates don't find the French on the left. They find Germans. John Haught is captured, leaving George Newcomb to return alone with the report that the French aren't there. Meanwhile, as the runner's message makes it back, General Evan Johnson has mixed feelings. He knows that this news will please his demanding division commander, but at the same time, no other units of the 154th Brigade accomplished their nearly impossible objectives. That means Major Charles Whittlesey's forces aren't only exposed by French failures on their left, but by American failures on their right as well. He sends a battalion from the 307th Regiment to reinforce the major and calls division headquarters to report the situation. Colonel J.R.R. Hannay passes word to General Robert Alexander, then soon calls back. General Alexander says congratulations. But General Evan Johnson isn't of the same mind. Exasperated, he responds to the colonel, I do not consider it a matter for congratulations, but I wish to put him absolutely in possession of the facts. Those facts are that Major Charles Whittlesey's men are far out ahead of any other American or French forces, and soon those facts will also include that, of the reinforcements sent from the 307th, only K company will manage to find them, and that, by morning, the Germans will have completely surrounded the major and his mixed forces of roughly 550 soldiers. No food, no further reinforcements, surrounded. Good God, what hope do these lost doughboys have? The 77th Division will have to act fast if they are to save this lost battalion. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. Today, as the Allies' war-ending Hundred Days Offensive takes the British to Cambrai and the Belgians to Flanders, we are following General Black Jack Pershing's massive, more than one million strong American Expeditionary Force, or the AEF, and its French allies into their last campaign of the Great War. This episode is part one of two of the 47-day-long Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It's been a few episodes since we've followed the AEF directly, so we'll start by backing up a month and change to review the background on and set the stage for the Americans stepping into the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Once underway, we'll see hard fighting as we catch up with some familiar faces from past episodes, like Lieutenant Colonel George Patton and, over with the French, Harlem rattler Horace Pippin. But alas, we won't make it so much as a week into this offensive before we come to the plight of Major Charles Whittlesey and his mix of companies from the 77th Statue of Liberty Division, which we'll refer to collectively by their soon-to-be nickname, the Lost Battalion. We'll then finish their tale, one of brave men, a brave bird, and immense loss. Well, are you to follow Black Jack and his massive American force into their final campaign and see what becomes of the Lost Battalion? Excellent. Then let's dial the clock back two months and start down this dark path, the path that leads to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Rewind. In late August 1918, Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch wants to try a new strategy, one likely inspired by Britain's Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig. The Frenchman decides that allies will strike the Germans more or less simultaneously and in different spots. His new slogan is, tous le monde à la bataille, that is, everyone to battle. This, he hopes, will break the second Reich before the year's end. On August 30th, Ferdinand tells General Black Jack Pershing that this new plan means that the recently formed American First Army's upcoming attack on the Saint-Mihiel salient can't happen. Those doughboys need to go fight in the Argonne Forest and under French leadership, no less. Yeah, you remember this from episode 137. Black Jack is livid. This plan would deny the newly formed U.S. First Army its first real battle and hide their role in the final assault. The enraged American nearly throws a punch, but thankfully they compromise. Saint-Mihiel will happen, but with dialed back goals, after which the Yanks will head to the Argonne Forest, but under American leadership. Look at that. Ferdinand and Black Jack working things out without their fists. Miracles never cease. And so, the First American Army attacks at Saint-Mihiel on September 12th, and victory is in hand the next day. Black Jack then moves hundreds of thousands of men, their supplies, and 2,000-plus guns 60 miles northward, just past Verdun, across rough terrain in less than two weeks for the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. But the rough terrain isn't just a thing along the way. Here's what the Americans are facing on their new nearly 20-miles-long north-facing front. Starting on the American right, that is, the sector's eastern edge, we have the wild and deep Meuse River. The Yanks here will fight in its valley. Doughboys in the center will face hills, plateaus, and ridges, all of which provide the Germans great protection at their stronghold of Montfaucon. Continuing west, we come to the Aire River, which is followed by the Aisne River, and between them is the hill-covered, heavily wooded Argonne Forest. It's a horrific prospect to attack. In the words of Major General Hunter Liggett, quote, the region was a natural fortress beside which the Virginia wilderness in which Grant and Liggett was a park, close quote. But the Germans aren't only relying on their natural fortress. They've also constructed a massive defensive line, or Stellung in German, that runs from the North Sea down to Verdun. The Germans call it the Siegfried Stellung. The Allies call it the Hindenburg Line. We'll use the latter, but the key thing is that the Hindenburg Line, which passes right through this region, isn't a simple line of trenches. Here, it is a miles-deep series of lines supporting four positions, all bearing names from Teutonic lore. So, if the Americans break through the first line, they'll still have to deal with the Gisselher Line, which, despite the abandoned section we saw Major Charles Wilsey find in this episode's opening, is fiercely defended. That is followed by the Krimhilder Line, and finally the Freya Line. French General Philippe Etin estimates that the Americans will break through the Gisselher Line and take Montfaucon around Christmas. Yet, despite Philippe's view, all of the challenges we just discussed, and the U.S. Air Service operating with only 800 or so aircraft, as opposed to the 1400 that it had at Samuel, Blackjack has a more ambitious goal. He wants to take Montfaucon and press all the way to the Krimhilder Line on the first day. As his order number 20 states, quote, the advance will be pushed with great vigor, close quote. Damn. Okay, Blackjack, but how on earth are you going to do that? Well, despite the German's fortified natural fortress, Blackjack does have a few things going for him. One is the element of surprise. The Germans aren't ignorant to the Yankee force amassing here, but they still expect the Americans to push their advantage at Samuel, not strike hard in the Argonne Forest. Blackjack also has the numbers. He's striking with nine divisions, divided into three corps. On the American left, the balding, mustachioed, and rather rotund Major General Hunter Liggett commands First Corps. His doughboys will work with the French Fourth Army, yet to the left of them, to take the deadly Bellowood-esque Argonne Forest. In the center, we have Major General George H. Cameron's Fifth Corps. To them falls the daunting task of taking Montfaucon. A 300-foot rise here gives the Germans well-placed artillery an excellent observation point over the whole American sector, so Blackjack needs this taken out post haste. Lastly, Major General Robert L. Bullard's Third Corps holds the American right and will attack between Montfaucon and the Meuse River. Fresh off of a victory at Saint-Mihiel, the Yanks are filled with confidence while the Germans are demoralized. Sounds like the psychological setting is ripe for swift American movement. To quote Blackjack, in my opinion, no other allied troops had the morale or offensive spirit to overcome successfully the difficulties to be met in the Meuse-Argonne sector. But is Blackjack's confidence well-placed? None of the divisions here have even seen combat apart from the 33rd's Illinoisans who fought at Saint-Mihiel. Some men in the 79th Division, part of the 5th Corps assigned to take Montfaucon, have only been in uniform for a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, such aggressive posturing might encourage his less strategic generals, say Robert Alexander of the 77th Division, to push too hard. Well, time will tell. At 1130 p.m. on September 25, 1918, American artillery begins to fire. Soon, an astounding 2,711 guns are blasting away, tearing through more ammo in a few hours than the Union and Confederate armies combined fired in all four years of the Civil War. The sound is overwhelming. Men with the 1st Corps' 129th go deaf. Among them is a 34-year-old captain and future U.S. President, Harry Truman, who says it looks, quote, as though every gun in France was turned loose, close quote. Meanwhile, ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacker is flying over the exploding countryside just before daybreak. He'll later recall that through the darkness, the whole western horizon was illuminated with one mass of jagged flashes. At 530 a.m., the bombardment gives way to a rolling barrage as doughboys go over the top. Watching is Lieutenant Colonel George Patton, who's just penned a letter to his wife, which opens with, just a word to you before I leave to play a part in what promises to be the biggest battle of the war or world so far. George might be the commander of the 1st Corps' 1st Tank Brigade, but he isn't one for watching. His patience for staying in a command post as his 140 tanks roll forward can only last so long. It's sometime after 10 a.m., September 26, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel George Patton trudges through tank tracks in the forest looking for his men and machines en route to Val Ven in support of the 35th Division. He's been out here for three hours and has amassed an entourage of some hundred officers and men. Some want to follow, others fear not. Pressing forward through the lifting fog, they soon reach the southern edge of the small village of Chepil, and that's when George and his impromptu battalion suddenly face machine gun fire. George yells for everyone to get low and follow him back as he tries to figure out where on earth his tanks went. It's not long before he gets his answer. They're bottlenecked. A French Schneider got stuck trying to cross between two wide German trenches. George is livid. Why haven't he? He will. The tank brigade commander braves German bullets, grabs shovels and tools off of the exposed tanks, and puts the Americans and French alike to work, digging a French tank out. As the men work, George and Captain Math English stand above the trench, surveying the land and planning the next move. Lieutenant Paul Edwards yells for them to come down. George responds, hell with them. They can't hit me. He stays there while the tanks cross, using hand signals to give directions to the deafened crews inside these machines of war. But as the tanks move on, George remains eager for action. He waves his swagger stick overhead, shouting, let's go get them. Who's with me? His 100 strong force jumps up and follows the athletic colonel over the crest of the hill in front of them. That's when the Germans really open up. Seems like they were waiting for this exact moment. Everyone drops to the ground for cover, looking up at the sky. George has, well, he says a vision, a vision of his veteran ancestors. In his words, I felt a great desire to run. I was trembling with fear when suddenly I thought of my progenitors and seemed to see them in a cloud over the German lines, looking at me. I became calm all at once and saying aloud, it is time for another patent to die, called for volunteers. Six men answer his call. Already sure of his own death, George jumps up, shouting, let's go, let's go. He charged forward and are immediately cut down. Five of the six volunteers were killed. George is hit in the leg. The lone other survivor, George's orderly, Joseph T. Angelo drags his wounded commander to safety. On his insistence, George is taken to the 35th division's headquarters to report on the battle before finally going to the hospital. It's a similar story for day one of the Meuse-Argonne across the American sector. Doughboys, brave but green, charge forward with mixed results. General Robert Bullard's third corps on the American right sees the greatest success covering some six miles between the Meuse River on their right and Montfaucon on their left. As Robert will later recall, his men advanced, quote, almost as far as we had anticipated and my corps that day had suffered no great losses, close quote. On the American left, where George Patton just suffered a wound severe enough to take him out of the whole offensive, General Hunter Liggett's first corps sees the smallest gains. No surprise as these men are dealing with the dense Argonne forest, but among those on the corps far left, 77th division's commander, General Robert Alexander, is particularly galled at his New Yorker's slow progress. That brings us to the American center and Blackjack's greatest hope for today, V Corps' attack on Montfaucon. None of these three divisions have ever seen battle. One division commander, Major General Joseph Kuhn of the 79th, has never led infantry before today. Little surprise then that Montfaucon remains in German hands as the sun sets. The day was so disorganized that German General Max von Galwitz thinks the attack might be a diversion with the real attack still coming from Blackjack's more experienced troops over at Saint-Miel. Indeed, the German commander is confident that the coming days here at the Meuse-Argonne will go just as well for the German army.
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"Have been calling in sick due to exposure to COVID-19 They are changing And Pope Francis is calling for the softening of self centered hearts in his Christmas Day message Speaking from the Vatican balcony the pawn of talked about the walls of indifference put up as barriers to those fleeing hardship to find a better life He also prayed for the victims of conflict natural disasters disease and poverty I'm Jim Forbes With Bloomberg sports I'm Paul Edwards Well the nets were out in LA and they handed the Lakers their 5th consecutive loss one 22 one 15 James Harden recording a 36 point triple double in his return from the NBA's COVID-19 protocols The next beat the hawks on imatinib MSG one O one 87 it was the 54th time the Knicks played on Christmas Day and Brock's native Kemba Walker made history becoming the first Knicks player to record a triple double on the holiday It's kind of hard to put it in the words to be honest but it was special to just to be home You know with that that New York on my chest I'm a New York City kid morning raised Julius Randolph game high 25 points for the Knicks Elsewhere a Western Conference showdown in Phoenix the warriors defeated the sun's one 16 the one O 7 Staff curry with 33 points It was the bucks open The Celtics won 17 one 13 There was NFL action on Christmas Day as it was Aaron Rodgers throwing for three touchdown passes and moving past Brett Favre for the most touchdown passes and packers history Green Bay the feet of the browns at Lambeau Field 24 to 22 Rogers up to 445 touchdown passes then after tying his former mentor in last week's win over Baltimore and the second game on Christmas Day in the NFL saw the Cardinals fall at home to the Indianapolis Colts 22 to 16 Indian proving tonight and 6 Meanwhile on the local scene Jessica coach Robert salla will indeed miss Sunday's game after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday more than a dozen jets players testing positive ahead of this week's game which features the two top picks from this year's draft as Zach Wilson and the jets host Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars Meanwhile the Giants are playing out the string of their injury plagues season without the services of starting quarterback Daniel Jones because of a neck injury Jake from expected to make his first career NFL star against the eagles down in Philly both the jets and giants have 1 o'clock kick-offs That's the Bloomberg sports update I'm Paul Edwards I'm Barry Rudolph you're listening to masters of business on Bloomberg radio my special guest this week is max chaffin He is a features editor and reporter on technology companies at Bloomberg businessweek His work has appeared everywhere from ink to fast company to Vanity Fair to The New York Times Magazine He is the author of a fascinating new book the contrarian Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power I'm gonna drop it because it is a substantial deeply researched book before we get to the tax stuff and the New Zealand stuff with Peter Thiel And some of the other wacky things I have to ask you how challenging was it to do this research Because this is deeply reported you know this isn't just like very superficial You clearly went down the rabbit hole Yeah it was very challenging because teal has made has carved out a lot of secrecy around himself These cooperate much Did he talk to you So no he didn't cooperate but he also didn't you know he wasn't helpful And at times I think he was a little bit unhelpful But he didn't really He also didn't try to stop me He didn't lock it No Early in the process as one does when you're doing like a journalistic project such this in addition to talking to former employees Friends colleagues fort classmates or whatever I also approached teal And had a series of meetings with his PR people and ultimately an off the record meeting in LA with the man himself And to play that tape right now How guarded was he or is he sort of hey this is off the record and he felt comfortable being a little Frank He was very guarded He is very guarded I mean he's somebody who you know that's the persona Yeah he really wants to play this behind the scenes role He really doesn't like scrutiny of any kind when he does talk to the press he actually appears he does speeches sometimes but it's almost always in front of basically friendly interviewers Somebody who's not going to kind of push him on some of these kind of further out ideological things or push him on some of the business practices that his company has been involved with some of which are pretty questionable And of course I wanted to go there and had no choice you had to go Yeah yeah I just wanted to look I wanted to you know there had been teals and interesting guy because there is sort of two myths around him One is the he's like a villainous right wing billionaire That's kind of like the left wing view And then the right wing view is that he is this and the view that's kind of common in Silicon Valley is that he is basically this libertarian hero He's like you know combination of Ayn Rand and an Iran character He's an intellectual and a builder John galt for the modern era Yeah and so and I wanted to you know obviously both those stories have truth to them and I think understanding where they come from is really interesting but I wanted to do something that hopefully complicated both stories and God actually at the real person Until I think is really has really invested in his own mythology And I like that phrase That's really interesting Let's talk about some of the mythology where things that are a little out there are kind of intriguing And let's start with the $1 billion IRA Tell us about how any of us can have a $1 billion tax free I'm glad we moved to the service portion of the show So teal as a Roth IRA this was created in the 90s It was designed as a middle class a thing for lower middle class The idea is you put after-tax dollars in and anything anything you make on your inside of your IRA your Roth IRA is tax free And they did this because they.
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"Sick due to the exposure of COVID-19 Starting Monday it'll cost more to get a passport The State Department says fees are increasing depending on what's needed Brad Siegel has more The cost of the U.S. passport book will rise $20 for all customers the price for a first time or replacement adult passport will be $165 a renewal will be 130 The expedited fee which gets you your passport weeks earlier will remain at $60 The State Department on its Twitter accounts that if the increase is necessary to ensure we continue to produce one of the most secure travel and identity documents in the world Earlier this month President Biden signed an executive order allowing Americans to renew their passports online for the first time However that could take between 6 and 12 months to take effect Russia is starting to withdraw some of its troops from the Ukraine border That's according to interfax news which is reporting quotes from the Russian military The troop withdrawal only seems to represent a fraction of the upwards of 100,000 Russian troops thought to be stationed near the border and the biggest space telescope ever built is on its million mile journey to orbit the sun The James Webb space telescope was launched Christmas morning from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana and the liftoff was streamed on NASA's website The NASA telescope will explore the universe for exoplanets and study their atmospheres and could potentially uncover evidence of life outside earth I'm Jim Forbes Nashville is quietly marking the one year anniversary of the Christmas Day bombing that devastated part of the downtown area recovery has been slow but many of the survivors like Noel Rasmussen say the city remains resilient It's probably been the hardest year we've had You know we've really pulled together We pulled together as a family and we pulled together as our friends and our community and our neighbors On December 25th 2020 a man parked his RV along second avenue and a message played from a loudspeaker warning people of an explosion Police took the message seriously and rushed door to door to evacuate before the bomb went off One year later residents and business owners are still working to rebuild the area destroyed by the blast Several people were injured and the bomber was killed by the explosion Police in England are reporting the Christmas Day arrest of an armed intruder at Windsor Castle The Thames valley police say the 19 year old Southampton man was taken into custody almost immediately after setting foot on castle grounds According to police the suspect was armed with a quote offensive weapon but didn't enter any of the buildings Members of the royal family were informed including Queen Elizabeth who was spending Christmas at Windsor Castle with her family Two Vietnamese circus performing brothers are reclaiming a Guinness World Record a man climbed a hundred stairs outside saint Mary's cathedral all while balancing his brother on his head The pair actually had to add an additional ten stairs to the cathedral for the event as the building only has 90 the brothers had previously beat the same record in 2016 until another set of acrobats took the record two years later and a Pittsburgh area bakery is whipping up a 7 foot snowman made of bread for the holidays Mancini's bakery celebrated Christmas last year with an 8 foot tall Christmas tree bread This year frosty the dome man stands at 7 feet tall I'm Jim Forbes With Bloomberg sports I'm Paul Edwards Well the nets were out in LA and they handed the Lakers their 5th consecutive loss one 22 one 15 James Harden recording a 36 point triple double in his return from the NBA's COVID-19 protocols The next beat the hawks on a matinee of MSG one O one 87 it was the 54th time the Knicks played on Christmas Day and Brock's native Kemba Walker made history becoming the first Knicks player to record a triple double on the holiday It's kind of hard to put it in the words to be honest but it was special Just to be home you know with that that New York on my chest I'm a New York City kid born and raised Julius Randolph game high 25 points for the Knicks Elsewhere a Western Conference showdown in Phoenix the warriors defeated the sons one 16 the one O 7 staff curry with 33 points It was the bucks over the Celtics one 17 one 13 There was NFL action on Christmas Day as it was Aaron Rodgers throwing for three touchdown passes and moving past Brett Favre for the most touchdown passes and packers history Green Bay the feet of the browns at Lambeau Field 24 to 22 Rogers up to 445 touchdown passes and after tying his former mentor in last week's win over Baltimore and the second game on Christmas Day in the NFL saw the Cardinals fall at home to the Indianapolis Colts 22 to 16 Indian proving tonight and 6 Meanwhile on the local scene Jessica coach Robert salla will indeed miss Sunday's game after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday more than a dozen jets players testing positive ahead of this week's game which features the two top picks from this year's draft as Zach Wilson and the jets host Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars Meanwhile the Giants are playing out the string of their injury plagues season without the services of starting quarterback Daniel Jones because of a neck injury Jake fromm expected to make his first career NFL star against the eagles down in Philly both the jets and giants have 1 o'clock kick-offs That's the Bloomberg sports update I'm Paul Edwards This is masters in business with Barry Reynolds on Bloomberg radio My special guest this week.
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"paul edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Mckees rock location That's the latest I'm Jim Forbes With Bloomberg sports I'm Paul Edwards Well the nets were out in LA and they handed the Lakers their 5th consecutive loss one 22 one 15 James Harden recording a 36 point triple double in his return from the NBA's COVID-19 protocols The next beat the hawks on imatinib MSG one O one 87 It was the 54th time the Knicks played on Christmas Day and Bronx native Kemba Walker made history becoming the first Knicks player to record a triple double on the holiday It's kind of hard to put in the words to be honest but it was special Just to be home you know with that that New York on my chest I'm a New York City kid born and raised Julius Randolph game high 25 points for the Knicks Elsewhere a Western Conference showdown in Phoenix the warriors defeated the sons one 16 the one O 7 staff curry with 33 points It was the bucks up at the Celtics one 17 one 13 There was NFL action on Christmas Day as it was Aaron Rodgers throwing for three touchdown passes and moving past Brett Favre for the most touchdown passes and packers history Green Bay the feet of the browns at Lambeau Field 24 to 22 Rogers up to 445 touchdown passes and after tying his former mentor in last week's win over Baltimore and the second game on Christmas Day in the NFL saw the Cardinals fall at home to the Indianapolis called 22 to 16 Indian proving tonight and 6 Meanwhile on the local scene Jessica Robert sala will indeed miss Sunday's game after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday more than a dozen jets players testing positive ahead of this week's game which features the two top picks from this year's draft and Zach Wilson and the jets host Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars Meanwhile the Giants are playing out the string of their injury plagues season without the services of starting quarterback Daniel Jones because of a neck injury Jake fromm expected to make his first career NFL star against the eagles down in Philly both the jets and giants have 1 o'clock kick-offs That's the Bloomberg sports update I'm Paul Edwards This is Bloomberg best Bloomberg best is about the insight in the context that we get from our guests It's a great way to catch up on some of the stories you might have missed on the Bloomberg stories you're not going to find in any other news organization I'm Ed Baxter and I'm Denise Pellegrini on this weekend edition of Bloomberg best Novavax racks up another approval for its COVID vaccine Without freezing we can get a distorted normal refrigerated temperatures It could be at room temperature for some period of time That's going to be very helpful to get it to all parts of the world Fighting back against smash and grams We're seeing something that we have not seen over the years Really a mom that charges into these stores and when will this round of inflation ease We're being told by the usual suspects to keep waiting for this moderation and goods prices It's like waiting for Gadot Bloomberg best Bloomberg's best stories of the week powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries around the world COVID vaccine makers do continue to wrap up the approvals globally ruin Yeah that's right including novavax Denise COVID-19 vaccine was just cleared by European regulators past weeks as a matter of fact And it's a protein based shot that'll be the first of its kind in the region And CEO Stanley.
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"paul edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of Texas and Oklahoma I'm Jim Forbes With Bloomberg sports I'm Paul Edwards Well the next route in LA and they handed the Lakers their 5th consecutive loss one 22 one 15 James Harden recording a 36 point triple double in his return from the NBA's COVID-19 protocols The next beat the hawks on a matinee of MSG one O one 87 it was the 54th time the Knicks played on Christmas Day and Bronx native Kemba Walker made history becoming the first Knicks player to record a triple double on the holiday It's kind of hard to put in the words to be honest but it was special Just to be home you know with that that New York on my chest I'm a New York City kid morning raised Julius Randolph game high 25 points for the Knicks Elsewhere a Western Conference showdown in Phoenix the warriors defeated the sons one 16 the one O 7 Steph Curry with 33 points It was the bucks over the Celtics one 17 one 13 There was NFL action on Christmas Day as it was Aaron Rodgers throwing for three touchdown passes and moving past Brett Favre for the most touchdown passes and packers history Green Bay the feet of the browns at Lambeau Field 24 to 22 Rogers up to 445 touchdown passes and after tying his former mentor in last week's win over Baltimore and the second game on Christmas Day in the NFL saw the Cardinals fall at home to the Indianapolis Colts 22 to 16 Indian proving tonight and 6 Meanwhile on the local scene Jessica Robert sala will indeed miss Sunday's game after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday more than a dozen jets players testing positive ahead of this week's scheme which features the two top picks from this year's draft as Zach Wilson and the jets host Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars Meanwhile the Giants are playing out the string of their injury plagues season without the services of starting quarterback Daniel Jones because of a neck injury Jake from expected to make his first career NFL start against the eagles down in Philly both the jets and giants have 1 o'clock kick-offs That's the Bloomberg sports update I'm Paul Edwards This is Bloomberg opinion on Bloomberg radio bringing you news comments and insights from Bloomberg opinions worldwide team of editors and columnists I'm Janet Wu Coming up on the show what does luxury look like in the metaverse Plus every company seems to have trouble hiring these days but not FedEx will tell you their secret But first inflation is hitting consumers with less buying power and control Bloomberg's Allison schrager recently experienced that firsthand when she got locked out of her apartment to the middle of the night She called a 24 hour locksmith who could have charged her anything but she had some tricks to bring down his price And Alison says consumers can use that same strategy to combat price inflation Allison this is a fascinating story so tell us a bit more about that stressful night Thank you So I found myself locked out of my apartment and it was late It was past midnight And it's not a very exciting story You don't need to know the details but needless to say I didn't have a key to the lock So I needed to call a locksmith There was no friend could let me in or am I super And of course they keep you waiting for ages And so I'm sitting there I'm just freaking out about how much this has been a call It would seem one person has all the power in this situation Something economists like yourself called an inelastic demand briefly explain that term And elastic demand means you'll pay pretty much anything for a good or service Usually when we think of inelastic man we think of a drug addict demand for drugs But I said it also can apply to the need to get into your home I mean I said there is no limit to how much I need a locksmith that moment And this of course is about pricing power And you say this story demonstrates how pricing power has evolved Yeah because you know as I was thinking I'm like well actually I do have some power here This isn't me just having to passively accept any price Because you know I had my phone with me So I was able to start pricing hotels And I realized all right you know he can't just charge me anything because if he charges me an absurd amount I could just get a hotel in the next morning and get a more reasonably priced locksmith So technology and a better availability of substitutes really changes the game So tell us what happened You ended up paying but not your worst fears Yes so as I said I realized I had some power and I came up with this price in my head which is like I called my walk away price I first am like no thank you I don't need your services to be the price of a hotel The price of a normal locksmith during the day and also being an economist They put in a little convenience factor I get to go home and sleep in my own bed tonight And he charged me a small fortune but well below that price So in about the service And I think he actually realized he couldn't get away with anything Because I did have that power That walk away price is a good lesson I do want to point out there are some legal protections for people Some states including New York have anti gouging laws But this line you wrote really caught me You say as an economist you tend to be pro gouge explain that Yeah so generally when you think of PPE during the early days of the pandemic or rapid tests now you know if you have a huge inelastic demand for a good and it's really hard to cure it you actually do want prices to go up otherwise you end up with these shortages So usually in the other example of gouging is people who sell umbrellas in The Rain So the anti couching laws are supposed to keep sellers from charging too much But also if you charge too little they said you have too much demand and you have shortages of people waiting in line Or with a case of TPE a lot of vendors actually have to pay more to get these goods They weren't able to really pass those extra higher prices on to consumers without being accused of gouging So maybe next time they weren't work as hard to get those goods until overall availability fall We all remember what happened with PPE and more recently you have a story related to the shortage of rental cars Tell us about that woman who had to drive to western New York Yeah so this was a story that caught everyone's attention and I think this is for a lot of us our worst nightmare is that she rented a car to drive to see her family where Thanksgiving and when she showed up they're like we have no car we're not on our rental agreement so she called around and they're like all right well if you've been on this money and you get an Uber to go to the airport you can get a car there but it's going to be $1800 And so the $400 ship So finally it seems that the lessons you offer include have that walk away price and ultimately.
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"paul edwards" Discussed on Liberty Talk FM
"Studio tonight. It's aria Angie and Bonnie. I want to apologize for everyone for not having a live show yesterday. I had to take a day off on top of that. I had a migraine, but I think it was probably We just from overwork or overstress, or, you know any of these combination of things that I'm having to deal with lately that I was not, you know, exactly prepared to suddenly have to deal with But we're back now and It's good to be back. We're glad you're back. Thank you. I hated missing the show yesterday. But there's if sweetest thing. The first migraine in like a decade. Well, that's crazy. Because my head hurts so bad today. I took an ibuprofen before the show it like, never hurts. I used to take Imitrex for migraines. But then I just sort of stopped getting them. Ou you, like have been diagnosed with getting migraines. Yes, for most of my life, But like I said, I have to happen in a decade. I forgot how much they suck. You have a lot going on. Yeah. Yeah, it xzibit much, but, hey, I'm back and hopefully that load is going to be decreasing soon. The workload of someone else has decreased. Evidently they were being held as a slave. Yes, that is correct. A black man enslaved by the South Carolina restaurant manager is owed 546,000 the court rules. This is on the guardian dot com Written on the third. Ah, former restaurant manager serving 10 years in prison for effectively effectively enslaving a man forcing him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay must double the restitution he pays for his former employee to more than half a million dollars a court rolled How did he get away with this two for any period of time? Well, the man apparently had like mental issues. And so it's kind of take advantage, Okay? Says Bobby Paul Edwards, a 56 year old white man who ran a restaurant in Conway. South Carolina, has now been ordered to pay John Christopher Smith, a black man with intellectual disabilities, $546,000. Recent up Apple it court ruling declared that Smith shouldn't receive double the 273,000. He was initially awarded in the restitution after being enslaved and physically abused for five years. Jesus Christ. I would argue that it's still not enough money. Absolutely not. I know that's what I was thinking, too. But it's crazy. There are some stories where I'm like the bad guy like I can see why they thought they were doing something right. But in this story, it's like, how could you even live with yourself and just have a slave? What? That's crazy. Well, there are immoral people out there, and it certainly sounds like this guy was one of those. I wonder if he was the restaurant owner as well other than just the manager. If he was just the manager. That's even weirder. Like why do you? It just says he was the manager. Wow. Edwards pleaded guilty to a forced labor charge in 2019 after failing to pay Smith any wages from 2000 and 9 to 2000 and 14 when he was working as a buffet cooked and was sentenced to 10 years. When an employer fails to pay those amounts regular and overtime pay. The employee suffers losses, which includes the loss of the use of that money during the period of delay, the Court of Appeals for the fourth Circuit recently ruled Smith first began working at J and J Cafeteria when he was 12 years old. The Post and Courier reported. Edward's eventually took over the business from relatives in 2000 and nine and four Smith toe work 100 hours a week with no days off. Smith was kept from his family called racial slurs, whipped with belts and kitchen pans and burned with metal tongs that had been dipped in hot grease. During what court documents called a reign of terror. The Washington pressure would Yeah, hot grease on that's crazy. That is a random, this guy, the manager who did this? What was the sentence He received 10 years in prison on Lee 10 10 years, 10 years in prison for enslaving and torturing someone over this pen to five years in prison. And yet, 10 years is also the minimum minimum that I faced in my charges, and you did not torture anyone or beat them with kitchen pans or belts or anything. Talk about a broken justice system is absolutely years for torturing. And enslaving someone. Says. Most of the time I felt unsafe like Bobby could kill me if he wanted to, Smith said. According to court records. I wanted to get out of that place so bad but couldn't think about how I could without being hurt. A woman named Janine Keynes had a daughter in law who worked at the restaurant and had acknowledged of Edward's treatment of Smith Kane's reported the restaurant owner in 2000 and 14. For stealing his victims, freedom and wages. Mr Edwards has earned every day of his sentence. Sherry Linden, the U. S attorney for the District of South Carolina, said When Edward was convicted, the U. S attorney's office will not tolerate forced our exploded of Labor in South Carolina, and we're grateful to the watch for citizen and our partners in law enforcement who put a stop to this particularly cruel violence. It's amazing to me that it lasted as long as it did did none of the other employees take issue with this. That's what I'm thinking, too. Like I can Maybe see one person being the evil and cruel but like it had to be a whole group of people who knew what was going on. They may not have known that he was still in the guy's paychecks. That part may have been secret, but they certainly would have seen him torturing him and using racial slurs. And I imagine that they probably did because people probably spoke to this man. And if someone there had to be somebody who gave our paychecks I know that. Hey, this guy's not getting one, and he's here all the time. Yeah, I tend to agree. And being a cook is just such a hard job like I feel like it.
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"paul edwards" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"No time will come for that. I've got people can go to about that. This is business and businesses about other people interacting with me so yeah it's just it's a mindset and a way of life and and that is different right you're not you can't even if people like that are on five and i bet they are. How do you find that. Yeah how do you. How did they don't put that on their profile. So you're right. And i think that that again you know it just. That's how it worked out for us working together. But i think that the greatest benefit to building business relationships calm after there has been a some sort of season of you know trust building. Which is i gotta know who you are. I get to like you. We we develop some trust based upon commonality. Or maybe it is testing a little bit of the business world and then it just becomes so fluid because you. You really want. What's best for one another. You really intending to help that other person out. You know that as a result of that you know you're going to flourish and so i think that You know that's something that people really need to consider is is focusing on developing those relationships far before they try and go in there and sell somebody something. Yeah i. I'm sure there are people out there who are still doing that the old way. It didn't work for me before the new way came along. It still doesn't work for me today. So i choose to go the slow slow unsteady route and the and the beauty part. Is you know once you once. You discover what the marketplace is already asking for. See my mistake. Going into entrepreneurship was i tried to come out with the idea. I and i learned this from a client of mine. Tom gatzunis. There's no no. No you find the market first. Then you give them the idea right. So when i started going when i started my membership with iron sharpens iron aaron walker. That was one of the first things he said to me is. Look you've got the skill with writing. I know because i have you on. My team is my rider. I know you can do it. And i know the markets hungry for it. So why don't you offer that. And as soon as a as soon as he told me that everything started to click. And before i knew what i had a business and so you know i am getting old. Tell me your question again. He's totally my mind. No no no. I mean it's good. You know. I mean. I was talking about you. Know building developing those relationships that turned into this. You know fruitful business opportunity Yes so one other thing along those lines so you know you kinda come alongside somebody to write for them. How much influence do you have or desire to have in helping to kind of direct or drive some of that message. Greg question i love the saying of my friend. Greg lewis He's the ceo of the tennessee center for family business. I've written some content for him. He said i'll do my best. Greg lewis impression. I wanna do what you wanna do when you want to do it right so to answer the question..
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"paul edwards" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"Set of circumstances. Yeah okay yeah. I mean i guess oddly enough. I didn't consider that as beginning. But i think that that's such a big part of it and the strength that you bring is it's already something about. It's already an area that you're spending a lot of time in that you're passionate about that. You study on your own. You participate in so it's not as though you're trying to learn you know rocket programming and then you know. Find a way to write about that. So i think that that's really valuable to absolutely something else that as you're saying all this you know something that just comes to mind is the added value in going through this initial engagement. And then working with you is that beyond you know. Just getting somebody to write on my behalf. You're asking questions that a lot of entrepreneurs that a lot of business leaders They really haven't asked you know the the they kind of have an idea of the problem. They're trying to solve based upon the solution that they're providing they know what they're passionate about. But you're helping them to really put the paper What it is. Like the key components to them communicating crafting the message communicating it capturing that audience and drawing them into to take some sort of action. So i just think that that's a whole on kind of Unintended benefit That they get by engaging somebody like you and they don't get that. I think that what's big who is you. Don't get that by hiring copywriter on upwork to write a blog post on your behalf. You know yeah. I mean i never wanna to say never because you know you could find somebody like that on upwork but i think it would take you a lot longer and again the the issue from for most of the people i work with is not the talent and it's not the money it's the time they're already behind on their schedule now To answer the to answer the question more directly the curiosity and the inquisitiveness is I wish it were an in ba..
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"paul edwards" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"Get lost. And they stopped reading. Okay so what. What then does it look like for you to start learning somebody else's voice and just so you kind of know where i wanna go. I'd love to gain an understanding for learning somebody else's voice then learning their audience. And then we'll talk about outcome intention and outcome afterwards so of i. So how how. How do you do that like i mean. Obviously i'm not asking for like the komo not open up or something but you know how do you go about working with somebody to to learn enough about them to write in such a way. That sounds like them not dishonestly. But you know to to make it sound like. It's them speaking. Yeah it's this is something that for those of you who only value the short term relationship is not a good idea because it takes time right and so one of the things that you'll see me doing if you Especially if you work with me as a ghostwriter is whether on the phone or whether we're on a zoom call like this you're gonna hear my keyboard tapping and that's not me checking facebook or you responding to emails right. I knew it. That's that's that's me being a stenographer right the more you have to say the more i have to work with but In the recent very recent example. Go back to that same. Australian client the last call. We had he was very scatter-brained. Not not in a negative way. he was just. You had some circumstances that really bold him over and so he had a lot to say but he couldn't say sequentially he couldn't think of how all tied together it was it was stream of consciousness. And i just took notes on everything he said. And i said let me give me a little bit longer than we usually do for this because usually turn it around him in about two or three days as give me until next week. I'm just gonna read it a couple of times. So i kept reading and i kept thinking about it and then all of a sudden i could see the progression of it..
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"paul edwards" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"It one of them has ghost written. The other one is him speaking. The point is you can't put how trump speaks at a rally into a book and expect people to read cover to cover. They're not going to do i. It's kind of funny. I guess that you use him as an analogy. When i was going to say this already even just about myself but you know you know when we study to speak and i do believe there is a real art to doing this. Well we. We really are focused on every word. We're going to say and how that's gonna land. What our intention is and so we do to the best of our ability understanding that we have bias that we have brain fading moments or right as we're speaking. We do our best to to communicate in such a way that it lands on the audience as we intended to. When it doesn't live we at least have the benefit of seeing it not land the way we thought it was going to and be like you know in the moment. I'm thinking to myself. Did i didn't say that right. Or maybe i didn't communicate that the right way. So you're right. I mean. I think that there is such a an unthought of considered danger in the written word because it lands and it's out there and there's nothing you can do about it anymore except for attractive it and it's still there so i mean what you do then on behalf of somebody like me or any of your other clients is you're taking on so much more responsibility in a sense of insuring that again with your own wisdom with your own experience and then just again you're positive and even negative. You're you're taking the responsibility to help ensured that it lands in the way that everybody intends to correct and and and one other thing i would add to that is of course There is a composer arranger to borrow musical term finesse to this..
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"paul edwards" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"What up everybody. Welcome to another episode of authentic conversations. I have with me today. A good friend a business colleague and somebody that has had a now significant impact into my business which we're gonna get into a in a little while you also may be familiar with him because he was on the podcast. Gosh it's been quite a while now. Also shared some time on his podcast. A his name is paul edwards. Paul is an executive ghost rider. He's working with thought. Leaders influencers coaches and quite a few other people which again will probably talk about. He also hosts the influence or networking secrets podcasts. He has a best selling book by the same name. If you're watching on video see dangling right there So with all of that paul. What era great to be here. I i so wish. Sometimes i had quite the level of enthusiasm and energy that you you. i think. That's why we go well together. I'm a lot more low low key low pitched and it works out pretty well. Yeah i don't know if my wife would say the same thing all the time. But i'm glad you think so. It's good so since we last talked. And gosh i guess. I'm not since we last talked together all the podcasts. Some i'd say maybe a decent amount has changed for you in terms of where your business shaped in your focus as gone in with that the fruit seems to just be bursting from the ground and falling from the sky and so. Why don't you tell me us a little bit about This ghost writing idea because I guess i should say from the beginning. You know a lot of times. That gets a bad rap. I guess it's just kind of like. Hey i'm going to outsource some writing overseas to somebody. That's just gonna put something together so i can put something out there on the internet and not only. Is it being ghost writing itself. Not like that Copywriting any of that Necessarily can be. But it's not necessarily like that but you are far from that. So what explain a little bit better than i did what it is. You're doing today. And then i want to dig into kind of how that works out how we're working together and stuff like that. Yeah i I in fact a recent conversation. I had with another friend of mine really helped me to connect the dots between my book. Which is about influence right and ghost writing. Which if you think about it. The two are actually similar. Almost the same thing and so for me My whole life. There's been a couple of things that won't leave me alone One of them is the mimic right. So my whole life. I've been able to meet people like you or especially if their characters and they have a lot of personality. And i do impressions of them right and so whenever i meet somebody who has a strong accent a lot of personality. The first thing that starts that occurs to me is how that person delivers what they say. And then i think i wonder if i could do that in and i started doing it right so when i was in the military the guys would always say edwards edwards..
Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"paul edwards" Discussed on Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"Really amazing. I was reading just that the other day about The the consumer christianity church hannity is. I've sometimes referred to. I've heard it referred to that way. has made it all about doer. Die right to go to hell or heaven and you gotta make sure you're on the right on the right side and that means you have to believe all the right things and that is That although there is an end to this and there is judgment and there is a verdict to be rendered That that that makes it. So limiting right that that turns if you if you adopt. And i've adopted the views while i'm saying this not pointing fingers. I've done it already if you adopt at that. Point of view that it's it's a A or b right that. There's no there's not a second to waste mean we're all going to be vaporized right some It's just extremely in crippling to have a real positive kingdom. Like effect on people. And i noticed that issue and never did that right now. He never went up to people and said choose heaven or hell. Because i'm about to blow this place to smithereens right right. He was telling stories. He was showing interest in empathy and compassion to people He was confrontational but he was. But he wasn't always confrontational He was he healed some and not others he dealt with some people right from the get go and others. He you know he he dealt with more slowly. There's i don't. I just can't subscribe that. There might be times where you have to say that but for the most part that whole approach you know well if you were to die tonight would you go to heaven or hell. That's that's a bridge too far for the average person there especially today like it's. It's very different today. So p people like authenticity and they want a relationship. I and they're very skeptical until they see either. But at least one of those two things so really interesting okay. Well that's that's really fascinating so you you've written this book. And it sounds like it comes out soon influence or networking secrets. Because networking was kind of thing. You learned from from insurance. I'm fascinated by that. I think is such an important and powerful skill. I tell my podcast is all the time. Learn how to do this because it's amazing that people that you'll get to get to have on your show and and connect with if you just ask her. Despot people know things like that. What why this. Why why networking. What i'm finding is that Anything good in life the the most growth oriented pleasant uplifting.
Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"paul edwards" Discussed on Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"Well. You know. I had made the agreement with the enemy to go in. And just throw everything i had into insurance and over time. God was able to show me. I put you in there for a season. I didn't mean for you to stay there The you know that that was just a learn. What you're gonna take into what i have for you. It took way longer than than i would have liked. But that's because you didn't know how to deal with your pride and you didn't ask and you know quite honestly it wasn't category for me. Yeah so that's how much blinds. Gotcha okay so you're sort of feeling isolated feeling like maybe faith is that way it was advertised certainly would not what you experience early on there and syria. Okay and then. How did you get the offer to go to boot camp. Because don't you. Did you sign up for it or did. Because i they do a lottery even allow oftentimes. Yeah i was on the email list. Okay and They they sent an email. And so i responded to it immediately. I'm in the and then left it in god's hands and he answered he you know he got in and i flew to colorado And i didn't know what i didn't know what was going to happen. I thought maybe i'd get a revelation about a new career or something like that. Now he was going way deeper than that in part what they do. There is a couple of things they did One thing that the the men In particular that they deal with there is the fact that we are living our lives as as less than sons of god and they point out. You know there's there you can live. As as an orphan you can live as a slave you live as a servant and there there are things where you're a servant of god. No question and paul sometimes identifies himself as a slave issue..
Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"paul edwards" Discussed on Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"Where was god for you or like where were you. Were you experiencing seeking him or were you just kind of not like what was that looking like no i was. I mean i was still as as on fire as had been. But i didn't know how to handle all of the All of the spiritually dysfunctional backgrounds. That kit that i came up against. Yeah i didn't know what to do with it. I was i was. I was far too use to to the the shire right of a hill song. If you know shire from lord of the rings everything was just wonderful there. I wasn't used to dealing with all of these. You know spiritually broken or spiritually bankrupt people and tried and you know here and there there were moments people would ask me to pray when they when it was down to the wire but i felt largely ineffective and But i kept pursuing him. I kept you know. I was faithful attending church reading the bible. You spending time with other christians who were wearing the uniform. I mean that was big thing for me and And they they looked to me. They always look to me as the The spiritual guardian of the whichever platoon. I was in they. Oh that's how. I they would always asked me to be the guy who said the prayer or they knew who i was and then iraq did you. Did you do fight in iraq. Or what was that. Was that like deployed twice for the first time was phased to it was like Beginning of two thousand and four to begin to begin two thousand five and the second time was the big surge of two thousand seven. Two thousand eight so great memories couldn't couldn't pay me to trade him Incredible experiences Did some really crazy stuff. That i would not do now some. I'm a little bit too old for that but Yeah i mean you know it was god was in. It was there through it. But i had complicated things on a much deeper level than i really understood. And he was leading he allowed that to shape and mold me over the next decade. To the point that i realized i realized at some level that pride and self determination were just not going to cut it. Okay so you were self reliant and and really. That's interesting so how did that show up for you in in those times. How to god eventually.
Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"paul edwards" Discussed on Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
"That wasn't that wasn't at all that didn't make me uncomfortable at all because the alternative was mainly being by myself and so i was I was eager to have some. You know some some really some friends who were at least working on their character instead of trying to find them in pubs and I guess what i would say is that i later asked myra about that. I asked her. It is that just which is that. Just naturally how you are in. She said well i'm i. I can't really comment on how i am. I can only comment on what they trained us to do and she spelled some of it out you know and i said yeah i mean. That's that's gotta be doing doing their homework in their in their like you said they're their main focuses empathizing with that average person who walks through the door. Yeah fascinating okay. Well that's interesting about.
Halfway There | Christian Testimonies | Spiritual Formation, Growth, and Personal Experiences with God
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Trump changes primary residence to Florida
"President trump is filing paperwork it changes primary address the BBC's Paul Edwards has more on that story the president will no longer call New York home Palm Beach Florida is going to be president trump's new permanent residence as he announced on Twitter he hated having to make the decision but said it will be best for all concerned the queens native claims he's been treated poorly by new York's city and state political leaders governor Cuomo responded to the news saying it's not like trump paid taxes here anyway Cuomo added good riddance and he's all yours