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A highlight from Heres How Sam Bankman-Frieds High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out - Ep 549
"Even though each of these charges, if you look at the DOJ press release says, oh, it contains a maximum sentence of 20 years or five years, whatever, it's not going to be consecutive. It'll be concurrent. So the estimate I'm getting from various attorneys that I've spoken to over the past few weeks is it'll probably be somewhere in the, you know, 10 to 20 year range. Hi everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full time. This is the September 29th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Thinking of launching your own stable coin? Start with the open source stable coin studio toolkit on Hedera. Start your journey at Hedera .com slash Unchained. Shape tomorrow today. With the crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code Laura. Link in the description. Arbitrum's leading layer two scaling solution offers you ultra cheap and lightning fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's guest is Nick Day, Coindesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. Welcome, Nick. Thanks for having me. The trial for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried starts next Tuesday, October 3rd. There's been a lot happening pre -trial. For instance, Sam has requested release from jail multiple times and repeatedly been denied, including as recently as Thursday morning. My personal thought was that it seemed like all these requests that the defense was putting in at this critical juncture right before the trial was supposed to begin was maybe not the best use of their time, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm not a lawyer. Why do you think they made this such a point of focus in the last few days? Yeah, so I'm actually coming, you know, I was in the courthouse just a few hours ago where this very issue was brought up and the defense's arguments were, well, the first time we asked, it was for pre -trial release. You know, this was right after Bankman -Fried was remanded into custody in mid -August. The second time was, you know, they were asking the appeals court to overrule the judge's decision to remand him. And they lost that as well. In court today, the defense said, well, you know, now we want to ask for during trial, which is why we waited until this week to make that request. And they say that they want to, you know, the circumstances are different. They're not asking for Bankman -Fried to be released from jail in the weeks leading up to trial. Now they're saying, well, you know, during the trial, we're going to have to talk to him and check with him about defense witness testimony and cross -examination and things like that. So that's why we're making this request. And the judge didn't really find that compelling. And why do you think the judge has stuck to this position of keeping Bankman -Fried in jail? So in the judge's words, there's a couple of different reasons. One being that Bankman -Fried has had ample time to look at the defense materials. You know, one of the arguments was there are something like 1300 exhibits expected over the course of the trial. And the judge asked today, you know, were these all prepared and shared with you before, I think he said September 8th, so earlier this month. And the defense, they said, yes, we've seen all of this. We've had access to all of this. Bankman -Fried was out on bail for about seven and a half months. And so the judge's argument is, well, he's had time to look at this. You know, there's no surprises here. And he said that the defense has the chance to talk with Bankman -Fried in the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he's currently being housed weekends during days that there are no trials. So, you know, the trial is not every weekday. It's going to be most weekdays. And he said, you know, you have the time, you have the opportunity, you are able to talk to your client. You're not really losing a whole lot. But he added kind of a, you know, made this ruling where Bankman -Fried will even be presented to the courthouse early on trial days where there's certain witness testimony that has to be discussed and let the attorneys just talk to him before the trial begins on those days. So he's saying basically, you know, you have opportunities to talk to your client and I'm going to give you, you know, more time to do so, but I'm not going to let Bankman -Fried out of jail. So the main focus next week as the trial begins will be jury selection. Tell us what you think that process will be like. It definitely will be interesting. I think it's probably going to be very boring from just kind of an observer perspective because it's a long process and we're going to be just sitting there watching this judge ask each individual, you know, have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Bankman -Fried? What do you think about cryptocurrencies? But it's going to be very interesting because this is the part where we're 12 or so people who are going to determine whether or not Bankman -Fried spends the next, you know, 10 to 20 years of his life behind bars. And so I'm expecting to see maybe as mixed selection. I think if you pluck a random group of New Yorkers off the streets, some of them may have heard of cryptocurrency, most of them probably will not have, and they're going to be tasked with deciding whether or not one of the biggest figures in crypto committed fraud on the way up and on the way down. Something that was interesting to me was the prosecution said that they expected jury selection to take the better part of a day. I've seen some legal opinions that it will take longer than that. What do you think could potentially happen there and why do you think some analysts are saying that it would take longer? Yeah, no, I've spoken to a number of lawyers as well ahead of the trial, you know, where at Coindes we're trying to do a lot of kind of preview coverage, basically saying here's how it might go down. Everyone I spoke to said it will probably take a couple of days. Part of that is because this is a fairly notorious case. A lot of people will have heard about Bankman Fried and presumably formed some kind of opinion that would, you know, disqualify them from being a juror on the trial. I'm not sure where the DOJ is getting their estimate from. It's very possible that, you know, through the questionnaires that the jury pool is sent through the, you know, the kind of the mass selection process or deselection process that the judge engages in, maybe that streamlines a big part of it by kind of, you know, reducing or like immediately filtering out the people who are most blatantly, you know, either knowledgeable or biased or otherwise have their own preformed viewpoints about the case. And so the jury selection might just be focused on, you know, those individuals who have made it through those initial filtering processes. But that's speculation on my part. I honestly am not sure if it is a better part of the day that we could see opening statements as soon as, you know, next Wednesday, October 4th, which would be a pretty rapid start to the trial. And Coindesk did some work to try to suss out what it is that lower Manhattan New Yorkers might say if they were randomly picked for a jury. What did you discover there? Yeah, no, so Coindesk's Dylan and Victor went to Manhattan, downtown Manhattan to the financial district, and literally just went up to people and said, hey, we're with Coindesk. Have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Sam Bankman -Fried? And a fairly large part of this group just hadn't heard about it. You know, they weren't familiar with it. They weren't comfortable talking about crypto. They weren't familiar with crypto. And of those who were, you know, I think they found a fairly even mix. There were some individuals who had heard about Bankman -Fried, some individuals who had only heard about crypto, some individuals who were very knowledgeable. They actually found a, you know, a Yahoo anchor who was the most knowledgeable about it naturally as, you know, order covering the financial space. But they also found people who were looking for jobs in crypto, people who were investors in the space. By and large, it seems to, you know, a lot of the people they spoke to just weren't interested or talking, interested in talking about crypto or in, you know, being part of this, being part of crypto. So if that is a representative sample of who we'll see next week at the jury pool, it'll be interesting because we'll see a large, potentially large, jury pool of people who aren't familiar with crypto. Again, on one of the biggest, you know, bang in on one of the biggest figures in the space. Recently, the defense proposed certain questions that it would ask the jurors and the government said that they felt these were quote unquote intrusive. What were some of the questions that were proposed and what was the government's response? Yeah. So, you know, the background here is both the DOJ and the defense team filed their proposed jury questions to help filter potential jurors. The defense team in particular had a number of questions about, you know, how these potential jurors felt about things like effective altruism, about political donations, about ADHD and people who have ADHD. And the DOJ response was really, you know, they felt that some of these questions, for example, about effective altruism and about political donations seemed kind of primed to, or designed to prime the potential jurors to think, oh, well, Bankman Fried was trying to do all of this in service of this effective altruism philosophy. Therefore, he was trying to raise money to donate to better the world or designed to try and prime the jury to think, okay, well, you know, political donations is fine. So these allegations about breaking the law in the way he tried to donate funds maybe is, you know, overreach or whatever. And in the intrusive part, you know, treating just kind of this question of ADHD and whether or not people were, you know, involved with individuals who had it or the DOJ just felt that these questions were really designed to try and shape how the jury would see Bankman Fried as opposed to just kind of gauge their existing biases. And so the DOJ opposed these questions and I think we're still waiting to see for sure if there's any public response on the judge prior to jury selection on Tuesday. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about different legal strategies that the defense might pursue. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. 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Recently, the defense did propose a number of witnesses, but the judge denied most of them. Who were these proposed witnesses and why were they denied? Yeah, so the DOJ and defense both had a number of proposed expert witnesses. The defense in particular had a number of individuals that they said could speak to everything from the terms of service that FTX operated under to the FTX software to just rebutting certain DOJ witnesses. The judge basically said he agreed with the DOJ in rejecting all of these proposed witnesses. There were seven. He did allow the defense to call for four of them later on, but they have to meet certain requirements and fill out certain disclosure forms first. A big part of the judge's reasoning was the witnesses had just not adequately explained what they wanted to testify about or what they would say, and so they didn't have or he didn't have enough information to allow them to testify, which was functionally the DOJ's argument as well. That being said, some of these proposed witnesses are intended to act as rebuttal witnesses to DOJ's witnesses. I know we're saying the word witnesses a lot, but that's what it comes down to is four of these witnesses could come back and respond to, you know, either FTX intercircle members who are testifying on behalf of the DOJ. One of the potential witnesses that the defense can call forward is someone who can speak to the actual technical software underlying the, you know, FTX program, again, in response to DOJ witnesses. The judge did completely ban, for example, a British barrister who was supposed to explain the FTX terms of service as well as someone who was supposed to speak to kind of the crypto industry at large, saying that, you know, those witnesses and that proposed testimony seemed a bit too far afield from what the case would be about and could probably do more to confuse the jury than to clarify anything. And SPF's team also wanted to block a proposed government witness that was also denied. Who was that and why did the judge deny that motion? The DOJ proposed a University of Notre Dame professor to testify about some forensic analysis he did on FTX financials. The defense objected. They said that this witness would basically just reiterate the DOJ's claims, the allegations, but the DOJ argued that he was doing his own analysis of the data he had access to. And so it wouldn't just be stating the DOJ's claim. He would be providing his own expert insight based on his own work, you know, examining the databases that he had access to. And the judge agreed with that and said that based on what he'd saw and based on what the witness disclosure had provided, the witness was likely just speaking to his own expertise and looking at actual data as a third -party expert witness might do. And so those witnesses are allowed right now. We're still waiting on the full and final witness list, but we now know that there are probably at least a dozen witnesses that we're going to hear from over the next six weeks. And who are the ones that stick out to you on that list? I think the cooperating witnesses, so the FTX inner circle, that's former Alameda Research CEO Carolyn Ellison, former FTX director for engineering Nishat Singh and Gary Wang. I forget which one of them was the director of engineering. The other one was a fellow executive, but you know, these are the three individuals I think we're going to hear from probably first, maybe. Might hear from them as soon as next week, not certainly the week after. They're the ones who were in it, right? They were involved in this. They were part of FTX. They were part of the highs. I think we're going to probably hear from them, you know, how FTX might've fallen apart. I know from court filings, we know that DOJ wants to ask Carolyn Ellison about the FTT token and allegations that Sandbank and Freed was directly involved in trying to argue for Alameda to take a large sum of it and to potentially allegedly manipulate the price. So I think that testimony is going to be really interesting just because, again, it's the firsthand account of what happened. We're also probably going to see the defense try and discredit these witnesses to the extent possible, right? Straight out of the gate saying, well, you know, you weren't threatened with jail if you didn't testify in turn against your former boss. So I imagine we're just going to hear arguments like that from the defense during cross -examination, but either way, I think this is going to, you know, those are the three witnesses I think we're looking forward to most right now. And then once we're past that kind of initial surge of FTX insiders, that's when we'll get to kind of more, I don't because I don't think that is the right word for it, but, you know, people who are looking at it from kind of the, you know, again, forensic analysis perspective, people who are going to be able to kind of dig through and say, all right, well, you know, we've looked through the smoking remains and here's what we found. And I think that will also be interesting because it'll be really a third -party perspective on, you know, here's how this thing was set up and here's where things may have gone wrong or here's where things may have fallen apart. And getting a third -party perspective on that I think is going to be really fascinating because there'll be, I assume, a bit more objective about it than, you know, people who built it and worked on it maybe could be. One other kind of motion that happened this week that was pretty interesting or development, I should say, is that the judge did allow SPF's team to ask some of the witnesses about their drug use. What do you think will be the significance of that line of questioning? I think that goes back to, you know, a witness, cooperating FTX inner circle member saying, while we were at FTX, Sam directed us to manipulate FTT, whatever, you know, just speculating what someone could say. And the defense comes back and says, well, you know, are you sure that's what he said? Were you high at the time of these conversations or were you engaged in recreational drug use during the time you were running this company? You know, if I'm a member of the jury and I hear, okay, well, everyone was partying and on drugs and doing weird stuff or, you know, potentially, you know, in an altered state of mind, that might shape how I view the, you know, the defendant, the verdict, the whole case. So the judge did say that prior to making those, you know, kind of questions, the defense has to notify the prosecution and the judge about it. So it's not going to be a case of like they'll blindside the witnesses about this, but I imagine that's going to kind of go back to this effort to try and say like, okay, you know, Bankman Fried wasn't doing something wrong on his own or intentionally, it's just that things fell apart, but they were well -intentioned. The defense is going to attempt to, I think, pin some of the blame on legal advice that Bankman Fried received. How effective do you think that argument will be at trial? That's a really hard question to answer. I think the problem that the defense has is there's really no denying that FTX fell apart and it fell apart in like a very dramatic fashion, right? The day it filed for bankruptcy that evening, what, a couple hundred million dollars or tens of millions of dollars worth of crypto was stolen, I think. I forgot the exact amount, but you know, it was a pretty dramatic way to cap off what was already a chaotic week. So the problem the defense has is they can't say, well, FTX is fine. And so they're leaning on this advice of counsel defense. Their argument is going to be, you know, Bankman Fried was well -intentioned. He told his lawyers everything he wanted to do, and he did everything they told him to do. And so because it all fell apart, you can't really pin that on Bankman Fried. You have to look at the advice he was given and the information he was acting on. And so I guess part of the problem that the defense might have here is did they share or did Bankman Fried share everything he wanted to do with his attorneys? Did the attorneys have all the information and did he do exactly everything the way his attorneys told him to? And I don't know, you know, I'm sure we'll see answers to those questions over the next, you know, six weeks or so, but that seems to be kind of how that might play out. And it's going to be an interesting argument for sure. But again, I think it goes down to the central problem of FTX for sure collapsed and how you respond to that. One other issue is that the judge did rule that the prosecution could mention SPF's political donations. And there are charges specifically related to that that will be tried in a separate trial next year. So why were those allowed in this case? So this is where we get into what has become one of the new fun parts of being a court reporter in this case is Bahamas extradition treaties. So the original indictment that Bankman Fried was charged with back in December of 2022 did include campaign finance violations as one of the charges. But because it did not appear in the charging document that the Bahamas Police Department had, there's a Bahamas National Police, something like that, Bankman Fried's defense team successfully argued that they could not bring that charge right now because he had agreed to be extradited on the first seven charges, which were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities and bodies fraud, et cetera. So what it seems like is going to happen is the prosecution is going to try and fold all of that into all the political donation stuff into the other charges, into the wire fraud charges, and say, well, you know, we have the evidence, we have the allegations, and here's what you have to look at what that means for the next trial. And, you know, you're absolutely correct. There is another trial currently tentatively scheduled for either March or April 2024, next spring, either way, where we will be going through all of this again. But a lot of that is dependent on the Bahamas. And yeah, we could probably talk about that for another hour if you wanted to. All right. Well, we'll leave that for another episode. But one thing I did want to ask about is earlier in this interview, you said that his sentence was likely to be in the range of 10 to 20 years. And obviously, you know, there's many charges and we don't know which ones he'll be found guilty of and which ones he won't. But how are you coming up with that estimate? So yeah, I should definitely be more precise there. So I personally am not a lawyer or an expert in this. I have spoken to a number of lawyers about this. And what they said is, if you have a defendant who is found guilty, so these assumption here is that he is convicted on at least one of these charges. But if he's found guilty on even several of the charges, because all of the conduct is similar, because it's all kind of identical conduct at the core, a judge, when making a sentencing determination, will basically fold all the charges into each other, right? All the conduct. And so even though each of these charges, if you look at the DOJ, press release says, oh, it contains a maximum sentence of 20 years or five years, whatever. It's not going to be consecutive. It'll be concurrent. So the estimate I'm getting from various attorneys that I've spoken to over the past few weeks is probably be somewhere in the, you know, 10 to 20 year range. Some estimates came down as low as five years, some as many as 36 years. But they all seem to base that on just kind of the allegations, the charges themselves combined with the amount of money allegedly lost, which is more than 50 million, combined with the severity and all of that. Yeah. And so 50 million is sort of like some thresholds because I think it goes in levels of severity. Yeah. And the higher the number goes, the longer the sentence. However, that's the largest threshold, obviously. Yeah. I literally looked up the federal sentencing guidelines, which by the way, is a very confusing document. I did not understand it. So I asked someone else to explain it to me, but yeah, it's the different thresholds that you mentioned. And it starts with the, I think the thousands range and then just kind of escalates up and 50 million seems to have been the uppermost that they had. So it's 50 million plus. I think the allegation is something like 10 billion loss from FTX. So 10 billions, a hair more than 50 million. Just as many multiples. So that will probably be kind of the way they calculate it, probably. And again, this is dependent on if he's convicted on one or more charges and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. Okay. Well, we will have to see how all that plays out. Thank you so much for explaining all of this on Unchained. Thanks for having me again. Always great to talk to you. Yes. Same here. Don't forget next up is the weekly news recap today presented by veteran crypto reporter and Columbia University night budget fellow, Michael Del Castillo. Stick around for this week in crypto after this short break. Join over 80 million people using crypto .com. One of the easiest places to buy, trade and spend over 250 cryptocurrencies.
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"At WTOP. This is breaking news. Multiple people shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department says officers are on the scene of an active shooter situation. More as we learn it tonight. A New York judge issues a gag order on former President Trump during his civil fraud trial after disparaging a court staffer on social media. The President's son, in the meantime, Hunter Biden, pleads not guilty to federal gun charges. Keep it here for full details on WTOP. Next, we're to going Rich Hunter. He's in the traffic center. All right, Dimitri, right now traveling southbound 95 in Fredericksburg, just south of the interchange for Route 3 down to a single left shoulder now getting by the crash and vehicle fire cleanup near Mall Marker 128. So you're squeezing way over to the left to get around this mess. So be careful. North down side, they are working as you're approaching past Route 3, a single file left past the work zone. There's also construction southbound 95 as you approach and pass the exit for Dale City. A single right lane gets you by by the time you pass the car rest area you've got all lanes open once again. Now on the beltway in Maryland interloop between University Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue two right lanes get you by the work zone. Also working on the as interloop you come as out you of Virginia headed into Maryland between the George Washington Parkway and the exit for the Clara Barton Parkway. The work zone blocks cross the single right lane. Heads up if you're coming off the GW Parkway to join the interloop of the beltway. You have to merge early in the through traffic so do so carefully. Interloop the exits to both eastbound and westbound 66 are closed and again for construction you're diverted up to Route 7 to work your way back. Headed through Annapolis 50 eastbound between St .Margarets Road and Sandy Point. Single right lane pass, actually single right lane block with that work zone. They may take it down to a single left lane later and then on the Bay Bridge. They haven't worked there for a while. Eastbound span closed, westbound carries two -way traffic. Rich Hunter WTLB traffic. Next to Steve Ruden, he's 7 First News Alert meteorologist. As you move into the overnight hours mainly clear skies could see a bit of patchy fog come early tomorrow morning with wake -up temperatures upper 50s and
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A highlight from Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet
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You should know a production of I heart radio Hey and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and this is stuff you should know the podcast about revenge We've done an episode on it was like a top 10 on cases legendary cases of revenge Oh, yeah, I remember that but we didn't talk much about Revenge itself and I feel it was high time. We've been dancing around it for decades now And here we are I Thought this is a great idea. So kudos to you because it Dave helped us out with this one and it's a lot of like science and studies have Sort of and I'm not gonna spoil anything but have sort of About revenge and what it means for the person getting the revenge. Yeah, I think most people How we feel about revenge it's from watching movies and it's like deeply satisfying to watch the Bad guy who deserves revenge get get their comeuppance right sure is or even be killed Just like yes that guy deserved that kind of thing. But in reality carrying out acts of revenge or They just it's not like the movies I guess is what I'm trying to say and yet there's a lot of evidence of revenge in real life so much so that the New York Police Department came out with a study in 2012 and Found out that 42 % of the homicides in New York were motivated by revenge man, so and that actually kind of underscores like a problem with revenge is That when you enact vengeance on somebody and you leave them alive almost Invariably that person feels like you overdid What in response to what they they did it was disproportionate. So now they have to strike back again And it can go back and forth until somebody dies or else somebody can die right away is the first act of revenge But the the point of the whole thing is is that once you do carry out revenge no matter if it's petty exciting somebody up for spam or Killing somebody in response to whatever Slight like road rage. They cut you off in in traffic. You don't feel good afterward You actually feel worse and that's the underlying point of this entire episode Yeah, you know my my favorite petty I don't do it, but my favorite petty revenge to witnesses It's pin and it's so dumb Everyone just settle down is on a highway when someone Is on an expressway and they clean their windows and it gets all over the car behind them Yeah, I see people all the time race in front of that person and do the same thing. Oh my god, really? Yeah, that is Petty that is Tom Petty. That's not Tom Petty because somebody was great That's just petty and I also wanted to say to you talked about Revenge coming back harder or whatever Emily has her own personal Saying like when we're messing around and I like I will do something to her Or I'll say something kind of mean as a joke. She'll she'll eviscerate me if it is and she calls it coming back double She goes I come back double. Oh boy I was one of those people that Think she gets pushed in the corner and is and man she comes out hard So it's it's a good trait and it can and one to be wary of at the same time Yes, I'm suddenly way more wary of Emily than I was before luckily I stayed on her good side You wouldn't come at Emily. Anyway, you're smart. No, so There's a lot of questions revolving around revenge if if the if we know for a fact It feels good to think about but then feels bad to do. Mm -hmm Despite the fact that when we're thinking about it, we're like this is going to feel good It's not the act of thinking about it. That feels good It's fantasizing about how good it's gonna feel to get that person back And set the universe right again to do all sorts of things that revenge allegedly does and it turns out When you carry out an act of revenge you are playing the chump to evolution and on behalf of society as a whole and That's kind of like the whole basis of a revenge. There's a Extensively in the animal kingdom and it really collides with the the modern evolved humans That live in these complex societies. We've formed today When you get those two things together an interesting podcast comes out. That's right what you're talking about the animal kingdom is also called retaliatory aggression and that is the idea that So let's say a lion mama goes out and kills an animal To leave for her little cubs to eat Another animal is like oh, you know Let me see if I could sneak in there eat some of that too The mama lion doesn't just scare this thing off to preserve that meat for the kids The mama lion goes and hunts down and kills that animal. Yes, that's good. They come back double Emily style Right. I mean like the the problem solved the hyena has been chased away But to leave your kids and go find it and kill it. That's that is Seems only retaliatory aggressive. Yeah, and this next one too. I'm gonna mention These are interesting because it made me sort of question the idea of revenge versus punishment Right because I think those are different things. Yeah, the rhesus monkey We've talked a lot about their vocalizations like they're all about the group or they should be at least and like when they find food Let's say they will tell everyone. Hey, I found food But if a rhesus monkey is ever like, you know I'm gonna have a little bit of this first before I call out and if they find that out There's a punishment for that rhesus monkey. I don't think they kill it But there is a punishment and this is the idea that these retaliatory aggressions are Deterrence it's like a punishment for everyone to see to prevent future transgressions like hey, did you hyena see that? Did you other rhesus monkey see that? So that you know would be an advantageous thing Evolutionarily speaking so that gene gets passed on Yeah Because the more the more you're prone to do that the the likelier you are to not have food stolen from you for your kids The likelier it is for your kids to survive and and your lineage to survive. So it makes sense Evolutionarily speaking this retaliatory aggression does at least right? Yeah, which I would still argue is punishment more than revenge. I Absolutely, I think you're absolutely right and there's a there's a story a couple of stories of Tigers actually engaging in what can only be described as revenge and it's very much up in the air whether what we're witnessing is actual revenge, but like you know, like there was a very famous story out of Russia where like a poacher not only shot a But also took some of their kill and that the tiger tracked the guy down found his his little lodging destroyed everything you could find in lodging and then waited outside for the hunter to come back and then kill them and that the Tiger managed to hold this idea in his head Or I think it was a her her head for up to maybe 24 hours after the the hunter shot her There's a there's a couple of stories out there that seem to pertain to Tigers Specifically that it's almost like it does contain an emotional component to it, but for the most part Yes, it's it's solving in a problem and then maybe preventing future problems among the animals Yeah, you know one of my favorite sayings is revenge is a meal best served cold Yeah, I don't know why cuz I'm not a revenge guy really, but I just I think that it's just such a great saying I just like it, you know, there's something about like oh, no, no The real revenge is like when you wait around for a while Oh, yeah, and then when you would might not be suspected you come back and take that revenge Yeah, because if you just immediately do it in response, you're a hothead and a dummy anybody can do that But just sit there and really stew on it and figure out the best way to really get back at the person that takes intellect Yeah, I agree and a little bit of craziness.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "police department" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Kevin McCarthy became the first Speaker of the House to voted be out of the job tonight. The vote was forced by a contingent of hard -right conservatives led by Florida Congressman Matt eight. Now McCarthy is telling colleagues he's not going to run for the position again. He spoke earlier tonight. I don't regret standing up for choosing government over grievance. It is my responsibility. negotiating. Our government is designed to Fine compromise. Kirk Bato is hotline editor at National Journal and joined us earlier with more about how we got here U in the .S. House. What basically happened here is that McCarthy, in order to fund the government, made a deal with Democrats to pass a stopgap measure over the weekend to keep it open for about 45 more days here. And that was a red line for the conservative hardliners in his conference They wanted that more conservative cuts in the government funding and that this is just a bridge too far for them. And I think to look at how we got here, you really have to go back all the way to the disappointing election night Republicans had back in November, where the red wave that they thought they would have, where they would gain Upwards of 20 some seats never materialized instead. They have a five seat majority here and that gives a of lot power to the most vocal conservative hardline members in the conference and you saw wield them that power tonight. McCarthy kept repeating it throughout the day that he has the support of 90 -94 % the of Republican conference, it's just these eight members who wanted to oust him. And because the majority is so narrow for Republicans, they're able to wield outsized power here and you saw them get a huge victory today and oust McCarthy. Let's talk about his remarks. He essentially said it is too easy to do something like this, but can we say that he himself made it easier to be ousted in order to get the job in the first place? sure I'm not I'm saying that very clearly, but is he not at least He dug his own grave here back in January where he had this prolonged speaker vote. He had the third shortest tenure as speaker, but the longest speaker vote or one of the longest speaker votes in history here. I don't think it quite got to long as as in history, but at the same time part of the concessions he made to these hardline conservatives was look any one member, in this case Matt Gaetz, a member from Florida, can bring a motion to vacate to the floor and we have to vote on it. And Gaetz did just that. So really the writing on the wall here was from the beginning, from the inception of his speakership, the deal he made to get the gavel was what ultimately took it away from him today. I'm sorry we're out of time, but can you give me one name? Who do you think might be the next speaker? I think you need to look at Steve Scalise, the member of leadership from Louisiana. He might be one of the consensus figures right now to emerge and replace McCarthy. And you do think he would do that even though he is battling cancer and has some other health issues? He said tonight that he's feeling good, feeling great, and I think that is a signal right now to the members of his conference that, look, despite his diagnosis, despite his treatment right now, he is ready, willing and able to serve. ...hotline editor at Journal the National Kirk Beto speaking with us tonight. Steve Scalise, we've learned from Punchbowl News, has been calling around to some Republicans to see if they're interested in supporting him as House Speaker. Top stories on we're working here at WTOP. This is breaking news. Multiple people shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department says officers are on the scene of an active
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
Katie's Birth Story: A First-Time Mom's 20-Minute, Accidental Home Birth
"It was like 4 a .m. when I woke up I remember checking the clock and it was pretty normal for me to wake up during pregnancy and I have to go pee in the middle of the night because you know pregnancy things. And so I woke up and I was laying there for a second before I got up and I was like oh actually I think I think I need to go number two. And so I was like okay maybe I'll walk across the apartment and go to the other restroom. And once I got there I was like oh okay I think this is a number three situation. Very TMI. So I went to the other bathroom so I wouldn't disturb my husband and truly I had diarrhea for I'm not even kidding three hours and I Oh my gosh that's ridiculous. But it was like actually diarrhea. Like I wasn't there was nothing else going on. I had no reason to assume anything else was happening. And I thought it was because I had some peanut butter the day before because I just never eat peanut butter. And so I was like you know maybe it just messed with me this time. So just like you can tell hormones were high like throughout this whole story you'll see I was not thinking straight no matter like just never I was never thinking straight it was quite hilarious. Yeah so basically so I go across and like in between like you know when like diarrhea hits and you're like I need to go now in between those moments I was going to the yoga ball and I figured like if I'm up in the middle of the night might as well be doing my mile circuit and just like stretching and so I was like doing things you would do in labor which is quite hilarious because I didn't I just wasn't thinking about any of it. So I was going back and forth between the toilet and the yoga ball and just doing all my things and then I just realized at some point I was like it's been a really long time like this is really absurd I'm going to go take a bath because the bath was my comfort when I was pregnant like that's just just where you want to be when you're pregnant you know yes and yes so I go back over to the other bathroom where my husband is sleeping in that room and I turn on the bath and I'm in between the bathtub and the toilet again and it's about seven thirty at this point so that was like let's see four that was three and a half hours of literally going number three like it was like rough and so I just like reached my breaking point and I came out and I was like Ben like I have been pooping for three hours what is going on and he poor thing had woken up and was reading in bed because he could literally hear me like this is it was just rough okay yes and so I come out and he's like it's okay like you're it it's just you know it's just you're going to the restroom it's fine and I was like I don't know and so I go back in and I'm kind of like I don't know but you call the midwife like I'm worried I'm hurting the baby I'm pooping so much you know like totally like not not rational at all so I have him call the midwives and he gets on the phone and he's like hey I don't know why I'm calling I think you know Katie's just pooping a lot and we just kind of want to check with you and the sweetest midwife answered the phone and she was just like don't worry like that's totally normal for your body to clear out as you're like leading up to labor like totally normal don't even worry a thing about it and so I was like okay that's reasonable I can I can work with that you know and so I go back to doing my business and I look down and I see what I think is just like some blood and I'm like oh my gosh Ben like now I'm bleeding like call them again like something like what is going on and I keep going back and forth between like this really peaceful state to like I'm going to hurt my baby because I'm pooping so much and this this is a very poop filled story I'm so sorry that's okay that's how so many women actually like that's how labor begins for a lot of people because like I don't know if you knew this but the prostaglandin that is produced by your body to ripen your cervix and get your body ready for labor it has effects on your GI system so that's why like a lot of the time that will happen for women and honestly so many birth stories are poop filled stories so don't even worry about it that's so funny okay good that's good okay yeah so basically I had him call them again they were like okay just let us know in 15 minutes how you're feeling and I was like okay that's fine so he hangs up and then I'm sitting there and I'm like actually will you call the doulas like I I just I just think they should know if like something weird is going on because I thought I would gonna I was gonna have to go to the hospital because something was wrong you know so he calls the doulas and he's like hey just wanted to let you know like Katie's and also just stumbles through trying to explain to them like why we're calling at 7am in the morning I guess it was probably like it was probably 7 .40 at this point and so he calls them and they're like okay like keep us updated sounds like she's doing fine and he's still on the phone with her and I had gotten into the bathtub and I just like felt the urge to check myself and so I reached out and I was like Ben I feel something soft and I like just had no idea what was going on and he he relays the message to the doula and he said okay she feels something soft and the doula goes okay I'm on my way over and I was like well that's weird okay and so the doula starts heading over we call the midwife back and we're just like hey like this is going on and she's like okay you know like this is just a little weird like if you wanna come in I'll just check you we'll just make sure you're all good and so I was like okay that sounds great and so I stand up to get out of the bed and immediately just squats down and pushes and I was like oh okay I can't stand up and so I try to do it again and the same thing happened my body squatted down and pushed and now I know it was the fetal ejection reflex but at the time I was just like what is going on so that was oh let me see if I can get yeah okay so that was like 745 and so after that I was like okay like call 911 like I don't know what needs to happen but like something's wrong like I was still very much in the mindset of like this baby is gonna be hurt by whatever is happening to me right now I'm sure you had no idea you were in labor no idea because I expected to feel contractions like I expected your normal signs and I just didn't have anything except for literally pooping for three hours yeah so that was super royal so at 746 my husband called 911 and he was on the phone with them and I was in the bathtub and he was like yeah like we just don't know what's going on like something weird is up and the lady starts asking him like about my due date and like how I'm doing and all this stuff and so while he's like answering all these questions I feel a massive pop and I was like oh my goodness I think my water broke and my husband was like oh okay and so he told the operator and they were like okay there's someone five minutes away and we'd say okay great and so he gets off the phone and it takes until 8 o 'clock for the EMS and the firefighters and the police department literally everybody to come into our small tiny apartment and so that is at 8 am they get here there's like 10 men that shuffle into my little bathroom in there because we live you know in a two bedroom apartment it's not huge and so like 10 men shuffle in and I just remember this guy coming in and he's like hey like I'm Michael and I was like hey Michael is it okay if I turn on the hot water and he was like yeah and I was like okay great and so I turned the hot water back on and I just like still don't know what's going on I'm just like something weird is up but like even though mentally I don't know my body knew exactly what I was doing which is why I think I was asking for the hot water and things like that so it's very interesting this whole time like I just feel like God was really taking care of me and telling me what to do when mentally I had no idea what was going on so they get there at 8 o 'clock and he's like you're gonna be fine like can you lean back so I can check you to see what's going on and I was like okay and so I leaned back and he was like oh okay yeah you're crowning and I leaned back forward and I was like oh this whole time I've been having a baby and I didn't realize it up until literally that point when I was crowning and so my body did the fetal ejection reflex two more times and she was born which is just super wild so at 803 she was born so I think I pushed like four times total and did not intentionally do it at all they were so awesome though the team just like let me stay in the bathtub let me do my thing they let me do skin to skin immediately after I they came with a hat and like came to clamp the cord and I was like don't put a hat on my child why would she need a hat and then I made sure they did delayed cord clamping so they were just super great at honoring everything that I asked for considering it was like just such a shock for everybody quite truly so it was super awesome but literally I think from the time that like we called the midwives to like the actual birth it was less than 30 minutes so that is like kind of what I consider what the labor was because that's when things really got intense and before that it was like super inconsistent nothing was really happening so yeah that's that's my
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh "Police Department" from News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
"Clark. Cloud skies and we've got a sunbreaks few around the Puget Sound area now at 205. Current temperature 61 in downtown Seattle. As we continue, a man was found shot to death in a trailer near Paul's Bowl this morning. Ken Dixon with the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office tells COMO4 it's a very quiet rural town. This isn't something you expect to see at early morning on a Tuesday in Paul's Bowl. The crime scene is along the 3000 block of Northeast Lincoln Road. The two suspects are described as men in their 20s who took off in an SUV. Detectives say they are armed and dangerous and knew the victim. They are identified as 29 year old Caleb Sloan and 26 year old Axel Strom. you can see their pictures on x formerly known as twitter at news radio nw A judge says a 16 year old boy poses an extreme risk to the public for his alleged role in a series of home invasions that targeted Asian families in Seattle. Coma Force Jeremy Harris reports that the judge has ordered that teenager to be kept in custody appearing in juvenile court this 16 year old pleaded not guilty to robbery and burglary charges. Police say he is linked to four adults all now charged in connection to targeted home invasions of Asian families in Seattle. The respondent poses an extreme risk to the community and therefore will be ordering him to remain in secure detention. The judge ordered the held in youth detention. There was a sigh of relief there, but it's not sufficient enough to make us all feel at ease. Will and Lou is an Asian American community advocate with OCA Seattle. Wrong is wrong and right is right. And if guilty, they deserve what the law administers. Police and prosecutors stress their investigation is still active and they're piecing together the 14 home invasions of Asian families. Jeremy Harris, KOMO News. The owners of a comic story in West Seattle say burglars stole more than $25 ,000 worth of items and this is the second time that store has been hit in less than two months. KOMO 4's Hannah Knowles reports the shop is preparing to reopen today. A dream that became reality. That's how Nicole Duff writes her husband's passion project tales to astonish the only comic book store in West Seattle. Just gives you that sick feeling in your gut to see them all gone. Security footage shows three people wearing hoods and masks enter the front door to the store. They then grab almost every single book from the shelves on the wall, stealing the cash register while they're at it. So many of the books have so much meaning behind them. They're the books that people like save up for to get to finish their collection. Hannah Knowles, Como News. The Maple Leaf hardware store in North Seattle deals with attempted thefts every other week. According to the manager, their police believe a group of armed teens were responsible for the most recent incident that happened Friday night. Three teens in what appears to one be gun. Seattle police tell me they have now identified all three suspects and this case is active and open. The latest hit came a few days ago at closing time. The teens loaded bags and their coats with all police departments are are short of officers. Crimestoppers Jim Fuda insist a lack of cops leads to less arrests and less accountability. A vicious cycle. He says until that changes businesses and homeowners must take security precautions. That's Como Force Michelle Esteban, a woman now behind bars after Seattle police say she stole a car crashed and then tried to get away. Police say it started after the the scene. Stolen from Northeast 75th Street Saturday morning, it was tracked to a parking lot near second Avenue in East Pine. Police say that's when the 26 year old who allegedly stole it stole it tried to escape in the car before crashing. She was booked into the King County Jail after trying to run, but according to police then got the car. Residents in Medical Lake and Elk Washington, northeast of Spokane, are still sifting through what's left of their homes after last month's destructive wildfires. The loss of hundreds of homes and two lives there was the worst of the wildfire season in our state. Commissioner of Public Lands Hillary Franz. You know one gentleman I talked to he was taking a nap 2 30 in the afternoon on a Friday. He was just resting and he was woken up by the sheriff saying to you got go now and he's like okay I'll be a little I was like no you got to go now. With more than 1800 brush and land fires this year by counted by the State Department of Natural Resources less than 5 % were larger than 10 acres about 145 000 acres all told burned far less acreage burned than in recent fire northwest news time 210 check on sports now over to bill swartz at the beacon plumbing sports desk and spoon helping the Seahawks stick a fork in the Giants. It was a spectacular Monday night football debut for Seattle's first round draft choice Devin Witherspoon a huge part of the Seahawks 24 -3 romp over the New York Giants the rookie defensive back with two of the Seahawks franchise -high 11
Capstone Conversation
Pinole Councilwoman and Mayor, Norma Martinez-Rubin, Describes Governing a Small City
"Hi, I'm Jared Ash with the Capstone Conversation. I'm here with Councilwoman Norma Martinez -Rubin from the city of Pinole in Contra Costa County. We appreciate you being here today. As part of your everyday job, you're a principal at Evaluation Focus Consulting, where you focus helping mission -driven foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies and public health. So that's an exciting background to be here. What else can you tell us about yourself, Norma? Thanks, Jared. Thanks for having me be part of this. I can tell you that my adopted hometown of Pinole is this wonderful little city, relatively small compared to the other 19 cities in Contra Costa County. It's bisected by I -80, which has national fame. And for those of us who are local, it is both a blessing and whatever the opposite of that is, given the multitude of vehicles for many different reasons, recreation, transportation, transport of goods, etc., on a daily basis that we get to live with. Part of my personal history is having come to the city of Pinole via Los Angeles, where I grew up, it was weird, and having the experience of living in a more urban area relative to one which has these beautiful natural amenities just within a walking distance of where I live. We're surrounded by hillsides, we're surrounded by or adjacent to the San Pablo Bay, which in my mind counters the effects of an interstate that bisects the city and divides the city, and the way our residents view issues that come before us on city council. Interesting. Let's talk a little bit about that small town, but in a big metro area. From a governing standpoint, what would you say are some of the constraints and some of the advantages compared to other towns being a smaller city? As a smaller city, we're a full -service city, so we provide and we respond, we're responsive to provide services that are essential as the local governments grow. We have our own police department, we have parks and regulations, we address land use issues, keeping in mind the topography of Pinole, and most recently we have joined with our county's fire districts to serve our city in its small size. We have a different terrain, the north side or the south side part of Pinole adjacent to San Pablo Bay is the older part of town. We were incorporated in 1903, but as history goes, in the 1950s when I -80 was constructed, it divided the city and then we started seeing more of the tract homes built on what was formerly agricultural land. So in the Pinole Valley, which is south of I -80 in our town, we have people who are surrounded by hillsides, beautiful hillsides, but as valleys go, also face the risk of possible fires because many of the homes were built alongside that range for just open space. So the constraints in a small city is that urban planning back in the day when some of the older cities in Contra Costa County were designed and built may not have considered the growth that would occur over time and the needs that people had over time given the shift in demography or population figures. In my background as a public health practitioner, population shifts are something that we've observed and have been somewhat ready for. However, we also have a history in local government and more broadly state and federal that the response to these population shifts isn't always as quickly as we see the shifts occur.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "police department" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"I want thank my teammates who go above and beyond for our clients. What would you like the power to do? Learn more at bankofamerica .com slash about. Bank of America N .A. Member FDIC Equal Credit Opportunity Lender. This is WTOP news. It's 352. Well, DC police are not commenting on last night's carjacking of Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, but police say they are working on reining in the problem. WTOP's Dick Oliano just attended a news briefing. He joins us live with the investigation. They want Hey Ann, we've been briefed by Assistant Police Chief Carlos Harad. He is the head of the investigations division, and he says more than a dozen detectives are working on the Metropolitan Police Department's Carjacking Task Force. He says carjackings are most prevalent starting Thursdays at 4 p .m. until Monday at .m. 4 p Now, Congressman Cuellar was was carjacked last night in the Navy Yard neighborhood, which has experienced plenty of carjackings. And is that neighborhood getting more police attention? Chief Harad says police have a citywide approach and resources are routinely shifted, sometimes hourly. He says the police are working daily with the U .S. Attorney for D .C. and the D .C. Attorney General who's responsible for prosecuting juvenile offenders to get on top of the situation of carjackings. Dick, 30 seconds here. We've heard a lot of stories about juveniles involved in these carjackings. What are police saying about that? Well, Sean, Chief Harad says he doesn't know why juveniles are doing so many of these carjackings. He mentioned social media, but he said there are possible influences there, but he said without getting into the heads of juveniles, he doesn't understand why kids 16, 17, some younger are carjacking here in D .C. Alright, WTOP's Dick Iuliano in downtown D .C. Sports at 25 and 55, powered by Maximus, moving people and innovation forward. And look who walked in, Rob Woodfork, with the latest
Crypto Banter
A highlight from "DO NOT Buy Bitcoin Now! Here's WHY..." | Gareth Soloway
"I'm back and we're one day before the FOMC Bitcoin still at 27 ,175 now Gareth says Gareth Soloway He says that Bitcoin can get back to $30 ,000 But then he also says that even though Bitcoin can get back to 30 ,000. He wouldn't actually buy it. Listen to this Now interestingly enough, let's talk about how high can price rally right? So, I mean, let's let's talk about it So if you're someone who's saying wow, do I buy Bitcoin now? Honestly the answer is no now But he does think you can go back to to $30 ,000 So listen, what we're gonna do is we're gonna get Gareth on the show a bit later on He's gonna talk to us about what he meant when he said he thinks Bitcoin can go back to 30 ,000 level But he wouldn't actually be buying Bitcoin right now and that's ahead of the FOMC now. Remember it's a big FOMC why because we haven't heard from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July, so we haven't heard anything from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July and Remember that since the 21st and 26th of July we've had two very big inflation readings So the big question is what is Jerome Powell going to do tomorrow? Is he going to engineer a soft landing that is one thing that he could be doing or or or is he going to Fly the plane like that plane that got lost I think what we need to do is we need to spend some time talking about this because honestly Honestly, honestly, honestly I Mean, how can anyone? Lose an 80 million dollar plane even the Biden administration. Like how can you lose an 80 million dollar plane? No one can lose an 80 million dollar plane. Not even the Biden administration So this we've got a lot to talk about today. We're also gonna talk about finance We're gonna talk about finance in the SEC. They did go to court yesterday There was a little bit of FUD that came out of the court case yesterday Usually as you know, I don't really pay attention to the finance FUD But this time it's coming from the same people that warned me about Celsius and they were right So I took the side of Celsius and they were right So as I said, I don't usually pay attention to finance FUD because I think it's like usually just bat And I think there's too much finance FUD But I do think we need to talk about what came out of the hearing yesterday. So listen, I'm back We've got a huge show today one day before the FOMC. Let's go guys I Mean we have to laugh we have to laugh Not only did they lose a plane But then like to make matters worse they want us to help them Find the plane now. I mean, this is a true story They lost an 80 million dollar plane and they want us to help them find a plane That's the type of discussion that I usually have with James like I lost the soundboard James. Where's the soundboard? I lost it on the way to work. Anyway, we'll talk we'll talk about the plane later. There's a lot to talk about Listen guys, I'm back. I'm back in the studio. We've got a lot to discuss today Got a big show ahead of the the FOMC Also, I want to talk to a little bit about Asia I want to talk to you about Binance I want to talk to you about altcoins because we are getting bounces in the altcoins as you can see right here on the bubbles But it seems like it's stuff going up one day and down the next day Which means that there's no new capital coming in we know that and what that also means is that we're getting Asset money rotation between between one place or another and then also as a city later on gathers Garrett's coming on the show So we've got a lot to talk about we're a lot we're gonna be here together But let's talk about remember if you haven't yet subscribed the channel help us because one of the things that I realized in Singapore Was the bigger our channel the bigger the guests we can get on the channel the more attention they pay their pay to us And so when you guys subscribe to this channel when you like this content And we get the content out there and you subscribe to the channel That helps the channel grow that helps us bring more bigger guests onto the channel. That's why we need you I'll bring you the highest alpha per minute show in the world every single day and You will just like the content and then everything's fine. Everything works. It's a symbiotic relationship. Anyway, let's talk about Where we are right now Let's go to the charts what we can see when we look at the charts is that Bitcoin is above 27 ,200 one day before the FOMC meeting now, I heard rumors earlier That the reason why Bitcoin was actually rising is because the mount gox trustee may be forced to delay the distribution of the mount Bitcoin 2024 till that was actually written up by the blocks I heard the rumors much earlier today and then the block wrote something about it They're saying Bitcoin bounce may be due to mount gox delay rumors, but still targeting 22 ,000. That's a fan manager called QCP bitcoins price is largely due to rumors of delay that mount gox may drag their payments into 2024 that's actually exactly what I heard earlier today. So it could be that we may not be getting the mount gox Bitcoin hit in the market. Now you ask yourself. Why would that happen? So you very simply why would that would happen mount gox was hacked in 2014 this this this story took place in 2014 The liquidator like the FTX liquidator earns money on The longer this drags out the more the liquidator and it's almost like think about it like a lawyer Okay so the more this thing drags out the more money that the liquidator makes and it looks like the liquidator is going to continue to Pressure the side of the year now, let's go back to the charts because I want to show you something back on the chart So then if you remember but Kyle dupes said something very interesting. He said look when we get this death cross What will happen after the death crosses, but Bitcoin will go down But then Bitcoin will go up back to the price of where the death cross happened, which is twenty seven thousand seven hundred so so far Kyle's little I don't know if you want to call it a prediction is is actually playing out and playing out exactly like said Gary says we can actually go even to 30 ,000. I actually think that both of them are wrong I think that we may at some point soon this year this this month this year We will break that 30 ,000 everyone. I've been saying it for a while I don't know if you remember but I did say at the beginning of September when everybody was completely bearish about Bitcoin and everyone said oh September's gonna finish down because it finishes down every single September. I said no guys I think September's gonna finish up so far. I'm up five point five two percent So so far it feels to me like like like like I'm gonna look I'm gonna Get this but you must realize what's actually happening here James. What what's for lunch? Scacra doesn't talk but he's chewing here. I can hear the chewing going in my one ear and out and out over there Anyway, what we are seeing here is you need to look at the open interest on Bitcoin and what you realize is that the open? interest is just Completely tracking the price which means that price goes up open interest goes up price goes down open interest goes down That's what's going on here, which means it's just short term Ups and downs so to speak that are happening in the market and it's not real volume or real buying coming in So we still I'm still not convinced that this is the pump that's gonna take us over 30 ,000 But I am convinced that bitcoins gonna go north of 30 ,000 end of September Maybe even early October and I think shaldino shares the same the same sentiment as me because he's just opening lungs and lungs and Lungs and you should I think today you opened another long on the show. Did you guys did you guys watch Sheldon show today? scarecrows Scarecrows don't talk but the children open along yes or no scarecrows He opened us a line along. Okay, so say he did open a lot the guys got big big big kahunas I think the same thing was happening with alts when I look at the alt coins It looks like we're just getting a shift from one old coin to another old coin So yesterday roll, but was up today roll, but is down yesterday rune was up today rune is down and that's exactly what's happening There's no big moves. Let's just quickly check on the one hour time frame. No big moves. No big moves in all coins it's basically just a rotation of Many the good thing is that the fundamentals of Bitcoin and I said I don't say this likely but the fundamentals of Bitcoin have actually Never ever ever been stronger and what I mean when I say the fundamentals of Bitcoin have never been stronger So there's two parts of the fundamentals. The one part of the fundamental is the research So what does the research say? What are the fundamentals behind it? The other part of the fundamentals is something that is unique to Bitcoin and unique this asset class Which is the on -chain data because if you look at other asset classes, they don't really have on -chain data Bitcoin has on -chain data So, you know like when we say fundamentals we can actually just go to the chain and we can just say look Well, what is it? What does the chain say? What is the the data on chain say and here this is where it gets a little Bit exciting so it gets very exciting. The first thing is long -term The supply held by long -term holders up to the highest that it's ever been so you can see the percentage Supply that is held by long -term holds the Bitcoin never ever ever been higher that is Also evident here where you can see that 80 % of all Bitcoin have not moved in the last six months so what we're seeing here is long -term holders keep growing and then when they lot they hold they They hold for forever because it hasn't moved for more than six months What we also see is we see the short -term holders have been capitulated. They're out of the market. We don't see them anymore They were here. They they were good tourists and then we said bye -bye and they were just sending their money back to exchanges When I look at the unchain The unchain data right now and I said I don't say this lightly the unchain data right now looks the most positive that's ever been because the coins are sitting with the people who ain't gonna sell the Coins and when I say anchor solid coins, they holding the coins for for six months plus The sentiment is also very good. And I saw this tweet by Chris Paniski and he He shares the same sentiment that I shared in Asia He was struck by how incredible and what the buzz is that happened in a token 2049. You can see his his These guys are killing my ears Thanks guys. Thanks for thanks for destroying my eardrums. I used to have eardrums now they're gone Anyway, that's his version of what happened at token 2049, but he's been around for a while He says contrasting token 25 20 49 to the first bear market conference. I went to inside Bitcoin in April 2015 the worlds are completely different and that's true because Even though from a pricing point of view, we're in a bear market I'm gonna show you something very very very interesting about where we are in the market The other thing that's happening now, which we haven't seen in Bitcoin for for for a long time Since I got into Bitcoin people have been promising me that the institutions are coming into Bitcoin. It's always been the narrative It's like look we've got to prepare ourselves got to prepare us off Because you know what the institutions are coming in when the institutions come in The price of it coins gonna go to the moon and every time the institutions never came in They launched a Bitcoin futures and bang the the price collapsed So I've always been hearing since I got you That the institutions are coming into Bitcoin when the institutions come into Bitcoin They're gonna bring all the money with him But it's been this letdown because it like as much as I've been hearing about it The institutions just haven't come but they just didn't arrive now the institutions are undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly here So we have got Citibank. They are now Unveiling their own Separate blockchain which is going to which which they're going to start piloting you got this is old news But you got the LSE looking to tokenize assets in the line the stock exchange As your as you will recall if you saw my video about token 2049 in Singapore I thought hey said big bull market he predicts and if you go watch that video see what he said But he basically how he breaks down why the bull market is gonna happen in 2024 he also breaks down that AI is gonna be the narrative that's gonna lead it and then he says, okay Well, then you need to you need to be buying file coin Then a German banking giant will be able to hold a number of crypto currencies for its clients So you can see what's going on here. You can see exactly what's going on Yeah, this industry is becoming more and more institutional Deutsche Bank one step closer to launching a digital asset custody service You've got Japanese banking giant Nomura launching a Bitcoin adoption fund for institutional investors You see what's going on here the institutionals the institutions are here are finally actually getting here but we are in a very very very unique time now because this is What Michael Saylor described when I interviewed Michael Saylor last time you'll remember it if you watch the Michael Saylor discussion This is what he said about where we are now about the unique time that we are now in In the cycle able to pick up the phone and call your broker and buy 50 million dollars worth of it Right. So we're at that stage where we know it's coming but We really haven't plugged Wall Street into the asset yet We're in this in between period which in my opinion is the best time to be it's like, you know the future No one else can act on it. If you if you have a crypto account with a crypto Exchange to buy Bitcoin right now So so you hear what he's saying he's saying if you we know they're coming they just it's like it's like it's like this Imagine a concert, you know, the concerts gonna start everyone's waiting at the door, but the gates aren't open yet You know when the gates open everyone's gonna come in and go to the car the concert you have the inside information But they can't act because the doors are still closed. That is where we are. Now. The institutions are coming in this morning I saw that blockchain capital Which is one of the original og funds in crypto, these are like, you know, these are two brothers original og og og funds in crypto raised 400 and say five hundred and eighty million dollars for two new funds now if you read where did they get their money from? most of the firm's limited partners are traditional institutional investors including University endowments So they've got five hundred and eighty dollars from all of these sovereign wealth funds and guys I mean if you were here in 2017 and you were here in 2018 and you were here in 2019 and notice it you look You know in next year or in two years time you're gonna get five hundred and eighty million dollars Given to two brothers in the United States Who have got a good track record and the money's gonna be given to them by institutional university By university endowment private foundations the writing's all over the world. All you have to do is You just have to Act because it's inevitable. It's completely completely completely inevitable And I know like a lot of you may may be sitting here and going yeah But you're not crypto is full of scams and you know, you know We spoke about keeping our customers happy and how every time we get the big names in crypto coming into our into our industry We destroy them, etc, etc You need to remember that every single technology goes through the cycle and I want to read you something which I saw earlier today which made me smile and and again affirm that I was in the right direction so Visa seemed like a disaster when it was first launched the kind of people who attack new things would have been all over it from From the Wikipedia article it says listen to it says they're talking about visa However, the program was riddled with problems as Williams who had never worked in a bank's loan department had been too earnest and trusting in His belief in the basic goodness of the bank's customers and he resigned in December 1959 22 % of the accounts were delinquent not the 4 % expected the police departments around the state were confronted by numerous incidents of of a brand new crime called credit card fraud Both politicians and journalists joined the general uproar against Bank of America and its new fangled credit card Especially when it was pointed out that the card holder agreement held customers liable for all charges even those resulting from fraud Bank of America officially lost eight point eight million dollars in on on the launch of Bank of America card But when the full cost of advertising and overheads were included the bank actually lost around 20 million dollars I mean if you change the word credit card there and you replaced it with the word blockchain you'd say hell them This is exactly what's going on here.
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"7 stay connected stay informed good morning on this tuesday it is october 3rd and at 531 we have cloudy skies in downtown seattle and 55 degrees along with brian calvert factor and here's what's happening members of the saint nicholas greek orthodox church have new concerns that homeless camps are returning after the community already spent years dealing with violence related to camps the church is in the hilltop neighborhood in takoma in recent years that church added security measures and gates spending thousands dollars of to prevent overnight camping on church grounds as they prepare for the annual greek festival members have noticed a new camp starting to form we are compassionate and our job is to to help and to to nurture our community so we want to keep that door open not closed that's the most important thing but for that we have to have at least one level of safety the city has a camping ban in effect within ten 10 blocks of city shelters city officials told us in an email this camp location has been on the schedule and will be addressed this week at least one person has been shot to death near near polsbo so this shooting happened about two miles east of the polsbo cemetery information very limited this home along northeast Lincoln Road the suspects took took off before deputies arrived that's como four steve mccarron five thirty three here at northwest news radio the maple leaf hardware store north seattle deals with attempted thefts every other week according to its store manager police believe a group of armed teenagers were responsible for the most recent incident on friday night three teens in what appears to be one gun seattle police tell me they have now identified all three suspects in this case is active and open the latest hit came a few days ago at closing time the teens loaded bags in their coats with tools all police departments are are short of of officers crime crime stoppers jim fuda insists a lack of cops leads to less arrests and less accountability a vicious cycle he says until that changes businesses and homeowners must take security precautions of course michelle esteban seattle's new action plan against climate change includes calls for more electrification in pursuit friendly of climate travel options get a closer look now from northwest news radios corwin hague electrify seattle among is the battle cries in the new eighty page seattle department of transportation climate change response framework i think there's tremendous opportunity for us increasing options to get around your for neighborhood without needing to use the car but when a car or bus is necessary estad director stouts greg spots greater availability of electric personal vehicles and transit plus the electrification of the growing trucking and delivery industry in other words options that not only reduce carbon emissions but also actually create a more livable walkable bikeable greener sustainable climate resilient city the new document points out transportation is seattle's largest contributor to greenhouse gas gas emissions and therefore the area where estad's influence can make the most meaningful change corwin hank news northwest radio it's five thirty four and coming up on the morning news i'm carlene johnson the f o in the sumner bonnie lake school district getting major props for increasing the fun balance tenfold old i'm carlene this is northwest news radio your home for breaking news coverage and traffic and weather every ten minutes over the high -performance homes traffic center we find kiera jordan we're having a tough morning getting into south seattle right now first we had a crash on north on i -five near the four oh five interchange that's now been cleared but we're still working with the second crash near mlk junior way that have been blocking multiple lanes we're down to just one right lane that is blocked but this is now causing a backup that starts as you're coming out of that north end of federal way and travel travel time from federal way into downtown seattle is running you about 45 minutes now i'm hearing of problem blocking in lakewood this is going to be a crash that is fully blocking our ramp from westbound 512 to fourth bound i -five uh so gonna need to find another way to uh get to i -five from area that south dakoma way over 74th that could be one way to do it and then outside of that we're just watching our volumes build on eastbound 512 we are busy between 94th and pioneer southbound 410 still getting back up between valley avenue and 167 then on northbound 167 lighter slowing is going to start just north of highway 410 and it's basically following you almost all the way to willis street with really heavy slowing through the auburn area but you're not done yet you're going to slow down again between 212th and 405 and now northbound we're looking at 405 those brake from lights the valley freeway into newcastle southbound i -5 continues to build in marysville starting around 528 the state route 529 our next northwest traffic at 544 our report this time is sponsored by the washington department state of health get your flu vaccine and help create a flu -free washington more information at flu -free wa .org message from a the washington state
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 116: Part 2: Eric McBride and the December 2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
"So I hey, can you send this off to the FBI, the JRIC, the Joint Regional Intelligence Center, and see if they can get this translated and let us know if this is something we need to be concerned about. So he takes it and I give it to him and a couple days later I'm like, hey, have you got anything back yet? He goes, no, let me call him and see what's going on. So he finds out, they call him and they say, yeah, it's a snippet from an ISIL website and it's roughly translated, it says, danger, danger, beware, beware. So I'm like, okay, maybe, you know, but they say, it's nothing to be worried about, don't worry about it. So I'm like, all right. So I said, hey, send one of our TLO officers down there, have them take a report so we can just document the fact and what we did on this and stuff like that. So flash forward several days, I can't remember exactly how many days it is, but we would host some Chinese police officers, usually about 30 of them would come to our station and we'd tell them about policing in the United States and San Bernardino and stuff like that. So we're in that and we're on a break and I go walking down to my office and I'm sitting in my office doing something and one of my captains walks in and he says, hey, there's some shots heard down in the south side of the city. Now when I say that San Bernardino earlier is a very busy city, there is the south in the city, which is like our commercial area and it's nicer and you really don't ever have any homicides or shootings or anything like that down there. So it's kind of odd that we're having any shots heard down there. And I'm like, okay, you know, shootings aren't new, but that's kind of an area that doesn't happen, but it didn't really raise any alarms. And then literally a minute later, I'm walking down the hallway and the watch commander comes over the intercom and says, hey, we have an active shooter down at the IRC. Of course, that's not something that we hear every day. So I grabbed that captain and I said, hey, let's go down and let's see what's going on. And as I'm driving down there, I'm thinking, wait a minute, this is where we had that phone call or that voicemail message from earlier. And I'm like, crap. And I'm calling the sergeant and say, hey, what did we find out when the officer went down there? And he's like, I don't know, let me find out. So we get down there and I'm thinking, man, I hope I cross all the T's and dotted all I's on this and that we did everything that we were supposed to. And I get down there, we get down there relatively quickly and I don't hear any shots being fired. There's very few officers down there still yet. Our chief is in the meeting at city hall. We can't get ahold of him and we leave some voicemail messages. And we get down there and I go walking around to the back of the building. It's a large complex and it was always a big building. We didn't really know what it was, but we thought it was some kind of governmental facility. And basically what the IRC is, it's called the Inland Regional Center and it's a nonprofit. And what they do is they take care of kids who have developmentally disabled. So their parents come there, they give them training on how to help their kids and stuff like that. So that's what kind of facility it is. And I didn't know that until later. But we get down there, I walk around to the back and I see our homicide sergeant back there and I see a couple people laying there that have been wounded and stuff like that. And I walk in to the room and the alarms are going off, obviously it's the actual crime scene. And I come walking out and to be honest with you, I've been to so many homicide scenes that yes, this was a large number, but at the end of the day, it's just a homicide scene in my mind. And we're trying to secure the scene. We've got people already searching the building to see what's going on, where the suspects are, if they're still there. And we obviously didn't know that, but honestly, it didn't, you know, nothing to get excited about. Honestly, our cops knew what to do because they've been to, you know, some of them, hundreds of homicide scenes. It's just a larger number of victims. And so that's going on. And then I finally get ahold of the sergeant and I say, hey, what happened? And he goes, well, then the officer showed up, he says, hey, I played phone tag with that lady. I never got the report taken. So I was like, crap, you know, we didn't, hopefully we didn't miss something on this. Well, as much as I was crapping the people down at Jayrick that actually had the information that we gave them and processed it, you know, I think they had diarrhea down there because they're wondering if they had done everything they were supposed to. And so at that time they started working out, talked to some people down there after the fact, and they said they started working it big time. And what I was told later was it had no connection to the IRC. It was coincidental. And it was one of the kids, an autistic kid that goes there that actually left the recording. So no connection, but obviously it's kind of coincidental that coincidental. I mean, yeah, because, because you know, that'll spin concern conspiracies, conspiracy theorists out say, oh no, you got warning of it. You were told about it. You guys ignored it, but it's like, um, and that's not well known. I mean, I've spoken all over the country about the incident and I, and I briefed different police departments on that, but that's not something that's very well known that that phone call came in, um, that report, not that phone call, but a phone call with the recording. And uh, but that, that did happen, but I was told out of the fact, well, and we're kind of fast forwarding, but did they get a, even though he's autistic, did they get a chance to interview? That was something that, uh, uh, the FBI followed up on and not us. Um, and they assured us it was not connected to the actual shooting.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 114: Part 2: Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith is still Defending and Protecting
"You know, that brings attention to a professional police department and what's going on, what really goes on. I mean, that's why Game of Crimes is so professional and so popular. Exactly. People want to hear the inside stories. Look at the, I can tell you, I ran into the commissioner of the Alaska State Troopers and when they started putting that on Nat Geo, they got all sorts of people applying. Now, the biggest problem was you'd get some guys from the East, like New York, come out there and like, I got to be in what village for three years? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, my backup is going to take four days. What? I'm a head dog by mushing, you know, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Hey, I wanted to ask you about that though, because we want to get into talking now about a lot of the work that you're doing right now. But I preface that by saying there used to be a time when you and Dave, you'd send me a message, you'd see me on Fox or whatever, hey, I see you on TV. I can't turn on the TV now without seeing your ass all over the TV. You are on, you have been on so many things, but that gets into what I wanted to talk about with you. You took a lot of your training, you took a lot of the work that you did. And now I think you're doing one of the great things, which is you're out there telling the story. So let's talk about how did you get involved? But before we do that, I asked you, I told you, I wanted to ask you about this. You had no problems. You survived a lot of things, but you had one of the biggest fights of your life wasn't getting run over by a car in a, in a convenience store, was it, but it did involve another C. Yeah, absolutely. So the end of September, 2020, you know, I just got back from a training trip and I get the doctor says, you know, Mrs. Smith, yeah. Hey, has anybody called you about your biopsy? And I'd forgotten that I'd had a breast biopsy like a month earlier. And and I go, no. And he goes, oh, well, okay. So you have cancer and it's a very aggressive type. And I've referred you to an oncologist that'll, she'll give me a call next week and he's getting ready to hang up. And I like, hold on, let me get my husband. So like, come over here. What the hell? And you know, he's a super guy, but they just don't, it's not like on TV, nobody says, nobody brings you in and sits you down and gives you a tissue and says you have cancer. They go, okay, you got cancer. A lot of other people got cancer. That's kind of the, that's kind of the, the, the attitude, you know, and, and you just want to scream at everybody, but, but I have cancer. Well, so do a million other people. And so, so yeah, so I was diagnosed with, with breast cancer. And so this is, this is in the middle of the pandemic. So which was really serendipitous at the time because we weren't traveling a lot. We weren't doing a lot of training because things kept getting postponed. And so make long story short, and it does weave into my, my job at the national police association, but I had a, a double mastectomy. And after the, after they do that, you know, they told me, okay, great. We got it all. It's all good. You know, we had the kids came down for Thanksgiving and we celebrated. And then I go back to the doctor and she goes, oh, well, I have the rest of your pathology. Great. You have another kind of cancer. Do I now? And so then I had to go through chemotherapy and, and then a year after, you know, about five months, chemotherapy, a year of infusions. And I see the oncologist next week. And I think I'll go from seeing an oncologist every 90 days to every six months. And they can't call me cancer free, but they call me presumed cured. So I'm incredibly grateful. But it did factor into multiple things with my, my, my appearances in the media. So we can, we can talk about that too. Well, and I, I tracked this cause you posted some of this on Facebook and everything else. And it's kind of like, if there's one tough lady who can kick cancer's ass, it's going to be Betsy Brantner Smith. And I mean, you did, I mean, it's like, well, look, you're still doing it too. And you had, I mean, Dave obviously was there with you to help you out. And it's so important to have that relationship, um, to do stuff like that. But if I, you know, look, if I asked cancer, I'd be a little afraid. You see what I don't, don't let the good looks fool you here, you know, cause I'll kick your ass. And that's what you did. You know, that's what you're continuing to do. Well, it was a team effort. I, you know, Dave and I really approached this like a, as he says, I approached it like an assignment, like a call. And, uh, and that's really what you had to do, but it is very much a, it's a team effort and I'm very low drama. Like I, I didn't even want to tell anybody. I was like, why do we have to tell people? And he's like, well, you can't have cancer. Not tell people like, why, why not? Well, because, because you went six months without telling anybody you were pregnant. You're already hiding things. You know, I, you know, cause I was like, I, at the time I didn't think I'd have to chemo. So who's going to know? You know, and our kids, we have four kids. They live all in different parts of the country.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 114: Part 1: Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith is still Defending and Protecting
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dududettes, everybody in between. Welcome to episode 114 of Game of Crimes, the 114th attempt to silence us once again. And as I say, we shall not go quietly into the night, will we, Murph? That's right. We're not going anywhere. Not going anywhere, all right. It reminds me of that case with the guys from NYPD. Yeah, go fuck yourself. Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey, we got some good stuff for you, but as always, before we get to it, we gotta do just some quick housekeeping. Hey, head on over to Apple Spotify, hit those five stars. Really means a lot. Guys, if you're on Stitcher, move off Stitcher. That's like officially closed now. So I think you'll hear they've moved a lot of that stuff over to Spotify, but make sure you find us on your favorite podcasting platform and hit that subscribe button on it so you get these episodes delivered to you without thinking about it, without fail, every Monday and Tuesday. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. Hey, we've got some interesting stuff coming up. We've got guests, you know, we've got books, quite a few books that we're working on. We've got some guests coming up, like a medical examiner. We've got some books from there. We've got CIA guy. We've got a guy who writes for Tom Clancy now, former US Marshal. Got his books. So we got a lot of good stuff coming up. So head on over there. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes on podcast, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram, but head on over to patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We just got through recording a 911 episode that will, that's interesting, but it will break your heart, make you mad and piss you off. Oh yeah. I'm still, if I get a little bitchy on this intro, you'll know why, cause we just finished it. But we don't wanna give away the ending because you gotta put your ears on, you gotta be an audio Sherlock Holmes and figure out what went on. So, but we got a lot of good stuff. We got our Q and A coming out. You can't make this shit up. We did our Narcometer review, which Murph will never be allowed to recommend another movie for Narcometer review without prior review. It's a truth, I agree. Yeah, but we did just finish season three of Narcos where our buddy, Chris Feisal, Dave Mitchell, they were the DEA agents that helped bring down the Cali Cartel. So we go through and we analyze season three of Narcos, the gentlemen of the Cali Cartel. So we got a lot of good stuff. So patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Also head on over and find Facebook, type in Game of Crimes fans, and guess what? You will find the internal, the secret fan group run by our favorite mafia queen, the iron fist with the velvet glove, Sandy Salvato, who shall allow you entrance into the inner sanctum. Answer a couple of questions, get close, come on people, give it a shot, give it the old college try. You too may be on the inside where all the hilarity, jocularity happens in a bubble of insularity. Okay, the arities. And that is, I tell you what, there's some funny stuff that goes on there. You really need to take a look at it. It'll brighten your day. Right, and you know what else brightens your day, Murph? What's that? It's our next little section. And we call that? Well, guess what time it is though. First of all, guess what time it is? Guess what time it is? What time is it, Murph? I bet it's time for Police Small Town Blutter. And I forgot to tell you, hey, this is Show About Crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously, not ourself. How do we know that? Because we do Small Town Police Blutter. Sorry, we got it backwards. It's like one of those endings at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial, you know, the previous hit of the mother. Anyway, all right, let's get into this. We're keeping you on your toes, that's all. I might've had some caffeine today. Anyway, hey, Murph, this story comes to us from Lancaster County, Nebraska. All right. You always want good citizens, right? A good citizen out there called in, told dispatchers, hey, somebody is driving a truck on the wrong side of the road. Highway 77 in Lancaster County nearly ran him off the road. So driver, I mean, the caller gives excellent description, says, hey, here's where it happened. Here's where the collision nearly happened. And so obviously they vector deputies in, right? So even though the guy's rattled, he's able to give them, you know, the calls. So the deputy gets out there and the deputy finds the driver and pulls it over. And he's the caller. He's the caller. Deputy goes, do you know why I stopped you? Yeah, because I was on the wrong side of the road. The man responded jockeying the air up to a missed exit. Oh, okay, well, you know, the problem is he had a blood alcohol content, twice the legal limit. Oh, don't you just hate when that happens? Yeah, so he confessed to calling 911 on himself and the deputy realized who he had in custody. Yeah, I did that because I thought somebody was on the wrong side of the fucking road, bro. The deputy goes, yeah, but it turned out to be you. But it turned out it was you. He goes, yep, like a dumb fuck. He says this on body cam day. Hey, you know what, ladies and gentlemen, we have a sectional Patreon called you can't make this shit up. This is the first one from that. Hey, there's a truck almost ran me off the road. Yeah, unfortunately for you, Skippy, they were going the right way. You were going the wrong way. That's wonderful. Hey, Mark, I know at your age, you're not on a dating app, right, but you've heard of those dating apps, right? Match .com, you know, Tinder. Yeah, you know, and what do they always say? You know, like, if you like somebody, you swipe right. I think it is, if you don't like them, you swipe left. Have my money. Something like that, right, so. Obviously you have. Well, no, no, I have, because I read the story. So, what do you think would be an innovative way to find a fugitive? Are you using a dating app? This guy out of England, he's a million dollar fraudster. He apparently swiped flight, you know, instead of right, he swiped flight. This wanted man, Wayne Parker, successfully evaded authorities for nearly a year after committing a million dollars in fraud, but then the farmer from Suffolk, England, signed up for a dating app, right? They were shocked to see, cops, coppers were shocked to see the convicted criminal crop up after Parker created a profile on Match .com. So, what happened was the 35 year old scammer was found guilty a year ago of owing a whopping $970 ,000 to a supplier. He failed to appear in court in February for sentencing and was being hunted by police to no avail until the on the lam lothario, this is them writing that, not me, decided to start looking for love in all the wrong places. So, I mean, if he'd waited, what, seven years, the statute of limitations run out, he could have done it, but no. Since going on the run, Mr. Paca is known to have been using Match's dating website. He's also been hiring cars in a bid and is believed to avoid detection by the police. So, he failed to appear in court. So, he said he would return to Suffolk to face the consequences of his action, but so far has failed to head to, has failed to do so. So, it's only a matter of time before the law catches up. We would strongly urge him to hand himself in. Well, guess what? They didn't have to wait too long. Now, this frisky farmer, he'd previously been prosecuted for posing a serious risk of spreading bovine tuberculosis. He failed to dispose of farmed animal remains appropriately, was found to be moving large quantities of cattle without following the proper process, as well as not keeping adequate records of the cattle. So, he was handed a 12 -week jail sentence and an 18 -month suspension from doing business. That was then, but now he's going to go to prison for a million dollars in fraud, all because he had the urge he got on the dating site. Oh, because he's stupid. He's stupid. Speaking of stupid, Murph, this next one comes to us from Vero Beach, Florida, population 16 ,534. Salute. And that's a beautiful place. Yeah, so Rashad McGriff, he, I'll give it away, he went to jail. He has a lengthy rap sheet, currently on probation, following conviction in March for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. What kind of taunt could an ex -girlfriend send over a text that would cause this felon, this person now charged with battery and burglary, what kind of taunt could send him over the edge? I'm going to guess it was a reference, a negative reference towards his private parts. She taunted him via text about having a little penis. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Investigators say that the 42 -year -old woman was in her bed when McGriff got into the house, which he has no commitments to. He then punched the woman in the face and choked her, which then obstructed her ability to breathe temporarily. She was bleeding from the bridge, did you ever know? She told police that she texted McGriff a photo of somebody else's penis and advised Rashad he had a little one. Oh my God. Oh, oh, I don't even know what to say. Sorry. Well, the judge ordered McGriff to have no contact with the victim because he threatened her as well. So he's been previously, the woman's previously sued McGriff three times for failure to pay child support. So they do have a hearing. So hey, look, domestic violence is not funny, but you know, sending a picture of somebody's junk and then following it up with a really small piece of junk and saying, you got a little one or something like that. Oh no, actually she sent him a picture. She sent a picture of apparently what she liked and said that you've got a much smaller one. Did she call him shorty or stubby? Yeah, we shouldn't make fun of that, I'm sorry. Yeah, well, we'll just see if the evidence stands up in court. Anyway, thank you very much. Hey, well, let's, we're gonna, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna talk about our next guest. We'll do the intro here because then when we get into the interview, we're not gonna do re -intro the intro. But this one, this one's the one I helped arrange because I've known this person for probably 18 years now. No, her and her husband. And for those of you in law enforcement, when I say the name JD Buck Savage, if you've been around, except Murph. Murph had no idea until they started watching the videos. Legendary police trainer, used to train Caliber Press, Street Survival, has a, him and his wife now, we'll talk about, have a company, The Winning Mind, they do a lot of this. Now, Betsy Brantner Smith, Sergeant Betsy Brantner Smith retired after 29 years on the Naperville Police Department, which I used to be up in Naperville for some other stuff in a prior life, actually had a TV series about her, a lot of good stuff. But now she is the spokesperson for the National Police Association, nationalpolice .org. And Murph, I would say we had a good, some of you folks, I'm gonna tell you right now, this is gonna be a controversial topic for some of you. You're not gonna like it because, but we get into some, we, you know, hey, we talk about the facts around what's happening with police right now, what's going on, the narratives, and Betsy pulls no punches. Look, with all of our guests, they have the absolute right to the First Amendment. She gets to say what she wants to say because it's her opinion, it's her voice. But the other thing too is, I'm not gonna give it away, you're gonna find out on the episode, but Betsy has a right to say what she wants to say when you understand what she's been through and what she survived. And she's an effective, I remember times she used to get ahold of me and say, hey, I see you on Fox and CNN and all this stuff all the time. And she'd be jealous. I'm like, I sent her a text, hey, I see you on all these shows all the time, I'm jealous now. I tell you what, once you hear her talk, she's a feisty little lady, you can see why she was selected as a national spokesperson for the National Police Association. And as you'll hear me say at the end of the interview, she was honestly a breath of fresh air, standing up in discussion, hot issues that involve the police culture, but she's just not giving an opinion. She's backing it up with facts and statistics, which is, anybody can have an opinion, just like buttholes, we've all got them, but when you back them up with facts, there's a good position. So this was honestly a great interview with Betsy. It was a pleasure to meet you. I will continue to watch JD Buck Savage videos here. They're funny. If you haven't seen them, just go on YouTube and put in JD Buck Savage and you'll see them. Saw drunk? If you want to know where saw drunk arrested same originated as JD Buck Savage. You just know hanging out with these two, you're gonna come out with tears streaming down your cheeks cause they're gonna keep you laughing. Oh man, Dave and I had a good time. Well, Murph, we can't get to it until I ask you the question that is on everybody's mind, mind, mad, mind, on our mad mind. Our mad mind, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all? The unadulterated, unfettered, unrestricted game of crimes. Here we are. Yes, we are ready. So get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. We got Ms. Betsy coming on. You're gonna love this lady.
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A highlight from #431 Matt came in the studio with an orange head and almost killed Rich. Dating a Columbian is serious business especially when she is on the east coast. Rich spent sunset with Matt 2 and Matt 1 got jealous. We have an informant from the inside and Matt called him a rat. Watch the turtles when you are walking on the beach. Idalia stole sand and we think we know where she put it. Episode #431 September 1st. 2023
"Yes it Divine again, Friday and today is September 1st, 2023, this episode is 4 .31 from this Mike Rich, from this Mike Mah, and we are in September, that's how easy it was, well it's it's also September 1st and it's small Saturday, oh small Saturday yes yes yes, that's two times in a row that you've missed it, oh yeah, two weeks in a row, no no I would bring it up, third week is strike three you're out, I'm sorry, well but I can't really do that because I there's not a replacement for you, although I'd like to replace you, you sure, it's just not gonna happen, won't be the same show, well you know, there's a lot of things I'd like to do with you, like what, I don't know, go out trolling in an airboat out the Everglades, I'm kidding, well I love you to death man, I would never never want anything to happen to you, really, well I'm here, yeah and you're here on small Saturday, and I'm here, I almost died, you did, yeah, oh I feel bad now that I just gave, you almost killed me, a rant on how I wanted to take you out the Everglades in an airboat, well you almost killed me what, 15 minutes ago, how, I was laughing so hard that I almost died, why because I came in looking like, no I'm just wondering what is wrong with your head, is it St. Patrick's Day, have you ever seen that comedian Carrot Top, no, yeah, you'll have to look him up, he's famous, you want me to tell people, redhead comedian, well I came in as a big joke, because today I decided, because sometimes I bleach my hair, and you know, just to have a different look, and so I, different, yeah, it's different all right, and I, and you look at the box, I really, I tried to do it too quick and bought one of those boxes off the Walmart deal, and they don't have the most expensive bleach items there, so you read on the book, and they tell you the amount of time you should leave it in there, and well, you fell asleep, no I left it the amount of time, went into the, showered it out, then about 10 minutes after dried it, came out a little more orange than I wanted, in fact it came out orange, and I didn't want any orange, I think if somebody look at you, they know which party, political party you're going for, yeah, but it's not like orange, it's not like the whole, the whole head isn't orange, I mean actually if we wanted to, we could make a Irish flag out of my head, I just, because I got white on the sides, yeah, and then there's the top, in the middle there is orange, if we just went and got some green dye and did like a mohawk strip in there, we'd have all the colors of an Irish flag, I can roll with that, you just look like a guy who's standing in the rain waiting for the bus and get rusty, that'd be an awful long time, buddy, if somebody asks you what the hell is wrong with your hair, just say this is a primer, actually some people liked it or whatever, it's not like really carrot topish, and like I'm like some kind of redhead or whatever, but it's noticeable, let's just say that, and so this whole experiment, it's not like my first rodeo, dude, I've done this before, so I got to go make a trip to Sally's Beauty today, because I had to get the professional coloring, so that after we do this podcast, I'm gonna go home and fix it, oh my god, let me just explain what happened, so man walks in, and it's dark in the hallway, so I open the door, and then he comes to me making coffee, and I burst and laugh, I almost end up on the floor, laughing for what, 10 minutes, oh yeah, I couldn't get you to stop, I thought I was gonna have to call, you know, EMTs, yeah, because his head is completely orange, yeah, it's not, come on, that's how I see it, I know, I am so happy that he prolonged my life for 15 years now, just like, thank you, well, you know, they say that laughter is medicine to the bones, yeah, well, my bones are fine, except that you were laughing so hard, they're rattling, you may want to go get a check, he's taking the dating so serious, he's going over a complete overhaul, no, I mean, I was gonna do that, whether I was going over to South Beach to see this Colombian or not, yeah, well, it's just like, oh yeah, I mean, I don't know, she might, you know, after, you know, spending a half a day with me, it might be the, you said, only half a day I ever see her, you said you don't like hippies, so you look like one now, that's for sure, oh yeah, yeah, that's so awesome, I took a picture, I'm gonna save that picture for the rest of my life, you need to, every time I'm gonna have to be down, like, mentally, this is what I need to see, that's gonna lift me from any type of dirt, yeah, ah, thank you, that was really nice, you're welcome, we have, we have Matt here with the primer on his head, you're painting cars, so he painted first rusty, so you know what he's painting over, I mean, that's a great idea, you just say, hey, I'm gonna color my head, so I want to know, I don't want to miss any place, no, or I could just be a walking billboard, for Rust -Oleum, just so awesome, if nothing works, I could go out there and just stand on the corner with a, with a can of Rust -Oleum, that'll get rid of the, hey, look at this, and get, turn it white again, it's just, if nothing works, home people will fix it, what do you think, how would I get Rust -Oleum out of there though, would I have to use like lacquer thinner, yeah, just, like, yeah, can you imagine, that'd be worse, you think, bleach burns, no, that was burning a little, you just spray lacquer thinner, maybe when it was starting, my head was starting to burn a little an itch, I might have thought to get into the shower, you just burn it, yeah, yeah, that's what happened, last time I told you about a story, when teacher was pulling my hair in the first grade, and he said I would go home and shave my head, that's what I would, maybe, that's the time, that's what I would have done in defense of no more hair pulling, yeah, but it might be a good idea, no, I don't need to, because I just got done buying $40 worth of stuff that'll fix it, yeah, just send me a picture before you go there, so I'll give you a stamp of approval, okay, so I don't want you to get depressed, yeah, I'll just wear a beanie, maybe, I'll be the only guy in South, South Beach with a beanie, beanie's those little, you know, the only idiot in Miami, 90 degree weather, and I'm in a beanie, you know what the, the Haitian, Haitian mamas, they, they have this shower head, oh yeah, when they go to Publix for shopping, I call them Haitian mamas, yeah, big ladies, they come and they have, they're wearing this awesome, it's all right, man, I, it's not my first rodeo, I've done it before, so, I love it, some people liked it when I was in Cali, they just, you know, it didn't, it wasn't that orange, and they kind of blended, this one might have a little more red, I know, you're not, you're not going that direction, like, you know, then the, in the male's direction, but California would accept anything, right, that's probably these, anything other guy, except poop on the street, I mean, my hair's, nothing, nothing, yeah, well, let's go to officials, and that is Julian Bruce, TeraKitara Apache Music, we thank you for all the tunes, because we are so grateful for the intro song, Divine Aprils was written and produced by them for us, exclusively, we're looking forward to see you in the town very soon, they are right now having a concert and zoo in Minnesota, and then they, in the winter, that would be our season, they will be here in Botanical Garden, playing almost every night, as always they do every year, so, you can find them, TeraKitara Apache Music on Facebook, or if you like to have the CD, we have 12 different CDs they produce available for sale in our Divine Aprils Coffee and Wine Bar, right on, sponsor of this show is Divine Spa, we talk about it, the month of the Wellness Month is behind us, which was August, but that doesn't mean you should stop taking care of your body, or send 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maybe somebody in the garage, well I mean you've kind of narrowed it to where you've got to be in a desk, I'm sorry, let me take it back, we don't deliver to the desk, we deliver under desk, and anywhere, so if you're changing oil, we're just gonna put it on your tire, yeah, that's it, just on the ground, yeah, so we're done with that, right, yeah, well I tell you what, you have a competition to do, yeah, yeah, why, somebody take, I just spent, I just spent today because we're taping it on a small Saturday, Friday, it's after 9 p .m, I just spent a beautiful sunset with nice looking fella, oh really, yeah, it's just like you, good looking, same name, right, yeah, oh wow, yeah, and really hard working and honest, really, yeah, nice, so just, just be careful, as opposed to me, yeah, well, exactly right, just be careful, you're not the only one here, okay, yeah, you better step up your game, I will, yeah, because he's single too, by the way, okay, right, maybe we can collaborate together and go to, you know, check out some, some places together, this is Matt and Matt, you made your choice, yeah, you choose, you want Matt or Matt, well I have a new intel for you, okay, about the situation on the beach, so first of all, there's a reason why some of our beaches are closed, right, I cannot tell you which, you know, which person gave it to me and, you know, but we have intel from the first hand, right, and in other words, we have a rat, I'm sure he's gonna appreciate that, I'm kidding, no, they have to be careful, let's call it more politically correct informant, right, and here's the deal, is that they have jobs and need to keep them, and I'm just joking about that, you know, they know what's in the know, and I think that the public generally has a right to have that knowledge, I mean, this isn't like we're setting up some kind of missile defense, no, it's public knowledge, but I just never got to it, because we are busy with other things, so we, they, they drug a lot of sand to the beach, they want to, you know, restore the beaches, we paid x amount of money, and they wanted to make it nice and pretty for the season, guess what, this hurricane came and the sand is gone again, oh yeah, it's back in the water, unbelievable, yeah, so that's what we're dealing with, now the beach entrances, they're all the damage that was, and I'll give you a list of the beaches that are closed, because there's not many that is left as a shutdown, but I want to ask public, if anybody listening to this, which I hope there are, there is people, and we know there are, please do not climb over the fences, because we can get, first of all, hurt, and we just had a situation when somebody got hurt, and EMS was called, because they were climbing over the fence on the beach, which says no trespassing, right, like, you know, why would you do that, that's kind of evident, big fence, yeah, signs that say don't go on beach, that means climb over, right, yeah, or, or it means that somebody wasn't using common sense, which is the theme of this week, and will be the theme of this show, fraternity, yeah, exactly right, common sense, because we have it, coming together as a community, right, using common sense, did I, let's look, let's be clear, so don't climb over the fence, because we just had person hurt themselves, EMS was called, so big show about that, and very important thing that people don't understand, and I didn't know that either, because that's also a lot to do with the closures of the beaches, is we had a lot of turtle nests, and that's why people, and we are asking them, you know, don't put lights on, on your houses, so if you like, if you're the luckiest person that have a beach house, then we're gonna ask you turn off your lights, or dim them on the evening, so you know, we don't have even more turtles getting lost on the shore, but 29, let me repeat this, 29 out of 32 nests, turtle nests, are gone, oh wow, or at least they're still trying to locate if there's anything, from that last hurricane, yeah, those, you know, the wooden spokes that they marked them with, they're all gone, so they now trying to find out if there's any eggs left, and if they found them, they put them, and they take them into a place that helps them to patch the turtles, yeah, and I didn't even know that, this is very interesting fact, that turtles always comes in the same place, yeah, it's kind of like salmon on the west coast, it's almost like you, you come always here, I can make as much as I can, you'll be back, you take the abuse, and you always come back, because we have free coffee and cookies, right, yeah, so that's, that's the same, so technically you're a turtle, you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, why not, yeah, you're also orange, no, at least from the head, you know, from the top of my head, yeah, I don't want to know more, so there's all those things that now they're dealing with, and you know, it's kind of sad, but also it's good to know that there are people here in the city, and especially employees of the city, they work hard, and for that reason, in Diva Naples and Coffee and Wine Bar, we made the promise from beginning of, before we, and if we can go and listen through our podcast, you're gonna hear our voices saying it, three, four years ago, we always said, anybody in uniform that shows up, and we always treat them for free, right, because we know they go above and beyond, and I'm just so appreciative that we have a lot of people working here that, that make this city safe, clean, yeah, and the way it is, because it could easily turn into Miami, and we would have this party and everything else, but you know, it's just thanks to those people working in certain departments, you know, that's why we don't have mess on the street, that we don't have crime, the police department, so yeah, we really appreciate, appreciate, you know, that every department do their part, and you know, we just want to make them feel like they are appreciated, so that's one of the things, and let me just tell you about the closure of the beach, so North Lake Drive is closed, 2nd, 3rd Street South, 10th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 33rd Street South, they're all, or actually avenues, I'll take it back, they're all shut down, you can park your car there, but don't so there's not, it's not banded, you cannot park, you can park, make sure you pay for parking, because they'll still give you the 250, they are very active, and you know, for the obvious reasons, and you know, this just, we have parking around the city free, so let's just say those things that you want to pay for, that's the only way, you know, we, you know, keep the streets clean, and so on and so forth, so 32nd Avenue South just been opened, and that's a good news for our residents, because a lot of the local people go there, they fish, they, you know, chill, because it's far away from pier, and we just enjoy those entrances, so just that's another very good news, swimming advisory is lifted, so now we had little situation there, there was some bacteria in the water due to hurricane, but that's all gone, so we are clear, we have the clearance, we're good, we're good to go, right, yeah, you get everything you say to that, no, just that you can go down the beach now, and dip your toes in the water, so why you don't do that, I got my, my little wading pool at home, my baby pool, yeah, yeah, how that works for you, I'm all good with it, yeah, and sandwich with that, yeah, I have sandwiches once in a while, all right, good, okay, well just checking, which is still on the same schedule, same on, same program, fantastic, so now we have new segment, and this what, well, it's, we know what Tim Atten doesn't know, but I got it, I got a better way to say it, and it's, we know everything, that the guy who knows everything, doesn't know, there you go, did you follow the logic, yeah, I mean, it sounds like making fun of the the gentleman, the name Tim Atten, oh, it sure does, yeah, why sound like that, I don't know, because maybe you are, no, we're not making fun, no, we're just at play, we're making him famous, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, he should thank us for making him recognize even more, once they start listening to this podcast all the time, and it starts blowing up on Facebook, it'll be, you know, we're, we're, he's technically our colleague, he doesn't really respond too much to us, yeah, I mean, he's too busy writing articles, maybe some people aren't reading, yeah, we are not, we are not good in writing, so that's why we talk a lot, that's right, yeah, exactly, although we, we proclaim I'm a wordsmith, yes, you are, depends on the mood that we're in, so let me bring some news, what's going on around the town, because that's why Divine Naples Podcast is, we want to let you know what's going on, we want to bring you stories of our business people, so if you have somebody who want to share stories, if you have something interesting, events or anything like that, you can send us email info at divinenapels .com, or you can hit us on any social media under handle Divine Naples, and I just wanna, I did some research and digging, and there's so much we're gonna cover today and tomorrow, because we're in September, so we are preparing for season, season's coming, and there's a lot of going on, one thing that I'm not particularly happy is what's going on in Everglades, did you know that Everglades City, 100 year old building is coming down? Really? Yeah.
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A highlight from #431 Matt came in the studio with an orange head and almost killed Rich. Dating a Columbian is serious business especially when she is on the east coast. Rich spent sunset with Matt 2 and Matt 1 got jealous. We have an informant from the inside and Matt called him a rat. Watch the turtles when you are walking on the beach. Idalia stole sand and we think we know where she put it. Episode #431 September 1st. 2023
"Yes it Divine again, Friday and today is September 1st, 2023, this episode is 4 .31 from this Mike Rich, from this Mike Mah, and we are in September, that's how easy it was, well it's it's also September 1st and it's small Saturday, oh small Saturday yes yes yes, that's two times in a row that you've missed it, oh yeah, two weeks in a row, no no I would bring it up, third week is strike three you're out, I'm sorry, well but I can't really do that because I there's not a replacement for you, although I'd like to replace you, you sure, it's just not gonna happen, won't be the same show, well you know, there's a lot of things I'd like to do with you, like what, I don't know, go out trolling in an airboat out the Everglades, I'm kidding, well I love you to death man, I would never never want anything to happen to you, really, well I'm here, yeah and you're here on small Saturday, and I'm here, I almost died, you did, yeah, oh I feel bad now that I just gave, you almost killed me, a rant on how I wanted to take you out the Everglades in an airboat, well you almost killed me what, 15 minutes ago, how, I was laughing so hard that I almost died, why because I came in looking like, no I'm just wondering what is wrong with your head, is it St. Patrick's Day, have you ever seen that comedian Carrot Top, no, yeah, you'll have to look him up, he's famous, you want me to tell people, redhead comedian, well I came in as a big joke, because today I decided, because sometimes I bleach my hair, and you know, just to have a different look, and so I, different, yeah, it's different all right, and I, and you look at the box, I really, I tried to do it too quick and bought one of those boxes off the Walmart deal, and they don't have the most expensive bleach items there, so you read on the book, and they tell you the amount of time you should leave it in there, and well, you fell asleep, no I left it the amount of time, went into the, showered it out, then about 10 minutes after dried it, came out a little more orange than I wanted, in fact it came out orange, and I didn't want any orange, I think if somebody look at you, they know which party, political party you're going for, yeah, but it's not like orange, it's not like the whole, the whole head isn't orange, I mean actually if we wanted to, we could make a Irish flag out of my head, I just, because I got white on the sides, yeah, and then there's the top, in the middle there is orange, if we just went and got some green dye and did like a mohawk strip in there, we'd have all the colors of an Irish flag, I can roll with that, you just look like a guy who's standing in the rain waiting for the bus and get rusty, that'd be an awful long time, buddy, if somebody asks you what the hell is wrong with your hair, just say this is a primer, actually some people liked it or whatever, it's not like really carrot topish, and like I'm like some kind of redhead or whatever, but it's noticeable, let's just say that, and so this whole experiment, it's not like my first rodeo, dude, I've done this before, so I got to go make a trip to Sally's Beauty today, because I had to get the professional coloring, so that after we do this podcast, I'm gonna go home and fix it, oh my god, let me just explain what happened, so man walks in, and it's dark in the hallway, so I open the door, and then he comes to me making coffee, and I burst and laugh, I almost end up on the floor, laughing for what, 10 minutes, oh yeah, I couldn't get you to stop, I thought I was gonna have to call, you know, EMTs, yeah, because his head is completely orange, yeah, it's not, come on, that's how I see it, I know, I am so happy that he prolonged my life for 15 years now, just like, thank you, well, you know, they say that laughter is medicine to the bones, yeah, well, my bones are fine, except that you were laughing so hard, they're rattling, you may want to go get a check, he's taking the dating so serious, he's going over a complete overhaul, no, I mean, I was gonna do that, whether I was going over to South Beach to see this Colombian or not, yeah, well, it's just like, oh yeah, I mean, I don't know, she might, you know, after, you know, spending a half a day with me, it might be the, you said, only half a day I ever see her, you said you don't like hippies, so you look like one now, that's for sure, oh yeah, yeah, that's so awesome, I took a picture, I'm gonna save that picture for the rest of my life, you need to, every time I'm gonna have to be down, like, mentally, this is what I need to see, that's gonna lift me from any type of dirt, yeah, ah, thank you, that was really nice, you're welcome, we have, we have Matt here with the primer on his head, you're painting cars, so he painted first rusty, so you know what he's painting over, I mean, that's a great idea, you just say, hey, I'm gonna color my head, so I want to know, I don't want to miss any place, no, or I could just be a walking billboard, for Rust -Oleum, just so awesome, if nothing works, I could go out there and just stand on the corner with a, with a can of Rust -Oleum, that'll get rid of the, hey, look at this, and get, turn it white again, it's just, if nothing works, home people will fix it, what do you think, how would I get Rust -Oleum out of there though, would I have to use like lacquer thinner, yeah, just, like, yeah, can you imagine, that'd be worse, you think, bleach burns, no, that was burning a little, you just spray lacquer thinner, maybe when it was starting, my head was starting to burn a little an itch, I might have thought to get into the shower, you just burn it, yeah, yeah, that's what happened, last time I told you about a story, when teacher was pulling my hair in the first grade, and he said I would go home and shave my head, that's what I would, maybe, that's the time, that's what I would have done in defense of no more hair pulling, yeah, but it might be a good idea, no, I don't need to, because I just got done buying $40 worth of stuff that'll fix it, yeah, just send me a picture before you go there, so I'll give you a stamp of approval, okay, so I don't want you to get depressed, yeah, I'll just wear a beanie, maybe, I'll be the only guy in South, South Beach with a beanie, beanie's those little, you know, the only idiot in Miami, 90 degree weather, and I'm in a beanie, you know what the, the Haitian, Haitian mamas, they, they have this shower head, oh yeah, when they go to Publix for shopping, I call them Haitian mamas, yeah, big ladies, they come and they have, they're wearing this awesome, it's all right, man, I, it's not my first rodeo, I've done it before, so, I love it, some people liked it when I was in Cali, they just, you know, it didn't, it wasn't that orange, and they kind of blended, this one might have a little more red, I know, you're not, you're not going that direction, like, you know, then the, in the male's direction, but California would accept anything, right, that's probably these, anything other guy, except poop on the street, I mean, my hair's, nothing, nothing, yeah, well, let's go to officials, and that is Julian Bruce, TeraKitara Apache Music, we thank you for all the tunes, because we are so grateful for the intro song, Divine Aprils was written and produced by them for us, exclusively, we're looking forward to see you in the town very soon, they are right now having a concert and zoo in Minnesota, and then they, in the winter, that would be our season, they will be here in Botanical Garden, playing almost every night, as always they do every year, so, you can find them, TeraKitara Apache Music on Facebook, or if you like to have the CD, we have 12 different CDs they produce available for sale in our Divine Aprils Coffee and Wine Bar, right on, sponsor of this show is Divine Spa, we talk about it, the month of the Wellness Month is behind us, which was August, but that doesn't mean you should stop taking care of your body, or send some loved ones for a little massage, or flexology for treatment, and don't forget your trail mix, we talked about that yesterday, and Beach SOS, weekend's here, Friday, small Saturday, we are here, and we are ready to deliver anything from our items that are available at beachesos .com, no delivery charge, and takes us maybe 30 -45 minutes to get you and meet you at the entrance to the beach, and if you're working in the office in zip code 34102, get ready, we're going to be delivering lunches to offices for $10, yeah, delivered between $10 and $12, right to your desk, nice fresh organic salads, sandwiches, European sandwiches, and many more, just wait for us to wave the flag, we're working on it very hard, it's going to start $10 lunch, we just want to take care of our local people, I'm so happy to do that, right, why are you, why do you have to deliver to their desk, don't you think anybody down here in the zip code doesn't work at a desk, maybe they don't have desk, you're right, maybe somebody in the garage, well I mean you've kind of narrowed it to where you've got to be in a desk, I'm sorry, let me take it back, we don't deliver to the desk, we deliver under desk, and anywhere, so if you're changing oil, we're just gonna put it on your tire, yeah, that's it, just on the ground, yeah, so we're done with that, right, yeah, well I tell you what, you have a competition to do, yeah, yeah, why, somebody take, I just spent, I just spent today because we're taping it on a small Saturday, Friday, it's after 9 p .m, I just spent a beautiful sunset with nice looking fella, oh really, yeah, it's just like you, good looking, same name, right, yeah, oh wow, yeah, and really hard working and honest, really, yeah, nice, so just, just be careful, as opposed to me, yeah, well, exactly right, just be careful, you're not the only one here, okay, yeah, you better step up your game, I will, yeah, because he's single too, by the way, okay, right, maybe we can collaborate together and go to, you know, check out some, some places together, this is Matt and Matt, you made your choice, yeah, you choose, you want Matt or Matt, well I have a new intel for you, okay, about the situation on the beach, so first of all, there's a reason why some of our beaches are closed, right, I cannot tell you which, you know, which person gave it to me and, you know, but we have intel from the first hand, right, and in other words, we have a rat, I'm sure he's gonna appreciate that, I'm kidding, no, they have to be careful, let's call it more politically correct informant, right, and here's the deal, is that they have jobs and need to keep them, and I'm just joking about that, you know, they know what's in the know, and I think that the public generally has a right to have that knowledge, I mean, this isn't like we're setting up some kind of missile defense, no, it's public knowledge, but I just never got to it, because we are busy with other things, so we, they, they drug a lot of sand to the beach, they want to, you know, restore the beaches, we paid x amount of money, and they wanted to make it nice and pretty for the season, guess what, this hurricane came and the sand is gone again, oh yeah, it's back in the water, unbelievable, yeah, so that's what we're dealing with, now the beach entrances, they're all the damage that was, and I'll give you a list of the beaches that are closed, because there's not many that is left as a shutdown, but I want to ask public, if anybody listening to this, which I hope there are, there is people, and we know there are, please do not climb over the fences, because we can get, first of all, hurt, and we just had a situation when somebody got hurt, and EMS was called, because they were climbing over the fence on the beach, which says no trespassing, right, like, you know, why would you do that, that's kind of evident, big fence, yeah, signs that say don't go on beach, that means climb over, right, yeah, or, or it means that somebody wasn't using common sense, which is the theme of this week, and will be the theme of this show, fraternity, yeah, exactly right, common sense, because we have it, coming together as a community, right, using common sense, did I, let's look, let's be clear, so don't climb over the fence, because we just had person hurt themselves, EMS was called, so big show about that, and very important thing that people don't understand, and I didn't know that either, because that's also a lot to do with the closures of the beaches, is we had a lot of turtle nests, and that's why people, and we are asking them, you know, don't put lights on, on your houses, so if you like, if you're the luckiest person that have a beach house, then we're gonna ask you turn off your lights, or dim them on the evening, so you know, we don't have even more turtles getting lost on the shore, but 29, let me repeat this, 29 out of 32 nests, turtle nests, are gone, oh wow, or at least they're still trying to locate if there's anything, from that last hurricane, yeah, those, you know, the wooden spokes that they marked them with, they're all gone, so they now trying to find out if there's any eggs left, and if they found them, they put them, and they take them into a place that helps them to patch the turtles, yeah, and I didn't even know that, this is very interesting fact, that turtles always comes in the same place, yeah, it's kind of like salmon on the west coast, it's almost like you, you come always here, I can make as much as I can, you'll be back, you take the abuse, and you always come back, because we have free coffee and cookies, right, yeah, so that's, that's the same, so technically you're a turtle, you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, why not, yeah, you're also orange, no, at least from the head, you know, from the top of my head, yeah, I don't want to know more, so there's all those things that now they're dealing with, and you know, it's kind of sad, but also it's good to know that there are people here in the city, and especially employees of the city, they work hard, and for that reason, in Diva Naples and Coffee and Wine Bar, we made the promise from beginning of, before we, and if we can go and listen through our podcast, you're gonna hear our voices saying it, three, four years ago, we always said, anybody in uniform that shows up, and we always treat them for free, right, because we know they go above and beyond, and I'm just so appreciative that we have a lot of people working here that, that make this city safe, clean, yeah, and the way it is, because it could easily turn into Miami, and we would have this party and everything else, but you know, it's just thanks to those people working in certain departments, you know, that's why we don't have mess on the street, that we don't have crime, the police department, so yeah, we really appreciate, appreciate, you know, that every department do their part, and you know, we just want to make them feel like they are appreciated, so that's one of the things, and let me just tell you about the closure of the beach, so North Lake Drive is closed, 2nd, 3rd Street South, 10th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 33rd Street South, they're all, or actually avenues, I'll take it back, they're all shut down, you can park your car there, but don't so there's not, it's not banded, you cannot park, you can park, make sure you pay for parking, because they'll still give you the 250, they are very active, and you know, for the obvious reasons, and you know, this just, we have parking around the city free, so let's just say those things that you want to pay for, that's the only way, you know, we, you know, keep the streets clean, and so on and so forth, so 32nd Avenue South just been opened, and that's a good news for our residents, because a lot of the local people go there, they fish, they, you know, chill, because it's far away from pier, and we just enjoy those entrances, so just that's another very good news, swimming advisory is lifted, so now we had little situation there, there was some bacteria in the water due to hurricane, but that's all gone, so we are clear, we have the clearance, we're good, we're good to go, right, yeah, you get everything you say to that, no, just that you can go down the beach now, and dip your toes in the water, so why you don't do that, I got my, my little wading pool at home, my baby pool, yeah, yeah, how that works for you, I'm all good with it, yeah, and sandwich with that, yeah, I have sandwiches once in a while, all right, good, okay, well just checking, which is still on the same schedule, same on, same program, fantastic, so now we have new segment, and this what, well, it's, we know what Tim Atten doesn't know, but I got it, I got a better way to say it, and it's, we know everything, that the guy who knows everything, doesn't know, there you go, did you follow the logic, yeah, I mean, it sounds like making fun of the the gentleman, the name Tim Atten, oh, it sure does, yeah, why sound like that, I don't know, because maybe you are, no, we're not making fun, no, we're just at play, we're making him famous, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, he should thank us for making him recognize even more, once they start listening to this podcast all the time, and it starts blowing up on Facebook, it'll be, you know, we're, we're, he's technically our colleague, he doesn't really respond too much to us, yeah, I mean, he's too busy writing articles, maybe some people aren't reading, yeah, we are not, we are not good in writing, so that's why we talk a lot, that's right, yeah, exactly, although we, we proclaim I'm a wordsmith, yes, you are, depends on the mood that we're in, so let me bring some news, what's going on around the town, because that's why Divine Naples Podcast is, we want to let you know what's going on, we want to bring you stories of our business people, so if you have somebody who want to share stories, if you have something interesting, events or anything like that, you can send us email info at divinenapels .com, or you can hit us on any social media under handle Divine Naples, and I just wanna, I did some research and digging, and there's so much we're gonna cover today and tomorrow, because we're in September, so we are preparing for season, season's coming, and there's a lot of going on, one thing that I'm not particularly happy is what's going on in Everglades, did you know that Everglades City, 100 year old building is coming down? Really? Yeah.
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A highlight from #424 No Monkey wrench in the engine. Today you will enjoy a smooth ride. Rich created the one and only way to make clean energy that works all the time, its free and has no exhaust except an occasional back fire here and there. RICH IS A GENIUS! Matt is a Head case and he knows it. $ 3000 can be a great investment for not making you smarter. Episode #424 August 25th. 2023
"And Divine is, as always, Small Saturday is on a Friday, we are beyond our lunchtime which turns Friday into Small Saturday, August 25th, and this episode is 4 .24 from This Mic Rich! And from This Mic Matt. Wow, yeah, that was good. Yeah, I liked that. Well I decided to concentrate this time and not be spacing out. Well that was a good idea because a lot of times, you know, I don't even know you here, sometimes you're sleeping. Well, that's true, but then there's other times that I might just throw you off and I just didn't feel like doing that today. Not today? No, you know, you're usually very professional when you start out and you have all the essentials and you know, things ready to go and then I start throwing monkey wrenches into the engine and it could start setting you off, so I decided I might just try to behave today. Yeah, you know what, by the way, listen up, this is something you need to know, okay? You can't believe everything you hear. Yeah, that's true, just like you can't believe what I just said. But let me just say it again, you can believe everything you hear. You can't believe it? No, no, but you can repeat it. Yeah, that's true. Like what you just did. Yeah, exactly what I did. You're playing mind games with me. No, I don't, I don't have to, you have, yesterday. You know, you keep playing these games. Well, two days ago you said you have army of brain cells gone. Yeah, what I think you're doing is trying to push me into having to lay down on a couch and get some counseling. Well, I don't think that would help. I'm starting to feel like with all these little innuendos and little things that you're saying is that you're trying to tell everybody that I'm a head case. Well, everybody knows by now that you are, so I don't have to do much of work. I mean, that's pretty clear. All right. By now, everybody knows that. All right, I'm fine with it. You've been working on it a very long time, you know, to be very clear that you are head case. Yeah, that's it. That doesn't take you too much work. I asked somebody one time, I said, you know, how much did you pay to get that stoop? He looked at me like, and he played along with it, he goes, about $30 ,000. 30? $3 ,000. Why? What did you pay for? I don't know, nothing. He just picked a number out of his you know what. So now every time I see him sometimes just joking around like we do, I ask him, yeah, how much you pay? He goes, about $3 ,000. Well, nice. Well, I mean, if somebody asked you that - It's kind of cheap for today. Yeah. I wonder what it'd be inflation wise. It's good investment. 30 ,000. Anyway. I mean, I kind of like it when I can look stupid and be stupid because - Yeah, no responsibility. Not just that, it's just nobody wants anything from you then. Oh, yeah. You're taking me along. Hey, he's stupid. Yeah, it works for me. It works for everything. That's good. I've been doing this for years. Yeah, you're an expert. My grandfather always told me, hey, listen, if your wife, if you're married and your wife asks you to vacuum the carpet, you need to play stupid. Yeah, really? How do you do that? He never explained that, but he says, if you don't, you're going to be vacuuming the rest of your life. He was so right. Yeah, I mean, you guys had electricity behind the Iron Curtain, didn't you? Oh, well, sometime. Well, you probably could have used the excuse of just walk around with the cord in his head pretending like he doesn't know where to plug it in. I think what they had, they had a central station somewhere where they put all these people that protested against the communists in jail and they were on the bicycles. Bicycles where else? Where else? Already echoed it. Four days ago. Oh, my gosh. And so if they just got tired and tuckered out, electricity no more, everybody's off their bicycle. So when they say here in the United States, they say, hey, we need to save the energy, solar and all this, and I go like, huh, just put the bicycles in the jail, you got so many skinny people. Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. That's good. Nobody thought about that yet. Keep them occupied. I think there's like just in the state of California that one state has 33 prisons. It's better than Windmill. I think it's anywhere between at any given time 120 ,000 to 160 ,000 inmates. I mean, how many bikes you get every one of them a bicycle? I would just like, listen, it's better than Windmill. Yeah. It works all the time. Yeah, it works all the time. Three shifts, right? And then just like, hey, Mary just turned on the oven, let's go, boys. She's baking cookies for police department. Don't let her disappointed. And it's kind of a way for them to give back to society, restitution. Yeah. Hey, you only got about 50 million more cycles to do. Imagine. Have a meter up there. How many watts did they create that give each prisoner a certain amount of money for every watt they create? It would be a problem if Mary was the lady put you in jail and you paddle a little faster to burn the cookies. I remember you. Or get aggression out instead of actually, you know, creating another crime and doing something horrible to Mary. You take it out on the bicycle and create more energy. Yeah. What is the company that, you know, they have this TV in front of that and it's like a stationary bag and you, they sell them, it's like $3 ,000 and membership and all this. That's a better thing. Look at you. You were far away from bicycle. I don't think they made bicycle for this weight limits. I think it would have been a better $3 ,000 to be spent on that bicycle than paid $3 ,000 to get stupid. Yeah, exactly. I have a friend and he proved to be stupid for $3 ,000 because he bought one. Yeah. He bought one for his wife. What was he trying to tell his wife? No. You need to, you need this thing. No, she wanted it. Oh yeah. She asked him. I thought he might've been saying, Hey, you need this cause I think you're getting a little fat. It's not a way to kind of send a message, but she wanted it, she wanted it for Christmas. It's this bicycle. I forget the name of it. Somebody would have figured it out later. And they sell it in the water side shop. They used to have this store there and, uh, uh, she, she Peloton is called Peloton. Oh yeah. You don't know. How would you know? So they had this store and you know, you pay membership and again, I give a paddle with people and the screen and you know, it's like a, almost like I think it was like a video game. You playing with other people. Yeah. And there's a person, you know, that looks like a real person, but it's recorded. And um, so she asked him to buy the bike right for Christmas. He was like, now I was doing the Fauci virus. Everything was shut down. Well, I'm home. I need to be moving on those. And he was like, now she told me big before the Christmas when I was supposed to get that right. So we ordered that and um, we were sitting here and he said, well, it's going to come within a month or whatever. So after Christmas and I said, I gave her two weeks and then like six months later, I forgot. He came here and he looked at me and says, it's, it's in the, uh, it's in the storage. I said, what is it? Well, that $3 ,000 bike. I said, why are you moving? No, it was not even two weeks. It was less than two weeks. She shoved it underneath of the bed, so I put it in the storage. You should have told them to put it in a garage sale. So then something happened. There was a recall or something like, uh, some, whatever it was, something wrong in the bike. So he read that somewhere in the newspaper that Peloton is offering a exchange or return the money. He immediately returned the money. That thing was out of the storage and back into the store and he got his money back. So he was stupid for $3 ,000 just for a little bit. Yeah. Not very long. And then he came back to his senses and took it back and got his $3 ,000 back. There you go. Let's go to officials. Why don't you go to officials? But we created now the perfect example, how to occupy people in jail. Maybe they can get a little money out of it. I mean, or at least pay restitution for all their bills. The court case, you know how much it costs to run court victims, you know, get repay victims for, I don't know anything about that, but I'm just saying instead of solo systems and all this, we can have, you know, them doing something, but you're, you're smart. It's killing two birds. Yeah, you are. It's killing two birds of one stone. You're genius. Thank you. And they're, they're, you're a genius and they're getting exercise. They're providing energy, a cheap source of energy that's not, you know, ruining the ozone layer. Unless they're farting. And then they can take whatever monies they're making from the kilowatts and whatever they pay an inmate when, you know, like in their industries and work and they could pay the people back. If somebody steals my idea, I'll sue them. We just said it here. Yeah. Right. Okay. It's recorded. Right. There's a timestamp. And I think it'd be good. It's just telling that you got the idea from, from, from your grandfather and living behind the iron curse. Yes, exactly. So, so it's 11 PM on 25th of what is it? Small Saturday. Friday. Yeah. Of August. Now that's the timestamp right here. If somebody dared to steal my idea, we'd have consultation. Right. What are we going to do to them? Just let it go. Do you get some shank? Yeah, don't shank them. Somebody will shank them. Right. Yeah. That's it. We don't know yet who. Yeah. You never know. Or they might, you know, you never know. Something, something that happened. Yeah. God will send somebody with sandpaper as a toilet paper or whatever. 50 grade. We are 50 grade. Instead of 220. Essentials of officials. Julian Bruce Traquita, Apache Music. Thank you for all the tunes. Divine Spa, official sponsor. Still, what, six days to go. Wellness Month. Booger massage in our spas. Couples massage. If there's rain or some, you know, just want to relax, do something for yourself. August is the Wellness Month. So, use it. Don't abuse it. Beachesos .com. That's the website that you need to know because weekend's coming. Whatever you need, we'll bring it to you from our website. 250 items. We do it quickly with style. With our mini truck and lights. Oh, yeah. Yeah, with a big red cut. What's the weather? Well, you know, the weather is, again, it's going to be 93, they say, today. And it's going to be a low of about 76, I believe I read. And it's clear as a bell all day today. Is it? Yeah. I like that. Very little clouds. Well, there's something coming, right? Yeah. I see there's X's on the maps. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. Well, we don't want to, yeah, I guess there's some tropical storms out in the Atlantic. Yeah? Yeah. That's X's. But once we, yeah, X's and O's. Oh, you know what? We're going to talk about X's and O's today. What have you been doing 452 on Thursday? That was yesterday afternoon. Have you been around airports sometime? Why? Because yesterday wasn't Tuesday. What's wrong with you? Thursday. Oh. That was yesterday. You said Tuesday, I think. No, I said Thursday. I know what I'm saying. I know what we'll do is we'll just listen to this. We're going to end up listening to this. All right. So what have you been doing? I've been... Nothing. Nothing. Okay. So just so you know, you missed the tornado. Oh, really? Was that up in Cape Coral? No, at the airport road. Oh, wow. One roof and nine cars. That's it. Oh, you know what? That's crazy. And you didn't report it as a weatherman. You didn't even say it. I did tell... Listen to me. Yes? When I gave the weather report for Thursday, I told you that it was going to storm... Let me see if I could be a sage. Oh, yeah. You said that. I said that it was going to have rain very bad at between five and six. Yes. You said that. I apologize. Yeah. You need to. Sincerely, categorically. Right. Sincerely, categorically, I apologize. Thank you. And I could... You know, I could probably... But it says five. This was 452. Okay. So I was... I take my apologies back. All right. You were wrong. You're an Indian giver. I heard it the other day. Yeah. All right. So University Hodge is closing in four miles. Did you know that? I did not know that. Yeah. So they're going to cease to exist. Operations are over. I don't know what happened, but that's the news. You can Google it and you can find out more about Hodge University. You wonder with everything consolidating and with the Fauci virus and all these types of things, how many of these institutions are going to be closed anyway just with technology? Everything is done by the computer. Well... I mean, why do you need the commercial space? You don't have students coming to the classroom, which I think is not the greatest thing. You know, you don't have that human interaction. It's important. So I mean, the social... I mean, we're social human beings. You know, like what I would do... Like monkeys? Yeah. If you don't show up here, what would I do? You tell me. I don't know. Well, I can tell you. Right. I'll be alone. Well, you'd be alone, but you wouldn't be... You wouldn't be doing nothing. Well, what I just found out is we cannot longer provide the quality educational program that we have provided over the past 33 years. And what was that? That's what the statement says in the university. That's what I'm saying. According to the university faculty, advisors are working to establish partnership and trying to reopen. But I don't... I mean, maybe the problem is also additional to that. You know... That's just financial challenges. But declining also number of the teachers. I mean, seriously, it's expensive for people to live here. Yeah. Yeah, it is. And not on a teacher's salary, but also just the total cost for education. Would it cost somebody to go into debt to... Yeah. You know, so in order to keep the institution going and paying your professors and all that, you need people to be signing up for classes and paying tuition. Yeah. Maybe it's just the whole kit and caboodle that's the problem. Maybe we have to start thinking as a society, you know, what's a better, more efficient, cheaper way to educate people? Does that make sense to you? I mean, listen, I've been asking a long time, what I mean, the education is one thing, but you know, what are you learning in the school? It's a lot of times, you know, some of the things are very old school books and you're learning something like which you're never going to use. So, I mean, that whole thing needs to be restructured. Yeah, I would think it needs to be more restructured. Remember when we were talking yesterday about the trades, right? Let me just give you a little bit of philosophy from my perspective. I like your philosophies. So what you have is that we kind of have this like cookie cutter thing. It actually comes from a Prussian educational system, believe it or not, out of Germany. And it kind of made its way here into the United States and we kind of made it like a factory type of industrial factory deal where everybody goes through the same thing and they get their little stamp of approval in this paper. You know, everybody, let me ask you this. You think everybody's called to be a doctor? No. Do you think everybody's called to be a pharmacist? No. Everybody called to be a lawyer? I think everybody would like to be. Well, especially you. Does everybody have the same intellect? Is everybody's IQ the same? Well, in this room I can tell no.
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A highlight from #424 No Monkey wrench in the engine. Today you will enjoy a smooth ride. Rich created the one and only way to make clean energy that works all the time, its free and has no exhaust except an occasional back fire here and there. RICH IS A GENIUS! Matt is a Head case and he knows it. $ 3000 can be a great investment for not making you smarter. Episode #424 August 25th. 2023
"And Divine is, as always, Small Saturday is on a Friday, we are beyond our lunchtime which turns Friday into Small Saturday, August 25th, and this episode is 4 .24 from This Mic Rich! And from This Mic Matt. Wow, yeah, that was good. Yeah, I liked that. Well I decided to concentrate this time and not be spacing out. Well that was a good idea because a lot of times, you know, I don't even know you here, sometimes you're sleeping. Well, that's true, but then there's other times that I might just throw you off and I just didn't feel like doing that today. Not today? No, you know, you're usually very professional when you start out and you have all the essentials and you know, things ready to go and then I start throwing monkey wrenches into the engine and it could start setting you off, so I decided I might just try to behave today. Yeah, you know what, by the way, listen up, this is something you need to know, okay? You can't believe everything you hear. Yeah, that's true, just like you can't believe what I just said. But let me just say it again, you can believe everything you hear. You can't believe it? No, no, but you can repeat it. Yeah, that's true. Like what you just did. Yeah, exactly what I did. You're playing mind games with me. No, I don't, I don't have to, you have, yesterday. You know, you keep playing these games. Well, two days ago you said you have army of brain cells gone. Yeah, what I think you're doing is trying to push me into having to lay down on a couch and get some counseling. Well, I don't think that would help. I'm starting to feel like with all these little innuendos and little things that you're saying is that you're trying to tell everybody that I'm a head case. Well, everybody knows by now that you are, so I don't have to do much of work. I mean, that's pretty clear. All right. By now, everybody knows that. All right, I'm fine with it. You've been working on it a very long time, you know, to be very clear that you are head case. Yeah, that's it. That doesn't take you too much work. I asked somebody one time, I said, you know, how much did you pay to get that stoop? He looked at me like, and he played along with it, he goes, about $30 ,000. 30? $3 ,000. Why? What did you pay for? I don't know, nothing. He just picked a number out of his you know what. So now every time I see him sometimes just joking around like we do, I ask him, yeah, how much you pay? He goes, about $3 ,000. Well, nice. Well, I mean, if somebody asked you that - It's kind of cheap for today. Yeah. I wonder what it'd be inflation wise. It's good investment. 30 ,000. Anyway. I mean, I kind of like it when I can look stupid and be stupid because - Yeah, no responsibility. Not just that, it's just nobody wants anything from you then. Oh, yeah. You're taking me along. Hey, he's stupid. Yeah, it works for me. It works for everything. That's good. I've been doing this for years. Yeah, you're an expert. My grandfather always told me, hey, listen, if your wife, if you're married and your wife asks you to vacuum the carpet, you need to play stupid. Yeah, really? How do you do that? He never explained that, but he says, if you don't, you're going to be vacuuming the rest of your life. He was so right. Yeah, I mean, you guys had electricity behind the Iron Curtain, didn't you? Oh, well, sometime. Well, you probably could have used the excuse of just walk around with the cord in his head pretending like he doesn't know where to plug it in. I think what they had, they had a central station somewhere where they put all these people that protested against the communists in jail and they were on the bicycles. Bicycles where else? Where else? Already echoed it. Four days ago. Oh, my gosh. And so if they just got tired and tuckered out, electricity no more, everybody's off their bicycle. So when they say here in the United States, they say, hey, we need to save the energy, solar and all this, and I go like, huh, just put the bicycles in the jail, you got so many skinny people. Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. That's good. Nobody thought about that yet. Keep them occupied. I think there's like just in the state of California that one state has 33 prisons. It's better than Windmill. I think it's anywhere between at any given time 120 ,000 to 160 ,000 inmates. I mean, how many bikes you get every one of them a bicycle? I would just like, listen, it's better than Windmill. Yeah. It works all the time. Yeah, it works all the time. Three shifts, right? And then just like, hey, Mary just turned on the oven, let's go, boys. She's baking cookies for police department. Don't let her disappointed. And it's kind of a way for them to give back to society, restitution. Yeah. Hey, you only got about 50 million more cycles to do. Imagine. Have a meter up there. How many watts did they create that give each prisoner a certain amount of money for every watt they create? It would be a problem if Mary was the lady put you in jail and you paddle a little faster to burn the cookies. I remember you. Or get aggression out instead of actually, you know, creating another crime and doing something horrible to Mary. You take it out on the bicycle and create more energy. Yeah. What is the company that, you know, they have this TV in front of that and it's like a stationary bag and you, they sell them, it's like $3 ,000 and membership and all this. That's a better thing. Look at you. You were far away from bicycle. I don't think they made bicycle for this weight limits. I think it would have been a better $3 ,000 to be spent on that bicycle than paid $3 ,000 to get stupid. Yeah, exactly. I have a friend and he proved to be stupid for $3 ,000 because he bought one. Yeah. He bought one for his wife. What was he trying to tell his wife? No. You need to, you need this thing. No, she wanted it. Oh yeah. She asked him. I thought he might've been saying, Hey, you need this cause I think you're getting a little fat. It's not a way to kind of send a message, but she wanted it, she wanted it for Christmas. It's this bicycle. I forget the name of it. Somebody would have figured it out later. And they sell it in the water side shop. They used to have this store there and, uh, uh, she, she Peloton is called Peloton. Oh yeah. You don't know. How would you know? So they had this store and you know, you pay membership and again, I give a paddle with people and the screen and you know, it's like a, almost like I think it was like a video game. You playing with other people. Yeah. And there's a person, you know, that looks like a real person, but it's recorded. And um, so she asked him to buy the bike right for Christmas. He was like, now I was doing the Fauci virus. Everything was shut down. Well, I'm home. I need to be moving on those. And he was like, now she told me big before the Christmas when I was supposed to get that right. So we ordered that and um, we were sitting here and he said, well, it's going to come within a month or whatever. So after Christmas and I said, I gave her two weeks and then like six months later, I forgot. He came here and he looked at me and says, it's, it's in the, uh, it's in the storage. I said, what is it? Well, that $3 ,000 bike.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/25/23
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. I need to know from my Broadway Maven friend Mike Gallagher how many productions of West Side Story have you seen? I think I've seen three and I'm just a pretender in terms of consumers of the compliment. That sounds like an absolute slur. No, no, no. Is that a slur? No, a maven is somebody who is immersed in something, an expert in something, somebody who is well versed in something. Broadway aficionado or as they say in Maryland affectionado. Great, great. Well, last night was a big night. Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight. I do everything for a reason. First answer the question. It's Leonard Bernstein's 120th birthday. I don't know. Close, close. How many times have you seen West Side Story? A few, a lot. It's probably either that or Man of La Mancha or I don't know what is my favorite but it is indeed Leonard Bernstein's birthday born this date 1918. There's a movie about him coming up in November with Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein. A lot of drama about that controversy. Tell us why. Do you know why? Yeah, well he has a prosthetic nose apparently to try to recreate what Leonard Bernstein looked like. He had a big schnoz. He had a honker on him and Bradley Cooper doesn't so they did that but now all of a sudden it's Jew face which is just uncomfortable to say. It's like blackface where somebody white plays somebody black. It's like Broadway maven. No, it's not like that at all. So that's a stupid controversy. Bernstein's own family said we love Bradley Cooper. We love the movie. It'll come out. Now let's talk about the real life drama. The floor is yours, political maven Mike Gallagher. Let's talk drama. You know I love talking about swapping stories. So let me tell you a story. Let me first stipulate. I've got such a splendid team. I've got a team. I was thinking last night, Derek, Eric, Tracy, Adam, these are can -do people. They spring into action. You've got them there in Dallas. You've got Rhonda and of course all your great people around you, Gordon and Matt and everybody. We love to be surrounded by positive can -do people. So last night I get off the plane from Tampa. I'm in Atlanta. It's about 190 degrees here and I say to Derek, Derek, I gotta really hustle. I gotta drop my bags off. Give me the address of where the action is. Tell me where to go because I'm not sure, you know, the Fulton County system where he goes, got it, got it. And Derek goes fast. Sometimes when you go fast, you miss some key details. So he gives me the street address. Now I show up at the courthouse. It's a row of TV trucks. I'm thinking good. I'm in the right place. Look at all these TV trucks. But there are no people. So I'm now walking. Now bear in mind, I'm not kidding you. It is 100 degrees. I'm not exaggerating. It's literally 100 here and the humidity is about 200%. I'm schlepping around, schlepping around the courthouse and I can't find anybody. Finally I see a TV reporter and cameraman. I say, can you tell me where the protesters are? Oh yeah. Yeah. They're two blocks over. Cause I want to interview some people. I want to enter. I'm there to get the action, right? Of course. Of course. And I see a hundred TV trucks. It's gotta be, so I go to us two blocks over. So I go over and there's like a handful of like young people and they're like black and white kids. And I go into the crowd and I said, do you mind, Hey, I'm Mike from Salem radio network. You mind doing some interviews? Oh sure. Sure. I'm glad you're here. We'll talk. And they say, Hey, how are, why are you? They start talking about the police state and the, the, the, the, the authoritarians of the police department. I'm thinking, Oh gosh, I got a bunch of young pro Trumpers talking about the weapons, the weaponization of law enforcement. So then I bring it back to Trump and they look at me and they cock their heads and they say, Trump, I'm like, I said, finally the third kid I interview. And I started to notice there's a, I started to see, well, there's a rainbow flag over in the and background there's a black lives matter flag. This is a strange, this is a pro strange pro Trump group. I said, you're here for Trump. He said, Trump, we're here for Johnny. I said, who the heck is Johnny? Johnny is apparently somebody who was killed by the police. It's one of those police shooting protests. I get on the phone to Derek. I said, Derek, where are the peers? He goes, Oh, are you at the jail? I said, no, I'm at the courthouse. He said, Oh, you're in the wrong place. So now I said, please tell me the jail is a block away from here. It's just cause you're schvitzing like nobody's business. Try 25 minutes away. Try 20. Now, meanwhile, Trattup is, Tom Trattup is texting me saying, you better get there. He's landing. He's at the airport. Trump's on his way. I'm like, now I'm, now I'm running now. By now they've closed the highways because you see for a motorcade, that's one of the dog on his motorcades I've ever seen him. Well, but I want to talk about that with you in just a moment. Because he's just an ordinary prisoner, right? Exactly. Yeah. Just another prisoner. But now I can't get there because the roads are all closed for the motorcade. Cause I've been, you know, hanging out with black lives matter protesters, you know, giving them business cards and show materials. Let's go Donald Trump. And they're looking at me like I'm out of my mind. And then they're nice kids. I mean, they're just upset about a police shooting. Listen, let's put it this way. Let's stipulate Edward R. Murrow in the trenches covering the battle of the bulge. I ain't, I mean me walking around in a hundred degree weather trying to, so finally I get to within about two miles of the jail, the Uber driver Mustafa, who's already annoyed about the traffic. He drops me off two miles from the jail. And as CJ, the great engineer here in Atlanta put it, the jail is in the hood. The jail is in, I'm now walking, well, I'm in the hood walking the whitest guy in America and people are offering me drugs. I've got it. I had a discount on some crack. They're friendly people in Georgia. They're trying to do business with this, you know, white guy walking through the hood, clearly trying to find protesters. So it was unbelievable. And I'm not kidding you. It was, I will put it this way. Let me put this in a very dangerous neighborhood. Okay. And I am walking and I'm walking and I'm cursing and I'm saying I'm going to do things to Derek that third world countries do. I could not believe the position I was in. Anyway, long story short, I finally get there. As it turns out, when I got there, what comes pulling out of the Fulton County jail? The Trump motorcade. So I got video of the motorcade. I saw, you know, the whole procedure. I interviewed a bunch of people, white, black, pro -Trump, anti -Trump, and it all turned out, you know, fine. But it was interesting to talk to all the angry Atlantans who came out to witness this spectacle and they can't believe that their city is front and center in this disgraceful act of the prosecution of Donald Trump. You know, Biden yesterday celebrating the arrest as a great day to donate to his campaign. Did you see that vicious Nicole Wallace at MSNBC? Did you see what she did? Stifling a laugh. She's laughing about the fact that Trump was booked in a jail where two people had died. She thought that was funny. I mean, you know, the great Jesse Waters dressing down Jessica Tarloff calling her out for being giddy about the arrest. It's Christmas in August. It's Christmas in August for them. And as Jesse put it to the liberal on that, this is no time to celebrate. This is beneath you to celebrate, but they do celebrate this because it isn't serious. It isn't legitimate. I mean, this is brutal, just brutal. And, you know, I'm just trying to make sense of it all, Mark, with you and me, and we're trying to understand the enormity of it all. We're trying to survive this. And I will tell you that for people who live in Atlanta, who came in the brave, the heat to stand out there and wave a Trump flag or wave an American flag. I met a guy from South Dakota, incidentally, who came here in a truck convoy from South Dakota and a great. And incidentally, the guy was like, I can't believe I'm talking to you about two years ago. I was yelling at you on the radio when you was out driving and he was the nicest guy. We had such a great visit and we just commiserated about how low we've sunk. Historians are going to look back at this day and say, what were they doing? What did they do? Do you think they will? Well, I won't give you my speech on historians again. Historian is like a constitutional scholar. It's a law. I'm pretty serious, too. It is a lost profession. Historians are political hacks. If Trump does prevail in this, and especially if he is elected and wins, the historians who seem to be working today and dominating today will say that America missed an opportunity to heap accountability onto an evil leader who is elected by the enthralled cult worshiping masses. That's what today's brand of historian will say. I pray to God historians pull their heads out and realize what is happening. Well, I saw Jonathan Turley when I got back to the hotel and I put the cold compresses on my forehead and I got the smelling salts and I sat in the cold tub for two hours to try to recover. Again, a war correspondent I ain't. Jonathan Turley said something last night to Sean Hannity. It's a quick paragraph. I want to read this to you. He says, this is a law professor. And oh, and by the way, speaking of social media, Trump's back on Twitter. Back on Twitter. Eighty six million followers. How many likes? I wonder how many? How many views? I'll look while you share the quote. Go ahead. The quote is this is Jonathan Turley's exact words. This is criminalizing the challenge of elections. You have a Democrat prosecutor saying, how dare you challenge a Democrat victory? That's it. And it's been done before by Democrats, including this one. Red State found all these instances of Fannie Willis questioning the outcome of elections. She's done it before. You have a Democrat prosecutor saying, how dare you challenge a Democrat victory? The case is based on the theory that Trump was it was challenging this election illegally was pointed out. This is the eleven thousand. I need to find eleven thousand votes. The way the way she portrayed that phone call. These are Jonathan Turley's words, Mark. The way she portrayed that phone call is evidence of the bias and unfairness of aspects of this indictment. And to the left and to the Trump haters, this is the whole indictment. I need how many? Eleven thousand. Eleven thousand. Jonathan Turley said it makes perfect sense when you're challenging an election to say, I only need eleven thousand photos or votes. That's not a lot in Georgia. That's not criminal. That's making a case for a recount. Especially when the number is especially when everybody woke up and found that things had changed crazily overnight in a number of states. And there were votes that were being counted that maybe shouldn't have something were being not counted that maybe should have. So, OK, in that fog of uncertainty, find me eleven thousand legal actual real votes. And let's see what we can do here. There's nothing illegal about that. There's nothing criminal about that. And that's their whole case.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt loves Saturdays because next comes Sunday and he does nothing. Rich suggested to Matt to take a break from breathing so he doesnt get tired. Preacher Matt gives a positive message so you better listen! Episode #412 August 12th. 2023
"Hello divine people, August 12th, episode 4 -12th, 2023, from East Mike Ridge, from this beautiful Saturday right here, and we are enjoying it, I love Saturday, I think the weather is going to be just like every day in Florida, yeah, and do you know what it is or do you want me to share with you, I mean you study that, well why don't I share it with you, weather today is going to get up to 91 degrees, that seems to be the number every day, no, no, I mean I'm just giving you what's reported, in a low of 75 with winds about 16 miles an hour, what is the pressure in 3 ,000 miles, I don't know but I can tell you this, what about 5 ,000 meters, I don't know, I don't measure things in meters, why did you ask me in feet, ask me in feet, 16 ,000 feet, I don't know, I have no idea what it is, you just say a big pressure, ok, yeah that's it, big pressure, but I know this too, yes, that it is going to rain somewhere today, I think it's going to rain on and off, on and off, on and off, like cats and dogs, there you go, weather from Rich and Matt, that's the Saturday, most people are going to be on the beach, they will be enjoying the hot weather, yeah and the sunscreen, you know, hopefully they are smart, they are smart at drinking water and if you run out of it, you let us know, because official sponsor of this show is, nobody else, then beachesos .com, we are here for your beach needs and maybe even somewhere else, doesn't matter, just let us know whatever items you like from our website beachesos .com, we bring you to our stylish mini fire truck with lights on, and you always forget with the big red cup on top, you can't miss it, I just don't want to tell them everything, you just want me to be able to say that, yeah well I want them to have a surprise when there is, you know, the truck pulls around the corner with lights on, they go, what the hell, they didn't mention the cup on it, so it's a surprise, yeah I'm surprised, so that's, now you know everything, right, now also we want to thank Julian Bruce, Tera Kittera, Patchouli Music, thank you very much for all the tunes, then we want to remind you it's wellness month, August, and if you thinking, you know, do something for yourself, don't forget, you know, when it's raining on and off, maybe it's a good thing to seek massage, maybe reflexology or facial, and we have perfect spot for you which is called Divine Spa, just do your research, best rated spa in April, next to our coffee and wine bar, Divine April's Coffee and Wine Bar, here on 4th Avenue South, and if you interested to get $500, it's free, yeah, technically, we just have to print them, right, yeah, we've been talking about printing, $500, it's easy action, you just click on something and you print something, yeah, you need a printer though, maybe not, might not be that easy for some people, no, I think that they also, like electronic coupon, you know what I'm gonna do for you, how about, can they, are they electronically be able to be presented on their cell phone, yeah, but let me tell them first that they can find it, yeah, because they don't know, okay, go ahead, because you didn't tell them, did you, no, because you don't even know, I don't know, now you don't know, because I tell you where they are, you know what I'm gonna do, yes, because you're gonna, I'm gonna go, hey, I know where these coupons are, ask you to print them off for me, yeah, right here, at the coffee shop, after I tell you where they are, right, they are divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupons, that's where you go for them, $500, that's right, so, use them, I'm exhausted every single time I do this, yeah, well, take a deep breath there, big boy, yeah, I know, you're much bigger, you're much bigger than I, don't worry about it, you're taking more real estate here in the studio than I, you breathe more than I, I told you so many times, take a break, you're breathing all the time, I've got so much breath going in and out, I don't know which one's more powerful, the one that you going out, my hair is moving, sometimes it comes in the batches of sausage, onion and some other, sometimes you can hear me approaching from a block away, can't you, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, do you feel the energy sometimes though, without even anything being said, yeah, but I don't want to say I feel it because then you will feel powerful, yeah, I'm not powerful, I just go around and wherever I go, I make my presence, that's you, you do a very good job at that, yeah, you know and built they tsunami alarm system in Naples now, yeah, maybe they need, what do you call those things that could be out in the water, breakers that stop waves from coming in, yeah, what do they call those things, I don't know, they call those things breakers, the army engineers build things like that to keep, you know, storm surges coming in or whatever, you know what, you think Naples needs one of those for me, yes they do, we know more things than that, I know so much that I forget what I know, okay, alright, so keep that in mind, let me ask you a question, well I'm just going to let you continue with some of the information you have, I don't know if you have something on the menu or something you want to share, well I have a lot of information, okay, yeah, because it's Saturday, I'm full of information because I'm what, because you're a genius, that's correct, thank you, you also interviewed, and you know that I'm just joshing around, I love you to death, I just want to push your buttons before I take off and enjoy my Saturday, well what are you going to do, I don't know, because tomorrow I Sabbath, so maybe I'm going to Sabbath take a day off before I Sabbath, well I work tomorrow, I work every day, I work 28 hours a day, and I'm going to try to teach you how to, yeah I forgot, you have your own calendar and how that's right, you defy time and space, exactly right, it has to be mathematically able to calculate the, sure it sounds like, what do you call it, the thing, the curve, I'm thinking that you're just being like a lot of our educators and then coming up with a new math, no, 2 plus 2 is 5, listen I learned it from the guy, what is his name, I don't know he's got a name though, Fauci, he said we have to get behind the curve, 2 weeks, I learned about curves in baseball, you throw a curve, no I learned it because he said 2 weeks and it is 3 years and still not behind the curve, that's alright, yeah we can't get that time back though so let's just move forward right, I'm moving forward but I'm learning from the past I and just want to say even people look at their lives or whatever and maybe it's been messy from time to time and you've made mistakes or whatever and you know what, you can't do anything and turn around and change it but you can learn from it and so just learn from any mistakes or things that you've done and just move forward, we just want to be positive here at divinenapels .com and the whole purpose of this show and just the whole organization and everything we've got going is to build community and to see people live a healthy and happier life and primarily we focus on small businesses because small business is actually the life of a community and it makes things happen and every dollar that you spend here at a local business, 70 % of that dollar or 70 cents and maybe plus or and that makes us economically vibrant and so we want to be here to lift everybody up so we like to joke around and all that stuff and we want to be entertaining but we really want you to know that we have a genuine heart for your well being and with that I'll turn it over before I get chastised for talking too much, no I'm just enjoying that, it sounds so intelligent you almost sometimes look like genius, well I've told you many times before that I'm only half as stupid as I look, yeah I agree with that, on Saturdays and the other day is more than half, well why don't you get to share, I want to continue what he said, I think it's very important for people to understand that they are not here by themselves and we have to work together on everything we're doing here in this community and we have to help each other and we've always been doing it and the perfect example was when we got flooded with waters and so much support we got from our own community and people donated and helped and came and we had police department, they brought us food, dinner every night because we had no electricity, we had no way to heat up anything, there was no food, nothing, refrigerator was, you know we lost so much money in the freezer and all our equipment and we used to feed them when Fauci virus hit and they didn't have nowhere to go, we were here open for them, we never shut down the business, we were here for first responders and we said it many times in our podcast, how does it work, so you can kind of replay and refresh your memory but the time when you need it and then they turn back and says we didn't this is what community is about and I tell you what, there were moments when the tears were pushed really deep back in the head because you know when you see losing almost everything that we have and collected four businesses in one building, it was a great idea, I didn't want to get skinny so that's why we put all the businesses in a building because I didn't want to run around too much and then we got flooded and everything was lost and you see friends and you see people that came and helped and you know they've been there for us and I think it's just wonderful when we realize that the community is here even in bad times and if somebody is busy and forget about it, you know just stop, take it 15, we again explain what 15 means and what you should be doing because here we are, divaenapels .com, building community, if you know anyone who has a story, if you know anyone who has a passion that for the running business, you know somebody who has been around for a while, know the old stories about Naples and how it used to be the life and everything, please let them know, send them email, send us email or send them our link and send us email at info at divaenapels .com or you know DM that means direct message on any social media, we would love to invite those people to our studio or on the phone, we will figure out how to you know connect with them, we'll make it happen and just record forever the stories right and share them with the whole world, so that's the whole idea why we're doing this, nevertheless we have 23 websites we can tell you about on Monday, yeah and what I want to just reflect on that real quick, real short is the reaping and sewing process and because you reaped and sewed into their lives and provided a community and substance and food and things for them during a hard time, when it hit you, they reciprocated and came and helped you and so we kind of want to just you know give off that vibe and promote that type of vibe with everybody, treat people the way you would like to be treated and I think we'd see a lot of change you know in ourselves individually, in our families, in our business, in our communities and let's just see Naples lead the way and all of Southwest Florida, it's that simple, there you go, that just what are we doing and what are you listening here, it's just one of our beginnings, we have so many things ready for you that you will never get rid of Divine Naples, yeah and divineapals .com is here to stay, we've been here for 13 years, yeah so let me continue what we have normally in the program and that is we introduce one of our meals every single time that we do podcasts, sometimes we forget, but we created menu during the beginnings that every meal has a story and a lot of them you know were created because people couldn't travel so we want to make them feel like they're sitting somewhere in Europe in different city enjoying the meal and you know just want to wouldn't them to just feel like they don't have to spend two thousand dollars for ticket and they feel like traveling and going home in their own bed, yeah so here is our meal that is breakfast and it's really interesting platter with the egg that is cut in the top, you dig it out, you know out of the shell, yeah out of the shell, when was the last time you had that, I have it, your grandma, yeah, yeah that is like what, my mother did it for me a couple 55 years ago, soft -boiled eggs, but this I didn't ever get the chance to do the hard -boiled type, I like it, was it 55 years ago, maybe 70.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt loves Saturdays because next comes Sunday and he does nothing. Rich suggested to Matt to take a break from breathing so he doesnt get tired. Preacher Matt gives a positive message so you better listen! Episode #412 August 12th. 2023
"Hello divine people, August 12th, episode 4 -12th, 2023, from East Mike Ridge, from this beautiful Saturday right here, and we are enjoying it, I love Saturday, I think the weather is going to be just like every day in Florida, yeah, and do you know what it is or do you want me to share with you, I mean you study that, well why don't I share it with you, weather today is going to get up to 91 degrees, that seems to be the number every day, no, no, I mean I'm just giving you what's reported, in a low of 75 with winds about 16 miles an hour, what is the pressure in 3 ,000 miles, I don't know but I can tell you this, what about 5 ,000 meters, I don't know, I don't measure things in meters, why did you ask me in feet, ask me in feet, 16 ,000 feet, I don't know, I have no idea what it is, you just say a big pressure, ok, yeah that's it, big pressure, but I know this too, yes, that it is going to rain somewhere today, I think it's going to rain on and off, on and off, on and off, like cats and dogs, there you go, weather from Rich and Matt, that's the Saturday, most people are going to be on the beach, they will be enjoying the hot weather, yeah and the sunscreen, you know, hopefully they are smart, they are smart at drinking water and if you run out of it, you let us know, because official sponsor of this show is, nobody else, then beachesos .com, we are here for your beach needs and maybe even somewhere else, doesn't matter, just let us know whatever items you like from our website beachesos .com, we bring you to our stylish mini fire truck with lights on, and you always forget with the big red cup on top, you can't miss it, I just don't want to tell them everything, you just want me to be able to say that, yeah well I want them to have a surprise when there is, you know, the truck pulls around the corner with lights on, they go, what the hell, they didn't mention the cup on it, so it's a surprise, yeah I'm surprised, so that's, now you know everything, right, now also we want to thank Julian Bruce, Tera Kittera, Patchouli Music, thank you very much for all the tunes, then we want to remind you it's wellness month, August, and if you thinking, you know, do something for yourself, don't forget, you know, when it's raining on and off, maybe it's a good thing to seek massage, maybe reflexology or facial, and we have perfect spot for you which is called Divine Spa, just do your research, best rated spa in April, next to our coffee and wine bar, Divine April's Coffee and Wine Bar, here on 4th Avenue South, and if you interested to get $500, it's free, yeah, technically, we just have to print them, right, yeah, we've been talking about printing, $500, it's easy action, you just click on something and you print something, yeah, you need a printer though, maybe not, might not be that easy for some people, no, I think that they also, like electronic coupon, you know what I'm gonna do for you, how about, can they, are they electronically be able to be presented on their cell phone, yeah, but let me tell them first that they can find it, yeah, because they don't know, okay, go ahead, because you didn't tell them, did you, no, because you don't even know, I don't know, now you don't know, because I tell you where they are, you know what I'm gonna do, yes, because you're gonna, I'm gonna go, hey, I know where these coupons are, ask you to print them off for me, yeah, right here, at the coffee shop, after I tell you where they are, right, they are divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupons, that's where you go for them, $500, that's right, so, use them, I'm exhausted every single time I do this, yeah, well, take a deep breath there, big boy, yeah, I know, you're much bigger, you're much bigger than I, don't worry about it, you're taking more real estate here in the studio than I, you breathe more than I, I told you so many times, take a break, you're breathing all the time, I've got so much breath going in and out, I don't know which one's more powerful, the one that you going out, my hair is moving, sometimes it comes in the batches of sausage, onion and some other, sometimes you can hear me approaching from a block away, can't you, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, do you feel the energy sometimes though, without even anything being said, yeah, but I don't want to say I feel it because then you will feel powerful, yeah, I'm not powerful, I just go around and wherever I go, I make my presence, that's you, you do a very good job at that, yeah, you know and built they tsunami alarm system in Naples now, yeah, maybe they need, what do you call those things that could be out in the water, breakers that stop waves from coming in, yeah, what do they call those things, I don't know, they call those things breakers, the army engineers build things like that to keep, you know, storm surges coming in or whatever, you know what, you think Naples needs one of those for me, yes they do, we know more things than that, I know so much that I forget what I know, okay, alright, so keep that in mind, let me ask you a question, well I'm just going to let you continue with some of the information you have, I don't know if you have something on the menu or something you want to share, well I have a lot of information, okay, yeah, because it's Saturday, I'm full of information because I'm what, because you're a genius, that's correct, thank you, you also interviewed, and you know that I'm just joshing around, I love you to death, I just want to push your buttons before I take off and enjoy my Saturday, well what are you going to do, I don't know, because tomorrow I Sabbath, so maybe I'm going to Sabbath take a day off before I Sabbath, well I work tomorrow, I work every day, I work 28 hours a day, and I'm going to try to teach you how to, yeah I forgot, you have your own calendar and how that's right, you defy time and space, exactly right, it has to be mathematically able to calculate the, sure it sounds like, what do you call it, the thing, the curve, I'm thinking that you're just being like a lot of our educators and then coming up with a new math, no, 2 plus 2 is 5, listen I learned it from the guy, what is his name, I don't know he's got a name though, Fauci, he said we have to get behind the curve, 2 weeks, I learned about curves in baseball, you throw a curve, no I learned it because he said 2 weeks and it is 3 years and still not behind the curve, that's alright, yeah we can't get that time back though so let's just move forward right, I'm moving forward but I'm learning from the past I and just want to say even people look at their lives or whatever and maybe it's been messy from time to time and you've made mistakes or whatever and you know what, you can't do anything and turn around and change it but you can learn from it and so just learn from any mistakes or things that you've done and just move forward, we just want to be positive here at divinenapels .com and the whole purpose of this show and just the whole organization and everything we've got going is to build community and to see people live a healthy and happier life and primarily we focus on small businesses because small business is actually the life of a community and it makes things happen and every dollar that you spend here at a local business, 70 % of that dollar or 70 cents and maybe plus or and that makes us economically vibrant and so we want to be here to lift everybody up so we like to joke around and all that stuff and we want to be entertaining but we really want you to know that we have a genuine heart for your well being and with that I'll turn it over before I get chastised for talking too much, no I'm just enjoying that, it sounds so intelligent you almost sometimes look like genius, well I've told you many times before that I'm only half as stupid as I look, yeah I agree with that, on Saturdays and the other day is more than half, well why don't you get to share, I want to continue what he said, I think it's very important for people to understand that they are not here by themselves and we have to work together on everything we're doing here in this community and we have to help each other and we've always been doing it and the perfect example was when we got flooded with waters and so much support we got from our own community and people donated and helped and came and we had police department, they brought us food, dinner every night because we had no electricity, we had no way to heat up anything, there was no food, nothing, refrigerator was, you know we lost so much money in the freezer and all our equipment and we used to feed them when Fauci virus hit and they didn't have nowhere to go, we were here open for them, we never shut down the business, we were here for first responders and we said it many times in our podcast, how does it work, so you can kind of replay and refresh your memory but the time when you need it and then they turn back and says we didn't this is what community is about and I tell you what, there were moments when the tears were pushed really deep back in the head because you know when you see losing almost everything that we have and collected four businesses in one building, it was a great idea, I didn't want to get skinny so that's why we put all the businesses in a building because I didn't want to run around too much and then we got flooded and everything was lost and you see friends and you see people that came and helped and you know they've been there for us and I think it's just wonderful when we realize that the community is here even in bad times and if somebody is busy and forget about it, you know just stop, take it 15, we again explain what 15 means and what you should be doing because here we are, divaenapels .com, building community, if you know anyone who has a story, if you know anyone who has a passion that for the running business, you know somebody who has been around for a while, know the old stories about Naples and how it used to be the life and everything, please let them know, send them email, send us email or send them our link and send us email at info at divaenapels .com or you know DM that means direct message on any social media, we would love to invite those people to our studio or on the phone, we will figure out how to you know connect with them, we'll make it happen and just record forever the stories right and share them with the whole world, so that's the whole idea why we're doing this, nevertheless we have 23 websites we can tell you about on Monday, yeah and what I want to just reflect on that real quick, real short is the reaping and sewing process and because you reaped and sewed into their lives and provided a community and substance and food and things for them during a hard time, when it hit you, they reciprocated and came and helped you and so we kind of want to just you know give off that vibe and promote that type of vibe with everybody, treat people the way you would like to be treated and I think we'd see a lot of change you know in ourselves individually, in our families, in our business, in our communities and let's just see Naples lead the way and all of Southwest Florida, it's that simple, there you go, that just what are we doing and what are you listening here, it's just one of our beginnings, we have so many things ready for you that you will never get rid of Divine Naples, yeah and divineapals .com is here to stay, we've been here for 13 years, yeah so let me continue what we have normally in the program and that is we introduce one of our meals every single time that we do podcasts, sometimes we forget, but we created menu during the beginnings that every meal has a story and a lot of them you know were created because people couldn't travel so we want to make them feel like they're sitting somewhere in Europe in different city enjoying the meal and you know just want to wouldn't them to just feel like they don't have to spend two thousand dollars for ticket and they feel like traveling and going home in their own bed, yeah so here is our meal that is breakfast and it's really interesting platter with the egg that is cut in the top, you dig it out, you know out of the shell, yeah out of the shell, when was the last time you had that, I have it, your grandma, yeah, yeah that is like what, my mother did it for me a couple 55 years ago, soft -boiled eggs, but this I didn't ever get the chance to do the hard -boiled type, I like it, was it 55 years ago, maybe 70.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Christopher Rufo Defies Angry Mob in Campus Showdown
"True points, physical courage, and, and forward thinking politics. I know you're in the new college board. I'm not sure it was you. But there came a moment when an old guard tried to shut down a meeting. I think it may be the most important turning point I've seen video graph, where there's someone is, was it you? Were they screaming at you? Are they screaming with somebody else to shut it was you. They were demanding you shut down a meeting. You did not lose your temper. And you stood on your authority and said we are going on with the meeting. We will not be intimidated. It's very hard to do that in Chaz. But in a in a room full of angry teachers, it's very easy to do. It's not easy to do. I mean, you're not going to get shot by someone. Can you tell people what happened and why that was important and what that is a model of doing, which is using the authority with which you are properly vested to accomplish the mission with which you have been charged? Yeah, so so in January, I was appointed along with a number of other trustee and along with another number of other conservative intellectuals and and and and other figures as a as a new board majority at the New College of Florida. New College of Florida is Florida's smallest public university. It was in turmoil, it was in crisis, it had become a kind of far left activist ghetto within the Florida's public university system. It was the lowest performing public university. And but rather than close it down, which many legislators had wanted to do, Governor DeSantis had a different strategy. He said, Hey, wait a minute, I'm elected by the people, I get to appoint the board, why don't we point a conservative board and then transform the institution into a classical liberal arts university, something along the lines of a of a Hillsdale public style Hillsdale with a great books curriculum, etc. And so I went with a small team of people. After we were appointed, it was a big controversy in the media. And I went down there and I said, Look, I'm going to talk to the faculty, I'm going to talk to the students, I'm going to hold a town hall on campus. And over overnight, the night preceding it, someone had called in a death threat against a fellow trustee. And then of course, by extension against me. They mobilized four different police departments, they had bomb sniffing dogs, it was kind of heavily fortified anticipation of this event. I show up on campus, people are at the doors and the provost of the university confronts me kind of wagging her finger in my face and says, we're shutting this event down. It's not safe for campus, you're putting everyone in danger. You can't speak here. And then I tell her very calmly, but very confidently, I said, Hey, look, I'm the duly elected, or I'm the duly appointed board, we have a quorum, we have the board members here, we have a right to speak on this campus, we're the ultimate authority. And I know that you're the provost, I know because the president is gone, you're acting as president. But if you look at the organizational chart, I'm above you. And so I'm the boss, I'm making a decision. I'm instructing the police to open the doors and let people in for this conversation.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 110: Part 1: Ryan Steck is a Spy - The Real Book Spy
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dududettes, everybody in between, welcome back to episode 110. The 110th ongoing attempt to remove us from podcast land has failed. I can say, I'm not impressed with us, but I'm impressed we're still on the air, I have to say that. We're like cockroaches, Murph, we can survive a nuclear blast, we're still here. Turn the light on, we'll scurry away, but we're coming back. We're coming back, all right. Speaking of coming back, hey guys, glad that you came back to listen to us. Hey, you know something I keep forgetting to say, but just, you know, no matter what podcast platform you're on, hit that subscribe button so that it automatically downloads into your feed so you can hear us, hear the stories that are going to come out of this. But, you know, hey, just hit that subscribe button where you are, it increases our numbers so that Murph can afford a yacht. He needs a yacht. He's got a big lake out back. He's got alligator shoes now. Now he needs a yacht. I don't know, man. I'm reading the book of one of our future guests here. I won't let the cat out of the bag yet. But after reading what happens on some of those boats, I don't think I want to go out in the ocean anymore. Speaking of the upcoming guest, we won't give it away, but we will say that it was another series was made out of this person, this author's books. A popular series too. Very popular series. One of the longest running series on one of the networks. And so this will be fun. But anyway, let's get rid of, but we started off with the housekeeping. Hit the subscribe, but also hit those five stars, Apple, Spotify, wherever you're listening. Just remember Stitcher is no longer. If you're on Stitcher, head to another platform. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. That's where you will find the books for our guests we have coming up, for our guests coming up in a while. And we just got a note to one of our buddies, Pete Friselli. We'll talk about this later, but his paperback will be out in March. So we will obviously give you guys an idea about that. We'll talk about that because he's got a book coming out called The Deadly Path. It's about Operation Fast and Furious. And guess who got to write the forward for that book? Well, somebody who knows how to write would probably be Connie. You probably dictated to her. Well, fortunately we had Grammarly. There you go. That's one of the bennies of having a great sponsor like Grammarly. Grammarly, Murph wrote it and Grammarly made it sound good. There you go. Thank you Grammarly. Also follow us on that thing. They call the social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. Also, go over Game of Crimes fans. Just type that in. Our favorite mafia queen, Sandy Salvato, the ruler with the velvet glove over that iron fist, by the way. Yeah. Don't take her off. We'll let you in. All right. So just answer a couple of questions. Get close, join the hilarity, the jocularity and it's insularity because we're a private group. You got to answer a couple of questions. So things get wild and we actually have had a couple of good stories came out. She just posted one. She was pissed. I don't know if you saw that Murph, but a Seminole County detective has been arrested for notifying targets child of solicitation stings. Yeah, and these were people who were soliciting. No children were involved. No children were harmed in the actual making of the arrest, but he was notifying them about through encrypted apps or other stuff, notifying the targets. Hey, this is a setup. Don't show up. You know what? This coming Tuesday, next week, I'm going to the board meeting for the Orlando Police Foundation, which is not only Orlando PD, but it's also Osceola County, Orange County and Seminole County. So the sheriffs will be there and they just invited me to speak at their fall gala this year, the big fundraiser. So I'm going to have to ask him about that. You know what? There's probably some good stories up there that we can bring here on Game of Crimes. Absolutely, absolutely. And that will factor into an announcement we may have for you later. We have a call coming up on Monday as this podcast is being released with our agents at UTA. Something may be in the works. Yeah, baby. We'll see. Speaking of being in the works, you need to work on heading on over to Patreon. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. That's where you need to be. We've had some good contentious stuff out there. We've had some funny stuff. 911, what's your emergency? We've got Q &A coming up. We've already fielding questions. So if you're hearing this and you're part of Patreon or you want to be part of Patreon, get your questions into us. We answer everything, even on the installment plan. Oh, and it's, you guys, I mean, just, you got to listen to that. Cause we, we give a little, we give a little hints and clues to, to our patrons that support us about what's upcoming. And, and, you know, they've got a good idea of, of some of our guests that are coming up really soon that I think you guys are going to like. And by the way, one of them will be a world premiere of a world famous name that was just in a huge movie. Huge, huge. It's huge. That has never been on a podcast before. Never been on a podcast. We got him first. We got him first. Took the US Marshals. You talk about dog and determination. Yeah. And a, and a selfie of a finger from John Bernthal to make this happen. Thank you, John. And John knows who we're talking about. Yeah. You know who we are. All right. So, but head on over there, guys. We've got a lot of good stuff coming out. So that is patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. But now, quick disclaimer. This is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously. But what Murph? If you haven't figured it out yet, we never take ourselves serious. Except maybe on Patreon. We get a little, we get on our soap boxes occasionally there. Yeah, we do. And there's some comments about that. So I'll have to tell you about it later. Oh, but hey, but in the meantime, you know what time it is, right? Guess what time it is? Let me ask you, guess what time it is? What, guess what time it is? I bet it's time for small town police blood. Bonanza. All right. Hey, Murph, have you ever been in a sticky situation in an investigation? Oh, yeah, but you weren't in this sticky situation. You mean literally or figuratively? Police in Pasadena, Texas are on the lookout. A 12 -year -old girl told KHOU -TV that she was shopping at a drugstore last week when she felt a wad of something sizzling in her ponytail. It turned out to be glue. So they have a sticky, you know, have a sticky investigation going on. The sticky bandits have attacked. Not only that, she had to cut off some of her hair. Managers say another customer had glued sprayed onto her earlier at the same drugstore and they're investigating a similar incident at a nearby grocery store. Why the hell would you go around spraying glue in people's hair? You're the sticky bandit. That means, remember the wet bandits from Home Alone? These guys are the sticky bandits. Oh, that's just so nasty to even be called that. Well, unlike that lady who thought Gorilla Glue was like a way to keep her hair. Remember that one? She put Gorilla Glue. It will keep your hair. It will, but folks, oh my God. But this was funny, Steve. I got these out of the Bristol Herald Courier out of Bristol, Tennessee. I thought, let me go to kind of a smaller area, you know, get some stuff. So that was one story, Steve. Here's another story. This comes out of Iowa City, Iowa. So, you know, people rob banks for the strangest things, right? A 19 year old North Liberty man used cash stolen at a bank robbery to play for a bond. He had on an outstanding warrant. The only thing that will make it better is if it had the explosive dye. Oh my God, he gave it to the police department. He was charged. Police charged Charles Curry with first degree bank robbery after the robbery of the American Bank and Trust. Curry cased the joint out by talking with the teller and leaving a second man armed with a handgun, then robbed the bank. Police say Curry used bank money to pay a bond for an outstanding theft charge at the Johnson County Jail, then went shopping at a Walmart and Gordon's department store. All I can say is, Curry, you're an idiot. He was taken to jail. There's a, there's an understatement. But hey, I got, I got to end up with this one. You ever had, remember all these things where people go hold my beer? Oh, yeah. Yep. This one comes from Bergetstown, Pennsylvania, population 1 ,425. Salute. The population makes a difference because we're going to get into the structural integrity of the holding cell. That Bonner Timothy was placed in. He was, he was arrested, taken to this holding cell, had his handcuffs removed. They shut the door, went off. That's when he knocked the cell door off its hinges and ran away. Now, what did he do? He stopped at a house, borrowed shoes, and then he went to a bar where he told a customer that, yeah, I just broke out of jail. Can I have a beer? The guy hold the beer, but before he could drink it, he goes, oh, hold my beer. Here's the police. The police came in and arrested him. Dang. How did he knock the door off the hinges? I'm telling you, some of these old places, it's like, it's more like having a fence, you know, you know, fences keep, you know, make good neighbors, you know, blocks keep honest people on us. But, you know, it's just, it was more the, you know, just like a Captain Jack Sparrow in Paris in the Caribbean. It's all about leverage. That's the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow. Yeah, but he used leverage to pry that door off its hinges. Oh, my God. Okay. That's, there's a good, hey, hold my beer. I'm going to jail. Again. Again. Well, hey, speaking of fun stuff, I don't, I'm trying to figure out a good segue into this. This one, I get the intro because this guy I know, this guy actually has something in common with one of our other guests. Yes. Sherry Foster. And Sherry, if you're listening, tick tock, tick tock, I will get my book into him before you do, and I will be declared the winner. So this young man, and I say young man, he's got six kids. Oh, my God. He's been busy with everything. I don't know when he's had time to have six kids as busy as he is writing and editing books. But Ryan's - I wonder if there's a milk man in his neighborhood. Sorry, Ryan. Sorry, DNA tests are in your future, pal. So no, no, no, his wife's great. We don't want to make any insinuate, any insinuate, almost insinuations like that. Anyway, but let's get back to the case in chief. So, but, you know, many of you may not know who Ryan Steck is. You may have heard of big names like Jack Carr, Brad Thor, people writing thrillers. Well, not only is he the real book spy, if you go to therealbookspy .com, that is him. Ryan Steck, besides being my development editor and Sherry's development editor, guess who, you know, who asked him for recommendations and who's asked him to review their books? Jake Tapper, Bret Baier. He has got a list of celebrities and people, as long as my arm, of people that he's worked with, people that he's helped, people that are coming to him to say, hey, take a look at my book. And you got, so you're about to say something there, Murph. Hey, I've got, so I've got him pulled up on my laptop here as you're talking and he is, he's on his blog or whatever it is, YouTube. I'm not sure what you call it here. Twitch, yeah. Guess who he's talking to? Brad Thor, the author. Brad Thor, the author. How about that? He gets him on Twitch. Actually, I was supposed to be on that Twitch session, but yeah, Ryan is like, he's one of those unique people that has figured out how this thing works. Now you're going to ask, why do we have this author on? Well, for two reasons. Number one, his new book, Lethal Range is coming out. His initial book, his debut book was called Fields of Fire, a Matthew Redd thriller. So Matthew Redd is a Marine Raider. Now you hear a lot about Navy Seals, Delta Rangers, but nobody's ever had a book with a Marine Raider in it, you know? What do you call him, Marsoc? Marsoc, yeah, Marine Special Operations Command, I believe, Marsoc, yeah. And so he's got, so he had a, not only did he have a debut book, he's been helping people. Finally, all these guys are saying, write your own damn book, dude. So he did. So he got a contract for two books and a novella, which we'll talk about the novella. But his new book is, as we drop this episode, as you're listening to this today, his new book, Lethal Range comes out. And if I was just reading, just the quick thing from Lethal Range, let me just read you the intro. This is what Lethal Range is. On an island off the coast of Spain, Matthew Redd and his FBI fly team surveil a luxury villa in hopes of catching a high value fugitive. But when Redd leads an unauthorized raid on the villa, he discovers they've been set up and he is sent home to face the consequences of defying orders. Now, meanwhile, Redd's family, Emily, is on a remote stretch of Montana road driving their sick baby to the doctor when she finds her SUV surrounded by a biker gang. Intent on harassing her as they pound her fenders and infant sun screams, Emily fights to keep the FQB on the road. And then suddenly the bikers back off, leaving her safe but shaken. But when Redd returns home, Murph, he's suspended from his team and certain that he's to blame for Emily's harassment after his run -in with the local biker gang. So what does he do? He does what any guy does. He goes to war.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 08-05-2023 14:00
"Going forward. Jonathan Levin is a Bloomberg opinion columnist, and that does it for this week's Bloomberg opinion. We are produced by Eric Mollo, and you can find all of these columns on the Bloomberg terminal. We are available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up. I'm Amy Morris. This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. A federal judge is giving former President Trump till Monday to respond to special counsel Jack Smith's motion for a protective order. Smith filed the motion Friday night after Trump posted on Truth Social, quote, "'If you go after me, I'm coming after you.'" The post appeared one day after Trump was indicted on four counts related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Smith wrote in his filing that public posts by the former president about the case could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice. The former president has until 5 p .m. Eastern to respond. Two Florida police officers were shot on Friday night. Brad Siegel has details. A manhunt underway in Florida where two police officers were shot during a traffic stop. Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith says the officers stopped a vehicle that had been carjacked when the suspect opened fire. Shortly before 11 last night, the officers are in critical condition. Seven people are critically injured after a school bus filled with teenagers crashed in Idaho. The Idaho State Police Department says the bus was taking a group of children ages 13 to 18 to a YMCA summer camp when it crashed at around 3 p .m. Friday on Highway 55 north of Boise.
Northwest Newsradio
"police department" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"42° at two O 6. One person is dead after a late night gunfire in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, come a fours Hannah Knowles filed this report from the scene. This is airline motel. And this is where police were called to last night around ten 30, a 30 year old man found dead inside the business. Now there have been several homicides in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood already this year. There was one homicide in Georgetown for the end of January 2, all of last year, but none in 2021. And we do know two men were found shot to death inside a car in Georgetown just last month, and as for the city of Seattle already for 2023, nearly ten homicides for the Seattle police department. A suspect is reportedly in custody. Police still looking for whoever shot a man at a homeless encampment in Tacoma Monday afternoon. Half a minute south to come away and Pacific avenue near a bridge underpass. Police say a 30 year old man was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries, detectives say the suspect is a man who is riding by the encampment on a skateboard anyone with information is asked to call police. Preston Phillips. Frustration and outrage in mason county as friends of a man who was shot multiple times, want to know why the suspected shooter is out of jail. Jeremy Harris has the calls for accountability in court. A voice on a video screen was all that was needed for chantel Peterson at her arraignment hearing. She's out on bail after police say she shot her boyfriend Elijah gossett multiple times earlier this month. You don't have to sit here and actually be accountable for your actions. You get a call in on a Zoom meeting with your dog barking in the background while you're wearing your pajamas sitting on your couch. Well, our friend is laying in a hospital bed. Trina Robinson tells us Elijah's family and friends are furious that chantel is out of jail A police officer wrote in this report that chantel would be a danger to society if released, but a judge said bail at just $5000. Chantel was out a day later. They pretty much treated the entire situation like she stole a candy bar from a corner store. She shot him 7 times and tried to kill him. Jeremy Harris, co Manus. The Washington state patrol is looking for whoever carjacked a good Samaritan Monday night. That could Samaritan apparently stop to help someone who was involved in a car crash and I 5 in Tacoma at officers say the thieves then hit multiple other cars as they drove away in the vehicle, injuring a 69 year old woman. Troopers eventually did find the car, just not the suspects. Local police agencies hoped to hire more women soon. They'll hold a recruiting event on March 11th where women can get insight on public safety and career opportunities firsthand. Current data shows women make up only 12% of sworn officers and 3% of police leadership in the U.S.. Kirkland police chief, sherry Harris, has worked in the field for 30 years. She says one of the biggest rewards is to be able to serve and protect and build community trust. It really is about championing the victim. And ensuring that victims get the services they need a sense of justice and outcome. The women in public safety event is part of the 30 by 30 initiative. It's a nationwide pledge by law enforcement agencies to increase the number of women in law enforcement to 30% by 2030. All of the information has posted Tacoma news dot com. The state has reached a settlement of over the 2020 rubber spill that hit the puyallup river more from northwest news radios Jeff fogel. During construction of a replacement dam, artificial turf was used as padding in a bypass channel. But the river flow washed the crumb rubber miles downstream and that rubber contains toxins that can be fatal to native salmon. The state filed multiple charges against the operator, electron hydro, and its chief operating officer Tom Fisher, including the intentional violation of a permit as the state never signed off on using the turf. Now, the Seattle times reports nearly $1 million settlement has been reached and Fisher will plead guilty to a gross misdemeanor and serve just two years probation. The construction project, meanwhile, has largely been on hold, but the company hopes to get new permits and complete the work within the next year and a half. Jeff pojo and northwest news radio coming up after sports, would you take a pill that shakes your bowels awake? There's a purpose for it. We'll talk about that. But first, at two ten. An update on sports from the Beacon plumbing sports desk and Bill Schwartz, the Seahawks open to drafting a quarterback in round one. All sorts of news coming out of Seattle coach Pete Carroll's NFL combine press conference. The Seahawks currently hold the number 5 pick in the draft. Carroll says it's a huge opportunity and the team is totally connected to quarterbacks coming out of college. At the same time, coach Pete is extremely high on last year's record setting starter Gino Smith. We had an inkling that there was something really special there, but we didn't know. We really didn't know, and didn't know if he could sustain. You know, because he hadn't had the opportunity to do that. So all of that combined and then the way he handled it with such class and character and makeup and competitiveness and butt Smith is set to become a free agent on March 15th. Carol confirmed defensive backs coach Sean Desai as leaving the Seahawks to become Philadelphia's defensive coordinator. The Atlanta Falcons have released former Oregon quarterback Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota. Ace pitcher Luis Castillo makes his Mariners spring training debut this afternoon against Cleveland. He's in his first full Seattle season and turned down a chance to play for the Dominican Republic at the world baseball classic. And the Seattle kraken opened a Midwest hockey trip against the St.
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"Is Bloomberg law with June brusso from Bloomberg radio. I've been talking to professor David Harris of the university of Pittsburgh law school about Tyree Nichols death after being beaten by Memphis police in a traffic stop. How do you think the police department handle this here? Because within two weeks, the officers had been fired within three weeks, all had been charged with second degree murder, and then, you know, the police chief condemned their actions, and then they released the video. What do you think of the police department's response after the incident? After the incident, especially knowing that there was video and what it would show because they knew it before the public saw it. They reacted in a way that was appropriate and relatively swift. I've been working in this area for long enough that I can remember very easily. You know, the police department and the district attorney would kind of put the clamps on there, put out no information, work just doing investigation. You got to give it time and months and months later, there'd be some kind of an announcement on a Friday afternoon. They know that the public won't stand for that anymore. So that represents an important change, not just in Memphis, but in a lot of places, we know that they do not do that like they used to, though, it goes on. So sometimes. The problem is not in their reaction to it. The problem is what led up to it. The reaction all comes later. And that's good. They're off duty, they're criminally charged. It looks like an appropriate reaction. But we've got to do what we need to do a hand of time. So these things don't happen at all or they become just incredibly rare. And right now it just keeps happening because we're not doing the things we need to do in order to stop it. We're putting up a specialized crime suppression unit, and we're telling them, go out there, do the thing, and we'll back you up. And we'll applaud you, and then we're surprised when things go terribly wrong like this. I wrote a whole book about an incident like this in Pittsburgh ten years ago. So this isn't new, it isn't just Memphis, we have to stop reaching for answers like that that lead to this place. We have to get away from the culture of fear and the culture of war as a way to do domestic policing. This isn't really a failure of training in that sense. They're doing exactly what they were trained to do. They're trained to go to war in their own communities and that's what has to stop. We have to have a policing domestically that is about deescalation, communication, all when we can do it. You can't do that in every situation. But right now it's about ask tell make. Force, I'm in charge, you're not. We scream at you. You do what we want. And we'll do two you what we want. That's what has to change. David, these police officers were wearing body cams and knew they were being filmed, and yet they still went ahead and did this. So have the body cams and the bystander videos changed anything? It has changed things. I think those are part of the reason those cameras that we frankly have the charges and that we have the officers dismissed. Other than the film, I don't think that would happen because it's simply uncountable if that film is out there and we know it's going to come to light at some point is untenable to just go about business as usual when you know the public that's going to see that. And we've seen that in some important cases. I mean, think of that case with the man in South Carolina who was shot in the back as he was running away. This is a couple of years ago. The police officer had signed off on that saying, yeah, yeah, he did this. He did that. So I had to shoot him. That guy was going back on duty the next day, and then came the bystander cell phone video. And he's in prison for murder now. So is this changed a lot? What people need to understand is that it doesn't change everything. I think there was an expectation of cameras were sold to us as this will change everything in policing. And that's just not true. They only see what's in front of the lens. There are perspective biases that are involved. And if it's not turned on, like we know in this case, we don't know what happened before those cameras came on. It's still going to leave blank spots in the record. But what you see here is very, very important. It takes certain aspects of a confrontation in many cases away from being disputed, you know? You can argue about interpretation later, but you can not argue that this guy wasn't beaten and beaten badly and beaten unnecessarily. And that is really fundamental and important. So cameras are not the silver bullet that has changed everything, but they have made a difference. I know that there is a lot of talk. And in fact, some cities have actually passed ordinances that police officers shouldn't be involved in traffic stops. Well, that stopped this just to have the police officers not involved in any kind of traffic enforcement. Well, most of that action and you're quite right, there's a move toward that. It's still pretty early to see how much traction that had. But I do see in a number of cities, including in my own city, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, across the state. That some cities and police departments are limiting police power to make certain kinds of stops. And then there are a handful of jurisdictions that are creating separate non police forces to do traffic enforcement. Will it stop this? Well, that ladder kind is not armed police. You certainly couldn't have a situation like that. But what all these efforts are designed to do. The challenge they are designed to meet is number one to minimize the chance that will have some kind of catastrophe like that some kind of routine traffic stop will turn into a disaster of this type. And number two, and this is actually more common. I mean, this is a terrible, terrible, tragedy
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"At JFK will be transferred to nearby stations and there will be no job losses, according to an internal message Friday, seen by Bloomberg. Rite Aid is struggling against increased theft at its New York City stores that executives say cost the pharmacy chain $5 million in losses during its most recent quarter. More from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. In a call with investors this week, executives said the company is testing new security efforts to prevent theft in high crime areas. Business Insider reports Rite Aid's chief revenue officer as saying this may mean vastly increasing the amount of products behind lock and key displays, even beyond what they're already doing. According to data from the New York City police department, rates of petty theft in the city have increased 42% this year compared to 2021. Robberies and burglaries have also increased and Rite Aid says the goal is not to resort to closing stores, but rather to improve methods to halt theft in order to continue serving communities. Susanna, Bloomberg, Denise, Pellegrini. New York is getting a brand new concert hall inside a 60 year old building on October 8th. The public will get its first interior glimpse of renovated David Geffen hall at Lincoln Center. It's the result of a whirlwind construction project that was decades in the making but finished two years early and on budget. The grand opening will present a world premiere of San Juan hill, a New York story. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Susanna Palmer. This is Bloomberg
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"Pandemic fighting supplies boost hospital capacity and potentially limit non urgent medical procedures according to the governor's statement Locals saying that there are warning signs of spikes and case numbers and she says while the Akron variant hasn't been detected in New York she predicts it's coming James flippin New York A shooting at a shopping center in Durham North Carolina is leaving three people wounded Police say one of the victims is a ten year old who was hit with a bullet that ricocheted one person is in police custody A government funding deadline will be on the list when Congress returns to work next week December 3rd is when the government runs out of money Other deadlines will be looked at by Congress including raising the nation's debt ceiling The interior department isn't recommending a stop to new oil and gas leasing Lisa Taylor has more at recommendation didn't make it into a report the department released on Friday however it wants to make other changes They include taking climate change factors into consideration when deciding on leases another recommendation was to increase The former Montgomery county police department chief Charles moose who became the face of the D.C. sniper attacks is dead at 68 Most died yesterday according to a department Facebook post he served as the county's police chief from 1999 until 2002 I'm Brian shook President Biden is hitting the road again to sell his recently signed infrastructure Bill Biden will travel to rose mount Minnesota on Tuesday That's just south of the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul The White House says he'll talk about how the American people will benefit from the bill Earlier this month Biden pitched his infrastructure plan at a bridge in New Hampshire The Marine Corps faces on November 28th deadline for all active duty marines to be vaccinated against COVID-19 TRE Thomas has more there are reports that thousands of marines have refused to get the shot About 10,000 of the cores 186,000 active duty personnel are positioned to miss the deadline That's the highest proportion of any of the military branches to potentially violate direct orders from the chain of command I'm Trey Thomas The streets surrounding the Rockefeller center Christmas tree in New York City will be dedicated to pedestrians again this holiday season Noam laden has more Hobbies Uber and Lyft drivers say the street closures mean they'll sit in an endless traffic jams in midtown until the tree is taken back down Pedestrians and the cyclists are basically taking over the roadways The holidays the gridlock but it is good news for anyone who wants to get really close to the.
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"Restaurant, right right down the street from here. Still not a lot of details on that shooting. Yes, very suspicious incident. All right. So for those who don't know, Grotto is an Italian restaurant owned by a guy named Tilman Fertitta Heard of him. Yeah. He also owns the Rockets, among other things, Of course, he didn't always on it, or you're always on any of the stuff that he has acquired over the years, but he owns it now. Very successful guy. And, um, so the soft duty police officer is shot during. What was it apparent weekend robbery. Um Everett Briscoe been with the New Orleans Police Department for many years. Neither Houston Northern New Orleans Police Department of publicly identified the victim, but I guess that information is out there. He was off duty on his trip to Texas with friends, all from the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure club, part of the Zulu Mardi Gras group, and he was the victim of an armed robbery father husband and remembered fondly during his Meet the media briefing from New Orleans. You know, police chief, I suppose. And Councilman J. Banks, uh, very powerful reaction from some movers and shakers in the New Orleans area. Very upset about all this. Yeah, could have easily happened in New Orleans as well. It's not like they're going to be able to take a lot of high ground on people getting shot. Sure, right, according to the Houston police, the officer, sources identified as Briscoe and another man were dining with a group on an outdoor patio. When two hooded gunmen approached and demanded their belongings. Witnesses told the Houston police that the victims complied. One of the gunmen fired shots that killed one of the victim and left another one hospitalized in critical condition. No suspects yet have been found. They don't they don't know. And not a very good description. They did tell us, sir. Why did description of the car and, uh, not a lot of detail on the suspects, although in a brief video you can kind of see some things that they left out of the description. Yeah, it was gray or silver Four door. Nissan Altima. You never see those weighted everywhere. Isn't that what we were driving this weekend? Yeah, well, we had a rental car this weekend in Georgia. Think it was an Ultima. They almost always give you a Nissan Don't they sometimes afford, So was it even their car rental cars are almost always Nissan Altimas. We know that because we had one this weekend when we picked up a car at the Atlanta airport. Exactly. And we were flying home when we learned that this had just happened. New Orleans Police Department superintendent Sean Ferguson issued a statement saying that there's certain the Houston Police Department will work diligently to find the perpetrators and boy I hope they do. A lot of things left up speculation on that These people were robbing them. Was it them? Specifically? Was it personal issue of some kind? Did they know them? Did they just walk up and just managed to pick an off duty? Police officer who was in town for something besides police work. Did he identify himself as a police officer at some point before shots were fired A lot of questions and So far, Not many answers. Yes, very bizarre, right? And and again. We really stress are really nice Restaurant in a really nice part of town. Well, it is. I mean, if this to cross the freeway from the Galleria, right if this shooting could happen there, boy. Just this wasn't random. I mean, who knows? Maybe it was a random act of violence. It's just hard to believe that somebody would walk up Rob some off duty cops sitting at a A five star restaurant. Well, four star Big. Yeah, You know, it's no Carrabba's, but greater is pretty good. If you like Italian, um, sad day. Just awful news. Yeah. Anyway, our hearts are with all those people this morning if you happen to know anybody associated with them. Um, yeah, sometimes has got any good news at all. I mean, besides the fact that we were in northwest Georgia over the weekend and had ourselves off blazing hot time. Okay, So our trip to Georgia was a smashing success. That's the good news. We have to report but boy from from Afghanistan to Vietnam to Chicago. Portland, Houston, New Orleans Just just one bad story after another. All right, What did you enjoy more? At the Rome Georgia event meeting? The listeners are getting to check out the called agricultural All Boy. That's close because we spent 3.5 hours meeting the listeners and hundreds and hundreds of folks and we appreciate every one of y'all coming out. And then we we finally had an opportunity to, you know, jump inside the convention center and see all the cool hunting and agriculture stuff. Who, buddy? I could have stayed there for a couple of weeks. Oh, yeah, There is all kinds of cool stuff at the greater outdoor Georgia Expo this weekend, and we took photos in the sign autographs for no less than 3.5 hours. Um, almost four hours. We were out there for quite a while. It is a real tribute to the rebel. The radio station we are on in northwest Georgia. And there are many, many fans because that that station is hot. Oh, yeah. All over northwest Georgia. People loving some rebel Calhoun, right? Cartersville? Of course, are Emerson the course. Good friends home? Yeah. I love all those places. And while we were there, boy, we had a nice meal Friday night, drinking awful lot. And then Billy and you got you were told you're never allowed to return to. What was it gig gig gig in his barn were kidding. I've doubt they'll remember me if I go back in a couple of weeks. Well, we were we were at this bar in Rome. Georgia called Gigi's, and I kept going because you can't help it. Right, Billy, I've got a He had a few beers. You know, you got a little Got a little loud and the very nice the maitre d was very polite said Sir, You shall not return to Gigi's for one year. No less than 12. Clearly the guy was kidding. Alright, well captured. I'm sure he doesn't mean it. And if he if he was to call up this morning, I bet he'd take it back. Alright. Rome. Georgia has two things that are fascinating for history. Right? If you're a history buff, this is fascinating in 1929. Mussolini. Yeah, like that. Mussolini donated a statute of the town to the city. And it's still there. You could go look at it. Uh, What is it? Rama Lease. And what do they call the old uh, the old uh, Roman, uh, mythology characters. Rommel ease and ruffle lease or what are their names, Roof roof ease and families. That's close enough. Close enough, right? It's a cool set. Romney listen reminds me. Listen, Remus. That's it. It's a very cool statue now for Hamas had won. And and killed his brother Romulus, like, Would it be called, would roam be called dream. It's a good question. Um, you know, we're all happy it worked out that way. Yeah, I mean, it's good that it worked out, so that's fascinating, right? And I guess that is that statue. But look, it's just history. That's all it is. It's been there since before World War two. It's an old statue. Uh, so I say. Keep the statue. I think it's very interesting. And right down the street from there is the Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Building. Yeah. Which, if you're Forest Gump fan, you got to love that Which, right exactly which has the forest barbershop, and I asked somebody that we showed us her. I was like, So how old is that Barbershop. He's like, Oh, that barbershops, 100 years old, and they just never changed the name of it and good. Keep the name. I mean, it's history. Yeah, When? Probably tell candy to shut up about it. Well, yeah. You don't want me to talk about it? I get why? I could see why. But like it's not hurting anybody. You know, it's isn't it more interesting to keep history. I say, I think the Russians should keep all the old Soviet statues and I find communism to be deplorable. Yeah, you know, keep that. I think it's interesting right now. The Taliban is running through the streets of Afghanistan, destroying city statues and monuments and Whatever else they can in Kabul and boy that reminds us an awful lot of antifa this weekend in Portland. Hey, man, it's pretty much the same thing. What a mess! Yes, yes, it is deadly shooting at the Kabul airport north gauge. According to the German military. They seem to have taken charge there since the nobody else will seem to want to be in charge today. And here's something bizarre. America still has We have two major US money transfer services. In Afghanistan. Some made some American banks have an operation set up there. They just suspended business over the weekend. But in that kind of incredible, that was even still going. Yeah, it was like, no, No, We're getting out of here. I'm sure the Germans aren't too happy with us. I know For a fact, the the Brits aren't happy with us. And and Joe Biden at all. Some Fancy. You know, British talking dude gave a scathing report as to what he thought about the bad administration and the way they handled it. Did you know the United States evacuated the French Embassy before saving any Americans. Isn't that interesting? Interesting. Why did why wasn't it? Why wasn't the priority? Well, you know France wanted some help, So we had to give it to him. Uh, let's see. So some American forces also reportedly involved in that firefight with a gunman at Kabul Airport and again. Joe Biden asking for the Taliban's permission to come in and get the Americans a sad story..
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"We continue to follow the closely an update. The guidance stood defiant shifts again. We must take every step we can to stop the dog. Burian and and the pandemic i the whole should the science shift again. Should the science shift again. I you know. The science isn't really shifting that much from two weeks ago when they said you don't need to wear a mask and now they are. And we know the cdc has been under extraordinary pressure from teachers unions. And the like so i. I think there's gotta be something More happening behind the scenes than just following the science and frankly the fact they can't be transparent about it is one of the reasons. A lot of people are losing trust in these organizations another issue that causes people to lose trust to these organizations. And i need you to to keep your perspective on this because this is just is blows my mind. This is from Is cbs eleven is in dallas fort worth. Here's the headline south texas Police department issues public health announcement. After kovic stricken migrants seen coughing sneezing at burger. How dare you take your germs. Into what a burger. The la hoya police department issued a public health announcement after an officer approached in undocumented migrant. That would be an illegal alien family at whataburger and told him border patrol released them because they had covert nineteen on july twenty six. The police department of the small town along the rio grande and mexican border shared details of the incident. They said a concerned citizen at the restaurant wave down the officer. This citizen told him about the family. Coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths and not wearing face masks. What a burger management also told the officer. They wanted the group to leave as well due to their disregard for other people's health in addition to telling the officer that border patrol had released them days prior due to their kovin status. The family said a charity group had paid for their room at a nearby texas in hotel. The officer followed up on the information fighting out. Catholic charities of the rio grande valley had booked all the rooms in the hotel to house. Undocumented immigrants detained by border patrol. He saw a group of twenty to thirty people. Staying at the hotel who were out and about most of them weren't wearing masks. Police said they learned the border. Patrol was quarantining other undocumented individuals who were govan positive or showed symptoms vilnis then handed them over to catholic charities which put them in hotels in mcgowan and lawyer texas.
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"Fearing that if the case is not resolved by the end of the summer. The national nonprofit may have to dissolve but many survivors are angry. At the boy scouts proposals and they're also angry with the court from blocking out and redacting much of the testimony. That's been submitted. Many survivors would like their stories to be made public joining us now to help break. All of this down is cara kelly investigative reporter with usa. Today cara thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. This case is complicated. So let's begin. Back in february of last year would exactly led the boy scouts to file bankruptcy. It is a very complex case but y led them to. This position was really the mounting liability from the sexual abuse allegations in what has changed over the years Societally were kind of viewing things like statutes of limitations differently and those used to bar people who had experienced specifically child sexual abuse from filing lawsuits or claims later. You know many years past when they had actually experienced the abuse we understand now that many people who experienced such things as a child may not come forward with it until they're significantly older I think the average age is around fifty or fifty five though many states have been yeah. It's pretty shocking in any kind of understand why some people really feel that. They can't tell anybody at the time. Um in they're so young that they just keep it within themselves and it takes a really long time for them to feel comfortable to tell other people so a lot of can't give us an example of the sexual abuse allegations. I mean there's eighty thousand separate allegations which is shocking. Oh yeah and they are wide ranging but at the same time. It's it's pretty heartbreaking and how similar a lot of them are The abuse ranges from everything from fondling to rape allegations and some of it is extremely violent and very very difficult to hear you can see that. Several of the survivors have written letters to the judge in this case detailing. What happened to them and you can read through. Those are now on the public docket. But some of the graphic pieces the court has been redacting out. So that's talking about the rape itself or other violent encounters and so the survivors are. Some of them are really upset about that because they want people to know how traumatic this was what really the impact was on their lives. Can you tell us how exactly sexual abuse lawsuits and up in a bankruptcy court. Yes it's been happening more and more recently. We saw it with the usa gymnastics case that led them to bankruptcy as well. The catholic church. Many diocese have l. for bankruptcy. What happened is that states have opened. These statutes of limitations are what we call back windows. They're allowing people who've experienced child sexual abuse to file lawsuits later in time and so several of these organizations that have had problems with this for many many years have been facing lawsuits that they probably didn't think they were going to face because so much time had passed and it's landing them in yuli financial hot water so i think that's what happened here. Okay we have to take a quick break but we'll be back with more this is the takeaway and we're back. I'm sarah wants alice. In vega and this is the takeaway we continue our conversation with cary kelly investigative reporter with usa today. Breaking down the latest in boy scouts. Bankruptcy case in which tens of thousands of people are filing claims of sexual abuse. Talk to us about the sheer price of this bankruptcy lawsuit. How much money has been spent on this case. Oh the the price here is staggering and we saw it to with usage enough sticks and in that there was some reporting around the cost of bankruptcy lawyers. But here a so far. I think it was the march where lawyers for the boy. Scouts said that there's already been hundred million dollars. Spent in this case. They're averaging about ten million dollars a month. This is largely for attorney's fees but there are several other professionals that have been hired real estate experts other claims experts. There's a lot of professionals who are being paid out in. All of this is coming out of the boy scouts estate and the judge made the point in a hearing that this could be used to pay creditors and in this case. The number of creditors are the survivors themselves. So the high attorney fees end up affecting how much the victims and up getting potentially yes kerry. It's been over year since the case was filed. Where does the party stand in terms of reaching a settlement Everyone will need to sort of agree here. At least for the most part in order for plan to be approved and four were the reorganization to go forward. The boy scouts submitted their first plan of reorganization. Maybe a month or two ago they amended it and now the attorneys for the survivors and the group that has been charged with representing. The survivors have filed their objections to it. The best objection from the committee. That represents the survivors was pretty scathing. And that's what came out a few days ago and they really feel that That they don't have enough information from the plant itself to determine if it's actually a fair deal for them. There's a lot of missing information on the financial status of the national organization itself and a lot of the local councils And how much. The local councils are going to be contributing to a settlement or trust for the victims in this recent proposal. How much money would survivors get if they agree So there are going to be a lot of different factors here. That had been completely worked out in the first plan. It was going to equate to about six thousand something if you divide it equally among all of the individuals who have filed claims. They have the boy. Scouts said that they were going to get the local councils to add an additional one hundred or one hundred fifty million to that plan. But that hasn't actually. They haven't gotten confirmation from the local councils. That are actually going to do that or not. This is more of a wish So that number would go up. But that's also not accounting for there will probably be differing rates that that these survivors will get based on their specific stories so the specific abusive they experienced. There'll be a lot of different factors and are any of the survivor's pushing for the organization to be done away with as a whole. It really varies. I think it's a very personal thing. a lot would like to see it continue Because they actually do some fond memories of it but some say they need to have significant changes that the changes they've made in order to protect children have not been enough Others are ready to burn.
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"How do we improve policing denise how our officers who apply to join. dc's metropolitan police department currently screened for something like this. Are they looking into problem on problematic comments. They've made as part of the screening. Do they poke around for possible affiliations with hate groups or extremist ideologies. You know my understanding is they're treated just like every other local government worker right so when you get a job with a local government. Dc we know at best because we have the federal government here too. Many of us have been members of the federal. Bureaucracy is well. there's just a standard background check right and so individuals. Just go through background check. They look heavy. You know ad they had prior you know contacts with law you know they do the checks like they. Do you know when you enter federal government in dc government the same time which is like. Call some references say. Hey how long have you known this person. They've been a good person for you great You know they go through references as they go through the same process as other dc local government workers. So that's the you know all in all you know what i'm asking for here and i think this is different right is that i think I'm saying we have to do the scrutiny to a higher level right. And when i think about this it's really the same level that we make. We put judges on right. How how many of us have recently been through the whole process. Where biden to try new Appoint people to be directors in at one lady. I can't remember the name. Got who they went back all through her twitter at she. She can't make it she. she's not impartial. Right judges and appointees are always held to a higher level of integrity impartiality. Right when judges are appointed us. You know supreme court. Remember back supreme court cavanaugh. Remember back to most recent supreme court justices there is a test of impartiality and fairness that goes into people's family social political financial and other relationships that may influence judicial conduct or judicial judgement. So i'm saying judges who are the keepers of the law and police officers who are forces of the law has to be held that same level of impartiality integrity and scrutiny and so they shouldn't go through the standard government rigmarole background check regular no have to go to the same scrutiny that we send judges through every single day that includes social clubs financial decisions all of the above phil obviously freedom of expression including which groups you choose to affiliate with is sacred and the united states But the fact that officers can carry guns and have the authority to use lethal force on the street. How do you weigh those two things against each other. You know having the right to be a part of a white supremacist group. Because it's freedom of expression but also having real power where you can take your views out on people in in some very serious ways. Well on the on the pre employment level. I agree with everything that council member. George said. I think that's a different issue in terms of Background investigations in terms of Pre employment screening. I think it's absolutely appropriate and imperative that people be weeded out from law enforcement jobs if they have ties to hate organizations if they have ties to extremist organizations if their social media demonstrates Hateful beliefs i think. That's absolutely absolutely appropriate appropriate. Nobody has a right to be a police officer. So at the pre employment level. i think that's absolutely imperative. But here's the problem in my research. One of the things that i've seen over the last two decades is that on occasion state and local law enforcement agencies. Ignore the red flags that are raised. Sometimes they even ignore the Recommendations of psychologists not to hire somebody as sworn law enforcement officer. They hire them anyway. One person that comes to mind a david brehm. Who is the police chief in tacoma washington who killed his estranged wife and then himself in front of their children back in two thousand and three and in the wake of a murder suicide There were several investigations and They Look very closely at some of the mistakes that have been made including a review by two psychologists that he not be hired as a police officer a many years before he came a police chief. So i think we're all on the same page here that we need to approve. Policing we've just got to figure out a way. A path forward giannis. Louis george is the council member for ward for in washington. Dc and phil. Stinson.
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"The pandemic the cycle the threats to journalists the economic pressures of the industry. Those are huge stresses that are just ongoing trauma post traumatic stress post traumatic stress disorder. Is something different post traumatic stress. Disorder comes from the direct exposure to or the secondary handling of empathetic connection interviews or dealing with involving overwhelming violence or cruelty or death or chronic threat and it has to do with the brain and body staying in a kind of a permanent alarm state In which we there are characteristic psychological changes traumatic memories that come back at us when we don't want in that are interfering A sense of anxiety arousal being unable to concentrate get to sleep or the other direction. People who become numb and avoidance or whose worldview becomes very dark those are profound psychological changes that begin with our biological response to fear and threat. And what we know from research into journalists is that our profession is exposed through too far more trauma than the general public and even more than some other frontline professions. We obviously reporters who are covering war exposed to a lot of trump but so are reporters who cover Violent street demonstrations or confrontations with the police so our reporters who cover crime and fires but so are journalists. Who never leave the desk. Who are dealing with a steady of graphic imagery and we can't look away because it's our job. Think of you any of the horrible police violence videos over the course of the last week. They're tough for all citizens to look at Particularly people of color particularly people who identify with the victims in those videos but for journalists and editors mp reducers. What the public doesn't see is that we have to view those decide which ones to use verify them. Edit them run them past other editors and producers constantly re edit them. There's a whole process which means that a lot of people who never leave. The desk are dealing with a steady diet of graphic imagery a steady diet of distressing information. Which eventually can overtop. You're sort of personal. Damn your personal levy. Just as much as front-line trauma exposure We know that that these mechanisms mechanisms how the brain responds are very close to what we use. As journalists every day in our work rely on being able to be present in the moment not overwhelmed by last year's police shooting video owner trying to do today story about we rely on being able to focus to put together complex information to get along with colleagues to make empathetic connection with sources with audiences with colleagues. This is so central to news and when an overload of trauma either in the short run through direct exposure terrifying events like those journalists who courageous journals who covered The the insurrection of the.
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"Processing the news or informally Over lunch or over dinner afterwards An and it is very costly and some news. Organizations are trying to come to grips with this but as a real challenge there is also I think the flip side to that camaraderie is also this sort of very rugged individualists way that we think of journalists right that they should be. You know we're out there reporting and you know we. We should not have any feelings one way or the other and we should be able to take on any assignment that is thrown at us and most of us do that at i think because we love what we do but there is also a mental health Effect that can have. And i'm wondering how receptive newsrooms before this burnout epidemic Started were to their reporters and editors talking about mental health And whether or not you're seeing more receptiveness to that now i mean. I know that you know a lot of journalists are afraid to say. I am struggling Because they feared that they might lose their job mean. Historically in the news business there has been a lot of stigma. Their first of all is kind of old news culture. That says if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen and there's also the people who get into news are often Competitive we're looking over our shoulders at our colleagues. Were worried about getting the next assignment. And we have a kind of inter stigma as well sometimes about getting help. We're about talking talking about these issues. the good news is that there has been a slow moving but lately building now generational change going on in journalism where first of all among younger reporters and editors fox now in their twenties early thirties As part of a general generational shift. I think there's a much greater openness to talking about the impact of covering difficult stories. In fact i now sometimes have to turn my usual wrap around and and instead of saying you know you need shake the stuff seriously..
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"More than a bit make that burned out to a crisp and it turns out. We're not alone. According to a recent from the job site indeed more than fifty two percent of respondents reported experiencing burnout in twenty twenty one for journalists like me that burn out has been due in part from our inability to step away from the news between covid nineteen. The election protests against police brutality and more journalists have been caught up in an endless cycle of traumatic news for at least more than a year. And that's been forcing some journalists to step down and take a break recently. A number of very prominent journalists from the editorial director of the texas tribune to the editor of wired announced. They'd be leaving their jobs because of burnout. So what can we do to better support people who bring you the news for that. I'm joined by bruce shapiro. The executive director of the dart center for journalism and trauma a project of columbia journalism school. Bruce great to have you with us era. Glad to be your tenzin of navel-gazing And i know that people have many different feelings about the media. I will say though. That burnout is something that i think. A lot of people whether they work in media or not are experiencing but these very high profile you know departures. I think are signaling. Something that we as journalists need to look at so let's start with why so many journalists are feeling burnt out this this is. This is really important. I've tenzin over the last who i've been spending a lot of time in newsrooms via zoom talking journals about the impact of of this period and a few things are apparent on the one hand people who report the news who produce the news who are in front of the camera and behind the desk have the same very challenging. Big stresses and fears That that the rest of society has we are citizens and we are afraid of covid. Nineteen were frustrated by working at home. We are having to manage boundaries like everybody else. We are fearful for our relatives and people we love. All of that is a kind of open ended stress in and of itself. But in addition i think what the public doesn't see is that there have been a couple of other sources of extraordinary open ended unremitting stress for the people who carry us the news every day One of them is that With the arrival of covid. nineteen and social distancing. I'm working at home. Journalists had to completely reinvent the delivery of news this part you don't seek the paper still arrives on your desk. The bulletin still arrives in your inbox. Were still on air. But the mechanism for delivery the process the workflow had to be completely invented over the last year And has been. Reinvented amid as you were saying. These unrelenting news cycles filled with violence and trauma journalists. Don't have the option of turning away from the news cycle there much. We are reporting on mass death..
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"And so we really wanted to go and where the problem was most acute right where people were closest to the problems in policing and what we found You know which won't surprise anybody. These days was the same thing that we've been talking about Earlier in the program right that residents particularly residents of color are experiencing pervasive negative encounters with police officers including getting pulled over in cars and getting stopped when they're on the street and being spoken to rudely being treated with hostility by officers and that creates a real sense of distrust of the police department Particularly when per violent crime continues in the community so people had the sense. That law enforcement was not only failing to protect them From victimization in their community but that police were themselves a form of violence in a form of harm because they were constantly stopping and harassing residents. Brent. we've seen Calls for defunding or abolishing the police in fact the minneapolis police department had wasn't weren't they supposed to disband to a certain extent. What happened with that or sure that was last year following. George floyd killing the city council Proposed a charter of a change. The charter said he's charter. That would allow them to basically dismantle the police department in replace it with a different agency that failed because the charter commission felt like they didn't have enough time to properly vet the idea in so it didn't get on the ballot last year. That effort got revised this year. The council also proposed another similar charter amendment A group of citizens have also started a petition. Drive to get that. Also on on the ballot. And there's also change A foot in the the city's charter commission itself is exploring the idea of of changing the charter to to change the how the balance of power works between the council and the mayor. The mayor has the authority over the police department. So those efforts are all still going forward. Full steam brent. What was the perception of the minneapolis police department before the before. Derek chauvin killed. George floyd by residence at least right. Well i'll tell you as somebody who also used to live in north minneapolis. I was there about almost twenty years ago in jordan neighborhood. There was a a young boy was ex- according to police accidentally shot during high risk raid at house word spread around the neighborhood that the police actually shot and killed this young black man. A young boy in that sparked a riot That was just one of many incidents that led to calls from the community to actually put place the minneapolis. Police department under federal receivership. Now instead of doing that they engaged in a federally mediated agreement. That started back in two thousand and three and that agreement expired in two thousand eight. But they actually. We started that process last year. After george floyd was killed so this has been going on for a long time. There's been federal intervention before although not as invasive so to say is This particular and or extensive as as this current investigation. So yes. there's been a ongoing. I'm quite contentious relationship between members of particularly the black community in minneapolis police department. Michelle when you heard about this investigation from the department of justice into the minneapolis police department and new york. Of course your research on the interactions between citizens and police Probably informed a lot of what you're thinking in terms of recommendations for the minneapolis police department in in advance of this investigation. Where do you see the biggest areas of improvement that need to happen for the minneapolis. Police department sure yeah..
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"Look at some of those past Officer involved killings andbranch just wondering if the minneapolis police department has said anything about this investigation or have they just Not issued any statement so far. Well yeah the. The police department issued a statement including a reaction from chief arredondo. He basically expressed support for it. I i've spoken with Some people who are have worked with the chief in the past they say this is something that could bolster his efforts to bring about a change in police culture a however we have not heard any comment from the police federation as michelle. What type of. I mean the the you've done studies on these police departments in north minneapolis in particular. How would you describe the history of the minneapolis police department and its relations with black and brown residents of the city. Sure yeah so for the past five years or so. I've been doing a study of the minneapolis. Police department looking at it from the perspective of community perceptions of the police activists demands for changes in policing And then what. The department has actually done to reform the department. And i think minneapolis is more typical of american cities in some ways than it is atypical and that the problems in minneapolis. I think our nationwide. So since two thousand and fifteen the department has actually been pretty aggressively involved in a lot of the kinds of best practices police reforms That have been suggested by things like consent decrees through the doj program and yet they have also had this continuing series of high profile. Police killings And more routine sort of day to day harassment of residents particularly back black and indigenous residents. And so there's a long history in minneapolis. Both of Police misconduct and police abuse of police reform and activism to change policing michelle. This is supposed to be a pattern or practice investigation. What do we know about these types of investigations. So these types of investigations were relatively common under the obama administration and then petered out during the trump administration. They you know at their height are still touching only a handful of departments. There's eighteen thousand police departments nationwide. And so you can really only respond to kind of the the the most high profile cases and cities. But i think what the pattern and practice investigations allow us to do is to as The attorney general said to really get at these more systemic issues rather than these one off cases and try to see. What's under girding those problems. And ideally i think the the model was that some of the forms and consent decrees that came out of this process could be applied to other places. Right could be that same. Package of reforms could be implemented in other kinds of cities. And i think one of the concerns activists have today is whether the return of these pattern and practice. Investigations will help to or will Block efforts to really reimagine policing and kind of move away from Police reform and towards really thinking about alternative systems of public safety..
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"Or continuing to process the guilty verdict of former minneapolis. Police officer derek. Chauvin in the murder of george floyd for many. The conviction is a first step towards accountability. After a year of reckoning with institutional racism in policing on wednesday morning the justice department announced it will launch a civil investigation into the policies and operations of the minneapolis police department. As a whole here's attorney. General merrick garland speaking on wednesday. Yesterday's verdict and the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in minneapolis. Today i am announcing that the justice department has opened a civil investigation to determine whether the minneapolis police department engages.
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"Cheryl. Architect Can this morning news Bajor border with that? You're gonna be talking to Brad care here in just a few. ABC News Crime and Terrorism analyst says the Department of Homeland Security now issue then advisory of AH hype threats by anti government delicious white supremacist conspiracy theory groups. And others. You know, the others don't really get mentioned a lot. But there's a lot of having being done in the state of Washington and the state of Oregon by people who don't identify themselves. With those some of these other groups as well, and the mob mentality is really, really kind of gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Scotty likes to say At times we now it's got it was just tell me Willy while you were delivering our news that now we have another police officer who has committed suicide after responding to the attack on the Capitol on January 6. His name is Jeffrey Smith. From the Metropolitan Police Department. Um Where would you know Which Metropolitan Police Department we have here. Scottie was this was this They're in the capital. And I would assume it would be the D C. Metro police. Yeah, because it doesn't. It doesn't for that. I'm reading from the hill. On, according to the police chief, Robert Conte. He identified Officer Smith, he says This is a very sad day and tragic situation forced the apparently this occurred on the 15th. Of January when the officer did this and you know you look at And you look at the the violence that we've had in our own city, and you look at throughout the rest of our country, and now there's you know, you got the homeland security warnings and everything else. I saw where the Netherlands which is like what number six and happiness on the planet. They're basically having what's the tab is a civil war by some of their own there because of covert 19 curfews. Protesters in the Netherlands set the fires, looted stores and fought with cops for a third consecutive night of writing there after a strict curfew, um, was occurring with the mayor warning that the nation was on our way to civil war. That's why I never take a lot of stock when they come out with these happiness studies having lived over there for a while, Never okay. I'm totally happy. Trust me. They had other countries have their own issues just like we do. You just never hear about him and And it doesn't surprise me. There were some differences and just about every and you're going to see more of this, And this is what When we had Gerald Celente out about five years ago, he said. Same thing. He predicted Civil war here in the U. S. And I remember after a couple interviews we had with remember people calling up. I got a couple e mails. People is like, Why do you have that crackpot on And I think that's because that's what he does, and he's a trend forecaster. And, you know, he predicted there would be civil war here in the U. S, if not around the world, So you know it's it's not uncommon. The Dutch prime minister Mark route condemned the unacceptable revotes, saying most of the nation regarded him with horror and says this has nothing to do with pro testing or fighting.
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"Certainly. Somebody has to investigate. Well, I would think somebody's got to investigate it. But I guess the cops not gonna come to your house. Man, you have to go online and follow reporters something like that. But some of these things really upset a lot of folks in the policing community. In fact, the mayor and not the mayor, but the governor actually tweeted some some response to this. This this City Council push against Police Department's not just in Austin. But in Dallas and other cities in Texas, so great ever got involved bizarre, so bizarre. The fact that this is Entered people's minds to begin with. Consider this still just boggles my mind. And yet we have still not heard a good alternative to to de funding and you know, taking their powers away, not invent, not responding to missing Children. What? Well, There's well I mean, I guess it depends on the situation. I mean, a blanket statement. They're not going to respond to missing kids or runaway kids run out right away. Run away. Okay, That's a little bit different Rights because sometimes a kid is reported. Hey, they haven't been around. I haven't seen my kid in three nights. Yeah, okay. I can certainly understand as far a stolen vehicles that it doesn't need to be necessary. You know, they need to get to if someone steals my my Buick out of the driveway, Uh, By the way, you're welcome to it. But if that happens, they shouldn't be there Within minutes. I get that they're probably more important things to see to. But to say that it's not gonna be Responded to it all. I don't understand what that means, 6 53 reported. Cases of the flu are far below normal This year. We're going to hear from Dr Nicole Sapphire coming up at the top of the hour right after the local news, talking about some of the contributing factors to a decline in flu cases. Ah, yeah. Nobody gets the flu. No, No. You talked about what they tell us. It's a fluid. They tell us. We're not getting the flow because we're social distancing and wearing a mask. Yeah, And then they tell us we're spreading this virus because we're not wearing the mask and social distancing. Johnny Downtown real quick, Gianni. Good morning. Hey, Good morning, guys. Just real quick. So if I'm if I'm at home and somebody's breaking in my car and trying to steal and I called the police last I should do and they refused to help me. Then I'm just gonna walk outside and shoot. That's what I'm gonna do. I hope you know, I'm not sure. I think the cops would respond to that in Dallas. You know the theft in progress. I have a feeling favorite, but But if you reported the next morning, Yeah, Somebody got my car in the middle of the night bus truck..